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KRS-One: this needs a bait moment
ThickAsThieves: also a foot fetish?
ThickAsThieves: "Crowd gathers to welcome man who says he spent a year adrift in the Pacific Ocean, surviving on fish and turtle blood."
KRS-One: Ever see a girl with a man-ass?
KRS-One: usaoscoin: yeah and I have a thing about females having man hands or man feet. Don't blame me if you begin to notice this more =D
KRS-One: I vote 'A', Bitcorn.
jurov: benkay we tried a bounty "bitcoin spec to be published by summer" but obviously it did not work :D
benkay: anyone with a copy of the forum can post 0.1 on yes, post the copies and claim the reward.
benkay: "archives of pre 2009 bitcointalk.org will be posted for public consumption by thus and such a date"
benkay: ha shit so in this case bitbet could be used as a bounty system
benkay: midnightmagic: it'd be a blessing to history if you'd help track one down.
mircea_popescu: lol benkay is a zombie
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo bout a mb
BingoBoingo: I'll try to get them together within a week or two.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: You have a timeline in mind?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Why not? Shouldn't be anywhere near as bad as trying to get a useful transcript out of that NYDFS abortion.
moiety: and its a lot when you don't have it to replace instantly
mircea_popescu: how about making a complete collection of satoshi's letters to the various email lists ?
mircea_popescu: and a book value per share of roughly twice the share price. incredible.
asciilifeform: it's a horse head on a pillow. demo.
asciilifeform: either an 'own goal' (the finest security theatre) or a 'floor model.'
benkay: all local power structures are in for a serious shakeup
mircea_popescu: here's a free theory : silicon valley entertains these delusions of fighting the bitcoin republic.
mircea_popescu: What they do not have is a motive, fingerprints or suspects."
mircea_popescu: there were what, a dozen or two planes lost to the... 5 batteries they had ?
mircea_popescu: seems a lot more practical to fly a RC plane carring a load of cherry bombs into a plane than to aim laser pointers at the cockpit
asciilifeform: even a toy chopper in the intake might be problematic.
mircea_popescu: even if you miss it you got a good chance of downing it
asciilifeform: no big feat of high tech, to break a defenseless flying bus.
mircea_popescu: and besides... the plane is not as hard to hit as a barn
asciilifeform: wire guide. you need a skilled user.
mircea_popescu: as far as my memory serves those things do customarily bridge a half mile gap
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it occurs to me that rather than having a precision mounted, high power supercolimated laser to blind pilots half mile away at the cost of about a million or so
asciilifeform: perhaps some hero, somewhere, has fit one in a 30 m^2 flat, but not me.
asciilifeform: the bigger cutters tend to have circulating (vs. sealed) lasing gas, which is a royal bitch.
mircea_popescu: build a pool around it
moiety: meh build a house around it
benkay: mining, but with only the reward of a shiny address.
mircea_popescu: exactly like mining, takes time to find a block
moiety: mircea_popescu: no! seemed a lot shorter than the chipug one!
mircea_popescu: and the bartender goes "what is this, a joke ?"
mircea_popescu: so a palestinian jew, snowden and obama walk into a bar
moiety: asciilifeform: it's even got a Big Red Button!
moiety: benkay: 6 is a good video too. the males really like to rub their balls (palps) on their faces don't they?!
asciilifeform: moiety: it's a fat little bugger: http://www.loper-os.org/wp-content/laser/machine.png
mircea_popescu: that for instance is re the mining thing i mentioned a while back.
mircea_popescu: a kk
mircea_popescu: a more very averring never coulding be possible to have taken place.
benkay: a vorhees avers a virtuous stock vending
mircea_popescu: moiety this is because you're not a 21 yo virgin boi.
mircea_popescu: more like a cryptacle.
benkay: a miracle!
mircea_popescu: a more ver averring never coulding be possible to have taken place.
benkay: you can send a colored coin representing what you aver to be your stock in pepsi to a stranger over the internet.
benkay: all but colored coins being a useful thing, eh wot?
benkay: mircea_popescu, linking a USG publication as a source of useful numbers?! will miracles never cease...
gribble: #19596 Tue Feb 11 22:37:13 2014 mod6 BUY 100000.0 ATC @ 5e-06 BTC (WTB up to 100,000 ATC for 0.00000500 BTC each or ~0.5 BTC total. Must have WoT rating. Smaller amounts ok too, pm me, we can make a deal!)
moiety: strap a deer to a nissan micra? nope
moiety: people just don't here but our cars are tiny so i think its usually a transport issue!!
moiety: in scotland, if you hit a deer and kill it, you are allowed to take it home
mircea_popescu: Dimsler_ prolly in a week or two
asciilifeform: the one way for this to work is for ten thousand wankers (reading news!) to try, and a few get very close, and lucky.
asciilifeform: http://www.iridian.ca/english/irdProducts.asp?x=915&a=p&pcid=29&pid=101
KRS-One: guess you can flash them easily but only for a moment here and there
KRS-One: i still dont understand how laser pointers can be steady enough to light a moving airplane cockpit from the ground at a distance
moiety: i saw a deer halved by a plane yesterday. quite an effect D:
moiety: liking trains is not a prerequisite to being able to handle graphic death in front of you
asciilifeform: moiety: clearly made a poor choice of profession, then
moiety: every time he was back in the cab or w/e its called on a train
moiety: i've known one. he was a patient.
asciilifeform: moiety: if one can get pensioned for the 'trauma' of driving a train over some idiot, perhaps we should all become train drivers.
moiety: you know a driver that has had a jumper?
asciilifeform: perhaps it lets them get out of a scheduled 'piss test' as well.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in honesty i doubt your average pilot really needs excuses to take a break.
asciilifeform: like any good official crock of shit, this one is based on fact (one can indeed construct a vaguely-useful military 'blinding machine')
mircea_popescu: maybe if we get a large enough number i can have a free subway sub
mircea_popescu: i was once in a car and the fucking ambulance illuminated the cockpit with the lights
mircea_popescu: for instance, a guy askd them out and he was ugly.
mircea_popescu: during the same interval a number of 59739845 bored women reported they were "almost raped"
asciilifeform: they make IR (ocular compatible) laser sights now, because u.s. polizei can't hit a victim from across the street otherwise.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i'm waiting for the day when one becomes vragnaroda for owning a collection of unexpurgated kvant ☟︎
jurov: so these laers sharpshooters use are just a gimmick and completely useless for aiming, then?
mircea_popescu: take a walk and let it rip
mircea_popescu: just you know, park your car in a field somewhere, or a beach or w/e
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well no, place it in a car so it's not stolen
asciilifeform: place the camera in a car, to reproduce the magical collimatory power of the aircraft window.
mircea_popescu: and try to shine the laser into it while it autoshoots so that you catch it in a pic.
mircea_popescu: get a laser key chain and a camera. place camera one kilometer away
mircea_popescu: a ok. no big deal.
mircea_popescu: jurov seriously, your mishaps within five feet are not a solid basis for comparison here.
jurov: power density can be like a moonlight, but on retina it concnetrates into one dot
mircea_popescu: that's almost as bad as an ugly vinyl dress on a sunny day
gribble: Error: Something in there wasn't a valid number.
mircea_popescu: jborkl a ok
mircea_popescu: jborkl you expect to buy a put at 5k for 1 btc lots for 0.67 ?
mircea_popescu: jborkl that doesn't seem to be a reasoning.
mircea_popescu: jurov there's a record of floods actually happening in the past.
asciilifeform: jurov: in this case fbi is doing its actual job well, for a change. (read: padding the pockets of contractors. here, the ones who'll be making mandatory 'fly by camera' widgets.)
mircea_popescu: provided it's friday on a february the 29th
mircea_popescu: whoia look at that! if every man woman and child on planet earth was a prepubescent boy with a laser spending all their time 1km away from lax