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mircea_popescu: ~same look and feel as
that klonk, "we hacked up some old slot machines" "why ?" "dunno"
mircea_popescu: you recall
the amiga guy's failed bid
to make a sort of
tablets-in-tables restaurant/amusement park ?
mircea_popescu shall be off
to lead his virtual armies. which is how one survives on modern "operating system" : by spending all
the
time inside pre-modern, 1990s era games.
BingoBoingo: AHA, yes. I have seen
the Win10 ad machine in a zoo!
mircea_popescu: meanwhile i actually got
this
thing going. you ever played
the kb franchise ?
mircea_popescu: vaguely reminds me of
the old ibm-pc clone days, when ~nothing worke
mircea_popescu: most of
the fucking processes can't even be brought up by clicking on
this derp-ass gui
mircea_popescu: but i was
trying
to get king's bounty legends of
the north booted.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
that part doesn't work, of course. and you should see what
the glyph engine looks like.
BingoBoingo: Seems
this is kinda intentional on Ubuntu's part. Making Windows appear viable.
mircea_popescu: this damned
thing is almost exactly windows, i dunno why even bother with emulators, should just run win binaries native by now.
a111: Logged on 2019-06-19 16:30 mircea_popescu: i could keep on forever -- old one, had directly accessible screen resolution switcher. new one -- does not, so
that if (for instance!) your settlers 4 wine installation fucks
the screen leaving it in 800x600 mode upon closure, either you know
to xrandr -q xrandr --output --mode directly, or else you reboot.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile continuing
the
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-19#1918697 nonsense : wine doesn't work worth a shit on
the new ubuntu. it never worked splendidly, granted, but it was quite workable last i looked into
this half decade ago. it degraded significantly. for instance, after a bunch of installing various, i'm left with a
taskbar fulla dead icons. (well, in fairness
they bring up a
transparent exclamation point in a
tria
☝︎☟︎ BingoBoingo: If
the aim is fucking with empire, off
the shelf fiberglass hulls are prolly
the way
to go.
BingoBoingo: Kind
the point of fiberglass is minimizing
the cost of scuttling it when necessary
BingoBoingo: Indeed requires slave empire or
thing approximating. Fiberglass
thing however... lower organizational demands.
a111: Logged on 2019-05-31 13:48 asciilifeform: in 1 particular documented case, where boat was raised 7yrs later,
they found
that an old salt
turned valve in wrong direction. fella served on a diff design for a decade, where dir was opposite. he put such strength into 'closing' valve
that
the handle was bent. rest of crew breathed for 2wks, aside from one who hung self in bed and another who shorted battery with both hands.
a111: Logged on 2014-11-26 00:46 asciilifeform: have
to understand, jet fighter is not really a complete machine. it is a
tentacle of
the larger industrial slave empire which produced and employed it.
BingoBoingo: So
they can count patek
to rolex ratio and price accordingly
BingoBoingo: Well
that's what
the next market is. Everyfucking
thing goes "price on request"
BingoBoingo: If you want bigger,
that is a different market and you are getting out of yachts and into ships
mircea_popescu: what can i
tell you. u;ltimately all
things are baubleds/.
mircea_popescu: bureaucrats have other interests, and a very different sense of cool -- hence your horripilated reaction
to pete d's internally coherent visions of normality.
mircea_popescu: which is
the deep problem here : in socialist economy
this class of "i made 20mn being smart"
thing no longer exists.
mircea_popescu: whereas
the bulk of
the subculture was made up of 40 and 50yos, married for 20ish years, well
tanned female keeping in shape an' intelligent dude who made his money by being clever.
mircea_popescu: those were more
the "corporate"
thing. if you had a porn empire or something. berlusconi had one, for all
the 14yo african girlies
to nudie dip off off.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Argentina also gets pissy about letting
them dock. In Uruguay welcome mat gets rolled out.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform do you have any idea how far your car
takes you on 10k of gas ?
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: From what I understand
the chinese commercial fishing vessels
tend
to not get customs checked with any frequency
mircea_popescu: "and
this way, we don't have
to worry about 5 star hotel having no bell hop or misplacing reservations and if we feel like making
the 8 weeks 18... well..."
mircea_popescu: but
that was
the market
there, "honey, since we're doing 5k x2 in plane
tickets and 3-500 a night in hotel stays for 4
to 8 weeks each year, coming
to a 25k or so, we could just pay coupla mil upfront on
this piece of machinery
that'll resell for maybe mil-mil and a half in five years and cost
to own 10k or so a year,
taking us just about even"
mircea_popescu: the yacht-as-it-was-used was a better-alternative-to-airplane+airport-plebcombo. slower (in
the good sense -- anyonre recall
the "downshifiting" 90s
thing ?), not much more expensive (if you
travel business class and 5 star hotel, you end up paying for summering in
the carribean ~same as
the cost
to own yacht, give or
take), infinitely more pleasant.
mircea_popescu: the yacht-as-a-place-to-live
thing was, whatever, poor village farmhands imagining among
themselves a consensus as
to how riveters work goes in
the big city up on
those
tall buildings.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform:
there is
the chance, but... boat owning is still privileged somewhat here.
mircea_popescu: the middle class entirely does not exist anymore ;
the item is no longer a
token for
the disused faine, either.
mircea_popescu: from my rock,
the whole yacht
thing (not a place
to LIVE ON, orlol and all, mind) was a specific "token of entry" in a specific, upper-middleclass network.
a111: Logged on 2014-11-26 00:46 asciilifeform: have
to understand, jet fighter is not really a complete machine. it is a
tentacle of
the larger industrial slave empire which produced and employed it.
mircea_popescu: ie, not
the
thing it was. in 1999 we'd have prolly went over for dinner if invited ; in 2019 we'd just chuckle about
the shawrmy.
BingoBoingo: Even in
the middle west of old country joke was "Happiest days of boat owning are buying
the boat and selling
the boat"
mircea_popescu: poker is still A
thing
today ;
the problem with it is
that wherever you sit down you're gonna run into a buncha pete d's and
tired old con men.
BingoBoingo: And yes
the Puertito Buceo is rather full looking, but still has room
to drop anchor. Another yacht club a few km away closer
to capacity.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it stopped being
the
thing it was ; it's still a
thing but more in
the sense of
the rest of real estate "market" -- beneficial "owners"
trying
to extricate
themselves out of
the jam, long lost sight of
the benefit or even
the usage.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Quite a few boats I suspect are on
the whisper market in kinda
the same way just about any piece of real estate in
the city has a price if you bother
to ask.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, it ~was~ a
thing, in
the sense poker was a
thing, whereby you could meet > a few dozen quite pleasant such folk in
the respective haunts, from florida
to just about eastern colombia etc, and
then on
the other side, mostly south of france, italy, greek islands etc.