Don't be confused into thinking you are insightful just because a few morons modded you up.

There may well be issues at hand that you don't quite grasp. And by "may well", I mean "definately are"

Hell ... for all you know someone spiked his afternoon tea with LSD. Do you think you might want to take a step back in think again?

You are technically correct that Microsoft most likely didn't steal actual code. However, Apple had pernission from Xerox PARC to use the GUI concept, and Microsoft subsequently used it without said permission. The bigger part of the controversy was that Gates lied to Jobs and claimed to be using Apple provided systems to make a better Word for Mac, when in fact he was using it to see how it work effectively stealing the overall concept, and in an especially unscrupulous fashion.

"I can tell you ahead of time corals have genes that switch on to handle heat and co2 and they have survived 7000 ppm CO2 in the past and that this is not affecting reefs which by some miracle are only dying near man where he pollutes; in the open ocean coral is fine."

Well, people have survived in terrorist captivity, but that doesn't mean that being in terrorist captivity is completely OK with me. It is about the quality of life of the Coral. I'm guessing you aren't about to start ingesting large amounts of it, but somehow you are fine with subjecting the poor innocent coral to it. For shame!

I believe I speak for almost every Agile advocate out there when I say ...

" Not following Agile correctly is responsible for only a very small portion of that crap ..." - Sentenced clipped, but not to change context

Nice Tautology. If it works, you followed it correctly, and if it didn't work, you didn't follow it "correctly" (as if there is such a thing as following it correctly.)

Bravo !

I'm glad to add just a bit of value to your day!

Cheers!

Your assumption is that "Agile == Startup". In reality, "Agile == Soon_to_fail_Startup". Just sayin'

"More crap software has been the result of it (in my opinion as a 30+ year software engineering professional) than just about anything else."

Don't say "In your opinion" when it is a fact.

"The problem is when people skip design and jump strait into dev and assume a sky scrapper can be built with no real planning."

Bingo x 10. This is the problem in our industry, and it is woefully evident by simply polling the masses. Most people think that "Software Engineer" is a "snooty" way of saying "programmer." In other words, more than 80% of the peope "in the industry" are under-qualified or unqualified.

There is no way to "scale" Agile, except (linearly) as follows:

Agile == Shitpiles / Developer

If your choices are Agile and Waterfall, then Waterfall is the only real choice. Period. Of course, there are other, more viable (by far) development models than Waterfall, but Agile ain't one of 'em.

Actually, reading this, I see that I was wrong. For most people in the world it is true, but the years it would take you to learn how to use Windows 7 need to be taken into account, so you might be one of the few people on the planet for whom it is cheaper to keep using antiquated software on your antiquated hardware.

"Also, stop the nonsense about duress-passwords. They do not work."

I was trying to figure out what you are talking about, then it occurred to me that you have no idea know what you are talking about.

Who the fsck is often, and why don't they capitalize their name? ... and how do you know it won't get repeated to them?

"Someone has probably posted it while I typed this though..."

That is because it was so obvious that it would have been best if nobody linked to it. Before I even clicked on the link to the article I knew some asshat was going to link to that xkcd comic.