A few answers

[vakkotaur]

Q: Why?
A: Why not? It does no harm.

Q: What kind of work do you do?
A: I'm a programmer. I'm an embedded systems programmer. What I do is I work for a company that builds scales. The part of the scale that has the buttons and the display is what I deal with. I mostly do maintenance and modifications to existing products rather than the development of new products - at least that's the case at the moment. When someone calls in and says that some product is almost right, but it would be ideal if it just did this, I'm the guy who gets to make it do this for them.

Q: Why do people who work hard & play by the rules get the most screwed?
A(1): You've got it backward. You're supposed to play hard and work by the rules.
A(2): The people who make the rules don't always follow them themselves.
A(3): If the rules don't work, don't break them, but change them. Alas, this is easier said than done.
A(4): They don't. This explains many folks sex lives or lack thereof.
A(5): This could easily degenerate even further, so I'll stop now.

Q: Are we going to eventually see the results of this?
A: I expect so. You've seen almost all of it. There is one question pending and it might be a while before I get to that one.

Comments

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

You're supposed to play hard and work by the rules.

How 'bout if I work the rules and play by hard?

[vakkotaur.livejournal.com]

Go for it.