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[00:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Wasted Methane? - 06'Super Emitters' Responsible for Most US Methane Emissions - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:35] <exec> 08└─Couldn't this be captured and burned as well? It seems like someone isn't maximizing shareholder value [treknologic.com].
[00:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Fart jokes - 06'Super Emitters' Responsible for Most US Methane Emissions - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:36] <exec> 08└─The concept of a "super emitter" must bring to mind some fart jokes.
[00:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Evil - 06Oracle Appeals in Case Against Google - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:10:14] <exec> 08└─I'd try to use Postgresql instead of MariaDB. And well, I'd imagine that Google is soon going to start officially getting behind writing Android apps with Go, and start deprecating Java. Java needs to die, but unfortunately, it has become entrenched as the COBOL of the early 21st century. C# is just...
[00:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Perhaps a "stripped" CPU would be more efficient - 06AMD Will Sell Server CPUs at Happy Meal Prices So You Can Supersize Servers - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:35] <exec> 08└─Why do we still support 16 and 32 bits on 64 bit processors? The x86 architecture has some instructions that stall the pipeline. Your code runs faster if you don't use them, rather one uses the "RISC-like" instructions. Remove the instructions that stall the pipeline. This would need some compiler s...
[00:10:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02Re:Just imagine - 06Tesla Reports First Quarterly Profit in Three Years - 315 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:10:49] <exec> 08└─Actually, it's the opposite way around. The SEC complained that they were using too many non-Generally Accepted Accounting Principle cost exclusions in their reporting. Meaning, they weren't counting certain costs when comparing it to income to determine profit. Try a less motivated source....
[00:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Ever hear of ''Wildlife management''? - 06North Carolina Libraries to Lend Out Motion-Activated Cameras for Backyard Wildlife Tracking - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:10] <exec> 08└─It's being done. Assessing the effectiveness of that seems like a good idea. Without proper review of the results, you get this: Eastern Puma to be Removed From Endangered Species List (Declared Extinct) [soylentnews.org] from the ecosystems-without-apex-predators dept. urban deer An AC in this (sub...
[00:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:The quest for pure air - 06 The Dutch Are Tackling Air Pollution With Another Giant Vacuum Device - 800 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:51] <exec> 08└─I am only pointing out that we don't breathe "pure air". For whatever reason, if you find yourself in a location near one of the poles, you will be breathing clean, pure air, laden with very few if any impurities. That means organic and inorganic impurities. There isn't much that grows there, and th...
[00:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02I still shoot 35mm film - 06A Pocket Camera with Many Eyes - Inside the Development of Light - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:10] <exec> 08└─While I am willing to accept that the best digital is better than my Pentax K1000 - the cheapest analog SLR money can buy - I cannot afford such nice digital cameras. I shoot film then have the processing facility scan it onto a CD for me. I'd rather shoot slides but I can't find the film.
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[01:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Observation vs Simulation. GO! - 06Dark Matter Beats its Latest Challenge - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:30] <exec> 08└─Stacy McGaugh...determined from observations [...] Ben Keller and James Wadsley...examined the results of a detailed simulation
[01:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Observation vs Simulation. GO! - 06Dark Matter Beats its Latest Challenge - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:09:31] <exec> 08└─It's how science works. Observers and experimenters see stuff in nature, and theoreticians build models and simulations that try to explain what is observed. As Ethan Siegel writes: After all, the challenge for any theory of the Universe is to reproduce the full suite of results available at any giv...
[01:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Observation vs Simulation. GO! - 06Dark Matter Beats its Latest Challenge - 707 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:09:34] <exec> 08└─I was just kidding... However, the point of that Mcgaugh finding was that you didn't need "a sophisticated [simulation] that took into account various other factors such as gas dynamics, star formation, and stellar feedback, but incorporated no new physics beyond that of the standard Lambda-Cold Dar...
[01:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score:2) 02Second confirmation - 06Dark Matter Beats its Latest Challenge - 878 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:36] <exec> 08└─It seems that MUGS2 is not the only ΛCDM-based galaxy modelling simulation that exhibits the SPARC acceleration law. Shortly after submitting the article I was made aware of a second group that saw the same thing in their models: The Mass-Discrepancy Acceleration Relation: a Natural Outcome of Gala...
[01:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Second confirmation - 06Dark Matter Beats its Latest Challenge - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:09:38] <exec> 08└─a very distant galaxy which we would be seeing as it looked when it was still very young should not have a very close fit to the acceleration relation.
[01:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fart jokes - 06'Super Emitters' Responsible for Most US Methane Emissions - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:09:48] <exec> 08└─And for some people it must make them post about fart jokes too.
[01:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Fart jokes - 06'Super Emitters' Responsible for Most US Methane Emissions - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:09:50] <exec> 08└─It may be literally the oldest joke on the planet. IIRC, it *IS* the first recorded joke too :)
[01:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score:2) 02Tabby's Star - 06"Breakthrough Listen" to Search for Alien Radio Transmissions Near Tabby's Star - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:14] <exec> 08└─The first message received will be MEOW!
[01:11:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02CO2 should be the Satan Particle - 06Scientists Narrow Search for a New 'God Particle' - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:37] <exec> 08└─Then we can get the conservatives to take action against climate change!
[01:11:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''list which expenses gov't should stop making' - 06Google Fiber to Pause Rollout, Lay off 130+ employees - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:11:57] <exec> 08└─In recent days, I've mentioned how militarism actually has a poor Multiplier Effect. Since I first posted here, I've been mentioning how The New Deal had an excellent Multiplier Effect. When militarism is cut, you put those folks to work on INFRASTRUCTURE, rebuilding the nation's crumbling roads and...
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[02:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02They sure hope so - 06IBM: In 5 Years, Watson a.I. Will be Behind Your Every Decision - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:47] <exec> 08└─Sounds like all their other business units are falling apart, they need something to stay relevant. IBM, the poster child of what happens when you cut your 20-30 year veterans and bring in H1-Bs and contractors from India.
[02:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02AT&T will sue over the name Watson - 06IBM: In 5 Years, Watson a.I. Will be Behind Your Every Decision - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:48] <exec> 08└─Then the Human Genome Project will countersue. I got that prediction from Watson.
[02:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Observation vs Simulation. GO! - 06Dark Matter Beats its Latest Challenge - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:05] <exec> 08└─There is one parameter that they needed to fit to the data to derive the SPARC acceleration law, if you read the McGaugh paper, so it's not entirely without free parameters.
[02:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Cool! - 06"Breakthrough Listen" to Search for Alien Radio Transmissions Near Tabby's Star - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:39] <exec> 08└─It'll be pretty simple really, point their sensors at Tabby's Star, when they hear meowing they'll know they've found the alien lolcats.
[02:12:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] 02Re:I guess - 06Google Fiber to Pause Rollout, Lay off 130+ employees - 435 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:12:32] <exec> 08└─don't be daft... it isn't 'complicated' and 'hard' because of technical or physical limitations, or someone just can't do the super-difficult calculus problem: it is 'complicated' and 'hard' because of the interference, regulatory capture, complicit municipal pols, and TOTAL OBSTRUCTIONISM of the mo...
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[03:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02General wisdom - 06IBM: In 5 Years, Watson a.I. Will be Behind Your Every Decision - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:34] <exec> 08└─Is one woman's vision another man's nightmare? That's often the case even when AI isn't involved. * ba-dum-tsh *
[03:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02MIPS - 06IBM: In 5 Years, Watson a.I. Will be Behind Your Every Decision - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:36] <exec> 08└─IBM is drooling over the prospect of once again charging people for CPU usage (which still goes on in the mainframe world).
[03:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Still not buying it - 06A Linux Compatible Firmware is Released for the Lenovo's "Signature Edition" Yoga Y900. - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:44] <exec> 08└─Not unless Lenovo will sell it to me with no OS preinstalled. I will not pay Microsoft one red cent for their misbegotten software.
[03:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02"Incorrect" - 06A Linux Compatible Firmware is Released for the Lenovo's "Signature Edition" Yoga Y900. - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:46] <exec> 08└─Not so much incorrect, as denied. From what I can tell, there was no reason to disable it.
[03:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Spam - 06Dark Matter Beats its Latest Challenge - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:59] <exec> 08└─Further coverage and commentary by astrophysicist Ethan Siegel here.
[03:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Act now on this great offer - 06FCC Approves Proposed Broadband Privacy Rules - 1061 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:24] <exec> 08└─Expect "great offers" coming soon. If you let them share everything, you'll get X% off... At the same time, they will raise the base price of your internet so that if you take the offer, you pay the same as you always did (you just lose your privacy, but who cares about that, right) and if you actua...
[03:11:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:Perhaps a "stripped" CPU would be more efficien - 06AMD Will Sell Server CPUs at Happy Meal Prices So You Can Supersize Servers - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:11:12] <exec> 08└─Some of us run 32 bit and even 16 bit programs on processors that are capable of doing 64 bit. When in 64 bit mode, those 16 bit instructions do not run. There is probably no reason that the compiler can't avoid those instructions that stall the pipeline. Intel (and/or AMD) could introduce a new arc...
[03:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02and I really don't care - 06Coding Classes Open New Doors for Syrian Refugees - 820 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:13:36] <exec> 08└─These people oppose my way of life. Some would kill me if they had a chance, and nearly all of the rest would silently approve. In a liberal western society, they would gain control and ultimately replace that society with their own barbaric society. This is partly intentional; many have expressed a...
[03:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I still shoot 35mm film - 06A Pocket Camera with Many Eyes - Inside the Development of Light - 1467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:14:52] <exec> 08└─I shoot both film and digital. Fellow Pentaxian on a shoestring budget, as chance would have it. My fav is the Super A (Program A). Try to pick one up if you can, they sometimes go super cheap. Paid 25 for mine. If you like the K1000, you might fall in love with the A. Great electronic shutter, Tv m...
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[04:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score:3, Informative) 02Real work? - 06Microsoft Releases an All-in-One Desktop PC - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:45] <exec> 08└─People who do REAL WORK generally don't need or even remotely want some bogus, trivial touchscreen interface garbage. This seems like another attempt at solving a problem which doesn't exist. The people who actually create content and the programming and engineering that goes into the stuff that cre...
[04:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Take it for a test drive on MNF - 06Microsoft Releases an All-in-One Desktop PC - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:47] <exec> 08└─Give a demo unit to Bill Belichick.
[04:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:3, Informative) 02Um, no - 06Microsoft Releases an All-in-One Desktop PC - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:49] <exec> 08└─In my some, jeez I been at this a while, almost 40 years of software development, I have never once thought a touchscreen would be any of (choose any box): useful helpful convenient Of course, YMMV, but I'm guessing no. Just holding your hand up to hit the touchscreen, as opposed to letting it sit o...
[04:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02This is competing with Wacom, not.. - 06Microsoft Releases an All-in-One Desktop PC - 803 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:09:51] <exec> 08└─Developer workstations. It is a Wacom tablet+AIO computer. Decent chance it is a wacom stylus grid behind the screen (Same as the Samsung Galaxy Notes BTW!) Wacom's 'input tablet' devices are expensive as it is, and the only models with an integrated screen cost 1000-1200 dollars. When you compare t...
[04:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03 (Score:1, Insightful) 02M$ hardware and software? - 06Microsoft Releases an All-in-One Desktop PC - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:53] <exec> 08└─I'd rather hang myself with cum filled tube socks. - HorseFucker.org saved me from depression.
[04:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:M$ hardware and software? - 06Microsoft Releases an All-in-One Desktop PC - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:09:55] <exec> 08└─That actually sounds like something you've been thinking about. I'm gonna recommend you talk to John Gage, Roy DeSoto, and Dr Brackett, whilst checking out Dixie's tits, stat.
[04:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They sure hope so - 06IBM: In 5 Years, Watson A.I. will be Behind your Every Decision - 771 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:10:04] <exec> 08└─Nay-saying aside, this COULD be that very thing...assuming what they have is not vaporware. I tried to find something technical on it a while ago for personal interest and could not. Mostly just vapid marketing videos talking about what people "could" be doing with it. The only tech one I could find...
[04:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:They sure hope so - 06IBM: In 5 Years, Watson A.I. will be Behind your Every Decision - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:10:07] <exec> 08└─That's the scary thing. Watson could be good enough to do the job. Then all the hedge fund managers and tech company managers will say "Hey, fuck the expensive fucks, fire them and bring in H1-B'S and Indian contractors!" Never mind it was the 20-30 year vets who created Watson......
[04:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score:2) 02Really? - 06IBM: In 5 Years, Watson A.I. will be Behind your Every Decision - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:12] <exec> 08└─It doesn't matter what you do. We will extend it."
[04:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Incorrect" - 06A Linux Compatible Firmware is Released for the Lenovo's "Signature Edition" Yoga Y900. - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:10:23] <exec> 08└─They screwed with it so the default windows drivers would not recognize it as an AHCI device. Apparently the default windows/intel drivers are buggy and this was their workaround. At least that's the impression I got from reading between the lines.
[04:11:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Perhaps a "stripped" CPU would be more efficien - 06AMD Will Sell Server CPUs at Happy Meal Prices So You Can Supersize Servers - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:11:48] <exec> 08└─I've been running a 32bit version of Linux Mint lately because WebEx refuses to allow me to use audio on the 64bit version. Considering that the Linux client is Java, there's really no excuse for that bug being there, but it is and Cisco doesn't seem to care about it.
[04:11:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Perhaps a "stripped" CPU would be more efficien - 06AMD Will Sell Server CPUs at Happy Meal Prices So You Can Supersize Servers - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:11:50] <exec> 08└─Because not all programs benefit from running in 64bit mode to the point where it's worth compiling them with support. Compiling it in 32bit mode allows it to run on pretty much anything whereas compiling with 64 bits requires a 64bit OS and the rest of it. For many programs modern 32bit mode is mor...
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[05:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02America's New Bird! - 06Trouble in Today's Academic Culture - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:41] <exec> 08└─https://web.archive.org/web/20161029042609/https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CuyytnsWEAEneXX.jpg [archive.org] Deal with it!
[05:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score:2) 02Re:Real work? - 06Microsoft Releases an All-in-One Desktop PC - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:09:49] <exec> 08└─Depends on your work. Wacom doesn't sell their Cintiq line of pen displays for the lols.
[05:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Yet some prefer normal Wacoms - 06Microsoft Releases an All-in-One Desktop PC - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:09:51] <exec> 08└─Some prefer normal Wacoms or equivalent tablets: no hand obscuring anything, no scratches (IIRC some Cintiqs had that issue in serious way) or grease to get rid, not eyes at short distance of work or not crouching over, no all in one that must be replace if any part goes bad even if the rest is fine...
[05:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score:2) 02Re:This is competing with Wacom, not.. - 06Microsoft Releases an All-in-One Desktop PC - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:09:56] <exec> 08└─Actually those 27" Cintiq displays from Wacom run about $2,500 give or take, and they are only 1440p. But you are right, this is aimed squarely at the creative market, one Macs hold a lot of sway in. It's a beast of a display, and if Wacom was selling it, it would probably go for near $4,000 all by...
[05:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Um, no - 06Microsoft Releases an All-in-One Desktop PC - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:09:58] <exec> 08└─Maybe they're just trying to get you to improve your upper body strength.
[05:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Ah, it's 2002 again - 06Microsoft Releases an All-in-One Desktop PC - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:10:03] <exec> 08└─scads of rants against Micro$hit on the green site.
[05:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02green and red and sometimes fed - 06Microsoft Releases an All-in-One Desktop PC - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:10:05] <exec> 08└─https://web.archive.org/web/20161029042609/https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CuyytnsWEAEneXX.jpg [archive.org]
[05:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:green and red and sometimes fed - 06Microsoft Releases an All-in-One Desktop PC - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:10:07] <exec> 08└─Posting about Microsoft on /. back in the day was kind of like going to one of today's Trump rallies. It didn't accomplish much, but maybe it felt good. Oops, forgot... we have a bunch of Trumpsters here on SN. Another thing I remember is that Beowulf clusters were considered the ultimate cool thing...
[05:11:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Nearly meaningless - 06FCC Approves Proposed Broadband Privacy Rules - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:11:05] <exec> 08└─Does no one see the irony of one arm of the government establishing protections while another arm of the government strips them all away and demands the data and issues a STFU order as it walks off with the data?
[05:11:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Re:Nearly meaningless - 06FCC Approves Proposed Broadband Privacy Rules - 818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:11:06] <exec> 08└─A lot of people shut out the voice of the EFF because they remind everybody of their nagging wife for whom nothing is good enough, or their overly-strict parent for whom a 98% wasn't good enough, or their CEO for whom a 200% increase in profit is unacceptable because it could have been 300% if just...
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[05:11:59] <exec> 08└─Almost nobody compiles their own software, and nobody wants to buy hardware that can't run their current software.
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[06:09:42] <exec> 08└─Some people prefer . The Cintiqs have a pretty good size market of people working in illustration, film, graphics, animation, etc. Like I said, they don't make them for the lols. They make them because they can sell them.
[06:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:green and red and sometimes fed - 06Microsoft Releases an All-in-One Desktop PC - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:09:53] <exec> 08└─Wasn't a cluster of Natalie Portman clones the ne plus ultra?
[06:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] 1094 (Score:2) 02Like a MAC - 06Microsoft Releases an All-in-One Desktop PC - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:55] <exec> 08└─This is like a Mac only better all around. It has the sketch ability on the screen for drawing updates and multiple type of connectivity options, plus it still has an escape key. I wonder if it is internally upgradeable, e.g. video card, memory, and or SSD.
[06:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02a 'Wizard of Oz' world... - 06IBM: In 5 Years, Watson A.I. will be Behind your Every Decision - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:09] <exec> 08└─...but with a woman behind the curtain
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[06:10:56] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure AT&T is going after Time Warner. (not Time Warner Cable, a different entity which already merged with Charter)
[06:12:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"Record deliveries" - 06Tesla Reports First Quarterly Profit in Three Years - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:12:04] <exec> 08└─What more could one wish for than to travel in a Tesla motorcar, powered by Tesla solar panels, while listening to Tesla LPs?
[06:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Ultimate particle? - 06Scientists Narrow Search for a New 'God Particle' - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:12:39] <exec> 08└─How is this spam??????
[06:12:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Justin Case [4239] 02Re:This Would Be Sad News - 06Google Fiber to Pause Rollout, Lay off 130+ employees - 114 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:12:53] <exec> 08└─their real agenda was handing the rich a massive tax cut in the form of lowering the capital gains tax rate to 15%
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[07:09:57] <exec> 08└─They invented the combination of a scroll wheel with a mouse button: A microswitch may be mounted within the housing, and a switch engager on the axle may be arranged to depress the microswitch when the wheel button is depressed, thereby providing a button signal.
[07:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Windows 10? - 06Microsoft Releases an All-in-One Desktop PC - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:00] <exec> 08└─Yep, TFA says Windows 10. Fek it.
[07:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03MadTinfoilHatter [4635] (Score:2) 02Re:"Incorrect" - 06A Linux Compatible Firmware is Released for the Lenovo's "Signature Edition" Yoga Y900. - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:10:24] <exec> 08└─They screwed with it so the default windows drivers would not recognize it as an AHCI device. Apparently the default windows/intel drivers are buggy and this was their workaround.
[07:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score:2) 02Re:Second confirmation - 06Dark Matter Beats its Latest Challenge - 872 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:10:38] <exec> 08└─It seems that MUGS2 is not the only ΛCDM-based galaxy modelling simulation that exhibits the SPARC acceleration law. Shortly after submitting the article I was made aware of a second group that saw the same thing in their models: The Mass-Discrepancy Acceleration Relation: a Natural Outcome of Gala...
[07:10:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03andersjm [3931] (Score:1) 02That's a weird A - 06Dark Matter Beats its Latest Challenge - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:40] <exec> 08└─I'm going to to out on a limb here and say that the kind of pretentious mathematician who would even think to use a greek letter mixed into a latin lettered acronym, probably doesn't have good intuition about the nature of reality. Based on that and that alone, I'm calling it: There is no such thing...
[07:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Wasted Methane? - 06'Super Emitters' Responsible for Most US Methane Emissions - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:10:49] <exec> 08└─Nope, not because it isn't profitable, but because it is not profitable enough. And before you ask, no, you can't profit from the methane gas yourself, because it's ours.
[07:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score:2, Funny) 02Re:Fart jokes - 06'Super Emitters' Responsible for Most US Methane Emissions - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:10:54] <exec> 08└─I just hope my wife doesn't get wind of this.
[07:12:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score:2) 02Re:"Record deliveries" - 06Tesla Reports First Quarterly Profit in Three Years - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:12:16] <exec> 08└─What more could one wish for than to travel in a Tesla motorcar, powered by Tesla solar panels, while listening to Tesla LPs?
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[08:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Irony - 06How German Nuclear Scientists Reacted to the News of Hiroshima - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:30] <exec> 08└─Diebner: "I wonder whether there are microphones installed here?" Heisenberg: "Microphones installed? (laughing) Oh no, they're not as cute as all that. I don't think they know the real Gestapo methods; they're a bit old fashioned in that respect."
[08:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Re:Irony - 06How German Nuclear Scientists Reacted to the News of Hiroshima - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:31] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I think this should be read in context, so something like this: Diebner, looking at Heisenberg: "I wonder whether there are microphones installed here?" Heisenberg, nodding feverishly and putting the index finger to his lips: "Microphones installed? (laughing) Oh no, they're not as cute as al...
[08:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:1) 02Re:M$ hardware and software? - 06Microsoft Releases an All-in-One Desktop PC - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:01] <exec> 08└─A scrollwheel isn't a bad idea. Making it do double-duty as the middle-click is a horrible idea. Thanks for reminding me who to blame for that.
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[09:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02So true. - 06Trouble in Today's Academic Culture - 1188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:56] <exec> 08└─Self-promoters tend to succeed in Academia, as they do in business and all other areas. But they usually are not the ones who should have been successful. The technique in academia has always been to promote these hot-shot types into administration, where they could feel very important and have no a...
[09:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Why would I buy it anyway? - 06A Linux Compatible Firmware is Released for the Lenovo's "Signature Edition" Yoga Y900. - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:49] <exec> 08└─No clit mouse Chicklet keyboard Useless gimmicks
[09:11:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03lgw [2836] (Score:2) 02Re:That's a weird A - 06Dark Matter Beats its Latest Challenge - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:11:05] <exec> 08└─It's actually the name of the "standard model" of cosmology. Three theories stuck together with duct tape and bailing wire: big bang + CDM for dark matter + cosmological constant (lambda) for dark energy. Amusingly, it's Lambda-CDM - the big bang is silent. The CDM part is reasonably uncontroversial...
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[10:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03tyler [6335] (Score:1) 02Re:Irony - 06How German Nuclear Scientists Reacted to the News of Hiroshima - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:09:42] <exec> 08└─I thought the same thing at first. Then I e75 looked up the date Germany surrendered, which was 1945 May 7. There is no point in lying about your capabilities after your surrender, and after your enemy already has the technology and all of your research. This is just my opinion.
[10:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They sure hope so - 06IBM: In 5 Years, Watson A.I. will be Behind your Every Decision - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:10:26] <exec> 08└─Watson aims, like many AI/robotics projects today, to make a whole lot of people redundant. In some areas they already have. It is inevitable so arguing against it is also pointless. Being "scared" about it is pointless also. (Americans really do seem to have this thing about being "scared" about ev...
[10:10:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score:2) 02Re:That's a weird A - 06Dark Matter Beats its Latest Challenge - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:10:59] <exec> 08└─The "pretentious mathematician" who used the capital Greek letter lambda for the cosmological constant was a fellow named Albert Einstein. I suppose you think that have better intuition about the nature of reality than he did?
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[11:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I only eat stereotypical food for women - 06Soylent Stops Selling Powder While it Investigates Customer Sickness Complaints - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:31] <exec> 08└─I'm stockpiling ThinkThin protein bars, and I've found I can maintain my unhealthy potbelly if I eat entire boxes at a sitting. Thinking Thin, staying Fat! ThinkThin bars give a powerful thirst, which I quench with Crystal Light. It's not low-calorie if I drink an entire box in one gulp!
[11:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Most telling - 06How German Nuclear Scientists Reacted to the News of Hiroshima - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:47] <exec> 08└─For me, the most telling quote was: "I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline." Damning evidence that even the German scientists in the 1940's were part of the g...
[11:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03tyler [6335] (Score:1) 02You get what you measure - 06Trouble in Today's Academic Culture - 1159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:56] <exec> 08└─I think this is a classic case of you get what you measure. If you measure programmers by lines of code written you will see this function to find the average of a list of integers: int average(int len; int *array) { int total = 0; for(int i = 0;i len; i++) total += array[i];...
[11:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02My case - 06Trouble in Today's Academic Culture - 1340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:58] <exec> 08└─I joined a US university (on of the UC campuses) at the start of my career. For better or worse, it is a conveyer belt of promotion (or failure to get promotion and leaving). At the beginning it felt cool to be making more money and getting nice titles. However at the end my time was spent writing g...
[11:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02That paramedics show from the 1970s - 06Microsoft Releases an All-in-One Desktop PC - 636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:17] <exec> 08└─Dr Brackett If mentioning Nurse Dixie McCall, I would have chosen Dr. Joe Early (played by torch song singer Julie London[1] and her real-life hubby Bobby Troup). Trivia: Bobby Troup wrote the tune "Route 66". He also wrote another fun (jazzy) tune that I like: "Lemon Twist" [showmelyrics.com]--whic...
[11:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Scrollwheel mouse - 06Microsoft Releases an All-in-One Desktop PC - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:10:25] <exec> 08└─From my cold, dead hands. I tried a trackball for a while and REALLY missed my clickable scrollwheel. Sounds like you bought one with a weak return spring. ...or you're just naturally clumsy. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[11:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:They sure hope so - 06IBM: In 5 Years, Watson A.I. will be Behind your Every Decision - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:10:38] <exec> 08└─Also people tend to be selective about which areas (and nationalities) they care about....
[11:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Clippy? - 06IBM: In 5 Years, Watson A.I. will be Behind your Every Decision - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:44] <exec> 08└─Hi there, it looks like you're trying to decide something. I can do that for you, why don't you piss off. While I'm at it, I'll email your boss and tell him we don't need you any more. By the way, have you considered upgrading to Watson 3.0? It's a great product. Thanks - have a great day!
[11:11:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:Observation vs Simulation. GO! - 06Dark Matter Beats its Latest Challenge - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:11:07] <exec> 08└─Indeed, we do not have observation, hypothesis on interpretation, experiment to prove the hypothesis' predictive power, new theory, repeat. Here we have Theory, simulation of theory, OK if match with observation. This way of working is equivalent to 1. the hypothesis of planet to explain some gravit...
[11:11:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 0280 / 20 - 06'Super Emitters' Responsible for Most US Methane Emissions - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:11:28] <exec> 08└─I thought is was the 80/20 rule. OMG how many rule are there???!
[11:11:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nearly meaningless - 06FCC Approves Proposed Broadband Privacy Rules - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:11:43] <exec> 08└─The monopoly took years to create. It will take years to dismantle - at the very least.
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[12:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Screw that - 06Male Birth Control Shots Prevent Pregnancy - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:34] <exec> 08└─Why would I want to pay good money and get stabbed when sodomy is 100% effective?
[12:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Just eat food - 06Soylent Stops Selling Powder While it Investigates Customer Sickness Complaints - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:43] <exec> 08└─Just get some fresh food and eat it. If you ingest more than you excrete (bowls, bladder and lungs), you will get fat. If you ingest less than you excrete you will lose weight.
[12:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Re:Just eat food - 06Soylent Stops Selling Powder While it Investigates Customer Sickness Complaints - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:09:45] <exec> 08└─Given that I only ever hear about Soylent when they are having a health scare, recall or similar, I question whether - even if someone WANTS to live on that kind of stuff - they are the product to be using? Honestly, how many recalls does it take to check your formula, clean up your packaging and te...
[12:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score:2) 02Re:green and red and sometimes fed - 06Microsoft Releases an All-in-One Desktop PC - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:10:34] <exec> 08└─Only if hot grits were included...
[12:11:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MadTinfoilHatter [4635] 02Re:"Incorrect" - 06A Linux Compatible Firmware is Released for the Lenovo's "Signature Edition" Yoga Y900. - 179 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:11:06] <exec> 08└─They screwed with it so the default windows drivers would not recognize it as an AHCI device. Apparently the default windows/intel drivers are buggy and this was their workaround.
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[13:09:43] <exec> 08└─Bacterial infection of your wang?
[13:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Screw that - 06Male Birth Control Shots Prevent Pregnancy - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:09:45] <exec> 08└─You mean abstinence, right? Sex is baaaaad.
[13:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Just eat food - 06Soylent Stops Selling Powder While it Investigates Customer Sickness Complaints - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:09:55] <exec> 08└─Obviously, the problem with Soylent is that the quality of results vary considerably from person to person.
[13:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Just a continuation of a trend - 06World Vertebrate Populations Have Declined 58% Since 1970, According to the Living Planet Assessment - 1466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:02] <exec> 08└─Big species have been on the decline for the last 20,000 years due to human activity. The human migration to North America triggered a megafauna extinction event throughout the Americas that basically looks like a switch got flipped when viewed on normal evolutionary time scales. The more humans the...
[13:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03rhodin [4915] (Score:1) 02Re:Real work? - 06Microsoft Releases an All-in-One Desktop PC - 820 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:10:34] <exec> 08└─As EvilsS replied, it really depends on your work. As an artist, I would love something like this, and have long ogled the Cintiq line from Wacom. I've had a Wacom tablet for years; it is essential in my work, and the ability to draw directly on a screen is much better, even when contending with gre...
[13:11:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02content free - 06IBM: In 5 Years, Watson A.I. will be Behind your Every Decision - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:11:10] <exec> 08└─As an upper level exec that the company depends upon for wisdom, you know that speech can be cut and pasted for any random tech fad. Could cut and replace in IoT, Cloud, Java, Dot Net, any meaningless hype. Now for a real debate, who thinks she even knows what Watson is, other than a name on a speec...
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[14:09:38] <exec> 08└─Son, you;re going to have to walk to school this morning; your Mother and I are high as fuck.
[14:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Son - 06In a Victory for Free-Range Parenting, Oregon Encourages Kids to Walk to School Alone - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:09:39] <exec> 08└─Pussy. I walked to school in half the schools I went to and never came to any harm. As did millions of other kids.
[14:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Screw that - 06Male Birth Control Shots Prevent Pregnancy - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:09:50] <exec> 08└─I think you've mistaken me for some right-wing, religious type. I'm neither. I'm all about the premarital sex. As long as nobody gets knocked up that is. Personal responsibility, yo.
[14:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03iamjacksusername [1479] (Score:2) 02Vasagel - 06Male Birth Control Shots Prevent Pregnancy - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:52] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile, Vasagel had to crowdfund $85,000 to pay for a safety study. https://www.parsemusfoundation.org [parsemusfoundation.org]
[14:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not Required to Eat 100% Soylent - 06Soylent Stops Selling Powder While it Investigates Customer Sickness Complaints - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:03] <exec> 08└─For nearly all of their customers it isn't about "living on that kind of stuff" its about switching meals that would normally be junk food, like taco bell or even crap from the vending machine. Regular healthy meals still continue to be regular healthy food. Soylent is ultra-convenience food that i...
[14:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Surrender versus Capitulation - 06How German Nuclear Scientists Reacted to the News of Hiroshima - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:20] <exec> 08└─> There is no point in lying about your capabilities after your surrender, and after your enemy already has the technology and all of your research. Surrender doesn't necessarily mean total capitulation. If you have the opportunity to keep something in the bank you are probably going to take it. The...
[14:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Re:Yet some prefer normal Wacoms - 06Microsoft Releases an All-in-One Desktop PC - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:43] <exec> 08└─Some prefer normal Wacoms or equivalent tablets: no hand obscuring anything, no scratches (IIRC some Cintiqs had that issue in serious way) or grease to get rid, not eyes at short distance of work or not crouching over, no all in one that must be replace if any part goes bad even if the rest is fine...
[14:11:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Scrollwheel mouse - 06Microsoft Releases an All-in-One Desktop PC - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:11:01] <exec> 08└─No, clickable scrollwheels are just a shit idea. If the spring in the scrollwheel button is strong enough to prevent accidental clicking, then you're going to move the scrollwheel everytime you click. If you then increase the tension necessary to turn the scroll wheel to compensate for this, you'll...
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[14:11:32] <exec> 08└─Commenter going by the alias MadTinfoilHatter chooses to fabricate elaborate shady back-room dealings and conspiracy theories instead of assuming someone just fucked up and did something dumb. Yep, name checks out. Carry on. ;)
[14:11:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Re:Why would I buy it anyway? - 06A Linux Compatible Firmware is Released for the Lenovo's "Signature Edition" Yoga Y900. - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:11:35] <exec> 08└─No wireless, less space than a nomad. Lame.
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[15:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Martin and Rosa - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:32] <exec> 08└─... shed a collective tear. People who actually care about equality support the right to hold nazi rallies, and to wear the US flag as a nappy.
[15:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Martin and Rosa - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:09:34] <exec> 08└─I am so done with some of these people.. I would have just barreled on through with a vehicle.
[15:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score:2) 02Blind Georgia mother could not walk kids to school - 06In a Victory for Free-Range Parenting, Oregon Encourages Kids to Walk to School Alone - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:43] <exec> 08└─There was a story on the TV news recently about a blind Georgia mother who could not walk with her kids to school. She lived too close for the bus to pick up the children, but yet the children were not allowed to walk to school by themselves. Which literally meant they were not allowed to attend sch...
[15:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score:2) 02I have never understood ... - 06Male Birth Control Shots Prevent Pregnancy - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:55] <exec> 08└─I have never understood why these chemical solutions are even legal. AIDs is on the raise again, if you are not trying to get pregnant, you really need to use a condom or be celibate. And the demographics are changing, women are now not just going to Paris and Greece, looking for a fling with an exo...
[15:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02could be true - 06World Vertebrate Populations Have Declined 58% Since 1970, According to the Living Planet Assessment - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:15] <exec> 08└─the world has certainly got more spineless.
[15:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Irony - 06How German Nuclear Scientists Reacted to the News of Hiroshima - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:26] <exec> 08└─A bit more context on that would be helpful as the quote doesn't really say anything. They'd been living under the Nazis and the constant eyes of the Gestapo for many years. If you look at the quote itself it doesn't indicate that they're afraid of being heard. Or perhaps I'm rather sneaky and I wou...
[15:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Irony - 06How German Nuclear Scientists Reacted to the News of Hiroshima - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:27] <exec> 08└─It's not just that, the Nazis had probably the most advanced propaganda the world had ever seen and it probably still is respectable decades later. There were a fair number of Germans that didn't know that the country was losing until the very end of the war. Absent real and accurate intelligence fr...
[15:11:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03iamjacksusername [1479] (Score:2) 02Ballmer is being vindicated - 06Microsoft Releases an All-in-One Desktop PC - 2207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:11] <exec> 08└─It is interesting that Ballmer is being vindicated in this respect. He was wrong about a lot of things and he had the wrong mindset for Microsoft but he absolutely understood the fundamentals of the existing business; he recognized that Apple was succeeding in the marketplace because they were the o...
[15:11:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score:2) 02Re:Observation vs Simulation. GO! - 06Dark Matter Beats its Latest Challenge - 4328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:11:55] <exec> 08└─There are plenty of branches of science where we cannot perform experiments. Heck, the mechanics of planets in the Solar System is not amenable to controlled experimentation any more than the dynamics of a galaxy is. So since antiquity all astronomers could do was watch and study the planets as they...
[15:11:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stormwyrm [717] 02Second confirmation - 06Dark Matter Beats its Latest Challenge - 878 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:56] <exec> 08└─It seems that MUGS2 is not the only ΛCDM-based galaxy modelling simulation that exhibits the SPARC acceleration law. Shortly after submitting the article I was made aware of a second group that saw the same thing in their models: The Mass-Discrepancy Acceleration Relation: a Natural Outcome of Gala...
[15:13:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Evil - 06Oracle Appeals in Case Against Google - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:03] <exec> 08└─There are (at least) two ways to parse what he wrote. The correct way is: Oracle is struggling to maintain relevance. Alphabet is large and pervasive. Oracle and Alphabet have engaged in shitty business tactics.
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[16:09:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02Martin and Rosa - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 143 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:43] <exec> 08└─... shed a collective tear. People who actually care about equality support the right to hold nazi rallies, and to wear the US flag as a nappy.
[16:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:Martin and Rosa - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:09:45] <exec> 08└─Non white students block white students from going to class. Oh, but it's not racist because it wasn't white people blocking non whites. Fuck that shit.
[16:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Martin and Rosa - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:09:47] <exec> 08└─Oh, but it's not racist because it wasn't white people blocking non whites.
[16:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02safe space safety dance - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:49] <exec> 08└─What exactly is a transgender safe space? What do people, er, do there? I assume this is different from support group? And wouldn't there be like a grand total of 2 people tops there at any given time anyway? Ugh… GO TO HELL PROTESTERS! YOU AREN'T HELPING ANYBODY!
[16:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:safe space safety dance - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:09:52] <exec> 08└─In a safe space there is a hall of mirrors, and people can freely masturbate to their own reflections.
[16:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:safe space safety dance - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:09:54] <exec> 08└─The Supreme Court restrooms [cbslocal.com]
[16:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Bring back apartheid! - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:56] <exec> 08└─banners advocating the creation of physical spaces segregated by race and gender identity, including one that read “Fight 4 Spaces of Color.”
[16:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:0, Troll) 02Re:Bring back apartheid! - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:09:58] <exec> 08└─And separate drinking fountains, and separate entrances to buildings. Also note: Fix the summary. UCLA is not UC Berkeley, although the entire UC system is pozzed with AIDS and ridden with chinks. [postimg.org]
[16:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02This is why we need Trump TV - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:00] <exec> 08└─To give 24x7 coverage to gripping stories like this.
[16:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02So, what if it were the other way around - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:03] <exec> 08└─Would it be appropriate for white people to advocate having their own spaces that no one else is allowed go enter? So why is it fine for others to do this?
[16:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So, what if it were the other way around - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:05] <exec> 08└─You have some metal wire you want to cut, you bend it right at forth from one extreme to another, till it breaks. Same with society. The same hand promotes hedonism and then austerity, treating minorities as cattle and white privilege theorists. The objective is to discourage rational people to try...
[16:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Uncle_Al [1108] (Score:2, Insightful) 02protesters on the UCLA campus - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:07] <exec> 08└─UCLA != UCB , dumbass
[16:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:protesters on the UCLA campus - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:09] <exec> 08└─I feel unsafe when other posters here are being called dumbasses.
[16:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score:2) 02Two ways to look at it - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 1565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:11] <exec> 08└─We could all go off half-cocked and start calling them all racists discriminating against whites (which they are, albeit briefly and for a specific purpose). Or we could remember the long, unpleasant history of segregation, discrimination, Jim Crowe and extreme violence that people of color have had...
[16:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Berkeley is not UCLA - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:13] <exec> 08└─EOM
[16:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Son - 06In a Victory for Free-Range Parenting, Oregon Encourages Kids to Walk to School Alone - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:23] <exec> 08└─Seconded. There's that old joke about having to walk to school miles through the snow, I was literally doing that at age 6 when I lived in Flagstaff, Arizona.
[16:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Screw that - 06Male Birth Control Shots Prevent Pregnancy - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:35] <exec> 08└─Here in the degenerate state of California we were taught in sex ed that even sodomy is not 100% effective, because some of the nut could dribble out of the butthole and into the cooch. Fortunately, there's always the option of a forty of Mickey's and a coat-hanger, the falcon-punch, or a ride down...
[16:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not Required to Eat 100% Soylent - 06Soylent Stops Selling Powder While it Investigates Customer Sickness Complaints - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:50] <exec> 08└─Woah stop that voice of reason right there! We must look down upon all things new!!!
[16:10:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03VanderDecken [5216] (Score:2) 02Problem Ingredient - 06Soylent Stops Selling Powder While it Investigates Customer Sickness Complaints - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:51] <exec> 08└─Perhaps they should have left out the human brains
[16:11:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Geotti [1146] 02Re:Irony - 06How German Nuclear Scientists Reacted to the News of Hiroshima - 403 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:11:07] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I think this should be read in context, so something like this: Diebner, looking at Heisenberg: "I wonder whether there are microphones installed here?" Heisenberg, nodding feverishly and putting the index finger to his lips: "Microphones installed? (laughing) Oh no, they're not as cute as al...
[16:11:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02For every Higgs - 06Trouble in Today's Academic Culture - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:23] <exec> 08└─There's tons guys and gals studying the Theory of Everything, the Riemann Hypothesis etc who never publish anything worthwhile.
[16:11:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Re:Real work? - 06Microsoft Releases an All-in-One Desktop PC - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:11:38] <exec> 08└─As an artist, I would love something like this, and have long ogled the Cintiq line from Wacom.
[16:11:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:M$ hardware and software? - 06Microsoft Releases an All-in-One Desktop PC - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:11:56] <exec> 08└─I use middle click with my scrollwheel probably a couple hundred times a day.
[16:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Evil - 06Oracle Appeals in Case Against Google - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:53] <exec> 08└─Doesn't matter when one side is clearly in the right on the argument. Oracle's interpretation of copyright law (unfortunately now backed up by the crooks on the federal appeals court) about APIs would kill the software market. Amusingly enough, if Oracle's argument applied fully, they'd be out huge...
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[17:09:49] <exec> 08└─Oh look a white man telling everybody that Dr King thought that anti-racism means to treat the weak exactly the same way as you treat the powerful. And its a first post. And its +5 insightful on one of the most racially ignorant forums on the web. What a surprise. Sounds like the entire sum of your...
[17:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Martin and Rosa - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:09:50] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Holmes_Norton [wikipedia.org]
[17:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Martin and Rosa - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:09:52] <exec> 08└─Don't be a douche. State your point. A link to a long-ass biography doesn't mean shit.
[17:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:safe space safety dance - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:09:57] <exec> 08└─Hall of mirrors reminds me of the waiting room in the office of a child psychiatrist. I only went in once to pick up my teen aged younger brother -- one or two walls were covered in 2" wide vertical strips of mirror with about 1" gaps between. The reflection that you saw was all chopped up, could ev...
[17:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:safe space safety dance - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:00] <exec> 08└─> I assume this is different from support group? It is not. "Support group" is a name that doesn't fully describe all the functions. Safe space is closer. But its one of those names that assholes love to mock because of what they imagine it means.
[17:10:09] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02Re:Two ways to look at it - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 119 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:10] <exec> 08└─But if you behave just as your enemy does, then you acknowledge what he did is not inherently wrong, might makes right.
[17:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Two ways to look at it - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:12] <exec> 08└─The desire to have a safe place where one is not under constant threat of attack is a universal human yearning.
[17:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Another Bullshit Story from the Moonie Bin - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:15] <exec> 08└─Come on guys. When are the editors going to stop being so god damn credulous? The Washington Times is owned by the Moonies. [sourcewatch.org] They are nutjobs on the same level as scientologists. [wikipedia.org] Anything they report needs to be independently confirmed by a non nutjob source [sfgate....
[17:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Another Bullshit Story from the Moonie Bin - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:17] <exec> 08└─The Washington Times is indeed owned by the Moonies, but their editorial and reporting is pretty straightforward Republican, conservative, point out when Dems like Obama or Hillary have a bad day, etc.
[17:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score:2) 02Re:Son - 06In a Victory for Free-Range Parenting, Oregon Encourages Kids to Walk to School Alone - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:28] <exec> 08└─I'd say these days there is more harm that goes on IN schools or before leaving the house than just walking to school.
[17:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Free-range parenting? - 06In a Victory for Free-Range Parenting, Oregon Encourages Kids to Walk to School Alone - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:32] <exec> 08└─Remind me not to hire either of you guys as a press spokesman.
[17:10:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I will click it - 06Male Birth Control Shots Prevent Pregnancy - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:45] <exec> 08└─Let us see how long until a fatal flaw becomes obvious in this medical research.
[17:10:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I will click it - 06Male Birth Control Shots Prevent Pregnancy - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:47] <exec> 08└─ctrl-F "blind" : FAIL
[17:15:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:This Would Be Sad News - 06Google Fiber to Pause Rollout, Lay off 130+ employees - 230 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:26] <exec> 08└─Justin Case you weren't aware, you are only taxed on the profit you made from an investment, and you can deduct your losses. It's not free to provide a market and the legal safety for you to be able to consider making investments.
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[18:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02Fear and submission? - 06Facial Expressions—Including Fear—May Not Be Universal - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:43] <exec> 08└─I wuld have said surprise. Submission is much more of a body language thing, as well as fear, although that would show in the eyes too. It would be nice if we could see the actual pictures used though.
[18:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:Fear and submission? - 06Facial Expressions—Including Fear—May Not Be Universal - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:44] <exec> 08└─Submission was likely a mistake in reference to Plutchik's wheel of emotions seeing how that "deer caught in the headlights" look covers awe and adjacent almost entirely.
[18:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:Fear and submission? - 06Facial Expressions—Including Fear—May Not Be Universal - 1075 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:46] <exec> 08└─Going by the link in TFA as to the face, although apparently it's not one that was actually used in the study? "I wuld have said surprise." Startled, alerted, something like that yeah. "Submission is much more of a body language thing" Precisely. If that face is accompanied by a hands-up posture, th...
[18:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02I'm shocked - 06Facial Expressions—Including Fear—May Not Be Universal - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:48] <exec> 08└─I'm shocked to learn of this. :)
[18:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02SHOCKED - 06Facial Expressions—Including Fear—May Not Be Universal - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:50] <exec> 08└─I am shocked - SHOCKED, I say - that this hideous display of naked racism was permitted to stain the innocent pages of the internet! Next thing, these researchers will be suggesting that cultures, and even sub-cultures, may tend to push people in the direction of certain negative proclivities, inste...
[18:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Martin and Rosa - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:05] <exec> 08└─Holmes Norton specialized in freedom of speech cases, and her work included winning a Supreme Court case on behalf of the National States' Rights Party,[9] a victory she put into perspective in an interview with one of the District of Columbia Bar's website editors: "I defended the First Amendment,...
[18:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Martin and Rosa - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:07] <exec> 08└─Big deal. Just because you believe in freedom of expression doesn't mean you believe in treating the weak the same as the powerful. She's also in favor of reparations [liquisearch.com] just don't call them reparations so the white folks won't lose their shit. [dailycaller.com]
[18:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02Re:Martin and Rosa - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 938 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:09] <exec> 08└─Treating everyone equally is the antithesis of racism. Unequal treatment = inequality. Unequal treatment based on race = racism. It's not complicated. Reparations and repairing the effects of insitutional racism are another argument, and have nothing to do with what racism is. Even if racism against...
[18:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Martin and Rosa - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:11] <exec> 08└─> Treating everyone equally is the antithesis of racism. You can worry about treating people equally when they actually are equal. Until then that entire argument is hypothetical. Anyone claiming "racism is over" has either been living in a cave their entire life or is a racist. > In any case, these...
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[18:10:13] <exec> 08└─Well, there were only 2 black people in the video so you can't really say they turned away black people, and I didn't see any obviously transgendered people, but the camera wasn't great and they might not have been obviously transgender. So, it's not a manufactured story, it's just manufactured outr...
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[18:10:21] <exec> 08└─It seems to be a pretty mock-able concept [reason.com]: My mother is a nursery school teacher. Her classroom is a place for children between one and two years of age—adorable little tykes who are learning how to crawl, how to walk, and eventually, how to talk. Coloring materials, Play-Doh, playfu...
[18:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:safe space safety dance - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:23] <exec> 08└─Surprise! You found somebody mocking it for an article specifically about denigrating the idea. You think that's meaningful? Really? How many times have you been mocked? Does the fact that someone set out to mock you mean you deserved to be mocked?
[18:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score:2) 02Re:safe space safety dance - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:25] <exec> 08└─Looking up this new-fangled term, it does seem to have a definition: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] but it still doesn't make much sense.
[18:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02You seem to be confused about what Apartheid was - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:29] <exec> 08└─Apartheid was not just things like separate train cars and beaches (although that happened, and things like that were called "petty apartheid"). Apartheid, literally translated, means separation. The entire society was to be segregated by race from the top down. Different governing structures, diffe...
[18:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Another Bullshit Story from the Moonie Bin - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:41] <exec> 08└─The fact that sometimes they have non-crazy stories doesn't negate their predilection for totally fact-free stories like this one. If any "liberal" news source had the same duplicity in reporting they'd be bankrupt within a year due to all the sane readers leaving for more solid ground.
[18:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Stupid Protests, Decent Idea - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 909 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:42] <exec> 08└─People are getting too wrapped up in their own emotional reactions to this counter-prejudice, it is quite amusing to see in a way. These protests are really badly done, with some intelligent yet dumb college kids showing all the wrong ways to go about something. What they want is perfectly reasonabl...
[18:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score:2) 02Re:Stupid Protests, Decent Idea - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:44] <exec> 08└─No, what they really want is for it to be OK to be racist if you're black. On a surprisingly large scale they are getting this nonsense, too.
[18:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:Stupid Protests, Decent Idea - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 1308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:47] <exec> 08└─"They really should re-frame it as a club type thing instead of the weird "safe spaces" concept, that part I don't really get." You're right, you don't get it. I didn't get it at first either, I thought the same way you do here. But actually, after listening to waaaay too many of these people in the...
[18:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I have never understood ... - 06Male Birth Control Shots Prevent Pregnancy - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:13] <exec> 08└─You had good points up until your changing demographics bit. Whether its a girl or a guy STDs still get around. Did you break off a relationship over a vacation to Kenya??
[18:11:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Re:Not Required to Eat 100% Soylent - 06Soylent Stops Selling Powder While it Investigates Customer Sickness Complaints - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:29] <exec> 08└─What's that got to do with food safety, product recalls and mould? I don't care WHY people want to eat it, but why do they continue to buy THAT PRODUCT after at least three distinct (maybe more) recalls and health-scares with it?
[18:11:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03tekk [5704] (Score:1) 02Re:Just eat food - 06Soylent Stops Selling Powder While it Investigates Customer Sickness Complaints - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:30] <exec> 08└─So Soylent people tend to be split into two camps. For one camp, they just don't enjoy food, weird as that sounds. Eating is 100% a way to get nutrients, and with Soylent you just get it and your nutrients are pretty much covered; you still want some solid foods for fiber, but aside from that you're...
[18:11:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Fiber - 06Soylent Stops Selling Powder While it Investigates Customer Sickness Complaints - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:32] <exec> 08└─> you still want some solid foods for fiber, Soylent has fiber. [soylent.com] [28g per 2000 calories] Even the liquid version too. [soylent.com] [15g per 2000 calories] More than the typical american diet contains. [today.com] [14g per day] The typical american diet is pretty much a shit show. Even...
[18:12:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So true. - 06Trouble in Today's Academic Culture - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:12:03] <exec> 08└─What!? She actually held people on government pay to some objective measure of responsibility? SHOCKING! I can see why all you genius types hated her so much.
[18:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02How retro! - 06Microsoft Releases an All-in-One Desktop PC - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:43] <exec> 08└─Who would have thought $5k computers would come back in style? Funny, my ~$200 laptops do everything I need a computer to do. I'm curious why anyone not running huge simulations needs such an expensive piece of equipment... is it just a "keeping up with the Jonses" thing?
[18:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score:2) 02They just removed cows from the statistics... - 06'Super Emitters' Responsible for Most US Methane Emissions - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:48] <exec> 08└─Without cows causing the majority of emissions(because we simply deleted them from the statistical analysis), we were able to find something we can all get behind: Super emitting wells! Doesn't that sound evil? Yes, we must enact regulations against super emitting wells.
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[19:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Useful Plant - 06The Secret Ingredient in Continental’s Future Tires? Dandelions - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:40] <exec> 08└─They can be used for salad greens and wine can be made from them as well. It sure doesn't take much to grow them.
[19:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score:2) 02Apricots - 06The Secret Ingredient in Continental’s Future Tires? Dandelions - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:41] <exec> 08└─This reminds me a little too much of Car and Drivers' apricots [caranddriver.com] April 1st article.
[19:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Continental Weed Smokers! - 06The Secret Ingredient in Continental’s Future Tires? Dandelions - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:43] <exec> 08└─German Engineering(tm).
[19:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Martin and Rosa - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:16] <exec> 08└─Jesus christ, did you not see the quote? It is a completely manufactured story. Why would trans people decide to make their protest into a racial issue? Did any of the signs say anything racial? Did any of the people say anything racial?
[19:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02Re:Martin and Rosa - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:18] <exec> 08└─I didn't see any signs at all. There were tee shirts with racial stuff though.
[19:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Irony, You are Doing It with Style! - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:28] <exec> 08└─> Ugh… GO TO HELL PROTESTERS! YOU AREN'T HELPING ANYBODY! That's funny. You are advocating for a safe-space for people who prefer the status quo. Keep them safe from having to deal with people who want to protest the status quo. Irony much?
[19:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So, what if it were the other way around - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 792 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:36] <exec> 08└─> Would it be appropriate for white people to advocate having their own spaces that no one else is allowed go enter? They don't need to advocate for those spaces because that's pretty much the default. I bet you can't name one street in your town named after a black man other than MLK Blvd.Sunday mo...
[19:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Two ways to look at it - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:43] <exec> 08└─Safe Spaces are fine in theory, but there is no such thing. Put three people of the identical race, religion, etc in the same room long enough, with no other company but each other's, and before long two of them will be ostracizing the third. Many people who dream of a harmonious, homogenous culture...
[19:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Two ways to look at it - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:45] <exec> 08└─The desire to 7715 have a safe place where one is not under constant threat of attack is a universal human yearning.
[19:10:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Two ways to look at it - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:47] <exec> 08└─You're an idiot. They ARE racists, and random white people of today (especially in that age bracet for fuck sake!) had nothing to do with segregation so fuck anyone and everyone punishing them for it as if they were responsible. And a bunch of asshole protesters demanding safe spaces? Holy shit. The...
[19:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:Another Bullshit Story from the Moonie Bin - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 970 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:54] <exec> 08└─I noticed that myself but I don't think you're reading it right. Asians are going around it to avoid the possibility of confrontation. Asians, which by a lot of statistics would seem to be MORE not LESS privileged than whites, and who also statistically tend to major in 'patriarchal' things like mat...
[19:10:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Another Bullshit Story from the Moonie Bin - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:56] <exec> 08└─> And I DID see some black students walk right up and right on through and off to class with only the tiniest interruption to chat with the protestors and bump fists. Timestamp?
[19:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Stupid Protests, Decent Idea - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:01] <exec> 08└─It sounds to me [wikipedia.org] like they just want a place to not be harrassed. Naturally you're going to have extremists who, like white supremacists, want black/yellow/trans/homo/whatever supremacy, but don't think for even a second that because a few express a desire for that that all do [wikipe...
[19:11:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Stupid Protests, Decent Idea - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:03] <exec> 08└─Thank you, I was going to respond but I didn't have good links offhand to backup basically what you said. This is not some racist counter agenda!
[19:11:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Strongest argument for distance learning - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:05] <exec> 08└─College campuses are the strongest argument for distance learning I can imagine. From all the professionally butthurt, to the corrupt administrations, to the sheer incompetence at teaching so frequently on display ... I'd rather study damn near any topic at my local public library, with the kind ass...
[19:11:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Strongest argument for distance learning - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:07] <exec> 08└─The smartest guy i met in grad school was an autodidact like that. He had only gone to community college to get his "piece of paper," not because he couldn't have gone someplace else but because there the piece of paper only cost him a couple hundred bucks. He had enormous self-discipline, though, a...
[19:11:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I have never understood ... - 06Male Birth Control Shots Prevent Pregnancy - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:35] <exec> 08└─AIDs is on the raise again, if you are not trying to get pregnant, you really need to use a condom or be celibate.
[19:11:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Part deux - 06Male Birth Control Shots Prevent Pregnancy - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:38] <exec> 08└─The last time a new birth control was up for men during the early 90s, feminist had a conniption over the idea that men should be able to covertly control their own procreation. So I am wondering what is new now, or do I get to relive that ugliness again?
[19:12:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:My case - 06Trouble in Today's Academic Culture - 2209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:12:28] <exec> 08└─I would add, don't do what everyone else is doing. Don't try to wade straight into disproving P=NP, Riemann Hypothesis or whatever other extremely difficult unsolved problem is hot at the moment. And further, don't jump on something that's already been done to death, such as facial recognition. Band...
[19:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The comments were also based in experience - 06Microsoft Releases an All-in-One Desktop PC - 1771 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:12:43] <exec> 08└─After using them, and seeing others using them (it was a studio with 5 tablets), the coordination issue is minor after your brain realizes the thing that moves is the pointer is still you, but not seen. There was no mousing at all, everyone had it in full screen mode, always, no relative or window m...
[19:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03datapharmer [2702] (Score:2) 02Don't believe the hype - 06IBM: In 5 Years, Watson A.I. will be Behind your Every Decision - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:26] <exec> 08└─I tried Watson analytics when they released the beta. I was not impressed. The interface was buggy and unintuitive and the analytical "revelations" were far from mind blowing. For example a set of anonymized hr data revealed that employees who worked more than 20 years were likely to retire, recentl...
[19:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Missing in all AI puff pieces - 06IBM: In 5 Years, Watson A.I. will be Behind your Every Decision - 1141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:28] <exec> 08└─Nobody seems to be doing a good job of working out what the energy costs of all this AI will be. And before someone starts whining about tiny AI circuits doing lens management in their smartphone camera, I'm talking about the deep AI stuff; something that is smart enough to understand a pun, analyse...
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[20:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02hrmmm - 06Are We Looking for Aliens in all the Wrong Ways? - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:38] <exec> 08└─"Gravitational wave signals, which, if there is one unique to intelligent life, would be detectable with sensitive enough equipment anywhere in the Universe" Just how big an "if" is that, exactly?
[20:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Useful Plant - 06The Secret Ingredient in Continental’s Future Tires? Dandelions - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:46] <exec> 08└─Yes, it does. You have to make the effort to have a nice field of grass. Only then do you get an excellent crop of dandelions.
[20:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Martin and Rosa - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:24] <exec> 08└─Jesus christ, did you not see the quote?
[20:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Martin and Rosa - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:25] <exec> 08└─Why would trans people decide to make their protest into a racial issue?
[20:10:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Stupid Protests, Decent Idea - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:59] <exec> 08└─Incorrect, you are reading biased news that want to use racial tensions to divide citizens and distract you from the real problems. They play us so well that the most popular stories on SN (for comments anyway) are these political / racial stories that don't even have to do with nerdy topics.
[20:11:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Stupid Protests, Decent Idea - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 1640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:11:03] <exec> 08└─You paint with a very large brush. I did my own research and you are basically describing the crazy minority of these groups. It is very hard for someone that doesn't share a marginalized position in society to understand what it is like. Personally I tend to be optimistic, hoping that some nasty bu...
[20:11:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Circuses! - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 1987 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:11:05] <exec> 08└─After searching around it seems that there is a definite agenda to the news reporting, and it seems pretty clear. Stoke the racial tensions in the US with clickbait headlines about racism against white people. I found one article earlier which quoted a dean saying roughly, "The protesters are blocki...
[20:11:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Screw that - 06Male Birth Control Shots Prevent Pregnancy - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:11:29] <exec> 08└─Remember that according to the Christian right, no method of contraception is 100 effective. Not even abstinence is, just ask Mary and Joseph.
[20:11:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Screw that - 06Male Birth Control Shots Prevent Pregnancy - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:11:31] <exec> 08└─That's why you unload in their mouth or spray it all over their face. Have you learned nothing from watching porn?
[20:11:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:Part deux - 06Male Birth Control Shots Prevent Pregnancy - 675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:11:40] <exec> 08└─the idea of male birth control is fucking great, but if i was a woman there is no fucking way i would trust some random guy to claims to be using it to be telling the truth - in fact i would be 100% sure he was lying. about the only place male birth control makes sense is in a relationship, where yo...
[20:11:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Precious - 06Male Birth Control Shots Prevent Pregnancy - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:11:42] <exec> 08└─Both sexes face risk when trusting that the other person's claim of being on birth control, so the only way to be sure is to take matters in your own hands. To focus exclusively on women and their degree of trust is detached from reality- you don't hear of men poking holes in condoms. Best overall i...
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[20:11:56] <exec> 08└─That's an entirely different issue. But sure, lets think about that. Do you know how much shit is allowed in regular food? [foxnews.com] They've been shipping powder for 2+ years, this is the first time there's been a problem with powder and it is apparently a fraction of a percent of consumers. Its...
[20:12:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score:2) 02Re:Irony - 06How German Nuclear Scientists Reacted to the News of Hiroshima - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:12:18] <exec> 08└─I don't think the point was lying (or not) about their nation's nuclear capabilities, perhaps more about their own feelings towards their research. These were top-notch physicists, potentially very valuable to their hosts, but coming from a hostile nation. The point of spying on these guys conversat...
[20:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score:2) 02Re:They sure hope so - 06IBM: In 5 Years, Watson A.I. will be Behind your Every Decision - 1103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:24] <exec> 08└─The mistakes ( http://www.csmonitor.com [csmonitor.com] ) Watson makes show how little it really understands. So it would be a bad move to get rid of the people at this point. Watson is like a well trained idiot p...
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[21:09:39] <exec> 08└─in all the wrong places [youtube.com] -- dept
[21:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03ShadowSystems [6185] (Score:1) 02Re:Looking for 'FOs - 06Are We Looking for Aliens in all the Wrong Ways? - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:40] <exec> 08└─Dang it! You beat me to it! =-D The first thing I thought of when I heard the headline was of that song & immediately went to Youtube to find a link. Then I get here & find you'd beaten me to it! *High Tentacle* Great jolbs palp alike! /wanders off on my many pseudopodia warbling the song to myselve...
[21:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Alternative sci/fi short novel below. - 06Are We Looking for Aliens in all the Wrong Ways? - 941 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:42] <exec> 08└─The young alien's skin, we'll call him Bob, suddenly flashed a yellow glow of excitement. - "TEACHER TEACHER There is a pattern! radial coordinates .45565, .57634, towards the edge of the X23" The teacher concentrated telepathically for a brief moment (three earth's years, to be precise) and replied...
[21:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02How could we possibly know? - 06Are We Looking for Aliens in all the Wrong Ways? - 3015 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:45] <exec> 08└─Could humans a few centuries ago have imagined our modern methods of communication? Would they imagine aliens might make a giant signal flag or some other method of communication that would have been for long distances back then? Science and technology continues a relentless push forward. How can we...
[21:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm shocked - 06Facial Expressions—Including Fear—May Not Be Universal - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:05] <exec> 08└─I'm shocked to learn of this. :)
[21:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02How the heck is parent modded troll? - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 765 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:20] <exec> 08└─The parent is right on point regarding the attempt to redefine the word "racism" (prejudice based on race) to include an unprecedented addendum "... with power", and by that they do effectively mean "... only if the perpetrator is white-skinned/majority race". I've also had multiple conversations wi...
[21:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Pedant Ostrich - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:22] <exec> 08└─> The parent is right on point regarding the attempt to redefine the word "racism" (prejudice based on race) to include an unprecedented addendum "... with power" So, what exactly is the problem with ineffective racism? Are you some kind of thought police now? So what if some numbnut is racist all o...
[21:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Martin and Rosa - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:34] <exec> 08└─> @0:08: "Fight 4 Spaces of Color" Ok, but that is literally not about whiteness. > @2:45: "This is about whiteness, this is not about you, this is not about white people." I don't know what he said there, there is too much background noise, but your transcription is a contradiction. If it is about...
[21:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score:2) 02Re:Martin and Rosa - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:36] <exec> 08└─People like you are the problem. For the all the moral high ground you take within your brackets, you show it very clearly outside. is it media pandering to create conflict? White people shocked that the black power movement is experiencing a revival? Or is it just racists jumping on every sight of...
[21:10:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Irony, You are Doing It with Style! - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:47] <exec> 08└─Keep them safe from having to deal with people who want to protest the status quo
[21:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Irony, You are Doing It with Style! - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:48] <exec> 08└─And by "protest", you mean "bar access to public property based on skin color", right?
[21:10:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Two wrong make a right? - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:57] <exec> 08└─So if there are institutions that practice racism in the dictionary-defined sense, why not just point the light and finger at them directly? Trying to muscle your way into running your own racist racket is a really bad idea when (presumably) you are in the minority.
[21:10:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Two wrong make a right? - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:11:00] <exec> 08└─> why not just point the light and finger at them directly? If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
[21:11:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Re:protesters on the UCLA campus - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:11:04] <exec> 08└─Now they have to travel, what, ~400 miles *and* go into the basement just to get to the Safe Space? No wonder they're protesting.
[21:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Scrollwheel mouse - 06Microsoft Releases an All-in-One Desktop PC - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:09] <exec> 08└─As another commenter in this (sub)thread indicates, there are bunches of us who use these things constantly to great effect. Sorry to hear that you got such a raw deal in the gene pool and lack normal dexterity|coordination. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[21:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''Sony [...] Microsoft's [partner]'' - 06Microsoft Releases an All-in-One Desktop PC - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:15] <exec> 08└─Sony never [succeeded] in building consumer mindshare in the US I would have said it differently. Sony shot itself in the foot with its criminal rootkit on its BMG products. ...and that rootkit only affected Windoze systems, so Sony shot their "partner" in the foot as well. Their batteries|laptops c...
[21:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:content free - 06IBM: In 5 Years, Watson A.I. will be Behind your Every Decision - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:36] <exec> 08└─So you say, she could safely be replaced by Watson?
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[22:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02How efficient - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:37] <exec> 08└─Single payer is great! I know, because it led me to do self-surgery as well! Nothing as radical as this - but man, the doctors were pissed off. Weeks later. When they got to me. When everything was healing up nicely. Then I explained why, and they were really pissed because I didn't wait in line. Se...
[22:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:How efficient - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:39] <exec> 08└─Well, I just don't do lines very well. I stood in line as a young man for a physical, for uniforms, for chow, for weapons issue, for haircuts - you name it. I quit all of that. If there's a line, I go elsewhere for whatever I need. I don't know if I could cut off my own toes, but knowing that they w...
[22:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How efficient - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 952 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:41] <exec> 08└─For me it was infection. In-growing toenails that were imbedded, and producing swelling, heat and pus. I was reliably informed that in just a few weeks (more than a month) somebody might get around to it. In that time I actually might have developed gangrene. So I did what I had to do. I took a razo...
[22:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score:2) 02Re:How efficient - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:43] <exec> 08└─I just removed my own skin tag (it was quite a bit more than just skin). It does not compare with a toe but it was quite a bit of bleeding for a long while before it healed over enough to stop.
[22:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How efficient - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:45] <exec> 08└─I've had people sit for MONTHS with gangrene as their other conditions made surgery too risky (interesting side note- the toes fell off and we had to store it in the fridge as they had a tradition of being buried "whole"). Yes, gangrene will kill you, but not in six weeks time. What we have here is...
[22:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score:2) 02Tin Snips? Really? - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:47] <exec> 08└─At least use an exact-o knife
[22:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Crazy Person Does Something Crazy - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:50] <exec> 08└─From the RT article, sourced from that source of renowned journalism, 'Celeb Starz News' — He says he then discharged himself from hospital and thought surgeons would call him in a few days to re-book an appointment, but claims they never did. ... Dibbins says he resorted to treating his own woun...
[22:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Anyone FTL-capable won't comm over electromagnetic - 06Are We Looking for Aliens in all the Wrong Ways? - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:01] <exec> 08└─And if we're not living in an FTL-capable universe, this whole effort is pointless.
[22:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02The Dark Forest - 06Are We Looking for Aliens in all the Wrong Ways? - 1440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:03] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Forest [wikipedia.org] It doesn't take a military mind to find reasons NOT to contact alien species. But, the military mindset works. Cixin Liu's story is an excellent one, with plenty of "science" contained wwithin the science fiction. It stands to reason (to...
[22:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Useful Plant - 06The Secret Ingredient in Continental’s Future Tires? Dandelions - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:13] <exec> 08└─Yes, it does. You have to make the effort to have a nice field of grass. Only then do you get an excellent crop of dandelions.
[22:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Old dogs and children, and dandelion tires - 06The Secret Ingredient in Continental’s Future Tires? Dandelions - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:17] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVA1hbF-pz4 [youtube.com] Alright, so Tom sang about watermelon wine, but the words fit well.
[22:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I rest my case - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:43] <exec> 08└─If you want to make up a new word to describe the problem as you see it, go ahead. However, when you and your allies try to stealthily piggyback your baggage onto a clearly understood existing word now, expect to get called on it as frequently as you misuse it.
[22:10:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:Martin and Rosa - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:57] <exec> 08└─Ok, but that is literally not about whiteness.
[22:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Martin and Rosa - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:58] <exec> 08└─Your original questions were asking for things that are "racial," not "about whiteness." I feel comfortable saying that the sign was racial.
[22:11:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Martin and Rosa - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:11:02] <exec> 08└─You can't change the world overnight, unless you're willing to see blood flow. The world has changed a lot in the past 50 years. Change is gradual, like it or not, or it is violent. A lot of white fools are turning over to allow non-white people to stick it to them, but not all white people are will...
[22:11:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:safe space safety dance - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:11:12] <exec> 08└─after a while, she had to return to the safe space. “I was feeling bombarded by a lot of viewpoints that really go against my dearly and closely held beliefs,” Ms. Hall said.
[22:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:safe space safety dance - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:11:14] <exec> 08└─>> “I was feeling bombarded by a lot of viewpoints that really go against my dearly and closely held beliefs, > > This instills a controllable amount of fury in me. Doesn't that phrasing sound weird? I mean, really? Who talks like that? Its like a script. A script written by someone trying to cari...
[22:11:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Buy your own space - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:11:20] <exec> 08└─Lets assume that was what actually happened there.
[22:11:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Buy your own space - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:11:22] <exec> 08└─Ok, you're a whacko. Thanks for clearing that up, but next time just lead with the craziness, ok? Save us all a lot of wasted effort.
[22:11:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Buy your own space - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:11:24] <exec> 08└─Ok, you're a whacko.
[22:11:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Son - 06In a Victory for Free-Range Parenting, Oregon Encourages Kids to Walk to School Alone - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:11:47] <exec> 08└─I'd say these days there is more harm that goes on IN schools or before leaving the house than just walking to school.
[22:11:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02One scraped knee - 06In a Victory for Free-Range Parenting, Oregon Encourages Kids to Walk to School Alone - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:51] <exec> 08└─That's all it will take - one scraped knee by a kid walking to school, videoed and replayed 24/7 for a few weeks on all the "news" channels for this to be rolled back.
[22:12:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02If you use a condom... - 06Male Birth Control Shots Prevent Pregnancy - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:15] <exec> 08└─"If you use a condom it means you don't trust me." When I was young and stupid I got a girlfriend who said this very thing to me. Instead of walking away, I embarked on a 2 year relationship because of low self esteem. Yes, it's not just girls who do things because of low self esteem. Fortunately sh...
[22:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Just a continuation of a trend - 06World Vertebrate Populations Have Declined 58% Since 1970, According to the Living Planet Assessment - 703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:12:40] <exec> 08└─The pattern of megafauna extinction is pretty clear. Generally, as soon as humans arrived the megafauna started to decline precipitously in numbers. Only in Africa and to a much lesser extent the Eurasian landmass, where humans evolved along with the megafauna, did the populations of megafauna conti...
[22:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't believe the hype - 06IBM: In 5 Years, Watson A.I. will be Behind your Every Decision - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:09] <exec> 08└─So they've automated the IBM consultant.
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[23:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How efficient - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:43] <exec> 08└─Oh, I know about the private medical options in the UK. More familiar than you might expect, even. But here's the problem: if you can afford private, you're a bleedin' toff who needs to be taxed harder so that everyone else can get more treatment, faster, under the exact same NHS that is growing lik...
[23:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score:2) 02Re:How efficient - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:45] <exec> 08└─NHS spending as a percentage of GDP has been falling every year since 2010. The rest of what you say is shite too.
[23:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:How efficient - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:47] <exec> 08└─This bloke could always have paid for private treatment, if he could afford it.
[23:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Tin Snips? Really? - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:50] <exec> 08└─You need real cutting power to go through bone and sinew. I'd have rented a Sawzall [milwaukeetool.com] and used that instead.
[23:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:Crazy Person Does Something Crazy - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 1091 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:53] <exec> 08└─Even assuming everything you say is the unvarnished truth, and a totally reliable representation of the facts at hand ... ... they didn't call? They didn't suggest a follow-up appointment? They didn't check to see if there were side-effects? "Oh, good morning mister ... Dibbins. Yes, I'm just callin...
[23:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Crazy Person Does Something Crazy - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:56] <exec> 08└─This is Daily Heil quality stuff. Oh, surprise! [dailymail.co.uk] Is Soylent becoming a supermarket tabloid?
[23:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Crazy Person Does Something Crazy - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:58] <exec> 08└─There's that, but who amputates because of infection these days? It's been decades since that was medically necessary, but it still happens because quacks don't know how to properly kill the bacteria.
[23:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Crazy Person Does Something Crazy - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:00] <exec> 08└─From what little I could gather from the incoherent rambling, he apparently has poorly controlled diabetes bad enough that he is up for a below the knee amputation anyway, which would take care of the toes as well. If his circulation is that badly damaged, antibiotic treatment would be futile.
[23:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:3, Insightful) 02You lost me at "RT" - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:02] <exec> 08└─When did RT (Russia Times) become a credible news source? I've seen some of their literally LOL features on YouTube.
[23:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] 02Re:You lost me at "RT" - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:04] <exec> 08└─Choose your poison: http://www.dailymail.co.uk [dailymail.co.uk] http://www.independent.co.uk
[23:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ramze [6029] (Score:1) 02Re:Anyone FTL-capable won't comm over electromagne - 06Are We Looking for Aliens in all the Wrong Ways? - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:17] <exec> 08└─Not necessarily. We can still exchange information even if it takes decades or centuries to get replies. It would be nice to know how biology might work on a world that is unlike our own or learn new forms of math -- perhaps even gain a better understanding of physics from our neighbors. We may eve...
[23:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I rest my case - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 882 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:58] <exec> 08└─> If you want to make up a new word to describe the problem as you see it, go ahead. You can always count on dictionary pedants to fail to actually read the dictionary. You types pick and choose the definition you like and pretend all the other definitions are invalid. Racism has always been about s...
[23:10:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I rest my case - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:11:00] <exec> 08└─Ah, I understand now: when blocking a white guy from using a public accomodation for being "a racist", he's actually being called "a political or social system based on racism" based solely on said individual's skin color. I got it now, thanks for explaining. It all makes sense once you once again m...
[23:11:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I rest my case - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:11:02] <exec> 08└─So not only do you fail to read the dictionary, you fail to read the thread you are posting in. You know, the one where systemic power was explicitly described: [soylentnews.org] It's very much a "sins of the father" deal, one predicated on the notion that children continue to reap the benefits of...
[23:11:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:Martin and Rosa - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:11:16] <exec> 08└─Great, you win the pedant war.
[23:11:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Martin and Rosa - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:11:18] <exec> 08└─The Asian student isn't being actively pushed and grabbed in the video, while the white student is. To say that they met the same level of resistance, you would have to infer that the Asian student was pushed and grabbed off camera, which is a baseless assumption.
[23:11:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:Martin and Rosa - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:11:20] <exec> 08└─What more plausible explanation is there for all of those suspicious cuts?
[23:11:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Martin and Rosa - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:11:22] <exec> 08└─> I'm not sure exactly which cuts you are talking about. Every single example of non-white people supposedly getting preferential treatment. None of them show both before and after, there is always a hard cut right where the best evidence would be. This case where cut hides whatever preceded the guy...
[23:11:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Heard That Before - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:11:26] <exec> 08└─I advise patience. Things have changed, things will keep changing. The fools pushing for overnight change are as likely to spark a race war as not.
[23:11:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Heard That Before - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 1042 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:11:29] <exec> 08└─Sound like? Bullshit. Valid advice is valid advice. Let's be clear here - I cannot pass for black or brown. If/when a few radical, militant black guys come after me for violating THEIR gaybo "safe space", I'm going to gun them down. I wrote about a union picket line in New York once - maybe you saw...
[23:11:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:safe space safety dance - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:11:35] <exec> 08└─I remember that "decor" from someplace. I mildly disliked it. Why not just put a whole mirror up, so people might use it? But, putting it in a shrink's waiting room? That sounds crazy. And, the shrink didn't even think about it? Crazier still.
[23:11:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:safe space safety dance - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:11:43] <exec> 08└─So you can't accept the existence of people who believe idiotic things if they take concepts such as safe spaces to a level you wouldn't take them?
[23:11:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:safe space safety dance - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:11:45] <exec> 08└─Oh I am sure there are people who take them to crazy places. I just don't believe that people speak the way that woman was quoted. I mean what a coincidence that the author of the article just happened to interview someone with such a weird speech pattern who is also crazypants. Right?
[23:11:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Irony, You are Doing It with Style! - 06Berkeley Protesters Segregate Bridge - 1104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:11:54] <exec> 08└─I do NOT believe in "safe spaces". Once you've left kindergarden, it is up to you to adjust to the world around you. If you want "safe spaces" then you have to understand and forgive the dominant white people in the early 1900's for barring black people from white society. Or, to be more blunt, you'...
[23:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score:2) 02Re:So true. - 06Trouble in Today's Academic Culture - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:21] <exec> 08└─What!? She actually held people on government pay to some subjective measure of responsibility? SHOCKING! I can see why all you genius types hated her so much.
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