ascii_field: ben_vulpes: if title is in company's name, the income - theoretically - is only the market value of leasing the property
ben_vulpes: regarding that ancient optimization of expenditures thread, in america the ceo will have to report his place of residence if purchased/rented by the company as income, correct asciilifeform, mircea_popescu?
shinohai: I love my tech, don't get me wrong. But a few nights in the desert or mountains does wonders for clearing away the clutter amongst the little grey bits.
ascii_field: camping is a sport, there is neither the permanence of the situation nor the hordes of crazed sheeple and their more-cannibalistic upper crust
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 21:13:30; ascii_field: well, in usa, if toilet doesn't flush and facebook doesn't load, they want nothing to do with it, likewise.
ascii_field: well, in usa, if toilet doesn't flush and facebook doesn't load, they want nothing to do with it, likewise.
ascii_field: the other detail is probably demographic - iraq median age, according to usg, is ~20; usa - ~40 !
ascii_field: the basic reason why no one is voluntarily turning usa into iraq, regardless of usg abuses, is something like the english saying 'people in glass houses do not throw stones'
ascii_field: in usa, there are things you wouldn't believe. the sewer lines are often run up hill, with pumping stations buried underground.
mats: i got a coin for you if this theory pans out
ascii_field: iraq was nicely massaged into the bronze age by usg.
ascii_field: (ted turner on his ranch doesn't give a fuck if the city burns)
ascii_field: unlike the turd world, in usa the poor folks are the first and instant loosers in any breakdown of civilization
ascii_field: mats: problem is that no one in usa is so poor that he is indifferent to whether the lights stay on and the toilet flushes
punkman: surely there are 10 million natives
ascii_field: 'emplace ied' works when you have ten million sympathetic natives for partizans to hide among, be fed and clothed by
mats: obviously you'll get trampled either way, but this is far short of defenseless
ascii_field: so they sit outside and wait for everyone inside to starve.
ascii_field: also 'high tech north kr' is often misunderstood concept. there is normally no need for usg to shoot anyone. instead they will cancel your food-and-rent card.
ascii_field: mats: that number comes from throats cut of informants, stoolies, lone agents on the roadside
ascii_field: mats: hardly defenseless ?! what were they supposed to do, with their pea-shooters, against tanks and planes ?
mats: the population hardly breaks a sweat killing a hundred feds a year in current form, plenty of poor excitable people that'd love to multiply that number 10^4
ascii_field: whether the 'higher tech north kr' thing is 'practicable' or not, it will be tried. ~is~ being tried.
assbot: Logged on 26-03-2015 20:43:53; asciilifeform: one to break doors, gates; one to threaten bystanders, if any, with 'accidental' fire; one to shoot; and perhaps one with a cage that arrestee -might- be permitted to surrender into, if the bot's voice-recognition system works and if orders included a possible live capture
ascii_field: anyway the 'too fat' thing is utterly irrelevant. they don't need to recruit million men for roman legion. but a few thousand for polizei duty - wacoing defenseless people, machine-gunning women and children, setting up public gallows, the lot
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 04:19:37; asciilifeform: for crushing rebellion, one uses troops from far-off places, rather than sympathetic locals. this was known to romans, persians, everyone.
mats: americans are fat as fuck, barely anyone these days can pass a BMI evaluation and run 2mi in reasonable time
mats: i dunno that the feds could even find folks qualified and willing to do a job like that
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 04:15:38; asciilifeform: the discreditation of local police apparatus, for its eventual demolition and replacement by unified fed gendarmerie, is going on schedule.
BingoBoingo: kakobrekla: sure, prolly also base256 encode the output
mats: is there any way to look at the active mpoe order book (ie, the way 'mpexbot' used to spit 'em out with '$depth <asset>')?
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ascii_field: and mircea_popescu is gonna love this one, http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/08/ashley-madison-abusing-dmca-to-put-genie-back-in-the-bottle-eff-says
assbot: Logged on 01-09-2015 19:24:26; shinohai: http://www.rawstory.com/2015/09/watch-florida-pastor-says-women-should-greet-their-husbands-looking-spiffed-up-with-a-hot-meal-waiting/ XD
trinque: vi init.el # the sadness...
trinque: yeah starts right up without the init.el; I'll have to hack things out and see where it's hanging
trinque: doesn't seem to be crapping debug info to either the terminal who launched or the emacs window
trinque: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4696268,00.html << can anyone familiar with Israeli news comment on the bullshit factor of this site?
shinohai: "I'm hoping at this point he muses about it equally ineffectively for the rest of the year." LOLZ
assbot: Logged on 01-09-2015 18:25:13; mircea_popescu: the fact that most of the world agrees girls can marry once they can walk, that doesn't count.
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mike_c: http://mic.com/articles/107370/13-absurd-reasons-men-use-to-defend-their-right-to-spread-their-legs-on-the-subway
ascii_field: there is always, always a shitgnome 'you don't need this, move along' commenter.
ascii_field: '“They use terms to find evidence of whether someone is trying to hide their activities because evidence of a cover-up is frequently more potent than the evidence of the alleged crime,” Brodsky said.'
ascii_field: 'Evasion techniques can get creative. Raj Rajaratnam, the fund manager convicted in 2011 of insider trading, would write “fon” instead of “phone.” Prosecutors said they suspected the intentional misspelling was meant to distract the all-seeing electronic Javert of Control-F.' << gold
assbot: Logged on 21-08-2015 21:04:08; ascii_field: 'The absence of evidence shouldn’t be viewed as proof of guilt, but tell that to the U.S. federal court—where Khairullozhon Matanov received a 30-month sentence in mid-June, in part for deleting his browser history. Though he wasn’t an accomplice in the Boston bombing, the FBI charged that the friend of the Tsarnaev brothers with obstructing justice by destroying evidence in the case. That evidenc
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gribble: The operation succeeded.
ascii_field: ;;later tell mircea_popescu guess what, they're 104's - 'connection reset by peer.' your end hangs up.
ascii_field: also the keeper of that www has paste-polluting js and needs to be strung up with piano wire.
ascii_field: 'Never in my wildest dreams would I have expected PayPal to accept screenshots from the seller, as proof of anything.'
ascii_field: 'I expected PayPal would have my back and worst case, the whole transaction would be reversed and nobody would be out anything.' << gold
williamdunne: mike_c: Sorry I meant 16. And because for a whole bunch of the countries they process euros not the national currency
shinohai: I guess I misunderstand economics. The shittier your service is and moar closely aligned with usg interests, the moar successful it becomes.
mike_c: coinbase is pretty global by now. they're up to 27 countries
assbot: Couple who quit jobs to travel the world end up scrubbing toilets for pay - Trending - CBC News ... ( http://bit.ly/1EBo8k7 )
shinohai: http://www.cbc.ca/news/trending/couple-who-quit-jobs-to-travel-the-world-now-broke-scrubbing-toilets-1.3211621 <<< also lulzy
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: this is how "gamergate" happened too, and everthing else. << I was under the impression gamergate happened because d00d published blog about ex-gf cheating on him who works in games. That's at least what personally brought my attention to it.
asciilifeform: my guess is that it is not actually so difficult, but no one has invested in genuinely trying, for the elementary reason that the green-magicmarker crowd will never buy it
asciilifeform: so emulate the sag.
kakobrekla: other stuff also.
kakobrekla: you can hear the difference between solid state rectifier and tube rectifier over youtube.
asciilifeform: possibly using burned tube would not work on account of the filament failing to glow red
asciilifeform: wonder how many audiophiliacs could tell the difference between a fifty-cent emulator (yes, it needs to eat the high supply voltages, but this is not hard) and the original.
asciilifeform: see, when i heard of 'fake tubes', my first thought was something like an old burned-out one but with some chinese semiconductor strange in the plastic base, to emulate a working tube.
kakobrekla: they are supposed to be quite durable tho, 10khrs +
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzyXMEpq4qw << ~the~ mega-film re: tubemaking.
asciilifeform: 'In the hulking pile of brick wrapped in pipes and smokestacks that is the building, most of the employees are women. Dressed in blue robes and hair nets, they join together delicate bundles of wire, wafers of rare metal and glass bulbs with fingers trained by years of work. "No man would want to make a tube," Lyudmila V. Afanasieva, 54, said, nimbly sliding wires into a glass cylinder. She worked on the same tube model when i
asciilifeform: and from the earlier link,
assbot: Logged on 03-04-2014 22:18:37; asciilifeform: this was actually a serious leap in vacuum tube tech - they didn't need to be pumped, or made of glass
kakobrekla: http://www.jacmusic.com/nos/images/Fakes/index.htm here is a few examples of fakes, but this covers only a small portion of the picture
punkman: asciilifeform: who's the arsonist?
assbot: Logged on 10-12-2014 00:52:56; asciilifeform: the pub is really the property of the freeloaders, or local chieftain, whoever; the 'owner' is simply a clown kept around for entertainment value and while he brings over friends to spend usd
assbot: Logged on 10-12-2014 00:51:50; asciilifeform: mircea_popescu had an article (or perhaps a thread here? but can't seem to find it...) about an archetypical u.s. expat. fellow keeps a pub somewhere in thailand, or cambodia, etc. the locals - drink for free. he fancies that if he begins to run out of dough, he can always start charging. but somehow in the back of his head he knows what will happen to his sorry arse if he were to do so.
asciilifeform: ^ lulzy. arsonist sets fire, buys up assets at fire sale, then complains when folks whack him over the head to take back the stolen goods
asciilifeform: looks similar, sorta works, the lot.
asciilifeform: but go and find them in your lands, aha.
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 13:54:10; asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-09-2015#1259628 << it is surprisingly difficult to make a proper tube. and various crud makers cut 'optional' corners like the cesium 'getter' (shiny spot near the head)
kakobrekla: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-09-2015#1259725 < the art of tube making died with the people who made them.
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assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 13:32:07; mircea_popescu: the pissants have come to expect
assbot: Borat (2006) - Credits (Full Kazakhstan anthem videoclip) - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1NabtHC )
assbot: Logged on 02-11-2013 00:07:12; asciilifeform: when i read these pitches, i can't help but recall: "...Filtration System A Marvel to Behold! It Removes Eighty Percent of Human Solid Waste!"
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 11:05:45; kakobrekla: Soviet vaccum tubes < there is a whole industry dedicated to making fake ones.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-09-2015#1259628 << it is surprisingly difficult to make a proper tube. and various crud makers cut 'optional' corners like the cesium 'getter' (shiny spot near the head)
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 10:10:54; punkman: there's a few soviet factories that still make decent lenses by the way
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-09-2015#1259619 << after 1945 zeiss was shipped wholesale - complete with all equipment, and enslaved staff - to su, and put to work there
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 08:40:37; cazalla: or is it the norm for secular jews to maintain their foreskin?
asciilifeform: (just like in su of the period)
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 06:22:52; mircea_popescu: "despite the objections from Bulgaria, Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia." << romania ignored the soviets throughout, decided to make its own. they... sucked.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-09-2015#1259538 << what 'its own' ? afaik there were z80, 6502, and a few pdp-compatibles. nothing 'own'.
mircea_popescu: the pissants have come to expect
mircea_popescu: Nowadays, I believe, bed-wetting in such circumstances is taken for granted. It is a normal reaction in children who have been removed from their homes to a strange place. In those days, however, it was looked on as a disgusting crime which the child committed on purpose and for which the proper cure was a beating."
funkenstein_: from punkman's link "The good thing about business is that you dont have to know any higher math. It may be an advantage not to know it. [CM: Yes, it is. If you know it, you feel the need to use it.] "
davout: there's a problem when your faq has 463 questions listed
davout: obligatory we-should-stop-with-the-racist-jokes.jpg
shinohai: The scene from that movies where they stay with the older Jewish couple is probably one of the funniest goddamned things I have ever seen.
davout: i invited the guy over and told him that he'd be fine (unless he's a jew of course)
shinohai: Hue, I wish I had been there. "Yeah. Aren't you guys based in Mom's basement?"
shinohai: Anduck is in there, kek.
assbot: Proof of Stake: How I Learned to Love Weak Subjectivity - Ethereum Blog ... ( http://bit.ly/1FjCBfl )
shinohai: Didn't take me long to find that fluffypony: https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/11/25/proof-stake-learned-love-weak-subjectivity/
fluffypony: By any other name would smell as rotten;
fluffypony: which is code for "decentralised and secure, but only in the weakest possible sense of the phrase"
shinohai: Because the last "young genius" we got out of Ethereum was so talented, especially in the field of security.
shinohai: lol I was discussing w/ someone the other day hw he is going for that Gavin look in that article.
kakobrekla: http://www.coindesk.com/15-year-old-developer-ethereum-whit-jackson/ < eth, powered by 15year olds
shinohai: Without espeak, trolling others would be far less fun.
punkman: kakobrekla: Soviet vaccum tubes < there is a whole industry dedicated to making fake ones. << they even bother to make fake capacitors
kakobrekla: Soviet vaccum tubes < there is a whole industry dedicated to making fake ones.
mircea_popescu: bwahahaha. who the fuck is tolstoy again.
mircea_popescu: meritsthereby distorting their aesthetic and ethical understandingis a great evil, as is every untruth."
mircea_popescu: ve, he has once again re-read the entire works of Shakespeare, including the historical plays, and I have felt with an even greater force, the same feelingsthis time, however, not of bewilderment, but of firm, indubitable conviction that the unquestionable glory of a great genius which Shakespeare enjoys, and which compels writers of our time to imitate him and readers and spectators to discover in him non-existent
mircea_popescu: "Tolstoy begins by saying that throughout life Shakespeare has aroused in him "an irresistible repulsion and tedium". Conscious that the opinion of the civilized world is against him, he has made one attempt after another on Shakespeare's works, reading and re-reading them in Russian, English and German; but "I invariably underwent the same feelings; repulsion, weariness and bewilderment". Now, at the age of seventy-fi
mircea_popescu: pretty much owned optics 100 years ago, moreso than the us or china own computing.
punkman: you can't really get anything but "cheapest" from china these days
punkman: mircea_popescu: certainly modern lenses did get better, but the cheap chinese lenses on ebay are rarely better than cheap vintage glass
mircea_popescu: it went nowhere. but i guess if the govt gets involved it'll be a great success.
mircea_popescu: <punkman> seems pretty hopeless << actually some derpy "artists" were airing this nonsensical scheme a few years ago. it basically reduces to "isn't it unfair that only some 6/7 chicks get to pretend like they're artists on daddy's dime ? why shouldn't i have a daddy like that!"
mircea_popescu: <punkman> oh wow ebay now has chinese 420-800mm lens for 50 bucks << aha. and for all the pretense of the swiss from 20 years ago, 2015 800mm chinese lens beats 1985 zeiss lens.
fluffypony: cazalla: I work with wildlife fire and rescue and the local anti-poaching groups
cazalla: http://www.esquire.co.uk/culture/film-tv/8782/daniel-craig-interview/ "What does it say, too, that Bond is a fantasy figure for a Britain that no longer exists, an Imperial warrior who satisfies the rest of our vicarious appetites no longer as easily fulfilled as they once were to travel to exotic locations, execute the natives and then have sex with their women?"
cazalla: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-09-2015#1259565 <<< 36x zoom to go along with the night vision and camo eh?
cazalla: pete_dushenski, you snipped? (circumcision questions got the better of my curiosity tbh)
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shinohai: Best description of Ryan X Charles EVAH: https://np.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3j79li/inside_the_movement_to_build_a_bitcoinpowered/cuni67s
punkman: something like: get average salary stats for (degree, company, job title etc), match those up to resumes, pretend like derp getting degree matches the model
punkman: "Beginning in 2016, University President Mitch Daniels wants to allow private investors to invest in the success of Purdue students using a new financial model: Income Share Agreements (ISA)."
assbot: Purdue's new student loan program literally invests in their students - Watchdog.org ... ( http://bit.ly/1fUA0BY )
cazalla: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-09-2015#1259141 <<< obviously the telegraph obstructs the viewer from seeing the gun in his other hand
assbot: Logged on 01-09-2015 23:10:57; trinque: tax avoidance is a foolish move if you're dealing in their currency
mats: BingoBoingo: re: bip-101-syndicate-shares-fiat-ties-opposition-to-actual-bitcoin some corrections: '... damning VC behind the [reins]', some commas here: 'Goldman Sachs, purely fiat institution, is a majority shareholder of Moneygram, a cash ...'
fluffypony: and there's no way I'm spying on anyone's shower
mircea_popescu: cheaper than any initiative to retain athletes they could come up with
mircea_popescu: sane uni admin would just hire a few dozen models to walk around the campus nude all day.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i guarantee you 90% of campus drone usage is to take shower pic of the 3 not-obese females per campus.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform as part of the perennial hate of ru in ro, "Shura-Bura" is how you say "utter nonsense"
mircea_popescu: it arbitrarily decided to round all delays to the integer second.
mircea_popescu: in "random news from stupid island" : xmacro is pretty much the only workable linux keyboard/mouse emulator.
mircea_popescu: "despite the objections from Bulgaria, Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia." << romania ignored the soviets throughout, decided to make its own. they... sucked.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform incidentally it occurs to me - one theory that'd very well fit the soviet ibm insanity would be, "the captive thief". ie, a guy so enamoured with the idea that "this calculator is hot (ie, stolen)" that he'll gladly expend $1500 to get a shitty pocket calculator, instead of $1100 to get a 10x as powerful desktop.
mircea_popescu: i guess that's what half the country tis doing anyway so...myeahk
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: It's part of the US department of words really don't mean anything anymore
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo makes 0 sense to me, seeing how you already paid tax on it, but then again i don;t live there
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform putin's fighting hard with himself to stay away the harvoscow.
assbot: Logged on 03-03-2014 22:19:37; mircea_popescu: matheny needs to be out of a job.
BingoBoingo: Also apparently matheney still has a job http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-03-2014#543439
BingoBoingo: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-09-2015#1259321 << IRS treats expenditure optimization frequently the same as "structuring" and other not crimes that are somehow crimes.
asciilifeform: the dhs camps.
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 05:34:43; mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> and just about everybody, right, left, center, happily buying in. << i'm buying in because i do not believe local resistence is a good idea. the whole thing should burn, and pockets of sanity just make the burn last longer and hurt more.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-09-2015#1259507 << pretty much nobody else is showing any symptoms of having an idea as to ~what~ they are buying into.
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 05:33:47; mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> orlov fellates the boston harvaprinceyaleton liberast-wing-usg orthodoxy <<< and moscow does not ? puhleaze.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-09-2015#1259506 << there are, for practical purposes, two 'moscows' - the harvardized one and the actual one.
asciilifeform: rather, 'to make [subject] one's own'
asciilifeform: which is not the same thing at all
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 05:38:14; mircea_popescu: "Mastering the operating system of the IBM-360 will require 2200 man-years and 700 workers. "
mircea_popescu: "Mastering the operating system of the IBM-360 will require 2200 man-years and 700 workers. "
BingoBoingo: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-09-2015#1259211 << St Louis in its northern parts got radiotracers sprayed around
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> and just about everybody, right, left, center, happily buying in. << i'm buying in because i do not believe local resistence is a good idea. the whole thing should burn, and pockets of sanity just make the burn last longer and hurt more.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> orlov fellates the boston harvaprinceyaleton liberast-wing-usg orthodoxy <<< and moscow does not ? puhleaze.
mircea_popescu: a tiny group of second rate twerps THAT KNOW they're second rate band together, and because the world is so sick on this "everyone's equal" jizz, they can't be repressed effectually.
mircea_popescu: <pete_dushenski> "Contrary to the myth that 97% of climate scientists believe we are headed toward a man-made climate doom, the truth is that a very small group of second rate climate scientists have captured the attention of some prominent political and media figures. " <<< this is how "gamergate" happened too, and everthing else. "race relations", "gender issues", you name it.
mircea_popescu: think in terms of "talented soccer players" or anything else, it's the exact same story.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not replenishable because the natural rate of decay through aging is negative. ie, su shittifies like everything. if in 2000 it could produce 0.0001% of population, in 2020 it can produce only 0.0000965%. as population itself declines, the natural size of the thing shrinks. 10k in 2000, 9972 in 2001 etc.
BingoBoingo: Oh, I come back from the baseball game and asciilifeform has some leads for me to qntra mebbe
asciilifeform: Its 18th December 1969; the scene is Minradioprom, the Ministry for Radio Production...'
asciilifeform: '...in 1969 a disastrous decision was taken to standardise all production on clones of the IBM 360 series, half a decade old before the effort to reverse-engineer it even began, which would ensure that ever after the Soviet industry was doomed to obsolescence, and to feeble belated imitations of foreign technology. This, taken from Boris Malinovskys Pioneers of Soviet Computing, is the conversation that killed the industry.
gribble: The operation succeeded.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: Novocherkassk massacre (there is some material in engl.)
pete_dushenski: except people who actually give a shit have never had better tools at their disposal
asciilifeform: and there being fewer ~people~ in the genuine sense of the word, than ever, to give said shit.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: the line-up to be a merc ~on us soil~ must be shallower than obama's veil of intelligence
Vexual: well then
asciilifeform: for crushing rebellion, one uses troops from far-off places, rather than sympathetic locals. this was known to romans, persians, everyone.
pete_dushenski: that sounds like the stage is set for cops v cops
pete_dushenski: bah. the more valuable chain wins. in whose eyes though, i can't say
asciilifeform: just to fill the power vacuum
asciilifeform: they don't need to.
pete_dushenski: it's not clear to me that the fedcops are enjoying such a sterling reputation these days
asciilifeform: the discreditation of local police apparatus, for its eventual demolition and replacement by unified fed gendarmerie, is going on schedule.
asciilifeform: (incidentally, did anyone else notice how the recent 'police brutality' mediatronic kick began immediately after several sheriffs in usa openly declared intent to nullify federal laws ?
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: could also be flexible tether on leash
asciilifeform: of climatocalypse, 'black lives', the whole shebang.
asciilifeform: the climategate thing is why i do not credit mircea_popescu's hypothesis re: orlov being a minion of moscow. orlov fellates the boston harvaprinceyaleton liberast-wing-usg orthodoxy
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pete_dushenski: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/08/28/a-detailed-review-of-the-book-a-disgrace-to-the-profession-by-mark-steyn/ << quoted
asciilifeform: as in, seriously argued that no one must take the revelations into account
asciilifeform: he wrote a piece ~literally~, i shit thee not, arguing that it Does Not Count Because Stolen
pete_dushenski: "Contrary to the myth that 97% of climate scientists believe we are headed toward a man-made climate doom, the truth is that a very small group of second rate climate scientists have captured the attention of some prominent political and media figures. "
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: whisked under the rug. aha
pete_dushenski: "Basically, Mann had mined many series of numbers looking for hockey stick shapes and gave each series that had the shape he wanted a much higher weight, up to a weighting factor of 392!"
pete_dushenski: "As noted above it was an extraordinary claim, yet it was accepted instantly without checking it. This had the effect of destroying the credibility of the IPCC and the previously respected publication Nature."
pete_dushenski: "The hockey stick told us that the recent warming period (1950 to 1998) was unusual in the last thousand years and that this sort of sudden warming had (supposedly) never happened before and that man’s CO2 emissions were (presumably) the cause."
mats: I am considering how to word the terms of a bet regarding the fall of Baghdad in a year's time
mircea_popescu: they got 5-10k elite, and they're playing heroes of might and magic with them around the map. because even one lost is a horribru disaster. not replenishable.
mats: I suspect daesh anticipated this play (not the first time its been used) and exploited USG willingness to aid
asciilifeform: mats: tastes great with the earlier orl0l from today
mats: multiple folks report: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/01/russia-puts-boots-on-the-ground-in-syria.html and http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4696268,00.html
asciilifeform: when it 'would not do' to lose a lawsuit, or so much as permit one to be heard, they invoke sovereign privilege and that's that.
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 00:38:55; mats: raped DoD, orc locals, just finished raping USG in their own court
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-09-2015#1259375 << they raped the u.s. ~taxpayer~. not to be confused with the stainless steel, quite unrapeable orifice of usg proper.
mod6: ima go and try to catch up on these logs and get some extra zzzs. have a good evening all!
mats: the phrase happens to predate 'yi yi zhi yi'
mats: it may be that i remembered it incorrectly, i am only partially literate and recall the phrase from a translation of a ming text
mats: funkenstein_: i am having difficulty finding the source of the idiom (and subsequently how it is properly written) but the second half does not parse
mircea_popescu: meanwhile it's more like "we've been using temporary shelter in a permanent manner for the past decade and why is this insulation falling off"
mircea_popescu: that was then.
mircea_popescu: the poor usg how it only wanted to restore peace and democracy to those poor iraquians, beleaguered by corrupt officials and tyrannycal despotism as they were, and then this capitalist concern of evil capital came and abused the entire good will of the people of usia and their elected representatives.
mats: raped DoD, orc locals, just finished raping USG in their own court