asciilifeform vaguely recalls an apparatus involving telephony, where moiety was paid per minute, but few folks called

asciilifeform wasn't there

asciilifeform: but didn't suffice

asciilifeform: for some reason i thought it actually happened

asciilifeform: starvation?

asciilifeform: why not extort, say, 10? 100?

asciilifeform: i still can't fathom 1 being the magic number in there

asciilifeform unaware of this being a thing for any of the people still here

asciilifeform: plenty of degrees. but, i can't help but notice phase transitions in the space.

asciilifeform: if a successful las vegas roll - less so.

asciilifeform: if here 1 -> 2 continued to 2 -> 4 -> 8 -> ... ... maxint - then yes, interesting

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: and each gurl shipped with 1 set.

asciilifeform: iirc you only paid per set of tits ?

asciilifeform: if they could get the .1 again and again - perhaps would

asciilifeform: on account of having exhausted the fountain ?

asciilifeform: cazalla wallowing with the eagles, lol

asciilifeform genuinely curious

asciilifeform: which degrees ?

asciilifeform: let's have the cold equations

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes ^

asciilifeform: i was unaware that gentoo was on 'hate radar' for folks who aren't using it

asciilifeform: as in, arbeit macht frei.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: even if the work of a policeman consisted solely in going to a doughnut shop and eating a kg of garbage every day, so long as he -must- -- that is still work.

asciilifeform: or, almost exclusively (got a few bsd boxen around)

asciilifeform: i use gentoo exclusively.

asciilifeform: i and probably everyone else here has owned plenty of boxes with no video output hardware at all.

asciilifeform: otherwise any reasonably-civilized os will do

asciilifeform: well, you only need bios support to access the bios menu this way

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: as in, the one normal people see on boot

asciilifeform: probably meant 'text mode' tty ?

asciilifeform: vga for serial, wat

asciilifeform: although destroying sole means of network connectivity and ending up snaking a ppp link across room, is good times

asciilifeform: one can always get a text tty

asciilifeform: at any rate, no box i ever owned was rendered entirely unbootable by a braindamaged gentoo

asciilifeform: but if you think keeping one gentoo box around is work, try five.

asciilifeform: now, anyone with access to a skip owns arbitrarily many

asciilifeform: that was decade ago

asciilifeform: knock out brick from bottom - all falls.

asciilifeform: it's pestilentially endemic with any tall dependency stack.

asciilifeform: as in, can't get x

asciilifeform: (if re: gentoo)

asciilifeform: like installing updated video board driver

asciilifeform: statutorily - yes

asciilifeform: if you come across one, know that usg mandates disk sanitation pre-surplus, but no such law is enforced on contractors...

asciilifeform: yes.

asciilifeform: a number of them.

asciilifeform: there seems to be an inexhaustible supply of them around here.

asciilifeform: (in person, not even counting 'ebay')

asciilifeform: this is perhaps the 3rd time i see one of these for sale, too

asciilifeform: vita brevis.

asciilifeform: i suspect the theatrical aspects demanded this.

asciilifeform: very satisfying 'click', too

asciilifeform: superbly machined aluminum, brass knobs.

asciilifeform: decimation: i was drummed out of scamademia many years ago.

asciilifeform: the physical workmanship of the knobs, etc. - was superb.

asciilifeform: for any other purpose, quite useless.

asciilifeform: someone who wants to make a spy drama film, will buy it.

asciilifeform: complete with chart printer.

asciilifeform: iirc it was going for fiddybucks or so.

asciilifeform: this is a standard usg 'lie detector.'

asciilifeform: and nobody wants the crud - computerized eeg is pocket-sized

asciilifeform: apparently they are common as dirt

asciilifeform: ^ saw this alive in a university surplus shop last week.

asciilifeform: http://imgur.com/lpIrYSr

asciilifeform: incidentall,y

asciilifeform: (different thread, similar concept)

asciilifeform: see also: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=27-07-2014#772419 ☝︎

asciilifeform: decimation: aha but the 'scientific' flavour.

asciilifeform: they preferentially target the retarded for prosecution, big news.

asciilifeform: big fat surprise.

asciilifeform: he's being zapped for 'lèse-majesté'.

asciilifeform: as different from virtually everywhere else?

asciilifeform: much snow.

asciilifeform: peculiarly corrupted fax scan, too

asciilifeform: and indictment was on 'cryptome' last night.

asciilifeform: aha that was in here earlier i think

asciilifeform: ah

asciilifeform: or was this something to do with the sportsmen

asciilifeform reads log

asciilifeform: did i miss something? how did we get to gangrene ?

asciilifeform: the capital controls being slowly worked in, are mainly to guard against this.

asciilifeform: decimation: however, there is perhaps a million people in usa who, if they were to suffer some form of 'brain parasite', could easily jump the border and live this way on the capital they could smuggle out.

asciilifeform: although how could i possibly know.

asciilifeform: decimation: possibly even fewer.

asciilifeform: assuming they have not fallen into official disfavour by then.

asciilifeform: if it were to implode, the shills will be placed into similar roles elsewhere

asciilifeform: which is not guaranteed

asciilifeform: his pay is in fact contingent not only on 'playing ball' but continued usefulness to handler

asciilifeform: handler - would not approve.

asciilifeform: decimation: but that he is not actually free to, for example, do a 'decent' bitcoind

asciilifeform: decimation: that was not the point

asciilifeform: (BingoBoingo)

asciilifeform: ^ may as well be in chinese

asciilifeform: implied divisions by zero - intentional.

asciilifeform: a mental patient, likewise

asciilifeform: for example, gavin, a paid shill, has no free time (he is not his own man)

asciilifeform: ^ this, afaik, covers all edge cases

asciilifeform: if $209k per year makes one a pauper << consider applying my ad hoc formula: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-10-2014#869923 ☝︎