Temperature cannot possibly be Scale-Invariant. 32 != 0 != 273.15 unless you use variant scales.

/ my backside has much to say

Every conference or project funded by some external, politically governed source. If you don't put on the brown lipstick before presenting the results, you won't be invited back to play.

Putin's in his Dacha, kickin' back with a vodka and some roe, laughing as the kickback payments accumulate in one account and the kneebreakers make lists of delinquents to visit in another.

That just means they're required to sell it to you. No limit on what they're allowed to charge, though.

If you're a _real_ CyberCombatant, locating the online version should be a dawdle.

Like they don't have that already.

Haven't you encountered a frightening number of ID idiots who insist - often a top volume - my grandaddy warn't no MONKEY!
Your observation is true, but given the sheer number of people proud to be ignorant, not super useful.
For their benefit - and thus, ours - we gotta watch that flippant phrasing.
As the environment changed, dinosaurs evolve to be smaller, and eventually into birds.
Not catchy, but easier to defend.

And how easy it is to make the ignorant fearful.
And therefore, how easy it is to make the ignorant violent.

Double-tap with a side-by-side is suicide.
You gotta have a pump gun or a gas-auto (pump's more reliable).

Appropriate meaning, in practical terms, any place it might save the operator of a given network segment a couple of bucks.

Or China, Iran, Pakistan, Myanmar or North Korea - you know, countries in which dissent of (heavens!) heresy/apostasy are capital offenses.

Or with anyone not benefiting directly from their vendor base's campaign contributions to your congresscritters.
Oh, and the FNC audience.

In fact, aren't there Muslims in the Knesset?
Show me another country in the region that has a single Jew or Christian in office.

I think you misspelled the british 'gaol.'

The key phrase is about what makes sense.
To a legislator bought by the banking and payday loan industries, there will be a sense of panic to at least be _seen_ to be doing _something_; so that will make sense.
To an ambitious prosecutor, there will appear an opportunity to bring the full weight of the criminal 'justice' system down on some poor schmuck who orders something legal-but-distasteful using MathMoney without paying sales tax or submitting the forms no one can figure out how to order let alone fill out (NJ handgun laws), so that will make sense.

In short, jumping up and down, waving flags and flares, daring regulators to come after you pretty much guarantees the most draconian possible response (designer recreational drugs) because 'think of the children!'