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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it seriouslt doesn't need so much defense. would be smartasses are well shy
mircea_popescu: decimation doubt it. croatian military didn't "fracture". nor did serbian.
mircea_popescu: harem does not need guarding, not in that context. btches know enough not to get messy at that juncture.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if memory is any guide, it will be more to settle wot disputes than anything.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well yes, pretty much every single gi item has fulda fucking stamped on it.
mircea_popescu: yugoslav army was not 1/6 as effectual as the same god damned units, except now commanded by the war criminals.
mircea_popescu: in fact, it wil happen not merely in spite of gas shortages
mircea_popescu: and in that redefinition it will signifcantly increase in strength.
mircea_popescu: so yeah, if washington goes or stays is irrelevant, but if the obnoxious sissy faggots currently in the general staff are all raped and hanged the army will suddenly see its mission redefined much widerly
mircea_popescu: and everyone's pointing and laughing at your apparent inability, notwithstanding immense expenditure, not leat of all of your own god damned effort.
mircea_popescu: then you end up engaged in the middle east trying to do another thing,
mircea_popescu: essentially to get "really good" at one thing you define a narrow thing to be good at.
mircea_popescu: decimation generally high efficiency is obtained at the cost of high fragility. the jit system is a fine exampel of the principle.
mircea_popescu: undata: BingoBoingo: I'll read this but to continue, the Russians sought Putin's strong voice after their collapse. << not after, honey. a decade after. that decade is important.
mircea_popescu: undata: a highly armed, extremely disciplined military doesn't just vanish because the congressmen stop coming to work << obviously not. it just starts working for me instead ?
mircea_popescu: undata: the US military is immensely capable of holding cities <<< should be interesting to hear more of this.
mircea_popescu: undata: more like giant slave and ankle-chain << this was recently in full display in the ukraine, and then later in iraq. except both ukrainians and iraquis are, as a stock, more resilient than the us guy.
mircea_popescu: decimation there's a reason civilisation is built on oil.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I'll be looking to grow my farm once qntra takes off << lol what a plan for the future.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform isn't the probability to find a metastable state roughlt linear with system energy ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: no need for the 74xx to melt - enough to 'get lucky' and reach a metastable state in one or more switching elements << for pure wankeriferious interest : wouldn't supercooling it be a pill against all this ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo how does duct tape get a bad rap ? i used it for a sex act earlier today!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform im running a sort of generational modelling thing i hacked together. this is my idea of fun.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform sane linuxes actually use the memory. or am i missing something ?
mircea_popescu: ahh, the beauty of 64gb memory systems is that if they allocate 46gb they still have plenty left over.
mircea_popescu: or do they both get spanked purple and "next fucking time do one thing and do it right"
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes ok, suppose the chicks ake you ojo de bife, but as an insurance policy they mix cheesekace in there.
mircea_popescu: "insurance policy" ? "here's a car that doesn't work, and just to make sure, we welded to it a boat that also doesn't work" ? is this a way to live?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes if you're going to do that why bother with m/n
mircea_popescu: do you suppose her mother coming to your room and saying "neither of you is to leave here until you fuck" help anything ?
mircea_popescu: suppose you're with a girl that doesn't wanna fuck you.
mircea_popescu: if i knew how to formalize this to be readily understanable for people i'd trilema it
mircea_popescu: kinda why i don't think much of the entire "multisig" bullcrap.
mircea_popescu: which is how and why the us political system does not work.
mircea_popescu: you go to stan : hey listen, he's giving you nothing. take this 5 cents sign over to me.
mircea_popescu: so, me you and stan have to split a buck. i go : fuck stan, give me 50 cents i'll sign with you.
mircea_popescu: you familiar with the three man committee to split a buck ?
mircea_popescu: otherwise it goes on forever, like the us puritan thought pattern.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform can't blame him. only way out of that one.
mircea_popescu: i'm kinda reminded of the jews on toilet joke. "is this work ?"
mircea_popescu: mechanized orchestra is a particularly good metaphore. because it never existed.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes cause normally i'm like, oh, logs, fancy that. but past few days it's been... omfg help me.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nah, im sure that's not the case, i never cut solid copper anythings.
mircea_popescu: the disadvantage of productivity is that it's 5am and the log is closing in on 1k lines. and yest it was nearly 3k. and jesus god it's a lot harder to go through when it's not mostly my own lines! i had no idea!
mircea_popescu: back when there weren't any enemies listening in on our lists
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> connected with serial cable << this from reading up on old mpex material ?
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