asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: as i understand, it fell victim to the idjit internal wars b/w diff 'competing' golden toilet houses

asciilifeform: iirc it was axed as a 'lisp machine', cost like 100 ordinary jets. and they thought 'world's most golden toilet', the time of f35 , that ate ~three decades~ in promisetronic phase and now flying clothes iron... had not come yet

asciilifeform: aerial parade however was held, fwiw, and even in rain. coupla tired old jets + the public's favourite golden toilet, the 'stealth bomber'.

asciilifeform: there's half dozen or so 'golden toilet' processes.

asciilifeform: i.e. why would they want to turn golden toilet into sub-cent margin 'commoditized m3 screw' ☟︎

asciilifeform: 'no one has yet created body armor with air conditioning built in' << iirc this was actually commissioned during usg's iraq adventure. ( or at the very least, a golden toilet contract was issued for it, i have nfi what the accompanying theatrical prop looked like, and whether anyone bothered to produce )

asciilifeform: nobody seems to publish the test data on subj tho, aside from 'golden toilet' ic houses

asciilifeform: mega-supplier of golden toilet. same folx who e.g. conned the ministry of subway trains into buying $maxint 'detectors' ( that later all thrown out, ~homeopathic )

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i suspect that ssd makers dun particularly want folx using cheap stix in place of golden toilet 'adult' ssd.

asciilifeform: aside from golden toilet satellite gear makers, it seems to be the fpga folks who most concern with 'single event upset' ( term of art for this item ) , as a flipped bit in fpga config , even down on earth, routinely translates into magicsmokerelease

asciilifeform: Mocky: funnily enuff, it was resisted ( by lockheed et al, the whole golden toilet 'industry' ) from ~day1, and is pretty much dead in usgdom ( with respect to new contracts ) , the brass began to succumb to 'use cpp + massmarket programmertards + these-here-fancy-auditing-toolz-that-totally-work-we-promise in 1990 or so)

asciilifeform: sorta accounts for my somewhat contrarian reaction to the much-advertised 'golden toilet' aspect of ceaucescu

asciilifeform: plenty of unsolved technical problems, of the 'yes, golden toilet from lockheed exists, but how about a human-priced version that pisses on patents and 'property''

asciilifeform: because diode -- still golden toilet.

asciilifeform: the interesting bit is not the golden toilet aspect, but that mit bought up a good % of the whole run

asciilifeform: looks like golden toilet asicization exists (existed) ?

asciilifeform: the humble grass cutter went the way of the pc -- you get to choose between affordable rubbish and 'must amortize and work this for pay' golden toilet

asciilifeform: not mega-surprise : d00d builds and tests 'golden toilet' 'quantum effectz' rngs for a career

asciilifeform: and it isn't as if the original golden toilet of this genre, 'segway', had not bombed

asciilifeform: golden toilet people.

asciilifeform: ( in that you can get it out of 'shelf' industrial equip, vs 'golden toilet' )

asciilifeform: ( asciilifeform guesses : massive golden toilet backuptrons installed )

asciilifeform: and just as 'golden toilet' demonstrative.

asciilifeform: orcs just pour golden toilet, and prop up western 'bank' chumpatron.

asciilifeform: 'let's take the most useless golden toilet in usgdom and BUILD BIGGER BETTER ORCER STRONGER'

asciilifeform: ( speaking of golden toilet, factory sent me a gold-plated ruler! complete with drill guide. -- yes, made of finest pcb . for lulz. )

asciilifeform: could make miners, instead of whatever arse-penetrating radar controller golden toilet rubbish. for just one or two shifts.

asciilifeform: no golden toilet either?!

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'quantum communication' is golden toilet nonsense, for the cost of building the link, you can perma-sync a thousand years of OTP.

asciilifeform: (though so far i found only 'golden toilet' vendors, e.g., http://www.pyramidsemiconductor.com/products/microprocessor/1750.html )

asciilifeform: quite likely there is an eight-figure golden toilet contract right at this very moment to attempt to roster, e.g., ts clearance holders who show symptoms of having used bitcoin. and the like.

asciilifeform: but, why the fuck would anyone donate family gold to prop up emperor's golden toilet

asciilifeform: so long as the books sum to 0, can have luxury hookers made of caviar at the foot of every golden toilet in the office

asciilifeform: nothing magic about these, other than the 'hand-forged golden toilet' aspect.

asciilifeform: again the 'expensive' thing is rather like observing that f-16 parts are costly. yes, because golden toilet buyers. compare instead with mig.

asciilifeform: for less than golden toilet price, anyway.

asciilifeform: golden toilet is 'status object', can be displayed.

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-28#1473090 << and golden toilet hotel even. ☝︎

asciilifeform: (consider folks who came out golden from su collapse, e.g., mircea_popescu, putin, etc. ; is it because they prophetically set up warehouses of toilet paper ??)

asciilifeform: so what if the thing let me use a 5k usd spectrophotometre instead of 50k golden toilet that has FEWER wavelengths ?!

asciilifeform: re: the hardware pr0n link earlier, it is a good example of what i call an ~iridium toilet~ - as DISTINCT from a golden toilet, it is a device that is build with 1) price is no object 2) NOT FOR showing off and playing idiot tlp rolex status games.

asciilifeform: (the cases of which were solid steel, with tempest mesh - copper, gilded fingers! on all contact interfaces, pure golden toilet)

asciilifeform: but of course 'golden toilet' as none would run msdos, be produced with the latest however-nanometre mosfets, etc, etc.

asciilifeform: he'll be living with the golden toilet and the palaces forever.

asciilifeform: not even golden, but monocrystalline diamond toilet.

asciilifeform bbl, off to polish golden toilet

asciilifeform: golden toilet.

asciilifeform: if someone steals his golden toilet, and thief answers 'i did not claim it was mine, just took it' ?

asciilifeform: it's either consumer 50 or else spend 5mn. exactly like wines. << mircea_popescu probably did not intend this double meaning, but it is EXACTLY like wines at this point. because the 5mn computer you can get today is not actually any but a cosmetic 'golden toilet' improvement over the 50.

asciilifeform: decimation: the rf amp is the golden toilet

asciilifeform: at any rate this is a golden toilet

asciilifeform: put a 'pabst' fluid bearing 80mm in there. golden toilet, should last.

asciilifeform: americans took the whole 'golden sniper toilet' thing almost to logical conclusion, with microprocessorized wind&elevation calculators, bullets turned on lathes (!), etc

asciilifeform: now, despite fact that 'you get what you pay,' the sc4mz0rz who try to herd common folks into 'enterprisey' golden toilet service contracts are still scum

asciilifeform: but sans the $maxint of high vacuum golden toilet

asciilifeform: the nozzles (disposable, golden toilet) clog, etc.

asciilifeform: another factor is that the 'middle kingdom' has yet to invent the modern military golden toilet.

asciilifeform does not often have praise for usa, but cannot deny that it is a first-class graveyard for surplus golden toilet tech - e.g., machines like the 'tecan 200' (see ancient thread) originally costing 1/3 $mil can be had for ~5-10k usd, etc.

asciilifeform: golden toilet.

asciilifeform: i could used a golden toilet too

asciilifeform: decimation: golden toilet

asciilifeform: not famous for music. but happened to purchase a number of rare instruments, iirc, to pluck at while sitting on golden toilet

asciilifeform: connecting it to either a tape recorder (no smaller, even in the most 'golden toilet' variant, than an auto pistol) - or to an actual set of headphones on a head.