Sure, if he's saying he is powerless against higher powers. But if he's trying to make a quantitative assertion, a qualitative analogy is not the right tool.
>The purpose of an analogy is to simplify something that's too hard to understand for the person you try to convey your idea to
An analogy applies a principle to a common setting without loss of specificity. Specifically the dedicated adversary is lost in this abstraction, so it's a bad analogy.
Not only do you likely need to populate your host with packages not from your host. But also, your host will also still be connect to a public net, even if only indirectly (e.g. private net), and hence potentially manipulated.
No, you misunderstood what is actually the problem here. Pulling under
deployment some code from random resource from the internets that can go down
or get deleted at a whim and you can't easily move to just some other mirror
and you don't even control when the thing will be up back, that's the problem.
Not the trust you need to put to use the code (this is still there,
obviously). And the very same comment applies to third-party package
repositories, like PPAs in Ubuntu.
Not to mention that with pre-built binary packages your deployment speed and
repeatability get significantly better, as you don't need to rebuild the
artifacts every single time.
> If a business card can delight people who receive it, then it has a point.
The first rule of the advertising club is AIDA: Attention, Interest, Desire, Action. A business card should draw attention, if only to distract from the terribly clichéd action of handing over a business card :)
Not without sinking. The ballast and trim tanks won't suffice to give that much up-angle; you'd need to flood some after compartments to make it happen, and that is a very bad idea, especially since you would not also be able to maintain neutral buoyancy.
Besides, why would you want to? Your missile tubes are configured for vertical launch anyway, and it's not as though you can just pop a missile out, haul it through the corridors to the forward torpedo room, stuff it in a tube there, and fire it. Every one of those things isn't a thing you can do.
