BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> mine are going into the boxes proper. q is whether it is worth turning into a catalogue item. << I see it hard to imagine how people could want to vacation here without such a contrivance in the box they leave behind to colocate
a111: Logged on 2017-12-11 13:20 deedbot: http://www.thedrinkingrecord.com/2017/12/11/el-primero-domingo-en-montevideo-for-the-midwestern-rube/ << Bingo Blog - El Primero Domingo En Montevideo For The Midwestern Rube
pete_dushenski: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-11#1749327 << BingoBoingo not sure i properly congratulated you on pulling the chute! digging the reportage thus far.
mircea_popescu: the WTC made that point quite well.
asciilifeform: fire truck with petrol could cremate, theoretically, whole streets.
asciilifeform: they've worked, typically, at musketry range.
asciilifeform: not as if most of the shooters made use of max rifle distance.
asciilifeform: but nope. they are watching mental movie.
asciilifeform: if folx were going for actual efficacy, they'd be arming themselves with petrol-in-pressurewasher, or at the most high tech -- gasses.
mircea_popescu: there's a list of cases where "attacked party produced more damage to attacker than sustained self". it's remarkably short, and it's remarkably tapering -- much more cases in the 80s than in the 2010s.
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: 1986 FBI Miami shootout - Wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_FBI_Miami_shootout>; The 1986 Miami Shootout : The gunfight that changed law ...: <http://www.guns.com/2011/08/24/the-1986-miami-shootout-the-gunfight-that-changed-law-enforcement-nationwide/>; 1986 Miami FBI Shoot Out - YouTube: <https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D04dUCT-qO3c>
mircea_popescu: (also amusingly, nobody, not even a latter day tsp, dared make the obvious point -- moral assassin, the hotel guard.)
mircea_popescu: makes one wonder how many of these weren't disturbed by "security", never shot anyone.
mircea_popescu: it is a sad comment on the general utility and efficacity of "the state" that had the officious intermeddler "security guard" not intervened, dood probably would have watched the whole concert off his fence.
asciilifeform: even the 'slow and patient' vegas fella recently.
asciilifeform: the rub is that typical 'postalist' is not a thinking agent, on a mission, but a d00d watching a sort of movie inside his head
mircea_popescu: anarchist jargon file of the elders of sinai hospital!
asciilifeform: one could easily fill a thick book with these. ( in 1970s someone ~did~, but usg unhappened it and composed 'anarchist cookbook' full of items optimized to kill user )
mircea_popescu: or... wait for train to almost pull in, shoot, keep mental bets between your multiple personalities as to whether falling into pit from pressure of squirming mob will do more damage than gunfire./
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, the fucking fun that could be had. "buy gun, carry on person, use metro all day long, wait for a power outage where train goes dark"
asciilifeform: 1 type of idjit copies hollywood shootout, wastes crate of ammo, kill 0-dozen . other type of idjit copies camelfuckollywood, builds pipe bomb etc , kills ~0
asciilifeform: phunphakt, it's the cheaper type in usa
asciilifeform: approx as lame as most of the small arms people , who (with a few notable exceptions ) manage to put entire crate of ammo to waste and maybe injure 4 or 5
mircea_popescu: "i can scarcely apprehend the confusion of ideas" etc.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, speaking of orc techs, could oyu believe that schmuck in new york ? so... in preference of walking into gun shop, buying gun, killing half the town, this dude "made" bomb, which sure as fuck cost more than a walk-in in terms of effort and more than a grand in terms of dough, to... burn himself with it.
asciilifeform: can count ~these~ on fingers of 1 hand.
asciilifeform: my understanding is that even the isis candidates do it to get fucked well
mircea_popescu: "she was a (((journalist))) (((working))) in irak, the dumb fucking bitch. man that wet thud of her brain on concrete was fucking satisfying, i went back into the foxhole and rubbed myself raw"
mircea_popescu: suppose you're 16yo girl. are you going to a) tell your mom you hate her, which is transgressive except for how she read you were gonna do that in a book when you were 6 ; or b) join isis so as to shoot your classmate in the face by the time you're both 24 ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you don't understand how the cuntbrain works.
mircea_popescu: it's what they do 10-20 years before beaching over on okcupid, as best as my xenomorph psychology studies dept can explain
asciilifeform: i'm still not convinced that spamism is anything but 'fat-powered' item . likely, the chumpers dun have a hundy between them, collectively
mircea_popescu: in fact, it works so well i expect even idiocy a la http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-12#1749817 delivers. the quality of the chumps is so fucken low...
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu's ? or the females-with-turtles-emulator-service
mircea_popescu: anyway, turns out the under-30 female crowd is nuts about baby turtles
asciilifeform: for a sec i thought they did a formal surrender.
asciilifeform: lol they unkickbanned it ?!
mircea_popescu: in other sads, fetlife profile now getting >100 pieces of mail a day. da fuck am i gonna do, assign slave to manage it ?
asciilifeform: mine are going into the boxes proper. q is whether it is worth turning into a catalogue item.
mircea_popescu: as to the above : these are marginal schmucks! their only chance to matter is to go be meaningful in faraway lands.
asciilifeform: not only radiates. but makes life far too easy for the 'control vertical and horizontal' busybodies.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: bad idea, you ~really~ dun want external cabling to these.
a111: Logged on 2014-06-04 00:08 asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the buggers' traditional defense is to pretend that the event was a non-event - or, if this is impractical, to continue living in an imaginary world where they 'scooped' the story first, and all of the 'unsanctioned' discussion never happened.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: their strategy is http://btcbase.org/log/2014-06-04#700916 solidly today as in 2014.
mircea_popescu: (speaking of which -- bitcoin DID overperform Berkshire over the interval. by... somewhat of a margin.)
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, in other productive discussions that never were, i expect NOT A SINGLE ONE of the various "experts" in their own mind, economists, political theorists, whatnot will actually engage http://trilema.com/2017/the-ecu/ ; much like buffett "couldn't find shorts" back in the days of http://trilema.com/2014/an-era-ends-today-a-new-era-starts-today/ and just as http://trilema.com/2015/the-harry-potter-challenge/ never happe
asciilifeform: and incidentally i oughta ask the folx tuned in, whether there is demand for mass-produced mounting kit for FG-in-1U , that'd include this item + mechanical dildo for hanging from a pci slot bracket.
asciilifeform: speaking of passive actives, asciilifeform found that FG runs ok ( it wants just 8mA @ 5v, recall ) from a https://archive.is/P9vC1 contrievance . a la 1990s serial mice. this seems useless until you look inside server and notice the convenient two rs232 headers in there.
mircea_popescu: "that's the state's job, man, to make sure!" ie, exact empire.
mircea_popescu: right, that's it. he just dun want to there be any jews. clearly unites nazi antisemitism with soviet antisemitism with etcetera. socialism, ie, dear lord protect us dumbasses from our betters.
mircea_popescu: yeah, no offensive jews, as discussed in the http://trilema.com/2013/the-dead-jew-and-the-raped-girl/
mircea_popescu: in the very strict sense of "anyone whose name you'd see in schoolbooks"
mircea_popescu: i suspect actual item orc wants is a land where there's no smart people.
asciilifeform: i dun see the 'life was so inconceivably sweet before the fr rev' d00d as so different.
mircea_popescu: above and besides the "worker's paradise" as described in badly penned fiction of the recently literate cca 1910s.
mircea_popescu: it's not altogether clear to me that he wants anything for himself,
asciilifeform: ( possibly interesting that the ancients knew about the sin of 'just wanting', and hence fables about wish-granting sessions Gone Horridly Wrong etc )
mircea_popescu: so he's not eschewing anything, he's just as pantsuit as the pantsuited hilarity herself.
mircea_popescu: but i am convinced that strictly, very and absolutely strictly the only reason why mr adrian crisan is spending his afternoon writing up that and then xeroxing it in preference of say "editing wikipedia" or "working for google" as a "moderator" is that he does not perceive how the later would deliver him more usg empire per unit effort than the former.
mircea_popescu: the dedication of the imperial peons is remarkable, worthy of a greater goal as it may find itself.
mircea_popescu: so to get back to mr crisan quoted above : the reason he isn't sitting atop a computer/car/hairblower/starbucks coffee cup is that he doesn't yet understand HOW such item would forward / is requisite for his notion of "a republic" == usgstan. because that is ABSOLUTELY ALL he is interested in, and will give no half a spare cycle to any other consideration, period and fuck you.
mircea_popescu: this understanding is judicious : unless "the state" manages to get dosh out of india or whatever the fuck to pay living wages for people at home to be "british citizens" there ain't gonna be no fucken empire!
mircea_popescu: (dude's idea of the progressive republic that the reactionary evil men don't let good folk build is a state where it's illegal to pay your debts. his wife inquires whence will people be paid [because evidently everyone's employed by the state, it is after all 1880s romania], and he says that's the state's fucking problem, what's it for!)
mircea_popescu: the winner part for this discussion being "EFIMIȚA: Dacă n-o mai plăti niminea bir, soro, de unde or să aibă cetățenii leafă?
asciilifeform recalls the trilema re subj
mircea_popescu: well, litmi as the researcher decides. but to my eyes, the simple fact that he imagines this is how democracy works as a statal matter ("dragi concetateni" is "beloved fellow citizens", ie smacking very much of "les trois glorieuses", not that he'd know) is enough.
asciilifeform: i imagine 1 simple litmus would be to learn whether d00d in the end did buy a crapple.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i am laughing at him because of many other things ; included among them that he DIDNT eschew buying comp, simply did not understand what it was.
asciilifeform: real person. and they dun make'em nomoar.
mircea_popescu: why ? why would a dude too dumb to distinguish facebook from the internet do this ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, i had no fucking idea, back in 2010, what a big deal a random photograph of mailboix spam will become in not even a decade. but it IS a huge deal. consider -- that guy, who IS NOT the proponent, WROTE!!! by hand!!! ie just like http://trilema.com/2017/of-ducks-and-lameness/ !! so as to stuff my mailbox with xerocopies.
mircea_popescu: there will never be a bn generations of humans.
asciilifeform: ( renewed interest in phages, since '90s, because -- quite unlike synthetic antibacterial -- no meaningful resistance, the cat and mouse have been fighting for million+ yr )
mircea_popescu: similarily, we imagine the usg is a thing, independent and of itself, rather than correctly understanding "usg is the PRODUCT of what the orcs will believe, very much in the http://trilema.com/2014/la-florida-and-other-places/ sense ; usg is what's left after all the items impossible as far as orcs are concerned were removed ; much like byzantium was "what's left after we eliminated everything the bulgarians wouldn't buy".
a111: Logged on 2017-08-11 18:37 mircea_popescu: this is how it manages the inapproximable "whisks" of meaning that latin-style then has so much trouble noting down.
mircea_popescu: ie, we imagine "ringworm is a thing", independent and of itself, rather than correctly understanding "ringworm is the PRODUCT of epitelium cells, it is the long whisp remaining out of specific denials", VERY much a http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-11#1697164 item.
mircea_popescu: it's a very similar disbelief to the "what the fuck makes epitelial cells admit ringworm?!?!?!"
a111: Logged on 2016-01-28 12:46 asciilifeform: i do wonder, do the 'basic income' folks simply not understand the hierarchical role of money? or think that it can be magicked away? or do not, but lie about it ?
mircea_popescu: HOW exactly they do this is incomprehensible. but consider : guy who was 3rd echelon politruk under shoemaker ; guy who was too dumb / poorly connected to make anything of the 90s, resurfaces in 2010! with a "proposal" which consists of "here's this adaptation of usg-isms as i understand them".
mircea_popescu: a, not at all. those existed, in the 90s.
asciilifeform: i suppose this story went the same way ?
trinque: yep, trb node with the mighty banhammer vpatch
a111: Logged on 2017-12-12 21:48 trinque: http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/0BSH9/?raw=true << meanwhile check out the worm-hydra chatting up one of my nodes
trinque: http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/0BSH9/?raw=true << meanwhile check out the worm-hydra chatting up one of my nodes
trinque: heh, cups was not set to start at boot, and the box's uptime was so long I never noticed
trinque will run it within the hour
trinque: danielpbarron: hm, didn't get a printout. possibly that didn't come back up on the new drive.
jhvh1: danielpbarron: The operation succeeded.
BingoBoingo: The meeting I have been frequenting occurs in giant catholic church, Dracaena trees outside
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Mostly the same things. Family, work, trudging the walk that is life, the programs, etc
BingoBoingo: Also like back home they celebrate sober birthdays with various treats. So far there have been delicious brownies and giant chocolates
asciilifeform: what do they speak about
BingoBoingo: Well, they keep the opening ceremonies short, there are no time limits on speaking, and the meeting ends when everyone who wanted to speaks. Other than the lack of time pressure much more the same than different.
BingoBoingo: Also, the local accent is beginning to break into discrete works as opposed to noise. The epic 2.5-3 hour AA meetings here have been an invaluable opportunity to listen to a variety of local speakers one at a time.
BingoBoingo: So far so fun. Gradually shifting from cold contacting to contacting the referred. The weather is still unbeatable, and the Brazilian stoners have departed.
BingoBoingo: En otra cosas: A meeting scheduled for tomorrow morning y entonces the venezualas have referred another firm, meeting to be scheduled
asciilifeform: i specifically exclude devices like xilinx and altera series with ~built-in~ pcie -- these are not, properly speaking, fpga
asciilifeform: but meanwhile-er, in not-at-all-noose, asciilifeform briefly looked into the question of what-would-it-take to make a pci-e FG . found ( e.g. https://archive.is/dGtBI and elsewhere, for the curious ) that it is quite impossible to do with lattice 'ice' or any other small fpga; the complexity is bookcase-length ( supposing one could even ~get~ the req'd docs, many are not only payware but protected via disinfo-flooding )
a111: Logged on 2017-12-12 04:22 mircea_popescu: aaand in other ancient trilemas, http://trilema.com/2009/de-mogulibus/
asciilifeform: ^ uses the 20y.o. nonconstanttimersa privkeyraper. which worx great still.
asciilifeform: meanwhile, https://archive.is/uL4b5 << usg burns yet another of $infinity ssl decrypt methods, to push 'Disable RSA encryption!'
asciilifeform: meanwhile in 'The Internet of the Future' ( as pictured in http://www.loper-os.org/?p=208 ) noose : https://www.meo.pt/internet/internet-movel/telemovel/pacotes-com-telemovel << and also it lies to archive.is , so screenshit : http://www.loper-os.org/pub/plebenet.jpg
ben_vulpes: they even talk about never having vetted 'crypto-' related securities!
asciilifeform: the pinoy earlier muchly moarinteresting
a111: Logged on 2017-10-18 14:58 asciilifeform: ( the sad thing re nfs co, is that it is in fact a kolhoz, quite like amazon's and the rest, but more ancient and built by actual men, vs 'millenial' scum, and so it actually ~works~, and delivers on the promise -- you don't own your hdd, BUT you never have to go down from a dead hdd; you own no ip; BUT no ddos; etc. it however IS STILL A KOLHOZ , with the complacency and inevitable day of doom that comes with this. )
a111: Logged on 2017-10-18 14:20 asciilifeform: and neither of these is a bug, or will ever be fixed, nfs co’s. ddosproofing relies on the dynamic ip shenanigans
mircea_popescu: wtf nonsense dns do these people use ? dig doesn't produce an ip ?!
asciilifeform: ( the actual domain loads the thing. the nfs domain also loads. but each gets different ip ~every hour , they have in-house 1990s-era homebrew crapflare item )
asciilifeform: i suspect these get sucked out of google's image finder thing automagically
asciilifeform: aha, as far as these go.
BingoBoingo: <mats> i keep seeing 'traumatic brain injury' in your statements, BingoBoingo << Well, got anybetter short forms for "The Boingo ISP"?
mircea_popescu: aaand in other basics for the learners of romanian, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vEiR6Rb92M
a111: Logged on 2017-12-12 03:59 mircea_popescu: yeah. possibly though rule to always put addressee name in line when sending encrypted matter may be useful nevertheless.
trinque: there's no wallet op that takes an hour
a111: Logged on 2017-12-12 03:27 asciilifeform: often the link pops up hour or moar after the invocation, and i end up clicking, expecting traditional (i.e. plaintext) deedbot material
a111: Logged on 2017-12-12 03:27 asciilifeform: trinque: i've wondered for some time , is the thing where your walletron throws pgpciphered matter into the greater void, as in e.g. http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-12#1749739 , without the addressee's name in the line -- deliberate design choice ?
trinque: looks like deeds was the only thing that cared.
trinque: lobbes: that is probably hung up in dns purgatory. my hop from namecheap to namesilo just took, and namesilo didn't slurp all the old records.
mircea_popescu: at least at teh time, the definitive work on romania.
ben_vulpes: not scary yet, can't recognize more than 80% of the alphabet or get safeties off firearms
mircea_popescu: yeah. possibly though rule to always put addressee name in line when sending encrypted matter may be useful nevertheless.
ben_vulpes: the linked one is not one of those "hours later" instances tho
mod6: <+asciilifeform> congrats mod6 << thanks for the blog posts!
asciilifeform: often the link pops up hour or moar after the invocation, and i end up clicking, expecting traditional (i.e. plaintext) deedbot material
asciilifeform: trinque: i've wondered for some time , is the thing where your walletron throws pgpciphered matter into the greater void, as in e.g. http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-12#1749739 , without the addressee's name in the line -- deliberate design choice ?
trinque: could see the former, "look kid, your language takes saying it twice to understand irae"
trinque: can't tell if the translation is just macroexpanding "dies irae" with the "dreadful day" or if there's another "illa"
trinque: is the "illa" there not "they" or "those", as in referring to the subjects at end of the first line?
trinque: http://www.preces-latinae.org/thesaurus/Hymni/DiesIrae.html << neat, found full text
trinque: mircea_popescu: will put that in the study queue. something about visions of angry, loosened/secularized days, maybe? gotta cram more tenses into my skull.
trinque: lobbes: give it another pull
a111: Logged on 2017-11-08 21:13 lobbes: and yeah, I overlooked that I apparently had to also remove expiration on the sub -explicitly- (via gpg --edit-key). Even though it was showing the sub as 'expiration: none' after I had removed expiration on the pub way back when
mircea_popescu: so i re-watched la grande belezza for like the twelfth time. it's possibly the greatest film ever made. or maybe i'm just slow -- for instance, only now did it finally occur to me that the giulio moneta, "uno dei dieci latitanti piu ricercati del mondo" was in fact a straight reference to m m denaro.
mircea_popescu: the very notion of PROPER sexual contact.
asciilifeform: Obama White House tweeted out his earliest tweets, however, conveying the false impression that signing up was easy ...'
asciilifeform: 'He also unwittingly became caught up in the news in 2013 when he attempted to sign up for health insurance on HealthCare.gov, the then-new website for Obamacare. He described the experience in a series of tweets, noting at first that he was successful in setting up an account. But then he ran into problems in completing the sign up, mirroring the experience of millions of users, who faced glitches in the site’s earliest days. The
ben_vulpes: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/ryan-lizza-of-the-new-yorker-fired-for-improper-sexual-contact/2017/12/11/3d7da174-deb7-11e7-8679-a9728984779c_story.html << the vigorous contestations begin!
mod6: sure. i'll im just looking for the correct way to set up an environment.
mod6: ya. it's in the logs. i can dig it up if needed. but i believe my problem to be environmental and somehow to related to adacore.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-11 21:58 mod6: this was supposidly because im running 2015 adacore. which i can buy. but have had even less success with Adacore 2016 and 2017. not to say that I won't get the incantaiton correct at somepoint, but for now, I can't build it successfully.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-11 21:56 mod6: <+asciilifeform> incidentally folx: each of you who considers himself 'graduate' of an ffa chapter, consider signing << fwiw, I have held back signing on ch1 since I can not still build it out of the box, successfully.
fromloper: I had a registered nickname on freenode a while ago, I'll try to remember the password
fromloper: I see. I was trying to reverse-engineer snap4 from the source code but postponed it due to lack of time.
asciilifeform: fromloper: not published as such. but was in my docs pile next to the actual docs.
fromloper: the macroinstruction set doc was actually published as a dead tree book?
asciilifeform: Framedragger: not only read, but have the dead tree
fromloper: this seems to be Symbolics' internal docs for the Ivory. are they sufficient to develop a clone? I've tried to find previous discussions of this particular subset of docs in the logs but didn't find anything.
mircea_popescu: you know, exactly like the ww2 generation did.
mircea_popescu: i propose in a decade or two we all retire and live off the auctioning of memorabilia.
asciilifeform: i have 2x a 'массово габаритный макет' if you will , of the FG pcb , also prolly auctionfodder candidate
mircea_popescu: now if only we had a bitbet to lose our shit betting on what eventual price the shit ends up sold at...
asciilifeform: oh hey the auction thing is interesting
mircea_popescu: im not even sure there exist that many shops which keep that much cordage around altogether.
mircea_popescu: this discussion spurred me to realise that eg my 4k pile of high-quality coarse cordage is thereby worth like... 50mn ECu or so, nominally ? leaving how it would prolly sell for more than 100% (duh), that's likle... a toyota's worth of IMAGINARY coarse cordage ?
lobbes: danielpbarron, sounds like a plan. Lemme know if you wanna settle via eulora vs deedbot. Either way I'm in the mines atm, I can settle stuff tonight though
mod6: And I'm taking the time to explain why I have not.
mod6: I only mention this again simply because this is the 2nd time I've seen alf ask for sigs.
mod6: <+trinque> would probably be useful to say which restrictions. << it's in the logs.
mod6: this was supposidly because im running 2015 adacore. which i can buy. but have had even less success with Adacore 2016 and 2017. not to say that I won't get the incantaiton correct at somepoint, but for now, I can't build it successfully.
mod6: There was some commenting out of the Restrictions that I needed to do. If/when I get a successful environment to build it, then will sign.
mircea_popescu: not even sure what they;'re worth by now, but prolly a benji or so.
mod6: <+asciilifeform> incidentally folx: each of you who considers himself 'graduate' of an ffa chapter, consider signing << fwiw, I have held back signing on ch1 since I can not still build it out of the box, successfully.
lobbes: Ftr, these reduced fees will be applied retroactively for all Q4 billz. For next year, I'm thinking I may switch to the "only pay once you hit certain hour threshold" model.
mircea_popescu: that moment when there's three different singlet earrings on your coffee table and you can't find your spare camera battery among them
mircea_popescu: tis wise to undershoot early and keep the loot for later.
mircea_popescu: the principal consideration here being that if you charge more than maybe a quarter or so, you're basically paying for someone to make a competitor.
mircea_popescu: seems like... two degrees of magnitude off. unless i'm fucking the math up.
lobbes: Alternatively, there's always the traditional % off of sale. But iirc the fees were introduced to curb spamming in channel of 'derp' auctions
mircea_popescu: lobbes you might want to reconsider thouse ; iirc they were pegged back when btc was 1k or so.
mircea_popescu: shinohai nah. BUT! i did encounter a massive old world item, which i will presently show. though other thinjhs in queue. so after that.
lobbes: For people in #t who may not be aware. (The fees only apply to those who start an auction. Bids are always phree): http://logs.minigame.bz/2017-09-11.log.html#t01:43:33
lobbesbot: AUCTION # 163: The very notebook displayed in http://trilema.com/2017/of-ducks-and-lameness/ ! Free shipping anywhere in the world included. Heard: 1mn from danielpbarron overbidding lobbes Ending: 2017-12-18 20:43:32 UTC (167 hours 22 mins)
mircea_popescu: trinque word! /me is like actually looking around the house for more shit to sell!
shinohai: I like the door facades in that house mircea_popescu ... what does kitchen look like/consist of ?
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron rather, lets see what happens first, 3 days pass or 10mn ECu become worth more than a car.
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: who was the guy who wanted one ?
mircea_popescu: i guess i did, at that. poor slavegirls, how they slave, literally, over a hot stove only to be taken for granted.
mircea_popescu: o damn, have i forgot to mention the slave-made bread ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform to round out the mental image, smoked salmon, grana padano, pepper slices and pinot grigio (delle venezie, igt) spritzed with san pelegrino and ice.
asciilifeform: they won't swivel ( or eventually, for that matter , turn ) if not lubricated. and mircea_popescu did find that monkeystani folx dun believe in maintenance..
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: was it one of those affairs where the windmills swivel ?
mircea_popescu: (the wind power plant still unmoved. they missed out on like 30% of all the power they're ever gonna generate this year, because of this lulz. i do not believe it's a genuine technological item anymore.)
mircea_popescu: TIME TO CACKLE MENACINGLY AT THE FREE WORLD!!111
mircea_popescu: aaanyway, so i'm standing here on balcony perched up on this hillside while the winds gust all around bending the palms almost to the ground. the sky is mostly clear, with beautiful cloud coloring work.
diana_coman: funnier still walking around with it; fwiw the text reads though as if it actually starts somewhere in the 4th paragraph
mircea_popescu: diana_coman now imagine me with the beard buyinbg it
mircea_popescu: ppl want to follow its auction list can just join there.
lobbesbot: AUCTION # 163: The very notebook displayed in http://trilema.com/2017/of-ducks-and-lameness/ ! Free shipping anywhere in the world included. Heard: 1 from lobbes Ending: 2017-12-18 20:43:32 UTC (167 hours 57 mins)
mircea_popescu: so if it's fiddy bux to ship, and 1e9 ECu to the Bitcoin, it then follows anything under 3mn is actually a loss.
lobbesbot: AUCTION # 163 STARTED by mircea_popescu: The very notebook displayed in http://trilema.com/2017/of-ducks-and-lameness/ ! Free shipping anywhere in the world included. Opening: 1 coppers Ending: 2017-12-18 20:43:32 UTC (168 hours)
mircea_popescu: !QAuction 1 168 The very notebook displayed in http://trilema.com/2017/of-ducks-and-lameness/ ! Free shipping anywhere in the world included.
lobbes: I'll add the aggregate 'filesize' of the zips requested to their 'tab' and work out payment later on down the line. Probably will be the '1 satoshi per Mb' rate to be called once past a certain threshold
lobbes: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-11#1749504 << not yet. My current idea is to post a plaintext list of all zipped urls on my www. People can curl/grep what they are interested in and submit either a list of urls or a single url to lobbesbot via !Qarchive and then be sent a download link.
asciilifeform: ( i deliberately made no effort to help vless savages , this time, with ready-made tarballs or the like )
mircea_popescu: you know, usg politruks trying to abuse the legal system to harass males for no reason.
mircea_popescu: oh in other lulz : so the whole "$metoo" charade finally came to conclusion, now that us needs un to mediate korea suddenly usg.blue main gal at un is derping about how "$metoo was all about trying to get trump" ?
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-11#1749440 << saw a civillian windows machine earlier today, it was a show! two different antiviri, firefox took ~5 minutes to load a page, went dark 5 times in the interval, it was something else.
asciilifeform: sorta the point of writing, neh
asciilifeform: meanwhile, in trilemalottery, http://trilema.com/2014/the-complexity-of-life-a-triad/#comment-123868
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I'll have to try that the next windy night
mircea_popescu: taking a line out is the largest non-tiny bit ; after taking two lines out.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-11 18:07 BingoBoingo: Lol, yeah. The shirt covered area is still pale, but it did not detract from how impressed the Brazilian girls of were with my magic gringo power of tolerating ~15 C temperatures on the bare skin
BingoBoingo: Typically moto with rubbermaid storage container strapped to the back pulls up, hails me from a clearly not thief distance and requests directions.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I have given so many people directions over the weekend. Primarily... Delivery drivers.
asciilifeform: diana_coman: the useless line will be thrown out, and diana_coman will be credited in the next mailbag.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo lulz of all time, a while back : cop pulls over, asks driver if she knows what the speed limit is. before she can answer i ask him if he knows the way to so and so, which he proceeds to explain. we... leave.
diana_coman: asciilifeform, fwiw I read it as in went through it line by line and with pencil and paper; ran it too at the end, played a bit around with tests and that; and since we are at this, nitpick: in FZ_Swap why T:=X if already initialised at declaration or what am I missing of Ada in there?
a111: Logged on 2017-12-11 17:58 lobbes when 18, visited DR with Dominican co-workers at the time. Forgot to reapply sunscreen after entering ocean one afternoon. Skin was peeling and oozing for ~2 weeks afterwards
BingoBoingo: <mats> oh yeah, small island nation << Also azn, so they care about trivia. Latinos however only care about pretense of the trivia and stand down when ignored.
asciilifeform is addressing this mainly to folx who ~already~ took the time.
asciilifeform: do the exercises ( where i marked 'if you do not fully get this, get out a notebook and pencil ' etc 0
asciilifeform: in other lulz, ffa series has been very, very, well... loaded? ( 'read' is not the word, i have nfi if anybody other than apeloyee read it )
mircea_popescu: why astonishing ? they do furs well.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: One would think, superficial observation suggests thing leather, but the price anywhere else in the world suggest vinyl
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: surely you can tell leather from vinyl with naked eye / finger
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: as far as i can see , linked turd is entirely 'hey let's try and make paper-btc the way we did paper-au' usg gambit
BingoBoingo ended up getting a local style maybeleather/maybevinyl hat
mircea_popescu: i bet 100% of those involved with promoting the idiocy are lawyers, because watch out when the suing starts.
mircea_popescu: not that they perceive their obligation to actually come here on hands and knees after this utter failure to mean or matter.
BingoBoingo: Hopefully the end of the "expo cannabis" means more interesting travelers begin passing through the hostel.
BingoBoingo: Meeting up with some venezualan girls tonight who also do the small business thing.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-11 15:42 mats: lots going on for mats, i'm trying to make my way to .tw within a year, then hk. futzing with student visa right now
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-11#1749400 << are they of the people who actually give a shit ?