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decimation: asciilifeform: the government to some degree, yes, but the people are quite tired of usg camping there
asciilifeform: sk has always stood for this.
decimation: asciilifeform: not so, the lefties have taken over there quite considerably
mats: "South Korea's Constitutional Court has ruled to disband a minority left-wing party and strip its five members of parliament of their seats after accusing them of pro-North Korea activities that it said violated the basic principles of free democracy." << pregnant with irony, this
asciilifeform: mats: in sk, it is a jailable offense to so much as utter something vaguely positive about nk
mats: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2014/12/s-korea-disbands-pro-north-political-party-2014121916373423851.html << topical
asciilifeform: decimation: in much the same sense as ww2 was the fault of that derp who lamented his failure to shoot hitler
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decimation: asciilifeform: from a bigger picture, the korean war was a direct consequence of the us failure to crush mao
Vexual: a tranny actually put a turbo in my car
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asciilifeform: also because sk (usg muppet) was the aggressor.
decimation: but the actual history of that actual conflict was to demonstrate how the un shit itself in bed
decimation: the reason the korean war is the 'forgotten war' is that the brave new 'united nations' (wwii allies) were supposed to act in harmony and peace to prevent that kind of clusterfuck
decimation: my great uncle died on the dmz during the pointless dicking around known as 'peace talks'
asciilifeform: afaik every word of the history of the two koreas available in the english language, since the first days leading up to the war, is a cheap fabrication.
decimation: asciilifeform: but they offered 'proofs'! 1.) they had IP addresses 2.) they knew it was them!
Vexual: yeah it's almost too perfect
decimation: asciilifeform: it's enraging that microsoft's shit code & best korean meddling will now be used to justify more derp-o-matics from various usg departments
Vexual: x1 might just hit me when it come s around on the guitar
decimation: it's possible that it could eject matter toward the earth, which could result in a geomagnetic storm in 2-3 days
asciilifeform: when microshit is held liable for crapware, i will begin commuting to werk on flying pig.
Vexual: oh, diff classifications? it this big then?
decimation: in a separate matter, there was an X1 class flare a few hours ago
Vexual: reminds you to paperwallet andd dejavu tho
Vexual: nothings bigger than x
Vexual: wait, is g bigger than x?
decimation: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/possible-g1g2-geomagnetic-storms << possible geomagnetic storms this weekend, those north of the us border ought to consider looking out for aurorae
decimation: no word on whether microsoft is going to be held liable for ridiculously poor engineering
decimation: apparently the entire sony intranet was loaded on easily guessed windows shares
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Vexual: (beastieboys and nas too many rappers[not enuff mcs])
Vexual: is that a mashup?
asciilifeform: 'For they're done with Danny Deever, you can 'ear the dubstep play / The regiment's in column, an' they're marchin' us away; / Ho! the young recruits are shakin', an' they'll want their beer to-day, / After hangin' Danny Deever in the mornin'.'
Vexual: prolly "cool" for making dubstep tho right?
asciilifeform: so unlike actual amiga, it has - for instance - a palpable boot time.
asciilifeform: as i understand, the linked machine is actually a ppc with emulator in rom
Vexual: asccilifeform, you snore like luke-jr considers the book of satoshi a mortal sin
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punkman: TIL they still make Amigas http://www.a-eon.com/?page=x1000
Vexual: internets moving to radio when people stop wasting bandwidth nayways
punkman: asciilifeform: punkman: tor is a multi-layered scam << says so on the tin, it's an onion :P
decimation: nah that's a good way to ruin a tranny
Vexual: apprently your not supposed to drive it home with a busted intercooler
decimation: but, the 'people' want 'anonymous web browsing', so they get it
decimation: yeah, tcp is pretty much the most retarded protocol you could pick to try to make 'anonymous'
asciilifeform: decimation: he means, i think, generic tcp stream (vs. store-and-forward, which is more or less the only way to even begin resisting elementary traffic analysis)
decimation: low-latency? I've never used tor but I doubt its latency is low
asciilifeform: punkman: tor is a multi-layered scam
punkman: I think the big scam is making all the derps believe they can have anonymity with low-latency tor
asciilifeform: there'll be a new! improved! honeypot (almost certainly consisting of a tor 'altcoin' - original with a few knobs turned)
decimation: 'holy place' being the cemetery?
asciilifeform: decimation: there's a saying, 'свято место пусто не бывает' - 'the holy place is never long empty'
decimation: asciilifeform: I doubt there will be a 'day of reckoning' w.r.t. tor. it will just turn off and the derps will move on
decimation: I'm waiting for my tranny to fail in my honda
asciilifeform: tor << snake will begin to swallow its tail, at last ?
punkman: "Our previous plan had been to sit tight and hope nothing happens. Then we realized that was a silly plan when we could do this one instead."
Vexual: i had a tranny work my drft car. promptly borked it and she got cross
punkman: "To be sure to keep our source safe, we're not providing more details quite yet. But actually, we don't know many more details than the ones we posted."
decimation: punkman: re: tor blog & comments < such expert
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decimation: if usg doesn't have the will to do that, they have no business there
decimation: rule the whole country directly under martial law until shit stabilizes in a few hundred years
asciilifeform: lose 300k, 1k at a time. works great.
decimation: well, to be straight, usg needs to go back to the WWII defeated Germany/Japan playbook
mats: should be 300,000 instead of 1,000 but who wants to risk losing again?
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decimation: 'cause isis has like Abrams tanks, Stingers, etc http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/the-savagery-of-isisis-shocking--and-so-too-is-its-weaponry-9700476.html
mats: sure wish somebody took isis seriously
decimation: hopefully valerie jarrett has the balls to support them with air cover & artillery
mats: if you gotta send something, you could do worse than the 82nd
Vexual: mats, you you think they might be the first to see the new seth rogan flick?
decimation: plus because of the idiotic 'de-baathification' policy of usg, the most competent part of the iraqi army has already joined isis
undata wants to go to the feelies
undata: when do we get the good stuff?
decimation: yeah that's a tough assignment
mats: never mind the iraqis know something we don't, but hey lets get some combat infantry badges.
mats: iraqi .mil won't fight in pitched battles, so send in the 82nd!
Vexual: theres a jump that would tighten the old rectal sphinkter
decimation: mats: I guess this is more non-boots-on-the-ground intervention?
Vexual: gribbles mining gaw too?
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assbot: Logged on 18-11-2014 11:34:27; mircea_popescu: decimation: "The Brazilification of society can be a samba carnival assuming you approach it the right way, and most importantly, get to live on the pleasant side of the barbed wire fence." <<< this has been exactly my experience to date.
undata: ben_vulpes: haha, 'tis true
ben_vulpes: just makes hairly manly men that much more of a scarce commodity
decimation: undata: agreed. In the same way, I wouldn't have a problem with free immigration, if it didn't come with infinite benefits as a newly oppressed minority
undata: but were there not a govt handing out welfare to every newly formed oppressed minority it wouldn't be an issue
undata: to chance being labeled as an MRA, I don't think the progressive demonization of heterosexual maleness is at all healthy
undata: as for trannies, I'm fine with 'em
decimation: undata: I guess. I recall that was the propaganda they were pimping at the time
undata: they failed to prepare because stability was never the aim
undata: decimation: that only works if you accept the freedom-spreading justification
undata: one can't assign one narrative to a pile as big as the USG
decimation: I would humbly suggest that maybe usg "failed to prepare" because they assumed that once they set the transgendered free from their oppression a new golden age would dawn
ben_vulpes: i'd have a bro in a meshback trucker cap do my sql if they came in at a good rate and didn't need hand holding
decimation: criticism of Bush’s conduct of the Iraq war, repeated the same mistake in Libya"
assbot: Bungling the Conclusions to Wars « Isegoria ... ( http://bit.ly/1x6l4bk )
decimation: actually that reminds me of another link (this one is smarter): http://www.isegoria.net/2014/12/bungling-the-conclusions-to-wars/ << " In Afghanistan and Iraq, the George W. Bush administration failed to adequately prepare for what the military calls “Phase IV,” the period after immediate victory — an oversight that allowed law and order to break down in both countries and insurgencies to metastasize. Yet Obama, despite his