wow. I think everyone has been angry at someone in HR at some point or two in their lives. But if we eliminate HR completely, who will make sure we get paid?

There are companies who are filling IT positions with people who don't already have 3-5 years experience doing the job? Where?please tell me!

~15 years ago, I would have written off your examples as lunatic-fringe, tinfoil-hat-wearing and OMG-don't-you-have-anything-better-to-do-with-your-imagination, but events that have transpired in the past 15 or so years (starting with the signing into law of the DMCA in 1998) have convinced me otherwise.
I other words, I wouldn't put anything past our global corporation "people" who control billions of dollars (some of which are used to pay lobbyists, some of which are donated to candidates' election funds, and some of which are likely used for much worse purposes).

It took me a while to remember that the ribbon can be collapsed by double-clicking on any tab (the actual tab part). Once you know where the controls that you use are located, collapse the ribbon, and single-click a tab to open it for the duration of the command, and then after you click the command, it will snap back shut.

I can't believe no one has said anything about OperaTor yet. Mostly because it's the only one I was aware of before this article
Is it because OperaTor doesn't appear to be in development anymore (as in dead).

Will someone please define the word "chemical" for us?

So, how do you call the power company when the electricity goes out? I mean the first time the electricity goes out, I mean (because by the time the electricity goes out for the second time, you will have looked up the number and put it in your cellphone.) Wait, no, you just look it up on your cellphone the first time, because your cellphone can access the internet.
I guess people with cellphones that can't access the internet to look up a number are becoming as rare as people with no cellphone and only a cordless phone on their landline.

The Secret Service can bring any phone they want to work on to my workplace, and work on it at their leisure. You can't get a wireless signal inside my building to save your life. Plenty of time to crack the phone without it being remotely disabled.

Tracking small rocks like this might seem like a waste of time, until we predict one that is going to hit a major populated area - lives could be saved.

I don't know, It's one thing to know when a small rock will hit the earth, and another thing to predict where it will hit within a few miles. And then yet another thing entirely to know where to send all of the evacuees. It it looks like it will hit Dallas, do we completely evacuate the whole metroplex? And how far do they go? If you are not careful, it may hit wherever people evacuated to and kill more people than had everyone stayed put.