As fascinating as it is scientifically, we've got blood transfusions more or less figured out. I'm curious if they'll figure out how to do the reverse, blood to skin. Right now, skin grafts are a rather painful processes, and it's hard to get enough skin for them. Going the other way seems like it would be much more useful.

If they were only rolling out a 1 milibit per second connection, I doubt it would be good for much of anything. That's 56 million times slower than an old 56k modem. A 1 Mbs (megabit per second) would be better, but still slow, and a 1 MBs would be an even better. If the plan really was for a 1 mbs connection we lost nothing by having the FCC shut it down. Or maybe someone just needs to pay more attention to their prefixes.

Right, unlike Dell, HP, Lenovo Lenovo, Acer (Acer . . . .

Does anyone have a citation for an actual peer-reviewed article on this? Because I'm not particularly inclined to believe this random article from somewhere just on its own . . . and it doesn't seem to include a citation to anything.

Precision != Accuracy

You can be very precise in your measurement and your measurement can still be very wrong.

For example, if I had an extremely precise height measuring system (a super ruler) and I measured my height to be 82.23535cm, and later found out that I had mis-calibrated the system and my height was actually 182.23535cm . . . well, my previous measurement was still very precise. However, it was not accurate. That's the difference.

So, the conclusion is that no matter how good your instruments and observational techniques, if your calibration is wrong, or if you interpret the data wrong, you get very precise inaccurate numbers.

Gets better mileage?

You need to look into that. The prius gets ~45mpg in the city (fueleconomy.gov has it rated as 48mpg city and 45mpg highway). I won't dispute your other claims, since I haven't driven a civic or a fit (or a prius for that matter), but the mileage certainly favors the prius (and insights get even better mileage than Priuses. My little insight gets 50-55mpg around town) . . .