asciilifeform: rself, these people are martyrs. so i wish to make you a martyr, be in the company of your fellows.' and ordered him sat upon a stake, but the other monk, sent with fifty golden ducats back to the hungarian borders, 'you are a wise man.'
asciilifeform: re martyrs!' drakula called in the other monk and asked him same. he did answer: 'you, lord, are called by god to put to death evildoers and reward the virtuous. as for those upon the stakes, they wrought evil and were justly punished.' drakula spoke again to the first monk, 'why did you leave your cloister in the monastery and walk about the courts of great lords, if you know nothing of the world? you said you
asciilifeform: "came to drakula two catholic monks, from the hungarian lands, pittances to collect. he ordered them brought apart, and called up one, pointed to the yard, where one could see many sat upon stakes, or on wheels broken. he did ask: 'was i just? and who are these people, sitting on stakes?' answered the monk, 'no, lord, you do evil, killing without mercy; a lord must be merciful. and those sat upon the stakes - a☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: EU: 'we'll build separate net. and run more winblows. our road to victory.'
asciilifeform: drakula ordered the man sat upon the stake, taller than others: 'high is this place, you will live free of the stench there.'
asciilifeform: and plugged his nose and turned his head. lord asked him, 'why do you this.' answered he: 'cannot endure the stench'.
asciilifeform: translation: 'once dining under the corpses of men, those impaled on stakes, many sat around his table, dining among him and in this taking plasure. servant of his, placing food before him, could not endure the stench,
asciilifeform: пети и заткну нос и на страну главу свою склони. Он же вопроси его: "что ради тако чинишь?" Он же отвеща государю: "не могу смрада сего терпети". Дракула же ту и повеле его на кол всадити, глаголя: "тамо ти есть высоко жити, смрад не м
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: fave story re: tepes: 'Некогда же обедоваше под трупием мертвых человек, иже на колие саженых, множество бо округ стола его; он же среди их ядяше и тем услажашеся. Слуга же его, иже пред ним ясти ставляше, смраду оного не могии тер☟︎
asciilifeform: 'Filtration System, a Marvel to Behold! It Removes 80% of Human Solid Waste!'
asciilifeform: the one who knew what to do with turks.
asciilifeform: it could just as easily be merged into Duke Nukem XXX.
asciilifeform: "We are still at idea stage. We’ve built a few simulations to test some parts of the system, but the main development hasn’t begun. We have published our whitepaper, which explains.."
asciilifeform: the 'good cop bad cop' algorithm is as old as mankind.
asciilifeform: on the other hand, witness all the lost souls salivating over 'silent circle' and related crap.
asciilifeform: the clever ones will be very suspicious of anything presented as a pill against usg.
asciilifeform: there is another, trickier problem that must be finessed.
asciilifeform: the folks you're talking about might be a hard sell. they'd need to be talked out of their addiction to 'standards-compliant' (read: u.s.-diddled) turdware.
asciilifeform: if you personally can make this happen, talk to mp!
asciilifeform: one problem with this scheme is, as far as i can see, in order to want a cardano in the first place one needs a modicum of brains.
asciilifeform: i imagine there will be 1,000 of these once the plans are published.
asciilifeform: benkay: what kind of idiot would buy at 1000x?
asciilifeform: can't resist pointing out that, at least on this side of the atlantic, 'silicone' refers exclusively to the type of rubber sold under that name
asciilifeform: arguably a better deal than what today's hucksters are pushing, regardless
asciilifeform: hell, it actually worked - with opium in every bottle
asciilifeform: for some reason, i can't help but remember the american moneyed idiot who proclaimed that tv watchers who get up to piss during ads are committing fraud.
asciilifeform: cads: pick up one of google's '$100 off' coupons and see for yourself what it is the chumps pay for
asciilifeform: and so what remains is 'porn' with films of the censor's faces
asciilifeform: age of consent raised to 46, so all ordinary porn is forbidden
asciilifeform: ending up called 'DERP', or 'derivative porn'
asciilifeform: russian sf author / madman viktor pelevin had a piece where, in the Dark Future (tm) all other types of porn vanish, and only this remains☟︎
