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copypaste: maybe i really am one, i could have a jewish ancestor
copypaste: how hard is it to fake being a jew?
ascii_butugychag: is exactly like what you get when you wash a bottle from normal milk
mircea_popescu: <ascii_butugychag> sorta like the water you get from washing a pot after normal tea << quite exactly lol! i wonder if this is actually what they were shooting for.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile i have yet to meet a greek professional who wasn't a) actually jewish and b) abroad.
ascii_butugychag: jurov: afaik you still have to live there for a while, to get ukr passport
copypaste: and if it's in the area of greater hungary, that would be an awesome, free way to get a passport :D
copypaste: because i'm ill, i go to doctors a lot. it's cheap in the third world, and they write me prescriptions for things that are hard to get in the US. so anyway, i always go see chinese doctors.
punkman: at best you get a date when the thing left china, and it usually shows up on local post office tracking too
kakobrekla: a friend went there for a few months and they dont have condoms that would fit him there
punkman: in other shipping mysteries, I ordered some widget from China in August I think, there was a non-working tracking no., 45 days later I ask merchant what's up with it, says they were actually out of stock at time of order, didn't even ship it and they won't be getting any more stock from factory. Couple days ago, I get a notice from post office with that tracking no.
shinohai: I feel your shipping frustrations punkman, I made an order from a guy on 12/27 he marked my order shipped then told me yesterday he had logistics issues and didn't.
ben_vulpes: because i really wanted a shitty wrapper around shitqlite
davout: " Alfred Mehran », est un réfugié iranien qui a vécu dans le terminal 1 de l'aéroport Roissy-Charles de Gaulle du 8 août 1988 jusqu'en août 2006 (soit 18 ans)1, date à laquelle il a été hospitalisé pour une cause inconnue."
copypaste: yes davout, based on a true story
assbot: Logged on 08-01-2016 11:26:32; copypaste: well it's about a guy whose country ceases to exist and he gets stuck in an airport arrival area for over a year
copypaste: NSA asking FBI if he wants to go to a BBQ
copypaste: for example, FBI agent asking NSA for a record
copypaste: also ascii_butugychag, you moved the goalposts. the CIA and FBI don't use gmail, and that's who we were talking about as far as A records are concerned
ascii_butugychag: sorta like the water you get from washing a pot after normal tea
copypaste: so if they had to choose between a filipino doctor, or american doctor, they'd go for the american
ascii_butugychag: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=08-01-2016#1362974 << l0l, you would hire an american doctor if you had a choice? or engineer ? ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 08-01-2016 12:12:13; mircea_popescu: no dude. it means hiring a lawyer.
punkman: mircea_popescu: and holy shit that can't be ALL the food brands unilever owns. << I bet there's a lot more than those
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=08-01-2016#1362766 << they're plus size MODELS. not plus size women. like saying this is a very tall ant. no, it doesn't mean it's a two meter tall ant. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CX73jDVU0AA4l4R.jpg:large << the reason pimps use main bitches is that no thing on god's earth is or ever could be as hard on a cocksucker as another cocksucker just like her.
copypaste: i got mine to meet an online friend i'd had since i was a small child
asciilifeform: l0l! job?! would ~you~ employ such a person ?
copypaste: to get a job, just to travel, plenty of reasons
copypaste: you can get a "non drivers driver license" (real name), but the line was so long and i already had a passport
copypaste: due to the main ID document in USA being a driver's license
asciilifeform: in usa passport is a travel document
copypaste: so you have a soviet passport only ?
asciilifeform: i, for instance, never got a ru passport.
assbot: Logged on 08-01-2016 11:26:48; copypaste: i have a feeling this will soon happen on a massive scale to Americans, when the USG goes under
mircea_popescu: more or less. in this case it's mostly because you probably don't speak spanish to a level acceptable in court.
mircea_popescu: a coupla couples.
copypaste: in the third world a lawyer can make miracles happen
asciilifeform: ah so it is like in usa, but with a couplea zeros shaved off the price
mircea_popescu: gotta hire a dentist.
mircea_popescu: no dude. it means hiring a lawyer. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: were you fishing for a nail to hang your explanation on ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that was a question. can ~i~ walk in with a few $k and get it.
copypaste: quite a low residency requirement, copared to other countries
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform for the record, you're talking to a guy with an actual record of up-and-getting-out
asciilifeform: but can a human ?
asciilifeform: he can probably get a nuke for a couple grand.
asciilifeform: that ~mircea_popescu~ can get one 'for a few grand', i can readily believe
assbot: Logged on 08-01-2016 11:16:09; mircea_popescu: copypaste argentina is ok. the weather is nice, the food is excellent, it's not terribly expensive and the government is a joke. for your purpose it is excellent, you can get a passport for a few grand nqa.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=08-01-2016#1362776 << correct. it is a 'mats-style' fudge ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 08-01-2016 04:14:58; punkman: ben_vulpes: some kind of aslr? I think we had a thread about it, but can't find it now
asciilifeform: copypaste: mega-bureaucracies don't really give much of a fuck whether their public site stays up, they fall down routinely. and at this point are all 'cloudflared' anyway.
copypaste: https://twitter.com/DTHI_Demitrios/status/685426021521321984 < actually not a bad idea
asciilifeform for example has a passport, fat lot of good it does
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i used to like szabo a lot more. but omfg, then i read some of his stuff.
mircea_popescu: can't sell "your" barber shop, but yah you can have a little money to "see you through a rough spot"
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> 'we will graciously agree to lend you, at interest, a portion of your own money, which we confiscated.' << this is how any serious mob works, really.
asciilifeform: 'Is was Wednesday, March 26, 2014. It was a cold winter outside, but not inside an old building of the Princeton university campus. The room, full of people, was warm. I was standing in front of some of the brightest minds in Bitcoin: Andresen, Bonneau, Eyal, Maxwell, Miller, Gün Sirer, Szabo, Todd and Zooko, to name only a few. My talk was about “SPV Mining”...' ☟︎
asciilifeform: 'we will graciously agree to lend you, at interest, a portion of your own money, which we confiscated.'
asciilifeform: coming soon to a nato bank near you!!11
asciilifeform: 'To paraphrase: “It may seem weird that we’re holding collateral on your account and offering you a loan, but that was not a mistake! You’re still eligible. Contact me if interested.”'
assbot: Logged on 08-01-2016 05:04:32; punkman: https://medium.com/@casey_rosengren/paypal-froze-our-funds-then-offered-us-a-business-loan-49a078310fb
copypaste: except instead of just letting potentially thousands of people stick around in an airport, they'll just be loaded in a cargo plane and dumped over whatever remains of the midwest :p
copypaste: i have a feeling this will soon happen on a massive scale to Americans, when the USG goes under ☟︎
copypaste: well it's about a guy whose country ceases to exist and he gets stuck in an airport arrival area for over a year ☟︎
mircea_popescu: a week latter the letter arrived, and he was like... bwhahahahaha.
mircea_popescu: lol funny thing : while i was in costa rica i was considering going to new zealand. went to british consulate that handled the whole slew of dominions, woman told me i need a visa. was all wtf'd, wrote to the ro exterior minister at the time (young guy from my party) going wtf. the VERY NEXT DAY it was announced the visa requirement was mutually dropped.
copypaste: Romania, now that's a good passport
mircea_popescu: i'm romanian, i never gave a shit.
mircea_popescu: been on for a while. (and was predicted a year or two before it happened, also in the log)
copypaste: the USG is already so bankrupt that it stopped adding passport pages, you have to pay them for a whole new passport
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, the people are idiots on an african level, and on the whole on their own strength on the open market not worth the price of a decent burial.
mircea_popescu: copypaste argentina is ok. the weather is nice, the food is excellent, it's not terribly expensive and the government is a joke. for your purpose it is excellent, you can get a passport for a few grand nqa. ☟︎
adlai: it's actually not a tweet, there's an entire article following the title
assbot: Paypal froze our funds, then offered us a business loan — Medium ... ( http://bit.ly/1OT41wh )
punkman: https://medium.com/@casey_rosengren/paypal-froze-our-funds-then-offered-us-a-business-loan-49a078310fb ☟︎
phf: so in case you get a stack overflow in the exposed code, doing a shellbuffer return becomes mildly trickier
punkman: ben_vulpes: some kind of aslr? I think we had a thread about it, but can't find it now ☟︎
ben_vulpes: generally speaking i am but a mere technician; can follow proofs and understand their implications for bolt patterns and circuit design, but more interested in...bolting things together and making circuits than proving novelty.
asciilifeform: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FboPe34UqZw << this fella has a number of interesting pieces
assbot: I haven't understood a single word you've said since I met you, not one single word.
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hbu | meaning H.ow B.out Y.ou usully replying to a persons comment/mssg. jon:what are you doing?? shawn:im just listening to music shawn:hbu?? jon:im also listeni  ...
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: approximately as likely as taking a king-sized shit forming critical mass
mircea_popescu: "we no longer have a coolant line." "because hydrogen explosion ?" "no, that's why we no longer have a roof. but that came after the coolant blew the line up."
mircea_popescu vaguely remembers a prototype to use toluene as nuclear plant coolant, too. imagine the fun of that!
BingoBoingo: This is a beautiful imagining
BingoBoingo: But you can't reverse hanging with a 4 week course of breast cancer drugs
assbot: Logged on 08-01-2016 00:22:03; asciilifeform: ovulation comes with a ready off switch - spermatogenesis does not.
mircea_popescu: "I liked trilema better when it had a paywall (and I couldn't read it for lack of trilema credits)."
mircea_popescu: i suppose in a sense i offered wallet services o.O
mircea_popescu used to keep a notable stash, mostly because the whole army of sluts/students/tramps and assorted vagabonds didn't trust themselves with it.
mircea_popescu: in other news, that mifepristone reminds me a lot of diethylstilbestrol (anyone know the story of this particular thaliomidoid ?). romania uses levonorgestrel almost exclusively.
mircea_popescu: pill is a mess.
mircea_popescu: the african country of the us has a lulzy history of "we no got acridine we jump off table on knife hiar"
mircea_popescu: nitwitty seamstresses. "oh, i put a fig leaf on david". well... hopefully vlad the impaler puts a little something up your tightest hole.
mircea_popescu: can only helps the guy with a can opener.
mircea_popescu: it is a screaming testament to how dullard the chicks are that this hath not occured to them yet.
mircea_popescu: by this measure, africa is also a great place to live.
mircea_popescu: "There is stunningly little knowledge of these people and why they move," << nordic system is a great system, provided you only ask the people who stay behind. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: hahaha. and if "america" whatever that is would no longer be a populace opressed by "the rule of law", everyone'd be very happy and could put down their weapons.