Government will fuck you sideways for a laugh, then shoot your dog and seize your house. I'll take Google's arbitrary of government's malice any day.

Whatever your perspective on that, someone, somewhere has to rank search results. If Google becomes capricious, people will stop using them (I haven't used them to search in 5+ years). If some government controls search results, it will get worse every year, and never ever get fixed.

The Dodge Ram Contractor is built that way- plus it's a full size, full power pickup truck that provides 48KW 120 volt outlets on the remote jobsite.

1) That might be part of my problem- I have had trouble to adjusting to the "light touch" needed for proper prius hypermiling video game playing. I have always been a bit of a leadfoot, and so I do have a problem with rabbit starts.

3) Yeah, that's probably the reasoning. I use it in 25 to 35 zones all the time though, and it really increases my mileage numbers, but that's related to my comment 1 above.....

7) that would take a heck of a jumper cable to deliver the 273 volts and who knows how many amps to spin M1.

And thanks to looking that up, I found this Emergency Response guide which does not say what to do if you run out of gas in a prius.

Here's a bit on what a hassle bricking a prius by running out of fuel + electricity is- nobody in America has done it yet, but I could easily see somebody accidentally leaving the car turned on when parking it (I've done it myself) in which I give it about a week before it's dead.

So it's acceptable, then, because they've always done it. Gotcha.

Or Google Hangouts works just as well, with a VOIP call in phone, using said Polycom VOIP models.

Or ...

Yeah, this is a solved problem. Someone needs to turn in their geek card.

Get one, mmaybe two real wireless microphones from Shure or someone like that -- think "audio equipment catalog", not "computer equipment catalog". Get the cables to hook the base station up to standard microphone input. Pass the mic around to whoever is talking; it doubles as the "currently speaking" token (and you only have one person at a time talking at standup, right?). Make sure you have lots of spare batteries (presumably rechargeable) in a convenient location.

Good lord, you're an idiot. I've read it many times, and it really has nothing to say about what companies I'd like to do business with.

So releasing secure documents to someone outside of government is not "illegal"?

You really believe that?

I'll be happier with private companies like Google than governments.

If I get tired of a business like Google, I quit using it.

Kinda hard to quit a government that can take your freedom and life away from you if you get pissed at them....at least hard in the short run.

I think the secret to the success of this and future Kickstarters, is to use someone in the video promo with an Australian accent.

I believe that is what seals the deal on these things raising large sums of money!!

:)

AND remember the liberal democrat cries about Sarah Palin's alleged use of private email for public use (until it was hacked and nothing was found) ??

Yeah, the same people who were screaming lunatic mad about that, are the same ones suddenly silent here. Those people need to be "named and shamed".

To the rest of the human race. After all, most people are on ISIS hit list if you understand their theology.

"imagine the next Star Wars movie where Jedi prefer blasters"

Funny, I saw that last night in the Disney Star Wars Rebels Cartoon. A Padawan who actually built a blaster into his lightsaber- so that he had both ranged and hand-to-hand weaponry.

DS9, bad as it was, did a MUCH better job of showing the implications of Utopia, especially in the Sisko-extended-family story line.