After all, you might break something.

A particularly corrupt oligarchy populated with a supermajority of attorneys like Silver in NYC & Pelosi in the Senate who make sure friends and spouses "get theirs."

Rarely works out well.

What this says is no long term vision/planning/execution at Microsoft.

Because once you pass the half way point, you realize you need to start eliminating the trivial and the bullshit big time, as there is little time left.

We just are not sure of what cause any change, other than the Sun and volcanoes.

FBI, CIA and 50 other government agencies need this to spy on the citizens that don't trust them.

Used to be computers were replaced every year or two and at most 3, giving Microsoft a short turnaround in selling Windows for continual income.

With hardware being more reliable and in more of a limited set of new features, people don't need to upgrade as often and MS sees their OS income in long term decline.

Anyone who tells me Microsoft is not moving toward yearly subscriptions is doing spin.

The US government has become the overlord of all.

Some already avoid email & might use pictures w/steganography.

Gov't is working on this now.

Let's get real.

Right. It has always been a tradition for the top tribal leader to line his and his family's pockets.

That already came out of some investigations in the EU recently. Other terrorists may just send pictures of Skippy after using steganography.

Earths climate should be properly accounted over centuries and millenia and not decades in order to be statistically significant.

Statistically, decades are not a valid set of data points. People using such information are attempting political acts and not proper long term scientific work.

Earth's weather is almost entirely determined by Solar activity (or lack of same in the Maunder Minimum) and large volcanic eruptions. Krakatoa is the last big eruption which caused a large drop in northern hemisphere temperatures as I recall.