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decimation: yeah
that's all 'mil-spec' hardware, with
the 'round' connectors
decimation: lol
that would be amusing as a party
trick
decimation: apparently usg agents are zealously evangelizing
their 'secret' polygraph faith around
the world
assbot: Federal Polygraph School Gave Countermeasure Information
to Polygraph Company | AntiPolygraph.org News
assbot: Logged on 27-07-2014 17:35:40; asciilifeform:
the one common anthropological
thread i see here is
that most governments insist on some 'national' symbolic meaning in
their chosen means of execution. e.g.,
the french guillotine across all five 'republics'
decimation: asciilifeform: it would be more honest if usg made its agents walk on coals and swear secret loyalty
to
the civil service - it would be much more honest and straighforward
decimation: so an actual usg spycatcher actually caught found
that
the polygraph actually hindered his investigation
decimation: "WHEN I WAS ACTIVELY DISCOURAGING HER FROM
TAKING ANOTHER EXAMPLE QUOTE FRANKLY I WAS AFRAID
THAT SHE WOULD PASS IT AGAIN.
THAT WOULD NOT HELP ME OUT OF IT. "
decimation: "ONE
THING YOU MIGHT HAVE NOTICED
THROUGHOUT
THIS WHOLE
THING I MENTIONED AT LEAST
TWICE,
THAT ANA PASSED OUR POLYGRAPH EXAMINATION 1994
THAT DID NOT DETER ME OR FBI FROM PURSUING
THIS. WE KNEW SHE PASSED
THAT EXAM, SO WHAT?"
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: He was
the sportsman in
the 1990's shot his finger off a few weeks ago. Reattached. "Modern Medicine" has problems.
assbot: Book Discussion
True Believer | Video | C-SPAN.org
decimation: so basically
they are going
to
try
to convict
this guy for
training people pretending
to be people who
take usg's pseudoscience seriously
decimation: apparently
the detail
there is
that all of
the 'evidence' was collected by undercover cops
assbot: Doug Williams Indicted for
Teaching How
to Pass a Polygraph
Test | AntiPolygraph.org News
BingoBoingo: And
twitter censored
the picture of
the actual necrotic finger
assbot: My finger should have been amputated from
the beginning. It was very loose with no bone
to connect it.it was also smelling really bad.
decimation: a portion of
them are doing exactly
that every year
decimation: certainly
the inflationary currency,
the confiscatory
taxation, and
the expense of home and bread combine
to make
this lifestyle nearly impossible in
the us
BingoBoingo: And in
the course of writing
that Mizzou leads
Texas Ass&Mouth 34-20 now because
they scored another
touchdown.
decimation: at any rate, I get you point, but you realize
that
the number of folks who are 'free' by your definition are probably less
than a few
thousand in
the us
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: So
there's a media narrative when
team A is having a horrible year
that supposed
they were good enough
to win if only
the competition wasn't so strong. But
the narrative for
Team B is
that
they are so miserable and wouldn't be winning if only
their competition wasn't so weak. And
then
teams A and B finally meet and in
the game B actually maintains a position of superiority.
decimation: so while he might be able
to skate for a few years, later he's a pauper in retirement living on government cheese
decimation: well,
the bigger point - do we really
think his 'foundation' is going
to last
that long anyway?
decimation: asciilifeform: do you
think gavin works 40 hours per week on
the git repo?
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> unfortunately BingoBoingo may be
the only man alive who can see
this similarity << So
the most superficial similarity is
the media narrative. A&M is perenial legit
title contender while MIZ accidentallied
the SEC east championship last year and accidentally is in
the lead
to win it again
this year.
assbot: Logged on 13-10-2014 01:35:27; asciilifeform: rephrase, if you like, as 'unit of discretionary income per unit of lost free
time.'
☟︎ BingoBoingo: Eh, you get used
to it. After about
the 5th
time when you get rather sure you aren't dying it's not hard
to just go back
the fuck
to sleep by waiting it out.
BingoBoingo: decimation: Not "painful" as in pain pain. More like having a strong electrical current between your
temple and ear while your legs cramp in a way
that might need ice in
the morning. More discomfort
than pain proper.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I consider it
the privledge of being neurologically deviant
assbot: Missouri
Tigers vs.
Texas A&M Aggies - Box Score - November 15, 2014 - ESPN
BingoBoingo: It was on
the
Ti-89 I had and
the computer I acquired in
the same window of
time. My affinity is probably mostly
through familiarity
decimation: I remember having
to program a 68k variant microcontroller in school, wasn't
too bad
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: While 8 could be forced onto Pre-RISC macs,
the result is, and I emphasize IS, never pretty.
decimation: one wonders what would have happened if apple actually went down
the lisp machine route
decimation: at least with
the shitware I was running,
they would regularly crash
decimation: BingoBoingo: my experience with macs pre OSX were all macos 8 and 9 - and
they both sucked ass
BingoBoingo: The problem with Mac OS 8 and later is
that it
tempts with
the fatally broken.
decimation: I recall using netscape 1.0 and
the user experience was pretty much
the same as firefox 30
BingoBoingo: This is reminiscent of how Mac OS 9 is less viable on
the Internet
than OS 7.5.1
decimation: the question is - what have we 'bought' for all
this bloatware?
BingoBoingo: They distribute moisture
too evenly over
the surface so
that it manages
to still contact
the
tabletop
decimation: it was connected
to a radio modem and managed
to pass
tcp
to other ham radio operators
decimation: back in my youth I actually ran a
tcp/ip node on an 8086
BingoBoingo: Oh, we never got
their attention until
the CD era
devthedev: I wasn't even alive during
the days of CompuServe
decimation: yeah
there were free forums as I recal
BingoBoingo remember AOL for
the copious coaster
they mailed
undata: decimation: ah I had
that
decimation: asciilifeform: did you have 'compuserve' back in
the day?
decimation: yeah. I was able
to get plenty
to run back in in
the mid 90's
decimation: yeah. I remember using slackware 3 on my old 486, and barely getting X
to run - and also wondering what its point would be
BingoBoingo: decimation: Well,
the KDE problem is
they went from desktop environment
to software development club in
the bad way
undata: and you get
to make decisions like
turning on stack protector and whatnot
decimation: but instead of being
the 'adult' alternative
to gnome, kde surrendered
to idiocy
undata: with a relatively modern machine
the compile
time isn't so bad