>>>>My usage would be more along the lines of peaceful missions.
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>>If you want peace, prepare for war. ;-)
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>>>>Plus, as a software developer, such a vehicle would be just about the best software development office. A customer has an issue, I just fly over to their office, fix it, and then fly back.
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>>Actually there's a special teleportation device called "Gotomeeting" for that. You can be right there using their PC while you sit in your bathing trunks at home eating crisps and watching Star Trek reruns.
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>Even the bathing trunks are not strictly required.
The people at Dow Jones were always a little uneasy with the idea that I might be attending meetings without pants. (In fact, I think that is the reason they encouraged me to work from home)
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Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
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-- T. S. Eliot
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- Ben Franklin
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