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thestringpuller: yes. most probably unless this specific cartridge was an outlier.
asciilifeform: solder red lead from battery box to '+', black to '-'. first thread wires through hole in chassic (electric drill)
thestringpuller: so external ports long with the leads? I'm not well versed in electrical engineering unfortunately.
assbot: Logged on 07-09-2014 18:52:57; asciilifeform: it doesn't have to be a coin cell, either. can attach one of, say, these - http://www.ictradenet.com/models_pic/BH2AA-W.jpg - to outside of cartridge. drill a hole, attach terminals to correct spots. won't win any beauty contests, but will work.
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: do you think there is a way to have an externally chargeable battery as "save" battery on video game cartridges
mircea_popescu: http://38.media.tumblr.com/f26ac8f8aaa82ec58ed70e3976dfe457/tumblr_mvqutdrHlR1sq388oo1_400.gif << and here's stoya, doing what she does (ie, setting the mark for performance)
asciilifeform: typical scheme of apparatus used there.
asciilifeform: the fellow who built it may or may not have been a tattooist in russian prison.
asciilifeform: so, no twist start needed.
asciilifeform is quite confident in the reverse-engineered scheme above.
asciilifeform: to start apparatus, it is presumably given a small clockwise twist while current applied.
asciilifeform: or rather, motor only engages when the little rotor touches the screw
asciilifeform: presumably strikes it mid-way through rotation
asciilifeform: rotor on bottom, to the right of the lead-screw
asciilifeform: on 2nd look, the blue cylindrical object is a dc motor.
mircea_popescu: obviously a lot of blood, sweat and tears went into that.
asciilifeform: is that a 'B' battery ?
mircea_popescu: http://33.media.tumblr.com/482efd86111bd9cfe13ee302465639de/tumblr_mz1uqaPhkc1r87wz9o1_1280.jpg << and the spark of life.
mircea_popescu: a million before the fiat inflation of human population, back when they still had hard people, and a limited supply worldwide
mircea_popescu: perhaps not since the razing of ur
mircea_popescu: which means long supressed passion will finally prevail, in a razing of city halls the world has never seen
mircea_popescu: the interesting thing here is that no longer is the city hall the seat of power. the irc channel is the seat of power.
asciilifeform: t, shops, warehouses. The crowd has - a correct instinct. It would like to destroy the city - the citadel of power of the political and economic kind - the root cause of its travails. The crowd is stopped in its tracks by those who have plans for the city hall, for the presidential palace. We will not stop the crowd.' (Limonov, 'The Other Russia.') - translation mine. ☟︎
asciilifeform: 'Take a look in History, flip through her pages. The first action in revolutions of recent history -- the erection of barricades. They'll smash the cobble stones of the street, dig them out, and block off the road with them. They'll stop cars, buses, fill the street with bricks. And also they'll attack, plunder, raze, and put to the torch the city hall, administrative buildings, presidential palace, parliamen ☟︎
ThickAsThieves: fleeting is a lifetime for some, i guess that's good enough
BingoBoingo: "Why do you think you can think?"
ThickAsThieves: i think of it like your movie idea and my ending
ThickAsThieves: i'm not sure if i believe your ideal is more than fleetingly achieved
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> if correct solution could be applied from correct position << true.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: limonov had a beautiful discussion of this.
mircea_popescu: there's little worse fate than having to take over and continue using with the present tools.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves when you confront an organised enemy, your options are two. either beat him but preserve his tools, which locks you into ruling in his stead, or else beat him and destroy his tools, which locks you into rebuilding.
asciilifeform: if correct solution could be applied from correct position - problem would be lying dead in a ditch, right along with a few thousand fellow problems, similarly perforated.
mircea_popescu: seems to me he instinctively applied the correct solution from perhaps an untenable position
mircea_popescu: anyway, it's why i carry a lot of sympathy for BingoBoingo's legal troubles.
asciilifeform: in the peanut gallery - they say whatever. 'new york times' - won't say 'rapigger'.
mircea_popescu: in contemporary english, it is the duty of any thinking person to be as offensive as the context will carry.
mircea_popescu: giving in and being polite even to the slightest degree just feeds the nonsense.
mircea_popescu: that needs to be broken, for general welfare.
mircea_popescu: it only works in the first place because of a very narrow overton window achieved over decades of lazy prosperity.
mircea_popescu: the more people saying nigger and proposing rape as a solution to minute problems, the less effectual this teflon process is.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what document worth the mention could get any traction on 'reddit' (today's, not circa '07, say) ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, for what it's worth, in my mind the correct approach to this problem is radical, corrosive antiteflon.
mircea_popescu: sucks for merlin, he who was here when each was born, and will be here to see them buried.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the 'logic' presumably being, you must 'go with' the humans or the orcs, tertium non datur.
asciilifeform: i doubt anyone could persuade him that phenomenon in question is not a barbaric libel by russian queer-haters.
mircea_popescu: i'm still reeling over the realisation that someone, somewhere, thinks im pro russian.
asciilifeform: the example jurov (inadvertently) gave us - is instructive. someone succeeded in 'tefloning' the 'juvenile justice' thing before it entered his brain.
mircea_popescu: by now right thinkingness has become an extremely intricate, delicately balanced piece of work
mircea_popescu: "this thing is written as if the soviet party isn't legitimate" < o noes and enough.
mircea_popescu: i mean, just a certain tone is enough, subtle subjective positioning is enough
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there are many applicable 'teflons.'
mircea_popescu: there's a long and growing list of things you can do to a text to make it completely inaccessibl for the "right thinking" person.
asciilifeform 's favourite subject in this class.
mircea_popescu: this teflon phenomenon is a lot deeper.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's more to this than just that. i've had an intern puit a bunch of trilema articles in reddit, across dozens of different subreddits. NONE stick. they're all "wrong", then the complainants get laughed out, then the matter dies.
asciilifeform: today is, incidentally, favourite american holiday celebrating this gambit.
ThickAsThieves: i like that the putin drawing is a scanned bar napkin or sumth
mike_c: the atlantic is trying to steal my bitcoin
asciilifeform: so it doesn't stick to 'right thinking' heads.
asciilifeform: one of the more 'high tech' and interesting 'state media' tricks is to spray on a coating of 'conspiratorial Teflon' to an otherwise genuine piece of dirt
mircea_popescu: mike_c that's online media v3.0
jurov: and i'm done for today
mike_c: da fuck with that atlantic article. i tried it in 3 browsers and it crashed them all.
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Bantustan | Literally: The Ghetto, the Worst of Urban Decay, the hardest of the hard hood. A bantustan (also known as black African homeland or simply homeland...
asciilifeform: as the anglo empires get swept from the stage, the bantustans they created with heroic strokes of pencil will go away. arabian, soviet, wherever.
mircea_popescu: it's just, you know... they'r ebored
ThickAsThieves: <+mike_c> tea leaves came up empty /// i guess i was probly only paying attention to price at the time, maybe that was the .5 zone, shortly after my comments it totally decoupled
mircea_popescu: it's not their cunt asking for a tending that's driving the giggling behaviour.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that's like asking girls aged 16ish to stop giggling. yeah, that's gonna happen
mircea_popescu: time to split, unless you somehow discover some passion for one side or the other and a desire to go to shooting practice.
asciilifeform: ask the conspirators to quit conspiring. that'd have a chance of fixing.
mircea_popescu: you're probably right, it's not looking all that good.
jurov: i was just venting my worries that this piece of world might not be safe again... obv mircea's lofty assessment "nah, agitprop" or ascii's urks hair splitting is not interesting to me,sorry
mircea_popescu: next best thing.
mircea_popescu: popes don't lie, they're just infallible and impeccable.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what next, a pope that doesn't lie?
mircea_popescu: they'd prolly flay him alive just for the cognitive dissonance
asciilifeform likes to show americans 'the venerable ancient Ukrs' - is almost never believed, even when rubbing their nose in primary source
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform dude imagine for the sake of science fiction, a putin that didn't lie. like, ever. he'd be spotless like warm milk foam.
mircea_popescu: katyn or auschwitz, what's the big difference.
asciilifeform: living where 'this shit' is grown, packaged, and flown out for export is not particularly thrilling either.
mircea_popescu: xmj they're allies you know.
xmj: I'm glad I'm living in a country who has a couple of german tornados stationed in it
mircea_popescu: jurov you will note in my case this is not happenstance.
jurov: slovakia is mentioned there for a reason
jurov: anyhow. you both be glad you're living in countries divided by distance and language (more or less) from this shit
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform which is why this is funny.
mircea_popescu: me mocking her for the "oh my" lulz doesn't mean i am in favour of cattle shitting in cookpots.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it mostly works for the target audience. to most folks in usa, who are literate in no foreign languages, never travel except on official orders, etc. - if not thrown in their face, fact does not exist.
mircea_popescu: lemme model this. suppose we go out for a picnic, and suppose we're there with some girls, and suppose a cow comes and shits in our cornmeal pot. and suppose one of the girls goes "oh my!"
mircea_popescu: but it's not what i said. i merely remarked on a particular mental complex, wherein the western agitprop calls things they don't like and can't derride "inexistent" a certain way
jurov: i indeed have a hard time with your insistence that everything out there is an overactive imagination of western journos
asciilifeform: so perhaps enemy does not bayonet babies and eat them under white sauce. he merely strangles them humanely and reprocesses into Garboil.
mircea_popescu: but yes it does exist : the eu state will, under a multitude of pretexts, steal children.
mircea_popescu: jurov you'll have a hard time wiht it.
jurov: and now the nocsense is suddenly presented as fact and i have to convince half of my facebook friends
asciilifeform: 'prior to Americans' gay rights agitation, Russian gays used to be called “faggots”; now they are being called “American faggots,” and gay rights in Russia have taken a giant leap back.' - orlov
jurov: takes a grain of EU social care taking children
jurov: of course that is how RT works