Don't forget to factor in the fuel costs of toting around four 150lb bags of water for EACH flight. That's not an insignificant portion of the cost.

Well, they'll just claim you're out in the public eye and don't have any expectation of privacy.

I mean it's not like the Civil Forfeiture laws where they can take any cash/property on your person without cause or due process. You're not even required to have been *charged* with any crime. Stop & Frisk has been replaced with Seize & Threaten.

They're betting that you'll walk away from lengthy, expensive legal fight to get your property/rights back.

Seems like I'll need to get a hockey mask to go with my tinfoil hat.
OOooo, or maybe one of those high-def ex-Presidential masks!

It was certainly nice that this was approved with a great deal of speed by all the agencies involved. Good news too that they were able to preempt other previously approved projects.

But in reality, it sounds like they had an excellent plan and at least some proof-of-concept design done when it was pitched to those agencies. Also, it's pretty time-sensitive and a great PR win if it succeeds, which the space industry desperately needs right now.

When the grease is available, all those wheels of government can turn pretty quickly!

None of this is more than a web search away.
Besides, we're talking about the 'competent' coder anyway. Who's leading this team? Hellen Keller?

This is where the understanding of Programming Language Concepts comes into play. If you understand the basic principles of what you want to do the syntax will come.

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Now, where'd I put those mods points...

Boy, I might have included examples (Jalapeno, Habanero) of said peppers in the Poll instead of only one at the very end of the scale.

Wish I had mod points for a 5-digit uid reply which should have been obvious to the OP.

As mentioned below, surely there can be a work-study position funded for an inventory clerk. I'm sure there are already people being paid to check-in/check-out books & videos at the library or equipment at the gym/fitness center.

Now Tobacco/Nicotine, soon to come:
Meat eaters need not apply, only strict vegetarians. The risk of eating high fat dietary items carries a higher risk of medical issues.

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I was fortunate enough to attend a college prep school. A number of classes had homework counted as the number of problems you attempted, but was NOT included in your grade. Some folks lied, others would say they attempted 0 questions. Your level of participation was usually directly related to your understanding and ease with the material.

The best college math professor I had simply asked if there were any questions about the homework that was assigned at the last class. No questions? Class dismissed.

The trick here was that the homework assigned was on NEW MATERIAL. You weren't expected to know how to do the assignment, you were expected to ATTEMPT the assignment and try to work out the process on your own and bring your questions about the process to class.

Learning needs to be an ACTIVE process. Simply attending class should not be enough to graduate.

I'm your Huckleberry.

Cat got your tongue? Don't want to spill the beans?
Why not outline some basics of your design and we'll help identify where the weaknesses are. Cause there's a HUGE hole there right now...

So many things missing from the OP's requirements like:

Must work in ALL weather conditions (fog, rain, snow, dust)
Must be accurate to 1 ms
Must identify which DRIVER is in the car as more than one person may be driving any given car, and drivers may have full face helmets
Must handle backward/spinning/sliding finishes
Must process in near realtime ( 20sec between finishes)
Must handle multiple cars on course at once (at least 3 running)
Must handle GoKarts and other strange pieces of machinery that may not have roof/hood/doors
Portable/Lightweight/Packable

What else is my caffeine starved brain missing?