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By the way, you do this a lot, minus the "oh wait durr" part.

We've got one that has the workspace of a mid-size SUV. It hardly gets used though.

Whatever is necessarily should be.

I have a real lightsaber

In my experience, it is cheaper to build than to buy pre-built, but only if you don't directly pay for your operating system. Putting two drives in RAID 0 essentially doubles your risk of logical drive failure. If you want the speed, I'd suggest getting an SSD.

I think Purge wins slowest, he posted somewhere on SSForum.

There you divide by (a-, which is 0 since a=b Samapico = too cool for math

At 211 meters, your blink reflex would probably save you. 1W over 0.785ft^2 isn't much power. Let's say a single eye is a 1in diameter circle (this is being generous). Its surface area is then 0.785in^2. Given that the dispersion is uniform, that area sees only about 7mW at 211m.

It's not a ray gun you know.

I have a 30 mW green laser for stargazing and I'm pretty scared of it. Don't know what you'd do with a 1 W laser.

And also what you mean by "high-pressure," as suction cups depend on low pressure.

Care to describe what you mean by "electronic"?

Aren't you still on Sri Lankan slowternet?

I like the ReviewDesk one. It's evocative of a muscle car with the engine sticking up out of the hood.

Are you sure you're not looking for artificial gecko feet? http://bdml.stanford.edu/twiki/pub/Rise/StickyBot/from_inside_sml.jpg http://bdml.stanford.edu/twiki/bin/view/Rise/StickyBot

It's been down for a few weeks now, I think. Testtube hasn't had any motivation to get either it or the Metal Gear CTF forums back up.

I'll cover HS until someone more qualified steps up. I don't spend much time in HS, let alone time playing, but I'll try to report news as I become aware of it.

Yaw-Pitch-Pitch-Roll-Pitch!

They've been positive income tax burdens each of the last three years. In 2007, 10.7% of my gross income (federal), 1.1% CA state. In 2008, 12.3% federal, 2.0% state. In 2009, about 7% federal and 1% state. Come to think of it, given how little I made, that really sucks.

You could have it right now. Walk away with your undergraduate degree and be free.

Badass! Come on to SS sometime and we can talk robonerd talk.

Out of curiosity and to bring some more numbers to this talk, I looked at how much those 47% of US households that don't pay taxes make. Median household income in the United States is about $50,000, and none of those 47% make over $47,000. Below that, it's somewhat evenly distributed. Take a look: http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/cpstables/032009/hhinc/new01_001.htm It does seem a bit of an unfair distribution to only have the top half paying taxes. I can see it from both sides though. As a college student, I was making small bucks, and was grateful to have small tax burdens. Now that I have a real job, I can whine about how friggin' much comes out of my paycheck. Not sure what the solution is here. Just remember, if 47% of households don't pay taxes currently, that means about 1 in 2 complainers will pay more taxes if they have their way!

Early congratulations to you Samapico! I know I felt quite good to be done with school. What's next?

I don't know. Telling an algorithm your birth year and having it tell you how old you are isn't so mind-blowing.

Wuuut. How much did you pay for them? I'm thinking about buying one. :X