mircea_popescu: thre are some bound to char/acct stuff you buy via the fiat shop
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves there's raid-only materials
cazalla: yes, i must feel superior to the scrubs
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves rift is of the azn economic persuasion
cazalla: mircea_popescu: there was a server in EQ like that which allowed everything to be traded so there was a lot of buying/selling going on for that server
mircea_popescu: bind on pickup is offensive, i'd rather date leah.
mircea_popescu: no one is happy unless they are getting more than they estimated they're worth, and everyone's overestimating his own importance.
ThickAsThieves: only solution is, randomize the loot
ThickAsThieves: no one's happy unless they are getting loot
ThickAsThieves: some veteren would show up after months away and expect the best loot, some noob would die first for 10 weeks and expect same drop
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves did you scam them ?
cazalla: I did DKP for my guild, it was like taking the high school drop out and making him a cop
mircea_popescu: "you gotta move the broom like so!"
ThickAsThieves: when i was in a hardcore WoW guild, with real progression, the leader was a total drill sergeant
mircea_popescu: cazalla didn't wow end up giving noobs max level just to prop their numbers for investors conference call ?
mircea_popescu: so then you suck at raiding.
ThickAsThieves: but the shitty parts are why people raid
ThickAsThieves: it would be fun if you remove dthe shitty parts
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 but it still consists of following a set procedure and talking to people on the phone.
Duffer1: heroes of the storm i believe it's going to be called
Duffer1: if you can get a core group of competent players on a set schedule then raiding can be a lot of fun
ThickAsThieves: that card game they have looks tarded
ThickAsThieves: didnt know they had a moba, neat!
Duffer1: i'm pretty disappointed in the latest crop of mmos
ThickAsThieves: otherwise 80-800 hours gone
mircea_popescu: why do scammers manage to retain so little of the btc they scam ? well... "We also believe candor benefits us as managers: the CEO who misleads others in public may eventually mislead himself in private."
ThickAsThieves: “Ms. McGrath…my apologies for saying this, you don’t have a clue that you are clueless. If you have the guts to debate me in the press, send me your email address and let’s have it out.”
mircea_popescu: "I would bet 0.1btc asicminer pays more in divs the following year."
mircea_popescu: see, two things they did right :
moiety: well theres a shock
ThickAsThieves: "The exchange is closing down. Its been a fun beta period but we need to go back to the drawing board for the good of our business/future. <3"
mircea_popescu: mpoe-pr upon being showed the pizda chemical : "wait pizda is made of hos?"
ThickAsThieves: 15 ltc. we'll update these numbers when we know more
ThickAsThieves: the damage:
ozbot: Pizda (chemical) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'said lot is conveyed subject to the restriction that no buildings shall be erected thereon nearer than 15 feet from the street line.'
ThickAsThieves: i only questioned the home price cause I assumed she was in a CA metro
mircea_popescu: http://cryptome.org/2014-info/leah-goodman/pict79.jpg asciilifeform weren't we discussing these before ?
asciilifeform wonders what the punishment for dredging up a correct satoshi would be.
mircea_popescu: which she's displayed on other occasions too
mircea_popescu: im sure she'll get all the pizza she can eat
ThickAsThieves: if they are smart
Namworld: I did? Oh, I shouldn't be here then.
mircea_popescu: it's just... obviously nobody bothered to think it through
mircea_popescu: i mean, on one hand ample proof to the contrary is available
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller yeah but i mean...
thestringpuller: i feel like that's just an ancillary effect in certain cases - i think there are people who are hell bent on proving MP === MPOE-PR and put plent of effort into researching that. nevertheless...
mircea_popescu: they don't really need to wait for a snowden to come around
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i wonder if it is unpatriotic to point out that generally speaking, the chinese military and perhaps others have been reading the us communications for a while now
mircea_popescu: anyway, the mpoe-pr thing is quite efficient, in that people who still confuse us two inadvertently manage to show about how much effort they're willing to put into research
ThickAsThieves: do we need to read past "The CIA, for instance, is moving toward the cloud with the help of Amazon"
asciilifeform: from the lulzfarm:
ThickAsThieves: i guess the next LSD study results won't be publicly shared
ThickAsThieves: he wants mpoe-pr to teach him more explicitly, rather than laugh that he doesn't read that icbit and gox are scams on his own
asciilifeform: they ought to apologize by seppuku in front of his doorstep instead.
ThickAsThieves: I think it's really funny, and aren't I brilliant?"" in the same breath
ThickAsThieves: I like how DrGreg goes "Have you noticed, MPOE-PR, that each and every time you have attempted to start a substantive argument with me of any kind, I have handed you your a** on a platter? " and then goes "The difference is, these folks have the class not to belabor the point, they have the class not to run around after you saying "hey, look at this joke I just made up about you, and
B007: "in order to be acknowledged as the single professional trading platform in the world for operations in cryptographic currencies."
mircea_popescu: or at least, the noobs are.
mircea_popescu: perhaps worse than the cherry cola.
mircea_popescu: According to Buffett's 2006 letter to Berkshire shareholders, Blue Chip had 1970 sales of $126 million as about 60 billion of "stamps were licked by savers, pasted into books, and taken to Blue Chip redemption stores." He also said, "When I was told that even certain brothels and mortuaries gave stamps to their patrons, I felt I had finally found a sure thing." Sales dropped to $19.4 million in 1980 and $1.5 million in
bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu: from the derpartment...
mircea_popescu: isn't it great that every hs drop-out / grocery packing specialist out there gets to judge the president and the supreme court justices ?
mircea_popescu: hilosophical conception of the constitution is pernicious."
mircea_popescu: from the "i'm a derp on the internet hear me roar" dept : "It is often noted that Barack Obama is an expert on constitutional law. That is better than the alternative, but it doesn't follow from that credential that he has a sound (or even benign) philosophical understanding of the constitution. Obama's credentials as a constitutional lawyer pale compared to those of Justice Antonin Scalia, for instance, and Scalia's p
ozbot: [Mpex.co] The Scientology of Bitcoin Finance?
moiety: https://bitcoinstarter.com/projects/618 just got asked about this. went through it asking what exactly they need money for until the guy says: well fuck im out of words.
mod6: benkay: ya, (Can't contact the database server: Lost connection to MySQL server at 'reading initial communication packet', system error: 111 (mysql))
mircea_popescu: " I hope you come to this years meeting, which will be held on May 20 in Omaha. There will be only one change: after 48 years of allegiance to another soft drink, your Chairman, in an unprecedented display of behavioral flexibility, has converted to the new Cherry Coke. Henceforth, it will be the Official Drink of the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting."
asciilifeform: with added twist that a zombie can install the implant in a generic bird
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform perhaps too advanced yet, but! suppose the thing actually MADE its own polymers
asciilifeform: picture the epic battles.
asciilifeform: while on this flight of fancy, one can also consider flexible photovoltaics as the 'wings.'
asciilifeform: to fly - foldable mylar membranes between the legs (ornithopter flight - rotors are lame)
mircea_popescu: "only look when there's something you wish to see"
asciilifeform: clever designer can build a swarm, which uses the steerable cameras and lasers for intra-swarm comms
moiety: i'm not planning on arming the cats to be fair
asciilifeform: and a handful of spare eyes, which normally face the earth, gives resilience against incoming enemy laser.
mircea_popescu: there's a reason why "grazing" insects only need 6
asciilifeform: if you retain the cameras/optics in the legs, the machine can be easily programmed to always step on solid ground.
mircea_popescu: just chase the spot.
moiety: mircea_popescu: Plan! I appear to have two subjects ready for testing. though, you know it won't get rid of me forever, i'd come back and show you the results
asciilifeform: one could handily build an approximation of the pictured toy from the guts of five or six 'steerable' webcams.
mircea_popescu: the catsterminator
mircea_popescu: moiety just think, one could code that thing to bother cats
moiety: pet lasers?! beats the purple one hands down!
asciilifeform: circuit which turns the panels to face the sun must be independent of the rest of the machine
asciilifeform: hobbyists very often lose their machines when it lands in any direction but props-upward
asciilifeform: then flyer can be quasi-autonomous (land on roofs, otherwise inaccessible places, etc. to recharge via photovoltaics sometimes)
mircea_popescu: actually spider legs is probably the best solution for robots.
asciilifeform: the 'secret' (not much of one) is that they deliberately build ultra-low-density housing in 'white' sectors, to keep it expensive.
asciilifeform: designed to stand up for ~2 decades, in good weather.
mircea_popescu: i don't think they still use wood
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but ofcourse they do
moiety: mircea_popescu: on the inside
asciilifeform: americans won't build хрущобаs, so they're stuck doing weird in-betweens.
mircea_popescu: i suppose in its own contorted, braindamaged way, the left was preparing for the future.
asciilifeform: tldr version: there is a multitude of idiots. they have to be housed somewhere. or, they can be allowed to live in their own filth, like capt. aguilera suggested.
bitcoinpete: 400 million people weren't brought to North America for their shrewdness, just their escapism
mircea_popescu: it is equally unfair, and quite callous, to sign up for mortgages idiots whi ocan't afford them
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete i will take the other end of that view : it's unfair to make the blind the designated drivers of your bar hopping party
asciilifeform: that is, the fact that air is not perfectly transparent
asciilifeform: moiety: lasers used for circus purposes (draw picture in the air via persistence of vision) rely on 'rayleigh scattering'
bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu: the banking crisis piece is on the talebian money. history doesn't repeat itself but it does rhyme. house=louse
moiety: ok lasers, i aw a purple laser for the first time (side note of epic btw) and the site said, "comes into its own during a lunar eclipse." is there something actually in that because its purple or is that just a gimmick?
asciilifeform: moiety: the original version of that had a caption: 'do you still want to dodge the [russian] draft?'
mircea_popescu: Here's something to quote at the Dr. Gregs of Bitcoin finance : "Inevitably, of course, business errors will occur and the wise manager will try to find the proper lessons in them. But the trick is to learn most lessons from the experiences of others. Managers who have learned much from personal experience in the past usually are destined to learn much from personal experience in the future."
asciilifeform: moiety: virtually all of the 'felis' genus has been cross-bred, across the board, and likewise 'panthera'
asciilifeform: moiety: which suggested that, technically, there might only be a few distinct species of cat, in the sense of 'able to cross-breed'
moiety: asciilifeform asciilifeform I've come to terms with the giant manul not actually being giant (how did i not see that?!) .. decided we need to find someone proficient in GM to make it happen though
ozbot: When did the 2007 banking crisis start ? How about 1985. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
bitcoinpete: lots of good reading on thelastpsychiatrist btw. keepin' me busy
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete just generate entropy the traditional way.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it conveniently dots the screen, so no need for radio mouse
mircea_popescu: eh, let there be communism of lol.
[\]: thanks for the lol
mircea_popescu: what they'd do is what they currently do in the shitty pits they inhabit (starbucks et atll)
mircea_popescu: because, obviously, they're above it
mircea_popescu: they wouldn't fight
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform im still digesting the earlier forum thing
asciilifeform: wait what. last i checked, the only planned industry was small arms.
mircea_popescu: "we need to go to each church and offer them contracts to not be churches any more"
mircea_popescu: o hey, we'll be just like the amish, except suckier and without tradition
mircea_popescu: "and if they make bigger bunker busters, we'll just pour more concrete"
asciilifeform: this particular crock of shit isn't even an especially convincing one - just illustrative of the concept.
asciilifeform: 'The Citadel is not designed to withstand any direct .Mil or .Gov attack. Nor is the Citadel, in any manner, attempting to provoke any government entity.'
mircea_popescu: except you also get the choice to make a brick-in-concrete pillars with poured concrete foundation and wood roofing house,
asciilifeform: as far as i could tell, the thing is/was some combo of a usg honeypot and straight 'jam tomorrow, not today' chumpatron.
mircea_popescu: "Your home will be built to your specs (details available at this website) with utilities stubbed to the interior. You select the facade for the exterior of your home. You are responsible for completing the interior of your home as you wish. You may choose to do the work yourself, or hire contractors. But every single detail, from paint to tiles to counters, is your choice."
asciilifeform: afaik there's no tower, just a dirtbag with a sack of $
mircea_popescu: "i am proud of these unrelated people's feudal architecture!"
mircea_popescu: i guess the very essex-looking walltower kinda makes the point better than 10k words
mircea_popescu: The Citadel is evolving as a planned community where residents are bound together by:
mircea_popescu: that's the clincher
mircea_popescu: that thread on the neoweirdos delivers.
mircea_popescu: "There are thousands of acres of in BC Canada that are owned by the Queen of England....If we squat there drill some wells and plant some trees. Do you really think the Queen is going to bring us an eviction notice or force us off the land with military force?"
mircea_popescu: and also what put the new in new york
mircea_popescu: that's how they came up with rome wisconsin
peterl: wait, no, I've been to Canada, but that's just about the same thing
mircea_popescu: real mother's day is march 8th
[\]: but I'm not a mother
mircea_popescu: so there you go.
mircea_popescu: [\\\] people wanted you to have a nice surprise on mother's day.
mircea_popescu: it's this mystical re-enactment of the venetian republic.
[\]: So I read through the pirate docs...
[\]: nubbins`, I know of a couple but you can't have them.
nubbins`: "Bitcoin town will work to protect, promote & repair the mental health of any willing citizens ... And we will work to be at the forefront of Neurogenesis and Synaptogenesis research."
mircea_popescu: why not just use the brain ?
nubbins`: new thread, less cruft before you get to the meat: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=224478.0
nubbins`: he waited til around the tenth paragraph before he mentioned the forced ingestion of nootropics
mircea_popescu: i'd guess the reaction is kinda lukewarm
mircea_popescu: for the choir.
ozbot: Razlet thought on the topic of size and fitting pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: lucky the ukraine thing didn't happen in winter btw, or else it'd have been quite literal cold war.
mircea_popescu: so what is the driver doing ?
asciilifeform: they... open and close doors, mostly.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, this notion that you can (or should) fly commercial from the cockpit is nonsense in the first place, and was on the out since at least the 60s
asciilifeform: (all the fat 'flying bus' machines are fly-by-wire, it's a mere firmware patch)
asciilifeform: incidentally, not much has been spoken in public about the remote control mandatory on u.s.-made aircraft built since '9/11'
mircea_popescu: yeah, pretty much the safe bet.
asciilifeform: dollars to doughnuts, the fish ate well that day.
mircea_popescu: by the planefull.
mircea_popescu: would be funny if it turns out this is how the greatest leader that ever was picks up nowadays
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves well at least he didn't lose it on the scientology of bitcoin
dexX7_: why is it a thing what the foundation does or not does? i don't think they are in duty and they seem to do a lot of lobby work which i think is a good thing
mircea_popescu: aclu huh ? is o'bammy losing the commie support ?
mircea_popescu: on one hand, they're all pedos. on the other hand, if you catch them you can deport them for a massive fat sentence.
mircea_popescu: the chinese educational dilemma : to hire or not to hire us citizens ?
mircea_popescu: Luke-Jr: who is two bit idiot, and why does he want Roger Ver running the Bitcoin Foundation? :/ << take a guess
mircea_popescu: a wait you're the selkis dude ?
mircea_popescu: how long did he have to produce the bit ?
mircea_popescu: dexX7_ so basically, the guy ran a google search
benkay: there's no price signal, so everyone's reduced to gibbering like animals about satoshi
Luke-Jr: ThickAsThieves: that would certainly make sense then!
dignork: Luke-Jr, two bit idiot is the dude who leaked mgox pdf
Luke-Jr: who is two bit idiot, and why does he want Roger Ver running the Bitcoin Foundation? :/
MisterE: Vietnamese Navy says they have the crash at sea on radar. http://my.news.yahoo.com/mas-aircraft-goes-missing--says-airline-023820132.html
ozbot: Massive BTC Movements Send Tremors Though the Bitcoin Community - I Have Bitcoins
MisterE: I just got baked and sucked into the btce trollbox for an hour
KRS-One: fags have too much time on their hands.
dexX7: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4cQ_ZOWJ3Y i just noticed that dorian said "i don't work for that company (bitcoin) and i'm not aware of their product" :D
asciilifeform: 'The passengers are of 13 nationalities, the airline said. They were from China and Taiwan (154), Malaysia (38), Indonesia (12), Australia (7), France (3), United States (4), New Zealand (2), Ukraine (2), Canada (2), Russia (1), Italy (1), Netherlands (1), Austria (1).' (http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/07/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-plane-missing)
asciilifeform: it's radar shadow is probably hardcoded into every SAM battery on the planet.
KRS-One: i had to fly in one to the bahamas once it sucked
joecool: asciilifeform: i mean, they'll hear it coming a lonngggg way away
ozbot: Don't Ask the Government to Regulate Bitcoin | Ron Paul Channel
dexX7: it's really odd. the data i received is indeed connected to me, but not mine. more like the one of a relative who is neither associated with my email address nor with bitcoin. and it was only "name/address/zip/city/country", no scans, id or whatsoever
ozbot: Turning the Raspberry Pi Into an FM Transmitter - Imperial College Robotics Society Wiki
nubbins`: http://www.icrobotics.co.uk/wiki/index.php/Turning_the_Raspberry_Pi_Into_an_FM_Transmitter
kakobrekla: how do they verify it
dexX7: "That is extremely strange, I don't know how that could be. As far as I know you are the first person who's data has not been accurate. Is it possible that you had an older account associated with that email?" ... from the gox guys
mircea_popescu: "The full-time project is a company called Inscrypto, which is basically a privately-funded, decentralized version of the FDIC for Bitcoin. "
mircea_popescu: "Ryan Selkis blew the whistle on Mt. Gox."
gecko_x2: just pasted.. i dunno about the author
dexX7: i received another answer
dexX7: lukas-jr could. he is referenced multiple times in the code as email recipient for an alert that goes off in case of tx sending problems
mircea_popescu: kinda where the lack of interest starts. jack shit you can in facrt verify.
dexX7: well, or let's say "a guy with the name nanashi on irc"
mircea_popescu: the same people ?
dexX7: one after the other. i did get a response, but that was simply "Your email text was empty. I am not going to open any attachments." ... accidently sent my mail with the message in the attachment
mircea_popescu: conceivably they just want to avoid the edge case where judge wants to know how come the one id in the set we actually care about is also your smallest.
mircea_popescu: because they for whatever reason i've never evaluated perceive if oyu're supoena'd it's better to offer uniform sizing
mircea_popescu: generally the way this crap works in practice, you have a size. if you get sent stuff under that size you return it as illegible,
mircea_popescu: yeah but you resize them for storage
mircea_popescu: at any rate, ~20gb worth of passport scans is, if memory serves, in the 2-3k range