asciilifeform: methinks 'the holiday' is as good a name as any for that event.

asciilifeform: dreamed a while ago that looking out the window, no traffic. asked some bum, 'why', he answers 'dontcha know, it's The Holiday, finally happened' ☟︎

asciilifeform: would make a good gift for mr. deadbattery

asciilifeform: misread as 'contest between a bulldog and a couch'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: seems like a trivial problem, ought to have been done 'last year.'

asciilifeform: one day some bored kid will dig through old soviet crap, find a footnote that leads to a working rpg-7 under a mailbox.

asciilifeform: re: agents: i'd be surprised though, it there is entirely no more 'maintain this derelict shipping container and cafe that nobody goes to and you'll get a little cash in the mail every month'

asciilifeform: (the staples that failed to rust, was, afaik, a real incident)

asciilifeform: but a runaway lets you 'parallel construct' to your heart's delight.

asciilifeform: they dug up some boobietraps, made a little noise, that was all.

asciilifeform: a couple of runaways spilled the beans, yes

asciilifeform: life, far from other people, and is by profession a forester, fisherman, lighthouse-keeper, security guard or railwayman. In many cases such an agent will be a physical invalid. Spetsnaz is also on the lookout for women with roughly the same characteristics."

asciilifeform: ke this: a man of between fifty-five and sixty-five years of age who has never served in the army, never had access to secret documents, does not carry or own a weapon, knows nothing about hand-to-hand fighting, does not possess any secret equipment and doesn't support the Comunists, does not read the newspapers, was never in the Soviet Union and has never met any Soviet citizens, leads a lonely, introspective

asciilifeform: "If the reader had access to real dossiers on the secret agents of spetsnaz he would be disappointed and probably shocked, because the agents of spetsnaz bear no resemblance to the fine, upstanding, young and handsome heroes of spy films. Soviet military intelligence is looking for an entirely different type of person as a candidate for recruitment. A portrait of an ideal agent for spetsnaz emerges something li

asciilifeform: which is why the 'perfect dpr' owns no computer, neither do his friends, and is, in fact: a dentist. (whose name we will never learn.)

asciilifeform: 'law' is a distinctly poor description of the mechanism at work here

asciilifeform: the 'eternally noobile' are almost a species unto themselves.

asciilifeform: bonus points for anybody who can crap out a scripting language where all valid proggys are chantable.