I would like to talk to the head of product development at Ford, GM or otherwise and ask them this:
"Volkswagen is selling diesel cars in the US market in fairly large numbers. Given this, why does your company not sell similar diesel cars in the US market?"

This is total garbage. Either the residents where there when the race track got built (in which case they should have complained when the noise first started) or they moved in after the track was build (in which case they should not have moved so close to a race track knowing full well that race tracks make noise)

Its not just race tracks that are affected, its happening in many countries for many places.
Race Tracks
Other motor sport venues
Airports
Sports stadiums
Music venues (e.g. pubs with live music)
Amusement Parks
And more

All to often governments side with the people who are complaining (even when the noisy venue has been there for many years and the complainants only just moved into the area)

What Apple needs is a full-on test suite for iPhone app submission as part of the SDK. It would be something like what Microsoft has for its WHQL certification for device drivers.

An iPhone dev would run this test suite on their app and it would run a bunch of checks such as checking for any API not on the approved list and whatever other checks can be done by a program as opposed to needing a human to check it. It would allow devs to ensure that they are in compliance with as much as possible before they submit their app.

What Apple also needs is a much clearer list of "things that will get you rejected from the app store". They can continue to have a catch-all for "anything not otherwise on the list that we decide is grounds for rejection" if they need to. But the list itself would cover most of the things.

Woah, its actually possible to make a car that's UGLIER than a PT Cruiser...

If, as has been reported in various places, the Camaro has been selling so well that cars are comming out of the factory pre-sold and there is a waiting list to get one (and this despite the economic climate) why wouldn't a 4-door RWD Zeta platform car with a good Chevy V8 under the hood sell just as well?

Changes that need to be made:
1.Change the ZEV mandates in California and elsewhere to mandate that all vehicles must be highway capable in order to count for ZEV (no more NEVs counting) and that in order to count they must be available for SALE and not just lease. Car companies could still count leased vehicles towards the mandate though (this stops things like the EV1 where the cars were only ever leased and never sold)

2.Change CAFE to remove all the loopholes that allow companies like Chevrolet, GMC, Jeep and Dodge to continue to make inefficient SUVs. Get rid of the loophole that allows flex-fuel vehicles to be counted as a much more efficient vehicle for CAFE than an equivalent non-flex-fuel vehicle would be.

and 3.Mandate that all vehicles manufactured in or imported into the USA after must be flex fuel compatible with a special exemption for vehicles that cant be made flex-fuel compatible for legitimate technical reasons. This should apply not just to gasoline engines being able to run on ethanol but also to diesel engines being able to run on biodiesel.

Here, here, go back to the golden age when everything and anything was fair game.
Like turbochargers. Or teams that spared no expense to get that extra fraction of a second advantage over the other guy. Or ground effect cars that use aerodynamic effects to create an area of low-pressure under the car which "glues" the car to the track.

Why doesn't California change the ZEV mandate to exclude leased cars and anything not highway legal. Gets more highway legal ZEV cars in the hands of drivers (without the ability for the car company to take the car back later on), stops car companies from "gaming" the system with leased cars that they will take back if the government changes the ZEV mandate again and wins votes from environmentalists. Win for everyone except the automakers who dont get to game the system anymore (and have to actually put ZEV cars in CA showrooms at last)

What do you get for the money though? Do you get all the parts, software and kit that goes with it?

Assuming Apple still releases kernel source for their OS's, someone can compare 10.6.1 and 10.6.2 kernels and see what changed. From there a modified recompiled kernel or a kext or something may solve it.