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mircea_popescu: i thought it was pretty much dead, goiung the way of te yahoo briefcase or w/e
mircea_popescu delights in picturing the hordes of "awareness raisers".
mircea_popescu: trinque hence "<mircea_popescu> well... maybe his uncle!"
mircea_popescu: and 0% of the "responsibility to govern". if two dukedoms over someone makes clitoris stu, expect nobody to care.
mircea_popescu: expect the aspirational 20% to murder the rest of the 40% in the process of selecting the half of itself that may go on.
mircea_popescu: it's not magically sprung up by the end. expect a good half of usg to just lay down and die, just like that.
mircea_popescu: the reason there even is a remnant in the first place - vz, the collapse - is that they didn't have enough virility in the system.
mircea_popescu: this idea that the remnants automatically inherit a chunk of the future is naive. one in ten is my experience.
mircea_popescu: thjis idea that the remnants automatically inherit the land is naive. one in ten is my experience.
mircea_popescu: so it may be a case that YOU be thinking of another usa hm ? :D
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform from boston to nuevo laredo, all the way.
mircea_popescu: that was the equivalent of the mike hearn "let's test bitcoin". the result came out kinda clearly - 9 maybe 10 days. that's it.
mircea_popescu: remember that time when food stamp system ran out of funds, took a three day hiaturs, everyone held their breath ?
mircea_popescu: give it a week and a half of "we can no longer give you free stuff"
mircea_popescu: well... once the usd v2.0 pistol rounds thinkg takes form, we can make these :D
mircea_popescu: that trivially ended up pushing against branches etc ?
mircea_popescu: you can shoot through us style "walls" by ir with it just fine.
mircea_popescu: let's put it the other way : a sharp tungsten tipped .5 round is >20 bux.
mircea_popescu: anyway, pointless stock. if you can use stocked stuff just get a carbine or something.
mircea_popescu: by the time you're shooting this it supposedly no longer matters.
mircea_popescu: it is just about at the tolerance level of a physically elite man.
mircea_popescu: but the ap variant cuts through any practical armor, and generally can be used against lightly armored aircraft as well.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the thing is just on the margin : the common "action express" .5 round is generally stopped by a level 3 and always by a level 4 vest.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the bmg is a machine gun round not a pistol round
mircea_popescu: apparently the de .5 ap, explosive, incendiary etc rounds are secret on internet.en ?
mircea_popescu: usg survival plan once shtf ? "well...we got the largest stores of ammo of anyone...so..."
mircea_popescu: as in, they are actually making rounds the future currency ?
mircea_popescu: btw, anyone put together the "usg will target ammunition rather than small arms" with the "various agencies bought and stored millions of rounds at the beginning of this decade" to come to a "usg will ban ammunition period" thing yet ?
mircea_popescu: but yes, thisd would make sense, with some shitty alt.
mircea_popescu: mike_c anyway, the demographic that supposedly "doesn'ty exist" and "doesn't matter" and "never wins elections" and so on and so forth.
mircea_popescu: (in fact it's mostly white with more asian than "normal", which considering the normal is gawker-and-wikipedia dumbternets... )
mircea_popescu: mike_c politically active, politically unafilliated, filthy rich, mostly azn, some caucasian.
mircea_popescu: the demographics of qntra readership as depicted by quantcast never cease to amaze me.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell bingoboingo that epicscale debacle prolly qntrable.
mircea_popescu: right. the tlp described phenomenon of "oh, this class of medicine is now generic ? guess what, on a review of the data available it turns out it wasn't effective anyway, so we're using Y now instead".
mircea_popescu: "O, you're now advanced enough where you could start some light industry ? fu!"
mircea_popescu: anyway, to imagine the "ban smoking" thing is an isolated incident is naive. no, there's a shitton of these underway, continuously, and generally unreported.
mircea_popescu: and new cars also don't really come with lead batteries.
mircea_popescu: i wouldn't be so sure you'll get permits for new development in the us, eithert.
mircea_popescu: then they run for 4 years and have to replace the batteries, and run for another 2 and there's a lightning strike and have to replace them again. tru story.