Unethical how?

I feel bad when I charge a boatload of money when I do IT or electrical work when its is such and easy thing for me or the job is as simple as running Spybot or flipping a breaker. Its so easy, cost me nothing, so why should I charge for it?

But my wife has drilled it into my head that, "Either they don't know how and they're relying on your huge investment in time and money during years of training, or they do know how and they're just lazy and taking advantage of your generous nature. Either way, you charge 'em."

If its so easy and cost the gamer nothing, what are they doing taking their system to Best Buy? If they're just lazy, charge 'em $30 for using Best Buy's labor pool to do it work they should be doing themselves. If they don't know how, charge 'em $30 to reimburse Best Buy for the investment they've made in hiring trained professionals. (And no, I didn't manage to type that last bit with a straight face.)

First thing I I thought when I saw it was V1 also. But you're right, that's definitely a Tupolev.

Agreed. My wife and I lost a small daughter. Well, that's not entirely true...we know right where she is. She died is my point. We have a few pics, a blanket, a small memorial stone thingy in the back yard. We really wouldn't want much more than that. Occasionally you want to feel the ache of the scar, but we have no desire to open the wound up anew. Thankfully time has dulled the pain; we have enough stuff that it can't take her completely, but just.

I lived in STL for 5 great years and took many, many visitors there. Every one of them was taken aback by the price of admission when they got there and every one was exhausted and saying it was totally worth every penny when they left.

Not only is the place a great playground for kids and adults alike, but some of the examples of architecture and industry that is displayed and incorporated into the Museum is beautiful and amazing to anyone who is into that kind of thing. The terracotta architectural pieces are totally rad.

One of the coolest 'exhibits' in the CM is "Caves". Nine stories of concrete and steel, molded into caves to explore. Walk along and see a hole in the wall...crawl in and see where it goes. Some spaces were tight enough to scare me, some passages went down and I found myself crawling through a rebar tunnel on a ceiling 20ft above people on the floor. There's a couple spiral slides that drop down through 4 or 5 stories. And the last time I went there was an automatic pipe organ that seemed to fill every spare inch of space in the building pumping out circus music, along with a bank of robotic percussion instruments behind some steel grate.

If you go to STL for any reason and you are between the ages of 1 and 101, you have to go. You won't be disappointed.

50 lbs of neodymium magnets. I'm nearly 40 years old and I'b be giddy if someone gave me a gift like that.

All kinds of things you can do with them...build motors, play with eddy currents, build structures, low tech rail guns, ... big fun.