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decimation: but it does reveal many truths about the way
USG actually works, rather than the way everyone pretend it works
mircea_popescu: actually, i don't know a single feminist, actual, honest fmeinist in a place of power within the
usg. not one.
mircea_popescu: where did all the guys that used to argue with me about the fakeness of
usg published figures go!
decimation: ascii, this is proof of the point you made the other day. If
USG finds a website for 'hos intolerable, how much more intolerable would a "private army" be?
xmj: cgcardona: the problem with the US government setting the gold price that at first, having gold priced way over market rates, that created a huge inflow as everyone scrambled to sell gold to the
USG at inflated prices
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> (
usg) nsa needs to hire a new script writer << outsourced.
benkay: only foreign banks, and only maybe, and only if the
USG catches you and your dodging of thtupid embargoes is woefully poorly managed
mircea_popescu: o dude look how that
usg auction destroyued the price o noes.
benkay: another factor in breaking the
USG's power monopoly will be the cheaply made en-masse autonomous thingers capable of bringing down any bird or boat they field
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: USMS should liveblog the auction << sadly, the website to do that wouldcost the
usg more than the auction's worth
decimation: well, you certainly cannot make
usg your enemy either
decimation: well, there's the issue of the
usg taking 96% of your assets at a point of their choosing
mircea_popescu: at least from the supposedly secret
usg employment rolls i've seen to date.
mircea_popescu: and so in this sense, it's not that bitcoin isn't insured in that way. it's moreover that bank deposits etc aren't, and the continuance of the fraudulent pretense to the contrary promulgated by various
usg agencies among which the sec above strictly depends on it not being needed.
decimation: why would you want to live outside the benevolent "protection" of
USG?
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: Haha. Sorta? Well I guess Mike Caldwell came in here and it was a discussion about the
USG.
mike_c: decimation:if you total the amount of money spent on microsoft over the years,
USG could have built its own secure OS and secure hardware to run it on << on the other hand, they couldn't even build a fucking website with hundreds of millions of dollars.
decimation: but it's probably the case that if you are correct - that these microcode patches may weaken
usg's own infrastructure
decimation: if you total the amount of money spent on microsoft over the years,
USG could have built its own secure OS and secure hardware to run it on
decimation: yeah that's true, the only organization on earth that will voluntarily use ms is the
usg decimation: well, derp derp who cares what the opinion of
usg employees are
mircea_popescu: for all the
usg knows, we all have a copy, and the keys, and are sitting here lolling at their punk ass.
mircea_popescu: the stupidity of people holding bitcoin is the one thing that can hurt bitcoin (as evidenced by say the pirate debacle, or by the fact that a million fucktarded stoners managed to give the
usg a gift of 20k ish btcs)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: ThickAsThieves: if document is genuine, this is likely a 'marketing scheme' for the
usg blacklist crap. << if it is it'll backfire, ppl get to learn first hand just how harmless btc actually is by telling these folk to stfu / ignoring them
mircea_popescu: NOT worth it. in fact, if the
usg simply invested its 7trn budget into bitcointalk "investments" the us would be ahead today
decimation: the mind reels. the amusing thing is that most of the "red state" enemies of the
USG elite all think democracy is the best thing since sliced bread
decimation: ascii, as long as
USG is able to keep the bezzle going - joining the bezzle wot is going to be profitable. Ivies are the traditional entrance to the bezzle wot
decimation: mircea: except the job of the ivies is to prepare someone to coddle
USG for a living
mircea_popescu: no. this is a way to expose the
usg agents trying to push bitcoin a certain way.
nubbins`: it's known that ghash.io is
USG BingoBoingo: Well, once this
USG dumping is over hopefully come hosting time next year these contributions will go for a nice handle of something while I weld the server shut to drop off at the colo
bitcoinpete: i guess i didn't read the
usg sale as propaganda-y
mircea_popescu: fluffypony it's not bnased on th price at all. the fuck does the
usg need 50mn
mircea_popescu: nubbins` the announced price will be under market rate. the "winner" will not actually have to pay anything, but will have to support
usg policy.
decimation: "Trying to supplant our nature with technology is a losing prospect that gets it completely backwards." << what's amusing is that much of the ruling ideology of the
USG is exactly this
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> this is also the answer for why 'heartbleed' was necessary, considering that
usg has at-will access to root certs << not that simple.
decimation: ascii, I'm reluctant to jump on the conspiracy bandwagon because the
usg seems unable to accomplish anything "good" very well
decimation: wouldn't be surprising.
USG has all kinds of ancient irreplacable computer systems
mircea_popescu: anyway, the unfortunat experience of mr white, the fuckwit who listened to the
usg, withdrew his charges against
usg agents and is now serving 15 years should be very illuminating to every other us citizen
benkay: "disliking the
usg makes you a bad person"
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo so far, it'd seem the playbook of the vc twerp is, "1. eat as much conference rubber duck as possible ; 2. show trial ; 3. become
usg informant"
benkay: what's up in the air is
USG recognizing the above facts.
BingoBoingo: I swear, i there s a
USG agency that can't know exactly who I am... WTF am I being taxed for...
mircea_popescu: the exact way in which the various distros do the updating is imo the best way to diagnose
usg moles in foss.
mircea_popescu: <benkay> perhaps the
usg isn't as inimical to btc biz as i'd previously gathered << where'd you gather that ? reddit ?
benkay: perhaps the
usg isn't as inimical to btc biz as i'd previously gathered
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: jurov: smbx had perverse incentives (
usg funding that appeared bottomless - until it died suddenly. reagan's 'star wars.') << best way to sink a good start-up is a bad revenue source early on.
☟︎ decimation: based on my point about the "audit" though - and asciilifeform's link, one must wonder why the
USG would bother when it's probably weak
decimation: but the
USG has employed many to define the undefinable
decimation: The
USG doesn't take kindly to buying "conflict minerals"
decimation: Right, so my point about nest, TI, Renesas, etc is that the
USG currently subsidizes the electronics industry through direct purchases
decimation: I wonder what portion of their profit comes from selling to
USG and friends
decimation: I can't think of any better proof that our "economy" is just a "
USG friends & family plan"
mircea_popescu: but good mercs aren't either exactly merks or dumb enough to work for the
usg.
decimation: There's some reality there.
USG's influence is ... overstated
bounce: about time europe got off its
usg fetish. though swapping it for a russia fetish is maybe not an improvement
mircea_popescu: o look at that, academi (ex blackwater) paid by
usg to send 400 ppls to "punish" ukrainian separatists.
decimation: the number of dollars that could exist, if the Fed or
USG wanted them to, are uncountable
decimation: well, it's a hilarity forced upon the us by the
USG