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Comment Re:Nuclear powered ships (Re:All I can say is duh! (Score 2, Interesting) 83

Also according to sailing rules wind powered vessels always have the right of way, which might be important in straights like the English Channel or around southern Asia.

It's difficult to take nautical advice from a dude who can't spell "strait" correctly. The "rules of the road" are a bit more complicated than you describe. A ship under sail, for example, must give way to a vessel restricted in its ability to maneuver, or a vessel not under command (can't maneuver at all). A sailing vessel must also give way to a fishing vessel using nets or trawls.

So no, wind powered vessels do not always have right of way.

Comment Re:We won't have a society anymore.. (Score -1, Troll) 148

It would sure suck to be fucked off in some nutcase's mass shooting with no access to my phone to report out or tell my mother I love her one last time. It's not 1955. The society you mentioned has changed. There's got to be a better solution to this. Maybe we should lock up some of the guns in steel pouches?

Comment Re:Two questions (Score 1, Insightful) 81

You're missing a key ingredient there which is the desire to actually do investigative journalism in the first place. That's not the mission anymore. Personally, I think that's due to short attention spans which are captured by "soft news" largely delivered and consumed on socials, and the media being a tool of political agendas.

Comment Re:HSI didn't exist. (Score 2, Informative) 14

He was saying that he believed the paper caught the attention of HSI. Please try to keep up.

Enrolled in college, he decided to write a technical academic paper about his program. "I do believe it caught the attention of Homeland Security, but I think they realized pretty quickly that I was not a threat."

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