asciilifeform: moar peculiarly, 'The FBI told Reuters that the suspect has not been arrested or charged with a crime...'

asciilifeform: 'The warrant issued by a U.S. magistrate in Las Cruces, New Mexico, showed that on Sept. 14 agents removed from the man’s home three cell phones, five laptops, one iPad, an external hard drive, 16 thumb drives, 89 compact flash disks and other material' << notbad.jpg toybox for 'janitor under contract to clean the facility'

asciilifeform: Mocky: so happens that i stare at a screen up to 14h/d and would prefer that it reflect, rather than emit, light, but i've yet to meet device that would properly replace lcd for e.g. emacsing. possibly will exist.

asciilifeform: Mocky: i've been using'em for yrs, for reading txt. but nobody ever afaik sold a lappy with one, 'because winblows mouse cursor will snailtrail' and such

asciilifeform: ( you won't play 'doom' on a 1hz monitor, but e.g. emacs , will work )

asciilifeform: item did not exist 2wks ago ( asciilifeform has a semi-automated process to look for certain things if they happen to be born )

asciilifeform: also worx as desktop display ( prolly would need a kernel framebuffer diddle tho )

asciilifeform: in other misc noose, chinese nao sell a 10inch spi-interfaced eink display thing with <1s refresh, fits on e.g. our rk3328-roc-cc board without solderings. theoretically a lappy can be hand-sewn . ☟︎

asciilifeform: it isnt clear to me why to bother when you have a whole berlin, aha

asciilifeform: but re mircea_popescu's observation upstack : it is elementarily true... in a harem. where yes sultan cock is limiting reactant.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: possibly, or possibly i'm missing a link in the logic circuit

asciilifeform: ( 90001st one , i expect, also phree, if yer a 20s chix )

asciilifeform: fdr et al pulled epic pr stunt on their moomoos , convinced 'we're softer, gentler, not at all like germany' while burning down entire of e.g. jp , etc . pretense carried on for a spell, retooled 'we aint at all like evil moscuvy' , then finally dispensed with entirely when obsolete

asciilifeform: phf: but there was a short period in ustard history where they (mostly) maintained appearances of 'hey we aint nazi, not at all'

asciilifeform: phf: i dun for a moment suspect that 'set'em all on fire, let god sort out' is new.

asciilifeform: mats: this was not a traditional policing method in usa prior, but then again clinton introduced it at waco, so precedent.

asciilifeform: 'There's also seems to be a brewing controversy of how last night's blaze came to be and whether it was set deliberately. In this clip, from KCAL 9 News in California, police can be heard saying "f*cking burn this motherfu*cker..."' << and ditto.

asciilifeform: 'in February 2013, with help by his brother, Lulu.com published Rudolph's book Between the Lines of Drift: The Memoirs of a Militant, and in April 2013, the U.S. Attorney General seized $200 to help pay off the $1 million that Rudolph owes in restitution to the state of Alabama' << peditardia.

asciilifeform: it's a unique ustardism, i suspect no white man will ever grasp it

asciilifeform: 'On April 8, 2005, the Department of Justice announced that Rudolph had agreed to a plea bargain under which he would plead guilty to all charges he was accused of in exchange for avoiding the death penalty' etc etc

asciilifeform: ( it was never clear to asciilifeform what the ro, baltic, ukr, etc anti-sov partizans were hoping to accomplish, beyond a good 1st class ticket to honourable valhalla. they could not have glued the world of 1939 back together, and given as they weren't redditards, prolly understood this. so i'm left with 'acted from cause not purpose'(tm)(r) and no better hypothesis. )

asciilifeform: there was a woman there, looked to be 80-90 y.o., crying on bench.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i saw a large and ( apparently recently built ) memorial for these in timis, with plinths fulla names and how/when killed

asciilifeform: tals, who told us to become doormats, the Patriots talked about resistance. Talk of a coming war intrigued me. For the first time in my life, I felt like I had a purpose. Preparing for the coming conflagration held an incredible attraction for me.' etc etc

asciilifeform: 'At 15, I wasn’t really up on my politics. I’d never seen any evidence of an impending United Nations takeover, but what did I know? I had, however, done a tour of duty in south Florida’s public schools where the teachers taught us guilt and self-hate, where drugs and violence were the norm. I no longer trusted the System. The Culture War that the Patriots spoke of was something I’d experienced first-hand. Unlike the Pentecos

asciilifeform: some folx, when they croak, all they get is a stone marked '404'.

asciilifeform: from behind << reminds of ww2 front su joak. new d00d in platoon, sitting by fire , listens to tales . old sargeant, 'we found pile of arms and legs and torso, but guesswhat, our doc stiched together and now them arms,legs fightin' again, see ivan over there.' new fella answers, 'i can do better, in my old unit we took a shell, found... just an arse.' sarge : 'what didja do then, what can do with just an arse' d00d: 'what do you thin

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-09-19#1852251 << i dun happen to have a surefire (or, more pertinently, quick) plot for getting out, was all ☝︎

asciilifeform: ( none of which constitutes a mega-seekrit, any competent smith can make kalash. wilson's thing was different, n00b assembles 100% unpoliced cnc box, tabletop, from kit, and then loads in ingot and proggy )

asciilifeform: nicoleci: (possibly you already know, from reading l0gz) Framedragger was a briefly-productive fella who walked off into the desert coupla yrs ago; his www is (for nao) alive.

asciilifeform: mats: and the moar recent items not '3d printed', d00d sold a little cnc milling thing

asciilifeform: ww2 jp accomplished however a similarly improbable feat, with 50kg ~balloons~, which had simple 'music box' mechanism that only knew how to drop ballast and vent gas, so as to get into- and out- of current.

asciilifeform: ( exercise for reader : compute the minimal necessary counter-force that gyro in a 5kg bottle must exert , to eventually converge on destination... )

asciilifeform: you power the gyro with the motion of the thing itself, in waves, a la japanese wristwatch.

asciilifeform: incidentally re 'salmon goes fast enuff if yer patient!11' item: in asciilifeform's crackpot files, there is a gedankenexperiment, simplest possible sea propulsion, with 0 exposure of moving parts to salt : picture hermetically sealed 'bottle' with... gyroscope

asciilifeform: there's at least 1 public example of a ~papier-mache item.

asciilifeform: i'd describe this as 'open problem', rather than 'physical impossibility' tho. conceivably a material exists out of which can be made 50kg diesel.

asciilifeform: and then talking about a 500kg torpedo.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i'm 100% sold that one ~could~ build. would 1st have to devise a 50kg diesel, i've never seen one, even aside from the matter of water etc

asciilifeform: at any rate i suspect that the problem is not wholly engineering problem, in the sense where, yes usg torpedo (for piddling 100km range) costs $mil, a ru torpedo -- $100k, but afaik nobody's built a $1 or even $10k thing-that-sails-8000km , in which to economically carry $1k of cargo

asciilifeform: what would anchor on a 50kg torpedo look like ?

asciilifeform: i suspect that such a machine could be built.

asciilifeform: q is whether it could survive a coupla trips.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you wouldn't put a single crystal panel to sea, lol. segments joined by rubber.

asciilifeform: electrics -- scale down to ~microscopic. who didn't have a toy submarine as a boy.

asciilifeform: i can think of several possible ways to make such a diesel, but afaik no such thing presently exists off-shelf, would have to make.

asciilifeform: afaik there's a reason why torpedoes carry own oxidizer in all cases

asciilifeform: for the sake of gedankenexperiment : mircea_popescu how would you keep the air intake out of water in a 'surface torpedo' ?