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mircea_popescu: danielpbarron i think you got gypped, wtf happened here.
mircea_popescu: in other news, the ecu trades for 2500 to the dollar. ie, better than many fiat currencies.
mircea_popescu: "Register For Free Online!". because totally, "register" fails to convey. it could be "pay 10 dollars and mail us things" right, that happens.
mircea_popescu: unless she's set up for that, it won't be worth the time saved.
mircea_popescu: you may want to start it with detachdb and backup the chain now and again.
mircea_popescu: aite well, if your setup's only coupla weeks old by very far the cheapest solution is to wipe and restart.
mircea_popescu: may be worth trying before discarding data and starting over.
mircea_popescu: notwithstanding i had the honor of experiencing as much bitcoin node disk corruption as the next fellow, but never saw it beforeE.
mircea_popescu: no bail on the grounds of the serious social danger of mob-minded idiots.
mircea_popescu: they really gotta start putting these schmucks in jail. were you "protesting" around a car and got run over ? 6 months till we get around to hearing your case.
mircea_popescu: btw BingoBoingo you ever seen days of wine and roses ? total aa publicity piece, jack lemmon's in it
mircea_popescu: ah. no i meant, is jhvh1 sitting atop a trb node feeding !~blocks
mircea_popescu: wait a second, cloudflare is a WEB SERVICES company now ? i thought it was a nsa tap services company.
mircea_popescu: hurr durr, "those other people are isolated because our internet consists of google amazon and facebook and we don't look outside herpa derpa"
mircea_popescu: i predict it'll work just as well as all their other "no really it's the original" clones worked.
mircea_popescu: this IS the right internet. the pantsuit are more than welcome to build their alt-internetcoin.
mircea_popescu: anyway, much better to have it pluggable into commodity reservoir than get special.
mircea_popescu: this thing, usually plugs into like a campging cooker for the gas.
mircea_popescu: honestly the tiny jeweler's torch is imo the solution.
mircea_popescu: there's also arc welders. pulse, 2-3 a sec, 2-3 amps or so
mircea_popescu: (before anyone tries the cutting weld torch on their wedding ring : the torch here discussed is a tiny thing, not-that._
mircea_popescu: filler is intended to fill cracks, ie, no resistence is expected of it. glue is supposed to actually join disparate parts.
mircea_popescu: hard solder glue is used with torch not soldering iron
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nah. well i guess maybe the "easy" sort.
mircea_popescu: the myth of "you're a human being and therefore you can do anything human beings can do" strikes again.
mircea_popescu: i removed, in this order : one layer caulk (no, really, it won't hold silver ?) ; one layer superglue ; and an unidentified oldest layer which i suspect might actuallty be flour-and-water.
mircea_popescu: obviously the chiseled bit and the forged bit were apart when i got 'em, and today finally got around to fixing the item. which, you imagine by now, first requires cleaning the surfaces from all the previous "fixer"'s efforts.
mircea_popescu: and in further tales from the orclands : place mp rented (furnished!) included something like a quarter ton worth of silver plate. because the woman likes it or something. among the vessels, this reasonably nice cup, with a lid. both the cup and the lid were chiseled into shape, but the lid had a forged pompom added on top, for ease of handling i guess or whatever.
mircea_popescu: nowadays they deasl in surefire bharara-izations, not in surefire governships.
mircea_popescu: anyway. compare to the 90s, arguably the pantsuit's only glory times. back then, das would have fought each other TO get this case. surefire governorship
mircea_popescu: so now the pantsuit agreements look like " it should be done -- but by someone else."
mircea_popescu: here's the thing with the monkey herds : they can all agree that "x is to be done" until blue in the face. the problem is that a specific X will have to do it. and the word is out whoever does it gets fucked in the ass, as per that ancient von flondor discussion.
mircea_popescu: otherwise reddington post fulla idea "men" in diaper suits.
mircea_popescu: terrible case from their pov, the redditards consider it a prerequisite victory and the evidence dun support
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform my guess that the guy will walk is based on the knowledge that the da's have been struiggling to NOT take the case. ie, someone will have to, but i dun wanna be it.
mircea_popescu: that when they get one over they'd better fucking advertise it well. because it's the one they get.
mircea_popescu: to put it another way : pantsuit illegitimacy MEANS something. this is what it means.
mircea_popescu: understand, the us is big, the pantsuit few... it's not so easy.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it doesn't extend to charlottessville. it's mostly a queens and brooklyn thing.
mircea_popescu: buncha priviledged white sons raped the shit out of a random poor ho, walked.
mircea_popescu: dude shot an uppity black kid recently FOR being uppity recently, walked.
mircea_popescu: the whole "pantsuit worldview is supported by the courts" is borne out of review of pantsuit faux news sites ; not out of review of actual court cases.