You assume he has been following the situation. Just as likely he simply was able to grasp the situation form the small amount of data provided and present a good humored response on the fly. Intelligence can often make up for a lack of fine data.

Everyone's going to die thus everybody is going to _be_ dead anyway.

"Nobody is going to die that wouldn't be dead anyway."

Yes, well, umm... that is a very, very nice neat tautology. I like it! :)

it is not the percents that matter but the dollars at the end of the year and it mounts up and apple makes a huge amount off their media (content) sales. Look at their financial reports.

Providing legacy support is in the best interests of Apple and content providers because there are still a large number of users out there with older systems who will buy content if they can easily access it. Making it hard or impossible is a hurdle that kills the sale and encourages piracy. Legacy support makes cents.

Why stop at "over" zealous?
Zealotry should also be stopped.

Yes, and that is the point. They got apes to build the rockets for them.

Yes, that's the point but your date is off. The immigration to Australia included dingos but was further back.

Thank you for demonstrating your ignorance. Please actually read the originally cited article and come to understand evolution.

The evidence for multiple domestications is overwhelmingly strong. Denial of it is like climate change denial. There may always be someone with their pet unified domestication theory but it's simply wrong.

Yes, I did read the article and still see strong evidence and logic for the multiple domestication. For example, some strong domestication results are within the 15K BP timeframe but people also took domestic dogs with them to Australia which is much greater than that frame. It's complex. I doubt this will solve it.

There is a huge amount of evidence that domestication did not happen once or in one place but many times in many places around the world. This evidence points back as far as about 135,000 years and as close as about 15,000 years for each of these events in time where wolves domesticated humans. It is speculated that wolves did this for two reasons: fire and thumbs for scratching.

It is not surprising that there would be multiple domestications. A human plus a wolf are far more powerful at defense and offense, at hunting and guarding than either species alone. Our social structures are very parallel and our physical abilities complement each other.

If you could reach you would too and you wouldn't get anything else done. This flexibility is why dogs never achieved the great advances of mankind like space flight and nuclear bombs. Imagine if men were that flexible...

Yes, you are correct the supply chain web is very complex, however things can be far simpler with ease. Your example of fertilizer is a prime case. We can produce fertilizer locally to produce food locally to feed local populations. The long distance transport of any of those things is unnecessary. Simply making things local solves a _lot_ of these problems and eliminates a lot of the packaging, energy and other issues in the supply chain. Things can be done more simply. It just happens that we have cheap oil to do it in a complex way so society does it in a complex way right now.

The dead bodies will be gone fairly quickly if the scavengers and decay organisms survive, which is likely. Don't worry.