The new Lambo land rocket has just been unleashed upon the public. It’s called the Reventon. It sports a V12 that pumps out a pavement cracking 640hp capable of getting this missle up to 211mph and producing top speeds of 211.

There will be only 20 produced with a pricetag of 1.6 million apiece…and they are all spoken for. So if you didn’t get yours yet (I’m still waiting for the Lambo dealer to call me about mine…yeah) then you can get by with drooling over the pictures.

Enjoy.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has decided to abandon net neutrality and allow telecoms companies to charge websites for access.

The FTC said in a report that, despite popular support for net neutrality, it was minded to let the market sort out the issue.

This means that the organisation will not stand in the way of companies using differential pricing to make sure that some websites can be viewed more quickly than others. The report also counsels against net neutrality legislation.

“This report recommends that policy makers proceed with caution in the evolving dynamic industry of broadband internet access, which is generally moving towards more, not less, competition,” FTC chairman Deborah Platt Majoras wrote.

“In the absence of significant market failure, or demonstrated consumer harm, policy makers should be particularly hesitant to enact new regulation in this area.”

The report has caused outrage in the online community. Many are worried that any abandonment of net neutrality will harm competition, since it will allow big companies to outspend start-ups.

“Mostly the FTC suggests ways that the telephone and cable companies could have new ways to make money from content and applications providers,” said Art Brodsky, of internet advocacy group Public Knowledge.

“Or lower-income subscribers could be charged lower prices, subsidised by ‘prioritization revenues’ much as supported email services now provide free email accounts. Nowhere is there discussion of what the consumer gets out of the deal.”

      Now, if you havent been paying attention, Net Neutrality was/is an issue about access. With Net Neutrality in place, everyone has equal access to the Internet and the information on the Internet. With the FTC dropping its support of Net Neutrality, now the ‘big wheels’ on the internet, such as Google, Yahoo, AOL, will have the opportunity to basically pay so that their content gets to you faster than the average mom and pop website. The heavy hitters will have the ability to pay to make sure that their content is given priority through your ISP to get to you. So your gaming, your bit-torrents, your file downloads will have their bandwith somewhat throttled back so that you can get those fresh new ads from AOL, or so your Yahoo Toolbar will be able to make its oh so important conections back to their content servers to bring you all those bright and shiny buttons on your toolbar that you probably dont use anyway, if you even have it installed at all.

     In short, this is not a good thing for the consumer. Be prepared for a ruckus on the Internet, when people realize that their Internet enjoyment is now being choked down so that the admakers of the world can have better access to shove their shit down your throat, people will not be happy. I hope that people DO wake up and not just stick their head back in WoW and hope it all goes away or that someone else does the work for them.

If you need to do a little reading to catch up, here ya go:
Wikipedia on Net Neturality
Hands Off

     Since the summer of ‘76, Ron Leung thought his stolen 1956 Ford Thunderbird was ‘Like the Roman Empire - history’, That is until he got a call from palo Alto, California Plice last week, almost 31 years to the day after it disappeared.

     Now he’s anxious to get the car back to palo Alto from Southern California where it was recovered, reportedly in good shape.
     the port windows, purring V-8 and continental wheel kit in the back have haunted Leung since the car disappeared. he’d spy a ‘56 T-Bird at a car show and melt, thinking of the one he had restored and then lost. Now he’s curious to see what it looks like.
     In some ways, Leung said, the car was alwways meant to be his. In 1976 he was searching for a 1956 T-Bird, the only year with the chromed spare tire holder, only to find one for sale, just three doors down from his father’s Palo Alto restaraunt.
     “I fell in love’ he said.
     The then 28 year old got busy. He stripped off the Sea Spray Blue paint and replaced it with white, making it match the T-Bird that mystery blonde Suzanne Summers cruised around in during American Graffiti.
     Three years later, Leung parked the restored car in the lot of his auto shop in Palo Alto. The next day th echain blocking the lot was cut and the car was gone.
     From his perch at the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s department, where the retired deputy worked at the time, Leung would check th e computer system to see if his car had turned up. Nothing - for weeks and then months and then he quit checking.
     Last week, the car showed up at a California Highway patrol office in Southern California. A woman who bought the car through ebay from someone in Ohio, bought it, Sea Spray Blue again, to the CHP, according to Palo Alto police officer Brian Philip, onec CHP officers found the VIN, they relized it didn’t match the number on the title. The yran the car through a state database and it came up stolen.

     “I feel bad for the woman who bought it,” said Lung. He’s not sure how much she spent on it, but similar cars on eay can sell for as much as $20,000. Leung spent about $1,500 for it in ‘73. The CHP reports it is still in cherry condition, the odometer reads 24,979 miles. Said Leung, now 59, with a laugh, ‘it’s karma’.

Here’s a picture of Mr Leung’s car, very nice. I can see why he was attached to it.

     I NEED to say something about Florida drivers. I live in the Tampa Bay area of Florida. This is home to beautiful beaches, beautiful women and some of the most inept drivers on the planet. How hard is it to use a turn signal? It’s not some new alien technology we just brought back from the moon, and its quite useful to those behind you who arent driving 35mph on a 4 lane highway in a semi truck sized SUV enjoying a double mocha frappa lattachino or whatever while backing up traffic for miles.

     And if its not the 110 lb soccermoms that absolutely require a 6 door personell carrier for their tiny frame plus their 1 offspring, then its the retirees. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t have a problem with old people, I plan on being one myself one day. But when I am an older and hopefully retired person, I will be aware of the fact that not everyone on the road is retired with the singular goal for the day of getting to the piggly wiggly to get in on that one day sale of sugar free cookies.      
     There is nothing more frightening than seeing a 1973 Buick driven by someone who can’t see over the steering wheel, en route to a sale.

    But by far the worst type of driver is the SUV driver who think’s they’re driving a Porsche. There is nothing more butt pucker inducing than looking in your rear view mirror and seeing an Escalade bearing down on you on the highway at speeds that are obviously more than it’s brakes will be able to cope stopping fast enough to keep from tearing the rear end off your vehicle if required. The only thing more fun than that is having the same drivers swap lanes and dodge in and out of traffic in a 5000lb+ while sipping a coffee, on a cellphone and reading a newspaper.

I want to have a law passed so that we can carry weapons in our cars. Not to shoot people, but to disable their cars. A nice shot to the tires will atleast disable them long enough for the rest of the peple on the road to find safe shelter
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If you have been living under a rock for the past 3-4 years, you may not have heard that Dodge is bringing back the Challenger nametag, and with a healthy dose of ‘ohmygod’. Other than goreous looks, this head turner is powered by a 392ci Hemi. Thats right, the 392 Hemi is being brought out of mothballs for the re-release of the Challenger. Personally, I remember what the old 392 Hemi’s were like. In the words of my father ‘They make a great boat anchor’. However Dodge is projecting speeds of 0-60 in 4.5 seconds and 1/4 mile times in the 13 second range (at least thats what they say the concept car will do). I’ll hold judgement on the car until I see one hit the street, but the Challenger looks like one sexy beast.