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asciilifeform: same type of folks, who carefully avoid actual probe in favour of... strange placebo
asciilifeform: i bring it up because this is somehow, at least in my mind, eerily analogous to the 'legal remedies' crackpottery portrayed in mircea_popescu's 'sops of government clerks' piece
mircea_popescu: for the other thing, how do i make sure i don't burn this item, since apparently the same needle responds to 3 unrelated things ?
mircea_popescu: it's mindboggling poor dersign. so for one thing, the measurement mechanism for magnetic is liable to influence measurements for electric and vice-versa.
asciilifeform: who never, afaik, once got a hold of, e.g., a used 'fluke' field strength meter, or any other adult toy.
asciilifeform: purchased by nobody other than 'wavies'
asciilifeform: there is, apparently, whole 'parallel world' of junky 'measurement tools'
a111: Logged on 2014-11-26 04:23 asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: at one point i needed some conductive cloth (the kind with silver strands) for an experiment. to my great surprise, i discovered that there is a large manufacturer in usa, and they do brisk business with folks suffering from precisely the kind of phobia described in decimation's link.
asciilifeform: linked item is not a recommendation for purchase... but demo of 'madness market', we had thread
mircea_popescu: and why the fuck pay these derps 50 bux instead of just plugging a ten mile long cable into some capacitors and pipe to serial connector on pc.
asciilifeform: and it is not difficult to see some obvious wtf (srsly, ONE pocket-sized antenna, for all freq. ??)
asciilifeform: hell knows how calibrated, or whether, or what is even in the box.
asciilifeform: for extra lulz, i dug into the 'trifield meter' pictured in linked piece. it appears to be from the 'madness market' segment discussed in the em shielding blanket thread...
mircea_popescu: kay then.
asciilifeform: 'Julianne McKinney, former Army Intelligence officer, Director of the Electronic Surveillance Project, a sub-group of the Association of National Security Alumni, and author of...'
asciilifeform: . (Julianne McKinney reports extensive experience with this during the 1980s and 1990s.)'
asciilifeform: 'Julianne McKinney reports that back in the 1980s and 1990s, persons complaining of electronic harassment were dismissed as “wavies,” and the government took the position that electronic weapons simply did not exist. The government no longer takes this position, she notes, but the “wavies” of yore are still a threat, apparently, so propaganda pieces alleging mental illness are now the preferred mode of attempted discrediting
mircea_popescu: grep for "wavies", a term i didn't see before, she halfmouthedly admits it.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: where was the 'since 1980s' bit ?
a111: Logged on 2016-08-07 16:12 phf: i broke a thing
mircea_popescu: "i had a nut, but then i eted it. then i eted it. then iiiiii"
phf: making sure those messages always come through
phf: i broke a thing ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2016-08-07 15:55 mircea_popescu: which is also why nutty woman accidentally admits she's been pushing this nonsense ever since trhe 80s, and puts her parents (ie, authority figure) in the amulet.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-07 15:55 mircea_popescu: which is also why nutty woman accidentally admits she's been pushing this nonsense ever since trhe 80s, and puts her parents (ie, authority figure) in the amulet.
asciilifeform: hey where'd the 2nd line come from
a111: Logged on 2016-08-07 15:54 mircea_popescu: more generally, the dysfunctional brain is by definition limited.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-07 15:54 mircea_popescu: more generally, the dysfunctional brain is by definition limited.
mircea_popescu: ie, exactly the same.
phf: with a modern PC twist
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, "putin this or that ore the other". because it's not about the cripples, paralympics is like paralitics, ie politics-something
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Cripples need too much dope!
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: them cripples not crippled enough or wat was it ?
mircea_popescu: yeh try it.
BingoBoingo: In other news, Russia was banned from the parolympics
phf: that would be a righteous project to fund, it'll burn thousands of btc and the crumble under its own weight. "featuring in game cinematics by alexandro jodorowski"
phf: get avellone and spitzley to design & program
mircea_popescu: nah, she needs a video game, a remake of planescape : torment.
phf: she needs a video game, a whacky take on Thief series
mircea_popescu: imo her best is the fabled "evadam sau ne futem ?" "fuff. mai fimflu"
mircea_popescu: the rogue chick ? yea she might be the best character in oglafverse
phf: it's the main character in this strip, the one that always dispenses kooky medical advise
mircea_popescu: whitch one was that ?
mircea_popescu: which is also why nutty woman accidentally admits she's been pushing this nonsense ever since trhe 80s, and puts her parents (ie, authority figure) in the amulet. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: more generally, the dysfunctional brain is by definition limited. ☟︎
phf: thestringpuller: there's a limited number of cultural references for these people. that's why all the conspiracy theory youtube videos use that one track from the matrix when they need to lay down "truth" etc.
thestringpuller: ether huffing is sustainable until people are so brain dead their bodies stop working
shinohai: Sure we can do that
shinohai: i lol'd because how quickly their position changed on ETC
thestringpuller: takes great amounts of effort to do it right (tm)
thestringpuller: phf: this is as asciilifeform says throwing nuke waste into caskets and firing it into the sun
mircea_popescu: "i'm too busy doing accounting to learn addition"
mircea_popescu: phf no but they're "busy" with "their business". as if there could be a fucking business.
phf: sort of definition of eternal september, since before "eternal" septembrists were deprogrammed by forced communal reeducation. "read the logs, etc."
mircea_popescu: and totally neglects the fact that most of the hospital's business comes in the shape of dudes that show up in unmarked vans, tie him to a wall and fuck him in the ass while loading/unloading patients.
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: sue me for liking to sugar coat things. my fragile subconscious is not used to this new wasteland we are living in
mircea_popescu: then turns around and claims "the willingness to pay" is somehow indicative of... how loved he is ?
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: 'eternal septembers' are never deprogrammed, they are encasketed, like nuke waste
mircea_popescu: they're the equivalent of a guy that sits with a baseball bat in front of hospital and chases the elderly, the infirm and the disabled away.
mircea_popescu: literally, they're responsible for the largest count of marginal people - people who could have gone in, and ensured their future, but didn't.
thestringpuller: it will take years to deprogram the eternal september
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller yeah i dunno what is more hated by the noobs on the margin of btc than coinbase.
mircea_popescu: the public, as then predicted, picked the most rape per unit work.
asciilifeform: 'We spend a lot of money on things like security audits, compliance, understanding the laws of each country where we operate, obtaining regulatory licenses around the world, great engineering, and many more mundane areas like lunches for employees (there is a competitive market to hire the best people out there).' << gold.
mircea_popescu: specifically in 2013 MPEx gave a sort of soft ultimatum to the public : either you rally behind us, and push the world into the future, or you rally behind either of these two options and get raped.
thestringpuller: "Customers have shown an incredible willingness to pay for the service we've created because there is demand for it, and they recognize that this will help digital currency be more successful." << I love the denial. There is overwhelming hatred from the over regulation. Coinbase is just another fiat institution.
mircea_popescu: phf ideologically this all ties into http://trilema.com/2013/bitcoin-prices-bitcoin-inflexibility/ and the following in that thread ( such as http://trilema.com/2013/the-future-of-bitcoin-regulation/ )
a111: Logged on 2016-08-07 14:40 asciilifeform: let's cut in another direction. say, not my house (which is studiously ignored even by pigeons, i have nfi) but... e.g., BingoBoingo's - he picks up microwave background, thick enough that birds are dropping. gets rf burns when touching conductors (as i suspect that chick got in the photo)
phf: "the public" is what you say when you're talking trash, while periodically glancing back to check if there's somebody to back you up.
mircea_popescu: since they pretend to have a state.
asciilifeform: since when is there even a 'the public' ? i thought there were only individual chumps..
mircea_popescu: now that it's private, nothing's to keep the dickface from admitting it. hurr durr.
mircea_popescu: back when mp was saying this while mpex was a public company, the idiots knew better.
thestringpuller: for posterity in chan: "Second, most companies in the digital currency space are not profitable right now. Coinbase is not" - Brian Armstrong
asciilifeform: we also know that exceptionally-deserving lucky folk get handled by private contractors (as i'm certain m. hastings was)
mircea_popescu: so it turns out upon examination that it's not as much "us snoop has police cover" ; but rather that "some police grunts are deluded into thinking themselves snoops to accept lower paychecks"
mircea_popescu: i dunno dude, someone who is qualified in their chosen profession.
mircea_popescu: well, trained dog dun count as mathematician ?
asciilifeform: for this observation
mircea_popescu: i can scarcely think of a situation where spook's odds are improved by shooting.
mircea_popescu: i suppose in theory it could happen.
asciilifeform: i have nfi whether it is effective, for all i know snoop is being well-beaten just around the corner. i only know the procedures.
asciilifeform: specifically against this scenario.
asciilifeform: american snoops typically have police cover of one kind or another,
mircea_popescu: much like the ru iirc. pretty much everyone competent in the field eschews the nonsense.
mircea_popescu: at the time, possibly still today, secret service wasn't armed.
asciilifeform: sorta why in usa they shoot first, ask questions after.
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, back 20 years ago, friend being pursued by especially insultingly incompetent "secret service" called in a hit on their car. boxed them in, got them out, beat the shit out of them, took them to police station as per tradition. police wouldn't make arrest, he berated them a good one. and left.
asciilifeform: ( they never seem to show up here .... )
asciilifeform: i will be sure to link to this line should i ever encounter one of these folk alive.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no i meant, if the woman had it and is affraid of publishing it.
mircea_popescu: but you see the difference between this and that. it's marked.
mircea_popescu: send it to me, i;ll publish it.
asciilifeform: but we got to see what said bug looked like.
asciilifeform: ( it was a car tracker )
asciilifeform: incidentally the last time his happened, iirc, the victim ended up with a gag order and costly legal bill
mircea_popescu: yes, there will be a chorus of "ononononon", and you just behead the lot.
asciilifeform: ( asciilifeform is still waiting to buy a 'GODSURGE' !1111 h
mircea_popescu: ie, EXACTLY how the miner collusion item worked.
mircea_popescu: that's how a sane person structures this claim. "i am in possession of the electronics here documented. i got them because X tried to bug my house. feel free to come up with alternative explanation"