Focus is smaller than the Mazda 6 the 3 is closer and when you add in diesel that is not close to an apples to apples comparison. The Cruze diesel is closer and matches your Focus in MPG

my commute is all freeway with almost no stop and go.
Again this is for me personally.

Your Imperial gallon is larger than a US Gallon.
So he Mazda 6 gets 46 mpg on gas in UK terms.
The Chevy Cruze Diesel gets over 55 mpg.
Also the US uses a different testing method than the EU so often the same car with the same engine will get better ratings in the EU.

Because paying $540 dollars a month is better than paying $580 a month.
The other fact is that pure gas cars are getting really good milage. The Mazda 6 is rated at 40mpg on the highway. The new CX-5 CUV is over 30mpg hwy.
My Chevy Cruze is averaging over 33 mpg for me.
 

This is single track right of way so I do not think that is a real option and really would add to the cost of the system.

They are not just complaining about no stops. They are also upset about those noise, and the "danger", and the risk of first responders being stuck waiting for a train.
I could also complain about the mass transit system as well. It takes 30 minutes to take a bus from my office to the mall but only 15 minutes to walk it. BTW before anyone says just walk this is south FL so think lots of heat and rain time of year.

...he says, quoting a malpractice lawyer of all things. By that ludicrous number, one in 680 Americans are killed by doctors each year. If you live to the age of 75, your odds of dying this way would be 1 in 9.

Plenty of people get bad treatment, sure, but you can't make me believe that one in 9 will actually die of it. That would make malpractice nearly as deadly as cancer, and that's just not plausible.

That's an excellent point. Yeah, I think we can cross that off as busted.

The people you're describing drive me insane. We have a pediatrician who said what you did: either you trust her to recommend vaccinations, or you find someone else to work with. She doesn't want patients who continually argue against everything she says.

Here's a test. You know all those godless communist governments that want to take over America and sap our precious bodily fluids? They don't have profits, right, because they hate our freedoms. They also don't care about their disposable citizens. Right? OK. So why is it that those countries vaccinate their citizens? It's not for the profit motive of drug companies, because those are owned by the evil socialists. It's because they cheap out and practice preventative medicine so that they can keep working the proles 112 hours a week, and you can't do that when they're sick.

But tossing aside the Fox-news-watcher-ready wrapper, it's true: absent a profit motive, every organized country in the world immunizes their citizens so that they don't get sick as much. Do you really think China gives a crap about GlaxoSmithKline's margins? Hell no. They use vaccines because it's far and away the best possible investment into keeping people healthy.

There is literally no valid greed-based explanation for vaccinations. It's dumb when you consider the American health system, and utterly braindead when you look at the other 95% of the world's population.

You're so full of shit. According to The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, in 1989 the CDC recommended 8 vaccines for kids (the same 7 it recommended through the 70s, plus Hib). The 2010 schedule includes the 8 from 1989 plus hep A (dangerous in kids, lethal in adults), hep B (40% lifetime risk of liver cancer in 95% of newborns who contract it), flu, varicella (not the innocent, cute little illness antivax wingnuts claim it is), pneumococcus (lethal), and rotavirus (potentially lethal).

The evil drug companies took the 8 vaccines from 1989 and added 6 more potentially lethal or crippling diseases, for a total of 14. One-four. Maybe the 72 number is an innocent mistake reflecting the total number of shots, although I sincerely doubt it's that high as DTaP and MMR are each 3 vaccines combined into 1 (as they have been since the early 80s). That narrows it down from 14 to 10 unique vaccinations, and they simply don't take an average of 7 shots each per vaccine.

Yes, I get testy about this. As many times as antivaxers tell me to "do my research!", it seems that none of them can be bothered to.

The real issue is that they do not really seem to want them to really work.
For example the Florida High Speed rail project that Florida "rightly" refused to build was nothing but welfare for Disney. The "first leg" was the Orlando Airport to Disney!
Now they are trying to build one that goes from Miami to Orlando but the people in three counties that are not getting stops are protesting it. This train would run on existing tracks so it should not cost an Arm and a leg but NIMBY is in full force.
BTW I do live in one of those bypassed counties and while I would like for them to add stops I can see why they might not want to at first since the counties have a lower population than ones with stops.
If they really want them to work they should pick real routes like Dallas Houston, LA SF, and yes Miami Orlando.

How much time do you spend waiting on your "slow" SATA SSDs to answer requests, and how much would migrating to PCIe SSDs lower those waits? That's the subject of the article and what I was discussing. :-)

Darn it, people! I loved SSDs. I use them everywhere. I think they're great. But we're discussing the subject of PCIe SSDs versus SATA SSDs, and I still contend that SATA SSDs are so freaking fast (compared to HDDs) that desktop users are highly unlikely to ever bump up against that interface's limits.

I'm not sure how any of what I said led you to believe that I don't think SSD is an improvement over HDD. I was specifically responding to the guy talking about needing IOPS for IRC, web browsing, and email. I've personally upgraded every computer in my care to use SSDs for local storage (but I keep huge HDDs in the family NAS, because file services over Wi-Fi aren't going to be disk-bound anyway).

Since too many people found my typo amusing let me tell you why are are wrong.
1. Summit racing is full of pistons, cranks, cams, and heads for LS engines.
2. Google build LS and you will find lots of hits.
BTW the current suggestions are to find an iron block LS engine like the LQ7 out of a truck since they are more common and cheaper than the aluminum versions out of cars and you can bore them out more. Replace the pistons and rods since they tend to be the weak point on the engines unless you found an LS7 or 9 which used forged pistons and ti con rods. The right heads and cam will really give you good gains with little money. Some of the stock heads are very good and can often be found cheap. The stock intakes are actually pretty good and of course headers will help but not as much as the old days since modern exhaust manifolds are very good compared to the cast iron logs used back in 60s, 70s, and 80s. Of course SBCs are still around but with electronic ignition and often efi. Both are available from the after market. The Ford Coyote engines also have a large following and lots of parts available. Ford is still selling Winsor short blocks and crate motors as well and they also have a huge aftermarket. I am not up on mopar and frankly the big blocks have been pushed out to the extremes. You can build a 454 LS small block and a 460 Winsor so big blocks are not a big advantage unless you are going to push past 500 cid which is pretty rare and very expensive.