Someone from Canada is Canadian. Someone from the USA is USAian. Get used to it, it'll become common usage soon enough.

I'm from the US, fairly well traveled, and unlike you I do not live in my mother's basement. I lived in Europe for awhile (Turkey, Germany, UK).. they call us Americans.. I've screwed a couple of women from Chile and Argentina down in South America.. they call us Americans.

The only, and I mean ONLY fucking place I've heard the idiotic term USian is here, so fuck your 'it'll be common usage soon enough' remark. You're just another term of SJW... (oh no mommy, it's the big bad cultural imperialists!)

I'm not sure why you would need to distinguish like that. Canadians are not american, they are north american just like the mexicans even though there is the artificial central america designation for the area. Or do south americans somehow fail to qualify for your quirk in reasoning? America is not the continent, its North America. There is also a South America, and an invented Central America if you want to jump from continental designation to a useful geographic distinction.

What you essentially are doing is trying say that heard looks like a flock so you will create a term like dogian to distinguish a pack of dogs. The problem is, theee are already valid names and terms that achieve the goal and it is pure ignorance when other terms are invented and substituted.

Whatever word you want to use. We have people here in the USA who namecall that way. They use terms like 'Commie' to refer to those foreign people they don't like. Welcome to the same league, dude.

Wow.. If using fucktarded repeatedly didn't show how fucking stupid you are, using USian as if it was an actual word most certainly does.

Here is a hint, the accepted term- even internationally is American. It is because the country is the United States of America and is the only country in north or south America that ends it's country name with America. Other countries have America in their official names, but they do not end it with America in neither their official language or the English version of the name so no other country has claim to the usage.

If you could fluctuate the luminosity of a star to announce your presence, then it would make more sense to make it flash prime numbers. Or encode such a message by varying the frequency, or by stopping and starting the device that produces the effect. Well, maybe they are doing just that, and I suppose that a pulsing star or the machine that makes it pulse doesn't exactly stop on a dime, so it may be worth keeping an eye on that thing for a couple of years, and watch for changes.

More ports is not universally better. If you tried to sell me a laptop that had a full-sized parallel port, for example, I'd say, that's dumb, it's making the laptop way bigger than it needs to be, and I'll never use it.

Apple may have gone too far in that direction (personally I think two USB-C ports and a headphone jack would have been the optimal place), but less ports *can* be better than more ports, depending on the circumstances.

Very early in the research, but man would this be a cool alternative to education. Take a nap, ready to start your PhD Thesis.

Yes, because 100 people can do that.

Well, to be fair, the US doesn't get involved in Tibet nearly as much as China does.

And they do have a Muslim terrorist problem, they just handle it differently. Google "Uyghur Muslim" for more information.

The obvious angle here is aggression towards one another, not aggression towards other species.

People love to hate on aggression. Aggression is not just the desire to hurt. It is also the desire to act - to explore, to create, to save, and the desire to fight back against evil. A world without aggression would make those idiots that talk about people being 'sheeple' correct.

Does aggression cause problems? Yes. So does complaisance. I for one am glad people have aggression, as opposed to being a bunch of complaisant, laid-back lemmings.

The problem is not excess aggression. It is insufficient self control. The inability to put off current desires in order to obtain greater rewards later on.

Anti-vaxxers on slashdot? Don't they revoke your geek card for that?

Man's biggest failure may be failing to stand up to aggression, but get RID of aggression? Not going to happen, and not a good thing if it did. Leaders are aggressive.

What makes you think it is so limited? Perhaps they have matter replicators on-board that only require power and they can refuel at any star.

The ship itself becomes a self-sustaining factory that runs forever, making anything you need, including spare parts for the ship.

The external power source is any nearby star for fuel. With enough fuel, there is no supply chain, just the ship.