asciilifeform: there ought to be a mod that turns the thing open when you press it just-so and turns into a stealthy weapon.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: interestingly - silent, painlessly, thing is literally a knife
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i spent 5min prying loose the battery (they glued it) and another 5 wiping off the blood.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: for bonus gross, the entire inside of the metal cup that comprises the body of the pnoje, is razor-sharp, literally you will not notice as it opens all of your fingers at once☟︎
asciilifeform: and the fellatio of the imaginary pre-industrial paradise in england
asciilifeform: i kept waiting for somebody to bring up the luddism
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'the next prime following' prolly ought to be 'the first prime following' -- otherwise we get 'run from me to the next oak tree'
asciilifeform: 'As we account for individualized customer losses, we may need to settle open margin positions, associated financing, and/or collateral affected by the breach....'
asciilifeform: r environment, bitfinex.com will be taken down and the maintenance page will be left up. The theft is being reported to — and we are co-operating with — law enforcement.'
asciilifeform: 'Today we discovered a security breach that requires us to halt all trading on Bitfinex, as well as halt all digital token deposits to and withdrawals from Bitfinex. We are investigating the breach to determine what happened, but we know that some of our users have had their bitcoins stolen. We are undertaking a review to determine which users have been affected by the breach. While we conduct this initial investigation and secure ou
asciilifeform: and lel, buttfinex finally croaked..?
asciilifeform: 'tolkien as real life' belongs in same asylum as 'doom as real life'
asciilifeform: ^ more or less complete picture of typical d.c. train ^☟︎
asciilifeform: and 2-3 beggars with printed (yes) plaquards, shoved in face of passengers, with 'sob story' about chillunz etc
asciilifeform: also there is an almost inevitable black dude singing to himself, and/or pumping what must be 50w through his earbuds, can be heard from 3 cars away
asciilifeform: and a bureaucrat or 2, who is taking her 3ring home and probably diddles it even on the pot
asciilifeform: there is also usually 1-2 kidz with chemistry etc textbooks
asciilifeform: on d.c. metro there will also typically be 2-3 chix per car, reading off epaper gizmo, and if you look it will be a ru 'romance' 9/10 times
asciilifeform: modern-day train is full of folks playing doom XXXXXII or wat, on ipnoje
asciilifeform: when and where did mircea_popescu see this ?
asciilifeform: i dunno that i've ever run into anyone among the kind of folk BingoBoingo described, who actually ~read~ tolkien.
asciilifeform: all i see here is folks who possibly encountered modern and vaguely-tolkienisticly-flavoured pablum and proceed to piss on the original sight unseen
asciilifeform: or also can probe contents with magic
asciilifeform: the imitators, who chopped up tolkien and shannonized - are not worth the dust from my balls.
asciilifeform: tolkien was an archaeologist and linguist, dug through all of europe's myths, legends, in the original languages, to make his feedstock. and was a talented and quite humble man, never saw ~any income from his fiction - which was superb, if verbose - during life.
asciilifeform actually cannot comment on 'harry potter', never read any
asciilifeform: funny thing, lewis started showing up at the open air blackmarkets back in... '91? and we bought, and enjoyed, and then choked mid-way through series on the obvious bait
