The claim was that there is no state called America. There is a state called America. There are also continents called America, and my neighbor has a pet dog called America. Neither of which invalidate the existence of a state that is called America.

Here's another example that might make sense. vipw isn't written on my passport, but I am called vipw.

Wow. What amazing ignorance. The United States of America is called America. See the post you are replying to if you need an example of it in a sentence. If you need to see a dictionary to believe something is true: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/america

But on the other hand, that does sound like a shitty place to work.

Just consider yourself lucky that people forget about what you do. If a functioning democracy knew how you were sucking them dry, the party would soon be over.

In that situation, wouldn't you be happy to have the precision that a mouse gives you.

In which federation is that a federal offence?

Illiteracy isn't a measure of intelligence. It is a measure of specific knowledge, as you say. There is even a commonly used term for people who are familiar with operating a computer: computer-literate. Did you forget to read the comment you replied to?

I don't think anyone expects computer literacy to include basic programming concepts (such as loops and conditionals), but it's not absurd to suggest it should.

So now I must either admit that I'm stupid, or burn you at the stake for your blatant heliocentric viewpoints.

I'm stupid.

There is no lunar night. There's a dark side and a light side, and occasionally an eclipse.

I'm sure you mean mutilating, not mutating.

Not in Greece (and the rest of the Eurozone). Greece's economic problem is precisely that they do not control the money supply and can't use inflation to lower real costs.

What's your hurry? Travelling faster isn't the only way, and it doesn't even seem likely.

Stasis, extreme longevity, generation ship -- any of these seem more likely than breaking c!

After reading the headline just one more time, I have to conclude that there is another possibility. It is possible to extract older DNA from these skeletons if you move the skeletons out of Spain.

Read the headline again carefully. It's the oldest DNA extracted from these 7000 year old skeletons. Obviously you can extract older DNA from older tissue, but good luck extracting older DNA from these skeletons!

Auto is English for the Swedish word bil. HTH