asciilifeform: or that disposable email popped open ages ago.
asciilifeform: fpga mining board (as late as 2013) advertised by 'cardreaderfactory', a firm which appears to sell 'card skimmers' (a type of cheating device, popular in usa, where credit card magstripes are secretly read from unsuspecting victim)
asciilifeform: he'll 'not care' to anybody who listens.
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: strange << what's surprising? poor sod carries on and on, like broken record
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i certainly do not see such... piss in the chalice in byzantium... pissing i nthe chalice in rome << some of us might like a place to defect to (specifically defect, rather than gulag-break and run into taiga)
asciilifeform: lots of effort for a fellow who 'doesn't care.'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: naggum link << which ?
asciilifeform was fond of nixon for so long as knew the story about him - because there must have been something fundamentally good about the man if his fellow leeches threw him under the bus.
asciilifeform: doubt that there is anyone in usg that is empowered to use garotte << apparently they prefer limpet mines on auto and plane fuel tanks. perhaps they're also short on these ?
asciilifeform: decimation: that - or they're long under the control of soviet saboteurs like 'stirrup finder'
asciilifeform: decimation: world's laziest bureaucrats. perhaps they're out of duffel bags and garotte wire.
asciilifeform: no pepsi-chalkboard, no pepsi-cyclotron to the moribund 'coke.'
asciilifeform: this is why the death of ussr is a global calamity - even folks like jurov and mircea_popescu, who saw the underside of the colonial boot, might see the argument as to how
asciilifeform: -- couch tv and potato chips are there << or the chalkboard and cyclotron.
asciilifeform: (if you could - why would you wait until it pops)
asciilifeform: what good it does you to 'predict danger' if you can't pick up & go?
asciilifeform: chetty: the best fences - invisible. and have been 'up' for very long time.
asciilifeform: but what if for some reason you haven't been able to do this.
asciilifeform: first thing you might like is to move - far away
asciilifeform: xmj: what kind of fate do you wish for the reactor
asciilifeform: xmj: suppose you are, e.g, an amish, and haven't much use for electric mains personally
asciilifeform: xmj: complicated. imagine you happened to live near a fission reactor.
asciilifeform: the presumption of a totalitarian 'we' - that will 'fix things' once 'take control' - jumps straight out of the page.
asciilifeform: it is particularly entertaining, at least in limited dose, to read people whine about usg - the same people in whose heads it lives, of whom it is made in fact.
asciilifeform: (why usg needs pretext? has own internal rituals.)
asciilifeform: this generally works if opponent lives in a house usg has a habit, or otherwise might like, to set on fire - and could use pretext.
asciilifeform: sometimes it's a 'respect my rights!11! or usg will set your house on fire.'
asciilifeform: but today, 'respect my rights because i have rights'
asciilifeform: 'respect my rights (tm) or god will zap'
asciilifeform: jurov: back when the 'rights' folks believed in god, they at least had a sound psychiatric reason for pretending to have the pocket neutron bomb without actually having it
asciilifeform: jurov: i like to tell them, 'come back when you've invented a pocket neutron bomb that can be made from sticks and grass. until then, enjoy the state (tm) .'
asciilifeform: jurov: gotta love the american 'anarcho-something-alists' who prattle on about 'rights' and a grandiose 'we' who 'shall do' things.
asciilifeform: not a political statement, really a physical 'captain obvious.' -- 'if you went splat, clearly your parachute was inadequate.'
asciilifeform: can be extended to 'if you end up sucking kingly cock, clearly you were unfit to maintain your anarchowhatever pastoral reservation.'
asciilifeform: that is, if king is overthrown, clearly he was unfit.
asciilifeform: usually discussed in terms of losing it.
