Actually to add to the douche-baggery they will still charge you sales tax if you buy the car and then try to immediately register it. Typically you have to own the car out of state for a year to avoid that.

Small business owners are just as big of crooks as the large business owners. Swap Senator with County Commissioner and you know who the checks are going to.

Who ever offers the best service at the best price is going to get my money. Buy American, buy local just because? I say Fuck No!

How hard is it to tell them, either end your nuclear program or we will?

47 minutes after Iran announces that they have a nuclear weapon a large mushroom cloud over Tehran will announce the cancelation of said nuclear program.

Send that message.

anything past that is a waste of time.

True but then in 2004 I couldn't buy or build a desktop machine as powerful as my smart phone.

It still blows the mind that we walk around with more computing power than was available in the 60's to NASA, and probably most of the rest of the US, in our pockets. That reminds me time to watch some youTube videos of a cat riding on a Roomba.

My 5Mbit service from Comcast is currently costing me $50/month, about what it was 10 years ago.

Do the math. With 3% annual inflation and you are still paying $50 for service ten years later?

You are actually paying about $36 compared to the $50 dollars you were paying in 2004 dollars. Not that I'm ever going give Comcast any props, but they are giving you the same service for less money.

Just like going large for just a quarter more, the base cost for each customer is basically the same whether they order 1 Big Mac meal or 5 of them. Comcast has some fixed costs whether you buy the base package of the "drink from the firehouse" bandwidth package. Seems that cost is about $50.

You want the big bump in bandwidth you are going to have to pay them more than the minimum. Typically you don't see any real nice jumps in speed until you get to the $75-100 packages. I've had $100 FIOS package for a while and they seem to be throwing more bandwidth at me every 6-12 months. My service is rated at 165/165Mbps officially, but speed tests show it somewhere closer to 190/190Mbps.

My motorcycle tops out at poky 187mph, but then again it only takes it 9 or so seconds to get there.

In a NASCAR or a Formula 1 race you might be right about 160 being slow, but this car is being designed for a race that is 12.4 miles long with 150 turns in it. I doubt there'll be much opportunity to get above 100mph much less 160.

It will shine in two aspects. Electric cars are not affected by altitude. Gas burners get weaker the higher they go, turbo and superchargers can only do so much high up in the mountains. The other place will be coming out of the before mentioned 150 turns. Electric cars may not be able to beat down gas cars for top speed, this is typically due to having only 1 gear rather than a lack of engine power, but they absolutely destroy them on the hole shot. It will have 150 opportunities to take advantage of that acceleration. The gas burners won't know what hit them.

Pikes Peak is only 12.5 miles.

3 minutes of max acceleration is a lot of go time.

You can speak out against the behavior of Blacks, Homosexuals or Women all you want in the US and no one will bat an eye,

I'm going to have to call bullshit on that one. You make any statement then you are a racist, misogynistic, homo-phobe. It is considered incredibly anti-PC to call out the various victim groups on their behavior regardless of how obviously it is and how constructive your critique is to the conversation it is without the hoards of angry apologists coming out of the wood work to tear you down over what a bastard you are for "blaming the victim".

The most fucked-up countries are the ones where somebody can use take arbitrary "offence", and use that office to attack somebody. E.g. the offence of "insulting a Muslim" in most Islamic countries.

Kind of like in the US if you speak out against the behavior or Blacks, Homosexuals, or Women......

Not in the military. President Obama signed the order the same time they took sodomy off the books. Kind of strange if you ask me. Hi I'd like you to meet my donkey, err, wife, err well very good friend donkey.

I agree about industrial power, but I was talking about residential. Unless some crazy new fad pops up, home power generation will be quite doable.

By the time the utility-scale solution comes on line your average home owner will no longer be interested in being a customer as there will be really no reason not to generate your own power, unless of course if things like force shields and personal home hadron colliders become popular.

As it is for less than $3000 I have enough solar power to cover everything but the largest power hogs. (AC, heat, refrigerator.) All my personal devices, tv, lighting, and water heating do just fine off of solar. There is no reason why most of the rest will not be converted in that 20-30 year window.

I give not a single flying fuck about how stupid the Chinese and Europeans are behaving when it comes to their subsidies. If they want to subsidize my giant American capitalist swimming pool filled of course with the tears from baby seals killed with clubs made of nearly extinct hardware from the devistated South African jungles that's their problem.

As far as the "whole passel" of laws I don't have to pull permits that are not required. The entire solar water system is run off of 12vDC, no permits required. The panel installation and the solar pool pump is 1 permit and electrical inspection, instead of the 3 or 4 I needed before. I am also getting to skip the wire run and trenching and the extra electrical box work. That all adds up quickly to the price.

Sarcasm on the fritz and they still give me a shitload of mod points to dole out. Funny huh?

Couple reasons.

1. When the grid goes down, so does your little micro grid. If you have sensitive needs, say for example a server farm, climate control needs, or medical life support equipment you never want it to go down.
2. The utilities charge you to have connections to the grid even if you do nothing but generate electricity. They charge ALOT to businesses. (Pissess off the crony capitalists aka Republicans and Democrats.)
3. Also if you have utilities coming onto your property you start getting into property right of way nonsense that gives the gov't or the utilities a way to butt into your business. (Pisses off Statist Progressives)
4. If you are not connected to the grid your power generation can't be taxed because they have no way of monitoring it, and you won't be forced to pay subsidies to pay for electricity social programs. (Pissess off the Democrats)

So why just hold out for angering republicans? I say piss them all off.