Let me help you guys out here. I am a sales engineer, so I am close enough to marketing to know how to spin this. I can see a Galaxy commerical going like this:

An old judge is his chambers using some sort of app designed for the buggy whip enthusiast on his iPad. He exclaims how "cool" this is.

Now we cut to a hot young chick snow-sking down a mountain in a bikini and using her Galaxy to find the nearest nightclub with Google Maps and posting pictures to Facebook to arrange a "gathering" that evening. She exclaims how "hot" that is.

Bradbury and Lovecraft combined ??? Where can I get me some of that???

MMA is awesomely fun and not as dangerous as you may think. I train 2-3 times a week and while I am too old for competition myself, it is great fun to help the younger students prepare. You get both a physical and mental workout everytime you step on the mat. Every move has counters and you have to think several moves ahead to get yourself into a superior position. If your opponent is younger they will probably be faster but you have that big brain going for you. You can create a better defense and win the positional battle. Pretty soon your opponent is tired and in a bad position and you counter-attack for the win. I have beaten opponents much bigger, faster, and stronger than myself and lost to your typical "98 lb weaklings". You will learn a lot about anatomy, physiology, psychology, physics, and much more.

As far as health benefits go; I lost 50lbs in my first year of training (and gained a lot of muscle), I am totally off my blood pressure medication, and I am about to go off my chloresterol medication. I am more focused which leads to me being able to evaluate situations and react to them faster at work (it makes you a better geek too). If you find yourself a good gym with a trainer that really cares about their students then they will ease you in at a pace that will be challenging, but not dangerous. When I started I would be gassed after a 15 minute warmup. Now I do back to back striking and ground fighting classes and still can stay after and help out new students.

I would highly reccomend you try a free lesson and see what you think. You might just be able to improve your health and your mind at the same time. Just remember in practice you are there to learn techniques and counters not to hurt each other. Take care of your partner and tap fast, if you want to prove how tough you are there is always competition. You do not take many head blows and if anything solid connects (either a strike or a throw) then you are required (at least at my gym) to sit out the rest of the lesson and have a trainer evaluate you to see if you need futher medical help. If this guy can do it, then so can you. The first lesson will leave you sore and tired, but it gets better, after a month you will be looking forward to training sessions and plotting how to take down the guy that submitted you last week.

Really...

So you are going to tax them 1% to keep them from losing the other 99% ? That sounds like a protection racket to me.

You realize then, to be fair, you will also have to subsidize the bullies in order to compensate them for their lost income.

It can be a foot in the door (albiet a rather expensive one). We have a pre-sales support engineer from DeVry. He did not have the grades/money to go to GA Tech, so he worked as a test technican while he went to DeVry. He is very good at what he does but I mostly attribute that to his intelligence rather than anything he learned at DeVry.

His degree allowed HR to "check the box" for college education and thus his manager was allowed to interview him and find out that he could be trained as well as tie his own shoes. The customers love him and he often finds very creative solutions to difficult problems. Had he not attended DeVry then he never would have made it past HR or, if he had gotten a job here, it would have been on the production floor.

I would imagine, and this is just a guess, that the variable nature of electronica and dance music has to do with the fact that no-one is actually playing an instrument and that it is computer generated in non-real time. So as long as you keep to a pattern, everything fits. Not that I am knocking that, but when a human is creating the sounds live then I have found they tend to follow their heatbeat in the abscence of anything else to sync on. There is, of course, variance whenever human beings play anything but when you tap it out with a metronome you do see the centers in increments of 15 and typically 30 (sixteenth notes at 15 BPM = eighth notes at 30 BPM = quarter notes at 60 BPM, etc...). 120 BPM is what most drummers lock into when on autopilot.

The reason I noticed this in the first place was analyizing the walls I was hitting in my own playing. My friend explained the heartbeat theory to me and I have found it generally fits with the other musicians that I know. This also only applies when you are playng "naturally". People like jazz guitarists who try to break all the rules will avoid what feels simple or cliche, but they are making a conscious effort to fight against what feels relaxed and expected.

That is also why most music is written around intervals of 60 PBM. If you hand a musician their instrument of choice and just have them noodle around they almost always play at some multiple of 60 BPM (90, 120, 180, 240). I can play scales all day long with 16th notes at 60, 75, 90 and 120 BPM, but some odd interval close to those numbers like 72 or 87 and I will be lucky to get a run of 10 in a row. My brother tends to hang around 145 which has always puzzled me, then I found out his resting heart rate is 72 BPM. It is like the body uses itself as a metronome. Pretty cool actually and it also explains why bands tend to play faster live as the set goes on.

I thought of the capacitor/battery issue as well when laptops were mentioned but who says that you have to power it up with the original components in place. Just put a circuit board enclosed in as hermetically sealed ESD bag in the capsule with a BOM, schematics, and parts locater and let them build the computer when they open it up. If you are feeling really generous give them assembly instructions as well. I might even include a little leaded solder for posterities sake.
There are classic guitar amps that were built in the 50s that are still in use today. The tubes, caps, pots, and other components have been replaced over time but the same basic wiring is there.
There will be components that can stand-in for the ones that are obsolete. We are only talking digital here, 5V is 5V you don't "color" a digital signal by changing the material that a component is made from. Now if the data was stored on a metal stamped DVD or CD and sealed up it would probably stand a decent chance. It might be a little labor intensive but so is digging up and opening a big steel capsule that has been welded shut 25 years earlier and they will also get to build an "old-school" computer in the process.