mircea_popescu: lmao

mircea_popescu: actually, that photo is me (taking it) having my shit (center) hauled over the mexico/guatemala border at an illegal crossing point

mircea_popescu: by some locals who carried it about 3 miles through the jungle uphill for 75 cents each

mircea_popescu: one was 13.

mircea_popescu: the other was his father.

mircea_popescu: (i think)

mircea_popescu: i happen to think it's a wonderful depiction of "we'll get shit done".

mircea_popescu: guy is wearing an authentic traditional sweated and a baseball cap, it's quite the piece.

mircea_popescu: yeah.

mircea_popescu: that's also quite caracteristic. without the vast reams of context it's usually quite unclear wtf i'm on about.

mircea_popescu: what's with modern man's expectation of enjoyment in anything and everything!

mircea_popescu: it IS funny, it's just that funny doesn't mean what you think it does.

mircea_popescu: ever heard the expression "does this taste funny" ?

mircea_popescu: ;;google life of brian song

mircea_popescu: pigeons : [Need] 100 BTC loan, I defaulted with others - Will pay 10.5 btc monthly minimum

mircea_popescu: forum 5987695769 : bitcoinjam 5987695768

mircea_popescu: let's see

mircea_popescu: hm

mircea_popescu: I'm still giving him the time. He can still ends this clearly. Nefario must release the csv file to all the users.

mircea_popescu: if he means cleanly he's insane lmao

mircea_popescu: giga already ate a bucket of dry sand over the "cleanliness" of nefario's closing, what, is he going to repay his lawyer & make all the forum howlers happy ?

mircea_popescu: lmao

mircea_popescu: that needs some quoting

mircea_popescu: meanwhile, back at the gox : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=128993.0

mircea_popescu: lol

mircea_popescu: i thought you meant nefario

mircea_popescu: i doubt it, tbh.

mircea_popescu: i'd say it's more like pirate (~500k claims), hasking-kludge-harnett-etco (10k-100k range)

mircea_popescu: then peanuts people like the bitdaytrader dood, nefario, what have you

mircea_popescu: the original mybitcoin guy belongs either tied with pirate or in the 2nd echelon, depending how you count btc then

mircea_popescu: btc ?

mircea_popescu: PsychoticBoy im not so sure you can lump all the many defaults from ciuciu to who have you under nefario's name.

mircea_popescu: now, if you were to compare scammer groups, then for sure intersangro takes the cake.

mircea_popescu: jesus god, we managed to get in a word edgewise past assbot.

mircea_popescu: dub he doesn't read trilema :D

mircea_popescu: ;;ticker

mircea_popescu: o hey, not so bad.

mircea_popescu: CoinPal allowed one to purchase Bitcoins with PayPal funds. PayPal payments can be reversed easily but Bitcoin payments are permanent. This asymmetry made CoinPal a constant target for PayPal fraud. After I experienced my first wave of fraud, from which I learned many lessons, CoinPal lost less than 0.9% of revenue to fraud losses.

mircea_popescu: Fraudulent buyers exhibit certain characteristics that distinguish them from legitimate customers.

mircea_popescu: this is actually a pretty interesting read. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=93770.0

mircea_popescu: "It seems there is no help here,"

mircea_popescu: fucking asshole USA, created three hundred million useless fucks looking for "help"

mircea_popescu: eat shit and die already, what help ? just... keel over.

mircea_popescu: heh

mircea_popescu: unrelatedly, these look pretty good http://polimedia.us/dtng/c/src/135458062688.jpg

mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2012/adnotated-words-of-wisdom-on-the-topic-of-online-fraud/

mircea_popescu: better ?

mircea_popescu: i have difficulty finishing sentences nowadays.

mircea_popescu: dub better nao ?

mircea_popescu: ran a Paypal hm, let’s just quote :

mircea_popescu: hm.

mircea_popescu: i added the suspensio npoints

mircea_popescu: yay for open source article editing

mircea_popescu: :D

mircea_popescu: i wasn't even gonna say anything.

mircea_popescu: Graet hahaha we'll make what, a german philosopher ?

mircea_popescu: heh

mircea_popescu: aha ?

mircea_popescu: in principle.

mircea_popescu: there is need of a good advertising system for bitcoin,

mircea_popescu: one that does not allow shit publishers in at all.

mircea_popescu: true.

mircea_popescu: cpa has numerous problems

mircea_popescu: chief among which that no serious publisher would entertain it.

mircea_popescu: it's stupid through and through.

mircea_popescu: heh.

mircea_popescu: it just doesn't make sense. the business of the publisher is publishing

mircea_popescu: conversion is the business of the advertiser.

mircea_popescu: you can't ask a car repair shop to "fix your car in such a way you can drive it"

mircea_popescu: drama ?

mircea_popescu: heya giga

mircea_popescu: o wow 13!

mircea_popescu: mwahaha.

mircea_popescu: i STILL have those futures bought at 10.66 on icbit

mircea_popescu: it'll be so fucking funny on the 12th. i guess btcjam for them ?

mircea_popescu: ukto tbh i was thinking it'd hit sooner (so did many people, to wit the november options slate)

mircea_popescu: Ukto i was just saying, the icbit people will have to get the 2,3,500 btc they'll owe me somehow.

mircea_popescu: btcjam seems a natural choice.

mircea_popescu: depends how you define it. pigeons seems happy :p

mircea_popescu: unrelatedly, im curious who's the first person to sue/get sued in the rota thingee.

mircea_popescu: ;;google mpex rota

mircea_popescu: wow nice list. but anyway, 1st one

mircea_popescu: EskimoBob see above neh ?

mircea_popescu: but i'm curious now, does anyone even get the rota reference ?

mircea_popescu: lolk.

mircea_popescu: it's a reference to the oldest court system still in functional use to this day

mircea_popescu: closing in on a thousand years by now.

mircea_popescu: "Tribunal Apostolicum Rotae Romanae"

mircea_popescu: look that up.

mircea_popescu: i've never been called an ar before ?!

mircea_popescu: dub she strikes me as a sort of michael moore

mircea_popescu: anonymous loser trying to cling to what she imagines is "famous people" to "become famous" herself.

mircea_popescu: lol are you cornerning the market ?

mircea_popescu: iirc the issue was 300k ? 350k ? something like that

mircea_popescu: FabianB hence POPEscu

mircea_popescu: to offer in this IPO a total of 150`000 (one hundred thousand) shares, as follows : one block of 30`000 (thirty thousand) shares at a price of 0.0022 BTC each ; one block of 75`000 (seventy-five thousand) shares at a price of 0.0024 BTC each ; one block of 45`000 (fourty-five thousand) shares at a price of 0.0026 BTC each.

mircea_popescu: a right you are. was 150k originally + whatever he sold after that if anything

mircea_popescu: where ? he's been awful quiet of late.

mircea_popescu: a a

mircea_popescu: !ticker s.bvps

mircea_popescu: ;;calc 50/0.00349995

mircea_popescu: makes what, 1.4% a month ? pretty sweet.

mircea_popescu: o right you are.

mircea_popescu: so wait, this is like, 35% a year ? heh.

mircea_popescu: bitcoin still has crazy rates.

mircea_popescu: i was talking to grubles maybe i dunno, a month ago ?

mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2012/so-do-i-hate-the-state-or-what/

mircea_popescu: if anyone's in a reading mood.