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Broadband Barrage Balloons
alnya writes "BBC Online are reporting a story of a York-based company called SkyLinc who are floating baloons connected to a fibre optic pole which, they say, can deliver broadband access at "more than double the speed of most broadband services currently available" - whatever that means. Only 18 balloons would be necessarily to blow BT out the water (according to the article). Is this on the horizon?"
before this gets out of hand (there's already 3 or 4 references to pellet guns, bb guns, etc., and this one is modded up insightful), please rtfa and make your jokes reasonable.
or show me the pellet gun with a range of 1.5km.
you know, I can understand the jokesters trying to get in fast without reading the fine article, but why are the mods so anxious to mod something up as insightful, when they haven't taken the time to learn if it really is or not?
everything in moderation
We even like to make water flow uphill
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3046791.stm
Ahhh, flamebait and offtopic. No more offtopic than the parent post mind you, but then I'm the bad guy in this situation. ;) Aren't the moderators just so over-sensitive and pollitically correct? Pathetic. Sorry, but dumb comments masquerading as poor humour are a waste of space, and the fact that it was moderated up reflects poorly on the moderators and their intelligence. People need to engage their brains before writing such comments.
Now moderate away and knock this down to -1 too. What a bunch of cliquey geeks worrying about some dumb person's feelings!
Perhaps I choose to post at 1. Engage your brain. Just to help you, I unchecked the "No Karma Bonus" box for this reply.
The original concept of the Karma Bonus was to highlight good posts from good posters. Those posters were only expected to post at +1 if they had something worthwhile to say. Moderation was supposed to bring those people back down to earth and remove their +1 bonus if they abused it. Of course, it didn't work and everybody posts at +1 whether they should or not. I believe Signal 11 once did a test posting crap, and still managed to raise the karma level (in the days when it was reported correctly)... a glowing indictment of the moderation system.
Perhaps I give history too much credence and should just post at +1?
A bolt-action 30-06, or even an autoloading 30-06 is NOT a controlled item in the US. I don't know where you are getting your information, but you might try actually doing some research.
The only thing "controlled" about a 30-06 is that if you are buying one from a dealer the dealer will have to fill in the appropriate forms.
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99 dreams I have had
In every one a red balloon
It's all over and I'm standin' pretty
In this dust that was a city
If I could find a souvenier
Just to prove the world was here...
And here is a red balloon
I think of you and let it go
Gruß,
Brief