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[00:16:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Least important number... - 06The Numbers Are In: The Chevrolet Bolt Will Have a 238-Mile Range - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:07] <exec> 08└─What I want to know, after hearing so much about Teslas, is how the Bolt will perform under what's discussed as normal EV conditions, namely: pieces of metal on the street, truck trailer underpass, stacking five of them, hitting trees at twice the speed limit...
[00:16:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:4, Funny) 02Re:Least important number... - 06The Numbers Are In: The Chevrolet Bolt Will Have a 238-Mile Range - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:16:08] <exec> 08└─I personally want a single charging standard - so driving 500 miles is a practical reality. Otherwise, we might just as well keep buying hybrids until they solve that, because most can only afford one car...
[00:16:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02meanwhile, on the left coast (and further left) - 06The Numbers Are In: The Chevrolet Bolt Will Have a 238-Mile Range - 830 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:10] <exec> 08└─It's just come out that a Tesla was involved in a fatal accident earlier this year...in China -- http://www.motortrend.com [motortrend.com] > Yet another Tesla crash has made its way into the headlines, and this one actu...
[00:16:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:meanwhile, on the left coast (and further left) - 06The Numbers Are In: The Chevrolet Bolt Will Have a 238-Mile Range - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:16:12] <exec> 08└─Summary of facts: young guy, from rich family, in fast car, killed in highway accident.
[00:16:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score:2) 02Re:meanwhile, on the left coast (and further left) - 06The Numbers Are In: The Chevrolet Bolt Will Have a 238-Mile Range - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:16:15] <exec> 08└─In other news, there were roughly 3424 deaths worldwide in cars powered by gasoline yesterday, and none of them were reported.
[00:16:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:meanwhile, on the left coast (and further left) - 06The Numbers Are In: The Chevrolet Bolt Will Have a 238-Mile Range - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:16:17] <exec> 08└─false [wtsp.com]
[00:16:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:meanwhile, on the left coast (and further left) - 06The Numbers Are In: The Chevrolet Bolt Will Have a 238-Mile Range - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:16:19] <exec> 08└─...in an electric car! Putting batteries in cars is a recipe for disaster.
[00:16:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score:2) 02I wish Chevy well... - 06The Numbers Are In: The Chevrolet Bolt Will Have a 238-Mile Range - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:21] <exec> 08└─I've put a deposit down on a Tesla Model 3, but I wish Chevy well on this venture. The Volt gets excellent reviews, as does the Bolt. I hope people buy enough of them to encourage Chevy (and, by extension, Ford, Toyota, Honda, etc) to continue on the transformation from Oil-driven transportation to...
[00:16:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Mass market electric vehicles are challenging - 06The Numbers Are In: The Chevrolet Bolt Will Have a 238-Mile Range - 2017 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:23] <exec> 08└─The comparison between the Tesla Model 3 and the Chevy Bolt is obvious. But these two companies have very different positioning and unique challenges in adoption. 1. Electric drive train. Many will argue that Tesla has the upper hand here, as Chevy has had multiple independently derived versions of...
[00:16:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Indeed - 06The Numbers Are In: The Chevrolet Bolt Will Have a 238-Mile Range - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:25] <exec> 08└─Number are in. Cmn is a moron.
[00:16:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:In other words - 06Learning to Turn Down Your Amygdala Can Modify Your Emotions - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:16:41] <exec> 08└─Well if womyn could just shut down their self-respect and sense of smell we'd all be okay.
[00:16:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:In other words - 06Learning to Turn Down Your Amygdala Can Modify Your Emotions - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:16:43] <exec> 08└─Self-respect is OK, sense of smell is OK... It's the flapping thing between their nose and chin that needs an off switch.
[00:16:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:In other words - 06Learning to Turn Down Your Amygdala Can Modify Your Emotions - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:16:45] <exec> 08└─Is it too much to ask that you wash your thing with soap and water?
[00:16:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02related story - 06Learning to Turn Down Your Amygdala Can Modify Your Emotions - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:47] <exec> 08└─With MRI Technique, Brain Scientists Induce Feelings About Faces [soylentnews.org] I left a comment there about portable EEG equipment.
[00:17:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:6 months is an insult - 06Chicago Bagman Who Helped DOJ in Red Light Camera Case Gets 6 Months - 1429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:17:11] <exec> 08└─I agree, and due process in this instance is ridiculously easy. 1) You get a *summons* in the mail no different than a ticket issued in person. 2) You show up to either pay it, or receive a court date. Everything afterwards is the same exact process, except in #2 you get to look at a screen with the...
[00:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Couple centuries late - 06Green-Powered Boat Readies for Round-the-World Voyage - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:17:34] <exec> 08└─It goes twice as fast when the turbot button is depressed.
[00:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Solar Voyager - 06Green-Powered Boat Readies for Round-the-World Voyage - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:38] <exec> 08└─This story reminds me of the journey of Solar Voyager. The Lonely Transatlantic Journey of a Self-Sailing Solar Ship [soylentnews.org] Robotic Boat Recovered [soylentnews.org]
[00:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Parent didn't RTFA?? - 06U.S. Presidential Candidates Answer ScienceDebate 2016 Questions - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:18:35] <exec> 08└─When I see that idiotic "-- OriginalOwner" link at the bottom of the post, I know that I can trust the comment to be avidly socialist and entirely humorless.
[00:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Yog-Yogguth [1862] (Score:2) 02Ice cores - 06U.S. Presidential Candidates Answer ScienceDebate 2016 Questions - 1070 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:18:47] <exec> 08└─If you find that XKCD informative then you a should have a look at the ice cores [wikipedia.org] and the geologic evidence right below it. Pay attention to how steep the gradients are and how they suddenly turn and drop. Ask yourself why it does that again and again according to the data (and on all...
[00:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Yog-Yogguth [1862] (Score:2) 02Not gigayears, sorry - 06U.S. Presidential Candidates Answer ScienceDebate 2016 Questions - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:18:48] <exec> 08└─Not gigayears, that's (perhaps not so) obviously far too much time :( (brain farts like that are embarrassing).
[00:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Yog-Yogguth [1862] (Score:2) 02Crosslink to ice cores - 06U.S. Presidential Candidates Answer ScienceDebate 2016 Questions - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:18:55] <exec> 08└─You should have a look [soylentnews.org] at it (sorry about the gigayears error). XKCD is giving you 22 thousand years out of a 5 million year picture, in other words less than half a percent of the available geologic data and a little less than three percent of the ice core data (800 thousand years...
[00:19:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02cmn - 06Japan Scientists Detect Rare, Deep-earth Tremor - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:19:32] <exec> 08└─The guy is a moron.
[00:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02Re:Question - 06Researcher Claims to Have Recorded Dolphins Conversing in Sentences - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:24:21] <exec> 08└─It seems to me that the "evolution" of language, contrary to the common idea/association (not saying this is right, just that that is what is how it is commonly percieved) of evolution with a growing complexity, language has seemed to always trend toward lesser and lesser complexity and simpler gram...
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[01:15:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pherenikos [1113] (Score:2) 02Summary Incorrect - 06Drone With Grabbing Claw Arms Can Lift 44 Pounds - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:55] <exec> 08└─The airframe on which the P6B-AW-ARM is based can lift 20kg. However the -ARM version is listed as having a 10kg maximum payload for the arms. See the original press release at https://www.prodrone.jp [prodrone.jp]
[01:15:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02school run? - 06Drone With Grabbing Claw Arms Can Lift 44 Pounds - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:56] <exec> 08└─How about using them for the school run - drop the child on the classroom dock ;-) What could go wrong?!!!!
[01:16:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score:2) 02Re:meanwhile, on the left coast (and further left) - 06The Numbers Are In: The Chevrolet Bolt Will Have a 238-Mile Range - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:16:10] <exec> 08└─Damn. Only 3423 left to go...
[01:17:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score:2) 02Re:6 months is an insult - 06Chicago Bagman Who Helped DOJ in Red Light Camera Case Gets 6 Months - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:17:01] <exec> 08└─You mean the UK ones don't have any troubles? Aside from people lighting them on fire? I'm sad to report that the glorious photo album of dozens of burnt Gatsos which used to be available at speedcam.co.uk seems to have been taken down (luckily I have it saved locally!), and so I can only offer a li...
[01:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Re:Couple centuries late - 06Green-Powered Boat Readies for Round-the-World Voyage - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:17:22] <exec> 08└─Unrelated, did anyone else hear Lord Percy from Blackadder II announcing 'I have obtained pure green!' when they read the headline
[01:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Re:Couple centuries late - 06Green-Powered Boat Readies for Round-the-World Voyage - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:17:24] <exec> 08└─I think Magellan was first in 1519. Well not actual Magellan, he was killed in the Philippines, but his expedition.
[01:17:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] 02Re:lameness filter - 06U.S. Presidential Candidates Answer ScienceDebate 2016 Questions - 487 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:17:47] <exec> 08└─I guess this problem is just insurmountable. There's nothing that a president could possibly propose to congress to change things. There is nobody on the planet [telegraph.co.uk] that can do this right. No technology [wikipedia.org] available that would be a better design. It doesn't matter who the...
[01:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:lameness filter - 06U.S. Presidential Candidates Answer ScienceDebate 2016 Questions - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:17:59] <exec> 08└─OTOH, even under current operating conditions nuclear power is probably safer than coal.
[01:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score:2) 02Re:Boring name - 06Canada to Complete World’s Longest Recreational Trail - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:19:13] <exec> 08└─lol, I was just thinking about that Transcanada highway sounds pretty lame nowadays, although back then it probably sounded cool :)
[01:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:darwinistic - 06Killing Superbugs With Star-Shaped Polymers, Not Antibiotics - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:21:05] <exec> 08└─although society should probably offer psychological help instead.
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[02:16:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Summary Incorrect - 06Drone With Grabbing Claw Arms Can Lift 44 Pounds - 1036 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:16:01] <exec> 08└─That might still work for small parts and equipment. I've envisioned drones having 6-8 arms at least, but the drone would need to be more robust to carry both the arms and the payloads, and arm length would need to be well outside of the drone so objects can be safely grabbed away. This is close to...
[02:16:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score:2) 02Auto charging - 06Drone With Grabbing Claw Arms Can Lift 44 Pounds - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:03] <exec> 08└─I can see these landing with one arm on each charging rail waiting for the next job to be dispatched; then off it goes at full charge every time. 30 min carrying max payload; to I assume that will be higher when carrying a smaller load. Still not bad a 3km range (6km/h for 1/2 hr) is not bad when ca...
[02:16:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Errata - 06Drone With Grabbing Claw Arms Can Lift 44 Pounds - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:06] <exec> 08└─There's a correction on the website saying that the drone can only lift 22 lbs, not 44.
[02:16:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02Re:Least important number... - 06The Numbers Are In: The Chevrolet Bolt Will Have a 238-Mile Range - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:16:16] <exec> 08└─Will not drive style-less blob.
[02:16:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mass market electric vehicles are challenging - 06The Numbers Are In: The Chevrolet Bolt Will Have a 238-Mile Range - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:16:27] <exec> 08└─> High volume manufacturing. Tesla currently manufactures in a corner of a factory used by Toyota and GM. To be clear, that is a factory formerly used by Toyota and GM and now completely owned by Tesla [wikipedia.org]
[02:16:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mass market electric vehicles are challenging - 06The Numbers Are In: The Chevrolet Bolt Will Have a 238-Mile Range - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:16:29] <exec> 08└─r.e. 2. Is Chevy big enough (in political clout) to say Fuck You to those stupid patents which won't let anyone make a lithium cell bigger than an AA cell? These are the same asshole patents which mean you can't buy rechargeable NiMH D cells. If you cut open a "rechargeable D cell" it is mostly fill...
[02:16:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:1, Flamebait) 02Re:Mass market electric vehicles are challenging - 06The Numbers Are In: The Chevrolet Bolt Will Have a 238-Mile Range - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:16:31] <exec> 08└─On #3, I was under the impression that Tesla under Elon Musk created some facility in Northern California. The big deal about it was that he stiffed all the unions in the surrounding 200 miles by using H1Bs brought in from Eastern Europe. So just in case anyone thinks that buying from Tesla is a sta...
[02:16:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mass market electric vehicles are challenging - 06The Numbers Are In: The Chevrolet Bolt Will Have a 238-Mile Range - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:16:33] <exec> 08└─Yes he fucked the local unions in retrofitting the factory he bought from GM and Toyota. Was it really easier to post that than google it? There is a fucking wikipedia page after all.
[02:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:6 months is an insult - 06Chicago Bagman Who Helped DOJ in Red Light Camera Case Gets 6 Months - 2305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:17:18] <exec> 08└─Red light cameras are totally about revenue. Safety is just a tired excuse. And a lie, as so clearly shown by the shortening of the yellow to unsafe and sometimes illegally short durations. One of them busted me for missing the light by less than 1 second. As it happens, that particular city's red l...
[02:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Nothing New... - 06U.S. Presidential Candidates Answer ScienceDebate 2016 Questions - 893 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:18:52] <exec> 08└─If the colleges were better, if they really had it, you would need to get the police at the gates to keep order in the inrushing multitude. See in college how we thwart the natural love of learning by leaving the natural method of teaching what each wishes to learn, and insisting that you shall lear...
[02:19:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score:2) 02Plan Carefully! - 06Canada to Complete World’s Longest Recreational Trail - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:38] <exec> 08└─Wow. I hope that no unsuspecting tourists plan a trip based on that breathless article. The exact terrain and trail conditions vary a LOT, ranging from nice level rail-trail adaptations to near abandoned Baden-Powell trail sections above West Vancouver. It's all hikeable, but a lot of it is not bike...
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[03:16:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Nanny drones could snatch small children - 06Drone With Grabbing Claw Arms Can Lift 10 Kilograms - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:12] <exec> 08└─... about to get eaten by alligators.
[03:16:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Mass market electric vehicles are challenging - 06The Numbers Are In: The Chevrolet Bolt Will Have a 238-Mile Range - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:16:35] <exec> 08└─What did Googling it have to do with my posting it? Other than the retrofitting, my statement was accurate in what they did to local workers. Yeah, every single fucking time I can, I will point out how toxic these corporations are to people anytime we talk about how cool they are. I want to balance...
[03:16:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bziman [3577] (Score:2) 02Re:Mass market electric vehicles are challenging - 06The Numbers Are In: The Chevrolet Bolt Will Have a 238-Mile Range - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:16:36] <exec> 08└─Citation, please? H1Bs can't be granted for this sort of job.
[03:16:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Woz is mentioned in TFA - 06The Numbers Are In: The Chevrolet Bolt Will Have a 238-Mile Range - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:40] <exec> 08└─Specifically, Woz To Trade In Tesla Model S For Chevrolet Bolt [insideevs.com] "simple and affordable, but very adequate" [...] "Knowing myself, it may replace the Tesla. A lot of complaints about the Tesla that my wife and I have are solved in this car."
[03:16:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score:2) 02Re:Wait … - 06Learning to Turn Down Your Amygdala Can Modify Your Emotions - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:16:51] <exec> 08└─I don't think psychopaths are the sort who can voluntarily shut down their empathy the way we, say, close our eyes or hold our breath. That's a function of normal people, who on occasion need to turn down their normal empathic responses to some purpose. Psychopathy is generally defined as the total...
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[03:17:26] <exec> 08└─Just let them go the collections, and then sue collections if they violated due process and TELL them they're violating due process since the fee never went through a court at all. Any threats about garnishment, you tell them to call your bluff. That still requires a garnishment hearing and you can...
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[04:16:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02A tasty sugar coating, you say? - 06Scientists Discover Antibodies That Target Holes in HIV's Defenses - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:05] <exec> 08└─How many licks does it take to get to the centre of an HIV virus? Researching this sounds like a job for The Sugar Research Foundation!
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[04:16:19] <exec> 08└─In Australia, a bird protected a groupi of people from an odious child. [bbc.com] "A fellow who was sitting closer said the little boy kept running his zipper up and down," said Mrs O'Connell, who caught the attack on her camera. Distracted by the noise, the eagle grabbed the boy's green hoodie and...
[04:16:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:meanwhile, on the left coast (and further left) - 06The Numbers Are In: The Chevrolet Bolt Will Have a 238-Mile Range - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:16:36] <exec> 08└─"none of them were reported"
[04:16:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02Re:meanwhile, on the left coast (and further left) - 06The Numbers Are In: The Chevrolet Bolt Will Have a 238-Mile Range - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:16:38] <exec> 08└─I suspect, looking at the way the news is trending, they will be once Tesla manufactures gasoline cars...
[04:16:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score:1, Troll) 02Useless. - 06The Numbers Are In: The Chevrolet Bolt Will Have a 238-Mile Range - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:50] <exec> 08└─My commute is exactly 239 miles. When will they make an EV that an average driver like myself can use?
[04:17:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:In other words - 06Learning to Turn Down Your Amygdala Can Modify Your Emotions - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:17:11] <exec> 08└─Mental illness has become a fashion statement.
[04:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:6 months is an insult - 06Chicago Bagman Who Helped DOJ in Red Light Camera Case Gets 6 Months - 1570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:17:40] <exec> 08└─Yes, refuse to pay can be the best way to fight these things. Far less effort to do that than go to the trouble of making time for a hearing. I realized any system they set up can't help but be biased in their favor. However, the car was not mine, it was my father's, and he didn't want to fight at a...
[04:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score:2) 02Re:Couple centuries late - 06Green-Powered Boat Readies for Round-the-World Voyage - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:18:01] <exec> 08└─Why not combine the old with the new? Have a traditional sailing ship for when the winds are good and allow your (hopefully) high capacity batteries to relax and recharge. Then when the wind dies, use your fancy solar powered engine to put some nice knots down.
[04:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:lameness filter - 06U.S. Presidential Candidates Answer ScienceDebate 2016 Questions - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:19:02] <exec> 08└─No current political movement or issue is capable of fracturing one of the current parties to that extreme extent, let alone both of them at once.
[04:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:Student debt - 06U.S. Presidential Candidates Answer ScienceDebate 2016 Questions - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:19:15] <exec> 08└─"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury." --atrrib. Tytler et al. http://www.lorencollins.net [lorencollins.net]
[04:20:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score:2) 02Re:"huff and puff and blow the house away" - 06Japan Scientists Detect Rare, Deep-earth Tremor - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:20:06] <exec> 08└─Damn. It looks like an Australian Senator [australianpolitics.com] has discovered SN. If you ever wondered if it was possible for someone to make Trump look intelligent, I'm ashamed to say a fellow Aussie has managed to do so.
[04:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Molecular lifespan and unintended consequences? - 06Killing Superbugs With Star-Shaped Polymers, Not Antibiotics - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:21:51] <exec> 08└─No argument that it can happen that way, but it doesn't exactly take a long time for it to happen through more traditional mutation-based evolution either.
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[05:15:53] <exec> 08└─It is starting to look like Putin's hacking adventures are opportunistic attempts to sow distrust in a way that normalizes his own bad behavior. Russia has totally rigged elections? Do what you can to wreck confidence in America's elections. Russia gets busted for a massive program of doping their o...
[05:16:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:I wish Chevy well... - 06The Numbers Are In: The Chevrolet Bolt Will Have a 238-Mile Range - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:16:34] <exec> 08└─Charging standards are an issue, but the battery life needs to be better as well. Right now I get at least 200 miles on a tank of gas, but at that point it's like 5 minutes top to fuel up again and continue on my way. It still takes too damn long to charge a car battery for one of those things. For...
[05:16:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Re:I wish Chevy well... - 06The Numbers Are In: The Chevrolet Bolt Will Have a 238-Mile Range - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:16:35] <exec> 08└─Charging standards are an issue, but the battery life needs to be better as well. Right now I get at least 200 miles on a tank of gas, but at that point it's like 5 minutes top to fuel up again and continue on my way.
[05:16:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Useless. - 06The Numbers Are In: The Chevrolet Bolt Will Have a 238-Mile Range - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:16:47] <exec> 08└─The optional integrated solar cells increase the Jolt's range to 252* miles.
[05:16:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Useless. - 06The Numbers Are In: The Chevrolet Bolt Will Have a 238-Mile Range - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:16:48] <exec> 08└─*not really
[05:16:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:3, Insightful) 02GM is making a huge mistake. - 06The Numbers Are In: The Chevrolet Bolt Will Have a 238-Mile Range - 739 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:16:50] <exec> 08└─Musk realized that there is a chicken-and-egg problem with relying on other people to build charging stations and has built out the Supercharger network, mostly along highways. GM has stated that they are not an infrastructure company and won't build chargers. But if you want to do a long drive, how...
[05:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Re:6 months is an insult - 06Chicago Bagman Who Helped DOJ in Red Light Camera Case Gets 6 Months - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:17:44] <exec> 08└─What is the difference between US red light cameras and the ones we have in the UK?
[05:20:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Pathetic - 06Denise Mueller Sets Women's Paced Bicycle Land Speed Record -- 147 Mph - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:20:36] <exec> 08└─You sad, sad, sorry excuse for a human being? Why do you not just give it up right now? your post was the saddest most desperate attempt at cheer-leading just for the sake of it I have seen in a long while...outside of politics of course. NB: Yes I will be modded down, no I don't give
[05:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02This explains Hillary - 06Male Chemistry Primes Females for Reproduction—but at a Cost - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:12] <exec> 08└─No wonder she looks so old and haggard at times... Bill's "essence" must be taking a toll on her body. We all know Bill have an overactive libido don't we - wink wink! She's not of ill health folks!
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[06:15:59] <exec> 08└─He's a troll, except he actually gets things done.
[06:16:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nanny drones could snatch small children - 06Drone With Grabbing Claw Arms Can Lift 10 Kilograms - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:16:21] <exec> 08└─Your new job: selling drones to Walt Disney World.
[06:16:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:I wish Chevy well... - 06The Numbers Are In: The Chevrolet Bolt Will Have a 238-Mile Range - 691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:16:43] <exec> 08└─No, I don't. I'll get out and stretch my legs for a few minutes, but you can't charge a car in that kind of short time. Plus, there's no particular guarantee that a restaurant I'd be interested in is in the same place as place to get fuel. You're also assuming that you're able to drive the whole cap...
[06:16:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:I wish Chevy well... - 06The Numbers Are In: The Chevrolet Bolt Will Have a 238-Mile Range - 1292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:16:45] <exec> 08└─Right now, electric cars make awesome second cars. Most people (emphasis on "most") don't drive 500 miles every day (or even that often). 20 to 30 miles/day is much more common. With my driving needs in mind, earlier this year I got a 4 year old used Nissan Leaf as a second family car because they'r...
[06:16:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:I wish Chevy well... - 06The Numbers Are In: The Chevrolet Bolt Will Have a 238-Mile Range - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:16:47] <exec> 08└─Second car sure. But, having a second car is getting more and more problematic around here. There's no guarantee that you'll get one parking space when you rent an apartment, let alone two. And even if you do own a home, parking is getting increasingly tight as apartment complexes aren't required to...
[06:17:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:GM is making a huge mistake. - 06The Numbers Are In: The Chevrolet Bolt Will Have a 238-Mile Range - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:17:01] <exec> 08└─I would guess that like Nissan, you'd be able to stop at a dealer and charge up. I doubt there are many places where you can't get to a dealer in 200 miles.
[06:17:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02No thanks - 06The Numbers Are In: The Chevrolet Bolt Will Have a 238-Mile Range - 1083 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:02] <exec> 08└─Out here in flyover country this thing is a non-starter. Take that 238 mile official range and derate it, because here in the South we use f*cking air conditioning and NO battery gets the rated life. I wouldn't feel safe going a hundred miles in the thing unless I had spent time researching a chargi...
[06:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Wait … - 06Learning to Turn Down Your Amygdala Can Modify Your Emotions - 695 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:17:15] <exec> 08└─That's questionable. The human brain doesn't normally allow a person to fake emotional responses without them becoming real responses. It's the basic underpinning of various behavioral therapies. A person who is completely lacking in empathy isn't going to be able to fake empathy. How would they eve...
[06:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:In other words - 06Learning to Turn Down Your Amygdala Can Modify Your Emotions - 749 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:17:26] <exec> 08└─Not really. Mental illness remains highly stigmatized in virtually all levels of society in virtually every culture. I'm not aware of any place in the world where it would be accurate to describe it as a fashion statement. Even mental illnesses that are common like depression remain heavily stigmati...
[06:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02No worries, he didn't work for the city - 06Chicago Bagman Who Helped DOJ in Red Light Camera Case Gets 6 Months - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:18:06] <exec> 08└─No need to worry for the poor government officials just yet. He's just a private citizen who worked for the company. No one who worked for the city government has yet been found guilty; only one person (a "former" official) has even been charged. It wouldn't surprise me if no one currently working f...
[06:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Couple centuries late - 06Green-Powered Boat Readies for Round-the-World Voyage - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:18:25] <exec> 08└─"We are going to be the first boat with an autonomous means of producing hydrogen" is the claim. Ships from late in the 19th century could have made producer gas for lighting. Whether they really did, I've no idea.
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[07:15:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:A dignified response - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 869 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:15:55] <exec> 08└─Pretty much. We're losing the war with terrorists because we view it as a war. The only possible way of winning is to stop bombing brown people and just provide aid to groups engaged in peaceful activities. Or better yet, just leave well enough alone and let things sort themselves out. We've had the...
[07:15:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score:2) 02Re:A dignified response - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:15:56] <exec> 08└─Well, it's just an opinion, and you are entitled to your opinion of it. The submitter did say it was a "completely opposite view from the other side" - and it is: John Schindler [the author of the piece] is a security expert and former National Security Agency analyst and counterintelligence officer...
[07:15:58] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03novak [4683] 02I might be a sucker, but here's to clickbait - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 1011 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:59] <exec> 08└─I'll respond to this rather obvious clickbait. Terrorists, no matter how famous, really don't manage to kill almost anyone. They are terrible at their only job, which is apparently being so evil that not only do they not deserve human rights but people accused of being them also do not deserve these...
[07:16:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:4, Informative) 02Re:I might be a sucker, but here's to clickbait - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:16:01] <exec> 08└─That's a point I wish more people would realize. Terrorists kill a shockingly small number of people compared with things like car crashes and infectious disease. And prior to the US arming shady people, the number was even lower. In 2001, there were something like 15 people killed in car crashes th...
[07:16:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Let's be clear... - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:16:04] <exec> 08└─After the DOJ hack, which Snowden wasn't responsible for, the notion intelligence has been a complete joke. And if we are being completely honest, Clinton's actions with her mail server isn't that far removed as far as security goes, and no one is calling her a traitor (well no one in the DOJ at lea...
[07:16:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score:2) 02Who's really at fault? - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:16:06] <exec> 08└─The man who exposed the criminal behaviour of the TLA's? Or The TLA's that trained the insurgents, provided them with weapons, and then continued to meddle in the domestic affairs of nations after the insurgents had upset the status quo in their own country?
[07:16:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02When pigs fly... - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:16:08] <exec> 08└─... Edward Snowden will be pardoned. After all, he's embarrassed the U.S. government and intelligence community so much that there is no chance of a pardon unless some bizarre third-party candidate becomes president. Well, stranger things [donaldjtrump.com] have happened during this election. And, o...
[07:16:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02hiding behind "whistleblower" excuse - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 1532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:16:10] <exec> 08└─I know the illegality of some things seems obvious to many people around here, but plenty of people disagreed and it took a supreme court decision to determine this. OK, so maybe we could forgive Snowden for exposing that. It makes no difference for him, since the illegal stuff was but a tiny portio...
[07:16:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:hiding behind "whistleblower" excuse - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:16:12] <exec> 08└─It's a good thing that the "legal" surveillance tactics were exposed. Surveillance and counter-terrorism hurts US citizens more than it helps, whether they realize it or not. Snowden also does not need to be convicted or charged with a crime to be pardoned by the President. If "good" whistleblowers...
[07:16:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Objective analysis? Numbers? - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 1105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:16:15] <exec> 08└─I think that no one outside of the NSA really has enough evidence to check this claim: "signals intelligence is responsible for the strong majority of successful counterterrorism operations in the West" An objective evaluation of the NSA's activities answer three questions: - What benefits have been...
[07:16:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Auto charging - 06Drone With Grabbing Claw Arms Can Lift 10 Kilograms - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:16:40] <exec> 08└─If you put a CT on one or both claws you can hang upside down off the power lines and scavenge power through the CTs to charge the battery
[07:16:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score:2) 02Re:Nanny drones could snatch small children - 06Drone With Grabbing Claw Arms Can Lift 10 Kilograms - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:16:46] <exec> 08└─Evil Nanny drones could snatch small children and drop them into traffic!
[07:17:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03fnj [1654] (Score:2) 02Re:I wish Chevy well... - 06The Numbers Are In: The Chevrolet Bolt Will Have a 238-Mile Range - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:17:11] <exec> 08└─Satisfy my curiosity. What piece of shit do you drive that only goes 200 miles to a tank? I ALWAYS get over 600; my record was 798.
[07:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score:2) 02Re:Mass market electric vehicles are challenging - 06The Numbers Are In: The Chevrolet Bolt Will Have a 238-Mile Range - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:17:15] <exec> 08└─We need a "+1 Correct" mod for you. And a "-1 Citation Needed" mod for GP.
[07:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score:2) 02Re:Mass market electric vehicles are challenging - 06The Numbers Are In: The Chevrolet Bolt Will Have a 238-Mile Range - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:17:17] <exec> 08└─And I need a "-1 D'oh" mod for replying to the wrong post.
[07:17:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02GM is making a huge mistake. - 06The Numbers Are In: The Chevrolet Bolt Will Have a 238-Mile Range - 739 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:27] <exec> 08└─Musk realized that there is a chicken-and-egg problem with relying on other people to build charging stations and has built out the Supercharger network, mostly along highways. GM has stated that they are not an infrastructure company and won't build chargers. But if you want to do a long drive, how...
[07:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score:2) 02Re:GM is making a huge mistake. - 06The Numbers Are In: The Chevrolet Bolt Will Have a 238-Mile Range - 829 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:17:30] <exec> 08└─Let me guess, you live on the East Coast? I live in Phoenix. LA is at least 300 miles away to the West - although, conveniently, there's a Supercharger at the halfway point. To the South is Tucson, about 100 miles away, and after Tucson there's nothing for a long way. To the East...Well, there's no...
[07:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03fnj [1654] (Score:2) 02Re:No thanks - 06The Numbers Are In: The Chevrolet Bolt Will Have a 238-Mile Range - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:17:33] <exec> 08└─You have a point. So this isn't the car for you. A Prius would be a good choice, but I'm going to take a wild-ass guess. I bet you don't drive a Prius. I'm taking a BIG chance here, and you can shut me down if I'm wrong in my unsupported supposition.
[07:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:In other words - 06Learning to Turn Down Your Amygdala Can Modify Your Emotions - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:17:56] <exec> 08└─I was thinking of the SJW camps, where it is indeed fashionable to have depression, or PTSD, or some other woe-is-me trauma -- and where they pretty clearly do not want to get well. That's how I became convinced that most of these people have succumbed to the fad of mental illness (whether or not th...
[07:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:In other words - 06Learning to Turn Down Your Amygdala Can Modify Your Emotions - 1129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:17:58] <exec> 08└─There's a correlation there. I used to live in China and behaviors that would result in a diagnosis of ADHD in the US is more or less the norm over there. The most probable reason is that they don't spend the years that Americans do making their own decisions and mistakes. Basically until they're ad...
[07:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:2) 02Re:Scale? - 06Mars Rover Curiosity Views Spectacular Layered Rock Formations - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:18:09] <exec> 08└─I didn't see anything indicating the scale of what I'm looking at.
[07:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03cykros [989] (Score:2) 02Re:Follow the money - 06Millennials Don't Care About Owning Cars, and Car Makers Can't Figure Out Why - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:23:07] <exec> 08└─$40/mo (no contract) here will give you unlimited talk, text, and 3g data. As long as you're in the city, coverage is fine. If you're out in the middle of nowhere, things are different. But then, the real thing to point out here is just how few millenials you'll be likely to run into out there. Mill...
[07:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Follow the money - 06Millennials Don't Care About Owning Cars, and Car Makers Can't Figure Out Why - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:23:13] <exec> 08└─$30 for a used flip phone? Christ, as long as you're throwing money around like that, how about sharing some around here. You can buy them new for $12.99 on fry's.com [frys.com], and that's only as high as it is because they're becoming a bit of a specialty item. $30 will buy you a smartphone over a...
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[08:16:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03zocalo [302] 02Re:A dignified response - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 466 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:16:08] <exec> 08└─Well, it's just an opinion, and you are entitled to your opinion of it. The submitter did say it was a "completely opposite view from the other side" - and it is: John Schindler [the author of the piece] is a security expert and former National Security Agency analyst and counterintelligence officer...
[08:16:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:A dignified response - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:16:09] <exec> 08└─My opinion is that if a professor and author of 4 books has an argument based on a correlation with one year granularity about things leaked by snowden, ignoring the fact that every half witted reader of spy stories knows what encryption is and what secret services around the world intercept, then Y...
[08:16:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Francis [5544] 02Re:I might be a sucker, but here's to clickbait - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 773 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:16:13] <exec> 08└─That's a point I wish more people would realize. Terrorists kill a shockingly small number of people compared with things like car crashes and infectious disease. And prior to the US arming shady people, the number was even lower. In 2001, there were something like 15 people killed in car crashes th...
[08:16:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Who's really at fault? - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:16:17] <exec> 08└─Yeah, perhaps you can con most of the US people but plenty of us outside the USA don't buy that bullshit about the NSA stopping terrorists. The US Gov and its TLAs are responsible for much of the terrorism around the world: http://news.bbc.co.uk [bbc.co.uk] Born in Saudi...
[08:16:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Capt. Obvious [6089] (Score:2, Disagree) 02Re:hiding behind "whistleblower" excuse - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:16:23] <exec> 08└─How does legal surveillance hurt me? I want my country's intelligence service to read every other country's internal communications.
[08:16:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:hiding behind "whistleblower" excuse - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:16:25] <exec> 08└─You should want better security for yourself and others. What goes around comes around. Your shitty country can always fly a satellite over the other countries.
[08:16:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score:2) 02Re:hiding behind "whistleblower" excuse - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 755 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:16:27] <exec> 08└─And I guess you also want your country's ingelligence service to cooperate with other countries intelligence services.. Now assume both countries agree to share information and are not allowed to spy on its own citizens - this leaves the obvious workaround to just help the other country to spy on yo...
[08:16:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:hiding behind "whistleblower" excuse - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:16:29] <exec> 08└─1. Hoard zero-days. 2. Get hacked, all zero-days released. 3. Oops. 4. Request more funding.
[08:16:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:hiding behind "whistleblower" excuse - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:16:31] <exec> 08└─Because, US security service is there for the ruling class, the average man in the street wouldn't feel any difference? Or are you one of the shadow presidents of the military-industrial complex, huh? :D
[08:16:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Objective analysis? Numbers? - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:16:34] <exec> 08└─All the thwarted ones we've heard of have been clear fabrications, nothing but entrapment of stupid people following US governmental agency plots to self-incriminate under the guise of terror. So the number you're looking for probably has tens of decibels of noise in it.
[08:16:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Informative) 02NSA, etc., did themselves in - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 894 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:16:36] <exec> 08└─It feels like I'm overstating the obvious, but NSA, CIA, FBI, local police, etc., all did themselves in on this one. If they had controlled their insatiable appetite for power and control and only spied on truly bad people, none of this would have happened. Shot themselves in the foot, so to speak....
[08:16:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:NSA, etc., did themselves in - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:16:39] <exec> 08└─Room 641A has been known since 2006: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[08:16:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Adobe Reader - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:16:41] <exec> 08└─Every single Western company that does anything remotely interesting was hacked by the Chinese authorities a few years ago using dodgy PDFs to exploit a hole in Adobe Reader on Microsoft Windows. Seriously people, you will be hacked (cracked). Get over it.
[08:16:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score:2) 02Merriam-Webster time again. - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 936 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:16:43] <exec> 08└─Full Definition of terrorism : the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion terrorist play \-ər-ist\ adjective or noun terroristic play \ˌter-ər-ˈis-tik\ adjective -- Full Definition of terror 1 : a state of intense fear 2 a : one that inspires fear : scourge b : a frightening...
[08:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03novak [4683] (Score:2) 02Re:I wish Chevy well... - 06The Numbers Are In: The Chevrolet Bolt Will Have a 238-Mile Range - 1285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:17:38] <exec> 08└─No, absolutely not. Only four hours? Do you drive much? I own two cars, one of which is a piece of shit from the 90s, and one of which is more reliable. I drive the shitty (affordable) one to work every day, and maintain it myself, which is very cheap- on average maybe $500 a year, including one car...
[08:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:GM is making a huge mistake. - 06The Numbers Are In: The Chevrolet Bolt Will Have a 238-Mile Range - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:18:00] <exec> 08└─Completely wrong guess. Pacific NW. The last time I drove across the county, I was 19. If I had to cross the country, no way would I drive.
[08:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:No thanks - 06The Numbers Are In: The Chevrolet Bolt Will Have a 238-Mile Range - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:18:03] <exec> 08└─Of course not. The only way they even halfway make sense is with massive taxpayer subsidies, i.e. welfare for yuppies. I'll pass on that. But I drive an old car, can't beat those economics with a stick. An old car with comfortable seats and eight cylinders that can pass on a two lane blacktop if wan...
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[09:16:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:I might be a sucker, but here's to clickbait - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:16:16] <exec> 08└─And we turned our country into even more of a police-state, with the TSA feeling up the genitals of small children and the elderly, mother's been forced to throw out breastmilk because it's in too big of a bottle, everyone forced to take off their shoes, roving gangs of TSA agents searching people a...
[09:16:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:When pigs fly... - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:16:21] <exec> 08└─The ACLU, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and a few celebrities are demanding exactly that (a pardon, not porcine aviation). https://pardonsnowden.org [pardonsnowden.org]
[09:16:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:hiding behind "whistleblower" excuse - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:16:30] <exec> 08└─You want all private communications within the most technologically advanced countries in the world to be insecure? In that case, as they are the same protocols and programs, etc. as you use in the US, your own private communications will be insecure too. Why do you want that?
[09:16:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:hiding behind "whistleblower" excuse - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:16:32] <exec> 08└─Because he's Captain Oblivious.
[09:16:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondrake [2658] (Score:2) 02Re:hiding behind "whistleblower" excuse - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 889 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:16:35] <exec> 08└─because its a fallacy. Do you want to read your wife's mail? Do you want to be present during your daughter's first date? Do you want to know exactly what your employees are thinking when they do their job? Apart from the fact that "legal" often means no more than not explicitly forbidden by law, ga...
[09:16:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Objective analysis? Numbers? - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:16:39] <exec> 08└─A 2014 article, "You'll Never Guess How Many Terrorist Plots the NSA's Domestic Spy Program Has Foiled [vice.com]," cites an NGO's report saying that of [...] the 227 Al Qaeda-affiliated people or groups that have been charged for committing an act of terrorism in the US since 9/11 [...] just 17 of...
[09:16:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Sickening - 06Sports Doping Agency WADA Says Hackers Lifted Olympic Athletes' Medical Records - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:16:51] <exec> 08└─Forcing an athlete to have a clitorectomy on the grounds that she may not be female
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[10:16:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score:2) 02Here's an idea to stress-test the algorithm - 06Customer Service Bots Are Getting Better at Detecting Your Agitation - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:16:04] <exec> 08└─Deploy it at a telemarketing company. If it fails to detect 100% extreme customer annoyance, it's not working right.
[10:16:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03gOnZo [5184] (Score:1) 02Predictable (?) Response.... - 06Customer Service Bots Are Getting Better at Detecting Your Agitation - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:16:06] <exec> 08└─I just finished watching transcendence [imdb.com]. I'm immediately reminded of the indignation Evelyn expreses when she learns the AI is profiling her emotional state based on all kinds of physiological cues. "You haven't got the RIGHT! These are MY EMOTIONS" So as long as no one KNOWS...
[10:16:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03iwoloschin [3863] (Score:2) 02Spoof - 06Customer Service Bots Are Getting Better at Detecting Your Agitation - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:16:08] <exec> 08└─As long as I can still spoof it into dumping me right to a human, I'm ok with this. If it tries to get "smart" with me though and help me itself, then I'd get pretty agitated.
[10:16:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Yog-Yogguth [1862] (Score:2) 02Yabba-dabba-d'oh! - 06Florida City Seeks Owner of Flintstones-Style Vehicle - 2 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:16:16] <exec> 08└─:P
[10:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score:2) 02Re:meanwhile, on the left coast (and further left) - 06The Numbers Are In: The Chevrolet Bolt Will Have a 238-Mile Range - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:17:43] <exec> 08└─The amount of press coverage isn't dependent on what power source a car has... Tesla has been a little too boastful about the superior safety of their driver-assist (or "autopilot") features, and it's pretty much guaranteed that whenever somebody has that attitude, people pay proportionate attention...
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[11:16:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02A dignified response - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 104 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:16:17] <exec> 08└─Honestly, I don't feel like dignifying this with much more than "your stupid and your opinion is wrong".
[11:16:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:hiding behind "whistleblower" excuse - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:16:40] <exec> 08└─*whoop*whoop* Authoritarian Alert ! ! ! you dingleberry, in these debased times when 'illegal' MEANS NOTHING, UNLESS you are of the 99%; iT IS MORALITY we lack in our leaders (if not ourselves) not some blind obeisance to The Law (which, as mentioned, has become a perverted and corrupted tool of the...
[11:16:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Correlation excuse? - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:16:49] <exec> 08└─"Unfortunately, there's mounting evidence that NSA's edge over the terrorists is waning. It's impossible not to notice that jihadist emphasis on communications security and encryption, which is now gaining ground, began in 2013. That, of course, is when Edward Snowden, an NSA IT contractor, stole so...
[11:16:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02site priorities - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:16:51] <exec> 08└─<Gravis> seriously? seriously?! SERIOUSLY?! https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] <TheMightyBuzzard> Gravis, betcha it gets lots of comments. <Gravis> TheMightyBuzzard: is that all you care about? <Gravis> TheMightyBuzzard: i care about quality news <TheMightyBuzz...
[11:17:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score:1) 02Re:Sickening - 06Sports Doping Agency WADA Says Hackers Lifted Olympic Athletes' Medical Records - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:17:02] <exec> 08└─Well... actually on the grounds that she did not 'look' female (enough). Which is perhaps even more sickening...
[11:17:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03fraxinus-tree [5590] (Score:1) 02A Russian hacker called something-"bear" ? - 06Sports Doping Agency WADA Says Hackers Lifted Olympic Athletes' Medical Records - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:04] <exec> 08└─Way too movie-like.
[11:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score:1) 02Re:Nanny drones could snatch small children - 06Drone With Grabbing Claw Arms Can Lift 10 Kilograms - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:17:28] <exec> 08└─That should teach those parents advocating a liberal upbringing of their sprogs. Usually meaning: I am doing fuck all about their education and simply let my tykes roam free. Pro tip: keep your snowflakes leashed until they're 12-ish and actually have learned to heed to advice of other people :-)
[11:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:meanwhile, on the left coast (and further left) - 06The Numbers Are In: The Chevrolet Bolt Will Have a 238-Mile Range - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:17:47] <exec> 08└─Then by definition the one you cited was not part of that group. They didn't write that all accidents were not reported, just that 3424 were not reported. Stupid pedant can't even do pedantry right, Lets see you apologize for being wrong. no? that's what I thought, coward.
[11:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Needs another year to beat the men's record. - 06Denise Mueller Sets Women's Paced Bicycle Land Speed Record -- 147 Mph - 3308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:22:15] <exec> 08└─Just wanted to add: A whole day and there are only 37 posts on this article, most of them negative to either the whole human powered vehicle in a draft, or just to the female version of it. Driving a landrover 147 mph I imagine is pretty unsettling by itself. Bicycling behind one, where one small mi...
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[12:16:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02nope - 06Boeing 737 MAX 8 Could Enable $69 Trans-Atlantic Flights - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:06] <exec> 08└─Will never happen. Greedy capitalist corporate types will see this as an opprtunity for profit. A $69 cost will balloon to $500/per and the greedy fucks will take home the rest. Greedy capitalism has killed the airline industry and this will be no different.
[12:16:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02taxes... - 06Boeing 737 MAX 8 Could Enable $69 Trans-Atlantic Flights - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:08] <exec> 08└─as a frequent transatlantic traveler, you find out the cost of the flight is not the overwhelming cost. It is the *taxes* that are slapped on the flight. Something like $300 of taxes to fly to LHR , via NYC. Only slightly better going via IAD, but much more pleasant...
[12:16:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02Typical wrong approach... - 06Customer Service Bots Are Getting Better at Detecting Your Agitation - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:19] <exec> 08└─If all of your customers are robots, then there is a legitimate reason to use bots for customer service. If your customers are human, then so should the customer service be human. If you are calling customer service, you are already agitated, getting a bot to handle your problem will only increase t...
[12:16:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I might be a sucker, but here's to clickbait - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:16:44] <exec> 08└─Terrorists kill a shockingly small number of people compared with things like car crashes and infectious disease.
[12:16:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] 02Who's really at fault? - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 258 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:46] <exec> 08└─The man who exposed the criminal behaviour of the TLA's? Or The TLA's that trained the insurgents, provided them with weapons, and then continued to meddle in the domestic affairs of nations after the insurgents had upset the status quo in their own country?
[12:16:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:hiding behind "whistleblower" excuse - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:16:57] <exec> 08└─5. Rinse and repeat.
[12:17:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:NSA, etc., did themselves in - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:17:08] <exec> 08└─That is true, and I remember the earlier leaks about the switching station in San Francisco. I even remember joking at the time to a friend of mine who works in the Defense Intelligence Agency, "You're not spying on my email, are you buddy?" But Snowden blew it all wide open. It was undeniable after...
[12:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:site priorities - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:17:15] <exec> 08└─The first article is news.
[12:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:site priorities - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:17:17] <exec> 08└─I think zocalo got it right [soylentnews.org] and you are overreacting (what a shock). I spoke with those involved in the site and it appears that they are moving to posting news that will get a response rather than being a good source of well written news stories.
[12:18:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mass market electric vehicles are challenging - 06The Numbers Are In: The Chevrolet Bolt Will Have a 238-Mile Range - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:18:31] <exec> 08└─No it was not H1-B it was B1/B2. Yes it was still visa fraud. http://extras.mercurynews.com [mercurynews.com]
[12:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Murica!!! - 06The Numbers Are In: The Chevrolet Bolt Will Have a 238-Mile Range - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:18:44] <exec> 08└─> Of course not. The only way they even halfway make sense is with massive taxpayer subsidies, i.e. welfare for yuppies. I'll pass on that. You prefer your massive taxpayer subsidies to go to oil company owners. 'Murica!!!
[12:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Scale? - 06Mars Rover Curiosity Views Spectacular Layered Rock Formations - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:19:23] <exec> 08└─I didn't see anything indicating the scale of what I'm looking at.
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[12:21:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 0215K miles is more like 5+ years. - 06Canada to Complete World’s Longest Recreational Trail - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:21:42] <exec> 08└─And I am pretty sure as a non-Canadian they don't provide tourist visas long enough to hike the whole trail in a single hiking.
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[13:16:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:1) 02Catastrophe is near - 06Wilderness Areas Decreased - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:07] <exec> 08└─Between this and the threat of dihydrogen oxide we're sure to be extinct before long folks. It's time to party like it's 999.
[13:16:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Catastrophe is near - 06Wilderness Areas Decreased - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:16:09] <exec> 08└─I don't think extinction is near for homo sapiens. I do think we're going to slowly destroy our environment and degrade the quality of life for future generations to an appalling level. The interesting question for me is: when and how will human population growth level off? There's lots of "don't wo...
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[13:16:19] <exec> 08└─Indeed. When you fly with air miles, you still pay the taxes, and that works out at around $150. Much cheaper than a full-priced ticket, but still nowhere near $69.
[13:16:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02But on the downside... - 06Boeing 737 MAX 8 Could Enable $69 Trans-Atlantic Flights - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:21] <exec> 08└─...you have to go to Norway.
[13:16:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:But on the downside... - 06Boeing 737 MAX 8 Could Enable $69 Trans-Atlantic Flights - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:16:23] <exec> 08└─http://www.nextbigfuture.com/2016/09/west-coast-of-us-to-europe-flights-can.html [nextbigfuture.com] Norwegian's long haul operations will continue to focus on leisure markets, with growth coming particularly on routes between the US and European cities such as London, Paris, Barcelona and Rome.
[13:16:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02HHGTTG - 06Customer Service Bots Are Getting Better at Detecting Your Agitation - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:34] <exec> 08└─...Sirius Cybernetics Corporation... "A bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes." ... ... ... Profit??
[13:16:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Fred must have been in hurry - 06Florida City Seeks Owner of Flintstones-Style Vehicle - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:42] <exec> 08└─He parked on the wrong side of the street
[13:16:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02florida man strikes again - 06Florida City Seeks Owner of Flintstones-Style Vehicle - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:44] <exec> 08└─I'll bet it belongs to Florida Man [twitter.com].
[13:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:school run? - 06Drone With Grabbing Claw Arms Can Lift 10 Kilograms - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:17:57] <exec> 08└─Or better still, put a giant funnel on the roof, barcode each child and they can be delivered straight to their seat. The kids'd love it!
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[13:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Outlier - 06The Numbers Are In: The Chevrolet Bolt Will Have a 238-Mile Range - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:18:33] <exec> 08└─That makes you an unusually driven driver, though. The average American commute is 23 miles, and commuting is the vast majority of driving that Americans do. When driving longer distances, it's normal to stop for a meal or to stretch your legs. 30 minutes after 4 hours driving is about the right int...
[13:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:I wish Chevy well... - 06The Numbers Are In: The Chevrolet Bolt Will Have a 238-Mile Range - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:18:36] <exec> 08└─"Electric cars are coming along, but they're a very long ways from where they need to be in order to have much appeal." Speak for yourself. The main thing I need to switch to an electric car today is for them to be available in my price range. Our next car will be a Tesla Model 3--in a couple of yea...
[13:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Murica!!! - 06The Numbers Are In: The Chevrolet Bolt Will Have a 238-Mile Range - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
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[14:16:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:Catastrophe is near - 06Wilderness Areas Decreased - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:16:30] <exec> 08└─Extinction is far far off until the last generation. That's how the J curve works. You never realize you're up against the wall until you're up against the wall. Heck, even the penultimate generation will perceive that there's still room enough to double in size.
[14:16:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Catastrophe is near - 06Wilderness Areas Decreased - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:16:32] <exec> 08└─And that's how scientific chicanery works. You're always just a moment away from extreme badness, using some touchy model that has no meaning in the real world, until some unrelated bad thing happens, then the model is reworked to show it predicted the new bad thing all along.
[14:16:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Catastrophe is near - 06Wilderness Areas Decreased - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:16:34] <exec> 08└─There's lots of "don't worry, be happy, the advanced countries have already figured this out" attitude going around...
[14:16:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03riT-k0MA [88] (Score:2) 02Re:taxes... - 06Boeing 737 MAX 8 Could Enable $69 Trans-Atlantic Flights - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:16:46] <exec> 08└─A large portion of those taxes is "fuel tax". The airlines moved their entire fuel charge from "cost" to "tax" a while ago.
[14:16:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03quacking duck [1395] (Score:2) 02Re:taxes... - 06Boeing 737 MAX 8 Could Enable $69 Trans-Atlantic Flights - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:16:47] <exec> 08└─A Canadian airline made a point to highlight this over a decade ago, by advertising limited $1 promo fares. The fees, taxes, and taxes on top of those fees and taxes, came out to somewhere between $100 and $200. Legislation was passed in 2007 (Bill 11, Transportation Amendment Act) that forced airfa...
[14:16:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:But on the downside... - 06Boeing 737 MAX 8 Could Enable $69 Trans-Atlantic Flights - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:16:51] <exec> 08└─Shhh, you're ruining it.
[14:17:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03hoeferbe [4715] (Score:2) 02Re:Predictable (?) Response.... - 06Customer Service Bots Are Getting Better at Detecting Your Agitation - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:17:02] <exec> 08└─What immediately jumped to my mind was this scene from Elysium [youtube.com].
[14:17:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Typical wrong approach... - 06Customer Service Bots Are Getting Better at Detecting Your Agitation - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:17:06] <exec> 08└─Because it feels so much better cussing at a human who can't help you, calling their education into question, insulting their mother, and threatening them?
[14:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Re:A dignified response - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:17:31] <exec> 08└─Personally I was not even 18 and the computers were 8 bit, and I learned that guys playing "diplomacy" by mail had an interview with the police because one sent a letter with "I concur on the attack on liverpool" or something like that.
[14:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I might be a sucker, but here's to clickbait - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 980 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:17:37] <exec> 08└─It's amazing how government always uses edge cases, like terrorism and diseases like Zika and the swine flue that almost kill no one, to justify expanding their reach (ie: the CDC post mentioned before). Yet when it comes to things that actually kill people, like starvation and the actual flu, the g...
[14:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:I might be a sucker, but here's to clickbait - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:17:39] <exec> 08└─Those aren't good examples. Those are infectious diseases that aren't well understood. The Swine Flu in particular was a pandemic and they didn't have the luxury of waiting around to see what was going to happen before doing something about it.
[14:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:I might be a sucker, but here's to clickbait - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:17:41] <exec> 08└─such viscous [google.com] killers as cows or elevators.
[14:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Re:When pigs fly... - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:17:49] <exec> 08└─And for some reason I read that as https://porcineaviation.org [porcineaviation.org]
[14:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:hiding behind "whistleblower" excuse - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:18:00] <exec> 08└─How does legal surveillance hurt me?
[14:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:hiding behind "whistleblower" excuse - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:18:03] <exec> 08└─Ding ding ding ding!! We have a winner here! I'm reminded that you can't legislate morality. We are in a sad situation, in which our populace seems to admire immorality. Trump doesn't seem to have especially high moral standards - and his opponent is the epitome of immorality.
[14:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Re:hiding behind "whistleblower" excuse - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:18:05] <exec> 08└─Snowden would still die in prison, or in Russia which is pretty much the same.
[14:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Merriam-Webster time again. - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:18:15] <exec> 08└─also, please remember that the us and uk english definitions pf "terror" and "terrorism" are different)
[14:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Incorrect premise - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 1058 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:21] <exec> 08└─We are not losing the fight against international terrorists. I know, that seems hard to believe, but we really aren't losing: ISIS' territory has been slowly but steadily shrinking in Iraq (they basically have Mosul and some of the southern suburbs still under their control, and are surrounded ther...
[14:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fishscene [4361] (Score:2) 02Opinion: - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:24] <exec> 08└─I'd wager the CIA and NSA has been closer to a terrorist organization, both domestic AND abroad than ISIS ever was.
[14:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Encryption Good. Islam Bad. - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:26] <exec> 08└─I think now that the Islamoterrorists are using encryption and the NSA can't sort them out anymore, we might have a fighting chance at keeping them out. If you can't tell the good from the bad, then only the most retarded, misguided, SJW will still want to open the door to more sand monkeys.
[14:18:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is Putin Loki? - 06Sports Doping Agency WADA Says Hackers Lifted Olympic Athletes' Medical Records - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:18:36] <exec> 08└─You think US elections are clean, or that Putin has commanded them to do this? There is a massive propaganda campaign in US satellite countries ongoing (probably starting when Putin had the stones to take adult control of the situation in Syria). Putin is popular where it counts, among the Russian p...
[14:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Re:Is Putin Loki? - 06Sports Doping Agency WADA Says Hackers Lifted Olympic Athletes' Medical Records - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:18:38] <exec> 08└─Prove everybody else is doping too. FTFY. I'll be here all day, thanks. Seriously? She was allowed to take amphetamines?! lol, what a farce. "Boo-hoo, I have ADHD, give me stimulants!"
[14:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score:2) 02Re:A tasty sugar coating, you say? - 06Scientists Discover Antibodies That Target Holes in HIV's Defenses - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:18:49] <exec> 08└─Don't give them any ideas. Next they'll push that the sugar on HIV is actually good for you.
[14:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:Least important number... - 06The Numbers Are In: The Chevrolet Bolt Will Have a 238-Mile Range - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:19:21] <exec> 08└─I want standardised interchangeable replaceable batteries so that recharging can be done offline and reenergising is at least as quick as refuelling a conventional petrol car.
[14:19:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:meanwhile, on the left coast (and further left) - 06The Numbers Are In: The Chevrolet Bolt Will Have a 238-Mile Range - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:19:32] <exec> 08└─As opposed to filling them up with petroleum distillate and putting a massive chunk of metal in the front bit, which is totally safe.
[14:20:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:GM is making a huge mistake. - 06The Numbers Are In: The Chevrolet Bolt Will Have a 238-Mile Range - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:20:03] <exec> 08└─You should drive. It's a big country with more beauty than most people ever know, and it's still full of wonderful, good, solid people that you'll never hear about in the media. Give yourself enough time, sure, and take a tent to keep lodging expenses down, but do drive instead of fly.
[14:20:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:GM is making a huge mistake. - 06The Numbers Are In: The Chevrolet Bolt Will Have a 238-Mile Range - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:20:04] <exec> 08└─BMW and Nissan have both started building charging networks, too, having realized what Tesla had already figured out. GM should pay attention to that.
[14:20:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:No thanks - 06The Numbers Are In: The Chevrolet Bolt Will Have a 238-Mile Range - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:20:11] <exec> 08└─And it runs on recycled dinosaurs.
[14:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:lameness filter - 06U.S. Presidential Candidates Answer ScienceDebate 2016 Questions - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:22:21] <exec> 08└─I doubt the people at the lower levels want to sign off on work they know to be unsafe. So why would that happen? Because they are pressured or coerced into doing so. And who is pressuring the 'grunts' to sign off on unsafe work? Those up the chain of penny pinching management that's who. If you don...
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[15:16:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02launch success - 06China Launched its Second "Heavenly Palace" Thursday Morning [Updated] - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:18] <exec> 08└─It's in orbit. The launcher will initially place the Tiangong 2 spacecraft in an egg-shaped transfer orbit with a perigee, or low point, about 120 miles (200 kilometers) above Earth. The module’s on-board thrusters will raise its orbit to an altitude of 238 miles (384 kilometers) in the days after...
[15:16:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Heavenly Palace - 06China Launched its Second "Heavenly Palace" Thursday Morning [Updated] - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:19] <exec> 08└─How is the dim sum?
[15:16:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Heavenly Palace - 06China Launched its Second "Heavenly Palace" Thursday Morning [Updated] - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:21] <exec> 08└─"Some you win, and dim sum you loose."
[15:16:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:nope - 06Boeing 737 MAX 8 Could Enable $69 Trans-Atlantic Flights - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:16:42] <exec> 08└─I was going to say the same thing. There's no such thing as "enough profit" apparently. From what I hear, in some places this is actually law when it comes to public companies. "Maximize profits" or get sued.
[15:16:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03shipofgold [4696] (Score:1) 02Re:taxes... - 06Boeing 737 MAX 8 Could Enable $69 Trans-Atlantic Flights - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:16:47] <exec> 08└─I just priced a ticket on their WWW site. Indeed I can fly for $471 roundtrip from USA to Amsterdam (connecting in Oslo) including taxes. But... Checked baggage cost extra Meals cost extra Seat Reservation cost extra. They do offer a $200 upgrade option that brings the price to $671 which, while che...
[15:16:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Re:But on the downside... - 06Boeing 737 MAX 8 Could Enable $69 Trans-Atlantic Flights - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:16:53] <exec> 08└─My buddy is trying to convince me to join him in Sweden for a vacation this February. LA to Stockholm is ~300USD.
[15:17:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Typical wrong approach... - 06Customer Service Bots Are Getting Better at Detecting Your Agitation - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:17:06] <exec> 08└─except...look at all the places already where we strive to have no or minimized human interaction with services (or service providers with their users)... self checkout& checkin systems and kiosks, online banking websites. so many mobile phone apps and NFC payment, etc. even the drive thru lines can...
[15:17:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Just what I always wanted! - 06Customer Service Bots Are Getting Better at Detecting Your Agitation - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:08] <exec> 08└─If a telephone tree ever slows down to 'help' me, I swear I will drive in person to that company.. lol :P
[15:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A dignified response - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:17:31] <exec> 08└─What do you mean "backfire?" There was an article on the other site yesterday about GCHQ pushing for a Great Firewall of the UK. Look at all the pork that's gone to drone manufacturers and the F-35, not to mention the security theater at airports. The EU is crumbling due to Muslim migration, and a U...
[15:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:I might be a sucker, but here's to clickbait - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:17:42] <exec> 08└─Makes you think the government's motive isn't to fix anything but, instead, to just keep expanding its powers and reach.
[15:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:When pigs fly... - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:17:51] <exec> 08└─And, of course, I could be wrong. By applying sufficient thrust pigs do fly.
[15:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:hiding behind "whistleblower" excuse - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 770 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:18:04] <exec> 08└─> How does legal surveillance hurt me? The fallacy of your question is that because something may be legal it is therefore good. How does the perfectly legal torture of non citizens, not on US soil, with the wrong color of skin hurt me? Why was NSA spying on a foreign leader's phone? Or on Parliamen...
[15:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:hiding behind "whistleblower" excuse - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 819 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:18:06] <exec> 08└─> How does legal surveillance hurt me? One more answer to this. What makes you think what is going on is actually legal? Consider the US Constitution. Now consider the following. 1. Secret surveillance (even of US citizens) 2. Secret databases and profiles of people 3. Secret warrants 4. . . . issue...
[15:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:hiding behind "whistleblower" excuse - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:18:08] <exec> 08└─Just to add one thing. The beauty of how such an evil system works is that anyone, at any point in the above chain, can rationalize that they are just doing their job. Their part in it is not so bad. For example, the surveillance people. The real problem is that everything else on that list exists....
[15:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:hiding behind "whistleblower" excuse - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:18:10] <exec> 08└─Well for starters it violates the 4th amendment and the presumption of innocence. Mass surveillance is strictly prohibited by the constitution, and it has lead to massive miscarriages of justice like "parallel construction", which hurts everyone.
[15:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is Putin Loki? - 06Sports Doping Agency WADA Says Hackers Lifted Olympic Athletes' Medical Records - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:18:33] <exec> 08└─Looks like it is working on you. She was not allowed to take them during competition. Unlike actual doping use of amphetamines does not build up muscles or endurance.
[15:19:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:I wish Chevy well... - 06The Numbers Are In: The Chevrolet Bolt Will Have a 238-Mile Range - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:19:37] <exec> 08└─It's hardly just me, most people do not live with easy access to a power outlet. Either they have street parking or they have a carport that doesn't include an outlet. On top of that, it doesn't make much sense to buy a car if you're going to be stuck renting vehicles if you want to take a road trip...
[15:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:I wish Chevy well... - 06The Numbers Are In: The Chevrolet Bolt Will Have a 238-Mile Range - 1413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:19:38] <exec> 08└─Most people do live with easy access to a power outlet, because they have electricity. My brother-in-law recharges his BMW i3 with an extension cord he runs into the garage. Takes overnight, but it's the same muscle memory as plugging in his smart phone so he doesn't even think about it anymore--lov...
[15:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:I wish Chevy well... - 06The Numbers Are In: The Chevrolet Bolt Will Have a 238-Mile Range - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:19:40] <exec> 08└─In the frozen north, outlets are common for parking spaces. Those are intended for block heaters though (450W each?). Your plug at work may do multiplexing. If you are using an 15 Amp outlet, you can't charge more than about 12kWh overnight. (12A*120V*8hours -- 80% de-rating for continuous draw)
[15:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score:2) 02Re:I wish Chevy well... - 06The Numbers Are In: The Chevrolet Bolt Will Have a 238-Mile Range - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:19:43] <exec> 08└─What do you drive that you're getting 600+ miles per tank? Are you hypermiling? Most cars are designed around the idea of getting 300 to 350 miles per tank; I've found it's pretty easy to extend that to a bit over 400 in most cars simply by maintaining them properly and not driving like an ass.
[15:19:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Mass market electric vehicles are challenging - 06The Numbers Are In: The Chevrolet Bolt Will Have a 238-Mile Range - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:19:54] <exec> 08└─They've got two separate models named Bolt and Volt? Seriously? :P
[15:21:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Inappropriate Editorializing - 06Chicago Bagman Who Helped DOJ in Red Light Camera Case Gets 6 Months - 698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:21:31] <exec> 08└─What reputation management tool are you guys at Camp Clinton using these days? I remember evaluating several when I ran things but I felt that $100K and $80K for a software license was silly when they were nothing more than a wrapper on a Google search. Obviously Clinton-as-presidential-candidate ge...
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[15:23:35] <exec> 08└─It was going to be Teh l337 pwn3d U, but the agency director took a new job at the skateboard shop.
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[16:16:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02A New GMO - 06Bayer Purchases Monsanto for Around $66 Billion - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:21] <exec> 08└─Ginormous Merged Organization
[16:16:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Is that really true? - 06Bayer Purchases Monsanto for Around $66 Billion - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:22] <exec> 08└─Bayer's competitors are merging, so not doing this deal would mean having a competitive disadvantage
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[16:16:25] <exec> 08└─These mergers are building on vertical integration in their markets. Monsanto's chemical business is weak these days, but their seed business is strong. Bayer is in the opposite position so combining them creates a company that is now strong in both areas. They are also have different levels of mark...
[16:16:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Sounds Great! - 06Bayer Purchases Monsanto for Around $66 Billion - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:27] <exec> 08└─1. Take two of the most unethical multinational corporations in history. 2. Merge them and let them have a monopolistic level control over foodstuffs in a handful of countries including the USA where food safety has been subject to complete regulatory capture. 3. ??? 4. Fun times ahoy! I'd recommend...
[16:16:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Hearsay bullshit - 06Bayer Purchases Monsanto for Around $66 Billion - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:29] <exec> 08└─Monsanto is facing some lawsuits, which it may or may not be able to win. They see an advantage to merging with Bayer, and letting Bayer fight the legal battles. But, no matter how true or false that may be - I wasn't expecting Monsanto to be bought up by anyone. I thought they were a damend big fis...
[16:16:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Hearsay bullshit - 06Bayer Purchases Monsanto for Around $66 Billion - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:16:31] <exec> 08└─Monsanto tried to purchase Syngenta [wikipedia.org] for $40 billion. That deal fell through, and the Chinese state-owned ChemChina ended up buying Syngenta for $43 billion. This is the 3rd chemical gigamerger after that one and DowDuPont [wikipedia.org], which is going to be split up.
[16:16:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hearsay bullshit - 06Bayer Purchases Monsanto for Around $66 Billion - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:16:33] <exec> 08└─Have any of the presidential candidates promised to beef up anti-trust?
[16:16:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Hearsay bullshit - 06Bayer Purchases Monsanto for Around $66 Billion - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:16:35] <exec> 08└─If I had to guess, it would be Jill Stein. Both Stein and Johnson have filed an antitrust suit [cnn.com] against the Commission on Presidential Debates, which messes with the search results a bit.
[16:16:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score:2) 02Re:Hearsay bullshit - 06Bayer Purchases Monsanto for Around $66 Billion - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:16:38] <exec> 08└─When I worked at Anheuser-Busch we thought that as well. We're AB! We're profitable! We make money hand over fist! We're not getting bought by some foreign company that's barely even the same size as we are! That's crazy! Six months later and we were lined up to welcome our new Brazilian banker o...
[16:16:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02$66 billion? - 06Bayer Purchases Monsanto for Around $66 Billion - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:40] <exec> 08└─Are you sure it isn't $666 billion? Or $66.6?
[16:16:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02great - 06Bayer Purchases Monsanto for Around $66 Billion - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:42] <exec> 08└─great news! maybe they will splice HIV into the crops and add the antidote to their pesticides. They(Bayer) can gt it from the blood they knew was infected with HIV that they shipped to central america. Whatever they do, I'm sure this will be good for consumers.
[16:16:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02How impressive is this? - 06China Launched its Second "Heavenly Palace" Thursday Morning [Updated] - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:52] <exec> 08└─Can somebody with more knowledge comment on how difficult and impressive this is? For example, this "space station" could be a modest "small room the size of your average compact car orbiting for a few weeks, expected to deorbit within a few months sent up as an experiment"... or it could be a multi...
[16:17:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:Catastrophe is near - 06Wilderness Areas Decreased - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:17:04] <exec> 08└─Right. Pollution concerns, depleting natural resources, etc - none of these are related to growing population size. Please name one ecologic/environmental problem that is made BETTER by larger populations.
[16:17:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Catastrophe is near - 06Wilderness Areas Decreased - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:17:07] <exec> 08└─They have absence of significant pollution, healthy, well-fed populations that slowly decline in number, and enough wealth to deal with any climate-related problem. And if there is a environmentally-caused population crash, it won't be the advanced countries that do the lion's share of the crashing.
[16:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03skater [4342] (Score:2) 02Re:nope - 06Boeing 737 MAX 8 Could Enable $69 Trans-Atlantic Flights - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:17:19] <exec> 08└─Unless the low prices mean that many more people fly the route.
[16:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score:2) 0269 - 06Boeing 737 MAX 8 Could Enable $69 Trans-Atlantic Flights - 766 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:29] <exec> 08└─I can only guess they've priced the flights at $69 because that's the position you'll be in with the person beside you to fit enough people in the plane to make the price viable. On a more serious note, a couple I know and their infant are travelling from Toronto to Berlin round trip for under C$110...
[16:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:HHGTTG - 06Customer Service Bots Are Getting Better at Detecting Your Agitation - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:17:45] <exec> 08└─What is the first "H" for?
[16:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Yog-Yogguth [1862] (Score:2) 02Re:florida man strikes again - 06Florida City Seeks Owner of Flintstones-Style Vehicle - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:17:57] <exec> 08└─Giant radar penis and dressing up as Tactical Police Dinosaur? Wow :D
[16:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Unsubstatiatied Assertion and Bald-Faced Lie: - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:18:12] <exec> 08└─"NSA has been the backbone of the Western intelligence alliance against terrorism" Just a bullshit thesis. A lie that makes the liar proud of himself and his worldview, based on hubris and delusional self-aggrandizement. "Well we can't show you evidence proving this claim, because revealing these se...
[16:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:3, Touché) 02NUMBER OF AMERICANS KILLED EACH YEAR BY - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:18:14] <exec> 08└─Islamic Jihadi Immigrants 2 US Far-Right Terrorists 5 All "Islamic Jihadi" Terrorist including Americans 9 Armed Toddlers 21 Lightning 31 Lawnmowers 69 Being Hit By A Bus...
[16:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:NUMBER OF AMERICANS KILLED EACH YEAR BY - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:18:16] <exec> 08└─Citation needed.
[16:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:NUMBER OF AMERICANS KILLED EACH YEAR BY - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:18:18] <exec> 08└─Falling Out Of Bed 737
[16:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02Re:A dignified response - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:18:23] <exec> 08└─I kicked the figurative, living shit out of Schindler on Twitter. More than once. He's an idiot with no ability to either think or deduce. A useful amplifier of jingoisms.
[16:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:hiding behind "whistleblower" excuse - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:18:59] <exec> 08└─can I tour the prostitutes?
[16:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02Re:hiding behind "whistleblower" excuse - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:19:00] <exec> 08└─Ford has a right to private, proprietary information by default. The United States Government must demonstrate the need to make information secret on the basis of individual cases, or it operates outside of legitimate authority.
[16:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:hiding behind "whistleblower" excuse - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:19:03] <exec> 08└─You suck at car analogies.
[16:20:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Least important number... - 06The Numbers Are In: The Chevrolet Bolt Will Have a 238-Mile Range - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:20:01] <exec> 08└─Tried: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] But failed: http://www.plugincars.com [plugincars.com] Good concept, but inherently limiting on the size of the battery, for mechanical reasons.
[16:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02um, yeah... - 06Learning to Turn Down Your Amygdala Can Modify Your Emotions - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:17] <exec> 08└─Is "modulate their own amygdala electrical activity" what they're calling mediation now?
[16:21:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score:2) 02Done. - 06Mars Rover Curiosity Views Spectacular Layered Rock Formations - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:28] <exec> 08└─http://imgur.com/a/UAc3f [imgur.com]
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[17:16:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"cognitive" future - 06Slackware's alienbob Loses His Day Job to Offshoring - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:12] <exec> 08└─""cognitive" future in which there is less interest in the traditionally skilled technical IT jobs" WTF does that mean? ( in english.. )
[17:16:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:4, Informative) 02Re:"cognitive" future - 06Slackware's alienbob Loses His Day Job to Offshoring - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:16:14] <exec> 08└─Robots taking white-collar jobs.
[17:16:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03E_NOENT [630] (Score:2) 02System D and the Redhate-industrial complex... - 06Slackware's alienbob Loses His Day Job to Offshoring - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:16] <exec> 08└─One of the biggest bulwarks against the System D zombie infection loses his job...so he can get an RHCE? DO THE MATH.
[17:16:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:System D and the Redhate-industrial complex... - 06Slackware's alienbob Loses His Day Job to Offshoring - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:16:18] <exec> 08└─The "math" is that he wants a paycheck. Having food to eat and a roof over your head is a good thing.
[17:16:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:System D and the Redhate-industrial complex... - 06Slackware's alienbob Loses His Day Job to Offshoring - 1005 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:16:20] <exec> 08└─Yes systemd is bad. However, SO IS THE init.d system that pretty much every distro reinvented or borrowed from BSD. It is why ubuntu went down the upstart path. They wanted a way to control the interdependence between all the service applications. Things like I need the video card to be initied befo...
[17:16:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:System D and the Redhate-industrial complex... - 06Slackware's alienbob Loses His Day Job to Offshoring - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:16:22] <exec> 08└─"we stagnated with a 'good enough' attitude" This. I am currently really irritated at Xubuntu 16.04, precisely because development stopped with "good enough". I had sound. I had a desktop. I wanted sound to work in a VM, and followed reasonable-sounding instructions. This somehow mangled Xubuntu, su...
[17:16:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03justinb_76 [4362] (Score:1) 02Re:System D and the Redhate-industrial complex... - 06Slackware's alienbob Loses His Day Job to Offshoring - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:16:24] <exec> 08└─my current gripe with Xubuntu 16.04 is every time I close the lid on my laptop, I have to do Ctrl+Alt+F1 then F7 to have a visible cursor again. Meh, I'm just used to it now...
[17:16:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:System D and the Redhate-industrial complex... - 06Slackware's alienbob Loses His Day Job to Offshoring - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:16:27] <exec> 08└─SO IS THE init.d system that pretty much every distro reinvented or borrowed from BSD
[17:16:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Airbus is Hiring - 06Slackware's alienbob Loses His Day Job to Offshoring - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:29] <exec> 08└─Bob, you rule. Would you like to build space robots? The company needs experienced Linux developers. Why don't you apply?
[17:16:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02fuck systemd - 06Slackware's alienbob Loses His Day Job to Offshoring - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:31] <exec> 08└─seriously
[17:16:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sounds Great! - 06Bayer Purchases Monsanto for Around $66 Billion - 673 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:16:42] <exec> 08└─In the own words of Marijn Dekkers Bayer's CEO their drugs are not for poor people [youtube.com]. Likewise, Monsanto GMOs are only for people that can pay them, even if are due to contaminatation by nearby crops. Now pushing for copyright infringment to be punished with 10 years in prison. Soon medi...
[17:16:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hearsay bullshit - 06Bayer Purchases Monsanto for Around $66 Billion - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:16:48] <exec> 08└─> If I had to guess, it would be Jill Stein. Clinton. [qz.com] I will prevent concentration in the first place by beefing up the antitrust enforcement arms of the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission. I will direct more resources to hire aggressive regulators who will conduct in-...
[17:16:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hearsay bullshit - 06Bayer Purchases Monsanto for Around $66 Billion - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:16:51] <exec> 08└─That's the beauty of a leveraged buyout. The company's own value is the collateral for the loan to purchase it.
[17:16:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Too big to fail? - 06Bayer Purchases Monsanto for Around $66 Billion - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:55] <exec> 08└─Companies this size should not exist. Bayer is definitely in the "too big to fail" category. I'm not normally one for government intervention in the market, but: beyond a certain size, mergers should be forbidden. Beyond some other certain size, companies should be forced to split or divest. The sam...
[17:17:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:How impressive is this? - 06China Launched its Second "Heavenly Palace" Thursday Morning [Updated] - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:06] <exec> 08└─I believe it's a single module. One launch got the entire thing up there. We'll be able to appreciate the scale better when they send astronauts to dock with it in a few weeks. The next iteration, Tiangong-3, will form the basis of a station that will be around Mir size.
[17:17:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score:2) 02Independent of Tiangong-1 - 06China Launched its Second "Heavenly Palace" Thursday Morning [Updated] - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:08] <exec> 08└─One item to note is that Tiangong-2 will not be docking with or have anything to do with Tiangong-1. Similarly it is not planned to be a part of their larger space station which they plan to begin launching in 2018. Wu told reporters Wednesday that the Tiangong 1 spacecraft stopped sending data to E...
[17:17:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02O/T: Time zones - 06China Launched its Second "Heavenly Palace" Thursday Morning [Updated] - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:10] <exec> 08└─Apparently this story was posted at 01:35AM. It wasn't posted at 01:35AM UTC and it wasn't posted at 01:35AM my local time zone (I'd checked the site since then and it wasn't here). The green site shows the date in my local time zone, but this site seems to show them in some arbitrary time zone (whe...
[17:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:nope - 06Boeing 737 MAX 8 Could Enable $69 Trans-Atlantic Flights - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:17:35] <exec> 08└─That's often not actually an incentive for airlines. Once a plain is basically full, more people wanting to fly doesn't help - you can't fit them in anyway - and that's been the case for quite a few transatlantic trips that I've made. More people flying business / first class makes a difference, bec...
[17:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02Re:taxes... - 06Boeing 737 MAX 8 Could Enable $69 Trans-Atlantic Flights - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:17:42] <exec> 08└─try via NYC and LHR - those aiports have "special" taxes. A interesting historical point, that at one point, only 4 airlines could fly between NYC and LHR...not sure if that still holds. My point was, the ticket price has little to do with fuel, and more to do with demand for that seat...
[17:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02janrinok, one demerit. - 06Florida City Seeks Owner of Flintstones-Style Vehicle - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:14] <exec> 08└─This lame fluff piece belongs on AOL Autoblog, not Soylent news.
[17:18:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02Re:A dignified response - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 813 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:18:32] <exec> 08└─My opinion is that if a professor and author of 4 books has an argument based on a correlation with one year granularity about things leaked by snowden, ignoring the fact that every half witted reader of spy stories knows what encryption is and what secret services around the world intercept, then Y...
[17:18:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A dignified response - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:18:35] <exec> 08└─It might be distasteful commenting on it, but if the best rebuttal the public can come up with is "your [sic] stupid and your opinion is wrong" then they've already won, and that's double plus bad.
[17:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A dignified response - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:18:37] <exec> 08└─they should establish a official "whistle blower" department: if shit looks like it's going to go south, just deploy a whistle-blower from said department and then blame everything on him/her .. then continue with business as usual: violate privacy and gobble up massive amounts of tax payer monies?
[17:18:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03davester666 [155] 02Re:I might be a sucker, but here's to clickbait - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 450 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:18:42] <exec> 08└─And we turned our country into even more of a police-state, with the TSA feeling up the genitals of small children and the elderly, mother's been forced to throw out breastmilk because it's in too big of a bottle, everyone forced to take off their shoes, roving gangs of TSA agents searching people a...
[17:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:1) 02Re:I might be a sucker, but here's to clickbait - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:18:49] <exec> 08└─Exactly. You beat me to it.
[17:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:hiding behind "whistleblower" excuse - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:19:12] <exec> 08└─exactly. you don't protect america by attacking americans. you attack americans when you attack american values, even if perpetrating your crimes against freedom on non americans (in america's name no less). you are the terrorists, you are the traitors, you are the enemy to be rooted out and destroy...
[17:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02edit - 06Scientists Discover Antibodies That Target Holes in HIV's Defenses - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:43] <exec> 08└─defeat's
[17:20:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mass market electric vehicles are challenging - 06The Numbers Are In: The Chevrolet Bolt Will Have a 238-Mile Range - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:20:49] <exec> 08└─You absolutely can buy real NiMH D cells with real 6000 to 8000 mAH capacity. The first-gen Honda Insight is filled with them. Replacement cells and "sticks" are on ebay and elsewhere. They can tolerate 50 Amp charge and 80-100 Amp discharge.
[17:21:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrentDavey [1526] (Score:1) 02Re:In other words - 06Learning to Turn Down Your Amygdala Can Modify Your Emotions - 828 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:21:33] <exec> 08└─If you don't have trouble "regulating your amygdala" then it's easy to tell others who do have trouble, how they should do it. Sensory input has a direct route to the amygdala and it generates emotions instantly - it's what kept us alive when we heard a rustling in the bushes. Then slowly, the execu...
[17:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Inappropriate Editorializing - 06Chicago Bagman Who Helped DOJ in Red Light Camera Case Gets 6 Months - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:17] <exec> 08└─Do you have names, or other things which can be looked up? As always, circumstances matter a LOT in criminal proceedings, and the WSJ article you linked is paywalled.
[17:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Inappropriate Editorializing - 06Chicago Bagman Who Helped DOJ in Red Light Camera Case Gets 6 Months - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:19] <exec> 08└─Because we all know that no one writes apologia for Hillary Clinton who is not paid.
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[18:16:20] <exec> 08└─IBM's "big data" push to make money off of analyzing everybody's data-streams.
[18:16:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Airbus is Hiring - 06Slackware's alienbob Loses His Day Job to Offshoring - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:16:28] <exec> 08└─Because when they see he was doing IT support, they'll disqualify him for a developer job?
[18:16:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03e_armadillo [3695] (Score:2) 02Crowd sourcing opportunity - 06Slackware's alienbob Loses His Day Job to Offshoring - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:31] <exec> 08└─Why doesn't the Slackware community start a crowd sourcing campaign to fund alienbob?
[18:16:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chromium_One [4574] (Score:2) 02Re:Crowd sourcing opportunity - 06Slackware's alienbob Loses His Day Job to Offshoring - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:16:33] <exec> 08└─Because Eric says thanks, but no. https://www.linuxquestions.org [linuxquestions.org]
[18:16:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Soon - 06Slackware's alienbob Loses His Day Job to Offshoring - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:36] <exec> 08└─Alienbob approaches the building's entrance. - Open the pod doors, watson. - I'm sorry alienbob, I am afraid i can't do that. [breathing intensifies]
[18:16:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Hearsay bullshit - 06Bayer Purchases Monsanto for Around $66 Billion - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:16:55] <exec> 08└─I guess any corp can be bought and sold though. They are all in it for the money, and damn everything else.
[18:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Catastrophe is near - 06Wilderness Areas Decreased - 843 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:17:25] <exec> 08└─Well, I am on your side, but one thing that is improving with a population of billions is intelligent understanding of the problem, planetwide communication and awareness, advanced science and technology to deal with the challenges. Reduce the world population to 500 million and you won't have as ma...
[18:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Catastrophe is near - 06Wilderness Areas Decreased - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:17:28] <exec> 08└─So basically, what you're saying is "There's no problem because me and mine will be fine even if billions of other people die". That's extremely callous of you, if nothing else.
[18:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Catastrophe is near - 06Wilderness Areas Decreased - 932 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:17:30] <exec> 08└─The only way I see wealth dealing with climate related problems is genocide of the 3rd world. Over half the world's population still burns wood as their primary energy source. The "1st world" continues to decimate the oceans, to feed themselves, in part to feed the poor of other countries, but mostl...
[18:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Typical wrong approach... - 06Customer Service Bots Are Getting Better at Detecting Your Agitation - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:18:07] <exec> 08└─If you are calling customer service, you are already agitated, getting a bot to handle your problem will only increase that agitation.
[18:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Part 2 missing - 06Customer Service Bots Are Getting Better at Detecting Your Agitation - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:11] <exec> 08└─Now use the AI to make the company care.
[18:18:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Francis [5544] 02Re:A dignified response - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 869 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:18:34] <exec> 08└─Pretty much. We're losing the war with terrorists because we view it as a war. The only possible way of winning is to stop bombing brown people and just provide aid to groups engaged in peaceful activities. Or better yet, just leave well enough alone and let things sort themselves out. We've had the...
[18:18:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] 02Unsubstatiatied Assertion and Bald-Faced Lie: - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 474 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:18:37] <exec> 08└─"NSA has been the backbone of the Western intelligence alliance against terrorism" Just a bullshit thesis. A lie that makes the liar proud of himself and his worldview, based on hubris and delusional self-aggrandizement. "Well we can't show you evidence proving this claim, because revealing these se...
[18:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score:1) 02Re:NUMBER OF AMERICANS KILLED EACH YEAR BY - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:18:42] <exec> 08└─Falling Out Of Bed 737
[18:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:A dignified response - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:18:44] <exec> 08└─The only good way to deal with terrorism is to consider it normal crime. Find the perpetrators and fuck everybody who helped, directly or indirectly. You let the family of Bin Laden depart after 9/11? that means obstruction of justice, go behind bars. When whatever political decision is made because...
[18:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03xvan [2416] (Score:1) 02Re:A dignified response - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:18:50] <exec> 08└─They're not complaining about the leaked information, but the security awarness triggered by the media exposure of the leaked information.
[18:18:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:A dignified response - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:18:52] <exec> 08└─Which seems like a burglar complaining about alarms.
[18:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:I might be a sucker, but here's to clickbait - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:19:03] <exec> 08└─Makes you think the government's motive isn't to fix anything but, instead, to just keep expanding its powers and reach. They purposely look for imaginary problems that are so rare that they don't really need to be addressed and they use it to justify more government overreach without actually addre...
[18:19:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A Russian hacker called something-"bear" ? - 06Sports Doping Agency WADA Says Hackers Lifted Olympic Athletes' Medical Records - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:19:51] <exec> 08└─That's Crowdstrike's threat researchers naming them Fancy Bear, not the group itself. They always assign an animal based on the country of origin, e.g. China is a Panda, so their unknown hacking groups would be called (for example) Kozie Panda or Fancy Panda, but only by Crowdstrike.
[18:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Plus a hotrodder's term - 06The Numbers Are In: The Chevrolet Bolt Will Have a 238-Mile Range - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:21:12] <exec> 08└─Going back over 8 decades, the GM inline 6-cylinder OHV engine has been called a Stovebolt. [google.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[18:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score:2) 02Re:Wait … - 06Learning to Turn Down Your Amygdala Can Modify Your Emotions - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:21:38] <exec> 08└─Sociopaths on the other hand are a completely different matter.
[18:21:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2) 02We must not let charlatans stop us from doing good - 06Learning to Turn Down Your Amygdala Can Modify Your Emotions - 3881 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:21:50] <exec> 08└─It sounds like maybe you have a specific personal experience about this. If so then I'm sorry for you; dealing with charlatans and sociopaths isn't fun. Although I would say that that sort of attention-seeking is itself a disorder that we aren't good at diagnosing or treating. A disorder that defini...
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[19:16:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02So.. they taste fruity? - 06Nearly-Extinct Hawaiian Crow Can Use Tools to Forage - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:05] <exec> 08└─I bet they taste nice all cooked up and their brains dipped in honey.
[19:16:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score:2) 02Nearly extinct - 06Nearly-Extinct Hawaiian Crow Can Use Tools to Forage - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:06] <exec> 08└─Most humans suck. Not all, but as a species, we suck big time.
[19:16:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Nearly extinct - 06Nearly-Extinct Hawaiian Crow Can Use Tools to Forage - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:16:09] <exec> 08└─Scientists keep threatening our core belief that we're the only intelligent species. Eradication is he fastest way to solve the problem, because defunding education takes a while...
[19:16:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Airbus is Hiring - 06Slackware's alienbob Loses His Day Job to Offshoring - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:16:28] <exec> 08└─We need those skills too, desperately. Scripting, automation, all the things that the GUI generation have forgotten or never learned. So especially people like Bob who know Slackware, because if you know Slackware, you can use any Linux to a high degree of proficiency.
[19:16:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Don't murder them. - 06Slackware's alienbob Loses His Day Job to Offshoring - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:33] <exec> 08└─I know you're angry, but don't kill your masters.
[19:16:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hearsay bullshit - 06Bayer Purchases Monsanto for Around $66 Billion - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:16:51] <exec> 08└─If only I could actually believe that Ms Goldman Sachs means that beyond, "Don't vote for Bernie, I'm just a left as he is."
[19:17:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score:2) 02Re:How impressive is this? - 06China Launched its Second "Heavenly Palace" Thursday Morning [Updated] - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:10] <exec> 08└─China aims to launch the Tianhe 1 module around 2018 to form the centerpiece of the country’s larger orbital complex. Two 20-ton research modules and power-generating solar power array will join Tianhe 1 in orbit by 2022, when the station will be declared operational with a permanent rotating thre...
[19:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score:2) 02Pictures? - 06China Launched its Second "Heavenly Palace" Thursday Morning [Updated] - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:14] <exec> 08└─A small microsatellite named Banxing 2 [skyrocket.de] stowed aboard Thursday’s launch will fly near Tiangong 2 in orbit and collect images of the space lab.
[19:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:nope - 06Boeing 737 MAX 8 Could Enable $69 Trans-Atlantic Flights - 722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:17:43] <exec> 08└─Then you run into landing slots and gate issues, especially when you have to dock at an ICE-capable gate. So your seats are highly desirable and go up in price. The solution becomes a bigger plane again, which should provide economies of scale, rendering this Boeing ad quite moot. While Europe has l...
[19:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Why bother? - 06Customer Service Bots Are Getting Better at Detecting Your Agitation - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:14] <exec> 08└─Just pay the fee to connect to the Apple/Google API, which will report your level of aggravation in the last 5 minutes based on your internet queries and what your microphone heard... Knowing whether they also searched for weapons and explosives before calling tech support? Yep, that's an extra fee.
[19:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Trigger Warning! - 06Florida City Seeks Owner of Flintstones-Style Vehicle - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:26] <exec> 08└─TRIGGER WARNING: Mention of Flintstones live-action move. Ouch, my PTSD!
[19:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02Re:NUMBER OF AMERICANS KILLED EACH YEAR BY - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:18:43] <exec> 08└─https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/14322269_10153993404713380_4334703221756919234_n.jpg?oh=5f12ad68953324fc4e8ba3aadeab6381&oe=587A4D26 [fbcdn.net]
[19:18:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02Re:NUMBER OF AMERICANS KILLED EACH YEAR BY - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:18:47] <exec> 08└─Interesting that the next item is 11,737.
[19:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02"Western" - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:18:49] <exec> 08└─Another ideological non-term, identifying someone who smokes their breakfast.
[19:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:I might be a sucker, but here's to clickbait - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:19:03] <exec> 08└─In that case the obvious solution is to recruit the terrorists, rather than try to stop them. Schedule a routine terrorist suicide bombing every Wednesday morning at 10am. Once it becomes routine, people will stop paying attention to it. Facetious as this suggestion is, it would probably save lives...
[19:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I might be a sucker, but here's to clickbait - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 1575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:19:11] <exec> 08└─"Terrorists, no matter how famous, really don't manage to kill almost anyone. They are terrible at their only job," Do you really believe this? I know you are trying to be reasonable with the rest of your post, but I seriously wish people would just stop with this egotistical naval gazing. The reaso...
[19:20:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Dumbed down - 06Scientists Discover Antibodies That Target Holes in HIV's Defenses - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:08] <exec> 08└─That is some exceptionally dumbed down science journalism. I checked and couldn't find an author so will just generalize my distaste to sciencedaily.com. Please no more posts from there.
[19:20:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:Least important number... - 06The Numbers Are In: The Chevrolet Bolt Will Have a 238-Mile Range - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:20:43] <exec> 08└─If at first you don't succeed.... become a budgie?
[19:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:2) 02Re:In other words - 06Learning to Turn Down Your Amygdala Can Modify Your Emotions - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:22:02] <exec> 08└─True, and I don't mean to make light of people with real issues, but it seems like in this day and age of bubble wrapped PC children, any form of discipline, self or otherwise, has been discarded in favor of a chemical fix as put forth by big pharma. Can't pay attention take this pill, feeling anxio...
[19:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Meh - 06Learning to Turn Down Your Amygdala Can Modify Your Emotions - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:05] <exec> 08└─Came for Firefly reference, leaving disappointed.
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[20:16:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02¨too much voltage" - 06Bruce Schneier: Someone is Learning How to Take Down the Internet - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:20] <exec> 08└─"P2P"? power-to-the-people? forget it. we love power centrally concentrated in a few greasy paws...
[20:16:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Man behind the curtain ... - 06Bruce Schneier: Someone is Learning How to Take Down the Internet - 823 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:21] <exec> 08└─> don't know who is doing this, but it feels like a large a large nation state. China and Russia would be my first guesses Let's not mention why it couldn't be the US, shall we? Considering the recent past, and the admissions of offensive uses of the web, the list of people and countries with the in...
[20:16:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02progress? - 06Bruce Schneier: Someone is Learning How to Take Down the Internet - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:24] <exec> 08└─A few years ago he might have been considered paranoid....but sounds plausible. Is this progress? Realizing that the internet is too important to leave to chance - not saying the government needs to get involved, but there should be some plan so that our productivity cannot be nuked(!) via hacking!
[20:16:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02JUST END IT ALREADY! - 06Bruce Schneier: Someone is Learning How to Take Down the Internet - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:26] <exec> 08└─Fuck it all and cast a real vote in 2016: https://i.imgur.com [imgur.com]
[20:16:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"Tools" - 06Nearly-Extinct Hawaiian Crow Can Use Tools to Forage - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:36] <exec> 08└─A "tool" should really be defined as an object that is modified to suit a particular purpose. There are a lot of species that pick up natural objects and use them in some way. None of them have so far managed to make a spear, though...
[20:16:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:"Tools" - 06Nearly-Extinct Hawaiian Crow Can Use Tools to Forage - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:16:37] <exec> 08└─Most birds do nest though.
[20:16:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:"Tools" - 06Nearly-Extinct Hawaiian Crow Can Use Tools to Forage - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:16:39] <exec> 08└─"They were incredibly dextrous in the way that they handled the sticks, shortened them when they were too long, and discarded them if they were not happy with them."
[20:16:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"cognitive" future - 06Slackware's alienbob Loses His Day Job to Offshoring - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:16:51] <exec> 08└─It means becoming a patent-troll.
[20:16:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:System D and the Redhate-industrial complex... - 06Slackware's alienbob Loses His Day Job to Offshoring - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:16:58] <exec> 08└─FreeBSD imported the NetBSD rc system ages ago, like in the FreeBSD 5.x days iirc.
[20:16:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02SysV also evolved - 06Slackware's alienbob Loses His Day Job to Offshoring - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:17:00] <exec> 08└─And current SysV (in Debian) also advertises dependencies and runs things in parallel. Open the init file and check the header, like: ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: sshd # Required-Start: $remote_fs $syslog # Required-Stop: $remote_fs $syslog # Default-Start: 2 3 4 5 # De...
[20:17:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:System D and the Redhate-industrial complex... - 06Slackware's alienbob Loses His Day Job to Offshoring - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:17:02] <exec> 08└─What you really want is a Macintosh. Admit it! SAY IT!!!
[20:17:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:System D and the Redhate-industrial complex... - 06Slackware's alienbob Loses His Day Job to Offshoring - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:17:05] <exec> 08└─Know your enemy ;-)
[20:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03e_armadillo [3695] (Score:2) 02Re:Crowd sourcing opportunity - 06Slackware's alienbob Loses His Day Job to Offshoring - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:17:13] <exec> 08└─Oh well, it was a thought.
[20:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02What did he do for IBM? - 06Slackware's alienbob Loses His Day Job to Offshoring - 887 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:17] <exec> 08└─What job did he do for IBM? For years, I have seen these vague "IT" jobs and "IT workers" in these worker purges, but no one ever says specifically what these people actually do. I'm curious about what work is being devalued so greatly that companies like IBM, HP, and so on basically purge their wor...
[20:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03migz [1807] (Score:2) 02Re:What did he do for IBM? - 06Slackware's alienbob Loses His Day Job to Offshoring - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:17:19] <exec> 08└─It will be like Nokia 2.0 the PHB's cut some costs, and a couple of years later, wonder what happened to the company.
[20:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hearsay bullshit - 06Bayer Purchases Monsanto for Around $66 Billion - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:17:38] <exec> 08└─At least she went officially on the record. That's the basis for holding politicians accountable.
[20:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:How impressive is this? - 06China Launched its Second "Heavenly Palace" Thursday Morning [Updated] - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:58] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiangong-3 [wikipedia.org] http://www.bbc.com [bbc.com] Eventually, Tiangong 3 is to be the final step on the way to a manned station. Around the year 2022 is the scheduled timeframe and the success of Thursday's launch will be crucial fo...
[20:19:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03guizzy [5021] (Score:1) 02Re:I might be a sucker, but here's to clickbait - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 1119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:19:55] <exec> 08└─I'll echo Scott Alexander here: you can't compare causes that work at a steady, reliable pace with causes where much of the effect is in outliers. If terrorists had, right now, a nuke in New-York or London or any major western city, they would not hesitate to detonate it. It fits with their goals an...
[20:20:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Good that they got the records - 06Sports Doping Agency WADA Says Hackers Lifted Olympic Athletes' Medical Records - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:45] <exec> 08└─Now the Russians will know that the proper way to prepare for events is not to juice, dope and cheat, but to get your team doctor to diagnose the proper disease to justify the banned medication. j/k, everybody's known that for decades (see: cycling asthmatics)
[20:21:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Least important number... - 06The Numbers Are In: The Chevrolet Bolt Will Have a 238-Mile Range - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:21:33] <exec> 08└─Don't worry. USB type C will fix the charging problems. Should charge a 60kWhr EV battery in about 600 hours.
[20:21:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:I wish Chevy well... - 06The Numbers Are In: The Chevrolet Bolt Will Have a 238-Mile Range - 885 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:21:56] <exec> 08└─Most people in the US do not have easy access to a power outlet near where they keep their car. Dirt is too expensive to give houses their own usable drive way and garage. Assuming that it's even possible. You're brother-in-law with the garage is in a much better place than most people are. It's not...
[20:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:I wish Chevy well... - 06The Numbers Are In: The Chevrolet Bolt Will Have a 238-Mile Range - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:21:59] <exec> 08└─Perhaps, but what sort of moron would be driving an electric car in that kind of environment? Batteries don't last very long in areas like that and keeping a charge on a cold day can be an issue.
[20:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:We must not let charlatans stop us from doing g - 06Learning to Turn Down Your Amygdala Can Modify Your Emotions - 2124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:47] <exec> 08└─Not just one individual; whole swaths of 'em, particularly congregated in forums dedicated to certain vocations. (We are, amazingly, somewhat saner here on Soylent... possibly because we don't validate and enable weep-wail poor-me.) I'm staff/moderator on one of 'em; the site owner disapproves of sn...
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[21:15:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score:1) 02Mmm, warm fuzzies... - 06Prenda's Paul Hansmeier Loses his Law License; Won't be Filing Bogus ADA Lawsuits for Now - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:54] <exec> 08└─Makes me very happy to see this jackass douchenozzle get his comeuppance.
[21:16:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Man behind the curtain ... - 06Bruce Schneier: Someone is Learning How to Take Down the Internet - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:16:04] <exec> 08└─"I can't get money" Who needs money when you have guns?
[21:16:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Man behind the curtain ... - 06Bruce Schneier: Someone is Learning How to Take Down the Internet - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:16:06] <exec> 08└─When the Chinese and Russian guns are better than yours, you're better off at least pretending your money is worth something.
[21:16:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:1, Flamebait) 02Re:Man behind the curtain ... - 06Bruce Schneier: Someone is Learning How to Take Down the Internet - 1008 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:16:08] <exec> 08└─Incidentally, this has been part of Chinese strategy for years--cyberwarfare as part of a full-spread attack on the United States. Also included in that arsenal are financial warfare (China dumping US debt, etc), antisatellite weapons to blind the Pentagon, space-based weapons, economic espionage &...
[21:16:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Valkor [4253] (Score:2) 02ruht roh! - 06Bruce Schneier: Someone is Learning How to Take Down the Internet - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:12] <exec> 08└─and I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids!
[21:16:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:1, Offtopic) 02Not someONE... - 06Bruce Schneier: Someone is Learning How to Take Down the Internet - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:14] <exec> 08└─Skynet is already overdue.
[21:16:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Time to get ready - 06Bruce Schneier: Someone is Learning How to Take Down the Internet - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:17] <exec> 08└─Make sure you have downloaded enough porn to get you through the dark times....
[21:16:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02take down the internet? - 06Bruce Schneier: Someone is Learning How to Take Down the Internet - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:19] <exec> 08└─...so they DMCA'd Google? Did anyone check to see if it might have been Sony this time?
[21:16:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nearly extinct - 06Nearly-Extinct Hawaiian Crow Can Use Tools to Forage - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:16:31] <exec> 08└─Actually it's the crows that suck big time. Using a tool still didn't give them a teleological advantage. Maybe if the crow had concentrated on sitting on more eggs at a time it would have been better.
[21:16:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:"Tools" - 06Nearly-Extinct Hawaiian Crow Can Use Tools to Forage - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:16:36] <exec> 08└─That rules out most humans as tool using then. Because the thing i see humans do is pickup existing "objects" and use them. Little if any modification. I also doubt there is even 1% of the human population that could make a spear.
[21:16:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:System D and the Redhate-industrial complex... - 06Slackware's alienbob Loses His Day Job to Offshoring - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:16:57] <exec> 08└─There used to be a Slackware port called Slackintosh. Knew someone who bought a Mac Mini back in the day (PowerPC) and that's what he ran on it. None of that OS X nonsense.
[21:17:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:fuck systemd - 06Slackware's alienbob Loses His Day Job to Offshoring - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:17:03] <exec> 08└─I'd rather not, I might catch something.
[21:17:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chromium_One [4574] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Crowd sourcing opportunity - 06Slackware's alienbob Loses His Day Job to Offshoring - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:17:08] <exec> 08└─I's a good thought. It's worth a note that Eric does have a tip jar on his blog, which he primarily uses to keep his servers funded. Last I recall though, he'd said they were covered for a bit. Also, as he suggested, maybe go check out the Slackware store at https://store.slackware.com [slackware.co...
[21:17:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Soon - 06Slackware's alienbob Loses His Day Job to Offshoring - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:17:11] <exec> 08└─sudo open the pod doors, watson
[21:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:What did he do for IBM? - 06Slackware's alienbob Loses His Day Job to Offshoring - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:17:16] <exec> 08└─I do not know what a RHCE is.
[21:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Some headlines I liked - 06Bayer Purchases Monsanto for Around $66 Billion - 1252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:17:26] <exec> 08└─"Five-Alarm Threat to Our Food Supply": Monsanto-Bayer Merger Advances [commondreams.org] The merger between the two chemical behemoths has been long anticipated, and antitrust experts [as well as] environmental groups have been warning against the takeover for months. A legal opinion by two former...
[21:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is that really true? - 06Bayer Purchases Monsanto for Around $66 Billion - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:17:31] <exec> 08└─I understand the theoretical benefits you mentioned for merging, but if they didn't, would Monsanto be at any significant disadvantage with their seed business and Bayer with their chemical business, if they didn't merge. The fund manager's statement suggests that they are compelled to do this, but...
[21:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Hearsay bullshit - 06Bayer Purchases Monsanto for Around $66 Billion - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:17:42] <exec> 08└─"I will close Gitmo," "no (more) boots in Iraq and Syria," "get out of Afghanistan" say what? Sorry, but nobody will remember her populistic promises, once she starts WWIII.
[21:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I agree with this, but..... - 06Bayer Purchases Monsanto for Around $66 Billion - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:17:50] <exec> 08└─The bodycount isn't high enough to institute it, and the odds of being able to keep globalization actors from simply reamassing corrupt politicians from the smaller governmetns back into a bigger one are not odds in normal people's favor (unless, as mentioned above, bodycount goes up, so nobody is w...
[21:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:2) 02Re:O/T: Time zones - How to Change - 06China Launched its Second "Heavenly Palace" Thursday Morning [Updated] - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:06] <exec> 08└─Apparently this story was posted at 01:35AM. It wasn't posted at 01:35AM UTC and it wasn't posted at 01:35AM my local time zone (I'd checked the site since then and it wasn't here). The green site shows the date in my local time zone, but this site seems to show them in some arbitrary time zone (whe...
[21:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Re:Pictures? - 06China Launched its Second "Heavenly Palace" Thursday Morning [Updated] - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:08] <exec> 08└─Please submit a story if you find out, so we can enjoy them too!
[21:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Catastrophe is near - 06Wilderness Areas Decreased - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:18:22] <exec> 08└─Please name one ecologic/environmental problem that is made BETTER by larger populations.
[21:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Catastrophe is near - 06Wilderness Areas Decreased - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:18:27] <exec> 08└─Seven billion people aren't going to become unborn for your convenience. There will be massive impact of environmental systems no matter what happens. No matter how much concern you genuinely have for all other life on the planet, a bunch of it will die. We aren't in a situation with a low pain solu...
[21:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Catastrophe is near - 06Wilderness Areas Decreased - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:18:29] <exec> 08└─My convenience has nothing to do with it. I'll likely be gone by the time the worst of this hits. Just somewhat incredulous that a avoidable catastrophe will occur and much that is great and wonderful will be lost forever mostly due to people like yourself, whose response to an impending crisis alwa...
[21:18:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Catastrophe is near - 06Wilderness Areas Decreased - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:18:31] <exec> 08└─So basically, what you're saying is "There's no problem because me and mine will be fine even if billions of other people die". That's extremely callous of you, if nothing else.
[21:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Catastrophe is near - 06Wilderness Areas Decreased - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:18:34] <exec> 08└─The only way I see wealth dealing with climate related problems is genocide of the 3rd world. Over half the world's population still burns wood as their primary energy source. The "1st world" continues to decimate the oceans, to feed themselves, in part to feed the poor of other countries, but mostl...
[21:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Re:But on the downside... - 06Boeing 737 MAX 8 Could Enable $69 Trans-Atlantic Flights - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:18:57] <exec> 08└─Your buddy must be a vampire. Stockholm doesn't get a lot of sunlight in February. And dress warmly. I'd leave your swimming suit at home.
[21:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Re:But on the downside... - 06Boeing 737 MAX 8 Could Enable $69 Trans-Atlantic Flights - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:18:59] <exec> 08└─Norway isn't so bad... so long as you don't arrive in the Winter. And it's filled with far more enlightened people than the UK, although there are a lot fewer of them there. Of course, if you want to go to the other parts of Europe you have a bit of a hike in front of you.
[21:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Sardine-can mode - 06Boeing 737 MAX 8 Could Enable $69 Trans-Atlantic Flights - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:02] <exec> 08└─I don't think I'd want to make a long trans-Atlantic flight with my large frame squeezed into a narrow airline seat with no leg room, no food, and on a narrow body plane to boot! This is not 1960 after all, wen the Boeing 707 and Douglas DC-8 were all the rage, and even then those planes offered bet...
[21:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02You seem to be - 06Customer Service Bots Are Getting Better at Detecting Your Agitation - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:22] <exec> 08└─You seem to be stressed. Would you like me to start a therapy session? *wags tail while looking friendly*
[21:19:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] 02NUMBER OF AMERICANS KILLED EACH YEAR BY - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 434 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:19:48] <exec> 08└─Islamic Jihadi Immigrants 2 US Far-Right Terrorists 5 All "Islamic Jihadi" Terrorist including Americans 9 Armed Toddlers 21 Lightning 31 Lawnmowers 69 Being Hit By A Bus...
[21:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03boxfetish [4831] (Score:1) 02Re:A dignified response - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:20:03] <exec> 08└─More like a burglar complaining about a neighborhood watch, imo.
[21:20:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:A dignified response - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:20:06] <exec> 08└─but if the best rebuttal the public can come up with is "your [sic] stupid and your opinion is wrong" then they've already won, and that's double plus bad.
[21:20:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:When pigs fly... - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:20:28] <exec> 08└─" By applying sufficient thrust pigs do fly." It's more "falling... with style" ;)
[21:20:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Re:hiding behind "whistleblower" excuse - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:20:51] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure, if you have enough money for them to want to go on a tour with you, but maybe you can find some exchange students from your village that would like to.
[21:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Re:Is Putin Loki? - 06Sports Doping Agency WADA Says Hackers Lifted Olympic Athletes' Medical Records - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:21:05] <exec> 08└─Unlike actual doping use of amphetamines does not build up muscles or endurance.
[21:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:I wish Chevy well... - 06The Numbers Are In: The Chevrolet Bolt Will Have a 238-Mile Range - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:21] <exec> 08└─The Tesla Roadster has an 8000W cabin heater. ICE vehicles stay cold for about 5-10 minutes until the engine warms up. By that time, you may be at your destination. Of course, 8kW for 30minutes, would use like a third of your overnight charge. However, if you do the heat radiation calculations, you...
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[22:15:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02Throw the book, not a just a page... - 06Prenda's Paul Hansmeier Loses his Law License; Won't be Filing Bogus ADA Lawsuits for Now - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:57] <exec> 08└─Glad to see him shut down, but I would have preferred seeing some harsher punishment. I would suggest a good and proper keel-hauling, then some good old tarring and feathers, then drawn and quartered, then the remains tossed into an active volcano. Well, we can be generous and skip the volcano if he...
[22:15:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02RIP - 06Prenda's Paul Hansmeier Loses his Law License; Won't be Filing Bogus ADA Lawsuits for Now - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:58] <exec> 08└─He will be missed.
[22:16:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Yeah, no. - 06Bruce Schneier: Someone is Learning How to Take Down the Internet - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:16:12] <exec> 08└─> I wouldn't put China and Russia on that list, because I expect that they already know what to do to. Lolwut? The US is suspect but China and Russia aren't because "they already know" how much firepower it will take to overwhelm the servers of a bunch of US corporations? LOGIC!!!!
[22:16:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Yeah, no. - 06Bruce Schneier: Someone is Learning How to Take Down the Internet - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:16:13] <exec> 08└─I didn't say that the US is suspect. The US is known to be able to turn off all the root servers and most of the international traffic within minutes. No need to probe the windows discreetly when everyone knows you have the door keys. I expect that both Russia and China have already figured out how...
[22:16:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Bruce, Bruce... - 06Bruce Schneier: Someone is Learning How to Take Down the Internet - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:21] <exec> 08└─Verisign is the registrar for many popular top-level Internet domains, like .com and .net. If it goes down, there's a global blackout of all websites and e-mail addresses in the most common top-level domains.
[22:16:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score:2) 02Re:"Tools" - 06Nearly-Extinct Hawaiian Crow Can Use Tools to Forage - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:16:37] <exec> 08└─If anyone "modified" my 10mm ring spanner I would be very annoyed. Although I constantly see people "modifying" screwdrivers into all kinds of things; chisels; gouge; scribes etc.....those fuckers can keep away from my screwdrivers also.
[22:16:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Re:System D and the Redhate-industrial complex... - 06Slackware's alienbob Loses His Day Job to Offshoring - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:16:54] <exec> 08└─Linux sound has always been a dog's breakfast, of course
[22:17:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Airbus is Hiring - 06Slackware's alienbob Loses His Day Job to Offshoring - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:17:05] <exec> 08└─because if you know Slackware, you can use any Linux to a high degree of proficiency.
[22:17:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Chromium_One [4574] 02Re:Crowd sourcing opportunity - 06Slackware's alienbob Loses His Day Job to Offshoring - 170 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:17:09] <exec> 08└─Because Eric says thanks, but no. https://www.linuxquestions.org [linuxquestions.org]
[22:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02Re:Soon - 06Slackware's alienbob Loses His Day Job to Offshoring - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:17:15] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry alienbob, you're no longer a member of wheel. This will be reported.
[22:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Lame - 06Bayer Purchases Monsanto for Around $66 Billion - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:17:41] <exec> 08└─> "I will close Gitmo," "no (more) boots in Iraq and Syria," "get out of Afghanistan" say what? Don't be that dumbass who thinks that if 100% of promises are not kept then no promises were kept. Guys like make it easier for politicians to bail on their promises because if they get no credit, why bot...
[22:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Catastrophe is near - 06Wilderness Areas Decreased - 1637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:18:28] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, the pragmatist shows his face. The most advanced countries solved a lot of problems not by technology but by legislation, otherwise we'd all be living in a more polluted world. It was pushed by the people who really do care, and people like you are the ones who fight to repeal these safety m...
[22:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score:2) 02Re:nope - 06Boeing 737 MAX 8 Could Enable $69 Trans-Atlantic Flights - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:18:44] <exec> 08└─Make up for your losses on each ticket with higher volume! The more you sell the more you save!
[22:18:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Re:taxes... - 06Boeing 737 MAX 8 Could Enable $69 Trans-Atlantic Flights - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:18:52] <exec> 08└─What about shuttles, tolls... toilets? Airports will nickel and dime your for everything. Personally I wouldn’t mind a rear center seat. Most survivable.
[22:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Typical wrong approach... - 06Customer Service Bots Are Getting Better at Detecting Your Agitation - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:19:15] <exec> 08└─Self-checkouts are garbage. You can't buy alcohol or cigarettes or a number of other things without calling in a store employee, the machines frequently have bugs, and the machines run proprietary software. Online banking websites are riddled with exploits and unsafe. Many mobile phone apps spy on y...
[22:19:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:florida man strikes again - 06Florida City Seeks Owner of Flintstones-Style Vehicle - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:19:34] <exec> 08└─I came here for florida man comments. Thanks.
[22:19:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Plate - 06Florida City Seeks Owner of Flintstones-Style Vehicle - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:37] <exec> 08└─Is it a licensed vehicle? I cannot see a license plate.
[22:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Fantasy Fest - 06Florida City Seeks Owner of Flintstones-Style Vehicle - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:39] <exec> 08└─I didn't read the article, but having lived in Key West, I would guess this car is meant for the annual Fantasy Fest parade that takes place in October. It's probably the biggest event in Key West, and everyone participates in costume.
[22:20:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I might be a sucker, but here's to clickbait - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:20:25] <exec> 08└─Do you really believe this?
[22:20:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:hiding behind "whistleblower" excuse - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:20:40] <exec> 08└─surviellence doesn't hurt anyone
[22:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:hiding behind "whistleblower" excuse - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:21:00] <exec> 08└─OK, so maybe we could forgive Snowden for exposing that. It makes no difference for him, since the illegal stuff was but a tiny portion of what he released.
[22:21:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A tasty sugar coating, you say? - 06Scientists Discover Antibodies That Target Holes in HIV's Defenses - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:21:27] <exec> 08└─Bring the Oompa Loompas.
[22:21:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Re:Nanny drones could snatch small children - 06Drone With Grabbing Claw Arms Can Lift 10 Kilograms - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:21:50] <exec> 08└─Hopefully they don’t run out of quarters for the claw.
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[23:15:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:3, Insightful) 02First-world problem ... - 06California Today: San Diego Struggles to Keep its Young Tech Talent - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:43] <exec> 08└─While the traffic in SD isn't exactly good, these guys will get a reality check if they want to move to the Bay area... Maybe SD needs to build more fast rail to connect its nice downtown to the tech areas ... but then the rents would go up and the companies expand elsewhere. ... Dear college studen...
[23:15:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:First-world problem ... - 06California Today: San Diego Struggles to Keep its Young Tech Talent - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:15:44] <exec> 08└─The trolley is being extended north to UTC, not quite far enough but slowly getting there. Downtown to Sorrento Valley is about 30-45 minute drive during rush hour. On the other hand rent is frigging ridiculous, $2k/mo for a 1br studio apartment IF you can find one, cheaper if you go east or south o...
[23:15:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:First-world problem ... - 06California Today: San Diego Struggles to Keep its Young Tech Talent - 950 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:15:47] <exec> 08└─I was recently offered a relocation job in SD. I turned it down. It was either rent at ~2000+ per month. If I wanted the same house I have now one of my former co-workers put it 'you must be rich'. It was 800k+ for the exact same house I can buy in most of the rest of the US for 180-230k. House liv...
[23:15:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:3, Insightful) 02cities are too car oriented - 06California Today: San Diego Struggles to Keep its Young Tech Talent - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:49] <exec> 08└─It's not just San Diego. City growth in the southern US is thanks to the almighty Air Conditioner, which hit the markets starting in the 1950s, the Era of the Automobile. This combination led to all kinds of growth best suited to the car. Cars are everything, the Esq. of the 20th century. Only poor,...
[23:15:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02I live in Vancouver - 06California Today: San Diego Struggles to Keep its Young Tech Talent - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:51] <exec> 08└─but I'd much rather work in Portland. There's nothing to fucking do in Vancouver.
[23:15:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I live in Vancouver - 06California Today: San Diego Struggles to Keep its Young Tech Talent - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:15:53] <exec> 08└─but I'd much rather work in Portland. There's nothing to fucking do in Vancouver.
[23:15:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02the author of this opinion piece sounds insincere - 06California Today: San Diego Struggles to Keep its Young Tech Talent - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:55] <exec> 08└─I too wanted a job that was nearby to where I lived, but then I found that no one had a job for me close to where I lived. So I moved. Now, in irony, I work at home to connect over a VPN to a place thousands of miles away. Maybe he can dial into the next meeting and save himself the agony of that co...
[23:15:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:the author of this opinion piece sounds insince - 06California Today: San Diego Struggles to Keep its Young Tech Talent - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:15:57] <exec> 08└─Careful, telecommuting employees are easier to offshore. If the boss or org are not interested in "face time", then the low wages of other countries will look inviting to them.
[23:15:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02New-Yorkers - 06California Today: San Diego Struggles to Keep its Young Tech Talent - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:00] <exec> 08└─The younger generation are like a bunch of New-Yorkers: they want to be in a big metropolitan city where one walks to a wide variety of shops and hangouts, or at least takes a tram/taxi; and car ownership be damned.
[23:16:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Re:Mmm, warm fuzzies... - 06Prenda's Paul Hansmeier Loses his Law License; Won't be Filing Bogus ADA Lawsuits for Now - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:16:09] <exec> 08└─I won't be, it's been very entertaining reading about the adventures of these scumbags, but then I'm not the one being sued under dodgy circumstances, so that's easy for me to say.
[23:16:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:RIP - 06Prenda's Paul Hansmeier Loses his Law License; Won't be Filing Bogus ADA Lawsuits for Now - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:16:13] <exec> 08└─"He won't be missed." FTFY
[23:16:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yeah, no. - 06Bruce Schneier: Someone is Learning How to Take Down the Internet - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:16:27] <exec> 08└─> I expect that both Russia and China have already figured out how to take the whole thing down quickly, That's what this is about figuring out. You've got some magic way of taking it down?
[23:16:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bruce, Bruce... - 06Bruce Schneier: Someone is Learning How to Take Down the Internet - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:16:35] <exec> 08└─Build Internet 2.0, which doesn't rely so much on centralization. I don't need or want ISPs to have so much power, and don't want that stupid IP scheme of yours. What a privacy nightmare.
[23:16:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02I think I may know how to take down the Internet - 06Bruce Schneier: Someone is Learning How to Take Down the Internet - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:37] <exec> 08└─I figured it out a couple years ago. I'm not real sure what to do about it because the problem is not easily fixed. Sorry I'd rather not say what it is. I want to find someone in a position to fix it first.
[23:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Is that really true? - 06Bayer Purchases Monsanto for Around $66 Billion - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:17:45] <exec> 08└─Soooo.... what you're saying is that they're using vertical synergy to leverage their core competances? Anyway, do we have to drink when anyone says the word "merger"?
[23:20:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score:2) 02Re:NUMBER OF AMERICANS KILLED EACH YEAR BY - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:20:09] <exec> 08└─I think somewhere between lightning and lawmowers is being stung to death by bees. Seems like we should wage war on bees and wasps before jihadis if we want to save more lives.
[23:20:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A dignified response - 06Claim: We Are Losing the War With Terrorists Thanks to Snowden - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:20:12] <exec> 08└─>The only possible way of winning is to stop bombing brown people and just provide aid to groups engaged in peaceful activities Tell it to France and Belgium, who do everything in their power to bring in more Muslims, pay them welfare to stay, and appease any and all of their demands. They still get...
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