asciilifeform: or at least nobody who rides trains or buses

asciilifeform: ( in usa, pickpocket will die of frustration before even starvation, ~nobody uses actual paper money )

asciilifeform: hm, i pictured it was a serious thing, in orc world where proper cash is still in use errywhere

asciilifeform: last time sorta sewed in, lol

asciilifeform: i did not go in any standing-room public transport, with the exception of short train ride in bucharest

asciilifeform: though on asciilifeform's home world, pickpocketry was largely a thing practiced on public transport, where 'contact' was less noticed

asciilifeform: bbut legendary pickpocket arts!1

asciilifeform regaled with endless tales (3rdhand, naturally) of pickpockets by various folx, severely 'overengineered' his pockets, for travels, and felt quite foolish on occasion , 'ok before i pay, let me do this here stage magic with cloth', 'no it aint up me arse' etc )

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-31#1778594 << these 'well wishers' were pestilential in timis ☝︎

asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: well it wasn't a museum piece, was printing out a coupla mil in old-fashioned paperbenjies per minute. but i get the idea.

asciilifeform: i suppose it is for sitting and shouting 'biznis!!' , per trinque's picture...

asciilifeform: i can't think of who or why

asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: they had also in bucharest

asciilifeform: ( the literal one. at one time, long now gone, one could get -- by appointment -- a tour... )

asciilifeform: funnily enuff i ~did~ see the printing press.

asciilifeform: right.

asciilifeform: troo, i never saw what's in obummer's briefcase also.

asciilifeform: bbbut briefcases of benjies!11

asciilifeform: waiwat? in cocainistan?!

asciilifeform has deeply nfi, it may as well all be on alpha centauri, from his perch

asciilifeform: or hm.

asciilifeform: sounds like a sad end, sorta like the irish thing

asciilifeform: or still flyin'

asciilifeform: tangentially, re '0 usg influence' -- did they ever kick out usg's herbicide-bomber fleet from colombia ?

asciilifeform: then gotta be the traditional 'i do what i want' orcism

asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: that sounds ominous. prolly symptom of americanization. '3ringbinder said 'must say where cab will go or no cab', so no cab'

asciilifeform: what do folx in a 5M+ city busy themselves with anyway..? they can't all drive cabs or sell stocks

asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: oh hm like what ? getting stuck in doorways ?

asciilifeform: rather than vanished

asciilifeform: i always assumed that those are eternal, but simply not in my light cone

asciilifeform never would have conceived of revealing to another, where the magical dumps were, lol

asciilifeform: for many years in fact had no other kind of iron.

asciilifeform: i did however get to dumpsterdive whole comps. but that was elsewhere, in long-demolished-nao office parks of suburbia.

asciilifeform: no magic iron, in particular

asciilifeform: no one had anyffin but prattle

asciilifeform: was epic snoar

asciilifeform: phf: i went to 1 or 2 of those particular meets

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i've been quietly looking into 'what's needed in a www server' for a while. good chunk of 'expected' liquishit can be jettisoned without any tears (e.g. requests ~other than~ GET and PUT . fuck'em )

asciilifeform: the one with the cast iron hinges that were guaranteed to crack after 500 or so flexings

asciilifeform: phf: right, exactly it

asciilifeform: phf: ha, i had nfi a1025 could eat os9. i have 1 (nao sadly dead mb) in the hardware tomb.

asciilifeform: ( thread http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-22#1631238 & elsewhere ) ☝︎

asciilifeform: i have a -- what i think is -- 'lombard'. but with ancient and dying mechanical hdd, and it won't eat literally anything in its place, tried repeatedly.

asciilifeform: ty

asciilifeform: which machine is it.

asciilifeform: curious re the 'last model' in particular

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes : why 8.6

asciilifeform: i'll also admit to being curious re http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-31#1778337 ☝︎

asciilifeform: ( apparently there is an entire underground of folx trying to patch it to boot on g5 etc... i had nfi until nao )

asciilifeform: phf: on what do you have os9 running ?

asciilifeform: aha it

asciilifeform: the one der fuhrer himself ate.

asciilifeform: was thinking of walther ppk.

asciilifeform: unrelated

asciilifeform: or was that ppk.

asciilifeform: lol, and nazi pistol

asciilifeform: ( which interestingly is still made, 5GHz and, what, 40core power9 , released just few wks ago, beats shit out of intel's item )

asciilifeform: derived orig from ibm's 'power'

asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: old cpu

asciilifeform: ( several unsuccessful attempts litter asciilifeform's parts room )

asciilifeform: i'm still looking for something that ran that os, that will eat an ssd

asciilifeform: the graphics in particular , i gotta concur with

asciilifeform: ( where 68k crapples were lovingly cared for, they controlled ~irreplaceable heavy machinery )

asciilifeform: funnily enuff asciilifeform once worked in exactly such a lab

asciilifeform: re vintage crapple upstack, https://archive.is/2acLZ >> specifically comment http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/8fQK2/?raw=true

asciilifeform: gotta be some reason.

asciilifeform: somehow they all ended up on ben_vulpes's end

asciilifeform in 25+yr on east usa has yet to see 'reflective nissan' or anything self-labeled or otherwise as 'arab prince'

asciilifeform not aficionado, in any case

asciilifeform: prolly; they seem to always follow the familiar pattern of 'i heard from a sailor that he heard...'

asciilifeform: iirc they also serve up coca like tobacco there? or is that long ago gone

asciilifeform: this is attractive.

asciilifeform: that's on the sane people planet. on the idjit orc planet, 'loss' is the delta between the fantasy 'i am worth!' and the actuality.

asciilifeform: ( a la http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-26#1777333 . ) ☝︎

asciilifeform: riaa-'losses' lol

asciilifeform: selling minerals is exactly same 'lottery winner's disease', this was known long ago

asciilifeform: nao i gotta see this

asciilifeform: the americans indeed have the cars; they sit parked on the street; but lacking work to commute to, they dun eat petrol so much. hence orlol's 'destruction' observation.

asciilifeform: i'm unequipped to comment, because i do not consider the sources accessible to me on www, to be anything other than disinfo; and having no line to petroseekritz meself, leaves ~0 ; so cannot add to this.

asciilifeform: for the obvious reason.

asciilifeform: afaik 0 of the required info is at all public.

asciilifeform: orlol just recently ( last wk ? ) put out a claim of 'smallest new petrodiscoveries in any year since 1943' but i have nfi with what he could substantiate such a statement

asciilifeform: pretty sure it was only ever 'mainstream' among the folx who were 'imminent remonetization of gold' etc.

asciilifeform unequipped to refute or confirm the notion

asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: pretty much every orlol post, lol. tho he has an epicycle to explain why it dun push up price of barrel monotonically : demand destruction

asciilifeform: happened?

asciilifeform tried, for machine tool control. rubbish.

asciilifeform: even under 'realtime linux'

asciilifeform: the commonplace pc is rubbish in re latency. and absolutely worthless for realtime signal processing.

asciilifeform: although they very much have a point, i.e. http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-03#1763155 . ☝︎

asciilifeform: the discussion of latency reminds me of the 1990s bebox enthusiasts

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo , ben_vulpes , possibly other escapees from crapple, ^ et al might be entertained

asciilifeform: meanwhile, in archaeology dept, http://macos9lives.com ☟︎

asciilifeform: verily.

asciilifeform: i'ma have to pass this message.

asciilifeform: iirc the exact eggog was 'dun have anuffingtosay yet'

asciilifeform: ^ pet's board

asciilifeform: meanwhile, from asciilifeform's tortureroom, http://www.loper-os.org/pub/mpboard.jpg

asciilifeform: what's 1 moar.

asciilifeform: eh castration cults have existed in the past.