asciilifeform writes broadcast

asciilifeform: ah.

asciilifeform: made with dead friend's name ?

asciilifeform: everyone knows what tags are for. but bracelet is something else ?

asciilifeform: to be picked up by burial detail

asciilifeform: i thought it was to have your own name on it.

asciilifeform: memorial?

asciilifeform: mats: kia bracelet is something like a set of 'dog tags' ?

asciilifeform: hard to imagine a more precious possession than 'the last bullet'

asciilifeform: not so believable, but beautiful story.

asciilifeform: which would sometimes go off from being slammed and take off a whole hand..

asciilifeform: one-upsmanshiping one another by carrying larger and larger rounds, up to antiaircraft cannon shells,

asciilifeform: mats: the legend i was told re: 'challenge coins' is that they were issued in lieu of the 'last bullet' that americans used to slam on barroom stools in vietnam

asciilifeform: actually the comments on one of the earlier links were 'it works but i wish it had keyboard'

asciilifeform: l0l

asciilifeform: and 'nobody can tell the difference, right ??!!'

asciilifeform: it was made, almost certainly, by 'some guy' and injection molding co$$$$$$ts.

asciilifeform: it is not hard to see why this is so.

asciilifeform: on the clone, they are printed on.

asciilifeform: mats: this may not be obvious from the picture, but the buttons on the actual 16c are legit separate pieces of plastic, with clickers

asciilifeform: mats: http://kd7dvd.us/other/edc/mamabear-16c.jpg << right hand side: the real thing. left hand side: the piece of shit

asciilifeform: i suppose word 'same' now means 'we say it is the same, and you, cattle, will eat it up because fuck you'

asciilifeform: 'has largely the same feature set and user interface as a real 15C' << ahahahahahaha no.

asciilifeform: hilarious, how 'swiss' now means laughable knockoff crud

asciilifeform: but i fucking hate chiclet keyboards.

asciilifeform: http://www.retrothing.com/2014/11/dm-swiss-made-calculators.html << review.

asciilifeform: but with removable stick-on keypads to imitate various hp machines.

asciilifeform: ok it appears that they are physical calcs

asciilifeform also confused

asciilifeform: or are they?!

asciilifeform: they are stickers for pNohe.

asciilifeform: retardedly fake

asciilifeform: fake.

asciilifeform: l0k i'm a chump.

asciilifeform: were they ?!!

asciilifeform: or wai wat

asciilifeform: mats: these appear to be actual calculators, not emulated

asciilifeform: *microscopic

asciilifeform: they made them microscoping, for some reason

asciilifeform: mats et al ^

asciilifeform: http://www.swissmicros.com << found a vendor claiming to sell a clone

asciilifeform: iirc there was even a calculator-themed one, at some point.

asciilifeform: the place where they separate idiots from their money ?

asciilifeform: mats: don't expect that it would cost any less than those vintage 16c if i were to make it.

asciilifeform: there were (and are) abominations where ops like the ones on 16c ~could be~ accessed ten menu keystrokes in

asciilifeform: mats: afaik there never was, before or since.

asciilifeform: each one that someone spills coffee on, is one less.

asciilifeform: at some point, they won't exist at ~any~ price.

asciilifeform: but it cannot be had.

asciilifeform: thing could be produced today for toy store price

asciilifeform: mats: frustrating, ikr? there's maybe $2 worth of material in there.

asciilifeform: mats: read it before you buy, know what you're getting into.

asciilifeform: mats: https://archive.org/details/hp-16c_handbook << manual.

asciilifeform: i got mine for around 200.

asciilifeform: kenyans need bitcoin like they need gunn diodes.

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: http://www.contravex.com/2015/09/03/what-its-like-to-be-poor/#comment-28738

asciilifeform: if anyone even bothers.

asciilifeform: after i'm dead it will be sold per pound, prolly for much less than old car.

asciilifeform: l0l

asciilifeform: it is 'capital goods' strictly in the sense that a beggar's shoes are.

asciilifeform: and i laugh out loud re: pete_dushenski thinking that my stash of junk is 'capital goods'. all of it put together wouldn't buy an old car.

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=04-09-2015#1262299 << all i see is old logz ☝︎

asciilifeform: snorestorm.

asciilifeform: and put on 'youtube.'

asciilifeform: but i'd rather put it in a pyre, and light it

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=04-09-2015#1262303 << if i wanted to send money to copyrasts i know where to do it ☝︎

asciilifeform: is anyone here able to locate M. Greenberger, 'Method in randomness,' Comm. ACM 8 (1965) ? ☟︎

asciilifeform: unrelatedly,

asciilifeform: related, http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-10-2014#883640 ☝︎

asciilifeform: inevitable 'embrace & extinguish', just as with bitcoin.

asciilifeform: The difference: it is legally binding under .EE law. Not like the loose PGP.'

asciilifeform: '

asciilifeform: http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/08/im-now-an-estonian-e-resident-but-i-still-dont-know-what-to-do-with-it << a related lul from same fishwrap. mandatory non-pgp signatures in whole muppet country, aha.

asciilifeform: gonna guess it's 'jihadcrypt' or whatever that idiocy was called.

asciilifeform: ^ no detail on ~what~, afaik.

asciilifeform: 'Three journalists working with Vice News have been charged with "engaging in terrorist activity" on behalf of ISIL (ISIS), because one of them used encryption software. A Turkish official told Al Jazeera: "The main issue seems to be that the [journalists'] fixer uses a complex encryption system on his personal computer that a lot of ISIL militants also utilise for strategic communications."'

asciilifeform: ;;later tell BingoBoingo http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/09/journalists-arrested-on-terrorism-charges-in-turkey-for-using-crypto-software

asciilifeform: https://cryptome.org/2015/09/mccollum-001.pdf << lettre de cachet lulz

asciilifeform brb

asciilifeform falls down

asciilifeform: !b 2 ✂︎

asciilifeform: is mircea_popescu just testing how much sophistry i can take before i have to go and change gas mask canister ?

asciilifeform: reasoning inductively, from 'any intelligence org that runs winblows on wintel is a joke'

asciilifeform: or that.

asciilifeform: is this where we do the 2013 thread re: whether a fully-knowable computing machine is possible, all over again ?

asciilifeform: what is meant by sovereign here is plainly obvious

asciilifeform: brain is not the gold standard, aha. there is a reason why 'mentats' are creatures of imagination and we compute with machines whenever the least bit possible.

asciilifeform: how's that?

asciilifeform: or not worthy of the name.

asciilifeform: meta-nsa has to be sovereign over own tools of thought.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i get that humint can be done entirely via 'hashishim' dissolved in planet at large, etc. but build me one single z80 this way.

asciilifeform: nukes - captive industrial base to parasitise.

asciilifeform: fortress - nukes.

asciilifeform: and si fab requires a fortress.

asciilifeform: and i will say that an entity without si fabbing capability is no meta-nsa regardless of what else.

asciilifeform: see the 'fortress' discussion.

asciilifeform: somewhere.

asciilifeform: anyway we're imagining a physical army vs underground cells, so it stands to reason that it would work for a geographic sovereign

asciilifeform: just as an imaginary loch ness monster can listen to bbc vs voice of america for no entirely good reason.

asciilifeform: for no reason.