The argument in the article is fundamentally flawed. In the US, as in most countries I think, employees typically have a fixed number of sick days, vacation days and/or personal days. Claiming that Attack of the Clones will somehow increase the total number of such days taken in 2002 by a non-negligable number is just plain silly. If an employee doesn't take vacation or call in sick on Clone Day, then surely he/she will make up for it some other time.
If you want to revamp a site, making it faster and prettier, more power to you! But why would you throw the site into another domain, instead of just keeping the known, loved and trusted host/domainname? Are we perhaps becoming too consolidation-obsessed?
What stand out in this article is how limited we humans are in our thinking. Here we are, exploring the great unknown, and the biggest threat we can come up with is a little green man with a red nose sneezing at us. You can imagine the sequence of events that took place at NASA HQ that lead to this initiative:
1) Some middle manager's secretary comes in with a sore throat.
2) The middle manager, having designs on the secretary, orders some poor geek to relinquish his supply of Ramen noodles, since that's the closest thing in sight to chicken soup.
3) The geek throws a hissy fit.
4) The manager backs down, realizing that if he puts up a big stink someone higher up might notice his job is totally redundant.
5) Totally emasculated, the manager tries to redeem himself by circulating the "Clear and Present Danger of Bio-Agent Vectors in Space" memorandum.
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The argument in the article is fundamentally flawed. In the US, as in most countries I think, employees typically have a fixed number of sick days, vacation days and/or personal days. Claiming that Attack of the Clones will somehow increase the total number of such days taken in 2002 by a non-negligable number is just plain silly. If an employee doesn't take vacation or call in sick on Clone Day, then surely he/she will make up for it some other time.
Point very well taken, thank you.
If you want to revamp a site, making it faster and prettier, more power to you! But why would you throw the site into another domain, instead of just keeping the known, loved and trusted host/domainname? Are we perhaps becoming too consolidation-obsessed?
What stand out in this article is how limited we humans are in our thinking. Here we are, exploring the great unknown, and the biggest threat we can come up with is a little green man with a red nose sneezing at us. You can imagine the sequence of events that took place at NASA HQ that lead to this initiative: 1) Some middle manager's secretary comes in with a sore throat. 2) The middle manager, having designs on the secretary, orders some poor geek to relinquish his supply of Ramen noodles, since that's the closest thing in sight to chicken soup. 3) The geek throws a hissy fit. 4) The manager backs down, realizing that if he puts up a big stink someone higher up might notice his job is totally redundant. 5) Totally emasculated, the manager tries to redeem himself by circulating the "Clear and Present Danger of Bio-Agent Vectors in Space" memorandum.
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