asciilifeform: 'Russia promised to respond “symmetrically.” In its arsenal is: popping the huge financial bubble and causing a resumption of the financial collapse of 2008 by any number of means, from requiring gold instead of fiat currency as payment for oil and gas, to dumping US dollar reserves (in concert with China), to putting the EU on a fast track to economic collapse by giving the natural gas valve a slight clock
asciilifeform: the 'international komoonity' doesn't war. it drive-by shoots.
asciilifeform: 'Western meds aren't working any more—on itself or anyone else.'
asciilifeform: in light of an urgent need to industrialize and resist conquest
asciilifeform: what should fuhrer do when his kingdom breaks into cities (starving) and countryside, which needs nothing from the cities
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: j. c. scott's 'art of not being governed' (which is entirely about asia, incidentally, and mentions this not at all) is the best guide;
asciilifeform: 'Limonov and his friends consider themselves Russians, because to them, Ukrainian is a “village tongue,” a peasant language, and its most vivid expressions are of the endless hatred that filled every one of the many tribes on the grasslands, like this one: “Into Muscovite, Polack, and Jew/Take your knife and stick it through.”'
asciilifeform: this is my very first encounter with an english-speaking anybody who read Limonov.
asciilifeform: ninjashogun: your second homework is to play ussr national anthem using a pc, c or cpp program, and a shortwave radio.
asciilifeform: ninjashogun: your homework is to prove, given K bit rsa key with factors P,Q, there exists N, where N is number of bits you need to learn to factor into P,Q in polynomial time.
asciilifeform: 'U.S. Patent XXXXXXX: Method of preventing cadaverous poisoning using liquid dihydrogen monoxide.'
asciilifeform: perhaps Semmelweis should have patented doctor washing hands.
asciilifeform: this was a carefully kept secret for decades (if only from american public) so there is no shame in not knowing
asciilifeform: ninjashogun: if you did not know the fact that a radio transmitter radiates not only what you want, but the state of nearby circuit, you know now.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: still gotta yank cables before rsa rom receives power though.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: you'll be happy to learn that the box has rs232 now. (ttl level voltage)
asciilifeform: ok i'm back, because this is just too precious.
