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nubbins`: don'
t get too offended, i'm pretty skimpy with my ratings
gribble: Error: User doesn'
t exist in the Rating or GPG databases. User must be GPG-registered to receive ratings.
nubbins`: he doesn'
t have anything to say!
nubbins`: oh and also ben_vulpes they just emailed me and said it doesn'
t work in ie7
nubbins`: don'
t feel too bad for me, i got out
xmj: ..needless to say that failed, BECAUSE THEY DIDN'
T HAVE ANY PLUMBING.
ben_vulpes: operate in the boonies, can'
t afford and don'
t want to hire programmers, and so bring me on to do...forms. for enquification of work. in exchange for which i get dollars, and the opportunity to suggest other ways in which to make their businesses run less awkwardly.
nubbins`: just because anyone with a set of arms can do it doesn'
t mean it's honest
ben_vulpes: can'
t weld or work metal properly without the grinder.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i don'
t derp on atoms any more.
mircea_popescu: anyway, what's the story here, derp couldn'
t get a secure cpanel environment in 3 tries ?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: but only those who committed the crime can be held liable for it - there's no sense in holding "a people" or "a community" liable for actions of their ancestors, is there? << in that case what makes the indians' land the indians' ? they can'
t be held liable for their ancestors appropriations.
bounce: bot doesn'
t allow for multiple names on an !up line?
TheNewDeal: Can'
t remember where I heard of it first, but thats the tldr I guess
mircea_popescu: keep a diet for a month, then eat all the food you didn'
t eat in one sitting. course you'll burst your stomach. etc
TheNewDeal: so, just because he hasn'
t been bathing in radiation, smoking 700 cigarettes in 10 days isn'
t bad?
nubbins`: i recall approaching the one-month mark, and a friend suggested i celebrate by smoking all the cigarettes that i hadn'
t in the past month
TheNewDeal: Anyways, I wasn'
t the one smuggling in the smokes. Co-worker was the one, except he legitimately smoked them. Type of brainset that thinks he is saving $X whilst smoking through 9 packs in 10 days
bounce: so only pull that trick in countries that don'
t have universal healthcare
mircea_popescu: you couldn'
t buy them in the foreign supermarkets. which romanians don'
t buy from anyway.
TheNewDeal: didn'
t the us allow mercury around for many decades?
TheNewDeal: thats a head I wouldn'
t mind swallowing
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, am i the only one to find it shocking that the hollow earth crowd hasn'
t squeezed in on btc mining yet ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform honestly, i don'
t see the problem. let them read everything i write and make sense to me.
mircea_popescu: somehow the same people that know how to game google into the dirt "don'
t know how to target".
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal it is always the ready excuse of the manufacturer of a bad car that "people just don'
t know how to drive"
mircea_popescu: yes fb, tyvm for having built a car that can'
t move but is a great guillotine counterweight.
mircea_popescu: he didn'
t use it, but it was illegal. somehow, i still don'
t know how this worked, tbh.
mircea_popescu: (yes, yes, i know, bitcoins aren'
t inflationary etc. but the hundreds to peanuts comparison is not there)
mircea_popescu: i don'
t care how deeply anchored in the core of the world it may be. it's a square inch and it's getting flattened.
mircea_popescu: not that he's that much of a genius, or that much of an imbecile. but then again, to display dynamic equilibrium you aren'
t particularly better served by a VERY LONG lever.
mircea_popescu: "here's a lithmus test on "good ideas": if it were applied to you, would you still think it's a good idea? in other words: if you can'
t imagine yourself as the vendor, maybe it's time to drop the good idea stuff, too?"
mircea_popescu: "I wish people would get more interested in _knowing_ the world they want to change. I can'
t keep lecturing obnoxious morons forever just because they have these wild-eyed desires that they think can be accomodated if they start a revolution or something."
mircea_popescu: and what's more, the argentine govt doesn'
t have like 5 bn in usd cash, nor does it have a horrid starvation of talent.
mircea_popescu: and spanish is like alien, can'
t be learned by humans, unlike lisp and scheme
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and didn'
t forthwith set sail for argentina because ...
mircea_popescu: yeah, the us is a different system. it doesn'
t have mega natural wealth to prop itself, so it works as a "buffettlying to prevent the children of the middleclass pushing him out" system
mircea_popescu: same thing with cops. people don'
t like the psychopatholgy of policemen, but then again the same "people" are lying and trying to beat down the cop two dozen times a day
mircea_popescu: didja do your homework ? yessir. didja learn anything ? o, no, i wouldn'
t do that!
mircea_popescu: maybe because you don'
t wanna sleep in the bed where all the random bacteria off random cocks collect and pool.
bounce doesn'
t really want to know but can'
t help but wonder what the top reboot count is, and which series.
bounce: a series isn'
t a series without a reboot or two, apparently.
decimation: they probably are in the business of trying to scam the ar gov'
t ben_vulpes: and didn'
t we already do the aerosol/vaporizing thing?
ben_vulpes: overheating doesn'
t cascade in the
T batts, but who knows if the thing stays online.
mats_cd03: for those that don'
t know -- suicide vests tend to make head pop off, mostly intact, and land in the vicinity of explosion.
ben_vulpes: would never pass muster in any of the design or fabrication classes that i've taken, but i'll be surprised if it doesn'
t move from shack to shack for at least half a decade.
assbot: "Dropshadows lift the type off the page as if they are 3D. You probably don'
t even know how to do them."
mircea_popescu: decimation wait, so the tesla bmc actually can'
t charge/discharge the cells individually
assbot: BREAKING: US Government losing its monopoly on funding terrorism
http://t.co/vhm3OYZBXV by /jencopestake & /BBCClick /hashtag/ISIS?src=hash /hashtag/DarkWallet?src=hash
mircea_popescu: decimation honestly, filling the register ain'
t buggy.
decimation: depends on the cpu, but you aren'
t going to get '7/2'
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> why do we have floating point hardware instead of rational arithmetic towers? << but we don'
t. we have rational arithmetic towers pretending (unconvincingly) to be floating point hardware
mircea_popescu: back then people hadn'
t figured what the pc is, so they just bolted some capitalistic crap to the sides
decimation: yeah there's no reason why the cpu shouldn'
t support arbitrary precision arithmetic, even if it takes a lower-level state machine to emulate
mircea_popescu: i just suddenly realised i don'
t understand why floats were even implemented, at all.
mircea_popescu: i didn'
t like the "were possible" part. either always, in which case it's a calculator, or forget it.
mircea_popescu: i guess, but originally i got very pissed off at ubuntu becaus you can'
t make a non-networking ubuntu machine without rewriting it all, instead of simply uninstalling netowrking.
mircea_popescu: i sometimes wonder how computing would work if linux weren'
t built on "packages" as implemented, but on actual functions