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[08:13:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Make 'em squirm - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 346 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:47] <exec> 08└─Gird your loins for the advertising communities upcoming self-marketing drive. We are about to get pounded with a tsunami of astroturfing that the marketing industry is the key to a successful society. It will be unlike any campaign we've endured before, it will be all lies, and it will never stop....
[08:13:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Adamsjas [4507] 02To late, we aren't going back - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 475 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:48] <exec> 08└─Quote: "The consumer is demanding these actions, challenging us to do better, and we must respond." No, the consumer isn't challenging you do to anything except GO AWAY and stop stalking us. The consumer explicitly does not want you to do better. We never agreed to the tracking, the cross site scrip...
[08:13:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02Take action - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 282 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:51] <exec> 08└─I have started simply closing page that present those annoying pull-page ads that cover the page and must be acknowledged. Let their analytics show that such highly intrusive ads don't work. And because many of those ads are so slow to load, I have closed the page before it loaded.
[08:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Take action - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:13:53] <exec> 08└─I should have been doing that all along. First, I installed NoScript and PolicyRequest. Allow a request, whitelist that page, etc etc etc. It has got to the point that a single page often exceeds 30 permissions. FFS, that's entirely to many permissions to scroll through, deciding which sites and whi...
[08:13:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03K_benzoate [5036] 02Too little, too late - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 979 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:55] <exec> 08└─The entire thesis of my rejection of advertisements is a simple observation: the Internet, and the World-Wide Web, existed without ad-supported websites in the past--and it can again. Even massive projects that require immense bandwidth and storage resources are able to survive without ads if they a...
[08:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:Too little, too late - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 1294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:13:56] <exec> 08└─Interestingly, advertising itself absolutely can survive. I have no problem, and I cannot imagine anyone else having a problem, with a site running ads which are dumb billboards shown to all visitors. They can be targeted to that domain's userbase! You can take the content on that page into account,...
[08:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03K_benzoate [5036] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:Too little, too late - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:13:58] <exec> 08└─Do not track me. Do not attempt to conduct invasive surveillance of anyone across the internet.
[08:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03quadrox [315] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Wrong! All advertising must die. - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 983 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:14:00] <exec> 08└─I actually have a problem with close to all forms of advertising. Advertising introduces memetic thoughts into our brains, with the sole intent of extracting money from us. How anyone can not see this as inherently evil is beyond me. Furthermore, my brain gets bogged down with countless jingles, slo...
[08:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Adamsjas [4507] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Wrong! All advertising must die. - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 741 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:14:02] <exec> 08└─Sorry, when I go shopping on the web, I know what I'm looking for, and I expect a lot of information, and I expect images, maybe movies. Not willing to accept your crazy-assed restrictions just because or your childish fear of "memetic thoughts". For christ sake grow up, learn to look away. If I com...
[08:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Too little, too late - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:14:04] <exec> 08└─I have no problem, and I cannot imagine anyone else having a problem, with a site running ads which are dumb billboards shown to all visitors.
[08:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Too little, too late - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:14:06] <exec> 08└─It all has to go. Advertising should fade away online even if it means a massive contraction of content availability. Burn it all down. Whatever comes afterward will be different, but it will be better.
[08:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Adamsjas [4507] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Too little, too late - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 1150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:14:07] <exec> 08└─I seriously doubt most sites earn much money from advertising. First, its all pay-per-click these days, at least via Google. People just don't click on ads that much. Having run some hobby sites with google ads, I can tell you that you barely cover your hosting fees. Maybe if you can still find a wa...
[08:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The Internet NEEDS ad blockers... - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:09] <exec> 08└─It was the advertisers who have made the Internet a horrible experience. At this point, ad blockers are practically a requirement. This is now an arms race that will last forever, so go get some tools... - uBlock Origin - BetterPrivacy - Ghostery - NoScript - mvphosts (google it) - RequestPolicy Bon...
[08:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marco2G [5749] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Well, congrats Google - 06Google's Executive Suite Declared an Asshole-Free Zone - 1029 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:16] <exec> 08└─As Mrs. Birkenbihl, a recognized psychologist and management trainer, once said, only about ten percent of the population possess both hard and soft skills. So having one of those as a CEO is like winning the lottery (since, as this CEO shows, a CEO will prefer like-minded people). Google has a chan...
[08:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Idiot zone - 06Google's Executive Suite Declared an Asshole-Free Zone - 1655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:18] <exec> 08└─Isn't that sweet, the little wimps and sissies want an "asshole free zone". Decades ago, I was amused by the writing and drawing in the heads (restrooms) aboard ship. "Wheeler is an asshole" "Rizzo is a goober gobbler" etc ad nauseum. Then, I started moving up through the ranks. Imagine my surprise...
[08:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Beige [3989] (Score:1) 02500 bottles of wine per second? - 06In Unexpected Discovery, Comet Contains Alcohol, Sugar - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:45] <exec> 08└─Should rename this comet "Jesus"
[08:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"In Unexpected Discovery"? - 06In Unexpected Discovery, Comet Contains Alcohol, Sugar - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:46] <exec> 08└─Does not the word "In" change to the word "An" when following a vowel in a word like "Undiscovered"? Cause that headline sure reads wrong. Unless you meant to say, "In Unexpected Discover(ies)" Anyway, seems Unpossible. :->
[08:16:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Assholes - 06Judge Tosses Wikimedia’s Anti-NSA Lawsuit Because Wikipedia It Isn’t Big Enough - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:16:48] <exec> 08└─How many dirty politicians would support politicians they have no dirt/leverage on? :p
[08:17:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:wikipedia is a technological embarassment - 06Judge Tosses Wikimedia’s Anti-NSA Lawsuit Because Wikipedia It Isn’t Big Enough - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:17:02] <exec> 08└─You can just download a local copy of Wikipedia. Without images/videos and compressed it's quite small (12GB for the whole thing, much smaller for only the top few thousand pages). See Wikipedia:Database download [wikipedia.org] for more information. The hard part is organizing the edits.
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[09:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02willingness to pay - 06Drug Firm Offers $1 Version of $750 Turing Pill - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:21] <exec> 08└─if you want freedom of economic activity, you have to allow for assholes who will guide their life by "I demand whatever you are willing to pay". luckily, there are more than just 1 producer of most things, therefore they can undercut each other until an equilibrium closer to "I demand whatever is n...
[09:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03CaTfiSh [5221] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Excellent - 06Drug Firm Offers $1 Version of $750 Turing Pill - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:22] <exec> 08└─While life saving, it apparently isn't a drug in high demand. However, when the alternative is exorbitantly priced, it would be wise and cheap for pharmacies to stock this alternative where they wouldn't have with the higher cost version. I suspect that's where they expect to see their profit. The f...
[09:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02justify - 06Drug Firm Offers $1 Version of $750 Turing Pill - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:24] <exec> 08└─So - if one company can show a profit at $1/pill, how in hell does anyone justify selling the pill for hundreds of dollars?
[09:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Greed. - 06Drug Firm Offers $1 Version of $750 Turing Pill - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:25] <exec> 08└─I suspect there is still at least a 400% mark-up at $1 per pill as well. $0.99/pill just screams "price point"
[09:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:3, Insightful) 02"how in hell does anyone justify" - 06Drug Firm Offers $1 Version of $750 Turing Pill - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:27] <exec> 08└─It's called "free market". Luckily in this case the patents are already expired, and therefore the free market can also provide the solution to the problem.
[09:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Make 'em squirm - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:14:38] <exec> 08└─Not only that, the industry is considered by some (themselves) to be 'too big to fail' and have already started perverting 'free speech' rights by pushing legislation to punish those who would deny them their 'right to advertise'. This threat to the First Amendment in combination with our already er...
[09:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:To late, we aren't going back - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:14:41] <exec> 08└─Who in their right mind is going to remove ad blockers just because these guys ask for another chance?
[09:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score:2) 02Re:Take action - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 851 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:14:45] <exec> 08└─That's been my policy all along. When as site requires me to login when I don't want to, forces me to watch an interstitial ad, insists I enable invasive tracking/scripting/whatever, or any of that other distasteful crap, I simply close the tab and go elsewhere. I don't have a problem with the sites...
[09:14:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] 02Re:Too little, too late - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 1294 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:14:47] <exec> 08└─Interestingly, advertising itself absolutely can survive. I have no problem, and I cannot imagine anyone else having a problem, with a site running ads which are dumb billboards shown to all visitors. They can be targeted to that domain's userbase! You can take the content on that page into account,...
[09:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03quadrox [315] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Wrong! All advertising must die. - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:14:51] <exec> 08└─And I have no problem with presenting all of that on the product page for that product. Just don't show it to me in an advertisement without me asking for it.
[09:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wrong! All advertising must die. - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:14:53] <exec> 08└─For christ sake . . . . grow up, . . . . learn to look away.
[09:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score:2) 02Re:Been saying it for a while. - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:14:57] <exec> 08└─GIFs were ok untill Firefox took out the ability to stop them looping. Running once through the sequence is enough and the user should be able to stop the animation at any time. But that is no longer the case with Firefox.
[09:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Advertisers should cooperate with content provider - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 863 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:00] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't mind seeing e.g. a Red Hat or even MS static logo on soylentnews in return for some corporate sponsorship. Even though I hate systemd, which iirc came via Red Hat, by sponsoring this site Red Had would earn some good-will with me. Of course there are some risks attached. The sponsorship w...
[09:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03rob_on_earth [5485] (Score:1) 02Adverts don't have to do any of thoe things - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 877 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:01] <exec> 08└─We do not like auto playing video/animated ads, audio ads, full screen ads, third party sourced agency ads. But ads did not use to be like that. We had standard sized non-animating images that were served from the site we were visiting. The Google started doing text only ads. To me both these are fi...
[09:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02I feel sorry for the idiots buying those ads - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 965 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:03] <exec> 08└─The more money you spend on their marketing campaigns, the more annoying are the ads. If you just put a little money into it, you get (possibly) effective text ads and some banners. However, the problem is the advertisers aren't trying to market your product to your customers; They're selling themse...
[09:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Don't understand the economics... - 06Google's Executive Suite Declared an Asshole-Free Zone - 842 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:17] <exec> 08└─I really, genuinely do not understand the economics of marketing. Specifically: does it really pay off? Do people actually buy some product just because it has be splashed in their faces? Or is this all a mass hallucination by business people? - I do understand that there is some value in "brand awa...
[09:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't understand the economics... - 06Google's Executive Suite Declared an Asshole-Free Zone - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:15:18] <exec> 08└─Like yourself, I'm certain that some advertising is necessary. If no one has ever heard of my widget making company, then no one is going to put my widget on store shelves, and no one is going to buy my widget. But, where DO the economies become efficient? Kellogg's for instance, could cut their adv...
[09:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Natales [2163] (Score:1) 02Depends on the point of view - 06Google's Executive Suite Declared an Asshole-Free Zone - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:19] <exec> 08└─One executive at a Fortune 15 company once told me they suffered from the "monkeys in the tree" syndrome: from the top, all they see looking down is smiling faces. From the bottom, all they see looking up is ass holes...
[09:15:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Dupe! - 06In Unexpected Discovery, Comet Contains Alcohol, Sugar - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:15:45] <exec> 08└─I think he has a life. He went to WalMart, and bought one "Made in China".
[09:16:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Um, no - 06Up to 27 Seconds of Inattention After Talking to Your Car Or Smartphone - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:16:10] <exec> 08└─Man, that is a much better post than my own. Unfortunately, the average distracted driver won't bother to read or heed either of our posts. Like GP, they'll just ASSume that they are the exception to the rule.
[09:16:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02level of awareness - 06Up to 27 Seconds of Inattention After Talking to Your Car Or Smartphone - 2219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:16:11] <exec> 08└─I can't help wondering just what your level of awareness is while you drive. The vast majority of "drivers" on the road are sadly lacking in awareness. People often look at the trunk/tailgate and rear window of the car ahead of them, and that's all they see for minutes at a time. Cars changing lanes...
[09:16:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Cognitive Load - 06Up to 27 Seconds of Inattention After Talking to Your Car Or Smartphone - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:16:16] <exec> 08└─"Voice to Car commands just aren't showing up in the accident stats." If we don't know how to measure something, then it's not going to have statistics. I think this study is an early attempt to learn how to measure, so that the stats can be built.
[09:16:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Cognitive Load - 06Up to 27 Seconds of Inattention After Talking to Your Car Or Smartphone - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:16:23] <exec> 08└─"Every day millions of drivers do their commute more or less on autopilot." Correct. And, each and every one of those drivers are INCOMPETENT TO DRIVE! They are already distracted before they ever reach for the phone, the infotainment controls, or that bottle stashed under the seat. Their attention...
[09:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:wikipedia is a technological embarassment - 06Judge Tosses Wikimedia’s Anti-NSA Lawsuit Because Wikipedia It Isn’t Big Enough - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:18:18] <exec> 08└─++for trying. I think it's harder to correctly configure 1000 systems, each holding a tiny fragment of a large cache; than 2 or 3 webservers holding a full copy of the data. Freenet ( https://freenetproject.org [freenetproject.org] ) fufills some of your goals. Distributed cache-only storage. Data...
[09:18:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Utter nonsense - 06FBI Chief Links Video Scrutiny of Police to Rise in Violent Crime - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:18:52] <exec> 08└─I've said it before - probably 85% of cops really are good people, and good cops. The remaining 15% rank from OK people who are less than perfectly reliable, all the way up to evil sons of bitches who should have been drowned when they were puppies.
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[10:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jiro [3176] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re: "how in hell does anyone justify" - 06Drug Firm Offers $1 Version of $750 Turing Pill - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:14:54] <exec> 08└─Sort of. The problem is that the FDA is restricting the free market by requiring that generics are shown to be as effective as the non-generic version, but the company that makes the non-generic version won't let you buy any for tests (and the tests are expensive anyway). The loophole used here is t...
[10:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re: "how in hell does anyone justify" - 06Drug Firm Offers $1 Version of $750 Turing Pill - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:14:55] <exec> 08└─Well, the requirement to test your pills is good. So the right fix would be to make sure that those who are required to test are also able to test. If you want to sell a new drug, just as you have requirement to test your drug, you should also have a requirement of providing samples to anyone wantin...
[10:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Am I the only one - 06Drug Firm Offers $1 Version of $750 Turing Pill - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:57] <exec> 08└─Am I the only one who on reading the head line wondered about the "Turing pill"? Is it a Turing machine in Pill form? The pill Alan Turing had to take because of his homosexuality? Or what? Of course the summary cleared that up. But I think the headline should have been tailored for the readership h...
[10:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmcmonster [401] (Score:2) 02Doesn't solve the FDA's role in this... - 06Drug Firm Offers $1 Version of $750 Turing Pill - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:59] <exec> 08└─Recently the FDA allowed drug manufacturers to take a drug back from generic and regain patent protections if the manufacturer does trials on the drug that the FDA mandates. There are certain drugs that have been generic for decades and never had all the trial data behind them that the FDA requires...
[10:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:To late, we aren't going back - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 1327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:15:14] <exec> 08└─I don't quite agree. Advertising can serve a valuable purpose. There are basically there kinds of advert: You have a problem. A product exists that can solve (or, at least, help address) this problem. The advert makes you aware of the product and how to find out more about it. You have an idea of th...
[10:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score:2) 02Re:To late, we aren't going back - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 749 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:15:15] <exec> 08└─Advertising can serve a valuable purpose. There are basically there kinds of advert: You have a problem. A product exists that can solve (or, at least, help address) this problem. The advert makes you aware of the product and how to find out more about it. You have an idea o...
[10:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Take action - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:15:18] <exec> 08└─Just close the damned tab, and do a google search for the content that I thought I wanted to see.
[10:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Take action - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:15:20] <exec> 08└─No fair being rational! I'm accustomed to using Google, after years of using it. It's irrational, but it's what I turn to. Ehhh - maybe I need an attitude adjustment. Yeah, I know Duckduckgo works - I've used it off and on.
[10:15:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02Re:The Internet NEEDS ad blockers... - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:15:34] <exec> 08└─I also have these running: - Self-Destructing Cookies - TrackMeNot
[10:15:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:not tech company - 06Google's Executive Suite Declared an Asshole-Free Zone - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:15:51] <exec> 08└─The USENIX talk about illumos here [youtube.com] provides some insight into Oracle's culture, from the perspective of a Sun employee who stayed for a bit of time post merger. I recommend watching the entire thing; it explains a lot about Sun's dysfunction over the years.
[10:15:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:Idiot zone - 06Google's Executive Suite Declared an Asshole-Free Zone - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:15:54] <exec> 08└─The problem is that people have a tendency to declare those who don't agree with them assholes regardless of their actions.
[10:15:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Idiot zone - 06Google's Executive Suite Declared an Asshole-Free Zone - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:15:55] <exec> 08└─Exactly.
[10:16:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"In Unexpected Discovery"? - 06In Unexpected Discovery, Comet Contains Alcohol, Sugar - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:16:32] <exec> 08└─lern2engliszh
[10:17:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cognitive Load - 06Up to 27 Seconds of Inattention After Talking to Your Car Or Smartphone - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:17:02] <exec> 08└─Every day millions of drivers do their commute more or less on autopilot. They get home with no recollection of driving the route. And this happens every day, unless something odd happens on the route.
[10:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Lest we forget - 06Darth Vader replaces Lenin statue in Ukraine - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:18:33] <exec> 08└─> We have indeed forgotten the most atrocious crimes (past and present) How do you know?
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[11:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score:2) 02Re: "how in hell does anyone justify" - 06Drug Firm Offers $1 Version of $750 Turing Pill - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:15:14] <exec> 08└─If you think the kind of people who we believe could run with the reasoning "If I jack up the price some people will die, but only the unprofitable ones." would see the removal of FDA testing requirements as anything other than an opportunity to sell drugs which will be cheaper to make, but that mig...
[11:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Okay - 06Drug Firm Offers $1 Version of $750 Turing Pill - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:17] <exec> 08└─this is another reason the TPP needs to die (or am i reading it wrong). The TPP wants to extend the length of time it would take before 'generics' can be made, allowing the drug companies to rip people off for even longer. 1. Harper? Dead 2. TPP? Not quite dead. Yet.
[11:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not so fast - 06Drug Firm Offers $1 Version of $750 Turing Pill - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:19] <exec> 08└─"Free market" didn't work - adding one prospective player announcing it will undercut the quasi-monopoly hardly makes a "free market". Not until multiple players jump in and drive the price down (and chase the likes of that Shkreli jackass into bankruptcy). There are other proven, patent-expired dr...
[11:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lest we forget - 06Darth Vader replaces Lenin statue in Ukraine - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:18:56] <exec> 08└─When the media forgets, everybody forgets. Maybe it never happened because it was not reported by the media, or just reported and then forgotten. There was a massacre in Africa not long ago where about One Million people were murdered using garden tools. It was the biggest massacre in human history,...
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[11:21:15] <exec> 08└─furfag.
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[12:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re: "how in hell does anyone justify" - 06Drug Firm Offers $1 Version of $750 Turing Pill - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:14:49] <exec> 08└─"If I jack up the price some people will die, but only the unprofitable ones."
[12:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02embrace... - 06Drug Firm Offers $1 Version of $750 Turing Pill - 679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:54] <exec> 08└─anyone who really thinks Imprimis Pharmaceuticals Inc is any more 'ethical' than Turing is a retard they're all members of the same club, pig out at the same public trough, rip off the same customers Imprimis has merely taken advantage of some free publicity to spread their name in connection with a...
[12:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:To late, we aren't going back - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:15:12] <exec> 08└─That's all that's needed for the second kind. It's not all that's needed for the first kind, where you would just live with the problem not knowing that there's something that can solve it. That's where I feel that advertising could be the most valuable, though it's very rare to find an advert in th...
[12:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Take action - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:15:17] <exec> 08└─do a google search for the content that I thought I wanted to see.
[12:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Been saying it for a while. - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:15:31] <exec> 08└─I know, why did they remove it ? As always, "there is an extension for that"; I installed SuperStop and can now stop animation with shift-Esc.
[12:15:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:I feel sorry for the idiots buying those ads - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 1729 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:15:38] <exec> 08└─I worked on Madison Avenue for a good decade. After the Dot-Bomb it was almost the only game in town for tech. It was an interesting experience and gave me a good window into how the highest echelons of business really work. Advertising exists because business people don't know how to sell their pro...
[12:15:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02I'm curious - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 2508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:39] <exec> 08└─How many Soylentils get targeted advertising that might even be considered "effective"? No one targets me very well. Amazon has pulled off a few tricks now and then, suggesting something that I actually had some interest in. No other advertiser has managed to do so. Ebay is amusing. I can't block (o...
[12:15:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Well, congrats Google - 06Google's Executive Suite Declared an Asshole-Free Zone - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:15:55] <exec> 08└─Google might just manage to avoid that.
[12:16:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Ah! - 06In Unexpected Discovery, Comet Contains Alcohol, Sugar - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:35] <exec> 08└─Sorry guys! Dropped my candy [candyfavorites.com] on the sensor.
[12:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02They suck - 06Up to 27 Seconds of Inattention After Talking to Your Car Or Smartphone - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:15] <exec> 08└─Most of the discussion has been assuming the UI is not the problem. However they universally suck. The other study examined voice-dialing, voice-contact calling and music selection using in-vehicle information or "infotainment" systems
[12:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score:2) 02So now we have to look at them? - 06Japanese Robot Reads Body Language While Engaging in Conversation - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:54] <exec> 08└─So now we have to look at the robots? Heck, I don't even look at my friends (except for when the ambient noise forces me to lip-read) when I talk to them. And from where does this notion of looking at someone equates to listening to them come?
[12:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Archaeologists - 06Darth Vader replaces Lenin statue in Ukraine - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:18:33] <exec> 08└─Your post is just another "internet rando thinks he's smarter than people who have spent tens of thousands of hours in their field but is really just running his mouth to make himself feel smart."
[12:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Lest we forget - 06Darth Vader replaces Lenin statue in Ukraine - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:18:38] <exec> 08└─So what you're actually saying is, most people forgot (or never knew in the first place) but other people remembered.
[12:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02ironic - 06Darth Vader replaces Lenin statue in Ukraine - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:39] <exec> 08└─the government passed a law, ordering all symbols of the Soviet era to be removed
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[13:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:34] <exec> 08└─The two most popular candidates include an arrogant, loud mouthed buffoon, and a doctor who has no political background. The rest of the pack are basically nobodies, and the nobody son of an ex-president. I have to support the doctor. Of the bunch, he's the only person proven to care about people, a...
[13:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:35] <exec> 08└─Carson is a horror once you start examining his beliefs. He believes in a 10% flat tax because it resembles the Biblical tithe tradition. He believe homosexuality is a choice because straight people come out of prison gay. He called the ACA the worst thing since slavery. His use of Nazi metaphors is...
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[13:13:43] <exec> 08└─No.
[13:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickFortune [3267] (Score:2) 02Re:To late, we aren't going back - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 814 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:14:29] <exec> 08└─I suppose I could see that if you weren't aware that you had a problem in the first place. If you were, you'd presumably make the occasional attempt to find a solution, and some sort of directory site would then be adequate. Of course if you didn't know you had a problem ... well making people "awar...
[13:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:To late, we aren't going back - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 2475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:14:30] <exec> 08└─There is a slight monetary problem. Say the corporations have billions they could spend on ads. And the population in general is in a permanent economic decline, so you're not going to build sales organically, only by scavenging a larger slice of a permanently shrinking pie. This is the consumer sit...
[13:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:To late, we aren't going back - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:14:32] <exec> 08└─I agree advertising can serve a valuable purpose, and I am still going to ruthlessly block ads.
[13:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Take action - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:14:39] <exec> 08└─Why should anyone suffer advertising for that?
[13:14:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03quadrox [315] 02Wrong! All advertising must die. - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 983 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:14:44] <exec> 08└─I actually have a problem with close to all forms of advertising. Advertising introduces memetic thoughts into our brains, with the sole intent of extracting money from us. How anyone can not see this as inherently evil is beyond me. Furthermore, my brain gets bogged down with countless jingles, slo...
[13:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickFortune [3267] (Score:2) 02Re:Too little, too late - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:14:49] <exec> 08└─I've idly considered doing this myself, with a new web advertising startup named something like "Secure Advertising" which guarantees no tracking, no scripting, no Flash, no audio. I think there's pent-up demand for this. Send me a PM if you agree.
[13:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03jpkunst [2310] (Score:1) 02Re:Been saying it for a while. - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:14:55] <exec> 08└─I believe that is still possible. about:config, set image.animation_mode to "once" or "none".
[13:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm curious - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 1884 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:15:03] <exec> 08└─I've noticed ebay mixes narrowcasting with broadcasting. I checked this morning. So I mostly buy obscure electronic hardware from ebay, so the narrowcasted portions of the page seem to contain every sma attenuator or filter of various frequency bands that are currently on auction, or so it seems. Al...
[13:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Responsibility - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:05] <exec> 08└─I don't care if they take responsibility or not. I'll just quit blocking ads. If they want to try to implement technological counter measures or a paywall, it's their website, and they can do what they want with it, just like I do what I want with my browser.
[13:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't understand the economics... - 06Google's Executive Suite Declared an Asshole-Free Zone - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:15:23] <exec> 08└─Someone has to remind people that there are cereals other than the new chia seed and acai berry crunch or whatever. Companies have assets and collectively society derives some benefits from those assets. At what point should the supply chain and production facilities for a cereal be shut down? Does...
[13:18:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 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)
[13:18:10] <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...
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[14:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 885 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:37] <exec> 08└─I've always liked the idea of a flat tax. The tax structure is totally borked, and it favors the rich of course. Flat tax, whether it be 10# or 30% is "fair" to everyone. If you've only made $100 all year, you owe 30 bucks. If you make ten million, then you owe three million. Simple, and fair. "beca...
[14:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:38] <exec> 08└─Carson's a nutter... So it Trump. I am just surprised that republicans are actually considering electing these idiots. Where are the statesmen? Where are the folks that know how to govern? pfff... GOP, you've been hijacked by crazies...
[14:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 1413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:39] <exec> 08└─Here's the thing about the Democrats versus the Republicans: If you watched the two debates, you saw the Republicans busy trying to out-God and out-conservative each other while the Democrats were seriously discussing policy proposals. Even the guys who have since dropped out (Jim Webb and Lincoln C...
[14:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 986 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:41] <exec> 08└─And, you hit the key notes of many libertarian and independent pundits. The Republicans are so retarded, they just let the Democrats walk all over them. In effect, they permit the Democrats to draw up the outline of the game, as well as the rules of the game, then they show up late to the game, and...
[14:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:43] <exec> 08└─The two most popular candidates include an arrogant, loud mouthed buffoon, and a doctor who has no political background. The rest of the pack are basically nobodies, and the nobody son of an ex-president.
[14:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Another inane "science" story - 06Could Deep-sea Bacteria Be the Latest Weapon Against Climate Change? - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:51] <exec> 08└─How does it "neutralize" CO2? How does the enzyme "strip" CO2 from (dead?) organisms? What is this "benign compound" that the enzyme catalyze CO2 into? And where does this "benign compound" go?
[14:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score:2) 02Purpose - 06Researchers Discover Graphene Spirals Could Challenge Macro Solenoids - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:59] <exec> 08└─As a former industrial electrician, I'm well familiar with the use of "macro" solenoids in industry as basically a bridge between the electrical control world and the mechanical world. However, I'm not quite sure how these atom thin solenoids might be used, and the article does not do much to illumi...
[14:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03gman003 [4155] (Score:2) 02Re: "how in hell does anyone justify" - 06Drug Firm Offers $1 Version of $750 Turing Pharmaceuticals Pill - 3943 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:15] <exec> 08└─The pharmaceuticals market has so much regulation already that the free market can't be trusted to handle edge cases like this. And you know what? I'm fine with that. The basic idea of the regulation is good. First there's the "your drugs have to actually work" regulation - sure, in an ideal free ma...
[14:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmn32480 [443] (Score:2) 02Re:Am I the only one - 06Drug Firm Offers $1 Version of $750 Turing Pharmaceuticals Pill - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:17] <exec> 08└─A fair point. I have made the suggested adjustment. Thanks for pointing out the possible confusion.
[14:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:embrace... - 06Drug Firm Offers $1 Version of $750 Turing Pharmaceuticals Pill - 1224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:23] <exec> 08└─I have been thinking about this for a few awhile. It seems a non-profit who only makes these sorts of drugs seems like a decent way to go. Unfortunately I can not see into the end game of the business that does not subvert its very meaning. Many non profits end up twisted and corrupt. The money is j...
[14:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The Free Market - 06Drug Firm Offers $1 Version of $750 Turing Pharmaceuticals Pill - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:25] <exec> 08└─Has spoken.
[14:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03snick [1408] (Score:2) 02Compounding pharmacy - 06Drug Firm Offers $1 Version of $750 Turing Pharmaceuticals Pill - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:27] <exec> 08└─No safety/effectiveness studies required for the compounding pharmacy. So, if you die taking the cut rate pills you can leave a yelp review telling others not to make the mistake that you made. FREE MARKET SOLVES EVERYTHING!!!
[14:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:To late, we aren't going back - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:40] <exec> 08└─You're going to have to explain exactly how that would work. What prevents more people from making ad blockers, or forking existing ones?
[14:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:To late, we aren't going back - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 2050 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:47] <exec> 08└─Except if you do any online shopping the first two really aren't needed anymore as the places you shop can take care of the rather easily and simply. Look at the Amazon recommendations, or the Newegg and Tiger flyers,Amazon for instance was able to see from my purchases I'm working on building a lit...
[14:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:To late, we aren't going back - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 834 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:49] <exec> 08└─Not to mention as I told Jim Sterling when they had him railing against ABP on the Escapist "Are you gonna pay for the damages your ads cost the users when you show malware ads? Gonna pay to watch their accounts, the clean ups? No? Then you have no right to complain when people protect themselves ag...
[14:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Take action - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 1321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:57] <exec> 08└─I just recently installed NoScript, and WOW!, what a difference. uBlock Origin is good too (I still use that), but lately I was having all kinds of problems with my browser eating up 100%+ CPU time, and I couldn't figure out why. So I finally installed NoScript and suddenly my browser isn't pegging...
[14:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Wrong! All advertising must die. - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:15:06] <exec> 08└─Well this is why I liked Google Ads, years ago before they started all the tracking BS. It was great: you did a search, and on the right side of your search results, there were some small, 3-line, text-only ads which pertained to whatever you just searched for. It was a good way to find products tha...
[14:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score:2) 02Re:Wrong! All advertising must die. - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:15:08] <exec> 08└─I agree with your expressed sentiment. I hold the same belief that brainwashing the masses is really evil. And of course though much less effective than in average case, I know it has some effect on me nonetheless. They have gotten so good at their brain-warping that no one is safe. But you won't ev...
[14:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Native Advertising - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 1518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:24] <exec> 08└─Where the marketers will go next (that is, where they are going now), is not new ad platforms or modifying their ads. Instead, they are going to move to native advertising. Broadcast advertising has the same problem, because people do not want their shows interspersed with ads. Hulu has started offe...
[14:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:So it's empty? - 06Google's Executive Suite Declared an Asshole-Free Zone - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:15:34] <exec> 08└─Exactly. The only reason this new guy seems like not-an-asshole is because he's not so in your face about it like a Steve Jobs would be. Just look at politicians: they're pretty much all assholes too, but they're really good at talking to people and seeming like not-assholes.
[14:15:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Julian Assange - 06Google's Executive Suite Declared an Asshole-Free Zone - 760 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:15:37] <exec> 08└─Chafee: Hillary Clinton is too corrupt to be president [washingtonpost.com] This is Wayne Madsen and Infowars, but it aligns with what I've been thinking: Evidence Shows Clinton Ran a Parallel, Outsourced State Dept. [infowars.com] It was under her State tenure that we switched from having a GWOT to...
[14:16:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score:1) 02Re:Fuck comcast and xfinity... - 06Comcast May Soon Offer Wireless (as in Phone) Services in Tandem With Verizon's Wireless - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:16:02] <exec> 08└─This is something I have been having a problem with as well. From what I have been reading when you have your router put in bridge mode it's only temporary. You have to request "true bridge" or some shit. Have not confirmed this personally yet.
[14:16:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03deathlyslow [2818] (Score:2) 02Re:All most all the ingredients.... - 06In Unexpected Discovery, Comet Contains Alcohol, Sugar - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:16:17] <exec> 08└─<sarcasm>Why does it have to be an or thing not an and thing? Personal bias showing. </sarcasm>Too bad the sarcasm tag doesn't do a ASCI face palm or something.
[14:16:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03dast [1633] (Score:2) 02Re:All most all the ingredients.... - 06In Unexpected Discovery, Comet Contains Alcohol, Sugar - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:16:18] <exec> 08└─All that is needed now is another comet with some THC, nicotine, AND LSD.
[14:16:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03lentilla [1770] 02Re:Um, no - 06Up to 27 Seconds of Inattention After Talking to Your Car Or Smartphone - 82 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:16:37] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry, but when I'm stopped at a red light it doesn't really matter what I do.
[14:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fishscene [4361] (Score:1) 02Re:wikipedia is a technological embarassment - 06Judge Tosses Wikimedia’s Anti-NSA Lawsuit Because Wikipedia It Isn’t Big Enough - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:18:51] <exec> 08└─You should check out IPFS. Fascinating decentralized protocol that works over current infrastructure.
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[15:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Bullshit - 06BroScience: Evidence for Hypothesis that Hands and Heads were Evolutionarily Shaped by Fist Fighting - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:36] <exec> 08└─One of the first things they teach students in most martial arts is how to make a fist and align your wrist so you don't break them. If you wrist can bend backwards on impact, it will. Shitty technique is likely the cause of most of those bar brawl injuries you're seeing.
[15:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmoschner [3296] (Score:2) 02Re:Bullshit - 06BroScience: Evidence for Hypothesis that Hands and Heads were Evolutionarily Shaped by Fist Fighting - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:37] <exec> 08└─...we need to be aware we always may be haunted by basic emotions and reflexive behaviors that often don't make sense...
[15:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02pissing contests - 06BroScience: Evidence for Hypothesis that Hands and Heads were Evolutionarily Shaped by Fist Fighting - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:40] <exec> 08└─It's obvious that men grew long dongs so that they could win pissing contests, so that they could peacefully determine who got the females. At the same time, women grew bigger busts and wider hips, because the men were so easily mesmerized by those body parts. It's kinda funny when "scientists" prom...
[15:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02I still hold true to the thesis of Dr. Flintstone, - 06BroScience: Evidence for Hypothesis that Hands and Heads were Evolutionarily Shaped by Fist Fighting - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:42] <exec> 08└─That human opposable thumbs and hands were evolved to take a firm grip around the neck of a club as one hand strikes his\her's potential mate to submission while the other holds the reins of the raptor one is riding.
[15:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Interesting, but obvious? - 06BroScience: Evidence for Hypothesis that Hands and Heads were Evolutionarily Shaped by Fist Fighting - 961 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:44] <exec> 08└─While the research is interesting, the tone of half-surprise that people fight? The suggestion that this is somehow controversial? Of course fighting is an essential part of human evolution. Men fighting over women, just like so many other species. People fighting over food, or to take over the bett...
[15:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:Interesting, but obvious? - 06BroScience: Evidence for Hypothesis that Hands and Heads were Evolutionarily Shaped by Fist Fighting - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:45] <exec> 08└─The problem is that humans were using clubs and spears to hunt. So, if it's true that human facial features were evolved to contend with fist blows, then it means that human sexual selection might have had a dominant element of non-lethal competition rather then the ol' "kill him and rape his wife"...
[15:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Did Jabba The Hut have an ANUS? - 06BroScience: Evidence for Hypothesis that Hands and Heads were Evolutionarily Shaped by Fist Fighting - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:47] <exec> 08└─for reals yo
[15:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 1974 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:56] <exec> 08└─> Flat tax, whether it be 10# or 30% is "fair" to everyone. If you've only made $100 all year, you owe 30 bucks. The traditional response to that is that that $30 is worth a hell of a lot more to the poor guy than the 3 mill to the rich guy. One of them might go hungry, while the other one still has...
[15:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:58] <exec> 08└─"dogfucking bigots" The proper term is "canine loving". It's part of the alternate lifestyles being taught in our schools today. If you find yourself working next to a canine lover, you'd better not show any disapproval, or feminists, LGBT, and CAIR will be all over you. Not to mention the ACLU.
[15:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:00] <exec> 08└─Actually I know quite a few dogfuckers, and they are some of the nicest, friendliest, most honest and reliable folks you will ever meet. One is a border collie, another is a greyhound/ spaniel cross....
[15:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:01] <exec> 08└─If there was a lower limit on tax - ie no tax paid on your first $15000 income or something
[15:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 1474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:03] <exec> 08└─There are good counterarguments to your proposed flat tax: 1. Almost all proposals for a flat tax have a lower marginal tax rate. That means that revenue will go down regardless of any other plan. Since these proposals rarely are accompanied by budget cuts or increases on other taxes, it looks an aw...
[15:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 920 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:05] <exec> 08└─1. I said nothing about lowering tax rates. I don't care what the tax rate is, a flat tax is more "fair" than saddling the middle class with a tax burden that the rich and the poor all avoid. 2. I don't care about "driving" the economy. Again, I expect everyone to carry their fair share of the load....
[15:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:07] <exec> 08└─I am just surprised that republicans are actually considering electing these idiots. Where are the statesmen? Where are the folks that know how to govern? pfff... GOP, you've been hijacked by crazies...
[15:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:09] <exec> 08└─It's a sad state of affairs when Jeb Bush is the 'reasonable' candidate.
[15:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 1515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:11] <exec> 08└─Now: the big question is why they're hijacked by crazies. I have a theory above and beyond "half of Americans are idiots and the media is complicit." That idea is centered on "safe districts" and gerrymandering. Take a state legislature completely dominated by one party when redistricting rolled aro...
[15:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:13] <exec> 08└─the incumbent has record low approval ratings
[15:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 737 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:15] <exec> 08└─There's only one thing wrong with your comment, and that is the phrase "the Democrats were seriously discussing policy proposals". They weren't seriously discussing anything. At least, not in the sense of trying to put forward genuine policy proposals. They were saying the words they think the publi...
[15:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 2243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:17] <exec> 08└─The incumbent party candidates tend to compare themselves to the dude in office, either positively or negatively, to raise money. The dude in office is the lightning rod they all revolve around because, lets face it, he won last time, so you want to position yourself as the dude who won plus a littl...
[15:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:19] <exec> 08└─"best guess" is still just a guess -
[15:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:21] <exec> 08└─Now, to be completely fair: to a lot of Americans, "no political experience" is a positive. Because, to them, it means that someone is not corrupt. You or I could list a multitude of problems with that belief, but when has that ever stopped anyone?
[15:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Manipulation? - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:22] <exec> 08└─Those markets will be manipulated by campaign supporters if they are considered important. It would be interesting to estimate how much it would cost to give a month-long 10% bump to a leading candidate.
[15:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Manipulation? - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:24] <exec> 08└─Those markets will be manipulated by campaign supporters if they are considered important. It would be interesting to estimate how much it would cost to give a month-long 10% bump to a leading candidate.
[15:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Trump's reason for running - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:26] <exec> 08└─Trump only wants the presidency because he is an eagle testicle maniac. :)
[15:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Another inane "science" story - 06Could Deep-sea Bacteria Be the Latest Weapon Against Climate Change? - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:29] <exec> 08└─Had to click a link [ufl.edu] from TFA to get the answer. The chemistry of sequestering works this way: The enzyme, carbonic anhydrase, catalyzes a chemical reaction between carbon dioxide and water. The carbon dioxide interacts with the enzyme, converting the greenhouse gas into bicarbonate. The b...
[15:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Yes - 06Could Deep-sea Bacteria Be the Latest Weapon Against Climate Change? - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:30] <exec> 08└─If said deep bacteria is lethal to humans.
[15:15:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:Take action - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:15:36] <exec> 08└─I do that also. I also close any page with auto-starting video or audio. Ain't much web content that's worth hunting around on the page to find out how to shut it off, easier just to close the page.
[15:15:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02Re:Wrong! All advertising must die. - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:15:44] <exec> 08└─If I come to the web to research band saws I expect to find them with a search engine, I expect to find retailers, I expect to find the manufacturer's site. And I expect to find advertising that informs me about the product, both on retailer sites like Home Depot, as well as tool rental shops, and m...
[15:15:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03halcyon1234 [1082] (Score:2) 02Re:Too little, too late - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:15:52] <exec> 08└─I seriously doubt most sites earn much money from advertising.
[15:16:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonymousCowardNoMore [5416] (Score:2) 02Re:Adverts don't have to do any of thoe things - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 825 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:16:02] <exec> 08└─I'd say there's one type of advertising I don't mind: Creating something actually useful for the public good, which happens to increase interest in your product simply because of how they are related rather than because of any hard sell/soft sell tactics. This [youtu.be] video on the Punic Wars (by...
[15:16:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RamiK [1813] 02I feel sorry for the idiots buying those ads - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 965 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:04] <exec> 08└─The more money you spend on their marketing campaigns, the more annoying are the ads. If you just put a little money into it, you get (possibly) effective text ads and some banners. However, the problem is the advertisers aren't trying to market your product to your customers; They're selling themse...
[15:16:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:Julian Assange - 06Google's Executive Suite Declared an Asshole-Free Zone - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:16:18] <exec> 08└─Why is she considered a viable candidate?
[15:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:Um, no - 06Up to 27 Seconds of Inattention After Talking to Your Car Or Smartphone - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:17:22] <exec> 08└─I already do all that automatically when the light turns green. I'm not one of those idiots that focuses only on the light, when it goes green they act like they're at the drag strip. Light turns green I look both ways so I avoid the idiots pushing the yellow, avoid the slow pedestrians, etc. A neat...
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[16:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Glueballs or hairballs? - 06 Glueballs are the Missing Frontier of the Standard Model - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:36] <exec> 08└─Sounds about the same to me, except hairballs are easier to find.
[16:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Bullshit - 06BroScience: Evidence for Hypothesis that Hands and Heads were Evolutionarily Shaped by Fist Fighting - 2456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:48] <exec> 08└─Was going to say this, martial arts boils down to the most effective application of simple physics and I think it's fair to say that punching is pretty much a solved problem. However, I doubt many proto-humans were setting up dojos or studying biomechanics. I mean we're going back to the days before...
[16:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Bullshit - 06BroScience: Evidence for Hypothesis that Hands and Heads were Evolutionarily Shaped by Fist Fighting - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:49] <exec> 08└─It's not just gloves. Boxers and martial artists also wrap their hands to further protect them. Helps support the wrist and keep them straight.
[16:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Interesting, but obvious? - 06BroScience: Evidence for Hypothesis that Hands and Heads were Evolutionarily Shaped by Fist Fighting - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:55] <exec> 08└─While the research is interesting, the tone of half-surprise that people fight? The suggestion that this is somehow controversial?
[16:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Re:Interesting, but obvious? - 06BroScience: Evidence for Hypothesis that Hands and Heads were Evolutionarily Shaped by Fist Fighting - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:57] <exec> 08└─What prompted my comment were more the responses to the research, which were also part of the article. Passages like these: "Critics of the 'aggressive ape' theory of human evolution often argue that humans are by nature empathetic, cooperative and peaceful" Sure we are... Dunno what dream world tho...
[16:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:13] <exec> 08└─Wat?
[16:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score:2) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:15] <exec> 08└─Are capgains an income? I already paid taxes on my income when I bought that stock, then the company paid corporate taxes on the profit they earned, then I paid taxes on the dividends, and now I have to pay taxes a fourth time on the profit from sale? Geeze, how many more times can I pay tax on that...
[16:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Flat tax? - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 964 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:17] <exec> 08└─Yes, but a flat tax would be a lot fairer than what many countries have today. Today, the guy earning the $100 may only pay $20, but the millionaire can exploit all sorts of loopholes and winds up paying only a few thousand. Meanwhile, governments make up the difference by creating all sorts of othe...
[16:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:20] <exec> 08└─Since these proposals rarely are accompanied by budget cuts or increases on other taxes
[16:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:22] <exec> 08└─When poor people have more money, they spend it immediately to buy the stuff they need and have been doing without.
[16:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:24] <exec> 08└─What you are describing is money movement. "wasting it" is just an opinion (well sorta). If you buy an asset with money it is not really wasted is it? But if you buy something that gets you nothing long term then yeah you wasted *YOUR* money. But now that money is someone elses money. What will they...
[16:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:26] <exec> 08└─I've always liked the idea of a flat tax. The tax structure is totally borked, and it favors the rich of course. Flat tax, whether it be 10# or 30% is "fair" to everyone. If you've only made $100 all year, you owe 30 bucks. If you make ten million, then you owe three million. Simple, and fair. "beca...
[16:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 1740 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:27] <exec> 08└─The Emergency Medical Hologram is a mystery wrapped in an enigma because if you research him beyond dramatic talking points and sloganeering, get past the demographic shine, he's basically a mid range democrat who doesn't like weed, gays, or abortion. More or less plus or minus the overton window he...
[16:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:29] <exec> 08└─It's a sad state of affairs when Jeb Bush is the 'reasonable' candidate.
[16:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:31] <exec> 08└─> There's a large number of non-neo -R class of people itching to vote for someone not bankrolled by the Koch brothers or anyone not holier than thou (which incidentally excludes the mad doctor). So why the fuck haven't all these people started a brand new party all of their own to scratch that itch...
[16:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:35] <exec> 08└─What was your source for the idea that his rating was a record low?
[16:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:37] <exec> 08└─Possibly, although Pew Research [pewresearch.org] definitely doesn't seem to think so. The presidents who've really sunk down to the floor were either embroiled in scandal (e.g. Richard Nixon, Bill Clinton) or gotten a bunch of American civilians killed due to lousy foreign policy (Carter, George W...
[16:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03zimluura [4538] (Score:1) 02Re:Trump's reason for running - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:46] <exec> 08└─I think Trump wants the presidency because he wants to build a big, expensive, ineffective wall all along the southern border. He'll claim that his construction company is the best one for the job (their *estimate* will be the lowest, any penalties will receive presidential pardon) and then begin dr...
[16:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:Betteridge's law says - 06Could Deep-sea Bacteria Be the Latest Weapon Against Climate Change? - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:55] <exec> 08└─correct. One catch to this solution is that this process needs copious amounts of carbonic anhydrase
[16:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Another inane "science" story - 06Could Deep-sea Bacteria Be the Latest Weapon Against Climate Change? - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:58] <exec> 08└─bicarbonate is a negative ion. You need to balance it with a cation - typically sodium or calcium. (baking soda and chalk respectively) These are not found uncombined in nature, and the most likely source is from the sea. Sequestering calcium or sodium bicarbonate is going to leave behind chloride i...
[16:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:Purpose - 06Researchers Discover Graphene Spirals Could Challenge Macro Solenoids - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:08] <exec> 08└─However, I'm not quite sure how these atom thin solenoids might be used, and the article does not do much to illuminate that. Anyone have ideas?
[16:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Purpose - 06Researchers Discover Graphene Spirals Could Challenge Macro Solenoids - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:11] <exec> 08└─Very small pinball machines?
[16:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Purpose - 06Researchers Discover Graphene Spirals Could Challenge Macro Solenoids - 847 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:12] <exec> 08└─For an example, open up a desktop computer, take a look at the motherboard. You will see some components that look like donuts with copper wire wrapped around them. These are called inductors [wikipedia.org]. They are not like the solenoids in motors to produce mechanical work, but are passive compo...
[16:16:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score:2) 02Re:The Internet NEEDS ad blockers... - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:16:31] <exec> 08└─- mvphosts Not sure if that's the one I'm using, could be the one from APK. I got one about a year ago that is about 500k , all adservers and malware servers, all now pointing to 0.0.0.0 In that year I have had to comment out two or three entries to get a website to work. I also run ABP and NoScript...
[16:16:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:2) 02Re:not tech company - 06Google's Executive Suite Declared an Asshole-Free Zone - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:16:53] <exec> 08└─Watched it. By and large, it is sad than the Sun did set... However... If u ask me, they were to expensive for their time. At the university I was at (was oldtimer =) they went from Sun blade 100 to nameless PC with athlon 64 and debian. Until than, they had all kinds of Decs and mostly Suns... This...
[16:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cognitive Load - 06Up to 27 Seconds of Inattention After Talking to Your Car Or Smartphone - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:18:08] <exec> 08└─> No, dammit, it is about where your eyes are. Oh please. Could you for once get past literalism to understand the point? Of course your eyes matter, no fucking duh! Does that really need to be spelled out? But as this study showed having your eyes on the road is not sufficient. Kinda like being abl...
[16:20:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Utter nonsense - 06FBI Chief Links Video Scrutiny of Police to Rise in Violent Crime - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:20:36] <exec> 08└─Speaking as a US military veteran, I think you are giving yourself a bit too much credit. Seeing what the enemy, in this case criminals can do, makes it easy to dehumanize them. I doubt it is a conspiracy for the government to infringe on rights, but more likely misguided attempts to destroy the $bo...
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[17:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Why do all electrons have exactly the same charge? - 06 Glueballs are the Missing Frontier of the Standard Model - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:36] <exec> 08└─Imagine one electron (or proton, etc, doesn't matter) that can travel either forward or backward in time. Eventually it would be in multiple places at the "same time", appearing to be multiple particles. So there only needs to be one of each fundamental particle. Positrons may also be the same elect...
[17:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why do all electrons have exactly the same char - 06 Glueballs are the Missing Frontier of the Standard Model - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:37] <exec> 08└─How come there is no "wacko" moderation?
[17:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why do all electrons have exactly the same char - 06 Glueballs are the Missing Frontier of the Standard Model - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:39] <exec> 08└─It's not my idea, take it up with Feynman: Feynman, Richard (1949). "The Theory of Positrons". Physical Review 76 (76): 749. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.76.749.
[17:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:3, Informative) 02That physics simulator on my phone was right! - 06 Glueballs are the Missing Frontier of the Standard Model - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:40] <exec> 08└─You can learn more about the properties of these balls here [wikia.com].
[17:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03dublet [2994] (Score:2) 02My own model - 06 Glueballs are the Missing Frontier of the Standard Model - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:42] <exec> 08└─I've been experimenting with my own model of particle physics and my model so far accounts for everything, except the cows are always spherical.
[17:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Do they have super cow powers? - 06 Glueballs are the Missing Frontier of the Standard Model - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:44] <exec> 08└─$ apt-get moo (__) (oo) /------\/ / | || * /\---/\ ~~ ~~ ...."Have you mooed today?"... https://unix.stackexchange.com [stackexchange.com]
[17:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02is "particle" a misleading term? - 06 Glueballs are the Missing Frontier of the Standard Model - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:46] <exec> 08└─A century ago there was this idea that "calorie" was fluid heat, was a substance that contained all heat. By moving from one object to another, calorie would eventually equalize. The idea didn't last, as experiments designed to measure the mass of this substance found nothing. Now today we talk of p...
[17:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Bullshit - 06BroScience: Evidence for Hypothesis that Hands and Heads were Evolutionarily Shaped by Fist Fighting - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:57] <exec> 08└─Right, and runners wear shoes, but that isn't compelling evidence that our feet didn't evolve for running.
[17:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bullshit - 06BroScience: Evidence for Hypothesis that Hands and Heads were Evolutionarily Shaped by Fist Fighting - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:59] <exec> 08└─You don't bust your hand bones if your wrist goes limp, dumbdumb.
[17:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bullshit - 06BroScience: Evidence for Hypothesis that Hands and Heads were Evolutionarily Shaped by Fist Fighting - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:01] <exec> 08└─Well, it's because you did incomplete citing. Here's how the sentence continues: […] that often don't make sense – and are very dangerous – in the modern world
[17:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:Bullshit - 06BroScience: Evidence for Hypothesis that Hands and Heads were Evolutionarily Shaped by Fist Fighting - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:02] <exec> 08└─Now you've made me thing of the "Spitting Image" video-clip of Genesis "Land of Confusion", where the big red button for "Nurse" is right next to the button for "Nuke" on the president's bedside cabinet.
[17:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score:2) 02Re:Bullshit - 06BroScience: Evidence for Hypothesis that Hands and Heads were Evolutionarily Shaped by Fist Fighting - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:04] <exec> 08└─Hand bones are no more durable than jawbone.
[17:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Interesting, but obvious? - 06BroScience: Evidence for Hypothesis that Hands and Heads were Evolutionarily Shaped by Fist Fighting - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:10] <exec> 08└─Oh, we are very empathetic. Remember, empathy is about understanding the feelings of others; a psychopath who enjoys the suffering of others is also empathetic, or else he would be blind to that suffering and couldn't enjoy it. We are also very cooperative. Note that war is generally a very cooperat...
[17:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:29] <exec> 08└─Are capgains an income? I already paid taxes on my income when I bought that stock, then the company paid corporate taxes on the profit they earned, then I paid taxes on the dividends, and now I have to pay taxes a fourth time on the profit from sale? Geeze, how many more times can I pay tax on that...
[17:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:31] <exec> 08└─BTW on the subject of character assassination campaigning, I particularly enjoy when you have two candidates from the same party ripping one-anothers' reputations to shreds while they are trying to get the candidacy, then later on acting like best buddies at election time. No wonder nobody trusts po...
[17:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bziman [3577] (Score:2) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:40] <exec> 08└─It's good that you don't like Clinton. Stop mentioning her as the opposition to the GOP. She is the same thing. There is a non-right-wing candidate for you: Bernie Sanders.
[17:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:46] <exec> 08└─Its more or less called the libertarian party. Pretty much since the neo's took over I've been voting -L, in the event that I vote.
[17:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:48] <exec> 08└─I thought the libertarians were the ones that wanted to scrap welfare, abolish taxes, and remove all forms of "meddling" with the "free market" (ie get rid of things like environmental regulations, health & safety, minimum wage, monopoly controls etc) - that doesn't sound to me like a more sane and...
[17:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bziman [3577] (Score:2) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:54] <exec> 08└─Third term for Obama? You mean a fifth term for Bush, don't you?
[17:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Trump's reason for running - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 1482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:06] <exec> 08└─Perhaps, but I doubt it. Trump is an egomaniac. Acquiring money strokes the egomaniac's ego, but eventually it gets old. The egomaniac gets a TV show, which make him and his wealth more well-known, which strokes his ego until that gets old. What's next? Become president! What better ego boost could...
[17:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:3, Informative) 02More waste - 06Could Deep-sea Bacteria Be the Latest Weapon Against Climate Change? - 2256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:19] <exec> 08└─For better or ill, society is going to need hydrocarbons for a loooooooong time -- essentially, as long as we have civilization. Plastics, lubricants, fertilizers, pesticides...and even liquid fuels. Using significant amounts of energy input, you can turn atmospheric CO2 back into hydrocarbons. Ther...
[17:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Purpose - 06Researchers Discover Graphene Spirals Could Challenge Macro Solenoids - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:31] <exec> 08└─Also, better on-die inductors for mixed signal and analog.
[17:15:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:willingness to pay - 06Drug Firm Offers $1 Version of $750 Turing Pharmaceuticals Pill - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:41] <exec> 08└─The problem with that reasoning is that allowing vendors to charge what people are willing to pay has to be balanced by competition among vendors so that the price does not excessively exceed the cost of production. The fundamental problem in this situation is that the FDA is handing out monopolies...
[17:15:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03gman003 [4155] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Greed. - 06Drug Firm Offers $1 Version of $750 Turing Pharmaceuticals Pill - 1004 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:45] <exec> 08└─Formulations of the drug are available for as low as $0.02 in some countries. However: 1) Those are countries where infections treatable by pyrimethamine are far more prevalent, and so economy-of-scale kicks in. It's easy to make them for $0.02 a pop when you're making them by the billions - not so...
[17:16:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:To late, we aren't going back - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:16:21] <exec> 08└─That said, I remember the days when advertising was a single silent, static banner across the top of a web site. Didn't get in the way of the content, was easily ignored and often looked interesting. I used to click on those from time to time.
[17:16:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:To late, we aren't going back - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 4025 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:16:26] <exec> 08└─That comment wasn't aimed at you. The "challenging us to do better" was a comment to their shareholders or VC or sugar daddies, who apparently do not mind funding such evil. I guess cola executives don't mind seeing their ads full screen if they paid for it. Maybe it gives them a subtle high to see...
[17:16:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:Take action - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 3028 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:16:31] <exec> 08└─yes use duck duck go , or ixquick. Not perfect, but what is. Google made a change in the past year or two that simply made it harder to get the results I wanted. Searching with quotes and other symbols and operands simply stopped working. This mobile first ranking system is of zero relevance to most...
[17:16:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Take action - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:16:33] <exec> 08└─Actually, yes - I do vaguely recall Copernic. And, a quick search found their home page - https://www.copernic.com [copernic.com] It appears that they are just a "desktop" search now. Another product, "on the go" is a private cloud search engine? I guess they surrendered the internet search, and re...
[17:16:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score:2) 02Re:Take action - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:16:37] <exec> 08└─Try visit this site: failblog.cheezburger.com If you start temporarily allowing all, you'll see that 3rd party scripts call 4th party scripts, call 5th party scripts, and so on. It's like a stack of turtles. There are a lot of sites that do this. Newspapers are some of the worst. NoScript is also pr...
[17:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Idiot zone - 06Google's Executive Suite Declared an Asshole-Free Zone - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:17:23] <exec> 08└─> Took awhile to figure out that "asshole" is actually a term of respect. Well, that must have been comforting.
[17:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"In Unexpected Discovery"? - 06In Unexpected Discovery, Comet Contains Alcohol, Sugar - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:18:03] <exec> 08└─No, "in" does not change to "an."
[17:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Utter nonsense - 06FBI Chief Links Video Scrutiny of Police to Rise in Violent Crime - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:21:03] <exec> 08└─I doubt it is a conspiracy for the government to infringe on rights
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[18:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score:2) 02Re:Meanwhile in reality - 06Paul Vixie: New TLDs a Money Grab, and a Mistake - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:33] <exec> 08└─Was it hard to get an anonymous domain before the new .TLDs? Answer: No.
[18:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Meanwhile in reality - 06Paul Vixie: New TLDs a Money Grab, and a Mistake - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:34] <exec> 08└─Was it hard to get an anonymous domain before the new .TLDs? Answer: No.
[18:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score:2) 02The fact that... - 06Paul Vixie: New TLDs a Money Grab, and a Mistake - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:35] <exec> 08└─The fact that it was a money-grab was painfully obvious. The guy seems to try to be very political about it. ICANN is now as all other marginal gate-keeping government institutions: a place for patronage. Trying to advocate change to their modus operandi through public discourse about the issue will...
[18:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:The fact that... - 06Paul Vixie: New TLDs a Money Grab, and a Mistake - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:37] <exec> 08└─that whole .sucks thing was a clear indicator of a money grab. The TLD system, at least what it's evolved into, is a money printing press that works to make cash in all of the world's currencies. it used to be I could tell by the domain that unless I was feeling lucky, maybe I should not click on th...
[18:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score:2) 02They could create other more useful TLDs - 06Paul Vixie: New TLDs a Money Grab, and a Mistake - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:39] <exec> 08└─ICANN could reserve/create other more useful TLDs rather than repeatedly doing "Yet Another DotCom". They could reserve TLDs for different types of local private usage. For example: https://tools.ietf.org [ietf.org] And perhaps one or more for other internal organization l...
[18:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:They could create other more useful TLDs - 06Paul Vixie: New TLDs a Money Grab, and a Mistake - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:41] <exec> 08└─The first people to rush in and register on all the new TLDs aren't the businesses that owned names in the existing TLDs. They don't have to, because of domain squatting decisions over the years, the registration microsoft.sucks would have been taked from Joe Sixpack and handed to Microsoft. No, the...
[18:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They could create other more useful TLDs - 06Paul Vixie: New TLDs a Money Grab, and a Mistake - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:42] <exec> 08└─As far as I know, they have not moved on .bit, .i2p, .onion [ietf.org] either.
[18:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:is "particle" a misleading term? - 06 Glueballs are the Missing Frontier of the Standard Model - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:55] <exec> 08└─Perhaps the universe, including past and future, consists of one or a few "strings" (worldlines of what we call particles) tied into an insanely complex knot. The present is then an infinitesimally thin slice of this knot.
[18:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score:2) 02Re:is "particle" a misleading term? - 06 Glueballs are the Missing Frontier of the Standard Model - 863 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:56] <exec> 08└─It's only a matter of semantics. Obviously professional physicists don't think of these quantum particles as being remotely similar to grains of sand or some such object that the word 'particle' would evoke in the mind of the layperson, because the equations governing the behaviour of these objects,...
[18:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Balls - 06 Glueballs are the Missing Frontier of the Standard Model - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:58] <exec> 08└─That's pretty puny balls you've got there.
[18:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bullshit - 06BroScience: Evidence for Hypothesis that Hands and Heads were Evolutionarily Shaped by Fist Fighting - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:12] <exec> 08└─Funny how you are pushing everyone else to prove a negative when ignoring that you need to prove your point as well. So prove it.
[18:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 894 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:54] <exec> 08└─It doesn't matter what other people do with the money. What matters is that you, as an individual, just wasted your own money on nonsense you can't afford. When I see people constantly buying garbage they can't afford (expensive houses that really aren't a good investment, brand new computers every...
[18:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:15:05] <exec> 08└─Well, neo-conservatives usually want the government to intrude on people's personal lives as much as possible. Mass surveillance, the TSA, the drug war, etc. I would say that that is the main difference between them and most libertarians.
[18:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:15:12] <exec> 08└─or gotten a bunch of American civilians killed due to lousy foreign policy (Carter, George W Bush)
[18:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:15:15] <exec> 08└─No. You might think it makes you sound "Insightful" to say shit like that, but that is a pretty ignorant thing to say. Because you disagree with both of them does not make the two of them the same.
[18:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03SecurityGuy [1453] (Score:2) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:15:19] <exec> 08└─Here's the thing about the Democrats versus the Republicans: If you watched the two debates, you saw the Republicans busy trying to out-God and out-conservative each other while the Democrats were seriously discussing policy proposals.
[18:15:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:15:20] <exec> 08└─> I guess if you're a libertarian you see that as good news, but for anybody else that seems like a really really bad idea. Even a libertarian can acknowledge that whatever government we need must be effective and competent - a focus on cuts without a focus on improving governance is easiest but als...
[18:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:15:25] <exec> 08└─> I've got to laugh at that pompous bitch who claimed that SHE can take that phone call in the night. So much for Soylent's reputation for insightful commentary. Looks like we are just as full of unsupported opinion as the green site.
[18:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03joshuajon [807] (Score:2) 02Re:Betteridge's law says - 06Could Deep-sea Bacteria Be the Latest Weapon Against Climate Change? - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:15:39] <exec> 08└─How is this insightful? I'd like to propose a new law: Any article with a question mark in the title will invariably have this reference to Betteridge's law as first post (and some boob will mod it up).
[18:15:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Another inane "science" story - 06Could Deep-sea Bacteria Be the Latest Weapon Against Climate Change? - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:15:43] <exec> 08└─Now you've done the job of submitter and editor. See, if you gonna submit a link, a science story link, you should at least read it and grok the basic, and put the gist in the summary. This kind of posts put up summaries completely devoid of any substance - here only thing it has are some buzzwords...
[18:16:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:To late, we aren't going back - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:16:43] <exec> 08└─fear of ninja lawyers
[18:16:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:To late, we aren't going back - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:16:50] <exec> 08└─Sounds like a nice idea, but assuming that the listing site charged each company a fee to get listed (what else are they gonna do to make money? run ads? ;), it would inevitably devolve into a "first among equals" SEO problem where the companies with deeper pockets pay extra to sort them to the top...
[18:17:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02In-browser html editiing - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:17:10] <exec> 08└─Right-click, Inspect, Delete, Done.
[18:17:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02Idiot zone - 06Google's Executive Suite Declared an Asshole-Free Zone - 1655 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:48] <exec> 08└─Isn't that sweet, the little wimps and sissies want an "asshole free zone". Decades ago, I was amused by the writing and drawing in the heads (restrooms) aboard ship. "Wheeler is an asshole" "Rizzo is a goober gobbler" etc ad nauseum. Then, I started moving up through the ranks. Imagine my surprise...
[18:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:Idiot zone - 06Google's Executive Suite Declared an Asshole-Free Zone - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:17:51] <exec> 08└─I think you found a problem we have with our existing house of representatives.
[18:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Idiot zone - 06Google's Executive Suite Declared an Asshole-Free Zone - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:17:54] <exec> 08└─That one Tigh line from BSG: "If the crew doesn't hate the XO, then he's not doing his job."
[18:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Don't understand the economics... - 06Google's Executive Suite Declared an Asshole-Free Zone - 1006 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:17:58] <exec> 08└─I'm pondering this same question, although for a different reason. I'm just starting a company with a software product in a market that has more complex products than mine, while mine is meant to provide simpler services which covers most peoples basic needs (Why pay 60 dollars every year for someth...
[18:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:500 bottles of wine per second? - 06In Unexpected Discovery, Comet Contains Alcohol, Sugar - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:18:32] <exec> 08└─Bottles Per Second? So, I'm to start reporting my alcoholism in baud now?
[18:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Cognitive Load - 06Up to 27 Seconds of Inattention After Talking to Your Car Or Smartphone - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:19:05] <exec> 08└─And, each and every one of those drivers are INCOMPETENT TO DRIVE!
[18:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cognitive Load - 06Up to 27 Seconds of Inattention After Talking to Your Car Or Smartphone - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:19:08] <exec> 08└─The study did not show that having your eyes on the road is not sufficient. There were no accidents during the study. QED.
[18:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cognitive Load - 06Up to 27 Seconds of Inattention After Talking to Your Car Or Smartphone - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:19:10] <exec> 08└─Wooosh! QED
[18:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Hologram" is stretching it - 06Andy Kaufman and Redd Foxx to Tour as Holograms - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:19:43] <exec> 08└─Foxx was funny as hell. In his standup and on TV. I never thought Kaufman was particularly funny. His character on Taxi was humorous enough, but he came off sort of like a jerk in his other work. I guess I never "got" him, and I never understood why he was labeled a "genius", other than the fact tha...
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[19:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Cornwallis [359] (Score:1) 02Look at that title - 06Lobster-Inspired 3.8m Super Lightweight Mirror Chosen for Chinese-French Space Mission - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:34] <exec> 08└─"Lobster-Inspired 3.8m Super Lightweight Mirror Chosen for Chinese-French Space Mission" are words I never-in-a-million-years thought would appear together...
[19:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Meanwhile in reality - 06Paul Vixie: New TLDs a Money Grab, and a Mistake - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:45] <exec> 08└─http://www.prq.se/?intl=1 [www.prq.se]
[19:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Meanwhile in reality - 06Paul Vixie: New TLDs a Money Grab, and a Mistake - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:46] <exec> 08└─Was it hard to get an anonymous domain before the new .TLDs?
[19:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Meanwhile in reality - 06Paul Vixie: New TLDs a Money Grab, and a Mistake - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:48] <exec> 08└─It's not just the government that is the problem; stalking, harassment, swatting and the like are real-world issues.
[19:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Meanwhile in reality - 06Paul Vixie: New TLDs a Money Grab, and a Mistake - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:50] <exec> 08└─WHOIS private registrations are used to hide criminal activity. Stalking, harassment, swatting just about never happens,
[19:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02this old news from the 90's - 06Paul Vixie: New TLDs a Money Grab, and a Mistake - 1472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:56] <exec> 08└─In the 90's I was looking at being an ISP and the boards then where asking these same questions. I was pro-new TLDs but under a strict control. Example: UN Telecom group would own it. UN would also setup a trademark group. So yes, IBM would trademark their International trademark IBM once not with e...
[19:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Slightly more complicated than that... - 06Paul Vixie: New TLDs a Money Grab, and a Mistake - 1010 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:58] <exec> 08└─Not a bad concept, but things are a bit more complicated. Trademarks are not unique. My little company goes by the abbreviation KRI. So does the Kundalini Research Institute, the Kri Eco Resort, KRI inc. in Japan, KriKri in Greece, Khan Resources Inc., and on, and on, and on... As long as either ter...
[19:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonymousCowardNoMore [5416] (Score:2) 02Re:Why do all electrons have exactly the same char - 06 Glueballs are the Missing Frontier of the Standard Model - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:09] <exec> 08└─You left out three important things: 1) It's a joke. 2) It's actually impossible. 3) Feynman retold the joke but got it from his advisor (Wheeler). I cannot resist telling you an amusing fable, but you must promise not to take it too seriously. Feynman claimed that his advisor... ... ...this does i...
[19:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why do all electrons have exactly the same char - 06 Glueballs are the Missing Frontier of the Standard Model - 1714 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:10] <exec> 08└─I am well outside my area of expertise and I just came across this idea the other day. However, I do not think it was considered a joke at the time: The space-time approach to quantum electrodynamics, as has been developed by Feynman,1) seems to offer a very attractive and useful idea to this domain...
[19:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonymousCowardNoMore [5416] (Score:2) 02Re:Why do all electrons have exactly the same char - 06 Glueballs are the Missing Frontier of the Standard Model - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:11] <exec> 08└─The part about there being only one electron is the joke. The part about positrons being time-reversed electrons is not.
[19:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Glueballs - 06 Glueballs are the Missing Frontier of the Standard Model - 1628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:20] <exec> 08└─Chances are CERN or Fermilab has already seen at least one somewhere, the only problem is that they couldn't be absolutely sure that they were actually seeing was a glueball. It should be possible in principle to calculate their properties solely from the equations of quantum chromodynamics that exp...
[19:14:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] 02Re:Bullshit - 06BroScience: Evidence for Hypothesis that Hands and Heads were Evolutionarily Shaped by Fist Fighting - 2456 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:31] <exec> 08└─Was going to say this, martial arts boils down to the most effective application of simple physics and I think it's fair to say that punching is pretty much a solved problem. However, I doubt many proto-humans were setting up dojos or studying biomechanics. I mean we're going back to the days before...
[19:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Bullshit - 06BroScience: Evidence for Hypothesis that Hands and Heads were Evolutionarily Shaped by Fist Fighting - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:36] <exec> 08└─Yes, you do. Without going into stupidly intricate detail, the angle force is applied to the bones can make a radical difference.
[19:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score:2) 02Re:I still hold true to the thesis of Dr. Flintsto - 06BroScience: Evidence for Hypothesis that Hands and Heads were Evolutionarily Shaped by Fist Fighting - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:43] <exec> 08└─My hands evolved so I can play the piano and touch myself inappropriately.
[19:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Interesting, but obvious? - 06BroScience: Evidence for Hypothesis that Hands and Heads were Evolutionarily Shaped by Fist Fighting - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:47] <exec> 08└─That last sentence wandered so far afield that it needed a club to fight its way back home.
[19:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:1, Troll) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:15:08] <exec> 08└─And who doesn't like fucking a bitch?
[19:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:15:13] <exec> 08└─I already paid taxes on my income when I bought that stock, then the company paid corporate taxes on the profit they earned, then I paid taxes on the dividends, and now I have to pay taxes a fourth time on the profit from sale? Geeze, how many more times can I pay tax on that same dollar of original...
[19:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:15:18] <exec> 08└─1. I said nothing about lowering tax rates. I don't care what the tax rate is, a flat tax is more "fair" than saddling the middle class with a tax burden that the rich and the poor all avoid.
[19:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:15:20] <exec> 08└─"And, I am starting to think Runaway is gay." Are you hitting on me, you deviant? "Carson cares about people? Really?" Probably not. He just advanced the state of the art in neurosurgery because he couldn't think of any bettter way of getting rich. Think about it - he worked on people young and old,...
[19:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:15:26] <exec> 08└─Flat tax, whether it be 10# or 30% is "fair" to everyone.
[19:15:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:15:37] <exec> 08└─Maybe because most voters don't want to vote for a party who is going to lose the first 4-8 elections they're in.
[19:15:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 1413 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:15:39] <exec> 08└─Here's the thing about the Democrats versus the Republicans: If you watched the two debates, you saw the Republicans busy trying to out-God and out-conservative each other while the Democrats were seriously discussing policy proposals. Even the guys who have since dropped out (Jim Webb and Lincoln C...
[19:16:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:More waste - 06Could Deep-sea Bacteria Be the Latest Weapon Against Climate Change? - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:16:09] <exec> 08└─If we're to have a future, it will involve energy from some other source -- and solar is the only one abundant enough to serve at global scales.
[19:17:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03iWantToKeepAnon [686] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:To late, we aren't going back - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:17:09] <exec> 08└─They're going to buy my phone's hosts file?
[19:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03SDRefugee [4477] (Score:1) 02Re:To late, we aren't going back - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:17:15] <exec> 08└─Like the endless fucking drug ads on tv... Where they spend nearly the whole commercial rattling off side-effects that would make anybody EXTREMELY leery of using the fucking drug, then a perky voice says "Ask YOUR doctor if zippydodah is RIGHT for YOU!!".... Serious annoying.. And EVERYBODY knows a...
[19:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Take action - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:17:34] <exec> 08└─Anyway, I don't use PolicyRequest (nor have I heard about it before)
[19:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03iWantToKeepAnon [686] (Score:2) 02Re:Take action - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:17:38] <exec> 08└─I close 'em too, or if I really want to read the page; turn off CSS that usually kills a popup b/c it can't be 100% width and z-axis covering other elements.
[19:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Julian Assange - 06Google's Executive Suite Declared an Asshole-Free Zone - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:18:07] <exec> 08└─To be fair, the Benghazi thing *IS* an increasingly desperate (clumsy and self-defeating) attempt by the GOP to sling mud. As to the rest, yes. There certainly does seem to be a concerted effort to walk her to the White House. I prefer Sanders.
[19:18:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Natales [2163] 02Depends on the point of view - 06Google's Executive Suite Declared an Asshole-Free Zone - 220 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:23] <exec> 08└─One executive at a Fortune 15 company once told me they suffered from the "monkeys in the tree" syndrome: from the top, all they see looking down is smiling faces. From the bottom, all they see looking up is ass holes...
[19:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Cognitive Load - 06Up to 27 Seconds of Inattention After Talking to Your Car Or Smartphone - 1270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:19:31] <exec> 08└─"Nobody in the world, from the novice to the 20 year veteran 18 wheeler driver pays 100% attention to the road" I have devoted anywhere from 50% to 100% of my attention to the road. You will consider that an outrageous claim, I'm sure, but that is a fact. The typical motorist devotes less than 30% o...
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[20:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Look at that title - 06Lobster-Inspired 3.8m Super Lightweight Mirror Chosen for Chinese-French Space Mission - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:35] <exec> 08└─Well - let's just be happy that the lobster went to college, where he inspired this new telescope. I failed to notice which college he went to - was it St. Petersburg?
[20:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Meanwhile in reality - 06Paul Vixie: New TLDs a Money Grab, and a Mistake - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:51] <exec> 08└─Oh and: swatting just about never happens
[20:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Meanwhile in reality - 06Paul Vixie: New TLDs a Money Grab, and a Mistake - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:52] <exec> 08└─I'm saying that Vixie is saying that WHOIS is not used for these purposes. You've presented no evidence that it is used for such purposes. Even the UK Mail does not verify the address of every P.O. Box punter. Who are you trying to kid? You can tell them anything, and they won't care, they certainly...
[20:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Meanwhile in reality - 06Paul Vixie: New TLDs a Money Grab, and a Mistake - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:54] <exec> 08└─Except that "real-world" issue doesn't happen. Not from WHOIS information.
[20:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Absolutely right about the TLDs - 06Paul Vixie: New TLDs a Money Grab, and a Mistake - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:03] <exec> 08└─The point of the TLDs was that ICANN could make a big pile of cash by selling off the rights to be the registrar for those TLDs. The registrars, in turn, were willing to pay huge prices for those rights because all organizations needed to buy a bunch of domains in order to protect their brand or ris...
[20:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:is "particle" a misleading term? - 06 Glueballs are the Missing Frontier of the Standard Model - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:23] <exec> 08└─Ironically, if their balances had been incredibly sensitive, they would actually have measured a tiny increase in mass as an object got hotter. But not for the reason they expected. :-)
[20:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Bullshit - 06BroScience: Evidence for Hypothesis that Hands and Heads were Evolutionarily Shaped by Fist Fighting - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:47] <exec> 08└─Why would they be? The jaw would evolve parallel to the fist. The jaw would tend to become stronger since a broken jaw would be a bigger survival disadvantage than a broken hand. To confound things, someone who was too quick to punch might have even greater survival problems due to being exiled (who...
[20:15:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:15:34] <exec> 08└─Your point would be? Are you saying that the less wealthy guy is "entitled" to eat better, or what? If he makes $100 per pay period, then he needs to think about keeping his costs below $100 per pay period.
[20:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:15:35] <exec> 08└─I don't give a damn about homosexuality - it's a dead end. Choice or not, it's a dead end, and it can only drag society down.
[20:15:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Ben Carson: Empty head - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 871 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:15:38] <exec> 08└─My Pacifica Radio affiliate aired some samples of his appearance on the Charlie Rose show. Props to Rose for keeping at it and trying to pin him down on any of his broad platitudes. It was like trying to nail Jello to a tree. When Rose finally did get Carson to say something specific, it demonstrate...
[20:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''a non-right-wing candidate'' - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 841 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:15:40] <exec> 08└─While Bernie is slightly less Wrong-Wing, don't confuse him with a Leftist. (Yeah. Lamestream Media has USAian politics -very- skewed toward the Reactionary edge.) Now, implementing Bernie's ideas about a broader fairness to the system (7 useful graphics) [commondreams.org] *would* be a shift toward...
[20:15:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 45 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:15:52] <exec> 08└─the incumbent has record low approval ratings
[20:15:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:15:59] <exec> 08└─For what it's worth, Bernie Sanders does have a record of consistently putting his money and his votes where his mouth is. As in, I know people in the city he was mayor, and my sister lives in Vermont, and there's a pretty universal view that he's the least politician-y politician out there. I'd hav...
[20:16:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:4, Funny) 02Is Betteridge's law always right? - 06Could Deep-sea Bacteria Be the Latest Weapon Against Climate Change? - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:16:13] <exec> 08└─Just asking...
[20:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:To late, we aren't going back - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:17:22] <exec> 08└─Unless you want to block everything you don't already know, that won't help. You need a greylist, and greylists are a lot more difficult than either whitelists or blacklists. And in particular, they already work around blacklists, by periodically changing numbers. (I'm being a bit vague here, becaus...
[20:17:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheRaven [270] 02Re:Take action - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 97 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:17:37] <exec> 08└─Just close the damned tab, and do a google search for the content that I thought I wanted to see.
[20:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Take action - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:17:41] <exec> 08└─But Google isn't annoying. I may refuse to use their services (e-mail, etc.) but Google search is hard to beat, and isn't annoying. I don't pretend that it's secure, I know they track my search history, but they aren't annoying, and I believe that they consider their information on me to be a corpor...
[20:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Idiot zone - 06Google's Executive Suite Declared an Asshole-Free Zone - 1313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:18:32] <exec> 08└─It is pretty much this. Growing up in a family business I watched my father be a complete asshole to his employees. But here was the thing, he had to. How else do you herd a bunch of low IQ meat sacks that want to avoid doing work as much as possible? You name it they did it: coming back from lunch...
[20:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Idiot zone - 06Google's Executive Suite Declared an Asshole-Free Zone - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:18:33] <exec> 08└─Sounds like your dad was out of line. Snatching my cigarettes and crushing them in the middle of the work day would likely have prompted a punch in the nose. I've never decked a boss, but that may well have prompted it, when I was a younger man. Hell - it might prompt the same reaction today if I'm...
[20:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:Dupe! - 06In Unexpected Discovery, Comet Contains Alcohol, Sugar - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:19:05] <exec> 08└─Oh, so he's springing for the imported stuff? High class.
[20:19:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Cognitive Load - 06Up to 27 Seconds of Inattention After Talking to Your Car Or Smartphone - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:19:48] <exec> 08└─The typical motorist devotes less than 30% of his attention to the road. Knowing that - you are going to attempt to justify further, unavoidable distractions?
[20:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Cognitive Load - 06Up to 27 Seconds of Inattention After Talking to Your Car Or Smartphone - 2185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:19:49] <exec> 08└─Observer bias. Let's consider that. How fast have you driven? Two wheels, four wheels, six, ten, or eighteen wheels - how fast have you driven? Do you have any idea how much of a human's attention is required to maintain control of a two wheeled vehicle at speed approaching 200 mph? A four wheeled v...
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[21:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02so, PR bullshit still? - 06TechRadar Asks: "Has Microsoft Admitted Defeat in the Console Sales War?" - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:33] <exec> 08└─a Microsoft source responded saying it was no longer using such figures as its measurement of success.
[21:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:so, PR bullshit still? - 06TechRadar Asks: "Has Microsoft Admitted Defeat in the Console Sales War?" - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:34] <exec> 08└─But... but.., Halo 5! I think they're hoping to get a jump in console sales from this release.
[21:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Oh man, I'm so glad I grew out of this - 06TechRadar Asks: "Has Microsoft Admitted Defeat in the Console Sales War?" - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:36] <exec> 08└─I own a WiiU and don't care in the slightest that it's selling poorly because I'm an adult and can accept that my choices weren't popular, and the success of the system has no bearing on me.
[21:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh man, I'm so glad I grew out of this - 06TechRadar Asks: "Has Microsoft Admitted Defeat in the Console Sales War?" - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:38] <exec> 08└─I could tell I agree with you, but you wouldn't even care! Gnarly!
[21:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Makes sense - 06TechRadar Asks: "Has Microsoft Admitted Defeat in the Console Sales War?" - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:39] <exec> 08└─One of the reasons the MS board got rid of Ballmer was because he had so much of his career tied up in big initiatives that were either mixed successes (like Xbox) or outright failures. It's not clear whether it makes sense for either MS or Sony to make the kind of huge investment in the next genera...
[21:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:Look at that title - 06Lobster-Inspired 3.8m Super Lightweight Mirror Chosen for Chinese-French Space Mission - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:49] <exec> 08└─clearly you didn't look far enough into Pi. ;)
[21:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Gaaa! Useless link - 06Lobster-Inspired 3.8m Super Lightweight Mirror Chosen for Chinese-French Space Mission - 775 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:50] <exec> 08└─Nothing of substance here, except for the mention that this mission is being planned. No descriptions of the optics, no references, nothing. Just one simple cartoon would suffice to show a "traditional" x-ray mirror design and part of the "lobster" design. The scant description makes me think of oth...
[21:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Meanwhile in reality - 06Paul Vixie: New TLDs a Money Grab, and a Mistake - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:06] <exec> 08└─I'm saying that Vixie is saying that WHOIS is not used for these purposes. You've presented no evidence that it is used for such purposes.
[21:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:Why do all electrons have exactly the same char - 06 Glueballs are the Missing Frontier of the Standard Model - 966 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:31] <exec> 08└─Robert Gilmore's Alice in Quantumland [barnesandnoble.com] has the same interpretation of antimatter being matter traveling backwards in time. At one point Alice annihilates with an anti-Alice, appearing to emit high-energy photons, at which point the narrator switches to the anti-Alice before an Al...
[21:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:is "particle" a misleading term? - 06 Glueballs are the Missing Frontier of the Standard Model - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:39] <exec> 08└─Because, just like in the case of magnetism and electricity, "waves" usually end up being differential equations for particles interacting in complex ways we can't make sense of until some genius comes along and sees through it.
[21:14:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stormwyrm [717] 02Glueballs - 06 Glueballs are the Missing Frontier of the Standard Model - 1628 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:42] <exec> 08└─Chances are CERN or Fermilab has already seen at least one somewhere, the only problem is that they couldn't be absolutely sure that they were actually seeing was a glueball. It should be possible in principle to calculate their properties solely from the equations of quantum chromodynamics that exp...
[21:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:Bullshit - 06BroScience: Evidence for Hypothesis that Hands and Heads were Evolutionarily Shaped by Fist Fighting - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:58] <exec> 08└─Christopher McDougall's Born to Run [wikipedia.org] contains some evidence that barefoot running is the natural way to run. Minimal, light, sandal-type foot wear is the way to go. In fact, McDougall puts forward the hypothesis that running shoes are the cause of running-related injuries even though...
[21:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bullshit - 06BroScience: Evidence for Hypothesis that Hands and Heads were Evolutionarily Shaped by Fist Fighting - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:59] <exec> 08└─Breaking hand bones and spraining your wrist are rather different things.
[21:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score:2) 02Re:I still hold true to the thesis of Dr. Flintsto - 06BroScience: Evidence for Hypothesis that Hands and Heads were Evolutionarily Shaped by Fist Fighting - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:15:10] <exec> 08└─Well, of course. These skills are very important for Clubbing, Mate Toss, and Dino Race events. How else does a caveman get a rock medal? https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[21:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:Interesting, but obvious? - 06BroScience: Evidence for Hypothesis that Hands and Heads were Evolutionarily Shaped by Fist Fighting - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:15:14] <exec> 08└─And that's just the theatrical release. The original director's cut was a 5 paragraphs extravaganza with a 2 parts thesis statement, citations, counter points and an extended bibliography. Overall, I say you should consider yourself lucky.
[21:16:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02That's not what a NeoCon is - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:16:08] <exec> 08└─You have described a Authoritarian Reactionary. A Neoconservative is an interventionist who really really likes The Military-Industrial Complex and wants all that stuff that has been purchased to be constantly used in Imperialist (mis)adventures. Very often, they are Chickenhawks who never served in...
[21:16:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:16:09] <exec> 08└─I thought the libertarians were the ones that wanted to scrap welfare, abolish taxes, and remove all forms of "meddling" with the "free market" (ie get rid of things like environmental regulations, health & safety, minimum wage, monopoly controls etc) -
[21:16:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03deimtee [3272] 02Re:Another inane "science" story - 06Could Deep-sea Bacteria Be the Latest Weapon Against Climate Change? - 420 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:16:39] <exec> 08└─bicarbonate is a negative ion. You need to balance it with a cation - typically sodium or calcium. (baking soda and chalk respectively) These are not found uncombined in nature, and the most likely source is from the sea. Sequestering calcium or sodium bicarbonate is going to leave behind chloride i...
[21:16:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] 02More waste - 06Could Deep-sea Bacteria Be the Latest Weapon Against Climate Change? - 2256 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:42] <exec> 08└─For better or ill, society is going to need hydrocarbons for a loooooooong time -- essentially, as long as we have civilization. Plastics, lubricants, fertilizers, pesticides...and even liquid fuels. Using significant amounts of energy input, you can turn atmospheric CO2 back into hydrocarbons. Ther...
[21:16:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:2) 02Re:More waste - 06Could Deep-sea Bacteria Be the Latest Weapon Against Climate Change? - 1219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:16:44] <exec> 08└─Nuclear energy uses as fuel the most hazardous materials known to humanity, and its wastes are equally hazardous. Getting energy from those fuels requires some extremely sophisticated engineering with all sorts of redundant fail-safes that still aren't guaranteed to work. You will never, ever have a...
[21:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03unzombied [4572] (Score:2) 02Re:Greed. - 06Drug Firm Offers $1 Version of $750 Turing Pharmaceuticals Pill - 721 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:17:13] <exec> 08└─This doesn't add up. Using your rough estimates: "$0.02 a pop when you're making them by the billions." RelativelyReasonableCompany makes a profit of 5X (say cost is $0.20/pill) selling them for $0.99 by "the thousands" in OnceRichCountry. That's a single order of manitude in cost difference, a sing...
[21:17:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Jiro [3176] 02Re: "how in hell does anyone justify" - 06Drug Firm Offers $1 Version of $750 Turing Pharmaceuticals Pill - 723 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:17:15] <exec> 08└─Sort of. The problem is that the FDA is restricting the free market by requiring that generics are shown to be as effective as the non-generic version, but the company that makes the non-generic version won't let you buy any for tests (and the tests are expensive anyway). The loophole used here is t...
[21:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03gman003 [4155] (Score:2) 02Re:Am I the only one - 06Drug Firm Offers $1 Version of $750 Turing Pharmaceuticals Pill - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:17:22] <exec> 08└─It would also have been nice to say what this pill is actually for.
[21:17:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheRaven [270] 02Re:To late, we aren't going back - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 1327 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:17:48] <exec> 08└─I don't quite agree. Advertising can serve a valuable purpose. There are basically there kinds of advert: You have a problem. A product exists that can solve (or, at least, help address) this problem. The advert makes you aware of the product and how to find out more about it. You have an idea of th...
[21:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fuck comcast and xfinity... - 06Comcast May Soon Offer Wireless (as in Phone) Services in Tandem With Verizon's Wireless - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:19:19] <exec> 08└─Why are you giving control of your internal Business network to a company like that? Use your own hardware!
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