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[00:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:4, Interesting) 02Re:With our powers combined.... - 06Dow and DuPont Plan Merger to Create $130 Billion Temporary Chemical Giant - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:44:36] <exec> 08└─I guess they will continue to poison the world with little to no repercussions.
[00:44:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Pop Quiz - 06Dow and DuPont Plan Merger to Create $130 Billion Temporary Chemical Giant - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:38] <exec> 08└─If Dow Chemical and Dupont merge and then split up, then which is the exothermic transaction and which is the endothermic one? The merger is exothermic, the breakup is endothermicThe merger is endothermic, the breakup is exothermicBoth are exothermicNeither is exothermic nor endothermic
[00:44:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:Pop Quiz - 06Dow and DuPont Plan Merger to Create $130 Billion Temporary Chemical Giant - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:44:40] <exec> 08└─They are both exothermic. The end result will be hundreds of millions of share holder dollars, and peon jobs, exfilitrated to C-level bonuses and consulting fees to investment banks for "assisting" in the transactions.
[00:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ehm - 06Mozilla Open Source Software Awards - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:44:55] <exec> 08└─Really? So you were not making a dig at "the SJW crowd?" Because it sure sounded like that to me and apparently at least one person with mod points thought so too. So, which is it? An inartful flame of the people who complain about SJWs or a flame of SJWs?
[00:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ehm - 06Mozilla Open Source Software Awards - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:44:56] <exec> 08└─Aspergers Maaaaaaaan!!
[00:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ehm - 06Mozilla Open Source Software Awards - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:44:59] <exec> 08└─Indeed, your post is full of ass.
[00:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:X USD for Y task - 06Mozilla Open Source Software Awards - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:07] <exec> 08└─> I think it is great these projects are receiving money but what I don't like are the strings attached. You've got it backwards. There are people who want to do those tasks and thus applied for funding to accomplish them.
[00:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Walled gardens - 06Walmart Shuns Samsung and Apple, Launches "Walmart Pay" - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:34] <exec> 08└─If it works with a rooted device, I might use it. Android pay is kind of dickish that way.
[00:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Americans are doing it wrong again. - 06Walmart Shuns Samsung and Apple, Launches "Walmart Pay" - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:40] <exec> 08└─Bingo! This is about attacking the duopoly that operates the payment processing networks behind those terminals.
[00:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's the Point? - 06Walmart Shuns Samsung and Apple, Launches "Walmart Pay" - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:46] <exec> 08└─> For the companies is this just so more people can get a tiny cut of the money? It is the other way around. They hope to get to the point where the visa/mastercard payment processing networks (and their fees) are out of the loop. But they are too greedy, they just want to do a "meet the new boss, s...
[00:48:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Market-based solution - 06Canada's "Syrup Mafia" Faces Resistance - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:48:21] <exec> 08└─1 unit of syrup requires maybe 40 units of collected sap to produce.
[00:53:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tramii [920] (Score:2) 02Re:I fail to see the problem - 06GunTV Aims to Premier 24-Hour Shopping Channel for Firearms - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:53:32] <exec> 08└─You posted: There's a slice of the country who cannot accept the day-to-day reality that firearm deaths are a big part of preventable deaths in the US.
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[01:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Fictional characters can be copyrighted. - 06 Couple Takes Pics of Star Wars Figure They Bought, Get DMCA Notice From Lucasfilm - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:36] <exec> 08└─Disney (owner of the Star Wars copyrights) is probably in the right here. Now, if the photographer got together with a writer, and the photos accompanied an article about the characters in the upcoming movie, that could be fair use. https://commons.wikimedia.org
[01:44:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02Re:With our powers combined.... - 06Dow and DuPont Plan Merger to Create $130 Billion Temporary Chemical Giant - 79 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:44:43] <exec> 08└─I guess they will continue to poison the world with little to no repercussions.
[01:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mr Big in the Pants [4956] (Score:2) 02Re:Pop Quiz - 06Dow and DuPont Plan Merger to Create $130 Billion Temporary Chemical Giant - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:44:48] <exec> 08└─These companies tend to measure their reactions in how many people will be killed by it - it's often a non-zero number. You then multiply this by the chance that anyone will care if these particular people die - it's often zero. Then you use this number to work out the penalty costs involved: coveru...
[01:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02merger mania sign of impending market crash? - 06Dow and DuPont Plan Merger to Create $130 Billion Temporary Chemical Giant - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:50] <exec> 08└─Some have observed that there appears to be a correlation between an uptick in size and quantity of mergers just before a market collapse. The thought is that mergers are a sign businesses are getting desperate to keep profit up, as their usual sources of profit start to dry up.
[01:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02BASF is bigger - 06Dow and DuPont Plan Merger to Create $130 Billion Temporary Chemical Giant - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:52] <exec> 08└─By the value of products sold, BASF was the biggest chemical producer last year. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[01:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score:1) 02Re:Ehm - 06Mozilla Open Source Software Awards - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:02] <exec> 08└─Am I missing something? Wasn't Django the African-American slave in Tarantino's western? Sounds like the whole project needs a rename. :)
[01:45:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03vux984 [5045] 02like the idea - 06Mozilla Open Source Software Awards - 1160 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:18] <exec> 08└─"Their award will be used to remove the term "slave" from all documentation" Seriously? Master/slave when in the context of software, or circuits, etc needs to be purged from the code and documentation? I like the idea of Mozilla giving some money to some of the projects it uses... but the ear mark...
[01:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Walled gardens - 06Walmart Shuns Samsung and Apple, Launches "Walmart Pay" - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:46] <exec> 08└─I work for a company that does processing for checks and credit cards. We also do the processing for things like this. It is a profitable market, for us at least. Only thing I can think of is this is almost like a vendor lock in. They give you some great deal to install the app and set up the wallet...
[01:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:walmart haters - 06Walmart Shuns Samsung and Apple, Launches "Walmart Pay" - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:49] <exec> 08└─Believe it or not they did do some good with generics. They have a whole list of prescriptions that you can get a 30 day supply for 4 dollars with no insurance. http://i.walmartimages.com [walmartimages.com] Cholesterol, Diabetes, Glaucoma, Asthma, Blood pressure....
[01:49:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mr Big in the Pants [4956] (Score:2) 02Re:Citizens United? - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:49:32] <exec> 08└─You make no sense. If you are trying to claim that corporate donations are free speech can I just say that to someone who has not partook in the kool aid, you sound absolutely mental. If this is not what you meant...well fuck knows...
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[02:44:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Fictional characters can be copyrighted. - 06 Couple Takes Pics of Star Wars Figure They Bought, Get DMCA Notice From Lucasfilm - 1368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:44:38] <exec> 08└─Perhaps, but that's not what happened. This was not just fair use, it was 1,000,000,000,000,000% fair use. I suggest he takes a few million dollars off Lucasfilm's hands if he can, which is fairly easy with the bad will this generates. Seriously. Why the fuck would you buy their product, if being ex...
[02:44:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score:2) 02Re:Fictional characters can be copyrighted. - 06 Couple Takes Pics of Star Wars Figure They Bought, Get DMCA Notice From Lucasfilm - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:44:39] <exec> 08└─While I laud the notion of Lucasfilms being taken to the cleaners for this, it's pretty clear the propaganda is working - because you yourself are using the confounding term, "IP", in exactly the way copyright maximalists want you to use it, conflating property with copyright, and hopefully presenti...
[02:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:0, Troll) 02Re:Fictional characters can be copyrighted. - 06 Couple Takes Pics of Star Wars Figure They Bought, Get DMCA Notice From Lucasfilm - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:44:41] <exec> 08└─This is one of the many problems with Whites. While a non-White would laugh off the early-sale gaffe and be thankful for the free publicity (note that this would be one of the most honest examples of the "accidental leak"), Whites would be (and were!) stirred to anger in an instant because of their...
[02:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fictional characters can be copyrighted. - 06 Couple Takes Pics of Star Wars Figure They Bought, Get DMCA Notice From Lucasfilm - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:44:43] <exec> 08└─You can't fool us, Ethanol-fueled! We all know you're talkin' 'bout the jews. Besides, Whites don't have negative stereotypes. That's why it's okay to chant "Black power!" but not "White power!"
[02:44:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fictional characters can be copyrighted. - 06 Couple Takes Pics of Star Wars Figure They Bought, Get DMCA Notice From Lucasfilm - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:44:45] <exec> 08└─Of course whites have negative stereotypes. Chanting "white power" is one of them.
[02:44:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Fictional characters can be copyrighted. - 06 Couple Takes Pics of Star Wars Figure They Bought, Get DMCA Notice From Lucasfilm - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:44:47] <exec> 08└─George Lucas really has little to do with running Lucasfilm. It was sold to Disney in 2912. Disney has most likely farmed out copyright enforcement to some slimy, sleazy scam operation.
[02:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Fictional characters can be copyrighted. - 06 Couple Takes Pics of Star Wars Figure They Bought, Get DMCA Notice From Lucasfilm - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:44:49] <exec> 08└─George Lucas has actually referred to the involvement with his former franchise as a "divorce," [reuters.com] although since he was behind episodes I-III he threw away a lot of his own credibility and so doesn't speak with much authority in these matters. Mister Lucas - Just because you grow older a...
[02:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score:2) 02avoid disney - 06 Couple Takes Pics of Star Wars Figure They Bought, Get DMCA Notice From Lucasfilm - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:51] <exec> 08└─We all know Disney was a dick and the company is still as evil as ever. This is just more proof. Do not pay to seem this movie, or any Disney products. I promise I won't patronize them.
[02:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:avoid disney - 06 Couple Takes Pics of Star Wars Figure They Bought, Get DMCA Notice From Lucasfilm - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:44:54] <exec> 08└─Yeah, this reminder of what they're like did it for me. I'll see it eventually, but I'm unlikely to pay for it. What assholes.
[02:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Here's the photo... - 06 Couple Takes Pics of Star Wars Figure They Bought, Get DMCA Notice From Lucasfilm - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:55] <exec> 08└─Streisand effect soon as it's already spread out... http://www.businessinsider.com [businessinsider.com]
[02:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Facebook user shops at Walmart - 06 Couple Takes Pics of Star Wars Figure They Bought, Get DMCA Notice From Lucasfilm - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:57] <exec> 08└─Facebook users and Walmart shoppers are already forever damned. They deserve their fate.
[02:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Facebook user shops at Walmart - 06 Couple Takes Pics of Star Wars Figure They Bought, Get DMCA Notice From Lucasfilm - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:44:59] <exec> 08└─Although I kinda agree with your sentiment, the story is about copyright/trademark abuse. It would be the same story if they had found the action figure at Macy's, and posted their finding on Twitter.
[02:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Facebook user shops at Walmart - 06 Couple Takes Pics of Star Wars Figure They Bought, Get DMCA Notice From Lucasfilm - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:45:01] <exec> 08└─Hold on a second there chief. Are you condoning the use of Twitter? I disagree with your assessment entirely. This is a story about attention seeking narcissists getting the attention they wanted. And now they're going to fucking pay for being trendy trend following sheep.
[02:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Facebook user shops at Walmart - 06 Couple Takes Pics of Star Wars Figure They Bought, Get DMCA Notice From Lucasfilm - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:45:03] <exec> 08└─> This is a story about attention seeking narcissists getting the attention they wanted. And now they're going to fucking pay for being trendy trend following sheep. Just like #Occupy and #BLM!!! Anyone who gets shitted on by the powerful wanted to be shitted on by the powerful. It is self-evident.
[02:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02How is this good for the average Joe? - 06Dow and DuPont Plan Merger to Create $130 Billion Temporary Chemical Giant - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:07] <exec> 08└─Not to up on chemical companies, but seems to me that when the 2 largest merge that makes a monopoly, which means the average Joe loses. They're already talking layoffs, again the average Joe loses. I'm guessing the overall result will be less R&D, again the average Joe loses (notwithstanding the ba...
[02:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Market dominance - 06Dow and DuPont Plan Merger to Create $130 Billion Temporary Chemical Giant - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:09] <exec> 08└─So they want to create three different monopolies in three different market sectors?
[02:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Corporations, merger mania, and a 1975 movie - 06Dow and DuPont Plan Merger to Create $130 Billion Temporary Chemical Giant - 1322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:11] <exec> 08└─In "Rollerball", [wikipedia.org] each major city was completely owned by 1 megacorporation; there are no "citizens", only employees. Rollerball teams, named after the cities in which they are based, are owned by the various global corporations. Energy Corporation sponsors the Houston team. The game...
[02:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Slave - 06Mozilla Open Source Software Awards - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:45:33] <exec> 08└─I'm curious, how much do you think it would cost to make improvements so Buildbot works better in the Amazon EC2 cloud?
[02:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:like the idea - 06Mozilla Open Source Software Awards - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:45:47] <exec> 08└─Its all the more absurdist since they are giving $200,000 to "Bro"... yet that isn't earmarked to rename 'Bro' to something else, since 'bro'-culture is offensive to a lot of people too, especially women?
[02:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:TRIGGER WARNING: TRIGGERED - 06Mozilla Open Source Software Awards - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:45:50] <exec> 08└─all-caps headlines are my trigger
[02:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03gringer [962] (Score:2) 02I expected this - 06Mozilla Open Source Software Awards - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:55] <exec> 08└─People complain about where Mozilla's money goes... Well...
[02:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Walled gardens - 06Walmart Shuns Samsung and Apple, Launches "Walmart Pay" - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:46:09] <exec> 08└─Even Apple, control-freak masters don't care if their phone is jailbroken for Apple pay. About half the people I know root their phones. Amazingly, banks and credit card companies let you connect to their sites with Windows computers, and worse, ones where the user is logged in as admin. Somehow, th...
[02:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Walled gardens - 06Walmart Shuns Samsung and Apple, Launches "Walmart Pay" - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:46:10] <exec> 08└─Or... They recognize that not allowing people to log in from their PC is a total non-starter because everybody has a PC so they have to support that. While requiring that your phone not be rooted will only affect a tiny fraction of android users so they decided that the security improvement was wort...
[02:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02outgassing - 06The First Plasma: The Wendelstein 7-X Fusion Device is Now in Operation - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:32] <exec> 08└─when solid surfaces are exposed to the air, air molecules stick to them and continue sticking to them even if under vacuum, however they very slowly outgas. This leads to a minimum gas pressure one can draw; to get to a lower pressure one must wait for the outgassing to proceed. You can speed this u...
[02:48:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And my chemistry teacher - 06Canada's "Syrup Mafia" Faces Resistance - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:48:48] <exec> 08└─so when I break into your house and steal your shit i'll leave a note claiming civil disobedience but that's ok buy yourself another tv chump I'm the hero of this story
[02:52:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:The solution is simple - 06Albuquerque Won't Follow NM's New Asset Forfeiture Law; Gets Sued - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:52:18] <exec> 08└─Specifically, U.S. Code Title 18, Sections 241-242. https://www.law.cornell.edu [cornell.edu] https://www.law.cornell.edu [cornell.edu]
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[03:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Breakingnews - 06Quantum Computing Roundup - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:38] <exec> 08└─Breaking fucking news? This?
[03:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score:1, Redundant) 02Re:Fictional characters can be copyrighted. - 06 Couple Takes Pics of Star Wars Figure They Bought, Get DMCA Notice From Lucasfilm - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:44:48] <exec> 08└─...it's pretty clear the propaganda is working - because you yourself are using the confounding term, "IP", in exactly the way copyright maximalists want you to use it...
[03:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:avoid disney - 06 Couple Takes Pics of Star Wars Figure They Bought, Get DMCA Notice From Lucasfilm - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:44:58] <exec> 08└─Everyone on Reddit was like yeah, fuck Star Wars. but Disney owns Marvel's shit too. I didn't hear a peep about that.
[03:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheReaperD [5556] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Here's the photo... - 06 Couple Takes Pics of Star Wars Figure They Bought, Get DMCA Notice From Lucasfilm - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:00] <exec> 08└─Apparently, this ended up getting even more interesting as after Disney was contacted by several organizations, including Consumerist (same parent as Consumer Reports), Disney responded by rescinding the DMCA takedown then to only answer their own action by filing another takedown notice but, this t...
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[04:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score:2) 02Re:Breakingnews - 06Quantum Computing Roundup - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:44:41] <exec> 08└─I assume, in this context, we're talking about that the news is broken: ie. there is no new news, so have this.
[04:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Breakingnews - 06Quantum Computing Roundup - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:44:42] <exec> 08└─They were willing to disappear 20 employees on MH370 who were senior technologists for some mysterious technological firm (Google it, first it was quantum computers and now its something else) and, on an unrelated note, planes were abandoned in Mayasia's airport, [cnn.com] when both the "war-startin...
[04:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fictional characters can be copyrighted. - 06 Couple Takes Pics of Star Wars Figure They Bought, Get DMCA Notice From Lucasfilm - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:00] <exec> 08└─(same AC) I never saw the Facebook page; did you? My comment was based only on what the story says: that photos were posted. It doesn't say there was any commentary, parody or criticism going on. Any of those would have solidly made this fair use. When you write "that's not what happened" do you mea...
[04:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03CaTfiSh [5221] (Score:1) 02How to get what you want by buying time - 06 Couple Takes Pics of Star Wars Figure They Bought, Get DMCA Notice From Lucasfilm - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:08] <exec> 08└─Two years since the supreme court managed to acknowledge my right to resell an item I purchased, but now I can't even take a picture of it?? Seems rather regressive. Apparently the "First-sale doctrine" is applied to "distribution right", but not "reproduction right". In which case, some attorney fe...
[04:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:merger mania sign of impending market crash? - 06Dow and DuPont Plan Merger to Create $130 Billion Temporary Chemical Giant - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:22] <exec> 08└─What do those people say about companies that split based on Market segment? Seems HP is doing that, as is Alcoa, as well as Yum brands, eBay, Symantec, ConAgra. The list is pretty log Why? Because its mor profitable [forbes.com]: Shares of North American conglomerates were outperformed by their sp...
[04:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score:1) 02Re:merger mania sign of impending market crash? - 06Dow and DuPont Plan Merger to Create $130 Billion Temporary Chemical Giant - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:23] <exec> 08└─Mergers, splits, blah blah blah... To me, the fundamental problem lies (in at least two senses of the term) within "The United States of Corporate America". Individuality, which was fundamental when the US was founded, is (effectively) dead, an anachronism. As several of the founders and subsequent...
[04:45:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:How is this good for the average Joe? - 06Dow and DuPont Plan Merger to Create $130 Billion Temporary Chemical Giant - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:27] <exec> 08└─Joining into one company just saves a lot of sales back and forth of parts of companies. The splitting was what they were after all along. Two competing divisions, one in each company, neither gaining traction. Add them together, trim some redundant staff, trim some redundant infrastructure, retain...
[04:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Market dominance - 06Dow and DuPont Plan Merger to Create $130 Billion Temporary Chemical Giant - 781 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:29] <exec> 08└─"Agriculture: "Leading global pure-play agriculture company that unites DuPont's and Dow's seed and crop protection businesses." Revenue: $19 billion. Material Science: "A pure-play industrial leader, consisting of DuPont's Performance Materials segment, as well as Dow's Performance Plastics, Perfor...
[04:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Corporations, merger mania, and a 1975 movie - 06Dow and DuPont Plan Merger to Create $130 Billion Temporary Chemical Giant - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:31] <exec> 08└─"city-sized" ? Quite a few for these large corporations are passed county, state into "national sized" entities, beyond the control of even those who appear to lead them.
[04:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Corporations, merger mania, and a 1975 movie - 06Dow and DuPont Plan Merger to Create $130 Billion Temporary Chemical Giant - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:34] <exec> 08└─Samsung accounts for 17% of South Korea's GDP. Hyundai and LG aren't far behind. http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com [nytimes.com] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[04:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03termigator [4271] (Score:1) 02Re:Corporations, merger mania, and a 1975 movie - 06Dow and DuPont Plan Merger to Create $130 Billion Temporary Chemical Giant - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:36] <exec> 08└─John-A-Thon! John-A-Thon! John-A-Thon! [cue the organ music]
[04:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Re:Ehm - 06Mozilla Open Source Software Awards - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:47] <exec> 08└─Don't forget node.js removing references to suicide and debating removal of kill, seen here [github.com], and the same slave/master discussion hit drupal [drupal.org] as well. It's all gotten a bit ludicrous.
[04:48:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score:2) 02Re:Miracle of funding - 06The First Plasma: The Wendelstein 7-X Fusion Device is Now in Operation - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:48:00] <exec> 08└─Nah, I think they intended to make it circular, but accidentally dropped it.
[04:48:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Closed system=heavy. - 06Electric Car, With Light Aluminium-Air Battery, Travels 1,100 Miles on a Single Charge - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:48:59] <exec> 08└─Hydrogen doesn't have to be burned. With a fuel cell, electricity can be produced from it.
[04:49:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02loophole? - 06Canada's "Syrup Mafia" Faces Resistance - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:49:36] <exec> 08└─Perhaps there's a loophole such as the monopoly only covering maple syrup, not maple sap nor maple sugar.
[04:50:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Doesn't comprehend my political leanings - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:50:54] <exec> 08└─My politics border on anarchy: Anti-Capitalist (Communist--as Marx described it: Democracy everywhere) which means that civil liberties are a given.
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[05:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02I just took a dump! - 06The Picture Under the "Mona Lisa" - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:40] <exec> 08└─Anyone want to analyze my shit for historical significance? Anyone? Serious question for you moronic fuckwits: Were da Vinci alive today, do you think he would be a YouTuber? Do you think da Vinci would be a blogger? Or would da Vinci be utterly disgusted by all your pointless social bullshit?
[05:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score:2) 02Re:Breakingnews - 06Quantum Computing Roundup - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:44:51] <exec> 08└─And some think the Jews are sneaky. We're pretty sneaky. Source: I'm white.
[05:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Breakingnews - 06Quantum Computing Roundup - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:44:53] <exec> 08└─If you toned down the conspiracy theory stuff just a little, that might make for an interesting submission.
[05:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score:1) 02Re:avoid disney - 06 Couple Takes Pics of Star Wars Figure They Bought, Get DMCA Notice from Lucasfilm - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:45:11] <exec> 08└─I need to figure out how to boycott them even more than I already do.
[05:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:merger mania sign of impending market crash? - 06Dow and DuPont Plan Merger to Create $130 Billion Temporary Chemical Giant - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:45:34] <exec> 08└─FYI Mussolini never said that and fascism typically involves violence for the very little reason [vox.com] other than the sake of violence. It also has little to do with economics.
[05:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ehm - 06Mozilla Open Source Software Awards - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:45:57] <exec> 08└─Am I missing something?
[05:51:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Has no concept of Comparative Economics - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 2073 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:51:07] <exec> 08└─Your ignorance of what Socialism is extreme. That's understandable. You're like 99.999 percent of folks in that regard. Offering your ignorant example of what it is and isn't is very common for your lot. the very foundation of capitalism You're not very bright when it comes to Capitalism either. The...
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[06:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:I just took a dump! - 06The Picture Under the "Mona Lisa" - 902 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:44:36] <exec> 08└─Well, no, not really, because every makes shit and most people think their own shit is more fascinating than the shit everyone else makes. There's just no market or social interest. Now if you could somehow develop a way to sell people's shit back to them, or to perhaps make a product that gives peo...
[06:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:I just took a dump! - 06The Picture Under the "Mona Lisa" - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:44:37] <exec> 08└─Da Vinci was a courtier. That should answer your serious questions.
[06:44:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score:2) 02Treasure! - 06The Picture Under the "Mona Lisa" - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:39] <exec> 08└─Someone call Nicholas Cage!
[06:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score:3, Interesting) 02How did you know that Dr Zoidberg? - 06The Picture Under the "Mona Lisa" - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:41] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentimento [wikipedia.org] My doctorate isn't in art history. I don't even have one, I just watch a lot of cartoons.
[06:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Breakingnews - 06Quantum Computing Roundup - 1090 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:44:51] <exec> 08└─The planes at the airport thing is a huge stretch. The airport already has an idea of who the owners might be. This is probably how some corporations haggle about the $$$$$: e.g. from article he linked to: "They've yet to pay the parking fee -- where do we send the bill?" If the Airport can somehow...
[06:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Industrial Protectionism - 06 Couple Takes Pics of Star Wars Figure They Bought, Get DMCA Notice from Lucasfilm - 1658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:45:02] <exec> 08└─The problem with a blanket term is that it pre-supposes that Trademarks, Patents, copyright, Trade secrets, Plant Breeder's rights, Integrated circuit topographies, and database rights are all very similar. In fact they are not. Trademarks are designed to reduce confusion in the marketplace. They la...
[06:45:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jasassin [3566] 02avoid disney - 06 Couple Takes Pics of Star Wars Figure They Bought, Get DMCA Notice from Lucasfilm - 185 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:09] <exec> 08└─We all know Disney was a dick and the company is still as evil as ever. This is just more proof. Do not pay to seem this movie, or any Disney products. I promise I won't patronize them.
[06:45:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:avoid disney - 06 Couple Takes Pics of Star Wars Figure They Bought, Get DMCA Notice from Lucasfilm - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:45:14] <exec> 08└─If you swap the polarity on the temporal condensers you can actually go back and un-watch the movie without ever having watched it in the first place. If enough people participate we can actually drive the box office revenues into the negative.
[06:45:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheReaperD [5556] 02Re:Here's the photo... - 06 Couple Takes Pics of Star Wars Figure They Bought, Get DMCA Notice from Lucasfilm - 504 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:45:16] <exec> 08└─Apparently, this ended up getting even more interesting as after Disney was contacted by several organizations, including Consumerist (same parent as Consumer Reports), Disney responded by rescinding the DMCA takedown then to only answer their own action by filing another takedown notice but, this t...
[06:51:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Mormon Wars! - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:51:05] <exec> 08└─And this is why I post to SoylentNews! The most off-beat (but, unfortunately, on topic) post can result in the meeting of minds and the setting straight of the historical record, and reconciliation amongst all but the truly deranged. Well done, AC and FatPhil! Well done.
[06:51:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Is parent truly Offtopic? - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 2142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:51:11] <exec> 08└─Yesssss. Speak your special words . . . .. Death-eaters! Death Angels! Angles of Saxon death to the Lamanites! And migrants from Missouri in Meadow Mountains! This is not a partisan issue, it is a terrorist issue. Radicalized people right there in the kingdom of Zion, thinking they are the heirs...
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[07:44:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Soy? - 06Voat Ditches Google Analytics for Locally Hosted Open Source Analytics Platform - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:34] <exec> 08└─What happened to soylent's use of piwik? Seems to no longer be in use here.
[07:44:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Soy? - 06Voat Ditches Google Analytics for Locally Hosted Open Source Analytics Platform - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:44:35] <exec> 08└─Last I heard, it was only used for a brief period for analytics, then removed.
[07:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Oy? - 06Voat Ditches Google Analytics for Locally Hosted Open Source Analytics Platform - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:36] <exec> 08└─It matters little what Voat does, since it is after all an abbreviation for violating a goat, as renegade defectors from reddit are wont to do. Defectors from Reddit? Is this not like refugees from the lowest depths of hell? Where could they possibly got that was not worse? Unless it involved Moar G...
[07:44:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I just took a dump! - 06The Picture Under the "Mona Lisa" - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:44:47] <exec> 08└─Anyone want to analyze my shit for historical significance?
[07:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I just took a dump! - 06The Picture Under the "Mona Lisa" - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:44:49] <exec> 08└─Solved, the hidden portrait is of a neckbeard
[07:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Treasure! - 06The Picture Under the "Mona Lisa" - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:44:51] <exec> 08└─No its the doctor! http://tardis.wikia.com [wikia.com]
[07:45:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03http [1920] 02Re:Fictional characters can be copyrighted. - 06 Couple Takes Pics of Star Wars Figure They Bought, Get DMCA Notice from Lucasfilm - 368 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:45:10] <exec> 08└─While I laud the notion of Lucasfilms being taken to the cleaners for this, it's pretty clear the propaganda is working - because you yourself are using the confounding term, "IP", in exactly the way copyright maximalists want you to use it, conflating property with copyright, and hopefully presenti...
[07:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How to get what you want by buying time - 06 Couple Takes Pics of Star Wars Figure They Bought, Get DMCA Notice from Lucasfilm - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:45:31] <exec> 08└─my right to resell an item I purchased, but now I can't even take a picture of it??
[07:47:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score:2) 02Re:Mark Fuckerberg - 06SHA1 Sunset Will Block Millions From Encrypted Net, Facebook Warns - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:47:55] <exec> 08└─At times like this, I wish that I had picked a witty username like WitnessProtected or TheFBI [bash.org].
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[08:44:38] <exec> 08└─DailyKOS? What does KOS even stand for? Something to do with liberal echo chambers? My google-foo isn't giving any definitive answers this morning. http://www.urbandictionary.com [urbandictionary.com] This is kind of interesting - do they have ties to Sharpie? http://truth-about-...
[08:44:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Oy? - 06Voat Ditches Google Analytics for Locally Hosted Open Source Analytics Platform - 817 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:44:39] <exec> 08└─Hmm, to whom did you run away? Could it have been goats? If you do not like a citation, provide one of your own. KOS is actually short for Markos, which you will recognize, being "merican Naval dude of a certain age, as the proprietor of a very large whorehouse/country/collaborator with the Japanese...
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[08:44:41] <exec> 08└─Ha, makes me think aristarchus and runaway are accounts to play off eachother :P
[08:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Oy? - 06Voat Ditches Google Analytics for Locally Hosted Open Source Analytics Platform - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:44:42] <exec> 08└─You are on to us? Oh, fiddlesticks! On the other hand, you should look into the origins of voat. These are people who justifiably were censored on Reddit, and went off to establish their own little paradise of hate and idiocy. That is why we should love them so.
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[08:44:44] <exec> 08└─As a community we on Soylent need to tone down some of the hate. I know the world sucks, and there is a HUGE pile of shit just about everywhere we look, but keep in mind that it is the result of a small minority of sociopaths taking control and shoveling us all into the same barrel of crap. The just...
[08:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:I just took a dump! - 06The Picture Under the "Mona Lisa" - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:44:52] <exec> 08└─But - couldn't people just go pick new canvas from the canvas trees? I realize we can't do that today, since the canvas trees are extinct due to global warming, but Da Vinci had canvas trees all around him, didn't he? http://in1.ccio.co [in1.ccio.co]
[08:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:I just took a dump! - 06The Picture Under the "Mona Lisa" - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:44:54] <exec> 08└─I mean, that would have worked for him if the canvas tree harvesting wasn't under all that strong regulation during the late 1400s due to the well known Renaissance Canvas Bubble popping finally under the weight of subprime canvas loans. Fun fact: Da Vinci actually made the majority of his money spe...
[08:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Industrial Protectionism - 06 Couple Takes Pics of Star Wars Figure They Bought, Get DMCA Notice from Lucasfilm - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:45:22] <exec> 08└─I am not familiar with Plant Breeder's rights.
[08:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fictional characters can be copyrighted. - 06 Couple Takes Pics of Star Wars Figure They Bought, Get DMCA Notice from Lucasfilm - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:45:23] <exec> 08└─The proper term is Industrial Protectionism [torrentfreak.com].
[08:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Facebook user shops at Walmart - 06 Couple Takes Pics of Star Wars Figure They Bought, Get DMCA Notice from Lucasfilm - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:45:41] <exec> 08└─Facebook users and Walmart shoppers are already forever damned. They deserve their fate.
[08:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How to get what you want by buying time - 06 Couple Takes Pics of Star Wars Figure They Bought, Get DMCA Notice from Lucasfilm - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:45:44] <exec> 08└─To be fair Disney acknowledged the error. My guess is one part of the company is going 'oh geeze who did that' and the other part is 'oh they posted it up again BAN HAMMER as per my policy so I can keep my job'.
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[09:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Boo! - 06Americans Stock Up on Weapons after California Shooting - 680 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:44:41] <exec> 08└─There's a lot of words I'd use for what's happening, and a lot of them are derogatory, but I don't know if cowardly is really one of them in this instance. I just found out that my grandparents are leaving me the antique family firearms. A lot of that is centered around the fact that I'm the only on...
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[09:44:42] <exec> 08└─Ashamed! How dare you harbor weapons of death, even if they have no effective ammo! But really, feel honored to be given a set of treasured items. The whole "big deal" is just another way to keep people afraid, THE TERRORISTS ARE RIGHT NEXT TO YOU! Which in some sense they are, but freaking out abou...
[09:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Boo! - 06Americans Stock Up on Weapons after California Shooting - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:44:43] <exec> 08└─Well, I'm pretty sure I could hand load rounds for it. I have zero problems with it really, but it is strange to me that France, of all the places, basically announces they're going to war over this, and we Chamberlain it and the internet gets edgy over the fact that people have a different opinion....
[09:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Boo! - 06Americans Stock Up on Weapons after California Shooting - 968 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:44:45] <exec> 08└─Be afraid! Be very afraid! Avoid smokeless powder in "damascus welded" shotgun barrels. Other than that, they should function just fine. The point is, you are not acquiring weapons because you are peeing your pants that ISIS might attack you next. And they probably will. Happened with me. I was wor...
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[09:44:47] <exec> 08└─Well, there were a couple I think, but the one I'm aware of was a hammerless... I want to say, .38 revolver that came from some 100-125 years ago. A relative worked as a railway agent and left that along with a pocketwatch that also came with the job. The watch is broken, and I have it now. Been mea...
[09:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Don't forget to Enlist! - 06Americans Stock Up on Weapons after California Shooting - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:49] <exec> 08└─Ask not whether Obama Cares for you, ask how you and your gun can serve your Obama. You love Our Troops, now be one of Our Troops. Don't just Thank A Veteran, enlist today, so you can become a Veteran tomorrow.
[09:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Fucking bigots - 06Americans Stock Up on Weapons after California Shooting - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:51] <exec> 08└─So nobody blinks twice when Christian terrorists murder a bunch of innocent people at Planned Parenthood because some people dare to exert their fundamental human right of self-sovereignty to do things they disagree with, but some non-Christians murder a few people and everybody flips their lids? Fu...
[09:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fucking bigots - 06Americans Stock Up on Weapons after California Shooting - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:44:53] <exec> 08└─How dare you be intolerant of intolerance, you fucking bigot.
[09:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Oy? - 06Voat Ditches Google Analytics for Locally Hosted Open Source Analytics Platform - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:45:03] <exec> 08└─Seems like you should separate your criticism. Stepping away from GA I see as a good thing, so perhaps that should not be mixed with opinions of a separate matter...
[09:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Oy? - 06Voat Ditches Google Analytics for Locally Hosted Open Source Analytics Platform - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:45:05] <exec> 08└─Totally agree. No dispute about that. But that was not my point at all? Even with Runaway backing me up on the downlow from the otherside, I still fail to be clear? Oy, vey! BTW, like your point about the "hate" business. But I tend to look at it more as humor. Vicious, no-holds-barred, truth-tel...
[09:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The whole world is united states (jurisdiction) - 06 Couple Takes Pics of Star Wars Figure They Bought, Get DMCA Notice from Lucasfilm - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:07] <exec> 08└─That's why you don't need to mention the country things happen in...
[09:46:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JamesNZ [4399] 02Ehm - 06Mozilla Open Source Software Awards - 90 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:39] <exec> 08└─Why exactly does Mozilla want Buildbot to remove the word "slave"? Bit of a weird request.
[09:47:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the Point? - 06Walmart Shuns Samsung and Apple, Launches "Walmart Pay" - 726 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:47:52] <exec> 08└─Maybe I'm living in a box... but what is the point of using these apps? I can either (a) pull my wallet out of my back pocket, grab my chipped credit card, swipe/insert my card, sign if needed, or (b) pull out my phone, enter my password, find an app, and do whatever I need to do to authorize/pay. I...
[09:51:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Citizens United? - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:51:21] <exec> 08└─No matter what anyone says corporations are not people and do not share the same rights as people.
[09:51:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Citizens United? - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 738 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:51:24] <exec> 08└─Your right to freedom of speech does not end merely because you work together in a group. If everyone works together to produce a certain message, then that is still covered by the first amendment. I certainly don't see where the constitution says what you claim it does. Where does it expressly gran...
[09:51:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Citizens United? - 06Amend the U.S. Constitution, Say 27 States - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:51:42] <exec> 08└─It often doesn't come in the form of direct money donations, but advertisements. All they need to do is advertise for the candidate, and that would necessarily be speech. Your proposed restrictions are meaningless.
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[10:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Boo! - 06Americans Stock Up on Weapons after California Shooting - 1510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:44:52] <exec> 08└─I'd definitely call it cowardly. It's one thing to start packing a sidearm in response to a specific threat and quite another to start packing because there's a possibility that somebody else will have one and use it for violent purposes. A large part of why these sorts of crimes have become so comm...
[10:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sir Finkus [192] (Score:2) 02Re:Fucking bigots - 06Americans Stock Up on Weapons after California Shooting - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:44:56] <exec> 08└─Lots of people are flipping their lids about the Planned Parenthood shooting. Arguably not as many as those upset about Islamic terrorism, but it's hardly a fringe opinion. Frankly, I don't believe being "bigoted" against any religion is a problem. When it comes down to it, religion is a choice and...
[10:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Do gun sales correllate with completed suicides? - 06Americans Stock Up on Weapons after California Shooting - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:58] <exec> 08└─Congress won't permit the National Institutes of Health to answer that question but that doesn't mean someone else couldn't. I'm a former suicide hotline counselor. I will tell you that of attempted suicides, those that use a gun are more likely to be completed.
[10:47:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:walmart haters - 06Walmart Shuns Samsung and Apple, Launches "Walmart Pay" - 739 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:47:52] <exec> 08└─But at what cost? If you're living in a major city then the damage that Walmart does isn't as big of a deal as it's virtually impossible for one company to destroy the economy. But, if you're living in a smaller town, Walmart can and has completely destroyed the local economy by undercutting the pri...
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[11:44:35] <exec> 08└─i'm sure as hell not volunteering the fascists my email address
[11:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02umm. - 06[Ends 2015/12/30]Don't Allow European Lawmakers to Wreck the Net - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:36] <exec> 08└─so its the EU, thats trying to wreck the net, eh? And some faggot, that is somehow related to "a new, digital-native think tank"... wants me to write them? I had no intention to do that anyway, since this initiative to me looks like PR. Hell, its all PR. The rich and the clueless have fucked the Net...
[11:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What? - 06[Ends 2015/12/30]Don't Allow European Lawmakers to Wreck the Net - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:38] <exec> 08└─What actual threat is there here? Are they trying to censor the Internet, get rid of net neutrality, or something else? It seems like there would be some indication in the summary as to how, specifically, they're trying to screw up the Internet.
[11:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Shocker - 06Plants Taking up Less Carbon Dioxide than Models Predict - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:45] <exec> 08└─Wait, you mean climate models can be wrong?
[11:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Boo! - 06Americans Stock Up on Weapons after California Shooting - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:44:58] <exec> 08└─It's one thing to start packing a sidearm in response to a specific threat and quite another to start packing because there's a possibility that somebody else will have one and use it for violent purposes.
[11:45:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Sir Finkus [192] 02Re:Fucking bigots - 06Americans Stock Up on Weapons after California Shooting - 397 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:45:02] <exec> 08└─Lots of people are flipping their lids about the Planned Parenthood shooting. Arguably not as many as those upset about Islamic terrorism, but it's hardly a fringe opinion. Frankly, I don't believe being "bigoted" against any religion is a problem. When it comes down to it, religion is a choice and...
[11:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Jim Jefferies on Gun Control - 06Americans Stock Up on Weapons after California Shooting - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:05] <exec> 08└─I'll just leave this here: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[11:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Agree with what? - 06Americans Stock Up on Weapons after California Shooting - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:06] <exec> 08└─timbim writes in with a Reuters story on a gun surge: Many Americans agree...
[11:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:Oy? - 06Voat Ditches Google Analytics for Locally Hosted Open Source Analytics Platform - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:45:23] <exec> 08└─As a community we on Soylent need to tone down some of the hate.
[11:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02good for them? - 06Voat Ditches Google Analytics for Locally Hosted Open Source Analytics Platform - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:25] <exec> 08└─it seems to me that if you are a reader/poster on Voat, that you have larger issues than your privacy.
[11:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02fun fact - 06The Picture Under the "Mona Lisa" - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:40] <exec> 08└─the Mona Lisa isn't the huge portrait image that Hollywood and reproductions have depicted it as, it's actually actually about the size of a letter size paper (8.5 × 11 in).
[11:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Update - 06 Couple Takes Pics of Star Wars Figure They Bought, Get DMCA Notice from Lucasfilm - 985 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:28] <exec> 08└─Disney drops—then doubles down on—DMCA claim over Star Wars figure pic [arstechnica.com] Man who took photos of a $6.94 Walmart action figure gets banned from Facebook. A Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) notice sent by the Walt Disney Company earlier this week seems to have truly awakene...
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[12:44:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02scientist tools... - 06Recognizing BS: On the Reception and Detection of Pseudo-Profound Bbullshit - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:34] <exec> 08└─Generally.... i) Who is making money from it? ii) Who is reporting the information? iii) When is it reported? Is it still plausible considering i-iii)? Specifically... Is the data from a repeatable experiment? Average means nothing without the distribution from which it is drawn. What is the distrib...
[12:44:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02typo in title - 06Recognizing BS: On the Reception and Detection of Pseudo-Profound Bbullshit - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:35] <exec> 08└─The word "Bbullshit" appears to be somewhat superfluous in its content, containing an appropriate number of letters as can be demonstrated by the fact that it passed editorial review, but might be construed as having a few too many of one of the letters by a majority of the everyday consumers of soy...
[12:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Actually, the survey ... - 06[Ends 2015/12/30]Don't Allow European Lawmakers to Wreck the Net - 1277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:46] <exec> 08└─...isn't bad at all, though they might wise up on their use of javascript. These are some of the questions asked, with simple Yes, No, I don't know answer options: Do you think that online platforms should ensure, as regards their own activities and those of the traders that use them, more transpar...
[12:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03greatbigfatcattats [5990] (Score:1) 02DeJa vu - 06[Ends 2015/12/30]Don't Allow European Lawmakers to Wreck the Net - 2579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:48] <exec> 08└─I'm certain that this has been said many times before, but... The fact that this kind of story keeps coming up time and time again indicates, to me at least, that the illustrious "they," whether that is government or the large corporations/ISPs, want the kind of control these things hint at. We can...
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[12:45:15] <exec> 08└─Barbarians at the gate, who do not understand or respect the right of the individual, are foaming at the mouth to impose restrictions on the Constitutional right to self defense. When you import the third world, you import third-world problems and mentalities. In my mind, theres no difference betwee...
[12:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Soy? - 06Voat Ditches Google Analytics for Locally Hosted Open Source Analytics Platform - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:45:24] <exec> 08└─Why? A manager is looking to hook our internal sharepoint up to GA for web stats instead of piwik at our office. I have no words.
[12:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:good for them? - 06Voat Ditches Google Analytics for Locally Hosted Open Source Analytics Platform - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:45:35] <exec> 08└─I would say the same thing about *chan, Reddit, Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook, fecal media in general, and other such trash.
[12:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Breakingnews - 06Quantum Computing Roundup - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:46:04] <exec> 08└─Um, no? Was someone claiming it was breaking news?
[12:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Thanks, Disney! - 06 Couple Takes Pics of Star Wars Figure They Bought, Get DMCA Notice from Lucasfilm - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:42] <exec> 08└─Well, if it wasn't for the DMCA notices I'd likely never have heard of this story or seen the photo in question. And now it's on my Facebook page!
[12:47:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:like the idea - 06Mozilla Open Source Software Awards - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:47:50] <exec> 08└─The thing is that social feces warriors are offended by everything, including the term "bro". Why remove "slave" from one project but not rename another project? Even the act of clapping offends some feces warriors, so they instead choose to snap their fingers.
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[13:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:scientist tools... - 06Recognizing BS: On the Reception and Detection of Pseudo-Profound Bullshit - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:44:37] <exec> 08└─Does it break any of the fundamental laws some of the time (QM)?
[13:44:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02So … - 06Recognizing BS: On the Reception and Detection of Pseudo-Profound Bullshit - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:39] <exec> 08└─So how do I now find out whether this article is sound research or pseudo-profound bullshit? :-)
[13:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Boo! - 06Americans Stock Up on Weapons after California Shooting - 870 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:45:08] <exec> 08└─Of course you meant continued being at war - France was bombing ISIS already. The terrorist attack was a response. Or maybe they just hate us for our freedoms? French planes have carried out air strikes on Islamic State (Isis) targets in Iraq. Less than 24 hours after President François Hollande an...
[13:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I just took a dump! - 06The Picture Under the "Mona Lisa" - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:45:51] <exec> 08└─It was painted on wood, not canvas.
[13:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:fun fact - 06The Picture Under the "Mona Lisa" - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:45:59] <exec> 08└─Actually, that's not fact at all.
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[14:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Editor ahoy: Broken link: a list of products - 06Ban on Microbeads Passes U.S. House of Representatives - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:36] <exec> 08└─Apparently it was supposed to be to http://www.beatthemicrobead.org [beatthemicrobead.org] although I don't understand why Belgium should get preferential treatment...
[14:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Editor ahoy: Broken link: a list of products - 06Ban on Microbeads Passes U.S. House of Representatives - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:44:37] <exec> 08└─Oh sweet... now that link doesn' t work either...
[14:44:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02First reading - 06Ban on Microbeads Passes U.S. House of Representatives - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:39] <exec> 08└─I first read this (or a similar) article some weeks ago. At the time, I thought it was kinda silly. I really didn't pay it much mind, it just seemed silly. Bath beads? Geez, someone needs to get a life. But, given a little thought, yeah, pollution is pollution. We already have numerous articles rega...
[14:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:scientist tools... - 06Recognizing BS: On the Reception and Detection of Pseudo-Profound Bullshit - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:44:48] <exec> 08└─Who the fuck knows, his post is so completely off topic that you have to wonder if he even read the summary. Unless he's gone meta and is actually providing us with an example of pseudo-profound bullshit.
[14:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Personal investigation? - 06Recognizing BS: On the Reception and Detection of Pseudo-Profound Bullshit - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:44:51] <exec> 08└─Everyone has a "mission statement" they can refer to. The one I'm supposed to be familiar with today is unintelligible bullshit. The one I was supposed to learn by rote three years ago was only slightly more intelligible. There are any number of mission statements that I've been exposed to, that are...
[14:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Comment on the Summary & Bulletin Article - 06Recognizing BS: On the Reception and Detection of Pseudo-Profound Bullshit - 1633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:53] <exec> 08└─The tone of the study, the bulletin article, and the summary tend to reinforce the negative stereotypes of both believers and rationalists. Both of those groups can benefit from encouraging critical thinking, rational argument, discernment, understanding, and good communications. Both groups have me...
[14:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Comment on the Summary & Bulletin Article - 06Recognizing BS: On the Reception and Detection of Pseudo-Profound Bullshit - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:44:55] <exec> 08└─Correction on the comment "The tone of the study, the bulletin article, and the summary..." The original study linked to does not use the word "Bullshit" at all and it is called "Does telling white lies signal pro-social preferences?"
[14:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:no way dude - 06[Ends 2015/12/30]Don't Allow European Lawmakers to Wreck the Net - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:01] <exec> 08└─Get a free one ... from somewhere which doesn't need your phone number to "keep your account safe"
[14:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Finally! - 06[Ends 2015/12/30]Don't Allow European Lawmakers to Wreck the Net - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:06] <exec> 08└─Finally, a digital-native think tank. Brand new, too.
[14:45:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Shocker - 06Plants Taking up Less Carbon Dioxide than Models Predict - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:14] <exec> 08└─> Wait, you mean climate models can be wrong? Very sly! Except "climate models" aren't just monolithic. Conclusions about global warming are the preponderance of agreement among thousands of individual experiments and analyses. That they aren't all perfectly exact is a red herring, Real life is ana...
[14:45:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Boo! - 06Americans Stock Up on Weapons after California Shooting - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:28] <exec> 08└─the argument against fixing the gun violence problem is mostly based upon unjustifiable fear
[14:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fucking bigots - 06Americans Stock Up on Weapons after California Shooting - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:33] <exec> 08└─Lots of people are flipping their lids about the Planned Parenthood shooting.
[14:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Agree with what? - 06Americans Stock Up on Weapons after California Shooting - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:38] <exec> 08└─> Agree with what? That you should see a psychiatrist about your compulsion to make inane posts.
[14:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Hair of the dog - 06Americans Stock Up on Weapons after California Shooting - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:41] <exec> 08└─That certainly is an age old remedy... And effective as fucking for virginity!
[14:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Home defence vs Public shootings? - 06Americans Stock Up on Weapons after California Shooting - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:43] <exec> 08└─Stocking up on guns to defend you and your family. but all the mass shootings seem to be in public places where there are no guns allowed! Shall we arm all students in schools? Should mom sport her designer holster while taking baby for a stroll through the mall? I don't get it, if buying guns was t...
[14:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Oy? - 06Voat Ditches Google Analytics for Locally Hosted Open Source Analytics Platform - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:57] <exec> 08└─> Vicious, no-holds-barred, truth-telling humor, but that is the only way to fight stupid. I can't tell if you are serious or intentionally doing a parody because that's exactly what the people who left reddit for voat think too.
[14:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02Paint Stripper Needed - 06The Picture Under the "Mona Lisa" - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:21] <exec> 08└─Easily solved with some paint stripper. Take a photo of the top image first of course. I have discovered all sorts of interesting stuff under the old paint and wallpaper in my house. In fact, when I wallpaper myself I usually write my name and date on the plaster saying when I re-decorated the room.
[14:48:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:like the idea - 06Mozilla Open Source Software Awards - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:48:21] <exec> 08└─> The thing is that social feces warriors are offended by everything, Well of course they are, what do you expect when people like you intend to offend with everything?
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[15:44:39] <exec> 08└─A better list is at: List [beatthemicrobead.org] All files are PDFs. Red button=Contains microbeads; Orange button=Still contains microbeads but will be removed; Green=Does not contain microbeads;
[15:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Good idea to get a GOP co-sponsor - 06Ban on Microbeads Passes U.S. House of Representatives - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:41] <exec> 08└─It seems that use to be a common practice in Congress, but not so much since the Tea Party came along and threatened primary challenges against Republican incumbents that failed to pass litmus tests of ideological purity.
[15:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02pimpleboy - 06Ban on Microbeads Passes U.S. House of Representatives - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:43] <exec> 08└─good damnit how ammi gonna tell the skipper that i cant flush out all the tritium from the subs reactor if i cant use microbeads to scrub? not to mention clearingnthe oiltankers ballast without using microbeads after unloading another gazillion tons of iraqi crud?
[15:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Mass shootings in the US benefit - 06Americans Stock Up on Weapons after California Shooting - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:46] <exec> 08└─... the gun manufacturers. They're probably happy when these incidents occur, they know they'll get more customers and their profits will go up. Today they use Obama as their bogeyman, but after he leaves office they'll just use any other prominent politician or media outlet that advocates gun cont...
[15:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Update - 06 Couple Takes Pics of Star Wars Figure They Bought, Get DMCA Notice from Lucasfilm - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:47:17] <exec> 08└─> Man who took photos of a $6.94 Walmart action figure gets banned from Facebook. In the US you have freedom of speech as long as you don't threaten anyone's profits. Then you have to pay.
[15:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02still gonna buy that ticket? - 06 Couple Takes Pics of Star Wars Figure They Bought, Get DMCA Notice from Lucasfilm - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:19] <exec> 08└─I wonder how many people in the technology sector are going to vote with their dollars by buying tickets to the new Star Wars movie to show they approve of Disney doing this and purging IT workers to outsource them. Remember Sony's rootkit and how the technology industry reacted? I'm not getting a "...
[15:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:Ehm - 06Mozilla Open Source Software Awards - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:48:07] <exec> 08└─I've always been fascinated at how Asperger's and autism have become valid internet pejoratives. Would I be correct in presuming that the “SJWs” (expand that as social juggalo warriors from now on! don't ask, it involved plenty of b33r and Vanilla Ice playing Mark Twain—maybe we can blame Adam...
[15:50:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Oblig. MASH reference: - 06The First Plasma: The Wendelstein 7-X Fusion Device is Now in Operation - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:50:19] <exec> 08└─some elements, if fused, dont produce neutrons ... or how i like to call them "zippers" because they activate stable shit and then "zip" they decay down the chain. ^_^
[15:50:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score:1) 02Call Captain Kirk! - 06The First Plasma: The Wendelstein 7-X Fusion Device is Now in Operation - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:23] <exec> 08└─Hold on, we've got a Klingon developing a plasma-powered fusion device here on earth?
[15:50:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02output - 06The First Plasma: The Wendelstein 7-X Fusion Device is Now in Operation - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:25] <exec> 08└─any ideas or comments on how energy is going to be extracted from stellerators or tokamaks? same old same old ... boil water run a thermodynamic turbine? is there no "fancy" way to harness the magnetic fields that surely alter after a element has tarnsformed from two hydrogen magnetic field sources...
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[16:44:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02It's infectious. - 06Discovered a Disease? WHO Has New Rules for Avoiding Offensive Names - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:34] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry, ma'am, the test results came back positive. You have "Fuck-the-WHO-itis".
[16:44:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:It's infectious. - 06Discovered a Disease? WHO Has New Rules for Avoiding Offensive Names - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:44:35] <exec> 08└─And, Mrs. Johnson, your results are back, but we can't identify the disease because WHO hasn't agreed to a name yet.
[16:44:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score:2) 02Tempus fugit - 06Discovered a Disease? WHO Has New Rules for Avoiding Offensive Names - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:36] <exec> 08└─Wasn't that long ago that leprosy was changed to Hansen's Disease...
[16:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:Tempus fugit - 06Discovered a Disease? WHO Has New Rules for Avoiding Offensive Names - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:44:38] <exec> 08└─Hansen's Disease? I thought that was an incontrollable urge to tell people to take a seat, right over there.
[16:44:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I found an online tool - 06Discovered a Disease? WHO Has New Rules for Avoiding Offensive Names - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:40] <exec> 08└─that generates unique, politically correct, WHO names: https://www.guidgenerator.com [guidgenerator.com]
[16:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:I found an online tool - 06Discovered a Disease? WHO Has New Rules for Avoiding Offensive Names - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:44:42] <exec> 08└─Of course, the H1-N4794a0f9-9df3-4617-a80f-055edcae9abc virus!
[16:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:First reading - 06Ban on Microbeads Passes U.S. House of Representatives - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:44:51] <exec> 08└─Hey, we're kinda stuck here on earth, it's far past time that we
[16:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:First reading - 06Ban on Microbeads Passes U.S. House of Representatives - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:44:53] <exec> 08└─...started funding our space programs so we can begin polluting other planets!
[16:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Good idea to get a GOP co-sponsor - 06Ban on Microbeads Passes U.S. House of Representatives - 779 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:44:54] <exec> 08└─You need to have laws that make sense as well. For example, what was so wrong with microbeads, that Congress couldn't have just required that they be biodegradable (I'm taking at face value the research on the supposed pollution enhancing properties of microbeads)? I'd rather have no regulation at a...
[16:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Cobblers - 06Recognizing BS: On the Reception and Detection of Pseudo-Profound Bullshit - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:08] <exec> 08└─We used to use the word, "Cobblers." It a bit more polite since the rude word is disguised. It comes from rhyming slang, I believe, and it should be the possessive plural (i.e. with an apostrophe on the end).
[16:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Hmmm - 06Recognizing BS: On the Reception and Detection of Pseudo-Profound Bullshit - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:09] <exec> 08└─So... it has come to this.
[16:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Shocker - 06Plants Taking up Less Carbon Dioxide than Models Predict - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:31] <exec> 08└─The difference between science and ideology is that science can correct itself over time. Ideology, which is what you have, just comes up with more sarcastic justifications of its original position.
[16:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Oy? - 06Voat Ditches Google Analytics for Locally Hosted Open Source Analytics Platform - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:20] <exec> 08└─Renegade defectors from reddit! Hooboy what lamers. BTW Beta sucks.
[16:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheReaperD [5556] (Score:1) 02Not a surprise - 06The Picture Under the "Mona Lisa" - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:43] <exec> 08└─It was common practice to paint over old paintings. Canvas was expensive and painters love to paint. So the only time a painting was "finalized" was when they gave it away to someone or the painter died. They would either make continual modifications or just completely paint over a previous painting...
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[17:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02...and Donald Flatulance? - 06Discovered a Disease? WHO Has New Rules for Avoiding Offensive Names - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:48] <exec> 08└─Or should that be Donald Warm but Foul Smelling Emission of Air from the Anus?
[17:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:...and Donald Flatulance? - 06Discovered a Disease? WHO Has New Rules for Avoiding Offensive Names - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:44:49] <exec> 08└─You fool - the more you dis The Donald, the more popular he gets. STFU unless you're on his side. If you brag on him, he'll probably lose popularity. I'm pretty much amused at the whole circus, but people can't live on bread and circus forever. http://www.vox.com
[17:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:...and Donald Flatulance? - 06Discovered a Disease? WHO Has New Rules for Avoiding Offensive Names - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:44:51] <exec> 08└─Unelectable! [telegraph.co.uk]
[17:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Politically correct is going too far... - 06Discovered a Disease? WHO Has New Rules for Avoiding Offensive Names - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:53] <exec> 08└─I'm sick and tired of this politically correct bullshit. It's turning people into mindless, nutless, limp wristed, telletubbied pansies. Grow some balls and say what it is. This is why I'm voting for Trump. He's not afraid of hurting someones feelings like the rest of the pansy limpwrists in DC.
[17:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheReaperD [5556] (Score:1) 02Re:First reading - 06Ban on Microbeads Passes U.S. House of Representatives - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:04] <exec> 08└─We have so much plastic, including microbeads, floating in the ocean that it has created its own island in the pacific ocean. The most conservative size estimate puts it as the size of Texas! We really have a problem with waste and industry and consumers are not going to police themselves about it.
[17:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sir Finkus [192] (Score:2) 02Re:First reading - 06Ban on Microbeads Passes U.S. House of Representatives - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:05] <exec> 08└─...floating in the ocean that it has created its own island in the pacific ocean.
[17:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:First reading - 06Ban on Microbeads Passes U.S. House of Representatives - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:07] <exec> 08└─You are correct, but the media has characterized it as an island. The real impact on people, are reduced harvests of seafood. Birds, fish, marine mammals, and other marine life has been impacted by the trash.
[17:45:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02simplification? - 06Recognizing BS: On the Reception and Detection of Pseudo-Profound Bullshit - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:26] <exec> 08└─How about replacing all the fancy words with simpler one and two syllable words? That work for a bullshit detector? Hidden meaning transforms unparalleled abstract beauty
[17:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score:2) 02You should feel like being in charge of a museum - 06Americans Stock Up on Weapons after California Shooting - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:04] <exec> 08└─I just found out that my grandparents are leaving me the antique family firearms.......Tell me internet, how should I feel?
[17:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03J_Darnley [5679] (Score:1) 02Re:Do gun sales correllate with completed suicides - 06Americans Stock Up on Weapons after California Shooting - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:11] <exec> 08└─Good. People should be using a very effective means of killing themselves. No half hearted overdose attempt leaving you in need of expensive medical treatment. If I lived in the US I know I would have taken that route already. Instead I must work up the courage to use some slower method. I'm too muc...
[17:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03cellocgw [4190] (Score:2) 02You Can't Fix Stupid - 06Americans Stock Up on Weapons after California Shooting - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:20] <exec> 08└─'nuff said.
[17:49:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:like the idea - 06Mozilla Open Source Software Awards - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:49:06] <exec> 08└─That doesn't make any sense. For one thing, it's false that people like me intend to offend with everything (where "everything" means "a lot"). Second of all, even if someone intends to offend you, that does not mean you're obligated to be offended. For instance, if I said "Hello." with the intentio...
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[18:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheReaperD [5556] (Score:1) 02Who cares? - 06Cornell Prof: How to Find Satoshi Nakamoto - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:36] <exec> 08└─Other than a mystery, what's the big deal with finding this person (or people)? I can imagine some in government, especially organizations such as the NSA really wanting to find whoever was behind the cryptocurrency to make sure he doesn't give any further contributions to society but, what's in it...
[18:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02How to lead them down a wild goose chase! - 06Cornell Prof: How to Find Satoshi Nakamoto - 724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:37] <exec> 08└─I restate: ENCRYPT EVERYTHING. Your mannerisms, let you not become predictable. Your interests, let them shift and range over any subject. Click some random advertisements. Use your neighbors' phone number instead of your grocery shopper's card -- Indeed foodstuffs have been datamined to try and dis...
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[18:44:52] <exec> 08└─Daily reminder that you can't stump the Trump [youtube.com].
[18:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02What about Contaminants - 06Discovered a Disease? WHO Has New Rules for Avoiding Offensive Names - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:54] <exec> 08└─If a corporation releases a contaminant and the contaminant harms anyone the disease caused by said contaminant should be named after the corporation responsible.
[18:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score:1) 02Re:What about Contaminants - 06Discovered a Disease? WHO Has New Rules for Avoiding Offensive Names - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:56] <exec> 08└─Excellent idea, but then we'd have to deal with "Dow Syndrome #22000", "Union Carbide Syndrome #202794", ad infinatum. I fear the lists would become extremely long, and lead to the same objections re: "distinguishable" raised in TFA.
[18:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheReaperD [5556] (Score:1) 02Re:First reading - 06Ban on Microbeads Passes U.S. House of Representatives - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:11] <exec> 08└─Sure, it's not a solid mass you can walk across, it's floating garbage, after all. But, from the pictures I've seen, being able to sail through it without seeing it, not a chance. Now, being able to sail near it, or on the outer edges of the larger zone estimates, sure. The ocean is a big place and...
[18:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sir Finkus [192] (Score:2) 02Re:First reading - 06Ban on Microbeads Passes U.S. House of Representatives - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:12] <exec> 08└─But, from the pictures I've seen, being able to sail through it without seeing it, not a chance.
[18:45:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02Re:scientist tools... - 06Recognizing BS: On the Reception and Detection of Pseudo-Profound Bullshit - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:25] <exec> 08└─quantum mechanics (tongue in cheek!). I'm just not sure we have all the bits ,yet...
[18:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:So … - 06Recognizing BS: On the Reception and Detection of Pseudo-Profound Bullshit - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:29] <exec> 08└─"[D]etecting it is not merely a matter of indiscriminate skepticism but rather a discernment of deceptive vagueness in otherwise impressive sounding claims."
[18:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Boo! - 06Americans Stock Up on Weapons after California Shooting - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:12] <exec> 08└─Oh, but obviously they were cowards to be prepared to defend themselves. /s
[18:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Boo! - 06Americans Stock Up on Weapons after California Shooting - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:13] <exec> 08└─If you have time to show of a gun you have time to stab the with a knife.
[18:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Boo! - 06Americans Stock Up on Weapons after California Shooting - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:16] <exec> 08└─Look - People don't buy guns because they are afraid of terrorist threats. They buy them before hysterical gun-grabbers and Democrat fools in government make guns and ammo more expensive and difficult to get. This is why gun-grabbing sissy Whites and fifth-columnist Whites within the Democrat party...
[18:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score:2) 02Great link! If you can't laugh *you* suck. - 06Americans Stock Up on Weapons after California Shooting - 793 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:27] <exec> 08└─The Jim Jefferies gun control skit is outstanding hands down. I'm a gun enthusiast and I laugh non-stop at that thing. It really is a joke with nice grains of truth in it. I saw Jefferies live recently and he talked about his gun control skit. Mostly he was concerned that his gun control skit was be...
[18:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Manufacturers playing the rubes - 06Americans Stock Up on Weapons after California Shooting - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:35] <exec> 08└─The gun companies will gladly fan the flames to get people to buy guns. I can't wait until more people start shooting themselves, or their children, the next time they get drunk. Natural Selection in action.
[18:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Paint Stripper Needed - 06The Picture Under the "Mona Lisa" - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:16] <exec> 08└─In fact, when I wallpaper myself
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[19:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02False Precisions - 06Cornell Prof: How to Find Satoshi Nakamoto - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:42] <exec> 08└─That person had precisely the same intellectual signature as Satoshi
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[19:44:55] <exec> 08└─They will just use decimal: Giving new diseases a number may be the only way to avoid such issues, researchers say. There is precedent. Growing up in China in the late 1960s, Wang remembers that diseases had digits. “I was really scared of number 5 disease,” he recalls. “I don’t know why, yo...
[19:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0, Troll) 02An Organisation classified as Disorganisation. - 06Discovered a Disease? WHO Has New Rules for Avoiding Offensive Names - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:03] <exec> 08└─Well, I suppose it's time to defund the WHO. They've been compromised by fucking SJWs who care more about offense than spending time combating disease and promoting world health.
[19:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:An Organisation classified as Disorganisation. - 06Discovered a Disease? WHO Has New Rules for Avoiding Offensive Names - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:05] <exec> 08└─Do SJW's even fuck? It's up in the air whether they are lizard people, zombies, or part of the borg.
[19:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrentDavey [1526] (Score:1) 02Re:Comment on the Summary & Bulletin Article - 06Recognizing BS: On the Reception and Detection of Pseudo-Profound Bullshit - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:41] <exec> 08└─Yes, the html version link is actually to the previous article in the journal. oops. The correct link is: http://journal.sjdm.org [sjdm.org]
[19:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Let them spin their wheels. The sooner the better - 06[Ends 2015/12/30]Don't Allow European Lawmakers to Wreck the Net - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:58] <exec> 08└─Long Live the Internet! But FUCK the WEB! No matter what you do information will find a way to be free.
[19:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Boo! - 06Americans Stock Up on Weapons after California Shooting - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:27] <exec> 08└─You don't just "fix" people. People are afraid, you don't "fix" the fear. That's why I work in the physical world, and not the psycho-babble world. I can measure, cut, weld, nail, bolt, or otherwise "fix" things. Nothing gets measurably "fixed" in the psycho world. And, if anyone were to try to "fix...
[19:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Fucking bigots - 06Americans Stock Up on Weapons after California Shooting - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:34] <exec> 08└─So nobody blinks twice when Christian terrorists..
[19:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fucking bigots - 06Americans Stock Up on Weapons after California Shooting - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:36] <exec> 08└─> Muslims are 1% of America and account for a full half of all deaths due to terror incidents STFU, it is obvious you are just using bad statistics to justify your bigotry. The number of "terror incidents" in the US is so goddamn small - 28 in the last 14 years of which only 8 were by muslims - tha...
[19:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Maddog [690] (Score:1) 02Re:fun fact - 06The Picture Under the "Mona Lisa" - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:47:29] <exec> 08└─According Louvre where the painting is displayed, the picture is 77cm x 53cm (30.3in x 20.8in). For those curious for more information: http://www.louvre.fr [louvre.fr]
[19:49:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ehm - 06Mozilla Open Source Software Awards - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:49:13] <exec> 08└─> (I also fail to see how any of the ACs in this comment cluster have demonstrated an autism spectrum disorder.) A common symptom of autism is an inability to recognize subtleties and nuance. Ironically the guy accusing me having aspergers demonstrated that exact characteristic by failing to see tha...
[19:49:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:like the idea - 06Mozilla Open Source Software Awards - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:49:37] <exec> 08└─> That doesn't make any sense. What? Now you are complaining about making sense? Never looked into a mirror before that post?
[19:50:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:If you don't force it, they will never upgrade - 06SHA1 Sunset Will Block Millions From Encrypted Net, Facebook Warns - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:50:49] <exec> 08└─In a world where attacking a bank via its HVAC system is like attacking a bank directly and attacking a bank's customer's connections to the bank is not attacking the bank directly. You're basically supporting my point even though you can't see it. Especially with your "SHA1 probably never even appl...
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[20:44:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:3, Touché) 02Fox and Hen house. - 06FISA Court's Appointed Advocate Challenges Government's 'National Security' Assertions - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:35] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure this job comes with a Mute Button pre-wired.
[20:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Simple Answer - 06FISA Court's Appointed Advocate Challenges Government's 'National Security' Assertions - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:36] <exec> 08└─Why has the government been unable to reach some stipulation with the plaintiffs to preserve only the evidence necessary for plaintiffs to meet their standing burden?
[20:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Simple Answer - 06FISA Court's Appointed Advocate Challenges Government's 'National Security' Assertions - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:44:38] <exec> 08└─I know of no person that believes that "no sense could possibly be made" of the massive pile of data they are collecting. In fact, most people I know, including myself, are greatly concerned about what could be done with that data. Even if we have nothing to hide, we don't necessarily want it to be...
[20:44:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Simple Answer - 06FISA Court's Appointed Advocate Challenges Government's 'National Security' Assertions - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:44:40] <exec> 08└─Getting rid of the phone records is hilarious when Facebook/Twitter themselves are orders of magnitude more dangerous
[20:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Max Hyre [3427] (Score:2) 02Well, we're developing a notochord - 06FISA Court's Appointed Advocate Challenges Government's 'National Security' Assertions - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:41] <exec> 08└─It'll be interesting to see whether it evolves into a backbone, but I'm not terribly hopeful.
[20:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02USA 'Freedom' Act - 06FISA Court's Appointed Advocate Challenges Government's 'National Security' Assertions - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:43] <exec> 08└─The 'Freedom' act does not solve the fundamental problem of our information being collected and stored. If companies are forced to store the data for the government, then they are acting as agents of the government. That is no less unconstitutional or wrong. The act has been harmful, because many ne...
[20:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How to lead them down a wild goose chase! - 06Cornell Prof: How to Find Satoshi Nakamoto - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:44:50] <exec> 08└─I restate: ENCRYPT EVERYTHING.
[20:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How to lead them down a wild goose chase! - 06Cornell Prof: How to Find Satoshi Nakamoto - 2 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
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[20:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How to lead them down a wild goose chase! - 06Cornell Prof: How to Find Satoshi Nakamoto - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:44:54] <exec> 08└─It scares me that people will go to such lengths to expose someone and ruin their life, for the sake of additional ad hits.
[20:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Still Wrong is my bet - 06Cornell Prof: How to Find Satoshi Nakamoto - 613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:56] <exec> 08└─Bitcoin designer's seem to have underestimated a couple of key aspects, and that is popularity and demand. That being said, there is simply too much built in elegance for one person IMHO. Somewhere there was a room with a couple large white boards, a bunch of second hand re-purposed computers and a...
[20:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Use Random Name Generators - 06Discovered a Disease? WHO Has New Rules for Avoiding Offensive Names - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:16] <exec> 08└─Big pharma comes up with all kinds of in-offensive but techno-seductive, pseudo-sciencey names for their drugs. We should just follow their lead and do the same for diseases. Big pharma pays a shit-ton to marketing companies to invent those names, but I bet 90% of it could be done with a computer pr...
[20:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02the problem is the ignorant - 06Discovered a Disease? WHO Has New Rules for Avoiding Offensive Names - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:17] <exec> 08└─the problem here isn't "oww, you offended my sensibilities!" it's the fucking morons that hear "swine flu" determine that they must slaughter all the pigs in their country. the problem is ignorance and unless there is a pathogen that only kills people too ignorant to be embarrassed, we need to make...
[20:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02If your name is Linfa Wang - 06Discovered a Disease? WHO Has New Rules for Avoiding Offensive Names - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:18] <exec> 08└─You've probably got a very good reason to be worried about how people name things.
[20:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Alternative - 06Discovered a Disease? WHO Has New Rules for Avoiding Offensive Names - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:20] <exec> 08└─How about naming the disease after the doctor that discovered it, like Thripshaw's Disease [youtube.com]?
[20:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Ebola? - 06Discovered a Disease? WHO Has New Rules for Avoiding Offensive Names - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:22] <exec> 08└─So is Ebola a place, a human name or an animal? I seriously wouldn't know.
[20:45:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:First reading - 06Ban on Microbeads Passes U.S. House of Representatives - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:38] <exec> 08└─We really have a problem with waste and industry and consumers are not going to police themselves about it.
[20:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good idea to get a GOP co-sponsor - 06Ban on Microbeads Passes U.S. House of Representatives - 879 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:41] <exec> 08└─From what I read, opponents of microbeads are often against an exception for biodegradable plastics. Illinois made such an exception, without defining the conditions nor time scale for biodegradation. In October, California passed a law [latimes.com] which will ban all types of plastics; it will go...
[20:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Go ahead. Wreck the Net. - 06[Ends 2015/12/30]Don't Allow European Lawmakers to Wreck the Net - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:17] <exec> 08└─So let's stipulate that the europeans will wreck the net, for some value of wreckage, and some value of the net. Can they do it to the whole thing? Enh ... not really. They can wreck their own net. So what happens next? Everyone sees how stupidly they wrecked it, and makes fun of them. Maybe some po...
[20:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Fucking bigots - 06Americans Stock Up on Weapons after California Shooting - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:53] <exec> 08└─"Name one politician calling for the registration and profiling of christians." http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org [gatestoneinstitute.org] Here, in your sheltered life in the United States, Christian churches aren't registered.
[20:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fucking bigots - 06Americans Stock Up on Weapons after California Shooting - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:54] <exec> 08└─It says a lot that you had to go to the other side of the planet in order to come up with that. Looks like you were desperate to runaway from the question.
[20:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Fucking bigots - 06Americans Stock Up on Weapons after California Shooting - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:56] <exec> 08└─Says a lot? It says a lot that you are incapable of understanding events in this world today. Christians around the world are persecuted, along with Hindus, Jews, Paganists, atheists, and so many more - and progressives refuse to hear about it. Instead, they side with the religion which is responsib...
[20:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score:2) 02Re:Fucking bigots - 06Americans Stock Up on Weapons after California Shooting - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:58] <exec> 08└─Maybe because 95% of terrorists are guess what..muslim.
[20:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Fucking bigots - 06Americans Stock Up on Weapons after California Shooting - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:01] <exec> 08└─Mr. Morris was talking out his ass a little bit, but you're an absolute fucking idiot. 8 out of 28 incidents is a very significant percentagle of terrorist acts that have to be attributed to a very small part of the population. Yes, Islam is a problem, ya idiot.
[20:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fucking bigots - 06Americans Stock Up on Weapons after California Shooting - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:02] <exec> 08└─Runaway joins the innumeracy brigade! We all suspected you never graduated from high school.
[20:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Fucking bigots - 06Americans Stock Up on Weapons after California Shooting - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:04] <exec> 08└─Planned parenthood murders 300,000 babies a year - how in HELL can they object to violence?
[20:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score:2) 02Re:Fucking bigots - 06Americans Stock Up on Weapons after California Shooting - 715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:06] <exec> 08└─The "Christian Terrorist" only targeted Planned Parenthood, and that tends to be the only place Christian extremists tend to target, so most people don't give a shit about it. The San Bernadino shootings happened at a Holiday office party, the same kind of event that many businesses have in one f...
[20:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score:2) 02Re:Fucking bigots - 06Americans Stock Up on Weapons after California Shooting - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:08] <exec> 08└─Actually that was a bank robbery that kind of got caught up in an abortion clinic.
[20:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The difference... - 06Americans Stock Up on Weapons after California Shooting - 1052 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:10] <exec> 08└─is that whackjob christians usually attack specific places or people who conflict with their ideology. This makes it pretty straightforward to either avoid those places, or decide you're willing to take the risk for the reward (in the case of abortion/government work opportunities.) Whackjob Muslims...
[20:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score:2) 02Re:Soy? - 06Voat Ditches Google Analytics for Locally Hosted Open Source Analytics Platform - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:26] <exec> 08└─I don't know much about the subject but maybe you could point out that your company would have, and own, data that no one else will. So it would be easier for them to monetize it within whatever market the company is in. And as an added perk you can put a statement on your web site about "respecting...
[20:47:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] 02Re:Oy? - 06Voat Ditches Google Analytics for Locally Hosted Open Source Analytics Platform - 920 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:35] <exec> 08└─As a community we on Soylent need to tone down some of the hate. I know the world sucks, and there is a HUGE pile of shit just about everywhere we look, but keep in mind that it is the result of a small minority of sociopaths taking control and shoveling us all into the same barrel of crap. The just...
[20:48:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Thanks, Disney! - 06 Couple Takes Pics of Star Wars Figure They Bought, Get DMCA Notice from Lucasfilm - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:48:55] <exec> 08└─So now you're doing their advertising for free. Think about it.
[20:50:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02BANG BANG! - 06Mozilla Open Source Software Awards - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:50:14] <exec> 08└─Pulled that trigger!
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[21:44:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Waste of Money - 06Saudi Arabia Launches News Website in Farsi, the Official Language of Iran - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:35] <exec> 08└─A passive format like a website seems ill-suited for this kind of propaganda. I suppose the Saudis have plenty of money to throw around, but I don't think this will do anything to counteract negative publicity from American, Israeli, and Saudi meddling in the region.
[21:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Pretty much nonsense. - 06Saudi Arabia Launches News Website in Farsi, the Official Language of Iran - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:36] <exec> 08└─Saudi Arabia is home to the worst extremist sect of the most extremist religion in the world. Saudi Arabia breeds extremists and jihadists like Chicago breeds baseball players. It's the national pastime - teaching your children to blow themselves up for Allah. WTF does Saudi Arabia have to say that...
[21:44:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Simple Answer - 06FISA Court's Appointed Advocate Challenges Government's 'National Security' Assertions - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:44:47] <exec> 08└─I know of no person that believes that "no sense could possibly be made" of the massive pile of data they are collecting.
[21:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score:2) 02Re:Simple Answer - 06FISA Court's Appointed Advocate Challenges Government's 'National Security' Assertions - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:44:50] <exec> 08└─Those shitty companies you're apparently fine with having more of an eye into your personal life than your significant other are selling their (your) data to anyone and everyone. Do you really think for one second that they would avoid selling - or just giving - that info to the. gov? Even if they h...
[21:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Simple Answer - 06FISA Court's Appointed Advocate Challenges Government's 'National Security' Assertions - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:44:53] <exec> 08└─What are you talking about? I don't use fecal media. You've assumed something about me that simply isn't true. Do you really think for one second that they would avoid selling - or just giving - that info to the. gov?
[21:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Simple Answer - 06FISA Court's Appointed Advocate Challenges Government's 'National Security' Assertions - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:44:55] <exec> 08└─Not true. We have developed impressive science to consume extremely large datasets to provide predictive analysis of people's behaviors, intent, etc. How else can the NSA predict that John Smith will be at 123 Main Street on Friday with Bob speaking about politics? This is technology long worked on....
[21:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score:2) 02Re:Simple Answer - 06FISA Court's Appointed Advocate Challenges Government's 'National Security' Assertions - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:44:57] <exec> 08└─The machine learning community has consistently shown that more data is better data. The central limit theorem basically underlies this, and that has incredibly robust support. Assuming this data is innocent is both dangerous and demonstrably false.
[21:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Simple Answer - 06FISA Court's Appointed Advocate Challenges Government's 'National Security' Assertions - 1508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:44:58] <exec> 08└─You are Joe Government. You have a tip, a hunch, just some damned nagging feeling that Willy Swift is up to something, and you should know more about Willy Swift. So, Joe, you enter some search parameters in the NSA's search engines, and you find some "incriminating" metadata on Willy. It tickles yo...
[21:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03AudioGuy [24] (Score:2) 02Let the archiving professionals handle this - 06FISA Court's Appointed Advocate Challenges Government's 'National Security' Assertions - 819 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:00] <exec> 08└─Since the NSA is incapable of handling this, let the professionals we already pay for this purpose handle it: transfer all these records to the control of the Library of Congress. 1. Move all related data archives and associated systems from NSA to the LOC. 2. Move all funding previously used for th...
[21:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheReaperD [5556] (Score:1) 02Re:False Precisions - 06Cornell Prof: How to Find Satoshi Nakamoto - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:09] <exec> 08└─Well, to be fair, the person has refused to identify the person in question because they're not sure. This indicated that they're not 100% confident in this method of identification, even if they didn't state it.
[21:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I found an online tool - 06Discovered a Disease? WHO Has New Rules for Avoiding Offensive Names - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:23] <exec> 08└─For the best luck, please omit "4" from the name.
[21:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:the problem is the ignorant - 06Discovered a Disease? WHO Has New Rules for Avoiding Offensive Names - 1049 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:35] <exec> 08└─The term "swine flu" is descriptive, not whimsical: pigs carry influenza, and can pass it to humans. Avoiding contact with them—and with aquatic birds—is a reasonable way to avoid influenza. Slaughtering pigs might not, in the short term, be a way to avoid them, but in the long term it could be...
[21:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:If your name is Linfa Wang - 06Discovered a Disease? WHO Has New Rules for Avoiding Offensive Names - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:37] <exec> 08└─How's that?
[21:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Alternative - 06Discovered a Disease? WHO Has New Rules for Avoiding Offensive Names - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:41] <exec> 08└─In the summary, one of the examples of names the WHO dislikes is Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. They discourage the use of people's names.
[21:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:First reading - 06Ban on Microbeads Passes U.S. House of Representatives - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:59] <exec> 08└─companies who are paid to take plastics to be recycled and then dump it in the ocean
[21:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:First reading - 06Ban on Microbeads Passes U.S. House of Representatives - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:00] <exec> 08└─Aren't a lot of time-release medicines also packaged this way? Soaps and shit are bad enough, but medicines can do nasty things. I also wonder if these things could be broken by sonic means as they flow into waste water treatment plants. You'd still have the remnants of the containers do deal with,...
[21:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:scientist tools... - 06Recognizing BS: On the Reception and Detection of Pseudo-Profound Bullshit - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:16] <exec> 08└─I was already sure that "QM" stood for "quantum mechanics". My question was what you wanted to imply by putting QM in parentheses at the end of that question. Note that currently the laws of QM are the fundamental laws of physics. Therefore it would be a logical contradiction to say they violate the...
[21:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fucking bigots - 06Americans Stock Up on Weapons after California Shooting - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:20] <exec> 08└─In a discussion about Americans stocking up on weapons and american political rhetoric you have nothing to say about american policies.
[21:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Fucking bigots - 06Americans Stock Up on Weapons after California Shooting - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:21] <exec> 08└─San Bernardino says enough. Despite being located in a socialist fascist state, San Bernardino is very American, and very political today. Islam is not American.
[21:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fucking bigots - 06Americans Stock Up on Weapons after California Shooting - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:23] <exec> 08└─> San Bernardino says enough. And there we have it - as far as runaway is concerned a sample size of one is definitive proof. Bookmarked because that logic is fucking gold.
[21:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fucking bigots - 06Americans Stock Up on Weapons after California Shooting - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:26] <exec> 08└─> Maybe because 95% of terrorists are guess what..muslim. I'm sure nothing will change your mind because its about the feels not the facts for guys like you. But anyone else reading along should know that both the FBI's terrorism reprots and Europol's terrorism reports say you've got that number rev...
[21:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fucking bigots - 06Americans Stock Up on Weapons after California Shooting - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:28] <exec> 08└─Loonwatch.com is a blogzine run by a motley group of hate-allergic bloggers to monitor and expose the web’s plethora of anti-Muslim loons, wackos, and conspiracy theorists.
[21:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fucking bigots - 06Americans Stock Up on Weapons after California Shooting - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:30] <exec> 08└─You are encouraged to go through the FBI and Europol numbers yourself and prove him wrong. Of course you can't because resorting to the ad hominem fallacy is what people do when they know they don't have the facts on their side.
[21:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fucking bigots - 06Americans Stock Up on Weapons after California Shooting - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:33] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile there were ~400,000 deaths by gun in that same time period. If you want to get worked up over a cultural problem, focus on the culture that's killing many orders of magnitude more people.
[21:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fucking bigots - 06Americans Stock Up on Weapons after California Shooting - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:36] <exec> 08└─The thing about bigotry is that bigots always have a carefully curated excuse to justify their bigotry. Christians only target planned parenthood so that's OK. Which is ridiculous on the face of it. All those other killings like Jared and Amanda Miller, Dylan Roof and McVeigh - those don't even cou...
[21:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Do gun sales correllate with completed suicides - 06Americans Stock Up on Weapons after California Shooting - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:41] <exec> 08└─I agree. Why force people to suffer? Why force those that do not want to live to keep on living or risk maiming themselves, making their lives even worse? Let those that want to die do so. Let them do so with dignity. Anything else is barbarism worse than supporting slavery. At least slaves only loa...
[21:47:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Do gun sales correllate with completed suicides - 06Americans Stock Up on Weapons after California Shooting - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:43] <exec> 08└─If spontaneous suicides weren't a symptom of mental illness you'd have a point. The people who kevorkian themselves don't use guns or hang themselves or anything else that would traumatize their family. The people who leave their body to surprise the people who love them are, by definition, not thi...
[21:47:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Re:Great link! If you can't laugh *you* suck. - 06Americans Stock Up on Weapons after California Shooting - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:45] <exec> 08└─Awesome laugh. Here is a link: http://www.break.com [break.com]
[21:47:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Agree with what? - 06Americans Stock Up on Weapons after California Shooting - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:48] <exec> 08└─Pardon me for expecting summaries on a news website to make sense.
[21:49:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Fictional characters can be copyrighted. - 06 Couple Takes Pics of Star Wars Figure They Bought, Get DMCA Notice from Lucasfilm - 775 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:49:06] <exec> 08└─Disney is definitely not in the right here. The photographer owns the copyright to the images, that's well established. Now, if this were a picture of a picture, you'd have a point, but this is a picture of a toy that was on display in a publicly accessible venue for some period of time. Disney does...
[21:49:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:avoid disney - 06 Couple Takes Pics of Star Wars Figure They Bought, Get DMCA Notice from Lucasfilm - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:49:12] <exec> 08└─You could try pirating copies and then not watching them. I'm not sure how much more boycotty you can get than that.
[21:49:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Thanks, Disney! - 06 Couple Takes Pics of Star Wars Figure They Bought, Get DMCA Notice from Lucasfilm - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:49:28] <exec> 08└─So should Soylent take this story down because it's free advertising for Disney?
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[22:44:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02lol - 06Forget "Life as we Know it" - What About Matter, or Just Strange Molecules? - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:33] <exec> 08└─Cool article, but then... yeaahhhhh.....
[22:44:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02:^) - 06Forget "Life as we Know it" - What About Matter, or Just Strange Molecules? - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:34] <exec> 08└─it is easy to imagine life forms that we might not even recognize as "alive"
[22:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mr Big in the Pants [4956] (Score:2) 02Re:Pretty much nonsense. - 06Saudi Arabia Launches News Website in Farsi, the Official Language of Iran - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:44:44] <exec> 08└─Except this form of extremism has the west's backing. The Saudi's have been waging war with Iran via proxies (a cold war in the middle east?!) for ages. Western countries (incl. mine) bend over backwards for them because of their oil. So their leaders are rich and arrogant and think they are invinci...
[22:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Solidarity - 06Saudi Arabia Launches News Website in Farsi, the Official Language of Iran - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:45] <exec> 08└─Muslim solidarity, baby! This red button launches missiles, right?
[22:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheReaperD [5556] (Score:1) 02Re:Simple Answer - 06FISA Court's Appointed Advocate Challenges Government's 'National Security' Assertions - 1030 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:44:56] <exec> 08└─They still haven't reached the heights they would like yet. They're working on it though. Their wet dream is a "pre-crime" system that can predict your movements and stop undesirable things from happening. Of course, when it comes to the intelligence community, undesirable tends to include things su...
[22:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Simple Answer - 06FISA Court's Appointed Advocate Challenges Government's 'National Security' Assertions - 887 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:00] <exec> 08└─You've created barriers and obstructions to the flow of information that are flights of fancy at best, and at worst, illusory. All data on the Internet has a corresponding physical location, right here, on planet Earth. The NSA/FBI have all of the power and resources they need to walk into any data...
[22:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Simple Answer - 06FISA Court's Appointed Advocate Challenges Government's 'National Security' Assertions - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:04] <exec> 08└─the probability of it working
[22:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Who cares? - 06Cornell Prof: How to Find Satoshi Nakamoto - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:15] <exec> 08└─It's mostly to figure out who to hit up for some cash, as he supposedly has a whole bunch of bitcoins.
[22:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Who cares? - 06Cornell Prof: How to Find Satoshi Nakamoto - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:17] <exec> 08└─There's that, and control over that many bitcoins could be used to manipulate the price of bitcoins, yielding even more money.
[22:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How to lead them down a wild goose chase! - 06Cornell Prof: How to Find Satoshi Nakamoto - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:21] <exec> 08└─You didn't mention the double thickness tinfoil. Encrypt your brain. Talk in gibberish to confuse their listening devices. Roll your eyes in your head so they don't know where you're looking. Go up to random strangers in the street to create false leads. Stockpile assault rifles - but you're doing t...
[22:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How to lead them down a wild goose chase! - 06Cornell Prof: How to Find Satoshi Nakamoto - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:23] <exec> 08└─You didn't mention the double thickness tinfoil.
[22:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Politically correct is going too far... - 06Discovered a Disease? WHO Has New Rules for Avoiding Offensive Names - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:44] <exec> 08└─Trump just told Iowa farmers he's 100 percent in favor of ethanol subsidies, unlike Ted Cruz. That's going to help taxpayers across the country, right? Nope, sorry, only those in Iowa, who hold the first event in primary season. Everyone else pays higher taxes. When Trump panders: that's because he'...
[22:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score:2) 02Re:Alternative - 06Discovered a Disease? WHO Has New Rules for Avoiding Offensive Names - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:56] <exec> 08└─Why?
[22:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Alternative - 06Discovered a Disease? WHO Has New Rules for Avoiding Offensive Names - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:57] <exec> 08└─Who cares
[22:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score:2) 02Re:Ebola? - 06Discovered a Disease? WHO Has New Rules for Avoiding Offensive Names - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:00] <exec> 08└─It's a place, the Ebola River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, close to where the disease was first identified in 1976: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[22:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Tell it like it is - 06Discovered a Disease? WHO Has New Rules for Avoiding Offensive Names - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:02] <exec> 08└─When I was married, we would tell my stepson that he needed to pull back the skin on his uncircumcised willy and keep it clean in order to avoid Rotted Penis Syndrome. Now I like that name. No doubt it is far more descriptive and poetic than whatever the medical term actually is if it an infection b...
[22:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheReaperD [5556] (Score:1) 02Re:First reading - 06Ban on Microbeads Passes U.S. House of Representatives - 768 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:20] <exec> 08└─The problem is that there is no one to do anything about that, assuming it is happening (it wouldn't shock me). Like the toxic waste that was dumped by ships registered to countries in the EU off the coast of Somalia, it was seen by US warships but, they had no authority to do anything. It was the r...
[22:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:scientist tools... - 06Recognizing BS: On the Reception and Detection of Pseudo-Profound Bullshit - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:37] <exec> 08└─Presumably because QM is often times used as a cover for things that blatantly violate one or more laws of physics. Just put vague references to quantum principles in the ad copy and people think there's some actual science. Now, it might be that the product works as stated, but it's also a very con...
[22:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score:2) 02Re:Comment on the Summary & Bulletin Article - 06Recognizing BS: On the Reception and Detection of Pseudo-Profound Bullshit - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:45] <exec> 08└─Name changing is a bad idea and I want nothing to do with it as an "out" atheist. As allegedly thinking people they should know that the key to overcoming bigotry is benign exposure. By rebranding they have to start over building those benign exposures us setting us all back. Benign is the operative...
[22:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Boo! - 06Americans Stock Up on Weapons after California Shooting - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:31] <exec> 08└─There you go, demonstrating your ageist, ableist, male privilege. The great thing about the modern firearm is it the single greatest contributor to equality ever invented. I'd even go so far as to say there would have never even been a general movement to civil rights and equality for all without it...
[22:47:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Boo! - 06Americans Stock Up on Weapons after California Shooting - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:33] <exec> 08└─The problem is that if there is any entity to which we all have to justify ourselves, then we are all in extreme danger.
[22:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Boo! - 06Americans Stock Up on Weapons after California Shooting - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:35] <exec> 08└─Look - People don't buy guns because they are afraid of terrorist threats. They buy them before hysterical gun-grabbers and Democrat fools in government make guns and ammo more expensive and difficult to get.
[22:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Boo! - 06Americans Stock Up on Weapons after California Shooting - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:38] <exec> 08└─We've been wishing Jews a "Merry Christmas" for about 2000 years. They don't shoot, bomb, or behead us in response.
[22:47:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Boo! - 06Americans Stock Up on Weapons after California Shooting - 792 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:40] <exec> 08└─So, I read your article, expecting to find that one or more Jews had attacked Christians. That's not what I find, at all. I find that a couple Jews plotted to blow up a mosque, and to kill a couple other fellow Jews, in a bid for political supremacy. My quote states that Jews don't kill Christians f...
[22:47:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Boo! - 06Americans Stock Up on Weapons after California Shooting - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:42] <exec> 08└─My quote states that Jews don't kill Christians for such inoffensive bullshit as wishing them a 'Merry Christmas'.
[22:47:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Fucking bigots - 06Americans Stock Up on Weapons after California Shooting - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:53] <exec> 08└─Can't even count when the numbers are extremely simple. There were TWO terrorists workng on that massacre, not one. What - you discounted one of them because she was female? Now who's the bigot? Or, is it your contention that there has only been one jihadist attack in America? That wouldn't even be...
[22:47:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fucking bigots - 06Americans Stock Up on Weapons after California Shooting - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:55] <exec> 08└─> There were TWO terrorists workng on that massacre, not one. That's it? Your best argument is that two people working together on one attack counts as two attacks. Ok bucko, I'll give it to you, a sample size of two. That changes everything! EVERYTHING!!!!! Have you been drinking again?
[22:47:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Fucking bigots - 06Americans Stock Up on Weapons after California Shooting - 3743 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:57] <exec> 08└─And, apparently, you've been living under a rock for the past few years. Date Country City/State Killed Injured Description 4/14/1972 USA New York, NY 1 3 Ten members of a local mosque phone in a false alarm and then ambush responding officers, killing one. 1/19/1973 USA Broo...
[22:48:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Fucking bigots - 06Americans Stock Up on Weapons after California Shooting - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:48:05] <exec> 08└─I don't get the morning talking points email, maybe I'm just behind the curve. But I thought the NYT was considered a reliable news source. I'm basing my reasoning on a chart they printed showing "Deaths from extremist attacks since 9/11" that puts Islam in a tie with everything else. Of course they...
[22:48:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fucking bigots - 06Americans Stock Up on Weapons after California Shooting - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:48:07] <exec> 08└─> But I thought the NYT was considered a reliable news source. It totally is. In fact, just yesterday I saw a chart they printed that said jmorris was personally responsible for half of those deaths. ::rolleyes::
[22:48:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Oy? - 06Voat Ditches Google Analytics for Locally Hosted Open Source Analytics Platform - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:48:31] <exec> 08└─yeah i still dont know what voat is. I guess from the context its reddit with a v. and an oat. I dont use reddit so I guess I am not sure what the deal is. -- I took a look and... it seems like a graphical reader for old usenet or something, but filled with people unlike what I recall from usenet. I...
[22:49:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fictional characters can be copyrighted. - 06 Couple Takes Pics of Star Wars Figure They Bought, Get DMCA Notice from Lucasfilm - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:49:31] <exec> 08└─(original AC again) When someone takes a picture of someone else's copyrighted 3D artwork, such as this toy, there are two copyrights to the photo: the photographer's and the original artist's (the toymaker, here). The page I linked to in my earlier post explains it: By taking a picture with a copyr...
[22:49:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Thanks, Disney! - 06 Couple Takes Pics of Star Wars Figure They Bought, Get DMCA Notice from Lucasfilm - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:49:54] <exec> 08└─I've thought about it. And I've come to the conclusion that I don't want to bother seeing this new movie. You know, the part where Disney/Lucasfilms actually makes money. Full disclosure though: I had absolutely no intention of seeing the movie before this. This just confirms I'll be watching someth...
[22:49:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:still gonna buy that ticket? - 06 Couple Takes Pics of Star Wars Figure They Bought, Get DMCA Notice from Lucasfilm - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:49:56] <exec> 08└─If you believe this incident reflects the actions of Harrison Ford in the movie, then I think the Force was never with you to begin with. I'll pay to see the movie. But I probably won't be buying any of the toys.
[22:49:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:still gonna buy that ticket? - 06 Couple Takes Pics of Star Wars Figure They Bought, Get DMCA Notice from Lucasfilm - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:49:58] <exec> 08└─This incident just isn't the best exemplar of Disney's evil nature.
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[23:44:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02There's coffee in that nebula! - 06Forget "Life as we Know it" - What About Matter, or Just Strange Molecules? - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:35] <exec> 08└─Muslim-ica coffee! Murica must invade the Horsehead immediately! FOR OUR FWEEEDOOOOMZ
[23:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02I doubt that the 89.957GHz emitter can't exist... - 06Forget "Life as we Know it" - What About Matter, or Just Strange Molecules? - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:37] <exec> 08└─I doubt that the 89.957GHz emitter can't exist on Earth. I suppose I should read the article and see what the SETI angle is. Naaaah.
[23:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I doubt that the 89.957GHz emitter can't exist. - 06Forget "Life as we Know it" - What About Matter, or Just Strange Molecules? - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:44:38] <exec> 08└─...it just doesn't want to exist on Earth. The signal is a message from the Androsynth who fled the Earth to escape from evil female creatures. When translated the message says "Ghey iz best! Hetero is eww."
[23:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pretty much nonsense. - 06Saudi Arabia Launches News Website in Farsi, the Official Language of Iran - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:44:49] <exec> 08└─Maybe they want to bait them into blowing themselves up.
[23:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Who cares? - 06Cornell Prof: How to Find Satoshi Nakamoto - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:21] <exec> 08└─For one thing the govmu'nt want their Bittaxes. For another, most govmu'nts like here in the U.S. of A say that only they have the right to mint and print money.
[23:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Still Wrong is my bet - 06Cornell Prof: How to Find Satoshi Nakamoto - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:31] <exec> 08└─Maybe it was a government who devised Bitcoin. Which governments, if any, were having financial troubles in late 2008 and might have wanted an alternative currency? Greece? Zimbabwe?
[23:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So … - 06Recognizing BS: On the Reception and Detection of Pseudo-Profound Bullshit - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:46:49] <exec> 08└─So how do I now find out whether this article is sound research or pseudo-profound bullshit? :-)
[23:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03unzombied [4572] (Score:2) 02Re:simplification? - 06Recognizing BS: On the Reception and Detection of Pseudo-Profound Bullshit - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:46:57] <exec> 08└─While your particular example is staggeringly bad (abstract beauty = deep pretty? ;-), the principle is sound. In fact you're on the same track as Alan Sokal and another professor who wrote a book, Fashionable Nonsense, breaking down postmodernist writing into simpler and/or well-defined scientific...
[23:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score:2) 02News? - 06Recognizing BS: On the Reception and Detection of Pseudo-Profound Bullshit - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:59] <exec> 08└─I do not think this is the breakthrough claimed: I am certain the word bullshit, with todays' meaning, was in common use in Southern England in the 1960's, and almost certainly in the 1930's too. Furthermore, I cannot see that it was ever sufficiently rude as to require pretend obfuscation, though p...
[23:47:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Boo! - 06Americans Stock Up on Weapons after California Shooting - 990 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:47:50] <exec> 08└─Muslims will kill you for being gay. http://www.cp24.com [cp24.com] Muslims will kill you for going to church. http://www.christiantoday.com
[23:48:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fucking bigots - 06Americans Stock Up on Weapons after California Shooting - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:48:06] <exec> 08└─Oh please, a cut-n-paste job without any verifiable citations? That site you copied it from just skimmed the internet for any murders involving muslims and then relied on your lack of context to assume the worst. Especially when it comes to "honor killings" which happen in all faiths like the 8000...
[23:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Fucking bigots - 06Americans Stock Up on Weapons after California Shooting - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:48:07] <exec> 08└─That's your best? I demonstrate that Islam has been killing Americans for at least forty years, and all you can offer is, "Hindus do honor killings"??????
[23:48:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fucking bigots - 06Americans Stock Up on Weapons after California Shooting - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:48:12] <exec> 08└─resorting to the ad hominem fallacy is what people do when they know they don't have the facts on their side.
[23:49:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fictional characters can be copyrighted. - 06 Couple Takes Pics of Star Wars Figure They Bought, Get DMCA Notice from Lucasfilm - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:49:47] <exec> 08└─My property, my rules. Copyright is not some basic human right, and this is clearly out of line. In the US, copyright's sole reason for existing is to create more innovation, and stopping people from taking photos of their own property and posting them for others to see fails to do that, as well as...
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