Which is what I said in the first posting - you have to tell the US that you're giving up any other citizenship, but that means nothing to the other country.
The important part of the Oath of Allegiance is:
"I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen;"
Actually America does require you to renounce any other citizenship as part of getting American citizenship. But the other countries (mostly) don't recognise you've done so unless you complete their paperwork as well.
I've done the same in England - well, over the years I've done the three roles: standing for election, working in polling stations, counting the votes. The first one I had to pay to do, the other two I was paid.
And it's very similar to how you describe it - you hand out a voting slip with the names of candidates, the voters make a mark in the square next to the name and put it in a box; when the election is over the boxes are taken to a central location to be counted in front of witnesses from each party. If there's doubt about who gets the vote then everyone tries to make a fair judgement, if they can't then it's put to one side for another team to review.
When the votes have been counted then the parties are told them first; if there's a small difference then there's an automatic recount; if it's larger than that the parties can ask for a recount.
Then it's announced and is final. The only downside is that the results aren't known until straight away, so the media gets upset.
Part of that job is trying to drill into programmer's heads the concept that performing to spec when used as directed is not sufficient.
Can you give an example of what you mean by this? It sounds like you give them a spec and tell them not to follow it.
Correct - the BBC won't sell overseas, and BBC America has no desire to sell radio programmes. Though to be fair they probably have rights agreements to work around.
But the UK on-line stores, such as amazon.co.uk, or whsmith.co.uk, or others will send them anywhere.
Nope, it's not public domain; the TV license is for owning a device capable of receiving TV programmes, so anything you see or hear is actually a bonus.
For many programmes the BBC only has the rights to a limited number of broadcasts, they're not allowed to sell copies of them. The idea, suggested recently, that the BBC should sell off their archive never addresses this point.
As a good example look at the contractual problems BBC7 had.
So prof makes a claim, student asks for proof, prof says student is too dumb to understand the proof?
Shouldn't the prof have then gone on to show examples of a 25% increase in complexity, and how it explains his original statment?
But to keep it in current BBC guidelines the Doctor is travelling through time to redecorate peoples houses. Meanwhile the Master is putting a water feature in someones garden.
How can you call yourself a fan if you don't have:
H2G2 first radio broadcasts on cassette
H2G2 first print of first novel, autographed by DNA at a writers workshop
H2G2 both vinyl versions
H2G2 infocom game
In Seattle it's legal to go around in the wrong direction if it's easier - as most of the roundabouts are in residential areas with narrow roads this is quite often, so you have to stop because you never know which direction someone could be coming from.
That's what I was told when signing for two mortgages. Perhaps they were wrong, but if I'd wanted to sign the way I normally do they wouldn't have given me the money.
Once did a version of 14 - over a period of months a cow-erker & I kept replacing mugs with ones slightly larger, so the amount of coffee being drunk was slowly increasing until it was double.
And it had no effect that we could tell - other than us spending a heck of a lot on all the mugs.
Balls are ok, it's when you're learning clubs that you need the space - they can do more knocking over damage than those nice friendly squishy thud balls.
Often the end-user is not the person who is 'wanting' the project - the management has different ideas about what they want to the person who has to use it. So the program gets written to the specifications, it's put into production, and only then are the flaws in the design found.
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Which is what I said in the first posting - you have to tell the US that you're giving up any other citizenship, but that means nothing to the other country.
The important part of the Oath of Allegiance is: "I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen;"
Actually America does require you to renounce any other citizenship as part of getting American citizenship. But the other countries (mostly) don't recognise you've done so unless you complete their paperwork as well.
I've done the same in England - well, over the years I've done the three roles: standing for election, working in polling stations, counting the votes. The first one I had to pay to do, the other two I was paid. And it's very similar to how you describe it - you hand out a voting slip with the names of candidates, the voters make a mark in the square next to the name and put it in a box; when the election is over the boxes are taken to a central location to be counted in front of witnesses from each party. If there's doubt about who gets the vote then everyone tries to make a fair judgement, if they can't then it's put to one side for another team to review. When the votes have been counted then the parties are told them first; if there's a small difference then there's an automatic recount; if it's larger than that the parties can ask for a recount. Then it's announced and is final. The only downside is that the results aren't known until straight away, so the media gets upset.
Aren't beer commercials brilliant! They use catch-phrases from TV shows. Brilliant! Fast Show - brilliant!
Or an underling is told to "get me a list of everybody who bought a typewriter in the last six months".
And if you need to find more information you can always finger printerfingerprinting.
And I'm neither married nor a citizen. The names I used for those were fairly common, so there should have been some false hits at least, but nothing.
Part of that job is trying to drill into programmer's heads the concept that performing to spec when used as directed is not sufficient.
Can you give an example of what you mean by this? It sounds like you give them a spec and tell them not to follow it.
Correct - the BBC won't sell overseas, and BBC America has no desire to sell radio programmes. Though to be fair they probably have rights agreements to work around. But the UK on-line stores, such as amazon.co.uk, or whsmith.co.uk, or others will send them anywhere.
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Nope, it's not public domain; the TV license is for owning a device capable of receiving TV programmes, so anything you see or hear is actually a bonus. For many programmes the BBC only has the rights to a limited number of broadcasts, they're not allowed to sell copies of them. The idea, suggested recently, that the BBC should sell off their archive never addresses this point. As a good example look at the contractual problems BBC7 had.
So prof makes a claim, student asks for proof, prof says student is too dumb to understand the proof? Shouldn't the prof have then gone on to show examples of a 25% increase in complexity, and how it explains his original statment?
But to keep it in current BBC guidelines the Doctor is travelling through time to redecorate peoples houses. Meanwhile the Master is putting a water feature in someones garden.
How can you call yourself a fan if you don't have: H2G2 first radio broadcasts on cassette H2G2 first print of first novel, autographed by DNA at a writers workshop H2G2 both vinyl versions H2G2 infocom game
I may as well plug my site - www.angelfire.com/on4/radiolistings - which is details of most BBC programmes since 1997 & some earlier.
In Seattle it's legal to go around in the wrong direction if it's easier - as most of the roundabouts are in residential areas with narrow roads this is quite often, so you have to stop because you never know which direction someone could be coming from.
That's what I was told when signing for two mortgages. Perhaps they were wrong, but if I'd wanted to sign the way I normally do they wouldn't have given me the money.
Once did a version of 14 - over a period of months a cow-erker & I kept replacing mugs with ones slightly larger, so the amount of coffee being drunk was slowly increasing until it was double. And it had no effect that we could tell - other than us spending a heck of a lot on all the mugs.
If you can get to streaming media sites try the BBC - www.bbc.co.uk - for drama, comedy, quizes, docs, even music if you want it.
Balls are ok, it's when you're learning clubs that you need the space - they can do more knocking over damage than those nice friendly squishy thud balls.
For some documentation the signature has to be a readable version of the full name - very difficult if you've spent a life-time doing a scrawl.
Duplicate names within the same zip, postal, whatever code can also have the same effect.
You also need to put "Some" in front of the sentence. Free software is not always the bees knees.
Often the end-user is not the person who is 'wanting' the project - the management has different ideas about what they want to the person who has to use it. So the program gets written to the specifications, it's put into production, and only then are the flaws in the design found.