The problem is complicated and hard to reduce to a paragraph or two.

My point seems to be missed:

To get to cures, we have to side-step the free market. I'm not criticizing them. They see opportunity and do their jobs. The problem is that there is minimal, if any, opportunity in cures.

The only solution is to make up the profitability shortfall so as to improve citizens' lives.

I don't give a hoot about the political perspective on this. My focus is on getting to cures. End of story.

Why is there no cure for diabetes? Because it doesn't make economic sense. There's an incredible industry around diabetes and a cure would harm it significantly.

Before we go on, it's easy to yell Big Pharma - but they are just doing there jobs and, if they don't want to increase profits, they will get fired and somebody else will step in to fill their shoes.

How do we solve the problem of both Diabetes 1 and 2?

It's going to take governments with guts. The guts to form a Public Private Partnership to really execute on cures.

Every country on the planet should each take on one or more diseases and be the centre of expertise for that disease - with a focus on a cure, NOT on treatments.

If we ranked of the top killers, they would be Coronary Artery Disease, Strokes, Flu, Pneumonia, TB, COPD, Respiratory Cancers, Diabetes, Prostate, Breast, Alzheimers and other Cancers - not to mention Cirrhosis and Diarheal diseases

If each of the G19 took on two each, we'd be done with these scourges in a decade.

What about power sources in general?

- Power Tools

- SLR Cameras

- EV Bikes, cars etc.

etc.

We all know that every manufacturer wants to lock you into their 'system' by virtue of their battery packs. Why aren't we, as consumers, demanding standardization along with right-to-repair so that cheap cells can be replaced rather than buying expensive, custom power packs that are welded together?

Turn.

The.

Phone.

Off.

A proper night's sleep is far more valuable than some stupid message in the wee hours.

What we need is a filing SYSTEM. Users have no concept of file nomenclature or filing strategies. We don't need a new container for files, we need an automated library system to store and retrieve them.

What files should be saved? Which files are useless? What do we store in the cloud and what do we keep locally? How do we merge-purge storage media? Where can we organize photos? etc. etc.

Take a typical phone user. Look at how often they scroll and scroll. What a bloody waste of time. We need a filing system that is intuitive so that they can find the pictures they want just by describing what they are looking for... etc. etc.

Think of every typical office. The server file system is often a huge disaster. No order, no structure - just random folders that are deemed 'important' and that files are dumped into....

I could go on and on but I know I'm boring you. Go back to designing your new filing system and screw the reason we need it.

In the future when all fast food joints are run by robots, the Russians will hack them and close down fast food. This will cause people to stop eating crap, make their own food and become healthier than the Russians - that health will cause us to think more quickly and out-smart the pesky Ruskies - shutting down their Vodka factories.

This will cause the Russians to show up for work and hack us even more... and that's how WWIII will start - all because of robotic fast food joints.

Microsoft, please focus on the following instead of confusing us with continual branding changes and shitty icons:
1. Make the O365 App actually work on iPhones. You can't even transfer a contact with it.
2. You want everyone on Sharepoint, right? Ok, then make it work. Build more into O365 so that all the Office apps function as well in Sharepoint as on the desktop.
3. Migrate VBA to Sharepoint.
4. Make Sharepoint 'mountable' as a local drive.
5. Re-write Microsoft Access so that it functions on Sharepoint.
6. Make MS Teams work like stable software, not Alpha level software.
Lastly, let us users vote on features - and then work on them.
We're the customer - and we're always right!

So, let me get this straight: the Spaniards are proposing to work MORE hours per week??!!

A monkey flew out of my butt.

OFF Microsoft. We just don't need this when we're trying to work - not any less that Google trying to push Chrome every time we Google something.

The real problem is with the English language itself. Having stolen/acquired/bastardized words and structure from other languages and with a grammar and spelling structure that is, at the very best broken, the reasonable chance of AI comprehending speech at 100% is slim to none.

Example: "Eats shoots and leaves" could have multiple meanings depending on whether there is comma "Eats, shoots and leaves" or not.

Every operating system consists of a collection of executables, library files, configuration files and drivers. What if Microsoft open sourced the code that it had dead-ended? That would at least allow for the option to maintain it. Furthermore, that maintenance could be used at Universities as real-life course materials for students to improve on.

I have a number of BOSE products - Bluetooth speakers (two different models) - Batteries died way, way to early. A couple of BOSE iPod players - Virtually incompatible with anything else. BOSE Radio/CD Player - Lose the remote... and other BOSE remotes don't even work with it. Noise-cancelling headphones - rechargeable. Just fantastic. However, when you look at as a whole, I've maybe dropped $2,000 on BOSE and only one product out of five stood out. In short, BOSE need to up their game - or get out of the business.

Only in Canada could you have an electric Beaver and not have anyone snicker about it.

In a press release today, Mother Nature thanked McDonald's and the rest of the fast food industry for making people so obese that they can't procreate. At approximately 16 tonnes of Carbon Dioxide Emissions per person per year, a decline in population is the just the beginning of possible good news for the planet.