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punkman: not eager to gamble all my btc away just yet
punkman: after a bit of spelunking this week, I can finally say "I'VE SEEN ALL THE COINS"
assbot: WOC-Based Boat Witnessed Weekend Plane Crash; Fishermen Watched As F-16 Jets Shadowed Aircraft Until It Crashed
decimation: Bob Builder (lol!) is a ... fisherman?
decimation: The most amusing thing about this story is the simple faith that Bob Builder expresses in USG: “You could tell the jets were extremely well-equipped and in control of the situation,” he said. “We obviously paid close attention, but at no time did we think we were in danger. I think the jets could have controlled where and when it went down."
decimation: how would they control the plane? with tractor beams?
TheNewDeal: decimation those Cirrus planes fly like rocks. Wouldn't be caught dead in one.
decimation: my understanding is that they have a high cruise speed
assbot: Cirrus Ordered to Pay 16.4 Million after Fatal Crash
decimation: TheNewDeal: what aerodynamic defect does it have?
TheNewDeal: I can't specify a defect. Perhaps poor craftsmanship
TheNewDeal: Have you ever heard of a plane with a parachute?
decimation: asciilifeform: the Cirrus has a parachute
decimation: yes, they are standard on the cirrus to my knowledge
TheNewDeal: Most of the planes I have flown on, had no parachute
kakobrekla: a parachute < o shit, if only it would have an ejection seat
TheNewDeal: The plane is probably worth more than the people it drives, generally undesirables
assbot: Search underway to locate wreckage of unresponsive plane that crashed - LA Times
decimation: TheNewDeal: I would like a parachute on a small plane, there are situations where it would save your life
artifexd: punkman: Find any interesting physical coins or are Casascius coins still as good as it gets?
decimation: asciilifeform: one wonders if that's an example of poor journalism or even worse propaganda
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decimation: re: zelda << "Some coworkers and I have been exchanging messages that we, up until recently, believed to be private. In these messages, we said some embarrassing things about mutual acquaintances, including comparing one female coworker of ours to Teflon and another pair of upper-level managers as "Batman and Robin". Unfortunately, these messages weren't private after all; someone posted them onto NSANet! :( Now everyone hates me
decimation: and my coworkers. What can we do to make people like us again?"
TheNewDeal: I'm saying if I had a million dollars, I would be staying far away from a Cirrus jet
decimation: TheNewDeal: the Cirrus planes in question were prop driven if I'm not mistaken
assbot: What's wrong with Cirrus pilots? - Air Facts Journal
assbot: SR-22 (insurance) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
decimation: greenspun agrees that the sr-20 has challenging flight dynamics:
http://philip.greenspun.com/flying/cirrus-sr20 " In terms of avoiding an accident, one problem with the Cirrus is its unforgiving handling compared to other basic four-seaters. For pilots accustomed to learning about an impending stall by feeling reduced airloads on the flight controls, the Cirrus provides much less stall warning. This is due to spring cartridges that
assbot: Cirrus SR20 (and a bit about the SR22)
decimation: continue to resist flight control movement even when the airplane is not moving. In other words, the flight controls feel similar whether you're flying or stalled. "
mircea_popescu: <Apocalyptic> mircea, I enjoyed the last MPIF statement << cheers
mircea_popescu: <decimation> The most amusing thing about this story is the simple faith that Bob Builder expresses in USG: “You could tell the jets were extremely well-equipped << dunno if you've seen "the kite runner" ?
mircea_popescu: similarly amusing piece of agitprop. find out what child raping horrible guys teh taliban are!
mircea_popescu: the mere insertion of cp in there... the cia just can't stop sending niggers to infiltrate teh gru
mircea_popescu: <TheNewDeal> Have you ever heard of a plane with a parachute? << um all of em ?
mircea_popescu: <artifexd> punkman: Find any interesting physical coins or are Casascius coins still as good as it gets? << you ever seen my huge copper round ?
artifexd: Does it carry any block chain value or is it just pretty?
mircea_popescu: whoa shit, you mean a parachute FOR THE ACTUAL PLANE !?
decimation: mircea_popescu: yeah the whole plane has a parachute
decimation: mircea_popescu: as geenspun explains, it is a legitimate safety mechanism, but it doesn't make up for the apparently "comfortable" handling
mircea_popescu: because you just can'tg keep it in the water , and they know it
decimation: mircea_popescu: well, the theory on that one blog is that because it has a parachute, inexperienced derps think they are invincible
decimation: so for example one guy got in one late at night in bad weather and flew it into a hill
mircea_popescu: ie, sold not as an expensive and dangerous toy, but as a commuting tool.
decimation: anyone who thinks of small airplanes as a commuting tool has a date with death
mircea_popescu: "Normally a single-engine airplane has to be spun as part of the certification process. The Cirrus wasn’t. The FAA waived this requirement and accepted the airframe parachute as an alternate means of compliance. I kid you not, the spin recovery in a Cirrus is based on deploying the chute. That is the only way a pilot can recover from a spin in a Cirrus."
mircea_popescu: legitimate my foot and who the fuck would fly that. good call TheNewDeal
decimation: it is true that if you want to fly a little airplane you are better off with a basic piper cub without fancy electronics
mircea_popescu: forget the electronics, this isn't a question of electronics in any sense. this is a question of fucking foil in flow.
decimation: right, but the point is that the shiny electronics is what sells the plane as 'safe'
mircea_popescu: i can throw a rock off a tall building and it'll spoend some time in the air too, that doesn't make it an airplane.
decimation: if one really wants a reliable communting airplane, one needs to spend several million $ to buy a reasonable jet that can fly above weather
mircea_popescu: you know, it occurs to me, all these small single engine planes should be only launched upside down from like 3 meters. by law.
mircea_popescu: if it can't take off you just drop 3 meters and spend a month in casts for your sins
decimation: like Hammurabi's code for aeronautical engineers?
decimation: The other day I witnessed a particularly skilled glider pilot perform full loops, he did 3 in a row.
decimation: The pilot who landed that jet in the hudson was a skilled glider pilot
mircea_popescu: "mp's gallow" it should be called. Γ << launch from there.
decimation: mircea_popescu: I don't think any plane would survive that test
decimation: one would need a nazi-style rocket engine
assbot: Lockheed YMC-130 Combat Talon Operation Credible Sport JATO Accident - YouTube
decimation: asciilifeform: yeah it seems unlikely doesn't it?
assbot: Fatal Paragliding Accident Caught On Camera - YouTube
assbot: Coast Guard ends search for Brookfield pilot missing after crash
decimation: given the circumstances of the crash, I think it is likely that the cockpit pressurization system failed - or the guy had a heart attack
assbot: Skilcraft - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
decimation: apparently mandatory purchasing from the blind became mandatory under FDR! This revision of USG has grown long in the tooth.
assbot: 2 B2 or not 2 B2 | planesandstuff
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kakobrekla: arent these suppose to be on a 10 min.
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assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 5000 @ 0.00063792 = 3.1896 BTC [+]
artifexd: S.MPOE fell off a cliff again? Volatility that almost rivals BTC itself.
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punkman: after sleeping on it, I think I should try to make some of my own coins. Design suggestions welcome.
punkman: mircea_popescu: you ever seen my huge copper round ? << I thought you'd pull out a dick pic right there
punkman: but yeah that MJB design is everywhere. I think I might grab a couple.
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punkman: another thing supporting the "all on No" proposition
mircea_popescu: decimation blind people being able to do something with themselves other than mope isn't such a bad thing
mircea_popescu: <kakobrekla> i wanna complain to the bitcoin CEO. <<< satoshi is dead son.
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punkman: 10 BTC seems a bit expensive
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mircea_popescu: nah, there've been cases where paying acct got locked.
mircea_popescu: i don't mean from a "you run off with monyz" perspective, loath. i mean "paypal=assholes not keep that much there" perspective.
punkman: I've had PP limited twice when I spent a lot in one transaction
assbot: dpaste: 2ZAFGC5: Coinbase Inquisition, by tat
mircea_popescu: "We appreciate you being" did this get accepted meanwhile ?
fluffypony: I recently did about $35 000 through the local exchange, and all they did was email me to ask if there's anything they can do to improve their site
ThickAsThieves: "we know you wont do business with us if we ask, but we'd like to try asking anyway"
mircea_popescu: "find a business model where you don't need to ask or you don't have a business"
mircea_popescu: well that means your brain's not fallen to sclerosis yet :D
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mircea_popescu: fluffypony decided ah what the fuck, i can't sell this btc for paypal, might as well dump it on gambling.
assbot: dpaste: 2ZAFGC5: Coinbase Inquisition, by tat
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform to give the usg the false impression that its idiocy may work ?
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assbot: dpaste: 2ZAFGC5: Coinbase Inquisition, by tat
mircea_popescu: i have nfi why that bet is so lopsided on yes. for that matter, there could very well be a single block retarget before oct.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you familiar with premedieval economy in the north of europe ?
mircea_popescu: the reason the hansa existed, as a basis for german style civilisation and the fundament of what was later dutch (and, after the blodless dutch conquest of britannia, english commercialism)
mircea_popescu: was this peculiar behaviour of fish, to congregate in this particular spot up north, to the point they got so thick you could fish with a sword.
mircea_popescu: this created a cheap source of protein as well as incentives to industrialise, because salt was needed to cure the meat so it kept.
mircea_popescu: conveniently, salt was very easy to mine, and the process to cure very simple. it never ceases to amaze anyone who seriously studies anthropology not that water is conveniently a universal solvent AND AT THE SAME TIME has a huge caloric capacity,
mircea_popescu: making it thus possible for stable solute temperatures - althrough in principle there's no absolute reasons requiring this fortuitous coincidence life requires absolutely
mircea_popescu: but that every single other step was always althrough history equaly conveniently "just as long as the baby's shins"
mircea_popescu: moving on : as far as the at-the-time humans could tell, the fish were "a gift from god", who ordered them to surrender to human interest.
kakobrekla: great chinese usb b connector. you can rotate it 180 degrees and plugs in fine.
mircea_popescu: however, we know better right. so why did the fish regularly engage in a behaviour which the other party considered suicidal ?
kakobrekla: too bad you cant undo it with a hacksaw.
mircea_popescu: not people but things, nevertheless things have their own substance too. they exist.
mircea_popescu: and now you know more of business than virtually any business major in the continental us.
mircea_popescu: the entire fucking thing is basically cargo-cultism trying to re-enact the sounds of scania. somehow.
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mircea_popescu: ;;later tell mike_c hey is the wol chainwatcher behind on blocks ?
mircea_popescu: "you know what'd be best for you ? if after a long harrowing day you get to worry about thge weather and take off stressed in the dark"
mircea_popescu: punkman true story : one of the cab companies in timisoara is called "bimbo vest"
mircea_popescu: in costa rica, the wonderbread supplier is called BIMBO
assbot: ERCO Ercoupe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
kakobrekla: dc polarity protection without a diode (cant afford -0.5v) and without a relay (cant afford another -70ma) anyone ?
assbot: At last, the clothes store that lets you shoplift for a day - Telegraph
mircea_popescu: punkman afaik that's how 90% of white women uder 30 shop for clothes.
mircea_popescu: i recall this particularly instructive event when derpy noob woman started her own couture brand & shop
mircea_popescu: at some financial risk. but then her worries were rest at ease when > 25% of stock sold within a week
mircea_popescu: and then she went under as 90% of that was returned within another week
punkman: that's why you sell them online, and let them pay for shipping to return
ThickAsThieves: ha! i know that girl in the stock image on punkman's link
punkman: how's this for a coin inscription: ducunt volentem fata, nolentem trahunt
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mircea_popescu: A young lad who climed up in a tree was stung in the balls by a bee.He then made oodles of money by oozing pure honey every time he attempted to pee.
mircea_popescu: technology keeps empowering betas to be weird thus pissing women off
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves ;;rate ben_vulpes 2 Met IRL for drinks and neither of us murdered the other << lol neither of you strike as teh murderin' kind
assbot: Army’s New Laser Cannon Blasts Drones Out of the Sky, Even in Fog | Autopia | WIRED
mircea_popescu: the funny part here being how the line of the us agitprop was "o laser can't hurt our drones" for as long as it took em to finally get a laser mounted on a truck.
mircea_popescu: i have nfi why they imagine it'll be useful against "rockets" and mortar shot.
mircea_popescu: it's quite obviously there to protect the us spy ships from their own drones, which apparently the chnese are mostly lifting
mircea_popescu: " for use against incoming rockets, artillery and mortar strikes" the man said.
mircea_popescu: "the amazing technicolor rainbow suit. more effective than kevlar!"
mircea_popescu: (you know, the folk who know how to kite duel and cut wires ?)
mircea_popescu: "our strategy is to win by covering everything in plastic"
chetty: asciilifeform, forget the gasenwagen you'll get a nice little lab to build toys (with bars of course)
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mircea_popescu: <chetty> asciilifeform, forget the gasenwagen you'll get a nice little lab to build toys (with bars of course) << the special wagenb :D
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decimation: re: small plane safety:
http://philip.greenspun.com/flying/safety " If you don't want to die like JFK, Jr., who became disoriented on a dark and hazy night over water, don't fly at night or don't fly at night unless you're absolutely sure that it will be clear with a bright moon. If you don't want to die when a 25-year-old part fails in mid-air, get a new airplane. "
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decimation: "I will be there on June 5 at 6:00 pm." Pilots of light aircraft who utter sentences of that form are very high risk pilots, regardless of skill level.
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decimation: I have a simple solution to small aircraft accidents: don't let humans fly
decimation: yeah, pretty much, but car driving is a 'human right' in the us
decimation: his solution to "save the wales"? attach transponders so that humans can claim ownership
mircea_popescu: i think when people talk of saving things, the don't mean save them in the sense cockroaches are saved.
decimation: hehe yeah but they should. I suspect more chickens live and die in the us alone every year than all of humanity
mircea_popescu: if there was a way to save whales but it meant bottling them... if there was a way to attain immortality but you had to be an overweight, socially awkward shut-in ? etc.
mircea_popescu: yeah, there's still no substitute for petrified whale vomit.
decimation: asciilifeform: I thought that the usg signed stuff with rsa certs generally
decimation: "Federal prosecutors allege that Leonard Glenn Francis, the head of the Navy’s primary husbanding company in Asia, regularly enticed naval officers to direct warships to more lucrative ports for his business by offering bribes including junkets, prostitutes, cash — even “Lion King” tickets."
mircea_popescu: if he hadn't he should be fucking fired for being a humorless, idiotic puritan and bad for business.
decimation: this goes to what those in the us perceive as 'corruption'.
mircea_popescu: yes, but then again the us is chiefly known for having squandered a fortune and built up the history's largest pile of unserviced ious.
assbot: Chris Rock shows the Black Progress (Tiger Woods) - YouTube
decimation: yeah if you zoom out, you realize this guy (or really his navy masters) is getting dinged for throwing a good party for some tired sailors in exchange for a few spare mil$ here and there: corruption! Throwing away trillions on various welfare/healthfare schemes: legitimate!
mircea_popescu: decimation the difference ? "poor people aren't having FUN on those foodstamps".
mircea_popescu: it's so provincially, mean and narrow minded puritanism it bleeds.
mircea_popescu: there should be a word for this specifically american idiocy phenomenon. derpitanism or something.
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decimation: the permanent bureaucrats who run usg are famous for this attitude
decimation: I think this 'Puritanism' stems from a basic lack of skills on the part of the bureaucratic leaders. i.e. if you don't know how to write a contract for a nuclear submarine, you try to make sure that your employees are well dressed and that 'decorum' is kept.
mircea_popescu: this may be how it survived, but no. it stems from stupid us women going to churches run by stupid irish men, back in 1950.
mircea_popescu: and from the fact that the idiotic population of the us allowed the tavern lobby to be broken up and replaced by the church lobby.
mircea_popescu: a country in which dyonisos is defeated by apollon may do well for a while. but in this case, dyonisos was defeated by arachne.
mircea_popescu: (arachne, for they innocent of the classics, was a rude halfwit spinster - think modern day ceo-wannabe forum kid)
decimation: well when you give the vote to every breathing biped in a certain area this is pretty much what happens
mircea_popescu: it's nonsense anyway. the people who actually make money - and by consequence pay taxes - have little problem with limonov and a bunch of other idiots getting 300 bux a month or w/e it is they get. which is why most rich people will pick a eager young slut's rent tab & so forth. da fuck does it make a difference anyway.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile poor people resent other poor people for various reasons. "she's a slut" "he's a bum" "they're too self righteous" etc.
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decimation: yeah there's some truth to that. there's a matter of scale involved too
decimation: the problem is the divorce between 'charity' and 'responsible to authority'
mircea_popescu: what, you think the sultan of brunei actually fucks every girl in the 500+ strong harem ?
mircea_popescu: i know multiple chicks there, none of them having ever had it.
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mircea_popescu: danielpbarron the funniest part of all of this being that all the -otc derpheads that rate you have not actually and colectively traded as much.
mircea_popescu: anyway, orlov misses the major point here. it's not about rich/poor as a measurable characteristic. some people are strong, some people are weak. whether the weak are temporarily rich or permanently poor makes little difference at all, money's not for them anyway, nor anything else good in life.
mircea_popescu: so you know, telling me how strong people who temporarily became poor didn't really give much of a shit in terms of "the rich" is about as confusing as discussing pregnancy in terms of "look what people can do". tis not people, tis women and women only that can do it.
decimation: "Take it up with your propaganda—it's too strong" << all manner of misery results when people start believing their own bullshit
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mircea_popescu: kinda curious if the winter explosion takes us into e11 by new year's
mircea_popescu: decimation there's this tendency for hasing to go up significantly oct-nov-dec
decimation: the winklevii fund will open sometime around then as well, which might attract more usd into btc
mircea_popescu: that thing had been opening for > 1 year, and was going to matter imminently for about as long.
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decimation: yeah that's a good point. there's not a bitbet on this point interestingly
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BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Almost seems like it doesn't it.
BingoBoingo: Pretty sure he isn't the sort to have passed the lab component of any physics course
mircea_popescu: the notion that anything like the present usg survives not defeat in the field, but merely an unfavourable if momentary turn of events is pushing it into sf.
mircea_popescu: prolly a lot more usability, but little fundamental revision
BingoBoingo: Or their ego being unable to accept that their research subjects might be making jokes about them in front of their face
nubbins`: the word eskimo is seen as derogatory in canada these days, you don't really see it in print anymore
nubbins`: in canada, we knew it as what is now called "inuit" :D