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pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-09-2015#1265204 << dude, funkenstein_, sometimes you make no goddam sense. mebbe i'm an idiot and i cannot grasp the heights of your insight, but it seems altogether more like that you've got a bad case of shannonitis. ☝︎
shinohai: I know I am a heartless bastard but this makes me laff: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11509101&ref=NZH_FBpage ☟︎
pete_dushenski: “We are confident that NOTs will mold our sailors into cyber warriors,” Turing asserted. “By using their imaginations, we can train them on state of the art or next gen systems right away.” “It’s a whole lot better than the Windows 3.1 systems we actually have,” Turing added. “That’s for darn sure.”
pete_dushenski: shinohai: unhackable winbloze is as much of a joke as ^
pete_dushenski: "“Sailors kept downloading terabyte upon terabyte of porn, often filled with malware,” he added. “One sailor even managed to get his ‘harpoon’ stuck in a USB port.”"
shinohai: I must obtain a copy of this unhackable windows, otherwise it is as mythical as North Korean unicorns to me.
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-09-2015#1265151 << coming to a bank branch near you. ☝︎
asciilifeform: i will also note that i know a fella with a box shelved right next to mine (diametric) and his has not gone down even once.
asciilifeform: fluffypony: i have a box in an american dc with ~6+ year uptime.
fluffypony: haven't had a reboot since
fluffypony: so I dropped them and moved to a different host
fluffypony: I reported it as a hardware error 4 times, they kept telling me it can't be, it must be my configuration
fluffypony: I had a box at a DC that rebooted every few hours
asciilifeform: a little bird held that power switch down, aha
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu that box is a titanic disgrace not only to s.nsa, but bisp. every penny you pay for it is a penny given to a scammer who is laughing at us
funkenstein_: a proof that something has value is an offer to pay for said thing
assbot: I have a Patreon page ... ( http://bit.ly/1ENcaDY )
funkenstein_: For a prompt to imagine how this might work, see "Accelerondo" - Charles Stross (megabook)
funkenstein_: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=06-09-2015#1264466 <-- absolutely positively the case, ty. What, do you think a starfaring person would travel light years, collect protons, return home? ☝︎☟︎
danielpbarron: shinohai, yes and he's a Eulora player now
shinohai: Did that n6 guy who was trying to build gentoo and get in wot ever come back with a new name?
assbot: A history of modern init systems (1992-2015) ... ( http://bit.ly/1NkWpqH )
punkman: for a while you'd see items priced $0.1 and rest of price in shipping costs, which worked to minimize fees.
deedbot-: [Qntra] Mozilla Vulnerability Hoard Compromised For a Year - http://qntra.net/2015/09/mozilla-vulnerability-hoard-compromised-for-a-year/
mats: what a robbery
mats: 15k for flipping a buncha bits in a db
pete_dushenski: i imagine a wire transfer would be the only reasonable course of action here
pete_dushenski: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Porsche-911-TURBO-X50-/221870469237 << air cooled porsche lulz. at $500k, this 18-year-old 911 turbo x50 is pricier than absolutely everything the firm sells today save the 918, which is a 1/918 unit HYPERCAR that retails for $850k
pete_dushenski: so a qntra a week basically. hmm.
pete_dushenski: "Billiards Suite • $4,000/night • sleeps 2 • Our most booked suite! This suite includes exclusive use of the billiards room for 8 hours, plus an adjoining hotel room. This is the most asked for suite in The Mansion for events, as you can sleep (if you choose) or play billiards on a $150,000 classic billiards table." << via o mansion's absurdly bad www
asciilifeform: nah that'd be a man.
asciilifeform: buy a megatonne of kibble ?
asciilifeform: if it were possible to give 20megausd to a dog, what would he do?
asciilifeform: not a person.
asciilifeform: if you don't have it - you ain't a someone.
asciilifeform: imagination is a thing of the inner world
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> unsurprising that scum wipes his arse with the money. << that's one angle, and valid. the other angle, perhaps equally valid, is that prisoner kept in prison since birth has imagination of life outside, is let out, in a world much akin the prison inside, goes berserk.
asciilifeform: or equipping 500 fine young folks with automatic weapons and a reason to live
asciilifeform: 'Their 14-year marriage was over, a freak fire gutted their house, and every penny of their fortune was gone.' << at least he had the sense to scorched-earth
asciilifeform: 'William "Bud" Post won $16.2 million in the Pennsylvania lottery in 1988 but was $1 million in debt within a year. "I wish it never happened," Post said. "It was totally a nightmare." A former girlfriend successfully sued him for a share of his winnings and his brother was arrested for hiring a hit man to kill him in the hopes he'd inherit a share of the winnings.'
assbot: Architecture in Riga | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... ( http://bit.ly/1JLn35Z )
asciilifeform: 'Jack Whittaker won $315 million and ten years later, his daughter and granddaughter had both died of drug overdoses, his wife divorced him, and once while in a strip club, he was drugged and robbed of $545,000 in cash, as reported by The New York Times.' << thinking folk don't play lotteries.
assbot: Logged on 07-09-2015 02:31:58; asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://imgur.com/a/GIDeo << i went there today. and this is how i imagine your old house looks like.
assbot: Logged on 07-09-2015 04:00:35; mircea_popescu: in the 50s a bank CLERK lived in roughly what alf thinks palatial.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-09-2015#1265005 << forget clerk. a railwayman could ~buy~ a house and support five children on his wages, in '50s. ☝︎
assbot: 47 results for '<Belxjander>' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=%3CBelxjander%3E
asciilifeform: i have been getting increasingly frequent telephone spam from electric co., offering to cut my rates in exchange for a (for now, voluntary!) remote disable on my air conditioner compressor. it is hilariously insulting. why won't they just mail me a vial of cyanide, also 'voluntary' ?
mircea_popescu: in the 50s a bank CLERK lived in roughly what alf thinks palatial. ☟︎☟︎☟︎
mats: and i expect to do so again in a year or so
mircea_popescu: makes the collegiate campus a winner. especially at arizona state.
asciilifeform: mats: i will add, to earlier thread, that it is not even reliably possible to ~rent a house at all~ near where i work.
asciilifeform: trinque: do they pay a penny less of tax from this ?
trinque: deeply, and as a matter of principle
trinque: I run a business, but I have no quarrel with those that just maximize their own path through the whole retarded mess./
trinque: thing is, I know guys that just chose to be the smartest guy at a truly asinine startup
trinque: that's 2hrs commute a day
trinque: not every act of my career is a manifestation of my principles
mats: thats ten hours a week right?
trinque: or another meatwot friend working for a tradebot company
asciilifeform: a cubic kilometre of house is worthless if you can't spend your top waking hours there.
trinque: I see oil and a few other things as the few remaining inputs on the US "economy
asciilifeform: kinda like if you were kommendant of auschwitz, you wouldn't give a capo a machinegun
asciilifeform: trinque: as for your oil men, it is a basic truism of salary men in usa that no one is ever, under any circumstances, paid a salary large enough to stop being a salary man.
assbot: 1 results for 'a smell of petroleum prevails throughout' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=a+smell+of+petroleum+prevails+throughout
asciilifeform: !s a smell of petroleum prevails throughout
trinque: acid's special; not the least bit a matter of getting intoxicated in the usual sense
asciilifeform: actually i am wrong, fella i know bought a spiffy van for 70k
mircea_popescu: yes but you live in a shithole.
asciilifeform: 80k barely buys a van here.
asciilifeform: it was a kind of theme park of not-feeling-cramped
asciilifeform: for one thing, a four-story warehouse ceiling is vertical space and ipso facto wasted.
asciilifeform: it is interesting how visiting, e.g., a gigantic warehouse, or stadium, does not tickle this fantasy
asciilifeform dreams (literally) of rooms the way a hungry man does of food
asciilifeform: a kind of labyrinth
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the place was also set up in such a way that one must look for hidden doors (e.g., swing-out book cases) to find new rooms
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: now ~that~'s a mega-museum.
asciilifeform: seems like he is dead. and was a bird.
asciilifeform: 'Local gamekeeper said he understood that the police wanted the bird dispatched because they were worried that it could cause a car crash'
assbot: Runaway rhea, Chris, is shot dead by a gamekeeper - Telegraph ... ( http://bit.ly/1VI0TJj )
asciilifeform: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/10821220/Runaway-rhea-Chris-is-shot-dead-by-a-gamekeeper.html
asciilifeform: (given that i've never heard of such a man)
asciilifeform: i don't personally know a fella named chris rhea.
asciilifeform: it is a museum ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: never had a reason to go
asciilifeform: mats: i bathed in one as a boy
asciilifeform was there with pet, and afterwards we had debate re: whether 'if even a few of the folks with maxint usd wanted a house like this, how many could be satisfied, ..., ..., turkey-buying dollars (tm), ..., ... .'
asciilifeform: house of 19th c. mega-imperial somebody, turned into a museum-cum-whore-hotel
mircea_popescu: and ftr it's perfectly sound. who exactly do you suppose will get quarter for "having been a very competent usg agent" ?
asciilifeform: (in a residential bldg)
asciilifeform: i had never before been inside a hose half like that.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://imgur.com/a/GIDeo << i went there today. and this is how i imagine your old house looks like. ☟︎
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-09-2015#1264661 << 'negative' there is codespeak for '#b-a and other thoughtcrimes' ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 06-09-2015 23:56:11; assbot: Hackers spent at least a year spying on Mozilla to discover Firefox security holes – and exploit them • The Register ... ( http://bit.ly/1iqD4HV )
asciilifeform: (you can't actually get a 24/7 unix process at n.f.s. - it's a plain old www hoster, 1990s-style)
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=06-09-2015#1264205 << win. where do i buy a ticket to the public impalement of the 'best practices' folks ? ☝︎
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=06-09-2015#1264355 << if this doesn't encourage a few more kids to put their money where their mouths are, nothing will. now if they only had any money... ☝︎
pete_dushenski: "Eugenie Bouchard has pulled out of the US Open with a concussion. TSN has learned that Bouchard sustained the injury on Friday night when she tripped while walking from the training room to room where the ice bath is located." << go canada ;/
pete_dushenski: the equivalent being jurov telling qntra to put up a paywall because "make more skrillz!"
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