asciilifeform: ( mircea_popescu reveals that he has - to this day unpublished! - private 31337 version of bitcoin; then everybody tries to pry detail outa him; ben_vulpes asks for pedigreed tarballs; i ask for printed book... etc )
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: let mircea_popescu know when you've reached the correct level of despair, he will issue you with a pin with which to poke out eyes of guards☟︎
asciilifeform: but it's a different kind, the kind with razor blades in the slides
asciilifeform: 'Bezos runs a company, not a playground for millenials.' << actually the interesting thing is that he ~does~ run a playground for millenials
asciilifeform: l0l, everybody knows that work happens in a uranium mine and a miner lives for about 3 months before succumbing
asciilifeform: (some clerk spilled a bucket of paint right in my path, led to a circus where successively higher levels of boss appeared to apologize, ending with top shift boss - a pretty gurl - giving me a fiddybuck 'gift card' )
asciilifeform: the one time i went to lolmart they destroyed my shoes
asciilifeform: l0l and here i thought it was because they don't get out
asciilifeform: and anyway why would anybody need to serve a warrant to canfield ? all they gotta do is cancel his job. then he can enjoy living in ro ~on a ro wage~
asciilifeform: they play ball, or usg pulls on the strings. will pull until arms, legs come off.
asciilifeform: (can be as simple as being a pedo, a la brock p)
asciilifeform: nobody gets to count for two shits, in big picture, in usa, without proper strings pre-attached
asciilifeform: (and promptly jailed for 'insider trading')
asciilifeform: or ask that one telco ceo who wouldn't sign up for nsa
asciilifeform: the legal logic behind 'canary' was always dodgy, 'usg cannot compel you to tell lies' - wanna bet ? ask juniper et al
asciilifeform: and considering that secret courts and secret laws are now sop in usaschwitz, perhaps it was tested 1,001 times and was laughed at from day one☟︎
asciilifeform: and afaik 'warrant canary' has never been tested in any court.
asciilifeform: (the gag itself is not classified, in the sense that it is a separate legal instrument and its disclosure is punished under a separate set of penal code than disclosure of classified info - which in usa, supposing that you did not sign its nda, is not a crime)
asciilifeform: ianal but the standard u.s. freislerian legal instrument in such cases is the gag order, which is not 'a national security letter, on order under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or any other classified request for user information'
asciilifeform: shinohai: 'warrant canary' is an endearing custom but is quite useless on several different levels
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: aha. somebody ought remind herr canfield not to fall ill or have accident
asciilifeform goes back to the far moar interesting activity of changing the detergent in the tub where 'northgate' kbd keys are soaking for their 5-yrly wash
asciilifeform: phun phakt: virtually all american 'health insurance' is void abroad
asciilifeform: this fella is a sysadmin, but not on call during american business hours? ... or is he ?
asciilifeform: decentralized companies out there, you just have to find them.'
asciilifeform: (from commentz) 'I work as a sysadmin. I got my remote position by working in an office and getting to know everyone, and getting myself in a position where all of my work can be done remotely. Even though I’m near the office should I need to go in, I work from home since there’s not really any need. Other ways include freelance / contract work, or just outright applying for a remote-hire position. There are lots of fully-
asciilifeform once watched an american sp4mz0r do this
