I always just ask them if their mechanic asks them to try to start the the highway when they bring their car in to have it looked at.

There are a ton of things that /could/ be, but that doesn't matter. We don't know /what/ his options were, and it could have been as simple as take this job or lose the house. Stop imaging up options for this guy. He had a specific problem he wanted a solution for, not some vague moral dilemma about taking an out of state job and how terrible of a person would be because of it.

It's a comfort and protection thing. It's the same reason people wear shoes, or gloves if they're doing something that may otherwise wear/cut the hands. When you think of someone who rides 30 miles daily (not an outlandish number AT ALL if you're into it), the number of times you cycle your legs is certainly enough to chafe if you're just wearing boxers and shorts, for example. Of course, some may wear them to prove they're serious about cycling, or because they WANT people to look at their labia, but that's just people being silly geese.

IBM needs accountants and HR people and have tons of other jobs that need doing that one doesn't particularly need (and probably don't have) a technical background in order to do. Declaring someone technically savvy based on their place of business and age without more info is about as useful as diagnosing a mental illness based on facebook pictures. Wait, do you work for manulife?

It needn't be anything exotic, a can of RAID will do the trick quite nicely. In fact, plenty of boring, household chemicals will stop a person's life functions just fine.

You're assuming it would take more than 1 dirty bomb attack and the ensuing craziness to make this country turn in and eat itself. Which, quite frankly, is more credit than I'd give.

At the last place I worked (FL state agency, 17kish users), any requests for stuff to go out to the All Employees DL had to go through either the help desk, which we passed to the server admins, or directly through one of the 10 or so people with access to it. Did a pretty good job of keeping the chaff out of it.

The best way to handle that is to ask the user if they've ever had more than 1 car. If they say yes, ask them if they know how to roll down the windows in the new one. If they say yes, tell them they just got a new car. Everyone's happy!

That's basically it. The increased motivation "kicks in" well before the anti-depression components start to take effect. So after taking it, you are still depressed and generally hate your life but now you have a rather unnatural motivation to DO something about it. That something is suicide for a lot of people.

Oh no, I'm pretty sure Milla Jovovich is about as close to perfect as it gets.