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decimation: I don't think so
BingoBoingo: decimation: In Missouri, Montana, and select rebel territories such tribute is unecessary if manufactered in state
asciilifeform: i can't recall the precise details. anyone who needs this - straight to him.
asciilifeform: harlan ellison described his years as teenaged scum with some detail re: this weapon
BingoBoingo: Traditional zip gun is .22 or .25 caliber, but... if choosing off the shelf pipes why not go big?
asciilifeform: specifically on account of matching the 'calibers' found in a typical plumbing goods shop
asciilifeform: i believe traditional american 'zip gun' is a '12ga'
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Of course not. Few good things are "high tech"
BingoBoingo: <decimation> well, can put .22 in a pipe too << 12 ga better "pipe" caliber candidate
asciilifeform: (no more so than the one on your car)
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: not 'high tech'
BingoBoingo: <decimation> I wonder if you can also craft a suppressor yourself, to make the thing civilized? << paladin press torrent will yeild a bounty on this subject
decimation: well, can put .22 in a pipe too
decimation: my understanding of m-4 is that the lower does this
asciilifeform: can you simply whack the pin by hand ?
decimation: something needs to hold the trigger group together
asciilifeform: or can you shoot it 'by hand' like you could the old lugers ?
asciilifeform: does one, strictly speaking, even need the lower to fire the rifle ?
decimation: I wonder if you can also craft a suppressor yourself, to make the thing civilized?
asciilifeform: (the upper half of that rifle, on account of some peculiar usg archaicism, is sold openly)
decimation: I imagine the accuracy of the rifle might be affected by cardboard trigger pull :)
BingoBoingo: Taurus also by its subsidiary Rossi seems to be dominating the lever action rifle market as well
asciilifeform: well yes. but the lower thing only holds a few springs and the mag
decimation: no, one would need to buy good quality upper and barrel
BingoBoingo: For the record I am under the impression Kimber and "Springfield Armory" are the leaders in Model 1911 production with Taurus leading the M-92 production
asciilifeform: (pottery: the original 3d print!)
asciilifeform: can't wait for the zamac barrels
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the existence of pistols with 'zamac' moving parts blew my mind
asciilifeform: not even certain the hammer was 100% steel
assbot: Logged on 18-06-2015 00:35:22; BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i suspect the usg policy against private small arms has finally found the chokehold : drive the manufacturers out of business. << Most of the good "Colt" designs are now made better by others. Argentinas Taurus is one.
asciilifeform: not one of those buggers depends on honest (or otherwise) ~work~ for a living.
decimation: asciilifeform: note that susan rice is also part of the 'rice cameron family foundation'
cazalla: woot woot, the courier delivered my 2 x white shahtoot mulberry.. first time ordering plants online, preddy impressed tbh, arrive safe and sound
BingoBoingo making good progress on my efforts to be trans-mexican.
BingoBoingo: Apparently the Clarence Thomas fellow can be trans-white, but this blonde chick can't be trans-black
gribble: Rachel Dolezal's brother: She's 'making up more lies' - CNN.com: <http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/17/us/washington-rachel-dolezal-naacp/index.html?eref=rss_topstories>; Rachel Dolezal, ex-NAACP leader: 'I identify as black' - CNN.com: <http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/16/us/washington-rachel-dolezal-naacp/>; Rachel Dolezal's brother, author Joshua Dolezal, faces trial for ...: (1 more message)
mircea_popescu: anyway, to take a page out of alf's book, "we will know terminal decline stage by this sign, that ivy-limp bureaucrats will organise tranny beheading parties and then gather the heads in a sack and take them to isis, as a ritual sacrifice. much to everyone's confusion and wtf in that camp."
mircea_popescu: they're simply some kids that don't give a shit about a particular set of conventional nonsense
mircea_popescu: "the nihilist ISIS Islamist horror show" heh. some kids not giving a shit about these kids circlejerk does not actually enact them into some sort of objective absolute.
mircea_popescu: trinque> knew NaCL was going to be activex-google-edition << word.
cazalla: mebe he was in the pool
trinque: yeah, I can see that point too
BingoBoingo: trinque: Also, practice for Texas treaty secession
trinque: permanent training ground and excuse to expend (and replace!) equipment
trinque: BingoBoingo: I can see an angle on the entire middle eastern expedition right there
trinque: If this sounds depressing, do not worry. We will finally get to see how our Abrams Main Battle Tank holds up under state of the art airstrikes—because, ISIS now has 10 of those suckers and 100 more Humvees! << lol
ascii_field: and all sorta of unsavory actors relish a mandated compile into a poorly-understood, sloppily-implemented instruction set for which there are no quality reversing tools
trinque: looked like a move where you "sign" your release, but then they can diddle endlessly at the final step
ascii_field: yes, i get it, everybody wants to copy microshit
ascii_field: it sorta does this already
ascii_field: eh they use stock llvm
trinque: ascii_field: right, did you also see (I think I put it in the logs) Apple's move to compile to apps to an intermediate bytecode, which is then transformed to whichever back-end machine code?
assbot: JL: ‘They Took Out Entire City Blocks' ... ( http://bit.ly/1QF1wo7 )
BingoBoingo: Lafond's excellent take on ISIS http://www.jameslafond.com/article.php?id=2531
ascii_field: thing is, classic js, for all the turdaliciousness, was 'too debuggable' for usg tastes.
trinque: knew NaCL was going to be activex-google-edition
trinque: and google's clearly taking a page from old microshit 90s tactics
ascii_field: just when we thought 'flash' had finally died
trinque: ascii_field: they just wanna give the web a nice hug
BingoBoingo: trinque: No, not so long as lynx lives. This is just the next stem from js.asm
ascii_field: l0l microshit at the table
assbot: Google, Microsoft, Mozilla And Others Team Up To Launch WebAssembly, A New Binary Format For The Web | TechCrunch ... ( http://bit.ly/1d2DAZ2 )
assbot: JL: The Hoodrat Hatchery ... ( http://bit.ly/1d2Dyk4 )
BingoBoingo: I offer lafond fumbling over the corn plan in action http://www.jameslafond.com/article.php?id=2533
BingoBoingo: In other news the first of the daisies are opening today.
ascii_field: i'd still rather read trilema
BingoBoingo impressed someone seems to exceed even trilema in writing pace
pete_dushenski: the dinner guests (rare treat, this) will be here momentarily so i must depart for the evening. bon soir a tous !
pete_dushenski: i think clement is being redundant.
pete_dushenski: "Tony Clement @TonyclementCPC "Confirmed today that Govt of Canada GC servers have been cyberattacked. Until full service is restored please use 1-800-OCanada." 11:59 AM - 17 Jun 2015 "
pete_dushenski: and, not unsurprisingly, terminally common
ascii_field: and convenient sack of 'crown jewels' for whoever pwns the box
ascii_field: sounds terminally braindamaged to begin with
ascii_field: like the 'yubikey' turd mtgox shipped ?
pete_dushenski: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxxXk1d3yyuZOFlsdkNMSGswSGs/view << or why you shouldn't use an operating system 'keychain' to store your passwords
pete_dushenski: "The Royal Bank of Scotland said on Wednesday that about 600,000 customer transactions had not been processed as a result of a technology failure overnight. The issue affected transactions at the company’s R.B.S., National Westminster Bank, Coutts and Ulster Bank brands." << wasn't there an old meme about 'bitcoin users not affected' ? seems appropriate here.
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=The+American+Fist | The American Fist. * When you fist a girl so hard and so deep it causes her to pass-out. * Shove it loud, and shove it proud. I really should have token my ...
pete_dushenski: same age as putin for whatever that's worth
pete_dushenski: "Jimmy Lee was a vice chairman at JPMorgan Chase and was widely credited with developing the leveraged loan market in the United States." << dead at age 62.
BingoBoingo: High R-values, you know the building codes will promote them soon
BingoBoingo: paper books of matches often still better than box
BingoBoingo: But what if you need to torch dupont circle? Will a tiny butane flame from a bic catch of the straw roofs in humid conditions?
ascii_field: but worthless to me
BingoBoingo: naptha/petrol lighter dries out within 2 weeks. Bless that the fuel is cheap.
ascii_field: thing should come with a suggested config, yes. and it is the responsibility of the installer (gentoo 'emerge' or whatever) to emplace it.
BingoBoingo: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=11-06-2015#1161193 << The entire just get a bic and why not butane business is what's wrong with computing. Experimental pocket firebox (in contrast to one with the girl and the ass) has lit when offered everything from 40% ETOH to decade old Kerosene ☝︎
ascii_field: (which - yes - will have to be filled in on initial run)
ascii_field: was thinking of tearing out the hardcoded hostname in favour of ip:port read from config
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: at present time the irc routine is, notice, still in. complete with idiot hardcoded hostname
ascii_field: and it is entirely insufficient to have merely one or two of them.
ascii_field: but yes, the initial seeds ~must~ work.
ascii_field: BingoBoingo: presumably those will rely heavily on 'last seen' cache.
mats: particularly those related to defense
ascii_field: mats: belgium is in the reich, therefore just as good as florida etc
mats: i'm under the mistaken impression that USG only gives contracts to US corps
ascii_field: (the 'five eyes eyeing one another' thing)
ascii_field: ^ dates back to '90s 'echelon' and not at all secret
mircea_popescu: very similar situation to the entire "we don't spy on citizens, the brits did, as part of an agreement we made with them, so whatcha gonna do"
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: ... program that depends on input to run was shipped broken << L0L!! 'cat' ships broken ?
mircea_popescu: <mats> mighta had a chance if privately owned by black disabled lesbian << no. belgian firm has to import weapons, so they can be kept off mnarket. colt does not hyave to import anythinfg, can just turn around and sell. the usg will award no further contracts for anything to anyone who can also sell to us civillians, jus watch.