asciilifeform: ( every usg-sucking orc has this fantasy, that if he pens one of these just-so, chopper transport will materialize and take him to harvaryaleton and obummer will personally pin on him iron cross with oak leaves and award mcmansion )
asciilifeform: reads exactly like the local cardboard
asciilifeform: grupos neonazis, antisemitas y racistas lol
asciilifeform: !~later tell mike_c http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-19#1700623 << why was it necessary to use closed turd client ? ( what's the actual diff in the lolfork anyway ? the 2mb thing ? could exist as a lulzpatch for trb, even, in principle )☝︎
asciilifeform: zoolag @ 206640 an' syncing happily on
asciilifeform: should be in your postbox mon. or tue.
asciilifeform: mike_c: np. sorry for the delay, i had to drive coupla hrs to the house where the stockpile lives.
asciilifeform: 'After his ouster from the West Wing on Friday, ex-White House chief strategist Steve Bannon declared the Trump presidency that his brand of populist, right-wing conservatives helped make a reality is "over."'
asciilifeform: losing global battle << waiwat did somebody cough up a non-phdassemblyline nonmicroshitian comp while asciilifeform slept ?
asciilifeform: ( notice how cisco is 'in business as usual', wholly disconnected from whether any actual people would even conceive of buying from it )
asciilifeform: 'That followed the General Services Administration removing Kaspersky from an approved-vendors list in early July and a congressional push to pass a law that would ban Kaspersky from being used by the Department of Defense.'☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: 'The FBI has been briefing private sector companies on intelligence claiming to show that the Moscow-based cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab is an unacceptable threat to national security...'
asciilifeform: i still think the current wallet state-of-art to be a ridiculous thing.
asciilifeform: ( where, incidentally, is american uniform made ? )
asciilifeform: same dynamic though, qualitatively -- once you have no textile production capacity, you're stuck in the comical position of trying to buy own uniform from the enemy
asciilifeform: or the 'what's the roi of a tank battallion' thread
asciilifeform: take redditard as a container -- why shouldn't however many 'tidebux' he has squirreled away, chase scarce btc in market ?
asciilifeform: but hey, if mircea_popescu gets haetmail for not propping up btc to 1mil obummerbux per, asciilifeform gets 'you suck, why not derived constanttime gcd yet' , wonder what other folx get
asciilifeform: shouldn't take much brain, to grasp this
asciilifeform: that 'philosophy' never really made sense to asciilifeform , even from psychiatric pov -- coin is owner's to blow as he feels like
asciilifeform: ( and btc would then live up to the reputation as strictly pyramidal cock-pulling adventure )
asciilifeform: in this light, doing anything whatsoever other than 'hodling' is raw deal.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu is welcome to convince'em that a btc is worth 100x the units it presently buys. i'll clap.
asciilifeform: it is how the raw material suppliers think. i, working with hands, am not at liberty to get on the atomic dirigible of dreams and think entirely differently.
asciilifeform: the cost of wanted-computer is still in usd. sadly.
asciilifeform: goods not distributed in a lolmart ( e.g. fg factory run ) still denominated in usd.
asciilifeform: ( for historical reasons, but they will take a while to go away, reichsmarks circulated in the late '40s still )
asciilifeform: the gold bar that inca can't take off your corpse, is called btc
asciilifeform: tell that to the folx (e.g. the soldiers paid the iraq bonus, that was retro-cancelled recently) with the 0'd bank accts, marched from 'their' house under guard, etc
asciilifeform: the gurlz are neither here nor there, may just as easily say that 'they were formerly in agreement to be 1.5metres tall, then agreed to be 1.8'
asciilifeform: inca is very much a thing -- same thing as the nazi guard who keeps 5000 penned in with schmeisser with just 100 rounds in it
asciilifeform: what's to go on ? i dun see how more wealth (regardless how and where distributed) being in inca-confiscateable form, vs. less, could be a win
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu's 'the universal plan for wealth'
asciilifeform: recall the thread that spawned TUPW ?
asciilifeform: as it presently stands, their usd and whatever negotiables, go to inca, just as surely as the mains current goes back into socket
asciilifeform: i wasn't even speaking of ~saving~ them, lol. but of the notion that their usd piles could end up in btc market rather than going back to inca so he can pantsuitate.
asciilifeform: i dun see this universal. consider (they exist) a skilled surgeon, willing to work 'off the books' for btc but he HASN'T the 20yrs to get off winblowz.
asciilifeform: i dun see the win in the inca getting whatever remains of their labour
asciilifeform: as it is it is the sane-but-humble folx ( who understand that their winblowz box does not make a reasonable btctron, but haven't 20yrs to live life again to make something else ) who are pushed away. i dun see the win.
