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asciilifeform: see also thread:
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: no shortage of towns.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo can make similar film about usa.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: all of them.
asciilifeform: not fall.
asciilifeform: decimation: notice - intended to shoot opponent's rocket during launch.
asciilifeform: decimation: the traditionally beloved pill is particle weapons
asciilifeform: the entire subject quietly went away.
asciilifeform: mr bush's bezzlemeisters were unable to reliably pop even one - and fitted with beacon at that.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 24 decoy cones. sop.
asciilifeform: for otherwise-ineducable imbeciles.
asciilifeform: rocket is a 'memento mori.'
asciilifeform: potential of absorbing infinite money, the real military win.
asciilifeform: in usa, fascination with death rays
asciilifeform: can fire death rays at falling cones but this is what the decoy barrels are for.
asciilifeform: see also the american 'domino's pizza' bunker door ad.
asciilifeform: (and conversely)
asciilifeform: as many as required.
asciilifeform: classical approach also has the rocket traverse from wherever to washington in 30 min.
asciilifeform: but put the rifleman there first.
asciilifeform: no airplane needed
asciilifeform: yes, rocket on launch pad - can be shot with rifle.
asciilifeform: point of firing from sub
asciilifeform: what's the slow part?
asciilifeform: perfectly ordinary ballistic rocket.
asciilifeform: of any size
asciilifeform will be more convinced once ru demonstrates a still-functioning nuke
asciilifeform: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFx3gLs9K74 << from inside
asciilifeform: ^ they are conducting a whole series of made-for-youtube 'yeah they still work motherfuckers' tests.
asciilifeform: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c17gvKbhVeA
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjF7PcVKYho
asciilifeform: lol!!
asciilifeform: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbW_JaCm05A << orig.
asciilifeform: lol, german version
asciilifeform: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksh308RiGzM
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'мы рождены чтоб сказку сделать былью!'
asciilifeform: but aha, death in the great belomor canal, or in trenches, is exciting. wish i had some right now.
asciilifeform: see mircea_popescu's example of hollywood girl.
asciilifeform: or thought he would love.
asciilifeform: decimation: replaced oxen to subjugate farmer. just like lenin did.
asciilifeform: but this is perhaps the only thing they 'need' here.
asciilifeform: how else.
asciilifeform: folks line up to be subjugated.
asciilifeform: owns - right.
asciilifeform: as true now as in babylon.
asciilifeform: the latter needs nothing from the former.
asciilifeform: point is, city man must subjugate plow man - to live.
asciilifeform: decimation: see 'death and life of great american cities' (jacobs)
asciilifeform: until RuBisCo is fixed and you can grow five men's bread in a pot in the cellar under grow lamp.
asciilifeform: dead duck with one trump card - the food.
asciilifeform: homo redditicus has no idea what keeps his habitat habitable until - isn't
asciilifeform: so far, still performing admirably.
asciilifeform: their job was to keep rural usa down.
asciilifeform: probably?!
asciilifeform: u.s. chechen community - remembers.
asciilifeform: see also chechens.
asciilifeform: aha - racial.
asciilifeform: any and all.
asciilifeform: if a sparrow farts in rural wyoming, it is provably racially motivated.
asciilifeform: more of a generalized hypothesis.
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: trophy heads on wall.
asciilifeform: i bet they skinned, tanned the hides.
asciilifeform: machine gun a hunting dog? sure. good sport, apparently.
asciilifeform: if there were danger, he would be a coward, like usa in iraq.
asciilifeform: the ss man is bold precisely because impunity.
asciilifeform: not one dead swat man afaik. not in recent years.
asciilifeform: !s solzhenitsyn axe
asciilifeform: difficulty drops << expect others, as usg torches miner farm after farm.
asciilifeform: fat lot of good 'holding' does, though.
asciilifeform: even in auschwitz, if it were built again.
asciilifeform: even in usa, can hold bitcoin.
asciilifeform: aha.
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: they machine-gunned his dog.
asciilifeform: didn't see it, but read in local rag.
asciilifeform: decimation: mayor raid << this was right where i lived at the time.
asciilifeform: gold dubloons ?
asciilifeform: but cannot send ?
asciilifeform: why no ach ?
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo banks at First Nigerian Bank of Spam?
asciilifeform: for glbse or the like...
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: how even came up with that one.
asciilifeform: both.
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.
asciilifeform: adlai: devils tempt me.