asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: what was this

asciilifeform: ^ works best on atomic dirigible

asciilifeform: why not 'so french' or - hell - 'so roman'

asciilifeform: aha!

asciilifeform: ^

asciilifeform: was that the one where 'i'm not selling a license to shoot bookies today'

asciilifeform adds to list

asciilifeform: which

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: translators... armenian << actually usg translator racket is - traditionally - ultra-lucrative. complete with own boom'n'bust cycles

asciilifeform: but what if one of the ingredients went missing. or hiccuped.

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: and the factory churns on, because the trucks carrying gypsum come on schedule, the roughnecks show up, etc

asciilifeform: when shiva hand or two frees up for a spell

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i'll do that one next, quite possibly

asciilifeform: but then, one time after sundown, saw the lights

asciilifeform: first few times i walked past it, was convinced that it was abandoned

asciilifeform: dingiest, most run-down industrial landscape one could hope to meet

asciilifeform: there is actually a small drywall (sheets) factory not far from where i live

asciilifeform: just as you might think, while driving car, that you might run out of fuel, but not out of air

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: basic observation (by no means mine! or even solely orlov's) is that collapse comes 'in fits.' for example, at the moment it did not occur to you to think that obtaining drywall or labourers to knock together a 'shitboard' house, could ever be problematic

asciilifeform: ^ parts 2 and 3 in same thread below there.

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-12-2013#429514 ☝︎

asciilifeform: (personal recommendation. his later stuff, i'm not a fan of, anarchoprimitivism is not my cup of poison)

asciilifeform: if you like dead tree, it's 'reinventing collapse', 'hold your applause', and 'the five stages of collapse' in that order.

asciilifeform: it's on www.

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: then read mr o's 'post-soviet lessons' at the very least

asciilifeform: he devotes a few pages to them.

asciilifeform: (the folks who got the worst of it, are not here and are certainly not writing books in engl.)

asciilifeform: 100% accurate, allowing for survivor bias

asciilifeform: and things turn openly soviet

asciilifeform: when it is the principal - the physical shortages begin

asciilifeform: basic hypothesis here: the machine is still burning fat, rather than own muscle, while what is being stolen is the surplus

asciilifeform: paid in what ?

asciilifeform: can be erected by whom ?

asciilifeform: just example.

asciilifeform: some politically important ethnic minority, for instance, might enjoy living in ben_vulpes's house ☟︎

asciilifeform: not simply a matter of balance sheet, either.

asciilifeform: depends on what is confiscated, and from whom

asciilifeform: for engine to run.

asciilifeform: gotta have some actual petrol in that water

asciilifeform: answer is that the machine doesn't work if run on 100% bzollar

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: may as well ask, why tax

asciilifeform: when it's a+b - then the 'fun' starts

asciilifeform: right now is 'easy going' because the polizei are only expected to deliver up carcasses for the show trials, rather than revenue

asciilifeform: i.e. the folks with houses, jobs, savings (miracle!), bitcoin

asciilifeform: esp. once the maggots are done with the rotting flesh (above tale and similar) and start on the living meat

asciilifeform: two tastes that go great together (TM)

asciilifeform: (local police chief's 'porsche' won't buy itself!)

asciilifeform: the only thing better than a generic imbecile is one with a titanic bag of benjies under his car seat

asciilifeform: though folks who differ from above portrait solely in the have-money part (e.g. shrem) are also a favourite prey animal ☟︎

asciilifeform: (borderline retards, no money, no alibi, no lawyer, plenty of 'damning six words written by honest man')

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: the interesting thing is that so far they use that and only that kind of 'feedstock'

asciilifeform: esp. if you consider that they have to be 'cleared', (nominally) loyaltied, etc

asciilifeform: probably 'name own price'

asciilifeform: doubtful that there's more than a handful of them

asciilifeform: incidentally, uzbek translator for usg must be a killer gig

asciilifeform: https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5467/14059875162_dda7c1c05f.jpg << unrelated

asciilifeform: (see rest of thread)

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=27-02-2015#1035148 ☝︎

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: we did this one here

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://poetrylibrary.ru/stixiya/korzhavin-1.html#osvobodite-zhenschinu-ot << almost like he wrote this one just for you

asciilifeform: ^ funnily enough, after being let go from gulag, he earned his living for many years as a translator.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B6%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BD,_%D0%9D%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%BC_%D0%9C%D0%BE%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87 << he's alive!

asciilifeform: 'best bug, great service'

asciilifeform: will soon have reviews! likely

asciilifeform: ^ a snowdenism featured a cellar where nsa likes to open mail, plant bugs in routers, etc. there was an outside shot. someone appears to have found it on 'google earth' and is now marked

asciilifeform: http://cryptome.org/2015-info/nsa-cia-scs-implant-cafe.jpg << mega-l0l!

asciilifeform: and mircea_popescu has a prettified one on his site

asciilifeform: http://www.loper-os.org/pub/trubach.txt << permalink for my barbaric translation from last night

asciilifeform to bed

asciilifeform: damn, now i forget why i did this.

asciilifeform: Approximately - chariot, but with Maxim gun.

asciilifeform: [1] Who doesn't know, can look it up.

asciilifeform: Since we, only we, are the buglers we've got.

asciilifeform: But what if to blow it ourselves is our lot?

asciilifeform: And dream till I die, of the bugler's bright song?

asciilifeform: And as old age draws near, will I remain strong,

asciilifeform: But days turn to years, yet that bugler won't blow.

asciilifeform: Though truth does not fade, and my conscience won't go

asciilifeform: But still I shall wait for my bugle to sing.

asciilifeform: Life hits me hard, knocks me out of the ring.

asciilifeform: And sometimes - they carried the flags at our flanks.

asciilifeform: And many a foe was within our own ranks,

asciilifeform: As betwixt our friends did our foes scurry in.

asciilifeform: I thought I saw all - but blind have I been,

asciilifeform: Yet still I would wait for some obvious sign.

asciilifeform: With thunderous valor, all those years did shine

asciilifeform: And heroes awakened, and out poured their blood,

asciilifeform: Tachankas [1] and cannon did roll through the mud,

asciilifeform: And buglers were blowing their bugles once more,

asciilifeform: And then aeroplanes pierced the night with a roar,

asciilifeform: Your foes straight ahead, and your friends - at your side.

asciilifeform: You'll learn who is who, and the truth cannot hide:

asciilifeform: We'll wake and hear hoofbeats a-thundering go,

asciilifeform: Since childhood I've dreamed that a bugler would blow,

asciilifeform: English translation brought to you by #bitcoin-assets.)

asciilifeform: (original http://libverse.ru/korzhavin/trybachi.html.

asciilifeform: 'The Buglers' (Noam Korzhavin, 1955.)

asciilifeform: eh, what the hell, it's ~1kb

asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=1UGC9WT4 << translation