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  1. etson, the original news story did (and still does) say it was Steele. The RNC denies it, and subsequent stories attribute it to a staffer, not Steele. However, Steele’s expensive life style is well documented.

    benson: how predictable (again) to bring up Clinton. Why do conservatives always bring him up…his faults are hardly in the same league as all these Bible-thumping, family-values rightwingers who fall from grace like cherry blossoms in May.

  2. dh,

    there’s a cool movie that you might like which has a different take on the conscious supercomputer;
    Demon Seed

    the plot goes like this;
    A “Cray” like computer genius turns his house into a super computer.
    The super computer attains consciousness.
    The computer takes a liking to the scientist’s wife and decides to produce it’s own progeny.
    The ending is very interesting.

  3. Legion,

    Re Chavez, I agree with King Juan Carlos,

    Por que te no callas?

    He has run his economy into the ground and destroyed PDVSA
    and now nationalizing electricity companys — they are having blackouts now and rationing power. Middle class engineers have headed for the border. He is a complete disaster; when I see Joe Kennedy promoting PDVSA and Chavez with his heating oil program and Sean Penn kissing his ass, it makes me ill.

  4. “A petaflop means that it runs 10^16 calculations PER SECOND.

    At the conference I attended last week I heard a statement that the human brain performs this many calculations too.”

    That’s all hunky dory benson – until the machines become self aware and go all “terminator 2 – judgement day” on our asses

  5. Oooooooohhhhh- tech talk……so sexy! So who is buying me a supercomputer? I want an active optical cable. I want a Cray! I want…I want… oh yeah- I’ll need a new manse to house the whole thing. Cgar? I’m serious.

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