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asciilifeform: $s mathematics lost a month
asciilifeform: on racetrack - sometimes.
asciilifeform: not in washington traffic, no.
asciilifeform: there is a time and a place for it.
asciilifeform: more like nitro in petrol.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu's ? we already knew that.
asciilifeform: not worth per who's lights ?
asciilifeform: inhibition against cracking skull, is what i meant
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: how's that
asciilifeform: imho the powerz of dope are overblown. vodka will loosen inhibitions but nobody gets the basic idea of cracking a skull from it. ditto meth, stupid man will be 10x more vigorous in his idiocy, erdos - 10x theorems.
asciilifeform: so the gadget may well include this function.
asciilifeform: trinque: not necessarily - if the card is prepaid, as these were, you can normally call the # on the back of the card (and often there is even a www form) and determine the balance
asciilifeform: unless, of course, they have exception hardcoded for autoplunderator co. ☟︎
asciilifeform: trinque: i'd imagine this would trigger the standard fraud freeze
asciilifeform: pipes dun replace themselves.
asciilifeform: which usa doesn't have.
asciilifeform: trinque: that would cost actual 'turkey dollarz'
asciilifeform: vs usa.
asciilifeform: pretty sure that darkest africa is ~ahead~ on the not-eating-lead score.
asciilifeform: lel aha.
asciilifeform: i imagine in 20 yrs we'll be payin' for 'Police Pre✓™ Experience" where if you have membership card, they probe yer rectum with velvet, instead of hedgehog, gloves...
asciilifeform: if you get the 'global' thing, iirc it comes with the other one.
asciilifeform: then works
asciilifeform: when i came back from mircea_popescu's c3, they let me in past customs via the door the pilots use.
asciilifeform: the global entry thing was spiffy
asciilifeform: the part that gets you out of inspections when traveling inside usa
asciilifeform: the most expensive ones.
asciilifeform: only works ~inside usa~ if you use particular airlines.
asciilifeform: phf: i signed up, it is ~scam
asciilifeform: phf: iirc tiny toothpaste-like items are permitted
asciilifeform: ^ afaik these come with car
asciilifeform: i imagine trinque spends much time in the desert
asciilifeform: how about battery ? also spares ?
asciilifeform: often stop and change belt ?
asciilifeform: trinque drives around with spare belts ? ☟︎
asciilifeform: or what does BingoBoingo have in there.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the kind that removes wheels, comes with car
asciilifeform: but not a box with bandages, disinfectant, tourniquette, anything. ☟︎
asciilifeform: they will keep a man's weight's worth of empty coffee cups and other filth in there.
asciilifeform: i always found it interesting how most american folk don't keep first aid kit, of even the most spartan sort, in their car
asciilifeform: just travel with it. single-use syrette of 'superglue' keeps forever.
asciilifeform: l0l
asciilifeform: (cyanoacrylate - 'super' - glue - is quite possibly the single greatest advance in wound suturing ever to happen, works great on everything from paper cut to 7.62x39-through-the-liver) ☟︎
asciilifeform: phf: better still, ordinary cyanoacrylate glue for 50 cents a tube, but 'medical' - for $20+. ☟︎
asciilifeform: mars ?
asciilifeform: flee to .. ?
asciilifeform: good anti-aircraft defenses ?
asciilifeform: danielpbarron: how many tank divisions it has ?
asciilifeform: (incidentally, didn't i predict the return of door-to-door tax collector ?! a few yrs ago.)
asciilifeform: that brings us back to 18th c. french state of the art re tax collection ☟︎
asciilifeform: y'know, the 7+% thing
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: oughta mention the royalty
asciilifeform: not convincing, naturally, any sailors, but ~others~, into tolerating the protestant bullshit instead of burning with hot irons.
asciilifeform: the 'sex is the devil's temptation' idiots have easy pickings in that climate. ☟︎
asciilifeform: today's dope situation is quite analogous to, e.g., 18th c. english sailor's sex life - where the ~only kind of (straight!) sex you can have is, approx., with syphilitic whores, condomless
asciilifeform: ... or blow caustic smoke across them every day.
asciilifeform: (e.g., your teeth will look ~precisely~ like 'methhead teeth' if... you stop brushing them.)
asciilifeform: this is on account of the well-known sequelae being largely effects of impurities, and secondarily - of lack of sleep, vs meth per se.
asciilifeform: consider how ww2 folk did ~not~ suffer the clinical horrors of the modern users.
asciilifeform: i'm still quite unconvinced that empire is better off selling, e.g., the usual vodka, in shops, than meth. ☟︎
asciilifeform: *catch
asciilifeform: didn't really carch on until that time.
asciilifeform: after ww2 surplus meth was sold ~everywhere.
asciilifeform: for non-us folk: today you can't buy a few milligram of pseudoephedrine against running nose, without filling out a form.
asciilifeform: wasn't a 'can't display this, will be stolen 5min later' situation.
asciilifeform: eh nobody stole it in 1940s when it was sold at the bubble gum counter.
asciilifeform: iirc it is mostly made in mexico now. ☟︎
asciilifeform: but my understanding is that there was NO 'market' in the usual sense of the word. you wanted some - you made some.
asciilifeform: meth was discovered by ru underground folk in the late '80s. on account of being quickly and easily made from materials commonly sold at the time.
asciilifeform: who takes it? and why? and why it and not some other dope. ☟︎
asciilifeform: it always seems to figure in tales of american 'flyover.'
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i am curious re the role meth plays.
asciilifeform: *threat
asciilifeform: ~actual~ rural folk, who grow own food, make own tools, and don't need the mega-state for anything, were recognized as a thread and mostly bugsprayed eons ago.
asciilifeform: the sovietization, in the most comical sense of the word, is nearly total, complete with hruschev's corn.
asciilifeform: consider, in coastal usa you can still go to a few dozen kinds of shop, but in the flyoverlands you're stuck with универмаг^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hlolmart
asciilifeform: american rural doesn't even have much to do with pastoral/village life etc.
asciilifeform: vs the other kind of shithole.
asciilifeform: like north kr.
asciilifeform: 'rural shithole' is simply shithole that is dark from the satellite camera.
asciilifeform: which is a mega-unsurprise.
asciilifeform: ^ soooo it appears that the process is farther along in rural shitholes like oklahoma, than in the inhabited usa ☟︎
asciilifeform: ( megaclassic, http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/071805_soviet_lessons_part3.shtml )
asciilifeform: ice could only survive through graft...' << from orlol,
asciilifeform: '...there are many, many people whose stock in trade is their use of violence, in offense or defense. No matter what else happens, they will be employed, or self-employed... In Russia, there was a period of years during which the police was basically not functioning: they had no equipment, no budget, and their salaries were not sufficient for survival. Murders went unsolved, muggings and burglaries were not even investigated. The pol
asciilifeform: and,
asciilifeform: http://trilema.com/2013/why-you-need-bitcoin-simply-put/#selection-167.0-173.283 ☟︎
asciilifeform: now where was that suetonius thing
asciilifeform: see also http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-29#1473246 . ☝︎
asciilifeform: so as to snarf it out in one shot.
asciilifeform: so it stands to reason that it probably recogizes major brands of card and dials in to determine the balance
asciilifeform: this seems unlikely, because american prepaid cardz typically have a tx fee
asciilifeform: ... does it shit out $1 transactions until one bounces ?
asciilifeform: it would be interesting imho to learn how the credit card automatic plunderator works:
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-09#1479175 <<<< aha: >>>> http://btcbase.org/log/2015-08-22#1249081 ☝︎☝︎
asciilifeform: Run Moar Linblowz.
asciilifeform: ahahahahaha
asciilifeform switches off emulated mircea_popescutron
asciilifeform: ah and there he is!
asciilifeform: usg is just finding the ~new~ laffer curve!11111111111