asciilifeform: these folks are still puzzling over the question of how to fill a brick of btc with tungsten.
asciilifeform: ' If a ledger-based technology is to succeed, the cyber-currency would very likely have to have some type of fixed exchange rate in order to overcome this obstacle.' << wtf ?
asciilifeform: 'As Mr Mullick demonstrated how to tie a "good noose" around a neck for the cameras, half a dozen children around Bengal imitated his moves and accidentally strangled friends and relatives.' << lol
asciilifeform: always seems to be happening to some other fellow.
asciilifeform: caveat - i've never seen this ritual alive, personally.
asciilifeform: this (and airport arsesearch) is more or less the only place where it is permitted.
asciilifeform: everybody gets the correct witness, it is said.
asciilifeform: i imagine the pisstest is a massive boondoggle for folks selling GC/MS gear.
asciilifeform: but i do not know whether this tradition is 'honoured in the breach'
asciilifeform: by tradition, one is expected to actually piss in the company of a witness
asciilifeform: all i can tell from my perch - somebody must be buying those false bladders and their refills.
asciilifeform: a few days warning suffices for everyone save the potsmokers.
asciilifeform: chum of mine worked at a military lab where they occasionally tested people (oddly enough, the one where i worked - never. other than enlisted men) and noted that there was usually warning.
asciilifeform: and a contrivance for transporting and releasing it.
asciilifeform: it isn't unheard of - a shop not far from where i live actually sells... false piss.
asciilifeform: how do you know they will << hey don't look at me, i'm not their lenin. naturally i don't know. but historical parallels.
asciilifeform: these folks aren't disintegrating lepers, they're able-bodied creatures who could in principle create actual problems if they felt like it.
asciilifeform: it's all fun'n'games until the boat girls mount DSHKs and hoist the black flag.
asciilifeform: - orlov's 'post-soviet lessons for post-american century'
asciilifeform: y got paid. They did eventually reappear, so there may be some merit to this theory. With the gaping manholes positioned throughout the city like so many anteater traps for cars, you had the choice of driving either very slowly and carefully, or very fast, and betting your life on the proper functioning of the shock absorbers.'
asciilifeform: 'Having bits of the landscape disappear can be a rude surprise. One summer I arrived in St. Petersburg and found that a new scourge had descended on the land while I was gone: a lot of manhole covers were mysteriously missing. Nobody knew where they went or who profited from their removal. One guess was that the municipal workers, who hadn't been paid in months, took them home with them, to be returned once the
asciilifeform: and the 'college' racket could finally implode.
asciilifeform: they'd get $LOAN richer just by sending the creditors to pound sand up their arses.
asciilifeform: wonder how many of these folks would theoretically accept a russian passport and guaranteed metallurgical work in norilsk.
asciilifeform: 'graduated in 2008 with about $25,000 of debt — just about the national average. More than five years later, she has only managed to pay back about $2,000.' << where did this kid work - Butugychag?
