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[16:32:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score:2) 02Expansive definitions. - 06Silk Road "Mentor" Arrested in Thailand - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:32:16] <exec> 08└─I'm struck by the number of things that they're calling criminal behavior that have to do with "advising" someone. While there's some reasonable charges here, I'm disturbed by the number of activities that are being alleged to be criminal activities here. Among other things, CLARK counseled Ulbrich...
[16:32:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Expansive definitions. - 06Silk Road "Mentor" Arrested in Thailand - 765 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:32:22] <exec> 08└─There's a concept in US law called "Material Support". When you provide money, financial services, expertise, tools, lodging, or training for someone you know to be committing a major crime(typically terrorism or other organized crime) then you've committed a felony. For the US, that does include pr...
[16:32:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Now before we get all Left/Right, Red/Blue - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:32:30] <exec> 08└─Heck, a reasonable person might even conclude that these ills aren't exclusively the province of government activities, but also include a measure of judgement against society as a whole. I'd go as far as argue it's exclusively a measure of judgement against society. Societies get the governments th...
[16:32:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Redundant) 02Re:Now before we get all Left/Right, Red/Blue - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:32:37] <exec> 08└─OP here, glad you see things my way--the "Meta way." Now I guess we'll see if anyone else does. :)
[16:32:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:1, Offtopic) 02Re:Now before we get all Left/Right, Red/Blue - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:32:44] <exec> 08└─That's some nice just world fallacy there. The majority of voters in 2014 voted for democratic representatives and senators, and we still ended up with a republican dominated house and senate because of old, irrelevant constitutional compromises coupled with systemic abuse of the districting system....
[16:32:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:Now before we get all Left/Right, Red/Blue - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 963 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:32:50] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, rejecting partisan interpretation when one major political party has had overwhelming success with pushing an agenda that actively promotes each of the indicators in the summary is perhaps more than a bit simplistic, and refuses answers simply because they are divisive. To say tha...
[16:32:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Now before we get all Left/Right, Red/Blue - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:32:57] <exec> 08└─The US is a fascist state already. Trump is simply taking it to the next logical step - Nazi.
[16:33:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Now before we get all Left/Right, Red/Blue - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:33:04] <exec> 08└─On what grounds do you deem the core ideology of the United States fascist? I do see the currents of nationalism and militarism carried all over the place, but that's not all it takes.
[16:33:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:4, Informative) 02Re:Now before we get all Left/Right, Red/Blue - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:33:11] <exec> 08└─The "Core ideology of the United Sates" and what the United States actually does are two very different things. On paper, the US is all about freedom, justice, peace and prosperity. In practise.... not so much. I mean if I declare my "core ideology" to be pacifist and then immediately go about killi...
[16:33:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Now before we get all Left/Right, Red/Blue - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:33:18] <exec> 08└─The thing is that fascism is an ideology. You can be shitty and militaristic and violent without actively subscribing to fascism. You could certainly make the case that fascist ideologies is embedded in places of power rather than the citizenry or national identity, but I'd still be curious to where...
[16:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Now before we get all Left/Right, Red/Blue - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:33:24] <exec> 08└─You've lost me. Who is the self-declared fascist here?
[16:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Now before we get all Left/Right, Red/Blue - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:33:31] <exec> 08└─Self-description isn't (strictly) important. Believing in the core elements of the ideology is. I want to know who you think the fascist believers are.
[16:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score:2) 02Obligatory - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:33:33] <exec> 08└─Say what you will about the tenets of national socialism. At least it's an ethos.
[16:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Now before we get all Left/Right, Red/Blue - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 1718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:33:35] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_fascism [wikipedia.org] Emilio Gentile pretty much hits it on the node. Flynn, all the same. Note that its a mistake to think shrill SJWs represent contemporary thought. They get attention precisely because they are so far from mainstream thought. Admitte...
[16:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Now before we get all Left/Right, Red/Blue - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:33:37] <exec> 08└─I hope you won't take this the wrong way, but it seems like you took one of the least specific definitions on that page(I've found Umberto Eco's definitions to be much better and more respected in that regard) and then stretched it to target your clearly personally disliked political opponents. I ca...
[16:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Now before we get all Left/Right, Red/Blue - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 1345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:33:39] <exec> 08└─I didn't have to stretch very hard. Not because they as a little group are almost there, but because the whole country is almost there so naturally that little group I dislike fits under an only mildly stretched moniker. That's the interesting part, that our extreme left is none the less far right....
[16:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Now before we get all Left/Right, Red/Blue - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:33:41] <exec> 08└─The corporate crony capitalism that defines a fascist regime has been incrementally crafted via lobbying and "campaign contributions" since the 1960's, giving us a fascist government in fact if not law. We differ from Il Duce's Italy in that A) we have two corrupt parties, not one and B) we have a j...
[16:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score:2) 02Re:Now before we get all Left/Right, Red/Blue - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:33:42] <exec> 08└─The corporate crony capitalism that defines a fascist regime has been incrementally crafted via lobbying and "campaign contributions" since the 1960's, giving us a fascist government in fact if not law.
[16:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Now before we get all Left/Right, Red/Blue - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:33:44] <exec> 08└─Imagine what basic income would do to this widespread corruption. Suddenly more people would have nothing better to do than pay attention to what their government is doing.
[16:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Now before we get all Left/Right, Red/Blue - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:33:46] <exec> 08└─Nazi = National Socialist Party. Fascinating overlap between fascism/communishm/socialism in the 20s, 30s, and 40s. Difficult for our sound-byte-driven world to grok at times.
[16:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03TobascoKid [5980] (Score:1) 02Re:Now before we get all Left/Right, Red/Blue - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:33:48] <exec> 08└─Suddenly more people would have nothing better to do than pay attention to what their government is doing
[16:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02Re:Now before we get all Left/Right, Red/Blue - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:33:50] <exec> 08└─It's not just America, Europe is on a very similar slope, and I'm not so sure about the others. I believe that a lot of young people must be disgruntled with how society is working for them. Add the lack of control they're feeling, and many can be reeled in by any ideology that promises them a bette...
[16:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Oh here we go - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:52] <exec> 08└─Comrade _gewg is at it again with his anti-american rants. The American Dream is to fuck your fellowcountryman in the ass, that's why you're so obsessed with buttsex. Of course John Paulson is honoured, he embodies that dream, a son of immigrants, survived public school, an entrepreneur. What's not...
[16:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Oh here we go - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:33:54] <exec> 08└─What is troll about this? The fact that someone who is probably 'succeeding' in this adversary, finds it so? It does sound angry or a little tense but that doesn't mean its not a accurate representation for one little part of the travesty of voting for only what you are given.
[16:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Oh here we go - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:33:56] <exec> 08└─I'm guessing it was a case of "you're not wrong, Walter, you're just an asshole."
[16:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Oh here we go - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:33:58] <exec> 08└─He gambled many people's money to enrich himself. Fuck him. That's whats not to like. I can waste my money on my own.
[16:33:59] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02Mental illness - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 1361 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:00] <exec> 08└─"One in Four Americans Suffer Mental Illness;" I call bullshit. People are diagnosed with mental illnesses primarily for the purpose of selling them drugs for that illness. Ever notice that drugs don't cure those mental illnesses, they only "control" the illnesses? Worse, people have been told that...
[16:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mental illness - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:34:01] <exec> 08└─FUD FUD FUD. Shill Shill Shill Shill. Sure and why are those drug ads now legal? Lack of personal representation and more corporate graft, ahem lobbying. It all comes down to lack of control of a few and a large amount of people who have given up on a uncomfortable truth.
[16:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score:4, Funny) 02Re:Mental illness - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:34:03] <exec> 08└─To counter your rant. I feel much better now that I am on 200mg a day of Placebo. Perhaps if you tried it you wouldn't be so angry. You could ask your doctor if Placebo is right for you.
[16:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Mental illness - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:34:05] <exec> 08└─Yeah - but - what's it cost? I don't want just any old placebo! If the alcohol content is high enough, I'll consider it.
[16:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score:2) 02Re:Mental illness - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:34:07] <exec> 08└─According to scientific research the expensive placebos work better: http://www.nytimes.com [nytimes.com] https://today.duke.edu [duke.edu] Follow up study with similar results: http://www.latimes.com
[16:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03TobascoKid [5980] (Score:1) 02Re:Mental illness - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:34:09] <exec> 08└─I prefer a homeopathic remedy, where I add a small amount of sugar to water and it remembers the Placebo molecules. It certainly get me through the day. Not that it makes any difference to the science behind it, but I tend to use hot water and add coffee granules for flavour.
[16:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Mental illness - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:34:11] <exec> 08└─The invention of the we've-given-them-labels-and-therefore-by-definition-they're-diseases list, more succinctly known as the DSM, was touched on in part 1 or 2 of the documentary /The Trap/. https://en.wikipedia.org . And the history isn't *just* big...
[16:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Mental illness - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:34:13] <exec> 08└─I got the torrent. Oh - I thought I was still seeding it, but not . . . Oh, I got stupid and moved it to a DVD instead of copying it. But, yeah, that documentary is enlightening!
[16:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snort [5141] (Score:1) 02Challenge - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:15] <exec> 08└─If you put InforWars and AlterNet in an arena in a fight to the death, who wins? Besides society if both died.
[16:34:16] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] 02Only one way out - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 1048 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:16] <exec> 08└─Of course this isn't an exclusively american problem, it's just that you lot are well ahead in the race to the bottom. The only way out of this - notice I say "way out" instead of "solution" - involves pitchforks, flaming torches, firing squads, civil unrest, maybe even civil war. Might be next year...
[16:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03TobascoKid [5980] (Score:0, Troll) 02Re:Only one way out - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:34:18] <exec> 08└─like the overprivileged victims of other peasant revolutions throughout history
[16:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Only one way out - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:34:20] <exec> 08└─Your butthurt is showing, as is your lack of reading comprehension. Where in my post did I say that I thought violent revolution was a good thing? Where did I say that after the revolution there will be a peaceful socialist workers paradise rather than decades of infighting and warfare and new shit...
[16:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score:2) 02Re:Only one way out - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:34:22] <exec> 08└─Half Disagree In your 50 year scenario we will be so drugged up that the only way we will be moving pitchforks is if there is a historical pitchfork/unrest simulator for PlayStation 12. Do americans know what an actual pitchfork is? Would they recognize it? This might be the only one most have s...
[16:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score:2) 02alternate persepectives - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:24] <exec> 08└─Got a case of the yeah whatevers. Four of the five points could be problems with corporations. (All but the violent crime one) The one about affording pills assumes you are entitled to those expensive pills. How many yeas from any medical invention until 51% of the population could "afford" it? Ma...
[16:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:alternate persepectives - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:34:26] <exec> 08└─1 in 4?
[16:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:alternate persepectives - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:34:28] <exec> 08└─https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/dear-media-stop-freaking-out-about-donald-trumps-polls/ [fivethirtyeight.com]
[16:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jiro [3176] (Score:2) 02This is a Gish Gallop - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 1174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:29] <exec> 08└─A Gish Gallop is an argument tactic where the person making the argument produces so many arguments that it is impossible to address them all, so no matter what you do it looks like you can't refute them. For instance, note that prisoners don't get let go just because people aren't committing furthe...
[16:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is a Gish Gallop - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:34:31] <exec> 08└─Agree, but it's the same tactic used whenever someone posts something that is non-PC relative to the site that s/he's posting. For example, if you post something against relaxation of laws against file sharing, you'll get 15 responses with 20 different types of arguments: greedy record company execu...
[16:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Interesting) 02The freeways - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:33] <exec> 08└─There used to be laws in most locations that say freeways can't have banner adds because it was considered a traffic distraction and hazard. Businesses have managed to get around that now. Now when you drive the freeway it's inundated with bright signs, digital signs, and in some cases very bright a...
[16:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The freeways - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:34:35] <exec> 08└─> There used to be laws in most locations that say freeways can't have banner adds When? I remember riding along interstates in the 70s and there were plenty of billboards then. AFAIK, there are only 4 states that ban billboards and they do it for scenery (tourism), not distraction. Hawaii, Alaska,...
[16:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The freeways - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:34:37] <exec> 08└─Here are some links http://www.fhwa.dot.gov [dot.gov] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] http://www.michigan.gov [michigan.gov]
[16:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Is this desirable - 06Global CO2 Emissions Decline in 2015 - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:34:39] <exec> 08└─A better analogy would be a pre-diabetic eating less calories than last year. If I were their doctor I'd view it as an encouraging step in the right direction, but they're still eating more than enough to gain weight.
[16:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Is this desirable - 06Global CO2 Emissions Decline in 2015 - 681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:34:41] <exec> 08└─Well there are proxies and there are proxies. If what you care about is "number of deaths by gunfire" then measuring the number of guns in public hands is not an exact proxy. Indeed, some people might have very opposite ideas about which way the proxy needs to trend for your issue to improve. On the...
[16:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Is this desirable - 06Global CO2 Emissions Decline in 2015 - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:34:43] <exec> 08└─I feel like this is a proxy measurement for what we actually care about. Like treating cholesterol instead of heart disease. It's not a proxy, C02 is a direct cause. It's more like treating lead poisoning by removing lead from the bloodstream.
[16:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:China - 06Global CO2 Emissions Decline in 2015 - 1483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:34:44] <exec> 08└─China's not even trying to green. They are at the peak of their bubble, kinda like the Japanese bubble of the 80s or the American bubble of the 1920s and 2000s. China's in for a world of hurt. Their collapse is going to be utterly epic. The article didn't report on Germany which is pretty crazy gree...
[16:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02invisible radioactivity - 06Global CO2 Emissions Decline in 2015 - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:46] <exec> 08└─more then half of new energy needs .. so if the new neads are like two percent then in 2015 1 percent was from "green" energy sources and most probably most of that 1 percent was radioactif nuclear... climate change is just a push for non co2 emitting sources sans hydro, wind and solar thus just lea...
[16:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:invisible radioactivity - 06Global CO2 Emissions Decline in 2015 - 906 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:34:48] <exec> 08└─> "green" energy sources and most probably most of that 1 percent was radioactif nuclear Fun fact: Nuclear power plants release less deadly radioactive stuff into the environment than coal power plants! You see, the coal that gets dug up out of the ground has all kinds of impurities in it, including...
[16:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03BananaPhone [2488] (Score:2) 02Re:invisible radioactivity - 06Global CO2 Emissions Decline in 2015 - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:34:50] <exec> 08└─Borrow a Gieger counter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geiger_counter) and go near a Coal plant. Oh. No coal plants? Buy a bag of coal and burn it. Use the Gieger counter one the ashes. HINT: You will not be happy with your discovery.
[16:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:invisible radioactivity - 06Global CO2 Emissions Decline in 2015 - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:34:52] <exec> 08└─you are all morons! if you weight all the radioactifity on the planet then burning coal yields no net gain. however splitting uranium, on a global scale INCRESES overall radioactifity of the planet. the radioactifity in coal was present already. coal plants dont generate radioactifity .. nukes howev...
[16:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:invisible radioactivity - 06Global CO2 Emissions Decline in 2015 - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:34:54] <exec> 08└─simple: shrink the planet to a billiard ball. measure radioactifity of billiard. next start burning coal on the billiard ball ... measure radioactifity compare ... its the same. now fission uranium on tthe billiard ball and watch how it cools and starts to grow two heads and three eyes ^_^ and how i...
[16:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Request - 06Global CO2 Emissions Decline in 2015 - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:56] <exec> 08└─Can there be an automatically included field for " associated scholarly journal article" attached to science-related articles? Often I have little interest in the media coverage.
[16:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Great idea - 06Finland: Universal Basic Income Planned for Later in 2016 - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:34:58] <exec> 08└─And seeing as how the Finns are doing much better by most measurements
[16:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Great idea - 06Finland: Universal Basic Income Planned for Later in 2016 - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:35:00] <exec> 08└─The majority of people work on old and boring things that will eventually be rationalized away.
[16:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Great idea - 06Finland: Universal Basic Income Planned for Later in 2016 - 949 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:35:02] <exec> 08└─Lots of people make lots of money off sport fishermen. The Buzzard is trying to be funny but going fishing would be economically useful. I hope he takes nice long fishing trips at expensive resorts in rented boats with hired guides and pays his state DNR fishing license and buys all kinds of gadgets...
[16:35:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03theluggage [1797] 02Re:Great idea - 06Finland: Universal Basic Income Planned for Later in 2016 - 80 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:35:03] <exec> 08└─How many will continue to work while lazy fucks get to mooch off of their sweat?
[16:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Great idea - 06Finland: Universal Basic Income Planned for Later in 2016 - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:35:05] <exec> 08└─The rest of the world is catching up and there won't always be the third world country to exploit. Also, a lot of modern work now requires more education and skills which the average third worlder won't have. Once they DO have the skills it doesn't take long for them to "correct" the system. Ugh, th...
[16:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03TobascoKid [5980] (Score:1) 02Re:Great idea - 06Finland: Universal Basic Income Planned for Later in 2016 - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:35:07] <exec> 08└─The rest of the world is catching up and there won't always be the third world country to exploit.
[16:35:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Great idea - 06Finland: Universal Basic Income Planned for Later in 2016 - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:35:09] <exec> 08└─I'm sure Anesthesia will complain it's not a good experiment because of Finland's high degree of racial homogeneity.
[16:35:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Great idea - 06Finland: Universal Basic Income Planned for Later in 2016 - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:35:11] <exec> 08└─I think you're confusing me with someone insane. That's the exact opposite of the kind of argument I typically make.
[16:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Great idea - 06Finland: Universal Basic Income Planned for Later in 2016 - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:35:13] <exec> 08└─So do you think this is a good, or at least interesting experiment? Will it tell us anything about how we should run our society?
[16:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03TobascoKid [5980] (Score:1) 02Re:Great idea - 06Finland: Universal Basic Income Planned for Later in 2016 - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:35:14] <exec> 08└─Yes I'm an evil fascist pig.
[16:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score:2) 02Re:Great idea - 06Finland: Universal Basic Income Planned for Later in 2016 - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:35:16] <exec> 08└─Ah but I'm one of the poor, who would like to be paid for posting on SN, playing video game, making random (often good in my biased opinion) suggestions on random topics around the world, and doing whatever else I find entertaining or interesting. I'm a poor evil fascist pig, not a rich and powerful...
[16:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Great idea - 06Finland: Universal Basic Income Planned for Later in 2016 - 1598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:35:18] <exec> 08└─And I'd probably salute you on my way to my job :-) Most people tend to be competitive and want to have just a little more than the neighbour. In the current society, once you are on social welfare, earning some money on top is punished, because reductions on benefits can easily be more than you ear...
[16:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Great idea - 06Finland: Universal Basic Income Planned for Later in 2016 - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:35:20] <exec> 08└─How many will continue to work while lazy fucks get to mooch off of their sweat? I know I wouldn't. I'd take the basic income and go fishing every day.
[16:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Great idea - 06Finland: Universal Basic Income Planned for Later in 2016 - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:35:22] <exec> 08└─How many will continue to work while lazy fucks get to mooch off of their sweat? I know I wouldn't. I'd take the basic income and go fishing every day.
[16:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Great idea - 06Finland: Universal Basic Income Planned for Later in 2016 - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:35:24] <exec> 08└─I strongly disagree with the parent post (although I think it inadvertently reveals more about the poster than about his opinions), but wouldn't call it a troll. Modders, Troll =/= disagree.
[16:35:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] 02A Dependant Is Powerless - 06Finland: Universal Basic Income Planned for Later in 2016 - 627 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:25] <exec> 08└─First they give you money, then you grow to depend on that money, then you are their slave. It is how we dealt with the Indian's up here in Canada, it is how every Drug pusher works. First we gave them alcohol, then we demanded payment. Then, after the war, we gave then housing, food, and money, and...
[16:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A Dependant Is Powerless - 06Finland: Universal Basic Income Planned for Later in 2016 - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:35:27] <exec> 08└─For $800 a month, I'd just sit on the couch and surf soydot all day.
[16:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A Dependant Is Powerless - 06Finland: Universal Basic Income Planned for Later in 2016 - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:35:29] <exec> 08└─I give you six months tops before you find something more productive to do. Unless you're a statistical outlier, then who cares?
[16:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A Dependant Is Powerless - 06Finland: Universal Basic Income Planned for Later in 2016 - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:35:31] <exec> 08└─This. I don't think most people have had to just sit around for any extended period of time, like in the case of an injury which requires it. It is completely miserable. You feel like a caged animal. Would some or even a decent portion try it as this program began? Yeah, probably. It really wouldn't...
[16:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score:2) 02Re:A Dependant Is Powerless - 06Finland: Universal Basic Income Planned for Later in 2016 - 823 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:35:33] <exec> 08└─I must say I agree with the above to some degree. I had spent some time at home, and by the end of it it was mind numbing. However, there were reasons which exist now that made it slightly less bearable that may not be there in the future. For one thing you felt disconnected from others who would go...
[16:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A Dependant Is Powerless - 06Finland: Universal Basic Income Planned for Later in 2016 - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:35:35] <exec> 08└─Weed is legal where I live, man.
[16:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score:2) 02Re:A Dependant Is Powerless - 06Finland: Universal Basic Income Planned for Later in 2016 - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:35:37] <exec> 08└─First, off, no. No matter how much money you make on the side, you will be relying on that 800 extra. And secondly, the cost of living will go up. That is what the free market is designed to do. The cost of everyu handbuger and every rental unit is directly based on how much money the people make.
[16:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marco2G [5749] (Score:2) 02Re:A Dependant Is Powerless - 06Finland: Universal Basic Income Planned for Later in 2016 - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:35:38] <exec> 08└─One wonders how this got voted Insightful. Then again, going from the US government you may well be right. I salute the Finns for having the guts to try this. I'll be interested to see the outcome.
[16:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Any opinions on Keurig II coffeemaker? - 06Keurig, Maker of K-cup Coffee Pods, Sold for $13.9 Billion - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:40] <exec> 08└─I'ved used Keurig at my last couple jobs at the office, and they work fine for me. Not as good as fresh ground, but much better than powdered instant, and more convenient too. At around $140, it's priced for Xmas.
[16:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score:1) 02Opinions on Keurig II coffeemaker - 06Keurig, Maker of K-cup Coffee Pods, Sold for $13.9 Billion - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:35:42] <exec> 08└─The II series are the ones with "coffee pod DRM". The coffee always tastes burned and over-extracted, even when I turn the water temperature down as low as it will go. The pods produce a lot of waste compared to fresh ground. For around $140, you could get a cheap burr grinder, an electric kettle, a...
[16:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Opinions on Keurig II coffeemaker - 06Keurig, Maker of K-cup Coffee Pods, Sold for $13.9 Billion - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:35:44] <exec> 08└─> For around $140, you could get a cheap burr grinder, an electric kettle, and a small french press, and make MUCH better single-serving coffee. You left out the biggest cost of all - more time. A lot more time.
[16:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score:2) 02Uh, I'm gonna have to ask you... - 06Low Tech Ways To Escape From Jail - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:35:46] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjJCdCXFslY [youtube.com]
[16:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02when you have an life sentence... - 06Low Tech Ways To Escape From Jail - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:48] <exec> 08└─... you have the rest of your life to figure out how to escape from jail... if you really want to leave.
[16:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kunasou [4148] (Score:2) 02Re:Get Palemoon and Fossamail - 06Mozilla Admits Financial Benefits of Pocket Integration - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:36:42] <exec> 08└─Also https://cve.mitre.org [mitre.org] was found on 16 September and fixed on 3 November. In release notes (25.8.0) they show this: Fixed a potentially vulnerable crash from a spinning event loop during resize painting. DiD Fixed several Javascript-based memory...
[16:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:Get Palemoon and Fossamail - 06Mozilla Admits Financial Benefits of Pocket Integration - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:36:43] <exec> 08└─I prefer to use a browser that isn't by a one-man band, thanks.
[16:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why use Firefox? - 06Mozilla Admits Financial Benefits of Pocket Integration - 2150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:37:00] <exec> 08└─back when I used netscape, and then was upset to see what netscape navigator 4.x turned into, i was happy when Firefox came out. Firefox seems to be doing what Netscape did before they failed. I am not the only one to mention this, but history sometimes repeats, as do I. That happiness mostly eroded...
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[17:53:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score:2) 02Re:Expansive definitions. - 06Silk Road "Mentor" Arrested in Thailand - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:53:49] <exec> 08└─Hmm. As I read it, "Material Support" is only illegal in the US as specifically in support of terrorism [wikipedia.org], not crime in general. The references I can find online in reference to Material Support refer to helping known (and explicitly designated) terrorist organizations.
[17:53:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Expansive definitions. - 06Silk Road "Mentor" Arrested in Thailand - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:53:55] <exec> 08└─I'm 90% sure that the laws existed first for the drug trade and were expanded to target terrorism in the 90s.
[17:54:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Expansive definitions. - 06Silk Road "Mentor" Arrested in Thailand - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:54:02] <exec> 08└─There's another concept in US law that would also be highly relevant: "Co-conspirator". If I'm sitting in a room with a group of guys going over detailed plans for a bank robbery and providing advice and helping them buy their AR-15's, and then those guys go and rob a bank, I'm legally guilty for wh...
[17:54:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Expansive definitions. - 06Silk Road "Mentor" Arrested in Thailand - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:54:09] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but co-conspirator has a higher threshold of evidence. You have to prove an agreement to commit a crime. From wikipedia: "Conspiracy has been defined in the United States as an agreement of two or more people to commit a crime, or to accomplish a legal end through illegal actions." Material su...
[17:54:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Expansive definitions. - 06Silk Road "Mentor" Arrested in Thailand - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:54:16] <exec> 08└─When you provide money, financial services, expertise, tools, lodging, or training for someone you know to be committing a major crime(typically terrorism or other organized crime) then you've committed a felony.
[17:54:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Fraud - 06Silk Road "Mentor" Arrested in Thailand - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:23] <exec> 08└─Mr Clark advised Ulbricht about the best way to run the site and how to evade the police.
[17:54:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Non-US citizen violates US law otside the US - 06Silk Road "Mentor" Arrested in Thailand - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:29] <exec> 08└─... So, on what base is US law applicable here again? On which base will he be extradited to US?
[17:54:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Non-US citizen violates US law otside the US - 06Silk Road "Mentor" Arrested in Thailand - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:54:36] <exec> 08└─The basis of the Long Arm of the USA: http://www.bloomberg.com [bloomberg.com] http://gizmodo.com [gizmodo.com] https://torrentfreak.com
[17:54:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Non-US citizen violates US law otside the US - 06Silk Road "Mentor" Arrested in Thailand - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:54:43] <exec> 08└─Oh how could I forget this too: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[17:54:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Pat Paulsen would say - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 886 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:54:48] <exec> 08└─Other people would just point out that the US was never "the country it used to be". Built on slavery and by extermination of the locals, fought a bloody civil war, which still left a large portion on the population unconvinced and another chunk riding at the back, robber barons, interning the Japs,...
[17:54:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02Re:Now before we get all Left/Right, Red/Blue - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 963 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:54:49] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, rejecting partisan interpretation when one major political party has had overwhelming success with pushing an agenda that actively promotes each of the indicators in the summary is perhaps more than a bit simplistic, and refuses answers simply because they are divisive. To say tha...
[17:54:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Now before we get all Left/Right, Red/Blue - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 1398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:54:51] <exec> 08└─The biggest fascists in the USA are in government, the military and in the boardrooms of the biggest (admittedly multinational) banks and businesses. They are all so closely intertwined that it's hard to pick them apart, to be honest. I'm sure if you asked any of them they would describe themselves...
[17:54:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Now before we get all Left/Right, Red/Blue - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:54:53] <exec> 08└─I can tacitly accept that interpretation as valid.
[17:54:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Now before we get all Left/Right, Red/Blue - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:54:55] <exec> 08└─I think that's pretty fair. Fascism, by its nature, is populist. Thus all populism is likely to reek a bit of it.
[17:54:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Now before we get all Left/Right, Red/Blue - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:54:57] <exec> 08└─It doesn't work that way. You aren't allowed to actually vote against someone, you can only vote for someone else. Not helpful when your choice is bungee or death.
[17:54:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Now before we get all Left/Right, Red/Blue - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:54:59] <exec> 08└─If only Candidate A was any less beholden to Wall $treet than Candidate B you might have a point. Hobson's Choice and all that. The mythical unicorn viable independent candidate doesn't exist in this universe. Key word: viable.
[17:55:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Now before we get all Left/Right, Red/Blue - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:55:01] <exec> 08└─Thats kinda like how North Korea(DPRK) isn't Democratic or a Republic right? Just cause its in the name doesn't make it true.
[17:55:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Now before we get all Left/Right, Red/Blue - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:55:03] <exec> 08└─this will persist. it is the realization in the young mind that she or he will be responsible for the world / infrastructure / government that the forfathers have build. even though they might be gone they are still around urging us to polish and clean their monuments ... its like being born on a hu...
[17:55:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:4, Informative) 02Re:Now before we get all Left/Right, Red/Blue - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:55:04] <exec> 08└─I recently read an article that showed that the chance of a bill passing was entirely unrelated to its popularity. That is, until you look at the bill's popularity amongst the hyper-wealthy, where there was a very strong correlation. What this shows is that the USA does not have a functioning democr...
[17:55:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh here we go - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:55:06] <exec> 08└─Even better, that's just what a good capitalist does, minimal risk, maximum profits. America! Fuck Yeah!
[17:55:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh here we go - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 890 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:55:08] <exec> 08└─And what's wrong with that? If he can convince people to invest in his ideas (as long as there's no deception involved), then he deserves the profit he negotiated. Just because one party gets a larger share of the profit doesn't mean that all parties aren't better off or those that got less were sli...
[17:55:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh here we go - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:55:10] <exec> 08└─There's nothing wrong with it, that's my point. It's the american dream in action. Not everyone wins, in fact most will lose, but everyone has a chance. Home Economics classes are sexist, so we can't teach those anymore. They were renamed to "Family and consumer science" [aafcs.org] in one of those...
[17:55:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Mental illness - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 1989 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:55:12] <exec> 08└─Actually, the medical ads that I'd love to see, but never will: "Ask your doctor if eating right and exercising is right for you!" Because both of those things have far greater effect than all the pharmaceuticals a lot of people are on. That said, I agree that there's probably a lot of over-diagnosi...
[17:55:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03SecurityGuy [1453] (Score:2) 02Re:Mental illness - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:55:14] <exec> 08└─Heh, I saw one in five recently and thought that was a load of BS. One in four is even more ridiculous.
[17:55:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03TobascoKid [5980] (Score:1) 02Re:Only one way out - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:55:16] <exec> 08└─And I'm saying that any uprising is highly likely to fail, and even if successful it would still ultimately fail those for whom the uprising was notionally supposed to help.
[17:55:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Only one way out - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:55:18] <exec> 08└─You said quite a bit more than that.
[17:55:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DNied [3409] (Score:2) 02Re:Only one way out - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:55:20] <exec> 08└─the only way we will be moving pitchforks is if there is a historical pitchfork/unrest simulator for PlayStation 12. Do americans know what an actual pitchfork is? Would they recognize it?
[17:55:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Only one way out - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:55:21] <exec> 08└─I'll make it easy for you: You're a fucking plhmraaltsfhnct.
[17:55:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:China - 06Global CO2 Emissions Decline in 2015 - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:55:23] <exec> 08└─China's not even trying to green. This 83.3 billion dollars says otherwise. [fs-unep-centre.org]
[17:55:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:China - 06Global CO2 Emissions Decline in 2015 - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:55:25] <exec> 08└─pretty much agree. but dont forget that russia could be very super high tech by 2020. they got a few super blue prints and scientiscts and methods from the ww2 germany (sputnik, helicopters, manufacturing) and europe is also super bigh tech overall. also russia was in the ring w/ usa for a long time...
[17:55:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:China - 06Global CO2 Emissions Decline in 2015 - 896 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:55:27] <exec> 08└─The problem with looking at country-wide economies is that there's always all sorts of bogus correlations and missed real correlations. As in, there are simply ridiculous numbers of economic decisions being made that may or may not be related to any other economic decision being made. It's possible...
[17:55:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:invisible radioactivity - 06Global CO2 Emissions Decline in 2015 - 916 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:55:29] <exec> 08└─The amount of radioactivity isn't anywhere near as important as where it is. The radioactivity in the coal (much like the carbon in the coal) was buried deep underground where it wasn't doing anyone any harm. Dig it up, burn it and suddenly you have pollutants in your lungs and little fishies nibbli...
[17:55:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Great idea - 06Finland: Universal Basic Income Planned for Later in 2016 - 1360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:55:40] <exec> 08└─Initially it might be small and only pay for a craphole. But it is a certainty, and everyone who voted to enact this is counting on it, that every future election will turn on exactly one issue. Resolved: Basic Income is too low and should be increased. A few politicians will take the con view and p...
[17:56:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Great idea - 06Finland: Universal Basic Income Planned for Later in 2016 - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:56:04] <exec> 08└─I've already posted exactly that sentiment elsewhere in this thread.
[17:56:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Great idea - 06Finland: Universal Basic Income Planned for Later in 2016 - 854 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:56:12] <exec> 08└─That's because you don't know what they *current* benefits system is paying out. Which is *more* than this wage-for-nothing (which is actually just a benefit, an unconditional one). People can already mooch for way more, and a fair chunk of the population is doing just that already. They'll get less...
[17:56:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Great idea - 06Finland: Universal Basic Income Planned for Later in 2016 - 731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:56:14] <exec> 08└─Have you considered that you're projecting your own moral failure onto everyone else? Personally, I've met a number of people who came out of their well earned retirement to return to work because it was cheaper than the mental ward. We live in a world where the OS created by a bunch of people in th...
[17:56:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Opinions on Keurig II coffeemaker - 06Keurig, Maker of K-cup Coffee Pods, Sold for $13.9 Billion - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:56:39] <exec> 08└─Waiting for a little water to boil. Oh the humanity. Put the kettle on, grind beans, have a quick breather, pour boiling water into press and serve. Takes 3-5 minutes depending on how fast your kettle boils or warms. And only fill it with enough water for your serving. People need to slow the fuck d...
[17:56:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03everdred [110] (Score:2) 02Mmmm - 06Keurig, Maker of K-cup Coffee Pods, Sold for $13.9 Billion - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:40] <exec> 08└─coffee++
[17:57:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pay a Lawyer - 06Low Tech Ways To Escape From Jail - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:57:05] <exec> 08└─"Money is low tech." What about bitcoins? Does that work? Do lawyers accept bitcoin?
[17:57:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Excaped - 06Low Tech Ways To Escape From Jail - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:57:18] <exec> 08└─I think they mean former superheros.
[17:57:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Celestial [4891] (Score:2) 02Re:Best smartphone OS? - 06Shops are Selling Devices with the Replicant Mobile OS Pre-Installed - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:57:54] <exec> 08└─IMO, the best privacy and usability combination you can get is a combination of Windows Phone, a VPN, and separate e-mail accounts for everything.
[17:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Typical reaction of governments - 06After Paris Attacks, Proposed French Law Would Block Tor and Forbid Free Wi-Fi - 1353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:59:35] <exec> 08└─I'm working with this general thought on the matter, all of which have significant evidence suggesting they are true: 1. The career spooks at the Three-Letter Agencies routinely lie to the politicians and political appointees about what they're doing. So it's quite possible that Barack Obama doesn't...
[18:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Say what? - 06Practical Recursion Schemes in Haskell - 836 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:00:30] <exec> 08└─I don't understand the obsession some people have with recursion. As a theoretical concept, it has its uses. As for it being a practical implementation of an algorithm, usually it is lacking (both in space and time measures). Since recursion can always be replaced with iteration, and iteration, even...
[18:00:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Start here - 06Practical Recursion Schemes in Haskell - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:00:44] <exec> 08└─The videos on that list may or may not contain my favorite talk of his which boiled down to why trying to run multi-threaded programs with a non-immutable language is a fools errand.
[18:00:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Meh - 06Practical Recursion Schemes in Haskell - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:00:49] <exec> 08└─The string manipulation is not built into the C language -- it is handled by a library. The C standard library string functions suck. Fortunately, this is replaceable by a better library, and everyone always does this. Too bad the C standards committee didn't recognize this and include support in th...
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[18:53:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02new? - 06Unholy Matrimony: Android on Win10 - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:32] <exec> 08└─But the apps have already been written, in Java, for Android.
[18:53:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:new? - 06Unholy Matrimony: Android on Win10 - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:53:38] <exec> 08└─Same shit from all platforms, language/vendor lock-in.
[18:53:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02Anything and MS is unholy... - 06Unholy Matrimony: Android on Win10 - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:45] <exec> 08└─This piece makes it seem that this is the first 'unholy matrimony' involving MS. It's not a new game, just this 'partner' is new to the game.
[18:53:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Android in a Docker Container? - 06Unholy Matrimony: Android on Win10 - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:52] <exec> 08└─Are there any (free) projects to run android in a docker container on linux? It would be so convenient to be able to run individual apps, each in their own isolated 'vm' at full desktop speed. I don't care about games really, but everything else ought to be fair game. I've looked into it in the past...
[18:53:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Android in a Docker Container? - 06Unholy Matrimony: Android on Win10 - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:53:59] <exec> 08└─there is Androidx86... http://distrowatch.com [distrowatch.com]
[18:54:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score:2) 02Re:Expansive definitions. - 06Silk Road "Mentor" Arrested in Thailand - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:06] <exec> 08└─Right, and that was my original point. As I see it, some of their "charges" equate to "conspiracy to provide tech support" and "conspiracy to open a bank account." "Conspiring" to do things that aren't illegal doesn't in GENERAL make them illegal. Conspiring to do things that ARE illegal, of course,...
[18:54:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02Re:Now before we get all Left/Right, Red/Blue - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 384 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:10] <exec> 08└─That's some nice just world fallacy there. The majority of voters in 2014 voted for democratic representatives and senators, and we still ended up with a republican dominated house and senate because of old, irrelevant constitutional compromises coupled with systemic abuse of the districting system....
[18:54:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Now before we get all Left/Right, Red/Blue - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 980 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:17] <exec> 08└─"old, irrelevant constitutional compromises" Seems relevant to me. Even current. Topical, in fact. The real question is the degree to which the result relates to the intended compromises. For instance, the founding fathers knew damn well that when you count votes, populations with few votes would be...
[18:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Now before we get all Left/Right, Red/Blue - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:24] <exec> 08└─Oh, yes, I'm sure the state legislature of my state that made the most unbalanced districts in the nation, while simultaneously cutting voting rights is interested in my petition for reforming that process. I'm noise-making because it's among the biggest issues of the era and the apathy people have...
[18:54:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03TobascoKid [5980] (Score:1) 02Re:Now before we get all Left/Right, Red/Blue - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:31] <exec> 08└─2 - They believe that war is just another way to make a profit.
[18:54:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:Now before we get all Left/Right, Red/Blue - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:37] <exec> 08└─Now, if I came in here and rightly stated that Donald Trump is an out-and-out fascist with policies barely distinguishable from the Nazis in early 1930s Germany, that would be pointless contentious political debate that adds nothing to the discussion.
[18:54:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Now before we get all Left/Right, Red/Blue - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:44] <exec> 08└─minor correction. Cheney has condemned Trump as not representing Republican ideals or American values.
[18:54:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Now before we get all Left/Right, Red/Blue - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:51] <exec> 08└─Trump is the officially endorsed candidate for white supremacy groups right now, calling him the "The Ultimate Savior" already.
[18:54:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Now before we get all Left/Right, Red/Blue - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:58] <exec> 08└─Now, if I came in here and rightly stated that Donald Trump is an out-and-out fascist with policies barely distinguishable from the Nazis in early 1930s Germany, that would be pointless contentious political debate that adds nothing to the discussion.
[18:55:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Now before we get all Left/Right, Red/Blue - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:55:05] <exec> 08└─That's a hackneyed right-wing canard. Nazis hijacked the term "socialist" because it was the hot new word of that time. They were in no way socialist or communist. They were fascist, and bitterly hated the socialists and communists. Note that this is not a defense of socialism or communism, but a fe...
[18:55:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Now before we get all Left/Right, Red/Blue - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 946 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:55:10] <exec> 08└─Not so fast, Quickdraw Sam. The Nazis were quite happy with many aspects of socialist approaches to things, and in fact co-opted them quite handily. They weren't communists, and didn't do the collective farming thing, but they had lots of employment and upliftment programmes, budgeted for schooling...
[18:55:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score:2) 02Re:Now before we get all Left/Right, Red/Blue - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:55:12] <exec> 08└─> However, if this descends into the predictable and tired false binaries of "Conservative vs. Liberal" (or Republican/Democrat, etc.), it will be disappointing. That's exactly what I'd expect a Republican to say.
[18:55:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score:2) 02Re:Now before we get all Left/Right, Red/Blue - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:55:14] <exec> 08└─> However, if this descends into the predictable and tired false binaries of "Conservative vs. Liberal" (or Republican/Democrat, etc.), it will be disappointing. That's exactly what I'd expect a Democrat to say.
[18:55:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh here we go - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:55:16] <exec> 08└─They were renamed to "Family and consumer science" in one of those bullshit left-wing feel-good policies.
[18:55:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh here we go - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:55:18] <exec> 08└─Were those facets ever in home economoics? In the past you had a job, earned a wage, and spent it on things you needed. Simples. Nowadays you're supposed to have investment portfoilos. As a rich capitalist, in order to make more money, I need the rest of the world to buy shiny things which give me a...
[18:55:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is this desirable - 06Global CO2 Emissions Decline in 2015 - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:55:19] <exec> 08└─No it isn't. This is like treating lead poisoning by eating 3.9% less lead compared to last year. Let's say you ate 10g of lead last year, and this year you instead ate 9.41g, next year you might just eat 9g...
[18:55:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Request - 06Global CO2 Emissions Decline in 2015 - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:55:21] <exec> 08└─No. But you are encouraged to dig up the scholarly article and post the URL in a comment to achieve the same effect for everybody else.
[18:55:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02This is NOT Socialism - 06Finland: Universal Basic Income Planned for Later in 2016 - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:55:28] <exec> 08└─Actual Socialism would determine the total amount of work required to be done in the area and divide that equally among the workers available and would have those workers deciding what to do with the profits (with each worker having an equal vote). If you still have a system where some workers are w...
[18:55:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Great idea - 06Finland: Universal Basic Income Planned for Later in 2016 - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:55:39] <exec> 08└─Who said I was a conservative, slappy? I'm a proper, oldschool meaning of the word, liberal. You know, the word rooted in Liberty. As in the liberty to do as you like with the products of your labor instead of having it taken from you by big brother for those too lazy or inept to earn their own.
[18:55:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Great idea - 06Finland: Universal Basic Income Planned for Later in 2016 - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:55:42] <exec> 08└─No way man, I got my own boat last month. Witness my dance of joy! No, it does not either look like the Snoopy dance.
[18:55:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Great idea - 06Finland: Universal Basic Income Planned for Later in 2016 - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:55:49] <exec> 08└─It's not a complicated or nuanced thing. You want money you're not entitled to because you did not earn it. You want men with guns to take it away from the ones who did earn it and give it to you. That is armed robbery and that is greed.
[18:55:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Great idea - 06Finland: Universal Basic Income Planned for Later in 2016 - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:55:51] <exec> 08└─Get a clue. This is one of the richest nations in the world. Our poor are better off than 90% of the rest of the world. All your little rant boils down to is "Mommy, Timmy got three cookies and I only got two!" Yeah, greed.
[18:55:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Great idea - 06Finland: Universal Basic Income Planned for Later in 2016 - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:55:59] <exec> 08└─"Evidence consistently shows"
[18:56:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Great idea - 06Finland: Universal Basic Income Planned for Later in 2016 - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:56:05] <exec> 08└─Looks like you have a new AC admirer. Lucky you!
[18:56:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Great idea - 06Finland: Universal Basic Income Planned for Later in 2016 - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:56:06] <exec> 08└─S'no skin off my nose. The entire wang of europe's GNP has been trending downward since roughly the time they decided socialism was a good thing anyway, I'm not averse to even more proof that socialism does not work and is evil.
[18:56:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Great idea - 06Finland: Universal Basic Income Planned for Later in 2016 - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:56:11] <exec> 08└─> (I imagine there aren't that many people who do a cleaning-job for the job-satisfaction) You'd be surprised [channel4.com]
[18:56:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Great idea - 06Finland: Universal Basic Income Planned for Later in 2016 - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:56:12] <exec> 08└─S'true but I wouldn't be doing it if it didn't benefit me as well; in the form of a useful site for example. I don't do altruism, it's evil.
[18:56:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Great idea - 06Finland: Universal Basic Income Planned for Later in 2016 - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:56:16] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that's why everyone gets mod points. So we as a community can self-correct bad moderations. This moderator in particular knows damned good and well I'm not trolling because we've talked politics on multiple occasions.
[18:56:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Great idea - 06Finland: Universal Basic Income Planned for Later in 2016 - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:56:19] <exec> 08└─And how many people do you think spend their spare time thinking how much they'd enjoy picking up your garbage, for instance? Some things would happen without financial incentive, some wouldn't.
[18:56:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Great idea - 06Finland: Universal Basic Income Planned for Later in 2016 - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:56:20] <exec> 08└─And that's why it's the BASIC income, not the Carribean island yacht club income. I'll bet there's probably plenty of people willing to drive a garbage truck in order to have more than the bare minimum. Especially now that it's mostly possible to do the job without ever getting out of the truck.
[18:56:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Coffee is Drugs - 06Keurig, Maker of K-cup Coffee Pods, Sold for $13.9 Billion - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:56:30] <exec> 08└─Grinding for sweet loot until 4am is so much better with caffeine : ) Do you view cars as just a faster way to get to work?
[18:57:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:change the law - 06Low Tech Ways To Escape From Jail - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:57:20] <exec> 08└─I could see the pot smokers as being called relatively harmless. I'm not so sure I would agree with your assessment of the drug dealers.
[18:57:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Crowdsourcing - 06Study: TV Advertising Falls Globally; Digital Poised to Overtake by End of 2017 - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:57:32] <exec> 08└─Advertising right now is a battlefield, and I'm a little nervous about what happens when the "enemy" realizes that the war is already lost. In other words, there's going to be quite a bump when they hit rock bottom because these people really do know how to whore a senator out like it's payday.
[18:57:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Death Spiral - 06Study: TV Advertising Falls Globally; Digital Poised to Overtake by End of 2017 - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:57:42] <exec> 08└─its likely to enter a death-spiral mode one of these days.
[18:57:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Best smartphone OS? - 06Shops are Selling Devices with the Replicant Mobile OS Pre-Installed - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:57:57] <exec> 08└─If you trust MS, that is. Together with Zarafa [blog.com] and DynDNS it can be great. You just have to be careful to disable all cloud - synchronizations.
[18:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:Despite minitel, the french were never tech sav - 06After Paris Attacks, Proposed French Law Would Block Tor and Forbid Free Wi-Fi - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:59:54] <exec> 08└─> I found out last week that 2/3 of the UK parliament, the law makers, are too retarded to know that the probability of two fair coins coming up both heads is 1/4. That's a terrific experiment. I'd try it in Italy but I guess that throwing two fair coins in the Parliament make them disappear forever...
[19:00:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:XKCD - 06Practical Recursion Schemes in Haskell - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:00:41] <exec> 08└─Right, you want to look cool. It's not working, but at least we get it.
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[19:53:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Tampered! - 06GnuPG 2.1.10 Released - 929 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:29] <exec> 08└─Hold on, this article isn't signed! It might have been tampered with! -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iQIfBCABAgAJBQJSTxNSAh0AAAoJEIKHahUxGx+E15EP/1BL2pCTqSG9IYbz4CMN bCW9HgeNpb24BK9u6fAuyH8aieLVD7It80LnSg/+PgG9t4KlzUky5sOoo54Qc3rD H+JClu4oaRpq25vWd7+Vb2oOwwd/...
[19:53:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02old news and not very accurate - 06Unholy Matrimony: Android on Win10 - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:42] <exec> 08└─First off, this was news... about two years ago. [umpcportal.com] Secondly, this is NOT a compatibility layer because it runs full the Android for x86 OS. This is more like VMWare with specific tweaks for Android than anything else. In other words, Microsoft was trying to do something like WINE (and...
[19:53:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Android - 06Unholy Matrimony: Android on Win10 - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:49] <exec> 08└─But the apps have already been written, in Java, for Android.
[19:54:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Non-US citizen violates US law otside the US - 06Silk Road "Mentor" Arrested in Thailand - 924 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:54:03] <exec> 08└─So, wait. What's your point? A Russian steals $100M from US citizens and businesses, and they grab him with cooperation of local officials. So what is your point? That one can commit any crime against a state and as long as they stay out of that state, no repercussions? So what are your thoughts on...
[19:54:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02Re:Pat Paulsen would say - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 886 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:54:08] <exec> 08└─Other people would just point out that the US was never "the country it used to be". Built on slavery and by extermination of the locals, fought a bloody civil war, which still left a large portion on the population unconvinced and another chunk riding at the back, robber barons, interning the Japs,...
[19:54:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:Pat Paulsen would say - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:54:15] <exec> 08└─Why do you think the glasses are rose colored? Helps hide the bloodstains...
[19:54:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score:1) 02Re:Now before we get all Left/Right, Red/Blue - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:54:22] <exec> 08└─Dammit! I had a finger-check on the moderation - please excuse me!
[19:54:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Now before we get all Left/Right, Red/Blue - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:54:29] <exec> 08└─All fixed. No worries.
[19:54:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] 02Re:Now before we get all Left/Right, Red/Blue - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 1398 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:54:32] <exec> 08└─The biggest fascists in the USA are in government, the military and in the boardrooms of the biggest (admittedly multinational) banks and businesses. They are all so closely intertwined that it's hard to pick them apart, to be honest. I'm sure if you asked any of them they would describe themselves...
[19:54:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02Re:Now before we get all Left/Right, Red/Blue - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 431 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:54:35] <exec> 08└─I hope you won't take this the wrong way, but it seems like you took one of the least specific definitions on that page(I've found Umberto Eco's definitions to be much better and more respected in that regard) and then stretched it to target your clearly personally disliked political opponents. I ca...
[19:54:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Now before we get all Left/Right, Red/Blue - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:54:53] <exec> 08└─If religion is the opium of the people, CSPAN is the Prozac.
[19:55:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh here we go - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:55:02] <exec> 08└─If the government teaches them how to earn more money and then use that money to acquire even more money, after a while they can afford many more or higher cost trinkets. I don't think sales of shiny things would stop, just slow temporarily until the purchasing power caught back up and then would ac...
[19:55:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:China - 06Global CO2 Emissions Decline in 2015 - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:55:18] <exec> 08└─re-enacting Vietnam
[19:55:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:invisible radioactivity - 06Global CO2 Emissions Decline in 2015 - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:55:26] <exec> 08└─If our reactors "burned" more than 1% of the nuclear fuel, this would not be the case. Increased radioactivity means that your reactor design is leaving energy on the table.
[19:56:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Great idea - 06Finland: Universal Basic Income Planned for Later in 2016 - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:56:05] <exec> 08└─First of all, I don't believe anyone "earned" multi-million dollars. Some were lucky, most inherited it. Inheriting power instead of earning it is Aristocracy, not Democracy. Second, in a Democracy the majority rules. The majority has every right to take corrective actions, when a minority finds way...
[19:56:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Great idea - 06Finland: Universal Basic Income Planned for Later in 2016 - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:56:29] <exec> 08└─What goes around, comes around. In a smaller society people help those in need, expecting them to help when the tables are turned. No one keeps exactly track, but generally people learn to know each other, and a known leach in need might receive the help he needs anymore. This is an efficient arrang...
[19:56:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02Re:Coffee is Drugs - 06Keurig, Maker of K-cup Coffee Pods, Sold for $13.9 Billion - 778 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:56:42] <exec> 08└─http://www.historyextra.com/article/food/brief-history-how-we-fell-love-caffeine-and-chocolate [historyextra.com] Coffee was often consumed in coffee houses, which in London became venues for gossip, political debate and, in the eyes of the authorities, sedition. A publication entitled Rules and Or...
[19:56:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Opinions on Keurig II coffeemaker - 06Keurig, Maker of K-cup Coffee Pods, Sold for $13.9 Billion - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:56:53] <exec> 08└─In general I agree with you, but in this case cleaning the French press gets to be a pain when all you want to do is get a quick cup of coffee.
[19:57:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Mind Blown - 06Pentagon Anti-ISIS Propaganda Campaign Gets 7-Year Greenlight - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:57:07] <exec> 08└─, and the greatest propaganda machine is the bullet. If it's so great, why does it consistently fail to work?
[19:57:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:change the law - 06Low Tech Ways To Escape From Jail - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:57:38] <exec> 08└─Quit bitching. They've now got four more ideas to help them get out.
[19:57:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:when you have an life sentence... - 06Low Tech Ways To Escape From Jail - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:57:40] <exec> 08└─In Canada, "life" means 25 years, which is still a long time.
[19:57:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02Re:Crowdsourcing - 06Study: TV Advertising Falls Globally; Digital Poised to Overtake by End of 2017 - 1325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:57:54] <exec> 08└─I fall into the category you describe. I became fed up with the commercials on TV, and just quit watching about 1998-1999. The incident that prompted me to quit ended up so ironic that it has become 'set in stone' mentally. I was having a lot of trouble with a vid card/drivers (on W98se- an Nvidia T...
[20:01:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Maths - 06Artificial Intelligence Aims to Make Wikipedia Nicer to Newcomers - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:01:58] <exec> 08└─I'm a Ph.D. physicist and I find a lot of those pages to be useless to me. I always end up on either a page at a University web site, or over at Wolfram.
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[20:54:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sooo, open source cleaning products? - 06GnuPG 2.1.10 Released - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:54:04] <exec> 08└─Gnu Release? Like the animal? Were some gnus let free? I can't think on my own, heaven forbid the summary tell me.
[20:54:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Sooo, open source cleaning products? - 06GnuPG 2.1.10 Released - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:54:11] <exec> 08└─PG is extracted from PGP, which stands for "Pretty Good Protection" the encryption routine it's based on. They dropped the last P because they liked how it sounded as GPG. Like all open source naming, it's not very good at describing the product, but amuses the developers.
[20:54:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Nice naming guys! - 06GnuPG 2.1.10 Released - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:54:17] <exec> 08└─X+Y is a common naming convention for any technical users used to dealing with encryption protocols. The most easy to cite example is SVN+SSH:// It's a common way of designating a wrapper protocol.
[20:54:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Still Too Hard - 06GnuPG 2.1.10 Released - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:24] <exec> 08└─So...judging by the comments so far, GnuPG is still incredibly hard to understand at a glance even if you know what it's for. And nobody even bothers to explain what it's for. Right now I think it would be more important to make encryption *easy*, even more important to make it *hard to get wrong*,...
[20:54:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03ticho [89] (Score:2) 02Re:Still Too Hard - 06GnuPG 2.1.10 Released - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:54:31] <exec> 08└─No, everyone is just being an asshole, gnupg is pretty good. :)
[20:54:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chromium_One [4574] (Score:1) 02Re:Android in a Docker Container? - 06Unholy Matrimony: Android on Win10 - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:54:39] <exec> 08└─Best estimate I have for Android x86 [4.4-r3] is hovering around a 60% app compatibility rate when running on a VM. Anything requiring hardware video rendering [which is mostly but not entirely games] just falls down. Install direct to real hardware kinda sidesteps the whole point, but then raises t...
[20:54:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Android - 06Unholy Matrimony: Android on Win10 - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:54:45] <exec> 08└─For me, the Java "write once, run anywhere" has worked pretty well, with the same code working on Linux, Android, and IBM lameframe, so it's far from a complete failure. Another than that, yeah, a real Linux mobile OS would be nice. Of course, there's not really that much stopping it from actually b...
[20:54:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gibby [5830] (Score:1) 02What about the others? - 06Unholy Matrimony: Android on Win10 - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:52] <exec> 08└─I have always had performance issues running one of the Android emulators out there. http://www.bluestacks.com [bluestacks.com] I tried years ago when they first came out but it is not available for Linux, but it is the one I hear the most about now. https://www.genymotion.com [genymotion.com]...
[20:54:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03tnt118 [3925] (Score:1) 02Re:What about the others? - 06Unholy Matrimony: Android on Win10 - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:54:59] <exec> 08└─My latest favorite -- and best performing of those I've tried -- is Droid4X.
[20:55:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:1) 02Re:Pat Paulsen would say - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:55:02] <exec> 08└─Most of what you say was bad for all the not-Americans. Which is not good. But this article's problem is life for the Americans. And sure, that life was always problematic for non-WASPS. But things aren't getting any better anymore for our ethnic minorities, even as those minorities are starting to...
[20:55:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score:1) 02Re:Now before we get all Left/Right, Red/Blue - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:55:04] <exec> 08└─Muchas gracias! I HATE it when I do that :).
[20:55:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Now before we get all Left/Right, Red/Blue - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:55:19] <exec> 08└─You didn't have to stretch very hard because that definition is so vague it's completely meaningless. It sounds like it was written by one of those nonsense paper generators: Seriously, WTF does this even mean? a culture founded on mystical thought and the tragic and activist sense of life con...
[20:55:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03hulk smash [5976] (Score:1) 02Re:Now before we get all Left/Right, Red/Blue - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:55:24] <exec> 08└─...and so is the fate of democracy :[
[20:56:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:China - 06Global CO2 Emissions Decline in 2015 - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:56:00] <exec> 08└─no country will accept the decreased economic growth
[20:57:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nr_9 [2947] (Score:2) 02Re:Great idea - 06Finland: Universal Basic Income Planned for Later in 2016 - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:57:07] <exec> 08└─Aha... Just to be clear, when do you think "Europe" decided that "socialism was a good thing"? And could you tell me what you mean by "Europe's" GNP trending downwards? Do you mean in absolute terms or, compared to somewhere else? If you mean in relative terms, could you specify which countries/cont...
[20:58:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Duke Boys, General Lee and a Length of Chain - 06Low Tech Ways To Escape From Jail - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:58:26] <exec> 08└─That's how they always used to do it: one end of the chain attached to the General, and the other end wrapped around the bars on the jail cell window.
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[21:54:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:3, Funny) 02Can we also agree... - 06"Nemesis" Bootkit Pwns Payment Processing Firms Running Windows - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:16] <exec> 08└─...that "pwns" isn't a word? Damn kids with your hippity-hop and your Snoopy-Snoopy-Dog-Dog...
[21:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02We agree - 06"Nemesis" Bootkit Pwns Payment Processing Firms Running Windows - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:23] <exec> 08└─Can we all agree that updating firmware should require the movement of a physical jumper?
[21:54:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:We agree - 06"Nemesis" Bootkit Pwns Payment Processing Firms Running Windows - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:54:30] <exec> 08└─It is nothing like that at all. It proposes an actual solution to a problem as opposed to wishy-washy statements. Putting a physical switch is an attempt to PREVENT such infections in the FUTURE. Similar to how Chromebooks have a similar switch. Yeah, you could own a Chromebook all the way down, but...
[21:54:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Doesn't even have to be so technical - 06"Nemesis" Bootkit Pwns Payment Processing Firms Running Windows - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:37] <exec> 08└─Put an actual button on the device. Wait! Nevermind! Was just imaging people getting popups telling them to press the button : / But a small serial display with checksum and a button to apply would be awesome for a hobbyist machine.
[21:54:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Reading is a useful skill... - 06"Nemesis" Bootkit Pwns Payment Processing Firms Running Windows - 807 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:44] <exec> 08└─This is not a BIOS attack so forget the jumper. It is just a Windows boot attack and a reference to a different MBR based attack. And you don't even need a jumper anyway, only to forbid BIOS updates from after booting, limit it to the BIOS itself where you have to boot into setup, pick update BIOS a...
[21:54:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Urlax [3027] (Score:2) 02Re:Reading is a useful skill... - 06"Nemesis" Bootkit Pwns Payment Processing Firms Running Windows - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:54:49] <exec> 08└─isn't this how smartphones work? those can't be unlocked either.. there was a moment in time the jailbraking process could be done from a website, due to browser bugs and privilige escalations..
[21:54:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sooo, open source cleaning products? - 06GnuPG 2.1.10 Released - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:54:51] <exec> 08└─The aspergers is strong in this one.
[21:54:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03fnj [1654] (Score:2) 02Re:Sooo, open source cleaning products? - 06GnuPG 2.1.10 Released - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:54:53] <exec> 08└─GPG stands for Gnu Privacy Guard, Sparky. But you would know that if you read the first line on gnupg.org.
[21:54:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:Sooo, open source cleaning products? - 06GnuPG 2.1.10 Released - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:54:55] <exec> 08└─My point was, why should I have to click on a link to find out what a project does? Is it really that difficult to include a 1-2 line summary in the, err, summary?
[21:54:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nice naming guys! - 06GnuPG 2.1.10 Released - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:54:57] <exec> 08└─Which isn't what I was referring to. I was referring to calling something 'tofu' as if that has any meaning to anyone outside of the project.
[21:54:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03fnj [1654] (Score:2) 02Re:Still Too Hard - 06GnuPG 2.1.10 Released - 815 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:55:00] <exec> 08└─I am always tempted to think they never address the one overwhelming problem, which is that it is MUCH too hard to use. But on reflection, I always decide that is not/should not be gpg's job. All somebody has to do is introduce a nice GUI shell that presents a dead simple face with appropriate wisel...
[21:55:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:new? - 06Unholy Matrimony: Android on Win10 - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:55:01] <exec> 08└─When you experience what Windows 10 and Office 2013 actually do you will wish that MS had died, or that you had switched to Linix or Apple. Start with having the file names, sizes, and other information sent to Microsoft. Then experience a start menu with ads. Forced updates. Sudden unexplained syst...
[21:55:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Anything and MS is unholy... - 06Unholy Matrimony: Android on Win10 - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:55:02] <exec> 08└─Microsoft accepts all comers.
[21:55:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Android - 06Unholy Matrimony: Android on Win10 - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:55:04] <exec> 08└─Do you mean code or the application itself? If you mean code then yea, code is portable. Same could be said about C++ and Python. But an entire application is a whole other thing. Android can't run jar files without an emulator.
[21:55:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Android - 06Unholy Matrimony: Android on Win10 - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:55:06] <exec> 08└─I have never, not even once, seen a useful java program compiled and run on more than one machine. I have seen a lot of java programs written for midrange and mainframe.
[21:55:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:Android - 06Unholy Matrimony: Android on Win10 - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:55:08] <exec> 08└─Android should have been more of a true Linux OS...But no, we get stuck with a crappy tablet OS with an outdated JVM concept.
[21:55:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Compatible with the Sidecar? - 06Unholy Matrimony: Android on Win10 - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:10] <exec> 08└─Will it run on an Amiga 1000 [pcmuseum.ca] with an A1060 Sidecar [resource.cx]?
[21:55:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Non-US citizen violates US law otside the US - 06Silk Road "Mentor" Arrested in Thailand - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:55:23] <exec> 08└─May be read the title of his comment to spot the difference with your example.
[21:55:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pat Paulsen would say - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:55:37] <exec> 08└─It feels as though "a billion seconds of Unix" [zork.net] was a watershed.
[21:55:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Now before we get all Left/Right, Red/Blue - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:55:58] <exec> 08└─Actually no, fascism isn't an ideology, it is a societal model or form of governance based on absolute alignment of the populace behind the leadership and brutal suppression of any dissent. For practical reasons it has to be based on some form ideology (racist, socialist, whatever) but AFAIK it's in...
[21:56:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Now before we get all Left/Right, Red/Blue - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:56:00] <exec> 08└─That depends. If you are a muslim then we would be forced to say that you are a "lone wolf" and not representative of the other billion or so people who believe, or are forced to go along, with a social system which condones rape, theft, murder, slavery, subjectification of women, pedophilia, and wo...
[21:56:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03quacking duck [1395] (Score:2) 02Re:Now before we get all Left/Right, Red/Blue - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:56:19] <exec> 08└─They spent quite aggressively on favoured industries, and used the government purse to do exactly that... It's no coincidence that the old aristocracy loathed Hitler with an incredible venom, and many of them actually turned against him when push came to shove. Hitler loved him some class warfare -...
[21:56:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02Re:Now before we get all Left/Right, Red/Blue - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 304 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:56:24] <exec> 08└─I recently read an article that showed that the chance of a bill passing was entirely unrelated to its popularity. That is, until you look at the bill's popularity amongst the hyper-wealthy, where there was a very strong correlation. What this shows is that the USA does not have a functioning democr...
[21:56:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Ode to proportional voting - 06Five Signs that the USA Just Isn't the Country it Used to Be - 2097 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:56:28] <exec> 08└─I'm a fan of the multi-party system, which is practiced a lot in European countries. I have had this weird thought that Americans don't get exposed much to how voting works in most other countries (I say most on purpose, bear with me). Americans speak English (mostly); the international news they ab...
[21:57:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Re:invisible radioactivity - 06Global CO2 Emissions Decline in 2015 - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:57:01] <exec> 08└─1. learn how to spell radioactivity, or at least use your web browser's spell check 2. do you have a *clue* how much radiation is created every day? http://physics.isu.edu [isu.edu] It's like a Fukushima-equivalent being dumped onto the planet from cosmic sources every few...
[21:57:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:This is NOT Socialism - 06Finland: Universal Basic Income Planned for Later in 2016 - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:57:22] <exec> 08└─If you still have a system where some workers are without work and/or a living wage because of greed or poor planning, you have Capitalism.
[21:57:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Personal political positions described - 06Finland: Universal Basic Income Planned for Later in 2016 - 912 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:57:34] <exec> 08└─A Conservative believes that things are pretty much OK the way they are. He believes in fair play and slow, measured change if the status quo is to be altered. A huge percentage of those who call themselves "conservative" are actually of the radical Right (Authoritarian Plantation Capitalists); the...
[21:57:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Great idea - 06Finland: Universal Basic Income Planned for Later in 2016 - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:57:46] <exec> 08└─1) Wealth is not cash. The rich have most of the cash because you keep giving it to them for other forms of wealth like that second television for the bedroom or spinning rims. Save/invest it instead of blowing it and you too can be rich one day. “When the people find that they can vote themselves...
[21:58:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Wanted: a good cup of coffee - 06Keurig, Maker of K-cup Coffee Pods, Sold for $13.9 Billion - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:43] <exec> 08└─Keurig coffee-making machines are just the latest attempt at making the impossible: a good cup of coffee. This is impossible, of course, because coffee is nasty, nasty, nasty. However, billions of dollars are spent on marketing this swill to people. Drink tea. It's much cheaper, better for you, and...
[21:59:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02Let's hope - 06Study: TV Advertising Falls Globally; Digital Poised to Overtake by End of 2017 - 173 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:43] <exec> 08└─The advertising dollars jumping to digital will be just in time to run into a box canyon formed by AdBlock, NoScript, Ghostery, and other improving ad-blocking technologies.
[22:01:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02Re:Why not use Chromium? - 06Mozilla Admits Financial Benefits of Pocket Integration - 121 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:01:20] <exec> 08└─This is a nice thing about Firefox, but really I've found that I don't care anymore. I want a web browser, not eye candy.
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