agreed.
Except for forward time travel which is awesome.
(cryogenics, long close-to-lightspeed voyages and whatnot)

you don't find the video evidence compelling? ...we all saw the delorean disappear...

well, the fact that you need to reach 88mph suggests that whatever mechanism is being used for this time travel is somehow intrinsically linked to the earth's gravitational field.
We know that there is a relationship between space-time and gravity so it is fairly reasonable to presume that gravity fields might be a significant factor in a time travel device's operation... it would also explain the 'spatial problem' of the earth being in a different location at different times. If the nearest significant gravitational space-time distortion is a kind of axis around which a device could swing through time....
I mean... something has to be the base spatial reference... since there is no universal spatial reference point it makes a lot sense to use the closest gravity well.

*sigh*
It *is* a very reasonable point that he is making.
The growing significance of virtual domains and the significance of the relationships we develop there is a big and growing issue.
It is something we should be thinking about if we want to help shape our future instead of simply going with the flow.

Sadly I doubt the slashdot crowd will be able to get over the ridiculousness of the pope saying this.

given what I'm reading here about his wife I think he should be concerned about what she's up to if she is abroad.

we should care because it may fortify the ignorance of its users.
Too many ignorant or misinformed people in your society leads to all kinds of nasty things.

Hey, props to you for engaging for as long as you did.
I strongly disagree with you on the issue but stepping up and discussing it in an atheist stronghold like slashdot is commendable.

Catholicism.

bah, maybe marketing droids considered it high-definition.
DVD's 480 lines of resolution is the resolution of the black and white tv my parents bought when I was 5.

I give you a "B". Good effort but you may have taken it a little too far. /troll-on

You sir, are worse than Hitler.

Wow, a whole decade away? clearly out of reach of the next generation... wait, what?

Why would it be hard to connect the phone network?
You could for example use a phone line... or a voip service...
to receive and route calls TO mobile phone would be difficult or perhaps impossible but outbound calls would be trivially easy.