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You are forgetting that she is in college, and desires to continue to do so. Overtly saying no will most likely result in family or friends of family going aft

by tinco 13y ago

You are forgetting that she is in college, and desires to continue to do so. Overtly saying no will most likely result in family or friends of family going after her in Spain. Once you enter the Shengen area of Europe, which is reachable by car from Pakistan you can basically get anywhere. There are countless easily traversed borders to this area in corrupt/poorer countries. After that there's close to no border checks. It is really easy for friends/family to get to Spain and make her life difficult there.

tinco 13y ago
Living in The Netherlands it's easy to forget that these countries are not actually separated from Europe in any way. The distance between Amsterdam and Pakistan is comparable (a bit longer) to the distance between L.A. and New York. A cool story that was recently in the Dutch news reduces that perceived distance, when an independent car rental business owner pursues and retrieves one of his cars all the way in Iraq: http://translate.google.nl/translate?sl=nl&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=nl&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fnos.nl%2Fartikel%2F595258-man-naar-irak-om-gestolen-autos.html http://translate.google.nl/translate?sl=nl&tl=en&js=n&prev=_... The thieves just rented a car, and drove there. Possibly to fight Jihad.
- khuey 13y ago
  Pakistan is much farther away than you think it is. http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=AMS-KHI,+JFK-LAX http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=AMS-KHI,+JFK-LAX
  - tinco 13y ago
    Hmm that's weird, I measured by going to google maps, spreading my fingers between Amsterdam and Pakistan. I then scrolled to the U.S. while holding my fingers in that position, and the distance difference was like ~20%, according to your flightplan it's almost twice as far though. Not sure what went wrong there :) edit: using http://www.freemaptools.com/how-far-is-it-between.htm http://www.freemaptools.com/how-far-is-it-between.htm I find 5600km for Amsterdam -> Islamabad, and 3900km from LA -> NY. So I was 40% off :P
    - kej 13y ago
      >Not sure what went wrong there :) Google Maps uses a modified Mercator projection, which distorts distances.
    - dalore 13y ago
      You are measure a 3d projection on a 2d plane. There has to be distortion somewhere. Most likely they use the mercator projection which has places further from the equator appear bigger than the ones near the equator.
    - Sharlin 13y ago
      The old Google Maps had/has a real distance measurement tool. Shame that the new doesn't, at least not yet.

by tinco 13y ago

tinco 13y ago

Living in The Netherlands it's easy to forget that these countries are not actually separated from Europe in any way. The distance between Amsterdam and Pakistan is comparable (a bit longer) to the distance between L.A. and New York. A cool story that was recently in the Dutch news reduces that perceived distance, when an independent car rental business owner pursues and retrieves one of his cars all the way in Iraq: http://translate.google.nl/translate?sl=nl&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=nl&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fnos.nl%2Fartikel%2F595258-man-naar-irak-om-gestolen-autos.html http://translate.google.nl/translate?sl=nl&tl=en&js=n&prev=_... The thieves just rented a car, and drove there. Possibly to fight Jihad.

khuey 13y ago
Pakistan is much farther away than you think it is. http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=AMS-KHI,+JFK-LAX http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=AMS-KHI,+JFK-LAX
- tinco 13y ago
  Hmm that's weird, I measured by going to google maps, spreading my fingers between Amsterdam and Pakistan. I then scrolled to the U.S. while holding my fingers in that position, and the distance difference was like ~20%, according to your flightplan it's almost twice as far though. Not sure what went wrong there :) edit: using http://www.freemaptools.com/how-far-is-it-between.htm http://www.freemaptools.com/how-far-is-it-between.htm I find 5600km for Amsterdam -> Islamabad, and 3900km from LA -> NY. So I was 40% off :P
  - kej 13y ago
    >Not sure what went wrong there :) Google Maps uses a modified Mercator projection, which distorts distances.
  - dalore 13y ago
    You are measure a 3d projection on a 2d plane. There has to be distortion somewhere. Most likely they use the mercator projection which has places further from the equator appear bigger than the ones near the equator.
  - Sharlin 13y ago
    The old Google Maps had/has a real distance measurement tool. Shame that the new doesn't, at least not yet.