Well that works if each house has a Geek. I have reduced the number of "please help" calls I get since I started getting them to use Bittorrent Sync. It works on almost any platform, does multi-way sync, and is as private as you want it. The caveat I found is that if one person deletes something it gets deleted on all. However, there is a settings file for each sync share that can alter that in a variety of ways. The only limit is the amount of storage that is dedicated to the share. Since everyone has a local copy of the files, even connection speed is not a factor.

My thoughts EXACTLY! But I would also include that it has to something you ARE producing not just an idea of something you might produce. You also have to send the working item to the patent office to prove it works. That way if you can't make a go of making it and your company fails. The next guy can figure out how to do it better and win. Just because you can dream up a widget but cant keep a budget, that is not a winning business. That my friends, is what doing business is all about. Getting all aspects of business right.

Frankly you don't have a clue how much is costs to run a business or to buy and ADA compliant lift or build a ramp. So let take one of your premises, using employees to lift the wheel chair gut up the steps. He weighs 300 pounds. One or both of my employees are taken off the job to come outside to lift him and gets hurt. Now I have a workman's comp claim and 1 to 2 employees off work. They dropped the guy and now I have his medical claims to pay and he is filing suit. Next I need to build a Ramp. My store front does not have any space between it and the sidewalk that I can encroach on. So I modify my building at a cost of $50K to meet the "needs" of maybe 4 customers, who won't ever buy that much merchandise from me in their lifetime. So I chop off the end of my steps to put a 4 x 4 foot square lift with the required safety rails and signs. Train my employees how to run it. Have it maintained the required 4 times a year for a first year cost of $48k. BTW a quick survey showed a RESIDENTIAL grade lift is $19k to $25k. That is assuming I can get a good deal on the installation. And again I have to take employees off the job to operate the lift. I now have insurance liability for having and operating the lift. So the handicapped should go where the businesses will spend the money to accommodate them and leave the small business owner alone. If wheelchair guy lives in a small town with no ADA businesses, then either use the small town friendships he has and get help from his friends or move to the big city where there are ADA ready stores.

Both obviously!

If you are healthy you should consider an HSA, Health Savings Account. The basic idea is an umbrella heath insurance plan for the very big stuff, so that it is cheap. Then tie it to a lifetime medical flex-spending account to pay for the small stuff. What you don't spend each year rolls over into the next year. Over time the account grows large enough to cover you when you are older and possibly having more problems. The trick is to start young and avoid unhealthy lifestyles.

Conversely I can drive 8 hours in a straight line and never leave my state much less my country. I only have 2 countries that border me. They can speak my mom's language when they want to. We have more diverse breakfast foods than both of them together in their wildest dreams.

I have found that a portable hard drive with an encrypted partition works best. Put DSL in the bootable partition in case I have to work at an untrusted PC. FEBE and gmarks cover the worst of my needs on Firefox. If someone swipes my drive, they don't get my data.

Forgot to mention that there are quadcore laptops on the market.
A CNET NEWS article: "Xtreme Notebooks has released the first quad-core laptop in the U.S. With no mobile quad-core parts in existence, the Xtreme 917V Accelerator turns to desktop CPUs, giving you a choice between the Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 and the Q6700. Pricing starts at $3,359."

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It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.
It is by the juice of Arabica that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains, the stains become a warning.

Running a server in a VM is handy and cheap. But like you said it isn't fast and storage becomes constrained. Sounds like your solution is a second laptop. Make it a moderately beefy laptop and you solve your speed and main storage problem. It is its own UPS. Make it a ruggedized laptop and cost go up a bit, but you solve your climate problems. If more hard drive storage or a backup is needed, plug in a USB drive.

So, there you go. Portable, self contained UPS, weather proof, low power, expandable via USB.

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It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.
It is by the juice of Arabica that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion..

Make that insulated stainless steel! Made by Nissan. Had it for 5 years and still keeps my coffee hot at least 2.5 hours.

The problem with your method of rejecting during the SMTP transfer is that in most European countries it is illegal to not deliver all mail sent to a user. So European Companies and ISP's "facilitate" sorting suspected spam into a spam folder for you. You can always look there or turn off the sorting altogether. Google being the world spanning provider just uses the same rules for filtering in all countries. However, I agree with some of the other posters, that if it is not in my language, send it to spam.