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[02:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02MMMMmmmmm.... - 06Bacon, Burgers, and Sausages Are a Cancer Risk, Say World Health Chiefs - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:13] <exec> 08└─bacon.
[02:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:MMMMmmmmm.... - 06Bacon, Burgers, and Sausages Are a Cancer Risk, Say World Health Chiefs - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:09:14] <exec> 08└─I've inhaled enough asbestos to choke a horse. I'm not going to stop eating those maple-bacon bars or any other bacon.
[02:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02"maple bacon bars" - 06Bacon, Burgers, and Sausages Are a Cancer Risk, Say World Health Chiefs - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:09:16] <exec> 08└─do you live in Portland?
[02:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:MMMMmmmmm.... - 06Bacon, Burgers, and Sausages Are a Cancer Risk, Say World Health Chiefs - 715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:09:17] <exec> 08└─And the truth about asbestos was that people who were exposed but who didn't smoke during the 60's and 70's, had healthy lungs (well, actually the cilia) that were able to expel the asbestos. Those who were heavy smokers, had cilia that were coated with tar and unable to function properly, so the as...
[02:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02warning labels on packs of bacon - 06Bacon, Burgers, and Sausages Are a Cancer Risk, Say World Health Chiefs - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:19] <exec> 08└─The End Times are near.
[02:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Not news - 06Bacon, Burgers, and Sausages Are a Cancer Risk, Say World Health Chiefs - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:21] <exec> 08└─Its been known that fried, grilled, or barbecued meat is potentially carcinogenic for many years now. No one is recommended to make a steady diet of these. Bacon is risky because of BOTH the frying and also because of being smoked. (To the extent bacon is really smoked these days). The US has publis...
[02:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Blackened meat randomizes the chemicals in protein - 06Bacon, Burgers, and Sausages Are a Cancer Risk, Say World Health Chiefs - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:09:22] <exec> 08└─if you cook meat hot enough that it turns black, more or less what you've done it taken millions, maybe billions of different chemicals, ripped them all apart and put them back together in totally random ways. No surprise there would be carcinogens. A friend of mine told me that the Japanese get sto...
[02:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:Blackened meat randomizes the chemicals in prot - 06Bacon, Burgers, and Sausages Are a Cancer Risk, Say World Health Chiefs - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:09:24] <exec> 08└─Another idea about stomach cancer in Japan is that it may be caused by tannins present in tea. "Several places in the world, as in Japan, a correlation has been found between the rate of occurrence of cancer in the stomach and the intake of some teas that are very rich in tannins," write the authors...
[02:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02This is a surprise? - 06Bacon, Burgers, and Sausages Are a Cancer Risk, Say World Health Chiefs - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:26] <exec> 08└─Tasty food is bad for you. Who knew? I'm 57 years old with a 14 year old cat. I'm eating healthy till Frick dies. Than it's eat what I want, die like a man. / frick is the cutest cat ever // not really, he's kinduv a turd /// he's like a 2 year old, but much cuter
[02:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score:2) 02Quality Adjusted Life Years - 06Bacon, Burgers, and Sausages Are a Cancer Risk, Say World Health Chiefs - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:27] <exec> 08└─Cancer free living is too high a price to pay.
[02:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Quality Adjusted Life Years - 06Bacon, Burgers, and Sausages Are a Cancer Risk, Say World Health Chiefs - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:09:29] <exec> 08└─eating meat is eating boring the hindus know how to make the most savory food and as long as you go light on the ghee (clarified butter) it is healthy as fuck one of the benefits of a billion vegetarians all in the same country, they have had a lot of man-hours of experimentation
[02:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02basic info - 06Bacon, Burgers, and Sausages Are a Cancer Risk, Say World Health Chiefs - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:31] <exec> 08└─i did basic internet research [pcrm.org] on this issue a while back and found out the issue is with HCAs [wikipedia.org] and PAHs [wikipedia.org]. * PAHs are easy to avoid because they aren't from the meat itself. Basically, they are the result of cooking using a flame as part of what fuels that fla...
[02:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Wow - 06Walmart Plays Catch-Up With Amazon - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:35] <exec> 08└─Holy shit that's a lot of money Walmart's was about three times what it was 15 years before, almost $486 billion
[02:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Reminds me of MSFT - 06Walmart Plays Catch-Up With Amazon - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:37] <exec> 08└─After Netscape Navigator was released, and quickly followed up with version 2 with an incredible list of innovations, Bill Gates fired up MS Word and composed an email to the troops. The S.S. Redmond was turning around in the middle of the Pacific, and heading straight towards Silicon Valley...
[02:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:2) 02They still don't get it. - 06Walmart Plays Catch-Up With Amazon - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:38] <exec> 08└─"This is where e-commerce is headed," says Jariwala, which is to a hybrid online/in-store model. "Customers want the accessibility and immediacy of a physical store," along with the benefits of online shopping.
[02:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedGreen [888] (Score:2) 02Re:They still don't get it. - 06Walmart Plays Catch-Up With Amazon - 848 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:09:40] <exec> 08└─"And then there's the question of overhead. Amazon's operations require far fewer people, far less real estate in far cheaper parts of town, no real estate wasted on parking lots, much lower electricity bills, and on and on and on. The exact same box of laundry detergent costs Amazon much less to st...
[02:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Re:They still don't get it. - 06Walmart Plays Catch-Up With Amazon - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:09:42] <exec> 08└─"Customers want the accessibility and immediacy of a physical store," along with the benefits of online shopping.
[02:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Wal-Mart Replicator - 06Walmart Plays Catch-Up With Amazon - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:43] <exec> 08└─70 percent of the American population lives within five miles of a Walmart store
[02:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02And yet both websites suck ass - 06Walmart Plays Catch-Up With Amazon - 778 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:45] <exec> 08└─Both the walmart and amazon websites are shitty, shitty interfaces. They look pretty enough. But try doing a global search and then sorting by price on Amazon - not an option. I bet they think it is in their interest to have shitty search functionality, it lets them feed you the search results they...
[02:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score:2) 02Online elements aren't really the key - 06Walmart Plays Catch-Up With Amazon - 1218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:47] <exec> 08└─What's really interesting about Amazon is that they're betting big on assets for logistical improvements. Building out enough computing capacity to service higher volumes for the holidays and then developing a platform for selling the slack capacity is the smartest move made by any tech company in r...
[02:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02I don't care about next day delivery - 06Walmart Plays Catch-Up With Amazon - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:49] <exec> 08└─I care about saving the 9.75% sales tax. Haven't ordered anything from Amazon since they started collecting California sales tax, had a huge sad when J&R went toes up. I'd been using J&R since the 80's, before Amazon was born. If my state and city want to rip me off on sales tax, then I'll go out of...
[02:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Prime Now - 06Walmart Plays Catch-Up With Amazon - 949 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:51] <exec> 08└─In Portland, Amazon.com is delivering food for restaurants. When its customers pay a $99 annual fee, there's no additional fee for these deliveries: http://www.marketwatch.com [marketwatch.com] In certain cities, the company is offe...
[02:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Procrastination and denial, business style - 06Walmart Plays Catch-Up With Amazon - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:52] <exec> 08└─This is no different than personal procrastination and/or denial, merely at an institutional level. "Something bad is happening! We need to act now! Or maybe if we pray hard enough, it'll go away... Please go away please go away please go away" "Maybe we can delay the project until next year, keep a...
[02:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Procrastination and denial, business style - 06Walmart Plays Catch-Up With Amazon - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:09:54] <exec> 08└─"Maybe we can delay the project until next year, keep an eye on the market for upsets. Next year. Next year..." No wonder humans are religious, it's much easier to pretend away personal responsibility because "God said so, who am I to do anything about it".
[02:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Re:Point? - 06A Social Network of Human Proteins - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:09:57] <exec> 08└─They worked really really hard to try and score an Ig Nobel prize to try and fool other people it's a real one? After all they'll get likes from over 5400 friends they have in the social network ... of proteins.
[02:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Point? - 06A Social Network of Human Proteins - 1374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:09:59] <exec> 08└─I see it as kinda a "status report" in hacking the ultimate CPU.... Life. No one seems to know what makes us tick, but a lot of dedicated scientists are probing away trying to understand the architecture of these marvelous molecular machines. Imagine the possibilities ahead if we can understand how...
[02:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score:1, Offtopic) 02Oh fuck me - 06A Social Network of Human Proteins - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:01] <exec> 08└─I've just realized that from now on, whenever any research involves graph theory, the dimwit science journalist is always going to use the Facebook social graph as a way to explain it.
[02:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:No way - 06Finland Team's Collaborative Device Could Spark Farewell to PCs - 1997 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:14] <exec> 08└─One thing about those liasing with each other all the time... they are usually the ones bringing the money into an organization. I can tell you that you may be the engine that makes the car go. And it won't go without you. But you are useless without the driver who wants you to take him from here...
[02:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:No way - 06Finland Team's Collaborative Device Could Spark Farewell to PCs - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:15] <exec> 08└─Projects and ideas are grouped in vortices and confluences. Projects and ideas are grouped in rings and cubes. Projects and ideas are grouped in orchards and piles. Projects and ideas are grouped in nexoids and streams. Arbitrary terminology is fun!
[02:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02It's so misled it's almost cute - 06Finland Team's Collaborative Device Could Spark Farewell to PCs - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:17] <exec> 08└─"They don't like portable touchscreen devices to replace your desktop with? Oh! I know! Let's make it MORE portable and MORE touchscreeny! That'll bring them around for sure!!" Also very skeptical that they can cram the power of a full desktop into a pocket size.
[02:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:It's so misled it's almost cute - 06Finland Team's Collaborative Device Could Spark Farewell to PCs - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:19] <exec> 08└─Oh nice, and it's cloud-based and a subscription model. It's like they're helpfully gathering everything I hate about modern computing into one easily-ignorable location.
[02:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:It's so misled it's almost cute - 06Finland Team's Collaborative Device Could Spark Farewell to PCs - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:21] <exec> 08└─Also very skeptical that they can cram the power of a full desktop into a pocket size.
[02:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:3, Insightful) 02So, it's a phone in a wooden box - 06Finland Team's Collaborative Device Could Spark Farewell to PCs - 868 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:23] <exec> 08└─Or maybe a PC in a wooden box. Either way, phfft. I've got a laptop that I do email/web browsing on. I've got a phone I do light games on (mainly poker). I've got a PS3 I do my heavy gaming on. So it's a PC in a box. Microsoft has decided to spy on me, which means I'll run Linux on it. The games I w...
[02:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:There is only one way to test this - 06Woman Installs Linux by Accident; Thinks It's Just MSFT's Latest Stuff - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:34] <exec> 08└─I was just going to say, http://files.devuan.org [devuan.org]
[02:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:There is only one way to test this - 06Woman Installs Linux by Accident; Thinks It's Just MSFT's Latest Stuff - 696 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:35] <exec> 08└─You gotta wonder who made the decision to leave a PXE source on the network. And who turn pxe boot on in her bios? Sounds like TFA author might have had a hand in that. A subtle trap set to do exactly this, or an oversight? PXE Boot, for the uninitiated will often boot any machine that fails to find...
[02:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:There is only one way to test this - 06Woman Installs Linux by Accident; Thinks It's Just MSFT's Latest Stuff - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:37] <exec> 08└─Ooops, I horked that link: http://www.howtogeek.com [howtogeek.com]
[02:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bziman [3577] (Score:2) 02Re:Almost - 06Woman Installs Linux by Accident; Thinks It's Just MSFT's Latest Stuff - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:45] <exec> 08└─Where did you find a 90s version of Linux on a bootable USB drive?
[02:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Erm, no - 06Woman Installs Linux by Accident; Thinks It's Just MSFT's Latest Stuff - 709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:51] <exec> 08└─I agree with you. To be a little more specific though, people should be taught computer software concepts, rather than rote tasks. Every piece of software probably has a different set of terms for specific actions, say for example, formatting the margins of a page. Instead of teaching people that in...
[02:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Erm, no - 06Woman Installs Linux by Accident; Thinks It's Just MSFT's Latest Stuff - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:53] <exec> 08└─Styles completely escapes most people.
[02:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bornagainpenguin [3538] (Score:1) 02Re:Erm, no - 06Woman Installs Linux by Accident; Thinks It's Just MSFT's Latest Stuff - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:54] <exec> 08└─What's pathetic is that most users are so hooked on very specific software that if they are presented with software that essentially does the same thing but looks different, they get lost.
[02:10:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:Erm, no - 06Woman Installs Linux by Accident; Thinks It's Just MSFT's Latest Stuff - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:56] <exec> 08└─>What's pathetic is that most users are so hooked on very specific software that if they are presented with software that essentially does the same thing but looks different, they get lost. I find this ironic, because "GUIs are more intuitive to use than CLIs".
[02:10:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Erm, no - 06Woman Installs Linux by Accident; Thinks It's Just MSFT's Latest Stuff - 651 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:58] <exec> 08└─About four years ago I did an install of Windows 7 into a virtual machine for a specific need, since evaporated. I don't remember a bunch about the process except for the fact that installing Debian or CentOS seemed much easier in comparison. I don't know why there are still people out there who thi...
[02:10:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:And? - 06Woman Installs Linux by Accident; Thinks It's Just MSFT's Latest Stuff - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:11:00] <exec> 08└─If the *had* have called tech support, and they had actually managed to get her back up and doing her job within a few minutes, that wouldn't have just been a story, it would have been science fiction!
[02:11:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:First rule of negotiation - 06ISPs “Reminded” to Not Use Government Money for Alcohol and Vacations - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:11:19] <exec> 08└─What's mine is mine. What's yours is negotiable.
[02:11:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Of course not - 06ISPs “Reminded” to Not Use Government Money for Alcohol and Vacations - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:11:23] <exec> 08└─Bankers take government employees out to the strip joints though. IT haven't twigged.
[02:11:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bornagainpenguin [3538] (Score:1) 02An idea whose time has come 'round again! - 06ISPs “Reminded” to Not Use Government Money for Alcohol and Vacations - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:25] <exec> 08└─Can we please tar-n-feather these jackasses? They're having to be told this while helping themselves to a trough of money intended to provide vital infrastructure to the poorest reaches of our nation! For chrissakes! What do they need to do before we're all finally mad enough to remind them why we n...
[02:11:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Hookers? Blow? - 06ISPs “Reminded” to Not Use Government Money for Alcohol and Vacations - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:27] <exec> 08└─I didn't see Hookers and Blow in that list, did you?
[02:12:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02The motives of the submitter - 06Florida Supreme Court Removes Barrier to Widespread Solar Power - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:12:13] <exec> 08└─its a bit odd to see gewg_ rushing to the defense of large corporations Hey, I don't want to be -completely- predictable. That would be boring. ...and I do hate waste, so all that unused sunlight bugs me. ...and there's Mother Earth to think about WRT substituting for fossil fuels. Not the ideal, bu...
[02:12:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Corrupt Bondi - 06Florida Supreme Court Removes Barrier to Widespread Solar Power - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:12:22] <exec> 08└─So your are stating with certainty that those 14 lawyers HAVEN'T prosecuted any foreclosure cases? Or are you just posturing? Other agencies have found no fault [palmbeachpost.com] in the firing but plenty of fault with the two lawyers in question:the report that raised concerns about "disorganizati...
[02:12:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Corrupt Bondi - 06Florida Supreme Court Removes Barrier to Widespread Solar Power - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:12:24] <exec> 08└─Those two fired lawyers were total loose cannons, secretly helping the very people they were suppose to be prosecuting. Read the entire investigation into their firing here: http://miamiherald.typepad.com [typepad.com]  
[02:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score:2) 02Re:Expected vs actual - 06Hurricane Patricia: More Categories Are Needed to Accurately Indicate its Strength - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:08] <exec> 08└─Agreed. The article attempted to convince us to do something based on pseudoscience.
[02:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Those are old numbers - 06Hurricane Patricia: More Categories Are Needed to Accurately Indicate its Strength - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:09] <exec> 08└─It did hit 200mph on the 23rd. [noaa.gov] A history to pick through. [google.com] Wikipedia's coverage includes a chart of the Most intense Pacific hurricanes [wikipedia.org] More biggies [6abc.com] A converter [google.com] -- gewg_
[02:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03geoff_smith82 [1699] (Score:1) 02Re:Odd reference of scale - 06Australian Technology Allows Cows' Weights to be Monitored From Space - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:22] <exec> 08└─Well here is a list of the largest stations in Australia. As you can see from the list they are quite large. The largest would nearly make it into the Top 40 EU countries by size. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org
[02:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bornagainpenguin [3538] (Score:1) 02Re:''get a moderate Democrat nominated'' - 06Presidential Candidate Larry Lessig Dumps His Resignation Gimmick - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:59] <exec> 08└─Ike was to the Left of everybody who has been in this race (except Jill Stein)--but Ike is dead.
[02:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''get a moderate Democrat nominated'' - 06Presidential Candidate Larry Lessig Dumps His Resignation Gimmick - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:59] <exec> 08└─"You just keep thinkin', Butch. That's what you're good at." (Your line is "Boy, I got vision and the rest of the world wears bifocals.") -- gewg_
[02:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Still no new rifle? - 06Gun Makers Compete to Produce US Army’s New Official Handgun - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:14:53] <exec> 08└─That's like saying a fountain pen, properly maintained, works fine in modern battlefield environments. One reason why the AK-47 line of rifles is popular is that they can take abuse and still work. If your gun requires proper maintenance and high-quality ammunition in other to not malfunction, it's...
[02:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Killing tools - 06Gun Makers Compete to Produce US Army’s New Official Handgun - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:15:03] <exec> 08└─War is not a game, moron.
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[03:09:32] <exec> 08└─It would be interesting to see how this relates to the ancient romans understanding that slaves working in asbestos mines died from horrible lung related Roman philosopher and naturalist Pliny the Elder noted that slaves who mined asbestos suffered from a sickness of the lungs and died at an early a...
[03:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Blackened meat randomizes the chemicals in prot - 06Bacon, Burgers, and Sausages Are a Cancer Risk, Say World Health Chiefs - 823 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:09:37] <exec> 08└─And here I was wanting to suggest ditching coffee in favor of tea... However, let's be clear that according to [1], "Daily consumption of black tea (but not green tea) has been associated with a significant reduction in death from all cancers." and.. oh fuck it, just read it here [wikipedia.org] Qu...
[03:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Blackened meat randomizes the chemicals in prot - 06Bacon, Burgers, and Sausages Are a Cancer Risk, Say World Health Chiefs - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:09:39] <exec> 08└─And here I was wanting to suggest ditching coffee in favor of tea...
[03:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Seriously, which food isn't bad for you? - 06Bacon, Burgers, and Sausages Are a Cancer Risk, Say World Health Chiefs - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:44] <exec> 08└─It's hard to think of anything that's been signed off by all the experts. Don't tell me food that you've grown in your own garden or farm.
[03:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score:2) 02But... - 06Bacon, Burgers, and Sausages Are a Cancer Risk, Say World Health Chiefs - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:46] <exec> 08└─What is want to know is what to the World Health Chefs think about all this nonsense. Forget the Chiefs.... Besides, life kills you. Plain and simple. I'd rather it be tasty. ;)
[03:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Point? - 06A Social Network of Human Proteins - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:10:16] <exec> 08└─The point is to stop reading submissions from Phoenix666. Sorry, but after all the graphene hype stories, "PC is dead" disruptive drivel, and constant proselytizing about the coalescence of science and social networks, all of Phoenix666's submissions are going into my virtual "Soylent bozo bin" (som...
[03:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not enough PCIe lanes - 06Finland Team's Collaborative Device Could Spark Farewell to PCs - 986 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:39] <exec> 08└─I don't know if you've noticed, but we have a flash storage revolution going on here, and your dinky little Chromecast clone can go check email and watch cat videos while I chug through hundreds and hundreds of gigabytes per second of data at tens-of-microseconds latencies. Also, I'm not paying $23...
[03:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Compatible with Debian Testing; no systemd - 06Woman Installs Linux by Accident; Thinks It's Just MSFT's Latest Stuff - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:10:55] <exec> 08└─Get antiX 15 (Core, Base, or Full). [sourceforge.net] Other non-Sourceforge options [google.com] Unlike that never-had-a-real-release distro, antiX (pronounced "Antiques") has been around since 2007. [blogspot.com] -- gewg_
[03:11:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjwt [2826] (Score:2) 02And then... - 06Woman Installs Linux by Accident; Thinks It's Just MSFT's Latest Stuff - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:29] <exec> 08└─So how did this beacon of wonder go when she updated her video card or wanted to install a new program?
[03:11:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02kernel of good news - 06ISPs “Reminded” to Not Use Government Money for Alcohol and Vacations - 1313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:48] <exec> 08└─The good news is that there's a "vast number of providers": they haven't, yet, all been bought by AT&T, Verizon, or Comcast. I doubt it's these oceans of government hooch that are keeping that from happening, but if it were, I'd tell those telecoms to continue partying heartily. The memo gives an ex...
[03:11:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03CirclesInSand [2899] (Score:2) 02The key word here - 06ISPs “Reminded” to Not Use Government Money for Alcohol and Vacations - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:49] <exec> 08└─The key word here is Fungible [wikipedia.org]. Hey guys, remember all those hookers and vacations we've been buying with our money collected from the monopoly on public infrastructure? Well, we just got a check from Uncle Sam to improve that infrastructure. Don't worry, we're not reducing the amount...
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[04:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Blacklist in Asterisk - 06FCC Releases Data for ‘Do-Not-Disturb’ Technologies  - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:20] <exec> 08└─My next project will be to grab that list of phone numbers for telemarketers and merge it with my Asterisk blacklist table! Anybody else forgot to set a time limit for voicemails and then discovered 59-minute-long robo-messages that came in overnight? Even with a five minute limit in place, we still...
[04:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02new profit center! - 06FCC Releases Data for ‘Do-Not-Disturb’ Technologies  - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:21] <exec> 08└─Telephone companies will charge you a couple of bucks/month and you can upload/enter a list of phone numbers you won't take calls from. Then, they will turn around and charge the companies that use those phone numbers to either block the number so the call goes through or to continually change their...
[04:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Not news - 06Bacon, Burgers, and Sausages Are a Cancer Risk, Say World Health Chiefs - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:09:42] <exec> 08└─I'm more worried about the packaged 'bacon' that is just sitting in a regular aisle [not in a cooler of any kind], that lasts indefinitely that you heat in a microwave.
[04:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:Not news - 06Bacon, Burgers, and Sausages Are a Cancer Risk, Say World Health Chiefs - 1184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:09:43] <exec> 08└─Telling it like it is takes some bravery; it also means rejecting lobbyist/bribery funding to shape the message. And so since the dollars did not come from corporate america, it will be a political conspiracy that funded it with taxpayer dollars or shady self-interest groups. As for the health effec...
[04:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:basic info - 06Bacon, Burgers, and Sausages Are a Cancer Risk, Say World Health Chiefs - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:09:48] <exec> 08└─Broiling in an electric oven, or frying on an electric stove, exposes the food to enough heat to generate those same compounds. One way to limit the temperature is to keep the food in thermal "communication," or contact ,with hot or boiling water. The water won't exceed its own boiling point, which...
[04:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Wow - 06Walmart Plays Catch-Up With Amazon - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:10:01] <exec> 08└─"Walmart's superefficient distribution system — a function of its enormous volume and geographic reach — was long the secret to Walmart's immense profitability" No. Initially, it was. Now they just go to their suppliers and say "we're paying 5% less than last year, you still take back whatever w...
[04:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02I prefer the human interaction - 06Walmart Plays Catch-Up With Amazon - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:10:06] <exec> 08└─My mother still refuses to shop online. There are some shops such as Powells that offer live human salespeople; she will call them on the phone. The stores I shop in, I do so in large part because I like talking to the people there. I also want them to have jobs. A while back I tried to pay cash for...
[04:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They still don't get it. - 06Walmart Plays Catch-Up With Amazon - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:10:07] <exec> 08└─I don't buy much "stuff" on a regular basis, just groceries & gas. I'm old enough that I already have most of the things I want. When I do buy something, often I want to look at it (construction, quality, etc) before accepting it. Since Walmart is less than 5 minutes away by car or bicycle, the ship...
[04:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Point? - 06A Social Network of Human Proteins - 1366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:10:27] <exec> 08└─It's a mapping endeavor analogous to the Human Genome Project. Now that the genome itself has been largely mapped, deciphering protein production has become a new frontier. Wikipedia makes the scope of understanding protein production pretty clear: Protein production can occur after gene expression....
[04:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Did you know slashdot invented social networking? - 06A Social Network of Human Proteins - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:10:30] <exec> 08└─slashdot media makes that claim. Also Rob Malda is one of the founders of DICE Holdings.
[04:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Did you know slashdot invented social networkin - 06A Social Network of Human Proteins - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:10:32] <exec> 08└─"A Friends and Foes system of Human Proteins" doesn't quite have the same ring to it.
[04:11:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Erm, no - 06Woman Installs Linux by Accident; Thinks It's Just MSFT's Latest Stuff - 3021 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:11:25] <exec> 08└─I feel my school did an excellent job of encouraging critical thinking skills and to question things that were not right. I even had several professors that would deliberately say wrong things in class, hoping one of us would pick up on it. Extra credit if we did. A classroom-wide admonishment if w...
[04:11:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjwt [2826] (Score:2) 02Re:Erm, no - 06Woman Installs Linux by Accident; Thinks It's Just MSFT's Latest Stuff - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:11:33] <exec> 08└─I think the story here is that the user themselves seemed to think this may have been a shiny new windows 10 install.. Now a massive story would be if this happened months ago, and she had been able to install programs and keep working without realising it's not windows, now that's a lot further dow...
[04:11:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjwt [2826] (Score:2) 02Re:Bogus - 06Woman Installs Linux by Accident; Thinks It's Just MSFT's Latest Stuff - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:11:39] <exec> 08└─I had windows 10 fail twice to install on a SSD and then work fine on the 3rd attempt, who knows.. I've seen some crazy linux stuff, crazy MS stuff, crazy Apple stuff, crazy Macintosh stuff, Crazy Tandy Stuff, Crazy Commodore stuff.. I didn't get to use enough Amegas to see their crazy stuff.
[04:11:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjwt [2826] (Score:2) 02Re:I don't buy it - 06Woman Installs Linux by Accident; Thinks It's Just MSFT's Latest Stuff - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:11:47] <exec> 08└─With all the media coverage about windows 10 downloading and updating automatically, this is one of those times i'd call on the side of belief.. "Hey, Windows 10 just updated to my computer, and I don't know how to do anything!!!"
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[05:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02The Ride - 06Spotify on the ISS - Music is a Huge Part of Life in Space - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:28] <exec> 08└─I understand that Mission Control woke up one particular Apollo crew with Ride of the Valkyrie. The other two astronauts simply woke up but Harrison Schmit's heart started racing. See, it's played loud enough to wake the dead every morning during finals week at Caltech. I was told the tradition got...
[05:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Blacklist in Asterisk - 06FCC Releases Data for ‘Do-Not-Disturb’ Technologies  - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:09:38] <exec> 08└─I was not aware of this "asterisk" FreePBX. [freepbx.org]. Thanks for the post!
[05:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Lack of Data Verification Means Pollution - 06FCC Releases Data for ‘Do-Not-Disturb’ Technologies  - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:40] <exec> 08└─This list is going to be used for dirty tricks. Pay some shady operator to report your competitor's phone numbers and in a few weeks no one is taking their calls. All you have to do is joe-job them by using their number in caller-id for fake marketing calls that aren't even trying to sell anything.
[05:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lack of Data Verification Means Pollution - 06FCC Releases Data for ‘Do-Not-Disturb’ Technologies  - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:09:41] <exec> 08└─That first idea sounds like something that will probably happen, indeed probably has already been happening because we already have crowd-sourced blacklists. The second technique is illegal in the US [dailytech.com] although I suppose you could make your calls from elsewhere.
[05:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Blackened meat randomizes the chemicals in prot - 06Bacon, Burgers, and Sausages Are a Cancer Risk, Say World Health Chiefs - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:10:01] <exec> 08└─Nah, it can't be the green tea what's responsible, it's gotta be the natto (納豆) [wikipedia.org].
[05:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Quality Adjusted Life Years - 06Bacon, Burgers, and Sausages Are a Cancer Risk, Say World Health Chiefs - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:10:07] <exec> 08└─I don't like Indian food. I'm obviously forced to stick with the bacon.
[05:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:basic info - 06Bacon, Burgers, and Sausages Are a Cancer Risk, Say World Health Chiefs - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:10:11] <exec> 08└─You DON'T boil the bacon! I can tolerate a lot of things but anyone who boils bacon should be banished from this planet.
[05:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:basic info - 06Bacon, Burgers, and Sausages Are a Cancer Risk, Say World Health Chiefs - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:10:13] <exec> 08└─The link I gave enumerates several low-temperature cooking techniques, not just boiling. Probably the most fashionable is sous vide, cooking in a plastic bag from which the air has been removed. A Reddit commenter said that "bacon turned out unbelievably good" when cooked that way. Meat keeps its mo...
[05:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:basic info - 06Bacon, Burgers, and Sausages Are a Cancer Risk, Say World Health Chiefs - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:10:15] <exec> 08└─A lot of the taste comes from the brown bits. Most red meat cooking techniques will tell you to try to brown the meat first, even for a casserole.
[05:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They still don't get it. - 06Walmart Plays Catch-Up With Amazon - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:10:29] <exec> 08└─That's facile. Amazon has been spending their profits on infrastructure. Walmart hasn't. A business that invests in its own future the a business that has a future.
[05:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And yet both websites suck ass - 06Walmart Plays Catch-Up With Amazon - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:10:35] <exec> 08└─But try doing a global search and then sorting by price on Amazon - not an option.
[05:10:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Point? - 06A Social Network of Human Proteins - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:10:55] <exec> 08└─graphene hype stories
[05:11:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Did you know slashdot invented social networkin - 06A Social Network of Human Proteins - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:11:01] <exec> 08└─I Like human proteins. Or maybe I Google+ it? Fuck, I suck at social networking.
[05:11:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02How do I send an orb to a particle physicist? - 06Finland Team's Collaborative Device Could Spark Farewell to PCs - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:11:18] <exec> 08└─They all use IBM VM mainframes for their email - either SLACVM or CERNVM. Those machines were made in the seventies. I've seen CERNVM it's huge. That machine is never going away.
[05:11:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:No way - 06Finland Team's Collaborative Device Could Spark Farewell to PCs - 1335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:11:19] <exec> 08└─I was not entirely sure from reading the article if they're talking about the kind of real-time collaboration I have in mind. When I was in college I worked for Morningstar [morningstar.com]. When got close to publishing time we'd take all the different components of the page, the analysis, the char...
[05:11:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03meisterister [949] (Score:2) 02Re:Almost - 06Woman Installs Linux by Accident; Thinks It's Just MSFT's Latest Stuff - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:11:51] <exec> 08└─Ah, Ubuntu 15.10 I see. (ducks under desk)
[05:12:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Bogus - 06Woman Installs Linux by Accident; Thinks It's Just MSFT's Latest Stuff - 1349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:12:12] <exec> 08└─Well - things are at the point that you can boot to a LiveCD, and have a working network, all of your drives are discovered, and the correct video driver put to use. Everything "just works". The installers naturally use the information on your hardware that was discovered by the LiveCD. And, in my e...
[05:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Predatory behaviour - 06Animals Spy a New Enemy: Drones - 858 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:17:20] <exec> 08└─Alright - I'll give you your first point. Tension lines do strange things sometimes. We had an ice storm here some years back. A lot of electrical crews were brought in from all over the country. One crew of two was on the highline, inspecting the lines. It was raining fairly hard that day. One of t...
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[06:09:19] <exec> 08└─I bet his favorite music? I don't have a spotify account, I guess I'm very old skool lugging along my storage device of the year with a copy of my mp3 collection, since halfway of the 90's. Right now it's 238GB, average 160kbps and has stuff I rip from my own vinyls and cd's as well as downloaded mu...
[06:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:MMMMmmmmm.... - 06Bacon, Burgers, and Sausages Are a Cancer Risk, Say World Health Chiefs - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:09:48] <exec> 08└─the ancient romans understanding that slaves working in asbestos mines died from horrible lung related Roman philosopher and naturalist Pliny the Elder
[06:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Not news - 06Bacon, Burgers, and Sausages Are a Cancer Risk, Say World Health Chiefs - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:09:57] <exec> 08└─Love that stuff. Pretty sure its irradiated.
[06:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Quality Adjusted Life Years - 06Bacon, Burgers, and Sausages Are a Cancer Risk, Say World Health Chiefs - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:10:03] <exec> 08└─Indian food AKA a gallon of sauce and 6 ounces of meat
[06:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Long, long list - 06Bacon, Burgers, and Sausages Are a Cancer Risk, Say World Health Chiefs - 1089 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:12] <exec> 08└─As a kid in the '60's, I was exposed to claims that some foods are bad for you. As time passes, those claims grow more and more frequent. Milk, eggs, red meat, meat in general, BUTTER! Peanuts, nuts in general, gluten. You name it, and it's probably been implicated in some disease or condition or an...
[06:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Point? - 06A Social Network of Human Proteins - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:10:52] <exec> 08└─Graphene is an amazing material that is stronger than steel...
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[09:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:3, Funny) 02Cool video - 06The Drill We Sent to Mars - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:38] <exec> 08└─Having a background in construction and maintenance, I felt like I could almost reach out and touch things. The explanations were great. The purpose of the drill is not to drill a hole, per se, but to pulverize the material, and supply dust for analysis. The next time I pick up a Hilti drill to punc...
[09:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02accept your fate - 06The Richest 1 Percent Now Own Over Half of the World's Wealth - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:47] <exec> 08└─That 50.4% buys a lot of security, weapons, bread, circuses.
[09:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:accept your fate - 06The Richest 1 Percent Now Own Over Half of the World's Wealth - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:25:49] <exec> 08└─... and corrupt government officials.
[09:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:accept your fate - 06The Richest 1 Percent Now Own Over Half of the World's Wealth - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:25:51] <exec> 08└─Bread? Where have you seen the bread? Circuses sure... Bread? Not so much.
[09:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:accept your fate - 06The Richest 1 Percent Now Own Over Half of the World's Wealth - 750 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:25:53] <exec> 08└─As Euripedes said "When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor." I suspect if the masses keep getting their bread there wouldn't be stuff like the Arab Spring: http://www.theguardian.com [theguardian.com] Even if some...
[09:25:54] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02Comprehension problems - 06The Richest 1 Percent Now Own Over Half of the World's Wealth - 2266 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:55] <exec> 08└─Here, in the US, we have serious comprehension problems with taxes. The left and the right bicker about taxation. They talk about taxing the rich, but everyone on both sides know that the "rich" don't pay taxes at all. Their assets are off shore, in carefully structured holding companies, virtually...
[09:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mr Big in the Pants [4956] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:Comprehension problems - 06The Richest 1 Percent Now Own Over Half of the World's Wealth - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:25:56] <exec> 08└─Yes. But what I find interesting is that people think that this is somehow unique in the 10k of recorded human history... Face it. This is what humans are. The only solution is to cease being human.
[09:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:1) 02Re:Comprehension problems - 06The Richest 1 Percent Now Own Over Half of the World's Wealth - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:25:58] <exec> 08└─Fear, the ultimate and illogical motivator of all greed and power-grabbing, is a bestial thing. Acting for the benefit of others is a very human thing. For example: Astronauts risk life and limb in the pursuit of knowledge, working to overcome their own fears, for a greater purpose, on a regular bas...
[09:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mr Big in the Pants [4956] (Score:4, Touché) 02Re:Comprehension problems - 06The Richest 1 Percent Now Own Over Half of the World's Wealth - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:26:00] <exec> 08└─This is a lie hollywood tells you to make you feel better. Look around. What you describe is the exception. I am talking averages here, not outliers. I am being a realist here, not a delusional optimist...
[09:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Re:Comprehension problems - 06The Richest 1 Percent Now Own Over Half of the World's Wealth - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:26:02] <exec> 08└─I formulated my delusional comment around your delusional comment. Now you have moved from the delusional stance of "This is what humans are" to the more reasonable stance of "This is what *many* humans are," a big step. So the real question here is not, "How do we stop being human?" It's "Where did...
[09:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Comprehension problems - 06The Richest 1 Percent Now Own Over Half of the World's Wealth - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:26:03] <exec> 08└─Came here to say the same thing. It has always been thus. The difference today, is that the definition of wealth does not include other people as slaves.
[09:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Re:Comprehension problems - 06The Richest 1 Percent Now Own Over Half of the World's Wealth - 1247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:26:05] <exec> 08└─At least in the US we largely had the problem solved. We had a high tax rate on income and a lower tax on capital gains. The result was that rather than trying to amass so much money that they literally couldn't spend it all, the way to maximize their wealth involved giving back to the community and...
[09:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Comprehension problems - 06The Richest 1 Percent Now Own Over Half of the World's Wealth - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:26:07] <exec> 08└─Just how much more benefit can they possibly get? There really is nothing more, once you own a dozen huge sprawling mansions, a couple yachts, and some private jets. What more is there?
[09:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02thanks... - 06The Richest 1 Percent Now Own Over Half of the World's Wealth - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:09] <exec> 08└─....to the federal reserve
[09:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03throwaway28 [5181] (Score:2, Interesting) 02No torches and pitchforks tonight. - 06The Richest 1 Percent Now Own Over Half of the World's Wealth - 969 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:11] <exec> 08└─As much as I might want to be a social animal and join a thundering herd of online commenters who'ld call for a bloody revolution with torches and pitchforks, I don't want to say that. Because, that would be an inefficient and wasteful use of hatred. It would be like short-circuiting a AA battery. W...
[09:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:No torches and pitchforks tonight. - 06The Richest 1 Percent Now Own Over Half of the World's Wealth - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:26:12] <exec> 08└─Gallon of gasoline and 50 cubic meters of air ? Car engine, is more useful than a lit match.
[09:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:No torches and pitchforks tonight. - 06The Richest 1 Percent Now Own Over Half of the World's Wealth - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:26:14] <exec> 08└─So you have no actual useful ideas... But you really don't want people to make waves or upset the status quo... Gotcha. Cool story bro.
[09:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:No torches and pitchforks tonight. - 06The Richest 1 Percent Now Own Over Half of the World's Wealth - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:26:16] <exec> 08└─Don't mind him, he's just running for Senate.
[09:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:No torches and pitchforks tonight. - 06The Richest 1 Percent Now Own Over Half of the World's Wealth - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:26:18] <exec> 08└─There is only so much wealth in the world, and even Warren Buffet can't spend it all. So he doesn't try to spend it. Instead he invests it. He buys and builds and generally spends his money by lining other people's pockets with it. Are we really hurt by that? I get the impression most people think o...
[09:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No torches and pitchforks tonight. - 06The Richest 1 Percent Now Own Over Half of the World's Wealth - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:26:19] <exec> 08└─Your analogies fail because you presume that a major social change will necessarily result in an ineffectual society. Even before the information age, we have examples of reasonably smooth administrative transitions. Few megatons of water at the top of a hill ?
[09:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"Credit Suisse's Global Wealth Report" - 06The Richest 1 Percent Now Own Over Half of the World's Wealth - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:21] <exec> 08└─If I recall correctly, "Suisse" is one of their spellings for "Swiss" in their native languages. According to the stereotype, if there's one thing the Swiss know, it's money (and watches).
[09:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Credit Suisse's Global Wealth Report" - 06The Richest 1 Percent Now Own Over Half of the World's Wealth - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:26:23] <exec> 08└─If I recall correctly, "Suisse" is one of their spellings for "Swiss" in their native languages.
[09:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Eunuchswear [525] (Score:2) 02And many soylentils will be in that group. - 06The Richest 1 Percent Now Own Over Half of the World's Wealth - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:24] <exec> 08└─This is the richest 1% globally. I.E. people with an income of over about $34,000.
[09:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02They should continue by all means - 06The Richest 1 Percent Now Own Over Half of the World's Wealth - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:26] <exec> 08└─They should continue until their money loses all relevance and the rest of the world moves on to some other form of compensation.
[09:26:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:new profit center! - 06FCC Releases Data for ‘Do-Not-Disturb’ Technologies  - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:26:34] <exec> 08└─The problem I get is that there's no consequences for the phone company to allow people to spoof their phone number. I once got a phone call from "Rachel from Cardholder services" claiming to be from the same phone number that I was picking up. Call block lists are meaningless if the phone company i...
[09:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02I have a whitelist - 06FCC Releases Data for ‘Do-Not-Disturb’ Technologies  - 847 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:37] <exec> 08└─The default ringtone on my phone is set to silence. I have configured a few additional groups with different ringtones, for friends and other people that I want to receive calls from. Everyone else goes into the voicemail. If they have anything worthy to say, they are welcome. However usually they j...
[09:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03caffeine [249] (Score:1) 02My experience with using a do not call list - 06FCC Releases Data for ‘Do-Not-Disturb’ Technologies  - 1141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:39] <exec> 08└─Recently I was working as IT Manager for a solar company in Australia. Part of this job was preparing the data for the telemarketers to dial. In Australia we have a government run do not call registry (DNCR), that you can wash the data against, and large fines for telemarketing to people who are on...
[09:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:My experience with using a do not call list - 06FCC Releases Data for ‘Do-Not-Disturb’ Technologies  - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:26:40] <exec> 08└─A classic example of government good intentions backfiring leading to loses of jobs locally.
[09:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:My experience with using a do not call list - 06FCC Releases Data for ‘Do-Not-Disturb’ Technologies  - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:26:42] <exec> 08└─Many people do not call any role in marketing a job, or sales a job either. I'd say anyone in banking or finance does not have a real job either. My experience is that a well trained telemarketer, who is paid real a base wage, and speaks English well will get more positive than negative feedback fro...
[09:26:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:My experience with using a do not call list - 06FCC Releases Data for ‘Do-Not-Disturb’ Technologies  - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:26:44] <exec> 08└─What the fuck did I just read? YES THE POINT OF THIS LIST IS SO TELE-MARKETING DIES IN A FIRE. Thank you for letting us know it's working!
[09:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Not news - 06Bacon, Burgers, and Sausages Are a Cancer Risk, Say World Health Chiefs - 1661 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:27:06] <exec> 08└─Except that it's not the whole story there. The problem is that the health campaigns all too often go overboard. Eating these foods every day for all meals is going to have health problems associated with it. But, cutting out the meats completely also has negative health consequences. Like it or not...
[09:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Seriously, which food isn't bad for you? - 06Bacon, Burgers, and Sausages Are a Cancer Risk, Say World Health Chiefs - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:27:18] <exec> 08└─Apples. I'm pretty sure that I've never read anything about health issues from eating apples.
[09:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Seriously, which food isn't bad for you? - 06Bacon, Burgers, and Sausages Are a Cancer Risk, Say World Health Chiefs - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:27:19] <exec> 08└─Tooth decay from the sugar and acidity, and fatty liver disease from the fructose content. Too much of anything is bad!
[09:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:They still don't get it. - 06Walmart Plays Catch-Up With Amazon - 830 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:27:37] <exec> 08└─Profit matters, but whose profit? Amazon reminds me of Schlecker here in the eu. They open up 4 stores in a small town and dump products. Then they go belly up. In the meantime the competition falls in hard times, and they ask for loans. -> Profit for the banks. Therefore banks have all to gain from...
[09:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Wal-Mart Replicator - 06Walmart Plays Catch-Up With Amazon - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:27:42] <exec> 08└─Really? I thought our ancestors had stones lying around everywhere. You're saying that there were poor neighborhoods without stones?
[09:27:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:And yet both websites suck ass - 06Walmart Plays Catch-Up With Amazon - 1245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:27:45] <exec> 08└─Yes, BUT - the system is rigged. I've read a number of articles suggesting that Amazon games the system. I find better deals, as often as not, if I go in search of a product via Google. I needed an electric fence charger a little over a year ago. I wanted a six joule charger. Amazon found them for m...
[09:27:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:And yet both websites suck ass - 06Walmart Plays Catch-Up With Amazon - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:27:47] <exec> 08└─"But they probably think I'll end up impulse buying useless shit if I just spend more time there." DING! We have a winner! Think about the layout of your favorite convenience store chain. Impulse buying fuels their income. It could be argued that the existence of convenience stores is all about impu...
[09:28:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:How do I send an orb to a particle physicist? - 06Finland Team's Collaborative Device Could Spark Farewell to PCs - 711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:28:29] <exec> 08└─Never mind sending an orb to someone. Try first to point another piece of software, on your local computer, to this orb in that cluster, if their positions are fluid and subject to change. There were many GUI-based filesystems, and they are all dead - first, because we need certainty about location;...
[09:29:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''Economics dictates...'' - 06Woman Installs Linux by Accident; Thinks It's Just MSFT's Latest Stuff - 949 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:29:08] <exec> 08└─Economics dictates a wild race to the bottom pay so as not to be the one unemployed 1 incorrect word there. What you described is *Capitalism*. There other economic models. In a **Socialist** economic system, the workers would vote on whether they wanted a race to the bottom. Any bets on what they w...
[09:29:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And then... - 06Woman Installs Linux by Accident; Thinks It's Just MSFT's Latest Stuff - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:29:32] <exec> 08└─So how did this beacon of wonder go when she updated her video card or wanted to install a new program?
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[10:26:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Blinkered vision problems - 06The Richest 1 Percent Now Own Over Half of the World's Wealth - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:26:35] <exec> 08└─This is getting hilarious already. How many more years of blaming the previous guy, before true-believers allow themselves to see their darling figurehead is a lying bag of it? As long as the bosses on "your" side of the fake divide get a free pass on anything and everything, just for the lip-servic...
[10:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Comprehension problems - 06The Richest 1 Percent Now Own Over Half of the World's Wealth - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:26:37] <exec> 08└─DING DING DING DING DING! We have another winnning post! VortexCortex wins the internet today. Power. How much power is enough? Well - some of us want to be gods.
[10:27:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Quality Adjusted Life Years - 06Bacon, Burgers, and Sausages Are a Cancer Risk, Say World Health Chiefs - 1468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:27:52] <exec> 08└─Eating meat is eating boring? Speak for yourself. And go ahead and stick to your vegetarian diet. The more people going vegetarian, the better for us meat eaters. The rest of us can learn and benefit from the inventions and traditions of billions of omnivores in the world. I eat and enjoy Indian veg...
[10:28:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Eunuchswear [525] (Score:2) 02Link to the Daily Fail? - 06Bacon, Burgers, and Sausages Are a Cancer Risk, Say World Health Chiefs - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:28:03] <exec> 08└─Linking to the Daily Fail, in a stoy about cancer?
[10:28:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02The Daily Mail and cancer - 06Bacon, Burgers, and Sausages Are a Cancer Risk, Say World Health Chiefs - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:28:04] <exec> 08└─C'mon, it's the Daily Mail. They basically make their money alternating Princess Diana conspiracy theories and "X causes cancer!" And anyway, even if those things do increase your risk of cancer... it's baaacooon! Life is 100% fatal, in the end, and bacon is one of the few things that make it bearab...
[10:29:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tangomargarine [667] 02Re:It's so misled it's almost cute - 06Finland Team's Collaborative Device Could Spark Farewell to PCs - 170 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:29:20] <exec> 08└─Oh nice, and it's cloud-based and a subscription model. It's like they're helpfully gathering everything I hate about modern computing into one easily-ignorable location.
[10:29:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not enough PCIe lanes - 06Finland Team's Collaborative Device Could Spark Farewell to PCs - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:29:24] <exec> 08└─"Mac OS X comes free with hardware" Hilarious, spoken like a true iTard. Protip: It's not free when you pay for it.
[10:29:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02dumb terminal, not a PC - 06Finland Team's Collaborative Device Could Spark Farewell to PCs - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:29:25] <exec> 08└─It's a dumb terminal combined with a mobile device. I don't like it, but I could see it taking off. Their 'orbs & clusters' file management seems intuitive at first glance, but I personally can't imagine it being just fancy graphical front end for files & folders, probably a bit more like Windows 'L...
[10:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Slippery Slope - 06Scientists Create Extra-Muscular Beagles - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:33:56] <exec> 08└─There has been a human kid born with some unusual myostatin related genetics. [youtube.com] Its going to be interesting to see how this plays out. I hope his muscular gift does not come at a cost of overloading some other biosystem. We may learn a heckuva lot by studying this kid's gift.
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[11:27:07] <exec> 08└─The first 99% of that recorded history has a vastly different socio-political landscape to what we have today. Before the rise of 20th century societies, we didn't have universal education, accessible mass communications and overabundance of basic necessities. Modern humans in western societies don'...
[11:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:No torches and pitchforks tonight. - 06The Richest 1 Percent Now Own Over Half of the World's Wealth - 1535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:27:16] <exec> 08└─Good post, Frojack. I guess if everyone had the same amount of money, we would all be poor - because none of us would have the necessary excess of capital required to do extraordinary things. Several weeks ago, I had posted a link to an old 1936 industrialist promotional movie of a Chevrolet produc...
[11:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score:1) 02Re:"Credit Suisse's Global Wealth Report" - 06The Richest 1 Percent Now Own Over Half of the World's Wealth - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:27:21] <exec> 08└─According to the stereotype, if there's one thing the Swiss know, it's money (and watches).
[11:27:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Probably: - 06Spotify on the ISS - Music is a Huge Part of Life in Space - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:34] <exec> 08└─"Ground control to Major Tom/Space Oddity" by Chris Hadfield, over and over and over and over... ...while he says to himself, "I want to be famous too, I want to be famous too..."
[11:27:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score:2) 02Re:My experience with using a do not call list - 06FCC Releases Data for ‘Do-Not-Disturb’ Technologies  - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:27:55] <exec> 08└─This [the cost of checking with the DNCR list] is rather frustrating as it basically makes local telemarketing nonviable.
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[12:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score:4, Touché) 02Hide and fear - 06FBI Chief Links Video Scrutiny of Police to Rise in Violent Crime - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:55] <exec> 08└─This is, apart from causality strained conjecture, a nice inside in "do as I say, not as I do" behaviour. The police have been telling us that "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear". Apparently, the fact that /they/ are no longer hidden, makes it clear that /they/ have fear of what...
[12:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Utter nonsense - 06FBI Chief Links Video Scrutiny of Police to Rise in Violent Crime - 2137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:56] <exec> 08└─Take a look at those numbers. The "increase in crime" cites crime rates that amount to nothing more than noise, contained within the signal. There is no "increase in crime". Oh, my - some cops feel inhibited by the fact that they might be recorded? THEN THOSE ARE THE VERY COPS WHO SHOULD BE MUSTERED...
[12:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bill Evans [1094] (Score:2) 02This is a troll, right? - 06FBI Chief Links Video Scrutiny of Police to Rise in Violent Crime - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:57] <exec> 08└─Director Comey, this is a rather poor attempt at a troll. If you want to look at a master of trolling, look no further than J. Edgar Hoover. I will remember his name forever, as will many who lived during his tenure. I had to look back at the article to remember yours. This troll, on a scale from 1...
[12:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03_NSAKEY [16] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:This is a troll, right? - 06FBI Chief Links Video Scrutiny of Police to Rise in Violent Crime - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:25:59] <exec> 08└─Comey has a bad recent history of saying stupid things like this. Just look at how he's re-ignited the crypto wars. On another note, I saw someone on Twitter say that cops getting filmed does increase violence, because of the cops who smash phones and beat their owners. Seems like a fair assessment.
[12:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:Comprehension problems - 06The Richest 1 Percent Now Own Over Half of the World's Wealth - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:26:39] <exec> 08└─I tried not being human once. It was great.
[12:27:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03J_Darnley [5679] (Score:1) 02Spotify and Mars - 06Spotify on the ISS - Music is a Huge Part of Life in Space - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:06] <exec> 08└─I think that on a mission to Mars astronauts might have to bring their own, offline music. Bandwidth and latency probably make streaming impossible.
[12:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Missing the point - 06FCC Releases Data for ‘Do-Not-Disturb’ Technologies  - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:27:27] <exec> 08└─>This is rather frustrating as it basically makes local telemarketing nonviable. That's the point. Telemarketing is unwanted. If you are doing telemarketing, you are doing something that society does not want. At all. The only thing you can telemarket in this day and age are pyramid schemes and scam...
[12:27:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03mtrycz [60] (Score:2) 02Re:This is a surprise? - 06Bacon, Burgers, and Sausages Are a Cancer Risk, Say World Health Chiefs - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:27:57] <exec> 08└─SOME tasty foods are bad for you. There are others that are good and healthy. You can't beat those. But still as a vegetarian, I sometimes have bacon. Because bacon.
[12:28:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02Long, long list - 06Bacon, Burgers, and Sausages Are a Cancer Risk, Say World Health Chiefs - 1089 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:12] <exec> 08└─As a kid in the '60's, I was exposed to claims that some foods are bad for you. As time passes, those claims grow more and more frequent. Milk, eggs, red meat, meat in general, BUTTER! Peanuts, nuts in general, gluten. You name it, and it's probably been implicated in some disease or condition or an...
[12:28:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:They still don't get it. - 06Walmart Plays Catch-Up With Amazon - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:28:32] <exec> 08└─Both pretty much have to financially position themselves as wall street demands or the stock price will tank, and the street doesn't want profits from amazon at this time. Which could change.
[12:28:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Wal-Mart Replicator - 06Walmart Plays Catch-Up With Amazon - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:28:40] <exec> 08└─In the old days if you wanted lead-filled stones from China that fell apart after the first use, you had to walk all the way to China. Now its less than five miles for seventy percent of us or whatever the real stat is.
[12:28:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Wal-Mart Replicator - 06Walmart Plays Catch-Up With Amazon - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:28:42] <exec> 08└─Personally, I always liked my big brass ones, Made in America. Good American brass balls, nice heft, immune to fear, cold, heat, and almost immune to electricity too. Just try to imagine trying to walk around with lead filled stones. They'd just chafe the hell out of your thighs. Brass is so smooth...
[12:28:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:And yet both websites suck ass - 06Walmart Plays Catch-Up With Amazon - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:28:46] <exec> 08└─But try doing a global search and then sorting by price on Amazon - not an option.
[12:28:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Slow store - 06Walmart Plays Catch-Up With Amazon - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:52] <exec> 08└─immediacy of a physical store
[12:29:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Point? - 06A Social Network of Human Proteins - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:29:08] <exec> 08└─Genes code proteins, so protein mapping is the logical progression of gene mapping. Ok, that works.
[12:29:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02Re:No way - 06Finland Team's Collaborative Device Could Spark Farewell to PCs - 1795 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:29:29] <exec> 08└─You make some good points, but you are wrong about the "social" types bringing the money in and driving things - they are only good at taking money out. They have no route for bringing money in In my case, running power stations, it is the electricity generated that brings the money in - made by the...
[12:29:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:No way - 06Finland Team's Collaborative Device Could Spark Farewell to PCs - 675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:29:30] <exec> 08└─Interesting you picked that book from H.G. Wells. One of my favorites as well. Funny about the cars too. I have an old completely mechanical Toyota. I am going to have to let it go because its getting very difficult to get parts for it. Especially a little diaphragm that goes in the carburetor th...
[12:31:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:Uhhm, WUT?!?! - 06Florida Supreme Court Removes Barrier to Widespread Solar Power - 899 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:31:38] <exec> 08└─No doubt the solar installer business gets big discounts. Perhaps because they are also the manufacturer, they can obtain solar panels at or near cost. Their labor is much cheaper too, especially if they engage in a little wage theft. If the homeowners go the ownership route they have to pay a big,...
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[13:25:14] <exec> 08└─What about your throwdown phone?
[13:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03iwoloschin [3863] (Score:2) 02Re:Comprehension problems - 06The Richest 1 Percent Now Own Over Half of the World's Wealth - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:25:55] <exec> 08└─For the first time in human history we have the capability to reduce the entire civilization back to the stone age (minus the very top elite).
[13:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03What planet is this [5031] (Score:1) 02It's mine, mine, all mine!!!!!!!!!!!! - 06The Richest 1 Percent Now Own Over Half of the World's Wealth - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:09] <exec> 08└─When are we going to start calling the desire to accumulate wealth on this scale what it is: a mental illness. For the life of me I can't understand why anyone would want to dedicate their lives to getting more, more, more of anything on this scale. Once you have many times more wealth than you coul...
[13:29:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Bogus - 06Woman Installs Linux by Accident; Thinks It's Just MSFT's Latest Stuff - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:29:38] <exec> 08└─So Linux usually just works, otherwise you need to know your hardware Windows NEVER just works, you always need to know your hardware. And the right place to get drivers.
[13:29:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:Network install easier than full diskless - 06Woman Installs Linux by Accident; Thinks It's Just MSFT's Latest Stuff - 1339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:29:47] <exec> 08└─If there's one thing Linux does best, its network booting and deployment. At a previous employer, I had to experiment and setup Windows Deployment Services, which requires a lot of fiddling and pain to get right. While its relatively easy to get a standard interactive install going, to automate it,...
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[14:25:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03BsAtHome [889] 02Hide and fear - 06FBI Chief Links Video Scrutiny of Police to Rise in Violent Crime - 581 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:13] <exec> 08└─This is, apart from causality strained conjecture, a nice inside in "do as I say, not as I do" behaviour. The police have been telling us that "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear". Apparently, the fact that /they/ are no longer hidden, makes it clear that /they/ have fear of what...
[14:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03hash14 [1102] (Score:2) 02Re:Comprehension problems - 06The Richest 1 Percent Now Own Over Half of the World's Wealth - 791 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:25:51] <exec> 08└─I think your average humans are normal people. I think the problem is that the ones who grab power are inherently evil. Some are evil before they acquire that power, others are simply corrupted by it once they have it. And bear in mind that wealth is power (or at least one form of it). The reason th...
[14:26:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Eunuchswear [525] 02And many soylentils will be in that group. - 06The Richest 1 Percent Now Own Over Half of the World's Wealth - 82 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:11] <exec> 08└─This is the richest 1% globally. I.E. people with an income of over about $34,000.
[14:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedGreen [888] (Score:2) 02Re:They still don't get it. - 06Walmart Plays Catch-Up With Amazon - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:27:47] <exec> 08└─Yeah right, Walmart just this last year spent tons of cash upgrading the local store here to sell all kinds of additional products. Fact remains Amazon as far as I know has never made a profit Walmart on the other hand rakes it in hand over fist year after year even with spending mega bucks opening...
[14:29:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Bogus - 06Woman Installs Linux by Accident; Thinks It's Just MSFT's Latest Stuff - 926 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:29:44] <exec> 08└─Yes, drivers for Linux are pretty much known today, and ship with the distro. Linux is vastly superior to Windows in that respect. Except, when it doesn't work. For instance, I bought a "gaming" keyboard. No drivers. Some keys don't work, and the keymapping is messed up. So, I go searching, and only...
[14:31:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:ULFBERHT - 061,200-year-old Viking Sword Discovered by Hiker - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:31:29] <exec> 08└─Yes, I saw a show about this. May have been the same one. They decided this high quality steel could only have come from the Middle East, possibly through current day Russia, and this proved that Vikings traded extensively. The Rus originated from the Vikings. As to the steel, the high quality can o...
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[15:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Secret memo to judge... - 06Judge Tosses Wikimedia’s Anti-NSA Lawsuit Because Wikipedia It Isn’t Big Enough - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:03] <exec> 08└─"This case stops here. You know nothing. This memo doesn't exist."
[15:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Assholes - 06Judge Tosses Wikimedia’s Anti-NSA Lawsuit Because Wikipedia It Isn’t Big Enough - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:04] <exec> 08└─Congress needs to put a stop to this nonsense. Congress has authority to over ride all the secret courts, as well as the public court rulings. Just put a stop to it. Unfortunately - that ain't happening.
[15:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Why not use machine learning - 06Google Reports Strong Profit, Says It's 'Rethinking Everything' Around Machine Learning - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:12] <exec> 08└─To transform how Alphabet is run as a business? Then they wouldn't need to find executives with deep business and technical knowledge, just some garden variety IT guys to keep the software running.
[15:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score:1) 02Re:Utter nonsense - 06FBI Chief Links Video Scrutiny of Police to Rise in Violent Crime - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:25:23] <exec> 08└─It's been said before, but clearly it still requires repeating: a bad cop isn't going to beat the snot out of you unless certain of their partner's support - and their captain's. Your guess of 85%, well, you are kidding yourself.
[15:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Utter nonsense - 06FBI Chief Links Video Scrutiny of Police to Rise in Violent Crime - 1465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:25:25] <exec> 08└─Possibly. And, it's possible that you overestimate the number of police beatings. I realize the media is on top of every case of police brutality, like flies on shit. But, it's possible that you don't realize that the media tends to inflate and exaggerate stuff like that. I've mentioned before that...
[15:25:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03_NSAKEY [16] 02Re:This is a troll, right? - 06FBI Chief Links Video Scrutiny of Police to Rise in Violent Crime - 300 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:25:27] <exec> 08└─Comey has a bad recent history of saying stupid things like this. Just look at how he's re-ignited the crypto wars. On another note, I saw someone on Twitter say that cops getting filmed does increase violence, because of the cops who smash phones and beat their owners. Seems like a fair assessment.
[15:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02OK... - 06FBI Chief Links Video Scrutiny of Police to Rise in Violent Crime - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:30] <exec> 08└─Lets just pull police service out of the bad neighborhoods completely. Let the hoods take care of each other. Since they don't need police protection, we can pull all welfare benefits too. Don't need that with all the drug money they make. Close the schools too, don't need an education to be a thug....
[15:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:OK... - 06FBI Chief Links Video Scrutiny of Police to Rise in Violent Crime - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:25:31] <exec> 08└─> Lets just pull police service out of the bad neighborhoods completely. Might be a good idea. By and large the cops focus on things like stop and frisk which gave them easy arrests while doing very little about serious violence because that's hard work and high risk for themselves.
[15:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmcmonster [401] (Score:2) 02Re:Comprehension problems - 06The Richest 1 Percent Now Own Over Half of the World's Wealth - 769 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:26:03] <exec> 08└─Let me look at the people around me. They all make $100k/year. I would guess that most make $50k/year. They all donate to the local food drives and when someone is properly sick (cancer, broken bones, etc.) they make sure they have a little extra money or whatever support they need to get by. That i...
[15:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Comprehension problems - 06The Richest 1 Percent Now Own Over Half of the World's Wealth - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:26:08] <exec> 08└─Then you had 30 years of conservative economic policy under Reagan, Bush, Clinton and Bush and the situation changed drastically.
[15:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score:1) 02Re:Comprehension problems - 06The Richest 1 Percent Now Own Over Half of the World's Wealth - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:26:12] <exec> 08└─Face it. This is what humans are.
[15:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Comprehension problems - 06The Richest 1 Percent Now Own Over Half of the World's Wealth - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:26:17] <exec> 08└─The middle class is being replaced with automation.
[15:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Credit Suisse's Global Wealth Report" - 06The Richest 1 Percent Now Own Over Half of the World's Wealth - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:26:28] <exec> 08└─And international ruling bodies.
[15:26:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's mine, mine, all mine!!!!!!!!!!!! - 06The Richest 1 Percent Now Own Over Half of the World's Wealth - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:26:32] <exec> 08└─Paul Allen and Larry Ellison, among others, seem pretty good at finding ways to spend their vast wealth.
[15:26:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I'd rather be a 99%'er... - 06The Richest 1 Percent Now Own Over Half of the World's Wealth - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:34] <exec> 08└─than be an a$$hole. I'm happy. Don't need to be rich, I've got everything I need.
[15:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Seriously, which food isn't bad for you? - 06Bacon, Burgers, and Sausages Are a Cancer Risk, Say World Health Chiefs - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:27:47] <exec> 08└─C'mon, that was too easy. [ctvnews.ca]
[15:28:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I don't care about next day delivery - 06Walmart Plays Catch-Up With Amazon - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:28:24] <exec> 08└─You know you are supposed to declare everything you buy that isn't taxed on your taxes at the end of the year right? And then pay the taxes on it.
[15:28:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Point? - 06A Social Network of Human Proteins - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:28:44] <exec> 08└─I know on a basic level what graphene is, and yes, it's interesting, but we're still not anywhere near a level of practical productization with it.
[15:29:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02It's Social - 06Finland Team's Collaborative Device Could Spark Farewell to PCs - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:19] <exec> 08└─It's OK guys, it's a 'social' computer...
[15:29:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:There is only one way to test this - 06Woman Installs Linux by Accident; Thinks It's Just MSFT's Latest Stuff - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:29:32] <exec> 08└─Did they notice the difference? It would be interesting if you posted your experiences as a follow-up story to this one.
[15:29:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Almost - 06Woman Installs Linux by Accident; Thinks It's Just MSFT's Latest Stuff - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:29:43] <exec> 08└─Who still uses desktop icons?
[15:29:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Erm, no - 06Woman Installs Linux by Accident; Thinks It's Just MSFT's Latest Stuff - 839 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:29:56] <exec> 08└─I laughed until I cried at this. I worked at a trust bank once, one of the largest in the world. The division there had a set of 5 Excel files they used to calculate their rich clients' financial footing and formulate investment recommendations for them. They would tabulate the bank balances in one...
[15:30:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:And? - 06Woman Installs Linux by Accident; Thinks It's Just MSFT's Latest Stuff - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:30:06] <exec> 08└─The moral of the story seems to me to be how far linux has come in terms of usability and appearance. The retort for years from MS supporters has been, "Hrm well linux might be OK for geeks and computer nerds, but real people who need to do real work like MS. Because. It. Works." This story suggests...
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[16:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Servants of the Evil Empire - 06Darth Vader replaces Lenin statue in Ukraine - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:02] <exec> 08└─Well they are both servants of the evil empire. They both had one name but was known under another. But perhaps in this analogy Lenin should have been more like Palpatine.
[16:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Assholes - 06Judge Tosses Wikimedia’s Anti-NSA Lawsuit Because Wikipedia It Isn’t Big Enough - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:25:12] <exec> 08└─Congress are a bit like security theatre, completely ineffectual and aimed in the wrong direction
[16:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:Assholes - 06Judge Tosses Wikimedia’s Anti-NSA Lawsuit Because Wikipedia It Isn’t Big Enough - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:25:14] <exec> 08└─Yeah... congress is not going to put a stop to anything. They can't even permit themselves to lead, let alone put an end to a rule.
[16:25:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02Utter nonsense - 06FBI Chief Links Video Scrutiny of Police to Rise in Violent Crime - 2137 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:31] <exec> 08└─Take a look at those numbers. The "increase in crime" cites crime rates that amount to nothing more than noise, contained within the signal. There is no "increase in crime". Oh, my - some cops feel inhibited by the fact that they might be recorded? THEN THOSE ARE THE VERY COPS WHO SHOULD BE MUSTERED...
[16:25:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02Re:Utter nonsense - 06FBI Chief Links Video Scrutiny of Police to Rise in Violent Crime - 1465 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:25:33] <exec> 08└─Possibly. And, it's possible that you overestimate the number of police beatings. I realize the media is on top of every case of police brutality, like flies on shit. But, it's possible that you don't realize that the media tends to inflate and exaggerate stuff like that. I've mentioned before that...
[16:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Utter nonsense - 06FBI Chief Links Video Scrutiny of Police to Rise in Violent Crime - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:25:34] <exec> 08└─If you have 85 "good" cops who turn a blind eye to their 15 bad brothers, you have 100 bad cops.
[16:25:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Kell [292] 02Re:This is a troll, right? - 06FBI Chief Links Video Scrutiny of Police to Rise in Violent Crime - 54 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:25:38] <exec> 08└─That's why I carry a backup phone in my ankle holster.
[16:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:OK... - 06FBI Chief Links Video Scrutiny of Police to Rise in Violent Crime - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:25:42] <exec> 08└─Please go back to the green site. Ok. Thanks
[16:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Coincidence? - 06FBI Chief Links Video Scrutiny of Police to Rise in Violent Crime - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:44] <exec> 08└─at the bottom of the page on this talk about cops: YOW!! Up ahead! It's a DONUT HUT!!
[16:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:And many soylentils will be in that group. - 06The Richest 1 Percent Now Own Over Half of the World's Wealth - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:41] <exec> 08└─This is the richest 1% globally. I.E. people with an income of over about $34,000.
[16:32:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Really, space tech? - 06Australian Technology Allows Cows' Weights to be Monitored From Space - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:32:43] <exec> 08└─Is this really "monitoring from space". I know it is bad form to RTFS but it just says A weighing platform that the cows—which each have an electronic tag—must step on is placed at the watering points and powered by solar panels, with the data fed to a satellite and then to a station manager's...
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[17:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Servants of the Evil Empire - 06Darth Vader replaces Lenin statue in Ukraine - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:25:03] <exec> 08└─How about a statue for all the right wing nazi Ukrainians too,the ones which served the nazi in ww2 and the new ones sharing the same ideology today ? They are numerous enough to deserve one and I am sure they have some minor historical figure they love to use as their symbol.Maybe instead of Darth...
[17:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Re:Servants of the Evil Empire - 06Darth Vader replaces Lenin statue in Ukraine - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:25:04] <exec> 08└─Well they are both servants of the evil empire.
[17:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Servants of the Evil Empire - 06Darth Vader replaces Lenin statue in Ukraine - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:25:06] <exec> 08└─Remember this is in ukraine. Not the entire world, europe or even russia at large. Within Ukraine he was a big villain - especially for his "decossackisation" of the country. Replacing his statue in ukraine with darth vader is entirely appropriate given the local history. Context, it matters.
[17:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Systems are Inherently Authoritarian - 06Judge Tosses Wikimedia’s Anti-NSA Lawsuit Because Wikipedia It Isn’t Big Enough - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:17] <exec> 08└─This is another example of the way any system for organizing power is inherently authoritarian. The judge's ruling is 100% technically correct by the letter of the law. But, whether he intended it or not, the result is deeply unethical. Beware people who forget that rules are an imperfect tool to ac...
[17:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:2) 02Corruption - 06Judge Tosses Wikimedia’s Anti-NSA Lawsuit Because Wikipedia It Isn’t Big Enough - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:19] <exec> 08└─So, as it turns out, the best government that money [wikipedia.org] can buy...is one of the spooks, by the spooks, and for the spooks. Whodathunkit? b&
[17:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02So this is how skynet begins - 06Google Reports Strong Profit, Says It's 'Rethinking Everything' Around Machine Learning - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:28] <exec> 08└─So this is how skynet begins
[17:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02simple minds come up with simple solutions - 06FBI Chief Links Video Scrutiny of Police to Rise in Violent Crime - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:49] <exec> 08└─The recent proliferation of cameras have caused many abuses from authority to come to light. So of course the head of the FBI would decided its the cameras not the people caught on camera doing the wrong things that is the problem. They sit in isolation from the real world making more money and havi...
[17:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Comprehension problems - 06The Richest 1 Percent Now Own Over Half of the World's Wealth - 1058 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:26:29] <exec> 08└─That's an excuse. Yes, the margin would have narrowed no matter what economic policy we took, but it's completely ridiculous to suggest that it would have happened this quickly or to this extent with competent economic policy. Not to mention that the quality of life would have sunk this low. You see...
[17:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Comprehension problems - 06The Richest 1 Percent Now Own Over Half of the World's Wealth - 3250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:26:37] <exec> 08└─You want to know why there is so much income inequality? Let me give you an example. Here is a post I put on Techdirt " "The error here is in thinking that property rights are in the interest of the public. They're not, they're in the interests of the owners." Not always. Sometimes property rights a...
[17:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score:2) 02Re:And many soylentils will be in that group. - 06The Richest 1 Percent Now Own Over Half of the World's Wealth - 819 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:26:52] <exec> 08└─Wealth vs Income. [investopedia.com] He is technically correct. Everyone in the US that doesn't earn minimum wage is pretty much in top 1% income of the world. If it wasn't for the cost of living you could accumulate that level of wealth pretty easily within one lifetime. And in fact quite a few peo...
[17:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:And many soylentils will be in that group. - 06The Richest 1 Percent Now Own Over Half of the World's Wealth - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:26:53] <exec> 08└─> He is technically correct. Yes, a technically true fact that doesn't address the point, instead distracts from it. I like to call such things "true lies." > I got a feeling some income redistributors won't be happy till we all live in mud-huts and spread cow-shit all over our bodies That's on you,...
[17:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03toygeek [28] (Score:2) 02Disco - 06Spotify on the ISS - Music is a Huge Part of Life in Space - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:09] <exec> 08└─We all know that Astronauts in the future will listen to disco. It's a foregone conclusion.
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[18:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Nope - 06Hubble Round Up - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:02] <exec> 08└─Hubble Round Up
[18:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Servants of the Evil Empire - 06Darth Vader replaces Lenin statue in Ukraine - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:25:12] <exec> 08└─yes, why not a statue of Stepan Bandera?
[18:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Servants of the Evil Empire - 06Darth Vader replaces Lenin statue in Ukraine - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:25:15] <exec> 08└─good post but ITYM WW2 (not WW1)
[18:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Archaeologists - 06Darth Vader replaces Lenin statue in Ukraine - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:17] <exec> 08└─Archaeologists never allow for this kind of thing. Similar things must have happened in the past. But archaeologists just arbitrarily assume its some religious symbolism or some such. Anything they can't figure out gets thrown on the religion pile. Some of these ancient finds had to be jokes. Like t...
[18:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Systems are Inherently Authoritarian - 06Judge Tosses Wikimedia’s Anti-NSA Lawsuit Because Wikipedia It Isn’t Big Enough - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:25:30] <exec> 08└─Everyone should be able to challenge unconstitutional laws, because they hurt us all. This notion of "standing" has to go in such cases. What this does is make it nearly impossible for people to challenge the government when it abuses its power if it acted in sufficient secrecy, because it is very d...
[18:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03ticho [89] (Score:2) 02Re:So this is how skynet begins - 06Google Reports Strong Profit, Says It's 'Rethinking Everything' Around Machine Learning - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:25:41] <exec> 08└─Indeed. No ZeiraCorp, no chess-playing Turk, no Cyberdyne. Google is where it starts.
[18:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Utter nonsense - 06FBI Chief Links Video Scrutiny of Police to Rise in Violent Crime - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:25:53] <exec> 08└─Possibly. And, it's possible that you overestimate the number of police beatings.
[18:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:OK... - 06FBI Chief Links Video Scrutiny of Police to Rise in Violent Crime - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:26:02] <exec> 08└─All of those things have already happened in parts of metro Detroit and Northern flint already. The only difference is it was police brutality, government corruption (but I repeat myself), and businesses pulling out that made all those things happen.
[18:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Comprehension problems - 06The Richest 1 Percent Now Own Over Half of the World's Wealth - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:26:46] <exec> 08└─That's an excuse. Yes, the margin would have narrowed no matter what economic policy we took, but it's completely ridiculous to suggest that it would have happened this quickly or to this extent with competent economic policy. Not to mention that the quality of life would have sunk this low.
[18:26:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Comprehension problems - 06The Richest 1 Percent Now Own Over Half of the World's Wealth - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:26:50] <exec> 08└─Yes yes, nice rant. But you've done nothing to disprove the statement that wealth has always been concentrated into the hands of a minority. In fact, you've pretty well proven the OP's point. Not sure if that is where you thought you were going.
[18:27:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:No torches and pitchforks tonight. - 06The Richest 1 Percent Now Own Over Half of the World's Wealth - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:27:03] <exec> 08└─Personally, I would hate to see enraged rioters burn down a factory making washing machines... but if some rich guy is just slumlording, building himself a mansion in the hills from the misery of his minions, I would not lift a finger to stop the enraged minions
[18:27:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:And many soylentils will be in that group. - 06The Richest 1 Percent Now Own Over Half of the World's Wealth - 82 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:27:10] <exec> 08└─This is the richest 1% globally. I.E. people with an income of over about $34,000.
[18:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03MorePower [5891] (Score:1) 02Re:And many soylentils will be in that group. - 06The Richest 1 Percent Now Own Over Half of the World's Wealth - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:27:14] <exec> 08└─Considering that the United States has about 4% of the world's population, I seriously doubt "Everyone in the US that doesn't earn minimum wage is pretty much in top 1% income of the world." And that's before you add in all the Canadians, Europeans, Japanese, etc that all live roughly on par wealth-...
[18:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And many soylentils will be in that group. - 06The Richest 1 Percent Now Own Over Half of the World's Wealth - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:27:15] <exec> 08└─Everyone in the US that doesn't earn minimum wage is pretty much in top 1% income of the world.
[18:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And many soylentils will be in that group. - 06The Richest 1 Percent Now Own Over Half of the World's Wealth - 1633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:27:17] <exec> 08└─The mean hourly income for 1 person in the world is ~2.50. It is not a big stretch to think where I sit I am in the top 1% of earners at 60 an hour. Do I come close to the elite 1% of the 1%? Not even close. They make more along the lines of 250+ an hour. Many of them paying more taxes in 1 year tha...
[18:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03PocketSizeSUn [5340] (Score:1) 02Re:And many soylentils will be in that group. - 06The Richest 1 Percent Now Own Over Half of the World's Wealth - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:27:19] <exec> 08└─Or pretty much everyone working in Zurich.
[18:27:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03darkfeline [1030] 02Missing the point - 06FCC Releases Data for ‘Do-Not-Disturb’ Technologies  - 335 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:27:52] <exec> 08└─>This is rather frustrating as it basically makes local telemarketing nonviable. That's the point. Telemarketing is unwanted. If you are doing telemarketing, you are doing something that society does not want. At all. The only thing you can telemarket in this day and age are pyramid schemes and scam...
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[19:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Indian head shaking - 06Japanese Robot Reads Body Language While Engaging in Conversation - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:01] <exec> 08└─Not side-to-side, but more diagonal-to-diagonal, if that makes sense. Apparently it means "yeah, well, you know" or something.
[19:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score:2) 02Re:Servants of the Evil Empire - 06Darth Vader replaces Lenin statue in Ukraine - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:25:23] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't put Lenin in same league as fictional Darth Vadar.
[19:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02Re:Archaeologists - 06Darth Vader replaces Lenin statue in Ukraine - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:25:25] <exec> 08└─> Archaeologists never allow for this kind of thing. Really? How do you know? Are you an archaeologist? Does it really seem plausible to you that people who have dedicated their lives to studying historical culture would not be aware of phenomenon like this? Your post is just another "internet ran...
[19:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Utter nonsense - 06FBI Chief Links Video Scrutiny of Police to Rise in Violent Crime - 3880 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:03] <exec> 08└─I really believe that you don't understand "the system". Let's take stop and frisk. It's unconstitutional. That need not even be debated - the consitution guarantees your security in your person, your home, and your possessions. Your security has been impinged upon constantly and repeatedly ever sin...
[19:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:This is a troll, right? - 06FBI Chief Links Video Scrutiny of Police to Rise in Violent Crime - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:09] <exec> 08└─It was taken at his last beating by the police.
[19:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mr Big in the Pants [4956] (Score:2) 02Re:Comprehension problems - 06The Richest 1 Percent Now Own Over Half of the World's Wealth - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:53] <exec> 08└─That is because economic research has shown that low wage slavery is far more efficient that an owner having to pay for their upkeep. They can also wash their hands of their treatment...
[19:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mr Big in the Pants [4956] (Score:2) 02Re:Comprehension problems - 06The Richest 1 Percent Now Own Over Half of the World's Wealth - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:59] <exec> 08└─You mean NEO-conservative policy which is an oxymoron with a heavy emphasis on the moron part. Regan began the borrowing tsunami and it has continued thusly.
[19:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mr Big in the Pants [4956] (Score:2) 02Re:Comprehension problems - 06The Richest 1 Percent Now Own Over Half of the World's Wealth - 765 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:04] <exec> 08└─Nice straw man, but you have missed the point. Last 50 years: Corporate influenced governments with wealth in the hands of individuals before that: robber barons and industrialists before that: Monarchs, royalty of various flavours and the rise of the merchant class before that: Monarchs and tribal...
[19:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Re:And many soylentils will be in that group. - 06The Richest 1 Percent Now Own Over Half of the World's Wealth - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:30] <exec> 08└─I am pretty clearly in the top 1% of global wealth (measured by assets > USD 760,000), but I don't feel wealthy, nor secure in my position. Almost anyone living in the SF Bay area who was lucky enough to buy a house in the right place at the right time (and was able to weather the great depression i...
[19:28:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:My experience with using a do not call list - 06FCC Releases Data for ‘Do-Not-Disturb’ Technologies  - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:28:02] <exec> 08└─My experience is that a well trained telemarketer, who is paid real a base wage, and speaks English well will get more positive than negative feedback from customers.
[19:28:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score:2) 02Meh. - 06FCC Releases Data for ‘Do-Not-Disturb’ Technologies  - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:06] <exec> 08└─If the title would have been "USAF Releases Drones for 'Do-Not-Disturb' Enforcement" we might be getting somewhere.
[19:29:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Point? - 06A Social Network of Human Proteins - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:29:46] <exec> 08└─Oh, no? Because [systemd is] the one big topic in linux kernel development
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[20:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:Indian head shaking - 06Japanese Robot Reads Body Language While Engaging in Conversation - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:25:05] <exec> 08└─African or European?
[20:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:Servants of the Evil Empire - 06Darth Vader replaces Lenin statue in Ukraine - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:25:28] <exec> 08└─Lenin overthrew one dictatorship, and established another. He didn't kill as many as Stalin because he didn't get the chance - he was only in power for a few years before he died.
[20:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Systems are Inherently Authoritarian - 06Judge Tosses Wikimedia’s Anti-NSA Lawsuit Because Wikipedia It Isn’t Big Enough - 1043 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:25:44] <exec> 08└─That's a deeply problematic way to view things. For example, if I wanted to see what's going on behind the scenes at Microsoft and Apple, I could sue MS on Apple's behalf and get access to all sorts of materials that I shouldn't have access to. I could also use it as a method of extorting money out...
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[20:25:46] <exec> 08└─To me it seems judge plugged his ears and went LALALAICANTHEARYOU. One trillion annual internet communications. That is 100 packets for everybody in the world and their dogs, annually, only for initiate such "communications", a kid can work this out, a judge cannot, in good faith? BS meter is honkin...
[20:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:So this is how skynet begins - 06Google Reports Strong Profit, Says It's 'Rethinking Everything' Around Machine Learning - 805 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:25:58] <exec> 08└─I figure someone will get sick of it all and do something untoward. Perhaps cut cables like the guy on the west coast, or maybe the uprising of a Luddite subculture. The FBI chief already said that crooks are more brazen because the media has dared to show police in an unflattering light. No, there...
[20:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Utter nonsense - 06FBI Chief Links Video Scrutiny of Police to Rise in Violent Crime - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:26:13] <exec> 08└─All of us have been conditioned and indoctrinated to believe that we surrender some of our right to privacy by operating a vehicle.
[20:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Utter nonsense - 06FBI Chief Links Video Scrutiny of Police to Rise in Violent Crime - 1326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:26:14] <exec> 08└─The saying is there are lies, damned lies, and statistics. He is using the statistics to repeat damned lies, and offers them as proof to speak new ones. People are paid big money to make the impossible sound plausible. He very likely didn't come up with these numbers himself. He has other things to...
[20:26:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02Re:Utter nonsense - 06FBI Chief Links Video Scrutiny of Police to Rise in Violent Crime - 96 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:26:15] <exec> 08└─If you have 85 "good" cops who turn a blind eye to their 15 bad brothers, you have 100 bad cops.
[20:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mr Big in the Pants [4956] (Score:2) 02Re:Comprehension problems - 06The Richest 1 Percent Now Own Over Half of the World's Wealth - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:27:00] <exec> 08└─Nope. When describing populations that is exactly how you proceed. Your method is called cherry picking. The current and past state of the world agrees with me. QED on my point. I completely agree with your idealistic goal for humanity (despite what you may think I am an idealist at heart) but that...
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[20:27:02] <exec> 08└─You would be wrong. While the AVERAGE wage is 50k, the MEDIAN wage (the one that counts) is $27k. For those that struggle with stats that means half of the US makes that or less...while the average just means the total money/number of people: a meaningless figure in this discussion. This does not ch...
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[20:27:04] <exec> 08└─I do agree that the mean income in the US sucks quite badly. The only reason the standard of living in the US hasn't fallen significantly in the last 40 years is that in most couples now both the husband and wife work full time. Now, couple that with the higher incidence of divorce compared to 40 ye...
[20:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:Comprehension problems - 06The Richest 1 Percent Now Own Over Half of the World's Wealth - 1128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:27:23] <exec> 08└─For some reason, it sounds like you described the end times of the Roman Empire, but described a modern Western Civilization instead. Weren't they the Western civilization of their era? Perhaps they couldn't project a deity in the sky with the tools they had at the time, but their demise did come ab...
[20:28:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Lack of Data Verification Means Pollution - 06FCC Releases Data for ‘Do-Not-Disturb’ Technologies  - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:28:12] <exec> 08└─Being illegal doesn't mean the likelihood of being caught is very high. But it does sound like a lot of work...and you probably wouldn't want to hire someone else to do it...unless he had no way of proving you hired him AND you had some way of checking up that he actually did the work.
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[20:28:14] <exec> 08└─I hope they come out with instant messaging/SMS/MMS text white lists. So many places want a mobile number and I am not going to pay 10 cents per message (or upgrade to unlimited messages) just so they can go green and avoid sending me a statement. If enough people filtered out unsolicited junk texts...
[20:28:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:My experience with using a do not call list - 06FCC Releases Data for ‘Do-Not-Disturb’ Technologies  - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:28:20] <exec> 08└─Actually, my experience is that it's easier to convert from a religious person to an atheist by walking into a church and listening to the sermon. Actually reading the bible helps in the conversion.
[20:28:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Not news - 06Bacon, Burgers, and Sausages Are a Cancer Risk, Say World Health Chiefs - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:28:52] <exec> 08└─Except that the belief that eating an artificial sweetener is likely to reduce the risk of diabetes is unproven, and there is suggestive evidence that it is false. (In one study it turned out that those who frequently ate artificial sweeteners lost the ability to be satiated by sugar. IIRC, this onl...
[20:30:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:It's so misled it's almost cute - 06Finland Team's Collaborative Device Could Spark Farewell to PCs - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:30:36] <exec> 08└─Yeah the last one of this sort of thing that I had, it was called an I-Opener. I installed windows 98 on it. I stopped using it because even with 98 on it, it sucked, for the same reasons you described.
[20:31:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:Hookers? Blow? - 06ISPs “Reminded” to Not Use Government Money for Alcohol and Vacations - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:31:59] <exec> 08└─I think those are listed under "consumables", and are not actual line item expenses.
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[21:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:3, Interesting) 02"Hologram" is stretching it - 06Andy Kaufman and Redd Foxx to Tour as Holograms - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:04] <exec> 08└─Andy Kaufman and Redd Foxx to Tour as Holograms
[21:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nope - 06Hubble Round Up - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:25:21] <exec> 08└─No Hubble ain't no herbicide.
[21:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Servants of the Evil Empire - 06Darth Vader replaces Lenin statue in Ukraine - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:25:33] <exec> 08└─This [nocookie.net] would be a good one for the French Collaborators.
[21:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Servants of the Evil Empire - 06Darth Vader replaces Lenin statue in Ukraine - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:25:39] <exec> 08└─An interesting fact about Star Wars was that George Lucas was influenced by Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl [wikipedia.org] in a lot of his scenes, such as this one. [squarespace.com] She made extensive use of wide-angle distance shots to capture number and organization of people. Other examples...
[21:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Systems are Inherently Authoritarian - 06Judge Tosses Wikimedia’s Anti-NSA Lawsuit Because Wikipedia It Isn’t Big Enough - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:25:56] <exec> 08└─That's a deeply problematic way to view things.
[21:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Judge's name changed - 06Judge Tosses Wikimedia’s Anti-NSA Lawsuit Because Wikipedia It Isn’t Big Enough - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:59] <exec> 08└─In the article (and reality) the judge is T.S. Ellis III. Why the fuck is it Richard D. Bennett, complete with a different link, here? Janrinok plagiarized the entire article, but it's not even correct.
[21:27:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No torches and pitchforks tonight. - 06The Richest 1 Percent Now Own Over Half of the World's Wealth - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:45] <exec> 08└─Except what you realize that they severely underpay people, bribe governments to give them unprecedented amounts of people (think TPP, the corporate supremacy treaty), and do many other nasty things to get where they are. But of course, all of this is nullified when they throw some pennies at those...
[21:27:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0, Disagree) 02Re:And many soylentils will be in that group. - 06The Richest 1 Percent Now Own Over Half of the World's Wealth - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:55] <exec> 08└─Just like people who use the terms feminazi and SJW.
[21:30:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's a tiny box, made out of wood - 06Finland Team's Collaborative Device Could Spark Farewell to PCs - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:30:37] <exec> 08└─BURN IT ANYWAY!!!!!
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