The Tallest Buildings of the Old World [PIC]

Dreamerr · 3 months

The Cologne Cathedral is #34 in the picture (right next to the Washington Monument).

lowenheim · 7 months

No problem!

Also discouraging to see that the entrepreneur visa has been closed for the time being.

Huh, I didn't know that and was just about to suggest looking into it. Looks like the self-employed class is still open if the qualifying activities apply to you. There's also a "working holiday" type program called International Experience Canada, but from what I can tell, it's only available to citizens of a short list of (mostly European) countries (EDIT: And of course Australia).

Are you saying that a person, with the skilled worker visa, would need to get job offer, file the visa application, and then NOT work this job for 21 months until the visa comes through?

Either that, or it's what you'd apply for when you're already in the country on a temporary work permit. You can also apply for the skilled worker program without a job offer if you have experience in one of these positions.

The skilled worker application is for permanent residence, and those all seem to take an incredibly long time. A temporary work permit application, on the other hand, would only take about 2-3 months at most of the Canadian visa offices that serve the US. (That being said, the temporary work permit -> permanent residence function has I think been largely replaced by the relatively recently introduced CEC, which is considered a different program from the skilled worker visa.)

I've always been quite surprised by how prolonged the immigration process to Canada has been. Incidentally, I've never spoken to an immigration lawyer or consultant or anything like that, so maybe there are options of which I'm unaware. E.g, there's a separate provincial nominees program that I know very little about, but might be worth looking into.

lowenheim · 7 months

It is my understanding that Canada receives a lot of immigrants from China. If they can do it, what would stand in the way of my being able to do it?

Many apply as family-class immigrants. If you have family in Canada who are willing to sponsor you, it's a good route to take. If not, it can be quite expensive and time consuming. Processing times for applications in the skilled worker class from the US are currently ~21 months, and you'll need either arranged employment in Canada (which always helps) or sufficient work experience in a high-demand position.

As aenea said, acquiring a temporary work permit might be a little easier, but you still need a job offer from a Canadian employer. Even in this case, the employer is generally required to apply for a labour market opinion from Human Resources and Skills Development Canada; in most cases, the employer needs to demonstrate hiring efforts within Canada before they can endorse you as a candidate. If you get a temporary work permit, you can apply for permanent residence (PR) after 2 years of full-time work experience in Canada in a sufficiently skilled position via the Canadian experience class (CEC). After being a permanent resident for a few years (something like 3 or 4, I forget), you're eligible to apply for citizenship.

I'd say that unless a family member is sponsoring you, immigrating to Canada from scratch is neither fast, easy, cheap, nor convenient. (EDIT: And even a family-class application can be an ordeal.) My story is that I came to Canada in the early 2000s on a study permit (which is relatively easy and fast to obtain if a Canadian university has accepted you), got a Canadian BSc and MSc, then applied for a post-graduation work permit (which you're eligible for immediately after finishing studies in Canada), worked for a few years until I became eligible for the CEC, and am now waiting for citizenship and immigration to process my PR application. If the current processing time estimates are accurate, my case should be complete by Christmas 2012.

Feel free to PM me if you have specific questions. I don't know too much about the skilled worker class, but temporary work permit and CEC paperwork are still fresh in my mind.

IsThatAWhale · 8 months

Originally published in newspapers on July 19, 1993: http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/07/19

Also found in Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat on page 152.

IsThatAWhale · 8 months

http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/07/19

TheMusicalVito · 1 year

You think in language.

In part, I'm sure, but I think there's a whole lot of cognitive processing that happens independently of language. For example, have you ever known exactly what you wanted to say or communicate, but had to think a bit to articulate it in the right way? I think this suggests that some step is occurring in which a more fundamental representation of thoughts is being "translated" into language by your brain.

culexor · 1 year

To confirm what TheLittleDeath said, the way it works in most medium-sized to large apartment buildings in cities here (here being eastern Canada) is that there's a communal laundry room in, say, the basement of the building. You don't need to go to a separate laundromat (I wouldn't even know where the nearest one is), but the machines are coin- or card-operated, so you do have to pay per load.

I've lived in apartment buildings with similar setups (i.e., no en-suite washer and dryer, but communal ones that you still have to pay for) in Germany and Finland, so I'm certain this isn't unique to North America.

makesureimjewish · 1 year

I think fifth from the left is Pasteur. Which is odd, because he probably wasn't an atheist.

EDIT: Odd because this is in /r/atheism. Not implying that Pasteur wasn't an important scientist, atheist or not.

lowenheim · 1 year

I wept solemnly.

lowenheim · 1 year

Best cover of that song.

girlprotagonist · 1 year

Not sure if you were being serious, but I assume it's a reference to this.

Also referenced by C&H: 1 2

Tophersaurus168 · 1 year

You can apply to be a permanent resident under the "canadian experience" guidelines for international students

Just to clarify, to be eligible for the Canadian Experience Class, you also need at least one year of full-time work experience in a skilled position in Canada after graduation (work experience as a student doesn't count). So you need to apply for a Post-Graduation Work Permit as a bridge between the Study Permit and permanent resident application.

airbubble · 1 year

I'm red-green colour blind and can see them. In fact, you can make stereograms grayscale and still see them in 3D. It has to do with your ability to force your eyes to focus and point in slightly unnatural ways rather than your ability to see colour.

dons · 1 year

The title of the PDF is even "Microsoft Word - raptor_solution".

tykit2RIDE · 1 year

That's actually my normal (and deliberate) response to that.

Or sometimes, "Be careful!"

20andcounting · 2 years

"meme" is not said like "meem"

Wait, what? I could've sworn Dawkins coined "meme" as a shortened form of "mimeme" and actually gave its intended pronunciation as "meem" in The Selfish Gene...

20andcounting · 2 years

"die-kee-ree"

That's what I thought until someone had trouble understanding what I was trying to say! I later listened to pronunciations online. Merriam-Webster gives "die-kuh-ree" (like "bakery," emphasis on the first syllable) as an alternative pronunciation, but "dackery" seems more common.

"Awry" is actually "a-rye" (emphasis on the second syllable)!

20andcounting · 2 years

'scythe'

Whoa, I just looked up the pronunciation online. Turns out I've been getting that one wrong, as well (by pronouncing the c). Thanks--now I know!

Ha, I should start writing these down so I'll have some kind of list of tricky words to make sure I eventually teach my kids about.

20andcounting · 2 years

This seems to be one of those things that people usually pick up when young. It might have to do in part with growing up in a multilingual environment. I know the correct sequence of months in several (not strongly related) languages, but I guess I never had to do enough number-name conversion in any one to internalize it.

Since moving to North America, I've gotten better at this, though. I used to never write dates in anything other than numerical formats (dd.mm.yyyy was the standard I used for years), but on this side of the Atlantic, I've taken to writing things like "9 May 2010" to minimize confusion. I think I've just internally always thought of months more as numbers than names.

20andcounting · 2 years

Practically every mispronunciation and misspelling you see committed by young people today can be traced back directly to the fact that they learned their language solely through hearing it and interpreting the sounds.

Misspellings, sure, but mispronunciations? I read a lot as a child, and with English orthography being what it is, I would often make incorrect assumptions about how words--that one might not often hear in everyday speech--were pronounced.

For a long time, I thought that "awry" was pronounced "awe-ree" (and why not?), and how on earth did "daiquiri" become "dackery"?

I realize you're talking about more common words, and I'm with you on the importance of reading when young, but English pronunciation continues to vex me well into adulthood.

20andcounting · 2 years

"Whats the 8th month?"

I'm 26, and although I know the order of the months, I couldn't answer this without naming them in order in my head until I get to the relevant one. I know November and December are 11 and 12, respectively, while January and February are 1 and 2, but for all the others, I need to work my way through.

Same with the alphabet, really. Who can say what the 17th letter is without actually counting them out?

sw1ngtrad3r · 2 years

Of course funnily enough, coming back into the US took all of 30 seconds of friendly questioning.

If you're a US citizen, it shouldn't be surprising that it's much less of a hassle for you to enter the US than a foreign country. Everything's relative: whenever I fly, I specifically try to avoid stopovers in the US because to me, a non-US citizen, immigration in your country can be a nightmare.

jhra · 2 years

The same people who compiled this list actually rank Windsor the 25th best place to live in Canada!

lowenheim · 2 years

It's the radio edit of M & H Band's cover of Popcorn. Here it is in full: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=614hHSGJ9z8

(From 1987, I think.)

EDIT: The song itself is quite well known.

TheBananaKing · 2 years

The commas in your first example are unnecessary.

The meaning of the sentence might be changed slightly by omitting the commas, though. In both cases, "Jack" is an appositive. When offset by commas, it's always nonrestrictive. When not, it may be restrictive.

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