I imagine it's because based on a critical examination of nuclear power by Anonymous Coward, it clearly is the case.
*groan* so now Nuclear shills are AC's, how pathetic. Did you post as A.C so you could mod your own post as Interesting, how very creative of you.
The "waste" of breeder reactors consists of relatively harmless elements (like lead) and radioactive substances with short half lives that within days decay into relatively harmless elements.
?!?!What?!?!, uh no, actinides are highly radioactive with half lives of around 600 years.
And if you want to argue about breeders generating plutonium then by all means describe a disposal
*sigh* first of all while our current level of material sciences and technology cannot produce a safe nuclear reactor, perhaps one day we can (or use it in space craft) which is why I said "long term isotope storage". Plutonium, whilst deadly is also extremely valuable.
method for the plutonium from decommissioned bombs that guarantees it will never in its 24,000 year half life find its way into another bomb
No problem, don't mine uranium in the first place, which also eliminates the toxic mine tailings, the energetic costs of demolishing the reactor when it is decommissioned, etc etc etc. And I'm more concerned with radioactive products created by exposure to plutonium finding their way into the water table.
My way is "destroying" it by using it as fuel in a reactor, which is the same place plutonium generated by breeders can go -- and in that case it can be salted with Pu-240 to ensure it can't be used in bomb making.
Your Way,,, what way, you have described nothing AND all proposals for current reactors use a once through cycle. Show me a link to a proposed breeder reactor planned for construction for commercial power generation. Clearly, you are a bullshiter.
As opposed to the CO2 emissions from the energy used in the production of, well, everything? Solar/wind/whatever included?
Except the difference is that CO2 and other greenhouse gas production for nuclear is an ongoing consequence of making fissionable reactor fuel, whereas they are one time inputs for solar/wind/wave.
What is this, the 80s? CFCs were banned more than a decade ago in the US. They were used as a refrigerant in uranium processing just like they were used as a refrigerant in other applications prior to the ban. Now they use non-CFC refrigerants. Welcome to 1995.
Oh come on, clearly you live in fantasy land. You expect me to believe that USEC phased out CFC 114 use when they have access to a valid military exemption under the authority of the DOE, and that the last available data in 1999 revealed that over 800000 pounds of CFC 114 was released into the atmosphere. Since subsequent data is not available AND prototype designs of the new centrifuge were only finalised in 2007 it's not to much of a stretch to conclude that CFC 114 is still very much in use in the enrichment facilities. But you don't have to believe me here are the words of a USEC spokesperson in 2001
'Yes, you do have this issue with (CFC-114 and) enrichment,'' said
Elizabeth Stuckle, spokeswoman for the company. ''But we are also looking to
replace this technology with a new technology toward the end of this decade.
Unfortunately this is a necessary thing, because these are the only
enrichment facilities that this country had. We don't want to become
dependant on foreign enrichment.''
According to the EPA's toxic release inventory, a giant public database of self-reported pollution totals, the
Paducah and Ohio plants released 818,000 pounds of CFC-114 in 1999. That's 88 percent of the national total of industrial sources, and 14
percent of an international industry estimate of all CFC114 emissions worldwide. That was 1999, I don'
For now, the only feasible baseline power plants are hydro, nuclear and fossil.
Why is it that in any conversation about alternative sources of energy someone will mention Nuclear power as "feasible", "sustainable" or any other optamistic decriptor that, based on a critical examination of nuclear power, clearly isn't the case?
So before I have another drawn out conversation with yet another Nuclear Shill that hasn't done any actual research of the entire nuclear process, from Mining to long term isotope storage (or "waste") to an examination of any actual Net energy benefit from the nuclear process, let me summarise by simply saying that Nuclear power is barely practical let alone feasible.
and telling everybody not to invest in nuclear and wait until we come up with adequate energy storage technology is making the global warming worse by preventing substantial CO2 emission reductions.
Sorry, I meant obviously hasn't done any research because not only are there considerable CO2 emmissions from the energy used in the production of U-235 for reactor cores but also the CFC's leaked in the actual process are America's Number 1 source of CFC emmissions and are up to 20,000 times more potent as a greenhouse gas than C02.
Nuclear Shills should stop pretending that Nuclear power is anything other than the unmitigated failure that it is which takes money and research resources away from projects like baseload solar thermal. S.T.P is revealing itself to be completely viable alternatives to coal based on the capability to store thermal energy long after the sun goes down. That is the whole point of solar thermal power after all.
I think that the problem is not that they don't know how to get these games to run, but that they are a low priority.
Fair call, I guess that not enough people are voting for those apps in the appdb and thats the only way the wine devs can get a sense of where they need to focus their resources, maybe dual boot or a separate machine is the answer for you. Having said that, have you voted for your app? I'll vote for them too if you give me a link to them.
www.slamd64.com. It's the 64 bit version of Slackware.
Slackware, jeez, back to the nineties that was the last time I used slackware. Is it really any better for hardware support than Fedora or ubuntu? I seem to be going ok for all my hardware nowadays, now I tend to find myself compiling kernels for performance rather than hardware support. Am I missing something here?
Damn right I have a reason! I have a 64 bit CPU. Isn't that reason enough? I'm so sick and tired of people saying "oh, you are running 64bit?
Oh, I totally agree, huge memory model vs medium memory model, word size etc make it no contest. I run my machine 64 bit with 8Gb ram but that's also the machine that I run wine and my games on. Most users I meet don't even know what a 64bit machine is, at the end of the day though I still think the wine devs would value input from you as at least you seem a more technically advanced user than average.
because the more debugging info they can get and confirmation that bugs in the wine bugzilla are still valid the better the wine devs can focus their efforts. Also you can vote for your apps etc etc. I'm not trying tell you how to suck eggs but I found the wine project devs pretty responsive when I contibuted something and now my games run.
Slamd64
wow never heard of that distro, but I think 64 bit will present you with some unique challenges. I guess you've got a reason to, I've found ubuntu a good launch point for games under linux.
just compiling and installing Wine is a major ordeal, taking at least a few days of RTFM
well that sucks - only takes me a few hours mainly unattended.
When I want to play, it is simpler and more reliable to just reboot into XP and have everything work.
fair enough, I dual boot for that reason, but it's kinda cools seeing something get closer to working and then working. I'll check your apps out on the appdb later I'm curious to see how much effort has gone into getting them to work.
You contribute the debug data from your attempts to assist getting them going or maintained those applications in the appDB? I think the wine maintainers have done a good job considering they are volunteers and they are trying to reverse engineer the windows API and the work of M$. Any test data you provide or maintaining applications helps to get them and other apps working, wine isn't going to be perfect until details of the way the Windows API functions become apparent.
Sure you just want your software to run, that's what I wanted to, but I only got something when I put something back in. I'm sure the wine developers would value your input.
Corporate governance, being what it is, obliges CEO's to make decisions in the commercial interest of the company - by law - with the threat of legal ramifications for members of the board. Of course, as you say, there is scope for shareholders to vote but the range of choices presented to them will be limited to what decisions the board determines are in the commercial interests of the company and, therefore, shareholders even if both parties don't like those choices.
This is the major flaw in our commercial system, even if CEO's want to make socially responsible decisions - by law - they must present actions that protect and maximise shareholder value, this is the core reason we have so many of these problems in the world, and until the law is changed to make companies deal with their externalities we will continue to see these types of stories.
After the AC induction motor, we think that the greatest invention of Nikola was the electric car. This was no ordinary battery driven car because this car took its power from the ether just like an automobile antenna picks up radio waves from the ether.
In 1931, under the financing of Pierce-Arrow and George Westinghouse, a 1931 Pierce-Arrow was selected to be tested at the factory grounds in Buffalo, N. Y. The standard internal combustion engine was removed and an 80-H.P. 1800 r.p.m electric motor installed to the clutch and transmission. The AC motor measured 40 inches long and 30 inches in diameter and the power leads were left standing in the air--no external power source and no recharging of any batteries was necessary.
At the appointed time, Nikola Tesla arrived from New York City and inspected the Pierce-Arrow automobile. He then went to a local radio store and purchased a handful of tubes (12), wires and assorted resistors. A box measuring 24 inches long, 12 inches wide and 6 inches high was assembled housing the circuit. The box was placed on the front seat and had its wires connected to the air-cooled, brushless motor. Two rods 1/4" in diameter stuck out of the box about 3" in length.
Mr. Tesla got into the driver's seat, pushed the two rods in and stated, "We now have power". He put the car into gear and it moved forward! This vehicle, powered by an AC motor, was driven to speeds of 90 m.p.h. and performed better than any internal combustion engine of its day! One week was spent testing the vehicle. Several newspapers in Buffalo reported this test. When asked where the power came from, Tesla replied, "From the ether all around us".
Here is a report of the incident from Tesla biographer Marc J. Seifer:
"The car [was] a standard Pierce Arrow, with the engine removed and certain other components installed instead. The standard clutch, gear box, and drive train remained.... Under the hood, there was a brushless electric motor, connected to [or in place of] the engine.... Tesla would not divulge who made the motor.
Set into the dash was a "power receiver" consisting of a box... containing 12 radio tubes.... A vertical antenna, consisting of a 6 ft. rod, was installed and connected to the power receiver [which was] in turn, connected to the motor by two heavy, conspicuous cables.... Tesla pushed these in before starting and said: "We now have power."
If this tale is to be believed, it would mean that Tesla had also installed one of his powerful oscillators somewhere near Niagara Falls to provide the wireless energy needed to power the vehicle."(Seifer, Wizard. The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla, p. 419).
Seed cops; Those seeds are copyright - you cannot plant them/you violated copyright by planting them
IP cops; thank you for welcoming us to your business, we will now audit all of your computer systems
RIAA cops; thank you for welcoming us to your home, we will now audit all your media for copyright violations
MPAA cops; You know when you pirate a movie a small child dies in a third world country, you should be ashamed of yourself
And of course the "say goodbye to innovation cops", these guys will be the thought police come to audit your head for having ideas that just happened to already be copyright.
How much mass could we orbit around one of these things right now?
I mean if we get enough mass to orbit an object for long enough won't it have an effect on it's trajectory (vector/velocity)? Say for example the recently discussed Apophis mass, it's due to fly by 2029 and potentially hit in 2036, wouldn't it at least make sense to get up close and personal with an object of that size that's potentially going to drop in for a visit.
Are you saying that you spend so much time worrying about your family that you don't have time for anything else?
Especially considering it has the opposite causal effect, likely they are too mentally lazy to realise they stand to loose the most from this selfish attitude. Anything that stifles innovation within the technology industry, threatens it (umm, pun unavoidable?). Laws constructed to artificially support old business models should be resisted because these type of laws stop our industry from evolving new business models, where for once the needs of business and individuals align, who better to actually understand that than technology professionals.
And what if we replace the word technology with the word freedom?
I live in Australia, and I've seen the some poor technology/business legislation, I write to my politicians about my concerns for certain proposals, I have had some success and even if you don't stop the legislation passing you may be able to suggest change to some portion of the wording used to allow a judge a more relaxed interpretation of the law. Further I've found that politicians on both sides of politics will generally advocate in your favor if you are respectful and provide constructive insights.
Are you going to continue being so cavalier about fighting one losing battle after another, small as they may seem?
Someone actually said this to me and I experienced a deep sinking dread. I was decribing the ramifications of our anti-terror laws included that he could be arrested and held without charge or any access to legal counsel, that if his wife saw and knew why he was taken that she could be gaoled (jailed) for five years for telling anyone. That he would have the burden of proving innocence instead of prosecutors establishing guilt, strict liability in sentencing (only ever used for parking fines), made worse because we have no Bill of Rights like the US or UK. I read those laws because they had laws pertaining to telecommunications intercept, email, IM etc and was horrified when I read the entire package.
I'm just glad that it wasn't the reaction of everyone.
But let's look at this from the perspective of children, sure.
Indeed. I think another factor is our entire economic engine is designed around consumption of resources, and frankly must change if we are to survive. Amongst other things, if a CEO cannot legally make decisions that are environmentally and socially responsible because they affect shareholder value then something in the way humanity conducts it's affairs is definitely broken. There will have to come a day when businesses of all sizes will have to face their externalities in the same way the coal industry is facing it's now. Our children must have the capability to adapt our "systemic" way of doing things through the freedom to innovate, if we constrain that with legal constructs we were to lazy to confront then we are actually allowing the engineering of our own demise.
I see the slow chipping away of our freedom, everyday one less freedom, I'd like to say I do what I do for altruistic reasons but the reality is it scares the shit out of me that so many people are dumbed down into a state of apathetic bliss these days, and I want to say something while I still can.
Yeah, funny thing is after I install XP I make it dual boot Ubuntu, lspci the chipset and download the drivers to the XP partition. I also install clam win and project Dakota to make a "reliable" XP machine with drivers installed patched before it even *gets* out onto the internet.
Ever tried to install XP *after* installing a linux distro, try this little experiment. On a bare machine with no disk partitions, make a small linux partition and then try to boot the XP install disk, you will be greeted by nothing, remove the linux partition the try booting XP again, viola it works.
Now I could be missing (like checking it with other partition types) something but it looks like M$ XP install checks if linux is installed first then refuses to play if it is - can anyone else confirm this behaviour (and it's not just me going crazy)?
The surest sign of a weak debater is somone who has to chop, cut, and rewrite the previous person's comments.
Well someone decided to make it personal, that doesn't just make you a loser it makes you a sore loser. Since you can't stay on topic I think I'll chop your "arguments" up a little more. Remember this statement you made;
But this time I will make it personal:
If you can't take it don't make it personal, obviously someone has lost a lot of sleep over this, considering your reply I think you have the wit of a blunt side of an axe.
That's *distortion* not honesty.
Spoken like a true clueless conservative. I've only just begun to chop your inane arguments up, you want to talk about honesty while you try to oversimplify an argument and take it off topic, honestly it's like clubbing someone to death with a foam club, we are talking about telecommunication intercepts, not lawn mowers.
Profit??? You're mowing my fucking lawn. There's no profit in that... you're just doing me a service.
Spoken like someone who has never run a business. First rule of business WIIFM, if I can't generate a profit doing something for someone why would I do it, no-one does something for nothing.
And if you don't like my spying on you, to make sure you are working to cut the grass, rather than sleeping, too bad!!! You're fired sonny. I'll hire someone who actually works when I pay them.
Honestly you don't know anything about business do you sonny you've only ever hired someone to cut the grass ------ And they charged you extra cause you sat there and watched them ----- but you didn't know that did you. They did it cause they knew what you and I know you are,,, ZIIIG-HEIILL.
Do the job, or get the hell out. I'm not paying you to sit on your ass all day when you're supposed to be
My company would never do any business with dickhead like you, your the type of 'customer' that get referred to my competitors or charged at three time the rate of all the other clients. Sure it might be useful to spy on my charges but there are governance and liability issues uncovered if legislation like this goes through which could cost business significant amounts of money. My business is not a domestic spying arm of the government, of course you wouldn't understand these issues would you sonny. Is that chopped up, cut, and rewrote enough for you?
mowing my lawn.
And while your lack of an argument has been entertaining honestly I think it's time for you to get off my lawn, sonny.
That's ridiculous. If your employer has any reason to snoop on you, they should just snoop on you.
What about the organisational psychopath, should they be allowed to snoop on your emails to find new ways to fuck with you, what about the creepy manager who wants to have sex with the bored receptionist whose job it is to provide an attractive face to clients who walk in the door.
instead of finding the information on computers and network equipment that they own?
Well I guess they won't mind giving up any taxation benefits they might receive for depreciation on that equipment then will they, and from memory the internet is a public network. I don't expect my email communications to be legally monitored by sending them from a work address any more than I would expect a letter to be legally opened and inspected if I send it from company mailbox, or my telephone call to be legally intercepted because I make it to or from a company phone. So I guess the company shouldn't be surprised when their ISP gets paid by their competitors to monitor said companies email for commercial in-confidence emails because all of a sudden the legal protections against such activities have just disappeared.
It's brain dead because all it does is open the door for nefarious activity to be committed by people who can think of how it could be abused, any employee who spends too much time doing personal communications from work will just have their effectiveness drop off and quality employers will have management mechanisms to measure effectiveness - even if they are crude, it's the employee's responsibility to raise their effectiveness or loose their job or pay.
This justification that the 'tewworist' will somehow get us is getting waaaaay out of hand, personally I'd rather take the risk of being blown up and live the bulk of my life free. And what about the question of liability if an employer has evidence of 'tewworist' motivations and doesn't act on them? Do I suddenly have to police my employee's emails because I'm liable for terrorist actions organised on my infrastructure, what about coded messages - am I responsible for decoding them too? That's the implications of a free society.
And I'll stand by mine BE PREPARED TO GIVE UP THE TAXATION BENEFITS ASSOCIATED WITH OPERATING EQUIPMENT USED TO SPY ON EMPLOYEES
mow my lawn,- using my lawnmower,
Except it's not a lawnmower it's a telecommunications device so don't try to over-simplify things, if you want to spy on me
- don't ask me to work back
- don't call me on my personal mobile
- don't call me at home
- don't email me at home
- don't expect company business to be done on MY time
- don't expect civility
- don't expect anything but the minimum from me
because you have already said that you don't trust me by wanting to spy on me so expect me to find every other way to get something out of you because you spy on me.
You better believe I'm going to damn well spy on you!
and don't be surprised when I sue you cause you allowed some freak in your organisation to harass me.
But this time I will make it personal:
but I wouldn't be surprised if that freak is you.
But this time I will make it personal: if you don't work ---if you choose to slackoff instead of work--- I'll fire you. *I* am the boss, and you are the employee.
In fact you seem to be the exact overbearing controlling little hitler that telecommunication intercept laws are designed to protect people against. I will be making sure that I write to my local MP to ensure no such laws get passed, I've done it before. I can assure you I will spend the maximum amount of my employers time lobbying against these proposals ever passing into law, and since it is against the law to spy on people at work - you better just get over it.
But this time I will make it personal: You are on MY property using MY equipment and taking MY money. I can spy on you all I want in that situation.
Taking your money eh? No, I am coming to your property to use your equipment to assist you generate a profit, if you decide to spy on me, I can't trust you, so don't trust me to keep all your dirty little secrets either, you had better be totally honest and above board, you better be squeaky clean or else I'm gonna be a good little soviet, because - my single testicular friend - if your email system can be used to spy on your employees then it can also be used to spy on your business.
But this time I will make it personal:
well thats just a sign of someone with a very weak argument, isn't it.
So please, write back to me and intelligently argue why you get to work for me and that I should not watch what you do, regardless of whether it is physical or digital.
Because the equipment you own and operate is also a tax deduction from the taxpayer, i.e ALL employees. If you are prepared to give up said deductions then go ahead and spy on me.
I'm on HIS property using HIS equipment and taking HIS money. He can spy on me all he wants in that situation.
Bullshit, those things are operating expenses and therefore can be claimed against the tax they pay. If it's the case that an employer can 'spy' on an employee (who is a member of the community whose tax pays for the infrastructure that business uses) then ALL the taxation benefits from operating an email system and a phone system should be withdrawn if an employer decides to spy on their employees.
What happens if you're trying to alert authorities to criminal behaviour anonymously? Like dumping toxic chemicals into a water supply or distributing stolen goods, there are reason the ordinary citizens have certain protections in place.
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*groan* so now Nuclear shills are AC's, how pathetic. Did you post as A.C so you could mod your own post as Interesting, how very creative of you.
?!?!What?!?!, uh no, actinides are highly radioactive with half lives of around 600 years.
*sigh* first of all while our current level of material sciences and technology cannot produce a safe nuclear reactor, perhaps one day we can (or use it in space craft) which is why I said "long term isotope storage". Plutonium, whilst deadly is also extremely valuable.
No problem, don't mine uranium in the first place, which also eliminates the toxic mine tailings, the energetic costs of demolishing the reactor when it is decommissioned, etc etc etc. And I'm more concerned with radioactive products created by exposure to plutonium finding their way into the water table.
Your Way,,, what way, you have described nothing AND all proposals for current reactors use a once through cycle. Show me a link to a proposed breeder reactor planned for construction for commercial power generation. Clearly, you are a bullshiter.
Except the difference is that CO2 and other greenhouse gas production for nuclear is an ongoing consequence of making fissionable reactor fuel, whereas they are one time inputs for solar/wind/wave.
Oh come on, clearly you live in fantasy land. You expect me to believe that USEC phased out CFC 114 use when they have access to a valid military exemption under the authority of the DOE, and that the last available data in 1999 revealed that over 800000 pounds of CFC 114 was released into the atmosphere. Since subsequent data is not available AND prototype designs of the new centrifuge were only finalised in 2007 it's not to much of a stretch to conclude that CFC 114 is still very much in use in the enrichment facilities. But you don't have to believe me here are the words of a USEC spokesperson in 2001
According to the EPA's toxic release inventory, a giant public database of self-reported pollution totals, the Paducah and Ohio plants released 818,000 pounds of CFC-114 in 1999. That's 88 percent of the national total of industrial sources, and 14 percent of an international industry estimate of all CFC114 emissions worldwide. That was 1999, I don'
So before I have another drawn out conversation with yet another Nuclear Shill that hasn't done any actual research of the entire nuclear process, from Mining to long term isotope storage (or "waste") to an examination of any actual Net energy benefit from the nuclear process, let me summarise by simply saying that Nuclear power is barely practical let alone feasible.
Sorry, I meant obviously hasn't done any research because not only are there considerable CO2 emmissions from the energy used in the production of U-235 for reactor cores but also the CFC's leaked in the actual process are America's Number 1 source of CFC emmissions and are up to 20,000 times more potent as a greenhouse gas than C02.Nuclear Shills should stop pretending that Nuclear power is anything other than the unmitigated failure that it is which takes money and research resources away from projects like baseload solar thermal. S.T.P is revealing itself to be completely viable alternatives to coal based on the capability to store thermal energy long after the sun goes down. That is the whole point of solar thermal power after all.
Digital Venereal Disease.
Is when you do not dare to act, not when you do.
Sure you just want your software to run, that's what I wanted to, but I only got something when I put something back in. I'm sure the wine developers would value your input.
This is the major flaw in our commercial system, even if CEO's want to make socially responsible decisions - by law - they must present actions that protect and maximise shareholder value, this is the core reason we have so many of these problems in the world, and until the law is changed to make companies deal with their externalities we will continue to see these types of stories.
Do know evil.
No perhaps someone can explain to me where the second world went, I can only seem to find a first and third these days...
Richard Dean Anderson already has prior commitments not doing stargate, he won't have enough time to not do MacGyver as well.
It's likely W. want's people to think he's dumb and has carefully contrived an image to make people think just that.
Seed cops; Those seeds are copyright - you cannot plant them/you violated copyright by planting them
IP cops; thank you for welcoming us to your business, we will now audit all of your computer systems
RIAA cops; thank you for welcoming us to your home, we will now audit all your media for copyright violations
MPAA cops; You know when you pirate a movie a small child dies in a third world country, you should be ashamed of yourself
And of course the "say goodbye to innovation cops", these guys will be the thought police come to audit your head for having ideas that just happened to already be copyright.
Big Mother in sooo many ways.
I mean if we get enough mass to orbit an object for long enough won't it have an effect on it's trajectory (vector/velocity)? Say for example the recently discussed Apophis mass, it's due to fly by 2029 and potentially hit in 2036, wouldn't it at least make sense to get up close and personal with an object of that size that's potentially going to drop in for a visit.
This is something business could do couldn't it?
I'm just glad that it wasn't the reaction of everyone.
Indeed. I think another factor is our entire economic engine is designed around consumption of resources, and frankly must change if we are to survive. Amongst other things, if a CEO cannot legally make decisions that are environmentally and socially responsible because they affect shareholder value then something in the way humanity conducts it's affairs is definitely broken. There will have to come a day when businesses of all sizes will have to face their externalities in the same way the coal industry is facing it's now. Our children must have the capability to adapt our "systemic" way of doing things through the freedom to innovate, if we constrain that with legal constructs we were to lazy to confront then we are actually allowing the engineering of our own demise.I see the slow chipping away of our freedom, everyday one less freedom, I'd like to say I do what I do for altruistic reasons but the reality is it scares the shit out of me that so many people are dumbed down into a state of apathetic bliss these days, and I want to say something while I still can.
...it's that I just don't care.
Ever tried to install XP *after* installing a linux distro, try this little experiment. On a bare machine with no disk partitions, make a small linux partition and then try to boot the XP install disk, you will be greeted by nothing, remove the linux partition the try booting XP again, viola it works.
Now I could be missing (like checking it with other partition types) something but it looks like M$ XP install checks if linux is installed first then refuses to play if it is - can anyone else confirm this behaviour (and it's not just me going crazy)?
It's brain dead because all it does is open the door for nefarious activity to be committed by people who can think of how it could be abused, any employee who spends too much time doing personal communications from work will just have their effectiveness drop off and quality employers will have management mechanisms to measure effectiveness - even if they are crude, it's the employee's responsibility to raise their effectiveness or loose their job or pay.
This justification that the 'tewworist' will somehow get us is getting waaaaay out of hand, personally I'd rather take the risk of being blown up and live the bulk of my life free. And what about the question of liability if an employer has evidence of 'tewworist' motivations and doesn't act on them? Do I suddenly have to police my employee's emails because I'm liable for terrorist actions organised on my infrastructure, what about coded messages - am I responsible for decoding them too? That's the implications of a free society.
- don't ask me to work back
- don't call me on my personal mobile
- don't call me at home
- don't email me at home
- don't expect company business to be done on MY time
- don't expect civility
- don't expect anything but the minimum from me
because you have already said that you don't trust me by wanting to spy on me so expect me to find every other way to get something out of you because you spy on me.
and don't be surprised when I sue you cause you allowed some freak in your organisation to harass me. but I wouldn't be surprised if that freak is you. In fact you seem to be the exact overbearing controlling little hitler that telecommunication intercept laws are designed to protect people against. I will be making sure that I write to my local MP to ensure no such laws get passed, I've done it before. I can assure you I will spend the maximum amount of my employers time lobbying against these proposals ever passing into law, and since it is against the law to spy on people at work - you better just get over it. Taking your money eh? No, I am coming to your property to use your equipment to assist you generate a profit, if you decide to spy on me, I can't trust you, so don't trust me to keep all your dirty little secrets either, you had better be totally honest and above board, you better be squeaky clean or else I'm gonna be a good little soviet, because - my single testicular friend - if your email system can be used to spy on your employees then it can also be used to spy on your business. well thats just a sign of someone with a very weak argument, isn't it.