asciilifeform: kakobrekla: betcha this fellow is american. over here, they'll bring a mostly empty bottle of vodka to the shop, say 'i didn't like it', get money back.
asciilifeform: 'стукач' ~= 'one who knocks' (implication, on the 'right door')
asciilifeform: benkay: just as a 'samurai' isn't quite the same animal as european 'knight,' a soviet стукач isn't entirely the same species as a new york 'stoolie' - etc.
asciilifeform: benkay: different names, depending on the cultural flavour of the particular example
asciilifeform: what are these people, retarded << not exactly. this crud is at least as old as 'poenitentiam agite.'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: can't afford security detail ? stfu, do something else with your time. bitcoin is not for you << alternatively, be boring. (works for me so far)
asciilifeform: i guess i gotta break down and read this book now << never read it before!? epic porn!
asciilifeform: someone trusted (nobody from this channel obv) << why spam here?
asciilifeform: reduction to practice - exercise for alert reader.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: cannon car would be a major danger for the one bhind it << the one behind also fires. and so on, to the end of the column. don't stand there...
asciilifeform: consider the children's toy 'newton's cradle.'
asciilifeform: incidentally - it is, in principle, possible to build a car which could survive a crash intact. not by rigid construction (driver would get blended anyway) but via: momentum transfer. eject something out the back... a la 'recoil-less rifle.' work it out.
asciilifeform: 'electronics' by forrest l mims contains a recipe for just such a pill. first baked in the early '50s.
asciilifeform distinctly recalls soviet flyers being instrumented in this fashion, at least early on
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: when they last changed a lock? 1790?
asciilifeform: 'human dishwasher' << one item i keep expecting to see from the chicoms. looks precisely like the mechanical kind, but has a nice little fellow living inside (first eats scraps, then washes, then returns to his compartment. convenient sewer hookup for both!)
asciilifeform: what'd they stuff in them, Büchner funnels ?
asciilifeform: canvas, the oldest of the pump-altcoins.
asciilifeform: pankkake: the nice kind (double conv.) runs rectifier and inverter at all times, with the battery sitting in the middle
asciilifeform: pankkake: the consumer boxes are typically 'switchover' - you're connected directly to the mains, except when the reading drops below mark and the inverter kicks in.
asciilifeform: pankkake: this is the pill for it. the only voltages that ever come out of a double-conversion ups is zero (dead battery) or the specified (120 here) ac, sinusoidal to 1%
asciilifeform: pankkake: i moved to a street where the entire place shares a transformer. so, abysmal mains quality.
asciilifeform: pankkake: this is one of those monsters where the inverter runs constantly. so, around 80% efficient.
asciilifeform: pankkake: sorta. if one knows arithmetic.
asciilifeform: (stooge walks in, 'buys', cash washed)
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo, mp_a_colonia: where i live, pawn shops are very peculiar places, where nothing is priced remotely close to what any sane person would pay. probably just cash laundries.
asciilifeform: i pondered for ages, why herr sp4mz0r wants the 30. (as if he couldn't ask his handler for 300.) but then thought: if some dope ponies up, and 'partners' with him, he can headcrab onto the operation and do his thing.
asciilifeform once read an obscure treatise on the tricks bums use to get into jail
