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BingoBoingo: Manafort charges relate to activities as an ideologue without borders 4 years ago in Ukraine
BingoBoingo: In other news, Manafort indicted, surrenders; hours later TONY PODESTA resigns from the Podesta Firm
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "carly fiorina, the feminist imbecile (but we repeat ourselves) that burned the life's work of the two tech pioneers to the ground is not being held for questioning over the fire."
mircea_popescu: davout did they drop the "anti money laundering" bs in the uk magically ? ☟︎
mircea_popescu: in other "apple could buy russia", someone actually found a use for their crap : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPGY2T9r1Ok
asciilifeform: ‘The Tubbs fire consumed the collected archives of William Hewlett and David Packard, the tech pioneers who in 1938 formed an electronics company in a Palo Alto garage with $538 in cash’
davout: anyone here with a UK bank account able/interested in doing a £12,000 bank transfer for me?
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Sure every gov does, but the difference is in degrees. Only when solidly in Chicagoan maleboge does one find law protecting "sign hangers guild", haven't found such in Sao Paulo... yet.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: The weirdos even are bold enough to advertise as such.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-30 01:59 BingoBoingo: Hopefully more Brazilian lawyers will start talking this week, but the impression is starting to grow that Brazil's goverment bleeds businesses Chicago style. Death by a thousand fees.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-29 22:31 BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> gurlz here, btw, still night and day vs usa, it is not even a fair fight, like comparing usa to africa << On the wife visa shops Romania puts out a lot of trannies and genderconfuseds compared to say Brazil and Former British British China
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-29#1730412 << i dun see how those could fool anybody, they haven’t the bone struct ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2017-10-30 02:00 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-29#1730395 << no, that's what they like about it, that nobody can work it therefore making art "fair".
a111: Logged on 2017-10-30 02:02 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-29#1730401 << buquebus is this ferry service between montevideo and buenos aires. they use really large boats, can comfortably take your car with etc. pretty shitty service though.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-30#1730419 << aaah there is one of these in nyc ☝︎
BingoBoingo: And in other bad touches: "Actor Anthony Rapp has come forward with allegations that Kevin Spacey made a sexual advance toward him when he was 14 years old, BuzzFeed reports."
BingoBoingo: OMG back to crashing!
BingoBoingo hoping for good news outta Peru. Maybe it splits the middle of Hong Kong with cheap compliance and bloody expense for presence and Brazil which would offer less bleeding on presence but apparently more bleeding on existing as business.
BingoBoingo: And from there it's a matter of screening the population for indicators of humanity
BingoBoingo: In brazil you can start a lot of conversations with "Oi, tudo bem? Please tell me you don't get winter over there"
BingoBoingo: How else does one practice languages before going to areas where X-language-ophones can be seduced in the wild
a111: Logged on 2017-10-29 22:33 BingoBoingo uses OKC with MP god mode cheats to scout foreign geographies
BingoBoingo: North of Missouri river confluence Mississippi only gets wimp boats, Missouri confluence to Ohio confluence boats get respectable sized, South of Ohio confluence you get barge trains longer than the towns they pass with pushboat sized like the vaguely riverboat shaped stationary casinos moored upriver
BingoBoingo: And the birds theive their cargo
BingoBoingo: Yeah, the boats go up/down river instead of across
BingoBoingo: Mississippi doesn't get boats close to that big until south of the Ohio river confluence
mircea_popescu: well it's like the world's largest estuary.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the item is say 1/6 battleship. has satlink onboard.
mircea_popescu: ah, that's actually a different boat iirc.
BingoBoingo: I remember that post!
a111: Logged on 2017-10-29 21:09 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-29#1730387 << bus with sat terminal ?!
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-29#1730401 << buquebus is this ferry service between montevideo and buenos aires. they use really large boats, can comfortably take your car with etc. pretty shitty service though. ☝︎☟︎
a111: Logged on 2017-10-29 21:02 asciilifeform: anybody who can work that thing in earnest, can’t be too deeply touched, is at least ‘functioning’ tard.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-29#1730395 << no, that's what they like about it, that nobody can work it therefore making art "fair". ☝︎☟︎
BingoBoingo: Hopefully more Brazilian lawyers will start talking this week, but the impression is starting to grow that Brazil's goverment bleeds businesses Chicago style. Death by a thousand fees. ☟︎
BingoBoingo found a datacenter in Peru, they are getting a solicitation.
BingoBoingo uses OKC with MP god mode cheats to scout foreign geographies ☟︎
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> gurlz here, btw, still night and day vs usa, it is not even a fair fight, like comparing usa to africa << On the wife visa shops Romania puts out a lot of trannies and genderconfuseds compared to say Brazil and Former British British China ☟︎
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I have to say description of bucharest does make Romania sound more interesting
asciilifeform: stupendous qty of monuments to ‘victims of the mineriads’ ( see mp’s description of what it was, in logz somewhere )
asciilifeform: gurlz here, btw, still night and day vs usa, it is not even a fair fight, like comparing usa to africa
a111: Logged on 2017-10-29 19:04 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-29#1730364 << i had direct access to that computer aboard eg argentina's buquebus .
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-29#1730387 << bus with sat terminal ?! ☝︎☟︎
asciilifeform: factory next block with forest growing through roof
a111: Logged on 2017-10-29 17:52 diana_coman: iirc the "old centre" has been renovated during past few years and it looked ok, but it's relatively small; many of the relics of former glory have either been demolished long time ago or otherwise are left to crumble
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-29#1730383 << asciilifeform just returned from ~15km grunt through bucharest ; quite the ‘neuromancer’ town ☝︎
asciilifeform: anybody who can work that thing in earnest, can’t be too deeply touched, is at least ‘functioning’ tard. ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2017-10-29 19:05 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-29#1730367 << zenit is to this day the badge of the retarded hipster whore.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-29#1730389 << srsly, someone still uses?! asciilifeform’s father used, in ‘80s. then asciilifeform used much laters, in usa, thing was quite gnarly, exponometer neverworked, demanded extinct sovbattery ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-29#1730372 << conceivable it's genuine ; hard to tell without item. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-29#1730367 << zenit is to this day the badge of the retarded hipster whore. ☝︎☟︎
a111: Logged on 2017-10-29 16:42 ben_vulpes: ran the AC8 email client...which would require an intruder to gain access to the ship and then to the computer." the computer which i'm just going to guess here is running windows.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-29#1730364 << i had direct access to that computer aboard eg argentina's buquebus . ☝︎☟︎
diana_coman: capital was moved to Bucharest precisely because it was in the middle of the plains and easily accessible /plundered + not far on horseback from across Danube; so escape routes & hiding places make sense
diana_coman: ah, yes, several rounds of catacombs as it were; the oldest should be indeed in the "old centre"-cismigiu park - mitropolie area but then others leading further out as well; not very much is made public on them though
asciilifeform: the national bank has a gigantic glass window on the ground in front of it, into what looks like archaeological dig, deep catacomb underneath it
diana_coman: iirc the "old centre" has been renovated during past few years and it looked ok, but it's relatively small; many of the relics of former glory have either been demolished long time ago or otherwise are left to crumble ☟︎
asciilifeform: ( i’d still rather live here than anywhere i’ve been in usa tho.. )
BingoBoingo about to reread Hong Kong material.
deedbot: http://www.contravex.com/2017/10/29/unearthing-beauty-the-lower-rungs-of-the-art-patrons-ladder-and-a-newfound-appreciation-of-time/ << Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski - Unearthing beauty, the lower rungs of the art patrons ladder, and a newfound appreciation of time.
diana_coman: I have yet to see in any other Romanian town the sort of squalor I saw in Bucharest
diana_coman: asciilifeform, Bucharest is on its own; first of all for size, but not only that
asciilifeform: ( though apparently worked great in timis )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu’s ‘legal to beat bums’ item is clearly failing to catch mice, so to speak, here.
asciilifeform: also i regret to inform that there are beggars and hobos in bucharest. the usual ones, and even some female ‘baba yaga’ looking specimens
asciilifeform: asciilifeform does not collect medals. though his own familymedals, pretty massive box, all ended up with collectors , helped pay for plane tickets in ‘92
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: because trinkets mostly
BingoBoingo: Why does it have to be junk? Just because it is soviet and nazi?
asciilifeform: meanwhile, holyfuq the variety of sov and nazi junk at bucharest fleamarket
ben_vulpes: ran the AC8 email client...which would require an intruder to gain access to the ship and then to the computer." the computer which i'm just going to guess here is running windows. ☟︎
ben_vulpes: http://gcaptain.com/inmarsat-shipboard-communication-platform-found-vulnerable-to-hacking/ "Inmarsat has since discontinued the 8.0 version of the platform and has recommended that customers revert back to AmosConnect 7.0 or switch to an email solution from one of their approved partners...this vulnerability would have been very difficult to exploit as it would require direct access to the shipboard PC that
deedbot: http://trilema.com/2017/1950s-cretinetti-i-soliti-ignoti-il-vedovo/ << Trilema - 1950s Cretinetti : I soliti ignoti & Il vedovo
mircea_popescu: but i'm not about to sit here and believe the washington post matters politically or some such nonsense, am i.
mircea_popescu: there's no credible source as to how the whole nixon impeachment thing was entirely over people pissed off at vietnam, either.
mircea_popescu: "general knowledge of they in the know" is the best i can do for sourcing. how do you know "how things were" ?
mircea_popescu: i thought you thought him credible a minute earlier ?
asciilifeform: any source other than herr pacepa for this detail ?
mircea_popescu: and it was radithor. that's where ceausescu got his.
asciilifeform: but there are cases where a 2-3y poison would make sense, and sov chronicles are replete with insinuations that at least 1 such, existed
mircea_popescu: but meanwhile, there's cosubstantial problems preventing BOTH lobes of that conditional.
mircea_popescu: in short, if the math grad students who didn't get tenure ever take over a country, ima be careful about liposoluble tritium tissue markers when visiting.
asciilifeform: i disagree that the two are in any way similar.
mircea_popescu: and that reason is exactly excision of this kind of nonsense, as there exemplified.
mircea_popescu: there's a reason my rewrite doesn't feel like rolling through crusty sheets permeated by bum scent.
mircea_popescu: it was a bowl of spaghetti very specific to a sort of mind, the math grad student let's say.
mircea_popescu: you recall the wankery i took out of luminous in its ascension towards superluminous, with the "toxic blood" that then got retconned into "platonic paramour for some reason got the same brand so i can keep hoping because she cares about this but there's no cuckolding undertone here" ?
a111: Logged on 2017-10-29 12:28 mircea_popescu: if they're eating from the palm of your hand thusly, why are you inept enough to need to kill them.
asciilifeform: but possibly i’m thick
asciilifeform: i also admit that i dun see the appeal of a bullet that takes decade to plug a d00d
mircea_popescu: ie, let alone fired in field -- nobody knew the latch is a trigger, either.
mircea_popescu: deeper q : we seem to have good reason to believe no soldier knew what the strange baton in his backpack was supposed to be/do.
asciilifeform: i have nfi whether it was ~fired~ in the field, separate q
mircea_popescu: all sorts of things existed quietly for varying lengths of time.
mircea_popescu: the problem in theory of knowledge / history of science is not existence but comprehension.
asciilifeform: again no mega-tech here, radiolabeling was ordinary enough laboratory tech in late ‘50s.
mircea_popescu: well, an exageration, but the point remains. alien can always land and go "hey, why don't you knot your shoes LIKE THIS ?" "fuck, it never occured." "idiots."
asciilifeform: and you conclude this based on what?
mircea_popescu: we're talking specifically anachronistic-minded science-fanfic.
asciilifeform: we’re talking 1950s tech, mircea_popescu . stalin’s mairanovsky prolly had it.
mircea_popescu: this is known from legal practice, man comes to argue thing he has read in the law. meanwhile courts, in their attempt to emulate life, work by legal practice not by legal textbook.