You joke, but imagine hitting severe turbulence with one of these horses, unsecured, flying around the cabin. If you're lucky the only thing you'll get hit with is the flying horseshit.

Or the government will revoke the licenses of those physicians that can write prescriptions in both countries. I can only speak for my home province of Ontario, but if you want to buy a prescription drug here it has to be prescribed by a physician. You can't walk into a pharmacy and ask for a three month's supply of Crestor (cholesterol medication). And to do that you need to be a doctor licensed in Ontario to write that prescription. There are a limited number of doctors in the US who have that privilege, most of whom practice close to the border. If this starts impacting the availability of certain important meds like insulin, I would not be surprised if Ontario pulled those licenses from those few doctors.

Change will only come when the entire banking/financial/credit system falls flat on its face, due to so many breaches and data privacy violations. Then the ones who benefit from a lack of data protection will feel the financial pain and will act to "fix" the problem (maybe not entirely in the consumer's favour, but hopefully with some benefit to us).

Seconded. Many companies will take a hit on their profit margin on the initial install and then make up for it on the annual maintenance fees.

Recently my company forced my team to come into the office more often, after many years of encouraging a work-at-home approach. So we struck a deal with our manager and we spend two days a week on-site and three working at home. The result is that when we work at home we use on-line communication tools like chat, video conferencing, email and telephony, but when we're in the office we simply walk over to a conference table and start talking. How is my company going to track my productivity on those days where there's almost no on-line communication? Will we look like slackers on those days? Incidentally, the in-office days are when we do most of our design and problem solving work, which is, in my opinion, of greater value than the heads-down coding and testing we typically do when we work at home.

Alzheimer's clouded the last two decades of my paternal grandmother's life, and dementia hastened my father's death, so yes, I would want to know if I'm at a higher risk of getting either one of these conditions. While I do generally live a pretty full life, I would step up even more if I knew my time was more limited. Knowing would impact my retirement plans (I'm 56 now and looking to retire by 60), and I would ensure my affairs are fully in order well in advance so my wife and children understand completely my wishes not to linger. Maybe others would be afraid to know the truth, but I would welcome it wholeheartedly.

Um, who will grow the food for the rich if the "few billion people" cannot afford food and suffer malnutrition and starvation?

Canadian here. Our universities and colleges are mostly public and heavily subsidized so costs are somewhat lower. On average it cost about $15K/year for each of my two daughters (one got a BSc, the other a BA and B.Ed.) to attend a mid-sized university out of town (tuition, books, rent, groceries, utilities, etc.). My wife and I took this into consideration when they were born and we decided that part of having children was paying for their university education (the only thing we insisted they do when they reached that age was get summer jobs to earn some personal spending money). So we built it into our budget and saved aggressively. That meant living in a smaller house, driving used cars, dine out less frequently, taking more modest and fewer vacations, and, well, living within our means. Many of their peers graduated with large student loans while our kids are now debt-free. We thought we took the right approach. Or were we the fools?

Many years ago I worked for a family owned, multi-billion dollar business where the great grandson of the founder was the CEO. There was an economic downturn going on at the time, but he was confident the company could perform not just well, but exceptionally. So he asked all his senior executives to come up with a plan to deliver double digit growth in the coming year (I worked closely with one of those executives to crunch the budget numbers). Of course they said it couldn't be done (most companies were forecasting very small gains, if any), but he did not want to hear such talk. He intimidated them until they found a way - through aggressive cuts, extended work hours and accounting tricks - to make it happen. And sure enough, they did it. And the CEO invited them up to his office to celebrate. The executive I worked with was in a good mood that day, until he returned to his office a couple of hours later. Turns out that the CEO decided that rather than invest some of the profits in the business, he took ALL the profits and bought himself a bunch of race horses. And bragged about it in front of all the executives. True story. Always know who you are working for, and put forward the appropriate effort.

Look for Halal meats. Apparently the animals are hand-slaughtered so I assume they must be raised in smaller numbers and under somewhat better conditions than the factory hatcheries. I find they are smaller and I have yet to experience these texture issues. It's a little more expensive but my family and I find the meat is tastier and more pleasant to the palate. And yes, they are available at the larger grocery chains (here in Toronto you can find them in No Frills).

I'm not a spook but I would assume intelligence gathering is about collecting lots of individual pieces of data and organize it into useful information, and then leveraging that information. Like monitoring the cell network traffic of key individuals in the State Department, looking for compromising information to blackmail them with. So, I agree (and hope) that the US is not sending nuclear launch codes over public cell networks, but I think there's a lot of other interesting stuff out there.

I suspect you would be subjected to "additional screening methods". Everything in your luggage would be inspected to ensure it was not purchased abroad and subject to duties, and you would be challenged on all your meds to prove the source/prescription is valid. Your travel documents would be thoroughly scrutinized and every last text/email/tweet/etc. on your phone would be recorded and analyzed. This would continue for every flight thereafter until you agree (submit) to the facial scanning.

I work for a Fortune 500 company and here's what you'll find in the office supplies cabinet: pads of 8x11 lined paper, a box of cheap stick pens, paper clips and fold back clips. That's it. If you want post-it notes or highlighters, a stapler or tape, that requires a manager's approval. And very little printer paper is kept next to the multifunction printer/scanner/copier, which you have to log into to use so you know you're being monitored. Not much worth stealing here.

Can someone at Tesla please get a urine sample from Mr. Musk? My daughter, a chemist, would like to run an analysis on it to see what the hell is in his coffee.

Agree on the iPhone SE. Both my daughter and I were pissed when we heard it was discontinued. Best values for the money - that's why Apple stopped making them.