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benkay: 300 bucks'll get you
a pretty nice bottle of wine, Mats_cd03.
Mats_cd03: dude was
a huge sword buff and owned all sorts of probably illegal war trophies
mircea_popescu: putting your friend in the awkward position of having been vicariously scammed doesn't seem like much of
a gift
benkay: the upper end of skill experience and what have ye isn't but that's
a vanishingly small slice.
Mats_cd03: i have no expertise in that sort of thing, i meant to buy it as
a gift for
a colleague
Mats_cd03: ya i thought so, so i picked up
a carbon fibre weapon made with modern techniques
mircea_popescu: yeah they actually put
a lot of effort into getting it right for some reason.
Mats_cd03: it was
a relic owned by
a descendant of
a .jp soldier in nanjing
Mats_cd03: found
a replica that was better than the real thing on ebay for $200
Mats_cd03: i tried to buy
a .jp relic once, dealer tried to gouge me for $5k
benkay: to bring us back to
a much much earlier topic
nubbins`: i'm always
a bit surprised when i'm given free reign on design
nubbins`: mircea_popescu: if i wanted to highlight my weaknesses i'd just print
a photo of myself
nubbins`: i even have
a picture of
a smiling hipster wearing it, one sec
nubbins`: there's
a reason why i asked pascale to draw those heraldics and not me ;p
ThickAsThieves: i wouldnt know, the only time i had
a chance with
a black girl i wasnt single
mircea_popescu: say "woman, make me
a sammich. god knows being
a stick figure is disappointing enough"
mircea_popescu: <benkay> being
a stick figure is disappointing though << talk to the cook.
nubbins`: benkay, couldn't find my sketchbook OR
a pen. threw me off.
benkay: being
a stick figure is disappointing though
mod6: after he was released he was on Tech-TV or something and said, "yeah, its nice to be out... but i gotta wait like
a year or something to get
a cell phone... and I hvae this ankle bracelt for
a few months.."
nubbins`: we want encryption, not
a fucking bridge
mircea_popescu: nubbins` with
a picture of
a pinky ring o nthe back for the recipient to kiss
nubbins`: now that's
a nice business card
nubbins`: and players often put the tiles in
a bag
nubbins`: my pleasure to be
a necessary cog
mircea_popescu: you do realise that without
a hater atc would never win.
mod6: then
a wave of everyone pelting magicaltwit with flaming bags of dog shit
ThickAsThieves: then
a wave of everyone saying they cant get coins out
nubbins`: mircea_popescu, there comes
a point where you have to turn it into an abstract
nubbins`: ideally you want
a combination of little/no exercise and healthy eating
mircea_popescu: he said he was jacking
a rabbit with slices of vietnamese waitress.
mircea_popescu: deadweasel just admitted to slashing
a vietnamese girl while drunk ? or did i misread ?
nubbins`: or
a simulation to see what shade of yellow the eggs in your cake were, etc
nubbins`: might as well do
a simulation of
a pile of rotten mush to see what shape the banana was
nubbins`: is
a sim gonna show you what those two galaxies looked like before they crashed?
nubbins`: eh, not sure such
a thing is yet possible
KRS-One: there was the wmap project but that wasnt
a specific goal
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell cads actualy, it is not, not that i don't appreciate your culture on the topic. the difference is subtly this : that what you propose is geared towards the present and the future,
a matter of action, whereas what i was discussing was strictly as to the past and
a matter of representation.
nubbins`: in
a just universe, .bait would link you to the proof of
a theorem
ozbot: Mathematician: Is Our Universe
a Simulation? - Slashdot
nubbins`: that's got the makings of
a great thesis statement
mircea_popescu: nubbins` i dunno if you've noticed this, but the logs are pretty much taylored for my convenience. if i'm up, an hour stretches over like 300 lines. yet the ten hours im asleep look in the log like an hour and
a half.
mircea_popescu: somehow i imagined
a monkey trying to fire an ak would end up flying.
nubbins`: unfortunately, getting 6btc for
a coin that cost ~1.2btc is
a very rare thing
benkay: it's not
a requirement.
nubbins`: life's
a scam, so you better try to get yours!
benkay: point is - life is
a scam.
benkay: it's not terribly complex. it's
a pmb.
nubbins`: just offered at
a better rate than other similar scams
benkay: yeah he's been banging on about pmbs being
a scam
nubbins`: Mats_cd03, there are
a variety of denominations, from 0.1btc to 1000btc
nubbins`: sure, but we're not all vulgar enough to have
a driver cart us around ;p
benkay: he's also
a filthy pothead
kakobrekla: pretty much same goes for , tell me what you like and ill tell you if you are
a retard
kakobrekla: well, its
a saying, tell me who you hang out with and ill tell you who you are
nubbins`: inventor ragequit the coffeegeek forums after
a months-long argument about whether it's "espresso" or not :D
nubbins`: fair warning, they suggest you use
a large number of beans per cup
nubbins`: don't bother with
a spare pack of filters, they give you like 300
nubbins`: and although you could probably throw it at
a brick wall without breaking, that's probably not enough to justify the cost
KRS-One: for instance, to smoke herb out of
a nice ROOR Bong is
a completely different experience than
a fricken plastic one.
nubbins`: "The AeroPress is made of three different plastics. The clear chamber and plunger are made of copolyester. The hard black filter cap, filter holder, funnel, and stirrer are made of polypropylene. The rubber like seal on the end of the plunger is made of
a thermoplastic elastomer. All of these materials are FDA approved for use in contact with food. None of these materials contain bisphenol-
A KRS-One: Sorry I just have
a thing about plastic.
benkay: but hiding from them all in fear is
a pretty safe approach.
benkay: hey KRS-One there are
a bunch of different kinds of plastics
KRS-One: ever drink water out of
a plastic bottle? u can taste it
nubbins`: benkay: haven't tried the clever, but i do enjoy
a good pour-over
nubbins`: few better ways to spend
a sunday than calculating your net worth while enjoying
a large mug of aeropress coffee
KRS-One: teh best i ever found as
a sysadmin
Mats_cd03: could anyone recommend
a reputable whois privacy service
benkay: so the flipside of the additiction to 'standards-compliant' is that now some people in big cushy chairs are finally getting the idea that their standards are just
a backdoor for the us of
a.
benkay: besides they get to mark up the time spent fucking around with encryption to their clients - it's
a win win win win win!
benkay: there are fifty people over there - and only one with
a checkbook and the brains to recognize
a solution that needs implementing, frequently attended by much organizational resistance to doing anything.