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kakobrekla: its like a small irc community inside small assets community inside small btc community
kakobrekla: mircea_popescu, this bash is too specific, a girl would need years of training to chew through it
nubbins`: "put a cork in it"?
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla you should hire a sloven girl to do the moderation there
mircea_popescu: i used web submit a coupla times
kakobrekla: just make a comment before like this: first 10
kakobrekla: jurov its not like one has a choise
mircea_popescu: i believe 36 is a sufficient number of captcha.
mircea_popescu: captcha should probably be "name the last woman that gave you a fair lay"
mircea_popescu: flagging a little. this is gonna be a nailbiter
truffles: a man should eat what is presented to him though
truffles: u said u got a "new" gf 2 days ago or so
deadweasel: it's a problem.. i ate 3/4 of a casserole last night. good luck, i haven't figured that one out.
deadweasel: go find a hobo
Diablo-D3: eat a dfick
Vexual: Although Bitcoin is not anonymous by default, Bitcoin addresses were not a factor in solving the case. <from the protect dept
asciilifeform: or was that a dream
nubbins`: those are less than a buck each in quantity
asciilifeform: runs on a CR2450
nubbins`: ah, smaller than a business card
mircea_popescu: for the benefit of "i can write a website too!" crowd : this is the result of removing about 14 different bias sources
the20year: Yeah, that's been the US tradition for a while though
asciilifeform: in that most bayonet charges did not end with a mass perforation, but with one side fleeing
the20year: I don't know , when i talked to a guy in 2003-4 about his time in Iraq, he seemed to indicate his unit trained with them. I do believe the marines still train
mircea_popescu: so it's not really practical, from a strategic perspective. nevertheless...
asciilifeform: "an officer without a sword is improperly dressed"
mircea_popescu: a trained man with a sword is a better asset in close quarters than dudes with guns
asciilifeform: there are persistent rumours of a Polish ww2 lance charge against a tank column.
the20year: Or italian cavalry in ww2 attacking soviet positions, a bayonette charge in iraq in 2004, the last usage of a sword in combat in vietnam , ect
asciilifeform: technologically-mismatched battles are a curious fetish among some people
the20year: Granted if you want to see what happens when you use line warfar against machine guns, just take a look at ww1
the20year: Well, in the 1700s you had the giardoni air rifle which was a rapid fire gun
asciilifeform: this legal oddity rings a bell. i once wandered into an antique shop near wash. dc, and they had an Ottoman musket for sale. no paperwork, etc.
the20year: I have a 1895 mauser that's an antique....is an absolutely awesome rifle
the20year: It's easy to find and date them based on serial numbers, sales price is quite high though, around $2,000 for a tec-9 or 22 that sold for say $150 prior to 1980
the20year: Technically, if you can find a open-bolt gun that was made prior to 1980 it's still legal
the20year: Both at a cost of just a few dollar (equivilent) at the time
the20year: just a muzzleloader
the20year: Ammo isn't too bad if you want to set up the process ,or just make a muzzleloader
asciilifeform: the20year: this is a tremendously-popular hobby here.
mircea_popescu: ha, since i was going through old tomes, look what a gem i found :
asciilifeform: today. in a civilized place.
asciilifeform: cheap is a tricky concept. a plastic fork is cheap, until it isn't, and is entirely unobtainable
the20year: If by industry you mean a guy with a set of presses and punches, sure
asciilifeform: if you're in a real bind, you might want to go with liquid propellant and electrical priming.
mircea_popescu: the20year he has a point tho, in the sense of brass casingsd are reusable for a finite number of shots.
benkay: i am a convince.
asciilifeform: certainly, for a musket.
asciilifeform: which is why 3d printer is a mass topic at all
mircea_popescu: i could make you one within the hour, and teach you to make one in a day
asciilifeform: some people seems to fetishize the process of 'push a button without thinking'
mircea_popescu: it's much easier to make a crossvbow than to print one
mircea_popescu: reality may be a complicated place, but the tactical utility of printed guns is still purely imaginary.
asciilifeform: not that armour is worthless - simply that reality is a complicated place.
asciilifeform: he had a computer model which explained why certain - helmeted - men ended up with brain damage, while grunts in the same vehicle, sans helmet, didn't.
mircea_popescu: or helmet, who cannot hold at once his bow and shield; or from the ensigns whose bodies are naked, and who cannot at the same time carry a shield and the colors? The foot soldier finds the weight of a cuirass and even of a helmet intolerable. This is because he is so seldom exercised and rarely puts them on.
mircea_popescu: ts with the Goths were often overwhelmed with their showers of arrows. Nor was the necessity of obliging the infantry to resume their cuirasses and helmets discovered, notwithstanding such repeated defeats, which brought on the destruction of so many great cities. Troops, defenseless and exposed to all the weapons of the enemy, are more disposed to fly than fight. What can be expected from a foot-archer without cuirass
mircea_popescu: From the foundation of the city till the reign of the Emperor Gratian, the foot wore cuirasses and helmets. But negligence and sloth having by degrees introduced a total relaxation of discipline, the soldiers began to think their armor too heavy, as they seldom put it on. They first requested leave from the Emperor to lay aside the cuirass and afterwards the helmet. In consequence of this, our troops in their engagemen
asciilifeform: i attended an interesting talk once by a concussion expert
the20year: The average soldier carries about 100lbs of gear into battle, so 20lb of armor isn't a big deal. thus why the US military is testing powered armor
asciilifeform: the20year: ask a soldier how much he'd like to wear plate mail.
asciilifeform: it will be interesting to see reactive armor built for a man
mircea_popescu: "while Mătăsăreanu's chest armor even successfully withstood a hit from a SWAT operator's AR-15"
the20year: It's usually a endless cycle of bigger armor being beaten by a bigger gun , IE ww2 f or instance
asciilifeform: arms vs. armour is a classic race that the latter tends to lose. witness 'reactive armour' on tank.
asciilifeform: legend has it that submarine architects were once made to take a trip to max depth before the machine would be paid for.
the20year: No, he was shot close range with a little pistol
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform wasn't he killed by a bomb ?
mircea_popescu: deadweasel you can always use a dummy
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform depends a lot on the angle.
asciilifeform: unless you're willing to wear the equivalent of a 19th century diving suit
asciilifeform: 1kJ applied to a head with impenetrable armor -> neck trauma
mircea_popescu: consequently, there's a limit to how heavy a round can be fired from the hand
the20year: asciilifeform: most current plates use ceramic which disperses the kenetic energy over a wide area, avoiding blunt tramua. Small arms fire has an amazingly low amount of kenetic energy compared to common measurements
the20year: Pretty easy to make a firearm out of supplies from tesco
mircea_popescu: benkay amusingly, amlar is easier to print than a gun.
mircea_popescu: even if you maange to print a gun, you will print a useless gun.
truffles: appropriated several semi-automatic rifles from a nearby firearms dealer to help even the odds. "
truffles: "patrol officers at the time were typically armed with a 9mm or .40 caliber pistol on their person, with a 12-gauge shotgun available in their cars. Phillips and Matasareanu carried fully automatic rifles and wore body armor. Since most handgun calibers cannot penetrate body armor, patrol officers had a significant disadvantage until SWAT arrived with equivalent firepower; they also
asciilifeform: but try finding a vendor willing to stand in it for target practice, for ten rounds much less a thousand.
deadweasel: that was a great one
mircea_popescu: a solved problem for > a decade by now
asciilifeform: the people to whom the question applies have a rather lukewarm enthusiasm for it.
asciilifeform: armor is a tricky business
asciilifeform: wonder if anybody's fed Plastique into a 3d extruder.
asciilifeform: not that such a thing is impossible: medieval Korea had: leather cannon!
nubbins`: asciilifeform: not a fucking chance would i put gunpowder inside anything i printed myself
nubbins`: printing is a long-term
nubbins`: coffee roasting was a short-term
benkay: i start over on a new domain every four years, i think.
asciilifeform: i've thought about ways to electrolytically replace a (conductive) plastic with metal.
nubbins`: asciilifeform: i think benkay is thinking similar to a lost wax process
benkay: asciilifeform: yes, that is a casting process.
pankkake: it's a great solution for replacement parts in general yeah
nubbins`: yeah, 3d printed sex toy would actually be a bacteria factory
pankkake: anything porous is a bad idea
asciilifeform: extrusion printer usually gives a rough surface
pankkake: is it safe for sex toys? I fear it isn't, but that would be a great use
nubbins`: i don't doubt that most of the 3d printers in people's homes were used to make a couple sets of chess pieces and now sit idle
nubbins`: but if you've got a need for rapid prototyping, these things are worth their weight in gold