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mircea_popescu: on an equal exposure basis, suspended particulates / oxides way way beat stuff like azbestos.
mircea_popescu: because the us is built on "0% risk", see. otherwise smoking is ok and no need for helmets.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: seems like it does require a crown contract attesting to the fact of use in a particular product, along with statement of disposal arrangements << uranium is, if mishandled, extremely toxic.
mircea_popescu: i dunno exactly what inflamed part of the cerebrum it comes from, but it's a commie thing.
mircea_popescu: that it's obvious to you but not to them has more to do with the fact that they're used to their own shit than anything.
mircea_popescu: they pretend, just like everyone else, to the utmost of their ability.
mircea_popescu: mike_c: is this new "1 week buffer from event" copy now standard practice? << people like putting it in. what can i say ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo why ? it's the same tribal, pretentious, inept culture.
mircea_popescu: "Glicker's hand in crafting the LT2 ruling helped create an unfunded mandate that opened new markets for his company, while blindsiding cash-strapped municipalities across the country."
mircea_popescu: Most troubling are charges of decades of revolving-door cronyism surrounding Joe Glicker, a vice president of CH2M Hill, the company awarded the contracts to build the new covered reservoirs for Portland. Not only was Glicker a former chief engineer of the Portland Water Bureau (PWB), he also worked as a core consultant with the EPA to write the very LT2 rules that now require these massive "emergency" water infrastruc
mircea_popescu: now there's dangers involved ? shit, i guess we gotta go apologize to all the locals that said so back then ?
mircea_popescu: holy shit! for 30 fucking years all the world could hear from us' imf "experts" was privatize, privatize, privatize
mircea_popescu: "At the heart of the controversy is a breakdown in public trust that reflects the dangers of corporate-led water privatization schemes in the United States and around the world."
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski actually reserva san juan is pretty decent. just had some.
mircea_popescu: assbot: Logged on 07-01-2015 19:06:06; kakobrekla: btw bitstamp is moving operations to us (prolly sf). << qntra shoulda scooped you!
mircea_popescu: i didn't mean it's any good. merely that moet is meh-er-er!
mircea_popescu: the only thing making money in france, sort of like paris' appple
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo there's something about vw that attracts this sort of thing. i recall a similar carnage in the 80, and then somerthing with audi
mircea_popescu: you can never really swear who's the real billy mumphrey.
mircea_popescu: well that's the beauty of the high stakes game of world diplomacy and international intrigue.
mircea_popescu: i dunno why all these ppl get so excited about pgp. clearly it doesn't do anything
mircea_popescu: maybe the government was impersonating dpr all along ?
mircea_popescu: there was something very very odd about the pgp used on this site that allowed employees to impersonate users.
mircea_popescu: "[A]s a side note, at what point in time do we decide that we’ve had enough of someone[’]s shit, and terminate them? Like, does impersonating a vendor to rip off a mid-level drug lord, using our rep and system; follows up by stealing from our vendors and clients and breeding fear and mis-trust, does that come close in your opinion."
mircea_popescu: they only took them out because they didn't want the jury to hear the titles,. lest they look it up
mircea_popescu: Ulbricht won only a few minor points. The government won't be able to point to certain books sold on Silk Road, such as Silent but Deadly and Homemade C-4: A Recipe for Survival. Those exhibits "unnecessarily inject elements of violence and explosive devices that are not otherwise part of this case."
mircea_popescu hooked up old minifrige system to old vw golf for home made ac long ago
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you'll have to appreciate the value of convenience SOME DAY
mircea_popescu: "Q1.6: Does RANDOM.ORG perform custom jobs that require randomness? Yes. Perhaps you need more numbers than it's possible to get via the web forms, or perhaps you need them in a format that isn't supported. In those cases, we can set up a custom job for you to supply the numbers."
mircea_popescu: "Second, this is not an attack that can be launched from anywhere in the world, only reasonably close to the generator. "
mircea_popescu: and if i go to fuck a girl, i can't like... in any manner observe where the blasted slit is
mircea_popescu: "RANDOM.ORG radios use in order to affect the generator. However, radio frequency attacks of this type would be difficult for a variety of reasons. First, the frequencies that the radios use are not published, so an attacker would have to broadcast across all frequencies of all bands used for FM and AM broadcasting. "
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform as to whether you in his place would find yourself in the same envelope or not.
mircea_popescu: yes, by and large the scientist in the lab is a puppet.
mircea_popescu: but the discussion of whether the envelope is real or metaphysical is important.
mircea_popescu: on the merits the judge is entirely correct, he couldn't have excluded that.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but i was more curios in general discussion, rather than merely judging the judge.
mircea_popescu: los_pantalones are you writing me repos/options/something on gavinbucks ?
mircea_popescu: evidentiary hearings are quite separate from any case.
mircea_popescu: you can't say "clothes are dumb" just because americans are poor and the chinese are mocking them.
mircea_popescu: law, as an intellectual tradition / cultural phenomenon is quite sensible.
mircea_popescu: quick "fundaments of law" practice work. were you the judge, would you have allowed the evidence presented ? if yes, why ? if not, why not ?
mircea_popescu: ie, tarzan in the jungle, finds a glub. "now that's a good club". "hello tarzan". because buna is ambiguously hello and "this is a good item"
mircea_popescu: which reminds me of ancient joke. "tarzan prin jungla, gaseste o bita. "buna bita!" "buna tarzan!""
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: a: 'orcs came and burned my village to the ground' b: 'shuddup, enough whinging, do something to improve yer lot' << i can see it tbh.
mircea_popescu: the correct solution is to whip out the cock, jack off, send the film to every girl in junior high, then when the troopers show up whip the cock out, jack off on their face and beat them until they lick it off and thank you for it.
mircea_popescu: i very much doubt the solution to "welfare state has made life impossible for actual people" is "feel moar ashamed and guilty"
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: also mildly curious to know how much time your grandfather spent on irc shooting the shit and complaining about how shitty his wife was <<< all old folks i knew, of that exact generation, spent about 20 hours a week, each week, with a beer and tobacco, talking exactly the same things.
mircea_popescu: "I'd also like to see a source to this claim. I'll start a bounty of 3,000 bits." gotta love reddit.
mircea_popescu: cazalla: how in the fuck does a pennyles german come here 65 years ago and build more in a decade or two than his own grandchildren could hope to build in a life time << you know he has a legitimate question there.
mircea_popescu: yeah that's gonna be a cool 54 btc for bitbet once it resolves.