My understanding is when transferring goods to a non-profit you can write off the full original value of the merchandise. However, someone actually has to accept the goods in the first place. Obviously, you can keep junking the same place twice.

However, it's been a while since I've dealt with a non-profit, but that is what I remember anyway.

I'll foil the system by using a stolen bank card!

You'll never catch me, nyaaah!

I don't think they are going to actually strip it.

These guys basically destroyed tens of thousands worth of property to make twenty dollars at the scrap yard.

On a bit of a karma note I once heard about a scrap yard theft. The guys would pull up next to the yard in a boat (it was next to the river) and haul in a bunch of copper. The next day or so they would come back to the scrap yard and sale the theft back to them.

Unfortunately, that trick only works so many times.

I used to work with some fairly high powered transmitters here and there. Funny thing about large antennas is they tend to be located in lovely remote areas. Generally, the places where no one lives and consequently a great target for moronic thieves. Depending your point of you view you could say it was very fortunate our equipment always needed maintenance or was always failing. Consequently, we spent many events at an uncomfortable distance to the population. Being occupied during the day and night was a great deterrent to douche bags. (I know because after we left the thieves moved in like jackals I'm told)

On one occasion it looked like someone had started to cut the copper from air conditioning unit, but gave up for some unknown reason. Now, what I had been waiting for was an attempted theft at the coax line for any number of transmitters. There was a metric crap ton of this and the word coax does not lend credit to the thickness of these particular runs. Such an act would create an immediate alarm and nor would it be fun to be on the receiving end of the line. The return feedback during the process would disengage the transmission, but not before baking a few fleshy components.

Indeed, at a previous employer one group of our data centers or co-locations had some pretty lousy techs. I had worked over the phone to remotely have some one off equipment cabled up and it was complete fail sauce. Eventually, I decided to stop wasting our money as I was scheduled to go out to do maintenance anyway. My cabling worked quite fine and the time they wasted would have paid for the flight and hotel.

Oddly, they had to borrow my onsite equipment to do the work as well. We kept fully stocked shelves for virtually every need. Even so far as to providing our own server lift. (I felt bad for the guys so my thoughts were you can borrow it, but I don't want to know in case you hurt yourselves.)

I had a few friends play with BASIC stamps. Though it runs PBASIC.

I didn't follow it very much, but it still would indicate there are a few instance of hobbyists using basic.

I'm pretty sure it was shouting, "Hot hot hot hot!"

I'm fairly certain comet love joy won't be taking on any more dares for a while.

I totally destroyed those 4th graders.

That was just the ego boost I needed for the day.

Excellent,

I was told by a very powerful source that the only way to protect my data was via a contract for my soul. Among the things needed for the incantation a guinea pig was cited.

Look at Paragraph 367 Subsection 32... "Satan will personally hover over your data with an army of undead ghouls.^3214"

I'm still trying to find foot note three thousand two hundred fourteen.

These deals with the devil are almost as bad as FCC mandates.

I had an isolated network I was required to do this on once. I had no servers and several isolated independent networks. Unfortunately, the network isolation created several issues with our existing toolset so it wasn't a matter of spinning up a host and moving some software over.

I ended up using puppy linux on a usb stick which would spin up an instance that contained a pxe server containing another puppy linux ramdisk. It's sole function was to serve the ramdisk to other machines in the isolated network. The usb stick could be removed once the OS was booted. (Puppy boots and remounts it's ramdisk over /). Once all of the machines were showing tons of disk activity I simply hit the space bar and the puppy host would begin running the same utility set on the host machine.

It takes some of the work out of creating a ramdisk distro that supports dhcp/tftp/pxe. However, since it doesn't contain a great deal of the libraries that would normally be found in linux most applications need to be compiled statically. Despite setting CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS I remember having to manually edit the make files in a few instances to set the -static option.

Entirely doable and it should be a good project for the requester.