asciilifeform: for those concerned with the question of what will or won't go through X, 'youtube' is the place.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what do you load yours with, titanium ?

asciilifeform: brought it up because of the taser/coat question.

asciilifeform: but, i wasn't there, did not see this alive.

asciilifeform: i also recall accounts of 45acp failing to perforate NK soldiers during korean war

asciilifeform: but it is not entirely implausible

asciilifeform: there could be many explanation for the story, assuming it took place as described

asciilifeform: 'v' is more important than 'm' here.

asciilifeform: the first bullet proof vests were, after all... silk.

asciilifeform: correct.

asciilifeform: soft, slow .45.

asciilifeform: (they wore the traditional heavy greatcoats)

asciilifeform: both got away with broken ribs and a penal battalion sentence.

asciilifeform: at one point, two drunken grunts decided to have a duel with them

asciilifeform: there is a curious tale about those

asciilifeform: a while ago i mentioned tommyguns that were sent to russia during 'lend-lease'

asciilifeform: (victim in place of xenon tube)

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: short doesn't do much - modern electric shocker works the way a photo flash does - charge a cap, and let it short through the victim

asciilifeform: no need for chainmail, an ordinary greatcoat does fine

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: taser came out of a fad for 'humane' police gear.

asciilifeform: they should require a firing squad with at least plastic rounds.

asciilifeform: if i recall, some u.s. police academies require taking a shot from a taser.

asciilifeform: must be.

asciilifeform: they go to spam school.

asciilifeform: http://www.theverge.com/2014/3/8/5483774/the-cupid-drone-strikes-with-80000-volts-to-the-chest

asciilifeform: damn, i should read the u.s. fishwraps more often, full of lulz

asciilifeform: 'Army captain cries during general’s court martial over alleged sex misconduct'

asciilifeform: from the same rag, 'Canadian man who poked holes in condoms to impregnate girlfriend loses appeal'

asciilifeform: flower in the desert.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: unrelated - from what part of the world is mpoepr ?

asciilifeform: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1386142507004908

asciilifeform: http://lurkmore.to/%D0%9F%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BA%D0%B0

asciilifeform: http://lurkmore.to

asciilifeform: kakobrekla: binging on 'lurkmore' ?

asciilifeform: ahahahaha

asciilifeform: 'spam like a pro in 21 days.'

asciilifeform: spam school.

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=08-03-2014#551806 ☝︎

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'said lot is conveyed subject to the restriction that no buildings shall be erected thereon nearer than 15 feet from the street line.'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not only that, but:

asciilifeform wonders what the punishment for dredging up a correct satoshi would be.

asciilifeform: perhaps woman posted this crap herself - hungers for free sympathy coin.

asciilifeform: gentlemen, start your engines

asciilifeform: http://cryptome.org/2014-info/leah-goodman/leah-goodman.htm

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: reading is for beginners. next step: writing.

asciilifeform: nope.

asciilifeform: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9246814/U.S._spy_agencies_adopt_new_IT_approach

asciilifeform: from the lulzfarm:

asciilifeform: they ought to apologize by seppuku in front of his doorstep instead.

asciilifeform: with added twist that a zombie can install the implant in a generic bird

asciilifeform: probably easier to use 'remote-controlled mouse' technique on organic birds

asciilifeform: picture the epic battles.

asciilifeform: disabled bird drives a nailgun round through its LiPo battery, explodes honourably.

asciilifeform: unlikely to be a major factor in the cost of the machine

asciilifeform: you'd need 1 M^2 or so.

asciilifeform: while on this flight of fancy, one can also consider flexible photovoltaics as the 'wings.'

asciilifeform: to fly - foldable mylar membranes between the legs (ornithopter flight - rotors are lame)

asciilifeform: immunity to jamming

asciilifeform: clever designer can build a swarm, which uses the steerable cameras and lasers for intra-swarm comms

asciilifeform: and a handful of spare eyes, which normally face the earth, gives resilience against incoming enemy laser.

asciilifeform: correct.

asciilifeform: beam bounced around room by mirrors, ~1mW. if beam fails to land on sensor, cranks up to 50W.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 1970s, 'MIT bugzapper'

asciilifeform: N+1 legs, lift a leg to use as 'eye'.

asciilifeform: (exercise for alert reader!)

asciilifeform: if you retain the cameras/optics in the legs, the machine can be easily programmed to always step on solid ground.

asciilifeform: one could handily build an approximation of the pictured toy from the guts of five or six 'steerable' webcams.

asciilifeform: for obvious reasons

asciilifeform: circuit which turns the panels to face the sun must be independent of the rest of the machine

asciilifeform: hobbyists very often lose their machines when it lands in any direction but props-upward

asciilifeform: like treetops

asciilifeform: landing gear for a serious flyer more or less has to be arachnoid, to handle non-ideal surfaces

asciilifeform: then flyer can be quasi-autonomous (land on roofs, otherwise inaccessible places, etc. to recharge via photovoltaics sometimes)

asciilifeform: i've suggested it as 'landing gear' for flying bots, to diametric (who built an example of each at one point)

asciilifeform: http://i.imgur.com/asnpvjM.gif

asciilifeform: unrelated,

asciilifeform: this is how the wool is trimmed from the relatively well-paid folks in u.s.

asciilifeform: the 'secret' (not much of one) is that they deliberately build ultra-low-density housing in 'white' sectors, to keep it expensive. ☟︎

asciilifeform: designed to stand up for ~2 decades, in good weather.

asciilifeform: plywood box

asciilifeform: americans won't build хрущобаs, so they're stuck doing weird in-betweens.

asciilifeform: there were somewhat fewer of them. and more wealthy older generation to mooch from.

asciilifeform: but this too has costs.

asciilifeform: tldr version: there is a multitude of idiots. they have to be housed somewhere. or, they can be allowed to live in their own filth, like capt. aguilera suggested.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'The answer lies in the sewers'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://core.kmi.open.ac.uk/display/199266

asciilifeform: (that is, far from green)

asciilifeform: especially ones of non-'ideal' colours

asciilifeform: yes

asciilifeform: that is, the fact that air is not perfectly transparent

asciilifeform: moiety: lasers used for circus purposes (draw picture in the air via persistence of vision) rely on 'rayleigh scattering'

asciilifeform: moiety: sure

asciilifeform: moiety: http://www.fotomage.com/giant-hybrid-cats

asciilifeform: moiety: the original version of that had a caption: 'do you still want to dodge the [russian] draft?'

asciilifeform: moiety: virtually all of the 'felis' genus has been cross-bred, across the board, and likewise 'panthera'

asciilifeform: moiety: which suggested that, technically, there might only be a few distinct species of cat, in the sense of 'able to cross-breed'

asciilifeform: moiety: once read a curious work on feline hybrids

asciilifeform: bonus points for using a radio mouse.

asciilifeform: hahaha

asciilifeform: ows vs. citadel 'in a cage'