asciilifeform: 'GCHQ has consistently underperformed on Brazil, with growing concerns that Sth [sic] American attitudes on the Falklands are swinging behind Argentina....'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ^ this is still a thing!? l0l!
asciilifeform: if someone steals his golden toilet, and thief answers 'i did not claim it was mine, just took it' ?
asciilifeform: the 'we did not claim they broke the news' thing is pure gold.
asciilifeform: or what, mircea_popescu expects to get in the mail a package with the head of the fella who signed the 'do not cite qntra' memo taped on 'fortune' monkeys' cubicles ?
asciilifeform: judge will say 'hated terrorist vs. fortune co.' 'case closed.'
asciilifeform: cazalla, mircea_popescu: toldya they'd say 'pound sand'
asciilifeform: 'https://ninjadoge24.github.io/#002-how-i-cracked-nq-vaults-encryption / CTIA - "The Best App of CTIA by the Techlicious 2012 Best of CTIA Awards" / PC Magazine - "PC Magazine Best Apps" / TRUSTe - Received "TRUSTe Privacy Seal" / Global Mobile Internet Conference App Space - "A top 50 app" ......... Looks like a substitution cipher. What if it's just XOR? Like just fuckin' XOR?'
asciilifeform: 'VELENTZAS also told the UC that she was progressing in her electrical studies and had used a solder tool to solder copper wires together, although VELENTZAS had suffered a small burn on her finger in the process. The UC observed a burn mark on VELENTZAS's finger.'
asciilifeform: 'On or about October 24, 2014, VELENTZAS viewed on her cellular telephone YouTube videos about a beginner's tutorial for soldering, tools and steps for soldering and de-soldering, how to solder wires together, how to solder a circuit board, common soldering mistakes, and introduction to flux, a product used in soldering tasks.'
asciilifeform does not recall 'fighting sperm' but there was the gradient-following thing
asciilifeform: (though modern data suggests they have flock dynamics and pheromonal strange, like ants)
asciilifeform: i suppose you only need one spermatozoid
asciilifeform: when the ancients anthropomorphisized nature and 'respected', e.g., the sea, it was because it was -indomitable-
asciilifeform: trinque: forest fires can't be tricked and tripped like a child.
asciilifeform: trinque: atheist kalash is also from satan, doesn't prevent the 'doublethink'
asciilifeform: i'll respect when they build so much as one mosfet. or a hydro plant. or own radar array. or at least stop using fucking caesar ciphers.
asciilifeform: anyone recall the folk tale where the headsman is ordered to chop own head ?
asciilifeform: Chillum: we all get eaten by worms in the end. why not start now. right ?
asciilifeform: if the law gets scrapped and re-written every time the throne changes hands - what is the law ?
asciilifeform: except the cock's on the other pudenda now.
asciilifeform: same right of might as his original rape
asciilifeform: but what's with the dress-up games. if tomorrow yesterday's victor and vanquished switch places - the former doesn't get to whine about 'violations'
asciilifeform: i mean i get the basic idea, 'to the victor - the spoils, to the vanqushed - the tears'
asciilifeform: the commerce between the arsonist and his victim is not commerce.
asciilifeform: if i'm only 'selling' for a penny because you torched my house the day before - then yes, took.
asciilifeform: 'bought' for fire sale price from dead lion
asciilifeform: how did the dekulakized folks in ru make their dough ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not different at all. <mircea_popescu> anything anyone owns on the grounds of having interacted with a government is to be taken outright.