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asciilifeform: i think diametric has one
moiety: asciilifeform! did you see the molten metal 3D printer robot? and the one that can print a house in 24 hours? 3D printers aren't as good as lasers but they are still cool.
moiety: no joy with tineye but i will keep checking, thank you nubbins`
HeySteve: obamacare is using the doge meme. o tempora o mores! http://blogs.marketwatch.com/health-exchange/2014/02/26/hhs-borrows-doge-meme-to-sell-obamacare-and-elicits-a-few-groans/?mod=MW_home_latest_news&link=sfmw
nubbins`: not sure what i'm going to do with the other 48 of them
nubbins`: i had to buy a spindle of cd-rs. felt really weird.
mircea_popescu: so i guess you need blanks then
nubbins`: so i dropped my rpm challenge CDs off today at the record store, and they gave me a coupon for 15% off my next purchase!
moiety: oh thanks very much :D thats fab
moiety: aside from google image search, is there anything that i can search for a picture being wrongly used?
nubbins`: no details on the incident were released
kakobrekla: did he say "i smeared it with that, you can now try it out yourself"
nubbins`: the shitter bought me a bag of potato chips and two cookies as an apology yesterday ;(
kakobrekla: like the shit on the toilet from back in the day?
nubbins`: i actually read it today, don't often click links tho ;(
moiety: santander were meant to but backed out. RBS picked up the tab but not for all branches. only some across scotland. now we have these stupid card readers and about 30 redirects to get to online banking
moiety: i wonder how they plan to buy natwest now then
kakobrekla: cause servers are paid until the end of the month
nubbins` signs up twice so as to get best value for money
gribble slaps nubbins` with a battered trout
mircea_popescu: jurov don't do that.
jurov: *crosses fingers and uses this as input*
gribble: BitcoinAverage BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 539.89, Best ask: 544.21, Bid-ask spread: 4.32000, Last trade: 540.75, 24 hour volume: 53682.53, 24 hour low: None, 24 hour high: None, 24 hour vwap: 567.22
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BingoBoingo: moiety: Well it was the only place to trade ATC on a website before Apocalyptic did his thing
moiety: no ne has been daft enough to trade with him have they?
moiety: btw, what was the name of r3wt's exchange?
kakobrekla: well, the did manage to get fake astronauts suits, so gotta give them some credit.
nubbins`: you're going to clip your cats? :(
BingoBoingo: kakobrekla: Do doges do time well enough to have that concept?
moiety: as my cats are going to find out nubbins` !
nubbins`: bulldog clips, handy things
moiety: but yeah, hadn't thought about the other bits of the timezone
moiety: mircea actually posted that hif ages ago, i saved it because it's my whole being in a gif sadly
kakobrekla: doges know about the moon timezone.
BingoBoingo: I guess Maybe the Moon is UTC as well, but there's no people there to ask.
jurov: and what about moon timezone?
BingoBoingo: moiety: What about the african, ocean, or antarctic parts of the timezone?
moiety: because if you were travelling to my timezone, you shouldve told me
BingoBoingo: moiety: How are you to know I'm not traveling?
mircea_popescu: if they're cats.
mircea_popescu: works on womenz too.
moiety would reply to mircea but is too busy searching the house for bulldog clips
mircea_popescu: "hey, you a saint yet ?" "naw, they can't fucking afford the fumigation bill"
mircea_popescu: "Rome won't even have money to canonize two Popes, John-Paul II and John XXIII"
mircea_popescu: nubbins` rome worked ok for along time.
mircea_popescu: pretty much. gypstaly and all that.
nubbins`: i've always kind of felt that organized groups of humans are inherently unstable after you surpass a certain size
BingoBoingo: Rome ==== the Detroit of Europe
mircea_popescu: let that be a warning to anyone thinking about passing legislation disrespectful of bitcoin :
mircea_popescu: "Rome days away from bankruptcy. Eternal city warns it will go bust for the first time since it was destroyed by Nero."
mircea_popescu: from the oldies but goldies dept : http://trilema.com/2013/the-state-banking-and-bitcoin/
nubbins`: asciilifeform: is there any other way?!
nubbins`: reports of armed soldiers @ the airports
asciilifeform: from 'recommended' tab in that piece: 'Substitute teacher, 72, arrested for furiously masturbating in high school hallway.'
ozbot: Russia sent 'several hundred' troops into Ukraine: US official - Yahoo News
asciilifeform: well, no one is likely to 'want' it before sun down.
mircea_popescu: was in the fucking central square, broad daylight, 1k people around
mircea_popescu: nah, these were just dazed kids.
asciilifeform: is the traditional formula.
asciilifeform: 1) arrange to 'lose' hardware 2) finder 'finds' 3) profit!1!
mircea_popescu: passerbys were like... hey dude... don't you like... need that ?
mircea_popescu: seems to have disappeared. anyway.
mircea_popescu: lemme see if i can find this footage again
asciilifeform: (reclaimed in the sense of that guard)
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] [PAID] 32.43982214 BTC to 80`674 shares, 40211 satoshi per share
asciilifeform: in the '90s, russian market was full of 'reclaimed' military/police hardware of that period, so not much use for 45
mircea_popescu: wouldn't you think they'd have been reclaimed during the 90s ?
asciilifeform: phun phact: it is said that modern russia still has a huge stockpile of unused 45acp, shipped during 'lend-lease', along with a multitude of 'tommy gun', never used
mircea_popescu: very respectable gun, definitely would have sold for more than its "owner", on the open market.
asciilifeform: i thought it only existed on this side of the atlantic
asciilifeform: as i understand, this is routinely done to u.s. cops
mircea_popescu: not like she could have fired it anyway, the gun was a .45 and the chick was like 90 lbs
mircea_popescu: gave it to the boss next we met.
mircea_popescu: just like that.
mircea_popescu: one day i went behind one of these "security agents" and took her gun right out of her holster.
mircea_popescu: so they hired this ridiculous company, full of basically idiots
mircea_popescu: eventually the head decided they must hire somebody
mircea_popescu: cluj airport, about 15 years ago. previously unsecured at all, because well... originally was secured by army, then those went out, a whole story.
mircea_popescu: fucking idiots too.
mircea_popescu: i don't think i know a manhattan hotel that doesn't
asciilifeform: one would imagine that an army base would be guarded by grunts
mircea_popescu: right, banks, upscale retailers, the works.
asciilifeform: just like the ones at shopping malls
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: phun phact. security detail at the us army lab where i used to work was 100% rentacop
mircea_popescu: yeah dude, it's totally unethical for rich people to have better shit than poor people.
mircea_popescu: "Much of the debate has focused on the ethics and effectiveness of bringing more guns and officers to wealthier parts of Oakland."
mircea_popescu: brandished a lethal prybar and advanced toward the security guard in a threatening manner
ozbot: When Private Patrols Pull The Trigger |
mircea_popescu: i'd say it's about 70% settled the crimeea splits off.
asciilifeform: usg ought to send me a new passport if the damn thing splits
mircea_popescu: meanwhile rbs just announced it kinda... misplaced the 100bn the taxpayer provided
Diablo-D3: a) 5? what happened to the other 3? b) Im no longer interested in DMC.
Diablo-D3: can we ban people talking about the ukraine?
mircea_popescu: the whole of twitter is made up of experts on the ukraine now.
asciilifeform: diametric: incidentally, you can get a real-time picture of the beam focus using an ordinary usb camera - taking care that it never sits in the sweet spot (smoked ccd)
mircea_popescu: i don't have work to do.
Diablo-D3: you all have work to do
Diablo-D3: everyone shut the fuck up
asciilifeform: so long as it converges, why the hell not.