It's only "more powerful than a million suns" if it's omnidirectional.

If, like a pulsar, it's NOT omnidirectional, then it's not necessarily so powerful.

Caveat: it's crossing 5.5 gigalightyears. It's still pretty damn powerful, even if it's not "more powerful than a million suns"....

However for many taking away power from powerfull people might feel as if it is taking away the American Dream where they can become one of those powerfull people.

And for some of us, taking power away from powerful people means either:

a) the only powerful people will be those in government, or

b) taking away power from the government, since they're far more powerful than the non-governmental powerful people.

Note that the more powerful any particular government is, the more worthwhile it is to bribe/buy that government to give you what you want. Which we see a lot of in the USA.

Note that usage of "floor/story count" for buildings varies from place to place.

As an example, in the USA, the ground floor counts, while in Europe only the floors/stories above ground floor count.

Don't know how they count such things in China, and don't know whether there were typos in TFA or /. summary, so further deponent sayeth not.

The correct translation is "I except the Silicon Valley companies to support us

You except that? Somehow, I expect that you're wrong to except that....

Perhaps 25% of women in STEM is fine, if 25% of them are interested in STEM fields and the 75% are in other areas, then that's perfect representation.

Umm, no.

If 25% of the PEOPLE who are interested in STEM are women, than 25% women in STEM is perfect representation.

Your analysis reduces to "there are 150 million women in the country. If 37 million of them are interested in STEM, then there is perfect representation. Never mind that there aren't 150 million STEM jobs for those 37 million women to take 25% of. Never mind that there aren't 113 million MEN interested in STEM...."

My father wasn't much of a drinking man (his father was an alcoholic), but you've essentially described Dad's solution to teaching us kids not to drink - let them try it.

Far as I know, it worked for all of us. My little brother is the hardest drinker of us, and his idea of "heavy drinking" is three beers in the same day.

I remember back in the day playing miles from home in the hills up past the artillery range.

I also remember breaking my arm on such a trip, and having to push my bike home one-handed.

Not something I think Maryland CPS would have approved of, I suspect.

As a kid the saying is "Do you want a metal or a cookie"

MEDAL or cookie. Not metal. What do they teach kids in school these days?

Sure, but what businesses are so dumb that they will share their internal communications with another company?

Pretty much all of the ones that use that new-fangled telephone. Of course, back in the days when the telegraph was the thing, well, pretty much all of them used that too.

And the USPS does, in fact, have a pretty solid metadata look inside most businesses, since they know the destination of pretty much every package and letter sent or received in the USA.

Note that teleconferencing sans Facebook still means the entire datastream is going over wires owned by, well, another business, who can look, or not, at their discretion.....

In other words, the only thing new here is the Facebook logo....

i imagine if you did this in the usa you'd get sued for using spectrums you don't own. does anyone care in mexico?

In point of fact, the company that sold this town its base-station has legal rights to the spectrum they're selling, granted by the Mexican government.

What "more robust competition" is this?

What he's proposing is ALLOWING cities to build municipal broadband networks. He's not requiring it, and he's not paying for it.

So, maybe, a city decides to build such a thing. They're going to let a contract to...a broadband company to build it, then the broadband company is going to sell it. Sort of like now, with either the city taking an extra cut of the profits, or the city raising taxes to pay for it.

Main reason for lack of competition is the cost. That cost isn't going away with this plan....

Alternatively this will only be accessible to the Rupert Murdoch's of this world...

No alternative necessary. You are entirely correct; this is exactly how it will turn out.

Y'know, back in the day, they said that about cars, planes, computers, pretty much every new thing.

Funny how that turned out....

every loan idiot

Lone. I take it you were setting yourself up as an example?

First and foremost the nature of real sentience is free will. If it doesn't have free will, it's not a real AI.

This statement seems to imply that YOU have "free will". Can you prove that? Can you even demonstrate it, much less prove it?

Given that you can prove that you have "free will", you can, presumably also prove that any other species of animal/plant has "free will". So, which ones do? and why? And why don't the others?