I am an American who opted to move to the UK and I was in no way asked to give up my citizenship and when I did get my citizenship I did so because I get to have my US and UK citizenship and now I have access to work anywhere in the US or EU which is rather handy! Perhaps things were different for you, I do know immigration laws change over time but for at least the last 10 years you could have both citizenships in the UK.
I would have said the other places are probably the same but to be honest some countries are getting tired of their people being treated like shit when going to the US so they're returning the favour and I don't blame them to be honest.
American women are rude, obese half-plastic pigs. Protip: the silicon side is the front.
Japanese women look like androgynous malformed babies with down syndrome.
Add in rubber vibrating fist and you're looking at a great night!
Considering how many advertisements California is running in the UK to get people to come over, I would assume you're wrong.
Being born in the US I had considered going back over after Xmas until this incident. I don't are what their excuse is, I'm not paying £500 to be treated like a criminal.
It was bad enough having to quizzed and searched every time I asked a question or looked like I didn't know the airport like the back of my hand.
Did it not cross their mind that if I were a terrorist I would ensure I knew where I was going and certainly wouldn't have walked up to officials to ask questions. Then again it's always been clear that anyone that takes a security job is someone with no real skills that gets a hard-on over bullying people.
Unless he's relatively young, this should be the second time. The USSR was a super power as well that fell apart. Ironically, they held their own little Afghanistan war too which they had to pull out of near the end of their days as a super power.
It will be interesting to see how closely the US' end follows the USSR's end.
I left it as Indian as I'm not going to list every single one since you could, technically list hundreds if you include all the ones that existed before and after colonisation.
On the plus side, you got quite a few to choose from.
The more I read about the guy the more I think he's an outdated douche. It sounds like it's not his publisher that's the problem. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman_Alexie
Journalist Motoko Rich quoted Alexie as saying that he refused to allow his novels to be made available in digital form. Alexie called the expensive reading devices "elitist" and said that their widespread adoption would harm both readers from poor communities, as well as the authors themselves. He stated in an interview with Stephen Colbert that "digital books take away jobs" from the artists.[4] He said also in this interview that the culture surrounding books and bookstores is diminishing, and that the digital book phenomenon will only continue to decrease the value of hard copy.
Exactly. Companies need to stop trying to build up borders within the internet. The internet itself is one territory, it should be treated that way and people should be able to buy things from any website.
Amazon isn't the only place to buy ebooks either. The only safe stats they have are what they sell which is why they've used kindle stats vs physical books sold through Amazon.
They are indeed a monopoly and stiffle business. Sure they create jobs but it takes fewer people to write one zip program for Windows that goes and kills off numerous companies and jobs. Their built-in firewall, virus protection and media player have and or will do the same.
The fact they were initially going to stop with IE6 on XP just goes to show what state they put browser software in. They didn't feel the need to compete any longer.
They do generate a lot of money for the local economy and create jobs but they also crush companies making people jobless and continue to send jobs over seas and threaten to send more over there if they're made to pay tax they've been avoiding.
If they get their way and kill of Java then it will only get worse.
I would make it a test of US history, government and law.
We probably wouldn't have to do this if more importance was put on this in school and school in general wasn't something you more or less floated through just so you can go to uni.
I wouldn't really say they're tarnished. They're still around and while their stock prices have seen better days, they're not at their worst point and on the rise so it's certainly in better shape than most everyone on that list.
With thousands of employees, the IT support guys have enough going on without having to come install things for me every time I need them to do my job.
I think "Big Pharma" would be very interested in herbal medicines working and the finding some way to monopolise the market.
I wouldn't say all herbal options are a joke. However it is nice to have things backed up with studies rather than the idea that it must work because people have used it for so long.
Garlic is a very good thing for you and it's also been proven by numerous studies.
I have no problem with religion. In fact there are some good things to be taken in from religion. But that doesn't mean its extremists aren't a bunch of douche bags.
That applies to extremists of any group but I opted for religious since that's that big popular thing now what with the Muslim extremists ruining things in the Middle East and the Christian extremists ruining America.
Foreigners can receive a title from the Queen but they can't use the the title Sir or they hold less weight. I can't remember the specifics but they can be award a title.
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And, as an owner of The Transformed Man, I can safely say that Shatner's Shakespeare is much more entertaining than Picard's renditions.
One problem with the US paying tribute to Shatner (if they could give him a title) is that he's Canadian so, if it were a similar system to the UK, he could only have a lesser title and not the title truly worthy of Shatner.
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Money isn't everything but life sure as hell sucks when you don't have any. Ask the homeless.
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I am an American who opted to move to the UK and I was in no way asked to give up my citizenship and when I did get my citizenship I did so because I get to have my US and UK citizenship and now I have access to work anywhere in the US or EU which is rather handy! Perhaps things were different for you, I do know immigration laws change over time but for at least the last 10 years you could have both citizenships in the UK.
Being a writer you don't even need a work permit as long as you don't intend to do work outside of your field. http://www.skillclear.co.uk/permitfree.asp
I would have said the other places are probably the same but to be honest some countries are getting tired of their people being treated like shit when going to the US so they're returning the favour and I don't blame them to be honest.
American women are rude, obese half-plastic pigs. Protip: the silicon side is the front. Japanese women look like androgynous malformed babies with down syndrome.
Add in rubber vibrating fist and you're looking at a great night!
Considering how many advertisements California is running in the UK to get people to come over, I would assume you're wrong.
Being born in the US I had considered going back over after Xmas until this incident. I don't are what their excuse is, I'm not paying £500 to be treated like a criminal.
It was bad enough having to quizzed and searched every time I asked a question or looked like I didn't know the airport like the back of my hand.
Did it not cross their mind that if I were a terrorist I would ensure I knew where I was going and certainly wouldn't have walked up to officials to ask questions. Then again it's always been clear that anyone that takes a security job is someone with no real skills that gets a hard-on over bullying people.
This is why I stick my fingers up my ass before entering Japan. It's the small things that give you pleasure.
Unless he's relatively young, this should be the second time. The USSR was a super power as well that fell apart. Ironically, they held their own little Afghanistan war too which they had to pull out of near the end of their days as a super power.
It will be interesting to see how closely the US' end follows the USSR's end.
I left it as Indian as I'm not going to list every single one since you could, technically list hundreds if you include all the ones that existed before and after colonisation.
On the plus side, you got quite a few to choose from.
Slashdot is outsourcing its readership! Is nothing sacred any more?
You mean English which did not originate in the US. Speak Indian if you want to speak your nation'`s own language.
Yet you're communicatying over the internet in a way created by a British man.
I didn't see it coming. They didn't mention it once on American Idol.
Journalist Motoko Rich quoted Alexie as saying that he refused to allow his novels to be made available in digital form. Alexie called the expensive reading devices "elitist" and said that their widespread adoption would harm both readers from poor communities, as well as the authors themselves. He stated in an interview with Stephen Colbert that "digital books take away jobs" from the artists.[4] He said also in this interview that the culture surrounding books and bookstores is diminishing, and that the digital book phenomenon will only continue to decrease the value of hard copy.
Exactly. Companies need to stop trying to build up borders within the internet. The internet itself is one territory, it should be treated that way and people should be able to buy things from any website.
Amazon isn't the only place to buy ebooks either. The only safe stats they have are what they sell which is why they've used kindle stats vs physical books sold through Amazon.
I know why it hasn't done it for me. It's because Ballmer is spelled wrong.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/toadwarrior/4234291097/sizes/o/
I'm sure it has worked for you (otherwise you wouldn't have used it) but it should work consistently for everyone. How can you trust sharing results?
Please don't use Bing. It didn't return any relevant results.
They are indeed a monopoly and stiffle business. Sure they create jobs but it takes fewer people to write one zip program for Windows that goes and kills off numerous companies and jobs. Their built-in firewall, virus protection and media player have and or will do the same.
The fact they were initially going to stop with IE6 on XP just goes to show what state they put browser software in. They didn't feel the need to compete any longer.
They do generate a lot of money for the local economy and create jobs but they also crush companies making people jobless and continue to send jobs over seas and threaten to send more over there if they're made to pay tax they've been avoiding.
If they get their way and kill of Java then it will only get worse.
I would make it a test of US history, government and law.
We probably wouldn't have to do this if more importance was put on this in school and school in general wasn't something you more or less floated through just so you can go to uni.
I think really they should go with Radio Cack.
I wouldn't really say they're tarnished. They're still around and while their stock prices have seen better days, they're not at their worst point and on the rise so it's certainly in better shape than most everyone on that list.
http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=COMS#chart7:symbol=coms;range=my;indicator=volume;charttype=line;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=on;source=undefined
With thousands of employees, the IT support guys have enough going on without having to come install things for me every time I need them to do my job.
I think "Big Pharma" would be very interested in herbal medicines working and the finding some way to monopolise the market.
I wouldn't say all herbal options are a joke. However it is nice to have things backed up with studies rather than the idea that it must work because people have used it for so long.
Garlic is a very good thing for you and it's also been proven by numerous studies.
I have no problem with religion. In fact there are some good things to be taken in from religion. But that doesn't mean its extremists aren't a bunch of douche bags.
That applies to extremists of any group but I opted for religious since that's that big popular thing now what with the Muslim extremists ruining things in the Middle East and the Christian extremists ruining America.
Foreigners can receive a title from the Queen but they can't use the the title Sir or they hold less weight. I can't remember the specifics but they can be award a title.
And, as an owner of The Transformed Man, I can safely say that Shatner's Shakespeare is much more entertaining than Picard's renditions.
One problem with the US paying tribute to Shatner (if they could give him a title) is that he's Canadian so, if it were a similar system to the UK, he could only have a lesser title and not the title truly worthy of Shatner.
Money isn't everything but life sure as hell sucks when you don't have any. Ask the homeless.