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pankkake: lol, people are betting on a non provably fair site?!
BingoBoingo: Namworld: Might as well, you have a vested interest. If not you, who?
Namworld: Or as a competitor, should I leave that to others? hmm...
moiety: right off to argue withthem again, thanks all, back in a wee bit - again
punkman: moiety: yeah it's not a battery, it's a complete external power storage device
BingoBoingo: Make it a single thing and ship it as an art piece
moiety: BingoBoingo: cus of packaging, i cant attach it to anything. but the batteries are contained inside the thing, just like it would be if it were in a laptop already
punkman: why'd you tell them it's a battery?
moiety: punkman, only got one here. i think i'll just go shout at them a bit
BingoBoingo: moiety: Wire it to a Blinkenlight and have it turned off.
BingoBoingo: moiety: Aroud, writing a blog post
moiety: mew anyone around for a bit of advice?
BingoBoingo: There is nothing wrong with a vagina that can create a large space.
BingoBoingo: punkman: I really dunno. Occasionally it seems the random mix of writers hollywood gathers occasionally develops a concept well.
BingoBoingo imagines a version of Jason Statham movie crank aligned to resent clinical knowledge. Statham poisoned with MPTP and must combat parkinsons with Selegeline, Amphetamines, and action Movie situations
BingoBoingo: punkman: Parking is a pain
punkman: why don't they buy her a car
assbot: Josie Cunningham Gets 6,000 Of Taxpayer Funded Taxi Rides A Year
BingoBoingo: I've notice it has been a while since anyone sold into a bid
BingoBoingo: Now flooding, that never happpens without making a mess.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i was born in a place where wind over 50mph was newsworthy
moiety: i didn't even know there was such a thing, was just reading about it. how has it improved?
BingoBoingo: So... GNU Gnash seems to have improved quite a bit these past couple weeks.
moiety: cats don't seem to grow like dogs either. as in reaching a certain size at a certain age and stopping. mine have kept growing (albeit slowly) until mid-age
BingoBoingo: So a friend adopted a kitten, looks like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cat-MaineCoon-Cookie.png hasn't stopped growing yet. I'm wondering when to break the news...
asciilifeform: (as i recall, savannah cat is bred in only a few places, and sells for ~$20k each)
moiety: i'd be camping outside with a camera
asciilifeform: some years ago, a savannah cat escaped in my town, and caused idiots to panic
moiety: so my dream of a giant manul is not unthinkable?
gribble: Savannah cat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savannah_cat>; Savannahs For Sale Savannah Cats For Sale - A1 Savannahs: <http://www.a1savannahs.com/savannahs.htm>; A Beautiful Relationship - Savannah Cat MAGIC and Andreas Stucki ...: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuiKbnA3w0Q>
asciilifeform: ^ claimed a successful 'house lynx'
moiety: BingoBoingo: ah yes thats the mid-sex-change dramatis lilyius. a testing pillar of "my ghetto"
moiety: i think with felis and panthera we come into a size issue?
asciilifeform: a felis that can breed with some panthera
asciilifeform: moiety: sure, they look quite different. but normally 'species' is defined as a set of individuals which can interbreed.
asciilifeform: moiety: a question that's been bugging me for years: are there actually distinct species (in the biologist's sense) of cat.
moiety: someone in the extended family has a pregnant cat.. i may be forced to rehome a small being shortly
moiety volunteers as a feeder
BingoBoingo: With a sufficient monetary surplus I think an interesting project would be, introducing feral cats to obesity
asciilifeform: no space for a multi-GB turd.
BingoBoingo: Any interesting C programming generally is going to mean moving from mac os to A/UX which... means finding a suitable Mac (68030 based generally) and a hard drive of sufficent capacity
BingoBoingo: That's a good question. I actually don't know if there are any good tools for it.
benkay: ugh u guise i got a nasty virus
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> wow check that out, it just HAILED in BA << Is hail not a familiar mode of weather for you?
Mats_cd03: i thought it was a little low
mircea_popescu: http://31.media.tumblr.com/a4d84c288cd8b25771b067c683a6f682/tumblr_n1qm9sBhgH1t1ja2oo1_400.gif have a prize then
mircea_popescu: a ok
TheNewDeal: I'll just blame it on assbot for not giving me a description
asciilifeform: i always found it interesting how much functionality one... loses by rolling a 'general purpose' computer into a product. not even concerning security and the like.
asciilifeform: 'I would dearly love a dedicated word processor... runs for months on one battery charge, never crashes, presents no distractions, and, shortly, isn’t a PC. Not being a PC (or, more specifically, not running a PC operating system) is a truly under-rated and beautiful feature in any gadget.'
mircea_popescu: benkay im sure they do, because with their great reputation there's a bunch of smart, qualified people wanting to work for them.
jborkl: nm got the "found by" online now just have to fill in a few blanks
TheNewDeal: if you need a grease monkey to work on your machines, give me a call
mircea_popescu: honestly, him selling out'd be a net negative for btc
TheNewDeal: didn't take mp to be a rumorist
mircea_popescu: mike_c he could just keep it on play money for a month or w/e while he moves to argentina.
mike_c: this seems like a pretext to get out, no? but maybe he just wants to walk away.
mike_c: hm. a return to 6 digit wager volume would surprise me. but it's quite possible new management could make it happen.
mircea_popescu: mike_c that "a month" kinda impleis it's stable. it's not that stable it seems.
mike_c: still though, 60k in wager volume a month is a nice business.
mike_c: like who? its dropped a lot. set new all-time-lows 3 out of 6 months this year.
TheNewDeal: scratch that, bringing the laptop and making this a party
mike_c: ;;later tell ThickAsThieves it needs to be a NS record, not a CNAME
TheNewDeal: looks kinda like a hippy fest
TheNewDeal: not a porcupine freedom festival?
fluffypony: right, going to try sleep a bit, cheers
assbot: I just ran into a fellow /hashtag/bitcoin?src=hash-assets user at /hashtag/porcfest?src=hash! That's worth a +2 in the /hashtag/WoT?src=hash. http://t.co/oI2PHHgK6u
bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu: i'm off for today and i look forward to hearing from you on the costa rica bet. it would make a lovely birthday present!
fluffypony: did I miss a blog post
rithm: it's been a few years now since the 'ol bag of nuts and i were together
fluffypony: I am completely fascinated by my ability to sit on IRC on a plane
ThickAsThieves: <+mike_c> so ThickAsThieves, if you put a nameserver record in your DNS (NS, not an A record) pointing seeds.therealaltcoin.org at 54.197.241.190 // Having trouble finding where to do this in Namecheap... bear with me
mircea_popescu: this may be because it took a while to confirm, but anyhow
mircea_popescu: like going to work in a brothel as a rpude
mircea_popescu: sucks, you know, to go to a place of learning for the purpose of not learning
bitcoinpete: in the 55th minute, give or take a few, a bet was placed that costa rica would win the match and therefore advance
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: '...know better than to get involved with the armed retinue of a lord...' << see interesting example - the private army of gazprom (said to contain own tank corps, aviation, etc.) - nobody fucks with it, scarcely anyone even mentions it.
bitcoinpete: sorry, was just having a bite on the patio here at the mac
mircea_popescu: "o shit we got robbed by a scamsite HURRRRR"
benkay: isn't PKI a nsa plant?
gribble: Error: "ty" is not a valid command.
mircea_popescu: <benkay> mircea_popescu: what do zeroconfs have to do with anything? << bitbet is a business, eh ? ran for profit.
bitcoinpete: i don't recall, was there a consensus following that conversation?
bitcoinpete: i completely understand that betting after an event has occurred, even if the bet is still "open" warrants a simple refund less admin fee
mircea_popescu: benkay the day you're ready to zerconf 1k btc for a 2 year bet.
kakobrekla: a.
mircea_popescu: a
rithm: i accidentally a word
rithm: a big hole some moron threw money into
mircea_popescu: it'd be a penal proceeding
mircea_popescu: i just wrote a good and serious article
rithm: i think more than car, less than a house was here
mircea_popescu: i wonder if search finds the more than a car thing lessee
mircea_popescu: as a certain short ignoramus was fond of pointing out
mircea_popescu: "without a single pane of glass being broken"
mircea_popescu: Mats_cd03: bet its like ~1100 cals har har << i once had 1800 calories in a single sundae. whatever, it's my hot body and i do what i want!
benkay: sent that to a guy i know over at ebay mobile whose "vision quest to set the visual style fo ebay mobile" has been relegated to the...ipad app.
assbot: FOR THE LOVE OF CONTENT MANAGEMENT I AM GOING TO LEARN ABOUT KINJA which apparently has headline limits in length no actually it just has a counter regarding headline length and it's unclear exactly how long headlines can be and if they can be really long or not, but one thing is clear and that is that headlines can't have italics anyway this headline [oh no according to Twitter, which is apparently where you go for Kinja documentation, you can h
benkay: <BingoBoingo> http://paulford.kinja.com/wait-we-didnt-have-a-cms-team-1593914473 // i'm dying over here
mike_c: what's the point of charging? if i ever want to make some pennies i'll toss up a BB affiliate ad.