asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: robert sheckley had a story ('50s) about a 'dating agency' that would tell you exactly what to do, through a hidden earphone. fellow puts it on, and gets really bored, because it turns out they also sell to the gurlz
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's still no thermonuke. eventually you have to dance in the flesh.
asciilifeform: the women probably have a bayesian spamzapper. you want to slip past, not end up inside.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu missed an 'invert' operator in there
asciilifeform: 'too fat' has been tried with regards to hanging, poison, etc.
asciilifeform: and then the judges get to fill out more paperwork, etc.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is a usa-specific thing, that probably needs explanation. a number of convicts argued (to varying degrees of success) that their execution, via the locally prescribed method, 'couldn't possibly work humanely'
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo, benkay: 'linux rifle' << when i first heard of this gadget, first though was 'why is it fired by electromechanically-controlled trigger weight and not simply electrical'. turns out, electrical firing is banned in usa.
asciilifeform: benkay: ancient project. objective, in reality, is to bring on the wet dream of dod contractors everywhere: bullet costing $MAXINT.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i suppose for the genuine aficionado, there's always the 'cranequin'.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: difficult to hunt in the city without everyone knowing.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: do you have a favourite pill against coyote ?
asciilifeform: afaik the last coyote here ate his bullet at least a century ago.
asciilifeform: Xplosionist: afaik neither animal is the likely suspect
asciilifeform: ;;later tell moiety old neighbour discovered her cat eaten. what species eats housecats?
asciilifeform: Xplosionist: / msg NickServ REGISTER password youremail@example.com (to freenode, obviously not in channel)
asciilifeform: Xplosionist: the url contains just a random turd, encrypted to your pgp key. gribble wants the value of the turd, when it gets it - you're authed.
asciilifeform: ;;rate Xplosionist 1 actual human, meatspace colleague
asciilifeform: ;;rate Xplosionist 1 actual human, meatspace colleague
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: (well, more like 3 metre.)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: parody article << 'rather than dayjobs you talk about people needing to be “hungry and desperate” and stuff like that connotes to me this very strong emotional' << as if this had to go from emotion. 'people need to be hungry and desperate' is as much a technical statement as 'million volt bus bars must be spaced at least one metre apart.'
asciilifeform: for what it is prescribed - i've not the faintest idea.
asciilifeform: somewhere it is produced. i recently visited a shop that sold surplus safes, of various sizes. some were from pharmacies, and had storage manifests glued on. included meth.
asciilifeform: and people actually went to school, and occasionally learned things.
asciilifeform: the necessary reagents were readily available, because amateur chemistry was not illegal in ussr.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: they would forge prescriptions for ephedrine (used in that period to treat asthmatics) and go from that.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: in ussr, meth was 'invented' in the mid '80s. but all the aficionados made their own, without exception. there was no 'market' in the usual sense.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: clearly these folks had no problems sourcing precursors.
asciilifeform: where i live, one can buy pseudoephedrine against running nose, but only in miniscule amounts and after signing a declaration of non-terrorism, with your driver's license entered in db
asciilifeform: days - who doesn't do this. try month.
asciilifeform: re: 'performance enhancing' dopes - important to remember that, even supposing performance enhanced, it matters who you were. e.g. paul erdos will crap out theorems, a hooligan will be able to break that many more windows, a lunatic will rant longer and more vigorously, etc.
asciilifeform: (many of the maladies suffered by meth addicts - not only psychosis, but physiological - are also found in people who, for one reason or another - such as being under fire - cannot sleep)
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: from the u.s. army medical journals, a hypothesis - it's actually the sleep deprivation that does you in
