Filed this one under "Jobs I am actually qualified for but would never try to do in a million years because I like my sanity."

Do you add complexity to a system when it isn't necessary? Do you introduce more things that can fail when you don't have to? Most people are resistant to those propositions with good reason ..... experience.

I'm imagining wire cutters.

Gosh, how could you view private parties and government differently? I mean, unless you had even a passing familiarity with the 1st and 4th Amendments, for starters, which plainly have for a couple hundred years now .... Sheesh, this guy was employed?

But I enjoy the art of many people I wouldn't invite to dinner. Norman Mailer stabbed his wife. Mel Gibson is kind of a psycho if he gets a buzz on. For all I know, Shakespeare was a jerk. I don't require the artist to be a good person to enjoy their art, and I'll see the movie.

Thanks, you saved me the trouble of writing this analogy! The problem is the fundamental difference in purpose between a vehicle and a weapon. A vehicle gets you from A to B, a weapon is to defend yourself or kill some food. The design parameters will therefore be unlikely to be analogous.

I've worked for two great female managers who were great with the women in their staff ... and I've seen ones who were terrible. Just ... like ... men.

But when the head of Microsoft's Windows Engineering is a woman ... Julie Larson-Green ... the media should pay a little more attention.

One is reminded of the classic Dilbert with Dogbert selling a suitcase nuke to the North Elbonians: "Our slingshot can fling this a hundred yards, is that enough?" *wag* "That's plenty."

China's corrupt legal system doesn't enforce its OWN laws, somebody thought they'd enforce the UN's?

Shallow tech journalists keep insisting on putting the Kindle Fire HD into tablet comparisons, I've already seen them doing it with Surface. For what it is I'm sure the Fire HD is nice, but it most definitely isn't a full-featured tablet to compete with top Android or (soon) Windows tablets.

Does this make what we did to the Iranian nuclear program with malware a CyberHiroshima? At least now we know what drum the DoD is going to beat in the years ahead to justify funding that pretends that Stalin has tanks lined up on the Mexican border waiting to overrun us.

But then, there are the 'I'd Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur' ads ...

"Lately things, don't seem the same ..."

Build a linear accelerator and launch the waste at the sun.