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mircea_popescu: "It needs
to be portable,
therefore battery powered." << box.
decimation: is
that related
to
that nadya peek chick
assbot: Logged on 12-04-2015 02:56:07; asciilifeform: revoltingly studious
think-in-the box bitches, just as you might imagine
decimation: I've
thought about a small mechanical generator
that could be attached
to a swaying
tree
mircea_popescu: the parasithic nature and
the strict contempt of "law" it displays are essential for its success.
mircea_popescu: and feel free
to publish your design on
the unfairly neglected blog eh ?
mircea_popescu: this is phase 1. phase 2 is when we
target all
the cars ever seen parked by a nsa building. give meta-nsa something
to fret about.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, speaking of
the little
toy : i wouldn't mind putting a few coins behind a project dedicating
to actually creating an array of p2p relays operated "alegally" in
the manner described (glued
to peoplke's cars without
their knowledge).
decimation: as I recall, it was 'first
to market' - well before mobile phone data plans were reasonably available (for non-bezzle price)
decimation: I wonder if some entity gobbled up
those 'assets' and is preventing
their removal
decimation: it would be amusing
to
toy with 'ricochet'
decimation: asciilifeform: what would be useful wrt
this ESP8266 would be if one could modify
the waveforms it used
decimation: asciilifeform:
that's one form, but some use 'mesh networking'
decimation: asciilifeform: I've seen something similar
to old 'ricochet' network: wireless meter reading nodes
decimation: asciilifeform: one
trouble is
that open wifi is not easy
to find
these days
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform incidentally : best way
to find out of magic packeted or not - actually deploy it as p2p relay as described. once wash dc is full of
them you'll find out alright.
decimation: I find it fascinating
that a human can be invented from whole cloth, and
then inserted into
the political ladder
decimation: asciilifeform: it seems
the idea of 'not ghostwriting' is unthinkable with modern political
types
decimation: "In Dreams, written
two years later, Obama
takes an unlikely detour
to
the exact spot on
the parallel East River where
the north-flowing
tide meets
the south-flowing river.
There, improbably, a young black boy approaches
this strange man and asks, "You know why sometimes
the river runs
that way and
then sometimes it goes
this way?" Obama
tells
the boy it "had
to do with
the
tides." "
decimation: that it flows both north and south, and
they had visited
the exact spot where
the
tide stops its northward push." "
decimation: "In
To
Teach, Ayers recounts
the story of an ambitious
teacher who
takes her students out
to
the streets of New York
to learn about its culture and history.
These students ask
to see
the nearby Hudson River. When
they get
to
the river's edge, one student says, " Look,
the river is flowing up." A second student says, "No, it has
to flow south-down." Upon further research,
the
teacher discovers "that
the Hudson River is a
tidal river,
decimation: as I recall moldbug once linked
to some pretty convincing evidence re:ayers wrote obama's autobiography
mircea_popescu: hm... i guess in
the context "color me" is a faux pas ?
mircea_popescu: most nobody knew who he was. so fucking funny
this shit, whenever something happened,
the us "public intellectual" has
to show up
mircea_popescu: "Calling Bill Ayers a school reformer is a bit like calling Joseph Stalin an agricultural reformer." <<
that ayers ?
mircea_popescu: or with
the - horror of horrors - sensitive, lonely, loving geek.
mircea_popescu: one
thing i don't
think anyone can blame
the whorish co-ed for, not getting involved with
the bros.
mircea_popescu: "fucking idiots -
the lot of
them". exact quote. heard xn