I got my B2 visa 20 years ago and I overstayed for about four years and I worked illegally.  I have a plan to go on a business trip to Las Vegas. I'm not sure what to say to the official if I'm asked if I worked back then. I paid taxes to the IRS and had an SSN, It was not legal to work but I used that number then.  Never got a ticket or trouble there.
I have a particular situation here, In March of 1997 I travelled to the US as a tourist and lived there illegally for almost 9 years. I was never arrested, or had any trouble with the law, I was never deported. I paid my taxed (had a TFN) had a job, bank account bought a house, etc. About 9 years ago I decided to leave as I was tired of living like that, not able to be legal, in fear of deportation and loosing everything. I also got married (to a person in the exact situation as me) we were able to legally migrate to Australia and now we are Australian citizens. We never returned our I-94s and in 2005 left through Mexico (walked through the border) so there are no records of us ever leaving. We have lived here in Australia for over 9 years.  OK so my question is... We have been thinking we would like to visit our friends and family back in the US now that we have a little girl. Is there any chance they won't let us in because they know we overstayed? We would be travelling with our Australian passports.
"going to" vs "will" I know several questions were asked about the difference between "going to" and "will". Based on several answers (see, for instance, ,  and ), I understood that "will" is more spontaneous and "going to" is used with more planned actions.  So, it seems that everything is pretty fine. However, in , Kosmonaut has an answer in which he states: "Let's say that tomorrow you will walk your dog from 7 - 8 AM".  On the one hand, you probably planned to walk your dog long before and thus I should use "Let's say that tomorrow you're going to walk your dog from 7 - 8 am".   On the other hand, since I'm saying "let's say...", I'm deciding right now (thus, unplanned) that you will walk your dog. So, even though in this hypothetical situation you made a plan, I'm in a more spontaneous mood deciding right now that that's what you will do tomorrow, and, thus, I should use "will".  Which one (if any) of the above explanations is right? Is it possible to convert a Physical Ubuntu Install (Intel based PC with Ubuntu 10.10) to a virtual box disk, so that I can use that same environment on a separate pc or can keep it virtual for testing?  Something similar to "Disk2VHD" which converts a physical Windows 2K3 and above box into a VHD or VMware image.  Will be grateful for your assistance ! Kind Regards Sort arrays of primitive types in descending order Can an electron be in two places at the same time? So I've been reading a bit and watching some videos about the double slit experiment, and therefore the wave particle duality; I've also read this "implies" that a particle can be in two places at the same time. Can you clarify this, and how could that be possible? Positive operator is bounded For a real Banach space $X$ let $A:X\rightarrow X^*$ be a positive operator in the sense that $(Ax)(x)\geq 0$ for all $x\in X$. Show that $A$ is bounded.   I don't know how to do that, maybe it's an application of the closed graph theorem? When is it appropriate to create an entity instead of a new content type? What is the benefit to creating new entity types over just building a new content type?    It seems a bit overkill to do all of the custom coding that is required to create a new entity when you have all of the CRUD and Views functionality already built into content types. Can a willing lycanthrope be True Polymorphed? Can a lycanthrope or other shapeshifter be willingly affected by the spell True Polymorph? I know that it can be affected by regular Polymorph, but the text for the enhanced version seems to differ. How can I automatically center an image? I use:  \documentclss{mwrep} ... \begin{figure}   \includegraphics{a.jpg} \caption[Long caption]{Caption} \label{pic-a} \end{figure}   How can I make images to be always visible on the center of page? (To be more specific: the center of the image should be between the left and right margin - I use different left and right margins). I don't want to put anything after every \begin{figure} in my document.  Important: I don't want to waste an entire page on a single image at the very center of the page. I want only horizontal alignment. (left &lt;-> right) Using exec and tee to redirect logs to stdout and a log file in the same time In a bash script, how can I redirect all standard outputs to a log file and tee the output on the screen using exec ?  log_file="$HOME/logs/install.txt-`date +'%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S'`" [ -f "$log_file" ] || touch "$log_file" exec 1&gt;&gt; $log_file 2&gt;&amp;1   This code redirect all the log to the log file but not to the screen . I wrote this sentence     However, if the user defines each rule (regarding/according to/in) a specific context, the algorithm will take the context into account before deciding to remove such elements.   Which are applicable and what would be the implication of each?  I myself think "regarding" means "about" and is not proper here, but I doubt between "according to" and "in", because "in" is a collocation for "context". Some cards in magic has something happen for each {something}. For instance:  makes you gain 2 life for each creature you control. Tapping  adds one green mana to your mana pool, and you gain 1 life for each non-land card revealed.  How is this life gained: all at once or "one bit" at a time? Say I tap Selvala and 1 land, and 2 non-lands are revealed: do I gain 2 life, or do I gain 1 life two times? Would  have one or two +1/+1 counters placed on it if I had it in play at that point? Suppose that I have a group $G$ of order $p^{2}q$ for two distinct primes $p$ and $q$.  I need to first show that one of its Sylow subgroups is normal.  I start by letting $H$ be a Sylow $p$-subgroup and $K$ be a Sylow $q$-subgroup.  If $K$ is not normal, then letting $r$ denote the number of Sylow $q$-subgroups, I have that $r|p^{2}$ and $r\equiv 1$(mod $q$).  I also have by the second Sylow theorem that $r\neq 1$.  So $r = p$ or $p^{2}$.  If $r = p^{2}$, I can write out the Sylow $q$-subgroups, and count their combined elements to show that $H$ is uniquely determined and then again imply Sylow number $2$ to obtain that $H$ is normal.  But if $r = p$, then I cannot see how to proceed.  Can anyone give any advice?  Thank you.  ( I am happy to provide more detail for the $r = p^{2}$ case if it is desired or appropriate. ) Infinite Series Convergence Verification I'm currently tackling the following infinite series in order to determine if it converges or not:  $$\sum_{n=1}^\infty \frac{\sqrt{n+1}-\sqrt{n}}{n}$$  What I've done is rearranged this to make use of the comparison test, shown below:  $$= \frac{\sqrt{n+1}-\sqrt{n}}{n} * (\frac{\sqrt{n+1}+\sqrt{n}}{\sqrt{n+1}+\sqrt{n}})$$  $$= \frac{(n+1)-(n)}{n(\sqrt{n+1}+\sqrt{n})}$$  $$= \frac{1}{n(\sqrt{n+1}+\sqrt{n})}$$  $$= \frac{1}{n^{3/2}+\sqrt{n+1}} &lt; \frac{1}{\sqrt{n+1}} &lt; \frac{1}{\sqrt{n}} $$  However, $\frac{1}{n}$ is smaller than $\frac{1}{\sqrt{n}}$, therefore:  $$  \frac{1}{n}   &lt; \frac{1}{\sqrt{n}}$$   This implies divergence by the comparison test due to the fact $\frac{1}{n}$ diverges, and if a smaller series diverges any larger series must as well.  Is this right? If I've made any mistakes in any part, please tell me! I am wondering if we should use  or  for buttons and headings in websites and web/mobile apps? Title Case: Manage my Account Delete my Account  Sentence case: Manage my account Delete my account  In  I found the recommendation 'choose your style and be consistent'. This is it? Aren't there any other (additional) recommendations or sources. Like for specific use cases or apps where the one style would be preferred over the other? Edit: The question refers primarily to English, but differences in other languages are also good to know. How to show/hide a column at runtime? I'd like to show/hide a column at runtime based on a particular condition. I'm using "Print when expression" to conditionally show/hide this column (and it's header) in my report. When the column is hidden, the space it would have occupied is left blank, which is not particularly attractive.  I would prefer if the extra space was used in a more effective manner, possibilities include:   the width of the report is reduced by the width of the hidden column the extra space is distributed among the remaining columns   In theory, I could achieve the first by setting the width of the column (and header) to 0, but also indicate that the column should resize to fit its contents. But JasperReports does not provide a "resize width to fit contents" option.  Another possibility is to generate reports using the Jasper API instead of defining the report template in XML. But that seems like a lot of effort for such a simple requirement. Sums in math mode: how to display index under the sigma sign? I have a fraction with sums above and under the line. How can I convince LaTeX to write the indices of the sums under the sigma instead of next to it?  \begin{displaymath}   \frac{\sum_{s \in S} s^2}{\sum_{p \in P} p^2} \end{displaymath} Showing two ring homomorphisms that agree on the integers must agree on the rationals I have two ring homomorphisms $f,g\colon \mathbb{Q}\to X$. I know that $f=g$ on the integers. How can I show that $f$ and $g$ agree on the rationals?   My attempt:  let $x,y \in \mathbb{Z}$, $y\neq 0$.  $$\begin{align*} f(x/y)&amp;=f(x)f(1/y) &amp;&amp;\text{because }f\text{ is a ring homomorphism}\\  &amp;=g(x)f(1/y) &amp;&amp;\text{because }f\text{ and }g\text{ agree on the integers} \end{align*}$$  I do not know how to rewrite $f(1/y)$ so that I can replace it with $g(1/y)$. Any hints will be much appreciated. Thanks. NFL overtime: after a field goal, clock runs out on second team's possession Under the NFL's current "modified sudden death" overtime rules, if the first team scores a field goal, the second team is entitled to one more possession.  What happens if the clock runs out during that possession?  Suppose the score is tied 20-20 at the end of the 4th quarter. Team A wins the overtime coin toss and receives the kickoff to begin overtime.  After a long slow drive, Team A scores a field goal to make the score 23-20.  Now they kick off to Team B.  Team B is not able to score, and the overtime period ends with Team B still in possession.  What happens?   is not very explicit on this point.  Article 4 (a) says:     There shall be a maximum of one 15-minute period, even if the second team has not had an opportunity to possess the ball or if its initial possession has not ended. If the score is tied at the end of the period, the game shall result in a tie.   I think this means that Team A wins, 23-20, but I am not completely sure.  Has this ever happened in a regular-season NFL game? When Deadpool is in the hallway talking      he makes a joke about Fox springing for a few more X-Men and the camera pans to show Beast closing the door to get rid of the noise.   Who else was in the room? How to install specific Ubuntu packages, with exact version? I want to setup a new virtual machine with some specified packages (name and version), that are provided.  For example apache2 in version 2.2.20-1ubuntu1 with all dependencies. Even if there is a new version of this package on the servers this one should be installed.  The solution has to work/scale with multiple (n) "setups". Another virtual machine might need an older version of apache2.  I currently know of some possibilities that install the exact packages, but do not scale that good:   Copy all required *.deb to every virtual machine manually and enter: dpkg -i ... -> Could work, but it is very error prone. (Manual scripts etc.) Create and use a new Ubuntu repository for each setup. -> Does not work because I would need n repositories. Setup the machine once and copy the VM / create a snapshot. -> Does not work because I would need to store n VMs.   My problem could be labeled as patch management, but I do not want to update my packages to the current version. My goal is to install old packages.