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mircea_popescu: live in orbit, visit
the surface like you visit
the seaside
today.
mircea_popescu: it's prohibitively expensive and also nonsensical
to land a spaceship. and so...
mircea_popescu: no sane people wanted
to live in
the plain, for all of history, until machinery.
mircea_popescu: IF spaceships ever become a
thing,
then
therefore surface living will be sort-of like mountain living
today.
phf: requires one of
those futuristic syd mead houses, with an office room overlooking alpha centauri landscape,
that's where you put
the console.
the computer is in
the basement, calculating landing
trajectories, for
the private spaceship of your visiting friends
BingoBoingo wishes more contemporary machines weren't afraid
to be loud in
the name of cooling.
☟︎ BingoBoingo: Nah, seizure risk is
too much along with risk
to qntra from lockup
time
phf: might as well
transport drugs
BingoBoingo: Need
the
trifecta of over weight item, hard
to insure, actually demands delicate
treatment beyond UPS or USPS can provide
☟︎ BingoBoingo: phf: Qntra
takes
too much of my
time for
that.
BingoBoingo: Well
that and carrying
the payload
the comfort only a reliable yet non-descript family sedan can provide.
phf: could
target ebay sales of oversized, hard
to deliver items
BingoBoingo: phf: Ah. Entire appeal of Bingo's occasional courier service would largely be derived from proximity
to US highways 50 and 40 facillitating broad range of lateral movement.
assbot: Logged on 20-10-2015 23:50:06; mircea_popescu: If you agree with
this,
then you have
to also face
the fact
that Wolf didn't consciously plan, "no matter what happens in
this interview, I'm going
to cover it up"-- it was a reflex, an instinct. Get a drink,
think about
this: a reporter's instinct wasn't
to go for
the
truth, but
to go with
the scripted story.
phf: BingoBoingo: i'm actually moving
to dc, so yeah, will be within shooting distance from ascii
phf: asciilifeform: well
twenex was selling a handful of ivory's for ~5000k, so a 3620 with it's power requirements and refrigerator size will be some fraction of
that
BingoBoingo: phf: Nah, motor courier service operating out of
the central US, but if you are closer...
BingoBoingo: <phf> assuming it's in DC << Awe, I
though I would get a chance
to open Bingo's courier service.
phf: doesn't need
to, i will pick it up from
the door
assbot: Logged on 20-10-2015 23:22:28; mircea_popescu: phf and what's
this say about inflation ? note
that
they are artwork in any sense.
mircea_popescu: I
think Rita Owens meant
the statement "more Caucasian men stepping up" as a jab at blacks
to get
them movitated, but if it is factually accurate
then
these Caucasians are idiots. Really? Big Brothers?
That's
the call you heard? Whites seem particularly prone
to manic devotions
to faddish volunteerism inspired by celebrity
that are
transparently self-aggrandizing. And
temporary--
they inevitably quit when
the nex
mircea_popescu: "Here's what happened on 9/12 at my hospital, and what happens in so many cases of high-emotion altruism:
they
take
the day off in order
to go
to NYC, but
then don't actually go (car wouldn't start; heard on
the radio
they were blocking volunteers, etc).
They win:
they get
the reward of
the sacrifice, perform no actual sacrifice, and get
the day off. Meanwhile, someone else had
to sacrifice
to cover
their responsibil
phf: you're selling
the whole orchestra, huh?
mircea_popescu: well he didn't invent it, he still made it. if you got a fish in a fishtank and it makes a poop, it didn't make
that poop ?
assbot: Logged on 21-10-2015 00:08:21; mircea_popescu: did you see
the clock
the kid made ?
pete_dushenski: aite, i'm off
to go bang my head against pergolesi's magnificat. such a bitch,
this
thing. later !
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Gotta resubmit. Last night means
there's about 3/4 of a MB of fresh spam
to dig
through
pete_dushenski: i'd
take even money on qatar falling before athens, if anyone's interested
mircea_popescu: the LAST
thing
they want is rich people who are also muslims dislinkign
them.
shinohai: s'ok Putin got it under control. He'll squash
them like
they did Afghanistan in
the 80's
shinohai: Any other kid with half a brain would have written a cool clock script in python and showed his
teacher.
mircea_popescu: as alf pointed out, with
the power chord still attached, it looks like one of
those retard constructions
assbot: Logged on 20-10-2015 22:16:14; jurov: maybe it's just me but i don't like porn zooming all in
to genitalia and spending minutes
there, especially in
this
time of huge HD screens
shinohai: Also, mircea_popescu added a new
term
to my vocabulary: clocktard
shinohai: I don't
think it's far-fetched either.
mircea_popescu: and
this isn't
that far fetched, either : us is just about due for a dead president.
mircea_popescu: ahaha. if "meets obama" clocktard comes back a decade later onboard a plane
that slams into
the wh and kills
the us president, i WILL write
the "obama
trained a future
terrorist" article.
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo can you check
the qntra spam filter for a comment of mine ? i
think it got scarfed.
pete_dushenski: it used
to be "omigerd a decade is fo-ev-ah". gonna
take some getting used
to,
this.
mircea_popescu: iting, she does not even acknowledge
that he vomited. Is she heartless? No. She's flustered: her instinct is
to preserve
the show, like a stage actress, keep
the scene going no matter what else happens."
mircea_popescu: You may
think
that I'm
too much with
the rum or
too hard on Wolf-- "he seems like such a nice man" but it's not Wolf's fault. He's a cog in
the Matrix.
The next day Meredith Vieira interviews
the family live on
the
Today show. While
the father is denying
to her it was a hoax,
the boy suddenly says, "mom, I need a cup" and vomits. Vierra's response
to
this is nothing. Forget about
the implications of
the boy's vom
mircea_popescu: If you agree with
this,
then you have
to also face
the fact
that Wolf didn't consciously plan, "no matter what happens in
this interview, I'm going
to cover it up"-- it was a reflex, an instinct. Get a drink,
think about
this: a reporter's instinct wasn't
to go for
the
truth, but
to go with
the scripted story.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "What happened is
that Wolf was in
the middle of a story some people suspected was a hoax, but was still being reported as a "thank god he was hiding in
the garage" drama. So he
tried
to protect
the story. He
tried
to pretend he missed
the comment so
that everyone could go on with
the story as it was being
told.
pete_dushenski: now : foot, car cruiser,
truck cruiser, armoured
transport, bicycle, segway, and who knows mebbe jetpack
pete_dushenski: the expansion of means and methods of police mobility in just
the last decade is pretty astounding.
BingoBoingo: <pete_dushenski> mircea_popescu
then he loses his
trophies for 'juicing' << Unless bicycle cop,
then promoted
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu
then he loses his
trophies for 'juicing'
BingoBoingo: It is exactly
the upper limit of bike range nearly
pete_dushenski: the black
tesla i saw at
the racquet club yesterday was driven by
trophy wife with
two kidlets in
tow