(For a while, I even speculated that the network's habit of saying "National Football League" instead of "N.F.L". might be a way of lengthening any segment about said league).
So while Robert Scoble speculates that FriendFeed is the big winner when Twitter goes down, and Dave Winer hacks together contingency plans for the next outage that remind me of stockpiling candles and bottled water for the next big storm, I just shake my head at how wonderfully we've all been had.
Based on the New Orleans experience, I would speculate that while generators had been moved up, key elements that allow electricity to flow through the system remained at flood level.
For a while, pundits speculated that this crusade might become the long-sought national idea.
For a while, many speculated that the war would also tame Mr. Bush's instinct to go it alone, that over time it would make him better attuned to the resentments bred by America's size and its economic reach.
For a while we speculated that a crocodile was beneath the surface, holding him in place, waiting for exhaustion to set in before dragging it below.
Some believe he may have committed suicide, while others speculate that he was murdered by coal industrialists.
Some analysts say they think he has no liquid assets left while others speculate that he may have put money away.
While we speculate that the steady increase observed in PaO2 without a marked change in alveolar stability at PEEP levels of >9 cmH2O was likely due to increased alveolar recruitment, this recruitment was not confirmed by direct measurement.
While many speculate that security is a sound reason for the shift, ultimately, apps like snapchat with their recent release are building in versions that actually reverse the tide in the ability to save off the media.
While some speculate that the Cubans know more than they are saying, there is no evidence linking these attacks to the Cuban government and no definitive acoustical or other technological explanation.
