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VariaVarietatis: BingoBoingo: noticed you liked baseball did Babe Ruth really point out where he was going to hit homeruns before batting is that just
a folk tail?
BingoBoingo: It would be adorable.
A little hatchback putting out soot with the best of them
BingoBoingo can't wait for the kits to make
a VW Golf "Roll Coal" come out
mircea_popescu: "So those vehicles -- 11 million of them and counting -- are damaged goods. They will *never* be able to meet environmental regulations. That means either (
a) they'll need to be taken off the road or (b) environmental regulations will need to be rewritten to include
a carve-out for VW diesel owners." << or ship them to pakistan.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: So, right there, VW diesel owners have
a pretty ironclad case for what boils down to speculative financial compensation: the difference between what the cars 'would have been worth' if this flaw hadn't been exposed and what they *are* worth -- which is zero, if only because no one in their right mind would buy one (and in many cases reale may now be forbidden by law) << what ?
assbot: Logged on 27-09-2015 22:06:11; trinque: I've written
a nice little parser in ply that'll handle that and also messages to interact with the buy/sell board.
assbot: [L] SFYL pending. Captain of the industry TradeFortress reboots 'inputs.io' as 'wallet.la' after previously losing $1.2M worth of Bitcoin in
a "hack". : Buttcoin ... (
http://bit.ly/1RaosrR )
trinque: I've written
a nice little parser in ply that'll handle that and also messages to interact with the buy/sell board.
☟︎ Naphex: pete_dushenski: the annoying captchas are there too get rid of bots; since xotika is mostly all backend the site is just
a thin client to the backend
HeySteve: given the bot thing, that the site was
a honeypot from the getgo seems less far-fetched
HeySteve: was doing
a bit of gardening there, it's
a lazy sunday for me
mircea_popescu:
a stork's flying around holding an old man in its beak
mircea_popescu: they were probably the magnum opus of some ambitious intern wanting to be vp / dubious hire
a la charles ryan dude implementing ai in java
pete_dushenski: "Patsh zich in tuchis und schrei "hooray" - Said to
a child who complains he/she has nothing to do (slap your backside and yell "hooray")"
pete_dushenski: so sure, 75% more than that sounds about right for
a 'happy ending'
pete_dushenski: fuck me is that
a mint to pay for
a dinner with
a gal. why not use one of those 'sugar daddy' websites ?
mircea_popescu: turns out you didn't know all the vocabulary in b-
a logs, either >D
mircea_popescu: let alone that bitcoin is and was from the onset conservativism in
a pill and rejection of two centuries of "progress" in the most absolute form imaginable.
mircea_popescu: "With conservatism Bitcoin would never existed at all. If all humans would be conservative we would still be living in caves. Conservatism is
a decease."
gabriel_laddel: ben_vulpes: to be clear - I've "banged together" nothing, unless you want to count
a patch allowing one to use truetype fonts. The majority of my work is assembling obtuse packages for noobz with justification as to *why* certain decision were made.
assbot: Logged on 26-09-2015 21:23:16; hanbot: i seek an honest yiddish proficient to tell me if there's seriously
a word that'd sanely translate to "write-up" in english
assbot: Logged on 26-09-2015 15:56:05; danielpbarron: and even if you can find
a place to sit, eventually police start to roll by at increasingly frequent intervals
assbot: Logged on 26-09-2015 15:54:22; danielpbarron: in new york city, there are spikes on any public facing surface that might have otherwise been
a suitable place to sit
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: i am thoroughly mystified as to what is happening in this photo << the woman is being denied sensation and, inasmuch as identity is
a formal matter, identity.
hanbot: i seek an honest yiddish proficient to tell me if there's seriously
a word that'd sanely translate to "write-up" in english
☟︎ pete_dushenski: "Royal Tiffany is 26. Born in Naples, she currently lives in Rome. She studied business and marketing, works as
a secretary" << this is where your 'marketing', 'social sciences' and 'environmental sciences' degrees are going to land you, girls. rt is just blazing the trail for yous.
pete_dushenski: "An investigation is underway as to whether US military personnel tried to get the government to foot the bill for
a total of $96,576 (£63,268) spent on strippers in Las Vegas. The Pentagon's Inspector General is also looking into claims the personnel tried to expense $952,258 (£623,838) spent in casinos."
pete_dushenski: ;;later tell heysteve i'll pay you 0.1 btc for
a picture of
a picture of gavin's head with your finest backdoor damage on it.
danielpbarron: they think you are calling for
a ride or something
pete_dushenski: danielpbarron if you're pretending to actually have
a conversation, i've found that this trick *still* works. at least at airport in '5min' waiting zone. can stay there 15min+ if on phone lol
danielpbarron: apparently the trick to staving off an interrogation is pretending to use
a cell phone, although this was years ago -- these days even bums have cell phones
jurov: there surely is
a patent about spikes retracting on payment
danielpbarron: and even if you can find
a place to sit, eventually police start to roll by at increasingly frequent intervals
☟︎ danielpbarron: i only really noticed this when I foolishly tried to spend the night there without having
a place to stay
danielpbarron: in new york city, there are spikes on any public facing surface that might have otherwise been
a suitable place to sit
☟︎ assbot: The Obamas welcome Xi Jinping and his wife for
a state dinner – in pictures | US news | The Guardian ... (
http://bit.ly/1LTCXM0 )
punkman: "Paquete subscribers pay between $1 and $3 per week" "In addition to the subscription fees, revenue for El Paquete comes from
a classifieds section called "Revolico." Sellers pay to list their items, and you can get
a premium listing if you pay more. Revolico is the cash cow of El Paquete."
HeySteve: there was
a linked vid of mike and gavin in
a pub answering questions
HeySteve: probably, the something awful guys found
a couple in brazil I think, to make the infamous 2 girls 1 cup vid
HeySteve: atm there is
a vile thread on reddit praising Gavin - and I mean vile for reddit
shinohai: HeySteve: nice ... i wonder if she would shit on
a picture of gavin for btc?
danielpbarron: i too must use
a winbl0ws machine at work, and the password is on
a post-it note stuck to the monitor, as is usually the custom with machines of this nature
PeterL: So I have to use Winblows at work. The most annoying thing is the tendency of programs to steal focus at wierd times. Like, I start
a program, see it is going to take
a minute to load, switch to my other program and sign in, but wait the first stole the focus and now my password is sitting there in plaintext. Bleh.
mircea_popescu: quote of interest, "The Dust Bowl was no accident of nature.
A functioning grassland prairie produces more biomass each year than does even the most technologically advanced wheat field. The problem is, it's mostly
a form of grass and grass roots that humans can't eat. So we replace the prairie with our own preferred grass, wheat. Never mind that we feed most of our grain to livestock, and that livestock is perfectly c
mircea_popescu: well sure, for as long as
a usg-pretense exists to keep bankrolling everyone's pretense, everyone's gonna keep on pretending.
mircea_popescu: im sure they're trying to stuff the bill into SOMETHING. an acquisition of some sort, vc capital somewhere,
a credit card balance movement to
a larger credit card. it hasta.
mircea_popescu: (btw, it is also customary for banks to continue servicing abandoned bank accounts. for the same reasons as the grass cuttings - they figure they got
a claim to
A THING and sooner or later will make good on it. with interest.)
mircea_popescu: who's fooled ? was rice
a secretary of state ? was fiorina
a ceo ?
mircea_popescu: the us got
a random guy from kenya to pretend like he's
a law professor ; anhd some random derp from pakistan to pretend he's
a district attorney.
mircea_popescu: you might find that most of the windows with lights in them are painted cardboard in the shape of
a window with
a light in it.
mircea_popescu is skeptical. and will continue to be so, because time ticks behind him. in
a decade i'll pretend that not only am i right now, but was right all along : no better stock in that place.
assbot: Logged on 26-09-2015 00:55:56; mircea_popescu: there isn't
a better stock in the us.
mircea_popescu:
http://trilema.com/2011/entypus/ << i also had one of those large wasps that build their nests out of chjewed sand/clay (the prev ones were "paper wasps", build the nest out of
a sort of paper made out of chewed wood) and fill them with spiders they caught and paralyzed, with added egg.
mircea_popescu: 10k btc he doesn't even know about in
a old directory etc
mircea_popescu: i suspect it's more of
a "hopeful" case : what if bozo plugs in hdd not plugged in since 2010 ?