asciilifeform: syphilis

asciilifeform: the sheepskin thing.

asciilifeform: eh i bet he at least emptied it.

asciilifeform: and yes, henry viii washed his (one) condom.

asciilifeform: (though early versions, apparently, did not)

asciilifeform: that it had 3 aa's in it? i know this.

asciilifeform: also it was possible to charge (yes) these things, but they tended to catch on fire

asciilifeform: we ended up getting that adapter thing, that ate 3 of what today is called 'aa'

asciilifeform: yeah in the last years there was a bit of 'i need a new flat bat' 'there's none'

asciilifeform: ah that

asciilifeform: i dunno what kind of kids mircea_popescu knew, but i only destroyed the 4.5v things, not restored.

asciilifeform: same folks who wash condoms ?

asciilifeform: who the fuck restores the latter

asciilifeform: that requires there being more somewhere.

asciilifeform: in re: other household chores - ben_vulpes, phf, mircea_popescu - when restoring old lappy batteries, what's yer favourite way to cut through ultrasonic welds in the plastic ?

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: comment was 'my algo is essentially same, and should look into the scraping tools'

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: pet read your dishwashing treatise with great interest.

asciilifeform: i still do it in thick rubber gloves, like grandfather did.

asciilifeform: ^^^

asciilifeform: ..month?

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: also wat >> 'drop garbage pickup from once per week to twice per week.'

asciilifeform: (panel is older than the house in its current shape)

asciilifeform: the one i'm posting from now, even had labels that refer to rooms which no longer exist...

asciilifeform: i dun think i've ever set foot in an american house where the breaker labels had a strong link with reality

asciilifeform: it is only possible if the ground - isn't

asciilifeform: no ground stake ?!

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: lemme guess, crossed hot and neutral

asciilifeform: even so.

asciilifeform: or what do you call'em.

asciilifeform: and a laparascope.

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes if you're the sort of fella who buys houses and builds compartments for the dogs and sons and etc. (and you are), buy a fishing set, you won't regret.

asciilifeform: well apparently ben_vulpes landed in a 'clean' one.

asciilifeform: it's why the americans made hollow walls to begin with! simple place to shove the wires.

asciilifeform: how the hell do you wire anything without 'spelunk in walls' ?

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes doesn't own a fishing rod and line ?

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: why not ? sink is right on the floor, or wat

asciilifeform: what else was missing...? indoor shitter?

asciilifeform: holy shit, ben_vulpes lived in a flat w/out a garburator even, much less dishwasher?!

asciilifeform: of the 1,001 pitfalls of riding the tanker, the magic blue mist is apparently not one.

asciilifeform: and there is ample room for it.

asciilifeform: it uses supercharger, because was built by sane folks.

asciilifeform: unlike the grass-cutter petrol 2stroke.

asciilifeform: anyway mircea_popescu is mistaken: http://www.first-hand.info/image/fig(1.1-9).png << 2stroke diesel motor does not use the crankcase for compression.

asciilifeform: i didn't mention the cost of paint jobs and debarnacling etc. either.

asciilifeform: because it is dumb in 1,001 other ways ?

asciilifeform: i see this blue every day, from the barbaric lawn machine engines etc.

asciilifeform: and how would you mix oil into lng ?!

asciilifeform: largely forced compromise in small petrol 2cycles

asciilifeform: (total loss, that is)

asciilifeform: not necessarily.

asciilifeform: y'know, the cycle. not (necessarily) the fuel.

asciilifeform: it's still a diesel engine.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 2stroke diesel

asciilifeform: what's that ?

asciilifeform: 'The local port authority has reportedly launched an investigation into the incident, with local newspapers reporting as much as $250,000 in damages.'

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: http://gcaptain.com/video-carnival-cruise-ships-prop-wash-destroys-italian-marina

asciilifeform: missing a few zeroes ?

asciilifeform: and what kind of marina can be leveled with '250,000$ in damage'

asciilifeform: did they ever invent insurance in gypsylandia ?

asciilifeform: https://gcaptain.com/video-new-view-of-carnival-vista-prop-wash-destroying-italian-marina << lulzy, from same rag

asciilifeform: so i owe him 5000, and we settle in potatoes, also without creating tx, etc.

asciilifeform: if i'm buying six antimatter bombs from thestringpuller, and nominally they cost 1000btc each but he realizes that he owed me 1000btc of iridium from asteroid, and we settle without creating btc tx, this is honest - but is not a btc transaction.

asciilifeform: thestringpuller: 'offchain transaction' is a harmless thing so long as it is not fraudulently presented as 'in bitcoin'.

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-06#1498075 << oblig thread. ☝︎

asciilifeform: but by instead passing papers/scratch'n'sniffs/magical usb thingies/etc. around.

asciilifeform: well no, not same ones, these think they can 'use bitcoin' without creating tx.

asciilifeform: they go 'i'm gonna try to make a string of bits that tells me if someone copied it' and end up in same idiot spots as copyrasts making 'copy protection' etc.

asciilifeform: the reason i even started this thread is that there is imho a 'sleep of reason breeding monsters' among folks who partake in 'physical coins' and similar.

asciilifeform: whereas walking with the paper is an invitation to everybody to knock you over the head and take the coin.

asciilifeform: if you don't trust, then no deal.

asciilifeform: if you trust the counterparty, he pgp's you an addr and you pay to that.

asciilifeform: even across the street.

asciilifeform: thestringpuller: it also isn't clear to me why anyone would want to walk around with a paper privkey.

asciilifeform: bitcoin is moved between holders by issuing a tx. attempting any other method, under the guise of 'transacting in bitcoin', is fraudulent of the sender, and idiotic of the receiver.

asciilifeform: it is altogether unclear to me how 'more descriptive' would help. subj is a dead end.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: when he drinks, i'd guess.

asciilifeform: it offers 0 advantage over sheet of paper. paper costs ~0 however, while 'magic coin' fattens worm.

asciilifeform: the hologram, faux crypto, etc. are scamatronic in that they offer 0 pill against sc4mz0r, while being quite unnecessary when trading with trusted party.

asciilifeform: whereas with 'physical coins' people imagine they have some sort of protections. which is poppycock.

asciilifeform: thestringpuller: understand, 'physical btc' is dumb because it makes promises that are physically impossible to keep. if you simply shove sheet of paper with privkey at someone, you at least have no illusions about possible pitfalls of doing it.

asciilifeform: ever been to actual village? folks pay 'in materiel', with word of honour, etc.

asciilifeform: btc doesn't even make sense in the given picture.

asciilifeform: and you haven't been 'paid in btc' until the coins land in addr for which you have sole control of privkey.

asciilifeform: thestringpuller: yes if you're playing single-shot 'dilemma'.

asciilifeform: or by sitting still.

asciilifeform: bitcoin is only working in its design envelope when moved by broadcasting actual tx.

asciilifeform: because fundamentally braindamaged.

asciilifeform: again you won't

asciilifeform: this was not clear from my observations ?

asciilifeform: because whole concept is braindamaged.

asciilifeform: thestringpuller: you won't.

asciilifeform: thestringpuller: it isn't that the shit stinks less, but that latrine with pig is educational, vs the other kind.

asciilifeform: not some village dirtpit!1111111

asciilifeform: eh this here's a high-class latrine, with imperial human pigwimminz

asciilifeform: thestringpuller: one of.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the curriculum, if you will, of 'sane hardware' consists of public rapes.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: when, e.g., mod6 goes into the forest to teach woman how to shoot a turkey, he presumably does not do it because the individual turkey was important.

asciilifeform: not so many hardwaretronic scams.

asciilifeform: i do grasp. this crud tends to go away very quickly.

asciilifeform: good student project.