asciilifeform: what else don't they measure ?

asciilifeform: perhaps i should move there, and enlist

asciilifeform: Adlai: the army where you live, when you come to enlist, measures strength. do they do it by asking you to carry a crippled fellow man from a burning tank? or using an arbitrary quick test?

asciilifeform: and that a circus weight-lifter isn't the least bit strong, because perhaps my arse muscle is stronger yet than his biceps ☟︎

asciilifeform: how come we never hear anyone arguing that there is no such thing as 'strength' ☟︎

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's what i mostly use to score individuals << whatchado, flip the lights on & off and watch the pets sort out the room ?

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: yes, i did read that one.

asciilifeform: Adlai: pick your favourite.

asciilifeform: i suspect you'll get an even tighter number if you factor out arm length (test for reaction time usually involves light and buttons)

asciilifeform: Adlai: better impedance matching - smoother function of nervous system, both central and peripheral, all else equal

asciilifeform: Adlai: if i recall, hypothesis involves impedance matching - same reason folks with damaged myelin sheaths lose theirs. ☟︎

asciilifeform: lol!

asciilifeform: diametric: http://pbfcomics.com/209 << relevant

asciilifeform: Adlai: disturbingly close. 0.8, if i recall.

asciilifeform: Adlai: now go and see reaction time vs. intelligence (take your pick of any known simple test for either of the two)

asciilifeform: probably meant 'epigenetics' ?

asciilifeform: spellchecker blip ?

asciilifeform: !!

asciilifeform: except when not

asciilifeform: like 'reichstag burns' given in faq ?

asciilifeform: badbet?

asciilifeform: dub: we're cleaning stone knives, most can't afford auto

asciilifeform: in fact, the yearly holiday where this traditionally takes place is coming soon

asciilifeform: in usa, we know how to get trampled even without fire

asciilifeform: or that 'the rules' are not quite, the rules

asciilifeform: after how many nurses do we conclude that they are all simply tired of living?

asciilifeform: spanish nurse also did not follow rules?

asciilifeform: ebola is interesting not because 'it's coming' but because usg clearly intends to let it walk at leisure.

asciilifeform: the nurse still lives?

asciilifeform is quite certainly obsessed with dulce de leche...

asciilifeform: diametric: measles is entirely uninteresting to the vaccinated.

asciilifeform: how transmissible - let's ask again next month.

asciilifeform: and doctors are willing to approach them, and resources available

asciilifeform: the thing is, 'actual medical care' for the afflicted is possible when you have a handful.

asciilifeform: so far, 50% (sample of... 6 ?)

asciilifeform: fatality for swine flu was close to nil.

asciilifeform: because who in their right mind will let these land?

asciilifeform: after pandemic, the flights will shutter. but different ones - flights out of usa.

asciilifeform: no big secret that the policy is to wait for the pandemic, yes.

asciilifeform: that is - just enough for the Folks Who Matter (tm)

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: in exactly the same place as the goats growing recombinant butyrylcholinesterase (antidote+prophylactic against organophosphate poisoning, $30k+ a dose at current production methods)

asciilifeform: lol

asciilifeform: t-shirt with elephant logo to be buried in ?

asciilifeform: what does fox news prescribe for ebola ?

asciilifeform: http://westhunt.wordpress.com/2013/09/13/their-lying-eyes

asciilifeform bought the party line from u.s. army textbook on subject earlier

asciilifeform: (can fake it, sure. in rich country, penalty - deportation; poor countries - bullet)

asciilifeform: homeland severity knows what your claimed origin point is.

asciilifeform: indirect ones.

asciilifeform: etc

asciilifeform: http://static.fjcdn.com/pictures/President+obola+obama+and+the+cdc+lied+to+us+about_9c6327_5318978.jpg

asciilifeform: meant to be printed, i think.

asciilifeform: http://static.infowars.com/obola-posters/obolaposter1.jpg

asciilifeform: (or is it OBLA... ?)

asciilifeform: promising stock.

asciilifeform: thickasthieves: heard EBLA is doing great.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: win98 crashes, self-bomb goes off in rush hour.

asciilifeform: i for one am quite curious what the first successful use of a uterus bomb will do to 'security theatre.'

asciilifeform: (or uterus bomb, or variations thereof.)

asciilifeform: the answer is, of course, the humble fat bomb.

asciilifeform: next step was, i think, 'knockout flights' - with anaesthesia

asciilifeform: forget by whom

asciilifeform: this was actually proposed

asciilifeform has considered applying for the pass to see if he'd get one

asciilifeform: any chumper can fork over the hundy and get the 'precleared' thing.

asciilifeform: decimation: nah, that'd be whatever document officials carry

asciilifeform: http://www.thesunonline.ca/News/Story.aspx?ID=2167239

asciilifeform: decimation: nah. homeland severity, war on drugz, etc

asciilifeform: when you do certain things

asciilifeform: and it will swing, and take your head clean off, if it must

asciilifeform: there is still a stick.

asciilifeform: that is one way to ensure that everyone who needs the stick, gets the stick, yes.

asciilifeform: but not everyone needs.

asciilifeform: not everyone has a chap with a stick standing behind, ready to whack

asciilifeform: everyone 'has something to do'

asciilifeform: decimation: gedankenexperiment. what stops these folks from, e.g., opening a textbook & studying physics, math, greek, whatever ?

asciilifeform: (and schools, but i repeat myself)

asciilifeform: keep the humans in shitholes with nothing to do << where is this done, outside of u.s. prisons ?

asciilifeform: !b 2 ✂︎

asciilifeform: psychologically unemployable << waitwat, what do you eat...?

asciilifeform: Adlai: the 'animal rights' folks have it backwards. i've met people who envy the pigs.

asciilifeform: per gram.

asciilifeform: i wish we could ask herr rothbard about the market value of... ebola.

asciilifeform: not every parent is a visisector

asciilifeform: rephrase, if you like, as 'unit of discretionary income per unit of lost free time.' ☟︎

asciilifeform: for teenager, rent can usually be set to null

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: use formula from earlier thread, 'wage per minute of actual work minus rent'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'better to be rich and healthy than poor and disease-ridden', yes.

asciilifeform: (or, is to contain.)

asciilifeform: http://cryptome.org/2014/10/nsa-eci-the-intercept-14-1010.pdf << now we know what drawer in the indiana jones vault contains rsa pill.

asciilifeform: (eci)

asciilifeform: pertaining to the crown jewels.

asciilifeform: quite a bit of very interesting (though, naturally, unproven) turds on cryptome today

asciilifeform: ( http://cryptome.org/2014/10/spytainment.pdf << loltron )

asciilifeform: 'Perhaps even more disturbing, evidence suggests that policymakers—from cadets at West Point to senators on the Intelligence Committee to Supreme Court Justices—are referencing fake spies to formulate and implement real intelligence policies...'

asciilifeform: earthquakes don't chase you if you run.

asciilifeform: at any rate, the difference between disaster and war is that dodges don't work against war - it responds in kind.

asciilifeform admits he expected an honest, traditional firing squad, like a chump.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: seems as if you're still thinking of the whole thing as a natural disaster - rather than open biological warfare by usg against own subjects

asciilifeform: there was, if i recall, a trailer for neal stephenson's 'anathem'