asciilifeform: now a brit, french, or one of us - might agree! but who expects the chinese crown to agree.
asciilifeform: and thrown in oubliette for his troubles
asciilifeform: like that chinese fellow who wrote that his country ought to be colonized for 300 years before it can be considered 'civilized'
asciilifeform: 'orc culture 101.' in the lands of the orcs, when 'human' shows up and says 'we can have government without corruption!' what people hear is 'if we'd let the jerries win, we could be in a mercedes benz. but it isn't too late! and if we end up as the seats, that's our place'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the parasites in the summary being the various u.s. 'aid' busybodies who feast on the festering corpses of countries zapped by 'international community'
asciilifeform: 'Patton, like Douglas MacArthur, was an unfortunate mixture of personal courage, technical brilliance and toxic personality, and like MacArthur, a role model to three generations of mediocrities who equate pomp and nitpicking with excellence.'
asciilifeform: this is by no means an uncommon view.
asciilifeform: orlov's view seems to be that usg/nato/allies wreck countries (near east, etc.) to retard development -> to throttle resource consumption, create captive markets a la the brits at their peak, churn mil. inventory, 'controllable chaos' to feed various parasites.
asciilifeform: as described, in great detail, elsewhere
asciilifeform: multiple generations of derps killed their predecessors, ending with a final crop of mostly-functional beings
asciilifeform: 'those were the great roaring 90s, we survived as well as we could'
asciilifeform: i do wonder what, if anything, has been heard of the Yanomami indians since that time when traders supplied them with shotguns...
asciilifeform: well, the animal is often described as having had an... inadequate reaction to predators, having lives as it did without them
asciilifeform: my first imagined picture, when reading mr. o's bit, was the demise of the dodo bird.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is correct, depending on the playing field. not everyone is inclined to build armies, though - some folks just want to kill & eat their neighbors.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: only as 'part of a balanced diet!' with a working 'Friend Or Foe' detector.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: one of these days, you ought to write 'n00b guide' to sports bets. for instance, i grew up thinking of the whole concept as a chumpatron (lusers bet, the sports meisters throw matches & pocket the chumpatronium)
asciilifeform: once met a military type (american) who knew just one russian phrase, but knew it very well: 'don't shoot - i know secrets'
asciilifeform: at the moment, the idiots daren't take advantage of this fact
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: know what's sad? with all of the bitcoin phoundation's public goatfucking, the most commonly used client remains: the one put out by them, or whatever well-connected scammer picks up the torch.
asciilifeform: i have a dell laptop circa 2007 lying around in some box. it has a 'hammer here' target embossed on the bottom.
asciilifeform: with different punch settings for different brands
asciilifeform: there is probably already a custom hydraulic press on the market for puncturing 'ipads' and the like
asciilifeform: rather than merely the disk, with the remainder hitting the surplus market
asciilifeform: they stand to win big from the fact of bureaucrats (government and corporate both) mandating destruction of a whole machine upon write-off
asciilifeform: incidentally, hardware vendors are 100% solid wall behind this crap
