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This strip is really dated, now. This was me being all bitter about the fact that, in 1999 and 2000, it seemed like if you worked in computers, you were pretty much guaranteed to have money thrown at you. A lot of geeks of my acquaintance actually seemed to be getting big heads.

In hindsight, I should have just let them have their moment.

That sounds more like artillery than any kind of death ray.

We should cancel all weapons research in the US then. I'd hate for leading scientists to be killed by Iraqi agents.

I've got to hand it to you, Tom, you're probably the only person on this board who could turn a discussion about this strip into a discussion about foreign weapons proliferation.

I've got to hand it to you, Tom, you're probably the only person on this board who could turn a discussion about this strip into a discussion about foreign weapons proliferation.

Well, Stephan did mention the idea of building a death ray as opposed to becoming CEO of a computer company, presumably as an alternative way of becoming rich. I brought up the Iraqi gun as a way of saying that the idea of building weapons to become wealthy can backfire.

Also I should mention that the scientist and inventor Nikola Tesla actually built a death ray machine, though all it did was put out a weak beam of harmless light. Unfortunately he was going insane by that time.