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The McMillans, at home, have given up all technology that was introduced to the world after 1986.
So, a slightly updated version of the Amish then?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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The year is 1985, the IBM PC is 3 years old, and Microsoft is on the rise[^]. [cue the theme from Jaws] 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Roger Wright wrote: The year is 1985, the IBM PC is 3 years old, and Microsoft is on the rise[^].
And 30 years later, nothing about his personality appears to have changed. Except maybe he smiled a bit more then.
Marc
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Agreed. He's still the same pratt now as he was then. It must irk him that he was always in Bill's shadow. The light of genius never shined in his corner of the room.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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I'd previously dismissed touchscreen swipe keyboards as idiotic and without any redeeming value.
But earlier today I discovered that for filling a form with dummy data that smeary-smeary-smear allowed me to be lazier than tapity-fingerprint-tapity-fingerprint-tapity-fingerprint-tapity-fingerprint-tapity-fingerprint-tapity-fingerprint-tapity-fingerprint did for a given value of filler. On the other elephant even when I try smearing real words instead of random values its fail rate is high enough to sustain the remainder of my snarking.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Admitting to ones mistakes is a fantastic character trait, well done.
Now repeat after me "Smeary smeary smear generates garbage gleefully"
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I admit it ~ I concur with you that you were wrong. 
The the 7,329th person to read this gets $500.
(and, if yer smart enough to figure out yer the 7,329th person, the yer smart enough to figure out you really won't get that $500.
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I have to admit, for regular typing, the swipe-smear-swear keyboard on my nexus 7 is a lot faster and more accurate than tappity-tap.
For code, however... Elephant the sunshine elephanting elephant.
It had flaws: it always does "coffee" when I want "code" for example. But it's pretty good. Heck of a lot slower than a "proper" keyboard though.
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After a stressful drive to the USCIS office (did they really need to remove an overpass and gum up the interstate??), followed by difficulty in locating the room once there, the actual Naturalization Interview was entirely anti-climatic. The civics / history test was a doddle, in fact I'm certain up to a half of the country could pass. The very pleasant officer has recommended my naturalization to US citizen (which should happen within the next couple of months). I am amazed given the gruffness of the typical immigrations officer at the airport how polite and cordial all the USCIS staff are at the regional office, and not just towards a native English speaking Brit like me.
In other news: The recent purchase of a bright red growley V8 muscle car at age 38 has led Mrs MidwestLimey to conclude I'm having a midlife crisis. I've told her to hold off on that comment until I start with the tight jeans, hair dye and hitting on 20 year olds.
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Just tell her you're going to trade her in on a pair of twenty-five year olds...
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After I got my Green Card my immigration lawyer said I should go for US citizenship. I asked him, "why?" He couldn't really give me a good answer.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Jury duty. You know you wanna.
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I have been called three times for jury duty across the two different states I have lived in so far (which was a duty I was quite prepared to do) and had to explain each time that I did not qualify.
The biggest difference for me is Security Clearance. In the UK I had one of the highest clearances (both UK and NATO) while I was on jet fighter development, the Tornado and the Eurofighter and yet I could not visit the Aberdeen Proving Grounds for a meeting (as part of my job at the time) because I was a "damned foreigner", obviously a spy (guilty until proven innocent appears to be the standard in the US now) and had to delegate the task to my colleague who was an ex-KGB Russian immigrant who had just got his US citizenship a few months earlier. I always thought NATO meant something, but apparently not. Since I now work in healthcare there isn't any military stuff for me to spy on.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Lawyer: You see, now you got your green card, you should go for US citizenship
Forogar: Why?
Lawyer: Hmmm.... you know... I mean.... it is good
Forogar: what good?
Lawyer: you know... good for me.... BTW do you know I charge for US citizenship process as well. 
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Actually I got an offer from the lawyer to do the whole thing for only $1,200. Is that good? Not that I took him up on it of course!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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So you can collect at least ten dollars of the social security the stole from invested for you. Yeah, that's what they did, they invested that money.
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You don't need to be a US citizen to collect social security.
/ravi
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Hey, I learned something new.
Seems the main advantages of being a US citizen over permanent residency is voting and preventing problems of losing residency status if you go abroad.
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IMHO, the most important advantage of becoming a citizen is the right to vote.
/ravi
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Really!? How about the right to vote in the country in which you reside? You don't need to be an immigration lawyer to know that. 
/ravi
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...and this is good how? I have the right to vote in my own country (the UK) but I don't want to.
Remember, no politics in the Lounge!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Forogar wrote: ...and this is good how?
If you're planning to spend the rest of your life in a new country, would you not like to be able to have some say in how it's governed?
/ravi
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The US runs fifth in my "countries I have lived" popularity ratings (out of five). The only way I expect to live the rest of my life here is for me to get murdered before I leave.
The chance of my vote having any influence on the way America is governed is far less than the chance I will win the lottery for several million, twice! It's a pointless exercise.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Then in your case, I suggest you don't apply to become a citizen. I expect you've already come to that decision.
/ravi
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Yes.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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