asciilifeform: aha, never saw those before in any sort of numbers outside university campus
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: perhaps unrelated (but possibly not), near the minez where i toil there has always been beggars. as in, 24/7, the buggers beg in shifts. for a month or so there was a cosmic anomaly: a passably young gurl. and today she was dragged away screaming by two bicycle cops.
asciilifeform: trinque: it melts my brain that someone with actual hold of, say, $100M u.s., wouldn't just pack off to timisoara or buenos aires
asciilifeform: incidentally, usg imploded libya by vaguely promising 'mansions' - 'your crown-owned official mercedes will become yours! as will your crown-issued chicks!' etc
asciilifeform: i saw 'guccifer''s photos of aria rockefeller's house.
asciilifeform: the $maxint folks who never see the inside of a courtroom except as plaintiffs
asciilifeform: nah, the ~real~ mansions are where corzines, SES plum book, etc. live.
asciilifeform: sorta more like the warm zone at auschwitz
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i lived in suburbia. which is pointedly not the same thing, the mechanism whereby the police are kept distant is entirely different (obedience)
asciilifeform: whereas to me, 'corzine is not getting anally dilated in prison' =~= 'there are mansions, and they are off limits to police'
asciilifeform: this, i suppose, counts for nothing, because 'view from gps'.
asciilifeform never lived in a mansion, but has lived in streets where the police show up every day, and ones where didn't see a single one in a decade of staring out window
asciilifeform: if this, then they certainly qualify in practice !
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: sure it is. it is called 'grandfathered in'
asciilifeform: i say, a rich fella's house, built to european standards
asciilifeform: let's have the earlier bit though - what is a mansion really ?
asciilifeform: eh that's where i see anybody who doesn't commute to an office as elite
asciilifeform: i can already see mircea_popescu telling me, that these ain't mansions unless the stones are at least 1001 years old and were put on with druid blood
asciilifeform: ~they~ are not the ones being dekulakized.
asciilifeform: 'Foreign financial institutions require ex-US individuals to show them a CLN (or provide a "reasonable explanation" of why they do not have one) to comply with the exchange of information provisions of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) and the various intergovernmental agreements the US has signed with foreign jurisdictions.' << ahahahahaha l0l!! pay $3k to get the privilege of using this other set of usg banks in
