asciilifeform: smpif sounds neat but too big for me puny brain.
asciilifeform: the power to make the impossible quite possible << Führerprinzip, the elixir of shit getting done.
asciilifeform: this is possible in fiat just fine << various 'impossibles' are quite possible when they must.
asciilifeform: phun phact. cryptoag still exists! and used by diplomats, etc. how to explain? only theory i can think of is that folks deliberately buy into the crapola - as a gesture of doggy submission to usa
asciilifeform: the americans really fucked themselves. 'why bother being strong, let's make everyone weak.' they somehow kept most of the planet using rotor (!) crypto machines through the '70s!
asciilifeform: more seriously, virtually nothing re: cryptology from the era preceding modern computing is worth terribly much.
asciilifeform: exercise in 'intelligence with open sources'
asciilifeform: (musings on the 'smart nsa' hypothesis, i know)
asciilifeform: (robert sheckley's 'store of the worlds' - www.e-reading.ws/txt.php/1000018/Sheckley_-_The_Store_Of_The_Worlds.txt)
asciilifeform: 'Had it been a dream? It was still worth it! ... Now he had to think about his own survival. With the aid of his wrist geiger he found a deactivated lane through the rubble. Hed better get back to the shelter before dark, before the rats came out. If he didnt hurry hed miss the evening potato ration.'
asciilifeform: nein, i'm still trying to wake up from me beautiful dreamz.