Matches for chumpatron, 191 total results Sorted by newest | relevance
Wed Jun 04 04:35:13 UTC 2014 <asciilifeform> unwritten u.s. law - no house anywhere near a city, with working plumbing, not in 'live fire zone', etc. will be sold for 'pocket money' to a human (i.e. sans mortgage chumpatron)
Tue May 27 00:10:36 UTC 2014 <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: this used to be a major chumpatron in usa. in fact, not long ago, in restaurant, i saw a tv showing a 'we help you patent your Invention 111!11!' ad.
Thu May 08 03:03:53 UTC 2014 <decimation> you can see how this feeds the above-outlined chumpatron
Thu May 08 02:51:41 UTC 2014 <decimation> the greater chumpatron sucks chumps attempting to evade lesser chumpatrons
Wed May 07 01:44:53 UTC 2014 <asciilifeform> (chumpatron exhaust stinks)
Wed May 07 01:44:38 UTC 2014 <asciilifeform> one could argue that 'we' ought to still take an interest in these lost souls, if only to prevent them from ending as fuel, stoking chumpatron
Tue May 06 02:28:50 UTC 2014 <asciilifeform> taking pre-orders for improbably nice electronics is a good preliminary filter for a chumpatron.
Sat Apr 26 15:40:36 UTC 2014 <bounce> heh. you should like a saudi arabia of suckers. high quality chumpatron at state level.
Sun Apr 13 22:25:57 UTC 2014 <bounce> the us "justice" system appears to be a, waht was it, chumpatron with press gangs
Thu Apr 10 03:40:12 UTC 2014 <benkay> ;;later tell mike_c i guess the appropriate local metaphor would be "for those who prayed, dove through, and magically weren't sliced to bits by the chumpatron"
Sun Apr 06 15:13:31 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> i can accumulate. the average middle class guy in the chumpatron, can not.
Sun Apr 06 04:50:50 UTC 2014 <asciilifeform> high talent individuals go to silicon valley << world-renowned chumpatron. leaving aside the question of whether the folks there 'work' (in the sense of producing anything valuable) - they get sheared very properly, for much of what they make - at least the ones who wouldn't care to commute 4 hrs/day
Sun Apr 06 04:31:25 UTC 2014 <decimation> well, the us today is pretty much an enormous chumpatron
Sun Apr 06 04:29:46 UTC 2014 <asciilifeform> there is, for instance, a kind of gristly and sinewy chump that grinds apart in the chumpatron very reluctantly
Fri Mar 28 22:49:29 UTC 2014 <decimation> apparently there is sufficient fuel remaining to re-open the gox chumpatron
Fri Mar 28 21:11:07 UTC 2014 <mike_c> asciilifeform: facebook has over 1 billion users. chumpatron will never run out of fuel.
Thu Mar 27 16:44:06 UTC 2014 <asciilifeform> does this sort of thing even have a name << chumpatron.
Wed Mar 26 15:26:37 UTC 2014 <asciilifeform> one can still decide on the degree to which to play the chumpatron. no one is forced to buy 401k, yet.
Wed Mar 26 15:25:21 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> so no, participation in the us chumpatron is voluntary in the sense participation in the communist party was voluntary.
Wed Mar 26 15:18:13 UTC 2014 <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: the 401k-dollar and the cocaine-stained-dollar << nobody forces people to jump in chumpatron