government property?

government property?

Occasionally I check out my Sitemeter, just to see who my (ahem) select few readers are, and what articles they are reading. One of the features of Sitemeter is that it lists the domain name of the reader.

Around ten percent of my readers are visiting my blog from government-owned domains. This has been the case since I started using Sitemeter.

Of the last 100 readers, I have received hits from the government of California (once), the government of Alberta (once), the government of Ontario (once), the government of Saskatchewan (SIX times), and NASA (once). In the past I have also received hits from various other state and provincial governments, as well as from various US government agencies - NASA has visited this site several times, usually after I write something derogatory about them. Today's NASA visit occurred just before 7am, their time.

Umm... shouldn't you people be, I dunno, WORKING? Since when is reading blogs a goverment function? Since when is the use of goverment property in this manner allowed?

And what in the hell are NASA workers doing just before 7am surfing the net? Does it have anything to do with this post? It certainly has nothing to do with exploring space.

C'mon people, goverment property is NOT your personal plaything. If you want to visit my blog, and lord knows I certainly want you to do so, then do it on your own time, with your own dime. Stop ripping off the taxpayers - use your home computer or go to an e-cafe, use your own bandwidth and electricity. And don't collect pay for the time you spend surfing the net, when you are supposed to be working. After all, that is why we supposedly pay taxes.