asciilifeform: (many u.s. police depts are funded largely by asset seizure - without anyone needing to be convicted of a crime)

asciilifeform: just like local police depts

asciilifeform: they do.

asciilifeform: it lives on fines

asciilifeform: (that being the armed stormtroopers)

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the 'useful' part of the latter is being merged into the 'ministry of love' (DHS)

asciilifeform: federal 'dept. of ed' is something quite else

asciilifeform: in u.s., actual education (public schools, etc) is funded on state level

asciilifeform: so this is something like the ads on the washington d.c. metro for fighter jets and destroyers?

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: how is this supposed to work? am i just thick?

asciilifeform: screen is meant for passenger?

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: !?

asciilifeform: knob, you can twist without looking

asciilifeform: who the hell wants a touch screen in a car

asciilifeform: (memory from a maths class)

asciilifeform: 'stokes' is a joke, but green's is mean'

asciilifeform: i'd rather eat steak than stake.

asciilifeform: i'm an 'LL(1)' parser.

asciilifeform: phun phact. first time i ever heard of reddit, i parsed the name as 'Red [i.e. communist] Edit [as in editorial]'

asciilifeform: what's in the top of the pile?

asciilifeform: the only sure bet is that there will be some sweet placebo to reassure the chumps that 'this time, It's Different !11! (TM)'

asciilifeform: or something like that.

asciilifeform: expect a 'MtFox' or the like, using mouth and arse- prints for N-factor authentication and 'AML' government id both

asciilifeform: 'a holy place never remains empty' (rus. proverb)

asciilifeform: ThickAsThieves: a team of chumpatronic engineers is working around the clock to fix this.

asciilifeform: a good portion of english-language spam shows signs of being produced in exactly this way.

asciilifeform: if google's mail, will translate to luser's language.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: no, what i meant was, the receiving end

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: twist. google's mail has built-in translation. so, spammers no longer need to study languages.

asciilifeform: that was the claim, yes

asciilifeform: moiety: linked piece mentions that it might be confiscated.

asciilifeform: moiety: yeah, them

asciilifeform: tldr: if you find gold, shut up, melt it down

asciilifeform: http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=22764360

asciilifeform: 'As Flexcoin does not have the resources, assets, or otherwise to come back from this loss, we are closing our doors immediately.'

asciilifeform: 'On March 2nd 2014 Flexcoin was attacked and robbed of all coins in the hot wallet. The attacker made off with 896 BTC...' (http://flexcoin.com)

asciilifeform: exploit bounty for yet others.

asciilifeform: no snow in that one.

asciilifeform: http://englishrussia.com/2014/03/03/largest-oil-refinery-in-europe-is-on-fire

asciilifeform: can't wait for the exchange that keeps balances as 'unsigned int' and underflows into $MAXINT - epsilon when it gets cleaned out.

asciilifeform: house burgled, thieves took tv but not the turds in the cat's sandbox...

asciilifeform: probably asked to 'turn karp' and refused.

asciilifeform: nailgun?

asciilifeform: (i distinctly recall that being in there)

asciilifeform: 'you have died of death'

asciilifeform: not quite what modern people have in mind when they think 'fax'

asciilifeform: by hand

asciilifeform: chetty: early faxes required user to trace over the picture

asciilifeform: plow? bah. uprooted tree stump. what pre-iron-age slavs plowed with.

asciilifeform: woah

asciilifeform: once again, never saw it alive

asciilifeform: i have this on good authority, though never seen in person

asciilifeform: M is actually a sex club

asciilifeform: see 'bob the bridge-builder.'

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: phun phact: today, K is known in russia - not mainly as a chess player.

asciilifeform: if that wasn't obvious from name

asciilifeform: a strip, that tells you if you're.. late. like a litmus strip.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: cups size: as in '2 X, 1 cup' ?

asciilifeform borrowed a very rare and spiffy instrument from diametric to test rngs.

asciilifeform: diametric: for the moment. i shall be done with it soon.

asciilifeform: it's well worth seeing

asciilifeform: ought to post a pic of operating unit

asciilifeform: diametric: drop a photo of the priceless antique here, for the others

asciilifeform: diametric: neato! where ?

asciilifeform: did i sleep through something?

asciilifeform: MisterE: in Chicago?

asciilifeform: well, that.

asciilifeform: (assuming it is a physically meaningful question)

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: always wondered, what % piss by volume, is... Ganges river.

asciilifeform: in my old apt.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: plz don't blow away the other cute cherub statue

asciilifeform: ahahaha

asciilifeform: you left out turks.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: why not Spanish? Chinese?

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: serious news << like a French invasion?

asciilifeform: neat

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu is moving?

asciilifeform: attempt no parking there.

asciilifeform: (see, e.g. mr saakashvili)

asciilifeform: and by dropping hints that you'll support rebels

asciilifeform: '

asciilifeform: using 'ngo

asciilifeform: you do it from inside

asciilifeform: as described by mr.o

asciilifeform: it was a foolish declaration of chimp war, egged on by the u.s

asciilifeform: 'language exams', etc

asciilifeform: there wouldn't have been a wankfest if the west u. folks didn't 'go full bore latvian' and decree a 'lowering into prison bitch' of the rus. half

asciilifeform: well, the east still has the sov. era industry going, sort of.

asciilifeform: right

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: funnily, that horse scene is my father's main memory of his visit to Ro. in the early '80s!

asciilifeform is not an agronomist

asciilifeform: that's kinda how you keep the thing going, no?

asciilifeform: as the chinese are suspected of planning

asciilifeform: by 'burning the candle at both ends', no?

asciilifeform: gotta wonder why

asciilifeform: but no, they want to buy land, ship in own agrichemistry, etc

asciilifeform: notice that if china merely wanted to buy the existing agri output, it easily could

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: somehow a bad thing ? << we'll see when it revvs up

asciilifeform: sept. 25, 2013

asciilifeform: ' The deal will funnel $2.6 billion into Ukraine annually for the next 50 years. China will also send seeds and fertilizer, as well as build some vital infrastructure in Crimea...'