let alone makes a stopover, you still are subject to US customs inspection.
Another US peculiarity, which is a major problem for many people daily.
Making it worse, the US considers Canada and Mexico part of the US for visa purposes. So a 4-month visit to Canada, transiting the US both ways, is considered a 4-month stay in the US and so ineligible for ESTA and needing a full visa with interview just to transit.
No need to blame the media conspiracy. His unfiltered tweets are evidence enough. Its not some left-wing conspiracy - McCain and Romney always came across as decent, intelligent guys in the media. The 2016 election was something truly new.
My favourite right-wing commentator Andrew Bolt said:
THE question now isn’t whether Donald Trump is just a moron or an outright menace who could blow up the world. It’s why a braggart, buffoon, liar, narcissist and sexist with almost no political principles came so close to becoming president of the world’s greatest power.
Of course that was after pussy-gate, when we thought it was all over. Since the election, he has embraced Trump, but for a moment, we heard his real thoughts.
Simpler way: just don't visit the United States. As a bonus, you will miss all the other airport humiliations: mass-fingerprinting, world's worst security theatre (you want my shoes off?), and risk of arbitrary refusal of entry without right of appeal or even explanation.
If you want a dose of American culture and natural beauty, just go to Canada instead. Niagara Falls looks better from that side anyway:)
Are there any other countries where this sort of thing goes on?
People seem to be confusing the early 19th C with the Great Depression of the 20th.
Around here, Australia, there was a chronic labour shortage in those days. And I believe it was similar in the US:
The U.S. economy of the early 19th century was characterized by labor shortages, as noted by numerous contemporary observers. The labor shortage was attributed to the cheapness of land and the high returns on agriculture. All types of labor were in high demand, especially unskilled labor and experienced factory workers.
All our perceptions are simplifications - e.g. solid matter. An "illusion" is more like the opposite: seeing complexity when reality is simpler.
make a video of atomic level events and play it forwards and then play it backwards, no one can tell you which is which.
Doesn't entropy still apply at the atomic level. e.g. particle decay? Sure the maths (classical mechanics or wave function?) works both ways, but one is far more probable than the other. If I see a barium and krypton nucleus collide and fuse into a stationary U235 nucleus, you will not be able to persuade me that the film is not running backward.
You can actually have the past depend on the present, but the catch is that it cannot be used to transmit information back in time. Causality is not violated so long as the effects are not observed until after the cause.
This is important: the very act of detecting autism with the MRI will break the quantum entanglement and stop the vaccine from causing autism. This may be a cure!
(I hope there are still enough nerds on slashdot to appreciate this potential breakthrough.)
I wonder how these guys would behave in real life.
Multiple personalities were not invented with the internet. People manage it easily from a young age. How many are arseholes at work, but nice guys socially? Kids well behaved at school, but argue at home (or Sometimes vice versa). Even mafia enforcers (old school or RIAA lawyers) can be kind and loyal to family and friends.
Especially when the original link goes to a paywalled inc.com page with a click-bait headline "Ending Your Emails With This 1 Word..." Fuck 'em.
At the end of the summary now is a proper link to the original source, and it is clear they jumped to unscientific conclusions from their data. Only later, did they find an actual proper scientific study with experimental data, rather than just a correlation with other obvious contributing factors. e.g. people say thanks when a reply is more important. ie people already knew intuitively what the article is claiming to have discovered.
When the high infant mortality rate is factored in (life expectancy at birth) inhabitants of the Roman Empire had a life expectancy at birth of about 25 years. However, when infant mortality is factored out, life expectancy is doubled to the late-50s. If a Roman survived infancy to their mid-teens, they could, on average, expect near six decades of life, although of course many lived much longer or shorter lives for varied reasons.[clarification needed] Although this figure relies more on conjecture than ancient evidence, which is sparse and of dubious quality, it is a point of general consensus among historians of the period. It originates in cross-country comparison: given the known social and economic conditions of the Roman Empire, we should expect a life expectancy near the lower bound of known pre-modern populations. Roman demography bears comparison to available data for India and rural China in the early 20th century, where life expectancies at birth were also in the low 20s.[4]
China has over 5,000 years of history.. Your country?
The PRC is less than 70 years old. The Republic of China (surviving in Taiwan) little more than a century. In contrast, England goes back to the Norman conquest in 1066.
European history is of a similar age to Chinese. Of course, the Middle East was first.
To be fair, China's decline predated Mao by several generations. You can't blame Mao for the Opium Wars.
To be fair, China's decline predated the Opium Wars by a few centuries as well. You can't blame Opium for the Manchu conquest.
To be fair, China's decline predated the Manchurian Conquest by some generations. You can't blame the northern barbarians for the slow decline of the Ming Dynasty.
Either way, I"m thinking "Cool!! That leaves more oil and gas for us here in the US and we can take a bit more time to switch over
Good point . It was not always beer and skittles back when the US was a world leader. e.g. The US was first by far to have colour TV, but got stuck for decades with the terrible NTSC system.
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let alone makes a stopover, you still are subject to US customs inspection.
Another US peculiarity, which is a major problem for many people daily.
Making it worse, the US considers Canada and Mexico part of the US for visa purposes.
So a 4-month visit to Canada, transiting the US both ways, is considered a 4-month stay in the US and so ineligible for ESTA and needing a full visa with interview just to transit.
Here is some help to avoid US transit:
https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki...
http://wikitravel.org/en/Avoid...
No need to blame the media conspiracy. His unfiltered tweets are evidence enough.
Its not some left-wing conspiracy - McCain and Romney always came across as decent, intelligent guys in the media.
The 2016 election was something truly new.
My favourite right-wing commentator Andrew Bolt said:
THE question now isn’t whether Donald Trump is just a moron or an outright menace who could blow up the world. It’s why a braggart, buffoon, liar, narcissist and sexist with almost no political principles came so close to becoming president of the world’s greatest power.
Of course that was after pussy-gate, when we thought it was all over. Since the election, he has embraced Trump, but for a moment, we heard his real thoughts.
Simpler way: just don't visit the United States. :)
As a bonus, you will miss all the other airport humiliations: mass-fingerprinting, world's worst security theatre (you want my shoes off?), and risk of arbitrary refusal of entry without right of appeal or even explanation.
If you want a dose of American culture and natural beauty, just go to Canada instead. Niagara Falls looks better from that side anyway
Are there any other countries where this sort of thing goes on?
What about Mattel's Barbie doll?
Klaus? Not a big seller.
People seem to be confusing the early 19th C with the Great Depression of the 20th.
Around here, Australia, there was a chronic labour shortage in those days. And I believe it was similar in the US:
The U.S. economy of the early 19th century was characterized by labor shortages, as noted by numerous contemporary observers. The labor shortage was attributed to the cheapness of land and the high returns on agriculture. All types of labor were in high demand, especially unskilled labor and experienced factory workers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
And that was before workers started fleeing to the gold rushes.
Had you explained life in 2017 to someone from 1840, it would be unbelievable.
You'd have to start by explaining a lot of new words that did not exist then. Like "unemployment".
The arrow of time is an illusion
All our perceptions are simplifications - e.g. solid matter. An "illusion" is more like the opposite: seeing complexity when reality is simpler.
make a video of atomic level events and play it forwards and then play it backwards, no one can tell you which is which.
Doesn't entropy still apply at the atomic level. e.g. particle decay?
Sure the maths (classical mechanics or wave function?) works both ways, but one is far more probable than the other.
If I see a barium and krypton nucleus collide and fuse into a stationary U235 nucleus, you will not be able to persuade me that the film is not running backward.
vaccines may ... go back to start the autism before they are administered.
Physicists have actually demonstrated this sort of thing is possible, using quantum entanglement contrary to common sense.
You can actually have the past depend on the present, but the catch is that it cannot be used to transmit information back in time. Causality is not violated so long as the effects are not observed until after the cause.
This is important: the very act of detecting autism with the MRI will break the quantum entanglement and stop the vaccine from causing autism.
This may be a cure!
(I hope there are still enough nerds on slashdot to appreciate this potential breakthrough.)
We've managed to fill near-earth with almost as much rubbish as the surface, ...
Not been to India, have you?
Offshore outsourcing the project?
INDIAN!!!
I wonder how these guys would behave in real life.
Multiple personalities were not invented with the internet. People manage it easily from a young age.
How many are arseholes at work, but nice guys socially?
Kids well behaved at school, but argue at home (or Sometimes vice versa).
Even mafia enforcers (old school or RIAA lawyers) can be kind and loyal to family and friends.
I wish I had the patent on the greengrocers' apostrophe.
Reading is hard:
Especially when the original link goes to a paywalled inc.com page with a click-bait headline "Ending Your Emails With This 1 Word ..." Fuck 'em.
At the end of the summary now is a proper link to the original source, and it is clear they jumped to unscientific conclusions from their data.
Only later, did they find an actual proper scientific study with experimental data, rather than just a correlation with other obvious contributing factors.
e.g. people say thanks when a reply is more important. ie people already knew intuitively what the article is claiming to have discovered.
You might run Vim within Emacs.
Of course. You can run Vim on almost any operating system.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
When the high infant mortality rate is factored in (life expectancy at birth) inhabitants of the Roman Empire had a life expectancy at birth of about 25 years. However, when infant mortality is factored out, life expectancy is doubled to the late-50s. If a Roman survived infancy to their mid-teens, they could, on average, expect near six decades of life, although of course many lived much longer or shorter lives for varied reasons.[clarification needed] Although this figure relies more on conjecture than ancient evidence, which is sparse and of dubious quality, it is a point of general consensus among historians of the period. It originates in cross-country comparison: given the known social and economic conditions of the Roman Empire, we should expect a life expectancy near the lower bound of known pre-modern populations. Roman demography bears comparison to available data for India and rural China in the early 20th century, where life expectancies at birth were also in the low 20s.[4]
China has over 5,000 years of history.. Your country?
The PRC is less than 70 years old. The Republic of China (surviving in Taiwan) little more than a century.
In contrast, England goes back to the Norman conquest in 1066.
European history is of a similar age to Chinese. Of course, the Middle East was first.
To be fair, China's decline predated Mao by several generations. You can't blame Mao for the Opium Wars.
To be fair, China's decline predated the Opium Wars by a few centuries as well. You can't blame Opium for the Manchu conquest.
To be fair, China's decline predated the Manchurian Conquest by some generations. You can't blame the northern barbarians for the slow decline of the Ming Dynasty.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Wow, am wondering if I should be doing a factory reset before the plane finishes taxiing.
Or will they then demand my Google/Apple password?
Nah, I'm white. I'll wait 'till they come for us.
But what about controlled self-destruction?
I think the Saudi's neighbours famously perfected that twenty years ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01...
In this case, it sounds like the robot was blinded, not "fried".
Unsurprising since the camera sensor is designed to detect radiation. But through the lens.
Don't worry, most Kiwis have left the country already. There must be more NZ bro's in London or Sydney than in Wellington.
Why would they wipe out mosquitos instead of wiping out the true culprit: the malaria protozoa itself?
Gene drive techniques depend on sexual reproduction, but protozoa reproduce asexually, and can lay dormant as cysts.
They had me at "New Zealand Eradication Plan".
Should not be hard, as the country is totally undefended.
Either way, I"m thinking "Cool!! That leaves more oil and gas for us here in the US and we can take a bit more time to switch over
Good point . It was not always beer and skittles back when the US was a world leader.
e.g. The US was first by far to have colour TV, but got stuck for decades with the terrible NTSC system.