So rising seas won't *directly* affect you, but, even in your area, as temperatures rise, there are probably plants and animals that could die off, local aquifers may dry up (due to changes in rainfall patterns)... In addition, unless you live in a completely self-contained/sustaining bubble, you get things from other places in the country/world... Ultimately, eventually, we're all in this together.

... the guy just has a LOT of anxiety. Wouldn't you if Homeland Security was after you? :-)

Ya, I know how a snorkel works and the physics involved - it was a joke, lighten up.

I wonder how they will feel about their lifestyles in 100 years, when they have to keep buying longer and longer snorkels just to get around in the non-tangible seawater surrounding their homes? The U.S. Navy, however, is taking climate change seriously: U.S. Navy bracing for climate change

Beats the alternative delivery method (see the image AltText)

I'm hard pressed to see how the *school district* could press charges as they are not a party to, or harmed by, the alleged accusations.

Citation seriously needed - from a reputable source. On balance, if you investigate this honestly, I suspect you'll find that the ACA has helped more than it has hurt. Sure, some people have had to pay higher premiums, but it is almost always for better coverage, and many people complaining didn't have any insurance, but now have coverage - especially people needing Medicaid. Ironically, people in Red states have benefited more than those in Blue states.

Here's a citation: Is the Affordable Care Act Working?, from 10/2014, quoting:

Everyone is disposable. All companies care about is $$$.

Here's my experience, working for a *large* corporation... I have 25+ years (14 at my current company) as a Unix system programmer and system administrator with commensurate Linux and Windows experience - I've worked on just about every type of system from PCs to Cray super-computers. I am currently the lead developer of a three-person team on a cross-platform utility (Solaris,RedHat,Ubuntu,Windows) of about 300k lines of code in about 10 programming languages - 75% of which is my code - that is heavily used by our customers.

I was almost laid off last summer, simply because I was one of the most expensive people in my category of people on the contract. Even pleadings from my two managers to the higher ups that laying me off was inappropriate had no effect. The *only* thing that changed their minds was the realization that I also worked on *another* contract onto which some of my work could be (properly) charged.

I would tend to agree that the calculation is more complex, but err on the side of retraining current employees. Learning a new skill, especially within your field of study, isn't often that difficult, but, for a new employee, learning the company's policies, procedures and well as documentation, development, build and delivery (etc) processes and the company culture is much more complex and, I would argue, more important. A wiz-bang employee that's not well integrated into the environment is a bigger problem than someone simply needing to learn another programming language. All that assumes, of course, that companies actually care, which, in my experience, large companies don't. "Employees are our most valuable asset" - my ass.

Renting software, especially non-essential software, is one thing, but renting the OS, without which the system won't even function, is more akin to renting ransom-ware. (good move M$, he said sarcastically)

If, on the other hand, the system will still function - at full capacity - but just w/o further updates, then I predict many, many out-of-date systems (because people are fugal) - that is, until, more complete uses of "trusted computing" take hold and routers and/or network services deny access to systems that are not fully-patched. (off in the distance, he hears RMS giggling and muttering "wait for it...")

Also, how is this subscription service suppose to work? Am I suppose to give M$ my credit card number for recurring charges? I don't think so - although I imagine that's what many Apple consumers do (I don't know).

... then I can have one system with both a patched container and an un-patched container. "Is your system up-to-date?" ... "Sort of." Now I can look forward to downloading the same patches N times, once for each container - thanks Mark, that's snappy!

And, in related news, as I've mentioned before, breathing cause death.

Fact: 100% of all dead people were habitual breathers.

Technically, so is yours (and this) ... :-)

And those fish, cattle and even people are getting those antibiotics for *free* - seriously impacting our bottom line and tight-fisted control over drugs that, in reality, don't really cost as much as we say they do to research and manufacture, but we sell for a metric fuck-ton of cash.

According to this NY Times article, $2.6 Billion to Develop a Drug? New Estimate Makes Questionable Assumptions are an "estimate that drug companies could have made more money if they used their research investment for things other than drug development."

The end of the article notes:

That's a far cry from $2.6 Billion.

I seriously doubt *any* of those 200 security experts have flown off to Hong Kong with a glock and hot Asian chick strapped to their sides and ninja'd their way through a bunch of bad guys - though I'm sure they've dreamed about doing that.

Furthermore, only Hollywood would have the must-have elite hacker be Chris Hemsworth. Don't get me wrong, I like Chris, in roles where speaking and the ability to convincingly portray highly technical knowledge isn't important, but if one is going the action-movie route, it would be much more interesting to have the character be a "regular guy" - actually like Kevin Poulsen - thrown into an exceptional situation like this, rather than watch Thor run around saving the day yet again.

I stand by my preemptive review (and the 31% review on Rotten Tomatoes).