Can you provide a sensible definition of 'bigotry', and an example of where you think Carson and Cruz have failed to live up to your proposed standard?
The 'b' word seems to be the all-purpose kiss-off, these days. You risk evacuating it of meaning, like Tarantino did the Bigger Digger Trigger in "Django Unchained", I'm led to understand.

His precise motive for--and benefit from--is what, exactly?

If you don't treat your workers right, you deserve to be driven out of business.

Here you go, those are $100 bills.

When I talked to one of our VAR's he said that one of the local hospital chains was one of his best and worst customers, best because of all the expensive gear they bought, worst because they were so demanding. They actually paid to have trenching done to make sure that their backup link at one facility went out a different CO which was on a different uplink facility (ie truly divergent paths with no single mode of failure), and that was just for PACS, not telesurgery.

Couldn't find any numbers for 800kv AC, the Tepco 1,000kv AC line is >5%/1,000km so the extra 10% from 735 to 800 isn't going to help much.

Ah, I had forgotten about 6-15R, whenever we deal with 240V it's always L6-20 or L6-30 twistlock or C13, neither of which would work in a kitchen. I do see you can get 6-15R in GFCI which is good since that's required in kitchens.

Wouldn't pass inspection in the US since they're not classified in the NEC.

I'm doing my individual part. I think there are enough genuine reformers out there to represent a high single digit percentage of the population.

The parasitic losses of DC over long distance is reason enough that it's not done

Siemens quotes 3.5% loss per 1,000km for +-800kv DC vs 6.7% for 735kv AC systems, exactly the opposite of your claim. I think I'll trust one of the biggest names in power over someone with a free bitcoin scam in their signature.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/05/26/did-george-w-bush-offer-to-officiate-at-a-same-sex-wedding/

Yeah, but he wasn't the only chef gooning the soup. By which I mean, don't over-credit any one bozo.

He deviated from the Big Government script how, exactly? I confess to all of the sins of being insufficiently critical and voting for him. Serves us right, the current mess. Now, let us reform.

I guess that's somewhat interesting from a logistical standpoint. And the regional politics of the Great Satan helping out the Saudis have some fun nuance. "Bush believed he was doing the right thing" is probably trivially true, but, again, omits an awful lot of Shiite/Sunni developments.
Which is, again, not meant as anything sort of an apologist play for W. And you can keep the brother, too.

Practical consumer-level devices do well to hit 20%.
No, 80% efficiency is pretty much the bottom of the barrel in switching mode power supplies, 95% from 20-80% of rated load is doable for around $200 for 1kw loads.