While you might be allowed to leave and join a different club, it's not free.. the IRS can still demand you pay income taxes for the next ten years, even if you renounce your US citizenship. While they might not send the goons to go kidnap you and bring you back, the next time you visit the US (say, for a family funeral or a friend's wedding) you can expect to be met at the airport. Search for [expatriation tax].
A few years ago I saw a silent film at the Stanford Theatre in Palo Alto. I can never remember the name of the actor they've "adopted," but they're paying to restore his films. The movie I saw was billed as the origin of the chase scene; it's basically one long chase scene (on bikes, horses, cars, fire engines, you name it) as Our Hero tries to get to the church in time to stop the Heroine from marrying the wrong person.
There was an organist playing along, but because it was a silent film, everyone knew it was okay to laugh. So they did. Heartily. That of course infected everyone else, and it just fed back until the entire audience was falling out of their seats, rolling in the aisles, having a wonderful time.
I don't think a talkie would have been as entertaining-- everyone would be too afraid to do more than titter or guffaw quietly.
I think that was the best movie-watching experience I've ever had.
A week or two ago there were news stories saying that Google is creating an engineering center in or around Phoenix. So maybe if you hang on a little while longer you'll get your free wireless..
I watched someone yesterday on the freeway change lanes right into one a smaller car was already occupying.
This is becoming ever more common. I drive a Miata, the top of which barely comes up to the windows of some of these monsters. Particularly when they want to lane-change to the right, even if they look out the window, they look right over me.
I stay in the left lane as much as I can now, and driving with the top down is nice for situational awareness, but these fun little sports cars are getting pretty dangerous.
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While you might be allowed to leave and join a different club, it's not free.. the IRS can still demand you pay income taxes for the next ten years, even if you renounce your US citizenship. While they might not send the goons to go kidnap you and bring you back, the next time you visit the US (say, for a family funeral or a friend's wedding) you can expect to be met at the airport. Search for [expatriation tax].
A few years ago I saw a silent film at the Stanford Theatre in Palo Alto. I can never remember the name of the actor they've "adopted," but they're paying to restore his films. The movie I saw was billed as the origin of the chase scene; it's basically one long chase scene (on bikes, horses, cars, fire engines, you name it) as Our Hero tries to get to the church in time to stop the Heroine from marrying the wrong person.
There was an organist playing along, but because it was a silent film, everyone knew it was okay to laugh. So they did. Heartily. That of course infected everyone else, and it just fed back until the entire audience was falling out of their seats, rolling in the aisles, having a wonderful time.
I don't think a talkie would have been as entertaining-- everyone would be too afraid to do more than titter or guffaw quietly.
I think that was the best movie-watching experience I've ever had.
I think that's the plan. However, to keep the captured humans alive, we have to plug their brains into a virtual reality world to distract them.
The first version of that world, at least, is not going very well. Entire crops are being lost.
A week or two ago there were news stories saying that Google is creating an engineering center in or around Phoenix. So maybe if you hang on a little while longer you'll get your free wireless..
I watched someone yesterday on the freeway change lanes right into one a smaller car was already occupying.
This is becoming ever more common. I drive a Miata, the top of which barely comes up to the windows of some of these monsters. Particularly when they want to lane-change to the right, even if they look out the window, they look right over me.
I stay in the left lane as much as I can now, and driving with the top down is nice for situational awareness, but these fun little sports cars are getting pretty dangerous.