asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: re: herr church: from his writings, it seems as if he started out as basically-functional human (maths type?) but then ended up in the si. valley garbage disposal and was mutilated there (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7340013)

asciilifeform: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7340013 << mr church has some very serious beef with teh-bezzle.

asciilifeform: silence >> eh, maybe when he's done dying

asciilifeform: ars longa vita brevis. RIP mr. lee.

asciilifeform: http://ergoemacs.org/misc/xah_as_good_as_dead.html

asciilifeform: re: people who starved: apparently xah lee (old crackpot blogger, linked on me site) recently did.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: lol

asciilifeform: aha.

asciilifeform: chetty has somebody in the cellar hanging upside-down doing the winblows port ?

asciilifeform: chetty lives and breathes 'mingw' ?

asciilifeform: gcc 4.x-ism ?

asciilifeform: there was somebody else here who had one (moiety?) and then starved.

asciilifeform: thestringpuller: no, had brother, whose lab i would screw with.

asciilifeform: so now there's two of us peasants here with dayjobs.

asciilifeform: sure.

asciilifeform: lol

asciilifeform: jurov: presently, we're reverse-engineers..

asciilifeform: jurov: b00lcrap and i work a day job together. quite unrelated to s.nsa.

asciilifeform: lol

asciilifeform: b00lcrap: is not involved

asciilifeform: as is the tomato. but they both taste mighty fine.

asciilifeform: and the occasional 0day.

asciilifeform: b00lcrap also grows fine tomatoes.

asciilifeform: l

asciilifeform: lo

asciilifeform: tell us about yourself, b00lcrap.

asciilifeform: b00lcrap: welcome to the dark army.

asciilifeform: say it to assbot

asciilifeform: mthreat: the 'new face' thing is probably pure conjecture, but if you could read russian (or chinese) you wouldn't need to ask for source material re: the rest.

asciilifeform: ;;rate b00lcrap 1 actual human, meatspace colleague

asciilifeform: !up b00lcrap

asciilifeform: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2014/06/09/silicon-valley-and-the-rise-of-the-disneypreneur << from the management-con fellow

asciilifeform: wtf

asciilifeform: ;;rate b00lcrap 1 actual human, meatspace colleague

asciilifeform: ;;gettrust b00lcrap

asciilifeform: see, works

asciilifeform: but my magic did expire, it seems

asciilifeform: try it now

asciilifeform: http://nymag.com/news/features/foreigners-hiding-money-new-york-real-estate-2014-6

asciilifeform: from the loltron:

asciilifeform: re: by the author of the fake management article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8191181

asciilifeform: boolcrap: http://wiki.bitcoin-assets.com/first_steps_in_bitcoin-assets

asciilifeform: boolcrap: get in the fscking wot, comeon

asciilifeform: ;;gettrust boolcrap

asciilifeform: http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/declass/records_management/ia_rds.pdf << lol, public catalogue of teh goodz

asciilifeform: it is very heavy. and transformer conveniently had a middle tap for folks in gringolandia to move the mains wire to.

asciilifeform owns one single thing made in england - a 'thurlby thandar' variable dc supply

asciilifeform: old bayonet ?

asciilifeform: ethnic war works quite like ordinary war, except that uniform is glued on.

asciilifeform: these folks are now: dead.

asciilifeform: most russians in chechnya, pre-collapse, weren't instinctively afraid of their neighbours either. ☟︎

asciilifeform: policeman?

asciilifeform: how to maintain full employment on the cheap? how about jacqueries.

asciilifeform: general principle - if usa cannot maintain full employment for career trigger-pullers - collapsatron revvs up in record time.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: try another hypothesis re: rationale for ferguson. engineered creation of 'open sores' for military action on the cheap. as described in http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-rationale-behind-boston-psy-ops.html

asciilifeform: inhabitants of a newly-minted bantustan are usually invited to handle these matters on their own.

asciilifeform: along side the bezzlatron, there exists the system whereby actual food is delivered, water, fuel, mains current, etc. is piped.

asciilifeform: people who insist on being shot by police of own, vs. opposite, color, end up in bantustans.

asciilifeform: which is the mind-boggling part

asciilifeform: the 'opressors', as i understand, feed/house the 'oppressed'

asciilifeform wonders if the ferguson uprising folks like the logical conclusion of their work - bantustan behind concertina wire

asciilifeform: and unlike, say, yugoslavia or ussr, there are no conveniently-drawn ethno-geographic bantustans for it to cleanly collapse to.

asciilifeform: even in the past, did not hold the frost very well (who burned, e.g., detroit, and why...)

asciilifeform: usa proper is arguably the ultimate 'fridge'

asciilifeform still remembers the inscription on the fuse case - '1932' - in chemical pen.

asciilifeform: at the time, mine were at the top of a stairwell to nowhere (wall) - in the cellar (which the owner usually kept locked, to keep tenants from switching on the heat.)

asciilifeform did, two flats ago

asciilifeform: might handle better than the mains box >> to the extent that the fridges largely consist of deliberately-crafted thorns in the side of the old sovblok, bad bet.

asciilifeform: 'history does not actually repeat - but does rhyme.'

asciilifeform: once plug is pulled.

asciilifeform: the fate of the contents of the various u.s.-powered 'refrigerators' around the world will be interesting.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: re: article: taiwan is an interesting case of what i like to call a 'refrigerator' - pocket of thermodynamic dis-equilibrium kept going via outside energy (in its case - u.s. imperial navy)

asciilifeform: every profession, i suspect, has its 'any key.'

asciilifeform: but this here is a different idea - actually build the entire thing via moving nozzle (a la plastic printer.)

asciilifeform: chroming has been pressed into service as 'putting on tool' in some places.

asciilifeform: a traditional joke on a n00b in a machine shop, i'm told, is to send him off for a 'putting-on tool' when he cuts his first undersized piece.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: re: electrochemical machining: if you do the obvious thing and run it backwards, you can deposit metal. but you'll have to temper the finished product.

asciilifeform: http://www.lspace.org/fandom/songs/hedgehogsong.html

asciilifeform: obligatory:

asciilifeform: lol

asciilifeform: ?

asciilifeform: wax phonograph, hell.

asciilifeform: collapse of mega-empires and even pre-collapse deterioration of industrial base tends to favour a return to classical arms, however.

asciilifeform: there's the 'city meatgrinder' style of warfare

asciilifeform: enemy might be covered in magical armour, but he still has, presumably, a visor

asciilifeform: but one nitpick - the 'self-aiming rifle' (one variant recently exhibited) could be an interesting gotcha

asciilifeform: small arms are a dead trope >> i recall a thread re: armour and the obsolescence of small arms

asciilifeform: lol

asciilifeform: departures from tradition - e.g. 'caseless shell' - were suggested, but no one bothered to reduce to practice afaik

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i find it interesting that nothing principally new happened in small arms for almost a century. (curios like 'gyrojet' excepted)

asciilifeform is armchair general, if ever contributed to decent military discussion - purely by accident.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: большая зона ?

asciilifeform: cheapo as in 'reddit' budget

asciilifeform was informed re: the ubiquitous photos of gurlz posing with 'fancy m16' - typically it is the .22 cheapo variety.

asciilifeform: folks who spend a good deal of time at target practice complain about the fouling (no jacket.)

asciilifeform: .22 seems to be a caliber wildly popular in usa - likely, solely on account of cost. a few cents each.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i vaguely recall these were advertised as using the old barrel

asciilifeform: as in 'pour la canaille la mitraille.'

asciilifeform: rather, 'crowd control' mitrailleuses.

asciilifeform: so the above isn't really about them