| 11:01 | thimbronion | Customs: "Is it new?" Me: "No!" Customs: Ok pasa! |
| 11:02 | asciilifeform | thimbronion: aha. see also e.g.. |
| 11:02 | snsabot | (trilema) 2019-08-27 asciilifeform: BingoBoingostani customs is a circus one could almost write book about. they for instance didn't give a rat's arse re the 1us. but demanded to know why 6x 'high tech!111 omfg'-looking rk's in the carry-on. ( rk pilot plant was assembled on-site, in hotel... ) |
| 11:03 | asciilifeform | and also. |
| 11:03 | snsabot | (trilema) 2018-09-19 asciilifeform: fwiw asciilifeform was able to make use of 'sahib' dynamic to get crates through orc customs |
| 11:04 | asciilifeform | thimbronion: the universal, apparently, tradition, is that customs folx are only interested in a) classical contraband b) items which appear to be retail-saleable |
| 11:05 | asciilifeform | if you have a crate with a dozen shrinkwrapped zyz's, pattern-matches (b) |
| 11:05 | thimbronion | Makes sense. rks could have been bluray players or something |
| 11:06 | asciilifeform | if you have 1 or 2 difficult-to-xray heavy iron whatevers, may set off suspicion of (a) -- if inspector 'having bad day' or you yerself pattern-match 'terrorist' |
| 11:10 | asciilifeform | thimbronion: ferrying boxen to cr ? |
| 11:22 | thimbronion | asciilifeform: yes |