asciilifeform: my guess is that it is not actually so difficult, but no one has invested in genuinely trying, for the elementary reason that the green-magicmarker crowd will never buy it
asciilifeform: but it is considerably easier to fake 'glows' than 'amplifies'
asciilifeform: possibly using burned tube would not work on account of the filament failing to glow red
asciilifeform: wonder how many audiophiliacs could tell the difference between a fifty-cent emulator (yes, it needs to eat the high supply voltages, but this is not hard) and the original.
asciilifeform: see, when i heard of 'fake tubes', my first thought was something like an old burned-out one but with some chinese semiconductor strange in the plastic base, to emulate a working tube.
asciilifeform: same 'people' who put green paint on cd to 'improve sound', and buy $50k cabling ?
asciilifeform: i wonder if the fake folks skip the diffusion pump
asciilifeform: t went into nuclear submarines that prowled off the coast of the United States.'
asciilifeform: 'In the hulking pile of brick wrapped in pipes and smokestacks that is the building, most of the employees are women. Dressed in blue robes and hair nets, they join together delicate bundles of wire, wafers of rare metal and glass bulbs with fingers trained by years of work. "No man would want to make a tube," Lyudmila V. Afanasieva, 54, said, nimbly sliding wires into a glass cylinder. She worked on the same tube model when i
asciilifeform: ^ lulzy. arsonist sets fire, buys up assets at fire sale, then complains when folks whack him over the head to take back the stolen goods☟︎
asciilifeform: It’s 18th December 1969; the scene is Minradioprom, the Ministry for Radio Production...'
asciilifeform: '...in 1969 a disastrous decision was taken to standardise all production on clones of the IBM 360 series, half a decade old before the effort to reverse-engineer it even began, which would ensure that ever after the Soviet industry was doomed to obsolescence, and to feeble belated imitations of foreign technology. This, taken from Boris Malinovsky’s Pioneers of Soviet Computing, is the conversation that killed the industry.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: just like su conscripts happily massacred rioting factory workers. and it was hushed up well enough that even westerners are surprised to be told about it (incidents in 1960s)
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: what line-up. employees follow orders in usa.
asciilifeform: polizei from wisconsin will shoot floridians. from alaska, in california.
asciilifeform: for crushing rebellion, one uses troops from far-off places, rather than sympathetic locals. this was known to romans, persians, everyone.☟︎
asciilifeform: and just about everybody, right, left, center, happily buying in.
asciilifeform: the discreditation of local police apparatus, for its eventual demolition and replacement by unified fed gendarmerie, is going on schedule.☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: (incidentally, did anyone else notice how the recent 'police brutality' mediatronic kick began immediately after several sheriffs in usa openly declared intent to nullify federal laws ?
asciilifeform: of climatocalypse, 'black lives', the whole shebang.
asciilifeform: the climategate thing is why i do not credit mircea_popescu's hypothesis re: orlov being a minion of moscow. orlov fellates the boston harvaprinceyaleton liberast-wing-usg orthodoxy
