asciilifeform: this isn't the only 1 on the net, either, i found several, they bought lispms, one took hundreds of photos of himself 'hipstering' near it, then one final one where it (??!) burned down ☟︎

asciilifeform: briefly upstack: as i once described, many years ago asciilifeform actually tried to sign up for nsa! was , unsurprisingly, turned down ( you get a ream of paper even if turned down! )

asciilifeform: http://www.reuel.eu/writing/fiction/a-warm-welcome/ << reuel your box fell down..?

asciilifeform: in fact if the peer on the other end of the wire goes down, you will get multi-MB whine in your log.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: a block doesn't get to sit down in blk**** in trb unless its antecedents are present.

asciilifeform: 'The journal's editor, Robert Greene, wrote back to say that Storms’s stance set “a terrible precedent” because it was unfair to the author of the paper and opposed the APA’s policies and the guidelines followed by other reviewers. “Given that your policy conflicts with that of the journal, I think that it's best that you step down from the editorial board,” he wrote.'

asciilifeform: Gert Storms — who says he won’t step down — is one of a few hundred scientists who have vowed that, from the start of this year, they will begin rejecting papers if authors won’t publicly share the underlying data, or explain why they can’t.'

asciilifeform: ( the most obvious down-side is : that now you can end up in a situation of asking someone ~for change~ -- as if you were in a shop, in meatspace ... )

asciilifeform: likewise, since we have a defined down- and up- stream, we can have sane block propagation mechanics.

asciilifeform: (cask'd be sent down to a child for an interval, if it fails to float, gets reissued)

asciilifeform: second, while sleeping asciilifeform did realize that he had nailed down a few parts that ought to have been hinged, and hinged some parts that oughta have been nailed.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: phrased this way, it elementarily falls down. q was whether you could do the deed ~without~ promisetronics

asciilifeform: ( to cement this down for l0gz readers : what you'd need is a mechanism for pubkey-signing some material already signed by another pubkey, whereby the original signature is preserved -- not necessarily bitwise, but in the sense of remaining fully verifiable -- but the new one is not strippable off with any reasonable amount of cpu cycle )

asciilifeform: so now jurov invites me to see a node with double-digit % of down time as something acceptable ?

asciilifeform: 'Remember that most of these """journalists""" grew up either during Watergate or in its shadow, and so it's hardly surprising that they see the role of the press as some kind of unelected fourth branch of government whose job is to "take down" the President, if all else fails. Bernstein and Woodward are their gods.'

asciilifeform: ultimately i'ma tear down the tunneltron and replace with 'g'. but same idea, topologically.

asciilifeform: dulap down for next 3 minutes, folx

asciilifeform: should not have been a surprise, to anyone. like the old example of derelict bridge falling down. 'not an if, but a when'

asciilifeform: there is a palpable difference between 'hey bro this is usenet and no guarantees' and 'hey bro this is crack den and i'ma take yer mail and flush it down the shitter, no guarantees' imho

asciilifeform: right now this is not even a very interesting wtf. it may however become interesting if a miner decides to sit down on trb island.

asciilifeform: dulap down to 4.

asciilifeform: mimisbrunnr.cascadianhacker.com down??

asciilifeform: i was skeptical of 'red army d00d brought down messerschmitt with mosin' when reading as a boy, also.

asciilifeform: just as in new orleans. apparently not so easy to bring down chopper with small arms as mircea_popescu suggested.

asciilifeform: when i was writing http://www.loper-os.org/?p=568 , it took me surprising amount of sweat to track down a working copy of hypercard

asciilifeform: 'if it ain't bolted down, it is subject to my jurisdiction' -- every thief ever

asciilifeform: rather like that tape that one uses to keep car muffler from falling down on the way to the welder's shop.

asciilifeform: ...roared along at very high speed before coming to rest in the butcher’s shop where it burned down the ice room.'

asciilifeform: her’s shop where it burned down the ice room.'

asciilifeform: 'Another unsuccessful rocket torpedo inventor was Patrick Cunningham, an Irish immigrant who earned his living as a shoe maker and repairer in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Samples were tested for several years at NTS but the short range and wholly unpredictable trajectory destined this weapon for the scrap heap. However, in one last fling of exuberance, Cunningham fired his torpedo down the main street of his home town; it roared along

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-08#1612513 << somehow this unfailingly happens to every d00d who works with tmsr. reminisce nostalgically of the old days when kgb did not have to take down an entire building to plant one phone bug. ☝︎