It's an age thing.

It should create a new thread at the bottom on the list.

There's something dangerous to maintaining abstract thoughts for extended periods of time, IMO. I start to drift away and stop feeling connected to physical reality, like I'm in a waking dream. I'm strongly visual in my thinking and this may contribute. I've learned to keep an eye out for extreme behavior on my own part and pull away from my work when it starts to manifest. I recognize something of myself in his writing.

Err, sorry, I put science in quotes because the actual course was more like secretarial training on Microsoft Office.

When I was in high school, one of the kids in my computer "science" course found a file on one of the shared drives with all the students' personal information, including social security numbers, addresses and birth dates. All students had access to the file and it was stored on a drive that also contained resources intended for student use. He printed the file and passed the pages around the class, basically showing off and making a joke of it. He was arrested, charged and expelled.

Whoops, you are correct and yup, agreed.

Step 1, "be too big to fail."
Step 2, politicians are cheap, buy some
There is no Step 3

Where did the GP say the CEO should "sit around and answer the phone to every person who has a question about what was posted on the website?" Are you unable to understand moderation? Why take it to such an extreme?

I think it may be possible if one establishes a grid of stationary countermeasure-launching platforms, creating a mesh above the protected area. The density of the mesh would be a function of the countermeasure acceleration and final velocity figures, in relation to the same of the incoming missile. Further, deviations in the incoming missile's flight path, such as through 'piloting,' would necessitate a tightening of the mesh.

An advancement of this tech would be non-stationary. It could be the function of a more chaotic and transient motion, reactive, and where the minimum density per area is preserved. Moreover, it would be preferable if the mesh itself was the countermeasure, meaning, carrying a payload or of sufficient kinetic energy to destroy the threat. Individual components of the mesh could be governed in simple AI, similar to bird flight. This would allow somewhat decentralized control as figures such the mesh density to be a function of the number of deployed units and autocorrecting. The countermeasure units could be accelerated very slowly and cheaply as this would be done in advance, and would be able to exhibit initial velocities much greater than that of the incoming missile.

Of course, these countermeasures would also be capable of kinetic energy bombardment of the surface.

I absolutely agree, sjames!

Ohh thanks for the second link! I may have found a new favorite youtuber.

Now imagine a missile dropped by a missile

I really don't understand why you're so set on setting up and attacking this strawman.

I understand and I'm not trying to divert from the spirit of the thread, but I want to clarify that the Tuskegee study did not involve infecting African Americans with syphilis, but instead withholding diagnosis and treatment for those already infected. This is also a horrible thing, but I think we should be careful to not spread misinformation. Again, I'm not arguing against the spirit of your comment but rather this specific clarification.

I'm not willing to equate Republican with antivaxxer and antimasker entirely, as there are a (admittingly decreasing) number of folks that lean this way because of other ideological tenets.