asciilifeform: gigantic particle accelerators, etc. are only distantly about experimentation and actual data, and primarily about scrubbing out the primacy of the exceptional individual, from physics, one of the last strongholds to fall.
asciilifeform: which is why you can get usg or eurounion to cough up $B for a crackpot machine, but not $1M for you to sit in a chalet in the alps and schrodingerate☟︎
asciilifeform: fundamental reason being, a gigantic machine employs and merit-washes 1,000,001 mediocrities☟︎☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: the 'cernification' of physics is encouraged at every level.
asciilifeform: 'So basically the LIGO team is admitting to publishing a manipulated final result and no real exact means for anyone outside of the LIGO project to duplicate it. It also appears the team tried to bolster and perhaps even justify their reporting of this highly questionable second event by including a third one they had previously dismissed.'☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: 'only new thing is the history you didn't know'
asciilifeform: 'But what Louis Wolfson will always be remembered for is bribing the only Supreme Court Justice ever forced to resign in disgrace, “Dishonest Abe” Fortas. Fortas began taking bribes from Wolfson, in 1969, at a time when Wolfson had already been convicted of securities manipulation.' << lulzy
asciilifeform: mastermind of shining victories!1111, e.g., usa in vietnam. that modern derps, incl. obummer, still struggle to equal.☟︎
asciilifeform: sc4mz0rz have changed names like shirts, since folks invented names.
asciilifeform: so ^ new 'diebold', just like there is no longer a 'blackwater' but some ??? (i have nfi what the latest name is.)
asciilifeform: entage nationwide; one of every three votes cast in America.'
asciilifeform: meanwhile, 'More than 600,000 of the 1.8 million votes in last week’s New York Democratic primary were cast and counted on voting machines belonging to an “election services” company with a long criminal history and a rap sheet an arm long. Today it’s called Dominion Voting Systems. In last week’s primary in New York, Dominion controlled one-third of all votes cast in the state ... The company controls roughly the same perc
asciilifeform: i still find it curious, that somebody bothered to kidnap and hang eichmann, but not kissinger.
asciilifeform: quite the example from mircea_popescu's article where 'butcher who MOSTLY kills cows'
asciilifeform: (not wholly communist corpses, either - kissinger arguably created pol pot et al)
asciilifeform: and afaik, liberasty aside, k really did create a good chunk of the 20th c. usg-branded corpse pile. what sense it even makes to discuss 'war criminals' without his picture on it ?☟︎
asciilifeform: sorta how the japanese shinto mathepriests had the calculus.
asciilifeform: dan mocsny had, iirc, almost literally this phrase.
asciilifeform: ^ 'Ban Ki-moon publicly acknowledged Thursday that he removed the Saudi-led coalition currently bombing Yemen from a blacklist of child killers — 72 hours after it was published — due to a financial threat to defund United Nations programs.' << lel
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i dunno that we have this kind of 'policeman' quite yet.
asciilifeform: and many other marvels, quite opaque to the uninitiated.
asciilifeform: there is an entire parallel universe these folks inhabit, where european played roughly the same role as the neck crab parasite in heinlein's story
asciilifeform: it's a static www hosted, for no reason i can discern, on shithub.
asciilifeform: custodian wallet providers under the scope of the Anti-Money Laundering Directive. These entities will have to apply customer due diligence controls when exchanging virtual for real currencies, ending the anonymity associated with such exchanges'
asciilifeform: 'The Commission has today adopted a proposal to further reinforce EU rules on anti-money laundering to counter terrorist financing and increase transparency about who really owns companies and trusts.... Tackling terrorist financing risks linked to virtual currencies: to prevent misuse of virtual currencies for money laundering and terrorist financing purposes, the Commission proposes to bring virtual currency exchange platforms and
