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ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski: i am suspicious of these internally geared thingers
pete_dushenski: they make an 11-speed and that'd be the only change i'd make
pete_dushenski: the cheap ones being 'local' brands i'd never heard of and can't recall now
pete_dushenski: there were smokes that were actually ~less than a penny per~. i was tempted to pick up the habit then and there
pete_dushenski: i remember being impressed that pack of 20 (?) marlboros was <$1 when they'd have been >$10 here
assbot: Logged on 13-09-2015 01:19:14; ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-09-2015#1271780 << well now i must to ukr
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-09-2015#1272278 << ukr also has the cheapest smokes and absynthe (and probably liquor in general) that i can recall seeing. anywhere. ☝︎
pete_dushenski: currently reading montaigne's essays and the aeneid on gutenberg. the latter's translation is exceptional, far better than the 2 bit fucking audiobook i'm reading in parallel with it.
pete_dushenski: and now with no rust on front fenders thanks to a fortuitous shop accident that resulted in denting the hood, which needed to be painted after being replaced, and allowed me to piggyback on paint shop time and repair a cosmetic deficiency i may never have bothered with!
assbot: Logged on 13-09-2015 00:19:29; mircea_popescu: i guess they couldn't properly have called it "estic system" and be done with it
asciilifeform: 'airplane in which an american, czech, scotsman, and russian, begins to fall. scotsman suggests, 'let's swear that he who remains alive, will give the dead men 200 pounds sterling for the road to heaven, and to thank god.' they all agreed. airplane falls, everybody but the scotsman lived. at his burial, the american and the russian put 200 pounds each, like they promised. the czech comes, writes a cheque for 600 pounds, puts i
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i had one in artillery (physics) and one in field hospital (surgeon)
asciilifeform: i was in the czech embassy recently
trinque: "A thousand years of failure, a thousand years they bled. To the bear, the blitzkrieg, and the holy father, they just bowed their heads." << I don't know how accurate an assessment of the Czechs that is, but it makes me lol
ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-09-2015#1271780 << well now i must to ukr ☝︎☟︎
kakobrekla: > best source is the back pages of old (period) american magazines < here the currency on the mags changed so frequently i couldnt keep track, from din to sit to euro, prolly some dem in between.
assbot: Logged on 12-09-2015 20:57:45; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-09-2015#1271285 << i hear emplacing a workstation is the first step to building a Dark Spire of Darnkess, from which as we all know all atomic dirigibles must proceed.
ben_vulpes: i'm sure those prices had a great deal to do with the market value of the things, advertising to chumps alongside the cock lengtheners and pheromone emitters
ben_vulpes: i have a hydroformed aluminum frame because i like to taunt death.
asciilifeform: from rough study of historical trends, i have noticed that bicycles and revolvers have cost roughly the same thing for 100 years +.
kakobrekla: i bought a cheapest usable bike this spring, its 500+.
asciilifeform: i think mine was made in the 1960s.
asciilifeform: e.g., 'i paid' - 'no you didn't'
williamdunne: mircea_popescu: It certainly does, just yesterday I heard a girl maybe a few years older myself bragging (in a thick western accent) about her mother doing Cocaine and Ecstasy while heavily pregnant, and how "she turned out alright"
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i can picture some schmuck continuing to show up, but the salary cheque will not continue to get mailed out.
mircea_popescu: oh, really. i'm sure that's what it was yes.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that's when the bouncer shows you the door, aha. they had (i was told) some of these, also.
mircea_popescu: apparently the magic words of "i don't recall asking you anything" weren't invented in the us yet or something.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: when i worked, briefly, for a megacorp (it bought the little outfit i was in at the time) we were moved to a virtually EMPTY building, placed - all two dozen of us - in the middle of an EMPTY floor, having forty or so proper door-closey offices, and a flunkie was sent JUST TO WATCH THAT NO ONE MOVED INTO THEM
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i had the distinct notion that he was beheaded.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: if i hadn't set up a fresh gentoo box a year ago, from vacuum, i would not be certain that it is possible to do so today
asciilifeform: i know of no such
mircea_popescu: i have nfi why raic was anymore.
mircea_popescu: i guess they couldn't properly have called it "estic system" and be done with it ☟︎
asciilifeform: btw i take back 'inria was once useful'
mircea_popescu: i don't know what the fuck they do, past "nothing usable or useful since 1990s"
mircea_popescu: unless they add rape to the meaning of "automatique" i don't see the immigrants that interested in derping pascal.
asciilifeform: hey i hear fr is getting a new parcel of meat in
ben_vulpes: over my head, asciilifeform. as though i were five, please?
mircea_popescu: aha i caught on eventually.
mircea_popescu: <cazalla> meh seemed preddy obvious i was responding to your question and not what random nig nogs do on twitter << srsly. "Black digital inteligentsia" ? can we get back to not caring about rihanna spears or w/e it was.
asciilifeform: but somehow i doubt this is what kakobrekla's friend does.
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: thing is, i would happily take the 10k for 'make sure this box stays up and does x, we don't care what you do otherwise'
assbot: Logged on 12-09-2015 23:49:09; kakobrekla: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-09-2015#1271589 < actually i know of a few slovenians remoting to work for mericans pulling north of 10k/mo (which is 5 times what they would get here)
cazalla: meh seemed preddy obvious i was responding to your question and not what random nig nogs do on twitter
pete_dushenski: next time : specify 'that' and s/right/correct and i won't be so cofuzed
cazalla: pete_dushenski, your article i mean
pete_dushenski: "a cohort of what I would like to call the “black digital intelligentsia” has emerged. They wrestle with ideas, stake out political territory, and lead, very much in the same way that my generation did, only without needing, or necessarily wanting, a home in the Ivy League—and by making their name online."
kakobrekla: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-09-2015#1271589 < actually i know of a few slovenians remoting to work for mericans pulling north of 10k/mo (which is 5 times what they would get here) ☝︎☟︎
williamdunne: Newton Abbot has 12 people, and I'm one of them
williamdunne: mircea_popescu: Never thought I'd see my hometown mentioned on #b-a..
mircea_popescu: i had nfi ?!
mircea_popescu: phf so it is. i find it an excellent picture because it so drastically sets him apart.
mircea_popescu: i've dealt out reprimands for moving at the wrong time etc.
assbot: Logged on 12-09-2015 19:09:30; asciilifeform: i, for instance, can't think about any deep problem when in a place where human speech is happening, or bodies are in motion.
trinque: I'm going with PSU professors receiving LGBBQT sensitivity training.
phf: i remember that we were actually taught how to properly treat teachers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcZgoOyalaI amusingly i'd never seen that short on tv, it would always play during "entertainment break" when they would send us to a school movie hall to watch random stuff
assbot: Logged on 12-09-2015 18:07:41; asciilifeform: what great cultural products ought i look for from the sellers of crack ?
trinque: so I showed people how to do that, ended up kerry was some absurdly high number, bush was negative same
cazalla: i regret that high school was not similar to this place.. come each day because i want to as do other students as do other teachers, actually learn something type of thing
trinque: I once found a trivial flaw in a java applet some idiot put together for a "mock 2004 presidential election"
phf: kakobrekla: i did that grade 9 i think, which was apparently not age appropriate
mircea_popescu: yugoslovaks, fucking violent i tell you.
kakobrekla: >throwing those into teachers from the top of a entrance < o yeah i did that too. only in elementary.
cazalla: trinque, i threatened to shoot a bunch of kids at my school via icq.. made front page of local rag and blurred out face on local tv, no name though :\ probably get 10 years like that isis kid these days ☟︎
phf: we brought these all through highschool, http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Osxvvm0Yu74/hqdefault.jpg i actually do have a note in my "personal file" for throwing those into teachers from the top of a entrance
mircea_popescu: i suppose the only people in a similar position are the ex terrorist israelis.
cazalla: i brought a screwdriver in the early 90s.. confiscated, parents called
mircea_popescu: for instance : a guy i've recently talked to again after many years, who is now a reasonably respected thinker in his field,
phf: i had fake medical scripts..
mircea_popescu: well i didn't ask anybody for permission.
trinque: I was only permitted this in senior year, and unofficially
mircea_popescu: nonono, i was mentally present
trinque: I was barely mentally present, near-perfect marks and a free ride into college
mircea_popescu: (which means i averaged ~10 hours a week)
mircea_popescu: trinque throughout my hs i was what you'd call a honors student with ~1/3 attendance.
phf: there's no equivalent in u.s., i've not seen anything remotely similar yet anyway. particularly those dedicated "nerd schools"
mircea_popescu: out of these much too disparate elements i scarcely see how one who no fue ya could construct something whole in his head.
trinque: I went to a "magnet school" in TX, was bored out of my mind except for various acts of resistance through adolescence
mircea_popescu: cazalla from what i gather he went to russian public school in the 80s, which im sure is very close to romanian public school in the 80s, which has absolutely zero to do with anything you might call school in any perspective.
mircea_popescu: cazalla note tho, that the school he went to, and the school you went to, were very different beasts. i suspect you'd have loved his.
phf: i've cut classes plenty, but i don't think i've ever even contemplated quitting school, what am i going to do, sell lavash? it was kind of understood that people who were pushed out (never nobody quit because they wanted to) were losers
mircea_popescu: phf i don't mean cutting class. i mean quitting. permanently.
mircea_popescu: and to settle this once and for all : http://minigame.bz/download_button.png << say i want this. here's the gimp script that does it : http://dpaste.com/22S0MW2 it's 20 years old by now. show me the ps equivalent.
phf: i've realized that a lot of my systems anxiety comes from trying to be "filthy casual" with a lot of technology i have no business in. in my case comes from 90s tradition of buying all manner of pirated software on the way home from school. "today i'll learn 3ds max and tomorrow autocad"
mircea_popescu: people find it uncontroversial that lamp amp is better than cpu amp. i've seen people gush over 1990s state of the art computerized algebraic systems.
mircea_popescu: "my gimp 1.2 is as good as your photoshop" rms style << i still maintain pretty much any version of gimp is better than photohsop.
mircea_popescu: phf: well, i have a 2.4 box that runs "if your dodgy stack fails, this must remain" operations, like email << this design hasn't been recently reviewed i would guess.
asciilifeform: i suppose this could be on the planet in poul anderson's 'brainwave.' but not on earth.
asciilifeform: but yes, i too would like to 'go home to where we know what fractal is.'
asciilifeform: i can't picture it any other way
mircea_popescu: in a very peculiar sense that includes the sea, which is a large part of why i think la tera trema such a major point in art.
mircea_popescu: successful nonstate i guess.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well i didn't take you to the subway and i guess you didn't have the curiosity to go on own hm.
asciilifeform: interesting. when i went to c2, i did not see any crowd dense enough to even think about queues, so can't say i saw it alive.
mircea_popescu: and you propose to defend this behaviour or what am i missing ?
mircea_popescu: i know better than that. i expect so do you.
mircea_popescu: i'll tell you what it did. allow me to bring the illustration, one second.
mircea_popescu: i am satisfied with hurting and selecting.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i do not wish to teach.