BingoBoingo: I mean I don't trust bedbugs because they fuck by cesarean. Ticks though carry all kinds of nasty diseases and fumigating "The Great Outdoors" is difficult.
moiety: yes! like the sheep from wallace and gromit
moiety: sorry i thought thats what you meant when you said fromthe house next door
mircea_popescu: (and if they didn't migrate, you'd have difficulty explaining how the fuck they even exist in the americas in the first place)
mircea_popescu: moiety this may be true, but they do have migration patterns.
moiety: they like fuckin blood not dirt
nubbins`: if you live in a city that looks like this, they most definitely can hop to the house next door: http://imgur.com/1SntHHD
moiety: not a building they cannot
mircea_popescu: of course they can
nubbins`: oh yes they can!
moiety: nubbins`: bed bugs a) have nothing to do with the hygiene of a place and b) can hop to the house next door
ozbot: jonathan richman - you're crazy for taking the bus - YouTube
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i spent months going through the eastern us on greyhounds
asciilifeform: rather than an ordinary city bus
nubbins`: generally people don't have to wait in the cold for an hour to get a limo, though
asciilifeform: 'greyhound', for people on the other side of the ocean, is a 'tourist' bus, kitted out like an airplane
nubbins`: burn down a church? here's a synthesizer!
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: HeySteve2 wanted the ping
asciilifeform: related: http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2014/02/18/norways_mass_murderer_brievik_threatens_hunger_strike_for_better_video_games.html
Bugpowder: whoops.. Finally read to the bottom.
nubbins`: there ya go
nubbins`: the only clues are a succession of stained mattresses and couches left on the sidewalk over a period of several weeks
nubbins`: the other problem is that welfare tenants generally won't tell the landlord if the house is infested.
asciilifeform: story goes that they were re-introduced from somewhere in mexico.
Bugpowder: mircea_popescu: would you mind flushing another deposit before my laptop battery dies?
mircea_popescu: not just the bipedal ones.
mircea_popescu: welfare helps all bugs and cockroaches across the board
nubbins`: BingoBoingo, everything but the drugs
nubbins`: well the problem is most of downtown is row houses, attached on both sides. generally fumigation doesn't do shit
nubbins`: alternately: a house gets bedbugs. the tenants fumigate at great expense. the bedbugs come back from the house next door. repeat ad infinitum.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Indeed. SHit happend in spring. Then calms during the summer when schoolkids have too much time, a bit of drama happens in the fall, there is a bit of winter buildup, then SPRING
nubbins`: so a house gets bedbugs. the landlord fumigates at great expense. the dirtbags infest the place again. repeat ad infinitum.
mircea_popescu: what the fuck am i to do
copumpkin: omg lord master mircea_popescu has decreed that the price be $500
nubbins`: anyway, there's no solution
mircea_popescu: it IS always the spring, isn't it.
mircea_popescu: so basically the canadian government actually wants to run everything or what
nubbins`: well the next logical step would be oversight as to what the tenants spend their remaining money on
asciilifeform: 'If they're taking in taxpayer dollars to provide accommodations for their tenants, there should be some oversight especially by government as to what people are living in.'
nubbins`: halfway through the conversation he interrupts me with "what are you telling me for?", followed by a toilet flushing
nubbins`: i once called this slumlord to inform him that i was getting the city to clean up the apartment's worth of possessions his workers dumped on the sidewalk, on his dime
Duffer1: I mostly specify this as a parting fuck you broadside to the MtGox troop of idiots, who thought that perhaps if they re-do the original MtGox “hack” I may have trouble. It’s cute, I guess, in the sense of a bunch of ducks trying to work together to provoke waves that’ll sink a neighbouring battleship.
asciilifeform: nubbins`: wait - what are they supposed to pocket as rent ?
nubbins`: a slum landlord owns maybe half of the houses on my street
mircea_popescu: depending on whether people use referrals or not
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it can generate either 30 btc or 20 btc
mircea_popescu: and there it is.
asciilifeform: moiety: the machine pictured in the video is just a tig welder attached to xyz arm, it seems
nubbins`: either way
nubbins`: the lel being that EFNet (eris-free network) got its name after its predecessor network delinked a server called irc.eris.<tld>
moiety: asciilifeform: i was just looking it up. the laarman prototype from earlier in feb?
nubbins`: who was the goddess of strife, chaos, and discord
asciilifeform: moiety: sintering printer typically uses the same setup as laser cutter, with a bucket full of powdered Al or whichever metal where the bed would normally go
nubbins`: so after a quick google search led me to the wikipedia page about discordia, the story behind EFNet's name is suddenly funnier
moiety: asciilifeform! did you see the molten metal 3D printer robot? and the one that can print a house in 24 hours? 3D printers aren't as good as lasers but they are still cool.
HeySteve: obamacare is using the doge meme. o tempora o mores! http://blogs.marketwatch.com/health-exchange/2014/02/26/hhs-borrows-doge-meme-to-sell-obamacare-and-elicits-a-few-groans/?mod=MW_home_latest_news&link=sfmw
mircea_popescu: so i guess you need blanks then
nubbins`: so i dropped my rpm challenge CDs off today at the record store, and they gave me a coupon for 15% off my next purchase!
moiety: aside from google image search, is there anything that i can search for a picture being wrongly used?
nubbins`: no details on the incident were released
nubbins`: the shitter bought me a bag of potato chips and two cookies as an apology yesterday ;(
moiety: santander were meant to but backed out. RBS picked up the tab but not for all branches. only some across scotland. now we have these stupid card readers and about 30 redirects to get to online banking
nubbins`: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/10664372/RBS-has-lost-all-the-46bn-pumped-in-by-the-taxpayer.html
jurov: they are
BingoBoingo: moiety: Well it was the only place to trade ATC on a website before Apocalyptic did his thing
moiety: no ne has been daft enough to trade with him have they?
moiety: btw, what was the name of r3wt's exchange?
nubbins`: we have a clothesline full of 'em
kakobrekla: doges know about the moon timezone.
mircea_popescu: if they're cats.
moiety would reply to mircea but is too busy searching the house for bulldog clips
BingoBoingo: Rome ==== the Detroit of Europe
mircea_popescu: "Rome days away from bankruptcy. Eternal city warns it will go bust for the first time since it was destroyed by Nero."
mircea_popescu: from the oldies but goldies dept : http://trilema.com/2013/the-state-banking-and-bitcoin/
nubbins`: reports of armed soldiers @ the airports
mircea_popescu: was in the fucking central square, broad daylight, 1k people around
mircea_popescu: nah, these were just dazed kids.
asciilifeform: is the traditional formula.
asciilifeform: (reclaimed in the sense of that guard)
asciilifeform: in the '90s, russian market was full of 'reclaimed' military/police hardware of that period, so not much use for 45
mircea_popescu: very respectable gun, definitely would have sold for more than its "owner", on the open market.
asciilifeform: i thought it only existed on this side of the atlantic
asciilifeform: in soviet army, losing your weapon was (theoretically) a capital offense.
mircea_popescu: not like she could have fired it anyway, the gun was a .45 and the chick was like 90 lbs
mircea_popescu: gave it to the boss next we met.
mircea_popescu: one day i went behind one of these "security agents" and took her gun right out of her holster.
mircea_popescu: they lined up about 40% chicks, and it really looked like phi kappa gamma or some shit
mircea_popescu: so they hired this ridiculous company, full of basically idiots
mircea_popescu: cluj airport, about 15 years ago. previously unsecured at all, because well... originally was secured by army, then those went out, a whole story.
mircea_popescu: right, banks, upscale retailers, the works.
asciilifeform: just like the ones at shopping malls
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: phun phact. security detail at the us army lab where i used to work was 100% rentacop
mircea_popescu: "Much of the debate has focused on the ethics and effectiveness of bringing more guns and officers to wealthier parts of Oakland."
mircea_popescu: brandished a lethal prybar and advanced toward the security guard in a threatening manner
ozbot: When Private Patrols Pull The Trigger |
mircea_popescu: http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/when-private-patrols-pull-the-trigger/Content?oid=3848954
mircea_popescu: i'd say it's about 70% settled the crimeea splits off.
asciilifeform: usg ought to send me a new passport if the damn thing splits
mircea_popescu: so i guess another 2-3-500bn is in order.
Diablo-D3: can we ban people talking about the ukraine?
asciilifeform: diametric: incidentally, you can get a real-time picture of the beam focus using an ordinary usb camera - taking care that it never sits in the sweet spot (smoked ccd)
Diablo-D3: everyone shut the fuck up
asciilifeform: so long as it converges, why the hell not.
diametric: something cheap I'm sure, the leadscrews in mine are really, really crappy.
asciilifeform: diametric: you don't need much accuracy if you fix a photocell to the platform, to measure power (since whole point of z-axis is to focus the beam ideally)
mircea_popescu: what are they made of ?
diametric: err accurate is not the word I meant
asciilifeform: diametric: my unit has z-axis with screws and belt. all one would have to do there is add a stepper with roller to turn the belt.
bones`: A few others and I have a hosting company but we're only in Philly right now
mircea_popescu: bones` like a decade of experience in the field, actual connections, actual rented floor in multiple dcs, working relationships with the dc management, the tier 1 bw providers and parts suppliers.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform just the regularly scheduled mpoe statement
asciilifeform: damn i should actually read the logs, shouldn't i
kakobrekla: endoftheworld.swf
Jere_Jones: I'd just like to reiterate that I appreciate the advice -assets gave me about trying to buy goxbtc. Thanks folks.
mircea_popescu: slander the slender salamander
kakobrekla: they are rude.
mircea_popescu: then again...
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla yeah but once we move assets there it becomes huge fish
jurov: no, iirc they offer full paid package
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla and then agency X wants to send 100gbit floods because why not.
kakobrekla: well it depends on the size i guess, we have a small alter irc network in slovenia with like 200 people and 3 or so servers, works just fine for years
mircea_popescu: then again, that'd require them extracting head from bunghole, which may prove more difficult.
mircea_popescu: it's a bitch to run them tho, because ddos.
kakobrekla: like the 15th standard you know.
kakobrekla: well, it was more of a joke and id rather not, but if it comes to it, i would.
ozbot: evoorhees on centralization - The Bitcoin Phenomenon on Vimeo
ThickAsThieves: this guy needs MPOE-PR to step in and inform the subsequent commenters who the real niggers.txt are https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=289730.msg5429845#msg5429845
ozbot: Cyprus One Year After Bank Bail-In -- the Canary That Lived - MoneyBeat - WSJ
ThickAsThieves: http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/02/28/cyprus-one-year-after-bank-bail-in-the-canary-that-lived/
Diablo-D3: they still have it for some legacy areas
ThickAsThieves: (at least for the moneybeat area)
gribble: The operation succeeded.
anddam: benkay: the bacon concept is interesting
drifton: Anyone have an opinion on the viability of profiting off of exchanging btc for ltc and vis-a-vi? Ive only been going straight btc investment as of late and ltc has me curious. Sorry for the vague question, or if it's considered off topic.
Asa9: oh what the hell - why not both?!?
ThickAsThieves: planning to plan is the most popular form of planning
benkay: that feel when a project manager cancels the meeting you scheduled to plan out the next 2 months of work
Asa9: my wife has some cake pans of popular kids mascots from the late 90s but no disney ones.
Jere_Jones: If you don't know what a bitcoin is, yeah, I understand the confusion. My wife and I do, though. Hence the hilarity.
ThickAsThieves: the cake place likely got sensitive because of doing too many mickey mouse cakes once
Jere_Jones: The B with two vertical lines?
ThickAsThieves: in the US, you can't even give shit away easily
ThickAsThieves: if the creator hasnt given up rights to it
ThickAsThieves: it's not 100% absurd to be worried about the bitcoin logo
asciilifeform: chetty: re: mind reading: 'The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of independent thought. There are therefore two great problems which the Party is concerned to solve. One is how to discover, against his will, what another human being is thinking, and the other is how to kill several hundred million people in a few seconds witho
anddam: Jere_Jones_: also the cake would be malleable
benkay: man, the derp is just as strong on hacker news as bitcointalk.org
benkay: at least their smart enough to actually go long
benkay: well, the 2013 top
ThickAsThieves: fortress bought at the top
wao-ender: well, rather find function how to re:create password instead of remember exact value of pw
benkay: gotta get out of the states
jurov: researchers already did read passwords from brain. one has to control self to not think about them
asciilifeform: chetty: if this story is true, it probably means that a picture of 'casascius coin' is included in the 'evil objects' db.
asciilifeform: 2017: 'A man who was traveling through the California Demilitarized Zone airport was stopped and harassed by the ISA after he opted out of going through the MRI scanner. The official reason for further interrogation, according to the screeners, was "We saw 'brainwallet.py' in your CPU cache, and we needed to check." '
ozbot: » TSA Detains Libertarian Blogger After ‘Seeing Bitcoin’ In His Bag Alex Jones' Infowars: Ther
chetty: A man who was traveling through Manchester, New Hampshire was stopped and harassed by the TSA after he opted out of going through a body scanner. The official reason for further interrogation, according to the screeners, was We saw Bitcoin in your bag and need to check.
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=electric%20boogaloo | Electric Boogaloo can be appended to the name of a movie to indicate a sequel. This construction is somewhat dismissive of the original work and/or...
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=electric%20boogaloo | Electric Boogaloo can be appended to the name of a movie to indicate a sequel. This construction is somewhat dismissive of the original work and/or...
jurov: BingoBoingo: I don't get the boogaloo reference
BingoBoingo: The Crimea 2 Electric Boogaloo bet has been accepted http://bitbet.us/bet/769/crimea-2-electric-boogaloo/
bitcoinpete: too bad the register can't spell "transpLant"
jurov: is pic of mr. gay-debauchery in there somewhere, too?
ThickAsThieves: "A lot of them tend to be in their 20s and 30s, they tend to be hip New Yorkers definitely with an eye for aesthetic detail – they may work in the visual arts or performing arts."
ThickAsThieves: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/02/28/gullible_hipsters_drive_beard_transpant_craze/
BingoBoingo: ThickAsThieves: I'm guessing that is going to be in the MPEx announcement
ThickAsThieves: The Forumers Almanac
bitcoinpete: ThickAsThieves: Did you read that in the almanac?
ThickAsThieves: I thought SEC arrested MPEx and closed the Bitcoin?
bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu to Luke-Jr: you're supposed to listen to it. there's a fucking difference. << priceless
bitcoinpete: catching up on the day's logs… twitter is just jammed with gox brain damage. can't take it
ThickAsThieves: they filed for Bankruptcy PROTECTION
ThickAsThieves: is the filing public somewhere?
Duffer1: lol they're trying to claim $37 per bitcoin
ThickAsThieves: "Mt.Gox learned Monday that 1.75 million bitcoins held by the company and its customers had disappeared"
ThickAsThieves: i guess that's what the media does, it breaks you if you give it weight
ThickAsThieves: and it turns into ""The note I sent to Diana was rude, unwelcoming, unprofessional and wrong ...," she said in her e-mail. "Diana and her generation are the future of this city. I wish her all the best in landing a job in this great town.""
ThickAsThieves: "I love the sense of entitlement in your generation," she wrote, then continued. "You're welcome for your humility lesson for the year. Don't ever reach out to senior practitioners again and assume their carefully curated list of connections is available to you, just because you want to build your network."
ThickAsThieves: with these diff bets and gox bets
ThickAsThieves: the timing of bitbets is really quite spooky
ThickAsThieves: where he's an ass, and that's the end of it
ThickAsThieves: thats the ass end of it
deadweasel: handle your business by doing due diligence before you place money somewhere. that's all there is to it.
deadweasel: also, they're not your fucking mommy.
ThickAsThieves: also, what if the evidence of the bet resolution is debunked? then you complain they closed it too fast?
ThickAsThieves: if they can't be instant, why pretend
wbaw: they can not be so rude to customers too
jurov: wbaw btc payments can be even hours late, and returning them is overhead for bitbet
ThickAsThieves: hey that's the name for my next album!
ThickAsThieves: nature of the beats
ThickAsThieves: but they cant stop payments to bitcoin addresses
wbaw: because they're advertising that you can, ThickAsThieves
ThickAsThieves: why make a bet after the event occurs?
wbaw: their
wbaw: so why the 1% fee & leaving bets open so late?
ThickAsThieves: you get what you want so you move to another cause?
wbaw: or the people who bet before
wbaw: so they screwed somebody
jurov: they return -1% too