Marco's Blog

For anyone who has any doubts about the merits of considering politics in terms of game theory should look at the debt ceiling negotiations....

One thing that tends to characterise hung parliaments or even non-traditional coalitions in most countries is their ability to only pass pop...

Since my goal is not really to try to convince people of my point of view as much as measure it against my own logic, I think it is time to ...

Amartya Sen did a lot of research on the causes of famine and the gist of the conclusions was that lack of food was not a factor at all, and...

As the following article, Solar Scam Article , PV solar schemes can easily burn through hundreds of millions of dollars before anyone even n...

I started thinking about this entry ages ago when I had an epiphany and I felt that it could be proven that a speed/price/throughput advanta...

(re Dick Smith's opinion that Australians should be limited, Chinese style, to two children) Dick smith has got a point. If we want to l...

"They think we should wait for some science fiction fantasy to jump out from behind a bush, (but) we've got an offer on the table, ...

It appears that the quickest way to enforce a no fly zone and to "protect civilians" in Lybia is to kill the leader and to destroy...

I have been meaning to say something about the Arab uprising thing - My spin was that it is exciting and unpredictable, and that the "d...

I don't really want to offer a counter anecdote at this stage, because there is something more fundamental about the NBN plan than the s...

If you are not already convinced that wireless is the new future and that FTTP broadband is a white elephant you MUST read this . Not only w...

Having read the Economist Intelligence Unit's brief accessible summary on broadband plans compared among dozens of countries, it has bec...

Quite a few interesting points to make on the wash-up with regards to this monster cyclone. It is quite amazing how many people went into su...

The lack of a three day forecast track map for this system from the BOM seems to have confused everybody, especially since it is likely to c...

I fear that lessons from the Brisbane catchment flooding may not be heeded for the Murray Darling basin at the moment. The main thing I have...

Given the current flood on the Mary River I have two serious questions: 1: Would the Traveston Dam have been ableto mitigate this flood in ...

There is quite an eerie duality between the lakes of the "wild" west-flowing rivers (in general they flow to wards Lake Eyre) and ...

The ability for high level diplomats to say one thing *on the record* to each other, and say completely different things in public or to the...

From article ''I grew up in a Queensland country town, where people spoke their minds bluntly,'' he wrote. ''They di...