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Sure, that's what's great about democracy, we can vote for what the majority wants. I was responding to what cbanek wrote, as it seemed to me that cbanek did not correctly understa…

A lot of pro life people feel that actively killing sometime (they consider a fetus alive) is very bad and should be stopped. Where as keeping another person alive (not passively k…

the benefit of languages with cases is that you can switch the order of the sentence without changing the meaning. In those languages I can say "the dog bit the person" and "the (a…

Does anyone have thoughts on XMPP? If I understand correctly it is a group / private chat protocol similar to email in that there is a protocol that can allow you to communicate to…

seeing as most Semitic languages are written without vowels, I would assume that almost all of them have heteronyms

One thing that Google really should do is allow a feature to temporarily give permissions or fake giving permissions. For example, I want to send my location on Whatsapp then I wou…

I can't find that much online in English, but here is a picture of one page of a list of words used during sermons. https://i.stack.imgur.com/itgeU.jpg

This reminds me of a Rabbi who I forgot his name. There are Jewish communities that like to speak in Yiddish and others where the members do not know Yiddish. There was a Rabbi who…

Just renouncing US citizenship costs several thousand dollars in legal fees and could take up to 5 years. What you are suggesting is similar to telling someone who is complaining a…

I am a citizen of a foreign country, I have a job in that country, I store my money in that country, I buy practically all of my products in that country. Why should the fact that …

you're confusing 2 things. before passover, Jews make a declaration claiming that all crumbs and other hametz not found should be like dust. if however someone had something valuab…

I have to disagree. Apart from maybe post WW2 in America, the average person has always had to work much harder than the elite. There were sweatshops, Kings, slavery, and coloniali…

I think that's because other cultures don't mind telling others that they are busy /s

I'm not from the US but don't IDs require proof of citizenship? I mean, if an illegal immigrant were to try to get a driver license wouldn't they have to prove that they were legal…

Is that a rhetorical question? The reason given for requiring voter IDs (while possibly not the primary one) is to prevent voter fraud. Are you asking if there has every been a cas…

Before 1940 there are many documents, records, and letters from Jews in Europe. After that there were much less. No country received a huge influx of Jews. Where did they all go?

It seams like they are trying so hard to blame Trump > he and others suspect the cause is President Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric during the campaign and his election, But…

I don't know how many people fall in to the category, but some of the millions of American citizens living abroad may. While it is rare to be prosecuted, legally the fines can quic…

> Bruce Bueno de Mesquita [...] has made some impressively accurate political forecasts In stories like these I always like to know how many incorrect predictions they made as well…

As an expat let me tell you how screwed I am. 1) Some banks to want to deal with the liabilities of American clients (even dual citizens). There have been many cases were they simp…

Every country is different. You will have to specify what country you are a citizen to, and where you plan on going. I know that being an American citizen can make it very difficul…

I don't have any stats to back this up, but could it be that immigrants are more law abiding because they have to pass the long and difficult process that verifies them? If the sys…

You probably aren't the only one, but I can try to explain the other side. When you live and work in (let's say) America, you are paying taxes and following the law. If suddenly, a…

> I wonder why Twitter is so popular. I don't have an account but it is very useful if I want to see is a program updated to a new version, how a politician feels about a recent ev…