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nubbins`: absent title: "the bitcoin protocol doesn't exist"
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mircea_popescu: it's entirely untrue, and a poor attempt at trying to salvage some clout for the power rangers.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin is in fact a very solid protocol, and it flows in an unbroken line from software pre 0.5.x and from block 1.
mircea_popescu: pretense to the contrary is just that, pretense, readily explained by the desperation in usg quarters post their loss of their main asset in here.
mircea_popescu: it is kind-of fascinating for me that they were actually this unprepared for gavin getting headshot.
mircea_popescu: (you can trace Patrick McKenzie / starfighter if you feel like it0
mircea_popescu: marginally amusing read, stuff like
http://www.kalzumeus.com/2015/03/09/announcing-starfighter/ (grep for "Sounds like BS, right. I know. I’m a generic web programmer (yay Ruby, meh JavaScript, boo low-level anything). The last time I played a CTF, written by my cofounders, they had me breaking into locks controlled by micro controllers which ran embedded assembly code.")
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Birdman: Apparently nations are falling head over heels to switch over
mircea_popescu: this is not exactly new. was discussed here back in the lead-up to the cn-ru financial compact
Birdman: Then I suppose I should read up on the logs, thanks.
mircea_popescu: it was pretty clear at the time the ru "sanctions" were nailgun suicide.
assbot: Logged on 05-04-2015 14:14:53; ascii_modem: that part takes me 1h at most. it is deliberately manual, like the sub reactors, or therealbitcoin
mircea_popescu: so it's done once not just at level you, but at the whole wot level.
assbot: Logged on 05-04-2015 16:50:58; trinque: I don't want decisions made for me; I want bricks laid for me.
assbot: Logged on 05-04-2015 17:22:50; nubbins`: would be nice to get some people to test this patch when it's ready
assbot: Logged on 05-04-2015 18:06:07; Apocalyptic: ^ only for that fact alone it's a good experience
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assbot: Logged on 05-04-2015 19:39:37; ben_vulpes: me pogo's at the office
mircea_popescu: “The likelihood of widespread Palcohol abuse — particularly among underage consumers — carries a real possibility of tragic consequences,” Mr. Franchot said in a statement, “which is why I’m so pleased by the industry’s unified response to protect the public from such a dangerous product.”
mircea_popescu: re this entire "powdered alcohol" bs : why the fuck would i drink a galon of cyclodextrine slog for a quart of alcohol ?
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mircea_popescu: the important part being that the pansy-ass ten year olds masquerading as adults have reclassified as "trauma" a large swath of life experiences that are exactly necessary for the woman.
mircea_popescu: much like the same idiots have reclassified natural phenomena like wildfire as "bad", notwithstanding that coniferous trees will only open the seedpods if they get scorched.
mircea_popescu: because they lived there forever, and are adapted to what there *means*.
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TomServo: Ethereum wallet down to 486 BTC.
mircea_popescu: "I don't remember that," Fisher says. "But the inmates did tell me they had never eaten so good until I arrived."
mircea_popescu: could be romania back when ceausescu was trying to play prague spring supporter just as well.
pete_dushenski: lol i was wondering when the last 5k was going to disappear from the 'ethereum wallet'
assbot: Y’know that post-industrial service economy thing ? Ya, it’s just another shitty command economy. | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... (
http://bit.ly/19WNKsN )
pete_dushenski: "The 25 percent cut in water consumption ordered by Gov. Jerry Brown raises fundamental questions about what life in California will be like in the years ahead, and even whether this state faces the prospect of people leaving for wetter climates"
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decimation: it would be handy to have a 'diceware' version for rsa keys
mircea_popescu: note pete_dushenski the guy starts by inquiring whether the tramp is "in a room tonight"
decimation: does this invention begin to hit limits?”"
mircea_popescu: the "easy" situation has created this particular inferno for the underclass, that they are literally a mob now.
bitstein: pete_dushenski: Hearn lives in Switzerland.
mircea_popescu: no fixed place of residence, some nights in a hotel, or a car, or someone's livingroom, or the park.
mircea_popescu: that's pretty much the life of the whore, and of the mentally ill, and of the "student" and so on. bums, the lot of them.
mircea_popescu: like hearn, like everyone else on github. like the names on social media, like the leah goodmans trying to convince you they're "journalists".
decimation: meanwhile actualy california has 'reinvented' itself into a central american shithole, wants to pretend like it matters
mircea_popescu: you know, "journalists" just like the fictional carriew bradshaw,
mircea_popescu: not journalists like every other whore you fucked whenever you didn't mind getting filmy.
mircea_popescu: just like the actresses waiting tables and turning tricks.
mircea_popescu: decimation in fairness, california has always been past its demographic limits. people were paying more for hay there than anywhere in the world cca 1850
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pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: heh, well this particular whore recently claimed to have never heard of #b-a, which must be like carrie bradshaw never having heard of the new york times
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski if you recall the famous "conference" held in london by nefario, taaki and the rest of "bitcoinica consultancy" crowd...
pete_dushenski: because in magical fairy land, things that don't like you don't exist
mircea_popescu: that's the idea, generally. like going to a rave, orwhatever. sleep on the floor of a squatted building.
mircea_popescu: sleep at renton's underage girlfriend's parents' place
pete_dushenski: 'private rooms' cost less, whole suite, ya, that's too high falutin
decimation: ^ actresses waiting tables/turning tricks now use 25% less water
mircea_popescu: and this is how the carrie bradshaw selected hearing works. she'd have heard of the new york times, but not of... hm
pete_dushenski: if bitstein is correct, one wonders how hearn affords to live in switzerland
pete_dushenski: or more precisely, who he knows there with a spare couch
mircea_popescu: note that they DO list that imbecile west. who has contributed as much to human knowledge as obama has : being black.
mircea_popescu: so, yes. carrie bradshaw of philosophy writing for the toptenz of nyt has heard of cornel but not of chomsky.
mircea_popescu: decimation in fairness, they had all switched to those alcohol based swipes in the 90s.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: eh, not really a proponent of said theory.
pete_dushenski: swiss will go hide in the mountains, play defense, sell out who they like the least, one by one until the asker fucks off
decimation: my understanding is that it's not very simple to get a work visa in switzerland
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pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: if swiss banks are honeypotty, what are caymans ?
mircea_popescu: but somehow the geeks felt switzerland was more "technical"
mircea_popescu: i think this is even mentioned in meanwhile declassified soviet stuff. they actually sorted the blacks by "switzerland or germany"
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pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: who are these blacks who were sorted ?
mircea_popescu: back to that "you have no rights" fisher quote for a second : it splendidly illustrates the difference between democracy and republic,
mircea_popescu: and why la serenissima is not a democracy, and why no democracy can be anything but "a popular democracy", as in the popular democratic republic of <insert etnonym>
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski old joke, americans ask russians how do they keep discovering their secret agents. "you could try not sending black people..."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: incidentally, this might make a great basis for a remake of that fabulous "le grand blanc" (which srsly was james bond only well done)
mircea_popescu: have a senegalese man play Igor Totallyhonestlyrusynskyi
decimation: ^there's a 'democratic' effort to get a black guy to play james bond
mircea_popescu: make it just like the bond franchise, but with handicapped people and science.
pete_dushenski: the most telling line, and keep in mind that this is in the late 60s/early 70s, was hawking saying "physics is business"
decimation: " So, what that means is, this is actually terrifying. Democracy is radically indeterminate. The outcome can be manipulated. But that manipulation will not be apparent to people unless they have seen this technical result. Which means that you sort of--you can have shamans, people who know the rules, be in charge in ways that are tantamount to dictatorship. So, we should be very skeptical about claims that 'this is what the people
decimation: ^ the 'result' is simply that outcomes are not process-neutral, so manipulation of 'voting rules' manipulates outcomes. thus, dictatorship by process, ie usg
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: haven't seen le grand blond but will add it to the list.
mircea_popescu: decimation that's not even the biggest deal. arguably the biggest deal one outside could ever figure out.
mircea_popescu: but from the inside of a "democracy", i can tell you this : people employing a wot are so much more successful than people who do not
mircea_popescu: then representatives of the democracy are shot on xmas day and you can get a beating just by saying you think communism may be a thing.
decimation: certainly anything that destroys 'process' is a good thing
mircea_popescu: the notion that "democracy", ie, an implementation of democracy without a martial population and strict limits on the franchise is even practicable...
mircea_popescu: seriously, very thin ice sheets to shade you from the sun.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: people employing a wot are so much more successful than people who do not << completely. see italians, somalis, jooz, whoever. the rest are but chumps.
decimation: well, munger comes to the same conclusion as moldbug, that is usg is highly resistant to voting - because to be otherwise would be terrifying
decimation: because as much as I bitch about it, 'rule by derpy bureaucrat' is 100x better than 'rule by crazy mob'
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski the expression in romanian was " a face rost" , which meant to procure. which meant, talk to someone who knows someone.
mircea_popescu: literally, "n-ai pe cineva... ?" ie , "don't you have someone..."
mircea_popescu: ("dear listeners, i tell you i have no one anywhere. not phone service, not gas distributor, not x y or z. i do not..."
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> who is missing from that list ? << Chomsky
BingoBoingo was waiting for one of our Jews to name 'im
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo: lol you're obviously the jewiest guy in the audience!
BingoBoingo never could never see getting worked up over specific kinds of crackers
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decimation: asciilifeform: in other words, the dim mob wants 'process' precisely to dictate redistribution to them
decimation: right, the bums who vote to expel you after taking up residence on your property are morally superior, being bums
decimation: I didn't see it. So " --enable-static-nss" is useful for glibc
decimation: why does name resolution require binary plugins
decimation: I guess it's 'nice' that gethostbyname() can be arbitrarily remapped if you just want your linux to run winblows
decimation: asciilifeform: to be fair, their reasoning kinda makes sense in the world where libc is providing the 'global namespace'
decimation: what amuses me is that the excuse of 'it fixes bugs' only applies to code that isn't otherwise distributed by the 'distro'
decimation: in other words, it only applies to code that the user himself has compiled
decimation: yes, if you have some non-standard nsswitch.conf stuff it will break
decimation: all kinds of stuff provides nss plugins for name resolution
decimation: for instance, if you want to resolve the names of 'cifs' hosts running on microshit servers
decimation: at any rate, I think the responsible option here is to settle on uclibc with the desired features enabled
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decimation: asciilifeform: part of the problem is that glibc has a 'colorful' history
assbot: The failure modes of "democracy", from people who actually know what they're talking about. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/19X3dsV )
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i'm not entirely sure this is to go on the head of Andreas Jaeger.
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mircea_popescu: anyway asciilifeform no you're not the first to notice. you're the first to notice who is actually connected and thus powerful.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> in other words, it only applies to code that the user himself has compiled << in other words, it is by its very definition dekulakization. run the fucking code usg & dept of friend computer say you run, terrorist!
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> -somebody- saw it fit to break static linking on gnu platform in the traditional microshit way - suddenly, silently, and 'for your own good' (TM) << and the fact that silently worked tells mike_c why qntra market cap would reasonably exceed the sum of the market cap of all computing publications available.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell decimation once we settle in uclibc, uclibc gets killed.
mircea_popescu: much easier than to try and you know, buy all pogos, as alf was discussing.
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mats: ^Parameters of the nuclear deal with Iran
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mircea_popescu: mats anything above and beyond the "they succeeded making their own nuke, further sanctions superfluous" ?
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mircea_popescu: 300ish ships somehow sounds unimpressive. like a minor chinese port.
mats: “What they are doing with patrols is just the tip of the iceberg. It is not just the number of the ships, but within five to eight years they will have about 82 submarines in the Asia Pacific area and we will have about 32 to 34"
mircea_popescu: "all of which will be running on chinese made ic anyway"
mats: mircea_popescu: no, just the usual implicit 'fear the chinese' byline
mircea_popescu: yeah well... it seems reasonably obvious that the usg's very uppity policy is insanity on the mid term. they need us a lot more than we could ever need them. obviously a bit of humility today will save a lot of abject humiliation in 2025, but in any case
mats: only the first third is worth reading
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mircea_popescu: no idea why anyone'd entertain mildred gillars posing as a "comedian", but hey.
mircea_popescu: in any case : that particular leak, and the much less publicised but much ampler leaks since, are not important because "people on the street"
mircea_popescu: you can by and large identify disinfo by this very idiotic "person on street" bent.
mircea_popescu: the ordinary streetwalker couldn't explain how a car engine works, either. that doesn't make car engines unimportant.
mircea_popescu: if this were how the world worked everyone'd be john oliver.
mircea_popescu: but the pretense that his thinly veiled propaganda is "real journalism" is indicative of the state of the usg propaganda machine, be it daily beast or wapo.
mircea_popescu: ie, they really abandoned any attempt to communicate at all, and satisfy themselves with browbeat. supposedly this works on the stupidest of the working class.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Applied a patch, cazalla's one this though.
BingoBoingo: It's alright. I was only just working on a sandwich of ham... because no jew to be seen behind this IRC nick.
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cazalla: <mircea_popescu> there wa sa buttercoin ?! <<< been around a while actually but done the pivot thing a few times or something
mircea_popescu: well luckily ver invested the money he doesn't have into a new way to butter the coin!
fluffypony: I commented on the Hackpad where we were shooting ideas around
fluffypony: (afair it was for a decentralised exchange)
fluffypony: no, not beyond commenting on the hackpad
fluffypony: after that they seemed to veer off and create a "buttercoin team" and "productise" it
fluffypony: instead of building it out as an open-source effort
mircea_popescu: which hackpad thing reminds me : re the earlier hacker news piece - i find it hysterical the agitprop is seriously pushing the "and they got on skype" angle.
mircea_popescu: here's a clue : no decision of any import was ever taken on skype.
mircea_popescu: the people who take decisions aren't on skype. the people who are on skype don't take decisions.
mircea_popescu: "We're having trouble talking to the Hackpad synchronization server. You may be connecting through an incompatible firewall or proxy server.
mircea_popescu: We were unable to connect to the Hackpad synchronization server. This may be due to an incompatibility with your web browser or internet connection."
mircea_popescu: yeah totally. i have incompatible internet. incompatible TO STUPID
cazalla: i was on skype no less than 1 hour ago lol :\
mircea_popescu: fluffypony kinda funny how the "decentralised exchange" is the webwallet of 2015.
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cazalla: "Cobb allegedly uploaded images of child pornography to the social networking site, Tumblr."
mircea_popescu: "In this article I am going to show you how to create an executable that runs arbitrary code if it's examined by `ldd`. I have also written a social engineering scenario on how you can get your sysadmin to unknowingly hand you his privileges."
☟︎ punkman: "1985 called, they want their exploit back."
punkman: so, don't ldd as root n' stuff, in case you didn't know
mircea_popescu: of course, in the converse view, a sysadmin that actually fucks with your binary on a valuable box...
mircea_popescu: i had to do a dbl take see if he actually put html cruft in his poc.
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nubbins`: so i'm still not able to reproduce the portartronic pogotronic static build
nubbins`: totally have the static binary here, just... can't replicate the build.
nubbins`: and my patience has limits so this is on the back burner for the next week or so, at least.
nubbins`: fwiw it's just a matter of ripping out the chunks of boost that don't belong
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ascii_field: 'If you believe "static linking" to mean something else from what I
ascii_field: described above, please enlighten us all!'
ascii_field: ^ examples from folks noticing The Boojum and grasping at air while trying to understand why they are being lied to
ascii_field: essentially, 'this -is- the new static linking. forget about the old one'
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ascii_field: '"I suppose the idea is that everything will be in the downloaded file, so nothing depends on the local libraries on the target system. Unfortunately with Linux, and I think anything else using GLIBC, this still isn't quite true. There's this "libnss" (name service switch, some people seem to call it network security system) which provides functions for accessing various databases for authentication, network information,
ascii_field: and other things. It's supposed to make application programs independent of the separately configured actual network environment of the machine. A nice idea, but changes to GLIBC can lead to problems loading it. And you can't statically link "libnss", since it is configured for each machine individually. The problem comes, I think, mainly from statically linking other GLIBC libraries, notably "libpthread", "libm", and
ascii_field: "libc", from which come incompatible calls to "libnss" functions."'
mircea_popescu: in the wake of my "who shat the libnss" investigation tptb have agreed something must be done about this.
mircea_popescu: what's now needed is an expert computer engineer willing and able to take over maintenance of libnss, starting with fixing it so it allows proper static linking.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: you will be helped by the glibc team but you.absolutely.must.know.what.you're.doing.
ascii_field: why not shoot it in the head and maintain uclibc's ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, if one's interested feel free to contact me and i'll either say gtfo or tell you what you have to do. if you'd rather avoid the record of the gtfo feel free to discuss privately.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: i began reading the glibc source last night
ascii_field: must say that 'fix' is not the appropriate word
mircea_popescu: you being one of the perhaps five people that did it this year,
ascii_field: can you 'fix' a roadkill baking in the sun ?
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mircea_popescu: but, regardless. every journey begins with a frenzied fuck and a sad kiss goodbye.
ascii_field: dns is pure gold as a pwnhole vector, incidentally
mircea_popescu: at least from what i've pieced together from what people have been reciting to me as bedstories since my involvement in bitcoin
ascii_field: (solidly usg-controlled and no one other than us appears to smell the stink of the beast!)
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 50750 @ 0.00028209 = 14.3161 BTC [-] {2}
mircea_popescu: yes. "and what happens if letter server sends you crafted package ?" "huh ?!"
mircea_popescu: "no that doesn't happen" "right" "you don't understand how the world works!"
mircea_popescu: anyway, it was good enough for the webpage + guestbook era, which is back when it shone. everything goes away eventually, and the duct tape and chewed gum contraptions holding togethere the everyman's arpanet especially so.
ascii_field: when i did a tour of duty as a perversely purposeless employee of university, the cellar below my office, one flight of steps down, was a dns root serv. peculiarly well-guarded and fortified for something so low-traffic (root dns servs get used hardly ever)
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 5861 @ 0.00028634 = 1.6782 BTC [+]
ascii_field: it was the one part of the grounds where one could not wander at will
ascii_field: multiple doors, each opened with fancy electric keys, etc.
mircea_popescu: this is a business now. derps actually hope to make money out of this. someone might care about domain names still, because they did pre 2001, because dotcom people were idiots
ascii_field: these schmucks bought up hundreds of thousands of 'valuable' domains. naturally they will try to monetize before fellating their pistols
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 17992 @ 0.00028076 = 5.0514 BTC [-] {2}
mircea_popescu: the part i like best is the scamconferences they organise where they go to spend a coupla days in alt.universe where HUGE DEALS happen and stupidity is "an industry"
trinque: godaddy is now valued at what, 4 billion "dollars"?
mircea_popescu: their yearly total gross attained 1% of yearly expenditure in no year since 2001.
mircea_popescu: unlike pretty much anyone, including google and facebook/ godaddy is like apple.
trinque: huge revenue, pretty slim profit; I'm looking it up
trinque: dunno how you burn that much cash selling an imaginary product
trinque: this I guess is how usg creates jobs
mircea_popescu: was discussed here. that ho being their "image" what's her name ?
ascii_field: trinque: easy. they're the only registrar with tv ads
mircea_popescu: right. the bitpay "method", except they're doing out of their own money.
ascii_field: their business model is unabashedly populistic-chumpatronic
mircea_popescu: trying to be fucking aol over here, huge corp with by far shittiest product.
mircea_popescu: luckily, the 80s are long gone, and this strat simply does not work.
mircea_popescu: kinda not bodes well for government, either, this state of affairs.
trinque: ascii_field: yep, you too can have your very own 'website'!
ascii_field: works great. sell joe the alcoholic bomzh 'joethealcoholicbomzh.com' for ten bux
trinque: post-dot-com business in a box
mircea_popescu: ascii_field except the last perso who bought was later indicted for terrorist bombmaking.
trinque has trouble seeing the value in something that continues to lose money, but then, he's a simpleton
mircea_popescu: "i make a loss on every sale but hope to make it up on volume"
mircea_popescu: ascii_field it's the other thing people use other than uclibc
ascii_field: if weighs less - worth at least considering only on that merit alone
ascii_field: (but so far does not appear to be the case)
mircea_popescu: give or take, but i'm not really crazy about the difference between 5% and 3% either way
ascii_field: was speaking of brain mass, rather than bytewise.
ascii_field: aha. but must remind readers that they are not one and the same.
ascii_field: (for pathologically degenerate case, see my fpga tale from conf-II)
nubbins`: " The problem comes, I think, mainly from statically linking other GLIBC libraries, notably "libpthread"" <<< we're using that one
mircea_popescu: im kinda surprised "spvs" didn't get banned last time tbh.
mircea_popescu: OUR GREAT LEADER WAS SLAIN BY SOMETHING IN A ROUND BOX THINGEE! ROUNDBOX THINGEES ARE NOW BANNED!11
mircea_popescu: "Pinterest board observer raised $200 million in three days to buy more shares—with startup’s blessing" << almost exactly different from how a ponzi is run,
Pierre_Rochard: my favorite was “Data analytics provider Palantir Technologies Inc., which was valued at $15 billion last September, turned to an SPV arranged by Founders Fund, a San Francisco firm headed by billionaire investors Peter Thiel, according to people familiar with the deal.”
mircea_popescu: aaanyways. it's a safe enough model for as long as inflation holds, because it's based on nominal figures. known as the hyperinflation debenture frenzy.
Pierre_Rochard: Peter Thiel is a co-founder of Palantir, convenient for him to arrange a deal!
ascii_field: ^ for anyone who was living in a sealed bunker for the past few yrs, 'palantir' is one of the direct subcontractors to nsa panopticon wares
ascii_field: it is also perhaps the most comically named of them all
ascii_field: 'we serve the ultimate evil' loudly bragging, right in the name.
ascii_field: sorta like the skull on the ss uniform, but more so.
mircea_popescu: dude for all the pretense they put forth ... they've been gone for a month and i've not yet run into a mourning woman ?
mircea_popescu: wtf is this world where such great things can go out and not even a billion people show for the burial.
mircea_popescu: generally, illness in humans is manifested as a contraction of the "presence bubble". you may sit in your bed thinking of things as far away as a continent, but the man in pain sees nothing past his nose. and the man in love, past HER nose.
mircea_popescu: mental disease is no different, diseased states are always narrower than sanity.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: except that diseased state happily contracts the megalomania out to a hundred various 'mengeles' each of whom focuses on the insides of a particular variety of designated untermensch
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 26000 @ 0.00027837 = 7.2376 BTC [-] {4}
mircea_popescu: it also doesn't work, necessarily. if it did, we wouldn't actually need bitcoin to solve the specific problems it solves.
mircea_popescu: in which we find out that openssh does not wish to bestatic linked, and this by design.
mircea_popescu: this, of course, was pre HB. now they might be more amenable. lol.
ascii_field: if anything, the muppets are emboldened by the gotterdammerung which did not come
mircea_popescu: of course, the original was a fucking cycle of operas.
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assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 4900 @ 0.00027412 = 1.3432 BTC [-] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 11650 @ 0.00028447 = 3.3141 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 24850 @ 0.00028655 = 7.1208 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 32700 @ 0.00028195 = 9.2198 BTC [-] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 30188 @ 0.0002716 = 8.1991 BTC [-] {2}
nubbins`: "Guess we all know why theymos has been hanging out in the transvestite hangouts now. He's embezeld the forum donations to turn Bad Bears P into a V so he could be his B and he gave him admin privalges so you could come here to take out his frustrations after he rams it up his ass until he bleeds. "
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 36040 @ 0.00027056 = 9.751 BTC [-] {4}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 18596 @ 0.00027326 = 5.0815 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 7200 @ 0.00028077 = 2.0215 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 18500 @ 0.00028388 = 5.2518 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 4700 @ 0.00028077 = 1.3196 BTC [-]
ascii_field: '...sliced off his GPS ankle monitor and affixed it to a crudely built contraption in his rural New York residence "in order to give the appearance that he was still present and moving within his home."'
ascii_field always assumed these have tamper traps like the neck-bombs from the film 'deadlock'
BingoBoingo: Maybe the assumption of a tamper trap is normally enough?
ascii_field: BingoBoingo: doesn't hold against competent victim
ascii_field: perhaps it is best to be thought a complete idiot, in this specific scenario.
BingoBoingo: Right, but if the designer of the trap isn't competent...
ascii_field: judge: 'I want Mr. Ceglia -- sir, you need to understand something about me. I have no compunction about taking people's parents' homes away and heaving them homeless on the street -- none whatsoever.'
ascii_field: 'THE COURT: As I said I am perfectly happy to bankrupt them. I am perfectly happy to take their real estate and to sell it, if that is what they choose. '
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 5750 @ 0.00028077 = 1.6144 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 22700 @ 0.00028674 = 6.509 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 41300 @ 0.00028674 = 11.8424 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 35100 @ 0.00028458 = 9.9888 BTC [-] {2}
mats: .engineer domains can nao be rented for the low low cost of just $50,000
mats: reverse.engineer can be had for $48,000
☟︎ mats: watta 'premium domain'
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 19458 @ 0.00028688 = 5.5821 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: Logged on 02-04-2015 21:17:32; mircea_popescu: might as well make your strategy "to get really really fat"
lobbes: Or is it simply: "Don't make yourself a target for usg" ?
lobbes: Surely wealth alone is not enough, but it does allow some 'power' does it not? Either way, I'm just some schmuck aspiring to wealth. Not sure how much I'm qualified to speak on such things.
☟︎ lobbes: Anyway, I got some reading to catch up on. As you were, logs
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 23100 @ 0.00028942 = 6.6856 BTC [+]
mod6: is there one specific site that you pay the .ar reciprocity fee?
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 30754 @ 0.00028089 = 8.6385 BTC [-] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 71421 @ 0.00027001 = 19.2844 BTC [-] {4}
mod6: do i need to make a login id?
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 35900 @ 0.0002835 = 10.1777 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: Logged on 06-04-2015 21:16:42; ascii_field: -- but evidently not ?
mircea_popescu: it just sort-of works provided a) lemmings and b) some very basic nonsensical assumptions.
mircea_popescu: but yes, ductape it on one of those robo vacuum cleanners... "nobody could have foreseen"