Please god no.
I am very visually distracted. Something like this would make me (and anyone else like me) unable to productively work as I would always be trying to see what the motion was.

Of course. Someone has to vote for the Democrats after the ObamaCare fiasco hits by the 2020 election.

Benchmarking compilers on how long it takes to compile would be like benchmarking cars based on how long it takes to fill the gas tank.
There are so many things that can affect compile time more than the compiler - and the end customer really doesn't care anyway. Frankly, if you want a 3-5x speedup, just put the whole thing on an SSD and let it fly.

Either that - or simply fire the cleaning lady, and outsource cleaning the building to a non-employee. Fire the bottom earners, cut costs and raise the CEOs pay #WhatElseCouldGoWrong

Not quite... like many scarce resources - Hollywood only has so many decent writers. This pool is capable of writing a few good movies every year. By sending out more movies than that - the pool is thinned so you can't get a solid writing team that you need (Think Scotty Pippin having to lead a team instead of being the best #2 man in Basketball). This also causes rates for these people to go up to the point that movies can't be profitable - so they have to raise the price of admission.

Why do you think the NSA snoops on Non-US traffic more than it snoops on US traffic?
Really?
Frankly, if you are sending e-mail in the clear (and, unless YOU encrypt it - you are) - it is like mailing post cards from your holiday trips and expecting no one to look at the back of them.

Don't know why ANYONE would vote for TweedleDee or TweedleDum. I mean really - different sides of the same coin. Frankly - if you are in office now - YOU are the problem and should be voted out. I have voted against every incumbent for the last 10 years and intend to continue to do the same thing until the radicals on BOTH sides realize there is a huge benefit for working together in the middle and get rid of these one party votes. Frankly - the fact that the republicans had to get enough votes in their own party to pass anything earlier this month because nancy pelosi wouldn't let any democrats vote was a waste. Means the republicans have to go more conservative instead of more liberal to attract democrat votes that they won't get.
The senate is a wreck - and frankly, I won't negotiate doesn't cut it as a president. If he can't deliver democrat votes in the house - he isn't worth it.

Frankly, the number of full electric cars is almost non-existent (and frankly - what driver of an electric car would volunteer for this program?). That is a non-starter, don't even care about this corner case. Want to generate more tax revenues from full electric cars, simply stop subsidizing vehicles for the 1% and you have generated more money for the government than any tax increase ever could.

Very similarly - I worked for a company that had a very strong commitment to being in the office by 8AM. During a particularly bad crunch time, engineering was working until 2-3AM, then getting critical e-mails sent to them (and their managers) about showing up "late" at 8:15 in the morning. Engineering solved the problem by watching the clock and leaving at 5. Management lost out on the additional 10 hours of work a day, and quickly removed the late list.

There is no excuse for management not tracking what their employees are doing and rewarding them for the work they are doing rather than the chair they sit in or hours they spend on Slashdot.

You want "Someone Else" to manage your data that is classified under ITAR? Uhmmm... Why don't you build your backup solution - put links in to remote data centers and handle the problem correctly and professionally. The last thing we need is some external entity getting a hold of this stuff because you don't want to have the budget to do things right instead of at a consumer level.
Gah - I can't believe this is even a question

60,000 != Next to Nothing

Hey my math skills have decreased by 3.8% from 130 to 125.
I would be Ok with a rounding error (say 28.6 -> 30), but this is ridiculous.

Yes,
Seems like a pretty big ROI to me. Spend 500,000 dollars on a project to fund the full value of the companies revenues. Lack of revenue/profits is what sinks so many projects. Lets do a thought experiment. Lets all go refactor our code for 3 years to make it perfect. Chance of being done - almost 0, value to the company - still there at almost 0.

Ok - So I raise your pay from 50K to 100K. Now I ask you not to come in one Friday per 2 weeks, paying you 90K.
Is that a pay cut or a reduction in the rate of increase?

I always love that - I work for someone, the goal is to get the largest value out of the money spent... regardless of who's budget it is. This is how we end up with a bureaucracy that does very stupid things like deploying old hardware that will cost more in 6 months in power than an updated environment will cost including new systems, its electricity and its cooling. The money for power does not come out of trees, it is a real cost to the whole organization