Agreed. Your ability to agree with an unpopular contrary view in light of a reasoned and rational argument is a rare thing. Props to you sir.

It looks like whatever is on the other side of it.

But why turn off the source brain or wait for death?

"The more significant achievement seems to be, at least to me, creating a syringe with an inner diameter of 95 meters."

I'm actually more impressed by the creature of a rat who requires a 95 meter i.d. needle for a brain injection. You be afraid of dinosaurs being brought back. I'll just be back here hoarding cheese to appease our new overlord.

Less confusing would have been for the standards body to make the abbreviation "um" in the first place and skip non text characters on official units of measure.

Some of us lost the password on our 5 digit uid account and can't get it back anymore.

It's people who argued against being worried that are the reason we went in to Iraq and failed to block the patriot act.

Agreed. That is no different in my mind than someone saying "if Putin really wanted to succeed he'd..." people should be able to speak in favor of anyone and any activity they want especially if it's counter to government interests and/or agendas. Even if we are at war with the commies you are entitled to think we are on the wrong side of the dispute and advocate the other side convince enough people and the dispute may end with a meeting of minds and reduce overall bloodshed.

I don't know that I'd call giving someone a plane ticket far over the line either. Let's take the terrorist buzzword out of there. Then you just have someone facilitating travel to territory controlled by someone who isn't currently friendly with our government. If you want to buy your brother a ticket to Cuba because he really believes in communism I don't buy that you should go to prison for it. If he chooses to enter the military and is part of the Cuban missile crisis round two... well that is on HIM. And really, that is giving the whole thing too much credit. Cuba is a nation, capable of threatening hundreds of thousands if not millions of Americans whereas ISIS is merely a relatively new criminal organization that has yet to do as much damage to our nation as the disorganized Somali pirates.

Now, if you knew of actual criminal plans and provided the plane ticket to help them execute them that'd be different. That would be no different than being the driver of the get away vehicle in a bank robbery and if ISIS were not merely a criminal organization but an actual government we could be at war with like Cuba then I suppose the equivalent would be driving a boat to help them paint a target in miami or providing a plane ticket for the same that would be high treason.

Apologies for the mangling.

*the negative connotation wasn't in the word. Any of those using the terms as a slur actually found being black negative

And long after. It was a generic term for a "black person" with the same neutral connotation that "black person" carries today. Later it shifted to "colored" or "spade." Changing the label changes nothing, the negative connotation wasn't the word. Any of those terms used as a slur found actually being black negative and whatever the word was for that would be a slur passing their lips while not being such when spoken by someone who felt otherwise.

For the sexist male, "woman" can be a slur. Saying woman is offensive because of that and saying you must now say "female" would only make "female" a slur to those people.

Because many Christian cults believe in a literal interpretation of the bible and evolution is contradictory to that. Then again the two genesis stories are contradictory as well. *shrug*

I'm 33 and a very outdated concept of evolution was taught, emphasized as just being a theory, followed by watching the ten commandments. We were told that while the class does not teach the bible as factual it remains one of the most useful and accurate historical references to date.

"My contention is that black people using the word does embody "hate" but it is the worst kind, self hated."

I think it embodies hatred of those who aren't black. People alive today were neither the abused nor the abusers and the beef is not legitimate. I'd put them on equal footing with a range of attitudes ranging from the deep south in the 70's to the KKK.

It's also what they said before tending your wounds, telling you to get some shade, or providing a cool drink.

Today we always depict the word being used with a sneer and negative tone accompanied by a whip. That doesn't make it the reality of the time. For realistic picture imagine more the general indifference with which one says "waiter" which the periodic shift to positive or negative tone in positive or negative context.

That's great for a website but when you are actually trying to get your application to the lowest common denominator by making it browser based you are going to hit some walls pretty quick without javascript.

"I understand what you are saying, but the public are not the rightful owners, either. After the patent or copyright expires"

If we are splitting hairs nobody is the rightful owner before the patent or copyright expires either. Neither of those things confer ownership.