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I'm a big fan of the DPReview website as well, but they tend to only rate the higher cost cameras. I'm often intrigued by stuff like the 5mp Argus camera, and want to see what it's all about. For that kind of JUNK, I look at stevesdigicams.com. They seem to review just about everything, from printers to battery packs to pro SLR's. They also measure something that's very important to me - shutter lag. The time it takes to snap the picture after you've pressed the button is a critical feature that not many reviewers quantify. Myself, I just bought a Minolta S414. For a little over $200, you get a 4mp camera that has a real lens on it, uses readily available batteries and inexpensive Compact Flash cards. Every review I've seen on it praises the quality of the lens and the resulting pictures. It offers creative control of your exposure the way NO other camera in the price range does. I was going to get an Olympus E10, but I couldn't justify paying four times the price for a 10% improvement in image quality. I was also interested in the Fuji you mentioned, but when I found that they get their 6mp resolution by doubling the output of a 3mp sensor, I lost interest. Do a lot of research, and you'll be astounded at how much camera you can buy these days!

Horses are great, but cars don't chafe the insides of your thighs.

You're 100% right. Getting bugs in your salad is inevitable. Beef has gristle, oysters have pearls, and lettuce has bugs. It's a fact of life. And if the incident is not treated with sensitivity by the manager, the restaurant can (and probably will) lose a lifetime customer, as well as having the name of his establishmen denigrated by the customer to everyone he knows. Negative advertising, as it were. I'm sorry you got a bug in your food, Aux. Maybe it will make you feel better to know that you probably eat lots of bugs in your daily life. IIRC, the federal government allows something like 14 bug parts in an 8 oz glass of orange juice, and a similar number of bugs and rat hairs in a serving of peanut butter. But most are ground up so fine you'd never know the difference. And that blackberry you ate last summer fresh off the vine? The one that was a little saltier than the rest? Yep, that was a bug too. And on a different yet related subject, shall we discuss what's in sausages and (even worse) wieners and bologna? Food's not very appetizing, when you think about it. (Hey, where's the *barf* emoticon???)

AAARRGGGGHHH! This is a BIG pet peeve of mine (Yes, you've discovered yet ANOTHER one.) It's real simple. If the perpetrator is under 18, it is the parent's fault, and they must pay. If the offender is over 18, it's their own damned fault. If the parent refuses to be responsible for the actions of their children, the children should be taken away and put into a responsible home environment so they can develop into mature and responsible citizens. Seeing their parents get away with blaming others for everything is hardly healthy. Such a nation of victims we're becoming. It sickens me.

I don't think we need to stoop to their level of barbarism to put someone out of the game. No matter what the crime, I don't think you can go wrong showing unwarranted levels of mercy. Just inject 'em with a massive dose of pentabarbitol and be done with it. That gets the job done, and we don't have to listen to as many of those damned commie left-wing liberals moaning their fool heads off. And as usual, I sincerely apologize to any communistic left-wing liberals I may have offended. HEY! I just got another idea, and it's a real dillie! How 'bout we have the best of both worlds? The real issue with keeping murderers imprisoned for life seems to be the financial cost of it. So how 'bout we do this: After two juries find them guilty, we put their cases on the internet along with a Paypal account. If non-death-row advocates wants to keep them alive, they can donate money out of their own pockets to do so. When the money runs out, the inmate is terminated. Personally, *I* don't want to pay to keep a bunch of thugs alive in prison, and if one of my loved ones is wrongly accused, I can keep them alive until they can get out through legal means. How does that sound?

Keep your chin up! If you look around in the paint/body forum, it's full of older guys whose cars took twice as long as they thought to get their cars back. Having your car stuck in jail is a painful rite of passage for most hot rodders. Think about it this way - if you work in a paint shop and tell every customer the truth, that it will take however long as it takes, you'll watch as a big chunk of your prospective customers go across the street where some schmuck is telling them that the car will be back to them in a week. Sure he's lying, but they don't know that. Quality paint work, especially on a budget, goes v.e.r.y s.l.o.w.l.y. But I do feel your pain, my friend. You're not getting what you expected, and I'm sure you're extremely frustrated.

Yeah, I WISH Santa would bring me a carburetor that runs right!!! Actually, he's bringing me a digital camera so I can finally take some decent pics of my Z - I think that counts!

Hey, Andrew! Are you hitting "F5" to refresh the screen? That should overwrite any of the cookies and give you the most current screen. Unless you're using Opera or one of the funky, lesser known web browsers, then all bets are off.

$100?!? Damn, that's a great deal! If you don't want it, I'll buy it from you!

You might want to take a couple of deep breaths. Bodywork frequently looks horrible until it's all said and done. Give them the opportunity to finish their work before you judge it. Just don't give them any more money until it's complete!

Daaaaaaamn. I've seen wiring like that before, and I did it! Before I knew anything about how to do things the right way, I'd do just about anything to get current from point A to point B and it wasn't always pretty. Now I'm quite a bit better about labelling things and using standard colors. I do feel pity for the poor bloke who owns the car after me, though. So much of the wiring has nothing to do with how the factory did it anymore that the standard diagram is pretty much useless. "How did this BMW fusebox get in here, anyway? And what are all these relays for?"

I am in awe. :hail: :hail: :hail: :hail:

This might help: http://www.nastyz28.com/sbchevy/sblock.html Good luck! I hate digging up information FAST. I feel your pain.

Unless it's a really BUILT 350 and has 1/4 mile slips in the 10-11 second range to prove it, it's a bad deal. For that kind of money, you'd be stupid (there, I said it) not to get a complete crate motor, injection setup, and tranny. The rest of the stuff necessary to convert is chickenfeed compared to the cost of the motor, and what you're getting does not sound like a good deal. PASS.

Good God - I'm GAY and I like that!! Definitely not silicone. Silicone boobs don't bounce like that! A friend of mine had a boob job, and they're perky, but hard as a rock. BAM! Straight ahead. She could point out objects of interest with them.

Yeah, credit where credit is due, and all that. Datsun just managed to make it look good!

I'm 37. I first fulfilled my life's ambition of owning a 240 when I was 22, and it's been downhill from there!

The main problem would be that it would put an extra load on an already fragile dimmer mechanism. The problem in your car probably isn't the wires, it's the connectors. If you're concerned with low voltage, I'd suggest cleaning the ground points and any connectors along the line. Yes, it will take a while, but I think it will work better in the long run than installing low-voltage bulbs. Just like you don't put a band-aid on a gaping flesh wound.

Now THAT'S a hybrid! I LIKE!!! The first link, though was typical of much of Automobile's reporting. I paraphrase it like this: "We're going to make more power in the future. We're going to make more power, and make it in our cars. Our cars are going to make more power. Cars. Power. More. More powerful cars are going to be made, and we're going to make them." *barf*. It takes real talent to take a 15 word concept and extend it to eight paragraphs. HOW are they going to do it?

Yes, there are almost limitless orbits, and yes, things will collide. Even if things hadn't already collided (which they have) random chance would dictate that there is a non-zero possiblity of collision between any two random objects, and the more objects there are, the higher the probability of collision. Don't sweat it too much, though. Since gravity is a non-static system, things are either moving towards the Earth or away from it. Eventually ALL the crap will either fall into the sun or into the Earth's gravity well. Perfect, static orbits are impossible. Might take a couple of hundred years, but it WILL happen.

I think (in Texas, at least) that it's possible to 'un-salvage" a title. I'm not sure what it takes to do so, but you might look into it.

Up to $455 as of 5pm 11/19. I wonder if they'll hit $600?

Nah, you don't want to move into space. Z's run crappy in zero oxygen environments.

Something a lot of sportbike riders are doing is using an LCD speedo from a bicycle! Some of them go up to 180mph, have additional trip odometers (think - Distance Between Oil Changes), and best of all, they're under $30. Not the LED's you're thinking of, though.