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Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by tertius »

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. :)

Though if we look at where the majority of the population lives (NY/CA) and how blue those states are he has a point here.

Speculation nonetheless though.

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by dx034 »

beedogs wrote: post #161
petre wrote: post #123

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The Ford Focus sold in Europe is assembled in Germany [1]. The current US border control security climate dates since the Obama Administration. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_of_Europe#Facilities

> The current US border control security climate dates since the Obama Administration. That is demonstrably and absolutely false.

Then Bush? Because most of what Trump tried to change in terms of border security has been sacked by judges. Travelling to the US now isn't harder than a year ago (except for the laptop ban).

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by js8 »

staticelf wrote: post #157
js8 wrote: post #8

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> You only need to give up passwords and such if you are unlucky. Very comforting, isn't it? Especially when this is said about a legal process.

Not really, no. Especially when you're used to just walking through an automated machine which I get to do for most of the time when I travel. First I thought I would bring my computer with pirated movies on it but when I read up online I decided not to bring a computer at all. People in the thread seems to think I am defending the process which I am not. I just state that people seem to hype the evilness of the bord…

> I decided not to bring a computer at all

I also prefer travel without much electronics, since it's easy to get it lost or stolen. But it's not always an option - if you're traveling for business, you have to take the computer, and also everybody has a smartphone these days.

> I just state that people seem to hype the evilness of the border control.

Maybe to you it seems like a hype. But I was born in totalitarian country, and while it was pretty benign for ordinary people (I was a child), it's not something that I want to live through regardless.

Asking about trip details or looking if I don't have weapons and so on is fine for a visit.

But looking at my social media accounts (although I have almost none) and data on my devices - these are totalitarian practices. I understand that you don't feel that way, because you perhaps never experienced totality, but please you should also understand that many people feel differently (like the guy with the top comment).

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by hobs »

averagewall wrote: post #175
ItendToDisagree wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

"That's been in place for 100-200 years"

The gerrymandered system with even more party control is not the system that has been in place for anywhere near that amount of that time.

The parties in place dont have that kind of history either.

Our voting laws are different, even non-white men can vote now! (though they are disenfranchised as much as possible.)

Basically, the system is constantly in flux, ad yes, we get to complain about it all we want and change it (again.)

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by Markoff »

omarqureshi wrote: post #28

I'm a British Muslim who flew to the US on Sunday. Honestly I had assumed it would be hell. In actual fact it was only a little more painful than before. I'm used to being randomly selected for an additional search every time in the UK premiere flight. My colleague (another British Muslim) was also selected which we found quite amusing. On the other side it wasn't bad, just answered truthfully, only snag was my colle…

your are not selected randomly, they use profiling and they search Muslims because majority of terrorists are Muslims, i can't comprehend why even smart people always come with this random check nonsense, do they really claim it's random and try to hide it instead of telling truth?

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by Canada »

beedogs wrote: post #161
petre wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Ford Focus sold in Europe is assembled in Germany [1]. The current US border control security climate dates since the Obama Administration. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_of_Europe#Facilities

> The current US border control security climate dates since the Obama Administration. That is demonstrably and absolutely false.

Yeah, travel to and inside the US really started to suck during the first term of the GWB administration.

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by dx034 »

mathgeek wrote: post #149
Markoff wrote: post #126

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it's not random check, it's called profiling i don't see why people have problem with this, what would be point randomly search old (white) retired woman, what risk she present? pretty much same goes for Eastern Asians, etc. if you have biggest odds finding terrorist between dark skinned Muslims, then you will search them the most, nothing random or racist about that, it's like saying i won't take umbrella outside wh…

I suggest you look up the statistics on percentages of extremists who are/were white males.

Yes, but these extremists don't pose a thread to air security at the moment. Or as foreigners travelling to the US with bad intentions.

While it's certainly unfair for a large innocent group, it still avoids extensive checks for the rest.

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by pg314 »

jbb67 wrote: post #129

Most of the posts on here are ridiculous. People saying they are not going on holiday to the USA because it's too much of a pain. Seriously. We applied online for the visa thing. It took under 5 minutes. Then at the airport we queued up at immigration for around 10 minutes. We showed our passport and answered one question about purpose of visit, and they waved us though. This is the experience of 99.9% of those who v…

> This is the experience of 99.9% of those who visit.

Seems unlikely. The two times I visited the US last year the immigration queue at JFK was a multi-hour wait.

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by betaby »

beedogs wrote: post #161
petre wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Ford Focus sold in Europe is assembled in Germany [1]. The current US border control security climate dates since the Obama Administration. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_of_Europe#Facilities

> The current US border control security climate dates since the Obama Administration. That is demonstrably and absolutely false.

I let you support your vocal 'false' with data.

As for Canadians in Trump era: 'Refusals of Canadians at American land crossings dropped 8.5 per cent between October and the end of February compared with the same five-month period a year earlier, according to U.S. government statistics. The total number of Canadian travellers denied entry also dropped: 6,875 out of 12,991,027 were refused entry, a refusal rate of 0.05 per cent. Between October 2015 and February 2016, 7,619 out of 13,173,100 Canadian travellers were denied entry to the U.S., a refusal rate of 0.06 per cent.'

http://www.macleans.ca/news/number-of-canadians-turned-away-...

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