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mircea_popescu: so it's a courtroom only in the sense that... it isn'
t.
mircea_popescu: it's right there in city hall, but let's pretend we don'
t know about it./
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: people have asked me why haven'
t escaped, and i answer 'i haven'
t $xx mil.' to which, eyes bug out, and i have to explain 'a real escape means retrieval is not simply legally, but militarily uneconomical.' << let me tell you a story.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: plus it isn'
t clear that paying the 'legit' fees gets you anything in the long run. who's gonna force usg to honour the cancellations when they decide not to? the devil ? << this is the most germane point. i'd rather pay power Y to cancel my citizenship with power X than power X itself.
thestringpuller: chetty told me she still pays US taxes and hasn'
t been there in like a decade
thestringpuller: i thought you can'
t run away from your debt unless you defect?
mircea_popescu: which is quite why the regular beatings delivered to them by people who didn'
t go to school. engineering - a comparable line of work - doesn'
t suffer from this plague of "he's a voodoo plumber and well... his plumbing is actually better than ours"
mircea_popescu: jurov well see, if your simile revolves around sex (and being gay is all about sex innit) then sex is best considered all around. the old "never use an item you don'
t see the full contours of" engineering caveat.
mircea_popescu: i wouldn'
t trust orlov much furher than i can throw him tbh.
mircea_popescu: jurov: asciilifeform re:orlov it's similar as russian police completely ignoring tortures of gays...if they aren'
t complicit actively, then it isn'
t massacre? << this theory is appealing unless one stops to consider they were by this token complicit in the murder of whoever many million "tutsi"s whatever the fuck that may be, happening wherever the fuck that may have happened at some point nobody cared about.
ben_vulpes: and not personally. i don'
t do this crazy asset dance - i just build shit and acquire btc.
chetty: yeah bringing the children home isn{
t all that hard, zero the balance and give em a plane ticket
ben_vulpes: 'course, hanging here doesn'
t help much with that.
ben_vulpes: don'
t outrun bear, be a less visible target than others
ben_vulpes: i honestly don'
t even see the point of expatriation
ben_vulpes: today i learned that the html date field doesn'
t support placeholders
jurov: don'
t be naive people, common sense is an euphemism
jurov: asciilifeform re:orlov it's similar as russian police completely ignoring tortures of gays...if they aren'
t complicit actively, then it isn'
t massacre?
mircea_popescu: yeah, well, maybe you shouldn'
t trust that too far then.
mircea_popescu: want the cure now! And when we don'
t get it, we look for a witch to
mircea_popescu: knew a camwhore who slept with her laptop because the one time she didn'
t it felt snubbed and wouldn'
t work right the whole day.
assbot: Logged on 29-08-2014 05:11:06; decimation: the thing is, Admiral McCain probably didn'
t have to issue any special instructions to 'finesse' the investigation, the investigators probably all thought it would be a brilliant plan
mircea_popescu: and the subsequent ones didn'
t spread out but converged ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i really don'
t think its as political as all that.
decimation: mircea_popescu: that's true, in that case the eastern bankers were all in favor of gold (as they didn'
t envision some gov'
t bank would be able to print infinite silver)
decimation: “I don'
t even have an E-mail address. I have reached an age where my main purpose is not to receive messages,” Eco said at a party in his honor at the University Club of Chicago.
The20YearIRCloud: And from the papers I've seen, it doesn'
t seem to be signfiicantly more different than the theory behind VASMIR, and NASA was all over that 15 years ago
decimation: The20YearIRCloud: doubtful. in most circuitry heat loss in conductors isn'
t terribly critical, and it's hard to imagine said superconductors would be better/cheaper to fabricate than the metals we are discussing
decimation: gold actually has worse conductance than copper, but it doesn'
t oxidize
The20YearIRCloud: I don'
t know that they can be built, the costs were exorbant for non-military types
decimation: re: gult's gulch << I find it amusing that folks who supposedly value 'self-reliance' and 'liberty' are unable to actually fly to chile and buy some land for themselves, it can'
t be that hard for a person with means & brains
mircea_popescu: (look at what happened when people thought the church is a people, started donating a little to it and inadvertently created the largest landholder because unlike them, thge church didn;
t die regularly)
mircea_popescu: (you wouldn'
t be able to arrest anyone, but you would be able to void any application for a warrant)
mircea_popescu: now try and argue why it's not really fair that you're negrated because some major players didn'
t like your early anti-bitcoin involvement.
mircea_popescu: here's a thought : everything that has historical precendent now didn'
t originally.
mircea_popescu: ussr isn'
t remembered for having been led by the smartest people ever.
mircea_popescu: The20YearIRCloud: There's a town close to me that once every year auctions off 250-350 safe deposit box contents, you bid per box and don'
t know what is in them. All are seized from people who either didn'
t pay up or forgot about em << isn'
t there a reality show predicated on this process ?
mircea_popescu: The20YearIRCloud i don'
t get what this "let's all go huddle together" thing is supposed to do.
jurov: i was intrigued why it isn'
t possible for computer to keep asking for missing pieces until the task is fully defined
mircea_popescu: i don'
t readily remember the names of all the women i've been with either.
mircea_popescu: and if you don'
t you can make them make an index file.
Apocalyptic: mircea, I'm asking whether it's worth a read, I don'
t have nor know it
jurov: um.. but with increasing amount of ocean trash, won'
t you have a problem to locate the capsule once it surfaces from $ kilometers?
decimation: good point. Notwithstanding the logistics issues. The advantage to your sea-vault is that it could be (in theory) sunk with submarine, which would probably be difficult for any advanced gov'
t to track.