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Blue Origin on Monster...
Well, they're advertising for various flight-vehicle-relevant
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Scott Lowther wrote:
Well, they're advertising for various flight-vehicle-relevant positions... A P.S. to that: "Applicant must be a U.S. citizen, U.S. national, permanent resident, refugee or asylee." That covers just about the entire planetary population.... -- Scott Lowther, Engineer Remove the obvious (capitalized) anti-spam gibberish from the reply-to e-mail address |
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Scott Lowther wrote:
Scott Lowther wrote: Well, they're advertising for various flight-vehicle-relevant positions... A P.S. to that: "Applicant must be a U.S. citizen, U.S. national, permanent resident, refugee or asylee." That covers just about the entire planetary population.... Not me. |
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Ian Stirling wrote:
Scott Lowther wrote: Scott Lowther wrote: Well, they're advertising for various flight-vehicle-relevant positions... A P.S. to that: "Applicant must be a U.S. citizen, U.S. national, permanent resident, refugee or asylee." That covers just about the entire planetary population.... Not me. You're a mere airplane flight away from being a refuge. -- Scott Lowther, Engineer Remove the obvious (capitalized) anti-spam gibberish from the reply-to e-mail address |
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Scott Lowther wrote:
Ian Stirling wrote: Scott Lowther wrote: Scott Lowther wrote: Well, they're advertising for various flight-vehicle-relevant positions... A P.S. to that: "Applicant must be a U.S. citizen, U.S. national, permanent resident, refugee or asylee." That covers just about the entire planetary population.... Not me. You're a mere airplane flight away from being a refuge. I don't think the US accepts refugees from Scotland. |
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Ian Stirling wrote:
You're a mere airplane flight away from being a refuge. I don't think the US accepts refugees from Scotland. "In what way do you fear persecution if you return to your homeland?" "Have ye ever eaten Scottish food?" *stamp* "Approved..." [Appologies to one branch of my ancestors... at least your single malt whisky is superb] -george william herbert |
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Blue Origin on Monster...
George William Herbert wrote:
Ian Stirling wrote: You're a mere airplane flight away from being a refuge. I don't think the US accepts refugees from Scotland. "In what way do you fear persecution if you return to your homeland?" "Have ye ever eaten Scottish food?" *stamp* "Approved..." Lovely beef (some visible from the window I sit typing near (in the unprocessed state), Rasperries a few months off ripening, nice potatos just starting to grow, ... There is admittedly some really terrible food out there. Deep fried Mars Bar for example. Take a chocolate bar. Add batter. Deep fry till golden brown. Not a diet food. [Appologies to one branch of my ancestors... at least your single malt whisky is superb] -george william herbert |
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Ian Stirling wrote:
George William Herbert wrote: Ian Stirling wrote: You're a mere airplane flight away from being a refuge. I don't think the US accepts refugees from Scotland. "In what way do you fear persecution if you return to your homeland?" "Have ye ever eaten Scottish food?" *stamp* "Approved..." Lovely beef (some visible from the window I sit typing near (in the unprocessed state) Is it *mad*? Rasperries a few months off ripening, nice potatos just starting to grow, ... Sheep preparing to donate their stomaches... Uuurrrrrp..... There is admittedly some really terrible food out there. Deep fried Mars Bar for example. Take a chocolate bar. Add batter. Deep fry till golden brown. That... doesn't even sound *possible*. Wouldn't the Mars bar turn into liquid in the process? In any event, this is all somewhat beside the point. Refugee status in the US is easy to be had these days... things are so friggen' PC that virtually all ya gotta do is claim that people Back Home will laugh at you and hurt your feelings (sure, here in the States you can claim "It's not a skirt, it's a kilt," but the Highlanders know it's jsut a miniskirt with duct- and electrical-tape plaid patterns on it); better yet, claim that any attempt at deporting you is out and out racism, and the ACLU will come a-runnin.' -- Scott Lowther, Engineer Remove the obvious (capitalized) anti-spam gibberish from the reply-to e-mail address |
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Scott Lowther ) wrote:
In any event, this is all somewhat beside the point. Refugee status in the US is easy to be had these days... Among many other ways in which this is untrue, there is an absolute cap on the number of refugees allowed in the US per year. (There are some specific exemptions to the cap.) It's currently at 70,000, which a glance at the newspaper most mornings will demonstrate is a pretty small number compared to the number of clearly legitimate refugees out there, the standard figure for that being around 15 million. It's also a 25-year low, arguably longer because an ever-lengthening list of obstacles is preventing some of that 70,000 from using their status. But you probably didn't mean refugee status; you meant asylum status. It's quite difficult to apply for refugee status from outside the U.S., so the typical refugee ends up in INS detention while awaiting an asylum ruling. INS jail is not typically described as "easy"; some indications of this can be found in the massive reforms the INS undertook in 2001: "Detainees may practice their religion... Detainees will not be strip-searched without reasonable suspicion..." Thanks, guys! The acceptance rate for asylum petitions varies pretty widely year-to-year over the last couple of decades, but it isn't outside the usual range now. The absolute number accepted is up, mostly because they've gotten the processing time down from "ludicrous" to "pretty bad". Your odds of getting accepted in 2002 were 36%. I think it's difficult to argue that that's "easy". -- "Pho... Phonimic? PHO-ne-mic? phone... Get this- I'm a college professor!!" --Linda Bracewell |
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Scott Lowther wrote: There is admittedly some really terrible food out there. Deep fried Mars Bar for example. Take a chocolate bar. Add batter. Deep fry till golden brown. That... doesn't even sound *possible*. Wouldn't the Mars bar turn into liquid in the process? In my neck of the woods fried ice cream is a popular desert. It's quite good, IMHO. -- Hop David http://clowder.net/hop/index.html |
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