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mats: i imagine its easier to defend a sub rather than a carrier
mircea_popescu: face the same risk profiles etc.
mircea_popescu: as they do essentially the same things.
mircea_popescu: well, it makes little sense to keep a nuclear sub and a carrier these days
mats: i find that dubious
assbot: Are Submarines About to Become Obsolete? | The National Interest ... ( http://bit.ly/1z68UKz )
decimation: actually usg has also tacitly admitted that its submarines are becoming useless http://nationalinterest.org/feature/are-submarines-about-become-obsolete-12253
mircea_popescu: heck, even the ukrs can defend their airspace from commercial airliners
decimation: agreed, that's another matter
mircea_popescu: and there's nothing wrong with that.
mircea_popescu: anyone can defend, these days, because of rocketry.
mircea_popescu: "defend its airspace" is irrelevant here. the us is unable to project.
decimation: but it is probably also the case that ru could inflict serious damage
decimation: I seriously doubt the us would be unable to defend its airspace
decimation: well, it remains to be seen what the tu-95's would do if they were 'fired in anger'
mircea_popescu: for one thing, the horn holds pretty much a shot. for the other, ru actually has air superiority since about 2013.
mircea_popescu: not the case here.
mircea_popescu: us is like the sniper : has one good shot. if he misses that one, or if you get in range... dead.
decimation: each one of those tu-95's can carry cruise missiles that can individually fly 600 km, so these missions are merely propaganda runs
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform unfortunately, the us response in ukr is proportionately larger than the us response would be in england, for the sameactivity.
decimation: the russians apparently toy with the yuropeans like a kitty toys with a fish
mircea_popescu: and london sucks in a way that can't be described.
decimation: not least to the russians
asciilifeform: it's just for usaf to land & refuel on
mircea_popescu: <decimation> doh "As two RAF Typhoon <<< news to exactly no-one
decimation: apparently she's starting to equivocate...
decimation: "„Es wird diesem Land nicht einfach gemacht, seinen Weg in Freiheit und Selbstbestimmtheit zu finden.“ Der Prozess bleibe schwierig." < It is not easy for this country [ukraine] to find its way to freedom and self determination" [Merkel] said
assbot: Times publisher, News UK, launches internal investigation after suicides of two members of its commercial staff - Telegraph ... ( http://bit.ly/1z684NE )
asciilifeform: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/media/11426319/Times-publisher-News-UK-launches-internal-investigation-after-suicides-of-two-members-of-its-commercial-staff.html << from the tales of the nailgun squadron
decimation: doh "As two RAF Typhoon fighters were scrambled on Wednesday evening to escort Russian long range bombers flying off Cornwall, military chiefs said that the UK “could not cope” with an all-out attack as our defences have been “decimated”. "
assbot: Britain cannot defend itself against Putin's military might, top brass warn - Telegraph ... ( http://bit.ly/1z67UGb )
assbot: Cuddle Up To Me ... ( http://bit.ly/1DHVb2m )
trinque: sounds like that guy needs a professional cuddler http://cuddleuptome.com/
assbot: The Lack of Gentle Platonic Touch in Men's Lives is a Killer - ... ( http://bit.ly/1z66204 )
danielpbarron: well that elimates possibility number 4, and introduced number 5 (that we are in cahoots)
asciilifeform: danielpbarron: you're very nearly at the part that catastrophically fails
danielpbarron: i made a rootfs_ramdisk.img but i'm pretty sure it isn't ready due to some confusion over what needs to be done with /dev/ and also there were other files mentioned in the guide that i could not find in my result
punkman: chapter 108? last time I looked at it was like 50
decimation learns a fact about silly-con valley, only to find it is even *more* true than he thought
decimation: I read most of the books. my conclusion is that rowling got 'lucky'
decimation: is this better or worse than the 'riff' featuring the woodchipper?
asciilifeform: (which i also never got around to reading)
asciilifeform: on the original
jurov: yea i remember that well
asciilifeform: we did discuss the author on at least one occasion
asciilifeform was waiting for that thing to pop up here
assbot: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, Chapter 108: The Truth, Pt 5, Answers and Riddles ... ( http://bit.ly/1z64djP )
fuddos: sorry for the connect spam. It looks like the ddos bot is either inactive, amazon filters, or it filters amazon
danielpbarron: not the ramdisk
mircea_popescu: On 20 October 2010 von Anhalt was taken to the hospital after swallowing a bee, which then stung him in the throat. On 22 December 2010 von Anhalt was rushed to the hospital after gluing his eye shut with nail glue.
mircea_popescu: yet he managed to call the authorities on a cellular phone. Los Angeles police found him completely naked approximately one hour later. No handcuffs were found at the scene. The culprits apparently drove away in a Chrysler convertible."
mircea_popescu: "On 25 July 2007, Prinz von Anhalt was allegedly approached by three women he described as attractive while sitting in his Rolls-Royce in Southern California. They asked him to pose for pictures with them, at which point one of the women robbed him at gunpoint, taking his car keys, jewelry, wallet, driver's license and all his clothes. According to Prinz von Anhalt, his assailants bound him and placed him in handcuffs,
fuddos: sorry I had ntp running, disregard the earlier statement
fuddos: it looks like the ddos bot spams on 1 minute intervals
decimation: it seems that if you claimed to be a german prince today you would have a mob of kids appear. They would loudly explain why they aren't going to have sex with you, play golf against you, and then exhibit hate for you in the form of a interpretive dance
mircea_popescu: for 50 bucks you can go to vegas and change your name to Prince Pizda or w/e.
mircea_popescu: you can't be a german prince anyway, their socialistoid government transformed them into names.
mircea_popescu: punkman if i cared i'd point out that i went through the guy's chicks pics, nothing impressing in there. if asciilifeform were emotionally involved in the markus prince he'd say that's obviously because he's keeping the good photos secret.
punkman: this illegitimate princehood is gonna end up living longer than the real thing isn't it? every derp will adopt another derp and so on
mircea_popescu: it's really not hard to block. but domestic isps = blockheads.
fuddos: and it appears to block nearly all of the upnp spam
fuddos: It looks like amazon blocks at least some of the ntp udp spam
punkman: mircea_popescu: (the guy fatass kim is trying to immitate, basically. paid $$ to be adopted by some ex german prince) << lol! Prince Frederic (Gabor's current husband) paid some old lady to adopt him too, rest of family doesn't recognize him.
danielpbarron: did anyone else notice that the .bitcoin datadir recently became too large to tar -czf ? or is it just me?
assbot: Logged on 10-02-2015 22:36:45; asciilifeform: let's do a 'trichotomy' on the netbsd thing. as far as i can see, there are three and only three possibilities in a case like this (i am deliberately not including the forth, of my being a muppet.) 1) whole orchestra -never- worked 2) once worked, but a sniveling shitgnome fucked with the docs 3) docs were once correct and described a working sys, but a sniveling shitgnome changed the code 'because pr
fuddos: gonna try again
asciilifeform: and the method described in available literature doesn't work
asciilifeform: danielpbarron: there is no built-in means of making small ramdisks
asciilifeform: danielpbarron: it isn't one of the steps at all
danielpbarron: yeah i did the kernel already
asciilifeform: danielpbarron: the tools (gcc and binutils) take a while
danielpbarron: some cult members in texas showed me this book; not sure how true it actually is
danielpbarron: There's also some Old Testament flavour: a prophecy prompts Shakarian's grandfather to leave Armenia for the west coast of the USA, where his son Isaac becomes an exceptionally prosperous farmer. Overlaying this is a mysterious story which even the authors call a "romance" - a tale of an illiterate Armenian prophet who received a secret message which remains sealed in an envelope until the right person comes along to open it
mircea_popescu: as in, a really hawt turkic chick ?
danielpbarron: there is a book named "The Happiest People on Earth" that might help explain how something like kim kardashian came to be
mircea_popescu: (the guy fatass kim is trying to immitate, basically. paid $$ to be adopted by some ex german prince)
mircea_popescu: http://princegermany.com/ << this is kinda lulzy btw
danielpbarron: i typed ./build.sh -U -u -m evbarm build before i started making dinner; come back and it's still going
danielpbarron: i think so
decimation: heh was bagels giving the middle finger to mr. ddos?
decimation: NewLiberty: Under what law is this [pawn btc trade] offending?<< specifically, finra has declared that anyone who would conduct such a transaction to be a 'money transmitter' and thus would need to register with finra and the local state authorities in charge of such matters
mircea_popescu: yeah, you gotta be in one. tits or gtfo is the rule.
punkman: "When asked, "How many husbands have you had?", she was quoted as responding, "You mean other than my own?""
BingoBoingo: Kim was in the one porno
mircea_popescu: bitponzi you're from argentina then ?
mircea_popescu: ancient story, this. what was zsa zsa gabor ?
mircea_popescu: same thing that dumb old bitch in florida was doing. the "nonorary assbassador"
mircea_popescu: when you find out let me know too lol.
asciilifeform: or is that grease
mircea_popescu: what do you think she does for a living ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: gotta appreciate that this is about as real to me as a $500M synchrophasotron. i.e., i get the basic principle involved, but have never seen with own eyes nor know in person anyone who has
mircea_popescu: there is that small inconvenience of how they're insistently trained not to, but nothing major.
mircea_popescu: (ie, the "civilised world")
asciilifeform does not live on that planet, has never visited, but believes the story
mircea_popescu: sorta thing.
mircea_popescu: "she's been going through 6-7k each month since autumn, but i get to go visit p diddy whenever i feel like it. it's a wash" ☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎
mircea_popescu: if you're the sort that he was describing, you don't care so much what it costs, you care what it gets you.
mircea_popescu: that's thje idea. if you're the sort that keeps 2-3 chicks off the street, micromanage their day, you save on the electricity bill.
mircea_popescu: 10k in the hands of a judicious woman can readily beat 1mn in lobby funds.
mircea_popescu: some women you don't care if they spend 10k a month, because they create 1mn of value or w/e.