There's a lot of truth to what you say; your observations are among the reasons why I describe the situation as "sad'.

However, it is possible to work in teaching and not be subjected to the hardships you point out above. All the teachers I know personally love their jobs. Of course, they are fortunate enough to be employed by institutions that are insulated from a lot of the problems you mention.

FTFY

Because citizens who do not watch Fox News are threats to national security, and are therefore placed under surveillance. No need for you to be concer...oh wait, you're posting on a known subversive site that is part of our selector set. I guess we'll be watching you after all.

Huh? With bitcoin, the mining process is how transactions are validated. No mining, no transactions. How do you think it could ever be rendered useless?

Difficult to say. But you can get candy bars for around .0016BTC (+shipping) from here.

According to this, Adobe is "doubling down" on LR in response to Apple's decision.

Of course, their VP of Products/Digital Imaging could be lying...but then his post on the Photoshop Blog would be pretty foolish, wouldn't it?

That's an interesting read - thanks for the link. The author makes some compelling arguments, but there's little in the way of hard facts in that article.

I'd also note that the author seems to have a bias against Adobe, as evidenced by his dismissive comments regarding Adobe's response to the Aperture news.

Lightroom can be purchased as a stand-alone product, and Adobe currently has no plans to move LR to CC.

Everybody wants free Google glasses. I mean, what do those thing cost anyway? Like 1500 bucks or somethin?

But let's be realistic - only women & black men can pull off that look.