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Comment Re:Now deport Elon (Score 0) 229

How about deporting him for lying on his citizenship application?

He entered the US on a student visa, didn't enrol or undertake studies (the purpose behind being on a student visa) and focused on his start up instead.

Clear violation of his visa terms. But because he's famous with money and has been perceived as an entrepreneur he's been able to avoid the same consequences as other people who have violated similar visa terms, i.e. citizenship stripped (as it was fraudulently obtained) and deported.

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I have no dog in this race though as I'm not a US citizen, nor do I live in the US. In fact it's quite funny to see the US speed run an empire collapse. I just hope it happens without an all-out war outside US borders.

Comment Re: You know what... (Score 1) 375

I had kidney stones when I was living in the UK.

At just past midnight I went to A&E with excruciating pain in my abdomen.

Within 2 hours, I was in an MRI machine where they noticed a kidney stone blocking the ureter.

I was then scheduled for an ultrasonic procedure to break up the kidney stones to take place later that morning should my condition not improve.
Fortunately, my kidney stones dislodged themselves and my kidney was able to drain into the bladder and I was subsequently able to pass urine. The actual surgery for removal of my kidney stones took place later using a keyhole surgery.

Total cost of everything: £13 for a taxi in the middle of the night to get me to hospital.
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Several years later, I'm living in Australia,
Find my self with a nasty viral infection in my throat. After a couple of bouts of very strong oral antibiotics not improving my condition, my GP told me to go to a local hospital for treatment. I stayed overnight, with intravenous antibiotics, had a MRI while I was there. Discharged the following day having improved massively.

Total cost of everything: $0.00

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Funny how these examples of socialised medicine cost me nothing, and yet, both of my treatments involved same-day use of an MRI.

Comment Re:That sounds about right (Score 1) 167

Sounds like a French formal garden, not some American thing. It's also one of the less likely varieties you'll find here.

No, I'm going to say that it is very much an American thing. They have to lay the perfectly flat layer of perfectly green grass because otherwise the little dictators in the HOA will put a lien on their property and force a sale because the grass was 3mm too tall, or not green enough in the summer heat because it wasn't watered enough, despite massive droughts.

For some reason, the nation that likes to beat its chest about its perceived freedoms from the big scary Government, seems unnaturally eager to run towards the neighbourhood oppressive dictatorships that HOAs are. All because they're scared shitless of a local municipal government taking out the trash

Comment Re: I don't understand (Score 4, Insightful) 1605

Trump and Trump supporters want actual citizens to decide the fate of the country...not have it decided by a bunch of people that just showed up from countries where they, as citizens of those countries, could not create a successful society.

Nor do they want them coming in at a rate that they all just end up living in enclaves, without making any effort to assimilate.

What do you mean by "actual citizens"? You can only vote if you're a citizen! Someone who took the oath yesterday is, with the sole exception of not being able to run for President, every bit as equal of a citizen as a natural born one.

How long do you propose new citizens wait before they be allowed to vote?
Do you propose that immigrants from certain parts of the world have longer waiting periods?
Or do you prefer to just go back to the time when voting was only for the landowners?

Comment Re:You okay over there, America? (Score 1) 408

So...

A lot of you guys keep harping on about how you need the 2nd amendment to protect yourselves from tyranny.

At what point do those guns get pointed at an obviously corrupt and absolutely crazy Supreme Court?

Also, what's the logic behind the Supreme Court being appointed for life and not voted in?
Seeing as you lot are keen to vote for pretty much anyone from the local dog catcher and up.

What's also with the apparent complete lack of ethical oversight? You've got one judge openly BRAGGING about receiving bribes FFS!

Comment Re: Demonstrating ties to these companies is point (Score 2) 41

The analogy doesnâ€(TM)t really hold. IETF is there to promote cooperation between companies, so that their products can communicate. The interest of the companies is the same as the publicâ€(TM)s one in the field of activities of IETF.
Perhaps public research should be founded by taxes, and not be disguised private research…

Comment Re:e-SIMs (Score 3) 59

You're old enough to remember when you had to go in-store or on a website to punch in your new device's IMEI before you could use your new device with your existing SIM. ....

Is this some sort of an American joke I'm to un-American to understand?

In the rest of the world we just popped the SIM into another phone and went about our day.

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