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Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by therpe1 »

kyrre wrote: post #112
8draco8 wrote: post #10

I live in Europe. From my perspective going to US looks like going to some kind totalitarian country. First I have to got visa which is not automatically approved because I'm Polish not British. Then I have to go trough a lot of, mostly pointless, security checks, checking social accounts, interrogations, scans and manual personal revisions. On any stage of that I can be handcuffed and sent back to Europe for almost…

Judging by the narrative the media is putting out one would think that Poland is a nightmare patriarchal state where rape victims are denied abortion and politicians agree that woman should be paid less because they are too 'small, weak and unintelligent' for equal pay. Be more critical. Traveling to the US is a breeze for Europeans.

That's the narrative the media is pushing only in your head. It's obvious you have no respect for the truth but please don't insult the rest of us by misrepresenting easily googleable news stories. Given that your baseless allegations about "the media' who here really needs to be more critical?

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by sgift »

caseysoftware wrote: post #151
sgift wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why exactly would this be the case? As far as I can see most people don't live in this two cities? And saying the US system "was designed to avoid the concentration of power" sounds like a sad joke from an European perspective (First-past-post-system, extreme presidential powers etc.)

Those "extreme presidential powers" were not in the system design. They were submitted as (sometimes secret) change requests by every president post WW2 and accelerated by presidents in the last ~20 years. Unfortunately, the code review team didn't remove the changes and tacked on their own during the process.

Worst code review team in history. But thanks for the explanation, that makes it a bit more clear.

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by staticelf »

pcurve wrote: post #143
emeidi wrote: post #111

I've traveled from Zürich to Los Angeles on Good Friday (April 14, 2017) for leisure - my first visit since February 2016 and thus my first trip to Trump's 'murrica. I was joined with my dad who recently retired and never has left the continent - his first long haul flight and first time to the US. I feared and prepared for the worst and I even was debating about leaving my iPhone, iPad and MacBook Air at home to avo…

" a friendly immigration officer" I've never seen this one in the U.S. or anywhere else. I think they are trained to be neutral or even aloof.

Upon arriving in Finland the passport control officer even welcomed me in my native tounge (Swedish). If come through passport control in the nordic countries I can guarantee they will be friendly.

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by Markoff »

pcurve wrote: post #143
emeidi wrote: post #111

I've traveled from Zürich to Los Angeles on Good Friday (April 14, 2017) for leisure - my first visit since February 2016 and thus my first trip to Trump's 'murrica. I was joined with my dad who recently retired and never has left the continent - his first long haul flight and first time to the US. I feared and prepared for the worst and I even was debating about leaving my iPhone, iPad and MacBook Air at home to avo…

" a friendly immigration officer" I've never seen this one in the U.S. or anywhere else. I think they are trained to be neutral or even aloof.

i had pretty good experiences in Philippines or Malaysia, i would say at least third of immigration officers i met at various borders were friendly. from Europe recently we had very nice Polish woman officer who was very welcoming to our family with small child in EU passports queue despite my wife not being from EU

worst experiences were probably Austrian Nazi guys investigating repeatedly my wife's passport, while at other border with Hungary they let freely roam across Europe thousands of illegal immigrants

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by averagewall »

ItendToDisagree wrote: post #53
microtonal wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We had serious plans to go on holiday to the US this year. I have been in the US at least a dozen of times, and absolutely love the desert states, Oregon, and Washington. Entering the US was already a large hassle, but with Trump's travel bans, rumors of phone, laptop, and social media checks, we have decided to postpone our travel plans until the political/security climate improves. Semi-related: we were in the mark…

The majority of US citizens did not vote for Trump. Just thought I'd point out that most people DO NOT want this president.

He won according to the system that's been in place for 100-200 years. You don't get to support it until it works against you and then complain about it.

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by alphapapa »

microtonal wrote: post #45
8draco8 wrote: post #10

I live in Europe. From my perspective going to US looks like going to some kind totalitarian country. First I have to got visa which is not automatically approved because I'm Polish not British. Then I have to go trough a lot of, mostly pointless, security checks, checking social accounts, interrogations, scans and manual personal revisions. On any stage of that I can be handcuffed and sent back to Europe for almost…

We had serious plans to go on holiday to the US this year. I have been in the US at least a dozen of times, and absolutely love the desert states, Oregon, and Washington. Entering the US was already a large hassle, but with Trump's travel bans, rumors of phone, laptop, and social media checks, we have decided to postpone our travel plans until the political/security climate improves. Semi-related: we were in the mark…

> Semi-related: we were in the market for a new car. One of the factors we decided to go for a European car this time (we had a Ford Focus before) is that we'd like to support Trump America as little as possible.

What an exciting new world we live in, in which, before we do any kind of business or trade with a company which has a presence in a foreign country, we must consider all of the policies of that country's current, democratically elected leader--and if we don't agree with them, we refuse to do any business with that company, thereby attempting to punish the citizens of that country for exercising their right to democratic self-rule. How dare they have a different opinion. We'll buy local instead. That'll teach 'em to disagree with us.

What a sad state of affairs our world will be in if we all stop doing business with those who don't agree with us on everything. We might as well organize ourselves into separate entities and only do business within them. That would be...something like nations, without trade, no? But then here we are trying to force these other nations to do what we want, thereby erasing the distinctions between them.

And that's the real goal here, isn't it? The world becomes smaller every day.

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by tertius »

Sacho wrote: post #140
laGrenouille wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not really a fair statement given the oddities of the electoral college. I know a lot of people in big coastal cities (New York, Boston, LA, San Fransisco, Seattle) who don't vote but are very anti-Trump. They know it doesn't matter because their states were always going to go strongly for the Democrats.

It seems like those people didn't feel the electoral college was problematic. Otherwise, voting would have exposed the vast discrepancy between popular opinion and the college. Even if Hillary had won, that demonstration could be used to spur reform of the election process.

Say the majority went up to 55%... We'd still need a lot more than that to change the electoral college.

And honestly, having big states control who becomes president just because of their population, given how independent states should function, is a cornerstone of the electoral college.

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by cr1895 »

buro9 wrote: post #94
r3m3mb3rm3 wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Then you can say that you have some accounts but you don't remember the password anymore: "I'm just logged in from my computer at home. If I delete the cookies I don't know if I would be able to get the password again"

It wouldn't matter. 1. Lying to them falls under "fraudulent access to the USA" and the penalty is permanent exclusion, no Visa will help you, you have no right to appeal. 2. You cannot discuss or appeal anything, there isn't a discussion that you are a part of in which you get to explain your side or proffer an excuse... your actions already did your talking. Don't lie to border control, don't give BS excuses. Eithe…

>you do not have that right, the right is granted by them.

*excluding US citizens, who are also affected by these practices.

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by m_eiman »

foldr wrote: post #117
1337biz wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe because Eastern Europeans are rarely shooting or bombing innocent people? Just a wild, wild guess...

In the US you mean? Eastern Europe isn't entirely free of terrorist activity, assuming that you include Chechnya.

There's a place called Ukraine…

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by [deleted] »

ItendToDisagree wrote: post #125
tomp wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, the point is, depending on the rules of the game, people vote differently. E.g. under the current system it makes no sense for republicans in NY and CA to vote... If the popular vote actually counted, the popular vote would be different (it's like quantum mechanics applied to psychology - if people know that you observe them, they change their behaviour)!

Not voting because of being in a red/blue state seems to happen to both parties. A change to the voting system would probably change behavior and (hopefully) increase voter turnout in general. :)

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