asciilifeform: no historical example of this, afaik, but the totalitarian state is a rather young thing
asciilifeform: i suspect that quarantine on certain people will be enforced very honestly, while on others (as above example) - not quite.
asciilifeform: i'd like to see which one of us gets kicked off freenode first, for 'harrassing' mr spam.
asciilifeform: what is even the deal with xchat. / ignore user ALL doesn't seem to work.
asciilifeform: <ninjashogun> You also repeatedly mention me in a negative light, despite my not saying anything to you. Just stop.
asciilifeform: <ninjashogun> You seriously need to stop with the trolling. It is extremely unprofessional. I've already apologized for hurting your feelings.
asciilifeform: if you don't have a greybeard to apprentice with.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: you may have to break down and get the book.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: in fact, when, as a boy, i first read of lisp machines, i somehow thought this is how they worked.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: you're more than welcome to boot straight into emacs even now.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: is there one which invites strangers to format your hd?
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: elisp is a terrifyingly pre-1970s-style crock of shit. e.g., brings back the infamous 'funarg problem'
asciilifeform: basic case master recipe from both sides of cold war - pretend to be an unrelated animal that nevertheless merits close access to the chumper's personal guts.
asciilifeform: my favourite hypothesis re mr. spam is that he is a scammer masquerading as an incompetent usg case officer.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this works especially well on a cheap 'ups'.
asciilifeform: presumably to keep him addicted while the pay toilet coin hopper is wired in.
asciilifeform: it really is time to start charging him for the privilege of using #b-a as a public urinal
asciilifeform: but no, modified television for everybody. to this day.
asciilifeform: incidentally, notice xerox and original mit lisp machines - had correct (vertical) displays.
asciilifeform: can't even imagine a respectable porn aficionado enjoying these
asciilifeform: on every 'real' computer i own, i do it
asciilifeform: the most infuriating thing is that the easiest way to increase vertical resolution (the only kind that really matters to me) is to turn the display 90 degrees, which is not doable on laptop.
asciilifeform: not every day one discovers a totally new scamatron, on own skin.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i discovered that the machine with the dithering lcd wasn't just dithering. it has a 'pentile' screen (hard-wired white pixel in the middle of each rgb element! for fraudulently increased apparent brightness.) had no idea this even existed.
asciilifeform: for one thing, the clock doesn't tick unless someone actually gives a damn.
asciilifeform: ThickAsThieves: because, afaik, that is the only kind being produced. anywhere.
asciilifeform: ThickAsThieves: no, seriously - apple -only- ships 6-bit panels. in all products. since '08 or so.
asciilifeform: ThickAsThieves: apple ships 6-bit only for several years now.
asciilifeform: but interestingly, only some people can see it (showed it to one fellow, he could, other - not)
asciilifeform: from we-hate-laptops-dept. news: it is well known that you can only buy lcd panels with 6-bit colour channels now. the latest ones look just like cheap newsprint when the dithering (e.g. gray screenfull) kicks in.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you really thought they'd surrender, just like that ?
asciilifeform: when they do 'this', it won't look like a 'this.' it'll look like a parallel-whatever - dumb prisoner gave his key to 'Bubba' in exchange for butseks, etc.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: still think 'rule of law' thing is still a thing in usa? seriously?
asciilifeform: mega-lol. nothing of the kind, afaik, has happened in many years. how could it, with tame judges, tame da-s, tame legislature, ... , etc.
asciilifeform: IANAL - but afaik, usg claims a total right to control the communications of prisoners. and lawyers who are suspected of stretching the official rules (e.g., getting a message out to your mother, whatever) can be effectively fired by usg.
asciilifeform: seriously suggesting that a prisoner in usa can keep a key secure (other than one which fits in his head) ?
asciilifeform: afaik the whole client-attourney privilege thing is a dead letter in usaschwitz. (the buggers can do as they please and parallelconstruct.)
asciilifeform: ulbricht << unless he's learned to grind rsa in his head, how is this to happen? his jailers will otherwise have the key at their leisure.☟︎
asciilifeform: i sorta assumed fat fiat accounts on fiat brokers.
asciilifeform: to vote with money, one first needs... money.
asciilifeform: (and yes, i intend to write a post re: 'technolordosis.' for the lack of a better term, my current mental name for the deer/hunter symbiosis of voluntary chumpitude previously discussed on many occasions)
asciilifeform: gpg.. yachtful << nope. they'd rather buy pwndildoes from 'crypto ag.' it's a 'technolordosis' signal to their master.
asciilifeform: ...'must piss on the electric fence personally'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: now try and tell this to american, and usually he will nod enthusiastically, and after you say '...30' he will answer: 'naturally! they won't even agree to sign up for mortgage!'
asciilifeform: whether that's 'attactive' - you decide.
asciilifeform: they can move to usa and massage machines, yes.
