And when you're on a corporate machine or server where you can't use Dropbox? Keepass is not LastPass. They both have their strengths.

Isn't Dr. Phil more of a counselor? That seems ok. Dr. Oz is the one peddling anti-vaccine thinking and homeopathy. That's a whole 'nother mess.

Most of the people who shop at Whole Foods, for example, are middle to upper-middle class working professionals with healthy salaries. These are not stupid people. Even well educated people can and oftentimes do fall for the naturalist fallacy.

As a developer, it's always fun when I have to submit a ticket to get a simple Visual Studio plugin installed, wait a month, get signoffs from my manager, IT, the desktop testing lab, and finally get it installed by someone in India that doesn't know how to install it. He then proceeds to close the ticket even though it's not configured right and I can't configure it without admin rights. We need a better system.

And they paid the price when they failed. That's the free market at work. Company takes a big risk and loses? It goes out of business. The problem we have in the US is that the government then bailed out the banks with our tax money. There's nothing free market about that.

Ah, no. As a lot of Libertarians have pointed out, there are piss poor countries that are rich in resources and wealthy nations with no natural resources. It boils down to economic freedom.

HOAs are voluntary. They're nutty, but people voluntary enter into those agreements. This has nothing to do with Libertarianism except in that it's free people acting freely with one another. No one's forcing you to buy a home that's part of one. I wouldn't.

Sssshhh! You're going against the "I've never run a business, but know that corporates are evil, maaaaaan." mantra

Someone's been reading Atlas Shrugged. Using government to tie up your competitors with burdensome rules to protect established interests even pre-dates Rand.

Good luck with that. If your business allows for it then great. Too many people get hung on process for process sake. However, those processes might not allow for change. Ever deal with government regulations? You can't just say "well, we'll streamline our processes to simplify IT upgrades by ignoring all those pesky government regulations. HIPAA? More like NoThankYa!"

Sorry to hear that. At my undergrad CS program, it was actually the other way around. It was VERY HEAVY on the CS, and we were expected to learn the software engineering and programming as a matter of course on the side.

That's not always the case. Look at workplaces that fall under HIPAA regulations. That last thing IT wants is for developers to start up their own app projects in the cloud, whereby their apps start accessing PHI/PII. The moment that PHI goes from the local intranet and those bits go onto a 3rd party cloud service, the company will shit a brick because the developer's just violated regulations. There's a reason IT and security requires oversite of app development.

I agree. It's about increasing the layers of abstraction.

You must be fun at parties...

A lot of health insurance companies will reimburse you for your gym membership. Look into what your health plan covers. With cheaper gyms it can be a wash, so you get a gym membership for free.