What you describe has already occurred. Our old dump mobile phones used to have a battery that lasted about a week. Then came smart phones and people would rather have a small and cheap phone than a huge one with a one week battery, so the battery capacity went down to what most people thought was reasonable: About one full day of use. We compromise when new tech comes along. We've done this through history.

You do realize that this is how it works in most west world countries that actually have functioning health care systems? Would you say that the Nordic countries: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, with completely free health care, are fascist countries??

Do you have a practical example of anywhere in the world where this works?? Because all west world countries that have working health care systems have the exact opposite of what you suggest. I live in Sweden with completely free health care. There's no $100 aspirin here.

Samsung had stuck with the removable batteries of the Note 3 and Note 4 (which I own and love) this problem would not have occurred as the removable plastic back side would have allowed the battery to expand. This is also the same reason that I stopped buying the Note-series of Phones: No removable battery. So lose-lose :(

So that makes them a lot like Trump nuts?

You sound a bit like Trump: If I lose, it's due to the corruption of the voting process. If the economy goes belly-upp: It's due to a pre-existing bubble, not due to the decisions the Republicans make

I wonder what kind of culture exists with Samsung.
I bet that at some point one of these two tings have been brought up by engineers within the company:

• - The Note 7 battery has too high a capacity for the space that it occupies. Or serious missgivings about some other technical aspect.
• - The Note 7 battery testing has not been through enough or performed long enough to ensure 100% stability.

Why was this information not passed on? What manager didn't react to it?
This goes way beyond a simple hardware issue.

He didn't mention currency... Pesos?

I'm not American but as I understand it your laws that let you have guns were drafted when there were indians, wild animals and other dangers that made then necessary. After some sort of incident that requires the use of bunkers, our civilization may go back to a state where guns are needed. What doesn't make sense is why you have all those guns NOW.

I don't really agree with you. I think that a customer should take it for granted that he could install any operating system once he has purchased the hardware. He shouldn't have to search the internet to find a list of computers that allow it vs the ones that don't.

Try to pull that bullshit (organized religion) here in Sweden and you'll fail miserably

I wonder if Donald Trump sits down and thinks: "So, the Russians want me to win. I wonder why...?"

What super powers did he gain from the whole experience?

I'll give you the European standpoint on this: Yes, there is a lesser of two evils here. It's the one who doesn't start a third world war. Hillary will play her political games and get things done the way american politicians have always done. Trump, however, is likely to start a third world war with buffoonery about "carpet bombing" countries and racist remarks about groups of millions of people.

I live in Sweden: If ONE person here was found to have tried to bring a gun aboard a plane it would be such a sensation that it would be all over the news.