Printrbot was a disaster on kickstarter, hopefully they are getting better at on-time deliveries (the guy on the first picture of this article is the founder of that company)... they were almost 1 year late if I remember correctly
I thought that the NSA was grabbing all data going through the cables at large ISPs so that they don't need to send requests at individual companies? For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
Finding something as stable or dependable as gmail isn't the problem (try live.com), but some of it's features is a different story (although not an email feature, live.com's calendar doesn't even have a search feature as far as I know).
Also, Obama said that he won't abuse it but he didn't say when... maybe he won't abuse it yesterday. And I bet that his description of abuse is very different then ours.
If it works like Google-Search, results are not an estimate, or not even random, it looks like it is inflated .... for example, if you navigate to https://www.google.com/search?q=zzzfgh , it tells you 5,900 results until you reach a page where there is no more results and it tells you 484 results (for example, I never seen an estimate that was lower then the real count)
while a week might be really short to draw your conclusions on a new employee, I would probably be living in a hotel for at least the first couple of months before moving... to reduce risks...