So, then, would you consider it fair to be skeptical of the honesty of Australians, considering the nation was founded by criminals? Or are we promoting double standards today?

That's... actually a really good point.

Although, to be fair, a lot of folks would consider volunteering to sacrifice your life so a handful of avaricious rich guys can get just a tiny bit richer to be a bit on the insane side, too.

Perhaps he has faith in all the bullshit security theater one goes through when entering or leaving a country. Surely the Aussie PTB wouldn't allow a known terrorist to enter their country, right?

Is your response here an indication that Slashdot's resident statists are changing their tunes when it comes to bullshit "responses" to national security threats? I'll bet not.

"X happened" is a fact.

"All Muslims are evil, because X happened" is an opinion.

The difference is glaringly obvious.

It's always boggled my mind how a person can say that toilet-scrubbers don't deserve decent pay because they aren't necessarily 'valuable,' in the very next breath after saying "someone HAS to scrub the toilets."

I know that's not what you were getting at, just making an observation.

Well, it does actually impact things like what they pay for lunch, since, oddly, the more money a person has "on paper," the less they're expected to actually pay for.

It shouldn't be a crime, because I wasn't trying to kill him, I was just trying to help him be healthier by letting out some of his blood.

If you were trying to be funny, you did a very poor job of it. You're also doing a very poor job of trying to be reasonable - for one, no, "many many people" likely have not trod that ground due to it being a remote, sparsely populated area. Secondly, jamming a signpost in the ground is a bit different than simply walking across an area.

Perhaps you should consider using /sarc tags.

You're not really defending blatant douche-baggery based on the notion that other people have been douche-bags in the past, are you?

To be fair, the BP disaster wasn't an accident, it was the result of negligence - they ignored well-established safety protocols in the name of (marginally) bigger profits.

So really, both acts were malicious.

Globally speaking, a good portion of "The Greatest Generation" were fucking Nazis. Another decent sized chunk were Marxist, another chunk Fascist, and yet another chunk, Japanese Imperialists.

But yea, it makes total sense to whine that today's generation is somehow worse, morally speaking, than the assholes who started the last world war.

You'd be amazed what stupid people will agree to do for a tenner.

No penalty, unless the release happens to be info they didn't want made public.

Otherwise, the person releasing the info has to seek asylum in Russia, apparently...

Indeed - the only difference between Uber and traditional taxi services is that they've replaced "pick up the telephone and call" with "get on the internet and call."

Oh, and that whole "expectation that our commercial transport service not be considered a commercial transport service" attitude.

Cuz tossing around playground insults, rather than offer a cogent argument - that's the hallmark of intellect?

Yea, you go ahead and keep thinking that, Chief.