Comments on: Acid Test

By: the one eyed man

the one eyed man — Fri, 18 May 2007 16:47:33 +0000

Let’s apply the categorical imperative to this issue. We should apply the same standards to foreigners that we would expect to apply to ourselves when we travel abroad.

The last time I ate acid, we got a flat tire in the South Bronx on the way to a Grateful Dead concert. As a result, we missed the New Riders. I think that is punishment enough, and no right-thinking customs official should deprive me of the opportunity to spend my hard-earned spondulicks in their country.

By: Malcolm

Malcolm — Fri, 18 May 2007 16:28:51 +0000

Hi Eugene,

I guess the best way to do now is: keeping quiet from Search engine…

Well, too late for me, though I have stories yet untold that may well have to remain that way. It’s a pity, because some of them are pretty amusing.

By: eugene

eugene — Fri, 18 May 2007 16:22:18 +0000

As a foreigner, I heard more stories on border control and visa issuing process. From what I heard, regulations in U.S. have been given enough power for border guards and visa issuers to accept or deny entries even before 9/11 happened. That was good in one aspect because we know from management aspect that by giving agents automonous control ually benefits the overall functioning of the system. But at the same time, some agents abuse their power for personal gains. (A case in Taiwan involved Visa issuer asking sexual favors from female tourists and of course what goes around turns around so he was exposed later, but it of course damaged some reputations of U.S. Some case in Russia and China involved kickback for visas)

But even an ICE agent follows the rules, but at the current political situation makes things complex. It is just like whether a pharmacist should fill the prescription for morning emergency contraception. If the pharmacist is pious christian in Ohio, he will hold his anti-abortion position firmly and refuse to fill the prescription while a secular Chinese pharmarcist in San Francisco may just fill it without any more question. So who is right?

I guess it is impossible to hold a commite for each case in system like a Jewish divorce court for a get, so I guess the best way to do now is: keeping quiet from Search engine…. Well, maybe no record is the best policy even on web… only 1 Billion less of human beings are connected through web, the remaing 5.5 billion has no ideas what Google is.