After all, burning batteries are so early 2016, potential for fission in a battery is the future.

Are we headed for future where you lease your roof even if you own the house?

Seems a bit more than coincidence that GM announces layoffs the day after the election. Their way of letting people know that this is good old capitalism, and there is little the politicians can actually do about it. When (if..) Trump does hit GM with a 35% tariff for pieces/parts imported from Mexico will it make Japanese car manufacturers that build here more competitive? Irony will be when he drives the US car makers out of business with his lack of understanding of anything more complex than building hotels.

I have a late '13 MBP, came with 8 GB of RAM (company policy at the time). I'm pretty amazed on how well it runs even when fairly well loaded down. Having a SSD hanging off a PCIe bus makes caching so quick that even at low RAM levels the MBP runs really well. That said, 16 GB of RAM is pretty silly, it's not that expensive and it's not that big, which is kind of important in the "no room for air" approach the MBPs take.

Dang..my current one is getting dull. What am I going to shave with now?

Which brings up a poorly documented vulnerability - no where in my laptop documentation does it state not to get the laptop wet. Where do I send to get my white hat?

This is why I don't put devices like the Nest products in my house - it's bad enough to have my smoke detectors track you and likely report back your position to Google, I can't imagine why anyone would want every household conversation sent to Google as well. The upside is Google lets you know they are watching you all the time, where it is unknown with gov't organizations

When a fully inflated lighter than air-ship crashes, does it bounce?

This is what used to be LEMV (long endurance multi-intelligence vehicle). Very expensive attempt at long-loiter reconnaissance. Cost the US tax payer many many millions, and was cancelled and the thing was sold back the original builder for $301k. https://www.flightglobal.com/n.... Reminds me of the telcom bubble back in the early 2000's except this was a bubble of helium.

Oh, and the helium thing - possibly overrated - more found: http://www.wired.com/2016/06/d.... Also it can be a by-product of natural gas production, just a low percentages.

The one that causes your sunroom motor to overheat, which causes your hair to catch on fire - this is (hair on fire)^2; quadratic fire events are always bad.

I recently built a new home machine and bit the bullet and used 10. My user base (the family) are just that - users. They don't care what they are running as long as it's running and safe. That said, running on a gen 4 i5 processor with 8 GB of RAM and an SSD (which is probably the true magic) it runs amazingly well. I shut off everything (Cortana etc) during the install - was easy to do. I'm sure I missed some things, but I'll get back to those at some point. Getting back to my subject line, my main work computer runs OS X; been using Apple products for 8 years now and used to be a major fan, but am getting sick of the OS. The walled garden was fine several iterations of ago of OS X - it provided a nice stable work environment (still is stable), had easy access to Unix-like functionality when needed (love my grep), and the laptop hardware could not be beat - still using a 6 year old Macbook pro and it's still a great piece of gear. That said the walls of the garden started to collapse a few years ago, and the patches they've been putting up are ugly and poorly functioning. Things like iTunes (which is forbidden on the home Windows machines) and the Photos app are insanely painful to use and seem to go out of their way to keep you from your own media. The Windows 10 hook - as one example, it was trivial to set up a decent file structure that is accessible in many ways to the owner of those files, and it organized in a way that makes sense. It may be that I grew up in a DOS world and that impacted my thinking - most likely reason. That said 10 provides a solid user experience, similar to what I used to like about OS X. It was pretty easy to configure to look like a classic Win interface, I've had no complaints from my user community (the fam). Why not Linux? I don't have the time to play Linux admin for the house, and no one else is inclined to do so. My nerd cred runs deep (optical communications systems development), but the computer is a tool, not a task for me and this is doubly true with my Win 10 users.

Pod people could be used as general backups for any form of accident - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Adding "ly" to something seems to at least get the VCs wound up. I did a quick survey in the house - the 17 year old said he has heard of Napster, the 15 year old said "what's Napster?", the 13 year old said "whatster?" Not that Rhapsody is used by anyone in the house either - nor did it have any name recognition with anyone. Sounds DOA(ly).

I thought he was campaigning in Indiana.

..photonic phallus?