You're right. Not many people know that he is actually a recipient of the Grace Murray Hopper Award, which is usually considered the younger cousin of the Turing Award.
http://awards.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=9380313&srt=all&aw=145&ao=GMHOPPER&yr=1990

Wonder why I never thought of that! This should put to rest one of the main counter-arguments against renewables. 'But solar will never be competitive if there wasn't any subsidies...'

Now this makes me wonder how much I'd be paying for my gas without these hidden subsidies. Europe pays a lot more per gallon, between 2-3 times, and most every other country, except the producers, pays more.

The Romans couldn't even conquer Persia, let alone the 10000 feet above sea level Afghanisthan where their animals would've had a hard time. The easternmost the Romans got to was Parthia (Mesopotamia, now Iraq) after much trouble.

How about how much money is present in the geography studied? And also about one's relative wealth: 'keeping up with the Joneses'. And the amount of average debt of people in the location? I'd imagine that these two factors definitely play a leading role in people's mood!

who are these 'inner circle' of administrators? how do they get paid? and who pays them? Fannie Mae? Freddie Mac?

i don't care about jimmy wales' sex life, but how about his financial life?