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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ya well those people also have nil tactical utility-value.
mircea_popescu: i could make you one within the hour, and teach you to make one in a day
mircea_popescu: it's much easier to make a crossvbow than to print one
mircea_popescu: even if you get them to shoot safely, you're far far away from them shooting energetically enough to count
mircea_popescu: reality may be a complicated place, but the tactical utility of printed guns is still purely imaginary.
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
mircea_popescu: "while Mătăsăreanu's chest armor even successfully withstood a hit from a SWAT operator's AR-15"
mircea_popescu: <the20year> But who cares about pre-existing data? Everyone has to discover for themselves ,right? <<< qft.
mircea_popescu: people regularly take kj's to the head in most sports.
mircea_popescu: (which is the REAL reason for the move towards tasers, not the feigned desire to avoid casualties)
mircea_popescu: and the thing is, armor has surpassed this minimum. handheld firearms are not particularly useful these days
mircea_popescu: consequently, there's a limit to how heavy a round can be fired from the hand
mircea_popescu: the20year in fact, the kinetic energy of the bullet is roughly equal to the kinetic energy of the recoil.
mircea_popescu: bulletproof transparent rigid plastic was available before flexible stuff was.
mircea_popescu: benkay aromatic polyamide. like kevlar, but with aroma.
mircea_popescu: benkay amusingly, amlar is easier to print than a gun.
mircea_popescu: you need something very powerful to be able to do anything with it.
mircea_popescu: even if you maange to print a gun, you will print a useless gun.
mircea_popescu: yes well, the story is this : two robbers with body armor did more damage to the city policeman pension and health insurance funds than would have been the case if they just let them keep the stolen money.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the reference was aramid. it withstood > 1k rounds from .38 and 9mm, as well as single action pump shotguns
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform see North Hollywood shootout etc. not that tricky.
mircea_popescu: notice that the serious bank robbers etc use very heavy assault weapons
mircea_popescu: you can get armor good enough to render any handheld firearm useless.
mircea_popescu: the problems only begin there. firearms are mostly an obsolete technology.
mircea_popescu: before, not likely. these people are not inovators, after all.
mircea_popescu: actually, i would wager a guess that the disk space of btc blockchain > disk space of all other altcoins combined
mircea_popescu: since we're doing spam, Hi My name is Anastasia. I am from Russia. It may surprise you, enjoy
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i was gonna do that lol. much better. such meme now.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform also amusingly, gherla is romania's largest, most infamous prison and also an informal way to say "prison" in general.
mircea_popescu: rarely, a younger girl that will be a waitress past 30.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform a gurl is a waitress past her 30th bday.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the only google hit on the actual quoted string comes from files.meetup.com/8900962/Review%20Chap.%203-4%20Gurl-Posse.doc
mircea_popescu: ;;google "it will be long; it will be hard; and there shall be no withdrawal."
mircea_popescu: pankkake this ain't a penis contest, it doesn't have to be long, it has to be thick
mircea_popescu: If we are going to get there eventually, we might as well get there soon.
mircea_popescu: Make a graph with time on the x-axis and formatting capabilities on the y-axis. Draw a line from the HTML level 1 to HTML level 3. You'll see that HTML reaches LaTeX's level of formatting capability around the year 2000.
mircea_popescu: this is one of those situations where the spec may only grow. you're free to add css into the spec, but you are not allowed to "stop supporting" table elements or w/e
mircea_popescu: blessfully ignorant of the guy's pov. but fuck you html standards people.
mircea_popescu: he mirrors quite exacrtly why i quit caring about html validation and "validity" in general, circa 2007
mircea_popescu: keeps growing, and backwards compatibility is not always possible.
mircea_popescu: Look folks, I know that software rot (sometimes called "progress")
mircea_popescu: i think child pageants is what soccer moms do after the thrill of control soccer provides is no longer enough
mircea_popescu: in the sense mineral water is a friendly phrase for vodka
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform check it out man, slave coin. it's happening.
mircea_popescu: so 亿 is wan, which is the w part, the misshapen 1 or the insecure 2 ?