asciilifeform: but yes on second glance i could tell that diana_coman's ace was english -- letter A is megaclue
asciilifeform: diana_coman: the anglos, fwiw, have what i suspect is the world's ugliest standardized (and it is astonishingly standardized) deck of cards. iirc ~unchanged from shakespeare's time
asciilifeform: the penalty for not buying chinese liquishit, via the approved import channels, is strict.
asciilifeform: incidentally i fully expect that screensavers ( in the 1990s sense of the word ) will soon come back : crapple et al finally went to oled ( luminophor-based display, sorta like flat crt but with even faster burn in, mtbf ~2years )
asciilifeform: ftr i had nfi he existed. ( but this is not saying much )
asciilifeform: 'The 2 time ACM Entertainer of the Year Award winner has sold 15 million albums and has 17 #1 songs! “With all the albums we’ve done, we’ve always taken our own path and not thought about what everyone else is doing,” says Jason Aldean.'
asciilifeform: i dun see any particular reason to swallow the Official story
asciilifeform: i.e. scapegoat, picked from intel's list of old men nobody will esp. notice; meanwhile maidan sniper squad culled the culls
asciilifeform: 'Law enforcement has no "derogatory information" about Paddock, besides the fact that he received a citation several years ago that was handled in the court system, Lombardo said.'
asciilifeform: according to beobachter, one 'Stephen Paddock... ...64, was found dead in his room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas when a police SWAT team broke down the door. Sheriff Joseph Lombardo said authorities believe Paddock killed himself.... Paddock had a private pilot's license and the FAA is gathering his records, according to FAA spokeswoman Laura Brown. So far, authorities have found no military rec
asciilifeform also thinks 'grecoroman' when hears 'classical'
asciilifeform: seems like brits have the worst of 2 worlds -- 1stworld prices, 3rdworld realestate
asciilifeform looks at his desk, and finds, other than FGs, 1 and only 1 object made in usa -- the ibm keyboard, circa 1982
asciilifeform: lol, what other than fg might you even want sent from there.
asciilifeform: diana_coman: 'post service' i suppose is 'the fine service of searching through packages an' pilfering'
asciilifeform: british are famous for this kind of thing for 300yrs, neh, this is as much a surprise as the dozen+ mosquito bites on asciilifeform's leg
asciilifeform: diana_coman: as one who lives 20min from the fuhrerbunker, asciilifeform is not someone to lecture folx on 'time to move'. but i dun think anybody could ~pay~ me enuff to live in rotherhamistan...
asciilifeform: who would steal a 30 y.o. 220v brick -- to this day i have nfi.
asciilifeform: one time, in 2000s, asciilifeform bought a mk61 classic sov calculator from a d00d in ru. came in, noshit, old-school wooden crate, everything intact, manuals, etc. BUT the power brick -- snippycutted off.
asciilifeform: could be in one zimbabwestan, could be in other.
asciilifeform: how to even tell where on the route, stole.
asciilifeform: it ain't as if what comes down yer pipe from !!key , is itself signed..
asciilifeform: which any gpg-compatible pgptron ever released, will accept as valid, its signatures - as genuine, etc.
asciilifeform: the funniest bit is that anybody who spends a few $10k to find sha1 collision, can take it one step further and make a valid subkey for asciilifeform's, or mircea_popescu's, etc. key☟︎
asciilifeform: ( anybody can lift a modulus from one place, and drop it in another, so this kind of 'graffiti' is trivial )
asciilifeform: i won't put my signature on a leaking rsatron. but i also grasp 'go to war with the shovel you have', we're for instance still using rotten ol' gpg.
asciilifeform: side q : for what does eulora even need crypto ? authentication - i can see, needs. but the movements of the players are theoretically public, neh?
