You're not weird at all. The big difference between the island time and ours is that they have year-round warmth. We are trying to maximize the daylight when it's warm outside and we want to be out. We then pay for it in the winter when we might as will be inside when daylight doesn't matter. Your reaction is normal.

I hate to be blunt about this, and I'll probably get downloaded to oblivion, but I don't think most of you understand the reason for daylight saving time. It's really cool when it's warm out to get home and have a lot of light available to you after work to be able to do things outdoors. In June I play tennis until almost 9 PM. That is super cool to be able to do. I really don't understand why everyone is so against it, other than ignorance. The alternative is for the sun to come up at 4 AM, which doesn't help anybody at all. It's just wasted daylight. DST is one of the cooler things that mankind has devised. Its advantages should be quite obvious by now. And yet I see three out of four people are still against it. I feel like I'm living in a bizarro world where people think up is down and left is right. Your reactions are truly that stupefying to me.

Nobody has ever been "DDOS'ed" by Bing. A DDOS is, by definition, a deliberate attempt to knock a site off the net. Bing is just doing business, not attacking. I don't defend Microsoft but let's make sure we use terminology properly.

• The terms do not say "will not". Nor "may not". Nor "must not". Nor "it is a network security violation to", like everybody else. They say "should not", which any kid you know will tell you is code for "you can, you might, and you may, but I'd rather you didn't."

With due respect, your response is also bogus. That sentence didn't just fall into Google's terms of service. It was intentionally put there so that when Google decides they truly don't want servers on their network, they can terminate your agreement and connection. It's truly naive of you to think this language is completely innocent and has zero chance of being enforced.

>I presume it comes with enough lawlessness that I can reclaim (or attempt to reclaim) my funds through the barrel of a gun Of course you can't, because you're not rich enough for the laws to not apply to you.

They have to ask that every time a new version of MS Office comes out anyway.

>If it's good policy to raise the minimum wage to $9.00 from $7.25, and it will actually increase employment as politicians claim, why stop there? Why not raise the minimum wage to $15.00, or $50.00?

For the same reason that if it's better to give a dehydrated man 2 glasses of water instead of 1, it is not logical to give him 50 glasses of water. It is a complete logical fallacy to claim that because a small increase of something is better, any amount of increase is better. Try again.

I'm bothered that anyone is posting anything like the above here. And are proud of it.

You don't have a smartphone problem, you have serious H.R. problems. Taking away cellphones ain't gonna help one little bit with that.

The problem is multifold, but the main one that jumps out at me is what if these rules are enacted AFTER you accept the position? And what if there is a completely valid reason for you having a cell phone (family crisis, etc.)? Employers who don't support their employees' needs are likely to suffer talent drain. Of course, they won't admit or recognize this until it's too late.

Yeah. My mom is critically ill in the hospital right now, so my iPhone is not a 'pacifier'. It is a lifeline to the doctors, nurses, family members, and friends who are helping care for her when I can't be because I have to come into that job you are so cavalier about me ditching. And several of them prefer texting (so they can communicate silently without bothering the patient), so forwarding the cell to my desk (which I often have to get up from) is not an option.

Love 'em or hate 'em, Apple is a bulwark in this case by not supporting secure booting on Macs. As a major global vendor, enjoy using them as a base of operations as you oppose UEFI.

>I don't know of *any* company that would set up their HR staff for such a scenario.

Then they shouldn't use Skype, period. Skype is so notoriously unreliable, that for FB to not have a plan to reconnect a bad Skype connection is absolutely unprofessional.

I wouldn't hire someone who uses the word "whiner". It shows a lack of empathy and ability to recognize that situations can be improved.