nubbins`: "Another reflex is to call a general assembly at the slightest sign of movement, and vote. This is a mistake. The business of voting and deciding a winner, is enough to turn the assembly into a nightmare, into a theater where all the various little pretenders to power confront each other. Here we suffer from the bad example of bourgeois parliaments. An assembly is not a place for decisions but for

nubbins`: i think that's actually the complete text

nubbins`: incomprehensibly, the printable version is english-only

nubbins`: mircea_popescu, i downloaded the printable version and read it as hard copy

nubbins`: asciilifeform, i'm gonna bookmark this

nubbins`: i first read this around the time "occupy" was floundering about. had a chuckle at one point where they decry the General Assembly as essentially the worst idea ever

nubbins`: it's not readily available in plain text

nubbins`: seems like the sort of thing you might enjoy reviewing, if not reading

nubbins`: written by "the invisible committee", aka the Tarnac Nine

nubbins`: i spoke to a guy who TURNED DOWN an offer of 30btc for his 10btc round.

nubbins`: as if somebody's going to pay a $13,000 premium for a round minted last year

nubbins`: then there are the fools who believe their coins are impossibly valuable -- plenty of 25btc rounds with asking prices of 40+btc

nubbins`: as if the face value of a coin has any bearing on its numismatic value

nubbins`: one of the interesting things about casascius coins is that nobody seems to know how to price them

nubbins`: to be fair, once the coin changes hands twice, a chain of custody is essentially useless

nubbins`: i took him up on it and have been offering to extend the chain to buyers. only one has taken me up on it so far.

nubbins`: everyone then rushed to get their coins graded and slabbed, as if the cat wasn't already out of the bag

nubbins`: at decfon last year, they managed to remove a holo while leaving only slight traces of tampering

nubbins`: there's a high level of irrationality present in the subset of people who are into these coins

nubbins`: switching gears for a second, looks like this gem will sell: http://www.ebay.ca/itm/331103983219?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

nubbins`: near the end of the video, he misses a bus by about two coats of paint

nubbins`: i like how they chose an asshole rider who blows red lights to demo their product

nubbins`: "As you can see, the chap doing the demonstration is a qualified fixed-gear rider: With no brakes, he terrorizes pedestrians by running a red light at top speed and careers into London’s Picadilly Circus. He also has the obligatory skinny pants with Kryptonite Evo-Mini D-lock in the back pocket. Rest assured: this guy is a professional."

nubbins`: that's quite the tangram

nubbins`: up next: 10 reasons why it's a bad idea to masturbate with a reciprocating saw

nubbins`: and another explaining the dangers of tightly wrapping your macbook's power cord around the brick

nubbins`: there's an article on how to properly wear a bike helmet

nubbins`: just clicking through related articles on wired

nubbins`: hence the derpiness of "how will we know the coins are funded?" regarding forthcoming self-funded coins

nubbins`: not quite firstbits, but you can check the code against a published list

nubbins`: i'm about 70% of the way towards just giving you a coin to play with ;p

nubbins`: once you get a handle on the font, even a fairly low-res image would narrow things down to a reasonable set of possibilities

nubbins`: i think the holo itself would shrivel long before the paper browns, but point remains the same. as long as you can keep the reverse (or is it obverse?) at room-ish temperature

nubbins`: and nobody wanted to potentially flush a couple btc down the drain experimenting

nubbins`: anyway, i think the main reason nobody's tried slicing and dicing casascius coins until now is because the premiums were always so goddamn high

nubbins`: wait, is this even the same goddamn tech?

nubbins`: lee valley is a wondrous place for tinkerers and fiddlers

nubbins`: i've seen ones that will run off the temp differential between the top of the stove and the ambient air

nubbins`: the air in the room :D

nubbins`: well, when these unfunded coins start hitting the market, i bet there's going to be some experimenting going on

nubbins`: my folks have a propane fireplace, but the fan obv doesn't circulate the heat when the power goes

nubbins`: i was looking at peltier fans the other day, actually

nubbins`: uh huh. right. sorry, no coffee yet today

nubbins`: regardless, there'd still be enormous heat transfer to the paper, no?

nubbins`: it cannot survive comfortably at the melt point of brass

nubbins`: would be tough to not roast the private key

nubbins`: you're telling me you can half a coin along its height and reattach it?

nubbins`: wait the other side of what?

nubbins`: i'm itching to try a few things, but i don't want to ruin a bunch of coins

nubbins`: lel 80yo woman with teddy bear hat walked up the road

nubbins`: why not just press wax against the seal to dupe it?