So because you've see chaotic poorly managed projects and so has your friend, no-one else could possibly have successfully run agile projects? My own anecdotal evidence to counter your anecdotal evidence is that I've worked on 3 different agile projects at two different companies and know a couple of other agile project, and all have delivered pretty much on-time and within budget - and delivered what the customer actually wanted (which was probably 50% different from what they originally thought they wanted)

That's like saying, look at the funding for physics departments, those that are pro-spherical earth get vastly more funding than those that are flat earth supporters. The reason that "pro-AGW" scientists get more funding is because there are vastly more scientists who have looked at the evidence and decided that AGW is real than those who do not. It's a consequence of the evidence that AGW is real, not of a conspiracy.

Probably because most of the interesting things that they want to do in a military exercise involves things like subs practising surveillance on coastal installations and in shallow water, and opposing forces, subs, surface ships and planes, attempting to detect/attack them. Also tasks such as amphibious landings. By definition they need to do this in coastal waters and pretty much all coastal waters for NATO countries in northern Europe are close to civilians. So they can't do much of their exercises out in "empty" international waters.

You mean "without consulting" in the sense of, for example, holding a special party conference at the NEC to get approval from its party members before signing up to the coalition? If that's not consulting, I'm not sure what is.

This is not about keeping their diminishing royalties. It's more about music companies locking away older works so that classic pubic domain music does not compete with their new products. They don't really care if Cliff Richards makes £10 or £10000 next year from 50 year old music. They just care that you and me can't get 50 year old music as we might spend our time listening to that and therefore buy less (or none) of their current music.

Preventing anyone else from getting 50 year old tunes for free, means that the music industry has a (potentially) higher income from "fresh" music. People can only "consume" so much music, so for every free song that they listen to, that's a lost opportunity for the music industry to have sold them a new song.

It will be fine as long as it can reproduce before it kills its host/itself.

Opportunistic is walking past a car with an unlocked door and keys in plain view. These people didn't happen to get a wrong number and find themselves opportunistically in Milly Dowler's voice mail service. It was premeditated. They went out of their way to listen to and delete her messages.

No, burning coal without scrubbers releases both CO2 and SO2. CO2 has a long term warming effect, SO2 has a temporary cooling effect. Overall it's still climate change and with a long term warming effect.

We already have that. It's called GMT and UT1.

If you need to know the number of seconds between 1 Feb 2012 16:32:12 and 22 Jun 2016 17:42:31 then either you should UT1/GMT or you should be using TAI timestamps. When you designed your system you chose a time system that includes leap seconds and then did not account for it, there is no excuse for later on complaining about leap seconds.

And if that is your stance, then you won't ever trust photos provided by the US Government. So this can't be used an argument for the US Government to publish the photos to dispel these types scepticism.

And indeed may harm you, your children and grand children by diverting resources that could have been used to improve the human condition on Earth. How many hospitals, wells, schools etc could be built and maintained for the cost of building and operating a moon base.

Only in dry weight, not when brewed into a tasty beverage.