asciilifeform: if anyone here has the muscles to turn this concoction into a formula which might threaten to work in traditional courts, in some major country - go right ahead.
asciilifeform: 'this program may be redistributed provided that 1) this notice and 2) the original copy of $program, with my pgp signature thereof - are included; and any changes you made to $program must be represented in the form of a vdiff patch signed with a pgp key registered in the Web of Trust.'
asciilifeform: i recently thought of an equally-ceremonial 'software license'. would go roughly like this,
asciilifeform: 'no you may not use this code, except if you piss on law'
asciilifeform: ^ not that it would have done a 'freeloader' much good
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: 'this is the source, no you may not show it to folks who have not bought'
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: they were ordinary for the time
asciilifeform: there were also experiments in imprisoning them together in specially-designated zones where they would be permitted to rapidly kill off one another.
asciilifeform: (the most notable successes, iirc, were when they hogtied 'blatnoi' leaders and methodically shipped them to distant camps where they would be lowered into pederasty immediately, with all necessary force)
asciilifeform: depending on who you ask - it worked. or didn't.
asciilifeform: trinque: btw it was not clear to the folks who ran the camps, that this naturally-occurring system of hierarchy was a net plus re: net tonnage from the mines. hence the 'vory/suka wars' mircea_popescu referenced, a famous case where su authorities tried to monkey with the 'org chart'☟︎
asciilifeform: it is not clear to me that the fella sitting in ru prison barrack who does not a lick of work, other than organizing circle of thugs to squeeze 2x the normative quota from the poor schmucks, serves a purpose
asciilifeform: the queen bee has a biological function.
asciilifeform: if, as mircea_popescu appears to suggest, chingis khan is the 'luxury model' of human, and everybody else is 'man lite version', why does the khan have to enslave engineers ?
asciilifeform: or chingis khan 'stealing' chinese scholars...
asciilifeform: (and today from 'isis', though it is difficult from where i stand to get anything like an honest picture of the latter)
asciilifeform: similar cases were heard of during the chechen wars
asciilifeform: there was an interesting piece in some rag or other, a few weeks ago (?) re: mexican mafia stealing and enslaving white engineers to build their infrastructure
asciilifeform: or thermonuke? or even create so much as a bulldozer ?
asciilifeform: whatever else 'vory' might do, notice how they don't ever appear to build orbital launchers ?
asciilifeform: (orlov is somewhat fixated on them as 'ideal')
asciilifeform: the product of this recipe is afghanistan and the pashtuns
asciilifeform: i mean, i get it, mircea_popescu is with limonov in respecting the anonymous but honorable 'blatnoi' scum over korolev, who created modern rocketry while - yes - a slave
asciilifeform: not even bullet in head (some folks survive!)
asciilifeform: nothing works on everyone. not even aids virus
asciilifeform: the invention of 'шарашка' demonstrates that the chimp trick works great on man.
asciilifeform: phf: the modern-day successor of that is the unspoken gentleman's agreement among programmers to churn out mountains of shit that has to be 'maintained' at tremendous expense forever
asciilifeform: it was a kind of animal demo of why 'atlas' doesn't ever actually 'shrug'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: caveat: do you recall the experiment with the beaten chimpanzee ?
