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posted by janrinok on Sunday July 29 2018, @06:48PM   Printer-friendly
from the wheres-your-ds-160 dept.

Daniel Stenberg, author of the ubiquitous URL fetcher cURL and the libcurl multiprotocol file transfer library, and recipient of the 2017 Polheim Prize, has been blocked again from attending a US-based conference. Daniel has written a post in his blog about his two-year odyssey through the byzantine US bureaucracy to try to get permission to attend a work-related conference in California. He has been in the US nine times previously but despite pages of paperwork, hundreds of dollars in fees, and personal visits to the embassy, no dice. As a result the conference will have to move outside the US and probably Canada too if it wants to stay open to the world's top talent.

Earlier on SN:
US Visa Applications May Soon Require Five Years of Social Media Info (2018)
Reducing Year 2038 Problems in curl (2018)
cURL turns Seventeen Today (2015)


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  • (Score: 2) by Whoever on Sunday July 29 2018, @11:58PM (8 children)

    by Whoever (4524) on Sunday July 29 2018, @11:58PM (#714521) Journal

    Compared to the corruptor-in-chief we got now, I'd give my left nut to get someone like Obama back in the white house.

    Whom did you vote for?

    Did you vote for Trump and now regret your vote?

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  • (Score: 2) by Subsentient on Monday July 30 2018, @12:06AM (7 children)

    by Subsentient (1111) on Monday July 30 2018, @12:06AM (#714524) Homepage Journal

    I voted for Jill Stein. I couldn't stomach Hillary either. In retrospect, looks like it didn't matter anyways.

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    "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
    • (Score: 1, Offtopic) by Whoever on Monday July 30 2018, @12:30AM (6 children)

      by Whoever (4524) on Monday July 30 2018, @12:30AM (#714534) Journal

      Jill Stein had precisely zero chance of winning. Hillary would have been a terrible president, but much, much better than Trump.

      It depends what state you are in. If your state has a strong slant (either way), then sending a signal by voting for Stein makes sense. If you live in a swing state, then you screwed yourself (and millions of others).

      • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 30 2018, @12:53AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 30 2018, @12:53AM (#714547)

        No she wouldn't have been. With the anointed one, we would have regime changed Syria by now and turned it into a Libyan shithole.
        I voted for Stein because she was the best available candidate after Sanders yielded. Fuck you if that does not coalesce with your wishes. That's democracy.

      • (Score: 1, Redundant) by realDonaldTrump on Monday July 30 2018, @01:00AM

        by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Monday July 30 2018, @01:00AM (#714552) Homepage Journal

        Remember, we won the election. And we won it easily. You know, a lot of people say "oh, it was close, and oh..." And by the way, they also like to always talk about Electoral College. Well, it’s an election based on the Electoral College. I would rather have a popular election, but it’s a totally different campaign. It's as though you're running — if you're a runner, you're practicing for the 100 yard dash as opposed to the 1 mile. The Electoral College is different. I would rather have the popular vote because it's, to me, it's much easier to win the popular vote. But it was what the Democrats used to try and make an excuse for their loss of an election, for their loss of the Electoral College that they should never lose, because the Electoral College is set up PERFECTLY for the Democrats and this was an ABSOLUTE TOTAL BEATING in the Electoral College. They should never lose the Electoral College, and they did.

        I would rather see it, where you went with simple votes. You know, you get 100 million votes, and somebody else gets 90 million votes, and you win. There’s a reason for doing this. Because it brings ALL THE STATES into play. Not just those swing states!!!

      • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 30 2018, @01:40AM (3 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 30 2018, @01:40AM (#714563)

        Your post illustrates exactly why you got Trump. Pretty much noone wanted either Trump or Clinton. Had all of you cast your partisan bullshit aside for a minute and agreed on an acceptable third party candidate, you might have had a chance. But you Yanks just keep believing the fairy tale of the wasted vote and the legendary two one true parties to bring you democracy and freedom. Voting "for the lesser evil" is not just throwing your vote away, it's a betrayal of democracy.

        Grow some balls, take to social media, or hand out leaflets in the street, tell everyone which third party you're gonna vote for and why. Get some friends to do as you do. Tell them to tell their friends. Watch as a storm in a teacup turns into a blizzard.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 30 2018, @02:19AM (1 child)

          by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 30 2018, @02:19AM (#714573)

          Ah, demonstrated by the Republicans taking power from the Whigs.

          Perhaps it is time for another party to take power from the Democrats.

          • (Score: 3, Insightful) by khallow on Monday July 30 2018, @01:24PM

            by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Monday July 30 2018, @01:24PM (#714703) Journal
            It's time for other parties to take power from both current parties. I find it interesting how the closest anyone has come to overturning a party, the election of Trump, has been turned into a narrative about the dominance of the establishment.
        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 31 2018, @03:57PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 31 2018, @03:57PM (#715238)

          It isn't a myth, it is a fact of the type of system we have.

          If we could get a run-off system (instant run-off is my preference) this wouldn't be an issue. With the system we have, it is.