I'm more worried about the injury and fatality rates, rather than the cost of the accidents.

I remember reading about a similar study about somewhere in Canada (sorry - don't remember the details) that said that while rear-end crashes were up (because of people hitting their brakes hard to avoid going through the intersection), the number of "T-bone" or right-angle crashes was down (because of less people going through on an "early red"). This study noted that the number of accidents didn't change much, but that injuries and fatalities were way down, because the T-bone accidents tend to be more dangerous.

The article quoted in the summary does mention that right-angle crashes are down in this report as well, but doesn't address injuries or fatalities.

I much prefer William Shatner's "Eat, Fry, Love" at http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=EYkRF_FmD40&feature=endscreen

From his excitement in receiving his turkey fryer, to his pain in having to say goodbye to it at the end - you can see the emotion he brings to the part.

This "basketball" game - what console is it on?

Well, I believe the Kinect has a microphone. Perhaps it will KNOW by looking for certain ... vocalizations.

and how much thinner is this new version?

... how many apps does it have?

I learned that if you have a team of people (students and teachers) all working together to produce a program, then it's possible you may actually create something so large that you're machine might actually require an expansion to 64K of RAM, rather than the default 16K.

I also learned that saving your program to a floppy is way more convenient than saving it on a regular cassette tape.

Of course, back in 1982 or so, our entire high school only had one Apple II.

Actually, I believe the name "Becquerelium" is to honour the famed assistant of Dr. Bunsen Honeydew.

If the US already believes corporations should have free speech, why not computers?

If I recall, Schmeiser lost because the court didn't believe him.

I'm from that area of Saskatchewan. The farmers I talked to privately admitted that they didn't believe Schmeiser either.

I don't know rt.com, but it seems to tend toward the sensationalistic side.

For example, my 1 minute of browsing the site took me to the story "FBI might shutdown the internet on March 8", ( http://rt.com/usa/news/fbi-internet-server-servers-409/)

Maybe we should all be more worried about the internet disappearing than Monsanto's evil deeds.

If I had a voice in this, I'd vote for Stephen Hawking and Bill Nye.

Wait, do they have to be alive? If not, I'd vote for Einstein and Newton!

If anything, I would think that granting a higher percentage of patents is a sign of lower quality.

But then again, I also don't see more patents as a rise in the "knowledge economy" or globalization lead by innovation.

I'd recommend taking the tour of the first nuclear reactor to provide power for public use, "Experimental Breeder Reactor number one" in Idaho.I toured it a couple of years ago, and it's one of the few places you can see an actual reactor core, containment vessel, or reactor control room, especially one of the first ones. Check out http://www.kmvt.com/news/local/122875114.html

I know that it has to be later in life, since I'm already 46, and I haven't even had mine yet.