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Comment: Re:Pretty Terrible Story (Score 3, Insightful) 430

by bledri (#37722156) Attached to: US Bishop Charged For Not Reporting Priest's Child Porn To Police

If only it were so benign. It's actually a case of sabotage and infiltration of the Church by Satanists and Freemasons. ...

Are you implying that the child molesters are not "real Catholic Priests," but rather Satanists and Freemasons that have specifically infiltrated the church? Seems a bit unlikely. A more likely explanation is that it's not "normal" for an 18 year-old male to choose a life of celibacy and some of the people that do so may actually have issues with their sexual impulses and may decide that serving God and abstaining from sex completely might be best. Until one day, they don't control the urges and then the church covers it up because we can't have people realizing that priests are just fallible people and not some sort of magical God conduit.

The Church will heal only once it acknowledges ...

... that it's all based on the writings and traditions of humans, not the divine word of God.

Comment: Re:Crap comments :( (Score 1) 392

by bledri (#37614862) Attached to: News From Apple's iPhone Event

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Vlingo Plus Personal Assistant for iOS, Android, and Blackberry.

Interesting, I didn't know about Vlingo (or Siri) before the Apple announcement. Vlingo looks pretty powerful, as I haven't used either I can't compare them. I think Apple including this as a standard part of the phone's functionality out of the box is a big deal. Maybe Google will more tightly integrate Google Voice into Android itself, or maybe they'll buy Vlingo to counter Apple's purchase and integration of Siri.

Comment: Re:Crap comments :( (Score 2) 392

by bledri (#37606322) Attached to: News From Apple's iPhone Event

The only comments I've seen regarding Siri claim that Android has had it for 2 years now. If they are talking about about voice recognition to dial numbers and play songs, then Apple has had that for years as well. If Android has had conversational, contextual voice recognition that seamlessly integrates all the core apps plus external information sources allowing the user to speak naturally, then a lot of marketing dweebs in several companies should be fired because I've never heard of it.

Anyway, I can't wait to see how Siri works in the real world. If it works even half as well as the demo, it seems like a big deal to me. As in "killer app" big. Truthfully I was confused by the audience's staid reaction, I don't think understood how awesome the potential of it is.

Yeah, I sound like a fanboy.

Comment: Re:It had nothing to do with the pilot's age... (Score 1) 338

by bledri (#37434770) Attached to: James Gosling Report of Reno Air Crash

I'm sorry, but racing those kinds of planes at those speeds with the G forces involved is not something to be done by a 80 or a 74 year old so getting his exact age right is a bit pointless. This is not a sedate, formulaic air display he was taking part in and you need to be exceptionally fit with reaction times as good as you can have. There is every likelihood that he could have passed out as a result of the forces involved during the problem.

All evidence is that there was a mechanical failure [1] which subjected the pilot to in excess of 10 Gs. A 16 year old would pass out if subjected to 10 Gs.

[1] The elevator trim tab ripped off while the plane was flying at around 500 miles an hour causing the plane to pitch suddenly.

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