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Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by ryfm »

openplatypus wrote: post #275
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…

Fingers crossed EU will implement visa reciprocity rule. Fingers crossed.

so how is it going to make things better?

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by antisthenes »

StavrosK wrote: post #310
Swizec wrote: post #300

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've entered the US dozens of times. Visa waiver, 6 month visa, multi year visa. Never been asked to show electronics. Never been to a special room. Most of the time they ask one or two questions, take my fingerprints, and welcome me to the country. Now that my passport has a US address in it, even though I'm technically not a resident, they politely say "Welcome Back". Last time I entered was on Monday. The lady was…

Huh, really? My experience was roughly the same, except the border officers were generally acting very serious, and the queue took 1-2 hours. I wish I could enter in 24 minutes. No random searches here either, though, but I haven't been to the US for at least a year.

The queue will depend on the airport and the number of border agents on duty.

A difference between 24 minutes and 1 hour is only slightly more than 2x, so it's not extremely significant in the grand scheme of things. Security lines on domestic flights can last longer than 24 minutes.

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by differentView »

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…

Your father probably doesn't have a "super common" name.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/04/2...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/03/10/mu...

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by silverbax88 »

mamon wrote: post #301
mtempm wrote: post #269

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Obama droppee 26,000 bombs on Muslims last year Strange, for someone who received Nobel Peace Prize. To be fair, he received it just for being black, nothing else (it was just after he won his first term, he hadn't even had time to accomplish anything of significance).

He won it for not being George Bush, not for being black. Neither reason is enough to win a Nobel Prize, but you just attempted to revise history.

Of course, even if he had 'won it for being black' (which he didn't), that would be no difference than the hundreds of thousands of white men who got 'promoted for being a white man' or 'elected for being a white man'. But, sure, let's make an ignorant claim about racism as opposed to the (still stupid) choice the Nobel committee made to give the Peace Prize to a man who simply hadn't invaded the wrong country for oil.

What, the real reason wasn't stupid enough, that we needed to make up a lie to make it even stupider?

Hey, since we can change history to be whatever narrative we prefer, let's say flying cars were invented in 1971 and humans cured cancer in 1989. Why not. No need to stick with what actually happened.

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by plandis »

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…

So you're going to not support a country with a product you like because of a president that the majority of Americans didn't want?

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by woof »

boomboomsubban wrote: post #317
refurb wrote: post #291

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is the system terrible because the person you wanted to win didn't?

No, I can't imagine wanting either of those people to win.

But you still have to choose between those two. By voting -preferably.

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by TheRealDunkirk »

loco5niner wrote: post #322
ItendToDisagree wrote: post #53

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

And others (such as myself), voted for Trump only because he was the only alternative to Hillary. (Better option than Hillary, but not by much. There were other options of course, but they did not have a chance at winning). I should also specify that I voted for someone else in the primaries.

I don't know what it's going to take to break the 2-party system in the US, but people continuing to vote for "the other" candidate just because they hate "the one" certainly isn't going to influence change. I've been voting Libertarian in (almost) every race I can, for at least 15 years now, and I'll keep "wasting" my vote to send the signal that I want more parties in the system. (As in, I want to see BOTH Jill Stein and Gary Johnson at a podium in the debates, and given equal time.) I'm willing to "waste" my vote in order to tell BOTH the D's AND the R's that they do not represent my desires for governance.

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by silverbax88 »

mtempm wrote: post #269
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…

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…

Well, Trump's economic policies are much worse, significantly worse, and climate change is not 'mostly about politics'. This is why we ended up with a reality TV star as leader of the free world. You just sat down at a computer and wrote multiple things that are easily proven false, proving complete ignorance of those subjects, but you chose to type them out anyway. And no one will be able to explain to you why that was a bad idea. You'll just get angry as I or anyone else points it out.

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by ashark »

boomboomsubban wrote: post #146
woof wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A large number of Democrats voted for Trump by not voting at all. They made a choice to let Trump win, just to tell Hillary (and the Democratic Party) that they didn't like her! https://www.forbes.com/sites/omribenshahar/2016/11/17/the-no...

This ignores the other parties, which can explain most of the disparity. In Michigan, other candidates got about 1% of the vote in 12 and 5% in 16. Even if it helped Trump win, labeling them "spoilers" just ensures that our terrible system will have this happen again.

Our system stabilizes at two parties. Other parties aren't viable until/unless they hit a point where they can eat one existing party, or large parts of both. This happening will in short order kill one or both existing major parties, some brief chaos will ensue, and we'll end up with two parties again. Labeling does not cause this.

Fixing that would be great (most sensible solutions would probably also fix our massive gerrymandering problem at the same time) but is unlikely to happen any time soon.

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by plandis »

microtonal wrote: post #74
klausjensen wrote: post #71

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Technically, only ~57% of eligible voters actually voted. Of those, about half voted for Trump. So only about 27% of all eligible voters actually voted for Trump. That is pretty standard for a US presidential election. Those are the rules for democracy, so he is the legitimately elected president. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/10/13587462/...

So only about 27% of all eligible voters actually voted for Trump. The remaining 43% voted for 'I'll take whoever wins'. So, ~72% of the eligible voters can be held accountable for him becoming president. Those are the rules for democracy, so he is the legitimately elected president. Definitely, it is legitimate, even if we don't like the outcome ;).

Blaming people who didn't participate is an interesting standard. Youre assuming at everyone eligible to vote can vote.
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