asciilifeform: phun phakt: the last time i went to a voting booth, i took out driver license to give to the clerk, to be checked off the list (there is a list of townspeople with tickyboxes next to names) and clerk turned around in horror, 'put it away!' -- turns out it was (or at least thought to be) now illegal for clerk to LOOK AT such a thing, in many states incl. md.
asciilifeform: the only kind i'm familiar with is when orc land 'opposition party' 'calls in observers' so that usg-favoured output can be hardcoded in.
asciilifeform: and from where does one get them ? mars ?
asciilifeform: other thing - what exactly are 'election observers' supposed to do ?
asciilifeform: my fave horse is the very same 'common man fucked with spiked club of monotonically increasing thickness' as described by mircea_popescu .
asciilifeform: lockheed et al 'also want to live.' either diebold, or fella eventually 'eats bad seafood' and keels over, or, etc. and that'll be that.
asciilifeform: hey if the man can turn shit into gold, i'll clap.
asciilifeform: may as well ask tumour to 'leave', nicely.
asciilifeform: diebold ain't leaving any more than literacy test is coming back.
asciilifeform: why not also demand to bring back motherfucking literacy test for vote.
asciilifeform wonders what it could output in msec bursts
asciilifeform: use yer imagination. they're ~1000nm, ir.
asciilifeform: in other 'news', chinese appear now to sell 30w (!) ~diode~ lasers, fiber-coupled, approx. the size of cig pack, a few hundy usd.
asciilifeform: ^ doesn't appear to be in the l0gz. so here for the record now.
asciilifeform: ished by the US Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). '
asciilifeform: 'But this is the hoax that keeps on giving. The creators of the automatic nonsense generator, Jeremy Stribling, Dan Aguayo and Maxwell Krohn, have made the SCIgen program free to download. And scientists have been using it in their droves. Yesterday, French researcher Cyril Labbé revealed that 16 gobbledegook papers created by SCIgen had been used by German academic publisher Springer. More than 100 more fake SCIgen papers were publ
asciilifeform: anybody wanna write perl script that generates these articles ?
asciilifeform: and of course the sacramental, '...the report says that the industry will have to work with governments to create standard rules and laws to govern transactions.'
asciilifeform: these folks have maybe 3, 4 recipes. total.
asciilifeform: straight from esr's 'open sores' playbook.
asciilifeform: and script included ' i was paid ... settlement '
asciilifeform: perhaps simply told 'read this script in court or there will be problems'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i cannot even give a reason to think he was paid at all, now that i think.
asciilifeform: esr was idiot quisling paid in devil's-gold-turns-to-leaves. possibly butler - also.
asciilifeform: also 'pay Bernard Lafferty, her high-spending, ponytailed butler, millions of dollars to give up his role in overseeing her fortune' dun look like a straight dekulakization.
asciilifeform: as in, the trad orc method, of 'memorize this and recite'
asciilifeform only even went to 1st and 2nd grade of literate-people school, and we did a fat chunk of lermontov.
asciilifeform: ( there is, to no particular surprise of asciilifeform's no detectable english translation of lermontov's 'dispute' - linked item, it being not in any possible sense obscure )
asciilifeform: approx., 'bedouin has traded conquest / for a coloured tent / and he sings, the stars a-countin' / of where his fathers'd went'
asciilifeform: and, in particular, 'Бедуин забыл наезды / Для цветных шатров / И поет, считая звезды, / Про дела отцов.'
asciilifeform: 'Посмотри: в тени чинары / Пену сладких вин / На узорные шальвары / Сонный льет грузин; / И склонясь в дыму кальяна / На цветной диван, / У жемчужного фонтана / Дремлет Тегеран.'
