asciilifeform: felipelalli: your idea requires cooperation of known mortal enemies of all things good and bright
asciilifeform: so 4 is now 3, and 3 is now 3) 'ban' crypto
asciilifeform: but for some odd reason (3) did not happen.☟︎
asciilifeform: 3) was to be the massive uptake by miscreant chumps, 4 - ???, and 5 - the proverbial 'profit!!11!!'
asciilifeform: e.g., iPnohe disk crypto, multi-coloured '$colourphones', etc
asciilifeform: 2) usg reaction. loud farts, but on psyop front, barrage of faux seeek000r1ty products
asciilifeform: algo went as follows: 1) snowden releases (whether one believes they were controlled or spontaneous does not matter for this recipe)
asciilifeform: think, why would usg make loud, public farts against 'iPnohe' and other products from usgtronics vendors which remain as porous as ever ?
asciilifeform: http://log1.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-04-2015#1099925 << do i need to explain what the resurrection of 'key escrow' idiocy from '90s (clinton's! to go right along with the new clinton!) means from the meta-nsa school of thought? or is it already obvious to aficionados☟︎
asciilifeform was about two blocks away but an hour or so too late to see these festivities
asciilifeform: 'Hundreds of people were escorted out through an underground passageway to the Library of Congress. They waited near gift shops and inside a restaurant and were told to walk opposite of the Capitol.'
asciilifeform: tinued as usual, and her guide even went so far as to say that a lockdown wasn't an unusual occurrence.'
asciilifeform: e who saw the sign said it had something to do with taxation. One report indicated that the sign said "tax the one percent," which he appeared to raise shortly before he shot himself. The bomb squad went through his bags as they investigated. They had clothes inside. Bridget Maley was with a friend on a tour of the Capitol when the lockdown happened, she told the NY Daily News, describing the atmosphere as "calm." The tour con
asciilifeform: 'A man holding a sign protesting "social injustice" shot himself in front of the U.S. Capitol Building, causing a brief terrorism scare and a lockdown that has since been lifted. An unidentified man had a sign taped to his hand as well as a backpack and a rolling suitcase, the latter of which caused a bomb investigation, according to a New York Daily News report. The words that were on the sign were not revealed, although thos
asciilifeform: <mircea_popescu> ... i thought you didn't like perl. << i dislike many things. but ripping out the perl won't put me any closer to victory, so it is $maxint down on the list of things-to-do...
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: overall, 'buildroot' is scarcely more than an elaborate 'makefile'. everything you might care to know about it can be learned through reading the docs, the thing itself, and by experiment.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: what exactly did you mean by 'separate' ?
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: they get built in their subdirs and then copied
asciilifeform might be bringing a small sack of esp8266's to conf-iii
asciilifeform: it having been the only really serious business in that part of the world, at the time.☟︎
asciilifeform: <chetty> not so much in the north, northern farms were small << most of the powerful northern figures were, in some way or another, connected with the slave trade or the cotton business in general
asciilifeform: since gang of plantation keepers formed 'democratic' chrome on their actual decision mechanisms
asciilifeform: usg was pure, refined 'this' since day 1.
asciilifeform: ru empire was governed this way, since at least peter 1
asciilifeform: the apparatus-of-state-as-distraction thing is not even specifically soviet
asciilifeform: but uncoupled, is the fundamental part.
asciilifeform: like the blinkers of one car, standing in a long jam, can appear to synchronize with another's
asciilifeform: what is declared, is at most masking smoke for the actual decision.
asciilifeform: even phrasing the question in this way - is to miss the point
asciilifeform: and ended up having to mumble 'something like tzar's old job'
asciilifeform: decimation: there is a popular anecdote where stalin is said to have visited his elderly mother, who tried to comprehend what he does 'for a living'
asciilifeform: (where, for instance, 'laws' tens of thousands of pages long will 'pass' without any one living creature having read so much as a tenth of the text, etc)
asciilifeform: might take a bit of finesse, but you will be yyyd.
asciilifeform: the basic principle of a jail is that it is absurd to reason about 'jailer can do xxx but not yyy to the inmates.' he can always find a way to yyy.
asciilifeform: this is, afaik, a curiosity confined to certain states
asciilifeform: its "principal home can not be seized" approach to things << wut?!
asciilifeform: (leaving deliberately aside the question of how a full-time slave is to create 'unaccounted revenue' worth mentioning)
asciilifeform: and spend on 100kg instead of 10kg of potato at the market ?
asciilifeform: half the folks i work with, iirc, don't have - ever had - passports.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu probably does not entirely apprehend the degree to which various folks in usa, myself included, are already in a sharashka. we work for scrip, every penny of which is centrally accounted for, incoming and out
asciilifeform: but not in the way the pygmy imagines
asciilifeform: it isn't even strictly false - go pull out a wire
asciilifeform: <mircea_popescu> guy declared "golden helicopter" << i bet savages do believe that an airplane flies on account of some compact talisman contained therein
