Stop reading shitty English translations. The penalty of death is for smiting your parents, not backtalking. If you kill your parents are are to be put to death. Does that maybe make a little more sense? As for Leviticus 10:9 that prohibits a Kohen (Priest) entering the part of the temple when drunk. If you are going to bash religion, perhaps you should learn a little about it first.

If a CIO is being looked at this way, perhaps the CIO is functioning more as a CTO, handling technical details, than a CIO. If a company has only one of these psotions, then the CIO will naturally have to take care of the CTO duties and will likely have little time to devote to a CIO's duties, which are far more business-oriented.

Running your own small business from home is far different from telecommuting into an established business. Like you, I am lucky enough to be working from home running my own business. That means I get to work in my pajamas every morning, be home when my son gets home from HS and spend time with him. I get to nap in the middle of the day if I feel like it or work late into the night if that is what I want. But do not think that what we have is what most people here have.

Panera. Decent coffee and good wifi.

I am like you. I roll out of bed (8-ish), make coffee, get into my recliner, grab my laptop and get almost all of the "real" work done that needs to be. Then around 12:30, I have lunch then jump into the shower and get dressed. Any calls or appointments happen in the afternoon and when my son comes home at 2:30 I spend an hour with him before he starts his activities, at which point I go back to work until my wife gets home at 5:30 or I meet her at the gym at 4:30 (alternating days).

What is right for someone else is not going to be right for you. Find out what works best for you by changing it up every week for the first few months. I also find that my winter and summer schedules are far different. In the summer I can roll out of bed at 6:15 and head to the gym, no way I can do that in the winter.

The problem with that is that without patent protection the company has to keep the formula and process to make it secret, which means no peer review because you cannot review something that you cannot look at. That makes drugs far more dangerous.

forehead? too bad.

Since India is a signatory to the Berne convention, they could be sued in an international court, or even in a national court in Germany (I think Bayer is from Germany) and then the Indian government and/or the generic house could owe Bayer ALL of the money they would have made on every pill sold by this generic house plus potentially other damages.

If that was really true, don't you think that pharma companies would give their money to companies that would do this for them at 5x the return per dollar?

As a taxpayer, all I can say is that firing this guy was a bad idea. There was already a discrimination lawsuit in place, now it will get even more complex and since NASA is a Federal agency, we the taxpayers have to pay for the lawyers on the NASA side. This was a government job, so there is a property right in question here. There is a freedom of religion question as well (whether you agree with him or not). The guy is having his side paid for by a Defense fund, so he is not going ot run out of cash.

So there are 2 probable outcomes: (1) This guy wins and we the taxpayers have to give him a ton of money. or (2) He loses and the case gets appealed, and appealed and appealed. This will be in the 9th Circuit eventually which means they will side with NASA based on their track record then it goes to the Supreme Court who is likely to hear it since there are a few Constitutional questions here, and whether he wins and gets a ton of money or loses and does not get any money, we taxpayers still have to waste all kinds of taxpayer money funding government lawyers.

Truckers often have to go coast to coast. To go from Northeastern Maine (Madawasaka) to Southwestern CA (Imperial Beach near San Diego) is almost 3,300 miles and the more-standard NY to LA is about 2,800 miles - not an everyday occurrence, but I know many people who have done it, me included.

Are you Jeremy Clarkson by any chance?

Here in Metro NY I live one hour from Penn Station (NYC) by express train. Property taxes are high and so are housing prices, but when compared to owning an apartment in a decent building in NYC it is a bargain. But because we are in suburbia we have to have two cars and drive everywhere. The nearest supermarket is not walking distance. The train costs $300/month, but to drive would cost a hell of a lot more, so it works out to be a combination of mass transit and cars, but the cars are definitely needed. You also do not want to live walking distance from a train station - not particularly safe for the kids.

As an IT worker I have always documented. As a manager, an internal wiki was always set up by me during week one where one did not already exist. As a CTO that is one of the questions I ask of prospective managers. 15% of any project is given to documenting it. I have left positions where I left on the best of terms and gave tem my cell number with instructions to call if there is anything they need to know. Usually I get 1-2 calls just to clear up something that seemed obvious to me but to an outsider was a bit ambiguous. To me this is SOP - to do otherwise means you are not doing your job.

"The legal system should not be considering thoughts but only actions."

Really? So manslaughter = murder? You might want to rethink this. The whole idea of "Mens Rea", or what the person is thinking is integral to the entire criminal justice system in the US. If I hit you with my car and you die, it should not make a difference if I was trying to mow you down or you jumped out from behind a car and there was no way for me to see you? Without considering thoughts those two actions are the same.