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ascii_field: jurov: ru infrastructure was considerably less fragile. yet it,
too, deteriorated.
mats: i got a coin for you if
this
theory pans out
jurov: novorussians were expected
to rely on light and flush
toilets,
too
mats: perhaps we both see what we want
to see, hear what we want
to hear
ascii_field: a necessary prerequisite
to
this kind of
thing.
ascii_field: iraq was nicely massaged into
the bronze age by usg.
ascii_field: (ted
turner on his ranch doesn't give a fuck if
the city burns)
mats: iraq does,
to an extent. and yet isis finds bulldozers, scrap metal for diy armor, and fertilizer for container vans readily enough
ascii_field: unlike
the
turd world, in usa
the poor folks are
the first and instant loosers in any breakdown of civilization
ascii_field: things
that go away first of all when ied becomes a daily matter
ascii_field: mats: problem is
that no one in usa is so poor
that he is indifferent
to whether
the lights stay on and
the
toilet flushes
punkman: surely
there are 10 million natives
ascii_field: 'emplace ied' works when you have
ten million sympathetic natives for partizans
to hide among, be fed and clothed by
mats: obviously you'll get
trampled either way, but
this is far short of defenseless
ascii_field: so
they sit outside and wait for everyone inside
to starve.
ascii_field: also 'high
tech north kr' is often misunderstood concept.
there is normally no need for usg
to shoot anyone. instead
they will cancel your food-and-rent card.
ascii_field: i bet many
times more of'em die in
traffic.
ascii_field: mats:
that number comes from
throats cut of informants, stoolies, lone agents on
the roadside
ascii_field: mats: hardly defenseless ?! what were
they supposed
to do, with
their pea-shooters, against
tanks and planes ?
mats: the population hardly breaks a sweat killing a hundred feds a year in current form, plenty of poor excitable people
that'd love
to multiply
that number 10^4
ascii_field: whether
the 'higher
tech north kr'
thing is 'practicable' or not, it will be
tried. ~is~ being
tried.
mats: waco victims were hardly defenseless. i follow what you're saying, particularly re: historical context, but i'm not convinced
this is practicable in usa
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 26-03-2015 20:43:53; asciilifeform: one
to break doors, gates; one
to
threaten bystanders, if any, with 'accidental' fire; one
to shoot; and perhaps one with a cage
that arrestee -might- be permitted
to surrender into, if
the bot's voice-recognition system works and if orders included a possible live capture
ascii_field: and how athletic does a man need
to be
to fly a robot bomber ?
ascii_field: anyway
the 'too fat'
thing is utterly irrelevant.
they don't need
to recruit million men for roman legion. but a few
thousand for polizei duty - wacoing defenseless people, machine-gunning women and children, setting up public gallows,
the lot
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 04:19:37; asciilifeform: for crushing rebellion, one uses
troops from far-off places, rather
than sympathetic locals.
this was known
to romans, persians, everyone.
ascii_field: if
they need
to recruit mexicans in exchange for citizenship (roman-style)
they will
mats: americans are fat as fuck, barely anyone
these days can pass a BMI evaluation and run 2mi in reasonable
time
ascii_field: as for 'willing', no shortage of dea/fbi/dhs/etc. goons
today
mats: i dunno
that
the feds could even find folks qualified and willing
to do a job like
that
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 04:15:38; asciilifeform:
the discreditation of local police apparatus, for its eventual demolition and replacement by unified fed gendarmerie, is going on schedule.
kakobrekla: hm, binary coded decimals would be easier
to humanparse.
BingoBoingo: kakobrekla: sure, prolly also base256 encode
the output
punkman: JBIG2 and send it
through snapchat
punkman: kakobrekla: I
think
that means XML instead of json
mats: could i prevail upon you
to present
that in a human readable manner?
mats: kakobrekla: if you would parse
that with assbot as 'empyex' and 'mpexbot' are nao defunct i'd be grateful
mats: is
there any way
to look at
the active mpoe order book (ie,
the way 'mpexbot' used
to spit 'em out with '$depth <asset>')?
shinohai: I like your idea better ben_vulpes. Wife implies marriage and I sure as hell have had my lifetime dose of
that.
trinque: vi init.el #
the sadness...
trinque: yeah starts right up without
the init.el; I'll have
to hack
things out and see where it's hanging
trinque: doesn't seem
to be crapping debug info
to either
the
terminal who launched or
the emacs window
shinohai: "I'm hoping at
this point he muses about it equally ineffectively for
the rest of
the year." LOLZ
assbot: Logged on 01-09-2015 18:25:13; mircea_popescu:
the fact
that most of
the world agrees girls can marry once
they can walk,
that doesn't count.
punkman: the world doesn't know how
the world works
☟︎ mike_c: "Because I got balls
to
take care of." nuff said.
mike_c: those all seem legit
to me
ascii_field: there is always, always a shitgnome 'you don't need
this, move along' commenter.
ascii_field: '“They use
terms
to find evidence of whether someone is
trying
to hide
their activities because evidence of a cover-up is frequently more potent
than
the evidence of
the alleged crime,” Brodsky said.'
☟︎ ascii_field: 'Evasion
techniques can get creative. Raj Rajaratnam,
the fund manager convicted in 2011 of insider
trading, would write “fon” instead of “phone.” Prosecutors said
they suspected
the intentional misspelling was meant
to distract
the all-seeing electronic Javert of Control-F.' << gold
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 21-08-2015 21:04:08; ascii_field: 'The absence of evidence shouldn’t be viewed as proof of guilt, but
tell
that
to
the U.S. federal court—where Khairullozhon Matanov received a 30-month sentence in mid-June, in part for deleting his browser history.
Though he wasn’t an accomplice in
the Boston bombing,
the FBI charged
that
the friend of
the
Tsarnaev brothers with obstructing justice by destroying evidence in
the case.
That evidenc
punkman: "“Taking a conversation offline provides evidence of intent because if you’re
trying
to cover your
tracks, you probably know what you’re doing is wrong,”"
ascii_field: is without prejudice
to recreation by experienced Wikipedians who believe
that
the subject is sufficiently notable for an article. We emphasize again
that all indications are
that
the editing was not solicited by
the article subjects.'
ascii_field: 'In
this specific case, however, in order
to prevent article subjects from continued shakedowns by bad actors who are causing significant harm
to
the reputation of
this project,
the articles are all being deleted. It is important
to break
the cycle of payment demands, and
to make it clear
that
the Wikipedia community, and not a small group of paid editor accounts, controls
the content of
this project.
This mass deletion
ascii_field: ;;later
tell mircea_popescu guess what,
they're 104's - 'connection reset by peer.' your end hangs up.
punkman: "I know
this is
too good
to be
true but I'll
try anyway"
ascii_field: also
the keeper of
that www has paste-polluting js and needs
to be strung up with piano wire.
williamdunne: For example at my bank it would cost me 1%, 13 euro, 4% currency conversion fee. But
that's because UK banks are particularly
terrible with SEPA
ascii_field: 'Never in my wildest dreams would I have expected PayPal
to accept screenshots from
the seller, as proof of anything.'
ascii_field: 'I expected PayPal would have my back and worst case,
the whole
transaction would be reversed and nobody would be out anything.' << gold
williamdunne: mike_c: Sorry I meant 16. And because for a whole bunch of
the countries
they process euros not
the national currency
mod6: ahh, i've never had allergies. but.. maybe i guess. feel much better
today :]
jurov: mod6 i had "summertime cold" worse every year. it
turned out it's actually an allergy
mike_c: because some of
them aren't really countries or because
the service isn't really available?
shinohai: I guess I misunderstand economics.
The shittier your service is and moar closely aligned with usg interests,
the moar successful it becomes.
mike_c: coinbase is pretty global by now.
they're up
to 27 countries
shinohai: I see coinbase is expanding
to Canada and ingapore. Gotta have eyes all over I guess.
kakobrekla: >BitFury Completes 16NM Bitcoin Mining ASIC
Tape-Out
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu:
this is how "gamergate" happened
too, and everthing else. << I was under
the impression gamergate happened because d00d published blog about ex-gf cheating on him who works in games.
That's at least what personally brought my attention
to it.
kakobrekla: (can insert ss rectifier in
tube socket, it will not sound like
tube)
kakobrekla: they emulate
the package but not
the full elect characteristics
kakobrekla: you can hear
the difference between solid state rectifier and
tube rectifier over youtube.