asciilifeform: us?

asciilifeform: http://www.dailydot.com/geek/hatred-game-trailer << megatrol, 'sim-postal!'

asciilifeform: there is probably an equivalent of plum for the folks who aren't nominally public servants. it's considerably thicker.

asciilifeform: yes, it.

asciilifeform: of course, not all of the folks who 'don't need to call' are in there.

asciilifeform: (didja know that usg has an actual nomenklatura? i didn't, until it was shown to me. the document isn't even secret.)

asciilifeform: the nomenklatura knows who they are.

asciilifeform: usually no need to call.

asciilifeform: (around $maxint, and usually need blood connections)

asciilifeform: decimation: better deals are sold in various locales. the cost of betterdeals in usa is uncommonly high.

asciilifeform: zey vere oonly fullowing urders.

asciilifeform: (not that it is trivial to do this correctly.)

asciilifeform: (and/or moved)

asciilifeform: decimation: if the builder had any sense, those zeroed when it was unplugged

asciilifeform: nubbins`: read log

asciilifeform: from point of view of the uniformed thugs, that thing is just a peculiarly heavy chest of cash to plunder.

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=30-07-2014#777720 ☝︎

asciilifeform: !s atm fortress

asciilifeform: not at all conspiratorially competent.

asciilifeform: not a very organized fellow, you see.

asciilifeform: goes to find town and water, then just kind loses track.

asciilifeform: then he's caught, pleads that he's simply very forgetful

asciilifeform: dessicated corpses found.

asciilifeform: runs out of gas, promises to go find help, then never comes

asciilifeform: picture a serial killer that picks up women and then proceeds to get lost in the desert

asciilifeform: decimation: apple and usg are not distinct entities.

asciilifeform: they know that they do.

asciilifeform: (for some people, still breathing is a malicious act)

asciilifeform: sufficiently advanced incompetence is equivalent to malice, or how did it go.

asciilifeform: re: chumps << witness the number of 'what did he do wrong111?!!?' imbeciles in the anonabox reddit thread.

asciilifeform: (retelling of old news, yes.)

asciilifeform: 'a messenger from the courts, who handed him a stack of legal documents—three inches thick. Somewhere in that stack—buried in all the legalese—was the news that Microsoft had taken control of his company, but Durrer didn’t have time to read it. Almost immediately, his pager lit up with messages saying the company’s internet services had stopped working.'

asciilifeform: from the loltron: http://www.wired.com/2014/10/microsoft-pinkerton

asciilifeform: obligatory: http://media.boreme.com/post_media/2005/kermit-visits-doctor.jpg

asciilifeform: precisely this, is what differentiates muppet show from puppet show.

asciilifeform: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fbi-director-tech-companies-should-be-required-to-make-devices-wire-tap-friendly/2014/10/16/93244408-555c-11e4-892e-602188e70e9c_story.html << how sweet the smoke. as if any of these were - or could possibly be - 'unfriendly'

asciilifeform: (possibly that kind - see 'climategate' etc)

asciilifeform: at any rate, what kind of idiot would leave written record of this kind of wink and nod ?

asciilifeform: thestringpuller, kakobrekla: the story of how the steaming pile of shit was published.

asciilifeform: thestringpuller: not the story per se

asciilifeform: (turd that was pushed through because note from fellow with note from fellow with note from stalin)

asciilifeform: if you know folks in the publishing industry, consider the story of the sf book/film 'eragon.'

asciilifeform: chances are, it consists of a list of 19yo kids to be meritwashed on schedule.

asciilifeform: (until he doesn't. if stops playing ball in whatever prescribed way.)

asciilifeform: he walks a free man, that's proof of note

asciilifeform: 'Kickstarter advisor and board member Sunny Bates doesn't deny the risks of pledging but argues the price of individual Kickstarter pledges is so low that even if fraud did rear its head it wouldn't be worth the legal action from a backer.' << amazing model. steal a penny from $maxint people - not a crime at all...

asciilifeform: some contradiction though.

asciilifeform: http://www.polygon.com/gaming/2012/6/27/3099051/backers-rights-what-kickstarter-funders-can-expect-when-they-pledge

asciilifeform: http://tech.firstpost.com/news-analysis/kickstarter-scammer-dupes-artist-by-withdrawing-pledged-amount-107963.html

asciilifeform: seems like you can cancel up to 48hrs before end time

asciilifeform: decimation: usually it's done in a more prestigious venue, though

asciilifeform: decimation: merit-washing, yes

asciilifeform rtfm-s

asciilifeform: then - no

asciilifeform: unless that makes it meet goal.

asciilifeform: afaik - yes.

asciilifeform: the numbers are a running ticker.

asciilifeform: or if the chumps pull out in the ~month they have left to do so

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if admins pull plug

asciilifeform will not be the least bit surprised if the turdmeister walks out with his 1/2mil

asciilifeform: interestingly, if you load the 'kickstarter' page, you can see the chump counter dropping. very slowly.

asciilifeform: (and if you really wish for this, you can construct it yourself with scarcely any effort)

asciilifeform: now, a similar contraption was, if i recall, sold several years ago, but that makes abox merely boring.

asciilifeform: Azelphur: because at least three waves of lie and denial?

asciilifeform: Azelphur: because hardcoded backdoor?

asciilifeform: Azelphur: because elaborate public lie, complete with doctored photos and claims of openable source that physically cannot be fulfilled?

asciilifeform: (an elementary, hardcoded orifice)

asciilifeform: apparently complete with backdoor.

asciilifeform: https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/2j9caq/anonabox_tor_router_box_is_false_representation << scamdal

asciilifeform: btc variant: 'pony up $smallint so $cutegurl or the like can get her $bigint back'

asciilifeform: ru invention afaik. knock on door, opens up, mesh bag with $animal, 'we have your $beast, pony up $sum.' father: 'we don't have a $beast...' kid: 'but so cute...111!'

asciilifeform: i keep waiting for the 'we have your cat' scam

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's the basic unified theory for all the sc4mz0rz who don't simply take the money&run, never to be heard of again

asciilifeform: only so many basic mechanics for running chumpatron.

asciilifeform: where chumpwheel operator offers a chance to 'win back' loss for $smallint

asciilifeform: carnival trick, if i recall

asciilifeform: ^

asciilifeform: perhaps the chumps can be fleeced yet more?

asciilifeform: probe reaction? see if sympathetic idiots appear?

asciilifeform: it's a fuckyou

asciilifeform: tale not built to be believed.

asciilifeform: by virtue of powerful cock-suction compressor

asciilifeform: aka, very roughly, turncoat, but with the implication of being a stinking little chameleon who never wants for anything regardless of who's on the throne

asciilifeform: approximately 'adaptablefella'

asciilifeform: we call that - приспособленец.

asciilifeform: aha yes

asciilifeform: didja mean herr canaris ?

asciilifeform: lel

asciilifeform: afaik he was a volunteer

asciilifeform: ah him

asciilifeform: like the little binding post in the cloaca maxima

asciilifeform: experts - comments ?

asciilifeform: afaik - some variant of gibbeting/outdoor starvation is mostly cross-cultural

asciilifeform: but, usually he provides it.

asciilifeform: yes. without the client's cooperation, not possible (as pictured in the book)

asciilifeform realizes that one-size-fits-all humiliation is not optimal, probably needs to be custom per client, a la 'room 101.'

asciilifeform: jp had seppuku (honourable) but also haritsuke (look it up...)

asciilifeform: available for deserving clients.

asciilifeform: every sane culture afaik has a humiliation+pain combo

asciilifeform: (the notion that any and all pain is honourable)