mircea_popescu: how fortunate i'm not the judge this shit ends up in front of
mircea_popescu: whatever pays the rent, i guess ?
mircea_popescu: these days, unscrupled "fbi agents" sell mentally slow people "terrorism".
decimation: BingoBoingo: apparently usg isn't paying off the masses in bezzlars sufficiently
BingoBoingo: "The men wanted to acquire two more bombs, the sources said, but could not afford to do it until one suspects girlfriends Electronic Benefit Transfer card was replenished."
decimation: wait, are you using tardstalk to refer to the bitcoin forum or the wall street newspapers
mircea_popescu: anyway, the lulziest part was all the inept tardstalk-level shilling, "o noes apple is not overvalued"
BingoBoingo: decimation: I thought Conde Nast was more concerned about stopping the bleeding
mircea_popescu: nobody in his right mind would do this deal, and for that matter who the fuck wants the ipads.
decimation: well if the rain stops everybody is fucked
mircea_popescu: great fucking deal, well done. and a calender left out in the rain can catch some rainwater.
mircea_popescu: basically this is like saying "for as long as the usg prints money , this company can capture about 1.2-1.5% of it"
decimation: mircea_popescu: but the business model of stealing ideas from engelbart to built trinkets for those rich in bezzlars is a good one
mircea_popescu: no wonder everyone in the us needs a college degree. there's no way native intelligence could deal with a tenth of the cognitive dissonance dished out on a daily basis.
mircea_popescu: in forbes this month : find out why and wherefore the most overvalued company of all time is "not at all" overvalued, because reasons unstated ; come see how their bezzle is not nearly as good as our bezzle, a fact directly proven by the happenstance that what our numbers show should be possible is directly and observably not possible
assbot: Fun Number: Apple Is Now Worth More Than The Entire Russian Stock Market - Forbes ... ( http://bit.ly/15DusHv )
mircea_popescu: http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2014/11/16/fun-number-apple-is-now-worth-more-than-the-entire-russian-stock-market/
gribble: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: srsly, these are booth babes nao ? and that cheap top sells video games ?
mircea_popescu: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/93/King's_Bounty_girls_at_Igromir_2012.jpg << this has got to be the saddest promotion effort.
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> i guess now that i've got a cloak, maybe i'll find out if these random power-downs are due to bad RAM or a 0-day << 99% they're due to transients from your power source.
assbot: Logged on 18-09-2014 17:37:06; The20YearIRCloud: mircea_popescu: I'm going to write up a letter/note and give a poster & instructions to each one of my tenants, then offer a discount if they use BTC to pay for their rent( even if it's a fraction of the rent). But that will only account for 15 of the 50 posters, so I was gonna run a few contests on our FB page (If that's ok with you?) for the remainder
nubbins`: imagine, rating someone because they bought an item from you :0
nubbins`: thenewdeal was on my ass so much about giving him a rating for buying a couple posters
nubbins`: i think the intention was for a bunch of poor nobodies from ohio to hang out here
nubbins`: mp gives them money
punkman: how did the redeeming for 0.1 work btw?
nubbins`: mircea_popescu:well if he did nubbins has some 'splainin' to do lol. <<< nope, in fact, i am also mildly perturbed by the fact that i mailed over $4,000 of goods to the guy and we didn't even get a couple measly pictures out of it
nubbins`: i guess now that i've got a cloak, maybe i'll find out if these random power-downs are due to bad RAM or a 0-day
punkman: running the pathced 0.5 thing?
nubbins`: so i could more-or-less easily check the wedge point
nubbins`: i actually intended to clone the VM when i got close to block 240k
punkman: delete the latest blocks
nubbins`: "errors" : "WARNING: Displayed transactions may not be correct! You may need to upgrade, or other nodes may need to upgrade."
mircea_popescu: that;s right : i have more empathy for the god damned coins than for the derps involved.
mircea_popescu: i pity the fate of btc stuck with such idiots
punkman: some other guy lost 250+ BTC supoosedly
mircea_popescu: basically, the only way to make sure ANYONE who cares knows about your shit is doing that. it's more public than facebook.
mircea_popescu: these idiots using blockchain wallets through tor are perhaps the exact opposite of security and anonimity.
punkman: and the solution is some kind of bulletproof tor blocking https://github.com/blockchain/Checksum/commit/e478bcc03a081c640dfaac36d3c7a8650d2e0b7b
punkman: another tor mitm story http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2njz9j/blockchaininfo_wallet_robbed/
mircea_popescu: similarly to how the "computer always loses" pattern of guessing works for asciilifeform's markov chain simulator,
mircea_popescu: anyway, here's what i thought it was : bones are constructed more or less on a micro basis. it is perhaps possible to construct such a bone configuration that if inserted into a human bone it completely destroyes the pattern and creates a never ending always expanding bone mass.
RagnarDanneskjol: yea -she was the only killer empress I could recall
cazalla: awful, my fear comes from when i was a kid, we use to ride our skateboards down the inside of the water drains, one day they dig a big trench of new but much smaller ones, i decide to climb in, get stuck like bishop in aliens when he wriggles to the other computer to fly the ship, started screaming get me out get me out, not really stuck, just difficult to wriggle backwards
mircea_popescu: "She then had Concubine Qi's limbs chopped off, blinded her by gouging out her eyes, cut off her tongue and locked her in the latrine, and called her a "Human Swine" (人彘). Several days after, Emperor Hui saw the "Human Swine", and after realising that it who the "Human Swine" was, the emperor was so sick of his mother's cruelty that he virtually relinquished his authority and indulged in carnal pleasures."
mircea_popescu: cazalla Lu Zhi had some chick buried in the outhouse.
assbot: Amazon.com: Wu: The Chinese Empress Who Schemed, Seduced and Murdered Her Way to Become a Living God (9780750939614): Jonathan Clements: Books ... ( http://bit.ly/1vnfAVP )
mircea_popescu: btw, do you know how that chinese emperess chick killed the other chick the emperor fucked ?
cazalla: i hated having mri's done, my worst fear is that someone sticks me in a cement sewer tube and buries me in the ground while water runs over my face and the pipe slowly fills with water until i drown.. mri bit similar in that cramped and tubular
cazalla: mircea_popescu> cazalla heh ok but listen, gotta proof these better somehow or something <<< i have the proof, source didn't make clear what he was comfortable with what was published as does not want to be identified
mircea_popescu: that's not a bad idea, but gotta be able to filter teh wp ddos noob then
punkman: RagnarDanneskjol: make a ping endpoint so you don't have to poll the rss
mircea_popescu: well cool then!
mircea_popescu: n6 well peterl was working on scoopbot, areplacement. for unclear reasons it's down 90% of the time.
mircea_popescu: eventually had a one too many case where someone went "hey, how about x", me pulling a blankl and then they going "but you rated em ?"
punkman: mircea_popescu: how many BTC was the loan?
mircea_popescu: un-publishin just doesn't work on the internets and is stupid generally.
mircea_popescu: cazalla heh ok but listen, gotta proof these better somehow or something.
punkman: I got scammed once but then I got my monies back
cazalla: mircea_popescu, i burn a source if i leave it, issue isn't publishing, it's quoting email verbatim, i thought he was ok with but is not, he is going to have his source contact me to clarify things so will be another story
gribble: You rated user errydayimgenerat on Thu Mar 15 14:29:52 2012, with a rating of -3, and supplied these additional notes: owes on loan, dissapeared..
mircea_popescu: you'd have to be one of these fucktarded kids to think this stands.
mircea_popescu: can they find satoshi in the body of a hot chick so i can get behind the find for once ?
punkman: they found satoshi again http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2nicip/found_this_gem_newsgroups_from_2002/
assbot: Stop calling /kenhess a "paid shill." I think he genuinely thinks poorly of Bitcoin. I wonder if he's willing to debate me on the topic?
mircea_popescu: raving lunacy aside, there IS an excellent reason convicted mobsters in breach of the terms of their parole (vleisides, bfl) been supported by vessenes's pseudo-foundation all through.
mircea_popescu: http://bitcoin-otc.com/viewratingdetail.php?nick=aethero&sign=ANY&type=RECV << lawl o brother.
gribble: You rated user Xiando on Fri Oct 10 22:57:56 2014, with a rating of 1, and supplied these additional notes: http://pastebin.com/LPm3jBG7.
gribble: You rated user Jamesonwa on Thu Sep 18 21:55:38 2014, with a rating of 1, and supplied these additional notes: Voice.
gribble: You rated user wywialm on Tue Apr 15 11:18:52 2014, with a rating of 1, and supplied these additional notes: New blood.
gribble: You rated user rg on Wed Jan 16 17:32:04 2013, with a rating of -1, and supplied these additional notes: from what I understand person no longer has sole control of private key..
fluffypony: ;;rate rg -1 How far the mighty have fallen. Had no problems dealing with him, but he has subsequently reneged on loans with a number of people.
gribble: You rated user rg on Sat Aug 9 17:46:06 2014, with a rating of -1, and supplied these additional notes: How far the mighty have fallen. Had no problems dealing with him, but he has subsequently reneged on laosn with a number of people..
assbot: The power of the press, in English this time. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1HHZrRo )
mircea_popescu: ;;rate diana_coman 2 Made Eulora Windows compile guide ; main engine behind http://trilema.com/2014/the-power-of-the-press-in-english-this-time/#footnote_14_58065
gribble: You rated user diana_coman on Tue Mar 26 18:56:33 2013, with a rating of 1, and supplied these additional notes: None.
mircea_popescu: sorry fluffypony but i wanna have the record of it.
gribble: You rated user bgupta on Thu Apr 17 17:47:07 2014, with a rating of 1, and supplied these additional notes: New blood..
gribble: You rated user BlueMeanie4 on Tue Aug 26 18:09:56 2014, with a rating of 1, and supplied these additional notes: Marx sez : never trust a capitalist..
ben_vulpes: perhaps ratpoison could alter its name to confuse the dosser?
gribble: WARNING: Currently not authenticated. Trust relationship from user assbot to user the20year: Level 1: 0, Level 2: -1 via 3 connections. Graph: http://b-otc.com/stg?source=assbot&dest=the20year | WoT data: http://b-otc.com/vrd?nick=the20year | Rated since: Tue Apr 29 11:21:55 2014
ben_vulpes: ;;gettrust assbot the20year
gribble: WARNING: Currently not authenticated. Trust relationship from user assbot to user mrstickball: Level 1: 0, Level 2: 0 via 2 connections. Graph: http://b-otc.com/stg?source=assbot&dest=mrstickball | WoT data: http://b-otc.com/vrd?nick=mrstickball | Rated since: Fri Jul 5 18:09:54 2013
ben_vulpes: "twin brother"?
ben_vulpes: ;;rate mrstickball -1 in cahoots with the20year
gribble: Rating entry successful. Your rating of -1 for user the20year has been recorded.
ben_vulpes: ;;rate the20year -1 routinely freezes trading of his assets on havelock to "sell" shares at ~2x market rate. utter mystery, explanations inadequate.
ben_vulpes: ;;rate the20year routinely freezes trading of his assets on havelock to "sell" shares at ~2x market rate. utter mystery, explanations inadequate.
mircea_popescu: if you care i can dig up the discussion in teh logs.
mircea_popescu: punkman if you recall, i paid nubbins to make some posters for the guy's tenants, redeemable for .1 each. nobody redeemed. since... i dunno, august ? something.
gribble: You have not yet rated user the20year
ben_vulpes: ;;rated the20year
ben_vulpes: lol wrote a post on the guy's scam and never rated him
punkman: the20year gave free BTC to tenants?
gribble: WARNING: Currently not authenticated. Trust relationship from user ben_vulpes to user the20year1: Level 1: 0, Level 2: 0 via 0 connections. Graph: http://b-otc.com/stg?source=ben_vulpes&dest=the20year1 | WoT data: http://b-otc.com/vrd?nick=the20year1 | Rated since: never
ben_vulpes: ;;gettrust ben_vulpes the20year1
gribble: WARNING: Currently not authenticated. Trust relationship from user ben_vulpes to user the20year1: Level 1: 0, Level 2: 0 via 0 connections. Graph: http://b-otc.com/stg?source=ben_vulpes&dest=the20year1 | WoT data: http://b-otc.com/vrd?nick=the20year1 | Rated since: never
ben_vulpes: ;;gettrust the20year1
gribble: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell Michail1 tell me more re this the20year squatter business ?
gribble: Rating entry successful. Your rating for user the20year has changed from 1 to -1.
mircea_popescu: ;;rate the20year -1 If you believe him you're stuck crediting a large pile of very improbable things, such as that no one out of dozen low income renters is interested in cashing ~50 bux worth of free BTC, or that buyers somehow materialize on Havelock to buy shares at 2x the going price for a single IPO day.
gribble: You rated user the20year on Mon Jul 14 14:12:25 2014, with a rating of 1, and supplied these additional notes: Hasn't run off yet..
mircea_popescu: ;;rated the20year
ben_vulpes: the orthoglock
ben_vulpes: what's the hasid's favorite sidearm
gribble: You rated user DanielKrawisz on Fri Oct 3 00:40:52 2014, with a rating of 1, and supplied these additional notes: The intersection of the set of people who spent their entire life in academia and the set of people who've not said infuriatingly stupid things about Bitcoin consists so far of one guy..
gribble: (rate <nick> <rating> [<notes>]) -- Enters a rating for <nick> in the amount of <rating>. Use optional <notes> field to enter any notes you have about this user. <nick> must be the user's GPG-registered username, Your previously existing rating, if any, will be overwritten.
mircea_popescu: hey how come you never rated anyone ? didja lose the key or something ?
ben_vulpes: updating the barony list soon?
mircea_popescu: ;;rate cazalla 3 Master of the scoop. qntra.net editor a la mode.
gribble: You rated user cazalla on Fri Oct 10 19:05:29 2014, with a rating of 2, and supplied these additional notes: qntra.net chief editor..
gribble: You rated user punkman on Sun Oct 26 16:38:08 2014, with a rating of 2, and supplied these additional notes: improved on my spec!.
mircea_popescu: the days lol.
gribble: You rated user kreal on Tue Jul 26 01:08:44 2011, with a rating of 2, and supplied these additional notes: bought 60btc via pp, smooth..
gribble: You rated user moiety on Sat Jun 14 08:57:36 2014, with a rating of 2, and supplied these additional notes: Good secretary and logistics mastergirl..
gribble: You rated user BingoBoingo on Tue Mar 25 20:14:18 2014, with a rating of 3, and supplied these additional notes: blogger, my ATC investment banker.
mircea_popescu: well okay then!
n6: friend of mine and me thought we might get on your exchange to check it out a bit, but we failed to do everything right and sent the wrong key but when i can came in irc you gave me trader rank but we never followed through.
gribble: You rated user ben_vulpes on Sat Feb 1 00:51:50 2014, with a rating of 1, and supplied these additional notes: The original Cascadian..
gribble: (rate <nick> <rating> [<notes>]) -- Enters a rating for <nick> in the amount of <rating>. Use optional <notes> field to enter any notes you have about this user. <nick> must be the user's GPG-registered username, Your previously existing rating, if any, will be overwritten.
mircea_popescu: ;;rate mod6 4 The "cave, age, tace" school of thought. Nice work with the Bitcoin Foundation.
gribble: Currently authenticated from hostmask mircea_popescu!~Mircea@pdpc/supporter/silver/mircea-popescu. Trust relationship from user kuzetsa to user mircea_popescu: Level 1: 0, Level 2: 5 via 4 connections. Graph: http://b-otc.com/stg?source=kuzetsa&dest=mircea_popescu | WoT data: http://b-otc.com/vrd?nick=mircea_popescu | Rated since: Fri Jul 22 11:04:26 2011
gribble: You rated user mod6 on Fri Aug 10 20:47:35 2012, with a rating of 3, and supplied these additional notes: Trustworthy..
mircea_popescu: decimation: sign, google or apple, pick your poison <<< yeah, isn't chrome basically one of those spammy "toolbars" they had for netscape that sort-of mutated into being its own browser ?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: hate to pedant at you but that one gets up my nose decimation <<< i kinds feel responsible for the dilligence bs.
mircea_popescu: cazalla: because if people know you can't even secure a domain, pretty unlikely to then give you bitcoins in the wallet you're about to launch eh <<< don't be ridiculous. "people" would give bitcoin to a boy with no arms that'll hate you if you don't please forward this email to all your fb friends,
mircea_popescu: course the part where it's like... "you're banned from that shop run by retards you didn't really like or need but visited to support the mentally feeble" doesn't quite breach their consciousness.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: cazalla: this got you kicked from twitter? << twitter is broken in that if you spam it with "complaints" it will autolock accounts. trivial to hassle anyone you feel like, and the powerless generally revel in this sort of thing.
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03: my social media is being polluted by social justice warriors << the welfare state has succeeded in breeding a new type of cockroach.
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03: mp noted once that share price correlates with fiat price of btc << actually the private joke at the time was that it doesn't seem to correlate at all (it didn't move during the early mtgox induced runup to 1.2k). so i was kinda tongue-in-cheek referencing that "public knowledge" as it became apparently contradicted by the otherwise who the fuck knows what it's doing s.mpoe
gribble: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: clear an' to the point. anyone pm you bout it?
assbot: So Why Is Google Funding Its Own Competition In The Firefox OS? - Forbes ... ( http://bit.ly/1yjOLnw )
decimation: mozilla is basically a google puppet anyway http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/01/22/so-why-is-google-funding-its-own-competition-in-the-firefox-os/
decimation: therefore he was a Bad Person
decimation: he was the ceo of mozilla that was 'lynched' out of office because at one time in the past he gave some money to "pro-prop 8"
fluffypony: decimation: pretty much, you're damned either way
kuzetsa: my brain did a weird thing there... that's not an easy typo to make. sorry.
fluffypony: I switched back to Safari a few months ago because it has the least battery impact on my MacBook
kuzetsa: but now I'm considering giving the mobile version of firefox a chance on my mobile device one of these gays
kuzetsa: decimation: isn't that the KDE one?
kuzetsa: I'm pretty bad at networking in the social interaction sense :(
ben_vulpes: "i don't need programmers to be *good* spellers, i need them to be *consistent* spellers"
decimation: in my past I used to be good at spelling; then I used spell check and wrote code for a decade
cazalla: at the end of the day, no-one can disprove what he is now saying as auDA don't release the details of who made the complaint, sure it's possible he did this himself, highly unlikely
decimation: maybe you can run another story "Tsvetnenko admits to failure of due dilligence; has just discovered the principle of caveat emptor"
decimation: at any rate, I think this is a good sign, you are digging the right dirt
decimation: in either case, he isn't saying that he fucked up
cazalla: because if people know you can't even secure a domain, pretty unlikely to then give you bitcoins in the wallet you're about to launch eh
cazalla: maybe it was hijacked, who knows but you would still let something like that go for free instead of just fixing the issue?
cazalla: decimation, the site redirected to localbitcoins forevarr
decimation: so if you take him at his word, he apparently failed to notice the serious issues with the property
decimation: cazalla: maybe I'm daft, but in the link you just posted Tsvetnenko said: "“The domain in question was acquired with the possibility of being used for marketing purposes. Unfortunately it was discovered the domain has some serious issues not disclosed by the original vendor, which make it severely restricted in use if not valueless for any purchaser – I’m reserving my rights of recourse in that respect,"
mats_cd03: decimation: i don't really care tbh. im armed, and god help anyone who thinks they're a better shot. i know how to kill a four man team breaching my home.
cazalla: decimation, it went to the drops, you don't need to know anything about previous owner
cazalla: plus i spoke to the guy who owned it last year and knew the ABN was expired then, could've dobbed him in and bid on it myself at the time but not something i'd do but super common in .com.au land
decimation: cazalla: but he had no idea about the domain or its owner when he paid $A27000 for it
cazalla: i still stand by the article, it was a policy delete, seems unlikely they would complain against themselves and drop it without any consideration for reselling simply because it is allegly banned from facebook
decimation: Think of it in “Lux Aeterna" as moldbug would say. The interesting thing really is to examine this completely artificial crisis - who benefits?
mats_cd03: the king's men, in this case.
mats_cd03: all i got to say is ... you come at the king, you best not miss
ben_vulpes: ahaha well it only appears to lock you out, then it throws up the "no users - surely this http visitor is the prophesiesed admin user!" screen
mats_cd03: i dun enjoy the drip from insufflating drugs
ben_vulpes: or the analysis i should say
ben_vulpes: i'll wait for the data on that one
mats_cd03: i wonder if its the 5% private investor unloading shares thats causing this action
mats_cd03: the always on mic, while creepy, is ungodly useful
ben_vulpes: https://www.refheap.com/94079 << i wanted to make it a bit more functional, eg bind the return string from decryption to a thing but...elisp man.
ben_vulpes: for the curious:
mircea_popescu: a) none of those pages contains the string and b) as far as i can determine, the only site on the internet containing it is the qntra article.
mircea_popescu: this can keep on for as long as how did it go "evil people refuse to pay their fair share".
mircea_popescu: they collect frogs for a while... whatever, if it works free money and if itdoesn't at least it wasn't work.
mircea_popescu: the only spawn of democracy, really. they fit with the electoral cycle really well. today, derp goes "i shall make money out of cockroaches, just have to have a pile large enough". they spend a year piling up cockroaches. no money appears, but just in time for...
mircea_popescu: the "i want to believe" crowd.
BingoBoingo: I think the Ken SLaughter nonsense crowd moved on to GAW apologias, almost to a person
mircea_popescu: and on it will go, for as long as there's something standing the zombies will try to crowd it out while pretending it ain't standing.
mircea_popescu: then there was a period of ken slaugther powered nonsense, where the losers made threads about how mpex is teh scientology.
BingoBoingo: Nah, 2 seems more popular amongst people who never had anything except through scams of their own
Vexual: surely the scamming wont continue forever, due to satoshi being a wizard
mircea_popescu: decimation just look at all the glbse fanbois who TO THIS DAY prefer to derp instead of admitting that mpoe-pr was right and they were stupid.
BingoBoingo: decimation: Number 1 tends to be incredibly popular amongst people who have other things
mircea_popescu: <decimation> mircea_popescu: "all through 2015 we will be seeing a shitton of 50-somethings with so-so credentrials going all weirdo on bitcoin." << no they just realize that bitcoin == no free money for 'retirement' << the problem there is that they actually DID work, and should have some money. problem is, in typical tardstalk fashion, they got scammed and having nothing left, are now siding with the scammer.
mircea_popescu: the hope is that you may give a shit.
decimation: mircea_popescu: the reaction to bitcoin (by non-bitcoin holders) seems to fall into two camps: 1 - bitcoin sucks because I don't have any or 2. bitcoin sucks so I need to steal some
mircea_popescu: roughly speaking, the progre's relation to bitcoin is fat ugly chick in your class that keeps calling you up and passing you notes in class, dozens of times a day. the content is all about how "women like to be treated" and "what makes a good man", but...
mircea_popescu: what else did you think the something awful interest in bitcoin is and has been powered by, all these years.
assbot: Valiant prince MP explores the mother of all echo chambers. A saga of our times. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1rwhP5d )
mircea_popescu: <decimation> that zdnet "ken hess" story is amusing. In their hind-brain, the "guardings of the revolution" who are the shock-troops of the left recognize the clear danger bitcoin poses to their entire world << hence http://trilema.com/2013/valiant-prince-mp-explores-the-mother-of-all-echo-chambers-a-saga-of-our-times/
decimation: they appear to have a similar attitude toward civilized behavior
mircea_popescu: and with the same mannerisms ?
mircea_popescu: ahem. how come all poor research is always defended in the same manner,
mircea_popescu: Ken Hess @kenhess · 7h7 hours ago @brucefenton I don't bother researching rancid Twitterati. And I don't care what you believe that you are. Again, do you own any Bitcoin?
assbot: Logged on 25-11-2014 04:00:03; mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if the rats set fire to the lab, what'd you expect they'd burn ? the cages or the files ?
mod6: decimation: from the other night, this is what sticks out in my mind: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=25-11-2014#934115
BingoBoingo: decimation: Well you have to consider North St Louis COunty ghettos aren't THAT compartamentalized. Most people looting weren't hitting where they eat
decimation: one wonders why more folks in Ferguson don't have a similar attitude - if for no other reason than the "don't shit where you eat" principle
decimation: BingoBoingo: I like the story about the black folk who protect the white-owned gas station
decimation: mircea_popescu: "all through 2015 we will be seeing a shitton of 50-somethings with so-so credentrials going all weirdo on bitcoin." << no they just realize that bitcoin == no free money for 'retirement'
BingoBoingo: Or the "Oh noes, my 401k" bit
decimation: BingoBoingo: yeah the way I read the letter it's pretty clear that the writer flipped the 'crazy bit'
decimation: note that these 'payments' are mostly not direct transfers (checks from the treasury). They are mostly things like implicit guarantee to banks that usg will 'force solvency', health 'insurance' (free health care), and 'free' roads.
gribble: The operation succeeded.
decimation: ;;later tell ben_vulpes re: explain "usg has generally used the power of printed dollars to make it such that most people don't pay taxes" << Well, I was thinking of the very straightforward sense in which the majority of humans on us territory receive more dollars from usg than give to usg.
BingoBoingo: decimation: My favorite part is where nothing the Senator says supports the Author's claim in the way he thinks
decimation: "fair share"..."progress"... these are religious sentiments
decimation: lol from the comments: "You obviously hate poor people, the elderly, children, minorities - the list likely goes on and on. Inflation has been at record low levels for many years now, so your scare tactics go nowhere. Bitcoins only allow the greedy rich to evade paying their FAIR SHARE in taxes and the like, and their evil transactions are hidden from those who are tasked with protecting the common folk, like the honorable senator
BingoBoingo: Text from the letter http://qntra.net/2014/11/gaw-lawyers-attempt-to-bully-coinfire/#comment-2412
decimation: that zdnet "ken hess" story is amusing. In their hind-brain, the "guardings of the revolution" who are the shock-troops of the left recognize the clear danger bitcoin poses to their entire world
BingoBoingo: Lol, even the Obama Daughters can't take daddy Obola seriously http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--QbNEYid3--/yf6kfgkd6icyznsk3jya.gif
adlai: this is like me asking mircea_popescu whether the reason that he talks so much about bitcoin is that he actually owns some himself
adlai: BingoBoingo: look at the specific tweet linked
mircea_popescu: xanthyos i think teh plebs be getting restless, undata's like the third hinting to you.
xanthyos: everything's cvoming to the surface with my new take on life post penile surgery
BingoBoingo: on ben_vulpes yes, on therealbv no
hanbot: !up therealbv