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mircea_popescu: actually working a W bar into a W screw on a plain old machine would be one hell of a fireworks display
mircea_popescu: and the cost is per item (ie, making a 1/2kg filling or a 5 gram filling costs roughly the same)
mircea_popescu: nubbins` tungsten's durity is why it's not worth filling coins with it.
mircea_popescu: not that it can't be done, but you need steady hands and eyes
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform actually at the size of a coin, recognising lead fillings with a density meter is not trivial
mircea_popescu: mod6 at the size of a coin, the cost of tungsten filling exceeds the value extracted.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the idea of coins is mostly that joe schmoe doesn't need any gear.
mircea_popescu: think about it. the "numismatic" value of bullion coins exists for as long as overcapitalised clueless americans stil exist.
mircea_popescu: the entire value of the investment is predicated on circumstances changing of such nature that they can't continue to do so.
mircea_popescu: no gold is "numismatic" unless you actually have renaissance italian issues or something
mircea_popescu: i might consider getting a bronze sponsor thingee if anyone made a good paper and was serious about it.
mircea_popescu: i doubt you'd get very far, people like their privacy.
mircea_popescu: sponsored by silent circle (silver) and google (bronze)
mircea_popescu: the guys publish "website proceedings" in book format, 80 euros
mircea_popescu: chicks in nothing but worked gold will become the bitcoin fashion i tell you
mircea_popescu: i suppose i'm going to end up having to get the girls harem joolry.
mircea_popescu: "For a time, the NSA was even banned from starting projects over a certain size, for fear it would waste the money."
mircea_popescu: it'd be pretty stale by now, but damned good museum piece.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves at the rate the us economy is going, an apple will be a scam in dollars soon enough.
mircea_popescu: exact testing process which i'm contractually required to not disclose involves a hitachi wand and some ladies.
mircea_popescu: re BingoBoingo's press : we get press, it's just we get it on the cool venues.
mircea_popescu: a good reminder that lawyers' oppinions on stuff aren't the be all end all criterion.
mircea_popescu: Young: Well, we would have dumped it, the whole thing. Everyone else likes to play this game: "What if we harm somebody" or all this kind of crap. Which is strictly cowardice. Of course the companies who run the outlets, their lawyers won't let them do this kind of thing, so if you've got money invested in your operation you won't take these kind of risks.
mircea_popescu: lurkwingduck Also (Warm water wash clothes with similarly wars water bottles) worked best. is the best i can get
mircea_popescu: for my own peace of mind, put this in plain english : "William James bitch makes firedrops stupid by concusion... Also Warm water wash clothes with similarly wars water bottles worked best."
mircea_popescu: firedrops torture as a mechanism to extract information is laughable.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you know i can tell when you've had your third drink because i stop being able to follow what you're saying.
mircea_popescu: firedrops torture is great, what are you talking about.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform honor and a sense of ridicule are leftovers from a previous, less civilised time. they're obsolete nao like nationalism.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform totally. people accidentally die inside bags all the time
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo especially when so many other things do work. cut a bunch of oleander, keep it in the house a coupla days, drink the water.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no dmso involved there, it broke the skin
mircea_popescu: well sure. probably the fed will notice qe does nothing eventually.
mircea_popescu: dude why even bother with it. just make the megapill and feed it to everyone.
mircea_popescu: " it could lead to a doubling of the number of Americans taking cholesterol-lowering statin drugs from 36 million to 72 million—about 30 percent of US adults. "
mircea_popescu: jurov: i wouldn't dare to send my irc-innocent business contacts here << let 'em learn.
mircea_popescu: (this is the country where pyramid schemes are still legal, provided they advertise as such)
mircea_popescu: this is the boletus. morels work just as well - perhaps better.
mircea_popescu: then fish it all out, add flour, then add milk to make the sauce. then dump the pasta (which had been cooking all through) and the fished out material and serve.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo what i did was, melt homemade butter (it really kicks ass this thing), very lightly fry mushrooms-garlic-shrimp
mircea_popescu: i just did a set of boletus few datys ago it was wunderbar
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo make them into shrimp &pasta with white sauce