asciilifeform: decimation: not like 'humans' will fix their broken-by-design surroundings. visit a few folks in usa and see how many drilled out the idiot 'water saver' thing from their shower head.
asciilifeform: or are there 1,001 other things to do.
asciilifeform: decimation: on a typical day, do you feel like moving a light switch ?
asciilifeform: (i have heard of literal pant-pissing when subject could not find light switch in toilet)
asciilifeform: e.g., light switches at whatever height builder felt like placing them
asciilifeform: americans often piss their pants (or nearly) when travelling abroad to 'orc' world, when they discover what -no- building code looks like
asciilifeform: (they are 'standard' in usa too, but i only touched one with own hands when moved into current house)
asciilifeform: or in the sense of godelizing it to go to some unintended place
asciilifeform: reverse in the sense of building it again somewhere else ?
asciilifeform: little did mircea_popescu know that it is not enough to shoot stupid shit in the head, it has to be scattered with trotyl and buries in five separate graves, or will re-assemble
asciilifeform: i, for instance, would much like to publicly register as 'anyone who walks in with my name and slave serial number and tries to take a mortgage, ever, is to be shot immediately'☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: notably, afaik in all states that have government lotteries, folks trying to quit gambling habit can ask themselves to be place on permanent list of folks who will never be allowed to claim winnings. but one cannot, apparently, do this for the mortgage racker.
asciilifeform: (most u.s. folk aren't 'good' for much else scam-wise)
asciilifeform: i, for one, have not located any maker of true mc68k other than freescale today. (the eeprom-on-board variants are not 'true' for the purpose of this query.)
asciilifeform: (zilog is still making z80, nominally pin-compatible with the 1976 variant, yes.)
asciilifeform: long term question for mircea_popescu et. al: who is still manufacturing mc68000 ? -other- than freescale corp. ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if it's a s33kr17 k00l d00dz hidey-hole, this is a well-kept s33kr17
asciilifeform: shinohai: pray tell, what is a 'libertarian of the wost kind' ?
asciilifeform: with plastic rivets, they had, presumably, a vacuum plate (think 'air hockey' table in reverse) and a hot iron.
asciilifeform: with bolts, somebody's gotta sit there with a dynamometer wrench and do the deed
asciilifeform: the membrane (yes, there is a membrane deep inside 'model m') must be pressed to the steel 'anvil' evenly in all places, as far as is possible
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: my understanding is that this was done to avoid the work of tensioning the bolts correctly
asciilifeform finally grasped the point of the 'bolt mod' for 'ibm model m' keyboard. was cleaning one that has not been cleaned in a decade. keys, chassis - easy, tub of dish detergent, three days. mechanism - washed in nonpolar organics. and that's when a dozen plastic rivets fell right off.
