even if the populous voted
The populous what?
It's "the intentional creation of the apprehension of imminent harmful or offensive contact"
Your interpretation of that seems overly broad. All actions are intentional, and some of them create the apprehension of imminent harmful or offensive contact, but does that imply that all intentional actions (which are all of them) creating the apprehension of imminent harmful or offensive contact intend to create the apprehension of imminent harmful or offensive contact? If I ask someone at night what's the time, 1) it's intentional, and 2) that person might mistakenly get the apprehension of imminent harmful or offensive contact, but 3) is it my intention to create the apprehension of imminent harmful or offensive contact? It's not the same thing as throwing a stone at someone and missing, where a misunderstanding is much less likely.
I suspect he's been trying out some new laws on my wife.
In your place, I'd become suspicious somewhere around the 69th law.
Why? Microsoft has a long history of hiring many top researchers, and then doing very little with the results.
Well, as long as they publish papers, who cares if they're doing very little with the results? Someone else is going to do it for them.
As people age their politics tends to become more conservative.
Yes, conservative, but in relationship to what? If you're conservative relative to average late 21st century values, you'll be awfully progressive in the early 21st century. What do you think, does this shift to conservatism include actual regressing in values, or is it simply staying in place?
The sun is setting in the British Empire's back yard.
But will anyone notice through the clouds?
"What man has done, man can aspire to do." -- Jerry Pournelle, about space flight
