asciilifeform: he's insufferable. in the 12yo 'i am NINJA!1111' sense.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ever meet the d00d in person ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, i guess it's the best he can do, with what he has. which is sad but then again what can you expect. the goat - grazes.
asciilifeform: 'oooh i found a Warm Iron Thing in the taiga, let's break it open and get the magic out'
asciilifeform: sorta the fundamental problem with 'john smiths', bottle-shakers.
mircea_popescu: "Second: show me your code. I want to see URLs to public repositories with your commits in them. (OpenHub statistics will do for a first cut.) Your credibility goes up with commit volume and number of different projects. and especially with the number of other people you have collaborated with."
asciilifeform: and there was -- apparently -- no one left to say 'eh..no, you weren't there, and did ~0'
asciilifeform: the lulzy bit re esr is that he appointed himself 'elder' in 1980s! of an atlantis that had by that time long ago sunk deep beneath the sea (mit)
mircea_popescu: and lords are now "elders" in his ad-hoc "i've not read #trilema i just rewrite what comes to me from the spheres"
mircea_popescu: the webternet is ~useless.
asciilifeform recently dug around for the facts behind the hatter's plush thing, and found nothing but pediwikia-copies-of-copies-of-copies-x1000
asciilifeform: theoretically.
asciilifeform: (chiefly in that they are a 'nonrenewable resource'.)
asciilifeform: i not only miss'em, but act on the impulse and... install'em
mircea_popescu: tbh i kinda miss those devices. i'd much rather have 9 pin printer than the current malfunctioning atrocities.
asciilifeform: the days when amateurs wrote linux device drvrs on weekends, are long gone.
asciilifeform: to briefly revisit upstack, linux as we have it now is a direly and fatally centralized, in the worst possible sense, item: to the extent it runs on in-production iron at all, it is because some stingy but present support exists from the vendors, and from the megaconglomerates (rathead et al). if withdrawn, linux turns into openbsd overnight.
mircea_popescu: who the fuck eats the us workman's buffet crap and also is a professional in any field ?
mircea_popescu: oh that's what it is, "conferences" specifically. dude... i have nfi why anyone with any sort of qualification would actually appear at one of these. for one thing, they don't pay. for another thing, they are about on 1980s soviet level of amenties, fucking hell ima brownbag food because i don't eat burger king ?
mircea_popescu: if it is true, then it can't be much of a criterion retrospectively.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in honesty, i don't think anyone who came before had the intelligence / intellectual wherewithal to realise what the standards should be.
a111: Logged on 2016-12-31 18:20 mircea_popescu: but not just llvm - the whole world exists, and it produces things such as "'Static linking of user binaries is not supported on Mac OS X. Tying user binaries to the internal implementation of Mac OS X libraries and interfaces would limit our ability to update and enhance Mac OS X. Instead, dynamic linking is supported (linking against crt1.o automatically instead of looking for crt0.o, for example). We strongly recommend tha
trinque: aha, just poking it for the benefit of logs. it's a sad state to be in.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not only the malodorous phoundations, but the very architecture of linux, with the massive #include interdependencies, and the lack of demand for HUMAN-READABLE specs when device drivers are submitted
trinque: in the gcc thread, wasn't this considered to be gcc's only defense?
asciilifeform: 'but oh noez, if i make the acorns MOVABLE, little squirrels will come and take'em in all directions'
asciilifeform: they are quite happy to glue with broken glass.
asciilifeform: not rms, or linus, either.
asciilifeform: it was never anything other than obvious that -- in practice, in the field -- the open sores folx don't think much of this 'free sharing' thing.
asciilifeform: (how?? -- they aren't self-contained, but relay on a titanic rat's nest of #include functionality, e.g., interrupt stack)
asciilifeform: btw anyone who has tried to port a linux device driver (from recent years) to an un-linuxlike os, will know what i am talking about: they are 'glued with broken glass', and it is not in any sense trivial.
mircea_popescu: so nvidia will "eject linus from the open source project he was working on" and not release their driver, and linus will tell them to get fucked.
trinque: in fact there's mention of a linux "fork" somewhere in or beyond those comments, can't be arsed to pull up again
asciilifeform: linux is actually a direly centralized thing, because of the device racket
mircea_popescu: maybe we've all been "ejected from the open source community we participated in" aka prb ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is not mega-mystery. they... let in the vermin you've been keeping out. and project turns into, e.g., firefox.
mircea_popescu: it's not like the "open source communities" have much of a notion of identity anyway
mircea_popescu: how do you get "ejected" from an open source community anyway ? they're not going to merge your fixes anymore ? they're going to merge them but pretend they got them from obama / whatever-fashionable-nigger instead ? they're going to not merge anythingf seeing how you don't do anything anyway but ... no longer hurr durr with you ?
asciilifeform: a great many of the seemingly purposeless atrocities of the left could make sense as 'dog-kicking'.
asciilifeform: the point, to the extent there is one, is not even to specifically mutilate the childrenz (it is only one of many dr.mengele projects in the works) but to shoot the dogs that cannot resist biting
mircea_popescu: skepticism as in "it's fucking insane to not fuck children if you're going to pump them full of sex-drugs" ?
asciilifeform has never heard of any of the folx in this piece, save for c. yarvin aka mr mold
asciilifeform: 'In June 2015, the hacker Elia Shito publicly tweeted skepticism about transgenderism in children. Although Elia tweeted from his own personal account, Ehmke tried to get Elia Shito ejected from the open source community he participated in.'
asciilifeform: (dc apparatus proper is still busy with the 1990s-era rackets, e.g., funding of imaginary war machines, war on substances, etc)
mircea_popescu: funny how ready nobodies are to misrepresent themselves as teh owners of world.
asciilifeform: probably more of the 1M sv ones
asciilifeform: clearly, the vox populi, etc.
mircea_popescu: "is considered" by who the fuck.
asciilifeform: 'The extent to which Linus’s and others’ foul mouths are tolerated on official community fora is still considered a problem'
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: footnotes padding was just askew. fixed now. and thx too for the full screen tip.
asciilifeform: lulzy comments, also, e.g., 'While I don’t think he’s a “white supremacist” as such “off-line” in his essays under the pseudonym Moldbug, the travails of Curtis Yarvin as a pure hacker are illuminating, to the point I’m pretty sure they’ve killed any chance his Urbit might have in the so called marketplace of ideas.'
asciilifeform: in other lulz, https://realclimatescience.com/2017/01/noaa-us-temperatures-are-fake-news/
mircea_popescu: else there's a config file.
davout: interdastingly, the archive link from ten minutes ago comes second
mircea_popescu: everything BUT the article. including every article that mentions it by name (such as through the latest articles list). but not IT!
mircea_popescu: and i mean this literally, their web-accessible coreutils/lib/ is empty ; gotta fish it out off the ftp zips
mircea_popescu: sorry about the paste, i'd like to reference like a civilised person, but gnu isn't quite there yet. perhaps in another century or two.
mircea_popescu: hey, i'd rather the web went back to what it can do, and forgot all this "logins, because state over stateless, because PROGRESS MAKES IDIOCY POSSIBLE!!1"
jurov: i'd rather have gpg key autogenerated from some salt instead, that is guaranteed to never run into webshit derpage
davout: yeah, the issue is that some will *require* a fucking dollar sign, other ones will *prohibit* it
jurov: i wish it was all contrived... but started getting these nasty flashbacks on various webshit pw requirements, yuck
mircea_popescu: (but really most wwwshits just silently truncate your pw ; unless of course you use their own www form for some reason)
mircea_popescu: where the site asked.
mircea_popescu: suppose you always name your alts altone alttwo etc ; or any other fixed scheme
jurov: No you have to remember how did you name the alt
mircea_popescu: the output is base64 which i doubt they can narrow further, and if they want fewer you jsut truncate
jurov: some derpsites have litmitation on pw length, or used chars. Or they get rebranded or force you to change the pw or you want alt account, or...
mircea_popescu: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=tree;f=src;h=6e6cdb2f890ae17d51ce5ad7ee265336832754ba;hb=HEAD << why exactly this includes md6sum but not sha sum anything is of course a discussion best left for another time, once MAGA.
mircea_popescu: and don't give me the "but mp, depends on implementation" bullshit, because EVIDENTLY IT DOESN'T.
mircea_popescu: now let's do a practical exercise : produce a google query which results in the source of drepper's sha512
davout: also "echo -n" will not append a newline at the end of the string to be hashed, which might be best, otherwise you could end up in a world of wtf trying to reproduce it with some other setup
mircea_popescu: and btw notice the repeating bits : "gIC0K" ; "jYz" ; "ZT" "Nj" etc etc.
mircea_popescu: phf yeah, it's from last year. what HADNT come out until now is that the iranians got us naval cipher books.
mircea_popescu: The humiliating January 12 incident took place when Iranian navy intercepted two American ships off Farsi Island in the Persian Gulf. The US vessels, that according to the Pentagon were on their way from Kuwait to the US naval base in Bahrain, experienced mechanical problems and drifted into Iranian waters where the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) detained everyone onboard.
BingoBoingo: Was he on the Hollandaise Sauce?
BingoBoingo: The stretch of French history from 2012 through 2016 will now be known as the Hollandaise!
mircea_popescu: and what great hopes the hollande socialists held in 2012, supermajority in parliament, things they were gonna do... ou sont!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform basically, the rhodesia of rhodesia was just the first in a string of rhodesiaings.
mircea_popescu: france was very briefly a northern european country, against its will, under de gaulle. it really wants to go join the southern states where it belongs.
mircea_popescu: the greek thing left its marks. everyone wants free monyz, why not.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform for as long as zee germans keep backing the eu finances, sure.
mircea_popescu: vaguely curious if the "minister for productive recovery" will manage to steal valls' nomination though.
mircea_popescu: anyway, looks like if they manage 10% it'll be a great victory.
asciilifeform: they cancelled draft?!
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, the french left is debating "universal income of 750 euros per month", just for you know, existing ; reintroducing the draft (gotta earn that free money after all) ; electing the senate randomly. such topix.
jhvh1: BingoBoingo: The operation succeeded.
asciilifeform: incidentally, having not yet written a bot, i had nfi re the unreliability of the userlist thing.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-01-15#1603671 << why ? you're not supposed to do this, unless you want to. so don't do it ; and don't expect the bot to override you.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-01-15#1603630 << you could just start on your lordly mansion, not like you actually need the accolade to maintain it.
trinque: it'd put me in the position later where people are complaining that some nick can't be upped
trinque: asciilifeform: mno, shouldn't add reliance on state where there is currently none
indiancandy: they dont have a off button as off yet
indiancandy: did u watch the news
indiancandy: whose creating them
indiancandy: il be the bottom bitch
indiancandy: is there an app
mircea_popescu: the insanity of people on irc trying to find alternative means to communicate... but anyway.
mircea_popescu: anyway, there's definitely a living in... well, pimping the girls, i suppose. most cam talent is utterly incapable of about half the stuff it has to do and entirely unmotivated to do the rest. if you do for them what shop management does for mcdonalds ewelets a la http://trilema.com/2013/compliance/ you can in principle increase their income 10 to 100 and eat half to two thirds of that.
indiancandy: they all are
mircea_popescu: postmodern age === age of insanity. average individual is incapable of either forming or maintaining relationships much like a decerebrated pigeon is incapable of building a nest.
mircea_popescu: that's where the problems begin.
shinohai: I'd really like to have a few nice girls for more long-term profitable relationships. I hate the one-off emails.
mircea_popescu: there's worse bunnies.
shinohai: Yeah I think the universe has been trying to tell me to work with camwhores ever since I found trilema
asciilifeform: 'President Obama talks on the phone with president Petro Poroshenko of Ukraine about the Malaysia Airlines plane crash in eastern Ukraine, July 17, 2014. Here we see the new phone in gray, and as Obama's finger is covering the red light, and the green light is off, it seems a secure call.'
mircea_popescu: shinohai sounds like a consultancy biz right there.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that;s the lulziest part of it all, that somehow "nobody knows" just how naked the emperor is. meanwhile i have better connectivity than obama, and i mean that literally. and from a security perspective foremost.
indiancandy: i go to the gym
mircea_popescu: if you shot a guy they'd put you away, in ~the same conditions, for free. why even hussle, just go shoot a neighbour and be done.
mircea_popescu: you don't eat beef, don't take the cock, what do you do, play wow all day ?
mircea_popescu: indiancandy wouldn't you be better off if you simply went to every house in london, knocked on door, asked them if they want to move you in the closet and use you sexually for a coupla grand a month ?
shinohai: The only old part for me was translating filthy messages from English to Spanish and back again
mircea_popescu: actually at 100 bux or whatever this isn't the worst way to get at people. have woman print dude's pic, take a shit on it, then keep rickrolling him with the video.
shinohai: One girl I know on xhamster has a regular that plops down 1000 tokens at a time for her to print out pics of him and piss on them.
asciilifeform: 'Even in March 2016, when a full IT modernization had already started (see below), Obama said that the pop-culture depiction of presidential-grade technology and the real world are far apart: movies and TV shows "make it appear as if I’m in the [Situation] room and moving things. [We] have half a finger print and a half an hour later I’m tracking a guy on streets of Istanbul. Doesn’t work that way, no. Sometimes I’m just tryi
mircea_popescu: and with the one word per line!
shinohai: I do wonder how some of these girls keep their sanity. I guess I count blessings I have no boobs and merely offer behind the scenes services.
mircea_popescu: shinohai camwhoring altogether is a pretty abject occupation.
shinohai: or cluttered I dunno, lots of stuff on the screen
indiancandy: i dunoo i never used any other ones
shinohai: Well I did manage to follow you on twitter indiancandy ... mfc is quite possibly the most horrid cam site I have ever seen.
mircea_popescu: lol the devil suit in a devil suit wasn't too basd
shinohai: they accept Bitcoin, albeit through bitpay
indiancandy: duno if they r gd
indiancandy: and all these new sites
shinohai: I always loved assisting the Colombian girls with their sales. The limits of fetish indeed know no bounds.
indiancandy: then
shinohai: Usually in Kleopatra, it asks you to save the cert, you give it name as a .txt file, and can open it in notepad
shinohai: take the link and type here: !!register <LINK>
indiancandy: then
indiancandy: then
shinohai: no need to worry bout that one at the moment
indiancandy: whats the passphrase/
shinohai: Then that *should* explain most of it, feel free to PM if you get stuck, happy to guide you through.
mircea_popescu: what do you care, he still gets the job done!
asciilifeform: 'For security reasons, the wireless connections of the president's iPad are disabled.'
asciilifeform: also lulzy is the visible to naked eye disjunction between the 'sv world' (the cisco phones) and ye olde Golden Toilets That Worked (the raytheon thing)
asciilifeform: in other lelz, http://electrospaces.blogspot.com/2017/01/the-presidential-communications.html >> 'a special cover plate had to be made to cover the 50 direct line buttons, to prevent visitors from seeing who Obama's primary phone contacts were'
mircea_popescu: in other news pete_dushenski is actually a pretty clever auctioneer, once he overcomes not having done homewerks through listening to the market chatter.
a111: Logged on 2017-01-15 18:49 phf: actually funniest "charitable" pretense is some years ago kate michaels raising money for underprivileged kids so that they can play polo. every time i remember it i crack up
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-01-15#1603310 << eh hey hundred years ago they started 'raising money for underprivileged' so they could derp around 'learning' the liberal arts, and that's how we go to here.
asciilifeform: (from my reading of the text.)
asciilifeform: (while we're on subj, mircea_popesculandia was interesting in re whores, they had ads for'em pasted on every surface, dumpsters, light poles, bus stations, as if they were plumbers in usa)
Framedragger: another film recommendation by association - documentary: "whore's glory" - by one glawogger (who died from malaria or somesuch while filming in liberia or somewheresuch), a bunch of interviews with whores in bangladesh, thailand etc
mircea_popescu: i certainly spent way more time chatting with whores than fucking them. no regrets.
phf: the kind of people who think that the only better way to say no to a beautiful russian sex girl is to do it over a form
Framedragger: " The phone rang shortly after I drifted off. No more jet lag; I jumped out of bed and picked up the phone. Now I'll find out who's been calling, I thought. ``Would you like beautiful Russian sex girl?'' a woman asked. ``No, thank you,'' I said. Couldn't you just hand out forms at the front desk? I thought. I went back to sleep. "
mircea_popescu: yer supposed to lay out the merchandize and so forth
mircea_popescu: come to the town up teh hill
mircea_popescu: cargo cultism all the way.
phf: actually funniest "charitable" pretense is some years ago kate michaels raising money for underprivileged kids so that they can play polo. every time i remember it i crack up
mircea_popescu: this somewhat in the vein of "i want to believe these eggs weren't actually shat by the dumbest thing on the farm."
phf: i want to believe that there's a dusty attic somewhere on upenn campus, grandfathered in of course, with a library and a secret liquor store, where boys wearing ascots meet to discuss their progress at becoming men
phf: other two would never even consider
phf: i have two or three friends who were proud of their ivy fraternities, and i checked, umd had a chapter for one of them, stopped qualifying sometime in the 80s
phf: umd is a public school, there's not necessarily "tradition of excellence" when it comes sororities/fraternities. it's the least common denominator herding kind of thing, with corresponding activities
mircea_popescu: "somebody who has no other options, evidently" "oh yeah, and HOW did they end up not having other options ?" "ikr! SOCIALISM FOREVAR!!1"
mircea_popescu: anyway, this shift from "spend your free time getting better and let the others acquire that as best they can" to "spend your free time giving yourself for free and forget improvement" is very much the reason america even needs to be made great again. r&d ended up cut out of the loop as it were ; who wants the time of some dork "as she is".
mircea_popescu: at some point in the 60s/70s it was mostly about personal achievement
pete_dushenski: http://www.tinhouse.com/blog/45211/ask-a-librarian-whats-the-strangest-thing-youve-found-in-a-library-book.html << heh, can BingoBoingo top a whole cooked shrimp ?
phf: i'm pretty sure that whole angle is never going away, at least it was as strong while i was there. one sort of complements the other.
mircea_popescu: you know, sororities supposedly existed not to get the members deflowered but to "service the community"
ben_vulpes: and in other ai herpderps: https://www.inverse.com/article/26054-google-home-bots-falling-in-love-on-twitch-is-the-best-romance-of-2017
mircea_popescu: is the "charitable" pretense that was going on in the 90s still going strong or is it starting to go away ?
phf: left of the line it runs on campus housing, the three bars where everyone gets shitface and then sororities (i suspect fraternities are also there, but no idea)
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: yup, ready to rock in 60 mins for the auction.
phf: left of the line
mircea_popescu: and where's the best parties ?
phf: right, there's a very distinct continuum, with compsci building on one end and rhsmith of business on the other
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: phf is quite right, the place was astonishingly physically segregated
mircea_popescu: and "communications" and "arts" and "multimedia" and "drama" and the list goes on
asciilifeform: to the cow -- yes, farm exists to supply tasty snacks and warm place to moo.
phf: well, umd campus is large, and tech buildings are, as is usually the case, are in the remote corner. you have to track all the way past the student center, to the other side, where poliscy and sociology are
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they fall into the 3rd category -- they exist so that male chumper has TWO sets of nondischargeable loan to service, vs 1.
mircea_popescu: phf i was thinking, wtf, college for any other purpose than slut magnet ? where's he live.
mircea_popescu: hey, for as long as the fathers of peasants buy into the nonsense dissected in http://trilema.com/2014/a-practical-exercise-for-people-who-cant-afford-airfare/#selection-89.0-93.622 that arrangement is sustainable, i guess.
asciilifeform: where i went, they were mostly in first category.
phf: missing the quarterbackers from your list
asciilifeform: 3 types of meatstock are bred for the college racket in usa: the slum bunnies ('diversity admit', they bring in usg payola), the eloi (actual future mandarins, small numbers, they zuckerberg around, you will find'em on rowboats, yachts), and the peasants (most of the chumpers. their purpose is to service nondischargeable debt for the rest of their natural lives.)
asciilifeform: then -- fixed, because nobody gave any longer half a shit about exams.
asciilifeform: so the exams had 'magic tricks' built in, like this.
asciilifeform: in the old dayz, there was a somewhat more 'turkish' system in usa, when the snake had not yet shed its vestigial legs, and 'merit' still had to be faked into existence for the children of the anointed.
asciilifeform: this was done for the old entrance exam ('sat') in 1990s, and turned into a 'THEY dun want YOU to KNOW!!111' b00k, and fixed.
mircea_popescu: actually (evidently nobodyu's done this, because hurr, experts, hurr, cryptographers, hurr durr) but it would be amusing to run simple word length averaging on random selection of multiple choice tests, see how often you can crack it with no other measure
asciilifeform: (i shit thee not)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: at one point they tried to abolish the obviously-comical 'multiple choice', in favour of... worse thing, can you picture:
mircea_popescu: phf it's interesting how un-alphabetic their approach is, also. "you will learn these three hieroglyphs ; and shame on mp for using longer words than 4 letters, it's not really writing when you do that!"
mircea_popescu: what with all the nunneries.
mircea_popescu: at a time the usian methodists etc were trying hard to resist that tide all over east coast mill towns
asciilifeform: and real estate racket in the now-so 'valuable' exclusion zones.
asciilifeform: europe was (theoretical) threat, so now it will be converted into exact copy of usa.
mircea_popescu: same thing with fucking apple, "we'll make tools that make the users dumb but happy". really ? and who will defend you, when the guys who made their users smart but uncomfortable come seeking your head ?
asciilifeform: recall the old observation about how 'communism must expand and destroy healthy tissue, or die' ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the bankruptcy of this approach would be evident to anyone functionally literate. or for that matter vaguely numerate.
mircea_popescu: it has to be mp in #trilema, there's nobody among all those according-to-them important thinkers to have added these twos together.
asciilifeform: notion is that it 'could not possibly matter' whether half of usa can or cannot read, because it isn't as if chimpanzees will learn to make jets.
mircea_popescu: somehow exactly nobody in the idiocratic party stood up at the convention and said "the reason we couldn't get our girl elected is that for 30 years while we had the resources, we squandered them on sucking black dick instead of spending them on whips for the same blacks"
mircea_popescu: you don't fucking want to gain approval in the herd at the cost of diminishing herd quality. who the fuck runs a herd like this!
mircea_popescu: somehow the idiocy of self-hat-stealing is never evident. and it's not just a matter of politics. single-wife marriages are generally exercises in "trying to keep the woman as stupid as possible". why, exactly ? not like she's not your woman, if you make her dumb who the fuck is going to defend you when you run into a guy with a dozen women and a fleet of battleships ?
mircea_popescu: yes, but it also produces a 90% majority of people who nevertheless can't "influence the elections"
phf: the whole point of "no child left" is to skew literacy rates through standardized multiple choice. "by the end of this course you will recognize the words dog, cat and food. this will also be in the test"
mircea_popescu: o look, the wikipedia article on "white flight" manages to somehow be all about "environmental racism" and other bullshit.
asciilifeform: dunno, under 30 the rotgut hasn't kicked in yet.
mircea_popescu: and it also hides the fact that half of those under 30 aren't qualified to be dressed in public under the "one in three" all ages bs.
asciilifeform: this btw is very low bar. it means: they cannot read even street sign.
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, "A Robert Emery 2007 report found that about one-third of Washington residents are functionally illiterate, compared to a national rate of about one in five."
asciilifeform: this led to cries of 'oh noez, racists retaking their historic motherland from diversefolx' etc.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: bureaucrat caste swelled under obummer, while the train system declined. so a decision was made to clear out some 'habitable' zones for'em in dc.
mircea_popescu: but it was under 50% white in 2011 for the first time, mind.
mircea_popescu: there is some substance to what you say in the sense that it gains like 10k per year.
asciilifeform: they don't operate by voting, no. they bus the inner city professional sad sacks 'helpfully' to the polls, and let'em know for whom to vote.
mircea_popescu: the pink collars vote in maryland or wherever.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nobody in the 250k dc residents who vote there are slaves, gtfo. it's 100% middle class jewish with unwarranted aspirations and a drug habit.
mircea_popescu: the ~only way a "professional" bureaucracy may survive is if it has no particular strong preference.
asciilifeform: not for the reason mircea_popescu suspected tho. being a city, in usa, it is mostly black, and they vote the democrat ticket.