Australia did exactly this, we were running good surpluses and did fully pay our debt before the Global Financial Crises. It definitely helped us weather the storm.

We still dont have Samba 4.0 yet..

I have noticed this on one of my machines, and tracked it down (in my case) to a pause when ever Flash is loaded. It only happens on one of my machines, and its damn annoying..

Agreed..

A. Clean coal doesnt truly exist yet. There are a few trial plants around, but nothing commercially viable. Note that the industry does confuse scrubbing with carbon capture when talking about "clean coal".
B. The energy requirements for carbon capture will be huge.

The simplest way is to use your coal beds as unconventional gas resources. Coal Seam gas is much better than coal, easier to collect, transport and use. Coal Seam gas is becoming the major target of producers around the globe. Both Australia and the US are putting alot behind it, and that would be the direct reason for the reduction in coal use.

The Sony Viao Z-series laptops have just been announced and include a light-peak connected dock. Its only a couple of weeks away - so Apple wont be the only one with Thunderbolt.

Despite having "excellent" karma, I haven't been given mod points in over a couple of years. So its not me...

Reading the comments, and my own experience, it seems that everyone gets 20.21 bogomips regardless of the hardware software combo. Using his tcc to compile a reasonably simple and portable version of bogomips, (from http://djwong.org/programs/bogomips/) I get a very reasonable value of 1.96 on my Firefox 4 running on a Pentium 4 3.0Ghz. (Note that some edits are required to get it to compile with tcc)

Because Australia has had a long standing policy of limiting uranium mines to a total number of 3, there has been very little exploration for uranium deposits. Hence, even the known concentrations of uranium in Australia are largely unexplored. As the 3 mine policy has been scrapped, uranium exploration has begun again, and new deposits are being found in large numbers. The Australian Uranium reserves are vastly understated.

Dont believe it. In Australia, you can be booked for DUI on any vehicle. There have been some famous cases over the years including bikes, horses and skateboards.

Yes, we've been evaulating the OCZ Cards - and they are much slower in real life then the benchmarks suggest. Note that the FusionIO has a FusionIO Duo - which pulls 1.5GBytes a sec. This seems to be the holy grail of speed atm.

Australia lost most of its "quasi-professional" activists when it removed compulsory student unionism. Most of them were funded by the student unions, and without similar funding, the (typically jobless and usually student) activists have no money to get to the protests.

I use the "Don't you know who I am?" line with police...
When they reply, "Why the hell would I know who you are?"
I say, "Good!" and run like hell.

Ive had the exact opposite experience. I had an issue of crashing that I suspected was hardware on Sun gear. I registered a support issue with Sun (Oracle) and they suggested that it could be software, so also open a support request with RedHat, which I did.

Sun turned out to be borderline useless - even though it was a hardware issue, and the RedHat support was extremely helpful. The issue would have taken 5 times as long to solve without the RedHat support.
With my other support issues, they have always returned with straightforward and knowledgeable answers that are almost always exactly on the money.

He has a series of articles on the Popular Mechanics website. They are always a good read. He is very knowledgeable on historic cars - especially the unusual ones - with new ideas that never took off.