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  1. Many countries will be providing you health care if you are in them.

    I think it's pretty unlikely Russia or anyone would be able to smuggle a million people into the country. You would still of course have residency requirements so you can only vote where you live.

  2. Well these immigrants are typically being hired illegally by employers in the US. That's pretty much an invitation. We benefit from the cheap labor they provide. The analogy of a house in general is pretty weak since countries are not like houses - I was just trying to fit into your analogy the best I could.

  3. First, split "criminal" and illegal immigrant. Yes, it is a crime to enter the country that way, but the only difference between these people is their place of birth. To go with your analogy, it's more like your kid brings a friend over and he says he likes ham on his pizza instead of pepperoni. Now of course he's not part of your family, but he's still around and he even brought some money for pizza, so it makes sense for him to get a say.

    I know it seems generous these days to think humans deserve basic human rights like health care, but I guess that's the sort of person I am.

  4. We can and should deport criminals that are here illegally, but that's not really related to voting or health care services.

  5. There are countless cases of similar things happening with people here legally.

  6. Re:You mean Trump's webmaster on Outsourced IT Workers Ask Sen Feinstein For Help, Get Form Letter in Return (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Some of them - I find it hard to believe that ALL of the polls (which have shown reliable results in the past) are so flawed this time that they're predicting the wrong candidate with such a large margin. Even the ones that are "pro-Trump" are showing him losing.

  7. I don't believe we have any laws against chiming into an argument in a public space.

    The apple comment is weird and irrelevant. If you invest money in apple, you should get a say in their leadership, just as if you pay taxes you're investing in the local government. If you just have a contract or an exchange then that's a different case.

    Obviously people that came here illegally shouldn't be here. That's a given. The issue isn't about that, it's if people who are a part of our society should be subject to the rights (and regulations) that everyone in our society has.

    We also throw people who enter illegally in prison and don't give them far less "free stuff" than people here legally.

  8. There are a lot of people who want to give you a driver's license,

    I'd much rather have people that are licensed driving than people that aren't able to be licensed (and drive illegally)

    the right to vote,

    Sure, why not? They're paying taxes and affected by the policies as much as anyone. The country was founded from people mad about being taxed but not having representation in government.

    and free health insurance.

    Health care is a lot cheaper if you do it sooner rather than later. It's not like hospitals will deny someone emergency health care, so it's much better that they have health insurance.

    Clearly, the job of the US government is to provide benefits to everybody, regardless of their citizenship status.

    Yes, that's exactly what government is for. We don't deny people the right of free speech just because they're not a citizen either.

  9. Re:You mean Trump's webmaster on Outsourced IT Workers Ask Sen Feinstein For Help, Get Form Letter in Return (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    This is why Trump is winning.

    Winning what exactly? It sure isn't any of the polls!

  10. Re:Might want to watch this on Elon Musk Asks Twitter For Help In Finding Cause of SpaceX Explosion (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Well electric cars are pretty good - definitely a lot more of those now. The battery packs are good for us. Good to make the air a bit more breathable. Having cheaper rockets to space is good for cheaper communication services and of course tax payer money to the ISS.

  11. Re:Any twit could do it on Elon Musk Asks Twitter For Help In Finding Cause of SpaceX Explosion (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Because if you look closely, the object is not close to the rocket when it first starts to explode so it's probably a bird a mile closer to the camera.

  12. Re:Clickbait troll much? on AAPS Doctors Run Survey On Hillary Clinton's Health (prnewswire.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Hillary is a crook with a long history of lying, illegal activity, and corruption.

    And Trump has been documented to lie many times over the course of a week, advocates for war crimes, and admits he plays a part of the corruption in the political system (plus he was recently fined by the IRS after bribing a judge). If you're looking for the cleaner candidate, you won't find it in Trump.

  13. Re:Clickbait troll much? on AAPS Doctors Run Survey On Hillary Clinton's Health (prnewswire.com) · · Score: 1

    Reagan later admitted to having Alzheimer's and eventually died from it.

    Health concerns for the candidates could be valid, but we should also be looking at the older Trump who's family has a history of Alzheimer's that would be coming into effect around now. The fake not from his doctor doesn't really cut it.

  14. Re:Major features are complementary on Slashdot Asks: What Are Your Favorite Java 8 Features? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    But wait! It gets worse. You can't call these long function names directly on a data structure, you have to first get a stream which then can take map functions and then you have to convert it back to the data structure when you're done. Coming from Python it's just painful to see how long and ugly the code gets

  15. Re:Touch screen function keys on Apple Said To Plan First Pro Laptop Overhaul in Four Years (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I imagine 90% of the users don't use them without looking as it is so they're just expanding the user feedback.

  16. Re:Wow. on Stop Bashing GMO Food, Say 109 Nobel Laureates (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    We make public policy decisions based on what's best for consumers all the time. I don't think most people were asking for laws requiring seat belts

  17. Re: Wow. on Stop Bashing GMO Food, Say 109 Nobel Laureates (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    But the job of the government in this case is to help consumers, not scare them. GMO labels scare people without reason and it's just another regulation on the food producers for how they make their labels. I imagine after the next wave of scaremongering, we'll get more labels "WARNING: CONTAINS DNA".

  18. Re:Wow. on Stop Bashing GMO Food, Say 109 Nobel Laureates (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is the label doesn't help consumers make informed decisions, it just helps them make irrational ones. Anything GMO related is also possible in non-GMO foods.

  19. Re:Academic and member of the Democratic Party? on Elizabeth Warren Says Apple, Amazon and Google Are Trying To 'Lock Out' Competition (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Could be just that these days it's more prestigious to be known as an Academic than a US Senator.

  20. I doubt it's going to be mandatory that you wear a VR headset to use Chrome so I don't see why you care that it supports it. Basically other people should have what you don't want?

  21. Re:Telegram is missing. on Battle of the Secure Messaging Apps: Signal Triumphs Over WhatsApp, Allo (theintercept.com) · · Score: 5, Informative
    Uh well if you read to the end of the summary -

    But what about Telegram, you ask? A Gizmodo report, also published on Wednesday, says that Telegram's default settings store your message on its unencrypted servers. "This is pretty much one of the worst things you could imagine when trying to send secure messages."

  22. Re:It's amazing she still has defenders on Assange: Wikileaks Will Publish 'Enough Evidence' To Indict Hillary Clinton (rt.com) · · Score: 1

    Because the way the US electoral system is set up, the third or fourth evil ends up just taking votes from the second evil leaving the greater evil to win. Or the House picks the evil they want.

  23. Re:doesn't tell the future on The World's Oldest Computer May Have Predicted the Future (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    I guess it does predict the future in a sense that I can predict the sun will rise tomorrow.

  24. Re:Advertising company on Nest's Time At Alphabet: A 'Virtually Unlimited Budget' With No Results (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Google is primarily about search that makes money by selling ad space. If their search wasn't good, people wouldn't visit and they wouldn't make money from their ads so they focus a lot on the consumer side.

  25. Re:This is what happens when you have on Nest's Time At Alphabet: A 'Virtually Unlimited Budget' With No Results (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    If you live in Massachusetts, you can get a $100 rebate for buying one since it helps improve efficiency.