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Linkity Linkity 2 SANTA MONICA, Calif. — The wait is over. Undisguised 2009 Nissan GT-R photos have now become available prior to the car's official debut at the 2007 Tokyo Auto Show. Numerous GT-R prototypes have been caught testing around the world, including at Germany's Nürburgring and California's Laguna Seca Raceway, but this is the first look at the rocket coupe's completely undisguised sheet metal. Official specifications aren't expected to be announced until Nissan's Tokyo show press conference on October 24, but months of spy intelligence suggest the all-wheel-drive 2009 GT-R will get a 3.8-liter twin-turbo V6 that produces approximately 450 horsepower. Nissan says the GT-R will accelerate from zero to 60 mph in 3.5 seconds, finish the quarter-mile in 11.7 seconds and reach a top speed of 192 mph. Base price is expected to be less than $80,000. If true, the GT-R will be serious competition for the Porsche 911 Turbo, which it has been routinely seen testing alongside. What this means to you: It's here. And it's hot. >>> Yeah Right!

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The news headline should read like this: "Honda becomes top donor of Consumer Reports"

Yeah I was one of the major supporters of GM being slow in rolling 6-speeds in GMT 900's. But now it is the third MY when they "may" finally get it in all of them. Not good. Yeah you make close to a million vehicles, but please three years pushing into a vehicle design to introduce something across the line is going overboard. With four speeds, W-bodies, 4.3l, 3.5l V-6 they are milking a long dead cow.

Dude, I am glad you did not get shot at or something. Three hints and you were still playing wow.

Hey Diane, Glad to have you here, Welcome to . A german car fanatic may not find many supporters here, apart from few who have old diesel Benzes, or old 5 series, or a couple of us who wish to have the 128/135 someday. And hey we know we are friendly people.

More scientific BS. I mean if it is genetic, then either of their parents should have them, which means either of them should be a homosexual. So like dart said, either of them should have been living in denial and so on to the previous generration. Why can't people accept the fact of homosexuality being part of human life? Why is it hard for people to see that it is love and attraction which is important in human nature and not the genatalia of the person they are attracted to or love?

Which means Oshawa should be have this soon.

Those statements seem to be contradictory in a broader sense. Most of the cost associated is in the development of a system and then a little in the adaptation or "engineering" of the transmission to a particular vehicle. Which makes me say, "Either bring it out or don't tell us about it." Yeah that may probably happen. GM needs to speed up their inception to production time. It seems like they get a woman pregnant but she takes 27 months to deliver the baby, more like a whale pregnancy.

United States does not entertain demands in hostage situations, either tell your secret or get shot.

What games are you going to play using it? Solitaire and Free Cell?

I think Hyundai is going the Mitsubishi way, but not that fast.

How much does this thing weigh?

Does the "official" have to be a priest? I mean he can be a normal human being who does like men.

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Welcome Floyd. Are you the author who writes the inspirational/ pshychotherapy books?

There is no Peace Al Gore made in the world. No tranquility was established by his so called "Landmark" award winning movie. All he created was Chaos. You are right, it was a hypocritic award.

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I thought that Brand was TICK-TOCKING

Very well said Blu. I love you! (Not like P-C-S does) Nitrogen pollution caused by the Fertilizers is the second largest global warming phenomenon preceded by Natural forests. Electricity comes third and then the Automobiles. Gore is just trying to play blame passing to the weakest. He cannot reduce Natural forest emission, by cutting trees, that will accelerate GW. He cannot ask people to stop producing crops, that will mean Global Starving. He cannot ask people to not use electricity, that will be Global Darkening. So blame the auto manufacturers.

Guys, I am good at math. If you need any help, please let me know. (It won't be free )

I can help you with Calculus and Stats (depending on what level it is). Calculus, it is like driving, or drawing, once you get to know what you are dealing with. It is an art. The best way to attack calculus is understand this fundamental: When Newton thought about Calculus, his major dissatisfaction was how to deal with functions. Assume that in a range of unique X coordinates over a continuous function, there exist y coordinates. A continuous function is one which does not break or has no steps in that range. A derivative is the tangent to this function at the point where we take the derivative. So when we are given different tangents on the curve and are asked to find the curve, the function we get is an integral. For finding a derivative it is imperative to assume that the function is continuous, there is discrete calculus for non-continuous functions, but I think you won't be seeing those in this class. Imagine the simplest way for integral as 5+2=7. Now in broad terms we take a step of magnitude 2 to reach 7 from 5. In integration, this 2 is achieved by taking baby steps of may be 1*10 e-15 or a small number till it reaches 7, to make it appear as 7. As for stats, it is a muggers paradize. If you are having problems, the best way to tackle rather than thinking logically is memorize the formula and start puking them in the problems.

Al Gore Wins 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Linkity By GERALD F. SEIB and JEFFREY BALL October 12, 2007 2:31 p.m. WASHINGTON -- Former Vice President Al Gore won a share of the Nobel Peace Prize for his work publicizing global warming, an honor that is sure to raise speculation anew about his presidential ambitions and makes it more difficult for other politicians to avoid the global-warming issue. The former vice president shares the prize with the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the Nobel Prize committee announced in Norway. The prize caps a remarkable stretch for Mr. Gore's effort to raise the profile of the climate-change debate; aside from producing a widely read book on the subject, he won an Academy Award earlier this year for his film on global warming, "An Inconvenient Truth." The announcement immediately set off a flurry of debate about whether Mr. Gore will get into the 2008 presidential campaign. Even before the announcement, fans of Mr. Gore had launched petition drives urging him to run, and one group published an open letter to Mr. Gore with the same plea in the New York Times this week. Still, it seems unlikely Mr. Gore will reverse his earlier and oft-repeated decision not to get into the race. Democrats seem generally satisfied with the field of candidates they have, and entering the race now wouldn't only involve catching up with candidates who have been working at the campaign for a year or more, but also would involve going head-to-head in a fight with front-runner Hillary Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, with whom Mr. Gore worked in the White House. But the prize will have political ramifications even if he doesn't run. For one, it means the Democrats in the race will be coveting a Gore endorsement even more than they did before. As one sign of that, Democratic contender John Edwards almost instantly released a statement congratulating Mr. Gore and saying: "The Nobel Peace Prize rewards three decades of Vice President Gore's prescient and compelling -- and often lonely -- advocacy for the future of the Earth." Barack Obama wasn't far behind with his own congratulatory statement: "By having the courage to challenge the skeptics in Washington and lead on the climate crisis facing our planet, Al Gore has advanced the cause of peace and richly deserves this reward." One potential problem for Mrs. Clinton is the prospect that, at least briefly, the Gore prize could make Democrats who have grown comfortable with the field and her as its leader feel a bit of longing for the Gore alternative. More broadly, the additional attention Mr. Gore has brought to his cause also will make it harder for other politicians, the Bush administration and skeptics in the business community to avoid the global-warming issue. In his own statement after the prize was announced, he said: "We face a true planetary emergency…The climate crisis is not a political issue ...'' The award's effect may prove more rhetorical than substantive. Mounting public attention on global warming already has led Washington and governments around the world to consider regulations to limit greenhouse-gas emissions. The European Union imposed greenhouse-gas caps in 2005 and is now considering toughening them; Congress is debating several proposals to impose emission constraints in the U.S. But those efforts are hugely controversial, pitting powerful industries against each other as each tries to shape a potential regulation to shift the bulk of the pain to someone else. The result of that fighting is that the caps imposed in Europe, and those given the greatest political chance in Washington, would curb emissions only mildly -- far less severely than Mr. Gore argues is needed. The Nobel award doesn't change perhaps the biggest question in the geopolitical debate over what to do about global warming: How to fashion an international agreement to curb emissions after the caps outlined in the current treaty, the Kyoto Protocol, expire in 2012. Doing that will require bringing the U.S. and China -- the world's two biggest global-warming emitters -- into any agreement. How to do that is likely to be the big subject of discussion at an upcoming United Nations conference on global warming in Bali, Indonesia, in December. Write to Gerald F. Seib at [email protected] and Jeffrey Ball at [email protected]