Still rumor and speculation. Let's just wait and see rather than speculate on this endlessly. Someday it will happen and then it will be news.

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You've got to be kidding.

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Significant.

Does the Living Earth Simulator contain the Living Earth Simulator?

Yes, you get recursion, until a stack overflow occurs.

Can it lead me to a major lottery win? If not, how useful is it to me?

Paul Allen has gone from being moderately useful to technology (a single unified Windows platform) to becoming an absolute pariah to the average user. If he just went away now quietly 99% of the world wouldn't miss him for a moment.

I just bought a 4-pack of BR30 form factor 65W light equivalent, 15W power consumption CFL bulbs to replace 75W halogen floods. Yeah they take a minute or so to ramp to full light output and they're not dim-able (no dimmer on this circuit). Their total price was $4.80, which included an energy company instant rebate. The light is nice and soft, the 4 of them take less power than just 1 of the previous bulbs, these lights are typically left on for a minimum of 15 minutes up to a couple of hours at a time, I air condition more than I heat in this climate, and the 4 bulbs total cost what a single halogen replacement would have set me back. Given the expected longer CFL lifetime as well, this was just an impossible deal to beat. I'd love an equivalent LED replacement someday, but seriously at this price how long before LEDs can compete with this?

At the same time they were selling a 4-pack of those bare 60W equivalent twisty CFL bulbs for $0.99 after energy company rebate. That's cheaper than 60W incandescent bulbs! This was at Costco last weekend.

Why just the Internet? What about if the FCC had been able to regulate the content of your telephone calls from the days of Alexander Graham Bell? Why not just let them regulate everything, since some people believe that more government and its intrusion and associated spending the the solution to Everything wrong in the world?

Don't forget the Black Box recording in modern cars that rat you out to police, insurance companies, and the car companies themselves on items that are none of their business such as how fast you drive, and how long before the collision it was that you braked. You certainly didn't knowingly agree to this in buying your last car, yet it's common for your opponents to be able to get this data after an accident, insurance claim, even a vehicle warranty issue. THIS SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED WITHOUT YOUR EXPLICIT CONSENT.

Ethanol has multiple problems. Three of the biggest are:

1: It's simply not economic. If it was there wouldn't be the need for subsidies or mandates to include it in fuel.

2: It's really stupid to burn food, which is what is happening here. Especially with other, lower cost, fuel alternatives remain available now and for at least the next couple of decades -- after which it's impossible to predict with any certainty what we'll be facing anyway. If you can make it efficiently out of non-food biomass this argument is mitigated somewhat, but we're not doing that yet.

3: It isn't that environmentally clean or carbon neutral when the entire process is considered.

because of Canadian law that mandates consumers to buy more renewable electricity regardless of cost.

One is really left to question, just who DOES elect this Canadian government?

So what does this have to say about the accuracy of the International Prototype Kilogram and its various copies?