I'm not sure exactly why a non-fissile material with a half life this long is a "problem". By definition it's not.
Beside these are the burnup rates for Once-Through solid fuel cycles. In Uranium reactors this is only recommended if you are actively trying to create weapons material, and in Throium it simply doesn't work. Not sure what the relevance of these articles is.
They also wore more hats. Or the market was different, or they weren't dealing with labor shortages, or their predecessors set the stage differently, or inflation has increased 580% since 1970....
It's not possible to tease out the cause and effect.
Fortunately there is an easier way to figure it out; if the businesses are hiring idiots, at far to much money the easy way to tell they are doing it is their stock price will plummet and they will go out of business.
For what it's worth, I've personally met with 3 European angel funds in the past 2 weeks. One of which was actually government backed corporation (that had been given explicit permission to enter Israel)
Technorati reports 112M blogs, most are not super talented like PG or other top bloggers (OK essayists). I count my self in that category. So there's quite a few that would fit my target market.
I hadn't actually considered the option of having customers pay for quicker responses. It's an interesting idea. Once it's reached the stage where billing is integrated this would make an interesting layer.