The OP is in fact being asinine, but that being said I don't Drive on New Year's Eve for precisely this reason. Icy conditions and drunken revelry are a bad mix. If I am not somewhere with public transportation I just stay home. New Years is a stupid holiday anyway.

'[U]tter agreement from the vast majority of staff on how to approach the matter.' has another name. It also begins with a U. Of course, 'union' is a dirty word on slashdot, and apparently in IT in general outside of government. Which is why these people continue to be exploited.

Ha! Amateur. I had an undergrad professor who liked to say Pi ~ 10, to an order of magnitude. Estimation is a good skill to have.

I believe the correct comment here should be "Thank you Comrade Stalin for our happy childhood."

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I'd do both and build my greenhouse out of semitransparent photostatics.

You are quite lucky, but unfortunately many employers/clients require a great deal of accountability. Working as I do for the NYC gov't, for instance, the very existence of consultants is a political football. Minute by minute accounting of money spent on our contracts is pretty much required, because at least half of the people we are working with are actively trying to get us fired at any point in time. Our group was recently told to be careful to clock in and out for lunch or going down to smoke because the office manager, a Dept. of Ed employee, had taken to scrutinizing the surveillance footage of the building entrance and comparing it to consultant timecards in an attempt (successful in at least two cases) to get people fired.

I think he feels it's like being on a floating base, with all the retards who couldn't hack it in sub school, along with all the chickenshit crap of basic. I gather the sub people are a great deal more laid back, especially when they are underway.

I never noticed that they particularly cared about tatoos on gaijin though, just japanese people.

Funny, my brother feels exactly the opposite. He can't imagine why anyone would be on a carrier.

Exactly. And also, I thought the name was quite clever in that it showed that the actual resource was almost beside the point. It doesn't matter what the valuable thing is, just that it is valuable. People say the plot is a cliched retelling of $historicalevent, and then congratulate themselves that they've seen though the cunning allegory, but they are missing the point. Humans have shown themselves willing to kill entire populations of our own kind for any number of resources. It is cliche precisely because it has happened again and again throughout our history.

Bravo.

Hard to charge that electric when the power cuts out twice a day.

Is this post really supporting the notion that web search should be a public utility controlled by the gov't rather than a corporation? I really hope not...

Except, you know, for the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. But other then blatantly violating a bedrock law of American capitalism that has been on the books for 70+ years they were perfectly within their rights...