asciilifeform: hey it isn't any crazier than the geoip routine
asciilifeform: trinque: how much sweat would it take to add procedure, attempt http (80) and https (445) on phucked ip, then post http title, if found, and in case of ssl, cert id string
asciilifeform: (cash'n'carry and i-switch-suppliers-on-a-five-minute-whim are your only guards against doctored-chip-just-for-you-at-ftmeade)
asciilifeform: mats: i will underscore the point: i am entirely, thoroughly, monumentally disinterested in purchasing industrial component where i gotta make a cousin-fucking relationship with some orc even before i get something like a quote. no anonymous cash'n'carry? not wanted in my supply line, not if there is an alternative.
asciilifeform: 'some d00d on $phorum promises megatonne for a penny' is not 'supplier'.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-28#1574333 << 1) i want the raw chip 2) i want a steady supplier, not a d00d with 0 connection to my wot (including vendors i've personally used as 'connection' for this purpose)☝︎
asciilifeform: the only piece i'm not sold on is the 'liberasty kills every great empire' thing. yes, it is ~found in the corpse~ of every great empire, but it is precisely the aids fungi.
asciilifeform: and yes these were glues holding empire together. fuck empire.
asciilifeform: i deeply dun get it, what is so greatly sane about snarfing down the transubstantiation, trinities, etc. crapolade ?
asciilifeform: typically the ~other~ end of bartholomew is depicted as 'flash mob'. but yes.
asciilifeform: killing fungus-of-the-day only staves off the ever more spectacular inevitable and gangrenous liquifaction.
asciilifeform: and actually i'm willing to buy mircea_popescu's 'they were similar in every way that counts.' just that i remain unconvinced that either is anything but the fungus growing on aids patient
asciilifeform: the hugenots et al., afaik, were 'serious'. vs the liberast 'hipster-ironic', 'global whatevering happens except when al gore's jet is flying', etc
asciilifeform: the only similarity that i can see is that they are the maggots on a corpse.
asciilifeform: engine -- the princes going their own way, the ungluing of the cheapo knockoff rome thing they had going.
asciilifeform: luther's 'chrome' is similar to every other demagogue's.
asciilifeform: there is the 'engine' and the 'chrome', i.e. the actual motive ideology, vs the window-dressing. similar to usg's 'hyooman rights!1111' chrome, around a 'market for hollywood and cocacola' engine.
asciilifeform: incidentally, they were not the most catastrophically 'burn it all' radical, either. picture if muntzer et al had won instead.
asciilifeform: fr-speaking protestants ? afaik luther et al sprung out of a very clearly decaying corpse of the church, and not external baccilae of any sort
asciilifeform: i'm not sold on the notion that the protagonists of these great axe-times, sword-times, map readily onto modern folx
asciilifeform: subj btw is a thoroughly worked concept in ru sphere, where folx got to watch 'consumer revolution' unfold in fast-forward picture in 1990s
asciilifeform: it isn't even the cheapening. trabant did 0 damage to the ~idea~ of the auto. it is instead the deliberate mass-farming of subhuman 'democratic' fungus.
asciilifeform: mats: it means that i don't pay motherfucking retail price. y'know, one where you feel like complete idiot because 'hack magazine' folk are buying ENTIRE BOARDS for below what you pay per-chip.
asciilifeform: (they must've used same consultant as who made klingon)
asciilifeform: iirc it was also in 'submarine red october'
asciilifeform: mats: that is a problem shared with every cpu ever made, it is not really a problem
asciilifeform: (and woe be to the experimenter who actually needs to know whether such a component is available in bulk, where, at what price point, or for how long ! )
asciilifeform: now if you want to buy a quintillion of them, yes, china will send a steamer with 10,000,001 crates. but this is quite irrelevant to an experimenter.
asciilifeform: ( in a much earlier even thread , about the marvell chipset used in pogotron, i found same thing -- the chip is simply not www-orderable in the west, at least not at any kind of price point that isn't a laugh when stood next to the price of whole pogo )
asciilifeform: but fwiw the encapsulated item is about 1 $ via various channels
asciilifeform: the thing that cooled asciilifeform's interest (to a slow simmer) is that the things remain unavailable in-bulk other than via chinese meatwot or something else inaccessible by asciilifeform
