Actually you can't just turn your passport in. You have to pay hundreds of dollars to formally renounce. And you can only do so if you're already a foreign citizen.

My first year in Iceland, my US return was so complex that most tax attorneys refused to touch it. One offered to do it for over $1000. I ended up doing it myself. Three years later I'm still dealing with the IRS on it. It was as thick as a book.

My subsequent returns have been simpler but are still really annoying.

Seriously, don't do this to your kids. Just don't.

It's not even just taxes. The US is so weird about all sorts of things that can bite you. When I got engaged in Iceland, Iceland wanted a certificate from the US proving that I'm not already married - it's a standard requirement here, and most countries have such a certificate. But not the US! In the US you can get a certificate proving that you are married from the state you got married in, but not a certificate proving that you're not married. The only way around it is to find the one sherrif's office in the country who considers a signed affadavit to be sufficient to wed (all of the others disagree).

I would never dream of cursing my kids with US citizenship. How mean could you be to them? I can't bloody wait to get my Icelandic citizenship so that I can formally renounce my US citizenship.

You can't be jailed indefinitely unless they manage to convince a judge you're a dangerous offender. This guy is charged with obstruction which, IIRC, is a maximum one year sentence.

It will be interesting to see how this turns out, and I certainly hope a judge throws it out, but let's avoid the hyperbole: "jailed indefinitely," "search everyone's phone," etc.

Electricity is so simple hey? Those electrons what are they? The reason they have all the effects we call electricity is because they have "charge" and that "charge" creates an "electric field." So what exactly is "charge"? What is an "electric field" and how does "charge" create it?

If you want to get mystical about gravity, we really don't know that much about what electricity actually is deep down at the same level either. A bit higher up though, sure. Just like life: we have decent definitions of it and various people have demonstrated that various aspects of it, like cell walls, can be spontaneously formed from collections of particular chemicals. These guys are working from the other direction, looking at how those chemicals could be manufactured by non-living processes.

He's charged with obstruction. He might have spent a night or two in jail, but he's out on bail now. Even so, I'd much rather go to prison in Canada than the Dominican Republic. I'm pretty sure I'd rather possibly go to prison for a bit in Canada than become a stateless person as well.

Canadian border agents usually smile and welcome you back. They probably have other reasons to suspect this guy of something, and they want to see his phone to confirm them. I doubt very much they want to check everyone's phones, but I'm sure they want to be able to check certain people's electronic devices.

It's only Quebecois if you're speaking French. En anglais, it's Quebecker.

I don't know how it works in the US, but the Canadian government cannot refuse a Canadian citizen entry into the country. That's a very good thing.

I expect there's something in the employment contract for companies in the UAE that you agree not to say bad things about them. There certainly is in the law of the country. So how is someone like Snowden spilling the beans in Russia different from this guy shooting his mouth off in the US?

Running a gambling website.

1. Alibaba.com. You can get anything there.
2. Semipermanent subplate attached to the table with pin slots, surgical grade titanium plate pinned into position, pancreas stock welded into place with TIG set to the settings for pancreas stock of appropriate thickness (what can't you weld with TIG?)
3. We find the mechanical properties of billet pancreas to be sufficient, and the higher precision and better finish reduce the odds of customer rejection.

"3d printing" is the latest fad for Slashdotters to obsess over; meanwhile, in the real world, people are just going to use more established solutions. For example, where I work we're making great progress towards CNC-milling a pancreas.

All of Areva's renewables investments combined are less than 10% of their business. And they're performing far better than their core nuclear business. I find it amazing that you argue that they shouldn't have invested in the few projects they're involved in that are actually paying off.