asciilifeform: adelbergerization is an evil.

asciilifeform: *schwartz

asciilifeform: schwarts vs adelberger. qed.

asciilifeform: works great, right here on my desk.

asciilifeform: schrodinger-era physics.

asciilifeform: because did not demolish any existing useful field.

asciilifeform: space vehicles were a comparatively harmless waste

asciilifeform: just as true today as for pharaonic egypt and its pyramids.

asciilifeform: and so we get 'climate science.'

asciilifeform: except that, post-sov-collapse, there is never a WHOLLY DIFFERENT set of people to verify the first.

asciilifeform: at any rate, particle accelerator per se exists, i have demonstrable items right here that there is no other known means of making. question concerns GIGANTIC particle accelerator, or gravity wave telescope, or other item, where output is ~not replicable~ by anyone who lacks access to ~that very same~ instrument

asciilifeform: when i live-blog seppuku, i promise to mention it!

asciilifeform: quite possible!

asciilifeform: perhaps last WORKING cyclotron was made in landau's time.

asciilifeform: realize that from where i sit, it is not possible by any means whatsoever to distinguish whether the particles actually fly, or whole echafaudage is == to 'n-rays' machine.

asciilifeform: worth ~= its weight in scrap iron.

asciilifeform: it is not land, but a statue of idiot emperor, with little wings.

asciilifeform: is f-35 separable in any meaningful way from its makers ?

asciilifeform: the f-35 tank also exists.

asciilifeform: and the fusion thread we had in 2014

asciilifeform: as demonstrated by the ligo link

asciilifeform: i dun think they are separable.

asciilifeform: and i don't buy ANY of the 'low-hanging fruit' gargle.

asciilifeform: maxwell et al made do with no more tools than i have here where i sit.

asciilifeform: to anything it touches.

asciilifeform: it is destructive.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: neh, they should not have 'given the money to me!11111' but NOT GIVEN OUT BARRELS OF PRINTOLADE

asciilifeform: writing grantolade applications.

asciilifeform: every lab i worked in, the chief spent ~90% of his time, doing guess what ?

asciilifeform: any wonder that the aspirants are same ?

asciilifeform: the whole field now consists of 'gimme' artists. ☟︎

asciilifeform: nobody builds particle accelerator with own lunch money.

asciilifeform: this, yes. but keep in mind where it comes from.

asciilifeform: aha.

asciilifeform: just not in his toybox.

asciilifeform: kid points finger, 'bang-bang!' but actual pistols also exist.

asciilifeform: there is delusion and there is also the real thing.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: point being that it didn't cost a million in his day.

asciilifeform: schrodinger's age was ended by the war, not by 'out of low-hanging fruit.'

asciilifeform: it is just that - lie.

asciilifeform: this is the lie the mediocrities want to sell.

asciilifeform: (getting away with USING it against a holy slum bunny is another matter)

asciilifeform: i have no doubt that the nomenklatura who can get away with peccadillo like carrying pistol, is quite large.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this,yes

asciilifeform: ly while on official business.'

asciilifeform: md law, for those interested: 'Federal and Maryland State or local law enforcement officers generally are exempt from the permit requirement. However, sheriffs and their deputies are exempted only while on active assignment engaged in law enforcement and only with respect to handguns which they are duly authorized to wear, carry or transport as part of their official equipment. Law enforcement officers from other states are exempt on

asciilifeform: same idea.

asciilifeform: aha.

asciilifeform: much less taking him to a court.

asciilifeform: nobody is ever searching peter thiel's pockets for illicit pistol

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not only is it done for 'courtesy earls', but pretty much anybody who is not jailable can carry whatever he wants, 'maxim' machine gun if he likes, wherever in usa.

asciilifeform: the 'tool of labour' thing ! hitler: 'people who wish to work with small arms are invited to join the ss'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu gets it!

asciilifeform: hence the 'empty holster' people on trains i mentioned earlier

asciilifeform: this is not interesting to most people.

asciilifeform: cash van folk get permit, ~valid strictly during working hours~

asciilifeform: ditto in maryland

asciilifeform: phf: but if you discover otherwise, wake me up plox!11

asciilifeform: phf: pretty sure concealed-carry-in-dc requires election to congress.

asciilifeform: for a whole generation.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: made anticommunism ~synonymous with wholesale usg-sponsored butchery.

asciilifeform: fella has much to do with the gnarly pest control situation we're in presently.

asciilifeform: and all of the folks who enable the man - ditto.

asciilifeform: dumb but harmless is one thing. dumb but climbs into cockpit of bulldozer and smashes whole city - other.

asciilifeform: incompetence on the scale of hitler's.

asciilifeform: aha!

asciilifeform: i dun see any serious factual counter-argument to 'kissinger was two-legged disaster'

asciilifeform: surely.

asciilifeform: and the man had ~= to do with 'ending the war' as keitel with ending ww2.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'peace nobel' was crock of shit from day 0.

asciilifeform: phf: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-11#1501267 << nominally who-is-a-deputy is public record, neh? could make a list of these, like mats made of faux judges ? ☝︎

asciilifeform: make'em dig latrines.

asciilifeform: decorate living room, or wahtever.

asciilifeform: what can i say, go buy all of'em

asciilifeform: plenty of folk in usa got 50k in sofa cushions. but senators not bid up much.

asciilifeform: if turner - he gets volume discount.

asciilifeform: if i walk in with 50k, i get -50k and jail

asciilifeform: how much a senator costs

asciilifeform: for mircea_popescu - $maxint

asciilifeform: for ted turner, $50k

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is like asking 'how much for a senator'

asciilifeform: mr k left us with considerably ~more~, not fewer, zombies walkin' around.

asciilifeform: the popular portrayal of war crime is perverse: it is not cruel to ~the dead~, killing folx ain't such a cruel thing to do ~to them~, vs some of the alternatives. it is atrocity against the ~surviving~

asciilifeform: and left the dross.

asciilifeform: butchered ~everybody worth having around, iirc

asciilifeform: except, apparently, in usg

asciilifeform: y'know, in every army in the world, fella who is a liability to whatever he touches, quietly catches bullet from own side

asciilifeform: waiwut

asciilifeform: mega-hero, creator of vietnam war (for whom was it mega-victory?), of khmer rouge, and 101 other marvels

asciilifeform: them fires still burnin'.

asciilifeform: does it matter what shirt a habitual setter of forest fires wears ?

asciilifeform: i suppose clitler is then in mircea_popescu's ever-slightly-extended wot ?

asciilifeform: not 'shortage of low-hanging fruit' or 'increasing complexity' or any other idiot derp fiction.

asciilifeform: ww2, and the mega-state : killed physics.

asciilifeform: 'don't measure electron charge, somebody might refute. measure instead only things that can be measured solely with $B machine.'

asciilifeform: the fuckers learned from the millikan case.

asciilifeform: at least none such that is not subject to ant vote.

asciilifeform: but in physics forest, there is no bird.

asciilifeform: then came bird and ate it anyway.

asciilifeform: the ants took a vote. it was decided that it shall be eaten by ants.