diana_coman: mod6, "tight coupling" would be a very ....british way of putting it: I think trinque has it there with "rat king"
trinque: qt thing itself was an abominable nightmare of a hacked together carve-path drawing tool
trinque: but also there were plenty of idiots that could not think clearly about the problem in the abstract either, i.e. there is a board, it is to be carved along these paths, so on
mod6: as far as this knot of ps, or the qt thing?
trinque: and asciilifeform is right that the sheer mass of the thing made it impossible to lift into one's head
trinque: they're not incompatible points, really
asciilifeform: trinque: there is no tangle properly speaking ~in~ their skull. when proggy no longer fits in head, programming turns into a brute physical, rather than intellectual activity
trinque: and they just let people walk around like that!
trinque: imagine that this tangling of classes happens in the sinner skulls before disgracing code
asciilifeform: (for instance, prohibits pointer arithmetic, or even the use of a pointer in any context other than where it was born; or to any item not in advance marked pointable-at.)
asciilifeform: diana_coman: spiffy article, good illustration of the kind of affair ada was built to prevent
diana_coman: hopefully won't end up thrown to the lions though :))
mod6: well, someone may suppose that you'd rather smashed in the head with a simple rock, or this here complex ax head.
diana_coman: I suppose I should be grateful it is done with numbers straight rather than pointers too
mod6: my mind reels at what the whole slot location mechinism.
mod6: so ya, sounds like there is really no design pattern, or at lesat not a discernable one 'eh
diana_coman: sure, they have classes and classes inheriting classes and so on and so forth, but as to the reasons for inheritance...
mod6: from there, you would extend the abstract hat, and provide whatever implementations required, including whatever x/y points or whatnot to draw the thing...
diana_coman: it really took me months to accept the evidence that "abstract" is something entirely unknown there
mod6: my mind boggles at how they even have this setup. for instance, in my mind, if you were going to have say, 30 different types of hats in the game, there would be a simple, abstract hat class.
mod6: i just read your article, nice write up. I'm stunned at what you're saying there.
deedbot: http://www.dianacoman.com/2017/02/18/the-open-sores-of-monkey-code/ << Ossasepia - The open sores of monkey code
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i;m too lazy to go into the archives.
asciilifeform: and also 'attacker' and definitely not 'aaah but we kept the magic inflatron key, what, idiot, you believed that we burned it?!'
mircea_popescu: hopefully this starts popping up in "rape" cases : your honor, the seminal fluid was already mostly absorbed by the alleged victim's uterus.
mircea_popescu: well no cause for alarm then.
mircea_popescu: "absorbed by the markets" huh.
asciilifeform: 'We estimate the attacker has created about 370,000 Zcoins which has been almost completely sold except for about 20,000+ Zcoin and absorbed on the market with a profit of around 410 BTC. In other words, the damage has already been mostly absorbed by the markets.'
mod6: <+BingoBoingo> In europe bird hunters hit at extreme range because they use 1, 2, or 4 gauge "punt guns", US maxes out at 10 and 12 gauge for the reason that ducks respond to bigger guns by just flying higher and then arms race << huh. yeah those would be huge.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-18#1615241 << lol, s33k000rity camera. and demands to 'Por favor, instale plugins primero!' ! i shit thee not, a winblowz exe.
jhvh1: thestringpuller: It's not just you. mimisbrunnr.cascadianhacker.com/ appears to be down.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i think the pee thing makes you a... punter ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i suspect the thing is, us duck / swamp birds mostly live in estuaries ; whereas in europe over river marshlands.
BingoBoingo: In europe bird hunters hit at extreme range because they use 1, 2, or 4 gauge "punt guns", US maxes out at 10 and 12 gauge for the reason that ducks respond to bigger guns by just flying higher and then arms race
mircea_popescu: blindfolded in the fog.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform think car. shoot driver ; shoot fuel tank ; these work with a fucking 38mm. if you're actually firing 20 gauge you can prolly fissure a cylinder / ablate the transmission / cut a hole throgh one blade large enough to make it no longer capable of flight << 20 gauge is small less common one, 12 gauge is bigger common one.
BingoBoingo: <ben_vulpes> so bad << Crank is probably best 'Murican film of the century so far
mod6: maybe the goose/duck hunters use a different choke than me too. so who knows.
mod6: im not sure how high they try to take the shots.... your pellet pattern spreads out the further and further away you are shooting. now, for instance, if I shoot at a pheasant that's too close too me. i'll hit it with a full pattern, and that will probably not be very awesome to eat.
mod6: ducks are a lot more involved. you gotta set out decoys and call 'em in to land. that's when those guys are in the blind they lock their wings coming into land that they shoot 'em. at least, that's what I hear.
mod6: i should note that pheasants are a bit different though. i try to get them up no further than 30 yards in front of me. any more than that shots get hard, birds catch wind and they're gone easier than you'd think. I keep the dogs between 15-25 yards in front of me, that way, they flush, bird pops up, i knock 'em down.
mod6: but heck, what do i know. when it comes down to it, any gun, with live ammo, is better than standing there with your dick in your hands.
mod6: so, yeah qcb, shotgun with buckshot will the job really well, especially inside the home or whatnot. but if I'm attacking, trying to lay down suppressing fire, or a part of some type of garrison, gotta have a rifle. at least, that's what I want in my hands.
mod6: that's just my $0.02. not gospel. personally, if I gotta fight in the field. i need to be able to put rounds on target up to at least 200 yards away or I'm basically in a qcb/hand-to-hand situation.
mod6: now, typically, as I understand, they typically take these deer at no more than 350 yards or you risk wounding the thing and having to track the sob for 10 miles.
mod6: they do fly fast, and it's a lot harder than it looks. for one. now maybe I just suck shit, and guys are popping birds @ 500 yards on the regular. but this, i haven't seen myself.
asciilifeform: https://archive.is/OwS20 << lulzy admixture of sense and nonsense. 'oh noez bit flips' but 0 mention of ecc. nor of the fact that almost all 'single event upset' are of ~earthly~ origin, ordinary beta decay
mircea_popescu is always very suspicion of the female professions, from religion to "our democracy" to aluminum siding salesmanship that "are open to everyone"
asciilifeform: afaik only the grave is 'for everyone'
asciilifeform: i am not a champion marksman, nor mega-hunter. but i do picture that duck hunt would be somewhat more difficult if you had to shoot a ~specific~ duck, rather than one from a flock; and if ducks knew how to shoot back, and call for backup..
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the idea is that qualified hunter should be able to hit a duck at a half mile EVERY TIME.
asciilifeform: mojaheds in afghan for some reason preferred to use things other than buckshot. but is interesting to contemplate theoretically - given dispersion, how many shotgun rounds would you have to fire, from, say, 500 metres, to hit rotor.
mircea_popescu: well, for the naive conviction that "nobody'd fucking dare"
mircea_popescu: half the time military gear is about to give up the ghost on its own merits, not like it's all tip top shiny new and well oiled.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it was, for the needs of this conversation, we flying with one dead filter in the redundant arrangement. because cost savings, see, ie "no money". another item everyone will get acquainted with in this maga life.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform think car. shoot driver ; shoot fuel tank ; these work with a fucking 38mm. if you're actually firing 20 gauge you can prolly fissure a cylinder / ablate the transmission / cut a hole throgh one blade large enough to make it no longer capable of flight
asciilifeform: aha i recall that piece, it was water in the fuel
asciilifeform: fwiw in fact i never once saw up close the shooting of a chopper. and subj was not covered in my kindergarten.
mircea_popescu: what you're doing however is on the level of, "oh, i saw A team shooting in hollywood blockbuster, therefore safest place in world is in front of firing squad. also small arms don't work. tee hee."
mircea_popescu: not really. but anywya, the proper model for helicopter is ~car ; except with the added benefits of jesus nut, and a serious incentive to keep everything light.
asciilifeform: 'with what to deal with chopper, and how' is a question some of the folx tuned in might, whether they want to or not, have to answer one day.
mircea_popescu: to see the subversion played straight insistently is pretty meh.
mircea_popescu: nah, the dude that played turkish.
a111: Logged on 2017-02-17 19:50 mircea_popescu: "so the biblical scholars mis-translated the hebrew word for young woman into the greek word for virgin. an easy mistake to make, since there's only a subtle difference in spelling. but it was the virgin that caught people's attention. it's not every day that a virgin conceives and bears a son. so you keep that for a couple hundred years, and the next thing you know, you have the holy catholic church."
mircea_popescu: whether it's safe or it's not safe to try and fly helicopter within range of enemy rifles is not going to be decided by stakhanovist stories of any flavour, be they pravda i, pravda ii, or whatever.
ben_vulpes: i've always wondered what monofilament (possibly coated in crushed glass) would do to the swash plate
trinque: incidentally this is not a bad DDOS mechanism for the DoD
trinque: good job; you just justified another 10bil to lockheed martin for "helicopter iron dome"
asciilifeform: 'but they are slow' -- not a problem , you do not need a rocket to catch up to a ~motionless victim
asciilifeform: to revisit upstack, i suspect that police choppers will remain a going concern right up until the first heatseaking quadcopter-cum-pyrotechnic.
asciilifeform: iirc early in ww2 instructions included 'shoot at dive bomber' but then changed to 'take cover'
trinque: and the rounds are big
asciilifeform: notably, this one 'He then walked into the backyard, fired shots toward a fence and then the helicopter.'
jhvh1: asciilifeform: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: "Could anyone really believe the earth was going to swallow up the incredible productive assets and unlimited human ingenuity existing in America?"
ben_vulpes: i didn't read it for the price, but to see how wide of the mark the wsj has drifted. it's an honest depiction of reality in that /it was published/, and depicts the process and its results.
trinque: I dunno; those people love the retweets too.
asciilifeform: whereas buffetronic price is a work of fiction, of the cheapest sort
asciilifeform: isis headsoff clips are different. in that they depict honest reality.
trinque: "see even buffet does it for the tweets. now retweet this shitty blog article."
mircea_popescu: whorington post. they're a mfa, like myspace.
ben_vulpes: so does not even the wsj do anything but contract for think pieces without any research by people who know nothing about the topic but that which they can find on google finance?
mircea_popescu: "so the biblical scholars mis-translated the hebrew word for young woman into the greek word for virgin. an easy mistake to make, since there's only a subtle difference in spelling. but it was the virgin that caught people's attention. it's not every day that a virgin conceives and bears a son. so you keep that for a couple hundred years, and the next thing you know, you have the holy catholic church."
trinque: so might be able to take one of those and script the generation of html
trinque: danielpbarron: ah you know what, no, they were sqlite databases inside
ben_vulpes: i am not a linguist, do not have the tongue to speak of tongues
ben_vulpes: the written form, i mean
Framedragger: such dedication to the cause danielpbarron, i'm curious if you ever considered learning greek (new testament) and possibly hebrew/aramaic (old testament), to read scriptures etc.
trinque: iirc there's this "esword" program which might be balls of html inside
trinque: danielpbarron: curious where you're getting the corrections to your transcription of the bible
mircea_popescu: no rape though. seems equally probable dood's one of those gynonormative folk the gynostate can't stomach. probably told some fat waitress to move her ass while brandishing a fork, aka sexual battery with a weapon or force.
asciilifeform: and, bonus, 'According to ABC affiliate WFTV in Orlando, Barrett was already on probation and wearing a court-ordered GPS monitor for a number of felony offenses, including kidnapping, multiple counts of sexual battery with a weapon or force and grand theft.'
asciilifeform: the 'bombs' apparently consisted of toy fireworks.
asciilifeform: 'A Florida man has been charged in connection with a plot to bomb Target stores along the East Coast, with hopes that such an attack would force the retailer's stock to plunge and allow him to cheaply buy its stock, federal investigators announced Thursday. ... Barnett offered an unnamed individual -- referred to as a "confidential source" (CS) in the documents -- $10,000 to plant bombs in stores in several states, according to the a
asciilifeform: meanwhile, the dept. of newyorkdeathrayplots continues to delight, https://archive.is/3thme
deedbot: http://danielpbarron.com/2017/the-bible-markup-project/ << Daniel P. Barron - The Bible Markup Project
thestringpuller: i just get bunch of tx's into the mempool
a111: Logged on 2017-02-16 02:49 hanbot: what's the proper name to ascribe to this super fun phenomenon wherein trb node happily catches up on blocks until 99.x% and then drops connections and stops seeing new blocks after <10mins?
thestringpuller: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-16#1614373 << I can't get my node to "stay current". dunno if it's refusing to receive blocks, or just doesn't know to ask for them
jhvh1: shinohai: The operation succeeded.
BingoBoingo: How the newspaper of Bush II whitehouse has fallen.
ben_vulpes: Reuel: please to stop with the join/part spam
mircea_popescu: take all the hotties out, get them drunk and smiling at the camera and there's your first article.
phf: it is good to be outside DC for these exciting times
mircea_popescu: they really gotta stop passing highschooler essays on a generalized regexp criterion. that's not how writing works.
mircea_popescu: da fuck is "the american idea". i'd very much like to hear this, even as a draft form.
asciilifeform: in other recent lulz, http://www.weeklystandard.com/decius-unmasked/article/2006623 <<< >>> http://www.claremont.org/crb/basicpage/the-flight-93-election
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the only thing that was always abundant throughout the years was years.
phf: oh, man, "stairwell wit" as the frenchmen say
mircea_popescu: didn't you tell them seeing eye dogs also train for years ?
phf: well, i had drink with a group of protestan priests, that, once sloshed, were ranting about the "unfairness": priests study for 8 years, doctors study for 8 years, why don't both have same salaries? "what we need is a bloody revolution" (what like with guns? -- "... no. you mean, like bloody revolution"). what sort of "training" or "sanity"
mircea_popescu: oh speaking of this, anyone saw city island ? delightful little mistaken identity item very much in the proper commedia dell'arte tradition. with andy garcia though, so myeah.
mircea_popescu: enforce schmenforce, for that matter. i do plenty of enforcing in the sense of training, either because girl "doesn't see" why she should x or didn't put enough blood and tears into it. but i've yet to you know, enforce her being meek. that comes fucking naturally, for one thing, and for the other, really, what sane people have to yell at each other ? i've never seen this.
a111: Logged on 2017-01-13 02:53 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-01-12#1602003 << we do not, afaik, presently have a knob in trb that would enable the 'at you' part of this.
phf: right, my yoga teacher friend, who's been "friendly" with all the local boys had enough experience in the matter to "hell fucking no am i ever" as far as marrying an indian. they ~expect~ their women to be meak, but they don't have any way of enforcing it, so the dynamic goes straight into bitchy couple mode as soon as there's any hint of "couple"
mircea_popescu: i give it even odds he's going to twink for pay before the five year plan is out.
phf: there's one boy on the beach, he affected caribbean accent (!!) and just fully committed to the whole kingston bad boy shtick. "ja man", king tubby reggae, the works. they had a going away party for him, because he scored the jack pot. married a homely english girl, who's bringing him back to u.k.
asciilifeform: ~these~ talk to outside world.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: malleus has 0 relation to the item suggested.
mircea_popescu: (the divine part came from, not that she was subservient but that we had no substantial disagreements, which to them was precisely the same thing ; and didn't match their observations among the "truly successful" dudes of the locality (there's a bunch of people who got a fat old bitty from londonderry to move over, funnel some bezzle and build a house-foreigners-and-boat thingee). )
mircea_popescu: they just couldn't comprehend relationship matching their filter but not matching their expectation. how could it!!11
mircea_popescu: i lived for months among a group of monkeys who considered me ~divine, because well, chet was there with me.
mircea_popescu: phf that's btw muslim influence. this is currently the ~only alternative to "blow shit up", the white cow.
phf: i see that skip generation here, boys want to transcend fathers, move to Dubai for riches, and if they manage to return (because the contract negotiator was a nice person), switch to plan B. get some nodic lady to take them to the promissed land.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes gotta distribute. there's just no other way. i kinda hinted at it back when, but didn't want to be telling you how to do your shit. anyway : make a half dozen nodes, not one.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: didja try the scheme where your node only talks to trb nodes ?
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, anyone read that splendid piece, late austrian, i think might've been kafka actually, in which a woman fucked in the bushes complains, to no one in particular, that there she is, still taking it with the dust ?
ben_vulpes: so in light of the triviality with which the TRB node to which mimisbrunnr talks is taken out by even moderately determined actors, i'm considering taking the whole thing down until i have a more robust data collector system in place.
mircea_popescu: the daughter of the woman who gave birth in a ditch isn't gonna. with her life. it skips a generation.
mircea_popescu: tell you what, ben_vulpes 's girl, or for that matter lucy (in disgrace) has no problem doing barefoot-in-mud thing because once+ removed from the grandmothers.
phf: i'm in the south, they have many choice words here for uttar pradesh here, when you get them drunk
phf: well, it'll be easier for them to hard knock, because hipsters will just go back to farming/fishing because ~father and mother~ did
mircea_popescu: a pile of ten corpses is not the same thing as a pile of eight hundred.
mircea_popescu: mostly because there's, in spite of all the noise and burbling, just a smattering of ustards. there's about 100x more of them in uttar pradesh alone.
mircea_popescu: it'll be truly sad when all the indian hipsters discover the hard facts through harder knocks.
mircea_popescu: and unlike the us, which they "helped" into their present predicament, india has no fat to burn.
phf: it's the original "helping africa"
mircea_popescu: it was a ridiculous piece of british nonsense about on par with their middle eastern constructions. has no place in sanity.
mircea_popescu: phf hopefully indian "state" fails within the next few years.
mircea_popescu: phf i have no confidence in "chemical cronometer" crackpot alfism. notice that there has never existed such a thing as a chemical clock, not even today. it is, i daresay, the earliest application of "quantum computer", this.
mthreat: people who don't shower in jail/prison are called 'vikings', or another name in Spanish which I forget. There is peer pressure to not stink in there.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the washing thing is a serious problem. turns out that if no women around, people stop seeing the point.
phf: in fact ~best~ rate i could find anywhere in the 40km radius came with a plea of "i'll give you even better rate, bra, if you can bring me some more of them $100 bills"
phf: meanwhile, elsewhere, you can get better forex rate for $100 bills, rather than $20 bills, which basically puts status quo on par with russia in '93
phf: there's a chapter on how switzerland is 99% cashless, and how that should be a goal in india
phf: "the advantages of digital money over fiat money"
phf: in unrelated lulz india has this strong propaganda going on for switching everyone to digital payments. i bought this party line magazine, that's supposed to explain how safe, fast, secure, easy world is going to become after there's no longer any cash
asciilifeform: 'whaddayamean you don't know how to work the strong force yet'
phf: if only you knew that thing greeks knew, but your civilization won't rediscover for another 100 years
phf: i wonder how many submissions there are "aww, if only you knew this thing that got discovered 15 years after you died, your approach would've worked"
phf: given the number of whacky proposals, i suspect it could have a handful of chemical once, that failed the engineering part
ben_vulpes: btw, this ipv6 character who appeared to get k-lined earlier and just showed up and dropped again ('deepbook5broo') has been appearing in other freenode channels i habituate as well
phf: we should hit royal astronomy archives in greenwich, which is going to have exhaustive record of all the chronometer competition submissions
ben_vulpes: myeah, that's pretty much exactly what i'm talking about. hence 'stuck', as not available at the time.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: yeah, capillary's going to get hit hard as the oil level drops
ben_vulpes: i only know what i've found in the wild, which is why i'm stuck on porous bronze
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: capillary wicks were a thing in the late seventeens?!
ben_vulpes: phf: "these are just engineering problems, silly mortal"
ben_vulpes: still suffers the hourglass reset problem, no?
phf: sealed ampoule and stable temperature are the tricky parts, so have to be factored into the chemical reaction, but then your timeframes don't match. john harrison died in 1780, mendeleev was born in 1830
asciilifeform: (for stable temperature, naturally the ampoule is stowed up boatswain's arse)
asciilifeform: the british tried all sorts of crackpottery, but afaik nothing of this sort.
asciilifeform: phf: one of the things that always bothered me re chronometer is : why the fuck nobody tried chemical reaction for timekeeping
phf: thoroughly researched, but at the same time written from first person with no pretense to authority.
phf: re "apprentice as watchmaker" i picked up first edition of The Marine Chronometer by Gould. i would call it "delightful"
asciilifeform: sorta like those folx in prison who decide to stop washing. and after that why bother to brush teeth, wipe arse, dress, etc.
phf: i think the solution is to give up. switch to windows 10, connect through web irc client, put gpg key into keybase, the works
phf: hmm, running ircII inside emacs's term is probably not the best idea. i don't know how those two artifacts came about..
a111: Logged on 2017-02-16 17:57 mircea_popescu: yes i'll get archival copy of stuff i like. amusingly, 99% of which doesn't exist in better resolution anyway. wtf am i going to do with an archival copy of cat on the hot tin roof, watch the original artefacts in preference of the modern ones ?
phf: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-16#1614694 << i watched a lot of "classics" in pirate quality, and i prefer it that way. notorious example is Alien, where between the original print and the pirate shit copy you could barely see anything, which made the experience more terrifying.
mircea_popescu: that kid has the archetypical "face that demands a punch"
mircea_popescu: now if only could make cpu there too.
mircea_popescu: then again, usians also.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the idea is more, every few blocks has this "fresh homemade pasta!" "pasta factory!" "el palacio de la pasta!" bullshits and they're so shockingly bad i can't begin to imagine wtf they're thinking.
mircea_popescu: ah ok then
mircea_popescu: no, actually, the thing itself. closed, headquarters turned into museum.
BingoBoingo: Well, not to get rid of the now CIA, but yes to prevent a future CIA
mircea_popescu: but honeslty, if you look at the basics such as budgets, it seems cia's history will end this trump term.
mircea_popescu: though it';s not exactly clear what they'd do with it.
trinque: incidentally the US is iirc one state legislature majority from being able to call a republican constitutional convention
trinque: more a "and you are ruled by them" angle
thestringpuller: BingoBoingo: I'm working on beds. Although I have a mini-nursery with mainly spinach and other greens.
mircea_popescu: three cases out of five, mother won't even leave him over it.
mircea_popescu: nobody's shooting anybody because a guy killed the worms some other guy left behind.
mircea_popescu: trinque to see a bunch of "central america" not giving the slightest shit about "call me father" stepfather violence towards the (literal) bastards, among other such items.
BingoBoingo: thestringpuller: How is gardening down south? Start any vegetables yet?
trinque: also the value of faking something like this is obvoius
trinque: and "CALL ME FATHER" being yelled by a boston accent
trinque: somebody short locked inside, maybe a dog to the right
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: network degrading is 100% a 'if not you, then who' affair. run nodez.
trinque: we were having a thread the other day about what would get the central US to start shooting people
mircea_popescu: the network is degrading, alfie.
mircea_popescu: i confess i don't follow the idea trinque
asciilifeform: hanbot: fwiw all of my nodes operate with malleus. since the day i wrote it.
trinque: asciilifeform: somebody dumped it to 4chan; who knows authenticity
asciilifeform: trinque: what's the context for this find ?
mircea_popescu: in other make daytime tv great again, fox now so far ahead #1 tv station it pussygrabs.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: i can't even figure that out for myself. 90% of the time i think "mmm, chocolate. tasty i guess but i kinda want some more challah or whatever else i baked most recently covered in bread"
a111: Logged on 2017-02-16 04:19 asciilifeform: trinque: the correct response would be top 500 of cia org chart found hanging on meat hooks. and afaik no report of this.
trinque: anybody wants to actually http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-16#1614425 leaking the full video without obstructions would be a great start
trinque: maybe a dog in there chewing on him or something
trinque: speaking of cheese pizza, there's a video floating around that looks like somebody torturing a kid in a shower
BingoBoingo: In other truth-indeterminate news http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/02/16/third-arrest-made-planned-arrest-attack-deploraball/
ben_vulpes: gathering intelligence!
asciilifeform: ite House and executives with the president’s company, the Trump Organization, out of concern that an American policy shift toward Russia could endanger its sovereignty, according to a third person with direct ties to that nation’s government.' (from lulzweek)
asciilifeform: 'As part of intelligence operations being conducted against the United States for the last seven months, at least one Western European ally intercepted a series of communications before the inauguration between advisers associated with President Donald Trump and Russian government officials, according to people with direct knowledge of the situation. ... Moreover, a Baltic nation is gathering intelligence on officials in the Trump Wh
ben_vulpes: $girl has been probing for the caek i will eat. so far, not much success.
BingoBoingo: Also ty President Trump for the lulzy press conference
asciilifeform: hanbot: (and everyone else reporting a suboptimally-behaving trb node) -- plz consider stating the vpatch-set
hanbot: asciilifeform> hanbot: first apply the basic litmus: does the thing eat rpc commands while blackholed ? yepper, eats. no malleus. meanwhile has caught up without restart, and meanwhile also noticed my addnode medley's outdated.
asciilifeform: there was room enough for, e.g., ulbricht, to be sentenced for life
mircea_popescu: which is the fucking point. ONE non plea-bargain item ruins his month. do that.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if they all demanded to be tried, queue time would average to multiple years, like in ru
mircea_popescu: and yet they STILL sign the fucking plea bargains, like the idiots that they obviously are.
asciilifeform: also unlike sov world, time sat in 'jail' (i.e. pre-sentencing, vs 'prison') does not automagically subtract from the sentence, if sentenced.
mircea_popescu: merely waiting for court system to get its shit together. average wait time well over 18 months.
mircea_popescu: for instace : more than half of the people doing time at any specific moment are NOT actually convicted of anything.
mircea_popescu: way way too common an occurence for there to be that few. shit's more common than murder, definitely.
mircea_popescu: i don't, specifically, but you run into them with some regularity when spelunking in court "records".
asciilifeform: if you actually have a list of the thousands, might be interesting to publish?
asciilifeform: (how many of them now. dozen?)
asciilifeform: i wonder if he is sitting in same jail as the encrypted hdd d00d
mircea_popescu: repackaging of the ancient socialistoid idiocy, "oh, creative people just can't keep themselves from creating shit we can all eat" ; except it's "men can't sit put" now. whatevs.
mircea_popescu: female state. it expects its victims to want to get shit done, and hence they came up with that.
asciilifeform: i can already picture the d00d throwing a cryptogram into the crowd at his hanging, like capt. kidd.
mircea_popescu: bitch, if and when i feel like buying you a new pair of sneakers i know where the shop is and where i keep my money.
mircea_popescu: 15yo marches downstairs, "i am giving you another chance to buy me a car"
asciilifeform: 'wrecker given another chance to confess'
asciilifeform: aha, gotta love the phrasing
mircea_popescu: check it out, judge "giving chance" ? what is this, a romantic comedy ? dork with no tits and no clue "giving another chance" for someone to be her meal ticket ?