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mircea_popescu: i guess it's scary if you're a shutin or something.
mircea_popescu: what does he know this schmuck. it's about as scary to be stopped by a cop as it's scary to be accosted by beggars, panhandlers and flyer guys
mircea_popescu: "I know it is scary for people to be stopped by cops. I also understand the anger and frustration if people believe they have been stopped unjustly or without a reason. "
mircea_popescu: "It is also a terrible calumny; cops are not murderers. No officer goes out in the field wishing to shoot anyone, armed or unarmed."
BingoBoingo: I might have gotten to a bit tipsy by then. Maybe I need to chew on these things a bit longer
mircea_popescu: "These are young people who want a future of some sort and know that if during such frequent encounters their persistence in being might cease because either the officer, themself, or both are having a particularly bad day their life can end. " this made utterly no sense.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes "or find a bigger stick."
ben_vulpes: "if you don’t want to get shot, tased, pepper-sprayed, struck with a baton or thrown to the ground, just do what I tell you. "
mircea_popescu: "it's not the police, but the people they stop, who can prevent a detention from turning into a tragedy."
mircea_popescu: this is Sunil Dutta after having been drug behind a truck for two hours the next day
mircea_popescu: this is Sunil Dutta after having beaten with a steel pipe for six straight hours.
mircea_popescu: "and this was Sunil Dutta. he thought he was a cop. he thought he was pretty cool. this is sunil dutta with his wife and kids. this is sunil dutta with his dog.
mircea_popescu: like a holocaust museum in reverse, so to speak.
mircea_popescu: i intend to make a nice library. the memorial von flondor library, containing documentation of what happens to these folks once things change.
mircea_popescu: looking forward to the videos of them folks being beaten to death over a week or two, once the regime changes.
assbot: Im a cop. If you dont want to get hurt, dont challenge me. - The Washington Post
mircea_popescu: http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/08/19/im-a-cop-if-you-dont-want-to-get-hurt-dont-challenge-me/ o look at that.
BingoBoingo: Well, drunk in public isn't a crime there. Turns out nearly all US states have that BS
mircea_popescu: "When considering what jurisdiction in this world is or is not, or perhaps which one just might be ever so slightly closer to being the land of the free than some other's let us examine a snippet of text that enumerates a right of citizens of some actual jurisdiction the world which might give many people in the United States some pause."
mircea_popescu: a
mircea_popescu: and the us crime problem is mostly a creation of the uspds.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: I actually think the endgame a portion in Ferguson seeks is a police department like East St Louis's which see falling crime in spite of near complete inactio << it's not in spite. it's BECAUSE.
asciilifeform: it is very heavy. and transformer conveniently had a middle tap for folks in gringolandia to move the mains wire to.
asciilifeform owns one single thing made in england - a 'thurlby thandar' variable dc supply
assbot: deer eating a bird - YouTube
BingoBoingo suspects nubbins` values his life and didn't want to chance pascale's first time waking up in a hammock being his last time waking up
nubbins`: shared a tarp
BingoBoingo: Times 1-5 sleeping in a hammock I awoke safely on the ground, knife in hand
nubbins`: first time pascale ever slept in a hammock, i suggested we leave the tarps off so we could see the stars
BingoBoingo: In hung over hypnagogic terror might as well be a trap to the lizard brain, and I am not letting the spiders win
BingoBoingo: nubbins`: Problem with a hammock isn't setting it up, but waking up
BingoBoingo wishes he were in time for TSR and could get a literal pound of cocaine to cut the walk to 10 days
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Imma trying to polish my spanish for a reason...
BingoBoingo: Yes, State Trooper in Illinois. Many accidents, many incidents, finally shipped to wander the big jail for killing two cute white girls in a traffic accident
ben_vulpes: <BingoBoingo> Well, my pet theory is that much of the continued racial separation in the US is related to treating race as an inventory management problem << out in the burbs recently, noticed while walking by a softball game while emptying the dogs tanks how the white folks sat on the left side of the field and the black folks on the other. this being in one of the few neighborhoods with actual black folks in portland, the ration was
nubbins`: america is a complicated place
BingoBoingo: And I still have a bowl full of dates to snack upon
BingoBoingo: Well, the Illinois State police recently started policing East St Louis so there is prolly a point to that
asciilifeform: inhabitants of a newly-minted bantustan are usually invited to handle these matters on their own.
BingoBoingo: I actually think the endgame a portion in Ferguson seeks is a police department like East St Louis's which see falling crime in spite of near complete inactio
BingoBoingo has never had a rental with locks worth more than a soda
asciilifeform: at the time, mine were at the top of a stairwell to nowhere (wall) - in the cellar (which the owner usually kept locked, to keep tenants from switching on the heat.)
BingoBoingo: I like how they fail beautifully, before you realize you have to traverse the county in a disorderly manner to replace them
BingoBoingo: Even though.. 2011 seemed for a while like American 1989...
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: re: article: taiwan is an interesting case of what i like to call a 'refrigerator' - pocket of thermodynamic dis-equilibrium kept going via outside energy (in its case - u.s. imperial navy)
penguirker: New blog post: http://www.thedrinkingrecord.com/2014/08/20/a-key-thing-that-erodes-the-pretense-of-respectability-in-governance/
assbot: A Key Thing That Erodes the Pretense of Respectability in Governance | Bingo Blog
BingoBoingo: White dude talking race and policing >> http://www.thedrinkingrecord.com/2014/08/20/a-key-thing-that-erodes-the-pretense-of-respectability-in-governance/
asciilifeform: but this here is a different idea - actually build the entire thing via moving nozzle (a la plastic printer.)
asciilifeform: a traditional joke on a n00b in a machine shop, i'm told, is to send him off for a 'putting-on tool' when he cuts his first undersized piece.
mircea_popescu: bear of course finds it, and spining it all around like a hot potato on his paws mutters with great urgency
mircea_popescu: so eventualy gave up, curled in a ball and hoped for the best.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> enemy might be covered in magical armour, but he still has, presumably, a visor << this reminds me, you know the horny bear joke ?
asciilifeform: collapse of mega-empires and even pre-collapse deterioration of industrial base tends to favour a return to classical arms, however.
mircea_popescu: it won'tr come down to who has many people that can and will fire a rifle.
asciilifeform: enemy might be covered in magical armour, but he still has, presumably, a visor
asciilifeform: small arms are a dead trope >> i recall a thread re: armour and the obsolescence of small arms
mircea_popescu: small arms are a dead trope as it were.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Well, a lot happened in terms of "market trials" on subjects such as "Full" v "intermediate" power rounds and ideal caliber at any power
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i find it interesting that nothing principally new happened in small arms for almost a century. (curios like 'gyrojet' excepted)
mod6: b-a has some decent weapons discussions.
mod6: includes a roll of ducktape
asciilifeform: folks who spend a good deal of time at target practice complain about the fouling (no jacket.)
asciilifeform: .22 seems to be a caliber wildly popular in usa - likely, solely on account of cost. a few cents each.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: But the chamber in the standard 5.56x45mm barrel is wider to accomodate all that case. Unless the very cheap want a sleeve to solve that dimensional disparity at risk to limb...
asciilifeform: if i recall, these are a plug-in part (no machining required)
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> the .22 (for non-usians, the familiar 'olympic' caliber) rifle is also explained by cost: roughly 1/2 - 1/3 of a 'proper' m16. low pressure round, can use garbage metals. << In police department purchasing general practice is buying actual M-16 type and them getting .22LR uppers to go with them
asciilifeform: the .22 (for non-usians, the familiar 'olympic' caliber) rifle is also explained by cost: roughly 1/2 - 1/3 of a 'proper' m16. low pressure round, can use garbage metals.
mircea_popescu: hillbillies with chemical weapons are a self limiting problem anyway
kdomanski: mircea_popescu: claimable by someone who knows exactly what they are doing, but not by a bunch of hillbillies
mod6: the 417? na, its got a recoil sprint in the stock-tube.
mod6 ponders a hardware wishlist
mod6: i shot a thompson once, was great :)
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo she got shot with a bb pellet ?
mircea_popescu: "just say what a policeman would say"
BingoBoingo: Oh, Imma working on a blog post
thestringpuller: that's a name I haven't seen in a good while.
mircea_popescu: "The U.S. government had a world monopoly on helium and in the mid-1930s refused to sell any to the Zeppelin Co. in Germany, which is why the Hindenburg was filled with highly-flammable hydrogen when it exploded."
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> H2 Airship is probably near the Platonic form of of cheap and angry << or in any case, a good rendition of a very large matchstick.
BingoBoingo: O finds a way
asciilifeform: http://api.ning.com/files/A*xATsTqGf7gA1dHf5rr4H61g8SHHZ5JqNwx5I1IGjv5-FiTzTM*nJGnss9F-l8bH6R0nTuJqqI2wkvX3-yPR0IIu*tX9AuH/C31ComradeAirship.jpg?width=411&height=600
pete_dushenski: now there's an idea for a comic strip!
pete_dushenski: novusordo: i had a similar hunch ;)
pete_dushenski: well there's not a lot of evidence to support the theory that the derps, wol, bbet, or nsa are picking up the slack
assbot: Such a great logical argument: http://t.co/MCE1tOIzuD
BingoBoingo: My gosh, are you guys totally unaware that hundreds or thousands of services use your API to may check balances and provide services on top of it? What the hell are you guys doing. This guy is reporting a vulnerability for free and you act ignorant. Do you want somebody to exploit such vulns without reporting and blockchain ending up like emptygox?
BingoBoingo: We analyzed this bug and found that it if exploited, an attacker can cause a wallet to show incorrect balances. However, an attacker must spend bitcoin to do so.
assbot: While you're busy pumping his book, Andreas Antonopoulos, the "security officer" at blockchain.info still has not fixed a critical vulnerability in blockchain.info that was reported to them and acknowledged a month ago. : Bitcoin
kakobrekla: have a tit http://blog.tastebuds.fm/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/worstalbumcovers01.jpeg
BingoBoingo: thestringpuller: last night was a quiet night. After http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/dailyrft/2014/08/mya_aaten-white_shooting_victim_from_aug_12_says_police_have_not_interviewed_her.php Tonight might be... who knows
assbot: I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
BingoBoingo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_a_Fugitive_from_a_Chain_Gang
TomServo: gave Berkshire a reputation as a lender of last resort when financial markets come under strain << Hadn't heard that line before.
punkman: dignork, that sucks. maybe if he makes a fuss coinbase will refund that withdrawal
empyex: thestringpuller: Want a bash? http://bash.bitcoin-assets.com/?quote=135 Or use a valid MPSIC!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: yes, you can study under the cover of darkness, in a cellar, with black-market materials. but it used to be, you could also study at a university.
mircea_popescu: the chick however, she comes from money, ran for the danish pirate party iirc, got a seat.
mircea_popescu: dignork srsly. he's such a total dork you could not believe.
assbot: Russian Roulette in Wedding gone Wrong - Roulette Russa a Matrimonio - YouTube
dignork: mircea_popescu: the guy is playing a wrong game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC7GGrUdJUI&t=0m25s