I’ve been here for less than a week and it appears that I have served as inspiration to one of the featured bloggers on this site. I am genuinely flattered that my irreverent musings on immigration and the tech-world have been reworked so quickly! It could be argued that any topic is fair-game, but the lack of acknowledgment is tantamount to someone helping themselves to a five-fingered discount. Fortunately, Monsieur Fly has afforded me a platform to, as it were, “blog it out.”

This is not the first time I have encountered this kind of behavior. It happens to us PhD’s all the time, especially the “fur-uh-ner” ones who have jobs directly linked to their ability to remain in these United States. We get to enjoy taxation without representation. Some may mistakenly believe that our main purpose is that of “enhancing your quality of life.” Heaven forbid you would be caught smoking a joint, an offense of such Dickensian proportions that it is classified as a crime of moral turpitude. It is a relic of 19th century US law that naturally only applies to the Un-Americans in our midst.

At times, it can be very frustrating to live in the US, especially when the majority of the people that you interact with would never meet the criteria for an H1B visa… never mind an O visa. I’ve had the misfortune to have encountered some of the most wretched, miserable, servile, pathetic trash that was ever shat into civilization. It is especially galling to watch these cretins wrap themselves up in the red white and blue as they happily “support the troops” and eat another hot dog. You know… the same kind of tools that think vacationing at a Sandals resort makes them the well-traveled worldly types.

When you publish a scientific paper, it is very important to adequately cite and reference prior work. If you do not do this adequately, your paper will be rejected and you will be required to make revisions. Sometimes the referee will ask you to provide more supporting data. Plagiarizing, on the other hand, is not tolerated and will result in a flat out rejection. In the case of the small close-knit niches that scientists inhabit, this results in a major blot on their copy book, which also means that both their past and future submissions will be subjected to increased scrutiny.

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