The many questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XXI

[Zelig]

Hm, not too much, you'll have to read all the requirements for all the different documentation.

In general, you need certain residence and other requirements in the province you live in to submit all the paperwork for a change of name. After you do that, you can get a new birth certificate from the province where you were born, then use that for a new drivers license, then use those to get your name changed everywhere else.

 

[Synobun]

Hm, not too much, you'll have to read all the requirements for all the different documentation.

In general, you need certain residence and other requirements in the province you live in to submit all the paperwork for a change of name. After you do that, you can get a new birth certificate from the province where you were born, then use that for a new drivers license, then use those to get your name changed everywhere else.

Might be a little bit difficult since my birth certificate is in another country. I'll need to look into that.

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

Learn a foreign language. I'm in the midst of an obsessive love affair and thus heavily biased, but Bahasa Indonesia is considered one of the easiest to learn.

 

[Quackers]

That was going to be my suggestion Rugby, you know what they say

(i thought you didn't like the natives? xD)

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

That was going to be my suggestion Rugby, you know what they say

(i thought you didn't like the natives? xD)

Haha...obsessive love affair with the country, not a girl (not that I don't mind a bit of time with the ol' "long haired translator").

Nah the natives are great, it's just that my neo-colonial desires don't extend to a trophy Balinese wife. I need a typical nagging westerner.

 

[nc-1701]

What does it mean when the following is dropped randomly into a sentence "[sic]", I can never tell why they are [ut there... What does it mean?

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

A misspelling or incorrect tense, use of plural etc that has been left that way, usually to accurately quote someone elses word (usually written but can be when quoting what people have said)

 

[Camikaze]

A misspelling or incorrect tense, use of plural etc that has been left that way, usually to accurately quote someone elses [sic] word (usually written but can be [sic] when quoting what people have said)

For example.

Though I dunno, did I place that second one correctly?

 

[Tee Kay]

Which is short for sic erat scriptum, meaning "thus it had been written"

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

For example.

Though I dunno, did I place that second one correctly?

Nice one, but what's the reason behind the second?

 

[Camikaze]

But can be what?

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

But can be what?

"Used to accurately quote someone's word". Doesn't work?

 

[Borachio]

Yes. It sort of works. But clumsily, it has to be [sic] said.

(Do I have to write "[sic]" everytime I write "be" [sic] now?)

 

[ace99]

Historically with the Tran-Siberian railroad how long did it take to cross from one side of the Russian Empire to the other?

 

[madviking]

many days. still takes that long to this day. maybe they've been able to shave a day.

 

[Tee Kay]

A little over six days from Moscow to Vladivostok. Heavier cargo trains take a few days longer.

 

[madviking]

What's the max number of images in a post?

Let me try and count:

Spoiler :

Okay it's thirty.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Is it possible to visit the spot on the Reichstag where the Soviet flag was planted?

 

[madviking]

Probably not, seeing as it's on the roof.

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

Probably not, seeing as it's on the roof.

I disagree. Many, probably most structures with cool stuff at the top have access to the top. Even if they don't do tours it's a hardly a high security building. A Reichstag employee, 200€ and a have a go attitude would be all you need.