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decimation: each
tank would resonate at a particular frequency, or not, if
trace is not blown. could
terminate into bnc
decimation: asciilifeform: was
thinking about
that 'pcb card' problem. what if you
terminated each
trace into its own
tank circuit, and
then 'probed'
the circuit with a vna?
mircea_popescu: "the United States District Court for
the Eastern District of Virginia authorized a search warrant" << for
the record,
this is not how it works. a judge authorises it, and im nary
too enchanted by
this
tendency of individuals
to hide behind imaginary shields.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "as was
the case with
this one." << link missing ?
assbot: Logged on 09-03-2014 01:03:00; asciilifeform: 'Industry is
the only
true source of wealth, and
there was no industry in Rome. By day
the Ostia road was crowded with carts and muleteers, carrying
to
the great city
the silks and spices of
the East,
the marble of Asia Minor,
the
timber of
the Atlas,
the grain of Africa and Egypt; and
the carts brought nothing out but loads of dung.
That was
their return cargo. London
turns dirt into gold. Rome
turne
decimation: now we are
too rich
to care, apparently, just dig up more fossilized shit
mircea_popescu: and a minority of
tradesmen, moving goods on an abstract mercator map
mircea_popescu: decimation
the difference is whether you run pinkerton or welfare.
decimation: re:immigrants -> it seems
to me
that
there is a difference between "we have empty land
that someone could show up and
till" and "one more derp could survive on
the scraps here"
mircea_popescu: (for
the obvious reason - what do you
think earth is after all. microorganism digested shit)
mircea_popescu: is
this more jenkem journalism from
the jenkem journals ?
mircea_popescu: "the humans sometimes feast on
the bird shit". i guess ?
mircea_popescu: and
the irish fought
the blacks for who's gonna polish knob
tonight
mircea_popescu: somehow
the immigrants weren't
the problem back when azns were washing gold miner's shirts for a penny
mircea_popescu: the idea
that immigration is
the problem is braindamage of
the level of
thinking
the maggots made
the corpse.
trinque: that's
the economic side's fault
jurov: is
there any successful example of resisting immigration?
decimation: of course
they are hateful racists for suggesting it
decimation: some politicians suggesting
that maybe it's not good
to import africa wholesale in one generation isn't such a great idea
mircea_popescu: there hasn't yet in
the history of mankind been a wealth marriage
that was happy. and "free immigraton" is notexceptional just because large.
decimation: yeah,
there's some raw human
truth
there
mircea_popescu: because
the people you want don't want you, and
the people you want you nobody wants.
decimation: but
that implies nobody gets paid just
to exist
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform for as long as china
takes
the coupons...
mircea_popescu: which is ~why~
the libertard open border stuff doesn't work.
mircea_popescu: heck, 50% of
the 1st generation immigrants return home with
the loot, marry and live
there.
mircea_popescu: jurov actually plenty of people do go back
to afghanistan.
mircea_popescu: and re
the myth of
the west,
there was
that
trilema article linked from a recent one, "florida and other places".
mircea_popescu: decimation> yeah, it would be interesting for someone
to interview people exactly like
this: grew up orc, came
to 'first world' << ie, half of romania under 50yo.
decimation: but at least at
that
time
they could buy a cheap farm in kansas
decimation: east coast cities swelled with immigrants
trying
to get some monies
jurov: yet no one goes back
to afganistan
assbot: Logged on 28-07-2015 04:36:46; asciilifeform: 'hot', in
this case, being
the world of
the coolie, and 'cold' being
the world he aspires
to enter (or at least send his children
to, oxbridge and harvaprinceyaleton)
decimation: not realizing
the complete chumpatron
they are entering
decimation: somehow people from Eritrea are convinced
that if
they only make it
to
the uk
they can supports
their entire families!
decimation: yeah you could
tell
the guy was disappointed with his situation
decimation: the rest of
the show featured idiots with 25k credit card balances
trying 'refinance'
decimation: he was like 'what am I gonna do with an extra 9k and I have
to pay interest!"
decimation: but
the minimum loan from
the bank is 25k
decimation: later in
the episode he managed
to somehow get an offer from
the uk govt - he could buy his flat for 20k pounds
decimation: yeah, it would be interesting for someone
to interview people exactly like
this: grew up orc, came
to 'first world'
decimation: he complained
that in afghanistan, everything is free - but people are poor and live in mud huts.
they envy
the english for
their warm houses &etc. but now he works 12 hour days
to
try
to make rent, pay bills - and never has
time
to enjoy his warm house
decimation: I was watching a 'banking' show on
the BBC
the other day. it featured a young afghan who managed
to make it from goat-fuck-stan
to
the uk welfare state
decimation: much of it stems from "need
to hustle
to make money, use what's on
the shelf and make it fit"
mircea_popescu: nonsensical gimmicks of
the ilk of "stop fucking your sister or else santa won't bringf you presents" and "eat your veggies so you can overpower your sister and stick it in her"
mircea_popescu: but other
than
that, it's as useful as "wysiwyg" or "point and click" or "just works!"
mircea_popescu: it had its importance selling
technology
to
the retards.
decimation: not 'let's build a system for reliably
transmitting information'
decimation: actually you could argue
that 'email' as a concept is 'let's pretend we are working at
the post office'
mircea_popescu: imagine if every so often i had
to click here
to see if
there's new lines
decimation: mircea_popescu: sounds good
to me. file
transfer a .txt
decimation: you guys realise we are gonna have
to respecify email
too right?
mircea_popescu: i suspect
this is actually
the correct definition of "text" for computing.