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JitteryFidget · 5 days

In JESUS name They will be done!

Does everything have to be about the /r/gonewild foursome on the front page today?

FCBSERIS · 12 days

The GOP front-runner wears magical underwear. I think the US political process can process a bit more silliness.

davidreiss666 · 16 days

I seem to remember Gibson being around on the WELL a lifetime ago. He certainly knew the Facebook precursors. I think the "newness" of Facebook is probably its ubiquity, the fact that nearly everyone in the world is either on there or knows someone on there. For a while, it might have appeared that only the elite and a few AIs would be wired together into a global network. Turns out this prediction might have been slightly off.

rewdea · 1 month

Yes, this doesn't sound wildly accurate. According to CNN his name is "Cheetah", but Cheeta [sic] was the character's name. And CNN claims that "Cheetah" performed from 1932 to 1934, which Wikipedia says was a chimp called Jiggs. Who died in 1938.

SolInvictus · 1 month

No, that would be quite appropriate for the subreddit. The asshats were just being asshats, independent of philosophical bent.

SolInvictus · 1 month

Indeed. I could tell them anything, or even try and argue, but I certainly couldn't make them. Freedom of speech and defending their right to the death and all that. They're still asshats and idiots, though.

SolInvictus · 1 month

I was one of those who unsubscribed about a year ago. I was sad to go, but I have the right to avoid asshats and idiots. What I didn't have was the right to tell the asshats and idiots to shut up. So I left, and my world just got a little bit better.

syndicate · 4 months

On the bright side, students could presumably show up for the first day only, answer a single question correctly, and be considered present and qualified for the full five years!

BlackCatPhotos · 4 months

Quite appropriately, today (22 September) is Arthur Lowe's birthday.

socket0 · 4 months

Blog spam is just another type of spam, especially for blogs with mostly non-original content. Bloggers collect flotsam and jetsam from around the web (often from reddit itself), re-host the content on their own blog, add some advertising to the pages, and wait for the money to roll in. Very few people actually make money this way, but it does degrade the overall quality of content on reddit.

HotHands · 4 months

"You're". And doesn't that expression actually refer to condoms and contraception?

xj98jeep · 4 months

And don't qualify as "regular" tasting.

xarkonnen · 4 months

Have you considered the possibility that your friend is fine, and you've simply gone blind? You were warned this would happen, along with the hairy palms...

socket0 · 4 months

From the Bugle wiki:

In 2010, a day that will go down in history, a brave soul told us we did not need be afraid anymore, uttering the amazing words:

Fuck you, Chris!

And the sun shined the next day

I_Like_U · 4 months

Permanent residency allows a non-EU citizen to stay in Belgium for longer than 3 months, usually for reasons of reuniting a family or working (a work permit type B is required). A type B residence permit appears to be fairly easy to get for EU citizens (or citizens from some Eastern European and North African countries), but non-EU citizens need a signed contract of employment for a job where the employer went through the process of finding a suitable employee and couldn't find one within the EU. This means effort most employers aren't willing to put in, and it's becoming increasingly difficult to prove you really couldn't find anyone suitable for a specific position in the EU.

I_Like_U · 4 months

To qualify for a work visa (rather than the limited number of hours a student is allowed to work) she either had to get permanent residency in Belgium, or become a naturalised citizen. To qualify for naturalisation, you have to be resident in Belgium for three years, but time spent here as a student is specifically excluded. Permanent residency had the same exclusion: time spent in Belgium on a study visa did not qualify for permanent residency.

There's some logic to it, I guess. This stops people from circumventing the immigration system by simply enrolling at a Belgian university. On the other hand, it makes life really difficult for immigrants from outside the EU.

Either way, I solved the problem by hiring an expert in Belgian visa procedures, spent several years working for a Belgian company while my ex was studying, and ended up qualifying for naturalisation on my own merit.

I_Like_U · 4 months

It doesn't hurt, at least. But it's the final hurdle, to make an already good application look better. My ex spoke two official languages fluently (another one so-so), lived in the same rented house for more than 5 years, and worked as much as was legally allowed for a student (including projects for the European Parliament and the European Commission). Member of a variety of Flemish cultural organisations, political contacts across the spectrum, letters of reference from academics and business people, but none of those counted when it came to the simple rule: as a student she was not allowed permanent residency or naturalisation.

I_Like_U · 4 months

My ex and I moved here from South Africa about ten years ago, and like you she came to do her Master's. It turned out to be quite difficult for her to apply for permanent residence (or citizenship later on), precisely because she entered the country on a student visa. There's something in the fine print (or not so fine print) that says you'll leave the country within a certain time once you've completed your studies.

I wouldn't worry about that yet, though. You'll have plenty of time to start out working part-time, then perhaps get a firm job offer at the end of your studies. If a local company sponsors your visa (especially in a high-tech industry) you'll have no problem staying on. You might have to leave the country to get your paperwork processed in South Africa, but once you get back here you're home free.

RWizzzard · 5 months

Books 80+ years old? I first thought you might have mistyped, meaning 800+, but no. Are books less than a century old considered very old where you live? My local university library (at the University of Leuven) has a collection dating back several centuries, which excludes the nearly 1 million items lost during an artillery battle in WWII.

bluekakke · 5 months

This is something we all learn only through bitter experience.

socket0 · 5 months

Clearly the South Park episode wasn't intended as a documentary, and clearly it wasn't intended as a complete overview of the idiocy and evils of Scientology. But what they did include wasn't factually incorrect, just inconvenient for the Scientologists.

And they're certainly not any more idiotic than most other religions, which also get their fair share of scorn in South Park.

socket0 · 5 months

Read everything you can find on Scientology. Then come back and apologize for knocking South Park's surprisingly accurate summary of this nonsense.

RandomHigh · 5 months

Numberwang is moderately funny. Spamming reddit at this rate isn't.

noifytesrus · 5 months

Do you realize you're mentally ill, or does everything feel just fine?

Dmitri_Karamazov · 5 months

Do. Not. Give. In. To. Temptation. You will only set yourself up for disappointment.

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