To answer Josh's question... the guy has two good laptops, and he does some computer stuff for a living (I don't really know what...) A windows one and a mac that he just bought and apparently is obsessed with. I know the mac one is a personal laptop.... I'm not sure about the windows one. I'm guessing it's a work laptop. I'm all about my solution for a work computer... have mine laptop at home and just remote desktop in. Then I don't have to screw around with the stupid VPN and then I don't have to have work files on my personal computer. I don't want the possibilities of my work and personal files to get mixed up. I don't want any possibility of impropriety or possibility of even an image of stealing work secrets or proprietary information. I just don't want that possibility to exist both for my own protection and for the protection of my company.
None the less, my argument stands. If they guy wants two laptops - no matter why he wants them or for what use - and its within the agreed upon budget - then no one should be allowed to complain. If the purchase of the laptop goes over the agreed upon budget - then the other person has all right to complain/bitch/bring it up all the time/nag/whatever.
Everyone who reads this - I'm sure knows me well enough to know that I hate rules. It's not the fact that they are there so that everyone knows what is going on and agreed upon. It's more the fact that they exist and that I had no input into them. If I don't sign up to a rule when it's made and I don't agree with the rule; there's a very simple consequence for the rule maker. I simply don't follow it. Ironically - this rarely gets me in trouble. Typically because what I chose to do in encased in logic and fair play. Where often times the rule makers do not make rules on this basis. Logic wins over dumbness yet again! (Granted you are all probably shaking your heads at this - because in an argument I can be amazingly illogical. That's just because winning comes before logic. This is very apparent in any company's marketing. Logic doesn't necessarily mean more sales. Thus arguments do not necessarily need to be based on logic or won by logic. However, logic wins more often than non-logic.)
I try not to think in absolutes because the world does not work that way. There is not an absolute guarantee that the Sox are going to win the Series. However, the likelihood is pretty high. It would be a lot easier to understand the world if everything was in black and white. Fortunately it's not - and that leaves a lot of grey area. Got to love the grey area.
None the less, my argument stands. If they guy wants two laptops - no matter why he wants them or for what use - and its within the agreed upon budget - then no one should be allowed to complain. If the purchase of the laptop goes over the agreed upon budget - then the other person has all right to complain/bitch/bring it up all the time/nag/whatever.
Everyone who reads this - I'm sure knows me well enough to know that I hate rules. It's not the fact that they are there so that everyone knows what is going on and agreed upon. It's more the fact that they exist and that I had no input into them. If I don't sign up to a rule when it's made and I don't agree with the rule; there's a very simple consequence for the rule maker. I simply don't follow it. Ironically - this rarely gets me in trouble. Typically because what I chose to do in encased in logic and fair play. Where often times the rule makers do not make rules on this basis. Logic wins over dumbness yet again! (Granted you are all probably shaking your heads at this - because in an argument I can be amazingly illogical. That's just because winning comes before logic. This is very apparent in any company's marketing. Logic doesn't necessarily mean more sales. Thus arguments do not necessarily need to be based on logic or won by logic. However, logic wins more often than non-logic.)
I try not to think in absolutes because the world does not work that way. There is not an absolute guarantee that the Sox are going to win the Series. However, the likelihood is pretty high. It would be a lot easier to understand the world if everything was in black and white. Fortunately it's not - and that leaves a lot of grey area. Got to love the grey area.
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