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mats: afaik bush and obama didn't go so far as to send thieves into rnc hq
asciilifeform: or the one prior ?
asciilifeform: or the last one ?
asciilifeform: mats: http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/johnson/rnimparticles.htm << which of these is the current monkey not guilty of ?
asciilifeform: 'the treasure is where they put the 'treasure!' sign' -- ~every imbecile ever
asciilifeform: it is a theatrical number, intended to goad would-be 'shoe bomb hopefuls' to the dead end of flying toys from toystore
mircea_popescu: this is just about the most self-flattering nonsense ever, but hey.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-20 00:34 asciilifeform: i will note that usg ~is~ sufficiently frightened of toy flying machines, that they were entirely banned in washington d.c.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-20#1506693 << this is more a case of independent powerful career woman hear me roar being petrified someone cares enough to photograph her in the shower. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: well, the-woman-that-won't-make-it walked from very similar to nixon's case, so...
asciilifeform: consider the act for which, supposedly, nixon was deposed. can you picture president impeached for tapping phones today ?
a111: Logged on 2016-07-20 00:28 asciilifeform: mats: fighters in donbass are using toy choppers to deliver frags, with mixed results
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-20#1506682 << ~the only use for the thing is to get it into the airvent of something. ☝︎
asciilifeform: mats: the 'letter of the law' was interpreted as 'anally inspect every arse on planet' for decades now.
mats: thought that was interesting.
mats: don't remember if i mentioned this, but a friend of mine that works at cisco says their calea team is expanding the scope of their work beyond what's in the letter of the law
asciilifeform: with respect to irishing.
mircea_popescu: no good answer to it, either.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-20#1506653 << well, he didn't live in israel, i guess. anyway, mats has it, mortar is by far the cheapest. ☝︎
mats: just one of 1,000 dummies i've met from the valley
asciilifeform: the choice of subject matter, in that case, was quite peculiar.
mats: i get the sense that he was really just out to make money, to sucker an engineer into slaving for him
asciilifeform: it was a very strange experience, like having a contract killer sent for you who worked his whole life in a slaughterhouse and literally expects you to behave EXACTLY like cow, to simply walk up to where he has the ~stationary~ stun hammer ☟︎
asciilifeform: entertaining-stupid is a self-limiting thing. eventually it turns into simply stupid.
mats: and whined to me about having his good naem tarnished on hacka nyooz ☟︎
asciilifeform: he was entertainingly stupid, but only from the (to me) novelty
mats: ninjashogun tried some shenanigans also
asciilifeform: same snore every time.
mats: we had some pms but they are so utterly unremarkable idk what was even said
asciilifeform: demoted, to junior dogcatcher.
asciilifeform: if i were his handler, and read, as i would read, the log, i would have sacked him.
asciilifeform: the thing that i found shocking was... the sheer ham-fistedness.
mats: haven't seen the nick in a few years, i tried my hand at bringing folks into the fold, didn't work out
asciilifeform: has he tried to sell you a death ray yet ?
mats: oh, i apologize for bringing him in here then
asciilifeform: ^ the_scourge tried to get ~me~ interested in 'military resistance to usg'
mats: not sure i agree. there's a massacre every day of the year now
a111: Logged on 2015-12-08 15:31 asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=08-12-2015#1338844 << every word of this is applicable in its entirety to modern stoolies and provocateurs, e.g., 'the_scourge' from last year
a111: Logged on 2014-04-13 22:27 asciilifeform: the 'a) wanna buy strela? b) fuck off c) really, dontcha? b) ok sure c) off to jail' thing has been going so long that it doesn't even make national news every time now.
asciilifeform: the key here is that these folk dun occur naturally in the necessary numbers. hence, they are created.
asciilifeform: if he had been found in afghan, would have been shot on the cheap, but instead was used as feedstock for the quite important 'we caught a domestic вредитель !1111' ritual.
mats: yes, they found him with 747 manuals
mats: not sure exactly how it gets decided, but flip side, Zacarias Moussaoui is serving his sentence in florence rather than gitmo
asciilifeform: (though i have fundamentally nfi who is ACTUALLY kept there, for all i know it is folks who used pgp key that had too many bitz)
asciilifeform: last i heard gitmo was a warehouse for inconvenient pow, rather than domestic whatevers.
mats: i'm specifically referring to folks interned at gitmo
asciilifeform: more than in zimbabwe also, what of it ?
mats: theres a lot more convicted artistes in us than cuba
asciilifeform: was betrayed by typical 1990s 'colonel with apartment in florida'
asciilifeform: mats: i know of at least 1, he was traded recently, name escapes me
asciilifeform: any more than a sea slug has.
asciilifeform: imbeciles who cannot spell own name, or describe what kind of ray they will supposedly shoot from the raygun that nice totally-not-fbi-provocateur sold them in back alley, are not agents.
asciilifeform: their production is one of the missions of the 'national security' industry.
asciilifeform: he, and a few hundred similar great artistes, are in the clinks.
mats: lots in florence, co, and terra haute, in
asciilifeform: the new york death ray fella, being the prime example.
asciilifeform: see the part with 'played on tv'
mats: there are many domestic terrorists living out a sentence in a fed clink
mats: thats not true at all
asciilifeform: folks raised without a warm place to shit, much less trust fund, with ~correct picture of self-worth and ready to meet with allah at age 17, are a natural resource like any other. and it simply does not grow in north america.
asciilifeform: fact is, there ARE NO phreeedom phighterz in usaschwitz. which is why they conscript the occasional illiterate orc immigrant to play 't3rr0r111st!111' on tv.
asciilifeform: everything to do with transfixed slack-jawed sheeple aaahing over the 'majesty'
asciilifeform: nothing to do with mad bomberz.
asciilifeform: which is why they kick folks out of restaurants when dick cheney or his latest incarnation drives by, etc.
asciilifeform: to showcase the dominance of the throne
asciilifeform: the actual function of the black limos, ss jeeps, etc. is roughly same as roman lictors:
asciilifeform: there is no shortage of monkeys in the trees.
asciilifeform: if the monkey dies, what will happen ? he will be replaced with identical monkey.
asciilifeform: contrary to popular belief, not very much is spent on it.
mats: if it was easy, folks would go there instead of massacring cinemagoers ☟︎
asciilifeform: the cow is already where the farmer wants it.
asciilifeform: or, more presely, cow in the farm.
asciilifeform: folks with actual resources do not go around hunting'em for the same reason the typical hunter does not go to shoot the lion in the zoo.
asciilifeform: usg brass are quite well defended against the expected adversary: plebes with pea shooters, bricks, etc.
mats: well i'm much enjoying going through the mental exercise of attacking a convoy
asciilifeform: not even necessary to explode, there are other uses, to the opponent, for knowing exactly where the convoy is
mats: they're usually located on top of the vehicle, so thats better than e.g. manhole cover but not by a lot
asciilifeform: iirc the recent custom is to have one in ~every truck.
mats: you gonna bomb their transmitter?
asciilifeform: in the contemplated picture, you need precisely 1 casualty.
asciilifeform: depends on who is trying to do in whom, neh ?
asciilifeform: plenty of possibilities with modern tech.
asciilifeform: or it simply finds you based on the jammer output.
asciilifeform: picture a frag that, launched, spends a week or so hopping between treetops until it is told (via whatever custom radio) that your position is nearby, at which point it simply falls on you.
asciilifeform: e.g., toy flyers.
asciilifeform: mats: this is sorta the appeal of munitions that don't travel in straight lines or simple parabola or whatever other geometric figure
asciilifeform: there are even street signs, with crossed-out toy chopper.
mats: have heard some tales about amateur insurgents getting stomped ~2s after launching mortar
asciilifeform: there is an ongoing lawsuit re the legality of said ban (it was administrative, rather than act of congress), if diametric is awake he might clarify
asciilifeform: and even surrounding towns
asciilifeform: i will note that usg ~is~ sufficiently frightened of toy flying machines, that they were entirely banned in washington d.c. ☟︎
mats: i don't remember the name of the system, but i think there is integration between 'paladin' arty and 'boomerang'
a111: Logged on 2016-07-20 00:29 mats: betcha WH has jammers that'll force your toy into wutever preprogrammed path you had
a111: Logged on 2016-07-19 19:12 asciilifeform: at any rate, don't expect usg to surrender in their war against general-purpose radio.
asciilifeform: no prizes what this suggests to folks building usg-seeking machinery.
asciilifeform: incidentally you can detect a convoy of usg brass from miles away by the loud jammers.
mats: betcha WH has jammers that'll force your toy into wutever preprogrammed path you had ☟︎
mats: and can be owned over the air if they're not autonomous
asciilifeform: mats: fighters in donbass are using toy choppers to deliver frags, with mixed results ☟︎
mats: quadcopter is just ludicrously expensive to use for payload delivery unfortunately