asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-10-2015#1289736 << there existed at least one 'revolver' where the drum revolved to snarf up wankel-shaped cartridges from a hilt magazine, whereby this cartridge would be its own chamber! and fell out when spent and drum rotated!☝︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: programming is a proto-field, very much stuck in its 'alchemical' stage.
asciilifeform: this is the Right Thing for ~very few~ items. and yes, a game is a textbook example of where it is ~not~.
asciilifeform: kelvin versioning is for proggy which ~solves~ well-defined problem, yes. it is to signal intent to converge, with exponentially smaller (in practice also ~rarer~) increments on eternal perfection.
asciilifeform: 'use actual bitcoin or fuck off', roughly.
asciilifeform: this'd be the ultimate 'vote with nodes', aha
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu what do you think of the notion of no longer relaying shitgnomatic tx-en - e.g., ANYTHING with 'soft fork' bits set, etc. ?
asciilifeform: l0l!! what's it take to get booted from a leper colony !
asciilifeform: 'hamplanet' as i understand is a mark of rancid, unrepentant, irremediable... spiritual poverty - rather than lack of physical exercise as such☟︎
asciilifeform: nor does football or not have anything causal to do with 'becoming hamplanet' (it is virtually impossible without 'fast food')
asciilifeform: '...'I'm happy to say,' said Arpad, 'that fourteen S.S. men were shot on our recommendation. Adolf Eichmann himself congratulated us. 'You met him, did you?' I said. 'Yes' said Arpad, 'and I'm sorry I didn't know at the time how important he was.' 'Why?' I said. 'I would have killed him,' said Arpad.'
asciilifeform: obligatory: ''How would they dare?' he said. 'I was such a pure and terrifying Aryan that they even put me in a special detachment. Its mission was to find out how the Jews always knew what the S.S. was going to do next There was a leak somewhere, and we were out to stop it' He looked bitter and affronted, remembering it, even though he had been that leak. 'Was the detachment successful in its mission?' I said. 'I'm happy to s
asciilifeform: most recently, i think, 'cloud atlas'
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: for some reason, hollywood really likes the idea of the 'bomb collar.' i've personally seen at least four separate films that had these.
asciilifeform: The reason it is notable, is that someone at or near the location in Sterling, VA is performing a MITM attack on Cryptome visitors, and this image out of the slidedeck with the two GPS coordinates is the U.S. Government performing a MITM attack against Cryptome and sharing the collected intelligence with the Brits, or the U.S. Government giving the British government backdoor access into the U.S. (illegal) collection systems.'
asciilifeform: 'the address for Cryptome is listed to be the location of a fiber optic cable junction in Sterling, VA (next to an Amusement Machine company)... which is quite some distance away from your location in NYC, and a considerable distance from your ISP who hosts your file, and it is located away from any signal switching systems use in the area, but it is virtually next door to fiber that goes to a large NSA listening post nearby.
asciilifeform: it was hilarious, stooges would actually be sent around every now and then to make sure that everything that was connected into the Official net ~was~ a winblowz box!
asciilifeform: (after a miserable 6 months or so in 'cygwin', where i even built x11 and the whole rest of shebang)
asciilifeform: perhaps these, too, will 'go the way of the snake's legs' eventually
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the physical manifestations of this bezzle are surprisingly public and visible
asciilifeform: (often these, on close examination, are stairwells, no one lives there)
asciilifeform: you can drive around and see this, towers of 'condos' with one or two windows out of every dozen, lit up☟︎
asciilifeform: (so long as this is not immediately obvious to passers-by)
asciilifeform: it does it just as well by being empty and decaying.
asciilifeform: just keep prices at 400-500K for the remaining chumpers
asciilifeform: nobody needs to live in it, for it to 'work'.
asciilifeform: but to the folks who ordered this, they still 'work', yes
asciilifeform: commercial buildings, where i live, have been known to rot for years, even a decade, before finally being demolished and replaces with condos that NOBODY BUYS
asciilifeform: laugh but this is not entirely fiction. i discovered recently that it is customary where i live for the city to continue to cut the grass in the yards of empty houses
asciilifeform: why otherwise would usg park them at reddit rather than in alaska.
asciilifeform: which is why 'They're here to work and only work, a lot, hard and for very little money. Until they fall over.' is hilariously optimistic. most of these people, i doubt could even be made useful at butugychag, where 'fall over' is a matter of 3 months or so
asciilifeform: it is almost certainly easier than getting homo redditicus to build a house !
