*350z

that is exactly what I thought of when I saw this, those tail lights make this a 350x in miniature, though the front is all wrong.

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"What's to lose?"

Money

I think I would rather take that 50 grand (!) and go drop it on a project car, an unmolested Charger, you know, with a 4 speed manual.

Seriously though, you could get a lot of American heritage 70's muscle car in pretty decent shape for that kind of dough.

Yeah because it wasn't a light hearted joke. You should take anonymous comments MORE SERIOUSER!

"...emitting light from dust 'til dawn..."

I wasn't aware there was a time of day known as dust. Maybe these are only on gravel and dirt roads?

I'm so hard up for cash I would be happy to be in a position where I could say "Hey, let's buy a Kia!"

Seriously, Thanksgiving dinner for me is some Chinese news paper and apple cores pressed into the shape of a turkey.

I actually have decided to disable AdBlock on sites I read regularly (IE: Engadget, Autoblog, Autobloggreen) however if there is an annoying ad like yesterday's, it's going back on for minimum 1 week.

That way I win if it's annoying and intrusive and Engadget wins if it's not.

For the bulk of websites none of this applies, AdBlock is my way of dealing with that bandwidth crunch slated to start in 2010 as reported yesterday on this blog. I'll leave that chunk of the tubes open for suckers who don't know about AdBlock.

@ mike_p

I have a 3.0 GHz P4, 2 GB RAM and a GeForce 7800. The ONLY way I could get Vista Business to run on this computer and be able to do ANYTHING else that was mildly CPU intensive (IE. any game at all) was to format my formerly fresh install and re-install with a whittled down vLite image that had been stripped of all those bells and whistles you mentioned earlier.

Yes, I am aware that you don't need them and no, I am not using them because I removed them from the install package entirely.

Basically what I am running a themed version of XP with a very anal WGA authentication system, because without all those bells and whistles you are talking about, that's all Vista is.

And if you are going to do that, why not just run a stripped down OEM XP anyway? Hence my initial post.

That is why I don't want Vista on anything as anemic as this Everex beast of a PC, and that is why XP or Ubuntu would be a better choice. Free or not, if it sucks and frustrates the user then it's worthless.