asciilifeform: i.e. pop her cherry, when the time comes
asciilifeform: i recall reading some chinese chick's 'story of my sad life' book in american school, and she described her arranged marriage, and how the husband-to-be kept repeating 'kai-gwa!' or how he will 'open the watermelon'
asciilifeform: did this one have legs, did it squeal on the block ?
asciilifeform: though 'out' may be wrong word, he is 'free to walk the Big Zone' now.
asciilifeform: though - for what i imagine are good reasons of his own - he likes to entertain guests under open sky, rather than at home.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu really exists, and lives approximately where he is said to live, and really is this tall skinny fella, as pictured in, e.g., my www.
asciilifeform: it dun have to be during a conference.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: y'know, you could just drop by & visit him, as iirc ben_vulpes did
asciilifeform: as per mircea_popescu's old piece 'a deal can be anything' --
asciilifeform: it became - think - a kind of dynamo, grunting against a short circuit.
asciilifeform put one of them collars on, then searched in vain for why turning handwheel is ~FUCK THIS WON'T MOVE~, chug-chug-chug instead of whhhhrr. inspected lead screw, with magnifying glass, took whole slide apart, back together, then noticed that the stepper motor's wires were touching...
asciilifeform: either that or my robotic mircea_popescutron generated it.
asciilifeform: was it in a mircea_popescu article that i read 'rat does not know where he will eat, but knows that he ~will~ eat, and delights in the disjunction' ?
asciilifeform how many folks do not know the joy of 'part that took month to find, fits!'
asciilifeform: and aaaaaaaaah the thrust collars are finally here.
asciilifeform: lolgato1 has quit (Client Quit) << do they fuck like this, also ?
asciilifeform: similar coat figured in a famous (in certain circles) duel b/w two drunken privates in ww2, fought with lendlease 'thompsons' ('.45' calibre)
asciilifeform never lacked for meat, nor had any notion that any european childrenz in 20th motherfucking century, might have.
asciilifeform: << holy shit, ro of the period was a motherfucking india ?!☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'which meant that out of a hundred or so kids eating in a large room, I was the one getting the chicken meat parts. Which I didn't like, nor ate, because they were inferior bits to what I normally chomped at home, and they consequently didn't interest me, notwithstanding that most of those children had never in their life eaten meat. Supposedly it was good for them, right ? Vegetarianism is the future and all that ?'
asciilifeform: then it is most appropriate to use sequence number
asciilifeform: which is why phf can buy airplane ticket and celebrate new year twice in a year.
asciilifeform: there is not a guarantee even of this
asciilifeform: it is not a thing to be done lightly.
asciilifeform: phf: when you make use of a timestamp, you are also asking ~other~ people to trust clock not to fuck ~them~ over.
asciilifeform: what do you do with a signature that took place after a revocation time, that you have ALREADY accepted as valid for some purpose ?
asciilifeform: and - do i need to draw a picture, or is this obvious ? - they are free to ignore it; or they may not even GET the message; and are guaranteed to get it, IF they get it, at different physical TIMES
asciilifeform: there is only a message, that you can transmit to other ~people~, politely asking 'please stop using this key'
asciilifeform: revocation is a ~promise~, in that there is not such a thing, and never will be such a thing, as a magical lever that instantly makes a key stop working.☟︎
asciilifeform: znort987: familiar with the 'protocol vs promise' concept that we developed and exposed here ?
asciilifeform: ^ there was at least one detailed thread re this.
asciilifeform: znort987: rather, yes, there was provision for it in the original openpgp spec, but it is a bogus concept because it entails a global repository of revocation messages and a universal agreement re what time it presently is.☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: znort987: key revocation is not actually a thing
asciilifeform: (though i suppose it could ~store~ the key-rated-key item as easily as anything else could)
asciilifeform: trinque: well it wouldn't make any sense as a deedbot component
asciilifeform: trinque: it was part of mircea_popescu's original gossipd spec.
asciilifeform: the 'keys rating keys' thing does not yet exist.☟︎
asciilifeform: most of the users of each successive wotron left the previous one 'to the worms and flies' and quit updating ratings therein.
asciilifeform: znort987: there is not - unfortunately - yet a fully decentralized (see 'gossipd' thread) wot mechanism. but there are at least 3 centralized wotrons. in order of age: -otc wot; kakobreklan ('assbot') wot; and #trilema wot.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: paintgun, ran out of paint, everybuddyknowz.
asciilifeform: n see a one thousand dollar bank note issued before 1900. That is why large size $1,000 bills are so rare today. If you were rich enough to see one, you were smart enough to not keep it. Currency didn't really become collectible until the 1950s. There was no reason to save a $1,000 bill. You were just losing out on the interest it could be earning.'
