asciilifeform: because of sheer difference in complexity and cost.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: point is not that it is physically impossible to shoot a falling cone. but that it is a thermodynamic race that the rocket man - wins. and the death ray man - loses.
asciilifeform: see also mr. mold's 'dalits', and 'yi yi zhi yi.'
asciilifeform: they are seen as 'legionaires' standing between him and the horde.
asciilifeform: the very thing that keeps average usaschwitz inmate from wishing for dead swat men
asciilifeform: incidentally, this is why 'fergusons' are created.
asciilifeform: this is one reason it is kept. because the supply of pliant cattle is bottomless.
asciilifeform: presently it's a useful propaganda tool - usg picks pliant juries reliably, gives extra spray paint coating of 'legitimacy' to everything the courts do.
asciilifeform: if this becomes a plausible thing, jury trial will be abolished in usa.
asciilifeform: 'We've apologized for the incident, but we will never apologize for taking drugs off our streets. Quite frankly, we'd do it again. Tonight.'
asciilifeform: can't help but wonder if tale is allegorical.
asciilifeform: 'My dick piece never came off, but I didn't want it to, either. I found a black boyfriend that year, and so I discovered that the cause of my orgasm wasn't actually Tyrone's pee.'
asciilifeform went home, sat down to write broadcast and ended up reading the eldritch horror on mircea_popescu's site.
asciilifeform: however i can't promise that i'll be there, in that after, the war.
asciilifeform: i've been prefixing would-bes in conversation with 'after the war...' for some years.
asciilifeform: adlai: phoundation motherfuckers are crapping into golden toilets as we speak.
asciilifeform: adlai: know that my own project with mircea, s.nsa, lives in a presently-unheated shed. i shall be installing a propane heater this week.