I do live in Osaka but I spend a lot of time cycling at night. Apparently, there was a surge in bicycle theft recently so they tend to check every young people (not only foreigners) riding a bike at night. Since it's dark, they're usually surprised to see that I'm a foreigner and ask the ARC to check for visa too. Since I changed addresses and visa status quite a lot during these 5 years and that these amendments are handwritten, they usually call the Police Post to check I'm legit. I guess the cops in my area have just too much time to spare :)

They should have seen this coming. How come the H1-Bv6 is not ready yet?

As a foreigner in Japan, law forces me to carry my "Alien Registration Card" at all time. Policemen stop foreigners here once or twice a month to check for visa overstay. I also carry my French ID, in case of an earthquake or nuclear meltdown so I can get assistance from the Embassy. Most of the time I use my Japanese Driver's License though, as this carries less sensitive information. This is the de facto standard ID here to buy booze or cigarets as Japanese do not have ID cards and insurance cards do not have pictures. This plus my IC work card that I use to buy food at the University restaurant :)

Thank you for the answer. I guess it's the same in Japan in April when cherry trees blossom then :)

Pardon my ignorance, bu why exactly should today be a grill day? Is it a US thing? I'm just asking because I never heard of a specific day for grilling. P.S. I live in Japan.

I'm not that old (26) but I remember the first time I went to the Internet through one of these AOL CDs. http://www.dialupsound.com/ It was working less than 10% of the time.

Depends of the definition of "my computing time". I'm a web developer, so if it means "time spent in front of my computer w.r.t to another computer" then it's almost 100%. If it's the CPU cycles, since I spend a lot of time on a SSH console, it would somewhere around 40%.

A summary shouldn't be a cliffhanger IMHO. Why do I have to read TFA to get the result of the study? Could the result be included in TFS?

You can use this calculator to get the distance "as the crow flies" between two places on the earth.

Disclaimer: I work on finding new ways to use machine translation in intercultural collaboration. What happens most of the time with slang is as you say, a simple mapping. The most efficient way to deal with slang syntactically incorrect terms is to use a custom dictionary in the machine translator. For example, "U" is translated as "you". To make it more complete, you might want to use a complete translation memory, not taking single words. To make it short, you just need a custom element in your translation, to adapt to your domain. That's why machine translation such as Google Translate can't work very well since it can't get the context of the content you want to translate.

He he, it all depends if you're observing it from the front or from the back.

But this one has no teeth!

Same here :)

85.9 miles = 138.24265 km, courtesy of Google :) Had to look it up too.