mircea_popescu: i mean i can't justify paying a few grand for one on the grounds of the two cups a year i drink, but you're paying more for the tea as it is.
mircea_popescu: they can't be that expensive ?
phf: i have a wood samovar, but i only use it on camping trings. no, i use iranian method, put a porcelain teapot on top of the kettle
mircea_popescu: i myself am the absolute worst : i rarely drink tea, but i only drink good tea. makes it practically impossible to drink my own. so, i usually tea per the charity of friends.
phf: i've noticed that arab lipton yellow label is much better then lipton you get at a general store in u.s. i've made turkish tea for myself with arab lipton in a pinch, but twice i was in a situation where i was brewing tea for random people, so i bought drug store lipton and no matter what i tried doing with it, it just was not drinkable.
mircea_popescu: and i'm not even going to pester alf about making another one for 2016 expiry. truth be told i'm rather pleasantly impressed with how s.nsa work is coming along of late.
adlai has paid well over current market price for btc... what if those are the btc that ascii would've got?
adlai: the beautiful thing about the btcfiat market is that it means different things for different people
adlai hopes that at least one other lurker [knows somebody who] will blink more than once at a 3btc tax deduction
ascii_butugychag: and just about any serious deviation from your social stature in the spirit of 'peasant doesn't get to own a rembrandt, wtf' will attract auditors very, very quickly in usa.
ascii_butugychag: mircea_popescu is correct. otherwise you could set up faux 'museum' and 'donate' junk 'worth' millions.
mircea_popescu: "this vase so and so was donated to us by x who bought it at an auction held by sootheby's valuying it at 4mn".
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> the museum doesn't issue the fucking receipt lol. whoever you buy it from does. << Actually in USia receipts are given by museums/charities for donations
adlai: all you need is somebody to drive the thing to a museum and negotiate a little
adlai: but please, this is applicable to ANY USG TAXPAYER in the audience. 3btc = nice tax break!
adlai: you have to get a receipt (/me is not enough of a taxpayer to get the exact word right, maybe it's something else?) attesting to the value of your donation
adlai: you have to get a receipt (/me is not enough of a taxpayer to get the exact word right, maybe it's something else?) attesting to the value of your donation
mircea_popescu: adlai notrly. as long as they take it, it's not their job to value it for fiscality.
adlai: mircea_popescu: you do need to get the museum to agree that your donation was worth anything
mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag from his pov, the value of the machine is entirely in "what you paidf for it"
adlai: so break it on the way over, i don't care! but all else aside, it's more educational to the budding usg-arsonist if they can play with a working doodad
ascii_butugychag: adlai: this is a sad joke, the machine's value is more or less ENTIRELY in the fact that it WORKS
adlai: BingoBoingo: cl blogotrons exist, these days my blog-time is spent 'auditing' coleslaw vs hyde. scalpl, otoh, is pretty much one of a kind; cf ascii_butugychag on professional vs plebescite tooling...
kakobrekla: it not like they will be turning it on and it will stop working over time with noone to fix it around
adlai: ofc you (or the other end of your arbitrage) need to already be paying usg taxes, but there are a bunch of people who do
adlai: in case the signal was too noisy right there: buying a working lisp machine, and donating it to a museum (of which there are several in the DC area), will get you a nice tax break
adlai: in other phamily-related news, my lispm arbitrage has failed, due to usg-sponsor eagerness to sponsor as much as possible... but therein lies the arb, and anybody who does sponsor usg (or have family who do) is welcome and encouraged to pursue this further
BingoBoingo: adlai: Anyways wouldn't writing a simple CL blogotron for your own use be a welcome sanity break from the scalplsd
BingoBoingo: adlai: But shitting in your own garden is actually beneficial. The plants like it.
adlai: the trouble with a blog is that it rapidly fills up with your own bullshit. people get so sick of my bullshit at ~100x dilution, in here; imagine how bad it'd get in my own garden
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo he's still recovering from the castrating influence of bad parenting, doesn't quite feel at ease rubbing loser's nose in their own shit.
mircea_popescu: the people who run "whatever i just want to" and the people who "fuck you, drop dead" are the only remaining division, and in this context the two staying unmerged is nonsensical.
mircea_popescu: pfff. nobody actively makes that choice anymore. it's like encouraging the choice of stick vs nonstick driving.
adlai: mircea_popescu: "illusion of choice" aka pretty much the only talent that .il still encourages youngsters to hone... salesmanship
mircea_popescu: eh spare me. they don't have an os.
BingoBoingo: kakobrekla: I did the make a dot and let the heatsink smash it into place thing. There is a tape shim that goes over rest of CPU already, but old paste found its way under there before I removed it.
ascii_butugychag: would you also try to merge... the products ?
mircea_popescu: and then... welll... ibm is still arouind, right ?
mircea_popescu: then some dumb broad could preside over it to get all the social media femitards hot and bothered
mircea_popescu: i bet you i could justify 100mn in bonuses for myself + 1-2bn in consulting fees for everyone involved doing a hp-compaq deal out of these two
ascii_butugychag: also each relies on the good-cop/bad-cop symbiosis
ascii_butugychag: i get paid to make xyz happen. and the budget makes provisions for shooting, say, up to six rabid weasels. BUT NOT 6,666,666.
kakobrekla: BingoBoingo but you dont smear it over the whole cpu do you ? an also you can just tape over any elect conducting parts, no?
ascii_butugychag: as in, NOTHING which i actually ~need~ on the job, works
ben_vulpes: anyways, your penchant for finding what is wrong with anything aside, openbsd happily supplants os x on mac hardware. for those willing to endure some pain to get away from the shitgnomes, and who have not been obsessively tending a gentoo installation since 1999.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i never heard of metal colloid thermopaste shorting anything << Apparently with silver colloid a concern is possibility of becoming capacitive after cooking long enough. Silver is always a special case because grand chamption conductor
ascii_butugychag: keep in mind, if there aren't at least 2880 pixels horizontally, i'm not interested.
ben_vulpes: listen, i just want a machine that's not running os x with the hardware quality build of the golden-era macintosh laptops.
ben_vulpes: i doubt it's leveraging the gpu at all
ascii_butugychag: and i'm not interested in spending ANOTHER MOTHERFUCKING SIX MONTHS fighting the graphics card driver
ascii_butugychag: and if the windows don't go back to their places when different sets of monitors are unplugged and re-plugged, also not interested
adlai: (it deals with wtf "hard" and "soft" forking means, which most derps seem to assume they understand)
ascii_butugychag: mircea_popescu: desktop doesn't go in motherfucking briefcase
mircea_popescu: linton_s_dawson funny that all the poorfags are so preoccupied with THIS nowadays, huh.
adlai: thestringpuller: "you eat [bowls] of shit for [dinner]?"
mircea_popescu: " we can't test them all. Thanks for your understanding." << what the fuck are we understanding ? that the kids don't belong anywhere near a computer, off to the farm ?
kakobrekla: they will sink :)
ascii_butugychag: and if your 'runs like a dream' doesn't include motherfucking suspend mode, i'm not interested
ascii_butugychag: take the paste, take ohmmeter, see
mircea_popescu: i never heard of metal colloid thermopaste shorting anything
ascii_butugychag: '... We knew this change would break other ports, but given that there are some 100 ports that depend on qt4-mac, we can't test them all. Thanks for your understanding.'
ascii_butugychag: 'It does install qmake, just not where it was installed before. ..... This change was made to allow parallel install of qt4 and qt5 (and, possible, other qt# variations). If you're having issues with other ports that depend on qt4-mac, please open a ticket for each and/or list them here & we will work hard to get them fixed promptly.
kakobrekla: some if not most silver thermal pastes dont actually conduct electricity
assbot: Logged on 07-01-2016 01:38:57; mircea_popescu: " and then you look at the code and it's the same set of aggressive, google employed queergenders." << actually yes.
BingoBoingo: Couldn't use the stuff with silver because surface mounted stuff on chip not covered by metal cap. Still about 10C cooler than yesterday.
thestringpuller: adlai: i'd rather not have to choose between multiple bowls of shit for dinner.
BingoBoingo: Turns out better thermal grease actually does make a big difference
BingoBoingo: In other news revamped my desk's noise generators. Instead of ~150 CFM of external fan, ~11 CFM is now producing adequate noise to cool machine.
mircea_popescu: afaik a registrar has the authority to do exactly nothing. that said, i suppose they may try to steal the domain. not like similar stuff hasn't happened in the past (anyone recall the sex.com saga ?)
adlai: thestringpuller:i'd rather have miners publishing empty blocks instead of confirming nickle-fee TXs, than have them blindly hand over what little power they do have to some random plutocracy
assbot: Logged on 08-01-2016 14:39:46; punkman: fucking UPS. pay for 1-2day shipping and get 6day shipping instead, even if the weather is fine and there's over 9000 planes flying towards my mailbox.
BingoBoingo: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=08-01-2016#1363063 << In southern IL UPS is the worst. Mega UPS hubs in Chicago means packages routinely bounce between CAHS and World Port before ending up in Danville before coming anywhere near St Louis.
mircea_popescu: the road to perdition is paved with ever increased abstractions.
mircea_popescu: the march of "civilisation". replace things with the fetish of things, items with tokens "representing" items and so on.
thestringpuller: https://github.com/ZoomT/bitcoin/commit/a87d5ab2c703c524428197df53607c2235c417f3#diff-7ec3c68a81efff79b6ca22ac1f1eabbaR3101 << so if the block is empty, what's the point? miners can just mine empty transactions pushing all other data to another data structure without breaking anything?
mircea_popescu: kinda how the world works. typical strip club makes more money selling titshelf space than it does selling booze
BingoBoingo: It's just amazing the way the typical supermarket makes more money selling shelf space than it does selling... products.
assbot: Logged on 08-01-2016 13:06:39; mircea_popescu: what the fuck is all that other shit and what's with the heartshape fixation ?
BingoBoingo: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=08-01-2016#1362999 << Unilever collects brands once owned by dying businesses for the supermarket shelf space.
assbot: My son wants to make money. My daughter wants to marry a rich prince. Here’s the problem. | No Idea What I'm Doing: A Daddy Blog ... ( http://bit.ly/1n84dl4 )
ben_vulpes: here's one for pete to rip apart: http://www.byclintedwards.com/2016/01/my-son-wants-to-make-money-my-daughter-wants-to-marry-a-rich-prince-heres-the-problem-2.html/
ascii_butugychag: in other nyooz, 'It looks like lxr.linux.no has closed without notice some time during the first half of 2014. Whether there is a backup of LXRng is unknown.'
ascii_butugychag: thestringpuller: no this is correct
assbot: Logged on 12-01-2015 17:37:34; mircea_popescu: there's a ton of bitpay exceptionalism / captn of industry-ism flooding out of reddit. in point of fact, bitpay is a struggling start-up that missed the boat.
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: thought you might have, at $rupturefarmz << Funny how Oddworld is the first result when put 'Rupture Farms' into google
mircea_popescu: i fuck their daughters, trophy wives et all.
ascii_butugychag: who, yes, live in the cube farmz.
ascii_butugychag: he talks to the chix
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2015 16:53:36; mircea_popescu: ;;later tell bingoboingo now that pair is actually trying to resurect bitcoin magazine again, a blow by blow history of exactly how bitpay & the scam foundation stole that magazine from its owners a coupla years ago would be quite topical. the forum's got a pile of posts, see vladimir's stuff, maybe even interview him.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=23-01-2015#989302 << blast from teh pasts!
ascii_butugychag: not every single clerk is sitting on them, true
ascii_butugychag: usg has, like or not, plenty of money to throw around. i have seen the golden toilets.
punkman: mircea_popescu: punkman> shinohai: I wonder what I have to do to get actual "express" shipping << not live in greece ? :D << probably gonna be worse in the places I'd like to live at next
mircea_popescu: much like the junior high fuck club.
mircea_popescu: so if you're willing to not ask for the shortfall be covered, they're willing to blabla MIT !1 bla bla bla around you.
mircea_popescu: you don't understand how the usg works. they ain't got a pot to piss in, and consequently won't be actually coverin gany shortfalls. all they got is a whole lot of pretense based on a whole lot of puffery.
ascii_butugychag: has mit covered the shortfall yet ?
mircea_popescu: to no-one's surprise that's been following the discussion here.
thestringpuller: So rumor has it. Bitpay can't get another round of funding with current leadership.
ascii_butugychag recalls the german division which operated wholly sov tanks
mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag they get repossessed more often than rent-a-cars!
ascii_butugychag: i would like to live in the parallel universe mircea_popescu is posting from
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: ascii_butugychag there's worse ways to pass the time than with the sluts of budapest.
ascii_butugychag: jurov: afaik you still have to live there for a while, to get ukr passport
mircea_popescu: that's ridiculous. romania is way better for medicine than pretty much everything else in that part of the world.
punkman: we don't have foreign doctors here, but people are prejudice against doctors that have foreign medical degrees from Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Romania, Italy and others.
copypaste: and if it's in the area of greater hungary, that would be an awesome, free way to get a passport :D
copypaste: (the old hungary at least)
jurov: copypaste: the part that was former "large hungary" counts, too
mircea_popescu: chinese the new jew huh
jurov: copypaste: if you have hungarian ancestors, you can get their passport, too
copypaste: there are american doctors which see foreigners, and also filipinos who studied in america
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.
copypaste: mircea_popescu: let me qualify that further, americans
punkman: also they often ship through other countries like hong-kong, so you might get better results going to one of those 3rd party tracking sites that check many companies at once
mircea_popescu: <copypaste> i wouldn't, but plenty of people would. the average person in the philippines views foreigners as being smart and better educated than them <<< this happens to also be right.
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 could have ordered the shit from some seedy Chinese person and already have gotten it here.
shinohai: ikr I paid the extra $12 in BTC for priority too :/
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.
punkman: fucking UPS. pay for 1-2day shipping and get 6day shipping instead, even if the weather is fine and there's over 9000 planes flying towards my mailbox.
assbot: Logged on 08-01-2016 13:02:12; mircea_popescu: heck, apple made the concept of "filesystem" go away, they somehow sell tablets with no filesystem interraction exposed.
ascii_butugychag: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=08-01-2016#1362991 << hey, nintendo doesn't expose filesystem either! and nobody seems to complain...
ascii_butugychag: but sure, the clerks also have 'human' email
copypaste: i'm sure they'd notice quickly if fbi.gov mail went down
ascii_butugychag: copypaste: it will happen over siprnet or the like
copypaste: it's true that most emails are internal, but surely they aren't all
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
assbot: Logged on 08-01-2016 13:06:26; mircea_popescu: i don't even know two thirds of them. magnum iirc is some shitty icecream, lipton's the sort of tea one drinks when no tea is available
ascii_butugychag: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=08-01-2016#1362998 << the ersatz tea is ubiquitous here
copypaste: i'm not saying their beliefs are accurate, but inaccurate beliefs held dearly still affect their actions
ascii_butugychag: problem is that their notion of 'american' comes from 1980s vhs tapes
ascii_butugychag: copypaste: this plague is ubiquitous in the 'orc' world
ascii_butugychag: (some of the larger megacorps still run own mail, but along more or less same principles as gmail)
copypaste: so if they had to choose between a filipino doctor, or american doctor, they'd go for the american
copypaste: i wouldn't, but plenty of people would. the average person in the philippines views foreigners as being smart and better educated than them
assbot: Logged on 08-01-2016 13:01:34; mircea_popescu: anyway, i vaguely recall some testing the waters re how urls are evil and hurt the eyes of the moo moos.
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: i don't even know two thirds of them. magnum iirc is some shitty icecream, lipton's the sort of tea one drinks when no tea is available
mircea_popescu: and holy shit that can't be ALL the food brands unilever owns.
mircea_popescu: the standards may vary, but rarely.
mircea_popescu: yes, but when i hire women to be women, as opposed to do any actual job, i have strict standards. hence the "over 180 cm tall, exactly 19 bmi, etc"
assbot: Logged on 08-01-2016 10:43:35; shinohai: Anyone that seriously thinks SPV mining is good should be strangled with the blockchain.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=08-01-2016#1362804 << or they could just go back to paypal, which is exactly what that is.
punkman: plus-size to me means so big you have to go to the one special plus-size clothes store, because nobody else has enough fabric to cover your ass.
mircea_popescu: heck, apple made the concept of "filesystem" go away, they somehow sell tablets with no filesystem interraction exposed.
mircea_popescu: i doubt the notion went away.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i vaguely recall some testing the waters re how urls are evil and hurt the eyes of the moo moos.
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.
punkman: even Koblitz joined Ethereum
punkman: asciilifeform: srsly, szabo was there ? << I'm surprised how many szabos have joined the blockchain-tards
punkman: copypaste: you can't "cloudflare" your email server << half the startups point their mx to gmail
assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1THEj1O )
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.
deedbot-: [Trilema] Let's continue with the okcupid duality. Today, idiot.png and lesbian.png. No, these aren't the same thing. - http://trilema.com/2016/lets-continue-with-the-okcupid-duality-today-idiotpng-and-lesbianpng-no-these-arent-the-same-thing/
copypaste: no need to hire the lowest common denominator in the US, but there are plenty (well, some) intellectuals perhaps worth hiring
asciilifeform bbl, off to the mines
asciilifeform: they don't need it.
copypaste: i haven't been in the USA since 2014 though
copypaste: since the passport sufficed, even at banks
asciilifeform: it is stamped 'not valid for driving' or the like
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
copypaste: even if they are infants
copypaste: so you've never left russia then?
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
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=08-01-2016#1362849 << this did not happen with sov citizens. normally there is some bantustan which is in an immediate hurry to lay claim to the fragments of the old empire
mircea_popescu: then you mgiht diy.
copypaste: lawyers typically know exactly who to bribe, saving you the trouble of finding out yourself
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: you don't buy new teeth like buying milk, either.
mircea_popescu: fortunately uruguay is right there.
copypaste: neither does Philippines
copypaste: if you're married the requirement is 5
copypaste: compared to Philippines, where the requirement is 10; unless you get married (Philippines has no divorce, only country other than Vatican City with no divorce laws on the books, or even in Congress)
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
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.
assbot: Logged on 08-01-2016 04:19:45; phf: ben_vulpes: you call that thing like void foo(args) { IMPLEMENT_RANDOMIZE_STACK(foo(args)); ...}, static makes nLoops shared, so the logic is, you set it to some random value between 1 and 21 and then recurse down that many times, "randomizing" the stack
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=08-01-2016#1362773 << aslr is not the correct term (it refers to os-level address space randomization)
copypaste: thus, using the MX record
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.
asciilifeform: copypaste: same thing as in africa. the poverty, of every kind, that leads to no other port being in any hurry to invite you in
copypaste: asciilifeform: what in your opinion is the real problem?
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=08-01-2016#1362816 << 'red herring', then as now. passport is not how typical usaschwitz inmate is kept inside the wire.
mircea_popescu: iirc one piece even in the log.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i used to like szabo a lot more. but omfg, then i read some of his stuff.
asciilifeform: srsly, szabo was there ?
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...'
assbot: Logged on 08-01-2016 10:37:47; adlai: another arsonist! https://bitslog.wordpress.com/2016/01/08/spv-mining-is-the-solution-not-the-problem/
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
mircea_popescu: in the daily okcupid lulz installment, http://trilema.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/say-shit.png
mircea_popescu: much much better to be, if not one of odovacer's men, at least any of the other "barbarian"'s retinue than to hang out with the so-called "count" bracilla at ravenna.
mircea_popescu: it behooves one to be part of the group that stabs the thing to death and drinks its blood.
mircea_popescu: experience shows that it never pays to wait to be shat on by the corporate fiction that supposedly owns you.
copypaste: so, i would like to acquire another citizenship before that happens :D
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: have you ever seen "The Terminal", with Tom Hanks?
mircea_popescu: and before the japan stove incident.
mircea_popescu: eh it's bullshit. this was before the earthquake.
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: when people ask which country i am from anad they are strangers, I say Canada
copypaste: you get visa free access to some countries in Africa, its neighbors in Asia (but not any of the actually important ones - like China or Japan), and some south american countries
mircea_popescu: yeah. lulziest case of the hare and the turtle ever. all my life that i can remember romanians thought it's the worst
copypaste: they say that it's to follow "international standards" and to make the passport more "secure"
mircea_popescu: been on for a while. (and was predicted a year or two before it happened, also in the log)
mircea_popescu: iirc that was discussed in the logs
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: so then it's perfect for you.