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[00:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:18th Amendment - 069th Circ. Tells DOJ to Back Off in Medical Pot States - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:29] <exec> 08└─Ah, yes, "I like policy X, therefore it's constitutional." Or, "Not having the government do X would be absurd! Therefore, it's constitutional." Much of what the federal government does is unconstitutional; sorry to burst your bubble, but maybe we should be amending the constitution if we feel the g...
[00:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02State Police should Arrest DEA Agents - 069th Circ. Tells DOJ to Back Off in Medical Pot States - 1379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:30] <exec> 08└─Any Federal authority is Constitutionally limited to interstate transport and sales. So unless the source materials or output product was transported across State lines, the Federal government has no Constitutional authority to involve itself. States are not so neutered they cannot handle noxious su...
[00:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Capt. Obvious [6089] (Score:2) 02Re:Stucking Fatists - 069th Circ. Tells DOJ to Back Off in Medical Pot States - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:35] <exec> 08└─Does anyone really care about state's rights? I mean, people care about a government that rules over them implementing specific policies. And when the state and federal government disagree, they try to have the one that agrees with them have jurisdiction. But, as a goal for its own sake, I don't see...
[00:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:God Bless the 9th - 069th Circ. Tells DOJ to Back Off in Medical Pot States - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:40] <exec> 08└─Yep. If anyone is wondering why their privacy isn't being protected, and AT&T executives roam free and not in prison, it's because Obama lied. Like all politicians, in the one truly bipartisan activity they can all agree with.
[00:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Capt. Obvious [6089] (Score:2) 02Re:God Bless the 9th - 069th Circ. Tells DOJ to Back Off in Medical Pot States - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:42] <exec> 08└─Also, what happened to Obama's pledge not to interfere with legalization states?
[00:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02In other words - 069th Circ. Tells DOJ to Back Off in Medical Pot States - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:44] <exec> 08└─The 9th circuit doesn't get a dime from pot related seizures/arrests. The DEA, on the other hand, has hundreds of millions of reasons every year to keep pot as illegal as it can. It's a money grab, pure and simple.
[00:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:In other words - 069th Circ. Tells DOJ to Back Off in Medical Pot States - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:46] <exec> 08└─Which is why deciding if things are illegal or not should never be up to a government agency that benefits from said determination. Just ask any cop if they want more laws or less, and they'll universally say they need even more reasons to cage people.
[00:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02It must be nice to be so affluent - 06Whirlpool Helps Students in an Unlikely Way - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:57] <exec> 08└─You are assuming that the factory in their town wasn't closed and those good-paying jobs they used to have were sent to China, after which, each parent works 3 part-time poverty-wage jobs to pay the rent and put food on the table. ...and when they do get home, it's all they can to to make supper, ea...
[00:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''naked while their clothes are washed'' - 06Whirlpool Helps Students in an Unlikely Way - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:03] <exec> 08└─...or, maybe they keep their clothes on, take their soiled clothes out of a laundry bag, [google.com] and put that in the machine. You went directly from Mom doing your laundry to a wife doing that with no bachelorhood in between? -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[00:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Re:My guess - 06Whirlpool Helps Students in an Unlikely Way - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:06] <exec> 08└─and they're all like "WTF can't find my pants" and when mom eventually finds them its all "no idea how my pants ended up lost in the desk drawer"
[00:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Thoughts - 06Whirlpool Helps Students in an Unlikely Way - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:21] <exec> 08└─I fully expect you to share your wife/girlfriend/goat with the less fortunate sexually. Socialized sexuality.
[00:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''how do you "vote" for better pay''? - 06Whirlpool Helps Students in an Unlikely Way - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:27] <exec> 08└─No need for your quote marks. Could be voted for before July 2016 and for a living wage. [google.com] . Still on the ballot[1][2] [jill2016.com] and for a living wage. [google.com] [1] Irritation alert for those using a Gecko-based browser: View + No Style to kill the blinking text. [2] South Dakota...
[00:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:Thoughts - 06Whirlpool Helps Students in an Unlikely Way - 840 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:29] <exec> 08└─"Well, I suggested better pay, less hours and full employment" No you suggested that we "vote for" those things. A very different matter. Those things are great goals. Voting is simply not a way to achieve them. How could it be? Voting is a way to direct political force. You vote for a higher minimu...
[00:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:1) 02Sorry - 06Whirlpool Helps Students in an Unlikely Way - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:31] <exec> 08└─"What magic solution do you have" That's just it, I don't have any magic solution, I very much doubt there are any. Which leaves us with little hope as a species.
[00:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Capt. Obvious [6089] (Score:2) 02Re:Thoughts - 06Whirlpool Helps Students in an Unlikely Way - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:33] <exec> 08└─And what's the alternative? Or, to go with your example, first they took away the clean clothes for children, saying it bred dependency. We didn't stop them there. Next, they took away free lunch, saying the same thing. A generation later, and poor children were just so smelly and poor no one liked...
[00:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03dingus [5224] (Score:2) 02Re:Hardly the "Worst" - 06Book Review: REAMDE by Neal Stephenson - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:24:21] <exec> 08└─I read Seveneves very soon after REAMDE(I got them both for christmas) and I think that Seveneves is leagues better. The story is tighter, the characters make sense, and I actually felt motivated to keep reading. I'm even going against the herd and saying that the third act was better, even though i...
[00:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03dingus [5224] (Score:2) 02fully agree - 06Book Review: REAMDE by Neal Stephenson - 1305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:27] <exec> 08└─I was relieved when I finished this book, put it down, and read some reviews, and everyone else hated it. The first half seems like it can be the setup of a pretty good book. You have all these different characters, and they're all sort of interesting when you put them together. You've got the famil...
[00:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Review contains spoilers oxymoron - 06Book Review: REAMDE by Neal Stephenson - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:29] <exec> 08└─The presence of spoilers means it is not a review but a "discussion" for those who have already read it. A review should help you decide if a book or movie is worth your time and obviously "spoilers" spoil the experience. The reviewer who MUST give spoilers has prioritized his need to discuss the wo...
[00:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:been doing this awhile - 06Windows 7 and 8.1 Moving to Windows 10’s Cumulative Update Model - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:25:41] <exec> 08└─I had to install the July rollup in a VM to get win7 to update at all. That VM has been out of date for year.
[00:28:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score:2) 02Re:Who peed in the pool? - 06Wrong Chemical Dumped Into Olympic Pools Made Them Green, Smelly—and Unsafe - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:28:53] <exec> 08└─Is the urban legend that Paula Poundstone is a comedian? I'm trying to figure out why the blockquote used bold font...
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[01:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Interesting but... - 06Prenatal Acetaminophen Use Linked to Hyperactivity - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:17] <exec> 08└─The dosage and frequency of medication was not reported and the parents are giving an assessment of the behaviour of the children. I will wait for more evidence to show up with some better data before drawing conclusions. However this is an important first step to finding a link if one does exist. P...
[01:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Interesting but... - 06Prenatal Acetaminophen Use Linked to Hyperactivity - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:19] <exec> 08└─Low risk on a medicine with no medicinal value is still an unacceptable risk. As it stands, acetaminophen doesn't actually work for headaches or pain. I'm skeptical that it does anything other than up your risk for liver failure.
[01:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Interesting but... - 06Prenatal Acetaminophen Use Linked to Hyperactivity - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:21] <exec> 08└─All righty then, let's ban all medicine and make all street drugs legal. That oughta appease you whiny jerks.
[01:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02seems to be working then - 06Prenatal Acetaminophen Use Linked to Hyperactivity - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:23] <exec> 08└─Fever is reduced by transferring it through the humours from mother to child. Human spawn emerges feverishly hyperactive as a result.
[01:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:seems to be working then - 06Prenatal Acetaminophen Use Linked to Hyperactivity - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:25] <exec> 08└─This is definitely a disorder of yellow bile.
[01:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Acetiminophen killed my father - 06Prenatal Acetaminophen Use Linked to Hyperactivity - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:28] <exec> 08└─Yes the label says to take it for no more than ten days, but it's printed in a typeface that's too small for elderly people to read. Over 1000 over-the-counter drugs contain acetiminophen.
[01:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Living causes death - 06Prenatal Acetaminophen Use Linked to Hyperactivity - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:30] <exec> 08└─Reports at 11 (10 MST). That said, tylenol seems worse than useless. It doesn't kill pain. It doesn't reduce inflamation. What the fuck is it for, other than poisoning your liver?
[01:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not saying they're being cagey - 06Prenatal Acetaminophen Use Linked to Hyperactivity - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:32] <exec> 08└─But even their spokesperson seems to be using a pseudonym as a precaution: Marc Boston, a spokesman for McNeil Consumer Healthcare, the maker of Tylenol.
[01:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:18th Amendment - 069th Circ. Tells DOJ to Back Off in Medical Pot States - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:44] <exec> 08└─That's not really how the constitution works. The Supreme Court decides whether or not something is constitutional. Sometimes they screw it up, but the Supreme Court has always been the arbiter of what is and isn't constitutional. As for amending it goes, go ahead. There's nothing to stop you from a...
[01:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:18th Amendment - 069th Circ. Tells DOJ to Back Off in Medical Pot States - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:46] <exec> 08└─That's not really how the constitution works.
[01:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:State Police should Arrest DEA Agents - 069th Circ. Tells DOJ to Back Off in Medical Pot States - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:49] <exec> 08└─> What's done bonkers is we removed any input from the State level in our Federal government a century ago I sadly can find ample evidence that the US Senate is still undead and kicking.
[01:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:State Police should Arrest DEA Agents - 069th Circ. Tells DOJ to Back Off in Medical Pot States - 894 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:51] <exec> 08└─That is not the limit, Congress can pass laws in three broad categories: First, Congress may regulate the use of the channels of interstate commerce; Second, Congress is empowered to regulate and protect the instrumentalities of interstate commerce, or persons or things in Interstate Commerce, even...
[01:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:State Police should Arrest DEA Agents - 069th Circ. Tells DOJ to Back Off in Medical Pot States - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:53] <exec> 08└─That's what the courts have said, but that interpretation of the commerce clause is nothing short of insanity, since it gives the federal government far more power than had ever been intended. In reality, they can only regulate activities that are both interstate and commerce; it's merely a matter o...
[01:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:State Police should Arrest DEA Agents - 069th Circ. Tells DOJ to Back Off in Medical Pot States - 675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:55] <exec> 08└─So, the fact that the Supreme Court thinks the federal government has authority doesn't matter at all? I'm sorry, but that's not how our system of government works. If you happen to disagree, write your representatives and demand a constitutional convention to change the constitution to your preferr...
[01:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:State Police should Arrest DEA Agents - 069th Circ. Tells DOJ to Back Off in Medical Pot States - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:58] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry, but that's not how our system of government works. If you happen to disagree, write your representatives and demand a constitutional convention to change the constitution to your preferred interpretation. As of now the Supreme Court seems just fine with the current interpretation of the C...
[01:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Empty prisons, save my taxes for bombs - 069th Circ. Tells DOJ to Back Off in Medical Pot States - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:02] <exec> 08└─And for those of you who are holier than thou, everybody self-medicates...whether it be coffee, tea, Mountain Dew, booze, weed, painkillers, meth, and/or the whole galaxy of Big Pharma's offerings.
[01:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:Stucking Fatists - 069th Circ. Tells DOJ to Back Off in Medical Pot States - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:06] <exec> 08└─Does anyone really care about state's rights?
[01:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Stucking Fatists - 069th Circ. Tells DOJ to Back Off in Medical Pot States - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:08] <exec> 08└─I don't care much about state's rights, but I do care about having the government follow the constitution. I don't see why a lawless government would be desirable to anyone, and yet, in many ways, that's exactly what we have.
[01:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:God Bless the 9th - 069th Circ. Tells DOJ to Back Off in Medical Pot States - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:14] <exec> 08└─He could explain that he will pardon anybody they prosecute, but only after they've gone through the entire process. This would seriously disincentivise any prosecutions, and if they called his bluff he could start pardoning. He has the de facto power to stop federeal prosecutions based on arbitrary...
[01:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:God Bless the 9th - 069th Circ. Tells DOJ to Back Off in Medical Pot States - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:16] <exec> 08└─Or he could, you know, being in charge of the executive, not prosecute anyone, and fire those that do.
[01:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score:2) 02Re:Pouring Money Into Schools - 06Whirlpool Helps Students in an Unlikely Way - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:44] <exec> 08└─We don't have enough information in front of us to indicate what percentage of affected kids have crack-addicted parent(s). More likely, the fact that many states offer a minimum wage below the poverty line means that low-educated but hard working parents trying to do their best simply can't afford...
[01:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''how do you "vote" for better pay''? - 06Whirlpool Helps Students in an Unlikely Way - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:24:00] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill [wikipedia.org] Fuck, let just change the value of pi while we're at it and "vote" instantaneous world peace. We can then disband the government since all the work is done.
[01:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02For the ill-informed: It's already worked - 06Whirlpool Helps Students in an Unlikely Way - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:24:01] <exec> 08└─Did I forget to mention Kshama Sawant? [google.com] That professor of Economics and member of the Socialist Alternative Party got herself elected to the Seattle City Council and, within a year, got a $15 minimum wage enacted there, as had been the main plank of her platform. Cities across the nation...
[01:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:Thoughts - 06Whirlpool Helps Students in an Unlikely Way - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:24:04] <exec> 08└─I strongly suspect that Basic Income would guarantee full employment.
[01:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score:2) 02Re:Thoughts - 06Whirlpool Helps Students in an Unlikely Way - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:24:06] <exec> 08└─Many western countries (not all) have higher minimum wages and lower unemployment than the US. Proof that higher wages do not directly translate to higher unemployment.
[01:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''higher min wage[...]don't produce better pay'' - 06Whirlpool Helps Students in an Unlikely Way - 827 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:24:09] <exec> 08└─In Denmark, no one is paid less than $20/hour. There isn't a minimum wage law there. The thing is, in Denmark, 1) they have strong labor unions. 2) they clearly don't have an ownership class dominated by sociopaths. . Between FDR (1933) and Nixon (1968), minimum wage laws worked to produce a strong...
[01:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:''higher min wage[...]don't produce better pay' - 06Whirlpool Helps Students in an Unlikely Way - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:24:11] <exec> 08└─In Denmark, no one is paid less than $20/hour
[01:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Sorry - 06Whirlpool Helps Students in an Unlikely Way - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:24:14] <exec> 08└─Which leaves us with little hope as a species. --
[01:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:We can wipe it out in less than an hour. - 06Polio Reappears in Nigeria after 2 Years - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:24:35] <exec> 08└─account password is sitting in Firefox's config on an SSD that went with a broken machine, and I can't be bothered to dig it out of the annoying pointlessly-scrambled file ...but anyway, you know it's true. Think of the children. Should they be at risk of paralysis? Is the smallish population living...
[01:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Seen in comparison to culture - 06Book Review: REAMDE by Neal Stephenson - 1028 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:24:54] <exec> 08└─You know, I have to disagree. The lack of English for the alien, and Copley's ability to still understand, turned the film into art piece as well as sci-fi. It was about his metamorphosis, in a literal Kafka-esque way. We saw him change from the antagonist to the protagonist, while being the protago...
[01:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03dingus [5224] (Score:1) 02Re:Hardly the "Worst" - 06Book Review: REAMDE by Neal Stephenson - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:25:03] <exec> 08└─Cryptonomicon and Anathem put him far ahead of any pulp writer, IMO. And I've never read the Baroque Cycle but I hear it's pretty good too.
[01:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:search page - 06RFC: Crowdfunding Articles - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:25] <exec> 08└─As I mentioned in another post, I was mistaken: we actually can't search by submitter at all. What we can do is search for story submissions that have been accepted by the editors (termed "authors" on that page). Rejected submissions, unless I'm again mistaken, are not shown in the search results. I...
[01:29:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Big picture: Olympics in general - 06Wrong Chemical Dumped Into Olympic Pools Made Them Green, Smelly—and Unsafe - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:29:46] <exec> 08└─Not really, it's just that those of us that have been outside of our parent's basement are aware that those classifications are no longer meaningful. You've got countries like Brazil that have done a huge amount of developing to the point where they're similar to countries like India and China. And...
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[02:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Interesting but... - 06Prenatal Acetaminophen Use Linked to Hyperactivity - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:34] <exec> 08└─I'm not suggesting that we ban all medicines, most medicines do actually work for their intended use. The problem is when medications like aspirin and acetaminophen effectively get grandfathered in despite their serious health consequences. And the cases where they're treating something that would b...
[02:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Interesting but... - 06Prenatal Acetaminophen Use Linked to Hyperactivity - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:36] <exec> 08└─The juxtaposition of the story about medical pot is timely. Are OTC drugs held to higher standards than pot? The long term effects of pot are still unknown, yet pot is already legal in several states and is on the ballot to be legal in many more. The FDC has no jurisdiction over pot, and if troublin...
[02:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Acetiminophen killed my father - 06Prenatal Acetaminophen Use Linked to Hyperactivity - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:41] <exec> 08└─You've got a point with the small print and elderly people. But, elderly people don't produce babies, hyperactive or otherwise.
[02:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score:2) 02Re:Living causes death - 06Prenatal Acetaminophen Use Linked to Hyperactivity - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:44] <exec> 08└─As far as I can tell, the primary purpose is to mix it with other working medicines like codeine (here sold as Panadeine Forte) so that you can't just take a bunch of pills and have a trip. If you take just enough for the codeine to work as a painkiller, the paracetamol probably won't kill your live...
[02:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Living causes death - 06Prenatal Acetaminophen Use Linked to Hyperactivity - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:46] <exec> 08└─Or just use marijuana if you need a strong painkiller. I'm not personally a fan of the stuff, but it's pretty much undeniable it is effective at treating likes like pain and nausea. And certainly safer than the alternatives. But, in general, you're better off treating the cause of the pain rather th...
[02:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Re:18th Amendment - 069th Circ. Tells DOJ to Back Off in Medical Pot States - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:23:08] <exec> 08└─By your reasoning, the FDA doesn't have authority to tell people they can't have arsenic laced restoratives either.
[02:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score:2) 02Re:Pouring Money Into Schools - 06Whirlpool Helps Students in an Unlikely Way - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:23:52] <exec> 08└─This increased welfare spending you bemoan is spent in a fight against a system that systematically removes money from people who produce wealth and gives it to people who already have more money - and that theft is growing, too.
[02:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pouring Money Into Schools - 06Whirlpool Helps Students in an Unlikely Way - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:23:53] <exec> 08└─You say fight the system. I say enables it.
[02:23:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02Re:Thoughts - 06Whirlpool Helps Students in an Unlikely Way - 517 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:23:56] <exec> 08└─Ideally, we would make broader changes such that the parents would be able to provide better, but that gets blocked politically at every turn. So what to do? Solve the problem you can and hope it scares enough people that the underlying problems take priority for once. So vote for better pay, shorte...
[02:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sorry - 06Whirlpool Helps Students in an Unlikely Way - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:24:17] <exec> 08└─Narcissius Delusionius Libertarianius
[02:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Sorry - 06Whirlpool Helps Students in an Unlikely Way - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:24:18] <exec> 08└─Well if it's all going to hell anyway, why not mandate a higher minimum wage and implement tariffs and see if we can slow it down a bit? Perhaps the problem is people objecting to anything that even tries to act on the problem including a purely private and completely un-coerced initiative by Whirlp...
[02:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Sympton, not the cause - 06Whirlpool Helps Students in an Unlikely Way - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:21] <exec> 08└─What does it tell you that having laundry machines at school encourages kids to attend school? I mean, no offense, but are we India or Somalia? For fuck sake.
[02:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:h1b - 06Cisco Systems Will Lay Off 14,000 Employees - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:25:43] <exec> 08└─Every time Trump climbs into bed he reaffirms his commitment to the H1B program and its supply of foreign talent.
[02:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score:2) 02So basically they're screwing rural users - 06Windows 7 and 8.1 Moving to Windows 10’s Cumulative Update Model - 1294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:36] <exec> 08└─About 1/3 of the Win10 users I know have suffered system problems due to infrastructure problems/interruptions during the massive Win10 updates--and now Win7/8? MANY rural areas lack the necessary network infrastructure to support massive problem-free downloads, and we aren't going to get real impro...
[02:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:2 words - 06RFC: Crowdfunding Articles - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:19] <exec> 08└─I do remember some extended (sub)threads that railed about the submitter of the item (Katz). It seemed to me that he was a paid staffer and that Slashdotters expected better quality from him. Perhaps my perceptions were wrong and it was that the vitriol was so thick that left an undue impression on...
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[03:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Interesting but... - 06Prenatal Acetaminophen Use Linked to Hyperactivity - 833 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:39] <exec> 08└─Pot being "legal" is a far cry from the status of prescription drugs which are routinely pushed by deep-pockets corporations. While it is true that dozens, maybe hundreds, of smaller corporations and businesses stand to make money off of pot, Monsanto isn't going to make billions off of pot. Smith-K...
[03:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Interesting but... - 06Prenatal Acetaminophen Use Linked to Hyperactivity - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:41] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but the bigger issue is public safety, not profits that corporations might or might not make. I doubt that TV ads for Tylenol (which fewer and fewer people even see nowadays) can stack up against social pressure to smoke weed at parties or on dates, that many teens and young adults experience.
[03:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Interesting but... - 06Prenatal Acetaminophen Use Linked to Hyperactivity - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:43] <exec> 08└─In many ways, it's the opposite. We allow an OTC drug known to cause liver damage (with a non-zero death toll) if the recommended dose is exceeded, but we question even prescription use of a drug that really doesn't have a toxic dose (though some find an overdose to feel quite unpleasant).
[03:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Interesting but... - 06Prenatal Acetaminophen Use Linked to Hyperactivity - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:45] <exec> 08└─Yes, there's a number of questions that can be raised about the methodology mentioned in this article and some others - I'm personally reserving judgment, but it's interesting to see. I know for a fact my wife used tylenol in every single one of her pregnancies (we have eight children) - and I also...
[03:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:18th Amendment - 069th Circ. Tells DOJ to Back Off in Medical Pot States - 880 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:23:08] <exec> 08└─[Lizard Flagship above New York] Romney: Attempting to bliss humanity will surely kill you. Lizard Queen: Then I will die, but not before I fulfill my promise to my subjects and show them that humanity cannot nor will not defeat us. [Lizard Queen attempts bliss via the moon matrix.] Lizard Queen: Yo...
[03:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:Stucking Fatists - 069th Circ. Tells DOJ to Back Off in Medical Pot States - 715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:23:24] <exec> 08└─"They're really just in favor of specific policies, and if the other side is currently dominating the federal sausage-manufacturing on an issue they'll fight for it on the state level instead." And this is exactly why the founders were so explicit about reserving everything not explicitly made feder...
[03:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:God Bless the 9th - 069th Circ. Tells DOJ to Back Off in Medical Pot States - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:23:28] <exec> 08└─This. This is why I come here. I love you guys!
[03:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:In other words - 069th Circ. Tells DOJ to Back Off in Medical Pot States - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:23:35] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry to hear you have never met a good cop. They do exist, I swear. But yes, your main point is still correct. We divided government into branches for exactly this reason. One group makes laws, another enforces laws, and a third judges cases at law. The less influence one has over the next the...
[03:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:My guess - 06Whirlpool Helps Students in an Unlikely Way - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:23:55] <exec> 08└─There is also the meta problem that no one is mentioning that we have more people than we have jobs, more grads than we have jobs, more qualified people than we have jobs, the only effect of washing schoolkids clothes is going to be having slightly less stinky teens. Its not like clean kids magicall...
[03:24:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] 02Re:Thoughts - 06Whirlpool Helps Students in an Unlikely Way - 2777 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:24:13] <exec> 08└─It's also a perfect demonstration of the little-l libertarian mindset: "I've got mine, so fuck you." In reality, society is, of necessity, going to be significantly (gasp!) socialist. I mean, that's kinda the whole point of society, to be social, no? A bunch of people banding together to do that whi...
[03:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Thoughts - 06Whirlpool Helps Students in an Unlikely Way - 1140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:24:15] <exec> 08└─Have you noticed that the Internet favors extreme solutions (relative to the status quo, at least in the USA) such as libertarianism or socialism? Because when you adopt an extreme position you stand for something. You can't be dismissed as being boring or wishy-washy. You can endlessly post, pointi...
[03:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Thoughts - 06Whirlpool Helps Students in an Unlikely Way - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:24:18] <exec> 08└─I have noticed certain groups want to maintain control of the message, modding dissenting points of view into oblivion instead of a convincing critique. You could have a happy medium between libertarianism or socialism. But more these discussion seem less about actually solving the problem presented...
[03:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:For the ill-informed: It's already worked - 06Whirlpool Helps Students in an Unlikely Way - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:24:27] <exec> 08└─You forgot to mention that Seattle is now in the top ten for highest cost of living.
[03:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:1) 02Re:Thoughts - 06Whirlpool Helps Students in an Unlikely Way - 1399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:24:32] <exec> 08└─No one said higher wages directly translate to higher unemployment man. Sheesh. Again, differentiate between actual market wages and state enforced minimum wages. Totally different things. When you impose a minimum wage, this has only two possible outcomes. If it's low enough in relation to market w...
[03:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Thoughts - 06Whirlpool Helps Students in an Unlikely Way - 669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:24:36] <exec> 08└─Since I don't have a magic wand, voting for people willing to move in that direction seemed more practical than wishing really hard. I'm still not seeing where stealing comes in. The places in the U.S. that raised the minimum wage haven't seen higher unemployment. Tariffs and restricting H1-B would...
[03:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2, Disagree) 02Re:Sorry - 06Whirlpool Helps Students in an Unlikely Way - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:24:42] <exec> 08└─For the same reason I would not pour gasoline on a house fire thinking it might 'slow it down a bit.'
[03:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Sorry - 06Whirlpool Helps Students in an Unlikely Way - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:24:46] <exec> 08└─Gee, it sounds like we should just commit mass suicide, there being no solution and all. Or we can keep our eyes shut and our hands off the wheel until we crash into the rocks.
[03:26:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:I cant. - 06Windows 7 and 8.1 Moving to Windows 10’s Cumulative Update Model - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:26:45] <exec> 08└─As reported earlier this month, [soylentnews.org] Microsoft inadvertently published its private keys for Secure Boot.
[03:26:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:I cant. - 06Windows 7 and 8.1 Moving to Windows 10’s Cumulative Update Model - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:26:50] <exec> 08└─[...] why are they finally doing it now instead of 20 years ago?
[03:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score:1) 02Re:This is great for SCCM - 06Windows 7 and 8.1 Moving to Windows 10’s Cumulative Update Model - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:27:04] <exec> 08└─Try installing from the original Windows 7 disk. The first update check after SP1 installs easily takes most of a day.
[03:28:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03quixote [4355] (Score:2) 02Re:Well then. - 06Physicists Propose "New Force Carrier" - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:28:56] <exec> 08└─Nonsense. It's good for the brain to do stretching exercises. I like it. Keep the wonderful weirdness coming.
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[04:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score:2) 02Space tech awesomeness - 06We're Going to Bring an Asteroid Fragment Into Lunar Orbit - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:32] <exec> 08└─I am glad that the last decade has seen space tech really being brought to the forefront of peoples minds again; this is just one more step in the right direction to eventually having humans as a multi-planetary society.
[04:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Space capitalism by Musky - 06We're Going to Bring an Asteroid Fragment Into Lunar Orbit - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:34] <exec> 08└─I am glad that the last decade has seen space capitalism really being brought to the forefront of peoples minds again; this is just one more step in the wrong direction to eventually having hoo-mons as a Ferengi society. Commies lost! Space doesn't need government involvement. Look at the lobes on M...
[04:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02obligatory +5 Funny - 06We're Going to Bring an Asteroid Fragment Into Lunar Orbit - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:36] <exec> 08└─http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/asteroid-harvesting [smbc-comics.com]
[04:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:3, Insightful) 02sample return - 06We're Going to Bring an Asteroid Fragment Into Lunar Orbit - 1144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:38] <exec> 08└─There have been a few sample return missions [wikipedia.org] from asteroids, and we have OSIRIS-REx [wikipedia.org] coming up. Is there anything about this specific mission that makes the human method more useful than returning the sample to Earth by robotic craft? For example, can they study a far...
[04:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fauxlosopher [4804] (Score:1) 02US Supreme Court has ALWAYS...? - 069th Circ. Tells DOJ to Back Off in Medical Pot States - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:23] <exec> 08└─the Supreme Court has always been the arbiter of what is and isn't constitutional
[04:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not water perse, but its cornucopia of content - 069th Circ. Tells DOJ to Back Off in Medical Pot States - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:35] <exec> 08└─You forgot water.
[04:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Good cops == unicorns? - 069th Circ. Tells DOJ to Back Off in Medical Pot States - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:51] <exec> 08└─The continued existence, tolerance, and even protection of bad cops by other cops is heavy anecdotal evidence against the existence of good cops. I can think of one person who I believe to be a good cop based on mindset and motives - but that good cop still enforces blatantly illegal laws, such as S...
[04:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Pouring Money Into Schools - 06Whirlpool Helps Students in an Unlikely Way - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:24:21] <exec> 08└─I can only hope you reincarnate poor in the inner city somewhere. Poor and black, and female for preference. At this point I don't even think you're trolling; you say this shit because you really do believe it, not to cause reactions. What's the opposite of virtue signalling? Because whatever it is,...
[04:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Pouring Money Into Schools - 06Whirlpool Helps Students in an Unlikely Way - 698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:24:26] <exec> 08└─You wanna know what the foundational problem is? Starvation wages. Companies like WalMart having economies that rival entire countries in the second world, and paying their workers such utter shit that they're dependent on government aid...in other words, forcing the taxpayers (that's you and me) to...
[04:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Thoughts - 06Whirlpool Helps Students in an Unlikely Way - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:24:38] <exec> 08└─Define extreme, and define where the center is. The US is massively right of center ("Overton window"), so something that to many Americans would seem dangerously left-wing would be a no-brainer for the rest of the civilized world.
[04:24:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:Thoughts - 06Whirlpool Helps Students in an Unlikely Way - 1002 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:24:51] <exec> 08└─Another possibility is that some of the rich don't increase their wealth quite as fast. I understand one of the largest employers and the largest low wage employer in the USA is Walmart, a business owned by one of the richest families in the USA and a business that depends on welfare to make up the...
[04:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:Thoughts - 06Whirlpool Helps Students in an Unlikely Way - 785 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:25:02] <exec> 08└─So what do we do about Paul? He's already super rich and has way more influence over the law makers then the average person or the poor will ever have. As long as Paul can push for welfare for his employees using his wealth, we're fucked, but at least Paul gets even richer and feels entitled as he g...
[04:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:We can wipe it out in less than an hour. - 06Polio Reappears in Nigeria after 2 Years - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:25:25] <exec> 08└─I don't think they make a font-size tag big enough to accomodate the requisite "Fuck You" this deserves, you genocidal maniac.
[04:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score:2) 02Re:Hardly the "Worst" - 06Book Review: REAMDE by Neal Stephenson - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:25:54] <exec> 08└─The Baroque Cycle is a masterpiece and when reading it one can scarcely believe it was the product of a single human mind. The audiobooks are also worth the massive time investment, adding another dimension just as rich as the text itself. I can't recommend it highly enough. It also improves your ap...
[04:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score:2) 02Re:Worst of the Best - 06Book Review: REAMDE by Neal Stephenson - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:26:04] <exec> 08└─The same reader did Cryptonomicon, IIRC. He's alright. I first "read" Anathem as an audiobook during a low point in my life right when I was starting university. It was strangely comforting.
[04:30:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score:2) 02Re:Nitpick on article - 06Watch This Animated Firefly Teaser Trailer - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:30:20] <exec> 08└─Ouch, I stand corrected! +1 touche for you!
[04:30:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score:2) 02Re:Nitpick on article - 06Watch This Animated Firefly Teaser Trailer - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:30:22] <exec> 08└─Wow, corrected twice! OK, someone please do everyone a favor and mark my original comment as -1 WRONG. Thanks!
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[05:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02kindergarten is about right - 06ULA Interns Build, Launch Two Rockets - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:19] <exec> 08└─Newton's Third Law is over 300 years old. Launching rockets is kiddie stuff. How about you "be disruptive" by innovating some new physics instead. "largest sport rocket launched in the world,"
[05:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02acetaminophen has this important use - 06Prenatal Acetaminophen Use Linked to Hyperactivity - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:22:58] <exec> 08└─After an earthquake, more people die from kidney failure cased by crush wounds than killed in the actual earthquake. The kidney failure can be prevented by giving the victims an inexpensive drug, acetaminophen. http://www.reuters.com [reuters.com]
[05:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pouring Money Into Schools - 06Whirlpool Helps Students in an Unlikely Way - 1019 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:24:17] <exec> 08└─Hey, thought experiment! Instead of those people working crap jobs for crap wages, we smash the system! Now they work no jobs for no wages, and yippee, we're not providing a subsidy for Walmart! No, sir, we're virtuously paying the good folks just what they should have because they're flat broke and...
[05:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Pouring Money Into Schools - 06Whirlpool Helps Students in an Unlikely Way - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:24:19] <exec> 08└─You're making a few unwarranted assumptions as to how I'd go about this... :)
[05:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Thoughts - 06Whirlpool Helps Students in an Unlikely Way - 2182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:24:31] <exec> 08└─The USA being insanely right-wing is a pretty popular idea. It gets thrown around a lot - and usually by people on the left, because it serves their needs - but rarely dissected and analysed. So what is so insanely right wing about the USA? The idea of having a large military? Of course nobody else...
[05:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Thoughts - 06Whirlpool Helps Students in an Unlikely Way - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:24:33] <exec> 08└─I said the civilized world. You don't get to point to the dysfunctional basket cases that are...well, hell, most of the Eastern Hemisphere, and go "we're left of THAT!" Being better than Iran is not exactly a stunning achievement in human rights, is my point.
[05:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score:2) 02Re:Sorry - 06Whirlpool Helps Students in an Unlikely Way - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:24:56] <exec> 08└─That's just it, I don't have any magic solution, I very much doubt there are any.
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[06:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02ULA Interns build and launch two rockets - 06ULA Interns Build, Launch Two Rockets - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:23] <exec> 08└─I think this looks better: ULA Interns build and launch two rockets
[06:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:ULA Interns build and launch two rockets - 06ULA Interns Build, Launch Two Rockets - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:24] <exec> 08└─ULA.Interns.Launch(Build(rockets, 2));
[06:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02ULA: Redefining rocketry, or at least "suborbital" - 06ULA Interns Build, Launch Two Rockets - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:26] <exec> 08└─Mom! I just went on a suborbital flight!! Wow? Really! I had no idea! Why didn't you tell me?! How? When? Where!? Yeah, I caught a plane from Houston to Austin! ... Now I get it these are interns and all, but suborbital has a meaning. That meaning being getting into space, but not orbiting the earth...
[06:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:ULA: Redefining rocketry, or at least "suborbit - 06ULA Interns Build, Launch Two Rockets - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:29] <exec> 08└─In all fairness though they did probably break some records. Building a 50m rocket to go 10km is a 5:1 meter:km ratio. A geostationary orbital launch gets to 35,786km. At that ratio, a commercial rocket would be 178,930 meters high. And that'd certainly be something to see. Who needs to launch when...
[06:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:sample return - 06We're Going to Bring an Asteroid Fragment Into Lunar Orbit - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:39] <exec> 08└─or are they developing the skills and tools needed for asteroid mining
[06:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score:2) 02Re:Hardly the "Worst" - 06Book Review: REAMDE by Neal Stephenson - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:25:59] <exec> 08└─Sorry Jeremiah, you might be an expert on women, but I'm not, so I enjoyed Snow Crash enough to have read it at least three times... And no, I'm not a teenager; I'm past fifty, with two marriages and several girl-friends in the past... So, clearly not the expert you are on women and fantasy projecti...
[06:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score:2) 02Re:Worst of the Best - 06Book Review: REAMDE by Neal Stephenson - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:26:09] <exec> 08└─I think that Snow Crash should come before Diamond Age, but just my opinion... I see that you don't mention the Baroque Cycle [wikipedia.org] which I think is his best work ever, barring Snow Crash. YMMV
[06:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:So basically they're screwing rural users - 06Windows 7 and 8.1 Moving to Windows 10’s Cumulative Update Model - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:27:32] <exec> 08└─Perhaps your library could have DVDs of some of the most popular Linux distributions on hand. Often they have copyleft licences so loaning them out for installation is allowed.
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[07:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02programming the firmware updates - 06Flyer Education: You Can Now Take a 3-Year Course on Flying Drones - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:21] <exec> 08└─I see how this is. Installing a firmware update is "computer programming" like "programming" a VCR, or a Tivo, or whatever you morons call your timeshifting devices these days. Meanwhile the firmware is "coded" by shit-colored indian "coders" who get paid $1/hour. Programming the firmware requires a...
[07:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:ULA: Redefining rocketry, or at least "suborbit - 06ULA Interns Build, Launch Two Rockets - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:22:33] <exec> 08└─Volume increases with the cube of the linear dimension.
[07:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:ULA: Redefining rocketry, or at least "suborbit - 06ULA Interns Build, Launch Two Rockets - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:22:34] <exec> 08└─Getting 3% of the way there is not a suborbital flight.
[07:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:State Police should Arrest DEA Agents - 069th Circ. Tells DOJ to Back Off in Medical Pot States - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:23:37] <exec> 08└─The use and growth of drugs has been ruled economic activity because even growth by a single person for their own use affects the drug trade, which in the aggregate has a huge effect on interstate commerce.
[07:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:In other words - 069th Circ. Tells DOJ to Back Off in Medical Pot States - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:24:01] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry to hear you have never met a good cop. They do exist, I swear.
[07:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The CIA helped! - 06Polio Reappears in Nigeria after 2 Years - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:25:28] <exec> 08└─Original AC here. I meant introduction to West Africa, and in particular Nigeria, not as a concept. Obviously, the ancient Egyptians had slavery at the time of Moses, , and it was not new then, although it is generally agreed the pyramids were not built by slaves - on account of finding payroll reco...
[07:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Naturally - 06Windows 7 and 8.1 Moving to Windows 10’s Cumulative Update Model - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:26:56] <exec> 08└─Alienating customers is the right thing to do for shareholders? Oh, you mean Apple shareholders, like this guy https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[07:32:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Frost [3313] (Score:1) 02Re:No endorsement? - 06Elio Motors Locks-in $7300 Base Price For Their Ultra-Efficient 3-Wheel Car - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:32:10] <exec> 08└─Bikes are a bit different, since they are inherently unstable and the driver's lean can cause the entire bike to tip in the desired direction in preparation for a turn
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[08:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Propulsion for the Asteroid - 06We're Going to Bring an Asteroid Fragment Into Lunar Orbit - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:52] <exec> 08└─IIRC, the propulsion here will be an ion drive. What I wonder is whether they thought about propulsing materials taken from the asteroid itself, rather than bringing fuel along. That would be a rather essential piece of tech to develop, one should think.
[08:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:18th Amendment - 069th Circ. Tells DOJ to Back Off in Medical Pot States - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:23:39] <exec> 08└─Lizard Princess: Feel only comfort, only calm, only love. I am your sole protector, and your keeper. Only my Bliss. I AM all you need.
[08:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Capt. Obvious [6089] (Score:2) 02Re:God Bless the 9th - 069th Circ. Tells DOJ to Back Off in Medical Pot States - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:24:06] <exec> 08└─For pretty good reasons, while the president can fire US DAs, the last time it happened (when Bush fired 7) there was a huge uproar and 2 year examination of if it was an abuse of power.
[08:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Let's solve economics with violence! - 06Whirlpool Helps Students in an Unlikely Way - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:24:49] <exec> 08└─You wanna know what the foundational problem is? Starvation wages.
[08:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Thoughts - 06Whirlpool Helps Students in an Unlikely Way - 985 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:25:03] <exec> 08└─You keep claiming things that aren't that far left of the U.S. but in reality are quite different. You claim, for example that the health care systems in the U.K. and Canada are not that far from the U.S. So you're saying the U.S. presumes that you have a right to healthcare? That they too have to h...
[08:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:''higher min wage[...]don't produce better pay' - 06Whirlpool Helps Students in an Unlikely Way - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:25:19] <exec> 08└─Yet you're still better off getting $20/hr in Denmark than getting minimum wage in the U.S.
[08:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I cant. - 06Windows 7 and 8.1 Moving to Windows 10’s Cumulative Update Model - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:27:41] <exec> 08└─A few years later they decided that their security reputation needed improvement, and they started offering security updates without having to wait for servicepacks getting tested and fixed. Now we're back with the service pack model where one of the updates removes some feature that the software yo...
[08:29:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Well then. - 06Physicists Propose "New Force Carrier" - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:29:47] <exec> 08└─No, please keep publishing stories beyond common knowledge. How else will we get in touch with new exciting topics?
[08:31:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Deeo Kain [5848] (Score:1) 02Re:Hydrochloric acid - 06Wrong Chemical Dumped Into Olympic Pools Made Them Green, Smelly—and Unsafe - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:31:41] <exec> 08└─Anything to get swimmers swim faster!
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[09:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02more good censorship, less bad censorship - 06U.S. Set to Hand Off Control of the Internet - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:18] <exec> 08└─Censor them ragheads but don't be censorin the porn! Yeeee-HAAAAAWW. Merica #1 FOREVER!!!!
[09:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02The Other Side Of The Argument... - 06U.S. Set to Hand Off Control of the Internet - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:20] <exec> 08└─https://cdt.org/blog/why-the-iana-transition-matters-and-must-not-be-delayed/ [cdt.org]
[09:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Other Side Of The Argument... - 06U.S. Set to Hand Off Control of the Internet - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:22:22] <exec> 08└─uhm... I only had the patience to read two paragraphs of the link you gave. the "arguments" are basically "various worries about are ludicrous". so no, you did not link to the other side of the argument, you linked to someone saying "what I want to happen is good, and it's absurd to say otherwise"....
[09:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02And then - 06U.S. Set to Hand Off Control of the Internet - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:24] <exec> 08└─And then they'll start their own internet, with blackj... oh wait, no gambling. Just hookers then.
[09:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score:2) 02Not convinced - 06U.S. Set to Hand Off Control of the Internet - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:26] <exec> 08└─Well, I'm convinced ICANN have been acting like a bunch of tools a lot of the time, but that's about it. I'm certainly not sure that the influence the US has (had) over the Internet has been wholly positive, but I'm even less certain that handing it over to an international committee is any *better*...
[09:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:ULA: Redefining rocketry, or at least "suborbit - 06ULA Interns Build, Launch Two Rockets - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:22:46] <exec> 08└─As does the proportion of mass to lift! Damnable Tsiolkovsky holding us all back.
[09:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score:2) 02Re:Space tech awesomeness - 06We're Going to Bring an Asteroid Fragment Into Lunar Orbit - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:22:56] <exec> 08└─this is just one more step in the right direction to eventually having humans as a multi-planetary society.
[09:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Propulsion for the Asteroid - 06We're Going to Bring an Asteroid Fragment Into Lunar Orbit - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:23:01] <exec> 08└─It would be a good idea to test it, but not to rely on it. Maybe they should bring the rock into Lunar orbit, then use it to carry out separate "space ice as fuel" test from there at a later date.
[09:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02That's a bit of a departure - 06We're Going to Bring an Asteroid Fragment Into Lunar Orbit - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:03] <exec> 08└─We're Going to Bring an Asteroid Fragment Into Lunar Orbit
[09:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02PhD here - 06We're Going to Bring an Asteroid Fragment Into Lunar Orbit - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:06] <exec> 08└─I have been an astrophysicist by profession for the past 10 years. This post is no flamebait. No troll. And it is certainly not offtopic. You need to know that most of what you read for 'space' missions is fantasy. I believe I will be wrong to stay inactive while you fall for this deception, and I d...
[09:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Interesting but... - 06Prenatal Acetaminophen Use Linked to Hyperactivity - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:23:27] <exec> 08└─Very true; it might even be that mothers who tend to use pain killers during pregnancy just have behavioral habits that end up in them raising hyperactive kids. How does one ethically test that hypothesis?
[09:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:18th Amendment - 069th Circ. Tells DOJ to Back Off in Medical Pot States - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:23:55] <exec> 08└─By that logic supreme court cannot do miscarriage of justice. In fact the constitution could as well not exist as its definition is "whatever supreme court says it is".
[09:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:18th Amendment - 069th Circ. Tells DOJ to Back Off in Medical Pot States - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:23:56] <exec> 08└─Ah, yes, "I like policy X, therefore it's constitutional." Or, "Not having the government do X would be absurd! Therefore, it's constitutional." Much of what the federal government does is unconstitutional; sorry to burst your bubble, but maybe we should be amending the constitution if we feel the g...
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[10:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02our Centauri overlords - 06"Earth-Like" Exoplanet Found in Habitable Zone of Proxima Centauri - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:24] <exec> 08└─I, for one, welcome. Colonize us, Great Maker.
[10:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score:2) 02Re:our Centauri overlords - 06"Earth-Like" Exoplanet Found in Habitable Zone of Proxima Centauri - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:22:25] <exec> 08└─Vir! Fetch me some hot Jala!
[10:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:The Other Side Of The Argument... - 06U.S. Set to Hand Off Control of the Internet - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:22:35] <exec> 08└─That's what you get for not reading on. There are also a number of links in the blog post which discuss the "issues" in more detail. The Washington Examiner article is one-sided in the extreme. If that side is "your" side, and you're uninterested in other points of view, by all means ignore it and l...
[10:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimios [201] (Score:2) 02Well that's good becuse *REDACTED* and *CENSORED* - 06U.S. Set to Hand Off Control of the Internet - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:39] <exec> 08└─No need. It would be only good if people would be abusing the copyright/DMCA to take down domain names as they wish. Oh wait...
[10:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Space tech awesomeness - 06We're Going to Bring an Asteroid Fragment Into Lunar Orbit - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:23:11] <exec> 08└─I gather you don't believe in off-site backup.
[10:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02since there were no takers... - 06DARPA Seeking to Build Miniature VLF/ULF Transmitters - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:25] <exec> 08└─Here is a completely random idea -- don't know enough EE to go further with the concept. Make some small transmitters that talk to each other at high frequency (mesh network style), short range. Once the mesh forms and all of them know where the others are located, then the mesh works together (corr...
[10:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:1) 02I'm missing something. - 06DARPA Seeking to Build Miniature VLF/ULF Transmitters - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:27] <exec> 08└─The lowest frequency they mention is 300 Hz. The speed of light is 3 X 108 m/s in vacuo so the corresponding wavelength is 106 m and 1/10,000th of that is 102 m. I searched the Web and the first ELF antenna I read about is a square less than 1 m across, intended for use at the same frequencies menti...
[10:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:State Police should Arrest DEA Agents - 069th Circ. Tells DOJ to Back Off in Medical Pot States - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:24:17] <exec> 08└─that interpretation of the commerce clause is nothing short of insanity
[10:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:Thoughts - 06Whirlpool Helps Students in an Unlikely Way - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:26:02] <exec> 08└─What if Peter has so much money that he'll never need to use it ever in his life and Paul is so poor, despite his best efforts, that he struggles to feed, clothe and shelter himself? What if the Great Sacred Market dictates that poor Paul shall have no more? I reckon Peter should give up a proportio...
[10:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:We can wipe it out in less than an hour. - 06Polio Reappears in Nigeria after 2 Years - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:26:27] <exec> 08└─Have you heard the saying: "the cure is worse than the disease"? Killing people on the chance they may spread a horrible disease is one of those cases. Quarantines and vaccinations are known to work. There is no need to kill anybody over it.
[10:28:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Particles and Waves - 06China's "Quantum-Enabled Satellite" Launches - 1689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:28:42] <exec> 08└─I am a physicist, so let me explain. First: Yes, a wave spreads, but the spread can be controlled to a good extent. For example, a laser pointer emits a wave, yet if you pointed a laser pointer to the moon, you'd get a spot of merely 40 meters diameter. A satellite is much closer than the moon, so i...
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[11:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Before you get too excited. - 06"Earth-Like" Exoplanet Found in Habitable Zone of Proxima Centauri - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:25] <exec> 08└─Just as astronomers have a very different definition of "metal" than the rest of us (ie anything that isn't hydrogen), they also have a surprisingly broad definition of "Earthlike". In this context it probably means "Rocky, not gassy, and anywhere between Mercury and Neptune in size. Roughly."
[11:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02PhD here - 06"Earth-Like" Exoplanet Found in Habitable Zone of Proxima Centauri - 709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:26] <exec> 08└─I have been an astrophysicist (whatever that means anymore) by profession for the past 10 years. This post is no flamebait, and I am not trolling you. However, all those so-called 'exoplanet' missions and projects have been trolling you: their objective is to paint a picture where there are so many...
[11:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score:2) 02Re:Not convinced - 06U.S. Set to Hand Off Control of the Internet - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:22:40] <exec> 08└─I don't know, the fact the UN can barely agree to do anything is excellent in my opinion. Sometimes to make sure you have some freedom, you have to tie up powers in such a way that they expend all their energy fighting each other, leaving no time for them to make everybody else's life a misery. If w...
[11:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02meh - 06U.S. Set to Hand Off Control of the Internet - 2026 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:43] <exec> 08└─"The proposal will significantly increase the power of foreign governments over the Internet, (...)" yes. I don't know if this is good or bad. However, it is the Internet. As in: the whole world's Internet. Just as long as it's not only the DPRK, UK and Iran in the commission. "(...) expand ICANN's...
[11:24:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 0218th Amendment - 069th Circ. Tells DOJ to Back Off in Medical Pot States - 160 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:04] <exec> 08└─Forget state's rights. Prohibition of alcohol required a full-blown constitutional amendment. Narcotic prohibition was de facto unconstitutional from the start.
[11:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:My guess - 06Whirlpool Helps Students in an Unlikely Way - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:25:09] <exec> 08└─That has to be one of the most bizarre, rambling, barely on-topic posts I've ever read on SN, and that's saying something. VLM have you been drinking fabric conditioner again?
[11:26:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:Sorry - 06Whirlpool Helps Students in an Unlikely Way - 37 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:26:00] <exec> 08└─Narcissius Delusionius Libertarianius
[11:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03pgc [1600] (Score:2) 02Regardless - 06Book Review: REAMDE by Neal Stephenson - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:14] <exec> 08└─Of whether or not it is a good book, I really liked the fact that it was centered around ransomware, right before ransomware became mainstream.
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[12:22:44] <exec> 08└─Even if there were plenty of habitable earth-like planets and we'll soon have a viable means to get there in a reasonable timeframe the idea of "just moving to another one" doesn't really stack up. You'd need to have a net emmigration rate that not only allowed for you to load the current population...
[12:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03FunkyLich [4689] (Score:1) 02Re:programming the firmware updates - 06Flyer Education: You Can Now Take a 3-Year Course on Flying Drones - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:23:07] <exec> 08└─Now that you describe it like this, the absurd-at-first-glance three year long timespan required makes a lot more sense.
[12:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:kindergarten is about right - 06ULA Interns Build, Launch Two Rockets - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:23:15] <exec> 08└─These aren't Estes model rockets powered by a C6-7. Anything larger than an "H" engine requires licensing, FAA waivers, and lots of money and technical know-how. It's not for kiddies or morons.
[12:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02"And" - 06ULA Interns Build, Launch Two Rockets - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:24] <exec> 08└─ULA Interns Build, Launch Two Rockets
[12:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:2) 02Re:Space tech awesomeness - 06We're Going to Bring an Asteroid Fragment Into Lunar Orbit - 767 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:23:35] <exec> 08└─"Never" is a long time. Global warming or not, this planet won't last forever. We'll be forced to move or die as the sun gradually expands to vaporize Earth. We have this assumption, however, that we must live on the surface of a rock. After all, that's all we've known. But there is enough matter an...
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[13:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02What about the others? - 0615 Released from Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:24] <exec> 08└─So, by my count, that's 42 people imprisoned forever without anything resembling a public trial or public proof that they did anything wrong. Oh, and we probably tortured them. Clearly, freedom is the American Way!
[13:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What about the others? - 0615 Released from Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:22:25] <exec> 08└─I think we are past the "probably" point. Even threat of torture is torture in my book.
[13:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:PhD here - 06"Earth-Like" Exoplanet Found in Habitable Zone of Proxima Centauri - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:22:43] <exec> 08└─Make your mind up; you were implying that the Earth is flat [soylentnews.org] two hours ago.
[13:22:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03coolgopher [1157] 02Not convinced - 06U.S. Set to Hand Off Control of the Internet - 532 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:55] <exec> 08└─Well, I'm convinced ICANN have been acting like a bunch of tools a lot of the time, but that's about it. I'm certainly not sure that the influence the US has (had) over the Internet has been wholly positive, but I'm even less certain that handing it over to an international committee is any *better*...
[13:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:ULA: Redefining rocketry, or at least "suborbit - 06ULA Interns Build, Launch Two Rockets - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:23:22] <exec> 08└─"Delta V" is not as easy as you think.
[13:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score:2) 02Re:Space tech awesomeness - 06We're Going to Bring an Asteroid Fragment Into Lunar Orbit - 938 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:23:37] <exec> 08└─Before earth will be grilled, there is a challenge closer in time: cessation of volcanic activity due to loss of radioactivity in around 500 Mio years which will break the carbon cycle. Carbon dioxide will be absorbed into the oceans but not re-emitted through volcanoes and life will cease to exist....
[13:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:PhD here - 06We're Going to Bring an Asteroid Fragment Into Lunar Orbit - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:23:46] <exec> 08└─If you're an astrophysicist, where do you think the sun goes at night?
[13:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02Wrong SN Department ? - 06We're Going to Bring an Asteroid Fragment Into Lunar Orbit - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:48] <exec> 08└─"from the a-moon-for-the-moon dept" What happened to the "What could Possible Go Wrong" department?
[13:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Tiny transmitting antennas are inefficient. - 06DARPA Seeking to Build Miniature VLF/ULF Transmitters - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:23:58] <exec> 08└─Tiny transmitting antennas are very inefficient, as the efficiency is proportional to the square of the antenna size in wavelengths. For a crude example, an antenna 1/10,000 of a wavelength would have an efficiency on the order of 1/100,000,000. To radiate one milliwatt (0.001 watt) would require pu...
[13:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:Acetiminophen killed my father - 06Prenatal Acetaminophen Use Linked to Hyperactivity - 1148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:20] <exec> 08└─I've avoided acetaminophen due to its toxicity to the liver; when combined with other things (fumes from painting the house, or bug spray, or weed killer, or from a regular trip to a parking garage, or working in the city, or in a relatively polluted area, or trapped inside one's lavish basement fil...
[13:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Let's solve economics with violence! - 06Whirlpool Helps Students in an Unlikely Way - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:25:59] <exec> 08└─I'm not going to defend big corporations apart from saying that there is a private solution to corps' bad behavior that doesn't involve the threat or use of force: disassociation, ala boycotts.
[13:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02A remarkably exaggerated definition of "huge." - 06Whirlpool Helps Students in an Unlikely Way - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:26:00] <exec> 08└─> By using the phrase "starvation wages" you ignore the fact that huge chunks of entry-level workers' paychecks are stolen via the threat of force by governments, You have a remarkably exaggerated definition of "huge." The Tax Policy Center estimates that, on average in 2015, households in the lowe...
[13:27:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Needlessly exotic is Stephenson's trademark. - 06Book Review: REAMDE by Neal Stephenson - 731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:49] <exec> 08└─All his characters are needlessly something, though - exotic, quirky, whatever. What it all amounts to is that he loads his books with fluff because, unlike William Gibson (to whom he was compared in the 90s), he doesn't raise complex questions about social problems, technology, trends and human nat...
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[14:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:What about the others? - 0615 Released from Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:22:39] <exec> 08└─So, by my count, that's 42 people imprisoned forever without anything resembling a public trial or public proof that they did anything wrong. Oh, and we probably tortured them.
[14:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bziman [3577] (Score:2) 02Justice for all... - 0615 Released from Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:40] <exec> 08└─I haven't flown an American flag since this illegal and unethical camp opened, and I won't until every last soul there has been freed, or lawfully tried in a court by a jury of his peers. As an American, I'm embarrassed on behalf of my country that such a place even exists. And I'm ashamed of every...
[14:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Justice for all... - 0615 Released from Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp - 1236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:22:42] <exec> 08└─And it's not just the place itself. The reason Obama has always cited for not shutting it down is that the Republicans in Congress wouldn't let him shut it down. The thing is, what the Republicans actually refused to do was have the prisoners transferred to prisons in the United States, which is mis...
[14:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Justice for all... - 0615 Released from Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:22:45] <exec> 08└─Have you actually done anything about it, though? I'm not suggesting you haven't; just that I'd rather hear about any non-symbolic action you've taken (which would include taking time to explain to anyone who'll listen why you don't fly the flag). It sounds like you're pretty passionate about it, so...
[14:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:2, Funny) 02Re:Justice for all... - 0615 Released from Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:22:47] <exec> 08└─What we should do about it is kill all the detainees and and let Allah sort them out. Then we should close Gitmo, completely normalize relations with Cuba, and get access to their medicine, tourism, and classic car market.
[14:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Justice for all... - 0615 Released from Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:22:49] <exec> 08└─It sounds like you're pretty passionate about it, so it's probably influenced your voting habits, at the very least?
[14:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:our Centauri overlords - 06"Earth-Like" Exoplanet Found in Habitable Zone of Proxima Centauri - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:04] <exec> 08└─Well, the alternative is failing to pay a visit to the Galactic Hyperspace Planning Council and having a Vogon Constructor Fleet on our doorstep.
[14:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Before you get too excited. - 06"Earth-Like" Exoplanet Found in Habitable Zone of Proxima Centauri - 860 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:07] <exec> 08└─The closer it is to Mercury's size, the harder it would be to detect. So there will be a bias towards things at least the size of Earth. As for super-Earths, it's possible that they are more conducive to life than the smallest of planets: http://www.universetoday.com
[14:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:PhD here - 06"Earth-Like" Exoplanet Found in Habitable Zone of Proxima Centauri - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:12] <exec> 08└─I'm afraid in your case 'PhD' stands for Douchebag of Philosophy.
[14:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Chiron! - 06"Earth-Like" Exoplanet Found in Habitable Zone of Proxima Centauri - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:14] <exec> 08└─Dibs on Santiago.
[14:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:meh - 06U.S. Set to Hand Off Control of the Internet - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:30] <exec> 08└─I seriously thought that the ICANN is already acting without any real accountability or responsibility, by making all those ridiculous top-level domains for money. How could an ITU-governed ICANN possibly do any worse w.r.t. accountability? Serious question. If they do almost *nothing* but hold meet...
[14:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Techwolf [87] (Score:2) 02Split the DNS - 06U.S. Set to Hand Off Control of the Internet - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:31] <exec> 08└─Just split the DNS into the two letter prefix that the UN assigns to countries. And then each country handle the root DNS server for all domains under that and administer however they want to. Open all domain under that two letters, like .uk, to all person or just restrict it to that country peoples...
[14:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Yeah, but of the 3-year curriculum - 06Flyer Education: You Can Now Take a 3-Year Course on Flying Drones - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:41] <exec> 08└─The first 2 years, 51 weeks turns out to be a crash course in the Japanese language for English speakers. Then the last week starts with (I've translated this from Japanese for you): "Look now, flying one of these gizmos is pretty trivial. The machine figures out most things on its own."
[14:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Interesting but... - 06Prenatal Acetaminophen Use Linked to Hyperactivity - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:43] <exec> 08└─In that context you should be comparing it to alcohol - which is already legal in all 50 states and well known to be *extremely* dangerous when used irresponsibly - far more so than cannabis, which has not yet been shown to have any serious risks even at extreme exposures, despite decades of attempt...
[14:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Interesting but... - 06Prenatal Acetaminophen Use Linked to Hyperactivity - 805 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:48] <exec> 08└─>How does one ethically test that hypothesis? Easy - ask mothers who have used acetaminophen during past pregnancies to refrain from using it and closely related drugs during future pregnancies. Heck ask them to alternate with each kid. Whether they use other painkillers with similarly low known ris...
[14:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Stucking Fatists - 069th Circ. Tells DOJ to Back Off in Medical Pot States - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:25:38] <exec> 08└─Does anyone really care about state's rights?
[14:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:My guess - 06Whirlpool Helps Students in an Unlikely Way - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:26:17] <exec> 08└─One kid even told her that he wished she was his mom.
[14:26:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Thoughts - 06Whirlpool Helps Students in an Unlikely Way - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:26:45] <exec> 08└─My wife/girlfriend/goat are not my property, they are not mine to share with anyone.
[14:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:Sorry - 06Whirlpool Helps Students in an Unlikely Way - 2098 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:27:12] <exec> 08└─What I find striking is because none of the proposed ideas are perfect, the only acceptable perfect answer is to prevent the enemy, which is good in general, because it isn't the friend that is completely perfect. I do not really understand that argument. Compromise is what this is about. If you don...
[14:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sorry - 06Whirlpool Helps Students in an Unlikely Way - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:27:17] <exec> 08└─I am getting so fed up with your mightier than thou attitude. I am a web developer you insensitive clod, ECMAscript is how I make my living, pay my mortgage, and feed my family. You can just go to hell!
[14:29:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I cant. - 06Windows 7 and 8.1 Moving to Windows 10’s Cumulative Update Model - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:29:38] <exec> 08└─However, yes... yes you can.
[14:29:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:2) 02Rated G for Garbage - 06Windows 7 and 8.1 Moving to Windows 10’s Cumulative Update Model - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:29:45] <exec> 08└─I don't think most small businesses have the resources to fund enhancement of Wine to run a particular application that's business-critical yet rated Garbage in Wine AppDB. Nor does Wine run device drivers for specialized peripherals.
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[15:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:What about the others? - 0615 Released from Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:37] <exec> 08└─"there is always a backlash and we become a better nation" Citation needed.
[15:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Justice for all... - 0615 Released from Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:44] <exec> 08└─Just curious. Have you ever flown an American flag?
[15:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02One of many mis-steps since 9/11 - 0615 Released from Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp - 719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:46] <exec> 08└─I always found it telling that Guantanamo was established in Cuba. It could not exist in any Western country, because the detainments were clearly illegal, and the conditions inhumane. So you build the camp in a country with which you don't even have diplomatic relations. Nearly the entire world was...
[15:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:PhD here - 06"Earth-Like" Exoplanet Found in Habitable Zone of Proxima Centauri - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:07] <exec> 08└─Make your mind up; you were implying that the Earth is flat two hours ago.
[15:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:PhD here - 06"Earth-Like" Exoplanet Found in Habitable Zone of Proxima Centauri - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:08] <exec> 08└─I don't know how you ever got your PhD in the first place if it was possible for you to get so confused. If the Earth is 'flat'
[15:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Insurance - 06We're Going to Bring an Asteroid Fragment Into Lunar Orbit - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:15] <exec> 08└─If plutonium RTG based missions insurance is expensive, I don't want to even imagine the quote for such thing considering the risk of a piece of it falling over our heads.
[15:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Interesting but... - 06Prenatal Acetaminophen Use Linked to Hyperactivity - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:24:40] <exec> 08└─That's a fair comparison, but it has already been proven that alcohol use is so customary within society (except for certain places like Utah) that a prohibition is completely impractical. Once a right has been given, and used for many generations, it is tough to take it away.
[15:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:18th Amendment - 069th Circ. Tells DOJ to Back Off in Medical Pot States - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:25:17] <exec> 08└─Very clever, we're all impressed with your ability to shout "I know you are but what am I" But back here in reality - the constitution explicitly denies the federal government any powers not explicitly granted to it. So unless you can point to a clause in the constitution explicitly granting the fed...
[15:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:State Police should Arrest DEA Agents - 069th Circ. Tells DOJ to Back Off in Medical Pot States - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:25:23] <exec> 08└─How's this for a set of facts for you? - The US federal government was brought into existence via the Constitution - The Constitution is a list of delegated powers - Normal people, no different in principle than your or I, are the source of the powers delegated to the US fedgov via the Constitution...
[15:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Empty prisons, save my taxes for bombs - 069th Circ. Tells DOJ to Back Off in Medical Pot States - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:25:33] <exec> 08└─Employers who require security clearances and random drug-tests lose a hell of a lot of otherwise-decent applicants, as if they'll lose control of OPSEC more readily on pot than on booze. Just so you know, a drug test is not required to get a security clearance.
[15:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:In other words - 069th Circ. Tells DOJ to Back Off in Medical Pot States - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:25:53] <exec> 08└─I have no doubt that good cops exist. It's exactly like that adage about bad apples spoiling the whole bunch, though: if there's any bad cops in a department, they're pretty much all bad, including their leadership. So, what this means is that some departments are good, and some are bad. I think you...
[15:28:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03guizzy [5021] (Score:1) 02This book made me realize... - 06Book Review: REAMDE by Neal Stephenson - 975 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:32] <exec> 08└─Bought that novel as soon as it came out, and it made me realize that maybe I didn't like Neal Stephenson's writing as much as I thought I did. Snow Crash had some good ideas, mixed with annoyingly juvenile writing (which in retrospect I can't help but compare in my mind with Ready Player One). I co...
[15:30:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:PhD here - 06China's "Quantum-Enabled Satellite" Launches - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:30:24] <exec> 08└─I see you're new here. AFAIK, Ethanol-fueled does not believe in ticking the AC box. Unlike you, he proudly stands behind each and every of his trollish comments, and I salute him for that. Troll long and prosper, Ethanol-fueled.
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[16:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Gossip and news? - 06Univision Wins Bidding for Gawker Media - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:48] <exec> 08└─How the hell do you tell which is gossip, and which is news? I'm reminded of the Enquirer, which was always beside the checkout lane at the grocery store. Mama often bought one when she shopped. I don't remember what age I was when I figured out that you could believe nothing in that rag. Some peopl...
[16:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:2, Funny) 02Re:Gossip and news? - 06Univision Wins Bidding for Gawker Media - 696 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:22:50] <exec> 08└─The Mexicans are just as bad as the Brits with regard to their juxtaposition of gossip and actual news, except a lot more loudly and with hotter and more numerous curvaceous hosts and narrators. For Mexicans, all media is like a Novela [wikipedia.org], really dramatic, although there are no ugly wom...
[16:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Hulk getting the money? - 06Univision Wins Bidding for Gawker Media - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:52] <exec> 08└─So now we know who has money to buy worthless things. Seriously, I doubt Gawker has anything of value, and I suspect the lawyers are going to grab a lot of this money. But is Hulk going to get anything for his service to humanity by taking Gawker down? More power to him. The sex tape you choose not...
[16:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Hulk getting the money? - 06Univision Wins Bidding for Gawker Media - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:22:54] <exec> 08└─I don't know how profitable Gawker.com [wikipedia.org] is (Alexa rank 987), but you get more than 1 site [wikipedia.org] for your $135 million (is that price in addition to assuming a $140 million debt?).
[16:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Justice for all... - 0615 Released from Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp - 1522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:08] <exec> 08└─There are problems with that due process thing. Those problems are precisely why the neocon regime created a new class of people, and a very special prison for them. See, there is no "due process" for prisoners of war. If you are an enemy, and you are captured, you are a prisoner for the duration, u...
[16:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Justice for all... - 0615 Released from Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:11] <exec> 08└─I don't like your solution very much, but it's better than the status quo. I gotta give you that, at least.
[16:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Justice for all... - 0615 Released from Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:15] <exec> 08└─Pretty good question. Want to submit a poll? A show of hands thing, "Who flies the American flag?" Personally, I do. One flies on top of my rollaway toolbox at work, another flies from my car window, another flies from my motorcycle. Although I'm embarrassed by my government, I am an American, and I...
[16:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:One of many mis-steps since 9/11 - 0615 Released from Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:18] <exec> 08└─The US had huge moral authority
[16:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:more good censorship, less bad censorship - 06U.S. Set to Hand Off Control of the Internet - 1323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:50] <exec> 08└─I think you've got it the wrong way around. Both Christianity and Islam dominate the world [wikipedia.org]. Expect to see pr0n and bacon++ censored. Well actually I don't know. I didn't study internet governance in detail when I was at the Michigan Institute of Technology. After Clinton declared mar...
[16:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:meh - 06U.S. Set to Hand Off Control of the Internet - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:24:01] <exec> 08└─OK, from this I conclude that US senator Ted Cruz and his fellow two senators are against content regulation. That is commendable, and good to know.
[16:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Capt. Obvious [6089] (Score:2) 02US gives away valuable asset - 06U.S. Set to Hand Off Control of the Internet - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:03] <exec> 08└─Why is this a good idea?
[16:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02And the second two years? - 06Flyer Education: You Can Now Take a 3-Year Course on Flying Drones - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:14] <exec> 08└─Seriously, there isn't three years worth of material there, even if starting as high-school drop out. You can get a pilot's license in less than a year.
[16:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:PhD here - 06We're Going to Bring an Asteroid Fragment Into Lunar Orbit - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:24:55] <exec> 08└─Stop. Find a better conspiracy theory. People have known the Earth is round since dogs could speak. Maybe do something with hollow Earth instead of flat Earth?
[16:26:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] 02State Police should Arrest DEA Agents - 069th Circ. Tells DOJ to Back Off in Medical Pot States - 1379 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:00] <exec> 08└─Any Federal authority is Constitutionally limited to interstate transport and sales. So unless the source materials or output product was transported across State lines, the Federal government has no Constitutional authority to involve itself. States are not so neutered they cannot handle noxious su...
[16:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:State Police should Arrest DEA Agents - 069th Circ. Tells DOJ to Back Off in Medical Pot States - 1654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:09] <exec> 08└─States rights, eh? That's the justification the Confederacy used when they tried to leave the Union. We all know they wanted slavery. Should the North have just stood aside and let them walk? Should we not have passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to finally stop the old South from disenfranchising v...
[16:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:God Bless the 9th - 069th Circ. Tells DOJ to Back Off in Medical Pot States - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:27] <exec> 08└─Also, what happened to Obama's pledge not to interfere with legalization states? He's a politician, my dear; he lies. Seems like signing the bill that prohibits the DOJ from interfering with state legalization is the opposite of lying.
[16:28:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Thoughts - 06Whirlpool Helps Students in an Unlikely Way - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:28:04] <exec> 08└─Somehow I have a feeling you will have no problem "stealing" your social security check from these very same children you don't want to help.
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[17:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Oh I know who got ripped off... - 06Bitcoin Scam Poses as a Lottery and a Marriage Proposal - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:32] <exec> 08└─Anyone that gets suckered into Bitcoin hype.
[17:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score:2) 02Reverse dowry? - 06Bitcoin Scam Poses as a Lottery and a Marriage Proposal - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:33] <exec> 08└─the Reddit poster actually sent 1000 Bitcoins to the address of one of the users in the thread.
[17:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02Redundant and repeating, over and over again... - 06Bitcoin Scam Poses as a Lottery and a Marriage Proposal - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:35] <exec> 08└─And here I thought Bitcoin itself was a scam of the 'pyramid scheme' type.
[17:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Never accept bitcoin... - 06Bitcoin Scam Poses as a Lottery and a Marriage Proposal - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:38] <exec> 08└─Demand to see the cows and goats!
[17:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:Gossip and news? - 06Univision Wins Bidding for Gawker Media - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:48] <exec> 08└─Its the news networks that brought us Yanet Garcia, so not all is bad.
[17:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hulk getting the money? - 06Univision Wins Bidding for Gawker Media - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:52] <exec> 08└─I goodnaturedly assumed that paying 135 million for the site probably includes paying off the 140 million debt. I mean, the name recognition and intellectual property associated with the good folks of Gawker Media would probably be valued by most to be in the negative.
[17:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score:2) 02Re:Hulk getting the money? - 06Univision Wins Bidding for Gawker Media - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:54] <exec> 08└─But is Hulk going to get anything for his service to Peter Thiel by taking Gawker down? More power to him.
[17:23:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02Re:What about the others? - 0615 Released from Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp - 75 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:06] <exec> 08└─"there is always a backlash and we become a better nation" Citation needed.
[17:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Justice for all... - 0615 Released from Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp - 997 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:17] <exec> 08└─> Personally, I do. One flies on top of my rollaway toolbox at work, another flies from my car window, another flies from my motorcycle. I don't, and never will on my car or toolbox. I don't fly any flags matching any of my passports, regardless of how happy I am to have had the luck of growing up w...
[17:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02Re:Justice for all... - 0615 Released from Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp - 769 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:19] <exec> 08└─Ditto, only I add the repeal of the PATRIOT Act to the list, until then, my flag pole will stay bare. When asked[1], my answer seems cause consternation and confusion, then indignation and accusations that I'm un-American.(central Oklahoma) Gah! It's like talking to a battered wife: 'why do you stic...
[17:23:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02One of many mis-steps since 9/11 - 0615 Released from Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp - 719 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:21] <exec> 08└─I always found it telling that Guantanamo was established in Cuba. It could not exist in any Western country, because the detainments were clearly illegal, and the conditions inhumane. So you build the camp in a country with which you don't even have diplomatic relations. Nearly the entire world was...
[17:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:One of many mis-steps since 9/11 - 0615 Released from Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp - 1370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:24] <exec> 08└─Break through the nationalism, and think more on the big problems we all have in common. American capitalism and those around the world who practice it periodically get too greedy. Why on Earth would Exxon be so stupid as to bury evidence of Global Warming, and actally propagandize against it? Why d...
[17:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02responsible? - 06Researchers Develop New Way to Purify Carbon Nanotubes - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:32] <exec> 08└─i hope these carbon nano tube geniuses have the common sense and/or morals to have a sound plan for handling nano tube waste/recycling, if that's even possible. We don't have the systems for properly dealing with the e-waste(and other) we have now. how bad's it gonna be when people are throwing nano...
[17:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:PhD here - 06"Earth-Like" Exoplanet Found in Habitable Zone of Proxima Centauri - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:50] <exec> 08└─"Piled Higher and Deeper." Why are these cranks always 1) religious and 2) so enamored with tu quoque fallacies, especially false ones?
[17:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:meh - 06U.S. Set to Hand Off Control of the Internet - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:11] <exec> 08└─K, from this I conclude that US senator Ted Cruz and his fellow two senators are against content regulation. That is commendable, and good to know. Ted Cruz: Net neutrality is 'Obamacare for the Internet'.
[17:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Great news! Wonderful! - 06U.S. Set to Hand Off Control of the Internet - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:14] <exec> 08└─The sooner those political goons manage to totally bugger it up (which they have openly declared to be their avowed attention) the sooner we can implement something a lot less centralised, a lot more ad hoc networking friendly, and where bodies such as ICANN are a lot less relevant. Alas, sometimes...
[17:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Great news! Wonderful! - 06U.S. Set to Hand Off Control of the Internet - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:16] <exec> 08└─attention = intention This message brought to you by autocorrect and companies that think machines are smarter than people.
[17:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Bad idea - 06U.S. Set to Hand Off Control of the Internet - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:18] <exec> 08└─Not saying the US in control is perfect, as it isn't by any stretch, but i dont trust a bunch of socialists in control that dont even pretend to believe in free speech.
[17:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score:2) 02Probably dumb but not necessarily dumb - 06Flyer Education: You Can Now Take a 3-Year Course on Flying Drones - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:29] <exec> 08└─You can get a pilot's license in less than a year.
[17:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:God Bless the 9th - 069th Circ. Tells DOJ to Back Off in Medical Pot States - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:26:38] <exec> 08└─♥♥♥
[17:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dogeball [814] (Score:2) 02Re:Results - 06Whirlpool Helps Students in an Unlikely Way - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:27:02] <exec> 08└─I have no problem with PR moves which actually do some good. PR is only a bad thing when it generates hype (which benefits the company,) but doesn't deliver on its promises, and an evil thing when it deflects attention away from borderline criminal activity elsewhere. Fair play to Whirlpool.
[17:28:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sorry - 06Whirlpool Helps Students in an Unlikely Way - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:28:12] <exec> 08└─Ideology over rationality. Its the hallmark of fundamentalism.
[17:29:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score:2) 02Re:Worst of the Best - 06Book Review: REAMDE by Neal Stephenson - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:29:23] <exec> 08└─Harry Potter is over 3400 pages. That's "big" IMO
[17:29:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Just going to leave this here. - 06Cisco Systems Will Lay Off 14,000 Employees - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:56] <exec> 08└─http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/nortel-turning-its-focus-toward-software/article988312/ [theglobeandmail.com]
[17:30:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not surprising - 06Windows 7 and 8.1 Moving to Windows 10’s Cumulative Update Model - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:30:27] <exec> 08└─One of the big issues with GNU Hurd is that they've basically taken all the work, thrown it out and started over multiple times. By the time they decided on one to stick to, Linux was already the big boy on the scene. Except, they haven't really picked one because every few years, a big chunk of cor...
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[18:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02White Hat certification needed - 06Running a DNSSec Responder? Make Sure It Doesn't Help the Black Hats - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:39] <exec> 08└─Clearly what must happen here is every sysadmin must be licensed to operate a DNS server and issued a signing key, and all DNS traffic must be signed using the key of the responsible licensed sysadmin. Anyone found to be helping Black Hats will be jailed forever with no right to appeal. The internet...
[18:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Can anyone explain - 06Running a DNSSec Responder? Make Sure It Doesn't Help the Black Hats - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:40] <exec> 08└─Can anyone explain to me how this is different to a web server that delivers hundreds of kilobytes of data as response to a small HTTP request?
[18:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Can anyone explain - 06Running a DNSSec Responder? Make Sure It Doesn't Help the Black Hats - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:42] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_amplification_attack [wikipedia.org] You're welcome!
[18:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Can anyone explain - 06Running a DNSSec Responder? Make Sure It Doesn't Help the Black Hats - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:44] <exec> 08└─Yes! yes! but what about! this! https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[18:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Can anyone explain - 06Running a DNSSec Responder? Make Sure It Doesn't Help the Black Hats - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:46] <exec> 08└─This DNS attack can be aimed at anyone, that one only gets machines running HTTP servers. Plus you can block that by black holing the IP targeting you as there has to be a handshake first.
[18:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Can anyone explain - 06Running a DNSSec Responder? Make Sure It Doesn't Help the Black Hats - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:49] <exec> 08└─It's not so much that you reply with a response that is X times larger than the request. It's that the response can be directed to other places, thus swamping it with traffic and [D]DoS'ing it.
[18:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Can anyone explain - 06Running a DNSSec Responder? Make Sure It Doesn't Help the Black Hats - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:51] <exec> 08└─Dns is not the web, which is the important thing, so the very existence of the dns is newsworthy to idiots.
[18:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Can anyone explain - 06Running a DNSSec Responder? Make Sure It Doesn't Help the Black Hats - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:53] <exec> 08└─Simple answer is the default protocol DNS uses UDP and HTTP uses TCP. With TCP, before the communication can occur, there needs to be a handshake between parties. However, UDP does not require a handshake. Therefore, Eve can send a UDP datagram to Alice using Bob's IP address and Alice will fire off...
[18:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Can anyone explain - 06Running a DNSSec Responder? Make Sure It Doesn't Help the Black Hats - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:58] <exec> 08└─UDP? What does any of this have to do with Unlimited Data Plans? The WWW uses HTTP and none of this other bullcrap. You must be a dirty rotten hacker.
[18:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02Re:Redundant and repeating, over and over again... - 06Bitcoin Scam Poses as a Lottery and a Marriage Proposal - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:09] <exec> 08└─Good point. Since not adhering to the 'gold standard', the currency is based on the gov't. saying that 'it is money, of x value, because we said so'. And in reality, it's all smoke and mirrors, with occasional hand waving.
[18:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Gossip and news? - 06Univision Wins Bidding for Gawker Media - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:21] <exec> 08└─The Enquirer did break the Monica Lewinsky story. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[18:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:Hulk getting the money? - 06Univision Wins Bidding for Gawker Media - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:26] <exec> 08└─Actually now that you mention it and looking at Ethanol's comment up there, things might get amusing with Jezebel. Found this juicy tidbit skimming Wikipedia: [Jezebel] has been criticized at times for how it handles race issues, including its selection in July 2014 of a white woman as the new edit...
[18:23:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bziman [3577] 02Justice for all... - 0615 Released from Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp - 357 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:39] <exec> 08└─I haven't flown an American flag since this illegal and unethical camp opened, and I won't until every last soul there has been freed, or lawfully tried in a court by a jury of his peers. As an American, I'm embarrassed on behalf of my country that such a place even exists. And I'm ashamed of every...
[18:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Justice for all... - 0615 Released from Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:47] <exec> 08└─The bad news is that they are very unlikely to win.
[18:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:US gives away valuable asset - 06U.S. Set to Hand Off Control of the Internet - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:44] <exec> 08└─Consider who did it, then ask that question again.
[18:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:kindergarten is about right - 06ULA Interns Build, Launch Two Rockets - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:25:08] <exec> 08└─Then Top Gear and their Reliant Robin shuttle probably win. 1/3rd of the altitude, but definitely larger and more fun.
[18:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Insurance - 06We're Going to Bring an Asteroid Fragment Into Lunar Orbit - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:25:43] <exec> 08└─That's why the insurances invented the BS category "Act of God". Fiery death raining from the sky fits in nicely.
[18:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Interesting but... - 06Prenatal Acetaminophen Use Linked to Hyperactivity - 750 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:26:10] <exec> 08└─I would argue that the overwhelming failure of the "Drug War", despite the massive resources allocated to it, and appalling militarization of the police force and abridgment of the rights of everyday citizens performed in its name, suggests that prohibition is completely impractical regardless of wh...
[18:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:God Bless the 9th - 069th Circ. Tells DOJ to Back Off in Medical Pot States - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:27:15] <exec> 08└─And yet, he could do more. He has not, despite clearly being okay with flexing his executive powers. What he could do is discussed in another off-shoot of quintessence's original post.
[18:31:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:I cant. - 06Windows 7 and 8.1 Moving to Windows 10’s Cumulative Update Model - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:31:23] <exec> 08└─There's no way this comment will be seen a day later, but I had to set the record straight.
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[19:23:00] <exec> 08└─The Mexicans are just as bad as the Brits with regard to their juxtaposition of gossip and actual news, except a lot more loudly and with hotter and more numerous curvaceous hosts and narrators. For Mexicans, all media is like a Novela [wikipedia.org], really dramatic, although there are no ugly wom...
[19:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Gossip and news? - 06Univision Wins Bidding for Gawker Media - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:03] <exec> 08└─Uh it's bad if they go bust because they overspent on something like Gawker. I mean who cares about Gawker not continuing... Yanet Garcia on the other hand.
[19:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score:1) 02Re:One of many mis-steps since 9/11 - 0615 Released from Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:36] <exec> 08└─Imagine where we would be if humanity weren't out there lying, cheating, stealing, and generally fucking each other over for an extra half percent next quarter?
[19:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:PhD here - 06"Earth-Like" Exoplanet Found in Habitable Zone of Proxima Centauri - 1952 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:24:01] <exec> 08└─Seriously? I think you need to do some of your *own* experiments - rigorous ones with the math vetted by actual engineers or mathematicians who know what they're doing. Eratosthenes managed to do them thousands of years ago and measured the circumference of the Earth with remarkable accuracy, and he...
[19:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Bad idea - 06U.S. Set to Hand Off Control of the Internet - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:24:32] <exec> 08└─Being able to DMCA anything off the internet with an email is better because we pretend to care about freedom of speech. Got it...
[19:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Interesting but... - 06Prenatal Acetaminophen Use Linked to Hyperactivity - 1148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:25:56] <exec> 08└─Acetaminophen doesn't work for me either, but for many people it apparently does. You can't assume that just because a drug doesn't work for you it doesn't work for anyone, people's internal chemistries are different. For me the most effective NSAID is aspirin. Unfortunately it also tends to cause n...
[19:26:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] 02Re:Empty prisons, save my taxes for bombs - 069th Circ. Tells DOJ to Back Off in Medical Pot States - 727 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:45] <exec> 08└─From the government's perspective, yeah. But from the peoples' perspective there are lots who self-medicate, but for some reason cannot smoke pot so they instead drink alcohol or ingest one of Big Pharma's poisons instead. And for those of you who are holier than thou, everybody self-medicates...whe...
[19:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:God Bless the 9th - 069th Circ. Tells DOJ to Back Off in Medical Pot States - 1917 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:02] <exec> 08└─I'm not aware that he signed it, most likely, because it's completely fucking irrelevant. We both know that what really matters is what the DoJ is actually doing, and that's to keep going after people. Which is odd, for a President that has no problems using executive power at all. Why isn't the DOJ...
[19:27:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:Good cops == unicorns? - 069th Circ. Tells DOJ to Back Off in Medical Pot States - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:12] <exec> 08└─This, completely. I have met cops who were totally fine in my experience of interacting with them, but I have always understood that they protect the bad cops. I could see the potential for some very small police departments to not have a culture of corruption, but in any reasonably sized city you h...
[19:28:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:The CIA helped! - 06Polio Reappears in Nigeria after 2 Years - 1198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:28:58] <exec> 08└─You are probably understating the case. Slavery isn't a universal primitive custom, but it seems extremely widespread, which LOTS of variation. To assert that it didn't previously exist in Nigeria you would need to prove it, because the presence seems to be the default condition. I'm not aware that...
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[20:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02as well she should be - 06Former UC Davis Chancellor Much More Obsessed With Her Online Reputation than Initially Thought - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:43] <exec> 08└─A high ranking woman cannot let her reputation slip since it might invite doubt into the validity of female supremacy.
[20:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:as well she should be - 06Former UC Davis Chancellor Much More Obsessed With Her Online Reputation than Initially Thought - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:44] <exec> 08└─kurenai.tsubasa, is that you? Have you forgotten to take your meds again?
[20:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:as well she should be - 06Former UC Davis Chancellor Much More Obsessed With Her Online Reputation than Initially Thought - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:46] <exec> 08└─Oh now this is amusing. Any male chauvinist troll is assumed to be Ethanol. Any female chauvinist troll is assumed to be tsubasa. Your very assumptions are sexist!
[20:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:as well she should be - 06Former UC Davis Chancellor Much More Obsessed With Her Online Reputation than Initially Thought - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:49] <exec> 08└─Well you're sexist for making this issue about sexism into a valid conversation. I for one would welcome gender neutral words and names so we can avoid this crap in the first place!
[20:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:as well she should be - 06Former UC Davis Chancellor Much More Obsessed With Her Online Reputation than Initially Thought - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:51] <exec> 08└─I for one would welcome gender neutral words and names so we can avoid this crap in the first place!
[20:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:as well she should be - 06Former UC Davis Chancellor Much More Obsessed With Her Online Reputation than Initially Thought - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:53] <exec> 08└─Being a hermaphrodite is such a chore, I always need to wank both sides, or I'll be unsatisfied all day.
[20:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:as well she should be - 06Former UC Davis Chancellor Much More Obsessed With Her Online Reputation than Initially Thought - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:55] <exec> 08└─We know we're superior without needing to prove it like this :) [/s]
[20:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02Re:as well she should be - 06Former UC Davis Chancellor Much More Obsessed With Her Online Reputation than Initially Thought - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:57] <exec> 08└─Half-million? How people perceive her? Can't ANYBODY see this as a desperate cry for help! Somebody call an intervention... and a THERAPIST for God's sake!
[20:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:as well she should be - 06Former UC Davis Chancellor Much More Obsessed With Her Online Reputation than Initially Thought - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:00] <exec> 08└─While you're trolling, it is true that female presidents or CEOs are often the targets of a whole lot more vicious and personal attacks than their male counterparts when things go south (whether it's their fault or not). The "boys" just make bad mistakes or get the painful job done, while "heartless...
[20:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:as well she should be - 06Former UC Davis Chancellor Much More Obsessed With Her Online Reputation than Initially Thought - 1406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:02] <exec> 08└─Bullshit. Women who make it to the top, whether or not they deserved to, often have something to prove and overcompensate -- which leads to the very kind of obtuse thick-headed counterproductive decisions most often associated with men, even if doing so under the cover of MUH VAGINAL SOCIAL JUSTICE....
[20:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What is the recourse? - 06Former UC Davis Chancellor Much More Obsessed With Her Online Reputation than Initially Thought - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:04] <exec> 08└─How will this woman be punished? Will her personal assets become frozen as a result of a lawsuit for misappropriation of funds, and dereliction of duty? I would want this woman to become fucking homeless. $400K could fund a sizable scholarship for a student in perpetuity. Instead it was pissed away...
[20:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What is the recourse? - 06Former UC Davis Chancellor Much More Obsessed With Her Online Reputation than Initially Thought - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:06] <exec> 08└─I'd be surpized if she didn't give herself a bonus for world class leadership in overseeing the improvement in the university's reputation.
[20:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hawkwind [3531] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Slow Motion - 06Former UC Davis Chancellor Much More Obsessed With Her Online Reputation than Initially Thought - 936 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:08] <exec> 08└─This is last week's story, this week it's about Berkeley paying $200,000 to improve their Chancellor's image http://www.sfchronicle.com [sfchronicle.com]. An information note about this story. Not trying to beg away this beh...
[20:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Stats for nerds... - 06Former UC Davis Chancellor Much More Obsessed With Her Online Reputation than Initially Thought - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:11] <exec> 08└─Googling "Linda Katehi pepper spray" returns "About 21,300 results". Good luck with the cover-up.
[20:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Very old attack - 06Running a DNSSec Responder? Make Sure It Doesn't Help the Black Hats - 921 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:27] <exec> 08└─This is a "new" variation on a very old attack. DNS has always been vulnerable to reflection attacks and anytime you have a large record on a server anywhere, you can forge a UDP packet, and get it to blast another server without too much pain. Even without DNSSEC, having open AXFR (which happens) c...
[20:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnampff [5658] (Score:2) 02Re:Very old attack - 06Running a DNSSec Responder? Make Sure It Doesn't Help the Black Hats - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:29] <exec> 08└─So assuming that the outbound filtering will never be a thing for the whole net, what would the downside(s) of having a DNS2 based on a TCP connection be? With my limited network admin knowledge I cannot think of any except maybe some keepalive spam. Although I cannot see much use in the ANY query t...
[20:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:Oh I know who got ripped off... - 06Bitcoin Scam Poses as a Lottery and a Marriage Proposal - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:39] <exec> 08└─Oh I don't know. I'm still kicking myself for not becoming a sucker when I first heard about it. Who'da guessed that if I had mined/bought up a few thousand or say 10k or 20k and held on to them (no idea how realistic that would have been in, what was it, 2010 when I heard?), all my problems could b...
[20:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:2, Funny) 02Re:Oh I know who got ripped off... - 06Bitcoin Scam Poses as a Lottery and a Marriage Proposal - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:41] <exec> 08└─My get rich quick scheme involves selling my 4-digit uid when Soylent hits 1 million subscribers. NOW DONT ANY OF YOU TRY TO COPY ME.
[20:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score:2) 02Re:Redundant and repeating, over and over again... - 06Bitcoin Scam Poses as a Lottery and a Marriage Proposal - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:47] <exec> 08└─Fiat money has some basic value in that it's accepted as payment of taxes. That is essentially 'because we said so,' but it doesn't require smoke and mirrors.
[20:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Redundant and repeating, over and over again... - 06Bitcoin Scam Poses as a Lottery and a Marriage Proposal - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:49] <exec> 08└─The full history of money [mises.org]
[20:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score:2) 02Re:Redundant and repeating, over and over again... - 06Bitcoin Scam Poses as a Lottery and a Marriage Proposal - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:51] <exec> 08└─It's not even based on the gov't. Banks actually make most of the money by issuing loans and with little oversight. So... Governments issue bonds (create debt) to print money to give to banks. Banks then take that money, and loan it out many times over, thus creating more money. They also charge int...
[20:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Capt. Obvious [6089] (Score:2) 02Re:Redundant and repeating, over and over again... - 06Bitcoin Scam Poses as a Lottery and a Marriage Proposal - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:54] <exec> 08└─Where does the money come from you need to pay your interest?
[20:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:1) 02Re:Hulk getting the money? - 06Univision Wins Bidding for Gawker Media - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:24:10] <exec> 08└─From what I understand, the 135 million is the entire amount of the bid. Most likely, it will go to the company's various creditors, which will include "Hulk Hogan," the company's suppliers and lenders, and could include the holders of certain classes of stock. Holders of common stock will likely ge...
[20:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Hulk getting the money? - 06Univision Wins Bidding for Gawker Media - 1084 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:24:13] <exec> 08└─You are an old man frojack. The younger crowd is drawn to Gawker like Rapists to inebriated coeds. Dare I say, I too am drawn for their witty banter on pointless hyperbolous "news" events. It's a strange mix of depravity, desperation, and ever-increasing apathy that signifies my generation: A genera...
[20:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02update and correction - 06Univision Wins Bidding for Gawker Media - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:15] <exec> 08└─A post on gawker.com says that the site "will be shutting down" and that Univision only bought Gawker Media's other sites. It says that "plans for Gawker.com’s coverage, as well as the site’s archives, have not yet been finalized." http://gawker.com
[20:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:What about the others? - 0615 Released from Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:24:28] <exec> 08└─So let's see the backlash. We haven't even managed to release the known innocent yet (and frankly, I'm not at all impressed with the lackadaisical time frame). There isn't even the beginning of the thought that we should be jailing the top officials who created the problem and even openly authorized...
[20:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Actually.... - 0615 Released from Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:24:37] <exec> 08└─Johnson isn't getting a vote because he's all about deregulating employment at a time when employment is already disproportionately in favor of the company rather than the work. And Stein isn't getting a vote because she publicly supports quack science. At this point I think my vote for 2016 is Barr...
[20:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:Justice for all... - 0615 Released from Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:24:44] <exec> 08└─I find it interesting that the war on drugs makes your list of things that need to be changed before flying the flag again, even though it predates your decision to stop flying the flag. If you had the 1990s to do over again would you still fly the American flag, or has your perspective shifted enou...
[20:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:One of many mis-steps since 9/11 - 0615 Released from Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:24:50] <exec> 08└─There were riots. The NYPD and others used chemical warfare against the rioters.
[20:24:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What moral authority? - 0615 Released from Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp - 1252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:24:52] <exec> 08└─The US had been squatting in Guantanamo since the *50s* as a result of the communist revolution voiding their lease of the land from the former Cuban regime (which I will add was thanks to America Economic Tourism within the region.) If you march back through American history even to the Revolutiona...
[20:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:PhD here - 06"Earth-Like" Exoplanet Found in Habitable Zone of Proxima Centauri - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:25:16] <exec> 08└─But it happily ignores the blithering idiots who clearly have on idea what they're talking about.
[20:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Stark! - 06"Earth-Like" Exoplanet Found in Habitable Zone of Proxima Centauri - 1603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:25:21] <exec> 08└─Thank you, but some of us have been immunized. We've read the black humor of Stark [wikipedia.org], by Ben Elton. That book didn't end well for the 1%. As a more positive opposite of your comment, I'd like to say that I hope the Chinese will build a Moon Base in the coming decade(s). Because it will...
[20:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score:2) 02Re:PhD here - 06"Earth-Like" Exoplanet Found in Habitable Zone of Proxima Centauri - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:25:23] <exec> 08└─This post is no flamebait, and I am not trolling you.
[20:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Empty politician-speak - 06U.S. Set to Hand Off Control of the Internet - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:25:36] <exec> 08└─Many words, 0 bits actually said.
[20:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Not convinced - 06U.S. Set to Hand Off Control of the Internet - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:25:41] <exec> 08└─Instead of the US or some international committee running the internet, I think they should let the Swiss run it. They seem to be the most competent and trustworthy place on the planet for that sort of thing.
[20:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:Split the DNS - 06U.S. Set to Hand Off Control of the Internet - 1842 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:25:49] <exec> 08└─This is how it's done today. Every UN registered country can register a top level domain based on their ISO country code. Our link minifier, sylnt.us is in the US zone. blt.ly is in Libera's. For example, China only allows Chinese businesses to register a .cn name. The problem comes from two points,...
[20:27:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:18th Amendment - 069th Circ. Tells DOJ to Back Off in Medical Pot States - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:27:52] <exec> 08└─Absolutely, and when SCOTUS decides "Constitution says the federal government has power X," then it is constitutional for it to do so, regardless of how much armchair lawyers on SN wish it wouldn't be.
[20:27:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:State Police should Arrest DEA Agents - 069th Circ. Tells DOJ to Back Off in Medical Pot States - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:27:59] <exec> 08└─And again, your interpretation is that they lack the authority to do whatever you're in disagreement with, whereas the Supreme Court's interpretation is that they have said authority. Unfortunately for you, constitutionally speaking, the Supreme Court's interpretation of the Constitution and laws is...
[20:28:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:God Bless the 9th - 069th Circ. Tells DOJ to Back Off in Medical Pot States - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:28:25] <exec> 08└─All politicians are extremely corrupt, and the best use for ALL of them worldwide is to attempt to fill in the Marianas trench with their bodies.
[20:29:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Let's solve economics with violence! - 06Whirlpool Helps Students in an Unlikely Way - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:29:14] <exec> 08└─Don't confuse Mr. Self-owned Man with facts and logic; those are for Commie pinkos who hate America and the Free Market (TM).
[20:29:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Let's solve economics with violence! - 06Whirlpool Helps Students in an Unlikely Way - 665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:29:16] <exec> 08└─Oh hey, it's you again :) Welcome back, Mr. Self-owned Man! For what this is worth, I'd much rather neutralize you by cutting you off from mass communication than actually killing you, even though, historically speaking, that would be the Christian thing to do, Mr. Self-owned Man. Personally I'd enj...
[20:30:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03fliptop [1666] (Score:2) 02Re:Thoughts - 06Whirlpool Helps Students in an Unlikely Way - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:30:04] <exec> 08└─How long before they're forbidden from attending school, or just getting tossed down a well?
[20:30:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gnuthulhu [2718] (Score:1) 02Anyone remember Anathem? - 06Book Review: REAMDE by Neal Stephenson - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:30:56] <exec> 08└─That was a pretty good Stephenson sci-fi from the 10's. Not to mention the non sci-fi trilogy starting with Quicksilver (forget the series title).
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[21:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02In the Year Twenty-Oh-Twenty-Five - 06Ford Will Pursue Fleet of Autonomous Cars by 2021 - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:24] <exec> 08└─If Detroit's still alive, No cars that we can drive We may find...
[21:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:2) 02Yeah right - 06Ford Will Pursue Fleet of Autonomous Cars by 2021 - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:25] <exec> 08└─These same manufacturers can barely make a car that people can drive that doesn't shift out of gear spontaneously, or fail mechanically on basic functions after 150 years, but they are gonna make one that can drive itself reliably in 5-7 years. I'll hold my breath...
[21:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:as well she should be - 06Former UC Davis Chancellor Much More Obsessed With Her Online Reputation than Initially Thought - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:39] <exec> 08└─Stirring the pot, stirring the pot!
[21:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02This is a classic symptom of narcissim - 06Former UC Davis Chancellor Much More Obsessed With Her Online Reputation than Initially Thought - 1056 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:42] <exec> 08└─Narcissists cannot stand criticism of any form and will do whatever it takes keep their ego from being wounded. Check out some quotes from the Wikipedia article on Narcissistic Personality Disorder: "In addition, people with NPD may exhibit fragile egos, an inability to tolerate criticism, and a ten...
[21:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:This is a classic symptom of narcissim - 06Former UC Davis Chancellor Much More Obsessed With Her Online Reputation than Initially Thought - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:44] <exec> 08└─That's the same kind of ham-handed typecasting that would lead to a White man calling a Black man a nigger on the basis of skin-color alone.
[21:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:as well she should be - 06Former UC Davis Chancellor Much More Obsessed With Her Online Reputation than Initially Thought - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:48] <exec> 08└─Adding- I've seen too many women in high positions treated with kid's gloves when they fuck-up. While it may still be true that women suffer more sniggling and second guessing, they also don't bear the same personal costs when things go awry.
[21:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:as well she should be - 06Former UC Davis Chancellor Much More Obsessed With Her Online Reputation than Initially Thought - 1474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:51] <exec> 08└─That's because they were put there by some other person, and that "other person" wants to save face. Marissa Mayer, for example. She was placed where she was by fellow Jews, did a tacky photo-shoot for Vogue in which she showed a (heavily airbrushed) underarm, [image.gala.de] and is now on her way t...
[21:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Stats for nerds... - 06Former UC Davis Chancellor Much More Obsessed With Her Online Reputation than Initially Thought - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:57] <exec> 08└─Yep. Jews now run the UC system. From Feinstein, down to Napolitano (what did she ever have to do with higher education, anyway?), on down. The UC system used to be respectable. Now it's just another money-maker for the ZOG and their useful idiots.
[21:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score:2) 02Re:Can anyone explain - 06Running a DNSSec Responder? Make Sure It Doesn't Help the Black Hats - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:13] <exec> 08└─Simple answer is the default protocol DNS uses UDP and HTTP uses TCP. With TCP, before the communication can occur, there needs to be a handshake between parties. However, UDP does not require a handshake. Therefore, Eve can send a UDP datagram to Alice using Bob's IP address and Alice will fire off...
[21:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score:2) 02Re:Very old attack - 06Running a DNSSec Responder? Make Sure It Doesn't Help the Black Hats - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:17] <exec> 08└─So assuming that the outbound filtering will never be a thing for the whole net, what would the downside(s) of having a DNS2 based on a TCP connection be?
[21:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Very old attack - 06Running a DNSSec Responder? Make Sure It Doesn't Help the Black Hats - 813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:19] <exec> 08└─There is no technical reason that DNS couldn't use either TCP or UDP. In fact, my local router supports either. However, UDP is much lower overhead than TCP in that it requires one datagram for a request and one for the response. With TCP, you have the opening handshake (3) the request/response (2)...
[21:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Maybe I'm drunk and just want attention... - 06Bitcoin Scam Poses as a Lottery and a Marriage Proposal - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:38] <exec> 08└─But isn't this just some wankers who want attention contriving some nonsense ... on bitcoin so it's new and interesting! (I've been awake for 60 of the last 72 hours, and in the last 6 had 3 beers and 4 coffees, and the difference between sleep-drunk and drunk no longer means anything to me. However...
[21:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Maybe I'm drunk and just want attention... - 06Bitcoin Scam Poses as a Lottery and a Marriage Proposal - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:40] <exec> 08└─However, it's "on bitcoin" and therefore entirely original
[21:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:responsible? - 06Researchers Develop New Way to Purify Carbon Nanotubes - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:24:41] <exec> 08└─Good point. I would imagine that vigourous heating in the presence of oxygen (as we do with waste diamonds) would turn them into harmless carbon dioxide.
[21:24:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02Re:Before you get too excited. - 06"Earth-Like" Exoplanet Found in Habitable Zone of Proxima Centauri - 860 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:24:52] <exec> 08└─The closer it is to Mercury's size, the harder it would be to detect. So there will be a bias towards things at least the size of Earth. As for super-Earths, it's possible that they are more conducive to life than the smallest of planets: http://www.universetoday.com
[21:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:PhD here - 06"Earth-Like" Exoplanet Found in Habitable Zone of Proxima Centauri - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:25:03] <exec> 08└─fallacies, especially false ones?
[21:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:PhD here - 06"Earth-Like" Exoplanet Found in Habitable Zone of Proxima Centauri - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:25:06] <exec> 08└─If that's true, how do you explain this?
[21:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:PhD here - 06"Earth-Like" Exoplanet Found in Habitable Zone of Proxima Centauri - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:25:08] <exec> 08└─If that's true, how do you explain this? Bias.
[21:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Interesting but... - 06Prenatal Acetaminophen Use Linked to Hyperactivity - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:02] <exec> 08└─So do sugar pills, but unlike sugar pills, acetaminophen kills thousands every year.
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[22:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:2, Funny) 02Re:Yeah right - 06Ford Will Pursue Fleet of Autonomous Cars by 2021 - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:29] <exec> 08└─Hey, fellow loud-mouthed rabblerousers! I'm Michael Hastings, and this is Jackasss. * Gets into a self-driving car * Those are a natural occurence. Get in the car, work 8 hours a day, reproduce, consume.
[22:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:Yeah right - 06Ford Will Pursue Fleet of Autonomous Cars by 2021 - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:31] <exec> 08└─Only 8 hours? You're fired!
[22:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03quintessence [6227] (Score:2) 02Re:Yeah right - 06Ford Will Pursue Fleet of Autonomous Cars by 2021 - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:33] <exec> 08└─Not certain of Ford's advances in this area, but they are capable of well conceived (if ugly) vehicles. Note Ford was the the only US company not to get bailedout (yeah yeah yeah- it was a loan). They are competent enough to execute this although the timeline seems a bit optimistic. Wait and see.
[22:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:Very old attack - 06Running a DNSSec Responder? Make Sure It Doesn't Help the Black Hats - 1051 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:20] <exec> 08└─DNS already supports TCP based connections, specifically for things like zone transfer. Its just a little hit or miss on router support but I've seen both Windows and Linux do it. The major headache is TCP connections have a very long setup and teardown time (maybe 100-200 ms under ideal conditions)...
[22:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Maybe I'm drunk and just want attention... - 06Bitcoin Scam Poses as a Lottery and a Marriage Proposal - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:42] <exec> 08└─They were just going to add "with a computer" but someone beat them to it. That's why they did it with bitcoins.
[22:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:2) 02Re:Gossip and news? - 06Univision Wins Bidding for Gawker Media - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:54] <exec> 08└─But I love watching Univision day time TV. I get to make up my own dialogue and watch the hotties dance about like nitwits on shrooms. It reminds me of the Benny Hill show way back in the day. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Benny Hill from YouTube
[22:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score:2) 02Re:Hulk getting the money? - 06Univision Wins Bidding for Gawker Media - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:03] <exec> 08└─It's a bankruptcy sale, so yea his debt being by far the largest, he will get the biggest chunk of it. As for Gawker, Univision has already said they are shuttering the site. They going to "integrate" Deadspin, Lifehacker, Gizmodo, Jalopnik, Jezebel and Kotaku into their Fusion Media Group. They hav...
[22:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:update and correction - 06Univision Wins Bidding for Gawker Media - 881 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:06] <exec> 08└─Let's not forget, if not for their SJW bias their site wouldn't have to have been destroyed. #TheFappening - Gawker condemns it as "misogyny". Hulk's sex tape - Gawker screams "FREE SPEECH". The best part is that #GamerGate was actually the death stroke. If not for a #GG supporting financier the hul...
[22:24:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02What about the others? - 0615 Released from Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp - 214 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:15] <exec> 08└─So, by my count, that's 42 people imprisoned forever without anything resembling a public trial or public proof that they did anything wrong. Oh, and we probably tortured them. Clearly, freedom is the American Way!
[22:24:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02Re:Justice for all... - 0615 Released from Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp - 1522 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:23] <exec> 08└─There are problems with that due process thing. Those problems are precisely why the neocon regime created a new class of people, and a very special prison for them. See, there is no "due process" for prisoners of war. If you are an enemy, and you are captured, you are a prisoner for the duration, u...
[22:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jiro [3176] (Score:2) 02Re:Justice for all... - 0615 Released from Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:25] <exec> 08└─So tell me why Obama can't fix any of those things?
[22:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score:2) 02Transferred to the UAE for "settlement"... - 0615 Released from Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:43] <exec> 08└─Well, at least they won't suffer for much longer.
[22:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:US gives away valuable asset - 06U.S. Set to Hand Off Control of the Internet - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:25:45] <exec> 08└─Why is this a good idea?
[22:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:US gives away valuable asset - 06U.S. Set to Hand Off Control of the Internet - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:25:47] <exec> 08└─Saul Alinsky
[22:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:18th Amendment - 069th Circ. Tells DOJ to Back Off in Medical Pot States - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:27:49] <exec> 08└─Did you read your comment aloud to yourself before you posted it? Did it sound stupid to you then? Why did you continue to post it? Your assertion: "the government can do X because the government says it can do X." Newsflash: the SCOTUS is government, brought into existence by the same Constitution...
[22:27:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:State Police should Arrest DEA Agents - 069th Circ. Tells DOJ to Back Off in Medical Pot States - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:27:57] <exec> 08└─The power of the courts to determine the constitutionality of law is termed judicial review. Where in the Constitution is the delegation of that power to federal courts? I'll save you the trouble of looking: it's not. The USSC gave itself the power of judicial review [wikipedia.org] using the case o...
[22:28:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Empty prisons, save my taxes for bombs - 069th Circ. Tells DOJ to Back Off in Medical Pot States - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:28:09] <exec> 08└─a drug test is not required to get a security clearance
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[23:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:Yeah right - 06Ford Will Pursue Fleet of Autonomous Cars by 2021 - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:34] <exec> 08└─While I'm very happy with the Ford I bought a few years ago (the fact that they did not need a bailout was a big factor in choosing manufacturer), and I'm optimistic about self-driving cars being at least an order of magnitude safer than having humans behind the wheel, I still want to see one of the...
[23:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yeah right - 06Ford Will Pursue Fleet of Autonomous Cars by 2021 - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:35] <exec> 08└─Should have read TFS. Ford was the first automaker to begin testing its vehicles at Mcity, University of Michigan's simulated urban environment, the first automaker to publicly demonstrate autonomous vehicle operation in the snow
[23:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03quintessence [6227] (Score:2) 02Re:Yeah right - 06Ford Will Pursue Fleet of Autonomous Cars by 2021 - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:37] <exec> 08└─I still want to see one of these cars handle a blizzard or construction season.
[23:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Yeah right - 06Ford Will Pursue Fleet of Autonomous Cars by 2021 - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:40] <exec> 08└─The US can't allocate money to rebuild known-bad bridges, and you would like intelligent roads? Right ... Get ready to only ride in autonomous mode on the "I-88 by Google" towards the "Facebook I-90", with a right turn at the "Ford/Apple I-55"
[23:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03hamsterdan [2829] (Score:2) 02Re:Yeah right - 06Ford Will Pursue Fleet of Autonomous Cars by 2021 - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:42] <exec> 08└─"I still want to see one of these cars handle a blizzard or construction season. (Those are the only two seasons we have here" Let me guess, Montreal too?
[23:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Yeah right - 06Ford Will Pursue Fleet of Autonomous Cars by 2021 - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:44] <exec> 08└─Don't worry about it. Their plan is to eliminate all those pesky costs and union woes associated with drivers, and go straight to Jonny Cab. Jonny loves his job, like he loves his programmers; Like he was programmed. I have to laugh, so as not to cry, but who is affording these cabs in the first pla...
[23:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Ford Will Pursue Fleet of Autonomous Cars by 2021 - 06Ford Will Pursue Fleet of Autonomous Cars by 2021 - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:46] <exec> 08└─...giving the cars as much as 52 months to Escape.
[23:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score:1) 02Ford is taking some interesting steps - 06Ford Will Pursue Fleet of Autonomous Cars by 2021 - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:48] <exec> 08└─Recent and upcoming changes seem to be focused around aluminum for weight reduction, turbo engines to make engines smaller, a possible sunset for the v8 in trucks, and now self guided vehicles. Quite optimistic It will be interesting to see what they are able to do. I suspect that trying to take ove...
[23:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:as well she should be - 06Former UC Davis Chancellor Much More Obsessed With Her Online Reputation than Initially Thought - 866 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:03] <exec> 08└─Not sure if you mean for everybody, but it would seem prudent for ACs at least. How can we really be sure that the few UIDs that claim to be female are the only women commenting? (It's not just and azuma and I suppose tsubasa--I've seen a few other usernames casually mention being women here and som...
[23:23:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02Re:as well she should be - 06Former UC Davis Chancellor Much More Obsessed With Her Online Reputation than Initially Thought - 588 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:08] <exec> 08└─While you're trolling, it is true that female presidents or CEOs are often the targets of a whole lot more vicious and personal attacks than their male counterparts when things go south (whether it's their fault or not). The "boys" just make bad mistakes or get the painful job done, while "heartless...
[23:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:as well she should be - 06Former UC Davis Chancellor Much More Obsessed With Her Online Reputation than Initially Thought - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:13] <exec> 08└─I have seen that women who deserve to "be there" and move up or take greater offers "out of there" have earned the respect of their peers and supervisors alike and keep politics the fuck out of work. They aren't loud about identity politics or other bullshit, in fact, they don't believe in it, becau...
[23:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What is the recourse? - 06Former UC Davis Chancellor Much More Obsessed With Her Online Reputation than Initially Thought - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:17] <exec> 08└─In addition to the $400,000 spent on consultants and reputation management , they also pay $424,000+ directly to her: Katehi will continue to receive her salary of $424,360 plus retirement and health benefits, but she will not have to teach classes in her transition year, after which she plans to be...
[23:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Re:Redundant and repeating, over and over again... - 06Bitcoin Scam Poses as a Lottery and a Marriage Proposal - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:24:00] <exec> 08└─I'm quite confused why interest and debt is mysterious.
[23:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What about the others? - 0615 Released from Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:24:40] <exec> 08└─Where do they get released to? That has been one of the problems here. For many of them, the countries to which they hold citizenships refuse to take them back.
[23:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Re:PhD here - 06"Earth-Like" Exoplanet Found in Habitable Zone of Proxima Centauri - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:25:30] <exec> 08└─Joining in the flamefest here. Go at sea/lake level, or a canal. Set telescope 3 ft high. Train at target 5 miles away. Use trigonometry, derive what target height should be hidden (~5.5 ft), and see if it is actually hidden.
[23:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:PhD here - 06"Earth-Like" Exoplanet Found in Habitable Zone of Proxima Centauri - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:25:31] <exec> 08└─but as I said do not shoot the messenger.
[23:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:PhD here - 06"Earth-Like" Exoplanet Found in Habitable Zone of Proxima Centauri - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:25:38] <exec> 08└─Oh, good, a pedant, just what we need to help clear this up.
[23:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:Empty politician-speak - 06U.S. Set to Hand Off Control of the Internet - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:25:56] <exec> 08└─You came just as far to say less.
[23:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not convinced - 06U.S. Set to Hand Off Control of the Internet - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:26:02] <exec> 08└─Yes, they'll take anyone's gold regardless of where it came from and how it was obtained. Amoral isn't necessarily the same as impartial.
[23:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:kindergarten is about right - 06ULA Interns Build, Launch Two Rockets - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:26:38] <exec> 08└─It has to land successfully. The Reliant Robin landed with a big badda boom. Similarly... At one of the LDRS events a high powered rocket made a 180 and hit the ground at just over mach 1. The sonic boom just as it hit the ground liquefied the soil for a few minutes, then solidified. It took a backh...
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