With cheaper fuel we can go back to concorde, while loading and unloading wouldn't be any fast the actual flight time would be significantly less.

Some people get travel sickness, which is usually much worse if you're not facing in the direction of travel... Rear facing seats would be terrible.
Also, there are rear facing seats available in business class on some airlines.

Exactly, if you block things then employees will find ways round it...
I went to a company that blocked "software download sites", so the users couldn't download things like firefox from mozilla.com etc, so they found alternative sites where they could download firefox - and these sites contained malware infested versions instead of legitimate firefox.

People these days have portable devices, you can allow them to take breaks using an isolated wifi network and their own portable devices...

The average corporate desktop is extremely vulnerable to attacks from websites (against the browser, the plugins, other applications etc), and trying to defend against such attacks is a huge pain and/or huge cost.

It's actually less of a concern than it is with small vendor closed source...
There have been a few small software vendors where the company owner or core developer was killed, which then resulted not only in the ceasing of development, but also in the source code either being lost or tied up in legal disputes for years.

For something that's open and has user interest, it can be forked and development can be continued by someone else...

Ever heard of global warming?
Using all the oil/gas/coal is not an option.
Also, depriving us of petroleum products is not the best idea.

Or we could just wait till we don't have any cheap oil left.
This is really scary, it will happen, but nobody cares.

And there always will be oil on earth, and this exponential growth will never be a problem in our finite world.
Amen.

My most productive hours are from 10pm till midnight, at home.
Everybody else is sleeping, nobody calls, no colleague can bother me.
I listen to a CD I've listen to a few hundred times, and I work in a very focused manner on important new features or bugfixes.
Before going to bed, I send a short email to my boss describing what I did.

After about a week, we have our usual meeting, during which colleagues say "we should do this and this, it'll probably take a month or two", with the hope that they won't be the ones having to do it. I just tell them "No problem, I did it yesterday night". Everybody's happy.
I tell my boss I'd like to take my day off, and go skateboarding.

So for me, it began by working the usual 9 to 5, adding some very productive overtime, and showing my colleagues and boss that I don't actually need the 9 to 5.

This is often a big problem... A lot of businesses want to have offices in certain areas, which are generally the areas where other businesses are based... You end up with dense commercial zones, where residential properties are very scarce, very expensive and very small usually with no gardens.
You also end up with massive congestion on all travel routes at specific times (i.e. travel conditions that would be illegal for transporting livestock), and wasteful over capacity at other times.

Moving closer to work may then be impractically expensive, or result in a significantly inferior residence. The alternative being a long, uncomfortable and expensive commute.

Home working is part of the answer, but spreading out locations and working hours would go a long way to improving conditions and efficiency.

Well your example shows that working environment matters a whole lot, and it's different for everyone.

A small apartment is not good, you really need a separate room with somewhere comfortable to sit. Then there should be very few or no distractions at home, but you also have the convenience of somewhere to go and relax when you need a break, and an ample supply of food/drink etc.

If you want a lack of distractions, a typical open plan office is a terrible environment because there are usually many distractions. For some tasks, being able to go into a room alone and close the door is very helpful.

Depending on what you're doing, having people around you to collaborate with may be beneficial, or may be a distraction.

A comfortable environment is an absolute must, if you are feeling uncomfortable you will be irritable and not work well. You need somewhere comfortable to sit and a tolerable climate.

It's all down to the individual, the job and the company... What works well for one person doing a particular job may be terrible for someone else or a different job. Similarly if your office environment is nicer than the working environment you can provide for yourself at home then home working is a poor choice, but the same can also be true in reverse.

The same thing applies in an office environment, only instead of one wife you now have 50 colleagues who want help with this and that (often not work related), or just want to chat about the weather...

Many people are single, or have wives/girlfriends who also work and aren't at home during the day.

The other thing is being able to prioritise distractions... If someone sends you an email asking for something, you can wait until you're finished whatever you're currently concentrating on, but if they walk up to your desk or call you then it forces you to immediately stop what your doing to respond to them... This can be very troublesome if you're trying to concentrate.

My job has a mix of home working, office working, and working in client's offices... I find i get a LOT less done if i'm working in our office, partly because of the distractions and partly because it's just a terrible office with bad seating, bad desks, broken climate control etc.

Client offices are a different story, as most of the people there don't know you there are usually much fewer distractions, although the actual conditions can vary... If it's quiet and comfortable then i can get a lot more done there, if it's noisy and/or uncomfortable then a lot less gets done.

That said i still think home working is better overall at least for me, if only because of the time and inconvenience saved on travel... There are more and more businesses being crammed into a small area in most cities and expecting people to all work at the same time, this creates massive congestion on all travel routes at certain hours, and results in inefficient over capacity at other times. I find it utterly ridiculous how they insist on so many people travelling to the same area at the same time, things should be far more spread out.

In the end, none of the responsible people will be punished.

Not only that, but Mario Draghi (former managing director of Goldman Sachs) is now the president of the European Central Bank.
But it's okay, because

the deals were "undertaken before my joining Goldman Sachs [and] I had nothing to do with them"

This unelected thief has more power than many european presidents.

+1
Pretty please, new horizons/NASA?

I always loose my mind when I see idiots writing rouge instead of rogue.
It really effects me deeply.