Its a rhetorical question....although I wish it wasn't

Voluntary is having a sign "$50 for a cheek swab, next right". Involuntary is police directing you to testing area. Period.

Your signature pretty much explains it :D

I hope that Amazon idea takes off. Its green, economically sound idea. I think we need to get over the idea that drones are bad. They can be used in bad ways, and we should create a framework that defines good uses for drones. For lack of better words, a bill of rights about drone uses.

you need to do some searching on the internet. and maybe wake up. :) I mean that in all light warmheartedness. It's happening.

see my post below....chaching chaching. its about $ and nothing else.

Sadly, you're right. Its that stupid management mantra that if they can't see you, you must not be working. I call it lazy manager syndrome.

Experience doesn't count for much in this industry. To the bean counters (aka the types that fund and managing projects), you will get more done with 2 programmers paid $25/hr than with 1 programmer paid $50/hr. It's the proverbial problem: you can't make a baby in 1 month with 9 women. But the bean counters don't see it that way. Their spreadsheets equates man hours to productivity and nothing else factors in.

Part of the problem is its practically impossible to adequately measure cause and effect: aka "this decision lead to +/- quality, +/- hours to implement the next feature."

Its ok for the police to monitor (and I don't just mean warranted use of gps tracking) the every day activities of normal citizens but its not ok for the police to monitor themselves. mmmmm.

Let's not forget that other parts of this same legal system (specifically our court system) has said it is ok for private employers to violate the rights of their employees by doing all kinds of monitoring.

Sorry, I can't help but to be cynical.

Sadly. I bought two of them. I intended to make one a minecraft server for my son. I still havent purchased a network cable. yes I sadly have been that lazy. (maybe I should post this as anon)

wait! delete delete delete. crap. I meant thats the job Im looking forward to when Im done programming....

that's what Im looking for....

not from....for :D

Replacing gov for big business is no different. My point was that more alternatives should be allowed, aka made legal. Examples: allow me to have solar panels on my roof, heck I would support going so far as supporting subsidies, where it made sense. Allow me to run a 18" windmill generator off the roof of my house. Or use solar generated steam. Idk anything. But let me as an individual have that option. At the individual level, the amount of electricity generated may be small. However, collectively if every roof had a solar panel and/or 18" windmill, the sum of it would provide a benefit. Many of these ideas are illegal in many parts of the states, because of big energy.

I think that this could be good for energy industry because it could open the door to other means for producing energy. Nuclear reactor operators have opposed technologies that improve our energy grid because of the costs associated with running nuclear reactors. But they may have lost the battle anyways.

I think our energy policy that demands big massive producers are they only source of energy is wrong. And its strategically dangerous as well.

For the record, I'm not opposed to nuclear energy. I just don't believe an energy policy solely relying on big business is in the consumers nor countries best interest.