When I was sixteen a friend and I were stopped {by military police} because someone had reported gunshots in the area. We had no fire arms or drugs but the officer was certain that we did so they called the dog unit. My friend told them he was allergic to dogs and begged them to call his parents and keep the dog away from him or the car. {he was allergic to dogs and a long list of other things}

Then after ignoring him, searching with the dog, and not finding anything my friend started to have a reaction and ended up going to the hospital. The officers were dishonorably discharged and I think the one controlling the dog spent time in Leavenworth prison.

"The i3 performance in range-extending mode may be more limited than when it is running on battery power, as BMW clarified that the range extender is designed not for long-distance travel but purely as an emergency backup to keep the electric system going until the next recharging location." from the same article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...

Neither are 100% what I was thinking but they may eventually be. The chevy volt is close but the 48 mile all electric range is a little to short for my use {more like 60} otherwise I could use all electric during the daily work commute and errands but still take long trips on the weekend without worrying about charging time or is there a place to charge where I'm going.

True, that's why I like electric mowers and weed eaters.

I looked it up the chevy volt gets about 38 miles electric and about 380 mile on a full charge and a full tank of gas... I'd probably just go over the electric range by a few miles everyday which is fine if it got 60 miles electric I'd have to make sure I used the gas engine occasional to make sure it didn't have problems.

I'm not an electrical engineer or anything but I keep thinking that a high performance gas or diesel generator should be able to charge one of these while driving and get good mileage {much higher than a regular gas engine} and better range. Doesn't the chevy volt already do this?

I like to sit down with a cup of coffee for about 15 minutes in the morning and kind of mentally prepare and plan my day. It's been really nice outside {65-70F} each morning this week so I have been taking my coffee time on the patio. I've also been fishing a couple times this week, you can sit 30 minutes uninterrupted doing that also.

I've been taking my son fishing trying to spend some father son time he's 14 and he either wants to be on the move, jigging up and down the bank, or he plays on his cellphone. He is very much the opposite of patient.

Wasn't there a recent issue with no poaching employee agreements... and doesn't this do the same?

http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...

I also purchase dvds, copy them off to my media server, and toss the disk in the closet... {about a thousand right now} I don't currently have them backed up since I had a hard drive failure so it will take me weeks to recopy all those dvds if I don't get a new back up before something happens.

Many of my dvds are box sets of tv shows so the media server is almost stocked as well as netflix.

He has cox cable and probably the same plan I do. Cox's view is if you are going over the 250GB cap then they will work with you to find out why if it's your legitimate usage they'll ask you to upgrade {or help you install their security package if it's virus related} but they don't charge overages. {if you don't upgrade and constantly go over the cap they will suspend your account}

I have two rokus, two xboxes every tv streams media somehow and I have both netflix and hulu but only local stations on cable. Streaming entertainment is the default for my family of 5 and I don't usually go over 200GB. My monthly average is around 160GB

Private companies shouldn't contract law enforcement directly... maintaining vehicles and equipment sure, I don't expect an officer to change the oil in their cruiser. That contracted service should still be open to request.

Antidepressants bother me also, sure there may be times when they are useful for reasons that make sense. If your wife cheats on you with your best friend and then takes the car and the house in the divorce... chances are pills won't help.

I once told a professor that he should change the title of his statistics course to "lying with numbers made fun".

Often times people will cut down a sample or leave out important information in a summary just to promote a point, it's disingenuous.

If they are a private security firm contracting with local law enforcement then wouldn't local law enforcement still be required to comply with open records requests concerning that contract and services provided? I contracted that out, shouldn't alleviate the burden of records keeping or requests.

That's not true they were more common than gas at one point but since gas cars have greater range and were cheaper the electric car eventually lost popularity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...

I began college with 1 year of microcomputers and switched to Applied Arts. I didn't think computers were ready for prime time but shortly after I finished college windows 3.0 was released and computers were suddenly in every other household. I tried my hand at teaching for a year and then went to work at pc company that I won't name and started at the very bottom {tech support}. Followed by a couple dsl providers, then telecom, and now I'm a developer.