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assbot: I haven't understood a single word you've said since I met you, not one single word.
benkay: i'm marshalling reasons why it might be metallic.
benkay: nigga i know what a pop pin is
benkay: but what do i know
tg2: i'd like to see a tesla drive over that
mike_c: actually less brissant than i thought
benkay: i figured those were ductile.
tg2: I'm surprised they haven't been sued into the ground yet. People are overly complacent
punkman: I just use it for small purchases here and there
mike_c: plus neither I nor google knows what brissant means.
punkman: so they redesigned Paypal to be responsive or whatever, now I can't even get to my account page
tg2: sadly I don't know of many romanian wines
tg2: I keep them at 14C
tg2: I /think/ it's actually below the frost line but I wouldn't want to test it out
punkman: I could use a nice cellar
tg2: I have a pit cellar (under the house) and cold air tends to make it's way down there
punkman: I got this box of wine here that was about 3eur/litre.
tg2: I would go for some italian super tuscans
tg2: I found a case of opus one in a convenience store in maui
BingoBoingo: I have trouble trusting a brand named after something a brand is supposed to have, rather than actually having its own
mircea_popescu: i dunno how much lineage it can have, but anyway
mircea_popescu: i thought that was a flat panel tv maker o.O
tg2: I have cases of it
tg2: you're close to napa I'm guessing
tg2: i can give you a list of "to-try" if youw ant
mircea_popescu: i don't even mean good. decent. something i could in good conscience feed women.
mircea_popescu: but i've yet to have a decent us wine.
tg2: I guess we have different taste in wine :)
tg2: I thought it was sacha grey in that pic
benkay: i was going to say.
benkay: it's not nearly as bad here as i make it out
benkay: i hate socialism
benkay: asciilifeform: that is what i'm driving at.
asciilifeform: re: http://nymag.com/news/features/tide-detergent-drugs-2013-1 << every bottle of laundry crap, in every shop, where i live - has a bulky rfid alarm gizmo chained to it.
the20year2: i've never understood homeopathy, and i don't think most who believe in it do either
the20year2: I'd love to see the data
mircea_popescu: rithm sure, i have a lot of anecdotal support
mircea_popescu: benkay i mostly meant psychoactives.
rithm: mircea_popescu i have supporting data based on my surroundings that confirm your hypothesis
the20year2: i know soap theft is pretty big
mircea_popescu: i suspect on average about 1/3 of available resources goes to chemicals.
rithm: i'm very intriqgued by the tideUSD market though
mircea_popescu: well... or used to, i guess bitcoin changes that.
mircea_popescu: i know i do.
mircea_popescu: i think most everyone here does.
rithm: i personally operate mostly in the bezzle space obv
rithm: i'll have to do more grocery shopping to confirm this theroy
navhul-lacsup: (I actually rss subscribe to your blog)
navhul-lacsup: I'll read your post when I am off paid time
navhul-lacsup: I'm mostly interested in upgrading internet architecture with referential transparency, no bitrot, and secure identity baked in
navhul-lacsup: i like a lot of technical goals of the project, but I do worry that it is too radical to take off
diametric: punkman: i could be wrong
diametric: punkman: maybe, i vaguely remember reading after that came out the newer shipped ones don't work
asciilifeform: these folks are crackpots, quite possibly inspired by my ravings re: dataflow archs. so i am to blame.
mircea_popescu: benkay i don't know enough about cpus to be useful there.
navhul-lacsup: asciilifeform: yeah, I lurk there
the20year2: if i had a major need for one i could have picked up a few by now
benkay: i had to have someone who grew up with them teach me how to use them though.
diametric: yeah I have a 79 (i think?) tektronics of some sort I haven't used very much
asciilifeform: i think most people (who have any dealings with such matters, at any rate) own at least 2 scopes - a chinese trambo, and a vintage american analogue unit.
diametric: thats the one I have, it works well for my uses.
diametric: oh, I have a collection but ultimately I don't do enough electronics work to give that great of opinions on it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform dude i think i actually can prove there won't be no "lead standard".
Mats_cd03: i love you guys
mike_c: assume i am not worried about someone raw-reading my hdd. are there other attack vectors?
mike_c: true or false: if i type a password into my shell, and then call 'history -c', i am ok?
mircea_popescu: can i be government yet ?
mircea_popescu: there, i've now robbed peter to pay paul.
benkay: i don't see my name there...
mircea_popescu: but seriously now, i fail to see what it offers. i mean i suppose one could loot their github for code, and the site could be just a demo.
mircea_popescu: mike_c heh i see.
benkay: o i thought the excuse was =========
mircea_popescu: benkay no i understand that. but if you use it, you have to still secure your site,
mircea_popescu: "i got hiv from sharing the hiv tester with a hiv sufferer"
asciilifeform: i believe the gizmo in question used a 'microarray'
mircea_popescu: i know pron companies now use something on the sets.
asciilifeform: when the usg banned the instant 'hiv' tester device, the argument, if i recall, was that people would kill themselves on learning the result, if no surrounded by government-approved shrinks ☟︎
asciilifeform: i can think of one example
mircea_popescu: i wonder how many deaths are "related" to statistics
asciilifeform: http://i.imgur.com/L6MvbiG.jpg
the20year2: Well, i could base everything on how I "Feel", but i don't know that my feelings would have any impact on others
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i seriously don't see who'd like to keep that particular son.
Mats_cd03: i believe should be compelled to prove competency with it as well as commit to securing the weapon
the20year2: I feel that the ability to adequately defend yourself and your family isn't just a right, it's required
the20year2: And I don't
Mats_cd03: i believe owning a weapon is a privilege rather than a right
the20year2: i just don't like the people that complain about the legal constructs of the state for self defense and want to make it illegal to defend yourself
pLambert: I don't get it, whats the diff between barrels-per-man and guns-per-capita?
the20year2: I certainly am!
the20year2: All the guys I know in china hate the women there
mircea_popescu: i imagine it's somewhere in the ex-russian central asia.
asciilifeform: i would guess (by no means an expert guess, but that of armchair general) that the 'most barrels per man' is somewhere in the arab world
Mats_cd03: i see your point, although im thinking of privately owned small firearms
rithm: but i now i just see the spin cycle
rithm: in my juvenile state i always assumed a lawsuit was a negative event
rithm: wise beyond my years, i know
rithm: lately i find lawsuits to be some sort of method for absconding or hiding sums of monies
Mats_cd03: i was mostly thinking that the round is superior, is all. the weapons and rounds themselves are lighter than their counterparts
mike_c: geez, those furry beasts in the water on trilema are so cute i'm going to puke.
mircea_popescu: i was actually looking for it