Perhaps not, but you can stop acting on the impulse.

Indeed. A civilisation on a tidally locked planet would probably think life couldn't possibly start on a planet with day and night, or seasons.

Is Slashdot actually required by law to save ip addresses with each comment?

Which law would that be?

I'd expect the Chinese to use bignums.

Are you saying we would have nicer things if people believed anything they read in slashdot summaries as long as it fits in their pre-existing beliefs?

In the case of Greece, it's more like "Oh my god, we've been discussing a solution for our problems for months, and now it turns out you can't really speak for your people because you have zero support from them?"

The US obligated itself to its allies to produce this aircraft for mutual use, and not delivering it would cause a lot more international face loss than cancelling F-22

It's funny you should say that, because in The Netherlands, the opinion is that we only chose to join/support the development of the F35 to suck up to the US.

In medicine, a drug that saved 300 people per year but killed 100 people per year due to side-effects would never be approved.

Why not? (as long as the patient is aware of the risks)

That's 70km across, not circumference.

There's a lot more of it?

You've confused grade with degrees.

0.017 degrees @ 100km is about 30 meters

I'm partial to the beerware license myself

A lot of (most?) dutch intra-government traffic uses their certificates.

See https://loket.amsterdam.nl/ for instance

no, why would they?

Gold mined by slaves is still gold, and I guess the same applies here.

Not everyone lives in Amsterdam, you know