I'm going to geuss sulfur hexafluoride. It's even more interesting when you watch stuff float in it.

They must have had to update the law since they got these things. Shooting a robot isn't the same as shooting an animal. the original law couldn't haw covered shooting robobts. Maybe they charge them with destruction of government property or somethning at first.I can see how they get around it, and it's a good cause. It does vaguely resemble entrapment though, by deliberately tempting someone to break the law.

As you know, blogs have begun to adopt some aspects of conventional pre-IT revoution business models. One of the most obvious and general of these is loosely phrased "createing stakeholder ownership." While that seems like trite business jargon, it simply refers to the act or series of acts in which an organization allows personal investment of some kind from all of the people who have at least some interest in the organization. The methods are various and many. Companies ofering profit-sharing exhibit this phenomenon. Wal-Mart is famous for its success in creating local ownership via sponsoring community activites and carrying local college mechandise. Neatorama (and other blogs) ususually implement the function by facilitating a blog-exclusive social community via subscriber posting, profiles, chat options (of course comments), giveaways etc. This has been one of the leading factors in the expanse of blogging as a viable business. While not practical in traditional organizational structures, blogs further support decentralizing command and control (not complete dectralization). This stands to reason as a blog's value derives from its popularity. One option is to increase the association between posts and people who post. This could include adding his/her profile image (or another image of choice) next to his/her name as the post author. Increasing incentives to post would be another good option. This could include randomly draw giveaway or better yet, competitions based on some formula derived from the authors number of posts, average number of views per post, average user rating of posts. Additionally, neatorama could sponsor something like a recruiting program by providing incentives for neatorama users to refer other users to the site. An example of this would involve various strata of giveaway items. When a new user registers, offer a field for a referal user name worth some some value to the new user if they provide a valid user name for the person who recruted him/her. The value for this field could include some point system related to the aformentioned formula for calculating the value neatorama associates with a blogger. For this system to work effectively, neatorama must implement it as a comparative system rather than an absolute point value per reward system, the latter of which would actually motivate fraud. I don't want to take the time to go into further detail as this comment is already too long, and neatorama may have already adopted similar systems. However, should this suggestion be of value to neatorama, simply email me and I'll gather and organize the information into a detailed plan based on precedent systems and relevant business models based on scholarly journals, textbooks etc. I'm a project manager by education, but I like to do this kind of stuff for fun too.