Then there's all the ways to go through Sussex county (NJ-94 through Vernon is the easiest, but there's a variety of other back roads you can use, or go up NJ-23 through High Point). Somebody else suggested you only meant NYC, but that would exclude the Tappan Zee which is wholly in NY state. Perhaps you should check a road map sometime.
This is also a problem for my three year-old son - with our old two button mouse he was forever managing to screw up his games by clicking the two buttons indiscriminately (not helped by the fact that the mouse was way too big for his hand). Now we've got a mouse with the scroll wheel between the two buttons, he can feel that there's two separate buttons and better tell which one he's clicking.
Yep. A stepdaughter aged 9, and a kid of my own aged -7 months. It broadens the mind to have a home PC full of cyber-mammals (Curious George and Reader Rabbit to name just two).
> Nope. Marrying a US citizen CAN lead to citizenship, but first you have to have a massive background check in your home
> country sent to INS. Then you have to submit the wedding itself to the INS version of an IRS audit. Then you pay several
> hundred dollars and fill out two pounds of paper. Then you wait two years for an interview. The non-citizen spouse can
> then be offered permanent residency at that interview, which leads to citizenship in something like 5-7 years
Yes indeedy. And that is why I am extremely thankful that my employer-sponsored Green Card arrived 2 months before my wedding. It might have taken three years of anguish to get the Green Card through my employers, but from what I understand that pales into insignificance next to the pressures of having the INS examine every last detail of your marriage.
On a landline phone, you pick the receiver up off the cradle and you get a dialtone (assuming you've paid the bill, of course).
We live at the northern tip of Bell Atlantic's NJ local landline service area. According to Bell Atlantic we live in a completely different county to the people on the other side of town - calling my stepdaughter's grandmother, who lives 5 minutes walk away but who has Sprint as the local carrier, is a local-toll call.
Because we're so remote from the rest of Bell Atlantic's operations (38000 feet from the switch according to dslreports.com) our quality of service sucks. It took three months to get both of our lines working successfully - they eventually fixed it when I started talking to their repair people about getting a third line installed (which would have had to have been new copper) and cancelling one of the other two. Calls to their service department were a joke, as I started treating their estimated date for someone to come out as an opening gambit in a negotiating session, rather than a hard position ("Someone will be out on Friday morning", "Come on, that's 3 days away - I know you can do better than that. How about late afternoon tomorrow instead", "I'll take a look and see if there'll be anyone nearby then").
After all this, we can't get more than a 26Kbps connection to the web, and our voice line is useless in a rainstorm. We can't get DSL (too far away from the switch), towns 10 miles away from us don't even have cable TV service, so we've little hope of cable modems, and we live in NJ's Ski area (I bet lots of you didn't know NJ even had skiing!) so wireless reception is spotty to say the least.
Considering I'm still hoping to get one form of phone service that works consistently, and I live less than 50 miles from the biggest city in the US, I think that it's still a bit of a stretch to imagine a near-term situation where lots of people in the US are completely wireless.
Also, I suspect that if Linus wanted a green card, all he'd have to do is drop a hint, and the immigration services would roll out the red carpet...
Have you read any of the articles about Green Card processing, and how Linus, along with many others, is stuck in the long backlog of applications? (He applied several years ago IIRC.) He's getting the same "red carpet" as everyone else, and so might get his card sometime this year. Also, an visa for someone "exceptionally valuable" is not H1B - it's some other sort of H1, I believe.
Another part of the problem is that the "single" is effectively dead in the US. Sure, bands release singles - but only to radio stations. In many (most?) cases, if I hear a single on the radio that I want to buy, I'm forced to buy the entire album. Again, the record companies would prefer you to spend $15 rather than $4, but the average consumer (especially teenagers, who a great deal of the record industry marketing is aimed at) can't afford to keep spending money like that to get a load of tracks they don't want.
Actually, I believe that you don't have to report the amount of interest you pay on your home. On your 1040 you can just take the standard deduction instead of itemizing.
Of course, this means that you're likely to pay more tax if you own anything other than a very small (or very cheap) house, but it's your choice.
I can't connect from home at better than 26.6K (thanks, Bell Atlantic), and WMP streamed video absolutely blows - you get a slide-show effect (if you get any pictures at all). Real, from the same site, is normally fine which suggests that Real is better at lower bandwidths.
WMP definitely takes longer to start and connect too.
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Then there's all the ways to go through Sussex county (NJ-94 through Vernon is the easiest, but there's a variety of other back roads you can use, or go up NJ-23 through High Point). Somebody else suggested you only meant NYC, but that would exclude the Tappan Zee which is wholly in NY state. Perhaps you should check a road map sometime.
This is also a problem for my three year-old son - with our old two button mouse he was forever managing to screw up his games by clicking the two buttons indiscriminately (not helped by the fact that the mouse was way too big for his hand). Now we've got a mouse with the scroll wheel between the two buttons, he can feel that there's two separate buttons and better tell which one he's clicking.
Yep. A stepdaughter aged 9, and a kid of my own aged -7 months. It broadens the mind to have a home PC full of cyber-mammals (Curious George and Reader Rabbit to name just two).
> Nope. Marrying a US citizen CAN lead to citizenship, but first you have to have a massive background check in your home
> country sent to INS. Then you have to submit the wedding itself to the INS version of an IRS audit. Then you pay several
> hundred dollars and fill out two pounds of paper. Then you wait two years for an interview. The non-citizen spouse can
> then be offered permanent residency at that interview, which leads to citizenship in something like 5-7 years
Yes indeedy. And that is why I am extremely thankful that my employer-sponsored Green Card arrived 2 months before my wedding. It might have taken three years of anguish to get the Green Card through my employers, but from what I understand that pales into insignificance next to the pressures of having the INS examine every last detail of your marriage.
We live at the northern tip of Bell Atlantic's NJ local landline service area. According to Bell Atlantic we live in a completely different county to the people on the other side of town - calling my stepdaughter's grandmother, who lives 5 minutes walk away but who has Sprint as the local carrier, is a local-toll call.
Because we're so remote from the rest of Bell Atlantic's operations (38000 feet from the switch according to dslreports.com) our quality of service sucks. It took three months to get both of our lines working successfully - they eventually fixed it when I started talking to their repair people about getting a third line installed (which would have had to have been new copper) and cancelling one of the other two. Calls to their service department were a joke, as I started treating their estimated date for someone to come out as an opening gambit in a negotiating session, rather than a hard position ("Someone will be out on Friday morning", "Come on, that's 3 days away - I know you can do better than that. How about late afternoon tomorrow instead", "I'll take a look and see if there'll be anyone nearby then").
After all this, we can't get more than a 26Kbps connection to the web, and our voice line is useless in a rainstorm. We can't get DSL (too far away from the switch), towns 10 miles away from us don't even have cable TV service, so we've little hope of cable modems, and we live in NJ's Ski area (I bet lots of you didn't know NJ even had skiing!) so wireless reception is spotty to say the least.
Considering I'm still hoping to get one form of phone service that works consistently, and I live less than 50 miles from the biggest city in the US, I think that it's still a bit of a stretch to imagine a near-term situation where lots of people in the US are completely wireless.
Have you read any of the articles about Green Card processing, and how Linus, along with many others, is stuck in the long backlog of applications? (He applied several years ago IIRC.) He's getting the same "red carpet" as everyone else, and so might get his card sometime this year. Also, an visa for someone "exceptionally valuable" is not H1B - it's some other sort of H1, I believe.
Another part of the problem is that the "single" is effectively dead in the US. Sure, bands release singles - but only to radio stations. In many (most?) cases, if I hear a single on the radio that I want to buy, I'm forced to buy the entire album. Again, the record companies would prefer you to spend $15 rather than $4, but the average consumer (especially teenagers, who a great deal of the record industry marketing is aimed at) can't afford to keep spending money like that to get a load of tracks they don't want.
Of course, this means that you're likely to pay more tax if you own anything other than a very small (or very cheap) house, but it's your choice.
I can't connect from home at better than 26.6K (thanks, Bell Atlantic), and WMP streamed video absolutely blows - you get a slide-show effect (if you get any pictures at all). Real, from the same site, is normally fine which suggests that Real
is better at lower bandwidths.
WMP definitely takes longer to start and connect too.