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[00:01:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02stop? - 06Court Finds GCHQ and MI5 Engaged in Illegal Bulk Data Collection - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:28] <exec> 08└─So now they have to 1.get "oversight" (nothing says it has to be "public") and 2. stop getting found-out (expect more whistle blowers* "disappearing" before anything leaks) *should probably say "attempted" whistle blowers..
[00:02:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:sensationalist twattle - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:02:09] <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.
[00:03:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A name change it is then - 06Germany's Federal Motor Authority Warns Tesla Over "Autopilot" Advertising - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:03:59] <exec> 08└─Das BigMistaken if nein mittengrabben der steeringzeewheel und ich nich pokenzeebutton und footenzeepetroldeepedal.
[00:04:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A name change it is then - 06Germany's Federal Motor Authority Warns Tesla Over "Autopilot" Advertising - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:04:01] <exec> 08└─Driver Assist?
[00:08:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Fire Clown - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:08:17] <exec> 08└─He gives big kids nightmares too.
[00:09:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RamiK [1813] 02It's just a gap transmitter. - 06Become Very Unpopular Very Fast with this DIY EMP Generator - 604 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:22] <exec> 08└─Very narrow frequency range. Very low power. Some 90s' kids toys had similar designs for sending morse code back and forth. Look up the mil spec standards for EM protected electronics and find the civilian-to-military ranges. Reach that much and it's an EMP. Bellow that, it's a jammer. You don't eve...
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[01:01:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02A corn Ethanol breakthrough, not cellulose one - 06'Super Yeast' Has the Power to Improve Economics of Biofuels - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:32] <exec> 08└─You already could make beer from grass, and that is without being pedantic an pointing out that Barley and Wheat are grasses. Using grass is most efficient because of they are the perfect diet for the yeast used, high in glucose, medium in cellulose and low in most others. While this "super yeast" w...
[01:01:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nevermind... - 06Scientists Create an Effective Analgesic Without Side Effects - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:01:52] <exec> 08└─Wait more than 10 mins? He may be on the can
[01:01:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02They're talking Morphine substitute - 06Scientists Create an Effective Analgesic Without Side Effects - 804 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:53] <exec> 08└─When I read the summary I was hoping for something better than Aspirin or Ibuprofen, but the article talks about it as a Morphine substitute. If this works as advertised (they've only got a 28 day study) it could be really important. But that's a big if. Think of this as a preliminary lab report. Th...
[01:02:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:up the ass - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:02:51] <exec> 08└─No, he just rapes them. No groping was reported.
[01:03:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Re:helium - 06Something Went Wrong with the Juno Spacecraft's Engine - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:03:14] <exec> 08└─I forget why helium specifically, but pressure fed engines are almost universal for altitude control and orbital maneuvering. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[01:03:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:Deeper relationships on the internet? - 06Hinge's Redesign Bets That Millennials Are Looking for Deeper Relationships - 2116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:03:29] <exec> 08└─> just to walk up and talk to someone who looks interesting. That's barely better than going out on a blind date. I tried a blind date once and it was a disaster. I knew beforehand that she had a college degree, but that was about it. Her attitude was such she might as well have not 1ff6 bothered w...
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[02:01:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02of course... - 06RBS/NatWest to Freeze Russian State Broadcaster RT's Bank Accounts - 1424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:33] <exec> 08└─...there will be status quo apologists who insist this is all a private bidness doing their own bidness... except, it almost certainly is not; it is almost certainly -regardless of public protestations- that a certain Empire (gee, who could it be ! ? ! ?) exhorted their little flying monkeys to the...
[02:01:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Biden Said this was Coming - 06RBS/NatWest to Freeze Russian State Broadcaster RT's Bank Accounts - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:34] <exec> 08└─For the last week the US administration has been publicly discussing retaliation for the DNC hacks. They've been saying that they don't need to hack back, that they have a lot of levers they can pull that aren't illegal. Further reducing Putin's access to western banking seems like it is right in li...
[02:01:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Re:A corn Ethanol breakthrough, not cellulose one - 06'Super Yeast' Has the Power to Improve Economics of Biofuels - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:01:43] <exec> 08└─we insist on making Ethanol fuel out of corn
[02:01:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Spies spy on the Internet... - 06Court Finds GCHQ and MI5 Engaged in Illegal Bulk Data Collection - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:54] <exec> 08└─...Assange ragequits over it.
[02:02:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:sensationalist twattle - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 696 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:02:23] <exec> 08└─I don't know anything about anything - but the fact that Assange is not mobile may be a factor in cutting his internet access. If most of our cell phones get bad signals, we can walk across the street, or find a better spot in the yard. We have mobility on our side. On a really bad day, I can drive...
[02:02:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:sensationalist twattle - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:02:39] <exec> 08└─Am I missing something? 60 seconds/minute *60 minutes/hour *24 hours/day *56000 bits/second /8 bits/byte /1024 bytes/kB /1024 kB/MB = 576.8 MB/day 200 MB/day works out to 19418 bits/second. Even 200 MB/day of uncompressed plain text is far more than anyone can read or write. With a mastery of medita...
[02:02:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:sensationalist twattle - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:02:40] <exec> 08└─No, I missed the difference between bits and bytes. That 200MB mark is what I was effectively pushing through a 56K modem on a moderately crappy connection 17k ft from the CO. It may have been suboptimal speeds :) (although never underestimate the speed of 4GB hard drives doing 60mph between a data...
[02:02:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:sensationalist twattle - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:02:42] <exec> 08└─The math doesn't tell the whole story. Years ago, when all I had was dialup in Outback Nowhere, downloading an ISO of a few hundred megabytes might take all week. We didn't have bittorrent, there were just FTP and browser downloaders, and a couple download managers. You got about half the ISO, and g...
[02:02:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bizarro - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:02:58] <exec> 08└─In one instance it was Violet. (This was actually the very first time the ball was pulled away from Charlie Brown, in the early days of the strip.)
[02:03:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Clin̲̥t͉̲o̰n - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:03:03] <exec> 08└─Oh yeah, we already had a Cablegate, didn't we? If Hillary cut the cable it would have been a good name for this. Scissorgate? Slashpocalypse?
[02:03:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score:2) 02Re:Interstellar sleeper ships - 06Something Went Wrong with the Juno Spacecraft's Engine - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:03:21] <exec> 08└─"Unless, you've been replacing the circuits with newly manufactured circuits, every few centuries, whether they need it or not." Marvin: .. thanks to the silly little errands your organic life forms keep sending me through time.. (I am now) thirty-seven times older than the Universe itself.. D...
[02:03:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score:2) 02Re:Interstellar sleeper ships - 06Something Went Wrong with the Juno Spacecraft's Engine - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:03:25] <exec> 08└─“The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them.” ― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
[02:03:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Deeper relationships on the internet? - 06Hinge's Redesign Bets That Millennials Are Looking for Deeper Relationships - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:03:44] <exec> 08└─I walk up, grab my crotch, grab the other person's crotch, then we screw.
[02:03:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (S 1ff6 core:0) 02Re:Deeper relationships on the internet? - 06Hinge's Redesign Bets That Millennials Are Looking for Deeper Relationships - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:03:45] <exec> 08└─That grabbing crotches nonsense - don't your hands get in the way?
[02:04:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:There ought to be a law - 06DEA Delays Ban on Pain-Relieving Herb Kratom; Waits for FDA Report & Public Comment - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:04:51] <exec> 08└─contains no human readable text ...complains Arik
[02:05:00] <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 - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:05:00] <exec> 08└─they have no problems ...apart from getting pwned.
[02:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Distrust based on faith - 06Annual Survey of American Fears Released -- 2016 Edition - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:09:35] <exec> 08└─Just because some atheists were/are bloodthirsty, murderous thugs, that does not mean that *all* atheists are bloodthirsty, murderous thugs.
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[03:01:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:1, Troll) 02Re:Biden Said this was Coming - 06RBS/NatWest to Freeze Russian State Broadcaster RT's Bank Accounts - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:01:38] <exec> 08└─"saying that they don't need to hack back" I don't think Democrats know how to hack anything. I'm real sure that if some Democrats are smart enough to hack, the "leadership" makes sure they stay low-ranking outsiders. You don't learn how to hack at Berekely, while working on a degree in Prehistoric...
[03:01:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Biden Said this was Coming - 06RBS/NatWest to Freeze Russian State Broadcaster RT's Bank Accounts - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:01:39] <exec> 08└─> I don't think Democrats know how to hack anything This isn't about political parties. They would have done the same thing if the RNC had been hacked. We all use the same electoral system.
[03:01:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Biden Said this was Coming - 06RBS/NatWest to Freeze Russian State Broadcaster RT's Bank Accounts - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:01:41] <exec> 08└─Yeah, right - except that the RNC hasn't been hacked. Whatever else they may or may not be, they know how to keep secrets. And, the DNC remains incompetent, in all regards.
[03:01:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Biden Said this was Coming - 06RBS/NatWest to Freeze Russian State Broadcaster RT's Bank Accounts - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:01:43] <exec> 08└─No need to hack the RNC, Trump the traitor already gave Putin the passwords.
[03:01:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Biden Said this was Coming - 06RBS/NatWest to Freeze Russian State Broadcaster RT's Bank Accounts - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:01:45] <exec> 08└─Clinton the male sells military secrets to China, Clinton the female sells fissionable products to Russia, but Trump is the traitor? I'm certain that Trump is guilty of a long list of crimes, including offending the politically correct, but treason is a Clinton characteristic. Thanks for playing tho...
[03:01:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What goes around - 06RBS/NatWest to Freeze Russian State Broadcaster RT's Bank Accounts - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:48] <exec> 08└─Comes around. Putin thinks blatantly interfering with US Presidential elections via the Wikileaks front is fair game. OK, well then closing Russian bank accounts is fair as well.
[03:01:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:A corn Ethanol breakthrough, not cellulose one - 06'Super Yeast' Has the Power to Improve Economics of Biofuels - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:01:58] <exec> 08└─Iowa is known for its corn, and for its political power: Since 1972, the Iowa caucuses have been the first major electoral event of the nominating process for President of the United States.
[03:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:stop? - 06Court Finds GCHQ and MI5 Engaged in Illegal Bulk Data Collection - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:09] <exec> 08└─RIP Seth Rich.
[03:02:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:2) 02Re:sensationalist twattle - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:41] <exec> 08└─For all we know, the shutoff was a ham-fisted move by Ecuador (or not by Ecuador)
[03:02:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:sensationalist twattle - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:59] <exec> 08└─Rsync was released in 1996; for those who had a shell account it could make such things relatively painless. https://groups.google.com [google.com] Aside from that, there were (are) ways of resuming an interrupted download...
[03:03:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:sensationalist twattle - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:03:01] <exec> 08└─Informative, but I needed you to tell me this over 20 years ago. ;^) Back then, FTP was a "new" technology to me. Not to the computing world, but to me. I certainly can't tell you which client I was using then, but it could and would fail to resume. The resume feature was there, it simply failed as...
[03:03:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Re:sensationalist twattle - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:03:03] <exec> 08└─I was thinking more about the inception level of encapsulation going on. Even if it’s recorded they still need to convert the analog signal to digital through some kinda virtual modem or something. Probably doable, yeah, but far harder and tedious than sending an already digital capture to a serve...
[03:03:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Clin̲̥t͉̲o̰n - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:03:25] <exec> 08└─Slashpocalypse?
[03:04:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Deeper relationships on the internet? - 06Hinge's Redesign Bets That Millennials Are Looking for Deeper Relationships - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:04:04] <exec> 08└─Donald, we know it's you hiding behind that AC. You aren't fooling anyone.
[03:04:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Deeper relationships on the internet? - 06Hinge's Redesign Bets That Millennials Are Looking for Deeper Relationships - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:04:06] <exec> 08└─Of course, another bold course of action, is just to walk up and talk to someone who looks interesting. If, every day you see this really hot chick on your way to work as you walk from the parking lot to your office, just get there five minutes early one day, and head her off. "I see you almost ever...
[03:04:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Deeper relationships on the internet? - 06Hinge's Redesign Bets That Millennials Are Looking for Deeper Relationships - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:04:08] <exec> 08└─I've noticed that some women (I won't say "most", and certianly not all) get really chatty in a supermarket. I've never figured that out. You have described the defensiveness of women in general around strange men. But, in a grocery store, strange women feel free to offer advice, and to just chatter...
[03:04:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They're not wrong. - 06Hinge's Redesign Bets That Millennials Are Looking for Deeper Relationships - 841 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:04:21] <exec> 08└─You are no different than the hundreds of previous generations. Each generation thinks it is special and going to change the world. I like this episode of dragnet to point it out. http://www.imdb.com [imdb.com] To put it in perspective those 'kids' would be in their m...
[03:06:48] <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 - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:06:48] <exec> 08└─No inflation (even deflation) is a good thing for many in the population. We're stuck with continual inflation purely for support of the banking system (fractional reserve banking) and the welfare state (increasing revenues).
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[04:01:42] <exec> 08└─> Yeah, right - except that the RNC hasn't been hacked. That is unlikely to be true. More likely is that the RNC hacks just haven't been "leaked" - at least not yet. It would be surprising if both major parties hadn't been pwned by multiple intelligence services. Knowing the internal deliberations...
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[04:01:44] <exec> 08└─because usa never interfers elections in other countries right?
[04:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02US citizens also - 06RBS/NatWest to Freeze Russian State Broadcaster RT's Bank Accounts - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:46] <exec> 08└─This is nothing new. UK banks have been arbitrarily closing down the accounts of people that the UK banks believe are US citizens or US residents (unless there is a lot of d2f money in the account, naturally -- wouldn't want to inconvenience the wealthy).
[04:01:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A corn Ethanol breakthrough, not cellulose one - 06'Super Yeast' Has the Power to Improve Economics of Biofuels - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:01:57] <exec> 08└─If you want more proof, just look at the candidates comments about the Renewable Fuel Standard. Some of them were so behind in the polls, they didn't even wait for the results to flip-flop on the issue and go after the money elsewhere.
[04:02:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02So who is going to be hanged over this? - 06Court Finds GCHQ and MI5 Engaged in Illegal Bulk Data Collection - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:02:09] <exec> 08└─I thought that being found breaking the law meant that those responsible for doing so would be properly punished.
[04:02:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Post-Nihilist [5672] (Score:2) 02no information about the molecule - 06Scientists Create an Effective Analgesic Without Side Effects - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:02:23] <exec> 08└─I wish i had a more substantial paper to comment. I went to the 2 institutes named in the press release and the only have generic contact information listed on their websites. Without any additional information this is almost a non news... The only comment I have is be suspicious of claims of no sid...
[04:02:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:no information about the molecule - 06Scientists Create an Effective Analgesic Without Side Effects - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:02:25] <exec> 08└─Yeah I don't think "no side effects" is even possible for a pain medication. Maybe if you narrow the definition of "side effect" to exclude anything complicated. We are starting to find out that taking tylenol causes people to have less empathy. [npr.org] Its been widely used for over a century and...
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[04:03:16] <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...
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[04:04:08] <exec> 08└─For some women, it's a natural desire to want to be helpful... a lot of guys can't cook and a lot of guys pretend that they don't know how to cook just so they can use that as a reason to talk to a woman they find attractive. Personally, I like cooking and don't mind offering tips, much in the same...
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[04:04:13] <exec> 08└─met my current bf on rentboys.com. together for 4 hours now.
[04:05:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Truth in advertising ? - 06Germany's Federal Motor Authority Warns Tesla Over "Autopilot" Advertising - 1864 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:05:00] <exec> 08└─I had passed through Washington Street thousands of times before and viewed the ways of those who sold merchandise, but my curiosity concerning them was as if I had never gone by their way before. I took wondering note of the show windows of the stores, filled with goods arranged with a wealth of pa...
[04:06:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Tax the Tech Billionaires - 06America's Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:06:26] <exec> 08└─I blame Goldman Sachs and the Greek Government: http://business.financialpost.com [financialpost.com] Greece’s secret loan from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. was a costly mistake from the start. On the day the 2001 deal was struck, the...
[04:07:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score:2) 02Re:Or more simply... - 06The People Who Ate Each Other - 741 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:07:17] <exec> 08└─A gene designated G127V was discovered among the Papua New Guinea tribes that still practised mortuary cannibalism, and it protects against the deadly CJD-like prion disease kuru. It was found to be widespread only among peoples where kuru was prevalent, and it is rare in the general human populatio...
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[05:01:38] <exec> 08└─80 per cent of Russian men born in 1923 died in the war
[05:01:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:of course... - 06RBS/NatWest to Freeze Russian State Broadcaster RT's Bank Accounts - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:01:52] <exec> 08└─I guess we should have realized that all those people who fought the cold war wouldn't just let it go... The people were relieved when it ended, the agents were pissed they didn't get to "win" as such and have been shitting on everyone since. Your people, my people, who cares fuck all the peons! We'...
[05:02:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Re:What goes around - 06RBS/NatWest to Freeze Russian State Broadcaster RT's Bank Accounts - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:02:02] <exec> 08└─How does stating facts interfere with a presidential election?
[05:02:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So who is going to be hanged over this? - 06Court Finds GCHQ and MI5 Engaged in Illegal Bulk Data Collection - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:02:24] <exec> 08└─Depends 100% which side of the law you are on. Even worse, it then depends on which run of the ladder you are on, no matter which side it is.
[05:03:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Sco 2000 re:2) 02Re:sensationalist twattle - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:03:01] <exec> 08└─That's the trick: get him on the balcony when he's trying to get 2 bars.
[05:03:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:sensationalist twattle - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:03:02] <exec> 08└─That is the saddest and funniest sounding arrest :)
[05:04:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Society has it mostly wrong - 06Hinge's Redesign Bets That Millennials Are Looking for Deeper Relationships - 1593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:04:49] <exec> 08└─Realistically speaking, in modern western society, who calls the shots in romance? (No, I'm not counting rape as romance.) Women do. Women have the right of refusal, can change their minds whenever, and can initiate contact without it being a scandal the way it used to be. Men get to be labeled "cre...
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[06:01:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score:2) 02Better Options - 06Self-Sufficient Scottish Island for Sale; Comes With Broadband and Post Office - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:34] <exec> 08└─I always thought I wanted a private island. Someplace secluded and scenic. And maybe I still do a little. But what would one do after acquiring it? I'd rather use that 2.3 mil and build a gorgeous estate on the mainland on a secluded patch of land. I'd have my privacy and views, yet still be easily...
[06:01:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score:2) 02Re:Better Options - 06Self-Sufficient Scottish Island for Sale; Comes With Broadband and Post Office - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:01:35] <exec> 08└─Good oceans make good neighbors.
[06:01:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score:2) 02Re:Better Options - 06Self-Sufficient Scottish Island for Sale; Comes With Broadband and Post Office - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:01:37] <exec> 08└─Any contingency which would necessitate an ocean barrier will necessarily preclude one.
[06:01:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Better Options - 06Self-Sufficient Scottish Island for Sale; Comes With Broadband and Post Office - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:01:39] <exec> 08└─The wording of your comment makes my theologian detector go "bing". Am I right?
[06:01:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score:2) 02Peat included? - 06Self-Sufficient Scottish Island for Sale; Comes With Broadband and Post Office - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:42] <exec> 08└─Start a hipster craze for your authentic limited production smoky Scotch whisky and the island pays for itself in six weeks.
[06:01:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Tech Billionaires - 06Self-Sufficient Scottish Island for Sale; Comes With Broadband and Post Office - 766 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:44] <exec> 08└─How many tech billionaires frequent SN anyway? Don't answer that, some of us want to string you up with your own entrails. Others just want to sing about the poverty of the tech sector that doesn't need techs anymore since our jobs got outsourced. My friends and I—we've cracked the code. We count...
[06:02:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:of course... - 06RBS/NatWest to Freeze Russian State Broadcaster RT's Bank Accounts - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:02:00] <exec> 08└─there are two sides to this. The same applies to Putin and his old Politburo comrades. The Russian people are really just like us,
[06:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03 (Score:2) 02Re:Biden Said this was Coming - 06RBS/NatWest to Freeze Russian State Broadcaster RT's Bank Accounts - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:02:08] <exec> 08└─Yeah, right - except that the RNC hasn't been hacked.
[06:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Biden Said this was Coming - 06RBS/NatWest to Freeze Russian State Broadcaster RT's Bank Accounts - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:02:11] <exec> 08└─Wonder why none of that information has been released by Wikileaks?
[06:02:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Re:Biden Said this was Coming - 06RBS/NatWest to Freeze Russian State Broadcaster RT's Bank Accounts - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:02:13] <exec> 08└─Wonder why none of that information has been released by Wikileaks?
[06:02:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Re:What goes around - 06RBS/NatWest to Freeze Russian State Broadcaster RT's Bank Accounts - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:02:18] <exec> 08└─How does stating facts interfere with a presidential election?
[06:02:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score:2) 02Re:So who is going to be hanged over this? - 06Court Finds GCHQ and MI5 Engaged in Illegal Bulk Data Collection - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:02:43] <exec> 08└─Government will never punish itself. That would be like asking a child to voluntarily decide to take a time out.
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[07:01:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:1) 02dept. line - 06Photovoltaic Cell Factory May Open in Buffalo, New York - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:30] <exec> 08└─I had hoped this could be "from the Buffalo-buffalo-Buffalo-buffalo-buffalo-buffalo-Buffalo-buffalo dept."
[07:01:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score:2) 02Re:Better Options - 06Self-Sufficient Scottish Island for Sale; Comes With Broadband and Post Office - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:01:41] <exec> 08└─The island has its own cafe. No reason why you can't dual purpose it so it gives you the caffeine in the morning, and alcohol in the evening. Best of all, it's your island. No matter how drunk you get, you are still allowed to drive home after getting muntered.
[07:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Biden Said this was Coming - 06RBS/NatWest to Freeze Russian State Broadcaster RT's Bank Accounts - 1519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:02:10] <exec> 08└─Apparent agenda. Got it. I'll let you in on a little secret: EVERYONE HAS AN AGENDA!! Now, facts are pretty factual. The DNC isn't competent with computers, and they keep getting into the news because of that fact. You've probably heard, "Where there's smoke, there's fire." We keep seeing the smoke...
[07:02:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Biden Said this was Coming - 06RBS/NatWest to Freeze Russian State Broadcaster RT's Bank Accounts - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:02:12] <exec> 08└─They would have done the same thing if the RNC had been hacked BwaaHAHAHAAAa no please stop that is just too damn funny. You actually think they would do that for the RNC? I'm sorry thats just too much.
[07:02:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Biden Said this was Coming - 06RBS/NatWest to Freeze Russian State Broadcaster RT's Bank Accounts - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:02:14] <exec> 08└─🤦 Berkeley Unix worked so well that DARPA chose it for the preferred 'universal computing environment' to link Arpanet research nodes, thus setting in place an essential piece of infrastructure for the later growth of the Internet. An entire generation of computer scientists cut their teeth on B...
[07:02:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:no information about the molecule - 06Scientists Create an Effective Analgesic Without Side Effects - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:02:59] <exec> 08└─[reads link] Um. If they're playing noises loud enough to cause pain, they're damaging the subjects' hearing. That's when I stopped believing anything in this article. Also, even a tiny amount of sugar can have an effect on mood. Sugar is not a good placebo.
[07:03:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:sensationalist twattle - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:03:21] <exec> 08└─He did cancel his balcony press release. He likes theater and drama, and made some allusions that might be interpreted as a 2000 n assassination attempt. If the man spoke more plainly, he'd make more sense. Maybe.
[07:08:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Arnold Sommerfeld - 06The Nobel Also-Rans - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:08:52] <exec> 08└─Arnold Sommerfeld had many students who later went on to win Nobel prizes themselves. He was the teacher of Werner Heisenberg (Physics, 1932), Wolfgang Pauli (Physics, 1945), Peter Debye (Chemistry, 1936), Hans Bethe (Physics, 1967), Linus Pauling (Chemistry, 1954, Peace, 1962), Isidor Rabi (Physics...
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[08:01:31] <exec> 08└─there, happy?
[08:01:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:dept. line - 06Photovoltaic Cell Factory May Open in Buffalo, New York - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:01:32] <exec> 08└─No. I won't be happy until someone mentions Elong Musky's long dong. Big like buffalo, long like snake.
[08:01:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:dept. line - 06Photovoltaic Cell Factory May Open in Buffalo, New York - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:01:34] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo#Usage [wikipedia.org] Thomas Tymoczko has pointed out that there is nothing special about eight "buffalos"; any sentence consisting solely of the word "buffalo" repeated any number of times is grammaticall...
[08:01:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score:2) 02Climate - 06Self-Sufficient Scottish Island for Sale; Comes With Broadband and Post Office - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:48] <exec> 08└─I've been to these islands before. They are lovely in the summer. However... in the winter or in bad weather, you will be quite cold and isolated, maybe for days or weeks. Not so good if you have a medical emergency or run out of food. Not saying it wouldn't be a great place to live, but it does hav...
[08:01:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Re:Climate - 06Self-Sufficient Scottish Island for Sale; Comes With Broadband and Post Office - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:01:50] <exec> 08└─We've vacationed to Scottish islands many times. We had a nice chat with one lady in a B&B who commented about the people (mostly English) who bought cottages on the islands, because they are so lovely. She said that the islanders didn't even bother speaking to a newcomer until they had survived a w...
[08:02:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Biden Said this was Coming - 06RBS/NatWest to Freeze Russian State Broadcaster RT's Bank Accounts - 2374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:02:18] <exec> 08└─They already stated they have the RNC stuff, and said it was no worse than exactly what Trump was saying. Still would be interesting to see. But up first is the more corrupt of the two. Can not really blame him for targeting the DNC. For gods sake they 'joke' around about 'droning him'. Yet he has e...
[08:02:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What goes around - 06RBS/NatWest to Freeze Russian State Broadcaster RT's Bank Accounts - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:02:27] <exec> 08└─Yep fuck the little people actually seeing what these asshats are doing. GO TEAM DNC!!!!
[08:02:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What goes around - 06RBS/NatWest to Freeze Russian State Broadcaster RT's Bank Accounts - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:02:29] <exec> 08└─How does stating facts interfere with a presidential election?
[08:03:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Soylent News == Cargo Cult News - 06Scientists Create an Effective Analgesic Without Side Effects - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:03:02] <exec> 08└─No wonder the comments are sparse and crap
[08:03:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02You need to think about this a little more deeply - 06Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:03:58] <exec> 08└─This is current year. Everyone has internet on a mobile phone.
[08:05:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score:2) 02What I want - 06Hinge's Redesign Bets That Millennials Are Looking for Deeper Relationships - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:05:19] <exec> 08└─What I want would be a site that only reveals a nickname, general area (anywhere between county and country), rough lists of interests and have good forums and messaging system. And maube a verfication-system where other members can verify the person is real. That is it - no pictures, no videos, no...
[08:05:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Know Your Audience - 06Germany's Federal Motor Authority Warns Tesla Over "Autopilot" Advertising - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:05:44] <exec> 08└─Try it yourself, then. Drive a to the top of a cliff. Set Tesla auto pilot to "maintain altitude". Drive off cliff. If you survive, you were right.
[08:05:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:What??? - 06Germany's Federal Motor Authority Warns Tesla Over "Autopilot" Advertising - 807 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:05:48] <exec> 08└─The root of the problem is that people shouldn't be relying on the Tesla autopilot to the extent that they are doing. The whole point of the German advice is to tell people to stop relying on the autopilot. The claims made by Tesla are misleading and the German government is asking Tesla politely to...
[08:05:52] <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 - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:05:52] <exec> 08└─I notice no one has yet to present a case that Tesla's branding is misleading
[08:06:22] <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 - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:06:22] <exec> 08└─It's even harder for people without script blockers. As proven by how often their PCs stop working even though they have five anti-virus programs and 3 malware scanners, while paying for at least half of them.
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[09:01:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Not so fast - 06The Guardian Wonders If the Golden Age of TV is Over - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:39] <exec> 08└─Netflix shares surge on strong third-quarter earnings and subscriber growth [latimes.com] Shares of Netflix Inc. soared in after-hours trading Monday as the video streaming service reported stronger-than-expected earnings and subscriber growth for the third quarter. The stock was up $19.75, or near...
[09:01:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03quintessence [6227] (Score:2) 02Re:Not so fast - 06The Guardian Wonders If the Golden Age of TV is Over - 711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:01:41] <exec> 08└─I'd also be interested in the cost to produce a Netflix program compared to a similar quality cable program. I'm a bit surprised that with technology reducing the costs of most aspects of production that somehow those don't translate. I mean the argument previously was that that with reduced costs c...
[09:01:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not so fast - 06The Guardian Wonders If the Golden Age of TV is Over - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:01:43] <exec> 08└─Layoffs and outsourcing will solve everything. Hope you love Bollywood.
[09:01:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Star Trek predicted it - 06The Guardian Wonders If the Golden Age of TV is Over - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:45] <exec> 08└─"I believe he means television, sir. That particular form of entertainment did not last much beyond the year two thousand forty."
[09:02:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:2) 02Re:Biden Said this was Coming - 06RBS/NatWest to Freeze Russian State Broadcaster RT's Bank Accounts - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:02:42] <exec> 08└─I don't think Democrats know how to hack anything.
[09:02:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Biden Said this was Coming - 06RBS/NatWest to Freeze Russian State Broadcaster RT's Bank Accounts - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:02:43] <exec> 08└─WW3 is going to be like boiling the frog....
[09:02:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Re:What goes around - 06RBS/NatWest to Freeze Russian State Broadcaster RT's Bank Accounts - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:02:50] <exec> 08└─You know just as well as I do that if RT was only reporting the positives of Clinton and the negatives of Trump like the BBC does they wouldn’t be “interfering with US Presidential elections.” There is only three MSM outlets that do not have the Clinton slant, and that’s Hannity, Wikileaks a...
[09:03:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score:2) 02beer from grass? - 06'Super Yeast' Has the Power to Improve Economics of Biofuels - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:03:03] <exec> 08└─Um, if you have grass why do you need beer ?
[09:08:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:2) 02Re:Or more simply... - 06The People Who Ate Each Other - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:08:27] <exec> 08└─Eating cows' brains, people, people brains
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[10:01:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02entertain yourself in solitary - 06Barrett Brown: I Am Fully Capable of Entertaining Myself in Prison for Decades If Need Be - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:01:36] <exec> 08└─They take your toys and leave you alone in an empty room. Time to dream up some imaginary friends. Wake up, Snuffleupagus! Let's play make-believe!
[10:01:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Forced gaming groups? - 06Barrett Brown: I Am Fully Capable of Entertaining Myself in Prison for Decades If Need Be - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:01:37] <exec> 08└─Is playing an immersive fantasy game with people who have poor impulse control wise?
[10:01:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03quintessence [6227] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:Not so fast - 06The Guardian Wonders If the Golden Age of TV is Over - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:01:48] <exec> 08└─The same arguments were made against Japanese cars in the 70s, and now Japanese car makes are having the same response to Korean cars. After 40 years "they took our jerbs" doesn't have the same ring to it. If Bollywood can make Starr Trekk: The Musical entertaining and turn a profit, more power to t...
[10:01:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not so fast - 06The Guardian Wonders If the Golden Age of TV is Over - 700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:01:49] <exec> 08└─"I've got a wife and two kids back in Detroit. I haven't seen them in six months. The steel mills were laying people off. They finally went under. We gave the steel companies a break. They gave themselves pay raises. The golden rule: He who has the gold makes the rules. If they close one more factor...
[10:01:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02In a word - 06The Guardian Wonders If the Golden Age of TV is Over - 884 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:01:52] <exec> 08└─Yes. The days of captive audiences shared by three networks are long gone. The days of somewhat less captive audiences shared by a dozen networks are gone. Television is more or less history. There are a couple days per year when television rules - Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Super Bowl, maybe a...
[10:02:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Better Options - 06Self-Sufficient Scottish Island for Sale; Comes With Broadband and Post Office - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:02:14] <exec> 08└─No you wouldn't, assuming the public have access to the cafe which would be a given. You could easily walk back though, given it's under 2 miles
[10:02:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Better Options - 06Self-Sufficient Scottish Island for Sale; Comes With Broadband and Post Office - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:02:16] <exec> 08└─And how do you get back from the pub?
[10:02:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Re:Better Options - 06Self-Sufficient Scottish Island for Sale; Comes With Broadband and Post Office - 1007 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:02:18] <exec> 08└─Even in an estate, you're still able to get bad neighbours, bad access, burglaries, intruders and all sorts. Not that a bit of water would stop that, but it's much harder to organise, some months of the year you will be completely inaccessible, and you aren't going to have people peering over the wa...
[10:02:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03blackhawk [5275] (Score:2) 02Burning Man - 06Self-Sufficient Scottish Island for Sale; Comes With Broadband and Post Office - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:02:24] <exec> 08└─Someone should buy it and start an annual Burning Man event on the isle. It's sure to help the crops grow for the next year's harvest!
[10:03:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Sad, usefull information there - 06RBS/NatWest to Freeze Russian State Broadcaster RT's Bank Accounts - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:03:05] <exec> 08└─I go to RT from time to time to get some additional information coverage. Sadly, I can't trust western media to tell me about all the important events in the world. Such as this for example: https://www.rt.com [rt.com] Didn't read it on my western paper journal...
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[11:01:41] <exec> 08└─It's a common assumption that anyone who doesn't play the long game of social manipulation eventually winds up in prison because poor impulse control made them impatient and reckless enough to piss off the wrong power broker in real life.
[11:01:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Not so fast - 06The Guardian Wonders If the Golden Age of TV is Over - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:01:54] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile Netflix subscribers know the golden age of newspapers has long gone.
[11:01:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:In a word - 06The Guardian Wonders If the Golden Age of TV is Over - 1273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:01:57] <exec> 08└─It's mostly their own fault. I recently cut my cable as well, and I had all the movie channels and everything else. Part of it was the price. The number of new movies and general good television was definitely not worth it. What finally pushed me over the edge was that the few shows I did generally...
[11:01:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03blackhawk [5275] (Score:2) 02And yet... - 06The Guardian Wonders If the Golden Age of TV is Over - 2885 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:02:00] <exec> 08└─...I'd say the Golden Days of television have just been getting started in the last 5 years or so. We've seen the rise of long-arc story telling shows like Breaking Bad, 12 Monkeys, Game of Thrones, etc. We're seeing more sci-fi than ever before, and the Marvel fans must be lapping up all the new Ma...
[11:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And yet... - 06The Guardian Wonders If the Golden Age of TV is Over - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:02:02] <exec> 08└─...I'd say the Golden Days of television have just been getting started in the last 5 years or so. We've seen the rise of long-arc story telling shows like Breaking Bad, 12 Monkeys, Game of Thrones, etc. We're seeing more sci-fi than ever before, and the Marvel fans must be lapping up all the new Ma...
[11:02:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Re:And yet... - 06The Guardian Wonders If the Golden Age of TV is Over - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:02:04] <exec> 08└─Me personally, I am happy to watch more of the "low budget" stuff. Things with a crazy good script, great unknown actors, and reasonable production values.
[11:02:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And yet... - 06The Guardian Wonders If the Golden Age of TV is Over - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:02:06] <exec> 08└─I remember when a season of television was 24 hours long. Today you're lucky to get half that. Now if you want to binge watch for 24 hours straight you end up watching two or three seasons, and you don't even have tedious padding episodes to provide pacing and comic relief. Producers are just gettin...
[11:02:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:80%? Holy sh8t! - 06The Soviet InterNyet - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:02:43] <exec> 08└─President Hillary should issue an executive order to execute 80% of women just to stop Bill from screwing around.
[11:08:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Simpler: don't be stupid - 06America's Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:08:32] <exec> 08└─Here's the problem: If a bank that makes loans that it can't cover gets bailed out, then it has no incentive to perform due diligence, because if it makes a profit from a loan then it wins and if it makes a loss then it passes the cost on to taxpayers. Bailing out the banks because of the profligacy...
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[12:01:44] <exec> 08└─A mind that cannot occupy itself in an empty room is, in itself, empty. Seriously, gimme a crayon and paper, leave me alone and I'll be happy for days, if not weeks. There have been periods in my life where I've done that to myself deliberately to solve a problem! Stick me in solitary for any length...
[12:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:entertain yourself in solitary - 06Barrett Brown: I Am Fully Capable of Entertaining Myself in Prison for Decades If Need Be - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:01:46] <exec> 08└─At this point I would pay for a cell with a blanket, total dark and 2 meals a day. Even if only for a couple of years.
[12:02:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Elon is good at corporate welfare - 06Photovoltaic Cell Factory May Open in Buffalo, New York - 1081 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:02:19] <exec> 08└─The large Solar City photovoltaic plant outside Buffalo is nearing completion now, we see updates in the local news quite often. NY State built the building and is also paying at least part of the cost for the manufacturing equipment. It's a real sweetheart deal, come and make solar cells in this fa...
[12:02:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:Better Options - 06Self-Sufficient Scottish Island for Sale; Comes With Broadband and Post Office - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:02:33] <exec> 08└─Sounds like communism. On MY libertarian island, everyone will drive F-150 trucks and roll coal at pedestrians. Live Free.
[12:02:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03j-beda [6342] (Score:1) 02Re:Climate - 06Self-Sufficient Scottish Island for Sale; Comes With Broadband and Post Office - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:02:40] <exec> 08└─We had a nice chat with one lady in a B&B who commented about the people (mostly English) who bought cottages on the islands, because they are so lovely. She said that the islanders didn't even bother speaking to a newcomer until they had survived a winter. Most gave up and went home when the winter...
[12:03:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:US citizens also - 06RBS/NatWest to Freeze Russian State Broadcaster RT's Bank Accounts - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:03:25] <exec> 08└─> UK banks have been arbitrarily closing down the accounts of people that the UK banks believe are US citizens... Do you have any recent references for this? I found this from last year, http://www.wsj.com [wsj.com] which says that acco...
[12:03:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Brothels - 06'Super Yeast' Has the Power to Improve Economics of Biofuels - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:03:38] <exec> 08└─I always misread biofuels as brothels. Not usually that funny except in this case.
[12:05:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Deeper relationships on the internet? - 06Hinge's Redesign Bets That Millennials Are Looking for Deeper Relationships - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:05:55] <exec> 08└─You must be fun at parties. :) You can't learn such things from mere looks. "Looks interesting", puh-leeze.
[12:07:35] <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 - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:07:35] <exec> 08└─doesn't count all the additional benefits
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[13:01:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Wrong problem - 06The Mathematics of the American Justice System - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:37] <exec> 08└─Funny how the focus is on the chance that this might be subject to criticism for racism, and not on the much more fundamental objection that in a free society we only sentence people for what they have been proven to have done, not what they might do in the future. Dressing that up with sciency-soun...
[13:01:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03seeprime [5580] (Score:2) 02A year to mourn is too long - 06The Party and the Succession are On Hold in Thailand - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:45] <exec> 08└─These actions smack of military control. I don't trust the official statements. The read like the playbook of a group that's been sitting back and waiting for their opportunity to take over, not quickly, but over one year. Time will tell.
[13:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:A year to mourn is too long - 06The Party and the Succession are On Hold in Thailand - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:01:47] <exec> 08└─I've lived in Thailand, and believe you me, the Thais revered King Bumibol. Not like very-respected, I mean god-like. He was held in the same regard that Americans hold Lincoln, but as a living figure. When I lived there, people would rough you up if you stepped on a coin because it held the image o...
[13:01:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score:2) 02Re:A year to mourn is too long - 06The Party and the Succession are On Hold in Thailand - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:01:49] <exec> 08└─On the day of Queen Victoria's funeral, it's said that even the prostitutes of London wore black...but didn't take the day off.
[13:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Yet another plea bargain... - 06Barrett Brown: I Am Fully Capable of Entertaining Myself in Prison for Decades If Need Be - 732 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:02:01] <exec> 08└─They kept piling on more and more charges, until he saw that he could not possibly afford to defend himself. The issues in a trial like this are way beyond the competence of your average public defender. Even if he could afford legal representation for the duration (or was lucky enough to get a comp...
[13:02:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02D&D dangerous? - 06Barrett Brown: I Am Fully Capable of Entertaining Myself in Prison for Decades If Need Be - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:02:02] <exec> 08└─Is playing an immersive fantasy game with people who have poor impulse control wise?
[13:02:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03unitron [70] (Score:2) 02Was this supposed to have happened randomly? - 06Barrett Brown: I Am Fully Capable of Entertaining Myself in Prison for Decades If Need Be - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:02:05] <exec> 08└─The fortune at the bottom of the page just now: "The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n. -- John Milton"
[13:02:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Not so fast - 06The Guardian Wonders If the Golden Age of TV is Over - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:02:17] <exec> 08└─prop up the salaries bloated Americans is a joke.
[13:02:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Star Trek predicted it - 06The Guardian Wonders If the Golden Age of TV is Over - 4023 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:02:21] <exec> 08└─Oh boy unleash the star trek nerdiness debates everyone put on asbestos. First of all the 2040s in cannon were roughly around the WW3 end of civilization thingy, think Kahn and his buddies and first warp drive flight wasn't till 2063 so things were pretty Fed up. A cheap shot example would be the de...
[13:02:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:In a word - 06The Guardian Wonders If the Golden Age of TV is Over - 1321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:02:25] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Series_television_ratings [wikipedia.org] 1978 world series viewers in the 45 millions range out of 220 million, well over 20% of the population watched world series games in those days. More than a fifth of the people in the USA watched or listened to world serie...
[13:02:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:And yet... - 06The Guardian Wonders If the Golden Age of TV is Over - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:02:31] <exec> 08└─Quality, not quantity.
[13:03:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score:2) 02Re:Biden Said this was Coming - 06RBS/NatWest to Freeze Russian State Broadcaster RT's Bank Accounts - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:03:33] <exec> 08└─The DNC isn't competent with computers, and they keep getting into the news because of that fact.
[13:06:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02Re:Given up online - 06Hinge's Redesign Bets That Millennials Are Looking for Deeper Relationships - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:06:41] <exec> 08└─I don't have the patience to wade through thousands of profiles, .... I won't invest the time required just to go out for coffee to see if we even get along. So many people are looking for the perfect match, and things that should be minor become deal breakers, and I am guilty of such as well.
[13:06:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What I want - 06Hinge's Redesign Bets That Millennials Are Looking for Deeper Relationships - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:06:44] <exec> 08└─Well, you could start a journal entry here [ducking].
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[14:01:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02Wrong problem - 06The Mathematics of the American Justice System - 350 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:44] <exec> 08└─Funny how the focus is on the chance that this might be subject to criticism for racism, and not on the much more fundamental objection that in a free society we only sentence people for what they have been proven to have done, not what they might do in the future. Dressing that up with sciency-soun...
[14:01:45] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:Wrong problem - 06The Mathematics of the American Justice System - 164 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:01:45] <exec> 08└─There's another big problem. From the summary: The assessment scores someone on a 10 point scale but the algorithm used to determine someone's score is kept secret.
[14:01:46] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] 02Re:Wrong problem - 06The Mathematics of the American Justice System - 234 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:01:47] <exec> 08└─Taking this a step further, every accused person has the right to face the accuser and the evidence must be made available to both parties. How the actual fuck is an opaque, black box algorithm not in flagrant violation of this right?
[14:01:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02Re:Wrong problem - 06The Mathematics of the American Justice System - 1290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:01:49] <exec> 08└─The counterargument is probably that the accused does have this right for purposes of conviction, but not for bail, sentencing, or parole. In the case of bail and parole, this sort of makes sense, as these are perceived to be the government showing leniency, which they don't have to do. It can also...
[14:01:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03 (Score:0) 02Social Capital - 06The Mathematics of the American Justice System - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:01:51] <exec> 08└─> Funny how the focus is on the chance that this might be subject to criticism for racism It isn't odd at all. It is always the minorities who are abused first and most because they don't have the social capital to fight back. They are the canary in the coal mine anytime this kind of shit goes down...
[14:01:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:Social Capital - 06The Mathematics of the American Justice System - 814 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:01:54] <exec> 08└─You know, I won't dispute that racism exists - it does and to my horror it even appears to be making a comeback of sorts. But the vast majority of what gets touted as racism, particularly with the word 'institutional' attached - is clearly not really racism. I'm not saying it's good, but it's a diff...
[14:01:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:Wrong problem - 06The Mathematics of the American Justice System - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:01:56] <exec> 08└─Sentencing is determined following https://www.law.cornell.edu [cornell.edu] Consider: (a - 2) the need for the sentence imposed— (A) to reflect the seriousness of the offense, to promote respect for the law, and to provide just punishment for the offense; (B) to afford adequa...
[14:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A year to mourn is too long - 06The Party and the Succession are On Hold in Thailand - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:02:07] <exec> 08└─Daytime tarts, how genteel!
[14:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:A year to mourn is too long - 06The Party and the Succession are On Hold in Thailand - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:02:09] <exec> 08└─You should read about the Thai monarchy on Wikipedia. They had a somewhat weird system where the military already held a lot of power. Not quite sure how you can have a military coup and the king still stays on the throne, but supposedly it happened a number of times during the former king's reign.
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[14:02:11] <exec> 08└─King dies at 88 and the country gets passed to a 96-year-old regent. Nice.
[14:02:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:entertain yourself in solitary - 06Barrett Brown: I Am Fully Capable of Entertaining Myself in Prison for Decades If Need Be - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:02:23] <exec> 08└─but I'd actually RATHER be solitary than
[14:02:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Forced gaming groups? - 06Barrett Brown: I Am Fully Capable of Entertaining Myself in Prison for Decades If Need Be - 958 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:02:27] <exec> 08└─Also assumes the distribution of people who like DnD is completely random across intelligence and impulse control, which strikes me as unlikely based on experience. I'm not claiming they're all saints but just to read thru LOTR (before the movies, in the old days) and get all fired up about it and t...
[14:02:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Forced gaming groups? - 06Barrett Brown: I Am Fully Capable of Entertaining Myself in Prison for Decades If Need Be - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:02:29] <exec> 08└─Not only that, but there's absolutely no evidence that having poor impulse control would make playing D&D with somebody not fun. Indeed, poor impulse control can lead to memorable moments, like the time in one game I was a part of where a high-level fighter with near-zero intelligence decided to cha...
[14:02:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:D&D dangerous? - 06Barrett Brown: I Am Fully Capable of Entertaining Myself in Prison for Decades If Need Be - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:02:33] <exec> 08└─Oh man, it took till I read your post to figure out he was making fun of the American prison industrial complex not making fun of DnD. Although WRT impulse control I donno if the guards have the same "shoot first ask questions later" attitude modern cops have. Might actually be safer in the slammer...
[14:02:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03blackhawk [5275] (Score:3, Funny) 02Bad Idea - 06Barrett Brown: I Am Fully Capable of Entertaining Myself in Prison for Decades If Need Be - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:02:36] <exec> 08└─It's a terrible idea to let proven criminals play D&D. This is how Satan teaches people spells...like fireball rank 9. Can you imagine the damage they could do if enough convicts are given the "intense occult training" that D&D provides? Prisoners would use the "Mind Bondage" spell on their guards,...
[14:02:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Oakenshield [4900] (Score:1) 02Futurama unpredicted it - 06The Guardian Wonders If the Golden Age of TV is Over - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:02:53] <exec> 08└─A cheap shot example would be the death of baseball predicted I believe in DS9 where they have the trends correct but the dates all wrong. Major league baseball does not have much longer; the fans are literally dying out.
[14:02:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:In a word - 06The Guardian Wonders If the Golden Age of TV is Over - 1086 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:02:57] <exec> 08└─Baseball is killing itself in my household because they've moved almost all of the games to cable. I've cut the cord a couple of years ago and the only annoyance I have is with sports coverage. All of the playoff games have been on cable, and I won't get to see a game until the World Series, which I...
[14:03:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:And yet... - 06The Guardian Wonders If the Golden Age of TV is Over - 1007 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:03:02] <exec> 08└─Also I see grand-op identifies as a troop carrying helicopter which I guess is an improvement on identifying as an attack helicopter, but more seriously I can tell op is identifying as a male, because my female wife was addicted for decades to a decade long soap opera called "as the world turns" and...
[14:03:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02golden age of profits for crap shows is over - 06The Guardian Wonders If the Golden Age of TV is Over - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:03:07] <exec> 08└─Are they kidding? I'm following 3 series right now. I can't remember the last time I was interested in 3 whole series that are being broadcast/released/whatever right now. Ash vs. Evil Dead and Westworld in particular. (Supergirl is the other series, not epic, but not bad either.) Earlier this year...
[14:03:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03snufu [5855] 02Peat included? - 06Self-Sufficient Scottish Island for Sale; Comes With Broadband and Post Office - 124 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:03:34] <exec> 08└─Start a hipster craze for your authentic limited production smoky Scotch whisky and the island pays for itself in six weeks.
[14:03:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Burning Man - 06Self-Sufficient Scottish Island for Sale; Comes With Broadband and Post Office - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:03:40] <exec> 08└─And they could call it the wicker man festival.
[14:07:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02Re:Deeper relationships on the internet? - 06Hinge's Redesign Bets That Millennials Are Looking for Deeper Relationships - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:07:04] <exec> 08└─Runway1956 wrote : 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.
[14:07:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Deeper relationships on the internet? - 06Hinge's Redesign Bets That Millennials Are Looking for Deeper Relationships - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:07:05] <exec> 08└─ROFLMAO - you must bear in mind that I was a sailor. It was commonly accepted amongst us, that if you walked up and said something outrageous to random women, you might get slapped a dozen times, snubbed two dozen times, whatever else. You might get slapped thirty times - but number 31 thinks you're...
[14:07:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Deeper relationships on the internet? - 06Hinge's Redesign Bets That Millennials Are Looking for Deeper Relationships - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:07:12] <exec> 08└─How about going out and dating real people in real social settings?
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[15:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02fickle astronomers - 06Arecibo Observatory Fires Researchers to Retaliate against Claims of Age Discrimination - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:46] <exec> 08└─It's not even a month since the new FAST telescope in Guizhou came online, and already astronomers are jumping ship for greener pastures, just like magpies swooping down on a shiny bit of rubbish.
[15:01:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Think I see the problem here - 06Arecibo Observatory Fires Researchers to Retaliate against Claims of Age Discrimination - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:47] <exec> 08└─a set of effective young leaders
[15:01:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Wrong problem - 06The Mathematics of the American Justice System - 934 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:01:58] <exec> 08└─A fundamental flaw I see is that they are sentencing a defendant based upon a questionnaire completed by their self or their lawyer... if they make the algorithm public, their lawyer is duty bound to skew the answers as much as he can get away with to make sentencing as light as possible for their c...
[15:02:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Social Capital - 06The Mathematics of the American Justice System - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:02:04] <exec> 08└─> is clearly not really racism. Are you really going to complain that what sociologists consider racism doesn't match your personal definition? The fact is that average black household wealth is just 7% of average white household wealth. And that is the legacy of hundreds of years of "real" racism....
[15:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Fuck this. - 06The Mathematics of the American Justice System - 1350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:07] <exec> 08└─I smell a scam. Score? Algorithm? I bet it works on a simple points system. Has the person been arrested before, for what and was he convicted. The more serious the more points. In the end they tally up the points and scale it to 0-10. The code probably fits into a few classes or functions. Johnny l...
[15:02:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02As a well known actor would say: - 06The Party and the Succession are On Hold in Thailand - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:20] <exec> 08└─No monarch, no party!
[15:02:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:entertain yourself in solitary - 06Barrett Brown: I Am Fully Capable of Entertaining Myself in Prison for Decades If Need Be - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:02:32] <exec> 08└─Sounds like west-coast living in a tech area.
[15:02:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:D&D dangerous? - 06Barrett Brown: I Am Fully Capable of Entertaining Myself in Prison for Decades If Need Be - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:02:41] <exec> 08└─Here, of all places, are we seriously seeing the canard that D&D is dangerous?
[15:02:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not so fast - 06The Guardian Wonders If the Golden Age of TV is Over - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:02:58] <exec> 08└─to prop up the salaries bloated Americans is a joke.
[15:03:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Star Trek predicted it - 06The Guardian Wonders If the Golden Age of TV is Over - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:03:03] <exec> 08└─https://www.reddit.com/r/startrek/comments/3aajfy/how_much_holodeck_time_can_i_have_on_the/ [reddit.com] Top comment: This is basically why you never see one person in the holodeck, your time instantly becomes 5x that if you share with 4 other people, and most of the time what's the fun of going it...
[15:03:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Long form story telling - 06The Guardian Wonders If the Golden Age of TV is Over - 1675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:03:13] <exec> 08└─Yes, TV has figured out long form story telling. But unlike Babylon 5, none of these shows have an actual ending. Babylon 5 had a beginning, a middle and an ending. A satisfying, climactic ending. In the final episodes the characters are moved off the chessboard in satisfying ways. Yet it leaves ple...
[15:03:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Advertising - 06The Guardian Wonders If the Golden Age of TV is Over - 3137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:19] <exec> 08└─Advertising. It destroys every form of media that it touches. Like a reverse midas touch. Consider Television. It had a tolerable number of ads in TV's golden era. Then the ads increased, and the quality decreased. By the late 70's everyone was SICK of network TV and Cable started taking off. The pr...
[15:03:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score:2) 02Re:Better Options (Score:2) by JeanCroix (573) - 06Self-Sufficient Scottish Island for Sale; Comes With Broadband and Post Office - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:03:46] <exec> 08└─If I own the pub, I can bloody well sleep there if I feel like it.
[15:03:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score:2) 02Re:Better Options - 06Self-Sufficient Scottish Island for Sale; Comes With Broadband and Post Office - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:03:47] <exec> 08└─Never mind, I just re-read OP's post. I'd thought we were still talking about the island.
[15:03:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:Better Options - 06Self-Sufficient Scottish Island for Sale; Comes With Broadband and Post Office - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:03:50] <exec> 08└─> I won't ever understand the drug culture among the rich and famous though. You're rich, famous, able to afford and do anything - climb everest, go into space, make your own movies, own your own island, fill it with entertainers, get personal concerts from other celebrities. And all you can think o...
[15:03:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Climate - 06Self-Sufficient Scottish Island for Sale; Comes With Broadband and Post Office - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:03:58] <exec> 08└─I guess you have a point, but to me the natives do have a right to be as dickish as they choose to outsiders. I actually think these people are rather nice about it. If my ancestral land was getting flooded with Hipsters/Yuppies, I think a less pleasant approach would be enacted. A bag of money may...
[15:04:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Burning Man - 06Self-Sufficient Scottish Island for Sale; Comes With Broadband and Post Office - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:04:02] <exec> 08└─As long as there is a beautiful and very very willing barmaid to allow somebody to get out of your carefully laid trap.
[15:04:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02"Socialism" BS sold again - 06The Soviet InterNyet - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:12] <exec> 08└─There is an irony to this. The first global computer networks took root in the US thanks to well-regulated state funding and collaborative research environments, while the contemporary (and notably independent) national network efforts in the USSR floundered due to unregulated competition and instit...
[15:04:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Why Do I Even Bother? - 06RBS/NatWest to Freeze Russian State Broadcaster RT's Bank Accounts - 1148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:04:31] <exec> 08└─> Clinton the female sells fissionable products to Russia, The sale of the canadian mining company to a russian owner was approved by nine separate federal agencies [politifact.com] who did not even have veto power, [factcheck.org] the most they could have done was bump the issue up to the president...
[15:04:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Biden Said this was Coming - 06RBS/NatWest to Freeze Russian State Broadcaster RT's Bank Accounts - 1425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:04:37] <exec> 08└─> They already stated they have the RNC stuff, and said it was no worse than exactly what Trump was saying. Not the "the" stuff, "some" stuff. Wikileaks doesn't know about what they have not been given. > Honestly *WHERE* they came from makes no difference. Of course it matters. Wikileaks can, and...
[15:04:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Biden Said this was Coming - 06RBS/NatWest to Freeze Russian State Broadcaster RT's Bank Accounts - 2015 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:04:41] <exec> 08└─> Apparent agenda. Got it. I'll let you in on a little secret: EVERYONE HAS AN AGENDA!! That is a reductive analysis. Having an agenda does not dictate people's entire behavior. Well, it seems like it dictates yours, but few people are as simple-minded as you. > You completely missed that Hitlery an...
[15:04:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Biden Said this was Coming - 06RBS/NatWest to Freeze Russian State Broadcaster RT's Bank Accounts - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:04:44] <exec> 08└─> [...] if the RNC had been hacked. The same site that leaked the Democratic National Committee e-mails has a collection of around 330 e-mails that are purportedly from the Republican Party. https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[15:04:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What goes around - 06RBS/NatWest to Freeze Russian State Broadcaster RT's Bank Accounts - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:04:56] <exec> 08└─You know just as well as I do that if RT was only reporting the positives of Clinton and the negatives of Trump like the BBC does they wouldn’t be “interfering with US Presidential elections.”
[15:04:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What goes around - 06RBS/NatWest to Freeze Russian State Broadcaster RT's Bank Accounts - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:04:59] <exec> 08└─It's done selectively. Nothing released about Trump even though I'm sure Russia is sitting on a pile of stuff, starting with his financial dealings in Russia. Of course, they'll make full use of that if he's elected POTUS.
[15:05:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sad, usefull information there - 06RBS/NatWest to Freeze Russian State Broadcaster RT's Bank Accounts - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:05:04] <exec> 08└─You are quite the dope. Using this thing called "the Internet", I can find that story all over Reuters, the AP, NBC News, etc., etc., etc. If it doen't pop right up in front of your face, it is not being covered? Are you fucking serious?? Don't blame your laziness on media incompetence.
[15:07:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Interstellar sleeper ships - 06Something Went Wrong with the Juno Spacecraft's Engine - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:07:14] <exec> 08└─Currently, there's no evidence that the EM drive is anything other than inefficient light propulsion [sciencealert.com]. In which case, a series of fluorescent tubes would probably be more efficient propulsion.
[15:07:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:helium - 06Something Went Wrong with the Juno Spacecraft's Engine - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:07:20] <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.
[15:08:41] <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 - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:08:41] <exec> 08└─Again, what's misleading about the term? I'm not wasting my time with ignorant people who don't know have a clue and don't own a Tesla. Tesla can educate Tesla owners by simple means.
[15:09:21] <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 - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:09:21] <exec> 08└─If only we could have one party that was the best of both major parties with none of the bad. The fiscal thriftiness of the democrats, and the social progressiveness of the republicans. And the corruption of the democrats, and the corporate overlord deregulation of the republicans.
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[16:02:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Wrong problem - 06The Mathematics of the American Justice System - 663 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:02:02] <exec> 08└─The simple fact is that there's no algorithm available to solve these kinds of problems, because dispensing justice is difficult. I mean, how do you tell the difference, in a court of law, between a genuine loving family man and an abusive father who threatened his kids into saying that he was a gen...
[16:02:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wrong problem - 06The Mathematics of the American Justice System - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:02:05] <exec> 08└─In the case of bail ... perceived to be the government showing leniency, which they don't have to do.
[16:02:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Wrong problem - 06The Mathematics of the American Justice System - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:02:08] <exec> 08└─The counterargument is probably that the accused does have this right for purposes of conviction, but not for bail, sentencing, or parole.
[16:02:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RamiK [1813] 02Re:Wrong problem - 06The Mathematics of the American Justice System - 555 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:02:13] <exec> 08└─Sentencing is determined following https://www.law.cornell.edu [cornell.edu] Consider: (a - 2) the need for the sentence imposed— (A) to reflect the seriousness of the offense, to promote respect for the law, and to provide just punishment for the offense; (B) to afford adequa...
[16:02:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fuck this. - 06The Mathematics of the American Justice System - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:02:16] <exec> 08└─> I bet it works on a simple points system. Its more complex than that - read the propublica link. Its neural net type stuff. They base the score on similarities to other convicts and their outcomes. But, as is the problem with all neural nets, garbage in, garbage out. If there is a bias in the cur...
[16:02:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:D&D dangerous? - 06Barrett Brown: I Am Fully Capable of Entertaining Myself in Prison for Decades If Need Be - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:02:50] <exec> 08└─Let the wookie win.
[16:02:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:D&D dangerous? - 06Barrett Brown: I Am Fully Capable of Entertaining Myself in Prison for Decades If Need Be - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:02:51] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I think I was a bit reflexive on that one. Not enough coffee yet at the time this morning, and I remembered being persecuted for playing RPGs in junior high.
[16:02:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:D&D dangerous? - 06Barrett Brown: I Am Fully Capable of Entertaining Myself in Prison for Decades If Need Be - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:02:53] <exec> 08└─Haha, no. D&D is not dangerous. I played through college. People in prison are dangerous, and don't like losing. RPGs are more immersive than many other games, so the loss would sting more. If you read the article a bit, there's a moment when one of the inmates' characters stole all the treasure fro...
[16:02:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02About the same as others.... - 06Barrett Brown: I Am Fully Capable of Entertaining Myself in Prison for Decades If Need Be - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:57] <exec> 08└─.... Is allowing convicted prisoners to play a board combat simulation [wikipedia.org] a wise thing to do? Yet it happens all the time. [youtube.com] And as others pointed out, you don't need dice or rulebooks to roleplay. You need imagination and conversation - even if the conversation occurs only...
[16:03:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Star Trek predicted it - 06The Guardian Wonders If the Golden Age of TV is Over - 1220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:03:19] <exec> 08└─Yeah interesting observation. One cultural thing I saw that's worth speculating about for MMORPGs or multiplayer FPS or some future virtual reality is a least on trek groups always did innocent hangout parties (lets have a picnic lunch!) and more serious "we can charge this to the .gov under mission...
[16:03:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:In a word - 06The Guardian Wonders If the Golden Age of TV is Over - 1891 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:03:24] <exec> 08└─Here's their rationale. Take the Big Ten Network in my part of the country for example. I watch a fair amount of college football and basketball as an alumni of a Big Ten University. If my cable or satellite package (before I cut the cord) did not carry this network I would miss 50% or more of the g...
[16:03:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score:2) 02Re:Long form story telling - 06The Guardian Wonders If the Golden Age of TV is Over - 866 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:03:31] <exec> 08└─I was going to say something similar. Although it is not a completely new problem, all TV shows these days seem to follow the same formula described. They start off with some interesting premise, perhaps the first few episodes are interesting, and with luck perhaps the first season is good. Then the...
[16:03:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Advertising - 06The Guardian Wonders If the Golden Age of TV is Over - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:03:38] <exec> 08└─Like a reverse midas touch.
[16:03:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Advertising - 06The Guardian Wonders If the Golden Age of TV is Over - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:03:40] <exec> 08└─Now we have internet streaming. Netflix is still the ideal model. You pay for it, and no ads. Also HBO streaming. Or Starz streaming. But on the other hand look at Hulu. You can have ads, or pay more for the ad free version. But now even the ad free version has an ad at the beginning. WTF???
[16:04:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Better Options - 06Self-Sufficient Scottish Island for Sale; Comes With Broadband and Post Office - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:04:03] <exec> 08└─A good ocean is one that's not defiled by foul wind turbines.
[16:04:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Better Options - 06Self-Sufficient Scottish Island for Sale; Comes With Broadband and Post Office - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:04:13] <exec> 08└─I always find it hilarious that people get rich and then get bored - I mean, seriously? You can do ANYTHING.
[16:04:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimios [201] (Score:2) 02Sell it while you can - 06Self-Sufficient Scottish Island for Sale; Comes With Broadband and Post Office - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:23] <exec> 08└─It will be too late once it goes permanently underwater from rising sea levels.
[16:04:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Why Do I Even Bother? - 06RBS/NatWest to Freeze Russian State Broadcaster RT's Bank Accounts - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:04:52] <exec> 08└─Thank you - you help to prove that under a Clinton administration, everything is up for grabs. Highest bidder takes all.
[16:05:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Biden Said this was Coming - 06RBS/NatWest to Freeze Russian State Broadcaster RT's Bank Accounts - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:05:03] <exec> 08└─First, you argue in circles. Then, you take liberal's opinions about liberals, and offer that as the gospel that you accuse me of reading. I'm waiting for some kind of refutation against the conspiracy. You know - that conspiracy that was so adequately revealed in a Wikileaks release. Bern had littl...
[16:05:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:So who is going to be hanged over this? - 06Court Finds GCHQ and MI5 Engaged in Illegal Bulk Data Collection - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:05:49] <exec> 08└─> Government will never punish itself. It's happened on three occasions: Terror suspects who were placed under virtual house arrest by the Government may claim thousands of pounds in compensation from the taxpayer. The High Court ruled yesterday that two alleged fanatics given control orders by the...
[16:08:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score:2) 02Re:They're not wrong. - 06Hinge's Redesign Bets That Millennials Are Looking for Deeper Relationships - 2727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:08:18] <exec> 08└─Damn right. I became a single dad at 22. You'd think being a good father etc would draw them in right? Oh yeah, of course it does. Up until you ask them out.... Then they realise they would be taking on another women's child? So, they won't date you when they know you have a small child. So you keep...
[16:08:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:They're not wrong. - 06Hinge's Redesign Bets That Millennials Are Looking for Deeper Relationships - 941 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:08:19] <exec> 08└─The best advice I have seen for single people is to date several people, not to get too involved, and not to have sex. Have dates lined up as a fun time for your escape in life, but unless you find someone that you really want to spend the rest of your life with, just keep moving on rather than esta...
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[17:01:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Sounds familiar - 06Deceptive Flowers, Duping Insects: How Parachute Flowers Lure Their Pollinators Into a Trap - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:47] <exec> 08└─Ahhh, the joys of the Free Market!
[17:01:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:Sounds familiar - 06Deceptive Flowers, Duping Insects: How Parachute Flowers Lure Their Pollinators Into a Trap - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:01:48] <exec> 08└─The PHB flower. All advertisement, no substance, starves his workers.
[17:01:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sounds familiar - 06Deceptive Flowers, Duping Insects: How Parachute Flowers Lure Their Pollinators Into a Trap - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:01:50] <exec> 08└─Its not the free market. Its feminism. It should be no surprise that this species was a favorite subject of Georgia O'Keefe.
[17:02:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:4, Interesting) 02Re:Think I see the problem here - 06Arecibo Observatory Fires Researchers to Retaliate against Claims of Age Discrimination - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:02:01] <exec> 08└─Smart people sure can be dumb sometimes. Just the action of firing these people soon after the charges were filed of discrimination -- how can you not already be walking on eggshells at that point? I guess living in an ivory tower, or dormant volcano with lower ambient oxygen levels than what people...
[17:02:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02When they came to fire me . . . - 06Arecibo Observatory Fires Researchers to Retaliate against Claims of Age Discrimination - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:04] <exec> 08└─First, they fired at Pierce Brosnan, and I said nothing, because Sean Connery was too old. Then they fired Jodie Foster, and I said nothing, since Ronald Reagan was too old. Dead, in fact. And then when the fired me, I had to ask, is this science, or is this Hollywood?
[17:02:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Wrong problem - 06The Mathematics of the American Justice System - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:24] <exec> 08└─if the algorithm is a secret
[17:02:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Fuck this. - 06The Mathematics of the American Justice System - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:02:28] <exec> 08└─If it's secret then propublica, or anyone for that matter cant be sure how it works regardless of what the makers of Compas say it does. It could be a neural net, or it could be 100x simpler and the veil of secrecy is to give the impression of a complex system. Iv'e seen it before. Proprietary this,...
[17:02:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Fuck this. - 06The Mathematics of the American Justice System - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:02:30] <exec> 08└─If there is a bias in the current system
[17:02:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:3, Disagree) 02This is just illuminating the contradictions - 06The Mathematics of the American Justice System - 1037 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:32] <exec> 08└─The System has two impossible to reconcile goals. The Progressives who run the System hold that criminals are oppressed and not responsible for their actions, especially if they aren't terrorizing the gated communities they themselves live in, thus they seek to turn them all loose as quickly as they...
[17:02:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Checkin out... - 06The Mathematics of the American Justice System - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:34] <exec> 08└─Every year we go further down the dystopian rabbit hole, and it gets harder and harder to not just check out of the whole mess.
[17:02:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:A year to mourn is too long - 06The Party and the Succession are On Hold in Thailand - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:02:46] <exec> 08└─I think they legitimately want foreigners and their own countrymen to respect what is a national psychic pain the likes of which westerners have little concept.
[17:02:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:A year to mourn is too long - 06The Party and the Succession are On Hold in Thailand - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:02:48] <exec> 08└─> These actions smack of military control. (...) The read like the playbook of a group that's been sitting back and waiting for their opportunity to take over You really do need to brush up on recent Thai politics... First question: Who's in power in Thailand?
[17:03:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bruke [6247] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Re:Forced gaming groups? - 06Barrett Brown: I Am Fully Capable of Entertaining Myself in Prison for Decades If Need Be - 3160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:03:08] <exec> 08└─I played quite a few games during my own 12 year sentence. Mostly GURPS and D&D but also a few others. Magic: The Gathering was also fun for awhile. During that time, I only had one instance of a player going nuts and flipping a table during a game. There's quite a few people there with anger manage...
[17:03:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Forced gaming groups? - 06Barrett Brown: I Am Fully Capable of Entertaining Myself in Prison for Decades If Need Be - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:10] <exec> 08└─Came here to say that. Something like a 50% chance they're in the joint for a joint or some other bullshit. This is America, land of imprisoned.
[17:03:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02Yet another plea bargain... - 06Barrett Brown: I Am Fully Capable of Entertaining Myself in Prison for Decades If Need Be - 732 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:12] <exec> 08└─They kept piling on more and more charges, until he saw that he could not possibly afford to defend himself. The issues in a trial like this are way beyond the competence of your average public defender. Even if he could afford legal representation for the duration (or was lucky enough to get a comp...
[17:03:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03blackhawk [5275] 02Bad Idea - 06Barrett Brown: I Am Fully Capable of Entertaining Myself in Prison for Decades If Need Be - 467 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:21] <exec> 08└─It's a terrible idea to let proven criminals play D&D. This is how Satan teaches people spells...like fireball rank 9. Can you imagine the damage they could do if enough convicts are given the "intense occult training" that D&D provides? Prisoners would use the "Mind Bondage" spell on their guards,...
[17:03:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:golden age of profits for crap shows is over - 06The Guardian Wonders If the Golden Age of TV is Over - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:03:57] <exec> 08└─Aren't you always bitching about "feminists?" Supergirl is the most beat-you-over-the-head feminist show on TV. Groan-inducingly, over-the-top feminist tropes.
[17:04:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Specific tests ... - 06Photovoltaic Cell Factory May Open in Buffalo, New York - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:12] <exec> 08└─For most of the year, they can refine low-light and thru-snow performance, but will have to ship the panels to the Gigafactory to find out max or hot efficiency.
[17:04:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Better Options - 06Self-Sufficient Scottish Island for Sale; Comes With Broadband and Post Office - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:04:27] <exec> 08└─Those wind turbines will vanish quickly after the end of civilization, unlike strip mines and nuke domes.
[17:04:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Better Options - 06Self-Sufficient Scottish Island for Sale; Comes With Broadband and Post Office - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:04:37] <exec> 08└─I won't ever understand the drug culture among the rich and famous though. You're rich, famous, able to afford and do anything - climb everest, go into space, make your own movies, own your own island, fill it with entertainers, get personal concerts from other celebritries. And all you can think of...
[17:04:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Re:Climate - 06Self-Sufficient Scottish Island for Sale; Comes With Broadband and Post Office - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:04:45] <exec> 08└─Climate definitely. While you get a lot for your money, I would much rather have an island in the Caribbean. Less infrastructure or larger price tag, but drinking on the beach is a year round festivity. http://www.privateislandsonline.com [privateislandsonline.com]
[17:04:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:80%? Holy sh8t! - 06The Soviet InterNyet - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:04:58] <exec> 08└─> Who says it's a "man's world"? Indian and Chinese women.
[17:05:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why Do I Even Bother? - 06RBS/NatWest to Freeze Russian State Broadcaster RT's Bank Accounts - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:05:22] <exec> 08└─And runaway does his best impression of a child with his fingers in his ears yelling "I can't hear you!"
[17:05:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Biden Said this was Coming - 06RBS/NatWest to Freeze Russian State Broadcaster RT's Bank Accounts - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:05:30] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetorical_question [wikipedia.org]
[17:05:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Biden Said this was Coming - 06RBS/NatWest to Freeze Russian State Broadcaster RT's Bank Accounts - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:36] <exec> 08└─> First, you argue in circles. WTF? You are the one running around repeating the crap you get from infowars.
[17:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:beer from grass? - 06'Super Yeast' Has the Power to Improve Economics of Biofuels - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:06:06] <exec> 08└─so you can get crunk ofc
[17:07:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I hear they figured it out - 06Something Went Wrong with the Juno Spacecraft's Engine - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:07:59] <exec> 08└─Friggen McAfee. BeenThereDoneThat.
[17:08:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Interstellar sleeper ships - 06Something Went Wrong with the Juno Spacecraft's Engine - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:08:10] <exec> 08└─"They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown." -- Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain
[17:08:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Interstellar sleeper ships - 06Something Went Wrong with the Juno Spacecraft's Engine - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:08:12] <exec> 08└─Solution = maintenance. You have a crew, use them to fix and re-manufacture stuff. However, the ship will probably have to stop for supplies and fuel since maintenance requires more energy.
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[18:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Financial argument - 06Apple Gives Up on Building its Own Car Because the Entire Project Was a "Shitshow" - 1209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:46] <exec> 08└─I'll throw out a financial argument since everyone else will be talking about tech and software: Apple business model if you want a success is to find a struggling sector, find the typical thingy in the market, mark up the price threefold, make it kick ass, take over the entire market. The problem i...
[18:01:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02All the truth - 06Apple Gives Up on Building its Own Car Because the Entire Project Was a "Shitshow" - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:48] <exec> 08└─The Apple exec entered the CEO office, his expression was grim. The CEO put down the SJW Barbie he was toying with, raised his head and went serious. - The market survey results for the iCar are in, Master. - They are not good, are them. - They are terrible. - Don't tell me. It's because of the non-...
[18:01:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Standard SN automobile analogy - 06Deceptive Flowers, Duping Insects: How Parachute Flowers Lure Their Pollinators Into a Trap - 750 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:58] <exec> 08└─I'm a brave man to try a standard SN automobile analogy, this is gonna be a rough one. So there's an abandoned gas station that looks lively and it lures in homeless people who normally beg customers for change, but little do they know that a vampire lives there and he sucks their blood and there's...
[18:01:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score:2) 02Re:Standard SN automobile analogy - 06Deceptive Flowers, Duping Insects: How Parachute Flowers Lure Their Pollinators Into a Trap - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:01:59] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that was a bit of a stretch, heh heh. Practice makes perfect and all that. I'll give you a B for effort :)
[18:02:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Starring Troy McClure - 06Arecibo Observatory Fires Researchers to Retaliate against Claims of Age Discrimination - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:02:11] <exec> 08└─Will probably be used in the next Transformers movie as a skate park... with explosions, of course.
[18:02:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:Wrong problem - 06The Mathematics of the American Justice System - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:02:26] <exec> 08└─>dispensing justice is difficult That's why we hire judges, or at least, that's the theory.
[18:02:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Social Capital - 06The Mathematics of the American Justice System - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:02:34] <exec> 08└─what sociologists consider racism doesn't match
[18:02:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:This is just illuminating the contradictions - 06The Mathematics of the American Justice System - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:02:43] <exec> 08└─That's quite the straw man you've erected there. Care to debate with an actual human? Gonna have a hard time finding one that doesn't believe murderers belong in jail...
[18:02:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is just illuminating the contradictions - 06The Mathematics of the American Justice System - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:02:46] <exec> 08└─You don't understand the labels you are throwing around. Progressive and liberal are not terms that apply to pretty much anyone in government anymore. Those are just labels to make you scared and emotional. We have zero progressives in the higher levels, with basically all "progressive" programs bei...
[18:03:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:entertain yourself in solitary - 06Barrett Brown: I Am Fully Capable of Entertaining Myself in Prison for Decades If Need Be - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:15] <exec> 08└─"In any modern first-world country, solitary is pretty rare anyway" so, you're excluding the US in your first world group? cuz the feds put that 70+ year old national park occupier in solitary and he may still be in there.
[18:03:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:entertain yourself in solitary - 06Barrett Brown: I Am Fully Capable of Entertaining Myself in Prison for Decades If Need Be - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:03:16] <exec> 08└─It's a question of how long... https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[18:03:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bruke [6247] 02Re:Forced gaming groups? - 06Barrett Brown: I Am Fully Capable of Entertaining Myself in Prison for Decades If Need Be - 3154 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:03:22] <exec> 08└─I played quite a few games during my own 12 year sentence. Mostly GURPS and D&D but also a few others. Magic: The Gathering was also fun for awhile. During that time, I only had one instance of a player going nuts and flipping a table during a game. There's quite a few people there with anger manage...
[18:03:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score:2) 02Re:Forced gaming groups? - 06Barrett Brown: I Am Fully Capable of Entertaining Myself in Prison for Decades If Need Be - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:03:25] <exec> 08└─> Is playing an immersive fantasy game with people who have poor impulse control wise? LEEEEEEEE-ROY JENKINS!!!!
[18:03:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:Not so fast - 06The Guardian Wonders If the Golden Age of TV is Over - 1315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:03:51] <exec> 08└─No, giving people spoons merely allows for a government handout as a jobs program, although in a deeper context, you are correct as is Milton. The way I see it, ensuring unskilled people never have the right tools and have too much work to do with the tools they *are* provided is a strategy most pol...
[18:03:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Star Trek predicted it - 06The Guardian Wonders If the Golden Age of TV is Over - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:03:59] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it seems like Engineering could have had its own dedicated holodeck. Even if there wasn't an important training session/experiment they could let new crewmen go through a few failure scenarios and eject the core or something.
[18:04:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Star Trek predicted it - 06The Guardian Wonders If the Golden Age of TV is Over - 1902 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:04:01] <exec> 08└─I tried to watch B5, I really did I can not blame you on that. Part of B5 at the time was the build up (the hype echos on to this day). The wait 'what are they going to do next episode'. Now? You can find out very quickly its probably the next one on the disc. Many times it is not that good. The who...
[18:04:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:In a word - 06The Guardian Wonders If the Golden Age of TV is Over - 1133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:04:05] <exec> 08└─I did the cut years ago. I now have a huge stack of DVDs (coming up on 3k). I just keep an eye on walmart. Every once and awhile they will have a TV shows entire run for some nice cheap priice. Didnt snag it but I saw STNG for 70 bucks the other day. All 7 seasons. There is some good stuff in there...
[18:04:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03daver!west!fmc [1391] (Score:1) 02Re:Long form story telling - 06The Guardian Wonders If the Golden Age of TV is Over - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:04:15] <exec> 08└─And yet, when Babylon 5's spin-off series (Crusade?) was over, I felt a great relief, like I had just got an hour a week to do something more like fun than watching TV. Really, I blame the seasonal structure imposed on TV storytelling. During B5's fourth season, there was some question during the fo...
[18:04:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And yet... - 06The Guardian Wonders If the Golden Age of TV is Over - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:04:18] <exec> 08└─The long arcs are part of the reason I stopped watching TV. Everyone these days has to have a "myth arc" and as a result it's a pain to jump in and out of a series on occasion. I don't binge watch either, I don't even care much for movies that over 2 hours anymore. At least with the Star 5d79 Trek...
[18:04:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Advertising - 06The Guardian Wonders If the Golden Age of TV is Over - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:04:28] <exec> 08└─Oh man computer shopper. One of the few magazines you bought because it was full of ads. I snagged one a couple of years ago. It had morphed into a bad computer opinion rag.
[18:04:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Math... - 06The Guardian Wonders If the Golden Age of TV is Over - 666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:30] <exec> 08└─Courtesy of ads, an hour of US broadcast contains 42 minutes of show (minus a few seconds for gratuitous product placement). Interestingly, I grew up in a place where the channel showing US shows in 50-minutes slots was lambasted for excessive advertising. If you're in the US and like a show, you ca...
[18:05:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Biden Said this was Coming - 06RBS/NatWest to Freeze Russian State Broadcaster RT's Bank Accounts - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:05:54] <exec> 08└─they don't go after the serious stuff b/c they don't want to get into that shit. that's when people get killed (on both sides). if you think they're only going after silly BS publicly b/c there's nothing else there, you're incredibly naive. the clintons are life long criminals that have gone interna...
[18:06:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02make them pay - 06Court Finds GCHQ and MI5 Engaged in Illegal Bulk Data Collection - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:49] <exec> 08└─i hope brits make them pay for their crimes, as too many americans are too busy licking boots to get anything fixed over here.
[18:10:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02Re:Departments that 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)
[18:10:41] <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...
[18:10:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RedBear [1734] 02Submit your comments - 06DEA Delays Ban on Pain-Relieving Herb Kratom; Waits for FDA Report & Public Comment - 2810 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:53] <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...
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[19:01:52] <exec> 08└─The mentality for making a car is very different than the mentality of making disposable consumer items. I never saw apple (or for that mater google) being a good car company. With most computers 'fail' is just does not work. With car companies you have to have the QA and mentality of 'fail safe'. T...
[19:01:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:All the truth - 06Apple Gives Up on Building its Own Car - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:01:55] <exec> 08└─I thought it was because the Apple car was ultra thin, and the average American did not fit in.
[19:01:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:All the truth - 06Apple Gives Up on Building its Own Car - 1064 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:01:57] <exec> 08└─It's because of the closed architecture. It's because they'll buy parts from manufacturers who've been in that business long before Apple, and then sue them over rectangular tires with rounded corners. Or doors with slide to unlock. It's because it will only run on iFuel. You'll have to stand in lin...
[19:01:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Liability ... - 06Apple Gives Up on Building its Own Car - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:59] <exec> 08└─They talked to a lawyer, and realized they didn't want to be in the automatic car business. If you can provide infotainment and get all the spying data, why would you bother with the massive investments and liabilities required for barely more return? Then have to fight the US dealerships just so th...
[19:02:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02shitshow - 06Apple Gives Up on Building its Own Car - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:01] <exec> 08└─Changed headline because I see no evidence that "shitshow" was said by anybody other than the Jalopnik editor (part of the Gawker/Gizmodo family).
[19:02:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:shitshow - 06Apple Gives Up on Building its Own Car - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:02:03] <exec> 08└─I noticed the headline change. :-)
[19:02:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The plaintiffs didn't seem impressed - 06Apple Gives Up on Building its Own Car - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:06] <exec> 08└─When they told them the reason for the fatal accident was that they were "holding it wrong".
[19:02:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The plaintiffs didn't seem impressed - 06Apple Gives Up on Building its Own Car - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:02:08] <exec> 08└─That's the real reason Apple can never make a car by itself. Death is not something fanboys will be able to brush off.
[19:02:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:The plaintiffs didn't seem impressed - 06Apple Gives Up on Building its Own Car - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:02:10] <exec> 08└─You haven't talked to any. Or to the right ones. They will find a way. The reality distortion field is powerful. Apple went from being way far ahead of the rest of the entire computer industry, but unwilling to license its technology, to a company whose entire future is now tied to iPhones -- and th...
[19:02:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The plaintiffs didn't seem impressed - 06Apple Gives Up on Building its Own Car - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:02:12] <exec> 08└─and the 2006 version: Apple went from being way far ahead of the rest of the entire computer industry, but unwilling to license its technology, to a company whose entire future is now tied to iPods -- and that won't last forever. I wouldn't count them out just yet, and yes even without "Jobs"
[19:02:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:fickle astronomers - 06Arecibo Observatory Fires Researchers to Retaliate against Claims of Age Discrimination - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:02:31] <exec> 08└─They were fired. Did you even read the headline?
[19:02:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score:2) 02Re:Wrong problem - 06The Mathematics of the American Justice System - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:02:54] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately the courts just deem that these things are acceptable. You know like police dog alerts that are less effective than a coin flip [washingtonpost.com], or a breathalyzer that has an effective precision of just 4 bits [schneier.com].
[19:02:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Wrong problem - 06The Mathematics of the American Justice System - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:02:56] <exec> 08└─The argument will go something like this: If they weren't guilty, then they wouldn't be accused. Don't lau 2000 gh. The most paranoid ideas that I ever had in the last ten years have all turned out to be already worse than what I had been able to imagine. We have to keep our for-profit prisons full....
[19:03:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Social Capital - 06The Mathematics of the American Justice System - 896 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:03:02] <exec> 08└─> AC brings up an interesting concept I've been thinking about WRT American culture which is the idea of escape velocity. Wow, something insightful about sociology from VLM. An analysis of how black people can't escape poverty because they have been denied the necessary resources, especially in the...
[19:03:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score:2) 02Re:Wrong problem - 06The Mathematics of the American Justice System - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:03:06] <exec> 08└─At least in Minnesota the state supreme court stated that defendants do actually have a right to see examine the evidence against them and that includes the software used [wired.com].
[19:03:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score:2) 02Re:Wrong problem - 06The Mathematics of the American Justice System - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:03:08] <exec> 08└─Wrong problem? An algorithm like this seems like a good way to base sentencing on probable further crimes of the person convicted. Statistics can be used in useful ways--Someone convicted of rape for the 3rd time in 10 years is far more likely to commit a felony than some guy convicted of shopliftin...
[19:03:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score:2) 02Re:Wrong problem - 06The Mathematics of the American Justice System - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:03:10] <exec> 08└─As the submitter the original article focused on the "hidden racism" of the system almost exclusively and discussed it at length which is why I included that part in the summary so it was a fair summary of the original article. It only briefly touches on the pre-crime like aspects of the system and...
[19:03:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fuck this. - 06The Mathematics of the American Justice System - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:03:16] <exec> 08└─> The system now says there is no such thing as human biological differences. Correct. Race is a cultural construct, both adopted by individuals and imposed upon them by society. Everything else you wrote? Not even worth reading. So I didn't.
[19:03:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Re:entertain yourself in solitary - 06Barrett Brown: I Am Fully Capable of Entertaining Myself in Prison for Decades If Need Be - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:03:50] <exec> 08└─Exactly correct.
[19:04:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Bad Idea - 06Barrett Brown: I Am Fully Capable of Entertaining Myself in Prison for Decades If Need Be - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:04:08] <exec> 08└─What out which books inmates read, of they'll make wands and cast Alohomora to escape. JKR should totally be in solitary, like the guy training people to defeat lie detectors.
[19:04:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Another Edward Snowden... - 06Barrett Brown: I Am Fully Capable of Entertaining Myself in Prison for Decades If Need Be - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:11] <exec> 08└─Oh goody-gumdrops.
[19:04:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Star Trek predicted it - 06The Guardian Wonders If the Golden Age of TV is Over - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:04:37] <exec> 08└─Andromeda started off strong. It had an unfortunate lead actor and people skipped it because of his previous show but he actually did very well in it. But by season 3-4 it was starting to creak under its own story/mythos weight. Season 5 was pretty cool being one complete story.
[19:04:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Star Trek predicted it - 06The Guardian Wonders If the Golden Age of TV is Over - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:04:39] <exec> 08└─Er, sorry--season *2* episode 22. So when you say "by season 3-4 it was starting to creak under its own story/mythos weight" I blame that on the replacement showrunner not really understanding half of what RHW was trying to do in the story. There are a lot of plot threads from those first two season...
[19:04:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:In a word - 06The Guardian Wonders If the Golden Age of TV is Over - 1332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:04:47] <exec> 08└─TV has the exact same problem as music. With music you have to compete with every greatest hit every made and decades worth of other material. The cost to make 1 new item is going up yet the other stuff is a fixed sunk cost. However, the value of the new item is not necessarily more than the old ite...
[19:04:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Long form story telling - 06The Guardian Wonders If the Golden Age of TV is Over - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:04:54] <exec> 08└─randomly killing off characters for no reason, ect.
[19:04:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Long form story telling - 06The Guardian Wonders If the Golden Age of TV is Over - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:04:56] <exec> 08└─Your last sentence is why I am extremely picky about what I will begin to invest time into watching. There is only so much time. Life is short. I've got plenty of things I could be doing. If I'm going to watch a TV series, or a movie, ect, it better be worth my time. Increasingly, I find, it isn't....
[19:04:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Long form story telling - 06The Guardian Wonders If the Golden Age of TV is Over - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:04:59] <exec> 08└─There are other unfortunate things that affected B5. Actors are one problem. Michael O'Hare's unfortunate medical problems leading to a story line change. In season one when Ivanova's father died, you just know there would have been a huge payoff for that in season 5 episode Day Of The Dead, but the...
[19:05:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Long form story telling - 06The Guardian Wonders If the Golden Age of TV is Over - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:05:01] <exec> 08└─Babylon 5 had a beginning, a middle and an ending.
[19:05:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Long form story telling - 06The Guardian Wonders If the Golden Age of TV is Over - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:05:04] <exec> 08└─Despite the problems you mention, everything was wound up pretty well IMO.
[19:05:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Long form story telling - 06The Guardian Wonders If the Golden Age of TV is Over - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:05:06] <exec> 08└─Oh don't get me wrong, it was a very well-told story. As far as sci fi shows go, it's right up there on my list. As other people have pointed out above, I just get the impression they could have ended it after the fourth season.
[19:05:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Long form story telling - 06The Guardian Wonders If the Golden Age of TV is Over - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:05:08] <exec> 08└─I'm glad they dealt with the telepaths story. Explained Lyta Alexander better. The last few episodes where the major characters all move on to better futures is also quite satisfying. So the 5th season isn't bad. Although at first I thought wtf, upon reflection I really enjoyed Day Of The Dead in se...
[19:05:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:And yet... - 06The Guardian Wonders If the Golden Age of TV is Over - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:05:14] <exec> 08└─Now if you want to binge watch for 24 hours straight
[19:05:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Advertising - 06The Guardian Wonders If the Golden Age of TV is Over - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:05:20] <exec> 08└─Thank you for the insightful correction.
[19:05:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Advertising - 06The Guardian Wonders If the Golden Age of TV is Over - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:05:23] <exec> 08└─I don't see the slippery slope here. It could be considered a glitch or a UI change (recently watched moved somewhere). Not a precursor to advertising hell. AFAICT, the software differs on Roku, Apple TV, Chromecast, Amazon Fire, PC/web browser, whatever.
[19:07:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:So who is going to be hanged over this? - 06Court Finds GCHQ and MI5 Engaged in Illegal Bulk Data Collection - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:07:42] <exec> 08└─So taxpayers foot the bill. Where is the prison time for the government thugs who violated people's rights?
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[20:01:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Oakenshield [4900] (Score:1) 02Obligatory - 06Plastic Is the Ocean’s New Junk Food - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:39] <exec> 08└─The plastic will all be recycled when Waterworld arrives.
[20:01:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:The plaintiffs didn't seem impressed - 06Apple Gives Up on Building its Own Car - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:01:58] <exec> 08└─Google's Holodecks will quickly catch up on interfaces, and offer new features first ... and porn.
[20:01:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02To be expected - 06Apple Gives Up on Building its Own Car - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:59] <exec> 08└─After a little research Apple realized that someone beat them to the whole "rounded corners" thing in the car industry.
[20:02:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:When they came to fire me . . . - 06Arecibo Observatory Fires Researchers to Retaliate against Claims of Age Discrimination - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:02:25] <exec> 08└─Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down Letting the days go by, water flowing underground Into the blue again after the money's gone Once in a lifetime, water flowing underground
[20:02:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wrong problem - 06The Mathematics of the American Justice System - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:02:52] <exec> 08└─Except, you have no clue how much is empty and how much is full in either stage because it wasn't empirical before, and isn't transparent now.
[20:02:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wrong problem - 06The Mathematics of the American Justice System - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:02:56] <exec> 08└─He Dindu Nuffin
[20:02:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score:2) 02re Sound Bite - 06The Mathematics of the American Justice System - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:02:58] <exec> 08└─Another one for the "Why we should hang all the lawyers and judges" pile.
[20:02:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Re:re Sound Bite - 06The Mathematics of the American Justice System - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:03:00] <exec> 08└─We keep the law. Would you rather be judged by some ignorant fellow while being defended by an equally ignorant punk? Would you really turn your computer over some idiot and be happy with the results? Study of the Law is a field of knowledge as valid as Computer Science or Mathematics, and as specia...
[20:03:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fuck this. - 06The Mathematics of the American Justice System - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:03:07] <exec> 08└─But how the algorithm gets from the answers to the score out of 10 is kept secret.
[20:03:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:2) 02Enforced respect - 06The Party and the Succession are On Hold in Thailand - 795 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:29] <exec> 08└─Respect enforced by a mailed fist is hardly that, that is called fear. I honestly believe that the best form of government is a benevolent tyrant, but the chances of getting two great rulers in succession is exceedingly low, and inevitably you get a true tyrant which is just a bad thing all around....
[20:03:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Forced gaming groups? - 06Barrett Brown: I Am Fully Capable of Entertaining Myself in Prison for Decades If Need Be - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:03:48] <exec> 08└─i can debunk that theory. i'm not in prison. yet :)
[20:03:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Forced gaming groups? - 06Barrett Brown: I Am Fully Capable of Entertaining Myself in Prison for Decades If Need Be - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:03:52] <exec> 08└─your description of the four type of gaming groups in prison seems like the four types of gaming group outside of prison! i found that funny. on a serious note, what did you guys use for dice? seems like dice would be banned in prison.
[20:03:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:D&D dangerous? - 06Barrett Brown: I Am Fully Capable of Entertaining Myself in Prison for Decades If Need Be - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:03:59] <exec> 08└─when the question was asked "if playing D&D with people with impulse control was wise", i thought of the following scenario: DM: "Your wizard just died." Player: (jumps up and shivs DM)
[20:04:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:D&D dangerous? - 06Barrett Brown: I Am Fully Capable of Entertaining Myself in Prison for Decades If Need Be - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:04:05] <exec> 08└─RPGs are more immersive than many other games
[20:04:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02John Carpenter's ''They Live'' (1988) - 06The Guardian Wonders If the Golden Age of TV is Over - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:04:26] <exec> 08└─Parent's quote is from a cool B movie starring Rowdy Roddy Piper. It is a parable about Consumerism and Neofeudalism. [googleusercontent.com] (archived) [1] [archive.li] If you haven't seen it, you should seek it out. [1] I wish I would have archived the page that EverythingExplained had before they...
[20:04:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:In a word - 06The Guardian Wonders If the Golden Age of TV is Over - 1161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:04:46] <exec> 08└─I still don't understand why they require a login. The only thing it brings them is the metadata tracking so that they know who is watching what and when. Is that worth more than showing ads to people who don't log in? Though your example with the BTN works for your case, I think it is a mistake for...
[20:04:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score:2) 02Re:Long form story telling - 06The Guardian Wonders If the Golden Age of TV is Over - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:04:55] <exec> 08└─Thank you Capitan Pedantic Man! The Internet is a much safer place with you guarding against the evil forces of lexdysia, fart fingeringh, and crappie spiel cheekiers! (Even that would make a better TV show than much of the crap out there.)
[20:05:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Advertising - 06The Guardian Wonders If the Golden Age of TV is Over - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:05:16] <exec> 08└─You can download BYTE magazine here: http://www.americanradiohistory.com [americanradiohistory.com] Higher quality scans of BYTE from here: https://archive.org [archive.org] And Popular Electronics from here: http://www.americanradiohistory.com
[20:05:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score:2) 02Re:Elon is good at corporate welfare - 06Photovoltaic Cell Factory May Open in Buffalo, New York - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:05:29] <exec> 08└─I was wondering why anyone would possibly choose new york to manufacture anything....but I suppose if NYC pays for the tools then that would do it lol.
[20:06:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] 02of course... - 06RBS/NatWest to Freeze Russian State Broadcaster RT's Bank Accounts - 1424 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:25] <exec> 08└─...there will be status quo apologists who insist this is all a private bidness doing their own bidness... except, it almost certainly is not; it is almost certainly -regardless of public protestations- that a certain Empire (gee, who could it be ! ? ! ?) exhorted their little flying monkeys to the...
[20:06:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02Re:Biden Said this was Coming - 06RBS/NatWest to Freeze Russian State Broadcaster RT's Bank Accounts - 304 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:06:33] <exec> 08└─Clinton the male sells military secrets to China, Clinton the female sells fissionable products to Russia, but Trump is the traitor? I'm certain that Trump is guilty of a long list of crimes, including offending the politically correct, but treason is a Clinton characteristic. Thanks for playing tho...
[20:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Why Do I Even Bother? - 06RBS/NatWest to Freeze Russian State Broadcaster RT's Bank Accounts - 899 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:06:38] <exec> 08└─Well, yeah, but you gotta take your fingers out of your own ears too. My mind is made up, your mind is made up. I believe that the Clintons are criminals who should be in prison for life. I believe that Trump, as big an ass and a fool as he is, is far less dangerous to the nation and to the world, t...
[20:06:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Biden Said this was Coming - 06RBS/NatWest to Freeze Russian State Broadcaster RT's Bank Accounts - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:06:52] <exec> 08└─Haven't been to infowars in a long, long time. WTF do you ASSume where I get my news? You seem to know Infowars a lot better than I do. Maybe I need to visit them again. Then, I'll head over to stormfront, maybe read the Turner diary again. I need a reminder now and then that the "right" is just abo...
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[20:07:21] <exec> 08└─Um, if you have grass why do you need beer ?
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[21:01:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score:2) 02Food groups - 06Plastic Is the Ocean’s New Junk Food - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:39] <exec> 08└─Plastic is one of the oceans' four main food groups. The others being wood, metal, and the stuff they put inside Twinkies.
[21:01:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Great journalism hints ... - 06Plastic Is the Ocean’s New Junk Food - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:40] <exec> 08└─> By 2050, it's likely that plastic in the oceans will outweigh all the oceans' fish. So do the rocks, underwater volcanoes, plankton, algae ... > 850-950 million tons of plastic (the equivalent in weight of 4.5 million blue whales) I don't use the blue-whale system, can you convert that into pink-e...
[21:01:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Great journalism hints ... - 06Plastic Is the Ocean’s New Junk Food - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:01:42] <exec> 08└─Do fish eat rocks and volcanoes? If they do, is it harmful to them?
[21:01:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score:2) 02A matter of time until Nature fixes the problem - 06Plastic Is the Ocean’s New Junk Food - 760 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:44] <exec> 08└─Sounds similar to the period in Earth's history between when trees started to grow and when bacteria evolved to eat the trees. The Carboniferous period of Earth's history ended ~290 million years ago with the explosive growth of microbes capable of metabolizing lignin. [nationalgeographic.com] Fortu...
[21:01:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:All the truth - 06Apple Gives Up on Building its Own Car - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:01:56] <exec> 08└─If smugness is a factor, then of course they g 1ff6 ave up. How on earth did they expect to beat Toyota for the smug demographic of car owners?
[21:01:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:All the truth - 06Apple Gives Up on Building its Own Car - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:01:58] <exec> 08└─> It's because of the closed architecture. Ha! I'm seeing no doors, you enter and exit the car through the window openings, like in NASCAR. Only the skinny and limber need apply.
[21:02:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The plaintiffs didn't seem impressed - 06Apple Gives Up on Building its Own Car - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:02:08] <exec> 08└─Good point. And remember, any of these big companies can quickly gain a leg up in any sub-industry by opening their checkbooks and overpaying for startups with a hit product.
[21:02:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Standard SN automobile analogy - 06Deceptive Flowers, Duping Insects: How Parachute Flowers Lure Their Pollinators Into a Trap - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:02:21] <exec> 08└─A good attempt, but it's more like Las Vegas buffets. You're fairly hungry and you see a shiny casino. Walking in, you see the directions to the buffet and can smell all the delicious food walking through the casino. However, the casino is empty and the buffets are all empty with no food to be found...
[21:02:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02Re:Standard SN automobile analogy - 06Deceptive Flowers, Duping Insects: How Parachute Flowers Lure Their Pollinators Into a Trap - 677 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:02:22] <exec> 08└─There's a stoner (regular user of pot) looking for munchies. He finds a gas station smelling of fresh doughnuts and chocolate chip cookies and he enters looking to steal junk food bought by other customers. However, this gas station no more than a trap which locks its doors for 24 hours after the st...
[21:02:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:When they came to fire me . . . - 06Arecibo Observatory Fires Researchers to Retaliate against Claims of Age Discrimination - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:02:37] <exec> 08└─Where is that large automobile? [fumblefumblefumble. Pushing 8-track button:] Watch out! you might get what you're after Boom, babies! strange but not a stranger I'm an ordinary guy Burning down the house
[21:02:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02Re:Wrong problem - 06The Mathematics of the American Justice System - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:02:56] <exec> 08└─But what if we interpret the arrest/sentencing/incarceration as depriving a citizen of liberty, and bail/clemency/parole as granting it? Looked at this way, due process is observed for the first set of actions, and Compas scores are only used for the second set, where due process is technically not...
[21:02:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Wrong problem - 06The Mathematics of the American Justice System - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:02:58] <exec> 08└─But what if we interpret the arrest/sentencing/incarceration as depriving a citizen of liberty, and bail/clemency/parole as granting it?
[21:03:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Wrong problem - 06The Mathematics of the American Justice System - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:03:02] <exec> 08└─If they weren't guilty, then they wouldn't be accused.
[21:03:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Social Capital - 06The Mathematics of the American Justice System - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:03:09] <exec> 08└─Are you really going to complain that what sociologists consider racism doesn't match your personal definition?
[21:03:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:re Sound Bite - 06The Mathematics of the American Justice System - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:03:19] <exec> 08└─Option 3: Throw away the laws. Throw away the Judges and lawyers. Draft new laws that actually make sense and are executed by random citizens. Government is full of intelligent, well-educated lawyers and judges that spend their careers ignoring science and common sense for a quick buck and party sta...
[21:03:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is just illuminating the contradictions - 06The Mathematics of the American Justice System - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:03:31] <exec> 08└─Wow. What goes around, comes around I suppose. Just go ahead and say it: Willie Horton.
[21:03:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Re:A year to mourn is too long - 06The Party and the Succession are On Hold in Thailand - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:03:45] <exec> 08└─The nearest I can think of was the death of princess Diana, except a dozen times worse.
[21:04:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score:2) 02"What character to do you want to roll play?" - 06Barrett Brown: I Am Fully Capable of Entertaining Myself in Prison for Decades If Need Be - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:29] <exec> 08└─"The Acquitted Guy"
[21:04:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Good Editing - 06Barrett Brown: I Am Fully Capable of Entertaining Myself in Prison for Decades If Need Be - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:31] <exec> 08└─re: editor's note.
[21:05:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''find a box set in 5 or so years'' - 06The Guardian Wonders If the Golden Age of TV is Over - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:05:02] <exec> 08└─That puts a crimp in water cooler conversations, however. XKCD [xkcd.com] . once and awhile The phrase is "once in a while". ...and "awhile" is not a word. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[21:05:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Long form story telling - 06The Guardian Wonders If the Golden Age of TV is Over - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:05:22] <exec> 08└─> But unlike Babylon 5, none of these shows have an actual ending. Breaking Bad. Six Feet Under. The Wire. Buffy. Fucking Buffy, best ending ever. Chuck. I'm sure there are more.
[21:05:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Long form story telling - 06The Guardian Wonders If the Golden Age of TV is Over - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:05:24] <exec> 08└─The Shield Justified Battlestar Galactica Friday Night Lights The Sopranos Maybe you don't like the deliberately open-ended nature of the Soprano's finale. But it was no cop-out, all the other shit leading up to that scene made either possibility completely legit.
[21:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Climate - 06Self-Sufficient Scottish Island for Sale; Comes With Broadband and Post Office - 1175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:06:15] <exec> 08└─Most Caribbean islands have a water problem...no fresh water. They also tend to erode when the current shifts, and there's generally no firm bedrock for foundations. This isn't true of the larger islands, of course, but they aren't up for sale. And there are ways to ameliorate all of these problems,...
[21:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Rain, Wind and Midges - 06Self-Sufficient Scottish Island for Sale; Comes With Broadband and Post Office - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:21] <exec> 08└─Paradise! As for loonies looking to make a better life, it's not far from the Scoraig Peninsula on the mainland where they wear hemp shirts and live in yurts.
[21:10:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Know Your Audience - 06Germany's Federal Motor Authority Warns Tesla Over "Autopilot" Advertising - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:55] <exec> 08└─disvertising
[21:11:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Know Your Audience - 06Germany's Federal Motor Authority Warns Tesla Over "Autopilot" Advertising - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:11:04] <exec> 08└─Set Tesla auto pilot to "maintain altitude".
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[22:01:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Cancer Moonshot - 06"Cancer Moonshot" 17-Page Plan Sent to President Obama - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:35] <exec> 08└─On first glance I was expecting them to send cancer patients to the moon as short lived habitat test subjects, but unfortunately, it’s just feelsgood snake oil.
[22:01:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Cancer Moonshot - 06"Cancer Moonshot" 17-Page Plan Sent to President Obama - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:01:36] <exec> 08└─"The bad news about your throat cancer is you've got only 9 months to live, and your ability to swallow food will be severely affected. The good news is that Elon Musk would really like you to consider making history"
[22:01:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Interesting - 06"Cancer Moonshot" 17-Page Plan Sent to President Obama - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:38] <exec> 08└─And in the fine print the rights to all this information will belong to "All Mankind"? I don't think so. You're going to pay for it, and someone else is going to make serious bank.
[22:01:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02It's time - 06"Cancer Moonshot" 17-Page Plan Sent to President Obama - 1414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:41] <exec> 08└─I think it's time we stopped listening to the lies. Government keeps making promises, but has shown it is fundamentally incapable of delivering. I don't see how that can be fixed. Pharmaceutical companies are in bed with government. Face it, if even try to invent the cure for cancer in your basement...
[22:01:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 025 years - 06"Cancer Moonshot" 17-Page Plan Sent to President Obama - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:43] <exec> 08└─Vice President Joe Biden today released his vision for doubling progress against cancer over 5 years
[22:01:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Re:5 years - 06"Cancer Moonshot" 17-Page Plan Sent to President Obama - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:01:45] <exec> 08└─Does he know he's only on the clock till next January 20th?
[22:01:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02not much of a moonshot - 06"Cancer Moonshot" 17-Page Plan Sent to President Obama - 1395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:48] <exec> 08└─Going over the headers in the "strategic plan", I find little to care about: Realign the Incentives in the Research System Enhance Prevention and Screening Efforts Engage Patients as Partners in Research Expand Access to Care Create New Financial Models to Improve Development of and Access to New T...
[22:01:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:not much of a moonshot - 06"Cancer Moonshot" 17-Page Plan Sent to President Obama - 761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:01:50] <exec> 08└─Except you don't need any more research to improve your longevity by more than almost every prescription medicine ever invented. 1. Quit smoking. 2. Lose weight (Normal BMI - don't get me started on how crap BMI is, but the facts still works. BMI overweight athletes, are statistically insignificant...
[22:01:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not Sure - 06"Cancer Moonshot" 17-Page Plan Sent to President Obama - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:52] <exec> 08└─Don't worry everyone, president Camabama has a three point plan that will fix everything.
[22:02:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:A matter of time until Nature fixes the problem - 06Plastic Is the Ocean’s New Junk Food - 778 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:02:04] <exec> 08└─Yes, the Plastiferous Period. My bet however is that we always had lignin eating bacteria during the Carboniferous Period, but they couldn't keep up with the rate of deposition of lignin and other plant material until atmospheric CO2 levels had dropped a bunch, plants didn't fall over so much (suc...
[22:02:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Re:A matter of time until Nature fixes the problem - 06Plastic Is the Ocean’s New Junk Food - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:02:05] <exec> 08└─Naïve larvae that come across these plastic particles believe that it's a resource that they need to ingest large amounts of, almost like teens only eating unhealthy fast foods
[22:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Obligatory - 06Plastic Is the Ocean’s New Junk Food - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:07] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBRquiS1pis [youtube.com]
[22:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02we do (some of) our bit - 06Plastic Is the Ocean’s New Junk Food - 962 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:09] <exec> 08└─We don't do enough to reduce silly plastic usage, but here are the things that we find are not a large burden, here in the USA 'burbs; + Compost vegetable matter (save on trash, which in turn saves on trash bags) + Use reusable shopping bags (when we remember, maybe half the time) + Avoid extra pack...
[22:02:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:we do (some of) our bit - 06Plastic Is the Ocean’s New Junk Food - 763 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:02:12] <exec> 08└─I have been puzzled by this for years. This state switched from thin free plastic bags to 15c thick plastic bags a few years ago. It used to be that you would go shopping, use 5 to 10 thin (free!!!!) bags, unload the shopping at home, then use the bag as a bin liner an pack the rest away or toss the...
[22:02:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02In another word - 06Plastic Is the Ocean’s New Junk Food - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:14] <exec> 08└─Perches are saying "fuck you swede fucks!" Norskis rule!
[22:02:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02Re:All the truth - 06Apple Gives Up on Building its Own Car - 95 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:02:24] <exec> 08└─I thought it was because the Apple car was ultra thin, and the average American did not fit in.
[22:02:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:All the truth - 06Apple Gives Up on Building its Own Car - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:02:28] <exec> 08└─Toyota??? Don't you mean Tesla?
[22:02:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The plaintiffs didn't seem impressed - 06Apple Gives Up on Building its Own Car - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:02:39] <exec> 08└─That's called "Microsoft innovation"
[22:02:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:The plaintiffs didn't seem impressed - 06Apple Gives Up on Building its Own Car - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:02:40] <exec> 08└─Whether or not the iPhone lasts forever, I just want the Librem phone [puri.sm] to exist. Can you imagine a blob/binary free smartphone with hardware kill switches running GNU/Linux? Fully open to hack, develop, and customize? Freedom over here on one hand............ and Walled Garden w/ corporate...
[22:02:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02little fish in big pond - 06Apple Gives Up on Building its Own Car - 776 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:43] <exec> 08└─One of the telling comments in the press is about auto suppliers. For years Apple has had their way with their suppliers and contract manufacturers, making and breaking companies, dominating cities in China (and etc). My guess is that Apple execs just assumed that they could throw their financial we...
[22:03:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fuck this. - 06The Mathematics of the American Justice System - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:03:57] <exec> 08└─The ego problem is that even when challenged he couldn't be arsed enough to actually go and verify the challenge. Instead he just spewed more self-rationalization. The door was left open, it couldn't have been easier for him to walk through and win the argument, but he didn't even do that. He just m...
[22:04:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is just illuminating the contradictions - 06The Mathematics of the American Justice System - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:04:04] <exec> 08└─Remember, this is the guy who thinks accusing someone of a "chimp out" shows his own superiority. He's a pretty dim bulb with passable grammar.
[22:05:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Star Trek predicted it - 06The Guardian Wonders If the Golden Age of TV is Over - 2361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:05:33] <exec> 08└─Oh boy unleash the star trek nerdiness debates everyone put on asbestos. First of all the 2040s in cannon were roughly around the WW3 end of civilization thingy, think Kahn and his 1ff6 buddies and first warp drive flight wasn't till 2063 so things were pretty Fed up. A cheap shot example would be...
[22:05:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''find a box set in 5 or so years'' - 06The Guardian Wonders If the Golden Age of TV is Over - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:05:38] <exec> 08└─Try this for a phrase 'dont care'.
[22:06:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Better Options - 06Self-Sufficient Scottish Island for Sale; Comes With Broadband and Post Office - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:06:32] <exec> 08└─Define "quickly".
[22:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why Do I Even Bother? - 06RBS/NatWest to Freeze Russian State Broadcaster RT's Bank Accounts - 778 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:07:28] <exec> 08└─> No matter how much dirt is dug up on the Clintons, you accept any sniveling excuse. Lol. It comforts you to believe that doesn't it? I actually happen to believe that Bill Clinton most likely did rape Juanita Broderick. But, unlike yourself, I come to my conclusions based on a careful perusal of t...
[22:07:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Biden Said this was Coming - 06RBS/NatWest to Freeze Russian State Broadcaster RT's Bank Accounts - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:07:43] <exec> 08└─Deny it all you want. But when I type your shit into google for background info, infowars is nearly always the first hit, definitely first five. Maybe you did it get from somewhere once removed, but you are just fooling yourself if you think your sources are higher quality than that conspiratorial c...
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[23:01:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Blowback - 06Thirty Meter Telescope Considering Move as Hawaii Officials Open Hearing - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:31] <exec> 08└─You can only step all over the weak for so long until they fight back. Time to start including the people who would have inherited the land if it weren't criminally stolen from their ancestors.
[23:01:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Civilized societies build In Space! - 06Thirty Meter Telescope Considering Move as Hawaii Officials Open Hearing - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:33] <exec> 08└─Just build the giant telescope In Space! where it has an unobstructed view of the stars. Stop shitting all over ancestral land for the fucking stupid and backward idea of building a telescope inside an amosphere.
[23:01:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:5 years - 06"Cancer Moonshot" 17-Page Plan Sent to President Obama - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:01:47] <exec> 08└─Even a Republican president is likely to fund most of what the NHS does (aside from a few cloning/stem cell/germ line modification items), and would probably follow the non-controversial recommendations here. So I don't see what the problem is. And if a Democratic candidate wins, that's three terms...
[23:01:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:not much of a moonshot - 06"Cancer Moonshot" 17-Page Plan Sent to President Obama - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:01:50] <exec> 08└─The moonshot was an engineering problem, while difficult still solvable. Cancer is basic research. No telling how long it will take to learn something when we aren't even sure what to research and in what order. As the first post said, this is feelsgoodism to the nth degree.
[23:01:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02As the submitter or editor noted - 06"Cancer Moonshot" 17-Page Plan Sent to President Obama - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:53] <exec> 08└─Most of this was already discussed earlier [soylentnews.org].
[23:02:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:Financial argument - 06Apple Gives Up on Building its Own Car - 1331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:02:20] <exec> 08└─Apple's business model is to (1) avoid taxation and (2) pouring all it's ill-begotten "profits" into marketing (3) trash. 1. Taxes: God help you if you're not an American firm. Poor Asians and Europeans actually have to pay taxes! In 2012 when Apple and Microsoft were paying 2.3% and 2.6% respective...
[23:02:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Exploited workers and robots - 06Apple Gives Up on Building its Own Car - 844 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:40] <exec> 08└─exploiting workers making iDevices seems tomwork (until they get the robots to work better) Exploiting workers building cars.. doesn't work as well. You get things like Chery and SAIC - nasty, likely dangerous, not-as-reliable as the competition, but so cheap they are almost disposable (yes, I know...
[23:04:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Max Hyre [3427] (Score:2) 02Sigh---more secret law - 06The Mathematics of the American Justice System - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:03] <exec> 08└─Added to the FISA [wikipedia.org] secret court, the No-Fly list [wikipedia.org] (which adds people for secret reasons, and is almost immune to appeal), secret subpoenas [wikipedia.org], and the claim by the Dept. of ``Justice'' (sorry, that's the only way I can write it with a straight face) that re...
[23:04:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:Forced gaming groups? - 06Barrett Brown: I Am Fully Capable of Entertaining Myself in Prison for Decades If Need Be - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:04:44] <exec> 08└─on a serious note, what did you guys use for dice?
[23:05:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score:2) 02Re:In a word - 06The Guardian Wonders If the Golden Age of TV is Over - 747 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:05:42] <exec> 08└─TV networks would gladly start up human sacrifices if they thought they could consistently get a 20 share on anything that wasn't an NFL playoff or Superbowl game these days. It's not like the old days where you had 2, 3, or 4 networks and a pretty captive audience. Hell every show on TV today would...
[23:08:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So who is going to be hanged over this? - 06Court Finds GCHQ and MI5 Engaged in Illegal Bulk Data Collection - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:08:27] <exec> 08└─Because it wasn't a criminal offense. Breaking the law doesn't necessarily make you a criminal, it depends on the specific law in question. But don't let facts get in the way of a good rant.
[23:08:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:So who is going to be hanged over this? - 06Court Finds GCHQ and MI5 Engaged in Illegal Bulk Data Collection - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:08:29] <exec> 08└─The topic was about how the government will never punish itself. You pointing out that their actions were not a criminal offense is a good example of this, as blatantly violating people's rights on a massive scale should be a criminal offense. There is almost never significant repercussions for thes...
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