asciilifeform: punkman: i bust my gut from the lulz re: how when cn deals with its vermin there is neverending whine re: 'cruel oppressive dictatorial bootz!11111'
asciilifeform: iirc cn still runs hydrazine rockets a la su circa 1965.
asciilifeform: they weren't nuke-proof, no. but they ~were~ 'oops, i'm an orc and forgot to pay the bills at the place i secretly resell you'-proof.
asciilifeform: unlike a hydro plant, a dc is this thing that, at its practical minimum, costs what maybe 2 or 3 passenger buses do. serious corps run their own. most of my past employers had their critical infrastructure in some variant of own, non-leveraged in-house dc
asciilifeform: for some reason i am reminded of 'farmer's market' sc4mz0rz who load up on monsanto garbage at the big box shop and then resell 'organic tomatoez!!111' to chumpers☟︎
asciilifeform: 'only the ancients could build temples, all we know how to do is take shits in'em'
asciilifeform: 'They just resell servers from various other datacenters but appear as if they have their own hardware' << this may well be true. very common scamatron, arse-mouth system.
asciilifeform: not quite same as losing actual asset
asciilifeform: punkman: just as a mortgaged house - sure. but then all the victim gets is just another debt collector after him
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: many, but the car is typically a museum piece
asciilifeform: the linked article mentioned cops searching pockets and taking as little as 100 usd. and this was meant to provoke outrage, but typical reader quite likely went 'what kind of monster walks around with 100 bill'
asciilifeform: punkman: the car is typically either an old rust bucket or deeply creditatronic
asciilifeform: (his mortgage? his cc bill ? college debt ?)
asciilifeform: what can a cop take from the typical american, other than anal virginity ?
asciilifeform: 'Some data centers in Ukraine had a raid this week and we dont receive the information in time to set the offers out of stock.' << any idea if this is true ?
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-11-2015#1326968 << we have this pestilence. in the maths dept of $uni, there is a gigantic wall of leaflets for 'tutoring' flyers, and half of all the phd candidate folks pay their rent this way: helping victims of usa 'schooling' fail more slowly☝︎
asciilifeform begins to grasp what mircea_popescu was trying to hammer into his thick head the other day.
asciilifeform: reads almost like a comic caricature of orc sales, where you bid on a pig, and get offered old stinking rat, 'same!!1111'
asciilifeform: (because the commonplace, sane constraint of being economically +ev - isn't there)
asciilifeform: the strange, imho, part, is that ~outside~ of these constraints - buy from catalogue, or else wait most of a year (i got the motherfucking lisp machine, yes) - can do pretty much whatever
asciilifeform: kinda funny usg story - 30k balance? no prob. but when i asked for 20kg of Pb brick for pedestal, so it wouldn't wander at 4th dec place when the lifts went up & down in the hallway - they never happened
asciilifeform: i had it installed to make the machine auto-calibrating (afaik to this day no such thing is offered by the original vendor, or anybody else. but no one wanted it.)
