@fochsenhirt: Kinda but not quite. First off Amazon MP3s are not 256kbps unless otherwise displayed. Most are a variable bitrate which CAN be 256kbps in more complex selections but is usually much less.

@Steve Mookie Kong: You didnt read his complaint. The Amazon download tool is broken. Your browser looses the link to it every couple of weeks and you have to re link it which while not a pain is annoying. In comparison I have never had iTunes break when linking from a webpage to the iTunes store.

@dhuff: AAC IS NOT APPLE FILE SYSTEM!

@Adam Bourg: it did that to me too, basically it breaks every so often so you have to tell it where to find the software. Annoying.

@TanyaP: hate to burst your bubble there, but MP3s in their very nature will never be higher in quality than a like bit rate AAC. The compression is of a totally different type that lends the ACC and other new formats to be better quality.

@phicaluk: I still find it hilarious your Great British Institution was a formerly American chain store....

@elwood: Only because the Japanese ones have gotten huge bailouts already, and more than once as they got some in the early 90s too.

@Adam Lang: I suspect it was a demo.

@blackmage439: you sure its a gasket and not silicon? Early Saturns did not use a gasket at all but used silicon to seal the cam cover. I had the same thing happen with my SL2 till I found the repair manual and found out myself what the mechanic kept missing.

@James Stark: Most manufactured electronics use Torx. Its much less likely to strip. The problem with Torx is it doesnt scale well to industrial uses.

And yet we had a bunch of people posting here yesterday that Clarkson was insane to pick the ZR1 over the GT-R.

@Jim Topoleski: scratch that its IFC.

Those in the US looking for it, I believe its on G4 at some ungodly hour at night.

@Saboth: Funny my award winning Aura has yet to get a recall since I got it. My wife's "award" winning Honda FIT has had 2.

@Saboth: No they CANT. They ARE SUBSIDIZED THE ENTIRE JAPANESE AUTO INDUSTRY IS SUBSIDIZED.

@elwood: already where a long time ago. Japan subsidizes their auto industry.

@Stoatmaster: Take a look at your dates. The US was FOUNDED on Free Trade, it perhaps didnt stay that was for all industry but the protectionism your posting about didnt happen till over 50 years AFTER our revolution.

@timtoolman: The economic crisis has hardly been about America. If anything, if you have studied the last 5 years, you will find the US was actually the last to be hit by whats been a GLOBAL crisis for years now.

@mr.chophoppers: Only CERTAIN US businesses have been opposed to it, those who benefit from having privatized healthcare. You ask ANY business who has no connection to the healthcare field what they think and you can bet your ASS they will tell you go national healthcare.

@layabout met the real Santa: Oh and that pesky not having to pay healthcare in their home country... Oh and that Japanese bailout. Oh and lets not forget the tax breaks the south gave them