asciilifeform: anyone here ever read eric frank russell's 'wasp' ?
asciilifeform: 'The Monroe County District Attorney's Office filed 15 search warrants since the hunt for Frein began about two weeks ago to search various buildings, but Bivens declined to comment on the warrants. He acknowledged the substantial, and growing, cost to state and federal agencies.'
asciilifeform: 'The Monroe County District Attorney's Office filed 15 search warrants since the hunt for Frein began about two weeks ago to search various buildings, but Bivens declined to comment on the warrants.'
asciilifeform: that's the intended implication, at any rate.
asciilifeform: u.s. army snipers have been known to wear them, now that i recall.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: care to hazard a guess re: the diapers?
asciilifeform: lesson << ditch a car, confuse idiot bureaucrats ?
asciilifeform: menu: herr frein is 1) an imbecile 2) elementarily framed 3) fictional persona
asciilifeform: 'Authorities said Friday that the hard drive of a computer used by Frein provides evidence he had been planning an attack for years. They said Frein's Internet searches included sites on how to avoid police manhunts.'
asciilifeform: 'Frein may see the manhunt as a game, police said, and likely has supplies and a bunker hidden in the woods. Police have found soiled diapers, Serbian cigarettes and other clues that he remains in the area, but are proceeding with caution in part because they believe he may have explosives.'
asciilifeform: although the arse grenade (if he has any brains, has one) probably chafes.
asciilifeform: 'certain aspects of the NVIDIA graphics processor chip will only be available to... ...firmware images that have been signed by NVIDIA.'
asciilifeform: but there is no phase space transition from cuban scrapyard cars to mazerati.
asciilifeform: forced, because it (or something entirely like it) is the only way to build a software ecosystem on scrapyard hardware.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i must disagree exactly '180 degrees' about rms. he in fact did do a 'gotta' species of forced mistake. specifically, chose to accept eternal unix-clone retardation as gospel, because no alternative (in his mind, at the time)
asciilifeform: (it is virtually impossible to touch with finger and make less than full circle on readout)
asciilifeform: and, normally, considerably more sensitive
asciilifeform: picture if ford wanted moon lander instead
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ahahaha, yeah, that'll buy me a silicon fab and decade of paid free time, sure.
asciilifeform: ford was able to capitalize, somehow, because ultimately any idiot can appreciate a car.
asciilifeform: as far as i can tell, rms was defeated in his original life. and ended up performing almost the equivalent of a seppuku - had to retool and rescue some very small thing that could be salvaged, and turned it into another life.
asciilifeform: all he had left was his embarrassing 'emacs lisp' erzats.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: notice that rms will not speak of lisp to this day. the demise of lmi cut him off from the genuine machines (there was no possibility of baking one by his lonesome, or with his band of ragged dervishes, any more than they could launch a mars mission)☟︎
asciilifeform: even if wealthy prince has an advanced crack habit
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it was easy to foresee. but what alternative, when you gotta have the wealthy prince?
asciilifeform: though, i've been told that even actual enlistment is now open to folks of fairly advanced age and shoddy physical condition, with the proviso that you will 'fly a desk'
asciilifeform: chetty: i was speaking more generally of employment with usg rather than proper soldiering as such
asciilifeform: this applies not only to the killing arts, but even something like - chemistry.
asciilifeform: there are other sponsors - but most of them require an 'in.' (ethnic, familial, whatever kind of 'in'). only one sponsor has press-gangs on the streets, taking all-comers.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it is also, in a fairly large geographic zone, the only readily-accessible sponsor of many activities a thinking man (or 'man of action') would like to take up.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the u.s. army installation i once worked in had the biggest, fattest herds of deer i've ever seen in person...
