O2 vs. FB

[Mike Lobanovsky]

@Kuron

You living in Nevada?

@John

Fair enough.

[Kuron]

@Kuron
You living in Nevada?

No, not since a child.  I was born in Boulder City, Nevada while my father was stationed at Nellis Air Force Base.

[Mike Lobanovsky]

Aha! Area 51! I've hit the right track!

Then I'm curious, purely semantically, if there's any difference for the inhabitants of these parts in the States to call humans "illigal immigrants" or "illegal aliens"? There's no mockery meant nor am I fitting either of the titles to myself; just curious.

[Kuron]

Mike:  Which term is used is more due to the age of the person using the term.  Alien is still the proper legal term, as it goes back to the original Alien and Sedition Acts and was still used in the much later Alien Registration Act.  Personally, if somebody is here legally I use immigrant.  If somebody is here illegally, I use alien.

[Charles Pegge]

There are also resident aliens, and non-resident aliens, defined by your IRS for tax purposes.



Not to mention extraterrestrial resident aliens.

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[Kuron]

There are also resident aliens, and non-resident aliens, defined by your IRS for tax purposes.

Yeppers, we have aliens aplenty.

[Mike Lobanovsky]

@Kuron

The big blue ones?

Thank you very much for this brief heads-up. I like the way you treat the terms and I guess I should also follow it myself (pls see below). Moreover, it has such deep historical roots.

@Charles

I'm a life-long sci-fi fan and so are my sons. Up to this point all aliens, whether resident or non-resident, were exclusively extraterrestrial for me, especially since Area 51. Now I see the US tax system regards them quite differently so that their legality is more dependent on their clean taxation history than their ex(tra)terr(estr|itor)ial origin. From that standpoint, your peaceful picture is quite casual and the word order may be safely changed to 'resident extraterrestrial aliens'.

I gather that's one of the strongest points in your democracy model.