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Comment Re:Fake News (Score 3, Informative) 59

It sounds like you need to pay someone a lot of money for that.

Not really. It requires a pneumatic tool, but that's smaller and easier than lugging a pole, and faster too. All of the internet providers here shoot fiber cables like that, especially in areas of the cities with protected buildings and roads. And pole installation in those places is a big no-no, so they all just use pneumatics everywhere, as they already have the tools. And because of competition, prices are quite low, and installers only have to take the certification once.

Comment Re:I think we have other things to worry about (Score 2) 51

Long before then Earth will become uninhabitable.

Actually Earth will not exist at all by then. In about 5-6 billion years our sun will run out of Hydrogen fuel, and will turn into a red giant, which will make Earth barren and without life. After another billion years in that state the sun will shrink, only to ignite massive amounts of Helium, and grow even larger in size than before, swallowing Earth. Finally it will shrink to a white dwarf star, and will still be cooling down when the galaxy crash may or may not happen in 10 billion years.

...all this assuming us humans don't blow up the planet long before then.

Comment Re:Mafia (Score 1) 181

Haters just gotta hate, no matter what reality is.

I hate child molestation, and the reality is that The Vatican protects child molesters.

I bow down to your first hand knowledge of this,

Comment Re:Mafia (Score 1) 181

When he was pope he met with and officially apologized to many victims.

While still protecting the creation of more victims, and preventing justice from being done by protecting the identities of child rapists. The nonces' best friend apologizing to their victims is a perfect symbol of all that the Catholics stand for.

Haters just gotta hate, no matter what reality is.

Comment Re:Mafia (Score 2) 181

When he was pope he met with and officially apologized to many victims. Interpret that, and the laws the cardinals passed.
If even one guy was banished for such a transgression, it's worth it.

Comment Re:Mafia (Score 1) 181

How many priest have had these 'severe consequences'

it's all about protected the Vatican not the children.

Even if that is just one, then the new laws are successful. For nine years now, offenders would be thrown out of the church, after a due process investigation.

Comment Re:Mafia (Score 2) 181

Another pedophile protector will be elected soon.

Actually he did a lot of work to put frameworks in place, that it has severe consequences for clergy who do that kind of thing.

Comment Re:The best pope yet. (Score 2) 181

I also was a bit pessimistic coming into the comments, fearing snarky remarks, but was also positively surprised. He abandoned much of the opulence other popes would make use of, like a penthouse apartment and a new Mercedes, instead living in guest accommodation, and driving an old Fiat. I'm not Catholic, barely even a Christian, but I have a lot of respect for the man, and what he wanted to do, in face of resistance from many of his cardinals.

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