They are already inflated with deadly corbomite.

Yeah, that's the ticket.

and the whole system as well?

Most people can't even give it away if they try and try they do. Giving it away is what CC is all about. If someone is stealing what you are doing that is very encouraging news and cause for celebration. You might consider producing as much of what people like to steal from you as you can while they still want to steal it from you. I wish I was in your shoes.

Third, you don't want to waste the opportunity to make your robot look like frickin' Boba Fett. Same argument about waste applies yet again.

Agreed. Still further down the road you can change the N into an M and add "LIFE" to the expression.

It seems to me that the intent of the licensing terms is to prevent companies from substituting a consumer model for a professional one that costs 10x to 100x as much. Consumer video quality is getting so good that camera companies need to legally require media producers to use the pro product because very soon there will be no other good reason why they should waste their money on it.

welcomes our new Democratic overlords.

If this method for detecting life works well then you better believe any advanced alien civilization relatively close to us probably already knows exactly where we are. Perhaps we should hope that life is so common in the universe that they are working their way down a long boring list of warm wet rocks with weird crap growing on them and it will take them a long time to investigate us.

Do Germans Dream of Electric Penguins?

if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire... The 01000001-Team.

Mmmmmm....purple.

Actually it doesn't surprise me at all...that's why I apologized to the Dutch. Perhaps I should apologize to the Germans as well. My paternal grandparents were both immigrants from Germany. I actually took three years of German in high school. That was over 20 years ago and although now it is lost to me from disuse it was quite obvious to me that the articles were in Dutch and not in German. A silly cultural joke isn't always a indication of ignorance; sometimes it is really nothing more than a silly joke.

I only took one season of Benny Hill German in high school. My apologies to the Dutch.

Maybee zie posteer kann no sprechen oder reeden die Dutchenzeelandspache so gut.