asciilifeform: sure

asciilifeform: zzzip - hrrrrk - next

asciilifeform: cheaper than bullet, and ever more effete gestapo peopled by folks afraid of blood - perfect match

asciilifeform: sorta how current american cops use them as handcuffs

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that reminds me: i've long imagined that 'in the dark future where there is only war (tm)' zip ties will be used for expedient field hangings.

asciilifeform: http://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/3244650451628407@naggum.no.html << obligatory naggum

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: lol!

asciilifeform: good enough for the romans, etc

asciilifeform: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKZbHMhP9Q4 << how-to for interested folks

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://www.aif.ru/dontknows/eternal/1084962 << turns out it was proclaimed, but not quite implemented

asciilifeform: or so i'm told

asciilifeform: sure did.

asciilifeform: (can't use trad ru boots with socks)

asciilifeform: yes, and with american-style boots.

asciilifeform: phun phact: degenerating ru army recently moved to socks! ☟︎

asciilifeform: esp. not if 'wash' means 'fording a river'

asciilifeform: socks are finicky high-tech

asciilifeform wonders how many u.s. folk, other than historical re-enactors, know what footwraps are

asciilifeform: (the original machine in the series was marketed as 'sheeva plug.' and ran on same 'arm' chip by 'marvell'...)

asciilifeform: ^ pun intended ?

asciilifeform: once have pogo: if you use the tftp recipe, you no longer need to wear out your nand to run these

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: tried it ?

asciilifeform: that is, evolutionary pressure to jettison whatever payload is no longer serving the ultimate purpose

asciilifeform: iirc he compared it to certain genetically engineered bacteria that end up shedding the payload - 'why should i piss out $protein when i can be making more copies of self faster'

asciilifeform: 'christianity without the chris'

asciilifeform: his whole thesis was approximately this sentence

asciilifeform: even mr mold got this much

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: marc twain did a pretty good job investigating

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not only were the colonies (and then usa) the world's premier nuthouse for sectarian nutters, but the era of 'we have empty space now' promoted the 'tell'em tall tales and who's to say it didn't happen out there in the woods' mentality

asciilifeform: 'prove you didn't shoot the elephant'

asciilifeform: but i won't be surprised to have them exhibited at my hanging

asciilifeform: technically grandfathered

asciilifeform: but why?

asciilifeform: could've guessed

asciilifeform: ^ obligatory

asciilifeform: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DDqgnxPnyI

asciilifeform: perfectly good chunkz

asciilifeform: why won't it eat.

asciilifeform: wtf's wrong with my chunder

asciilifeform: l0l!

asciilifeform: it had a translation!?!

asciilifeform: jurov ^

asciilifeform: http://www.loper-os.org/pub/this_is_retarded.txt

asciilifeform: indiancandy1: yes. if you have a rare viral sample (e.g. Marburg) various folks will offer to buy.

asciilifeform: jurov: it even mailed it back to me, but not showing in the www.

asciilifeform: seriously that thing does not work at all.

asciilifeform: wtf did turdatron do with my message.

asciilifeform: jurov!

asciilifeform: jurov: can ask them for stuff and pay in bitcoin... but quite bezzle rates << same as 'bitpay' but spammier flavour. and same problem. you can't bitcoinize a fiat business relationship not because of the funny green usg money but because it is wotless

asciilifeform has read the complete tlp

asciilifeform: but thought he disappeared a while ago

asciilifeform: i know who

asciilifeform: lol srsly ?

asciilifeform: tlp ?

asciilifeform: as in, who - other than orlov - is spilling the beans in engl. ?

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: care to show counter-example ?

asciilifeform: the stopper on ua bottle - in english - is nearly airtight

asciilifeform: or, alternatively, 'politicians want to live too' and quietly orders were given

asciilifeform: amidst news blackout

asciilifeform: for all i know, it rages still somewhere in midwest

asciilifeform: would be interesting to know where it went

asciilifeform: obligatory mega-classic: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/924795/posts

asciilifeform: depending how the dice fall

asciilifeform: stay as the roadkill

asciilifeform: (why piano keys - story for another day)

asciilifeform: if vegetable, mineral - can probably turn up a dozen

asciilifeform: i was specifically looking for manufactured goods

asciilifeform: but then could even count the tantalum in capacitors

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: i've a sack of piano keys, circa 1890

asciilifeform: actually

asciilifeform has a diamond cutoff wheel somewhere

asciilifeform looks for manufactured object from africa in room, can't find

asciilifeform shoves a larger crate of israeli gas masks

asciilifeform kicks a small crate labelev 'nuvoton'

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: i can only guess at why they do, but the human roadkill thing isn't so surprising

asciilifeform: so which stories

asciilifeform has not even yet been in the jail

asciilifeform: thestringpuller: and i'm not even in the jail

asciilifeform: it goes flatter, spins around now&then

asciilifeform: just not anybody's business.

asciilifeform: as in, no one stops to clean it up or id it

asciilifeform: i'm told that in subsaharan africa, human roadkill is sop

asciilifeform: http://schoolsites.schoolworld.com/schools/Cheltenham/webpages/rwilman/files/kurt%20vonnegut%20-%20mother%20night.pdf << l33t w4r3z copy

asciilifeform: felt about the same.'

asciilifeform: within an hour I did the very same job — once to Hoess and once to my suitcase. Both jobs

asciilifeform: The catch on my suitcase was broken, so I buckled it shut with a big leather strap. Twice

asciilifeform: 'After we finished hanging Hoess,' Mengel said to me, 'I packed up my clothes to go home.

asciilifeform: a job to do, and no job was any better or any worse than any other.'

asciilifeform: 'What do you mean?' I said. 'I got so I couldn't feel anything,' said Mengel. 'Every job was

asciilifeform: 'No,' he said, 'I was like almost everybody who came through that war.'

asciilifeform: 'Did that give you a lot of satisfaction?' I said.

asciilifeform: was hanged,' he told me, 'the strap around his ankles — I put that on and made it tight'

asciilifeform: And he didn't do it with testimony, either. He did it with his two big hands. 'When Hoess

asciilifeform: about Hoess. Before emigrating to Israel in 1947, Mengel helped to hang Hoess.

asciilifeform: at Auschwitz. In his tender care, literally millions of Jews were gassed. Mengel knew a little

asciilifeform: Mengel was speaking of Rudolf Franz Hoess, the commandant of the extermination camp

asciilifeform: it's similar to the point of being misfiled together in my head

asciilifeform: i've always wondered if vonnegut wrote the leather suitcase strap scene in his 'mother night' after reading that orwell piece

asciilifeform: but the piece is relevant