@VeLAWLceraptor: Don't know about you, but I grew up in the south west (just south of the Rockies). I went to college there in a town established in the early 1600s.

@FrankN.Stein: I don't just mean I'm in the same state. I'm less than 2 hours drive from the site.

@cyr3n: I'm guessing the 30th is a sort of baseline. Degrees of freedom, and all that.

@euterpe35: Nope. It looks like they converted each character to a number and then each word to a string of numbers. From there "something happens" (involving Bayesian inference) and then the text is deciphered.

Congrats, you've just been hired by the NSA.

@FrankN.Stein: It is planned 'near my backyard'. The entire state of Nevada should be for Yucca Mountain. As it is, Nevada's economy depends solely upon gambling and tourist revenues. Nevada needs to diversify and I'm far from the only person with that belief.

That's a pretty good college guide.

I thought it was just going to spell out the words. Now that'd be hilarious.

@Nitesh Singh: The more units a company produces, presumably, the further along the technological 'curve' they are compared to competitors.

@Sam: Talk about decade-old news.

@VeLAWLceraptor: All the Apple Stores do all day is sell Macs. Location, location, location :P

Market share meaning 8.8% of the computers sold the first quarter of 2010 were Macintoshes?

@1Grand_Marquis: Wow, yeah, that discussion got off topic really fast. Thank you for pointing that out.

@Atrum: Paradoxically, the pundits have "pondered" "just nuking it".

@Lacara: The reason you wouldn't rocket it off is you don't want nuclear waste rainfall setting off WWIII.

@The_Geb: If the bulls**t those executives spew was corporeal we would have fixed this problem on day one.

@Smeagol92055: I love how people use 'nukes' as a cure-all. Some of the same people would fight tooth and nail against building a nuclear power plant. (I'm not saying that you would.) Don't even get me started on what they'd do to fight a nuclear waste repository.

Just once, I want to hear how this supports the hypothesis that nuclear energy is more dangerous than fossil fuels. Just once. From a reputable source.

@tineras: Doesn't it, though?

You have interesting data. The income, age, and number of messages received graphs are really telling. Your use of red and blue together in your graphs confuses the eye.