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cazalla: seeing the missus and kid 24/7 again drives one to crack open a bottle or two
cazalla: well you probably don't have much reason to do so
cazalla: drinking? i don't drink as much as i did before my short stint working, but now back at home each day, figured why not have a drink tonight
mircea_popescu: cazalla how's that working out ?
mircea_popescu: !rate davout 4 X.EUR, apparently working on the proper French pronounciation of "pogo"
cazalla has begun knocking back the booze
cazalla: stuff some sand i meant to say
cazalla: if someone is willing to truck em interstate, all the more to em i say
cazalla: as a kid, some friends and i use to go around collecting cans, weekends were best after local cricket.. stuff some and in there for extra weight and earn yourself $2 for a bag of lollies
mircea_popescu: !rate asciilifeform 4 He came up with the Cardano For Christmas marketing plan. Also phuctor.
assbot: Logged on 08-05-2015 04:50:27; mircea_popescu: isn't THE POINT of the thing to GET THE CANS ?
mircea_popescu: !rate thickasthieves 1 Not seen for a while now.
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asciilifeform: 3) i won't spoil all of the surprises, but the usb gadget pictured in the photo on cryptomuseum's www does not look anywhere near large enough to contain, e.g., independent power source
mircea_popescu: anwyay, your museum piece doth not mention the ceo/cfo/etc kugler guy.
asciilifeform: imho it is worth looking into, because 1) without question they are under the usg glass dome and 2) serious, otherwise educated folks may very well be in the chumpset
mircea_popescu: want me to drop em an email see ?
asciilifeform wonders if the machines evolved in the same direction as mils's www site
asciilifeform: if the 'museum' is to be believed, these people - until very recently - sold exclusively vernamators.
mircea_popescu: one Otto Kugler. they've permits in relevant fields it seems.
asciilifeform: as the infamous crypto ag did (does!)
asciilifeform: but to likewise private concerns
asciilifeform: these outfits don't normally sell to governments (outside of turkmenistan's weight class) - these issue gear to own personnel -
mircea_popescu: wouldn't necessarily know anything, no. nevertheless... what government do they sell to ? turkmenistan ?
asciilifeform: either this, or 'crypto museum' has a great deal to answer for.
asciilifeform: i bet it's a walking corpse, like symbolics tech. 1998+
asciilifeform: ^ the more recent history has the flavour of being literally copied from a spambrochure
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i suspect that difference would be lost on him.
mircea_popescu: i dun think so.
mircea_popescu: shit's almost as good as timecube.
asciilifeform: re: certified nutters: did we ever get terry davis in here ?
mircea_popescu: "With so many words of wisdom at-hand to express my creative play on words, deciding which in-formation of thoughts, feelings, and actions to choose from to impose my identity with is not easy. Acting with effortless presence in a transcendental meditative state in our beautiful blue biosphere of biological beings is becoming the best, greatest, highest version of our SELF."
mircea_popescu: the shanonizer in question runs on his own personal wetware, and the squeaks you hear have names.
asciilifeform: fella needs to tune his shannonizer methinks
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, the holy shit of bs i intend to steal, it's pretty good.
asciilifeform: and i bet folks using the diddled otptrons would be very excited to learn what has been done to them.
mircea_popescu: and this, my dear friends, is what early schizophrenia looks like.
asciilifeform: this is by no means an urgent matter, i ask now so that possibly can learn answer year, two, three, from now.
mircea_popescu: As virtually limitless amounts of cosmic epiphanies began to dawn on me, timeless transcendence of my timelessly presence in the ‘Holy Shift of B.S.’ (belief systems) about universal life started a Higher Truth transformation twist in my life from I to We (think illness to wellness)."
mircea_popescu: "The creative essence within the story of “Troy Shanks (Athelete to Alchemist to Alpha)” is about Perpetual Regeneration to Levitational Perception. That is, the foundational biological imperative concept of Higher Health to Inner Wealth (Internal Paradise = External Reflection).
mircea_popescu: so then misers ? eh... i bet you one thing, they'll gladly take your money.
asciilifeform: and i have my doubts that they would sell to me in particular
mircea_popescu: if they do ship what's the problem with ordering
asciilifeform: but there is no question that sc4mz0r1ng. just that they do ship actual iron, it floats around. but i wish to learn, at some point, how they poison it
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform http://viewdns.info/reverseip/?host=141.0.23.12&t=1 < this kind.
asciilifeform: afaik they are presently the only vendor offering (claimed) otptrons of whatever variety.
asciilifeform: but i have long wished to ascertain -what kind- of scam.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform never heard of them, and it looks exactly like a scam.
asciilifeform: speaking of which, anyone have, or know of someone who knows of someone who have, in the flesh, products from vendor: http://www.mils.com
mircea_popescu: not everyone went to the same kindergarten as you, asciilifeform
pete_dushenski: and 'big hands' pulls in tens of millions a year.
asciilifeform: what kind of dope does one have to take to be at the slightest risk from this pitch ?
mircea_popescu: he probably goes around the mall in whatever ohio he lives in, saying "stay wavy baby" to tgi tuesdays waitresses and shoe store attendants.
pete_dushenski: not so different from tony robbins really.
mircea_popescu: should be interesting to watch, or in his own words, "From Higher Health to Inner Wealth, Levitational Perception helps ~Levitate your mind, Elevate your game~ Be You. Stay True. Stay Sweet. Stay Sexy. ~Stay Wavy Baby~"
mircea_popescu: i was thinking more like... acid, ecstasy, cocaine.
mircea_popescu: hopefully they have three pills for him.
mircea_popescu: "My message has always been the same. Hard Work, Dedication, and have been the core wisdom I hope to transfer into you as a thank you for reading, visiting, and absorbing my thoughts, feelings, and outlook on life."
mircea_popescu: they pre-existed it, and will continue to indefinitely exist. like any other weed.
mircea_popescu: or in other words : bitcoin idiots / the sort of "entrepreneurs" gavin talks to weren't invented by bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform some "internet entrepreneur" dedicated to "creating freedom"
pete_dushenski: that's at least 3 years of growth right there.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: well then what chance does anyone else have !
pete_dushenski: ah, the sweet seductive power of the ponytail.
asciilifeform: wat even is this horror
mircea_popescu: http://troyshanks.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/troyshanks-power-transformation.jpg << this fucking twerp. unemployed best grip or w/e he is.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: is this monty python approach not more broadly applicable ?
mircea_popescu: Who is Troy? [Athlete 2 Alchemist 2 Alpha]
mircea_popescu: “I have many irons in the fire when it comes to projects,” Shanks writes on his website, “from health, to wealth, to blogging and establishing a community movement, my arms are ready and my eyes wide open to welcome as many of you as I can, to serve a higher purpose, help others create success, happiness and prosperity in life.”
mircea_popescu: find a way to make creative lines have a good punch line.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski nono, what's being discussed there is the monthy pyton problem.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: "If you wish to make a name for yourself, find a way - preferably, a systematic way - out of this conundrum." << systematic being... this place ?
pete_dushenski: all these derps competing over teh same stack of other, less crafty derps.
pete_dushenski: tough competition out there.
pete_dushenski: coinbase et al. too
mircea_popescu: is registered to a self-styled new age internet entrepreneur.
mircea_popescu: The company that makes the supplements disavowed ownership of these advertisements, saying that they were produced by “affiliate marketers” who were not its responsibility. In fact, many of the websites investigated by Forbes traced back to a single individual whose phone voice mail said he worked at a carpet cleaning business. One of the product’s pages — BrainStormElite.org, but not BrainStormElite.com —
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asciilifeform: incidentally this battery is a very good beginner lathe project.
mircea_popescu: (have a thinner one in there, not so hard to do)
mircea_popescu: afaik they do
asciilifeform: which would've been a classy touch
asciilifeform: i also do not know if the battery actually supplied the requisite 1.5v
asciilifeform: ^ i do not know if this belonged to ogorodnik, the famous ru traitor in whose case a battery figured
mircea_popescu: ahahaha that's a soviet trick
pete_dushenski: sounds like a charming way to cover one's paper trail
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asciilifeform: otp paper traditionally was selected to burn crisply
asciilifeform: (and tape was considerably easier to zap)
asciilifeform: so it isn't a recent thing
asciilifeform: e.g., a 4mm tape circa '95, held a good bit of otp
mircea_popescu: i thought you said historically.
mircea_popescu: the problem with otp is that it's bulky
asciilifeform: (in english lands often called vernam for the putative inventor of it there)
mircea_popescu: one is, key as to be used on mpex. the other is, key as to be used on deedbot
mircea_popescu: the thing we're stumbling on here is that the usecase for pubkeys is really two distinct things.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Hence life critical yet no reason to be in strong set. Many other "in anger" keys likely same or similar. If not now, soon.
asciilifeform: nor even reason to think that most such keys are not - cooked for the occasion and not advertised
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: what keys are used in mpex is between the users and mpex, i haven't the slightest notion of what goes on there
asciilifeform: ^ this would explain it