asciilifeform: i am an aficionado, i looked at the logos, they were already installed when the rosenbergs were sizzling in the d.c. electric chair...
asciilifeform: i have not been to kansas, but suspect they do not have these.
asciilifeform: phun phakt, there are still cast iron traffic light controller / miscellaneous telephonic junk boxes mounted on streets in d.c., empty, sometimes full of bird nest and rubbish
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-04-23#1456282 << the most loathesome imho, of the ones in washington, are the falun gong people, in their yellow cult dress. followed by the iran emigres, who march around with signs demanding that their country be bombed and obamanated☝︎
asciilifeform: aha everyone i think knows this story
asciilifeform: 'he had it coooming! he had it commming! he only had himself to blaaame! if y'dhve been there! if you;'dve seen it! you know that you would have done! the same! ' (tm) (r)
asciilifeform: 'not my pants, not my arse, not my knife, wasn't me'
asciilifeform: somehow i recall the thread where mircea_popescu explained 'caught thief's justifications'
asciilifeform: it is of very little use to a ben_vulpes commuting to his sweatshop on bike etc.
asciilifeform: the intricately crafted hidden motor exists only to cheat in race.