If it works like other iCloud services then you
* either need a second authorized Apple device, or
* a secure code (Recovery Key) you can generate and store if you have only one device. (You have to do this before you lose your single device).

Next to your regular username/password.

From my perspective here in Europe, Mr. Trump has been a disaster for international politics and USA national politics alike.
His personal behaviour has damaged many structures and organisations that we depend on for economic prosperity and security.
The people he hired to run things, and the cruel people in power elsewhere that have been allowed to run unrestrained by anything but their own competence, have done much harm to many people in the USA.

But most of all, he has shifted the goal posts, making things that were outrageous before and would cause people to resign or get dismissed, to now be the new norm and able to continue with what often is reckless and cruel and self-serving policies and actions.

- Secrets are no longer shared with US intelligence, as Mr. Trump might divulge them to a visiting Russian minister on live television.
- Trade and other deals are no longer worth anything, as a twitter message two weeks later can counter any deal you thought you had.
- Anything a previous government might have enacted or agreed with others, is fair game to be shot down, making the US a party that can no longer be trusted to hold up their end of a bargain.
- Healthcare, the environment, the justice system, elections, the separation of powers, legal rights, the independent media, and much more is being undermined and eroded at a breathtaking speed.
- Science, technology and facts are being attacked on a level hardly seen in the past 250 years, since he Enlightenment age.
- Politics is completely personal and tribal with no regard for the results for the nation or the people at large.
- Small wealthy interests have largely captured the political machine, even more than was already the case in the USA.
- The wealth of the nation is syphoned off by billions and trillions into the pockets of the very few.

We run the LOFAR Radio telescope.
It has over 100.000 antennas, spread over most of the EU, with distances up to 2000 km.
It uses the high speed EU research network infrastructure to get the signals to one spot for processing.

It took about €100 million to build. It's cheap because we used cheap parts and spend more on operational maintenance, by driving to the sites and fixing things.
The price of one SpaceX launch.

Running something like this on the backside of the Moon, which isn't really even big enough (diameter only 3700km), would cost several magnitudes more, just in bringing the parts there, not even talking about the construction, infrastructure needed and operational costs.

We observe the whole sky 24/7 at 5ns resolution. Imagine the bandwidth needed between Moon and Earth. We also see ALL things transmitting radio signals (or reflecting them), in the frequencies we observe. Planes reflecting FM radio and DAB+ radio are already a significant issue, thousands of active satellites would make things a lot worse.

This. A lot of the Windows messaging is misleading, and there usually are a lot of unmentioned consequences.

One of the things I like about MacOS, is that it tells you up front if it will require a reboot. Not just the OS, but other applications (employer mandated firewall, virus scanner, ...) do as well.

Yes.
Apple's minor point releases are quick and painless.
Apples bigger (yearly) releases do take some time and are more prone to cause issues, but there is usually no penalty for being 1-2 versions behind and wait until any problems are sorted out.

Apple leaves the user in full control of when updates happen, which updates happen and even when you get nagged about it.

I hate Windows Update popping up in the middle of a game. Apple knows not to do that when I'm running something full screen.

Games need proper hardware support.
Linux never really figured out a proper hardware abstraction of high enough level.
Metal might change some of that.

I played ARK!Survival Evolved for a while, which has both a Mac and a Linux port, using Unreal4. While the Mac version had some issues, the Linux version was a lot worse, not only because of the OS, but also it's users. A lot of them were complaints of things not working properly because of using open source drivers that just did not implement enough of OpenGL, or not properly.
Nvidia releases proper drivers. Use them. If that's difficult on your chosen OS, then there's one of your main problems.

I mostly buy games that have a at least a Mac, and preferably also a Linux port. The only game I have W10 installed for is GTA5.

Package management is a last century solution, when storage and memory were at a premium.

Must have every application come with it's own dependencies, except for some base level OS stuff for proper hardware abstraction, internationalization and desktop management.

OSX/MacOS, with all its flaws, has done a lot of these things right. I consider it the only 21th century OS, even though a lot of its roots go back to NextStep.
A few of the ones important to me:
- Application installation/deinstallation is as trivial as it can be, except for apps that need to install hardware drivers/kernel extensions.
- It does GUI scaling, multi monitor and multi-desktop support properly.
- Full incremental system backup management is trivial, my grandma can do it. Literally.
- Much better hardware abstraction than Linux. (and other unices).
- Much more consistent design than either Microsoft cathedral or the Linux bazaar seems to manage.
- Very smart internationalisation support. I need to type and communicate in a lot of languages.

I don't like a lot of Apple hardware, but the choice to develop NextStep into something useful, makes me still buy their crap, even if it has a stupid Touch Bar.

I believe it is mandatory in my country that a game show like that also pays the taxes on the prices it gives.

I've heard quite a few linguists argue that "Ebonics" is a separate language from (American) English, with often a different grammar.
None of the ones I know seem to have any kind of racial agenda, just observing an interesting linguistic phenomenon of a new language being created.

When I'm in the US I also notice a large difference between the languages of people with different ethnical backgrounds, which seems to mean that the society is much more segregated than in for example my own country.

Maybe you should not fund your police at the local level.

The most affluent often need police presence the least. Lack of resources breeds conflict.

The same with schools and a lot of other public services by the way.

I usually find that the US model makes no sense. So I'll add in that getting rid of a lot of guns would also help.

Tim Cook is the Steve Balmer of Apple.
He makes shareholders happy, but will be the death of the company.

And hos is that going to help anything?
The nutjobs will accuse "the government of covering up the truth".
His peers will still believe the story, maybe even more so.
The problem with these people is that anything contradicting their views is considered part of the conspiracy.
I don't know how to break through that, but making one of them a guest of the state for a long time isn't likely to solve it.

Yeah. I am very disappointed. I really want OSX, I consider it a lot superior to Windows or Linux, as a desktop solution.
I have been using Apple since 1997, and went full Apple when they switched to Intel.
Their hardware has been really good from 2006-2012, then other factors seemed to become more important than having good hardware.

I have been in the market for a good Apple desktop for a while now. Instead I ended up buying a second hand Mac Pro 2012, putting a MacVidCards Nvidia GTX 980, 32 GB RAM and some SSDs into the system. This old machine comparable or better than anything Apple sells today.

I consider the new Macbook Pro a joke. I'm typing this on a 2011 MBP and I see no reason to upgrade, only downsides.

I would need to buy adapters for all my peripherals, as the new MBP has no Ethernet, DVI, mini-displayport/TB2, USB, SD-card, CD/DVD, and most importantly no magsafe connector. My 1GB Radeon HD 6750M might be a bit on the weak side, but they would need to provide Nvidia with CUDA for me to consider a new video card a big improvement. Also my 4core i7 is a bit older than the new skylake but not a very big deal.
I have upgraded my RAM to 16 GB already, I would have expected at least a 32GB option for the new model.

Most password cracking is done by stealing the database with the password hashes and then using some GPU based system to crunch those against known rainbow tables and some well known tricks people use to create passwords.

None of what you suggest would make any difference.

I have seen argued by experienced security professionals that any password that can be remembered is probably easy to crack with current CPU based systems.