At my company there is a lot of internal chatter about BYOD, along with the security concerns (especially in terms of IP).

My stance: Just say no to BYOD. If my company deems it necessary for me to use a portable electronic device to perform my job, then either:
a) They supply it, and it remains company property, or
b) There is no option b

Aside from the visible light spectrum, it also has a Bluetooth receiver/transmitter. So probably 1W/m^2 is my best guess (and its probably a poor guess).

I disagree. In order to maintain a constant cruising velocity, the airplane still has to exert a constant force to counter drag and gravity, and that force is directly proportional to the mass of the airplane (as well as its cruising velocity). More mass means more force needed.

If you say that a Boeing 737 has a mass of ~40,000 kilograms (a ballpark estimate, not counting fuel), and each Boeing 737 has a seating capacity of ~180 passengers (another ballpark estimate), each passenger would be responsible for ~222 kilograms of plane in addition to their own mass and cargo they bring aboard. And keep in mind that the average adult human has a mass of 60 to 80 kilograms.

Never said my equation wasn't linear either! I'm basically just changing the Y-intercept of the equation and the slope.

You mean they don't already?

It appears that their cost formula is a strictly linear equation:

Cost (price) = weight (kilograms) x rate (price per kilogram)

Though their cost formula doesn't take into account the amount of airplane that each person also needs to haul around in addition to themselves; the price to fly children is disproportionately cheap, while larger adults are disproportionately expnsive.

I probably would have priced it as such if my goal were to meet expenses

Cost (price) = fixed_cost (price) + weight (kilograms) x rate (price per kilogram)

Atari is only the second company I know of that offers a sabbatical after 7 years, the first being Intel.

Maybe your plants do. My plants are powered by the sun, and only emit CO2 during construction and demolition.

Strange, I don't recall this being the case with Windows XP and Windows 7.

Windows XP built on the NT4 kernel that Windows 2000 solidified, and added crucial Win9x software compatibility. It effectively replaced both Win9x and Win2k in one fell swoop.

While Windows Vista was widely panned compared to Windows XP (and for good reason), it was a technically better OS than XP; it just couldn't overcome the flaws. Windows 7 fixed everything that was wrong with Windows Vista, and rapidly displaced Windows Vista sales. 7 is also a better product than XP, though the system requirements are substantially higher. Most consumers that stubbornly held onto XP were because they didn't want to do a hardware upgrade, even though 7 is a much better OS.

From TFA:

From the sounds of it, the cotton and paper industries are in need of manufacturing improvements of some kind.

Considering the amount of money that Walmart has invested in useless plastic bag carousels at their checkout lanes, I'd say the cost of the bags themselves to the retailers is pretty trivial.

Probably.

Most grocery chains in Arizona (unless you count Walmart as a grocery chain) offer paper, plastic, and reusable. Plastic is ---by far--- the most common choice.

Fruits and vegetables don't usually come prepackaged, at least in the US. Most meats are packaged, but also tend to leak. Just about everything else comes prepackaged.

I'm wondering if there's a difference between paper bag users and plastic bag users. Not routinely washing a reusable bag is a plausible source for disease, but it isn't the only thing to consider.