asciilifeform: i've a bitcoind monstrous chimera with custom allocator

asciilifeform: tease preview:

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-02-2015#1015730 ☝︎

asciilifeform: in case no one noticed,

asciilifeform: unrelated,

asciilifeform: reflects, not modifies

asciilifeform: that massaged them for surrender for half a century.

asciilifeform: they surrendered to the one and only mega-empire of the period.

asciilifeform: there's no usg wot tho << closest thing to a format usg wot may be the infamous 'plum book'

asciilifeform: why's chicom come into it ?! << example of empire to surrender to

asciilifeform: if every male in usa had been secretly wanking to chicom gurlz under his blankets since... 1920s? - then we'd have an analogous thing going

asciilifeform: took 50+ years of 24/7 massage

asciilifeform: and yet 'omg111!111! levis'

asciilifeform: nobody... starving in russia in '88 << plenty in '93

asciilifeform: and as far as 'man on the street' in usa is concerned - the opposite of usg is 'mad max'.

asciilifeform: and instead crapped out - well - that

asciilifeform: decimation: mr mold had enough brains to understand that his entire edifice falls apart without the answer to this riddle, but was unable to come up with a plausible one

asciilifeform: yes

asciilifeform: thing is, unlike soviet 'line', usg does not have a universally (or even widely) subscribed to opposite.

asciilifeform: that it is true is about the same kind of 'secret' as the 'missing $maxint'

asciilifeform: (in usa they have secondary anti-handling detonators)

asciilifeform: because they never learned to safely unscrew the detonator ?

asciilifeform: they're drooling over fast car, easy women, etc. - not wot

asciilifeform: i mean, in the lands of barbarism

asciilifeform: so who and where is drooling over wot ?

asciilifeform: (a largely imagined animal, you pretty much have to have been there to grok this)

asciilifeform: to the 'human' (vs 'orc') world where they 'know how to live'

asciilifeform: was already surrendered

asciilifeform: everybody who drooled over the 'levis'

asciilifeform: everybody from schoolboy in moscow to chukchas - surrendered

asciilifeform: and mircea_popescu knows this

asciilifeform: surrender of ussr wasn't the least bit centered on the brass

asciilifeform: but the illusion was convincing enough

asciilifeform: that something didn't arrive with free 'levi' jeans and disneyland passes for everyone, no

asciilifeform: and they eagerly did.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ru folks had something to surrender to

asciilifeform neither expert nor has access to the proper intel, however

asciilifeform: decimation: mircea_popescu seems to think that this understanding will unravel if usd tanks, but i don't grasp how

asciilifeform: decimation: but they have an understanding with the specialist guilds.

asciilifeform: decimation: not personally

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: wai wat

asciilifeform: if tomorrow these things are not procurable with usd, they will be procured using direct corvee

asciilifeform: the money - is a proxy

asciilifeform: decimation: only the flow of the yachts, hookers, coke

asciilifeform: decimation: they don't give a fuck re: the flow of money

asciilifeform: it is quite obvious at this point, roughly where.

asciilifeform: the rest of us don't particularly care where the aethereum goes, as mircea_popescu put it

asciilifeform: to the folks paid to give a fuck - yes

asciilifeform: (either one is meant to conclude that the figure is wildly implausible - or - realize that patients are not walking off with 2m each, and therefore xxx, and xxx is not a subject that can be discussed publicly in usa while retaining credibility in the state media)

asciilifeform: ^ crank bait

asciilifeform: ^ items like above are so plentiful that no longer considered newsworthy

asciilifeform: this is what ends up bought.

asciilifeform: the $maxints that simply vanish into the mountain of paper, where a missing $bil in the balance sheets isn't even interesting to the accountants - to the extent the sums represent real, vs. imaginary buying power -

asciilifeform: the actual slurping black hole at the center of usgalaxy.

asciilifeform: -this- is where the usg budget actually goes.

asciilifeform: cutting straight to the chase - the folks at the management layer of all of these bezzlatrons are kept in mansions, boats, 'hookerz and blow', expensive lawyering, investatron fuel rods, etc.

asciilifeform: ('intellectual property', etc)

asciilifeform: 'captaining' pseudo-industries - sure

asciilifeform: 'consulting' - sure

asciilifeform: nobody gets rich off civil service salary

asciilifeform: decimation: virtually none of the real 'winners' are on civil service payroll

asciilifeform: *attend

asciilifeform: paying for hundreds of thousands of imbeciles to attent harvaprinceyaleton

asciilifeform: the mega-bezzle isn't simply buying carriers, it's buying countless yachts, mcmansions, etc

asciilifeform: decimation: aha

asciilifeform: (how? see tlp article)

asciilifeform: at this point, virtually anyone living like 'upper middle class' and above in usa, is usg spending personified

asciilifeform: if you want to see usg spending, visit the 'potomac' quarter of d.c. area, for example

asciilifeform: but it would be grand to see old 'movers and shakers' of usg row until the end of their days.

asciilifeform: it doesn't have to actually move

asciilifeform: that's what i always wanted to see

asciilifeform: fit oars

asciilifeform: it'd make a good slave galley

asciilifeform only observes.

asciilifeform isn't usg vizier, isn't paid to plan

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: eventually

asciilifeform: slaves to crew the boat, pull the hydrocarbons out of the ground, everything in between.

asciilifeform: usg - has plenty.

asciilifeform: takes slaves.

asciilifeform: will chug on until the conquistadores show up.

asciilifeform: the incas carried on considerably longer than that...

asciilifeform: 'inca empire'

asciilifeform: so usg will move to straight command economy.

asciilifeform: decimation: they're working on a smooth transition to straight inca mode

asciilifeform: is jp long on 'experts' ?

asciilifeform: jp is full

asciilifeform: just like latvia

asciilifeform: pl makes a great nuke waste dump

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: would you take jp? and for what ?

asciilifeform: another factor is that the 'middle kingdom' has yet to invent the modern military golden toilet.

asciilifeform: http://www.dpvintageposters.com/cgi-local/detail.cgi?d=9685 << related

asciilifeform: as written in n. barber's 'the sultans' and other classics

asciilifeform: circassians

asciilifeform: who?

asciilifeform has blood relations there, ditto

asciilifeform: kiev 'idea' was 'let's shell'em a bit and they'll pack up to ru, then we get cities, factories that we had no part in building, gratis, free of ru speakers, we can settle in our west ua orcs'

asciilifeform: anyone who gives a fuck can get a live video feed of the 'fun'

asciilifeform: 'ESL'

asciilifeform: except from anglos