1. Yes. Who's to say they don't, and they aren't?
2. There is a biological explanation for this, though I don't know it.
3. 'Cause we're insane.
4. Stupidity. Yes.
5. Only if you crush your extra, old, broken mil-spec chips into a fine powder and coat the inside of the case with it. :-D
6. I don't know. Mine doesn't work either.