OK. NeXT?

I would just move my offices to cruse ships.

Haven gotten my MBA, I have learned the meaning of the word Synergy, (then told to never use it as it has been over used to a point where it is just sounds stupid to say it)

In essence if you are working in a team the sum of what all the members together create is greater then what each individual can do by themselves.

In real life this doesn't happen so much. Usually when you work in the group the result of the group is less then the sum of each individual.

Lets say we use a game of Tug of War.
Each person alone can pull 450 newtons, and you have a team of 10.
Synergy would happen if together they can pull 4501 or more newtons of force.
What normally would happen is that they pull less then 4500 newtons of force because seeing the other people they will not try as hard.

Packet Sniffing is more of a cheap parlor trick then a good way to collect information.

For the most part our infrastructure has moved from Hubs to Switches so there are a lot less free packets bouncing around the net. Routers have gotten smarter and better so chances are it won't bother sending your packet around the world just just to go to your neighbors.

The world wide 1% yes. The US 1% no.
World Wide the 1% makes over $33,000

Refrigeration doesn't do much with produce. Other than keeping it cold.
I usually keep my fruit un-refrigerated. It tastes better and lasts just as long.

Yes because he is an astrophysicist, it makes him qualified to be an expert on all fields, like economics.

This XKCD Applies

I'm all for it. Bring on the paradoxes.

I'm a rabid fanboy of the dot - and I'll hang in here until the bitter end. But that front page story about ctrl-shift-t the other day made me think that end may be closer than I thought.

I'm pretty sure going to the toilet in the middle of the night costs as much as it ever did (unless you count accidentally dropping your phone in).

I see accounts of similar proposals constantly on Hacker News.

Shoot - I see a similar attitude from non-technical people within my org all the time. They aren't looking to make money though. They just think, "Hey, we need this tool and you are a technical guy. Why don't you knock it out in a couple weeks for us so we can roll it out to 20 different countries."

It makes me a little crazy sometimes that people don't realize the work it takes to make something well and then to support it over time.

There's no nuke threat on Earth, bigger than US.

There's no nuke threat from Middle East, if you discount Israel.

Cars don't destroy Jobs.

Cook destroys Jobs.

Iraq/Syria is Czech/Slovakia