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Posted on entry Legal Immigration ::: May 13, 2009, 05:11 AM:
With the Finnish lady, it really WAS a matter of her splitting her time between Maui and Canada. She just found it a bit exasperating that she's been in the Americas for 20+ years and still travels on a passport for someplace she's rarely been.

She liked my Jon Stewart-esque 'We don't like...smart people here' crack. It's the only Finnish passport I've run into and was curious, since I my favorite band (Nightwish) is from there.
Posted on entry Legal Immigration ::: May 12, 2009, 06:08 PM:
A similar case happened on Maui with a widely beloved coffee house, Mark Aurel's. In their case, the staff actually managed to buy the business from the owner wholesale and continues to operate it.

Regarding evil immigation: I met a woman who lived between Canada and the U.S. for twenty years, and continued to fly on a Finnish passport (her home country) because neither the U.S. nor Canada would give her citizenship.

She had a Ph.D.
From Harvard.
Posted on entry Dresden Codak ::: May 09, 2009, 10:12 PM:
My personal fave is Subnormality (no linky, sorry, but Google should getcha there) guy's a very talented artist, but has these ultradense walls of text that just make the comic awesome.

Oh, and the Sphinx shows up and eats folks every so often.
Posted on entry If you use Gmail, read this ::: August 26, 2008, 02:36 PM:
Most of the online purchasing that I have seen uses their own secure forms; I don't see why you would ever send your CCN or other secure info via any kind of email.

Anyway, it's pretty academic for me since I don't actually do any online business--I can't get a credit card.
Posted on entry The Bombs of Georgia ::: August 16, 2008, 12:21 AM:
Beck is on Headline News. Headline News USED to be a half-hour headlines on a loop, which was AWESOME for people who need white noise while writing. Unfortunately, they put Glenn Beck and the Evil Conservative Woman on there, which breaks up the white noise and makes me want to fire a 12-gauge shotgun at my (landlord's) television.
Posted on entry Trinity ::: July 17, 2008, 04:48 AM:
Dave @ 32: Check out Charlie Stross' "A Colder War", "Atrocity Archives", and "Jennifer Morgue" for a cold-war style take on the Mad Arab.

The scenario you mention takes up part of "Jennifer Morgue".

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