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truffles: i need a pickmeuper goto
Vexual: its a shot of jager dropped into a glass of redbull
nubbins`: half glass of redbull with a shot glass of jager dropped in
nubbins`: Vexual, what you describe is a jagerbomb
Vexual: i wouldnt buy a can of the stuff
Vexual: i asked a voluptuous barkeep for a hickup remedy once and got redbulll with jagermister
Vexual: its a once in a species thing, so im sure you understand
Vexual: no shoes and a borrowed car
Vexual: nope thats a joss song
truffles: she's done Fell in love with a boy hmm
ozbot: Joss Stone - A Man's World (Lyrics) - YouTube
Vexual: she has a man to write songs for her own albums
truffles: she does a lot of covers
ozbot: Hustle & Flow - It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp - YouTube
truffles: she was such a classy lady
Vexual: since i found a recording of lady di decomposing
ozbot: Joss Stone - Son of a Preacher Man - YouTube
ozbot: Joss Stone - Natural Woman (A Cappella) [Live at The Jonathan Ross Show] - YouTube
Vexual: whereby everyone says a different way of explaining how we can slow the economy with 2 billion citizens
ozbot: Black Grape - Dadi Waz A Badi Live - YouTube
Vexual: a gin and tonic is just plain weird sitting in a park, and you never hear any sotrys about bankok
Vexual: i do enjoy a good pool hall
truffles: thats a game i avoid heh
gecko_x2: i need a donation too
Vexual: yeah freebsd and a pickplace machine, one onders whats no such has up its sleeve
Vexual: some a-hole put a box of empty bottle right in my gravity patch
chatquack: ~He has a wife you know.~
Duffer1: if you buy mining gear and the price of btc goes down, then there's a SMALL chance that you will have temporarily gotten more value out of your fiat
Duffer1: start with a baseline goal
Duffer1: mining is more a hedge these days, something to get into if you feel the fiat value of btc will go down
chatquack: Or use a 3d printer to make metal castings.
chatquack: I don't think he will go for that. He wants a product to hold.
Duffer1: 80% loss in value due to a 5x increase in price (it was actually much worse than that since it turned out to be a total scam and a total loss, but that's another story)
Duffer1: i bought a number of bitcoin and thought i'd invest, not really understanding that bitcoin itself was the investment
Duffer1: but if you had just bought btc with that money and sat on the btc, you would be buying a new house instead of a used car
chatquack: What's the worst that could happen? Get only a fraction roi? Maybe years from now it will pay for itself...
chatquack: That's sure to be a winner!
chatquack: Could go a diff route.
chatquack: Unless the price jumps quite a bit.
chatquack: Really I just want access to a server rack of miners.
chatquack: Holy shit, I'm going to be setting up a 14TH/s rig in May!
jayk: but i'm a little bit interested in BOLSA
the20year2: One of the reasons being a market finance of massive US debt, which would be completely unsustainable
mod6: mp: yeah. this was a few days back
mircea_popescu: their cds over 100 points again, after just having had a massive liquidity drop
dub: I think I've been saying that a while now mp
mircea_popescu: a boy and a girl somewhere are about to kiss, for the first time in the history of the world.
mircea_popescu: "The University of Cumbria in northwest England has become the first public university in the world to experiment with accepting bitcoin as tuition payment. It follows a similar move made by a private university in Cyprus at the end of last year."
Duffer1: peta mine is worse, it's like a pmb + cloud hash solution that gets "invostocustomers" the worse part of both
dub: they would say, and tend never to stop saying inmy experience, that its a dumping ground for islam
dub: safe to say, england is a dump
dub: liverpool is a dump
mod6: anyway, yeah, heard liverpool was a dump tho
the20year2: they pay you to buy a house in bmore
asciilifeform: the rent for my 20m^2 consulting rathole near dc would buy a 4-story office building in baltimore.
dub: he's getting fuck by his ex in a similar fashion
dub: you'd be doing mccartney a favor
vial: like a real bloody twinkie
vial: i'd love to stab a knife in one of them and fuck the opening it leaves.. stab them right in the kidney and cum in the wound
vial: they'll stick a bit of metal in your arse
mircea_popescu: manchester is one of the few places in the world to have been a shithole its entire history
dub: its a shithole
mircea_popescu: dub so move to a better city.
dub: 35k doesnt buy a carpark in my city
mircea_popescu: copumpkin better yet, start a low rent boarding house in detroit.
copumpkin: dub: get a nice house in detroit
dub: 35k for a place you can live in
asciilifeform: 2. it's a little hard to move it to a reasonable place
the20year2: need a house?
asciilifeform: 'nice altchain you got there. i'd be a shame if it were to have problems.'
asciilifeform: and how do you 'fix' a 51%'d chain?
asciilifeform: even cpu mining is profitable if you're a spammer
asciilifeform: i still don't understand why a fellow with an scrypt asic would bother to tell anyone about it.
the20year2: and he thinks he can get his own asic to market a month ahead of them
the20year2: From what he's seen, alpha-tec is almost a guaranteed scam
Duffer1: isn't the buy-a-hash farm itself quite sizable?
the20year2: The powered risers he has now are the only ones on the market with their features. He has a guy now in shenzen going to factories to review products
asciilifeform: enlighten me (a savage) - is this really a seriously lucrative affair?
dub: I'd suggest most gpu miners are too stupid to do a sawing motion
Duffer1: for a one stop scrypt mining shop though it's a good "shelf item"
asciilifeform: a saw, a spot welder...
the20year2: it's an aluminum frame for people who want to easily mount multiple GPUs on a system
the20year2: asciilifeform: it's going to be a rig sort of like openrig, but our own desig
blg: a gun that mines litecoin?
asciilifeform: why does a litecoin-anything need to be machined?
the20year2: We took a bid from another machine shop, at 5-6 times higher than what we can do it in-house for
asciilifeform: i imagine most of the operating cost of such a shop is bureaucracy-based, rather than actual work
mircea_popescu: twasn't a clone
Duffer1: i have yet to meet an american that doesn't enjoy a good army surplus store
the20year2: When teh USSR fell , all sorts of military surplus places popped up selling extraordinarily fun stuff here. If you could do that with old miltiary gear (Boots, clothes, tents, ponchos, ect) you could make a killin
the20year2: I really wish i could get a few connex boxes of old 60s-70s crap from Romania and export it here
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that may be a coupla bucks if you find the right ny decorator
the20year2: Sure, plenty of people utilize those services, but they're not the bitcoin crowd, which in my opinion is a bit more intelligent
the20year2: Personally, my opinion is that it's a low intelligence service
the20year2: At a local mall, they have this machine you stick old cell phones in, and it gives you cash for them
the20year2: it gives me hope for our 2nd round of funding via HL, seeing as how successful SFI has been, and to a lesser extent MS, but i'm curious if the bigger money will follow us
asciilifeform: 'don't trust your heirs with your dangerous phone? turn it in for a penny'
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 the idea was more that letting people out of the straightjacket will result in a lot of idiots impaled on telegraph poles
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=goldbricker | Someone who cheats at completing a task, duty, or job. To cheat; swindle.
Duffer1: what they tell you they want to do is always different than what they a) try to deliver b) are capable of delivering