asciilifeform: rather than now, with room-temperature weather

asciilifeform: though it is hard to understand why the plotters did not decide to shoot in mid-july

asciilifeform: mats: it is quite conceivable that it happened again. today.

asciilifeform: decimation: if thermodynamically expensive - the game ends sooner than chumps expect.

asciilifeform: mats: some of us remember very, very well.

asciilifeform: mats: see earlier link!

asciilifeform: batteries come in 'terrible', 'abominable,' and 'abysmal'

asciilifeform: in favour of the meter running backwards mid-day and getting credit on the tab

asciilifeform: most solar aficionados forgo the batteries entirely (!)

asciilifeform: not to mention that not one in 10 installations will cover the wattage of the house ac at full sun

asciilifeform: decimation: not one in 500 usa inmates could afford any of it without subsidy

asciilifeform: decimation: 'buy'

asciilifeform: this could almost be a scene from 'atlas shrugged'

asciilifeform: 'A couple of blocks from the White House, the lights went off for about 30 seconds at the Warner Theatre as Oprah Winfrey delivered a speech honoring Maya Angelou during the dedication of a new postage stamp. After a few seconds, the sound system began to work again, and Winfrey continued her delivery until the lights returned.'

asciilifeform: ... and what, the furnaces to refine si for panels will also, somehow, run on solar? or is it just that this takes place 'on mars' (asia) and not physically real, somehow

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: unstable bukkake ?

asciilifeform: specifically, 'losing a war'

asciilifeform: the rest is called 'war'

asciilifeform: aha.

asciilifeform: http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/FBI-Attack-on-PG-amp-E-substation-in-13-wasn-t-5746785.php << 'not terrorism!!'

asciilifeform: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/29/us/california-power-substation-attacked-in-2013-is-hit-again.html << obligatory oldie

asciilifeform: http://imgur.com/5UygqI4 << piss-poor t3rr0r1s7, did not even nail my puny hovel

asciilifeform: while we're at it,

asciilifeform: and is only solvable to a limited extent

asciilifeform: it's a classic 'how to get fuse that blows before the rest of it' problem

asciilifeform: overcurrent

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: how knows when to cut ?

asciilifeform: of american-style grid, at any rate

asciilifeform: this is what happens on overload

asciilifeform: there is -always- explosion at substation!

asciilifeform: decimation: when not including airconditioner

asciilifeform: decimation: power in the middle of a clear day, sure

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: whorehouse was also out of power, i bet

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i heard nothing about caviar spoiling in the fridges at 'lockheed' or 'raytheon'

asciilifeform: or chinese '3 point' test.

asciilifeform: but it remains.

asciilifeform: none of the mouthpieces will discuss this, no surprise

asciilifeform: the 'one wire,' even if true, can only be the 'straw that broke camel's back'

asciilifeform: there is normally redundancy in the grid.

asciilifeform: the 'one fallen wire' story is a lie of omission

asciilifeform: decimation: just build from scratch as i did for 'pogo'

asciilifeform: decimation: you don't need their mods, except if you're working on exposing the particulars of the fraud

asciilifeform: decimation: it gets rid of the read-only mtd

asciilifeform: decimation: no need for xray, just buy off some outfit that handles 'palmprint' door locks for usg

asciilifeform: nope

asciilifeform: (perhaps he did feynman's magic trick with petrol hands one too many times?)

asciilifeform: the weird thing about woodsc4mz0r's hands is the lack of whiskers

asciilifeform: it makes considerably more sense on the surface than the finger thing

asciilifeform: maybe we oughta do phrenology next

asciilifeform: i remember reading this crap years ago and calling bull

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: decimation: i oughta be a eunuch if it were true

asciilifeform: decimation: which way was it supposed to work again ?

asciilifeform: ^ iirc that heuristic doesn't werk

asciilifeform: that was my thought

asciilifeform: ^^

asciilifeform: typically they try to set up a stove and gasenwagen

asciilifeform: interesting detail that it was generator and not a stove

asciilifeform: darwin nominee

asciilifeform: ^ l0l saw that earlier

asciilifeform was once a sysadmin

asciilifeform: or some other 'guardhouse' type

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: he could easily be something like a sysadmin

asciilifeform: then - not a 'welfare case', no ?

asciilifeform: nubbins`: can you picture how many folks are paid to sit (not necessarily even at a computer, could be a pNohe in one hand) and wait for a bell to ring ?

asciilifeform: but while waiting for bell to ring

asciilifeform: not on official orders, naturally

asciilifeform: grueling day job could easily be -where- he made 250 accounts

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i'd be surprised if this character didn't have a grueling day job

asciilifeform: the marvel is not the continued existence of the woodcollectors, as such, but of the plankton they eat

asciilifeform: i mean, wtf, elementary

asciilifeform: when did sc4mz0rz stop using 'reg by proxy' services ?

asciilifeform: tilt

asciilifeform: (which, after all, is a pretty standard 'we have a router, now let's a linux' affair)

asciilifeform: <BingoBoingo> mats single handedly took on the legal equivalent of pogo linux and won << considerably more interesting than pogo linux

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: this was considered by various folks (in somewhat different variant) and the answer is that the product breaks down in water unacceptably quickly.

asciilifeform: http://trilema.com/2013/so-whos-running-the-courts-circus/#comment-113478 << neato

asciilifeform: to lulzy result.

asciilifeform: the catch was that the magical box didn't really break the crypto, but distorted the universe to fit the operator's preconceptions of what the plaintext was.

asciilifeform: somebody (greg egan?) had a short story with such a box, that wasn't utterly retarded

asciilifeform: 'you enter a room in pairs. first your frag, then you' (ru adage)

asciilifeform: i thought the civilized way was with frag

asciilifeform: who clears rooms by shooting, anyway

asciilifeform: nor could there be.

asciilifeform: afaik there are none

asciilifeform: !s zebra hitler

asciilifeform cannot bring himself to watch 'hacking' films newer than 'war games'

asciilifeform: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2717822 << l0l! apparently - exists

asciilifeform: mats: wut.

asciilifeform wasn't there, cannot vouch for efficacy

asciilifeform: (source of the 'flameless flamethrower' stratagem - u.s. grunts in vietnam, applied to rice paddies with hidden men)

asciilifeform: surrender - get a shower.

asciilifeform: it usually sinks in, goes the folk story, before anyone fires.

asciilifeform: don't light it!

asciilifeform: best done on a column of soldiers.

asciilifeform: the water tank, that is

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i've often wondered who will be the first in this century to fill a fire truck with petrol.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: in international waters, they need a reason to take detour

asciilifeform: likewise, if your vehicle contains a toilet - you are more or less stuck at least frequenting the dismal ghettoschwitzes where such machines are typically kept at anchor

asciilifeform: iirc, only if said property is your own