asciilifeform: at that point i don't even care what the reasoning was. i don't care if it saved a thousand orphans from a fiery death.

asciilifeform: and who the fuck decided that a perfectly good 'eth0' should turn into 'enp0s29u1u1' ?

asciilifeform: but he could explain why everything needs to be 'updated' and 'reinvented111!1' until end of time

asciilifeform: not afaik

asciilifeform: decimation: ask poettering.

asciilifeform: their blood.

asciilifeform is currently fighting with 'grub2' and desperately wants to see blood

asciilifeform: but burning any extant linux into mask rom - is recipe for tears.

asciilifeform is not advocating update cycle, believes that anything worth calling 'os' is worth burning in mask ROM

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: before you freeze something, first have to make sure it isn't a turd. (unless stool sample...)

asciilifeform: never too late to abort a fella.

asciilifeform: a very curious 'effective'

asciilifeform: interesting that one usg mole could achieve this.

asciilifeform: herr poettering is quite close to destroying linux as a going concern, imho.

asciilifeform: 'people started collecting Bitcoins to hire a hitman for me' << lulz

asciilifeform: there's a reason no one but usg funds the 'homomorphic' work. it is - their wet dream.

asciilifeform: !s homomorphic

asciilifeform: and, in general:

asciilifeform: re: DARPA obfuscator grants << http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=05-02-2014#481151 ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Gentoo_Without_systemd << unrelated but very useful

asciilifeform: re: usa

asciilifeform: or is the hypothetical one involving a 20th c. style army, which equips paupers ?

asciilifeform: how many will afford pointy stick, much less rifle.

asciilifeform: lol, usa uniform!

asciilifeform: lulz

asciilifeform: (all you need to do is separate...)

asciilifeform: TheNewDeal: heavy water comes for free out of your faucet.

asciilifeform: nope

asciilifeform thought it was verb0t3n by order of tehFuhrer

asciilifeform was greatly surprised to learn that one can buy nitric acid on 'amazon' and similar.

asciilifeform: of whatever kind.

asciilifeform: difficult to work with naked eye on microelectronics.

asciilifeform: yes.

asciilifeform: !s the spittoon

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: all of my heresies are in fact in one strand. this is how i ended up 'drinking the spittoon.'

asciilifeform: von neumann's basic problem is a terrifically bad implementation of the ordinary pipe concept.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the pipe - is everything. (hence my crackpot pushing of dataflow as replacement for von neumann computation, etc)

asciilifeform: in what way are these folks meaningfully separate entities from usg?

asciilifeform: decimation: in meatspace.

asciilifeform: decimation: i.e. traded for a slightly smaller quantity of 'clean'

asciilifeform: decimation: it was washed in the most elementary way

asciilifeform: and i suspect usg also gets it. they're banking on just one hope, killing btc somehow through stampede

asciilifeform gets it

asciilifeform: decimation: i pointed this out earlier, yes

asciilifeform: do they give a damn?

asciilifeform: when usg sets off a bomb in iraqanistan, the metal, trotyl, guidance circuits - are also 'sold' and 'below market' also.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i can't even imagine who would be dumb enough to lend btc to usg, considering the gold obligations affair

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: re: usg wasted another hundred million... << if they can't power the waterfall with debt, they'll power it with plundered btc (as being done now, at least as suggested by the publicly known facts.)

asciilifeform: (with higher price, if i recall)

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: recall, i suggested this.

asciilifeform: TheNewDeal: learn to use your killfile. i did - when first met with mr. spam.

asciilifeform: so surveillance bot, turns out, is cured with easy pill...

asciilifeform: and ham transmitter is typically far louder than that pocket-sized remote (see police film)

asciilifeform: ham band requisition << this works both ways, you know.

asciilifeform: the semiconductor folks could decide to produce non-braindamaged circuits also at any time.

asciilifeform: that'd be... microshit.

asciilifeform: or at least to reanimate 'vegetables' ?

asciilifeform: what kind of bell must be rung to wake the dead?

asciilifeform tried.

asciilifeform: -and- 'readline' !?

asciilifeform: http://atomictoasters.com/2014/06/q%C2%B3-sfsiwi-edition/#more-31867 << unrelated

asciilifeform: also lecture concerned specifically the 'swat team'

asciilifeform asked 'ever use it.' lecturer replied 'many times'

asciilifeform: (forget exact amount - 5 figures usd)

asciilifeform: decimation: it costs, allegedly, $maxint

asciilifeform: ^ from same

asciilifeform: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSwz3Kl4xFw

asciilifeform: ;;google tournament market

asciilifeform: get back into << as for me, i was never in

asciilifeform: decimation: these don't really get rolled into rent effectively, so i don't much care

asciilifeform: dub: the chopper (not in photo) does not evacuate, it was a kind of flying version of ordinary police car

asciilifeform: (not even state)

asciilifeform: this was a county police dept.

asciilifeform: chopper specialist explained that his machine exists solely to search for people

asciilifeform: keeper lamented that it had no arms or armour

asciilifeform: seats four men

asciilifeform: tiny thing though, like a flying police car.

asciilifeform: human

asciilifeform: according to the lecturer - can stay aloft for a whole 2 hours!

asciilifeform: there was also a chopper, several $mil, according to its keeper. fitted with 100k ir camera.

asciilifeform: why would it ?

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: afaik they are forbidden to shoot at the tires - it results in an out-of-control spin, demolishes unrelated cars

asciilifeform: decimation: and pay 50K+ usd

asciilifeform: (a round through the radiator, most practically)

asciilifeform: same way you stop airplane with it

asciilifeform: and pointed out that if i want one, it can be bought for about 5k usd.

asciilifeform: maintained that it has never been put to this use yet.

asciilifeform: policeman helpfully explained, that it was decreed that they must have a few in order to stop cars...

asciilifeform: i asked

asciilifeform: ^ actual show in my town

asciilifeform: http://imgur.com/R4EbgZN ☟︎☟︎

asciilifeform: see also 'hastelloy'.

asciilifeform: stp

asciilifeform: and it does its job precisely by refusing to react with just about anything, esp. at st.

asciilifeform: precious little cu in there

asciilifeform recommends inconel - theoretically good for a millenium or three in salt water

asciilifeform doesn't even own an indexer yet...

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: those adult-sized tools are glorious.

asciilifeform: ;;google this sucker could go down

asciilifeform: how much does that particular bureaucracy actually make decisions, in whatever sense, and how much just provides 'institutionalizing spraypaint' for decisions made by actual human somewhere in the loop ?