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ben_vulpes: ;;later
tell pete_dushenski if, you know, you don't want
to be
tarred with
the 't3rrist gpg' brush
ben_vulpes: ;;later
tell pete_dushenski add 'no-emit-version'
to your ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf without quotes
to...not emit version info.
ben_vulpes: <mike_c> [03:55] pop by c3 for a demo. or wait
til next week. << huzzah
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo: of note in
that last article, is sheila is "former"
then so is duncan
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo: unless
they're in my wot,
the newsman
takes
the credit here
BingoBoingo: Was going
to wait for
the certificate from NY, but it is a race against
their announcement.
pete_dushenski: niederauer is arguably a bigger name
than blythe masters
pete_dushenski: unless "make coins for
the homeless" is use nuclear power for bitcoin mining
pete_dushenski: "Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi
this week became
the first Indian head of state
to visit Canada in 42 years and promptly sealed a $700-million deal
to buy uranium from a Saskatoon-based firm." <<
that's a lotta nukeage
mircea_popescu: soo apparently nielsen media made a web crawler, and
they called it BLEXBot
mats: anyways good chat. sleepy
time.
assbot: Logged on 16-04-2015 03:24:05; mircea_popescu: you know between here and
there it's nothing but inhospitable rocky crags populated by gay stone-age natives ?
mircea_popescu: i imagine
the doctrine is "better break
them in private when
the only broken is
that one
than break
them in war when *for lack of a nail* comes into play"
mats: nominally so -- 'corporal'
til busted down
mats: more of em
to break.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i appreciate
the irony of
the
thread a day or
two back with alf going all nazi on people's scents.
would-liquify: pete_dushenski: i ought
to have seen it as what it is, correctly, 'no sleep
time'
pete_dushenski: when searching for flights, i
tend
to organise
them based on
total
travel
time
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo:
they relaunched on april 8, i submitted
this article
to wrap up
the loose end i created in saying 'they shut down' more
than
to be
the first.
would-liquify: not only
this, but might have
to be scraped off
the floor
would-liquify points out, for folks who aspire
to attend conf-4 - saving ~500 usd by doubling layover
time is -not- clever
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: I'll get it moved in
time. Priorituzed publish speed
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo: did you want
to keep
that cached image on contravex ? it might make sense
to move it
to qntra
mats: lotta broke souls in va hospitals because of
this
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo: np. just had
to close
the loop on my cavirtex story from a few months back
mats: whatever happened
to being mounted. cmon.
mats: to
this day i am annoyed by
the emphasis on carrying heavy packs long distances in various mil schools
would-liquify: idk, where else can one get
the enviable education
mats: broke my back in
the
train up and shat blood
mats: i
tried
to go
to ranger school but as it
turns out my frail azn body could not
take
the abuse
mats: ill have
to read
that
mats: and shortly after, usg left iraq. afghan deployments were gone for
the most part.
mats: bad
timing. my battalion had just rotated back in after i arrived from basic
mircea_popescu: would-liquify
theoretical shaped charge. not practical.
mircea_popescu: insurgents do NOT have industrial ability
to follow suit
mircea_popescu: the idea here being : us has
the capacity
to make purpose built item :
too heavy armor for available weapons.
mats: never deployed
tho sadly
would-liquify: mircea_popescu: nope. unless you are
thinking of reactive armour
mircea_popescu: would-liquify but you can make armor so
that no jet of hot metal cuts it, period.
would-liquify: but i will let mats and
the folks who dug
them in & out for a living, answer
would-liquify: afaik modern antimateriel mines emphasize shaped-charge and jet of hot metal rather
than brissance or overpressure per se
mircea_popescu: (crater hole is also inside circle, so your radius is not
the 1 m you lifted
the
tank
mircea_popescu: by
the
time you're a meter up, you're looking at a small projection on a circle.
mircea_popescu: because you realise, most of
the pressure escapes
to sides
would-liquify: but i do not know enough about
the energy
transfer
mats: no crawling around
trenches, emplacing c wire, wutever
would-liquify: it would be interesting
to calculate
the optimum here from first principles
mats: and some mine clearance here and
there
mircea_popescu: nope. a 20kg charge will lift a single 10
ton slab about a foot.
mats: i was personally
trained
to fight in urban environments and handle demo
mats: i don't know all
that much about sappers historically
mircea_popescu: would-liquify calculate
the blast nbeeded
to launch
tank
those 10 meters high
mats: relegated
to route clearance instead of hunting enemy
mats: sappers had worst job in
theatre for a decade
would-liquify: on
the purely overpressure end of
things -
throwing
the
tank four stories high and letting
the contents 'splat' also works.
would-liquify: mircea_popescu: sure it does. visit
the drooling patients.
mats: generally in an attempt
to catch
the round and cause premature explosion
mircea_popescu: would-liquify not really. people routinely survive 6g. calculate
the blast
that will accelerate a 10
ton apv at 6g
mats: which is what
the netting is for
mircea_popescu: (the sikriti io kept waiting for
the us
to open up - all
the upset @ russia is over
the rape
they're delivering
to us army via proxy in mid east)
mats: and just cook
the dudes inside with a penetrative round
mircea_popescu: and at 10-20
tons...
they'll just blow out
the barrier instead
mike_c: pop by c3 for a demo. or wait
til next week.
mircea_popescu: you can actually make vehicle so
tough
that no blast can do anything but move it
mats: e.g. piling on explosives next
to highway barriers
to direct blast against
the side of
the vehicle
mats: because insurgents change up
the
targeting
mircea_popescu: why not just add six inches of composite armor sandwiched between steel plate and
tracks ?
mircea_popescu: i can't escape
this feeling
that us materiel is broken.
mats: sappers
tend
to ride
those and huskies while doing route clearance