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To: Vermont Lt

About a decade ago, software came out where you could limit folks. At the time...they could pick various areas to forbid folks, and the big hit on day one was Ebay (you couldn’t cruise there any more). About every six months, they’d add more news sites to the forbidden area...and Fox news was one of those they stumble into...got complaints and brought it back to ‘ok’.

Two years ago, I was in a gov’t organization that was going to put Facebook on the forbidden sites, and that raised a big discussion.

Personally, I think we ought to analyze the job description of people within the gov’t and just give most average folks one hour of play-time a day. Beyond that....the sites on your job description better be necessary or we dock your pay for each hour wasted.

I can remember how it was in the 1980s with almost no computers being used, and we seemed to do OK without them.


48 posted on 02/25/2015 5:42:39 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: pepsionice

I am sitting here laughing.

I had a boss that told me in 1987 that I could not have a fax machine in my local office, because they had one in the regional office.

“There is never going to be any need to have a fax machine in every local office.”

And this was at what is now one of the largest broadband companies in the world.


49 posted on 02/25/2015 5:55:08 AM PST by Vermont Lt (When you are inclined to to buy storage boxes, but contractor bags instead.)
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