asciilifeform: BingoBoingo visited by the wagen ?

asciilifeform catches up on logs

asciilifeform: i did somehow think that she starved...

asciilifeform: but the small arms theme is new.

asciilifeform: ads recruiting stoolies aren't new here. they have then regularly for, e.g. insurance fraud

asciilifeform: ^ seen around half an hour ago.

asciilifeform: http://imgur.com/fw0f9PI

asciilifeform: b00lcrap: this isn't how it works. gotta say something of substance.

asciilifeform: presumably not counting the degenerate cases (e.g. private keys) ?

asciilifeform had some very entertaining conversations with the fellow about peculiarities of american law, as practiced

asciilifeform: though, afaik, not the variety that argues cases.

asciilifeform: herr handle, incidentally, is employed as (not a secret) a lawyer.

asciilifeform: lol

asciilifeform: run moar winblows.

asciilifeform: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/08/21/mh370_disaster_cyber_snooping

asciilifeform: (among others)

asciilifeform: that one.

asciilifeform lolz, owns that board

asciilifeform: [insert obligatory bitching about ADC quantization artifacts here]

asciilifeform is quite partial to crt scope, except on occasion of travel

asciilifeform: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pzvEouWino

asciilifeform: or this:

asciilifeform: 'if you can, you must' ?

asciilifeform: aha the olympics thread

asciilifeform: presumably - the folks queueing up for the marching powder ?

asciilifeform: economic reasons >> so long as the slaves get the right kind of marching powder (i.e., with the requisite proportion of meth to opium) - what economic reasons ?

asciilifeform: enough to give you insomnia.

asciilifeform: gedankenexperiment time. go to your workbench, pick some precious, rare, instrument - and contemplate what 'most people' would do with it.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i believe it. most people - will, likely - scrub.

asciilifeform: re: mexican drug ballads: obligatory: http://www.malavita.com/diemusik_en.html

asciilifeform most people taking it will scrub << wonders what kind of 'public education' films will be made about, e.g., logic analyzers, when these are banned

asciilifeform: busy as a bee << funny that they show an idiot sow scrubbing, and not, e.g, paul erdos crapping out theorems ☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎

asciilifeform: surely someone is campaigning to have meth brought back to the masses.

asciilifeform: are there meth activists ?

asciilifeform: perhaps the next pill, 'D-X,' will be a meth and thc combo

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: your stuff typically includes sufficient meth to drown out the opium.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not so much

asciilifeform: 'At first the members of the punishment battalion whistled and sang songs. [But] most of them had collapsed after the first 24 hours.'

asciilifeform: how does an opiate help here?

asciilifeform: undiscriminatory ?

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: why would you include an opiate ?

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: 'pervitin' ? that was ordinary 'meth'

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: if the soldier can only carry one pill, what modern replacement psychostimulator would suffice ?

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: military men, afaik, are noted for a love of 'classic' tech

asciilifeform: 'morals' lol

asciilifeform: even today.

asciilifeform: (leningrad, during blockade, reportedly churned out 10kg/day.)

asciilifeform: phun phact. 'прикладная химия' 1941 (forget which month) was devoted to recipes for... meth.

asciilifeform has a blast with bedtime reading of 'квант,' 'химия и жизнь,' 'наука и жизнь', etc. for ages now. who said '4k' tablets had no use.

asciilifeform has the collection

asciilifeform: ahaha

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: lol, you read Kvant ?!?!

asciilifeform: if i saw a mosquito for the first and only time, i'd probably laugh at it too

asciilifeform: it pattern-matches 'derp' and throws my concentration

asciilifeform would love to buy a (yes) bowdlerized compendium of taleb, with all the annoying 'i'm the strongest man alive, grasp my throbbing cock!' crapola snipped out.

asciilifeform guessed correctly

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: who's the fellow screaming at the crowd ?

asciilifeform: because!

asciilifeform: (what instrument? ion mobility spectrometer, clearly.)

asciilifeform: what's missing? plenty

asciilifeform: (from linked document)

asciilifeform: http://imgur.com/V8M9nsA

asciilifeform: yes.

asciilifeform: we come from the ducks, who come from the trucks.

asciilifeform: aha.

asciilifeform: now it's SOP among the resistance.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: actually the ukrs started really calling themselves that in the '90s, when they wrote the hilarious schoolbooks about 'ancient ukrs, they fought rome!'

asciilifeform: http://xs-sniper.com/blackhat2014/BH2014-Billy-Rios.pdf

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=20-08-2014#801927 ☝︎

asciilifeform: damn.

asciilifeform: !s ancient ukrs

asciilifeform: ukrs.

asciilifeform: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRM7OZktALE << column of captive urks led through donetsk. water truck washes road after them, just like they did in the '44 parade after captured germans.

asciilifeform: http://oglaf.com/harrow << problems of rectothermodynamicists.

asciilifeform misread as 'non-euclidean geometry for babes'

asciilifeform isn't suggesting that the pliable idiot stratagem is a brilliant one that everyone should imitate - just pointing out its age.

asciilifeform: lol

asciilifeform: or brock pierce

asciilifeform: pederasty doesn't make herr wales smarter, either.

asciilifeform: 'smart' wasn't the top objective, though.

asciilifeform: sure.

asciilifeform: (answer: his wife. in gulag.)

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: re: the use of pliable folks: consider, what was vyacheslav molotov's main job qualification ?

asciilifeform: perma-deleted.

asciilifeform: example: pediwik page for nsa 'type a' - gone.

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-07-2014#749841 ☝︎

asciilifeform: (and he was publicly smeared in various ways, e.g. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/01/29/buy_a_piece_of_net)

asciilifeform while reading about modern irc daemonology, learned that founder of freenode died of having-problems in '06.

asciilifeform: it's not a matter of the machines per se << of what, then ?

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: at any rate, what kind of machine is necessary, for what kind of load? just #b-a ?

asciilifeform: the folks pictured are бурлаки. (yes, we had a separate name for this occupation.)

asciilifeform: approximately.

asciilifeform: where i live, a 'busker' is a fellow playing, e.g., accordion on a steet, begging for pennies

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/Ilia_Efimovich_Repin_(1844-1930)_-_Volga_Boatmen_(1870-1873).jpg

asciilifeform: lamers.

asciilifeform pictured 'complaint' wankers, rather than nsa

asciilifeform would still like to know who, approximately, is likely to bring approximately what kind of siege weapon to his gates before dusting off the box kept for this purpose.

asciilifeform: gpg-gram if you like.

asciilifeform: but before i can offer a potential parachute - need to know threat model.