asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: degradation of metal goods proceeded by a similar, if not entirely identical way as organics - not impurities as such (modern alloys are chemically superior to those of the past) but through using tech that ought not be used
asciilifeform: (the first person who told me that there are now small arms with zamac parts, i did not believe him!)
asciilifeform: 100 percent machined parts, nothing stamped, nothing made of shitmetal (e.g. 'zamac')
asciilifeform: incidentally, the mosins (and other items of the period) prove that, if one really wishes it, it is possible to mass-produce 'non-synthetic tomato' to some extent.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: which is precisely what one might expect for a foreign museum piece
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the non-soviet ones are ~$1/round
asciilifeform: legend has it that stalin had the fuhrer's skull (what remained of it) as ashtray.
asciilifeform: 'That same year, columnist Drew Pearson reported that Representative Francis E. Walter (D-Penn.) had presented President Franklin D. Roosevelt with a letter opener made from the forearm of a Japanese soldier. ‘This is the sort of gift I like to get’, Pearson quotes FDR saying.” '
asciilifeform: crown from congressmen << reminds me of fdr's souvenirs
asciilifeform: there will be folks firing mosins at one another long after we're forgotten, i suspect.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: 'the man with the rifle - shoots. the one without - follows him. when the man with the rifle is killed, the one who is following him picks up the rifle and shoots.' -- american film about stalingrad
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: plus, afaik no one in usa makes the shells.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the paperwork will run you more.
asciilifeform: i don't have any nitpick at a 'group trilema' - but not sure why it needed to be nyooz-flavoured.
asciilifeform: thing about botnets, this is a whole planet, largely undocumented in open literature
asciilifeform: and that anyone who takes issue with this, should resign then.
asciilifeform: over a ludicrously expensive plasma tv, the owner of the firm gravely proclaimed that the robot (nominally a sapperbot) shall be fitted with a rifle.
asciilifeform: one day we were called in for a meeting
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: re: your reply to 'instazap' - as a young man, i had the 'fortune' to work in one of those small scamatronics firms scattered around wash.dc. they made (well, collected money from usg to make, supposedly) small robots.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if you mean he wiggled a pen and dropped ink on paper, sure.
asciilifeform: because the alchemists have learned to manufacture armies of beggars which carry on mischief as programmed.
asciilifeform: not that i am in love with this paradigm, but not sure that you can construct a genuinely viable net where beggar can talk to king directly.
asciilifeform: it does succeed at preventing drunken beggars from ddosing the king, if nothing else
asciilifeform: if random-derp wants a document from you, he should really be reduced to grabbing it (and, naturally, you signed it) from someone closer in wot-space to you
