asciilifeform: but partly that you don't nuke something that nobody will be making any more of, and which you ~like having~ enough to want to go through the bother of a scan
asciilifeform: i suspect that partly it is a cultural thing
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: actually not a single one of my ru scans looks like the result of cutting spine & sheetfed
asciilifeform: (if nobody scans '50 shades of shit' or whatnot - it'll be a ~better~ future)
asciilifeform: and/or being pablum that isn't worth scanning to begin with
asciilifeform: again those tend to be findable in clean scan ALREADY
asciilifeform: or do i just lack the necessary lsd here.
asciilifeform: where is the 'human element' or whatnot
asciilifeform: baby in the bath wants finger, but won't grab the faucet - how does the charity thing work
asciilifeform: which ring? the 'one ring to rule them all and in the darkness bind'em' ?
asciilifeform: and that the moneyed ladies who buy ersatz chocolate in a train station for the cost of its weight in plutonium, ought to pay for this
asciilifeform: sorta implies that there is this silent mass of downtrodden mill gurlz or somesuch who could have the coveted american dream (tm) Respectable Job, if only she could afford a new skirt...
asciilifeform: 'each gift helps outfit a woman for her interview'
asciilifeform: so much braindamage packed into one ad
asciilifeform: 3) could always just decide that books are for the birds, and that the congo is an acceptable standard of civilization.
asciilifeform: for completeness, and because mircea_popescu is asleep, i will mention the third,
asciilifeform: which is why a proper w4r3z infrastructure is essential. folks will scan if they have some notion that the result will be taken up and live.
asciilifeform: so, a 'soviet' comp built in 2015 would have to have a very specific purpose in life. e.g., xoring serial stream with a onetimepad stored on magnetic tape, or the like.
asciilifeform: (and i anticipate that somebody will mention bank switching. ahahaha. tricks like that demolish the already unenviable performance of such a box)
asciilifeform: ideally, a purpose that fit into 64kB of z80.
asciilifeform: so no, this would not be your pc, it would be a machine with a specific purpose
asciilifeform: (though yes, it is physically possible)
asciilifeform: 'Austrian Army Major: “I was at the border today: It's a war!” “21 October 2015: Today is the blackest day of my life. At 11:30 I had to witness with my own eyes how around 5,000 men, all of them young and very fit, breached the Austrian border at Spielfeld, completely unopposed and unchecked.”'
asciilifeform: 'Hundreds of Magdeburg citizens affiliated on a Facebook group with the goal of creating a militia. In Barleben, according to an report by the “Volksstimme,” a milita was already formed and patrols the village. Around 70 citizens want to secure their village.'
asciilifeform: 'A number of readers ran straight for the “conspiracy theory” rabbit hole. “Conspiracy theory” is strictly a term of abuse invented by the enemies of free speech and used to try to invalidate narratives that are not officially sanctioned by the Lügenpresse (the lying press). This term fails to signify anything beyond the fact that those who use it need to be taken out to the woodshed.' << with new, shiny, teutonic fla
asciilifeform: phf: it is not uncommon for the listings to feature a link to a modern scan of the data sheet
asciilifeform walked 'ebay' and similar and concluded that it is quite feasible to build whole computer, and in fact run a conveyor, out of nothing post-1990 and nothing west of bulgaria
asciilifeform: and there are NOT 5bux of au in there.
asciilifeform: in other 'news', sov era 2kB EPROMs have been regularly selling for 5 bux or so each. SOMEBODY's buying.
asciilifeform: and given as the thread holding these folks together is the particular odd notion that books, films, are entirely like petro & fish - unsurprising
asciilifeform: can't fault their logic though - if privatization of the rest of the shebang (from petro to fish) slid by without mass guillotinings, why not this.
asciilifeform: and the public at large is largely laughing its collective arse off
asciilifeform: which, unknown to most western folks, include outrages like privatization of classic sov. works incl. children's items which are still ubiquitous, etc
asciilifeform: anyway the situation with ru torrent bans, prosecutions of the great b00kw4r3z libraries (yes) etc. is that the copyrasts latched onto putin's 'dictatorship of the law' thing of the past decade to try to have their 'rights'
asciilifeform: 'When I met my friend for dinner and told him what happened, he speculated that I was being set up for a “soft mugging,” which is a term for when homeless people attach themselves to you and won’t leave until you give them some money.'
