Because its pretty vague astrological type stuff, it can apply to anyone because it means almost nothing. You could map the lines to /. UID numbers almost as effectively.

You can have fun with that list by "correcting" it. For example I think the "burning fire" would be WAY better for pius 12 aka the WWII pope. You got trinity, hiroshima, nagasaki, a zillion conventional firebombings... but no, its applied to a guy who's mostly known for codifying canon law, and not that cannon either. Boring.

Or how about "Light in the sky" for sputnik / Apollo 11, instead you've got a guy who's era is mostly known WRT lights and sky for... well, nothing really.

I've probably already put more work into it that it deserves...

I'm no religion nerd, but my understanding is the infallibility is vested in the job position not the person.

There's a lot of BS and propaganda about the whole papal infallibility thing... you have to realize the cardinals and pope have spent centuries fighting over who's really in charge, and by fighting I mean literally to the death by sword and poison. So "recently" a strongman (relatively...) gets in power and as a weapon he declares he's the boss and everyone else aka his opponents (the cardinals) are his underlings. Frankly not all that exciting. When even a guy like me sees it as a pretty simple political play as opposed to religious mythology, using the political play to make fun of the catholics just isn't funny anymore. I would not be surprised if when the cardinals gain supremacy they put a guy in who reverses that declaration and makes the college of cardinals infallible as the leaders and declares the bishop of rome as merely first among equals... Its politics not theology. Or at most, theological politics.

There do exist religion nerds, just like sports nerds, tv nerds, drama (theatrical) nerds, music nerds. I've already seen them coming out of the woodwork in MSM articles about how this crisis was handled in 1084 and the biography of his previous namesake and what amounts to jailhouse lawyering about the election process, blah blah blah.

Last time around we had a irreverent time comparing the current pope to a variety of sci fi figures and tropes based on everything from trivial physical appearance, to behavior. Emperor Palpatine, etc. I'm sure we'll have plenty of fun here when the next political leader wins, doing about the same thing as last time. The tech aspect is keeping the comparisons "sci fi". In comparison, making jokes about Hillary getting selected would not be "sci fi" or "tech".

I'm having serious difficulty thinking of a famous living catholic IN TECH who could theoretically become pope. At least one probably exists? Technically all they need to be is baptized, although for the last couple centuries they've all been cardinals, which kinda cuts down on the possible selections from a billion or so down to about 20. A pity, I'd like to see a Catholic evolutionary biologist get selected, and then watch the teabillies squirm.

I think this is unintentionally very funny because the domain name is his name, which is presumably his property. Now if he was trying to steal "campaignforliberty.com" that would be an interesting argument assuming they weren't just domain squatters who registered well after the PR campaign started.

If there is a lesson, don't start up a 3rd party site with a name consisting of nothing but the 1st party name. Even "unofficialsupportforronpaul.com" would have been more morally justifiable than just taking the dude's name and slapping a dotcom on the end.

Yes but this story is not so much race as class. Throw all the blue collar citizens out so foreigners can get their jobs for cheaper? Cool sounds great, after all, they can ALL retrain into tech jobs, right? Do the same to the white collar people and the white collar journalists start whining, mostly. Then you get the stockholm syndrome types where if the blue collar job market has been destroyed then the american thing to do is destroy the white collar job market too.

This "story" is a class story not a race story.

Disagree. Back when I used my first 300 baud modem around 1981ish I had no problem thinking about "looking at still pictures" or "hearing sound" or, although it seemed kinda far out, sound and live video. Easily imagined, this stuff was all over sci-fi books and movies however unrealistic/magical it appeared at the time. Now its here.

But what can be imagined that anyone wants that takes bandwidth beyond high res 3-d surround sound video? Touchy-feely stuff is actually pretty low bandwidth. Smell and taste, aside from "do not want" is ultra low BW. We're running outta senses here...

I guess if executables were grotesquely larger, like if "web pages" were actually executables.. we tried that, called it "flash" it sucked and is dying off and never used as much bandwidth as pictures or worst case cruddy quality video.

You seem to have a very optimistic view of tower cost / rental.

For a good laugh talk to the ham radio guys about what a decent 150 foot tower would cost in total, not just the tower but the installation, base, guying, etc.

Now don't get fooled by people who don't know what they're doin... all that "a section of Rohn45G is $300 delivered, so 15 of em is only $4500 ... well you're forgetting that 45G is "ham grade" and can only self support to 40 feet or so... You want something 150 foot rated (and here we need icing high wind rated not that "60 mph no ice" BS that some towers are advertised at). On the good side I assure you a decent installed tower will always be cheaper than a similar height mini-skyscraper, so figure a small 15 story building would be a couple million bucks installed, I assure you a 150 foot tower will be substantially less.

Its interesting in ham radio how the "1500 watt limit" has gotten much closer to affordable over the generations but the "less than 200 feet AGL and the FAA doesn't (usually) care" limit is just as unaffordable today as it was when I was a kid.

As for rental vs buying, realize you've now got two middlemen who want to make a fat profit, the tower operator AND the bank who made the loan. On the other hand the financial advantages of sharing the cost are huge, so pretty much either you're renting to someone or you're renting from someone else.

Also unless you're in supersprawl forget a municipality demanding free wifi for a tower permit. All our city public service is on the county trunk system and via the luck of the draw there are no county system trunk towers in my city (about 4 surrounding it, sure...) so you can't force public access for a city as a permit issue or you'll just end up in another city or having to force county wide public access etc. Of course out east some counties (and some states) are smaller than our cities making it even more complicated.

Thats the funny part, is the average drone thinks TV comes out of a $100/month satellite dish or coaxial cable, but there's a large fraction of the population that thinks they're smarter than the average bear because they know they can connect an antenna and actually get free over the air HDTV from the major (and many minor) networks. Then you add the crowd that thinks they're 'leet because they read a gawker article online about somebody making a pringles can wifi antenna... Combine the two and you get proles thinking if they stick a bigger antenna on their wifi and the govt gets out of its own way, they'll surely get "free internet".

Its fun to mashup this interpretation vs public parks and public libraries. This brings up the next issue that where I live the parks and library are really nice places to visit, but areas run by some other subcultures turn into dumps you'd never dare to visit. I could imagine areas where the wifi actually works vs areas mostly populated with MITM attack systems.

One interesting contrast is a commons has no theoretical demand limit... If I make $200 annual profit off each cow, there's no reason to limit myself to 100, 1000 or even 1e6 of my cows on the commons. However with current technology its not possible for a person to use more than a couple dozen megs for a uncompressed 3D hdtv stream. On average, most will use dramatically less. So its pretty trivial to set a very hard upper budget limit for wifi on what it'll cost per person served. The public park analogy is I'd have a hard time using more than a couple sq feet on a picnic blanket, most people don't use the parks they just want to live in a place that has nice parks, and by paying in bulk its not terribly difficult to provide 1e6 sq feet for 1e5 citizens, that's only 22 acres which is about 5% the total acreage of our local city parks.

It was a meta joke where OP was lying about the public not liking being lied to, to make the humorous point that the public likes it.
I LOLed at both the post and your response that missed the point, but it would have been much funnier if OP merely cut and pasted some historian or philosopher writing about the same subject, seeing as that was the whole point of the story.
Something like "It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles." other than Machiavelli probably could never have predicted he'd be quoted WRT a chick (formerly) with a PHD.

Churchills "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." would be a hilarious companion to the verbiage about "stripping" this woman.

Now back to work, all of us, as Stevenson said "On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died. "

Probably means it comes with the vnc (and/or tightvnc and/or rdesktop) client installed, whereas on my phone and tablet(s) I had to install it.

I find the idea of a "tech phone" with useful preinstalled stuff instead of crapware to be an intriguing idea. No angrybirds or facebook in rom, but gimmie a VNC / rdesktop / ssh client (preferably one that isn't harvesting logins and phoning home with them to the telco mothership). You could carry this to comic extremes like stereotypical techie background and theme instead of the blah they push to the masses.

Google search for "That's a sweeping and unfair generalization." shows 14 results... Looks like you've got some explaining to do, Mr "I don't use footnotes", or you're about to be stripped of your second post achievement.

Now I'm doing it right, put my post in quotes and google for it and "did not match any documents" is the result.

LOL this is a firmware bug, you can lock up the hardware even with no OS booted. Hilarious.

Yeah I love being told to reinstall windows on my linux boxes. Those guys sure are helpful !

As seen on zerohedge, cut another 7 days service per week and they're outta the red!