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I highly endorse ARCR. They probably process more residencies than anyone else, they know what is happening every day at immigration, their fees are reasonable and they handle everything. I just received my permanent residency after four years of residency and I’m very happy with them.
I remember hiring a mobile notary to meet me at the police station to notarize the signature of the officer as he signed the letter.
If CIA means Corruption, Incompetence and Apathy, then yes it looks like the CIA has taken over Costa Rica.
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Just because A occurs before B does not mean that A caused B. This is a common fallacy whereby armchair thinkers jump to conclusions without any evidence.
The Deep Sea Drilling project drilled 624 holes around the world from 1968 to 1983, the Ocean Drilling Program drilled 653 sites from 1985 to 2003, and if there was any evidence of damage of the environment I think it would have surfaced by now. The Joides Resolution drilled site #1379 28 km off the coast of the Osa Peninsula from March 20 – April 2. I think it is silly to think that physically drilling a hole about 12″ in diameter into the seafloor 28 km offshore would have any influence on marine life. There is a tremendous amount of enviromental destruction going on in the oceans, but ocean drilling is not the cause.I usually agree with you Scott but you are wrong on this one. I spent two years on board the Glomar Challenger working for the Deep Sea Drilling Project, and I can tell you that we were absolutely not trying to find oil and natural gas reserves. On the contrary, we were always trying to find a place with no oil or gas so that we could drill deeper and recover more core samples to study. The Glomar Challenger, like the JOIDES Resolution, was designed to drill in the deep ocean and was not equipped with a riser system to control pressure. If we encountered gas we were forced to abandon the site.
[url=https://www.planetseed.com/node/15303]JOIDES Resolution and Riserless Drilling[/url]
That Transocean is part owner of the ship should not concern anyone. There are very few companies that are capable of owning and operating a ship like this. Transocean is leasing the ship to the IODP (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program), an international group of oceanographic institutions. The purpose is pure research, and ocean drilling is an essential part of furthering our knowledge of the ocean floor and the planet as a whole.The Glomar Challenger came into Puntarenas in June 1979, after drilling a series of holes to map a cross section of the Middle America Trench off the coast of Guatemala. This is an active subduction zone similar to the one off the coasts of both Japan and Indonesia. The Pacific Coast of Costa Rica is at a very high risk for a large earthquake followed by a tsunami 15-20 minutes later, as we saw in both Japan and Indonesia. The more knowledge we have about plate tectonics and ocean floor movement, the better.
[url=http://www.deepseadrilling.org/67/dsdp_toc.htm]Deep Sea Drilling Project Leg 67[/url]Overpayment of taxes is not a big problem in Costa Rica. My neigbor sold a 1,000 m2 parcel for $100,000 (part of an IDA parcel which she got for free) and I asked her how much of that she had to pay in taxes to the government and she looked at me like I was crazy. She said she pays lots of taxes: sales taxes, property taxes, marchamo etc. I told her that if I sold it I would pay $15,000 to the US government, and if Ticos paid 15% of their gains that would go a long way to help pay for roads, police, clinics, water and everything else that everyone complains about. She doesn’t want to give any more money to those chorizeros in the government. (Sounds familiar)
I suggest you start thinning the teak trees. The long thin poles are useful for all kinds of construction projects, and the farther apart the trees are the more light comes in and the more natural the environment, the more plants will grow underneath them. Plant a little bit of everything and see what sticks.
