On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 10:24 PM, coderman wrote:

... yes, this is a euphamism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buy_the_farm#Euphemisms_for_death_and_murder """ The English language contains numerous euphemisms related to dying, death, burial, and the people and places that deal with death. The practice of using euphemisms for death is likely to have originated with the magical belief that to speak the word "death" was to invite death; where to "draw Death's attention" is the ultimate bad fortune: a common theory holds that death is a taboo subject in most English-speaking cultures for precisely this reason... Someone who has died is said to have passed on, checked out, cashed in their chips, bit the big one, kicked the bucket, keeled over, bit the dust, popped their clogs, pegged it, carked it, was snuffed out, turned their toes up, hopped the twig, bought the farm, got zapped, written their epitaph, fell off their perch, croaked, gave up the ghost (originally a more respectful term, cf. the death of Jesus as translated in the King James Version of the Bible Mark 15:37), gone south, gone west, gone to California, shuffled off this mortal coil (from William Shakespeare's Hamlet), run down the curtain and joined the Choir Invisible, or assumed room temperature (actually a dysphemism in use among mortuary technicians). When buried, they may be said to be pushing up daisies, sleeping the big sleep, taking a dirt nap, gone into the fertilizing business, checking out the grass from underneath or six feet under. Euthanasia also attracts euphemisms. One may put one out of one's misery, put one to sleep, or have one put down, the latter two phrases being used primarily with dogs, cats, and horses who are being or have been euthanized by a veterinarian. (These terms are not usually applied to humans, because both medical ethics and law deprecate euthanasia.) Some euphemisms for killing are neither respectful nor playful, but instead clinical and detached, including terminate, wet work, to take care of one, to do them in, tooff, or to take them out. To cut loose or open up on someone or something means "to shoot at with every available weapon". Gangland euphemisms for murder includeventilate, whack, rub out, liquidate, cut down, hit, take him for a ride, string him up, cut down to size, or "put him in cement boots," "sleep with the fishes" or "put him in a concrete overcoat," the latter three implying disposal in deep water, if then alive by drowning; the arrangement for a killing may be a simple "contract" with the victim referred to as the "client," which suggests a normal transaction of business. One of the most infamous euphemisms in history was the German term Endlösung der Judenfrage, frequently translated in English as "the Final Solution of the Jewish Question", a systematic plan for genocide of the Jews. Even if not associated with the Holocaust, the Nazis used such terms as Schutzhaft, best translated as "protective custody" for persons seeking shelter from street violence by Nazi militias, but such shelter leading quickly to long-term incarceration in a Nazi prison for political offenders who often got murdered, and Sonderbehandlung, whose translation "special treatment" implies privileged protection but in practice meant summary execution. Nazi officials authorized the disappearance of hostages into 'night and fog' (Nacht und Nebel) whence few returned. "Charitable Ambulances" for the buses which took mental patients away to killing centers, and "Lazarett" (a quarantine clinic for ill travelers) for the shooting-pits where severely ill death camp arrivals would be executed. """ now if you'll excuse me i must go custodian that affirmative action with some power room in the family way... best regards, except for the class P-SPACE and its familial complexity co-conspirators

On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 10:24:39PM -0800, coderman wrote:

On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 9:57 PM, coderman wrote:

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... cypherpunks who "buy the farm"

yes, this is a euphamism for cypherpunks get dead. ... not sure i sent Death[0] that CTCP_FU while the anonymous VPN was up; damnit session timeout and re-keying, why do you happen at the worst possible time?!?

And here I was thinking we were talking about signing your life away to be owned by some land and take on the task of surviving in a market that is more often than not pays below what it costs to grow the product. I suppose that's why they call it 'buy the farm', the only way a true farmer retires is having a date with Death[1] OT: Have we turned into cyphergoths here? Not that I'm complaining, I do like a woman in Black.

return path half-RTT makes me concerned. i'm sure it's cool. right?

it was only one packet...

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0. this my petname for her[1] of course; the ORCHIDv6 he gave me to peer up of course totally useless from your perspective.

1. she[2] is most comfortable as that grade school geeky girl better in math and science by elementary than you ever got post high school. she's a modest and unremarkable creature with the power to kill everyone and the desire to harm no one.

2. btw, conventional studies indicate gender is a fluid spectrum of being as a sexual entity / ego. i'm afraid this is still a very rudimentary and crude endeavor. it appears my primary dipole cranial antenna has been recessed to attenuate incoming frequencies; this alteration of input stimulus driving unanticipated and unpredictable changes in behavior and disposition. i may have self inflicted rational compromise; please use caution when adjusting control loop valves as runaways and strong attractors without active fail-safe is certain stasis!

3. is the last of the first primes. don't discriminate against the unit! end singleton oppression!

On Jan 21, 2014, at 1:55 PM, Steve Furlong wrote:

On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Troy Benjegerdes wrote:

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OT: Have we turned into cyphergoths here?

Cypheremos develop their own broken encryption algorithms and whine that no one understands them. They seed their entropy pools by cutting themselves and looking at the pattern of blood drops. Cyphergoths beat them up and take their lunch money.

We’re cypherfarts. Get offa my lawn. Cheers, RAH

On Jan 21, 2014, at 9:11 PM, Steve Furlong wrote:

Cypherfarts sniff their own traffic and think it smells great.

Just so. Cheers, RAH