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asciilifeform: time for usg to rename its organs in line with the new 'soviet' reality
asciilifeform: wonder if they're the same soviet caliber i saw!
asciilifeform: you can train a monkey, yes. but the problem is to be unexpected and picked from a hat, like a soviet oral exam
asciilifeform: the soviet 'ZIL' fridge that my folks & i left behind in '92 is almost certainly still running, somewhere.
asciilifeform: by some accounts, soviet GRU did this routinely - or rather, training missions with local police as adversary
asciilifeform: picture suing kgb in a soviet court.
asciilifeform: similar to soviet invasion of afghanistan, actually
asciilifeform: he's thinking of the slightly less broken soviet machine
ozbot: Post-Soviet Lessons for a Post-American Century Part III
asciilifeform: http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/071805_soviet_lessons_part3.shtml
ozbot: Post-Soviet Lessons for a Post-American Century Part II
asciilifeform: http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/062805_soviet_lessons_part2.shtml
ozbot: Post-Soviet Lessons for a Post-American Century
asciilifeform: http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/060105_soviet_lessons.shtml ☟︎
asciilifeform: see also the author's canonical piece, 'Post-Soviet Lessons for a Post-American Century'.
mircea_popescu: the soviet's (failed) invasion in afghanistan was also about greater justice.
asciilifeform: pankkake: are you a member of any that have 1970s soviet trinary mainframe manuals, rather than peculiar and rare fetish porn?
the20year: Or italian cavalry in ww2 attacking soviet positions, a bayonette charge in iraq in 2004, the last usage of a sword in combat in vietnam , ect
benkay: that's not the use case though. the use case is shitty guns for poor people in the decaying soviet states of america
asciilifeform: it was even mentioned in soviet 'наука и жизнь' mag ('science & life', similar to 'scientific american')
mircea_popescu: and like the proverbial soviet geezers we'll go "do you remember how great it was back when it was horribly bad ?"
mircea_popescu: yet you know, in imperial japan or soviet russia or republican rome it is not acceptable for some guy to go "i have no skills master but i would like to work" and he not be taken in, trained and worked.
mircea_popescu: lol this is nsa crap so soviet oy vey.
asciilifeform: nubbins`: no general-purpose crunchers, sure. but there are people sitting on crates of soviet valves. there will be radio.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i dunno. some people stole soviet nuke subs. so what of it.
asciilifeform: just as rebar was 'mined' from soviet missile bases.
nubbins`: i lived in a very soviet-esque apartment block in 2nd best korea
mircea_popescu: actually the soviet style fully concrete stuff is great for in case of nuclear bombing
asciilifeform: "drunk wanders into a trolleybus, screams out 'i'm gonna walk all over yer heads!' bald man spits on his hand, rubs head, mumbles: 'may you slip!' " (soviet joke)
mircea_popescu: i'd rather watch soviet propaganda from the 60s for crying out loud.
jborkl: That is soviet policy
asciilifeform: where is soviet foreign policy.
asciilifeform: only so many ex-soviet wizards left.
asciilifeform: whenever i see 'exoskeletons,' i think back to the soviet gasoline-powered '7-league boots'.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: soviet 'nevyezdnye' ?
asciilifeform: at least the soviet zeks mined gold, uranium, coal. what's mined in the u.s. inner city?
dub: in soviet canada its called Automated Buttcoin Moosecock
asciilifeform: not my idea. attributed to johnny von n, but i was given it by my brother, who plucked it from an ancient soviet textbook.
asciilifeform: actually the current US policy re: forfeiture is very exactly Soviet.
asciilifeform: sort of like the Soviet scenario of KGB vs GRU, or Hitler's 'two in a box' management style of abwehr vs gestapo.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not sure about how writing a list of modern-day Soviet (or otherwise) judges fights anything...
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: think of Soviet judges.
asciilifeform: you could spend a lifetime studying fun soviet recipes (trinary computer; or my personal favourite, the 'subterrine' - nuclear reactor melts a tunnel in front of you in real time...)
asciilifeform: another fun soviet recipe:
mircea_popescu: i never heard of a soviet state figurehead surviving the loss of support of the secret services, and he's fucked on that fronth since summer.
Namworld: "Following up on a report about a Russian antitheft technology, Clarke came across Yuriy Semenov, who was in charge of the High Tech Bureau, a government initiative to sell Soviet-era military research to Western investors. Semenov had a better idea for the General: "How would you like to grow diamonds?""
ozbot: Ussr Soviet Russian Military Ferrite Core Memory Stack Cube Manual Quite Rare | eBay
johnnyfootball: http://www.ebay.com/itm/USSR-Soviet-Russian-Military-Ferrite-Core-Memory-Stack-Cube-MANUAL-QUITE-RARE-/150928595047?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item23240b9867
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you might as well speak of Soviet laws and courts re: how that country was actually run.
mircea_popescu: we're discussing this from the perspective of law and the courts, not from the perspective of the soviet administrative apparatus.
mircea_popescu: he just has a fetish for soviet us stuff.
mircea_popescu: except in soviet romania bed comes to you
mircea_popescu: stalin's soviet realism and america's purple prose crap are the syphilitic sores of why socialism does not work
mircea_popescu: i don't think anyone's disputing the west is pretty much soviet-doomed.
mircea_popescu: the soviet union collapsed within weeks of the secret service defecting.
mircea_popescu: by the way... do you know about the russian doods who found some soviet era beacons in siberia
sturles: The "Special" agent from DHS is upset because Mark Karpelles signed something which was correct when he signed it i 2010, but isn't as of Q2 2013. WTF? Inthe Soviet States of America you cah change the rules, and then punish people who broke the new rules in the past.
asciilifeform: and not the wimpy FDR confiscation. the Soviet one. where possession of bullion carried the same penalty as murder.
cads: kakobrekla: this sounds like a story from a former soviet state :D
mircea_popescu: but think about it : the old guard of the soviet republic, them people in their leather jackets
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: he's more (vaguely) Slavophilic than pro-Soviet.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's funny how soviet-patriotic he is hehe.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if you found the "collapse gap" piece interesting, read Orlov's full length discussion "Post-Soviet Lessons": https://docs.google.com/document/d/1M56LtVzVcYJSMGKm5CV2RcePETqK1BwvF-Pb5AkdTXM/
mircea_popescu: and when did content creators start caring about readers, what the fuck is this, soviet russia ?
Diablo-D3: and then we get to the big leagues over in soviet russia
mircea_popescu: they're obviously rebuilding soviet era russia, might as well
dub: in soviet canukistan wage minimums you
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i'm not sure there's a better source of all soviet woes in englush than stoljenitsn
smickles: so, with that quote, it's official. theymos is from soviet russia
mircea_popescu: the soviet union, the united soviets of america, the blabla
mircea_popescu: it's the chinese way after all. soviet import.
mircea_popescu: old soviet guy's an engineer girl's a teacher stuff.
mircea_popescu: germany collapsed end of ww2, soviet empire end of cold war
jurov: TomServo, http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/060105_soviet_lessons.shtml
jurov: mod6, read this: http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/060105_soviet_lessons.shtml
mircea_popescu: the us press is literally the new soviet press i swear.
mircea_popescu: right, it works in practice as a sort of soviet commisariat of the people's soviets bla bla
mircea_popescu: http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/19-11-2012/122849-obama_soviet_mistake-0/ meanwhile in soviet russia...
copumpkin: in soviet romania, BROKER IS YOU
agath: in soviet russia it's friends that make you!
nefario: can't really speak for russia as I stopped caring about them when the soviet union collapsed
EskimoBob: if you want to compare something to USA, for example, the old Soviet Russia or China will do.
mircea_popescu: but your design smacks me of this soviet story whereby if i wanna buy something at the corner store they make me first run to their headquarters in maine