Yeah, I don't check either. I have some email alerts set up, and my phone only plays a notification if one of those comes in (or if someone calls, obviously).

And like I said, I'm sympathetic to people who get forced into that stuff by management. But there are so many people that voluntarily give up their work life balance, and then complain about how much time they spend working. Well, you're the one who chose to work 7 days a week...

We have an on call rotation at work, and I am plugged into my work smartphone when on call. That's it. When I'm not on call, the smartphone stays at home (and gets ignored while I'm at home).

There are those who get forced into spending weekend time on work, and I do have a lot of sympathy for those people (though I would encourage them to find a job with an employer who isn't abusing them). But a lot of people who spend weekend time on work don't do so because they'll get fired or anything... they just do it out of a misguided sense of loyalty to their employer and dedication to their job. Those people are fools, unless their employer is repaying them for that devotion (which almost none do).

Making a profit and being a decent human being/member of society are not mutually exclusive. You can claim all you want that one has to be an asshole to get ahead in business, but it simply is not true.

Exactly. My company doesn't "technically" allow BYOD (though I imagine that enough pressure from users with the magic "Vice President" in their title will eventually change that), but even so I could totally use my phone. I have a work-provided device which uses ActiveSync, and nobody would ever really know I set my own phone up to receive company mail if I didn't tell them.

But fuck that. Using a separate device for work means that when I'm not on call or otherwise required to be available, I leave it at home and nobody can even attempt to reach me. My direct boss has my personal number for emergencies that might come up, but nobody else. I would never consider giving up the work/life separation that using two different devices affords. I work 40 hours a week, not 168.

It's a thing. ;)

I get plenty. But my point isn't that USPS is spam-free (that would obviously be untrue). I'm merely pointing out that the original claim (USPS is "used only by spammers") is false.

That... is really not true. A pretty decent chunk of business matters get handled via snail mail (not all or even most by any means, but enough to make it non-negligible). And also, people do still send personal mail (letters and such), as not everyone has internet nor wants to. Call them foolish if you want, but they are still using the service for non-spam reasons.

It absolutely does. You're going way beyond the original tautology, which was "the value of 1 (unit of currency) is 1 (unit of currency)". You can sub in bitcoin, dollars, whatever... it still holds true. Hell, it goes way beyond money, that tautology holds true for absolutely anything you can assign a value to.

Muphry's Law, how I love thee.

What overhead and variable costs, exactly, are those? I don't know about you, but my computer is always on already. There is literally no cost to me except for any additional electricity I consume.

Hey, I don't get it either. Personally, I think those old keyboards are shit and not used any more for a reason. But some people like 'em, so...

Also, by his reasoning we should start killing our population off, because then we'll produce less CO2 when they're dead. What a moron.

I think what he meant is that the brother who is lying, and saying his brother did it, is the real low life (as he is not only a rapist, but tried to implicate his brother). I could be wrong though.

The fuck? How on earth is it a conspiracy of any kind to claim yourself to be innocent when you are?

I don't think that kind of language is called for, even on the internet.