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mircea_popescu: sidered placing him on probation, a fate prevented by his parents successfully lobbying the authorities."
mircea_popescu: "He developed an antagonistic relationship with his tutor, Patrick Blackett, who was only a few years his senior. While on vacation, as recalled by his friend Francis Fergusson, Oppenheimer once confessed that he had left an apple doused with noxious chemicals on Blackett's desk. While Ferguson's account is the only detailed version of this event, Oppenheimer's parents were alerted by the university authorities who con
BingoBoingo: Sure, then he pulled the demon core apart as it was critical
mircea_popescu: didn't he drop the berylium ?
BingoBoingo: My favorite is Slotin, the Incredible Hulk.
asciilifeform: want physicist turned derpmeister? try sakharov
asciilifeform: quantum tunneling?
mircea_popescu: what did oppenheimer do, other than derp about peace and assorted libertard bullshit ?
mircea_popescu: i dunno, afaik he was more haunted for having dared to piss on some random jew
asciilifeform: teller was an actual person, but haunted for his entire life for failing to have actually done the one thing he was famous for.
mircea_popescu: anyway, re teller, he did have important contributions. beta decay etc.
asciilifeform: wonder if they issue tricorns to 'jeffersons' and 'washingtons' here.
asciilifeform: word is, asylums used to stock tricorn hats to issue to 'napoleons.'
asciilifeform: generally, you'll find the same kind of folks calling themselves 'polymath' as 'hero.'
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> actual english word << i know what it means, but i also never met a von newman that couldn't code.
asciilifeform: there's probably a suitably 'soviet' term used internally.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> 'we've a bunch of hooligans here. let's develop access agent.' 'what theme hooligans?' 'business theme.' 'is pg around? get him on the line' << lawl. hooliganism eh ?
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Clickbait is about the only 'Murican art left
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: while this cannot be seen in the grainy photos, the woman is, to back-translate the russian term, 'autumnal'
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> lesson appears to be, nuttery does not entail originality. << quite.
asciilifeform: der wagen was decorated with a number of 'end the fed' stickers. apparently this is considered adequate crank bait.
mircea_popescu: "been a hundred years with Banksters at rule making money from sratch charge the interest to fools" << le esl ?
asciilifeform politely requests that nsa send in a better grade of clown
mircea_popescu: dudes stop upping ninjaderp it makes the logs impossible.
BingoBoingo: I've not seen the word consistently applied to anyone else
asciilifeform: the innocent word is not to blame here.
BingoBoingo: It's the English term for Goethe
mircea_popescu: polymath ? is that like polyamory without cunnilingus ?
BingoBoingo: nubbins`: And this is the problem with your trumpet. It is the food that the real instruments eat.
mircea_popescu: "The myth started after The Polymath Poet aka Christine Ann Sands aka WikiPoet acquired a park permit for the Washington, DC Million Mask March."
asciilifeform: 'Iz this Nutzi land so good / Would you leave it if you could / Ja, this Nutzi land is good / Ve would leave it if we could!' ☟︎
gribble: Der Führer's Face - Full length - YouTube: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MReV9dkAVhY>; Spike Jones Der Fuehrer's Face - YouTube: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZlFBSRrSR0>; Der Fuehrer's Face - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <' target='_blank'>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Fuehrer's_Face>
asciilifeform: ;;google we heil right in the fuehrer's face
BingoBoingo: I can somewhat play the Wind equivalent of a cello (euphonium)
asciilifeform: 'can you play the cello?' 'don't know, never tried'
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> woman: 'i am member of anonymous11! i support wikileaks! but i haven't any idea how to program, i write poetry.' << shoulda asked her "how do you know ?"
asciilifeform: 'we've a bunch of hooligans here. let's develop access agent.' 'what theme hooligans?' 'business theme.' 'is pg around? get him on the line'
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: on the train home, i mentally sketched what the committee deliberations must have looked like.
BingoBoingo: Outsourced, or that is the best that could make it through the committee meetings?
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> (usg) nsa needs to hire a new script writer << outsourced.
mircea_popescu: <benkay> the doge bet is now in play << sad story.
asciilifeform: déclassé - or, to a russian, западло.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: You can, but you can't advertise that you do
asciilifeform: can't use pgp and 'stand under the flag' pg stands under.
mircea_popescu: <benkay> wow paul graham doesn't appear to have published a pgp key. << why would he lol.
mircea_popescu: totally a good idea tho
mircea_popescu: <punkman> mthreat, you should crawl the links in the logs and let us search them from the same interface << holy shit this is inception.
gribble: Main/Fanon - Television Tropes & Idioms - TV Tropes: <http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Fanon>; Fanon/Anime & Manga - Television Tropes & Idioms - TV Tropes: <http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fanon/AnimeandManga>; Fanon/WESTERNANIMATION - Television Tropes ... - TV Tropes: <http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fanon/WESTERNANIMATION>
mircea_popescu: ;;google tvtropes.org fanon
mircea_popescu: <benkay> so what is fanon then? << canon is the story as written by the author. fanon is the story as "it could be", written by the fans.
mircea_popescu: Blazedout419 it's supposed to be scandalous.
asciilifeform: lol today's wagen pics are on 'cryptome.'
BingoBoingo: Kim Jung Il needs money to keep paying for Dennis Rodman
asciilifeform: still need the fissile primary, in both variants.
BingoBoingo: There are probably parts of the pentagon today more afraid of the possibility of the liquid hydrogen bomb in a tractor trailer than a droppable bomd
BingoBoingo: Teller wanted the Bomb not only as a weapon, but also as a replacement for the shovel
asciilifeform always surprised at how this surprises people
asciilifeform: actually, the first usable (sans liquid hydrogen) fusion bomb was built on the other side of the ocean
BingoBoingo: Of course, that's where Mr. U came in.
asciilifeform: spent his entire life trying to convince anyone who would listen that he is a great inventor
asciilifeform: teller is a pathetic figure (in the original sense of the word)
BingoBoingo: Not always, but occasionally interesting or significant ones emerge like Van Goh or Edward Teller
asciilifeform: lesson appears to be, nuttery does not entail originality.
asciilifeform: 'Whom shall I trust / My own hormones and lust / or my rage and my hate / that await at Hell’s gate.'
BingoBoingo: probably programmed that way via pre-facebook psychic experimentation
asciilifeform: inevitable observation / puzzle: why are all of the public nuts so tediously predictable.
asciilifeform: olice dragged me to a psych clinic, where they strangled me, [ten minutes of unintelligible crud]' police: turned her loose, drove away
asciilifeform: much more interesting woman: walked into coffee shop, proclaims at the top of her lungs: 'i've been standing in front of this place all day, and you won't give me a free drink!' clerk: '...' woman: 'know what? i own this place! you're all fired!' clerk: [unintelligible] woman: 'sure, i'll wait for the police. [pulls out phone, films]' police come. woman led outside, 'i will have the lot of you fired! last time p
assbot: John Brown (abolitionist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
BingoBoingo: "Pioneered the field of naturopathic dermatology. Authored a book and web site where millions of people with the world’s #1 skin disorder were freely helped and where Yale Dermatology referred their physicians and patients." << Low effort expertise, has help from on high if Yale refers to what she peddles.
BingoBoingo: http://polymathpoet.com/about << Reads loyal soldier of the regime
asciilifeform: http://millionmaskmarch.org/joseph_hallford << the kind of lolmaster attracted by the wikiwagen
BingoBoingo: Not from the wagen of course. Prolly from the boring Toyota parked a block away
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: To read what the curious carry upon their persons.
gribble: Serious Android crypto key theft vulnerability affects ... - Ars Technica: <http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/06/serious-android-crypto-key-theft-vulnerability-affects-86-of-devices/>; KeyStore Vulnerability Affects 86% of Android Devices - Slashdot: <http://beta.slashdot.org/story/203943>; KeyStore Vulnerability Affects 86% of Android Devices - Slashdot: (1 more message)
asciilifeform: what sigint you need for this poor woman? she wants you to walk right in, tell all.
BingoBoingo: Well, since the NSA isn't likely far ahead cryptographically anymore other than sabotaging the systems of others. I have to wonder what sorts of goodies they might have as far as signit goes.
asciilifeform: (or at least, men dressed for that part)
asciilifeform: what was inside the wagen? some aging hippies.
asciilifeform: ('rfid', not the musical instrument)
asciilifeform: herr termen's gizmo is a best-selling product now, everyone knows how it worked.
gribble: Léon Theremin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Theremin>; Thing (listening device) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thing_(listening_device)>; Theremin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theremin>
BingoBoingo: ;;google theramin the thing
asciilifeform: technical term, as i recall, is 'patsy'
BingoBoingo: I dunno if she's have to aware for it to be a honeypot.
asciilifeform: there are specific allegations about the keeper of the wagen, which afaik she never publicly answered.
asciilifeform: first thing i found when looking for discussion of the very memorable wagen is 'honeypot'
BingoBoingo: Living in the wikileakwagen has to be a good way to become sterile with all of the EM aimed at it to provoke the electronics to sing their secrets.
BingoBoingo: For a brief time in grad school I was acquainted with a woman like that. Ran fedora core on OLPC laptop she acquired for $5. Dunno what she actually did with that stuff.
asciilifeform: me: 'so you used to live on xxxx street?' woman: 'nah, this guy just let me part on his farm. now i live here.'
asciilifeform: ^ wikileakwagen appeared here before. it used to live next to me.
asciilifeform: woman: 'i am member of anonymous11! i support wikileaks! but i haven't any idea how to program, i write poetry.'
BingoBoingo: It's like the Anarchists and Ghaddafi switched colors. WTF is this Wikileaken Green and Isis Black.
asciilifeform: i walk up to the woman, and, 'so tell about yourself & wtf'
asciilifeform: ^ right in the middle of wash., d.c. parked next to a gigantic public expo (international 'culture' miscellania)
BingoBoingo: Yes they do.
asciilifeform: their spam-muppet reads far too much like a character from 'silicon valley'
asciilifeform: (usg) nsa needs to hire a new script writer
BingoBoingo: punkman: Sure, but The underdog "life" is substantially better captitalized than the current frontrunner "death" and has been most of today.
punkman: BingoBoingo, but it's still early in the game