asciilifeform: wagen can collect him at leisure, after.
asciilifeform: it would be a fairly small matter to refuse to let the victim out, if need be.
asciilifeform: many atm in usa are already in a kind of cage, where you need to first open door to a small booth using the card, and only then can use atm
asciilifeform: instead of eating card, lock the user's hand in.
asciilifeform: incidentally i've wondered for many years why american atm builders had not yet thought of including hand-trap in the thing
asciilifeform: '"This is Sentrybot XJW - 667 responding to kinetic disturbance at perimeter wall." whirred an obnoxious female voice. "Please put your handcuffs on and lay face down on the floor. This is an emergency."'
asciilifeform: it seems, to my naked eye, like a 1-liner
asciilifeform: fwiw asciilifeform has the utmost respect for phf's abilities, and quite seriously wanted to know why he didn't (do (try-connecting) (is-connected-p)) , not to kick him for 'lazy' or whatever.
asciilifeform: 'а у вас негров линчуют' (tm) (r) phf ?
asciilifeform: phf's v-viewer, for instance, is a masterpiece
asciilifeform: lemme help, (do (try-connecting) (is-connected-p))
asciilifeform: i actually recall phf saying something about why he didn't make it loop forever reconnecting, but cannot find in the l0gz
asciilifeform: there is precious little of the latter extant.
asciilifeform: trinque: naggum expounded on the difference between the 2 basic types of program (and program-writer) - the 'exam-taking', 'solved problem!11 i'm done!' and 'reusable, readable, for the ages'
asciilifeform: 'In some states, making a clean, quiet repo isn't just a safety matter, it's a legal necessity. Some state laws require that all repos happen without creating a "breach of the peace." That means that if the owner notices the repo in progress and comes out of the house yelling and screaming, the repo agent can't legally repossess the car. Of course, it's in the repo man's best interest to avoid a scene like this, but how?'
asciilifeform: this, arguably, was rebuilt in usaschwitz, most 'respectable' folk around here live whole life and die without ~any direct contact with police
asciilifeform: aaactually you can get quite a bit of 'bang for the buck' purely with internalized 'enforcement', i.e. brainwash.
asciilifeform: i always pictured 'church' as a sort of animal that lives in the cracks of 'state'
asciilifeform: could sit all day and catalogue weird religions, sure
asciilifeform: in the sense where all arbitrary convention (and the division of the celestial-terrestrial magisteria thing is quite arbitrary thing) is hallucination.
asciilifeform: imho tmsr 'tax' is more closely analogous to church tithe.
asciilifeform: just as tax collection was subcontracted.
asciilifeform: traditional euro system did include, e.g., infangthief and outfangthief.
asciilifeform: without law enforcement in the modern (e.g., 18th c. brit) sense, yes.
asciilifeform: there is, say, folks waltzing around and shakin' down folks on the street for their lunch money. and state wants this privilege for itself, yes.
asciilifeform: well how else? what kind of 'law breaker' is there without law ??
asciilifeform: automatic car has circus-level potential for lulz, via induced laziness in 1,001 types of people - say, what kind of policeman might there be, once a routine arrest consists of instructing arrestee's car to take him to clink instead of work the next morning
