So, you've never been frustrated by a large file transfer that's taking 10 times longer than you expected because somebody's NIC in running at 10Mbps? The worst part is that it would take just as long to replace/trobleshoot the NIC and retransfer at 100Mbps than it would to keep transferring at 10Mbps.
Do you get this pissed off when your 100Base-T network dosn't give you 100 megabit throughput?
If someone labeled a 10Mbit card as a 100Mbit card and tried selling it, they would get sued for false advertising. And yes, I do get angry if I can't get 100Mb/sec over my ethernet connection.
For example, a mouse doesn't need that transfer rate. Nor a keyboard.
So then a mouse should be USB 1, not 2. If it doesn't go at USB2 speeds, it shouldn't be called USB 2. Manufacturers are labeling USB 1 things as USB 2 to increase sales while deliberately misleading people. That is clearly wrong, and should be stopped.
Have you never heard of a USB storage device? There are tons of uses for USB 2.0. Also, it's not just about speed, it's about false advertising. When I buy a USB 2 device, I expect a USB 2 device, not a USB 1 device.
I'm not sure if I understand you correctly. Are you saying that Glocks in the US are different than Glocks overseas? There is no difference. All Glock pistols are made in factories overseas and imported to the US. Some Glocks need slight modifications to be allowed into the US (different sights, which are then removed after importation)
Composits and ceramics are highly viable, but they scare the bejesus out of the BATF.
That's true. The grip of every Glock is made from extremely durable plastic called nylon-6 or something. The inside of the barrel is treated to be almost diamond-hard, to prevent KaBooms. But the really important parts of the handguns (firing pin, safety mechanism, etc) are made from old-fashioned steel. There is no way you can get a Glock past Post 9-11 airport security, but politicians always try to create unnecessary fears of random things to garner more votes. I'm more afraid that someone will go an a sniping spree with a $60 Mosin Nagant they bought from Big 5 than that someone will hijack an airplane with a Glock that magically got through security. Anyways, if you try to hijack a plane now, everyone will do the 50 passenger pileup to stop you. There is no easy way to prevent a sniper from shooting someone.
Umm, no. Glocks are about 80% metal by weight, IIRC. They have always been easily seen by xrays. It's not like someone has invented composite ammunition, magazines, and barrels.
This might be what you are looking for. Its a low power C3, perfect for mobile computers. The thing has no drives except for a compact flash reader and laptop hard drive. This thing is on my wish list.
From communications.pdf:
- Identify potential consumer road blocks/fears.
- Construct a proactive framework to minimise negatives arising.
- Assess consumer reaction if press develop scare stories and develop best messages to pacify.
Most motherboards that have 1 PCI slot (like my FV25) have everything you need for a normal computer (video, tv out, audio, LAN, USB, FireWire, etc.) built into them. This allows you to upgrade a single aspect of the computer to specialize its use. I upgraded the video on mine for a better gaming experience. This is an effective way to save money without sacrificing performance, but getting rid of upgradability. Motherboards with more slots on them are more expensive than an integrated motherboard, because you need to buy all the components. I could buy a silent Via Epia M6000 for $130 or I could get a bigger mobo ($50), a graphics card ($50), NIC ($20), CPU ($40), sound card($20), USB/Firewire card ($10), etc. and it would be much more expensive, louder, hotter, and less efficient than the Epia solution. The non-integrated system may perform better, but the average user doesn't need SCSI RAID, two monitors, and gigabit ethernet. There's no need to pay for stuff you won't use.
An actual rocket scientist has proposed an extremely cheap solution for getting cargo into space, as long as it can stand the G forces of getting shot out of a pneumatic cannon. The guy is about to go back into space consulting in a few years, but his plans are here. He's done the math involved and it loks like it could work.
I see you are against space travel, but if you could travel the stars right now, would you? Who wouldn't? Why do we have to wait? Why can't we take risks, like the explorers of the past centuries? Sure a few centuries may not matter on the grand scale of things, but it matters to the people who live in that time. Attitudes like yours get NOTHING accomplished. If everyone waited for technology to advance, technology would never advance, because no one would be improving anything. Robots can't teach us everything about space. Robots never need lightweight radiation shields, unlike humans. The first step to long term stays in space is making a material as effective at shielding as lead, but much lighter.
Have you seen the videos of people landing on the moon? Doesn't that inspire you? Wouldn't you enjoy being able to stand on the surface of the moon and hold out your thumb at arms length, covering up the earth? I know it sounds naive, and it is, but at least there is a chance if we try now. There is no doubt that our ancestors will travel the galaxy, and I want to take a step in that direction.
I know humans weren't meant for space travel. We weren't meant to fly either. We weren't meant to modify our own genes, but we are. The only way we can travel in space is to hop in a tin can and throw crap out of the rear end. That will never change. Physical laws aren't going to let us survive in a vacuum, exposed to gamma rays. The only way to solve the problems encountered when humans go into space is to go into space. Sending robots won't help us develop radiation sheilding. Looking with our telescopes won't aid in the development of more efficient life support systems.
Since humanity began, we have slowly but surely moved in one direction: up. It took us 66 years to go from the first powered flight to landing on the moon. If we had maintained that progress, we would inhabit the entire solar system.
By showing only white, this moves all the liquid crystals to their default position, restoring burnt-in crystals (which were stuck out of position). This is analgous to, but completely different from degaussing CRTs.
An LCD monitor doesn't consume 3000 watts at startup, but the lifetime of the LCD's components are decreased every time it is turned on. Leaving it running doesn't decrease the lifetime of the LCD. Apparently, turning a normal LCD monitor on decreases its life by 71 minutes, on average. BTW, I am typing this on an LCD screen and I must say, I'll never go back to CRTs. I love the lack of eye strain. My Sylvania SF150 has never had any problems with burn-in, even though it has displayed the same screen for days at a time.
Any website that warns of the Jews having too much power in the media or politics is racist to me. Imagine if I changed a quote on that website, "Throughout history, said Weber, Jews have time and again wielded great power to further group interests that are separate from, and often contrary to, those of the non-Jewish populations among whom they live." to this: "Throughout history, said Weber, Blacks have time and again wielded great power to further group interests that are separate from, and often contrary to, those of the non-Black populations among whom they live."
That would be quite racist. The IHR is merely an anti-semitic group of thugs who try to sweep the holocaust under the rug, so to speak. To take them seriously is to throw all logic out the window. Unfortunately, I will be going on vacation soon, so I will be unable to continue this interesting debate any longer. Thank you for your arguments, I hope to disagree with you more in the future.
There is no conclusive evidence 6 million Jews disappeared.
Then why were only a couple thousand Jews left in eastern europe after WWII? The only reason any Jews survived in east europe was because Oscar Schindler saved them.
As far as the camps themselves, I think the most likely explanation is the death camp aspects were installed by the Soviets after the fact as a propaganda tool.
So you demand proof from me and then wildly speculate? You hyprocritic fuck. Why would the soviets spend thier precious resources left over from the war to exaggerate the suffering of the Jews? Stalin wanted to eliminate religion. He covered up as much as he could, but there were still death camps with gas chambers captured by non-soviets. How do you explain that? Did the allies engage in a plot to build gas chambers at concentration camps to make the german leadership look even worse? How do you explain the thousands of witnesses to the Holocaust, the hours of video footage of the aftermath and WRITTEN REPORTS BY GERMAN OFFICIALS about what was going on in the death camps. Was all of this evidence faked or doctored? Was every single witness a lair or someone who was tortured into lying? You are ignoring these incredibly pertinent questions to perpetuate your fantasy.
The Jews ARE unique however in that they have uniquely profited by their so called tragedy, ever since the Jewish diaspora was initiated by the Romans so very long ago.
Profited? Even by your extremely conservative estimates, one million Jews died! How does that help them? The Jews were almost eliminated from europe. Thier homes were taken, families were torn apart. Don't you feel any sadness about what happened? Don't the victims deserve some reparations for all that happened to them?
And I noticed you have marked me as a foe. Just can't handle a little criticism of your sacred beliefs? You must wish I was a French citizen so I could be charged with denying the holocaust and thus go to jail for 5 years. Too bad!
I marked you as a foe so I remember who you are. Not that I don't like you (I like arguments) but the friend/foe lists help me keep track of who I argue with. If I hated criticism I would just mod you down. I don't wish you were put in prison for 5 years, I wish you would realize you are wrong instead of speculating about conspiracy theories and tyring to spread your false version of history. If you ever go to college and take a history course that covers WWII and the holocaust, you will change your mind. Education will free you from your lies.
...1800 MHz processors marketed as 2200's. Oh Wait! AMD has already been doing that for some time.
Yes but AMD didnt just rename their K6-2 processor to Athlon XP 2200+. AMD names thier processors with numbers so consumers can tell about how fast they will perform compared to a Pentium 4. An Athlon XP 2200+ performs comparably with a Pentium 4 2200Mhz. AMD isn't lying when they call their 1800Mhz processor a 2200+, but when USB 1.1 devices are marketed as USB 2.0, that is deceitful.
I would imagine there is a mistransaltion of the word annihilation.
Yes, you imagine a lot. Vernichtung is the german word meaning destruction or annihilation. Hitler used that word in many speeches regarding the Jews. In fact, here is the paragraph in question in its original german:
Wenn es dem internationalen Finanzjudentum in und auÃYerhalb Europas gelingen sollte, die VÃlker noch einmal in einen Weltkrieg zu stürzen, dann wird das Ergebnis nicht der Sieg des Judentums sein, sondern die Vernichtung der jüdischen Rasse in Europa!
As has been said elsewhere, it was simply not feasible for Germany to kill six million 130 pound mammals, AND elmininate their bodies through cremation. They did not possess the oil to do so.
If the germans didn't kill 6 million Jews, then where did they go? I don't see any Jewish people in Madagascar. Are you also saying that all videos and photographs of the Holocaust were fabricated in order to further the interests of the "Zionist lobby"? Are you hinting that maybe Hitler built death camps that could only be used for mass extermination and never used them? Why waste resources pretending to commit atrocities?
YOU support the racist Zionists, but when one objects to their tactics of deceit and subterfuge, he is called a racist.
I never said I supported the foundation of a Jewish state (I don't), and honestly I think Israel is partly responsible for the mess it is in. You are trying to forget the most horrific act humanity has ever witnessed, and that is saddening. If you have ever been to the Holocaust museum your mind will change. The truth is that the Holocaust did happen. 6 million people were murdered because of thier race. I suggest you look at this site before you refute my facts. It will dispell your revisionist myths about the Holocaust.
Perhaps you haven't read the transcripts of the Nuremberg trials, but its pretty clear that whatever the truth about the Holocaust no one knew what was going on Germany not even the German people themselves.
Umm, you are quite mistaken. EVERYONE knew what was going on, but no one did anything to stop it. In 1939, Hitler made a public speech in which he said:
If the international finance-Jewry inside and outside Europe should succeed in plunging the nations into a world war yet again, then the outcome will not be the victory of Jewry, but rather the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe!
Constantly, officials talked of killing Jews and the destruction of all Jews:
We cannot shoot or poison those 3,500,000 Jews, but we shall nevertheless be able to take measures which will lead somehow to their annihilation...
-- Hans Frank, 1942
If you look anywhere, you will find there were mountains of evidence showing that people around the world knew that Jews were being murdered by the thousands. Take off your blindfold. There is no "Zionist lobby" spreading lies about the Holocaust. Your conspiracy theory is a bunch of shit.
When these same Zionists show equal sympothy for the 10 million German civilians who starved to death in 1944, perhaps then their words will have some weight.
10 million germans did not die of starvation in 1944. You are the one spreading lies. It is true, Germans died of starvation. They were NOT rounded up and ruthlessly executed, like the Jews, and far fewer germans died.
I think you should study history for yourself instead of believing what others tell you. Listen to yourself, you're starting to sound like a racist neo-nazi maniac.
I live in Spokane, WA, and I have seen only one hybrid car. It was at a Honda dealership. I drive a '96 Honda Civic (manual transmission), and it gets almost 40mpg, so why get a hybrid that will go slower, cost more, and gets only slightly better mileage? Also, the hybrid's reliability has not been proven. The better choice with current fuel prices is definitely the normal car, but if you want to pay more and hurt the environment slightly less (remember, hybrids don't save the environment, they just hurt it less) then get yourself a hybrid. Well, at least it's a start.
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So, you've never been frustrated by a large file transfer that's taking 10 times longer than you expected because somebody's NIC in running at 10Mbps? The worst part is that it would take just as long to replace/trobleshoot the NIC and retransfer at 100Mbps than it would to keep transferring at 10Mbps.
Do you get this pissed off when your 100Base-T network dosn't give you 100 megabit throughput?
If someone labeled a 10Mbit card as a 100Mbit card and tried selling it, they would get sued for false advertising. And yes, I do get angry if I can't get 100Mb/sec over my ethernet connection.
For example, a mouse doesn't need that transfer rate. Nor a keyboard.
So then a mouse should be USB 1, not 2. If it doesn't go at USB2 speeds, it shouldn't be called USB 2. Manufacturers are labeling USB 1 things as USB 2 to increase sales while deliberately misleading people. That is clearly wrong, and should be stopped.
Short answer: Yes
Long answer:
Have you never heard of a USB storage device? There are tons of uses for USB 2.0. Also, it's not just about speed, it's about false advertising. When I buy a USB 2 device, I expect a USB 2 device, not a USB 1 device.
You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.
Um, yes, American Glocks...
I'm not sure if I understand you correctly. Are you saying that Glocks in the US are different than Glocks overseas? There is no difference. All Glock pistols are made in factories overseas and imported to the US. Some Glocks need slight modifications to be allowed into the US (different sights, which are then removed after importation)
Composits and ceramics are highly viable, but they scare the bejesus out of the BATF.
That's true. The grip of every Glock is made from extremely durable plastic called nylon-6 or something. The inside of the barrel is treated to be almost diamond-hard, to prevent KaBooms. But the really important parts of the handguns (firing pin, safety mechanism, etc) are made from old-fashioned steel. There is no way you can get a Glock past Post 9-11 airport security, but politicians always try to create unnecessary fears of random things to garner more votes. I'm more afraid that someone will go an a sniping spree with a $60 Mosin Nagant they bought from Big 5 than that someone will hijack an airplane with a Glock that magically got through security. Anyways, if you try to hijack a plane now, everyone will do the 50 passenger pileup to stop you. There is no easy way to prevent a sniper from shooting someone.
Umm, no. Glocks are about 80% metal by weight, IIRC. They have always been easily seen by xrays. It's not like someone has invented composite ammunition, magazines, and barrels.
Sorry, but you can't stop the discussion. From wikipedia:
However, there is also a widely-recognized codicil that any intentional invocation of Godwin's Law for its thread-ending effects will be unsuccessful.
This might be what you are looking for. Its a low power C3, perfect for mobile computers. The thing has no drives except for a compact flash reader and laptop hard drive. This thing is on my wish list.
From communications.pdf:
- Identify potential consumer road blocks/fears.
- Construct a proactive framework to minimise negatives arising.
- Assess consumer reaction if press develop scare stories and develop best messages to pacify.
Sounds like they forgot one step: PROFIT!
Most motherboards that have 1 PCI slot (like my FV25) have everything you need for a normal computer (video, tv out, audio, LAN, USB, FireWire, etc.) built into them. This allows you to upgrade a single aspect of the computer to specialize its use. I upgraded the video on mine for a better gaming experience. This is an effective way to save money without sacrificing performance, but getting rid of upgradability. Motherboards with more slots on them are more expensive than an integrated motherboard, because you need to buy all the components. I could buy a silent Via Epia M6000 for $130 or I could get a bigger mobo ($50), a graphics card ($50), NIC ($20), CPU ($40), sound card($20), USB/Firewire card ($10), etc. and it would be much more expensive, louder, hotter, and less efficient than the Epia solution. The non-integrated system may perform better, but the average user doesn't need SCSI RAID, two monitors, and gigabit ethernet. There's no need to pay for stuff you won't use.
An actual rocket scientist has proposed an extremely cheap solution for getting cargo into space, as long as it can stand the G forces of getting shot out of a pneumatic cannon. The guy is about to go back into space consulting in a few years, but his plans are here. He's done the math involved and it loks like it could work.
I see you are against space travel, but if you could travel the stars right now, would you? Who wouldn't? Why do we have to wait? Why can't we take risks, like the explorers of the past centuries? Sure a few centuries may not matter on the grand scale of things, but it matters to the people who live in that time. Attitudes like yours get NOTHING accomplished. If everyone waited for technology to advance, technology would never advance, because no one would be improving anything. Robots can't teach us everything about space. Robots never need lightweight radiation shields, unlike humans. The first step to long term stays in space is making a material as effective at shielding as lead, but much lighter.
Have you seen the videos of people landing on the moon? Doesn't that inspire you? Wouldn't you enjoy being able to stand on the surface of the moon and hold out your thumb at arms length, covering up the earth? I know it sounds naive, and it is, but at least there is a chance if we try now. There is no doubt that our ancestors will travel the galaxy, and I want to take a step in that direction.
I know humans weren't meant for space travel. We weren't meant to fly either. We weren't meant to modify our own genes, but we are. The only way we can travel in space is to hop in a tin can and throw crap out of the rear end. That will never change. Physical laws aren't going to let us survive in a vacuum, exposed to gamma rays. The only way to solve the problems encountered when humans go into space is to go into space. Sending robots won't help us develop radiation sheilding. Looking with our telescopes won't aid in the development of more efficient life support systems.
Since humanity began, we have slowly but surely moved in one direction: up. It took us 66 years to go from the first powered flight to landing on the moon. If we had maintained that progress, we would inhabit the entire solar system.
The optical mice were too sensitive, and were turning off the screensavers every time someone sat down at a table.
Umm... can you get me one of those extremely sensitive optical mice? I might be able to use *cough* counterstrike *cough* one for something.
By showing only white, this moves all the liquid crystals to their default position, restoring burnt-in crystals (which were stuck out of position). This is analgous to, but completely different from degaussing CRTs.
An LCD monitor doesn't consume 3000 watts at startup, but the lifetime of the LCD's components are decreased every time it is turned on. Leaving it running doesn't decrease the lifetime of the LCD. Apparently, turning a normal LCD monitor on decreases its life by 71 minutes, on average. BTW, I am typing this on an LCD screen and I must say, I'll never go back to CRTs. I love the lack of eye strain. My Sylvania SF150 has never had any problems with burn-in, even though it has displayed the same screen for days at a time.
Charter is a big bag of p**p.
When did "poop" become a swear word?
It cannot be described as racist in any way.
Any website that warns of the Jews having too much power in the media or politics is racist to me. Imagine if I changed a quote on that website, "Throughout history, said Weber, Jews have time and again wielded great power to further group interests that are separate from, and often contrary to, those of the non-Jewish populations among whom they live." to this: "Throughout history, said Weber, Blacks have time and again wielded great power to further group interests that are separate from, and often contrary to, those of the non-Black populations among whom they live."
That would be quite racist. The IHR is merely an anti-semitic group of thugs who try to sweep the holocaust under the rug, so to speak. To take them seriously is to throw all logic out the window. Unfortunately, I will be going on vacation soon, so I will be unable to continue this interesting debate any longer. Thank you for your arguments, I hope to disagree with you more in the future.
There is no conclusive evidence 6 million Jews disappeared.
Then why were only a couple thousand Jews left in eastern europe after WWII? The only reason any Jews survived in east europe was because Oscar Schindler saved them.
As far as the camps themselves, I think the most likely explanation is the death camp aspects were installed by the Soviets after the fact as a propaganda tool.
So you demand proof from me and then wildly speculate? You hyprocritic fuck. Why would the soviets spend thier precious resources left over from the war to exaggerate the suffering of the Jews? Stalin wanted to eliminate religion. He covered up as much as he could, but there were still death camps with gas chambers captured by non-soviets. How do you explain that? Did the allies engage in a plot to build gas chambers at concentration camps to make the german leadership look even worse? How do you explain the thousands of witnesses to the Holocaust, the hours of video footage of the aftermath and WRITTEN REPORTS BY GERMAN OFFICIALS about what was going on in the death camps. Was all of this evidence faked or doctored? Was every single witness a lair or someone who was tortured into lying? You are ignoring these incredibly pertinent questions to perpetuate your fantasy.
The Jews ARE unique however in that they have uniquely profited by their so called tragedy, ever since the Jewish diaspora was initiated by the Romans so very long ago.
Profited? Even by your extremely conservative estimates, one million Jews died! How does that help them? The Jews were almost eliminated from europe. Thier homes were taken, families were torn apart. Don't you feel any sadness about what happened? Don't the victims deserve some reparations for all that happened to them?
And I noticed you have marked me as a foe. Just can't handle a little criticism of your sacred beliefs? You must wish I was a French citizen so I could be charged with denying the holocaust and thus go to jail for 5 years. Too bad!
I marked you as a foe so I remember who you are. Not that I don't like you (I like arguments) but the friend/foe lists help me keep track of who I argue with. If I hated criticism I would just mod you down. I don't wish you were put in prison for 5 years, I wish you would realize you are wrong instead of speculating about conspiracy theories and tyring to spread your false version of history. If you ever go to college and take a history course that covers WWII and the holocaust, you will change your mind. Education will free you from your lies.
...1800 MHz processors marketed as 2200's. Oh Wait! AMD has already been doing that for some time.
Yes but AMD didnt just rename their K6-2 processor to Athlon XP 2200+. AMD names thier processors with numbers so consumers can tell about how fast they will perform compared to a Pentium 4. An Athlon XP 2200+ performs comparably with a Pentium 4 2200Mhz. AMD isn't lying when they call their 1800Mhz processor a 2200+, but when USB 1.1 devices are marketed as USB 2.0, that is deceitful.
Would you guys laugh if Richard Stallman had scizophrenia?
In a word, yes. I laugh at him already. I'd have a six-pack because of him if he was scizo.
I would imagine there is a mistransaltion of the word annihilation.
Yes, you imagine a lot. Vernichtung is the german word meaning destruction or annihilation. Hitler used that word in many speeches regarding the Jews. In fact, here is the paragraph in question in its original german:
Wenn es dem internationalen Finanzjudentum in und auÃYerhalb Europas gelingen sollte, die VÃlker noch einmal in einen Weltkrieg zu stürzen, dann wird das Ergebnis nicht der Sieg des Judentums sein, sondern die Vernichtung der jüdischen Rasse in Europa!
As has been said elsewhere, it was simply not feasible for Germany to kill six million 130 pound mammals, AND elmininate their bodies through cremation. They did not possess the oil to do so.
If the germans didn't kill 6 million Jews, then where did they go? I don't see any Jewish people in Madagascar. Are you also saying that all videos and photographs of the Holocaust were fabricated in order to further the interests of the "Zionist lobby"? Are you hinting that maybe Hitler built death camps that could only be used for mass extermination and never used them? Why waste resources pretending to commit atrocities?
YOU support the racist Zionists, but when one objects to their tactics of deceit and subterfuge, he is called a racist.
I never said I supported the foundation of a Jewish state (I don't), and honestly I think Israel is partly responsible for the mess it is in. You are trying to forget the most horrific act humanity has ever witnessed, and that is saddening. If you have ever been to the Holocaust museum your mind will change. The truth is that the Holocaust did happen. 6 million people were murdered because of thier race. I suggest you look at this site before you refute my facts. It will dispell your revisionist myths about the Holocaust.
Perhaps you haven't read the transcripts of the Nuremberg trials, but its pretty clear that whatever the truth about the Holocaust no one knew what was going on Germany not even the German people themselves.
Umm, you are quite mistaken. EVERYONE knew what was going on, but no one did anything to stop it. In 1939, Hitler made a public speech in which he said:
If the international finance-Jewry inside and outside Europe should succeed in plunging the nations into a world war yet again, then the outcome will not be the victory of Jewry, but rather the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe!
Constantly, officials talked of killing Jews and the destruction of all Jews:
We cannot shoot or poison those 3,500,000 Jews, but we shall nevertheless be able to take measures which will lead somehow to their annihilation... -- Hans Frank, 1942
If you look anywhere, you will find there were mountains of evidence showing that people around the world knew that Jews were being murdered by the thousands. Take off your blindfold. There is no "Zionist lobby" spreading lies about the Holocaust. Your conspiracy theory is a bunch of shit.
When these same Zionists show equal sympothy for the 10 million German civilians who starved to death in 1944, perhaps then their words will have some weight.
10 million germans did not die of starvation in 1944. You are the one spreading lies. It is true, Germans died of starvation. They were NOT rounded up and ruthlessly executed, like the Jews, and far fewer germans died.
I think you should study history for yourself instead of believing what others tell you. Listen to yourself, you're starting to sound like a racist neo-nazi maniac.
Don't know about the rest of the country...
I live in Spokane, WA, and I have seen only one hybrid car. It was at a Honda dealership. I drive a '96 Honda Civic (manual transmission), and it gets almost 40mpg, so why get a hybrid that will go slower, cost more, and gets only slightly better mileage? Also, the hybrid's reliability has not been proven. The better choice with current fuel prices is definitely the normal car, but if you want to pay more and hurt the environment slightly less (remember, hybrids don't save the environment, they just hurt it less) then get yourself a hybrid. Well, at least it's a start.
I'd much rather have a president who slept with anything that moved than an idiot.
So you like Clinton, not Bush jr?