I see what you did there. We used to have a middle class that's just getting poorer, so it's back to just rich and poor now..

You will find that a substantial number of cyclists have a car and already pay road taxes.

This might only be true while cycling. However, because of cycling, my fitness and weight has vastly improved, resulting in a more efficient respiratory system that emits less CO2 during rest time. I spend more than 95% of my time not exercising. I would go as far and say that my overall carbon footprint might have actually been reduced due to my 8 hours or so weekly cycling.

There are quite a few unfit people here in the office that breathe heavily just to walk from their desk to the water cooler. Good thing we have lifts, I can only imagine their CO2 emissions had they used the stairs.

I can't believe more ppl don't vote for ZFS. Been using it for a year now, running on OpenSolaris. Its got everything I could ever dream of from a file system including snapshots, self healing, various RAID setups and now an in-kernel CIFS service - Samba be gone! Configuring Windows clients to access my OpenSolaris fileserver couldn't have been easier. I've been using hardware RAID 5 card before - guess what the single point of failure was - the card itself which was no longer in production or available when the failure occurred - had 6 80Gig HDDs hanging off of it. Unrecoverable data. I tested ZFS by importing all of my IDE HDDs on a different computer running a different version of OpenSolaris. No problems - it took mere seconds to import. Some ppl mentioned issues running ZFS. Is that on a recent copy of OpenSolaris or the Mac OS or Linux? I haven't seen any issues with ZFS on OpenSolaris. I would wait a while for it to mature on Linux or Mac b4 diving into it on those OSes. Long live ZFS! PS. I'm not a Sun employee ;)