I have a Volt. Regenerative braking means the brake pads are not worn as much. I have a gasoline engine (more realistically a electric generator though there is one usage scenario where it provide direct power to the wheels), that requires an oil change between 1-2 years. The noise difference of not having the engine running when on battery is amazing. My batteries are warrantied for 8 years. I am not real concerned about the batteries. Finally, go out and find an unsatisfied customer of the Volt. The Volt has one of the highest customer satisfaction ratings.

MIT allows one to take your code and do what they will, including wrapping it up in a proprietary license. GPL requires that if one takes code, makes changes and distributes, they need to make the sourceof thsoe changes available to those they distribute the compiled or source code to. An example of taking MIT licensed code is what Microsoft did with BSD networking code and kerberos. The changes Microsoft did to BSd to make it work in Windows are lost to the community, including any potential bug fixes and security improvements. MS took kerberos and made it incompatible with the Open Source offerings.

The other issue is that if you mix GPL and MIT licensed code, the whole thing becomes GPL.

Wrong. Though you do not call it an exception, you call it a license.

I had this with my Gas Utility company. I can only see the last couple of digits of credit card. The worst someone could is pay my bill before I am ready, or see how much gas i am using. Why do I need to use a 16 character alphanumeric case sensitive password that requires multiple special characters. I work in IT and have to maintain strong passwords, even on government HIPAA systems, and the gas company is more stringent.

I have ended up setting up an auto-pay and have not touched the account in two years.

Not when it is on their phone.

Yeah, it's called MySQL.

I have professional experience dealing with Oracle, both on Solaris and Linux, including Oracle RAC and working with MySQL Clusters. Oracle works well enough, but I would rather have MySQL.

Don't know about Coffee, but it does make a nice cup of tea or Hot Chocolate. For me it is a convenience factor of not having to wait for water to boil, then watch a tea bag so it is not over/under brewed. I pop in a pod and hit a button, then let the dog out, and come back to a nicely brewed cup of tea. If my dog takes a bit long, worse case I come back to a cup of tea at the perfect drinking temperature (which means I need to drink the tea fast before it gets too cold) as opposed to over brewed tea that is too bitter. My dad has one too and drinks Coffee, but instead of a pot a day, has 1-2 cups. He still grinds his own beans, but now can limit his intake without a lot of waste.

What about GPS? What about my phone's GPS? What is fundamentally different about reading a printed map and using Google maps? Why should one be allowed and the other prohibited?

Why would there be garabage men? If there was still a need to haul trash away, the truck would be fully automated.

No, it is not. Unless the restaurant is closed for a private gathering it is a public place.

So while Google has to stop anti-competitive practices, they also have to make there web pages less useful. Brilliant.

In "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems" he put the ideas of Pope Urban into the dialogue of Simplicio and thereby insulted the Pope.

Five minutes on Wikipedia would have answered your question.

You really need to check into this more. Right now it is a bit of an expensive investment, but several folks here in my Town have setup a net zero Solar system. They are still tied into the grid but the amount they sell back balances out the amount they use and they have electric cars. Some businesses are even on a net zero solar system.

I have a Chevy Volt and it costs about $0.50 cents usually, and maybe $1.44 if I completely drain the battery. I get about 32-34 miles on a complete charge in the winter. My electric bill is running about $12-$15 more a month. 16 kwh Solar power can handle that amount of electricity just fine.

I should also point out that in best case scenario, oil changes only need to be done every 2 years.

Yes! A standard library should b e just fine for an elementary school. Maybe have some computers which should run an educational linux system. http://www.linuxplanet.com/lin... has decent list. Don't bother with electronic gadgets like tablets and ebook readers, the kids will just break them.

Police can hold you without charging you for up to 24 hours.