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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the fact
that his division is valuable and
the wh is meaningless.
mircea_popescu: because if you don't charge might as well shave, oil up and go
to
the harem.
mircea_popescu: no, i
tell you, it'll be "colonel X of Y promised major Z of K delivery of m
then reneged. who
the fuck does he
think he is ? charge!"
mircea_popescu: harem does not need guarding, not in
that context. btches know enough not
to get messy at
that juncture.
decimation: my point is simply
that
there's no way
the us military would be effective against its own people, it would fracture
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Cousin spent 2005 - 2009 as an active duty Marine. Spent
two years on a boat in blue water, "just in case"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if memory is any guide, it will be more
to settle wot disputes
than anything.
undata: and likely operate without
the freedom-loving layer of bullshit
undata: I was arguing
that "those piles of weapons" commanded by whomever will remain
undata: mircea_popescu: I
think we agree
then.
mircea_popescu: yugoslav army was not 1/6 as effectual as
the same god damned units, except now commanded by
the war criminals.
mircea_popescu: and in
that redefinition it will signifcantly increase in strength.
mircea_popescu: so yeah, if washington goes or stays is irrelevant, but if
the obnoxious sissy faggots currently in
the general staff are all raped and hanged
the army will suddenly see its mission redefined much widerly
decimation: right, randomly destroy
the support for
the existing 'ability' and you see rapid nonlinear fragmentation
mircea_popescu: then you end up engaged in
the middle east
trying
to do another
thing,
mircea_popescu: essentially
to get "really good" at one
thing you define a narrow
thing
to be good at.
mircea_popescu: decimation generally high efficiency is obtained at
the cost of high fragility.
the jit system is a fine exampel of
the principle.
mircea_popescu: undata: BingoBoingo: I'll read
this but
to continue,
the Russians sought Putin's strong voice after
their collapse. << not after, honey. a decade after.
that decade is important.
decimation: without
that support, and with dwindling oil supplies, what you gonna do?
decimation: in
the same sense
that
the wasp guy did
decimation: the
thing is,
the us military only looks impressive because it has 'support'
mircea_popescu: undata: a highly armed, extremely disciplined military doesn't just vanish because
the congressmen stop coming
to work << obviously not. it just starts working for me instead ?
decimation: yeah. digital circuits are not ideal 0/1 gates,
they are analog computers
mircea_popescu: undata:
the US military is immensely capable of holding cities <<< should be interesting
to hear more of
this.
mircea_popescu: undata: more like giant slave and ankle-chain <<
this was recently in full display in
the ukraine, and
then later in iraq. except both ukrainians and iraquis are, as a stock, more resilient
than
the us guy.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Fear
the avaians, but not for
their flu.
They know of
their McNugget futures and choose otherwise!
mircea_popescu: decimation
there's a reason civilisation is built on oil.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: qntra grows, I buy chickens and strange hardware. Nothing wrong with
that.
decimation: pumping gas is
the same as borrowing about 2% of a reasonable nuclear generator
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I'll be looking
to grow my farm once qntra
takes off << lol what a plan for
the future.
ben_vulpes: <kakobrekla> o hey our resident child rapist also keeps charts << lulzy, what's
the story on
this?
assbot: The Lansey Brothers' Blog:
The gas station pumps energy at ~22 Megawatts
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform isn't
the probability
to find a metastable state roughlt linear with system energy ?
decimation: if you were
to fully extract
the energy of a
tank of gas going into your car at
the pump, you would be getting about 22 megawatts
assbot: Bitcoin Peer
to Peer Network Status
joecool: mircea_popescu: opposite side, very strong heat, assuming
the diesel is what caught
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: no need for
the 74xx
to melt - enough
to 'get lucky' and reach a metastable state in one or more switching elements << for pure wankeriferious interest : wouldn't supercooling it be a pill against all
this ?
joecool: decimation: i had a
truck explode in front of me on i-78, driver got out just in
time, bad spot
too under an overpass
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Apparelty people don't
trust
that it apperently comes in different qualities
decimation: I was driving along i-95 once, saw a full carbeque in progress in
the right shoulder.
Three lanes over
through rolled up windows
the heat was uncomfortable on my face
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo how does duct
tape get a bad rap ? i used it for a sex act earlier
today!
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I know duct
tape gets a bad rap around here, but... duct
tape
ben_vulpes: how was
the scent moving with your vehicles?!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform im running a sort of generational modelling
thing i hacked
together.
this is my idea of fun.
ben_vulpes: "oh my noes i can feel my brain wilting all
the way over here! a scent of gasoline! in
the warehouse we rent! we're all about
to keel over!"
ben_vulpes: * mircea_popescu kinda likes
the smell of gasoline << various engineers went on red alert over a faint whiff of gasoline earlier
today
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform sane linuxes actually use
the memory. or am i missing something ?
mircea_popescu: ahh,
the beauty of 64gb memory systems is
that if
they allocate 46gb
they still have plenty left over.
assbot: Logged on 04-01-2014 00:00:40; asciilifeform: re: 400: 'for your convenience, we have packaged
the defective ones separately.'
mircea_popescu: or do
they both get spanked purple and "next fucking
time do one
thing and do it right"
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes ok, suppose
the chicks ake you ojo de bife, but as an insurance policy
they mix cheesekace in
there.
decimation: asciilifeform: not far from you in luray, va
there's a cave where some guy converted a stalactite/stalagmite gallery into an organ
ben_vulpes: boats and cars aside i
think i get
the "computer enforcement of human language contract"
ben_vulpes: that's
too big a leap for my
tiny brain
mircea_popescu: "insurance policy" ? "here's a car
that doesn't work, and just
to make sure, we welded
to it a boat
that also doesn't work" ? is
this a way
to live?
decimation: all
this does seem
to break down
to something like "we want a computer
to enforce a human language contract" which ain't gonna happen
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes if you're going
to do
that why bother with m/n
ben_vulpes: merchant and processor sign agreement
that proceeds shall be divvied
thusly.