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undata: I'm over here hacking clojurescript pretending my hardest that there isn't a browser underneath
undata: you get a canvas
asciilifeform: no one may take a shit without paying. per gram.
asciilifeform: i propose now a new and improved tax for usg: the -shitlicense-.
undata: on this alt-history internet, can we have a lisp instead of JS?
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Sure you know. Just a dumb directory, except hypertext instead of the cheapest dead trees
undata: if we're hitting reset on things, can I have a computer too?
BingoBoingo: What was wrong with excite.com and yahoo as a phone book?
BingoBoingo: http://it.slashdot.org/story/14/12/03/1759238/twitter-should-use-random-sample-voting-for-abuse-reports << Person encourages twitter to go to a still darker side
BingoBoingo: Tower of fire can have a standalone purpose. Making the orc fear that scarier orcs reside at the base
asciilifeform: for thermocouples - you want more of a potbelly stove, with long chimney
asciilifeform: this is more of a shortwavecoin apocalypse gizmo.
asciilifeform: greer's article is not entirely wrong that ancient egyptian tinsmith could have built it, if he knew how and had a reason.
TomServo: I seem to recall someone publishing a form letter to be sent to Lawlsky; I wouldn't be surprised by tons of dupes.
asciilifeform: somebody (does anyone give a shit?) could crawl the thing and deduplicate.
BingoBoingo: Many lols indeed, but I really dun want to test the limits of how far a blockquote tage can be stretched...
asciilifeform: a large number appear to be identical.
asciilifeform: 'Thank you folks for your work and I do apologize for the likely barrage of angry and childish emails I suspect you may already be receiving. The concept has attracted a couple of groups who can't accept playing by anyone's rules but their own.'
nubbins`: a better question is: any story behind S.MPOE > 0.8 ;D
nubbins`: there's a ddos bot?
rithm: a bright orange thick matte
assbot: Secret East TV: A Night In With Jonny & The Cowabungas (A Night In Sessions Ep. 2) | Secret East ... ( http://bit.ly/1I0xyE4 )
nubbins`: http://secreteast.ca/2014/10/secret-east-tv-a-night-in-with-jonny-the-cowabungas-a-night-in-live-sessions-episode-2/
rithm: it's perfect hanging in a music studio then
rithm: i'll send you a pic once it's hung in the studio
rithm: nubbins`, i finally bought a mtte and fram for that print
arij: i wanted to offer hosting on behalf of bitvps for a mirror, or whatever else bitcoin-assets may need
jurov: heh i never imagined myself being a beancounter
mircea_popescu: you just... gave a scammer... some of your money. because you're stupid. whole story.
mircea_popescu: here's a newsflash : idiots defrauded by garza haven't "lost their money trying to take over bitcoin" anymore than the idiots defrauded by buterin & the us propaganda machine through the etherium scam have lost their money "trying to take over bitcoin"
mircea_popescu: "You have said that you want Paycoin to take over bitcoin a coin that you said you dont believe in"
BingoBoingo: ^ Guy bought a lot of GAW stuff, now pissed
mircea_popescu: it's like the good days of the 90s all over again. "oh, you don't have a computer at home ? THEN YOU CANT PLAY WITH US!"
jurov: will be a good testing sample for piling up the signatures
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> jurov http://thebitcoin.foundation/ << got a signed copy of teh declaration thingee you can put up there ? << i've got a copy of mine with SHA512
BingoBoingo: Also revisiting the why does AK need rails piece http://cdn1.cheaperthandirt.com/ctd_images/bgprod/7-G41026.jpg is a commercial product offered for sale
mircea_popescu: jurov http://thebitcoin.foundation/ << got a signed copy of teh declaration thingee you can put up there ?
mircea_popescu: looky here : i can't pay teh foundation its tax because i can't link to a justificative document. wtf do i do now ?
mircea_popescu: cazalla: plowman has ample room for gardening, perhaps rabbits and even other livestock.. plowman is actually plowking! << we'll talk once your kid grows up a little. it's not about you. it's about the Vladimir Lenin All-Union Pioneer Organization.
BingoBoingo: Could be a big problem. Constipation is a leading killer of goldfish.
kakobrekla: its not a problem.
jurov: and..care to explain why's that a problem?
punkman: invaluable is a good thing
BingoBoingo: Maybe load scamsite of the week in an iframe below a banner that says "Lol, cocks. HIV!"
jurov: anyone who has a registrar who doesn't give a fuck about trademarks, go ahead
assbot: Riot-torn Ferguson's distrust of police flows from a city run on fines - World - CBC News ... ( http://bit.ly/15ONEly )
nubbins`: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/riot-torn-ferguson-s-distrust-of-police-flows-from-a-city-run-on-fines-1.2858208
davout: ;;later tell mircea_popescu "<davout> yes, continuous trading seems so much simpler, not sure if there's a blocker i'm missing tho << it's nonsense, what exactly is a future that has no future date ?" <<< didn't say there shouldn't be a maturity date, i said trading should be continuous
cazalla: mircea_popescu: plowman desperately needs city man because well, his village is so boring watching flies fuck is a release <<< plowman has ample room for gardening, perhaps rabbits and even other livestock.. plowman is actually plowking!
Vexual: i get kicked for smoking a reefer now?
BingoBoingo had a dream... Where the avaians crashed a ship while trying to depose the reptilians and I managed to kit out a fishing boat with their sweet alien gear...
mircea_popescu: i mean it's not a bad way to waste money, who knows what the reaearching kids come up with
assbot: Logged on 08-02-2014 00:14:28; asciilifeform: imagine you possess a death ray that magically zaps a rocket, from any distance.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: point is not that it is physically impossible to shoot a falling cone. but that it is a thermodynamic race that the rocket man - wins. and the death ray man - loses.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: One was already made, torrent "Birth of a Nation" Next step has yet to be made.
decimation: asciilifeform: yes, this seems like a more likely attack method honestly
BingoBoingo always imagined a perfect "nuclear power" untouchable datacenter would target DC, Beijing, Moscow, and Mecca for its dead hand protocol
asciilifeform: rocket is a 'memento mori.'
assbot: What is a terminal velocity of an ICBM? - Defense Technology & Military Forum ... ( http://bit.ly/1ygxvMp )
assbot: Bitcoin History: A Reverse Joe Job and A Subpoena - Slashdot ... ( http://bit.ly/1ygxisy )
mircea_popescu: it's roughly like firing a tank in slow motion at someone.
asciilifeform will be more convinced once ru demonstrates a still-functioning nuke
asciilifeform: ^ they are conducting a whole series of made-for-youtube 'yeah they still work motherfuckers' tests.
decimation: http://theaviationist.com/2014/10/30/spike-in-russian-air-force-activity-in-europe-may-be-a-reaction-to-large-us-strategic-command-bombers-exercise/
decimation: maybe he was one of the famous 'bums of san francisco' who mistook the escalator for a toilet http://heavy.com/news/2012/07/transit-escalators-clogged-with-insane-amounts-of-human-turd/
decimation: a modern us farmer is basically a machinist/engineer
mircea_popescu: decimation this is a very specific thing, tho. rural russian kid cca 1920.
mircea_popescu: "soviets are a fairytale come true"
mircea_popescu: genuinely loved it. the fucking adventure of it all, fuck dude, think of it, he's like a hero of legend.
mircea_popescu: the remainder... they're a statistic.
mircea_popescu: the other construction is that peasant 20 yo kid FUCKING LOVED getting to travel, getting to work on a construction yard and whistle at anon girls in skirts passing by
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform take the earlier point re "stalin made an experiment of making peasant life suck more". it's a construction. ☟︎
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> plowman desperately needs city man because well, his village is so boring watching flies fuck is a release. << Come one, goats!!!
mircea_popescu: plowman desperately needs city man because well, his village is so boring watching flies fuck is a release.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform food hasn't been a serious geopolitical issue since about 1600.
asciilifeform: until RuBisCo is fixed and you can grow five men's bread in a pot in the cellar under grow lamp.
mircea_popescu: rurality is a dead duck everywhere and in all times.
mircea_popescu: decimation chechens are a fan of whatever empire they happen to have clung to the skirts of.
decimation: such a grand strategy usg undertook, to import all of its enemies worldwide and make them citizens so we could all love them with socialism
decimation: asciilifeform: us chechens probably aren't a fan of usg either
BingoBoingo: A lot of people in the region won't admit it, but yes Bosnians are very white and this worries them.
BingoBoingo: I honestly think is was stupid for a mixed gang of Hispanics and Black americans to pick on the Bosnians for lacking melanin.
asciilifeform: if a sparrow farts in rural wyoming, it is provably racially motivated.
Vexual: legioinaires get a passport
mircea_popescu: while it's not much a matter of perception. pure thermodynamics.
decimation: asciilifeform: yeah which is why the 'oath keepers' who appeared were a serious threat
asciilifeform: more of a generalized hypothesis.
asciilifeform: presently it's a useful propaganda tool - usg picks pliant juries reliably, gives extra spray paint coating of 'legitimacy' to everything the courts do.
asciilifeform: if this becomes a plausible thing, jury trial will be abolished in usa.
Vexual: australia gets a lot more people shot in their kitchen for holding a kitchen knife than americaz
mircea_popescu: just on a general "well, vote for the underdog" thing.
mircea_popescu: i dunno, i'd personally hold on to acquitting anyone accused of shooting a swat derp, if in his home.
asciilifeform: machine gun a hunting dog? sure. good sport, apparently.
mircea_popescu: generally speaking, considering the line of work, a 2-3 year average lifespan for anyone involved would be reasonable.
asciilifeform: if there were danger, he would be a coward, like usa in iraq.
mircea_popescu: nothing worse than an aparatchick with a delusion of invulnerability.
assbot: 6 results for 'solzhenitsyn axe' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=solzhenitsyn+axe
mircea_popescu: truth be told, a lot more swat derps need to be kiled on a daily basis, to balance that shit out.
mircea_popescu: "In 2009 Mayor Cheye Calvo proposed a measure that would require every Maryland police department that operates a SWAT team to submit biannual reports on its activities, including where and when it was deployed and whether an operation resulted in arrests, evidence seizures, or injuries."
decimation: xinxiwang: is there a functioning over-the-counter market in the prc for bitcoin?