asciilifeform: mr mold actually did some passable work on the subject. he ended by zipping the stratagem into a single sentence, 'kick the beast till it bites, then shoot it'
asciilifeform: it was, in fact, a basic toy chumpatron. the inspiration for my article re: same.
asciilifeform: although there are interesting 'demo' cases. i once saw a set of photographs of a 'work of art' - a small coffee table, with a bioreactor. a lure of some electronic kind (acoustic?) led mice up a hollow leg and into the reactor. there, they would ferment, and charge a battery that would run the next iteration of the mouse-lift-zap-ferment cycle.
asciilifeform: nobody but chromosomally damaged midwestern usians imagines that closed cycle biodiesel is +ev. but it remains that something will have to be done with the... biomass.
asciilifeform: pretty much the whole shebang runs on exquisitely non-renewable stuff
asciilifeform: without getting out of usa personally, rather.
asciilifeform: linus is about as political minded as your average frog... sits there and ignores... instead of taking up arms, booting all us interest from linux << how's he to do that.
asciilifeform recalls once reading that 'their' is 'obsolete,' and that the truly progressive (tm) types have made up new pronouns, 'ze', 've', fuck knows what els
asciilifeform: 'grow a motherfucking spine linux. get this asshole out.' << mega-lol!
asciilifeform: it is apparently being passed around by lamers, who did not even look at the date, as 'lol bitcoin users, maybe this will save them from certain sc4mz0r d00m'
asciilifeform: i did figure out why it dug up my old article
asciilifeform: Ritholtz link << astonishingly boring site
asciilifeform: you would if searching for the loud obnoxious american radio
asciilifeform: signals intelligence on enemy (how'd you like to see into em spectrum?)
asciilifeform: display maps, secure comms, targeting aids
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the point was not about optical snooping, etc. mundane fact is that the number one application for svga ocular is really partizan infantry.
