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The optimal solution then is to get an infinite number of people on the internet to solve it for you for free!

Whats the quote? Other languages borrow foreign words - English lures them into dark alleys and goes through their pockets for any grammer they might have.

Never had a green card - but going in and out of the USA on a european country passport with an H1-B was always a hassle. Especially one return from a conference where the minimum-…

Llanfair.... is a famous (for very small values of famous) welsh railway station with the longest name in the world. People go there to take pictures of the sign. However having a …

Windscale renamed itself Sellafield after a little tiny, nothing to worry about, nothing to see here, reactor explosion. Plan B, after the next incident, is to rename it Llanfairpw…

No - the Indian government claimed that the tablet was possible because of their world lead in IT and the involvement of Indian universities. It did this for it's own political pur…

That's true - should have said sarcasm, but I can't change it because of the guns = irony joke. Now that's ironic.

Google makes £1.25 billion/year in the UK but doesn't pay any tax because it's HQ is in Ireland, in Australia it makes a loss on $1Bn sales because it's all charged back to Dublin.…

But only since about 1880. Before that 'France' was only about 20% of the country and only about 20% spoke French. There was a huge effort to create a single nation, similar to the…

I thought the "High Fructose" was an earlier attempt to make it sound good to the consumer. Fructose = fruit, fruit = good, therefore "High Fructose" = good

A lot of US companies put their HQ in Ireland because, they speak English (mostly), they have very low corporation tax and lots of golf courses - the Irish government also did an e…

Sorry - can't link to the replies. It was 'irony' - France is notorious for obeying only those EU laws which benefit it. In particular there are lots of unofficial barriers to othe…

Ideally the EU will allow more micro-countries. 50 years ago it was difficult to be a city-state, Monaco couldn't have it's own currency, army , foreign embassies. Now it would be …

Thats the big advantage - imagine having a choice of bread or cheese that actually tastes different! Apart from a few of the more 'third world' european countries (like France) if …

No but it's still a hassle not being a citizen - especially if you travel a lot. By contrast Canadian permanent residents are treated exactly the same as citizens - except you can'…

There are some differences, a US friend of mine did law in the UK which meant she could work anywhere from Finland to Greece. But when she passed the New York bar she couldn't work…

Welcome to Europe. 500 years ago it was mostly principalities and city states, tried empires for a while, then we had countries for a few 100 years - now we are trying to abolish t…

Some countries don't allow dual citizenship. My German friends had to renounce their German citizenship when they became Americans (again for the green card). It made it very trick…

Or being so inflexible with regard to immigration that the only way to work there without facing immediate deportation if you change jobs is to become a citizen. I can live and wor…

Perhaps because those in it are unaware that there are any countries out of it? When good americans die - they go to Paris

One more thing to consider for any other europeans thinking of moving to America: 1, they don't understand irony 2, they carry guns

Pity Sun didn't think of that one !

No problem. My copy of Autocad is owned by XYZ-software installation inc. A wholly owned subsidiary whose only asset is a copy of Autocad, I can sell the company to anyone I want -…