As a creative type who's done the research and who's intentionally let military history and physics inform (and "correct") their storytelling and vehicle design, you do not speak for all of us.

Though that is speaking as a writer. Speaking as an artist, sometimes the function winds up being deduced from the design as opposed to the other way around.

Your own link states that the turtle was used for meat and is legal game (with limits) where that one was killed. Sounds to me like it's in the same category of hunting deer, turkeys, or any other wild animal that's then used at least in part for food.

See metallicity.

...they've heard that he's an astonishingly talented guy but a gigantic pain in the ass and prima donna - very hard to work with.

So in other words, just like almost everyone else related to the entertainment industry.

That's the underlying goal of RepRap Printers, self replication. A decent amount of the components can be self replicated.

How much of that goes into R&D and factory tooling / production?

I would imagine a very very small percent of it. It's similar to other high end brand names where you are paying for a name and marketing, not actually physically superior products.

Oakley, Monster cable, Bose...you're paying for a name, it's perceived status, and all the marketing that got them to that perception, not a better product.

Erase your hard drive with a multi-pass secure wiping program before restoring the fresh image on it. Yeah yeah yeah it may not be perfect and theoretically some magical device might be able to pick up variations in temporal magnetic quantum flux in adjacent bits and recover data blah blah blah. But if they go to that level to recover your data, you were fucked anyways.

If they ask why it's such a fresh install, you just simply state that you access everything via VPN and you only travel with a fresh laptop in case it's lost, stolen, detained, confiscated, etc and you don't lose anything and everything on it while you're traveling.

I don't think there are many guys out there, video game addicts or otherwise, who would prefer masturbation to porn over sex with someone they like, trust, and feel comfortable with.

I see you aren't married...

I don't live in Australia to know what the practice is there, but here in the US it's not uncommon for a company to advertise one price, but then tack on a variety of fees, taxes, and surcharges to the final bill that actually pay for the service and cost associated with providing it.

"Oh your rate plan for your [cable|internet|cell phone|whatever] is 19.99. Your monthly bill is $82.45 after adding in sales tax, USF fee, phone number|IP rental surcharge, regulatory compliance fee, capital improvement fee, lobbying surcharge, fee just to fuck you because we can fee, CEO compensation package fee, legal defense fund for when we get in trouble for all these fees fee, fee to make more money fee, fee fi fo fum fee, and finally are you even listening any more fee."

By making the company include any of THEIR business taxes as part of the service fee, they can't just bury their additonal costs as a line item and pass it on to the customer without affecting the price of the package.

Depending on the design and just how serious you are about keeping it around you could convert it to a static site. You don't have to worry about wordpress or plugin updates if there's no CMS on the server.

That said, I have a number of sites that get next to no traffic and probably the biggest issue with maintaining a WP install these days is theme and plugin updates. Trim those down, strip out comments (or move the "responsibility" for them to something like Disqus), fiddle .htaccess* if you're feeling paranoid, make a backup and let 'er rip. Or rot, as the case may be.

* It's possible to allow only a specific IP to see wp-admin, or no IP at all. The biggest problem with this approach in my experience is forgetting that you've set the condition.

Is there a requirement that everything has to look as it always has, forever, especially when what's existing never met any standard to begin with?

You've not lived in a area subject to a draconian home owners association I take it?