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Help Buy a Satellite from a Bankrupt Telecom to Beam Free Web to the Developing World
Popular Science ^ | Thursday, December 2, 2010 | Clay Dillow

Posted on 12/05/2010 4:16:35 PM PST by SunkenCiv

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To: SunkenCiv

“Popular Science”? I remember glancing at that as a kid, when my dad would take me to the local barber for what was euphemistically called a “haircut”. Seemed like PS was about on a par with Grit Magazine in terms of credibility. You know, how to build your own flying car with iron shavings or your own working backyard nuclear reactor with Popsicle sticks, and the like.

Has anything changed since then (about “Popular Science”, I mean)?


21 posted on 12/05/2010 6:04:32 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Made from The Right Stuff!)
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To: SunkenCiv
Papua New Guinea - average IQ is 84. Does not bode so well for mastery of advanced Western technologies.

Let me know when this guy finishes his MCSE, and then we'll talk.


22 posted on 12/05/2010 6:12:38 PM PST by bornred
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To: SunkenCiv

More U.N. type bull crap.
The primitives have no clean drinking water, no access to food source, no overarching constitution, no private property or the right to own such, no written laws or the enforcement thereof, many can’t read or write, they await a U.N. handout like cargo cultists living in U.N. tent. They poop in a freshly dug hole every morning dying of diseases easily treated with common medicine.
The United Nations causes more destruction than it could possibly ever fix. They are to the world what liberals are to the United States.
United Nations says to the little brown boy, here Jamal chew on this laptop with a “Free Web Browser” instead of let’s go kill the dictator that is crushing you under his foot. To the U.N. good is evil and evil is good.


23 posted on 12/05/2010 6:31:33 PM PST by Doulos1 (Bitter Clinger Forever!)
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To: catnipman

Your memory is faulty.

What has changed is, the current editor is a partisan shill — besides the constant “green” and AGW hoax harping that they do now, there was an entire issue devoted to Al Gore. I won’t be renewing, which is too bad, my dad was also a subscriber, and it was always around when I was a kid.


24 posted on 12/05/2010 6:41:26 PM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: steve8714

Job one will be for their gov’t to require censoring software installed on every approved computer, and unapproved computers will be smashed with mallets.


25 posted on 12/05/2010 6:53:48 PM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: backwoods-engineer

/bingo


26 posted on 12/05/2010 7:26:16 PM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: JoeProBono

Thanks JPB!


27 posted on 12/05/2010 7:27:23 PM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: ReverendJames

Click the link up in the topic message, “Terrastar” or whatever, it’ll take you to a topic from the FRchives regarding the company which went under. The graphic was built by them to show the coverage they’d planned to offer.


28 posted on 12/05/2010 7:31:17 PM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: SunkenCiv
"What has changed is, the current editor is a partisan shill — besides the constant “green” and AGW hoax harping that they do now"

Just like practically all other magazines, including Consumer Reports and Science.

Probably just a coincidence that magazine sells are plummeting:

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/08/magazines-newsstand-sales-fall-91-percent/

http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2010/08/magazine-circulation-free-fall-slowing-a-bit.html

29 posted on 12/05/2010 7:59:22 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Made from The Right Stuff!)
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To: SunkenCiv

Is there enough fuel left on-board to move it to a new location?


30 posted on 12/05/2010 9:06:11 PM PST by ReverendJames (Only a lawyer and a painter can change black to white)
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31 posted on 12/06/2010 9:17:43 AM PST by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: ShadowAce

Without a steadfast policy regarding DNS servers stated publicly beforehand, it is exceedingly difficult to contemplate donating to such a cause.


32 posted on 12/06/2010 11:41:43 AM PST by JerseyHighlander (p.s. The word 'bloggers' is not in the freerepublic spellcheck dictionary?!)
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To: catnipman

:’)

Check out Renderofveils’s comment here, speaking of AGW:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2638160/posts?page=14#14


33 posted on 12/06/2010 8:58:14 PM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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