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mircea_popescu: really, anyone expected Obama II embodied in Hussein Bahamas turn out any fucking different from Obama I dry run, CIA and Mobutu love story ?
mircea_popescu: somehow the earlier "change you can believe in" / "hope and change" blue usg brought to congo as obama I never stuck to them.
mircea_popescu: i'd say that's abotu fair.
a111: Logged on 2017-09-15 18:39 BingoBoingo: Diverse news https://i.imgur.com/2xXBSYv.jpg
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-15#1714804 << i can't discern if this is self-parody or exo-parody ? ☝︎
mircea_popescu: i never forget a name
fcbl: I'm honored you remember
mircea_popescu: i know.
fcbl: (I was F on Trilema longer time ago)
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I demand my symbols reflect reality
mod6: ooh, i like that
BingoBoingo: Diverse news https://i.imgur.com/2xXBSYv.jpg ☟︎
fcbl: I dare it all :)
fcbl: but I try to catch on
fcbl: I usually understand about 20% I think about what's discussed
fcbl: I am here to listen
BingoBoingo: Ah, here it is from Mr. Climatarast: "While he gave all of his students hard copies of his lecture notes before class, he said, he didn’t provide electronic copies because “based on my experience of providing all my students my lecture slides after each lecture for most if not all of the 16 times I have taught this course, I knew that one-third of my class would cease coming to my lectures if I provided them my lecture slides electro
BingoBoingo: WTF: "“Although you have a doctorate, I doubt that you teach. Although you have a doctorate, I doubt that you do research,” Schlesinger wrote to a disabilities services specialist at the university, announcing his departure last week. He accused the staff member of writing him “coercive emails” about the accommodation and copied his entire class on climate and global change on the exchange."
mircea_popescu: for the same money i'd like some flying submarines and you know, maga.
asciilifeform: and i dare say 'малая земля' was moar interesting reading than 'words of my daddy' or what was it
asciilifeform: i already can distinguish it only with great difficulty from pravda
asciilifeform: last i knew all 3 had their sinecures and microphones
asciilifeform: this is probably where i admit that i can't actually stomach a whole wapo front to back
mircea_popescu: this is very much a work of "it was a rainy night in december, i was having my tonsils basted when i stumbled on a copy of the gosplan blablabla"
mircea_popescu: i didn't even mean financially, that part is you know, necessary bundle with the bezzle. i meant actually in ideal terms. intellectually, ideologically, however you'd call it.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i must admit that i found it utterly impossible to determine what the piece ^ is actually about
asciilifeform: yeah i still can't fathom why they're fixated on pilferage of phuctor hdd
mircea_popescu: BUT what i meant was, have a box of phuctor racked, and an identical box, stored at the dc (they do offer storage), or even also-racked.
asciilifeform: if i gotta do it with own hands then yes
mircea_popescu: i dunno, what's reasonable these days ? 256gb / 1+0 4ssd raid / some intel cpu ? or can you find rackable older amds ?
mircea_popescu: cuz it's what i do for a living.
mircea_popescu: there's overprovision that's stupid ; and then there's overprovision that's a matter of course. i've more fuel in the tank than ima going to use on the next sortie ; and more girls than i fuck and more food in the fridge than i eat and why the fuck wouldn't i.
mircea_popescu: so i guess to rephrase, "so start them working on your citizenship, you never know when it's useful."
asciilifeform: i imagine just about anything short of heat death of universe can be fixed like this, lol
asciilifeform: ( it is naturally possible to mail a machine but i strongly suspect that it is simply a way to give enemy phreee hardware )
asciilifeform: then i found a candidate
mircea_popescu: and no, i expect owning the hardware will be sufficient.
mircea_popescu: i can't imagine that it is, no
mircea_popescu: and as tempting as it may be TO THE NAIVE, this "oh, i found an actually workable one" is what we've been doing for years. there's people in the logs vouching for cherry servers, the FUCKTARDS who outlook.com their email and so following.
mircea_popescu: i am not interested in discussing anything with the over-dcs indirection layer. that is the fucking point.
mircea_popescu: i'd have thought this is obvious ; or at least it is to all my girls that were ever sent to put roots down anywhere.
asciilifeform: and no i dun have any in my l2, so stuck probing rando dc . shared typical example of rubbish, by no means all.
a111: Logged on 2017-09-14 23:48 mircea_popescu: "oh i know, i'll just find the secret retailer nobody knows about in my quest to not fucking do the job!!!"
mircea_popescu: "oh i know, i'll just find the secret retailer nobody knows about in my quest to not fucking do the job!!!" ☟︎
asciilifeform writes to umpteenth ru supposed-hoster, with canonical 'Можно ли оплатить хостинг криптовалютой Bitcoin ?' and gets the canonical 'Нет, но вы можете обменять её на рубли (или евро для серверов в Словакии)' ( i.e. pissoff )
a111: Logged on 2017-09-14 21:50 trinque: couldn't help but read latest trilema in the tone of "What ain't no country I've ever heard of! They speak English in What?"
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i didn't climb up into sky to smell it lol
asciilifeform: dunno for whom at this point, i suspect that ~everybody already traded theirs in, so nao the 'official' price can be wahtever hitler likes
mircea_popescu: i guess so.
mircea_popescu: typical tripod websites bullshit, i waited for months to float teh ECu, day fucking after they fall over each other to print different-random numbers on their guesbook visitor counters.
asciilifeform: i have nfi who that is/was
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-14#1714464 << i actually had one when slaving for usg ( believe or not, was made ~mandatory~, on 'fire safety' (?!) grounds ) and disassembled in a fit of pique. arseplate -- iron. ☝︎
asciilifeform: there's one right ~next to where i live, massive fortified beauty thing circa '50s with n weeks of diesel, metre-thick walls, etc. and i know it has colo; and many times i tried to lease a cage to be met with 'no, call THEM', 'oh dontchaknow, we sold to Shitcorp last month', 'yeah this is shitco, we never heard of no colo', etc
asciilifeform: i'ma picture him in verizon
trinque: couldn't help but read latest trilema in the tone of "What ain't no country I've ever heard of! They speak English in What?" ☟︎
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-14#1714452 << the elaborate pile of nonsense usg secreted. "Data was also backed up to Dropbox in huge quantities, the official said. Congressional offices are prohibited from using Dropbox, so an unofficial account was used, meaning Awan could have still had access to the data even though he was banned from the congressional network." ie, "i promise not to use computers!!!" ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2017-09-14 17:44 asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: i'm not convinced that the exchange ( any and all of them ) price have ANYTHING to do with actual reality
mircea_popescu: i never saw such.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i actually had one that blew. not anally-punishingly, but 'stake' worked its way through wooden bottom.
a111: Logged on 2017-09-14 16:33 mod6: i feel like im sitting on a bomb now.
a111: Logged on 2017-09-14 15:48 asciilifeform: whenever i think of cheap 100%finestchinesium officechairs, i think of the famous 'overpressure piston impalement' chair.
trinque: I can see it.
pete_dushenski: answer is always "when i was but a boy" or even "just before i was born and the world was still blessedly unburdened by my mortal knowledge"
trinque: my dad sold his, and I still talk to him even.
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo: i realise now that the issue with 911 wasn't 911 but WHICH 911. i've refined my tastes in them to gt3 variants alone. the cs/c4s/turbo are too phat butt. it's an enormous range though (20+ sub-variants), so it only figures that there'd be one that'd appeal. much like usa itself. so i'm not a fan of nyc. big whoop! hawaii is still the tits.
a111: Logged on 2017-09-14 03:21 mircea_popescu: the wireball idea is sound ; the rest of the crap... notrly. i'd say it's been already fully recorded as is.
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: I thought your verdict on porshe was butt too fat for you at this time
asciilifeform: so i have nfi why the tx fees etc.
asciilifeform: ( if they open conversation publicly 1st -- i will sometimes ask out of curiosity. but nobody's got to answer )
asciilifeform: it is my policy not to ask FG buyers any questions, i have nfi why bought, whether to use as rng or fishing lure, and don't really care
asciilifeform: announced 'dump here' because likely very soon i will have nowhere to host a multigb item, for indefinitely long time.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: only load it if you actually want it, naturally i have own backup
asciilifeform: i got nuffin
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: i'm not convinced that the exchange ( any and all of them ) price have ANYTHING to do with actual reality ☟︎
asciilifeform: as i understand, d00d could have left shitreich behind and sacrificed nuffin
pete_dushenski: new yorker gunning for clitler is closest to 'blaze' that new yorker can imagine. they live in a concrete mental cage. i dunno what you want from them.
asciilifeform: last i heard, benjies still worked in moscow, and he had plenty of'em.
pete_dushenski: http://archive.is/1mz8v << ""The Clinton Foundation is willing to KILL to protect its secrets. So on HRC’s book tour, try to grab a hair from her. I must confirm the sequences I have. Will pay $5,000 per hair obtained from Hillary Clinton," the Facebook post stated. Although Shkreli's lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, argued the post fell under the right to free speech, Judge Matsumoto disagreed. "This is a
asciilifeform: incidentally when i say 'i'ma have to' it means 'you have to' because i have no intention of distributing binaries.
asciilifeform: i still suspect that the 'crypto on commodity iron' idea will crumble definitively if hit with even a very modest hammer...
asciilifeform: ^ which does mean that i'ma have to a) audit the binary when ffa built for use in the field b) patch gcc/gnat not to emit DIV ☟︎
mod6: so was there another dumpfile I missed with some FG stuff, or is that all contained in the phuctor blob?
a111: Logged on 2017-09-13 18:32 mircea_popescu: speaking of which, i kinda always wondered why exactly the SUV craze stopped. i mean, once you give up on sense, there's no way to land, is there ? they could have made a DOUBLE SIZED "car", that takes up two lanes, and could carry that much more injected plastic on the frame.
mod6: <+pete_dushenski> http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-13#1713589 << craze just shrunk so that 4-banger engines can propel "suv". it's alive and well though. sedan is dead on a stick. << I hate driving, but i can't see myself ever not having the slut-wagon. ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2017-09-13 18:32 mircea_popescu: speaking of which, i kinda always wondered why exactly the SUV craze stopped. i mean, once you give up on sense, there's no way to land, is there ? they could have made a DOUBLE SIZED "car", that takes up two lanes, and could carry that much more injected plastic on the frame.
mod6: i feel like im sitting on a bomb now. ☟︎
mod6: <+asciilifeform> prolly suffices if you avoid 'hard landings' lol << fwiw too, i use my chair as low as it goes. fully decompressed.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: i bought zippy nissan instead. maybe next will be porsch-uh but who knows.
pete_dushenski: i don't recall ever having written about ~owning~ schmancy watches even if i did nail tlp on patek prices (http://www.contravex.com/2015/11/10/the-danger-of-unchecked-assumptions-or-the-surprising-depths-of-inequality/) and did publicly confess to owning leather+plywood chair (http://www.contravex.com/2017/02/20/the-eames-lounge-legacy-continues/)
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: for some reason i recalled you having a plastic-bodied porche
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: first i have rolex with wooden gears and now i have $2k+ plastic chair ? what kinda alt-lottery did i win ? lol
asciilifeform: because i found one in a skip in early '90s
asciilifeform: very interestingly, i happen to know that comp chairs at one time came with steel wheels
mod6: he blew the wheels off of two chairs (at different times) that I saw with my own eyes.
mod6: i knew this guy who was well over 300lbs who used to jump into his seat, every time damn near.
mod6: i bought a digital caliper... ima use it to measure the thickness of the baseplate.
asciilifeform: treestump i suspect is even ergonomically an improvement over most chinese chair..
mod6: maybe i aught to cut myself a nice tree stump to sit on.
mod6: the dial im futzing with doesn't have any thing to do with the piston (as far as i can see)
mod6: dang, thats crazy. maybe i better back it off a bit.