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mircea_popescu: i wonder how many russian policemen used it
to
touch
themselves.
decimation: asciilifeform: is
that what russian cops use
to beat hippies?
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BingoBoingo: Kind of looking forward
to more action on
that front as
the Saudis
try
to bankrupt US Bezzel "oil" men
BingoBoingo: So if anyone cares, gas prices in Middle APerica less stable
than BTC at
the moment.
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BingoBoingo: Why not wet sopping rag knuckle dusters,
they'll have more mass
mircea_popescu: are
these for afficionados, light enough
to attach scope
to ?
BingoBoingo: Everything is fun and games until poorer and more white
trash
tries
to become a precondition for future life
decimation: I found a
titanium ring is good for me most of
the
time, completely anti-reactive
to skin and also cheap
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Her poorer, more white
trash ass
thought so.
decimation: they also expose you
to
the risk of your finger flesh being ripped off
BingoBoingo: Younger dumber highschool me got pretty girl I'd been seeing pretty ring, and being youg poor white
trash me I completely ignored subtexts in acquiring 10 gold ring with colored quartz rock. Girl got ideas, ring was rendered part of schoolbus floor
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> incidentally, i've always wanted a pack of slow-burning steel-tipped 'matches' you could solder with in
the field. << SO story with
those.
mircea_popescu: lesson for stan : next
time girl breaks her ring, don't
try
to weld it back on her.
BingoBoingo: Ah, so
the only reason people bought
those
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: didja keep
the ignition coil in
the output? << Shhhh....
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> surely, just once, as a boy? << I did
the disposable camera
to
taser conversion wrapping
to get
taser voltages.
BingoBoingo: <decimation> later
that year
the
TRS-80 was a massive sales leader for
tandy << If you can point me
to someone selling 90+ working samples... may be interested
decimation: later
that year
the
TRS-80 was a massive sales leader for
tandy
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> in .net vb << In library school I was forced into
this bullshit for a semester, final project I couldn't
take it. Went FU here's a mono runtime in a jail and Visual C++ 6.0
that compiles
to it because fuku
decimation: but apparently
the fucktarded 'bitcoin ceo' who
took over after Mr.
Tramiel was speaking with
the CEO of
tandy who
told him
that here was "no money in portable computers"
decimation: in
the podcast he said
they should have produced
the commodore LCD - which would have competed with
the
TRS-80
assbot: Hacking
the Commodore C128 with Bil Herd
decimation: according
to Mr. Herd it was recently surpassed by
the 'ipad' if you consider
that
to be a computer
mircea_popescu: arth will be programming
these idiotic boxes pretty soon if managers don't wise up
to
the fact
that
the equivalent of automatic switches already exist and have done so for at least 20 years. yet if Y2K doesn't light up most manager's view of
the world of programming,
there isn't hope for mankind at all."
decimation: I didn't realize - apparently Commodore made
their own silicon chips, and even made
their own LCD screens
mircea_popescu: " I remember someone saying
that if it hadn't been for automatic switches in
the
telephone network,
the entire population of planet earth would have had
to be
telephone operators
to handle
the load of
telephone usage in 1993 or
thereabout. I get
the eerie feeling
that because modern computer systems are so incredibly braindamaged in
their design and in
the
tools used
to program
them,
the entire population of planet e
decimation: according
to Mr. Herd - Jack
Tramiel ran Commodore with an iron fist. When he left, only derps were around
to pretend
to fill his shoes
decimation: heh yeah, in
the podcast Bil blames
the death of commodore on Mr.
Tramiel's exit from
the company
assbot: An Interview With Bil Herd - Zany Z80 Zygology |
The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast
mircea_popescu: incidentally, now
that im apparently using it, wtf does chicom even mean ?
decimation: chicoms for some reason just want
to reproduce shitty bezzletronics
mircea_popescu: so
the other barbarian couldn't jack off
to
the marbles.
decimation: wonder what
the nsa would do with ancient lisp machines
mircea_popescu: see, here's
the
thing : we had
these idiots in romania,
too.
the sort
that could be millionaires as long as
the public
treasury poured a billion or
two in
theior pants
mircea_popescu: decimation well at least he knows how
to make a small fortune.
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tickets after crash | Science |
The Guardian
decimation: asciilifeform: it's certain
that
there was some government meeting where
the cl-
http server was regarded as 'obsolete' because it wasn't compatible with frontpage or whatever
mircea_popescu: It says
that it's from Sky Dayton (founder of Earthlink) although it is actually from Earthlink's direct marketing department. I can just see
the
thought going
through
the copy writer's head. "People won't open it unless it's from someone
they know, and everyone knows Sky Dayton!"
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> ^ not
turd. why? didn't have
to run on
toy computer in paupers' bedrooms. << What, some people actually operate
this way...
decimation: asciilifeform: it is sad
that
the pauper's computers 'won' in
the long run