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BingoBoingo: Table salt could work for the current ones in Illinois, the hardier Missouri spiders might require something more though.
asciilifeform recalls traditional laser bug zapper
BingoBoingo: ATM I have to settle for putting cigarettes out on them.
tokyopotato: i'd use a firearm on a tarantula for sure
BingoBoingo: But seriously my thinking is air pellets are to large and penetrating in any sufficiently accurate arm for the purpose. Why not take the shotgun concept still smaller.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: thank conan doyle, not me
BingoBoingo: That right there is some art asciilifeform
asciilifeform: !up tokyopotato
BingoBoingo: I'm thinking .08 caliber ~300 fps
asciilifeform: one generally finds spiders in enclosed spaces one wouldn't want to perforate
BingoBoingo: I'm thinking wolf spiders and some of the rock scorpions
BingoBoingo: No, reculse is slow and they bite you when you don't see them.
Mats_cd03: uh... the recluse?
BingoBoingo: (Very fast spiders with painful though not very dangerous bite)
BingoBoingo: Very difficult target
asciilifeform: or is this a peculiarly difficult sort of target practice
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: You ever been to Missouri?
asciilifeform: what kind of spider needs to be shot?
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: For the most part, but some are diappointingly uncommon. (Bull barrel 9mm target pistols, .22 WMR semiautomatic rifles [coyotes and fat groundhogs], sub .22 caliber shotguns [spiders]
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: in usa, pretty much every kind of small arms that makes logical sense (and a good number which don't) - exist.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Oh, normally I see the newer (not lever stuff) centering around 9mm and .40
BingoBoingo: Subsonic so in places like the UK a hearing friendly bolt action variant could wind up in Price Philip's hands
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: afaik there's plenty
BingoBoingo: Mats_cd03: Andrenaline fueled retard strength makes knives more dangerous. They make firearms in the untrained hands less accurate.
BingoBoingo: I imagine the actual extortion scenario by America's creditors to extract repayment will involve measures other than on the ground occupation. Each late payment has a mid sized city get the dresden treatment.
asciilifeform: industrial civilization as we have it (esp. the u.s. variety) is fragile enough, one needn't make use of futuristic weapons to turn 'business as usual' into a nostalgic fantasy.
Mats_cd03: the clever ones, like the clown of aurora infamy, or the mildly retarded but creative tsaernev brothers
Mats_cd03: and this is why its going to get worse
BingoBoingo: I imagine from a geopolitical point of view a lower North American gun ownership rate would have forced the Joint Stike fighter program to produce jets capable of fighting and striking
asciilifeform: Mats_cd03: if the idiots didn't (for whatever reason, known only to them) stick to small arms, with which (for some likewise unknown reason) they have no proficiency, they could actually do some real damage.
asciilifeform: Mats_cd03: i'd rather be in a room with the small arms postal folk than with the 'happy land' arsonist.
BingoBoingo: Mats_cd03: Or there are roughly enough.
Mats_cd03: its an impossible problem: there are just too many guns in north america
BingoBoingo: And the response to each one gets progressively more muted.
Mats_cd03: i agree these killing sprees are going to become more frequent
asciilifeform: at some point, we'll get the situation described in 1968 book 'stand on zanzibar' (j. brunner) where 'muckers' (amock) become a daily event, and people simply get used to it, in just the same way people accept traffic deaths as a 'cost of doing business.'
BingoBoingo: (Even though he was defeated in Pulp Fiction)
BingoBoingo: Not really. The power rangers fight documentation like the actual power rangers fought lord Zed
Mats_cd03: is there a document somewhere... i dont want to read more code
BingoBoingo: bbtcd seems to be at the point where it is safe for mining off of
assbot: Stolen tank rampage - YouTube
tokyopotato: tank guy killed a few i think https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnUoUKEIGoo
Mats_cd03: is there a better protocol spec than the one on bitcoin.it
punkman: points for time. and style
BingoBoingo: Killdozer wins on the humanitarian angle
punkman: as far as rampages go, the bulldozer guy was pretty cool https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZbG9i1oGPA ☟︎
asciilifeform: even the several folks who drove trucks into a crowd, generally got considerably better results than the ones with small arms.
Mats_cd03: you can buy things that do, but they alter the weight of the weapon
tokyopotato: they throw a temper tantrum with guns in their hands
tokyopotato: because they want to die
tokyopotato: most of these psychos want to get caught
BingoBoingo: Mats_cd03: Catching the brass as it is ejected isn't too hard either.
Mats_cd03: but i guess if you want to murder people, up close is preferred
tokyopotato: of course... but you have to consider motive
Mats_cd03: (feds incoming) a determined shooter could easily stop on a highway overpass, unload on public place x, drive away and police up the brass later
asciilifeform: Mats_cd03: afaik, the record of 'Happy Land' fire (87) remains unbroken.
Mats_cd03: what surprises me is how shitty all of these kids are at massacres
asciilifeform: !up tokyopotato
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: that one knew how to... aim.
tokyopotato: unless they got Uncle Sam to help 'em out
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: What amazes me is how as time goes on the shootem up derps become less effective. Few have surpased the Bell tower guy
asciilifeform: the weird thing is that they always stick to small arms.
asciilifeform: mike_c: who remembers this much about their childhood << plenty of people. i do.
mike_c: who remembers this much about their childhood?
asciilifeform: committed a hate-crime against people who appeared to have better lives << funny how when you get enough bozos together and do the very same thing, it gets called 'revolution' and suddenly respectable.
BingoBoingo: I think the Rogers kid committed what is the ultimate sin in this channel, violence against his perceived and actual betters.
tokyopotato: pretty sad, i mean lots of sad things happen, but what the hell, he basically committed a hate-crime against people who appeared to have better lives than him
punkman: asciilifeform: kinda read the whole thing, was extremely repetitive
asciilifeform: (can't say if genuine, but worth reading if only for the part where he describes devoting his life to... winning lottery.)
assbot: The all-American asshole, in his own words, with my own notes pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
asciilifeform: very reminiscent of the piece quoted in http://trilema.com/2014/the-all-american-asshole-in-his-own-words-with-my-own-notes
asciilifeform: in yet other news, a document attributed to the u.s. fellow who most recently 'went postal',
assbot: What does GCHQ know about our devices that we don't? | Privacy International
tokyopotato: but now that im on IRC a lot...
BingoBoingo: !up tokyopotato
mircea_popescu: dub: hodl ltc tbh, launching on gox any day now << bwahaha ah the oldies but goldies.
BingoBoingo: As that's when I posted the last ones
BingoBoingo: Ah, I was going to shoot for the 30th
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Has it been discussed yet when the earliest an F.MPIF statement may be posted?
bitcoinpete: off to go bury some foundations at the meet-up, will report back!
mike_c: BingoBoingo: updated. my math still came out a few satoshis different than yours, but we are in the same (small) ballpark now.
assbot: Santiago, Cuba; Oakland; or second tier Russian city had the Soviet Union survived? http://t.co/OPycNs1mp1
mike_c: i believe you about that. just trying to figure out where that extra 0.5 btc is supposed to be. ☟︎
BingoBoingo: mike_c: Subtract from 155.15567101 the other numbers from footnote ii to get PC1's size at the start of the statement period.
bitcoinpete: o man, kaiser is now sucking up to seamonster. that's the saddest shit i've seen all day
mike_c: i don't think clarity lives on that page. There is 0.5 btc floating around somewhere and i can't find it
assbot: Lol I was a moron for not getting into a coin that recently forked, then had their trading frozen. Alrightyyyy then
BingoBoingo: truth and clarity always live in the footnotes
BingoBoingo: mike_c: Well you have to look at footnote ii
mike_c: i will certainly correct that error.
mike_c: heh. you got me working on the html and i haven't gone back to check the numbers yet. doing so now. i thought i got my number from that statement.
BingoBoingo is not making a statement as to whether such a return has happened yet or not.
BingoBoingo: mike_c: Well, with the error in the PC1 equity over the actual equity it would take a quite spectacular return this month to show a profit against your chart's number.
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mike_c: similar to JD/panacea, only with PC breakdowns
mike_c: Nah, there will be monthly numbers on the income investment page
BingoBoingo: mike_c: Do you suppose you'll update the number in the chart sometime before the next statement?
benkay: i thought mircea_popescu was buying the steaks at v3
mike_c: that'll have to wait til conference v3
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