asciilifeform: mircea_popescu by nao beat the shit out of asciilifeform's record -- asciilifeform barfed permanently after one time 10min on shituntu
asciilifeform: this is prolly why most gamez aficionados end up with bona fide winblowz box in the house
asciilifeform: thought, for some reason , that they actually rebuilt their gamez
asciilifeform: i had nfi that 'linux steam' ran under emulator.
asciilifeform: fwiw i never used the icons / faux-winblowz-desktop pheature
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: last i knew, 'wine' worked pretty well... then again, the only thing asciilifeform ever ran in it, was 'ida pro', and with fully decade-old copy of 'wine' by nao
asciilifeform: you can't exactly fix the fiberglass by careening it on rando island and with local tree bark.
asciilifeform: still req's slave empire. simply, slightly moar evenly distributed.
asciilifeform: sovok vessels in particular were designed with very heavy reliance on cheap manual labour on board. simply to load torpedo took iirc 4 men. and to steer, no fewer than 4, etc.
asciilifeform: then again mircea_popescu did recount having seen a working one on beach of cr at some pt.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: that thing is very muchly a http://btcbase.org/log/2014-11-26#934786 item . consider, even current-day ru navy has problems sourcing parts, continues to scrap old sovok vessels from lack of spares.☝︎
asciilifeform: entirely martian, from my pov, outlook.
asciilifeform: in some ways it was actually interesting, for asciilifeform , when talked to pete_d -- fella could not picture how life could be worth living at all w/out peacocking
asciilifeform: for the cost of just 1 such tub, d00d could live like a duke in e.g. cr, ro, etc. but -- without peacock tail.
asciilifeform: then he can sit on the golden throne and study flemish and 'fine breeding.'
asciilifeform: hang up the patek philippes as sail riggings.
asciilifeform: perhaps he can install the rolexes on the gunwales.
asciilifeform: send it to pete_d. who is prolly thinking, what to do, after already has solid gold toilet, why not also put it in a floating fiberglass tub the size of a small truck.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: these look quite like the usa prices, i.e. 200-300k dubloons for a tub that won't even sleep 2 people
asciilifeform: admittedly asciilifeform has somewhat old-fashioned or even sovok-flavoured 'picture of cool'. having own sub -- cool. esp if with working arms. or own junkers bomber. but, pete_d's baubles?!
asciilifeform: strangely enuff wasn't even physically large, comfortably fit 2dozen people or so, if standing
asciilifeform: for thread-completeness, the yacht asciilifeform personally took a ride on (for uninteresting saecular biz reasons) was a 1600 h.p. item.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: toyota is 2tonne, rather than 2000, and rolls 'without slipping' on dry land, neh.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: china is always separate conversation. they dun get hit by pirates either, as it is known that they piss on 'no armed merchants' treaty and have full selection of e.g rpg7 on board
asciilifeform: i suspect mircea_popescu missed a 0 in there somewhere, even diesel to cross ocean is prolly >10k naodays
asciilifeform: for that merit, imho even crackpot idea of datacenter ~on~ boat, where 'mno, not taxable, these machines are welded to the hull' may have merit
asciilifeform: esp. in a bananistan where 20-30% import tax on just about anyffin
asciilifeform: right, but would be surprised if today still not
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: outta curiosity, how do they do customs (or do they??) to the yachts ?
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i dug into subj very briefly in usa, and found interesting the diff b/w 'new' and 'gently used', more than tenfold typically
asciilifeform: ( ...or, is it 'aspirational' a la tlp folx, who sail the sea until 1st leak..? )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: did it stop being thing ? i went to boatyards, saw ~0 empty spots, lotsa boatism
asciilifeform: ftr asciilifeform is satisfied that no one has produced a miraculous matter from which could be built a boat that never requires dry dock etc.
asciilifeform: ( hence how subj piqued asciilifeform's interest some yrs ago )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: orlov et al were telling the troof, i went and priced, a parking space for standard habitable boat is <1k/mo in most of usa, well under what 'condo downtown' cost
asciilifeform: incidentally, while on subj -- and i did even try to warn pete -- folx who abuse fg as 'collectible stamp' set themselves up for hurt, unlike patek etc thing is quite deliberately designed to be simple to replicate, lacks any form of serial numeration etc, and the only tests are for mechanical correctness, where all units built to spec pass, whether orig by asciilifeform, or by zimbabwe, or martians.
asciilifeform: '...with the pretty and delightfully well-mannered girls who spoke to their mother in English and their father in what sounded like Flemish – was the crystallised product of – who knows ? – perhaps as many as ten generations of fine breeding...'
asciilifeform: oblig typical pete_d_ism, ftr. 'That simply crossing paths with an aristocratic family in my own backyard...' 'this was the heirloom quality family from TLP’s Patek Philippe ads...' etc
asciilifeform misread, for moment, as 'puta del este'
asciilifeform: perhaps asciilifeform oversaturates the colours, here, but i blame pete_d and his type for the fact that yes you can buy a diamond-encrusted ipnoje for 200k but you cannot buy a fits-in-head comp even for 200mil.
asciilifeform: lolwhere? pretty sure 'sotheby's' is in london.
asciilifeform: even fg apparently required some lipstick and gloss application to be fit for parade
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i'm not the least bit surprised, given overall pattern -- fella won't buy anyffin that can't be easily paraded, exhibited, to other aesthetowankers over tea
asciilifeform: recall how he bought fg, and, unable to bring up a working serial port on crapple mac , hung it on wall , like folx use to hang up 18th c. muskets and sabres ?
asciilifeform: it aint nearly as repulsive as the bob becks who get their 'feels of elite' from sipping clitler's cuntjuice, but still imho equally snore
asciilifeform: quite typical, imho, example of the pathologies described by tlp. 'if i buy this 8th rolex, will finally feel like Troo Elite' etc
asciilifeform: a peacock man. perhaps the peahens find to be interesting, but i admit -- do not
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: lol, i confess that i mostly stopped reading the d00d
asciilifeform: (production -- dinged, but demand -- through the roof, usg is quite the 'marketing genius' on occasion )
asciilifeform: huawei iron has become somewhat of a 'deficit' in the 'civilized' world
asciilifeform: speaking of linux lulz, asciilifeform recently obtained a 'huawei' to test cuntoo. but this is on back conveyor currently.☝︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: even ~here~ one has to go to certain places, where the lumpens are found, to see'em.
asciilifeform: where would mircea_popescu even see these.
asciilifeform: y'know, the folx who take up 3 seats on airplane and demand ticket for cost of single seat, etc
asciilifeform: there is also famously an opposite pole of this magnet, the 'professionally fat' folx in usa who also claim to eat <1k/day , while weighing the weight of four men
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i suspect ~these~ are like the old 'yoga masters' of india, who claimed to eat nuffin at all
asciilifeform: 'that is not dead which can eternal lie...'(tm)(r)
asciilifeform: esr was somewhat atypical, in demanding his '30 silvers'
asciilifeform: iirc the infamous bob beck & co, largely work for phree even.
asciilifeform: ensures typical derp who 'escaped from microshit' at least goes an' runs 'tor' etc.
asciilifeform: 'modern linux komyooniti' is quite loyal organ of 'tame opposition', the occasional 20m of biodegradable monopoly money gifted to the occasional esr (who incidentally is begging for change to buy wheelchair, reportedly his legs went) goes long way☟︎
asciilifeform: nao otoh last week i saw a slug that was fully 4x the size of his slugbrethren. nao, ~that~ impressive. but this, what is there to be impressed by.
asciilifeform: gaggle of nobodies picks a nobody-in-chief when old one dies
asciilifeform: or for that matter the old sovok 'union of writers' (tm) etc
asciilifeform: i expect it's structured exactly like other usg.'foundations'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i have nfi, prolly the current ian murdoch or whoever
