The US requires it to declare war before any such action, so no, the aggressor may also call it an act of war.

More theoretical use than a mirror (which would a most deliver 1/4 the power to the shooter), but I doubt they are that efficient.

The US claimed the danger was that these people were suspected suicide bombers. A blind bomber in a car is still a bomber in a car. This tech is useless for this. Don't use a laser where a simple GATE will do.

This is not useful against protesters. The police use pepper spray on protestors to hurt and punish, not to protect themselves. A peaceful protestor siting with their arms linked can just close their eyes.

Reuters, not Retuers too...

I suspect what he is trying to say is that he stayed with what others would call a "starter home" and paid it off then invested elsewhere, while others instead kept "trading up" are so never owning more than 30-40% of their home, such that when property prices collapsed their equity was zero as their house value only covers the remaining debt on it.

Even if it was because of "hitting big" one time, the point remains to solidify those gains, not use them to leverage yourself to live yet further above your means.

Buy from who? A seller. Sell to who? A buyer.

Colour is not the only property of a surface, you diffuse doofus.

Exactly. Are we so poor at reading quotation marks and understanding words like "virtual" that the Daily Mail can upset us?

Why don't you go find out? Or do you like being a ranting redneck dimwit so much you'd rather stay ignorant?

No, the characters do. The actors are just delivering lines in front of a green screen half of the time.

Exactly. They are saying the gamers are virtually violating, just as they are virtually killing. The Red Cross is correct to suggest that developers should consider allowing virtual surrender, virtual trial for war crimes, or whatever. They are not suggesting any real crime is being committed, but as they have far more experience with the realities of war than developers and gamers, it's fair for them to suggest such things be considered.

When you look at the much publicised and repeated violations perpetrated in recent conflicts, it's clear that a little education could have benefits.

Let me guess: you think God Did It is a better explanation?.

Tip: if you can't imagine something, that's a failing of yours, not of the thing you can't imagine.

I just finished reading Thomas Paine's Age of Reason. Only in his time was there any excuse to use the God Did It argument - a time before the discovery of DNA, Evolution, or even galaxies. Today, only an atheist can appreciate the poignancy of Paine's religious beliefs.

Wheels are not inputs. The input is the roughness of the surface to be traveled over (and the lack of a naturally occurring road network is perhaps why animals don't use wheels).

Any evolved system will use all possible inputs to its fitness function, simply because there isn't any mechanism of focusing. Unlike human design, which is all about making known mechanisms work and all but those mechanism are ignored, and even actively avoided. When early researchers used solid-state electronics to make genetic algorithms, often the "solution" only worked on the specific hardware circuit it was learnt on (not supposedly identical copies), because it relied on otherwise-undefined race conditions in the silicon.

So don't be surprised if quantum effects are also used by your brain cells ... and by your anal sphincter.