asciilifeform: 'The Army's countermobility field manual taught soldiers to use ADMs for "stream cratering," in which atomic explosions near small waterways would "form a temporary dam, create a lake, cause overbank flooding, and produce an effective water obstacle" for enemy forces.'

asciilifeform: decimation: idk, i bought a 100 usd piece of paper and was 'processed' by a vending machine that printed 'get out of customs now' pass.

asciilifeform: (when they shoot a white fella it's generally 5th-10th page newz, as linked earlier)

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's a usaschwitz term

asciilifeform: if shipped, thing would have to be transported like a ming vase

asciilifeform: can't even guarantee that it'd survive a car ride

asciilifeform: it isn't surprising. school and prison similarity is a painfully well-documented thing.

asciilifeform: 'The investigation is ongoing and there is no confirmation as to whether the incident involved was a shooting at all.'

asciilifeform: i did attend a school which as a result of the latter forbade... backpacks.

asciilifeform: btw this is also done when a lizard (or lizard fellator) is passing through town

asciilifeform: not a mediatron phrase

asciilifeform: '...I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.'

asciilifeform: moore incidentally isn't much of a talker

asciilifeform: a la the 'ascii starwars' ?

asciilifeform: what means 'text based' for a game with 3d figures ?

asciilifeform: (not that one cannot do this, per se, in a forth of some description. but most of the bulk would consist of glue)

asciilifeform: but if anyone presently alive could fab a muller gate fpga, it is probably moore.

asciilifeform: picture 'what could be done' with a kalash with 2^20 barrels, aha.

asciilifeform: though i will add that moore operated for decades as a successful consultant, a la the pdp emulator fella

asciilifeform: decimation: he doesn't give a damn about traction. he built that thing for archaeologists.

asciilifeform: also gotta point out that the $redacted analogue ic on the rng was prolly baked in a cn fab

asciilifeform: trinque: caption: 'pardon me, my dear, but you are in a strategically-important area!'

asciilifeform: trinque: the article on that page concerns a sapper

asciilifeform: 'Crocodile humor is the laughter of the powerful at the powerless. It is not intended to be funny. It is intended to intimidate. Those who laugh, as many do, are those who love to submerge themselves in a mob, feel its strength as theirs, chant and shake their spears as one.'

asciilifeform: rse, but the tone is unmistakable. We'll hear a good deal more of it in the next four years.'

asciilifeform: 'Note also how quickly Reynolds resorts to ridicule. There is a kind of pseudosatirical humor, or what would be humor if it was in any way funny, that is an unmistakable product of his time in Moscow. I call the trope "crocodile humor" after the Soviet humor magazine, Krokodil.'

asciilifeform: l of ads for clairvoyants and books of pornography. This piece of rubbish was said to have a circulation of 500,000.'

asciilifeform: d-cart piled with jewellery and bags of gold. Gringoire kept up an almost continuous outcry for the suppression of the French Communist Party, but it was equally fierce against even the mildest politicians of the Left. One can get an idea of the moral level at which it conducted political controversy from the fact that it once published a cartoon showing Léon Blum in bed with his own sister. Its advertisement columns were ful

asciilifeform: 'Béraud used to contribute to the Fascist weekly paper Gringoire, which in its later years had become the most disgusting rag it is possible to imagine. I have seldom been so angered by anything in the press as by its cartoon when the wretched Spanish refugees streamed into France with Italian aeroplanes machine-gunning them all the way. The Spaniards were pictured as a procession of villainous-looking men, each pushing a han

asciilifeform: and it isn't like the country has much of a real economy left, to work in, to pay it with

asciilifeform: that's still 2x the market rate for a chimp who clicks a mouse to run 'EnCase' ☟︎

asciilifeform: not even in the sense that every street corner 'needs' a cop, or said cop 'needs' the democratizer baton on his belt

asciilifeform: this is a standard usg racket:

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=06-08-2015#1226803 << i happen to like forth. i bring up chuck moore as an example of 'yes we can recreate 25 years of electronics on a napkin, and it'll fucking work' ☝︎