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What to do to dye today at a minute or two til two; a thing distinctly hard to say but harder still to do. For they'll beat a tattoo at a twenty to two with a ratatatatatatattoo, and the dragon will come when he hears the drum: at a minute or two til two today. At a minute or two til two.

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Oh wow, this seems like a thread I'd enjoy.

THERE WE GO: 

Pretty much anything sounds like a banjo, if you apply an exponential decay.
Helicopters are surprisingly cheap, you can get one for $100K, tow truck included. 
The top propeller of an autogyro isn't actually a propeller, it has no motor attached to it and only acts as a rotating wing, giving it a lift.
Autogyros seems surprisingly maneuverable though. 
Helicopters are usually designed to be able to land safely even when the motor dies.
The new Rolls Royce Phantom has an active suspension, which scans the road ahead and adjusts the pistons the wheels are connected to accordingly. Bose has made this technology, but it's too heavy and pricey to be used in larger scale: 

 

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Taken from the Wikipedia article for Windows XP:

Windows XP (codenamed Whistler) is a personal computer operating system that was produced by Microsoft as part of the Windows NT family of operating systems. It was released to manufacturing on August 24, 2001, and broadly released for retail sale on October 25, 2001.

Development of Windows XP began in the late 1990s as "Neptune", an operating system built on the Windows NT kernel which was intended specifically for mainstream consumer use. An updated version of Windows 2000 was also originally planned for the business market; however, in January 2000, both projects were shelved in favor of a single OS codenamed "Whistler", which would serve as a single OS platform for both consumer and business markets. Windows XP was a major advance from the MS-DOS based versions of Windows in security, stability and efficiency due to its use of Windows NT underpinnings. It introduced a significantly redesigned graphical user interface and was the first version of Windows to use product activation in an effort to reduce its copyright infringement.

Upon its release, Windows XP received generally positive reviews, with critics noting increased performance and overall stability (especially in comparison to Windows ME), a more intuitive user interface, improved hardware support, and its expanded multimedia capabilities.[6] Despite some initial concerns over the new licensing model and product activation system, Windows XP eventually proved to be popular and widely used. It is estimated that at least 400 million copies of Windows XP were sold globally within its first five years of availability, and at least one billion copies were sold by April 2014. Sales of Windows XP licenses to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) ceased on June 30, 2008, but continued for netbooks until October 2010.

Extended support for Windows XP ended on April 8, 2014, after which the operating system ceased receiving further support or security updates to most users. As of December 2017, Windows XP holds 3.55% of the whole Windows market share.

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