asciilifeform: 'secret' << it was blown open in the 'washington post' afaik
asciilifeform: 'Border Patrol says that debts and “financial issues” may render candidates “unsuitable” for service.' << gold. how many of the stuffed uniforms are technically eligible to work, then
asciilifeform: 'Federal Trade Commission notes on its website: “Although the collector may not sue you to collect the debt, you still owe it.' << how exactly does this work in bezzleworld ?
asciilifeform: (what's a tax farmer? read about why antoine lavoisier, better known as a great chemist, lost his head.)
asciilifeform: somebody call dr. guilliotin's exterminator service.
asciilifeform: in usa, 'tax farming' - in the form of the bezzlatron described in the link - is SOP.
asciilifeform: 'The debtors, of course, had no way of knowing who actually owned the debt. Nor did they have any reason to suspect that they might be paying thieves. They were simply being told they owed the money and had to pay.' << why should the wretches care - which thief ?
asciilifeform: afaik these weren't a thing pre-meiji
asciilifeform: what's the significance of the hoods ?
asciilifeform: if the cognac is ~10 usd (0.12 usd / peso at today's official rate), the 700 mL is ~14 usd / liter. --> about what rotgut costs in wash. dc.
asciilifeform: TheNewDeal: regular derps presumably got vacuumed a year or two ago
asciilifeform: (hypothesis, straight from My Arse (TM) : usg 'spent' S SR coins to buy kS 'clean' coin, for some positive k > 1. these were dripped into 'eth' and are now being dumped.)
asciilifeform even thinks that the remaining 'mass appeal' must go away entirely - before anything like stability happens
asciilifeform: (other than the 'four horsemen' naturally)
asciilifeform: who will 'help' the americans, remains to be seen
asciilifeform: jurov: sometimes (e.g. kazakhstan) - at other times, a regional dialect was reworked with american help into a constructed 'language' (ukraine)
