Considering their re-organization into Alphabet Inc., they may well be considering pushing even further afield than they already have. Would that include a car division? Probably not, I wouldn't be at all surprised if they sought out an established partner; but, they have show a willingness to jump into markets with large, entrenched players (e.g.: Google Fiber).

Yay, Moral Relativism! So while we're agreeing to disagree, we'll just have to agree to disagree that it is wrong for me to drop by, tie you up, skull fuck you in both eye sockets and take all of your possessions. After all, I see nothing wrong with me doing any of that to you, so it's OK and we'll just agree to disagree.

And this would be why no sane society bases itself on Moral Relativism, it sounds fun right up until someone with weapons and organizational skills realizes that he can set himself up as a dictator, and does so. And then the anarchist utopia ends and we get Somalia. Paradoxically, in order for a free society to function you have to have good laws which don't leave things open to such ridiculous interpretation. While some of the lines are pretty easy to draw, I think we can all agree that skull fucking someone is not OK, others are going to be a little tougher. Unsurprisingly, in those gray areas people tend to disagree. At this point, the best solution for deciding those gray areas, which we have come up with, is to have democratically elected representatives argue it out and make a final rule. And, in order to keep our society out of the hell of anarchy, we all go along with it and work though the system to change things we don't like. I think I'll have to agree with Mr. Churchill on this one, "Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."

So which one sounds better to you?
A society based on rules which keeps everyone mostly free but brings overwhelming force to bear to maintain an acceptable standard
Or
Anarchy and the possibility of a random guy dropping by to skull fuck you

I'm gonna stick with my laws, even if they are screwed up from time to time. At least I have the option to change them without a gunfight.

You can even keep a copy of it on a thumbdrive and run it from there without installing:
PortableApps Version

Also not affiliated with the project or the portable apps folks, just like both.

Dear UK, You should trust our files implicitly, but here's the hash anyway:
76D08CAB8B28C5F447D47519454F0D94

Yours sincerely,
The Netherlands

The Constitution puts limits on the actions of the government. Not 'the actions of the government within the borders of the admitted states.'

Just to nitpick, but it really is important because of the context. The Constitution does not place limits on the actions of the government. The US Constitution grants the government powers. The problem is that a number of people were worried that the government would work to grow those powers in an unbounded way and so they insisted on the Bill of Rights as an check on that behavior. The counter argument to the Bill of Rights was that it would eventually be turned around and used as an exhaustive list of the rights of the people and the limits of government power. The fact that many people today now believe that this is the case, and will state that "The Constitution puts limits on the actions of the government" shows that the detractors of the Bill of Rights were right. Technically, it was because of these fears that the Ninth and Tenth Amendments were added; however, FDR managed to murder the Ninth and the Tenth sort of withered away during the twentieth century.

Still, based on the (probably vain) hope that we might breath some life back into the Tenth, I tend to pick at this issue:
The US Constitution does not limit the power of US Government, it grants powers to the US Government. The US Government does not have any power not specifically granted to it by the US Constitution.

Ya, about that. The US average for solving murder cases is floating at about 60% [1] I'm not sure what is for theft, but given that fewer resources are brought to bear for a theft than a murder, I'm gonna guess that it's as bad or worse.

A few quick questions:
1. What are you going to use this monitor for?
Your second monitor listed is a TV with a tuner which is adding to the cost. If you never plan to have this thing hooked up to a TV feed, it makes no sense to pay for the tuner.

2. Do you need/want speakers built into the monitor?
If you already have a nice sound system, having speakers in the monitor is an extra cost which can be avoided.

3. How comfortable are you with BenQ and RankArena as brands?
I realize that I could be accused of snobbery here; but, I tend to be very picky on brands, mostly because I've had too many problems with brands I don't know. That said, BenQ is a brand I can take or leave. I've not had any bad experiences with it, and I have heard a few good reports from people who's opinions I trust. RankArena is completely new to me.

Doh! I meant to put RAID 1 and screwed it up.

Was gonna say the same thing. Get a cheap NAS, put the two drives in it, go with RAID 0.
The D-Link DNS-321 is $120 from Newegg. It runs Linux and can handle all your Web/FTP/Samba needs.