but what use is that when you have a gun that you can only fire a few times before you have to change the barrel? Simple! It makes the defence contractor wealthy as the USN keepson having to order new barrels.

This reminds me of the M1 Abrams tank, it is exceptional combat vehicle and it is almost indestructible (almost) the problem is it drinks fuel like crazy and as a result requires massive logistical tankers to keep it running.

Except if a laser is so powerful... how exactly do you aim it without it burning out the prisms/mirrors that are utilised to aim it?

In that sure you remove gun powder... but you still need to get the energy from somewhere to power those lasers/railguns. Unless your ship has a nuclear reactor on board won't this generally mean having to carry a whole load of additional fuel? Granted some fuels have higher energy densities. But doesn't this just transfer risk away from ship magazines to the fuel tanks instead?

Or they do what they do annoyingly in Japan/Mongolia (some places in China)and some places in Hong Kong and Taiwan. That is they put the ATM machines inside a small lobby of a bank and when the bank closes the shutters come down on the ATM lobby as well.

Because if they can fly and move in all directions they can become dangerous. For example an artillery shell/mortar has to travel in a ballistic path so if you park your tent behind a cliff face unless it is very high arc artillery you can't be hit. A mini drone can fly around the hill in a manner an artillery shell or mortar cant and into your tent with soft squishy humans in it then explode.

Back in 6th form college (16-18 UK education) the only place with fast internet was the college. As such we would turn up with huge sports bags filled with floppies to download big files and the files were often split into how many ever floppies was needed. There were some funny ones where 1gb files were split into hundreds of floppies. Invariably when you joined the file back together one of the floppies would be corrupt. Anyway I'd say that it is MUCH harder to smuggle large amounts of data out using floppies than SD cards and therefore it is probably strange but semi effective security system.

I doubt it. As the UK hasn't had real famine in centuries. Places where we've imported people say China have had famines for centuries (there is a book called China land of famine which states that China has averaged a famine every other year of varying severity and different areas).

I don't think it is a good idea. But the government (who I did not vote for) put in sanctions against Russia which caused this. I know the UK has a limited supply of food. The widespread use of rolling warehouses (lorries) and just in time stock means the UK has about 7 days food. Back when Felixstowe was closed for 4 days supermarket shelves were starting to go bare and all there were left were sweets and stuff like Liquorice allsorts the big black twisty ones everybody hates. Personally I'm not fussed as I keep myself fit and healthy and therefore will hunt the local human population.

Well in the UK the sanctions against Russia have merely caused vegetable prices to go through the floor. I rarely go to super markets but I went yesterday and they were piled high at 5p a packet. Normally they are about 70p.

Er Sony is a Japanese corporation with overseas subsidiaries.

Oh sure its a dumb reason... which they will correct by saying to solve this problem we need to run this radar all the time!

Pfft thats what no knock warrants are for. More pork barrelling?

Not sure if it is relevant but in the UK there are several things: Property taxes (council tax) you get a 25% discount if there is only one person there. Various forms of welfare. You get more if you live alone and do not declare you are living with somebody (same for some pensions). Homes of multiple occupancy. There have been various slum lords turning small houses into 8+ flats/apartments without licences and safety regulations. As such places in London stuff 30 people into a house designed for 3 at most. Prostitution also. In the UK sex work is completely legal (not in NI though) subject to various restrictions. Street solicitation and one sex worker per residence. Therefore if you have one sex worker working in a house it is completely fine. Add in (or a non prostitute friend who visits I'm serious) a maid or muscle/pimp/security and it suddenly becomes a brothel even though there is only one sex worker there. As such many skirt the law by building self contained apartments inside a single house. So you get 31a 31b 31c 31d which is deemed to be separate residences. Local government gets to charge 4 lots of property taxes etc.

Can't be kept. Many of the companies that made parts for the A-10 no longer exist. Which means you either have to cannibalise old airframes or you have to machine a part from scratch.