Answering Questions: A Strange Thing Happened This Time

I love doing these Dyvers Q&As because you never know how many you're going to get or who's going to ask you a question. But this time a couple of really interesting things happened. First I got almost all of my questions through e-mail (a complete reversal to how things normally go) and a lot of people asked the same questions with slight variations. So I'm going to just combine their questions into a single post using the person who asked first for the wording of the question.

While I got twenty-five questions they combined down to four so you're not going to see the sheer volume of responses that I've done in the past. Hope everyone who asked a question is cool with this change. 

Now, on with the questions!