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Google Interested in Wireless Bandwidth Balloons

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the or-just-want-to-suck-on-helium dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Google is reportedly looking into investing in or buying a company called Space Data, which provides wireless voice and data services to remote areas with a fleet of weather balloons fitted with transceivers." My mind is sorta tripping over how something like this could work, but I gotta admit that the idea is really cool.

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  1. Sorry for the offtopic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    ...but it's for a good cause. You see, scientology has an orginization called OSA and some OSA people's job is to whitewash the internet:

    The OSA posters each have a Stat. The stats work
    something like this.

    +5 point for a an anti psych post
    +5 points for a post that slams the critics
    +5 points for a post that gets the C of S " line" in.
    +10 points for a response.

    Bonus Points

    +100 points for outing a critic
    +100 points for getting the critics fighting among themselves
    +500 points for getting a critic to stop posting

    Minus points

    -5 for degrading posts about LRH
    -10 for degrading posts about DM ( Davey is now more important than LRH)
    - 5 for degrading posts about the OT levels or mentioning the word Xenu.
    -25 for a newly posting critic.

    and the biggest of all?

    -400 points for an "attack" on upper management (oh, man the IRS thing must have them shitting their pants!!)

    The high holy stat week of Scientology is Thursday at 2am to Thursday at 2PM. Posts made on Thursday morning drive them nuckin futz, and posts made after 2pm Thursday starts their week off in the hole.

    Also, the reason I spell out the proper names of David Miscavige and L. Ron Hubbard at least once in a post is so that they will be counted. Nicknames for these con-men are often entertaining and fun, but they don't count against OSA stats unless you say exactly WHO you are talking about.



    So. OH HAI GUISE I'm a new critic for scientology and I think hubbard was a fraud who lied about everything in his life, David Miscavige is scam artist and liar, OSA is a criminal orginization, Scientology is a crazy UFO cult with the Xenu story, and thier tax status should be revoked.

    Posting anonymously for obvious reasons, (since the orginization is criminal), and again sorry for the off topic, and please copypasta or mod up for great justice.
  2. SEX wiTH A COCK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    S5ANCTIONS, AND say I'm packing out how to make the