So you use a similar argument that the minister who believes that all gays should be jailed, because they are mentally ill? Nice....

If you choose not to believe in God, then that is your choice. Granted, I would wonder where you morals come from, and given your post above I can draw some conclusions....

The Chicken?

Did anyone run the small penis jokes on the explorers that climbed mountains? That's something else that had little practical value, but I don't think climbers were heaped with ridicule for doing useless things. I'm not saying that overclocking is comparable, but it's less ridiculous as the risk of dying is lower.

I thought it was a joke.

You worked your ass off in school and in your career to land the job you have today at SAP. All of that hard work, just so you can work for this guy. If I worked at SAP, I'd want a full accounting so I could decide if the management team that promoted this guy was rotten to to core. If so, there are plenty of other places that need your skills.

He's an executive at SAP and now he's going to prison for stealing $30K from Target? There must be more to this story.

Let's face it, economic social justice requires us to enable the billion+ people around the world today who do not have access to personal transportation (like we do) to gain that access. Anything else is unjust. Breakthroughs like this one are a step in that direction.

Your new job is to manage outsourced developers doing 'monkey work'. They will do it badly and you will have to pick up the pieces. There is a huge shortage of strong developer talent out there. Therefore you should have little trouble finding a new job that is a better alignment with your passions. If it were me, I'd be looking to leave the company you are at now.

If it were the same type, I might agree, but pusher type aircraft tend to be considerably quieter than puller type, at least that I recall. The prop turbulence doesn't hit the aircraft, because it's behind the aircraft.

It sounds interesting. I think it's at least an interesting idea, we'll see if it pans out. There is very little to compare it against.

$500,000 is a lot of money, but it might be in the ball park with competing aircraft, because aircraft can get very expensive very quickly. I would be interested to see how this shakes out, because fuel is easily more than half of the cost of flying an airplane, at least as far as I recall.