I want the local government, which is an independent entity from the state or federal government (also, I actually want the US to be structured far closer to 50 nations with treaties closely tying them together, rather than one nation with 50 political divisions within it), although working within their jurisdiction, to own and manage the wire.

Alternately, have the local government grant exclusive access for telecommunications lines to a customer-owned cooperative.

But, I'll note that most governments maintain their own local roads - that's not privatized.

There's plenty wrong with this petition (Obama isn't the king of America, and can't amend the constitution himself), but TFA actually wants a constitutional amendment prohibiting the government from censoring the internet.

The problem is, there's so many loopholes in THAT...

Also, there is a way that internet access could be prevented from being shut off, without going towards a state ISP - it could be handled like Obamacare, where insurance companies are forced to insure everyone, instead of dropping those with certain diseases, or not accepting patients with pre-existing conditions.

(Although, I think the last mile should actually be municipality/township owned, with it connecting to a central exchange in which any ISP can provide service out to the internet.)

Except he doesn't have to.

He can be punished for not doing it, but there's no law of physics that FORCES him to give up the password.

Hence why spies have cyanide pills and such - such that it then becomes impossible for them to even give up the password.

FWIW, those brodozers are more like 6000-7000 pounds.

In any case, some states do have bumper height regulations, but they're rarely enforced.

Should check out GEOS, recent versions do pretty much exactly that, although with more tiers, and with some customizability (if you're a newbie, but such and such advanced feature is critical, you can enable it).

The StreetScooter is probably light enough (sub 400 kg without batteries) and low enough power (sub 15 kW net, and for electrics, that's continuous, not intermittent) that it falls under Europe's heavy quadricycle laws.

Legally, a heavy quadricycle is treated as a four wheeled motorized tricycle, not a car - so safety regulations go out the window.

Also, the batteries aren't included in that $7000 price.

The Leaf and Focus EV are required to meet NHTSA regulations, which aren't too much more strict than EuroNCAP standards, but they're a hell of a lot more strict than what a heavy quadricycle has to meet.

Oh, and the tax credit info is right here: http://www.irs.gov/irb/2009-48_IRB/ar09.html

4 kWh minimum battery capacity, $2500 base credit, $417 for every kWh higher than 4. So, at 16 kWh, you have the $7500 credit. But, the StreetScooter concept, as it is now, may not qualify at all depending on how you interpret the wording, or it may only qualify based on the minimum battery capacity of one battery, as no battery is included. (But, interestingly, I'm not seeing anything on how big the batteries it uses are.)

The safety regulations aren't the problem with the Fortwo, actually. The US W451 Fortwo isn't appreciably heavier than the European W451, and there were some W450s that were legally certified to come into the US, although at extensive cost increase due to the economies of scale of the modifications (as I understand, they were minor modifications, and more nitpicking than anything - had the W450 been designed for the US from the outset, it wouldn't have been any more expensive). All W451s are heavier than the W450, but it's also a somewhat bigger car for other reasons than safety.

The problems are threefold: emissions, the NEDC being very optimistic (and EPA being slightly pessimistic on gasoline and rather pessimistic on diesel engines), and the Fortwo concept AND implementation in general sucking for what it's being used for.

US emissions standards make it very, very difficult to use a truly efficient engine, because high efficiency engines (diesels, lean-burn gassers) tend to spew nitrogen oxides. Difficult doesn't mean impossible, but it DOES mean expensive.

So, what's wrong with the Fortwo concept? It's designed for ONE thing, and one thing only: being extremely short wheelbase, so two can be parked in a single parallel parking space. That's IT. And, that works great in heavily populated cities, like what's common in Europe. However, it's a side-by-side layout out of necessity, which tends to increase weight. It's also tall to maximize occupant comfort with the short wheelbase - you can use height instead of length to get additional legroom - but that increases frontal area. And, the shape of a very short wheelbase car like the Fortwo provides very little room for streamlining, so drag coefficient is rather high.

As for the implementation, the transmission is awful, the ride quality is dreadful (although a lot of this is due to the short wheelbase), it has parts commonality with just about nothing (meaning you're stuck buying things from the dealer a lot of the time, and it's a Mercedes), servicing can be a nightmare due to the engine placement, and what little they could've done to improve aerodynamics, they didn't do.

THAT is why the Fortwo sucks. Nothing to do with US safety regulations.

(Oh, and the reason for DOT lighting regulations sucking the way they do? The DOT regs were designed to illuminate a 1950s-era unlit, non-reflective overhead street sign.)

Not as expensive as getting owned by the Chinese and completely losing our economy, and then exporting the jobs to the lowest bidder every time, causing local disasters in those areas to cause massive problems.

However, keeping excess production capacity around, even if it sits idle, means it can be ramped up quickly to take advantage of situations like this.

The whole point of that version is, "Microsoft paid Mozilla enough to release a Binged version of Firefox".

Most of Mozilla's income comes from Google paying Mozilla for every time someone searches Google using the Firefox start page or the search bar.

#1: What cartridge WAS this? Not finding anything on it.
#2: I'd consider coprocessors in the cartridge a valid approach - look at Nintendo. In the NES era, they had "mappers" (which did a similar function to the Atari bank switching hardware in theory) that also had extra counters, added RAM, graphics upgrades, sound upgrades, IRQ generation, etc., etc. In the SNES era, they had DSPs, math coprocessors, second 65816s, and even full-blown RISC CPUs.

So, you sell the item to the person under net 60.

Seconds, of course, not days.

Still, that's a debt...

It's based on a pretty rigid folder sorting scheme, with a folder called "Reference".

Reference is a folder that contains e-mails that I need to refer to often, and quickly - I usually have less than 20 e-mails in there, so search is completely pointless.

However, my structure is such that it makes focusing searches easier, or I can search everything just like the all-in-the-inbox types do.

Another benefit of my structure... I can set specific folders (like Reference) to not AutoArchive (I use Outlook), so that I don't have to go looking in PSTs for certain e-mails.

Well, the chips are available, and Clevo does make "server-class" laptops.

Alternately, consumer and business laptops will be locked down to Windows, iOS, and Android, enthusiast laptops will be luggables.

They could always switch to Chinese MIPS stuff or something...

Alternately, maybe server hardware that's sold for Linux applications, stuck into a PC case.