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BingoBoingo: Most people can survive the regime on civilized arrangements.
BingoBoingo: I mean the Federalk government has all of these weird laws to blow the whistle on.
BingoBoingo: I seriously wonder what will happen now at the late August court date since... I am not an idiot and the acting DA should not be an idiot and is not inocent.
BingoBoingo: The thing is I would have had no idea until I was accidentallied the pharmacy school's microphone slave.
asciilifeform: (conveniently given the 'opposite' heart rate med shortly before he was to testify)
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: see also the death of slobodan m.
BingoBoingo: Well, my father liked to see records of how much strontium 90 us younguns got growing up. A few weeks after a med adjustment his heart gave out, but he had great bones...
asciilifeform: (what did the corpses have in common)
asciilifeform: they ended up having to call in the soviet equivalent of a 'pinkerton' to crack the puzzle
asciilifeform: the case was an interesting one, in that it was initially treated as epidemic
asciilifeform: interestingly no mention of this on pediwikia
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: bunch of folks in ussr once died from vitamin d overdose. a tank of it was stolen and sold as 'cooking oil' (has roughly the correct appearance and consistency)
BingoBoingo: All of those are too obvious vor contemporary assassinations. What about was prescribed too much Vitamin D3?
asciilifeform: at the rate the bureaucrats work, might die of old age. can never get quality service around here!
asciilifeform doesn't own airplane, will probably have to settle for slipping in his bath with a cocked nailgun
decimation: why would they be able to accomplish anything "evil" well?
decimation: ascii, I'm reluctant to jump on the conspiracy bandwagon because the usg seems unable to accomplish anything "good" very well
BingoBoingo: What devices, hearts are easy to treat pharmaceutically. Hearts are awfully deterministic for organic machines.
decimation: yeah no doubt, but those people probably could be identified and treated with various medical devices
asciilifeform: or should they sue the bartender who mixed the a saxitoxin cocktail?
BingoBoingo: Some people therapeutically have abnormal heartbeats
asciilifeform: what are they to do - sue the nice folks who put the thermite limpet in the turbine the night before?
BingoBoingo: Also aside from torsades de points no ununsual heart beats are that... rare
BingoBoingo: Because Pratt is in the engine industry and Ellison is in the problem industry.
decimation: how the hell does she get the right to sue a real engine maker, yet no one can sue larry ellison (she died not far from his private hawaiian island)
decimation: her estate is suing pratt & whittney for not having fixed the "forseeable" problem of the metal fatigue destroying a prop
asciilifeform: that makes what, 6? 7? 'interesting' people died in private airplanes in the past year or two
BingoBoingo: Are there any lawyers in the Illinois bar here? I'd be interested in making contact if so.
decimation: the burea-tard who signed Obama's birth certificate died in a plane crash (survived the crash but "had irregular heart beat" after 60 minutes in the water)
decimation: for example, I read this story in the morning paper: http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/25730375/estate-of-late-state-health-director-files
asciilifeform: the bureaucrats simply bent under the weight of the seemingly inevitable
asciilifeform: don't make the mistake of thinking of this as a 'prime mover' though
asciilifeform: decimation: u.s. software industry was essentially exempted from ordinary consumer liability by statute some time in the '80s
decimation: re: managerial traitors : the problem is that somehow standard criminal and civil liability law doesn't apply for some reason
BingoBoingo: And I have yet to verify a nigger with black skin. I've only met white niggers.
decimation: I think unisys bought the main library vendor
asciilifeform: decimation: i distinctly recall when the libraries here went winblows
BingoBoingo: And when the hell will Pinay cam girls start shaving...
decimation: I remember my high school days worked at the local library - used IBM serial terminal with "scan gun" that would insert code at the appropriate spot on the terminal screen
decimation: bar code readers are a trival add-on character device
BingoBoingo: decimation: What about bar codes. Reisters are run by tards.
asciilifeform: decimation: nothing like the target corp. 'hack' takes place without the cooperation of managerial traitors
decimation: I recently decided to force myself to use emacs for sole text editor, took me about a week to get the movement stuff down. THere's no excuse for a cash register not to be purely keyboard basd
decimation: I wonder if whoever decided to "upgrade" the target POS system to winblows was fired or promoted?
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: try using 'clitoral mouse' on the old toshibas, for example
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: on the contrary, using portables as a student is what got me using 'ratpoison'
decimation: well portable ipad based bodegas or whatever are a corner case. I'm talking about Target
BingoBoingo: decimation: THe use case I find for fancier DE's over wimple wm's is portables. Smaller the machine the more pointy clicky is a benefit.
asciilifeform: microshit comes and offers to 'help'
asciilifeform: the way this usually works is that old vendor (say, ibm) either 'end of lifes' or decides to charge a fortune for support
decimation: using a mouse on a cash register is going to be demonstrably slower for data entry for one thing
decimation: how could any thinking person consider a winblows interface an 'upgrade'?
BingoBoingo: Also, did anyone else here have reason to learn Ubuntu 12.04 ships without syslogd or rsyslog???
decimation: old mainframe based serial terminals - reliable and invulnerable to hackers (at least, at the lowest layers)
asciilifeform: (the lisp machines ran a fraud detector heuristic gizmo, afaik the first of its kind.)
decimation: this reminds me of the "point of sale" system upgrades I've witnessed at various US bodegas
asciilifeform: they sold thousands of surplus boxes when they moved to some 'enterprise' crudware
assbot: Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System (STARS)
decimation: these people have been "replacing" routing software since the 90's http://hf.tc.faa.gov/projects/stars.htm
BingoBoingo: Airplanes hit the road as well. I hope I can find a kind Brazillian tribe to adopt a pastie like me when America surrenders the world's only successful CAS plane.
asciilifeform: AmEx was once the largest customer of smbx
decimation: well, the can be "replaced", FAA style
asciilifeform: proggys dating to gulf war 1 (at least) for which there will be no substitute
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: unlike the airplane folks, this is a case where the rubber actually hits the road. there's a couple dozen ancient boxes, that cannot be replaced.
BingoBoingo: Can and Can pretend, this distinction enabled the F-35
decimation: well, $10k per year is hardly worth much. but if one could resurrect the whole project, complete with hardware...
asciilifeform: there is scarcely anyone left alive who could take his work
asciilifeform: i doubt the contract will be honoured when dks finally succumbs to old age
BingoBoingo: So... $10 mill can piss on the contracts?
asciilifeform: it's worth about what a decent restaurant in a small town is.
asciilifeform: re: symbolics: if anyone has a $mil or two in their sofa cushions, can probably buy it. but then you'll be conscripted into supporting the ancient contracts.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: It's my Urbit one. Apparently the Google/NSA complex really dislikes Nock too....
asciilifeform: can't say that i can
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Would you venture to guess at which post of my blog might pass the Mircea OpenBSD one in the next few months?
asciilifeform: decimation: if i recall, they do cartography there
decimation: Interesting. Fort Belvoir. Someone in DoD is a fan of these things
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I envy you that Sympolics ended on a high note and Apple outlived its masterpiece the SE/30.
asciilifeform: what the present-day symbolics corp. is for is not a secret:
BingoBoingo: Wealth in itself is nothing without taste.
asciilifeform: mallery is a 'man of wealth and taste', possibly consults for nsa & friends.
BingoBoingo: Rabite's purpose is not correctness, security, or anything else understandable.... Rabit is soley for the lulz.
asciilifeform: after topping (con man) died
asciilifeform: a source that didn't want to be named told me that one dr john mallery (mit) bought it for fire sale price
decimation: reminds me of that "rabite" guy that MP recently unarchived
asciilifeform: didn't know a thing about computers
decimation: I wonder if you can run modern emacs on one of those things
BingoBoingo: Reti did that beautiful presentation you embeded.
asciilifeform: and, of course, the owner.
asciilifeform: the only other 'playing characters' in the outfit are, afaik, a fellow named kalman reti (software support; wrote the x86-64 emu)
BingoBoingo: A drive sounds tempting atm, furthest east I;ve been is 'New Harmony" Indiana. I still need to drink on this matter some more.
asciilifeform: the man is in his 80s i think
asciilifeform: not sure if he has any left to sell these days
asciilifeform: david lives in a little house, generously stocked with parts, and fixes the remaining machines for a modest fee. ☟︎
decimation: goes to show how forgotten symbolics is I guess
decimation: apparently there is a massive demoer scene for super mario brothers X
gribble: The Price Is Wrong, Bitch - Happy Gilmore (8/9) Movie CLIP (1996 ...: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QJiAK-s5a0>; The Price is Wrong - YouTube: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L6Uz67u4xM>; The Price Is Wrong Bitch GIFs on Giphy: <http://giphy.com/search/the-price-is-wrong-bitch>
asciilifeform: used to be on 'nasdaq' as smbx
gribble: SMBX Tutorial: How to make a message box - YouTube: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwSWoo00A1U>; SMBX Level Editor Tutorial | Advanced | Layers & Events - YouTube: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGDBkUBKkQU>; Super Mario Bros X - Cheat Codes - YouTube: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhm8qwjlPQM>
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: afaik he's a sworn vassal of the estate. and some bozo bought it.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Was it price of principle that kept the symbolics pagemaster from parting with their schematics...