I... I just learned something new!

I can't wait to tell my friends and family. "Hey guys, I just learned a new term for 'masturbational'!"

Clearly we need to be feeding the youth of America more Corn Flakes, since they have been scientifically proven to subdue the carnal desires of young men and reduce their masturbational tendencies!

They know when you left the US based on Customs records, they send you a form and want to know what you made.

Perl 6 isn't dead, per se. A quick google search shows that there are a few implementations running around, although none are even close to production-ready yet. Here's the Perl 6 portal, in case you were wondering.

I did run and download one of the more complete implementations, and part of the problem I think is that perl 6 is not ANYTHING like perl 5. The reason I use perl at all, and the only reason I still use perl 5 TO THIS DAY is the regex capabilities. They completely ripped that out of perl 6 and re-implemented it to make it more user-friendly, and they did so poorly, IMHO. Instead of calling htis perl 6, they should have named it something completely different. Call it "perl" does a disservice to what made perl so powerful in the first place.

Yes, never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of disks hurtling down the highway. The latency, on the other hand, leaves much to be desired, and I've heard the packet loss can be downright fatal.

Not really, battery technology isn't getting that good, there are still huge infrastructure problems.

If anything diesel (which can be made from Natural Gas, coal dust, FT process, oil, etc) is the long term winner.

No, the agreement was for two sites, then the 1974 Protocol reduced the number of sites to one per party, largely because neither country had developed a second site.

The Moscow system was a site, the North Dakota system was a site to defend the North and South Dakota missile fields from the polar re-entry window. Had the US continued to develop Safeguard there would have been a site in Maryland/Pennsylvania to defend the DC metro area.

The Moscow ABM defense system is based on:
ABM-3 Gazelle
ABM-4 Gorgon
Apart from the main Moscow deployment, Russia has striven actively for intrinsic ABM capabilities of its late model SAM systems and has deployed them around Moscow and St Petersburg
S-300P (SA-10)
S-300V (SA-12)
S-300PMU-1/2 (SA-20)
S-400 (SA-21 future)
S-500 (future)

The Americans claimed there was development of another site at Sary Shagan, but it remained just a radar and testing facility for the Soviets.

Ocean reconnaissance drones, patrol planes and cargo facilities have radiation detectors.

A ship going 20 knots will have many chances to be detected.

Also, as different nuclear reactors have different radionuclide signatures, if they bust your cargo crate nuke, they'll figure out really fast where your materials came from. Then they'll find you.

You are confusing "dead" with "the visible system for public and international consumption ran it's course, our black projects are more readily militarized so we'll just put this 747 out here in the desert and no one is the wiser."

Except the Soviets kept their ABM site around Moscow and have upgraded it since 1969.

The US version, Safeguard was only on line for about four months.