asciilifeform: 'Accordingly, the Roosevelt administration, while curtly dismissing Japanese diplomatic overtures to harmonize relations, imposed a series of increasingly stringent economic sanctions on Japan. In 1939 the United States terminated the 1911 commercial treaty with Japan. “On July 2, 1940, Roosevelt signed the Export Control Act, authorizing the President to license or prohibit the export of essential defense materials.” Under this

asciilifeform: http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1930 << one overview.

asciilifeform: and diddling in china, ~exactly like in modern ua

asciilifeform: petroembargo.

asciilifeform: usg.

asciilifeform: 'kick the dog till it bites, then shoot it' (tm) (r)

asciilifeform: depends.

asciilifeform: ny case preserved), nor yet tropical Africa, is fit for our people. But North America, that continent so succulently green, fresh, and unsullied—except for the few chattering mongrel Yankees…”' << win.

asciilifeform: 'I give you Count Okuma of the Tokyo Hochi, “…a race of thieves with the hearts of rabbits. America to any warrior race, is not as a foe, but as an immense melon, ripe for the cutting…North America alone will support a billion people; that billion shall be Japanese with their slaves. Not arid Asia, not worn out Europe (which, with its peculiar and quaint relics and customs, should in the interest of history and culture, be in a

asciilifeform: humidor.

asciilifeform: gold-plated brass everything, telephones, the whole orchestra.

asciilifeform: was spiffier than any office or living room i've ever personally stuck my snout into

asciilifeform: it had some (i forget who) 'godfather' type's prison cell, re-created

asciilifeform: there was once a 'crime museum' in washington, with, e.g., famous electric chairs, bonnie & clyde's car, etc.

asciilifeform: *unpaid

asciilifeform: or did mircea_popescu previously think that it had been a defrocked accountant imprisoned for 40 unpad parking tickets.

asciilifeform: mega-unsurprise ?

asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu moar circus clowns: https://github.com/joshua-m-david/jerichoencryption << there is a pestilential profusion of these 'i'ma STROOOONG CRYYYPTO!!1111 IN NODEJS !111' out there.

asciilifeform: phf: thread circa 2015. but if you have any boxes you haven't touched for >1y, you will have problem.

asciilifeform: NEVER did.

asciilifeform: i don't regard idiocies where you are expected to download binaries as 'linux.'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it was the 1 quasi-working linux distro, other than 'make it all by hand'

asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu if you're fond of watching atlantises sink, https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7738104.html

asciilifeform: 'the devil's gold -- turns to leaves.'

asciilifeform: aha.

asciilifeform: disposable, if you will.

asciilifeform: phf: the approach illustrated in 'bone lisp' is ~equivalent to an ordinary scheme with strictly limited lifespan of whole session.

asciilifeform: ( see also http://btcbase.org/log/2016-02-18#1409628 ) ☝︎

asciilifeform: ;;ticker

asciilifeform: 'Police claim the man refused to drop a pocket knife. In the video, the officer appears to kick something away from the man’s body, although no object can be readily seen. In typical police fashion, officers can be seen handcuffing the victims body as he lay in a pool of blood.'

asciilifeform: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=68b_1437283356 << moar lulz from same rag

asciilifeform: sounds about as 'clever' as my 'shiva' thing nuking its entire guts when you disconnect the term.

asciilifeform: who the fuck thought this was good idea, and why.

asciilifeform: ick

asciilifeform: phf: so what is this, NEVER deallocates ?

asciilifeform: nah.

asciilifeform: we have these here.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu ever drove around anywhere in usa ?

asciilifeform: l0l

asciilifeform: trinque: ionice, aha, since kernel 2.6

asciilifeform: trinque: solution is called renice

asciilifeform: Framedragger: brainfuck quine ?

asciilifeform: true snob only writes in snobol.

asciilifeform: or clojure.

asciilifeform: must be in elisp

asciilifeform: lolsp

asciilifeform: can somebody explain to me why deedbot auth is slower than microshit win98 booting up ?

asciilifeform: like from forest fire.

asciilifeform: dunno though, being an office inmate is such a clear-cut Bad Thing that all living things instinctively try to escape.

asciilifeform: nope

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-13#1481565 << she writes the crapolade ~so as~ not to be confined in an office. just like folks will hide unsheathed knives up their arse, kill guards with bare teeth, whatever, to get out of the camp ☝︎

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: nope - passed up this chance, left it at home. but iirc ben_vulpes had his.

asciilifeform: l0l!

asciilifeform: nope

asciilifeform: the ww2 one ?

asciilifeform: any office.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: hey, writing pulp crapolade beats the SHIT out of showing up to an office.

asciilifeform: the sks folk are dead set in favour of hosting random crapolade.

asciilifeform: Framedragger: it comes up occasionally, http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-03#1475913 -- nothing happens ☝︎

asciilifeform: aha.

asciilifeform: recall, the shitgnomatic unified front against phuctor was exemplified by peter 'this ain't my key and go back to sleep' h anvin.

asciilifeform: and especially the fact that diddled key can trivially end up used without the victim's awareness

asciilifeform: hannobockism took the very effective angle of 'nobody used the keyz' but really to keep chumps' attention on what it means to 'use' a key

asciilifeform: actually instructive example, it is worth elaborating on:

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-13#1481481 << the 'error: invalid or non-wallet tx !' response to gettx is infuriating idiocy ☝︎

asciilifeform: i think he may have ended up kakoized

asciilifeform: sad

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-13#1481480 << thinking about it. speaking of: whatever happened to the sr keys thing ? ☝︎

asciilifeform: phf has it

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'shit hit the fan'

asciilifeform: (pubkeys, in all known asymmetric systems, can be inferred from M bytes of traffic. so NO pubkey should ever transmit a burst of >=M.)

asciilifeform: but ephemeral keys are necessary because there is NO reason why usg should know which lord is speaking to which.

asciilifeform: i did say 'traceable to'

asciilifeform: like all shitgnomatic productions.

asciilifeform: Framedragger: i understand it perfectly. but the baroque marlinspiked version is satanic and deliberately overcomplicated.

asciilifeform: any other behaviour - invitation to shitflood.

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-13#1481339 << a correct gossipd node processed NOT ONE BYTE unless it is covered by a signature traceable to a known peer. ☝︎☟︎

asciilifeform: i.e. nonpublic pubkey.

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-13#1481352 << ephemeral key is when only the participants can reconstruct the chain. ☝︎

asciilifeform: and certainly not invented by usg stooge, it was in my comment series under mircea_popescu's original gossipd article.

asciilifeform: but yes, gossip node can issue as many ephemeral keys as it wants - this is ~obvious~

asciilifeform: fuck him - with red hot poker.

asciilifeform: moxie m pushes shitphones. and ssl monkey tricks. and 'pgp is obsolete'.

asciilifeform: *will NOT

asciilifeform: i will countenance any pretense to the contrary.

asciilifeform: Framedragger: as reflected in the log search, marlinspike is usg asset and infamous pusher of crypto snakeoil.

asciilifeform: $s marlinspike

asciilifeform: framedragger: moxie is usg stooge.

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-12#1481284 << i have deeply nfi ☝︎

asciilifeform: reddit, apparently, censoring all string matches of mr. jihad's name.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: 50 deaths and 53 injuries << take a guess, 1 bloke with pea shooter, or squad of police with schmeissers on full auto

asciilifeform: l0l, he goes back for seconds!

asciilifeform: pecking, pecking.

asciilifeform: gotta love how the other chickenz gather 'round the phucked one

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: win.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: http://site.baryonyxknife.com/blog/2015/06/22/the-real-douk-douks << quite interesting - re the fella pictured on the ubiquitous french knife.

asciilifeform: https://cryptome.org/2016/06/peter-andreas-thiel.pdf << lulzy. claims thiel cv - and he's a j.d., i had nfi

asciilifeform: 'The HaoBTC Kangding mine is one the three Bitcoin datacenters that HaoBTC currently operates - as of the time of writing, it generates 33PH hash rate. The miners deployed are Avalon 6 and Bitmain S7s. Here is an unedited walk-through filmed on June 11, 2016.'

asciilifeform: in other lulz, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f38gaRoo1cE

asciilifeform: for some purpose.