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decimation: heh
that was a
terrible movie, vague remember
that part.
decimation: like,
the entire population is ready for some weird road warrior future maybe?
decimation: there is something deeply weird about
the average usian's compunction
to get in a car
to go 1/2 mile
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: a
transition in
the lifecycle
decimation: definitely, it's easy
to find 'car bums'
decimation: usg does much
to encourage
this notion among
the masses
decimation: I suspect half of
the 'occupy' protesters were either unpaid 'interns' or students living on mommy's stipend
mircea_popescu: (and for a needed counterbalance in all
the "onoes pesos" derpage : argentinian hipster chick - mostly can)
mircea_popescu: self-projected pretense
to
the contrary notwithstanding
mircea_popescu: seems
to me if she can't even afford
to get fucked she must be pretty damned cheap.
decimation: so
their cost is well distributed among
the population (group)
mircea_popescu: decimation suppose you meet one of
them, and you really like each other.
decimation: mircea_popescu: in
the 'street beggar' sense?
mircea_popescu: <decimation>
the us is
too poor
to afford leeches who climatederp all day <<
they doin';t really cost as much as all
that.
decimation: or
take a well-paid sinecure in 'industry'
decimation: one wonders about
the brain-damaged minions employed by usg
to oversee such
things
decimation: I once spoke with an ee prof who explained
that he had
to justify his error correction/information
theory research in
terms of helping poor minorities
decimation: yeah it's hard
to get much more 'nano'
than ripping apart hydrocarbons for energy
decimation: it's just
too bad
that batteries are so
terrible
decimation: the ionosphere is a worthy research
target, I'm just not sure a giant HF
transmitter will help much in unraveling its secrets
decimation: the us is
too poor
to afford leeches who climatederp all day
decimation: of course I would rank haarp research far above most social science derpage, at least
they are building stuff,
trying ideas
decimation: perhaps said Congressmen could find a few hundred welfare recipients of various kinds
to give up
their benefits for ionospheric research
decimation: "HAARP put
the world on notice
two years ago
that it would be shutting down and did not submit a budget request for FY 15, Keeney said, “but no one paid any attention.” Now, he says,
they’re complaining. “People came unglued,” Keeney said, noting
that he’s already had inquiries from Congress. Universities
that depended upon HAARP research grants also are upset, he said."
assbot: Multi-hop whistler-mode ELF/VLF signals and
triggered emissions excited by
the HAARP HF heater | Stanford VLF Group
assbot: Orgia studenteasca pe
Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
decimation: decoding
the enciphered stream is an exercise for
the interested reader :)
assbot: VLF
transmitter DHO38 - Wikipedia,
the free encyclopedia
BingoBoingo: To most Norte Americanos even UK English is as foreign
to
them as any Romance Language as
the vocaulary on its own is an insurmountable barrier even before approaching grammar
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well, it's how
this international
thing works in its actually useful incarnations.
decimation: asciilifeform:
Taleb would say
that some bit redundancy is probably a good idea
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo
the idea
that
there's more
than one peoples reading romanian encourages me. im writing a large piece now and ima link a
ton of good romanian material, all quite relevant and i imagine a lot moire instructive
to
teh english native
than
the romanian.
decimation: asciilifeform: as in machining a plate carrying said bits, or
the bits required
to control
the machine?
decimation: asciilifeform: or
try bouncing some bits off
the moon
assbot: Orgia studenteasca pe
Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
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decimation: obviously Putin et.al. are convinced
that any western opposition is going
to be weak and divided. I suspect he even has
tacit approval from Germany
decimation: asciilifeform: it is amusing
to watch Russia call
the west's bluff on
this matter
decimation: ben_vulpes: I can. see ascii's blockchain
teleprinter
assbot: ClubOrlov: Propaganda and
the lack
thereof
assbot: Eastern Illinois-Minnesota Featured A
Three-Yard Punt And Dick Punch
decimation: 26 letters + 10 numbers = 36, which is 4 more
than 2^5, unfortunately. so
there were many schemes for attempting
to 'squeeze' 36 (plus control chars) into 5 bits
assbot: Baudot code - Wikipedia,
the free encyclopedia
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo inasmuch as you know
that
there's a phase 4, you also know your addressing didn't work. << You know sometimes
this works a la Dallas. Sometimes
this doesn't like Dennis Rodman.
assbot: FISH and
the Jellyfish Convoy -
TICOM Archive
decimation: this is what
the german wwii enciphered RTTY machines looked like:
ben_vulpes: there were 4 lines of lcd (or maybe only 2, i was a wee one at
the
time) and
then
transmitted
them
to
the poo-snaper via fax iirc
ben_vulpes: my mother once wrote her articles on a 4 line
typewriter-cum-puter
thing
decimation: traditionally one uses frequency-shift keying over radio
to send
these characters, using a restricted character set
ben_vulpes: there's like 80 years of decisions in
this
thing.
ben_vulpes: lol decimation i have
that precise url open right now already
ben_vulpes: teletype, which...ancient
transmission of
text hardware?
assbot: Teleprinter - Wikipedia,
the free encyclopedia
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: yeah, i figured
tty was involved but what does
that first 't' stand for?
ben_vulpes: is
this one of
those "tar" -> "tape archive"
things?
decimation: terminal being in
this case a kind of
typewriter
that can be remotely controlled
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo inasmuch as you know
that
there's a phase 4, you also know your addressing didn't work.
decimation: heh, no
teletype is an old-school method of
transmitting ascii/baudot from a computer/remote station
to your 'terminal'
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> it's like, what's
the difference between phase 2 and phase 4 lymphoma ? <<
The chance of addessing
the problem completely with a knife and some anti-folates?
ben_vulpes: on a radically different
topic (if nobody minds), when miscellaneous computerboxen
tell me "falling back
to
teletype" is
that a reference
to
the
Teletype Corporation of
the
thirties?
ben_vulpes: in
the "socialize
the losses, privitize
the gains"?
mircea_popescu: it's like, what's
the difference between phase 2 and phase 4 lymphoma ?
ben_vulpes: i mean i have no clue. perhaps communism is just a
thing
that
the us progpagandacrats came up with
to point at
to distract
the proles from
that as what was going on on
the daily at home
BingoBoingo: decimation> yes, it's useful anyway. By
that definition,
the usg 'anti-communists' I mentioned above are quite simply socialists with a beef against
the soviets << I dunno any other explanation for Patton's political positions.
decimation: yes, it's useful anyway. By
that definition,
the usg 'anti-communists' I mentioned above are quite simply socialists with a beef against
the soviets
mircea_popescu: hint :
the group doesn't actually exist, not in any way meaningful on
the plane where
the individuals do. consequently, both
these come up with pretty contorted and quickly insane misrepresentations of
the group
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes> BingoBoingo: for
the poor student - what is a real economy? << One
that doesn't resemble
the dating environment in a prison