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asciilifeform: like that chinese rocket test off the CA coast.
asciilifeform: given the almost total lack of english-language news coverage of the event, probably #2.
moiety: i usually use it.... must be the crack element
asciilifeform: either an 'own goal' (the finest security theatre) or a 'floor model.'
moiety: that gold crackhead actually broke imgur. still cant get it to load...and i never even saw her!
mircea_popescu: wanna-be leaders are playing with their own future and that's about all.
mircea_popescu: merely observing that if the us holds no bitcoin, the continued existence of the us is of no further importance.
benkay: implying these were bitterrists?
mircea_popescu: i hope i'm not too late for the theory parade.
mircea_popescu: here's a free theory : silicon valley entertains these delusions of fighting the bitcoin republic.
mircea_popescu: What they do not have is a motive, fingerprints or suspects."
mircea_popescu: " The FBI is still working the case, and agents say they are confident it was not the work of terrorists.
mircea_popescu: if 100 mn people shuffle paper, 100mn people prop rifles guarding them and the rest do laundry, moccacinos and babysitting for the other two groups
mircea_popescu: helps the economy anyway
benkay: ah good the privitization of the North American polizei will begin shortly
ozbot: Reach for the sky Overzealous Heathrow security officials confiscate Toy Story cowboy Woody DOLL'S m
benkay: better kill rate than the Boeing batteries...
mircea_popescu: there were what, a dozen or two planes lost to the... 5 batteries they had ?
mircea_popescu: o wait. i remember now. strela was the only portion of iraq's revolutionary guard that actually did any damage whatsoever
chetty: << waves at the NSA guy recording
mircea_popescu: seems a lot more practical to fly a RC plane carring a load of cherry bombs into a plane than to aim laser pointers at the cockpit
mircea_popescu: so where is the big scare about all the people with their ATM systems within 2 miles of airports ?
asciilifeform: 'frozen goose test'
mircea_popescu: throw pigeons at the pilot
asciilifeform: even a toy chopper in the intake might be problematic.
asciilifeform: no big feat of high tech, to break a defenseless flying bus.
mircea_popescu: and besides... the plane is not as hard to hit as a barn
mircea_popescu: not as skilled as someone firing the laser.
mircea_popescu: the whole thing is like 20 lbs, you can carry three.
asciilifeform: if the plane is in musket range, sure.
asciilifeform: (more or less simply 'strela' with the seek-trigger taped down.)
asciilifeform: or 'strela-blok', the automatic/unmanned version.
mircea_popescu: and they don't make armored airplanes just yet
mircea_popescu: as far as my memory serves those things do customarily bridge a half mile gap
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it occurs to me that rather than having a precision mounted, high power supercolimated laser to blind pilots half mile away at the cost of about a million or so
asciilifeform: the bigger cutters tend to have circulating (vs. sealed) lasing gas, which is a royal bitch.
benkay: back in my semi days i had major wood for the synova machines
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mircea_popescu: then host mtv's annual "one thousand derpy chicks in bikinis doing the undulation-on-the-spot" thing
moiety: LOL i like this pidgin comic
asciilifeform: benkay: i'd love one, but where to put the truck-sized instrument.
ozbot: Start me up « Fredo and Pidjin. The Webcomic.
asciilifeform: benkay: that'd be the 'adult' version.
asciilifeform: if you often have occasion to make very fine cuts in thin materials.
benkay: mining, but with only the reward of a shiny address.
mircea_popescu: exactly like mining, takes time to find a block
mircea_popescu: anyway, yes, you're basically bruteforcing the hash function
asciilifeform: moiety: these are fairly common, off-the-shelf widgets. you can buy them, ~1k usd.
moiety: mircea_popescu: no! seemed a lot shorter than the chipug one!
moiety: ah kk promise i'll stop with the laser interrogation now asciilifeform XD
mircea_popescu: moiety are you complaining it takes too long ?!
asciilifeform: moiety: 'when used as prescribed,' beam lives in the box.
mircea_popescu: and the bartender goes "what is this, a joke ?"
asciilifeform: moiety: 0-40W, there's an analogue knob.
moiety: benkay: what have you done, im watching all these spider vids now
moiety: and do you ever lase things you shouldn't?
moiety: is it always the same strength?
asciilifeform: the back of the cabinet, yes
moiety: asciilifeform: so in the first pic, you can open the boxy bit and this2nd pic is what is in side?
asciilifeform: this is more or less the smallest size they come in (for practical use, that is)
asciilifeform: moiety: the piece that does, the, well, lasing - http://www.loper-os.org/wp-content/laser/tube.png
benkay: what, so that you could clean up the mess?!
moiety: i was always waiting on some twat getting caught in the shredder at work
asciilifeform: these are standard on Machine Tools That Mangle Flesh (tm)
moiety: i need this in my life :(
asciilifeform: moiety: exactly what it looks like. hit with fist, cuts off the mains. twist to unpop.
moiety: benkay: 6 is a good video too. the males really like to rub their balls (palps) on their faces don't they?!
moiety: it weighs the same as me!!!!
benkay: moiety: and downright hypnotic to boot
moiety: benkay: that spider is so cute!!!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i kept waiting for the Pythagorean drowning scene in there.
benkay: yeah moiety you in trouble nao
benkay: relevant to spider sex
moiety: my address will take 4 hours, is that usual? 1chipug was gonna take 3 days
Dimsler_: spiders have the most amount of gay sex
mircea_popescu: Eugen Erhan & Tudor Muscalu.
mircea_popescu: that for instance is re the mining thing i mentioned a while back.
mircea_popescu: youi know those dudes are romanian ?
benkay: i was trying to render ver into some sense
benkay: your prose is so boiled down and reduced the omission of single letters can render it gibberish
mircea_popescu: a more very averring never coulding be possible to have taken place.
mircea_popescu: i simply followed in the spaces :D
mircea_popescu: your head was broken to begin with
benkay: oh man mp you broke my head with that sentence
moiety: please say they died
moiety: what ever happened to those ridiculous people that wanted to track everyone's wallets?
mircea_popescu: moiety this is because you're not a 21 yo virgin boi.
moiety: but it just seems ennecessary to me
mircea_popescu: a more ver averring never coulding be possible to have taken place.
benkay: you can send a colored coin representing what you aver to be your stock in pepsi to a stranger over the internet.
benkay: don't you see the genius?
moiety: i was reading about those, didn't make much sense to me
benkay: all but colored coins being a useful thing, eh wot?
mircea_popescu: benkay all is possible, praise allah and his true prophet obama
benkay: there's not much worth trading at this early juncture, moiety
mircea_popescu: mod6 i was thinking that may get more traction
ozbot: The miracles that matter pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
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moiety: strap a deer to a nissan micra? nope
moiety: people just don't here but our cars are tiny so i think its usually a transport issue!!