@Crazy_Talk: It's just referring to the free, ad-supported accounts vs. the paid, more customizable, ad-free subscription accounts (which are well worth the $47.88/yr). Slacker is SO much better than the wasteland that XM/Sirius has become.

@Joey Joe Joe Junior Shabadoo: And if it were in the US there would be lawsuits from people having panic attacks thinking it was real. #advertising

@scottgreczkowski: Or how about that new DirecTiVo HD? What's the latest there?

@Mobius mourns his fallen comrades: Not to mention, I wonder what the MPG plummets to when you have the A/C blasting full-on and the headlights on...

It also is (or was) censoring the pre-made phrases too. Prospective bowlers were always being told to "Hurry up and ******he game!" (JOIN T). They finally stopped that one a few days ago.

@taking_this_easy: Our black cartridge finally said NO this weekend, and I got online to see where in town had our cartridges cheapest, since the color was down to magenta and occasionally cyan. Turns out BB had one for $30 and Wal-Mart 12 miles away was the only place in town that still carried our color cartridge,…

There's also the option that works for us: live in Arizona where you don't need a heater and don't celebrate either holiday.

@11hawkinst: There was a time that XM had better programming and the audio quality was nearly as good as CDs. The audio quality went downhill when they started going from the 100 channels they launched with to the 170+ they carry now. Back then, ALL the channels were CD quality, even the talk channels. And you can…

@Darascon: Suicide doors much easier to get those in 'cuffs in and out of. The whole interior has been designed to make it safer and more comfortable for those in both the front and back seats.

Strange... three people I know here in AZ have gotten cars for under $20 a day recently, one was only $15 a day.

If they're going to do Any Way You Want It, they have to do Don't Stop Believing sooner or later...

@cyanics: Yeah, but what you have to keep in mind is that compared to rail, trucks require 10X the energy to move the same amount of cargo, and aircraft are closer to 40X the energy. If the rail network here would support it, imagine how much fuel would be saved just by taking 10% of the trucks off the road. Not to…

I just wish that it worked on slower connections, or at least allowed you to do it progressive-download (YouTube) style, since my connection won't allow it to stream, and I'm not gonna pay $80 a month for faster internet...

Hopefully something I don't need. Just got my new Mac Pro and spent my last afternoon before my winter break installing all 8 DVDs of FCS2. Blu-Ray would be teh BOMB though... since I do some work in HD and it's kinda hard to do any distribution of the final edit in HD, short of dragging a Sony VTR around campus with…