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    "Mac Breck"  wrote:   
      
   > Anim8rFSK wrote:   
   > > In article ,   
   > >  "Your Name"  wrote:   
   > >   
   > >> "Tim Bruening"  wrote in message   
   > >> news:4BCEA8A0.C7F25E99@pop.dcn.davis.ca.us...   
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   > >>> Your Name wrote:   
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   > >>>> "Merrick Baldelli"  wrote in message   
   > >>>> news:ol2rd5t2jtsa5hgrlkoot0qr2ui6ki1tml@4ax.com...   
   > >>>>> On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:14:44 +1300, "Your Name"   
   > >>>>>  wrote:   
   > >>>>>   
   > >>>>>> Wait until Apple releases its iPhone-based tablet next year.  :-)   
   > >>>>>   
   > >>>>> This has been talked about for the better part of a decade.   
   > >>>>> I'll believe it when I see it.   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>> It has been in development for a while, but with the popularity of   
   > >>>> the iPod and especially the iPod Touch / iPhone, the time is right   
   > >>>> for the "iBook" / "iTablet". The (rumoured) plan is that it will   
   > >>>> be to ebooks what the iPod has been to music and the iPhone to the   
   > >>>> mobile phone. The "experts" are all pointing to a release early   
   > >>>> next year.  :-)   
   > >>>   
   > >>> The trees will jump up and down for joy!  No more paper!   
   > >>   
   > >> Yeah, right. They've been saying that for decades.   
   > >>   
   > >> Even if (extremely unlikely) the iPad and clones meant an end to   
   > >> paper books / magazines / newspapers, you'll probably find that it   
   > >> causes even more trees to be chooped down to be burnt to generate   
   > >> electricity or something ... just like so-called "green" cars are   
   > >> actually no better, maybe even worse, for the environment than   
   > >> petrol / diesel cars are.   
   > >   
   > > Penn & Teller did a great BULLSHIT! exposé on the Prius.   
   >   
   > Please give us the nutshell version.   
      
   Well, they had lebsians go on a blind date and make out in it.  They   
   found conventional cars of similar size got comparable results because   
   the Prius is so heavy what with carrying 2 engines and all those   
   batteries.  Very cramped inside for the same reason.  They had experts   
   (zealots) say how great is was, and fail to come up with a single reason   
   why.  One said it was beautiful and Penn says "Are you kidding?  It   
   looks like an armadillo f*cked a dustbuster!"   
      
   --   
   As Adam West as Bruce Wayne as Batman said in "Smack in the Middle"   
   the second half of the 1966 BATMAN series pilot when Jill St. John   
   as Molly as Robin as Molly fell into the Batmobile's atomic pile:   
   "What a terrible way to go-go"   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)