And they have the same right to have their edits subject to scrutiny as anyone else.

Trying to perform "perception management" under the radar is *not* a legitimate function of democratic governance.

The fact that someone is editing Wikipedia to make the NYPD look better to readers might be considered newsworthy.

Uh, what? Since there's no -1, Incredibly Stupid moderation, I'll save mod points and respond

If he's not a native speaker, he certainly covers it well to fool me--I'm a native English speaker with about 2 decades experience as a writer/editor in that language, and I'd be happy to interview him for a job my team is looking to fill.

Perhaps, in your mind, "moron" means "someone whose sentences are long enough that I actually have to think about what they mean"?

That's my theory, at any rate.

Then they're not Satanists. Really.

Please engage sarcasm detector before posting next time.

Calling someone both "Godless" and "Satanic" is a contradiction in terms.

Yes, this. Compassion makes sense.

http://science.slashdot.org/co...

Thanks for providing a better answer than I did, BTW.

If it was just fumes and they were odourless or nearly so, then it's quite conceivable that the pilots could have been incapacitated before they could react, particularly if their attention was occupied with something else already.

Views that are worth having are worth defending against opposing ones.

"Jimmy steals from the shops, Ma, so it's okay for me to do it, too."

And someone called *me* a real dick earlier today...

Yes. We can be assured that there's always another self-absorbed drama queen coming round the bend, ready and willing to provide us a bit of free entertainment to spice up an otherwise dull moment. Isn't life grand?