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mircea_popescu: well, did you come by to make yourself useful, or to say bye ?
mircea_popescu: well, are you going back ? we've been trying to hire a sinoslut for ages.
mircea_popescu: how come you didn't come up for air back in taiwan anyway ?
mircea_popescu: how's australia's most famous dysfunctional marriage going ?
mircea_popescu: and similarily, if "anyone can fuck my wife" you've probably not put enoug thought into this whole wifing business.
mircea_popescu: Anyone can program: my frustrations arise when they do it without proper specification, testing regime, documentation and “after care”. << it is deeply untrue that anyone can program.
mircea_popescu: too bad you didn't have the 549876598th ~random "error message" handled!
mircea_popescu: 65 second lag at peak, alf. if it makes you feel better.
mircea_popescu: or don't be rich, or powerful, or important, or famous, or... PRETTY.
mircea_popescu: in fact, you're universally more likely to be fucked if you ever worked for natoistan than if you haven't.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the gall, usg talking of arbitrary detentions.
mircea_popescu: in my old age i barely dare a coupla slices a day. and no, they're not footwide slices either ;/
mircea_popescu: that's a lot of bread! how long till you go through that ?
mircea_popescu: "no, but if you bend over and turn like-so, probably will."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i really wouldn't believe the spinsters one iota in this matter. sure as fuck nobody in turkey gave no "assurances" and in general their pretend-sovereign posture is fucking ridiculous, besides spurious.
mircea_popescu: i outright deny it is possible to build anything other than a ~model~ mosque in the new world.
mircea_popescu: well, if i said "i'm the only guy here to have read illuminated manuscript" and someone said they read beatrix potter's books i'd similarily point out that the term denotes items made before beatrix potter was invented.
mircea_popescu: it has to be ; people are uprooting their households in search of glory, it'd be moronic to insult their toil through an overtolerant attitude towards complacency.
mircea_popescu: PeterL how in are you to begin with ? pick a rifle stand a post ; alternatively pick a lord help out in his castle ; alternatively may i suggest radiomodelism ? or perhaps fishing ?
mircea_popescu: no, i'm saying freenode adds multi-minute delays at least weekly.
mircea_popescu: i put in the more egregious ones, such as "timeout 260 seconds" coming BEFORE a message and such nonsense. but really...
mircea_popescu: trinque you want logs of freenode being an unreliable pos ?!
mircea_popescu: lobbes ye olde link 404s. sadly i'm affraid this particular corner case wasn't covered in mp-wp user friendliness, doesn't autofix it.
mircea_popescu: anglos were thoroughly fucked up by french artillery there.
mircea_popescu: speaking of both artillery and teh anglo-jewishness, i find it funny there's so much hay about agincourt etc, but hardly ever mentioned teh equally lulzy battle of castillion.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform takes a while and very good quality mechanicals.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform truth be told ordinary air can get packed pretty tight before it becomes degenerate matter.
mircea_popescu: a man divided upon himself can not stand. let people looking for mockybot gaze upon mockycock, it's good for them.
mircea_popescu: but do not fall into the trap of "this is for engineering and this is for fucking and this is for..."
mircea_popescu: but usually with tiny pellets. this fired 50-100g sorta things.
mircea_popescu: i even saw ancient "invention", was pretty entertaining : barrel has holes cut, through which walls can fall in. as the projectile moves through barrel it clicks the supports walls fall behind it, leaving a chamber. low pressure (ordinary 50kg air compressor) resulting in common bullet shooting at supersonic speeds.
mircea_popescu: Mocky need to identify with nickserv, they prolly put +r on ; why new domain i don't get it ?!
mircea_popescu: make a lengthy light barrel, do most of the acceleration towards the end, loose less energy to ^5 rule.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, ~that~ may be a good use of ye olde pellet gun.
mircea_popescu: the fall of the pantsuit citadel depends on technology transfer. ending the bullshit one impregnable fortress at a time.
mircea_popescu would like to point out at this juncture that the fellow known as orban was in fact very not hungarian, but a transylvanian fellow. from brasov.
mircea_popescu: there's a lot of this in late byzantine artefactry, too, btw.
mircea_popescu: the thread goes on AND ON. recall the exploded power line ? or the papier mache heating element ?
mircea_popescu: this being the difference between us. i -- have tried. errything.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform because the self-same emissaries hold ridiculous goange in the head about how usa is something other than the garbage heap everyone urinates upon.
mircea_popescu: Mocky o btw, you absolutely gotta try wearing the gelabeya or w/e they call it there.
mircea_popescu: going DRRRRRRRINGGG / MEEEEEAOWWWW not so advisable tho.
mircea_popescu: there, the republic has equipped you with a very useful book in dealing with the locals.
mircea_popescu: anyway, matches exactly my first encounter with the thing.