asciilifeform: no one ever talks about the 'up side' of being a bureaucrat, but i think it is necessary. otherwise you are stuck believing that these people are clinically insane (they are not.)☟︎
asciilifeform: the only reason the nukes have not yet 'wandered off' is that the 'serious' part of usg works the same way as my house, or mircea_popescu's☟︎
asciilifeform: if herr handle turns up here, it will probably be in the 'ninjashotgun' capacity. so i'd rather he didn't
asciilifeform: my own personal picture of him is, he isn't 'ideological' usg, but rather a fella who quit a promising academic career to turn soldier, and went half-deaf in afghan, along with devil knows what else; but was then rewarded with lucrative bureaucrat post. he won't be giving it up.
asciilifeform: e.g., did bernard von nothaus get on front of nyt? why not?☟︎
asciilifeform: ;;later tell hanbot http://thewhet.net/2015/browder-the-bitcoinless << do you recall tlp's 'if you're reading it, it's for you' maxim? consider, why is this fella on front page of nyt? vs the $maxint other folks held without trial
asciilifeform: yet another was that it started life as 'to wish for to eat the fish and -not- sit down on the cock'
asciilifeform: (question is always asked, how are these two activities in conflict? one version holds that original was '[to wish for] to both eat the fish -and- suck the cock')
asciilifeform: 'и рыбку съесть и на хуй сесть' << '[wishes for] to both eat the fish -and- sit down on the cock'
asciilifeform: we have several versions of this proverb.
asciilifeform: 'do it under our watch or not at all'
asciilifeform: the proximate goal of wassenar etc. is not to jail academics (though the 'chilling effect' is a bonus for usg) but to herd the legit multinational corps who mine winblows 0days (e.g., 'vupen') and sell on market, into usg banners.
asciilifeform: use of linux/bsd is a legal nsa 'selector.' this is publicly known by now.☟︎
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the only thing usg likes more than chump running winblows is a chump who thinks he isn't, but is.
asciilifeform: 'want a vga card? run usg blobs. get on your knees, ready to please.'
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: objective there is to herd the remaining linux/bsd diehards onto nvidia/ati
asciilifeform: usg is working on plugging holes in the wintel-to-nsa pipeline.
asciilifeform: it is also not a secret what they are pushing as 'wrong technology.'
asciilifeform: incidentally, the au thing is more interesting than seems on the surface, because came directly out of 'wassenar agreement', a usg imposition on its entire colonial domain
