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asciilifeform: u that since it knew Latitude and Longitude), you could find the sun. From the sun, and predetermined celestial positions, you could find the appropriate star in the region. Once you found that star, it was easy find the next one and go back and forth between the two, determining position. Here’s the deal. How do you search for a star, though. The least inefficient way is to use a square pattern. Obviously a diagonal is a cl
asciilifeform: 'Part of the mathematics of the Kollsman was a search program built into the VERDAN to help the Kollsman find a star, lock on to it, then find a second star and third, to use for triangulation. If I remember correctly, we tracked stars like Canopus, Sirius, and Procyon. I don’t remember for sure. But I do remember that there had to be a most efficient way to find a star. If you knew the time of the day (the G&N could give yo
asciilifeform: the pages are numbered like a bible's
asciilifeform: and it's a work of art
asciilifeform: interestingly, even though ianal, i do so enjoy a good hardcopy iso standard (that describes something useful, naturally)
asciilifeform: suppress the publication, it is nevertheless a fraudulent claim aimed at
asciilifeform: While it is directly clear why a restaurant in that position would move to
asciilifeform: a patron listed two items from that menu, that he ate, and that gave him
asciilifeform: on its menu would attempt to have content removed from a personal blog where
asciilifeform: situation is exactly like a situation where a restaurant listing 200 items
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I like the exact right use of a radiator there
decimation: BingoBoingo: it's not a terrible racket, although probably depressing
decimation: yeah. a patent is perfectly useless unless you have > $10 mil lawyer budget
decimation: but it's almost always a 'post hoc' situation
asciilifeform: individual patent is about as useful to the megacorp as a particular cone full of radar chaff in a particular ballistic rocket in a particular underground shaft
ben_vulpes: but a patent for that thing?
ben_vulpes: "but i don't really know that--" "fill out these papers, kid. we'll send you a check and something for your home office wall."
ben_vulpes: because i asked them to put an nda together for a vendor i wanted to communicate some things to
ben_vulpes: actually a funny story related
ben_vulpes: apparently they expect one to buy a bit of research and put it on the books.
ben_vulpes: i saw a company offering to "create research equity" for other companies.
decimation: mats: yeah but only a small number of lawyers 'matriculate' into those professions
mats: you couldn't pay me enough to work in a us embassy
BingoBoingo: <decimation> being a usg shill in a foreign country would be depressing as hell <, For sure, no point traveling if you can't try 50 shades of poon
decimation: being a usg shill in a foreign country would be depressing as hell
mats: ive been playing 'id the spy' for a few weeks and its good fun
BingoBoingo: The thing is if you have a brain and can't get a perfect score on the GRE math portion with a BAC under 0.5 I dunno why you'd try college
thestringpuller: "degree mill" sounds a lot like "puppy mill" :(
mats: the subconscious domination of a white woman that is
thestringpuller: mats: actually asians were a majority at the school I went to.
BingoBoingo: Well, the black test score bump can be explained entirely by the need to fill a competitive handegg team
decimation: https://web.archive.org/web/20110727142404/http://www.mindingthecampus.com/originals/2010/07/how_diversity_punishes_asians.html " On an "other things equal basis," where adjustments are made for a variety of background factors, being Hispanic conferred an admissions boost over being white (for those who applied in 1997) equivalent to 130 SAT points (out of 1600), while being black rather than white conferred a 310 SAT point advantage.
mats: i got a 2k+ SAT score, took 10 odd APs and honors classes
mats: i can develop a wicked tan
BingoBoingo: mats: Watch telenovas, pick up the accent, and you can prolly pass as a more obscure flavor of hispanic
asciilifeform: the history of never having worked is a plus (though davis worked just once, iirc)
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> the guy who wrote templeos is living on that racket << terry davis. and schizophrenia is still one of the more reliable ways a white man can get usg payola. though it's still an 'achievement', on part with getting a $1M research grant on your lonesome << Who knows, if it wasn't for glorious tobacco maybe I'd be on that golden ticket
asciilifeform: the guy who wrote templeos is living on that racket << terry davis. and schizophrenia is still one of the more reliable ways a white man can get usg payola. though it's still an 'achievement', on part with getting a $1M research grant on your lonesome
mircea_popescu: so these total fuckwits imagine they asked a powerful person to... write on their own fucking forehead ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ...but a leech ? a leech is a revolutionary. << usg welfare folks aren't leeches, they're employees. (what're they paid for? ask tlp.)
decimation: danielpbarron: yeah it would take a good year or two of concerted effort to con/harass the appropriate 'social workers' into giving you what you want
decimation: to get the 'whole package', you are going to need to be a minority more than likely
decimation: re: fiat heros < ron paul agrees: http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2015/february/23/the-washington-post-s-gross-mischaracterization-of-ron-paul-s-message/ “Sanity will not return to US leaders until our financial system collapses — an event for which they are feverishly working,” and “Before we can actually restore our liberties, we most likely will have to become a lot less free and much poorer.”
decimation: there is a large component of america (in the upper classes) that still has a belief that those dollars in their accounts are 'theirs' (in the 'sovereign citizen' sense)
mircea_popescu: a bureaucrat, getting paid "fairly" is a problem, yes. but a leech ? a leech is a revolutionary.
decimation: mircea_popescu: don't you think shame is a motivator?
mircea_popescu: i imagine a better question would be to ask why the fuck does this matter.
ben_vulpes: so it seems a good exercise would be to release that list of recipients anyways.
decimation: someone has a list of accounts
decimation: in fact, it's illegal for a real estate agent in the us to tell you how many welfare cases live on a street
mircea_popescu: you gotta understand, you go to jail in romania for being a socialist.
asciilifeform: the 'living wage' thing is much closer to things that actually happen, because pumping staight from treasury to rentiers (who jack prices immediately on anything subsidized) is apparently a-ok
asciilifeform: at any rate, the 'eat a horse' effect is at work
mircea_popescu: solitary is a "punishment"
mircea_popescu: most people that had a decent career etc wanted - 1 year's vacation. and to sleep.
mircea_popescu: a while back i ran a "what'd you do with 100k euro" thing on my blog (because some fucktarded populists were "promoting a law" to give every schmuck 20k - romanians don't want living wages, they want universal windfalls)
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> there's exactly one rape there, and it comes out of a political struggle. << Is rape ever anything other than politics?
mircea_popescu: there's exactly one rape there, and it comes out of a political struggle.
mircea_popescu: i never heard of a farmer not milking his cows because "they broke down", or not slaugthering the pigs etc.
mircea_popescu: you can live a whole life w/o running into either just fine.
mircea_popescu: will it be a meta-fucking ?
assbot: CC Sabathia Gained A Bunch Of Weight, On Purpose ... ( http://bit.ly/1MNVtsM )
BingoBoingo: In USia this is an elite athlete >> http://deadspin.com/cc-sabathia-gained-a-bunch-of-weight-on-purpose-1687422053
mircea_popescu: but it's fine, send the pet out on a fact finding expedition.
mircea_popescu: now multiply this by a reddit, and you see where we are.
mircea_popescu: they're petrified of it, of course, but it'd be a rational move for them.
asciilifeform secret connoisseur of 'rotting in prison' literature. has most of a bookcase - and none is in eng. doesn't know of any in that language worth keeping
mircea_popescu: they're so fucking free they despair for a guide of "how to behave" in prison.
BingoBoingo: also a lot of "Eastern" meditate and Zen bullshit
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: "Get ready for prison" camp is actually a thing is USia
mircea_popescu: pretty soon derps in prison so numerous actual prisoners are too wtf'd at these idiots running around dreaming a little dream they just hang themselves ?
mircea_popescu: they're going to have a dating/selfhelp for this, too ?
mircea_popescu: some idiots somewhere put pen to paper cca 1700 to communicate the idea that "if only we made the children of the scum literate the word would be a paradise"
BingoBoingo: And it's no coincidence that Elmo was played by a chomo
cazalla: that oscar was such a troll, down voting
mircea_popescu: that "a better world" as some people imagine it is always laughably derpy is no secret.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo only retrospectively. prospectively, it was designed to bring about "a better world", as some people imagined it.
asciilifeform: not a uniform infection, this.
asciilifeform: not everybody's a degenerate
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform a nato round expelled
BingoBoingo: And since we are bringing up the hometown behold the drive Federalis made to visit, note the major city very close to the destination https://maps.google.com/maps?q=peoria+illinois+highland+illinois&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&channel=sb&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&ei=1tbrVNKsHMKmNqeWg_AH&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&output=classic&dg=brw
asciilifeform: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=highland+silver+lake+park&ll=38.761728,-89.692103&spn=0.002812,0.001632&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&channel=sb&t=h&z=20&layer=c&cbll=38.761673,-89.691976&panoid=HPZxYzCY4v-Tms2dG9AMcA&cbp=12,354.34,,1,-19.35 << BingoBoingo's tower definitely has cellular antennae now
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Between highway and park in hometown Big antenna, wimpy bunker https://maps.google.com/maps?q=highland+silver+lake+park&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&channel=sb&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&ei=utLrVLr6CujgsASx_4CYAg&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&output=classic&dg=brw
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: We have a big microwave tower on the north side of town
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Definitely a particularly interesting site. Microwave tower is rather thin on antennas so facility must have had other serious justification
asciilifeform: bunker-building was a major racket in usa
asciilifeform: unrelated/historical >> http://coldwar-ct.com/ATT_Chesterfield.html << 'not a bunker w/out spring mounted toilet!'
asciilifeform: danielpbarron: what kind of output were you expecting to see without a serial cable ?!
danielpbarron: i got my pogo to load asciilifeform's netbsd.ub over ftp, and it stops at "Starting kernel ..." // is this step supposed to get a long time?
ascii_field: and neither do the other folks in #b-a
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: i thought your tool gave a number
mircea_popescu: (was gas thing, killed a guy_
plonky: but a bit harder to have a full hardware support
plonky: because it's easy to have a kernel booting and displaying lines in console
ascii_field: and on second thought we don't have a 88sx7042 either
danielpbarron: i think i finally bricked a pogo; rebooted the one with the netconsole thing setup (which has worked in the past) and now i get nothing out of it :<
ascii_field: whole shebang should weigh a couple of MB gzipped.
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ascii_field: but it's a little-endian arm 5, yes.
ascii_field: plonky, others: it isn't just a question of 'which arm'