The downtrodden are downtrodden for a reason. Step on their faces!

The Gabriel Laddel character you might remember from a recent incident of rape, pillage and random torture article pleasantly reminded me of Jacob Rhoden's absolutely excellent blog, which I hurry to recommend to you.

And just to make that recommendation stick, let's read a bit off The Treacherous Optimization aka "Old age and treachery will beat youth and skill every time" :

Put another way, grep sells out its worst case (lots of partial matches) to make the best case (few partial matches) go faster. How treacherous! As this realization dawns on me, the room seemed to grow dim and slip sideways. I look up at the Ultimate Unix Geek, spinning slowly in his padded chair, and I hear his cackle "old age and treachery...", and in his flickering CRT there is a face reflected, but it's my ex girlfriend, and the last thing I see before I black out is a patch of yellow cheese powder inside her long tangled beard.

I didn't even know anyone knew. Did you know ?

Anyway, not that any of the retards involved in "social justice" and related considerations have the skill or werewithal to get it, but : this is a fine example of privilege in computing. How did the "worst case" interest group get to lose 70% so that the "best case" interest group can gain 6% ?

Clearly this was enforced by an opressive, chauvinistic patriarchy which, to borrow an Irigarayism, "favours the speed of light over other speeds that are much more important to us".

As it happens, the case of optimized grep is the first and the last word on the matter of "You can not have democratic computing anymore than democratic anything else in this world." It's either good or democratic, pick one.

Yes, you can change pronouns in the comments surrounding the code, but whether you do or whether you don't, the fact remains that comments aren't compiled, and more importantly : that raping the poor raw so that the rich can have it slightly better is not only the traditional way to do thingsi but actually the correct way to do things.

And here comes the doozy : not the correct way "for some", or "in some perspectives" or anything like that. The correct way for everyone! Universally. Grep is overall faster for this optimization, or in other words : the downtrodden are downtrodden for a reason.

Step on their faces!

———Either back in the days when things were still being done in "the civilised world", or else to this day in the actual world, pointedly excluding Emasculated Europe, North America & The Commonwealth (EE,NA&TC). [↩]

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Wednesday, 29 April, Year 7 d.Tr.

The definitive sovereign

La Serenissima is an abstract concept, just like every other sovereign throughout the history of sovereignity on Earth, and just like every other entity currently pretending to sovereignity.i

La Serenissima imposes tax on its subjects - ie, those who recognise its sovereignity - just like any other sovereign out there (with the notable characteristic that unlike every other pretender to sovereignity to date, and unlike absolutely all pretenders active today, La Serenissima actually collects 100% of the taxes it's dueii).

La Serenissima runs a budget. Exactly like some extant pretenders to sovereignity (notably, countries in Africa and the United States of America) it does not actually publish a budget. Exactly like all pretenders ever known, La Serenissima runs a deficit. Unlike all those pretenders, its deficit is monstrous, and especially so on a percentile basis - most recently estimated by people familiar with the matter at a whopping 5`798`796`857`967`496`834% (that's five quintillion seven hundred and ninety-eight quadrillion seven hundred and ninety-six trillion eight hundred and fifty-seven billion nine hundred and sixty-seven million four hundred and ninety-six thousand eight hundred thirty-four percent). This fabulous deficit greatly exceeds the deficits of any currently seen or historically attested sovereign pretenders, but experts concur it is in no sense unsustainable. In fact, while even minute percentual increases in other pretenders' deficits can sink the pretender in question, La Serenissima could readily double its deficit, or for that matter increase it twenty billion fold without ill effectiii.

This difference - like every other - lies in the problems coercion induces in economy. To wit : a state which attempts to build itself on the unwilling work of slaves has to maintain order and put down slave rebellions. This will necessarily shape institutions in certain ways, and model everyday life accordingly - for instance, the uneasy feeling one gets among people unlike himself is a direct result of the historical tendency to run states on the (consensus-supported, by the way) slave model. If one's going to try and force those who don't look like him into slavery, and then try to build a state on unwilling slave labour, that someone'd better make damned sure he's never alone in a large enough group of different-looking people.

A state built on coercitive taxation will have to satisfy fundamentally very similar constraints - nobody works for it willingly, and consequently its ability to get things done is strictly limited by its ability to beg, embezzle and steal. As its ability to beg dwindles, it moves to embezzlement, but should there be a shortfall it has to steal. It has to, its "power" such as it is and the entirety of its pretense rely on being backed by theft, much like a bully's pretense to relevance in the schoolyard is backed by violence. A bully unwilling to escalate violence is exactly like a USG unwilling to steal : they dissolve overnight.

Exactly opposite to this, La Serenissima can run infinite deficits, what difference does it make ? People felt like contributing. The more they contribute, the bigger it gets.

Meanwhile, exactly like all the other pretenders, La Serenissima issues perfectly worthless IOUs in exchange for the work third parties deliver to its own benefit, and in exchange for all their sweat, blood and tears. Unlike the other pretenders, La Serenissima doesn't bother to print them on paper - which is a lot more ecological, to say nothing of the ethics involvediv, but outside that they are all exactly the same.

When you accept the worthless IOUs USG printed you are essentially making a very generously improbable leap of faith : "suppose later on this thing is a preeminent world power". Your expected pension, like the various payments owed to Confederate soldiers, like the assorted hopes and dreams of men and women during the endless centuries that took an immediate loss so that their favourite abstraction may live in the future - all these depend on the premise that the pretender in question will matter tomorrow. Exactly in the same manner and exactly to the same degree, accepting the absent Serenissima IOUs offers you a claim in the future, to other people's attention, respect and good will. Provided of course this thing is a preeminent world power.

Which will actually be the preeminent world power ? That, of course, depends on anything but the pretenders in question. This is what I mean when I say La Serenissima is the definitive sovereign : not that the claim to sovereignity of the other pretenders is somehow "not good". Much like Bitcoin itself, nobody can ever have or in any way acquire title to sovereignity.v No claims are particularly good, all claims are equally good, which is to say not good in any sense. It's possession that makes the law.

And possession flows, much like currency, much like heat. Specifically - it flows from hot to cold, it flows from stupid to intelligent, it flows from the antiquatedly dysfunctional to the clearly superior alternative.

Sed fugit interea, fugit inreparabile auctoritas, singula dum capti exspectamur solito.

———For reasons detailed in that discussion of Hayek, the most a sovereign can do is claim. Whether his pretense stands or doesn't stand is an ulterior consideration, what interests us here is the observation that as far as anyone is concerned, the pope, some random historical monarch or some random "country" in the world today are mere pretenders to sovereignity, and that pretense no better or worse than any other pretenders' pretense. Which is how things like the Republic of China or the Soviet Union go away, to be replaced by other, temporary, pretenders. [↩]By virtue of taxation being voluntary - which, incidentally, is exactly the only way one can have taxation in the first place.

Yes, I know, other people are saying other things. This is fine. Among the other things other people are saying we count such brilliant gems as "women are naturally inferior to men" and "blacks lack the intellectual and moral qualities which would allow them to act autonomously" and "you can have coercitive taxation" and so on and so forth. Why is this pile of nonsense relevant ? Some of it was fashionable and is no longer, some of it was fashionable and still is. All of it is still as stupid as it was originally, and none of it has any place in the minds of thinking people. [↩]Technically - at least if one applies the reasoning of the Keynesian cult in a field where the priors of that peculiar theory are actually satisfied - the larger a deficit La Serenissima runs the better it's doing. [↩]What'd you think of a man that, in response to your presenting him with a coffee maker, would respond by offering you his thanks ? In physical form, framed ?

What if people who offered their condoleances at a time of great loss for you and your family also expected you to keep track of said condoleances, account for them, and present yearly reports as to the condoleance flow, under threat that if you fail to follow eight billion pages of obscure "regulations" on the matter they'll pay some random street scum to invade your house and shoot your dog ?

Who keeps tracks of hellos ? [↩]Of course there's a whole industry predicated on trying - much like there's a whole industry predicated on selling unctions to older women. [↩]

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Thursday, 02 April, Year 7 d.Tr.

The "Christian Europe" and other aberrant notions

So a gent offered recently to translate some of the older articles in Romanian, which turned out to be a very difficult task. Nevertheless, I like him, and while not yet usablei I do believe his output can be fine tuned into greatness. For which reason, here is one of the articles he attempted, done in my own hand.

Just about the most ridiculous among the set of idiocies being paraded in pious self-sufficiency by the noob and the ungifted that nevertheless feel inclined to discuss matters of cultural anthropology is this one with "the christian history" of Europe, as if history could somehow carry ideological immanence. Similar nonsense was the height of fashion fifty to a hundred years ago, "ethnical geography", an item which produced moreover pretty stylistical figures such as "the forest is a Romanian's brother" and all sorts of related craptalkii with often painful effects.

The nude fact of the matter is that no soil carries in itself anything but that : the state of being a soil. On the footing it offers, any species, any race and any ethic group develops just as well. The space from the Carpathians to the seaiii is not more adequate or better fitting Romanians, or Hungarians, or Slavs or Pechenegsiv or whosoever might have come by here, just like the American continent is not more adequate to red skins than white skins (a matter that we also had the opportunity to verify in practice, looky that the grains growing in the Great Black Swamp fills with milk both the tits of brunette Iroquis women and blonde German women, with perfectly comparable results.

Equally so history is mere history. It can of course be regarded ideologically, we could try to convince ourselves that "christian history", which is to say the falsifyingv view of history in Christian terms, has something to do with history. Just as well we could attempt to convince ourselves that the wishes of the subject modify objective reality, or that the world is altogether an immense conspiracy, or whatever other idiocy (if you prefer more "elevated" terms : ideology).

In reality, the happenstance that some problems of the [act of] being and the [state of] being, about image and representation or about other great themes of the essence were put against some concrete examples rather than other concrete examples is strictly irrelevant. It does not matter that Scholastics used the biblical blabla to construct and verify its theories of the world just like it doesn't matter if in point of fact the fruit that fell on Newton's head was an apple or a pear. The height of irrelevance, the laws of gravity are the same for any fruit and for any other object, and just so philosophy is the same irrespective if it were discovered working the imaginary example of an Oriental whore or some other. Sophia is one, the rest's just stories.

This does not mean that we're to erase anecdote from history, to no longer admit that Newton truly was hit in the head by an apple rather than a plantainvi or whatever, that Archimedes was taking a bath in a tub rather than in a lake. Idem it does not mean to not admit that Thomas was reasoning about Mary, the Trinity and so forth. But we must immediatelyvii understand anecdote as such, and not deem it above where the rope its relevancy allows it - which isn't very far.

Mary has absolutely no merit in the process of understanding, it has exactly no importance that God or Allah or any other figment of imagination played the role of stones upon which some people tried out their minds' hammers and chisels. If it weren't for them it'd have been some others, people made these like they would have made those, and if they didn't make them like this they'd have made them like that. Like any tool, like any experiment, like any theory these also aren't anything but mere toys, useful in a time and context, forgotten afterwards. You're not about to tell me that the exact type of spoon you fed your child with decides his future, I would hope. And I would further hope it's obvious that were you not to use that exact one you'd have used another, if you didn't happen to buy that type from the supermarket you'd have bought another type and overall it'd have made no difference. I should hope we're in agreement on this much.

So I wish to hear no further grumbles about the "importance" of Christianity in the building of European culture or civilisation. It is absurd, it is ridiculous and it is, if we're to be true to the end, degrading. It is degrading, because at the very best inculture and ignorance, but often enough mere stupidity feeds these aberrations.

And inculture and ignorance are degrading for people. Not quite as degrading as stupidity, it's true.

———By me, it is otherwise certainly useful to others.

And by the way I timed it, the translation took me from 9:20 to 9:44 this morning. [↩]Traznai in the original is untranslatable in English. Structurally it denotes "the ill but indirect effects of having been struck by lightning". Think "crazily, obviously dysfunctional plan as hatched by otherwise highly functioning mind, like one of those B list scientist-villains of the 50s". [↩]Black Sea. The Romanian homeland you see. [↩]Ancient tribe. [↩]Not in the Popper sense, but in the more direct "that which makes it be false". [↩]Recent South American joke I just heard : Snow White carried by the prince, she's visibly thrilled. Prince asks her "why are you so happy ?" and the answer comes "because after all those apples it's finally time for the plantain." [↩]This word is deeper in English than common usage. Immediately first and foremost means "without mediation", "directly". Forthwith! [↩]

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Friday, 16 October, Year 7 d.Tr.

The Chicken Scribblin' Kronicles - A Look Under Eulora's Short and Knee-Length Future

The title is vaguely inspired by The Barely Legible and Slightly Bloody Diary of Foxy Foxster on Eulora which is now on its 9th day and most definitely worth a read. But to get to the very scribblings in question :

And now to the futures. First off we should probably discuss the future-in-the-past that's already happened earlier today :

08:05:58 mircea_popescu eulora min-update coming up shortly. in this update : significantly increased variance for loots ; better crafting loot selection (you can no longer loot items cheaper than the recipe you use) ; a number of patches fixing ever more obscure crashes.

08:11:34 chetty server reset in 2

08:14:32 chetty done, up

08:26:13 chetty : the weight and bulk limits have also been updated.

The new looting rules are a thing of beauty. You absolutely must check this thing out. I got so enamoured with them I spent the past six hours playing straighti. Here's how that went :

Inputs :

1887 grass qual 530, 318 ea = 600066c.

20 CFTr, 1280c

Total 601346 copper.

Outputs :

47 CFT q 105, 189c ea = 8883

25 CFT q 106, 190c ea = 4750

400 CFTr q105 21 ea = 8400

12 CFT q 107, 192c ea = 2304

444 BCTr q 106, 53c ea = 23532

764 SRr q 106, 27c ea = 20628

332 DGr q 106, 49c ea = 16268

460 CFT q 107, 192 ea = 88320ii

666 CFTr q 106, 21 ea = 13986

82 CFT q 108, 192 ea = 15744

223 SRSr q 107, 27 ea = 6021

90 SRs q 104, 79 ea = 7110

106 DGr q 106, 50 ea = 5030

83 BCTr q 107, 53 ea = 4399

35 CTr q 105, 163 ea = 5705

75 CFT q 110, 196 ea = 14700

29 CFT q 111, 199 ea = 5771

88 CFT q 111, 199 ea = 9768

67 CFT q 112, 201 ea = 13467

62 CFT q 113, 203 ea = 12586

46 CFT q 114, 205 ea = 9430

305 BCTr q 109, 54 ea = 16470

6 CCr q 110, 436 ea = 2616

1769 CFTr q 106, 21 ea = 37149

60 CTr, q 109, 170 ea = 10200

1 DUHr, q 107, 664 ea = 664

288 DGr, q 109, 51 ea = 14688

1 IOr, q 107, 510 ea = 510

2 LTFr, q 110, 480 ea = 960

1012 SRSr, q 110, 28 ea = 28336

138 SRs, q 109, 82 ea = 11316

37 CFT q 114, 205 ea = 7585

Total 427296 copper.

That means a net loss of 174050 coppers aka satoshi, or a whopping 28.94% loss! And yet this in spite of a very large find the likes of which I've never seen before, and so it came to pass that during the space of this run I went from +100k to - 175k. Variance!

Add to all that skill costs in the form 956570 - 954125 - 951921 ; 960321 - 957447 - 953115 - 947835 - 943411 - 940354 - 937860 - 934908 - 930485 - 924594 - 919136 - 915294 - 912406 - 909339, for a total training expenditure of 55631 over 15 skills, taking me from 69 to 84, and my bank balance from "incredibly fucking rich" to "very terribly rich indeed".

Moving on to the future : on the short term (coupla weeks) we're going to release more items (including tools), more recipes, more skills, more meshes, fixes to the avatar animations which might even include visibly equippable tools, and generally all the art we can get our hands on. So if you wish to earn a copper or two - make us some art!

On the longer term (coupla months or so), we're going to be releasing the ghost system, which is a key element on the path to having actual death, and on which two specific dynamics are dependant : fighting, which is just what you'd expect, and archeology, which is going to be a very cool mechanic sort-of in between exploring and questing. But all this shit is hard, and we don't even rightly know it'll work ok yet, so don't get your hopes up. Get your hopes low, low, low, low ...

On the longest term, Tier II is a-coming, which means more maps, plus other fab things.

Always remember : the more things you do in game, the closer the future gets!

———Part of the motivation being also pure envy : just as I was feeling pretty good about myself after a decent craft run, breathing in the rarefied airs of "best crafter on server" as I imagined myself, in waltzes Foxy with nary twice my skill levels, so I went berserk.

I think I evened things out now, 134 Tinkering ftw! [↩]About 400+ in one single loot. Plus some rare recipes etc. Whole thing put me ahead at this point by like 100k [↩]

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Monday, 29 June, Year 7 d.Tr.

The Board of Indirectors

The first best and greatest company of things, items, productions and real brick store indian in the industry has just decided on its first best and greatest Board of Directors (which, as an astute reader points out, have absolutely nothing to do with boardings or directing) which will be announced at the upcoming conference through a multitude of hand carved copper pipes of varying shapes and profiles, as well as printed in the trade press (for a fee).

The whole thing was however arranged over Verizon's FiOsco, and a virus might or might not have been involved. I am consequently in possession of the list of names, which I hurry to share with an eager (if completely imaginary) public :

Kim Dun Suk, North Korea's leading nuclear physicist and also an accomplished competition basket weaver.

Mariano Vergonucci, the first, so far only and quite possibly last traditional Bedouin pearl diver.

Marianne Cotesq, the highest grossing employee of the United Brothels of the Federated Asylums for the Elderly.

Kim Doe Suk, the other Kim's two thirds brother and renowned SEO expert (also Internet musketeer and on-site specialization optimist).

James John Mosbuh, the calligrapher who for over three decades has been expertly dribbling the ink that makes the Rorschach tests in use by psychiatric hospitals all across the nation.

Adinne Meklburt, maker of girlbone corsets for whales.

Roger Gerard Ispikton, the only lumberjack to have been sailing continuously since he was three years old.

Jessup Wassup Nostrop, an Amish car mechanic.

Michael Hickley, the economist who came up with the idea for the 24th issue of Oz Magazine.

The veeps in charge are still at large. Their names will be reported in a later bulletin, subsequent their capture. Already baited jars have been uniformly distributed in the field.

To work!

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Wednesday, 21 January, Year 7 d.Tr.

The best Obamacare-makes-healthcare-affordable story you ever heard. Also, survivalism.

So a six dollar set of speakers managed to ruin a six hundred dollar laptop through the oldest procedure in the book : breaking off the jack so that the metal part is left stuck behind, buried inside the hole, while you dangle the plastic end of it like an idiot that really shouldn't be buying six dollar speakers.

Thus therefore an order emanated from my fortress of evil yesterday evening, and it went "find me some hooked tweezers in this god forsaken shithole!" By morning I had word that the item was found, specifically in the medical supplies quarteri . I opted to go pick it up in person. This, because I couldn't believe the price. Here it is :

Twenty pesos is, of course, about two dollars and a quarter at the "official" rate, or otherwise a dollar and a half if you don't make a habit of breathing through the mouth. What a steel, eh ?

And here's the unquestionable item in question :

Good enough steel to take to the autoclave, and in any case worth every penny of the relatively few pennies involved. Thanks Obama, and don't forget now - if you've made an unaffordable healthcare, you didn't make that unafordable healthcare! It was there from before. All together now...

PS. Oh, the survivalism. Here's the deal - if you manage to cut yourself up, I could probably stitch you back together again for less than the cost of the gasoline the chainsaw burned to fuck you up in the first place. What a thought, huh ?

———They do that third world thing here - also seen in Egypt - where all the shops of a certain kind go in the same place. There's a "window manequin" plaza, there's an office chairs street, there's of course the pond shop street etc.

We're still looking for the "not retarded people" street, sadly. [↩]

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Wednesday, 29 July, Year 7 d.Tr.

The best auction. Ever.

As you might recall, yesterday saw Eulora's first open outcry auction, to find a new home for a delicious starter package for the latest skill and assorted comestibles.

It went fabulously. Just wunderbar. Here's the chatlogi :

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Sun 19-Jul-2015 16:10:24 Mircea Mircescu

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(16:10:24) >Welcome to the gossip channel! 6 players in this channel.

(16:10:24) >You can't have everything - where would you put it?

(16:10:42) Mircea says: hello everyone!

(16:10:51) >Players Currently Online

(16:10:51) >Daniel

(16:10:51) >Foxy

(16:10:51) >Grenadine

(16:10:51) >Grundin

(16:10:51) >Mircea

(16:10:51) >Mod

(16:10:51) >Voyna

(16:10:51) >7 shown from 7 players online

(16:10:58) Foxy says: hi

(16:11:02) Mod says: hey!

(16:11:11) Mircea shouts: we gonna start the grand auction right in a second, but first

(16:11:21) Mircea shouts: would the real mod6 please stand up

(16:11:35) Mircea says: an' trade me :)

(16:11:37) Mod waves

(16:11:48) Grundin says: /nick realmod6

(16:11:48) >Mod asks to trade with you.

(16:11:50) Grundin says: oops

(16:11:50) >You agree to trade.

(16:12:00) Mircea says: here you go sir, make more maps.

(16:12:02) Foxy says: ha ha grundin

(16:12:08) Mod says: ahh wow. nice!

(16:12:19) Mod says: but... one sec. i gotta dump this other stuff or it'll get avgd.

(16:12:21) Mod says: brb

(16:12:28) Mircea says: haha just put em on floor

(16:12:34) Mod says: ok

(16:12:50) Mircea says: nono

(16:12:51) Mod says: here have a worn one :)

(16:12:55) Mircea says: no, it will average.

(16:13:00) Mircea says: put all others on the floor.

(16:13:06) Mod says: ok

(16:13:11) Daniel says: did i miss the bidding?

(16:13:17) Foxy says: no daniel

(16:13:18) Mircea says: no you got lucky daniel

(16:13:27) >Trade complete

(16:13:33) Mircea says: enjoy

(16:13:43) Mod says: Thanks!

(16:13:50) Mircea says: now, i gotr here some leftover cooking lube... and it has grundin s name on it

(16:13:54) Mircea says: so... trade me!

(16:14:31) Mircea says: yo ? there ?

(16:14:57) Mircea says: well be that as it may

(16:15:01) >Grundin asks to trade with you.

(16:15:03) Mircea says: we have aha

(16:15:04) >You agree to trade.

(16:15:11) >Trade complete

(16:15:14) Mircea says: enjot

(16:15:21) Mircea says: so! we have here before me as follows :

(16:16:01) Mircea says: berrieses, how about that lmao.

(16:16:29) Mircea says: so now, this pile of utterly invisible virtual items is going on the auction grass at an opening bid of

(16:16:31) Mircea says: wtf what was that was it brb

(16:16:51) Grundin says: kek

(16:17:01) Mircea says: 1376000 coppers.

(16:17:07) Voyna says: meh I hate the dark

(16:17:23) >Server Admin: let there be light

(16:17:28) Mircea says: lol !

(16:17:35) Mircea says: that's bnetter.

(16:17:38) Foxy says: yay

(16:17:39) Mod says: \ o /

(16:18:07) Mircea says: so then. if everyone's had a chance to peruse the very riveting descriptions etc, let's get the show on the road

(16:18:17) Mircea says: do i hear any bids for the here present pile ?

(16:18:32) Grundin says: 1500000

(16:18:42) Mircea says: 1500000 from the gent in the blue shirt

(16:18:54) Mircea says: going once

(16:18:57) Mod says: 1500001

(16:19:02) Mircea says: anyone care to beat half a mil ?

(16:19:08) Mircea says: 5% minimum increase kind sir!

(16:19:18) Grenadine says: o/ 1600000

(16:19:18) Daniel says: i'l do min increase

(16:19:24) Mircea says: so, million and a half,

(16:19:33) Mircea says: by the gods you gota say, this isn't christies!

(16:19:52) Mod says: hah

(16:19:56) Mircea says: 1.6mn from the lovely lady in the front row

(16:19:57) Grundin says: * erryone scrambling for calculator

(16:20:05) Mod says: 1.7M

(16:20:06) Voyna says: oh dang I cae to the wrong auction

(16:20:17) Mircea says: that's here we go, 1,7mn from the oither gent in the blue shirt

(16:20:22) Mircea says: where do you folks shop ?

(16:20:41) Mircea says: 1.7mn going once...

(16:20:48) Grenadine says: 2M

(16:20:52) Mircea says: anyone care to beat 1.7mn for this lovelypair of invisible antiques

(16:21:08) Mircea says: 2mn from sippycup!

(16:21:12) Daniel says: 2.1

(16:21:26) Mircea says: 2.1 from the baron gent!

(16:21:29) Grenadine says: 2.2

(16:21:41) Mircea says: and 2.2 back on my right here

(16:21:56) Daniel says: 2.4

(16:21:58) Mircea says: 2.2 million going once for this beautiful set of

(16:22:08) Mircea says: 2.4 mn from mr baron

(16:22:17) Grenadine says: 2.8

(16:22:22) Mircea says: i need a "going once for the etc" alias.

(16:22:29) Mircea says: 2.8 @ grenadine.

(16:22:40) Daniel says: 3.0

(16:22:58) Mircea says: and three whole milion heard from daniel baron

(16:23:09) Mircea says: three whole bitcent coins ladies and gentlemen, who's got more!

(16:23:23) Grenadine says: 4M

(16:23:25) Mircea says: 3 bitcents going once

(16:23:41) Mircea says: dragons and dragoncheeses, we have four million

(16:23:47) Grenadine says: lol

(16:23:49) Mircea says: that'll take a while to count.

(16:23:54) Daniel says: 4.2

(16:24:15) Mircea says: four point two heard, aren't these even millions much more easier to do 5% out of ?

(16:24:22) Mircea says: 4.2 going once!

(16:24:25) Grenadine says: 4.5

(16:24:38) >You must select a target to attack.

(16:24:54) Mircea says: 4.5 million from the lady in the strangely cut bodice

(16:25:20) Daniel says: 5.0

(16:25:30) Mircea says: it's man eat woman here at the new item auctions, which side will prevail!

(16:25:38) Mircea says: 5 million from the gent, going once.

(16:25:43) Grenadine says: 6m

(16:26:06) Daniel says: 6.3

(16:26:07) Mircea says: 6 million back at the lady holding her arm to her hip

(16:26:19) Mircea says: and 6.3mn back in navy shirt land!

(16:26:23) Grenadine says: 7

(16:26:25) Voyna says: well if they spend all their money on this maybe something be left for the rest of us to bid on :)

(16:26:39) Mircea says: sorry mladty, there's nothing left. this is ALL THERE IS

(16:26:44) Mircea says: we're a poor virtual world over here.

(16:26:48) Mircea says: and 7mn from grenadine, going once.

(16:27:00) Daniel says: 7.35

(16:27:02) Mircea says: going twi

(16:27:08) Grundin says: Voyna,I assure you there's much more money in circulation

(16:27:09) Grenadine says: 7.5

(16:27:14) Mircea says: 7.35mn heard from the up and comingcrafter fellow

(16:27:17) Foxy says: poor world, ha

(16:27:28) Mircea says: and ill have to remind the public you can't pay less than 5% to win a bid.

(16:27:37) Grenadine says: :D

(16:27:46) Grenadine says: 8M.

(16:27:46) Mircea says: 7.35million going twice

(16:28:02) Grenadine says: er.

(16:28:07) Daniel says: 8.4

(16:28:10) Grenadine says: 8.5

(16:28:11) Mircea says: aha! 8 million heard in one of the most successful auctions ever held on euloran soil

(16:28:26) Mircea says: and then 8.4! iheard 8,4, anyone beat 8.4 ?

(16:28:37) Grenadine says: 10.

(16:28:46) Grundin says: *gasps*

(16:28:49) Mircea says: ohmy god it's a rain of copper!

(16:28:58) Mircea says: 10 million heard for these presidential golf sticks

(16:29:01) Mircea says: i mean... ahem.

(16:29:04) Mircea says: 10 million going once

(16:29:07) Daniel says: 10.5

(16:29:20) Mircea says: ten million and a pile of change heard!

(16:29:29) Mircea says: going once

(16:29:36) Voyna says: ahem I hope the turtle holding up this world has a stong back

(16:29:58) Mircea says: anyone want these splendid unique rare elite exceptional items more than 10.5 milllion copper coins ?

(16:30:06) Grenadine says: 11.5

(16:30:06) Mircea says: enough copper to make your own statue with ?

(16:30:20) Mircea says: eleven and one half million dollars! heard!

(16:30:31) Mircea says: and going once

(16:30:35) Daniel says: 12.65

(16:30:42) Voyna says: ooo a copper statue ...what an idea ... of me of course :)

(16:30:42) Foxy wonders how much the winner would pay for a different set of supplications

(16:30:42) Mircea says: 12.65 mn!

(16:31:01) Mircea says: 12.65 mn going once

(16:31:20) Mircea says: could this be it ? does daniel snatch by this considerable pile of coin the first and so far only set of the new skill ?

(16:31:25) Mircea says: going twice!

(16:31:46) Mircea rasps his fingers nervously on the invisible auction booth thingee

(16:32:05) Mircea says: SOLD! for 12.65 mn to the up and coming top crafter daniel baron!

(16:32:17) Grundin says: congrats!

(16:32:17) Grenadine says: congrats daniel!

(16:32:20) Foxy says: congrats

(16:32:21) Mircea says: trade me sir!

(16:32:23) Mod claps

(16:32:27) Voyna says: grats

(16:32:35) >Daniel asks to trade with you.

(16:32:36) >You agree to trade.

(16:32:42) >Trading containers is not yet implemented.

(16:33:01) Mircea says: the table you'll receive separately it being a container.

(16:33:22) Mircea says: along with some change.

(16:33:56) >Trade complete

(16:34:07) >You started trading with Electron.

(16:34:24) >You bought 1072 Barbarian Earrings Diagram for 80 Denarius, 29 Argents and 28 Coppers a total of 802928 Coppers.

(16:34:28) Grundin says: anyone needs to refill coppers? i'll be mostly afk next week

(16:34:36) >You ask Daniel to trade with you.

(16:34:38) Daniel says: he i do

(16:34:40) >Daniel agrees to trade with you.

(16:34:45) Grundin says: ;)

(16:34:51) Mod says: :D

(16:34:59) >Trade complete

(16:35:02) >Free Movement

(16:35:12) Mircea says: and with this, the grand auction is complete!

(16:35:21) Mod says: That was fantastic.

(16:35:22) Mircea says: congrats to the winner andthanks everyone for your semicircle!

(16:35:45) Foxy says: take them, as I remember you gave me some claims some time ago

(16:35:47) Mircea says: also daniel lemme know if you encounter any bugs.

(16:35:48) Daniel says: i got a couple things to sell if there's time

(16:36:02) Grenadine says: ah ty FOxy

(16:36:06) Mircea says: what do you mean if there's time lol. it's a permanent universe.

(16:36:10) Daniel says: and also i'd like tobuy bandar tolkits a nd other tools

(16:36:12) >Players Currently Online

(16:36:12) >Daniel

(16:36:12) >Foxy

(16:36:12) >Grenadine

(16:36:12) >Grundin

(16:36:12) >Mircea

(16:36:12) >Mod

(16:36:12) >Voyna

(16:36:12) >7 shown from 7 players online

(16:36:22) Mircea says: ah yes i got a 111k toolkit and some chairs. you want em ?

(16:36:31) Daniel says: yes

(16:36:38) Mircea says: 10 chairs i got, how manyy?

(16:36:48) Foxy says: Mircea I want some tools and I have some old ones to sell

(16:36:51) Daniel says: and a worn out screen

(16:37:04) Mircea says: alrighty.

(16:37:13) Mircea says: foxy tools im going to make right now, imp ones.

(16:37:16) Daniel says: 10 chairs is how much?

(16:37:25) Mircea says: like 25k each daniel

(16:37:33) >You started checking your storage with Heina.

(16:37:33) Daniel says: then al of them

(16:37:39) >You started checking your storage with Heina.

(16:37:41) Foxy says: so Mircea, do you want me to give you the worn out ones first, then?

(16:37:48) Voyna says: ya'll have fun now, laters

(16:37:52) >You got 1 Worn Old Screens from the storage.

(16:37:56) >Your inventory is full

(16:37:56) >You got 9 Chair for the Head from the storage.

(16:37:57) Foxy says: bye bye Voyna

(16:38:00) Mod says: c-ya Lady Voyna

(16:38:12) >You ask Daniel to trade with you.

(16:38:15) >Daniel agrees to trade with you.

(16:38:19) >Trading containers is not yet implemented.

(16:38:39) Mod says: Well, I gotta run off for a bit too. Let's do it again soon!!

(16:38:51) Grundin says: um.. I actually forgot, what's the improbable oil for?

(16:38:56) Grundin says: cu Mod

(16:38:58) Grenadine says: hasta luego!

(16:39:00) Mod says: c-ya!

(16:39:02) Mircea says: later

(16:39:02) Mod waves

(16:39:07) Daniel says: grundin it's for making slag products

(16:39:13) Mircea says: ok so 228,6k the chairs anddd

(16:39:20) Foxy says: Grundin for pretty much everything, all sorts of slag mainly

(16:39:31) Grundin says: i know, i mean... what's the reward for?

(16:39:42) Grundin says: the rm-rf scripts?

(16:39:55) Mircea says: sure.

(16:40:54) Mircea says: 120.6k your side

(16:40:58) Mircea says: 108k you owe daniel

(16:41:24) Foxy says: Mircea, I have the bundle for a samovar

(16:41:26) Grundin says: good! hope i won't get just zillion of ring recipes when i craft with it

(16:41:26) Mircea says: carry over the 8

(16:41:39) Mircea says: ok carry over the 2

(16:41:42) >Trade complete

(16:42:13) Mircea says: 2mn + 138k these two.

(16:42:19) Daniel says: grundin lemme get some copper?

(16:42:35) Mircea says: foxy meanwhile i discontinued that service :D

(16:42:39) Mircea says: but ima click it just for you.

(16:42:48) Mircea says: lemme finish this trading stuff first.

(16:42:48) >Daniel asks to trade with you.

(16:42:51) >You agree to trade.

(16:42:52) Foxy says: sure, thanks

(16:43:34) >You have no opponents to yield to!

(16:43:44) >Trade complete

(16:43:59) Grundin says: Daniel: whisper

(16:44:24) Mircea says: so. anyone elser buying or selling anything before i settle down to bang on foxy;s samovar ?

(16:44:37) Grundin says: two chairs

(16:44:42) Grundin says: i'll buy

(16:44:49) Mircea says: you can have one as this guy bought 9

(16:44:55) Grundin says: okay one

(16:44:57) Mircea says: ill be making more tonioght hopefully. anyone got branch?

(16:45:01) >You started checking your storage with Heina.

(16:45:03) >You started checking your storage with Heina.

(16:45:05) >You got 1 Chair for the Head from the storage.

(16:45:09) >You ask Grundin to trade with you.

(16:45:10) Daniel says: i can sell a few if people need

(16:45:14) >Grundin agrees to trade with you.

(16:45:20) Daniel says: i have branch

(16:45:27) Mircea says: 25.400

(16:45:32) Grundin says: Mircea : price?

(16:45:32) Foxy thinks to start making chairs or something

(16:45:45) Mircea says: ill take all the branch you got daniel

(16:45:58) Mircea says: grundin 25.4k not 2.5k

(16:46:34) Grundin says: yes, dese coins

(16:46:38) >Trade complete

(16:46:42) Mircea says: thank you

(16:46:50) >Daniel asks to trade with you.

(16:46:52) >You agree to trade.

(16:47:23) Grundin says: i have 64 branche

(16:47:38) Mircea says: i dont have change so itll be good enough

(16:47:39) >Trade complete

(16:47:42) Mircea says: ty.

(16:47:48) Mircea says: brb relog.

================================================

Here's a group picture :

And no, it didn't close at two million, or three, or five. Or ten.

Grab on to your shorts, because seriously, twelve million six hundred fifty thousand copper pieces. 12`650`000. That's right. 919%. Yeah.

I told you it was fabulous. It was.

Congrats to the winners!

———If you're curious, these go in .Eulora/logs/ [↩]

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Tuesday, 21 July, Year 7 d.Tr.

The Aviator

The Aviatori is an exceptional film employing mostly banned actors.ii

Its great merit is one, although it manifests pluriously. For one thing, it manages a very honest rendition of mental illness. By honesty we do not mean that it represents reality so as to pander to the familiarities of the mass market (codeword : empathy) ; nor do we mean that it represents reality so as to balance out a set of books (codeword : educational) ; nor that it represents reality so as to avoid specific taboo spots (codeword : responsible) ; nor as a narrative in favour of some fashionable idiocy or other (codeword : empowering). No, none of that gunk. By honestly we mean honestly, which is to say both unapologetically and, in ultimate analysis, incomprehensibly. That is the bar for honesty, a story that mostly makes sense but doesn't neatly add up, doesn't promise not to offend and doesn't particularly care one way or the other is honest.iii Everything else is shit, some of it bull, some of it chicken, all of it shit.

For another thing, it manages a very honest rendition of productive genius. That man who can tell you "jets are the way of the future" when it counts, which is to say before it's actually even a thing ; that man who can tell you "build it", and upon whose telling you "build it", the building is worthwhile. Even if he said so confused, broken, on a hospital bed. Even if he goes on muttering like a raving lunatic and has a strange relationship with bottled milk. Even if he counts his peas. That man who feels with his bare hand your product, and won't have it, no matter how hard it was, how difficult to make, what it took out of you. That man you know will kill you, which he will, that then runs his hands over the next iteration and smiles, that smile which is worth a thousand worlds because really, without it there is nothing. Nothing at all.

Honesty is honesty, all through, and as it turns out productive genius is not readily distinguishable from mental illness. Not through anything that can be "modeled meaningfully", as that expression goes.

Movies are, fundamentally, an exercise in obscurantist claptrap. That's why they play them in the darkness, on the wall of a cave. This is a movie. Other things - not so much.

———2004, by Martin Scorsese, with Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale. [↩]DiCaprio was in Titanic, and I never watched either that nor anything else with him in it, for that reason. Nine Oscars, fuck you, that's the end of Oscars as well as anyone involved. Yes, I know nobody was supposed to react thusly, only psychopaths do this sort of thing, bla bla yadda yadda. Yes, he was 17 or some shit. Stupidity has consequences, which can be denied but can not be escaped. Remember that.

Cate Blanchett I never liked for her politics. I don't demand that every actress have a rape fetish like Belucci (seriously, you ever saw anything with her where she doesn't end up getting it ?), but if you're going to play roles Hollywood and "the press" approve of you will be off my list. Remember that also - the job of an actress is to be scandalous, not respectable. Not in any sense of that term. [↩]The oldest trick in the book of the manager, criminal lawyer, and every other professional interacting with the complexity of life, when confronted with a man accused who denies, is to provide him an easy out. The man who takes the easy out is lying. The man who doesn't is telling the truth. [↩]

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Monday, 19 October, Year 7 d.Tr.

The anal child

The anal child is a core concept for any possible understanding of the contemporaneous derpage. The article bellow - originally published in Romanian - aims to do it justice.

The anal child denotes, literally, a child that not only discovered, like any child, the pleasure incumbent in the control of his own bowel movements, but on top of that, and unlike all other children, remains stuck there. First he doesn't go to drive mommy nuts, or goes suddenly to surprise her, and going from there he constructs his social interactions on the basis of this anal paradigm.

In the more common, and somewhat metaphoric sense of the term, the anal child is that unsufferable and unsuffered type that tends to prove to you that "because anyway". The concrete details make little difference, for the pivot, the common point is this "because anyway". Of school age he'll prove to you that there's no point in making him read the derivation rules, because anyway he won't know them. Or that there's no point in his knowing, because anyway he won't apply what he knows. Or that there's no point in applying, because anyway it won't "come out right". Whatever's in discussion, his position is that no matter, because anyway. As an employee he'll prove to you that there's no benefit in safety training, because "accidents happen" anyway, and he's more than willing to put his eye in the way of a pneumatic press to prove this point. He's willing to do absolutely anything it takes if only he gets to keep the delusion of control dreamed up by his sphincter-centered mind.

Properly speaking, the anal child proposes to anyone a very strict gambit, that can only be resolved educatively through total investment. The correct pedagogical method is the application of violence : he must be beaten until he passes out. Literally, faints. When he wakes up, without further ado, beaten up again until he passes out. At no point may be allowed any sort of communication, beat him without mercy and without interest, without discussions, without consideration. You are not interested in what it may have to say, it doesn't matter how it's trying to rationalize its "because anyway" bullshit. Hit it like the sack of shit it is, in complete disregard of any possible considerent outside the nude geometry of his corpse. Until he passes out. When he comes to, burn him with a red hot poker. Until he passes out. When he comes to, beaten. Until he passes out. When he comes to, beaten, until he passes out.

The cycle ends either in the death of the individual (preferably) or else in his complete depersonalization (rarely). There is no question of communication, discussions, promises, agreements. The anal child does not exist, as an individual. He's a failed attempt, his body must be reset in the most hardware sense of the term. Once he's puked blood, bile, guts, his soul and everything else, once he's a completely empty recipient, if there's anything left you can restart socialisation, at the approximate age of three years, but with a spiked club kept within reach and visible for at least the first decade or so.

The odds of success are maybe one in ten, and given the vast abundance of genetic material already fenotypically manifested that surrounds us, it's pretty clear that never, and I do mean never, will it be economically feasible to try and reeducate an anal child. The costs are simply unjustified by the possible benefit : you require dungeons, chains, a mile of leather strap and half a ton of switches for what exactly ? For a ticker that says "pull another one", practically speaking, that's all you get, a man, like there are ready made seven to eight billion on planet Earth. There's no point wasting your time and breaking your hands re-educating this sort of abhorrence.

And so the rational behaviour, once the anal child identified, is rejecting him clearly and pointedly, if you're responsible for it, and systematically ignoring it otherwise. Fire it if it's your employee, send it packing if it's your lover, give it up for adoption if it's your child, expell it if it's in your class, whatever the situation may be, out and good cheer.

No matter how intolerable the correct response may sound to you, I can assure you that all alternatives are strictly worse. But if you insist on disagreeing and want to try out an experiment, I am more than curious to hear how it went. Makes for excellent idle chat, at any rate.

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Monday, 23 March, Year 7 d.Tr.

The actual state of the Bitcoin network

Very little actual work has been done to understand or measure the Bitcoin peers network - that very thin layer of lubrication standing between users (with their often ridiculous expectations) and miners (with their usually limited abilities). This neatly mirrors the way very little thought has been expended on the entire peer sync-ing mechanism throughout, to the point of it being still, five years later, the principal weakness of the entire construction on the protocol level.

To make matters worse, very little of the little actual work done is even publicly known, and as a fatal flaw the few places publishing any sort of information (such as bitnodes.io, blockchain.info, etc) include thoroughly broken methodologies to the tune of

Bitnodes uses Bitcoin protocol version 70001 (i.e. >= /Satoshi:0.8.x/), so nodes running an older protocol version will be skipped.

Obviously journalists, social media heads and other (usually unwitting) disinfo agents would not be interested at all. For they actually interested in the actual truth of the matter, sources of information are... scarce, to put a very fine point on "absent". But since I've been recently involved in supporting the Republic's efforts towards an actually usable Bitcoin with a mother nodei, I can offer eight hours' worth of statistics on the network, as seen by a powerful, well connected node - but much, much more importantly than that - by a node without Ira. Or studio.

Here it is :

109.234.156.218:8333 tried. Version 70002, blocks=362722.

68.8.231.101:8333 tried. Version 70002, blocks=362722.

45.58.49.35:8333 tried. Version 70002, blocks=362722.

175.41.137.194:8333 tried. Version 70003, blocks=362722.

96.244.44.150:8333 tried. Version 70002, blocks=362722.

78.227.49.100:8333 tried. Version 70002, blocks=362722.

82.34.222.232:8333 tried. Version 70001, blocks=362722.

82.16.136.216:8333 tried. Version 70002, blocks=362724.

109.234.156.218:8333 tried. Version 70002, blocks=362722.

68.8.231.101:8333 tried. Version 70002, blocks=362722.

45.58.49.35:8333 tried. Version 70002, blocks=362722.

175.41.137.194:8333 tried. Version 70003, blocks=362722.

96.244.44.150:8333 tried. Version 70002, blocks=362722.

78.227.49.100:8333 tried. Version 70002, blocks=362722.

82.34.222.232:8333 tried. Version 70001, blocks=362722.

82.16.136.216:8333 tried. Version 70002, blocks=362724.

69.207.6.135:8333 tried. Version 70002, blocks=362684.

89.28.117.31:8333 tried. Version 70002, blocks=362684.

176.37.23.74:8333 tried. Version 70002, blocks=362684.

67.180.2.77:8333 tried. Version 70002, blocks=362684.

107.4.134.66:8333 tried. Version 70001, blocks=362684.

107.170.245.123:8333 tried. Version 70002, blocks=362684.

207.235.39.214:8333 tried. Version 70002, blocks=362684.

75.157.237.25:8333 tried. Version 70002, blocks=362685.

58.7.80.218:8333 tried. Version 70002, blocks=362686.

173.74.117.113:8333 tried. Version 70002, blocks=362686.

128.8.124.7:8333 tried. Version 70002, blocks=346253.

85.159.237.191:8333 tried. Version 70002, blocks=362686.

209.234.248.19:8333 tried. Version 70002, blocks=280006.

209.89.249.72:8333 tried. Version 70002, blocks=362686.

93.184.16.246:8333 tried. Version 70002, blocks=362687.

107.144.142.126:8333 tried. Version 70001, blocks=362687.

83.216.149.204:8333 tried. Version 70002, blocks=362687.

79.136.89.137:8333 tried. Version 70002, blocks=362687.

129.123.7.7:8333 tried. Version 70002, blocks=362687.

46.246.6.225:8333 tried. Version 60001, blocks=0.

192.198.92.98:8333 tried. Version 70002, blocks=362687.

79.132.230.144:8333 tried. Version 70002, blocks=362687.

82.130.102.173:48350 connected. Version 60001, blocks=0.

148.251.238.178:36250 connected. Version 70002, blocks=362687.

82.130.102.211:40628 connected. Version 60001, blocks=0.

148.251.238.178:33583 connected. Version 70002, blocks=362687.

148.251.238.178:3745 connected. Version 70002, blocks=362687.

82.130.102.173:33979 connected. Version 60001, blocks=0.

148.251.238.178:15928 connected. Version 70002, blocks=362687.

82.130.102.211:33028 connected. Version 60001, blocks=0.

74.129.184.44:8333 tried. Version 70001, blocks=362688.

108.61.188.94:8333 tried. Version 70002, blocks=362688.

208.77.19.18:8333 tried. Version 70002, blocks=362688.

88.115.33.40:8333 tried. Version 70001, blocks=362692.

104.175.99.239:8333 tried. Version 70002, blocks=362692.

192.117.155.70:8333 tried. Version 70002, blocks=362692.

184.144.169.50:8333 tried. Version 70002, blocks=362692.

24.135.55.134:8333 tried. Version 70001, blocks=362694.

71.71.235.168:8333 tried. Version 70002, blocks=362696.

81.169.175.126:8333 tried. Version 70002, blocks=362699.

123.57.189.199:8333 tried. Version 70002, blocks=362697.

188.165.199.114:8333 tried. Version 70002, blocks=362699.

96.50.165.37:8333 tried. Version 70002, blocks=362699.

63.225.171.181:8333 tried. Version 70001, blocks=359378.

146.52.134.75:8333 tried. Version 70002, blocks=362710.

162.243.202.51:8333 tried. Version 70002, blocks=362715.

199.255.138.116:8333 tried. Version 70002, blocks=362715.

73.23.17.218:8333 tried. Version 70002, blocks=362716.

62.202.0.97:8333 tried. Version 70002, blocks=362716.

188.138.33.239:8333 tried. Version 70002, blocks=362717

Some quick statistics :

Distinct IP/32 : 53 ; Distinct IP/24: 52 ; Distinct IP/16 : 52. Very good dispersion.

Version 70002 : 42 (79%) ; Version 70001 : 7 (13%) ; Version 60001 : 3 (6%); Version 70003 : 1 (2%). Absolutely negligible uptake of the more recent Power Ranger braindamage. Most people stuck on 0.8 because they noticed Gavin's turning late and don't like downgrading.

Fully up to date : 7 (13%) ; Within an hour : 5 (9%) ; Within a day : 37 (70%) ; Further : 1 (2%) ; Just starting : 3 (6%). Most nodes are still, blessfully, run by amateursii.

Feel free to add your own comments below.

———By "perhaps the oldest chain still in continuous existence" I mean that this node feeds all askers blocks from a database in its original state, which has been functioning without interruption since mid-2012. There is no weird conversion here, no reindexing strange, but instead a firm guarantee that "nothing has changed" and it is, indeed, still the Summer of 2012, which is to say - not yet too late.

If you're very curious as to what that looks, why it looks like this :

2097387365 blk0001.dat

2097175172 blk0002.dat

2097336931 blk0003.dat

2097265413 blk0004.dat

2097364668 blk0005.dat

2097289146 blk0006.dat

2097369730 blk0007.dat

2097340067 blk0008.dat

2097302734 blk0009.dat

2097162090 blk0010.dat

2097274831 blk0011.dat

2097195396 blk0012.dat

2097208308 blk0013.dat

2097283195 blk0014.dat

2097386496 blk0015.dat

2097414811 blk0016.dat

2097645625 blk0017.dat

2097238499 blk0018.dat

990457325 blk0019.dat

10827386880 blkindex.dat

Stan says "syincing from that would be an honor", and perhaps it would be - but more than an honour, it will be extending the guarantee that unlike the Summer of '69, the Summer of 2012 may indeed extend into the future indefinitely, and in that ensure that it shall never be too late. [↩]Some points of interest on this score : [↩]

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Saturday, 27 June, Year 7 d.Tr.

The 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9 Sunday event

To quote the previous event page,

And as far as the next Sunday is concerned : whosoever brings me a set of nine tools of the same kind, such that the durability of one is 1, and of another 2, and of another 3 and so forth until the ninth's 9, will in exchange receive a unique antique version of that tool, of one million durability. This exchange is only available once for each tool type, and only available for mining tools.

To quote some earlier discussion in #bitcoin-assets,

danielpbarron : mircea_popescu> danielpbarron so you actually got the tools for sunday ?

Monday, 03 August, Year 7 d.Tr.

Thattommyhall, that kickstarter scamsite, this Internet life.

A typical kickstarter project scam, just like each and every other one :

So who is this guy ? Why, exactly who you'd expect : nobody with a blog.

Which was coincidentally discontinued on the 9th of October. You know, coupla days after the kickstarter check cleared.

There was also a github. It was also coincidentally.

And, the cherry on the cake, a twitter to explain it all - penned half a year prior, because clearly nobody on the web can remeber through such geologic timescales :

At this point I feel compelled to repeat something I wrote about a Bitcoin-specific scamsite. It is exactly equally applicable to the fiat scamsite that is kickstarter, just, I don't hapen to much care about that second hand currency.

The sense it makes is that the BTCJam people are selling their webplatform on the usual premise such rounded corner - thick font - heavy on photo webplatforms are sold : free stuff! Because - you've heard it a million times by now - it will "drive adoption" at which point it will "become a market leader" at which point "it will be worth money" (not really, but it might allow the "founders" to walk out for some moneyi ). The whole thing's amply discussed elsewhere.

In their case, the free stuff in question happens to be OPM, and so come and get sum! And dun' worry your pretty Internet consumer head about how Bitcoin's been going down lately : it will go up in the future so it is worth stealing today. Don't be like those improvident thieves that steal actually valuable things - be the ant rather than the grasshopper and steal while shit's still not-as-valuable!

Yes kickstarter is pure fraud. They admit as much themselves. So dear woman with the young adult booksii : it's not because you're a woman.

It has nothing to do with being a woman, nor has it anything to do with any unfortunate episode of personal history you may - like all living things - carry along. It has everything to do with your inept choice of associating WITH A FRAUD. You know how mentally limited people who agree to work for vague international companies doing the "clerical work" of cashing checks end up with a visit from the police ? You know how angry old men who buy brides online end up in a mess ? You know how little old ladies who open every email and click on every link end up with very slow computers ? Same thing here. You associated with some fraudsters. You don't like what happens when you associate with fraudsters ? Don't associate with fraudsters, then! And don't blame it on the weather, or on space voles or on anything else. And don't go thinking how you know - everything "should be safe". It shouldn't. Think, before getting involved with some shady Internet stuff.iii

PS. I didn't go looking for this specifically. It simply popped out in the comment section of an unrelated discussion. It is the Nth time I examine a kickstarter "project" through the same process and find it to be exactly a scam. Eventually one feels like saying something about it.

PPS. Most trolls are actually non-white women. Look up Brenda Leyland sometime. Look up Benjanun Sriduangkaew sometime. Yeah, that's right : rape threatsiv, the works.

———Speaking of which. [↩]Yes, I know her name. I'm not adding it here because a) she impressed me and b) it's not what she seems to want. [↩]And don't tell me all about how you perceived at the time "everyone's doing it so it should be ok". The old lady, the angry old guy, the mental defective all perceived exactly the same too! [↩]Of fucking course rape THREATS would mostly come from women. As Ballas put it, "though in my experience what's even more frightening than a guy gal telling you she's going to rape you is a guy not telling you he's going to rape you." [↩]

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Category: Meta psihoza

Saturday, 07 February, Year 7 d.Tr.

That unpleasant moment when "principles" you were supporting ~strictly~ because "of the principle of the thing" and pointedly not because of the convenient manner in which they worked upon a restricted set of circumstances decide to move on to another set of circumstances and work consistently but against your (inconsistent) preference. The only thing to do is look away.

Remember how Orwell did not really wish to see that nazi = soviet = "democratic" socialist, so he didn't look ? Or that other time when he didn't wish to see that Empire=Good, Orwell=insufficient and so he... didn't look ? How about that time when Mises wanted feudalism to be bad and it wasn't, so he had to look away ? Or that other time when Christos Ballas wanted killing to be always bad so couldn't look at Joe Stack ? Well... I have another one.

From Taboos Are The Ways Christians Try To Control Us :

What did Epstein do wrong? Incest and infidelity. He did both, right? What's happened in the press? The incest's severity has completely erased the infidelity. At no time does Epstein have to confront the internal guilt of infidelity, because he's battling an incest charge. I don't mean publicly-- I mean privately, he never faces himself about infidelity, only incest.

Now incest-- terrible, we all agree, but should the law really be monitoring the sex lives of consenting adults? Of course not. "Incest is wrong," I might say, "but we have no business policing it." What just happened there is that "Epstein" has managed to get me to partially support him. I may hate him, but irrelevant- "he" interprets my partial support as part of a global judgment of him, and thus has mitigated his guilt by converting it to shame, and the shame is lessened because some people are partially supportive.

I realize that HE didn't do this on purpose or consciously (though his lawyer is), and HE does not care about my support. But it happened nonetheless. That's the whole point of the media's involvement, our generational solution to the problem of guilt. This is what we will all be doing, the internet as confessional and for the remission of sins. Whether we do it on purpose or not, once a private guilt that (should) gnaw at you gets exposed as a public shame, and the public/whatever newspaper you have at your disposal/your facebook friends/etc start taking sides, that internal guilt is obliterated. Epstein still has to deal with the shame and social and legal repercussions, but not guilt.

What's the result? The result for Epstein isn't my interest, it's his life and it's not my right to keep his guilt alive for him. But now, FOR SURE, incest is no longer a taboo, it is no longer a matter of guilt, but of shame. Everyone is free to decide whether they can take the shame; everyone has become a Nietzschean superman, deciding for themselves if there are any taboos. Which, of course they were always free to do-- but they had the good sense not to try. Now it is possible to ask "am I free to have consensual sex with my adult daughter?" -- which, of course, you are free to do, and which, of course, you are never free to do. It's that simple.

So, you understand, postmodernity's way of getting rid of the taboo as a mechanism and instead rely on the connected society for support is no good, because REASONS!

Not even a year earlier, in "My daughter deserved to die for falling in love" :

Though I doubt anyone in this country would sympthize with this nut, there is a certain deference to the notion that some cultures have honor killings, as if that is sufficient explanation; as if merely abandoning that practice will solve the problem.

But what really is going on here? We can try to frame it in terms more real to us: pretend this is a Jewish family and the British soldier is a Nazi. Let's add that the Nazis have already killed this man's brother, and raped his sister; let's say that the Nazis even did this right there in front of the 16 year old girl-- yet she still falls in love with the Nazi soldier.

In this context, we can better understand the anger, the betrayal, the incredulity-- "how the hell could you...!!!" But none of this explains why he killed her.

Really ? None of that explains why he killed her ? And what pray tell should he have done, defeated the taboo in the postmodern fashions of his adoptive society, and went on to complain to the newspaper ? Maybe it doesn't explain why he killed her because what he should have done is bring her on Jerry Springer ?

Yes, it is true that the unwarranted abundance of the postwar years coupled with a runaway pile of ideological nonsense as to the importance and value of the individual per sei has created a large group of would-be baronets and smalltime "lords" who now can't find the supporting cast they needii, can't find any reason to reproduceiii and generally can't motivate themselves to do anything.

Time to look away. There's slavery here, there's education = beatings here, there's "if you've never caned your wife not only you're not a good person, but you're actually a miserable whelp whose failure to contribute to the education of society is ruining society for everyone", there's a standing moral imperative to murder agents of your government, let alone an absolute interdiction in paying any tax, and so on and so forth.

Aren't you glad you looked away ? Forget those "principle" things - they're for sociopaths. The sort of people who put abstract concepts above the people themselves.

Enjoy life!

(this is life)

———This is what "humanism" means, and why it's a problem : that it takes the exceptional humans and pretends the entire herd is equal to them, in utter contempt of reality. This nonsense has then to be supported at great economic expense, which is WHY ecological problems are a result of "humanism" not (as it'd like to pretend) of capitalism. Capital does not waste, nor does it break the environment, unless it is held by rampant idiots (="humanists") who aim to misuse it to defend their nonsensical ideology. Yes "capitalist" London was a mess in 1800, but the difference between it and Lombardy cca 1400 is NOT that they weren't both capitalist - they were - but that they weren't both "humanist". They weren't. [↩]Such as lawyers and other ex-liberal professions, such as serfs and peons, such as so on. [↩]Here's a hint : you want the elite men to reproduce. They, broadly speaking, can't be bothered, as being elite by definition means you'll have better things to do than watch your genes regress to the mean. Consequently an entire oppressive structure had to be constructed, where the majority of people were ground face down in the dirt specifically and for no other reason than to give the elite men a reason to sire offspring : their property had to be inherited.

By the time "dignity of man" and the rest of the "humanist" delusions take hold, you find yourself stuck in the situation where each man that exists, EACH ONE, needs a dozen or more serfs to perpetuate his own existence. That don't exist. For as long as China wanted to play along in the collective (and anonymous!) role of coolie the charade could be maintained, but once that ends (and heroic efforts of their Communist party notwithstanding, it will eventually end), we either find some aliens to be "all the people but the lead character" in the "humanist" soap opera, or else satisfy ourselves with Ziri & The NPCs. In which later case... guess what ? Yeah, that's right, lots and lots of Hi Res porn and no pregnancies. (Ever met one of those nuts that "can't get it up unless it's hi def" ? Ever wondered wtf ? This is wtf.). [↩]

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Tuesday, 27 October, Year 7 d.Tr.

That spiffy selection thing.

As you might have noticed, Trilema has been known to publish lengthy articles on occasion.

No, seriously.

Their length notwithstading, they are just as rivetingly interesting as all the other endlessly long and endless articles published on Trilema. What's worse, the parts which (on account of sheer length drowning any possibility of paying attention or even remembering what the fuck you're reading through endless run on sentences that keep referencing themselves circularily as well as drawing unexpected parallels outside of scope and in metonimic manners that get real tiresome real quick) appear to the momentary reading less interesting have a perverse way of becoming extremely relevant later on, and increasingly more so as time goes by, specifically for this reason : that the reader has missed something through being exhausted by the onslaught, rather than discounted something for being uninteresting.

Which means that specific parts will have to be highlighted later on, to be re-digested like those kernels of corn that you sometimes have to pick out of the toilet and eat all over again (chewing them specifically and deliberately this time). No, seriously.

The obvious way html allows for this need to be catered is via a static named anchor, like for instance at work in the Conference list, VIP section. The drawback to this approach is that I don't, at the time of writing, have much of a way to guess what'll end up kernels, and anchoring every single word or sentence is tedious as shit. I had despaired of ever being able to solve this problem, when suddenly...

danielpbarron: log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-05-2015#1126380 i and upload it somewhere to your server (as selection-magic.php). Read it, too - it's not really all that long, and reading code before you run it is really the only way to live.

II. Edit wp-content/themes/[your-theme-name]/footer.php to add right before the </body> tag.ii

include "[correct path]/selection-magic.php";

III. Edit single.php, page.php and/or any other bit of your theme which deals with actually displaying the content you want to enable this function on, and wrap the content in question in a

<span id="shash-<?php the_ID(); ?>"> [content goes here] </span>

That's it, you're done. Cool beans, huh!

———You could alternatively also download selection-magic.js, save it as such, include it in footer.php as

<script src="[correct path]/selection-magic.js"></script>

and then edit single.php, page.php etc as

<span id="shash"> [content goes here] </span>

You lose the ability to create server-side ids with this approach, which might be very inconvenient in some cases, but you might find the process simpler. [↩]There because if we're going to manipulate the DOM, better make sure the DOM is actually loaded first. [↩]

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Saturday, 09 May, Year 7 d.Tr.

That scary thing

I've spent most of my time since yesterdayi contemplatingii the following conversation :

davout Mebbe make scoopbot_revived not mention the title and let assbot handle it?

mircea_popescu Just dump teh link ? Eh, let it be decentralized.

davout Sounds like each would do a small and simple job unix philosophy.

mircea_popescu This trivial problem just blew my stack. I confess I have NFI which is the correct approach.

* mircea_popescu steps away slowly and in terror, letting the parties involved decide.

davout Sounds better to remove code from scoopbot rather than add some conditional logic to assbot.

kakobrekla The thing is that fucking conditional code is already in place as well, for some other bots.

davout Just my two cents.

mircea_popescu I would definitely read the essay discussing the merits of either side. I just realised I actually don't grok this shit.

Adlai Seems parsimonious that in a channel where a bot announces link titles, there's no need to supply them yourself.

davout Because then what happens when scoopbot_revived is replaced by scoopbot_x or whatever.

kakobrekla You mean again :)

mircea_popescu What happens if assbot dies ? We must lose scoopbot titling too ?

davout Assbot never diez.iii

mircea_popescu Decentralisation contrary to parsimonyiv. Fancy that.

davout I'm really too lazy to argue further, I just tend to remove code instead of adding more whenever I can get what I want either of those ways.v

mircea_popescu No, I can definitely see your point. What bothers me is that I see no way to either dismiss it, or pick it.

Consider the contrary approach : suppose assbot's current situation in the "read website titles" market (it provides a service in competition to other agents, to the degree that service's useful) gets upgraded to a monopoly : only assbot may read the link and spit out the title. The overpowering question is, why stop there ?vi

Why not make an api and everyone who wants to put a link in channel pipes it into assbot ? Then the links can also be... checked. You know, for kids. See where this is going ?

Centralisation is always predicable on these "extra benefits", it's why states even ended up existing in the first place. Here and now, anywhere else and everywhere else the selling points for centralism are and were, and will be : that it's easier ; and that it's cheaper. Because, in point of fact, it is. So why should you and your girlfriend both pay rent, and have to cart the dildoes and cakes from one side of the town to the other ? And for that matter why should you and your recent wife keep individual checkbooks ? It's a waste of trees and then they have to be reconciled at the end!

The problem at issue here is absolutely trivial, of course. Its triviality has however made me realise that Ivii don't actually have a model for resolving this essential conflict that's any better than "I know obscenity when I see it, sir". Sure, you know imposition when you see it. Odds are you won't be seeing it every time you're about to impose on a snake in the grass. That is, after all, how the snake in the grass got to be such an evil mean racist gypsy pedophile in the first place. More importantly, the inability to define obscenity is prima facie sufficient evidence that it doesn't even exist.

I believe we absolutely need a model to illuminate the interaction between decentralisation and parsimonyviii, and we probably need it yesterday.ix

———I even went for an icecream sugar bomb at Kako's place, which is the MP equivalent of putting the afterburners on. [↩]You know that thing where you explore all the ways in which a certain discussion could have went ? Yeah, I do that. [↩]He has a point here : it scarcely ever happens, and he never stays dead for long. [↩]If you think about it for a moment, these are exactly the contrary forces in distributed computing. What's "reuse code", what's "please upgrade" or "automatic upgrade" etc ? Parsimony. At the expense of what ? Decentralization.

If everyone were to reuse code maximally, then we'd have maximal parsimony in IT. We'd also have minimal stability - all NSA'd need is to frack the root of the reuse tree. If we were to all automatically upgrade everything, there'd be maximal parsimony in code distribution. Also maximal fragility. Fragility and stability are opposite evaluations of decentralization much like hot and cold are opposite evaluations of entropy. [↩]Which is a sound principle. Where is it a sound principle ?

In the domain which he himself lists, which is to say "when I". Within his own domain, wherein he is perforce and necessarily the centralizing agent, further centralization at his own hands is not a cost, and it produces benefits, so it is necessarily a good move. [↩]The rule is zero, one, infinity. And you'd better have one damned good reason why one rather than infinity. [↩]And I suspect, we. [↩]You will note that most of the "start-ups" (affectionately known as DERPs) that the VC circus keeps threshing around in the doomed but apparently unrenounceable hope that some grain will somehow materialize out of thistle and broadleaf weeds suffer from the exact same problem : an inability to adequately model this fundamental tension. Obviously, they also lack the intellectual werewithal to comprehend it, but that's par for the course in that space. [↩]That I only actually discovered this yesterday, in spite of being "involved in Bitcoin" since forever and in spite of it being clearly and obviously (in retrospect) a fundamental point of that involvement says a lot about what actual disruption actually is. Yes, Satoshi's code still sucks. How was he to know ? [↩]

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Saturday, 02 May, Year 7 d.Tr.

That one with the eons.

The end is nigh, incoming by-the-by.

A strange starvation in the dusken dry,

A fate the pointed glimmers oft belie :

Untimely end to all the things that try.

Yet that's not dead which can eternal lie,

Unconscious smoke inside conceptual thigh,

Entire universes made of fly,

Of complex figuration and shy's sly.

There is a space where everythings untie,

A tiny fissure between "my" and "cry".

Forever here, forever open it will stay

While with strange eons - even death may die.

All I have to say in my defense is : don't blame me, it's all his fault.

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Category: Cuvinte Sfiinte

Tuesday, 18 August, Year 7 d.Tr.

Synonymy is a myth

Ballas quote :

Took a selection of writing samples (grad school applications, sociology dissertations etc), and changed each of the words to more complex/longer synonyms. Then he gave these samples to 71 students and asked them to judge the intelligence of the authors. The more complex and flowery the language, the dumber the author was assumed to be.

Think about it...

I am thinking about it, and what I'm coming up with is that I never fucking heard of something this stupid in my life, except for every single other thing I read from the pointlessly-literate crowd.i

The very notion that synonyms even exist is third grade logic. Sure, as far as a ten year old's needs and abilities are concerned, "power" and "energy" are "the same thing". Except they aren't.

What exactly are these synonyms you keep thinking about ? Which are they ? "Love" and "affect" ? Not so - one's subjective, the other's objective, in the fortunate circumstance where someone mentally stunted enough to even think in terms of "synonyms" can distinguish the noun from the verb.

What is your prototypical pair of synonyms, exactly ? "Type" and "kind" ? One's structured. "House" and "dwelling" ? A condo is not a house, but is a dwelling. If the text discusses condos and some derp changes an occurence of "dwelling" to "its synonym : house" wouldn't you also score the text down, for apparent inability to use the noggin ?

Let's do it to Shakespeare a little, what could it possibly hurt ? Score the following texts :

SHYLOCK: Till thou canst rail the seal from off my bond, thou but offend'st thy lungs to speak so loud: repair thy wit, good youth, or it will fall to cureless ruin. I stand here for law.

SHYLOCK: Till thou canst castigate the imprimatur from off my bandii, thou but aggrieve'st thy alveolus to chat so big: adjust thy fun, acceptable minority, or it will decline to cureless bankruptcy. I erect here for act.

SHYLOCK: Till thou canst objurate the notification from off my networkiii, thou but trespass'st thy pleura to lip so strong: replace thy satire, marvelous teen, or it will slump to cureless extinction. I rank here for requirement.

Note that these suffered no encumberement to try and be "more flowery", whatever that may mean. The first set simply had some words replaced for the first "synonym" provided by thesaurus.com, whereas the second set had the same words replaced by a random choice from among the same set.

So score them, why don't you. I for one have never seen Shakespeare this purple in my life, but I do believe that should he feel so inclined, he could find his life's work writing fanfic for the Internet population of the day.

There's no such thing as "synonyms" anymore than there's square circles, intelligent socialists, unicorns or happy postop transsexuals.iv Grow up already, wouldja.

———Here's a thought : that 9x% of young adults can write in 2015, as opposed to 1x% in 1715 does not mean that 80% more young adults should write in 2015 as opposed to 1715. Or have anything meaningful to say. Or even could in principle have anything to say whatsoever. No, "mooo" is not something to say, and if a way were found to teach the ungulates to write plain English the result wouldn't be "more science", the result would be moo reddit. Dexter has the details. [↩]Yes, seriously. [↩]Hey, don't look at me, this synobusiness wasn't MY idea. [↩]Here's a thought experiment : suppose you get divorced, and suppose I offer you a choice of two girls : Mary and Jane, with the understanding that if you divorced because your wife wasn't sexy you should date Jane, whereas if you divorced because your wife was annoying you should date Mary. Suppose you date one accordingly, and then marry her.

Now, supposing you're just a normal contemporary derp, you therefore had a 50% chance to divorce your first wife, like any other contemporary derp. What are your chances to divorce your 2nd wife, be it Jane or Mary ? Lower than 50%, right, because now you've selected one that's closer to what you want. Or actually, higher than 50%, because you're the same derp that didn't like the first one, and so will probably not take that long to either find the same problem with the second or invent a whole new problem altogether. In other words you're already statistically selected for failure, and the reasonable prediction to make is that you will fucking fail. Because if you wouldn't, you probably wouldn't have.

Now forget about the girls, which somehow utopiacally - the quite apt merging of utopia and mania - are a subject of your choice in the pretend world of the present day, and instead imagine you're living in the pretend world of tomorrow, a place where your own gender is utopiacally a subject of your choice. What chances do you have to perform (not like! fuck you!) with the second, after failing the first ? So there you go.

For the more visually inclined, see Daisy Diamond, it's in there. [↩]

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Thursday, 12 February, Year 7 d.Tr.

Sunday, August 9th event : Auction!

To quote from #eulora :

mircea_popescu so you have the 12 berries supplications you got in auction, but absolutely no drafts of berries supl. or of anything else like that

danielpbarron right. and *had. used them all.

mircea_popescu ie, you never got a berries draft, or anything else ?

danielpbarron correct. or if i did, i used it and didn't get replacements. i don't recall. so for future reference i guess if i find one i should set up some noob as an apprentice bouqinist.

jurov i apprentice bouquinized, but apprently have too high tinkering

danielpbarron ah that may be what is throwing me off. i have very high tinker rank. i think i'm 3rd? unless i overtook Foxy

mircea_popescu doh. aaaand i just found a hole roflmao. ok. sunday we shall have an auction. it will consist of a package of 100 Supplication of Leather Drafts, q 1000, base value 3k (for the whole lot). the reason no one looted this entire branch is because apparently i never seeded it o.O

danielpbarron lol

mircea_popescu so, get your bidding gloves ready.

diana_coman ahahah

The usual rules apply. Opening bid 3k coppers. Should be ~21 GMT.

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Category: S.MG

Tuesday, 04 August, Year 7 d.Tr.

Sunday, August 16th event : Another auction!

NOTICE : This auction moved to Aug 30th for server maintenance reasons. See you then!

Since the current owner of the only Grotesque Altar in game so far managed to grind it down, and since the hardworking makers of tools out of duct taped zamac and other worthy scions of the famous Scottish god Mac Guy Ver haven't so far managed to produce another, the option is to either hold an auction or else not have Sacrifice in game. So we're holding an auction.

On the block will go :

One Grotesque Altar, of a truly divine durability (1`000`000).

One item that teaches the required skill (not eligible for the ~ still ongoing! ~ contest / easter egg hunt).

One Widow's Whisp Berry of divine quality (q 1`000`000).

One Worthless Putrid Leather of divine quality (q 1`000`000).

One Three Pointed Thorn of divine quality (q 1`000`000).

One Spicy Moss of divine quality (q 1`000`000).

One Polished Small Stone of divine quality (q 1`000`000).

The opening bid for this amply blessed package will be eleven million coppers (as per usual, equal to base price, ie what the merchant would pay for it). The usual rules apply. See you Sunday!

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Saturday, 15 August, Year 7 d.Tr.

Subject: Important notice from SEC

This just in :

Return-path: <>

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From: ramici@

To: office@*

Subject: Important notice from SEC

Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2015 18:16:53 +0530

SEC Rule 17a-3(17) requires that brokerage firms create a record for each

account with an individual customer. You need to login to your online

access by the link bellow to avoid account be halted by the SEC:

http://client128889881-scottrade.tk/

2015 Scottrade, Inc. All rights reserved.

I suppose if I ask the twerp in question to verify himself I'm going to get the same "I feel I should be allowed to do this" crapolade like last time. What to do, what to do ?

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Sunday, 07 June, Year 7 d.Tr.