There's not much information provided by this link. It seems very lacking in detail. They take a couple of pot-shots
at Eli Lilly and Wal-mart, but fail to provide any hard data to substantiate their claims of intrusive behavior. Not very fair, if you ask me. And not worth get worked up over. Anyway, employees are a major expense for most companies -- salaries, training, benefits, payroll taxes, etc. It seems to me that corporations have a right to know a great deal about their employees' private lives after investing all that money in them. I know I wouldn't want to invest in a company unless it disclosed information about its business and finances. I don't see why I shouldn't expect it to work the other way around -- companies need to know details about what sort of people they are employing in order to insure their money is being put to its best use.
The site appears to be slashdotted, and I haven't actually been able to
see it myself, so I hope that what I'm about to say isn't overly
judgemental. I just don't understand what this fascination with
military hardware is about, and I find it somewhat disturbing. A
computer constructed from a 50 caliber ammunition cannister? Why on
earth would someone want that? Why would you want hardware that
reminds you of a technology that's been used to kill hundreds of
thousands (if not millions) of people? Why is that supposed to be fun
or amusing? It's sad that in this time of warmongering world leaders
that ordinary people so readily embrace symbols of the military and
the culture of death that surrounds it.
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There's not much information provided by this link. It seems very lacking in detail. They take a couple of pot-shots at Eli Lilly and Wal-mart, but fail to provide any hard data to substantiate their claims of intrusive behavior. Not very fair, if you ask me. And not worth get worked up over. Anyway, employees are a major expense for most companies -- salaries, training, benefits, payroll taxes, etc. It seems to me that corporations have a right to know a great deal about their employees' private lives after investing all that money in them. I know I wouldn't want to invest in a company unless it disclosed information about its business and finances. I don't see why I shouldn't expect it to work the other way around -- companies need to know details about what sort of people they are employing in order to insure their money is being put to its best use.
The site appears to be slashdotted, and I haven't actually been able to see it myself, so I hope that what I'm about to say isn't overly judgemental. I just don't understand what this fascination with military hardware is about, and I find it somewhat disturbing. A computer constructed from a 50 caliber ammunition cannister? Why on earth would someone want that? Why would you want hardware that reminds you of a technology that's been used to kill hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of people? Why is that supposed to be fun or amusing? It's sad that in this time of warmongering world leaders that ordinary people so readily embrace symbols of the military and the culture of death that surrounds it.