Almost no one pushing for curbs on greenhouse gases mentions that this exhaust is usually coupled with other stuff, like soot, and smoke and whatever toxic chemicals are associated with burning whatever is making the greenhouse gases, and that we all have to breathe air, and that soot, smoke and crap are killing people. Push harder for clean air.

You shoot, you jump in a hole. You'll almost certainly survive the immediate blast and radiation effects. Now you're long term survival may have been harmed. But in an alternate timeline where WWIII begins with tactical nukes back in the fifties/sixties and you find yourself on the front lines shooting Davy Crockett at the Russian steamroller. Tomorrow is about as long term as you've got to think about.

Who knows? These sort of experiments are tremendously costly in terms of cash, lives, and the political aftermath. But the current state of thinking, among those who do that sort of thing for a living. Is that this is not the case. Nor has it been the case for the most part since the aircraft carrier became the staple of US military power projection. Getting missile platforms within range of a carrier battle group, and then getting those missiles (Generally these things are the size a small airplane ) a target lock on the carrier, then those missiles flying to the target (Through a hail of missiles and at the end point-defense gunfire) and getting a hit. Don't forget quite powerful and active ECM, Chaff etc.

So it certainly doesn't seem to be an open and shut case. Now at the start of the war, the "bad guys" may get to start off close the carrier, and maybe they've got visual spotters, or electronic eyes on the target, think about those Soviet trawlers that used to sail around looking at the US navy during the cold war. Maybe that opening day a shot gets lucky. But probably not.

overdesigned, you seem to have misspelled "well made" there. Machine tools are not consumer goods. Machine tools are not electronic toys. Machine tools are what we used to call "durable goods" because they were built to last.

So you're saying that the stupid txt broadcast company with the fadish technology and the fail whale... Wait, how is this even news?

Wait, you don't think oil companies could be profitable without government tax breaks?

Then you can save money and say you're using it for dieting. I love to say gambling is a tax on stupidity, but really while spending additional dollars does seem rather well... stupid. Buying a single lottery ticket seems a rather harmless loss of front pocket money once a week, and even if it's a tiny chance of a life changing gigantic windfall?

Better yet. When that corporation is found breaking the law. All of them. All one person of them, including all the myriad, innocents who just happen to own ten shares of its stock get to go to prison together. Wait, that's ridiculous? Oh, so now a corporation isn't a person?

You need. 1: Good material for an axle. 2: Somewhere to go. 3 Something to pull the cart usually.

The thing is AC, that this has always been true. And will continue to be true for some time into the future. The law of Moore, familiar with that? Sounds wasteful, the gut feel of it is wrong, but it is still true.

About the spinning and not being dizzy. A therapist told my stepson this is a sign of severe congestion in the inner ear, and that working to reduce that might help with his overall balance and some other things. I have no idea if that's true, but you might look into that.

Sort of anyway? Seems to that the networks of hackers and bad guy developers has always been sharing notes and code, and that this technique has long been used as an "intelligence amplifier" allowing a loose collection of bad guys who couldn't or at least didn't get real jobs to create some powerful malware tools. Which are often then used by someone else with slightly less coding sense and much more ambition to make some money, and to spread the idea of making money this way to others. The whole industry is a lot like multi-level marketing that way.

How often in the real world do you find yourself thinking. "Gee he's never really done this before in an applied, practical setting. That makes his skills fresher!" In my case that would be a big never.