asciilifeform: 'I do believe it's better this way. She was bitterly sad every day of the last years' reminds asciilifeform of his (younger) grandfather, who narrowly missed the '90s
asciilifeform: iirc there was a trilema re whores , where was a line 'when vastly more items than slots, gotta pick ~somehow~'
asciilifeform: nao re cavities, i do not specifically know the su air corps logic. possibly bad teeth in a boy were considered a mark of innate intractability to discipline; possibly some more basic, orcish 'choosing two potatoes, pick the symmetric and unblemished' formula.
asciilifeform: in a very poor country , where machines order of magnitude scarcer, dearer, than meat.
asciilifeform: 'Admiral’s Doorbell. The yellow button in an F/A-18 cockpit that jettisons all the external stores in an emergency. If you hit it, you’ll be “ringing the admiral's doorbell” to explain why.'
asciilifeform: not as if the 'gone by' didn't come with a lengthy list of 'don't do', and various arcana ( e.g. required manual fiddling with fuel mixture, radiator cowling, etc )
asciilifeform: 'Tits Machine. A good, righteous airplane. Current airplanes need not apply, this is a nostalgic term referring to birds gone by. By all accounts the F-8 Crusader was a tits machine.'
asciilifeform: ( tru, he doesn't have to program in 'rails'. but then again wwwist dun have to piss into a tube. )
asciilifeform: today jet man is more or less a programmer with uncommonly unpleasant working condition.
asciilifeform: profession had a happy childhood and youth and that's more than many other professions get.
asciilifeform: 'he and his group has enough bitcoins (up to billion+)' << trololol this has gotta be a shot for comedy prize
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-30#1744885 << hey mircea_popescu , didja know!, that the proof ain't proofyenuff, 'has he signed addresses that prove he is that wealthy? how do we know for a fact?', i had nfi !☝︎
asciilifeform: though 'I'm also active in the San Francisco Bay Area Less Wrong community'...
asciilifeform: that's the other side of the medal aha. i was speaking of what this move pays for -- the added biomass.
asciilifeform: find new and new crops of fresh 'we owe everything we have to the great inca' nobodies ?☟︎
asciilifeform: 'By their accounts, Cmdr. Tom Sobiek, the commanding officer, convened instructors who had expressed concerns about the women's flying. Sobiek allegedly said that "the women are going to graduate regardless of how they performed." One officer summarized Sobiek as saying, "you guys don't understand, this is bigger than all of us, these women are going to graduate no matter what."' << prettygreat.
asciilifeform: so far the only item i was able to crib was the gpg formatter.
asciilifeform: at some point i'ma plunder mpwp for useful patches again ( i lost steam when discovered that the spam filtrator cannot be made to work on my hoster )
asciilifeform: ipnoje etc. will (by default, there's a toggle) emit'em.
asciilifeform: they're traditionally associated with crapple.
asciilifeform: incidentally none of the 4 versions of winblowz i have at the ready, produce 'windows quotes'...
asciilifeform: possibly i even spammed it in meself many years ago. ( for some reason was not yet kicked from pediwikia then; naggum after all was not mircea_popescu... )
asciilifeform: aah that was old snoar, links to my piece re subj
asciilifeform: ( e.g. if you want the server-grade non-'3d nand' , then quite difficult to get more than handful at a time , unless you're buying by the pallet )
