Those are fairly disturbing for somebody named "Jeremiah."

As opposed to the last 100 years of utopia and global cooperation we have enjoyed.

Unless you're not allowed to, in which case, this device is the difference between living in Hell for six months and living in relative contentedness for six months.

I actually thought the same thing, but according to the article, these aren't full of manuals. They've got 300 popular books and literary classics. It's a lightweight, standardized, secure library for sailors who are bored and want to read. While this would be a terrible consumer device, I think it makes sense for the use case. If you're deployed on a ship for six months, having 300 books to choose from is a lot better than having zero books to choose from.

Or you could just read Crichton's Congo. Belligerent monkeys? Check. Belligerent monkeys are (spoiler) descended from human-trained belligerent monkeys? Check. Lasers? Check. Bad film adaptation with funny riffing by film critic? Check.

Judges, on average, make quite a bit less than private practice attorneys.

Electronics used in missile and launch-critical systems are required to be radiation hardened. That's part of why they are so expensive. These are not basic, off-the-shelf transistors. They are subjected to rigorous radiation tests to verify that they can survive certain attack scenarios. They also have to conform to a specific long-term reliability profile, since they sit doing nothing for decades at a time. Parts selection and qualification is an entire separate branch of engineering for nuclear weapons. (The system designers draw a circuit, and then the parts guys tell them what parts they can put in there.) They are also heavily shielded. EMP survivability is not a matter of serendipity for these systems.

Good luck with that. And please give St. Peter my regards.

We'll have to nuke them from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

Especially when you're golfing with lawyers, and it's on the firm's tab.

Yeah, I know I got lucky. But that's the point. I can't "get lucky" and win a javelin throw. You don't "get lucky" and throw an 85 mph fast ball. There's a reason that people can play golf at a professional level as septuagenarians. It's just not the most physically demanding of sports.

Except with fishing, at least you get to eat when you win.

I don't golf much, but in my experience, no. It just requires leverage and precision. When I was at a big law firm, I would sometimes play in "scramble" golf tournaments, where bad golfers (like me) teamed up with good golfers (3 or 4 to a team), and you took everybody's best shot. In one of these tournaments, I won the overall prize for best drive (this was against a number of lawyers who golf a lot). I do not have any special upper body strength, and certainly no skill. I just happened, that one time, to strike the ball just right so it flew straight, and flew a long way. And it was a one-off thing. Most of the rest of my drives didn't even go the right way. I doubt you will ever see a noob accidentally make a one-off farthest discus or javelin throw.

I don't know what you think you're responding to, but that I do not favor Democrats most certainly does not mean I'm a Republican. The GOP is only marginally more conservative than the DNC, and only on some issues. They are all the party of big government and statism, and both parties are rotting from within from graft and corruption. But the trope about Texas being a haven of racist, ignorant rednecks is most certainly a Democrat thing that the OP obviously bought. (It's amusing to watch, considering how intensely racists so many Democrats are.) It's bad enough to have to deal with Rick Perry-style crony Republicanism here in Texas. A bunchy of left-wing Democrats who want even bigger government would only make things worse, so the OP is free to stay wherever he is. He won't be missed.

That's fine with us. We'd just as soon you not come.

I like how you gobble up tropes fed to you by your Democratic overlords, and then accuse others of bigotry. It's cute.