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mircea_popescu: i'm giving even odds the guy doesn't end up paying for it.
mircea_popescu: true story : i once spent in excess of an hour inserting coffee beans one by one into girl butt. just to see what'd happen.
mircea_popescu: "the XXXXX Street area is a shitty, needle-littered dump" << srsly ?
mircea_popescu: nubbins` you know, the mayor response would be a better paste. we don't care what YOU said :D
mircea_popescu: nubbins` is this slumlord the new official slur for this circumstance ?
mircea_popescu: keep adding 1 cartridge/second, keep taking molten stuff out.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform incidentally, wouldn't a continuous furnace be the best approach ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what's wrong with just burying them in a pile ?
mircea_popescu: well yeah, if you're going to make a gun-cartridge might as well make it sealed.
mircea_popescu: if anyoen wants to give a final look to the month's statements, please do. i'll be signing them and deeding them later today.
mircea_popescu: i have nfi how they do traffic measuring these days. i have no doubt whatsoever that it can be gamed.
mircea_popescu: bounce if it counted that qntra'd be well above gawker this month.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla yes. it is a news venue. it talks to retards. this, we knew going in.
mircea_popescu: This site reaches over 3,428 monthly people, of which 2,111 (62%) yesterday.
mircea_popescu: <bounce> how to make a plastic gun that shoots: use casing for substitute barrel <<< pressed shit works just fine, when smeared on actually functioning machines!
mircea_popescu: " Early adopters were given high, magic, above market payouts to lure suckers like me in, and it worked." << duh.
mircea_popescu: i wonder how many russian policemen used it to touch themselves.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbrUnQPbpEU persay.
mircea_popescu: are these for afficionados, light enough to attach scope to ?
mircea_popescu: lesson for stan : next time girl breaks her ring, don't try to weld it back on her.
mircea_popescu: arth will be programming these idiotic boxes pretty soon if managers don't wise up to the fact that the equivalent of automatic switches already exist and have done so for at least 20 years. yet if Y2K doesn't light up most manager's view of the world of programming, there isn't hope for mankind at all."
mircea_popescu: " I remember someone saying that if it hadn't been for automatic switches in the telephone network, the entire population of planet earth would have had to be telephone operators to handle the load of telephone usage in 1993 or thereabout. I get the eerie feeling that because modern computer systems are so incredibly braindamaged in their design and in the tools used to program them, the entire population of planet e
mircea_popescu: incidentally, now that im apparently using it, wtf does chicom even mean ?
mircea_popescu: so the other barbarian couldn't jack off to the marbles.
mircea_popescu: see, here's the thing : we had these idiots in romania, too. the sort that could be millionaires as long as the public treasury poured a billion or two in theior pants
mircea_popescu: decimation well at least he knows how to make a small fortune.
mircea_popescu: anyone still know virgin atlantic branson dayton w/e his name was ?
mircea_popescu: It says that it's from Sky Dayton (founder of Earthlink) although it is actually from Earthlink's direct marketing department. I can just see the thought going through the copy writer's head. "People won't open it unless it's from someone they know, and everyone knows Sky Dayton!"
mircea_popescu: it's a fucking derrogatory, it's almost like calling bitcoin's media company "cunt, raw"
mircea_popescu: someone actually thought that "yahoo" is a sane string to associate to your busines.
mircea_popescu: decimation just think, what they were. remember... lycos ?
mircea_popescu: in fact, the history of the internet and the browser narrowly mimicks the history of bitcoin
mircea_popescu: "and the loss to the software company that has to give up two months of sales is even worse." << dat logic. so if i have sex for the first time today, rather than next week, i gain a full week of first time sexings.
mircea_popescu: as joel well points out, we got a mental problem. no comprende como sheeping works.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform listen : if coders didn't have to worry about whether THEIR PROGRAM EVEN HALTS
mircea_popescu: In fact there are lots of great reasons for bloatware. For one, if programmers don't have to worry about how large their code is, they can ship it sooner. And that means you get more features, and features make your life better (when you use them) and don't usually hurt (when you don't).
mircea_popescu: sort-of equivalent to the moment when archimedes turned on the mirrors.
mircea_popescu: decimation that would have been the fucking moment of truth for the cataphract : when someone turned on a giant magnet