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decimation: how many beggars in the us couldn't have a warm bed and meals - if willin to submit to charity
mircea_popescu: ered at the hands of Johns Hopkins Hospital and University buying up drug territory."
mircea_popescu: "7. Over 200 businesses, including at least 13 pharmacies, and up to a third of liquor stores, have been wiped from the face of the earth, many of them minority businesses which are uninsured and will not recover. This places the drug gangs in a position to expand the illegal economy in areas where businesses will not return—as they did not return after the 1968 riots—which offsets losses of territory recently suff
asciilifeform: why not beggars then ?
decimation: given how they have to deal with reality as-is
decimation: yarvin thought that urban police depts. would make good rulers
mircea_popescu: the problem is that the king has no further good claims on sovereignity, and as such must now surrender the police.
decimation: asciilifeform: in theory, ip cameras could work as well as dumb analog-over-coax, but in practice the firmware sucks
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the point of the king's police is to maintain the king's claims to sovereignity << this was no mystery of any kind to the folks who first witnessed this marvellous invention.
asciilifeform: nobody - to a first approximation - wants to do fucking anything at all...
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform heh, so far nobody even compiles glibc. go away with your exotic temptations, fair lady.
asciilifeform was poking phun at the imbecility of the camera thing
mircea_popescu: heh. was example earlier in the log about how "police work for them". was re three strikes ballot in ca.
decimation: mircea_popescu: re: police < yeah I buy that, but it's often the case that the democratic police like to confuse the voters into thinking that they work for them
mircea_popescu: <decimation> "2. All police assets from Baltimore City and surrounding <<< the point of the king's police is to maintain the king's claims to sovereignity. it is not the police's job to protect you. you don't get to sue either the police generally or individual police officers for having failed to assist - even in places where you can sue ordinary citizens for same.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform because everyone knows the way to make silicon is by the dozen
decimation: asciilifeform: and I agree with moldbug - it is long in the tooth
decimation: asciilifeform: absolutely. the whole thing was merely embiggened by wwii
assbot: History of the Atlantic Cable & Submarine Telegraphy - Key West ... ( http://bit.ly/1dLYahs )
asciilifeform: luded nautical charts and drawings showing the route to be followed in laying the cable. The War Department issued its permit Number 2845 on September 8, 1930. Thereafter, United States Customs advised that inspections of the cable tank buildings, additional permits and the payment of duties were required in addition to a warehouse bond for the importation and storage of surplus cable.'
asciilifeform: 'President Hoover signed a permit to lay cable in the territorial waters of the United States on June 17, 1930. The Cuban-American Telephone and Telegraph Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Bell Telephone Company, accepted responsibility for the work under this permit and filed it with the State Department in Washington D.C. The Division Attorney applied for a War Department Permit on August 9, 1930. The application inc
decimation: as I recall the outer jacket had been torn and the structural cables were visible
BingoBoingo: cazalla: two winters ago stayed well below 0F for most of January and kept two feet of snow on the ground
assbot: History of the Atlantic Cable & Submarine Telegraphy - 1957 HAW-1 California-Hawaii Cable ... ( http://bit.ly/1dLXoB7 )
decimation: asciilifeform: http://atlantic-cable.com//Cables/1957HAW1/ < "The polythene-insulated coaxial type cable is designed to provide the same number of telephone channels, namely, 36, as the first transatlantic telephone cables, the greater part of which were also produced by Submarine Cables Limited."
BingoBoingo: past couple years I surrendered the northwest quadrant of the yard to growing as native woodland, but... squirrels plant hickory in the worst places
cazalla: too cold? meyer's do ok here in melb considering the cold (although no snowy winter obv)
BingoBoingo: I'm too far north for citrus
cazalla: first year getting fruit from my meyer lemon too which are nice
BingoBoingo likes to tell self he is saving attention for better place to garden
cazalla: i'm quite attentive.. only wish i had more land to grow.. need to add a green house, bees an an orchard, hopefully keel over and die in such a place one day
decimation: yeah I used the cable and the cut through the reef to swim out into the bay
assbot: Hanauma Bay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ... ( http://bit.ly/1dLWOU3 )
asciilifeform: decimation: afaik all of those remain under the sea. and, by and large, still work (if one were to plug them in)
BingoBoingo not always the most attentive gardener
BingoBoingo: cazalla: Ah, been doing that too, but there is a point where one needs to not merely kill weeds of limited size, but trees. Meter and a half tall toxichondendron specimine annihilated by triclopyr
decimation: they demolished a reef to do so
decimation: I went snorkeling in hawaii once, saw a massive undersea cable that was one of the first international lines
asciilifeform: (prior to invention of optical fiber, long-haul telecom was 100% coax)
cazalla: BingoBoingo, pull the weeds out with your hands.. it's what i was doing this morning.. fucking wind has caned my brussel sprouts too :\
decimation: actually coax can generally work at much higher frequency than twisted pair, but I guess it is more expensive
BingoBoingo loving triclopyr, seriously that shit is a gardeners best friend
decimation: as well as token ring
decimation: heh I had some of those back in the day, 10-base-2
decimation: really this is gonna sweep the market, because of the vast infrastructure of deployed coax for cameras
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: On black and white turdcams I look more like a chubby somali than a korean, but yes. I am surprised he did not mount aggressive defense on the camera quality.
decimation: the cameras are pretty cheap though
decimation: yeah, that will come soon
decimation: unfortunately there only seem to be dvrs available now, no computer capture cards
assbot: HD-TVI cameras - new technology for analog HD solution | Technology News ... ( http://bit.ly/1dLW01i )
decimation: instead of shitty ip cams, they are making hd cameras that can propagate full picture at 'baseband'
decimation: asciilifeform: actually there's a new 'technology' for hd cameras
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: on chinese 640x480 turdcams, we can all be fat koreans.
BingoBoingo: cazalla: I am too race blind. A few years ago an acquaintance robbed a bank and seeing the CCTV pic in the paper I'm like who is that fat korean? Turns out it was a fat white guy I went to college with.
danielpbarron: 4. Lone white women away from home were targeted for gang rape by gangs of black men immediately across the city and county.
decimation: "2. All police assets from Baltimore City and surrounding municipalities were concentrated in three zones, leaving over 95% of Baltimore City and Baltimore County without police protection."
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%A6%D0%A1%D0%A2-R1000 << mega-l0l. claimed to be employed in ru missile & crypto gear. sparc v9 clone. manufactured 'in small parties of a few tens of examples per month.'
assbot: JL: ‘A Time for Men’ ... ( http://bit.ly/1dLVm43 )
assbot: IDM Plus - TF-16A ... ( http://bit.ly/1EeW9jf )
cazalla: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=06-05-2015#1121888 <<< asians all look the same to me sorta thing? ☝︎
asciilifeform: i expect to purchase a 'fluxbabbitt' before i ever so much as touch an 'elbrus.'
asciilifeform: dating back prior to fall of su
asciilifeform: i must note that the firm has a lengthy history of chumpatronic shenanigans
asciilifeform attempts to find the docs, turns up nothing but marketing crud
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: supposedly out. and, iirc it's a pedantically documented sparc, rather than closed turd
mircea_popescu: (obviously ru bureaucracy needs something for import substitution, but other than that...)
mircea_popescu: not sure why you, or i, or anyone would give a shit about some closed turd.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform did they ever come out wiht the elbrus 8s ?
asciilifeform: it is how they dump inventory
asciilifeform: because national turdphactory.
mircea_popescu: you will notice it was definitely not the us' fault that you couldn't find jeans in moscow cca 1985.
asciilifeform: interestingly, there are 'disposable' laptops sold at u.s. crap stores
mircea_popescu: unless it tornadoes at them
mircea_popescu: whereas ustards expect to be pushed, and are so used with the pushing they simply can't find the lake
asciilifeform: (i will point out that rms, famously, was not able to obtain a replacement for his loongson - which was stolen by bag-snatchers in b-a)
mircea_popescu: im pretty sure they export anything you want. but ~you gotta want it~.
asciilifeform: at any rate, i'm merely trying to divine whether they export these buggers after all, or - as i suspect - the examples turning up in ru were hand-carried to the street market
asciilifeform: i did dive into an electronics shop when walking with ben_vulpes, now that i think of it. saw nothing like loongson.
mircea_popescu: thus, argentina gets tons of costume jewelry.
asciilifeform: precisely the situation in ru. folks end up with mips lappy, and end up pissing on it because 'not only won't run counterstrike, but mozilla is slow'
mircea_popescu: the chinese export what you wish to import, they don't care.
mircea_popescu: the sort of retards with good food and all, but still. don't be surprised they don't know the difference between a tool and another tool. as long as it's not for farmin' or cookin', they dunno.
asciilifeform: goatfuckers with chinese imports by the gigatonne. hence question.
asciilifeform: hey it's 3 or 4 notches above the retardation here in east gringolandia
mircea_popescu: for all their pretenses, they do not qualify as a town, they're goat herders at best.
mircea_popescu: you know, contrary to your high regard of them, argentines are retarded.
asciilifeform had this item on checklist, did not get to it
asciilifeform: can mircea_popescu find a loongson in that electronics hotdog stand next to $hotel ?
mircea_popescu: it is not their job to care. retardo-us may imagine all it wants that icbc only exists if they say it does, and gs is best whatever because so sayz washington post.
mircea_popescu: this lol was in the log last year.
mircea_popescu: they aren't nor shoudl; they be. lemme tell you something : the largest bank in the world (icbc) trades in the states on pink sheets
asciilifeform: just that they are hand-exported.
asciilifeform: quite too many for dry run
asciilifeform: the interesting part is that chinese mips (see above) are in production, but entirely unobtainable in the west.
asciilifeform: straight to 'elbrus' then
mircea_popescu: i don't mean one that sucxks. i don't even mean one that doesn't suck. i mean one that's about (amd/intel in 1995)**3
asciilifeform: except the only reason they'd steal x86 is to run winblows
mircea_popescu: blatantly steal all the intel stuff, throw out the garbage, let anyone who wants to complain talk to their hand.
asciilifeform: they did try
mircea_popescu: that's what i'd do if i were their emperor.