Here's one: Plastic plankton.

Nah, dispersants don't dissolve plastic - otherwise your dishwashing detergent would dissolve the plastic bottle it comes in.

A vast amount of this plastic is breaking up into tiny pieces, which then form a new class of plankton plastic plankton - and this plastic plankton is being eating by sea creatures along with the phytoplankton and zooplankton which make up their normal diet. Nobody knows what the effects of this will be.

Water is not the "ultimate" solvent. There are plenty of substances that do not dissolve in water - and plastic's one of them. What's happening is that sunlight and possibly wave action is breaking the plastic into microscopic particles, which are then being ingested by marine animals, just as larger pieces of plastic are. Nobody knows what effect this will have on the organisms themselves - or the organisms that prey on those organisms (which includes humans).

I'll never be able to afford to retire, but if i do i'll be riding buses for entertainment and movement, too!

Building radio stations in Afghanistan was pretty challenging!

I started with VI 20 years ago and i still use it - but only when i'm working in a text terminal and need to do small edits. For almost everything else, i use Geany, which i find the most useful and streamlined editor of all that i've tried. But for the small amount of Android app programming i've done, i used Eclipse, because it makes life so much easier. There's no excuse for sticking with old software just because you're used to it.

Nah, i just get bored easily!

Nah,. I'm 56 and i've had that attitude all my life. I'm not rich, but i'm a lot happier than i would be if i'd spent all my life working in a crap job just for the money. And i've done a lot of really interesting jobs - in possibly as many as 30 quite different occupations, from builder to seaman, from computer programmer to miner, from taxi driver to technical adviser in Afghanistan. Life's too short to stick at crap jobs for long!

But i'm addicted to workahol!

Yeah, i wouldn't have flown nearly as much as i have if i lived in the US. I don't know why you people put up with it really.

Exactly. "eefoneh" =/= "eeponeh".

The author of this article clearly has no idea about Spanish pronunciation.

This stuff was going on in the 80s. But in those days it was phone tapping. There were computerised phone tapping systems by at least 1984. The police's system in London (UK) crashed during the miner's strike because everyone was talking about pickets.

Porn =/= exploitation. It's not hard to find non-exploitative porn.