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[00:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Could it be used for phones. - 06Carbon Nanotube Transistors Outperform Silicon in Test - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:02:01] <exec> 08└─Nobody cares about what's in their SoC, as long as it's fast.
[00:02:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02only if you are rich - 06Carbon Nanotube Transistors Outperform Silicon in Test - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:03] <exec> 08└─since we don't know how to make carbon nanotubes to arbitrary length, this advancement is only helping organizations with absurd amounts of money. so basically, this currently only helps the likes of the DoD and the NSA. Not exactly the types of groups that can be trusted to not abuse such power.
[00:02:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:3, Interesting) 0290nm ? - 06Carbon Nanotube Transistors Outperform Silicon in Test - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:05] <exec> 08└─While I missed where it says 90 nm in TFA (read both, sorry), I'm wondering what it would look like if the article said "custom handcrafted carbon nanotube transistors outperforms general-purpose mass-manufactured transistor from 10 years ago". Nice performance, good progress, but state-of-the-art (...
[00:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:90nm ? - 06Carbon Nanotube Transistors Outperform Silicon in Test - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:02:07] <exec> 08└─It's buried in the paper, or made clear in this Tom's Hardware article I never added: http://www.tomshardware.com [tomshardware.com]
[00:02:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mad Cow Disease - 06When People Ate People, a Strange Disease Emerged - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:02:24] <exec> 08└─Maybe that memory is from an ancestor?
[00:02:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Zika's pretty mild isn't it? - 06When People Ate People, a Strange Disease Emerged - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:02:28] <exec> 08└─And more specifically, it's probably only a danger to fetuses whose mothers don't already have the antibodies. I believe I heard it originated in Africa, where it's relatively harmless, the danger is specifically to the unborn children of newly infected women.
[00:02:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Zika's pretty mild isn't it? - 06When People Ate People, a Strange Disease Emerged - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:02:31] <exec> 08└─Women banned men for marrying girl children. Fuck them. Just desserts.
[00:02:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Zika's pretty mild isn't it? - 06When People Ate People, a Strange Disease Emerged - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:02:33] <exec> 08└─Any young girls you marry will turn into women unless you snuff them out.
[00:02:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03malloc_free [3034] (Score:1) 02Meat is back on the menu boys - 06When People Ate People, a Strange Disease Emerged - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:38] <exec> 08└─This bit of news just popped up as I was watching We are What We Are http://www.imdb.com [imdb.com]
[00:02:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Don't forget. - 06When People Ate People, a Strange Disease Emerged - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:40] <exec> 08└─Alive, "true story"
[00:02:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02vaccine? - 06When People Ate People, a Strange Disease Emerged - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:43] <exec> 08└─An inactivated virus can be used to make a vaccine, can't it? Slow viruses, characterized by the viruses of kuru and Creutzfeld-Jakob disease, are inactivated by 6M urea, a lesser concentration than that routinely applied to the HBV vaccine.
[00:02:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03nishi.b [4243] (Score:2) 02Re:Nope. - 06Intel Acquires Computer Vision Startup Movidius - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:02:53] <exec> 08└─Do we even have that ability ourselves ? I mean we can learn, but I don't think I would be able to design and implement in my own visual system a new way of detecting objects moving towards me...
[00:02:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03nishi.b [4243] (Score:2) 02Re:Nope. - 06Intel Acquires Computer Vision Startup Movidius - 804 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:02:55] <exec> 08└─And how do you know what intelligence itself is ? How do you define it ? What if intelligence and consciousness are just "following exactly orders. Billions of them" ? I do not believe in a "soul", just that what we call intelligence and consciousness arise from billions and billions of dynamic proc...
[00:03:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Sex trafficking is the new bogeyman - 06Supreme Court Chief Justice Blocks Congressional Subpoena Over First Amendment Rights - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:03:42] <exec> 08└─Nice straw man you've got there. There's plenty of legitimate reasons for people to use cryptography and none for allowing people to pay for sex. And absolutely no reason to allow pimping or otherwise profiting off other people's prostitution.
[00:03:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Sex trafficking is the new bogeyman - 06Supreme Court Chief Justice Blocks Congressional Subpoena Over First Amendment Rights - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:03:46] <exec> 08└─the point of it it's that the harm is to the prostitutes and so they get the protection when they need it. There's no compelling reason for prostitution to be legal, but human trafficking and sex tourism are significant problems.
[00:04:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:Tesla Driver Dies After Model S Hits Tree - 06Tesla Envy Grips Germany's Giants - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:04:18] <exec> 08└─If they really cared about seconds-count they'd have the info on a webpage rather than jailed in a PDF.
[00:04:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score:2) 02Re:Tesla Driver Dies After Model S Hits Tree - 06Tesla Envy Grips Germany's Giants - 1133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:04:21] <exec> 08└─And in other news, approximately 3,286 other people were killed in auto accidents worldwide in the last 24 hours. It's likely that at least some of those auto accidents caused the highly flammable "gasoline" carried on board to spill and catch fire, and it's likely that some of those 3,286 other peo...
[00:05:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Capt. Obvious [6089] (Score:2) 02Re:What about "smart" people? - 06Do Credit Card Companies Screen for Behavioral Biases? - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:05:52] <exec> 08└─Being rich means I do have more recourse though. Which is a deterrent for anyone looking to rip me off.
[00:12:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:True reason - 06Want a Free Market? Abolish Cash - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:12:08] <exec> 08└─Not really. In that scenario, you could get second job in your free time to dig yourself out. But due to inflation, not only aren't you making as much as you were, but the value of the available stores of wealth decreases over time, so that $1000 is worth less and less every year. Not being appropri...
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[01:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02retrogression - 06Mercedes Benz Partners With Matternet to Make Vans Into Drone Platforms - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:01] <exec> 08└─The shipping industry has standardized around the cargo container. A container can be packed at the factory, cross oceans, and be unpacked when it reaches the consumer. With their 2 kg capacity, it will take scores of these transporters to carry even an empty container.
[01:02:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:retrogression - 06Mercedes Benz Partners With Matternet to Make Vans Into Drone Platforms - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:02:03] <exec> 08└─Get started on the drone-friendly micro-container, which can be loaded and unloaded automatically from a cargo container, as the container is barreling at 100 km/h down the computer-optimized path, by train of truck. Bonus if you finish the bridge-dodging software by Version 0.6. It's a nice cost sa...
[01:02:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Re:retrogression - 06Mercedes Benz Partners With Matternet to Make Vans Into Drone Platforms - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:02:05] <exec> 08└─Ship to main warehouse, unpack crate, ship goods to retail distributor or regional warehouse, pack-and-fill, send by post or courier. Only the first step in that chain uses "standard" shipping containers. No one wants a shipping a shipping container arriving on the doorstep for a $3 cable.. Train to...
[01:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:retrogression - 06Mercedes Benz Partners With Matternet to Make Vans Into Drone Platforms - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:02:07] <exec> 08└─Shipping stuff across oceans is very cheap. More energy is used to get it from the ports to distribution centers to your place. This should be regarded as a "last mile" (or 5-10 km) technology for shipping.
[01:02:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:only if you are rich - 06Carbon Nanotube Transistors Outperform Silicon in Test - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:02:18] <exec> 08└─The NASA investigated making "vacuum microelectronics" and other devices from carbon nanotubes, in the expectation that they would be resistant to radiation. https://solarsystem.nasa.gov [nasa.gov] I would think that overly long nanotubes could be trimmed mechanically or...
[01:02:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02remaining metal nanotubes not really a problem - 06Carbon Nanotube Transistors Outperform Silicon in Test - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:23] <exec> 08└─Conventional silicon chips often have manufacturing defects. Maybe the clean room suffered a speck of dust. So they test all the chips while they are still part of the wafer, before cutting them. Provided your carbon nanotube chips weren't too complex, it would be economical to do the same. But more...
[01:02:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03EvilSS [1456] 02Re:What the fuck? No. - 06When People Ate People, a Strange Disease Emerged - 39 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:02:35] <exec> 08└─What is the name of this site again? :)
[01:02:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Prion diseases - 06When People Ate People, a Strange Disease Emerged - 835 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:02:48] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure I agree with your concept of passivity - far from your "bent paperclip" analogy, proteins are generally extremely sophisticated molecular machines already designed to manipulate other molecules. It would be more like tossing a Terminator into a warehouse full of protocol droids, and com...
[01:02:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:Not kuru, but ... - 06When People Ate People, a Strange Disease Emerged - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:02:51] <exec> 08└─so-o-o-o, we *especially* shouldn't eat them ? ? ?
[01:02:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02prions remain controversial - 06When People Ate People, a Strange Disease Emerged - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:57] <exec> 08└─any time any scientist proposes something really novel, the rest of the scientific community ridicules them. That also happened to the guy who conceived of plate tectonics. Prions make sense to me as a physicist but they don't make sense to many biologists. The last I read - which was years ago - pr...
[01:03:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Yes. - 06Intel Acquires Computer Vision Startup Movidius - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:03:10] <exec> 08└─No, it's out there [nextbigfuture.com]. Other companies have probably demonstrated similar capabilities, but will be selling directly to DARPA. In a few more years, neuromorphic or quantum hardware [nextbigfuture.com] will make it easier and better. I understand your skepticism, but the truth is we...
[01:04:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03WalksOnDirt [5854] 02Re:Bipartisan Support - 06Supreme Court Chief Justice Blocks Congressional Subpoena Over First Amendment Rights - 137 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:04:06] <exec> 08└─You are missing the point. Backpage is saying no to a Congressional committee. Congress can't abide that! Luckily, the Supreme Court can.
[01:04:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:Sour Grapes. - 06Tesla Envy Grips Germany's Giants - 1751 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:04:28] <exec> 08└─I disagree that they've gotten serious about aero. I am pleased to see some grill blocking being done now, and that's interesting that Mazda smoothed the underside on your 2015 vehicle. That's something, but there's still much more they could do. How about skirts for the wheels? Some cars from the 5...
[01:05:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Independence - 06Musk Urges Tesla Workers to Cut Costs Ahead of Fundraising Round - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:05:33] <exec> 08└─To me it sounds like he wants to preserve Tesla's independence so that it can really bring the clean automotive future to fruition. By some measures he's already won, given Daimler's announcement yesterday that it's going to roll out a whole host of new EVs, and the EV models that most other big car...
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[02:01:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02How to Raise an Unhappy Loser - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:58] <exec> 08└─Children with 145 IQ will not relate well to peers with 100 IQ and will grow up to be angry bitter trolls who are unwelcome everywhere. Greedy parents need to understand that genius does not correlate with financial success, and they don't really want smart children; they want rich children. They sh...
[02:02:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:retrogression - 06Mercedes Benz Partners With Matternet to Make Vans Into Drone Platforms - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:02:10] <exec> 08└─Plus free stuff falling from the skies!! Maybe. Watch a whole bunch of laws get passed that says packages and drones snagged in your trees are still the property of the shipper. Meanwhile anything arriving un-requested via the US mail is yours to keep.
[02:02:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Could it be used for phones. - 06Carbon Nanotube Transistors Outperform Silicon in Test - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:02:19] <exec> 08└─Everybody cares about battery life. Nobody wants to use a power hungry Intel SoC when an ARM SoC is available instead.
[02:02:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Re:90nm ? - 06Carbon Nanotube Transistors Outperform Silicon in Test - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:02:25] <exec> 08└─Can you scale it down to 7nm, so we don't lose in density? Faster is nice, but 1.9x 90nm perf by using 140nm parts isn't gonna get you lots of adoption
[02:02:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What the fuck? No. - 06When People Ate People, a Strange Disease Emerged - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:02:41] <exec> 08└─Hate to break it to you but all these zombie TV shows are actually documentaries. So yeah, there's been a bit of humanity being consumed.
[02:02:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Re:Prion diseases - 06When People Ate People, a Strange Disease Emerged - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:02:55] <exec> 08└─"I find prion diseases to be the most interesting of the bunch. " Haunting is how I would first describe it, even more haunting than the fact that viruses aren't technically living things, but interesting is a very close second.
[02:02:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Prion diseases - 06When People Ate People, a Strange Disease Emerged - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:02:56] <exec> 08└─An analogy as I understand it: Imagine you have a bin full of paper clips....
[02:03:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:prions remain controversial - 06When People Ate People, a Strange Disease Emerged - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:03:05] <exec> 08└─Cleveland crystallographers claim pure prion protein: http://www.nature.com [nature.com]
[02:03:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Are you familiar with Ice 9? - 06When People Ate People, a Strange Disease Emerged - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:03:07] <exec> 08└─It's a fictional ninth state of water, a solid form whose melting point is greater than room temperature. It was previously unknown because it needs a seed crystal, but once you have just one such seed it needs to be handled with great care. Kurt Vonnegut explained Ice 9 to a Crystallographer that h...
[02:03:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:prions remain controversial - 06When People Ate People, a Strange Disease Emerged - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:03:10] <exec> 08└─any time any scientist proposes something really novel, the rest of the scientific community ridicules them. That also happened to the guy who conceived of plate tectonics.
[02:03:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02media distraction! - 06When People Ate People, a Strange Disease Emerged - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:03:12] <exec> 08└─I find very interesting this comes up the same week we learn about contamination particles making it's way deep into the brain https://www.theguardian.com [theguardian.com]
[02:03:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:media distraction! - 06When People Ate People, a Strange Disease Emerged - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:03:14] <exec> 08└─I wonder if anybody subbed that one.
[02:04:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Sex trafficking is the new bogeyman - 06Supreme Court Chief Justice Blocks Congressional Subpoena Over First Amendment Rights - 715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:04:15] <exec> 08└─> There's plenty of legitimate reasons (...) and none for allowing people to pay for sex. That would be quite incorrect. People pay for sex all the time, except that it's typically not a direct payment, but in the various forms of flowers, clothes, food, a roof overhead, a car... People also pay for...
[02:05:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Yeah, sure. - 06Tesla Envy Grips Germany's Giants - 1401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:05:04] <exec> 08└─Yes, that's it. There was a story not too long ago that I think I submitted to SN, about the Tesla Model S outselling Mercedes, BMW, and every other luxury car brand [gas2.org] in its class, even though it's only been on the market for 3 years. Those cars are the sweet revenue spot for all those bra...
[02:05:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Europe's automakers dominate technology - 06Tesla Envy Grips Germany's Giants - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:09] <exec> 08└─You're only considering the cars that can be legally imported to the US. Consider the cars that most Europeans actually drive. They're not that much hipper than a Trabant. My friend Chris Dulya at CERN told me it was like every US State having its own automobile make. There's a wide variety of model...
[02:08:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Correcting the Record - 06The Unrelenting Pundit-Led Effort to Delegitimize All Negative Reporting About Hillary Clinton - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:08:51] <exec> 08└─It isn't hysteria at all. "Mishandling" classified data would include selling that information to foreign hostile entities. Which would become spying and treason. It's only a difference of degree, and possibly motivation. But any mishandling qualifies as a crime.
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[03:02:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How to Raise an Unhappy Loser - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:09] <exec> 08└─Careful. We have some pretty bright (but maybe narrow) people posting here.
[03:02:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How to Raise an Unhappy Loser - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:11] <exec> 08└─We have some pretty bright and pretty accomplished trolls posting on here too, and quite a few underachieving bright losers.
[03:02:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:How to Raise an Unhappy Loser - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:13] <exec> 08└─You rang?
[03:02:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Re:How to Raise an Unhappy Loser - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 737 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:15] <exec> 08└─Indeed! I've never had my IQ measured, although my third-grade teacher estimated it to be in the 140's, while a friend of mine who is highly intelligent puts it in the genius range, so I guess I can say I'm up there in the higher percentile. I have little patience for ignorance and stupidity. Most o...
[03:02:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Inborn talent vs. practice - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:02:17] <exec> 08└─Did anyone *really* ever believe the "practice" theory over the inborn talent theory?
[03:02:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Inborn talent vs. practice - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:19] <exec> 08└─Lamarckian evolutionists still believe the practice theory.
[03:02:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Inborn talent vs. practice - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:22] <exec> 08└─I don't think anyone believed you can get a Mozart or Einstein from lots of practice, but the average human can pretty easily reach top 10% in their field with enough effort.
[03:02:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:3, Interesting) 02belieber beware - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 918 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:24] <exec> 08└─Some would say (including me) who have practiced some music, the Mozart is THE most algorithmic composer of them all. It does not mean that it is not valuable, it just means that it is algorithmic; even I can mimic mozart. As example, I could not mimic Yuki Kajiura... Some others say, including me,...
[03:02:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:belieber beware - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:26] <exec> 08└─A similar talent, Charlie Parker, died at a similar age as Mozart (34 and 35). These men were clearly aware that their time was limited and they wanted to push out what they had as as fast as possible. It's not true that they didn't evolve as musicians. Both did. But had they lived a few decades lon...
[03:02:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Inborn talent vs. practice - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:28] <exec> 08└─Practice is really, really important. Native talent is important too, but I think the combination of enthusiasm and discipline atop of above average talent will beat clearly superior talent coupled with lack of discipline 9 times out of 10.
[03:02:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I can't wait to hear - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:02:30] <exec> 08└─how smart everyone here is.
[03:02:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:I can't wait to hear - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:32] <exec> 08└─Just my offhand guess, NCommander is probably kicking 170-180. He's kinda a badass even among really smart folks.
[03:02:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I can't wait to hear - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:35] <exec> 08└─NiggerCommander is the smartest! It's true! Gayniggers really are the most intelligent creatures in the universe! Drink Carlsberg pilsner.
[03:02:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I can't wait to hear - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:37] <exec> 08└─Too bad he populated 5 percent of his brain cells with useless arcana about MS-DOS and PC programming in the '80s and '90s.
[03:02:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I can't wait to hear - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:39] <exec> 08└─Not useless at all. If he wanted, he could still code a modern appy app to run in a DosBox.
[03:02:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:I can't wait to hear - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 889 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:41] <exec> 08└─Ok. I'm rly smrt! Like rly, rly smrt! At least that's what their tests and bullshit tell me. What's it gotten me? Nothing. Please don't segregate the "gifted." I was "gifted." Didn't do me one fucking goddamned good thing, Just alienated everybody else. Fuck that shit. You want success? You want to...
[03:02:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I can't wait to hear - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:43] <exec> 08└─Suicide is the best thing to do I think.
[03:02:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Whatever happened to Ted Kaczinski - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:02:45] <exec> 08└─The dude was a math professor before he fell off the rails. Has he submitted any papers from his max security prison cell, or is it just more political jibberish?
[03:02:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Whatever happened to Ted Kaczinski - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:48] <exec> 08└─The dude has already perished (imprisoned) and still you want to compel him to publish-or-perish? Your society has condemned him. Why should he publish anything that might benefit you?
[03:02:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Whatever happened to Ted Kaczinski - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:50] <exec> 08└─It wouldn't benefit me, I was just curious to see if he was still fertile.
[03:02:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:Whatever happened to Ted Kaczinski - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:52] <exec> 08└─Ideas are immortal.
[03:03:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Are you familiar with Ice 9? - 06When People Ate People, a Strange Disease Emerged - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:03:57] <exec> 08└─The oceans aren't made of ice 9. It's been several billion years since the world's creation. If ice 9 were possible, it would have happened by now.
[03:03:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02The seed is very unlikely to form - 06When People Ate People, a Strange Disease Emerged - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:03:59] <exec> 08└─yeah both classical and quantum mechanical activities would lead to the spontaneous creation of a seed, but its crystal structure is quite complex.
[03:04:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:The seed is very unlikely to form - 06When People Ate People, a Strange Disease Emerged - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:04:01] <exec> 08└─Well, zero probability is extremely unlikely. You want more than just an extremely unlikely (but still nonzero) probability of a seed forming. The seed has to lead to further accumulation of ice 9. Basically, you're claiming that oceans of water has been supercooled for billions of years without d...
[03:04:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Strange culture you have there - 06When People Ate People, a Strange Disease Emerged - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:04:06] <exec> 08└─Different cultures have been documented to do different things with their dead, from mummification, to burying, to burning. Here in the states, we drain their bodily fluids, and replace those fluids with preservatives - basically we pickle our dead, then put them in boxes and bury them. For the most...
[03:04:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Nope. - 06Intel Acquires Computer Vision Startup Movidius - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:04:20] <exec> 08└─And then it's not really gaining insight, or learning, or hypothesising.
[03:04:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score:2) 02Re:Very Suspicious of this ISS - 06Three ISS Astronauts Return to Earth - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:04:43] <exec> 08└─Thank you, Alex.
[03:05:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Sex trafficking is the new bogeyman - 06Supreme Court Chief Justice Blocks Congressional Subpoena Over First Amendment Rights - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:05:11] <exec> 08└─There's plenty of legitimate reasons for people to use cryptography and none for allowing people to pay for sex.
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[04:02:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:How to Raise an Unhappy Loser - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 2239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:02:07] <exec> 08└─"I have little patience for ignorance and stupidity." "I can't say I'm very popular among others because I have little patience for ignorance and stupidity" I have little patience for impatient people - excluding myself, of course - who always repeat themselves redundantly sometimes. You seem to be...
[04:02:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How to Raise an Unhappy Loser - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 3461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:02:09] <exec> 08└─ignorance and stupidity I can not abide deliberate ignorance and stupidity. Most people just do not know better. They never will. Is it that big of a deal? They are ~happyish~. Is that really a bad thing? You however seem to wear your 3rd grade assessment as some sort of badge, as if life is some so...
[04:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How to Raise an Unhappy Loser - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:02:11] <exec> 08└─The only problem is that the ruthless sociopathic assholes can't actually create anything useful. They only consume or destroy, or at best will be parasites who feed off of those who can create useful things, hopefully not killing their hosts in the process. Human society as a whole has progressed i...
[04:02:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How to Raise an Unhappy Loser - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:02:13] <exec> 08└─Steve Jobs exploited Steve Wozniak for great financial gain, and Woz survived. I've read Burrell Smith was not so lucky. Steve drove Burrell insane, and Burrell made a habit of chucking rocks at Steve's house and breaking his windows.
[04:02:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:1) 02Re:belieber beware - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:02:20] <exec> 08└─I read about Mozart that he was working as piano teacher, and was very bored with it, and it was so he started to write the large amount of piano concertos. The very soothing quality in his music may come of him seeking relief from the "pain" of boredom... Also, there is the observation, that at pla...
[04:02:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:belieber beware - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:02:22] <exec> 08└─Statistically speaking, talent is nothing special or rare in people... Very true. However, you need to usually practice just to bring it out. Even Mozart didnt crack out his stuff without a bit of practice and screwups first. We get to see the survivors of everything he did. Everything else he disca...
[04:02:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score:2) 02Re:Inborn talent vs. practice - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:02:26] <exec> 08└─Yeah, except that the real innovators aren't in your "1 in 10" or 10%. They are the 1 in 10,000 or rarer. &lt 0.01%. and at that extreme, hardworking, enthusiasm and discipline just won't cut it.
[04:02:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Inborn talent vs. practice - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:02:28] <exec> 08└─> Did anyone *really* ever believe the "practice" theory over the inborn talent theory? Inborn talent is the size of the glass. Practice is what fills the glass. A lazy genius is a glass mostly empty. A hard working grinder is a glass mostly full.
[04:02:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I can't wait to hear - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:02:37] <exec> 08└─You sound like an undocumented illegal fairy. We will build a wall and crush GP's head with it.
[04:02:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:I can't wait to hear - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:02:39] <exec> 08└─Nothing like a little perspective to ruin a perfectly good night.
[04:02:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Whatever happened to Ted Kaczinski - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:02:45] <exec> 08└─Like fuck they are. Kill everyone who understands the idea, destroy every record of the idea, and the idea dies.
[04:02:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Whatever happened to Ted Kaczinski - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:02:47] <exec> 08└─...and the idea dies.
[04:02:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:retrogression - 06Mercedes Benz Partners With Matternet to Make Vans Into Drone Platforms - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:02:59] <exec> 08└─I'd say that a package snagged in a (your) tree is just as much your property as if it were accidentally delivered to your front doorstep when not addressed to you. Yes, if you're an asshole, it's yours to keep. Do you really want to do that to your neighbors?
[04:04:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Strange culture you have there - 06When People Ate People, a Strange Disease Emerged - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:04:02] <exec> 08└─When I die I want them to cryofreeze the corpse, then pulverize it and feed plants with it. Not like I'm gonna be using the stupid thing after that; ideally, I won't have *any* sort of fleshly body after this. I always found the idea of embalming and burying the dead weird as hell, just like you do...
[04:04:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03termigator [4271] (Score:2) 02Mad Cow U.S.A - 06When People Ate People, a Strange Disease Emerged - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:04:03] <exec> 08└─http://www.prwatch.org/books/madcow.html [prwatch.org] http://www.srwolf.com [srwolf.com] First published in 1997 and predicted that Mad Cow disease would show up in the USA due to industry practices. The book covers the work by Lindebaum and her husband.
[04:05:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:Sex trafficking is the new bogeyman - 06Supreme Court Chief Justice Blocks Congressional Subpoena Over First Amendment Rights - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:05:13] <exec> 08└─Ah, so sellers can seek protection from the law but buyers can't. Interesting economy. There's no compelling reason for prostitution to be legal,
[04:06:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Jack of the Universe - 06Musk Urges Tesla Workers to Cut Costs Ahead of Fundraising Round - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:06:45] <exec> 08└─Still beats the decadent master of some
[04:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Correcting the Record - 06The Unrelenting Pundit-Led Effort to Delegitimize All Negative Reporting About Hillary Clinton - 1164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:09:49] <exec> 08└─Modded down for showing concern for a fellow Soylentil! Oh, the huge manatee! "Redundant" I could understand, but "troll"? Seriously, moderation seems to have been taken over by alt-right flamers of questionable taste in clothing. Could we just admit that Hillary is going to the be president, and...
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[05:02:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02No Time for Mars! - 06Fear of Contaminating Mars with Life from the Curiosity Rover - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:02:06] <exec> 08└─The mildly gifted are too busy desperately trying to assuage their nagging fears that each one of them might not in fact be the most intelligent individual living thing on Earth.
[05:02:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03seeprime [5580] (Score:2) 02Why hold back? - 06Fear of Contaminating Mars with Life from the Curiosity Rover - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:02:07] <exec> 08└─I understand that scientists don't want to "contaminate" any water on Mars with earth germs. This, however, seems almost religious. Why not get Earth germs in Martian water? This would be a great experiment where the worst that is likely to happen is that germs we can already fight off become domina...
[05:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score:1) 02Re:Why hold back? - 06Fear of Contaminating Mars with Life from the Curiosity Rover - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:02:09] <exec> 08└─For one thing we are at the very early stages of trying to figure out the likeliness of life in the universe, and do not have any other accessible planets that resemble Earth as much as Mars. If we find life on Mars but we don't know if we brought it there, it is a waste of a very unique opportunity...
[05:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why hold back? - 06Fear of Contaminating Mars with Life from the Curiosity Rover - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:02:11] <exec> 08└─Earth germs could crossbreed with Mars germs and mutate into incurable diseases and return to Earth on a Mars probe. The horror.
[05:02:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:How to Raise an Unhappy Loser - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:02:24] <exec> 08└─"...and then there's THIS asshole..."
[05:02:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02don't let jealous crabs pull you down - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 696 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:02:31] <exec> 08└─That whole stereotype about nerds having poor social skills is half true, and half made up bull designed to keep smartypants down. High school is full of cliques of average-ish intelligence students who enforce a groupthink that tries to pull the smartest down to their level. One of the most importa...
[05:02:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Inborn talent vs. practice - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:02:42] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but the no-talent grinders also tend to have oversized ambition, which can be pretty annoying.
[05:02:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Inborn talent vs. practice - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:02:43] <exec> 08└─Oh my! Life is so hard for you. People beneath you have the ambition to grind you down. Sounds like you'd deserve it.
[05:02:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I can't wait to hear - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:02:54] <exec> 08└─No shit. Every butthurt mofos here goes on about how "intelligent" they are, and how it makes them miserable dealing with lesser beings. If you so smart, why you such a miserable sob? Sheeeiiit.
[05:03:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Whatever happened to Ted Kaczinski - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:03:02] <exec> 08└─A super smart nigger genius taught me to read, and he inspired me to study engineering when I grew up! It's true. Before he was Geordi La Forge on Star Trek TNG, he was LeVar Burton on Reading Rainbow.
[05:03:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Psuedoscience - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:03:04] <exec> 08└─This is such pseudoscientific babbling, these are the people studying "genious"? The real point of interested is these fakers are pissing away the cheap oil/coal energy we have on this kind of BS: Such results contradict long-established ideas suggesting that expert performance is built mainly throu...
[05:03:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Just remember: - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:03:07] <exec> 08└─INT and WIS are not the same stat. I've got an IQ somewhere between 140 and 150, but that's worthless without the emotional intelligence to go with it. As aggravating as retail has been, especially as a second job, it's been very useful for building up "soft skills." Actually, too much emotional int...
[05:03:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Just remember: - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:03:09] <exec> 08└─Oh no don't tell your boss about your IQ test results, or you might have to endure years of bullying for being "the smart one" and any attempt to complain about bullying will get you fired, but who's going to hire your smartass in this economy?
[05:04:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:prions remain controversial - 06When People Ate People, a Strange Disease Emerged - 1126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:04:18] <exec> 08└─Another protein crystallographer was Nobel winner Herbert Hauptman -- from the press release at: http://www.nobelprize.org [nobelprize.org] When X-rays strike a crystal, they will be deflected only in certain definite directions, where the inte...
[05:04:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:great news - 06Three ISS Astronauts Return to Earth - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:04:55] <exec> 08└─But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.
[05:07:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Independence - 06Musk Urges Tesla Workers to Cut Costs Ahead of Fundraising Round - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:07:11] <exec> 08└─Nah, Google and Apple already have their own electric car programs. And egos big enough to not admit that anyone could have possibly done things better. What tech company is best known for buying it's way into new markets? Why Microsoft, of course. If Musk winds up selling Tesla to a tech firm, MS i...
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[06:01:54] <exec> 08└─KILL THE INFIDELS PRAISE BE TO ALLAHLALALALALALALALALALALALALALALALALA
[06:02:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score:2) 02Re:don't let jealous crabs pull you down - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 739 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:02:24] <exec> 08└─Paul Graham [paulgraham.com] has a slightly different take on it. He contends that nerds are unpopular not so much because they lack social skills, and not because other kids are jealous of them, but because in the environment of a typical American high school, the level of social skills and conform...
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[06:02:42] <exec> 08└─“Here I am, brain the size of a planet and they ask me to take you down to the bridge. Call that job satisfaction? ‘Cos I don’t.” –Marvin
[06:02:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I can't wait to hear - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:02:49] <exec> 08└─Being surrounded by peabrained motherfuckers only makes you happy when you are also a peabrained motherfucker, motherfucker.
[06:02:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I can't wait to hear - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:02:51] <exec> 08└─Go off yourself, for the good of everyone including yourself, you sorry deluded sob.
[06:02:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I can't wait to hear - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:02:53] <exec> 08└─Suicide is the best thing to do I think. A final release.
[06:03:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Whatever happened to Ted Kaczinski - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:03:03] <exec> 08└─Wow, I just saw the logical path of an academic career flash across the sky like a meteor of doom. Math. Insanity. We call that smarts, until it bombs us. And you were afraid of SJWs, just because they were smarter than you? Oh, you poor and sorry excuse for a human being!
[06:03:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Just remember: - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:03:08] <exec> 08└─Yyyyup. I always act a little stupid(er than I am) at job #2, and temper any displays of tech knowledge with jokes. It's gotten me characterized as "Sheldon with boobs and a sense of humor," but I don't mind; it means my co-workers don't feel threatened, which makes my job easier. Always pretend to...
[06:03:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:Just remember: - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:03:10] <exec> 08└─Acting stupid in exchange for money, you're such a sellout! Stupid people aren't worth associating with, and you should be using your supergenius skills to manipulate them into marching into the Soylent Green machine.
[06:03:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Just remember: - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:03:13] <exec> 08└─I know you're trolling here, but...well, you're right. I am a sellout. So are we all. Fortuately, I wasn't put on this world to be a genius and show it off; I'm here to, if at all possible, help people. I have jobs so i can survive and help. Also, in light of the earlier article about kuru, the smar...
[06:03:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Just remember: - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:03:15] <exec> 08└─I'm not a sellout, I'm an unemployable basement-dwelling loner. The only way I help people is by graciously refraining from going on a cannibalistic murder spree. Vote Green!
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[07:02:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02How to stop civilization? - 06World Conservation Congress Debates the Gene Drive - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:02:11] <exec> 08└─" a motion that would prohibit the organization from supporting or endorsing any research or field trials on the use of gene drives until a comprehensive assessment of the technology's effects has been undertaken." Really. If that were seriously implemented, we could basically just close every resea...
[07:02:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:How to stop civilization? - 06World Conservation Congress Debates the Gene Drive - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:02:12] <exec> 08└─Sorry but technology like this has some serious implications, and I am glad the world is taking them seriously.
[07:02:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Why hold back? - 06Fear of Contaminating Mars with Life from the Curiosity Rover - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:02:23] <exec> 08└─jimtheowl is absolutely right, and I am surprised that not all Soylentils comprehend this. Are we not a science-based community? Do we not understand the value of experimental control? Is jmorris in my Global Warming underwear, again?
[07:02:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Mars, the Big Tease - 06Fear of Contaminating Mars with Life from the Curiosity Rover - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:02:25] <exec> 08└─1. Let's send a probe to look for signs of water. 2. Hey look, signs of water! 3. ??? 4. Runnnn!
[07:02:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:How to Raise an Unhappy Loser - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:02:39] <exec> 08└─"Mommas don't let your babies grow up to be Buzzards! Don't let 'em drive pickups and code that old cruft, Make 'em be Doctors and Lawyers and stuff! Mommas, don't let your babies grow up to be Soylentils, They're never at home, and always alone, Even with someone they have a long term trolling rela...
[07:02:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How to Raise an Unhappy Loser - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:02:43] <exec> 08└─Here is another to bake your noodle. Lets say I walk into a room. I could walk into a room and have the highest IQ.
[07:02:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:don't let jealous crabs pull you down - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:02:50] <exec> 08└─One of the most important things college does is remove talented learners from that poisonous high school environment.
[07:03:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:3, Informative) 02Droning on about drones - 06Mercedes Benz Partners With Matternet to Make Vans Into Drone Platforms - 636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:03:37] <exec> 08└─The term has lost any and all usefulness. Are we referring to male bees? Borg? Autonomous room sweeping machines? Pilotless planes armed with missles to kill innocent persons just because the President of the Phillipines thinks they might be drug dealers? Ditto for the president of the United Stat...
[07:04:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Windigos - 06When People Ate People, a Strange Disease Emerged - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:04:03] <exec> 08└─I knew they looked a bit odd! [wikipedia.org]
[07:04:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score:2) 02Re:Prion diseases - 06When People Ate People, a Strange Disease Emerged - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:04:25] <exec> 08└─I would have thought you had been around here long enough to know that a car analogy is much more appreciated by this crowd.
[07:04:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Prion diseases - 06When People Ate People, a Strange Disease Emerged - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:04:26] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure what you mean by "purposeful". And, they do evolve: https://www.newscientist.com [newscientist.com] Life may not be Boolean, but a continuous concept.
[07:04:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score:2) 02Old Hat - 06When People Ate People, a Strange Disease Emerged - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:04:47] <exec> 08└─This story is hardly news. The events described happened in the 1960's. I thought everyone who needed to knew about Kuru as a matter of routine. It was certainly dragged up during the Mad Cow fiasco. I am fairly sure cannibalism is very rare in Europe, and I don't believe it is very widespread elsew...
[07:05:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It would be a much bigger story - 06Three ISS Astronauts Return to Earth - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:05:24] <exec> 08└─With Runaway, oh, god, do I have to say it again?? Evidently. With Runaway, it is always about sex. Randy bugger.
[07:05:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sex trafficking is the new bogeyman - 06Supreme Court Chief Justice Blocks Congressional Subpoena Over First Amendment Rights - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:05:54] <exec> 08└─Francis consistently opposes the right to control your own body if there's even the slightest chance of indirect harm or mishap. This same logic is not applied elsewhere, of course. It's no surprise he would resort to the ridiculous 'You don't need to do X!' argument.
[07:05:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sex trafficking is the new bogeyman - 06Supreme Court Chief Justice Blocks Congressional Subpoena Over First Amendment Rights - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:05:57] <exec> 08└─Even if you disagree with the analogy, there is no straw man there. Fallacy fail.
[07:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03CirclesInSand [2899] (Score:2) 02Re:Sex trafficking is the new bogeyman - 06Supreme Court Chief Justice Blocks Congressional Subpoena Over First Amendment Rights - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:05:59] <exec> 08└─And absolutely no reason to allow ... profiting off other people's prostitution.
[07:06:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Why it is worth discussing - 06Tesla Envy Grips Germany's Giants - 909 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:06:40] <exec> 08└─The 'news' element is that at least one Tesla car crashed while in 'autopilot' mode, giving rise to questions about the vehicle's safety. The second crash in the Netherlands is investigating whether the 'autopilot' mode was being used in that accident too. You are correct in your claims about vehicl...
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[08:01:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02dude wasted his life for nothing - 062013 Los Angeles Airport Shooter Sentenced to Life in Prison - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:59] <exec> 08└─No one will remember. No one will care. Nothing will Change. America continues to be pure Evil.
[08:02:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Vote Obama 2008 - 062013 Los Angeles Airport Shooter Sentenced to Life in Prison - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:02:00] <exec> 08└─Obama will fix this! Pardons for Patriots! Abolish the TSA! Change We Need! Yes We Can!
[08:02:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] 02Re:Why hold back? - 06Fear of Contaminating Mars with Life from the Curiosity Rover - 343 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:02:19] <exec> 08└─For one thing we are at the very early stages of trying to figure out the likeliness of life in the universe, and do not have any other accessible planets that resemble Earth as much as Mars. If we find life on Mars but we don't know if we brought it there, it is a waste of a very unique opportunity...
[08:04:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score:2) 02Re:Not kuru, but ... - 06When People Ate People, a Strange Disease Emerged - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:04:24] <exec> 08└─Yep. Never eat anyone who can't remember where they put the carving knife, or hands are too unsteady to slice portions off themselves to put into the pot.
[08:05:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:great news - 06Three ISS Astronauts Return to Earth - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:05:15] <exec> 08└─Some 70 years, of which around 45 is wasted working to make other people rich and another 15 is wasted in schools preparing for the same. That leaves us with about 10 years to enjoy, half of which being when we are too old to remember what we enjoy. Compared to 20 years to enjoy for dolphins. I thin...
[08:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03gringer [962] (Score:2) 02Re:Anywhere close? - 06Tesla Envy Grips Germany's Giants - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:06:48] <exec> 08└─Nurbugring laptimes IS a spec. And 2+ minutes faster is a big difference.
[08:07:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Using physics to explain economics - 06Do Credit Card Companies Screen for Behavioral Biases? - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:07:50] <exec> 08└─And the banks resist all attempts to ground them.
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[09:01:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Yes! - 06Authenticity of the Oldest Known Manuscript in Ancient America Verified - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:57] <exec> 08└─I knew it! Authentic! Take that, Fr. Landa!
[09:01:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score:2) 02Oblig - 06Authenticity of the Oldest Known Manuscript in Ancient America Verified - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:59] <exec> 08└─Whenever america says something is old: http://imgur.com [imgur.com]
[09:02:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Jean Driver - 06World Conservation Congress Debates the Gene Drive - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:02:17] <exec> 08└─Well she got her Cas9 And she put it in the Norway rat now Seems she forgot all about the mosquito Like she told IUCN now And with the RNA blasting Exterminates just as fast as she can now And she'll have fun, fun, fun Till IUCN takes the CRISPR away
[09:02:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score:2) 02Re:Why hold back? - 06Fear of Contaminating Mars with Life from the Curiosity Rover - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:02:29] <exec> 08└─OTOH, earth germs would be distinguished from Mars germs easily by genetic means (should Mars also be driven by DNA). Also it is unlikely that germs would spread quickly on Mars so that other sites should stay pristine for centuries to come. That being said, it is also a matter of scientific integri...
[09:02:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03letssee [2537] (Score:1) 02Re:Why hold back? - 06Fear of Contaminating Mars with Life from the Curiosity Rover - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:02:31] <exec> 08└─Finding alien 'germs' would be a *very* interesting discovery. Can't risk having them wiped out by accidentally brought earth germs. Also, you never know the potential uses of a completely alien life form. If it wouldn't be related to earthly life it would probably use an alien equivalent of DNA whi...
[09:02:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score:1) 02Why was the rover only partly sterilized? - 06Fear of Contaminating Mars with Life from the Curiosity Rover - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:02:34] <exec> 08└─It seems a bit odd that the rover was only partly sterilized. Is it because some components couldn't be sterilized and retain their capability? Or simply money saving?
[09:02:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02NOW? - 06Fear of Contaminating Mars with Life from the Curiosity Rover - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:02:36] <exec> 08└─Isn't it a bit late to be thinking about all this? Shouldn't they have considered this BEFORE launching the rovers?
[09:02:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How to Raise an Unhappy Loser - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:02:55] <exec> 08└─If you're smart enough you'd realize that unless you're one of those in power your vote counts about as much (often less) as the vote of a stupid and/or ignorant person. You'd also know that the stupid and ignorant people make up the majority of the population. Trump has got lots of their votes, he...
[09:03:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:don't let jealous crabs pull you down - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:03:01] <exec> 08└─Mention of crabs pulling down is tantamount to going "SJW". We were just trying to keep you from going into the pot, not trying to stifle your incomprehensible genius. (heh, heh! Snort!)
[09:04:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:90nm ? - 06Carbon Nanotube Transistors Outperform Silicon in Test - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:04:05] <exec> 08└─Make something one atom thick, and along comes the critic saying "shrink it!"
[09:06:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03pe1rxq [844] (Score:2) 02Re:Tesla Driver Dies After Model S Hits Tree - 06Tesla Envy Grips Germany's Giants - 830 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:06:51] <exec> 08└─They do have training and documentation to safely disable the electrics. Likewise they have training to safely cut open a vehicle during rescue without triggering airbags and how to handle gasoline or oil leaks on old fashioned cars. The story is also becoming a bit clearer now: - The car was not dr...
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[10:02:02] <exec> 08└─who?
[10:02:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02conflict resolution - 062013 Los Angeles Airport Shooter Sentenced to Life in Prison - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:02:12] <exec> 08└─Some of his ideas are valid but unfortunately he choose an ill-fated path to resolve this conflict. I don't claim to know his exact thoughts but I do know there are a growing number of people who have given up on the very notion of political reform, believing that violent revolt is the only solution...
[10:02:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score:2) 02Re:Why was the rover only partly sterilized? - 06Fear of Contaminating Mars with Life from the Curiosity Rover - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:02:38] <exec> 08└─It's always money saving. Everything always comes down to money
[10:03:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How to Raise an Unhappy Loser - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:03:01] <exec> 08└─I myself am maybe slightly more 'intelligent' (in the mathematical sense, socially not so much) then average,
[10:03:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:don't let jealous crabs pull you down - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 872 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:03:08] <exec> 08└─Universities here are close to the highest admissions they've ever been, and 'only' about 50% go to university. That immediately weeds out half. Then there's the fact that not all universities are equal and have very different entry requirements. If you're in one of the top 10 universities for your...
[10:03:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Inborn talent vs. practice - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:03:19] <exec> 08└─True. His missed out luck. I wonder how Mozart would have done if born to a family that didn't have the time and money for him to be introduced to musical instruments as a very young child. Or how Einstein would have done if he'd grown up on a coal-mining town and never had the opportunity to read a...
[10:03:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I can't wait to hear - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:03:37] <exec> 08└─110 ballpark on tests generally. Never taken a formal test. Literally half blind, specific functioning memory, former muso - good static player with nonexistent emotion or creativity, excellent IT problem solver. Writer, casual rpg/platformer gamer. Dying. Since you asked. You?
[10:04:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score:2) 02Re:Not kuru, but ... - 06When People Ate People, a Strange Disease Emerged - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:04:53] <exec> 08└─But that is just a rule of thumb.
[10:05:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Re:Nope. - 06Intel Acquires Computer Vision Startup Movidius - 1047 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:05:22] <exec> 08└─My car, my phone, other's phone's, Siri, the automated phone lines for railways and cinemas. They all have the same problem. Simple commands like "Call X" where X is a name fail miserably. I don't have an unusual voice, I don't have a speech impediment, I'm not in a noisy atmosphere. But even if I w...
[10:06:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Re:Sour Grapes. - 06Tesla Envy Grips Germany's Giants - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:06:57] <exec> 08└─One trip I make on a weekly basis is 40 miles one way, which the Leaf should be able to do if I can recharge some for the return trip
[10:07:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score:2) 02Re:Tesla Driver Dies After Model S Hits Tree - 06Tesla Envy Grips Germany's Giants - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:07:03] <exec> 08└─What the fuck browser do you have that doesn't just open a PDF when you navigate to it? Meanwhile, firefighters don't learn from reading the internet. They are trained. So a document that the trainer can download and print out is good.
[10:07:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score:2) 02Re:Why it is worth discussing - 06Tesla Envy Grips Germany's Giants - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:07:10] <exec> 08└─What we need to see is fatalities per car/mile driven for Tesla vs other EVs and vs ICE cars. Anything else is just anecdotes.
[10:08:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:STOP BORROWING MONEY - 06Do Credit Card Companies Screen for Behavioral Biases? - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:08:37] <exec> 08└─I'm not saying it isn't worthwhile ($143/year is real money!)
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[11:02:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Oblig - 06Authenticity of the Oldest Known Manuscript in Ancient America Verified - 1632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:02:15] <exec> 08└─That quote quite covers anything created by citizens of the United States of America, but this article is about a book created by Pre-Columbian Mayans. As such, it equals the antiquity of European, Middle Eastern, or other older civilizations. There is a great imbalance to the due given to, say, the...
[11:02:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Why Bother? - 06Authenticity of the Oldest Known Manuscript in Ancient America Verified - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:02:17] <exec> 08└─No one cares what a bunch of stupid wetbacks think or say, whether now or six hundred years ago. That's why we're gonna throw that raping, drug-dealing scum and the disease-ridden whores they use to dilute our purity out of our country. We're gonna MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!! Trump/Pence 2016
[11:02:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Why hold back? - 06Fear of Contaminating Mars with Life from the Curiosity Rover - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:02:47] <exec> 08└─That's a really good point. Unless there's some sort of subterranean, global aquifer on Mars through which contamination might spread throughout the planet. That seems unlikely. It is much more of a risk on Europa or Enceladus, so I do hope the probes we send to those places are thoroughly sterilize...
[11:04:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:retrogression - 06Mercedes Benz Partners With Matternet to Make Vans Into Drone Platforms - 1814 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:04:08] <exec> 08└─Exactly. Bonus points if the micro-container is deigned to be stacked and packed with maximum efficiency into a big container. Then you build containers with these droneports on the roof: 1 - Factory in Beijing fills standard-sized drone-friendly shipping container with 40000 iwidgets, each in a sta...
[11:05:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not kuru, but ... - 06When People Ate People, a Strange Disease Emerged - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:05:08] <exec> 08└─It would be interesting to know if the blood brain barrier (BBB) can affect the onset of such diseases. Studies have been shown that gut bacteria produce certain chemicals that are responsible for the expression of proteins that reduce BBB permeability. Without these bacteria the blood brain barrier...
[11:05:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Re:Nope. - 06Intel Acquires Computer Vision Startup Movidius - 4010 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:05:41] <exec> 08└─Take this example: The Halting Problem. Given an arbitrary computer program and a set of inputs to that program, it is not possible for an analysing program running on a Turing-capable machine to analyse those listings and inputs and know whether or not that first program will ever come to an end. I...
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[12:02:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Demonym - 06Nashville Officials Approve Ordinance to Give Google Fiber Faster Access to Utility Poles - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:02:05] <exec> 08└─Nashvillians? That sounds somehow... nefarious. I have a mental image of evil country and western stars, twirling their moustaches as they tie helpless damsels to railway tracks.
[12:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Demonym - 06Nashville Officials Approve Ordinance to Give Google Fiber Faster Access to Utility Poles - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:02:06] <exec> 08└─AKA - the "prevention of anticompetitive lollygagging" ordinance.
[12:03:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02Re:How to Raise an Unhappy Loser - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 9 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:03:07] <exec> 08└─You rang?
[12:03:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02Re:How to Raise an Unhappy Loser - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 392 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:03:09] <exec> 08└─"Mommas don't let your babies grow up to be Buzzards! Don't let 'em drive pickups and code that old cruft, Make 'em be Doctors and Lawyers and stuff! Mommas, don't let your babies grow up to be Soylentils, They're never at home, and always alone, Even with someone they have a long term trolling rela...
[12:03:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Noldir [1216] (Score:1) 02Re:How to Raise an Unhappy Loser - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 1170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:03:18] <exec> 08└─I don't personally know you but going by your words you seem highly intelligent, but lack a lot of wisdom. Discarding people solely based on how intelligent you perceive them to be? Hardly intelligent, as all people have something to contribute and share. Even those you perceive as 'stupid'. I'm pro...
[12:03:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02don't let jealous crabs pull you down - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 696 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:03:22] <exec> 08└─That whole stereotype about nerds having poor social skills is half true, and half made up bull designed to keep smartypants down. High school is full of cliques of average-ish intelligence students who enforce a groupthink that tries to pull the smartest down to their level. One of the most importa...
[12:03:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Inborn talent vs. practice - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:03:37] <exec> 08└─Best example is Ramanujan - we wouldn't know of his existence if not for Hardy. And he was born to a caste that was supposed to be about knowledge etc.
[12:03:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Two Words: - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:03:38] <exec> 08└─Rolling Stones.
[12:08:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03houghi [6334] (Score:1) 02Re:STOP BORROWING MONEY - 06Do Credit Card Companies Screen for Behavioral Biases? - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:08:54] <exec> 08└─Stores in Europe around pay 2% to the CC. So if you are talking about several percent it will be more then that. That means they are doing it to not have a trace and not pay taxes. It has nothing to do with the card and most likely they will be making MORE than with the taxes.
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[13:02:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Links to the ordinance - 06Nashville Officials Approve Ordinance to Give Google Fiber Faster Access to Utility Poles - 873 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:02:21] <exec> 08└─Here's the meeting agenda http://www.nashville.gov [nashville.gov] Here's the bill http://www.nashville.gov [nashville.gov] see 13.18.020 Make Ready Process. basically Google must Provide 15 days notic...
[13:02:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Re:Oblig - 06Authenticity of the Oldest Known Manuscript in Ancient America Verified - 758 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:02:32] <exec> 08└─It drives me insane, but again if it's not "American", it doesn't exist. That includes their own history, land and peoples. Natives were in America when Columbus landed. Nobody cares about them either. Vikings were on that land before that too. "from its 13th-century amatl paper" I passed several s...
[13:02:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why Bother? - 06Authenticity of the Oldest Known Manuscript in Ancient America Verified - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:02:35] <exec> 08└─No one cares what a bunch of stupid wetbacks think or say, whether now or six hundred years ago. That's why we're gonna throw that raping, drug-dealing scum and the disease-ridden whores they use to dilute our purity out of our country. We're gonna MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!! Trump/Pence 2016
[13:03:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How to Raise an Unhappy Loser - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:03:30] <exec> 08└─Occam's Razor would suggest that this is the most likely explanation as to how he led his company to the massive success it has
[13:04:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:Windigos - 06When People Ate People, a Strange Disease Emerged - 970 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:04:54] <exec> 08└─The Wendigo is sick because it’s cut off from its roots. It’s a ghost with a heart of ice. It eats everything in sight. Its hunger knows no bounds. When there is nothing left to eat, it starves to death. When it sees something, it wants to own it. No one else can have anything. This illness feed...
[13:05:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Prion diseases - 06When People Ate People, a Strange Disease Emerged - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:05:14] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure I agree with your concept of passivity - far from your "bent paperclip" analogy, proteins are generally extremely sophisticated molecular machines already designed to manipulate other molecules.
[13:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03nishi.b [4243] (Score:2) 02Re:Nope. - 06Intel Acquires Computer Vision Startup Movidius - 772 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:05:57] <exec> 08└─Ok, I can hear this argument, but I would like an example of something that no algorithm can prove (such as if a program will run forever or not) that a human can really determine and prove, not just using heuristics. As you are a mathematician (and I am not), you may correct my belief that mathemat...
[13:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Re:Yes. - 06Intel Acquires Computer Vision Startup Movidius - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:05:59] <exec> 08└─I shall return to this post in one year's time and we'll see. "Silicon Valley... startup" "which they hope" "This year... will publish details ... will have demos" (P.S. Give me a shout when that happens, only three months left and that article is four months old) But when the lead-guy has a degree...
[13:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Sour Grapes. - 06Tesla Envy Grips Germany's Giants - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:07:32] <exec> 08└─> The grills went away in the 90s and early 2000s, and are back, mainly because of pedestrian safety: the low grill-less front ends caused pedestrians to get flipped up onto the windshield, killing them more often. The big, crushable grills give pedestrians lower injuries. ?!? In the UK the laws abo...
[13:07:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Sour Grapes. - 06Tesla Envy Grips Germany's Giants - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:07:35] <exec> 08└─I'm guessing that when you're travelling those several hundred kilometers, you're paying for the short-term use of the facility where you're sleeping at night (such as a hotel). In which case, why not pay for short-term use of the vehicle you use to get there too?
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[14:02:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Hooray! - 06Michigan Senate Considering Ditching the Requirement of a Human Driver in Self-Driving Tests - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:02:14] <exec> 08└─I've seen how Michigan people drive. I'd rather have potentially buggy self-driving software without anyone at the controls! But seriously, this is exactly what we should be trying out, because it's safe to assume that once cars are smart enough that they can drive themselves, any person in a positi...
[14:02:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02fuck you Michigan - 06Michigan Senate Considering Ditching the Requirement of a Human Driver in Self-Driving Tests - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:02:15] <exec> 08└─You know why you don't have a tech economy, Michigan? You know why you have brain drain? Because Michigan is an authoritarian hell hole! Who wants to live in a state full of white supremacists and cannabis haters? Sorry, Michigan, fuck you. You could have had legal weed, but no. You fucked us voters...
[14:02:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:fuck you Michigan - 06Michigan Senate Considering Ditching the Requirement of a Human Driver in Self-Driving Tests - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:02:17] <exec> 08└─And Jim Harbaugh, the Michigan coach is kind of an asshole.
[14:02:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score:2) 02Re:Links to the ordinance - 06Nashville Officials Approve Ordinance to Give Google Fiber Faster Access to Utility Poles - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:02:29] <exec> 08└─If the city is worried about Google breaking their stuff, then why shouldn't the existing companies?
[14:02:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Does anyone trust Google anymore? - 06Nashville Officials Approve Ordinance to Give Google Fiber Faster Access to Utility Poles - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:02:31] <exec> 08└─I'd be hesitant to trust Google with anything. They'd start their Google fiber program today, discontinue it tomorrow, start a wireless program the day after then discontinue it in four days without warning. You'll be in the middle of a conversation and suddenly your phone gets cut off out of the bl...
[14:02:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02Re:Oblig - 06Authenticity of the Oldest Known Manuscript in Ancient America Verified - 1632 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:02:42] <exec> 08└─That quote quite covers anything created by citizens of the United States of America, but this article is about a book created by Pre-Columbian Mayans. As such, it equals the antiquity of European, Middle Eastern, or other older civilizations. There is a great imbalance to the due given to, say, the...
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[14:02:45] <exec> 08└─There are ancient sites by that definition, too. The Adena Culture [wikipedia.org] built many. If you check the Miamisburg Mound entry at the bottom of that Wikipedia article, it says, "it is an Ohio historical site and serves as a popular attraction and picnic destination for area families. Visitor...
[14:02:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Oblig - 06Authenticity of the Oldest Known Manuscript in Ancient America Verified - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:02:47] <exec> 08└─-1 Sweeping Generalizations
[14:02:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:Why Bother? - 06Authenticity of the Oldest Known Manuscript in Ancient America Verified - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:02:52] <exec> 08└─Truly Trumppence worth, if ever there was such a thing.
[14:03:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jiro [3176] (Score:2) 02Re:conflict resolution - 062013 Los Angeles Airport Shooter Sentenced to Life in Prison - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:03:03] <exec> 08└─Some of his ideas are valid but unfortunately he choose an ill-fated path to resolve this conflict.
[14:03:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02People who hang out on alt right websites - 062013 Los Angeles Airport Shooter Sentenced to Life in Prison - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:03:05] <exec> 08└─Probably should be deported because we don't know what their intentions are.
[14:03:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why hold back? - 06Fear of Contaminating Mars with Life from the Curiosity Rover - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:03:28] <exec> 08└─Lets be honest here as well, exactly how likely is it for "earth germs" to actually survive the trip and 18 more months on the planet surface. These are things that have evolved to have air and water to survive, of which they have had 0 for the past few years.
[14:03:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Why hold back? - 06Fear of Contaminating Mars with Life from the Curiosity Rover - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:03:32] <exec> 08└─Rats that arrived by ship to distant islands sometimes disrupted (or even wiped out) the local fauna. That being said, i think it is well worth the risk for rovers to explore possible water sources on Mars. The planet is quite large. If we do screw up and create some new bacteria colonies on Mars th...
[14:03:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03letssee [2537] (Score:1) 02Re:How to Raise an Unhappy Loser - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:03:59] <exec> 08└─woops. My native language shows through :-) (in dutch they're both 'dan')
[14:04:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How to Raise an Unhappy Loser - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:04:04] <exec> 08└─How was Steve exploiting Woz if Woz will readily admit he could not do what Steve did for their company? And how was Woz exploited where last time I checked he had no financial problems what so ever? You have a very strange definition of exploitation.
[14:04:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How to Raise an Unhappy Loser - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:04:11] <exec> 08└─Children with 145 IQ will not relate well to peers with 100 IQ and will grow up to be angry bitter trolls who are unwelcome everywhere.
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[15:02:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Volunteer? - 06Boston Police Commissioner Orders Officers to Wear Cameras After None Volunteer - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:15] <exec> 08└─Seriously, they were looking for volunteers? Let's do a reality check here - any volunteer DOESN'T NEED monitoring. Or, at least, chances are slim that they need monitoring. They believe that they are doing their jobs properly and correctly, so they don't care that a camera watches them all day. It'...
[15:02:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:Volunteer? - 06Boston Police Commissioner Orders Officers to Wear Cameras After None Volunteer - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:02:16] <exec> 08└─No camera, No gun.
[15:02:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Interesting) 02Re:Volunteer? - 06Boston Police Commissioner Orders Officers to Wear Cameras After None Volunteer - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:02:19] <exec> 08└─The commissioner was convinced of the program because a video of an officer shooting someone showed that the officer had cause. Video can also protect "good" cops from controversy.
[15:02:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Volunteer? - 06Boston Police Commissioner Orders Officers to Wear Cameras After None Volunteer - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:02:21] <exec> 08└─You get more volunteers if you gave them the option to turn it off when with a hooker getting a freebie or when shaking down some local drug dealer in the back-alley.
[15:02:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02simple solution - 06Boston Police Commissioner Orders Officers to Wear Cameras After None Volunteer - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:23] <exec> 08└─fire everyone who doesn't wear a camera and if that means firing everyone, so be it!
[15:02:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Hooray! - 06Michigan Senate Considering Ditching the Requirement of a Human Driver in Self-Driving Tests - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:02:32] <exec> 08└─takyon may not need human chaperones much longer
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[15:02:34] <exec> 08└─Michiganders drive like stoners weaving back and forth in their lanes, driving in two lanes at once, too cheap to fill up their blinker fluid! Everybody is a stoner who just sits at home on disability getting high all day long. Then they vote for Republicans that cock block voter initiatives to lega...
[15:02:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03LVDOVICVS [6131] (Score:1) 02Re:Hooray! - 06Michigan Senate Considering Ditching the Requirement of a Human Driver in Self-Driving Tests - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:02:36] <exec> 08└─As a Michigan driver, I've been looking forward with excited anticipation to the day of self-driving cars. I'm hoping several future coronary incidents I could have had will be averted by their arrival. Also, if they can come up with systems that withstand being bounced off the road by the terrible...
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[15:02:38] <exec> 08└─They should take these things to the Upper Peninsula. If they do that, they'll only need to deal with: - Deer. I think they would be further ahead just redesigning the front of the car so that it deflects fleshy obstacles or by giving it autoturrets (the car AI probably has enough spare power to run...
[15:02:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score:2) 02dual control hoons - 06Michigan Senate Considering Ditching the Requirement of a Human Driver in Self-Driving Tests - 1815 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:42] <exec> 08└─The popular insistence that a human can take over "in an emergency" ignores reality - but allowing remote control of experimental vehicles is far more foolish. How many of us; as passengers; have applied the phantom foot-brake when our driver attempts a questionable manoeuvre? The same dynamic can b...
[15:02:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Does anyone trust Google anymore? - 06Nashville Officials Approve Ordinance to Give Google Fiber Faster Access to Utility Poles - 1184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:02:54] <exec> 08└─Plus if I were a Google fiber customer I would be concerned. If Google suddenly decides to discontinue their service last minute without warning then everyone in my neighborhood who used Google fiber would be scrambling to find a new ISP last minute. So I'd be calling competing ISP services, it'd be...
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[15:02:56] <exec> 08└─The argument might hold with their cloud or software services, but physical infrastructure involves a significant capital investment and multi-year contracts for things like access to these poles. There's no point in Google discontinuing services, they'd still have to pay out full terms on the acces...
[15:02:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Beware - 06Nashville Officials Approve Ordinance to Give Google Fiber Faster Access to Utility Poles - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:58] <exec> 08└─Citizens of Nashville, beware! You may find yourself out millions of dollars in taxes with zero Google fiber to show for it. Learn from Portland, OR. Don't trust Google, your benevolent overlord.
[15:03:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yes! - 06Authenticity of the Oldest Known Manuscript in Ancient America Verified - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:03:09] <exec> 08└─Diego de Landa [wikipedia.org] perhaps? "We found a large number of books in these characters and, as they contained nothing in which were not to be seen as superstition and lies of the devil, we burned them all, which they (the Maya) regretted to an amazing degree, and which caused them much affli...
[15:03:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Oblig - 06Authenticity of the Oldest Known Manuscript in Ancient America Verified - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:03:16] <exec> 08└─Considering the destruction of Mayan artifacts by the Spanish this is a significant find.
[15:03:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Oblig - 06Authenticity of the Oldest Known Manuscript in Ancient America Verified - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:03:18] <exec> 08└─Whenever america says something is old: http://imgur.com [imgur.com]
[15:03:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why Bother? - 06Authenticity of the Oldest Known Manuscript in Ancient America Verified - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:03:23] <exec> 08└─How many boxes of LEGOS will it take to build "The Really Tremendous Great Wall of Trump"?
[15:03:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:conflict resolution - 062013 Los Angeles Airport Shooter Sentenced to Life in Prison - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:03:34] <exec> 08└─> I do know there are a growing number of people who have given up on the very notion of political reform, How do you know that? Radical and reactionary terrorism is nothing new. Here is a very incomplete list you might recognize: Timothy McVeigh Ted Kaczynski Symbionese Liberation Army Arthur Breme...
[15:03:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:People who hang out on alt right websites - 062013 Los Angeles Airport Shooter Sentenced to Life in Prison - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:03:37] <exec> 08└─Why not deport those who made their intentions very clear, instead?
[15:03:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Woooosh! - 062013 Los Angeles Airport Shooter Sentenced to Life in Prison - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:03:39] <exec> 08└─Woooosh!
[15:04:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Why hold back? - 06Fear of Contaminating Mars with Life from the Curiosity Rover - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:04:04] <exec> 08└─You would be surprised what a simple enough organism can survive.
[15:04:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score:1) 02Re:Why hold back? - 06Fear of Contaminating Mars with Life from the Curiosity Rover - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:04:05] <exec> 08└─We already know microorganisms can survive in space, thus panspermia [wikipedia.org] from Earth would be a reasonable explanation if life were found on Mars. ie. finding life on Mars does not mean it originated there. I personally feel our sterilization efforts are a tad misplaced and we should inst...
[15:04:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Why Me Worry? - 06Fear of Contaminating Mars with Life from the Curiosity Rover - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:14] <exec> 08└─Contaminate what, the desert? No chance of contamination, because a) there IS no rover on Mars, and b) Mars is not a place where a 'rover' can 'land': Mars is a light on the firmament. I wish you a soothing awakening, and a smooth transition to reality.
[15:04:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hawkwind [3531] (Score:2) 02Re:How to Raise an Unhappy Loser - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:04:34] <exec> 08└─You do realize we only have Trump's word for his worth, and outside observers put his wealth much lower. I'm afraid you might be sputtering tripe.
[15:04:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How to Raise an Unhappy Loser - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:04:45] <exec> 08└─Try looking into the profit sharing of their earliest collaborations. Woz is just too nice a guy to say anything bad about anyone.
[15:04:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:don't let jealous crabs pull you down - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:04:52] <exec> 08└─What world do you live in? In the real world, the quality of the education that most colleges offer is simply laughable, and they are filled with shallow people who have shallow motivations. Colleges are not filled with academics (people who are extremely passionate about learning about the universe...
[15:05:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Inborn talent vs. practice - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:05:05] <exec> 08└─Take Bob Dylan. Was he a genius? I don't think so. What he had was an unbelievable passion for American blues and folk music from a young age, combined with self-confidence that he could make the material his own and present it to a wide audience. His knowledge was encyclopedic, he makes references...
[15:07:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:It would be a much bigger story - 06Three ISS Astronauts Return to Earth - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:07:38] <exec> 08└─Runaway is a sexegenarian - and you're jealous.
[15:07:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Very Suspicious of this ISS - 06Three ISS Astronauts Return to Earth - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:07:42] <exec> 08└─From an engineer's point of view, I cannot help wonder how is it possible that the shutter on the cupola closes so fast with a small rotation of a knob that has no actuator, as demonstrated by an astronaut on a 'Smarter Every Day' video? And how is it possible that this component is exposed to vacuu...
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[16:02:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Therefore .. - 06Another "Unsafe and Unprofessional" Intercept of a U.S. Aircraft by Russia - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:11] <exec> 08└─.. maybe you shouldn't try to poke the BEAR INSIDE ITS OWN FRIGGIN' CAVE, cowboy? Unless, of course, you 're done with that finger. And with your face.
[16:02:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02is this really one-sided? - 06Another "Unsafe and Unprofessional" Intercept of a U.S. Aircraft by Russia - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:12] <exec> 08└─Are we really only ever the recipients of these actions, or are we doing this to them too, and the mainstream press just isn't reporting it?
[16:02:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:is this really one-sided? - 06Another "Unsafe and Unprofessional" Intercept of a U.S. Aircraft by Russia - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:02:14] <exec> 08└─I'd like a "+1 Good question" mod option please.
[16:02:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:Volunteer? - 06Boston Police Commissioner Orders Officers to Wear Cameras After None Volunteer - 18 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:02:24] <exec> 08└─No camera, No gun.
[16:02:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Volunteer? - 06Boston Police Commissioner Orders Officers to Wear Cameras After None Volunteer - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:02:27] <exec> 08└─Does the reverse apply then - no gun, no camera?
[16:02:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Volunteer? - 06Boston Police Commissioner Orders Officers to Wear Cameras After None Volunteer - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:02:30] <exec> 08└─Not really. As we have seen from BLM, even after officers are cleared, there are still demand for "justice", whatever that means. Even a clean officer would be hesitant, as video just gives a thousand opportunities for Monday morning quarterbacking. Not saying that cameras shouldn't be used, but the...
[16:02:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Volunteer? - 06Boston Police Commissioner Orders Officers to Wear Cameras After None Volunteer - 1331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:02:32] <exec> 08└─The police brought this on themselves. If they had policed their own ranks and removed bad cops we wouldn't even be having this discussion. But what happens is: 1. there are (or were) a few, and probably very few, bad cops 2. other cops won't report it because: A. don't want to rock the boat B. don'...
[16:02:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03scruffybeard [533] (Score:2) 02Re:Volunteer? - 06Boston Police Commissioner Orders Officers to Wear Cameras After None Volunteer - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:02:35] <exec> 08└─I am with you on this. Just because I don't want to wear one doesn't mean I have something to hide. I think pilots are warranted here. Let's see how the technology can be used to everyone's benefit. It also lets everyone get comfortable with their use. I think the commissioner's action is justified...
[16:02:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Volunteer? - 06Boston Police Commissioner Orders Officers to Wear Cameras After None Volunteer - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:02:37] <exec> 08└─The commissioner was convinced of the program because a video of an officer shooting someone showed that the officer had cause. Video can also protect "good" cops from controversy.
[16:02:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Volunteer? - 06Boston Police Commissioner Orders Officers to Wear Cameras After None Volunteer - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:02:40] <exec> 08└─I think you'd be surprised just how many cops break the rules, violate rights and commit crimes while still firmly convinced that they are good guys doing their jobs well to the benefit of the community. "Never underestimate the power of denial". But yeah, volunteers were not likely to be forthcomin...
[16:02:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Volunteer? - 06Boston Police Commissioner Orders Officers to Wear Cameras After None Volunteer - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:02:42] <exec> 08└─> They believe that they are doing their jobs properly and correctly, so they don't care that a camera watches them all day. Nobody wants to be big brothered because sane people realize their own imperfection and would prefer to simply not have to deal with the hassle of being judged. That doesn't...
[16:02:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score:2) 02Re:simple solution - 06Boston Police Commissioner Orders Officers to Wear Cameras After None Volunteer - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:02:45] <exec> 08└─Personally I liked the AC's idea above of no camera no gun.
[16:02:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02Re:fuck you Michigan - 06Michigan Senate Considering Ditching the Requirement of a Human Driver in Self-Driving Tests - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:02:59] <exec> 08└─Michigan is full of lovely high quality quasi-legal weed. Medical cards are basically handed out to anyone, and if you're ideologically opposed to putting your name on a list, everyone and their mother is selling weed anyway. As for white supremacists, stay out of Howell?? I'm near Detroit and have...
[16:03:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score:2) 02Cool! Auto stop... - 06Michigan Senate Considering Ditching the Requirement of a Human Driver in Self-Driving Tests - 1008 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:02] <exec> 08└─So the vehicle will immediately, safely pull over and auto stop if remote data connection signal is degraded or missing? When traveling at highway speeds? Or in congested traffic? The signal drops while traveling at highway speeds, cars starts to pull over, then signal is back, then quality dropped...
[16:03:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02good! - 06Nashville Officials Approve Ordinance to Give Google Fiber Faster Access to Utility Poles - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:17] <exec> 08└─I'm glad that now individual companies can bypass AT&T and Comcast dragging it's feet. Regulatory capture is no good and frankly, AT&T and Comcast should eat shit and die for being the worst hypocrites and liars in the nation. If they announced a meteor was going to strike earth, I know it would div...
[16:03:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02The downside? - 06Nashville Officials Approve Ordinance to Give Google Fiber Faster Access to Utility Poles - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:19] <exec> 08└─I approve of this initiative. There's no reason that AT&T or any other competitor should be able to hold back progress. But, there IS a downside for Google. The last electrician to touch a wire, "owns" that wire. That is, he is responsible for anything that happens to it, by it, or around it. Exampl...
[16:03:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:conflict resolution - 062013 Los Angeles Airport Shooter Sentenced to Life in Prison - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:03:50] <exec> 08└─> It's funny you never hear anyone say this about right-wing shooters (at least not in most of the media and Internet) Hello? You never hear anyone say this about any terrorists. You know the Boston Bombers? They were pissed about US military involvement in muslim countries. The surviving brother li...
[16:03:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Woooosh! - 062013 Los Angeles Airport Shooter Sentenced to Life in Prison - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:03:56] <exec> 08└─Was that a double wooosh or just one?
[16:03:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:People who hang out on alt right websites - 062013 Los Angeles Airport Shooter Sentenced to Life in Prison - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:03:58] <exec> 08└─Deport those so-called 'leaders' who bring death and destruction. And their supporters too, for they provided financial support. Better yet, stand them in front of a firing squad. Spend a few bullets and you're done ... until the ruling class finds ways to defeat justice. And the cycle repeats.
[16:03:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Patriots should study a bit more - 062013 Los Angeles Airport Shooter Sentenced to Life in Prison - 1005 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:00] <exec> 08└─If one is pissed about something, they should wait and study the problem more. Doing the first thing that comes to your mind is usually not in your best interest or able to fix the problem. After a detailed investigation of the issue, write about ways to fix the problem. Discuss with other people; f...
[16:05:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:don't let jealous crabs pull you down - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 4195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:05:08] <exec> 08└─An interesting read, with more nuance and broader thinking than I've done on the matter. One of his points is that contrary to the stated purposes, school is more intended to keep kids out of the way of adults than to educate them. Yes, school does function as day care. Also, like a prison, there's...
[16:05:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:don't let jealous crabs pull you down - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 2062 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:05:13] <exec> 08└─The poor social skills are a bit of a misnomer. We are great at socializing with other people who are like us. Of course, those people are far less common than the average person is. Since we are detail oriented, we tend to focus on technological subjects and/or other subjects with intricacy. The av...
[16:05:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Inborn talent vs. practice - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:05:27] <exec> 08└─Yeah, except that the real innovators aren't in your "1 in 10" or 10%. They are the 1 in 10,000 or rarer. That's circular reasoning since you can't point to what makes a person a "real innovator" beforehand.
[16:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:retrogression - 06Mercedes Benz Partners With Matternet to Make Vans Into Drone Platforms - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:05:57] <exec> 08└─We're on the same page, except that this beautiful vision of drones flying conflicts with one important reality: Shipping containers are cheap abuse-friendly commodities. Getting all that automation, then seeing it sit in a ship for months, is highly capital-intensive. At this point in time, you're...
[16:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:retrogression - 06Mercedes Benz Partners With Matternet to Make Vans Into Drone Platforms - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:05:59] <exec> 08└─I guess at its simplest a "drone friendly container" could be a container with a standard-sized hole cut into the roof, sealed with a hatch. Open the hatch at your destination and mount a cargo-picking robot arm on the roof, and a droneport adjacent to it. The robot reaches down into the container,...
[16:07:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Sigh - 06When People Ate People, a Strange Disease Emerged - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:20] <exec> 08└─Now I suppose they'll be telling us we can't eat the Rich. Oh well, suppose mulching them will have to do.
[16:08:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Very Suspicious of this ISS - 06Three ISS Astronauts Return to Earth - 1088 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:08:08] <exec> 08└─Very informative answer, especially on the seals, many thanks. I wish they had some schematic out and some details on the hydraulics of the ISS, as it is always mandatory to service those systems against vacuum since the ISS never lowers its altitude. I can only assume that when an outer component f...
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[17:02:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:4, Informative) 02Re:is this really one-sided? - 06Another "Unsafe and Unprofessional" Intercept of a U.S. Aircraft by Russia - 779 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:02:25] <exec> 08└─Good question. I can answer the question, circa 1980, and the Cold War. We routinely provoked each other back then. It was common for us to pull crazy stunts, and they returned the favor, tit for tat. I can't say WTF today's military is all about. Whining about a close approach like this? FFS - WHIN...
[17:02:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:is this really one-sided? - 06Another "Unsafe and Unprofessional" Intercept of a U.S. Aircraft by Russia - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:02:26] <exec> 08└─Yeah. If we could only go back to the way it was during the cold war. That would be great. We'd all be so much more manly! How are you not voting for Trump?
[17:02:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:is this really one-sided? - 06Another "Unsafe and Unprofessional" Intercept of a U.S. Aircraft by Russia - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:02:28] <exec> 08└─Trump is a weenie. Jill Stein actually has balls. She spray painted some heavy construction equipment yesterday. http://www.cnn.com [cnn.com] I'm starting to like her bull dyke haircut too. She looks more manly than either Trump or...
[17:02:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:is this really one-sided? - 06Another "Unsafe and Unprofessional" Intercept of a U.S. Aircraft by Russia - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:02:30] <exec> 08└─NumberOfBalls( Trump + VP ) < NumberOfBalls( Hellary + VP )
[17:02:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:is this really one-sided? - 06Another "Unsafe and Unprofessional" Intercept of a U.S. Aircraft by Russia - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:02:32] <exec> 08└─Trump + VP = ~1.5, give or take a little bit. Shrillary + VP = ~1, give or take a little. Stein has ~1 ball, I think. I don't know about her pick for VP. Ajamu Baraka? Funny looking bastard, of the four-eyed geek variety, kinda brown colored, with a bit of a beard that matches Trump's hair piece. To...
[17:02:34] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03tibman [134] 02Re:is this really one-sided? - 06Another "Unsafe and Unprofessional" Intercept of a U.S. Aircraft by Russia - 919 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:02:35] <exec> 08└─Older military is more racist, sexist, and unprofessional. Newer military does not play these kinds of games anymore (they shouldn't be, anyways). Bunch of idiots flexing muscles at each other. Be serious and take the situation seriously. Anyways, era rivalry is nothing new. WW2 vets looked at Vietn...
[17:02:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:is this really one-sided? - 06Another "Unsafe and Unprofessional" Intercept of a U.S. Aircraft by Russia - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:02:37] <exec> 08└─Are we really only ever the recipients of these actions
[17:02:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:is this really one-sided? - 06Another "Unsafe and Unprofessional" Intercept of a U.S. Aircraft by Russia - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:02:39] <exec> 08└─Actually, I think it's their front yard, or at least it's their side yard. The back yard would be Siberia, and the Arctic Circle.
[17:02:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:is this really one-sided? - 06Another "Unsafe and Unprofessional" Intercept of a U.S. Aircraft by Russia - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:02:41] <exec> 08└─You seem to think Americans should or would know Geography. And seem to think the public school system would have a duty to teach something basic about this subject -- which would distract from important matters like which Kardashian is getting the fattest. God invented wars to teach Americans geogr...
[17:02:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:is this really one-sided? - 06Another "Unsafe and Unprofessional" Intercept of a U.S. Aircraft by Russia - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:02:43] <exec> 08└─‘US spy planes approaching Russian territory with transponders off a provocation’: https://www.rt.com [rt.com]
[17:02:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Capt. Obvious [6089] (Score:2) 02Re:Volunteer? - 06Boston Police Commissioner Orders Officers to Wear Cameras After None Volunteer - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:02:55] <exec> 08└─No, they need to keep the guns so they can threaten violence. You can change it to "no camera, no presumption of a clean shoot (in fact, presumption of a dirty one)"
[17:03:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Volunteer? - 06Boston Police Commissioner Orders Officers to Wear Cameras After None Volunteer - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:03:00] <exec> 08└─That's whole lot of unsupported accusations you got there. Any evidence to back it it up (police don't report corruption in their departments, police actively cover for bad cops, etc,)? I mean we could extend this that police cams only tell a part of the story, and you really need mass surveillance...
[17:03:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Dumb submiter - 06Boston Police Commissioner Orders Officers to Wear Cameras After None Volunteer - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:10] <exec> 08└─No word on whether or not the Commissioner volunteered to wear a camera.
[17:03:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Dumb submiter - 06Boston Police Commissioner Orders Officers to Wear Cameras After None Volunteer - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:03:12] <exec> 08└─The comment was not present in the original submission, numbnut. Either way, there is no reason for name-calling. Your post quality would improve if you described how the analogy was poorly choosen because of the clear difference in duties or the relative importance of a visual record of police inte...
[17:03:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02It helps both ways - 06Boston Police Commissioner Orders Officers to Wear Cameras After None Volunteer - 1077 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:14] <exec> 08└─Cameras have proven to help the police. It removes that 'he hit me' to lets bring up the footage. 'well mam looks like you spit on him and yelled at him for 5 mins straight and he let you off light with a verbal warning'. Cops should be demanding these things. It removes the element of 'he said she...
[17:03:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Fuck your bodycams - 06Boston Police Commissioner Orders Officers to Wear Cameras After None Volunteer - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:16] <exec> 08└─These bodycams are fucking bullshit. Countless cops are simply disabling them or wiping the data when it's convenient and there's still no accountability. Even when the footage is there it doesn't make a fucking difference. Remember Eric Garner? The man who filmed his murder, Ramsey Orta, is going t...
[17:03:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:Does anyone trust Google anymore? - 06Nashville Officials Approve Ordinance to Give Google Fiber Faster Access to Utility Poles - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:03:47] <exec> 08└─You're not being fair to Google. Take Reader for example. Google gave more than three months advance notice and allowed full export functionality. Reader's demise sucked, but you could hardly fault how Google executed the retirement. And it's not like Google has to do much to beat the competition, a...
[17:04:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fauxlosopher [4804] (Score:1) 02Minds need changing re: disassociation - 062013 Los Angeles Airport Shooter Sentenced to Life in Prison - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:04:25] <exec> 08└─the system will be changed if the people want it to be changed by choosing an [non-violent] alternative
[17:04:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Patriots should study a bit more - 062013 Los Angeles Airport Shooter Sentenced to Life in Prison - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:04:33] <exec> 08└─> If one is pissed about something, they should wait and study the problem more. > ... > The person shows a lifetime (23 years in his case) of brainwashing. So, if a lifetime isn't long enough to understand the problem, how long should they spend studying it? Maybe your theories don't really apply t...
[17:04:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Patriots should study a bit more - 062013 Los Angeles Airport Shooter Sentenced to Life in Prison - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:04:35] <exec> 08└─Innocents being judged will someday judge you. Terrorism is another name for the creation of pissed-off people and giving them reason to take revenge for the harm you caused them.
[17:05:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Re:Why hold back? - 06Fear of Contaminating Mars with Life from the Curiosity Rover - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:05:05] <exec> 08└─So, let's check out the water and learn something, possible very important.
[17:05:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Looks like Curiosity 2 won't have a 3.5mm jack - 06Fear of Contaminating Mars with Life from the Curiosity Rover - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:05:10] <exec> 08└─It's always money saving. Everything always comes down to money
[17:05:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How to Raise an Unhappy Loser - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:05:37] <exec> 08└─Which was my point at the end of that paragraph.
[17:07:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:90nm ? - 06Carbon Nanotube Transistors Outperform Silicon in Test - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:07:00] <exec> 08└─I hand-craft the most amazing buggies around, but the Amish market isn't enough to break even. I'd like to know if my tricks can be used to improve a Rolls, and hopefully down the road a Toyota.
[17:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sex trafficking is the new bogeyman - 06Supreme Court Chief Justice Blocks Congressional Subpoena Over First Amendment Rights - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:09:12] <exec> 08└─Even where prostitution is legalized, women and girls are trafficed.
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[18:02:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02autopilot? who cares? - 06Tesla Says Autopilot System Not to Blame for Dutch Crash - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:15] <exec> 08└─Who cares? It was a Tesla. Teslas are unsafe! If you drive a Tesla, you'll crash and die! This doesn't happen with any other kind of car! Also something bla bla Musky, but I'll leave that up to the Musky guy.
[18:02:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score:2) 02Black box - 06Tesla Says Autopilot System Not to Blame for Dutch Crash - 854 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:17] <exec> 08└─I foresee a time in the very near future (in car industry terms, so like 10 years) where black box like devices similar to what Tesla puts in their cars will be mandatory for every vehicle. By no means is Tesla's log the only one in the industry, but it logs more and for longer. Does it log GPS data...
[18:02:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Therefore .. - 06Another "Unsafe and Unprofessional" Intercept of a U.S. Aircraft by Russia - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:02:27] <exec> 08└─Old meme, still pretty accurate: http://i.imgur.com [imgur.com]
[18:02:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:Therefore .. - 06Another "Unsafe and Unprofessional" Intercept of a U.S. Aircraft by Russia - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:02:29] <exec> 08└─That nice Mr Putin [youtube.com] is widely maligned and misunderstood in the West. He only has our best interests and well-being at heart. He's a true hero, brave, and shining example [youtube.com] to us all.
[18:02:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Therefore .. - 06Another "Unsafe and Unprofessional" Intercept of a U.S. Aircraft by Russia - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:02:32] <exec> 08└─Wait, which bear owns International Airspace?
[18:02:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Therefore .. - 06Another "Unsafe and Unprofessional" Intercept of a U.S. Aircraft by Russia - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:02:34] <exec> 08└─The ManBearPig aka Putin owns it all. The north pole, international airspace and everything any Russian has even thought about once.
[18:02:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:is this really one-sided? - 06Another "Unsafe and Unprofessional" Intercept of a U.S. Aircraft by Russia - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:02:43] <exec> 08└─Oh noes! Runaway is voting for a ball-less muzzie lover. [blackagendareport.com] Did hell just freeze over? How are you not voting for Trump?
[18:02:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:is this really one-sided? - 06Another "Unsafe and Unprofessional" Intercept of a U.S. Aircraft by Russia - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:02:45] <exec> 08└─I hate to break this to you, but Stein will keep the military gay and feminine.
[18:02:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score:1) 02Long history of homosexuals in the military - 06Another "Unsafe and Unprofessional" Intercept of a U.S. Aircraft by Russia - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:02:48] <exec> 08└─Anyone who thinks homosexuals don't belong in military forces don't know their classical history. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] and especially https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[18:02:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:is this really one-sided? - 06Another "Unsafe and Unprofessional" Intercept of a U.S. Aircraft by Russia - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:02:50] <exec> 08└─Yes, just boys being boys. Oh, and don't forget these whiners [wikipedia.org].
[18:02:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02so we're aggressively positioned - 06Another "Unsafe and Unprofessional" Intercept of a U.S. Aircraft by Russia - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:02:55] <exec> 08└─In other words we're pretty aggressively positioned. Okay. We've been like that my entire adult life so I'd become acclimated to it. I hadn't thought about how they might see it. Something to think about. It doesn't sound like the soldiers are whining to me. It sounds like the politicians (the soldi...
[18:02:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:is this really one-sided? - 06Another "Unsafe and Unprofessional" Intercept of a U.S. Aircraft by Russia - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:02:58] <exec> 08└─- Turkey in their South, has shown aggression and shot down a Russian bomber recently;
[18:03:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:is this really one-sided? - 06Another "Unsafe and Unprofessional" Intercept of a U.S. Aircraft by Russia - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:03:01] <exec> 08└─Any number of people will immediately discredit you simply because you cited RT. Apparently it's not news unless it comes out fresh, laundered and appropriately spun and scented via a US news network. Cos - you know - Russia.
[18:03:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:is this really one-sided? - 06Another "Unsafe and Unprofessional" Intercept of a U.S. Aircraft by Russia - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:03:03] <exec> 08└─Maverick did it first...
[18:03:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Just down the fuckers - 06Another "Unsafe and Unprofessional" Intercept of a U.S. Aircraft by Russia - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:05] <exec> 08└─I would.
[18:03:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score:2) 02Re:Just down the fuckers - 06Another "Unsafe and Unprofessional" Intercept of a U.S. Aircraft by Russia - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:03:07] <exec> 08└─How are you? [wordpress.com]
[18:03:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02American soldiers - 06Another "Unsafe and Unprofessional" Intercept of a U.S. Aircraft by Russia - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:09] <exec> 08└─Whining about safety on the job. Yes, flying on or near another country's border in a military/spy aircraft is not "safe". It never has been, and it never will be. But whinging and moaning about it like a schoolgirl makes you look like - a schoolgirl.
[18:03:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:Volunteer? - 06Boston Police Commissioner Orders Officers to Wear Cameras After None Volunteer - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:03:22] <exec> 08└─No camera no bullets, then.
[18:03:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fauxlosopher [4804] (Score:1) 02Why good cops are so hard to find - 06Boston Police Commissioner Orders Officers to Wear Cameras After None Volunteer - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:03:28] <exec> 08└─That's whole lot of unsupported accusations you got there. Any evidence to back it it up (police don't report corruption in their departments, police actively cover for bad cops, etc,)?
[18:03:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:Volunteer? - 06Boston Police Commissioner Orders Officers to Wear Cameras After None Volunteer - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:03:30] <exec> 08└─Have you ever seen a cop get pulled over for speeding without their sirens on? I haven't, despite seeing cops speed while other cops were present. Even little abuses like that make every cop who looks the other way rotten, and that's the tip of the iceberg, the violation of law we all see and yet st...
[18:03:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Volunteer? - 06Boston Police Commissioner Orders Officers to Wear Cameras After None Volunteer - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:03:32] <exec> 08└─I haven't noticed that the police are particularly more corrupt than the auto industry or any other business you'd care to mention. I mean if we are going to point the finger blame, there is enough to go around. To you too I suspect. What I have noticed is that corruption with the police is more vis...
[18:03:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Volunteer? - 06Boston Police Commissioner Orders Officers to Wear Cameras After None Volunteer - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:03:34] <exec> 08└─Yes, you're exactly right. The auto industry murders tens of thousands of people per year who choose to use their products. It's no different from racist cops with no trigger discipline.
[18:03:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score:2) 02Re:Volunteer? - 06Boston Police Commissioner Orders Officers to Wear Cameras After None Volunteer - 902 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:03:36] <exec> 08└─The thin blue line, [policeone.com] apparently you've never heard of it. I find it interesting that the author of the article I linked spends so much energy refuting the negative interpretation of that term after stating at the beginning that his own academy instructor was hesitant to use it in clas...
[18:03:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Volunteer? - 06Boston Police Commissioner Orders Officers to Wear Cameras After None Volunteer - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:03:41] <exec> 08└─"serve and protect", remember? If the cop and the person of interest both know that they are being recorded, exchanges are a lot more likely to be civilized. It helps avoid incidents, rather than have to clean them up.
[18:03:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:simple solution - 06Boston Police Commissioner Orders Officers to Wear Cameras After None Volunteer - 1251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:03:49] <exec> 08└─oh noo! no 2100 "officers" spying on, harassing, beating, stealing from and killing people. what will we do? Who will respond after crime has been committed to write up what happened and not do anything just/fair about it? Who will falsely accuse citizens of crimes in order to steal from them? Who w...
[18:03:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Seems pretty easy to fire 'em - 06Boston Police Commissioner Orders Officers to Wear Cameras After None Volunteer - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:03:51] <exec> 08└─Of course this is much easier said than done. 2100 police officers cannot be replaced overnight
[18:03:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Dumb cmn32480 - 06Boston Police Commissioner Orders Officers to Wear Cameras After None Volunteer - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:03:55] <exec> 08└─Either way, there is no reason for name-calling.
[18:04:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:fuck you Michigan - 06Michigan Senate Considering Ditching the Requirement of a Human Driver in Self-Driving Tests - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:04:13] <exec> 08└─I suffer depression. I thought I was out of the woods, but the suicidal urges are coming back. It is specifically against the law to treat depression with weed. It's a flat-out lie that it's handed out to anyone. Also good luck getting any even with a medical card, since all that does is allow you t...
[18:04:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:dual control hoons - 06Michigan Senate Considering Ditching the Requirement of a Human Driver in Self-Driving Tests - 761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:04:15] <exec> 08└─Automatic cars need a big display and two big physical buttons: - A big display to show you what the car thinks the environment is: boxes showings other cars and distances in all direction, representations of identified signs and road hazards. make it a touchscreen so the user can draw a route ma...
[18:04:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score:2) 02Re:Oblig - 06Authenticity of the Oldest Known Manuscript in Ancient America Verified - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:04:48] <exec> 08└─In all fairness, Stonehenge was just sort of out there for folks to fondle until they roped it off in the 1970's.
[18:04:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Oblig - 06Authenticity of the Oldest Known Manuscript in Ancient America Verified - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:04:52] <exec> 08└─You can't acknowledge that there were civilized people before you, if your goal is to sweep through the place claiming that everything you see is yours, in the name of your god. If there is something still there, see how easily you can call it heretical and destroy it, or make it illegal to go to, o...
[18:04:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:Why Bother? - 06Authenticity of the Oldest Known Manuscript in Ancient America Verified - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:04:59] <exec> 08└─Duplo, City, Space or Technic?
[18:05:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why Bother? - 06Authenticity of the Oldest Known Manuscript in Ancient America Verified - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:05:01] <exec> 08└─Trump Legos. Those are the best Legos. They're really good Legos. Duplo? Sad!
[18:05:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Minds need changing re: disassociation - 062013 Los Angeles Airport Shooter Sentenced to Life in Prison - 666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:05:16] <exec> 08└─exactly. the armchair quarterbacks who say that non violent means would have been better have not actually tried to live free. they will quickly find that the government doesn't condone freedom of association, religion, the 2nd amendment, etc. just look at Waco. want to live with like minded people...
[18:05:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Minds need changing re: disassociation - 062013 Los Angeles Airport Shooter Sentenced to Life in Prison - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:05:17] <exec> 08└─> who say that non violent means would have been better have not actually tried to live free. And how have those violent means worked out so far? We've had well over two centuries in which violence has never achieved the intended results. In fact, every social milestone in this country was achieved...
[18:05:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Patriots should study a bit more - 062013 Los Angeles Airport Shooter Sentenced to Life in Prison - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:05:27] <exec> 08└─Ok, you are not very bright. Here's the point: If 23 years was not long enough to convince him to take another choice, why do you think any amount of time would?
[18:05:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How to stop civilization? - 06World Conservation Congress Debates the Gene Drive - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:05:39] <exec> 08└─Dude is a walking, walking argumentum ad populam. Fitting for a racist.
[18:05:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:How to stop civilization? - 06World Conservation Congress Debates the Gene Drive - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:05:41] <exec> 08└─The only problem with that argument is that gene drives were originally discovered in the wild, and only later moved to the lab. OTOH, the original use was (IIRC) for a fungus to attack its host in a way that would result in all descendants carrying the fungus. But it may have been a bacteria. That...
[18:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Precedent... - 06Fear of Contaminating Mars with Life from the Curiosity Rover - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:09] <exec> 08└─We know the problem, as it is historical record that all life on the planet descends from Rincewind's sandwich.
[18:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:How to Raise an Unhappy Loser - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:06:29] <exec> 08└─Which, unfortunately for your perception of the world, can only mean that Donald Trump is absolutely a genius at working with people. Occam's Razor would suggest that this is the most likely explanation as to how he led his company to the massive success it has, as business is nothing but dealing wi...
[18:06:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:don't let jealous crabs pull you down - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:06:50] <exec> 08└─Damn that cruel world and its shallow motivations!
[18:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Sour Grapes. - 06Tesla Envy Grips Germany's Giants - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:39] <exec> 08└─Read: http://www.autonews.com [autonews.com] http://www.caranddriver.com [caranddriver.com] https://en.wikipedia.org
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[19:02:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Re:Black box - 06Tesla Says Autopilot System Not to Blame for Dutch Crash - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:02:23] <exec> 08└─Logging makes a lot of sense. I believe most people already expect it in their vehicle... the type of people who go to the dealership with the problem statement "About two weeks ago the car felt funny". I get this type of request at work and have to go look through the tracelogs on the tool for erro...
[19:02:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Therefore .. - 06Another "Unsafe and Unprofessional" Intercept of a U.S. Aircraft by Russia - 151 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:32] <exec> 08└─.. maybe you shouldn't try to poke the BEAR INSIDE ITS OWN FRIGGIN' CAVE, cowboy? Unless, of course, you 're done with that finger. And with your face.
[19:02:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02Re:Therefore .. - 06Another "Unsafe and Unprofessional" Intercept of a U.S. Aircraft by Russia - 77 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:02:34] <exec> 08└─Old meme, still pretty accurate: http://i.imgur.com [imgur.com]
[19:02:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Long history of homosexuals in the military - 06Another "Unsafe and Unprofessional" Intercept of a U.S. Aircraft by Russia - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:02:49] <exec> 08└─The word homosexual didn't even really exist until about a century ago when it was explicitly created to group a large variety of sexual behavior into a single diagnosis of mental disease. Since then our whole concept of sexuality has been forced into this binary paradigm that didn't, and really sho...
[19:02:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:is this really one-sided? - 06Another "Unsafe and Unprofessional" Intercept of a U.S. Aircraft by Russia - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:02:54] <exec> 08└─You seem to think Americans should or would know Geography
[19:03:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:is this really one-sided? - 06Another "Unsafe and Unprofessional" Intercept of a U.S. Aircraft by Russia - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:03:02] <exec> 08└─From the other side's perspective, flying RIGHT NEXT TO their boundary is the provocation. And, frankly, it's sort of provocative. Heck, if they flew right up to the West Coast, we'd be pretty peeved. It's the kids in the back seat going "I'm not touching you . . ." until the fistfight breaks out.
[19:03:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Unprofessional? - 06Another "Unsafe and Unprofessional" Intercept of a U.S. Aircraft by Russia - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:07] <exec> 08└─If they can fly a plane that close to another without incident that really isn't the suitable word.
[19:03:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Unprofessional? - 06Another "Unsafe and Unprofessional" Intercept of a U.S. Aircraft by Russia - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:03:09] <exec> 08└─The Chinese can't do it.
[19:03:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Volunteer? - 06Boston Police Commissioner Orders Officers to Wear Cameras After None Volunteer - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:03:31] <exec> 08└─I haven't noticed that the police are particularly more corrupt than the auto industry or any other business
[19:03:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Volunteer? - 06Boston Police Commissioner Orders Officers to Wear Cameras After None Volunteer - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:03:35] <exec> 08└─As we have seen from BLM, even after officers are cleared, there are still demand for "justice", whatever that means.
[19:03:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:Volunteer? - 06Boston Police Commissioner Orders Officers to Wear Cameras After None Volunteer - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:03:39] <exec> 08└─serve and protect - that's a tv tag line but who does it apply to? not you and I but the ruling class. the cops have no duty to protect you and I; it was 'decided' by courts not too long ago. a cop usually comes by LATER ON to clean up the mess but not to stop problems or prevent problems. and if yo...
[19:03:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Volunteer? - 06Boston Police Commissioner Orders Officers to Wear Cameras After None Volunteer - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:03:41] <exec> 08└─(a) That's not what the commissioner is reported to have said (b) I doubt it works that way in practice. The cops who are assholes think they are justified in being assholes, and when you think you are right then you think you've got nothing to hide. As for anyone else being on camera, people who lo...
[19:03:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Dumb cmn32480 - 06Boston Police Commissioner Orders Officers to Wear Cameras After None Volunteer - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:03:53] <exec> 08└─You got off easy. You aren't a numbnut, you are clearly a full-blown dumbass. When someone argues that "what's good for the goose is good for the gander" responding that the gander is not a goose is to utterly miss the fucking point you goddamn autistic moron.
[19:04:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The downside? - 06Nashville Officials Approve Ordinance to Give Google Fiber Faster Access to Utility Poles - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:04:32] <exec> 08└─The last electrician to touch a wire, "owns" that wire. That is, he is responsible for anything that happens to it, by it, or around it. Example? https://casetext.com [casetext.com]
[19:04:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Oblig - 06Authenticity of the Oldest Known Manuscript in Ancient America Verified - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:04:48] <exec> 08└─out there for folks to fondle until they roped it off in the 1970's.
[19:05:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Patriots should study a bit more - 062013 Los Angeles Airport Shooter Sentenced to Life in Prison - 2381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:05:24] <exec> 08└─I'm guessing this guy doesn't understand human nature one bit. His actions were worse than ineffective--he gave TPTB yet another reason that we need security theater lockdown. How did we get security theater lockdown? Certainly there are guilty parties who sold the idea to the American people, but t...
[19:05:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:How to stop civilization? - 06World Conservation Congress Debates the Gene Drive - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:05:37] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the serious response. I'm rather surprised by the lack of movement on this story, I guess we need more emails/trump/politics...
[19:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score:2) 02Re:How to Raise an Unhappy Loser - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:06:25] <exec> 08└─In some industries, big companies start lots of projects, some of which may fail and/or be cancelled. In others, people spawn little companies (precisely to isolate the liability), some of which may fail and/or be closed - or sold. Multiple people in tech point out that if you're not failing now and...
[19:07:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:90nm ? - 06Carbon Nanotube Transistors Outperform Silicon in Test - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:07:39] <exec> 08└─Density is (not only) a matter of silicon manufacturing efficiency. It's also related to the fact that at Microprocessors work at frequencies that reach the threshold between transmission lines and waveguides, so you need to keep shrinking everything.
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[20:02:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Prima Facie, Good - 06Catalonia to Collect DNA Samples to Identify Spain's Civil War Dead - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:15] <exec> 08└─I can think of a lot of good things that could come out of such a public DNA database, like ways for epidemiologists to better fight pandemics, anthropologists to map human migrations, and that sort of thing. This project sounds like another good use. It is the many nefarious uses that give me pause...
[20:02:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Homage to Catalonia - 06Catalonia to Collect DNA Samples to Identify Spain's Civil War Dead - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:17] <exec> 08└─During this time, George Orwell was in Spain and fighting as part of the anti-Fascist forces, specifically, the militia of the POUM (Workers' Party of Marxist Unification). He wrote a book about how Socialism bloomed there and how the fifth-column Stalinists did everything they could to undermine th...
[20:02:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Black box - 06Tesla Says Autopilot System Not to Blame for Dutch Crash - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:02:27] <exec> 08└─You are justifiably paranoid. The Bill of Rights 2.0 must formalize the Right to Privacy (copies to be distributed to every corner of the land along with a frothy drink of Ka'kau' [authenticmaya.com] served in goblets fashioned from the skulls of those who thought it was cute to wipe their butts wit...
[20:02:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2) 02Troll says what? - 06Tesla Says Autopilot System Not to Blame for Dutch Crash - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:29] <exec> 08└─What? Tesla? Crash? Scandal! Death! Autopilot! Their fault! No? Who cares! TROLOLO
[20:02:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Re:Troll says what? - 06Tesla Says Autopilot System Not to Blame for Dutch Crash - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:02:31] <exec> 08└─What? Tesla? Crash? Scandal! Death! Autopilot! Their fault! No? Who cares!
[20:02:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:is this really one-sided? - 06Another "Unsafe and Unprofessional" Intercept of a U.S. Aircraft by Russia - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:02:54] <exec> 08└─On the plus side, they're both in agreement on the question of color, green, so no issues there.
[20:03:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:is this really one-sided? - 06Another "Unsafe and Unprofessional" Intercept of a U.S. Aircraft by Russia - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:03:04] <exec> 08└─> Yes, I live in a cave. If you find an ancient manuscript down there, please don't touch it and call the anthropologists first. That would save much trouble. It would also give you extra witnesses if it turns out to be someone's old Playboy...
[20:03:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:is this really one-sided? - 06Another "Unsafe and Unprofessional" Intercept of a U.S. Aircraft by Russia - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:03:08] <exec> 08└─It wasn't by any chance inside Turkish airspace, was it?
[20:03:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:is this really one-sided? - 06Another "Unsafe and Unprofessional" Intercept of a U.S. Aircraft by Russia - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:03:10] <exec> 08└─Don't know if it was a factor in that case, but there is long historical enmity between the Turks and the Russians. Also Erdogan just survived another coup attempt from the army, so playing the strong man a la Putin could well be meant to face that sort of thing down. Maybe a Solentil with better kn...
[20:03:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:is this really one-sided? - 06Another "Unsafe and Unprofessional" Intercept of a U.S. Aircraft by Russia - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:03:14] <exec> 08└─Rightly so if the story has anything to do with an RT story about Russia. They reported NOTHING within their borders about the fighting they were doing against Ukraine. Are you THAT fucking stupid, or do you think being all "the lame stream media" makes you sound smart or insightful?
[20:03:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 022B or Not 2B - 06Another "Unsafe and Unprofessional" Intercept of a U.S. Aircraft by Russia - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:23] <exec> 08└─They'll keep doing it unless we shoot. The open question is if it's worth all the likely drama to shoot, or just let them buzz around. It could be good practice for our pilots to chase the buzzers around and fire lots of warning shots.
[20:03:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:2B or Not 2B - 06Another "Unsafe and Unprofessional" Intercept of a U.S. Aircraft by Russia - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:03:25] <exec> 08└─Just develop a paintball gun that can paint a nearby enemy jet in rainbow colours.
[20:03:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Yog-Yogguth [1862] (Score:3, Interesting) 02It's funny - 06Another "Unsafe and Unprofessional" Intercept of a U.S. Aircraft by Russia - 1541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:27] <exec> 08└─A huge radar signature (or two) without any transponders heads directly towards your airspace and are about to cross into it. They're big enough to be bombers or airliners or as it turns out: large surveillance & electronic warfare aircraft (which actually still makes it a potential nuclear first st...
[20:03:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Volunteer? - 06Boston Police Commissioner Orders Officers to Wear Cameras After None Volunteer - 679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:03:39] <exec> 08└─Badges? Badges?! Let them have their steenking badges. No camera, no gun sounds like a good start - but, in reality, anybody who signs up for the job "protector of the people" really needs to be accountable for their actions as an officer of the law, whether on or off duty. We the "protected people"...
[20:03:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02Re:Volunteer? - 06Boston Police Commissioner Orders Officers to Wear Cameras After None Volunteer - 1331 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:03:45] <exec> 08└─The police brought this on themselves. If they had policed their own ranks and removed bad cops we wouldn't even be having this discussion. But what happens is: 1. there are (or were) a few, and probably very few, bad cops 2. other cops won't report it because: A. don't want to rock the boat B. don'...
[20:03:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Volunteer? - 06Boston Police Commissioner Orders Officers to Wear Cameras After None Volunteer - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:03:54] <exec> 08└─Police are public servants that have the power to enforce the law. They should be held to a higher standard than businesses.
[20:04:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Really? - 06Boston Police Commissioner Orders Officers to Wear Cameras After None Volunteer - 1315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:15] <exec> 08└─Nothing to hide, nothing to fear, remember? If you can't have your job monitored, what are you doing in it? Nobody's asking you to take the camera home, film your wife, or invade your own privacy. In fact, even the issues of the cameras recording victim statements which might want to remain anonymou...
[20:05:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hawkwind [3531] (Score:2) 02Re:Oblig - 06Authenticity of the Oldest Known Manuscript in Ancient America Verified - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:05:10] <exec> 08└─Well, running and walking on the barrow mounds Harold Bluetooth buried his parents Gorm and Thrya in is similar. Granted it only goes back to the 900s, and the Jelling stones [wikipedia.org] are now protected [wordpress.com]. But still, one gets to run up and down a couple of famous mounds.
[20:05:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Oblig - 06Authenticity of the Oldest Known Manuscript in Ancient America Verified - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:05:13] <exec> 08└─That's why there's all this "old" stuff, like clocktowers and such in Europe, it doesn't exist elsewhere because those ancient and civilized Europeans destroyed what wasn't their culture. They couldn't destroy the pyramids, so they just tried to haul as much of it as they could back to Europe. Now w...
[20:05:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:Why Bother? - 06Authenticity of the Oldest Known Manuscript in Ancient America Verified - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:05:23] <exec> 08└─I figured Duplo would be more Trump's thing.
[20:05:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Patriots should study a bit more - 062013 Los Angeles Airport Shooter Sentenced to Life in Prison - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:05:49] <exec> 08└─You are not very bright. ... until he reaches his thirtieth year or thereabouts a man’s mental development will mostly consist in acquiring and sifting such knowledge as is necessary for the groundwork of a general platform from which he can examine the different political problems that arise from...
[20:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why hold back? - 06Fear of Contaminating Mars with Life from the Curiosity Rover - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:06:20] <exec> 08└─Oh, I don't know, fair to middlin' [extremetech.com] I'd say.
[20:06:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02How to Raise an Unhappy Loser - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 392 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:42] <exec> 08└─Children with 145 IQ will not relate well to peers with 100 IQ and will grow up to be angry bitter trolls who are unwelcome everywhere. Greedy parents need to understand that genius does not correlate with financial success, and they don't really want smart children; they want rich children. They sh...
[20:08:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Prion diseases - 06When People Ate People, a Strange Disease Emerged - 2113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:08:40] <exec> 08└─Regardless of whether they occasionally arises spontaneously, it still must "attack and refold" victims to propagate, and propagating is the only thing that makes it dangerous. Probably most spontaneously misfolded proteins are relatively harmless, prions though represent a robot that has been repro...
[20:08:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Prion diseases - 06When People Ate People, a Strange Disease Emerged - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:08:42] <exec> 08└─You put it very succinctly. Thanks.
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[21:02:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Easy FIx - 06Catalonia to Collect DNA Samples to Identify Spain's Civil War Dead - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:02:21] <exec> 08└─Now that easy gene editing has arrived via CRISPR/Cas9 on the one hand, and the proof that the government has thoroughly abrogated the Constitution via the NSA (among many other crimes), giving up my DNA to the government is the last thing I'd trust them with.
[21:02:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score:2) 02Obligatory SNL: - 06Catalonia to Collect DNA Samples to Identify Spain's Civil War Dead - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:23] <exec> 08└─In other news, Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.
[21:02:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02Speed limit correction - 06Tesla Says Autopilot System Not to Blame for Dutch Crash - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:37] <exec> 08└─Roads like that usually have a speed limit of 80 kph (50 mph) or 60 kph (37 mph). There are probably no 90 kph roads at all and 100 kph or higher never have trees directly at the side of the road. Your driver's license will be temporarily be revoked if you're caught exceeding the speed limit by more...
[21:02:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:Therefore .. - 06Another "Unsafe and Unprofessional" Intercept of a U.S. Aircraft by Russia - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:02:51] <exec> 08└─Probably Poland and Romania too, soon.
[21:03:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:is this really one-sided? - 06Another "Unsafe and Unprofessional" Intercept of a U.S. Aircraft by Russia - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:03:07] <exec> 08└─I can't say WTF today's military is all about. Whining about a close approach like this? FFS - WHINING!! This is what the new gay armed forces is all about? This is what we get for allowing women on the "front lines"? Jesus H. Christ. All the supernatural powers from mankind's mythology have to be t...
[21:03:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:is this really one-sided? - 06Another "Unsafe and Unprofessional" Intercept of a U.S. Aircraft by Russia - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:03:17] <exec> 08└─As opposed to letting the bear rummage around in your trash and generally wander around your yard? You don't go mucking around in somebody's private airspace without an explicit invitation, no matter who you are. And when said plane is fully outfitted with weapons I'd say you're well within your rig...
[21:03:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's funny - 06Another "Unsafe and Unprofessional" Intercept of a U.S. Aircraft by Russia - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:03:32] <exec> 08└─How did you decide the US had transponders disabled?
[21:04:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Really? - 06Boston Police Commissioner Orders Officers to Wear Cameras After None Volunteer - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:04:20] <exec> 08└─I'm with you. You've got nothing to fear if you've got nothing to hide. This and all that NSA stuff is getting blown WAY out of proportion. Personally, I'm very leery of anyone who thinks they need to encrypt their computers.
[21:04:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02cmn32480 - 06Boston Police Commissioner Orders Officers to Wear Cameras After None Volunteer - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:21] <exec> 08└─You are a moron.
[21:04:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:cmn32480 - 06Boston Police Commissioner Orders Officers to Wear Cameras After None Volunteer - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:04:23] <exec> 08└─Now you figured that out?! Dumbass.
[21:05:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Minds need changing re: disassociation - 062013 Los Angeles Airport Shooter Sentenced to Life in Prison - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:05:46] <exec> 08└─And how have those violent means worked out so far? We've had well over two centuries in which violence has never achieved the intended results.
[21:05:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Minds need changing re: disassociation - 062013 Los Angeles Airport Shooter Sentenced to Life in Prison - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:05:47] <exec> 08└─She shouldn't have been driving on roads that my tax dollars pay for maintaining. Yes, you do need to display government ornamentation or however you want to put it if you want to drive on those roads. Build your own roads and knock yourself out if you want to drive without government ornamentation....
[21:05:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Minds need changing re: disassociation - 062013 Los Angeles Airport Shooter Sentenced to Life in Prison - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:05:49] <exec> 08└─She shouldn't have been driving on roads that my tax dollars pay for maintaining
[21:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Sex trafficking is the new bogeyman - 06Supreme Court Chief Justice Blocks Congressional Subpoena Over First Amendment Rights - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:44] <exec> 08└─Ah the myth of the independent self employed sex worker raises its head again.
[21:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Link is no good - 06Supreme Court Chief Justice Blocks Congressional Subpoena Over First Amendment Rights - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:58] <exec> 08└─BTW, it's good that Roberts has shown himself once again to be nothing more than a right-wing shill.
[21:11:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Tesla Driver Dies After Model S Hits Tree - 06Tesla Envy Grips Germany's Giants - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:11:31] <exec> 08└─My god, that's terrible! Is the tree alright?
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[22:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:2) 02NASA TV Live Stream - 06OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission Ready for Launch Today 2305 UTC / 1905 EDT - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:01] <exec> 08└─For those who want up-to-the-second information, the launch is being carried on NASA TV [nasa.gov]. From what I can tell by viewing the page source, the feed is SWF (flash), but I do not have flash installed. OTOH, I can play such files/streams/media using VLC. Would appreciate it if someone could...
[22:02:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Will never work - 06OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission Ready for Launch Today 2305 UTC / 1905 EDT - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:03] <exec> 08└─I tried a single booster in Kerbal Space Program like the Atlas V 411, and it always crashed. I just want to save NASA from the trial and error procedure I've developed while playing KSP.
[22:02:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:2) 02Single booster has worked three times before - 06OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission Ready for Launch Today 2305 UTC / 1905 EDT - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:02:05] <exec> 08└─I tried a single booster in Kerbal Space Program like the Atlas V 411, and it always crashed. I just want to save NASA from the trial and error procedure I've developed while playing KSP.
[22:02:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Obligatory SNL: - 06Catalonia to Collect DNA Samples to Identify Spain's Civil War Dead - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:02:15] <exec> 08└─Thank goodness. What about Pan's Labyrinth?
[22:02:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2) 02Re:Troll says what? - 06Tesla Says Autopilot System Not to Blame for Dutch Crash - 1358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:02:29] <exec> 08└─You make a good point, but that's not what I was trying to get across. Tesla is held accountable to a standard unreasonably above and beyond everyone else. The autopilot issues are just the latest thing. And I guarantee you they would not be getting the press they are (not to mention the jokes) if i...
[22:02:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02Missing the Most Relevant Fact - 06Tesla Says Autopilot System Not to Blame for Dutch Crash - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:32] <exec> 08└─There's ongoing tension between the indigenous inhabitants of the Netherlands and those that by culture and religion shall be forever outsiders, yet neither of the two links has mentioned a whisper of the demographic origins of this suicidal driver. It is a simple matter of history that monoethnic s...
[22:03:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score:2) 02Re:is this really one-sided? - 06Another "Unsafe and Unprofessional" Intercept of a U.S. Aircraft by Russia - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:03:03] <exec> 08└─What you've described can be summarized as the transition from the Cold War (which included some proxy wars) to a public relations war. In general, though, all the reports of Russian fighters acting aggressively sound to me like cold war tactics. Perhaps they long for the glory days.... Overall, th...
[22:03:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:is this really one-sided? - 06Another "Unsafe and Unprofessional" Intercept of a U.S. Aircraft by Russia - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:03:14] <exec> 08└─Didn't they pull the same stunt a couple months ago in the Baltic? Parked a destroyer on the doorstep and whined about a fly-by?
[22:03:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:is this really one-sided? - 06Another "Unsafe and Unprofessional" Intercept of a U.S. Aircraft by Russia - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:03:19] <exec> 08└─They reported NOTHING within their borders about the fighting they were doing against Ukraine.
[22:03:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02ELINT - 06Another "Unsafe and Unprofessional" Intercept of a U.S. Aircraft by Russia - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:31] <exec> 08└─Electronic Emissions Intelligence (ELINT)... look it up & learn. We have been doing it to them and they have been doing it to us. Welcome to the oldest game in the world...
[22:03:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score:2) 02Re:Volunteer? - 06Boston Police Commissioner Orders Officers to Wear Cameras After None Volunteer - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:03:58] <exec> 08└─...the percentage of cops doing an excellent job compared to any abuses is at least 1000 to 1, which doesn't exactly support this meme of widespread corruption. Do you have a reference for that? Yes: http://www.nationalreview.com [nationa...
[22:04:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score:2) 02Re:Volunteer? - 06Boston Police Commissioner Orders Officers to Wear Cameras After None Volunteer - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:04:09] <exec> 08└─It is a far more complicated issue than that. BLM is probably the biggest group campaign for police change and they are absolutely against police body cams. And if I were a police officer I definitely would not want to draw any negative attention from them.
[22:04:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score:2) 02Re:It helps both ways - 06Boston Police Commissioner Orders Officers to Wear Cameras After None Volunteer - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:04:21] <exec> 08└─> The only reason you would not want them is if you are doing something shady. It's not that simple. BLM for example are very against cop cams. I for one, if already a cop, would not want to draw negative attention from them.
[22:04:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Fuck your bodycams - 06Boston Police Commissioner Orders Officers to Wear Cameras After None Volunteer - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:04:23] <exec> 08└─Bodycams don't get disabled. They mysteriously malfunction!
[22:04:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:cmn32480 - 06Boston Police Commissioner Orders Officers to Wear Cameras After None Volunteer - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:04:29] <exec> 08└─You are the face of autism.
[22:04:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:cmn32480 - 06Boston Police Commissioner Orders Officers to Wear Cameras After None Volunteer - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:04:31] <exec> 08└─More like the butthead of autism.
[22:04:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Labor/Management Issue - 06Boston Police Commissioner Orders Officers to Wear Cameras After None Volunteer - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:34] <exec> 08└─Seems like someone is trying to make a "big story" about police behavior out of what amounts to standard labor/management wrangling. The union head simply asked his members to not volunteer until the city negotiates this with the union. That is his job, and like it or not, any change in the working...
[22:05:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Oblig - 06Authenticity of the Oldest Known Manuscript in Ancient America Verified - 1703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:05:29] <exec> 08└─True story: While studying at a Mandarin immersion course in Beijing the program offered us an optional trip to Qufu, Confucius's hometown. It was a loooong bus ride from Beijing, and along the way we stopped at a restaurant the bus driver had a kickback deal going with. As happens every third meal...
[22:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:People who hang out on alt right websites - 062013 Los Angeles Airport Shooter Sentenced to Life in Prison - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:06:06] <exec> 08└─If Donald Trump had been in charge, the killer would not have been allowed into the United States. “Until we are able to determine and understand this problem and the dangerous threat it poses, our country cannot be the victims of horrendous attacks by people that believe only in jihad, and have n...
[22:07:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stormwyrm [717] 02Re:don't let jealous crabs pull you down - 06How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children - 739 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:07:29] <exec> 08└─Paul Graham [paulgraham.com] has a slightly different take on it. He contends that nerds are unpopular not so much because they lack social skills, and not because other kids are jealous of them, but because in the environment of a typical American high school, the level of social skills and conform...
[22:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:prions remain controversial - 06When People Ate People, a Strange Disease Emerged - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:24] <exec> 08└─Yes, they laughed at Bozo and they laughed at Fermi. Now we classify everything as a boson or a fermion.
[22:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It would be a much bigger story - 06Three ISS Astronauts Return to Earth - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:12] <exec> 08└─Why do you hate bonobos?
[22:11:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Re:Link is no good - 06Supreme Court Chief Justice Blocks Congressional Subpoena Over First Amendment Rights - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:11:10] <exec> 08└─I can explain. I apparently was having a bad day yesterday and neglected to negate that sentence. Mea culpa.
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[23:02:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02HPE - 06HP Enterprise to "Spin-Merge" Software Assets in $8.8 Billion Deal - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:05] <exec> 08└─Will HPE be eventually bought out by SCO?
[23:02:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02Re:Missing the Most Relevant Fact - 06Tesla Says Autopilot System Not to Blame for Dutch Crash - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:02:41] <exec> 08└─I'm not surprised I'm getting moderated in every direction for that post. Shouldn't we expect journalists to report on uncomfortable facts, rather than reveal their own biases by selectively hiding truths that would be inconvenient to their worldview? Or to put it another way, if this was a native E...
[23:02:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Shorter version - 06Tesla Says Autopilot System Not to Blame for Dutch Crash - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:43] <exec> 08└─The deceased did something extremely stupid and wrecked his own car and himself, but his estate wanted to see if blaming the whole thing on Tesla would get them a nice big settlement. Kudos to Tesla for investigating rather than trying to buy them off.
[23:02:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Therefore .. - 06Another "Unsafe and Unprofessional" Intercept of a U.S. Aircraft by Russia - 845 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:02:55] <exec> 08└─Funny meme, but it's very disingenuous. First, remember Ukraine. I think there is plenty of evidence in recent past of Russian adventurism. I'm sure some apologists will say how they really did want to join Russia... and for all I know that could be right and all the hints it was military annexation...
[23:03:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:is this really one-sided? - 06Another "Unsafe and Unprofessional" Intercept of a U.S. Aircraft by Russia - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:03:10] <exec> 08└─Wow. +10 to Jill Stein for having principles and taking obvious and semi-risky actions for them. -10 for acting as a presidential candidate should, though. Imagine what the press would do to Donald Trump for taking such an action, let alone to Hillary Clinton. I fully think the media is unfairly bia...
[23:03:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:is this really one-sided? - 06Another "Unsafe and Unprofessional" Intercept of a U.S. Aircraft by Russia - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:03:18] <exec> 08└─> Perhaps they long for the glory days.... It sure seems like that is exactly how Putin feels. It just occurred to me that his entire reign can be summed up as "Make Russia Great Again!" And its working out better than Trump could ever do.
[23:03:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Just down the fuckers - 06Another "Unsafe and Unprofessional" Intercept of a U.S. Aircraft by Russia - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:03:38] <exec> 08└─Starting WW3, awesome, good plan brah
[23:04:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Labor/Management Issue - 06Boston Police Commissioner Orders Officers to Wear Cameras After None Volunteer - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:04:42] <exec> 08└─The police unions are part of the story of police corruption. They lie to the media whenever an officer shoots somebody, and they lie to protect the blue brotherhood. They resist the adoption of body cams or push for legislation so that body cam footage can be locked away from public record requests...
[23:05:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Why Bother? - 06Authenticity of the Oldest Known Manuscript in Ancient America Verified - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:05:50] <exec> 08└─Nah, too complicated, and the size makes him feel insecure.
[23:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why hold back? - 06Fear of Contaminating Mars with Life from the Curiosity Rover - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:06:46] <exec> 08└─SN is composed of a lot of various types. We aren't all in the higher tiers of intelligence and/or up to date on science stuff. I imagine people complaining about this are probably more conservative leaning with a knee-jerk reaction to any conservationism (haha pun NOT intended) that they don't imme...
[23:06:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why hold back? - 06Fear of Contaminating Mars with Life from the Curiosity Rover - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:06:48] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of an old guy I met, very republican but was a fan of preserving old growth trees. Told a friend of his to not cut down 3-5 giant redwoods on a property and the guy said "What are you, some kind of communist"? It goes with the older crowd, though the younger ones have their own issues (ra...
[23:06:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score:2) 02Re:Why hold back? - 06Fear of Contaminating Mars with Life from the Curiosity Rover - 1167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:06:55] <exec> 08└─I am not a certified exobiologist, but allow me to make speculations of my own: What if the "germs" are very similar to the ones on Earth? Could we then figure out for sure if they were introduced from Earth but then mutated? Would we then be able to find out if they were introduced by us recently,...
[23:11:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Sour Grapes. - 06Tesla Envy Grips Germany's Giants - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:11:39] <exec> 08└─"On front-end bumpers, designers have lowered them" and "when cars have lower bumpers, the thigh and leg rotate together causing the knee to bend less and thus reducing the likelihood of ligament injuries" That's to do what I said - to scoop the pedestrian up, otherwise you get rotation of the lower...
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