NOTE: use Perl; is on undef hiatus. You can read content, but you can't post it. More info will be forthcoming forthcomingly.
All the Perl that's Practical to Extract and Report
In the near future, the probability is close to zero. In the distant
future, I'll be dead, and posterity can do whatever they like... :-) --lwall
Stories, comments, journals, and other submissions on use Perl; are Copyright 1998-2006, their respective owners.
What would they do with a communicator? (Score:1)
criminal society in some episode. As for their dunderheaded black ops, it's like anything else. People do things in the most complicated way. Want to know how the US military wanted to smuggle technology into the middle east in the 1980s? There were lots of parachutes and SCUBA tanks involved. How did the operators actually do it? Commercial flight, diplomatic pouch, and rental car. Just let the Enterprise zap the gizmo from orbit, then jet off to the next liberty port. duh!
As for extended sea tours---I know a few people who were on aircraft carriers for two tours (six months) back to back, but the US was in the middle of Desert Shield. It does happen. Sure glad I'm not a sailor.
Reply to This