asciilifeform: (in the sense of the hardware and os baked under same roof)
asciilifeform: apple vacuuming up winblows escapees is not the complete picture. they also profited from the demise of sun, sgi, etc. - being the only remaining vendor of what amounts to '90-style 'unix workstation'
asciilifeform: u.s. trade mags grew thinner in the '90s, then 'fattened' again with ad crapola, like the proverbial swollen torso of the starving african.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the bovine will go where the herder points. the sad part is all the folks who ought to know better.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the infantile worldview. there is no "my house" as far as teenagers go, just the place other people pay the mortgage on << i still think we're dealing with 'poverty of the spirit, not the flesh.' people fall for the 'cloud' crapola out of... sloth. don't wanna buy a disk, i'll use this stranger's. don't wanna find toilet, i'll shit where i stand. etc
asciilifeform: re: ussr - what kind of hierarchy, and how it suffered an american-style 'favoured son' sclerotic demise, is a beloved subject of armchair generals everywhere.
asciilifeform: the 'motor' of which kingdom, and where, is something other than a hierarchy ?
asciilifeform: this was specified in the book, if i recall
asciilifeform: (in the original books, the condemned was pulled out of the fire in the last moment, because an 'honourable' coffin came in, and took precedence. after which, the ceremony resumed.)
asciilifeform: failing that, it would have to be operated 'sharashka'-style.
asciilifeform: a hypothetical retirement of nsa would be interesting, supposing the americans have built a tank in which to breed folks who can actually keep secrets - like fish
asciilifeform took off hat, paid respects, said good-bye to the hundy.
asciilifeform once allowed 100 usd to vanish into '401k' nonsense through slothful inaction (forgot to fill out form to zap it after it was issued by an employer)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: unless i misunderstand, real book transmuting to fake history is detectable with the only slightly non-naked eye
asciilifeform: why anyone should wish to do this, is another matter.
asciilifeform: (one could, in principle, take its real-time published trades and attempt buy/sell, see if it is matched at a particular offer, etc)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i can't say about the others, but 'btc-e' faking volume is a testable hypothesis.
asciilifeform: what results - left as exercise for the alert reader / experimenter.
asciilifeform: so long as you follow this and other safety formulae (all electrodes below the belt) you can get some... interesting results. males, females both.
asciilifeform: (most folks who complain of burns from playing with biostimulators are getting exactly this)
asciilifeform: electric burns of the mucosa << easily confused for electrolytic burns (h2o splits, salt present, hcl. yuck.) to avoid this, use strictly alternating current (no dc bias.)
