Yes. I knew how you calculated it. You're just confused about what you're calculating.

"City 2 - 33.3% + 16.6%" -- note that the load on City 2 just increased 50%. If it were making 33 widgets and had to make another 16 widgets, it's now making 50% more widgets.

To be more explicit, each city in your analysis is taking up 16.6% extra of the total load, which means that each city is individually seeing a 50% increase in its own load.

With say 3 cities, a one-city outage only accounted for a 16.6% increase in the other two.

You're mistaken. Each of the other two cities would see their load increase 50%.

I've been waiting for this story. It changed to Bing for me for IE 8 and Firefox on my Vista laptop a couple of weeks ago. I was rather surprised, to say the least. At the time I believed that the cause was the Windows Live Messenger I had installed recently. I don't run any toolbars.

I had to go into about:config to fix things.

Typing in the words "Atkins heart attack" into Google too hard for you, and I need to do it for you, huh? Here's some pics of Atkins 2 months before he had the fall that put him into a coma: Photos. Sorry, but if that man was 260 pounds when he died, it was water weight gained during the coma, just like the family says. The man looks healthy in those photographs.

Now, go away from the internet, please.

Debunking your idiocy about Atkins would take you 5 minutes on Google. It's 180 degrees from fact. More puzzling to me is figuring out exactly what is wrong with your reasoning process to think that the your garbage might be relevant, even if true. As your teachers no doubt despaired of telling you, "the plural of anecdote is not data."

But is Pollan correct? Yes, the Japanese do great on complex carbohydrates combined with low-calorie intakes. If you're interested in some of the most exhaustive research I've ever seen on the subject, I'd recommend taking a look at Gary Taubes.

Until then, I'd suggest that you probably can't go wrong eating what your ancestors evolved to eat as big-game hunter-gathers -- high-fat diets supplemented with green vegetables to some degree.

And then we could live with all the health consequences of high-carbohydrate diets. Which, if we take American's obesity trends after the move towards higher-carbohydrate diets since the 1970s, cost a damn sight more than global warming ever could.

To be fair, that's a 4-unit plant. So a lot more power than 1 GW. And, as I pointed out, we've already proven that they can be built for a much more reasonable price.

I Googled for the name of the corporation and project until I found an article stating that they were spending $80 million on it. I think it was the BBC, but I don't remember.

A nuclear power plant generates about 1000 times as much power as this thing and costs only about 10 times as much (although some built in the 1970s cost only about twice as much).

What are you talking about? The Zune UI is great. And the Zune Windows software (since version 3.0) blows that crap called iTunes out of the water. I die a little inside every time I launch iTunes to sync with my iPhone.

Have you really used a Zune?

The issue that we have to deal with isn't password-guessing so much. It's stupid users responding to emails asking for their passwords. All it takes is for the spammers to ask nicely, and two or three professors immediately give out their password.

Read the statutes. Making an unauthorized copy is a copyright violation. Possessing one is not mentioned. Which makes sense, since until recently, the statutes were written with publishers in mind, not the little man.

Downloading copyrighted material is not illegal. Uploading it is. Every person the RIAA has ever sued was doing uploading along with their downloading.

Oh fun. Everybody with a Twitter account, use the phrase "bleeding from my anus" in the next 10 minutes and see if you can't trigger a CDC Ebola alert.