asciilifeform: because how would it.

asciilifeform: just doesn't, well, go.

asciilifeform: e.g., the brit translation of 'monday begins on saturday' (strugatski brothers)

asciilifeform: but also 'traduttore, tradittore.'

asciilifeform: lever.

asciilifeform: because the things on other side of a filter - always more interesting - alive.

asciilifeform: yes.

asciilifeform: and not merely because unfamiliar.

asciilifeform: hm

asciilifeform: speaking more of herr s

asciilifeform: (aside from orcs existing perfectly well, they must also be made - apparently such is the nature of pesky humans)

asciilifeform: like making convenient orcs

asciilifeform: and so picked.

asciilifeform: also more useful for the purposes of the translators

asciilifeform: http://rupoem.ru/zhigulin/all.aspx << complete works

asciilifeform: just not ported.

asciilifeform: not really obscure

asciilifeform: http://www.solovki.ca/writers_023/jigulin.php

asciilifeform: ...урановый рудник бутугычаг.

asciilifeform: ^yes

asciilifeform: not even the toil of the mines, but wasn't certain that cared for much human contact anyway

asciilifeform: but did nothing of any use whatsoever with this, because - the mines.

asciilifeform: then proceeded to generalize

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: started out with notion of automatic iq test for gating forums - junked, because realized that thinking people usually vouched for by others of their kind

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: wrote most of that turd in mid-'09

asciilifeform: (re: delegate authorities)

asciilifeform: http://kyristor.com << me derping re: wot prior to knowing anything on subject. posted for archaeologists a while ago..

asciilifeform: (confiscate house, sell for half price to fella with stalin note)

asciilifeform: stole - $billions.

asciilifeform: probably truth, if there's any in that line, is - netted 280m on auction.

asciilifeform: these are immune to elections and more or less all weather

asciilifeform: plumbook is not interesting because of the appointees (everybody who gives half a damn already knows who they are.) but for the 'ses' bureaucrats, the real backbone of usg.

asciilifeform: srsly one sat in my old office.

asciilifeform: was never secret.

asciilifeform: thestringpuller: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-10-2014#876974 ☝︎

asciilifeform: (see discussion of botnet economics from the other day)

asciilifeform: somebody has an otherwise-idle chumpnet, clearly.

asciilifeform: i think you might need a civilian www browser to see them

asciilifeform: odd

asciilifeform: robots.txt flag ?

asciilifeform: srsly?

asciilifeform: (cough up some example where trilema and nontrilema links share the top box)

asciilifeform: and which don't

asciilifeform: but which links show a cache tickbox

asciilifeform: well yes

asciilifeform: google for, e.g., -- trilema nobody could have foreseen

asciilifeform: have a looksee

asciilifeform: 'stockholm syndrome', or some other condition, IANAS (not a shrink)

asciilifeform: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOEt1fuukvk << neato

asciilifeform: gonna see fewer of those when the leprosariae open.

asciilifeform: (segment of above, i think)

asciilifeform: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLqHv0xgOlc << more phun from mr. b.

asciilifeform: 403

asciilifeform: decimation: '... former propagandist for kgb!!!111!!' << i'd love to watch a film like this about usa.

asciilifeform: decimation: basic playbook, i doubt has changed since babylon.

asciilifeform: where rats of all descriptions are brought onto a stage to show how 'open' they are

asciilifeform: yes, and a notorious scamwash

asciilifeform: truth in advertising, and all that.

asciilifeform prefers notation 'amaa' for these - 'ask me almost anything'

asciilifeform: lol!

asciilifeform thinking that single-word notation is probably good search engine spamatronic practice

asciilifeform: ^for the record

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-08-2014#814484 << intro to 'meritwashing' for n00bs ☝︎

asciilifeform: short, too

asciilifeform: ancient paperback, cult classic

asciilifeform: thestringpuller: if you like paper, and live near a secondhand book shop - it'll be $1 or so.

asciilifeform: the solar panel thing?

asciilifeform recommends this vintage and very entertaining story to everyone

asciilifeform: ere," said Wolf. "We want you to become a wasp."'

asciilifeform: 'Wolf went on, "The weight of a wasp is under half an ounce. Compared with a human being its size is minute, its strength negligible. Its sole armament is a tiny syringe holding a drop of irritant, formic acid, and in this case it didn't even use it. Nevertheless it killed four big men and converted a large, powerful car into a heap of scrap." "I see the point," agreed Mowry, "but where do I come in?" "Right h

asciilifeform: above the level of the folks who are merely practicing, there's someone who is making a point. same point as every king ever. public impalement to show he still 'has it.'

asciilifeform: to these folks, you and i are just the same as the paper hares and squirrels at the shooting gallery.

asciilifeform: if you're a suitable target - bad luck.

asciilifeform: sometimes the beast just needs target practice.

asciilifeform: ^

asciilifeform: whose 'general problem' was david koresh?

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: these folks are almost as predictable as stellar bodies

asciilifeform wonders if fbi/dhs paid russel's estate royalties when they hosted his tale on the 'resist' honeypot.

asciilifeform: lol had no idea that was just sitting there, waiting.

asciilifeform: http://www.resist.com/WASP.pdf

asciilifeform: decimation: if he patiently attacked physical targets of opportunity << see the novel 'wasp' (eric frank russel)

asciilifeform: there was another one who lived in a dugout in a national park.

asciilifeform: that one's famous, yes.

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: kakobrekla: had it lying around?

asciilifeform: decimation: yes.

asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu interestingly, google cache appears to be disabled for trilema.

asciilifeform: phun phact

asciilifeform: ;;isitdown trilema.com

asciilifeform: decimation: mtb is ok with violence. or, thinks it is, has 'full spectrum dominance' in the field (or thinks so at any rate)

asciilifeform: http://trilema.com/nobody-could-have-foreseen-their-using-a-plane-like-a-rocket

asciilifeform: obligatory:

asciilifeform: the way i see it, the meme of small-arms 'postal' is kept going, with maximal help from the many-tentacled beast, to keep miscreants from going full bore 'stand on zanzibar' and using actually effective weapons (their brains, primarily)

asciilifeform: someone could probably make a 'thinking man's Doom' (a la 'Thief') based on the premise of intelligent saboteur/terrorist, who plants limpets, burns reichstags, etc. -- but the author is likely to end up having problems.

asciilifeform: is in fact about a prison planet modelled very closely on russian prison (by a former employee, and well-loved blogger Goblin)

asciilifeform: decimation: gulag << exists. translated, ineptly, with title 'dungeon cleaners.'

asciilifeform: snore.

asciilifeform: there was a sim-auschwitz at one point, if i recall

asciilifeform doesn't quite grasp the appeal of 'fishing with dynamite' sims

asciilifeform: 'Hatred is a third-person shooter in development from Polish studio Destructive Creations.'