asciilifeform: where do i meet all of these mythical people who own a computer, use gpg, but do not know enough english to operate it without this garbage ?☟︎
asciilifeform: and holy fuck, enough utf8 hieroglyphisms to kill five elephants
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu didja know that it is impossible to produce a v-genesis for gnupg-1.4.10 ? it contains unprintable turds, yes ! e.g., the idiot 'localizators', po/*.gmo☟︎
asciilifeform: 'Wikileaks is not offering a search of Cryptome - the files are hosted on their server as a honeypot for snatching user data for who knows what. There are subtle sneaky differences that give it away...'☟︎
asciilifeform: punkman: where i live, tenure is still a thing. in that the courts have held it to be a perverse kind of nontransferable property interest
asciilifeform: a matched set of rf boxes that 9600 bauds in either direction, and you can do what you like with the outs, is commercial sop and costs maybe ten bux.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: why would toy maker bother.
asciilifeform: what i originally wanted to note was the 'powerful' does not necessarily mean 'respects no bounds', could - if this is a stable convention for some reason - respect the gold bubbles
asciilifeform: literally 'state of no bounds', in the least desirable possible sense
asciilifeform: it is a specific term from su prison lexicon
asciilifeform: 'In a little less than four decades, college tuition has risen 1400%. Housing costs have gone up 3100%. Gasoline has increased 1800%. Wages, on the other hand, have gone up 322%. The average increase in the three areas I have mentioned comes to 20 times. If income had kept pace with expenses, and if I were earning an amount equivalent to what my father earned in the 1960s, I would be making over one million dollars a year.'
asciilifeform: v_diddy: i also remember the one other time i had a lotto ticket; when the lab where i worked in 2011 was defunded, the boss passed the hat and, as a last l0l, bought lotto tickets
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the thing that i was bitching about earlier is that nobody cared to find out how attentive ~i~ would be to the frier either
asciilifeform: i suppose there is 'as a charity' ('keisha' et al)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: how else can it run ?
asciilifeform: v_diddy: was trying to speak of... actual market
asciilifeform: (because what does zimbabwe need engineer for ? as far as the people's republic is concerned, he's just another shit-scooper ~but with pretensions~)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: on the other end, there is also precious little market for... skilled anything.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they come here on tour once in a spell. they don't wear this 'uniform' either.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: afaik these creatures exist only in hollywood films
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: no need to go far, see the case of, e.g., terry davis
asciilifeform: typically, anything short of a proper felony conviction results in demotion at the most.
asciilifeform: v_diddy: 'canned' means something quite else for a tenured prof than for the rank and file.
asciilifeform: (typical u.s. state uni employs largely 'lecturers', who occupy approx. same place in the org chart as an air conditioner mechanic)
asciilifeform: most of'em don't even have the 'job security' popularly associated with this line of work
asciilifeform: but no, you won't find ~these~ profs at anything describable as 'pretentious party.' in fact, you won't find them at the high-end grocery shop, either.
asciilifeform could not help but take off his hat to, e.g., the fella who put off +ev employment until he was 40 and subsisted on chickenshit wage just so that he could teach asciilifeform and other scum algorithms, number theory, etc
asciilifeform: went to school, professoring is just a (poorly-paying) job, and the folks who did it showed no symptoms of conceiving of it as anything else
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'I have a few friends (lawyers, hedge fund managers, high powered money types generally) who make sport of hunting and humiliating UStardian college professors socially. It is a sport I would like to see extended to the middle class. Next time you're at a pretentious party and you spot some douche in the uniform of "college professor", go see if you can make him admit he's not read a whole book....' << where i
