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I have mentioned before that I am an Edge/Bing (now Bing beta) user most of the time. I also use Chrome/Google for some stuff, usually when I can't find what I want from Bing. I use IE for financial stuff, because my bank has given me free some high security software for it, and I have Firefox for checking sites if they are not working properly.
I am, you my say, an equal opportunity employer. 
For the last week I have been frantically Bingleing some fairly esoteric techy stuff and was getting nowhere - except sites that MS or Google wanted me to go to. (Insert various pachydermial Soapbox expletives here).
Out of frustration, and while consuming a cup of Orange Pekoe, I recalled I had installed Vivaldi a couple of months ago. I quickly updated it, configured it to my liking, and set up DuckDuckGo as my default browser and home page.
Within two hours I had found more useful stuff that I was looking for than in the previous week with Bing and Google. Finally I have a search engine that finds the sites I want rather than those which pay the search entity the most, and a browser that stops elephants from following me all over the web.
... though it may have been the tea... 
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bing? really?
now I know who is the other* guy that uses bing.
(* not really, joking, I use startpage/duckduck or maybe google ...so you are the only one.)
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I wrote exactly the same thing here a few days ago. Duckduckgo just gives you results.
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I didn't click a single story in today's daily news email but felt so compelled to tell everyone about this. Maybe this will make tomorrow's "Your say!" list. Even the cartoon wasn't funny, I was cringing when I saw the final frame. Does anyone still put a laptop on their laps? I remember radiating my nether regions on the frequent!
/=ë\/er9ô5 (shout out to the BBS days)
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Michael DeMutis wrote: Does anyone still put a laptop on their laps?
Yes.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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I have failed you. 
Now Chris will have us executed at dawn, per our employment contract. But first, we need to work on tomorrow's newsletter!
TTFN - Kent
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My 10 year old (189,000 miles) Suzuki SX4 is on its last "wheels" -- transmission problems, exhaust problems, and starting to sound like engine is giving up the ghost soon. So it was time.
Fuel mileage is almost 3x what I was getting with the Suzuki, especially on the commute to work which is 45 - 55 MPH, mostly flat, and a surprising amount of the drive is purely on electric power.
Very 
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You've got your priurities right
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Marc Clifton wrote: 45 - 55 MPH
Can the Prion already drive by itself? I would fall asleep if I had to crawl like that. I thought the days where you had to sneak around like that were over. Provided that the weather is good and not too many eggheads roll around in the way, I love to drive at 130 MPH or a little more.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Quote: I love to drive at 130 MPH or a little more.
I really miss living in Germany sometimes. One of the hardest things when I moved to the US was the highway crawl.
Worse than that, I moved to Tulsa, OK where they seem to think that any speed over 45 MPH in the middle or left lane will cause irreparable brain damage! 
In some cases I observed, I can believe that is actually true! 
I remember doing an 880 km (550 miles) trip in under 5 hours including two stops for petrol and one for a sit-down breakfast!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Every day on my way to work, I find myself walking faster than the traffic. I suspect that all those motorists are dreaming about being able to go at 40MPH!
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Happily my commute is on country roads, but they do have their share of deer, possums, foxes, raccoons. Those are the speed limits and the bear is watching!
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I'm really happy to you're doing your bit to halt global warming! 
modified 11-Sep-19 10:12am.
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The proper way to operate a prius. Recycle!
Roadkill - YouTube[^]
Good to know those crumple zones work on impact.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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When it comes to cars, my man card was never instated!
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Fair enough. 
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My 16 year old is learning to drive, and we got to talking about what kind of car he'd like to drive, his response? "Anything, as long as it's not a Prius!", apparently it's not cool amongst the younguns, who knew?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Prius is not cool with most of the planet. People who take fossil fuel reduction to the extremes, get a Prius. To each their own.
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Can't say I think about car coolness very often, mostly it's does it hold my family, fishing gear, and is the stereo loud enough. Carbon footprint be damned.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Slacker007 wrote: People who take fossil fuel reduction to the extremes, get a Prius
I'm selfish. Top of the priority list is reducing my cost at the pump. Secondarily is the environment. But somewhere in the middle is also reducing my dependence on, ahem, "foreign" oil.
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You mean, like from Europe?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Get him a hybrid Camry or Accord then. Other than small badges they look like normal cars; but they come within a few percent of matching the Prius's fuel economy (better areo from the silly looking back end helps the latter). My '17 Accord puts out ~210hp and drives just like a normal car; I just don't have to buy as much gas.
For my driving and current gas prices I'm still falling a hair short of break even on car payment+gas spending; but should break even on that measure within a year or two of payoff. I'm probably actually ahead though in that electric breaking doesn't wear out pads/rotors cutting my future maintenance bills.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Nah, very naff more like. The favourite car of virtue signalising celebs, who in their spare time take first class flights around the world.
Teslas are pretty cool, they actually go like stink, of course pretty pointless if your commute is slow, but cool, now that would have to be a: https://www.classic-british-motorcycles.com/images/Rat3-brn-L3.jpg[^]
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And what are the environmental and resource costs of all the batteries used in these cars?
(Including disposal, when the time comes)
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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