asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: what fraction of heat loss is from breathing ?
asciilifeform: back to the 'radioactive mushroom' - anyone could, in principle, leave a 'wanted ad' to the effect of wishing to purchase $bannedobject anywhere he wants
asciilifeform: seems like it does require a crown contract attesting to the fact of use in a particular product, along with statement of disposal arrangements
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: DU is not illegal to own in usa, afaik
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: stern words, 'horse's head on pillow' - cheaper still.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: but it seems like a stretch. bullet is cheaper.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: if -otc weren't as dead as it appears to have been for the past year or two, i imagine it could be possible for the buggers to set up a 'controlled buy' of some contraband or other, embroiling -otc, and spinning up nanotube as 'a dpr'
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: not that richilieu couldn't cough up the proverbial 'six lines by the hand of the honest man'
asciilifeform: retarded, sure. just wondered if there was some actual plus to the st kitts thing. because i distinctly recall that 'passports of convenience' are mostly good as wall decorations and nothing more.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: why would anyone buy the st kitts passport described in the article? 400k usd would get you a fairly comfortable 2 yrs in Ar or the like (or however long it takes there to get passported)
asciilifeform is evidently not the proverbial alert reader
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: mainly things you have spoken of at various time, re: navigating some unspecified but very gnarly system for angry client
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: ... to hear about how my slave time should qualify me for the satoshi codebase << ben_vulpes had better be qualified... just as artifexd had better be qualified for his part.
asciilifeform: in particular, very depressingly fragmented wafer inspection paraphernalia
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes will probably find it an interesting detail, that when i shopped around for certain parts for my pcb assembly apparatus, quite a few vendors turned up who offer bits'n'pieces of what was once the u.s. semiconductor industry
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i used to do something like actual work, long ago.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: but i think i already described this onece
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: as for me, i mostly reverse-engineer things for money. but occasionally i build something to make other things more reverse-engineerable.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: last i recall, he cranked out nozzle skirts for maneuvering jets, for someone or other
asciilifeform: the funny thing is, that ben_vulpes almost certainly has considerably more truck with projects akin to the one in this thread, than i do
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i must confess that i do not know how, and with what, the game of 'almost golf' is played; or how it relates to what is happening in the photo.
