asciilifeform: but this does not change the fact of monopoly.

asciilifeform: and the machine is 2 weeks old and already making peculiar grinding noises

asciilifeform: and yes, jobs is dead, and the hardware is going to shit, i recently spent 4 hours trying to make a deterministic model of what the 'spaces' window manager does with 3 displays active, to no avail

asciilifeform: 'mac' is, quite monopolistically, the only USABLE-for-development portable unix box presently sold, and the ios boxen - the only non-infested-five-minutes-after-uncrating pocket computers presently sold.

asciilifeform: and not the only such

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i work at megacorp that is more or less 100% mb pro

asciilifeform: !s suspend mode

asciilifeform: has mircea_popescu actually used a turdroid ?

asciilifeform: turdroid.

asciilifeform: it is a motherfucking monopoly.

asciilifeform: there are no other non-microshit pc makers or non-turdroid pnohe makers.

asciilifeform: there were other car makers.

asciilifeform: monopolies don't 'fail' in the way a corner restaurant might.

asciilifeform: at the hanging ?

asciilifeform: learn how ?

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: and after the first corpse ?

asciilifeform: does matter, because jail.

asciilifeform: operating penguins ?

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: where, in antarctica ?

asciilifeform: achtung panzers: zoolag is back online.

asciilifeform: 'when i am gone, they will strangle the lot of you like kittens' ☟︎

asciilifeform: we don't actually know, afaik, how to make computers without maggotry.

asciilifeform: entirely typical.

asciilifeform: globally.

asciilifeform: but as in mircea_popescu's essay re: 'can't separate industry from maggotry', the era ~prior to that~ looked like univac and there was a market for mebbe 50 of them.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: pretty much whole 'history of computing' is a story of ascendant charlatans peddling garbage while burying actual thinking folk selling to thinking folk

asciilifeform: achtung panzerz! brief scheduled outage on zoolag, starting now.

asciilifeform: ask who? the trees? the grass ?

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-01-2016#1365147 << wai wut ?! ☝︎

asciilifeform: i must have hallucinated ?

asciilifeform: where'd it go

asciilifeform: and wtf happened to his wot rating ?! ☟︎

asciilifeform: and aha don't forget to mention their 'favourite' recommendation, 'go live in antarctica'

asciilifeform: and hair shirts.

asciilifeform: bitstein: about cure-alls

asciilifeform: i shit thee not: there is rap in ru.

asciilifeform did this as a student, got violently ill

asciilifeform: bitstein: keep telling yourself that.

asciilifeform: hair shirt.

asciilifeform finds it interesting how well dietary crackpottery fits with the ancient tradition of 'salvation by rejecting flesh pleasures' ☟︎

asciilifeform: 'coward is a fella who refuses to take a suicidal risk for somebody else's benefit' (tm) (r) (ilkka kokkarinen)

asciilifeform: 'stupidity with flipped sign bit'

asciilifeform: i'm not even >180

asciilifeform: so how would i.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they only live on atomic dirigible

asciilifeform: because it is NOT ACCESSIBLE to people in general

asciilifeform: but notice how no one is hyping the (very demonstrable) health benefits of... sleeping ad libitum

asciilifeform: dietary crackpottery is interesting psychiatrically. and fundamentally works - in the eating just about ANYTHING, even gravel, is healthier than subsisting on american petro-garbage

asciilifeform: isn't this how polar explorers contracted protein poisoning?

asciilifeform: ^

asciilifeform: l0l good luck with that.

asciilifeform: !up saifedean

asciilifeform: 'eat right, exercise, be the healthiest corpse at the cemetary'

asciilifeform: ;;later tell gabriel_laddel https://secure.flickr.com/photos/obra/sets/72157635353286814

asciilifeform: climate was exactly right. my eternal allergy stopped, even.

asciilifeform: it reminded me of home planet.

asciilifeform: btw timisoara absolutely ruled, imho

asciilifeform: punkman: l0l just now realized ?

asciilifeform: and hey also orlov.

asciilifeform: saifedean would get on well with funkenstein, i think.

asciilifeform: but where the hell is my philosopher's stone.

asciilifeform: saifedean: 'civilization begins with distillation' (tm) (r) (falkner) aha

asciilifeform worked for a palestinian fella for many years

asciilifeform: saifedean: aha. but for some reason i have yet to meet a practicing physicist who read newton's alchemical works.

asciilifeform: there is a surprisingly rich set of literature in... alchemy

asciilifeform: phun phakt: the 'antivax' hippie folk won in usa west coast. where there are now pandemics of crippling nasties (rubella, etc) last seen in 1940s

asciilifeform: !up saifedean

asciilifeform: and the common-mathematics O(N) factorizer kit

asciilifeform: sold right next to the common-medicine magical cure-all kit

asciilifeform: Cristina: arregla su conexion por favor

asciilifeform: Cristina: please fix your connection

asciilifeform: !up Cristina

asciilifeform: mats ^ other usa jurist types

asciilifeform: unrelated, except to an ancient thread: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/intel/RS22406.pdf >>><<< http://dpaste.com/290B077

asciilifeform discovered the other day that $rupturefarm has a very spiffy library. quite comparable to his own, at least on scientific subjects

asciilifeform: (as in potato battery)

asciilifeform: nah they make'em by sticking forks into young people

asciilifeform expects to write own driver for horse.

asciilifeform: another horse.

asciilifeform: nah

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: sadly this thread is a continuation of a pgpgram...

asciilifeform: or sumthing.

asciilifeform: and i think my horse needs a new fuel filter

asciilifeform: more than one fella can ulcer yaknow

asciilifeform: i'm a good way towards the naggum already.

asciilifeform: well then mircea_popescu can wait potentially indefinite time until we make a horse out of toothpicks.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu !

asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu http://dpaste.com/30AC9GQ

asciilifeform: aha, printed right on the box

asciilifeform: think for a minute, about the wisdom of a pre-existing public list of commanders who 'promise not to fire on the crowd'

asciilifeform: often accused of being a stoolie gambit for gestapo, yes

asciilifeform: it's supposed to be an org for usg soldiers who swear not to fire on the crowd

asciilifeform: no, this is explicitly printed on the box

asciilifeform: (this is not a secret)

asciilifeform: if that weren't clear

asciilifeform: incidentall, 'oathkeepers' is a social club for usg soldiers

asciilifeform: the 'revolution', when it takes over a solitary foodless shithole, also needs baggage train.

asciilifeform: 'the unfounded belief that whitey couldn't possibly have figured out your genius, Allah-inspired "idea". The ungrounded belief that all those other kids that stayed in school rather than quit at age 8 learned nothing at all for their trouble. The firm conviction that you can hide behind your finger.'

asciilifeform: oblig >> http://trilema.com/2013/the-danger-of-homebrew-crypto

asciilifeform: let's ben_vulpes go ask.