That, of course, makes the assumption that management is level-headed. Some will cut off their nose to spite their face.
If management was like that I doubtful the author would like where they works.... If you don't like where you work, then you don't ask for a counter offer.
Well at some point when you have a product you want to make it known to people that it exists. Whether you force it down peoples throat or remain with the facts is a question of style. So here you don't answer the question of whether marketing/sales is an important/necessary/hard job to do -- You don't like a common style of doing it.
... disagreed, what you are talking about is "outreach". Sales and marketing have a very specific connotation that reach beyond the scope of outreach. Moreover, you will find individuals considered by others to be "well grounded" tend to equate the common style with the common definition, no matter what Merriam-Webster may say. To solidify this point for you I'd make an analogy to the definition of a Republican as fiscal conservatives who believe in small government, when for the past few decades they have been war-mongering corportists, however, that would probably be seen as flame bait, so I'll avoid it.
There is NO safe time to text while driving; even while at a stoplight you'll be tempted to dash out without looking if you are honked at for not paying attention to the light.
However, I agree with your analysis about the speed limit, and would be all for a ban on ALL cellphone use while driving if the speed limit were increased by 30%.
Really, it's the 21st century, and we force the population to do hours of manual labor per day to even get to work? Make them sit in a car and force them to drive to get to work? They can't read a book or work on their computer while going to work? Really?
Umm, we live in a corporatocracy, the car companies already screwed our public rail systems, what makes you think there's any chance they'd allow something like this?
Maybe instead of TechDirt running some snarky contest which will achieve nothing they could actually ask people for real, workable, ideas on how the 'industry can adapt'. You know, something that doesn't involve stupid ideas like 'work for free' or 'rely on donations'.
Maybe instead of insisting that somebody is doing something the wrong way, you should fix it your self. Or, maybe you could just lean to see the value in an anti-propaganda campaign.
It is not every question that deserves an answer. -- Publilius Syrus
