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pankkake: I pay 50€ for 100M down / 5M up. and most people don't even have access
to
that
mod6: ahh, waiting for boobs, one line of pixels at a
time 'eh
boolcrap: dam i just moved
to
the country
mircea_popescu: boolcrap
there are, but you'd have
to go
there FOR
THAT purpose.
mod6: i used
to live in
the az countryside :)
boolcrap: theres no places where
there isnt fiber run?
mircea_popescu: there is no "countryside" in
the arizona sense of
the
term
boolcrap: what kind of internet do
they have?
jborkl: pankkake, MP can answer
this- but I seem
to remember Romania had a bad rap for spam email servers awhile back so it is assumed
ozbot: Top 10: Where
to Find
the World's Fastest Internet: 5. Romania - Bloomberg
mod6: lol, someone should spoof
that USSR Hymn, change
the words
to USSA and obummer & co.
pankkake: for some reasons romania is banned as a whole in many private
torrent
trackers
boolcrap: popescu are you like,
the only honest man in romania?
boolcrap: hey i hear
the internet is amazing in romania.
boolcrap: i have nothing further
to contribute
to
this.
mircea_popescu: there's
this romanian joke whereby
the insane in one asylum loved jokes, and knew
them so well
that people'd just say
the index # and everyone laughed.
ozbot: Hymn of
the USSR - Red Army Choir (English Sub.) - YouTube
Jere_Jones: Anyone heard
the "Theory vs Reality" joke? It's
the only one I have
that routinely gets geniuine laughs.
Asa9: I went
to
the shrink once. He diagnosed me as being Stoic. I cried.
boolcrap: and
the rabbi says " out of what?"
boolcrap: so
the priest
turns
to
the rabbi and says " boy id love
to screw
that little boy"
boolcrap: a rabbi a priest and little boy are sitting at a
table,
the little boy is kind of bent over
the
table getting something
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what were schoolkids' paramilitary
thing called in
the ussr ? i forget.
mircea_popescu: whereas for comparison
the kids in
the soviet union are free and happy and even get icecream!
mircea_popescu: tells
the kiddos all about
the horrible imperialist barbaric lands outside of
The Country, and how children
there are kept naked and starving and forced
to labour in huge child labour camps
mircea_popescu: a guy in
the required sunglasses joins
the 4th grade
to help with
their political educaiton
boolcrap: tell me
this joke i have not heard it
mod6: it has been quite
the
transformation over
the last 30 years. WE WILL HAVE PROGRESS, FROM HOPE,
TAXATION OF
THE WEALTHY AND UNICORN FARTS! WE WILL SHOW
THE WORLD HOW EXCEPTIONAL WE ARE!
mircea_popescu: you know, i like
the americans better. at least
to
them i can
tell jokes :D
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know
the joke with
the little girl and
the icecream ?
mircea_popescu: all sorts of obscure nonsensical shit you sincerely
thought are an artefact of
the
time and place,
mircea_popescu: mod6 it is, you know ? i mean people who haven't lived
this side of
the iron curtain can't really get
the depth of it, it;s not
the same
to be
told about it or
to see it with your own eyes
Jere_Jones: Eh. No worries.
Trilema credits are cheap. Surprisingly so.
deadweasel: we're certainly
trying over here, only we've managed
to learn in a poorly
to not-at-all fashion. and we're great at it.
mircea_popescu: and well... you can't have a society of nothing but
that.
mircea_popescu: no but
this is in reference
to an amply discussed 19th century problem, where jewish kids didn't really want
to do anything but learn
mircea_popescu: fight
the
tendency
to spend 100% of one's life in
the sinagogue
mircea_popescu: they're
there
to force people
to also do some work in a day. at
the very least
to pay for
the credits.
mircea_popescu: people love
to
think
that
trilema credits system is
there cause im greedy, but it may just as well be
the case
mircea_popescu: incidentally,
this brings forth an interesting point :
Jere_Jones: And... I'm out of
trilema credits. I guess I should get some work done.
deadweasel: 'his discourse is about on par with what you’d expect out of
the Ohio representative in
the Miss America competition.' >> ahahahahha
Asa9: just wanted
to add
that after reading your site for awhile now
Asa9: you should call yourself
the Oracle something
Asa9: sir - I wish you were around when I was a
teen. I would have had my shit
together way before now.
mircea_popescu: Jere_Jones wonderful
thing
technology, i'd have forgotten 80% of my good ideas without it.
ozbot: Why Dogecoin is a scam, why
the people pushing it are assholes, why Business Insider is a contemptib
jborkl: I noticed almost 0 of
the advertising slots have been filled for about a month, I read about vaporware every few days
Jere_Jones: Favorite mp quote so far: "There’s however no intelligence required
to be an asshole."
benkay: some of
the goat's posts ocassionally get 'edited'
mircea_popescu: heck, goat is still
there, rpietilla is still
there, one of
these days
the pirate character is gonna start posting again.
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] [PAID] 1.60766948 BTC
to 1`676 shares, 95923 satoshi per share
jborkl: I
thought Activemining was resolved as a fat guy in
the
trunk of a 67 skylark 6 months ago
mircea_popescu: why
the fuck are all
these people without a clue involved in stuff.
mircea_popescu: "We are being blocked, even in a startup
the owners can move
their ownership
to another investor, we can't even do
that."
mircea_popescu: pankkake
that'll be interesting. i guess
the results are only predictable
to like five people or some shit.
jborkl: ok, yeah I missed
that completely.
ozbot: [ActiveMining] Shareholder Discussion
Thread {moderated
TROLL FREE}
jborkl: oh huh, what did
they inc in another country and
transfer
type of deal?
pankkake: seems
to be a bit stronger
than
the others
deadweasel: were
they IPOd before havelock changed ownership?
pankkake: so
that whole
thing was badly done
pankkake: and
the first one was sold out very quick, it
traded much higher for a short
time, like
the older havelock IPOs
mircea_popescu: pankkake yeah, because
they want
to sell more
treasury stock.
pankkake: they're over
the IPOs price now I
think
mircea_popescu: any chick with nice
tits has serious problems running
topless.
mircea_popescu: they only
took
their investors down 30% or so, so far.
mircea_popescu: i'm with pankkake,
they actually are one of
the less scammy
things on havelock.
deadweasel: glad you
took
them
to
task.
that is a very scammy venture judging by
their post.
mircea_popescu: s/laungh/launch. apparently laugh got impacted in
there
deadweasel: since
they're
trading below IP, it would make
them look profitable!