I don't think the gp has seen the conditions those astronomers have to work in - it can be bloody cold and the lack of oxygen at those altitudes (Chile anyway) can be downright dangerous as it can impair your mind.

If there was a conspiracy surely they'd be building telescopes by at sea level close to bars and strip clubs.

As an atheist I would prefer to see the advancement of mankind. As a Christian, my father sees graves as a mere shell - it slightly surprised me when he told me th that, but in hindsight I shouldn't have been.

The concept of sacred ground is simply something I don't understand.

It's sure as hell better than the [absolute minimum] 476ms round trip to GEO. Maybe that's what they're comparing their low latency to - existing satellite internet connections.

They're injecting the dog meat? That's horrific, I thought they were only eating it.

Simple - put neon tubes everywhere and starve the loons out of town.

I'm guessing it's the stickers or paint on the actual equipment causing the problems, seeing as it's all probably the same Ericsson or Huawei kit.

I was going to suggest that the more sensible option would be to get rid of the woman as she was faking sickness to get days off - especially if the "sickness" goes when the light is off - but then she would probably have sued because just because it's psychosomatic it doesn't mean she's actually sick.

In glorious 2160 X 2160 - check out that pixely goodness.

You pay to receive calls?

I've looked at doing that for home (not RPi), the only problem was that I couldn't find what POTS hardware to use with Asterisk. What would you use, unless of course you'll be using a SIP trunk.

There's every need if the mail originated from the ISP. The OP said nothing about from address - the hops recorded in the headers may have been an indication. They're something I regularly check when I get spam sent to an account where the address is rarely used.

He may not say it, but the implication is there - don't have any fun.

No, it's not as black and white. But the fact is that the the church banned books on Copernican theory in 1616, 16 years before "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems" was published and the pope cast as Simplicio.

Well, there's the Bible - the people who originally wrote it existed on the material plane. They also needed faith to believe that the stories (or in several cases voices in their heads) were real. Therefore faith has had to intrude on the material plane, if it didn't we'd have no knowledge of it.

Probably because in the past (and present), religion has deemed to weigh in on scientific arguments. I hate to bring up the cliche that is Galileo, but as foolish as he was, he (and others) had their scientific writings banned by the Catholic church.

Granted, it's not great detail, but they do claim to understand why god did things - generally it's because he's angry with his creation for not behaving the way he knew they wouldn't.

Talking serpent, great flood...

Personally, it's not the faith in a supernatural being that I find bewildering, it's the faith that said omniscient being is good and that it didn't create humanity for the sole purpose of trolling them. Read the bible without the view that god is good and you realise it describes us being set up to fail from the get go.

What a superb way of doing business. Reminds me of a speaker at a business conference in the 80s who got a standing ovation. He described how he increased company revenue by refusing to pay his creditors until they went out of business. For some reason those lauding him didn't seem to think that the same thing could happen to them.

Any small businesses we've dealt with recently have refused to take cheques - probably for that exact reason.