I work for a large (150,000+), employee-owned company - that's larger than Macy's and McDonalds. We consistently score in the Fortune Top 100 Companies to Work For in the general employee population, and Computerworld Best Places To Work in IT. Our customer satisfaction scores are always in the top 3 out of hundreds of players in our marketspace. Although we're far from perfect, one of the keys to our success (and, therefore, the propagation of our culture) is that from day one, the fact - and responsibility - of employee ownership is instilled in every single employee. Once inside, people move from department to department with a fair degree of fluidity, and nobody is scared to test their skills in a position because they have a vested interest as a stockholder. If more companies were majority-owned by the shop floor rather than the top floor, I think you'd see more of those companies succeed, with happier customers to boot.

Did you accidentally an adverb?

I admit I've used them for just this purpose.

Bibles.

I second that. I am responsible for supporting a steaming pile of code from a major electronics company well-known for their reasonably good hardware. I can't tell you how many times I was told, "But all the modules passed their unit tests!" - to which I reply, "All fine and dandy, but did any of your tests check the INTEROPERABILITY of the modules, or the application's behaviour when linked and assembled?" I've caught them in this little oopsie too many times; I'd have had the SQA manager fired long ago were I a direct employee of said organisation.

Flash the message "Somethings out there!" We all know what happens after that, too.

Never mind the Sex Pistols - Here's the BOLLOCKS!

I'd have modded you Insightful if you weren't swung over so far in the Funny direction already!

Israel uses aerostats similar to these to hold aloft monitoring and jamming equipment for long periods, and I assure you that if you have a fleet of jets and ground based anti-aircraft batteries, you can guard them well enough

Tesla is already doing it. Aptera and others soon (hopefully!) will go regional or national with practical, electric-only cars. Battery tech is only going to get better (electron bottles, anyone?) Bypass the "hybrid" patent thicket; do away with dirty, parts-heavy ICEs entirely and just get the maximum well-to-wheel efficiency possible, short of having a Mr. Fusion retrofit.

.... by Larry Niven. His first SF short story, I believe. Space miner has catastrophic accident, his CNS is salvaged and connected to a ship which has a breakdown while visiting Venus. A good read; I remember it as one of my early favorites to entice people to get interested in SF.

I don't go to anyone's funerals. Why should I? they're NOT going to show up at MINE!

I recall someone in my high-school art class - a real Dylan Klebold type - bringing this handbook to class back in 1985. Using hastily-scribbled recipes we copied from its pages that following summer, we had a grand time making craters in empty cow pastures, launching rockets powered by the "red-or-white powder" propellant. Of course if you tried doing most of the stuff in there now, you'd get put away under "Homeland Security / that there group of kids are terrarists" bullcrap, but we had no such problems back then. Just good clean fun.

Flamebait? Hell, I'd mod you +5 Serious if there were such an option!

Guess I'll have to settle for Insightful.

It's BOTH, you insensitive clod!