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9y ago
No, an LPR can only be denied entrance if: (a) They are regarded as seeking admission and they are found inadmissible. Refusing to unlock their device will not make an LPR regarded as seeking admission as it’s not a reason listed in INA 101
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Yes, that’s a common arrangement.
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But you see, the thing is with commercial music is that the music owner is not a single entity. There is a composer, if there are lyrics there is a lyricist, if it was translated then there is a translator, if it’s a cover or remix there is
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YouTube is different though because as soon as you have visuals accompanying the audio you are in sync rights territory which is the kind of royalty that e.g. television broadcasters pay. Same goes for Twitch.
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It’s kind of a gray area, the whole performing/mechanical rights system was obviously invented before streaming. Radio stations pay for performing rights, so the question arises whether streaming is more like radio broadcast or manufac
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They don’t have cashier’s checks or banker’s drafts in Germany?
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I make quite a few international calls on my phone every day in rural areas and in terms of quality and reliability I would rank the available options as: FaceTime > normal phone (I’m on Verizon) > Skype > most other VoIP > Goog
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I also happen to know the company you’re talking about. However, what they’re doing is way more complicated than a simple Fourier transform, it’s not easy to do at all.
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You have to notify the USCIS, not ICE.
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I mean, there is always email.
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I don’t use Homebrew, given that Go is now written in Go, how does Homebrew bootstrap it when there are no binaries available? Does it download Go 1.4, builds it with a C compiler and uses that to build the latest version?
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In the American immigration system, permantent resident status is the final step before citizenship and permanent residents enjoy almost entirely the same rights as citizens, with a few notable exceptions. They’re absolutely not the same th
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This hasn’t been true for a very long time (1997). I-551 Permanent Resident Cards issued since 2010 are labelled as “United States of America / Permanent Resident”, the word “alien” is not present on the document at all.
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The legal meaning of the term “immigrant” in the United States is defined by section 101(15) of the Immigration and Nationality Act: https://www.uscis.gov/ilink/docView/SLB/HTML/SLB/0-0-0-1/0-0.
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> Not possible on any open-source operating system So where do you get more than 720p if you don't get it neither on open source operating systems nor on Chrome on Windows? If you get 720p max everywhere, why do you think this has a
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> Is watching Netflix at 1080p or more a power user feature? Because currently that's heavily restricted by DRM. Not possible on any open-source operating system, restricted to a few browsers on Mac and Windows. Consuming content an
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Why do you think this is related to the First Amendment?
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PostgreSQL's "initdb"!
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That's like, your opinion. I didn't find it boring at all.
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Their products are more affordable than much of their competition, they are very comfortable and easy to assemble. They only have online retail presence, no physical retail locations. The only thing I dislike about my Casper mattress is tha
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Yes. Being able to speak a language intuitively is not the same as understanding the mechanics of the grammar. For example, I don't believe that many native English people have any idea how "accusative and infitive" works, ye
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Generally speaking, the problem with the "just stating facts" argument is that it's impossible to list all relevant facts and by picking which facts to list and which facts not to list, you are editorializing and making subje
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What the hell is wrong with these people?
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Ties to your home country, such as mortgage, lease, a job, things like that.
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C# actually has (unsafe) pointers, although they're not used (and are not intended to be used) very frequently.
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Simply because they are allowed to have immigrant intent they don't become immigrants. They become immigrants when their status is adjusted to legal permanent resident or they are issued an immigrant visa and admitted with it. I'm
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H-1B visa holders are not immigrants as the H-1B is not an immigrant visa.
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I think the performance implications of bounds checking are fairly well studied.
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Intentionally accessing a protected computer system without authorization and obtaining information from it is a federal criminal offense (18 USC 1030 (a)(2)(C)).
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Also, I observed that as you get more and more experienced, intuition ("hunch") works surprisingly well. It's not always reliable and sometimes it's just plain wrong though.
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