Don't click on anything
except the close button
Oh wait, that might even be a trap

M$ issues specifications for webcams on laptops to have a built in flash.

Nope, its not April 1st

I wonder where he's getting them from - Maybe Bibi had some of those Hezbollah specials left over...

Typically that would be if they bought their own Regiment or Battalion in along with them. Of course back then (250 years ago) those would be the men (labourers and peasants) from their estates.

"pulling a random person off the street - a generalised average person. There's a good chance that they don't even know the basic rules of chess or how to make legal moves."

It depends where you are. In Russia everyone is taught chess.
(Of course there are no average persons in the street, they are all in Ukraine.)

Terabyte MicroSD cards would be easier to hide...

Did you know you can buy inflation-adjusted treasuries?
treasurydirect.gov

Maybe you mean Arleigh Burke . Its a class of destroyer, not a cruiser. (Although they carry anti-air, anti-ship and anti-sub weapons and a helo, so they can be used in place of cruisers especially in a carrier strike group where the CVN has the role of flagship)

"imagine the problems if the equipment is actually in a theater or war."

I don't know where the Ford is stationed right now, but at least a couple of the Navy's CVN's are in areas where they could get into combat (Eastern Med, Red Sea)
(There is a war on you know)

I watch stuff thats ON-NOW and when ads come on I switch to another channel.
I also subscribe to add-on channels like BritBox and Acorn and they dont show in-show ads there.

There are 3 sorts of Poles:

Rotational (the axis that the sun spins around)
Magnetic (the poles of the magnetic field. (The earth has its magnetic field not aligned with the geographic poles) -Dunno about the sun.

And the other sort of Poles live in the country between Germany and Ukraine

That the Full moon doesn't cover any more of the sky than the new moon , its just that more of it is lit up.

What if the nearest inhabited system is Vega?

Is Slashdot still going?

I thought that the big advantage we had in the Cuba missile crisis was the SSBNs, not the SSNs