Posts by Lanny

2015-09-26 at 8:34 PM UTC in Suggest me some beer.

Lanny Bird of Courage

If by PBR you mean Pabst Blue Ribbon I'm laughing at it being called a hipster beer. That stuff is straight up redneck, white socks, and blue ribbon beer.

Yeah, that's what everyone laughs about. It was, and maybe in most of the country still is, a redneck beer but in urban centers where you see more hipsters than rednecks it definitely has a reputation as a hipster beed. Mostly because "hipsters" really do drink the shit like nothing else.

2015-09-26 at 7:45 AM UTC in ATTN: PLEBS

Lanny Bird of Courage

4chan is the other way m8, you seem lost.

2015-09-26 at 7:44 AM UTC in Have any of you accomplished anything of significance?

Lanny Bird of Courage

At this point your particular brand of self-hype/shit-talk really just feels nostalgic of like the early 2000s internet. It could almost be pleasant to reminisce on if not for the fact that it was cringy as fuck than and it's cringy as fuck now.

2015-09-26 at 7:38 AM UTC in Have any of you accomplished anything of significance?

Lanny Bird of Courage

Shut the fuck up lanny. The happiest moment of your life was when your alcoholic father took you to family fun center when you were a child.

I get fucked up and post repressed childhood memories on these boards on a regular basis. I know you can do better than that. Faggot.

2015-09-26 at 7:36 AM UTC in Site is too slow

Lanny Bird of Courage

I mean I agree, speed it shitty. Ironically the cause isn't my cheapie server (well maybe to some extent, but non-braindead devs could make software to support this level of traffic on this level of hardware easily) but because of vbulletins retarded cachebusting system. One of these days I'm going to get around to ripping the whole thing out and replacing it with something quasi-sane but then being an alcoholic and a straight G takes a lot of time so I'm not putting a definite ETA on it.

2015-09-26 at 7:24 AM UTC in Suggest me some beer.

Lanny Bird of Courage

I've have PBR before, it's just generic, inoffensive but uninteresting. I mean I'd drink it out of a red cup or something but I'd never order it in a bar simply because it's such the cliche hipster beer and people give me enough shit on that front anyway. I'd reliably pick heineken over PBR in a blind taste taste any day of the week.

2015-09-26 at 7:17 AM UTC in Question for Libertarians/AnCaps

Lanny Bird of Courage

1.) Tough luck. Aggregates are what ultimately matter and no system is perfect.

Well there go all the justice and natural rights arguments for libertarianism. It might not matter to you since you're basically a nihilist (refusing, so far as I've been able to tell, to acknowledge an objective normative good) and all your political arguments basically boil down to trying to shame the opposition. But for people who have an actual ideological foundation to inform their beliefs (like soph) then admitting libertarianism naturally leads to "unfair" economic situations causes a number of problems. Firstly it defeats the idea that libertarianism is justified by some pre-held notion of the value of meritocracy and brings to light that the market does not, and never has, ensured a global optimum. Somewhat more philosophically, but I think more devastatingly, it forces the libertarian into forming a dichotomy between natural (inevitable, or permissible) monopolies and "unnatural" or "man-made" monopolies (like using martial force limit access to resources or markers (as governments do)). The issue natural demarcation is unresolved in philosophy, considered by many to be intractable; any political theory running afoul of it is basically a non-starter.

2015-09-26 at 6:33 AM UTC in Suggest me some beer.

Lanny Bird of Courage

IPAs are pretty hot at the moment. Lots of breweries make an IPA, Lagunitas' offering is my favorite (it's literally just sold as "IPA"). It's a good non-shit every day drinking beer that won't break the bank.

Sours are my prefered kind of beer, particularly Almanac which has pretty good distribution in the US but it's hard to find the same beer twice with them.

People shit on heineken but in absence of something better (like if all you've got is Bud and co.) it's my beer of choice, it actually has flavor even if it isn't the best and it's not some soupy dark ale bullshit.

2015-09-26 at 3:47 AM UTC in Question for Libertarians/AnCaps

Lanny Bird of Courage

Suppose my company is the only supplier of water to a small town and owns all of the pumping, purification and supply infrastructure. I'm rather greedy and just raised my prices again, and some of my customers are now dissatisfied with my service. Another business thinks they can do better and wants to get in on the game. I refuse to sell them the right to use any of my infrastructure because it's not in my interest to have competition, and although they have the capital to build their own, it would be wasteful and inefficient to have multiple lines servicing the same area. They end up investing in a different area with less risk, and establish their own water supply monopoly.

Without a central regulatory body, how do you prevent this from happening?

I once posed almost exactly this question to the ancaps of the community. Interested in seeing what response you get.

2015-09-26 at 3:43 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition

Lanny Bird of Courage

While we're on the topic of vaporizers does anyone have any recommendations? My only real requirement is that it works off herb rather than liquid or whatever, something cheap and dinky is find as long as it isn't total shit. Don't care about portability or anything. I technically have asthma but the only time it's bothered me in years is when smoking pot (funny enough cigarettes do nothing).

My education in home repair consisted of my stepdad telling me 'just try everything and mess around with it until it works again'

I know that feel braj. Both my parents were middle class college graduates and while they weren't like world class geniuses I grew up in an atmosphere where intellectual pursuits were considered to have like some sort of moral primacy while anything physical, "handy" or whatever, was a distraction or waste of time. I mean I firmly believe that I have a better life for it but every now and then I feel like I kinda missed out on an interesting corner of human activity. When I was in high school I did some weaving on a loom in an art class mostly just to kill time but I got really into it, the mechanics of operating the loom, the thousands of little actions, each giving immediate feedback, good or bad, feeling something take shape under my hands. It's very different from how I normally operate but there was a rhythm to it, a kind of blissful emptiness of thought that wasn't idleness (doing nothing will drive me up a wall). I wouldn't want to spend every day like that but every now and then I find myself doing something slow, mechanical but methodical, feeling that way and it's a really nice change of pace.

2015-09-26 at 2:22 AM UTC in Freedom or Security

Lanny Bird of Courage

Sure, but if private gun ownership would be widespread. The more severe crimes which actually involve two people facing each other(Think murder, rape robbery) would decline because of the increased risk to the would be rapist or whatever.

You'll need to demonstrate that, and the degree of such a decline (because the benefit will need to be weighed against any increase in rates of gun violence or general crime for which the police are a deterrent today).

Sure, a specialized group of people would have a better chance of catching a criminal but not stopping the crime from happening.

Spectrals argument was deterrence from the start, if you're going to say that guns are good because criminals will be deterred by threat of being shot then you seem to owe us an account of why the threat of capture by the police (which you to admit is more reliable) is less effective.

You seem to have little faith in people, but that's a topic for another day. Here's my argument: I am pretty sure, that a regular citizen can recognize a situation wherein the use of deadly force would be appropriate. It's kind of hard to miss that you're being robbed when you have a gun or a knife in your face for instance.

Fine, most people would probably never commit murder in a modern society with widespread gun ownership that was otherwise unchanged. But the issue is that there are enough people who aren't "regular citizens" to make such policy a win. One person with a gun can do a significant amount of damage and consider that even normal people have moments of poor decision making, they might be under the influence of something or momentarily enrage to the point of being willing to kill where they usually wouldn't.

2015-09-26 at 2:03 AM UTC in Have any of you accomplished anything of significance?

Lanny Bird of Courage

my net worth is higher than the sum of everyone else on this website.

now please, when you address me you need to do so respectfully - after all I am MUCH more important than you.

I thought this was a thread about accomplishments, not laughable lies to try to garner respect from drug addled and/or mentally disturbed strangers on the internet

2015-09-25 at 5:36 PM UTC in Freedom or Security

Lanny Bird of Courage

You do realize that the study you've linked to is on how the death penalty is a deterrence or not? I'll agree that this is a reasonable(meh) argument against spectral's claim, if we assume the incidence of murderers getting caught is 100%(Which it's not by the way). Since he said: "if people know they'll get dead if they fuck someone over, there would probably be a lot less problems in the world". And failed to provide significant details pertaining to the issue of private gun ownership.

However it's not evidence that supports that private gun ownership doesn't work as a deterrence to criminals. The distinction i'd make here is that with private gun ownership the risk of death or severe bodily harm on the part of the criminal is increased exponentially due to the immediacy of the situation.

But the argument for widespread private gun ownership has the same issue: criminals can still get away with crimes. If a burglar rips off your place while you're at work you could have an atomic weapon at your disposal yet you're no more likely to be able to catch the thief. In fact one would suspect a professional police force will have a better chance of catching criminals than an armed populous since they have the time, training, and resources to pursue for much longer than a purely economically motivated individual (at some point you have to call off the chase and get back to work, the police can keep a case open for years if necessary). And this is to say nothing the injustices we can reasonably expect to see in a world where a person with enough personal confidence in their accusation is judge, jury, and executioner.

2015-09-25 at 6:16 AM UTC in Freedom or Security

Lanny Bird of Courage

I'll have you back that claim up with some actual numbers if you'd be so kind.

It's worth pointing out I don't strictly need to in order to make my point. It's spectral who's making the positive claim here (that making it easier for the citizenry to kill people will reduce incidence of crime), at most I would have to back out of my statement that his initial claim is false leaving any reasonable person to a state of agnosticism at best. It is, however, easy enough to find evidence of how the risk of death, above and beyond incarceration, does not give have good evidence in support of its efficacy in reducing the crime for which it is a punishment: http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/DonohueDeter.pdf

2015-09-25 at 5:05 AM UTC in What's wrong with my class.

Lanny Bird of Courage

Hmm, so it looks like your `_init_` method isn't getting called (worth sticking a print in there to make sure though). I assumed the _init_ was part of cooperative subclassing but that might be wrong. Are you sure `_init_` isn't supposed to be `__init__` (two underscores instead of one)? Same thing with `_new_`. __init__ and __new__ are special method names in python, the constructor and the, uhh, proto-constructor(?) respectively. If you're not sure try reversing my unpack changes and using the double underscore names and see if that makes a difference.

2015-09-25 at 4:58 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition

Lanny Bird of Courage

Lol yes, that's like 5000 good doses.

$60 a gram. 3-7g is quite a lot considering the dosage.

Yeah, like I said I want to store most of it. I don't expect it to remain legal too much longer (honestly surprised how long it's remained unscheduled so far) but benzos are a good thing to have on hand. And it cheap enough that I might as well

So I've been trying to quit drinking every day because my needy whore of a gf doesnt like it plus 3rd year university and shit. I make at least $200-500 tax free erryday and need to buy a car but have no license. The people closest to me are the ones that drive me insane. A week or so ago I thought that girl was pregnant (hasnt had her period since august 2nd) so we talked about it, then I got a call so we went to a hotel, me and a guy went out for a smoke and when I got back she was acting weird and I realized she did coke behind my back so the next day I took her to a bridge, threw her purse and coffee off and told her I'll kill her if she tries to keep the baby. Thankfully yesterday she took her 5th or 6th negative pregnancy test. I plan on cheating on her tonight and she already suspects I'm going to and can't stop me so hopefully tomorrow I'll just tell her I cheated so have some self respect and fuck off. I take concerta and oxycontin everyday and of course smoke weed/hash and drink. I've accepted my alcoholism and the physical effects it brings every morning, thankfully I learned how to live with this from my old man back in the day. I live in a pretty nice apartment in a pretty nice area surrounded by asians. I have enough money to buy a good used car and have a bunch left over, put a down payment on a house or potentially get a business off the ground. I got a 5k line of credit I'm going to pay off within a few months of receiving. I literally have no taxable income either, just niggers who are willing to say I have a job. I have 160 or some odd hours of community service to do by the end of the year I've been lying to my PO and saying I've been doing. I'm literally going to register a company before deciding what to do with it. My gf says she never got anxiety (or multiple orgasms) before me and I can't remember the last day where I didn't see her cry.

I need to shit so bad right now right now right now

So basically you're scum, your girlfriend is scum, and think you're hot shit for being and fucking scum. Well, grats I guess, might as well feel good about it.

2015-09-25 at 4:29 AM UTC in Freedom or Security

Lanny Bird of Courage

But one the other hand, if people know they'll get dead if they fuck someone over, there would probably be a lot less problems in the world. For example, even if you justifiably kill someone, someone could come and kill you, too, if they feel it was unjustified. That forces people to carefully consider the probable consequences when they feel like getting stupid, whether they are in the right or wrong would be immaterial. Bunch of crooked bankers? No problem. We'll just string the fuckers up. Wouldn't find too many crooked bankers flaunting it in that kind of world. I kind of like the natural simplicity of having no laws. I like the law of the jungle.

Except that we find, empirically, that this simply isn't true.

2015-09-24 at 6:29 AM UTC in What's wrong with my class.

Lanny Bird of Courage

Ooops, my bad, replace `unpacked = struct.unpack('!BBHHHBBHII', raw_buffer[1:20])` with `unpacked = struct.unpack('!BHHHBBHII', raw_buffer[1:20])` (one less B at the beginning). I was including those two nibbles at the start in the format string.

2015-09-24 at 6:06 AM UTC in What's wrong with my class.

Lanny Bird of Courage

So I'm not _really_ sure how this needs to work but I'm pretty sure you need to unpack that byte array (represented as a string) before passing it to the constructor. Your IP class has room for 20 bytes of data (hence the len 20 slice) but you have to unpack the string into fields to make it work.

Instead of `ip_header = IP(raw_buffer[0:20])` try:


import struct
unpacked = struct.unpack('!BBHHHBBHII', raw_buffer[1:20])
unpacked = (unpacked[0] & 0xF, unpacked[0] >> 4) + unpacked[1:]

ip_header = IP(*unpacked)

I don't really know if that's going to work or not but give it a whirl. What we're doing here is splitting the byte string up into component parts ("unpacking" it) before feeding it to the IP class

2015-09-24 at 5:36 AM UTC in What Games Are You Currently Playing

Lanny Bird of Courage

Lanny confirmed for cyborg. There were some guys who made a machine learning program to play games with, it was pretty good at Mario and shit but sucked at Tetris as the stack of blocks came ever closer to the top prompting the game to be over soon, the the program played the only move it could as not to have to go game over/end the game and pressed pause.

Haha, that's funny. Interesting that the algorithm was general enough to pull a kind of "meta" move like that, you wouldn't usually think of pause as an element of gameplay for tetris.

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