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mircea_popescu: well stop flavouring us with it then!
asciilifeform: instead of anal oracle from yest. thrd
mircea_popescu: aha. just how many kinds of spherical vacuums do you have in that belt of yours ?
asciilifeform: ( deflated like toy )
asciilifeform: recall the $billion balloon of all-seeing sauron from 2014
asciilifeform: depends. inca balloon may cost dearly, dearer than asciilifeform's head
mircea_popescu: no crime to shoot balloons.
asciilifeform: ( and must also ask, if they are already here, why wait for baloon, wai not my head )
mircea_popescu: "why thank you most profusely, kind science man sir!"
mircea_popescu: "the obvious solution to acoso callejero is to not go around where horny males can see you"
mircea_popescu: ima link to this next time you say anything in the vein to me.\
asciilifeform: the obvious pill is to not get into the position of where olympic skeet shooters are following you around the world..
mircea_popescu: you could prolly get the street urchins involved, if only you can provide rifles for them. this is becoming a sort of "isis in mosul" deal
mircea_popescu: this convo with the "fin!!!" thing is eerily reminescent of early crypto discussion s, at that.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: city squirrel is stupid tho
mod6: yeah they turn on dimes.
mircea_popescu: fucking squirrels. try leading those for a nervewracking experience.
mod6: anyway, finned ballon follows pattern; you just learn to lead 'em
asciilifeform: at any rate this'd make great sport
mircea_popescu: you've never actually tried have you ?
mircea_popescu: now if they only made the spiked bb already.
asciilifeform: almost as good as the old austrian 18th c thing
asciilifeform: these are neat, it was recced to me for squirrel control
mircea_popescu: o look, the daisy 499b (200 bux) actuallyu does 73mps muzzle velocity. i can even sit across parking lot.
mircea_popescu: oh, i gotta get the stage whores get me a spot light too ?! say it's not so, inconvenience unthinkable.
asciilifeform: but yes you can kill anything, e.g. icbm, if you know which 'street to sit across '
phf: see, sergey, that's why launching at night!
mircea_popescu: he's goingto have one launchy spot, and ima sit in a chair across the street from it.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: where do i buy this rifle, that works for 20km
mircea_popescu: phf you realise that me + daisy rifle = pest control for a fleet of 5k baloons/hour or somesuch ?
asciilifeform: ( and before anyone asks, NO i am not interested in paying moar per raw chip than the pcbs cost now. which is 1 $ )
phf: drop them from the balloon glider
mircea_popescu: (no, as it stands, you could fly it over white house and nobody would know specifically what's going on. they can only detect them when landed in open air.)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ideally, buy a fucking chinese drone, just for the hell of it.
asciilifeform: phf: drop'em from the illicit chopper. 'may as well hang for sheep as for lamb'
phf: also can probably string them as far as adams morgan zoo from your bunker, have a secondary effect as definitely getting labeled as terrorist when caught (lizard territory)
asciilifeform: btw asciilifeform is STILL, 3y !! after the original thread, looking for a supplier of RAW esp8266
mircea_popescu: phf explains to you above -- it has significant training value. BOTH technical and political.
asciilifeform: say asciilifeform scatters these about. ends up... talking to self
mod6: <+asciilifeform> aha, we discussed this << ya, cool idea
asciilifeform: one gotcha is that the immediate practical ( vs 'fleet in being' ) value of such a thing is ~0.
asciilifeform: cheaper than solar, incidentally. and less conspicuous.
asciilifeform: it was what i got those lithium sulfide cells for. got prototype, veerry threadbare
asciilifeform: aha, we discussed this
mircea_popescu: could by now make ACTUAL bug-sized and looking item, with metal pike, insert into tree. solar + etc. triangulate and what, congrats you found a $15 prize ? ☟︎
asciilifeform: i thought about very basic 'tmsr cicada' - for 84,399 seconds of the day, box listens for rsa-signed packet; 1 second - transmits latest known
mircea_popescu: my vrag naroda cards aren;t erven back from the shop yet.
phf: i'm a soviet man, i prepare my own defense even before i start thinking about doing it
mircea_popescu: phf we're nowhere near political trials yet.
a111: Logged on 2017-07-21 04:09 mircea_popescu: keep the ewes for meat and the goats for the hilarities.
mircea_popescu: electromagnetics + power of the republic = http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-21#1688149 ☝︎
phf: but my electronics knowledge is limited, so for me durping with one radio transmitter/receiver is no different than another, because the result is going to be my improved understanding but very little in terms of practical results
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: recall the hypohetical pcb businesscard asciilifeform drew
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, i fully agree. that's why i'm nudging the not-entirely-desocialized elements to bring teh light to the masses already.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you could gild the pages at no extra cost. or you know, plutonim them, platinum them...
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: upstack, imho 'pirate radio' ( for tmsr , not rando pseudomusic ) is fertile green field. plenty of idle spectrum for confiscation from its supposed 'owners'. and if done correctly ( see saddam jammer thread ) -- ungassable.
phf goes wherever party tells him to go
mircea_popescu: ag3nt_zer0 nothing is going on. go right ahead and generate a proper privkey, compute safely its associated address, and move your coins there.
mircea_popescu: ag3nt_zer0 i would say so, yes. make sure you use the dicelist method correctly, and make sure the privkey is not exposed to third parties.
ag3nt_zer0: I dont know if there is a risk in transferring NOW seeing as this segwit stuff is going on... is there any kind of chance my coins won't be signed properly or something like this?
ag3nt_zer0: mricea_popescu I know your response to my question is run my own node... but if I currently do not have one set up and wanted to be safe with my coins during this nonsense (i.e. take them off of coinbase & store safely), would following pete_dushenski's guide to creating an offline brainwallet utilizing 13 words arrived at through the dice method using only english dictionary be sufficient until I get an up and running trb node? B
asciilifeform: i'll point out that the al in cd is not exposed to atmosphere.
mircea_popescu: might as well make them optoinspectable neh.
mircea_popescu: you will want to note them on aluminum anyway. ANYWAY
a111: Logged on 2017-04-05 23:00 asciilifeform: but as a massively-distributed long-term backup, aluminum is ~unbeaten -- it's probably the only reason asciilifeform was able to find a copy of genera
asciilifeform: if reprint and throw out paper.
asciilifeform: may as well scan then, neh
mircea_popescu: so you repriont the old ones and need not worry about them.
asciilifeform: all them bookz, are old.
mircea_popescu: much better to not have 5 trillion little afid shits eating away at the deliuciouys desert innit now.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i had taken you for a man who has and lived with a library. i am one of those also, and i have nfi how you can not immediately think of the
asciilifeform: now where to get nanoleaf al...
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: gotta try this. i do want one.
mircea_popescu: not more than tin foil fuses.
mircea_popescu: right, alf has decided "permanent book, never will rot away" and "1/10th the thickness and 1/3rd the weight of current afid traps" no features./
asciilifeform: meh then, that's the 1 megafeature
mircea_popescu: are you telling me someone tried and hated it ? because hey, tin foil is in every house, no pain to separate.
asciilifeform: but this book would be great, easily hold enough charge to nuke unwary thief
asciilifeform: mega-pain to separate'em
asciilifeform: it nicely illustrates the down side
mircea_popescu: can make PAGE arbitrarily thick so all books are the same thickness throughout, if you want. can do all sorts of things./
mircea_popescu: aluminum will go down to 5 micrometers np. this means 1k pages book = 5mm = 1/5th inch thickness.
mircea_popescu: speaking of "why the fuck aren't your clotheslines connected to anything, lamer" : why the ef are they still not making aluminum books ? use 5 mils say, ruberized/siliconized edges...
a111: Logged on 2017-07-13 18:40 mircea_popescu: http://68.media.tumblr.com/2fc0db5e94b5ec60a1a6cf24f2b64ae7/tumblr_o5k91cVFvc1tgs3fno1_1280.png << this incidentally is a fine example of what i mean by http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-02#1664458 : bed-door clearance ? exactly enough to fit a standing chick, if were thin, AND NO MORE.
mircea_popescu: yes, but plenty of people live in the by now soviet traditional http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-13#1682694 ☝︎
asciilifeform: the hard part ~used to~ be the: receiver. but! nomoar
mircea_popescu: calibanesque is teh only possible english word
asciilifeform: looking for the other added flavour, 'gives away your position'
asciilifeform: lol i luvv that scene ☟︎
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i think he said as much.
mircea_popescu: the young nazi is supposed to be the natural direction of any ruminant herd, and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29Mg6Gfh9Co !!!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i sorta assumed the ballons were for antennae
mircea_popescu is somewhat nonplussed phf sits around "hackerspace" derping with baloons instead of making the shortwave-nat-over-other-peoples-cars thing fore instance.
asciilifeform: phf: how do i say стрёмный in the king's engl
asciilifeform: and less 'star topo'
asciilifeform: muchc cheaper than actual station in antarctica or whatevers
asciilifeform: idea being -- hardware everyone already has in the cellar
mircea_popescu: this is not at all a bad idea. possibly more expensive than the originally contemplated.
mircea_popescu: let it be clearly stated that there's no such thing in nature as the isolated republican. true thay you may be busy working for a long time, but in the end, isolated citizen == cpu without i/o.
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