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decimation: actually electric would be much better in
terms of
throttle response
decimation: it's my understanding
that model airplanes mostly use electric engines now, no nasty 'glow gas'
phf: there was a bunch of young pioneers car building clubs when i was growing up.
that and model airplanes
BingoBoingo: Of course reactor goes in rear
to allow for lead plate in seat backs
BingoBoingo: Last
time I planned car was ignorant of sodium cycling/Thorium reactors
mircea_popescu is looking forward
to his friends building own cars, will have inexhaustible supply of french fries
thusly.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: But
then you have
to feed fresh water or material gets released
BingoBoingo: Hardest part of making own car is what
to do
to cool steam while parked.
assbot: Logged on 07-04-2015 00:10:01; mircea_popescu: just like having a car doesn't alow having gasoline. it's
true
that often people who have cars also independently have gasoline, but
the
two are fundamentally unrelated, and
there is such a
thing as
the fool's breakdown, ie, car's outta gas on
the side of hte road.
mircea_popescu: trinque what is
this, "i'll date once i'm rich enough for it
to work" ?
BingoBoingo: The part where starting pitcher finishes game by
tossing in
the bullpen
tends
to lead
to irreparable elbows. US pitchers jsut start getting interesting around 32-26, Japanese pitchers would be candidates for
tommy joh 2, 3, or 4 at
that age + cartiledge dammage
trinque: The best method I see is being more or less invisible until such
time as one's wealth can be used
to undermine
the other
thing.
mircea_popescu: i can and have. it works as well as you'd expect, if you
thinkj about it.
mircea_popescu: much like
the alchemists of yore
tricked
the kings of yore
mircea_popescu: fuck revolution, i want a computer
that does what i mean.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> nah
that's jp << Japs introduced
to baseball ways
to make sure pitchers retire at
the age
they should just be getting interesting
mircea_popescu: trinque as a boy, i was very distraught
to find from my mother
that if one invents something, he doesn't merely have
to say what it should be
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform sure. intelligence not impeached. just,
there's
this entire "genius" myth built around him because it was a particular
time in
the letters.
trinque: I'm on a crippled device atm, but is capitalism unencumbered by
the state not enough of a
thing
to do?
mircea_popescu: alf has a good point,
there IS an appeal
to making own car.
mircea_popescu: i
thought finns drank fermented herring and what is
this "beer".
BingoBoingo: finnish baseball sounds like
the worst! When do you go
to get your next beer?
mircea_popescu: or
that other
time when he
thought he had lost and well...
the officers carried ?
mircea_popescu: heh. know about
that one
time he forgot about a coupla divisions ?
decimation: mircea_popescu: certainly napoleon had an aspie-like grasp of
tactics, etc
mircea_popescu: im enamoured with
this ballas notion - 1%, 14% aspies, 85% derps.
mircea_popescu: you know, incidentally, im not so sure
that 99.999% figure.
decimation: BingoBoingo: it has a deeper bench
than
that
BingoBoingo: No, I
though Nordic system started with a j or some shit
phf: mircea_popescu: well,
the scene involves everyone being dead by
that point, and aguirre just making mad proclamations on a drifting raft besieged by invisible indians
mircea_popescu: but it seems a lot
to me like making my own car. holy shit i'd much rather have a car someone else
toiled with.
mircea_popescu: why
the fuck would i want my own daughter. i suppose i should
table
this until i somehow have one,
phf: i
the wrath of god will marry my own daughter and with her i'll found
the purest dynasty
the earth has ever seen
decimation: but
then get bored and declare ware on
the entire world
decimation: on
the other hand, when raw power is rushing around - available for many
to grasp - someone's hand will be strong enough
to keep hold
mircea_popescu: and
that "acquired" part is a lot of
time and a lot of resources and so on.
mircea_popescu: an acquired
taste. not something one can just jump into.
mircea_popescu: but i must point out
that it's likely same as how i enjoy horse riding
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
this is not unlike street urchin's idea of wealthy
mircea_popescu: you're moses, up on
the mountain, you're smith with his fucking stupid hat and
the even more stupid but full of
themselves early americans
decimation: mircea_popescu: yeah absolutely I see
that
mircea_popescu: decimation no buyt see, it's an important problem. "so you're on
the stage, alright now - what do you say ?"
decimation: once
they gain power and can't figure out what else
to do
decimation: asciilifeform: lol 'get rich' is almost immediately what
the revolution
turns into
mircea_popescu: revolution for people who couldn't afford
to fight
the king.
decimation: well, better kulak
than starving peasant, plus you get
to pillage a few neat italian cities