asciilifeform: never met any Soviet citizens, leads a lonely, introspective life, far from other people, and is by profession a forester, fisherman, lighthouse-keeper, security guard or railwayman. In many cases such an agent will be a physical invalid.'
asciilifeform: 'A portrait of an ideal agent for spetsnaz emerges something like this: a man of between fifty-five and sixty-five years of age who has never served in the army, never had access to secret documents, does not carry or own a weapon, knows nothing about hand-to-hand fighting, does not possess any secret equipment and doesn't support the Comunists, does not read the newspapers, was never in the Soviet Union and has
asciilifeform: lol! '5. Agents should not have been members of the armed forces of the United States nor employees of the United States Government. 6. Agents should be chosen from those persons who will not be logical internees of the enemy.'
asciilifeform: 'I receive Welfare. I live off your labor: you pay taxes and I don't do shit, twice a month I head down to the clean and spacious welfare office at 1515 Broadway and pick up my check. ... What, you don't like me? You don't want to pay? It's not much—278 dollars a month. You don't want to pay. Well then why the fuck did you get me to come here, me and a whole crowd of Jews? Take it up with your propaganda—it'
asciilifeform: a separate piece of x-ray sensitive film was used to read the scatter. When I inquired about the safety of the operatives and their exposure to the potentially deadly radiation, Nicolai laughed...'
asciilifeform: 'I asked him to describe the equipment needed to focus x-rays at a lock and to read them, thinking that the “source” of the radiation would have to be large and well-shielded... ...The answer I received was quite amazing, but I guess not surprising. I was told that the isotopes which gave off the radiation were contained in a handheld tool about the size of a large flashlight. It was pointed at the lock and
asciilifeform: kite << nope, ordinary 'n-copter' or even 'rocket' with propeller for thrust and servo-controlled fins. enemy can't jam - has to outrun or cut wire. can include whatever instruments (e.g. ir optics) you like.
asciilifeform: (high-frequency ac through 1 wire, rectifier a la tesla on the 'rocket' end.)
asciilifeform: incidentally, you don't need two wires to power the machine.
asciilifeform: if you can cover, e.g., 'predator' - in mylar - it's a brick.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: fat rockets dropping on parachutes, self-aimed at tank turrets (see yesterday's film with ukrs clobbered by such. 1980s soviet product.)
asciilifeform: not even to mention the traditional cheap answer to such tricks (ablative coating.)
asciilifeform: 'They tend to show up late at parties because they figure they can always steal the cake anyway, so why bother go early ? Let the suckers figure out first - on their own dime - where the good cakes are, then just swoop in and collect... This means the only way they can get in is if you let them get in. Don?t let them get in for cheap - they have no business here.' (mp's http://trilema.com/2014/people-us-dollar)
asciilifeform: 'There once was a cyber attack; / The Chinese our network did hack. / Since arguably / Cyber’s WMD / Do you think we should nuke them right back?' << actual example from usg's limerick contest. (http://cryptome.org/2014/09/natsec-thesis.pdf)
asciilifeform: a result of some mandatory this-or-that.
asciilifeform: phun phact. when i worked for u.s. army, the building cafeteria had a - blind cashier.
asciilifeform wonders which manufacturers and of what...
asciilifeform: '...served as chairman of the board of Wiscraft Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping blind people find employment in manufacturing.'
asciilifeform: spin recovery in a Cirrus is based on deploying the chute << if true, who bought this machine - and why ?
asciilifeform: 'The test bed aircraft (74-2065) was ready for its first test flight on September 18, 1980, just three weeks after the project was initiated.' <<< picture modern usg doing anything whatsoever on this schedule.
asciilifeform: (which work well enough in skilled hands)
asciilifeform: seems like an even better 'darwinator' than the amateur planes.
asciilifeform: does anyone still fly those 'suicide' choppers that consist of a chair and motorcycle engine ?
asciilifeform: (mandatory only on passenger liners, afaik, but who knows - possibly some of the newer single-seaters have it as well.)
asciilifeform: decimation: how would they control the plane << this was a slip-up and meant literally. controlled how? with the mandatory remote-steering box.
