I think I must work with you. I'm not saying this IS you, but the people that I've met who hold this opinion "It is bad enough that I have to work with a moron" seem to feel that way about EVERYONE. If everyone is a moron and you are the only person worth a shit, then does that say that out of the entire human race, you (and all of the people like you) are the only ones who AREN'T morons? I mean, the lunch thing is only a small facet of a bigger deal, YOUR ATTITUDE is SHIT!!! I just had you kicked off my program and told the management I never wanted that HIGHLY capable, VERY strong technical person on my team again because his attitude was so bad it was negatively impacting the entire project.

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It certainly seems I should be able to allow a few of the things they want to access, but not all, and do it at the OS level.
The developers will just have to level up their gracefulness to handle being disallowed.

To install or not to install is not the right (or only) question.

There must be a better way. One question is whether anyone who makes money off of this cares what is right or wrong and that includes Google. it's all about how much money they can make off us.

Have you ever considered people other than you may have a different lifestyle and thus different likes and dislikes than you? Just because you don't see the point, does that make it completely useless for everyone in the world? Hmmmm.

Let's just be completely racist here and say that there might be some people from India who have been delivered VERY spicy food since they were in utero and probably have a tolerance (and also desire) for heat that you couldn't come close to comprehending. Does that make them macho show-offs? I don't think so.

I know more forces than the Marine Corps are acting in Libya right now, but I was a Marine and the President most certainly has the authority to exert military force without declaring war any time he wants to.
I also know wikipedia isn't an authoritative source, but here's the WP discussion on the USMC on that topic.

Yes, you are.
There's a slight but incredible difference between

and "What could I use this for?"
It's like the difference between "That's crap" and "I think there's a better way."
You don't think so, but it comes off as block-headed.
It's negative and derogatory. I'm so sick of negative responses I can barely stand it.

Does it ever get old stifling peoples creativity?
I can think of lots of reasons I would like this.
I have a server at home.
I would like to edit something at home, from work. That's one trivial example.
Do you ever get tired of shooting down somebody else's idea just because it doesn't immediately fit whatever is in your head RIGHT NOW?
Give it a second. Stop to think before you call somebody else crap and maybe just bite your F'ing tongue.

Wow, did you go to my school?
We did VAX/VMS until we declared and then DEC UNIX in higher level classes.
In either case, the professor taught concepts and, being a smaller school, we figured out the tool on our own, with no TA support but with the help of a required text book "Unix For The Impatient".

I spent personal time figuring out Slackware, etc. along with friends, for fun.

Now that I'm in industry, the same applies; learn the tool on your own, there's no time or money available for you to have support on something that you should be smart enough to figure out yourself. It's the concept that matters, now buckle down and git to work.

Really? Face it?
What would it take for you to consider the mountains of solid scientific results? Seriously.
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2011/jan/HQ_11-014_Warmest_Year.html
I guess NASA is just a bunch of kooks.

https://squareup.com/

NASA recommends (almost requires) the COCOMO model. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COCOMO I think the COCOMO model is used by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon University as part of the Capability Maturity Model (CMM). As said in MANY of these posts, proper specifications/requirements are needed to estimate anything. My company uses it exclusively and we have been proven quite accurate over the course of many projects. http://sunset.usc.edu/csse/research/COCOMOII/cocomo_main.html