asciilifeform: iirc in asia they have ~same thing, but encoded differently, they simply charge 100k $ for 'car tax'
asciilifeform: strikes me as 'enumerated bad'(tm) is all
asciilifeform: why the massive list of 'milkman', 'muazin', etc
asciilifeform: Mocky, mircea_popescu : the 'professions not given driver license' thing dun make much sense imho; why not much shorter list of who ~is~ given, 'titled baron', 'ceo of co listed on exchange', 'fuhrer', etc
asciilifeform: ( consider from where 'spanish gold' )
asciilifeform: esp. odd considering that orig spanish had 0 problem with gulag for the aboriginal extras
asciilifeform: argentina even comes with pretty great built-in siberia
asciilifeform: ( why wouldja stop at 10,000, lol, picture if stalin stopped )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ar is still historical puzzler to me -- they sprayed and sprayed, and no end of roaches; what was the issue, notenuff spray ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: by all accts, typical escape in su proper was during conveyance . prisons had well developed systems of stoolies, capos, cells packed like sardine can, not much lock fiddling there.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: capital-B thief ? or lower case
asciilifeform: maybe moar deranged, but also moar decisive, neh ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: possibly naively, i pictured that the clink is the 1 place that regularly frictions against actual-human folx. but whoknows, after N gens of reddit, this.
asciilifeform: and hey, prior to that , who was it, luciano ? who had proper carpeted flat, writing desk, whores, in cell
asciilifeform suspects instead orc escape, chum bribed guard , walked through open door
asciilifeform: 'Había ingresado hacía menos de una semana y estaba alojado en la celda siete del cuarto piso, junto a otros cinco internos. Se escapó luego de romper una reja, saltar desde varios metros de altura a un pozo de aire desde una altura de 12 metros, entrar a un depósito en donde encontró el uniforme de policía con el que se vistió para pasar desapercibido, y forzar una puerta...' << lol hollywood escape
asciilifeform: iirc the corrugated-steel hose thing was once thought to be a++ pill for earthquakes & ordinary vibration from traffic, but in actual practice the thing fatigues & holes.
asciilifeform: no moar welders, pipe fitters, ~same crew lays the hose as lays fiber
asciilifeform: ( 'but cheap! can buy km spool!' yes )
asciilifeform: there's 3-4 leaks just within 5km of where i'm sitting, and plenty of folx reported to wash. gas, and guess, fixed ? (spoiler : no)
asciilifeform: perhaps this way they'd actually plug leaks
asciilifeform: it seems fitting, for it to be in usa.
asciilifeform: and wondered why this is not in usa yet
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: in ro i saw gas pipe running along ~exterior~ walls, errywhere, forming little archways to cross alleys, for km after km
asciilifeform: eh they're against exterior wall of ~erry house here. but fortunately for the washingtonistani, cardboard aint conductive..
asciilifeform: ( they ~could~ ! recall, they use flexible hose nao, to pinch pennies )☟︎
asciilifeform: and when they fall, they take yer net pipe with'em . it's almost a wonder , imho, that they haven't yet hung up the water and gas lines on poles also..
asciilifeform: funnily enuff , last time asciilifeform went to dig, turned up people who claim to conjure up 'ro ancestor' for $toyota, and bake legit passport; but i'ma believe it when i see it and as far as can throw it ( plus they only work on ukrs, which is imho a dead giveaway of spamola )
asciilifeform: man with 2+ passports is already escapee, republikflucht, ohnoez
asciilifeform: but yes usg is squeezing necks, too many zeks escaping, even with the current ~$1m price tag
asciilifeform: ohnoez! folx gettin' passports without having ever fucked a goat in the name of prophet!
asciilifeform: but yes, i'm not esp surprised that the derps 'working' on 3600. given as 1) 'ivory' needs ~20-50 k $ in either chinese microscopist, or nixon's burglars , take yer pick 2) 3600 is massive forest of idjit hackolade, which these people seem to ~like~, the way scarab luvvs shit
asciilifeform: maybe in another 10yr they cough up 3600 emulator. in c#. that maybe runs for 5+min without crash.
asciilifeform: ( weighed, roughly, what toyota weighs )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it is theoretically possible to write 3600 emulator without much brain work, the instr set is (mostly) described in their 600 (!) page patent. but there's very little to be gained from doing so, the 3600 arch is before they cleaned all of the mit shit-hackolade out of the thing, it has million idjit warts inherited from when the thing was a refrigerator-sized dumpster of 74xxx discretes
asciilifeform: beats the shit out of what i'm sitting in front of, in 9000 ways
asciilifeform: zeptobars seems pretty dead; their site is up, but pretty sure that all of the pics therein, were there last yr☟︎
asciilifeform: amberglint: i.e. they're carefully avoiding risk of doing anything useful
asciilifeform: fwiw i did ( could unearth thread , but who wants, can find ) get quote from chinese, they will happily photograph crystal for ~toyota's worth
asciilifeform: right nao there's a d00d with 2 crystals; and another d00d with maybe-pinouts; and a gorlum somewhere with maybe-tapes; etc
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: afaik nobody's even picked up enuff frags with which to make even half of a serious attempt, at that
asciilifeform: amberglint: iirc he found pinouts. not crown jewels, tho could be of use in ~very slowly~ getting sumthing useful from the 2 'ivory' crystals i traded a 3620 for
