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indiancandy1: so i showed my producer a video of me dancing at work yesterday and she said that there is spirits in the vide
kakobrekla: may look like toaster instead
asciilifeform: can't say i ever used one of these
kakobrekla: from the topside
kakobrekla: this too? http://blog.laptopmag.com/wpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Dell-e6420-XFR_g2_edited-1.jpg
asciilifeform: at any rate, 'loongson' isn't interesting because of the mechanicals.
asciilifeform: you can get them by the crate, surplus. nobody wants.
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: that's the u.s. mil spec machine. it's mostly plastic.
asciilifeform: laptop market, afaik, still reduced to a choice between 'fagbook' and 'turdbook'
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: ever see a metallic chassis laptop that didn't ?
asciilifeform: aha there it is.
assbot: Loongson 3A Notebook - Tekmote Electronics
kakobrekla: you mean this ascii: http://www.tekmote.nl/epages/61504599.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/61504599/Products/CFL-008
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: that's the original. there's a nicer one, that has metallic chassis
assbot: Show model Lemote Yeeloong 8101B 10" mini-laptop Pure White-- High-end GNU Linux mini laptop - Tekmote Electronics
indiancandy1: btw did argentina win the wc then
asciilifeform might have to break down & pay an importer
indiancandy1: dont you go visit them
asciilifeform: that box doesn't even need much in the way of a bios. just a little bootloader stub.
mircea_popescu: i thought the bios was still proprietary, lulziuly undermining the whole thing
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: afaik it's the all-free-everything one
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform is that the all-free-except-bios thing ?
indiancandy1: any idea where i get this
punkman: you need to get a flux capacitor
indiancandy1: on mfc do i fix this
indiancandy1: is romania in the mediternian sorry my geography is terible
indiancandy1: people sometimes think i am
assbot: I just found this crazy game of life battle with Bitcoin : Bitcoin
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell mike_c http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2aklhk/i_just_found_this_crazy_game_of_life_battle_with/ o look, making friends
indiancandy1: mp do u think i do
assbot: Crystal ball - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
asciilifeform saw the world's officially largest crystal ball a few days ago ☟︎
indiancandy1: atleast the goverment gave the gypsies all there gold back aye
indiancandy1: can i ask something does the crystall ball thing actually work
asciilifeform: indiancandy1: you ought to know they ditched cyrillic there in... 1870s?
mircea_popescu: yes he is, he just doesn't want to admit to the romanian yoke :D
mircea_popescu: well... one of the many ways
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform amusingly enough, tuta pl tute is how you say stupid woman in romanian
indiancandy1: i just thought u know bill clinton did it so
indiancandy1: does she give you bjs under the table
mircea_popescu: well, more than one actually as it turns out
mircea_popescu: i'd rather do both of these well than mix them together into an unworkable porridge of shit.
mircea_popescu: people use them to what, pretend like they're outside while pretending like they're on the computer ?
mircea_popescu: i don't like them
kyuupichan: mircea_popescu: In east Washington state they have insanely cheap electricity; there is a lot of mining going on there
mircea_popescu: the ass is nice, that's true.
indiancandy1: and the chicks got fat ass
indiancandy1: maybe coz the electricy is cheap there
mircea_popescu: or, alternatively, buenos aires. which is why i moved here, to troll b-a
mircea_popescu: nah this chan. bitcoin-assets
mircea_popescu: camho rap, who knew this was a thing
indiancandy1: what is 700 usd to him
asciilifeform: indiancandy1: (when friends visit you, do you pay their fare?)
indiancandy1: his the billionair
asciilifeform: indiancandy1: afaik mircea_popescu expects guests to buy own ticket
indiancandy1: why didnt u buy me a ticket
punkman: asciilifeform: seems like most of that was spent in December 2013
mircea_popescu: indiancandy1 the whole street's a party
asciilifeform: punkman: just one mystery remains - why do they need coin.
punkman: wonder if this is all the BTC wikileaks has now: https://blockchain.info/address/1HB5XMLmzFVj8ALj6mfBsbifRoD4miY36v
asciilifeform: better than the 1890s seven-shooter that preceded it, by most accounts
mircea_popescu: i dunno, they're god-awful
asciilifeform: http://demotivators.to/media/posters/1990/622228_luchshe-starenkij-tt-chem-dzyudo-i-karate.jpg << 'Лучше старенький ТТ чем дзюдо и карате' ~= 'better have an old TT, than judo and karate'
indiancandy1: i wonder what assange thinks of btc
mircea_popescu: no, that's a cult gun
mircea_popescu: there's the whole story. "could not happen here"
asciilifeform: more interesting (linked from above) - http://now100fm.cbslocal.com/2014/07/09/weird-news-wednesday-waitresses-wear-guns-in-restaurant << notice the stock pic - who the hell has a soviet 'TT' ?!
mircea_popescu: there are the brown brigades,
mircea_popescu: a slighly scarce resource, and there are the informants,
punkman: mircea_popescu: yea we'll see how that goes, though hanbot's allocation of BTC is slightly better than global bitbet allocation so far.
mircea_popescu: o hey the crowds are getting rowdy
mircea_popescu: hanbot good point re the bombs yeah
punkman: if I pick the favored side by total btc in the pot, then pending gain goes to -1.43 BTC
mircea_popescu: can you do some more math erroring, get it to 160% ?
punkman: mircea_popescu: turns out I fucked up some math there, expected gain on pending bets is around 40%
mircea_popescu: -Tec guitar tubes)
mircea_popescu: Members: Tim "Kinnie" kingsworth - guitarist born to rock, tim has written many of bringers of darkness's best songs including "my love for you is swimming through the rapids like a broken arow" (Tim only plays Bingleworth guitars. Onstage, he plays a Bingleworth J-9000 7-string with a neo-chromium humbuckers. For recording, he uses a K-9001 with two single-coli pickups. He exclusively uses Krankle amplifiers and Czech
mircea_popescu: cury - we have the goods and we WILL deliver.
mircea_popescu: BRINGERS OF DARKNESS are revitalizing audiences with their raw energy live show and undeniable chemistry of brotherhood. They transcend a world that is locked in genre and commercialism; though they know they can't do it alone, they are the seeds of a revolution. The band has pitched their newest CD to Sony executives[, played in front of the likes of Henry Rallins, and the lead singer has sang onstage with Freddie Mir
hanbot: yeah. in the name of clutching at what they think they want, most people will put on some pretty ridiculous costumes.
mircea_popescu: "why find a few good friends in this world, just pretend everything in it is an earthworm
mircea_popescu: jesus that must suck.
mircea_popescu: holy shit man, why not just be on the ball and cut the deal when you have the chance ? why half ass that and then spend a month trying ? what sort of idiot came up with this strat i wish to know.
mircea_popescu: during the intervening month, they sent no less than 15 emails to my spam filter.
mircea_popescu: this has got to be the most idiotic publisher strat i ever encountered. so about a month ago, i shot an email to a medium sized network, for an ad spot. i got a reply from an acct manager, which was a little late and very half assed. i just dropped the thing. he sent me a couple "follow-up" emails later that week, which resulted in them being blacklisted.
thestringpuller: i need to stop binge watching netflix
mircea_popescu: if not they're not even trying.
hanbot: i'm rooting for a red card tonight
mircea_popescu: so far it's red all around tho
assbot: F.MPIF Live Tracker - Btc Alpha
punkman: was just looking at this, f.mpif pc4 stands to make almost 10% (if favored side wins on pending bets): http://i.imgur.com/g5MPhbF.png
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mircea_popescu: didn't they name one after a senator or something ?
asciilifeform: (or at least they were, last year...)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the real marvel is that itanics are still being produced.
benkay: someone's digitized it and trying to make a dime off the old man's corpse: www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/currency/2014/07/bill-gates-favorite-business-book.html
mircea_popescu: classical example, "if only the nightcop hadn't turned around just then".
mircea_popescu: so it's one of those things old geezers tell you about, as their life turning point, over a game of checkers in central park. no, it wasn't : even if the thing they woe about would have worked their way
mircea_popescu: the net result would have been foss+amd buldgeoning them into a fine paste.
mircea_popescu: that too. but even should ms have had it ready on t+1minute, and if it worked splendidly (lolk, but bear with me)