lobbes: 'I don't have any solid proof, and even if there was, it would be a matter for the victims and the police only' < l0l
ascii_modem: mats: precisely same story as microshit's 'stuxnet' patch - and hell knows how many others
mats: can testify to experiencing such training -- has such gems as 'if you're intoxicated you can't consent', up to and including both parties effectively raping each other if they both happen to be inebriated
ascii_modem: everything from the stenotype transcriber to the case law search to... you get the drift
ascii_modem: consider - close to 100% of u.s. juridicial whatevers, have winblows in the loop
ascii_modem: there are 'places' to which usg - while exists as such - simply will -not- go, and where the question can only be re: -which- specific set of sophistries will be made use of to avoid going there
assbot: South Africa's ageing white mercenaries who helped turn tide on Boko Haram | World news | The Guardian ... ( http://bit.ly/1b2TRgP )
mats: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/14/south-africas-ageing-white-mercenaries-who-helped-turn-tide-on-boko-haram
BingoBoingo: ascii_modem: If you take a look at the affidavit exhibit D is enlightening
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: updated to include a link to the de-pdf'd affidavit. Lots of exhibits so txt didn't work.
BingoBoingo: IT guy went to suspicious seminars between the filing of the case and the delivery of evidence
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I'll deturd the pdf of the affidavit (probably should have earlier), in the context of the rest of the misconduct it accidentallied its way there isn't too plausible.
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mircea_popescu: ;;later tell peterl if i recall corectly and you have hosting on the blogs.polimedia.us server with me, please change the ns to ns1.trilema.com ns2.trilema.com the old server is going down. the account has been already moved.
asciilifeform: <BingoBoingo> ... the Phillipines interest me as an expatriation point << afaik - worst of all worlds: thoroughly usg-owned, but with all the 'pleasures' of the Turd World
BingoBoingo: OMG mircea_popescu discovered why even though Islands are shitty the Phillipines interest me as an expatriation point
williamdunne: True, but still in the broad sense
williamdunne: I thought it would be interesting to see what people are willing to do with anonymity, and what they would pay to keep it
mircea_popescu: supposedly someone cares enough to pay them, but i kinda doubt it's worth anyone's time.
mircea_popescu: very cringy-obvious never even saw the site.
mircea_popescu: you could just as well hire indonesians to write random shit. there's a bunch of "reviews" sites spamming this crap, there was one even discussed in the logs, made an entry about "the bitbet casino"
mircea_popescu: i don't get what would be the point.
williamdunne: See if you can throw some police stations/prisons/parliaments in there
williamdunne: You just know that if you managed to get a few people on it they would all be dumb enough to sign on with facebook
williamdunne: A website focussed at schools/universities/whatever, that would allow you to login via Facebook and "anonymously" make posts about other attendees. And then several months into the operation, slowly begin revealing the names of the OPs - with the option of paying a (bitcoin) bribe to have it not revealed
williamdunne: I had (what I think) is an interesting idea the other day. Which could be rather educational for some people and entertaining for others
williamdunne: Ah I guess its about 3 years since MPEX and 6 years since bitcoin. Thats like a bank lasting from the 1820s in the fiat world
BingoBoingo: williamdunne: Today I am drinking Vodka to celebrate the advent of more of Bitcoin's history involving MPOE/MPEx than not
williamdunne: >while constantly accusing pretty much everyone else in the bitcoin community of being a scammer
BingoBoingo: williamdunne: The best part is the html comes from no earlier than from some bit later than 1993
williamdunne: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-04-2015#1101749 - thanks, pretty interesting. Nice screw up by ANX there
williamdunne: Moral of the story? It can be hard to judge people."
williamdunne: Thank you Mircea for your services to the bitcoin community and for apparently being an honest and trustworthy entrepreneurial businessman. (Making you perhaps the only honest and trustworthy Romanian I know.)
williamdunne: "Shady ROMANIAN character opens up unregistered bitcoin options exchange (complete with HTML from 1993) on his personal website (which also hosts porn) and charges exorbitant fees just to join, while constantly accusing pretty much everyone else in the bitcoin community of being a scammer, and, along with his (possibly virtual) -PR lackey, acts like a loudmouthed douchebag ... but apperantly scams no
mircea_popescu: for one thing, the jews didn't WANT austria.
assbot: Logged on 15-04-2015 01:34:43; adlai: well that would've sucked for all the prussians, although i guess they could've been deported to palestine, or uganda
mircea_popescu: felipelalli the funny thing about english as used here is that it's not really familiar to about 90% of native english speakers either.
mircea_popescu: anyway i should prolly publish the bw graph for the week lol. once it came back online it spent a few hours at 2MB/s
assbot: Logged on 15-04-2015 00:42:57; mats: i loled at the use of the Gadsden flag in that blog post
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BingoBoingo: Just though think of the awesome stoner comedies the Moses bush could have inspired if the Dutch and Jews were neighbors
BingoBoingo: Not to mention the whole part where Canaan is near the center of the former Ottman empire ought to make the area less desirable... Especially after what happened to the Armenians which was still rather recent...
adlai: "The desalinated water will go south to (the Jordanian town of) Aqaba, while salt water will be pumped to the Dead Sea,"
adlai: oh there are plans now
BingoBoingo: adlai: Isn't the dead sea at historic low levels? Canaan is just as much shitty desert as California except it's been abused much longer.
adlai: because of all the milk and honey
adlai: the trouble is that the same troublemakers who made trouble, would've made it anyways, even if offered japan along with prussia
adlai: well that would've sucked for all the prussians, although i guess they could've been deported to palestine, or uganda
BingoBoingo also thinks Prussia should have been surrendered as reparations for the purposes of Establishing a Jewish state after WWII
adlai: hebrew is an interesting language... quite regular, quite abstract. basically what you'd expect of a [re]constructed language that gets developed almost exclusively by either military slang or theological discourse
BingoBoingo: English isn't the worst though. I'm pretty sure modern Hebrew has all of the historical legitimacy of lojban
BingoBoingo: English is COBOL for the mind
adlai: english: yet another common business-oriented language
BingoBoingo: felipelalli: Well, most of the useful subset of English is the technical/business subset. Beyond that the barrister's subset of Englis is useful.
felipelalli: BingoBoingo: True! Most of my reading is technical stuff, because I am a developer and I am totally focused in it now, learning and developing systems. But it is totally different than the "natural language". I lived 1 year in Australia, it helped me a lot, but I don't feel very comfortable yet.
BingoBoingo: felipelalli: Well, the second best way to learn a language is reading stuff.
felipelalli: thanks BingoBoingo! I'd like to read more the logs, it is my TODO list, I just can't priorize too much it in this moment of my life. Also my English is not good as I wish so it is a little hard to me understand everything in full and because that I became a little hesitant to participate.
BingoBoingo: felipelalli: Congrats, you've been hanging around long enough to make it to the nearly "useful confusion" stage
BingoBoingo might consider spending more time in the United States to do law school and become a "Doing it doesn't mean you're guilty" lawyer
williamdunne: The redditards were moaning about how much of their stolen money was going to be wasted on new appeal cases because of it
williamdunne: mircea_popescu: It would also be interesting to read your counter-complaint - I can only imagine it follows along the lines of your correspondence with the SEC, but with a few more insults thrown in for good measure
BingoBoingo: williamdunne: Don't take my word, trilema's up dig for the posts
williamdunne: Presuming the above is solved of course!
asciilifeform: but refuses to actually do the confirmation
asciilifeform: monkey claims that 'it works' on their end
asciilifeform: after hour of phone tag, i get them to send me some proof that reservation existed... it turns out to be some random person's reservation for entirely other route
asciilifeform: phone monkey says 'system issue, our apologies, get your confirmation at the airport'
mircea_popescu: tbh half working shit is par foir the course.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not detectably scammed, but the confirmation www does not appear to work.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform did you get airline ticket scammed or what's the idea ?
BingoBoingo: Not yet. I'll drink a bit, come up with some ideas, and see if any ideas survive the hangover tomorrow afternoon.
BingoBoingo: But I don't think Meatspace Vegas managed to elude the USG's money tracking slime mold
mircea_popescu: amusingly enough the derps should even know who i am, but of course nobody keeps any sort of track of their customers these days.
BingoBoingo: Mega lol http://trilema.com/2015/on-how-i-ended-up-suing-phoenix-nap-llc-on-how-ira-r-cadwells-mom-stephanies-going-to-lose-her-chula-vista-home-on-how-marcus-bohn-is-going-to-catch-a-lot-of-shit-for-that-on-assorted-othe/#footnote_3_60930
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform jurov lobbes TheNewDeal menahem and everyone else who inquired : http://trilema.com/2015/on-how-i-ended-up-sueing-phoenix-nap-llc-on-how-ira-r-cadwells-mom-stephanies-going-to-lose-her-chula-vista-home-on-how-marcus-bohn-is-going-to-catch-a-lot-of-shit-for-that-on-assorted-oth/#footnote_0_60930
jurov: lol TheNewDeal. what a statement.
TheNewDeal: !down TheNewDeal
BingoBoingo: ^ TheNewDeal
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ascii_field: you know, the computer mircea_popescu uses
ascii_field: ^ the ternary one
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: i had no idea there was restorepkg for a «Сетунь» !
hanbot: pretty good safety glass then.
adlai: there was glass between them, the other guy was sitting in the outside patio of a cafe... and they just stared at eachother until my friend gave up
adlai: (you lose if you're the first to break eye contact)
adlai: this was all fun and games until he met somebody else who appeared to be playing the same game
adlai: actually there's this game a friend of mine "invented", where you must maintain eye contact whenever it is accidentally (or not) made with a stranger
ascii_field: eye contact << because when you make eye contact, folks shoot lasers from their eyes into yours
mats: i can't even imagine the vast number of neck, back, and general injuries from poor posture the world will see in a decade
lobbes: good time to catch up on the logs, eh
lobbes: to be fair, I am quite guilty of this. Either that or stare frantically around the room while trying not to make eye contact with anyone
chetty: so standing in a line I was noticing all the people doing whatever on cellphones, all I could think was "For this we evolved opposable thumbs?"
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: military rations are good ?! << nope - very bad, but with minimal effort. like the 'hiring shaman - hire cheapest' theorem.
BingoBoingo: <ascii_field> nubbins`: if i did not have a full-time pet to handle the food problem, i would probably have to survive on something like military rations. << Sprats come in can, RATIONS!!!
ascii_field: nubbins`: if i did not have a full-time pet to handle the food problem, i would probably have to survive on something like military rations.
ascii_field: nubbins`: you are quite right, that the situation is very different in usa.
nubbins`: but i'm of the opinion that very few adult north americans have even the faintest idea of how to feed themselves properly, let alone on a sensible budget
ascii_field: nubbins`: go try eating, e.g., plankton for the rest of your life
nubbins`: <+ascii_field> (i do not consider eating genuine, vs. recycled food, a luxury. just as air on a space capsule is not a luxury, even if it costs what gold costs down on earth) <<< i don't fully buy into the "it's cheaper to eat shitty" mentality, but it's my understanding that the dynamics involved therein are vastly different in your country
nubbins`: <+ascii_field> <mircea_popescu> and YET you protest the hyena << so i had a quiet and physically clean upbringing. this is who i am. i get that it gives me a short life expectancy, yes. but jumping from cliffs doesn't grow wings, no. <<< the sets of {co-inhabitants} and {dirtbags} don't have as complete an overlap as you'd think
nubbins`: <+ascii_field> nubbins`: if i worked in a cubicle, the last thing i would do is buy a pogo and mess with it << what did you buy and play with instead? a nagant, testing how it feels in the mouth, as in mircea_popescu's 'dulap' story ? <<< not in so many words :P
ascii_field: 'what three know, the sow knows' (TM)
ascii_field: but involved -people- in the scheme
ascii_field: that is, the fact that he did not stick 100% to diddling the machines under cover of dark
ascii_field: 'trust in meat' in the thread was 'what nailed lottery-man'
ascii_field: lobbes: the context is important here
lobbes: even hermits must put some trust in meat? Is not the hermit, himself, meat?
ascii_field grants that somewhere on the far outskirts of the retardation spectrum, there lies the land of 'there are no shills! finally someone is willing to be my -phriend!- 111!!111 stop insulting my -phriendz-!!!11' but has not, fortunately, gone there.
ascii_field: the 'up-side' - perhaps the only one - of being a hermit monster is that the tools built for nailing the 'eusocial' don't work on you. i.e. you negrate a usg shill in your mind at most forty seconds after initial contact
ascii_field: the mistake of each, to the extent the stories publicly known are even factual, is 'dunning-kruger'-ing their reach far past their grasp.
ascii_field: does not so much matter that one 'knew how to fly' and other - did not
ascii_field wonders how many years of jail are given for predicting the output of a legit, un-pwned winblows rng in lottery
ascii_field: <Chillum> his hostile code should have sat dormant for 6 months, then someone with no obvious connection to him should have got the ticket << i suppose this is when nubbins` says 'learn the dark marketz, anyone can!' and mircea_popescu tells us about the superiority of human dark org vs relying on machines
mircea_popescu: "man that didn't shoot the cop had a gun! neighbours saw it!"
ascii_field: mats, williamdunne: didn't share with superiors. or pissed'em off in some other way.
ascii_field: when corrupt orc from gaggle of equally-corrupt similar orcs is charged with 'corruption' - what is the reason, always and invariably ?
Chillum: his hostile code should have sat dormant for 6 months, then someone with no obvious connection to him should have got the ticket
Chillum: why did he not get an accomplice to buy the ticket
ascii_field: 'The former security director "was 'obsessed' with root kits, a type of computer program that can be installed quickly, set to do just about anything, and then self-destruct without a trace," prosecutors wrote. They went on to say a witness would testify at trial that Tipton told him before December 2010 that he had a self-destructing rootkit.' << 'hands off the specialist toolz, plebe'
adlai: "live fast, die young, leave a good-looking corpse" says nothing about the absence of respirators for the autopsy team
mats: i prefer to live with other humans. that way, they can find my corpse before the smell of decay sets in. hopefully.
ascii_field: admittedly i no longer have the 'nazi submarine' atmosphere of the old flat (bulkheads in every conceivable space, objects hanging to fill every gap, etc.)
ascii_field: and my new digs aren't quite big enough to make any difference space-wise. i moved to a free-standing building mainly to get further away from other human beings
ascii_field: mats: 'warehouse' is a bit of exaggeration. the whole lot would (and did, when i moved) fit in a small van.
ascii_field: nubbins`: the only thing that'll make alf walk away is alf << nubbins` would probably be rather surprised to learn that - other than the physical separation from wildlife (e.g., nubbins`'s roommate) - i have very few luxuries
adlai: mircea_popescu: so are the average price diamonds in mpex thumbnails intentionally so dark as to cause the bewildered visitor to question his eyesight or sanity, until he confirms that they are in fact of different hue?
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: but do you know it is in fact a biological answer << after a certain amount of exposure, and getting weaker rather than stronger, one leans that - if there was an age where having one's legs pulled on, would have lengthened them - that age is past
adlai: oh, it's sporadic: reloading the page now has "fixed" it
pete_dushenski: mats: ascii_field this is the city of edmonton's "we improved our asphalt technologee in the 1990s but it turned out to last 1/4 as long as the stuff from the 1960s"
ascii_field: i.e., the question may well have a biological answer, but knowing it does me little good.
adlai: pete_dushenski: why does the http response never terminate? it's a .txt...
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: but to answer question, my meatspace idiocy filter is simply not as strong as the conceptual one. to ask 'why' is like asking why my legs are not as long as mircea_popescu's
mircea_popescu: just observing that the writing it produces doesn't seem to bother as much ? how come ?
ascii_field: <mircea_popescu> and YET you protest the hyena << so i had a quiet and physically clean upbringing. this is who i am. i get that it gives me a short life expectancy, yes. but jumping from cliffs doesn't grow wings, no.
mircea_popescu: and YET you protest the hyena
ascii_field: adlai:anthem is precisely the correct dose of ayn rand for a healthy brain << i will admit to having read pretty much all of rand
mircea_popescu: they get together and squeal, it's fucking incredible. that particular 16 yo "pls fuck me" unconscious thing.
ascii_field: and enduring hyenas by choice, because you're into keeping zoo, or culturing fleas, etc. is rather different from financially forcible tour of duty in hyena cage
mircea_popescu: you should hear the rabid hyenas lol.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field 100 metres is tough. within 100 metres of me there's like 3 different theatres.
ascii_field: and this ^ is not a toy, it is as essential as clothes to me.
ascii_field: nubbins`: maybe once you get enough toys it'll be a fair trade << all the toys i buy put together are dwarfed by the cost of living like a human being (e.g., not having rabid hyenas in my home, nor within 100 metres, etc.)
pete_dushenski: adlai: "must refrain from random things to hone your discipline" isn't the worst approach in the world
adlai: maybe samson without the dreads
adlai: the cape gave superman his power!?
ascii_field: (or whatever the flying widget is)
adlai: in basic training, when random MREs had loof, the sergeant gave us this big lecture about how it'd been "removed from the war-waging bible" (literal translation), and we'd probably never see it again
ascii_field: 'Going Galt' << somehow everybody forgets that the character in the book had a fucking -invisibility machine- hiding his fort
mod6: funkenstein_: thanks for the info.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: i srsly do not see ANY merit to this "location" bs << one of us is carrying suitcase of $gadgets to the other. that's -location-, l0l.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: it's the lack of cud chewing, not the hooves that makes pigs unkosher
mircea_popescu: dude, it's the wikipedia. it's right!
adlai: removed from rations... now that's my laugh for the day
adlai: these things keep forever
adlai: "Also, a kosher variant of Spam, known as Loof (Hebrew: לוף, a Hebrew linguistic play on meatloaf), was produced by Richard Levi, and mostly used as part of field rations by the Israel Defense Forces."
mircea_popescu: maybe they have special hoover-pigs
ascii_field: 'the longest pig'
ascii_field: omnivores 'are what they eat' newsateleven
mircea_popescu: no fraud there.
ascii_field: adlai: by this logic, eating raw bear meat is the only reason 'we' aren't all dead of starvation, etc.
mircea_popescu: adlai among other things.
adlai: fwiw, according to diamod, sleeping in barns (or herding in the home) is the only reason we're not all dead of smallpox
ascii_field: nubbins`: if i worked in a cubicle, the last thing i would do is buy a pogo and mess with it << what did you buy and play with instead? a nagant, testing how it feels in the mouth, as in mircea_popescu's 'dulap' story ?
ascii_field: tajikistan also sleeps in the barn
mircea_popescu: teh ancient egyptians slept in the barn eh ?
ascii_field: whereas i have zero patience with the very concept of having the very smell of a rabid dog in my home.
ascii_field: nubbins`: but i'll note that this is a problem with alf, not with walking away << i've noticed that even you have exhausted your patience with the bipedal rabid dog in your home...
pete_dushenski: lol can't say i've ever heard of any of them
nubbins`: but... print shops are busy in the summer, so if i wanna go somewhere, it's best to go in the spring... and it turns out three of my favourite musical acts were playing back-to-back nights in cleveland
pete_dushenski: there are always logs to read, travel stories to share on contravex, emails to send.
gribble: The operation succeeded.
pete_dushenski: but if you can make it past "tired" there's always more to explore and experience
nubbins`: everyone who travels has a point at which they become tired. for some, this is 6mos. for others, 1mo.
nubbins`: this is precisely the reason
pete_dushenski: quite often after the first week or so.
nubbins`: (protip: get yourself a flight rewards credit card /before/ you quit your office job. they only check your annual salary when you first sign up)
nubbins`: longer trips don't suffice for the man of leisure
nubbins`: he's taking a four-day vacation out of the country.
nubbins`: rozal that was the most inept display of cloaking i've ever seen
pete_dushenski: in taleb's books, he often refers to his long, slow walks with mandelbrot, and how the old man is the only one who will walk slowly enough to properly meditate with
nubbins`: shame i don't have time to play with these pogos til next week
pete_dushenski: benoit's definitely in the taleb vein, or perhaps vice versa
nubbins`: pete_dushenski inorite? sold as "used", guessing they're either (a) returns or (b) just damaged packaging and unsuitable for shelf
nubbins`: mandelbrot et al did much to form my perceptions of the world
nubbins`: i'm always suspicious when Canada Post sends me an "item delivered" email and the mailbox is empty
mircea_popescu: well that's kinda par for the course.
fluffypony: except that it looks like they're retarded
fluffypony: mats: because it's the first one in ZA, I'm going to be in Cape Town anyway, and Micah Winkelspecht is talking
mats: why would you soil yourself by association with the likely demographic of con-goers?
fluffypony: so I'm going to the Bitcoin Africa conference on Thursday
adlai: "Thus, reading this volume will not make you rich. But it will make you wiser—and may thereby save you from getting poorer.
adlai: mats: thank you for the link, the author may be one of the only people (other than personified Failure) able to dissuade me
adlai: blessed art thou, ocr operator; though you skimped on the index, grep is also nice and will suffice: https://is.muni.cz/el/1456/podzim2013/MPM_FIM2/The_Misbehavior_of_Markets.pdf
mats is busy working through "The Misbehavior of Markets"
assbot: Logged on 31-10-2014 18:13:19; adlai: http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/Ayn_Rand/Anthem/
adlai: !s anthem
nubbins`: didn't the galt idiots blow up some train tracks or smth?
adlai: mircea_popescu: no, that's the goal-withholding attack!
mircea_popescu: adlai i always understood it as the much more subtle "well im on the football team now, why hassle to score goals. hassle to prevent anyone from scoring more than me".
nubbins`: so there's that
adlai: then the market price for widgets rises due to lack of supply, and company finds itself with sales totalling $251k
nubbins`: i didn't quit 9-5 because i wanted to stick it to the tax man. i quit it because it sucked and it was killing me.
adlai: ie, "my company could sell $300k on the open market, but then it would be in a higher corporate tax bracket, so we'll only sell $200k of widgets"
adlai: aiui, which is only from the internet as i don't physically live in libertardia, this meme was mainly coined by/for business owners reducing their business's "salary"
adlai: productivity as measured by the collector
adlai: well the point of "going galt" is tax optimization through productivity reduction rather than fund-shuffling
nubbins`: in the20yearslumland, i could prolly buy a city block for that
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski in like 5 jurisdictions by various people who know their job.
mircea_popescu: you should see these retards btw.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: well there's some fiat aspect to your income that's reported, no ?
nubbins`: mircea_popescu join the club
nubbins`: "but with 61k/yr i can buy all these trappings!"