asciilifeform: student exercise.

asciilifeform: 'kommunism is coming in 1980!'

asciilifeform: but, to complete the metaphor - it ever hopes to birth the mythical beast that will save it.

asciilifeform: there is no solzhenitsyn among the honeybees, lamenting 'why don't we sting, if we're to die anyway'

asciilifeform: http://www.executedtoday.com/2011/08/25/1936-grigory-zinoviev-and-lev-kamenev-old-bolsheviks

asciilifeform: the 'moscow trials'

asciilifeform: it is a definite - if peculiar - biological fact - that being condemned to hang somehow doesn't cause people to sprout balls

asciilifeform: the bureaucrat - presumably had connections, education (or 'education'), clean record ?

asciilifeform: and, well, that.

asciilifeform: whether it will ever play out in a courtroom, or - 'defense attorneys can also have problems' - remains to be seen

asciilifeform: and - given what is known about 'wintel' - we have precisely this scenario

asciilifeform: and might stand a chance

asciilifeform: the funny part is - consider, if it were generally known that, e.g, fbi, owned a cocaine teleporter (purpose-built) that specifically sends to toilet tanks - the arrestee could bring this possibility up as a defense

asciilifeform: ^ above case strikes me as a textbook case of 'can have problems'

asciilifeform: or, for that matter, exist even in the evidence room, and not merely loaded for the occasion from the prosecutor's private collection.

asciilifeform: or that the contents of his confiscated disk were placed there by his hands

asciilifeform: that the packets left his machine as described, or, if they did, that his head had anything to do with it

asciilifeform: i.e. - on whose word are we to believe that mr. pedo is a pedo ?

asciilifeform: there is also the tired, old, mundane 'there is a kilo of cocaine in your toilet tank' theorem. ☟︎

asciilifeform: (what's it about in reality? real-time tracking of all meat inventory. and, with a little more magic - your car is own gasenwagen when time comes.)

asciilifeform: s.

asciilifeform: mandatory 'V2V' << if the bureaucrats simply wanted to enable self-driving cars in dense city traffic, optimized stoplights, etc. - they could mandate a simple radio beacon in tail light lamps (screw-in replacement.) doubt there'd be mass protest - it'd be a machine-vision-friendly version of the light cars are traditionally required to emit anyway. but (no prizes for guessing) - 'V2V' is not about automatic car

asciilifeform: dollars to doughnuts, american jurists are busy reaming the 'eggshell skull' doctrine to cover asciirape, etc.

asciilifeform: ahaha

asciilifeform: lol not me.

asciilifeform: by that token, any bath taken in the chesapeake bay (a notoriously putrid body of water where i live) is golden.

asciilifeform: scam.

asciilifeform: doubtful that merely one pisser could suffice

asciilifeform: how many bladder-fulls in a 'golden bath' ?

asciilifeform: (a good bit of it is devoted to the elaborate contortions jurists go through to dodge - unsuccessfully - godelization)

asciilifeform: the book is a beautiful illustration of this.

asciilifeform: so he described the hilarious talmudic gymnastics he and his colleagues insist on to justify various things.

asciilifeform: the book is quite like the 'rule of law is a myth' piece (http://faculty.msb.edu/hasnasj/GTWebSite/MythWeb.htm - linked here a few times) except that katz hasn't let go of his religion yet ☟︎

asciilifeform: bad summary.

asciilifeform: mod6: i recall - she starved

asciilifeform: 'why the law is so perverse' (2011) is a real riot.

asciilifeform: (american jurist)

asciilifeform: any one here read leo katz's books?

asciilifeform: and, better yet, http://yro.slashdot.org/story/14/08/22/1441200/33-months-in-prison-for-recording-a-movie-in-a-theater

asciilifeform: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/14/08/18/2338243/news-aggregator-fark-adds-misogyny-ban << linked from above

asciilifeform: 'if I had had access to a nuclear device when I was in seventh grade' << obligatory >> http://www.cultdeadcow.com/cDc_files/cDc-0232.txt

asciilifeform: where this was dug out ?

asciilifeform: sunil << i suppose not every kid from bombay makes his way to solicitor general of new york

asciilifeform: police state is never wholly the polizei themselves, but also all such that 'it would never do, polite society!' for them to drag out in the night

asciilifeform: generally, plankton response is 'this fellow couldn't have been a good upstanding plankton'

asciilifeform: (preferably white, but optional)

asciilifeform: in the sense that wasn't 'office plankton'

asciilifeform: most people in usa will read this and ask 'but was he an untermensch ?' and go back to sleep

asciilifeform: ;;google solzhenitsyn axe

asciilifeform: now it's more or less SOP

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'no-knock' originated with 'but they'll flush the dope'

asciilifeform: 2

asciilifeform: ~1cm

asciilifeform: i never ate the bearing balls. but these were big. (tank bearings?)

asciilifeform: (apologies to 'paladin press''s 'where there is no doctor')

asciilifeform: 'where there is no laparoscope'

asciilifeform: what's worse for health - pinched gut, or small zap ?

asciilifeform: then again - magnet is small, and will probably reach a momentary 300 if you heat through meat with induction loop

asciilifeform: ~300 C...

asciilifeform: jurov: afaik you can only demagnetize NdFeB by heating to 'curie point'

asciilifeform: what do american children play with instead of bearing ball. and do i even want to know.

asciilifeform: just don't eat 2+.

asciilifeform owns a pre-ban set

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: magnet company << 'bucky-balls'

asciilifeform: i suspect we'll all have some amazing mechanical surprises when self-appendectomy time

asciilifeform: cracked the shitter ?

asciilifeform: lol!

asciilifeform ball bearings << was given a large bottle of bearing balls to play with as a boy. beautiful things.

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: what cannot be made (e.g. i've presently no forge) must be unearthed and reshaped.

asciilifeform: g

asciilifeform: more junkyard archaeology than forgin

asciilifeform also owns a mac 'air' for this reason. haven't popped it in a while, even possible that it welded shut

asciilifeform: echo on impedance mismatch - basic physic

asciilifeform: no need for exotica. ever forget to plug in a 'scsi' terminator ?

asciilifeform: and http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=20-08-2014#801776 ☝︎

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-02-2014#506252 ☝︎

asciilifeform: like machines with no lead screws or rails in the ordinary sense

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i'm personally interested in (long term) genuinely weird things

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: self-upgrading << the expensive tools - weren't dropped to earth by the gods

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: 'triangular drills will drill all his square holes!'

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: with simple tools, one can theoretically make everything (with possible exception of lead screws) for nicer set

asciilifeform: (had it for a while)

asciilifeform: in terms of cnc, only a small 2d laser

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: hand-cranked 'sherlines'

asciilifeform: LOL

asciilifeform: boeing pilots don't typically own the boeing

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: but i like to think that i could earn my bread shaving metal one day, if it comes to this

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i recently acquired a full set of jungle-grade machine tools, but am no more a machinist than were i to buy violin, would be violinist

asciilifeform: i suppose not everyone could afford the 'chicago typewriter'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: re: vysotsky << https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35NOsBxTpDs >> about the fellow who did own appendix

asciilifeform: afaik he died of a typical od - took customary dose of opium after quitting for a spell

asciilifeform: od

asciilifeform more or less buys the traditional version

asciilifeform: ah

asciilifeform: which guy ?

asciilifeform: or was that vulpes

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: aren't you also a machinist?

asciilifeform: true, they'll get a starving chemist etc

asciilifeform: ... a library.

asciilifeform: but not librarians ?