asciilifeform: is it better to be married to a desk ?

asciilifeform: for the same reason why pink prime gurlflesh is more appealing than the circus horrors BingoBoingo linked

asciilifeform: the idea of biodieseling the sclerotic aristos and their imbecile offspring is appealing to healthy folks, imho

asciilifeform: for the 'armchair general'

asciilifeform: re: what is appealing about violent upheavals

asciilifeform: trying to formulate a hypothesis here

asciilifeform: random derp 'chose parents carefully'

asciilifeform: this is appealing for perfectly reasonable, if not practical, reasons.

asciilifeform: overnight.

asciilifeform: actual revolution means that 25 y.o. schmuck can transform to commander with personal death authority over ten thousand.

asciilifeform: mno

asciilifeform: go escape from fed pen.

asciilifeform: they are already in business

asciilifeform: very easy to 'give less of a shit about govt' all the way until you find yourself trying the 'be tribal' thing in a usg death camp.

asciilifeform: even re: the 'tribal' bit.

asciilifeform: and limonov was there in 1995.

asciilifeform: what trinque said.

asciilifeform: see also limonov

asciilifeform: ^

asciilifeform: 'populist buy-in' is what we have now.

asciilifeform: address all inquiries re: force multipliers to herr tesla

asciilifeform has been wondering this since he was 4 y.o

asciilifeform: as in, folks who board five unmarked planes to get to where you're dug in

asciilifeform: not some street cop

asciilifeform: DEDICATED

asciilifeform: trinque: getting killed by a dedicated usg death squad is an exam of sorts. can one pass this exam and not be someone worth considering ?

asciilifeform: i am broadly unconvinced that mr cartel is in any sense more intelligent than che. more narrowly focused, yes.

asciilifeform: not cutting throats

asciilifeform: the intelligent are sitting in some cellar, cranking out nth numerical approximations to schrodinger's eq. for system of five atoms.

asciilifeform: grass.

asciilifeform: che - no.

asciilifeform: brezhnevobama - the concrete, yes

asciilifeform: to borrow a mircea_popescuism

asciilifeform: the 'blade of grass in the concrete'

asciilifeform admires the audacity and virility of che et al separately from the peculiar follies of 20th c. mega-empires

asciilifeform: eh that's sorta like saying that 'forest fire failed' - because there are still, somewhere, trees.

asciilifeform: Alza la bandera revolucionaria...

asciilifeform tripping on the fact that this existed

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: '¡A las Barricadas! ¡A las Barricadas! por el triunfo de la Confederación.' (tm) (r)

asciilifeform: etc.

asciilifeform: armed man arrested in munich where hitler was due to speak.

asciilifeform: ;;later tell pete_dushenski https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhlwy6d8vBk << not a bad likbez re: that other incident, also.

asciilifeform: fair.

asciilifeform: ;;later tell pete_dushenski https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMkPo2RGK28

asciilifeform: what was wrong with ^ that

asciilifeform: 42 stator.sh

asciilifeform: $ wc -l stator.sh

asciilifeform: whyohwhy

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-07-2015#1210095 << dearglub, that this is looooooooong ☝︎

asciilifeform: neh that's not 168001 ☟︎

asciilifeform: link?

asciilifeform: ^ did we ever determine the particular tx ?

asciilifeform: that's quite a few of'em

asciilifeform: woah

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-07-2015#1210060 << aha that's correct behaviour ☝︎

asciilifeform: plz details ?

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-07-2015#1210020 << !!! ☝︎

asciilifeform: decimation: i have paper magazines somewhere with that picture in'em

asciilifeform: they took days, in some cases, weeks, to write - 10sec./each to verify is too long?

asciilifeform: are there really so many patches, that it is a major labour to verify them manually ?

asciilifeform: i never really got the point of 'auto.sh'

asciilifeform: 24 connections.

asciilifeform: and mostly putters along.

asciilifeform: in other nyooz, incitatus is at full height

asciilifeform: considering that it went, without any major changes, not only under gentoo but under the most wretched centos etc

asciilifeform sits and tries to figure out why it is that folks had to add anything to 'stator' to make it go

asciilifeform hands hanbot new mag

asciilifeform: tratatatata

asciilifeform: !up ascii_field

asciilifeform: !up ascii_field

asciilifeform bbl

asciilifeform: just about anything to do with orcs is auto-funny

asciilifeform: can name one other non-emasculated head of state today ?

asciilifeform: orc

asciilifeform: aha in that sense, yes!

asciilifeform: ('bros before hos' (tm) (r) is not strictly african, but almost literally exists as a maxim among ru outlaw folks)

asciilifeform: fungibility ?

asciilifeform: brothel vs harem ?

asciilifeform: what is the 'cultural war' referenced earlier?

asciilifeform: biodiesel ?

asciilifeform: l0l what resources

asciilifeform envisions rms chiming in: 'support contractz!'

asciilifeform: what else.

asciilifeform: what, exactly, would persuade anyone to pay money to look at pictures again ?

asciilifeform: not sure how that would work

asciilifeform: classic 'arsonist's fire sale'

asciilifeform: 'Manwin used their traffic to sell ad space to those same production companies they enabled theft from. Production companies paid a lot for banners. Manwin then began buying the companies they had helped devalue, including Digital Playground—the company I was contracted to for a number of years. I believe the worst sorts of capitalists would consider Manwin’s behavior a win of the highest order.' << sop

asciilifeform: 'those with title to something worthless will find a way to extract value from it, making it even more worthless. An abandoned suburban subdivision might be worthless as housing, but valuable as a dump site for toxic waste.' (orlov, who else)

asciilifeform: re: 'monetize':

asciilifeform: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/07/feds-bust-through-huge-tor-hidden-child-porn-site-using-questionable-malware << possibly interesting, from same fishwrap

asciilifeform: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/05/sourceforge-grabs-gimp-for-windows-account-wraps-installer-in-bundle-pushing-adware << for those who missed re: 'sourceforge.'

asciilifeform: a handful of 'lucky winners' to lead the cannon fodder to their graves

asciilifeform: whether broadway, or pornway, or sv programmerz

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: all tournament markets are quite alike

asciilifeform: ^ for those who missed.

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=28-06-2015#1179799 << old thread where mircea_popescu's node was jammed in same way ☝︎

asciilifeform: can't recall

asciilifeform: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/19/dice_acquires_geeknet << them

asciilifeform: they also own 'slashdot'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'dice holdings'