let's remove all security with respect to airplanes. Care to fly now?
Yes. Since it's reduced my airfare, and massively reduced inconvenience, personal indignity, and time wasted at airports, and only marginally compromised air travel security.
You're thinking of lunatic fringe environmentalists, and there are a few who believe nonsense like that.
They are no more representative of the population which is moderately informed and concerned about the environment than lunatic fringe Christian fundamentalists are representative of the other billion Christians on the planet.
Freedom of information is one of those ideas that's such a popular idea no-one will touch the legislation, but the law is typically worded so vaguely that it causes real problems.
It depends what you mean by replacing English. There's a big difference between everyone who speaks English abandoning it, and a new language dislocating the use of English as the default medium of communication between non English speakers.
Esperanto, for example, was never intended to replace people's maternal language, only second languages.
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You're thinking of the mass of hot air in the atmosphere; this is in the ocean.
much like the aether of former times.
It *is* the aether of former times, minus the materials sciences metaphors.
Everyone agrees there's *something* in the 'vacuum' - why not call it aether?
Perhaps we should view the study's results with 5% extra skepticism.
if the guy expresses his sincere, original desire to do something
There's plenty of uncertainty about what this guy was thinking.
I though his observation was the most interesting and insightful one so far.
Possibly the only interesting and insightful one, and certainly the only one where the poster is informed about the subject matter he comments on.
slaps the label "terrorist" on someone does not nullify the laws
You have not been paying attention the last 14 years.
let's remove all security with respect to airplanes. Care to fly now?
Yes. Since it's reduced my airfare, and massively reduced inconvenience, personal indignity, and time wasted at airports, and only marginally compromised air travel security.
Actually, stings like this may prevent actual attacks from occurring
Or, they show terrorists how easy it is to tie up counter-terrorism resources while the serious terrorists go unnoticed. Kind of a reverse SWATting.
Both quality and quantity of proof matter.
I'd call the 1700s a bit soon to be drawing that line.
Everyone from before then is dead now.
You're thinking of lunatic fringe environmentalists, and there are a few who believe nonsense like that.
They are no more representative of the population which is moderately informed and concerned about the environment than lunatic fringe Christian fundamentalists are representative of the other billion Christians on the planet.
the USA is a laughing stock?
Yes. One among many.
Americans can't seem to imagine any situation where they're not special.
I bet .isapedophile would do even better.
That could lead to legal problems. But the first one is just about computer files having to do with feet.
Of course he would have been charged (because they can), but the media wouldn't have cared as much.
Freedom of information is one of those ideas that's such a popular idea no-one will touch the legislation, but the law is typically worded so vaguely that it causes real problems.
Are legislators just lazier than they used to be?
Ninety senators are fine will selling out their own country.
(Actually, I am shocked that number isn't higher.)
It's more willing to be poor, but currently wealthy enough to afford passage across an ocean.
"Poor" is relative.
You cued up a whole queue of that same joke.
we are all immigrants
I don't understand how this falsehood keeps being perpetuated. People actually seem to be proud of being misinformed on this point.
Colonists and immigrants are not the same thing. An immigrant voluntarily chooses to give up their identity and adapt to a new one.
But *not* working....
Because it's not always fraud.
Not always. But sometimes. Proof matters.
Public relations is not the same as reality.
The catch is that everyone's concept of 'intuitively' is different.
It depends what you mean by replacing English. There's a big difference between everyone who speaks English abandoning it, and a new language dislocating the use of English as the default medium of communication between non English speakers.
Esperanto, for example, was never intended to replace people's maternal language, only second languages.
No, 'they' used to be plural but now it's indeterminate. Or plural. Or sometimes singular.
The point is that singular and plural aren't the only options.