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ThickAsThieves: they used it as the press release uimage on facebook
ThickAsThieves: Gox is rocking their Bitcoin Foindation badge prominently now
pankkake: "If your withdrawal is larger than 10,000 USD (equivalent), it will take at least 2 weeks to process" that sounds very government intervention
mircea_popescu: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=231960.msg2508507#msg2508507 that kinda blew up so
pankkake: takes a day to go in production. unless that's how they develop: in production
mircea_popescu: two weeks (a bfl tm)
mircea_popescu: lmao two weeks
pankkake: really, you might need a day to change to a new system, but what are they going to do for two weeks?
ThickAsThieves: We are currently making improvements to process withdrawals of United States Dollar (USD) denominations, and as a result are temporarily suspending cash withdrawals of USD for the next two weeks.
mircea_popescu: inaba drama continues, more twists, more turns. net result +2.
gribble: BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 110.40001, Best ask: 110.89999, Bid-ask spread: 0.49998, Last trade: 110.40000, 24 hour volume: 26089.65598104, 24 hour low: 106.46088, 24 hour high: 112.79000, 24 hour vwap: 109.77036
gribble: mircea_popescu was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 1 hour, 12 minutes, and 54 seconds ago: <mircea_popescu> take care all.
gribble: Next difficulty estimate | 19186717.5737 based on data since last change | 18502072.5768 based on data for last three days
truffles: from that verge link
truffles: im still staring at this fat guy breaking his chair in comment section
mircea_popescu: well i'm off to tittyfuck gemma atkinson
ThickAsThieves: what a piece of shit that was
ThickAsThieves: but lordy am I happy Quark Xpress lost the wars
ThickAsThieves: only reason I use InDesign is when I have to cuz client
mircea_popescu: you'd be faster in that just because it's actually programmable.
ThickAsThieves: i'm too fast in Corel now
mircea_popescu: but srsly now, ever tried inkscape ?
ThickAsThieves: my first "real" career job was in tradeshow graphics
mircea_popescu: real men vector in tex
ThickAsThieves: yknow i actually tried not to
truffles: "e, LeaseWeb's senior lawyer Alex de Joode said that nobody had attempted to access the Megaupload data in more than a year." i think we know why
mircea_popescu: * ThickAsThieves has been canned by assbot forever for using Adobe.
ThickAsThieves: they released more licenses than i owned
ThickAsThieves: but then when i did actully do that
ThickAsThieves: i used it instead of calling adobe to release my licenses from PCs that no longer existed
mircea_popescu: afaik people mostly used it to mock the crypto
ThickAsThieves: that's all that matters
truffles: works for me though
truffles: didu get the point though
truffles: forcing me to write in sentences
ThickAsThieves: [23:26] <truffles> i wouldnt do such a thing
truffles: i wouldnt do such a thing
ThickAsThieves: did anyone REALLY use it for anything other than hosting illegal shit?
truffles: just when i found out about them they got dojed
ThickAsThieves: just wanted to give thereg some love
ThickAsThieves: thats the one i read
ThickAsThieves: than the one i linked
mircea_popescu: i dunno, just going by what they said
mircea_popescu: On Wednesday, Dotcom said that he would have bought back all of Megaupload's servers from the companies that hosted them, but he was unable to because the DoJ had frozen all of the company's assets and refused to release even a portion of them for the purpose.
ThickAsThieves: oh the version i read was they never told him they were gonna delete
mircea_popescu: how did they confiscate his btc ? wasn't he a big deal btc investor with like the twinkletwinks or w/e ?
ThickAsThieves: "You say that as if it's a bad thing. I can't begin to contemplate what must be going on inside the skullous cavity of some dood imagining exchange executives " ... buy their own servers? ;)
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves so wait. kim guy is supposedly into bitcoin, has not a dime left to buy servers ?
truffles: also called it that bfl would ship
truffles: TAT did u get that audio?
ThickAsThieves: i didnt know the owner actually hated his own software
ThickAsThieves: hit youtube took it down
ThickAsThieves: mircea_popescu, did you see the John McAfee video?
mircea_popescu: tis the end of the world.
mircea_popescu: dude there's a rift straight to hell oppened two houses down
mircea_popescu: brb going outside checking for the fucking rift straight to hell
ThickAsThieves: Microsoft is abandoning its DRM policies for Xbox One, “as a result of feedback from the Xbox community.”
mircea_popescu: you two make a whole together.
ThickAsThieves: since then like 5 PMBs have been released
mircea_popescu: ok, guess who said that and when
mircea_popescu: "Seems that the well known yet little discussed fact that the majority of people "in Bitcoin" have a mental age of about nine is finally being recognized and exploited commercially."
mircea_popescu: see ? all this drama pushed it up 7 points
gribble: BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 108.15998, Best ask: 108.25996, Bid-ask spread: 0.09998, Last trade: 108.15998, 24 hour volume: 16793.53060533, 24 hour low: 105.80000, 24 hour high: 110.98630, 24 hour vwap: 108.05324
mircea_popescu: past the point of saggy tits already huh,.
ThickAsThieves: now i realize he was probly 16 thinking I was 8
ThickAsThieves: some forum ass yelled at me for teklling him to calm down today, saying he's probly twice my age and i should be more respectful
mircea_popescu: i guess half the us catholic church has jalapeno preorders ?
mircea_popescu: seeing there's so many liberated tweens running around doing bzns and other serious shit
kakobrekla: pireate was 15 and a half though
kakobrekla: cause theymost is almost teen too
ThickAsThieves: is theymos a teen too?
ThickAsThieves: why the fuck is some teen the treasurer?
kakobrekla: thats why im throwing that bet around
kakobrekla: but but he is the treasurer
ThickAsThieves: doesn't bitcointalk.org warn you not to sock?
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves not him. the "escrows"
kakobrekla: well yeah the second part is trueish
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla except bet refunds suck and the basis is weak and the no scammer tags fits the literasl no ;/
ThickAsThieves: wy would anyone ever bet he'd get scammer tagged?
kakobrekla: then bet can be refunded on that basis
ThickAsThieves: he runs the site
mircea_popescu: this is why there's no r&d happening in angola./
kakobrekla: well, first we need to figure out if no more 'scammetags' are given for a while now
ThickAsThieves: in this case
mircea_popescu: that's patently unfair to bettors, by its nature.
mircea_popescu: unforeseen circumstances clause can never cover the "bet subject acts in a deliberately deceitful manner"
mircea_popescu: yeah, that is exactly what i said : vetting of bets is poorly designed, in that it allows things to reference bitcoin people
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves this theory falls apart once you try to apply it to the point at hand.
mircea_popescu: it's funny tjhat the cognitive idiot actually imagined his shit move is going to help his rep.
ThickAsThieves: the design is the problem
ThickAsThieves: outside forces are not the problem
ThickAsThieves: and the user uses it howeve rhe can
ThickAsThieves: the design is the framework
ThickAsThieves: not that reverese
ThickAsThieves: well design typically takes responsibility for usage
mircea_popescu: run a bitcointalk bet ? bitcointalk changes the respective behaviour
mircea_popescu: total shithole thing to do.
ThickAsThieves: that's the only way to run one that is least likely to get caught scamming
mircea_popescu: they'll turn out to be huge gaping scamvaginas.
mircea_popescu: is to not involve anyone else. because if tyou do, sooner or later