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and other dealerships were really great and spent a lot of time with me.

You as the end consumer paid approximately $70 per hour for the time they spent with you, including the time of *both* people it took to process your loan application, *and* the two hours they stood around waiting for you to arrive. After all of that, they still provided you with less useful information than you could have gleaned by reading the relevant consumer reports issue. I'm sorry to have to be the one to tell you, you got swindled and you apparently didn't even know it. All told, that middle man added approximately 8%, which for a Toyota corolla is about $1500. Was it worth $1500 for them to treat you the way they did, and do you still feel that their service was "really great"?

To put that in perspective, $1500 would buy you a night at a Waldorf Astoria with a McLaren MP4-12C rental car for the day.

that this is somehow a political affront to the United States as if every Hilton and Marriott in the world was a kind of US Embassy.

Headquarters at Bergstrom Air Force Base, Austin, Texas, was a circle. The building is now the Hilton Austin Airport Hotel after the base was converted into the new civilian airport. Reportedly, the old SAC war room is now the hotel ballroom, and a number of retired officers came for New Year's Eve 2001 as the hotel was opening and stayed in their old offices.

61,000 although she doesn't own too much of the company any longer. Didn't you think that that the fact that Paris Hilton's name was a little too close to the name of something else to be just chance?

Trust Wired to get it wrong. The magic of subjective journalism. It is ironic that another /. article describes how the blogosphere is becoming recognized as unreliable.

I was a speaker there in August 2000 at the First WorldWide Top Hackers Conference 'IS2K' in Seoul Korea at the Millennium Hotel. We spoke for several days and even got to meet Kim Hyong-O, the Member of the National Assembly.

As far as I can tell Paris got famous because she was famous.

It might help if you knew her last name Hilton She's famous for being a billionaire heiress.

Hey, some people are making European travel plans!

who wants a video of this?

Hilton Abuja

From their site:

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-- Multics

I had a long talk with my boss, Brad Hilton (Manager Systems Development for Hilton Hotels Corp) last week when the news broke about "Hilton in space". While he and I would love to have hotels in space, that we would have to install servers in ourselves, he also stated that the technology to keep people safe is not there, yet. The liability of having something go wrong is just too big of a risk right now. If we were to much of a rush to go into space industry, after the first accident, the industry would be dead for 5-10 years after, as better safety measures are engineered.
The idea is not a new one, by a long shot. Brad's uncle, Barron Hilton gave this address in 1967, and if you watch 2001, you will see the space station in the beginning sporting the Hilton logo.
Brad perdicts that there will be a Hilton in space, some day... by 2100 maybe, but when the exact date it opens depends on technology advances, funding, and demand by the public. If it costs $1,000,000 a night plus "air fare", only the richest of the rich will be able to go.
It is not on the radar screen right now, but the idea is out there, right now Hilton is too busy trying to combine the hotel systems of acquired company Promus and ours