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asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: wait till you meet with the laptops having crypto-chipped power bricks.
mircea_popescu: i just cut the end and plugged it into a universal transformer.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if it hadn't been for the edison monopoly, this could have actually happened.
asciilifeform: lose yer brick, go crying back to the vendor like a good consumer.
mircea_popescu: fuck that. if you listened to the assgholes every town in the us would have different power plugs in the walls.
mircea_popescu: 15v5a, 19.5v 3.33a what thwe loving fuck
mircea_popescu: what the fuck is wrong with laptops. i have four items here, they all use different power intakes
asciilifeform: turn the freezer off, you get the obvious result
asciilifeform: like the chechens coming out of the woodwork in post-collapse ussr.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there won't be 'fight' in the usual sense, more of a one-sided clobbering
mircea_popescu: im kinda looking forward to it
asciilifeform: 'human lite' won't fight. and if he did, the results would be comedic.
mircea_popescu: you are proposing a contradiction in terms.
asciilifeform: or been outdoors for more than a few hrs at a time
mircea_popescu: you have no idea. the gap has never been smaller than today.
mircea_popescu: are the same people that were eating belts and maple bark in 1777
mircea_popescu: the people who thumbed their nose at too much tea and crumpets in 1773
asciilifeform: quite a bit smaller then, vs. now
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: think of the gap between how the average fighting man lived in peacetime (lenin's cabin, etc) and the wartime conditions
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: do you know of any time or place where a revolutionary army successfully formed from people who had to forsake air conditioning and 'x box' ?
mircea_popescu: all the national french army officers, starting with bernadotte, were better fed before the empire than during.
mircea_popescu: they are absent, not well fed. the clever people in the revolutionary army were well fed before going to valleyforge
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the edifice survives because the clever people over here are, by and large, well-fed.
asciilifeform: also was no one awake in the '90s? used to be that it was generally understood that if you put plaintext over the wire, someone, somewhere will read it. if only a bored sysop.
mircea_popescu: three day old putting balanced against very runny cheese. it'll sit forever as neither is piercing the other./
mircea_popescu: the whole edifice survives so far because pretty much any american alive today is bereft any mettle.
Rulother__: Oh well yeah, they flat out say they do that. Sorry I must of missed that part.
asciilifeform: now, somewhere in the bureaucratic jungle there still live a few old-timers who wish they could grab people and wire them to the mains to get the truth, etc. this must be so, or the whole edifice would've collapsed already.
mircea_popescu: Rulother__ okay, but the discussion is about google reading your emails.
Rulother__: mp, a bit of extra security really. Sorry was taking care of work here.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform indeed. not quite the same thing.
asciilifeform: but no, the wankers send him nasty letters instead.
asciilifeform: take mr. levison's wife, dog, cat, whatever, hold them hostage while he dutifully operates his honeypot
asciilifeform: the 'lavabit' affair is hilarious. just think of how the kgb (or any other 'golden age' secret police) would've handled it
jcpham: ooh the seven
mircea_popescu: from the ever loving font of goodness my blog comments are.
mircea_popescu: "Bitcoin is already a centralized server since bitcoin software stores all history of transactions."
asciilifeform: see the now-famous 'TOR incident' as an obvious example. what does one need to have in place of a brain to rely on a winblows box for 'anonymous' naughties?
asciilifeform: rather than just snarfing packets.
Hiro2: Rulother__ there needs to be 2FA for Google Auth
asciilifeform: if this weren't the case, the gestapo would have to send an actual physical gasenwagen to round them up
Rulother__: I use Google Auth on just about everything, but even that won't protect you from everything
mircea_popescu: use gpg and gmail. what exactly is anyone going to do ?
mircea_popescu: i don't get it tho.
asciilifeform: way to go mr. s, tell the whole planet which lame web based email you used...
jurov: mircea_popescu: why, asciilifeform is in the us?
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell asciilifeform http://boingboing.net/2013/08/08/lavabit-email-service-snowden.html
Rulother__: I mean in terms of making your money back
mircea_popescu: some people don't do that shit.
mircea_popescu: Rulother__ you know, trading a scam makes one a scammer.
Rulother__: Here's my problem Snape, you could of used your 90k shares, sold them bought at a low, resold at a high and repeat. You could of made your money back by now.
snapeweasley: i pmed that guy
afrotec: but theyre taking paypal donatinons
afrotec: fuckin bullshit, all my tittypics just gone like that
afrotec: yep just read that ThickAsThieves
Rulother__: Where is this avalon news, not the 200mil but the news of news...
Exocyst: There's BTC to be made, but this has been a crazy fortnight
Hiro2: Exocyst true.. like buying a bond higher than it's price worth
Exocyst: BTC markets are the height of irrationality
Hiro2: seems like the only thing I could be sure is that I got into btc investments at a really bad time, lol
Hiro2: and exactly, even if he were to introduce something new his past performance is showing it could likely be delayed
Exocyst: 2 weeks, the answer to all your ASIC shippping queries
Exocyst: Should be a moving day, lot of coins have been pulled out of ASICMINER over the last week.
Hiro2: also "expect lots of news tomorrow" lots of news?
mircea_popescu: Hiro2 trust me. there's denying and there's denying.
Hiro2: mircea_popescu right but they can deny easily, maybe the deal is not finalized yet
mircea_popescu: afrotec it's just too lulzy to let die.
afrotec: thought we decided there was no 200mil
mircea_popescu: Hiro2 https://twitter.com/ScottWapnerCNBC/statuses/364370798892421120 thjat one ?
Hiro2: when was the VC meeting held? that one that was speculated with Avalon?
mircea_popescu: i know what it means. i just didn't expect teh webs to.
Hiro2: hmm, keywords "just got off the plane"
Exocyst: I'm not sure what the social strictures are on announcement announcements.
mircea_popescu: so was the announcement properly announced then ?
Exocyst: 4. Lost the avalon chip money in Vegas (sorry)
Exocyst: It would be nice to see end-user ASIC supply at the level ASICMINER has enjoyed
Hiro2: what are the assumptions about his news?
afrotec: probably, then down for their competition. short term
Exocyst: I figure there is too much uncertainty in his pre-announcement announcement
Exocyst: He tanked the market
Rulother__: little bit of self promotion there
Exocyst: There's no info there Hiro2
Hiro2: Exocyst where can I find more details? aww thank you :)
smidge: well market is tanking, thats for sure http://dcx.smidge.com/
Hiro2: What are the headlines today?
Exocyst: I think Labcon will peak at 0.00325 in Late November, then decay like a PMB as they fail to get a gen 2 chip in production
Exocyst: Even if they turned 75% of that into hashing power, they'd never be able to manage the power requirements
Namworld: and that gives rights to 20% of profits. Valuation: 160'000 BTC
afrotec: yeah thats a tanker for ya
Exocyst: For sure, that one is gonna tank
Namworld: Well BTCGarden raised 32,000 BTC... for what? Having a very cheap and badly translated website promising the moon?
Exocyst: Either way, I'm holding coin today looking for some toilet scenario bargains
afrotec: and i would go to the bank
afrotec: never gonna happen though lol
afrotec: thats toilet for sure
Exocyst: afrotec, Any chance "toilet scenario" would look like this? 0.0025 on ActM, 2.2 on ASICMINER, 0.008 on BTCGARDEN, and 0.0005 on Labcoin
Namworld: Advertisements? They tend to be expensive.
afrotec: everything down the toilet
afrotec: yep thats my thinking
afrotec: yeah i would think if he says no, then down we go