Honestly, no; it gives me a bit of a superiority complex to not be told what to do when by a TV schedule.

lol; I think they mean the boat / pump thing will be underwater, not the jetpack. Divers are limited by physiological things when ascending and descending, not how fast they can swim. SCUBA certification organizations will tell you one foot per second up and down is about the limit. They already have underwater propulsion things (little units you hang on to that you point in the direction you want to go, and they run of batteries) to combat currents, long distance requirements, etc. that are about as good as required.

The marginal cost of making phone calls is much higher than that of sending spam e-mail.

Say it takes one person one second per 100 e-mails, and that same person a bare minimum of 10 seconds for one phone call (likely longer, going for easy math) that makes telesales 1000 times as time-consuming, and thus expensive.

Source?

(Sorry about the lame reply to my own post, but, there is no post editing...)

If you think about which large employer has the crappiest employees (hint: U.S. Govt, in the U.S.), this employer also has the most fact-based hiring process. The cool companies are the fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants experiential interviews with questions that dig into your personality traits.

Would you be more comfortable with the hiring manager deciding, based on your interview and his personal opinion thereof, that you were a pessimist and not hiring you?

Interviews are personality tests - if the hiring process were fact-based, you would sit in a chair and fill out a quiz on job-related information, they would score the quiz, and hand out the job.