But that same code caused you to spontaneously explode in Gradius III. Never forget...

I'm surprised NY is one of the ONLY states forcing Amazon to collect sales tax. It's still required to pay state sales tax on internet purchases in any state I've heard of, but the stores only charge you during checkout if they have a location in the state being shipped to. And somehow, I doubt that the majority of people remember to claim their purchases and cough up the taxes at tax time. So it's a huge revenue loss for the states, and it's surprising it's taken this long for them to start demanding a fix.

It is perhaps worth mentioning that this game recieved one of the first negative reviews ever from the 'Play This Thing' blog, which described it as, more or less, a heavy handed propaganda pamphlet in a badly made 3D world.

But game, it is not. Except in the vaguest, most all-embracing senses of the word, anyways.

This reminds me a bit of Ramune, a Japanese super-sweet carbonated beverage where you have to push a little marble through the top to open it.

It's also worth noting that vitamins (and ANY chemical) do degrade in solid form... the only advantage of solid over liquid is that theoretically, other materials that will react with the compound of interest won't be able to get at it so easily. But standard, half-life style decomposition happens regardless of solvation or not.

Unfortunately your 'under the faucet' recharge isn't particularly likely to happen... water is the product of the reaction that releases energy in a fuel cell, while hydrogen and oxygen are the reactants. It WOULD be awfully nice though.

If you calculate the wavelength of light being transmit by the router/dish, and it's smaller than the size of the holes in the screen mesh, I'd think interference would be minimal (although I suppose that, like a single-slit experiment, you might be diffracting the light in all sorts of directions).

That being said, and easy experiment would be to remove the screen and check signal strength.

You could also try other pans (pie, deeper cake, maybe a bundt) and alternate router heights to make a more optimal microwave dish/feedhorn combo.

Those aren't just popular nintendo characters. In fact, some (like Ness, or the Ice Climbers) were never all that popular until well after their origin games were released. They are, however, the cast of Super Smash Brothers: Melee. Shame he didn't go for the additional folks in Brawl.

Hmm. Having read the list, I'm really not sure what it's a list of, except possibly 'things you should pat yourself on the back if you know how to do'. Or maybe 'critically important things that you probably have to pay someone to do for you'. Or some such. But over 50% of those skills are both in reasonably common use and still rather important...

You should check out how Ham Radio operators do what are refered to as DX-peditions. They haul lots of radio equipment into the middle of nowhere then talk on it. I've never done it, but if they can support the power draw for a radio, maybe the same techniques could be used to support a computer?

Dealing with the consequences later is, in fact, a terrifying proposal. As it is, bio-science is going fast enough that people are patenting the genome, which is terrifying in and of itself. How can someone ELSE own total access to the genes in each of our bodies?

But the science itself is pretty darn nifty.