[geeks] Ping?

[Dan Sikorski]

Joost van de Griek wrote:

>On 2/20/06 10:21 PM, Dan Sikorski wrote:
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>>Joost van de Griek wrote:
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>>>Seriously, they make stuff these days that enables you to reuse just about
>>>all of a household's excess heat in pretty efficient ways. I know of a
>>>company where the blue-collar workers in the warehouse are used to heat the
>>>ladies in the typing room. Pretty nifty stuff.
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>>Wow, I don't know quite how to respond to that one.
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>>Is there air freshener in the ducts, or do the ladies like the smell of
>>the sweaty guys?
>>When they're heated, are they bothered?
>>Are there ducts, or just windows?
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>>Isn't it unethical to burn people to heat others?
>>Do they have to soundproof the incinerator?
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>I'm sure once the fire gets going nicely, the screams stop rather quickly.
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Well, yes, but there the matter of getting it going, and also the matter 
of adding more fuel when the flames start to die down.  I'll bet it's 
quite a distraction when the screaming starts, and it's probably 
measurable in WPM of the ladies in the typing room.  I wonder how long 
it would take to recoup the cost of the soundproofing in recovered 
productivity.  It would probably be best if the entire system were 
designed with this in mind from the beginning.  Insulating for sound 
often insulates for heat as well, which would defeat the purpose of the 
incinerator.  It might be best if the incinerator was in a different 
building, used to run generators and just use electric heaters in the 
offices.  Wait, at that point, we could just buy electricity from the 
utilities company.  Well, call the whole thing off....   Besides, no 
matter how warm the office is, there will still be a few women who will 
plug in their little space heaters, tripping the circuit breaker and 
making everyone in the whole row report a computer virus that caused all 
of the computers to shut down.  I mean, everyone knows that the first 
thing to suspect with any computer problem is a virus.

    -Dan