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mircea_popescu: even if you miss it you got a good chance of downing it
mircea_popescu: and besides... the plane is not as hard to hit as a barn
mircea_popescu: as far as my memory serves those things do customarily bridge a half mile gap
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it occurs to me that rather than having a precision mounted, high power supercolimated laser to blind pilots half mile away at the cost of about a million or so
mircea_popescu: then host mtv's annual "one thousand derpy chicks in bikinis doing the undulation-on-the-spot" thing
mircea_popescu: anyway, yes, you're basically bruteforcing the hash function
mircea_popescu: so a palestinian jew, snowden and obama walk into a bar
mircea_popescu: that for instance is re the mining thing i mentioned a while back.
mircea_popescu: a more very averring never coulding be possible to have taken place.
mircea_popescu: a more ver averring never coulding be possible to have taken place.
mircea_popescu: benkay all is possible, praise allah and his true prophet obama
mircea_popescu: it's one of those fields like specialist surgery, workload X, workforce epsilon
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in honesty i doubt your average pilot really needs excuses to take a break.
mircea_popescu: well actually i think pilots should just be beaten, personally, but that is besides the point.
mircea_popescu: jurov in most actual driving situations, sudden braking is both suicidal
mircea_popescu: maybe if we get a large enough number i can have a free subway sub
mircea_popescu: but i will be pleased to be given the proper form to report such events for the future
mircea_popescu: somehow people never crashed their car into the fire truck because "whoa, i got blinded by the illumination of the cockpit"
mircea_popescu: and incidentally, those shits are loud, it can startle you
mircea_popescu: i was once in a car and the fucking ambulance illuminated the cockpit with the lights
mircea_popescu: during the same interval a number of 59739845 bored women reported they were "almost raped"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i still dunno wtf they do for practice training, srsly, but they are atrociously bad.
mircea_popescu: i suspek you might have not had thought this through so much.
mircea_popescu: the victim may see it, but how would the sharpshooter see it ?
mircea_popescu: jurov you think sharpshooters use the red laser dot 1km away ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i'm waiting for the day when one becomes vragnaroda for owning a collection of unexpurgated kvant
☟︎ mircea_popescu: just you know, park your car in a field somewhere, or a beach or w/e
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well no, place it in a car so it's not stolen
mircea_popescu: i bet you you will not be able to produce this within 8 hours of trying.
mircea_popescu: and try to shine the laser into it while it autoshoots so that you catch it in a pic.
mircea_popescu: get a laser key chain and a camera. place camera one kilometer away
mircea_popescu: jurov seriously, your mishaps within five feet are not a solid basis for comparison here.
mircea_popescu: jborkl did you mean that you read "Put option expiring this month struck at 500 USD/lot." to mean "500usd/btc" ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you don't understand. at one astronomic unit away that million ton cheese thing i nthe sky can appear six inches wide!
mircea_popescu: that's almost as bad as an ugly vinyl dress on a sunny day
mircea_popescu: it is six feet wide and magically 3600000 times as energetic
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform they don't bother with power calculations do they
mircea_popescu: jborkl well and the text on the page says "One lot consists of 0.1 BTC".
mircea_popescu: jborkl you expect to buy a put at 5k for 1 btc lots for 0.67 ?
mircea_popescu: if that's the standard of evidence required even female orgasm exists.
mircea_popescu: this is different from one guy somewhere thought he might have heard something.
mircea_popescu: jurov there's a record of floods actually happening in the past.
mircea_popescu: whoia look at that! if every man woman and child on planet earth was a prepubescent boy with a laser spending all their time 1km away from lax
mircea_popescu: the odds of hitting anything 1 km away are about one in a las vegas jackpot!