Well...the original comment seemed to be based on " does make and receive phone calls". So yeah, it does.

You do know that you can trot on down to WorstBuy and get a $40 LG tracfone. And yes, it does actually make phone calls. And text. And all that other crap.
Is it limited as compared to your $300 smartphone? Sure. But its only $40.

Bottom 1/2 of the garage fridge is frozen water.
Always plenty of foodstuffs around
Propane and charcoal grills to cook on
In the event of actually having to bug out, one of the laptops and the main USB secondary drive that normally lives attached to the house HTPC/server. In addition to a few things in cloud storage.

Anything else...home owners insurance.

Well gee, Sparky. Why don't you tell us what pseudoenlighted country you live in. So that we may delve into some random idiotic episode that happens in your hinterland and make fun of it.

Everywhere has some stupid crap going on.

That "15 pages" is very misleading. I don't think RackSpace Hosting (#12) and a cellphone case store (#16) count as "ISP's"

And in June 2012, it was constitutional in NYC. I agree with you....that is a completely wrong concept. But wrong or right, it was the law of the land.

As far as the Black/not Black thing....you may think it is deeply offensive/racist. Others may look at it as getting shot or not getting shot.

I take it you've never been Black, right?

And you've also never heard of 'Stop and Frisk'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...

EG: a solar panel installation could dump unused power to a heating element or something.

That is "storage"...what the article supposes we can do away with.

No monthly bandwidth limit on FiOS, up or down. It has been that way for years.

I can easily imagine all the things you mention, and more.

But do I want/need to do them? No
So no, I don't want a 'smart watch'. My life is not diminished by not having one.

Where I live (mid Atlantic) leaving the car(s) outside is very, very common. So common that many people convert the actual garage into actual living space. Removing the garage door and walling it off. Adding insulation and flooring. Man cave, or workshop/toolroom.

When I bought this house, I had a minivan. Kids, etc. There was zero stuff in the single car garage, besides the water heater, washer, dryer. Which is where that stuff lives in this market.
Day 1, I opened the garage door, pulled the minivan in..."OK, this isn't going to work well"

lawnmower, bikes, tools....or the car. One or the other. The cars, being hardshelled devices, survive outside much better than all the other things.

The main problem with all electric cars, so far, is needing to have a personal garage to park it in to recharge. If I live in apartment, I can't charge it. If the garage of my single family home is otherwise taken up with 'stuff', I can't plug it in.

Eventually that issue will change. But for today, how can I buy an all electric if I have no where to plug it in?
Even if it were sold for $300, I still cannot plug it in!

The U.S. is becoming a country in which only the rich get what they want.

The U.S. is becoming a country in which only the government gets what they want.

And the difference is.....?

I have never heard of other countries that put bugs in UN offices of other countries etc

HAHAHA.