Produce some evidence that perfumes/colognes contain poisonous chemicals, them maybe we'll talk.

Normally I don't bother responding to ACs, but this was just too easy: https://www.mamavation.com/201...

That was just the top of the list. There are plenty more where that came from. May I suggest Google?

+1 for your user name.

--another JMJ fan

You're pulling on your pants, and suddenly notice the curious way that dust motes in ray of sunlight swirl on the thermal currents of the room. It occurs to you that maybe that's the way a space battle might look like, with thousands of ships moving in three dimensions.

I like the way you think. You are obviously experienced at this.

Thank you, Streisand effect! I didn't know about this site until now.

I've been writing code for well over 40 years and there's tons of stuff I still don't know about the craft.

I've been coding for 30 and I know less every year. When PCs first came out, one reasonably bright and curious person could get a pretty good grasp on everything important there was to know about them -- hardware, operating systems, programming languages, networking, and major applications. But with every passing year, no matter how hard you try to keep up, everything you know is a shrinking proportion of everything there is to know.

a utopian idea, of people freed from labor if they wish, to pursue education, or just hang out and enjoy life.

In practice, having a large unemployed class with lots of time on their hands doesn't work out so well. Do we really want a nation of aspiring rap artists working to turn their lives around?

I'm not a resource, I'm a person.

+100

I hate the phrase "Human Resources". A resource is something you extract and burn, then discard the ashes.

I'm still looking for an alternative to "resource" when talking about a fellow worker. The best I have so far is "team member".

You're right. https://www.bls.gov/opub/repor...

The percentage of hourly paid workers earning the prevailing federal minimum wage or less declined from 3.3 percent in 2015 to 2.7 percent in 2016. This remains well below the percentage of 13.4 recorded in 1979, when data were first collected on a regular basis.

I am surprised to learn that it is so low.

That's hilarious. Even their keyboard app wants access to my Contacts list.

Every generation says the same crap about the next generation.

And every new generation says the same crap about their parents. We all do the best we can, and we all come up with imperfect solutions to the difficult problems of our generation. And thirty years from now, your kids will be saying the same thing about you.

I'm no fan of Obama, but making fun of someone's name hasn't seemed clever to me since I was about six years old. Next time you might try being clear rather than clever. You will improve your critical thinking skills as well as your chances of convincing someone.

Apparently true. But that statistic is meaningless without knowing why people are incarcerated. You seem to be implying that the U.S. is more repressive than China. But note that the U.S. has more than six times the homicide rate of China. It would seem that the U.S. just has more violent criminals than China does.

Yes, I recently took a long trip with only a Garmin GPS and was frustrated by the times it would take us on some narrow winding road through the mountains that had an official speed limit of 55 mph, yet for most of the way you couldn't even go half that speed due to all the sharp bends in the road. Obviously the GPS's "fast" route was programmed according to the nominal speed limit -- not the actual speed that one could travel on that road. A paper map would surely have shown a better route. This has happened to me more than once.

ob. Dilbert, working from home: http://dilbert.com/strip/1994-...