I feel like posting something positive here - I travelled to the US last week for tourist-y purposes and the border control was fast, efficient, nobody looked at my devices (even though I had 3 phones with me), and the only gripe was with tourists of certain nations constantly trying to jump the queues.
International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees
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Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees
#262Earlier 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.
I wanted him. What's your point?
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#263I 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…
You are right. Thats one of the reasons Ron Paul said we need a revolution over here.
Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees
#264Earlier 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.
@DANG Moderators! This person is trying to hijack a thread into a political rant against our President. Off topic! Destructive! Ban Him!
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The Soviet era . But yes, I just traveled from Shanghai back to my home in the US. The queues in China were much, much shorter than those in the American airports. PVG posted a "25 minutes or less" target for all travellers to get through security and immigration. And they hit it, even at peak travel times with huge volumes of people. At American airports if you arrive less than an hour before boarding they might not…
yeah, amazing China with longest flight delays in world, but yeah security check is pretty fast, for sure faster than in Chinese train station
Or even security checks in a metro station.
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Retracted. Misread the article. Apologies.
I think you're being deliberately obtuse and argumentative. I never mentioned personal time travel. The context is an article telling people not to bring work data with them when traveling for work/professional functions. If you're traveling for work, and your company can't guarantee your safe and reasonably comfortable travel to that destination in a work capacity -- they should recommend you not go.
Agreed, they shouldn't be asking them to go in a work capacity. I misunderstood your objection as them not having a right to ask their employees to remove data before personal travel.
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#267I visited the US last year for a conference (from the UK)
Border Guard was very angry at me for some reason, very cold, didn't smile. Quite curt with his responses. Which was strange because he was laughing and joking with the couple before me in the queue.
He took particular umbrage with the fact that I'd ticked "Business" on my customs form, as I wasn't sure what else to tick - I was attending the conference on behalf of my employer who had paid for my trip.
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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 t…
Nope, gerrymandering has no effect on the presidential election because states are not having their borders redrawn.
There are maybe two states that have large electoral college districts that could be impacted by it, but they are irrelevant in the larger picture.
Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees
#269I 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…
Trump is not that much worse than Obama, it's mostly the media, politicians, people in power that are able to convince you of that. Remember, Obama droppee 26,000 bombs on Muslims last year, but I bet you'd never heard about a single one.
Climate Change is mostly about politics, just like the War on Poverty and War on Drugs. Yes it's real, just like people have real problems with poverty and drugs, but people starve and suffer in 2017 because of greed, which leads to politics, not because of resources. Climate Change will likely worsen the resource situation, but it's not actually the real problem with humanity. We need to get over our little egos and figure out how to get off this earth and keep exploring.
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Is there any real change in the entry procedure to the US after Trump became president? I wouldn't think so. If you were happy to visit Obama's US, you will hardly find any difference in Trump's US.
Obama never tried to revoke visas while the people holding them were in the air. I think there can also be a big shift in who is given a visa, without there being much visibility. Time will tell. That's not part of the entry procedure but is part of border policy more generally.
I really try to avoid political discussions on HN, as I dislike both of the major parties. I would suggest you read a book called 'Operation Troy', what Obama did IMO is much worse than revoking a visa, he extrajudicially killed an american citizen with a drone strike not in the field of battle.