mats: 'psycho pass' is about a japan where devices that can measure mental health are on every street corner, managed by an entity known as the 'sybil system' and enforced by public security. the focus of the story is a public security officer
mats: the protagonist is a supah-hackah woman who was in an accident early in life and doesn't remember what its like to have a physical body
mats: 'ghost in the shell' is about a world where 'cyberization', that is, replacement of virtually every organ except the brain, becomes affordable to some folks
asciilifeform: first anger, then any deviation from bovinity conceivable.
trinque: citizens with tendencies toward anger shall be required to wear a state-issued bracelet at all times, lest they become a danger to themselves and others.
mats: for fans of anime, 'psycho pass' is kind of a ghost in the shell, minority report take on the 'normality meter'
asciilifeform: (doesn't need telepathic electronics, either. face recognizer vendors are sinking $maxint into detectors of 'hinky' (term of art - named after hinkley!) behaviour in crowds)
assbot: Logged on 27-08-2015 00:28:14; trinque: this "powder keg of anger" trend in the news causes me to anticipate the criminalization *of* anger.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=27-08-2015#1252966 << we aren't so far from one of the worlds of robert sheckley's stories, the ones with the 'normality meters' in public doorways
asciilifeform: in so far as there is greater complexity, there is greater 'attack surface,' and the result is in every sense softer, squishier, and more turdlike, rather than 'hardened'
asciilifeform: i have very special hatred reserved for so-called 'hardening' because it is a sly and weasely psychological trick, which exploits the customary context of the word (as it pertains to, e.g., metallurgy) to support an entirely spurious analogy
asciilifeform: mats: at the international bank of obvious
BingoBoingo: Biden might though legitimately want to retire to the country and spend his days waxing his pontiac firebird
mats: i predicted both of these responses by asciilifeform
trinque: they have plenty of time to destroy her yet.
asciilifeform has very little patience for peddlers of 'hardenings,' 'mitigations,' and other so-called 'solutions' which are guaranteed to advance the pestilence of non-fits-in-head
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: You know soon we will get to find out Preet's feelings or lack thereof for Clitler
assbot: Logged on 15-11-2014 18:18:27; asciilifeform: l of this "code sharing" is an economic surplus phenomenon. It works only when none of the people involved in it are in any form of need. As soon as the need arises, a lot of people discover that it has cost them real money to work for the community and they reap very little benefit from it, because they are sharing value-less services and getting value out of something that people take for granted
assbot: Logged on 27-08-2015 00:30:44; mats: >With that in mind, today's announcement is concerned with the future availability of our stable series of patches. We decided that it is unfair to our sponsors that the above mentioned unlawful players can get away with their activity. Therefore, two weeks from now, we will cease the public dissemination of the stable series and will make it available to
trinque: I guess Trump's the anointed one.
assbot: Joe Biden not sure he has the "emotional fuel" for a bid - Election 2016 - CBS News ... ( http://bit.ly/1EXvxEY )
trinque: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/report-joe-biden-not-sure-emotional-fuel-for-a-2016-election-bid/ << team blue falling apart before they even reach 2016
trinque: what's the cost of a secure(-ish) operating system? nobody knows
trinque: kinda points to the idiocy of talking about software in terms of "rights" and "fair" too
mats: >With that in mind, today's announcement is concerned with the future availability of our stable series of patches. We decided that it is unfair to our sponsors that the above mentioned unlawful players can get away with their activity. Therefore, two weeks from now, we will cease the public dissemination of the stable series and will make it available to
trinque: this "powder keg of anger" trend in the news causes me to anticipate the criminalization *of* anger.
BingoBoingo: If someone proposes and adequately funds a bet on a nominee I suppose there would be no reason not to open it.
BingoBoingo: Actually the party conventions are in July 2016, could have bets on the nominations open, but still rather early
BingoBoingo: The two partie's nominees should be decided by this time 2016
BingoBoingo: Prolly because it doesn't attract bettors, no one goes there.
assbot: This is the most reddit sounding thing possible, but how would you recommend I bet bitcoin that Bernie Sanders will win the election? : Bitcoin ... ( http://bit.ly/1Klu0Pb )
BingoBoingo: Oh shit, is BetBet the most reccomended betting solution in a reddit thread? https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3ihtwt/this_is_the_most_reddit_sounding_thing_possible/
trinque: PSA: I'm moving the blockchain for deedbot- to a larger volume, during which it will reject all deeds.
gribble: The operation succeeded.
ascii_field: ;;later tell thestringpuller 'have you believe' -> 'would have you believe' ?
gribble: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: oh wait, there's more. http://36.media.tumblr.com/njE9Bw4rvhnzutgn7RqC7Zb5o1_1280.jpg
mats: this photo often shown in sapper training to remind joes not to bite the caps. used to be you'd do that to activate 'em
assbot: the shrunken head repair clinic & sacrificial brazier: Didn't This Guy's Mom Ever Tell Him Not to Bite Blasting Caps? ... ( http://bit.ly/1Ejt90n )
mircea_popescu: well i can't fucking find a piocture, and i don't recall where the fuck this was. some sort of innovative tank helmet
mircea_popescu: imagine an asymptotic curve rotated around its asymptote with the ends cut off.
ascii_field: if it's an actual cone, the viet cong might have patent !
mircea_popescu: <mats> and half the joes were in germany getting fitted for prosthetics << germany is like the king of this trade by now.
assbot: Amazon.com : NEW ORIGINAL US ARMY ISSUE - PADS SET (7 PADS) FOR THE ACH / MICH HELMET : Office Products ... ( http://bit.ly/1JjNNKL )
mats: http://www.amazon.com/NEW-ORIGINAL-US-ARMY-ISSUE/dp/B004RCLM8Q << thats why these were standard issue
ascii_field: mats: went to a lecture once, by a fella who put forth a model where soldier's helmet ends up playing the role of an acoustic lens
mats: if you just get rocked, you go back on mission after you an eval by the doc
mats: nasty stuff. my unit was rendered 'combat ineffective' overseas a buncha times because all their vehicles got fucked and half the joes were in germany getting fitted for prosthetics
ascii_field: though one has to wonder what the designers of the mines had instead of brains, for it to work
ascii_field just now learned that the quadrupole thing was, apparently, ~not~ commercially available at any point other than in scam form
mats: i was never trained on such a device if .mil operates them
ascii_field: (one of the many fake quadrupole mineseekers)
ascii_field: anyone remember the lulzy 'ADE 651' scam ?
mircea_popescu: chief among them, that it runs on windows ?
ascii_field: (with the obvious limitations)
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: the detector is commercially-available, and mostly works
ascii_field: (ever wonder why the stereotypical arabian explosive is the suicidally unstable peroxide of acetone? no N !)
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i dun see it, just because you ex post facto define that agenda (as do they) doesn't mean it;'s anything
ascii_field: not as other than quadrapole/nmr
mircea_popescu: (incidentally : usable demolition charges are so unremarkable, they had to make a special treaty so everyone agrees to outlaw untagged charges. which is why all the brouhaha about "Sniffing explosives". properly made c4/semtex etc are not actually detectable on their own)
ascii_field: and the only thing they all have in common is that they play into the hands of usg agenda.
ascii_field: my point was that whatever it was the 'postal' folks were optimizing for, it certainly isn't max damage or even intimidation
mircea_popescu: currently there exists 0 example of a terrorist attack that actually justifies the government effort.
mircea_popescu: not like they have water as it is.
mircea_popescu: this said, it should be interesting to see what happens if there's say a coordinated booming of all the dams on the sacramento river. 15 minute intervals, going downstream.
ascii_field: fire holds the record thus far in north amer.
mircea_popescu: call it the boom donut
ascii_field: on the contrary
mircea_popescu: wait for 9pm on friday night, pull the pin
mircea_popescu: if he had a plan, he'd have gone with a vest at one of those endless "conferences", except one for law enforcement. that's where all the alread-stole-enough DEA agents & c go to prowl for young meat.
ascii_field: because it is abundantly clear that the standard u.s. 'postal' is going for tlp/fantasy-actualization, rather than partizan/corpse-maximization
ascii_field: if he had a plan, there'd be a ruined bridge or demolished dam
trinque: nobody on the continent has a plan
mircea_popescu: "here's something that i just had my secretary type up and it was subseuqently found yesterday in the guy's dirty laundry bin."
trinque: mats: I dunno that I'd equate not being able to muster the (what? not courage) to do it == having a plan
mircea_popescu: "whay none of these tyrones can wraet good like white folks! we should do something about it!"
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: actually, even before the round fires - 'anticipatory flinch'
mircea_popescu: trinque untrained shooters have problems controlling their own reactions to the noise/physical stress.
trinque: the guy was probably so internally conflicted that half of him didn't want to do it
ascii_field: hey there are folks who miss own head !
trinque: if he'd ever picked one up before, it was in front of the mirror
mircea_popescu: it's like a "end violence - ban sinks" because a buncha bums keep running into houses, stealing the sinks and buldgeoning the poor ladies to death with 'em
mircea_popescu: that's another thing. all these "gun violence" exponents are barely acquainted with guns.
assbot: Ashley Madison CEO allegedly wanted to hack competitor after executive discovered security hole | The Verge ... ( http://bit.ly/1JyJVcp )
ascii_field: http://www.theverge.com/2015/8/24/9202957/ashley-madison-hack-competitor-dating-site << mega-l0l
BingoBoingo: mats: You dig up the manifesto, I've been looking for it.
mircea_popescu: is there a transcript ?
mircea_popescu: they might rhodesia japan, and certainly will do something or other to korea. but the us ? i dunno.
mircea_popescu: if you push the point, you can claim the various attacks as quite edifyingly narcissistic
trinque: I wonder if there's some subconscious awareness of this, being overextended and unable to help oneself.
mircea_popescu: contrariwise, the usg is a competent prop of an otherwise inept, worthless and disabled population.
mircea_popescu: the soviet state was a slow, inept drain on the resources of an otherwise powerful, self reliant and resourceful population.
mircea_popescu: this collapse couldn't be more unlike that collapse in the following fundamental way :
trinque: I've seen a vid of a dude doing the same
mircea_popescu: actually multiple of these.
assbot: BitBet - The Hearn-Gavin scamcoin will fizzle in 2016 :: 101.09 B (98%) on Yes, 1.54 B (2%) on No | closing in 10 months 1 week| weight: 98`932 (100`000 to 1) ... ( http://bit.ly/1JyIOJJ )
mircea_popescu: https://bitbet.us/bet/1191/the-hearn-gavin-scamcoin-will-fizzle-in-2016/#c5038 << that epic moment when xt-ians figure out they're destined to lose, by design.
ascii_field: i think this one might be the first 1stperson-pov-filmed postal in usa
trinque: and I think that's exactly the right approach.
mircea_popescu: without even the possibility of ~
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> she wasn't nice to him. << Apparently there is a manifesto. He's also pissed about the black church fires and Dylan Storm Roof.
trinque: there seems to be an ever-growing category of americans which can't handle the slightest jostle of their emotional state.
trinque: the guy says he was bullied!
deedbot-: [Trilema] The three friends and the means of meaning - http://trilema.com/2015/the-three-friends-and-the-means-of-meaning/
trinque: mircea_popescu: currently the thing listens to me only; when I get a chance, I'll grab the code from the deeds module and let L1 control feeds
BingoBoingo: Seriously, just enough years for the cartilage of bitcoin to calcify enough to support walking even
mircea_popescu: for all its warts, the bip system did have the practical utility of discouraging discussion over a majority of historical harebrained schemes.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Of course, but I await the idiot train that assumes it means something else.
mircea_popescu: which is perhaps the only sane position a fiat-backed venture can take.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: if cn miners insist on testing the voltage on the electric fence using own cocks, who am i to disagree
assbot: Logged on 26-08-2015 15:35:27; mircea_popescu: punkman " Before you start, make sure you are familiar with the terms in the word cloud above." motherfucker. being "familiar" is exactly what these poorly brought up children do, and the word for it is impudence.
mircea_popescu: this was the golden bullet, doesn't have a spare silver even.
asciilifeform: they have a bottomless barrel of 'improvements'. if that fails, it'll be 'environmentally-friendly minerless distribution' or some other crock of shit
mircea_popescu: i fully expect they fall back to that nonsense once they [somehow comprehend] they got beaten on technical dispute.
asciilifeform: 'give back stolen btc to the rightful ownerz'
mircea_popescu: hey, they're already derping about how "bitcoin is regulated" and whatnot.
mircea_popescu: after all, once it's in, it's in, they can do whatever they want. which is the entire point.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform honestly, might not be so very imbecile. it wouldn't surprise me if the fork gets improved to remove selected old coinbases once it's in.
asciilifeform: or whatever they're called now.
mircea_popescu: that's another mindfuck : aside my feed, people actually bet MORE on yes. in spite of there being 100 on yes.
mircea_popescu: the part on yes ?
mircea_popescu: if it's not on the "electronic foodstamp list" in the supermarket, how'd they buy it
asciilifeform: though, you gotta love the very special imbecile who complained about the 'risk' of being paid bet winnings in '1mbcoin'
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform they're the same folks that aren't buying cars and time with the sluts born the same year as themselves, by the same token. so what of it.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: actually ~using~ bitbet, to them, would be a kind of surrender, no ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: aren't these the same folks who wouldn't buy the ethereum 'derp' futures?
mircea_popescu: putting their per-word value at 0.0001 btc by this simple test.
assbot: BitBet - The Hearn-Gavin scamcoin will fizzle in 2016 :: 101.09 B (98%) on Yes, 1.54 B (2%) on No | closing in 10 months 1 week| weight: 98`985 (100`000 to 1) ... ( http://bit.ly/1JoYZVq )
mircea_popescu: https://bitbet.us/bet/1191/the-hearn-gavin-scamcoin-will-fizzle-in-2016/ << it is my pleasure to report that so far, the herniated minds with the bitcoin-mount gokksu fixation have contributed a total of 533 words and 0.53231949 BTC in actual bets,
mats: TIL the HTTP referrer header is misspelled 'referer' in the actual standard and subsequently in the implementations
asciilifeform: so whence the cpp horrors ?
ben_vulpes: among other gems
ben_vulpes: guy is rewriting class and pointer locations in memory on the fly
mircea_popescu: so basically the vp is "let's make one of these things that'll never be able to stand on its own" "i'd rather build a perpetual money flame"
ben_vulpes: "the wife'd never let you"
assbot: Logged on 26-08-2015 05:20:15; mircea_popescu: heck, give fathers back the power to shoot toddlers that don't obey commands, see the "demographics problems" end overnight.
ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=26-08-2015#1252300 << reducing the tyke to starvation wages at 18 is the pressed shitboard stand in
mircea_popescu: (for the record - lest you be "familiar" with the term from the broken contemporary dictionaries - impudence does not mean "being disrespectful of another person". it has nothing to do with others. impudence is grossly manifest pretense to unwarranted importance. and it's been the distinguishing mark of young adults in agrarian societies since forever.)
mircea_popescu: punkman " Before you start, make sure you are familiar with the terms in the word cloud above." motherfucker. being "familiar" is exactly what these poorly brought up children do, and the word for it is impudence.
mircea_popescu: <mats> $ grep -c '[MPEX][S.MPOE]' \#bitcoin-assets.txt << not like it's SO HARD to kill a line so marked. which is why they have the motherfucking tags.
mircea_popescu: i wanna see all these people who are too busy to read a line worth two hundred bux prove it.
mircea_popescu: <punkman> traders could vote for tradeblock size by appending a number of satoshis in their mpex trades! << yeah seriously. how about this : voice costs about the same.
mircea_popescu: <funkenstein_> Is it really needless to say that people are noncommunicative fuckwits, and even if so, does that mean they should be awarded damages? << i hope the trial is directed at THE LYING FRAUDULENT SCUMBAGS that ran the site.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron oh ok. was gonna want to see that perl wonder otherwise :D
mircea_popescu: mount gokksu is the official new name of the generic bitcoin scam with delusions of grandeur.
asciilifeform: but i still see no reason to think that the faux key was uploaded from his own system. or that this took place with any of the others.
asciilifeform: the first two are classic 32-bit-mirror pattern.
asciilifeform: ^ somebody apparently insisted on testing whether we actually gcd or merely trialdivide by smallints ?
BingoBoingo: But the actual Quantcast numbers could very well be invented
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> are these dudes just lying / making up random numbers / multipliers or wtf. << Lots of social media creatures got very excited about the certainty we were using to dismiss XTCoin
punkman: traders could vote for tradeblock size by appending a number of satoshis in their mpex trades!
assbot: Logged on 25-05-2015 20:19:42; BingoBoingo: <kakobrekla> as stated, there is enough interest with a small rebellion on top - so they stay << Maybe raise the limit? Perhaps 1BTC is nao too small and spammy, but 100 BTC is ok.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> so why'd they shoot the toddler BingoBoingo ? was it the "officer felt his life endangered" or was it "toddler didn't obey comamnds" << WHo shot toddler presented as a mystery so far
funkenstein_: punkman, ok you have a point there. but hardly "bound to have catastrophic effects"
punkman: funkenstein_: the people that paid a fee to get their account deleted have every right to sue
funkenstein_: Is it really needless to say that people are noncommunicative fuckwits, and even if so, does that mean they should be awarded damages?
funkenstein_: "Needless to say, this dumping of sensitive personal and financial information is bound to have catastrophic effects on the lives of the website's users," according to a lawsuit filed Friday on behalf of an anonymous Los Angeles man who created an account with Ashley Madison in March 2012.
fluffypony: "of even 1.1 billion yen from the mount Gokkusu company funds have been lending to affiliated companies"
assbot: Logged on 26-08-2015 01:54:49; mats: he was high and literally said, "i'm not going to crash the car, man" five seconds before he went off the road
cazalla: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=26-08-2015#1252232 <<< lol maybe related to the ditz that merged into me today
assbot: Logged on 26-08-2015 00:26:32; BingoBoingo: This is a mess, said Jana Chamblee, who lives with her husband, Don, and their three children. This is the biggest mess Ive had in my life. ... Chamblee and others on the block point to a house behind them, where Maritha Hunter-Butler has lived since May 9. She moved in with her three sons, a female partner and their four dogs. The neighbors say the dogs bark at all hours of the night, visitors con
cazalla: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=26-08-2015#1252211 <<< easier to just kill the dogs than plead and beg someone to do something about their barking dog at 3am
mircea_popescu: cazalla actually it's the first time it occured to me
cazalla: punkman, lol @ the testimonials "Dude.. this is.. this is
fucking awesome. lol I have never thought Id actually pay money for software but I couldnt resist cumming on all my facebook friends pics.. Works like a charm and is actually the best masturbation material ~_~"
mircea_popescu: i wonder if there actually exists the weirdo out there who spends 9 month intervals on "projects" which consist of amassing pics of random neighbour, then photoshopping wild orgy, then photoshopping her fictitious pregnancy resulting from there, then photoshopping her delivery and so on.
mircea_popescu: who the fuck is into sex for the ... what, the view of after-sex outside ejaculation ?!
punkman: "Let me tell you – this 37 bucks editor has literally saved me more than 5.000 bucks in my estimates, by just satisfying my needs without the strong need to pamper the next gold digging whore."
cazalla: mircea_popescu, https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=qntra.net&src=typd ya might have to scroll for the jon matonis and peter todd qntra mentions
cazalla: her insurance will cover it but still, they don't cover my time
cazalla: and fuck millennials and their inability to look before they merge lanes, last thing i fkn needed was a car smash
assbot: The politics of Bitcoin on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1K07c9f )
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2012/the-politics-of-bitcoin/ << for the "nobody could havew predicted" pile.
mircea_popescu: Some of bitcoin's biggest backers, including BitPay, Blockchain.info, Circle and KnCMiner.com, wrote a letter this week in support of the existing version of bitcoinbut only if it adopts some of the central ideas proposed by the renegade developers, Gavin Andresen and Mike Hearn."
mircea_popescu: "Support is building for changing part of bitcoin's design, after two high-profile developers introduced an alternate version of the virtual currency aimed at speeding up transactions and future-proofing the digital money.
mircea_popescu: are these dudes just lying / making up random numbers / multipliers or wtf.
mircea_popescu: cazalla_ https://www.quantcast.com/qntra.net << you got any fucking idea why the sudden change in baseline ?
asciilifeform: understand, these weren't even scamcoinz
mircea_popescu: pushing the point a little, neh ? i mean what, even the first basic qualification thing for bitcoin is not a week old.
asciilifeform: dated in the past year
mircea_popescu: "what, with the relevant bits safely pushed away, the pudendal shield pressing against the nose. LOGIC!"
assbot: Bitcoin and the Separation of Money and State - Money and State ... ( http://bit.ly/1LvZYqI )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: for reference, this is the same mega-citadeloflearning where elaine shi and andrew miller ply their trade
assbot: Logged on 26-08-2015 02:31:23; asciilifeform: and the required reading dir is full of 'whitepapers' concerning 1990s-style centralized shitpal-esque 'coins'
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=26-08-2015#1252258 << clearly community college's keeping up with the times.
mircea_popescu: this is the deep dark secret they don't want to face. the "effaceable" trend on social media is just that - another expression of the fundamental truth that social media does not matter.
mircea_popescu: ironically this isn't either. who gives a shit what derps say on twitter.
mircea_popescu: except you get a few thousand meaningless pages per day or something. but those are mere parameters. the idea is the same.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo http://qntra.net/2015/08/twitter-forbids-monitoring-politicians-deleted-tweets/#comment-45453 << incidentally the man is right. social media (perhaps pioneered by twitter, when they were trying to get google to spread the fake money by paying for access) have been using something very much akin to the "unheard of" trilema paid content scheme.
Casper-: Hey, i've read some of your stuff (qntra, contravex, dilema). is there a list of guys who's opinion you respect? e.g. more blogs/twitter
mircea_popescu: anyway. at least in romania's 90s, the life of a young theoretical physicist was ~90% derive and the rest chicken scribblings of the kind you mention.
mircea_popescu: but yeah, i was explaining to the 5yo plane composition and shit.
asciilifeform: because i, elementarily, motherfuckingly, ~can~
mircea_popescu: it actually was so good the baby brother of a friend mostly wanted to "play derive" when he visited.
asciilifeform: back to 'derive' - there are so, so few proggies that are so ~pants-creamingly~ good at what they do,
mircea_popescu: anyway. the notion that you can get a computer to "do your derivation" is exactly like the notion that you can get a computer to "do your thing"
asciilifeform: and ported to the 'texas instruments 89' calculator ?
asciilifeform: srsly the whole computer thing never quite happened.
asciilifeform just got back from the house of a phriend who, i shit thee not, filled two notebooks with one derivation, pen and paper, because ~none of the computeralgebrasystems he could find were able to swallow it~
mircea_popescu: well then guess what ?
mircea_popescu: and hiding the cost of real estate from yourself (i don't rent, i own!) is just bad business
asciilifeform: otherwise why.
asciilifeform: i rent my bldg. and wouldn't like to have it any other way. unless were so loaded that i could throw it away like a toothbrush if it gets tiresome.
asciilifeform: (questionable whether word 'own' is even applicable)
asciilifeform: or as with the toddler example,
mircea_popescu: the many loltraps of real estate ownership, or why you can't really own "as an individual"
asciilifeform: if this were my flat i'd hook up antiphase speaker to the pipe
mircea_popescu: it's about, if i had to guess, 20khz. and prolly was there before but w/e, 8khz or somerthing
asciilifeform: water, rather than air hammer. not 100% laminar flow!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform incidentally, this isn';t that. you turn on the water, and five minutes later the whole thing bellows. no banging.
asciilifeform: in usa this is pestilential in old flats and there is a - partial - fix
mircea_popescu: and one unlucky repair, even one just-such-weight faucet can make the whole thing an organ)
asciilifeform: waterhammer, they call it here.
mircea_popescu: (for they unfamiliar : old pipes in old buildings have, like any other rigid formation, resonancy frequencies.
mircea_popescu: in other news, this building is easily 200 years old, the pipes are certainly solid steel, and they got the curse
mircea_popescu: which is fine, whosoever can do whatever the fuck they do, but this voting braindamage...
assbot: Logged on 16-02-2014 22:04:18; asciilifeform: they pass an old man who says, 'don't drown this fellow. i'll feed him dumplings, he won't have to do any work but to dip them'
assbot: Logged on 26-08-2015 05:20:15; mircea_popescu: heck, give fathers back the power to shoot toddlers that don't obey commands, see the "demographics problems" end overnight.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=26-08-2015#1252289 << the lulzy part is that, iirc, the man writes tradebots himself!
mircea_popescu: heck, give fathers back the power to shoot toddlers that don't obey commands, see the "demographics problems" end overnight.
mircea_popescu: so why'd they shoot the toddler BingoBoingo ? was it the "officer felt his life endangered" or was it "toddler didn't obey comamnds"
assbot: Logged on 26-08-2015 00:34:51; trinque: BingoBoingo: sounds a bit like this news I'm reading of the "market rally" "disintegrating".
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: The pretense. As the Obeast loses distinctive sex characteristics it overcompensates in adopting cultural signifiers.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=26-08-2015#1252207 << why does the woman get a bra! same boobs...
mircea_popescu: i get it, you leech and wish to complain about how the content you leech is packaged. this makes sense in your alt-universe ?
BingoBoingo: Ah and here's assbot feed's best part. Keeps the conversation going.