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[00:01:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What? No Clowns? - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:01:39] <exec> 08└─You should be proud of the level of cynicism.
[00:01:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03 (Score:2) 02Re:Distrust based on faith - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:01:53] <exec> 08└─There's a certain class of religious thought that isn't content with "My moral code comes from $HOLY_BOOK. It is the correct one and people who get their moral code elsewhere will have different moral codes that are less correct", and instead reaches for "My moral code comes from $HOLY_BOOK. People...
[00:01:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score:2) 02Re:Distrust based on faith - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:01:54] <exec> 08└─People should be afraid of retarded god worshipers, because the only reason they even act civilized is because a magic fairy in the sky says so. With the simple realization "There is no such thing as God. Sorry about that :\" (aught to put that on a bumper sticker) everything they think they know, a...
[00:01:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:What "fears" to include? Survey bias? - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:01:58] <exec> 08└─There's some consistency, but not complete consistency. Check the PDF: https://www.chapman.edu [chapman.edu]
[00:02:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:fear vs acceptance - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:02:05] <exec> 08└─Indeed. Fear and "expectation of bad thing" are not synonymous. I once had a boss bigger and stronger than me loose his temper, stand up huffing and puffing, and threaten to knock my block off. I figured it was pretty likely that if I pressed the issue we were arguing about he would have actually at...
[00:02:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:In other words, propaganda works! - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:02:10] <exec> 08└─You didn't cite your source for The Big Lie [goodreads.com] - Adolf Hitler, with some supporting commentary [jewishvirtuallibrary.org] by Goebbels.
[00:02:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02I'm Afraid... - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 750 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:12] <exec> 08└─Of dying of heart disease. I'm afraid of being killed in an automobile crash. I'm afraid of dying in a household accident. I'm afraid of the suffering that comes with dying of cancer. I'm afraid of developing Alzheimer's or other forms of dementia. I'm afraid of heights (and this has gotten much, mu...
[00:03:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Crist who? - 06Chris Rock Reportedly Signs $40 Million Deal With Netflix for Two Comedy Specials - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:03:14] <exec> 08└─It's harder than it looks - don't confuse him for Chris Tucker. They both have fetal alcohol syndrome and near-identical facial structure.
[00:03:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Erm... - 06Chris Rock Reportedly Signs $40 Million Deal With Netflix for Two Comedy Specials - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:15] <exec> 08└─I've never found Chris Rock to be 40 million dollars funny...
[00:04:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Re:Windows Update pegs a CPU core - 06October 11 Saw the First of Redmond's All-or-Nothing Monthly Patches - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:04:33] <exec> 08└─OK let me explain the fix without using numbers. The version of Windows Update Client released in March was buggy, and Microsoft did put out a new version of Windows ff6 Update Client in June which fixed the problem of long update scan times, but the fix was hidden inside a large optional update.
[00:04:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Offline updates? - 06October 11 Saw the First of Redmond's All-or-Nothing Monthly Patches - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:04:45] <exec> 08└─Okay, so let's assume this works. Can I take a newly formatted and quickly restored backup of Win7 and use wsusoffline, select what I want, quickly update AND SAVE these updates OFFLINE so if I need to reinstall Win7, I can do so OFFLINE?
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[01:01:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02house cleaning - 06"Sweating" Robot can do More Push-Ups - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:34] <exec> 08└─There is another smaller robot that mops up when the big one sweats all over the floor...ad infinitum.
[01:02:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Distrust based on faith - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:02:07] <exec> 08└─You might want to check out the Wikipedia article on Burden of Proof before telling people to prove you wrong.
[01:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:Distrust based on faith - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:02:08] <exec> 08└─I never said I was right. I said I *suspect*. That's not making a claim, that's stating a hypothesis. You do see the difference, yes? "Prove me wrong" was rhetorical flourish, not a claim of rectitude.
[01:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Di 2000 strust based on faith - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:02:11] <exec> 08└─> People who don't accept it have no moral code. This. I have one correspondent who fits this to a T -- he's retired, was a sharp engineer, but after losing his first wife, he remarried to a born-again. I self-identify as post-theological (never participated in organized religion as a child or adult...
[01:02:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:In other words, propaganda works! - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:02:24] <exec> 08└─That is a forged quotation: http://bytwerk.com [bytwerk.com]
[01:02:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:In other words, propaganda works! - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:02:25] <exec> 08└─Another link showing some false quotations. http://www.ihr.org [ihr.org]
[01:02:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score:3, Funny) 02AAAAIIIIIIHHH!!! - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:29] <exec> 08└─Sorry. My greatest fear is surveys.
[01:02:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03zeigerpuppy [1298] (Score:2) 02Re:Range - 06Become Very Unpopular Very Fast with this DIY EMP Generator - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:02:39] <exec> 08└─Inverse square law is a bitch, Probably not going to be pocket size if you need that much power
[01:02:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Built them high school - 06Become Very Unpopular Very Fast with this DIY EMP Generator - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:02:53] <exec> 08└─Wikipedia page about Kirlian photography: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[01:03:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] 02The good news... - 06Newegg Now Owned by Chinese Company - 1281 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:03:14] <exec> 08└─The "good" news is that they can't get much worse than they already are. As I've posted elsewhere, here's what I've run into with my recent experiences with those asshats: 1. I still suffer through using the Firefox NoScript extension. No matter what I allow, the last two times I ordered, the checko...
[01:03:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The good news... - 06Newegg Now Owned by Chinese Company - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:03:18] <exec> 08└─They could always add malware ads to the site to round off the experience.
[01:03:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Biggest Chinese Export is Now Cash - 06Newegg Now Owned by Chinese Company - 793 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:03:25] <exec> 08└─It sort of reminds me when Japan was flying high -- selling chips, cars and other high value goods to USA. They were buying up US real estate and all kinds of things and paying big premiums. Then there was a crash and they had to sell it all at bargain prices...in some cases I think the sales were b...
[01:03:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:the mouth of evil - 06Chris Rock Reportedly Signs $40 Million Deal With Netflix for Two Comedy Specials - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:03:37] <exec> 08└─Of all the famous people I would not have pucked Chris Rick as the mouthpiece of evil. Care to elaborate??
[01:03:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Crist who? - 06Chris Rock Reportedly Signs $40 Million Deal With Netflix for Two Comedy Specials - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:03:41] <exec> 08└─www.youtube.com find the search box, type in "Chris Rock standup" click videos till you see a skinny black guy that makes you chuckle. If you don't at least chuckle at one of the jokes then you're too far gone or way too old to get the humor. Or pretend he's white, then the black jokes might seem mo...
[01:03:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Crist who? - 06Chris Rock Reportedly Signs $40 Million Deal With Netflix for Two Comedy Specials - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:03:43] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-opn0LzBR8 [youtube.com]
[01:04:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02380 YEARS?! - 06Accused British "Flash Crash" Trader to be Extradited to the US - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:04:16] <exec> 08└─How in the fuck does gaming the system give a possible penalty of 380 years? [Reads article] Ohhh. I see. Brown boy is smarter and better than fancy elite traders so swing the gavel on the upitty nigger so he and everyone else knows their place. This shit makes me sick.
[01:04:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02Re:American Narcissist - 06Montreal Protocol on the Elimination of Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) Signed - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:04:31] <exec> 08└─I wondwe how much of this is due to locally-appropriate building technology being replaced by "modern" designs. My family's ancestral home in Texas never needed AC or heat, because it was built with thick adobe walls that regulated the temperature.
[01:04:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Unixnut [5779] 02Re:Get off - 06October 11 Saw the First of Redmond's All-or-Nothing Monthly Patches - 814 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:04:46] <exec> 08└─I don't know, in 2001 I started doing Linux as well as being a windows admin. By 2003 I was making so much more money being a Linux admin (lots of work migrating NT boxen to Linux for SMEs), that I ended up specialising in Linux/Unix machines, and I "don't do windows" since then. The last windows I...
[01:04:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score:2) 02Re:Get off - 06October 11 Saw the First of Redmond's All-or-Nothing Monthly Patches - 1364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:04:59] <exec> 08└─I did the switch back in about 2003 at home. I basically was building a new bare-bones box and didn't want a warez copy of Windows. So I went to Micro Center, and right next to the $199 Windows 2000 professional was $49 Red Hat workstation 7. I had played a bit with Linux before and loved Unix, so w...
[01:05:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Re:Windows Update pegs a CPU core - 06October 11 Saw the First of Redmond's All-or-Nothing Monthly Patches - 1137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:05:08] <exec> 08└─It's good that it eventually worked out for you, but that wasn't the case for me. Ultimately the problem for me was that nothing I did would actually succeed in getting a manual update of the updater to work because somehow, somewhere, over the years the update process made a mess somewhere that com...
[01:05:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Windows Update pegs a CPU core - 06October 11 Saw the First of Redmond's All-or-Nothing Monthly Patches - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:05:12] <exec> 08└─In the time it takes to do a simple Windows update I could have installed an Ubuntu flavor from a USB stick.
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[02:01:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02needs salt - 06"Sweating" Robot can do More Push-Ups - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:39] <exec> 08└─Human sweat's got salt in it. Deionized water doesn't. This fails the Turing taste test.
[02:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Nvidia? - 06OpenCAPI and Gen-Z - 871 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:46] <exec> 08└─http://techreport.com/news/26226/nvidia-pascal-to-use-stacked-memory-proprietary-nvlink-interconnect [techreport.com] This story talks about NVLink, and it talks about fast memory on the chip. I read another story in recent months about "pooling" memory - that is, the system memory will be made avai...
[02:02:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Distrust based on faith - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:02:15] <exec> 08└─Is it possible that those who believe that atheists are completely amoral sociopaths extrapolate from their own realization that if they were not bound by the threat of eternal punishment if they did not adhere to whatever $HOLY_BOOK, they would be amoral sociopaths?
[02:02:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:fear vs acceptance - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:02:27] <exec> 08└─I once had a boss bigger and stronger than me loose his temper,
[02:02:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'm Afraid... - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:02:35] <exec> 08└─I'm worried about the baggage retrieval system at Heathrow.
[02:02:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm Afraid... - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 924 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:02:37] <exec> 08└─For whatever is worth, I am afraid of heights too. The funny thing is, part of my income comes from telecom stuff which involves climbing roofs, towers and poles; which I avoided like the plague letting my underlings do all the climbing. That is until a few years ago when I started to feel ashamed o...
[02:02:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Fear! - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:40] <exec> 08└─I am only afraid of fear itself! Or being asked what I am afraid of and not having an answer.
[02:02:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02PRESIDENT TRUMP 2016 - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:42] <exec> 08└─That's my number 1 fear...
[02:02:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Range - 06Become Very Unpopular Very Fast with this DIY EMP Generator - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:02:53] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosively_pumped_flux_compression_generator [wikipedia.org]
[02:05:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Windows Update pegs a CPU core - 06October 11 Saw the First of Redmond's All-or-Nothing Monthly Patches - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:05:16] <exec> 08└─More likely because of the tone of the comment than the fact that it's about Windows. Giving useful info doesn't give free license to be a shithead.
[02:05:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:XP - 06October 11 Saw the First of Redmond's All-or-Nothing Monthly Patches - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:05:34] <exec> 08└─Linux XP was discontinued in 2010, friend. You should wipe your install and use Fedora instead.
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[03:01:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:house cleaning - 06"Sweating" Robot can do More Push-Ups - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:01:47] <exec> 08└─You keep slaves and they wipe up after you at the gym, am I right?
[03:01:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Here's an idea - 06"Sweating" Robot can do More Push-Ups - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:50] <exec> 08└─More powerful motors.
[03:01:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Here's an idea - 06"Sweating" Robot can do More Push-Ups - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:01:52] <exec> 08└─More powerful motors will be bigger, heavier, and produce more heat. The motors that move those motors will also have to be more powerful, bigger, heavier, and produce more heat. I see where you're going with this: a huge, sweaty robot. Rule 34?
[03:01:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:Here's an idea - 06"Sweating" Robot can do More Push-Ups - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:01:54] <exec> 08└─bigger, heavier, and produce more heat
[03:02:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Nvidia? - 06OpenCAPI and Gen-Z - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:03] <exec> 08└─The Apple II has a single memory: Both the CPU and video access a byte of memory at 1 MHz. Their accesses are interleaved, so the DRAM effectively operates at 2 MHz. Another Woz trick: the video addresses are such that refreshing the video also suffices to refresh the DRAMs, so no additional refres...
[03:02:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:2) 02Re:What? No Clowns? - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:18] <exec> 08└─It actually shows how out-of-touch most people are with real risks. The actual list of threats is, in order: Trump becoming president.Heart disease (related: obesity).Cancer.Workplace/home/motor vehicle accidents.......Climate change, bee colony collapse, etc.......... Bignum: Terrorism, firea...
[03:02:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02fear runs the country - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 1683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:23] <exec> 08└─Should stop thinking of our politicians as leaders. They're not leaders, they're social surfers, riding the waves whichever way they go. Voters have lots of power, but many are such suckers for fearmongering. They really do control the country, if clumsily. Mostly, if things aren't completely horri...
[03:02:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This ain't no Lottery - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:26] <exec> 08└─Because your individual effort in uncovering the truth, is going to be greater than that of the politicians hiding it from you?
[03:02:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Distrust based on faith - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:31] <exec> 08└─The administration has had over and over again ample evidence to step in and prevent these terror attacks, but the consequence of a willful blindness of a policy that is a matter of administration policy refuses to acknowledge the threat means, over and over again, this administration has allowed th...
[03:02:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Distrust based on faith - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 2027 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:40] <exec> 08└─There is an element of Truth in that. But you miss the bigger horror by attempting to, falsely, virtue signal your superiority. It is perfectly logical to view atheists with suspicion given that the 'godless communists' murdered more people in the last century than every other contender combined. Ad...
[03:02:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:Distrust based on faith - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:43] <exec> 08└─I have also observed that as a general rule the 'godless', both atheist and agnostic, tend toward amorality with a shockingly high degree of correlation and that goes double for the converted. It really does seem that a threat of hellfire is somewhat effective, purely as a practical matter and espec...
[03:02:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02Systemd 33.3% - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 58 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:02:46] <exec> 08└─"SystemD will infect and F up my favorite OS" 33.3% feared
[03:02:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What "fears" to include? Survey bias? - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:51] <exec> 08└─23.8% fear illegal immigration, and 25% fear insects. DJT could have kicked off his campaign with a "dog whistle": When Mexico sends its bugs, they’re not sending their best. They’re sending insects that have lots of problems and they’re bringing those problems with them. They’re bringing pa...
[03:03:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:In other words, propaganda works! - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:03:04] <exec> 08└─Hitler and Goebbels merely perfected the propaganda techniques invented by Edward Bernays here in the U.S. working in the Wilson Administration. Asshole literally wrote the book on the subject. (No he can't claim full credit despite writing Propaganda) Once you understand that WWII was a war between...
[03:03:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:fairy tale time - 06Become Very Unpopular Very Fast with this DIY EMP Generator - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:03:16] <exec> 08└─I have my own version of the fairy tale. A wise guy named Isaac Newton long ago realised that there was a universal law that an object in motion will stay in motion unless acted upon by an external force. So a car filled with all these newfangled electronics speeds towards the baddie, and he fires p...
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[03:03:25] <exec> 08└─"How to Gain Enemies and Encourage Hostility," [FPS Weapons]
[03:04:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02No difference - 06Newegg Now Owned by Chinese Company - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:04:08] <exec> 08└─Newegg became just another knockoff Amazon/Alibaba years ago when they started opening up their site to other sellers.
[03:04:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:Erm... - 06Chris Rock Reportedly Signs $40 Million Deal With Netflix for Two Comedy Specials - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:04:26] <exec> 08└─It's his joke on Netflix it seems.
[03:04:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] 02Poor Kid - 06Accused British "Flash Crash" Trader to be Extradited to the US - 104 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:04:58] <exec> 08└─Clearly he wasn't too big to fail. Had he done this in one of the big banks, he would've gotten a bonus.
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[04:01:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Armour Thyroid - 06Hypothyroidism Symptoms Linger Despite Medication Use, Normal Blood Tests - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:33] <exec> 08└─I know two women who did not feel right on levothyroxine and, after searching, found a doc that would prescribe the old version refined from thyroid glands from cows and pigs. In both cases it made a huge difference in their outlook on life in general -- changed from crabby to positive, made them mu...
[04:02:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Distrust based on faith - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:02:36] <exec> 08└─No, all atheists are not Communists and every Muslim isn't a monster. On the other hand it IS true that every mass murdering Communist is officially an atheist and every Islamic Terrorist is, by definition, Muslim.
[04:02:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:What "fears" to include? Survey bias? - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:02:43] <exec> 08└─Maybe 80% of Trump's base fears illegal immigration and only 5-30% fear insects.
[04:02:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Another list I saw recently - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:02:46] <exec> 08└─I know someone who wasn't killed* in a fireworks mishap. * just blinded and maimed
[04:03:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02not just a play-thing - 06Become Very Unpopular Very Fast with this DIY EMP Generator - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:03:29] <exec> 08└─Military forces use RF weapons. http://www.prnewswire.co.uk [prnewswire.co.uk] They can ignite fuel vapors or cause munitions to detonate. https://web.archive.org
[04:04:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Biggest Chinese Export is Now Cash - 06Newegg Now Owned by Chinese Company - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:04:00] <exec> 08└─They are putting money into things in most cases. Not debt. No debt no problem, you wont be forced to sell if the price drops. Think of it as another buffer like the last time American banks blew up and needed Chinese money to bail them out long enough for the Fed to step in.
[04:04:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:No difference - 06Newegg Now Owned by Chinese Company - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:04:02] <exec> 08└─You object to the lack of originality, or what?
[04:04:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Easy cure, of course - 06Accused British "Flash Crash" Trader to be Extradited to the US - 1197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:04:50] <exec> 08└─But there are restrictions on trade, as show by the arrest. Only certain people are allowed to do the things HFT's do. Only people with lots and lots of money can set up HFT, so again not free and open but restricted to the few. HFTers see extra information that no one else gets to see, so again not...
[04:04:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Easy cure, of course - 06Accused British "Flash Crash" Trader to be Extradited to the US - 661 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:04:52] <exec> 08└─HFT makes money by inserting itself between actual buyers and sellers. That is, folks who have or want to have a stock. To HFT, having a stock is like having a hot potato. They are not interested in buying something unless they are pretty sure they have a buyer. If there were no actual buyers and se...
[04:05:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:False Assumptions - 06Montreal Protocol on the Elimination of Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) Signed - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:05:10] <exec> 08└─They are just more expensive to manufacture.
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[05:01:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Don't care. - 06The Nobel Also-Rans - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:30] <exec> 08└─Any org that handed obama a 'peace' prize is completely useless.
[05:01:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Second place is the first loser - 06The Nobel Also-Rans - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:31] <exec> 08└─But yeah, giving Obama a peace prize before he took office pretty much cheapened all Nobel prizes. Even knowing the peace prize was a completely different organization, calling it the Nobel poured a bunch of political skunkweed over all the prizes. Especially considering Obama is the king of killin...
[05:01:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Armour Thyroid - 06Hypothyroidism Symptoms Linger Despite Medication Use, Normal Blood Tests - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:01:40] <exec> 08└─My mother had the same situation and I've heard of other women who did, too. Yet I've also heard many people assert that from a scientific perspective there is no difference. I don't know what to think.
[05:01:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03tcj_phx [6273] (Score:1) 02The thyroid is rather simple... - 06Hypothyroidism Symptoms Linger Despite Medication Use, Normal Blood Tests - 912 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:42] <exec> 08└─Levothyroxine, aka Synthroid [wikipedia.org], "a synthetic thyroid hormone", is T4. This drug is "bioidentical", which means that it's the same as what the body produces for itself. This substance has 4 iodine atoms. It is the "storage" version of the thyroid hormone. T4 has no effect on the body's...
[05:01:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Beetle wings - 06Flexible Color E-Paper Using Plasmonic Metasurfaces - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:50] <exec> 08└─Wasn't there some kind of research out there about using nanoscale structures to reflect various hues? This seems like the same thing, but the actual text makes it hard to tell whether that's precisely what they're doing. Anyone have any clearer comment than crappy articles?
[05:01:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Beetle wings - 06Flexible Color E-Paper Using Plasmonic Metasurfaces - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:01:52] <exec> 08└─http://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnology-news/newsid=40069.php [nanowerk.com] I recall seeing the beetle one. Here's a bird feather one.
[05:02:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What? No Clowns? - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:02:29] <exec> 08└─But they all float out there. Don't you like flying?
[05:03:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:fairy tale time - 06Become Very Unpopular Very Fast with this DIY EMP Generator - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:03:21] <exec> 08└─Old fashioned cars do not care; newfangled robotic drivers do.
[05:04:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The good news... - 06Newegg Now Owned by Chinese Company - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:04:06] <exec> 08└─The redirect shit is because you used visa. verifyed by visa is a clusterfuck
[05:04:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Easy cure, of course - 06Accused British "Flash Crash" Trader to be Extradited to the US - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:04:57] <exec> 08└─Market manipulation and maybe some blame deflection. I gather that he not only made a bunch of phantom bid orders that he had no intention of filling, but these were large enough that he couldn't have filled them if someone had been able to snatch enough of them up. It has nothing to do with HFT oth...
[05:05:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Easy cure, of course - 06Accused British "Flash Crash" Trader to be Extradited to the US - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:05:05] <exec> 08└─You claim that HFT is what brings enough liquidity to the market to enable you to trade.
[05:05:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Get off - 06October 11 Saw the First of Redmond's All-or-Nothing Monthly Patches - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:05:51] <exec> 08└─[...] MS is really just converting to the OSX model.
[05:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:XP - 06October 11 Saw the First of Redmond's All-or-Nothing Monthly Patches - 726 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:06:21] <exec> 08└─Honest question here, but what hardware is it? Usually a lot of times, people state its hardware that prevents them from upgrading off older NT versions, but 32-bit versions of Visita and later can use XP drivers. The problem you run into is the installer does one of two things stupidly: 1. bad vers...
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[06:01:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:Second place is the first loser - 06The Nobel Also-Rans - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:01:31] <exec> 08└─What was there to cheapen? The Nobel was an arms industry award to to begin with. It was simply the age of colonialism so Academia played along. Even in the research awards and hard sciences, they're always focused on gradual industrial advancements and non-disruptive technologies and avoided reward...
[06:01:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Second place is the first loser - 06The Nobel Also-Rans - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:01:32] <exec> 08└─Especially considering Obama is the king of killing by drone in history.
[06:01:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Still waiting for E-paper - 06Flexible Color E-Paper Using Plasmonic Metasurfaces - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:01:53] <exec> 08└─Amazon Kindle does most of what makes e-paper useful. It just doesn't bend or have color.
[06:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Here's an idea - 06"Sweating" Robot can do More Push-Ups - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:02:06] <exec> 08└─Most motors have duty cycles less than 100%.
[06:02:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What? No Clowns? - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:02:33] <exec> 08└─The clowns are running for president.
[06:04:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:[meta] Editors? - 06Accused British "Flash Crash" Trader to be Extradited to the US - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:04:49] <exec> 08└─But who would then do editorializerisation?
[06:05:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Easy cure, of course - 06Accused British "Flash Crash" Trader to be Extradited to the US - 1217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:05:10] <exec> 08└─I agree that HFT should be open to anyone, but if one doesn't have a lot of capital (or even if one has a lot of capital), there certainly are much better ways than HFT. I don't want to keep repeating myself, but the HFTers can only move the price up or down one tic, so the liquidity benefit to the...
[06:05:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Pure idiocy - 06Accused British "Flash Crash" Trader to be Extradited to the US - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:05:11] <exec> 08└─HFTers can only move the price up or down one tic
[06:05:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Easy cure, of course - 06Accused British "Flash Crash" Trader to be Extradited to the US - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:05:14] <exec> 08└─HFT makes money by inserting itself between actual buyers and sellers. That is, folks who have or want to have a stock.
[06:05:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Re:Easy cure, of course - 06Accused British "Flash Crash" Trader to be Extradited to the US - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:05:17] <exec> 08└─Good discussion, thank you.
[06:06:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02no, this one is recent - 06Amoeba Stole Genes from Bacterium to Gain Photosynthesis - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:06:45] <exec> 08└─This happened 100 to 200 million years ago. Every other chloroplast is descended from one that got grabbed 1 to 1.5 billion years ago. It's hard to study the situation with normal chloroplasts because so much has changed. The original pair of organisms bear little relationship to anything alive toda...
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[07:01:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I have a dream. - 06Salesforce CEO Says No to Twitter Bid - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:30] <exec> 08└─That one day something as stupid simple as a knockoff of a bbs message board system isn't "worth" billions.
[07:01:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Re:Second place is the first loser - 06The Nobel Also-Rans - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:41] <exec> 08└─Especially considering Obama is the king of killing by drone in history.
[07:01:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Armour Thyroid - 06Hypothyroidism Symptoms Linger Despite Medication Use, Normal Blood Tests - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:01:52] <exec> 08└─Yeah, both a coworker and my mother have thyroid problems. They've both been on Armour for a couple years and are probably the least unstable I've seen either of them in 10 years or so.
[07:02:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02why humanoid? - 06"Sweating" Robot can do More Push-Ups - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:02:17] <exec> 08└─This technology is kinda cool, but why do they feel the need to keep making humanoid robots? We have plenty of human shaped humans that can do things we need human shapes for, start taking advantage of all the possibilities of different designs to do things humans CAN'T do!
[07:02:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02ST TNG S06E16 Birthright pt. 1 - 06"Sweating" Robot can do More Push-Ups - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:02:19] <exec> 08└─Or the one where Bashir meets Data...
[07:02:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This ain't no Lottery - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:02:52] <exec> 08└─Yes, I do - it worked for Edward Snowden.
[07:03:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Explains a lot about anti-Hillary sentiment - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 1327 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:03:23] <exec> 08└─If concerns about corruption in the government are a major issue, it's no wonder that Hillary is widely disliked, and any alternative to her viewed with more interest than would otherwise be the case. The charitable interpretation, that she's a competent politician who knows how to get things done w...
[07:03:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score:2) 02Re:Explains a lot about anti-Hillary sentiment - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 1030 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:03:25] <exec> 08└─It's an interesting idea, and IMO the level of distrust/belief in corruption also ties up with the conspiracy theories section of the survey - to quote: more than half of all Americans believe the government is concealing information about the 9/11 attacks; as well as the assassination of John F. Ke...
[07:04:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:Fiddler on the tin foil roof - 06Newegg Now Owned by Chinese Company - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:04:29] <exec> 08└─How do you buy electronics then? Drive to the first factory handling raw materials, tour the facilities, accompany the parts as they go through the manufacturing process and a number of other factories. before plucking the final product fresh off the final assembly line?
[07:05:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pure idiocy - 06Accused British "Flash Crash" Trader to be Extradited to the US - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:05:28] <exec> 08└─That's probably not exactly what happened and it was a fluke that likely won't happen again -- none of the HFT traders wanted it. Furthermore, it was a "flash" crash, so it came right back up, and mom & pop's retirement account didn't suffer.
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[08:01:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I have a dream. - 06Salesforce CEO Says No to Twitter Bid - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:01:40] <exec> 08└─Luckily, your dream may become reality.
[08:01:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I have a dream. - 06Salesforce CEO Says No to Twitter Bid - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:01:42] <exec> 08└─You should have made your BBS message board easy for idiots to use, then it would be worth billions. And there, dear elitist, is the crux of the situation. You're not worth shit, because you think you're better than the fucking idiots, but the idiots have conquered your fucking ass because they outn...
[08:01:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I have a dream. - 06Salesforce CEO Says No to Twitter Bid - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:01:44] <exec> 08└─You both have valid points, I like the idea that such things won't be worth so much because users will be freed from these stupid walled gardens!
[08:01:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I have a dream. - 06Salesforce CEO Says No to Twitter Bid - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:01:46] <exec> 08└─Stupid people love stupid walled gardens because having monopolies is easier than having choices. No matter how much they say they hate Comcast, stupid idiots keep paying Comcast for SportsNet. All the idiots are on Facebook because all the other idiots are on Facebook. If anything, there are too ma...
[08:01:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Second place is the first loser - 06The Nobel Also-Rans - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:01:58] <exec> 08└─The "Peace" Prize idiots went one step further, they gave the prize to someone whose peace deal was rejected. http://www.pbs.org [pbs.org] Video games have done more for peace than the past two winners. The more hours people...
[08:02:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:needs salt - 06"Sweating" Robot can do More Push-Ups - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:02:30] <exec> 08└─Brawndo's got electrolytes.
[08:02:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:why humanoid? - 06"Sweating" Robot can do More Push-Ups - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:02:36] <exec> 08└─Homes, tools, doors, etc. are built to be used by humans with 2 arms, 2 legs, and 10 fingers. Wheelchair ramps aside, a humanoid shape is efficient in handling the general-purpose tasks of a human-centric world.
[08:03:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02What "fears" to include? Survey bias? - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 4023 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:03:29] <exec> 08└─As linked in the summary, in 2014 there was a list of "top fears" too. They were: 1. Walking alone at night 2. Identity theft 3. Safety on the internet 4. Being a mass shooting victim 5. Public speaking These fears seem rather simple, personal, and parochial compared to this new list a mere two year...
[08:03:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:In other words, propaganda works! - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:03:49] <exec> 08└─between competing schools of fascists on both sides you will begin to approach wisdom.
[08:04:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Range - 06Become Very Unpopular Very Fast with this DIY EMP Generator - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:04:04] <exec> 08└─How about mechanical flux compression? Not good enough for "civilian" purposes?
[08:05:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pure idiocy - 06Accused British "Flash Crash" Trader to be Extradited to the US - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:05:52] <exec> 08└─Isn't all the extra liquidity supposed to stop that kind of thing though and not cause it. That was also only one extreme example but how much do other individual stocks get manipulated by obviously smaller but still meaningful amounts? Are you also claiming that the only people who bought or sold d...
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[09:01:28] <exec> 08└─
[09:02:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02fear runs the country - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 1683 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:02:57] <exec> 08└─Should stop thinking of our politicians as leaders. They're not leaders, they're social surfers, riding the waves whichever way they go. Voters have lots of power, but many are such suckers for fearmongering. They really do control the country, if clumsily. Mostly, if things aren't completely horri...
[09:03:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score:2) 02Re:This ain't no Lottery - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:03:02] <exec> 08└─That is a very eloquent way to put it. Kudos. Copying and sharing it elsewhere.
[09:03:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02Re:Distrust based on faith - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 554 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:03:06] <exec> 08└─> Yet when atheists complain about the situation, they'll be dismissed as ... Communists Which was a remarkably noticeable statistic, noticeable through its absence. In the groups-of-people feared breakdown, where were the fear of gays, feminists, pacifists, intellectuals, and even foreigners - so m...
[09:04:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score:2) 02Re:The good news... - 06Newegg Now Owned by Chinese Company - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:04:31] <exec> 08└─Every time I buy from them lately I somehow get put of one the many newegg spam email lists, and it's all but impossible to get off those when it happens.
[09:05:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pure idiocy - 06Accused British "Flash Crash" Trader to be Extradited to the US - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:05:37] <exec> 08└─Isn't all the extra liquidity supposed to stop that kind of thing though and not cause it.
[09:05:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03HiThere [866] 02Re:Easy cure, of course - 06Accused British "Flash Crash" Trader to be Extradited to the US - 262 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:05:42] <exec> 08└─No. You just have a small tax on each transaction, and a large tax on each cancellation. 0.001% of the value for each transaction should be ok, but cancellation should be about 2% of the value. No limits on the number of cancellations would seem to be necessary.
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[10:01:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02keep your skills up - 06America's Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:01:27] <exec> 08└─You'll never be out of a job if you have the in-demand skills! - cocksucking - clitlicking - social justice feminism - monetizing an app - monetizing a blog
[10:01:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Linked articles? - 06America's Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:01:28] <exec> 08└─wasn't the answer to the posed question given in the last story? The 80% will have to each other. https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[10:01:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Kill the Tech Billionaires - 06America's Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:01:30] <exec> 08└─Let's see. We can't tax the tech billionaires at 90% like they deserve because they'll just play a shell game with tax havens. We can't house the homeless because the tech billionaires are offended by the continued existence of poor people. We can't tell the tech billionaires to pay the unemployed a...
[10:01:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Or more simply... - 06The People Who Ate Each Other - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:01:39] <exec> 08└─What was going on in Gough's Cave? Was this an example of human violence between rivals, a strange kind of ritual behaviour, or simply a desperate bid for survival?
[10:01:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondrake [2658] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't care. - 06The Nobel Also-Rans - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:01:58] <exec> 08└─1. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] 2. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] The people for scientific awards are selected by Swedish institutes. The peace prize is awarded by a committee from another country in which politicians are involve...
[10:03:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What? No Clowns? - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:03:07] <exec> 08└─How the fuck is this modded troll? At worst, this is a -1 disagree... even though this really ought to be a Disagree
[10:03:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score:2) 02Re:Explains a lot about anti-Hillary sentiment - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:03:50] <exec> 08└─Personally I think Trump would do the world a favour by having a tragic car crusher accident
[10:05:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:[meta] Editors? - 06Accused British "Flash Crash" Trader to be Extradited to the US - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:05:31] <exec> 08└─The views stated here are those of the submitter, not the editor. I'm not sure what the objection is, but 'its always my fault', so I'll just roll with it. Someone remind me what the editor's job is...
[10:05:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:Easy cure, of course - 06Accused British "Flash Crash" Trader to be Extradited to the US - 998 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:05:44] <exec> 08└─He is not going to jail - he is going to stand trial for the alleged offences, which have yet to be proven. However, the US judicial system being what it is, I suspect the trial is superfluous to the outcome. This is for someone who has never entered the United States, and is not under their jurisdi...
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[11:01:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Tax the Tech Billionaires - 06America's Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:01:36] <exec> 08└─Let's see. We can't kill the tech billionaires because they'll throw lawyers at us until we suffocate under piles of lawyers. We can't house the homeless because the tech billionaires are offended by the continued existence of poor people. We can't tell the tech billionaires to pay the unemployed a...
[11:01:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03lizardloop [4716] (Score:2) 02Barrier to entry - 06America's Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs - 1647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:01:37] <exec> 08└─I keep saying it. Read Hunter S Thompson's "Hell's Angels". Their decline as a group and descent in to drug crime was largely driven by the end of casual labour jobs that paid enough to spend half your time riding around on a motorcycle. If you wanted well paying work you had to specialise and that...
[11:01:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Or more simply... - 06The People Who Ate Each Other - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:01:48] <exec> 08└─Facerock: it's what I use to smash your face in before I steal your food and rape your corpse. Simpler times, those were the good old days.
[11:01:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02"What was going on in Gough's Cave?" - 06The People Who Ate Each Other - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:01:50] <exec> 08└─...our future
[11:02:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Boycott shampoo, demand real poo - 06Salesforce CEO Says No to Twitter Bid - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:02:02] <exec> 08└─The whole sale thing was a scam from top to bottom designed for nothing but to temporarily pump up failing stock prices so insiders could sell at a better price.
[11:02:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''bloodthirsty leaders in our past'' - 06The Nobel Also-Rans - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:02:16] <exec> 08└─Big difference. Henry V, et al. were actually within weapons range of the opposition. Bill Maher was exactly right when he called USA cowardly for the way it uses weapons (cruise missiles in that case) with zero danger to USA's aggressor forces. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[11:02:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02That story is still in the queue. - 06The Nobel Also-Rans - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:02:18] <exec> 08└─Colombian President Receives Nobel Peace Prize for Rejected Accord with FARC [soylentnews.org] That submission notes that the dude was a militarist for most of his career, specifically fighting FARC. He's spent most of his life ESCALATING the violence. The PBS coverage didn't mention that. Surprise!...
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[12:01:40] <exec> 08└─Just get the homeless to kill the tech billionaires. Then, the homeless will get imprisoned, which is a win for the homeless, as it means shelter and regular meals; and a win for the billionaires, as they won't have to look at the homeless any more. Plus, some of the billionaires will be dead, which...
[12:01:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Barrier to entry - 06America's Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:01:42] <exec> 08└─I include myself in that demographic. I'm a software developer and there isn't really anything I do that couldn't be automated away given a hundred years of technology progression. What a future me would do for a job I really don't know.
[12:01:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Depends - 06America's Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:01:45] <exec> 08└─If you don’t have enough jobs maybe you are working too much.
[12:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:I have a dream. - 06Salesforce CEO Says No to Twitter Bid - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:02:06] <exec> 08└─users will be freed from these stupid walled gardens
[12:03:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:This ain't no Lottery - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 951 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:03:36] <exec> 08└─There's more to it than that. Saying "put in the work" and leaving it there can be one of those trite political aphorisms that result in people taking no action, walking away muttering, "that's just the way it is." I put in the work. I built a grassroots organization of 15,000 people in NYC and work...
[12:05:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fiddler on the tin foil roof - 06Newegg Now Owned by Chinese Company - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:05:14] <exec> 08└─I go to a physical store and buy it. At least that way I only get the generic embedded malware, and not the special stuff that the NSA are specifically targetting at ME!
[12:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''things I like about apt-get'' - 06October 11 Saw the First of Redmond's All-or-Nothing Monthly Patches - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:07:32] <exec> 08└─thank you
[12:07:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Offline updates? - 06October 11 Saw the First of Redmond's All-or-Nothing Monthly Patches - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:07:34] <exec> 08└─thank you.
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[13:01:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dogeball [814] (Score:2) 02Misleading heading - 06Possible Link Between Some Forms of Alzheimer's and Type 3 Diabetes - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:40] <exec> 08└─Actually, the research suggests that Alzheimer's disease is in fact a form of diabetes [diabetes.co.uk], i.e. the third type, as there are currently only two accepted types. The (early stage) proposal is to rename 'Alzheimer's' to 'Diabetes (Type 3)'. The heading makes it sound like Type 3 diabetes...
[13:01:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Misleading heading - 06Possible Link Between Some Forms of Alzheimer's and Type 3 Diabetes - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:01:42] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the summary says the same thing you're saying; it's just the headline that's wrong. If the headline even dropped the words "Type 3" it would be fine.
[13:01:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02 - 06Possible Link Between Some Forms of Alzheimer's and Type 3 Diabetes - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:01:44] <exec> 08└─The rename will be controversial - it will imply that blood sugar control can prevent or even manage Alzheimers, which, if it can, will probably make the rename stick. It will also be controversial because it will lessen the concern over controlling type 2 (acquired) diabetes in early life. In the l...
[13:01:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Tax the Tech Billionaires - 06America's Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:01:56] <exec> 08└─Have you written a novel yet? Because you have a good basis for it.
[13:01:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Barrier to entry - 06America's Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:02:00] <exec> 08└─So be a brown nosing social climbing twit is your solution? That is sad. =( "Marketing douches will rule the world!"
[13:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Barrier to entry - 06America's Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:02:02] <exec> 08└─Just become the polar opposite
[13:02:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:1) 02i was expecting... - 06America's Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:02:05] <exec> 08└─...the need for 60+ hour work weeks well into the future. at least several thousand years... also, politicians can't tell people that we are actually nearing the "end" to times as we know them. the people can't handle teh truth... or?
[13:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Z-A,z-a,01234 [5873] (Score:1) 02Simple: drop the money from the equation - 06America's Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:02:07] <exec> 08└─Introduce e2f basic income, control the amount of money in circulation (avoid inflation) and close the banks (banking should be - again - a tool of the state). First and second are done right now. The "close the banks" thing is more difficult to achieve, but it is an essential step to simplify the...
[13:02:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03weeds [611] (Score:2) 02Re:Or more simply... - 06The People Who Ate Each Other - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:02:18] <exec> 08└─This: "Kuru is an incurable degenerative neurological disorder endemic to tribal regions of Papua New Guinea. It is a type of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, caused by a prion found in humans." https://en.wikipedia.org(disease) [wikipedia.org] and other diseases might be a good r...
[13:03:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score:2) 02Re:Still waiting for E-paper - 06Flexible Color E-Paper Using Plasmonic Metasurfaces - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:03:09] <exec> 08└─What no one seems to do is make an epaper tablet that runs a regular GNU/Linux system. Yes, some of the older Kobo systems could be booted from a user-provided SD card, but there was no documentation for the proprietary device drivers, so it wasn't very useful. Are there any others?
[13:03:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nvidia? - 06OpenCAPI and Gen-Z - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:03:36] <exec> 08└─Coherent memory buses have been around practically forever. We just keep tweaking the specifics to move the bottlenecks around.
[13:04:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Corruption, say what? - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:04:32] <exec> 08└─They see it for what it is - One crooked deep state working against their best interests - and the establishment is so psychotic and power-drunk that they don't even bother hiding it.
[13:04:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:fear vs acceptance - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:04:37] <exec> 08└─The cop said that if I wasn't afraid it wasn't illegal.
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[14:01:53] <exec> 08└─Does this mean we can fat shame people with Alzheimer's?
[14:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Tax the Tech Billionaires - 06America's Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs - 1404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:02:07] <exec> 08└─Already done, Dickens, Tale of Two Cities. The more stuff changes, the more it stays the same. The "funniest" part about the French Revolution is on a small enough scale and short enough time period everyone involved was basically rational, regardless of how irrational the whole thing turned out to...
[14:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Tax the Tech Billionaires - 06America's Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:02:08] <exec> 08└─You know, I'm always really surprised more stuff like that doesn't happen.
[14:02:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Simple: drop the money from the equation - 06America's Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs - 3920 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:02:17] <exec> 08└─Banks control the state here, so we already have the merger of FIRE economy and government. Something interesting to think about is your answer is about 80% correct. In that we had a functioning economy for about 20% of todays population just a couple decades ago (well, century or so anyway) Whateve...
[14:02:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Joke about bears - 06America's Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:02:19] <exec> 08└─Two hikers were walking off-trail when they noticed a bear. The bear noticed them too, and didn't seem to happy about them, but stood still and glowered. One hiker dropped his backpack, reached inside and grabbed a pair of trail running shoes. He proceeded to take off his hiking boots and put on the...
[14:02:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02try first, then complain - 06America's Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:02:21] <exec> 08└─I see the usual complaints such as the title's "not enough jobs". by the end of casual labour jobs
[14:02:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Re:Or more simply... - 06The People Who Ate Each Other - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:02:32] <exec> 08└─No different to CJD and yet people still eat cows. I very much doubt that such a disease is in such prevelance that it would stop you going near ANY part of body, or even specifically the brain if you're a prehistoric human who's unlikely to live until 30 or be able to put 2 and 2 together when it c...
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[14:03:15] <exec> 08└─So if I'm understanding right, synthroid provides T4 and it's just like what the body makes, but if there is an additional problem with the liver and/or kidneys, even if the T4 levels are right it still won't help? Is the solution to treat whatever is wrong with the liver and kidneys so the body can...
[14:04:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Systemd 33.3% - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:04:40] <exec> 08└─That is a materialized fear, which is actually a harm at this point :(
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[14:07:03] <exec> 08└─So the very time liquidity is needed the most HFTers run for the hills. You are basing your claim that the prices that move around just magically due to HFTing go back to normal and the prices other people buy and sell at are unafected as soon as a mere mortal tries to buy or sell? How is that even...
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[15:01:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Philosophy - 06Theory Redraws Formation of Early Universe - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:49] <exec> 08└─This story perfectly illustrates how science has become philosophy.
[15:02:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Tax the Tech Billionaires - 06America's Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:15] <exec> 08└─its gonna be a party in euroland in the 20s, that's for sure. Ahh yes: WOMAN: You're lucky. We had to cancel our trip to the Alps this year because of the student protests in France. CHRIS: I thought the Neo-Trotskyists were going to put a stop to that. WOMAN: They're not having any more luck that...
[15:02:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Simpler: don't be stupid - 06America's Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:02:25] <exec> 08└─control the amount of money in circulation (avoid inflation) and close the banks (banking should be - again - a tool of the state).
[15:02:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Z-A,z-a,01234 [5873] (Score:1) 02Re:Simpler: don't be stupid - 06America's Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:02:27] <exec> 08└─You are so out of touch it is not even funny. Were you at all awake as the European central bank simply blackmailed the Greeks? You are under the illusion that somehow the system works...
[15:02:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Simpler: don't be stupid - 06America's Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:02:29] <exec> 08└─Were you at all awake as the European central bank simply blackmailed the Greeks? You are under the illusion that somehow the system works...
[15:02:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:try first, then complain - 06America's Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:02:33] <exec> 08└─What it hasn't delivered are many jobs. Google's Alphabet Inc. and Facebook Inc. had at the end of last year a total of 74,505 employees, about one-third fewer than Microsoft Corp. even though their combined stock-market value is twice as big. Photo-sharing service Instagram had 13 employees when it...
[15:02:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03weeds [611] (Score:2) 02Re:Or more simply... - 06The People Who Ate Each Other - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:02:45] <exec> 08└─Eating cows' brains, people, people brains - it's just to unpleasant to continue this dialog. You win.
[15:04:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What? No Clowns? - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:04:23] <exec> 08└─You missed on #2, which is actually "Clinton becoming president."
[15:04:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Distrust based on faith - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:04:49] <exec> 08└─I am agnostic. Religious belief doesn't decide government preference. Any possibility that a god exists died for me during my time in the army. No benevolent god would permit the things i saw. A god that does permit such things (even to His believers) is cruel or psychopathic and should be the enemy...
[15:06:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02Re:Easy cure, of course - 06Accused British "Flash Crash" Trader to be Extradited to the US - 409 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:06:55] <exec> 08└─The deck is stacked. Remember when Knight Capital screwed up and lost hundreds of millions of dollars in a few minutes? They got to reverse some of the trades. Think about that for a minute. Imagine that you were on the other side of one of those trades and you made a nice profit. All of a sudden, t...
[15:07:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03t-3 [4907] 02380 YEARS?! - 06Accused British "Flash Crash" Trader to be Extradited to the US - 270 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:22] <exec> 08└─How in the fuck does gaming the system give a possible penalty of 380 years? [Reads article] Ohhh. I see. Brown boy is smarter and better than fancy elite traders so swing the gavel on the upitty nigger so he and everyone else knows their place. This shit makes me sick.
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[16:01:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Making nature illegal only profits vultures - 06DEA Delays Ban on Pain-Relieving Herb Kratom; Waits for FDA Report & Public Comment - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:53] <exec> 08└─They'll tell you you can't use plant X and now you're suddenly in jail after your walk through the hills and collecting something from nature. It's very unnatural but you'll soon forget all about your troubles as you meet your big cell-mate in prison. He likes you, a little too much. And just for sh...
[16:01:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02There ought to be a law - 06DEA Delays Ban on Pain-Relieving Herb Kratom; Waits for FDA Report & Public Comment - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:54] <exec> 08└─As a libertarian, I rarely get to say those words, but the response that server gives when asked for a web page needs to be criminalized. Jail time, at least.
[16:01:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:There ought to be a law - 06DEA Delays Ban on Pain-Relieving Herb Kratom; Waits for FDA Report & Public Comment - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:01:57] <exec> 08└─I see, when I issue "GET /" on port 80, rather than having a normal webpage just like the ones used by billions of people every day, I get some heinous child porn and driveby malware?
[16:01:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Get over yourself - 06DEA Delays Ban on Pain-Relieving Herb Kratom; Waits for FDA Report & Public Comment - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:59] <exec> 08└─The "ridiculous page which is driven by scripts" is basically the kind of page that 99% of people encounter every day, and they have no problems using such pages. Because it is hard for you with script blockers and such enabled doesn't mean that they are intentionally trying to make it tough.
[16:02:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Get over yourself - 06DEA Delays Ban on Pain-Relieving Herb Kratom; Waits for FDA Report & Public Comment - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:02:01] <exec> 08└─If there were no deep links I'd have some sympathy, however visiting https://www.regulations.gov [regulations.gov] brings up a page which has an overview, a link to the "original printed format", a link to "comment now", and a link to related comments. It looks like an...
[16:02:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Philosophy - 06Theory Redraws Formation of Early Universe - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:02:10] <exec> 08└─No, it doesn't. FTFA: Their idea showed very good agreement with satellite measurements of temperature fluctuations in the early universe.
[16:02:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02so? - 06Theory Redraws Formation of Early Universe - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:12] <exec> 08└─so it's the big fart instead of the big bang now?
[16:02:32] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02Re:Linked articles? - 06America's Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs - 242 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:02:32] <exec> 08└─See? This is why neither the Democrats nor the Republicans are the party for modern times. The Donner Party is the only political approach that provides a modest proposal for solving such thorny problems. And yes, I've had my sig for a while.
[16:02:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02Re:Tax the Tech Billionaires - 06America's Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs - 1404 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:02:37] <exec> 08└─Already done, Dickens, Tale of Two Cities. The more stuff changes, the more it stays the same. The "funniest" part about the French Revolution is on a small enough scale and short enough time period everyone involved was basically rational, regardless of how irrational the whole thing turned out to...
[16:02:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Tax the Tech Billionaires - 06America's Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs - 795 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:02:40] <exec> 08└─So let me get this straight ... To create the Euro, and get Germany on board, they had to offer a guarantee against bailouts. Otherwise there would have been a Euro (maybe), which would have been a very weak currency, and a Pound and a Deutschmark separately. Greece joins this scheme, and discoverin...
[16:02:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Tax the Tech Billionaires - 06America's Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:02:43] <exec> 08└─"tech billionaires are offended by the continued existence of poor people" No, the rich require the existence of the poor. They just don't want the poor anywhere near the neighborhoods where the rich live. As Carlin put it, "The rich pay none of the taxes and have all the money, the middle class do...
[16:02:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Simpler: don't be stupid - 06America's Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:02:55] <exec> 08└─It's not quite that clear cut. The 'Greek bailout' bailed out the (mostly private) banks that had made risky loans (and was sold to the public as bailing out the Greek people). This was arranged by a state-controlled bank, but only because they were effectively blackmailed by private banks saying th...
[16:02:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Simpler: don't be stupid - 06America's Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:02:56] <exec> 08└─OK, so let's think about this one. Greece borrows a lot of money. From banks. Greece can't/won't pay back. The banks go broke. The people who had money in the banks take it in the shorts. Greece was the one holding a gun to everybody's head, here, not th 30ba e banks. The strongest criticism of the...
[16:03:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02From hawk to dove - 06The Nobel Also-Rans - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:03:42] <exec> 08└─I found that interesting as well, that he was such a right-wing firebrand for most of his career. Colombia leader Juan Manuel Santos: From hawk to dove [bbc.com] "At around the same time, evidence also emerged that the Colombian military had been killing civilians and passing them off as rebels in...
[16:03:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Second place is the first loser - 06The Nobel Also-Rans - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:03:43] <exec> 08└─Obama's phony Peace Prize wasn't even close to the end of that prize meaning something. They really ended it as a serious thing when they gave one to Henry Kissinger, apparently for expanding the Vietnam War into only 3 other countries that really had nothing to do with the conflict in question.
[16:04:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:why humanoid? - 06"Sweating" Robot can do More Push-Ups - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:04:25] <exec> 08└─(and they're sexier when they're human shaped)
[16:05:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Distrust based on faith - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:05:20] <exec> 08└─Where is the statistical evidence to support this?
[16:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrentDavey [1526] (Score:1) 02Can it blow out a car speaker? - 06Become Very Unpopular Very Fast with this DIY EMP Generator - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:09] <exec> 08└─I've thought something like this might be neat to quiet (vandalize) those goofy woofers in audio-amped boombox cars. Charge it, hold it over the speaker, fire it and it uses Lenz's Law to overdrive the speaker coil. Voila - quiet. Would probably just encourage procurement of speakers to handle "more...
[16:06:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Fiddler on the tin foil roof - 06Newegg Now Owned by Chinese Company - 784 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:06:42] <exec> 08└─There have been reports that the NSA's Office of Tailored Access Operations does such things. Cisco took them seriously enough to "ship boxes to vacant addresses" rather than customers' proper addresses. The pages I've linked below are marked "top secret." https://www.techdirt.com
[16:06:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Name change - 06Newegg Now Owned by Chinese Company - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:06:44] <exec> 08└─Egg foo "young"?
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[17:01:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score:2) 02Deeper relationships on the internet? - 06Hinge's Redesign Bets That Millennials Are Looking for Deeper Relationships - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:47] <exec> 08└─I don't know, ever since IRC came about, I can't shake the idea that "a/s/l?" - or its modern intarweb equivalents - is as deep as internet relationships will truly ever go... I personally know only one successful couple who met on the internet. How about going out and dating real people in real soc...
[17:01:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Deeper relationships on the internet? - 06Hinge's Redesign Bets That Millennials Are Looking for Deeper Relationships - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:01:48] <exec> 08└─Most people who use online dating sites intend "dating real people in real social settings". Online dating is simply a tool that is supposed to facilitate that.
[17:01:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Deeper relationships on the internet? - 06Hinge's Redesign Bets That Millennials Are Looking for Deeper Relationships - 813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:01:50] <exec> 08└─GP means things like this: join a running club, meet a hot running chick. Try asking her out. Fail. Repeat with other women/groups until success. You know, meeting people through existing connections in your life, as has happened for literally billions of years until the internet appeared. Now you g...
[17:01:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02The best women - 06Hinge's Redesign Bets That Millennials Are Looking for Deeper Relationships - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:53] <exec> 08└─If you really want a successful marriage seek out republican women that have had less than two sexual relationships in the past and are asian. If you want to treat them like shit, seek out a muslim woman. I hear you can beat them lightly.
[17:01:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Translation: - 06Hinge's Redesign Bets That Millennials Are Looking for Deeper Relationships - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:55] <exec> 08└─We can't compete in the dating app marketplace so we're spinning a new way to take your money.
[17:01:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02They're not wrong. - 06Hinge's Redesign Bets That Millennials Are Looking for Deeper Relationships - 888 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:57] <exec> 08└─I mean, plenty of us(them? I'm on the edge of the generation) are using tinder exactly the way tinder's reputation implies and are happy to do things that way. But plenty aren't interested in or are now sick of that kind of shallowness, but still suffer the kind of modern-society-induced challenges...
[17:02:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score:2) 02Welcome to the 21st century Mr. Dobrindt - 06Germany's Federal Motor Authority Warns Tesla Over "Autopilot" Advertising - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:06] <exec> 08└─where German people have a thing called "the internet", and in 2 seconds flat, they can visit sites from abroad where Tesla cars are listed as having an autopilot feature. Besides, geeky and well-to-do Tesla owners especially, more than any other automobile brand owners, are likely to know all there...
[17:02:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Welcome to the 21st century Mr. Dobrindt - 06Germany's Federal Motor Authority Warns Tesla Over "Autopilot" Advertising - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:02:08] <exec> 08└─So wanting to prevent companies from making misleading claims is now censorship? I presume you must be one of those who have a large stake in the dietary supplements business.
[17:02:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Welcome to the 21st century Mr. Dobrindt - 06Germany's Federal Motor Authority Warns Tesla Over "Autopilot" Advertising - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:02:10] <exec> 08└─What makes the claim misleading? Autopilots in airplanes don't do magic either. Doesn't the German government have something useful to do?
[17:02:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Know Your Audience - 06Germany's Federal Motor Authority Warns Tesla Over "Autopilot" Advertising - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:02:12] <exec> 08└─> Autopilots in airplanes don't do magic either. And if Tesla were advertising to pilots that would be relevant. But they aren't. And thus the definition of "autopilot" as understood by the general population is what matters. Pointing at a relatively obscure technical definition is a cop-out.
[17:02:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Get over yourself - 06DEA Delays Ban on Pain-Relieving Herb Kratom; Waits for FDA Report & Public Comment - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:02:24] <exec> 08└─Regardless of what 99% of people want, these scripts make the site inaccessible. I can't use the site, because I don't run scripts. Anyone with a screenreader has very incomplete javascript support, if any. It doesn't matter if 99% of people like dynamic script content, because the few people who ca...
[17:02:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Departments that should be eliminated - 06DEA Delays Ban on Pain-Relieving Herb Kratom; Waits for FDA Report & Public Comment - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:02:27] <exec> 08└─I think we can do just fine without the DEA, FBI, and CIA. To the chopping block!
[17:02:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Linked articles? - 06America's Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:02:59] <exec> 08└─Have to each other? I tried that once but then I accidentally.
[17:03:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Linked articles? - 06America's Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:03:00] <exec> 08└─What? I don't really.
[17:03:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03lizardloop [4716] 02Barrier to entry - 06America's Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs - 1653 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:10] <exec> 08└─I keep saying it. Read Hunter S Thompson's "Hell's Angels". Their decline as a group and descent in to drug crime was largely driven by the end of casual labour jobs that paid enough to spend half your time riding around on a motorcycle. If you wanted well paying work you had to specialise and that...
[17:03:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Barrier to entry - 06America's Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:03:15] <exec> 08└─people aren't getting smarter
[17:03:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02Re:Simple: drop the money from the equation - 06America's Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs - 3914 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:03:19] <exec> 08└─Banks control the state here, so we already have the merger of FIRE economy and government. Something interesting to think about is your answer is about 80% correct. In that we had a functioning economy for about 20% of todays population just a couple decades ago (well, century or so anyway) Whateve...
[17:03:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Simpler: don't be stupid - 06America's Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:03:26] <exec> 08└─I wrote: What's the message supposed to be here? I was replying to a comment that advocated making banking state-controlled. Now we have an example of a state-controlled bank extorting a weaker state. Is that supposed to be a benefit of state-controlled banks?
[17:03:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Simpler: don't be stupid - 06America's Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:03:28] <exec> 08└─I think the GP's argument was that there was a bank controlled State, Greece (and quite possibly Europe), and it was not good for the people living in Greece. While a State controlled bank could be miss-used and have been in the past, we also have plenty of examples of bank controlled States (e.g. t...
[17:03:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Simpler: don't be stupid - 06America's Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:03:30] <exec> 08└─I think the GP's argument was that there was a bank controlled State, Greece (and quite possibly Europe), and it was not good for the people living in Greece.
[17:03:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Simple: drop the money from the equation - 06America's Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs - 919 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:03:32] <exec> 08└─1. We don't need to shut down banks to control the amount of money in circulation. That is in fact a major purpose of the Federal Reserve and their foreign equivalents. 2. Having no inflation is probably a bad thing. It encourages people to stuff cash in their mattress rather than invest it in somet...
[17:03:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Joke about bears - 06America's Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:03:35] <exec> 08└─I'll crush this joke like a bear chomping on a trachea. Running is prey behavior to a bear so the runner is going to get eaten. The other guy is going to get some spectacular video which he'll throw on YouTube. I'm sure there's a analogy somewhere in that for gullible workers who work really hard...
[17:03:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:try first, then complain - 06America's Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:03:39] <exec> 08└─"Even the "moron" is more valuable to employ now than they've ever been." Citation needed. I run a small machine shop. If a worker isn't intelligent and attentive they'll do more harm than good. The intellectual barrier to entry has been rising steadily.
[17:03:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:try first, then complain - 06America's Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:03:42] <exec> 08└─Citation needed. I run a small machine shop. If a worker isn't intelligent and attentive they'll do more harm than good. The intellectual barrier to entry has been rising steadily.
[17:03:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Why would a tech company need so many people? - 06America's Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:44] <exec> 08└─Hand full of devs, hand full of csrs, three people in rotation to watch the servers, a girl to post good things about the company on twitter, a chick to say high to people who enters the building and answer phones, a guy to tell them all what to do, a guy to pitch the company to investors.
[17:03:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02captain obvious to the rescue - 06America's Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs - 1154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:46] <exec> 08└─there's not enough jobs because this stuff is in it's infancy and done using legacy business models, etc. Kids aren't being taught shit about free software, programming, engineering, or much else in these socialist/fascist indoctrination centers people call schools. There would be plenty of jobs if...
[17:04:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Overly irreverent summary - 06The People Who Ate Each Other - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:00] <exec> 08└─This is what we get when we play too many games of Cards Against Humanity. Seriously, "nibbled on" for child cannibalism?
[17:04:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03scruffybeard [533] (Score:2) 02Cannibalism is not Uncommon - 06The People Who Ate Each Other - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:01] <exec> 08└─A quick Google search reveals that there are many species that are cannibalistic for one reason or another. Is it really a surprise that 15k years ago we were subject to the same natural pressures?
[17:04:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Wow. - 06The Nobel Also-Rans - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:34] <exec> 08└─Every comment here, besides this one of course, is commentary on the Peace Prize. You people do know that Nobels are given out in other fields, right? I'm not so sure, though. I've even heard people make comments like "So-and-so won the Nobel peace price in physics."
[17:05:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Here's an idea - 06"Sweating" Robot can do More Push-Ups - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:05:14] <exec> 08└─If powerful motors weren't necessarily big, tiny (but curiously powerful!) motors would indeed be the order of the day.
[17:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:Distrust based on faith - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:06:14] <exec> 08└─Have you even seen a history book? Is your Internet connection sufficient to reach Google and Wikipedia? Communism alone scored a body count greater than a hundred million even if you accept their own version of history, i.e. the official version. Surely there isn't anyone posting here so historical...
[17:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score:1) 02Re:Plot Device - 06Become Very Unpopular Very Fast with this DIY EMP Generator - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:06:46] <exec> 08└─Can I get one for use on tailgaters? That would be great!
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[18:01:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Deeper relationships on the internet? - 06Hinge's Redesign Bets That Millennials Are Looking for Deeper Relationships - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:01:51] <exec> 08└─Or maybe you're able to value people as human beings (rather than objects) even when meeting them online. I know that sounds scary. But believe it or not... It is possible.
[18:01:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Re:Deeper relationships on the internet? - 06Hinge's Redesign Bets That Millennials Are Looking for Deeper Relationships - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:01:53] <exec> 08└─Met my wife online. We were together 10 years. Met my girlfriend on Gumtree - she rented an apartment to me. The Internet / online dating is nothing more than a new method of introduct 1000 ion, not dating. An introduction method where you can meet and chat in safety before you even do anything like...
[18:01:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Deeper relationships on the internet? - 06Hinge's Redesign Bets That Millennials Are Looking for Deeper Relationships - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:01:55] <exec> 08└─Met my wife online in 2002. Happily married since 2004.
[18:01:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Fuck You - 06Hinge's Redesign Bets That Millennials Are Looking for Deeper Relationships - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:01:58] <exec> 08└─Fuck you. I married a woman from a muslim family. She will kick anyone's ass, including your pale flabby couch cushion.
[18:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:They're not wrong. - 06Hinge's Redesign Bets That Millennials Are Looking for Deeper Relationships - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:02:02] <exec> 08└─The process of looking for a good relationship has always been really difficult, because you have to go through a lot of rejection to get to a success. You're almost always getting rejected, or rejecting the other person, both of which are rough to go through, until you finally get to the person you...
[18:02:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Given up online - 06Hinge's Redesign Bets That Millennials Are Looking for Deeper Relationships - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:05] <exec> 08└─I don't have the patience to wade through thousands of profiles, size up potential dates, then send messages that get ignored mostly. I don't blame women, many get inundated with messages... But I won't invest the time required just to go out for coffee to see if we even get along. So many people ar...
[18:02:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Know Your Audience - 06Germany's Federal Motor Authority Warns Tesla Over "Autopilot" Advertising - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:02:15] <exec> 08└─And thus the definition of "autopilot" as understood by the general population is what matters.
[18:02:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Know Your Audience - 06Germany's Federal Motor Authority Warns Tesla Over "Autopilot" Advertising - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:02:17] <exec> 08└─So all tesla's should have a giant warning light/sign like a dominos pizza car that says "ASSHOLE USING DANGEROUS AUTOPILOT FEATURE" Seems fair to me!
[18:02:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Get over yourself - 06DEA Delays Ban on Pain-Relieving Herb Kratom; Waits for FDA Report & Public Comment - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:02:31] <exec> 08└─You can always file a complaint with the DOJ for most places. I've had fairly good results doing that. But one thing to note, the vast majority of the ADA doesn't actually apply to the Federal Government. And I don't mean in the "they just ignore the laws they don't like" sort of way; I mean in a li...
[18:02:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Get over yourself - 06DEA Delays Ban on Pain-Relieving Herb Kratom; Waits for FDA Report & Public Comment - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:02:32] <exec> 08└─Javascript should be only for web applications. Not for web sites. Web 'sites' should have graceful degradation. One of the presidential candidates, I won't name names, but who regularly degrades women; whoever he or she is, would like to learn about graceful degradation.
[18:02:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Get over yourself - 06DEA Delays Ban on Pain-Relieving Herb Kratom; Waits for FDA Report & Public Comment - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:02:35] <exec> 08└─You might not consider it a problem, but some do. [fsf.org] I consider the government's use of proprietary software to be completely unacceptable.
[18:02:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Departments that 35a9 should be eliminated - 06DEA Delays Ban on Pain-Relieving Herb Kratom; Waits for FDA Report & Public Comment - 2072 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:02:39] <exec> 08└─Republicans suck. (So do Democrats, but this comment is about Republicans.) Those other departments are actually very useful: the EPA gives us clean cars so we don't smell car emissions the way we did back in the 70s and before, when cars were noticeably stinky and smog was a huge problem, much wors...
[18:02:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Departments that should be eliminated - 06DEA Delays Ban on Pain-Relieving Herb Kratom; Waits for FDA Report & Public Comment - 761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:02:41] <exec> 08└─How can you be so anti capitalist? What you propose would empty out our 'for profit' prisons. Significant numbers of vacant cells would have substantial negative economic consequences. This would decrease executive bonuses and shareholder value. What we need is a system that balances the need to inc...
[18:02:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Departments that should be eliminated - 06DEA Delays Ban on Pain-Relieving Herb Kratom; Waits for FDA Report & Public Comment - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:02:43] <exec> 08└─One way of achieving this is
[18:02:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Departments that should be eliminated - 06DEA Delays Ban on Pain-Relieving Herb Kratom; Waits for FDA Report & Public Comment - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:02:45] <exec> 08└─The Department of the Interior
[18:02:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Departments that should be eliminated - 06DEA Delays Ban on Pain-Relieving Herb Kratom; Waits for FDA Report & Public Comment - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:02:47] <exec> 08└─Forget squabbling about commerce, energy, education, etc. If I could eliminate any three departments of the government, they would be: executive, legislative and judicial. Oh, wait, you didn't say branches?
[18:03:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Linked articles? - 06America's Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:03:23] <exec> 08└─wasn't the answer to the posed question given in the last story? The 80% will have to each other.
[18:03:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Tax the Tech Billionaires - 06America's Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:03:31] <exec> 08└─and you say it's the german bankers' fault?
[18:03:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Tax the Tech Billionaires - 06America's Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:03:33] <exec> 08└─I'll just leave this here. Mark Blyth: "Austerity - The History of a Dangerous Idea" https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[18:03:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Simple: drop the money from the equation - 06America's Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:03:45] <exec> 08└─Don't be so quick to write off the car companies. Yes they are old and don't have the high stock values of tech companies. But they still employ a lot of people in the USA, and most of these are decent jobs. Here's a page from one industry organization -- mouse over the states for employment stats....
[18:03:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Simpler: don't be stupid - 06America's Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:03:52] <exec> 08└─The solution is probably to
[18:04:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03number6 [1831] (Score:2) 02The next logical phase of what Frank Zappa said - 06America's Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs - 2796 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:05] <exec> 08└─Today's tech billionaires have become the new arbiters of a much bigger destabilizing game than just the music industry arbiters mentioned in this talk by Frank Zappa here: transcript of a 2-minute Youtube clip: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Frank...
[18:04:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score:2) 02Cue Barbra Streisand - 06The People Who Ate Each Other - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:22] <exec> 08└─People People who eat people Are the hungriest people in the world.
[18:04:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:I have a dream. - 06Salesforce CEO Says No to Twitter Bid - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:04:36] <exec> 08└─Just because your BBS is "worth" billions, doesn't mean anyone will actually pay you billions for it. Er, wait, what's the point of stock valuations again?
[18:04:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Re:Boycott shampoo, demand real poo - 06Salesforce CEO Says No to Twitter Bid - 789 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:04:39] <exec> 08└─Not sure, they may really have thought they could sell it. The thing is: they waited to long. People perceived Twitter as *the* bastion of free speech. Dissidents could publish their manifestos (a sentence at a time), people in war zone could tweet real-time happenings... Then the SJWs took control...
[18:05:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03fubari [4551] (Score:2) 02Re:The thyroid is rather simple... - 06Hypothyroidism Symptoms Linger Despite Medication Use, Normal Blood Tests - 831 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:05:12] <exec> 08└─Your summary sounds exactly right. Just something to think about: compounding pharmacies [mcguffpharmacy.com] make a lot of sense to me - this is just an example plucked at random out of the search results, but I think it is worth looking into. Lots of doctors out there, if yours isn't doing it for...
[18:05:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:needs salt - 06"Sweating" Robot can do More Push-Ups - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:05:35] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, robot sweat sommelier doesn't pay very well. The turing taste testers will pass just about anything to get their paycheck. Some have postulated that the whole project is a meta-turing test of some kind.
[18:06:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02This ain't no Lottery - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 592 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:06:21] <exec> 08└─> My top fear is that millions of stupid people will be allowed to vote. My top fear is that millions of people won't be allowed to vote. > Running close behind that is the fear that they will believe their vote has any effect whatsoever. It will have an effect exactly equal to the effort expended....
[18:06:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:Distrust based on faith - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 641 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:06:31] <exec> 08└─It's simple. There's a certain class of religious thought that isn't content with "My moral code comes from $HOLY_BOOK. It is the correct one and people who get their moral code elsewhere will have different moral codes that are less correct", and instead reaches for "My moral code comes from $HOLY_...
[18:06:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score:1) 02Re:Corruption, say what? - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:06:58] <exec> 08└─IMO there is little difference between today's Democrats and the Republicans of as recently as a decade ago. The problem is that todays Republicans are so completely batshit crazy that it makes the Democrats look reasonable, despite being corrupt douchebags. It's not a fight of "may the best person...
[18:08:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Massive Debt - 06Newegg Now Owned by Chinese Company - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:08:11] <exec> 08└─> They are putting money into things in most cases. That depends on who "they" is. Individuals? You are probably right. But China's real estate bubble is financed by massive, massive public debt. Crazy levels of debt. I don't know how China is going to get out from under that, inflation is the obvio...
[18:08:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:American Narcissist - 06Montreal Protocol on the Elimination of Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) Signed - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:08:58] <exec> 08└─The definition of "need" is relative. Did you sleep outside during the summer nights? That's what people without A/C do in India.
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[19:01:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Serious props - 06Something Went Wrong with the Juno Spacecraft's Engine - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:58] <exec> 08└─Any team that manages these exploration robots is kick ass. It boggles the mind if you really think about it. I sometimes have trouble troubleshooting something I have physical access to, I can't imagine the stress of trying to debug a valve millions of miles away, and all you get is "it took 20x to...
[19:01:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score:1) 02Re:Serious props - 06Something Went Wrong with the Juno Spacecraft's Engine - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:01:59] <exec> 08└─Couldn't agree more. My daughter phoned from just over 100 miles away because the hot tap on her bath was stuck on... even with me remotely controlling her it took 5 minutes to get the heating and the water turned off. OK, not "remotely controlling" that sounds way too creepy O_o
[19:02:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:Deeper relationships on the internet? - 06Hinge's Redesign Bets That Millennials Are Looking for Deeper Relationships - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:02:14] <exec> 08└─Some people in some social contexts lie about where they met their partners when it was through online dating. There is still a certain social stigma around it, especi 1ff6 ally with older people. I'm not even that old, and I've had people tell me that lie only to reveal the truth at a later point....
[19:02:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Translation: - 06Hinge's Redesign Bets That Millennials Are Looking for Deeper Relationships - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:02:19] <exec> 08└─so we're spinning a new way to take your money.
[19:02:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They're not wrong. - 06Hinge's Redesign Bets That Millennials Are Looking for Deeper Relationships - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:02:23] <exec> 08└─Sometimes the process is AFU though. My very first girlfriend (the one you never forget) calls me after 30 years telling me she never got married because I was the only one. What a bombshell that was.
[19:02:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They're not wrong. - 06Hinge's Redesign Bets That Millennials Are Looking for Deeper Relationships - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:02:25] <exec> 08└─> (the one you never forget) Not always a bombshell, more like a fizzle. She came back to town when a mutual friend died of a brain tumor (after about 30 years). While she didn't actually come out and say it, it was pretty clear that she's gay. Might explain why she cut our high school relationship...
[19:02:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Given up online - 06Hinge's Redesign Bets That Millennials Are Looking for Deeper Relationships - 560 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:27] <exec> 08└─I don't have the patience to wade through thousands of profiles, size up potential dates, then send messages that get ignored mostly. I don't blame women, many get inundated with messages... But I won't invest the time required just to go out for coffee to see if we even get along. So many people ar...
[19:02:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Given up online - 06Hinge's Redesign Bets That Millennials Are Looking for Deeper Relationships - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:02:29] <exec> 08└─I don't blame women
[19:02:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Given up online - 06Hinge's Redesign Bets That Millennials Are Looking for Deeper Relationships - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:02:31] <exec> 08└─and things that should be minor become deal breakers
[19:02:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Know Your Audience - 06Germany's Federal Motor Authority Warns Tesla Over "Autopilot" Advertising - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:02:44] <exec> 08└─> Sorry, I don't buy that. And no one is surprised. You regularly demonstrate a failure to understand all the people who do not live in your own head. This is just the latest example of your callow, "I'm right, everybody else is wrong" logic.
[19:02:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:Welcome to the 21st century Mr. Dobrindt - 06Germany's Federal Motor Authority Warns Tesla Over "Autopilot" Advertising - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:02:46] <exec> 08└─But they do allow pilots to take their hands away from the controls and concentrate on other tasks for short periods of time. Tesla's 'autopilot' does not.
[19:02:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:2) 02Truth in advertising ? - 06Germany's Federal Motor Authority Warns Tesla Over "Autopilot" Advertising - 979 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:48] <exec> 08└─This is a refreshing take on TV commercials. It would be really cool if neither printed nor video based ads could show or imply that objects could perform actions they can't. Barbie can't walk or talk, your Nissan can't do a rail slide on a bridge, the image on the phone you are seeing is simulated...
[19:03:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Get over yourself - 06DEA Delays Ban on Pain-Relieving Herb Kratom; Waits for FDA Report & Public Comment - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:03:04] <exec> 08└─Which screenreader stumbles on that site? Jaws works fine.
[19:03:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:Departments that should be eliminated - 06DEA Delays Ban on Pain-Relieving Herb Kratom; Waits for FDA Report & Public Comment - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:03:11] <exec> 08└─Destroying commerce is the one I find especially strange. Shouldn't the pro-business party be in favor of commerce? Sounds awfully anti-business to want to eliminate that one. But I think I understand. They want to get rid of the referees so market players can cheat^h^h^h^h^h compete to the max. May...
[19:03:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Linked articles? - 06America's Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:03:50] <exec> 08└─Thanks. I didn't.
[19:03:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02Re:Tax the Tech Billionaires - 06America's Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs - 43 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:03:58] <exec> 08└─and you say it's the german bankers' fault?
[19:04:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Joke about bears - 06America's Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:04:24] <exec> 08└─It depends entirely on the kind of bear: Black bears mostly don't plan to attack or eat you unless you surprise them or seem to be threatening their cubs - they'll just come by, eat all your food, and leave. Grizzlies, on the other hand, will consider you to be potentially food, and the best way to...
[19:04:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Joke about bears - 06America's Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:04:26] <exec> 08└─and the best way to interact with them is back away slowly and don't run.
[19:04:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Joke about bears - 06America's Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:04:28] <exec> 08└─I don't think running away is "Plan A". It's the "oh shit it's coming right for us" plan. Because if the bear is coming for you then you ARE prey. At that point acting like prey is probably the best thing you could do. I just looked it up online and the US National Park Service and they said that pl...
[19:04:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03theluggage [1797] 02Or more simply... - 06The People Who Ate Each Other - 164 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:43] <exec> 08└─What was going on in Gough's Cave? Was this an example of human violence between rivals, a strange kind of ritual behaviour, or simply a desperate bid for survival?
[19:04:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score:2) 02Re:Or more simply... - 06The People Who Ate Each Other - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:04:49] <exec> 08└─Remind me the URL of the site we're on.
[19:04:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Cannibalism is not Uncommon - 06The People Who Ate Each Other - 1023 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:04:54] <exec> 08└─A few years ago i "rescued" a praying mantis before winter. She was huge and kept hanging out by the door and waving her arms at me as i went by. Had a nice big terrarium and fed her crickets from a nearby shop. She laid an eggcase and 30+ baby mantises came out. It was like highlander in there. Con...
[19:05:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''bloodthirsty leaders in our past'' - 06The Nobel Also-Rans - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:05:25] <exec> 08└─Well, it IS more manly to go in, guns a-blazin', and taking out a whole town. Or just carpet-bombing it to hell. The precision attacks that severely limit collateral damage really is the sissy way of doing things.
[19:05:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''Kissinger'' - 06The Nobel Also-Rans - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:05:31] <exec> 08└─...and, even though they -knew- that any combatants in Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand were out in the jungle where they couldn't easily be found, Kissinger and his henchmen had villages in those countries bombed--places that they -knew- were full of NON-COMBATANTS. Evil bastards. War criminals. ...and...
[19:05:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03tcj_phx [6273] (Score:1) 02Re:The thyroid is rather simple... - 06Hypothyroidism Symptoms Linger Despite Medication Use, Normal Blood Tests - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:05:47] <exec> 08└─The original Armour thyroid formula may have been more effective than its reformulation/replacement... But yes, glandular thyroid has T3 and T2 and other substances in addition to T4. It's best to address the cause of low thyroid function, but it's nice to have medications while you figure it out.
[19:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pure idiocy - 06Accused British "Flash Crash" Trader to be Extradited to the US - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:47] <exec> 08└─So the very time liquidity is needed the most HFTers run for the hills.
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[20:01:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02sensationalist twattle - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:50] <exec> 08└─This is current year. Everyone has internet on a mobile phone. Assange is living in the middle of London. There is mobile coverage. The guy has no excuse not to have multiple burner phones and VPN servers. Even I have four burner phones and two VPN servers. And I am lowly AC.
[20:01:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:sensationalist twattle - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:01:51] <exec> 08└─Idiot moron! EMF jammers exist and if someone is really serious about cutting another person's internet access then of course they will add one of those.
[20:01:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:sensationalist twattle - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:01:54] <exec> 08└─And take out the surrounding city block. Most people don't care about one person in an embassy, but cut their ability to use Pokemon Go and Facebook and there will be riots in the street.
[20:01:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:sensationalist twattle - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:01:56] <exec> 08└─What part of "middle of London" is confusing you? Here, have a map to see what you'll be jamming. https://goo.gl [goo.gl]
[20:01:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:sensationalist twattle - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:01:58] <exec> 08└─I understand your point, but would also add that jammers have undoubtedly been improved over the years and can be selective about their radius. If Ecuador is complicity with cutting off his internet they could jam him from the next room! However, it is also quite likely that the telcos were served w...
[20:01:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:sensationalist twattle - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:02:00] <exec> 08└─The guy has no excuse not to have multiple burner phones and VPN servers.
[20:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:sensationalist twattle - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:02:02] <exec> 08└─He can't possibly be doing his own shopping. The same people who shop for his food can shop for his phones.
[20:02:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:sensationalist twattle - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:02:04] <exec> 08└─He can't possibly be doing his own shopping
[20:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:sensationalist twattle - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:02:07] <exec> 08└─You're implying the Ecuadorian government cut off his internet but do you have any proof?
[20:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:sensationalist twattle - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:02:09] <exec> 08└─Is it possible he's dead?
[20:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Ecuador knows - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:11] <exec> 08└─Ecuador knows who is coming.
[20:02:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02dead men go "tweet" - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:13] <exec> 08└─Quick, somebody nuke Twitter! Now we know the idiots have a single point of failure, and it's social media!!
[20:02:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Torrent Troubles - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:15] <exec> 08└─I downloaded the torrent so I could be another mirror for the insurance file but it stopped at 4.9mb and pegged my CPU at 100% and listed only 48 other seeders. Has anyone else had success / trouble? Also, I tested a linux distro torret which worked just fine so it wasn't my ISP throttling torret tr...
[20:02:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Serious props - 06Something Went Wrong with the Juno Spacecraft's Engine - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:02:26] <exec> 08└─Next level parenting app, "control your children's very mind!"
[20:02:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02I hear they figured it out - 06Something Went Wrong with the Juno Spacecraft's Engine - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:28] <exec> 08└─Turns out an antivirus scan kicked off just before the valve-open command was received.
[20:02:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:2) 02Interstellar sleeper ships - 06Something Went Wrong with the Juno Spacecraft's Engine - 1652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:30] <exec> 08└─It's taken as gospel amongst the geek crowd that a surefire way to get to the stars is to build a sleeper ship that'll coast between the stars for tens or hundreds of thousands of years before waking up the passengers at their distant destination. Sure, the plot line generally includes stuff breakin...
[20:02:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Deeper relationships on the internet? - 06Hinge's Redesign Bets That Millennials Are Looking for Deeper Relationships - 777 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:02:41] <exec> 08└─A lot of people won't believe your idea works. But - yes it does. Meeting people, in person, in a venue that reflects both of your interests - such as a track club. Or, at 4-H rodeos, or the local gardening center. You actually share an iterest with the people you meet in such places. Of course, ano...
[20:02:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Deeper relationships on the internet? - 06Hinge's Redesign Bets That Millennials Are Looking for Deeper Relationships - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:02:45] <exec> 08└─I'm glad, I hope it ends well too :)
[20:03:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Know Your Audience - 06Germany's Federal Motor Authority Warns Tesla Over "Autopilot" Advertising - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:03:13] <exec> 08└─And no one is surprised. You regularly demonstrate a failure to understand all the people who do not live in your own head. This is just the latest example of your callow, "I'm right, everybody else is wrong" logic.
[20:03:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03weeds [611] (Score:2) 02Re:Know Your Audience - 06Germany's Federal Motor Authority Warns Tesla Over "Autopilot" Advertising - 1286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:03:14] <exec> 08└─You can buy or sell whatever you want. That doesn't change what is actually true. An aircraft autopilot and a automobile autopilot have just about nothing in common except the name. I wonder how many people have any idea at all what they do let alone how they work? In the (notably small) sample I ha...
[20:03:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Know Your Audience - 06Germany's Federal Motor Authority Warns Tesla Over "Autopilot" Advertising - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:16] <exec> 08└─What I'm buying is that the understanding by the general public is all that matters.
[20:03:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Welcome to the 21st century Mr. Dobrindt - 06Germany's Federal Motor Authority Warns Tesla Over "Autopilot" Advertising - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:03:19] <exec> 08└─Ok, that's a reasonable point.
[20:03:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''[Link no longer available]'' - 06DEA Delays Ban on Pain-Relieving Herb Kratom; Waits for FDA Report & Public Comment - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:46] <exec> 08└─Google's cache is currently available. [googleusercontent.com] The mobile version of the page is too. [washingtontimes.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[20:04:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Re:Simple: drop the money from the equation - 06America's Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:04:55] <exec> 08└─2. Having no inflation is probably a bad thing.
[20:05:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Joke about bears - 06America's Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:05:02] <exec> 08└─I just looked it up online and the US National Park Service and they said that playing dead is best for Brown/Grizzly bears and to run from black bears.
[20:05:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Joke about bears - 06America's Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:05:04] <exec> 08└─Perhaps "escape" means to stroll away then? Anyways, the OP's story still works here. If two people are running from the bear then you want to be the faster one. Playing dead would be terrible advice for someone trying to stay employed. "Is your job getting more competitive and those who fall behind...
[20:05:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03weeds [611] (Score:2) 02Re:Or more simply... - 06The People Who Ate Each Other - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:05:23] <exec> 08└─Ha!
[20:05:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Boycott shampoo, demand real poo - 06Salesforce CEO Says No to Twitter Bid - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:05:45] <exec> 08└─Yurp and in the fine Peasants Revolting tradition of our own site here, the people who actually care about free speech on twitter are migrating to gab.ai even though it's still in development and there's a waiting list (less than a week usually).
[20:05:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Boycott shampoo, demand real poo - 06Salesforce CEO Says No to Twitter Bid - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:05:46] <exec> 08└─weird i never heard of gab.ai and find it hard to believe that a centrally managed 'secret' place like that really is the bastion of free speech. if you have to employ the guards to keep the riff raff out, you are not the bastion of free speech. you're just choosing who can speak to whichever audien...
[20:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Prizes for things other than peace - 06The Nobel Also-Rans - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:06:08] <exec> 08└─The "Nobel" Prize for Economics is actually done by bankers who are not of any Nobel committee. ...but the actual Nobel folks don't have a problem with that being called a "Nobel Prize". ...and those bankers have the gall to include the word "Sciences" in the title of that. Nobel Memorial Prize in E...
[20:07:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score:2) 02Re:This ain't no Lottery - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 2170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:07:36] <exec> 08└─Every time the system is destroyed, the next system is that much smarter. The system has been designed to take care of every thing a smart person can do to a dumbass, so that dumbass can continue to focus on day-to-day life of trying to get food and sex/child care. If you want to bring a change, we...
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[21:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:sensationalist twattle - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:01:47] <exec> 08└─Either way, the OP is stupid to think that the people behind this would not account for a burner phone....
[21:01:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03 (Score:2) 02Re:sensationalist twattle - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:01:48] <exec> 08└─For all we know, the shutoff was a ham-fisted move by Ecuador
[21:01:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:sensationalist twattle - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:01:50] <exec> 08└─Scratch that - was looking in the wrong place.
[21:01:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:sensationalist twattle - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:01:52] <exec> 08└─Explain? You mean everywhere else has gone full infowars conspiracytard and assumed the NWO is cracking down? Small governments aren't known for having great technical prowess or making truly rational decisions. Whatever happened to Assange, it clearly has had little or no effect on the organization...
[21:01:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:sensationalist twattle - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:01:54] <exec> 08└─If Ecuador wanted to stop his internet traffic they could simply kick him out the door.
[21:02:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:sensationalist twattle - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:02:01] <exec> 08└─That's the last link in the summary. Wikileaks is confirming that the embassy cut his access, not anybody else. I'm not sure why they did that as they knew what he was doing previously.
[21:02:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:sensationalist twattle - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:02:03] <exec> 08└─Summary, who reads the summary, or the headline?
[21:02:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:sensationalist twattle - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:02:06] <exec> 08└─Possible? Yes. Likely? I doubt. If Julian was dead in the embassy, why would they try to conceal it?
[21:02:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Re:sensationalist twattle - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:02:08] <exec> 08└─Not sure if burner phones have data now, but dialup over voice circuits is the hardest form to block, or capture. Might run out of minutes trying to RX/TX files in the gigabit range over dialup though. PS: whoever’s the dick that keeps moding posts they disagree with as troll, knock it off. Pretty...
[21:02:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:sensationalist twattle - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:02:10] <exec> 08└─https://duckduckgo.com/?q=How+to+Get+Free+Internet+On+Vodafone [duckduckgo.com]
[21:02:12] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02Re:sensationalist twattle - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 115 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:02:12] <exec> 08└─> Even I have four burner phones . . . Don't you think it dangerous to have that many Samsung Galaxy Note 7 phones?
[21:02:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:sensationalist twattle - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:02:15] <exec> 08└─I believe AC said "burner" not "exploding" . . .
[21:02:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:sensationalist twattle - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:02:17] <exec> 08└─Sounds like a terrorist either way.
[21:02:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Change port - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:22] <exec> 08└─Config the server to work on one port and set it to 80. Seems like the simplest solution.
[21:02:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03pendorbound [2688] (Score:2) 02Re:Change port - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:02:24] <exec> 08└─That's still blockable. VPN connections differ from http (even http/s) traffic in a predictable way. Networking hardware can be configured to detect and block that traffic even if it's sent over well-known ports that are usually allowed through.
[21:02:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Change port - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:02:26] <exec> 08└─No need to block anything. Just throttle everything to dialup speed and watch the social tards react. Slow internet is worse than no internet, they scream.
[21:02:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:4, Interesting) 02Clin̲̥t͉̲o̰n - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 1451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:28] <exec> 08└─Hey, there's a smudge on my screen! https://news.google.com [google.com] 22 toxic days for Hillary Clinton [politico.com] WikiLeaks Exposes Clinton’s LGBT Support as Scripted Political Expediency [observer.com] ‘Remember, it’s illegal to possess’ WikiLeaks Cl...
[21:02:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Charlie B - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:02:31] <exec> 08└─This whole mysterious "state level actor" thing doesn't help either. The embassy he was in cut him off, why didn't he just say that? Instead he went with a deliberately ominous message implying the NSA got up in his internetz, a message that he must of known would be blowback once the actual state...
[21:02:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Charlie B - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:02:33] <exec> 08└─Actually, it was Lucy but, whatever.
[21:02:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Bizarro - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:02:35] <exec> 08└─> Actually, it was Lucy but, whatever. Not in Bizarroworld Peanuts! But thanks, you are right, I just brainfarted.
[21:02:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Charlie B - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:02:37] <exec> 08└─Ominous messages are a Wikileaks forte, that's for sure. They have just the right (or wrong) balance of attention whoring and fulfillment. It doesn't make sense for them to "know" (since this is all still unconfirmed) that a "state party" cut it off without knowing it was Ecuador. The first tweet co...
[21:02:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Clin̲̥t͉̲o̰n - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:02:39] <exec> 08└─‘Remember, it’s illegal to possess’ WikiLeaks Clinton emails, but ‘it’s different for the media,’ says CNN’s Chris Cuomo
[21:02:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Clin̲̥t͉̲o̰n - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:02:41] <exec> 08└─My take is that once Wikileaks, considered a media organization even by the U.S. government, processes and releases leaked information, it is legal to look at even if it is classified (with the exception of federal employees and members of the military who may be subject to policy restrictions). The...
[21:02:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Suspicous... - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:44] <exec> 08└─This comes right after the announcement that Salesforce won't buy Twitter, is this a move to remain relevant? I highly doubt Twitter is involved in this beyond being the platform, but it is a funny / interesting possibility.
[21:02:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Suspicous... - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:02:46] <exec> 08└─Hah. Wikileaks could be on a pending permaban list.
[21:02:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02up the ass - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:48] <exec> 08└─Did he rape the ambassador?
[21:02:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:up the ass - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:02:50] <exec> 08└─You're thinking of the future us president (who gropes women and whose name literally means "expel noisily via the anus"
[21:02:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Doesn't he have a phone? - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:52] <exec> 08└─No phone? I'd have a thought a guy like him would have several, on different networks, all PAYG. London's hardly lacking in mobile comms.
[21:02:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Doesn't he have a phone? - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:02:55] <exec> 08└─I got two phones, one for the bitches and one for the dough Think I need two more, line bumpin’ I’m ring, ring, ringin’
[21:03:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Interstellar sleeper ships - 06Something Went Wrong with the Juno Spacecraft's Engine - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:03:06] <exec> 08└─but the reality is that we can't build stuff that can wake up reliably after a few mere decades...
[21:03:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02helium - 06Something Went Wrong with the Juno Spacecraft's Engine - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:08] <exec> 08└─Why helium? Because it’s non-combustible? If something is strong enough to puncture a pressure vessel, it’s going to blow up anyway. I would think oxygen or hydrogen would be more useful gas.
[21:03:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:helium - 06Something Went Wrong with the Juno Spacecraft's Engine - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:03:10] <exec> 08└─It is inert and it won't freeze or condense.
[21:03:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Know Your Audience - 06Germany's Federal Motor Authority Warns Tesla Over "Autopilot" Advertising - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:03:52] <exec> 08└─Waiting for the crime to occur is actually a problem. No i don't mean pre-crime their asses to jail, rather that sensible prevention such as stopping clearly wrong ads or disvertising to to to masses is perfectly legitimate.
[21:03:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Know Your Audience - 06Germany's Federal Motor Authority Warns Tesla Over "Autopilot" Advertising - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:03:54] <exec> 08└─> stopping clearly wrong ads or disvertising to the masses is perfectly legitimate. Sorry, I don't buy that.
[21:03:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03weeds [611] (Score:2) 02Re:Know Your Audience - 06Germany's Federal Motor Authority Warns Tesla Over "Autopilot" Advertising - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:03:58] <exec> 08└─"There's never a reason to prohibit a business from using a straightforward name..."
[21:03:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Know Your Audience - 06Germany's Federal Motor Authority Warns Tesla Over "Autopilot" Advertising - 755 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:04:00] <exec> 08└─Ok, what is the false advertising? Are people unclear that Teslas are cars rather than planes or boats? And frankly, there are plenty of misnomers if we look even trivially at any part of society, like a computer. Where are the "keys" of a modern keyboard? All I see are buttons! The mouse isn't a...
[21:04:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Know Your Audience - 06Germany's Federal Motor Authority Warns Tesla Over "Autopilot" Advertising - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:04:02] <exec> 08└─Sitting back and watching stupid people kill themselves (and others) owing to their stupidity may make for enjoyable theater for some.
[21:04:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Welcome to the 21st century Mr. Dobrindt - 06Germany's Federal Motor Authority Warns Tesla Over "Autopilot" Advertising - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:04:06] <exec> 08└─I notice no one has yet to present a case that Tesla's branding is misleading. It's all about what an imaginary "general public" would think, ignoring that Tesla drivers are not the general public and can readily be targeted by education efforts (such as a pamphlet or website that tells you what the...
[21:04:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Truth in advertising ? - 06Germany's Federal Motor Authority Warns Tesla Over "Autopilot" Advertising - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:04:09] <exec> 08└─It doesn't matter, the advertising industry will just issue non-claims (shampoo that you say makes your hair feel more healthy). [strikethrough]autopilot[/strikethrough] autodrive. Etc.
[21:04:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''99% of people'' - 06DEA Delays Ban on Pain-Relieving Herb Kratom; Waits for FDA Report & Public Comment - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:04:27] <exec> 08└─Maybe Lincoln should have been more specific and said "Government for ALL the people". If your web page doesn't DEGRADE GRACEFULLY, such that it can be read using lynx, your page is BROKEN. S/N, as an example, works completely for me and, by default, I block everything except readable text. THAT is...
[21:04:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Departments that should be eliminated - 06DEA Delays Ban on Pain-Relieving Herb Kratom; Waits for FDA Report & Public Comment - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:04:35] <exec> 08└─Exactly right on all counts. What's really awful is the choices we have in politics: we can either vote for the party that wants to destroy all these useful functions of government which keep this place from turning into an unregulated hellhole, or we can vote for the party that's up to its eyeballs...
[21:04:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Departments that should be eliminated - 06DEA Delays Ban on Pain-Relieving Herb Kratom; Waits for FDA Report & Public Comment - 665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:04:38] <exec> 08└─Absolutely, if for no other reason than making our citizens happy and preserving a lot of natural areas and species. But the economic benefits are tangible too: that's great that the DOI is making an actual profit (something mostly unheard of in government outside of the IRS of course), but that doe...
[21:04:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score:2) 02Submit your comments - 06DEA Delays Ban on Pain-Relieving Herb Kratom; Waits for FDA Report & Public Comment - 2810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:42] <exec> 08└─Fellow Soylentils, I've never before been motivated enough to get involved in something like this. I don't smoke (tobacco) or drink (alcohol) and rarely even drink coffee (caffeine) much less have a history of using any other substances. Not because I'm morally superior to anyone but probably mostly...
[21:04:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Philosophy - 06Theory Redraws Formation of Early Universe - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:04:52] <exec> 08└─Science is philosophy. Always has been.
[21:05:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Tax the Tech Billionaires - 06America's Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs - 1102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:05:31] <exec> 08└─The first is the rational one. There's this weird (usually American) belief that all contracts are slave labor and eternal and inviolable. In the real world the reason they got over prime rate interest was risk, and the risk is they're not getting paid, and contracts aren't even valid unless they ha...
[21:05:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Simple: drop the money from the equation - 06America's Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:05:55] <exec> 08└─Trouble is, that's impossible. To ensure neither inflation, nor deflation, ever, you need to precisely balance the availability of cash with the velocity of money, interest levels charged, and of course microeconomic shocks in each and every market. Money, inflation, deflation - all manifestations o...
[21:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Joke about bears - 06America's Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:06:04] <exec> 08└─Perhaps "escape" means to stroll away then?
[21:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Joke about bears - 06America's Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:06:06] <exec> 08└─Playing dead would be terrible advice for someone trying to stay employed. "Is your job getting more competitive and those who fall behind are fired? Just stop advancing and pretend to be dead weight. Everything will work out fine."
[21:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Or more simply... - 06The People Who Ate Each Other - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:06:21] <exec> 08└─This: "Kuru is an incurable degenerative neurological disorder endemic to tribal regions of Papua New Guinea.
[21:06:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Boycott shampoo, demand real poo - 06Salesforce CEO Says No to Twitter Bid - 919 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:06:46] <exec> 08└─oh i see it's just a site that newspeaks what self-censorship is! they describe "self-censorship" as censoring others WITHOUT TELLING OTHERS you are censoring them! At least the old way told people they were being oppressed. Then they go on to say everyone has the ability to opt-out? Fuck that, what...
[21:06:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Boycott shampoo, demand real poo - 06Salesforce CEO Says No to Twitter Bid - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:06:47] <exec> 08└─S'not secret, it's just not widely known. Which is good because it's still being developed and couldn't remotely handle twitter's load at the moment. That place provides nothing more than a trigger protection, except for those offended by the left side of western society.
[21:07:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:''bloodthirsty leaders in our past'' - 06The Nobel Also-Rans - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:07:03] <exec> 08└─Except that if you don't have boots on the ground taking some risk, you have no way of knowing if that's a wedding party you're targeting. The cruise missiles are cowardly, so are the drone strikes. If we don't care enough about the target to put our troops in harms way, perhaps we should consider i...
[21:07:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Second place is the first loser - 06The Nobel Also-Rans - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:07:10] <exec> 08└─And you don't think being the first black man elected to be head of state of a non-black country doesn't deserve recognition? Regardless of ones views of what he did with the opportunity, proving to the world that black people can be heads of state in places where they aren't the majority is a lot m...
[21:07:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Second place is the first loser - 06The Nobel Also-Rans - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:07:12] <exec> 08└─Sigh, yet another person who has no idea what they're talking about. The prize itself is handed out for various reasons and I'm not sure why people do so much whining about Obama being named for essentially being the first black head of state in a non-majority black country is so much worse than the...
[21:08:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:Distrust based on faith - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:08:59] <exec> 08└─But you miss the bigger horror by attempting to, falsely, virtue signal your superiority.
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[22:01:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Peer-reviewed paper? Independent source? Aynthing? - 06Scientists Create an Effective Analgesic Without Side Effects - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:41] <exec> 08└─No, it's just a press release, with a side helping of name-dropping and a bunch of Russian institutions google barely knows about
[22:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:sensationalist twattle - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:02:01] <exec> 08└─They wouldn't need to use a jammer, per se. The government could simply require the cell companies to refuse service. Even if he could get a supply of cell phones to change to whenever his current account is blocked, I don't think it would take more than a few calls for the British authorities to ID...
[22:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:sensationalist twattle - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:02:09] <exec> 08└─You're implying the Ecuadorian government cut off his internet but do you have any proof?
[22:02:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Re:sensationalist twattle - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:02:18] <exec> 08└─They are not likely to go 'bang' at the same time...
[22:02:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Change port - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:02:26] <exec> 08└─No need to throttle anything. Just change his ISP to Comcast, through a VPN. Or to some other country with internet service equally as bad as the US.
[22:02:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Common Core Questions With Assange? - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:02:40] <exec> 08└─I use two phones in the morning I use two phones at night I use two phones in the afternoon And it makes me feel all right I use two phones in time of peace And two in time of war I use two phones before I use two phones And then I use two more.
[22:02:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02I can COnfirm - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 1277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:41] <exec> 08└─That Clinton hit squads, dispatched from their secret lair [duckduckgo.com] have taken President Rafael Correa [wikipedia.org] hostage in Quito. He is being held incommunicado at a Clinton Foundation [clintonfoundation.org] safe house outside of the capital. The first set of demands from the terrori...
[22:02:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:I can COnfirm - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:02:43] <exec> 08└─I can confirm.... that Trump thinks about Hillary naked with a strap-on. That's one sex tape I think the Internet can do without.
[22:02:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I can COnfirm - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:02:45] <exec> 08└─I can confirm.... that Trump thinks about Hillary naked with a strap-on. That's one sex tape I think the Internet can do without.
[22:02:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:2) 02Re:Interstellar sleeper ships - 06Something Went Wrong with the Juno Spacecraft's Engine - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:02:59] <exec> 08└─Unless you made the walls of the canisters thicker.
[22:03:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Interstellar sleeper ships - 06Something Went Wrong with the Juno Spacecraft's Engine - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:03:00] <exec> 08└─Now you're significantly eating into your delta-vee budget.
[22:03:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Interstellar sleeper ships - 06Something Went Wrong with the Juno Spacecraft's Engine - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:03:02] <exec> 08└─I was gonna poo in your general direction, but honestly, let's just wait until January 2017. Because by then, emdrive may be anointed or broken (a peer-reviewed paper will be published in December). Then there's this: http://www.zmescience.com
[22:03:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Interstellar sleeper ships - 06Something Went Wrong with the Juno Spacecraft's Engine - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:03:05] <exec> 08└─The EM Drive again, huh? That's always good for a laugh. Your link is actually related to your first sentence: version 2 is coming out because he's suckered as many as he can get with version 1. The statements from your link are interesting: Since then, several other tests have confirmed that the dr...
[22:03:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Deeper relationships on the internet? - 06Hinge's Redesign Bets That Millennials Are Looking for Deeper Relationships - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:03:19] <exec> 08└─Oh, no, I've met my current girlfriend online, and I like her quite a bit, and I'm really hoping things work out. It's just... flaky?
[22:03:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Given up online - 06Hinge's Redesign Bets That Millennials Are Looking for Deeper Relationships - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:03:36] <exec> 08└─Another "on paper WTF" was this single mom high school dropout who was fun to hang out with in general although she always made me nervous like I was worried she'd sneeze and another baby would pop out, I mean she's obviously fertile "oh F I held your hand you better not be pregnant".
[22:03:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Given up online - 06Hinge's Redesign Bets That Millennials Are Looking for Deeper Relationships - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:03:38] <exec> 08└─Back when I started doing this sort of thing. My wife would get 100+ dudes to pick from. I got 3 women to pick from. That was 10+ years ago. All of those sites are shlong fests with fake accounts. Women rarely have a problem of getting interest from men. Men on the other hand have a terrible time. I...
[22:04:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Know Your Audience - 06Germany's Federal Motor Authority Warns Tesla Over "Autopilot" Advertising - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:04:02] <exec> 08└─> The car's "autopilot" does not do what an aircraft autopilot does as any pilot can tell you Sorry, I don't buy that.
[22:04:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What??? - 06Germany's Federal Motor Authority Warns Tesla Over "Autopilot" Advertising - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:04:05] <exec> 08└─But they do allow pilots to take their hands away from the controls and concentrate on other tasks for short periods of time. Tesla's 'autopilot' does not.
[22:04:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Welcome to the 21st century Mr. Dobrindt - 06Germany's Federal Motor Authority Warns Tesla Over "Autopilot" Advertising - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:04:08] <exec> 08└─Ah, I see. Tesla owners are not only richer than your average person, but clearly more intelligent too. I'm sure their farts don't stink either.
[22:04:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Truth in advertising ? - 06Germany's Federal Motor Authority Warns Tesla Over "Autopilot" Advertising - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:04:13] <exec> 08└─> I applaud the Germans for standing up in this one instance, but I'd like all vendors to be held to the same standards. They mostly are. Europe (and the UK) have much more strict requirements for ads than the US does. I'm too lazy dig up stories about other enforcement actions, but here's a EU prim...
[22:04:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02A name change it is then - 06Germany's Federal Motor Authority Warns Tesla Over "Autopilot" Advertising - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:15] <exec> 08└─Perhaps they could use words that meant something that looks 'over' systems rather than piloting them -- and something less automation focused, maybe more 'human'? I suspect a word that joins the two together, maybe in German would improve familiarity. I'd suggest one, but I'm drawing a blank.
[22:04:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:There ought to be a law - 06DEA Delays Ban on Pain-Relieving Herb Kratom; Waits for FDA Report & Public Comment - 1777 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:04:26] <exec> 08└─Why not take a look for yourself? Fine I'll humor you just once. Here's the blow by blow. Lines 1-5 are (intentionally?) left blank. Lines 6-13 are header stuff, 14 is a LF. Line 15 is 13,094 characters long and is composed entirely of ecmascript and the surrounding <script> tags. This one line is t...
[22:06:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02really? - 06Salesforce CEO Says No to Twitter Bid - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:49] <exec> 08└─why is twitter still a thing?
[22:06:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:really? - 06Salesforce CEO Says No to Twitter Bid - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:06:50] <exec> 08└─Who else are they going to quote on the evening news?
[22:07:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02[robots]encourage[...]people[...]to start conflict - 06The Nobel Also-Rans - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:07:07] <exec> 08└─Robert Hamner (and executive producer Gene Roddenberry) had this figured out in the 1960s. A Taste of Armageddon [wikipedia.org] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[22:07:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''manly [...] precision attacks'' - 06The Nobel Also-Rans - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:07:08] <exec> 08└─Dropping bombs on weddings and funerals is the opposite of "manly". Dropping bombs on private homes, and in the process murdering women and children (even in adjacent homes), is the opposite of "precision". Murdering non-combatants while there is no danger to the USAian aggressor on the other side o...
[22:07:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Still waiting for E-paper - 06Flexible Color E-Paper Using Plasmonic Metasurfaces - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:07:44] <exec> 08└─Need to look around a bit more, there are ones running android. I realize its not quite Linux as you are looking for, but its close. Since i'm such a nice guy, here is one -> https://www.amazon.com [amazon.com]
[22:07:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Still waiting for E-paper - 06Flexible Color E-Paper Using Plasmonic Metasurfaces - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:07:45] <exec> 08└─Shoot, forgot to add: E-Paper is NOT the same as e-ink. Do some more research before you make yourself look stupid.
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[23:01:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Devil's in the details - 06Court Finds GCHQ and MI5 Engaged in Illegal Bulk Data Collection - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:35] <exec> 08└─the 70-page judgment handed down this morning found that the spooks' surveillance activities had been taking place without adequate safeguards or supervision for over a decade
[23:01:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score:2) 02But what will they do with all of that data now? - 06Court Finds GCHQ and MI5 Engaged in Illegal Bulk Data Collection - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:36] <exec> 08└─While this is a great victory going forward, it's doubtful that any individual will end up in hot water over it. "Cost of doing business" for the spooks. But what to do with all of that loot gained so far? Why, keep using it of course! Nobody said anything about what we did with it after we gained i...
[23:01:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Soylent News == Cargo Cult News - 06Scientists Create an Effective Analgesic Without Side Effects - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:45] <exec> 08└─Submitters don't know what they are sending in, neither do the editors who think their role is just chop a few phrases in, so the summaries don't even begin to make sense. It's all just going thru the motion, just to look vaguely like slashdot. No wonder the comments are sparse and crap - the ones i...
[23:01:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ellis D. Tripp [3416] (Score:2) 02Tiovyurtsin? - 06Scientists Create an Effective Analgesic Without Side Effects - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:47] <exec> 08└─Googling the alleged name of this substance produces nothing. Not even the phys.org piece.... Would like to hear Derek Lowe's comments on this one....
[23:02:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Clin̲̥t͉̲o̰n - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:02:36] <exec> 08└─" During her service as secretary of state, Clinton supported every war demanded by the military industrial complex" That ONE line from http://observer.com [observer.com] tells so much: people think Hillary would do le...
[23:02:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:up the ass - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:02:41] <exec> 08└─I need citations here. No one I'm yet aware of has claimed Clinton gropes women. I mean, I believe the latter part though.
[23:03:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Interstellar sleeper ships - 06Something Went Wrong with the Juno Spacecraft's Engine - 1004 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:03:04] <exec> 08└─Just look at the paper when it comes out in December. I think some of the findings of the December paper leaked out, but I will wait until its actual release to care. The paper could be revised by then. The quoted portion is just bad reporting. The original source for the 2.0 article is IB Times UK...
[23:04:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A name change it is then - 06Germany's Federal Motor Authority Warns Tesla Over "Autopilot" Advertising - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:04:10] <exec> 08└─"Der Tesla OberCommandant"?
[23:04:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:Departments that should be eliminated - 06DEA Delays Ban on Pain-Relieving Herb Kratom; Waits for FDA Report & Public Comment - 1041 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:04:39] <exec> 08└─"Republicans suck. (So do Democrats, but this comment is about Republicans.)" Well fair enough they do both suck, but your supporting points mostly fail to support. "the EPA gives us clean cars" The hell they do. The EPA provides cover to polluters, just as they were intended to. "DOE makes sure we...
[23:07:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''manly [...] precision attacks'' - 06The Nobel Also-Rans - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:07:02] <exec> 08└─So just go back to dropping a bomb and taking out the whole block: be a real Man. Limiting causalities is for sissies.
[23:07:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''first black man elected [...] head of state'' - 06The Nobel Also-Rans - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:07:10] <exec> 08└─In his youth, black men who couldn't get into college and couldn't subsequently get student deferments ended up in Vietnam, then in body bags. ...yet Obama is a Neoconservative, ratcheting up the war machine even worse than Dubya. Regardless of [ones'] views of what he did with the opportunity He ha...
[23:07:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02That's not at all why Obama got the Peace Prize - 06The Nobel Also-Rans - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:07:13] <exec> 08└─Obama being named for essentially being the first black head of state in a non-majority black country Not even close. Obama got the Peace Prize for not being Dubya. ...then he turned around and out-Dubya'd Dubya, ESCALATING the hostilities in southwest Asia. The Nobel "Peace" Prize has been a joke s...
[23:08:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:2) 02Re:What? No Clowns? - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:08:31] <exec> 08└─You missed on #2, which is actually "Clinton becoming president."
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