asciilifeform: *mit et al

asciilifeform: naturally, this crud is simple smoke screen around the mot et al multi-year effort to permissionize btc.

asciilifeform: 'blockchain-flavoured' paypals.

asciilifeform: academitards were killing trees on 'permissioned coins' at least as early as '13

asciilifeform: old name

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-24#1573106 << central ☝︎

asciilifeform: ( hey -- at least honest !11 )

asciilifeform: 'this proggy also requires this razor coin to be anally present , to operate'

asciilifeform: lul 'permissioned coins'

asciilifeform: http://94.199.146.46 << lul ☟︎

asciilifeform bbl -- meat!

asciilifeform: not so many of these to date.

asciilifeform: and hah, a ru ip

asciilifeform: geoestimator thing such as the one kako had would be also neat, but i dun have one handy

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-24#1573004 << it is good to see the ip here ☝︎

asciilifeform assumed that it was trinque's drinking mate or such

asciilifeform: lemme guess, vex is back

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: seems like we agree on that one

asciilifeform: each d00d sits down at the blinkenlights panel and starts playing with knobs, and notices that they are mostly not connected to anything; and the ones that are, if he starts twiddling, Nice Polite Folx show up and gently tell him that he must stop, or There Will Be Problems.

asciilifeform: argument is that this movie is a rerun of jimmy carter election, where the man promised to 'show the aliens', or obummer, who promised 'legalize dope', etc.

asciilifeform: sled -- needs 4.

asciilifeform: cannot work without 2,3,4.

asciilifeform: now where's Dog2.

asciilifeform: a walking zero, with 0 ideas, no oratory ability, etc. but with audience and zog media exposure because ~selected~ to work as flytrap.

asciilifeform: the spencer d00d is a product of same machine

asciilifeform: 'lightning rod', if you will.

asciilifeform: but never quite went out of business, continues on as a kind of rush limbaugh

asciilifeform: ru version of mr.t. 'created' in '91 when kpss decided to permit 'the first second political party'

asciilifeform: trinque: are you familiar with zhirinovsky ?

asciilifeform: '“I don’t want to energize the group. I’m not looking to energize them. I don’t want to energize the group, and I disavow the group,” Trump said ...'

asciilifeform: or, or.

asciilifeform: or reconsidering THE WALL

asciilifeform: or 'keeping open mind' on 'climate change' treaty

asciilifeform: sparing clitler is no longer 'controversial' ?

asciilifeform: 'pray for asteroid' -- orlol

asciilifeform: it is the 'just wanteds' who get nailed, slightly preferentially.

asciilifeform: paradoxically, getting invaded and decimated -- is pretty good for 'you' (as biomaterial)

asciilifeform: it wasn't 'any' tho

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-23#1572876 << btw this does not always work. worked for, e.g., su 1941-45, but not, say germany, in same. or, say, britain ww1. the latter two -- culled the wrong 8. ☝︎

asciilifeform: did everybody miss last night's 'mr.t kowtows to nyt and disavows 'extremists' etc.' thing ?

asciilifeform: if there isn't a lenin, the answer will be 'against orcs, in world of orcraft'

asciilifeform: 'where to fight' is problem above the expendable muppet's pay grade.

asciilifeform: against pashtuns in afghan, to help keep cia heroin corridor into ru open ?

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: in your view, where ought they to fight ?

asciilifeform: i had nfi that it is possible to 'sound fat'

asciilifeform: somebody wake up BingoBoingo

asciilifeform: or this. thiel et al.

asciilifeform: (see kobain et al)

asciilifeform: iirc the thing one does when 'enough of those' is to eat one's shotgun

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: lol profit

asciilifeform: esp if he were named clinton

asciilifeform: trinque: see, he forgot to declare it a FOUNDATION... then it'd be a-ok

asciilifeform: what does mats recommend instead - wagner+cyanide ?

asciilifeform: which then broke down.

asciilifeform: on wheels.

asciilifeform: army wanted too! so build a land carrier.

asciilifeform: aha! and was in fact described in j. sladek's (1980s) 'tiktok'

asciilifeform: or not project-enough.

asciilifeform: mats: how about war-in-afghan?

asciilifeform: intrinsically-unstable surfaces, or what was it.

asciilifeform: well it was sold as a 'software-controlled, smart' whateverthefuck

asciilifeform: iirc f35 also knew how to fly. for short bursts.

asciilifeform: possibly. the ultimate platinum-iridium-diamond toilet.

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: the pictured plane -- there are supposedly ~four~ of

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-23#1572807 << 1 shell for the mega-cannon probably costs 5mil. and a reload of all of the toilet paper holders on board -- perhaps the full 10. ☝︎

asciilifeform: ^ film was, it seems, taken by some unnamed official given 'vip tour', includes everything from toilets, bedrooms, to 'sooper seekrit' knobs etc.

asciilifeform: 'flying pentagon'

asciilifeform: speaking of world's largest and least defensible golden toilets, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maZdUtB0ojs << very very speshul one, public only recently

asciilifeform: lul

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it was just a song, 'gotta cut their balls, cut their balls'

asciilifeform: Framedragger: the 'cut the balls' link is a riotous lul btw

asciilifeform: lul

asciilifeform: they had very similar promisetron where you could 'view all of the balances'

asciilifeform: in fact, i found the link in a spam from 'bullionvault', to which i was once a subscriber

asciilifeform: Framedragger: it appears to be run by folx who did 'allocated gold' etc.

asciilifeform: https://web.archive.org/web/20010123231000/http://www.ftc.gov/opa/predawn/F93/cisco.txt << lel from BingoBoingo's old link

asciilifeform: 'When the economy collapses, hard-drinking people everywhere find all the more reason to get drunk, but much less wherewithal with which to procure drink. In Russia, innovative market-based solutions were quickly improvised, which it was my privilege to observe. ' << orlov's megaclassic, http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/062805_soviet_lessons_part2.shtml

asciilifeform: '5,000 of Wild Southern Rose plz'

asciilifeform: 'i'd like 10,000 shares of Night Train plox'

asciilifeform: which no doubt will flower as usa collapse marches on

asciilifeform: the concept ought to be carried to its logical conclusion -- e.g., why limit to 'high end' whisky, why not also give option to invest in rotgut 'penny stocks'

asciilifeform initially assumed 'early april fool joke' but the thing shows symptoms of actually existing...

asciilifeform: in other lulz, https://www.whiskyinvestdirect.com ☟︎

asciilifeform: or, or.

asciilifeform: or if whitened (is there a linux kernel where it isn't..?)

asciilifeform: if yer /dev/random is fed by intel crapolade, then also

asciilifeform: Framedragger: if you don't believe this, go, profile it, see.

asciilifeform: Framedragger: most of the time folks spend 'waiting for rsa' in, e.g., gnupg, is spent waiting for the idiot /dev/random

asciilifeform: Framedragger: they are, and 'p' shoots it in the head.

asciilifeform: (it isn't hard)

asciilifeform: btw when 'p' is out i will show folks who want to keep their old moduli, how

asciilifeform: ditto phuctor.

asciilifeform: from ordinary rfc2440/4880 key.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'pgpdump' will extract handily.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu can still key in 'trilema' in his browser. but his nic will spit out entire pubkey.

asciilifeform: the only ~protocolic~ answer is to do business with pubkeys. now you ~can~ shorten them 'in the harem'

asciilifeform: global indices of 'memorable' names, or 'safely' shortened rsa pubkeys, are promisetronic. ☟︎

asciilifeform: it is promisetronic.

asciilifeform: one of them being - the fp.