asciilifeform: i find it interesting that the enemy did not see it fit to try to sell us a clever dud

asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu i take it no one again wrote in re the block cipher thing ?

asciilifeform: incidentally a surprisingly mircea_popescutronic cartoon imho

asciilifeform: prolly the morty in 'rick and morty' ?

asciilifeform: i also recall the one with the buggery.

asciilifeform: with the ice cream.

asciilifeform: aha!

asciilifeform: 'contractor' routinely gets 2-3x for ~same work~, even something as humble as software

asciilifeform: virtually all of the spending is on 'contractor'

asciilifeform: realize, proper 'civil servants' do ~0 in usgdom.

asciilifeform: they get 'ex' to do ~anything at all~ !

asciilifeform: the brit crypto schmuck sewed himself into bag? etc

asciilifeform: hastings cremated self ?

asciilifeform: at least when it is not against the amazons.

asciilifeform: l0l i suppose all warfare is 'vaguely homo'

asciilifeform: and 'desperate for funds' is not quite it - they have vastly more funds than staff (for n00bs to subj, usg spending is - in a perverse and difficult to understand formula - tied to organizational staffing..)

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: theory concerns how the perpetrators see ~themselves~, rather than what ends up actually happening

asciilifeform: but WITH FACE

asciilifeform: incidentally they had a very mircea_popescutronic-looking chick at the counter.

asciilifeform: i kinda wonder now, what % of folks around here are su exiles

asciilifeform: in related nyooz, i go out of my zoo and think 'i will march in random direction', and lo and behold, a few km away, ru shop, sells sprats! etc

asciilifeform: i ~suspected~ l0l

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this actually explains a great deal, ty.

asciilifeform: ah!

asciilifeform: also gpgme sucked donkey ballz in every conceivable other way.

asciilifeform: k0my00000000n1ty!1111

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if ((rand() % 666) == 1) disconnect_terrorist();

asciilifeform: Apr 11 15:24:59 *gribble has quit (Disconnected by services) << l0lwut

asciilifeform: aha.

asciilifeform: why not cobol !

asciilifeform: l0l phf

asciilifeform: and if even mircea_popescu does not get car bomb, what hope do i have.

asciilifeform: much less car bomb.

asciilifeform: i, for instance, have yet to even merit a traffic ticket

asciilifeform: but rarely is ~any~ of it necessary, because the number of folks who ~merit~ any of this treatment hovers around ~0.

asciilifeform: and yes, planting a hdd full of cp is cheaper than a sniper hit, and setting somebody up to quietly starve is cheaper still, etc.

asciilifeform: but nobody cancelled it.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu had a more or less convincing argument that the cleanups are ~expensive~ and so the kill is used ~sparingly~

asciilifeform: or the 10,000,001 journawhorez who helped the above 'unexist'

asciilifeform: or the nailgunned folks.

asciilifeform: ask, e.g., michael hastings.

asciilifeform: i'm not certain that anybody cancelled the 'license to kill'

asciilifeform: the 'aha moment' line is quite arbitrary.

asciilifeform: but until very recently, the fiction was maintained that 'hackerz are a law enforcement matter'

asciilifeform: aha.

asciilifeform: (which really meant, wrecking su, so alternatives to the reich could not come to exist)

asciilifeform: prior to ~that~, they had half a century of pretense of 'defense against su'

asciilifeform: which is beginning to dissolve

asciilifeform: they had an elaborate pretense of 'terrorism!111' going

asciilifeform: and my point was that, at least formerly, the genuine ideology was ~not~ in the open.

asciilifeform: but what when he saves the nigger from the tree, and beats the kitten.

asciilifeform: presently, the main preoccupation of the vermin is dissent and betrayal within own ranks.

asciilifeform: and in general, the prevention of honest commerce as a possible thing to exist.

asciilifeform: and, in particular, the prevention of mircea_popescus

asciilifeform: it means, approximately, the maintenance of status quo

asciilifeform: they have a phrase they use amongst themselves, 'societal security'. ☟︎☟︎

asciilifeform: and heard them prattle on

asciilifeform: i have seen these folks in the flesh

asciilifeform: that's the funny thing, it isn't hidden at all.

asciilifeform: the lack of any ~actual~ foreign devils worth the mention is no longer mega-seekrit

asciilifeform: phf: the 'idiot mode' thing is a clanging cymbal to distract reader from the brick-in-your-face-obvious fact that nsa et al openly brag about their actual ('societal control') work and are shedding the pretense of 'defense against foreign devils'

asciilifeform: http://arstechnica.com/business/2016/04/chariot-for-women-an-uber-like-service-for-females-set-to-launch-this-month << from same rag, lulzy

asciilifeform: 'In a radio interview last week, Nigel Newton of Bloomsbury Publishing spoke about how the publisher had employed strong security measures to prevent possible leaks, including guard dogs and a constant security presence at the printing press. Seemingly, the company also had the support of GCHQ, the UK's primary signals intelligence and surveillance agency.'

asciilifeform: http://arstechnica.com/the-multiverse/2016/04/gchq-wizards-helped-prevent-harry-potter-book-from-leaking-online

asciilifeform: in other noose,

asciilifeform: but still not entirely sure what it means.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: one time, long ago, i pwned a sp4mz0r's box and it turned out that one of his pw's was 'balabusta'. i had the word in the back of my head ever since

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what exactly is a 'balabusta' ?

asciilifeform: no, but there is a tremendous herd of captive cattle.

asciilifeform: who was it, who wrote 'market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent'

asciilifeform: has anything outlived mircea_popescu's fatwa by longer than the eth thing ?

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-04-11#1450187 << l0lwaterfall ☝︎

asciilifeform: possibly !

asciilifeform: and what is the 'omniscient' spybot of google for, if not to avoid the schutzstaffel thusly wasting its time ?

asciilifeform: does nobody read the logz.

asciilifeform got YET ANOTHER 'we would l0000ve to have you!1111' from usg

asciilifeform: (see old thread)

asciilifeform: snow shovelling rations.

asciilifeform: it beat the shit out of the actual job i was doing previously !1111

asciilifeform: the interesting aspect is that this was a glorious and joyous thing, because...

asciilifeform: the korans were of a very spiffy edition that does not exist on our planet, every 'key phrase' was annotated in 6 languages, but only one of them was arabic, the 5 others i did not recognize as earthling scripts at all.

asciilifeform: in not entirely unrelatez nyooz, i had a dream that they passed out korans at the office, and bearded blokes walked around to inquire, regularly, how much each schmuck has read and understood.

asciilifeform: sure. brick has 0 problemz.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: except the thing i 'all nutso' ~about~ was the very notion.

asciilifeform promises that if he ever begs for spare change, he will do it under a d.c. bridge and not ever here.

asciilifeform: 'how'd ya like to bike-commute to my injun farm'

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: iirc you suggested it simply as a barb

asciilifeform: but if i ever must build particle accelerator, i will very much study mircea_popescu's notes!

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-04-11#1450020 << i can't help but wonder if mircea_popescu actually thinks the inside of his harem is relevant to other people. i find it interesting, yes, but it is rather like the inside of a particle accelerator - not particularly related to any situation i am likely to ever encounter imho. ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-04-11#1450000 << l0lz! ~this~ is where ben_vulpes offered me to work for table scraps at ! ☝︎

asciilifeform: i grasp how mircea_popescu might enjoy hunting idiots for sport from safe height of dirigible, and he has plenty of leisure for this, like medieval lord - but the time budget ~i~ have for idiots, is 0.

asciilifeform: evidently.

asciilifeform: but the fermentation ought to take place in specially-designated barrels, not in my kitchen sink plox.

asciilifeform: after fermenting.

asciilifeform: they are welcome in my petrol tank

asciilifeform: i said ~interact~.

asciilifeform: hey i did not say i dun want them in my fuel filter

asciilifeform: or tsetse fly

asciilifeform: just as i don't need mosquitoes

asciilifeform: i literally don't need them for anything