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asciilifeform: as it is, the industry is ~intrinsically~ usgtronic
asciilifeform: just as was the case after the fall of ibm. ☟︎
asciilifeform: y as a marketing gimmick, of course you don't want to warrant, support, or maintain it, and of course nobody would even dream of paying royalties for it, they can just get another cheap pen or T-shirt or shirnk-wrapped software package of the shelf somewhere else.'
asciilifeform: onsequences of bad (working to destroy) and sometimes evil (intended to destroy) policy and ignorant idiots with too much power. One of the consequences is that software development is paid for over the marketing budgets, like cheap plastic pens with logo imprints that work no longer than you remember where you got it and T-shirts of so low quality that they couldn't have been sold as clothes -- when you give some trinket awa
decimation: as if this were some kind of secret
mod6: at some point next month, i write up a guide on how to set up cucumber as well so any one else who wants to use this can do so on their own environment.
Bingo_VACAY: Shanghai no point biting PenTagon's penis. Preservved in USG lab as complaint and not intimidating
trinque: their own tools barf incomprehensibly, as though they have diverged from the API
decimation: policies like income & capital gains tax can be seen as a method of exhausting potential suitors to power ☟︎
assbot: Logged on 25-07-2015 13:56:36; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-07-2015#1212302 << taxation is first and foremost a political activity. it is an economic activity as a very distant second. the noton that "it'd ok because we;re doing productive milking" misses the point by about the same berth as the notion that "it's ok, we don't need guns because we got money". this is simply not how the car works.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-07-2015#1212712 << didntcha read orwell as txt ? ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 25-07-2015 02:49:08; decimation: cazalla: doesn't that strike you as the dumbest thing ever?
assbot: Logged on 25-07-2015 00:19:48; nubbins`: any home owners in here wanna share their annual insurance premium, as a percentage of the value of their home?
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-07-2015#1212302 << taxation is first and foremost a political activity. it is an economic activity as a very distant second. the noton that "it'd ok because we;re doing productive milking" misses the point by about the same berth as the notion that "it's ok, we don't need guns because we got money". this is simply not how the car works. ☝︎☟︎
decimation: as for 'sheeple' - you of course realize how thin the shadow of an implication of a threat you would need to make for a tenure-hopeful to be thrown into near-suicidal doubt
decimation: yeah, the plebes are kept out merely as a side effect of the gorging
asciilifeform: but it is a mistake to think that elsevier, wiley, et al exist to 'keep research from the plebes.' no one gives half a rat's arse about plebes. they exist as an inevitable fly on the juicy meat of the university
asciilifeform: copyrasts whine about 'if you made movie, you didn't make that movie' but there can be no such thing as too cruel a revenge for 'if you bought a book, you didn't buy that book'
asciilifeform: 'In January 2009, OverDrive informed Fictionwise that it would no longer be providing downloads for purchasers of e-books through Fictionwise as of January 31, 2009. No reason was provided to Fictionwise as to why it was being shut down. This prevents previous purchasers from being able to renew their books on new devices. Fictionwise was working to provide replacement ebooks for its customers in alternative, non-DRM-protected
decimation: cazalla: doesn't that strike you as the dumbest thing ever? ☟︎
trinque: eh I'll still send it through as a test case then
decimation: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/07/24/amazon-now-worth-more-than-wal-mart/ "As of the close, that had Wal-Mart’s market cap at $233.5 billion versus Amazon’s $224.5 billion, according to FactSet."
nubbins`: and the city was drab as fuck
nubbins`: any home owners in here wanna share their annual insurance premium, as a percentage of the value of their home? ☟︎
jurov: assbot on point, as always
mod6: i still need to update the old how-to-patch guide etc. im actually pretty much complete on that... as soon as we give the green light on the test bundle i'll post my changes for that too.
mod6: and perhaps as soon as we send up the patched test bundle, someone could try compiling the static R.I. on there.
ascii_field: as i said earlier.
funkenstein_: The Palantíri were made by the Ñoldor in Eldamar, possibly by Fëanor himself during his time in Aman during the Elder Days in the Time of the Trees, and then given by the Elves to the Númenóreans, who kept them as heirlooms until the Fall of Númenor during the late Second Age; seven of these stones were rescued and brought to Middle-earth by Elendil and his sons and set in well-guarded towers throughout the Realms in
mats: Apple has the same SIGINT model as Google: vacuum all the data.
ascii_field: instead, it is as if block were never sent.
ascii_field: (~NOT~ the same as '-addnode')
BingoBoingo: cazalla: You just as MP links suggest, imagine you are the BBC you want to be.
BingoBoingo: cazalla: If you have to watch a marvel movie though, at least Ant man is a better heist movie than new oceans 11. Just no where near as good as Con Air
cazalla: nah, can't say i like him as an actor
pete_dushenski: and from here, twodogs might as well be in europe. it's another world.
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo: and that they're looking for even the faintest pulse as a SIGN OF LIFE
BingoBoingo: Or as us in the Country like to call Belleville, East-East-St Louis
pete_dushenski: what, like u.s. law treats all men as equal ?
decimation: of course, the answer is the same as your powerplant theory: usg-unapproved power centers must be strangled in the crib
decimation: even 40 miles from ascii is a nuke plant that has been relicensed for another 20 years as I recall
asciilifeform: as was the plan.
phf: i assumed same thing as asciilifeform, because sop in soviet union. my uncle died like that, botched centrifugation to extract alcohol from whatever was available, at his lab
asciilifeform: if i needed dope for something, would be just as stuck as if needed plutonium
decimation: it strikes me as more likely that it was some lowbrow schmoe with a gand scheme
asciilifeform: iirc, in us - just as in su - it is not permissible to open a prisonwagen outside of the wire. and if it burns in a wreck - tough cookies for the occupants..
BingoBoingo: mats: As I use portable integrated display and kbd necessary. 'ultra small form factor' becomes attractive to me when very cheap colo offered. Otherwise display places natural minimum size
BingoBoingo: Craptop syncing stator on mint may as well be desktop, just going to run as fixed node when sync'd, this machine though moves
asciilifeform: if you carry one, as a necessary evil, to earn bread with - that's one thing
asciilifeform: so no, not as crippled
assbot: Logged on 24-07-2015 00:46:05; asciilifeform: or even any place close to as cheap as where i live
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-07-2015#1211284 << reminder to experimenters - given as this is a ~static~ binary, it oughta run on any reasonable linux, once built ☝︎
mircea_popescu: god damned... so it turns out "modern" bios came up with the idea to introduce an "auto" ps/2 initialization, which means that if the ps2 mouse is present at boot, all works as expected, but if ps/2 mouse is not present at boot ONCE then the mouse will never again work and you're more than welcome to figure out what the shit happened.
cazalla: BingoBoingo, as evident in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRdcptG365I
trinque: as well it should be
cazalla: charge well for it as well, something like $1000 a course
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> i once looked up, technically american doctors can (could?) even prescribe cocaine << Usually only prescribed as a local anesthetic
trinque: they have some not-as-fun variant of that too
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> where is the doctor that prescribes meth ? << Available as Desoxyn at most pharmacies
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> but for more 'silk roady' reasons of 'want dope but no dopewot' << Sure but usually they evade detection as they don't light the world on fire. What if NIST dope hit a cesium clock? How many leapseconds would follow
asciilifeform: or even any place close to as cheap as where i live ☟︎
mircea_popescu: there is no such thing as "owned". they don't havew the grip to own with, which is what the haks prove, and they know they do not have the resources or werewithal to get it, which is what this deranged prosecutorial overactivity proves.
asciilifeform gives up trying to 'make sense' of this nyooz, because, yes, it does not actually make sense as presented by usg
mircea_popescu: "i mean i get it, frantic activity as a cover for YOUR FUCKING IMPOTENCE, but really... get to terms with it already".
asciilifeform: is considered just as guilty of the offence as one who was found with the genuine article
mircea_popescu: "Additionally, the FBI said that the Murgio sold bitcoins to victims of ransomware attacks such as Cryptowall. " << yeah, like various USG offices, including if memory serves a sherrif. i suppose this is now a crime, right ? selling bitcoin to the derps. them using public funds to pay the ransom IS FINE!
mircea_popescu: they'd have seen it as whatever its ip actually were, if actually seeding.
mircea_popescu: of course, this looks a lot more like someone not knowing their way around a netstat dump than a legitimate thing. because i don't imagine torrents work so that a computer ever advertises itself as localhost.
mircea_popescu: The two are also identified in a previously unreported FBI memo that connects them to the investigation of the hack of JPMorgan as well as to incidents at Fidelity Investments Ltd. and E*Trade Financial Corp. JPMorgan officials argued initially that one of the largest U.S. bank hacks in history was the work of the Russian government."
mircea_popescu: "As a result, their 0day providers tended to be small and unestablished. Some established exploit vendors, like VUPEN and COSEINC, did offer to sell Hacking Team exploits, but they were predominantly overpriced, second-rate, and not even 0day. As a result, Hacking Team was seriously exploit supply constrained because they had difficulty finding suppliers that they deemed reliable and reasonably priced. Their competitor
kakobrekla: anyway, that line goes something 'it doesnt matter what it is, as long as the boy is healthy.'
asciilifeform: as in, what was running, built how, and on what ?
ben_vulpes: could just as easily be stirling.
decimation: "The version with the wingspan extended to 86 ft., about the same as a 737 airliner, can carry 34 hr. of internal fuel. With two 1,000-lb. drop tanks and 1,000 lb. of weapons it can fly a 42-hr. mission."
asciilifeform missed all of the good stuff, but had elder brother. and thus from as old as could speak and think, already regarded civilization as a strictly past-tense affair
assbot: Logged on 07-04-2015 00:10:01; mircea_popescu: just like having a car doesn't alow having gasoline. it's true that often people who have cars also independently have gasoline, but the two are fundamentally unrelated, and there is such a thing as the fool's breakdown, ie, car's outta gas on the side of hte road.
trinque: The best method I see is being more or less invisible until such time as one's wealth can be used to undermine the other thing.
mircea_popescu: i can and have. it works as well as you'd expect, if you thinkj about it.
asciilifeform: ^ this really got me down, as a boy
mircea_popescu: trinque as a boy, i was very distraught to find from my mother that if one invents something, he doesn't merely have to say what it should be ☟︎
asciilifeform: the mega-appeal of revolution is, just as limonov summarized, it is a chance to trade in guaranteed-die-behind-desk for die-with-sporting-chance
mircea_popescu: but i must point out that it's likely same as how i enjoy horse riding
decimation: well, desk isn't as exciting, if safer
mircea_popescu: because, mind, if you actually got something to say might as well say it.
trinque: mircea_popescu: I think seeing the world as it is, one imagines there could be another where there are leaders with as you say, interesting things to do
decimation: well, keep the local da as part of your tribe :)
asciilifeform: as in, folks who board five unmarked planes to get to where you're dug in
mircea_popescu: i was speaking as to success.
mircea_popescu: socialism is still the doctrine of unadorned stupid, and it's still this in large things as it is this in small things - be it revolution or your daily dealings. stupid stays stupid.
mircea_popescu: it failed in moscow as it failed in beijing - the successors are today more capitalist than hamilton, and for good reason.
hanbot: ben_vulpes very cool. as said earlier, i'm explicitly going the "painful" route 'cause that's what stator ml post describes. i'd love to use the tools you & mod6 have put up --just, not the point of this specific exercise
mod6: you got wedged on the 168`001 block? aka: you were stuck on block 168`000 according to this.. although, i dont' as of yet see a Verify Signature failure in here...
trinque: Due to Hastings ongoing investigations of CIA chief John Brennan and previous critical investigations of other well known figures, there was speculation of foul play.[9] Jordan played a role in clearing up speculations about her husband's death as being nothing more than a "tragic accident".
BingoBoingo: For posterity the case of the prosecutor who declines to files charges against Clerk Cook, a self professed libertarian who likes to use police violence as a political weapon https://archive.is/ChrKw
BingoBoingo: Oh, look what happened the day before my next evidentiary hearing. Turns out alleged "victim" likes filing false police reports as a political weapon http://www.bnd.com/news/local/article28249051.html
hanbot: mod6 yep, i doublechecked asciilifeform's list as linked above, complete & correctly ordered
hanbot: (to be clear, by inferred instructions i mean v0.5.3.1-RELEASE + patches as asciilifeform outlined here: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-07-2015#1209307 ) ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 17-07-2015 01:50:46; asciilifeform: decimation: 'telco 214' is the owner of a single ip which houses, as far as i can tell, at least 2% of current net hash.
liquidassets: is a funciary commodity something you hold as a free hold absolute as you would property?
liquidassets: mircea_popescu this cultural war where women are thought to be numerar or funciara is this to say a cultural war where one side is trade for trades sake (pecunia non olet) and the other side is more like fuck your money death before dishonor! Either way with men being the agent either trading women or claiming them as their own as in free hold absolutely.