[...]Oh, and this will be powerful ammunition for those who would like to see the government given the power to censor the Internet.[...]
Oh, please! Don't be so naïve to think that they're not going to try censor it anyway.
[...]the organs taken were removed without any apparent forensic purpose in mind[...]
Dunno, sounds to me they weren't helping anybody with that...
In their defense, not knowing South American vernacular isn't "living in a bubble". It is another subcontinent, after all.
I agree, but as you said, it's a whole friggin' subcontinent; one should be wary when doing assertions at a global scale.
Or "Gringos". While in its origin the word "Gringo" was used as an insult[...]
It's still used as a pejorative term, though you're right, it's not only an insult anymore.
Or "North American"
True, forgot about that one. It's basically the same misnomer as "american" to refer to a citizen from USA.
[...] the fact that USAians are called americans and no one else[...]
Could you please get out of your bubble and travel down to South America? You'd see that NO ONE there call USAians "americans" since that term is used to refer to themselves (USAians are usually called "yankees" or "United Statians")
[...]Imagine if filesystems has 30+ year lifetimes
We'd be so fucked up...
[...]and we ended the war with as little bloodshed as possible.[...]
Fuck! If bombing Nagasaki and Hiroshima was "as little bloodshed as possible", I can't picture what would have been "a total carnage"...
After Goliath's defeat, giants ceased to command respect. - Freeman Dyson