I agree with FatAlb3rt, can you tell me how much horsepower you want?

GM's spreadsheet showing the specs of the 6.6L Duramax diesel list 330HP and 660 lb-ft. http://media.gm.com/us/powertrain/en/product_services/2010/gmna/Spec%20Sheet/Diesel/10_LMM_n.xls

A stock duramax in a 2500 series gm truck seems to be somewhat similar to a stock cavalier.http://www.dragtimes.com/compare2.php?make1=8&model1=148&op1=%3E%3D&year1=2002&stock1=Yes&make2=17&model2=295&op2=%3E%3D&year2=2002&stock2=Yes&make3=17&model3=296&op3=%3E%3D&year3=2002&stock3=Yes&make4=8&model4=152&op4=%3E%3D&year4=2002&stock4=Yes&submitButtonName=Compare!

When you start modifying stock diesel trucks they can go faster.

http://www.thedieselpage.com/features/edgeweekend.htm

GM made locomotive engines from the 1930s until 2005 when the sold off that division. CSX Claims that they can transport 1 ton of freight 436 miles using one gallon of fuel. Depending on if CSX used a General Electric Engine or an EMD to get their figures, Gm might be able to use the knowledge gained from building efficient trains to build cars.

Have you been keeping up with the change log? He is credited 5 times. ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/ChangeLog.txt

What if a device does not have Windows drivers, that would just as hard to image as windows wouldn't it? Some devices don't have windows drivers, or don't play nicely with other devices, so they will not be put into systems for mass production because they would not pass QA.

Ubuntu has an OEM install mode that should allow you to image the drive and have it do something similar to the windows out of box experience. Slackware's setup screens during installation are just bash scripts, If you configure your image to run the appropriate script( or modified ones) you could do something similar to Ubuntu's OEM install.

I know someone whose job it is to build systems and and images for an OEM, He gets to make sure all of the hardware works together and build the images needed for that hardware. He has built a script that does a lot of stuff to get the systems just right, and he gets to change it whenever the hardware or software vendors change things on him. After he is done he sends his hardware configuration and image to the people who will assemble all of the computers and apply the image. The same could be done with Linux Distributions, Once you have the scripts in place you only have to edit them to keep up with the changes.

I have probably seen too many movies, but how feasible would it be to have the last car on the train be the one that stops in each city?

When you board your train you will select the car that stops at your destination and it will decouple and coast to the station like a roller coaster.

To account for people wanting to get on half way, I can envision two different scenarios. The first method would involve the original train never slowing down, only losing cars. New trains getting up to speed would create enough of a buffer to alleviate safety concerns.

My other thought would be to have the trains recouple at speed like refueling aircraft at altitude. If the cars departing the station leave before the train reaches the station it could be up to speed and The train could separate so the new cars could join in the right spots to fall off of the end at the appropriate stops. Otherwise the cars could be added at the end and the passengers could relocate between stops.

Regenerative Braking could be used to add power back to the system at the stations if other trains are leaving, reducing load on the rest of the system while one train is accelerating.

I'm fuzzy on the whole good-bad thing. What do you mean, bad?

Most taxes I have seen are based on percentages, and People that barter with me usually want to trade food for computer help. In situations like this do I send the IRS the leftovers?

If she hired musicians to play classic music that has fallen into the public domain would she have to pay a license fee to the PRS?

According to something I heard on the radio the only time the us government was spending enough to satisfy Keynes theory was during world war II, before that the government was not spending enough.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100018973

The relevant car analogy would be jump starting a car. If you do not hook up the jumper cables properly you can damage the electrical system of one or both cars, and after you have succesfully jump started the car you should remove the jumper cables to allow the car to run on its own power.

I thought that at first but he could also be talking about the session save feature the many DEs have.

Here is a document that explains how kde handles sessions (other desktop environments might do something similar). http://jucato.org/kde/kde-autostart.html

How about an external drive wit a pin?
http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPortal/en_US/catalog.workflow:item.detail?GroupID=38&Code=43R2018&current-category-id=2478535BAB3C417CA9D77F5867D31462

The Library. So big it doesn't need a name - just a great big "the."
http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/The_Library

Is this close enough?
http://www.xpde.com/shots.php

I have not tried to do this with more than one computer, so I don't know how well it will scale, but I have run the command cat /dev/video0 >~/public_html/tv.mpg to save a stream from my pvr150 to a location readable by apache. On my laptop I could then stream the video by telling issuing the command xine http://serverip/~username/tv.mpg.

Another thought that I had is if the network does not support multicast, could you configure vlc to stream to the broadcast address of the network and have all of the computers listen for the incoming stream?