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Re: Oh, you have a green card? Please face the camera..... Oh and welcome home
Originally Posted by hobbes79
(Post 7216067)
Interesting... I guess anyone on an H-1B or L-1 work visa doesn't need to give finger prints... since they will be living in the US and are considered non-immigrants by the USCIS.
I wasn't questioning the acronym, just the word used to form it which is somewhat suggestive. |
Re: Oh, you have a green card? Please face the camera..... Oh and welcome home
Originally Posted by hobbes79
(Post 7216067)
Would be like putting in a system called US TERRORIST:
US Typical Electronic Recording Receptacle Obviously Resisting Immigrants Settling Triumphantly Though technically correct, the acronym leaves a bad taste in the mouth ;) |
Re: Oh, you have a green card? Please face the camera..... Oh and welcome home
Originally Posted by hobbes79
(Post 7216067)
Interesting... I guess anyone on an H-1B or L-1 work visa doesn't need to give finger prints... since they will be living in the US and are considered non-immigrants by the USCIS.
I wasn't questioning the acronym, just the word used to form it which is somewhat suggestive. Would be like putting in a system called US TERRORIST: US Typical Electronic Recording Receptacle Obviously Resisting Immigrants Settling Triumphantly Though technically correct, the acronym leaves a bad taste in the mouth ;) |
Re: Oh, you have a green card? Please face the camera..... Oh and welcome home
I flew into PHL yesterday and I didn't have to line up with the visitors but I did have my fingerprints and photo taken. It only added about 10 seconds to the whole process.
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Re: Oh, you have a green card? Please face the camera..... Oh and welcome home
Originally Posted by English Muffin
(Post 7228985)
I flew into PHL yesterday and I didn't have to line up with the visitors but I did have my fingerprints and photo taken. It only added about 10 seconds to the whole process.
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Re: Oh, you have a green card? Please face the camera..... Oh and welcome home
Originally Posted by Brit3964
(Post 7229740)
Just curious, did they take all 10 fingerprints or only one or two?
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Re: Oh, you have a green card? Please face the camera..... Oh and welcome home
Originally Posted by English Muffin
(Post 7228985)
I flew into PHL yesterday and I didn't have to line up with the visitors but I did have my fingerprints and photo taken. It only added about 10 seconds to the whole process.
...meanwhile, private financial institutions are busy trading your social security number and related financial history all across the universe and any attempt to limit this is met by massive pushback and claims of 'government interference in private industry' ... such strange priorities ... ! :) |
Re: Oh, you have a green card? Please face the camera..... Oh and welcome home
Originally Posted by Steerpike
(Post 7230320)
Please don't give us these facts; we want inflammatory horror stories so we can all claim that civilized life as we know it is coming to an end!
...meanwhile, private financial institutions are busy trading your social security number and related financial history all across the universe and any attempt to limit this is met by massive pushback and claims of 'government interference in private industry' ... such strange priorities ... ! :) Your second para raises an interesting question, though. Historically, Europeans have been more suspicious of the private sector, whereas Americans (I won't apologise - when was the last time somebody shouting "Death to America" meant Venezuela?) have reserved their suspicion for government. But I wonder if that's changing now...? |
Re: Oh, you have a green card? Please face the camera..... Oh and welcome home
Originally Posted by chartreuse
(Post 7231205)
Fair point. Facts are useful.:thumbup:
Your second para raises an interesting question, though. Historically, Europeans have been more suspicious of the private sector, whereas Americans (I won't apologise - when was the last time somebody shouting "Death to America" meant Venezuela?) have reserved their suspicion for government. But I wonder if that's changing now...? I was noticing last night that Obama seemed really ticked off at the 'bonus' situation. I just can't understand how they can't say, 'not to be used for ...' ! But I heard that that would constitute 'interference in the private sector' ... |
Re: Oh, you have a green card? Please face the camera..... Oh and welcome home
Originally Posted by Steerpike
(Post 7231250)
Well, I'm hoping all this 'financial crisis' stuff, coupled with the current 'buzz' about bonuses being paid for out of bailout money ($20 Billion in bonuses, apparently - hell, that really, really pisses me off!) will get more attention paid to the absolute shit-heads on wall street, but - I dunno - nothing ever seems to change.
I was noticing last night that Obama seemed really ticked off at the 'bonus' situation. I just can't understand how they can't say, 'not to be used for ...' ! But I heard that that would constitute 'interference in the private sector' ... http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/28/opinion/28dowd.html How could Citigroup be so dumb as to go ahead with plans to get a new $50 million corporate jet, the exclusive Dassault Falcon 7X seating 12, after losing $28.5 billion in the past 15 months and receiving $345 billion in government investments and guarantees? The former masters of the universe don’t seem to fully comprehend that their universe has crumbled and, thanks to them, so has ours. “I have no confidence that they intend or desire to change,” Levin told me. “These bankers got away with murder, and it’s obscene that close to nothing is being asked of financial institutions. I get incensed at the thought that a bank that’s getting billions of dollars in taxpayer money is out there buying fancy new airplanes.” In an interview with Maria Bartiromo on CNBC, Thain used the specious, contemptible reasoning that other executives use to rationalize why they’re keeping their bonuses as profits are plunging. “If you don’t pay your best people, you will destroy your franchise” and they’ll go elsewhere, he said. Hello? They destroyed the franchise. Let’s call their bluff. Let’s see what a great job market it is for the geniuses of capitalism who lost $15 billion in three months and helped usher in socialism. More on the million-dollar renovation of his 'new' office. And the conference call I heard excerpted yesterday, with the comments from the Home Despot CEO? omg, I seriously can't believe these guys can look themselves in the mirror. |
Re: Oh, you have a green card? Please face the camera..... Oh and welcome home
Originally Posted by meauxna
(Post 7231290)
“If you don’t pay your best people, you will destroy your franchise” and they’ll go elsewhere, he said.
"Oh, but if we don't pay salaries competitive with the private sector we'll lose our best people." Please! When, ever, did you see a council employee move to a private sector job at the same level? If they move, it's graft and fiddling contracts. |
Re: Oh, you have a green card? Please face the camera..... Oh and welcome home
Originally Posted by chartreuse
(Post 7231325)
The trans-Atlantic parallels keep on coming! That is ecactly the argument that has been used for years by councils in England for pissing away £180,000 salaries on unemployables.
"Oh, but if we don't pay salaries competitive with the private sector we'll lose our best people." Please! When, ever, did you see a council employee move to a private sector job at the same level? If they move, it's graft and fiddling contracts. |
Re: Oh, you have a green card? Please face the camera..... Oh and welcome home
[QUOTE=meauxna;7231419and a killer retirement pension..[/QUOTE]
Yup! more parallels. UK - taxed up the jaxie to pay gold plated public sector pensions. While the govt plundered all the private sector pensions. It's Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy, I tell you ;) |
Re: Oh, you have a green card? Please face the camera..... Oh and welcome home
Originally Posted by chartreuse
(Post 7231461)
Yup! more parallels. UK - taxed up the jaxie to pay gold plated public sector pensions. While the govt plundered all the private sector pensions.
It's Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy, I tell you ;) |
Re: Oh, you have a green card? Please face the camera..... Oh and welcome home
Originally Posted by meauxna
(Post 7231533)
Oh wait.. I am collecting on one of those UK public sector pensions... :rofl:!!!
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