asciilifeform: 'Germany's vice chancellor Sigmar Gabriel, who called an undefined but large part of the German populace who dare to oppose this insanity “Pack” (vermin).'
asciilifeform: ” have been briefed on exactly what kinds of social benefits they can demand, and how to go about doing it, and so they are audacious and become violent if met with resistance.'
asciilifeform: Where did they all get the money to pay for it? Why was there absolutely no effort at any border to stop them? Why did this not start earlier? ... look at the character of the average “refugee.” Why are they all well-fed, well-clothed, self-confident young men showing no signs of stress or hardship? ... Why do they all own high-quality mobile phones charged with seemingly endless minutes? It is clear that the “refugees
asciilifeform: 'Everything about this development bears the hallmarks of a military/intelligence operation... Ask yourself, why would millions of men (the overwhelming majority are young men) suddenly and collectively decide to leave their families behind, leave their country, travel thousands of miles and head for either Germany, Austria or Sweden, ignoring all the other safe countries on the way? Who told them that this would be worth it?☟︎
asciilifeform: 'Фёдор же Симеонович Киврин забавлялся с машиною, как ребёнок с игрушкой. Он мог часами играть с нею в чёт-нечёт, обучил её японским шахматам, а чтобы было интереснее, вселил в машину чью-то бессмертную душу - впрочем, довольно жизнерадос
asciilifeform: store shortly before she was killed.' <<< ahahahaha finally.
asciilifeform: 'Defense attorneys, for example, had previously said they might seek to point the finger at another suspect — Nancy Dunning’s late husband, former Alexandria sheriff James Dunning, who had a tumultuous relationship with his wife. Perhaps laying the groundwork in the case, Severance’s parents and sister disputed Wednesday that Severance was the man caught on surveillance video possibly following Nancy Dunning at a Target
asciilifeform: it is difficult to count a virus in the proper sense.
asciilifeform: 'Severance’s mother said her son flew a skull-and-crossbones flag at the family home, developed an interest in crystals and once took money that his family thought he was spending on college tuition and invested it in Chrysler.'
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: a good 80% of adults in usa, iirc, have the antibody.
asciilifeform once owned a massive 'tempest'-shielded pa-risc monstrosity
asciilifeform: everything in an apple product that actually fuking WORKS, silently, tirelessly, without fail, without generating 'work' for armies of vermin - was written by folks who never dreamed that it would end up in a commercial unix
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is how we got apple.
asciilifeform: so we got obfuscatory obscurantist skulduggery.
asciilifeform: 'yes, everyone can read the code!' 'but now we gotta make it so that we aren't working for microshit for free because no one can actually make'em obey gpl'
asciilifeform: sexpr is merely one way to represent an unambiguously-parseable ast
asciilifeform: no different from the african huts that won't stand up
asciilifeform: we are dealing with a very basic mathematical issue
asciilifeform: if it's one where diff and every single fucking thing under the sun doesn't operate on sexprs or something isomorphic - we get exactly to the same place we are now.
asciilifeform: but also because 'why not have diff output a sexpr?' 'ewwwww parens omfg!1111111'
asciilifeform: pushing around huge fucking tanks of unstructured text sludge that has to be picked apart by machine every single fucking time you want to do anything - leads to regexp.
asciilifeform: 'Defense lawyers for Charles Severance, 54, of Ashburn, had asked the judge to bar prosecutors from using the writing as evidence out of concern that his inflammatory message would unfairly rile up a jury against him.'
asciilifeform: 'In another passage he writes, “I’ve been nudging and trolling for over a decade and nobody has noticed. Violence wins. Assassinate because it is in the best interest of the child.”'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: my original 'v' relied on python's 're' (regexp) widget, and will prolly fall down if looked at with evil eye☟︎
asciilifeform: mod6: the price i pay for having half-finished crud lying around
