You do realize the 14th Amendment was added to the Constitution AFTER the Civil War, in 1868, right? And that ratifying it was one of the conditions imposed on the Southern states during reconstruction. So there was nothing in the Constitution that prohibited what they did. Also, but 1898 Congress generally removed disabilities incurred due to the 14th Amendment by those involved in the Confederacy. Lee's citizenship was also restored retroactively to June 13 1865, but that didn't happen until 1975. Davis got his restored in 1978. So no, they are not traitors.

What about those thousands of Irish and German immigrants the North essentially impressed right of the boats into the Union army? And those men like Robert E. Lee weren't traitors, they loved and fought for their homes just as much as the men from the North did. The only difference between them is that most in the South say themselves not just as Americans, but ultimately as Virginians, Georgians, Mississippians, etc. A traitor is someone who betrays their home. These men didn't betray their home; they just had a different idea of what their home was. If anyone was a traitor is was Booth, since when he killed Lincoln he not only assassinated the President, he killed the best friend the South had in the North after the war.

You expect it and plan for it so that you can minimize it. Battles themselves if not whole wars, are fought over resources (whether they be towns/land/populations, gold/oil/lumber/diamonds, or even simply political capital in the case of wars-"our economy sucks and people are mad at our political party, let's invade someone!"-like the Faulklands War) and there are usually civilians found in these areas. It is not immoral to expect and plan for civilian deaths. Immorality occurs when you do nothing to mitigate those potential deaths, or even worse intentionally seek them out. Detonating a bomb in a crowded marketplace is immoral. Using precision ammunition to target a bunker underneath an apartment building or mortars/rockets in a school instead of carpet bombing them so you don't destroy surrounding buildings is not. Often, those who hide behind civilians benefit more from the deaths of those civilians than they would protecting them and will even go out of their way to ensure greater civilian casualties.

Well they tried a Candle of the Month Club but it came to an abrupt end after only 1 month. Not really sure who thought a Mustard Gas candle was a good idea.

So they can "sell" the usage of these data centers to other divisions of Apple, thereby funneling profits to Ireland resulting in reduced taxes.

Make a collar that rests on your shoulders instead of attaching to the head. Would work just as well and your shoulders are better equipped to handle bearing extra weight for an extended period of time than your neck is. Add a mechanism so that it rotates with your head and you are good.

Civilians, even DoD civilians, are held to different standards than enlisted men and officers. Soldiers are held to the UMCJ and can be controlled much tighter. Just compare the treatment of Manning and Snowden. Plus you have to pay a civilian or contractor a lot more than you can a PFC or specialist. And if you relax physical requirements for these guys, weel then what about your mechanics or clerks or cooks? Morale issues can easily rise up from that.

Think I just found the name for my new hit internet start-up

Bird shot falling from 100 ft would feel like heavy rain or maybe light hail at most. And I do live in a more spread out suburban area.

I guess I could always build my own drone with a Public Defender attached.

Why even bother with this? My shotgun provides for a much more effective no-fly zone over my house than this website ever could.

Just light some signal fires

Ships can launch surface to surface missiles and torpedoes as well. Ships are still perfectly capable of killing other ships. They just don't line up and broadside each other with 15 inchers anymore.

I like to think it meant they were going to climb out of their trenches and charge across no-man's land to attack the Germans(Google?). I can picture a bunch of people wearing Apple Genius uniforms charging across a muddy, crater filled field waving iPads to confront a bunch of Glass-wearing Google developers. And then suddenly a few Google self-driving cars slowly lumber onto the field sending the Apples back in a panic while flights of Amazon delivery drones buzz overhead dropping 1-2lb hand grenades.

SCAD has a building fairly close to the bridge. I honestly assumed it was a project from there when I heard it was a camera.