Not going to work for important jobs. I used to do international interconnect work between Telco's having a link fail because my opposite number was on holiday is not something I would want to put up with. Though I did learn never to mail anyone in France telecom during August :-)

What have you been smoking I am quite familiar with employment law and that is total bunk.

Not for professional salaried staff in 99.9% of cases - but then I always calculated my toil at OT Rates oh you send me an a mail I had to check on a Sunday ok that's minimum 4 hours @ double time plus a day well that was BT's rates. Formal on call was £350-400 per week on top of that - some DBA's where on 4/4 and got called once or twice a year

Err you know that car bombs are an all American invention :-)

Social deviancy man what's with the square as the hipper members of the mad men cast would have said back in the 1950's before going off the some cool dive with Joan to hear Parker or Lester putting down some cool tunes.

That is because Software engineers look at how little getting your charted status (PE) means in the real world and go meh

He tends to hold up a mirror to tech and demolishes a lot of the shibboleths that some of the less well socialized techies especially that faux libertarians religiously believe in.

Personal car insurance does not cover commercial use

so if the FBI or CIA officer gets caught doing a black bag job on terrorists and gets his or her head chopped off on youtube what would say to their family - a star on the wall at Langley is no replacement for a mom or a dad

You do know that the FBI also has the Contra Espionage and terrorism Briefs and as you get so upset about using the military on US soil the FBI have a valid justification for using drones etc or would you rather use a manned helicopter with all the expense and additional risk that entails.

weather having a police force do serious work like CT and CE is a totally other matter I think the FBI should have been split after Hover died into a traditional police force and something closer to MI5 or actually use the Secret Service to do it an have the FBI do the non secret bits of the secret services job

Or *gasp* manned helicopters

I still get some of my dividends as cheques 2 more to come this month BT.a And REL

black economy jobs ie he wasn't paying any tax

Tax systems with PAYE tend to be those country's with simpler tax systems ie not state or town taxes and much less of the "dodgy" tax dodges are available to the ordinary worker. And if you do have a special situation you just file a return for the owed rebates.

the problem is if you tax capital gain the same as interest there is much less incentive to invest in company's which damages the economy - trust me lack of capital kils company's