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a111: Logged on 2019-07-09 15:02 PeterL:
asciilifeform: how does the type of
passport affect the ability to join in auction?
a111: Logged on 2019-07-09 14:25
asciilifeform: ( could, e.g. spyked ? diana_coman ? all you need is a free world
passport, and rake in the dough )
BingoBoingo: <
asciilifeform> speaking of this, BingoBoingo -- how long until ~you~ can pick up yer phree world
passport ? << Still at least a couple years out.
PeterL:
asciilifeform: how does the type of
passport affect the ability to join in auction?
☟︎ mircea_popescu:
asciilifeform the "what's the rush" was very specific : you go there, what do you care if you get your
passport year 1 or year 8 of YOUR STAY THERE./
BingoBoingo: <
asciilifeform> 'While Defendant has surrendered her
passport and cannot obtain another one in her own name, this obstacle provides little assurance given her self-described desire to "burn the White house down" and "[find somewhere in Kurdistan to live ... or Nepal."' << Lol, mebbe shouldn't have got her balls from a syringe?
assbot: Logged on 07-11-2015 22:48:30;
asciilifeform: late at night. The home of Thomas Drake, a senior executive at the NSA, was searched, his
passport was cancelled and he lived under the threat of 35 years imprisonment for four years, prosecuted under the Espionage Act. He lost his job, his pension and spent everything he owned on his defense lawyer. Today he works at an Apple store in Maryland and has been able to establish that the only person, who
pete_dushenski:
asciilifeform: i look forward to it. my new
passport is a 10-year affair and has some sort of electronics in it. "don't get
passport wet, treat like mobile device" it says.
williamdunne:
asciilifeform: I think he is really just looking for a way to make sure that each person only carries one identity, and the best way he can think of is a
passport thestringpuller:
asciilifeform: i thought they'd flag your
passport if you get IRS audited and charged for evasion? (though I guess this is more a dice roll if it occurs to an individual)
thestringpuller:
asciilifeform: the price of US
passport is paying income tax wherever you live.
assbot: !s
asciilifeform russian
passport jurov: !s
asciilifeform russian
passport jurov: !s
asciilifeform passport hanbot:
asciilifeform> unfortunately the only pill against the problem is: suitcase, airplane, new (non-usaschwitz)
passport << which is why using app as palliative is particularly heinous (or particularly attractive depending on user sanity)
BingoBoingo:
asciilifeform: I have started the push for a return of the
passport mircea_popescu:
asciilifeform: i don't know much else about the fellow, except that he famously burned his u.s.
passport in public. << what is the actual drawback of this ? i mean other than having to pay 100 bucks or w/e for a new one
mircea_popescu:
asciilifeform the ro
passport is pretty good i tell you. of all the people i've been with all over the world, mine's been overall the best treated.
BingoBoingo:
asciilifeform: Sheriff couple of counties over still has my
passport until at least May
mircea_popescu:
asciilifeform no, wait. on paper no eu government reserves the right to refuse a
passport for "national security or foreign policy reasons"