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[00:48:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score:2) 02good deal - 06Valve Eats Crow, Backtracks on Steam Workshop Paid Mods - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:00] <exec> 08└─I, for one, think it's great that they listened to feedback from the users. Obviously, the system as released was broken, and they could have kept pushing it. I really think it's a great sign that they listened to users, examined the situation, and came to correct conclusion to retract and restudy i...
[00:48:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Mistakes are how you learn. - 06Valve Eats Crow, Backtracks on Steam Workshop Paid Mods - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:01] <exec> 08└─Relish them. Apologize when you screw up, learn everything you can and move on.
[00:48:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Two undiscussed points - 06Where the Islamic State Gets Its Weapons - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:48:16] <exec> 08└─clear path can be drawn from kosher certification to IS
[00:48:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fauxlosopher [4804] (Score:1) 02Re:Where it all went? - 06Where the Islamic State Gets Its Weapons - 928 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:48:20] <exec> 08└─Humans are smart. If entire "weapon systems" can be fabricated in caves [dailymail.co.uk] or in backyards [everydaynodaysoff.com], then having access to even "destroyed" war materiel will typically allow the de-milled materiel to be repurposed or repaired far more easily than starting from scratch....
[00:48:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:TL;DR - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:48:34] <exec> 08└─You're allowed to call a gross fucking bigot exactly that.
[00:48:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:TL;DR - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:48:39] <exec> 08└─The "bug" is that we aren't allowed to use Overrated or Underrated unless the comment has already been moderated, but Disagree does not change the score. It doesn't make sense to allow Overrated/Underrated if only Disagree has been used.
[00:48:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nerdfest [80] 02Freedom of Expression - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 352 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:48] <exec> 08└─These people seem to be of the school of thought that freedom of expression should only be for expressions that agree with. Secular satirization is not even *approaching* "hate speech" or whatever these writers think is happening. People need to get it through their heads that people are not require...
[00:48:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Freedom of Expression - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:48:57] <exec> 08└─> The only lesson we need to know here is they hold us to different standards that they hold themselves to. Who is 'they?'
[00:49:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Freedom of Expression - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:49:07] <exec> 08└─On the other extreme, there are people which think freedom of expression is the freedom to knowingly offend.
[00:49:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Freedom of Expression - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:49:08] <exec> 08└─That actually is part of it. I have the right to knowingly offend, and on occasion, when I think it's deserved, I will use it. Others have the same right. We do *not* have the right not to be offended.
[00:49:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Freedom of speech? - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:49:17] <exec> 08└─If this is not hate speech? I don't know what is.
[00:49:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Freedom of speech? - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:49:22] <exec> 08└─Oop! Another google-expert hoist by his own petard.
[00:49:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Freedom of speech? - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:49:23] <exec> 08└─Adding to that, an individual's right ends where the right of another begins.
[00:49:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the need? - 06Small Broadcasters: FM Switch-Off is Premature - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:49:51] <exec> 08└─Except that digital broadcasts don't need all that bandwidth. Especially not TV broadcasts, which are digital and mostly move out of VHF.
[00:52:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It won't work. - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:52:30] <exec> 08└─After three incidents I have to conclude that you must be putting people in jeopardy to create an excuse to pull the brake.
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[01:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02welp - 06How to Attract Female Engineers - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:02] <exec> 08└─You can build up your muscles, lose the belly fat.
[01:48:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Purchased solution - 06How to Attract Female Engineers - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:48:03] <exec> 08└─Hai Karate. [wikipedia.org] (Don't use too much.) [youtube.com] More silliness. [google.com] -- gewg_
[01:48:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Almost Unicorns - 06How to Attract Female Engineers - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:05] <exec> 08└─Female engineers are not as rare as unicorns, but there are always a few exceptions to prove the rule. And those handful make my heart flutter. The problem starts much earlier than college-level recruitment would fix. Girls are better at math and school in general while they're young but once they h...
[01:48:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Almost Unicorns - 06How to Attract Female Engineers - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:48:06] <exec> 08└─> Girls are better at math and school in general while they're young but once they hit > high school that advantage typically disappears particularly for math. Yes, it evens out to basically no gender-specific difference. [apa.org] Why is that a problem for college recruitment?
[01:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Brilliant! - 06How to Attract Female Engineers - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:08] <exec> 08└─So given the observations: We offered studies in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, etc.Women didn't sign up for thoseWe offered a program in Development EngineeringWomen signed up for that I suppose that does imply "To make women sign up for Electrical/Mechanical/etc. Engineering, we s...
[01:48:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Good Job Berkeley - 06How to Attract Female Engineers - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:09] <exec> 08└─I shall eagerly await the programs to get more men in healthcare and education.
[01:48:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Foot in the door. - 06Valve Eats Crow, Backtracks on Steam Workshop Paid Mods - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:18] <exec> 08└─Classic foot in the door tactics. Valve will be back to pushing paid mods in a few months or year.
[01:48:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03kadal [4731] 02Re:Two undiscussed points - 06Where the Islamic State Gets Its Weapons - 37 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:48:28] <exec> 08└─How do you know about their finances?
[01:48:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Two undiscussed points - 06Where the Islamic State Gets Its Weapons - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:48:30] <exec> 08└─Wow, they must be selling a lot of expensive cookies. I need to start my own cookie business.
[01:48:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Where it all went? - 06Where the Islamic State Gets Its Weapons - 1583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:48:39] <exec> 08└─Yes, but they aren't building American weapons in caves or outlaw machine shops. There is a reason the AK-47 is so popular in revolutionary and insurgent settings, because it is a simple to manufacture design and an uneducated, even illiterate, third worlder can quickly be taught to maintain and use...
[01:48:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:TL;DR - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:48:58] <exec> 08└─That's sad, I thought Disagree was +1 for some reason. There should be a "I think this post is wrong, but it also adds to the discussion and should be seen more" mod.
[01:48:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score:2) 02Re:TL;DR - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 989 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:48:59] <exec> 08└─My interpretation of "Disagree" is it's encouraging would-be unintentional mod abusers to see their feelings more clearly. Like, a comment pisses you off, and you have mod points, so you click the drop-down list to select "Troll" or "Flamebait" or whatever, and you realize that "Disagree" actually f...
[01:49:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Freedom of Expression - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:49:16] <exec> 08└─> The colloquial term for "they" is: Islamic fundamentalists. So, your premise is that only fundamentalists were insulted by Hebdo?
[01:49:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Freedom of Expression - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:49:17] <exec> 08└─> The colloquial term for "they" is: Islamic fundamentalists. So, your premise is that only fundamentalists were insulted by Hebdo?
[01:49:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Freedom of Expression - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:49:18] <exec> 08└─Ah, the abrogation canard. Mentioning that and taqayiah are the way ya know you are talking to a dhimmi-wannabe. Someone who's whole world view is predicated on mooslims being evil that he pines for a global caliphate just to prove that over a decade of drinking haterade was worth it. Sorry dude, th...
[01:49:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Freedom of Expression - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:49:21] <exec> 08└─You're still equating murder with satire and/or insult. An extreme in speech is not equivalent to an extreme in action taken to harm another human's body.
[01:49:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Freedom of Expression - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:49:27] <exec> 08└─If people who follow a certain religion can't help but resort to violence when their religion is insulted, then maybe those people don't belong in civilized society, and should be removed from it, forcibly if necessary.
[01:49:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Freedom of Expression - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:49:32] <exec> 08└─Why do you feel the urge to insult people on a massive level?
[01:49:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Freedom of Expression - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:49:35] <exec> 08└─I think there was something good in the Dark Ages idea of a duel over "honour matters"
[01:49:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Freedom of Expression - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:49:37] <exec> 08└─That actually is part of it. I have the right to knowingly offend, and on occasion, when I think it's deserved, I will use it.
[01:50:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02Re:Microsoft - 06Complainants Forming Basis of the EU Case Against Google Revealed - 1045 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:50:29] <exec> 08└─http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-15/ok-google-how-did-the-eu-get-to-this-point-a-timeline [bloomberg.com] * February 2010: Joaquin Almunia starts to examine Microsoft Corp.’s antitrust complaint against Google as he takes over as the EU’s competition commissioner. * March 2011: Mi...
[01:52:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:It won't work. - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:52:45] <exec> 08└─And you left out that he left the back door unlocked and fell asleep.
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[02:48:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03middlemen [504] (Score:2) 02Re:welp - 06How to Attract Female Engineers - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:48:04] <exec> 08└─you should first pay a super model to "date" you and then the female engineer will be attracted to your fat blubbery physique with a neck beard as garnish...
[02:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Almost Unicorns - 06How to Attract Female Engineers - 1425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:48:07] <exec> 08└─Maybe they just decide they would rather use their other skills instead? Women make better cops, translators, negotiators, hell women make better fighter pilots as the female body handles G-Forces better, so as long as there is not any discrimination going on? I see no reason why every profession ha...
[02:48:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:Almost Unicorns - 06How to Attract Female Engineers - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:48:09] <exec> 08└─>Girls are better at math and school in general. Sexism! This problem must be rectified at once! We should promote male advancement in math during primary school!
[02:48:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Good Job Berkeley - 06How to Attract Female Engineers - 1397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:48:12] <exec> 08└─> I shall eagerly await the programs to get more men in healthcare and education. That's easy. Just make sure women have equal access to other professions that pay at least as well and they will leave healthcare and education opening up slots for men. It isn't like they want those crappy jobs, its t...
[02:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:3, Insightful) 02is this really a problem? - 06How to Attract Female Engineers - 1397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:14] <exec> 08└─I don't get this. why is there a new trend to comment on lack of women in tech fields? there is a glass ceiling for upper mgmt, but that applies to non-whites, non-christians, non member-of-the-elite and so on. its hard to be an exec if you are a member of MOST classes of people. so what? we knew th...
[02:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:is this really a problem? - 06How to Attract Female Engineers - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:48:16] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure that it's a particularly new trend, I seem to remember articles like these on a regular basis. What no-one ever explains is why it's desirable to try to shoe horn women into courses and jobs they don't naturally gravitate to. Not that I care one way or the other if women want to be engi...
[02:48:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:is this really a problem? - 06How to Attract Female Engineers - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:48:17] <exec> 08└─> What no-one ever explains is why it's desirable to try to shoe horn women into courses and jobs they don't naturally gravitate to. There are at least two perspectives: The utilitarian: Because diversity of perspective makes the work output better. For example, at least half of facebook's customers...
[02:48:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:2, Funny) 02How to repel Hugh Pickens - 06How to Attract Female Engineers - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:19] <exec> 08└─This was a clickbait troll fest on the green site. At the Soylents are classier, but still, this is a crap useless article that serves only to bait haters on both sides of the gender argument. (and yeah I was active in the comments over there before I realized I am an idiot and should not have gotte...
[02:48:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Societal needs - 06How to Attract Female Engineers - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:20] <exec> 08└─The whole underpinning of the story is that engineers do not normally meet society's needs. Bridges, buildings, ships, roads, dams, ports and entire cities don't count. I find this view condescending to female engineers, who seemingly would be fine for designing kindergarten buildings, and urban pa...
[02:48:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Societal needs - 06How to Attract Female Engineers - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:48:22] <exec> 08└─Ugh, leave it to frojack for the insulted fauxrage. Frorage?
[02:48:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fauxlosopher [4804] (Score:1) 02Gender percentages in specific trades - 06How to Attract Female Engineers - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:24] <exec> 08└─My informal study into the gender balance in a specific area of business has led me to despair that only about 0% of the workers in the field of septic tank, cesspool, and sewage service are women. Perhaps if the content of moving solid human waste around could be made more societally meaningful [th...
[02:48:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:good deal - 06Valve Eats Crow, Backtracks on Steam Workshop Paid Mods - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:48:28] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately the way they worded the response to the community was very crass. When a few million customers respond so negatively about something you do, costing millions in just a couple days (per Gabe Newell's reddit discussion), it would behoove you to not make backhanded comments and thinly vei...
[02:48:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pherenikos [1113] (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:Two undiscussed points - 06Where the Islamic State Gets Its Weapons - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:48:47] <exec> 08└─In addition to the usual sources of funding for these types of organizations, ISIS is rumored to have acquired $1.5 billion from the capture of Mosul. This is a very informative report. http://www.newsweek.com [newsweek.com]
[02:48:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Two undiscussed points - 06Where the Islamic State Gets Its Weapons - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:48:48] <exec> 08└─Newsweek? I can't take them seriously. 30 years ago when I was teen I figured out that they were the tigerbeat of news magazines. I might as well get my news from kathy lee and hoda.
[02:48:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Two undiscussed points - 06Where the Islamic State Gets Its Weapons - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:48:50] <exec> 08└─The other unmentioned point is where are the small arms? I mean its hard to hide a humvee
[02:48:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Where it all went? - 06Where the Islamic State Gets Its Weapons - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:48:55] <exec> 08└─Umm, the Humvee is a typical ISIS vehicle. Multicam is typical cammo. M-16s, M-4s, and so on are typical ISIS weaponry. They all came from Iraq and Afghanistan. We practically gave them their supplies. What is surprising is to find Chinese knockoffs on the battlefield, thus why this is news.
[02:48:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Where it all went? - 06Where the Islamic State Gets Its Weapons - 809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:48:56] <exec> 08└─History repeats itself. It reminds me of the U.S. efforts to support Chiang Kai-shek as the main opposition against the Red Chinese. The Chinese lobby was the largest and most effective foreign lobby in Washington, backed solidly by the Republicans (mostly because they were against whatever Truman w...
[02:48:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Yog-Yogguth [1862] (Score:2) 02Doesn't make sense - 06Where the Islamic State Gets Its Weapons - 1056 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:58] <exec> 08└─Sort of interesting. Are the writers of TFNYTA (gesundheit!) trying to argue that Iraq isn't awash with US weapons and that the border between Iraq and Syria isn't sort of non-existent now? Are they trying to imply that China makes Humvee copies too or that all the US weapons disappeared mysteriousl...
[02:49:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:TL;DR - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:49:18] <exec> 08└─I mod up idiot posts (by non-ACs) So everyone else can see how much of an idiot the author is.
[02:49:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Freedom of Expression - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:49:40] <exec> 08└─You're still equating murder with satire and/or insult.
[02:49:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Freedom of Expression - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:49:55] <exec> 08└─Then why do you argue and offend others here from time to time? Would you be willing to risk death every time you disagree with someone and say so?
[02:49:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Freedom of Expression - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:49:57] <exec> 08└─Then why do you argue and offend others here from time to time?
[02:49:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Freedom of Expression - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:50:00] <exec> 08└─Well that says nothing without fleshing out what the responsibility entails. Being expected to feel bad or apologize is no significant responsibility at all. While a responsibility that ends with your beheading is entirely different. We are talking about people that prefer the latter outcome.
[02:50:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Freedom of Expression - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:50:02] <exec> 08└─We are talking about people that prefer the latter outcome.
[02:50:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Freedom of Expression - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:50:03] <exec> 08└─My responsibility for this freedom is ensuring that others have it as well, not to ensure that I don't offend someone. Opinion, criticism, and insult are all variations on the same thing. You can place a statement anywhere you want on that scale but it is expression all the same and you shouldn't ha...
[02:50:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the need? - 06Small Broadcasters: FM Switch-Off is Premature - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:50:21] <exec> 08└─Definitely not them. That band is practically worthless to them.
[02:50:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fauxlosopher [4804] (Score:1) 02Re:What's the need? - 06Small Broadcasters: FM Switch-Off is Premature - 1219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:50:31] <exec> 08└─One HUGE problem with a transition from analog to digital RF broadcasts is in losing the graceful signal quality degredation that analog transmissions allow for. Two such examples involve cellular phones and over-the-air television. The analog-to-digital transition for cell phones changed calls that...
[02:50:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fauxlosopher [4804] (Score:1) 02Re:What's the need? - 06Small Broadcasters: FM Switch-Off is Premature - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:50:34] <exec> 08└─So I guess you're never going to buy a car older than 1995 or so, for the rest of your life?
[02:50:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fauxlosopher [4804] (Score:1) 02Re:Encryption - 06Small Broadcasters: FM Switch-Off is Premature - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:50:48] <exec> 08└─Digital is better that analog in any way. ... except ... The analog way of transmitting data cannot be practically encrypted
[02:51:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score:1) 02Re:Lets think this through - 06Linear Park to Transform Los Angeles River from a Wasteland - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:51:53] <exec> 08└─Gracias, Senors y senoritas (pardon the lack of proper characters). That Is what I was hoping for... yes, it WAS trollish, but dry humor is lost on some folk.
[02:52:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score:2) 02Re:Ambien blackouts - 06World Health Organization Endorses Clinical Trial Transparency - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:52:39] <exec> 08└─When I used Ambien, I had this feeling I couldn't shake that it didn't create "real" sleep.
[02:53:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:Locusts huh... - 06US Navy's LOCUST Drone Cannon - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:53:51] <exec> 08└─Man created god in His own image, in the image of Man He created him; angel and demon He created them. Genesis 1:27
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[03:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03SubiculumHammer [5191] (Score:3, Informative) 02must read - 06House Committee's Proposal Would Block Retirement of A-10 Warthog - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:02] <exec> 08└─http://pando.com/2014/12/18/the-war-nerd-more-proof-the-us-defense-industry-has-nothing-to-do-with-defending-america/ [pando.com] The War Nerd talks the A-10 Warthog in a great post.
[03:48:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02JSF program or old stuff, pick one - 06House Committee's Proposal Would Block Retirement of A-10 Warthog - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:03] <exec> 08└─i dont know about the rest of you but i'm sick of congress dedicating half the budget to the military, especially while they ignore our economic issues. the JSF (F35 plane) program is ~$13 billion per year and climbing. i would happily keep their A-10 plane if they would shut down the JSF program co...
[03:48:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Re:JSF program or old stuff, pick one - 06House Committee's Proposal Would Block Retirement of A-10 Warthog - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:48:05] <exec> 08└─The cost of keeping the A10 in the air is a tiny, tiny fraction of the cost of the JSF. For some reason the military brass want to have a small number of very expensive toys, despite the fact that the expensive toys are probably less effective at most of the missions being flow today. Perhaps it has...
[03:48:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Good - 06House Committee's Proposal Would Block Retirement of A-10 Warthog - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:06] <exec> 08└─The A-10 is reliable, expandable, cheap, and generally an all around winner. Retiring it would be a travesty. It is the exact opposite of what usually happens: dumping billions into developing aircraft that have none of the positive attributes of the A-10 and can't even fly.
[03:48:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Brilliant! - 06How to Attract Female Engineers - 3075 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:48:21] <exec> 08└─I got the idea women were generally smart enough to stay out of this. There is a lot of competition, dog-eat-dog stuff, usually classified as exempt from employment laws, and quickly obsoleted by technological changes, however the employers want to get you at damned near minimum wage if you happen t...
[03:48:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Wrong term - 06How to Attract Female Engineers - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:48:22] <exec> 08└─Definitions: Social: You are invited and you go to the party Asocial (like asynchronous or asymmetrical): You are invited to the party but you don't go Anti-social: You are NOT invited to the party but you go anyway Really Anti-social: You go to the party and try to kill everyone there -- gewg_
[03:48:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Brilliant! - 06How to Attract Female Engineers - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:48:24] <exec> 08└─> I suppose that does imply "To make women sign up for Electrical/Mechanical/etc. > Engineering, we should turn it into Development Engineering". I think it says quite a lot about you and the people who modded you up that you think an engineering program that produces hardware like cellscope [cellsc...
[03:48:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Brilliant! - 06How to Attract Female Engineers - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:48:25] <exec> 08└─But while that may do wonders for your enrollment statistics, I don't see how you actually fix the scarcity of women who can actually do Electrical/Mechanical/etc. engineering, which (I thought) was the actual inequity we wanted to solve. I studied computer science in college because I wanted to...
[03:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good Job Berkeley - 06How to Attract Female Engineers - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:48:28] <exec> 08└─Remember kids, no matter the field or outcome, it is always a white man's fault.
[03:48:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Good Job Berkeley - 06How to Attract Female Engineers - 1170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:48:30] <exec> 08└─I shall eagerly await the programs to get more men in healthcare and education. William K. Schubert Minority Nursing Scholarship [minoritynurse.com] Criteria: Student should be a member of one of the underrepresented groups in the registered nursing profession. Underrepresented groups includ...
[03:48:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:is this really a problem? - 06How to Attract Female Engineers - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:48:33] <exec> 08└─The utilitarian: Because diversity of perspective makes the work output better. For example, at least half of facebook's customers are female. But with such a tiny fraction of female developers they have difficulty conceiving of product features that females want. A competitor that better understood...
[03:48:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Societal needs - 06How to Attract Female Engineers - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:48:37] <exec> 08└─The whole underpinning of the story is that engineers do not normally meet society's needs.
[03:48:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Translation from the NewSpeak - 06How to Attract Female Engineers - 1069 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:39] <exec> 08└─Woman are just as good as men at engineering. Scratch that, women are exactly the same as men in everything and anyone who disagrees is a dirty doubleplus ungood crimethinker. Yup, women are just as good as men.... and as soon as you sexist bastards entirely redefine the very definition of 'Engineer...
[03:48:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Translation from the NewSpeak - 06How to Attract Female Engineers - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:48:41] <exec> 08└─SN seems to specialize in the long angry rant where, after reading the whole thing, you still can't figure out what side the poster is on.
[03:48:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Translation from the NewSpeak - 06How to Attract Female Engineers - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:48:43] <exec> 08└─Its the "my opinions are self-evidently correct so I don't need to justify them" mental disorder. Or its just the online equivalent of public masturbation - all about making the author feel good in front of an audience.
[03:48:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03CoolHand [438] 02good deal - 06Valve Eats Crow, Backtracks on Steam Workshop Paid Mods - 302 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:49] <exec> 08└─I, for one, think it's great that they listened to feedback from the users. Obviously, the system as released was broken, and they could have kept pushing it. I really think it's a great sign that they listened to users, examined the situation, and came to correct conclusion to retract and restudy i...
[03:48:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02Two undiscussed points - 06Where the Islamic State Gets Its Weapons - 1337 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:49:00] <exec> 08└─Two points not discussed in the article which are interesting: AFAIK the financial resources of IS are basically infinite. I mean they make the Saudi's look impoverished. Well, technically the Saudi's could spend more if they wanted but they don't. Anyway given a seemingly infinite supply of cash al...
[03:49:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fauxlosopher [4804] (Score:1) 02Re:Where it all went? - 06Where the Islamic State Gets Its Weapons - 941 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:49:18] <exec> 08└─(reply made here to keep the thread intact) My post about humans being smart and making precision parts in caves was made to highlight the fact that after a point it doesn't much matter how specific war materiel is de-militarized. Since the same part(s) are destroyed within a weapons system to preve...
[03:49:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:TL;DR - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:49:34] <exec> 08└─You have the right to think the wrong things, you have the right to say the wrong things and within as broad a limit as compatible with a Civilization of Free Men, you have the right to do the wrong things. I believe you have that Right to be Wrong because I do not want to empower some tribunal to d...
[03:50:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Freedom of Expression - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:50:26] <exec> 08└─My responsibility for this freedom is ensuring that others have it as well,
[03:50:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02Re:What's the need? - 06Small Broadcasters: FM Switch-Off is Premature - 268 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:50:36] <exec> 08└─Two possible reasons: 1- forced obsolescence of equipment for both receivers and broadcasters (short goal) 2- killing broadcasting altogether (long goal: everything filtered by the internet, so what you listen to is trackable and optionally tampered with, 1984 style).
[03:50:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the need? - 06Small Broadcasters: FM Switch-Off is Premature - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:50:54] <exec> 08└─Let's have some perspective here. First, the entire FM radio band is 20MHz. That's almost enough for one WiFi channel. A digital television channel is 6 MHz wide, so you could get 3 inside the entire FM radio band. The AM (medium wave) band is 1 MHz total, so taking it away would benefit nobody.
[03:51:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03GDX [1950] (Score:1) 02Re:Encryption - 06Small Broadcasters: FM Switch-Off is Premature - 696 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:51:15] <exec> 08└─Also there is other advantage, simplicity to build a transmitter or receiver, the simplest receiver is the crystal radio, mostly associate with the AM modulation but they are also designs for FM modulation (http://solomonsmusic.net/FM_CrystalRadio.html), also the transmitters aren't that complex as...
[03:52:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02Re:Not Rocket Science. - 06Bruce Schneier on Increasing Use of Stingray - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:52:50] <exec> 08└─Uhh.. you just validated Bruce's point. I don't think he meant everyone can spy on everyone, he meant everyone can spy on anyone without the means to protect themselves. So yes, the powers that be can protect themselves, but the civilians can't and their own spy agencies sure as hell aint gonna prot...
[03:53:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:It won't work. - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:53:29] <exec> 08└─Hate to be rude to you AC, but that's a load of quasi-religious crap. Nature isn't an anthropomorphic sentient force with a plan and a will that cannot be denied. It's the culmination of many and various cause-and-effect physical processes. If we can understand those processes, we can manipulate the...
[03:54:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Convention against Chemical, Biological and Nuk - 06US Navy's LOCUST Drone Cannon - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:54:25] <exec> 08└─Sure they read it. They just want to be the one in the chair.
[03:56:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Dice? - 06IT Salary Survey 2015 - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:56:45] <exec> 08└─See....
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[04:48:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Good - 06House Committee's Proposal Would Block Retirement of A-10 Warthog - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:48:03] <exec> 08└─The solution is give the airforce a choice. Let the Army and Marines have fixed wing, and transfer the A10s to them, or do the job assigned to them of supporting ground operation instead of flying by in their office pushing buttons.
[04:48:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03gman003 [4155] (Score:2) 02Myriad random thoughts - 06House Committee's Proposal Would Block Retirement of A-10 Warthog - 3570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:04] <exec> 08└─First off, the Air Force right now has no idea how to do procurement and acquisitions. To give just one example: the KC-X program is to replace the 50-year-old KC-135 Stratotanker. They've been working on this in one form or another since 2002. The plan was simple: take the Boeing 767, stuff it full...
[04:48:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Almost Unicorns - 06How to Attract Female Engineers - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:48:18] <exec> 08└─Women make better cops, translators, negotiators, hell women make better fighter pilots as the female body handles G-Forces better, so as long as there is not any discrimination going on? So women are actually better than men at policing, translating, negotiating and fighter piloting (your words...
[04:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good Job Berkeley - 06How to Attract Female Engineers - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:48:28] <exec> 08└─It is weird you see fault in that description. I think you are projecting.
[04:48:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:is this really a problem? - 06How to Attract Female Engineers - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:48:34] <exec> 08└─> One point I always raised and never got an answer to: What happens if your customers aren't diverse? You are absolutely right. As long as you don't care about ever attracting new customers, then there is no point in caring about anybody else. And as we all know, stagnation is the ideal american bu...
[04:48:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Gender percentages in specific trades - 06How to Attract Female Engineers - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:48:41] <exec> 08└─This is the current "The emperor has no clothes." These efforts are not about equality or diversity. They are about getting women, which make up the majority of college students [pewresearch.org] already*, into the most well-paying and prestigious fields. They dominate some fields already, and now S...
[04:48:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fauxlosopher [4804] (Score:1) 02Re:Gender percentages in specific trades - 06How to Attract Female Engineers - 834 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:48:43] <exec> 08└─My previous post [soylentnews.org] was primarily made to emphasize the trivial nature of the so-called problem written about in the SN summary. Aside from unspoken qualities of the field potentially deterring women from wanting to enter it in the first place, what positive change would be made shoul...
[04:48:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:good deal - 06Valve Eats Crow, Backtracks on Steam Workshop Paid Mods - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:48:53] <exec> 08└─There is nothing commendable about backing down in the face of an outright customer revolt, not even the most evil and anti-consumer corporation can afford such a faux pass.
[04:49:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:TL;DR - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:49:40] <exec> 08└─I speak of it as Freedom Zero, the one the that implies all of the others: The Right to Be Wrong, the right to pass the cobblestones and shout "Queer" in the company of homophobes, the right to point and shout "Jew" in front of a pack of neoNazis, the Right to Shout "Fire" in a crowded Theatre, the...
[04:52:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score:2) 02Re:Problem: Can't stop spying - 06Bruce Schneier on Increasing Use of Stingray - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:52:52] <exec> 08└─The problem with your analysis is that it assumes pervasive surveillance is affordable. [snip] They might have one in your house, but they won't be able to afford to have one in every house.
[04:53:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:It won't work. - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:53:41] <exec> 08└─Why don't we start with colonizing the ocean floor, before heading off to space.
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[05:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:must read - 06House Committee's Proposal Would Block Retirement of A-10 Warthog - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:48:07] <exec> 08└─I enjoyed that, thanks : )
[05:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"The F-35 is a decent jack-of-all-trades" - 06House Committee's Proposal Would Block Retirement of A-10 Warthog - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:48:13] <exec> 08└─...with an extremely wide tolerance for "decent". We discussed that gold-plated turkey before. every time you want to fix some piece of electronics, you have to cut a hole in the airplane. ...and after you cut the hole and fix the electronics, you've got to patch up the hole so it's just as smooth a...
[05:49:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Freedom of Expression - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:49:44] <exec> 08└─Ah, the abrogation canard.
[05:49:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Freedom of Expression - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:49:48] <exec> 08└─No, I'm not [still equating murder with satire and/or insult]. [...] I'm pointing out that you don't fight one extreme with another.
[05:49:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Freedom of Expression - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:49:53] <exec> 08└─People insult islam all the time, day in and day out.
[05:50:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fauxlosopher [4804] (Score:1) 02Re:Freedom of Expression - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:50:06] <exec> 08└─... there used to be a "You call me a liar?" type of warning, even during the Wild West times. Are we more civilized now?
[05:50:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fauxlosopher [4804] (Score:1) 02Re:Freedom of Expression - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:50:11] <exec> 08└─While a responsibility that ends with your beheading is entirely different
[05:56:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Dice? - 06IT Salary Survey 2015 - 3607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:56:24] <exec> 08└─No, you're the one knitting them together into a Dr. Evil scheme. That is your strawman argument. That's a correct usage of the term, "strawman argument," BTW, which you have not yet effected. You have been putting words in my mouth, I have not done likewise. What I have done is cite empirical evide...
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[06:48:00] <exec> 08└─We like to think that surgical procedures are close to a pinnacle of modern marvels, but really it's still quite brutal and often extremely damaging to the patient. There's no doubt that surgery is essential for some people, but our goal should be to outgrow the need for it. Even these and more adva...
[06:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fauxlosopher [4804] (Score:1) 02Re:Good - 06House Committee's Proposal Would Block Retirement of A-10 Warthog - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:48:14] <exec> 08└─instead of flying by in their office pushing buttons
[06:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good - 06House Committee's Proposal Would Block Retirement of A-10 Warthog - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:48:15] <exec> 08└─Yeah! The USA used this plane for a whole bunch of friendly fire incidents against the f***ing Brits in Iraq! Hoorah! (Oh, if I may be so impolite to suggest, the assymetric part of assymetric warfare is really bad form. The guys on the ground should have at least an equal chance!)
[06:48:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:is this really a problem? - 06How to Attract Female Engineers - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:48:52] <exec> 08└─Its not a new trend at all. I went to high-school in the mid 60s and girls were encouraged to take automotive shop, (and did), boys were offered special "Home economics" class, (where I learned to run a sewing machine). Don't know any of the girls in my class that stayed in automotive industry, and...
[06:49:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Translation from the NewSpeak - 06How to Attract Female Engineers - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:49:03] <exec> 08└─SN seems to specialize in the long angry rant where, after reading the whole thing, you still can't figure out what side the poster is on.
[06:49:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mr Big in the Pants [4956] (Score:2) 02Re:good deal - 06Valve Eats Crow, Backtracks on Steam Workshop Paid Mods - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:49:13] <exec> 08└─What a load of nonsense. They screwed the pooch in a blatantly greedy product launch and are now in PR damage control. The only thing he is sorry about is the negative publicity.
[06:54:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02Re:It won't work. - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 755 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:54:19] <exec> 08└─When someone says "it's day time" and you poke your eyes out and say "no, it's not", you're gonna get called a denier. it's that simple. Unfortunately, there have been so many of those that even asking reasonable questions gets you lumped into their camp, Part of that of course is that the deniers g...
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[07:48:17] <exec> 08└─Doesn't matter the cost. The predator simply can not do the Job of an A-10. And the A-10 can't do the job of a Predator. Totally different mission. http://northshorejournal.org [northshorejournal.org] (Yes, she flew it back home).
[07:48:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score:2) 02Re:Almost Unicorns - 06How to Attract Female Engineers - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:48:38] <exec> 08└─Ugh... Soylent used to have higher quality debates, but this one is worse than the Slashdot version. I've noticed that Soylent has been on a downward trajectory for a while now, or maybe it's internet discussion as a whole. Unless maybe I fell victim to Poe's Law. Is your post a parody, or just stup...
[07:48:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Almost Unicorns - 06How to Attract Female Engineers - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:48:39] <exec> 08└─I just wanna say, in regards to this; Women make better cops, translators, negotiators, hell women make better fighter pilots as the female body handles G-Forces better, so as long as there is not any discrimination going on?
[07:49:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:good deal - 06Valve Eats Crow, Backtracks on Steam Workshop Paid Mods - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:49:20] <exec> 08└─It seemed pretty douchebaggy for them to take 75% and only give the person who made the mod 25% [sure, they donate some, but that's the kind of deal a wireless carrier offers...]
[07:50:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Freedom of Expression - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:50:42] <exec> 08└─By re-stating your main point, you still come across as equating murder with printing repugnant words on paper.
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[08:48:13] <exec> 08└─Dr Branesergen is in the operating room doing surgery on a nondescript medicare patient. A call comes into the hospital. Senator Gustawind (N.H.) has just been injured in a ski accident. He is waiting in DaVinci ward 3 at Podunk, Colorado awaiting connection to your DaVinci station. Ummm... what hap...
[08:48:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Good Job Berkeley - 06How to Attract Female Engineers - 1141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:48:49] <exec> 08└─No, sometimes it is a white person's fault. Sometimes it is a man's fault. Often the two coincide, as amazing as that may sound. Which one (or both) are you? Yeah, we sussed you out, white man! Now you will take your forty lashes with a wet noodle for being so stupid as to bring up your white male p...
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[08:48:58] <exec> 08└─I think I was the only guy who took typing in high school that semester... all the rest were girls. I went through on my mom's old mechanical Smith-Corona, which I still have. That course served me well. I had no problem in college ( in the early 70's ) preparing typed papers. Naturally, the new co...
[08:48:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] 02How to repel Hugh Pickens - 06How to Attract Female Engineers - 312 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:49:00] <exec> 08└─This was a clickbait troll fest on the green site. At the Soylents are classier, but still, this is a crap useless article that serves only to bait haters on both sides of the gender argument. (and yeah I was active in the comments over there before I realized I am an idiot and should not have gotte...
[08:49:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score:3, Touché) 02Before trying to attract - 06How to Attract Female Engineers - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:49:10] <exec> 08└─Before trying to attract them, how about a more modest goal? Figure out how not to repel them.
[08:49:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02Where it all went? - 06Where the Islamic State Gets Its Weapons - 1448 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:49:46] <exec> 08└─Fairly easy to figure out why they aren't using much of the captured gear. You always hear military types speak of 'weapon systems' for a reason. Even the M16 is a weapon system. They require a lot more than just the weapon itself, you must have a long tail of supplies and trained personnel to keep...
[08:50:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Re:TL;DR - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:50:11] <exec> 08└─Or, you know, people who don't hate SystemD enough. (see yesterday's Linux thread for examples)
[08:53:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It won't work. - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:54:00] <exec> 08└─I'd love to see people like this A/C adopt rather than go childless. ...
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[14:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Female Dating - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:07] <exec> 08└─"One guy I went out with had a lot of hashtags like #OneTrackMind," says Sarah Burns, "so I dressed conservatively, didn’t drink too much—I tried to send the message, I’m not going home with you tonight. Which I didn't."
[14:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Hugh Pickens - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:08] <exec> 08└─Stop... just... stop.
[14:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score:1) 02Subject goes here - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:10] <exec> 08└─> a community where women can talk honestly about what matters to them. > #PlaysDidgeridoo I had no idea.
[14:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03splodus [4877] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Where's the upside? - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 1323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:12] <exec> 08└─If this sort of thing takes of; 1. If you don't 'opt in', the assumption will be that there's something about you that you want to hide. 2. One or two unfortunate incidences (transport trouble, lost your wallet, cancel a date due to illness) could leave you with a poor rating. 3. If you don't 'date'...
[14:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Where's the upside? - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:13] <exec> 08└─Well, if they are men then those dates could get awkward (or interesting).
[14:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Good Lawd - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:15] <exec> 08└─So they are trying to generate a bit of outrageous buzz about an app which allows women to rate men. This threatens men causing a backlash. Forums and social media will fill with flame wars. Meanwhile the app creators laugh all the way to the bank. The only winning move is not to play.
[14:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Noble713 [4895] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Is an app reviewing women Ok? Doubt it... - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 800 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:16] <exec> 08└─For some reason, I'm pretty sure a reverse of this app (where men and only men can rate women) would be lambasted as terribly sexist. I'd be surprised if any women would volunteer to have profiles created. #FirstDateSex (is that a pro or a con? depends on the guy I guess....) #Cooks&Cleans #Swallows...
[14:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02This is hardly news - 06Google Wants First Refusal on Patents You're Selling - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:23] <exec> 08└─I imagine all the big tech companies (Fortune 500) are on the lookout to buy patents to beef up their portfolios. But only Google has the chutzpah to present it as some kind of public service. It is a service... to Google's shareholders.
[14:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:This is hardly news - 06Google Wants First Refusal on Patents You're Selling - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:24] <exec> 08└─If it promises to open up the patents for all to use or at least not use them, then it is a public service.
[14:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is hardly news - 06Google Wants First Refusal on Patents You're Selling - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:26] <exec> 08└─From the Google FAQ: Question: What does Google intend to do with the patents it purchases? Answer: Google maintains a large patent portfolio. Any patents purchased by Google through this program will join our portfolio and can be used by Google in all the normal ways that patents can be used (e.g....
[14:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Remove "friction"? - 06Google Wants First Refusal on Patents You're Selling - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:27] <exec> 08└─Why? Because the company wants to remove "friction" from the patent market. ... The company will open up the marketplace between May 8 and May 22, 2015. During that time, patent holders will head to a special portal and make pitches to Google that will include a description and what sellers want, fi...
[14:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Remove "friction"? - 06Google Wants First Refusal on Patents You're Selling - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:29] <exec> 08└─And it's not even a marketplace; it's a place where you can offer your patents to Google. A marketplace is a place where you can offer your goods to anyone.
[14:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Translation, please - 06The End: Corinthian Colleges Shutters Remaining 28 Campuses - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:38] <exec> 08└─The question is who pays? Lenders or taxpayers. I think also that it's going to be taxpayers. While no one likes banks, I gather they weren't in on the scam. If they were, then leaving the culpable lenders hanging would be appropriate IMHO.
[14:13:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02Here's a thought - 06The End: Corinthian Colleges Shutters Remaining 28 Campuses - 104 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:44] <exec> 08└─Beat the crooks like a pinata and use the money that falls out to clear the debts of the actual victims.
[14:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Government involvement - well intentioned as us - 06The End: Corinthian Colleges Shutters Remaining 28 Campuses - 1706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:46] <exec> 08└─Around 1990 I qualified for some low income program as a military veteran or for some reason anyway, where there was a fund used like social security, pay as you go, what comes in, goes out, so they'd "loan" me $5K for the expensive uni but they guilt tripped grads that they can only make new loans...
[14:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Government involvement - well intentioned as us - 06The End: Corinthian Colleges Shutters Remaining 28 Campuses - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:47] <exec> 08└─"Is there any solution other than ending federal involvement in financing schools or individual students?" I don't know, everywhere else in the world free education works and it's government handled, but you think it should be handled by free markets?
[14:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Wow... after almost 40 years - 06The End: Corinthian Colleges Shutters Remaining 28 Campuses - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:49] <exec> 08└─Wasn't Corinthian College the one featured in the movie Animal House?
[14:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03kbahey [1147] (Score:2) 02Closed in Ontario since February - 06The End: Corinthian Colleges Shutters Remaining 28 Campuses - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:51] <exec> 08└─These guys used to advertize heavily, and promise the moon. Their scam was recognized by the provincial government in Ontario (Canada's most populous province), and they closed it down last February [everest.ca]. Many students were left with debts, but the government offered some assistance [ctvnews...
[14:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Dr Branesergen ... call on line 3 - 06 Long Distance Surgery Robots Easy to Hack - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:59] <exec> 08└─This is pretty much the plot to Urasawa Naoki's excellent Monster [wikipedia.org] comic and animated series. Also the "nondescript medicare patient" is a child who may actually be the antichrist. "What happens next?" indeed.
[14:14:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03lentilla [1770] 02secure the environment - not the robot - 06 Long Distance Surgery Robots Easy to Hack - 405 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:01] <exec> 08└─I'd like to think that security and robot operations were separate systems. We don't expect a security expert to be any good at producing a medical robot - why should we expect the inverse? In practical terms: medical robots need to be on their own network - then it doesn't matter how "insecure" the...
[14:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02not edible - 06 Long Distance Surgery Robots Easy to Hack - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:03] <exec> 08└─cool stuff, until the hackers break the link between the 5 star michelling chef cooking in my kitchen via telerobotic link ; )
[14:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:must read - 06House Committee's Proposal Would Block Retirement of A-10 Warthog - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:14] <exec> 08└─were using 40+ year old Soviet tech
[14:14:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02Re:must read - 06House Committee's Proposal Would Block Retirement of A-10 Warthog - 658 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:15] <exec> 08└─He seems to now be learning what Smedley Butler and Dwight Eisenhower both knew decades ago: The point of the US war machine is not to win wars and definitely not to protect the citizens of the US from foreign attack, but to ensure that a few politically connected corporations and their owners make...
[14:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:Good - 06House Committee's Proposal Would Block Retirement of A-10 Warthog - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:22] <exec> 08└─Love that article. One of the images is captioned: Damage from missle to Captain Kim N. Campbell's A-10 Warthog.
[14:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Good - 06House Committee's Proposal Would Block Retirement of A-10 Warthog - 1095 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:25] <exec> 08└─If the Army was given some fixed wing, the Airforce would be deployed a whole lot less. Marines are interesting in that they are actually under the Navy. The Navy does have fixed wing. It just has to be able to land on a boat. I would love it if the Army had A10s. But even the Army is cutting down o...
[14:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Warthog? - 06House Committee's Proposal Would Block Retirement of A-10 Warthog - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:32] <exec> 08└─Who got the idea to call a plane "warthog"? Was it an attempt to prove that pigs can fly?
[14:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score:1) 02Re:Warthog? - 06House Committee's Proposal Would Block Retirement of A-10 Warthog - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:34] <exec> 08└─It's an affectionate nickname that came about because the A-10 just isn't a very pretty airplane.
[14:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Almost Unicorns - 06How to Attract Female Engineers - 1076 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:53] <exec> 08└─My mother used to be a nurse before she retired, and she didn't like it much either as a hospital nurse. I wouldn't recommend that line of work. It actually does pay decently well (not fantastic), but the treatment is bad. The ticket is to not be a hospital nurse; do something else instead, such as...
[14:14:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02Re:Almost Unicorns - 06How to Attract Female Engineers - 226 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:54] <exec> 08└─I just wanna say, in regards to this; Women make better cops, translators, negotiators, hell women make better fighter pilots as the female body handles G-Forces better, so as long as there is not any discrimination going on?
[14:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02Re:Almost Unicorns - 06How to Attract Female Engineers - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:57] <exec> 08└─Hairyfeet wrote :- "the female body handles G-Forces better" Where do you get that from? It would depend how well stacked they are for a start - my wife has to take care stepping out of a car :-) Perhaps a petite woman might be OK.
[14:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Almost Unicorns - 06How to Attract Female Engineers - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:59] <exec> 08└─Girls are better at math and school in general while they're young but once they hit high school that advantage typically disappears particularly for math. I'm not sure if it is puberty or social pressure, or both. It seems completely obvious to me that it's social pressure (both from other girls, f...
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[14:15:01] <exec> 08└─Perhaps I'm slow because it is not at all obvious to me. Hormonal changes at that time of life can cause visible and often drastic changes in personality, outlook and lifestyle, in different ways for everyone. Someone previously confident can become withdrawn, or someone previously dull can become o...
[14:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Almost Unicorns - 06How to Attract Female Engineers - 1400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:15:03] <exec> 08└─I'd say it all begins at birth. We have social "norms" which are deeply ingrained in society. For birthdays and holidays we gift boys toy trucks, Legos, science/craft kits and video games. Girls get dolls/doll houses, ez-bake ovens and stuffed animals. We inadvertently tell girls that they are caret...
[14:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02Re:Wrong term - 06How to Attract Female Engineers - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:15:08] <exec> 08└─Dont know why this was modded down. It is the missing option. Strange it was missed because in fact it is vastly the majority option. If you live in the USA just think of all those parties in Russia you are never invited to and never go.
[14:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Brilliant! - 06How to Attract Female Engineers - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:15:12] <exec> 08└─Did your university have to offer a major in "video game engineering" to get you to enroll? Of course not. You had enough sense to know that you need to go into Computer Science if you want to learn how to develop games. Universities aren't trade schools; they're there to teach you the fundamentals...
[14:15:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:good deal - 06Valve Eats Crow, Backtracks on Steam Workshop Paid Mods - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:15:45] <exec> 08└─Six of one.
[14:15:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score:2) 02Re:good deal - 06Valve Eats Crow, Backtracks on Steam Workshop Paid Mods - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:15:48] <exec> 08└─yeah, I agree those %'s are way too much.. Although I have no problem with them getting a little something, since they are providing platforms for the modders to make and market their mods. However, they both do benefit from the mods adding extra customers to the game, so they should be somewhat hap...
[14:15:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:good deal - 06Valve Eats Crow, Backtracks on Steam Workshop Paid Mods - 2458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:15:50] <exec> 08└─Broken is an understatement. The whole system was a complete boondoggle and was so bad that it blew people's minds that Valve could screw up and screw people so badly. Here is why: You make a mod for Game X and want to sell it for $5. Out of that $5, you get ... wait for it ... 25%. That's it. A $1....
[14:15:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score:2) 02Re:good deal - 06Valve Eats Crow, Backtracks on Steam Workshop Paid Mods - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:15:52] <exec> 08└─Thanks for that nice write-up.. I was going to post a comment on depencency/incompatibility issues, but haven't had time.. Yours is great!
[14:15:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:good deal - 06Valve Eats Crow, Backtracks on Steam Workshop Paid Mods - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:15:53] <exec> 08└─I was totally unaware until my brother gave me the full spiel the other night. I was just floored. I couldn't believe that Valve would screw their community in such a brazen manner.
[14:15:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02I must have missed the memo... - 06Valve Eats Crow, Backtracks on Steam Workshop Paid Mods - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:56] <exec> 08└─I don't really understand the backlash. So they made a paid mods section alongside the free mods. As a modder, you could have dropped your mod into either section, or both(?) I could see the uproar if they were doing away with the free mods, that is not the case. I have been mdding Skyrim since day...
[14:15:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:I must have missed the memo... - 06Valve Eats Crow, Backtracks on Steam Workshop Paid Mods - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:15:57] <exec> 08└─The problem wasn't that you could make "beer" money. The way I understand it was that you were making "a beer" money, while Bethesda was making "RIAA" money.
[14:16:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Two undiscussed points - 06Where the Islamic State Gets Its Weapons - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:16:16] <exec> 08└─Only if that really happened. IMHO, looting and pillaging doesn't return a lot on what gets looted and pillaged. It's a pennies on the dollar thing.
[14:16:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:TL;DR - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 1424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:16:59] <exec> 08└─To me, an SJW is a lazy insufferable shit who will preach down to you if you say anything off color. They harbor guilt and lack self esteem. So to make up for that, they have to feel superior to others by talking down to them about social issues. Anecdotal poster boy SJW: My brother and his girlfrie...
[14:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03gidds [589] (Score:2) 02Re: Typical Statism - 06Small Broadcasters: FM Switch-Off is Premature - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:18:34] <exec> 08└─How can I put this in a way which the average Soylentil will understand? Ah, I know: If Linux is truly better in every way then manufacturers will adopt it on their own as will users.
[14:19:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] 02pulling the strings - 06Complainants Forming Basis of the EU Case Against Google Revealed - 299 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:03] <exec> 08└─OK, so how many of the names in that list will turn out in the coming months to be either (a) owned by Microsoft (b) receiving cash from Microsoft (c) staffed at the highest levels by ex-Microsoft managers or (d) otherwise beholden to Microsoft? I would be surprised if the number was less than 50%.
[14:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03gidds [589] (Score:2) 02Re: pulling the strings - 06Complainants Forming Basis of the EU Case Against Google Revealed - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:19:09] <exec> 08└─Yes, that would be interesting to know. On the other hand, though, it wouldn't invalidate the complaint. The accusation stands or falls on its merits, regardless who is making the accusation. If Google is abusing its position, then that's wrong, full stop. (Or period, according to preference.)...
[14:20:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:Problem: Can't stop spying - 06Bruce Schneier on Increasing Use of Stingray - 809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:20:12] <exec> 08└─The problem is that we can't stop spying. MAYBE we can stop some organizations from getting the content of our message, assuming that those organization don't have quantum computers that will break GPG encryption in a matter of microseconds. But we cannot stop metadata collection; and we cannot stop...
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[15:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Female Dating - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:08] <exec> 08└─Sounds like sage advice.
[15:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02Re:Hugh Pickens - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:10] <exec> 08└─We need a Hugh Pickens filter, like an RSS feed that doesn't have articles from this contributor.
[15:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Subject goes here - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:13] <exec> 08└─I guess that depends on whether you like Didgeridoo music. And of course on whether he's good at it. After all, the tag isn't "#PlaysDidgeridooWell"!
[15:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Where's the upside? - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:17] <exec> 08└─Where's the upside?
[15:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good Lawd - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:19] <exec> 08└─Good Lewd
[15:13:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Noble713 [4895] 02Is an app reviewing women Ok? Doubt it... - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 800 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:21] <exec> 08└─For some reason, I'm pretty sure a reverse of this app (where men and only men can rate women) would be lambasted as terribly sexist. I'd be surprised if any women would volunteer to have profiles created. #FirstDateSex (is that a pro or a con? depends on the guy I guess....) #Cooks&Cleans #Swallows...
[15:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:4, Funny) 02Re:Is an app reviewing women Ok? Doubt it... - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:22] <exec> 08└─I live on an island in Asia with a medium-sized population (~1mil) and have a LOT of players in my social network. The sexual histories of the women here would probably appall most of the "nice guys" they pretend they want to date, especially as the women age. It's normal to check a girls "HoeFax" b...
[15:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02Re:Is an app reviewing women Ok? Doubt it... - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:24] <exec> 08└─LOL!! Bonus points if the boss is sitting at his desk at the time. ;-) Why burn a bridge when you can nuke it!
[15:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Noble713 [4895] (Score:1) 02Re:Is an app reviewing women Ok? Doubt it... - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:25] <exec> 08└─Okinawa, Japan. Honestly, if you are going to move to Asia for the women, there are FAR better places to go than here. Tokyo, Seoul, Osaka, Hong Kong, Hell even Thailand and the Philippines. Come to Okinawa for the surfing and scuba diving, but not the women. I find mainland Japanese women are much...
[15:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Is an app reviewing women Ok? Doubt it... - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 2296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:27] <exec> 08└─Noble713 are you a girl? Not that there's anything wrong with that. Your list sounds like something very interesting to older men not the youth the original app is targeting. I was young once and the "hot or not" website more accurately reflects typical young man behavior than being interested in "c...
[15:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Rules of the internet - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 1490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:29] <exec> 08└─The whole concept has "gender-war flamebait" written all over it, but also "legal minefield". Doesn't anyone else remember when it was a given that "All girls on the internet are men"? How exactly do they enforce their "no guys" rule? Will they send someone round to check the contents of my underwea...
[15:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Rules of the internet - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:30] <exec> 08└─Are you supposed to validate yourself via a credit card or Facebook or something?
[15:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Discrimination! - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:32] <exec> 08└─I'm a poop-licking rump ranger, and me and my gay brothers have as much right to rate cute men as those breeder bitches!
[15:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:This is hardly news - 06Google Wants First Refusal on Patents You're Selling - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:39] <exec> 08└─Yep, sure sounds like it. In Google's defense, so far they haven't been predators (like all the examples you gave). Without a legally binding promise there's nothing stopping them from going it in the future though. I think they have used them *defensively*, but really that's only minimally better....
[15:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:must read - 06House Committee's Proposal Would Block Retirement of A-10 Warthog - 1053 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:28] <exec> 08└─instead of buying proven tech like the F15 and F16 To be fair *both* of those programs were financial nightmares when they first started out and both did not work very well. The F-16 especially was over tasked for the size airframe. It has been moved back into the original role it was designed for....
[15:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:must read - 06House Committee's Proposal Would Block Retirement of A-10 Warthog - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:30] <exec> 08└─Remember, $750 billion for a plane that doesn't fly (the F-35) gets a lot more support from US politicians than $75 billion to feed hungry people. That tells you a lot about their priorities.
[15:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:JSF program or old stuff, pick one - 06House Committee's Proposal Would Block Retirement of A-10 Warthog - 822 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:33] <exec> 08└─"the F35 is supposed to replace planes like this," The F35 was meant to be a fighter, but it's being shoehorned into replacing EVERYTHING! I expect to see a headline soon, proclaiming the wonders of the F35 as a refueling tanker, a bulk cargo plane, a heavy lifter, and maybe even a replacement for t...
[15:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Good - 06House Committee's Proposal Would Block Retirement of A-10 Warthog - 926 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:42] <exec> 08└─If you know your aviation history, the AF never used to have anything like an A10. The missions that the A10 performs were developed by the Army Air Corps, and perfected by the Marine Corps. When the Army Air Corps was done away with, and the AF was born, no one in the Air Force wanted anything to d...
[15:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Warthog? - 06House Committee's Proposal Would Block Retirement of A-10 Warthog - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:51] <exec> 08└─LMAO - not pretty you say? Maybe we should take a survey of those who have been under the Warthog's guns? Probably the ugliest damned thing they've ever seen, INCLUDING horror movies! You're perfectly right - those gruesome bitches weren't engineered to be attractive! But, our own front line grunts...
[15:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Warthog? - 06House Committee's Proposal Would Block Retirement of A-10 Warthog - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:53] <exec> 08└─The pilots and aircrews nicknamed it Warthog. (Which is also consonant with other 'hog' nicknames for other Fairchild jet fighters.) Officially it is the A-10 Thunderbolt II. Now you know, and knowing is half the battle!
[15:15:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Brilliant! - 06How to Attract Female Engineers - 628 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:20] <exec> 08└─So given the observations: We offered studies in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, etc.Women didn't sign up for thoseWe offered a program in Development EngineeringWomen signed up for that I suppose that does imply "To make women sign up for Electrical/Mechanical/etc. Engineering, we s...
[15:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Brilliant! - 06How to Attract Female Engineers - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:15:31] <exec> 08└─You have clearly never studied computer science if you haven't programmed at least one simple game.
[15:15:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good Job Berkeley - 06How to Attract Female Engineers - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:15:41] <exec> 08└─And of the student population. Which one might imagine would be celebrated but weirdly it instead seems to be hushed up as if its a dirty secret.
[15:15:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Goal Posts Successfully Moved - 06How to Attract Female Engineers - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:15:43] <exec> 08└─Goal Posts Successfully Moved: I shall eagerly await the programs to get more men in healthcare and education. I provide evidence. And yet it doesn't get thrust into our faces every week on the national news, so it doesn't enter the social consciousness. Instead what we're fed with...
[15:16:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02Re:I must have missed the memo... - 06Valve Eats Crow, Backtracks on Steam Workshop Paid Mods - 1521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:16:18] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the reply. So the 'cut' the modder got was too small, while the bulk went to the game developer and Steam. Hmmmm... I guess I am not part of that crowd. The way I see it, it was a way to pick up a few bucks(probably to buy more games with) for what was essentially for me, a labor of love....
[15:16:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:Two undiscussed points - 06Where the Islamic State Gets Its Weapons - 37 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:16:29] <exec> 08└─How do you know about their finances?
[15:16:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:Two undiscussed points - 06Where the Islamic State Gets Its Weapons - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:16:32] <exec> 08└─If we're talking about the CIA selling, "cookies" is a euphamism for "cocaine and heroin".
[15:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:TL;DR - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:17:23] <exec> 08└─Agreed. It doesn't take any courage to say the popular thing.
[15:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:TL;DR - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:17:25] <exec> 08└─Free speech means shitty speech. Poorly considered speech. Cruel speech. Inane speech. *gasp* secular speech. Religious speech. These people didn't understand what organization they were members of.
[15:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:TL;DR - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:17:27] <exec> 08└─Consider carefully before modding as flamebait. TFS + article should be modded as offtopic.
[15:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fauxlosopher [4804] (Score:1) 02Re:What's the need? - 06Small Broadcasters: FM Switch-Off is Premature - 1135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:18:44] <exec> 08└─My personal observations directly contradict your claims. During the time of analog-digital switchover for both cell phones and OTA television, when following the same usage patterns in the same locations, signal quality was significantly degraded with the new digital transmissions using either "sam...
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[16:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02cat seats? - 06Watch Out for "Automated Vehicle Occupancy Detection" - 1159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:09] <exec> 08└─Thankfully I don't live in a 3rd world shithole that has stuff like this, either the lanes or the Orwell spy gear, but I wonder how the law and machines deal with car seats and little kids in general in the back seat? Or are the laws written such that passengers are only legally defined as adult in...
[16:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:cat seats? - 06Watch Out for "Automated Vehicle Occupancy Detection" - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:10] <exec> 08└─> So if someone who looks like you shows up in a uber car you get a ticket in the mail. I want some of whatever you've been smoking.
[16:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:cat seats? - 06Watch Out for "Automated Vehicle Occupancy Detection" - 982 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:12] <exec> 08└─Bratwurst? I've been thinking of getting an electric smoker. So here's this tech. Its gonna be deployed. Why? 1) Maybe good ole corruption, .gov got election money, .com gets contact money, repeat endlessly. A really expensive paperweight. Wouldn't exactly be the first implementation of that biz mod...
[16:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:cat seats? - 06Watch Out for "Automated Vehicle Occupancy Detection" - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:13] <exec> 08└─the ticket by mail shit is completely ridiculous. especially when you add in the possibility of a false-positive.
[16:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03snick [1408] (Score:2) 02important fact missing from the summary - 06Watch Out for "Automated Vehicle Occupancy Detection" - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:15] <exec> 08└─The stretch of I-15 that they talk about is dual use. They are toll lanes that HOVs can use for free. The point of this is to automate toll collection via something like platepass Currently, the lanes require a little fasttrack gizmo in the car, and if you have 2 or more in your car, you need to rem...
[16:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:important fact missing from the summary - 06Watch Out for "Automated Vehicle Occupancy Detection" - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:17] <exec> 08└─Not to mention that this is not a new arms race [google.com] at all. But as a San Diegan who cruises the 15 erryday, I've noticed that cops like to post near the carpool lanes of highway on-ramps during metered periods and check the cars one by one entering the highway through the metered on-ramp. I...
[16:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score:2) 02obvious solution: - 06Watch Out for "Automated Vehicle Occupancy Detection" - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:18] <exec> 08└─inflated dolls
[16:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:obvious solution: - 06Watch Out for "Automated Vehicle Occupancy Detection" - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:20] <exec> 08└─obvious solution performance art / political demonstration edition: one of the toymakers products from Stross's Rule 34, strapped into a car seat. If you're going to offend/horrify people at least do a through job of it.
[16:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Only 15%? - 06Watch Out for "Automated Vehicle Occupancy Detection" - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:21] <exec> 08└─So you mean 85% of people voluntarily choose to obey the system when there is no way to catch them now? Sounds like the (lack of) system is working to me.
[16:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score:2) 02And the police wonder why... - 06Watch Out for "Automated Vehicle Occupancy Detection" - 735 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:23] <exec> 08└─And the police wonder why their traditional middle-class allies aren't standing up for the in places like Baltimore... Not that it's right, but the American middle classes clearly have a high tolerance for enforcement (abuse, harassment, mass incarceration) of the poor. Usually this works out to be...
[16:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hugh Pickens - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:32] <exec> 08└─Then make one yourself. This is a sight filled with tech people.
[16:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03khchung [457] (Score:2) 02Re:Hugh Pickens - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:33] <exec> 08└─I, for one, have wished for a submitter filter for a long time.
[16:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Hugh Pickens - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:35] <exec> 08└─What's wrong? It's mostly quotes from the article. Although I heard about Lulu a few months ago.
[16:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Subject goes here - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:38] <exec> 08└─I have read this several times in a row and it never stops being funny.
[16:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03romlok [1241] (Score:2) 02Re:Subject goes here - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:39] <exec> 08└─I assumed it was a euphemism.
[16:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is an app reviewing women Ok? Doubt it... - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:48] <exec> 08└─To be fair his boss was packing his own bags at the time of the incident.
[16:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Only half? - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:50] <exec> 08└─They must still be working on the rest. As an aside, my grandmother was from Okinawa, she was pretty awesome.
[16:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Only half? - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:51] <exec> 08└─Umm.. Phrasing?
[16:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is an app reviewing women Ok? Doubt it... - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:53] <exec> 08└─And there's that usual sexism, where women who enjoy sex are nothing but dirty, filthy whores who should be ridiculed and shamed, but left unsaid is the similar disgust for the men that are banging all of these women (if every woman has banged every man on the island, then every man has banged every...
[16:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is an app reviewing women Ok? Doubt it... - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:55] <exec> 08└─If you don't like it use a different hashtag like #SexuallyExperienced
[16:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is an app reviewing women Ok? Doubt it... - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:56] <exec> 08└─"I'd be surprised if any women would volunteer to have profiles created." exactly. only men are stupid enough to opt into this crap. there's a reason why the ancients made women subservient to men. it creates balance and order. we men are women's lap-dogs no matter what.
[16:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Rules of the internet - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:58] <exec> 08└─AH, OK, thanks. And of course, it's completely impossible for a man to set up a fake female facebook account. This is dangerous. Women will put faith in this app, they'll abdicate their own judgement to some random stranger on this app and get burned by people abusing the system. Baaaaaaad idea.
[16:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Rules of the internet - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 997 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:00] <exec> 08└─> And of course, it's completely impossible for a man to set up a fake female facebook account. Of course not. But your black and white analysis ignores the grey which is where all the important stuff resides. Think of it like Amazon. Yes there are fake reviews on amazon, it is impossible for Amazon...
[16:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Rules of the internet - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:01] <exec> 08└─I have made a fake Facebook account before. I don't know how aggressive Facebook is in deleting fake accounts, but it's better than nothing. Any online review system should be taken with a grain of salt. Look for "high reputation" reviewers if they exist, or look at multiple reviews. It's almost alw...
[16:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:4, Touché) 02Re:Rules of the internet - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:03] <exec> 08└─And who wants to be judged on the opinions of their exes? Just in general. Even honest ratings will be a measure of number of clean breaks to messy breaks, which doesn't necessarily say anything meaningful.
[16:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Rules of the internet - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:05] <exec> 08└─If you're a reasonably decent human being, there's more upside than downside there.
[16:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:Discrimination! - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:06] <exec> 08└─Want to see the real discrimination? If someone that didn't claim to be homosexual said half of what is in your post, it would never stay at zero or better moderation and there would be a dozen responses against it. Those posts would be tirades of accusations filled with the most intentionally harmf...
[16:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Discrimination! - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:08] <exec> 08└─it could be real [urbandictionary.com]
[16:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:2) 02so, if bitter woman goes on date... - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:09] <exec> 08└─...and guy does not like him, he gets rated shit. Bitter woman goes and spreads shit about guy who does not like her, Honestly, I can imagine, that if the mood is not the best, the woman's wish to be a victim, to be "the one who have experienced it" will take over, and she will mostly shitpost...
[16:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:so, if bitter woman goes on date... - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:11] <exec> 08└─That happened before Lulu and it will happen after Lulu. Shit posting on Lulu is better than a rape allegation...
[16:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is hardly news - 06Google Wants First Refusal on Patents You're Selling - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:20] <exec> 08└─In website's defense, so far they haven't been predators
[16:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is hardly news - 06Google Wants First Refusal on Patents You're Selling - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:21] <exec> 08└─He did say "Without a legally binding promise there's nothing stopping them from going it in the future though". Works for me.
[16:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Translation, please - 06The End: Corinthian Colleges Shutters Remaining 28 Campuses - 838 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:34] <exec> 08└─Again, is there a difference? My old local bank got greedy and "invested" in Arizona subprime mortgage loans, and when they went bankrupt they got merged into one of those scummy megabanks that owns a large fraction of the countries banking, I think one of them that got bailed out by the .gov. Holy...
[16:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Are you mixed up in this mess? - 06The End: Corinthian Colleges Shutters Remaining 28 Campuses - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:38] <exec> 08└─When your entire economic system is based on exploitation, you lose all right to be surprised or to act concerned when finding out that people constantly get exploited.
[16:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:Seems to be par for the course - 06The End: Corinthian Colleges Shutters Remaining 28 Campuses - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:42] <exec> 08└─The problem isn't the education, its that the capital required to be able to act on the skills and information gained from education is all locked away, hoarded by a meager thousands of people who do nothing with it. Education is only worthless and job-destroying when wealth inequality reaches the l...
[16:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Seems to be par for the course - 06The End: Corinthian Colleges Shutters Remaining 28 Campuses - 1520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:44] <exec> 08└─I donno AC theoretically a valid argument but I googled around and the best estimates of entrepreneurship vary from a third of one percent up to maybe ten (I think the ten percent estimate of the population is evidence of on the job drug use by journalists, but whatever) So if half the population of...
[16:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score:2) 02Re:Seems to be par for the course - 06The End: Corinthian Colleges Shutters Remaining 28 Campuses - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:45] <exec> 08└─2. Maybe give them a lousy education. As in, the instructors may have bachelors' degrees, but certainly not doctorates in their field. [emphasis added]
[16:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Seems to be par for the course - 06The End: Corinthian Colleges Shutters Remaining 28 Campuses - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:47] <exec> 08└─5. The former students then pursue their long careers in the retail and food-service sectors. Which are counted in the schools' "95% of our graduates find jobs" numbers. My wife did one of these fly by night 'schools'. Gets degree finds out afterwards no accreditation (so therefor no degree). They p...
[16:15:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:must read - 06House Committee's Proposal Would Block Retirement of A-10 Warthog - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:20] <exec> 08└─and before anybody says anything, while the US may not be a Christian nation, it is a nation of self-proclaimed christians, [pewforum.org] with 78% of the country self-identifying as christian (here's the census data [census.gov]). a supermajority of US citizens claim to follow Christ's teachings wh...
[16:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:must read - 06House Committee's Proposal Would Block Retirement of A-10 Warthog - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:21] <exec> 08└─I guess by learning a little history and using a bitchy tone, anyone can be considered a military aviation expert. Maybe I'll try the same with linux...
[16:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03albert [276] (Score:1) 02good riddence Kiowa - 06House Committee's Proposal Would Block Retirement of A-10 Warthog - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:32] <exec> 08└─Shooting hand-held guns out the window is a WWI tactic. It means wimpy weapons, difficulty with belt-fed ammo, lack of stabilization, greatly limited ability to aim, and much awkwardness. They don't really do that, do they? Seriously?
[16:15:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score:2) 02Yikes - 06House Committee's Proposal Would Block Retirement of A-10 Warthog - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:44] <exec> 08└─Every so often, SN runs a story in my actual area of expertise - military aviation engineering, a field I've been working in for 18 years now. And I kind of get excited, because I figure I'll have some in-depth commentary and insight to add. But after I'm halfway through scrolling the comments, I ge...
[16:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:I must have missed the memo... - 06Valve Eats Crow, Backtracks on Steam Workshop Paid Mods - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:17:14] <exec> 08└─I'd be happy with beer money myself, but I do have a major ethical objection to other people enriching themselves from my labor without giving me a fair cut.
[16:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Two undiscussed points - 06Where the Islamic State Gets Its Weapons - 1556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:17:40] <exec> 08└─Its a bizarre situation. They control the land and population a $400M bank sits on in Mosul, and everyone without an axe to grind sees that as "they got themselves a bank full of cash and gold" yet like two Iraqi officials in an "iraqi information minister" style rant will insist they technically ha...
[16:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Freedom of Expression - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:19:02] <exec> 08└─Until you get assholes who are good at dueling, who have no real reason not to go around pissing in people's Cheerios.
[16:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the need? - 06Small Broadcasters: FM Switch-Off is Premature - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:19:42] <exec> 08└─My personal observations directly contradict your claims. During the time of analog-digital switchover for both cell phones and OTA television, when following the same usage patterns in the same locations, signal quality was significantly degraded with the new digital transmissions
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[17:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Only 15%? - 06Watch Out for "Automated Vehicle Occupancy Detection" - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:15] <exec> 08└─We're kinda of wired in our brains to detest people who are selfish, even when their net effect on the sustainability of the system is near zero. We don't like unfairness. It's deep in our psyche, and other social primates like chimps and monkeys demonstrate angry reactions to "unfair" situations. M...
[17:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Only 15%? - 06Watch Out for "Automated Vehicle Occupancy Detection" - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:16] <exec> 08└─Not good enough for zero tolerance fascist america. You must obey!
[17:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fauxlosopher [4804] (Score:1) 02Much ado about little? - 06Watch Out for "Automated Vehicle Occupancy Detection" - 1582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:19] <exec> 08└─I'm on record here as stating that most/all taxes in the USA are illegal (income, sales, most "license fees", etc.), that government surveillance without due process is illegal (ALPR, drone spying, etc.), and that government mass surveillance using automated technology is a critical problem (and als...
[17:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Much ado about little? - 06Watch Out for "Automated Vehicle Occupancy Detection" - 1297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:20] <exec> 08└─With respect to the idea of HOV being illegal or stupid, I agree, and I'm reminded of the argument against banning gay marriage that the .gov really has no business enshrining religious dogma in law, so the best way to fix the problem would be to excise marriage entirely out of the .gov, make marria...
[17:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Female Dating - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:31] <exec> 08└─Sounds like sage advice.
[17:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Rules of the internet - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 1828 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:01] <exec> 08└─> But most fake reviews are obvious. Are they? How can you be sure? > It takes a lot of work to create multiple believable reviews. I suspect you underestimate the amount of work a man is prepared to invest to get laid. More than they are generally prepared to invest in misleading amazon customers,...
[17:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Rules of the internet - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:05] <exec> 08└─I'd love to think I'm a reasonably decent human being, but I do not want my private life publicly tracked by other people. Not that it matters, but I have exactly zero bad breaks in my own history; I've just seen enough people break up on bad terms to know it has little to do with who they are. Like...
[17:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Rules of the internet - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:07] <exec> 08└─You mean: "If the ex is a reasonably decent human being..."
[17:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Rules of the internet - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:08] <exec> 08└─Can't wait to see all the LBGT folks start picking holes in that policy. Bad choice of words here.
[17:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score:3, Touché) 02Untrue: - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:14] <exec> 08└─"No one feels ambivalent about it." You misunderestimate the level of my apathy.
[17:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Megahard [4782] (Score:2) 02Corinthian - 06The End: Corinthian Colleges Shutters Remaining 28 Campuses - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:59] <exec> 08└─Probably spent all their money on leather chairs.
[17:15:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:must read - 06House Committee's Proposal Would Block Retirement of A-10 Warthog - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:26] <exec> 08└─Isn't it kinda ironic we are falling into the same trap Germany fell into in WWII? Instead of building proven tech like the Pzw-IV and BF109 and FW190s they wasted limited resources on "wonder weapons" that were technological marvels.....that broke down a lot more, were insanely expensive in money a...
[17:15:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03albert [276] (Score:1) 02no, it really was meant to replace everything - 06House Committee's Proposal Would Block Retirement of A-10 Warthog - 698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:34] <exec> 08└─This is the same thinking that led to the FB-111, an aircraft originally intended to serve both the Air Force and Navy while being a bomber, fighter, interceptor, and ground attack plane. These are conflicting requirements. We ended up with something that the Navy rejected as being too big and heavy...
[17:15:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:good riddence Kiowa - 06House Committee's Proposal Would Block Retirement of A-10 Warthog - 920 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:44] <exec> 08└─They sure do. Not belt-fed though. Just M4s that have been modified to be full auto. It's as primitive as shooting out of HMMWV(hum-vee) and ground vehicle windows : ) The Kiowa is not a large platform. It's the equivalent of a HMMWV. Fast, used by scouts, can deliver only a few people to a target,...
[17:15:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Yikes - 06House Committee's Proposal Would Block Retirement of A-10 Warthog - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:57] <exec> 08└─The point of a comments-driven community is to allow you to enlighten us. I would be glad to read your opinion on the matter.
[17:16:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:welp - 06How to Attract Female Engineers - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:16:09] <exec> 08└─you should first pay a super model to "date" you and then the female engineer will be attracted to your fat blubbery physique with a neck beard as garnish...
[17:16:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Almost Unicorns - 06How to Attract Female Engineers - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:16:19] <exec> 08└─You know the intentions of absolutely everyone in the 'movement'? Present your scientific evidence.
[17:16:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Almost Unicorns - 06How to Attract Female Engineers - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:16:29] <exec> 08└─Girls are better at math and school in general while they're young
[17:16:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Brilliant! - 06How to Attract Female Engineers - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:16:41] <exec> 08└─That's not necessarily true in the least. You are not the one who decides how others study computer science, and colleges/universities are not the only places to study it.
[17:16:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Brilliant! - 06How to Attract Female Engineers - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:16:42] <exec> 08└─Universities aren't trade schools
[17:16:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Good Job Berkeley - 06How to Attract Female Engineers - 79 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:44] <exec> 08└─I shall eagerly await the programs to get more men in healthcare and education.
[17:19:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fauxlosopher [4804] (Score:1) 02Re:What's the need? - 06Small Broadcasters: FM Switch-Off is Premature - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:19:53] <exec> 08└─Whatever the cause of the increased degredation of signal during the analog-to-digital transitions, it was observable. The receivers (human and otherwise) noticed increased data loss. With analog transmissions, the degredation of signals was most often graceful, gradual, and useful for reliable data...
[17:19:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the need? - 06Small Broadcasters: FM Switch-Off is Premature - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:19:54] <exec> 08└─The point is that this has absolutely nothing to do with analogue vs digital. The related point is that digital does what you want better than analogue. Your complaint is that a lower-power signal has a shorter range. This is not exactly news to anyone.
[17:19:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fauxlosopher [4804] (Score:1) 02Re:What's the need? - 06Small Broadcasters: FM Switch-Off is Premature - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:19:56] <exec> 08└─Your complaint is that a lower-power signal has a shorter range.
[17:19:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the need? - 06Small Broadcasters: FM Switch-Off is Premature - 1081 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:19:58] <exec> 08└─Which is nonsense. 'Graceful degradation' in analogue systems means passing errors along to the end user. In digital radio systems, these errors aren't passed along to the end user, they're fixed by the error correcting codes. The system gracefully handles errors by hiding them from the user. It wou...
[17:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fauxlosopher [4804] (Score:1) 02Re:What's the need? - 06Small Broadcasters: FM Switch-Off is Premature - 1044 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:20:03] <exec> 08└─Defensive driving and plain old seatbelts are all the crash protection I want. I've removed airbags from my vehicles, as I don't want an explosive device of any sort sitting in front of my face. I accept the risks and dangers of road travel, and don't need any nannies enforcing choices for me at gun...
[17:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02The worst sleep disorder is sleep that's not rest- - 06World Health Organization Endorses Clinical Trial Transparency - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:15] <exec> 08└─-ful. I have that problem sometimes. I found that ambien usually helped me get to sleep but it did nothing to make the insomnia go away. Treating the underlying cause with antidepressants worked better; ironically imipramine cleared up my depression, it was one of the first antidepressants and so ch...
[17:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03morgauxo [2082] (Score:2) 02Re:It won't work. - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:36] <exec> 08└─Well.. I was trying to be careful but inserting that "people like..." part of the comment. I would never presume to tell any specific person how they should plan and live their life! It's yours not mine and kids may very well not be the right thing for you. I was just observing that you made a rathe...
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[18:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Naturally. - 06Scarce Skills, Not Scarce Jobs - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:06] <exec> 08└─When computers do everything we can do right now and computers take over all our jobs, it's just because humans haven't gained additional, more advanced skills. Still bullshit to let humans starve.
[18:13:07] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03BK [4868] 025+ years experience... - 06Scarce Skills, Not Scarce Jobs - 423 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:07] <exec> 08└─That's right, there just aren't all that many potential employees out there with 3-5 years experience using your new custom system that you went live last month. Maybe the problem here is the lack of investment in training. This is not the fault of schools or colleges. Employers don't want to inves...
[18:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:5+ years experience... - 06Scarce Skills, Not Scarce Jobs - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:09] <exec> 08└─With a side dish of the current employees were told the CTO read an article in PC World last night and he'd like you to implement the whole thing by tomorrow, and you do it, but HR won't hire anyone NEW without 25 years minimum experience with windows 2013 server, because, clueless.
[18:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:5+ years experience... - 06Scarce Skills, Not Scarce Jobs - 1911 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:10] <exec> 08└─you are SO RIGHT about jumping ship. I learned the hard way last time around ;( I thought I had a good boss. I thought I had a good job. I was actually given training on the job, too (did I really wake up in the year 2015??). and while I got calls from recruiters (even if they may not have been all...
[18:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillAdams [1424] (Score:1) 02Inevitable result - 06Scarce Skills, Not Scarce Jobs - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:12] <exec> 08└─Here, read this: http://marshallbrain.com [marshallbrain.com] Hint, it's supposed to be a cautionary tale, not a manual/how-to-guide as these people are currently viewing _1984_.
[18:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Typo - 06Scarce Skills, Not Scarce Jobs - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:13] <exec> 08└─they can’t hire enough workers, at least not enough workers who have the necessary skills to deal with new technology.
[18:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score:2) 02Wrong focus. - 06Scarce Skills, Not Scarce Jobs - 1001 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:15] <exec> 08└─The article focuses on the question of "are their skilled jobs available that are currently unfilled?" I don't doubt that such jobs exist. The real question is "are there skilled jobs available that it makes sense for people to try to fill?" Putting in the time and effort to learn how a given partic...
[18:13:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tangomargarine [667] 02Only 15%? - 06Watch Out for "Automated Vehicle Occupancy Detection" - 154 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:28] <exec> 08└─So you mean 85% of people voluntarily choose to obey the system when there is no way to catch them now? Sounds like the (lack of) system is working to me.
[18:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Only 15%? - 06Watch Out for "Automated Vehicle Occupancy Detection" - 732 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:30] <exec> 08└─I have an on-ramp near me that I'm not quite sure how to handle. It's going onto a commuter highway and there's one of those really faded diamond paints in one of the two lanes. Is it just really faded and they haven't bothered to repaint it, or did they buff it out on purpose? (People tend to go ov...
[18:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fauxlosopher [4804] (Score:1) 02Re:Much ado about little? - 06Watch Out for "Automated Vehicle Occupancy Detection" - 1076 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:36] <exec> 08└─Most of the stupidity or illegality (aka "overreach") involved with government persists because Americans have largely forgotten the original source for the US fedgov's founding charter is ultimately a derivative of a single human's authority, and as such, cannot legitimately exceed the authority of...
[18:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hugh Pickens - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:50] <exec> 08└─> Then make one yourself. This is a sight filled with tech people. Nah. Its better to whine in public. The goal isn't to filter, it is to express tribal identification with all the others who can't stand the fact that soylentnews is people. rah rah we are so much more superior than those who think...
[18:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Hugh Pickens - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 820 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:52] <exec> 08└─I started trying to contribute a steady stream of articles after LamX raised a flag weeks ago, and I've been paying attention to the number of posts each sort attracts (and also articles submitted by others). The pure science articles attract maybe a dozen posts, tops. New gadgets or services do bet...
[18:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Subject goes here - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:59] <exec> 08└─I assumed it was a euphemism.
[18:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score:2) 02Re:Subject goes here - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:01] <exec> 08└─BRB looking into sexual applications of circular breathing.
[18:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Subject goes here - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:02] <exec> 08└─Actually, he probably doesn't snore.
[18:14:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] 02Re:Is an app reviewing women Ok? Doubt it... - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 449 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:09] <exec> 08└─I live on an island in Asia with a medium-sized population (~1mil) and have a LOT of players in my social network. The sexual histories of the women here would probably appall most of the "nice guys" they pretend they want to date, especially as the women age. It's normal to check a girls "HoeFax" b...
[18:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Is an app reviewing women Ok? Doubt it... - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:15] <exec> 08└─Japan is one such. Millions of girls in their 20's and 30's who get to leave work at 5:30 while their male peers are expected to slave away until 9:30 and then go out drinking with the guys. The girls, having a 4 hour headstart on the men, are pretty much ready to hook up by 9pm. If you are non-Japa...
[18:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is an app reviewing women Ok? Doubt it... - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:20] <exec> 08└─For some reason, I'm pretty sure a reverse of this app (where men and only men can rate women) would be lambasted as terribly sexist. I'd be surprised if any women would volunteer to have profiles created.
[18:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Rules of the internet - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:26] <exec> 08└─> And then what is he going to do? Abandon his facebook account and create a new one? That won't look suspicious. More likely he'll maintain two accounts - a "real" one with his friends and family on it, and a "playa" (ugh) account, with a bunch of male and fake-female friends on it to make it look...
[18:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Rules of the internet - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:27] <exec> 08└─And here we run into the problem. We all know that plenty of people are all too willing to switch their brains off and blindly do what their computers tell them, like driving off a cliff by satnav.
[18:14:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02Re:Rules of the internet - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 206 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:29] <exec> 08└─And who wants to be judged on the opinions of their exes? Just in general. Even honest ratings will be a measure of number of clean breaks to messy breaks, which doesn't necessarily say anything meaningful.
[18:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score:2) 02Re:Rules of the internet - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:32] <exec> 08└─> I do not want my private life publicly tracked by other people. Not being on Facebook seems a good start to that.
[18:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Seems to be par for the course - 06The End: Corinthian Colleges Shutters Remaining 28 Campuses - 1265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:15:11] <exec> 08└─I went to UC Berkeley (decades ago) and they didn't offer much more help than that. But the name value of the degree was a lot higher. And it was accredited. This made a *BIG* difference. OTOH, I've often wondered whether I would have done better going to a lesser known institution, say a state coll...
[18:16:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03strength_of_10_men [909] (Score:1) 02Re:Warthog? - 06House Committee's Proposal Would Block Retirement of A-10 Warthog - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:16:15] <exec> 08└─I completely disagree. There is a definite beauty in its single-minded dedication to its mission. This is a case of function-over-form that just happens to make itself beautiful because of its very nature.
[18:16:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Almost Unicorns - 06How to Attract Female Engineers - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:16:41] <exec> 08└─You mean like the anti-GGers, who are so racist there is actually a game called SJW or Stormfront [youtube.com] because their shit is SO racist and SO hate filled its hard to tell the difference between their posts and your average white supremacist? Hell look at the SJW posts from the Hugo awards a...
[18:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:I must have missed the memo... - 06Valve Eats Crow, Backtracks on Steam Workshop Paid Mods - 1266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:17:46] <exec> 08└─Well, that's what I've gleaned as the biggest thing between the Reddit shitstorm and the couple friends I spoke to who followed the deal more closely than I did. I'm sure there were other reasons ranging from well-informed and intelligent to "OMG MOAR MONIES!" (the latter of which is generally about...
[18:18:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02Re:TL;DR - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 712 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:18:29] <exec> 08└─That's not what the term meant. It meant someone who used the ideals of social justice as a bludgeon to demand that their personal preferences in conversation are adhered to. Things like playing oppression olympics where you try to pretend your group X is more oppressed than other group Y because of...
[18:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Freedom of Expression - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:19:13] <exec> 08└─Free people in a free society have no choice but to go "all in" on free speech as far as any governmental enforcement is concerned...
[18:20:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's the need? - 06Small Broadcasters: FM Switch-Off is Premature - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:20:18] <exec> 08└─Which is nonsense
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[19:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score:2) 02Re:5+ years experience... - 06Scarce Skills, Not Scarce Jobs - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:12] <exec> 08└─I'm curious; what makes you think that switching through a few different jobs would have given you any additional job security? Odds are that any of the others could do the same thing. Are you saying that remaining in one job for a long time puts you at increased risk? Often it's the new guy that is...
[19:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:5+ years experience... - 06Scarce Skills, Not Scarce Jobs - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:13] <exec> 08└─He also said he was on contract, and had just finished the contract. Why was he expecting to remain?
[19:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Typo - 06Scarce Skills, Not Scarce Jobs - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:17] <exec> 08└─they can’t hire enough workers, at least not enough workers who have the necessary skills to deal with new technology at manual labor pay rates Agreed 100%. We almost need a "law" for it. Whenever the sentence says "can't find workers" insert "at wages we are willing to pay." You want a law...
[19:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score:1) 02Re:Typo - 06Scarce Skills, Not Scarce Jobs - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:19] <exec> 08└─they can’t hire enough workers, at least not enough workers who have the necessary skills to deal with new technology, in "uninsulated metal warehouse in Nevada in August" heat, while being yelled at for not picking more orders faster than last week, for manual pay rates.
[19:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Wrong focus. - 06Scarce Skills, Not Scarce Jobs - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:21] <exec> 08└─Learning the principles of CAD drafting is a skill with long-term job potential.
[19:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03gallondr00nk [392] (Score:2) 02A little short on substance. - 06Scarce Skills, Not Scarce Jobs - 1274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:22] <exec> 08└─It's all very well saying that jobs are displaced to different sectors. That's been a more or less continual process since the industrial revolution. TFA calls the obvious on that count. The trouble, as most who were displaced when manufacturing or white collar jobs moved to China or India will tell...
[19:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:A little short on substance. - 06Scarce Skills, Not Scarce Jobs - 2134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:24] <exec> 08└─Another displacement observation is the average displaced income used to be LOWER than the average income of the society. So the net large scale effect was always an improvement on average. Well on the bad side we have a bulldozer resulting in the loss of 100 shovel jobs, on the good side we now hav...
[19:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02So where is the On-The-Job Training? - 06Scarce Skills, Not Scarce Jobs - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:25] <exec> 08└─Rather than whinging about how you can't find robot mechanics to keep your robots in shape, how about hiring just about anyone who's handy with tools, then teaching them to fix robots? Ever since the dot-com boom I've repeatedly heard that employers want "someone who can hit the ground running". Now...
[19:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:So where is the On-The-Job Training? - 06Scarce Skills, Not Scarce Jobs - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:27] <exec> 08└─Rather than whinging about how you can't find robot mechanics to keep your robots in shape, how about hiring just about anyone who's handy with tools, then teaching them to fix robots?
[19:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score:2) 02Re:So where is the On-The-Job Training? - 06Scarce Skills, Not Scarce Jobs - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:29] <exec> 08└─Rather than whinging about how you can't find robot mechanics to keep your robots in shape, how about hiring just about anyone who's handy with tools, then teaching them to fix robots?
[19:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02No matter how long you try to train/teach dogs - 06Scarce Skills, Not Scarce Jobs - 1571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:30] <exec> 08└─No matter how long you try to train/teach dogs there's a limit of what you can teach them to do. The same goes for various humans. There are plenty of things that various humans will never be able to learn to do well enough for them or be paid high US wages to do them. People in the USA thinking the...
[19:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03wolfinator [3173] (Score:1) 02Re:No matter how long you try to train/teach dogs - 06Scarce Skills, Not Scarce Jobs - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:32] <exec> 08└─I agree - you definitely spell and think better most US workers. What is aggravating is not that fact, but that said US workers usually get a vote. The results of which we all have to live with...
[19:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Train them yourself - 06Scarce Skills, Not Scarce Jobs - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:34] <exec> 08└─Companies used to do this back in the day.
[19:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Train them yourself - 06Scarce Skills, Not Scarce Jobs - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:35] <exec> 08└─It will not happen until one of the big companies moves on it. Like Google or Apple. It has to be considered 'trendy' or it will never happen. My current company management is trying to ape the way Google works even though they never worked there... The problem is the training is 'outsourced' to cer...
[19:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02WARNING: INDUSTRY BUZZWORDS DETECTED! - 06Watch Out for "Automated Vehicle Occupancy Detection" - 988 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:53] <exec> 08└─The correct term is "image processing" but "video analytics" notches up the stock price an increment or so. Last I heard was that "analytics" involved privacy-invasive customer tracking for purposes of more effective advertising, but hey that's OK people who buy stocks don't know analytics from Shin...
[19:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score:2) 02Re:Hugh Pickens - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 1088 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:10] <exec> 08└─This is why it would be nice for some of the staff to do or give access to some willing (hear, hear! I've talked about this before, I'd love to do that) to do some rudimentary analysis of the data generated by SN's users. We could then have an idea as to the representation of articles, number of pos...
[19:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02Re:Hugh Pickens - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:11] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I can remember when technology news was about technology. Those were the days.
[19:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Is an app reviewing women Ok? Doubt it... - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:35] <exec> 08└─Three dumb girls aren't going to do anything smarter than one dumb girl can do while alone A few relevant posters: http://www.despair.com [despair.com] http://www.despair.com [despair.com] http://www.despair.com [despair.com]
[19:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Noble713 [4895] (Score:1) 02Re:Is an app reviewing women Ok? Doubt it... - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:36] <exec> 08└─Noble713 are you a girl? Not that there's anything wrong with that. Your list sounds like something very interesting to older men not the youth the original app is targeting. I was young once and the "hot or not" website more accurately reflects typical young man behavior than being interested in "c...
[19:14:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] 02Rules of the internet - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 1490 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:42] <exec> 08└─The whole concept has "gender-war flamebait" written all over it, but also "legal minefield". Doesn't anyone else remember when it was a given that "All girls on the internet are men"? How exactly do they enforce their "no guys" rule? Will they send someone round to check the contents of my underwea...
[19:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Rules of the internet - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:48] <exec> 08└─> Perhaps a romantic comedy? You joke, but I always thought Sleepless in Seattle (regarded by many people as the height of romance, apparently) should have been called "it's OK to be a stalker if you're as hot as Meg Ryan"
[19:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Rules of the internet - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:50] <exec> 08└─And you're so busy cherry picking the points you want to address and guiding the argument down an ever narrower path that you fail to acknowledge all the reasons that this app is a disaster waiting to happen. You grow.
[19:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Seems to be par for the course - 06The End: Corinthian Colleges Shutters Remaining 28 Campuses - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:15:36] <exec> 08└─All of the major for-profit schools have been caught using this business model. And it's completely unnecessary, because most would get a much better education for less money going through their state's public educational institutions (public high school / GED, community college, state university).
[19:17:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] 02Re:good deal - 06Valve Eats Crow, Backtracks on Steam Workshop Paid Mods - 2458 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:17:59] <exec> 08└─Broken is an understatement. The whole system was a complete boondoggle and was so bad that it blew people's minds that Valve could screw up and screw people so badly. Here is why: You make a mod for Game X and want to sell it for $5. Out of that $5, you get ... wait for it ... 25%. That's it. A $1....
[19:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:TL;DR - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:19:01] <exec> 08└─That's a fellow that goes by MikeeUSA online. I wonder if he is the one who keeps modding me down (a day later) for calling it out.
[19:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Re:Problem: Can't stop spying - 06Bruce Schneier on Increasing Use of Stingray - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:22:34] <exec> 08└─So what? Shor's algorithm doesn't break symmetric ciphers. And for public key crypto, replacement already in the works that are not susceptible to quantum attacks. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[19:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It won't work. - 06Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:23] <exec> 08└─I was just observing that you made a rather intelligent decision based on facts rather then emotion.
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[20:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Stop trying to sell power back to utilities - 06Open Sourcing Energy - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:10] <exec> 08└─how will this collection of solutions wrest control of the key "last mile" hardware from the hostile and entrenched utilities?
[20:13:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] 02Re:5+ years experience... - 06Scarce Skills, Not Scarce Jobs - 1911 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:21] <exec> 08└─you are SO RIGHT about jumping ship. I learned the hard way last time around ;( I thought I had a good boss. I thought I had a good job. I was actually given training on the job, too (did I really wake up in the year 2015??). and while I got calls from recruiters (even if they may not have been all...
[20:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:So where is the On-The-Job Training? - 06Scarce Skills, Not Scarce Jobs - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:34] <exec> 08└─I agree on the institutional knowledge thing. Very few people can be hired with enough institutional knowledge to jump right into the work. It can take weeks to figure out how some systems work and months to understand all their quirks.
[20:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:So where is the On-The-Job Training? - 06Scarce Skills, Not Scarce Jobs - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:35] <exec> 08└─Not only would this solve the job problem, it would also likely create a more loyal employee,
[20:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02"The next quarter" is the problem, not the solutio - 06Scarce Skills, Not Scarce Jobs - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:38] <exec> 08└─-n. Among the reasons I don't seek VC is that I have seen the smoking craters that resulted from "investors" who just wanted my employers to go public on wall street. If your horizon is only a quarter away, how can you carry out a plan that takes five years to complete?
[20:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:3, Insightful) 02workers who have the necessary skills - 06Scarce Skills, Not Scarce Jobs - 1956 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:44] <exec> 08└─You have to look at the other side, too, because workers who have the necessary skills are treated as disposable workers who are hired temporarily and then purged. A lot of skilled workers can't have careers any longer. They go from short-term job to short-term job, getting purged by one company and...
[20:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02replacement vs. displacement - 06Scarce Skills, Not Scarce Jobs - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:45] <exec> 08└─"Welty estimates that he would have to hire one and a half people for every robot, and that the robots are saving him a lot of money." If a robot + 1.5 humans are replacing a single human netting in profit then either a skilled labor have been transformed into a manual labor meaning the job is now t...
[20:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:replacement vs. displacement - 06Scarce Skills, Not Scarce Jobs - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:47] <exec> 08└─You misunderstand what was said: Welty, the CEO of Quiet Logistics: "If you had to replace the robots with people, how many people would you have to hire?" Welty estimates that he would have to hire one and a half people for every robot, and that the robots are saving him a lot of money.
[20:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:replacement vs. displacement - 06Scarce Skills, Not Scarce Jobs - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:48] <exec> 08└─Think of it this way the robot does the work of 20 people and does it perfectly. But you still need 3 people for every 2 robots you buy. Half a person is an economics aberration. You either hire someone or you dont.
[20:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:important fact missing from the summary - 06Watch Out for "Automated Vehicle Occupancy Detection" - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:59] <exec> 08└─That might be what they say the "point" is, but those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. New technology comes out that could be used to violate people's privacy. Government/companies claim they won't do such evil things. Government/companies use said technology to violate people'...
[20:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Only 15%? - 06Watch Out for "Automated Vehicle Occupancy Detection" - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:06] <exec> 08└─This is off-topic but I'm curious if that number fluctuates when news stories of gov't or law enforcement scandal air.
[20:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Only 15%? - 06Watch Out for "Automated Vehicle Occupancy Detection" - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:08] <exec> 08└─No. 85% of the people in the HOV belong there. 90 to 99%% of the single-occupant vehicles are -stopped- in the 2-to-8 non-HOV lanes. 15% of the HOV occupants cheating usually only means a few percent of the overall traffic.
[20:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Much ado about little? - 06Watch Out for "Automated Vehicle Occupancy Detection" - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:14] <exec> 08└─Again, don't be fooled. [soylentnews.org] How many times can people possibly be fooled by this "No, we won't abuse this surveillance network we're setting up, just trust us! We'll only use it for Innocuous Purpose X!" garbage? It's ridiculous. The service will only be "optional" up until enough of y...
[20:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:WARNING: INDUSTRY BUZZWORDS DETECTED! - 06Watch Out for "Automated Vehicle Occupancy Detection" - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:16] <exec> 08└─The point isn't the buzzwords, which any company will throw at you, it's that these systems are becoming more accurate.
[20:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02More input to self-driving algorithms - 06Watch Out for "Automated Vehicle Occupancy Detection" - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:17] <exec> 08└─A car forced to decide between two collisions could use this to determine how/where to strike another vehicle.
[20:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:More input to self-driving algorithms - 06Watch Out for "Automated Vehicle Occupancy Detection" - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:19] <exec> 08└─Deploying the overhead drone to assess the number of passengers in the limo-tinted SUV was found to have convenient side-effects: The data never made it on time, but the crash video really helped the cops.
[20:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Hugh Pickens - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:37] <exec> 08└─Just because I don't comment on an article, doesn't mean I don't want to read it. I'd be sad if the site switched exclusively to "conversation-generator" social and controversy type articles. I'd be equally sad if it went to pure tech. I like the current mix.
[20:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:Hugh Pickens - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:39] <exec> 08└─It is the second obvious gender click-baiting article in 24 hours. Lets some outrage, that will generate some clicks!
[20:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02Re:Where's the upside? - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:51] <exec> 08└─Splodus wrote :- "Those who are good at manipulating first dates will garner more ............. doesn't take into account what people are like when you get to know them." As ever in this world. The part I have replaced with dots was not needed.
[20:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Only half? - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:15:01] <exec> 08└─She was awesome for me too.
[20:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Is an app reviewing women Ok? Doubt it... - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:15:06] <exec> 08└─getting too much of their "advice" from questionable and inexperienced sources such as their peers, the Internet, pop stars
[20:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Is an app reviewing women Ok? Doubt it... - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:15:10] <exec> 08└─every woman on the island
[20:15:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03ghost [4467] (Score:1) 02Re:This is hardly news - 06Google Wants First Refusal on Patents You're Selling - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:15:41] <exec> 08└─Google "gave [bloomberg.com]" patents to HTC which then immediately sued Apple. I say "gave" because a judge threw them out [fosspatents.com] on grounds that Google still retained ownership and HTC thus didn't have standing.
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[21:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02My father had an MSEE. He knew FORTRAN. - 06Open Sourcing Energy - 879 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:17] <exec> 08└─He spent most of his time in grad school poring over Hollerith decks. He told me he was modelling the North American power grid. If anything drops off line anywhere in the grid - say because a car hits a power pole - all hell breaks loose. It's a significant computational problem to figure out how t...
[21:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:2) 02Re:Stop trying to sell power back to utilities - 06Open Sourcing Energy - 2644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:18] <exec> 08└─First, I think it's worth noting that solar customers are the most profitable ones the utilities have. You're familiar with the concept of "buy low, sell high"? The utilities buy green energy (the most valuable kind) from their solar customers with utility credits. The utilities sell that energy to...
[21:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Stop trying to sell power back to utilities - 06Open Sourcing Energy - 1149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:19] <exec> 08└─The big problem is insurance, a baseball to a panel is a cost someone at my income level can eat with only a little blinking, but the median $30K/yr dude would be pretty much Fed from a simple baseball. Then again that median dude living in his median $300K house he's pretty much screwed the first t...
[21:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:2) 02Re:Stop trying to sell power back to utilities - 06Open Sourcing Energy - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:21] <exec> 08└─I don't know about other panels, but mine are basically bulletproof. They'll protect my roof from hailstorms as big as they come...but, of course, just the parts that're covered by the panels.... b&
[21:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Stop trying to sell power back to utilities - 06Open Sourcing Energy - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:23] <exec> 08└─often at retail rates
[21:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02power grids need to change function - 06Open Sourcing Energy - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:24] <exec> 08└─ultimately, things are going to go one of two ways: everyone goes solar with battery for local storage and the grid will be reserved for power hogs who use more electricity than they can generate and/or store. this will result in more power companies failing but you have a significantly reduced depe...
[21:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:power grids need to change function - 06Open Sourcing Energy - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:26] <exec> 08└─this is the power companies best move but it will be a costly investment
[21:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:5+ years experience... - 06Scarce Skills, Not Scarce Jobs - 2456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:37] <exec> 08└─it was a 'no end' contract; one that I was led to believe would be extended until they 'made us perm'. my whole group was all contractors and after a year now, still NO ONE has been made perm even though those poor souls still left are hopeful that one day, they'll get the same company paid benefits...
[21:13:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02Typo - 06Scarce Skills, Not Scarce Jobs - 120 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:39] <exec> 08└─they can’t hire enough workers, at least not enough workers who have the necessary skills to deal with new technology.
[21:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:"The next quarter" is the problem, not the solu - 06Scarce Skills, Not Scarce Jobs - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:52] <exec> 08└─Have a string of quarter goals that fit within the five year plan. That wouldn't happen though as that would require planning and initiative.
[21:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:replacement vs. displacement - 06Scarce Skills, Not Scarce Jobs - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:01] <exec> 08└─Think of it this way the robot does the work of 20 people and does it perfectly. But you still need 3 people for every 2 robots you buy. Half a person is an economics aberration. You either hire someone or you dont.
[21:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:replacement vs. displacement - 06Scarce Skills, Not Scarce Jobs - 997 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:03] <exec> 08└─Seems starting outside of context (the question asked) since it's more interesting to show the fallacy there and then moving to the obvious fallacy is too confusing despite the fact I selectively quoted the answer alone. Let me rephrase things more explicitly by starting with the less interesting in...
[21:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:cat seats? - 06Watch Out for "Automated Vehicle Occupancy Detection" - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:14] <exec> 08└─Thankfully I don't live in a 3rd world shithole that has stuff like this, either the lanes or the Orwell spy gear,
[21:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:cat seats? - 06Watch Out for "Automated Vehicle Occupancy Detection" - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:15] <exec> 08└─meant to say Where do you live where you don't have HOV lanes?
[21:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Flyingmoose [4369] (Score:1) 02Re:Subject goes here - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:15:05] <exec> 08└─I think it's more of a hipster thing. You sure think about penises a lot though.
[21:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Subject goes here - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:15:06] <exec> 08└─Well they started it with the freaking didgeridoo, I can't help what the thing looks like. If they had #spelunker or #cavernExplorer @tourOfTheGrandCanyon then we'd be talking about girlie fun-parts to be on topic.
[21:16:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is hardly news - 06Google Wants First Refusal on Patents You're Selling - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:16:03] <exec> 08└─Google is a predator looking for desperate people willing to sell their inventions for pennies. Like used-car salesmen inflating the value of anything they sell, while finding a million problems with the same item when the buy. A patent they consider useful to themselves will "unfortunately" not fin...
[21:16:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02First Corinthians - 06The End: Corinthian Colleges Shutters Remaining 28 Campuses - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:38] <exec> 08└─First Corinthians might be done, but watch out for Second Corinthians.
[21:16:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Dr Branesergen ... call on line 3 - 06 Long Distance Surgery Robots Easy to Hack - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:16:49] <exec> 08└─Good for business, bad for people. Soon enough someone will rent these out with payments required for each period, or the machine would lock up. This will also reduce the number of surgeons needed. And surgeons are expensive (for good reasons). Then later these will (of course) need to be controlled...
[21:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score:1) 02Re:Warthog? - 06House Committee's Proposal Would Block Retirement of A-10 Warthog - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:17:37] <exec> 08└─That's just as true for an actual warthog.
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[22:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03calzone [2181] (Score:1) 02Sarah will be vindicated! - 06Australia on Path to Join Supercontinent 'Amasia' - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:11] <exec> 08└─"...you can actually see walk to Russia from land here in Alaska!"
[22:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Stop trying to sell power back to utilities - 06Open Sourcing Energy - 1085 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:24] <exec> 08└─How about a foot of snow followed by a rain storm? Happened where I live, collapsed quite a couple house roofs. I was outside with my roof rake clearing the snow off in the rain, quite annoying although collapsing the house would have been more annoying. I would imagine it would take a lot less to s...
[22:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03snick [1408] (Score:2) 02Re:power grids need to change function - 06Open Sourcing Energy - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:28] <exec> 08└─1. everyone goes solar with battery for local storage and the grid will be reserved for power hogs who use more electricity than they can generate and/or store.
[22:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Female Dating - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:54] <exec> 08└─Sounds like Ethanol-fueled has an armpit fetish
[22:15:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is an app reviewing women Ok? Doubt it... - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:15:38] <exec> 08└─And in an era of universal condom use and AIDS nobody seems to care one way or another if someone does it with two people per day or per weekend or twenty, I mean thats what condoms are for right?
[22:15:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:This is hardly news - 06Google Wants First Refusal on Patents You're Selling - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:15:56] <exec> 08└─HTC now has more ammunition in its fight to fend off multiple patent-infringement claims lodged by Apple
[22:16:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Lawsuit is coming to your ass soon.. - 06 Long Distance Surgery Robots Easy to Hack - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:47] <exec> 08└─These insecure facilities and equipment designers are begging for a flood of serious lawsuits for negligence and incompetence. This is not a office production reduction but life altering impact. If courts are gamed then there's always the hard traditions from the old days to ensure a negative feedba...
[22:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02USAF and the ground-support mission - 06House Committee's Proposal Would Block Retirement of A-10 Warthog - 760 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:17:22] <exec> 08└─the AF never used to have anything like an A10 I was thinking of the AD-4 Skyraider [wikipedia.org] that the ground troops in Vietnam liked to see show up. developed by the Army Air Corps ...then I looked that up and damned if you weren't right. (I should know better than to second-guess a hawk on w...
[22:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Almost Unicorns - 06How to Attract Female Engineers - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:18:05] <exec> 08└─I used to just think I would prefer a female Hairyfoot; now I am sure I do.
[22:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Two undiscussed points - 06Where the Islamic State Gets Its Weapons - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:19:30] <exec> 08└─What are you trying to say here? I really don't see the point of it. What can't be debated is there's no logical reason to think they would be hurting for money by any interpretation of mental gymnastics and rationalization and no evidence they're actually hurting for money observationally, and the...
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[23:13:16] <exec> 08└─I don't want to sound like one of those "How is this news?" dweebs, but I thought it was known that all the continents on the planet form a supercontinent and break up every few hundred million years? What is new here? I imagine I've missed something.
[23:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02Re:Supercontinents - 06Australia on Path to Join Supercontinent 'Amasia' - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:17] <exec> 08└─Well, this one will "Amaze Ya". And somebody spent a bunch of UN dollars to conjecture, just so.
[23:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Stop trying to sell power back to utilities - 06Open Sourcing Energy - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:33] <exec> 08└─Your load sharing idea is most likely outcome. Probably not even bother with storage or reselling. Too many watts, don't use them. Its just getting too dang cheap.
[23:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:power grids need to change function - 06Open Sourcing Energy - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:37] <exec> 08└─The problem isn't (just) that utilities are evil. The grid is only economically feasible if the overhead is shared by the majority of people.
[23:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Big peak users - 06Open Sourcing Energy - 836 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:38] <exec> 08└─I wonder how this sea change in the grid and the utility companies is going to play out for industrial users with large peak requirements? For example, I know of a transonic wind tunnel (currently validating CFD solutions for aircraft) that has something over 20,000 horsepower, to run the big fan an...
[23:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:5+ years experience... - 06Scarce Skills, Not Scarce Jobs - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:53] <exec> 08└─So how long do you have to stay in order to avoid the job hopper label? Or how about lying about your last salary? if it's less than a year back it ought to possible to do this even better.
[23:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:important fact missing from the summary - 06Watch Out for "Automated Vehicle Occupancy Detection" - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:34] <exec> 08└─Better up, buy an inflatable Barbara.. Dual use without export restrictions. ;) Add computer controlled pump such that it will automatically inflate only when it's needed.
[23:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Straw man - 06Watch Out for "Automated Vehicle Occupancy Detection" - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:53] <exec> 08└─Who said the straw man could'nt do any good? ;-) Oh and some glue and clothes. I'm sure inflatable Barbara will service this device properly ;)
[23:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Hugh Pickens - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:15:10] <exec> 08└─This is a sight filled with tech people.
[23:15:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02Re:Hugh Pickens - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 820 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:15:12] <exec> 08└─I started trying to contribute a steady stream of articles after LamX raised a flag weeks ago, and I've been paying attention to the number of posts each sort attracts (and also articles submitted by others). The pure science articles attract maybe a dozen posts, tops. New gadgets or services do bet...
[23:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02yep, non-nerd stuff with nerds - 06The Social Media App for Women, By Women, About Men - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:15:17] <exec> 08└─Half the point of the nerd news is just to scare away the non-nerds. I want to discuss politics with nerds, so scaring away the non-nerds is important. About 85% nerdy stuff ought to do the job.
[23:16:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score:2) 02Re:Government involvement - well intentioned as us - 06The End: Corinthian Colleges Shutters Remaining 28 Campuses - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:16:41] <exec> 08└─In the US, educational debt now exceeds housing debt. Educational debt became a bigger bubble after it was exempted from bankruptcy proceedings. That is, anyone declaring themselves bankrupt still owes their student loans. Admittedly, a minority of students took courses with the intention of followi...
[23:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02Re:I must have missed the memo... - 06Valve Eats Crow, Backtracks on Steam Workshop Paid Mods - 1294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:19:16] <exec> 08└─Yeah, 'dyingtolive' explained the root of the outrage, but I have to admit to being caught off gaurd by the shitstorm. I quess that's the effect to expect when I'm caught thinking inside my own little box. I understand your point of view on this, but mine is different. For myself, I'm going to mod a...
[23:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02Re:I must have missed the memo... - 06Valve Eats Crow, Backtracks on Steam Workshop Paid Mods - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:19:18] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't play Bethesda games without the modding community. If anything, they should be paying the modders.
[23:20:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:TL;DR - 06Writers Pull Out of PEN Gala Over Charlie Hebdo Award - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:20:26] <exec> 08└─Given what happened, you may be underestimating the risk.
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