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ThickAsThieves: Open Transactions is, from what i can tell, a server-distributed ledger, based on last signed & verified receipt
Vexual: breathing it in would be like a menthos marbolro
Vexual: waking up is a trhill for me
Vexual: gonna happen more when a human can't find a square mile to themselves
nubbins`: popularity of disaster/apocalypse stuff is more a product of the times
nubbins`: they're great if you want to know what idiots and bigots think on a given topic
nubbins`: someone showed me a picture of a bathroom with "dick surgery or die" written on the wall
mircea_popescu: nubbins` about 90k over ~3-4 years, 20 a day or something
nubbins`: you really did have a lot more comments when you posted in romanian, huh
nubbins`: ^ disregard, that was a useless statement
nubbins`: looks like a lecture hall
mircea_popescu: nubbins` http://trilema.com/2010/imaginarium/ that's how a theatre looks when i go.
nubbins`: the vulnerability itself isn't a taboo
mircea_popescu: how is vulnerability a taboo ?
Vexual: it might mean you can't shoot a dove if it's nesting
nubbins`: sure, a stretch
mircea_popescu: a, a. they're both taboo transgressive, but i doubt they're the same thing really.
nubbins`: this all stems from a quip, really
nubbins`: mircea_popescu: sure, and the same attraction to items from a time past is what brings people to collect both
mircea_popescu: as a non-steroid riddled non-ape that has slapped bucnhes of butts purple i tell you i see no appeal in hangings at all.
nubbins`: just that these are common enough things that share a common characteristic
nubbins`: nor is every man a steroid-riddled ape shouting "HURRR" and slapping a woman's ass purple
mircea_popescu: so when's the last time you gave the missus a good spanking ?
nubbins`: and in a pinch, a recollection of the hanging
nubbins`: a hanging will do just fine
nubbins`: or a room full of dudebros swapping stories of tricking women into having sex or beating up nerds
nubbins`: it's a power thing
asciilifeform: nubbins`: this would explain the fact that everybody loved a good impalement, etc. in times gone by. but hanging? seems boring.
nubbins`: and why all those things have a habit of getting tangled up with each other occasionally
nubbins`: well sure, but a technicality
asciilifeform: no gore as such, even. never having attended a hanging, i've no idea why the audience creams its pants along with the fellow dancing the hempen jig
decimation: We can build a kingdom of God on earth, if we just pile up enough chairs...
Vexual: get a new woman and stay free
mircea_popescu: Mats_cd03 the civil law is actually a lot saner
asciilifeform: for that matter,winblows itself is a good cultural portrait of the civilization that shat it forth
Mats_cd03: the process has always been a laughing stock, we just invented the internet recently and tell each other about it
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform kinda what i'm pointing out here. it makes a laughingstock of the process.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the 'geological time' sentences, if i recall, serve a mundane bureaucratic purpose
asciilifeform: 'might as well hang for a sheep as for a lamb'
mircea_popescu: unless there's a special law for 3 people, murder is murder.
nubbins`: mircea_popescu: same punishment for striking one person with your car vs driving through a crowd, mowing down dozens?
mircea_popescu: there's not a "now for x, tomorrow for y" bs.
nubbins`: do i have to wash the same number of dishes as the guy who only ate half a pizza?
Mats_cd03: i propose a new system of justice
nubbins`: sure, but if i go to a pizza place and eat a full pizza, do i get charged for one slice?
mircea_popescu: o, the header ? me with some local kids in a bar
mircea_popescu: there is a crime of "murder"
mircea_popescu: González was charged with 174 counts of murder—- two for each victim—- and was found guilty on 87 counts of arson and 87 counts of murder on August 19, 1991. For each count he received the sentence maximum of 25 years to life (a total of 4,350 years). It was the most substantial prison term ever imposed in the state of New York
nubbins`: "Upon further review, we have determined that the string by itself is not a machinegun"
mircea_popescu: benkay it's still a scam, but this month more quoting wikipedia less quoting trilema
benkay: wow a significant month for bitbet without significant donations
decimation: PLEASE NOTE: CA-Legal Magazine Repair / Rebuild Kits are to be used to 1) repair or rebuild your existing legally owned high capacity magazines or 2) permanently block to 10 rounds or 3) store in a disassembled condition for use outside of California. They are not intended for reassembly into new high capacity magazines, which would be a felony under California law.
Mats_cd03: some regulations about a 10 round magazine and mag release fuckery ain't gonna stop that
Mats_cd03: if i'm going to shoot up a mall i'm going to find the biggest magazine i can find, prob 40 rounds, and then i'm going to get a weapon that takes less than 5 seconds to reload
decimation: I think the new thing is that the next magazine has a key to pop off the last one
Mats_cd03: so you end up using a fucking pen to pop your 10 round mag out
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you do have a good point there in principle, but im not so sure the laptop resolves the movement problem.
nubbins`: i'm not so sure that "computing" is a battlefield
mircea_popescu: there is an absolute limit to the smallest firearm usable on a battlefield. so in computing. the laptop is below that limit.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so you shooting a .38 in each hand > me with my .5 DE ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: for some reason no one is in a hurry to dispense with man-portable arms
decimation: here you go, a history of sparc portables http://www.sparcproductdirectory.com/portable10.html
Mats_cd03: i used to own a S&W revolver what about it
mircea_popescu: you ever seen anyone with a .38 ?
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> to say that laptop is unnecessary is like supposing that nothing smaller than a squad machine gun is of any use in war << this is facually true
nubbins`: and ask them to do a bespoke one for ya
asciilifeform: it's like someone held a contest, 'make something even more dubious than an intel box'
asciilifeform: running a weird undocumented instr set (!) blob at all times
nubbins`: wait, so now we're looking for a laptop with all open hardware?
asciilifeform: raspi cpu has a whole separate core
asciilifeform: Vexual: if your idea of a portable computer is a briefcase with a tv and raspi, more power to you
Mats_cd03: if i'm really, really worried about getting pwned i guess i could use a raspi with a usb drive to bridge the air gap
Mats_cd03: so having a chromebook to do things that might be sensitive is great
Mats_cd03: im at the stage where i know a lot about netsec but very little about practical mitigation of threats
Vexual: whats wrong with a raspi in a lunchbox?
nubbins`: i'm not so sure this "unix laptop" thing ever existed, aside from a few isolated instances
nubbins`: did they EVER have a "unix laptop"?
asciilifeform: to say that laptop is unnecessary is like supposing that nothing smaller than a squad machine gun is of any use in war
decimation: it seems there would be a market for a "rhel laptop" like the tadpole was for sun though
Vexual: how much is a ticket?
decimation: ascii I want something that has a reasonable off-line backup system that will restore from an external drive, like time machine
asciilifeform: sad fact is, if you want, for one reason or another, a portable unix box with a metal chassis and working suspend mode & peripherals, you're stuck with apple.
decimation: I mean, the election of 1886 was about whether there should be a silver or gold standard - and the gold won!
asciilifeform: really want a less cluttered office and ease of storage and retrieval of
decimation: I was a little confused. In the us, this is a forgotten part of our history in the popular mind
mircea_popescu: i guess i went a little circular there lol
mircea_popescu: party's over, but yeah, that one chick with nice tits that took her top off... what a hoot.
decimation: that's true. it was a unique time
decimation: So your goal, as a businessman, is to get the big dumb blob of the population to be able to recognize your widget
mircea_popescu: ie, it's a cube. basic geometric shape. "herp derp i can recognise this in my surroundings"
mircea_popescu: this is strictly because apple had at the helm for a decade+ a person who actually understood how worthless advertising is, and just told the horde to get fucked
decimation: they used to be a joke back in the clone days
decimation: bah. jobs created a market
nubbins`: decimation, it's more that there isn't a market for well-designed hardware.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` suppose tomorrow I decide i want a diff video card.
Vexual: you can put it on a desk but you dont have to
nubbins`: for example, mine's on a table
nubbins`: "laptop" is a misnomer
mircea_popescu: s like the cs equivalent of a dildo.
mircea_popescu: who the fuck wants to hunch over a ball cooker ?