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mircea_popescu: B007 some people do but mostly the car is not for fuck.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform remarkably clever the trashbin faraday cage.
mircea_popescu: so if i have a shell in the shape of two connected spheres, of different sizes, i can't put an instrument inside that will tell me whether the small or the big sphere is closer to the nuclear blast ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the amount of aiming the light beam requires makes your ships still vulnerable to emp
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i think he is lucky that he's unkempt, otherwise i'd be reading all over the internet how he's a pedophile pornographer gypsy guy.
mircea_popescu: After about five minutes, it finally dawned on me that this was the guy behind the GNU/GPL movement but he spoke like an insane, raving mad man. After about half an hour of listening, I came to the conclusion that he fits the stereotype of “prophet” – like those found in the Bible – only he’s got the software angle.
mircea_popescu: "I met Richard Stallman (RMS) once. Actually sat down to dinner with him at the same table but I didn’t realize who he was. He was poorly dressed, unkempt, needed a shower, and his conversation was both confused and confusing. I later learned that he was always that way. When he got up as the speaker for that afternoon, I said to myself, “Huh? Who is this guy that he’s being allowed to speak dressed like that?”
mircea_popescu: someone pays money to be in the class of people doing this ? why the fuck already.
mircea_popescu: i think a bitbel prize for computing may be in order for whoever predicts a vexual next line.
mircea_popescu: any system in which the printed books cost more than the xerocopies doesn't deserve to exist.
mircea_popescu: ~10 or so bux a 500 page book vs 30-40 for photocopying 1k pages.
mircea_popescu: all the kids bought books afair, mostly because it was cheaper to buy the book than to photocopy
mircea_popescu: if you had a wood fire it'd be safe cause wood runs out.
mircea_popescu: btw, since we're on the topic : anyone explain the difference between a clism and a cataclysm ?
mircea_popescu: coca-mentos, big-bang, bingoboingo, what diff does it make
mircea_popescu: i wonder how those people advertise it. "all the cramp and discomfort of a bra with none of the protection!"
mircea_popescu: “Firefox is the best argument that proprietarians have about low quality foss software. A million eyes, a million hands, a million turds.”
mircea_popescu: "you don't need mirrors atop your fuckbed, you can just use a flat screen and stream cellphone snapshots"
mircea_popescu: girl goes up to guy's apartment for the first time, sees monitor suspended on rope from ceiling, looks at him "o, you're on #weird-fucks ?"
mircea_popescu: i wonder if an irc chan ever existed where the people wrote upside down deliberately and just held their irc-chat dedicated monitors upside down
mircea_popescu: a true mexican eats enough jalapeno that when he farts,
mircea_popescu: now they';re making a statue in reykjkavik to immortalize it.
mircea_popescu: "Probably the single most destructive software bug to ship in the last 10 years with consumer software was an EVE Online update whose installer wiped boot drives on Windows."
mircea_popescu: well since you're doing it keeping notes would be very good, so others can reproduce it or try to if they wish