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[00:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Sad Note: - 06Memoirs of a Space Engineer - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:09] <exec> 08└─Doug also worked on the British Atomic Weapons Tests at Maralinga in South Australia in the late 1950s, and as a result of radiation received there he now has bone marrow cancer (myelofibrosis) which has forced his premature retirement. Doug passed away on Tuesday the 7th of May 2002. He will be gre...
[00:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Sad Note: - 06Memoirs of a Space Engineer - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:10] <exec> 08└─That's the kind of shit that overachievers have to deal with. They're willing to kill themselves to serve their fucking employers. Jesus, there is so much in this world to enjoy and many live fruitful lives enjoying fruitful things. You'd think the population of the Anglosphere has turned into China...
[00:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:I blame Texas - 06Record-breaking Heavy Rainfall Events Increased under Global Warming - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:44] <exec> 08└─Oops!
[00:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Another correct prediction by scifi - 06Record-breaking Heavy Rainfall Events Increased under Global Warming - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:49] <exec> 08└─Yes, assume I meant the movie...
[00:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Poorly designed game - 06How Magic the Gathering Began, and Where it Goes Next - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:11] <exec> 08└─As much as I liked playing back in the day. It is a rather poorly designed game. The rarity of cards seems to have little to do with power and the casting costs can be ridiculous. And there are so many different combination that planning for the eventualities in rules for tournaments is nigh impossi...
[00:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bingo, Sir. - 06US Has Bunker Busters Ready for Iran - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:17:12] <exec> 08└─Ya gotta be kidding me. Surely you must realize that 20% savings account comes with high inflation [tradingeconomics.com]. I bet they're lucky to tread water with those accounts. At 20% you're beating the 16% inflation shown on the chart. It wasn't too long ago that you could do that in the USA. It'...
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[01:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Sad Note: - 06Memoirs of a Space Engineer - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:19] <exec> 08└─To me, it sounds more like he was interested to see if he could do X, and loved it when he could... And could brag about it!
[01:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03gishzida [2870] (Score:1) 02Re:Sad Note: - 06Memoirs of a Space Engineer - 2144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:21] <exec> 08└─There was a time [at least in aerospace] that some of the "corporate masters" actually cared about their employees. That was before my time. There were also people that loved science so much that they'd do it just for the fun of it. My dad was one of those. He actually set up an observation station...
[01:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03theronb [2596] (Score:1) 02Honest, Officer... - 06Power Your Car With Biofuel Made From Beer - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:30] <exec> 08└─...I haven't been drinking, it was my car!
[01:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03K_benzoate [5036] (Score:2) 02Prior Art - 06Power Your Car With Biofuel Made From Beer - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:32] <exec> 08└─My bicycle has been beer-powered for years.
[01:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Prior Art - 06Power Your Car With Biofuel Made From Beer - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:34] <exec> 08└─Wait? Do you mean it runs on urine or that it spends most of its time lying on its side, on top of you?
[01:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03gman003 [4155] (Score:2) 02Re:Poorly designed game - 06How Magic the Gathering Began, and Where it Goes Next - 1981 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:14:26] <exec> 08└─The rarity of cards has nothing to do with their power. It has to do with their complexity. There are two reasons for this. Beginners tend to buy cards through booster packs, while advanced players buy singles (they have two decades of data backing them up on this). So you want common cards to be ea...
[01:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:Poorly designed game - 06How Magic the Gathering Began, and Where it Goes Next - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:14:28] <exec> 08└─Correction: The game is balanced well. That isn't the same as being designed well. Of course we would have to argue about what exactly constitutes good game design, but consider this: Two items with the exact same features, one consists of 1 million moving parts, the other consists of 4 moving parts...
[01:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score:2) 02Re:That's a hell of a LAN party - 06Multiple Animals Linked in Cooperative Brain Networks - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:15:10] <exec> 08└─http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120907/ [imdb.com] eXistenZ. We have been shown the future......
[01:16:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:back to basics - 06 Desperate Man with Dying Phone Jumps on Broadway Stage to Revive It - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:16:10] <exec> 08└─If it's a GSM phone, it has an embedded JVM with remote installation ability.
[01:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sex objects - 06Survey Says Even Teenage Boys are Sick of Sexist Video Games - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:17:16] <exec> 08└─One of my friends was watching TV, once. This attractive woman came on TV, wearing not a lot, and his partner went crazy about the objectification of women. "Disgusting," she called it. A few days later, they were watching Casino Royale when Daniel Craig popped out of the ocean, muscles all bulging...
[01:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bingo, Sir. - 06US Has Bunker Busters Ready for Iran - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:17:30] <exec> 08└─You've left out that they were overthrown by the CIA, the foreign intelligence, sabotage, and espionage agency working for the supposed good guys who are trying to bring democracy and freedom to the world.
[01:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bingo, Sir. - 06US Has Bunker Busters Ready for Iran - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:17:34] <exec> 08└─I have several relatives that live in Iran who have back accounts which the interest pays for everything. This are not rich people by our standards, but a true middle-class.
[01:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bingo, Sir. - 06US Has Bunker Busters Ready for Iran - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:17:36] <exec> 08└─The King of Saudi Arabia is the head of the snake...
[01:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Yog-Yogguth [1862] (Score:2) 02Re:Gamergate - 06Ellen Pao Resigns as CEO of Reddit - 1198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:19] <exec> 08└─The “argument” of “saving people from themselves” with or without some “greater cause” can and is used against absolutely anything by everybody. Some recent examples includes soda, jews, fat, bolsheviks, smoking, communists, freedom, Tutsies, gun ownership, and infidels, and then there's...
[01:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Gamergate - 06Ellen Pao Resigns as CEO of Reddit - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:21] <exec> 08└─I don't like that you think this is just a matter of what I don't like. And I would like it even less if you don't like my dislike of that. See, it's all relativistic fun and games until someone pulls out a Army of Northern Virginia Battle Flag!
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[02:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Jan you lefty commie slut - 06California Farms Are Using Drilling Wastewater to Grow Crops - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:17] <exec> 08└─It's actually helping the oil and natural gas industries make more money.
[02:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02My bad, Jan - 06California Farms Are Using Drilling Wastewater to Grow Crops - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:18] <exec> 08└─My bad, it's the pheonix666 - dirty commie.
[02:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Global Warming and Scottish Boy Bands - 06Record-breaking Heavy Rainfall Events Increased under Global Warming - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:14:08] <exec> 08└─CO2 is more like a gazillion tiny mirrors that reflect energy in random directions. This acts like a grease to both spread it around the atmosphere more evenly and more quickly return to equilibrium upon any perterbation.
[02:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:TFS? - 06How Magic the Gathering Began, and Where it Goes Next - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:14:28] <exec> 08└─The article doesn't really state what set Magic apart, thus the question at the end. Where it began is covered in the first two paragraphs of the excerpt. Where it is going next is after the ellipsis. Often when you paraphrase too much, accusations fly about putting words in the article's mouth, or...
[02:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Re:Poorly designed game - 06How Magic the Gathering Began, and Where it Goes Next - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:14:39] <exec> 08└─Likewise, if we assume MTG and chess have the same complexity
[02:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Poorly designed game - 06How Magic the Gathering Began, and Where it Goes Next - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:14:41] <exec> 08└─If the rules don't expand, there are only so many combinations of new cards that could be made that would be worthy contributions to the existing pool before all sensible combinations are exhausted rendering nothing left to add to the game. That wouldn't work well for the business model to keep peop...
[02:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:computational insight - 06Multiple Animals Linked in Cooperative Brain Networks - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:15:30] <exec> 08└─Yes, at least the rat study was just torturing animals for no reason. They did not even use a control group so there is no way to tell whether this "brainnet" existed or not. I saw the same thing in grad school, severely confused people doing experiments on animals that it is impossible to really le...
[02:15:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jcross [4009] 02Re:Well, - 06Rotterdam May Pave its Roads in Recycled Plastic - 199 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:15:43] <exec> 08└─Teflon coated roads for the win! They're immune to UV and last forever, plus any motorists or pedestrians who can't handle the low traction can be easily scraped off with very large plastic spatulas.
[02:16:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:perspective - 06 Desperate Man with Dying Phone Jumps on Broadway Stage to Revive It - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:16:12] <exec> 08└─Hmm, in Long Island the landlines all still worked. So people could tell their friends and family they were OK. It was the social media connection and content consumption via their smartphones that people were desperate to maintain. All of which is meant to say that man's hierarchy of needs has demo...
[02:16:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Re:delicious - 06Survey Says Even Teenage Boys are Sick of Sexist Video Games - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:16:49] <exec> 08└─Or maybe they have much more extensive access [penny-arcade.com] to similar material that they look for something different in their interactive entertainment?
[02:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sex objects - 06Survey Says Even Teenage Boys are Sick of Sexist Video Games - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:17:23] <exec> 08└─Many people define rape as male->female, the man rapes the woman. They just refuse to understand that men can be raped by women. (Not wanting to change the topic, it's much like child abuse. Child abuse is abuse inflicted by fathers on children, and not by mothers on children. Speaking as someone wh...
[02:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:What do we expect? - 06US Has Bunker Busters Ready for Iran - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:18:02] <exec> 08└─Lately I've been driving the BMW i3, which definitely costs far less than a Model S. Its acceleration is still great and it is fun to drive. I have test-driven a Leaf, and it seemed like its acceleration was fine, roughly comparable to an ICE of that price range, except it was a linear curve and it...
[02:19:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02Re:Not anywhere near April even! - 06Ellen Pao Resigns as CEO of Reddit - 111 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:00] <exec> 08└─So what? Why is this breaking news? Who gives a rip about an internal power struggle in a cesspool like Reddit?
[02:19:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Spook brat [775] 02In a way, I'm relieved... - 0621 Million Americans Associated With Security Clearances Compromised - 630 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:48] <exec> 08└─This could be worse. If the responsible party is a Government Agency, and the intended use of the information is traditional espionage, then it's less likely that the personal finances of the affected individuals will be ruined. If it were a civilian hacker group doing it, the motive would probably...
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[03:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02I've done my part. - 06Global Trends Show Seabird Populations Dropped 70 Percent Since 1950s - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:35] <exec> 08└─A house with large, regularly cleaned windows and a cat...
[03:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Monitored vs Existing - 06Global Trends Show Seabird Populations Dropped 70 Percent Since 1950s - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:37] <exec> 08└─The headline is misleading. They found fewer seabirds were being monitored, especially since 2000. Not that there were fewer overall. We found the monitored portion of the global seabird population to have declined overall by 69.7% between 1950 and 2010.
[03:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Jan you lefty commie slut - 06California Farms Are Using Drilling Wastewater to Grow Crops - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:13:47] <exec> 08└─wonder how many carcinogens are in that wastewater... I'm sure none of them will wind up in the plants, or just pollute the soil the water is sprayed over.
[03:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheMessageNotTheMessenger [5664] (Score:1) 02Seawater! - 06California Farms Are Using Drilling Wastewater to Grow Crops - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:49] <exec> 08└─There is a lot of seawater! There are ways to treat it so it stops being salty, some of the more simple systems involve evaporation in the sun and then collecting the vapours. Powered by the sun, and the sun usually shines a lot in dry climates that could benefit from this. This wastewater solution...
[03:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Spent Grain not equal beer. - 06Power Your Car With Biofuel Made From Beer - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:10] <exec> 08└─Not to state the obvious, but the beer is long extracted by the time the re-ferment the grain waste. Anyone who has been around a disposal site for spent grain, or a composting site knows that composting/rotting beer mash can smell exactly like human feces. Any use of this would be better than comp...
[03:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03gman003 [4155] (Score:2) 02Re:Poorly designed game - 06How Magic the Gathering Began, and Where it Goes Next - 2135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:15:10] <exec> 08└─Engineering and game design are different enough fields that your moving-parts metaphor holds no intrinsic value. The best games, at least according to current Western game-design theory and tastes, are those with simple mechanics but complex interactions. One needs to be able to fully understand ho...
[03:16:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03rizole [5385] (Score:1) 02Plastic dust? - 06Rotterdam May Pave its Roads in Recycled Plastic - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:30] <exec> 08└─At least it won't have to spend decades of photodegredation in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, it can be mechanically ground down to dust by wheels and feet, quickly and efficiently entering the base of the food chain FTW.
[03:17:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:Clickbait - 06Survey Says Even Teenage Boys are Sick of Sexist Video Games - 236 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:17:28] <exec> 08└─People who use the term SJW aren't looking for understanding, it is a reflexive defense to protect their belief system. Same way terms like feminazi, self-hating jew and gay agenda are used to protect against other uncomfortable truths.
[03:17:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:Clickbait - 06Survey Says Even Teenage Boys are Sick of Sexist Video Games - 251 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:17:35] <exec> 08└─If there's such a vast, underserved market for SJW-compliant video games (as this summary suggests) then perhaps instead of trying to re-educate gamers they should be, you know, making the kinds of games they want people to buy and making phat stacks.
[03:20:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Gamergate - 06Ellen Pao Resigns as CEO of Reddit - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:15] <exec> 08└─If free speech means you have a large neo-Nazi community, I would suggest you're doing it wrong.
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[04:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bill Evans [1094] (Score:2) 02Re:Monitored vs Existing - 06Global Trends Show Seabird Populations Dropped 70 Percent Since 1950s - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:13:48] <exec> 08└─If the monitored portion of the global seabird population has declined overall, that is not the same as "fewer seabirds were being monitored".
[04:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Not totally sure i believe this - 06Global Trends Show Seabird Populations Dropped 70 Percent Since 1950s - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:50] <exec> 08└─First, people would have noticed a 70% decline. Even in the absence of a study. Second, sea birds do not significantly compete for any commercially fished species other than very small herring and sardines. And wales as well as commercially fished species take more of those species than birds do.
[04:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Seawater! - 06California Farms Are Using Drilling Wastewater to Grow Crops - 962 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:14:00] <exec> 08└─> There are ways to treat it so it stops being salty, The salt has to go somewhere. > the more simple systems involve evaporation in the sun and then collecting the vapours. So inefficient that it is not cost-effective compared to other options. The hard truth is that the california growers need to...
[04:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Hot weather is killing Oregon Salmon - 06Record-breaking Heavy Rainfall Events Increased under Global Warming - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:00] <exec> 08└─the water in the Willamete reached a record high temperature during the recent heat wave. Its not just that Salmon are adapted to cool water but that there is less Oxygen dissolved in it. This is reported in today.'s Oregonian, I expect the article can be found at http:// www.oregonlive.com/
[04:15:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Poorly designed game - 06How Magic the Gathering Began, and Where it Goes Next - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:15:28] <exec> 08└─holds no intrinsic value
[04:17:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Tork [3914] 02Re:Clickbait - 06Survey Says Even Teenage Boys are Sick of Sexist Video Games - 161 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:17:49] <exec> 08└─No, you're seeking people to label as SJW either because you're too lazy to understand the topic at hand or because you're trying to justify your own prejudices.
[04:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Clickbait - 06Survey Says Even Teenage Boys are Sick of Sexist Video Games - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:17:52] <exec> 08└─In the same way that black people can use nigger when they talk about themselves. It's meant to depreciate, but sometimes the targeted group takes the word for themselves.
[04:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Clickbait - 06Survey Says Even Teenage Boys are Sick of Sexist Video Games - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:17:54] <exec> 08└─It's the other way around. They called themselves that, then it got turned into a pejorative due to their actions. Things like the mobbing on Matt Taylor and Tim Hunt.
[04:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:An unusually large number - 0621 Million Americans Associated With Security Clearances Compromised - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:20:59] <exec> 08└─If you'd RTFA, you'd have seen "...every file associated with an OPM-managed security clearance application since 2000 " Glad my security clearance was processed back in the early '60s. Stopped working on anything that would require such by 1966.
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[05:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score:2) 02Multimedia clothing. - 06The Capabilities of Nanomaterials in Textiles Continue to Expand - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:55] <exec> 08└─So when can I get a programmable T-shirt so I can walk around Wal-Mart with my shirt proudly looping the "two girls and one cup" video?
[05:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02No shit... or maybe not. - 06Global Trends Show Seabird Populations Dropped 70 Percent Since 1950s - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:08] <exec> 08└─a stark indication that marine ecosystems are not doing well.
[05:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Conservation my ass - 06California Farms Are Using Drilling Wastewater to Grow Crops - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:23] <exec> 08└─That article is almost all green-washing. Trying to spin it as conservation - which technically it is, in the worst possible way. Instead of dumping who knows what into our food supply - why don't they 'conserve' this water by reusing it on the next drilling site instead? And to top it off Chevron p...
[05:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Huh - 06California Farms Are Using Drilling Wastewater to Grow Crops - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:24] <exec> 08└─If you were thinking California's drought might accelerate desalinization technology, you're wrong. It's actually helping the oil and natural gas industries make more money.
[05:15:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Played the pre-release last night - 06How Magic the Gathering Began, and Where it Goes Next - 1097 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:15:46] <exec> 08└─Wow. I could think of some ways to burn up $3k, but none of them involve a card, though to be honest, I've burnt up way more than that on stuff other people would scoff at, so I'm not scoffing, just saying. I never played Magic but curiosity finally got the best of me and I watched some play on yout...
[05:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Clickbait - 06Survey Says Even Teenage Boys are Sick of Sexist Video Games - 3560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:18:22] <exec> 08└─If you don't believe in SJWs I invite you to play SJW or Stormfront [reddit.com] where all they do is remove the target of the racist hatred and then YOU have to decide if it was written by an SJW or came from the Stormfront white supremacist website. If you get even 50% right? I will personally be...
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[05:21:09] <exec> 08└─Only replying to an AC out of the kindness of my heart. Love you, bro! Empty insults are the sign of the poor intellectual.
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[06:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:Multimedia clothing. - 06The Capabilities of Nanomaterials in Textiles Continue to Expand - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:14:23] <exec> 08└─So when can I get a programmable T-shirt so I can walk around Wal-Mart with my shirt proudly looping the "two girls and one cup" video?
[06:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Sniff test? - 06Global Trends Show Seabird Populations Dropped 70 Percent Since 1950s - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:14:36] <exec> 08└─This isn't an area I know anything about, but it doesn't seem like it passes the sniff test. They require five data points; is that enough? What is the quality of population data? Not saying it isn't true, but that would be a huge drop. If true, it seems extraordinarily unlikely that we wouldn't hav...
[06:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Editor ahoooooy! wtf is ubc - 06Global Trends Show Seabird Populations Dropped 70 Percent Since 1950s - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:39] <exec> 08└─It's good form to spell out uncommon tlas in the summary once.
[06:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Seawater! - 06California Farms Are Using Drilling Wastewater to Grow Crops - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:14:54] <exec> 08└─The salt has to go somewhere.
[06:16:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03gman003 [4155] (Score:2) 02Re:Played the pre-release last night - 06How Magic the Gathering Began, and Where it Goes Next - 4033 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:16:21] <exec> 08└─You're totally off base. Although to be fair, that video is hardly aimed at people who don't already know how to play. First bit: turning the cards sideways ("tapping" the card) is done to represent either attacking, or activating that card's once-per-turn ability. Cards are returned to the normal p...
[06:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Do manual-crank mobile charging accessories exi - 06 Desperate Man with Dying Phone Jumps on Broadway Stage to Revive It - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:18:22] <exec> 08└─Looks like there are a bunch of them and a few with built in radios and flashlights. http://www.amazon.com [amazon.com] As to wither they work or not...
[06:19:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Bingo, Sir. - 06US Has Bunker Busters Ready for Iran - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:19:55] <exec> 08└─He apparently doesn't like rivals with nuclear weapons. My point behind mentioning that quote is that it illustrates both that Saudi Arabia took this threat of nuclear weapons very seriously (they were at the time speaking to a diplomatic official from the US rather than for public consumption) and...
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[07:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03penguinoid [5331] (Score:2) 02Harassment - 06Pirate Bay Founders 'Cleared of Copyright Crimes' in Belgium - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:24] <exec> 08└─Better question is, how did it even get to court? Because if founders can be taken to court for things their company did years after they left, I know a lot of people who should be in court right now.
[07:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Seawater! - 06California Farms Are Using Drilling Wastewater to Grow Crops - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:14:03] <exec> 08└─exactly. the only thing in waste-water from fracking or oil drilling is "dihydrogen monoxide". I'm sure every oil company CEO wouldn't have a problem with it being connected straight to their corporate headquarters and their homes and whatever company supplies their bottled water.
[07:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03G-forze [1276] (Score:2) 02Re:Played until Wizards broke it - 06How Magic the Gathering Began, and Where it Goes Next - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:15:22] <exec> 08└─And why Channel has been completely banned for decades.
[07:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ayn Anonymous [5012] (Score:1) 02Have no mobile phone - 06 Desperate Man with Dying Phone Jumps on Broadway Stage to Revive It - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:27] <exec> 08└─don't need one. Year, I know what you think. "Something must be wrong with him". Some me one "techie" who can afford this luxury of been so undisturbed.
[07:20:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Gamergate - 06Ellen Pao Resigns as CEO of Reddit - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:48] <exec> 08└─It's hilarious that a link to and quote from the Gamergate ant page resulted in two responses about the Gamergate controversy page. And it's hilarious that Gamergate (ant) is a sexual category that can be used as a gender identity.
[07:21:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Yog-Yogguth [1862] (Score:2) 02Re:Article disrespects pioneer nations and scienti - 06NASA Announces First Commercial Crew Astronauts - 2484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:21:51] <exec> 08└─Oh dear, you seem to have triggered my rant mode, maybe it's because I both agree and disagree. Apologies offered to everybody :3 So while I kind of agree with you (truth is valuable in my opinion) I understand why they don't or can't convince themselves to even though that makes them liars. It's a...
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[08:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ayn Anonymous [5012] (Score:1) 02broken systems - 06Pirate Bay Founders 'Cleared of Copyright Crimes' in Belgium - 855 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:53] <exec> 08└─Why has the prosecutor started the case? Because he can. (well of course get he rewarded by interested parties...) He has not to worry about consequences of his justice system abuse. How is that called ? Missing feedback loop. Why exist a law that criminalize sharing in the first place ? Because the...
[08:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03penguinoid [5331] (Score:2) 02Re:Spent Grain not equal beer. - 06Power Your Car With Biofuel Made From Beer - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:14:58] <exec> 08└─Anyone who has been around a disposal site for spent grain, or a composting site knows that composting/rotting beer mash can smell exactly like human feces.
[08:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:As expected - 06Record-breaking Heavy Rainfall Events Increased under Global Warming - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:15:22] <exec> 08└─Why would that be unfortunate?
[08:16:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03G-forze [1276] (Score:2) 02Investing in Magic cards - 06How Magic the Gathering Began, and Where it Goes Next - 1401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:16:10] <exec> 08└─I started playing in 1996 when I got a starter pack from, of all people, my mother. I became fascinated by the games complexity and enormous variation, found some like minded people, and put a large part of my small teenager's budget on new cards. Later, in 2001, when I moved to another city for stu...
[08:16:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Subsentient [1111] 02We are the Borg. - 06Multiple Animals Linked in Cooperative Brain Networks - 48 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:16:57] <exec> 08└─You will be assimilated. Surrender your bananas.
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[09:14:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03davester666 [155] 02Re:Jan you lefty commie slut - 06California Farms Are Using Drilling Wastewater to Grow Crops - 155 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:14:29] <exec> 08└─wonder how many carcinogens are in that wastewater... I'm sure none of them will wind up in the plants, or just pollute the soil the water is sprayed over.
[09:18:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] 02It's his own fault - 06 Desperate Man with Dying Phone Jumps on Broadway Stage to Revive It - 67 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:06] <exec> 08└─Desperate Man with Dying Phone Jumps on Broadway Stage to Revive It
[09:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Have no mobile phone - 06 Desperate Man with Dying Phone Jumps on Broadway Stage to Revive It - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:18:16] <exec> 08└─Year, I know what you think. "Something must be wrong with him".
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[09:18:51] <exec> 08└─You know, I had never heard the term "SJW" used by anyone before seeing it used by you. It is not a term of pride carried by anyone on the Left, which I feel confident saying because I was a member of the Green Party in college and grad school. It is not a term that has currency in right-wing circle...
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[10:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03virens [5530] (Score:1) 02People should think, machines should work - 06Robots Picking Fruit and Driving Tractors - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:18] <exec> 08└─You don't need to go to high school for picking up fruits. You better make a robot for this. I, for one, welcome our engineering overlords :-)
[10:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:People should think, machines should work - 06Robots Picking Fruit and Driving Tractors - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:14:19] <exec> 08└─You don't need to go to high school for picking up fruits.
[10:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03mtrycz [60] (Score:2) 02A civilization too picky to harvest its own food - 06Robots Picking Fruit and Driving Tractors - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:21] <exec> 08└─I think we need to check our priorities.
[10:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcm [4110] (Score:1) 02Lies - 06Robots Picking Fruit and Driving Tractors - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:22] <exec> 08└─"It's a causal workforce problem. (For farmers) their really high risk is getting a workforce to pick the fruit," Mr Lehnert said.
[10:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Monitored vs Existing - 06Global Trends Show Seabird Populations Dropped 70 Percent Since 1950s - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:14:55] <exec> 08└─So show where in the paper they distinguish between the two causes.
[10:15:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bequalsa [2107] (Score:1) 02Creative Commons - 06Plutonium's "Missing" Magnetism Discovered - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:54] <exec> 08└─Not qualified to comment on the paper, but it's nice to see that this is CC-licensed.
[10:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Another wonderfull informing story on SNiP - 06 Desperate Man with Dying Phone Jumps on Broadway Stage to Revive It - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:18:48] <exec> 08└─And yet not so boring, apparently, that you couldn't refrain from commenting on it. Seriously, if a story doesn't interest you, just don't comment. Of what interest could your lack of interest possibly be to anyone who actually does find the story worthy of real comment?
[10:20:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:A,ericans are welcome to travel in Iran. - 06US Has Bunker Busters Ready for Iran - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:20:46] <exec> 08└─Once Iran has nuclear devices there is a great risk that one of them would end up in the hands of some militant group or another.
[10:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Gamergate - 06Ellen Pao Resigns as CEO of Reddit - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:19] <exec> 08└─Very interesting ideas. Do you have a website or newsletter available?
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[11:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03K_benzoate [5036] (Score:2) 02Re:People should think, machines should work - 06Robots Picking Fruit and Driving Tractors - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:14:10] <exec> 08└─What is your economic model when "mental" work is also done better by machines, except for the rarefied heights of academic advancement--which by definition is only accessible to a small percentage of humans? I predict mass poverty, starvation, riots, and then extermination by the technologically-em...
[11:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03nukkel [168] (Score:2) 02Re:People should think, machines should work - 06Robots Picking Fruit and Driving Tractors - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:14:11] <exec> 08└─Well, we've already seen communism "solve itself" and that wasn't pretty either ...
[11:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lies - 06Robots Picking Fruit and Driving Tractors - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:14:15] <exec> 08└─It's a matter of cost !
[11:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score:2) 02SF a few years ago - 06Robots Picking Fruit and Driving Tractors - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:16] <exec> 08└─Only a few years ago (well into this century) I read a story in which telepresence robots were used to pick fruit in Califonia. The people controlling the robots were in third-world low-wage countries, obviating immigration problems. -- hendrik
[11:15:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score:2) 02CO2 - 06Power Your Car With Biofuel Made From Beer - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:36] <exec> 08└─What about the carbon dioxide relesed in the brewing process?
[11:20:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score:2) 02Re:What do we expect? - 06US Has Bunker Busters Ready for Iran - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:20:32] <exec> 08└─A car that is in excess of 6 seconds 0-60 (BMW i3) is NOT fun to drive. It's a dog.
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[12:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Post-Capitalism? Yeah right. - 06A Star Trek Economic System May Be Closer Than You Think - 676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:36] <exec> 08└─The handful of people currently holding all the wealth and power will have even more in the next 50-100 years, enough to ensure that such a thing will never come to pass. People in positions of power will use that power to its full extent in order to remain in power, and $trillions will go a long wa...
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[12:13:37] <exec> 08└─Those in power have no interest in hindering tech advancement, because that makes fellow men less needed. Would you prefer to be a king dealing with your army's generals backstabbing like in the old times, or be the guy who has the credentials of an army of lethal drones? As for all the rest I have...
[12:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score:2) 02Sounds familiar - 06A Star Trek Economic System May Be Closer Than You Think - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:38] <exec> 08└─I posted a more succinct comment of similar sentiment when this was a journal entry.
[12:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Bwahahahahahaha - 06A Star Trek Economic System May Be Closer Than You Think - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:40] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the subject says it all. Wonder where he got smoke that good.
[12:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:broken systems - 06Pirate Bay Founders 'Cleared of Copyright Crimes' in Belgium - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:14:04] <exec> 08└─Just like a DMCA violation... All you need is an accusation and poof, things disappear. And in case the claim is bogus, there is no punishment for making it. And thus you get accusations flying left and right... Butsadly in fact the system is working exactly as designed (if not as advertised...): Ke...
[12:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02That's unsettling. - 06Global Trends Show Seabird Populations Dropped 70 Percent Since 1950s - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:30] <exec> 08└─It's like that movie where an oceanographer discovers that the sea is basically dead, so that the major food company selling tablets reportedly from plankton must be getting it from something else... what was the title I can't recall... ummm.....
[12:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Seawater! - 06California Farms Are Using Drilling Wastewater to Grow Crops - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:14:46] <exec> 08└─it will ... run out eventually.
[12:15:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02RAAH! not again! - 06Plutonium's "Missing" Magnetism Discovered - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:27] <exec> 08└─you know i really like to call "bullshit" when ever neutrons are involved. if using neutron pretty much anything is possible. it's like a joker card. for example you can use neutrons to blow up balloons for your kids happy birthday party: "liberate" some neutron (half-life 12 min), direct them onto...
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[12:15:28] <exec> 08└─you mean if all neutron involving experiments are "real" then the results/records should be written down on neutron irradiated material? let's see how "real" the results look like after a few years of decaying neutron paper -aka- phantom paper?
[12:15:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Change! Horror! - 06Record-breaking Heavy Rainfall Events Increased under Global Warming - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:15:44] <exec> 08└─Nice strawman, but like all straw men its completely unrelated to the issue. But go on believing its whatever bullshit you want it to be so you can snark and mock and make yourself feel better at others' expense.
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[12:15:49] <exec> 08└─Blanket is a pretty good analogy for laymen. The whole mirror thing requires some brain cells to understand, while comparing it to blankets allows you to sum it all up in a snappy one-liner, which is what's required to convince more than half of the population, the kind of suckers who see a snowball...
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[13:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Trekonomics works? - 06A Star Trek Economic System May Be Closer Than You Think - 1725 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:15] <exec> 08└─They would probably have to invent a lot more Star Trek tech then the replicator to make the world into a Star Trek economy where we all just work for fun and doing what we like to fulfill ourselves as individuals and humans. If the option is money (or everything you need) for nothing then who will...
[13:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:A civilization too picky to harvest its own foo - 06Robots Picking Fruit and Driving Tractors - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:30] <exec> 08└─Robots are a part of civilization. Civilization is harvesting its own food.
[13:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Lies - 06Robots Picking Fruit and Driving Tractors - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:33] <exec> 08└─Where is the risk ? It's a matter of cost !
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[13:13:35] <exec> 08└─I remember that story! And IIRC, the farm that was doing it wasn't publicizing it, and the main character stumbled on the situation. It was in either Asimov's or Analog. I don't remember either the title or the author, though - if you've got one of those, I'll take a peek at my back issues and see i...
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[13:18:34] <exec> 08└─Uhhh you DO realize you are following their political narrative, yes? That because you personally who most likely run in a very limited number of like minded thinking circles have never heard of this term? Well then it must be a construct of "the other" with the other defined by whatever bogeyman yo...
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[14:13:22] <exec> 08└─Take current world population, cut it by 90% without destroying infrastructure, political stability, or the knowledge base - and reverse the concentration of wealth while you are at it. Now, that might be a basis for starting down a "Star Trek economy" path. For every "boring job" that still needs d...
[14:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Dr Bob's Subluxation - 06A Star Trek Economic System May Be Closer Than You Think - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:24] <exec> 08└─What Saadia needs is a heavy heavy dose of subluxation. Paging Dr Bob!
[14:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Dr Bob's Subluxation - 06A Star Trek Economic System May Be Closer Than You Think - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:26] <exec> 08└─Dr. Bob is dead Jim.
[14:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03AlHunt [2529] (Score:2) 02Greed - 06A Star Trek Economic System May Be Closer Than You Think - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:27] <exec> 08└─Wealth will always concentrate in the hands of the few. Until Greed breeds itself out of the human psyche, there will always be wealthy / middle class / poor.
[14:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Greed - 06A Star Trek Economic System May Be Closer Than You Think - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:29] <exec> 08└─there will always be wealthy / middle class / poor.
[14:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Power, ugly power - 06A Star Trek Economic System May Be Closer Than You Think - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:31] <exec> 08└─Even today, it's rarely about the money. The big pieces that float to the top are all about power. Whether it's the playground bully, the abusive cop or the corrupt politican: what they seek is power over other people. Star Trek presents a lovely vision of the future, and it's true enough that money...
[14:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02They Live & Idiocracy Movies - 06A Star Trek Economic System May Be Closer Than You Think - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:32] <exec> 08└─A blend of each, that's the future I see, or the present depending on your experience.
[14:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:People should think, machines should work - 06Robots Picking Fruit and Driving Tractors - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:42] <exec> 08└─No, we haven't. There has never been a communist government anywhere in the world. The USSR certainly wasn't. The People's Republic of China was probably the closest, but even there there were people with connections that could always get what they needed and then there was everybody else.
[14:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lies - 06Robots Picking Fruit and Driving Tractors - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:48] <exec> 08└─In orange harvesting (Central Florida) the risk is in hiring illegal and marginally legal workers to do the picking. If you don't do it, you're not economically viable. So, you have to do it - but carefully enough to not get caught up in all the issues related to hiring these people.
[14:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Redneck robots - 06Robots Picking Fruit and Driving Tractors - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:51] <exec> 08└─The robots driving the tractors went through a lot of low-grade oil, and the robots that picked the fruit could only be programmed in Spanish.
[14:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Seawater! - 06California Farms Are Using Drilling Wastewater to Grow Crops - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:39] <exec> 08└─exactly. the only thing in waste-water from fracking or oil drilling is "dihydrogen monoxide". I'm sure every oil company CEO wouldn't have a problem with it being connected straight to their corporate headquarters and their homes and whatever company supplies their bottled water.
[14:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sad Note: - 06Memoirs of a Space Engineer - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:53] <exec> 08└─Fifty years later, how do you point the finger to the nuclear tests as the source of his cancer? It is an interesting link for a story submission, but I had to check to make sure you didn't have a typo. The link and memoir really is almost 15 years old.
[14:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Another way to recycle beer... - 06Power Your Car With Biofuel Made From Beer - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:08] <exec> 08└─Get plastered on a few six packs, piss in the gas tank. Boosts octane and cleans carbon deposits. True story.
[14:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02They are at the ??? part of the process - 06Power Your Car With Biofuel Made From Beer - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:09] <exec> 08└─Obviously there’s still a little bit of work to do, but we’re confident we’re going to crack it.
[14:16:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Poorly designed game - 06How Magic the Gathering Began, and Where it Goes Next - 798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:16:22] <exec> 08└─As opposed to the people who stop buying cards because every few years they have to start their collections over again? Or the people who never start because the rules have become a jumbled mess? I stopped playing right after 4th edition came out and a large part of it was that I would have had to s...
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[15:13:10] <exec> 08└─first post!
[15:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Post-Capitalism? Yeah right. - 06A Star Trek Economic System May Be Closer Than You Think - 1011 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:20] <exec> 08└─Agreed, but not for the same reasons. Regardless of how good 3d printing is today, the moment you want 10,000 or 1,000,000 identical copies of something, conventional manufacturing; injection molding, stamping, etc; is essentially always cheaper. If everyone could afford 3d printed or "replicator-ma...
[15:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Trekonomics works? - 06A Star Trek Economic System May Be Closer Than You Think - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:25] <exec> 08└─The reality is that if we had Star Trek Technology people wouldn't be exploring the galaxy, they'd be spending all their time getting their nuts off in holodecks and holosuites. There'd be no need to fly actual starships when they could do it in a holodeck and return home to their lives every day.
[15:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score:3, Informative) 02Bullshit - 06A Star Trek Economic System May Be Closer Than You Think - 2786 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:32] <exec> 08└─Bullshit. There's not going to be post-scarcity any time soon. It's a finite planet and the population is still growing AND many say the current population is already past the sustainable level (and definitely past the level where you can have everyone live as luxuriously as the average US person -...
[15:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:People should think, machines should work - 06Robots Picking Fruit and Driving Tractors - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:44] <exec> 08└─What is your economic model when "mental" work is also done better by machines,
[15:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lies - 06Robots Picking Fruit and Driving Tractors - 2537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:53] <exec> 08└─It's a matter of cost ! If the cost of a robot is less than hiring people then it will happen. It will happen quickly too. You will not even notice it because those jobs just are not offered anymore. For example what is killing the coal fired plant? Natural gas. It is cheaper than coal. This joke sh...
[15:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lies - 06Robots Picking Fruit and Driving Tractors - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:55] <exec> 08└─Sort of like where 'organic' is today.
[15:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That's unsettling. - 06Global Trends Show Seabird Populations Dropped 70 Percent Since 1950s - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:31] <exec> 08└─I think it was called Star Trek where we had post scarcity and everyone was eating whatever wonderful things[1] they ordered from replicators. [1] Even though all of it had a hint of that un-recallable stuff in their taste ;).
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[16:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Instead of stocking up at Fry's - 06Basic Computing Elements Created in Bacteria - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:09] <exec> 08└─Tomorrow's 1337 hackers will head over to the Chinese buffet.
[16:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02no community here - 06Basic Computing Elements Created in Bacteria - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:10] <exec> 08└─slash is lame now , and soylent is sloww.. awww
[16:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Upgrade... or kill switch? - 06Basic Computing Elements Created in Bacteria - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:12] <exec> 08└─Probably not a very great idea to tamper with such a vital "organ". The gut flora contains more cells than the human body. And it has much more generic material. And if provides critical utility. Also, it might be illegal. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia....
[16:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Post-Capitalism? Yeah right. - 06A Star Trek Economic System May Be Closer Than You Think - 860 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:29] <exec> 08└─Well, if you look at Star Trek, there's one thing you'll always notice: A hierarchy. A hierarchy is the means to control. Those higher in the hierarchy can give orders to those lower in the hierarchy. And yes, whether you become Captain depends on your skills, but does it only depend on your skills?...
[16:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Post-Capitalism? Yeah right. - 06A Star Trek Economic System May Be Closer Than You Think - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:30] <exec> 08└─Which really makes you wonder...did Worf graduate Starfleet Academy because of Affirmative Action?
[16:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Power, ugly power - 06A Star Trek Economic System May Be Closer Than You Think - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:42] <exec> 08└─Money is very boring when you have it...
[16:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lies - 06Robots Picking Fruit and Driving Tractors - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:06] <exec> 08└─i suppose organic means different things to different people. To me, machine harvesting is not incompatible with organic farming. Organic farming is about soil management, pesticide management, etc. Whether a robot picks the produce is largely irrelevant.
[16:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Seawater! - 06California Farms Are Using Drilling Wastewater to Grow Crops - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:02] <exec> 08└─> And once you've treated it so it becomes potable, then what's the big deal? How do you define "potable?" Are you so trusting as to believe that Chevron uses your definition and not something packed full of loopholes? Because corporations never cut corners in order to save themselves money. Right?
[16:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Seawater! - 06California Farms Are Using Drilling Wastewater to Grow Crops - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:04] <exec> 08└─The salt has to go somewhere.
[16:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheMessageNotTheMessenger [5664] (Score:1) 02Re:Seawater! - 06California Farms Are Using Drilling Wastewater to Grow Crops - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:06] <exec> 08└─You can sell the salt. Harvesting salt from salt water is a thing. It usually involves using the sun to evaporate the water, the salt stays behind. "Mediterranean Seasalt" is a thing I can get in my supermarket. Instead of a powder, this is sold in the form of large crystals in a grinder. It's reall...
[16:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03number6 [1831] (Score:2) 02Re:Do manual-crank mobile charging accessories exi - 06 Desperate Man with Dying Phone Jumps on Broadway Stage to Revive It - 910 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:18:40] <exec> 08└─The stuff at Amazon look like generic 'Made in China' mass-produced low-end no-spec disposable toys. Here is a company which makes quality portable charging devices for the discerning prosumer: https://www.powertraveller.com [powertraveller.com] Apart from the 'personal accessory' aspect, another t...
[16:20:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02Re:Oh stop with the administration propaganda! - 06US Has Bunker Busters Ready for Iran - 59 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:20:46] <exec> 08└─Good grief, does -ANYONE- think this pussy would bomb Iran?
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[17:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Don't really have reason to complain ... - 06Oxford University Unearths 800-Year-Old Charter to Seize Domain Names - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:20] <exec> 08└─As best I can see, this degree mill basically is trying to confuse people with the real thing, and there are those stupid enough (or those who want to be intentionally deceitful) to buy it really have no one to blame but themselves. It would be lovely if the mill itself could be shut down, but faili...
[17:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Prestiguois, you say? - 06Oxford University Unearths 800-Year-Old Charter to Seize Domain Names - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:21] <exec> 08└─with a name pretty similar to a prestiguois
[17:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Post-Capitalism? Yeah right. - 06A Star Trek Economic System May Be Closer Than You Think - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:34] <exec> 08└─For example, by requiring knowledge that only is available to upper classes.
[17:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:Bwahahahahahaha - 06A Star Trek Economic System May Be Closer Than You Think - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:38] <exec> 08└─you laugh because you lack the creativity to imagine a future that isn't based on greed. you laugh because you are consumed by greed. people like you fear the loss of a centralized power structure.
[17:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:Greed - 06A Star Trek Economic System May Be Closer Than You Think - 3209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:47] <exec> 08└─The middle class will shrink, but it will remain. The society of the future will need engineers and scientists and high-end technicians and human doctors who will serve the masters. The masters themselves will be above them; their power will be inherited from the previous generation's factories, res...
[17:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Bullshit - 06A Star Trek Economic System May Be Closer Than You Think - 2900 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:52] <exec> 08└─I don't know if it's exactly that dire. Under current economic behaviors, yes. Slash-and-burn capitalism is running out of things to slash and burn, fast. But there are other ways to produce and consume, and there are other technologies and substitutes around the bend that will significantly affect...
[17:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bullshit - 06A Star Trek Economic System May Be Closer Than You Think - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:54] <exec> 08└─Robots can solve it, see: The Matrix Trilogy. If they want to, everybody in the hive can live like a king - in their mind.
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[17:14:15] <exec> 08└─Exactly my point. Putting a label on something to create the air of 'better'. Places like Whole Foods have built entire businesses around the air of 'better'. When measurably they are the same or worse. Apple has made an entire business around selling 'better'. When measurably it is about the same (...
[17:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hawkwind [3531] (Score:2) 02Re:Lies - 06Robots Picking Fruit and Driving Tractors - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:17] <exec> 08└─For me this falls in to the I'll believe it when I see it category. Sorry to be too lazy to look up some counterpoints but from people in the industry the idea of a robot that won't break down frequently and can do the fine detail tasks isn't around the corner. Granted, driving a tractor or some oth...
[17:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:broken systems - 06Pirate Bay Founders 'Cleared of Copyright Crimes' in Belgium - 1531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:31] <exec> 08└─As a note, this ran through the Belgium court system, and not the United States. I'm not sure if Belgium runs on civil law system like many parts of Europe, or a common law system like the United States. The EU standardized copyright terms via the Copyright Term Directive [wikipedia.org]; something...
[17:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Seawater! - 06California Farms Are Using Drilling Wastewater to Grow Crops - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:14] <exec> 08└─I suppose we could regulate that just like most of the world regulates water used for agriculture and human consumption.
[17:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Seawater! - 06California Farms Are Using Drilling Wastewater to Grow Crops - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:16] <exec> 08└─I think that sort "let them eat cake" response perfectly sums up just how ignorantly callow you are.
[17:16:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Global Warming and Scottish Boy Bands - 06Record-breaking Heavy Rainfall Events Increased under Global Warming - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:16:23] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of 2 stupid dogs: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[17:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Clickbait - 06Survey Says Even Teenage Boys are Sick of Sexist Video Games - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:19:34] <exec> 08└─That because you personally who most likely run in a very limited number of like minded thinking circles have never heard of this term?
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[18:13:09] <exec> 08└─Anonymous domains are not very relevant. It doesn't seem that ISIS and other enemies du jour are hindered in their propaganda by social network and megasites. Anyway I think that people should spend more time using protocols without SPOF like any domain authority who doesn't like what you publish is...
[18:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:3, Insightful) 02ADs worse than ACs - 06Privacy Advocates Raise Alarm Over ICANN Proposals to Restrict Anonymous Domain Registrations - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:10] <exec> 08└─Anonymous Domain registrations were always touted to protect the privacy of some victim group or another. In reality, from their inception, they have been the home of scoundrels and scam artists, spammers, bootlegs, and criminal enterprises. I've encountered these quite often while chasing spam sour...
[18:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:ADs worse than ACs - 06Privacy Advocates Raise Alarm Over ICANN Proposals to Restrict Anonymous Domain Registrations - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:12] <exec> 08└─Still, perhaps this is another privacy related matter where we may not need it at the moment, but perhaps will in the future. Sometimes it's important to stand up for the idea even if it's frequently abused.
[18:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score:2) 02Re:ADs worse than ACs - 06Privacy Advocates Raise Alarm Over ICANN Proposals to Restrict Anonymous Domain Registrations - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:14] <exec> 08└─That is the most common case with anonymous domains, I completely agree. However there are some blogs and alternative news sources attempting to provide a public service can benefit from a degree of anonymity if they are reporting on politically sensitive matters. A commercial entity however can use...
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[18:13:15] <exec> 08└─So much this, but also the number of people likely to be legitimately impacted by this (victim group members, etc.) is a *lot* lower than is being made out. Firstly, the proposal only applies to commercial websites, so if the site is a non-profit, charity, or private domain, then it would seem to be...
[18:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Upgrade... or kill switch? - 06Basic Computing Elements Created in Bacteria - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:25] <exec> 08└─Not illegal when tested on non-humans. Seriously dangerous if let out of the lab uncontrolled and insufficiently understood. Also, potentially as significant as the discovery of penicillin, if they get it right.
[18:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Don't really have reason to complain ... - 06Oxford University Unearths 800-Year-Old Charter to Seize Domain Names - 838 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:35] <exec> 08└─Well at least they run an entertaining degree mill; from their homepage (front page no less): We found the Need to Publish the Hidden Secrets of the World, in Accordance to our Opposition Group Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha and the Ghazi Ottoman Dynasty known today as GOD between 1560 AD / 2014 AD. Since...
[18:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02oxfordcollegeirl - 06Oxford University Unearths 800-Year-Old Charter to Seize Domain Names - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:37] <exec> 08└─oxfordcollegeirl.com; That is now how my brain read the url when I glanced over it. I was very disappointed not to find a site of eager phd-girls trying to earn extra credits ...
[18:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Post-Capitalism? Yeah right. - 06A Star Trek Economic System May Be Closer Than You Think - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:50] <exec> 08└─What was the secret knowledge?
[18:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jesus_666 [3044] (Score:2) 02Re:Bwahahahahahaha - 06A Star Trek Economic System May Be Closer Than You Think - 1383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:55] <exec> 08└─...or they're just too jaded to see this as ever happening. To be honest, I also think it's unlikely – people with power want to retain that power and wealth is the current way power is measured. We'd have to find an entirely new way of defining who has more power than whom if we were to go to a...
[18:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Trekonomics works? - 06A Star Trek Economic System May Be Closer Than You Think - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:01] <exec> 08└─I hate to cite Doctorow, but Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom had a model for this. Everyone gets the essentials provided for free, but anything else requires some analogue of respect ('Whuffie' in the book). One way of acquiring it was to do jobs that no one else wanted to do - toilet cleaner was...
[18:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score:2) 02Re:Bullshit - 06A Star Trek Economic System May Be Closer Than You Think - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:11] <exec> 08└─It's not to say those are desireable things, but it seems that we're are not that close to the absolute Malthusian limit as might be supposed.
[18:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonymousCowardNoMore [5416] (Score:1) 02True for Americans - 06A Star Trek Economic System May Be Closer Than You Think - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:13] <exec> 08└─If you're in the US, the Star Trek economy is not far off the coast of Florida. Trekkies don't like to hear it but the economy as depicted in the show is Marxist-Leninist. Oh and by the way, there is no such thing as post-scarcity. It looks like that in places like the US because you export less tha...
[18:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:People should think, machines should work - 06Robots Picking Fruit and Driving Tractors - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:26] <exec> 08└─So, Skynet it is then.
[18:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lies - 06Robots Picking Fruit and Driving Tractors - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:38] <exec> 08└─You know that "manufactum" literally means hand-made, don't you? If there is one example of marketing exploiting the notion that something isn't machine-made, it's this. Just checking...
[18:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hawkwind [3531] (Score:2) 02Re:Not totally sure i believe this - 06Global Trends Show Seabird Populations Dropped 70 Percent Since 1950s - 929 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:15:15] <exec> 08└─I find this kind of big environmental statistical trend data fun and I too would like some more detail. Just off the top of my head: they're heavily relying on Southern Hemisphere data which has severe limitations. I don't have access to articles that I've read but I don't think they've seen this ra...
[18:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Jan you lefty commie slut - 06California Farms Are Using Drilling Wastewater to Grow Crops - 1772 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:15:31] <exec> 08└─Plant's are already loaded with carcinogens, and pretty much everything is a carcinogen (it is a pretty much useless term): The toxicological significance of exposures to synthetic chemicals is examined in the context of exposures to naturally occurring chemicals. We calculate that 99.99% (by weight...
[18:15:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Seawater! - 06California Farms Are Using Drilling Wastewater to Grow Crops - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:15:38] <exec> 08└─totally. so make sure some of the 'output' from this process goes to the homes and offices of the board of director's and top executives of these oil companies. I will bet that NONE of them will drink the water, other than for a press shot.
[18:15:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Seawater! - 06California Farms Are Using Drilling Wastewater to Grow Crops - 871 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:15:41] <exec> 08└─> I suppose we could regulate that just like most of the world regulates water used for agriculture and human consumption. Regulations written on the basis of starting with water that's not hugely contaminated in the first place? I don't think so. A minimum first pass would be regulations that requi...
[18:15:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Seawater! - 06California Farms Are Using Drilling Wastewater to Grow Crops - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:15:44] <exec> 08└─I think that sort "let them eat cake" response perfectly sums up just how ignorantly callow you are.
[18:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:What do we expect? - 06US Has Bunker Busters Ready for Iran - 918 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:21:07] <exec> 08└─I find it instantly responsive and relish the linear acceleration curve in total silence. The braking power is nice, too. There is no need to down-shift or over-rev. The past few months I have been driving the i3 on the north shore of Long Island, a relatively affluent area that's part of the wealth...
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[19:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:While you wait for some sense... - 06Privacy Advocates Raise Alarm Over ICANN Proposals to Restrict Anonymous Domain Registrations - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:12] <exec> 08└─... SPOF like any domain authority who doesn't like what you publish is.
[19:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:ADs worse than ACs - 06Privacy Advocates Raise Alarm Over ICANN Proposals to Restrict Anonymous Domain Registrations - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:15] <exec> 08└─I believe TFS mentioned commercial sites. The issue has caught fire over the past few months as an obscure organization that manages the Internet's domain name system was inundated with comments about a proposal that could bar commercial websites from using proxies to register their web addresses.
[19:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:ADs worse than ACs - 06Privacy Advocates Raise Alarm Over ICANN Proposals to Restrict Anonymous Domain Registrations - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:17] <exec> 08└─Sometimes it's important to stand up for the idea even if it's frequently abused.
[19:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:ADs worse than ACs - 06Privacy Advocates Raise Alarm Over ICANN Proposals to Restrict Anonymous Domain Registrations - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:18] <exec> 08└─Oh, and another thing.... I'm willing to concede there may be some issue that might require protection from the racist angry mob types out there. Maybe Governments would offer a protected registration for such, or maybe churches. However, those set up to oppose governments: the wise thing would be t...
[19:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:ADs worse than ACs - 06Privacy Advocates Raise Alarm Over ICANN Proposals to Restrict Anonymous Domain Registrations - 833 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:20] <exec> 08└─just hire a lawyer, to hire a lawyer, to hire a lawyer, ... each in turn in another country, so getting subpoenas to find the person at the top, will require multiple lawyers in turn plus multi-legal systems. So, yes, commercial entities can have full anonymity. Now on the other hand, ICANN should...
[19:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:ADs worse than ACs - 06Privacy Advocates Raise Alarm Over ICANN Proposals to Restrict Anonymous Domain Registrations - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:22] <exec> 08└─Even a lawyer, or a friend in another disinterested country serving as the mailing address or contact gets around a lot of political issues. (Maybe not in some countries, but then countries that aggressive probably already know who you are.
[19:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:ADs worse than ACs - 06Privacy Advocates Raise Alarm Over ICANN Proposals to Restrict Anonymous Domain Registrations - 1027 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:24] <exec> 08└─> the number of people likely to be legitimately impacted by this (victim group members, etc.) is a *lot* lower than is being made out. Firstly, the proposal only applies to commercial websites I'm one of those people you discount. I have a dot-com DNS name* so that's "commercial" right? I use it fo...
[19:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:ADs worse than ACs - 06Privacy Advocates Raise Alarm Over ICANN Proposals to Restrict Anonymous Domain Registrations - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:26] <exec> 08└─If I register a domain name, I don't want my name and address to be known. I have gotten spam snail mail that way.
[19:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2, Disagree) 02Re:ADs worse than ACs - 06Privacy Advocates Raise Alarm Over ICANN Proposals to Restrict Anonymous Domain Registrations - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:29] <exec> 08└─Spam snail mail costs you exactly nothing. Just sayin...
[19:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:ADs worse than ACs - 06Privacy Advocates Raise Alarm Over ICANN Proposals to Restrict Anonymous Domain Registrations - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:31] <exec> 08└─> Spam snail mail costs you exactly nothing. Good. Please post your physical mailing address, then check back in a month and let me know how much you enjoyed the seconds I shaved off your life by making you sort and toss a ton of junk mail.
[19:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Re:ADs worse than ACs - 06Privacy Advocates Raise Alarm Over ICANN Proposals to Restrict Anonymous Domain Registrations - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:33] <exec> 08└─That was my first thought as well. I've had non-anonymous domains before and the address I gave (a PO box) frequently got junk mail and scam attempts addressed to the name of the domain reg. This was years ago and I imagine it's only gotten worse since then. Probably one of the best reasons to regis...
[19:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:ADs worse than ACs - 06Privacy Advocates Raise Alarm Over ICANN Proposals to Restrict Anonymous Domain Registrations - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:35] <exec> 08└─Not to mention piracy sites.
[19:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Don't really have reason to complain ... - 06Oxford University Unearths 800-Year-Old Charter to Seize Domain Names - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:50] <exec> 08└─It looks more sophisticated than a diploma mill. They give out honorary Oxford degrees to Arab sheiks [oxfordcollegeirl.com], and in turn, probably get a nice funding source for their high-sounding international "projects".
[19:16:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:RAAH! not again! - 06Plutonium's "Missing" Magnetism Discovered - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:16:44] <exec> 08└─Interesting. Can you go into more detail on why you think neutrons mess up experiments?
[19:17:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03gman003 [4155] 02Re:Played the pre-release last night - 06How Magic the Gathering Began, and Where it Goes Next - 4033 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:17:36] <exec> 08└─You're totally off base. Although to be fair, that video is hardly aimed at people who don't already know how to play. First bit: turning the cards sideways ("tapping" the card) is done to represent either attacking, or activating that card's once-per-turn ability. Cards are returned to the normal p...
[19:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:1) 02How it began ?? - 06How Magic the Gathering Began, and Where it Goes Next - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:48] <exec> 08└─2nd rate rpg'ers who couldn't manage to play a game involving just their imaginations got suckerered into purchasing a remedial rpg game with 'trading cards' to help their retarded imaginations. A company discovered they could manipulate these people who really wanted to play but somehow couldn't or...
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[20:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Settled Science in Medicine - 06FDA Warns on Cardiovascular Risk From NSAID Medications - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:10] <exec> 08└─Using "the science isn't settled" to refer to medicine is funny. They are a bunch of reckless cowboys operating ad hoc in an area with no real theory (ie one that can make precise, testable predictions). That sounds more critical than I really mean it to be though. It is just our current state of kn...
[20:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Legalize Laudanum - 06FDA Warns on Cardiovascular Risk From NSAID Medications - 692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:11] <exec> 08└─Doctors should only prescribe aspirin or opiate, for long term pain management as, nsaid are dangerous and acetaminophen is as effective as placebo for acute pain according to the linked articles. Opiate are quite safe given access to standardized preparation as long and as much as the patient needs...
[20:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:ADs worse than ACs - 06Privacy Advocates Raise Alarm Over ICANN Proposals to Restrict Anonymous Domain Registrations - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:25] <exec> 08└─Given the massive budget cuts over there, that is basically what they have become.
[20:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:ADs worse than ACs - 06Privacy Advocates Raise Alarm Over ICANN Proposals to Restrict Anonymous Domain Registrations - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:35] <exec> 08└─yeah, nice try son. But I'm not attempting to operate a commercial enterprise on the net while hiding behind an anonymous registration.
[20:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:ADs worse than ACs - 06Privacy Advocates Raise Alarm Over ICANN Proposals to Restrict Anonymous Domain Registrations - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:37] <exec> 08└─WTF? I want to register a domain and I don't want my name and address associated with domains I register. Oooooh it could be used by commercial enterprises or spammers! Tough shit.
[20:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Refugee from beyond [2699] (Score:2) 02Re:ADs worse than ACs - 06Privacy Advocates Raise Alarm Over ICANN Proposals to Restrict Anonymous Domain Registrations - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:40] <exec> 08└─Do they have boarding lessions there?
[20:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Upgrade... or kill switch? - 06Basic Computing Elements Created in Bacteria - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:51] <exec> 08└─That's what people thought when medicine was making it's baby steps in surgery. Chances are that you or someone close to you is alive because the fearmongers didn't succeed.
[20:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't really have reason to complain ... - 06Oxford University Unearths 800-Year-Old Charter to Seize Domain Names - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:02] <exec> 08└─Perhaps they were referring to Hermes Trismegistus (Ancient Greek: Ἑρμῆς ὁ Τρισμέγιστος, "thrice-greatest Hermes"; Latin: Mercurius ter Maximus) is the purported author of the Hermetic Corpus, a series of sacred texts that are the basis of Hermeticism.
[20:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Post-Capitalism? Yeah right. - 06A Star Trek Economic System May Be Closer Than You Think - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:18] <exec> 08└─Not likely - in almost every instance where Worf gives advice, it would have saved the Enterprise a world of trouble if they'd actually followed his suggestions.
[20:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Post-Capitalism? Yeah right. - 06A Star Trek Economic System May Be Closer Than You Think - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:19] <exec> 08└─no, Worf was an uncle tom. Violence loving brown people whom everyone else feels uncomfortable around and actively avoids. Yup, Star Trek gave us Space negros.
[20:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Post-Capitalism? Yeah right. - 06A Star Trek Economic System May Be Closer Than You Think - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:24] <exec> 08└─Regardless of how good 3d printing is today Keyword highlighted above: today. Go back a few years and no one was talking about 3d printing. Give it 50 years. Then what?
[20:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:Bwahahahahahaha - 06A Star Trek Economic System May Be Closer Than You Think - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:29] <exec> 08└─...or they're just too jaded to see this as ever happening.
[20:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bullshit - 06A Star Trek Economic System May Be Closer Than You Think - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:45] <exec> 08└─Your argument doesn't prove there isn't going to be post-sacristy, it just proves that there isn't going to be universal global post-scarcity. I can reasonably see certain states reaching that level ahead of the curve.
[20:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lies - 06Robots Picking Fruit and Driving Tractors - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:15:13] <exec> 08└─And you know as well that "factum" means "made"? So much for all your "facts", whether made by hand or by machine!
[20:15:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Empyrean [5241] (Score:1) 02Re:Monitored vs Existing - 06Global Trends Show Seabird Populations Dropped 70 Percent Since 1950s - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:15:48] <exec> 08└─It's not misleading, you just didn't understand it. The number of birds in the populations that were being monitored dropped by 70%, strongly indicating that there are fewer sea birds overall.
[20:16:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03davester666 [155] 02Re:Seawater! - 06California Farms Are Using Drilling Wastewater to Grow Crops - 281 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:16:12] <exec> 08└─exactly. the only thing in waste-water from fracking or oil drilling is "dihydrogen monoxide". I'm sure every oil company CEO wouldn't have a problem with it being connected straight to their corporate headquarters and their homes and whatever company supplies their bottled water.
[20:16:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Seawater! - 06California Farms Are Using Drilling Wastewater to Grow Crops - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:16:21] <exec> 08└─Did the prior comment really just point out how callow khallow is? Oh, the pun! Oh Mores! Oh the Humanity!
[20:16:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Seawater! - 06California Farms Are Using Drilling Wastewater to Grow Crops - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:16:22] <exec> 08└─let us remember that is the sinister intent with farmers pumping thousands of gallons of dihydrogen monoxide, the most common hazardous chemical used in fracking, onto their crops. This will no doubt get into the food and cause untold suffering.
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[21:13:10] <exec> 08└─Medicine is an art, not a science. And, my dad loved to remind us that every doctor he ever met was "just practicing".
[21:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Flyingmoose [4369] (Score:1) 02Re:Legalize Laudanum - 06FDA Warns on Cardiovascular Risk From NSAID Medications - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:12] <exec> 08└─My friend's dad is a heroin addict, and high doses have fried his brain. He is mentally ill because of it, so I don't think what you're saying is true.
[21:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:While you wait for some sense... - 06Privacy Advocates Raise Alarm Over ICANN Proposals to Restrict Anonymous Domain Registrations - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:24] <exec> 08└─people should (spend more time using protocols without (Single Points Of Failure, like (any domain authority who doesn't like what you publish) is)) MY TOKENIZER SAID EVERYTHING WAS ALRIGHT.
[21:13:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Justin Case [4239] 02Re:ADs worse than ACs - 06Privacy Advocates Raise Alarm Over ICANN Proposals to Restrict Anonymous Domain Registrations - 240 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:38] <exec> 08└─> Spam snail mail costs you exactly nothing. Good. Please post your physical mailing address, then check back in a month and let me know how much you enjoyed the seconds I shaved off your life by making you sort and toss a ton of junk mail.
[21:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheMessageNotTheMessenger [5664] (Score:1) 02Re:ADs worse than ACs - 06Privacy Advocates Raise Alarm Over ICANN Proposals to Restrict Anonymous Domain Registrations - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:41] <exec> 08└─You have something to hide! What's next? You one a dem terrist or something?
[21:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Uncle Tom != ''Uncle Tom'' - 06A Star Trek Economic System May Be Closer Than You Think - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:24] <exec> 08└─Many people say "Uncle Tom" when they should be saying "Sambo". [google.com] Uncle Tom allowed himself to be beaten to death rather than betray his own people; Sambo was a sadist who enjoyed inflicting pain on other black people. Previous subthread [soylentnews.org] -- gewg_
[21:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:Post-Capitalism? Yeah right. - 06A Star Trek Economic System May Be Closer Than You Think - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:27] <exec> 08└─WOW, it still works!
[21:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Bullshit - 06A Star Trek Economic System May Be Closer Than You Think - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:52] <exec> 08└─If you have the energy you need, you can produce what you need,
[21:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03penguinoid [5331] (Score:2) 02Re:People should think, machines should work - 06Robots Picking Fruit and Driving Tractors - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:15:09] <exec> 08└─Skynet is one of the less dangerous possibilities. A proper AI wouldn't even have to fight a war against us, but might still exterminate us like we exterminate other species -- incidentally, through habitat destruction. Basically, a strong AI could do whatever the heck it wants, and you better hope...
[21:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''There has never been a communist government'' - 06Robots Picking Fruit and Driving Tractors - 1028 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:15:12] <exec> 08└─Well, not until the various places redefined the word to suit their purposes. Marx described a system where decisions would come directly from the workers. Non-worker elites and boards of directors NOT chosen by the workers [google.com] are antithetical to his vision. We've had some subthreads on th...
[21:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lies - 06Robots Picking Fruit and Driving Tractors - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:15:24] <exec> 08└─"Fact" derives from the other meaning: Done. As in "what's done is done."
[21:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Played the pre-release last night - 06How Magic the Gathering Began, and Where it Goes Next - 1156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:18:12] <exec> 08└─OK -- I'll accept I don't get it. After you describe it I can feel myself getting interested and I really don't want to, because I'm exactly the kind of person who would get way to into it and spend too much money. Here's one other thing I can't comprehend however -- why do people pay so much for th...
[21:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Played the pre-release last night - 06How Magic the Gathering Began, and Where it Goes Next - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:18:14] <exec> 08└─on second thought, making playing cards that have the exact same back image would be hard and players would eventually learn which back corresponds to which face -- kind of like a marked deck. I suppose one way around this would be to glue faces to regular playing cards, but that seems sort of a lou...
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[22:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Legalize Laudanum - 06FDA Warns on Cardiovascular Risk From NSAID Medications - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:20] <exec> 08└─One anecdote and I doubt that you could conclude that heroin was the only thing in an addict's life that could contribute to mental illness. Anyone know if there is a causal relationship of patients on morphine and mental illness?
[22:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Legalize Laudanum - 06FDA Warns on Cardiovascular Risk From NSAID Medications - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:21] <exec> 08└─I have an uncle who fell off a roof and got put on painkillers. A few years later they found him wandering the streets naked and put him in a nursing home at ~50 yrs old. I met a homeless guy in new orleans once who kept repeating everything and apologized for it, blaming years of painkillers. I hav...
[22:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02suck it up - 06FDA Warns on Cardiovascular Risk From NSAID Medications - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:24] <exec> 08└─No painkillers for me, at least not for ordinary aches and pains. I realize that I'm fortunate that I don't have major pain like migraines. On the other hand I do have chronic neck and back pain from minor accidents when I was much younger. Completely pain-free days are rare. Osteo-arthritic pain in...
[22:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Post-Capitalism? Yeah right. - 06A Star Trek Economic System May Be Closer Than You Think - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:39] <exec> 08└─I was kidding... Of course I know the secret. Not that I would tell you.
[22:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Bullshit - 06A Star Trek Economic System May Be Closer Than You Think - 1817 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:15:07] <exec> 08└─The ST replicator is the favored model of post scarcity fantasizing, but it needs to convert energy into matter, which is a big deal from a scientific perspective. The immediate future of replicator technology, at least as I see it, is basically like "The Feed" as explained by Neal Stephenson in The...
[22:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:True for Americans - 06A Star Trek Economic System May Be Closer Than You Think - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:15:09] <exec> 08└─They got Starships on Cuba?!
[22:15:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03penguinoid [5331] (Score:2) 02Solution to Illegal Immigration - 06Robots Picking Fruit and Driving Tractors - 1052 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:42] <exec> 08└─This sort of robot could be the solution to the illegal immigration "problem". I say "problem" because any politician that solves this "problem" by having Americans do those jobs is going to get kicked out of office in a hurry when prices double. So the politicians who pander to anti-immigration fol...
[22:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Sounds like we need to bomb los alamos - 06Plutonium's "Missing" Magnetism Discovered - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:17:30] <exec> 08└─As someone in eastern Europe, I can assure you that has nowhere near the offensive capability as Putinium.
[22:18:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03gman003 [4155] (Score:2) 02Re:Played the pre-release last night - 06How Magic the Gathering Began, and Where it Goes Next - 1255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:18:31] <exec> 08└─Actually, quite a few people do just print their own cards. However, this is only usable for casual play - try doing that at any tournaments, and you'll get kicked out. With the exception of Legacy, which allows for a certain number of proxied cards to keep the deck prices from being too exorbitant....
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[23:13:20] <exec> 08└─I like that. Science is very similar to art though. There is no simple algorithm and you need to learn the skills to build the tools to do what you need done.
[23:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03seeprime [5580] (Score:1) 02No thanks - 06Basic Computing Elements Created in Bacteria - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:09] <exec> 08└─Since we're still in the realm of science fiction with this, or at least in the pre-practical application area, I'll state that I'd rather have a man-made nanobot machine do work inside my body instead of a DNA modified bacteria that likely would alter the DNA of other bacteria in ways that could no...
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[23:14:47] <exec> 08└─Sure, but by then traditional manufacturing will also improve to mass produce better products for cheaper. Economies of scale and scope will always exist.
[23:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score:1) 02Re:Bullshit - 06A Star Trek Economic System May Be Closer Than You Think - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:15:06] <exec> 08└─If you get a Star Trek like system it'll be over very very very many dead bodies ;).
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