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nubbins`: but like i say,
tty1-6 available and responsive
nubbins`: managed
to boot into a liveusb install ONCE, have been unable
to replicate
this feat
BingoBoingo: You play with BIOS or whatever
the fuck
they call it now settings?
nubbins`: bit outta my element here, been a while since i've had
to dick around like
this
nubbins`: yeah,
tried 12.04 as well, didn't have much luck
there either
BingoBoingo: The newer ones look for weird BIOS/UFCI stuff
try 12.04 you can upgrade from
there if necessary.
The new installers suck with older mobile hardware
though
nubbins`: hm,
trying
to run ubuntu from usb, gets as far as "Stopping enable remaining boot-time encrypted block devices [OK]" and stops
decimation: well, like bitcoin,
the Werhmacht's fuel supply was
theirs
to lose
mircea_popescu: and so got
trampled underfoot by
those with better meteoric exposure.
mircea_popescu: notwithstanding
their astounding other accomplishments,
mircea_popescu: most populations were unable
to acquire a few pounds of iron,
mircea_popescu: decimation
there's no requirement
that fuel availability and mechanical complexity relate in any particular proportion.
decimation: for instance,
the gasenwagen picture supplied by ascii. It's amazing
to me
that someone with
the mechanical competence
to assemble such a contraption would be unable
to buy a few gallons of fuel
mircea_popescu: because clearly she forced you
through your lack of other options.
mircea_popescu: problem with
this approach is
that if you follow it you'll end up filing rape charges against
the only woman
that'd have you
mircea_popescu: decimation yeah well, i've been saying
this
to everyone's exhaustion for
the past coupla years or w/e.
decimation: no, what I mean is
that
the fiat regime allows
the delusion of infinite wealth
nubbins`: the referendum
to join canada was passed with a scant 52% voting yes
decimation: anyway,
to mp's original point about change, I
think
there is a fundamental
truth about human nature. Humans require suffering
to calibrate
their joy
mircea_popescu: as
there's only 20 years between
the
two wars, and plenty of locales changed hands multiple
times... it happens.
nubbins`: nationalities
that still exist
tho?
mircea_popescu: nubbins`
that's nothing, plenty of old women around
the balkans shed 5-6-7 nationalities
decimation: ascii - solzhenitzyn said
that
they were meat wagons (in
the end of
The First Circle)
KRS1: When can I start
trading pokemon and magic:
the gathering on MtGox
ozbot: Newfoundland dollar - Wikipedia,
the free encyclopedia
decimation: yeah, banking back
then was pretty much like
trusting bitcointalk scammers with your money
decimation: indeed, lincoln started
the fiat craze
to fund his religious war
nubbins`: old women holding mirrors up
to riot police
mircea_popescu: in
the 1800s
the us was a bit player, fighting with mexico over
the silver export
to china
decimation: although it was mostly fiction anyway at
that point
decimation: well, it also caused
the US
to abandon gold
decimation: well
that didn't work out well for germany
mircea_popescu: even in practice, in
the 1800s multiple governments owed more gold
than was actually available in
the world at
the
time
decimation: but
the lack of an implicit printing press will surely encourage
the investors
to be more skeptical
mircea_popescu: just as long as
the promise isn't
to pay in specie and in one go, it still can stand.
mircea_popescu: decimation
that's a subset of "how can public companies be worth more
than 20mn btc.
they can."
decimation: how can a government promise
to pay more bitcoin
than exists for instance?
mircea_popescu: much in
the way what law and
the courts are will change and so on
mircea_popescu: much in
the way what
tax means and what
taxation entails will change,
mircea_popescu: what property means and what remedies for
theft are will change.
mircea_popescu: the moral here is
that willy-nilly bitcoin will bring about deep and far reaching changes in human society, culture and mentality.
decimation: heh. If someone were
to steal all
the btc from mtgox and distribute
them
to
the last 1,000 addresses
that mined at least one block would be considered a hero
nubbins`: silly laundry sending coins
to other people's addresses
mircea_popescu: old
txn past
the checkpoint may get pruned eventually.
mircea_popescu: completely indistinguishable from any address
this guy'd make
mircea_popescu: it can say whatever
the hell it wants. every
time you make a payment a fraction is sent
to a wholly new address
mircea_popescu: there's no benefit in using some "organic" address. nor does
this actually exist.
mircea_popescu: yes, which only means it has
the checksum and starts with 1
nubbins`: maybe. a few of
the sends ended up on casascius rounds
nubbins`: well, not sure of
the motivation
ozbot: Cease and Desist Letter
to ASICSRUS
nubbins`: asciilifeform:
that's still happening