Also, the 0.5 BTC reward is only if you stress it to a level. Else, no.
Yes, but it requires a total of 2 BTC to be sent. So...
Well, you can skip that if you send too many small transactions that stresses the system a way too much. (That ain't gonna happen very easily)
Will try to flood the system tonight. At work right now so can't code a script spamming a forwarding address right now.