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mircea_popescu: it is the standard all other brews measure up (or more often, down) to
mircea_popescu: it's not far off, this stuff's closer to beer. 34% or some shit
mircea_popescu: (and no, the driver didn't get any. i drink responsibly.)
mircea_popescu: i had an open rum bottle in the fucking back seat tho!
mircea_popescu: they weren't there on the way back, either. because a truck had crashed into a mini
mircea_popescu: the guy was just liek... "well, the fine's $120 ; carry on but get it done will ye"
mircea_popescu: (and i dun blame them for pushing the issue -- i have seen more cars dead on roadside here, incl IN TOWN than i had previously in my entire life.)
mircea_popescu: whole thing that threw me is that the shop gives you a sticker, but you need A DIFFERENT one.
mircea_popescu: and he's like "very good that you fixed your car, but you hafta actually get it inspected. there's a special inspection orrifice"
mircea_popescu: so i explain to him that looky, i just bought it, i had it redone, new brakes, shocks, everything in there. two weeks ago.
mircea_popescu: policeman's like "well yeah, but your technical revision thingee's not on the windshield"
mircea_popescu: guy goes through dirver girl's papers, then asks for car papers. i'm liek, you don't need car papers in cr dood, sez my lawyer
mircea_popescu: speaking of freeways, mp on freeway today, gets pulled over.
mircea_popescu: sounds like my ancient "cars --- through the sewage pipes" dream is being realised. from the inside,
mircea_popescu: if alf had a rock of crack he'd prolly go around with it luring crackwhores rather than smoking it all right then and there also.
mircea_popescu: do the various "states" / scams still actually pay anything on those ?
mircea_popescu: o i know. everyone else pays two bux a liter ; except the "enviro conscious" usians, they pay 0.5 a liter.\
mircea_popescu: tank of gas = 35k colones = 70bux. comida india = 60k or so colones. etc.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, the impact of tech still lingers. for eg : my bmw tank actually is 2 cans.
mircea_popescu: anyway, if they found you woithj two nazi cans of fuel they'd prolly hang you. wrecking through petrol stockpiliong or w/e.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nato doesn't have a spec. for anything. look you it up.
mircea_popescu: if you find anything that works in an us army item, let me know.
mircea_popescu: krautzes actually had emptying duration specifications and shit.
mircea_popescu: ah as it turns out, it's actually wehrmacht-einheitskannister. nazi invention.
mircea_popescu: "yeah but it also misses the point" "WE ARE THE EMPIRE OF MISSING THE POINT!!!"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform takes a year to make a wine cask, and five minutes to take a piss in it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform clearly written by someone entirely inncoent of anything beyond reddit and lolpics.com
mircea_popescu: not like much brighter minds than these two belated if unemployagble schmucks TRIED THAT TO DEATH
mircea_popescu: if it were fucking functional, it'd have been done in the 60s already.
mircea_popescu: whole fucking point of human brain is to avoid the walls of computation.
mircea_popescu: wtf is that to do with anything, above and beyond "our ai consists of think()" ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i have a whole gallery of mostly females that swallowed long silicone strands "in their head"
mircea_popescu: got little bird cannons and erry thing, bird firing range, variety of "Standard" walls, brick, whatever.
mircea_popescu: this is like people frustrated they can't make airplanes, deciding to create a "through-wall bird model of flight", proceeding to prove birds don't "fly" in the sense of, "through walls".
mircea_popescu: anyway : ready way to blow this out of water. human can compute mpfhf by hand ; not reversable.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and predictably they've no idea what "a step" is./
mircea_popescu: i expect i have seen 5 to 10k hours of solid tropical rain the past three months.
mircea_popescu: well, you're welcome to take all this water back any time.
mircea_popescu: in other not-rly-lulz, global warming or no, it is definitely A LOT rainier in costa rica than it was 10-15 years ago