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mircea_popescu: the problem with
this, of course, is
that
the us produces exactly nothing.
mircea_popescu: otherwise, stealing as
the old regime is dieing is pure harpagon nonsense
mircea_popescu: the only way
theft is worth it is if you steal
the various factories/other means of production just as
the new regime is coming into power.
dub: I still say old bourbon barrels
to age scotch is is a better use case
nubbins`: mircea_popescu: moose are pretty big.
there's also another animal here called
the elk which is apparently 100% unrelated
to
the european ones
mircea_popescu: magistral pipeline going
through gypsy encampments loses about 1 milibar per mile.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so you're going
to make a pile of vinyl siding ? grand.
nubbins`: the
trick, i'm
told, is
to burn it in a gasoline fire in a barrel
to remove
the plastic coating
nubbins`: i know a couple of guys who always seem
to come across loads of copper wire
nubbins`: or uh, what do you guys call
them in europe?
nubbins`: turns out sharks like moose,
too ;(
dub: Chaulk said another local man, Jeremy Ball, arrived on
the scene and starting pulling on
the moose chunk. Shark rescue Jeremy Ball of Norris Arm North, N.L., moves
the beached shark into deeper water. "A couple yanks and it just came right out."
BingoBoingo: Well it only seems like
the end of
the line for
the US's current unholy marriage of socialism, surveillance, military robots, and IT contractors who can't make web sites.
dub: we need
them
to dispose of it
too, nobody else will drink it
mircea_popescu: so
te plan is for a robocleptocratic bourbon heistin' government ?
BingoBoingo: Well
there's still fields full of chemistry products.
dub: america is vitally important for one
thing
mircea_popescu: which by now
through regulation costs more
than it's worth anyway.
mircea_popescu: apple doesn't repatriate it's currency holdings. nobody else is.
there's literally nothing
there, you can steal
the real estate if you wish
the hassle of running it
BingoBoingo: I'm
thinking it will probably end in a drone backed coup leading
to a RoboKleptocratic government. Like
the
terminator, but with
theft instead of all
that killing.
mircea_popescu: i know you're not female and
therefore lack
the requisite apparatus, but... YOU NEVER KNOW
mircea_popescu: "I know
that your site is not running on wordpress but you never know."
this is possibly
the winner.
kakobrekla: I'm selling really beautiful wordpress
theme for social betting site as yours. I know
that your site is not running on wordpress but you never know. Hopefully you might be interested
to uptade
the look and feel of your site.
mircea_popescu: basically bitstamp is going
to get deluged into requests
to do weird manual
things
to
their incoming.
pankkake: though
there are actually a few websites dedicated
to
them
pankkake: it's more in
the ridiculous range
mircea_popescu: what's
the big deal about admitting
to various kinks ?
pankkake: it's not much of
the fetish, but I won't admit most of my other fetishes :)
truffles: what a weird
thing
to have a preference for
pankkake: is it so wrong
to like people with no souls?
mircea_popescu: i
thot
the internet way of looking at
things was more like "thanks goodness
the girl doesn't exist, because i love her"
pankkake: mircea_popescu:
too bad
that girl doesnt exist, because I love her
truffles: i dont
think i need
to know
that 1
pankkake: ah well, so you are part of
the people who know how
to say bukkake correctly
mircea_popescu: it was somewhat known due
to german fascination with weird vhs
pankkake: probably not known before
the internet
truffles: so u
think ppl would be embarassed by saying
that, i dont
mircea_popescu: afaik bukkake only became a household... item in
the mid 90s
pankkake: it's a good way
to spot people who know what bukkake is, or are willing
to admit it in public :p
dub: norly
they used superposition
to put malway on remote disks derp
dub: last week or so snowden revealed
they used it
to deliver
trojans
to specific linkedin users
mircea_popescu: dub "they don't need
this" has afaik never stopped any public expenditure
to date.
dub: quantum is
the name of
their mitm program
dub: mircea_popescu: he says
the odss of nsa not doing it are 0%, but he's probably wrong,
they dont need
this
they have quantum
mircea_popescu: Bugpowdurr just a
thought.
they're spending a shitton on advanced robotics research atm
Bugpowdurr: counterparty risk is problematic.
There is a reason all
the big chinese empires are kept in
the family
dub: though
the protocol could use some extra knobs
to help with
this
Bugpowdurr: And I am
talking
to
the Chinese re: arb
dub: flaws in implementaion not
the protocol
mircea_popescu: Bugpowdurr
this will sound corny, but, you should really
talk
to
the chinese/koreans
Bugpowdurr: but
tech isn't
there yet for precise CNS stim in humans
Bugpowdurr: The issue is I need
to break out of
the mouse