>>if you walk by the front door of a house, and the house is wide open, and no one is home, and in plain site is a stack of 20 dollar bills, >>you are 100% responsible and culpable if you take that stack of $20s. the person who left them there like that is, yes, pretty stupid. but >>they deserve zero blame. the criminal, ALWAYS the criminal is responsible for the trangressions that the criminal freely chooses to commit
Tell that to my insurance company. They will not cover those losses due to negligence on my part. And the DA might be willing to prosecute me if the baddie slipped and broke his neck while stealing the money because I created an 'attractive nuisance' type of situation.
Ah, not so fast. Our bodies still exist. We do not lose mass when we die. What *does* happen is that we stop doing things: Walking, sleeping, breathing, breaking down food into useful molecules, etc. We stop thinking and we most likely quickly slip out of consciousness and awareness, and from our personal point of view we are then dead.
I know it seems like a really minor nitpick, but if you're going to be existential about death, get it right: You do not stop being, you stop doing. You are not a body with a thinking 'soul', you are a body that thinks. The thinking part is inseparable from walking or breathing. So, you are still there, but you are slightly less useful to the rest of us.
>>They don't know how important it is for us "TO NOT SCREW IT UP"?
They don't know you, they don't care about you, and they don't care about the franchise as history or art. They don't care if they are true to the original series (or any series, really). They could care less what an auditorium's worth of trekkies think of this movie.
I've come to face the hard truth that movie studios are not theater troupes or charities or societies for the arts. They are there to make money. If you don't believe me, go read any two Judd Apatow scripts, then go check the incomes of those two films, and then go cry.
Could it be possible that without DST, the power usage would actually be higher? I notice that they don't have pre-DST data for the same seasons. I know that my power usage goes up after DST because it's cold and dark out in general. DST doesn't really change anything about my own power usage. And most things that relate to the dark (street lights, spotlights, garage lights, etc) are either on timers or use light sensors. Those are independent of DST as well, but will show an increase in power consumption due to the decreased daylight.
>>The primary issue that must be adressed now is people's faith in investment, that the property they hold in the form of stock and the real >>estate is as secure in its value as any other appreciating/depreciating asset, and not subject to the vissitudes of manipulators and profiteers.
I apologize for reading this discussion so late, but your comment made me too curious to not ask: Why would you convince people of these claims if they're obviously not true? If they *were* true, we wouldn't be having this crisis in the first place, right? If not for the vicissitudes of manipulators, would (for example) Apple's stock not rollercoaster after every earnings report? I thought that the entire point of the stock market is that your securities are essentially based on someone else's subjective valuation of an imaginary share of a corporation. Even more stable securities are affected by this because their value follows the stock market, which in turn follows investor confidence.
What you're saying, it sounds like, is that we should tell people who just lost their homes to fires that they shouldn't worry about buying a *new* house because houses never burn down.
Without apparent imminent danger to life or property, the DA still has a responsibility to obtain a warrant. You are confusing probably cause to get a warrant (you found dirty pictures) and probable cause to break down a door (you hear screaming).
Believe it or not, it took this mod to remind me that it's Monday (I'm on leave, you see). Don't take it as bitterness, but I have noticed this peculiar trend. Try it with me. Every monday, pay close attention to the moderations. I have found them to be inconsistent if not bizarre, with useless aphorisms modded to +5 and some comments modded down seemingly without reason.
My hypothesis is that people who received mod points over the weekend are just getting in to work and feel like they need to use them all as fast as they can so that they can win the prize.
Mod this insightful if you agree, or interesting if you disagree.
The reasonable reaction to your policy (and the reason the gov't doesn't pursue it) would be to save up as much as possible in savings. The feds hate it when people do that, because it depresses our economical metrics. You need to take money out of the paycheck in order for people to not lose their minds by manually paying the money to the gov't.
I don't even look at my check these days; however, I'd feel more angry at the gov't if I had to sit and write out a check for $500 or whatever every two weeks.
People in general are overreactive, shortsighted, and small minded when it comes to finances. Tax policies need to take that into account.
>>Changes in the way people express themselves is just part of life - "nigger" became "Negro", which became "colored", and then "black".
Negro was used since the 1600's. The more insulting term came about during the plantation era. In the early 20th century the term became people of color, then colored people. In the '60's 'black' came into usage. Right now we use African American, which I feel is a poor term because many black people are neither african nor american.
>>Until the word "handicapped" is banned in some way
In my very liberal house growing up, handicapped *was* banned. 'Differently abled' had not come into vogue yet; the proper thing to say was 'a person with blindness' or 'a person with developmental disorders' instead of a blind person or a retarded person. The point, I was told, was to always put the person before the disability.
The problem I have with doublespeak is that it comes about as a result of someone out there (who I picture as a university dean, female, berkely maybe, so sue me) deciding that I don't know how best to speak; that I am not smart enough to know if I'm being racist or insensitive; and that with simple language changes, society will become a tolerant utopia.
All it really does is deeply entrench the idea that you should change what you say because other people do; the most sad part is that the right then uses the same routine that the left worked so hard to develop in the name of peace and love.
I really was beginning to wonder if it was just my imagination. I have everything turned off on my iphone except wifi and edge/voice (No 3G around here). At first I thought the little static tantrums were happening at fixed intervals, so I timed it. No luck. Then I had the iPhone connect to the internet through my computer instead of the router so that I could read the logs. Nothing.
Sooo... I tried using a few styles of ferrite RF chokes, I tried wrapping cords into air-core chokes, I tried keeping data and sound lines as far away fro the phone as possible. Nothing seems to work, so to be honest I've pretty much just started using the iPhone's internal speaker when I'm listening to pandora or something.
I'm glad I'm not alone on this, but it kind of sucks. I hate to single out the iPhone, but it's the first phone I've used that did this.
-b
p.s. and having one central app store that will occasionally refuse to let you buy anything due to 'problems with the itunes store' sucks ass. Thanks, Apple. Oh and thanks for not letting us record video, run apps in the background, or let apps access onboard music.
I don't know what OS you're running, but this will work with any of them. Go search for a host file blacklist that routes known ads/spam/flash to localhost. Here is the one I use:
Instructions are on the page. This saves a huge amount of bandwidth in addition to the time spent waiting around for slow adservers before the page loads.
It probably blocks some slashverts, but oh well. Life isn't fair.
>>we're so many steps closer to this than we've been in a long time, it's scary. The Armageddon clock is a lot closer to midnight than it ever should be.
I'd say we're quite a few more steps away from that then we have been in a while. RE: Kent state, Athens tenn., Bonus Army, civil war, etc...
The stakes seem high- and they are- but the new media and instant communication have helped the citizens' cause. Can you imagine what would happen if armed insurrection happened in New York City? 15 minutes later, everyone east of Ohio would be loaded with the safeties off.
>>Other MS hardware, keyboards and mice, are doing very well.
Those products were made and designed, by I believe logitech.
I'm not old enough to know much about how Virgin got started. I do know that Google started as a search engine, and has grown to include other computer-based services- But their business is in computer/internet services.
Ah wait, I looked it up. Virgin is a venture capital group, not a company per se. It can expand much like a mutual fund. The only thing that Virgin music has in common with Virgin airlines is the name. Everything else from CEO to marketing is separate. That is way different from Google, even if at first it seems like splitting hairs.
>>Well, unless your personal budget is in the billions, the US Army is gonna win that arms race. In the end, they have the bomb, right?
And what would be left of the U.S. if they did that? What kind of economy, skilled middle class, etc?
People decry the 'supposed' deterrent effect of personal weapons, but the fact is that our gov't will not win an all-out armed conflict against the entire US again. An invading force is always at a tremendous disadvantage when fighting people on their own soil. I know the terrain within a 50-miles radius of my house like the back of my hand. I know all the military bases around here and their capabilities. I have more firepower than the police dept. (in terms of modern equipment and training, not dozens of glocks).
I will never support armed insurrection, but if it starts you can bet your ass that I'll put Mel "Fucking Jews" Gibson to shame defending my home.
Not as well armed? The official statistic is that there are 90 guns per 100 people here in the US. I personally think that number should be higher, but whatever. That's a lot of firepower. My state is pretty squarely in the middle in terms of gun rights (can own, but must register for pistols and scary-looking weapons). I know of at least 3-4 people who own serious firepower- I mean.50 BMG rifles, machine guns, etc. Not to mention that a well-trained person can hit a human-sized target at 400 yards with the military's own issue weapon and ammo should dissuade most commanders.
There are crazies out there who I think actually *hope* for this kind of civil war for whatever reason, and I think that's fucked up*. On the other hand, I will admit that in the case of armed insurrection, the citizens will hand the military their asses. And I am in the military.
-b
*Armed conflict as opposed to activism, lobbying, protests, etc. which I suppose the average malcontent finds too burdensome (compared to killing people, I guess).
>>I know I'd go, if there were 999,9999 others willing to do the same thing.
At first I agreed with you, but then I considered it for a few minutes and changed my mind. You saw what happened to our civil liberties after 9-11: and that was only a few thousand dead at the hands of a few people.
One million armed protesters in DC would be cause for all-out martial law and ensuing conflict. Whether or not everyone rose up against the gov't would be moot; our economy would probably take decades to recover.
Look up southern reconstruction, the bonus army, and pinkertons (maybe not in that order).
Like I said, I support you in spirit but not in execution (HA HA get it?).
>>That way labor laws can be enforced sensibly and taxes be collected.
made me sit up and think. How would I feel if I worked in another country for years, paying taxes out the nose, only to be sent back home?
And then I thought that, well, they ARE using infrastructure while they're here. But then I though, well, when *I* go to other countries, my income is NOT taxed. I just don't see a fair way around this issue.
Maybe just partial taxes? But then we are treating immigrants like they are different, and the american workers would get pissed that 15% of their paycheck was going to the feds even though they had kids to feed, too.
>>Or are you opposed to them making money in things other than the search engine business?
I guess that as a stockholder I would ask, "Is this our core specialty? Is this something we have the expertise to do? Who are our competitors? What will this do to further our core business?"
That is what led me to say what I did. A programming shop could start selling brownies and probably make some money, but why would they? If the expense of the venture is more than made up by the profit, maybe that programming shop should just go into the brownie business.
And while I understand that the buying company is not Google proper, I'm old fashioned when it comes to business plans. People railed against MS when they started making hardware with the Zune for the same reasons I've just outlined. Would you buy a Ford computer?
Not many people realize that an aircraft's initial cost is dwarfed by its yearly maintenance and fuel costs. Think about how my base does it- 200-odd maintainers each making between $25k and $65k plus benefits. In my shop alone it's not uncommon to see a daily throughput of up to $60k in parts (replacements, turn-ins, locally fabricated). Landing gear cracked? No repairs allowed, and a drag brace or main strut costs more than my house.
I will of course leave out the cost of the flightline and weapons personnel for now.
The point of flying an unstable, fast, small aircraft is that you can maneuver at high speed/high-G. Pilots play hell with the airframe, and you wouldn't believe what breaks under those conditions. I saw a loose rivet head in a sealed portion of a vertical stabilizer (F-15, not my base). No one knew when the rivet head got in there, but it had completely destroyed a static air line and an electrical cable. The inside of the compartment looked like pavement.
I would love to own my own fighter jet, but it's not something you can just save up for and go buy- you should set aside 4-5 times the cost of each aircraft in high-interest funds to help pay for maintenance. And remember that commodity military hardware like this will only depreciate in value, and you have what other posters have identified as a mid-life crisis cure.
If I had stock in Google and they were planning on paying for this with corporate money, I would be outraged.
Much greater cost? With DST, everyone is synchronized. No one changes their schedule, they simply slide it forward or back one hour all together. Your proposal would mean that instead of everyone being on the same page, people with kids have one schedule, farmers have their schedule, 9-5 people have their schedule... It would work, I guess, but I don't know how it would be easier or cheaper than what we do now.
Like the other people posting ideas, you're preserving DST but moving the burden from everyone to just a few people, which IMO *doubles* the overall burden- both parties in a scheduling mixup are going to be inconvenienced instead of everything running smoothly 363 days of the year.
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>>if you walk by the front door of a house, and the house is wide open, and no one is home, and in plain site is a stack of 20 dollar bills,
>>you are 100% responsible and culpable if you take that stack of $20s. the person who left them there like that is, yes, pretty stupid. but
>>they deserve zero blame. the criminal, ALWAYS the criminal is responsible for the trangressions that the criminal freely chooses to commit
Tell that to my insurance company. They will not cover those losses due to negligence on my part. And the DA might be willing to prosecute me if the baddie slipped and broke his neck while stealing the money because I created an 'attractive nuisance' type of situation.
-b
>>[...] when we die, we cease to exist.
Ah, not so fast. Our bodies still exist. We do not lose mass when we die. What *does* happen is that we stop doing things: Walking, sleeping, breathing, breaking down food into useful molecules, etc. We stop thinking and we most likely quickly slip out of consciousness and awareness, and from our personal point of view we are then dead.
I know it seems like a really minor nitpick, but if you're going to be existential about death, get it right: You do not stop being, you stop doing. You are not a body with a thinking 'soul', you are a body that thinks. The thinking part is inseparable from walking or breathing. So, you are still there, but you are slightly less useful to the rest of us.
Depending on how hungry we are.
-b
>>They don't know how important it is for us "TO NOT SCREW IT UP"?
They don't know you, they don't care about you, and they don't care about the franchise as history or art. They don't care if they are true to the original series (or any series, really). They could care less what an auditorium's worth of trekkies think of this movie.
I've come to face the hard truth that movie studios are not theater troupes or charities or societies for the arts. They are there to make money. If you don't believe me, go read any two Judd Apatow scripts, then go check the incomes of those two films, and then go cry.
-b
The GP was modded either insightful or informative when I replied to it. This is my foot in my mouth.
-b
>>One of these days, we're going to have an accidental missile launch
I don't work with nukes, but the stuff I do work with uses zulu (UTC) time. This has its own problems, but DST is not one of them.
-b
Are you joking? The day is always 24 hours long. Do you really think that DST makes days 25 hours long?
You get one day a year that is an hour longer and then another day that is an hour shorter. Every other day is 24 hours long.
Did I just get trolled?
-b
Could it be possible that without DST, the power usage would actually be higher? I notice that they don't have pre-DST data for the same seasons. I know that my power usage goes up after DST because it's cold and dark out in general. DST doesn't really change anything about my own power usage. And most things that relate to the dark (street lights, spotlights, garage lights, etc) are either on timers or use light sensors. Those are independent of DST as well, but will show an increase in power consumption due to the decreased daylight.
-b
>>The primary issue that must be adressed now is people's faith in investment, that the property they hold in the form of stock and the real
>>estate is as secure in its value as any other appreciating/depreciating asset, and not subject to the vissitudes of manipulators and profiteers.
I apologize for reading this discussion so late, but your comment made me too curious to not ask: Why would you convince people of these claims if they're obviously not true? If they *were* true, we wouldn't be having this crisis in the first place, right? If not for the vicissitudes of manipulators, would (for example) Apple's stock not rollercoaster after every earnings report? I thought that the entire point of the stock market is that your securities are essentially based on someone else's subjective valuation of an imaginary share of a corporation. Even more stable securities are affected by this because their value follows the stock market, which in turn follows investor confidence.
What you're saying, it sounds like, is that we should tell people who just lost their homes to fires that they shouldn't worry about buying a *new* house because houses never burn down.
-b
Someone might already have mentioned this, but the OP was referring to the 'nerd rage' perk in Fallout 3. Just FYI.
-b
I'd just like to point out to people that Windows Server '08 runs between $600 and $800 according to the searches I ran.
Not all of us can get student/teacher discounts or yank a copy from work.
-b
Without apparent imminent danger to life or property, the DA still has a responsibility to obtain a warrant. You are confusing probably cause to get a warrant (you found dirty pictures) and probable cause to break down a door (you hear screaming).
-b
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Believe it or not, it took this mod to remind me that it's Monday (I'm on leave, you see). Don't take it as bitterness, but I have noticed this peculiar trend. Try it with me. Every monday, pay close attention to the moderations. I have found them to be inconsistent if not bizarre, with useless aphorisms modded to +5 and some comments modded down seemingly without reason.
My hypothesis is that people who received mod points over the weekend are just getting in to work and feel like they need to use them all as fast as they can so that they can win the prize.
Mod this insightful if you agree, or interesting if you disagree.
-b
The reasonable reaction to your policy (and the reason the gov't doesn't pursue it) would be to save up as much as possible in savings. The feds hate it when people do that, because it depresses our economical metrics. You need to take money out of the paycheck in order for people to not lose their minds by manually paying the money to the gov't.
I don't even look at my check these days; however, I'd feel more angry at the gov't if I had to sit and write out a check for $500 or whatever every two weeks.
People in general are overreactive, shortsighted, and small minded when it comes to finances. Tax policies need to take that into account.
-b
Just a heads up-
>>Changes in the way people express themselves is just part of life - "nigger" became "Negro", which became "colored", and then "black".
Negro was used since the 1600's. The more insulting term came about during the plantation era. In the early 20th century the term became people of color, then colored people. In the '60's 'black' came into usage. Right now we use African American, which I feel is a poor term because many black people are neither african nor american.
>>Until the word "handicapped" is banned in some way
In my very liberal house growing up, handicapped *was* banned. 'Differently abled' had not come into vogue yet; the proper thing to say was 'a person with blindness' or 'a person with developmental disorders' instead of a blind person or a retarded person. The point, I was told, was to always put the person before the disability.
The problem I have with doublespeak is that it comes about as a result of someone out there (who I picture as a university dean, female, berkely maybe, so sue me) deciding that I don't know how best to speak; that I am not smart enough to know if I'm being racist or insensitive; and that with simple language changes, society will become a tolerant utopia.
All it really does is deeply entrench the idea that you should change what you say because other people do; the most sad part is that the right then uses the same routine that the left worked so hard to develop in the name of peace and love.
I really was beginning to wonder if it was just my imagination. I have everything turned off on my iphone except wifi and edge/voice (No 3G around here). At first I thought the little static tantrums were happening at fixed intervals, so I timed it. No luck. Then I had the iPhone connect to the internet through my computer instead of the router so that I could read the logs. Nothing.
Sooo... I tried using a few styles of ferrite RF chokes, I tried wrapping cords into air-core chokes, I tried keeping data and sound lines as far away fro the phone as possible. Nothing seems to work, so to be honest I've pretty much just started using the iPhone's internal speaker when I'm listening to pandora or something.
I'm glad I'm not alone on this, but it kind of sucks. I hate to single out the iPhone, but it's the first phone I've used that did this.
-b
p.s. and having one central app store that will occasionally refuse to let you buy anything due to 'problems with the itunes store' sucks ass. Thanks, Apple. Oh and thanks for not letting us record video, run apps in the background, or let apps access onboard music.
Yeah I woke up crabby today.
I don't know what OS you're running, but this will work with any of them. Go search for a host file blacklist that routes known ads/spam/flash to localhost. Here is the one I use:
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
Instructions are on the page. This saves a huge amount of bandwidth in addition to the time spent waiting around for slow adservers before the page loads.
It probably blocks some slashverts, but oh well. Life isn't fair.
-b
>>we're so many steps closer to this than we've been in a long time, it's scary. The Armageddon clock is a lot closer to midnight than it ever should be.
I'd say we're quite a few more steps away from that then we have been in a while. RE: Kent state, Athens tenn., Bonus Army, civil war, etc...
The stakes seem high- and they are- but the new media and instant communication have helped the citizens' cause. Can you imagine what would happen if armed insurrection happened in New York City? 15 minutes later, everyone east of Ohio would be loaded with the safeties off.
-b
>>Other MS hardware, keyboards and mice, are doing very well.
Those products were made and designed, by I believe logitech.
I'm not old enough to know much about how Virgin got started. I do know that Google started as a search engine, and has grown to include other computer-based services- But their business is in computer/internet services.
Ah wait, I looked it up. Virgin is a venture capital group, not a company per se. It can expand much like a mutual fund. The only thing that Virgin music has in common with Virgin airlines is the name. Everything else from CEO to marketing is separate. That is way different from Google, even if at first it seems like splitting hairs.
-b
>>Well, unless your personal budget is in the billions, the US Army is gonna win that arms race. In the end, they have the bomb, right?
And what would be left of the U.S. if they did that? What kind of economy, skilled middle class, etc?
People decry the 'supposed' deterrent effect of personal weapons, but the fact is that our gov't will not win an all-out armed conflict against the entire US again. An invading force is always at a tremendous disadvantage when fighting people on their own soil. I know the terrain within a 50-miles radius of my house like the back of my hand. I know all the military bases around here and their capabilities. I have more firepower than the police dept. (in terms of modern equipment and training, not dozens of glocks).
I will never support armed insurrection, but if it starts you can bet your ass that I'll put Mel "Fucking Jews" Gibson to shame defending my home.
-b
Not as well armed? The official statistic is that there are 90 guns per 100 people here in the US. I personally think that number should be higher, but whatever. That's a lot of firepower. My state is pretty squarely in the middle in terms of gun rights (can own, but must register for pistols and scary-looking weapons). I know of at least 3-4 people who own serious firepower- I mean .50 BMG rifles, machine guns, etc. Not to mention that a well-trained person can hit a human-sized target at 400 yards with the military's own issue weapon and ammo should dissuade most commanders.
There are crazies out there who I think actually *hope* for this kind of civil war for whatever reason, and I think that's fucked up*. On the other hand, I will admit that in the case of armed insurrection, the citizens will hand the military their asses. And I am in the military.
-b
*Armed conflict as opposed to activism, lobbying, protests, etc. which I suppose the average malcontent finds too burdensome (compared to killing people, I guess).
>>I know I'd go, if there were 999,9999 others willing to do the same thing.
At first I agreed with you, but then I considered it for a few minutes and changed my mind. You saw what happened to our civil liberties after 9-11: and that was only a few thousand dead at the hands of a few people.
One million armed protesters in DC would be cause for all-out martial law and ensuing conflict. Whether or not everyone rose up against the gov't would be moot; our economy would probably take decades to recover.
Look up southern reconstruction, the bonus army, and pinkertons (maybe not in that order).
Like I said, I support you in spirit but not in execution (HA HA get it?).
-b
I agreed with your post; however, one little part
>>That way labor laws can be enforced sensibly and taxes be collected.
made me sit up and think. How would I feel if I worked in another country for years, paying taxes out the nose, only to be sent back home?
And then I thought that, well, they ARE using infrastructure while they're here. But then I though, well, when *I* go to other countries, my income is NOT taxed. I just don't see a fair way around this issue.
Maybe just partial taxes? But then we are treating immigrants like they are different, and the american workers would get pissed that 15% of their paycheck was going to the feds even though they had kids to feed, too.
I'm glad I'm not a politician.
-b
>>Or are you opposed to them making money in things other than the search engine business?
I guess that as a stockholder I would ask, "Is this our core specialty? Is this something we have the expertise to do? Who are our competitors? What will this do to further our core business?"
That is what led me to say what I did. A programming shop could start selling brownies and probably make some money, but why would they? If the expense of the venture is more than made up by the profit, maybe that programming shop should just go into the brownie business.
And while I understand that the buying company is not Google proper, I'm old fashioned when it comes to business plans. People railed against MS when they started making hardware with the Zune for the same reasons I've just outlined. Would you buy a Ford computer?
I'm just thinking out loud, is all.
-b
Not many people realize that an aircraft's initial cost is dwarfed by its yearly maintenance and fuel costs. Think about how my base does it- 200-odd maintainers each making between $25k and $65k plus benefits. In my shop alone it's not uncommon to see a daily throughput of up to $60k in parts (replacements, turn-ins, locally fabricated). Landing gear cracked? No repairs allowed, and a drag brace or main strut costs more than my house.
I will of course leave out the cost of the flightline and weapons personnel for now.
The point of flying an unstable, fast, small aircraft is that you can maneuver at high speed/high-G. Pilots play hell with the airframe, and you wouldn't believe what breaks under those conditions. I saw a loose rivet head in a sealed portion of a vertical stabilizer (F-15, not my base). No one knew when the rivet head got in there, but it had completely destroyed a static air line and an electrical cable. The inside of the compartment looked like pavement.
I would love to own my own fighter jet, but it's not something you can just save up for and go buy- you should set aside 4-5 times the cost of each aircraft in high-interest funds to help pay for maintenance. And remember that commodity military hardware like this will only depreciate in value, and you have what other posters have identified as a mid-life crisis cure.
If I had stock in Google and they were planning on paying for this with corporate money, I would be outraged.
-b
Much greater cost? With DST, everyone is synchronized. No one changes their schedule, they simply slide it forward or back one hour all together. Your proposal would mean that instead of everyone being on the same page, people with kids have one schedule, farmers have their schedule, 9-5 people have their schedule... It would work, I guess, but I don't know how it would be easier or cheaper than what we do now.
Like the other people posting ideas, you're preserving DST but moving the burden from everyone to just a few people, which IMO *doubles* the overall burden- both parties in a scheduling mixup are going to be inconvenienced instead of everything running smoothly 363 days of the year.
-b