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Like others have commented the car is beautiful and the price cannot be converted directly from euros. That said, everyone who has or is considering making a promotional video for a sports car needs to take a note from Porsche. Road, scenery, exhaust note, closeup, fin.

Would I buy a car from a the Hennessey company? Absolutely not, history has shown that they will take your money with no intention of delivering on promises regarding timescale, price, or performance.
Would I buy a car built by the Hennessey crew? Absolutely not. The cars are built to destroy themselves with no regard for the customer, once the cash has changed hands they will put as much distance as possible between themselves and said customer.
Does this engine sound freaking awesome and will it make every prospective new-gen Camaro owner with they had an LS9 in their car? Absolutely yes. This engine evokes memories of the serious muscle cars of old. It sounds like it could spin the Earth backwards and bring back the days when 8mpg was acceptable.
I accept this video for what it is, aural pornography. Thank you Autoblog.

Honestly I haven't been interested in Halo since the first game brought FPS internet-enabled multiplayer to consoles with force, but this looks very interesting. Halo has had a good universe built around it and its nice to see devs trying to take it in different directions. I'll definitely be watching this one!

Wow, apparently I'm out of touch with this whole so called indie scene. When I saw "The Fratellis" I was totally expecting Cyndi Lauper. Not that I want Cyndi Lauper in Rock Band, but you know.

No I don't read the X3F Week in Review posts. I didn't read this one either but it said "No one ever reads these anyway" so I had to do something. What is X3F anyway? Actually no.. I don't really care, please bash me as much as you possibly can since I will never come back to this page anyway. Bye!

But my drinking makes Joystiq so much more enjoyable (and I already love it sober)!
Now I realize I should have left out the war comment, but seriously I don't see the problem with a console company performing a couple weeks of testing before unleashing 3rd party applications upon the masses. I've dealt with PC developers relying more and more on patches to fix show stopping bugs in their products, consoles had always been nearly a sure thing. Unfortunately I'm not sure how much longer I'll be able to cling to that.

So what you've just told me here is that if I live in Europe my PS3 games will have a full week of additional testing along with the bug fixes that come with that testing? And all I have to do is live in a country that most likely has faster cheaper internet connections and a less war happy government? How do they survive over there?

Sounds freaking fantastic if you ask me. The whole "turning" bit still seems to elude the Challenger but seriously now, its a muscle car. I expect it to get me through whatever corners necessary to reach the drag strip without dying then take off like a bat out of hell in a straight line. Pure, unadulterated, American muscle. I like.

I honestly do like it, but find myself thinking this anyway:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh_Brother,_Where_Art_Thou%3F#The_Homer

OK, now I have no problem with Vonage... Covad on the other hand is a complete train wreck and has been for years. I work for an ISP that once resold Covad DSL services for a short period of time until it became obvious they are not concerned with service or customers, only money.
Covad, bought out by Platinum Equity in 2007 has almost no actual employees. EVERYTHING is outsourced, from tech support, "customer service", billing, EVERYTHING. While I imagine this could be done well, in Covad's case it seems that there is a completely separate outsourced company handling each division. This means that nobody you speak to will ever, EVER, have all of the information you need. After sitting on hold for 30+ minutes you will have the joy of deciphering "Jim"'s powerful lack of comfort speaking english, dealing with his utter incompetence with regards to anything technical, and outright rudeness should you ever attempt to disprove the information from the script he is reading. Heaven forbid you request to escalate, you will be promised a call from an engineer that invariably never comes.
On a mildly technical note. The first two hops out of your connection will be reserved addresses (192.168.x.x) and their magical routing will immediately cause any traceroutes to fail. While this won't matter much to non-technical people it seriously hinders any troubleshooting attempts and leaves the customer with very little to go on, allowing Covad to blame your computers or any other equipment you may have running on their connection. I literally dealt with this yesterday May 8th 2008 working with one of the last remaining Covad lines we provide.
Good luck Vonage, you've somehow managed to ally yourselves with a company who is already easily worse to customers than Verizon or Comcast. I don't see good things coming.