Or you can do that, proposing a trivial enhancement, and have

1) The maintainer tell you "that isn't the designed behavior" (no kidding it doesn't do that now, that's why I want to enhance it!)

2) It marked it as a duplicate of the last handful of people that wanted similar features

3) The ticket closed

I'm looking at you, jquery-ui

ad.1: "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail." :) The argument that the dev doesn't want particular functionality can be perfectly reasonable, and might be a sign that he's even a good one and consciously fights to avoid software bloat...

This type of scam is big business in rural Iowa (and I'm sure other areas).

I used to work in rural northwest Iowa. We had a "programmer" (to use it loosely) quit to work for a company who's sole purpose was to abuse this system.

They ran a "phone company" in a small town and then connected a big asterisk box at their local exchange to accept free conference calls. They then installed smaller asterisk boxes in other businesses that were a long-distance call away with for the sole purpose of keeping the lines coming into their conference box 95% full 24x7 with bogus calls from 5-45 minutes long.

phone line arbitrage. brilliant!

Try the Herman Miller Mirra, it's a lower chair in their line but the back structure makes it far superior to the Aeron.

I've read that the plastic chair back feels good at first, but gets uncomfortable. I seem to recall something about H.M. listing it as rated for three hours (?), making it a "task" chair rather than a "work" chair (if I understand the nomenclature). What's your experience been with it?

I have been using a Mirra fulltime for more than 2 years. When my former employer was getting new offices and furniture, I piggybacked on their chair order so I could get a discount on two chairs for the home office.

I now work from home and think it was one of the best investments I've made in myself. The chair is very comfortable and they adjust very well for tall or very short people (my wife).

Rating: Would buy again

Thanks for that.

Can you compare it to any other chairs? Most of us (myself included, with the Aeron) love their first ergo-chair, making it hard to compare them. :-)

In the past I have used an Aeron for about a year. The Mirra comes very close to the adjustability and I would say is just as comfortable.

Nope, don't even have to go that far. So long as interest payments as a fraction of tax revenue doesn't increase, debt is sustainable. You can raise tax revenue either directly or by growing the whole economy, so the taxes are the same percentage, but coming out of a larger number.

It's no different than personal finance. If I get a raise and my income goes up by 10% and get a fancier apartment for 5% more, I'm still better off overall because my salary grew at a faster rate than my rent.

True, as I understand it though they still have a fair bit to go to bring it to a sustainable level in that sense.