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iujyhfgtrtgyhju
16y ago
It's our 3rd Afghan war - you would think we would have either got the hang of it or learned our lesson by now
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iujyhfgtrtgyhju
16y ago
>Exactly what is the damage this guy suffered? What's he suing over? That's what we are trying to find out! He was being spied on because he has a foreign sounding name - is he now on a no-fly list? is he on a secret do-no-hirelist for
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iujyhfgtrtgyhju
16y ago
Like the clever way that your baggage comes off a belt that is basically open to the street. So while you spend 2hours getting through immigration your cases are just sitting there - if you are lucky there is a single old women supposedly c
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iujyhfgtrtgyhju
16y ago
You aren't thinking 'washington' - it's undignified to slip coins into a striper's panties
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iujyhfgtrtgyhju
16y ago
The pictures - http://www.amazon.com/Endurance-Shackletons-Legendary-Antarc... The story - http://www.amazon.com/Endurance-Shackletons-Incredible-Alfre... Including the rather sad postscript that most of the men that survived this adven
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iujyhfgtrtgyhju
16y ago
There was a British guy trapped in Toronto because he couldn't fly home to the UK after getting on the US no fly list. His crime was having converted to Islam.
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iujyhfgtrtgyhju
16y ago
I don't miss the 18hour europe-far east flights with stopovers in Alaska or India because you couldn't fly over the USSR. Of course that was because the USSR was an evil empire with an out of control military, a bloated sense of it's own im
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iujyhfgtrtgyhju
16y ago
Canada does have transit lounges - but Vancouver is a bit odd. They have pre-cleared US immigration, so you have effectively 3 airside zones domestic/US/International. So if you are coming off/going to a US flight from an international one
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iujyhfgtrtgyhju
16y ago
You don't even need to land, flying from europe to Canada you need to not be on the US no fly list and have your details (credit card, phone number type of meal) sent to the US. I think Greenland should retaliate with a $100 overflying char
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iujyhfgtrtgyhju
16y ago
It's a complex and secret process - but MSFT and Apple are not paying $10 for each copy of windows/iOS that includes an H264 player!
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iujyhfgtrtgyhju
16y ago
The MPEG-LA doesn't charge royalties to it's members. The members also all hold patents - it's just an agreement not to sue each other. They do charge royalties to anyone not in the association - those royalties can of course be >100%.
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iujyhfgtrtgyhju
16y ago
You start to think they are on your side.... Remember VCs are like the guy who wants to play pool for money in a bar - right after he loses the first couple of games. Except of course for the pool hustlers basic honesty....