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moiety: ThickAsThieves: i didn't know they did that... why? thats dumb
ThickAsThieves: there's more foreign films on netflix than any other option
mike_c: interesting, they did that other deal just a few weeks ago. HOC must have been part of the negotiation.
ThickAsThieves: but they fucked that up back when they got rid of Facebook integration the first time
ThickAsThieves: better social integration would help too
ThickAsThieves: mike_c , that was, seemingly, a different deal
KRS-One: netflix pisses me off...90% of the titles I never heard of..9% were from 1980 and 1% recent/goodmovies.
_aeon: what is this house of cards you speak of
mike_c: maybe comcast agreed to stop throttling them in exchange for house of cards
ThickAsThieves: even that is questionable
ThickAsThieves: anything else is less than ideal for consumers
ThickAsThieves: hence the stupidity of the move
ThickAsThieves: well that gives comcast life
Mats_cd03: Comcast is dying, netflix is just fucking the corpse
ThickAsThieves: altough, comcast seems to be inadequately concerned about monopoly
mike_c: well, hbo and netflix want to kill each other
ThickAsThieves: netflix should be signing up with hbo and the like
mike_c: wow. going to be interesting to see if hbo kicks their butt in the next 5 years.
ThickAsThieves: why on earth did Netflix make House of Cards available to Comcast?
asciilifeform: as described in latest s.nsa statement, present plan is to display a working cardano at mp's conference.
ozbot: S.NSA, February 2014 Statement pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
Mats_cd03: while youre here would you tell me when a cardano unit will be available for purchase
Mats_cd03: asciilifeform: i dont know why i bother, i imagine people read two paragraphs and give up
mike_c: i just calculated the odds of two blocks having the same block hash after 1mm blocks have been mined.
mike_c: they are there for a reason
Mats_cd03: if i was mp i would tell you to read btc-assets logs
tudo: what would you guys reccomend a bitcoin asset noob to begin researching?
moiety: ah ty mike_c, i wasn't realising it was the same one. it will be nice to see it when its been done up
mike_c: looks a little rougher in that pic
moiety: I would like to know too punkman1. there are two castles close to me http://i.imgur.com/jbaqFFr.jpg and http://i.imgur.com/NPp7ybK.jpg
benkay: punkman1: where is that?
Mats_cd03: damn it feels good to be a capitalist
Mats_cd03: 132gal to wash a carcass
punkman1: "Only two alts that I ever became interested, were DOGE and AUR, and both would have been 10-baggers but money does not interest me any more"
moiety: glad to have you back anyways errandboy :P
deadweasel: "LOOK THE .SPRINT PLAN. IS THAT YOU ASSHOLES DO WHATEVER I SAID LAST WEEK BUT ALSO WHATEVER I THINK OF AS IT COMES TO ME"
BingoBoingo: One errand lead to several more
BingoBoingo: Decent time.
moiety: did you have a good time though?
benkay: doubt it, though.
Mats_cd03: does a nerd in here tweet from that benkay
moiety: but ty, it's perfect post
moiety: sorry i guess im toopolite for teh interwebz :P
benkay: it's the internet, moiety, ain't nobody stopping you from putting your own aich tee em ell anywhere
nubbins`: "NO YOU CAN'T HAVE A RAISE, I'D PREFER TO SPENT 6-12 MONTHS FINDING AND ACCLIMATISING A NEW DEVELOPER AND STILL HAVE TO PAY THEM MORE"
moiety: hi benkay, can i link to your last post please?
moiety: re cedar btw hamsters are allergic to that wood only
moiety: im trying to twitter more
nubbins`: guess things are happening down there 8)
nubbins`: hmm i can hear dance music coming from the studio
mircea_popescu: people tend to get too busy online.
mircea_popescu: i always thought it's quite aesthetically pleasing
nubbins`: dad, who had been into pen making at the time, said "bullshit" and brought in a half dozen samples
mircea_popescu: not hard to believe
nubbins`: my father used to work with a guy who claimed he could identify over a dozen woods by smell alone
ozbot: All About Smoke Woods - The Virtual Weber Bullet
nubbins`: which isn't that unusual
nubbins`: i guess when the cedar combusts it gets gross, but is fine up to that point
Mats_cd03: ive only been to one bad bbq ribs place in my life (<6 on a 1-10 scale) and they used cedar for their meats... tastes like smoked soot ass
Mats_cd03: i don't know exactly why, but it has to do with 'planking' v 'smoking' and theres resin in those woods
nubbins`: they almost give that shit away
Mats_cd03: better than hickory imo but it can be expensive if theyre not local
mircea_popescu: Mats_cd03 pecan'd work great for this yeah
nubbins`: just found that image after a "diy smoker" search
mircea_popescu: these pot things... meh.
nubbins`: that's the style i'm familiar with
mircea_popescu: there's an air intake on to the right where the h curves
nubbins`: kolbassa, kielbasa, as many spellings as there are types
mircea_popescu: the upper left side holds the meats to be smoked
mircea_popescu: nubbins` think of the letter h
mircea_popescu: that thing's awful.
asciilifeform: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuOsecaN9lE << had no idea this was on youtube
kakobrekla: is that a thing?
nubbins`: i was thinking something this size: http://www.topicalsalve.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/diy_smoker_parts_large.jpg
mircea_popescu: just give it enough space to dry the o no no
nubbins`: you can buy basic ones for ~$50 too
mircea_popescu: it's not hard to make really.
nubbins`: maybe this summer
nubbins`: i'd love to have a smoker
mircea_popescu: smoke lightly (mostly to dry it) on something like hickory
mircea_popescu: and stuff the thing.
mircea_popescu: then select the meat, concentrate the juice, add foie gras patee'd and thin black perigord truffle
mircea_popescu: still this is something i want to try now, get a pheasant, plum and gut it, boil down the carcass until everythin comes off
nubbins`: plenty of edible mushrooms tho
nubbins`: i don't think so.
mircea_popescu: anyway, do you have truffles where you live ? or too cold /
nubbins`: i was only thinking to add moose because it's so dry and duck is greasy
nubbins`: maybe the flavors just don't go well
mircea_popescu: you can make some excellent pheasant with foie gras "sausage" tho.
mircea_popescu: generally fowl and game mixes are frowned upon, but i couldnt tell you why exactly
nubbins`: have never tried fowl, altho i've had store-bought turkey kielbasa
nubbins`: duck, too
nubbins`: oh, a friend has some goat meat that he wants to sausage
mircea_popescu: moiety that's not so bright
moiety: a woman just had her son taken off her for feeding him 9 litres of goats milk a day for 6 months
nubbins`: most "food" in the western world is full of sodium benzoate and shit
mircea_popescu: 7 to 9 mn pounds of that stuff a day.
mircea_popescu: it's what most of cairo's 10mn population lives on, for the record.
nubbins`: that's the big difference
mircea_popescu: i dunno what they put in it, but it's basically a noodle in vegetable sauce