Does no-one see the problem here? If this becomes accurate to predict anything of actual use, the markets themselves will start using it... which renders the predictions themselves useless.

It's like seeing into the future and acting upon what you see - by doing that you alter the future itself, making the initial prediction invalid.

I'm really looking forward to the comments. When BP lets the oil spill continue day after day, the /. crowd goes asking why we let them handle it at all, after all they're the ones responsible for the mess.

Now Google has a mess, and is doing an internal audit. I'm curious if we will apply the same reasoning, or a different standard. And what justifications we'll see for it.

It doesn't matter HOW MUCH we "conserve" if we don't stop breeding like rabbits, the J curve is going to happen. But in the mean-time I have a lot of hardwood to sell to humanity.

Depends on jurisdiction. A friend of mine failed his driver's test for doing exactly what you described (Ontario, Canada)

Or maybe they figured the Republicans had already done enough damage to mess up the country, and that anything but a Republican would be good, but the only viable choice was a Democrat? Sometimes it's a matter of picking the lesser of two evils.

I think if Barack Obama wasn't half black, he would not have been elected. Younger voters wanted to prove that their generation could look beyond race. He had very little experience, he never offered anything but vague ideas, and he came from Chicago which is known for corrupt politics. Not that I'm saying there were better options out there, I just believe if you put a white guy named Barry in his place he never even makes the Democratic primary ballot.