asciilifeform: i am still waiting for some satisfactory answer re why this went away.

asciilifeform: and that motor! easily 1/2 horse.

asciilifeform: spade handle points the thing more or less where you point your hand.

asciilifeform: ^ much more convenient grip than modern examples. why was it abandoned ?

asciilifeform: 0 plastic.

asciilifeform: http://www.woodworkingtalk.com/attachments/f12/3138-old-power-tool-recommendations-b-ddrill.jpg << example.

asciilifeform: take care of yours toolz, they will take care of you.

asciilifeform: (there are even reports of 'maxim' from ww1! in use.)

asciilifeform: they work.

asciilifeform: just like partizans fighting ukrs are using ww2 weapons now.

asciilifeform: if you learn to rebuild motor windings, yer grandchildrenz will drill with the same drill.

asciilifeform: forget about the chinese rubbish.

asciilifeform: and will still work in 2050s if kept reasonably oiled.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the interesting bit is that i routinely see all-iron, heavy, electric drills etc. at yard sales, circa 1940s-50s. they still work.

asciilifeform: https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/751424255934361602 << lel. we've seen this play before.

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2014-03-22#574779 << see also. ☝︎

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: 'trade dress' << do you recall the incident where fluke corp. had a party of chinese voltmeters confiscated and burned at a customs checkpoint ? FOR BEING YELLOW ??

asciilifeform: somehow.

asciilifeform: probably made from corn.

asciilifeform: if you want so much as a radio made in usa, you have to buy from grumman and it will cost its weight in pu.

asciilifeform: for less than golden toilet price, anyway.

asciilifeform: approx the tech level available here

asciilifeform: i have a sledge hammer. it is 'made in usa!11'

asciilifeform: and it matters because...?

asciilifeform: lol

asciilifeform: dafuq is 'true blue liquid' ??

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: speaking of workshops, i finally scored a (smallish) cnc mill. but it will need new motor.

asciilifeform: not exactly. but do wake me up !111

asciilifeform: what can i say, wake me up when mircea_popescu shows up to disarm the ss.

asciilifeform: i heard that things might be a little different on mircea_popescu's planet, but on the one where i live, it is usg who does the givin' and the takin'.

asciilifeform: they dun 'buy' any more than hitler did.

asciilifeform: just as usg corruption ain't 'corruption', usg weapons are... 'peace sticks' or somesuch.

asciilifeform: 'how about taking away all weapons from wehrmacht'

asciilifeform: lel go an' take.

asciilifeform: and the inevitable: '"When people are armed with powerful weapons, unfortunately it makes attacks like these more deadly and tragic," Obama told a press conference during a trip to Poland. "In the days ahead we're going to have to consider those realities."' (obummer)

asciilifeform: http://media1.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2016_27/1611816/ss-160708-dallas-police-shooting-08_40853e7282ab7e261e2f1662efde0027.nbcnews-ux-1024-900.jpg << love the face

asciilifeform: http://media1.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2016_27/1611836/ss-160708-dallas-police-shooting-04_40853e7282ab7e261e2f1662efde0027.nbcnews-ux-1024-900.jpg << great again !

asciilifeform: only against camel-fuckers

asciilifeform: nope

asciilifeform: 'President Barack Obama, who was in Warsaw for a NATO meeting, said the U.S. was "horrified" by the "vicious, callous and despicable attack."' << gold.

asciilifeform: scheme has obvious down sides but i can see cases where it wins.

asciilifeform: 'entry is a buck, exit - costs 2.' (tm)

asciilifeform: none go off until the field senses 10,001 foot steps.

asciilifeform: as to what's to keep enemy from using up 1 captive to test - this is what the 'encircle' program is for.

asciilifeform: (definitionally - mine can only go off once...)

asciilifeform: nothing you can do about it.

asciilifeform: worx on all mines

asciilifeform: you mean, mine-clearing using prisoners (or sheep etc) ?

asciilifeform: t&e ?

asciilifeform: if not - not.

asciilifeform: if you have the key, you know which half hour the field is passable in, per week.

asciilifeform: is timed gaps.

asciilifeform: one obvious way to have crypto-mines with NO comms,

asciilifeform: to round off the thread,

asciilifeform: 'Нас много, всех не перевешаете.' (tm) (r)

asciilifeform: the inevitable n-th army.

asciilifeform: or fort. etc

asciilifeform: instant boat.

asciilifeform: (that you could 'print' it underwater, using a moving print head, liquid N2 jet and pipe for water/sawdust slurry)

asciilifeform: when i first learned of pykrete, i had the obvious idea

asciilifeform: (virtually indestructible)

asciilifeform: scarcely gets cheaper than pykrete.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: or even pykrete.

asciilifeform long-time aficionado of subj

asciilifeform: there are already mines that let N tanks pass before triggering, it is very old idea.

asciilifeform: low-tech thing.

asciilifeform: 'large prey' was already baked in ww2, tank mines

asciilifeform: trinque: no antennae. see above.

asciilifeform: (let him pass in, but not out, of cauldron)

asciilifeform: mines with acoustic sensors could do many spiffy things. such as... ~encircling~ the enemy.

asciilifeform: noshit.jpg

asciilifeform: so the search for mythical '100% reliable' mine is a distration. and a useful one, because it keeps usg from deploying the thing.

asciilifeform: so stalin loses 5% of men on his own cryptofield, but hitler loses 95.

asciilifeform: e.g., many ww2 engagements, had substantially > than that friendly fire casualty rate.

asciilifeform: so crypto mine has 5% chance of not hearing disarm signal. so wat.

asciilifeform: of the near future.

asciilifeform: they, however, WILL work, for a medieval-style 'no you are not precious snowflake and guess what, your grenade during training has 5% chance of killing you and stfu' army.

asciilifeform: it is the obvious reason why - afaik - no modern army fields crypto mines.

asciilifeform: because if it isn't, or if enemy can somehow compromise its reliability...

asciilifeform: the main difficulty is, in getting the mechanism to be 100% reliable.

asciilifeform: transmit using 'thumper', as seen in 'dune' (and every pipe-laying crew on earth)

asciilifeform: only gotta send a few kB, and who gives a fuck if it takes half an hour.

asciilifeform: as in sonobuoys.

asciilifeform: you want ~acoustic~ control.

asciilifeform: and at any rate, cannot be shielded and will thus be pickable up with nonlinear junction detector.

asciilifeform: if you have radio, receiver can be overloaded and fried

asciilifeform: it is the obvious, screaming way to do the crypto comms, but entirely and catastrophically wrong.

asciilifeform: you don't want a radio receiver in them.

asciilifeform: i will point out the possibly non-obvious aspect, here, for future reference:

asciilifeform: the next me will make it, or the third, or fourth.

asciilifeform: it is a pretty obvious, imho, idea.

asciilifeform: 'in my wot? go, walk.'

asciilifeform: a crypto-toggled mine would be a fine thing.

asciilifeform: or a nuke deterrent.

asciilifeform: they are the poor man's soldier.

asciilifeform: why do you suppose the 'internashinl komyoooooniti' campaigns against mines ?

asciilifeform: recall the land mines thread ?

asciilifeform: it is one of those 'libraries' that ~every~ state #includes.

asciilifeform: EVERY major city today is defined by the turning radius of a tank.

asciilifeform: which, notably, was effective lesson to future 'beoble's republics' as to how not to build city.