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[02:41:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Who pays? - 06Uber Partners With NJ Town to Provide Free Rides to Cut Drunk Driving - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:19] <exec> 08└─Its not clear if the establishment pays, or the city pays, or if UBER is picking up the tab. All it says is funded from private donations. I'm hoping those aren't from the UBER driver's pockets. Its a good idea, but if I was an UBER driver the first time I had to clean someone else tossed cookies ou...
[02:41:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Who pays? - 06Uber Partners With NJ Town to Provide Free Rides to Cut Drunk Driving - 882 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:41:20] <exec> 08└─Well it says right in TFS that it's funded by private donations. I would think that "private donations" explicitly excludes the city (governments are not "private"), and implicitly excludes Uber and their drivers (at least officially). So it might be from the establishments, from donations from conc...
[02:41:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Who pays? - 06Uber Partners With NJ Town to Provide Free Rides to Cut Drunk Driving - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:41:23] <exec> 08└─How about a pickup with a camper shell. Just hose it out Sunday morning.
[02:41:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Who pays? - 06Uber Partners With NJ Town to Provide Free Rides to Cut Drunk Driving - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:41:24] <exec> 08└─San Diego does this on New Years eve, free towing for drunks. They'll tow your car home along with you. If I act drunk can I get a free ride?
[02:41:31] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02Distinctive? - 06Pinterest Loses Pin Trademark Battles in US and UK - 457 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:31] <exec> 08└─“If you’re creating an . . . give it a distinctive name,” Maybe Pinterest should have taken their own advice. "Pin" is far to generic a word to copyright. Some other major trademarks and copyrights need to be re-examined. Apple? Come on - those clowns have attempted to shut down businesses in...
[02:41:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Distinctive? - 06Pinterest Loses Pin Trademark Battles in US and UK - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:41:33] <exec> 08└─I agree, and its nice to see some sense finally coming from the courts on this subject. You know this kind of vague name similarity can also work to BOTH companies advantage. When Google wanted to name an Android release after a sweet treat that began with K, they called up the KitKat candy bar comp...
[02:41:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Distinctive? - 06Pinterest Loses Pin Trademark Battles in US and UK - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:41:35] <exec> 08└─This works well in cases where the two names are not competing for market share. If both companies (or at least the "infringing" one) use some tie ins to the other than it would also be positive exposure.
[02:41:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Distinctive? - 06Pinterest Loses Pin Trademark Battles in US and UK - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:41:37] <exec> 08└─Maybe Pinterest should have taken their own advice. "Pin" is far to generic a word to copyright.
[02:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02let's never use Pinterest anymore - 06Pinterest Loses Pin Trademark Battles in US and UK - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:39] <exec> 08└─I don't want to have anything to do with a company that tries to get monopoly on the word "pin" would it be best to block "pinterest.com" in the router?
[02:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:let's never use Pinterest anymore - 06Pinterest Loses Pin Trademark Battles in US and UK - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:41:40] <exec> 08└─Just install Ublock Origin, and in settings check Fanboy’s Annoyance List‎ OR Fanboy's Social Blocking List‎
[02:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score:2) 02Re:so, PR bullshit still? - 06TechRadar Asks: "Has Microsoft Admitted Defeat in the Console Sales War?" - 754 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:41:49] <exec> 08└─It may also be that their real profit source is XBL. Obviously you need an XBone to subscribe to XBL, so it's not like it's completely distinct, but... Is MS better off spending $100m on marketing and discounts to sell hardware at razor-thin margins to people who will probably buy one game (Halo 5?)...
[02:41:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 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
[02:41:51] <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.
[02:41:52] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02Re:Oh man, I'm so glad I grew out of this - 06TechRadar Asks: "Has Microsoft Admitted Defeat in the Console Sales War?" - 177 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:41:53] <exec> 08└─No, I mean, I can care about things like having a discussion with a stranger. I do all the time. But I'm so glad I'm not 14 anymore and don't have identity invested in products.
[02:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03hash14 [1102] (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?" - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:41:54] <exec> 08└─Now if only most adults ever reached this fabled age 14....
[02:41:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (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?" - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:41:56] <exec> 08└─and the success of the system has no bearing on me.
[02:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Oh man, I'm so glad I grew out of this - 06TechRadar Asks: "Has Microsoft Admitted Defeat in the Console Sales War?" - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:41:58] <exec> 08└─If I want to play console games I play on Nintendo. If I want to play consolised PC games then I plug a controller into my PC. :-)
[02:41:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (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?" - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:41:59] <exec> 08└─PC Master Race reporting in. I can confirm that some console ports are so terrible that you need to buy a controller to play them (looking at you, Rocket League). Off-topic: Warhammer: EndTimes - Vermintide just released and it is a lot of fun : )
[02:42:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:Oh man, I'm so glad I grew out of this - 06TechRadar Asks: "Has Microsoft Admitted Defeat in the Console Sales War?" - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:42:01] <exec> 08└─I own a WiiU [...] I'm an adult
[02:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Oh man, I'm so glad I grew out of this - 06TechRadar Asks: "Has Microsoft Admitted Defeat in the Console Sales War?" - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:42:03] <exec> 08└─You'll say that right up until the Zelda doesn't drop for the system...
[02:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (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?" - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:42:05] <exec> 08└─I agree--I think the Sega Dreamcast deserves more credit than it gets. That was one of my more favored consoles out there. MS had a hand in its demise as part of the xbox strategy, or so the popular wisdom goes. (How many windows ce games do you think came out for it...? and did the xbox ever have a...
[02:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (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?" - 800 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:42:06] <exec> 08└─>the success of the system has no bearing on me. Wrong. If the system is not successful, then developers are more likely to release their games on other systems. Thus, if you play games in general (sometimes known as "real" games), you have a pretty large stake in whether your system is successful e...
[02:42:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03hash14 [1102] (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?" - 758 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:42:08] <exec> 08└─Doesn't matter for people who don't really need access to all the games. Take Nintendo for example - lots of exclusive titles, and excluded from many other titles. But lots of people who have Wiis are perfectly content to play the ones that they like and simply forego the ones that aren't available...
[02:42:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (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?" - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:42:10] <exec> 08└─The only game i play on the Wii is Star Trek something or other (haven't actually played it in a long time). (Bought it 'cause we thought out son (autistic with cp) could control it with hand waves, but not so much). PC games are usually my thing (Total Annihilation and M$inecraft, usually, although...
[02:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Makes sense - 06TechRadar Asks: "Has Microsoft Admitted Defeat in the Console Sales War?" - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:42:11] <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.
[02:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Makes sense - 06TechRadar Asks: "Has Microsoft Admitted Defeat in the Console Sales War?" - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:42:13] <exec> 08└─At some point we must accept that Steve Jobs was a magician Two of largest sellers Apple had were the iPhone and iPod. Both were moved into well after others had trod into that water. Jobs did one thing very well. Cut the crap focus on exactly what the high end people want. There is nothing special...
[02:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Redundant) 02''Steve Jobs was a magician'' - 06TechRadar Asks: "Has Microsoft Admitted Defeat in the Console Sales War?" - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:42:15] <exec> 08└─Would that be Steve "You're holding it wrong" Jobs? [google.com] ...or perhaps Steve "Pick it up and drop it" Jobs? [google.com] -- gewg_
[02:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:''Steve Jobs was a magician'' - 06TechRadar Asks: "Has Microsoft Admitted Defeat in the Console Sales War?" - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:42:16] <exec> 08└─Psst, Steve didn't say "you're holding it wrong".
[02:42:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:''Steve Jobs was a magician'' - 06TechRadar Asks: "Has Microsoft Admitted Defeat in the Console Sales War?" - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:42:18] <exec> 08└─Are you using technology which doesn't allow you to hover over the link and see what that is? -- gewg_
[02:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:''Steve Jobs was a magician'' - 06TechRadar Asks: "Has Microsoft Admitted Defeat in the Console Sales War?" - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:42:20] <exec> 08└─No, I stopped holding my mouse that way. ;) (point taken.)
[02:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Makes sense - 06TechRadar Asks: "Has Microsoft Admitted Defeat in the Console Sales War?" - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:42:22] <exec> 08└─At some point we must accept that Steve Jobs was a magician, he could pull a rabbit out of the hat seemingly on command.
[02:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Makes sense - 06TechRadar Asks: "Has Microsoft Admitted Defeat in the Console Sales War?" - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:42:23] <exec> 08└─At some point we must accept that Steve Jobs was a magician
[02:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Makes sense - 06TechRadar Asks: "Has Microsoft Admitted Defeat in the Console Sales War?" - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:42:25] <exec> 08└─Considering that all consoles are underpowered junk compared to even average PCs I'm not so sure jaw-dropping experiences is the right phrase.
[02:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0, Offtopic) 02Consoles are out of control - 06TechRadar Asks: "Has Microsoft Admitted Defeat in the Console Sales War?" - 749 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:27] <exec> 08└─I wanted to upgrade my Xbox 360 to the One but decided not to because of all the anti-privacy bullshit surrounding it. Microsoft walked back some of the more nasty requirements before launch but the capabilities and potential for abuse still remain and I no longer trust them to honor my rights. I bo...
[02:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Consoles are out of control - 06TechRadar Asks: "Has Microsoft Admitted Defeat in the Console Sales War?" - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:42:29] <exec> 08└─What did Nintendo do?
[02:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Consoles are out of control - 06TechRadar Asks: "Has Microsoft Admitted Defeat in the Console Sales War?" - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:42:30] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I should not have included Nintendo. The point that I was trying to make (poorly) is that Microsoft's disregard for privacy may have contributed to lackluster sales. I'm sure there are other factors but perhaps sales would have been better if they hadn't made the platform so creepy. I didn't...
[02:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aichon [5059] (Score:3, Informative) 02"Console Wars" is a bit of a misnomer - 06TechRadar Asks: "Has Microsoft Admitted Defeat in the Console Sales War?" - 3206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:32] <exec> 08└─The goal of the Xbox was always to act as Microsoft's Trojan Horse into the living room. It was never about having the best console; it was about having control over the living room experience. Back when the first Xbox launched, they even stated as much openly, with it being one of their key goals f...
[02:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Console Wars" is a bit of a misnomer - 06TechRadar Asks: "Has Microsoft Admitted Defeat in the Console Sales War?" - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:42:34] <exec> 08└─Blah blah... yeah war for the living room and all that, whatever you said. But what it boils down to is that it takes 5 minutes to turn the TV on nowadays.
[02:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03machineghost [5926] (Score:1) 02Re:"Console Wars" is a bit of a misnomer - 06TechRadar Asks: "Has Microsoft Admitted Defeat in the Console Sales War?" - 1037 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:42:36] <exec> 08└─To be fair, the Tivo people did see the writing on the wall years ago, and added support for Hulu, Netflix, etc. to their boxes. This would have, if they had been smarter, positioned them *perfectly* to appeal to cord cutters: "use our awesome UI to manage your antenna channels, then use our also-aw...
[02:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:"Console Wars" is a bit of a misnomer - 06TechRadar Asks: "Has Microsoft Admitted Defeat in the Console Sales War?" - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:42:37] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile, companies like ... Nintendo don't even seem to be aware that there's a bigger war going on around them
[02:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Car Analogy - 06TechRadar Asks: "Has Microsoft Admitted Defeat in the Console Sales War?" - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:39] <exec> 08└─It's like asking if Honda has admitted defeat because it sold half of what Volkswagen did.
[02:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Car Analogy - 06TechRadar Asks: "Has Microsoft Admitted Defeat in the Console Sales War?" - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:42:41] <exec> 08└─Honda makes much higher quality products than anything VW has ever made.
[02:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02figures - 06TechRadar Asks: "Has Microsoft Admitted Defeat in the Console Sales War?" - 1559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:43] <exec> 08└─Fable is about the only series I would need an Xbone to play, and that series is pretty meh. My PS3 does everything I want it to, and I suppose when I have to go to PS4 for Gran Turismo 7, it probably will as well. There's Netflix (not booting to Windows for this), remastered Silent Hill 2/3, Gran T...
[02:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03timbim [907] (Score:2) 02Re:figures - 06TechRadar Asks: "Has Microsoft Admitted Defeat in the Console Sales War?" - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:42:45] <exec> 08└─You don't play Street Fighter?
[02:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:figures - 06TechRadar Asks: "Has Microsoft Admitted Defeat in the Console Sales War?" - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:42:47] <exec> 08└─but there are rumors at least of PS1 (and PS2) emulation in the works.
[02:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Wii - 06TechRadar Asks: "Has Microsoft Admitted Defeat in the Console Sales War?" - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:49] <exec> 08└─Why would I buy an overpriced POS from the same company that I hate for their shitty OS? I have a Wii, if that doesn't bet my nut then I fire up PSX or PCSX2 or PPSSPP to play my old Playstation games.
[02:42:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:Wii - 06TechRadar Asks: "Has Microsoft Admitted Defeat in the Console Sales War?" - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:42:50] <exec> 08└─its worth the investment to get a ps3 and psp and slap custom firmware on them. ps3 cfw is pretty much flawless for playing ps1-3 games, and you can use the psp to play not just psp games but also ps1 games and emulators for all the older systems (everything up to fourth generation). just make sure...
[02:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score:2) 02Re:Look at that title - 06Lobster-Inspired 3.8m Super Lightweight Mirror Chosen for Chinese-French Space Mission - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:42:52] <exec> 08└─This is probably the rocket they're sending it up with: https://rocketry.files.wordpress.com [wordpress.com]
[02:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Look at that title - 06Lobster-Inspired 3.8m Super Lightweight Mirror Chosen for Chinese-French Space Mission - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:42:54] <exec> 08└─It says in TFA - the Lobster Newburg Academy.
[02:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02Re:Look at that title - 06Lobster-Inspired 3.8m Super Lightweight Mirror Chosen for Chinese-French Space Mission - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:42:56] <exec> 08└─and it never will in one of the parallel universe where lobster have been eaten to extinction... we can benefit so much from the diversity around us.
[02:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Gaaa! Useless link - 06Lobster-Inspired 3.8m Super Lightweight Mirror Chosen for Chinese-French Space Mission - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:42:58] <exec> 08└─Traditional X-ray mirrors for space telescopes are made of solid glass or metal and weigh tens of kilograms or more. The new 'Lobster' X-ray mirror for SVOM weighs just one kilo
[02:43:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Meanwhile in reality - 06Paul Vixie: New TLDs a Money Grab, and a Mistake - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:43:02] <exec> 08└─Feasible for a company, not for an individual.
[02:43:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Meanwhile in reality - 06Paul Vixie: New TLDs a Money Grab, and a Mistake - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:43:04] <exec> 08└─Work for a private mailbox provider do we? Why should I pay for an external subscription service when my domain registrar will offer it for a once-off nominal fee?
[02:43:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:Meanwhile in reality - 06Paul Vixie: New TLDs a Money Grab, and a Mistake - 2429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:43:05] <exec> 08└─I have one domain with private registration and several others without. There are two other domains, registered by a friend and a friend of a friend, my server in the clouds hosts, and I suppose it wouldn't be difficult to eventually determine that I'm hosting them (along with the private registrati...
[02:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Slightly more complicated than that... - 06Paul Vixie: New TLDs a Money Grab, and a Mistake - 1240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:43:14] <exec> 08└─I understand that. What are there 24 trade classes in US? So a trademark can exist in more than class. And yes there are regional companies. KRI for instance in your example. Which one is truly international. That one would win in my view. If none are the no problem. In each country, the largest wou...
[02:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02A little late? - 06Paul Vixie: New TLDs a Money Grab, and a Mistake - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:16] <exec> 08└─I agree with Vixie about TLDs and I think it's a travesty, but isn't he just calling for closing the barn door after the horse has gotten away? WHOIS privacy is a bit of a double-edged sword. It protects from all of those things he mentioned (and advertising), but it does give corporations and other...
[02:43:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Glueballs or hairballs? - 06 Glueballs are the Missing Frontier of the Standard Model - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:43:25] <exec> 08└─Are glueballs another name for what came out of the Great Green Arkleseizure?
[02:43:31] <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 - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:43:32] <exec> 08└─That second paper I quoted does not treat it as a joke.
[02:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02Re:is "particle" a misleading term? - 06 Glueballs are the Missing Frontier of the Standard Model - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:43:42] <exec> 08└─As a layman I found this (long) explanation very helpful: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Particles, Fields and The Future of Physics - A Lecture by Sean Carroll.
[02:43:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score:1) 02Re:Glueballs - 06 Glueballs are the Missing Frontier of the Standard Model - 883 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:43:45] <exec> 08└─This review paper looks at possible glueball candidates in existing particle accelerator data: Wolfgang Ochs (2013). "The status of glueballs". Journal of Physics G 40 (4): 043001. arXiv:1301.5183. doi:10.1088/0954-3899/40/4/043001. http://arxiv.org [arxiv.org] It's not that there are...
[02:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03number6x [903] (Score:2, Interesting) 02That sounds like a call for whackos to reply! - 06 Glueballs are the Missing Frontier of the Standard Model - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:47] <exec> 08└─do any of you have any crazy alternative non-particle-centric physical theories
[02:43:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That sounds like a call for whackos to reply! - 06 Glueballs are the Missing Frontier of the Standard Model - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:43:49] <exec> 08└─Don't be so sure about antimatter and gravity. Although there are many persuasive theoretical arguments that antimatter will gravitationally attract both ordinary matter and antimatter at the same rate that ordinary matter attracts other ordinary matter, it's quite another thing to actually conduct...
[02:44:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:pissing contests - 06BroScience: Evidence for Hypothesis that Hands and Heads were Evolutionarily Shaped by Fist Fighting - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:44:12] <exec> 08└─I remember reading "science" that said that women evolved breasts because when we started to walk upright it was harder to notice their asses.
[02:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:44:48] <exec> 08└─Are capgains an income?
[02:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03J053 [3532] (Score:1) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:44:52] <exec> 08└─How about this - Eliminate all corporate taxes. Businesses and individuals pay the same rate. Exempt $X (as you said - maximum SS benefit, poverty level, whatever - but once it's set, no changes except as in COLA). No other deductions, period. And, this is key, all taxation, for individuals and busi...
[02:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03boxfetish [4831] (Score:1) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:44:55] <exec> 08└─http://www.amazon.com/The-Fair-Tax-Book-Goodbye/dp/0060875496 [amazon.com] More info for those who are interested in reformed taxes.
[02:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03boxfetish [4831] (Score:1) 02Re:Flat tax? - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:44:58] <exec> 08└─Agreed. Can we admit then, though, that we shouldn't really even be taxing income at all, but only consumption. This "flat" tax should be a sales tax, not an income tax.
[02:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:45:00] <exec> 08└─My "favorite" scheme of the bazzilion possibilities merges a flat tax with basic income.
[02:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:45:06] <exec> 08└─Your point would be?
[02:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 1016 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:45:07] <exec> 08└─You'll have to do better than that. Other people who seem to share your opinion that poor people are entitled to food have at least suggested that the first $x,xxx dollars are exempt from tax. You're simply stating that a flat tax is unfair. Well, I insist that a flat tax is far more fair than what...
[02:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:45:09] <exec> 08└─They'll spread The Gay, and then the human race will become extinct.
[02:45:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score:2) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:45:14] <exec> 08└─While there is plenty to dislike about Carson, it seems like there is less than most other candidates. As proof, the washington post went batshit insane about his comment about how the 2nd amendment might have changed the holocaust. While it is a debatable issue, it is hardly batshit insane. There i...
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[02:45:16] <exec> 08└─Regardless of how much 'better' he supposedly is than the other clowns, he is still a bad candidate. He wants to forbid abortion except if the woman's life is in danger. He wants to forbid abortion even if the woman was raped. He supports the drug war, has said many things that indicate he's opposed...
[02:45:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:45:26] <exec> 08└─remove all forms of "meddling"
[02:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:45:28] <exec> 08└─but surely by now there ought to be some third-choice "Sane Conservative Party" or something
[02:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:45:30] <exec> 08└─Hijacked? They've been pandering to the crazies for more than a decade now.
[02:45:46] <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? - 792 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:45:46] <exec> 08└─Hey now, Phoenix is the number one story contributor to this site. It was just a little while back when the entire submission queue was nothing but Phoenix. I've done a few submissions where I hope I dug into the details, but that is a lot of work, even to determine if you've got something worth sub...
[02:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Another inane "science" story - 06Could Deep-sea Bacteria Be the Latest Weapon Against Climate Change? - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:45:47] <exec> 08└─Credit is due to phoenix, yet the criticism remains on his submission on science. He seemed to do better on social stuff.
[02:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02the answer... - 06Could Deep-sea Bacteria Be the Latest Weapon Against Climate Change? - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:45:53] <exec> 08└─...thorium
[02:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:2) 02Re:the answer... - 06Could Deep-sea Bacteria Be the Latest Weapon Against Climate Change? - 844 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:45:54] <exec> 08└─You will never have a thorium reactor in your garage next to your water heater. No commercially viable thorium reactor has ever been put into production, and I am unaware of any plans to sell thorium-generated power on any grid anywhere. In stark contrast, I'm right now sitting in a very unremarkabl...
[02:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:More waste - 06Could Deep-sea Bacteria Be the Latest Weapon Against Climate Change? - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:45:56] <exec> 08└─Original AC here: I was thinking what the other AC was: thorium. If your nuclear reactor design is producing waste that is dangerous to handle for hundreds or thousands of years; obviously you are leaving a lot of residual energy on the table. As far as I can tell, the main problem with breeder reac...
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[02:45:58] <exec> 08└─You're still missing all the big points. Nobody's actually built the reactor you're proposing. Even if the wastes are edible, the fuel is some seriously nasty shit. You'll never have one in your home, and no industrial-scale nuclear plant is going to be able to get by without all sorts of insane amo...
[02:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:More waste - 06Could Deep-sea Bacteria Be the Latest Weapon Against Climate Change? - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:45:59] <exec> 08└─One of the thorium videos I saw claimed that new coal-fired plants being built in china are designed to allow an easy thorium retrofit. Was not able to find a direct quote to that effect in a quick search. I doubt molten-salt reactors will need any more security than existing coal-fired power-plants...
[02:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:2) 02Re:More waste - 06Could Deep-sea Bacteria Be the Latest Weapon Against Climate Change? - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:46:01] <exec> 08└─Erm...you still don't get it. Thorium is crazy vaporware. Solar is in widespread production. How 'bout a software analogy? Thorium is GNU HURD. Solar is Linux. Or, I know -- everybody loves car analogies. Thorium is a mythological hydrogen fool cell car that gets you 150 MPG and you fill up from you...
[02:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02captures CO<sub>2</sub>, doesn't neutralise it - 06Could Deep-sea Bacteria Be the Latest Weapon Against Climate Change? - 950 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:03] <exec> 08└─Carbonic anhydrases, present in "almost all organisms" [1] catalyses the reaction between carbon dioxide and water to form carbonic acid. Plants use such an enzyme to gather CO2 for photosynthesis, and we animals use it to rid ourselves of CO2. It could be useful for trapping carbon dioxide in a liq...
[02:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''Solenoids'' - 06Researchers Discover Graphene Spirals Could Challenge Macro Solenoids - 1151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:46:13] <exec> 08└─Everything that you said is accurate but I don't know how it answers the question that was asked. A traditional solenoid is a coil of wire with a ferric core THAT MOVES. You did mention motors, and a lot of folks (especially those who have torn one apart) will recognize that the moving slug in the c...
[02:46:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03gman003 [4155] 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)
[02:46:32] <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...
[02:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03pixeldyne [2637] (Score:2) 02Re: "how in hell does anyone justify" - 06Drug Firm Offers $1 Version of $750 Turing Pharmaceuticals Pill - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:46:33] <exec> 08└─In this case it seems the market was faster to react than government. Looks like the solution was to have competition and not regulation (that would help but patients would have to wait much longer).
[02:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score:1) 02Re:To late, we aren't going back - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:47:01] <exec> 08└─Ninja lawyers? Don't make me laugh. They don't stand a chance against a BOFH and his cattle-prod.* *Not forgetting the roll of carpet, bag of quicklime, and shovel.
[02:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:To late, we aren't going back - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:47:11] <exec> 08└─A dead-tree computer magazine I like has both ads on the text pages, and a separate ads-only section. I've never bought anything from the ads on text pages. But I've explicitly gone to the ads-only pages to look for things.
[02:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:To late, we aren't going back - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:47:14] <exec> 08└─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 of the list.
[02:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:To late, we aren't going back - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:47:20] <exec> 08└─That's the thing, I generally ignore ads without needing a blocker. I use a blocker because they've become a security nightmare, intentionally slow the loading of pages and sometimes prevent the page from loading at all. The fact that I no longer see the ads is just gravy.
[02:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:To late, we aren't going back - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:47:22] <exec> 08└─Nobody, but I tend to not bother with adblockers for the first few days after a new install. Then I get so fed up with the bullshit that I install the best adblockers I can find. That being said, there's a ton of new computer users that wouldn't have blockers at all if their techie friend didn't ins...
[02:48:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03termigator [4271] (Score:1) 02Re:Don't understand the economics... - 06Google's Executive Suite Declared an Asshole-Free Zone - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:48:24] <exec> 08└─Advertising does work. Almost everyone will say they are not affected by ads, but they are. Yes, there are those that are very critical and not easily influenced by marketing and advertising, but for the vast majority, advertising does influence the products and services they choose. https://scholar...
[02:48:40] <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 - 1336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:48:40] <exec> 08└─Original AC responding... Ours has been bridged for about a year without any issue. Behind the modem I have two networks, each with a dedicated firewall (FreeBSD), and two access points (running TomatoUSB). There have been a few outages but the modem holds its' config. The problem is that Comcast re...
[02:48:42] <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 - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:48:42] <exec> 08└─Hey there, original AC responding... Your question incorrectly assumes that we had a choice. There weren't many retail spaces available in our budget and eliminating one based on ISP availability was not an option. We knew Comcast was a shitty company but it was either use them or shut down the busi...
[02:48:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:All most all the ingredients.... - 06In Unexpected Discovery, Comet Contains Alcohol, Sugar - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:49:00] <exec> 08└─just stop by earth to pick up some DMT [erowid.org]. Its in practically every living thing on the planet, and a good way to take trips into space without leaving the gravity well. ;)
[02:49:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:level of awareness - 06Up to 27 Seconds of Inattention After Talking to Your Car Or Smartphone - 1064 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:49:26] <exec> 08└─This! I'm a former motorcyclist who survived being hit by a woman who ran a stop sign while distracted. My situational awareness was outstanding compared to most drivers. It was literally a skill that I worked on constantly. But it didn't matter because I didn't see it coming until it was too late t...
[02:49:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score:2) 02Re:level of awareness - 06Up to 27 Seconds of Inattention After Talking to Your Car Or Smartphone - 1609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:49:28] <exec> 08└─I learned to "drive" on a motorcycle. As a result, I automatically assumed every drive was out to kill me. Even in NM where the drivers are pretty good and polite. Now that I live in DC where every driver is actually batshit insane, that assumption has saved my life. Back in my motorcyling days, I w...
[02:49:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:level of awareness - 06Up to 27 Seconds of Inattention After Talking to Your Car Or Smartphone - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:49:29] <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.
[02:49:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Cognitive Load - 06Up to 27 Seconds of Inattention After Talking to Your Car Or Smartphone - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:49:44] <exec> 08└─Take an introspective person, who has experienced that 100% focus, and put him in thousands of other situations, and he can tell you how much attention he is devoting to those situations.
[02:49:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Cognitive Load - 06Up to 27 Seconds of Inattention After Talking to Your Car Or Smartphone - 745 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:49:45] <exec> 08└─Whatever - you're certainly entitled to your opinions. I'll remind you of the studies demonstrating that people who know they are good multi-taskers usually suck at multitasking - and those who don't rate their multitasking abilities very highly tend to be better than they think. That, plus, women a...
[02:49:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Cognitive Load - 06Up to 27 Seconds of Inattention After Talking to Your Car Or Smartphone - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:49:47] <exec> 08└─I'm not claiming messing with toys isn't a distraction. And far too many people do it when they shouldn't. But talking to car is better than fiddling with the car for those things that everybody is going to do anyway. HVAC, Radio, Navigation, aren't going away any time soon.
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[03:41:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:2) 02To do it right... - 06Uber Partners With NJ Town to Provide Free Rides to Cut Drunk Driving - 735 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:31] <exec> 08└─...they should be offering free rides to the bars, not just from them. There'll be drunks who don't want to deal with the hassle of getting back to the bar in the morning to pick up the cars left behind. But if you can get a free ride to the bar in the first place, and perhaps even a shuttle for bar...
[03:41:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:To do it right... - 06Uber Partners With NJ Town to Provide Free Rides to Cut Drunk Driving - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:41:32] <exec> 08└─I think that WAS a topic for a PREVIOUS day, then public transit got *ahem* railroaded out of town. We now have roads covering everything.
[03:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:More waste - 06Could Deep-sea Bacteria Be the Latest Weapon Against Climate Change? - 1435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:46:03] <exec> 08└─Without molten salt reactors, hydrogen will probably be generated from fossil fuels for a very long time. The main problem with electric vehicles is that you have to store the reaction products: which adds weight. While electric vehicles are now good enough for typical commutes, they will likely alw...
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[03:46:04] <exec> 08└─Teslas are already perfectly suited to long cross-country road trips, and would make awesome taxis. Today. Not some vague distant future, but today. And the rest of your post...is vaporware that nobody is actually doing. In stark contrast to the solar panels I myself have on my very own rooftop. Aga...
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[04:41:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Some math - 06US Regulators Issue First Nuclear Plant Operating License Since 1996 - 913 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:22] <exec> 08└─The plant cost $6 billion, and "[e]ach of the Watts Bar units produce 1,150 megawatts, or enough power for about 650,000 homes [timesfreepress.com]." So, that's about $10,000 / home...which is about how much it would have cost to put solar panels on all those homes. Especially if part of a bulk buy...
[04:41:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Some math - 06US Regulators Issue First Nuclear Plant Operating License Since 1996 - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:41:23] <exec> 08└─Only pinko commie welfare queens benefit from nuclear.
[04:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:so, PR bullshit still? - 06TechRadar Asks: "Has Microsoft Admitted Defeat in the Console Sales War?" - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:42:02] <exec> 08└─Is MS better off spending $100m on marketing and discounts to sell hardware at razor-thin margins to people who will probably buy one game (Halo 5?) and then never again send a dime to MS? Or is that money better spent getting the people who already have XBones to re-up with XBL?
[04:42:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Aichon [5059] 02"Console Wars" is a bit of a misnomer - 06TechRadar Asks: "Has Microsoft Admitted Defeat in the Console Sales War?" - 3206 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:29] <exec> 08└─The goal of the Xbox was always to act as Microsoft's Trojan Horse into the living room. It was never about having the best console; it was about having control over the living room experience. Back when the first Xbox launched, they even stated as much openly, with it being one of their key goals f...
[04:47:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Make 'em squirm - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:47:12] <exec> 08└─the industry is considered by some (themselves) to be 'too big to fail'
[04:47:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Take action - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:47:51] <exec> 08└─uMatrix is WAY better than RequestPolicy, and it was written by gorhill too! Also, you don't even need ReqiestPolicy with uBO: check "I am an advanced user" in uBO options, and you will be able to block 3rd-party thingies from uBO popup.
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[07:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Translation - 06Three Ways Big Companies are Connecting with Millennials - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:17] <exec> 08└─Translation: The usual marketing strategies have failed because the targets have developed psychological immunity. The new strategy (for big players who can afford it) is to pretend being a "good friend" and from that position try to give "advice". Words are not sufficient to tell how sick I am gett...
[07:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02learned what i needed to in 2008 - 06Three Ways Big Companies are Connecting with Millennials - 740 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:18] <exec> 08└─in 2008, i learned that banks cannot be trusted. all the nice deregulation that ended in a global shitstorm was a huge mistake and from what i've heard, another shitstorm is brewing. i've also learned from the numerous breaches that companies don't care about security because good security costs mon...
[07:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Some math - 06US Regulators Issue First Nuclear Plant Operating License Since 1996 - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:34:28] <exec> 08└─If anything, nuclear is pure capitalist -- soliciting vast amounts of government funding to build something purely for private profit. Solar would actually be more socialist as a distributed system that allows the individuals to contribute back to the grid ("From each according to his ability to eac...
[07:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Some math - 06US Regulators Issue First Nuclear Plant Operating License Since 1996 - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:34:29] <exec> 08└─Solar. Install once and never pay another dime. Except: -the solar panels that break -the various electronics that fail Then there are the completely trivial problems of managing the load when the sun is shining in the middle of the day, and when there is no sunlight at all. Because solar energy and...
[07:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Some math - 06US Regulators Issue First Nuclear Plant Operating License Since 1996 - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:34:31] <exec> 08└─Agreed on the nighttime and load balancing details. Of course the cult of musk is going to change all of that with battery packs, etc,etc. I may believe more once they are actually installed and running. Now solar panels themselves hardly ever break. 99% percent of the time the happily church out lo...
[07:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03iamjacksusername [1479] (Score:2) 02Practical answers for climate change - 06US Regulators Issue First Nuclear Plant Operating License Since 1996 - 2067 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:33] <exec> 08└─To be clear, the $6B total represents the construction as well as decommissioning cost of the plant in 40 years, including waste disposal. This is mandated by the NRC - TVA had to set aside the money for the decommissioning of the plant during construction. Every time something nuclear comes up, we...
[07:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03iamjacksusername [1479] (Score:2) 02Re:Practical answers for climate change - 06US Regulators Issue First Nuclear Plant Operating License Since 1996 - 3106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:34:34] <exec> 08└─Oops misplaced character caused half my comment to go missing... should have previewed more closely. To be clear, the $6B total represents the construction as well as time decommissioning cost of the plant, including waste disposal. This is mandated by the NRC - TVA had to set aside the money for th...
[07:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Distinctive? - 06Pinterest Loses Pin Trademark Battles in US and UK - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:34:58] <exec> 08└─If you think Apple is bad, try to register a company with either 'face' or 'book' now.
[07:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DonkeyChan [5551] (Score:1) 02Pattern of Suspicion - 06TechRadar Asks: "Has Microsoft Admitted Defeat in the Console Sales War?" - 2579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:51] <exec> 08└─When the xbone (feel the contempt) was first announced with their included kinect features and always on components I figured they'd have to back-peddle it. I try to think about all the weird conspiracy things that arise even if most don't pan if only for the academic practice of keeping my mind ope...
[07:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 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)
[07:38:20] <exec> 08└─"And, I am starting to think Runaway is gay."
[07:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:38:21] <exec> 08└─"Actually, I have no idea what the means." 'nuff said - run along.
[07:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:38:28] <exec> 08└─some are poor because of habitual bad decision making and wastefulness.
[07:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That's not what a NeoCon is - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:38:50] <exec> 08└─But all of this surveillance and anti-privacy nonsense is closely related to the Military-Industrial complex. Often it's in the name of defense.
[07:39:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] 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)
[07:39:08] <exec> 08└─Just asking...
[07:39:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] 02Re:Another inane "science" story - 06Could Deep-sea Bacteria Be the Latest Weapon Against Climate Change? - 792 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:39:13] <exec> 08└─Hey now, Phoenix is the number one story contributor to this site. It was just a little while back when the entire submission queue was nothing but Phoenix. I've done a few submissions where I hope I dug into the details, but that is a lot of work, even to determine if you've got something worth sub...
[07:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:More waste - 06Could Deep-sea Bacteria Be the Latest Weapon Against Climate Change? - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:39:27] <exec> 08└─Industry won't touch thorium because of all the regulations around it being a nuclear per-cursor material (and is regulated under the nuclear non-proliferation treaty). As for the Tesla, I think think that the 85kWh version may work as a taxi. Would require over-night charging (on a fast charger) (a...
[07:40:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 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)
[07:40:24] <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...
[07:40:49] <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 - 945 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:40:50] <exec> 08└─And as I told the Escapist (which got me banned BTW, but they ended up having to lock the thread as others took up the cause, which made me happy) if they simply followed the ABP "best practices" so they were put on the ABP whitelist? Then users wouldn't have to worry about infections from their sit...
[07:41:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Take action - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:41:05] <exec> 08└─uMatrix ftw! You can control cooke, image, css, iframe, plugin, script and XHR blocking separately, globally and per-site. It's UI may be somewhat confusing at first, but when you'll get used to it, you'll wonder how you managed to live without uMatrix before.
[07:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:level of awareness - 06Up to 27 Seconds of Inattention After Talking to Your Car Or Smartphone - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:43:02] <exec> 08└─Holy shit! People like you terrify me...
[07:43:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:level of awareness - 06Up to 27 Seconds of Inattention After Talking to Your Car Or Smartphone - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:43:03] <exec> 08└─Why? He gets a ticket in a decade, why should he be scary? Because he lives in a different world than you do? Because he is ALIEN?!?! Perhaps you are xenophobic.
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[08:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Translation - 06Three Ways Big Companies are Connecting with Millennials - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:34:15] <exec> 08└─The new strategy (for big players who can afford it) is to pretend being a "good friend" and from that position try to give "advice".
[08:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Some math - 06US Regulators Issue First Nuclear Plant Operating License Since 1996 - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:34:26] <exec> 08└─It requires massive infrastructure, owned by a very select few,
[08:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 994 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:38:25] <exec> 08└─The part of that comment you replied to was rather mundane, but that didn't stop you from concocting a giant fantasy wherein that person said tons of things they didn't actually say or imply in the comment. It is absolutely true that a lot of people (rich people and poor people alike) make terrible...
[08:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ben Carson: Empty head - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:38:36] <exec> 08└─ISTM, Runaway1956 would do well to look at the Libertarian slate or the Constitution Party. There just **has** to be some other Plantation Capitalist who is more qualified than the bunch in the GOP clown car.
[08:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:38:41] <exec> 08└─More than batshit insane! Seventh Day Adventist and John Birch and W. Cleon Skousen, the wacko-ist of the wacos! While it is a debatable issue, it is hardly batshit insane.
[08:39:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02justify - 06Drug Firm Offers $1 Version of $750 Turing Pharmaceuticals Pill - 123 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:39:53] <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?
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[10:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02nootropics - 06Cognitive Enhancement May Not be All It's Cracked Up To Be. - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:03] <exec> 08└─Mentioned in article: Adderall, Ritalin, modafinil, amphetamine, transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), alternating current stimulation (tACS), random noise stimulation (tRNS), pulsed stimulation (tPCS) Unmentioned: caffeine, theanine, piracetam, aniracetam, oxiracetam, methylphenidate, dih...
[10:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Translation - 06Three Ways Big Companies are Connecting with Millennials - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:35:21] <exec> 08└─Really, it's a testament to the capabilities of the brain that more of us DON'T have dangerous mental disorders from dealing with this shit day-in day-out.
[10:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Translation - 06Three Ways Big Companies are Connecting with Millennials - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:35:23] <exec> 08└─Really, it's a testament to the capabilities of the brain that more of us DON'T have dangerous mental disorders from dealing with this shit day-in day-out.
[10:35:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] 02Some math - 06US Regulators Issue First Nuclear Plant Operating License Since 1996 - 913 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:33] <exec> 08└─The plant cost $6 billion, and "[e]ach of the Watts Bar units produce 1,150 megawatts, or enough power for about 650,000 homes [timesfreepress.com]." So, that's about $10,000 / home...which is about how much it would have cost to put solar panels on all those homes. Especially if part of a bulk buy...
[10:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Some math - 06US Regulators Issue First Nuclear Plant Operating License Since 1996 - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:35:36] <exec> 08└─"We" own it. Yeah, right. As if it makes any difference. Like "we the people" have any say in how TVA contracts out over-priced work to Bechtel, Combustion Engineering, Westinghouse, GE, Siemens, ABB, and all the other nuclear profiteers. Like "we the people" have any real say in government Big or S...
[10:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02Re:Distinctive? - 06Pinterest Loses Pin Trademark Battles in US and UK - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:36:09] <exec> 08└─one thing about trademarks is that they can not actually describe the product
[10:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:so, PR bullshit still? - 06TechRadar Asks: "Has Microsoft Admitted Defeat in the Console Sales War?" - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:36:28] <exec> 08└─> i have some ideas on what they could do but frankly, I too have a long list of ideas for things that Microsoft could do. Most of them involve the words "insert", "spiky", and "sideways".
[10:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Meanwhile in reality - 06Paul Vixie: New TLDs a Money Grab, and a Mistake - 742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:37:49] <exec> 08└─I use a whois@ address on the WHOIS records, because I was too cheap to pay for the privacy mode. I get a lot of spam (mostly from dating sites at the moment) going to that address. I can understand that there are good reasons not to make that information public and easy to access (though there does...
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[10:39:30] <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...
[10:39:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:39:58] <exec> 08└─Some do. Some just waste it.
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[11:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Humans Need Not Apply - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:16] <exec> 08└─Humans Need Not Apply [youtube.com] Published on Aug 13, 2014
[11:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Humans Need Not Apply - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:35:17] <exec> 08└─OK, now that I read TFA, it looks like the problem is that industry does not actually want to pay for skilled workers. They want high-schools to crank out young naive workers who will not demand much pay.
[11:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Efficiency - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 1616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:19] <exec> 08└─The Internet, globalization, and new technology made the economy more efficient. One can no longer invest in "sports cards" or "beanie babies" and sell them at a 10x markup, when anybody buyer can go on eBay and see what a trash deal that is. (I once knew a grandmother who should have been retired,...
[11:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Efficiency - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:35:21] <exec> 08└─These days, if you want a STEM economy, you have to be educated.
[11:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02the perfect storm - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 3314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:22] <exec> 08└─Beats me. As someone working in the field, I see it being hollowed out. Fewer workers are needed now than, say, a decade ago. There is a glut of workers driving pay down. I don't see a shortage at all. There's a shortage of people who have decades of experience who are willing to work for low pay in...
[11:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02guinea pigs - 06Cognitive Enhancement May Not be All It's Cracked Up To Be. - 905 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:32] <exec> 08└─"Enhancing" the brain sounds cool, but since when does anyone claim to understand the brain? Whatever you're doing to "enhance" any part of your brain is experimental. Hook up some electrical probes? Go for it. Knock yourself out. But, it is EXPERIMENTAL! I guess that's alright if you're a little me...
[11:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:guinea pigs - 06Cognitive Enhancement May Not be All It's Cracked Up To Be. - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:35:34] <exec> 08└─When do users stop being guinea pigs? Is caffeine, a drug used by a strong majority of the population, sufficiently understood?
[11:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:guinea pigs - 06Cognitive Enhancement May Not be All It's Cracked Up To Be. - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:35:35] <exec> 08└─Caffeine? No, it's not perfectly understood. But, it DOES have a lot of empirical data regarding it's use. Enough is known about caffeine that people can make intelligent, informed decisions about it's use. Both the upsides and the downsides are modestly well understood. That goes hand in hand with...
[11:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Oh Big Brother, what big ears you have! - 06US IRS Bought Stingray, Stingray II, and Hailstorm IMSI-Catchers - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:43] <exec> 08└─All the better to catch the tax-evading terrorists my dear.
[11:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:learned what i needed to in 2008 - 06Three Ways Big Companies are Connecting with Millennials - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:35:56] <exec> 08└─the takeaway from this should be that you cannot trust a corporation to do anything but the most sociopathic thing to get and keep money, regardless of the laws.
[11:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Rich kids not employed kids - 06Three Ways Big Companies are Connecting with Millennials - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:57] <exec> 08└─Two things to note: Its for rich kids. If you're a 1%er child and need financial counseling, they have classes on wine and travel for you. The rest of you can eat cake. The other thing to note is they avoid mentioning anything like hiring them. We have way too many people for way to few jobs and the...
[11:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03iamjacksusername [1479] (Score:2) 02Re:Some math - 06US Regulators Issue First Nuclear Plant Operating License Since 1996 - 2442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:36:11] <exec> 08└─" 40 years too late, billions over budget, and licensed by an agency that really couldn't say NO, was done by, wait for it..... Big Government" To be fair, once Three Mile Island happened, new nuclear construction was completely stopped. Environmental groups rode the wave of public outrage and the a...
[11:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Some math - 06US Regulators Issue First Nuclear Plant Operating License Since 1996 - 1089 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:36:15] <exec> 08└─Riiight, what a great idea, because the sun never sets so you get power 24/7, battery tech has gotten so powerful and cheap everybody can have enough batteries, and of course large enough homes to house all these batteries, that long periods without sun isn't an issue...BTW did you notice its TN? Ev...
[11:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Practical answers for climate change - 06US Regulators Issue First Nuclear Plant Operating License Since 1996 - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:36:18] <exec> 08└─Sure, coal is horrible. But nuclear is still pretty horrible too.
[11:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Just use your jewPhone - 06Uber Partners With NJ Town to Provide Free Rides to Cut Drunk Driving - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:33] <exec> 08└─Because of course every drunk has one.
[11:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03iamjacksusername [1479] (Score:2) 02MADD - 06Uber Partners With NJ Town to Provide Free Rides to Cut Drunk Driving - 849 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:34] <exec> 08└─While I am happy to see a program like this, I am really shocked to see MADD participating with this. I cannot find the link but I recall a story about MADD ending a free taxi program in a county in California (maybe?) because it "encouraged" drinking. It has become a no-prohibitionist organization...
[11:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:so, PR bullshit still? - 06TechRadar Asks: "Has Microsoft Admitted Defeat in the Console Sales War?" - 1924 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:37:08] <exec> 08└─How EXACTLY is it a false dichotomy? Its the same issue Sony found with their promoting of OtherOS with the PS3, you had a ton of users buying PS3 (which were sold for pretty damned big losses, nearly $300 at the time) that were only buying them to use OtherOS and never bothered to buy games for the...
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[12:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Efficiency - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 2403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:34:48] <exec> 08└─I should point out that the phenomenon you're describing wasn't in any way an accident. As in, I watched a speech by then-Treasury Secretary Larry Summers back in 2000 explaining that the plan was to ship the manufacturing jobs overseas and educate the US workforce, with the idea that the US would d...
[12:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:the perfect storm - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:34:50] <exec> 08└─ignoring how such expertise could be gained or maintained
[12:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03edinlinux [4637] (Score:1) 02So what do we do... - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 955 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:52] <exec> 08└─I don't think there is much doubt anymore that the STEM worker shortage is fake.. There is no point to really debate this anymore after years of evidence on this.. (if there really were a shortage, you would not have law firms running HR management conferences to teach how to avoid hiring American S...
[12:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02Re:So what do we do... - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:34:54] <exec> 08└─From what I remember, H1B's are subjective to a prevailing wage condition - i.e. you cannot pay them *less* than other workers. Does this not still hold?
[12:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03edinlinux [4637] (Score:1) 02Re:So what do we do... - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 1987 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:34:56] <exec> 08└─No, there is no enforcement provision in the law for this. (which is why when companies post those H1B notices in dark corners of corporate hallways, there is no federal # to call to report irregularities) As well, there are plenty of other tricks corporate HR depts do to scam this and skirt around...
[12:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:So what do we do... - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:34:57] <exec> 08└─Clearly the answer is for all of these STEM workers to concentrate on finding more efficiencies at the top, by rendering them redundant. We can invent robots that play golf, tell racy jokes, and repeat random sports scores and voila we will have replaced every CEO in America. Everything else is a ve...
[12:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score:2) 02Re:So what do we do... - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:34:59] <exec> 08└─An interesting article related to this discussion: The strongest weapon to shift geopolitical balances isn’t nukes or missiles, it’s technology [wadhwa.com]
[12:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Stingray? - 06US IRS Bought Stingray, Stingray II, and Hailstorm IMSI-Catchers - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:17] <exec> 08└─What does the IRS need Stingrays for?
[12:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:learned what i needed to in 2008 - 06Three Ways Big Companies are Connecting with Millennials - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:35:32] <exec> 08└─what i've heard, another shitstorm is brewing.
[12:35:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03iamjacksusername [1479] 02Practical answers for climate change - 06US Regulators Issue First Nuclear Plant Operating License Since 1996 - 2067 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:52] <exec> 08└─To be clear, the $6B total represents the construction as well as decommissioning cost of the plant in 40 years, including waste disposal. This is mandated by the NRC - TVA had to set aside the money for the decommissioning of the plant during construction. Every time something nuclear comes up, we...
[12:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03daaelar [5403] (Score:1) 02Re:To do it right... - 06Uber Partners With NJ Town to Provide Free Rides to Cut Drunk Driving - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:36:08] <exec> 08└─There is actually a solution listed for this in the article. I know, I know... nobody reads the fine article. BeMyDD was tapped to bring your car back from the bar, too. While I'm not necessarily a fan of MADD, Evesham is actually a part of South Jersey with tiny, overcrowded roads and has problems...
[12:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03iamjacksusername [1479] (Score:2) 02The console wars are over - 06TechRadar Asks: "Has Microsoft Admitted Defeat in the Console Sales War?" - 2239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:21] <exec> 08└─The console wars are over. Roku won. Netflix won. Amazon Prime may pull something out. HBO just jumped into the race but they have a good chance of pulling ahead. Nintendo could have pulled their head out of their ass 5 years ago and made a game boy phone and carved themselves a niche with Apple-siz...
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[13:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:3, Interesting) 02"psychic" - 06‘Psychic Robot’ Will Know What You Really Meant to Do - 837 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:05] <exec> 08└─If "predictive" and "psychic" are synonyms, then yeah, it's a "psychic" program. TFA example of a car skidding on ice isn't even very predictive. The example of a stroke victim having corrupted motor skills will require far more prediction than the car, but that isn't "psychic" either. The program w...
[13:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What you *really* meant to do? - 06‘Psychic Robot’ Will Know What You Really Meant to Do - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:06] <exec> 08└─"Hey robot, I didn't mean to do that!" "You only think you didn't mean to do that. But although you were not aware of it, it's what you really meant to do."
[13:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03C R Johnson [5368] (Score:1) 02Sounds like my wife... - 06‘Psychic Robot’ Will Know What You Really Meant to Do - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:08] <exec> 08└─She also knows what I am really thinking.
[13:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Humans Need Not Apply - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 1215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:34:19] <exec> 08└─That IS a part of the story - but only part. Jobs are being simplified and compartmentalized, so that an under-educated, unskilled or semiskilled person (or persons) can do the job of an educated highly skilled person. Instead of looking at the bottom rungs, or even the middle rungs, on the ladder,...
[13:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:Efficiency - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 2288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:34:23] <exec> 08└─I got an email from some kid (not using his real name; no idea where in the world he's located) and he saw my posting on the eevblog (I hang out there a lot) and he -demanded- I give him source code to an arduino project he was working on along with schematics. he didn't want to understand a thing,...
[13:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Stingray? - 06US IRS Bought Stingray, Stingray II, and Hailstorm IMSI-Catchers - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:34:50] <exec> 08└─I came here to ask the same!
[13:35:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03iamjacksusername [1479] 02Re:Practical answers for climate change - 06US Regulators Issue First Nuclear Plant Operating License Since 1996 - 3106 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:35:24] <exec> 08└─Oops misplaced character caused half my comment to go missing... should have previewed more closely. To be clear, the $6B total represents the construction as well as time decommissioning cost of the plant, including waste disposal. This is mandated by the NRC - TVA had to set aside the money for th...
[13:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score:2) 02About the wildlife - 06US Regulators Issue First Nuclear Plant Operating License Since 1996 - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:26] <exec> 08└─The three eyed fish has a name (Blinky) you insensitive clod.
[13:36:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gravis [4596] 02so, PR bullshit still? - 06TechRadar Asks: "Has Microsoft Admitted Defeat in the Console Sales War?" - 102 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:07] <exec> 08└─a Microsoft source responded saying it was no longer using such figures as its measurement of success.
[13:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:figures - 06TechRadar Asks: "Has Microsoft Admitted Defeat in the Console Sales War?" - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:36:47] <exec> 08└─Nope. I've tried a few times, but I just can't get the hang of it. I find the story interesting, though.
[13:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:figures - 06TechRadar Asks: "Has Microsoft Admitted Defeat in the Console Sales War?" - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:36:49] <exec> 08└─I wasn't really into gaming during the PS2 era. I have original discs for most of my PS1 games, and those seem to work fine in my PS3.
[13:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:The fact that... - 06Paul Vixie: New TLDs a Money Grab, and a Mistake - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:37:35] <exec> 08└─Indeed, it was painfully obvious. So why wasn't he outspoken about it all those years ago, before it actually became a reality? Were his positions as an advisor to ICANN paying ones - was he gagged?
[13:38:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03number6x [903] 02That sounds like a call for whackos to reply! - 06 Glueballs are the Missing Frontier of the Standard Model - 79 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:14] <exec> 08└─do any of you have any crazy alternative non-particle-centric physical theories
[13:42:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 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)
[13:42:27] <exec> 08└─For christ sake . . . . grow up, . . . . learn to look away.
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[14:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02pr0n - 06‘Psychic Robot’ Will Know What You Really Meant to Do - 769 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:10] <exec> 08└─Insert standard observation that pr0n always premiers new high tech. One caution is extensive computer UI experience shows that predictive / adaptive menus and other UI components are a disaster... we're spatial analysis experts and Fing around with our mental map causes an implosion in productivity...
[14:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Hey Robot - 06‘Psychic Robot’ Will Know What You Really Meant to Do - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:11] <exec> 08└─Don't call me Dave!
[14:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Efficiency - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 1148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:34:27] <exec> 08└─A number of people made similar speeches before 2000. Bill Clinton made a couple of speeches about some mythical "service economy" when he was pushing so hard for NAFTA. Others have attributed that "service economy" to Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan (January 25, 1983) Over the past year, our Task Forc...
[14:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Efficiency - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 806 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:34:28] <exec> 08└─Good point. I referenced the Summers speech because I watched him give it in person, that's all, but it was clearly US policy long before that. Summers was also behind the idea of NAFTA, for much the same reasons. And of course, it turned out that Ross Perot was completely right about the effects of...
[14:34:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] 02the perfect storm - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 3314 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:30] <exec> 08└─Beats me. As someone working in the field, I see it being hollowed out. Fewer workers are needed now than, say, a decade ago. There is a glut of workers driving pay down. I don't see a shortage at all. There's a shortage of people who have decades of experience who are willing to work for low pay in...
[14:34:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edinlinux [4637] 02Re:So what do we do... - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 1987 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:34:35] <exec> 08└─No, there is no enforcement provision in the law for this. (which is why when companies post those H1B notices in dark corners of corporate hallways, there is no federal # to call to report irregularities) As well, there are plenty of other tricks corporate HR depts do to scam this and skirt around...
[14:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:So what do we do... - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 1457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:34:37] <exec> 08└─Actually, most of that is not necessary any longer. That's because in the last couple of years, they've quietly removed the provision that H1B's can only be used in cases where there are no qualified American citizens. So now the bosses are faced with the choice of hiring a citizen who requires heal...
[14:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So what do we do... - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:34:39] <exec> 08└─Yee haa. A lot of bias in that article. The photos of missiles launching gives an impression of the author.
[14:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:So what do we do... - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:34:41] <exec> 08└─Clearly the answer is for all of these STEM workers to concentrate on finding more efficiencies at the top, by rendering them redundant. We can invent robots that play golf, tell racy jokes, and repeat random sports scores and voila we will have replaced every CEO in America. Everything else is a ve...
[14:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:So what do we do... - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 3669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:34:43] <exec> 08└─I've been thinking that the way forward is to drastically reduce living expenses, and that's going to take some big and uncomfortable changes in our lifestyles. I think everyone will have to do that eventually anyway. Our current life of most everyone aspiring to be an employee may end, and most of...
[14:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillAdams [1424] (Score:1) 02Killed off by automation - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:44] <exec> 08└─Increasing automation reduces the total number of jobs --- remember back in the ’70s when there was talk of taxing those new-fangled computers so as to fund a basic income for replaced workers --- missed that opportunity. Maybe we should re-new this discussion for A.I.? Ob. SF story: http://marsha...
[14:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Elephant in the room - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:46] <exec> 08└─Well, since nobody else wants to talk about it, I will. 100 million working-age Americans being out of work kinda puts the lie to this administration's claimed low unemployment percentage, no? We're in an extremely nasty recession... no, really a proper depression. That is where the jobs are. They'r...
[14:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Elephant in the room - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:34:48] <exec> 08└─Your implication is that your president has the ability to control the economy. It's not the 1930s any more, in a globalised world nation states have very little control.
[14:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Elephant in the room - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 2119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:34:50] <exec> 08└─What everyone is describing is called the total employment rate. Wikipedia has a much better summary than I can come up with. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] We are about 67% right now. In the so called 'golden era' where people were making the most money...
[14:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:nootropics - 06Cognitive Enhancement May Not be All It's Cracked Up To Be. - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:34:55] <exec> 08└─Unmentioned: caffeine, theanine, piracetam, aniracetam, oxiracetam, methylphenidate , dihexa, creatine, choline, donepezil
[14:35:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Stingray? - 06US IRS Bought Stingray, Stingray II, and Hailstorm IMSI-Catchers - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:35:07] <exec> 08└─Makes me wonder if they are using them internally? So many companies already do MitM SSL attacks on any computer accessing the internet from inside the company. This way they can see everything that employees access and do. Doing the same to phones is a logical progression of that idea.
[14:35:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Stingray? - 06US IRS Bought Stingray, Stingray II, and Hailstorm IMSI-Catchers - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:35:08] <exec> 08└─Easy, they have no reason at to have these things. They are not law enforcement.
[14:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03GlennC [3656] (Score:2) 02Re:learned what i needed to in 2008 - 06Three Ways Big Companies are Connecting with Millennials - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:35:23] <exec> 08└─So laws do have influence on the corporations.
[14:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Rich kids not employed kids - 06Three Ways Big Companies are Connecting with Millennials - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:35:26] <exec> 08└─The MassMutual thing is a sales job, only with decaf served for the "closers" [youtube.com].
[14:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Oh man, I'm so glad I grew out of this - 06TechRadar Asks: "Has Microsoft Admitted Defeat in the Console Sales War?" - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:36:47] <exec> 08└─I've totally gotten away from console games (excepting trying to get i3wm on arch/antergos to stop mis-behaving (did an upgrade, and when i unplug my usb cable (external hard drives and mouse) i get a lockup (which is bothersome when all i want is to watch a movie (cvlc) while i do the dishes after...
[14:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Daiv [3940] (Score:2) 02Re:Consoles are out of control - 06TechRadar Asks: "Has Microsoft Admitted Defeat in the Console Sales War?" - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:37:01] <exec> 08└─I wanted to upgrade my Xbox 360 to the One
[14:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02He's said it before. - 06Paul Vixie: New TLDs a Money Grab, and a Mistake - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:06] <exec> 08└─‘The Internet is not for sissies.’ -- Paul Vixie
[14:40:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 895 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:40:06] <exec> 08└─I know you jest but people actually believe this. Growing up, the gay kids we made fun of and called gay/faggot/queer, turned out gay. Not because we berated them or forced them to become gay but because THEY WERE GAY and we knew it. They hung out with the girls, skipped rope, avoided hanging with t...
[14:40:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] 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)
[14:40:21] <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...
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[15:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:Popping zero pills a day - 06Scientists Say Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine Doesn't Work - 1777 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:34:08] <exec> 08└─That works well until you get congestion so bad that your Eustachian tubes shut down (those things that connect your middle ear to your sinuses), pressure builds and possibly fluids up to the point you're practically deaf, and the only two viable options are either see an ENT or sign the “I am a c...
[15:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Sudafed - 06Scientists Say Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine Doesn't Work - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:09] <exec> 08└─For those of us who depend on sudafed, this is not news. One night years ago in Chicago I stumbled into a Target at 10:00 P.M. and bought Sudafed I was in desperate need of. I was being a bit melodramatic, but I was so terribly ill that being able to breathe again felt like it saved my life. Shortly...
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[15:34:10] <exec> 08└─I went wandering around the web a little, trying to find pseudoephedrine availability and prices. Most hits are for "Sudafed PE". Almost all other hits are for "generics" that make use of the well-known Sudafed name. Everything rhymes with "pseudoe" something. The only "readily available" source I f...
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[15:34:12] <exec> 08└─Probably out of your reach, but it's perfectly easily available over the counter in the UK. Here's some of the branded stuff [boots.com] and here's Boots' generic [boots.com]. The missus has occasional sinus problems and was told by the pharmacist to try a bunch of the phenylephrine crap, they did n...
[15:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score:2) 02Did the law do any good? - 06Scientists Say Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine Doesn't Work - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:14] <exec> 08└─One thing we seem terrible at - evaluating laws and eliminating those that didn't have their intended effect. Instead, we leave the law, and pass more. So, one question: Did putting Sudafed behind the counter reduce the amount of crystal meth on the streets? If not, repeal the damned law.
[15:34:15] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02Re:Did the law do any good? - 06Scientists Say Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine Doesn't Work - 89 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:34:16] <exec> 08└─Given how easy it is to get meth nowdays, does anyone know how to turn meth into Sudafed?
[15:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Re:Did the law do any good? - 06Scientists Say Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine Doesn't Work - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:34:17] <exec> 08└─Rumor has it that you feel great when using meth, so why bother reverting back to Sudafed?
[15:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Did the law do any good? - 06Scientists Say Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine Doesn't Work - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:34:19] <exec> 08└─I saw this on another site: http://io9.com [io9.com]
[15:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Did the law do any good? - 06Scientists Say Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine Doesn't Work - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:34:21] <exec> 08└─You just need the isomer fairy to wave her magic wand. Or maybe it was a chirality thing. I can't remember the molecular difference between them anymore, and who knows what kind of watch list researching that would get you onto. Not worth it to try and make a witty comment on SN. In Soviet America c...
[15:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:Did the law do any good? - 06Scientists Say Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine Doesn't Work - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:34:22] <exec> 08└─If the law actually worked as intended, then I'd be OK with the added hassle. Of all the stupid shit that the government makes me do, signing a form for Sudafed is really one of the least onerous. But according to the first linked article, it did not work, it just shifted the meth manufacturing from...
[15:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02about 25 years ago - 06Scientists Say Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine Doesn't Work - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:24] <exec> 08└─I used to have lots of congestion during allergy season, so I took Sudafeds. That was for maybe a couple years, then I stopped. Now I barely notice spring allergy season, except for a box of tissues and runny nose. Every so often I think, didn't I used to take Sudafed?
[15:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02lemmings - 06Scientists Say Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine Doesn't Work - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:26] <exec> 08└─"consumers should go that extra step and get it (pseudoephedrine) from behind the counter."
[15:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:lemmings - 06Scientists Say Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine Doesn't Work - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:34:28] <exec> 08└─Fight the Man, dude! We're, like, TOTALLY impressed by your rebel nature.
[15:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:lemmings - 06Scientists Say Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine Doesn't Work - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:34:30] <exec> 08└─Because most of the time the people arguing for more freedom with respect to toxic substances, those are the people who most need to be old no. If the folks wanting more freedom wouldn't do such a shitty job of considering the consequences for other people, it wouldn't be an issue.
[15:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03VanderDecken [5216] (Score:2) 02Be the fifth doctor - 06Scientists Say Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine Doesn't Work - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:31] <exec> 08└─On a related topic, there is a really good YouTube video about pediatric cough medicines [youtube.com] that I encourage parents to watch; it discusses whether "cough medicines" are a good idea for kids at all, and a possible option for kids over 1 year old. For those who are fans of Rick Mercer's ra...
[15:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02The new homeopathic - 06Scientists Say Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine Doesn't Work - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:33] <exec> 08└─So not only do we have no rules on selling intentionally fake medicine as "homeopathic remedies", but a good deal of actual medicine has nothing more than a placebo effect. Acetaminophen qualifies as this for me.
[15:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:"psychic" - 06‘Psychic Robot’ Will Know What You Really Meant to Do - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:34:35] <exec> 08└─> How is the robot going to change the direction of the victims hand movements? Are we going to wire the victim into an exoskeleton? > If we're ready to do that, then I want mine with battle armor, lasers, and rockets! I want mine without me in it, so it can be in the kitchen doing chores while I do...
[15:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02"corrective" steering - 06‘Psychic Robot’ Will Know What You Really Meant to Do - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:39] <exec> 08└─That is a brilliant idea. Make the cars auto-drive, and the steering wheel is no more effective than the one they have on the shopping carts for kids.
[15:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Efficiency - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:34:57] <exec> 08└─The Internet, globalization, and new technology made the economy more efficient. One can no longer invest in "sports cards" or "beanie babies" and sell them at a 10x markup, when anybody buyer can go on eBay and see what a trash deal that is. (I once knew a grandmother who should have been retired...
[15:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:So what do we do... - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 1728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:35:09] <exec> 08└─In the past in the UK you used to have a 3 bed semi with 1 adult in work, 1 staying at home, and 2 children and this would be easily possible on the median wage and well below. Then we started having 2 adults working instead, and all of a sudden prices went up, because instead of having £20k a year...
[15:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Elephant in the room - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:35:14] <exec> 08└─Bush artificially pumped up the economy by deliberately not enforcing lending laws and regulations, so anyone could claim to be eligible for a mortgage. Hundreds of fly-by-night mortgage companies sprung up around the country to help people prepare the bogus paperwork. That's why there were lots of...
[15:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03FunkyLich [4689] (Score:1) 02Re:Elephant in the room - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:35:16] <exec> 08└─Well... it would be more wise to be aware of the dinosaur in the room as well. http://www.huffingtonpost.com [huffingtonpost.com] http://www.bbc.com [bbc.com]
[15:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score:2) 02Re:Elephant in the room - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 1249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:35:17] <exec> 08└─Calling it 100,000,000 unemployed is retarded. For one, I'm fairly sure taking 100% minus the labor force participation rate gives you a figure that already includes the official unemployment rate. Adding the official unemployment rate to a non participation rate is double dipping. Second, in consum...
[15:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02globalization once again - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:19] <exec> 08└─where are the jobs really?
[15:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Stingray? - 06US IRS Bought Stingray, Stingray II, and Hailstorm IMSI-Catchers - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:35:43] <exec> 08└─Wait what? You mean all those audits they do to determine if people have been illegally evading taxes isn't law enforcement? The IRS exists mainly to ensure that people have paid the taxes that they owe and to investigate returns that might be fraudulent. That sounds an awful lot like law enforcemen...
[15:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02My neighborhood next please! - 06US IRS Bought Stingray, Stingray II, and Hailstorm IMSI-Catchers - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:44] <exec> 08└─Seriously, signal down my street is abysmal. I, for one, would love to have a stingray or equivalent installed on my block so I can actually place and receive calls.
[15:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:learned what i needed to in 2008 - 06Three Ways Big Companies are Connecting with Millennials - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:36:01] <exec> 08└─New Orleans turned from a pleasant, modern metropolis Whaaa? Dude all my friends who moved there lasted about 2 months before turning around and coming back. I know of a few more dozen people who moved there and did the same thing. New Orleans was not a 'nice' place. Less so now.
[15:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03fliptop [1666] (Score:2) 02Re:Rich kids not employed kids - 06Three Ways Big Companies are Connecting with Millennials - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:36:04] <exec> 08└─Its for rich kids
[15:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Some math - 06US Regulators Issue First Nuclear Plant Operating License Since 1996 - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:36:17] <exec> 08└─WE own it.
[15:40:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:sad state of affairs - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:40:40] <exec> 08└─Sort of like not allowing murder because of the 7th commandment. I guess by your logic it should be allowed.
[15:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03iWantToKeepAnon [686] (Score:2) 02Re:To late, we aren't going back - 06Advertisers Should Take Responsibility for Annoying People and Driving Them to Use Ad Blockers - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:51] <exec> 08└─You're right of course, a hosts file is only partially useful and needs constant updating (thankfully there are those invested enough to do that already). But it was the easiest-effective thing for my phone. On my computer I use palemoon w/ all the addons. The major failing of a hosts file is when a...
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[16:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Lucky dude - 06Cislunar Boomerang to Miss Sri Lanka in November - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:09] <exec> 08└─This Cis.. fellow, who is marrying Miss Sri Lanka.
[16:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Popping zero pills a day - 06Scientists Say Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine Doesn't Work - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:34:19] <exec> 08└─You'd have to eat at least 2-3 whole nutmeg nuts before you actually start tripping, man... And nutmeg is disgusting by itself.
[16:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Sudafed - 06Scientists Say Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine Doesn't Work - 764 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:34:24] <exec> 08└─Interesting - apparently, though, the product must be signed for, after the pharmacist agrees that it is "suitable". Product description This Medicine is sold by BOOTS UK LIMITED at the professional discretion of a Boots pharmacist. Unfortunately, next day home delivery is unavailable for this produ...
[16:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Re:Sudafed - 06Scientists Say Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine Doesn't Work - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:34:25] <exec> 08└─Probably out of your reach, but it's perfectly easily available over the counter in the UK.
[16:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sudafed - 06Scientists Say Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine Doesn't Work - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:34:27] <exec> 08└─> What has happened is that the restrictions on the sale of pseudoephedrine have created a third category in the USA, similar to the UK's "over the counter (at the discretion of the pharmacist)". Not so much "discretion of the pharamcist" in the USA, its "put your name on the watchlist." [wikipedia....
[16:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03SecurityGuy [1453] (Score:2) 02Re:Did the law do any good? - 06Scientists Say Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine Doesn't Work - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:34:34] <exec> 08└─Oh, no. I absolutely hate that law. I've never used recreational drugs, other than alcohol (in moderation, I don't like being drunk) and caffeine. No judgement there, you do what you want with your body and as long as it doesn't affect me, I don't care. Just my choice. Now I have to sign some form w...
[16:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:lemmings - 06Scientists Say Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine Doesn't Work - 662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:34:39] <exec> 08└─You mean a toxic substance like a nasal decongestant that works? You're a total dumbass. I venture you also never had any frequent congestion problems or allergies, so that would make you an example of people who *aren't affected* deciding to ban the substance because it's no skin off your nose, so...
[16:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:lemmings - 06Scientists Say Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine Doesn't Work - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:34:41] <exec> 08└─Trump or Cruz?
[16:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Already implemented in peugeot cars - 06‘Psychic Robot’ Will Know What You Really Meant to Do - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:56] <exec> 08└─http://www.peugeot.co.uk/showroom/207/sw/www.peugeot.co.uk/family-cars-range/#!explore/key-features/safety-security/electronic-stability-programme-esp [peugeot.co.uk]
[16:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Fear? - 06‘Psychic Robot’ Will Know What You Really Meant to Do - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:57] <exec> 08└─What if my actions are fear based? Like in an icy lot. No cars around. But the person somehow finds away to hit the light pole? Even without ice this happens to people. And of course on the road it is more complex how our "fears" cause accidents.
[16:35:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02Re:Humans Need Not Apply - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 1215 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:35:09] <exec> 08└─That IS a part of the story - but only part. Jobs are being simplified and compartmentalized, so that an under-educated, unskilled or semiskilled person (or persons) can do the job of an educated highly skilled person. Instead of looking at the bottom rungs, or even the middle rungs, on the ladder,...
[16:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillAdams [1424] (Score:1) 02Re:Efficiency - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:35:16] <exec> 08└─Yep. I can remember knowing that Quark was in serious trouble when I saw the query an Indian programmer posted to the OpenType developer list.
[16:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02Re:Efficiency - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:35:19] <exec> 08└─why aren't medical Doctors required to keep their credentials current?
[16:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:So what do we do... - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:35:27] <exec> 08└─Does this not still hold?
[16:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:So what do we do... - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:35:32] <exec> 08└─I know! Let's write a script to decide that!
[16:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Killed off by automation - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:35:36] <exec> 08└─There is currently demand for skilled CNC programmers and CNC machine setup people, in large part because many left the industry for greener fields when they were downsized during the recession. New replacements are few in number because the field has a limited life expectancy due to increasing auto...
[16:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Elephant in the room - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:35:39] <exec> 08└─Food from other countries (or the sea) is necessary for the Netherlands; it can't possibly feed its dense population otherwise. For the United States however, global trade is a choice, not a necessity. Even Cuba has been muddling through a trade embargo.
[16:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:Elephant in the room - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:35:41] <exec> 08└─The 1950s were a LOT more sexist than now, I don't know how it was in the USA, but in the Netherlands, women were very strongly encouraged to stop working, or outright fired from their jobs, as soon as they got married. They were supposed to be house-wives from then on. The implication is, that all...
[16:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Elephant in the room - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:35:44] <exec> 08└─I don't see anyone addressing in those links that the US is ill-positioned for competing in a world with cheap labor. It's like saying that the real problem is low body weight without discussing that the patient isn't eating enough. The first world problems discussed in these articles will continu...
[16:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:globalization once again - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 2102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:35:47] <exec> 08└─I like your list. Don't quite agree with all of it, but it's more worthwhile than most I've seen. Here's a response: 1) Pretty much. Present US workers also need to find alternative revenue streams. Got a hobby? Can you make it pay? Even to the level of paying for its own equipment and resources? Th...
[16:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:globalization once again - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 1230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:35:49] <exec> 08└─I don't think #1 will work, because everyone that actually would agree that there can be wiggling on the hook for a few decades, will accept this and hope to retire in a few decades with the salary they have, than the reductive haircut salary you offer. Being unable to retire in a few decades to sav...
[16:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:globalization once again - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:35:51] <exec> 08└─I'm willing to haggle a little. People will trade or cut back, but not like what you suggest. People are going to give up meats due to cancer, conveniences due to global warming, freedom for hypocracy, etc. They are not going to willingly give up their income just so they can make a closer number to...
[16:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:guinea pigs - 06Cognitive Enhancement May Not be All It's Cracked Up To Be. - 699 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:36:01] <exec> 08└─I think if most people understood that anal leakage of stomach acid (roughly equivalent in potency to hydrochloric acid), colon cancer, irritable bowel, that sort of thing were side-effects of caffeine, they would be a little more cautious with it. Read the insert on some caffeine pills sometime. Or...
[16:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:guinea pigs - 06Cognitive Enhancement May Not be All It's Cracked Up To Be. - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:36:02] <exec> 08└─picture of the web a spider made after getting dosed with caffeine and other psychoactive drugs: http://www.kscience.co.uk [kscience.co.uk]
[16:36:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Translation - 06Three Ways Big Companies are Connecting with Millennials - 321 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:24] <exec> 08└─Translation: The usual marketing strategies have failed because the targets have developed psychological immunity. The new strategy (for big players who can afford it) is to pretend being a "good friend" and from that position try to give "advice". Words are not sufficient to tell how sick I am gett...
[16:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:Some math - 06US Regulators Issue First Nuclear Plant Operating License Since 1996 - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:36:53] <exec> 08└─you never pay another dime
[16:37:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] 02Re:so, PR bullshit still? - 06TechRadar Asks: "Has Microsoft Admitted Defeat in the Console Sales War?" - 188 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:37:45] <exec> 08└─> i have some ideas on what they could do but frankly, I too have a long list of ideas for things that Microsoft could do. Most of them involve the words "insert", "spiky", and "sideways".
[16:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03joshuajon [807] (Score:2) 02Last generation - 06TechRadar Asks: "Has Microsoft Admitted Defeat in the Console Sales War?" - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:28] <exec> 08└─Does this mean I can finally get a reasonably priced last generation model? For all the hype, the last gen seems to be holding it's value surprisingly well.
[16:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonymousCowardNoMore [5416] (Score:2) 02Re:Gaaa! Useless link - 06Lobster-Inspired 3.8m Super Lightweight Mirror Chosen for Chinese-French Space Mission - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:38:44] <exec> 08└─Google "lobster eye" and you will get a host of images explaining instantly how they work. (I'm not sarcastically bashing your criticism; it's valid.) More importantly, the fifth article link [nasa.gov] is a three year-old NASA article saying the technology has been used for all-sky X-ray observatio...
[16:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02lentnews.soy - 06Paul Vixie: New TLDs a Money Grab, and a Mistake - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:20] <exec> 08└─Looking over some of the wacky TLDs you can get nowadays, I noticed Google now offers .soy [nic.soy] domains -- perhaps interesting for soylentnews? There was this other tech news site with a 'funny' URL, but I can't for the life of me remember what it was.
[16:39:38] <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 - 1304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:39:38] <exec> 08└─You refer to the first page, I take it? Great question. It is possible to view an annihilating electron-positron pair as a single particle changing direction in time, since a positron is an electron with its time, parity (handedness) and charge reversed (CPT theorem). Similarly for pair production....
[16:41:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:Ben Carson: Empty head - 06Trump, Carson Lead GOP Polls but Lag in Online Betting Lines - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:41:27] <exec> 08└─What choice do we have?
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[17:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Lucky dude - 06Cislunar Boomerang to Miss Sri Lanka in November - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:34:09] <exec> 08└─Maybe - but it's all over my head.
[17:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Re:Popping zero pills a day - 06Scientists Say Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine Doesn't Work - 2137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:34:22] <exec> 08└─I'm having difficulty imaging where a blocked ear/nose becomes in any way more than nuisance. Like a headache. Man, a headache can stop you driving, and make you pull over and want to sleep (if you're lucky). A sore throat can rob you of your voice and/or make you want to say nothing for a week. Mig...
[17:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrNemesis [1582] (Score:2) 02Re:Popping zero pills a day - 06Scientists Say Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine Doesn't Work - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:34:23] <exec> 08└─I'm having difficulty imaging where a blocked ear/nose becomes in any way more than nuisance... You're treating DISCOMFORT like it's an INJURY.
[17:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Popping zero pills a day - 06Scientists Say Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine Doesn't Work - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:34:24] <exec> 08└─You could of course snort actual meth. But then you'd be trading one problem for 3 or 4.
[17:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrNemesis [1582] (Score:2) 02Re:Sudafed - 06Scientists Say Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine Doesn't Work - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:34:30] <exec> 08└─Aye, links were there mostly to show their availability. I have a chemists right next to work and another a stones throw from home, if you want pseudoephedrine the pharmacist will ask if you've taken it before, how often, and ask what other medicines you're taking so they can gauge side effects. No...
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[17:34:33] <exec> 08└─So, the situation in the USA for buying pseudoephedrine is now the same as in the UK.
[17:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sudafed - 06Scientists Say Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine Doesn't Work - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:34:35] <exec> 08└─Aye, but the context I took from Runaway's post was that although pseudoephedrine-based decongestants were technically available over the counter, they were almost never stocked - presumably because of either the connotation or connection with meth production.
[17:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score:2) 02Re:Sudafed - 06Scientists Say Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine Doesn't Work - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:34:37] <exec> 08└─Do you not have a CVS or Walgreen's location in your area? Both of those sell it, both in original-formulation Sudafed and generic equivalents. I'd bet other most chain pharmacies do as well - I'm pretty sure that I've bought it at Target's pharmacy before, if you've got one of those. Yes, the price...
[17:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Sudafed - 06Scientists Say Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine Doesn't Work - 996 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:34:38] <exec> 08└─In SW Arkansas, there's a Wally World in every town. Walgreens and Target are both available in Texarkana. That translates into a 20 minute drive when the wife goes to the closest Walmart, vs a one hour drive into Texarkana, then fighting with traffic. And, of course, again you may or may not find t...
[17:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Did the law do any good? - 06Scientists Say Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine Doesn't Work - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:34:45] <exec> 08└─> Did putting Sudafed behind the counter reduce the amount of crystal meth on the streets? No: https://www.washingtonpost.com [washingtonpost.com] For 2-3 years there was a decline, but it just converted the industr...
[17:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:about 25 years ago - 06Scientists Say Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine Doesn't Work - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:34:47] <exec> 08└─That's the "beauty" of allergies - they change over time. What made you react when you were 7 will be slightly different from what you react to when you're 27, or 77, or 107. I've watched my dad and my sister each develop allergies to certain fruits or vegetables that they used to enjoy (raw peas, s...
[17:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:lemmings - 06Scientists Say Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine Doesn't Work - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:34:52] <exec> 08└─Because most of the time the people arguing for more freedom with respect to toxic substances, those are the people who most need to be old no. Except, it simply doesn't work. How many more examples of prohibition-FAIL do we need to observer before we consider trying something different?
[17:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score:2) 02Re:lemmings - 06Scientists Say Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine Doesn't Work - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:34:54] <exec> 08└─you have to get a note from the legal drug dealers, like a slave.
[17:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score:2) 02Re:The new homeopathic - 06Scientists Say Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine Doesn't Work - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:34:57] <exec> 08└─Funnny - acetaminophen works okay for me (it doesn't seem to actually make the pain any less, it just allows me to ignore it more easily), while naproxen sodium (Aleve in the US) might as well be a placebo.
[17:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The new homeopathic - 06Scientists Say Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine Doesn't Work - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:34:59] <exec> 08└─Some people just have built-in tolerances to certain things: for me aspirin and acetaminophen hardly help, but naproxen sodium works very well. Ibuprofen also works but I avoid it because sometimes even with food in my stomach just one pill will give me nausea and make me want the headache back inst...
[17:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The new homeopathic - 06Scientists Say Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine Doesn't Work - 841 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:35:00] <exec> 08└─Interesting. Acetaminophen doesn't work for me, either. If anything, it make me nauseous. I read somewhere that this was well known to physicians, and that something like 20% of people have anomalous drug reactions, which includes acetaminophen - but I've never been able to find any reputable papers...
[17:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Medicines - 06Scientists Say Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine Doesn't Work - 2902 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:02] <exec> 08└─Is it really just me that doesn't use any of this rubbish? Anything you take on a regular basis will soon become ineffective for you anyway. Anything you can get "without prescription" (i.e. over the counter) is practically useless (because it's so safe that it's actually difficult to even overdose...
[17:35:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03VanderDecken [5216] (Score:2) 02Re:Medicines - 06Scientists Say Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine Doesn't Work - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:35:04] <exec> 08└─I concur about the cough and decongestant related stuff. I gave up on cold medicines about a decade back, and instead take time off when I'm sick, drink lots (not ethanol :) and sleep. I find that the congestion may be worse but I get over things quicker. Besides, I found that cold medicines made me...
[17:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Humans Need Not Apply - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:35:29] <exec> 08└─"Denise, I'd like to give you a raise, but policy blah blah blah" Actual policy, or, passing the buck?
[17:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:So what do we do... - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:35:51] <exec> 08└─You mean something like #!/usr/bin/brainfuck ++++++++[>++++[>++>+++>+++>++>+>->>+[>.>---.+++++++..+++.>>.>+.>++.
[17:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:So what do we do... - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:35:54] <exec> 08└─Whenever I read something like that I get the impression that somebody's pissing on my head and telling me it's raining. Sure, it's probably not likely that a kid can afford the American dream by working a factory job straight out of high-school for 20 or so years, but I'm not buying that "austerity...
[17:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Elephant in the room - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:36:01] <exec> 08└─Even Cuba has been muddling through a trade embargo
[17:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score:2) 02Re:globalization once again - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 894 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:36:11] <exec> 08└─I'm not an american, but my perception is that there would be strong resistance to making it generally easier to get a green card. "Dang furriners takin our jerbs". I think you would have more chance of arguing the limited case that any H1-B who survives in the job for a month be given one. Companie...
[17:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Too Much Fluff - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:13] <exec> 08└─It is interesting to compare with Britain in 1910s/20s, where similar sorts of issues were going on. Simultaneously we had the Great Strike, unionisation, beginning of the Labour movement. I hope something similar happens in US.
[17:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score:2) 02Truck drivers! - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 1711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:14] <exec> 08└─The most common blue collar job in the U.S. seems to be "Truck driver!" http://www.npr.org [npr.org] Ask the article question again when we've got self-driving cargo vehicles. Other than that, I see little hope for the "organ...
[17:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:guinea pigs - 06Cognitive Enhancement May Not be All It's Cracked Up To Be. - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:36:28] <exec> 08└─I think there is no substance that doesn't have "Hazardous in case of skin contact (irritant), of eye contact (irritant), of ingestion, of inhalation." in MSDS. Well maybe except DHMO and those that are corrosive.
[17:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03umafuckitt [20] (Score:2) 02It's all arse - 06Cognitive Enhancement May Not be All It's Cracked Up To Be. - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:30] <exec> 08└─If you want to "enhance" your brain (not that I really know what the means) then read a good book, watch a documentary, go to a museum, meet some new people, etc.
[17:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Some math - 06US Regulators Issue First Nuclear Plant Operating License Since 1996 - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:37:16] <exec> 08└─"We" own it. Yeah, right. As if it makes any difference. You are right, it makes no difference. The massive C02 reduction will happen no matter who owns it. C02 per mWh is about 200 lbs from coal (about half that for natural gas). So that's a reduction of up to 230,000 lbs of C02 emissions pe...
[17:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score:1) 02Technology - Lobsters - Charlie Stross - 06Lobster-Inspired 3.8m Super Lightweight Mirror Chosen for Chinese-French Space Mission - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:15] <exec> 08└─If you haven't read it already, read this book which Charlie Stross has kindly made available for free on his website. http://www.antipope.org [antipope.org] Sentient AIs based on uploaded lobster brains. And much, much more. I do like C...
[17:41:02] <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 - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:41:02] <exec> 08└─> "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." Which is a very old proverb In evolutionary terms, nope, it isn't.
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[18:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lucky dude - 06Cislunar Boomerang to Miss Sri Lanka in November - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:34:17] <exec> 08└─Great minds think alike. I was thinking, what about Ms. Sri Lanka?
[18:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Sudafed - 06Scientists Say Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine Doesn't Work - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:34:39] <exec> 08└─apparently, though, the product must be signed for, after the pharmacist agrees that it is "suitable".
[18:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score:2) 02Re:Sudafed - 06Scientists Say Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine Doesn't Work - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:34:46] <exec> 08└─20 minutes just to get Wal-Mart? Man, that sucks - I've got two that I can get to in less than that (probably 15 minutes, unless traffic is really bad), and they're both supercenters. Not that I ever go - I hate Wal-Mart, partially for their politics, partially for driving small businesses out of bu...
[18:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Sudafed - 06Scientists Say Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine Doesn't Work - 804 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:34:47] <exec> 08└─"since it's likely that now they're the only store in town for most retail purchases." That grows more and more true, all the time. Brookshire's has always been my favorite grocery store, since I moved to this area. They used to have a store in every one of the surrounding towns. Gone, gone, and gon...
[18:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Did the law do any good? - 06Scientists Say Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine Doesn't Work - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:34:56] <exec> 08└─Somehow I tripped the pseudoephedrine limit once. We got so frightened I went onto phynelephrine for a miserable four months before we dared to buy it again. At the time I was the only pseudoephedrine user in my house. Now my wife uses it as well, and we have seven kids with allergy problems, so I a...
[18:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Did the law do any good? - 06Scientists Say Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine Doesn't Work - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:34:58] <exec> 08└─> Of all the stupid shit that the government makes me do, signing a form for Sudafed is really one of the least onerous. Guess who the very first person they arrested under this law was? A man buying medicine for himself and his son, [reason.com] both of whom had severe allergies. That was an auspic...
[18:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Did the law do any good? - 06Scientists Say Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine Doesn't Work - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:35:00] <exec> 08└─One thing we seem terrible at - evaluating laws and eliminating those that didn't have their intended effect. Instead, we leave the law, and pass more. So, one question:
[18:35:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:lemmings - 06Scientists Say Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine Doesn't Work - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:35:07] <exec> 08└─Because most of the time the people arguing for more freedom with respect to toxic substances, those are the people who most need to be old no.
[18:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The new homeopathic - 06Scientists Say Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine Doesn't Work - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:35:14] <exec> 08└─i thought too much acetaminophen (and especially in conjuction with other toxins) can cause liver failure. Even if it does not work as a pain reliever, it seems to work well as a low-dose poison. There are many documented cases of unintentional poisonings and liver failures/deaths due to mixing and...
[18:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:The new homeopathic - 06Scientists Say Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine Doesn't Work - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:35:16] <exec> 08└─Funnny - acetaminophen works okay for me (it doesn't seem to actually make the pain any less, it just allows me to ignore it more easily), while naproxen sodium (Aleve in the US) might as well be a placebo. It depends on the cause of the pain, in a lot of cases. Naproxen and other NSAIDS (non-st...
[18:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Medicines - 06Scientists Say Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine Doesn't Work - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:35:20] <exec> 08└─Is it really just me that doesn't use any of this rubbish? Anything you take on a regular basis will soon become ineffective for you anyway.
[18:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Humans Need Not Apply - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:35:49] <exec> 08└─Both, I suspect. Passing the buck has always been a favorite pastime among lower management, middle management, and sometimes even upper management. But, HR actually has pointless, petty policies. I listened to a an HR puke telling everyone at a meeting that there would be "no physical contact of an...
[18:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:So what do we do... - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:36:12] <exec> 08└─Uuuuhhhh... maybe?
[18:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So what do we do... - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:36:14] <exec> 08└─But will the robots be best buddies with the board, other C-levels, and other boards? Because that's their real "qualifications", just like the feudal barons of old.
[18:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:Elephant in the room - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:36:30] <exec> 08└─Because the economy has gone straight down the shitter since Bush left office
[18:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Race to the bottom [Re:globalization once again] - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 1047 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:36:36] <exec> 08└─You are essentially proposing the "race to the bottom" argument: compete with the 3rd world by becoming LIKE the 3rd world. To do this we get rid of worker safety laws, labor hour laws, pollution laws, etc. etc. "If we become a dump like them, we can compete with them". And many of those countries k...
[18:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's all arse - 06Cognitive Enhancement May Not be All It's Cracked Up To Be. - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:36:53] <exec> 08└─eh well it may make some less ignorant but that wont make them more smart.
[18:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03unzombied [4572] (Score:2) 02Re:It's all arse - 06Cognitive Enhancement May Not be All It's Cracked Up To Be. - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:36:54] <exec> 08└─Just because this is the method successfully used for 1000s of years doesn't make it... uhhh, hmm, maybe that does make it.
[18:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's all arse - 06Cognitive Enhancement May Not be All It's Cracked Up To Be. - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:36:56] <exec> 08└─And get enough sleep. Very many people living "modern lifestyles" don't get enough sleep. Just because you wake up after 4-5 hours doesn't mean it's time to start your waking life. Stay calm and go back to sleep again even if it takes a while: http://www.bbc.com [bbc.com] http...
[18:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Translation - 06Three Ways Big Companies are Connecting with Millennials - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:37:22] <exec> 08└─Yes, if you can't convince them with lies in the short term, then pretend to be their friend so you can mislead them for a lifetime! Why weren't they doing this before? Oh right the big box store thing happened, then the internet.
[18:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Some math - 06US Regulators Issue First Nuclear Plant Operating License Since 1996 - 969 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:37:50] <exec> 08└─Wait awhile after they first start installing them. If none of the batteries catch fire, then perhaps it's a well thought-out approach. I'm not convinced by Musk's battery packs. I think they are optimized for cars, which means small and fairly light-weight and good crash resistance, but it not opti...
[18:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Practical answers for climate change - 06US Regulators Issue First Nuclear Plant Operating License Since 1996 - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:37:56] <exec> 08└─Not to mention the fact that we would actually be reducing radioactive pollution by replacing coal plant with nuke plants. Coal Ash is More Radioactive than Nuclear Waste [scientificamerican.com]
[18:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:let's never use Pinterest anymore - 06Pinterest Loses Pin Trademark Battles in US and UK - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:38:28] <exec> 08└─would it be best to block "pinterest.com" in the router? I think it would be best to dust off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be safe.
[18:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Consoles are out of control - 06TechRadar Asks: "Has Microsoft Admitted Defeat in the Console Sales War?" - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:39:12] <exec> 08└─Nintendo has a more restrictive policy for use of its games in videos than some other publishers have. It is also more likely to assert copyright against game modders than, say, Blizzard or Valve. Case in point: its recent takedowns of videos of tool-assisted speedruns and level hacks of Super Mario...
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[19:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:3, Insightful) 02Unconstitutional - 06Court Orders TSA to Finalize Rule on Full-Body Scanners - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:08] <exec> 08└─How about recognizing that what the TSA does (molesting and searching people under government authority to make sure they're not terrorists simply because they want to get on a plane) is unconstitutional and ordering it to cease its activities? That might require a good enough court case, but it's n...
[19:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Unconstitutional - 06Court Orders TSA to Finalize Rule on Full-Body Scanners - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:34:09] <exec> 08└─many people in this country don't care about freedom at all Bingo. Oh wait, no. America is land of the free, home of the brave. Nowhere is it clearer than at the airport, where your population says "Fuck You" to some twats from Saudi Arabia and carrys on as they always have. Oh wait, that was the ot...
[19:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Unconstitutional - 06Court Orders TSA to Finalize Rule on Full-Body Scanners - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:34:11] <exec> 08└─Spineless, huh? Why do you hold the US population to higher standards than anyone else in the world? I'd much rather live in the US where dirty laundry gets aired and you are allowed to express your outward dislike for the status quo. In the EU you are given the veneer of freedom while under the hea...
[19:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02No problem. - 06Court Orders TSA to Finalize Rule on Full-Body Scanners - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:12] <exec> 08└─Rule for full body scanner: "We will select whoever we want, between none and all potential passengers, and we will scan the selected people as many times as we want. At our discretion, the people may be required to disrobe partially or fully until we are satisfied we have an excellent quality nude...
[19:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Re:Popping zero pills a day - 06Scientists Say Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine Doesn't Work - 1020 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:34:37] <exec> 08└─I'm having difficulty imaging where a blocked ear/nose becomes in any way more than nuisance... Man, a headache can stop you driving Nah, I never get headaches that bad, I'm sure you are exaggerating /sarc A cold causes pressure in their ears that makes it feel like someone is driving a knitting nee...
[19:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''Eustachian tubes'' - 06Scientists Say Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine Doesn't Work - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:34:39] <exec> 08└─Some humorous imagery to go with that: The Odd Couple: Clearing Sinuses [google.com] -- gewg_
[19:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Sudafed - 06Scientists Say Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine Doesn't Work - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:34:46] <exec> 08└─Cool. Obviously, then, you have less control imposed on you than we do over here. Well, in this one respect, anyway.
[19:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03PocketSizeSUn [5340] (Score:1) 02Re:Sudafed - 06Scientists Say Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine Doesn't Work - 721 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:34:56] <exec> 08└─I occasionally suffer from blocked sinuses. I used to use Sudafed or a generic. Usually occurs when I have been short on sleep for too long (or maybe just too idle sitting in front of a computer screen). Regardless of the reason for the trigger, sometimes I don't have access to a decent decongestant...
[19:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Did the law do any good? - 06Scientists Say Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine Doesn't Work - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:35:07] <exec> 08└─Sending jobs overseas? Sounds like government policy!
[19:35:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02It doesn't even matter - 06Scientists Say Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine Doesn't Work - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:35:09] <exec> 08└─If the crime is making/selling meth, then prosecute that crime. Outlawing the tools and precursors (like pseudoephedrine) was always stupid. Was it Texas where they actually made chemical glassware illegal? Doesn't bother the meth labs really, but it sure makes like hard for hobby chemists. This kin...
[19:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:The new homeopathic - 06Scientists Say Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine Doesn't Work - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:35:26] <exec> 08└─I'd rather take a homeopathic remedy than phenylephrine. At least small quantities of water don't have unpleasant side effects. Phenylephrine makes me quite ill, something that (according to clinical trials), I have in common with 20-40% of the population.
[19:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:"psychic" - 06‘Psychic Robot’ Will Know What You Really Meant to Do - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:35:36] <exec> 08└─One of the meanings of psychic is "having to do with actions of the mind" or some such. So this is a correct, if uncommon, useage.
[19:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Humans Need Not Apply - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:35:59] <exec> 08└─Or, the obverse - "Greg, I realize that you're a good worker, but you did blah blah and policy requires me to suspend you for three days, sign and date here on the bottom line."
[19:36:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02Re:Efficiency - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 2403 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:36:02] <exec> 08└─I should point out that the phenomenon you're describing wasn't in any way an accident. As in, I watched a speech by then-Treasury Secretary Larry Summers back in 2000 explaining that the plan was to ship the manufacturing jobs overseas and educate the US workforce, with the idea that the US would d...
[19:36:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02Re:Efficiency - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 806 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:36:04] <exec> 08└─Good point. I referenced the Summers speech because I watched him give it in person, that's all, but it was clearly US policy long before that. Summers was also behind the idea of NAFTA, for much the same reasons. And of course, it turned out that Ross Perot was completely right about the effects of...
[19:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Efficiency - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 2171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:36:08] <exec> 08└─If you haven't seen equivalent posts posted to e-mail lists by apparently US students, I have. You've got to remember that there are a lot of students in each country, and they all have attituded different from each other (though they cluster in groupings). That said, there is a cultural bias in Ind...
[19:36:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edinlinux [4637] 02So what do we do... - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 955 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:13] <exec> 08└─I don't think there is much doubt anymore that the STEM worker shortage is fake.. There is no point to really debate this anymore after years of evidence on this.. (if there really were a shortage, you would not have law firms running HR management conferences to teach how to avoid hiring American S...
[19:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So what do we do... - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:36:17] <exec> 08└─Scam 1: i.e. call a Sr. DBA role a Jr. DBA role (with a Jr. DBA salary of course) on the job spec, then hire an actual Sr. DBA H-1B from a 3rd world country to fill the role. As the Jr. salary in the USA will still be multiples of what that H-1B would earn in their own country as a Sr. DBA, they wil...
[19:36:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02Re:So what do we do... - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 322 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:36:19] <exec> 08└─Clearly the answer is for all of these STEM workers to concentrate on finding more efficiencies at the top, by rendering them redundant. We can invent robots that play golf, tell racy jokes, and repeat random sports scores and voila we will have replaced every CEO in America. Everything else is a ve...
[19:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02Re:So what do we do... - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:36:26] <exec> 08└─switch((new Random()).nextInt(10) + 1) { case 1: return new Ceo(BASH); case 2: return new Ceo(PERL); case 3: return new Ceo(PYTHON); case 4: return new Ceo(RUBY); case 5: return new Ceo(PHP); case 7: return new Ceo(JAVASCRIPT); default: ...
[19:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''recession'' - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:36:43] <exec> 08└─When over 20 percent of people have looked and looked and looked and looked and still can't find a fulltime job, that's NOT a recession; it's a depression. ...then we could mention the additional 30-plus percent who are being paid a poverty wage and who don't have disposable income that they could b...
[19:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Why the org chart? - 06US IRS Bought Stingray, Stingray II, and Hailstorm IMSI-Catchers - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:18] <exec> 08└─Why are we being provided the link to the management team? Is this some kind of backdoor solicitation for investors?
[19:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score:2) 02Re:learned what i needed to in 2008 - 06Three Ways Big Companies are Connecting with Millennials - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:34] <exec> 08└─The fact they have no qualms at all about selecting "the most sociopathic way" means that the corporation (ok, corporations aren't really people - the people making the decisions in the coroporation then) is inherently sociopathic in any strategy they implement, because sociopathy means you have no...
[19:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Some math - 06US Regulators Issue First Nuclear Plant Operating License Since 1996 - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:55] <exec> 08└─WE own it
[19:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Practical answers for climate change - 06US Regulators Issue First Nuclear Plant Operating License Since 1996 - 744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:38:06] <exec> 08└─Well, to be more accurate, estimated decommissioning costs. But one needs to remember that in every case so far the actual decommissioning costs have been drastically underestimated. (That said, I've got to admit that there aren't a large number of actually decommissioned nuclear plants...though the...
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[20:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:3, Informative) 02A validproblem, but also a bit of hyperventilating - 06Hospital Messed Up Medications in Half of Surgeries — How Common is it? - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:09] <exec> 08└─Interesting study. Note that the study is quite harsh in what it counts as errors. It included unexpected allergic reactions to drugs, i.e., no one knew the patient had the allergy. Kind of hard to prevent. It also includes cases where drug doses are prepared during the surgery; drugs that may look...
[20:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:A validproblem, but also a bit of hyperventilat - 06Hospital Messed Up Medications in Half of Surgeries — How Common is it? - 696 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:34:10] <exec> 08└─I looked at the breakdown too. Looks like about 80% were either BS or unavoidable lightning strikes. That means things will be "fixed" by having better labeling, or armed guards hovering over morphine syringes. Not really helpful. About 20% were wrong dosages and that sounds like something technolog...
[20:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02worse than "Death by Medicine" claimed - 06Hospital Messed Up Medications in Half of Surgeries — How Common is it? - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:11] <exec> 08└─Citing a "Survey by Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, Harvard School of Public Health. Methodology: Fieldwork conducted by ICR - International Communications Research, April 11- June 11, 2002," that article said that "medication errors occurred in 5.22% of patients admitted to these [1,081 surveyed...
[20:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02cyclical - 06Hospital Messed Up Medications in Half of Surgeries — How Common is it? - 1030 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:13] <exec> 08└─From my not-quite six decade perspective, this is a cyclical thing. As a kid of maybe 15, I recall an expose on surgeons leaving swabs and sponges inside of their patients. Another some years later about women receiving Caeserian sections when it was unwarranted. Another time, it was anasthesiologis...
[20:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02TSA - 06Court Orders TSA to Finalize Rule on Full-Body Scanners - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:24] <exec> 08└─A bunch of bullies if I've ever seen one. Fuck them and their faux-security.
[20:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dale [539] (Score:2) 02TSA insanity - 06Court Orders TSA to Finalize Rule on Full-Body Scanners - 703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:25] <exec> 08└─The TSA is the biggest example of how the terrorists won. Sad but true. The money we have wasted on TSA along should be declared a national disaster. The groping, shoe removal, liquid restrictions, etc are all just pitiful and terrible. The scanners are probably the least offensive thing TSA has don...
[20:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Lucky dude - 06Cislunar Boomerang to Miss Sri Lanka in November - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:34:36] <exec> 08└─I had to re-read the headline and summary twice before I figured out Miss Sri Lanka had nothing to do with this.
[20:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02Re:Popping zero pills a day - 06Scientists Say Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine Doesn't Work - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:34:52] <exec> 08└─The wife had a sinus infection that caused a 2-week headache with the occasional migraine and then a ruptured ear drum complete with blood coming out the ear. So, the DISCOMFORT did became an INJURY. I encouraged her to see the doctor long before the ear ruptured, but she thought it was too inconven...
[20:35:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''I hate Wal-Mart, partially for their politics'' - 06Scientists Say Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine Doesn't Work - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:35:10] <exec> 08└─drive an hour-plus to find a Target So, your alternative is another business that uses corporate profits to fund Reactionary organizations? [google.com] ...and you have to go out of your way to do that. Either I'm missing your logic or where you are you are simply stuck with the lesser of 2 evils. D...
[20:35:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SecurityGuy [1453] 02Re:Did the law do any good? - 06Scientists Say Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine Doesn't Work - 720 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:35:18] <exec> 08└─Oh, no. I absolutely hate that law. I've never used recreational drugs, other than alcohol (in moderation, I don't like being drunk) and caffeine. No judgement there, you do what you want with your body and as long as it doesn't affect me, I don't care. Just my choice. Now I have to sign some form w...
[20:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:lemmings - 06Scientists Say Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine Doesn't Work - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:35:31] <exec> 08└─You do realize that the rules are because folks were using it to make meth, right?
[20:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:lemmings - 06Scientists Say Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine Doesn't Work - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:35:34] <exec> 08└─How many people do we need to see die because of incompetent medical treatment and untested medicine? We have rules like this because legalization wasn't working. In most cases these aren't things that can be made in a cost effective manner in small batches.
[20:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:lemmings - 06Scientists Say Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine Doesn't Work - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:35:36] <exec> 08└─So the FDA and medical board are immoral? Are you reading what you've written?
[20:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:Humans Need Not Apply - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:36:12] <exec> 08└─Let's put some specifics into this scenario: B: "Greg, I realize that you're a good worker, but you came to work yesterday so drunk that seventeen workers got secondary alcohol poisoning from your breath. The policy requires me to suspend you for three days; that's the most lenient action that I am...
[20:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''recession'' - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:36:57] <exec> 08└─Pure demand-side ideology is just as broken as pure supply-side ideology. Even if you're a doctrinaire Keynesian, it depends on the comparative multiplier effect obtained from the money going to expenditures, investments and so on. From that perspective it might make more sense to simply accept a 90...
[20:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why the org chart? - 06US IRS Bought Stingray, Stingray II, and Hailstorm IMSI-Catchers - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:33] <exec> 08└─In this mission you will face 13 enemies. They are specialists in surveillance. Here are dossiers with their photos and biographies. Study them well. On completion of this mission you will receive 1250 XP and 60,000 credits.
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[21:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:cyclical - 06Hospital Messed Up Medications in Half of Surgeries — How Common is it? - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:34:22] <exec> 08└─> who does NOT make mistakes? *raises hand* (Life is pretty easy when you can always blame your programmers) Back to topic, when too many errors are detected, something structural is going on. Are hospital staff overutilized? Are meds tested with really no bias or vested interests? I dunno, I ask.
[21:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03unzombied [4572] (Score:2) 02Re:cyclical - 06Hospital Messed Up Medications in Half of Surgeries — How Common is it? - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:34:23] <exec> 08└─What I want to see, is for everyone to go after the insurance companies. They are responsible for much that is wrong with "health care" in this nation.
[21:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Perspective - 06Hospital Messed Up Medications in Half of Surgeries — How Common is it? - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:25] <exec> 08└─You need to put that in perspective when you consider our increased lifespans, decreased mortality and morbidity rates overall in procedures, and very good overall indicators of "health" in modern populations around the world. Do mistakes happen? You bet. Do "unintended side effects happen (by FAR t...
[21:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I pissed off a doctor... - 06Hospital Messed Up Medications in Half of Surgeries — How Common is it? - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:27] <exec> 08└─because what he was prescribing me was the wrong medicine. After a bit of arguing with him, he finally looked it up in his PDR and found I was right.
[21:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Unconstitutional - 06Court Orders TSA to Finalize Rule on Full-Body Scanners - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:34:37] <exec> 08└─The dirty laundry does not get aired, at least not easily OR freely. People in the US are bought off or disappeared just as in other countries, but there is an open tolerance towards criticism as long as it doesn't cross the line or get too vocal. The Occupy movement proved this, and shockingly thes...
[21:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:TSA insanity - 06Court Orders TSA to Finalize Rule on Full-Body Scanners - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:34:41] <exec> 08└─It wasn't "terrorism" that won, the whole concept has been hijacked to inspire fear in the populace and enact police state style policies. I'm sure the perpetrators enjoy seeing the erosion of our freedoms, but it wasn't their purpose. Their purpose is to enact vengeance and attempt to dissuade inte...
[21:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:Lucky dude - 06Cislunar Boomerang to Miss Sri Lanka in November - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:34:51] <exec> 08└─And into the ocean.
[21:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02This is kind of sad - 06Cislunar Boomerang to Miss Sri Lanka in November - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:54] <exec> 08└─Poor Jebehiah Kerman. After he used up the last delta-v in his attempt to leave Mun's orbit, all that was left was the monopropellant in his EVA suit. It has taken him all this time to get his body back home. But his oxygen ran out long, long ago. Farewell, sweet prince. The people at the Mystery Go...
[21:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02apollo - 06Cislunar Boomerang to Miss Sri Lanka in November - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:56] <exec> 08└─I thought this was confirmed to be Apollo junk, but I guess not
[21:35:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Re:Popping zero pills a day - 06Scientists Say Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine Doesn't Work - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:35:08] <exec> 08└─I've tripped from a lot less than 2 - 3 whole nutmeg nuts, but I wouldn't recommend it. Lasted about 14 hours, weird hallucinations, dehydration like you wouldn't believe and my hands shook so much I couldn't hold anything. No fun at all.
[21:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:Did the law do any good? - 06Scientists Say Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine Doesn't Work - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:35:40] <exec> 08└─I use the stuff so rarely, that I never even thought about the limit. So that's where my comment was coming from. I didn't know it was possible to reach the limit so easily.
[21:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Did the law do any good? - 06Scientists Say Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine Doesn't Work - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:35:42] <exec> 08└─I never had a problem with it until earlier this year. I'm still not exactly sure what happened - by my math I shouldn't have been near it, but I wasn't tracking it closely; just doing a basic in my head calculation that implied I wouldn't be getting near it.
[21:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:lemmings - 06Scientists Say Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine Doesn't Work - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:35:55] <exec> 08└─Does it look like I give a fuck about meth heads when I want a drug that fucking works?
[21:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:lemmings - 06Scientists Say Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine Doesn't Work - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:36:00] <exec> 08└─Yes, I believe compulsory monopolies like those are immoral.
[21:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So what do we do... - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:36:58] <exec> 08└─The strongest weapon to shift geopolitical balances isn’t nukes or missiles, it’s technology
[21:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score:2) 02Re:So what do we do... - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:37:04] <exec> 08└─Obligatory: https://xkcd.com [xkcd.com]
[21:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Elephant in the room - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:37:22] <exec> 08└─Oh I do blame Carter for a great many things. What you missed with your own partisan goggles on is I also blamed Bush.
[21:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:''recession'' - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:37:25] <exec> 08└─Wait, did we agree on something?
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[23:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03pinchy [777] (Score:1) 02Well done mr price - 06Update: $70k Salaries Didn't "Backfire"; Gravity Payments' Profits Have Doubled - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:48] <exec> 08└─Its good to see this worked out. Its commendable just to have a company stay profitable at a steady state, they dont have to grow like some cancer for it to be a success IMO. Anyone here work in this industry or have dealt with this company before? I work on the POS side and currently trying to ge...
[23:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score:2) 02Re:Well done mr price - 06Update: $70k Salaries Didn't "Backfire"; Gravity Payments' Profits Have Doubled - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:36:49] <exec> 08└─Off topic, but the thing that bugs me about EMV [wikipedia.org] is that since some retailers now force me to use the chip instead of swiping, and it is inevitably 10 times the wait, and often needs to be restarted. Right now, it's just a pain in the ass for no perceived benefit. I know that it is su...
[23:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Two bungholes that won't be missed - 06Update: $70k Salaries Didn't "Backfire"; Gravity Payments' Profits Have Doubled - 1637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:50] <exec> 08└─I have found it very amusing, ever since this was first announced, how angry it makes so many [conservatives/capitalists] that someone would dare to just voluntarily start paying all his employees an excellent wage, as if this is some sort of crime against capitalism or will result in widespread eco...
[23:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score:2) 02Causes of mental illness - 06Scientists Theorize Inflammation May Trigger Some Mental Illnesses - 810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:59] <exec> 08└─It's not like there [webmd.com]isn't [mayoclinic.org] a huge [wikipedia.org] amount [thekimfoundation.org] to say [apa.org] about it already. I'm sure there are dozens if not hundreds of individual causes to various types of mental illnesses that have yet to be discovered. I'm all for treating root...
[23:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score:2) 02Re:Valid problem, but also a bit of hyperventilat - 06Hospital Messed Up Medications in Half of Surgeries — How Common is it? - 2060 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:09] <exec> 08└─The more important, but non-obvious, reason this article was published from the anesthesia perspective is interesting. On a meta level, why would Harvard be publishing data that amounts to "anesthesiologists are terrible" - and not just any anesthesiologists, their department?! To understand this we...
[23:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Valid problem, but also a bit of hyperventilat - 06Hospital Messed Up Medications in Half of Surgeries — How Common is it? - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:11] <exec> 08└─I'd be more willing to believe this if it came from MedicineMajor rather than Phisicsmajor.
[23:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Valid problem, but also a bit of hyperventilat - 06Hospital Messed Up Medications in Half of Surgeries — How Common is it? - 1432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:13] <exec> 08└─I haven't dug through all the inter-twined associations, but a cursory glance at the paper suggests very little about Harvard, other than the hospital is a teaching hospital for Harvard. The University probably exercises little in the way of control over papers published by hospital people. The mone...
[23:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:A validproblem, but also a bit of hyperventilat - 06Hospital Messed Up Medications in Half of Surgeries — How Common is it? - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:14] <exec> 08└─If they were not labelled, this was counted as an error, even if the personnel did not mix up the drugs.
[23:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:cyclical - 06Hospital Messed Up Medications in Half of Surgeries — How Common is it? - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:17] <exec> 08└─See column 2 of page 8 of the PDF linked to the Anesthesiology link in TFS. It lists some items that may affect the outcome. Also be aware, no patients died or were seriously injured as a result of discoveries in this study.
[23:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score:2) 02Re:cyclical - 06Hospital Messed Up Medications in Half of Surgeries — How Common is it? - 1030 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:19] <exec> 08└─From my not-quite six decade perspective, this is a cyclical thing. As a kid of maybe 15, I recall an expose on surgeons leaving swabs and sponges inside of their patients. Another some years later about women receiving Caeserian sections when it was unwarranted. Another time, it was anasthesiologis...
[23:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Life - 06Hospital Messed Up Medications in Half of Surgeries — How Common is it? - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:20] <exec> 08└─No matter what you do, you won't survive it. Or, as I prefer to put it, don't take life so seriously, it's just temporary. Your second paragraph makes a lot of sense though. No group should get away with self reporting, self analyzing, and self grading itself. That's the problem with the police toda...
[23:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Perspective - 06Hospital Messed Up Medications in Half of Surgeries — How Common is it? - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:22] <exec> 08└─You need to put that in perspective when you consider our increased lifespans, decreased mortality and morbidity rates overall in procedures, and very good overall indicators of "health" in modern populations around the world.
[23:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:Perspective - 06Hospital Messed Up Medications in Half of Surgeries — How Common is it? - 1284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:24] <exec> 08└─Which indicators? Infant mortality. Maternal mortality. Life expectancy at birth. At age 60. And the list goes on and on [who.int]. There are long term trends and short term trends. In some countries obesity is on the rise. Heart disease seems to be linked with economic development - poor nations ha...
[23:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Perspective - 06Hospital Messed Up Medications in Half of Surgeries — How Common is it? - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:26] <exec> 08└─Just look up the age at death of historical figures sometime. If people were moderately well off and didn't die of violence or in early childhood, they lived just as long or longer than today hundreds, even thousands of years ago. Nearly all the "advantages" of modern medicine are illusory. Not ever...
[23:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I pissed off a doctor... - 06Hospital Messed Up Medications in Half of Surgeries — How Common is it? - 676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:27] <exec> 08└─orly? I pissed off a doctor by taking an interest in my own condition caring about what medication (a.k.a poisons) I take into my body and not just blindly submitting to both hir authority and prescriptions. Still looking for a good doctor. So far I have met more drug dealers who care and are willin...
[23:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Unconstitutional - 06Court Orders TSA to Finalize Rule on Full-Body Scanners - 1475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:38] <exec> 08└─You couldn't be more wrong. The average American isn't lacking a spine at all. Watch what happens once you piss off some of them. #BlackLivesMatter isn't run by spineless people, but people that have finally been pissed off enough to sacrifice for a goal. What's going on is apathy which is distinctl...
[23:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:TSA insanity - 06Court Orders TSA to Finalize Rule on Full-Body Scanners - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:43] <exec> 08└─As far as TSA goes, burn it to the ground and start over.
[23:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dale [539] (Score:2) 02Re:TSA insanity - 06Court Orders TSA to Finalize Rule on Full-Body Scanners - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:44] <exec> 08└─A rebuild from the ground up could start fresh and stay within the needed 4th amendment rights and allow for sane and effective security. To get the fresh rebuild from the ground up though the whole thing has to be burned.
[23:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:TSA insanity - 06Court Orders TSA to Finalize Rule on Full-Body Scanners - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:46] <exec> 08└─How? What "sane and effective" security do you have in mind that doesn't violate the constitution? Because we can't have government thugs searching people.
[23:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:TSA insanity - 06Court Orders TSA to Finalize Rule on Full-Body Scanners - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:48] <exec> 08└─A locked cockpit door
[23:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:TSA insanity - 06Court Orders TSA to Finalize Rule on Full-Body Scanners - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:49] <exec> 08└─Well, we have that, but does it necessarily relate to the TSA? I'm just wondering where this New TSA comes in.
[23:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:TSA insanity - 06Court Orders TSA to Finalize Rule on Full-Body Scanners - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:51] <exec> 08└─Just wait until they secure railroad stations, stadiums, and schools.
[23:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03N3Roaster [3860] (Score:2) 02Re:TSA insanity - 06Court Orders TSA to Finalize Rule on Full-Body Scanners - 957 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:53] <exec> 08└─People complain about things that affect them. Most air travellers are not getting groped. The shoe removal and liquid restrictions are generally seen as silly but easily anticipated. The scanners, on the other hand, slow things down and at a busy airport it slows things down far too much. For those...
[23:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Beryllium Sphere (r) (5062) (Score:2) 02Also failed to do a cost/benefit analysis - 06Court Orders TSA to Finalize Rule on Full-Body Scanners - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:55] <exec> 08└─The man who put together the security for Ben Gurion Airport is someone people should listen to. He called the porn scanners expensive and useless. By now I believe everyone knows the story of how they got approved in the first place? Chertoff and the consulting contract?
[23:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02META: be more direct - 06Cislunar Boomerang to Miss Sri Lanka in November - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:05] <exec> 08└─please don't have any "tongue-in-cheek" stuff because not everyone reads SciFi books, even those considered classics. all this does is confuse the issue on a site that literally has "news" in the title. i'm also not inclined to click 9 different links, keep it down to one of two. the point is to sum...
[23:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sudafed - 06Scientists Say Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine Doesn't Work - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:38:43] <exec> 08└─When I was younger, before Rhinocort burned my passages clear, I was visiting relatives in the country when I caught something nasty. I waited overnight for the town pharmacy to open. When it did I had a nasty shock. No sudafed. WTF. I knew how to fix that problem. Take sudafed and ride it out. They...
[23:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:Did the law do any good? - 06Scientists Say Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine Doesn't Work - 1354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:38:54] <exec> 08└─Ding I have chosen to suffer silently (and with difficulty breathing) than to sign up for the list. No, as a law abiding citizen I do NOT want to be on yet another list. That will likely never go away. If anything, people in China will find out I have allergies before my insurance company is willing...
[23:39:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:lemmings - 06Scientists Say Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine Doesn't Work - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:39:08] <exec> 08└─This is beside the point. According to the WP article, the law didn't do shit to reduce the availability of meth. So all it does is hassle regular people, for no benefit whatsoever.
[23:39:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Humans Need Not Apply - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:39:47] <exec> 08└─Actually, the policy book in many places is so complex, that the exact same performance behavior can be rewarded or punished. Lots of companies subscribe to these policy manuals from commercial sources. They are often so generic and obtuse that even HR doesn't understand them, but that seminar they...
[23:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Humans Need Not Apply - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:39:48] <exec> 08└─Good observation. Points, man.
[23:39:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Humans Need Not Apply - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:39:52] <exec> 08└─At which point you should go happily. If you were doing anything important it would set the company back much more than it would hurt you. If they have any competition, go there immediate and seek employment. If you weren't doing anything important and the job can be filled by any warm corpse, then...
[23:40:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score:2) 02Re:Efficiency - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:40:03] <exec> 08└─I would say that stocks are the ULTIMATE in collectibles.
[23:40:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:So what do we do... - 06Where Are the Jobs Really? - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:40:13] <exec> 08└─Tomorrow I will tell you a story.
[23:40:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:guinea pigs - 06Cognitive Enhancement May Not be All It's Cracked Up To Be. - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:40:58] <exec> 08└─Ummm... with an LD50 of 192mg/KG in rats? This is an out and out poison. Alcohol, a substance many consider to be a poison and will not put in their body has an LD50 of 7060mg/KG, it is completely benign by comparison. Even bleach is safer, with an LD50 of 850mg/KG. Would you eat bleach? Caffeine is...
[23:40:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I'd sure eat 95 mg of bleach, easily. - 06Cognitive Enhancement May Not be All It's Cracked Up To Be. - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:40:59] <exec> 08└─Would I eat bleach? If 95 milligrams of it gave me all the perks of coffee, I'd sure eat 95 milligrams of it. Hell, I could go higher, since I'm diluting the 3 hundreths of an ounce of bleach in a few ounces of water at least, no problem. Comparing something to bleach is silly. Your visual is a gian...
[23:41:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03iamjacksusername [1479] 02Re:Some math - 06US Regulators Issue First Nuclear Plant Operating License Since 1996 - 2442 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:41:55] <exec> 08└─" 40 years too late, billions over budget, and licensed by an agency that really couldn't say NO, was done by, wait for it..... Big Government" To be fair, once Three Mile Island happened, new nuclear construction was completely stopped. Environmental groups rode the wave of public outrage and the a...
[23:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bryan [29] (Score:2) 02Re:Some math - 06US Regulators Issue First Nuclear Plant Operating License Since 1996 - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:41:58] <exec> 08└─In other words, nuclear is MS or Apple.
[23:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score:2) 02Re:Some math - 06US Regulators Issue First Nuclear Plant Operating License Since 1996 - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:42:05] <exec> 08└─License is for 40 years (and a 20 year extension wouldn't be surprising).. What is the expected lifespan of the setup you had in mind? (Also - what would your plan be [and at wgat cost] to provide power during the night?) And your quip about politics - nuclear is refreshingly non-political (here in...
[23:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:MADD - 06Uber Partners With NJ Town to Provide Free Rides to Cut Drunk Driving - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:42:28] <exec> 08└─It has become a no-prohibitionist organization
[23:44:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:Meanwhile in reality - 06Paul Vixie: New TLDs a Money Grab, and a Mistake - 120 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:44:14] <exec> 08└─WHOIS private registrations are used to hide criminal activity. Stalking, harassment, swatting just about never happens,
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