Today, the prospect of either country launching a nuclear attack against the other seems almost ridiculous.

LeNajib ralphaoun AbirGhattas walasmar MoNajem It's funny hearing about things getting blocked on the internet as if its possible or sustainable

So the irony is that as these things became easier to use a less technical, broader audience was coming into contact with this equipment for the first time.

OK, so why is the problem accelerating? Part of the problem is, ironically, because the industry has put so much thought into making things easier to use.

This approach accounts for the failure of Dmitri Kozak s plan for resolving the situation in Moldova s breakaway Trans Dniester region, as well as for the ludicrous state of affairs that has arisen in Georgia s separatist Abkhazia region.

There was no lack of irony in the fact that the New York Times organized tours to Iran, while Iranian reporters, including the Washington Post s Jason Rezaian, remained behind bars in the country.

I vividly remember the slightly ludicrous, slightly risqué, and somewhat distressing predicament in which Western diplomats in Prague found themselves during the Cold War.

We are encountering, not without irony, a kind of grotesque reverse of the national pride seen when cultural and sporting stars are appropriated by the state and presented as part of the collective patrimony.

And if you got totally certain, ironically, even though we all need that like if you're not certain about your health, or your children, or money, you don't think about much.

It's knowing your punchline, your ending, knowing that everything you're saying, from the first sentence to the last, is leading to a singular goal, and ideally confirming some truth that deepens our understandings of who we are as human beings.

At TEDxChange, Thailand's Mr. Condom, Mechai Viravaidya, walks us through the country's bold plan to raise its standard of living, starting in the 1970s. First step population control. And that means a lot of frank, funny and very effective talk about condoms.

Yet it is ludicrous to think that Euroskeptics represent a silent majority that could rise up and destroy the EU. Popular support for the European project has barely faltered over the last 25 years, and has even begun to strengthen of late.

So the next one. Now, this is the kid, same crash, who is in the seatbelt. He hardly moves at all, actually, relative to the other child. The funny thing is, the cam work is terrible because they've only set it up to do the car seats, and so, they actually don't even have a way to move the camera so you can see the kid that's on the rebound.

Yet it is ludicrous to think that Euroskeptics represent a silent majority that could rise up and destroy the EU. Popular support for the European project has barely faltered over the last 25 years, and has even begun to strengthen of late.