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a111: Logged on 2016-11-11 16:00 asciilifeform: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Secrets/E-Meter/Mark-VII << definitely not news, but of interest to folks in low-volume electronics manufacture..
mircea_popescu: "electronic". their thing is electric.
asciilifeform: (for the 'e-meter' cultron, naturally, linked earlier)
asciilifeform: but the fact asciilifeform finds more interesting is that they have, apparently, a complete electronic manufacturing vertical there.
asciilifeform: https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1r2T6Pq3-S1w0L4YcS1fbzvEnqHM&hl=en&ll=33.80916597520113%2C-116.8815388597464&z=12 << considerably larger, and, by all accounts, more lavish, than, e.g., camp david, or nsa hq, or, or.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's a visual culture. kinda like how they glue plastic wood imitation to station wagons and plant fake vineyards in the back of the alt-flavoured soda vending machine.
mircea_popescu: which is the meaning of "you'll die of old age and i'll die of global warming" : you made your 50mn and i'm never gonna make my half bn.
mircea_popescu: (note that the dona brazile thing was IN FRONT OF EMPLOYEES. those 150 people weren't fucking volunteers, they were dorks making more money than the owner of vox/salon/what have you, not the journowhores doing all the wordsmithing. and who were expecting more. A LOT MORE. and now they don't think they'll ever get it
mircea_popescu: oh, same people as epstein dude. it's a dnc outfit through and through.
mircea_popescu: not terribly independent or anything.
a111: Logged on 2016-11-05 15:22 mircea_popescu: epstein is one of many such squires, let's call them. the squire's estate consists of a brothel, which may be obv multiple physical locations but generally arranged in a star pattern, a harvesting operation, his connections to the democrat party (in this case via abedin-clinton-obama). he doesn't do his own marketing, the people running the whole thing do.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform afaik they're running a sort of http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-05#1563151 for celebs. you pay them a mn a year or w/e and they allocate a coupla slavegirls to you. ☝︎
asciilifeform: linked piece even suggests that they have something like mircea_popescu's 'human pig' system.
a111: Logged on 2016-11-11 21:33 phf: "you seem to be attempting to reassigning your domain, why don't you call your agent to chat about?"
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-11#1566143 << this is the core of "private banking". "do you have a lot of money ? are you too dumb to understand how wires work ? we only cost $500 a month (+some % of your every move in small print)" ☝︎☟︎
asciilifeform: i've not turned up any report of castle linked earlier having been sacked or sold at auction etc. but i have nfi, i never sat on its throne or in the dungeon.
mircea_popescu: or at least used to
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: church of s is probably the most interesting item in usa, from tmsr perspective. think, they - apparently - run a complete northkr ~inside~ usa, with palaces, factories, gulags, fuck knows, possibly complete with rockets. and ~0 newspaper whine.
a111: Logged on 2016-11-11 21:23 asciilifeform: ( and how many other necessary things does mircea_popescu buy at-cost, and really, there's no catch..? )
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-11#1566134 << most of the things i buy. including real estate, human slaves, cutlery, antiques, cars and machinery, you name it. ☝︎
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Tell that to our urban negro!
mircea_popescu: change is the worst fucking thing. get leprosy instead, it's a better deal.
deedbot: http://qntra.net/2016/11/trump-voter-lynched-in-chicago-for-supporting-the-great-again/ << Qntra - Trump Voter Lynched In Chicago For Supporting The Great Again
mircea_popescu: this is exactly that field where "take this old crust of bread, and i don't wish to hear from you for two decades", and they're ALL doing it wrong. "oh we upgraded the website" "oh we changed payment processing" MOTHERFUCKER
mircea_popescu: and it makes a difference, wtf, i'm going to pay ~2500 for a 1200 bill because "services" ? i wish to know wtf services they do for over a grand
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform exactly that.
mircea_popescu: and i don't continue to buy it because internetbs.net (ex internet.bs) decided to discontinue bitcoin payments "for legal reasons". so i told them where to stuff it, the only reason i made the fucking acct last year when i ditched namecheap was because they had btc
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in truth i cannot recommend any dns seller, this may well be a case of 'pay the cheapest shaman'
mircea_popescu: we shall see about this "sell to spammers", i have exactly 0 confidence in the gandi thing chiefly because on the form they claim icann REQUIRES them to sell your data to spammers.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in the end i picked namesilo.
asciilifeform: in other very much non-news, https://archive.is/RAPiG , i take back everything i ever said re how opening 'tmsr church' is waste of time. it ain't, not if we can build one of THESE!111111111111
asciilifeform: and not from the staff access door (which was armoured, but against overpressure, not crowbar)
asciilifeform: pretty lulzy, considering that the actual 'burglarproofing' of the shafts came 100% from the promise of guard platoon showing up <15min after alarm tripped
phf: i once got a contract closed because the hosting provider was located in a former missile launch facility, i mentioned it during a pitch, and i think that more so than anything else that ensured the bid went through. "security"
jurov: .SK NIC actually does this notarized bureaucracy PITA when the owner, dies or otherwise ceases to exist
asciilifeform: (and, since mircea_popescu is not awake to ask this, i will answer in advance -- no, it wasn't pgptronic 'no valid sig -- goto hell'. afaik this isn't doable under u.s. jurisdiction )
asciilifeform: believe or not, 'you' (definitely not you, nor me, but some favourite son somewhere) can make $mils by offering service of 'dns reg just like the 5.95 one but we need signed letter from CEO of your corp, notarized by the board, before we'll move a domain'
phf: "you seem to be attempting to reassigning your domain, why don't you call your agent to chat about?" ☟︎
phf: sort of reminds of the laptop from achewood http://achewood.com/index.php?date=04022008 http://achewood.com/index.php?date=04032008
asciilifeform: if i misplace a benjie, hitler will not give me new one. if goldman sachs 'misplaces' domain -- hitler is delighted to give back.
asciilifeform: this is one of those affairs bitcoin oughta be delightfully perverting to all hell, as per mircea_popescu's prophecy
asciilifeform: (they also collected fat moneys for the service, i shit thee not, of watching that the domain reg does not 'walk away', because not-winblowzing, not-using-guessable-pw, etc. is Too Much To Expect from multi-$B 'tbtf' orgs)
asciilifeform: (mid 6-figs at the time iirc)
asciilifeform: at one point i worked for a co that supplied dns reg as part of a larger package of high-roller services (rather than, as usually seen with registrars, to public) -- the 'crown concession' was quite costly
jurov: I see you got the joke.
asciilifeform: jurov: there is an upstream cost, given as all dns regs are sub-leases from hitler.
asciilifeform: ( and how many other necessary things does mircea_popescu buy at-cost, and really, there's no catch..? ) ☟︎
jurov: gandi.net needs to join tmsr. then we can have domains for phree :D
asciilifeform: 'I'm getting that for 5.96 currently. .com .net 15 each ? Is this some kind of a joke that's funny in your culture ?' << i'd be curious, then, what is mircea_popescu getting for the 5.96 $, and why not continue to buy it.
a111: Logged on 2016-11-10 17:16 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in a very theoretical principle, this. the mechanisms involved in the practical discussion, however, aren't nearly there. just simple cash starvation, "why is roach motel full of roaches!" "because you're paying $8 a night"
asciilifeform: it doesn't 'price competitively' because it doesn't (last i saw) sell customers to spammers, plaster self with pestilential ads, 'park' linkfarms on paying customer domains, etc
asciilifeform: but there is afaik nothing particularly great about it.
mircea_popescu: tl;dr: gandi.net is a fucking joke, approximately the equivalent of eating fast food in food court "restaurant", so you can pay 20 bux for the same two dollar happy meal.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile on the dns "registrar" front, http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/6di65/?raw=true
a111: Logged on 2016-11-11 18:05 trinque by now has no idea wtf goes on in oregon woods
mircea_popescu: lmao mwhat is a thing now ?
a111: Logged on 2016-11-11 15:42 phf: i will admit though, i didn't expect this level of hypocrisy from the progressives, i was to some extent taking what they are saying at face value
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-11#1566046 << kinda how the scam works. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-11#1566045 << lol may take a few of those. ☝︎
BingoBoingo: Soon there will be alt-1950's except poorer
BingoBoingo: Time doesn't flow that way anymore in Murica, The Great Again is starting.
mircea_popescu: course 2018 is also a thing.
mircea_popescu: there is that.
BingoBoingo: Only if one wins the senate seat there in 2014
mircea_popescu: who loses again and then it can be all about racism in "the public debate"
mircea_popescu: maybe they get a fat and pimply black guy from tennessee
BingoBoingo: Nah, they'll prolly be looking for "freshman senator magic" again
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Anyways my early projection for next Democratic presidential nominee is Tammy Duckworth. It would have been Jason Kander, butt... his loss.
mircea_popescu: it's gonna be funnay if they go for the whole "it's clinton's fault" thing, considering the woman didn't even want to run - THEY BEGGED HER TO.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-11#1565968 << the funny thing being that the dnc is pretty much a sorority. i mean this very literally, a collection of girls trapped in old women bodies. AND THE CHEEROCRACY LOST THE CHEERLEADING BALL! ☝︎
deedbot: http://qntra.net/2016/11/duterte-welcomes-us-trumpreich-and-looks-forward-to-warm-relations/ << Qntra - Duterte Welcomes US Trumpreich And Looks Forward To Warm Relations
trinque: I remember there was weeping and gnashing of teeth over nudity in some facebook group back when I had one of those
trinque: what's the one due southeast in the national forest
trinque: much to the sorrow of all
trinque: they had naked sluts at the hot springs but afaik that was banned
BingoBoingo: Nah, me wants to see ben_vulpes practice his oppressing
ben_vulpes: trinque: it sounds to me like BingoBoingo wants to see hippie scat play
ben_vulpes: sadly, i have not done enough battle with the gods of tidiness and compulsion to be into playing with my poop
BingoBoingo: WHich is why you go to shit on their parade and bring tiding of Trumpreich
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: ah yeah not really my scene, too straight to appreciate ritual deflowerings and assorted defilements
ben_vulpes: and i'm not even particularly convinced they'd have worked anyways.
ben_vulpes: i don't know how stupid you have to be to get caught before hefting any firebombs...
trinque: looked like it was shops and cars too, not just megacorp
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: Fine, locate your nearest "rainbow people" camp and shit on their parade
ben_vulpes deeply uninterested in broken megacorp windows downtown when there are fires to light and dance around in the rainy woods
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: nah, i don't take the capital equipment out romping amongst anarchist, the antipersonnell hardware's on the fritz
ben_vulpes: only action i'm remotely interested in is abdulraman sameer noorah's trial on the fifteenth
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: sooo get in the panzer & drive!11111
ben_vulpes: trinque: i am nowhere near the action, tyvm
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: WTF, why are they promoting hate crimes against white people dressed in traditional garb for deer season?!
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> incidentally, after all the blather about how russia influenced the elections (hey, check it out, russia can do that!) where's the articles about how sweden organised protests against trump ? << Tomorrow maybe in Roundup Xtend after I catch up on reading
asciilifeform: in other noose, 'The afternoon rally came a day after fliers appeared in bathrooms across campus warning of pro-Trump "vigilante squads." The fliers contained a picture of men clad in camouflage holding rifles and said the squads would “arrest and torture those deviant university leaders spouting off all this diversity garbage.” University police were investigating the source of the fliers.'
asciilifeform: mats: what's the effective bitrate ?
trinque: top trolling
trinque: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/09/putin-applauds-trump-win-and-hails-new-era-of-positive-ties-with-us << He denied allegations of Russian interference in the election, but said “maybe we helped a bit with WikiLeaks.”
trinque: ben_vulpes: you gotta qntra this; you're right there in the action!
trinque: the pants belong to someone else anyway; it's self-consistent
trinque: phf: nah, didn't get exactly what they wanted, are now shitting themselves in defiance
mats: this is going to take years
asciilifeform wonders if these folk have their own assembly house