mircea_popescu: soo what's new.

mircea_popescu: nubbins` maybe just BE nubbins` without a nubbin ?

mircea_popescu: motherfucker twitter changed profile layout

mircea_popescu: logs of what ?

mircea_popescu: a

mircea_popescu: yeah

mircea_popescu: well no inasmuch as they

mircea_popescu: 're my logs

mircea_popescu: you'll have to bug kako, and probably volunteer a lot of work

mircea_popescu: i don't recall why the chan log only starts from april 2013, but prolly cause lazy

mircea_popescu: dnivi3 nobody sane.

mircea_popescu: cazalla this is a point.

mircea_popescu: dividends aren't really the chief consideration in investments.

mircea_popescu: Untermyer: Is not commercial credit based primarily upon money or property?

mircea_popescu: Morgan: No, sir. The first thing is character.

mircea_popescu: Untermyer: Before money or property?

mircea_popescu: Morgan: Before money or anything else. Money cannot buy it … a man I do not trust could not get money from me on all the bonds in Christendom.

mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2012/the-problem-with-pmbs-ie-perpetual-mining-bonds/

mircea_popescu: dnivi3 so give yourself time, lots to learn.

mircea_popescu: how is it not true ?

mircea_popescu: dnivi3 so ?

mircea_popescu: i have a bottle of coca cola. 35% of what i drink goes into buying more coca cola

mircea_popescu: therefore my bottle of coca cola can never be empty.

mircea_popescu: what is this, logic 101 for people that haven't mastered the arrow in flight "paradox" ?

mircea_popescu: the fact that they reinvest some portion of the dividends is completely irrelevant.

mircea_popescu: but completely.

mircea_popescu: if they paid out that 35% you could reinvest it yourself.

mircea_popescu: and it'd even be better, because you wouldn't be locked into whatever braindamage they come up with

mircea_popescu: so in this sense, you're just getting 100% dividend, except a 35% portion of it is actually worth less

mircea_popescu: through being restricted.

mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2014/so-heres-a-problem-for-you/ if anyone feels mathematically inclined

mircea_popescu: derp

mircea_popescu: you know what springfield is like ?

mircea_popescu: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bi5vBxHCcAIfquU.png

mircea_popescu: at least you're not in facebook's shoes

mircea_popescu: someone actually had it installed ?!

mircea_popescu: also a point.

mircea_popescu: for bingoboingo and whoever else may care : http://trilema.com/2014/awstats-and-stuff/

mircea_popescu: In response to the argument that Title III provides no explicit provision for disclosures under the present facts, the court noted that "[Title III] does not prohibit all that it does not permit".

mircea_popescu: teh us pseudolegal system is such lol by now.

mircea_popescu: artifexd http://trilema.com/2014/so-heres-a-problem-for-you/#comment-98648

mircea_popescu: :)

mircea_popescu: artifexd if the bias is 100% you'll discard all sets.

mircea_popescu: in computational terms, the algo doesn't crash, it just never finishes.

mircea_popescu: depends if you're discussing it as an engineer or as a computer scientist.

mircea_popescu: neumann was the later, and in that context yes it can.

mircea_popescu: after all, it is generatING.

mircea_popescu: well it should, because it is :D

mircea_popescu: chetty bwahaha

mircea_popescu: or the wall.

mircea_popescu: nice.

mircea_popescu: but it is neumann you know

mircea_popescu: whoa you don't know the greatest mathematician that ever lived ?

mircea_popescu: defo must read up on him.

mircea_popescu: ;;google John von Neumann

mircea_popescu: i misspelled ?!

mircea_popescu: well HOW EASY do you want me to makle it ;/

mircea_popescu: on my better days.

mircea_popescu: unrelatedtly, this may be lulzy : http://financiallyregulated.com/2013/10/21/man-who-mocked-the-sec-in-his-blog-has-been-indicted/

mircea_popescu: what was the problem with them ?

mircea_popescu: you can probably reemusify them if you have an old washing machine

mircea_popescu: so ?

mircea_popescu: do you have an old washing machine /

mircea_popescu: wel lthen you're stuck.

mircea_popescu: not that way, that doesn't work.

mircea_popescu: you put it in the tumbler, stuff the tumbler with rags or packing peanuts or w/e to keep the cans flush to the side, then hook it to dry for a while.

mircea_popescu: it'll sort them out.

mircea_popescu: what did i do now

mircea_popescu: lol

mircea_popescu: well that also works.

mircea_popescu: you can just pour them into the toilet, one ounce a day

mircea_popescu: take you a month or so

mircea_popescu: so you time it out

mircea_popescu: you know, like spacing it out but over time.

mircea_popescu: noooo

mircea_popescu: the seabirds!

mircea_popescu: http://www.sehn.org/Endocrine_Disruption.html << that's the plasticiser, btw

mircea_popescu: probably some phtalate ester or other

mircea_popescu: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=525676.0 < check it out, jimothy's being upstaged.

mircea_popescu: for some values of soon

mircea_popescu: luckily the uk pound isn't worth the hassle.

mircea_popescu: that's almost enough to start a fake bitcoin mining farm

mircea_popescu: http://financiallyregulated.com/2011/11/21/strips-investor-stripped-of-his-investment-dignity/?relatedposts_hit=1&relatedposts_origin=3489&relatedposts_position=1

mircea_popescu: this guy should be covering bitcoin corps.

mircea_popescu: guy's worried that all his shady work promoting various scams may land him in hot water.

mircea_popescu: which... who knows, always a possibility.

mircea_popescu: $depth x.idiff.jun

mircea_popescu: look at that, we're trading.

mircea_popescu: hm

mircea_popescu: .d

mircea_popescu: ;;calc 4.25 * 1.15**7

mircea_popescu: ;;calc 4.25 * 1.125**7

mircea_popescu: ;;calc 4.25 * 1.145**7

mircea_popescu: so 14.5% till june

mircea_popescu: $vwap x.idiff.jun

mircea_popescu: suddenly that 16% bet appears a lot more interesting.

mircea_popescu: ;;calc 4.25 * 1.18**6

mircea_popescu: ;;calc 4.25 * 1.16**6

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform these days, yes.

mircea_popescu: ten-twenty years ago there was nothing really major that depended on them so.

mircea_popescu: we are.

mircea_popescu: most experts are over 50 and don't hang out in the right places, so

mircea_popescu: one can prolly make a living for years just out of that observation.

mircea_popescu: because it's fun, and human.

mircea_popescu: possibly because they never bothered to learn english properly.

mircea_popescu: i never heard of a programmer that judged the languages on the basis of the machines involved.

mircea_popescu: "javascript is really cool, it works on every shitty laptop out there"

mircea_popescu: as opposed to "lisp is crap, they only run it on shit"

mircea_popescu: the audience is abstracted in either case.

mircea_popescu: that's trhe very point of having a language : abstracting the audience.

mircea_popescu: otherwise you'd just carry a soldering iron everywhere.

mircea_popescu: and i can't even say it in c++

mircea_popescu: because.... wait for it... c++ IS NOT POWERFUL ENOUGH :D

mircea_popescu: artifexd if you're limiting yourself to successes you can measure you're more likely to become obese than get laid.

mircea_popescu: poor artifexd ended up in a shitspot

mircea_popescu: kakobrekla stop fuding and slandering bitcointalk CEOs.

mircea_popescu: the time to be kakobrekla'd is never! say aye!

mircea_popescu: Ghaleon as you approach mastery you'll notice the leet asshole is an epic bridge builder type.

mircea_popescu: but im the elitist asshole to end all elitist assholes.

mircea_popescu: lol

mircea_popescu: i suppose "leet jerk" 8======D "elitist asshole"

mircea_popescu: and by that penis i have represented a proper equality.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-02-2014#514471 in loving reference to that ☝︎

mircea_popescu: "Gilliams received $4 million from Morfopoulous and $1 million from another investor for investment in the STRIPS program. As evidence that the funds were so invested, Gilliams created “a screenshot from Bloomberg Finance showing $1 million worth of U.S. Treasury STRIPS, which Gilliams represented was proof that he had purchased Treasury STRIPS.” A screenshot? He must have been in the virtual office that day. A

mircea_popescu: screen shot is not a confirmation. And nobody investing foundation funds should think it is."

mircea_popescu: " He also “generated a document, which he supplied to a representative of the investors, in which he purported to show a series of $5 million trades, as well as over $100,000 in purported profits on trades during September and October 2010, [but] this document was false.” Anyone can generate a professional looking document on their computer."

mircea_popescu: Gilliams lives an extravagant lifestyle, much of which is depicted in videos filmed by videographers he hired to follow him around. The videos appear on “TLG TV,” which purports to be some sort of reality TV show starring him. A host of such videos still remain on YouTube, although some were deleted from Vimeo. One such video apparently depicted Gillaims “posing with stacks of money on his lap.”

mircea_popescu: apparently they didn't have lambos in fiat yet.

mircea_popescu: (for the rap fans among us : this is some friend of p. diddy's)

mircea_popescu: tra' bimbos!

mircea_popescu: http://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/03/how-deep-learning-analytics-mimic-mind.html

mircea_popescu: heh.

mircea_popescu: Arden Elizabeth @ArdenEliz The Future of Self-Improvement, Part I: Grit Is More Important Than Talent (link)

mircea_popescu: Mircea Popescu @Mircea_Popescu RT @ArdenEliz The Future of Self-Satisfaction, Part I: Girth Is More Important Than ta Length (link)

mircea_popescu: i wonder if she takes it well.

mircea_popescu: BCB no ?

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the guys are retards of prime order, which is why i quoted it.

mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves is that dope ?

mircea_popescu: bounce the thing is, evolution algo looks for fine little hairs on things. bad rng adds hairs of its own. it's as if you'd be having two species fighting it out. often enough the one you're interested in gets overwhelmed

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nn, "expert systems" and other prime snake oil has long been the substance used to maks government graft.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform freer people would make home candy in the pattern and distribute it to neighbourhood kids.

mircea_popescu: decimation asciilifeform also point out that even a broom shoots once.

mircea_popescu: sure they work. not for everything all the time.

mircea_popescu: bounce i suspect the statements are homologuous.

mircea_popescu: heh

mircea_popescu: gotta support the team.

mircea_popescu: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fowd29dOyh0

mircea_popescu: decimation why not ?

mircea_popescu: you familiar with the concept of invincible ignorance ?

mircea_popescu: stuffing hands in ears and yelling works "indefinitely".

mircea_popescu: but there's going to be a corner somehwere the retarded kids gather

mircea_popescu: and talk among each other about how "putin is living in a different world"

mircea_popescu: if you ask its citizenry, the us south still lives.

mircea_popescu: lol

mircea_popescu: it can employ an infinity of them

mircea_popescu: but it can't turn 100mn ghetto kids into more than 300k passible ee's

mircea_popescu: and about 50mn paralegals of all types.

mircea_popescu: afaik actualy us-citizen ee's vs total ee's have a worse salary problem than women/men in non-government, actually productive jobs do.

mircea_popescu: that's not even the worst part.

mircea_popescu: he couldn'rt force them to work webcams naked for a month is the worst part.

mircea_popescu: ;;google mit battery

mircea_popescu: obligatory link to that being, of course,

mircea_popescu: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIhk9eKOLzQ

mircea_popescu: "we are the premier engineer and science institution in teh werld"

mircea_popescu: guy looks like a fucking shaving cream model.

mircea_popescu: at least, yeah/

mircea_popescu: im not sure that's a bad thing

mircea_popescu: only absent superivision.

mircea_popescu: see, if the context is, "be able to power bulb with battery on request or spend the next month poledancing in mumbai"

mircea_popescu: it no longer matters what the kid is lifting off net.

mircea_popescu: decimation indefinitely extensible. "be able to also design the battery"

mircea_popescu: wrong lion, wrong mouth tho

mircea_popescu: you know the refuge of dying empires

mircea_popescu: they're doing a lot of scholastics.

mircea_popescu: "we are adding the TRUE value to everything through teh social media"

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform vaugely reminiscent of all the chinese administrative reorganisations

mircea_popescu: basically the chinese ran all the middle ages on a sort of govt-sponsored us university program

mircea_popescu: i'm with the b's. both of em.

mircea_popescu: get a mistress.

mircea_popescu: i dun believe much in this masturbatory pain thing

mircea_popescu: i recall that articxle.

mircea_popescu: i hate greenspun for having deleted his original discussion of his adventures with "expert vcs"

mircea_popescu: greylock and co

mircea_popescu: benkay https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=525676.0 there's one jus' for you then :D

mircea_popescu: im sure i don't.

mircea_popescu: ^

mircea_popescu: aptly put.

mircea_popescu: i had a friend. he was a touch paranoid, so he ended up carrying a bodyguard with him everywhere, in spite of living in a controlled town

mircea_popescu: (1994-2004 a 300k pop town had exactly 0 murders)

mircea_popescu: eventually he got an electyed position, which gave him a driver.

mircea_popescu: he hated being driven around, so his car arrangement consisted of him driving two people about, who had nothing to do.

mircea_popescu: eventually he died, in a car crash, rushing home tired etc.

mircea_popescu: i wanted the obituary to read "at least he had his bodyguard with him" but people thought it's too soon.

mircea_popescu: anyway, check out benkay ascetically depriving himself of internet lulz.

mircea_popescu: the path to pain starts with but a single step!

mircea_popescu: ineed.

mircea_popescu: im bashing the crap corp

mircea_popescu: some round small shits in a pic you linked

mircea_popescu: racist.

mircea_popescu: http://www.jdsupra.com/post/documentViewer.aspx?fid=54539da2-994e-43b5-b271-19fbb7e723e3

mircea_popescu: if anyones curious to read fiat mpoe-pr cca 2005

mircea_popescu: (of course, the guy was ignored. by the sec and everyone else on the fiat-forums)

mircea_popescu: there's a reason footnotes survived three empires.

mircea_popescu: "Yeah I am just messing with your minds and have no actual technical ability. But maybe someone does who is reading my points and maybe they will do something. I am hoping. You see I don't really care how we get the solution, as long as we get one. I am not the young productive programmer that I once was with two good eyes (not very productive since losing one eye and acquiring an apparently progressive, incurable peri

mircea_popescu: pheral neuropathy auto-immune condition caused by an incurable STD which is also morphing into neuropathy every where not just peripheral and causes me chronic fatigue syndrome which causes frequent deliriousness+pain which makes it easier for me to write in a forum than to do the more intellectually sharp+focused work of actual programming... I only get opportunities to program depending on my body maybe every few day

mircea_popescu: s I get a good day).

mircea_popescu: Neuropathy is unpredictable. One minute I am doing fine, the next my face aches, tinnitus (motor in my ear), then suddenly my abdomen, then feet, then can't swallow and have a "fear of imminent suffocation" anxiety attack, feeling that my stomach wants to exit my body, etc.."

mircea_popescu: why is it that bitcoin attracts all the weirdos and assorted cruft refused everywhere

mircea_popescu: what are we supposed to do, erect columbia's statue on riker's island over here ?!

mircea_popescu: but in the sense of accident "i'd have been to busy to hear of bitcoin" or in the sense of stupidity ?

mircea_popescu: how shall i put this in better terms.

mircea_popescu: well but wait.

mircea_popescu: here's the difference : suppose a guy is a carpenter, and he goes to new york. there's no jobs there, so he goes to oregon and makes himself a cabin.

mircea_popescu: that's type one.

mircea_popescu: suppose there's a guy with no profession. he loiters a while in new york but eventually all the beat cops know him so he goes to oregon

mircea_popescu: and he loiters there for a while, not as disturbed.

mircea_popescu: that's type two.

mircea_popescu: now you telling me there's no difference you see here ?

mircea_popescu: greenspun's 4th, linked earlier hehe

mircea_popescu: "This article explores this fourth possible explanation for the dearth of women in science: They found better jobs."

mircea_popescu: gotta pierce that veil.

mircea_popescu: i've had it up to here with in-their-mind slick fucks trying to turn bitcoin into some sort of corporate sales management device.

mircea_popescu: not that they're hard to crush individually, but there's a fucking pipe of them.

mircea_popescu: Part of the answer may be that young people fail to appreciate the risk that they will become more like old people when they are old. The young person sees the old tenured academic, ignored by his younger colleagues in a culture that values hot new ideas, sign up to be on committees. The youngster never asks "This oldster has tenure. He draws the same salary regardless of whether he sits through those interminable bori

mircea_popescu: ng committee meetings. Why would he agree to do it? Why wouldn't he rather be playing squash, riding a horse, flying an aircraft, walking his dog, etc.?" The distressing possibility that the oldster agreed to be on the committee so that he would have a venue in which people would listen to him does not occur to the youngster.

mircea_popescu: epic.

mircea_popescu: you'd have to be an idiot to structure your business (and especially mistress!) so that you tend to them.

mircea_popescu: they should tend to you.

mircea_popescu: for instance by producing ready resources (cash flow, but not just) in disproportion to your actual effort

mircea_popescu: if you want bread, and i want bread, and you spend an hour and make a loaf

mircea_popescu: and i spend an hour and make forty-nine and a half loaves

mircea_popescu: i'd say my business tended to me worth 48 loaves and change.

mircea_popescu: decimation but i suspect pg's point stands from a time before that.

mircea_popescu: now, obviously, training a new girl or starting a new business will be a net negative

mircea_popescu: but provided you're any good the end result is so far out of proportion to the original that your net negative becomes a rounding error.

mircea_popescu: anyway, for balance, http://calvincorreli.com/2002/02/08/goodbye-arsdigita/

mircea_popescu: reread eh.

mircea_popescu: you clearly haven't been in business in the old days.

mircea_popescu: the one affront an old lion could never forget, let alone forgive, would be hiring his secretary away.

mircea_popescu: the reason is that do you have any idea what a spider monkey capable of navigating those filing cabinets is worth ?

mircea_popescu: to this day the most respected woman on a hospital floor is she who knows where the binder goes.

mircea_popescu: not she who can take out the pancreas, make a liver out of it and pluck it back in.

mircea_popescu: anyway, let's do the world a favor here

mircea_popescu: ;;later tell bugpowder http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science

mircea_popescu: you can write a good secretary for bash or perl if your records are digital.

mircea_popescu: analog dusted old binders are as of yet an unsolved problem

mircea_popescu: benkay incidentally, this approach also illustrates what exactly the current "privilege" discussion spearheaded by the socialists is, and why exactly it is braindamaged.

mircea_popescu: "underserved" and "unearned" income are exactly the cornerstone of productive economic activity.

mircea_popescu: they are as much a part of life as hot water and kitchen appliances, and moreover prerequisite to both.

mircea_popescu: std's are a very narrowly restricted set of problems

mircea_popescu: yet versace purse makers intimately understand why cheap chinese knockoffs are their problem

mircea_popescu: they did

mircea_popescu: tibby is back !?

mircea_popescu: o the shogun guy. ya well...

mircea_popescu: http://25.media.tumblr.com/06e3229410ffb29f7afcd5039ace6c68/tumblr_mp5ahyJaww1rsltkro1_1280.jpg

mircea_popescu: in other news

mircea_popescu: lol

mircea_popescu: titsbler

mircea_popescu: hahaha steam modems ?

mircea_popescu: your figures are good :D

mircea_popescu: clearly someone's mom was intent on stove discipline

mircea_popescu: "send emails over your farts! it's great for the environment and ok for your wallpaper"

mircea_popescu: i wonder if real rats ever tried to mate with them

mircea_popescu: decimation and if there's a gas explosion everyone gets unfriended ?

mircea_popescu: whole neighbourhood!

mircea_popescu: obviously my client splits it up as pula ski

mircea_popescu: well, natural gas is dangerous, in that it'll level a house.

mircea_popescu: pretty much the only way kids and senile old people have of causing serious trouble

mircea_popescu: sahara boutique

mircea_popescu: sounds promising.

mircea_popescu: 116th street wow. and yet it has buildings and everything ?!

mircea_popescu: so the city is responsible huh ?

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mircea_popescu: ouch

mircea_popescu: sorry!

mircea_popescu: its the ^OEX chart, 5 years, weekly

mircea_popescu: it looks beyond fucking ridiculous

mircea_popescu: here, i'll summarize it for you :

mircea_popescu: /

mircea_popescu: Mats_cd03 the ^OEX, ie standard and poor 100, is the index of us stocks. which supposedly have been moving like it's animated by the gosplan

mircea_popescu: benkay from 500 to 800 in 2 years ?

mircea_popescu: it was 500ish in 2002.

mircea_popescu: it was 500ish in 2007

mircea_popescu: it was 500ish in 2012

mircea_popescu: but since...

mircea_popescu: 25+% a year, twice madoff's presumed return.

mircea_popescu: benkay http://bit.ly/1gd6BQW

mircea_popescu: sorry for shortner

mircea_popescu: the image comes straighyt from there, who knew these guys use mpex tech o.O

mircea_popescu: i thought i was the only cool one.

mircea_popescu: anyway, simply put anything past 1994 is bs.

mircea_popescu: (the 25 year graph makes it quite plain)

mircea_popescu: should have let the bullshit deflate then

mircea_popescu: anywya, if anyone wants to sell me ^OEX puts...

mircea_popescu: five years, say.

mircea_popescu: i'd take two years there

mircea_popescu wistfully recalls his rimm puts. o glory.

mircea_popescu: i can't sell enough us, as far as i'm concerned.

mircea_popescu: speaking of which, the berkshire bitbet is something else

mircea_popescu: 98 no bets for a 34.98 btc pool. 14 yes bets for a 1007.6 pool

mircea_popescu: that's 0.35 avg vs 71.95 avg

mircea_popescu: only 200x

mircea_popescu: even if we exclude my bet, it's still .54

mircea_popescu: and vice versa.

mircea_popescu: i'll end up making 3% over a year and people will be o noes, such low return

mircea_popescu: you don't read the forum much i take it.

mircea_popescu: maybe not

mircea_popescu: you're being prosecuted for karpeles being jewish ?

mircea_popescu: this crap is in service discussion ?!

mircea_popescu: what or who is mk

mircea_popescu: a a

mircea_popescu: sucks huh.

mircea_popescu: im not too worried about it

mircea_popescu: "The sooner this community gets rid of these stains/schemes currently tainting the innovative and revolutionary world of bitcoin which they are piggybacking, the sooner we will make progress."

mircea_popescu: this preceded by "Your detachment from reality..."

mircea_popescu: are these the idiots who whine at facebook about whether x y z is a country ?

mircea_popescu: http://www.checkfundmanager.com/wall_of_shame.html

mircea_popescu: <mircea_popescu> wait what ?

mircea_popescu: <mpoe-pr> you're aware that there's this bitcoin forum that i work on every day. and on this forum, there are sub-forums. and one of these is off-topic.

mircea_popescu: <mircea_popescu> ya

mircea_popescu: <mpoe-pr> there's a thread there for movie recommendations. forum people. recommending movies to each other. can you imagine the horror? cause it's worse than you imagine.

mircea_popescu: poor girl.

mircea_popescu: well who knows the future eh ?

mircea_popescu: who knows, maybe the sec finally decides to stop dicking around and we get some scams actually blown open properly,

mircea_popescu: rather than this current "pick bugs off the floor put them, in the bucket whence they run back out" thing we've been doing for the past three years

mircea_popescu: it's starting to drive the girl nuts, for one.

mircea_popescu: my cock really doesn't taste as bad as people tell themselves.

mircea_popescu: nope.

mircea_popescu: what post is this ?

mircea_popescu: o.O

mircea_popescu: i dunno, must be some meanwhile forgotten joke ?

mircea_popescu: that aside, bitcoin will outlive the dollar, in which sense any arbitrary price point will be reached eventually.

mircea_popescu: http://25.media.tumblr.com/e7d146810d1469d34acdd03e710ac892/tumblr_mnxx63r5tp1rymyzgo1_1280.jpg

mircea_popescu: have a tit.

mircea_popescu: curious which is the first hip hop artist to make it here.

mircea_popescu: they all pretend like they're businessmen, it's the hip thing to claim

mircea_popescu: i sure hope so.

mircea_popescu: the convenient explanation being that they're exposed scammers/shills with a bone for pr.

mircea_popescu: the more likely explanation is probably that they're not actually as smart as they see themsekves.

mircea_popescu: crab pot phenomena

mircea_popescu: omg i don't suck how can you say that!1

mircea_popescu: lol