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It really isn't a French thing to be mortified by people speaking English. Probably, you did something else to offend. That said it doesn't hurt for bonjour to be the first word out of your mouth. It is France and they speak Frenc
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10y ago
You find it strange that conservatives support the Republican nominee for the presidency?
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If an entrepreneur moves to Canada or Europe to start their brilliant company, what makes you think an American (or American immigrant) founded and funded derivative company can't beat them in the market and create the jobs here anyway
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10y ago
This guy is lying or has a terrible lawyer. If was telling the truth that he has founded and exited several technology companies including one worth over a billion dollars, then there are any number of ways he could found a business in the
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Why should the United States accept everyone who announces they would like to start a company? But it does with the E2 visa (for treaty countries). And your problem is that you can't stay forever when the business fails?
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That is surprising and disappointing. I know we didn't send our guys over to Iraq and Afghanistan in business class. It's shameful that a rando in USAID or something would be afforded better accommodations for a conference in Toky
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10y ago
"Good terms" is setting a pretty low bar for family.
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"The cost of a baby being born with HIV runs into hundreds of thousands of dollars." By what measure does it cost hundreds of thousands of dollars? Hardly anyone in Nigeria has hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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10y ago
Toronto is the seventh largest metro area in North America. 2/3 the size of Chicago. About the same size as Washington and Philadelphia. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_North_American_metro...
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Exactly, when I heard drugs usage was a problem in some communities I too knew that was impossible because selling and using drugs is illegal. Sure, there are a few that do illegal things (and inevitably get caught since there is so much mo
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10y ago
Does that apply to United States readers? There are certainly many criticisms of or insults to our country that a lot of our countrymen would prefer to not see.
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Yeah but Americans and some Europeans have basically all of the money. Look up ad rates in the rest of the world and see how lucrative that business is.
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The two sexes are not identical. Boy are you going to be surprised about what pants are hiding.
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For one, the abolition of the fee is only temporary (for three months) officially.
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Until March 24, 2016 there was s $160 fee foe US citizens visiting Argentina. (Just incase not everyone is following Argentine visa policy.)
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10y ago
I like to think I'd never have stood by while someone enslaved someone else. You do standby while millions are enslaved. The United Nations estimates that roughly 27 to 30 million individuals are currently caught in the slave trade i
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"If two organisms can mate and have viable offspring, and then the offspring can further reproduce, you say the two organisms are part of the SAME species." Firstly, that's not true. Even if that were true, there is no eviden
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Is there large scale government directed selective breeding in China?
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The Red line between Cermak-Chinatown and 95th Street [1] was reconstructed over 5 months [2] in 2013. [1] None of the reconstructed line was elevated steel structure. [2] Not "almost two years"
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10y ago
How do you spend $140k/yr in Vilnius? Is that a very extravagant lifestyle?
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The "contractor" relationship at a financial service company (in the US) is almost always structured as W-2 employee of a staff augmentation firm.
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10y ago
What you people are missing is that Americans don't care what you think.
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So you're telling Elon Musk he isn't an American? He wouldn't pay you any mind. I'm a other-than-singular national as well and I certainly don't care to hear I'm not American.
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"US is a nation of immigrants" The US is a nation full stop and we can write whatever laws we please without regard to when people arrived here in the first place. Are Madagascar, Mauritius and Haiti also disallowed from having im
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10y ago
And Lake Michigan.
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I accept the premise that many people elected to Congress act in their own interests before their constituents. But I think long before violently overthrowing the government, people would first try electing different people.
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11y ago
It isn't equally ridiculous. 38.6% of Americans state that they would vote for Donald Trump over Hilary Clinton while 49% state that they would vote for Clinton over Trump. There are only several hundred members of the IRA today (out o
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"A cabbie asked me if I supported Donald Trump and told he we was surprised I didn't. He told me all Americans supported Trump. So I asked him if he was an IRA thug/terrorist, to which he naturally said no." It's
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"potentially serve as a novel... toward curing.." is academic speak for "well, anything's possible"
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US Senators generally are not powerful enough to have people shot.
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