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Debut of US-VISIT
2004-01-06, 4:24 PM #1
As of monday, US-VISIT is in effect. Interesting.

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2004-01-06, 4:34 PM #2
A couple of people who live at my house went back home to Europe for the holidays and they were talking about it for their trips back to the US. Sounds like a pain, but what can you do?

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2004-01-06, 4:38 PM #3
Phew, Australia is in the Visa-waiver program. Thank goodness for all of John Howards bootlicking. Now I can enter the US and wreak havoc all across the mid-west by teaching all the school children to spell colour with a "u"
2004-01-06, 4:39 PM #4
NOOOOOOO! Anything but that!!! Run from Run!!!

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2004-01-06, 5:01 PM #5
That is but the first phase of my evil plan. While all America is reeling from the disruption of their spell checkers I will secretly replace all of their savoury spreads and jams with vegiemite. Mwahahaha.

Then while the population attempts to adapt to one of the worlds richest known sources of Vitamin B, I will implement... THE METRIC SYSTEM OF UNITS.
2004-01-06, 5:12 PM #6
thankfully my trip to japan in '05 won't be hindered since japan is in the visa waiver program ;D

however... going home this summer may be a problem =/

btw, Bovril > Marmite > Vegemite ;D
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2004-01-06, 5:42 PM #7
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Run:
Phew, Australia is in the Visa-waiver program. Thank goodness for all of John Howards bootlicking. Now I can enter the US and wreak havoc all across the mid-west by teaching all the school children to spell colour with a "u"</font>


You mean correctly ? I dont care what stupid american dictionaries say (despite my being american) colour is spelled with a u.
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2004-01-06, 7:16 PM #8
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Is_907:
thankfully my trip to japan in '05 won't be hindered since japan is in the visa waiver program ;D</font>


Americans aren't affected by the program. Just people from other countries entering and leaving the US.

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2004-01-06, 9:40 PM #9
I'd like to see other countries do this to US citizens crossing their boarders... the indignant responses by the US gov't would be amusing.

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2004-01-07, 12:50 AM #10
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Avenger:
Sounds like a pain, but what can you do?
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It adds an extra 15 seconds per person. 15 seconds.

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2004-01-07, 6:36 AM #11
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Apophis:
You mean correctly ? I dont care what stupid american dictionaries say (despite my being american) colour is spelled with a u.</font>


Did I ever tell you that I love u?

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2004-01-07, 6:53 AM #12
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by DSettahr:
I'd like to see other countries do this to US citizens crossing their boarders... the indignant responses by the US gov't would be amusing.

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Brazil has. They're going to require Visa from all American citizens who want to enter the country.
Visitors of other nationalities can come and go as they want without visa, though.

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2004-01-07, 8:00 AM #13
I'm just glad I didn't go with MasterCard. Now I truly can say that Visa is where I want to be.

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2004-01-07, 9:06 AM #14
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Mano:
Brazil has. They're going to require Visa from all American citizens who want to enter the country.
Visitors of other nationalities can come and go as they want without visa, though.

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This goes beyond just having to show a visa or a passport. It's basically creating a database with picture and finger prints for any Non-US citizens entering and leaving the US at anytime.

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2004-01-07, 9:21 AM #15
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Avenger:
This goes beyond just having to show a visa or a passport. It's basically creating a database with picture and finger prints for any Non-US citizens entering and leaving the US at anytime.

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Oh yeah, I remember now.
Well, Brazil is going to "do the same" to US citizens.

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2004-01-07, 9:28 AM #16
You have to place your finger on a scanner, get a quick digital picture, and the wait a few seconds for the clear from the database. A pain in the ***, but I can understand it.
I'm sure it doesn't feel great being checked out like a potential criminal, though.

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2004-01-07, 9:30 AM #17
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Run:
That is but the first phase of my evil plan. While all America is reeling from the disruption of their spell checkers I will secretly replace all of their savoury spreads and jams with vegiemite. Mwahahaha.

Then while the population attempts to adapt to one of the worlds richest known sources of Vitamin B, I will implement... THE METRIC SYSTEM OF UNITS.</font>


I can't wait. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/smile.gif] I've been complaining that we need to switch over to metrics for quite a while now...

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2004-01-07, 8:37 PM #18
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It adds an extra 15 seconds per person. 15 seconds.
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Right. And a 747 can hold, what, 350 people? So... 350 times 15 seconds is... 1:27:30! You can spend an extra hour and a half standing around for no reason!
2004-01-07, 9:04 PM #19
Not if you're the first person off.

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2004-01-07, 9:09 PM #20
And that's assuming that all but one computer failed when the plane arrived.

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