asciilifeform: i had one when i was in school, and it worked great. but today - nope. because go and try to install freebsd 4.7 - where do you get the packages? gonna patch by hand ?
asciilifeform: a year or so ago i chronicled (see logz!) my attempts to get a toshiba 'libretto 100ct' vintage ultraportable going with something like a reasonable unix
asciilifeform: anyway requirements of 'laptop for mircea_popescu's missile launch codes' and for civilian use are not quite same.
asciilifeform: (with very few exceptions, no 'respectable' person in a u.s. suburb ever sets foot inside of a bus)
asciilifeform: this sometimes leads to interesting contradictions. everywhere in usa there are strict laws against drunken driving, but if you go into a suburb you will notice pub after pub, each of them accessible ~strictly~ by car
asciilifeform: even bums will often 'drive' a motorized wheelchair thing (provided by usg, through some byzantine and ancient pension thing)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-10-2015#1306871 << re: cars in usa: yes, ~everyone~ is expected to drive. something, anything with wheels. even cripples - in most places here you just need one arm and one leg. there are special shops that customize the cars for this, i used to work next to one.☝︎
asciilifeform: not for any proggy written outside of a primary school.
asciilifeform: and the notion that it is somehow possible to program in 'strictly defined' c is a deliberate lie
asciilifeform: but the basic lesson, which is for some reason hidden behind a thick veil of shitsmoke, is that c is not built to be reasoned about mechanically, ergo relying on the compiler to save you from yourself is retarded.
asciilifeform: but the basic job of the priest is much the same everywhere - to convince his patients that the things they cannot have, they do not want, and 'no sane person would want'
asciilifeform: (has others, which appear when you pull this jumper off. but not this one)
asciilifeform: dar al-islam does not have this particular problem.
asciilifeform: nobody quite cancelled christianity. because this, this particular thing, is a very christian one.
asciilifeform: but he's a heretical priest, not an atheistical one
asciilifeform: and hard to imagine that tlp did not realize this.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-10-2015#1306752 << seems like a very basic thing: the 'hersheyization' of sex ('everybody gets a wife') inevitably leads to 'If you think it looks stupid when a 40 year old man buys a convertible or has to go find himself or chases a 20 year old intern' and a caste of priests tasked with convincing chumps that ~this~ is - somehow - sanity.☝︎
asciilifeform: (nothing, that is, other than signature by author. which is not part of the guide)
asciilifeform: since we're on the subject, nothing prevents an enemy from intercepting the message and re-encrypting own substitute to your key
asciilifeform: (markdown is considerably more human-readable in the editor)
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: in your place, i'd ask for submissions in 'markdown' format, instead of html, but this is a matter of aesthetics and perlscript solely.
asciilifeform: adlai: you know where the button is. rate away...
asciilifeform: d not waived the government’s sovereign immunity from such suits, it lacked jurisdiction to entertain Walton’s complaint, which it therefore dismissed.'
asciilifeform: 'In a thirty-four-page opinion, the Court of Federal Claims dismissed Walton’s complaint for lack of jurisdiction. The court held that the suit could not be maintained because the statutory provisions governing copyright infringement suits against the United States (28 U.S.C. § 1498(b), discussed in Part II infra), do not permit such suits by prisoners in Walton’s situation. The court further held that because Congress ha
asciilifeform: (appears to match the description given by mircea_popescu)
