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ascii_field: kakobrekla: and i don't have
a sotheby's budget to do it with, either.
ascii_field: kakobrekla: i buy things that literally one out of
a million people has to sell.
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 18:26:06; ascii_field: phun phakt: in recent year or so, 'paypal' will simply sit on
a transaction for three weeks, collecting interest from the money.
ascii_field: find me
a 2007 amd opteron socket-1207 cpu on ali.
ascii_field: fine me
a ~USED~ sherline four-jaw lathe chuck on ali.
mats: 14:30:38 <+ascii_field> times 1,001 in
a year or less << aliexpress?
trinque: haha, maybe we'll have
a nice reunion soon
assbot: Logged on 11-08-2015 13:45:47; asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the original story with these is that they were simply
a group of officers who... took an oath
ascii_field: they happily send their sons to army so they can 'die for
a fat bitch's right to marry her dog'
ascii_field: which end in
a sore starfish and little else
trinque: phf: I can see that point, but I see the problem as
a matter of what rules are imposed, not that they are imposed.
☟︎ trinque: shinohai: I see it as just another way to line people up into some semblance of
a command structure
shinohai: I honest;y don't have
a problem with most, except the real real fundies
jurov: I'd play safe and had
a Greek one. That one's passable for Catholics and Protestants too
shinohai: Though I do want
a copy of that "Queen James" Bible translation to keep on the shelf for when Mormons come over.r
shinohai: Maybe danielpbarron can tell us if it fulfills
a prophecy. Bible is out of my league.
BingoBoingo: shinohai: "And there came out
a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense."?
shinohai: Hell, having
a bible verse on
a rifle discourages *me* from using it.
phf: this is probably not the best example but there's only so much time you can spend googling "ak-47 allah" at
a packed lebanese cafe
ascii_field: what's it say? 'i come not with peace but
a sword' ?
assbot: Video: CAIR-FL Calls New Assault Weapon Inscribed with Bible Verse
a ‘Shameful Marketing Ploy’ - YouTube ... (
http://bit.ly/1POauuh )
phf: imho that was the first wave of retards in linux the whole "linux on desktop" thing, shifted massive amounts of resources towards догоним и перегоним. instead of bullet proof fvwm or whatever, you now have
a dozen of windows ripoffs with "minor imperfections", but don't worry there's
a libfoo that adds exposé support to your terminal characters
phf: probably could be reversed, but at the price point nobody with that amount of free time will bother. there's
a chinese firmware hack, that replaces kindle's os
phf: i have
a hand rolled version of instapaper that takes html articles and adds them to
a periodic readinglist.mobi. same for b-
a logs. in fact i read most of the stuff on kindle, far away from
a real computer..
☟︎ phf: i'm disappointed that amazon caved and went the retard route with their kindle. i've gotten as far as booting temacs on kindle, back when it still had
a shitty but hardware keyboard, gave up when i saw version two with touch screen, left in disgusts when fire came out
phf: i've noticed that. i have
a pretty hacked up ccl repl, that does math for me in infix notation, and that's something that i reach for in anger. i'd like something as easy, and preferably portable
ascii_field: phf: it is better to use
a really good computer proggy, like 'derive', than
a shit calculator
phf: ascii_field: guy who wrote firmware also distributes laminates. i hear you, but it's the whole poverty point, for me it was
a step up from "why the fuck can't i get
a decent rpn calculator?" i tried iphone apps even..
phf: there's that conversion project, that takes one of the modern hp calculators and adds
a programmer friendly firmware. the layout is not as good though
phf: naturally all the retro names fetch
a pretty penny
ascii_field: phf: if you're ~connected~ with more than
a handful, you are flagged.
assbot: Logged on 30-04-2015 21:29:20; ascii_field: as far as i'm concerned, historically, ebay is just this gizmo that shaves
a zero off the price of the costliest things i buy. so i was never moved to care whether it is run by hitler or fueled with baby seal juice etc.
punkman: ebay has been optimizing for "chinese supermarket" sellers for
a long time now.
ascii_field: punkman: amazon is not
a sole source for anything
kakobrekla: last time i had
a dispute solved by paypal, i was overcompensated.
ascii_field: phun phakt: in recent year or so, 'paypal' will simply sit on
a transaction for three weeks, collecting interest from the money.
☟︎ ben_vulpes: leastaways that was
a complaint i heard from you once.
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 02:43:53; asciilifeform:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-09-2015#1260662 << actually this is the one place where the clean hand of marketronics seems to me most apparent. reasonable sane people are not numerous enough here to be
a market segment even to sell
a paper clip.
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 01:37:31; asciilifeform: the other interesting thing is that the market is segmented in such
a way that anyone who doesn't want mcfood ends up paying for ~all~ the alt-crackpotteries, not merely the logical ones
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 01:14:22; *: trinque had unpasteurized milk recently; there's
a good farm for it nearby
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 16:26:26; mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-09-2015#1261457 <<
a) everywhere. literally. how dumbfucked usians are needs no further proof than this simple fact. you derps put up with charge for INCOMING, srsly ? heh. b) i have like
a dozen+. disposable cellphone ftw.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile if the country is run by fit men, defeat only strengthens the resolve.
a fine example are the early roman republican defeats, which merely served to raise more army behind the senate,
mircea_popescu: thus
a is
a "minor bug" and b is
a "we have to refactor".
mircea_popescu: "Will there ever be
a point in time where bitcoin will be so easy to use that it won't be intimidating for the average Joe?"
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller infinity, who would want to use
a private stock exchange that has
a proven track record of everything.
mircea_popescu: "Features that make CockroachDB unstoppable What
a database needs in 2015" << fuck that nonsense, what's the year got to do with anything.
trinque: thestringpuller: there were
a number of sensible things in the Confederate constitution as well
trinque: flag store nearby does not have
a rebel flag
assbot: Logged on 20-08-2015 01:13:47; mircea_popescu: trinque>china for example builds its *first* aircraft carrier, and people talk about the chinese being
a military threat <<< you don't understand how this works. the aircraft carrier is irrelevant. china bet on the winning strat (missile defense) and bet
a lot more than the us can afford, and as
a result now has unchallangeable area denial ability throughout the shores. this means it can pursue its
shinohai: Sorry it is
a stoopid slideshow
davout: punkman: then you have the problems that go with
a new number
assbot: Logged on 16-09-2014 13:47:32; mircea_popescu: to me too. and i got
a 100 pesos samsung dumbphone. it's light, i couldn't care less if someone steals it.
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 07:06:40; *: mircea_popescu has just learned that one can't in point of fact get
a phone plan in the us that doesn't charge FOR INCOMING CALLS
shinohai: tbh I would need
a ton of research to know where to begin.
pete_dushenski: jurov: hm. well, thanks for the update. mighta cost us
a few shekels but nothing life changing. life goes on.
pete_dushenski: i can't say i've ever been much for nascar, but enough of the tradition seems to have carried on, despite the distillation of the source into
a platonic game
shinohai: Sad to see that such
a noble sport declined into nascar.
pete_dushenski: punkman: not
a bad idea to have your own obd-ii reader
pete_dushenski: ftr bmw i3 'rex' differs from regular i3 in its use of
a 'range extender', not unlike that on the chevy volt
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 11:18:21; pete_dushenski: ge device, Changing startup image (one owner found "
a cool Alpina" emblem hidden in the car's software)"
pete_dushenski: ge device, Changing startup image (one owner found "
a cool Alpina" emblem hidden in the car's software)"
☟︎ pete_dushenski: "At least
a few intrepid i3 REx owners have enthusiastically taken to coding their cars.
A partial list of functions that can be added or modified with those updates includes: Allowing fuel tank to accept full capacity of 2.4 gallons, Adding suppressed European "hold battery charge" function, Enabling suppressed AM radio, Suppressing U.S.-mandated seat-belt warning tone, Permitting video to be run from USB stora
cazalla: yes, but keep in mind changing the nappy of
a stationary child is ezmode
pete_dushenski: "we never anticipated that moore's law would've broken down in 2008 or that obama would be every bit as much of
a monkey/terrorist as bush mk ii"
pete_dushenski: "“We never anticipated
a drop-off in the wind resource as we have witnessed over the past six months,” David Crane, chief executive of power producer NRG Energy, told analysts last month"
punkman: I have flooded it with water
a few times
mircea_popescu: punkman : get
a plumber's snake,
a rag and gasoline. affix the rag to the bit, soak it, light it and shove it in as far as you can reach
mircea_popescu: disposable, for the record, is in no way bad for the environment. it consists of mixing celulose pulp with human excrement and burrying it. this is
a much better use than mixing cellulose pulp with pigments and then storing it on shelves.
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 01:14:22; *: trinque had unpasteurized milk recently; there's
a good farm for it nearby
fluffypony: when I was there in November I got
a prepaid SIM from T-Mobile for $80 for
a month
mircea_popescu has just learned that one can't in point of fact get
a phone plan in the us that doesn't charge FOR INCOMING CALLS
☟︎ fluffypony: I have wireless to
a fibre base station on
a highsite, so latency is pretty low, 10mbps down / 1.5mbps up
mircea_popescu: or wait, did little miss margerine tub think photochopping is somehow controversial and ima hate
a pelican ?