asciilifeform: ( or perhaps the destroyed ones, are not really melted, they are stored for this ritual somewhere )

asciilifeform: so as to continue this.

asciilifeform: i can't help but picture that eventually they will have to cast ~new~ lenins. ☟︎

asciilifeform: every year i hear about, e.g., 'lenin knocked down in warsaw' -- always gotta wonder 'WHERE? was it hiding all of this time?!' ☟︎

asciilifeform: and sometimes statue plays same role but 'with minus sign', e.g. in the post-su lands they ~saved~ some lenins, so as to mutilate/tear down in measured doses later , when wanting to give some extra suction treat to western cock

asciilifeform: ( granted, there is not always anything useful ~to~ be learned. )

asciilifeform: and instead will lock on to happenstance

asciilifeform: trinque: iirc it was naggum who had a piece re how folx with trauma, do not necessarily or even often learn anything useful from said trauma

asciilifeform: 'how didja lose that leg, grandfather?' 'fighting for walmart'

asciilifeform: there's a reason why the folx coming back from the various vietnams, come back with dope habits, instead of menschkeit , phf

asciilifeform: phf: and them texas bois, every bit as ready to http://btcbase.org/log/2015-08-19#1244654 afaik , as ever. ☝︎

asciilifeform: in the place where normal folx have culture, what organ did they have.

asciilifeform: i was curious specifically re what they instead had, trinque .

asciilifeform: they missed what they could remember of actual culture. of europe.

asciilifeform: in chicago , in the handful of 19th c building that hadn't yet been torn down to make glass idiocies, there are murals. of what the 1890s folx thought were greek muses, mythical heroes, etc.

asciilifeform: for n00bz in the audience : poetry recital was good % of total mass of early schooling.

asciilifeform had a spiffy picture book ver of that thing, as a little kid

asciilifeform: glanced at me to make sure I was getting it down.' (tm)(r)('anathem')

asciilifeform: oblig: '“Are people starving to death? Or are they sick because they are too fat?” Artisan Quin scratched his beard and thought about that one. “You’re talking of slines, I assume?” Fraa Orolo shrugged. Quin thought that was funny. Unlike Artisan Flec, he was not afraid to laugh out loud. “Sort of both at the same time,” he finally admitted. “Very good,” said Fraa Orolo, in a now we’re getting somewhere tone, and

asciilifeform: phf: from my admittedly distant perch, loox like some of 1, some of the other.

asciilifeform: i was thinking of current-day ru as the arab-egyptian. but yes.

asciilifeform: this is the basic problem with http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-13#1669415 . ☝︎

asciilifeform: what's left , has ~same relation to the original, as current-day egypt to the pharaonic egypt.

asciilifeform: problem is that there is nowhere to go back, the entire culture that made the '10 bytes of telemetry' is afaik gone.

asciilifeform: and on top of this, the folx 'put to pasture at nih' -- or at least the ones not yet senile -- i suspect at this point are ready to come back ☟︎

asciilifeform: well there ~was~ that altera clone

asciilifeform: there's another film, on that www, where the thing boots.

asciilifeform: trinque: i'm watching, as i typically do, without sound card

asciilifeform: and lol is that a... dell monitor

asciilifeform: ^ gotta love the chinese 'multimedia' shit kbd ~included~ in that crate

asciilifeform: stickers are for lamerz, they'll laser-engrave Whatever You Like (tm) ☟︎

asciilifeform: i did wonder where they went !

asciilifeform: 'VLSI, by the way, in amongst their many other products, made chipsets for quite some time. Their last chipset would be one of the very few 75MHz capable Socket 7 designs. Like all the independent chipset makers, their market share would suffer greatly because of Intel's push to extend their CPU near-monopoly into chipsets as well and, unable to compete with Intel on even terms, they stopped trying. VLSI merged with the giant Phillip

asciilifeform happened across the site when researching vintage components for a dos box that he was building.

asciilifeform: but not errywhere and not all the time.

asciilifeform: ere used to be.'

asciilifeform: from yesterday's 486 lulz item, others : http://redhill.net.au/b/b-92.html >> '...you could buy almost anything in XT days; this was long before the dead hand of monopoly crushed the innovation and the creativity out of the PC industry. If you can find an old copy of Byte or APC or even Popular Computing, from 1984 say, or even 1989, spend a half-hour reading through the small ads in the back—you will not believe how much choice th

asciilifeform: ( when i was last there, was ~8 )

asciilifeform: ( i.e. a 'weight', that is, of silver, sorta how 'pound', or 'ruble', at one point )

asciilifeform: !~later tell ben_vulpes your 'the court' link is malformed

asciilifeform: just like all cmachineism eventually converges to koch.

asciilifeform: all 'rule-of-law'-ism eventually converges to maritimetaxcode.

asciilifeform: prolly it then.

asciilifeform has nfi whether this is routine, or even +ev, for an item like fully loaded lng tank