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mircea_popescu: self-lubricating assholes and uvula orgasms could be a reality inside Maude, why not.
kakobrekla: you got a mention in the sauce.
kakobrekla: js made me a scammer :(
asciilifeform: to finish the previous story - not everything is a wine glass. but anything that can be induced to behave like one, can be broken in just this way.
mike_c: i think you're missing a (* 1000)
kakobrekla: but dunno, ill take a look
asciilifeform: same thing, but accidental - on a larger scale.
asciilifeform: anyone who played on a swing as a child has experienced a pumped oscillator.
ozbot: breaking a wine glass using resonance - YouTube
davout: mike_c: no with a loudspeaker dummy
asciilifeform: similar to what opera singers have done as a party trick
asciilifeform: no - with a loudspeaker.
davout: asciilifeform: are you implying that a human action could have some influence on the tectonic movements leading to an earthquake?
asciilifeform: davout: how 'mega' would depend on the tectonics of a particular location.
davout: asciilifeform: prolly not a mega one tho
asciilifeform: ^ this might be a 'badBet.'
pankkake: is there a rss feed per author on cryptocoinnews?
asciilifeform: please do! i need a brick.
asciilifeform: startled executives, according to a participant in the meeting.'
asciilifeform: '"We can turn your computer into a brick," U.S. officials told the
asciilifeform: or, at least, stipulate in the rules that both fighters must share a channel
fluffypony: I'm a media whore and got interviewed on a podcast: https://soundcloud.com/zerofiat/zero_fiats-vertcoin-update-05-06-2014#t=11:40
asciilifeform: there is enough 'design space' to make the tourney interesting. e.g. a smaller and more maneuverable craft is harder to blast with the glue gun, etc.
BingoBoingo: I'm thinking of the stuff developed a while back for non-lethal anti personel use
BingoBoingo: I could see a sticky hardening foam interfering with the aerodynamics of non-rotor aircraft
fluffypony: ;;later tell mircea_popescu my nonna phoned me back to say that they were discussing the piece of poetry, and she suggests this alternative: "This is a beautiful story for whoever listens to it, beautiful the people that tell the story, beautiful the land that cannot be forgotten, beautiful Michela she will be"
asciilifeform: fluffypony: going to sponsor a UFC fighter << never having known of 'UFC', i assumed that it referred to an 'unmanned flying competition' - i.e. drone dogfight tourney.
fluffypony: I started typing a reply to them but ya know
fluffypony: pankkake: YOU TOO CAN OWN A PIECE OF THIS WIKI!
thestringpuller: ah so the true n00b usually has a short attention span like the kids of the MTV generation @_@
thestringpuller: a n00b that isn't willfully ignorant
thestringpuller: because i had a discussion recently on the "true n00b"
BingoBoingo: thestringpuller: That's a good question. I imagine we'll fill the wiki with important points over time, but in the long run it will probably be spread over the blogs. Maybe when it becomes a concern there might be a discussion of some sort of archive-assets for blogs that lose viability to to operator inability to continue them.
bitcoinpete: this humility comes with a measure of diligence
fluffypony: it's like a triple spend
fluffypony: Apocalyptic: but don't worry, despite being gutted and having a scam-IPO to rebuild they're going to use MongoDB because it solves everything!
Apocalyptic: whereas they don't have a single clue
mike_c: a noble goal, good luck with it :) certainly a task i don't envy.
fluffypony: ;;later tell thickasthieves don't worry bro, Reddit's got this, Bitcoin is going to sponsor a UFC fighter: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/24uq2q/how_serious_are_you_about_sponsoring_a_ufc/
bitcoinpete: giving support to what was otherwise a lone voice in the wilderness
BingoBoingo: fluffypony: That actually gets said a lot by fans of the same team.
thestringpuller: dat matonis tho, he's actually wanting to build a relationship with #bitcoin-assets?
thestringpuller: ;;rate pankkake 1 "Gives French people a good name."
gribble: Error: 'Gives French people a good name.' is not a valid integer.
thestringpuller: ;;rate pankkake "Gives French people a good name."
gribble: You rated user mike_c on Mon May 5 14:54:20 2014, with a rating of 1, and supplied these additional notes: small atc transaction + he does great stuff with btcalpha.com.
pankkake: perhaps leave a donation address, as I would definitively donate if it earned me something
pankkake: so you're not even serving your own address a few percent of the time?
fluffypony: "Is there anything more inspirational than a talk about #bitcoin by Andreas Antonopoulos? http://ow.ly/wvuOU @aantonop"
mircea_popescu: 10mn rubles mean you've not been drinking enough for a while.
mircea_popescu: lol gawker going nuts. sure it will. 10 mn btc means a scary shitload of alot.
asciilifeform: a decade later, i still recognized those 3 thermal vias
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform iirc it was a dell.
asciilifeform: i fixed at least 3 as a student, for various folks
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves nah, i suspect it's a cognate of arrender
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform for ~ a year.
fluffypony: lol plz hold, nonna first has to complain about how she's going blind and my nonno is a lazy ass
ozbot: La Musica Della Mafia-A Casanza (Vittorio) - YouTube
ThickAsThieves: we'll see if i get a Murck-y responde
mircea_popescu: dude what the fuck have i been sayinbg for a year over here already!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform also a good line :p
mircea_popescu: does he think it's ok to be both the treasurer and the exec of a foundation ?
ThickAsThieves: are they a 501c3?
ThickAsThieves: in the end my ideal is asking them in public with a crowd
ThickAsThieves: would be much more productive to run into these guys at a coffee shop
ThickAsThieves: i have this feeling none of the people i will want to ask questions will have a Q&A session
mircea_popescu: iirc he had a forbes blogs for a while
ThickAsThieves: he had a job for 1 month writing for forbes
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform just a guess i suspect. the processors weren't hot enough to smoke.
Naphex: mircea_popescu: yeah i know, was just asking why not, for just html you'd get a lots of plus
mircea_popescu: Naphex this wasn't a front problem, the front was fine all through
Naphex: mircea_popescu: why not run a varnish cache for fronting mpex?
mircea_popescu: anyway. seems a bios chip smoked out. this is what redundancy is for, carry on.
davout: probably because your tech doesn't have a bot running
mircea_popescu: funny thing is, i got the notification from you about half a second before from tech.
ThickAsThieves: maybe i'll write a pando hate article and steal all their lovers
pankkake: can't help but think of a pedo panda
mircea_popescu: prince pando is actually not a bad name for a flaming cabaret homosexual
mircea_popescu: maybe it's that "pando" is not a person ?
mircea_popescu: pankkake ever seen bebes a gogo ?
pankkake: a "gogo" in French is a fool
ThickAsThieves: all this "Since our article, the world is a better place. You're welcome." shit
mircea_popescu: jurov cause the person made a bet and then forgot about it ?
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves you can't own it for lyf lol, you own it for a month
mircea_popescu: it makes women push watermelons through their square inch of a vaginal canal. never underestimate the will to live.
jurov: bitbet affiliation sucks, i have tried a bit
ThickAsThieves: i agree that it's a silly endeavor though
ThickAsThieves: gets ripped off by a fre "professionals"
ThickAsThieves: maybe learns a thing or two
ThickAsThieves: that guy gets a rep
mircea_popescu: god help the professional hired by a crowd.
mircea_popescu: anyway, not only they shouldn't , but they couldn't hire a professional that knows better.
mircea_popescu: that's pretty much it. reddit is an apeman looking for a club to clobber things
ThickAsThieves: well ty, i'm still trying to not sound like a 10th grader
mircea_popescu: "It’s a bit like a man grunting at a woman he’s attracted to. There’s no context, no clarity, no purpose, no potency, no efficacy. No finesse. No nuance. Marketing is an art, not some fucking blunt object for which to clobber your every desire. "
bitcoinpete: https://twitter.com/NATOSource/status/463373724960301056/photo/1 <<canadians and romanians getting together outside irc. a thing of beauty
asciilifeform: cow's a bit of a pathological case. but sure.
ThickAsThieves: well try not milking a cow for 9mos too plz
mircea_popescu: try not milking a cow for a day see what it does.
mircea_popescu: like next time WiredHerp comes here to ask questions and all he gets is a link to them being banned ? and an invitation to get his editor to fire the offending party and publish a retraction cum apology ?