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Comment Re:First time? (Score 1) 239

Both the US and Germany developed homing torpedos in WWII. You launched them and they followed whatever noise source they liked best. They also developed IR homing missiles, although those didn't work very well until the 50s.

Sperry's "Flying Bomb", the first autonomous drone, flew in 1917. You set the direction and distance and sent it on its way. Cruise missiles developed from there, up to the sophisticated target recognition ones today.

Even earlier people used balloons, and there's the story about Genghis Khan and his fire birds (and cats) that may or may not have happened.

Fire ships have been used since antiquity.

Comment Re:Why Are We (the UK) Helping Ukraine? (Score 1) 239

Imagine if , say, mexico invaded the united states (Hear me out, its a hypothetical).

It's not hypothetical:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Okay, maybe "invasion" is a bit grandiose. That just makes the point stronger. The US did a whole lot more than "retaliatory strikes." In fact, the US has had a policy of over the top retaliation from the beginning. One of the first things the US Navy did after being formed was sending out punitive expeditions. If a US trader or sailor were killed in some Pacific island village the navy would show up and completely destroy that (or some other) village.

Comment Re: Maybe it's something to do with self-defense? (Score 1) 147

Is that correct?

I'm trained as a righty (born ambi) so my fighting stance is left side out, left arm blocking, right arm striking, initially.

That results in hips and stance angled to my right.

I'm cross-eye dominant so I always second-guess, but I don't remember the other students in martial arts class being different.

Comment True Threats (Score 1) 79

True Threats have a legal standard and specificity of person, place, and time are elements.

Criminal Threatening usually has a state statute.

The summary sounds much more like "muh feels" and conclusory pleading so it's probably not true to the legal standard.

How many arrests were made?

Also getting arrested for a social media post is a special kind of stupid on all sides
  Posts are almost always powerless and can just get you in trouble. Don't do it to blow off steam. Or for clout.

Not worth it, get out there and take action if you mean it. Don't blab about illegal fantasies.

Comment Hell Hath No Fury (Score 4, Insightful) 34

like a bounty-seeker scorned.

Shoulda just paid 'em.

He sounds quite knowledgeable and it looks like he'll continue whipping Defender until morale improves.

It's worth noting that the black market would pay handsomely for most of his discoveries but retribution is sweeter than cash.

I get the sentiment.

Comment Re:So what? (Score 1) 121

Oh? There are a lot of laws. Are you sure? You don't even get to know about all of them. There are secret executive orders, things like the Invention Secrecy Act, Defense Production Act, and good old intimidation. Or do you think the telecoms engaged in all that illegal spying because they really loved detective novels?

Comment Re:\o/ (Score 1) 121

the Pentagon said the Chinese military sought to acquire advanced technologies and expertise developed by Chinese companies, universities and research programs that "appear to be civilian entities."

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Every military does this. They'd be stupid not to. The US military has been doing it since the US became a thing, which is admittedly a lot less time than the Chinese have been. The US government can even make inventions disappear:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

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