Move closer to work. If they are paying you an hourly rate for the first 8 hours, work 8 hours. If they want more, inform them that an overtime payment is traditional. Social lives are overrated, but handy for making connections to get a leg up. Your address book is more vauable than your CV.

I too work for the military industrial complex and have all those alpha types in my address books. If I see them doing dumb, they get an email pointing it out politely. (It's just possible they might not have thought of all the consequences.)

Guess what. I am in exactly the same boat, and choose to control my life. The workplace actually prefer me to only work 8 hours as I work all 8 of them and come back ready to do it again instead of thinking how tired I am. They don't mind me goofing off occasionally because the last time I did, I saved the section $3M per annum.

As for tuna and ramen? Take time out and have a real lunch. The time away from your desk is refreshing. The vitamins and minerals will do your body good.

QUIT WHINGEING AND TAKE CONTROL

Yes, but you get to charge them for that and make them pay for their antibiotics...

CS6 is not available in some markets. And this is going to be a real killer for chunks of the corporate world. My pet artists are going to be on a sneakernet if they want to keep CS5 and are going to have to learn a new toolset in the meantime if they want to come back onto my network. (The one hooked up to the internet with support contracts and enterprise agreements and production web servers)

PAIN.

Just because it is in the charter of companies to maximise return on investments, does not necessarily make it ethical.

There is a reasonable technical way to police bit torrent. (watch torrent, determine torrents contents is your intellectual property, get list of IP addresses from the swarm, match those to users via ISP) But now the studios have to subpoena the ISPs with enough details to satisfy the ISPs legal departments then sue or prosecute the end users. The studio wanted the system where they got to shortcut the legal system at the expense of the ISP to punish the end user.

Basically the court said "If it's worth doing, it's worth doing properly. If it ain't worth doing, stop doing it."

So when I turned off Server RAHRAH125 and sent out the email "Just Killed 125." that would be bad? and speak of sociopathy?

Pay tax much? Governments get to charge taxes because they have standing armies. This has been the way since the dawn of city states and will not change because you don't like it.

At least on paper...

Usually you can only buy n tickets against a single name. So Scalper plus 3 "friends" are now in attendance. Now scalper needs to make 33% profit on each ticket to break even (assuming scalper sees no value in being at the show). If it is Plus 1... then Scalper needs to sell second ticket for 200% sales price. Much harder to do.

Since I ride a Motorcycle, I deem this NOT Funny as people like you make it more dangerous for riders like me. If you can't drive properly, take a taxi.

Oh yeah. and PUT THAT MOBILE DOWN!

If the phone is reported stolen, make the carriers responsible for any calls made by the handset. The victim has done the right thing by reporting the theft.

Make it an economic penalty if the company refuses to take action. It's the language they understand. Get the courts to back up the victim and the problem will go away in weeks if not days.

I'm opposed to the death penalty. It would not be hard to confiscate profits for 25 years effectively making the company serve a 25 year penalty.

And the 5 percent that do care care because they have just dropped and broken their shiny. Now they have to deal with the "It's warranty has been voided" spiel before they get the thing repaired. Of course this is done to encourage the consumer to buy shiny 2.0 (or 1.0s or whatever)

Given that accidents do happen there are going to be a lot of infuriated people without options if their friendly geek can't fix their shiny on the cheap and Apple won't. Each dropped Shiny will equal a lack of sales to that individual + bad word of mouth for 5 years.

It is a given that 95% don't care now. When 50% don't care Apple will have a problem.

So you have a bubble economy built on false value. You have two choices.

First of all, you defend that bubble with all your might, jumping on the fingers of anybody who dares touch your IP. This is what the current and future policy seems to be. It will cost you in contracts. It will cost more to enforce.

Or you lance that boil before someone else does and take the short term economic hit whilst developing new markets for products.

And this is what makes the best of the best. The ability to extract from the customer what they need and then be able to offer the best solution in the framework provided. The tech skills are only handy in the second part. The first requires great communication skills. Something that can be lacking in some IT workers.