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I am studying abroad and trying to save money by taking food from home (the US) and not having to buy EVERYTHING once I get there. I have packed ziplock sandwhich bags of raw brown basmati rice and ziplocks of protein powder. Will they freak out at the TSA checkpoints?
sure, and I get the protein powder, but if a few dollars worth of rice is so material to your financial situation that it's worth it for you to carry it, you probably can't afford to study abroad
> I am Dorian Duran owner of TicoRide, a travel planning company in Costa Rica. Here we provide private and shared transfer and transportation services in Costa Rica.
True. There's no law against that. However the is user is saying "the bus answer is wrong, use private transport services". Then one clicks on their profile and sees that they offer private transport services. Looks like thinly veiled spam to me.
depends where you want to live too, I can tell you my gf went through lengthy legal procedures to get all her documents with the same last name everywhere
because it was just too confusing/annoying for travel and living documents etc
My niece is double nationality from birth, the Netherlands + Slovakia, in her Slovak passport they put a female ending on her family name, as usual in Slovakia. Both being Schengen and the Netherlands being pretty good for esta and other visa free entry, she has never had to use her other passport. But I bet that Dutch passport people and airline crew would be confused if she used her Slovak passport.
@JonathanReez I'm a guy who plays everything strictly by the book; so same name for everything, the sole exception is when it has to be spelled in cyrillic. And even then I argued with them.
@Fiksdal it has mellowed a lot because these days you can spend a few minutes next to it and have a chance to survive. if i rmeember correctly now it takes an hour to be guaranteed to be dead within a day.
@Fiksdal a few days after Chernobyl, you spent a minute in the same chamber and you had a few weeks, tops.
@Fiksdal so now it's really not dangerous :P
@Fiksdal the Soviets in their infinite wisdom sent people to take samples!
In one way I'm grateful for the new huge nuclear reactor that's powering my area (there used to be outages 50% of the time before it came).. On the other hand, nuclear power scares me.
My sister in law was in Slovakia, Czechoslovakia those days of course, and they celebrated the First of May ceremonies before they were told that a week before Chernobyl had happened.
@Willeke I didn't mean secret in that sense, I meant that the media didn't report in the Soviet Union itself didn't report widely on it, or tried to downplay it to the Soviet public
In a few weeks we'll be at Budapest for our holidays.
We'll try to avoid tourist traps and we will pay in cash. In order to avoid more friction than that generated by the obvious language barrier, one thing I'd like to know before arriving is how tipping is done (if at all) by locals, specially ...
there's a whole controversy in France because the authorities told people there was nothing to be feared, even when nearby countries were already affected and taking adequate measures
I think it even led to some conviction on neglect of public health or something
Looks like someone is upvoting my content in series, had a three answers and now 5 Q upvoted in a short time, makes me wonder if and how the 'no serial actions' kicks in.
I still wonder if all 'do not eat your vegetables' and 'get all cows under cover' was really needed.
Reading through another user's posts? I do that sometimes too. But I try to limit my upvotes to only the best ones, to avoid the serial voting system being triggered
Yes, that sounds like someone was browsing your profile
He's just a super helpful guy who goes to extra lengths to write custom scripts for people and help them out in all kinds of ways.. he goes the extra mile
I was on a research trip so my bounty on the US overstay as a minor, how to tick ESTA form - Q was awarded automatically to @Berwyn in half. A pity for wasting half a bounty but @Berwyn does not need it so badly and it is just IMHO that the bounty goes to him
Most discussions I've seen suggest that the graininess is caused by the radiation. The amazing thing is that that guy is still alive, or at least he was 2 years ago when the NY Times interviewed him.
I feel all nuclear power, testing and so on should be banned, but if countries that can not be trusted have it as only people......how can the rest of the world ignore it. But we are creating 'clean' power (no CO2 gasses) now, for dirty (nuclear) waste that will be around for centuries to come. Nice legacy for future generations.
My flat has two big windows facing the sun most of the day, I have to have curtains or something, would be great if those would generate power. Technology for that was developed a few years back already, not sure whether it will ever come.
Either curtains or a film to put against the glass, see through for a part.
We have some nuclear power here, but most we use is imported from France and Belgium, as far as I know and I wish I could block it.
They are so concerned getting all coal power plants converted, but nukes, no thanks.
If we could get every office with central air also have sun collectors to power the airconditioning, we would safe a lot of energy out of the power system.
I have rented a room in a block of flats where there was a central heating system for the whole of the building. I had one of the main pipes in my room, I never had the radiator on, I also had to open the window at times, and that in NL, where power is carfully guarded.
Or a mechanical way to store power. In some places they pump up water to a high point when power is plentiful, and use hydro energy when they need loads of power later. Both Luxembourg and the UK use this.
Start walking bare feet in the house, all the time and sandals or toe slippers/flip-flops for a real walk outside, say building up to at least an hour per day.
I met one girl, one year Christmas holidays in Paris, next in London, and she was bare foot even there, said she only wore shoes in snow, and for that the thinnest possible.
Garden away from home, mostly you find them in groups on the edge of a village or town.
Big enough for have a small hut and fun area, rest for growing vegetables.
I guess in Norway and Sweden people have summer huts out of town, not sure whether those have a garden as well.
I see them on TV all the time, women wearing such high heels, the front of the shoe has to be given a thick sole and they can not really walk. It is possible on the level but they can not take stairs at all.
Anyway, yeah. I guess since SE started as a programmer site, there are lots of males here. Anyway, sorry to keep you up while you should be charging your batteries for work
