In the other hand, what can't be denied is that global warming provides more energy to the climate system. And in a system so complex that is the root of the butterfly effect concept adding more fuel will affect it, maybe even in ways that we didn't realized yet. And with a civilization that is rooted in stable and predictable climates (agriculture depends on that) it will hit us pretty hard in all those ways.

Low on tornadoes, high in other big storms by any other name, like Cyclone Phailin, Typhoon Haiyan and Vongfong, Hurricane Marie and others, in the last 2 years.

Is the sort of things that happens with very complex and interrelated systems. We make models, and sometimes don't know how many factors plays in or the importance of some of them. But impredictability is something that should scare you more than dismiss this as a potential danger. If a big possitive feedback mechanism is not yet discovered or understood for global warming (a bit like this big methane release, but maybe worse/faster/whatever) once global climate hit a critical point, things can go wrong very fast, very global, and in a very irrevocable way.

With all due respect, your post does not seem to have much to do with what I posted at all.

Docker is not just containers, but image/container fs management is a key element too. Union fs with copy-on-write makes a big difference against traditional containers. And the image ecosystem, the easy creation with dockerfiles and a good api/powerful cmdline command are pretty important elements too.

Other containers technologies could learn/adapt that other docker ideas, and even VMs could get a bit closer to them. No matter if Docker is the dominant implementation there in the future or not, with those core ideas we all will win.

You know, it may sound like a cliche, but the world is becoming more and more reliant on computer technology. You shouldn't look at this as Microsoft looking to churn out cheap help to build Word 2025. That's just not what they're doing. Microsoft engineers aren't poorly compensated for their efforts. Their among the most highly-compensated coders out there.

These are folks who have seen computers completely transform the world around them, and they foresee this trend continuing (probably wisely). There will always be gluts here and there, or shortages here and there, but the fact is that if you want an army of super-intelligent robots cleaning our oceans, helping feed the planet, and maintaining our future space stations, then you're going to need many many more capable coders than we have now.

You misspelled Backdoor. We know how riddled with backdoors, default/fixed passwords, vulnerabilities that never gets fixed and so on are typical consumer embedded devices. And we know how pushy are governments forcing manufacturers to include their backdoors, or to use weak encryption standards, to make them hackeable at will (even assuming good will of the main/components manufacturers, that are not all saints).

What possibly could go wrong?

Ack! Sorry about that! I knew it was an old old webcomic, and that it happened around the time when there were just millions of new UNIX-style operating systems with everyone claiming that theirs was good for a different reason.

This reminds me of the plotline from Userfriendly where one of the techs develops an OS called "The OS That Doesn't Suck." He eventually gives up this pursuit when it, too, begins to suck.