asciilifeform: it merely got kicked out of the 'plastik fantastiks', that's all
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ever see film 'mean girls' ?
asciilifeform: 'Like excrement, it contains enough undigested nuggets of nutrition to sustain life for some. But it is not a tasty pie...' - dennis ritchie
asciilifeform: 'from entomological interest only', as russians say
asciilifeform: in other news: in california it is illegal to teach - anything - without a permit:
asciilifeform: ever since, whenever i see the english word 'opportunity' in the idiot press, i think of just this.
asciilifeform: many years ago, a 'seedy' and much-beloved bar in my town was torched at night, by unknown saboteurs. the local rag proclaimed that 'this is an opportunity! the land will be put to good use by respectable developers!'
asciilifeform: '“I think this is going to create a huge opportunity for hosted wallets,” says Jered Kenna, a bitcoin entrepreneur and the CEO of Moneyandtech.com. He believes that the smart bitcoin wallet makers will simply be able to add this as a service, tracking the capital gains and losses as you spend your bitcoins through the year, and maybe even issuing you a convenient 1099 at the end of the year.'
asciilifeform: moving bits in a wheelbarrow, for all eternity
asciilifeform: if hieronymous bosch were alive today, painting pictures of the torments of the damned in hell, perhaps he'd feature a human disk controller
asciilifeform pictures some wretch, perhaps in india, employed as a human gribble.
asciilifeform: msdos was in some very real sense 'soviet' - as in, all the known joys, but a kid can build explosive xxxx at his parents' dacha without being harassed
asciilifeform: the outcome, unsurprisingly, was the death of apple corp. (it does not really exist today, just 'next' corp. renamed 'apple')
asciilifeform: much of what people think of as 'dark age' of apple corp. took place without herr jobs
asciilifeform: it is no coincidence, though, that ms became synonymous with 'home computer' in the 90s and not earlier.
asciilifeform: i suppose ms turdows being mandatory os of usg is also free market ?
asciilifeform: and if that were the end... then, bundling pacts with pc makers, the collusion with intel to kill 'os/2' (secret cpu instructions), many other wonderful things
