A friend has a Ford Fiesta with the 1.6L engine. Probably the same one on Ford's shelf since the early 80's. It gets about 340 miles to a tankful of gas. So 300 miles on a charge isn't a stretch. It's just recharge times have to approximate gas refuel times.

All first responders from cops to firefighters all carry Naloxone for heroin overdose.

Which is proactive in my opinion. But the problem exists even here. We've had a number of heroin overdoses the last few years that resulted in death. Now that there's a treatment available people no longer need to fear the first responders so much.

Or break multiple legs. That would work.

Actually where I live it's 250V split to 125V sides.

When can I have my flying car. The one with no wings.

Why - we had our seismic events millions of years ago. That's why. Big old mountains to my north and the city I live in is comprised of many hills.

On occasion we do get little 2-4 range tremblors though. Back in 2011 or so we were in the office and all felt a swaying sensation. We all noticed but after noticing just went back to what we were doing.

Windows 8 is a flaming piece of excrement. Even Microsoft sort of admits it by the rumor that support for Windows 7 ends in six months. That's to try to push people to upgrade to Windows 8. It's gonna be egg on their faces because this is now at least 4 times MS has done this to a user community.

And I've seen the sneak shots for Windows 9. The Start button is back bitches!

Ha - buy a Ford vehicle. That Sync - it's a Microsoft product too. Which explains a hell of a lot.

I was thinking along the very same lines. The whole black market economy will either disappear or be willing to be positively identified.

And as it exists at this moment I rarely visit merchants who don't accept plastic. If I have to go out of my way to seek out an ATM to get cash you lose the sale.

And as someone pointed out this makes the criminal economy suffer in the long run.

A pretty good swath of the population of the U.S. is essentially as dumb as a box of rocks.

So it's pretty easy to see how they could be manipulated into supporting something that was not in their best interest.

Back in the mid 2000's I managed to snag a C Class block of IP's for a government agency. They still hold it now. The reality though even though we had the full 8 bits at the end to play with, we only used about 15 addresses.

But here's the thing about the industry in general. The outrageous taxi scheme goes away one autonomous vehicles are predominant. Just whistle up a car and it takes you where you need to go. No more human to have to pay, no more of that.

You make an extremely important point about infringement. In essence proof goes out the window when any Tom, Dick and Harry can use your access point.

And this is sort of a bad move on the part of Comcast. If my provider, Cox were to do that I'd promptly get toss their router and put my own in with full up protection.

I tend to use a business debit card. Has essentially the same liability limits a credit card does. Better yet - my bank is proactive. All I have to do is call and dispute charges and I'm sent a new card a couple days later. Works great.

I'm the Data Analyst/Advisor. Lately more the latter than the former. I'm working on democrat Todd Giroux's campaign for Governor.

He and I have had discussions about two things - recreational cannabis and autonomous vehicles and the impact it would have on law enforcement and corrections. Plus the tax advantages were RI to legalize recreationa cannabis before our neighbors. I also gave him a simple formula to ensure RI's sales tax remains competitive - take MA and CT rates, sum and average - then subtract 1 from the result. We'll ALWAYS be lower than either of the two states. And even in a race to the bottom - we still win.