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by Strelnikov
Mon Jul 09, 2018 3:48 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Ladislav Mecir, the Czech Bitcoin guy, blogged about....
Replies: 3
Views: 4630

Re: Ladislav Mecir, the Czech Bitcoin guy, blogged about....

My post on Jon Schillaci has gotten 11,202 views since I published it in late November, 2015.

It is the most popular post on the blog.

[Update: It's now at 11,389 views as of July 19th.]
by Strelnikov
Sun Jul 08, 2018 6:10 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Ladislav Mecir, the Czech Bitcoin guy, blogged about....
Replies: 3
Views: 4630

Ladislav Mecir, the Czech Bitcoin guy, blogged about....

....and he deals with Peter "Smallbones" Ekman, bastard extraordinaire, who wants all that scammy Bitcoin "goodness" for himself. Also Jytdog is fuckin' involved, because why not?


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by Strelnikov
Sat Jul 07, 2018 4:27 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Wikipedia:Pools
Replies: 5
Views: 5578

Re: Wikipedia:Pools

From the bottom of the Trillion pool page in the "Never" section: There would be a page for my elbow if this ever happened. Believe me, there isn't going to be a page for my elbow. - Retterime 01:11, 4 November 2015 (UTC) The human species will never get to August 12, 4242 without blowing ...
by Strelnikov
Fri Jul 06, 2018 8:05 am
Forum: Wikipediocracy talk
Topic: The Wikipediocracy dead pool
Replies: 28
Views: 30330

Re: The Wikipediocracy dead pool

I'm giving them another year, tops. They never updated their blog after December, they lost Hex, and Billy Burns uses his lack of height to comfortably peep through keyholes on the front doors of older houses in North Park, Kensington, La Jolla, and on Coronado Island when he isn't selling tourists ...
by Strelnikov
Fri Jul 06, 2018 12:57 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: A pyrrhus victory
Replies: 6
Views: 6752

Re: A pyrrhus victory

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-44712475 Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales told the BBC he hoped that the music industry could find a way to compromise before the September debate. "Don't think about filtering everything everyone uploads to the internet. That's a pipe dream but you are ne...
by Strelnikov
Thu Jul 05, 2018 9:23 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: WMF worries about "intermediary liability"
Replies: 15
Views: 11456

Re: WMF worries about "intermediary liability"

Serbia was a wreck after the Yugoslav wars, all of the combatant states are still putting themselves back together in the countryside where all the burned out farms and smashed-up villages are. So the internet is issue number 999 out of 1000.
by Strelnikov
Thu Jul 05, 2018 9:08 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: WMF worries about "intermediary liability"
Replies: 15
Views: 11456

Re: WMF worries about "intermediary liability"

What aboot Canada, eh? Since Australia now has an official list of "condemned URLs", Canada or some little-considered country with really lax laws might be their only chance. Since Canada doesn't have a real "First Amendment", there will be problems anyway. m Being serious, the ...
by Strelnikov
Thu Jul 05, 2018 8:28 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: WMF worries about "intermediary liability"
Replies: 15
Views: 11456

Re: WMF worries about "intermediary liability"

Meanwhile in California, Section 230 is still an effective shield. I'm curious if the appeal (which I assume goes to the federal courts now) will eventually move up to the U.S. Supreme Court? In which case nothing California does will matter. Once court decisions settle US law on an area like this,...
by Strelnikov
Thu Jul 05, 2018 4:47 am
Forum: Dark Corners -- a place for odd and deviant subjects (WP related or not)
Topic: (Pointless) Russian Elections: Putin won by 74%!
Replies: 15
Views: 14279

Re: (Pointless) Russian Elections: Putin won by 74%!

Responses: Ah, yes, well, apparently academics are still arguing about how many people died in the purge, and will keep on arguing for centuries to come. Because unlike the Germans, Stalin's gang often kept poor or no records. Or the records were destroyed by later zealots trying to cover it up -- w...
by Strelnikov
Thu Jul 05, 2018 2:15 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Leucosticte finally made it!
Replies: 4
Views: 5818

Re: Leucosticte finally made it!

AKA Nathan Larson. One of Wikipedia's craziest editors. He made the front page of Reddit today, July 4 2018. After 10+ years of chasing publicity. Of course, it wasn't a very nice post.... LarsononFPReddit.jpg m I could post the book-wiki article if anyone cares. Do it, they need to know the disgus...