Non-IT News Thread
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 Tea time hooligans are a real thing. 
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 Another new battery type. 
 https://www.engadget.com/2018/03/09/proton-battery-carbon-water-no-lithium/I like the author's comment at the end. 
  
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 CT scan of some MLB baseballs to see if they're juiced. 
 https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/juiced-baseballs/?ex_cid=538twitter
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 Tom Petty: Aged 66 still performed in great pain on a broken hip to not disappoint fans. 
 Tim McGraw: Aged 50 leaves concert because he was "dehydrated" and had his wife say she wouldn't allow him to finish - cancels concert.
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 @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread: Tom Petty: Aged 66 still performed in great pain on a broken hip to not disappoint fans. 
 Tim McGraw: Aged 50 leaves concert because he was "dehydrated" and had his wife say she wouldn't allow him to finish - cancels concert.Tom Petty: Real musician and songwriter with actual talent, whose music will live on for ages. Tim McGraw: Totally replaceable Nash-Pop frontman with no discernible talent, who has never written a song in his life, and whose generic "performances" are forgotten as soon as they're over. 
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 @mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread: https://www.anandtech.com/show/12524/broadcom-qualcomm-takeover-blocked-on-national-security-grounds I heard this on the news this morning, I'm glad that there is still some separation between these massive businesses. That's all we need, globally, one less company producing chips. 
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 This is worth it just for the mug shot.  
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 @mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread: This belongs in the I can't even thread. Eventually Trump is going to run out of people to work for this administration. . . 
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 @mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread: A year in, is anybody left of the original cabinet? I think everybody has quit or been fired. 
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 Stephen Hawking has just passed away at age 76. 
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