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decimation: I
think if I were
to buy an aircraft I would get a
turboprop or small jet
decimation: probably not little birds
though, probably something more like UH-1
decimation: plus I
thought
they were getting busted down old war birds
decimation: asciilifeform: brand new helicopters require maintenance
too
BingoBoingo: The hassel of going
to Chicago is expensive
decimation: maintenance on
those helicopters alone would run easily a couple mil per year.
this must be some kind of laundry
Vexual: bout 180 should slot you in politely between
the photocopier kid and
the big boys
decimation: well, it's a supply and demand
thing right?
BingoBoingo: Seriously
though, what does an expert witness make?
decimation: my company sells my
time at $210 per hour, but
that's bezzle rates with bezzle qualifications
BingoBoingo: Big firm in Chicago so I want
to ad a Chicago sucks surcharge
assbot: Logged on 03-12-2014 00:37:16; asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: because
the whole disk-ram dichotomy is predicated on volatile ram.
decimation: well,
the whole
thing is going
to be shot in
the head when high speed non-volatile memory is common
mod6: it's just old school,
thats all.
decimation: LVM is annoying
to configure but it is highly flexible
BingoBoingo: But seriously OpenBSD disk partitioning is MUCH better
than Solaris 9 and 10
decimation: the only feature on
the list of improvements
that I find remotely appealing is
the fdisk
tool
BingoBoingo: Comming from
Transylvania I'm sure mircea_popescu has experience slaughtering vampires with sunlight
BingoBoingo: I dunno
that
there's a better reason at all.
BingoBoingo: I
think
the entire point of
the OpenBSD financial crisis was an allergy
to strings
BingoBoingo: According
to him flappy plane is a
total mischaracterization of his vision
BingoBoingo: Right, and
they want
to kill big kernel lock, upon which I dunno you can build security.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I mean
the fork
they want already exists in Google's "android", a linux built with
the OpenBSD libc
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BingoBoingo remembers being a Junior in college and contemplating buying a giant pile of Liberty Dollars.
Then I go BTC
to silver around $100/BTC, Should have got
those liberty dollars and went
the other direction.
BingoBoingo: I always
tried
to keep my
territory under my flag small, clean, and well developed while oppressing
the rest of
the world
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i only played civ 1, but nukes were a splendid
tool
to destory ships <<
This, in civ2 I loaded aircraft carriers with nuclear missiles
mircea_popescu: i only played civ 1, but nukes were a splendid
tool
to destory ships
undata: sprint
to nukes, destroy earth, rule over
the radioactive wasteland.
decimation: this strategy works better in civ 5 where your cities can magically defend
themselves
decimation: I never bother
to invest in military units until I have good
tech
mircea_popescu: actually i
think it's related
to forcing whiny nerds
to defend
their fucking civ1 cities,
undata: seems like a drive related
to being suicidal
decimation: "we would gladly destroy
the rich man's nice
things just so we call all have poor hovels"
undata: Therefore, why not cap
the number of hashes per second? If
the operations were capped at say, 250khash/sec based upon system clock and not
the available number of cycles,
then anyone with
the "minimum requirements" could participate << cap
the standards of your wife so everyone can participate
BingoBoingo: ^ Anyone with /. account pls vote up. Will
thank with absolution of sin.
undata: I should learn latin just so I have something
to
think in when
they're done
turning english into shit
mircea_popescu: “While
the videos at issue in
this litigation do not in my opinion depict any improper
treatment of
the detainees, but rather
the lawful, humane and appropriate interaction between guards and detainees,” wrote U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Sinclair Harris, “persons and entities hostile
to
the United States and its detention of enemy belligerents at Guantánamo Bay are likely
to
think otherwise.”
decimation: either
that or
the guy flipped on someone
decimation: I guess usg is
tacitly admitting it had no case and is frightened of an appeal
assbot: Liberty Dollar Founder von Nothaus Sentenced
to House Arrest for Counterfeiting -
Tristatehomepage - Eyewitness News ... (
http://bit.ly/1ApD52a )
mircea_popescu: isn't
this
the guy
that's active on like
twitter and stuff ?
BingoBoingo: Ah, yeah I meant seal. SEAL ALL
THE CLUBS!!!
decimation: yeah
the vocal derp ratio is pretty high
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu> i dunno
that
there's something chilling me on bitcoin as much as all
these idiots "driving adoption" in
their idiotarian ways. << OMG SELL
mircea_popescu: i dunno
that
there's something chilling me on bitcoin as much as all
these idiots "driving adoption" in
their idiotarian ways.
mircea_popescu: Bitcoin
tipping sees giant growth: ChangeTip exceeds 10,000
tips in bla bla.
decimation: maybe
the real bitcoin foundation can apply for a certification
mircea_popescu: and of course diiorio and
the rest of
that scammer group.
decimation: re: mechanical fetish << one
thing I don't get are mechanical watches,
they have poor accuracy
mircea_popescu: dude holy shit already. how much derpage can
this one dude sprout.
mircea_popescu: The following people work
to set
the direction of C4 and
the standards against which cryptocurrency professionals are measured: