asciilifeform: millions - won't. thousands - will.

asciilifeform: (more in that vein: are the tax authorities permitted to harass them, as if they were mortals? or need permission first.)

asciilifeform: etc.

asciilifeform: do 'civil forfeiture' actions ever succeed against them? or magicked away ?

asciilifeform: e.g., what happens if a 'fed' minion (in good standing) appears in court, with a 'plebe' accuser (or plaintiff) ?

asciilifeform: observation was not about weight they might carry in their domain, but in ordinary life

asciilifeform suspects that, as with soviet bureaucrats, salary is only small part of the compensation package.

asciilifeform: and a nailgun is being oiled somewhere (assuming whole thing isn't a hangout)

asciilifeform (re: tapes) immediately shrugs, 'the goodstuff, if any, must've been snipped, ...' etc.

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: mats_cd03: (i must've missed something)

asciilifeform: mats_cd03: which 'it' ?

asciilifeform: chutzpah ?

asciilifeform actually recalls some sf universe with religion involving lathes, but can't put finger on precisely where

asciilifeform: (all 50m uploaded in case anyone wants this for something, can't picture why)

asciilifeform: bog-standard.

asciilifeform: ffmpeg

asciilifeform: fuggedaboutit

asciilifeform: 50m

asciilifeform: nm off by decimal place

asciilifeform: http://64.85.171.71/lathe_anim.gif

asciilifeform: 5meg ~= 1st 20 sec.

asciilifeform: hah it worked

asciilifeform: a very heavy one.

asciilifeform: i can even stuff the whole thing in a gif.

asciilifeform: it converts fine here

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: which 15 seconds would you like?

asciilifeform never grokked point of preorders. selling gizmos you don't have in stock ~= sc4mz0r1ng

asciilifeform: 1sec

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i can convert...

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://64.85.171.71/lathe.mov

asciilifeform favours that hypothesis, cannot speak for other people

asciilifeform: !s waterfall

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 1sec

asciilifeform: masochism-lol

asciilifeform doesn't like dedicated 'user is entering passwords' api gizmos - demarcated target.

asciilifeform: first decide which 'it'

asciilifeform: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaft_collar << for folks in the jungle

asciilifeform: *clamp-collar

asciilifeform now wonders if a cock ring is generally a shaft-collar or set-screw

asciilifeform: aha!

asciilifeform: 3 inch spindle.

asciilifeform can make collars. for guinea pigs, rats, iguana...

asciilifeform: ^ he has an adult lathe i think

asciilifeform: paging ben_vulpes!

asciilifeform: lol!

asciilifeform regressed mostly to 18th c., at least temporarily

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-10-2014#855251 ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-10-2014#855068 ☝︎

asciilifeform: !s rotor

asciilifeform can always take more

asciilifeform: shot the pics wad here

asciilifeform: i haven't, surprisingly, received any hate mail re: the lameness; must assume it's going to mircea_popescu's dev/null

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this month's turd is mailed.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: yes, i'm awake, on it.

asciilifeform: mamushi liquor.

asciilifeform: how certain folks take to them once tasted, others - hate, can't possibly picture how anyone gets hooked.

asciilifeform: t. dalrymple (alias, former british prison doctor, many great bookz) had a neato piece on opiates.

asciilifeform: ;;ud chipper

asciilifeform: !b 3 ✂︎

asciilifeform: 'forgive enemy - after hanging'

asciilifeform: aha - american endgame, yes.

asciilifeform: with top-grade 'meow mix'

asciilifeform: comfortable zoo, afaik.

asciilifeform: swiss losing their starfish virginity - lazy. iraqi losing last bag of grain - fights.

asciilifeform: the swiss, for all of their anal servitude, are still fat.

asciilifeform: reaction to theft is always tied to what you are being asked to part with.

asciilifeform: (no prizes for guessing who)

asciilifeform: incidentally, owner of crypto a.g. is unknown mega-moneybag.

asciilifeform: i.e. buying a crypto a.g. item is an explicit gesture of bending over and arse-spreading to usg by vassal state or org

asciilifeform can only apprehend an 'orlov's deer/hunter system' explanation for this

asciilifeform: ^ still best-selling!

asciilifeform: crypto ag.

asciilifeform was looking for a turdlet with a date.

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-04-2014#600860 << here we go. ☝︎

asciilifeform: when done by people.

asciilifeform: 'qualified' specifically means a kind of 'aristotelian' noble, who never soiled his hands with lowly wurk.

asciilifeform: decimation: these are the -only- folks permitted to design specs.

asciilifeform: mind you, nowhere in the book-case worth of turds will you find the phrase 'self-describing'

asciilifeform: lulzies.

asciilifeform: decimation: that is, 'let's make heavily specified, supposedly self-describing, format for Everything!'

asciilifeform: decimation: it's the hardware version of the delusion behind 'xml'.

asciilifeform: (if you let arbitrary gizmos enumerate on arbitrary ports, triggering load of kernel mods written in '98, you deserve what you get)

asciilifeform: exploitable bugs in all known implementations. <- and you can take that to the bank.

asciilifeform: decimation: not evil per se, but 'design by committee' all the way. no effort whatsoever was spent to lighten the book.

asciilifeform: and http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-06-2014#718612 ☝︎

asciilifeform: speaking of pertinent oldies, http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-08-2014#782014 ☝︎

asciilifeform now wants to learn about 'bukkakization'

asciilifeform read 'bitcoin' and 'dekulakization' as 'bukkakization' - eyes tired, possibly should sleep

asciilifeform: decimation: bezzlars work great because they devalue just as well at the bottom of the sea, or in a shoebox entombed in drywall ceiling, etc

asciilifeform: i think diametric and i might be two of the 100 or so people who actually drive on that!

asciilifeform: without any houses. just asphalt.

asciilifeform: decimation: no need to go far. a short stretch of road - cost $b.

asciilifeform: decimation: yes and yes.

asciilifeform: real estate 'market', pythonic strangler of all things alive.

asciilifeform: you get to pay extra 'self employment' tax rate.

asciilifeform: independent contractor << not something you really want to be, for tax purposes, in usa

asciilifeform: i, for instance, in effect pay almost double tax for refusal to 'buy' houses.

asciilifeform: since tax authorities operate as if they did not know automagically, in real time, who these are - no pre-tax

asciilifeform: other reasons include - folks who play in the real-estate chumpatron get a good deal of tax break.