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Which is perfectly valid when Puerto Rico is replaced by Florida.

No, it's not "perfectly valid", it's nonsensical: Florida is not a territory or a nation, hence you cannot be a "citizen" of it, at least not in the same sense that you can be a citizen of the US or of Puerto Rico. If you try to base an argument on using the term "citizen" this way in two different ways, then you are committing the fallacy of equivocation.

The fact remains that the relationship between Puerto Rico and the federal government is fundamentally different than the relationship between any US state and the federal government. Therefore, it is perfectly legitimate for the federal government to treat Puerto Rico differently from any state when it comes to disaster relief or rebuilding after a disaster. In particular, Puerto Rico, in many ways, is more like an independent nation and hence US tax payers might well choose to treat it that way.

This needs to go on the list.

Christians ran the colonies from roughly the 1550s when the Spanish colonized Mexico and the Southwest to about 1785 on the East Coast when the Constitution, guaranteeing that the government could not endorse religion (e.g., "Congress shall make no law regarding an endorsement of religion") to bit less than a hundred years later when the Spanish/Russian governance of the west coast ended.

Partially true, the first amendment and it's prohibition at the time only applied to the federal government, state religions went on for a good bit longer, the last one ending in 1833 if I am not mistaken: https://digital.library.txstat...

This article http://www.txstate.edu/effective/UPPS/upps-05-01-02.html found in the first page when Googling "State of Texas Computer Disposal Procedure" will show that the AC truly does have a limited understanding of how things work.

FP?

Check out this classic paper by noted computer scientists/mathematicians Perlis, Lipton and de Millo for a unique perspective on the social processes underlying mathematical creations: http://uweb.txstate.edu/~mg43/CS5391/Papers/Formal Methods/socialprocessesproofs.pdf.

Their basic thesis is that program verification is like a mathematical proof, a proof is not simply the formal verification of logical statements but instead involves social interaction between mathematicians, program verifications cannot be subjected to this social process because they are too dry, and hence, formal verification will never dominate software engineering.

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