RIAA Bans Telling Friends About Songs | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
Published Wednesday, November 30, 2005 by Stangrunner.
Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection: PriceRitePhoto: Abusive Bait and Switch Camera Store
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CNN.com - New Orleans launches free wireless Internet - Nov 29, 2005
Published Tuesday, November 29, 2005 by Stangrunner.
Think Secret - Road to Expo: Reborn Mac mini set to take over the living room
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Next 911 Turbo to feature Variable Turbine Geometry - Autoblog - www.autoblog.com _
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Porsche new turbo design will automatically change the pitch of its vanes to increase efficiency.
Next 911 Turbo to feature Variable Turbine Geometry - Autoblog - www.autoblog.com _
Next 911 Turbo to feature Variable Turbine Geometry - Autoblog - www.autoblog.com _
This man has 12 satellite dishes on the front of his home and is receiving 5,000+ channels.........
The Register-Herald--Dishing it out
The Register-Herald--Dishing it out
CNN.com - MacDonald charged in Wendy's heist - Nov 28, 2005
Published Monday, November 28, 2005 by Stangrunner.
CNN.com - Sheriff: Man beat family to death on Thanksgiving - Nov 28, 2005
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CNN.com - Prosecutors: Teen abducted children for demonic ritual - Nov 28, 2005
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Slashdot | Fix Your Crashing X-Box 360 With String
Published Sunday, November 27, 2005 by Stangrunner.
This has to be a PR black eye for Microsoft. You need a piece of string to keep the power supply of a state of the art $400+ gaming machine cool. As they say, it is better to wait when it comes to new technology. Let the others "beta test" it first!
Slashdot | Fix Your Crashing X-Box 360 With String
Slashdot | Fix Your Crashing X-Box 360 With String
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PORTLAND -- They say they waited for hours outside a local best buy store to buy the new Xbox 360 then were told the price would be different from what was advertised. Employees say management took advantage of the situation to make more money.
This does not surprise me. Bastards. I smell lawsuit.
KOIN.com: Local News, Weather, Sports, Entertainment and Health
PORTLAND -- They say they waited for hours outside a local best buy store to buy the new Xbox 360 then were told the price would be different from what was advertised. Employees say management took advantage of the situation to make more money.
This does not surprise me. Bastards. I smell lawsuit.
KOIN.com: Local News, Weather, Sports, Entertainment and Health
I went to my local Circuit City store to try and pick up one of those $199 Toshiba laptops. I arrived around 4:15am (the store opened at 5 am) thinking that maybe there would be 15 to 30 people in line tops but instead came up upon a line of nearly 100 people lined up in the 18 degree weather. I asked one of the employees handling out vouchers if there were anymore laptops and the guy almost laughed and said they were all gone 7 hours ago. Some nuts decided to spend Thanksgiving evening in 18-20 degree weather wrapped up in a sleeping bag and lawn chair. What a joke. I promptly turned around and went home and climbed into my nice warm bed. Idiots.
Bargain-hungry shoppers race to stores on Black Friday - Nov. 25, 2005
Bargain-hungry shoppers race to stores on Black Friday - Nov. 25, 2005
I hope you all have a safe and happy Thanksgiving.
Confessions of a photocopier repairman | CNET News.com
Published Wednesday, November 23, 2005 by Stangrunner.
10 things you should know about every Linux installation: Builder AU: Program: At Work
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Say it isn't so.....bittorrent is selling out....
CNN.com - Deal aims to reduce movie pirating - Nov 22, 2005
CNN.com - Deal aims to reduce movie pirating - Nov 22, 2005
CNN.com - Guilty of sex with student, teacher avoids prison - Nov 22, 2005
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Urine trouble, mein Herr! - Peculiar Postings - MSNBC.com
Published Tuesday, November 22, 2005 by Stangrunner.
A drunk German guy pissed his bed during the night and then in the morning turns on a hair dryer to dry it (??? do they have washing machines in Germany?) and leaves it running. When he gets back, the place is in flames. Dumb!!!
Urine trouble, mein Herr! - Peculiar Postings - MSNBC.com
Urine trouble, mein Herr! - Peculiar Postings - MSNBC.com
National Post - Copy-protected CDs turning music fans off record buying: retailers
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Deploy Firefox to the enterprise using Group Policy and Administrative Templates in Active Directory.
SourceForge.net: FirefoxADM
SourceForge.net: FirefoxADM
Slashdot | President of RIAA Says Sony-BMG Did Nothing Wrong
Published Monday, November 21, 2005 by Stangrunner.
Lets talk about Google. Skynet Anyone? :: We Hate Technology! :: If you don't hate it, you aren't fixing it!
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Linux.com | Condor: Building a Linux cluster on a budget
Published Saturday, November 19, 2005 by Stangrunner.
The Apple Ad Bill Gates does not want you to see
Published Friday, November 18, 2005 by Stangrunner.
Playing music can be good for your brain / Stanford study finds it helps the understanding of language
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Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine Online | Column: Finding the Keys to Your Computers
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Walk-through lie detectors? If you think the lines right now are bad, you have not seen nothing yet!!!!!
Lie detectors - the last word in airline security? - Yahoo! News
Lie detectors - the last word in airline security? - Yahoo! News
Excerpt:
While I was at the Apple Store last night with my girlfriend getting my nano, some guy brought his old Mac in because he thought it was time to “upgrade”. He had been doing his banking on that machine since he got it, using quicken or something. This mac classic came out in 1990, had 1meg of RAM, and a 8mhz processor!
Kroll’s Blog » Blog Archive » Old School Genius
While I was at the Apple Store last night with my girlfriend getting my nano, some guy brought his old Mac in because he thought it was time to “upgrade”. He had been doing his banking on that machine since he got it, using quicken or something. This mac classic came out in 1990, had 1meg of RAM, and a 8mhz processor!
Kroll’s Blog » Blog Archive » Old School Genius
Cool way to regain access to your WinXP box should you forget your password.
I Forgot My Administrator Password!
I Forgot My Administrator Password!
Cool. However, it does not get any dorkier than a guy driving around town with a "dish" strapped to the top of his car.
How-To: Build a WiFi biquad dish antenna - Engadget - www.engadget.com
How-To: Build a WiFi biquad dish antenna - Engadget - www.engadget.com
AOL is losing 300 customers an hour. The original "internet with training wheels" ship is sinking.
Light Reading - 300 an Hour! - Telecom Blog
Light Reading - 300 an Hour! - Telecom Blog
Geek.com Geek News - Intel's new P4s allow multiple OSes to run simultaneously
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Punishment of a student's bad grades is to hold a sign on the corner of a street. Sheesh.
CNN.com - Wayward student stuck on corner - Nov 16, 2005
CNN.com - Wayward student stuck on corner - Nov 16, 2005
Weather around my area has been dropping lately. Tonight it is expected to drop into the twenties. BRRR! As I write this, it is currently 29 with a wind chill changing it to 13! I sure miss the warmth of Southern California. It rarely if ever gets cold over there. I think I remember the lowest temperature I ever saw was in the forties. You could hit the beach in December or January over there. The water would be cold but you didn't have to shovel snow to get to the sand!
I used to do alot of mountain bike riding and racing (at least more than I do now) back in California and it was a total blast to be hanging the rear wheel out around corners on the fire roads up in the hills. The terrain out there is basically all hard packed dirt and very fast and slick. You had to watch it on those corners and remember to keep your outside pedal weighted to help the tires in getting a bite but damn it was incredible fun. When I was really into racing the hot tire was the Specialized Ground Control. It was a narrow tire with sharp knobs on the edges and closely spaced knobs on the center to help keep the rolling resistance down. They were very good all purpose tires. Now a days, there's cross-country tires, downhill tires, and other "specific task" styles. It is mind-boggling. My first real bike, was a Supergo Access Comp which cost me about $500 and was considered a very good mid level bike at its time. Frame was all cromoly steel, no suspension, Arias aluminum wheels, center pull Shimano cantilever brakes, a full Deore off-road groupset (as known in bicycle circles) consisting of crankset, headset, pedals, brakes, chain, derailleur. It was a very nice bike. I still own it. However, it is very dated when compared to today's bikes. I bought a new bike about a year ago, a Haro Extreme with full front and rear suspension. It rides like a Cadillac when compared to my old Supergo. It has a Shimano groupset, cable disc brakes front/rear, Alex aluminum rims, all components are blacked out alloy. I sure wish I had this bike back when I was racing in California. It would have been a blast coming down the fire roads skipping over the ruts.
I originally got interested in off-road riding/racing several years earlier. When I was about 12 or 13, I was introduced to motorcycle dirt bike trail riding. My first experience was on a old Honda 50cc, 3 speed transmission, kid sized trail bike owned by my uncle. I received my first lesson on clutch and shifter control on that bike. It was the most amazing thing when I completed my first gear shift without the bike bucking or stalling. God, I miss those days. It was the happiest time of my 37 years of my life. If I could go back, I honestly would. Later, as my skills increased and I became older, my next bikes were a homemade lawnmower engined powered mini-bike, it was a blast but as slow as hell. Then I obtained a Yamaha YZ80 two stroke motocrosser. That little sucker was a rocket. I swear that bike could have easily smoked a stock 125cc without a problem. It was formerly owned by a racer kid who outgrew it and upgraded to a larger displacement bike. It was an air-cooled two stroke with racing reed valves and a 6 speed transmission. It was a torque monster and would routinely lift the front wheel and have it clawing at the sky. I remember the one time I was climbing up and down some hills and as I crested the top of one hill, the front wheel lifted and I nearly flipped it over on top of me. It scared the hell out of me and I will never forget that day. Finally, as my skills became better and I got bigger, I obtained a Suzuki 125cc water-cooled motocrosser. It was a really nice bike but it felt slower than my old little YZ80. I eventually ended up selling that bike when I had to leave Southern California due to a company merger which resulted in the relocatation of my job to another state. I hated to sell it. But I had to. My life was changing, I had just become married and my thoughts now were on married life and starting a family. The selling of that bike marked the end of my juvenile years and my thrust into adulthood. Like everybody else, it is a journey everyone has to make. I really miss those years.
I really miss California.
I used to do alot of mountain bike riding and racing (at least more than I do now) back in California and it was a total blast to be hanging the rear wheel out around corners on the fire roads up in the hills. The terrain out there is basically all hard packed dirt and very fast and slick. You had to watch it on those corners and remember to keep your outside pedal weighted to help the tires in getting a bite but damn it was incredible fun. When I was really into racing the hot tire was the Specialized Ground Control. It was a narrow tire with sharp knobs on the edges and closely spaced knobs on the center to help keep the rolling resistance down. They were very good all purpose tires. Now a days, there's cross-country tires, downhill tires, and other "specific task" styles. It is mind-boggling. My first real bike, was a Supergo Access Comp which cost me about $500 and was considered a very good mid level bike at its time. Frame was all cromoly steel, no suspension, Arias aluminum wheels, center pull Shimano cantilever brakes, a full Deore off-road groupset (as known in bicycle circles) consisting of crankset, headset, pedals, brakes, chain, derailleur. It was a very nice bike. I still own it. However, it is very dated when compared to today's bikes. I bought a new bike about a year ago, a Haro Extreme with full front and rear suspension. It rides like a Cadillac when compared to my old Supergo. It has a Shimano groupset, cable disc brakes front/rear, Alex aluminum rims, all components are blacked out alloy. I sure wish I had this bike back when I was racing in California. It would have been a blast coming down the fire roads skipping over the ruts.
I originally got interested in off-road riding/racing several years earlier. When I was about 12 or 13, I was introduced to motorcycle dirt bike trail riding. My first experience was on a old Honda 50cc, 3 speed transmission, kid sized trail bike owned by my uncle. I received my first lesson on clutch and shifter control on that bike. It was the most amazing thing when I completed my first gear shift without the bike bucking or stalling. God, I miss those days. It was the happiest time of my 37 years of my life. If I could go back, I honestly would. Later, as my skills increased and I became older, my next bikes were a homemade lawnmower engined powered mini-bike, it was a blast but as slow as hell. Then I obtained a Yamaha YZ80 two stroke motocrosser. That little sucker was a rocket. I swear that bike could have easily smoked a stock 125cc without a problem. It was formerly owned by a racer kid who outgrew it and upgraded to a larger displacement bike. It was an air-cooled two stroke with racing reed valves and a 6 speed transmission. It was a torque monster and would routinely lift the front wheel and have it clawing at the sky. I remember the one time I was climbing up and down some hills and as I crested the top of one hill, the front wheel lifted and I nearly flipped it over on top of me. It scared the hell out of me and I will never forget that day. Finally, as my skills became better and I got bigger, I obtained a Suzuki 125cc water-cooled motocrosser. It was a really nice bike but it felt slower than my old little YZ80. I eventually ended up selling that bike when I had to leave Southern California due to a company merger which resulted in the relocatation of my job to another state. I hated to sell it. But I had to. My life was changing, I had just become married and my thoughts now were on married life and starting a family. The selling of that bike marked the end of my juvenile years and my thrust into adulthood. Like everybody else, it is a journey everyone has to make. I really miss those years.
I really miss California.
Study Predicts Political, Economic Turmoil If UN's Internet Governance Schemes Succeed - Yahoo! News
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Sony Confirms It: No DRM For Future PS3 Disks - Playfuls.com - Play your life!
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I think Sony has learned their lesson.
Sony Confirms It: No DRM For Future PS3 Disks - Playfuls.com - Play your life!
Sony Confirms It: No DRM For Future PS3 Disks - Playfuls.com - Play your life!
Is Gravity Leaking From Our Universe? » Quantum Biocommunication Technology
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Did someone read your Gmail????? Gmail bug discovered October 14, 2005 and patched October 18, 2005. Interesting read.
Gmail Bug - www.elhacker.net
Gmail Bug - www.elhacker.net
Handy use of the Google mapping technology. Good for those late night beer runs.
The Beer Hunter, Toronto
The Beer Hunter, Toronto
Digital Rights Mismanagement - How Apple, Microsoft, and Sony cash in on piracy prevention. By Adam L. Penenberg
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Can you say disgusting? Who in their right mind would want to drink something that smells like a fish?
Seattle's Jones Soda offering salmon-flavored soda - Nov. 15, 2005
Seattle's Jones Soda offering salmon-flavored soda - Nov. 15, 2005
Woman who threw sex parties for the local high school boys gets 30 years.
CNN.com - 'Cool mom' gets 30 years for sex parties - Nov 15, 2005
CNN.com - 'Cool mom' gets 30 years for sex parties - Nov 15, 2005
Science News Daily - Einstein's relativity theory proven with the 'lead' of a pencil
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'Podcasting to Hit Critical Mass in 2010,' Says Research Firm || iPodObserver
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In 'wrongful life' suit, disabled woman blames doctor for letting her be born - CourtTV.com - Top News
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This is just plain retarded.....
In 'wrongful life' suit, disabled woman blames doctor for letting her be born - CourtTV.com - Top News
In 'wrongful life' suit, disabled woman blames doctor for letting her be born - CourtTV.com - Top News
SI.com - More Sports - WWE Smackdown! star Guerrero found dead - Monday November 14, 2005 1:49AM
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New Linux live CD for security professionals - The Community's Center for Security
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Bush Administration to Sony: It's your intellectual property -- it's not your computer.
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Finally the Bush Administration has done something right for a change.
Bush Administration to Sony: It's your intellectual property -- it's not your computer.
Bush Administration to Sony: It's your intellectual property -- it's not your computer.
Nature’s Nuclear Reactor - - science news articles online technology magazine articles Nature’s Nuclear Reactor
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Doctors say they want to investigate the case of a British man with HIV who apparently became clear of the virus.
BBC NEWS | Health | Caution over HIV 'cure' claims
BBC NEWS | Health | Caution over HIV 'cure' claims
Next time you are at Best Buy checking out the over priced computers they have there, use these tips to shut down the "demo" and even get out to the internet.
NewTech Inc.: Best Buy - Computer Tricks
NewTech Inc.: Best Buy - Computer Tricks
DiggTree is a RSS aggregator for digg.com. What makes DiggTree different than other aggregators is that DiggTree allows the user to view digg stories in a Windows Explorer-like tree view.
zakainsworth.com » DiggTree
zakainsworth.com » DiggTree
CANOE -- CNEWS - Canada: Ontario mom faces $2M libel suit for website about problems in neighbourhood
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Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: Preparing for a Pandemic -- [ SPECIAL REPORT ] -- One day a highly contagious and lethal strain of in
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Podcast Expo impressions. Podcasting: podcasting news + developments
Published Saturday, November 12, 2005 by Stangrunner.
I think this is going to be the beginning of a new profit stream for Google. As they say in the drug world, "the first taste is free".........
Google offers Silicon Valley home free wireless Internet - Yahoo! News
Google offers Silicon Valley home free wireless Internet - Yahoo! News
Podcasting News: Portable Media Expo Update; Podcasting Meets Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
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Finally someone from Sony pulls his head out of his arse and starts to use it.
Sony halts production of 'rootkit' CDs | CNET News.com
Sony halts production of 'rootkit' CDs | CNET News.com
Coffee table is made from the 26" diameter hard drive platter from a 1970's era hard drive. Too Cool!!!!!!
Grand Idea Studio
Grand Idea Studio
Flight Test Journal: Mission accomplished! 777-200LR sets world distance record
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Update from the floor of the Portable Media Expo in Ontario, California.
Yahoo! Shares Love, Learnings, & Future of Podcasting || iPodObserver
Yahoo! Shares Love, Learnings, & Future of Podcasting || iPodObserver
Slashdot | California Suing Sony Over Rootkit DRM
Published Thursday, November 10, 2005 by Stangrunner.
The iCel battery pack runs your iPod for up to 200 hours - Engadget - www.engadget.com
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Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers have recorded a massive star moving at more than 2.6 million kilometres per hour.
Talk about "hauling a##!"
Star on the run
Talk about "hauling a##!"
Star on the run
Over the past two years, three security enthusiasts from the United States and Europe set a host of computers to the task of creating eleven enormous tables of data that can be used to look up common passwords.
Nice. Just what every teen aged hacker needs.
Gold at the end of rainbow cracking?
Nice. Just what every teen aged hacker needs.
Gold at the end of rainbow cracking?
Photograph gallery titled "Architecture of Density". Talk about a real life version of the phrase, "packed like sardines".
MICHAEL WOLF | PHOTOGRAPHY | HONGKONG
MICHAEL WOLF | PHOTOGRAPHY | HONGKONG
Welcome to Rollette.COM - Build a underwater ROV submarine camera using PVC pipe
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What the hell is going on in France????? I can't believe the cops can't stop this stuff. Here's an idea, marshall law and the miltary.
CNN.com - Fewer cars set ablaze in France - Nov 10, 2005
CNN.com - Fewer cars set ablaze in France - Nov 10, 2005
Would you live at work to avoid a commute????? Hell no! I spend enough time there already.
The Monster Blog: Living at the Office
The Monster Blog: Living at the Office
NASA developing spacecraft which could be used to tow or move astroids headed in a path for the Earth.
SPACE.com -- Gravity-Powered Asteroid Tractor Proposed to Thwart Impact
SPACE.com -- Gravity-Powered Asteroid Tractor Proposed to Thwart Impact
Pest Patrol detects and removes Sony's rootkit software.
» CA targets Sony DRM as spyware | Spyware Confidential | ZDNet.com
» CA targets Sony DRM as spyware | Spyware Confidential | ZDNet.com
A flock of 3000 geese flying through the airport's radar system crashed the system and forced the KC air traffic control to take over briefly. Weird.
STLtoday - News - St. Louis City / County
STLtoday - News - St. Louis City / County
Sony's rootkit saga continues. The lawyers are already salivating on this one.
Mark's Sysinternals Blog
Mark's Sysinternals Blog
Guy using his Apple iSight camera and openGL creates a cool special effects clip.
Steel Skies: Watch me set myself on fire!
Steel Skies: Watch me set myself on fire!
New name flap for Microsoft -- but this time its legal right is clear
Published Wednesday, November 09, 2005 by Stangrunner.
news @ nature.com - Mini windmills power wireless networks - Power can be scavenged from a gentle breeze.
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I have not actually used my brain cells lately and wrote something of my own for a while and blogger thinks I am a spam bot since I have to "type the letters you see" on every post I do, I guess I have to write something, so here we go.
I work the afternoon shift (for now, anyway since I am on a rotating schedule covering all shifts) and I usually get home pretty late and get up around mid-morning everyday. Anyway, I am in bed sleeping and I am woken up by the noise of a dude ringing my doorbell off the wall and banging on the door like he was the cops or something. By the time I get my bearings of what the hell is going on, the banging and door ringing has stopped. I go downstairs and slowly open up the front door to see some guy with a shovel digging a good sized hole in my front yard and destroying my grass in the process. I calmly ask the guy what is going on and he tells me that due to 9/11 and a gov't mandate, all cities have to locate all manhole covers and make sure they can be accessed. He says he is sorry, but it has to be done. I tell him to continue and what has to be done has to be done.
Wonderful, Osama Bin Laden or his buddies could be hiding in my front yard. Nice.
I work the afternoon shift (for now, anyway since I am on a rotating schedule covering all shifts) and I usually get home pretty late and get up around mid-morning everyday. Anyway, I am in bed sleeping and I am woken up by the noise of a dude ringing my doorbell off the wall and banging on the door like he was the cops or something. By the time I get my bearings of what the hell is going on, the banging and door ringing has stopped. I go downstairs and slowly open up the front door to see some guy with a shovel digging a good sized hole in my front yard and destroying my grass in the process. I calmly ask the guy what is going on and he tells me that due to 9/11 and a gov't mandate, all cities have to locate all manhole covers and make sure they can be accessed. He says he is sorry, but it has to be done. I tell him to continue and what has to be done has to be done.
Wonderful, Osama Bin Laden or his buddies could be hiding in my front yard. Nice.
Companies help employees buy fuel-efficient cars - Autoblog - www.autoblog.com _
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