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[00:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Spam) 02I'm Jeff Bezos and you can suck my dick - 06Amazon Now Collects Sales Tax on Purchases in Ohio - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:58] <exec> 08└─▬▬▬.◙.▬▬▬ ═▂▄▄▓▄▄▂ ◢◤ █▀▀████▄▄▄▄◢◤ █▄ █ーJ ███▀▀▀▀▀▀▀╬ LINUX MADE ME SO RICH ◥█████◤ /▌ ══╩══╩══▬▬▬.◙.▬▬▬ I HAVE A MERCEDES CHOPPER ON THE HELIPAD OF MY ROOF!!! - J...
[00:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Avoiding Sales Tax - 06Amazon Now Collects Sales Tax on Purchases in Ohio - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:59] <exec> 08└─I live in a state with about 9% sales tax and Amazon collects it on lots of stuff, some of the 3rd party "fullfilled by amazon" stuff gets taxed, some of it doesn't and i haven't figured out exactly why yet. But now whenever I shop at Amazon I make sure to hit up a couple of other places that I know...
[00:13:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Avoiding Sales Tax - 06Amazon Now Collects Sales Tax on Purchases in Ohio - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:01] <exec> 08└─Or just have someone re-mail the packages.. ;)
[00:13:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Avoiding Sales Tax - 06Amazon Now Collects Sales Tax on Purchases in Ohio - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:02] <exec> 08└─> Or just have someone re-mail the packages.. ;) Because that is not the biggest fucking PITA ever.
[00:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Bezos is just like Bill Gates - 06Amazon Now Collects Sales Tax on Purchases in Ohio - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:04] <exec> 08└─Amazon knew they'd have to start paying sales tax eventually, but they put it off as long as possible - and they're still putting it off in half of the United States according to TFA - so they could drive more big competitors (Borders, Circuit City, etc) out of business, and recycle the extra profit...
[00:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bezos is just like Bill Gates - 06Amazon Now Collects Sales Tax on Purchases in Ohio - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:06] <exec> 08└─They are not doing anybody a favor by doing business in your state, any more than Wal-Mart was in the '70s and '80s when they came in to metropolitan areas across the country and drove out half of the mom and pop businesses on main street.
[00:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lunix Nutcase [3913] (Score:2) 02Re:/. tore apart this piece-of-shit submission. - 06American Pharoah Beats Science to Win Triple Crown - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:25] <exec> 08└─Hugh Pickens has standards for his submissions? Since when?
[00:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score:1) 02Re:New SSL Cert On The Way - 06Site Issues [Updated] - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:45] <exec> 08└─I'm continuing to do work to get performance for Firefox to be decent.
[00:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score:1) 02Re:y'know... - 06Site Issues [Updated] - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:06] <exec> 08└─You should generate an account and post under your moniker. You are just as anonymous that way and you are accountable, to a limited extent, for what you say. Also it is easier to make sure that what you say is from you and not from some other anonymous coward. Like you said, welcome to 1990. You ca...
[00:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:y'know... - 06Site Issues [Updated] - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:07] <exec> 08└─Caveat, if they don't use javascript, their SOL, but then again that's because their employers broke their browsers (only a few crusty gray haired ones still do that, and it's stupid as hell).
[00:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score:4, Informative) 02Blank moderation drop down? - 06Site Issues [Updated] - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:15] <exec> 08└─I was doing moderation today and noticed that sometimes the moderation drop-down contains all blank entries. I have to reload the page to get the moderation names (Normal, Insightful, Informative, etc.) in the drop-down when this happens. I'll not mod blind! I'm on Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x8...
[00:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03gman003 [4155] (Score:2) 02Re:Blank moderation drop down? - 06Site Issues [Updated] - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:17] <exec> 08└─I can confirm this problem as well. So far, every page I've visited has blank moderation dropdowns until I refresh. Even if I've been to and refreshed a page before, browsing back to it from the front page causes it to blank out again. Looking at the HTML, I see it's sending options like this: <opti...
[00:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bitrotRnotbitrot [5444] (Score:1) 02Re:North America - 06European Parliament Divided on Air Passenger Privacy - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:30] <exec> 08└─It is absolutely relevant. For those of us pushing back against this crap then it is important to get our home turf in order before correcting the international problems. It is all relevant.
[00:15:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02In a Free Society... - 06FBI Official: "Build Technological Solutions to Prevent Encryption Above All Else" - 179 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:14] <exec> 08└─In a free society the job of the police is to make the lives of the citizens easier. In an authoritarian society the job of the citizens is to make the lives of the police easier.
[00:15:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02Yeah sure … - 06FBI Official: "Build Technological Solutions to Prevent Encryption Above All Else" - 203 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:15] <exec> 08└─Because the terrorists would rely on broken encryption from the U.S. instead of non-broken encryption they get from elsewhere. Especially if the U.S. openly tell everyone that their encryption is broken.
[00:16:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hash14 [1102] 02Probably not - 06AT&T Will Respect Some Net Neutrality Rules... If it Gets DirecTV - 1069 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:06] <exec> 08└─Using the Comcast-NBC merger as an example, there were plenty of rules that Comcast agreed to follow and subsequently ignored. Apparently, during the attempted Comcast-TWC merger, so many revelations came out during the review process that it became apparent that Comcast wasn't following the rules t...
[00:16:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score:1) 02Re:Sad day - 06Black Eye for the Red Cross - 928 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:16:33] <exec> 08└─There is another thing that I do not like... If you donate to RC with a specific tragedy being the intended target of your funds they do not apply it to that target, the place the money in a general fund. My method has been to simply donate to the local chapter which, if I understand correctly, goes...
[00:16:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Soybean [5020] (Score:1) 02Re:You don't understand charity. - 06Black Eye for the Red Cross - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:16:50] <exec> 08└─THIS is how philanthropic tax dodges work. Ask Bill Gates. He pays his tax contribution to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, THEN claims a salary off it. He's double dipping right there, AND avoiding a huge chunk of tax liability.
[00:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Maybe they should have brought the police in - 06Company Demands DNA Swabs From Employees During Hunt for Rogue Pooper - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:34] <exec> 08└─There are legal ethical, and practical limits to evidence collection though. That applies to both cops and private citizens. Besides, they appear to have missed a few obvious things like it probably happened some time before it was discovered, so they may have been looking at the wrong shift. Also,...
[00:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Maybe they should have brought the police in - 06Company Demands DNA Swabs From Employees During Hunt for Rogue Pooper - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:37] <exec> 08└─Or the Hardly Boys [wikipedia.org].
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[01:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bezos is just like Bill Gates - 06Amazon Now Collects Sales Tax on Purchases in Ohio - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:04] <exec> 08└─You might prefer the shopping experience of going to Wal-Mart and filling your shopping cart, but they've hurt a lot of towns located within a few miiles of their supercenters, usually 30 to 50 miles away from a big city. Many of the town centers now have a couple big box stores (including Wal-Mart,...
[01:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:What a fucking shitty submission. - 06American Pharoah Beats Science to Win Triple Crown - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:19] <exec> 08└─How is this a troll? The story was on Slashdot, but whether or not it was isn't really the issue: the story is terrible. As a publicity piece for horse racing, it's great, but that is the point: it's a publicity piece for horse racing. There are places to go for that. Irrelevant story, inappropriate...
[01:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score:1) 02England Night Sky Lit Up ... - 06England Night Sky Lit Up By Rare Noctilucent Cloud - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:24] <exec> 08└─Are there any problems with tripod carnivorous plants [wikipedia.org] in England this morning? (Sorry, couldn't resist it)
[01:15:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03penguinoid [5331] (Score:1) 02Re:Stop using People - 06Black Eye for the Red Cross - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:15:46] <exec> 08└─Is it really that convenient to live in a house (consider the cost/inconvenience of heating, repairing, maintaining individual kitchens, bathrooms, yard, etc)? Personally, I really enjoyed living in a dorm, with a cafeteria.
[01:16:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fraud - 06Black Eye for the Red Cross - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:16:19] <exec> 08└─If you really use incident like this one to keep you from making ANY contribution to ANY charity then you're easily one of the biggest/greediest idiots on the Internet, which is saying a hell of a lot.
[01:16:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fraud - 06Black Eye for the Red Cross - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:16:20] <exec> 08└─Give to OxFam. The CEO lives in a dinky little house.
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[02:12:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03nyder [4525] (Score:2) 02Big Corporation doesn't learn? - 06Apple Is Having Its Microsoft Moment - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:55] <exec> 08└─So what we have here is the normal big corporation that thinks it's doing great because based on the last 10 years, they've been kicking ass. No need to fix security bugs in old products because we only care about our latest offerings and by the time everyone figures the bugs in there, we'll be ont...
[02:12:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Hugh's edited submission has no links - 06Apple Is Having Its Microsoft Moment - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:56] <exec> 08└─They're present in the original submission (hooray! a win for the original submission link).
[02:12:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hugh's edited submission has no links - 06Apple Is Having Its Microsoft Moment - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:12:58] <exec> 08└─haven't looked at original sub, but ticho's looks way better, but blocks of text are just not my thing.
[02:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Did they consider the data? - 06American Pharoah Beats Science to Win Triple Crown - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:34] <exec> 08└─I see a list of 12 winners in the last 100 years, so this is something that happens about once every ten years. That is not so rare... http://en.m.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[02:14:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Beryllium Sphere (r) (5062) 02I appreciate the regular updates on site news - 06Site Issues [Updated] - 65 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:21] <exec> 08└─You are in the running for the META Editorial Transparency Award.
[02:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Joke country - 06AT&T Will Respect Some Net Neutrality Rules... If it Gets DirecTV - 734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:15:30] <exec> 08└─And what by consequences do they agree to be penalised by if they decide to go back on their word? Their competitors may have no such restrictions imposed on them if they manage to prevail, so AT&T will have everything to lose if they keep their promises. There is no such thing as 'word of honour' t...
[02:16:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TLA [5128] 02Re:You don't understand charity. - 06Black Eye for the Red Cross - 956 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:16:17] <exec> 08└─life gets interesting if you donate your tax bill to a charity that YOU OWN. Even more so if you don't declare it. THIS is how philanthropic tax dodges work. Ask Bill Gates. He pays his tax contribution to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, THEN claims a salary off it. He's double dipping right th...
[02:16:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fraud - 06Black Eye for the Red Cross - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:16:30] <exec> 08└─If you use someone's desire to actually do some good in the world, rather than funding the pay check of the wealthy, in an attempt to bully them into just funding the wealthy then I think you have the problem. You've no idea what this person is doing. He could be deployed, a medic, he could be sitti...
[02:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Theorist - 06Have Some Physicists Abandoned the Empirical Method? - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:17:46] <exec> 08└─Exactly my point. His Nobel was intimately tied to experiment. And don't forget his Brownian motion paper which essentially experimentally demonstrated that stuff was made of atoms.
[02:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03GeminiDomino [661] (Score:2) 02Re:Use the repository, playonlinux is nice too - 06Ask Soylent: Where to Get Spyware-Free Apps - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:19:08] <exec> 08└─Its difficult to filter outgoing traffic.
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[03:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:Avoiding Sales Tax - 06Amazon Now Collects Sales Tax on Purchases in Ohio - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:13:07] <exec> 08└─Or just have someone re-mail the packages.. ;)
[03:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:/. tore apart this piece-of-shit submission. - 06American Pharoah Beats Science to Win Triple Crown - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:13:29] <exec> 08└─Never mind what slashdot does. If reddit or fox news (or whoever) exposed bullshit news post for what it is, why is it still posted here?
[03:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:y'know... - 06Site Issues [Updated] - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:17] <exec> 08└─Fuck that third party garbage. Can no one build their own websites these days?
[03:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:In a Free Society... - 06FBI Official: "Build Technological Solutions to Prevent Encryption Above All Else" - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:15:28] <exec> 08└─Yes. The minute someone suggests that we surrender our liberties for safety and to make the jobs of law enforcement easier is the very minute you know that they don't really care about the principles a truly free society should aspire to. "Privacy above all other things, including safety and freedo...
[03:15:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Enough with The Register submissions. - 06FBI Official: "Build Technological Solutions to Prevent Encryption Above All Else" - 1257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:15:53] <exec> 08└─I don't know what process other regular submitters use, but mine means I often submit several in a row from the same source, because it's efficient. Doing it that way means about 5-7 minutes per submission. Running around to a dozen sites, scrolling through all their AJAX- and javascript-happy media...
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[04:12:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02systemd is a bigger concern. - 06Ubuntu Software Center is Mixing Proprietary and Free Software in a Dangerous Way - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:55] <exec> 08└─It doesn't matter what happens after the Ubuntu system has booted if it doesn't even boot at all thanks to some problem with systemd.
[04:12:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:3, Insightful) 02not about confusion - 06Ubuntu Software Center is Mixing Proprietary and Free Software in a Dangerous Way - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:57] <exec> 08└─this is not about people being confused about software licenses, this is about libre software being put in direct competition with proprietary software. i'm all about libre software but sometimes libre software doesn't measure up to the capabilities or design of proprietary software. if this was rea...
[04:12:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:not about confusion - 06Ubuntu Software Center is Mixing Proprietary and Free Software in a Dangerous Way - 735 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:12:58] <exec> 08└─The actually-taking-away-freedom-but-pretending-we're-granting-freedom tactic isn't new. It's what the GPL does. It takes away the ability to use and redistribute the software freely, by forcing modifications to be shared if binaries are distributed. This takes away the freedom to make and distribut...
[04:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Dropped Ubuntu before Unity hit the streets - 06Ubuntu Software Center is Mixing Proprietary and Free Software in a Dangerous Way - 801 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:00] <exec> 08└─I rather liked Ubuntu until their decisions about Unity. When they decided to go with a Metro desktop, it was clear to me that Ubuntu wasn't going in a direction that I wanted to go. Yeah, there were other things that bothered me about Canonical, but until Unity they were all little things. Sorry to...
[04:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Flag that software and make it an option - 06Ubuntu Software Center is Mixing Proprietary and Free Software in a Dangerous Way - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:01] <exec> 08└─What's the problem? all non-free software could be flagged as such and then there can be an option to enable that bait software? I can understand the tactic of not enabling a convenient path to install bait software to avoid such software corporations from getting a foothold in the ecosystem. [Poett...
[04:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hugh's edited submission has no links - 06Apple Is Having Its Microsoft Moment - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:13:12] <exec> 08└─Can't you make a single post w/o saying F***, or similar? Dude, you have a problem.
[04:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:Hugh's edited submission has no links - 06Apple Is Having Its Microsoft Moment - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:13:13] <exec> 08└─Fuck you, dumb fuck.
[04:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Re:Support status (point 3) - 06Apple Is Having Its Microsoft Moment - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:13:20] <exec> 08└─I think they need a big culture change to start taking security seriously.
[04:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimios [201] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Patch tuesday - 06Apple Is Having Its Microsoft Moment - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:22] <exec> 08└─I thought that patch Tuesday was only good for the enterprise users, for home users it means you get a fix for a bug with a 1-30 days delay even if the bug was trivial to fix. It also means that black hats can time the release of new exploits for the days following patch Tuesday to try an maximize t...
[04:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What the fuck is wrong with this site? - 06Apple Is Having Its Microsoft Moment - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:24] <exec> 08└─I now see OK The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator, admin@soylentnews.org and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error. More inf...
[04:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02overhyped BS - 06Apple Is Having Its Microsoft Moment - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:25] <exec> 08└─Apple is now where Microsoft was a decade ago.
[04:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Re:overhyped BS - 06Apple Is Having Its Microsoft Moment - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:13:27] <exec> 08└─I agree with the assessment that Apple is where Microsoft was a decade ago.... mostly. It has developed some serious security problems in recent years and the latest iterations of MacOS are major bloatware and performance nightmares, particularly on older equipment. But MacOS's security problems are...
[04:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02What's the problem with irregular patch schedule? - 06Apple Is Having Its Microsoft Moment - 1180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:29] <exec> 08└─> 1. Apple's security updates are irregular and infrequent. What's the problem with that? Security issues doesn't show up with regularity. When an exploit shows up it must be better to make a patch and distribute it asap? Why wait for exploits to be used on users? > 2. Secrecy. It's Apple.. > 3....
[04:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Avoiding Sales Tax - 06Amazon Now Collects Sales Tax on Purchases in Ohio - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:13:38] <exec> 08└─One could setup a shed with a mailbox and a remote operated robot ..
[04:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Avoiding Sales Tax - 06Amazon Now Collects Sales Tax on Purchases in Ohio - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:13:40] <exec> 08└─> One could setup a shed with a mailbox and a remote operated robot .. And rainbows could shine out of my ass.
[04:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Bezos is just like Bill Gates - 06Amazon Now Collects Sales Tax on Purchases in Ohio - 1064 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:13:43] <exec> 08└─I grew up long before Wal-Mart came along. I know first hand that it was difficult to find things sometimes. But, I NEVER resented paying the prices necessary to get the goodies I needed. It was part of business. Yeah, I KNEW that the guy a couple states away knew of a place where he could buy the s...
[04:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Oregon - 06Amazon Now Collects Sales Tax on Purchases in Ohio - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:45] <exec> 08└─I just happened to be in Oregon on business last week and made sure to stop by an Apple Store near Portland to buy a new sales tax-free iMac. I made sure to use cash, of course, so there is no trace of the transaction with my name attached to it. The tax savings was about $107, not chump change to b...
[04:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What a fucking shitty submission. - 06American Pharoah Beats Science to Win Triple Crown - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:13:59] <exec> 08└─It's obviously not a troll. It's just another example of how bad the moderating here has gotten. It really is worse than at Slashdot these days. At least there are enough different people there at Slashdot with mod points that bad modding gets corrected. Here it just gets worse and worse, as it's on...
[04:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khchung [457] (Score:2) 02Re:Does it need to work? - 06Anti-Cheating Drone Will Hover over Test-Takers in China - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:15:31] <exec> 08└─Fixed camera CCTV systems (with or without PTZ) and radio signal scanning doesn't need a drone and would achieve the same results, if not better.
[04:16:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Enough with The Register submissions. - 06FBI Official: "Build Technological Solutions to Prevent Encryption Above All Else" - 2044 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:16:19] <exec> 08└─Those "crackpots and wackos," as you term them, had the moxy to fork Slashdot to Soylent when Dice began killing the cherished community that we had all loved for the better part of 17 years, nearly the entire history of the Web and a goodly chunk of many of our professional technical careers. They...
[04:16:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Enough with The Register submissions. - 06FBI Official: "Build Technological Solutions to Prevent Encryption Above All Else" - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:16:28] <exec> 08└─Ad hominem spotted! Attacking the source instead of the information itself means we can simply ignore you.
[04:16:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Is this the same FBI? - 06FBI Official: "Build Technological Solutions to Prevent Encryption Above All Else" - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:16:35] <exec> 08└─What they really want this and other surveillance powers for is domestic "crime" and control.
[04:16:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ahh come on already Guberment.... - 06FBI Official: "Build Technological Solutions to Prevent Encryption Above All Else" - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:16:40] <exec> 08└─give U.S. citizens a reason to put that "right to bear arms" to good use
[04:17:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score:2) 02Re:Joke country - 06AT&T Will Respect Some Net Neutrality Rules... If it Gets DirecTV - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:17:02] <exec> 08└─Hmm... yeah, no. I don't think one (monopolistic) company pressuring other companies to follow an agreement that all parties never agreed to will work out too well in the end for anyone -- particularly us, the consumers. Besides, I think it more likely your second option (ignoring rules at will) is...
[04:17:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Joke country - 06AT&T Will Respect Some Net Neutrality Rules... If it Gets DirecTV - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:17:04] <exec> 08└─One perhaps could exploit the fact that these corporations are big and that they take time to act?
[04:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Sad day - 06Black Eye for the Red Cross - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:17:37] <exec> 08└─It sounds like they're used to appearing in places where the infrastructure is basically gone, providing their own logistical support and keeping people alive until they can start their own rebuilding work, but have absolutely no clue how to handle supporting a rebuilding effort. This isn't normally...
[04:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Years back - 06Black Eye for the Red Cross - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:18:01] <exec> 08└─...and what exactly (or even incidentally) does your choice in religion have to do with that? With anything?
[04:20:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:...and therefore... - 06Have Some Physicists Abandoned the Empirical Method? - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:20:35] <exec> 08└─The "opposition" as you call it is only not interested in hearing you if you're spewing the same recycled bullshit that's been thoroughly debunked. They will readily listen to facts and evidence showing the contrary if you can produce any.
[04:20:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:...and therefore... - 06Have Some Physicists Abandoned the Empirical Method? - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:20:38] <exec> 08└─Its called "thermal equilibrium". Even if some areas of the atmosphere have lower concentrations of CO2 than others, they're still constantly moving towards thermal equilibrium with the areas where the CO2 concentrations are higher. The areas with higher concentrations will generally have a higher t...
[04:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Mars Orbiter was not a failure of the units - 06Presidential Metrics: Lincoln Chafee and le Système International - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:54] <exec> 08└─What am I inventing? There's going to be cost and error introduced with switching over from one standard to another. But I think the whole argument is absurd in the first place. "We must go metric because of a 15 year old accident with a spacecraft". You should have a better argument than that for...
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