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trinque: mircea_popescu: I want
the book on your life someday.
mircea_popescu: so it may be a case
that YOU be
thinking of another usa hm ? :D
trinque: granted my parents farm might not be
the most defensible place, but it *does* produce using about 1850s level
tech
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform from boston
to nuevo laredo, all
the way.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: i just
think you'd admire someone who'd want
to completely gut
the welfare state
assbot: Logged on 06-03-2015 20:41:27; asciilifeform:
trinque: as i understand,
this isn't ru circa 1917,
the hypothetical rebels don't 'just want
to be left alone' - not one in
ten
thousand is able
to grow anything edible without regular deliveries of petrol, pesticides, etc.
mircea_popescu: that was
the equivalent of
the mike hearn "let's
test bitcoin".
the result came out kinda clearly - 9 maybe 10 days.
that's it.
trinque: nobody I was
talking about collects food stamps
mircea_popescu: remember
that
time when food stamp system ran out of funds,
took a
three day hiaturs, everyone held
their breath ?
assbot: Logged on 06-03-2015 20:38:28; asciilifeform: if
there were a 'rural militia' with above room-temperature iq, usa would already look like iraq
assbot: Logged on 06-03-2015 20:35:22;
trinque:
they can
try;
there are hordes of rednecks in
the woods already stocked up for armageddon
mircea_popescu: well... once
the usd v2.0 pistol rounds
thinkg
takes form, we can make
these :D
mircea_popescu: that
trivially ended up pushing against branches etc ?
mircea_popescu: you can shoot
through us style "walls" by ir with it just fine.
mircea_popescu: let's put it
the other way : a sharp
tungsten
tipped .5 round is >20 bux.
mircea_popescu: by
the
time you're shooting
this it supposedly no longer matters.
mircea_popescu: it is just about at
the
tolerance level of a physically elite man.
mircea_popescu: but
the ap variant cuts
through any practical armor, and generally can be used against lightly armored aircraft as well.
mircea_popescu: anyway,
the
thing is just on
the margin :
the common "action express" .5 round is generally stopped by a level 3 and always by a level 4 vest.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the bmg is a machine gun round not a pistol round
mircea_popescu: apparently
the de .5 ap, explosive, incendiary etc rounds are secret on internet.en ?
mircea_popescu: usg survival plan once shtf ? "well...we got
the largest stores of ammo of anyone...so..."
mircea_popescu: as in,
they are actually making rounds
the future currency ?
mircea_popescu: btw, anyone put
together
the "usg will
target ammunition rather
than small arms" with
the "various agencies bought and stored millions of rounds at
the beginning of
this decade"
to come
to a "usg will ban ammunition period"
thing yet ?
mircea_popescu: but yes,
thisd would make sense, with some shitty alt.
cazalla: what's
the other in race demo? jews?
mike_c: it'll be interesting
to see it after another couple 10x bumps
mircea_popescu: mike_c anyway,
the demographic
that supposedly "doesn'ty exist" and "doesn't matter" and "never wins elections" and so on and so forth.
mircea_popescu: (in fact it's mostly white with more asian
than "normal", which considering
the normal is gawker-and-wikipedia dumbternets... )
cazalla: maybe qntra needs quotas so
that 30% of readers are women
cazalla: what's behind
the push for such
things?
mircea_popescu: the demographics of qntra readership as depicted by quantcast never cease
to amaze me.
mircea_popescu: ;;later
tell bingoboingo
that epicscale debacle prolly qntrable.
mircea_popescu: right.
the
tlp described phenomenon of "oh,
this class of medicine is now generic ? guess what, on a review of
the data available it
turns out it wasn't effective anyway, so we're using Y now instead".
mircea_popescu: anyway,
to imagine
the "ban smoking"
thing is an isolated incident is naive. no,
there's a shitton of
these underway, continuously, and generally unreported.
mircea_popescu: i wouldn't be so sure you'll get permits for new development in
the us, eithert.
mircea_popescu: then
they run for 4 years and have
to replace
the batteries, and run for another 2 and
there's a lightning strike and have
to replace
them again.
tru story.
mircea_popescu: some of
the cleverer dcs use
them bnecause
they're so very
tolerant. which makes it
the best heuristic
to evaluate
the operational wisdom of any dc.
mircea_popescu: people generally went for
the "cheaper" solutions
that rarely last 5 years
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform iirc decade old data, it cost about 2.5-3x as much but obviously you never had
to replace anything.
mircea_popescu: cazalla hardest
thing for a fraudster is
to keep
the story straight.