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BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Excluded when moving or on
a public right of way. when not moving on any private property they can rapidly convert to domicile
trinque: BingoBoingo: put
a snow plow on the front too
trinque: punkman: I wouldn't mind seeing
a non-hippy/burner version of that
BingoBoingo: Also if you get one with
a big tank, maybe some money smuggling freshwater into california.
trinque: I'd live in
a sufficiently large vehicle
pete_dushenski: if you have
a farm, then w/e, but avowed urbanites need not apply
BingoBoingo: And seriously what isn't to like about
a giant toolbox that just happens to have wheels and
a motor
pete_dushenski: though i'll take
a plane and high-end hotel room any day, and i'll still come out ahead on costs compared to 'high-end rv'
☟︎ BingoBoingo: Fill the thing up with tents, condoms, and lube and you could have
a mobile orgy center
BingoBoingo: Also with all of that storage would make
a great RV
trinque: god damn Jessie Ventura is
a bad motherfucker.
trinque: "I'll leave this up to your discretion... if you ever put
a tail on me again without telling me, you're gonna fine your tail floating in the river. Now you take that back to whoever needs to know it."
trinque: the actual government of the USA is
a national security secret...
pete_dushenski: "In
a prototype, aluminum was used to make the negatively-charged anode while graphite provided material for the positively charged cathode.
A prototype aluminum battery recharged in one minute, the scientists said."
mircea_popescu: like "honey, i noticed our credit cards aren't even maxed anymore. i thought you promised to go shopping with the girls ? you know what... fuck this, i want
a divorce"
mircea_popescu: there's literally nothing anyone can do to force the president to spend money,
a bias that actually comes from the olden days that's never been challenged, ever.
mircea_popescu: as powerless as congress proved itself to be trying to reign in
a profilgate obama,
trinque: it'd probably result in
a power struggle with the congress trying to mandate certain shitty programs remain operational
trinque: there's
a vast bureaucracy he could shut down in
a day, yes
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
a muscle computer is an amd fx + 64 gb of memory + swap on
a ssd 1+0 raid array.
punkman: "continue helping on
a volunteer basis to help the Foundation during this financially austere time." << austerity strikes again
pete_dushenski: sounds like paul has himself
a functioning head, relatively speaking of course
BingoBoingo: <ascii_field> what will
a muscle computer be ..? << DEC Alpha overclocked and cooled by Olympian means
mats: ascii_field: there's
a decent amount of work done with afl to enable black box testing
pete_dushenski: that makes the vagina like an old man with
a mid- or late-life crisis
pete_dushenski: china seems to be sending
a few, though not all, young men and women to africa, likely to beneficial effect
mircea_popescu: best thing that could happen to the us is force every citizen under 18 to live
a year in africa.
ascii_field: 'The war, therefore if we judge it by the standards of previous wars, is merely an imposture. It is like the battles between certain ruminant animals whose horns are incapable of hurting one another. But though it is unreal it is not meaningless. It eats up the surplus of consumable goods, and it helps to preserve the special mental atmosphere that the hierarchical society needs. War, it will be seen, is now
a purely
ascii_field: pete_dushenski: foreign aid article << it's
a surplus-burner
mircea_popescu: hey, i am not proposing every blind figurine carver can be
a king.
pete_dushenski:
a family physician i know also recommended looking at least 20 ft away from the screen every 20 mins to allow eyes to relax
assbot: Foreign aid : assuaging your guilt and ruining lives… since forever. | Contravex:
A blog by Pete Dushenski ... (
http://bit.ly/1JlOnsv )
mircea_popescu: but as long as it's 1cm you'll seat yourself at
a convenient distance.
ascii_field: it is only moderately difficult to build
a variant which does not.
ascii_field: 'i am
a carpenter.' 'show me some wood.' - patient pulls out wad of own shit
mircea_popescu: "Heartbleed is
a read buffer overflow. What that means is that an application is reading outside the boundaries of
a buffer. For example, imagine an application has
a space in memory that's 10 bytes long. If the software tries to read 20 bytes from that buffer, you have
a read buffer overflow."
mircea_popescu: (for
a real world example, the derp with the btctc exchange is certainly
a victim)
mircea_popescu: the "spam farms" and the monkey-on-
a-stick farms where microsoft code is actuallywritten, and this stuff... really, what's the difference ?
mircea_popescu: "Court records say the laughing men initially tried to use
a broomstick for the deed, which was videotaped on
a cell phone. But then one of them said, “I have something better” and retrieved
a chorizo sausage from the station’s refrigerator, the records say."
ascii_field suspects
a 'national' variation in terminology
mircea_popescu: you hire
a huge team of those and cut the job up to them
ascii_field: mircea_popescu -might- be thinking of
a different profession than i was
mircea_popescu: yeah but you need to know / learn
a shitload more to do this than to wipe the table / put the pin in the hole.
mircea_popescu: eh, pick and place is like waitressing. so you missed
a spot. big deal.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: let's phrase it this way - my circle 3 degrees out includes perhaps
a thousand such slaves, and i was told in no uncertain terms that there were no females.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field there's exactly three things
a woman can do with herself that doesn't work as the housemaid of
a dude.
assbot: Logged on 07-04-2015 19:00:57; ascii_field: mats: ... similar gig as you, i imagine: working for 'the man' in compartmentalized ops, churning out weaponized exploits and such. << believe or not, i was never in this business. not even from ethical considerations, but starting with the fact that it is
a -terrifyingly- dreary kind of work, carried out largely with brute force 'fuzzing' by gigantic stables of fungible slaves.
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> the loss in physical plant would be comparable to
a world war << actually, not anymore. the us has already lost so much physical plant since the 50s it might have been through half
a dozen world wars.
mircea_popescu: the police dept of bumfuck offered to write
a plan and outline strategy and everything.
mircea_popescu: which reminds me of
a joke : when they entered the eu, the romanians starting bidding on all sorts of contracts. like for instance,
a 1947 british rfq to move the country to european style driving.
ascii_field: the loss in physical plant would be comparable to
a world war
mircea_popescu: dude there was
a light like that on the road out of timisoara, he was the lol of all time. we'd like visit to make fun.
ascii_field: street lamps where i live often suffer from
a peculiar glitch where they switch -off- if someone walks near
mircea_popescu: so... now you have to have
a pole every 10 meters, and can't even turn because LIGHT OMG
mircea_popescu: they got it in their head that "parking lots are dangerous" because "women get raped" because hey, it's
a literary conventions, and nobody can accuse us writers of not being lazy.
ascii_field: egypt went on for
a good long while, iirc.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: one thought that i can't possibly be the first to think is that miners have
a tremendous incentive to get off their government mains grids.
mircea_popescu: so the fact that giancarlo milanese can ask for
a 380v line today and have it working in may whereas joe washington can't even get it... well...
mircea_popescu: you know... the more i think of this the more it appears
a major strategic problem for the us. larger than fucking isis, larger than the chinese fmi, larger even than their inability to maintain railroad infrastructure.
ascii_field: it was
a bad idea -inherited directly from edison dc grid-
ascii_field: it is
a marvel that they didn't stick with edison's direct current grid
mircea_popescu: o wow, fucking sprawl. you probably can't just get
a huge 100kv - 2kv stepper and feed
a whole neighbourhood, must have like 100kv - 12kv - 1,x kv multistep hu