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mircea_popescu: if i ever go
to
the ces my booth babes will be
topless
ozbot: Booth Babes Don’t Work |
TechCrunch
pankkake: eheh, QR codes before
their
time… but
that device must have been very bulky
mircea_popescu: " CueCats were also bulk mailed (unsolicited)
to certain mailing lists, such as subscribers of
technology magazines Forbes and Wired."
pankkake: I used
to
think it was
to prevent people from escaping VAT
pankkake: in France we have "Abus de bien social" - I didn't find any
translation for
this (at least legal
terms)
mircea_popescu: pankkake: I'd just buy myself
things "for
the company" << Well Mr. Ipswitch since everyone of my expenses are obviously for a legitimate business purpose. ( Elaine
turns on water pic
to water plants.)
mircea_popescu: there are some
trilkema articles but
they be in romanian as
this is pre-change
mircea_popescu: it's possible
there's some stuff in
the early posts of mpoe-pr
pankkake: if you have
to wait for confirmations
to cancel orders
pankkake: "if you review
the early history of btc scams, 2011s, you'll see most corps
turned scams once
the "ceo" confronted
the problem of "we have cashflow. what
to do with
that cash ?"."
pankkake: mircea_popescu: did you write anything on
the subject of
the log.b-a link? I bookmarket it, but an actual article would be nice
Duffer1: although
the information would be valuable either way i suppose
Duffer1: it would be nice if
the first colored coin experiment company wasn't a scam
pankkake: it's much easier for an exchange
than for a business
to escape
the law anyway
pankkake: Duffer1:
the colored coin
thing is weird, yes… as if
the risk was in
the exchange
pankkake: well, except in
the dot com bubble actually
pankkake: when in fiat land "CEOs" of startup don't pay
themselves for years
pankkake: yeah,
those are usually not disclosed
pankkake: I'd just buy myself
things "for
the company"
Duffer1: they're voting on whether or not
to move shares
to colored coins
mircea_popescu: pankkake same old story,
the same derpage from new derps.
the derps last
three months on average, but
their derpage is immortal.
mircea_popescu: Duffer1> because all
the bad luck was used up on labcoin, actm will be a huge success <<< bwahahaha
Duffer1: i don't know why i even read
that
thread, it's just as stressful
to me as
the labcoin nonsense and i don't even own any actm
pankkake: so
the message is "if you ask questions it will be worse"
pankkake: actually,
the lack of communication is now blamed on people who supposedly contacted easic
pankkake: but after figuring out
they have been lied
to… nothing
pankkake: not losing 100% would be a success at
that point :p
Duffer1: i don't see how actm can be successful even if
they
turn out
to be legit
pankkake: to be successful
they'd have
to ask for
things like clear financials. right now
they're just encouraging more scam
Duffer1: i hope
they're successful
though, i know guys
that lost only 50% of
their assets in labcoin because
the other 50% was in actm >.<
Duffer1: because all
the bad luck was used up on labcoin, actm will be a huge success
Duffer1: it's almost
the gambler falacy in
that
thread
pankkake: she
tried
to
talk in
the activemining
thread, I'm afraid
those guys are
too far gone
dub: make
the gril watch it and your jimothy conversion rates will blow up
ozbot: Selling is Service, Service is Selling - A Musical
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dub: he watched my video from
the other day
unclehowell: You guys really know about
the free internet initiatives. Awesome speaking
to you all. Where
they all failed we hope
to succeed with
http://wavetele.com unclehowell: Wave is my
tech startup. So what do you guys
think? Will we ever have free internet access. My only competitor seems
to be Zuckerberg himself with
http://internet.org/ dub: we had free dialup back in
the dark ages of network
termination rates
mircea_popescu: someone patented straight lines in
that fuckfest of insanity over
there.
mircea_popescu: "The bars are
tilted 22.5°
to
the left, both for stylistic reasons and
to avoid Lemelson parallel barcode patent concerns."
unclehowell: I worked Maplins.
Then Cyber Security in
the MOD. I love
tech.
pankkake: yes… minitel is
the
thing
to blame for
the lack of good internet access at
the
time
Duffer1: used
to work at radioshack when
they phased em out
Duffer1: i have like a dozen of
those cats
mircea_popescu: pankkake wait, you're from
the magical land of
the minitel aren't you
pankkake: unless it was
those free
things, our you found other, dirty ways
to get it for free
mircea_popescu: i was keeping
this as my personal private chuckle re all
the ninnies with
the qr codes
that revolutionise w/e
the fuck
unclehowell: Cheers mircea_popescu, I hear you. Yeh, I'm new
to
this
pankkake: mircea_popescu: no, we eventually had dialup
that did not have a cost for
the dialer; but of course you had
to pay
the ISP you dialed
to
ozbot: CueCat - Wikipedia,
the free encyclopedia
mircea_popescu: unclehowell as far as anyone knows, you're some guy
that started
talking
the moment he joined and what he had
to say was some sales angle.
this is exactly how
to end up on
the ignore list of half
the chan within five minutes, and on
the mocklist of half
the rest.
mircea_popescu: pankkake what,
the bbss ?!
those weren't free, foo. urmom was payin' for it.
pankkake: there were also
the
things
that paid you
to browse
unclehowell: I heard
they used
to do ads-for-access with dial up.
pankkake: I remember when I was using dialup and farming
those free internets
Apocalyptic: now asciilifeform
that's some interesting facts
mircea_popescu: dja understand by
this reading
the average fridge is a honeypot ?
mircea_popescu: this works sort-of well, until you end up with
things like... i dunno, every show on
tv being a honeypot by
this approach, as well as every newspaper and most of everything else, cause
they damn sure don't work for
the advertised/intended purposes.
pankkake: mircea_popescu:
the issue is
that belief is present among "the good guys"
mircea_popescu: this "making
things easy" bs is just another name for "painting yourself out of
the picture"
mircea_popescu: pankkake it's deeper
than
that,
too. us people wanted a system
that'd work without
their input.
thirty years later...
they have it.
Apocalyptic: asciilifeform, do you have any ref related
to
this ?
pankkake: you have
to understand it or you will get burned
pankkake: what bothers me
the most is
the common belief
that you only need
to make crypto "easy"
pankkake: I don't really care about
the intentions behind it, but it cannot achieve its stated goal
pankkake: I don't understand why
they would go for Android either