You're exactly right, but how do you get from here to there? If current demographic trends hold, we are drop down to a reasonable carrying capacity in 2100 or so.

Or next week, depending on the scenario.

Are you crazy? The current powers that be would love to denigrate Anthropogenic Climate Change. Their is lots of money to be found supporting the current economic paradigm of full steam (literally) ahead. The fact that their is little debate in the field makes me very worried. Remember, scientists, if left to their own devices, would argue about what day it is.

This isn't the Spanish Inquisition. Nobody gets impaled for saying things that run against the grain of major opinion. The only naysayers are a few irrational folks whose thinking has been conclusively to be incorrect.

Grab your shorts and sun screen. Then grab your ankles.

Wrong.

If anyone thinks Dropbox, or any other hosted storage system has privacy as a core function is major league delusional. I use Dropbox all of the time. For stuff that isn't intensely private - including encrypted sparse images. I think Dropbox or it's ilk is OK for everyday use, but if you want something private, keep it under your control.

Not that I think having Ms. Rice on the board makes any kind of sense unless you are trying to suck up to the Powers that Be and get in bed with everyone else (for the dollars, of course).

But look at the bright side of things - they could have asked Larry Ellison.

Yeah, I'm not so sure that the Chrome God should be anywhere near students on a regular basis. It's just another $computer would be great for learning rant.

Nothing to see here, move along.

Thinking about it, it really explains a lot of the Bible. Messed up vocabulary, slow network, dissolute macros. I'll bet papyrus made a lousy microphone diaphragm.

God is obviously from Human Resources.

Nobody else could get things so wrong.

It's Dragon Dictate all the way down?

Yes, the hospital 'writes it off' but then, how do they pay for it? Buy upcharging everybody else.

(and upcharging every one else for lots of other things).

TANSTAAFL

OTOH ignoring emails (and the microproblems they typically allude to) just might make one more productive and happier to boot. If you ignore someone on a regular basis, they typically go elsewhere to find the answer to life, the universe and everything.

I've used that selectively and I find it a very refreshing change of pace.

I told you not to answer that.

The only reason? How about fixing minor things before they become major? Helping coworkers and expecting a quid pro quo? Interest in the world? Helping the poor, weak, and downtrodden?

And money. Lots of money. Don't forget that. I get paid a lot of money to be on call.

Uh, now what do you do?

Wait. Don't answer that.

No, we sold that one to the Chinese.

Fool! You have to go to the Sharper Image catalog for that sort of thing.

Hell, Target doesn't even sell Mr. Fusions yet.

So, teaching in current mathematics has come to this?

We're doomed.