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decimation: "“In practice, technologies will be used by control systems to maintain their power and stability.” People subject themselves to the control system for some perceived (and perhaps even real) benefit, and then get bitten by the tradeoffs."
decimation: another amusing post by the friendly nydwracu: http://nithgrim.wordpress.com/2014/10/21/the-web-of-dependency/
decimation: because the FCC demanded that all these incumbant users reduce their bandwidth
decimation: apparently they implemented the 'tdma' version too, which allows a single 12 khz channel to be timeshared with two radios
asciilifeform: many good essays in there, too.
assbot: Super Trunking Scanner ... ( http://bit.ly/1zsj0qE )
decimation: asciilifeform: apparently the lady whose website you linked has an apco project 25 decoding system http://scanner.rachelbythebay.com/
BingoBoingo about to order yet another replacement fan for X120e, doesn't trust the latest offering the Chicoms on Ebay shipped
decimation: I think the 200lx had a similar 'chiclet' keyboard
asciilifeform: decimation: yes. sold it many years ago though. terrible keyboard.
BingoBoingo: Interesting. Might have to play with one some day. Probably worth it to keep one on hand because of the AA batteries deal
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: http://djbnetbsd.drivehq.com/PC/NetBSD/Z50/index.html << netbsd on that machine.
undata: dub: I know it's a thing
dub: fuck that I cant even read that
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: also notable for the option of running on 'aa' batteries.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: odd little bugger. the usual nice 'thinkpad' keyboard, but inside - a 'mips' cpu. normally ran embedded winblows (yes, for mips!) from 16m rom. but easily hackable to use netbsd or linux.
dub: danielpbarron: never torn a uscle?
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I've never had that experience.
undata: dub: am I supposed to believe every joker that claims he broke his dick? standards, man.
dub: the break happened in another buddy of mine, her telling it was standard drunken missionary. Loud snap, deformation, severe bruising, hospital visit, months of rehab
danielpbarron: he put the pics on twitter, but it's a private account
BingoBoingo: It's in the log, he did a persian penis trick compulsively to quash his boners, and this time it went wrong
asciilifeform: ink about how to get out of problems like that. Outside the poker table, consider any problem that starts with the words “So, I have been having a steamy secret affair with the wife of this violent mob boss, and now she...”'
asciilifeform: ace, because it can only have resulted from you having made choices that are obviously wrong and easily avoidable. At the poker table, the description of an alien problem might begin “So I called a raise and re-raise preflop from the small blind with my jack-three offsuit...” Say no more. Don’t call a raise and re-raise from the small blind when you have nothing but a measly jack-three offsuit, and you won’t have to th
asciilifeform: 'I’d like to see one expression coined by the poker writer Matt Matros become common parlance, since it applies far more widely than only to poker. An “alien problem” means some problem that might be fun, interesting and educational to analyze, and it would be really important to know the solution if you ever found yourself in that situation, but the point is that you shouldn't even be having that problem in the first pl ☟︎☟︎
undata: asciilifeform: or people that think positions seen in porn are enjoyable for anyone who isn't a camera
asciilifeform: the power tool fucking set ?
dub: dick break is apparently not that uncommon but limited to a subset of men
undata: "xanthyos: i act and speak with total sincerity at all times" << pfffff
undata: I'm also rating the likelihood that this is true at 0.001%
undata: "xanthyos: they won't even see me because i called the dr a faggot" << winrar right here
assbot: Logged on 24-04-2014 23:07:06; asciilifeform: 'when it comes to milk, we're even with america, at last; as for meat, they're still the leader - our bull broke his cock, alas.'
undata: BingoBoingo: who broke their dick?
BingoBoingo: Honestly after last week's broken dick hard to farm pity for health reasons for a while
undata: dub: farming pitty in the meanwhile?
dub: from the 10th or so
undata: want someone to actually come over there and tuck you in? go to sleep
dub was in a rather large room full of taps this morning
undata: dub: why are you still complaining about this?
asciilifeform: http://international.sueddeutsche.de/post/103543418200/snowden-leaks-how-vodafone-subsidiary-cable << more re: fiber taps
dub: soft tissue recovery slow as fuck too
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Varies from person to person.
assbot: Go The Fuck To Sleep - Narrated by Samuel L. Jackson - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1zscMqY )
asciilifeform: diphenhydramine << iirc, snips off stage 4. no thx
BingoBoingo: dub: Eat banana, take diphenhydramine, go the fuck to sleep
BingoBoingo pretty sure body needs sleep more than brain
dub: and muscle cramps worse than anything I've had
undata: so uh... go to bed?
dub: some kind of pre-diabetes thing goiing on with suddenly running out of blood sugar
dub: brain seems mostly ok with long term sleep deprivation, body taking it harder
dub: I think my body is burning out
asciilifeform: why is another question. but - there they are.
asciilifeform: phun phact. you can download the repair manuals for most of the 'mig' machines.
asciilifeform: interceptors and fighting jets in general are a special case of 'cold war' hardware, in that they were never expected to last.
BingoBoingo: Maybe not for all aircraft, but it seems the case for the ones the empire uses with regularity in anger
asciilifeform: if this is not yet, then only a matter of time.
BingoBoingo: I thought even US aircraft now are just parts waiting to be consumed by their brothers and sisters
asciilifeform: then the situation is reversed - handful of working items, large and sometimes well-guarded lot of cannibalism
asciilifeform: but what if they cannot be had.
asciilifeform: think of a taxi or bus park. there's usually a handful of disabled vehicles, but they either await the scrapyard or a shipment of parts, given as the latter can be had
BingoBoingo: I thought generally that's how jet fighters work everywhere. Hundreds of planes maybe tens available at any given time if lucky
asciilifeform not involved in this profession in any capacity, knows from thirdhand sources.
asciilifeform: a greybeard and squad of monkeys parts them out, maintaining the handful in some semblance of working order.
asciilifeform: as i understand, this is why countries that inherited, bought, stole, etc. some xxx quantity of soviet aircraft yy years ago, tend to fly some small handful z of them at a time
asciilifeform: much like your finger cannot function for long or very usefully unless attached to the rest of you
asciilifeform: have to understand, jet fighter is not really a complete machine. it is a tentacle of the larger industrial slave empire which produced and employed it. ☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: with engine MTBF measured in tens of hours - doubtful.
gernika: danielpbarron: thanks
BingoBoingo: So, you suspect they wouldn't be useful for liberating Rhodesia?
asciilifeform: really, the quintessential specialist's toy.
BingoBoingo: Ah, so too heavy/long to land on aircraft carrier
asciilifeform: aha yes that was him.
danielpbarron: 07:29 <+gernika> May I ask where the reptilian reference comes from? << probably from david icke
asciilifeform: ru-made interceptors though.
BingoBoingo: Dunno how many rusting planes it will take to convert to flying plane though
BingoBoingo: Also might be fun to rent a hangar and extract them of their own power.
asciilifeform: incidentally, you can see some of these planes from 'google maps'
BingoBoingo: I might have to make a trip there when I can convert BTC to pallets of local scrip
asciilifeform: seems possible that they might agree to part with them for price of scrap, if you arrange transportation.
asciilifeform: there is a titanic pile of them at the little airport there.
asciilifeform: if BingoBoingo like ancient russian airplanes, he should get in touch with city hall in timisoara
BingoBoingo would kind of like the rest of the plane too...
asciilifeform: and far more durable than spinning disk.
asciilifeform: in usa, ferrite core memory was also manufactured well into the ic age
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: note the ics -and- ferrite combo.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Yes,a tv show. Reptilians in government was actual US pop culture artifact
assbot: V (1983 miniseries) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ... ( http://bit.ly/1zs7H1T )
gernika: Seemed to have a lot of references to the Nazis. 80s made for TV series in which lizards disguised as humanoids invade the planet.
gernika: Wonder if that's what inspired V.
asciilifeform: comes from an infamous crackpot whose name i've forgotten, who wrote a lengthy treatise on how planet has been secretly ruled by lizard-like aliens since time immemorial
gernika: May I ask where the reptilian reference comes from? (lizard hitler, et. al) I see some references to Hitler being a Lizard Alien Being on google, but nothing beyond a literal interpretation of that.
BingoBoingo: The big question this week is will the Bird that weighs 11 kilos clean and dressed thaw adequately by Thursday Morning.
asciilifeform: this is a top reptilian priority.
BingoBoingo under the impression USG uses drug money to fund all of its porcelain as opposed to golden toilets
asciilifeform: at no point may the orcs have a leader who is not an active muppet.
BingoBoingo: Sure, they ship Afghani opium pretty much everywhere for refinement into heroin.
asciilifeform: fought a war partly to make this easier.
asciilifeform: then rebranded as a u.s. dept. of state 'dissidents need to plan their glorious democratic multi-coloured revolutions without interference from cruel orcish gestapos' gizmo.
BingoBoingo: Sure, but the Tor people hate bringing that up.
asciilifeform: it was (originally - and semi-publicly) spun as a 'our spies need to do their thing under the cloak of a river of shit traffic so here's this free service' gizmo