asciilifeform: adversarial system... not necessarily anything wrong with it << i'd rather they skipped straight to trial by chainsaw combat
asciilifeform: ended in a mistrial, and the next set of jury chumpers naturally won't be told anything, everyone pretends the 1st go never happened, etc.
asciilifeform: e.g. both sides will stipulate something (said something being obvious crock of shit) to be 'fact' and go from there
asciilifeform: but none of this is interesting. the educational bit is how the trials actually go
asciilifeform: the latter had the mandatory bios rootkit, and 'called home'
asciilifeform: it was a petty theft case, long ago. some bugger was evicted from an apartment, and his belongings were carried out by a set of hired hands. one of whom stole a garbage bag full of pron. also containing a (usg-issued) laptop.
asciilifeform: having been on a u.s. jury, i'll say that it ought to be enough to cure anyone of 'rule of law' delusion.
asciilifeform: could not understand english, so it was all splendid gibledygook to me << that was me, watching american animation on bootled vhs, in '90.
asciilifeform: russian prison proverb - 'do not return to the place where you had joy'
asciilifeform: hilariously, virtually all the folks who read my blog think i must be at least 50y.o.
asciilifeform: nato strategy for getting russians to eat shit, however, is brilliant - eat it themselves.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i'll say they learned vetrov's lesson when they quit winblows.
asciilifeform: 'i washed yer car, pony up' - 'i might throw you a penny, but you should've used water, not piss'
asciilifeform: the core devs remind me of vagrants who pour water on cars at stoplights and then demand money for the 'wash.'
asciilifeform: i remember this. and thought that other people did, too.
asciilifeform: antephialtic: what genuine bug has been patched since satoshi left ?
asciilifeform: why does the protocol need 'investment' ?
asciilifeform: truffles: it was a minor subplot. they find these critters on jupiter, living in the gas, and decide to study them. by building a machine which transforms people into them, so they can see what their life is like. and then, for years, no one returns to be converted back. eventually one fellow comes back. and tells how much more fun it is than being human. end result: mankind vanishes, converted to lopers.☟︎
asciilifeform: truffles: 'lopers' were aliens from clifford simak's 'city'
asciilifeform: check out the latest 'Elbrus', for instance. x86, runs... xp.
asciilifeform: it remains to be seen whether it will recover from this mistake.
asciilifeform: re: GLONASS: russia fucked the goat when it decided, in late '70s, to copy american CPUs so that warez can be used instead of investing in software dev.
