I'm pleased enough that you consider me intelligent and mature, and wish you'd shown that by a more fair reading of my post. I also didn't mean to say that you *were* the close minded knucklehead... who can't discern the difference between wearing a tie and telling a straight, no-bullshit truth . Sorry if it seemed to read that way.

Um maybe form-fitting inflatable? Sort of like a pneumatic exoskeleton? picturing that is, well, frankly, just weird. Coming from you, I guess I should take that as a compliment. but Seriously folks ... think about it. For those who are seriously into immersing themselves into $WORK, you put on your HUD, don your gloves, and inflate your support. You become, to all appearances, a roly-poly beach ball, probably in festive colors with labelling advising work immersion environment suit, please do not kick or roll unnecessarily . To the user, they're just sort of floating in limbo, listening to $TUNES (or not) and working away. When the day is over, you get mail telling you that it's time to deflate and go home. i've always thought that work-immersion would be most appealing in a liquid sensory-deprivation chamber. Probably, but would _you_ want to be connected up to a buttload of electrical equipment and then _immersed_? No thanks, I think I'll stick with non-conductive gas as a support medium, okay? Otherwise, you're probably right.

that, i suppose, would be personal preference.  a bit single-minded, though.  color is just part of the story, though.  there's shape of the eye opening, iris to white ratio, the folds of the skin surrounding the eye, where it curves up, where it's turned down, and soforth. Hrm, what about blue iris with pronounced epicanthic fold? Spiffy. not actually one of my favored combinations.  as you will. *weep wail* Green maybe? Seriously, for my whole big 1/128th Native heritage, all I got was the ability to tan slightly and, well, sort of an epicanthic fold. Not exactly as pronounced as in most Asians, but... well, if I put on some eye-shadow, and then opened my eyes, the eye-shadow would disappear. Eyeliner would work just as well. Sometimes I suspect that this might be why some FOB Koreans seem to just hate me at first sight, maybe they think I'm some third-generation crossbreed of some Korean-War orphan, or something.

But if I invite you into my house and say I'll pay you to do work for me, then you play by my rules or you go home. Just because you show up here and start working in MY house doesn't mean all of a sudden you own the place - you're a guest in my house and that's all you'll ever be; you may own the product of your labor but the house you do it in is mine and always will be mine. My house, my rules. Your house, your rules. The worker doesn't own shit, the manager doesn't own shit, the OWNER owns the means of production. Anything else is nothing but piracy. If the *status quo* is just, that is.  I don't think it is, so all the above is compromised.  (Not that the workers shouldn't make the best of it

You can choose from among a nearly infinite variety of employers. Not if I want to retire decently, I can't.  I have to be REALLY LUCKY

Why did soldier suits historically have big shiny brass buttons and epaulets and two-foot-tall hats? Why do soldiers now sit around in offices behind computers wearing BDUs instead of jackets and ties? Why do prisoners' uniforms look baggy and dumpy and shapeless and hang like sacks? Why do cop uniforms look military? Likely someone's personal taste, at least to some extent