I parse that as:

The US has a navy and an army. The President is Commander in Chief of these. The individual states also have militias. Sometimes these will be called to serve alongside the army and navy. When this happens, the President is also Commander in Chief of these militias.

I've got no idea what the legal situation would be if the militias were called to serve the United States and refused, but I think it'd be a moot point. To me, it reads like that clause is more to clarify that when the militias are fighting alongside the army they are under the same commander rather than being about when there is civil war.

US based amateurs?

Personally I'm happy with my OFCOM rules though.

MD1CLV

The whole proposal covers all the amateur bands - but I think (the FCC are not my radio authority) that the mode issue is something which only affects the HF bands.

I agree that it's a great thing though - I was amazed just the other day when I suggested sending data during silent portions of a voice conversation and was told that this would be against US rules.

This will affect the amateur HF bands, not the agency bands. At the moment, US rules have separate sub-bands for voice, data and image transmissions. This does not really fit with how modern digital schemes transmit - there could be a lot of metadata carried with digital voice signals, for example. What this proposal does is do away with the rules which say where you can transmit voice and replace it with rules which say you can transmit any signal which takes less than X khz bandwidth in this segment.

The guidelines are that people should be a bit more liberal in what they accept - not the scariest thing that the UK government has ever proposed.

I'm not sure I'd class Mars as either easy to get to or agreeable.

It's quite a long way away, and a minority of people would like the climate there.

I wouldn't be surprised if this was seen as "contempt of court" which is a pretty serious crime.

Not necessarily. Good code can show what is being done, but it can't show different approaches which were rejected. Comments can explain why certain shortcuts are valid or not valid in a way which won't be obvious from the code.

I apologise for making you sad. Here is a smiley face to hopefully cheer you up: :-)

The problem is that the family computer is generally something you don't want the kids to mess up, which means they are limited in the things they can try. (I still remember getting told off by my dad for writing a program which poked random values to random addresses when I was a lad.)
You can mess up the Pi software COMPLETELY and restore it by re-copying it to the SD card.
You can solder stuff to the Pi and learn how computers interact with the rest of the world - I can imagine parents getting slightly upset if a child did that to their shiny iMac.

It's not completely open - but that was never the idea of it. The idea is to get something into the hands of kids to help them learn programming.

Bare metal programming is possible though, and the system is fairly open.

It's more complicated than that. Red pills work better than blue pills for treating some symptoms, blue better than red for treating others.

You don't think that the media is bought up by the mega rich? Seriously? It is and it has been for hundreds of years.

I assume (from the CCIE) that you've spent some time in industry before going back to school.
I'm planning to go for an MSc and then hopefully a PhD starting from next year after more than a decade as a network engineer - I'd love to hear more about your experience of the PhD
Good luck with the defence!

How would an MBA help with the submitter's goal of moving towards skunkworks development?
I'm not being sarcastic here - on the face of it I can't see an MBA making him/her more desirable for those type of jobs, where as even if a PhD didn't help directly it would help with networking with the people involved in that kind of development.

I'm in a similar position to the submitter - I'm planning on doing some postgraduate study after 12 years in industry.
I know that US degree programs are slightly different to the ones here in the UK (taught PhDs are very rare, if they exist at all here,) but the advice I've been getting is that doing a master's first is the best way to go as it will teach the research skills required to do the doctorate.
It will also help with the "letter of recommendation" problem.