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Duffer1: it's pro life until you're born, then it's "fuck you"
pankkake: I've spent *years* of my trolling career on the topic - not by choice really, just was the issue we didn't agree on
nubbins`: "pro-life" crowd gives zero fucks about this
pankkake: and then independant life. is the baby a parasite?
nubbins`: MORE THAN HALF of the "babies" die in the womb fully on their own
pankkake: but it's not easy to define "life"
nubbins`: consider that more than 50% of fertilized eggs fail to implant in the uterus wall
pankkake: something like that
nubbins`: anyway, pretty heavy lel that the USA enshrines the right to life in their declaration of independence, but has the death penalty
nubbins`: i mean, really, until we got involved in afghanistan and iraq, the canadian army generally didn't kill anyone
Nick_Szabo: i was thinking today about whether the whether never changing in area is related to the people never changing
pankkake: oh, totally ok then! :o)
nubbins`: but the army doesn't kill canadian nationals :P
nubbins`: here in canada, the government doesn't take life
Nick_Szabo: surely the most basic right
Nick_Szabo: the gov also takes life when it sees fit
nubbins`: city says hey, lel, we want to do X with your property
nubbins`: well, so i have the right to property
Nick_Szabo: why cant they coexist nubs?
nubbins`: seems like the legal concept of expropriation flies right in the face of the right to property
Nick_Szabo: then the healing can begin
Nick_Szabo: once we get everyone on board, i'll pull the plug
nubbins`: although i'm now reading some background info on the topic
nubbins`: no, i meant the idea seemed like a bit of a wank
Nick_Szabo: mp aint here to elaborate
pankkake: they have the skateboard age at least
kakobrekla: those two have teslas or something
pankkake: I was joking about media stereotypes (and the suberb movie Hackers)
Apocalyptic: pankkake, hackers != teens
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu boards are here!
ozbot: Crazy Hacker Wants to Save Bitcoin by Blasting a CubeSat into Space
Nick_Szabo: but without secrets people will know the truth!
KRS|Gotyawallet: lol! at first glance it looks like those contracts will never make roi
Nick_Szabo: this article seems dangerous to me in that it wil help Cloudhashing sell more PMBs
KRS|Gotyawallet: I have bitcoin. There's a line for us.
Nick_Szabo: NY Times sorta does article on CloudHashing.com http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/12/21/into-the-bitcoin-mines/
truffles: u prob wont be able to leave by then
KRS|Gotyawallet: this is teh lulz https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BcHsuW3CYAADDh2.jpg
KRS|Gotyawallet: so like i was thinking of someplace to flee to when the U.S. takes a shit..somlia or some third world country a nigga like me could be living well
KRS|Gotyawallet: pfft. i dont pay that stuff no mind.
mircea_popescu: o wait, that was the rolling stones not the new yorker
mircea_popescu: the current crop mostly sounds like they've crawled out of a hipster's arse.
mircea_popescu: i guess i'm just used to much grittier new yorkers
jurov: anyone who does not operate under delusion gets their computers shredded (like guardian) or worse
mircea_popescu: i seriously wonder at the degree of delusion us press must be belabouring under, to imagine saying " would threaten the stability of the financial system" does not immediately and transparently mapped to "they told us they will fuck us up, permanently. we believed them, because they had a point."
asciilifeform: j.e.hoover: 'justice is incidental to law and order.'
mircea_popescu: legal fiction may not impede on that.
mircea_popescu: property is the first and only right. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: after the strauss debacle, the us as much as trying this will result in the respective agents being shot on the spot.
mircea_popescu: "There is no reason why the Justice Department couldn't have snatched up everybody at HSBC involved with the trafficking, prosecuted them criminally, and worked with banking regulators to make sure that the bank survived the transition to new management."
mircea_popescu: more like "you think anyone asked you ? shut up and get out of my office"
ThickAsThieves: why is HSBC paying anything at all then?
mircea_popescu: hardly anything else than proof as to how the usg is impotent and pointless.
mircea_popescu: the usg insists to bother foreign merchants with "regulation". this is one step away from everyone just sending it packing. so it agreed to stfu and save some face.
mircea_popescu: also, what the fascist media claims and what the reality is divergest vastly.
monolithik: think I just went a bit too deep down the rabbit hole.
mircea_popescu: these aren't poor people, and therefore unrelated.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves it's not a joke, it's just there to control poor people.
ThickAsThieves: "Though this was not stated explicitly, the government's rationale in not pursuing criminal prosecutions against the bank was apparently rooted in concerns that putting executives from a "systemically important institution" in jail for drug laundering would threaten the stability of the financial system...
monolithik: i mean, for a GWU law professor, its quite strange that there is almost no record of his existence.
ozbot: Outrageous HSBC Settlement Proves the Drug War is a Joke | | Rolling Stone
truffles: guess u dont like tentacle porn :D
monolithik: I originally thought he was probably real and just very careful about his online presence, but those old cypherpunk emails kind of weird me out.
monolithik: knowledge of fake name use. Probably a T.C.May tentacle.
monolithik: the name. Has strong interest in digital cash. Has admitted to
monolithik: being exposed the `mother monster' continues to post, because a`
monolithik: "The Szabo tentacle is one of the most persistent of all. Even after"
monolithik: As far back as 1994 on the cypherpunk mailing list, people questioned whether szabo was a real person
monolithik: but then it gets stranger: http://w2.eff.org/Net_culture/Folklore/Humor/squish.hoax
monolithik: I found a conference on smart contracts that he supposedly spoke at, but not much else
monolithik: and I wondered, who is this guy? Ignoring the question of whether he is satoshi or not, who is he? Other than his website and blog, he's basically a ghost online
mircea_popescu: you know, like nielsen ratings / website traffic stats / us inflation
mircea_popescu: i guess nobody gives a shit about that
ThickAsThieves: i assume the bet is now closed
ThickAsThieves: here's the all-time link
KRS|Gotyawallet: i was talking to jurov about a cool project worth looking into using global conciousness project data to compute favorable odds for betting on sites like just dice
mircea_popescu: how is this nonsense news ?
truffles: u should start a news site then :D
KRS|Gotyawallet: I just report the news, I'm not backing it up, interested in comments from you guys because I value your wisdom.
truffles: is the bitcoin sky fallling
KRS|Gotyawallet: I agree with you guys, but this time I think even Fontas said its the end.
mircea_popescu: KRS|Gotyawallet you seriously failed to notice that "the big move" happened january 2011 ?
KRS|Gotyawallet: ok..well..hrmph..cool I guess. Thanks dude.s
mircea_popescu: is there any way to reliably measure such a putative mkt cap ?
jurov: don't we have a bitbet about this already?
mircea_popescu: yeah, because that always worked.
ozbot: RSA Response to Media Claims Regarding NSA Relationship » Speaking of Security - The RSA Blog
KRS|Gotyawallet: anybody concerned about that public note on 400K btc?
mircea_popescu: if post-sell-by date starlets start "leaking" bitcoin tapes i'm gonna hurt some puppies.
mircea_popescu: dude srsly, this retards wave 3.0 thing is above any predicted high water mark.
ThickAsThieves: if you have to ask...
ThickAsThieves: bitcoin magazine really needs to get rid of those spammy 'article' ads at the bottom of the page
KRS|Gotyawallet: i'll drop 75K on it, shiet this is war nigga
KRS|Gotyawallet: lets rally up some btc and buy up that 400K alright?
KRS|Gotyawallet: Winklevoss twins are in the secret group, they told us ETF application has been denied and secondmarket's will soon be shut down, BTC to be banned in the US following China's actions. Thus the reasoning for the orchestration of the 400kBTC dump to happen soon.
mircea_popescu: "To stop the this" ? nobody here has such bad grammar.
mircea_popescu: is it more than a cartoon someone on reddit drew ?
mircea_popescu: im lost in tvtropes. send food.
mircea_popescu: But oh no! Here comes the Legion of Evil: Dr von Trope, The Dog Kicker, The Chessmaster, Superdick, Mr. Macekre, and the Brotherhood of Bowdlerization, Sir Jerkass, and the villainous Mary Sue! Together they'll bring about The End of the World as We Know It...
mircea_popescu: It's our hero, the Egregious Trope-Man! With his amazing trope-related powers, he always saves the day!