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[00:44:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The $6 million man - 06US Military Successfully Tests Electrical Brain Stimulation to Enhance Staff Skills - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:44:11] <exec> 08└─For 6 mil, they couldn't give him a bionic pinky. Inflation.
[00:44:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Alternative - 06US Military Successfully Tests Electrical Brain Stimulation to Enhance Staff Skills - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:13] <exec> 08└─Hook it up to the workers' nuts and only use it if the worker slacks off.
[00:44:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Tough crowd - 06Apes Appear to Think about Others' Thoughts - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:22] <exec> 08└─So there's hope for Trump after all.
[00:44:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Tough crowd - 06Apes Appear to Think about Others' Thoughts - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:44:24] <exec> 08└─Nothing to see here, Trump is not the candidate [thesun.co.uk] you are looking for.
[00:44:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02I figured as much - 06Apes Appear to Think about Others' Thoughts - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:26] <exec> 08└─Now if we could just teach them hairless apes to do the same with any degree of accuracy...
[00:44:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:I figured as much - 06Apes Appear to Think about Others' Thoughts - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:44:28] <exec> 08└─Well, we do already have the "When the person leaves, [ape] moves the object to a new location" part pretty well figured out.
[00:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Two questions - 06NASA and International Partners Planning Orbital Lunar Outpost - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:44:51] <exec> 08└─Make up your mind! De-orbit or land on the moon?
[00:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Shelve it. - 06NASA and International Partners Planning Orbital Lunar Outpost - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:44:55] <exec> 08└─Trump won't be president of Europe or Japan any time soon. Canada, I'm not so sure.
[00:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score:2) 02Re:Finally... - 06And the winner is..... - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:11] <exec> 08└─He does not have to reelect him 4 years form now if there are better options. And don't be cheeky by saying "If there is America then."
[00:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score:2) 02Re:Cultural appropriation - 06And the winner is..... - 761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:22] <exec> 08└─I have been carefully gerrymandered into a completely separate counties district despite being within walking distance to our counties district HQ. My kids elementary and middle schools are in different districts, and the local voting place is literally 100 yards from the other district. I pass in a...
[00:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cultural appropriation - 06And the winner is..... - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:26] <exec> 08└─They didn't do that because the point was to elect someone that knew your local concerns. A group of 10,000 people shouting at each other won't accomplish anything. But break them down into common types (farmers, city dwellers, etc...) and have them each elect a few people, then suddenly it's only 1...
[00:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: F You from Flyover Country - 06And the winner is..... - 1021 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:46] <exec> 08└─I'm a white male. I voted for Trump because most of the politicians hate him and they couldn't even imagine him winning, that's how full of themselves they were. I hate the politicians and it's about time they get something they don't like. They're all far too cosy, using their positions for persona...
[00:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: F You from Flyover Country - 06And the winner is..... - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:56] <exec> 08└─I'm watching PBS Newshour tonight and the only person to use the term "fly-over country" is the shouty conservative guy doing exactly the kind of aggrieved projection as originally described. He was so loud that I actually had to turn down the volume, I've never had to turn down the volume on the Ne...
[00:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score:2) 02Re: F You from Flyover Country - 06And the winner is..... - 1534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:13] <exec> 08└─So basically, as Mr. Trump completely tossed the Republican platform out the window, we have just seen the first third-party in disguise victory. It took a loud, crude, totally unlikable individual to do it. And he did it basically because no one took him seriously because he was a loud, crude, tota...
[00:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Re: F You from Flyover Country - 06And the winner is..... - 1272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:21] <exec> 08└─I think the most interesting thing about this comment thread is the logic leap that took you from someone using a fairly common exclamation (one with a positive meaning, no less; it's used as a compliment) to you being insulted because it had the word "girl" in it. You just automatically assumed tha...
[00:47:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:False alarm... for now - 06Nvidia Adds Telemetry Tracking to Latest Driver - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:47:53] <exec> 08└─Like I said... It's a Win10 gaming rig only. All other computer use is on a Linux box. And... All the tracking bullshit has been removed or disabled on the Linux box.
[00:48:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03angst_ridden_hipster [5616] (Score:1) 02Re:Potential health danger? - 06Diamond Nanothread: Versatile New Material Could Prove Priceless for Manufacturing - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:48:24] <exec> 08└─Yeah, because just doing things without bothering to think about possible consequences is the preferred approach.
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[01:43:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Oldest trick in the book - 06India Scraps Existing 500 and 1,000 Rupee Banknotes to Fight Corruption - 1364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:52] <exec> 08└─The French after the Second World War did something similar. They withdrew the old franc in favor of a new one, but with a twist. You could only exchange so much old for new unless you were able to satisfactorily explain where the excess came from. It was a way to screw over war profiteers and black...
[01:44:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Solar System Sim - 06Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:00] <exec> 08└─This is what I care about: Run a solar system simulation with this model that includes a propagation time for gravity. Can it be done?
[01:44:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Solar System Sim - 06Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:44:02] <exec> 08└─No. Simulations are unable to account for entropy displacement, it leads to memory errors which can only be reconciled through a subspace string.
[01:44:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Brutal illusion - 06Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe - 776 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:05] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I don't understand it either but I just read about it yesterday. Illusion is probably not the right word. But the other words don't help much either: [dailymail.co.uk] His controversial suggestion says gravity is not a fundamental force of nature at all, but rather an 'emergent phenomenon'. T...
[01:46:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02Re:Cultural appropriation - 06And the winner is..... - 94 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:11] <exec> 08└─Thanks for reminding me about the Senate. The House was a done deal because of gerrymandering.
[01:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: F You from Flyover Country - 06And the winner is..... - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:42] <exec> 08└─<leans in close> WRONG! http://www.usnews.com
[01:47:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score:2) 02Re: F You from Flyover Country - 06And the winner is..... - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:12] <exec> 08└─Great article. I live in a small city surrounded by farmland. Not quite flyover but not big city either. We see a lot of both sides here. Seems odd though, that the most accurate article I have now read on the election came from Cracked. I love it. We could look at it this way. Trump threw out the p...
[01:49:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Seen first hand - 06What Happens When Crowds Try to Flee for Their Lives - 775 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:49:00] <exec> 08└─Something similar I have done before - car is broken down and causing a blockage on a highway. I have waited in the queue, got to the break down and then driven straight past. I should stop and push the car to the shoulder but I never do. Why not? 1. I am worried that the person in the car will be g...
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[02:44:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:3, Insightful) 02And overseas money? - 06India Scraps Existing 500 and 1,000 Rupee Banknotes to Fight Corruption - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:03] <exec> 08└─It is said that the US dropped large denominations (5,00 and above) mostly to fight undocumented money transfers and smuggling). So its kind of odd to see money replaced with new bills just to ferret out people with bulging mattresses. Especially when you find out 500 Rupees is a $7.60 bill. (In Ind...
[02:44:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Brutal illusion - 06Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:44:14] <exec> 08└─Well, if the math works, and it holds up under tests, that sure sounds like the beginnings of a Grand Unified Theory (uniting the physics of very small things, i.e. quantum mechanics, and the physics of very large things, i.e .relativity) that stumped Einstein, Bohr, and a lot of other very smart ph...
[02:44:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Brutal illusion - 06Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:44:15] <exec> 08└─But the dark matter math works out too, no? (Other than all that missing dark matter, mumble mumble).
[02:44:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Brutal illusion - 06Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:44:17] <exec> 08└─"emergent phenomenon, arising from the movement of microscopic particles." This reminds me of Julian Barbour's theory that time and space are separate and that time only exists due to the movement of things in space: time is emergent from movement in space. Maybe gravity and time only exist because...
[02:44:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score:2) 02Coincidence again - 06Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe - 3690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:20] <exec> 08└─Coincidentally again, I have something to say on this. So the last time [soylentnews.org] I commented about this I think nobody noticed, but the time before that [soylentnews.org], it generated a bit of interest, even though both times I was flailing about and probably misusing some terms (like sayi...
[02:44:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Thanks, Napoleon. - 06US Military Successfully Tests Electrical Brain Stimulation to Enhance Staff Skills - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:33] <exec> 08└─Can't we get back to two armies meeting at the agreed hour in a battlefield, two different bright uniforms, killing each other and who survives wins all? Because I am not sure it is better to be the drone pilot, or the target, anymore.
[02:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:2) 02Sally-Anne test - 06Apes Appear to Think about Others' Thoughts - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:44:45] <exec> 08└─Are you referring to hairless apes with autism? Because the false belief test in this experiment was used to diagnose autism by Simon Baron Cohen, cousin of the Borat star. He called it the Sally-Anne test [educateautism.com]. It's interesting that chimps and bonobos give the "neurotypical" response...
[02:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Sally-Anne test - 06Apes Appear to Think about Others' Thoughts - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:44:47] <exec> 08└─Nope, the hairless apes this election season that felt certain that the other side was thinking what they almost certainly weren't. Demonizing your opponent is good for ginning up support but it's absolutely horrible for understanding your opponent and therein lies the key to victory.
[02:46:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] 02Re: F You from Flyover Country - 06And the winner is..... - 2153 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:54] <exec> 08└─Not sure which of your comments are sincere and which are more sarcastic or tongue in cheek. A cousin of my wife was shot dead under Dutertes war on drugs... He was a user only, not a dealer, going to the police to own up, and next thing he is shot dead from behind in the head, two more bullets to t...
[02:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: F You from Flyover Country - 06And the winner is..... - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:29] <exec> 08└─What party is trump really? http://www.reformparty.org Yup. The party started by trump-lite ross perot. Will it use that name? Dunno.
[02:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re: F You from Flyover Country - 06And the winner is..... - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:40] <exec> 08└─Taking the exchange as-is without outside context, it looks like you're either doggedly searching for something to be offended about, or you have a piss-poor opinion of women and are projecting that.
[02:47:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: F You from Flyover Country - 06And the winner is..... - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:52] <exec> 08└─did it ever occur to you that the rural nobodys are tired of growing all your food and mantaining everything that allows a city to live in the desert? If interstate trade suddenly stopped the citys would die. hard. Heck you'd die if just the power went off for longer than your smartphone battery wil...
[02:48:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02specific stength? - 06Diamond Nanothread: Versatile New Material Could Prove Priceless for Manufacturing - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:46] <exec> 08└─Is this a candidate for the tension member of a space elevator, out to geosynchronous orbit? Last I read about this, the problem was that the "rope" wasn't strong enough to hold up its own weight...
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[03:44:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03b [2121] (Score:2) 02Deltas are probably rare in Linux - 06When Will Libre Office get a Working Update Tool for Windows? - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:00] <exec> 08└─I don't download deltas on my Linux system. I use the package manager instead.
[03:44:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02I forget, Libre or Open - 06When Will Libre Office get a Working Update Tool for Windows? - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:02] <exec> 08└─I've got both Office systems installed, one is the Golden Angel, the other is the Bastard Child of Satan. Both do what I need to do just fine. So, which one do I hate, and which one do I keep using?
[03:44:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I forget, Libre or Open - 06When Will Libre Office get a Working Update Tool for Windows? - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:44:04] <exec> 08└─Just use the One True Office, 365.
[03:44:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:I forget, Libre or Open - 06When Will Libre Office get a Working Update Tool for Windows? - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:44:06] <exec> 08└─One true office to screw us all, and in the darkness ream us.
[03:44:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:I forget, Libre or Open - 06When Will Libre Office get a Working Update Tool for Windows? - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:44:08] <exec> 08└─What is libreoffice for the win, Alex!
[03:44:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Solar System Sim - 06Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:44:26] <exec> 08└─Too bad then.
[03:44:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Brutal illusion - 06Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:44:31] <exec> 08└─Isn't gravity generaly thought of as an emergent property of mass these days anyway? Emergent from entropy is a very different take on it though.
[03:44:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Coincidence again - 06Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe - 892 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:44:35] <exec> 08└─" This is a ‘patch’ since it is not predictive: you have to add dark matter 'by hand' to get agreement " --Reminds me of the , what, 26 imaginary dimensions they've had to create in order for string theory to work, lol. "MiHsC also predicts that you can’t have a constant velocity, zero acceler...
[03:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Coincidence again - 06Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:44:37] <exec> 08└─Actually, after re-reading it, he IS saying there should be NO limit! I always wondered about that:if a particle of light is travelling towards the sun, should it not accelerate as it approaches the sun and then decelerate as it leaves? Light I not massless, because the sun will bend it from it's pa...
[03:44:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:Coincidence again - 06Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:44:39] <exec> 08└─Push theories of gravity are as old as Newton's laws: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] If you think carefully about the objections, all of the issues are now accepted by the mainstream for other reasons: weakly interacting particles moving at insane spe...
[03:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Spaceship of Theseus - 06Modified X-37B Spaceplane Could Act as "Astronaut Ambulance" for the ISS - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:14] <exec> 08└─And at what point does the existing Soyuz permanently docked at the ISS cease to serve the same function?
[03:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Two questions - 06NASA and International Partners Planning Orbital Lunar Outpost - 1574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:31] <exec> 08└─The send-ISS-to-the-moon (or similar) thing has been proposed before, but is actually pretty hard, and as others have pointed out, pretty useless. To pile on with a couple more reasons ISS is relatively useless in lunar orbit (or the more commonly-suggested destinations, GEO or L1): It's designed wi...
[03:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re: F You from Flyover Country - 06And the winner is..... - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:21] <exec> 08└─Funny isn't it how ICE puts in a lot of labor hours to make sure a white college grad from England will never work illegally here, but the country doesn't seem to enforce any laws or rules against folks of certain other demographic characteristics. Its almost like the system is rigged or is racist a...
[03:49:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03rst [2175] (Score:1) 02Re:video (as media) sucks balls - 06How to Cut String with Your Bare Hands - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:49:28] <exec> 08└─I don't know much about sailing, but I learned this technique to cut the strings off of hay bales with another piece of twine more years ago than I care to admit.
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[04:44:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Deltas are probably rare in Linux - 06When Will Libre Office get a Working Update Tool for Windows? - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:44:08] <exec> 08└─Your package manager is pulling deltas though if its got the right module installed (i.e deltarpm for instance) and they're supported..
[04:44:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03b [2121] (Score:2) 02Re:Deltas are probably rare in Linux - 06When Will Libre Office get a Working Update Tool for Windows? - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:44:09] <exec> 08└─Huh… interesting. I didn't know that was a thing. I'm using Arch Linux, and apparently it's not fully supported [archlinux.org].
[04:44:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Celestial [4891] (Score:2) 02Re:I forget, Libre or Open - 06When Will Libre Office get a Working Update Tool for Windows? - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:44:15] <exec> 08└─Most attorneys and law offices seem to use Corel WordPerfect Office. At least the ones I work with do, anyway. That would make it more qualified to be the work of Sauron. :P
[04:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I forget, Libre or Open - 06When Will Libre Office get a Working Update Tool for Windows? - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:44:17] <exec> 08└─> One true office to screw us all, ...which is why I still use Office 97 when I'm doing the writing/creating. Last version that does not phone home (afaik), still has normal menus and is damn fast on recent hardware. A bit of a pain to get working on Windows 7, but there are tips out there to help....
[04:44:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Celestial [4891] (Score:2) 02Re:I forget, Libre or Open - 06When Will Libre Office get a Working Update Tool for Windows? - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:44:20] <exec> 08└─IIRC, most of the OpenOffice.org developers have jumped ship to LibreOffice over the past couple of years. So much so that Apache is considering shutting down OpenOffice.org entirely as it has few developers left. So, LibreOffice would be the safe bet to use.
[04:44:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Employer owns any software - 06When Will Libre Office get a Working Update Tool for Windows? - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:22] <exec> 08└─Also my employers owns any software I create (employment agreement).
[04:44:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score:2) 02Re:Oldest trick in the book - 06India Scraps Existing 500 and 1,000 Rupee Banknotes to Fight Corruption - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:44:31] <exec> 08└─We would be so lucky to do the same with all USD and launch new USD. It would be easily convertible from old to new provided you can show you paid fucking taxes on the old. All electronic funds can only be replaced in US banks, meaning you have to bring the cash back in or say bye bye to it.
[04:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:Brutal illusion - 06Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:44:47] <exec> 08└─Maybe gravity and time only exist because particles move in space: no movement, no gravity, no time.
[04:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02gobblygook - 06Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:53] <exec> 08└─Make a prediction or shut the fuck up.
[04:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The $6 trillion dollar man. - 06US Military Successfully Tests Electrical Brain Stimulation to Enhance Staff Skills - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:07] <exec> 08└─It'll be a slashfic with Mad Max, where he travels the post-apocalyptic country bankrupted by constructing his body, doing what he can here and there to help his bankrupted constituents who paid for his newfound powers with the blood, sweat, and financial insolvency. :)
[04:48:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score:2) 02Why some voted for Trump - 06And the winner is..... - 1592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:08] <exec> 08└─See this: https://www.theguardian.com [theguardian.com] Trump was the only candidate pretending to represent the "jobs going away" bunch. Other than Sanders: http://www.ontheissues.org [ontheissues.org] N...
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[04:50:53] <exec> 08└─And they failed in utter, crushing totality. The tribunal in the arbitration, based in Singapore, has issued a unanimous decision agreeing with Australia's position that it has no jurisdiction to hear Philip Morris's claim. Philip Morris has slammed the decision, saying it does not validate plain p...
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[05:44:14] <exec> 08└─Photorealistic theatrical quality spectator gaming! Truly this is the platinum age of circuses. Now if only the long term unemployed displaced and discouraged former workforce could afford bread.
[05:44:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I forget, Libre or Open - 06When Will Libre Office get a Working Update Tool for Windows? - 754 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:44:29] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I've seen that in my experience as well. I think that can be 100% explained by software momentum. The higher ups started out with WordPerfect and have refused to move to anything else. However, that trend does seem to be reversing because the larger firms are transitioning away because they ha...
[05:44:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Employer owns any software - 06When Will Libre Office get a Working Update Tool for Windows? - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:44:34] <exec> 08└─If your employer owns what you write then they're also liable for what you write.
[05:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score:2) 02Re:Oldest trick in the book - 06India Scraps Existing 500 and 1,000 Rupee Banknotes to Fight Corruption - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:44:44] <exec> 08└─I've also noticed that once the new $100's came out, the old bills started becoming scarce. I think the Federal Reserve is withdrawing and shredding the old ones as they receive them, and replacing them with the new ones.
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[06:44:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Delegation - 06India Scraps Existing 500 and 1,000 Rupee Banknotes to Fight Corruption - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:44:35] <exec> 08└─Give me ten percent of all your resources, SanityCheck! What, you object? Don't worry - I'll just get my "little friend" to "persuade" you. He's from the IRS. (Does it really matter the name the gang has? Mafia, MS-13, US federal government? Also, only would that said criminals took just 10%.)
[06:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score:2) 02Re:Solar System Sim - 06Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:44:49] <exec> 08└─Eh? What stops you from using identical techniques to wave propagation simulations?
[06:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Solar System Sim - 06Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:44:50] <exec> 08└─Usually what happens using non-instantaneous gravity is that after not too long the planets will fly off every which way. Try it.
[06:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03tisI [5866] (Score:2) 02Re:The Time Has Come - 06US Military Successfully Tests Electrical Brain Stimulation to Enhance Staff Skills - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:45:09] <exec> 08└─Yep I've heard of this project. They gave it an acronym of Brain Optimization and Reprogramming Group or B.O.R.G. for short ..
[06:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Cultural appropriation - 06And the winner is..... - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:27] <exec> 08└─I suppose that you could try to do a proportional representation system that drew officers with geographic as well as idealistic proportionality, but nobody has ever made that work.
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[07:44:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Goodbye Geeks! - 06Despite Human and Neanderthal Interbreeding, Weak Neanderthal Genes are Being Removed - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:12] <exec> 08└─Geeks, nerds, aspies, antisocial losers on the autism spectrum are the human descendants of neanderthals, and it's no coincidence they're becoming hikkis and neets in record numbers and just not breeding anymore. We don't need geeks. The internet has been built. Linux has achieved world domination....
[07:44:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Goodbye Geeks! - 06Despite Human and Neanderthal Interbreeding, Weak Neanderthal Genes are Being Removed - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:44:14] <exec> 08└─I've actually been kicking around the idea of personality traits as it relates to reproduction. Obviously more outgoing personalities leads to more reproduction, which leads to it being dominant, but introversion and the difficulties it has should (or is) have been weeded out moreso I think. But the...
[07:44:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score:2) 02Re:Goodbye Geeks! - 06Despite Human and Neanderthal Interbreeding, Weak Neanderthal Genes are Being Removed - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:44:16] <exec> 08└─That is why, once in a while, a B-ark is launched. It balances the traits of those remaining (unless the cleaners are leaving too).
[07:44:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Goodbye Geeks! - 06Despite Human and Neanderthal Interbreeding, Weak Neanderthal Genes are Being Removed - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:44:18] <exec> 08└─Why isn't there a "-1 Fractally Wrong" mod?
[07:44:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score:2) 02Neanderthal genes may be on the way out - 06Despite Human and Neanderthal Interbreeding, Weak Neanderthal Genes are Being Removed - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:20] <exec> 08└─But caveman stupidity is here to stay, as displayed by recent votes in the US, UK, and Australia.
[07:44:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Psh! - 06YouTube Adds Support for High Dynamic Range Videos - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:29] <exec> 08└─Most current displays, especially mobile aren't even hitting 16 bit *TOTAL* colors. What are the odds they will jump from that all the way up to HDR Quality within the next 5 years? That said: If they wanted to kill Analog video once and for all, HDR standards could probably do that.
[07:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Good way to destroy a currency - 06India Scraps Existing 500 and 1,000 Rupee Banknotes to Fight Corruption - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:00] <exec> 08└─You normally don't store wealth in currency, but some people do it, usually when they lack faith in the other available options. How many and how much depends on the faith in the stability and convertibility of the currency. The Rupee will now have about zero faith. So wealth will be stored in somet...
[07:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Another step in the War On Cash - 06India Scraps Existing 500 and 1,000 Rupee Banknotes to Fight Corruption - 1365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:01] <exec> 08└─This really isn't about crime. Its about control. The Banks want to get rid of cash so that they have complete control over everyone's money. If there isn't any cash, you can't withdraw from the banking system. This way they can charge negative interst rates, and charge a fee for EVER...
[07:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03rickatech [4150] (Score:1) 02Needs a least one window - 06Modified X-37B Spaceplane Could Act as "Astronaut Ambulance" for the ISS - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:10] <exec> 08└─... or two, one on each side :-) I mean what fun is it so fly through space without a window, harrumph!
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[08:44:20] <exec> 08└─What are you claiming is wrong? The neanderthal theory of autism? The existence of a global communication network? The undisputed fact that Linux is installed on more devices worldwide than any OS in history? The declining birth rates in nations of neanderthal ancestry? The popularity of social medi...
[08:44:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:Neanderthal genes may be on the way out - 06Despite Human and Neanderthal Interbreeding, Weak Neanderthal Genes are Being Removed - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:44:23] <exec> 08└─Just because people don't agree with you doesn't make them stupid. If the US, UK and Australia have made unexpected decisions, perhaps the voters are just fed up with the status quo? Wanting things to be different is not stupid.
[08:44:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Book - 06Despite Human and Neanderthal Interbreeding, Weak Neanderthal Genes are Being Removed - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:25] <exec> 08└─Remember a good book whose central theory was that neanderthals were simply longer lived humans (hence their features; some facial bones never stop growing.) On that premise, losing neanderthal DNA is bad for the fitness of the human race as a whole.
[08:44:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Book - 06Despite Human and Neanderthal Interbreeding, Weak Neanderthal Genes are Being Removed - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:44:27] <exec> 08└─And that Good Book, dear Methuselah, is called The Holy Bible.
[08:44:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:Book - 06Despite Human and Neanderthal Interbreeding, Weak Neanderthal Genes are Being Removed - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:44:29] <exec> 08└─And your book is better than all of the other religious books because ...? Go peddle your religious beliefs elsewhere, unless you can back up your claims with scientific proofs. I'm not saying you shouldn't have your own beliefs, but don't assume that everyone else has them.
[08:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Finally! - 06YouTube Adds Support for High Dynamic Range Videos - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:44:38] <exec> 08└─Now if only the long term unemployed displaced and discouraged former workforce could afford bread.
[08:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Same as it ever was, - 06When Will Libre Office get a Working Update Tool for Windows? - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:59] <exec> 08└─Perhaps it might be the case, as it always has been, that Micro$#ft releases incorrect APIs to the providers of software that is not Word? Like they did to WordPerfect, back before it was bought out by Novell, and before it was bought out by Corel, when none of those companies could figure out that...
[08:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02I prefer the minimalist updater - 06When Will Libre Office get a Working Update Tool for Windows? - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:00] <exec> 08└─Matter of opinion, but I prefer software that just reminds you of an update. Perhaps web browsers need updaters because they are a major security risk, but just about all other software on my system can continue to run the present version if I have no problems with it. LibreOffice in particular has...
[08:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:Oldest trick in the book - 06India Scraps Existing 500 and 1,000 Rupee Banknotes to Fight Corruption - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:45:11] <exec> 08└─It would be easily convertible from old to new provided you can show you paid fucking taxes on the old.
[08:45:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03migz [1807] (Score:2) 02Re:Coincidence again - 06Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe - 1765 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:45:38] <exec> 08└─IANAAP Relativity uses "c", the speed of light as it's "base" unit of measure. If light does change speed then relativity ignores that, since it is using this as a base, the number doesn't change, so the change has to go somewhere else in the equation. This is why space time bends. It might or might...
[08:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score:2) 02Not necessarily coincidence - 06Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:45:41] <exec> 08└─I won't pretend to understand the least of either of those theories, but from that ignorant perspective they do not seem very similar to me at all. Like the paper in the summary, MiHsC also indicates that gravity is in fact an illusion, or more precisely an "emergent phenomenon"
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[09:44:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Goodbye Geeks! - 06Despite Human and Neanderthal Interbreeding, Weak Neanderthal Genes are Being Removed - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:44:27] <exec> 08└─The "we don't need geeks" part. Yes we bloody well do. The idiot who posted that thinks "the internet" is some freestanding entity made of light and divine fiat. Rather than, as anyone who has worked IT knows, a collection of disparate, oftentimes clashing blinkenlit boxes and gorgons' nests of wire...
[09:44:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:Goodbye Geeks! - 06Despite Human and Neanderthal Interbreeding, Weak Neanderthal Genes are Being Removed - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:44:28] <exec> 08└─Why is there no -999999 "Get a Sense of Humor" mod? My god if that stick were any further up your ass, you'd be a head on a pike.
[09:44:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Goodbye Geeks! - 06Despite Human and Neanderthal Interbreeding, Weak Neanderthal Genes are Being Removed - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:44:31] <exec> 08└─Would heaven that post were actually funny. It's not. There's no artistry, no joie d'vivre, no light in it. If wit is intellect dancing, that post was the poster's intellect doing the Achy Breaky Heart in a tattered polyster suit somewhere off in the corner by itself and reminiscing of its peak expe...
[09:44:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Goodbye Geeks! - 06Despite Human and Neanderthal Interbreeding, Weak Neanderthal Genes are Being Removed - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:44:33] <exec> 08└─Not seasoned with enough nigger Jew semen for your taste?
[09:44:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Book - 06Despite Human and Neanderthal Interbreeding, Weak Neanderthal Genes are Being Removed - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:44:40] <exec> 08└─Enoch, Enoch. You know there will be a silly joke about Methuselah when someone mentions a "good book" about long lived humans.
[09:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score:1) 02Re:I forget, Libre or Open - 06When Will Libre Office get a Working Update Tool for Windows? - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:45:07] <exec> 08└─This is correct. However, your choice may be modified by whether you have strong opinions on the software licence used. Apache OpenOffice : Apache OpenOffice releases are made available under the Apache License 2.0. https://www.openoffice.org [openoffice.org] LibreOffice : LibreOffice i...
[09:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Employer owns any software - 06When Will Libre Office get a Working Update Tool for Windows? - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:45:10] <exec> 08└─And possibly overtime for the time spent doing it.
[09:45:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score:2) 02Re:Same as it ever was, - 06When Will Libre Office get a Working Update Tool for Windows? - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:45:13] <exec> 08└─Definitely that, and the proof is that Chrome cannot update itself on Windows. Oh, wait....
[09:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I prefer the minimalist updater - 06When Will Libre Office get a Working Update Tool for Windows? - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:45:17] <exec> 08└─Perhaps web browsers need updaters because they are a major security risk
[09:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score:2) 02Mac OS X too. - 06When Will Libre Office get a Working Update Tool for Windows? - 864 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:19] <exec> 08└─I don't think the problem with the in-app updater is confined to Windows. I don't recall the updaters for either OpenOffice or LibreOffice ever working worth a damn for me on Mac OS X. A ton of improvements over the years were made in the Mac version of OpenOffice, and then many more in LibreOffice,...
[09:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score:2) 02Re:And overseas money? - 06India Scraps Existing 500 and 1,000 Rupee Banknotes to Fight Corruption - 1049 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:45:32] <exec> 08└─All the 8 comments so far are thinking about this as if it USD. It is expected because most of soylentils are american citizens. But it is not USD, it is INR. 1. No body is losing faith in INR. Those who require it, are already using gold jewelry and USD. 2. A lot of voters are bought by corrupt pol...
[09:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score:2) 02Re:Good way to destroy a currency - 06India Scraps Existing 500 and 1,000 Rupee Banknotes to Fight Corruption - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:45:34] <exec> 08└─It is not about corruption, it is about stopping fake currencies that were coming in tons from Pakistan, and since most people don't actually deal in denominations of 500 and 1000, they were getting duped. Point in case, government has already introduced a note of denomination 2000. But anti-corrupt...
[09:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Solar System Sim - 06Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:45:49] <exec> 08└─Then your model probably doesn't conserve energy well enough.
[09:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Brutal illusion - 06Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe - 764 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:45:57] <exec> 08└─No. Emergent is something different than "caused by" or "coupled to". As an example, the American two-party system is an emergent phenomenon of the US election system: Nowhere in the constitution or elsewhere it is prescribed that there shall be only two big parties. But the way the system works, mo...
[09:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Coincidence again - 06Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:46:03] <exec> 08└─I always wondered about that:if a particle of light is travelling towards the sun, should it not accelerate as it approaches the sun and then decelerate as it leaves?
[09:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Coincidence again - 06Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:46:06] <exec> 08└─Neutrinos still are limited by the speed of light. Le Sage theory would require speeds far above the speed of light, which today is much less acceptable than it was back then.
[09:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:Coincidence again - 06Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:46:09] <exec> 08└─IANAPhysicist, but what you say sounds a lot like figure 5 in Verlinde's article. However, as I understand it, he doesn't talk about radiation pressure from the outer edge, but that when a mass exists in the universe, it removes a bit of the universe's entropy, i.e. creates a bit of "quantum informa...
[09:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Letter to the editors - 06Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:13] <exec> 08└─Hey editors, what happened to my submission? I was posting basically the same story as Sarasani. I thought it was quite a scoop.
[09:51:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:re Border - 06What Happens When Crowds Try to Flee for Their Lives - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:51:34] <exec> 08└─For me, the overriding message from Trump's victory is that they should not expect to continue to achieve victory for the elites at the expense of regular people. Somehow, tonight, against all odds, the American people evaded the total blockade of the Establishment and the media.
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[10:44:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02Thank Goodness for Semi-conductor-free - 06Semiconductor-Free Microelectronics Possible with Metamaterials - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:21] <exec> 08└─Thank goodness : now we can get rid of those diabolical semiconductors. I've dreamed of this day, they never did any good. Now hopefully we will see "semiconductor-free" merchandise alongside "sugar-free", "salt-free", "preservative-free", all in the "Free-from" aisle that trendy supermarkets now ha...
[10:44:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Or just move... - 06Optimal Travel Speed to Minimize Air Pollution Inhalation - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:28] <exec> 08└─... somewhere nice, with affordable housing, decent schools. All of this means not the city in my experience.
[10:44:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Good for him - 06Optimal Travel Speed to Minimize Air Pollution Inhalation - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:31] <exec> 08└─If he keeps plugging away for long enough at his hypothesis, he will discover public transport. Where breathing rate is kept minimal because passengers are resting, and the modest CO2 output from the bus engine can be shared between 50 passengers so the average CO2 per passenger is less than walking...
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[10:44:33] <exec> 08└─and the modest CO2 output from the bus engine can be shared between 50 passengers Its actually shared with the 50 people in cars and on bikes behind the bus. However, now our buses in London are hybrids, it is also a lot less than it was. The biggest cause of pollution is cyclists - who force drive...
[10:44:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02They'd Fall Over - 06Optimal Travel Speed to Minimize Air Pollution Inhalation - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:35] <exec> 08└─2-6 km/h for walking and 12-20 km/h for cycling
[10:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03r1348 [5988] (Score:2) 02Re:Deltas are probably rare in Linux - 06When Will Libre Office get a Working Update Tool for Windows? - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:45:18] <exec> 08└─Well that's ArchLinux's problem, deltarpms are a reality since many years, Fedora implemented it in 2009: https://fedoraproject.org [fedoraproject.org]
[10:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Employer owns any software - 06When Will Libre Office get a Working Update Tool for Windows? - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:45:31] <exec> 08└─That's unlikely to be an upside in practice. Your employer owning everything you create even in your spare time seems almost as bad as slavery (in fact I think in some places slaves didn't have that part as bad).
[10:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score:2) 02Re:Employer owns any software - 06When Will Libre Office get a Working Update Tool for Windows? - 1016 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:45:33] <exec> 08└─If you've never heard of it, where have you been? Such clauses have been standard in employment contracts since at least the 1980s when I started work. It is also the reason why some free software projects or organisations (e.g GNU / FSF) require, and have done for decades, employer disclaimers as w...
[10:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Re:Same as it ever was, - 06When Will Libre Office get a Working Update Tool for Windows? - 1060 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:45:37] <exec> 08└─I'd much prefer if it every damn app on the planet didn't need an update service running constantly in order to do so. Chrome is the prime culprit here (uses Google Update service). Along with Adobe software. Just because you're an installed app does not give you arbitrary permission to install perm...
[10:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02libreoffice junkie... - 06When Will Libre Office get a Working Update Tool for Windows? - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:42] <exec> 08└─I've used it alot - ditched windoze 10 years ago so no other choice :-/ The thing about the installation (in debian anyway) is that it will install itself parallel to whatever else you have - so they never clash... I think once it becomes stable, they might try inline updates. For now, I'm not bothe...
[10:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Maybe the little icon should disappear - 06When Will Libre Office get a Working Update Tool for Windows? - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:44] <exec> 08└─Seeing how often LibreOffice pumps out a new version an automatic update would be nice (I also found the way these offices handle updates strange). But downloading and installing everything for every new version is IMHO too much that such update provides. Maybe it's better to just remove these updat...
[10:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Brutal illusion - 06Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:46:21] <exec> 08└─But how would you define and measure time without processes which involve moving? Time and movement are just two views of the same thing. By default we used to chose the time as primary view, but relativity suggests we should pick the movement for better understanding of the world.
[10:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Good explanation for Dutch readers... - 06Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:36] <exec> 08└─... and with some Gpogle translate maybe as well for others: http://www.quantumuniverse.nl [quantumuniverse.nl] The main (very simplified) idea is that information inherent the fabric of time and space (just like temperature and pressure originate from...
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[11:44:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02did they remember to sanitize - 06GitHub Open-Sources Its Tool to Track and Preview Puppet Changes - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:14] <exec> 08└─or is the commit log full of comments about how github is a shit place to work
[11:44:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:Thank Goodness for Semi-conductor-free - 06Semiconductor-Free Microelectronics Possible with Metamaterials - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:44:22] <exec> 08└─Conflict free? [intel.com]
[11:44:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02Re:Good for him - 06Optimal Travel Speed to Minimize Air Pollution Inhalation - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:44:32] <exec> 08└─The biggest cause of pollution is cyclists - who force drivers of large vehicles to drive in a lower gear
[11:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Backcrossing - 06Despite Human and Neanderthal Interbreeding, Weak Neanderthal Genes are Being Removed - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:56] <exec> 08└─So basically what they found is what plant geneticists describe as backcrossing.
[11:45:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mac OS X too. - 06When Will Libre Office get a Working Update Tool for Windows? - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:45:38] <exec> 08└─If you get it from the mac app store then you'll get auto updates. https://itunes.apple.com [apple.com]
[11:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02they are working on it - 06When Will Libre Office get a Working Update Tool for Windows? - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:42] <exec> 08└─https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68274 [documentfoundation.org] you can also throw some money at it https://freedomsponsors.org [freedoms...
[11:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Yeah yea, but what does it DO? - 06Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:34] <exec> 08└─And on to the big unasked question: Does this new understanding[1] of gravity allow us to do anything with it? Does it open the door for some kind of technological gravity manipulation? Because that would be, you know, pretty cool. [1] Assuming this hypothesis turns out to be accurate.
[11:48:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm so excited - 06Dubai to Study Possible Hyperloop Route to Abu Dhabi - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:48:09] <exec> 08└─My personal take is one that was floated on this forum some time ago: That Hyperloop is simply a precursor to some kind of orbital launch system to help Elon get to Mars. Think about it, if you build a big/ fast enough "hyperloop" in an equatorial location, open it up at one end and point it towards...
[11:49:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Cultural appropriation - 06And the winner is..... - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:49:06] <exec> 08└─Non-partisan redistricting should be mandated whenever we get around to enacting the American Constitution 2.0.
[11:49:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re: F You from Flyover Country - 06And the winner is..... - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:49:23] <exec> 08└─No kidding. My second-in-command at the Clinton Foundation, no less, was Irish and it took him 15 years to get his green card, and that was without having overstayed a visa or anything like that.
[11:49:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re: F You from Flyover Country - 06And the winner is..... - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:49:59] <exec> 08└─I shared in August after taking the family on an 8,500 mile roadtrip around America (we didn't go through the deep South, but went everywhere else) that we saw Trump signs everywhere, more than we could count, and not a single sign for Hillary, even in the heart of the bluest of the blue (Madison, W...
[11:50:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Marand [1081] 02Re: F You from Flyover Country - 06And the winner is..... - 1272 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:50:05] <exec> 08└─I think the most interesting thing about this comment thread is the logic leap that took you from someone using a fairly common exclamation (one with a positive meaning, no less; it's used as a compliment) to you being insulted because it had the word "girl" in it. You just automatically assumed tha...
[11:50:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re: F You from Flyover Country - 06And the winner is..... - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:50:09] <exec> 08└─No, very much male. My reaction was born of frustration at trying very hard to give even the most vituperative members of the SN community their due on an emotionally charged subject, only to have it repaid with churlish, sophomoric quips.
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[12:44:15] <exec> 08└─Damned Roombas, takin' our cleaning jobs. Sooner Donald ships 'em all back to Roomb the better.
[12:44:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Microelectronics - 06Semiconductor-Free Microelectronics Possible with Metamaterials - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:31] <exec> 08└─Microelectronics [youtube.com].
[12:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score:2) 02Chocolatey - 06When Will Libre Office get a Working Update Tool for Windows? - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:52] <exec> 08└─Chocolatey [chocolatey.org] is a package manager / repository for Windows. LibreOffice 5.2.3 [chocolatey.org] is in it. If application installers would default to installing Chocolatey (if not already installed) and invoking it to install the application. Running updates would be as simple as on Lin...
[12:50:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: F You from Flyover Country - 06And the winner is..... - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:19] <exec> 08└─The other possibility is maybe you're an asshole? Just putting it out there.
[12:50:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re: F You from Flyover Country - 06And the winner is..... - 707 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:27] <exec> 08└─As a fellow former-country mouse and current city mouse I'd agree. The country mouse skills he was talking about can be practiced in the city, too, it's just that the local culture thinks they're weird. I took my kids walking in Prospect Park, in Brooklyn, last summer. My neighbor came along with hi...
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[13:44:14] <exec> 08└─Damned Roombas, takin' our cleaning jobs. Sooner Donald ships 'em all back to Roomb the better.
[13:44:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Build a (very low) wall - 06 iRobot Says 20 Percent of the World’s Vacuums Are Now Robots - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:44:15] <exec> 08└─Don't even need a low wall. Some rugs and lazy bachelor living (i.e.- schmutz on the floor) is enough to confound them. Get to play find the roomba coming home some nights after the battery died trying to escape the maze of dirty laundry.
[13:44:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Re:Build a (very low) wall - 06 iRobot Says 20 Percent of the World’s Vacuums Are Now Robots - 1102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:44:17] <exec> 08└─I don't have a Roomba, but I have a similar cheaper thing that just moves at random and has brushes to sweep things into its body. It tends to get stuck behind objects, it very much likes the bit behind the bed which is only just wide enough to get into but not quite to get out of in any reasonable...
[13:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They'd Fall Over - 06Optimal Travel Speed to Minimize Air Pollution Inhalation - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:44:45] <exec> 08└─Try walking in a major city barefoot.
[13:44:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Larger risk/benefit anal - 06Optimal Travel Speed to Minimize Air Pollution Inhalation - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:46] <exec> 08└─would likely show however that the extra exercise one gets while moving faster will likely offset any damage done by the inhaled nasties kinda like even though mothers milk contains fat soluble poisons that get transferred to the child, it still is net positive to breast freed
[13:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:Book - 06Despite Human and Neanderthal Interbreeding, Weak Neanderthal Genes are Being Removed - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:45:09] <exec> 08└─You'll have to explain that one to me ....
[13:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Desler [880] (Score:2) 02Re:Finally! - 06YouTube Adds Support for High Dynamic Range Videos - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:45:20] <exec> 08└─You mean that phony 94 million number that is mostly retired elderly people, the disabled and children?
[13:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Chocolatey - 06When Will Libre Office get a Working Update Tool for Windows? - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:45:59] <exec> 08└─Alternatively, you can use Ninite [ninite.com] to update LibreOffice. In my experience, Ninite is far more on top of keeping everything up to date than Chocolatey, and is less likely to have problems with the installers. I always use Ninite for the applications it supports, and Chocolatey for everyt...
[13:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Another step in the War On Cash - 06India Scraps Existing 500 and 1,000 Rupee Banknotes to Fight Corruption - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:46:16] <exec> 08└─And the way they get rid of cash is.. by taking in cash and giving you cash in return! Brilliant!
[13:49:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Finally... - 06And the winner is..... - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:10] <exec> 08└─From the nepotism standpoint, I'm glad that Clinton didn't win. I'm also surprised that the DNC would even try to field a candidate from a "dysfunctional marriage" - that would have been unthinkable in the 1970s - though Trump's "family values" should put a cork in whatever that faction of right win...
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[14:44:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02This sounds exactly like... - 06Researchers Find Path for Light Through Opaque Materials - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:22] <exec> 08└─how polarizing filters work. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[14:44:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not homogenous - 06Researchers Find Path for Light Through Opaque Materials - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:23] <exec> 08└─an inhomogeneous structure
[14:44:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02PR for dummies - 06Researchers Find Path for Light Through Opaque Materials - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:25] <exec> 08└─Prestigious journals don't need the adjective "prestigious" - typical phys.org PR piece.
[14:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Re:Build a (very low) wall - 06 iRobot Says 20 Percent of the World’s Vacuums Are Now Robots - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:44:36] <exec> 08└─if you go to the effort to make it work properly, you might as wall have just done its job in the first place.
[14:44:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Build a (very low) wall - 06 iRobot Says 20 Percent of the World’s Vacuums Are Now Robots - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:44:39] <exec> 08└─To be fair, I don't think a Roomba was really intended as a complete cleaning unit. It is more touch-up in-between (or for very specific circumstances) It does raise the question however if it is worth the price. Bought it, so that's a done deal, but I wouldn't buy another one unless it was more a d...
[14:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03MadTinfoilHatter [4635] (Score:3, Informative) 02Mostly good, but YMMV - 06 iRobot Says 20 Percent of the World’s Vacuums Are Now Robots - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:41] <exec> 08└─Do any Soylentils have a Roomba or some other automated cleaning system? What has your experience been like? How well does it work? What improvements are needed?
[14:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mostly good, but YMMV - 06 iRobot Says 20 Percent of the World’s Vacuums Are Now Robots - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:44:43] <exec> 08└─I've been thinking about getting a Roomba for a few years now. The only thing that makes me hesitate is that I have this nasty dust mite allergy. I'm concerned that it may make my allergies worse by kicking up dust (I can't even use a normal vacuum cleaner due to the dust). Has anyone here with dus...
[14:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Real Journal? - 06Optimal Travel Speed to Minimize Air Pollution Inhalation - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:14] <exec> 08└─"International Journal of Sustainable Transportation" sounds like one of those journals made to prove creationism is true by begging the question, except this one is about CO2 instead.
[14:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Goodbye Geeks! - 06Despite Human and Neanderthal Interbreeding, Weak Neanderthal Genes are Being Removed - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:32] <exec> 08└─Why isn't there a "-1 Fractally Wrong" mod?
[14:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Neanderthal genes may be on the way out - 06Despite Human and Neanderthal Interbreeding, Weak Neanderthal Genes are Being Removed - 1907 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:35] <exec> 08└─I find it entirely crazy that people call Trump stupid. Here's a guy who managed to hijack a political party, do the opposite of what everyone on earth said to do, had the media almost unilaterally rail against him, and still get elected That's a whole lot of things, but that's not stupid. If you ca...
[14:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Neanderthal genes may be on the way out - 06Despite Human and Neanderthal Interbreeding, Weak Neanderthal Genes are Being Removed - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:37] <exec> 08└─Here's a message from the heartland: We're sick of your shit and smug ass attitude. Keep it up and we'll get Ann Coulter elected as the first female president. And Rush Limbaugh as VP.
[14:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Book - 06Despite Human and Neanderthal Interbreeding, Weak Neanderthal Genes are Being Removed - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:45] <exec> 08└─I always liked the Penn Jillette gem from the show BS: "Got your good book? Put it away and get out your damn Bible!"
[14:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:I forget, Libre or Open - 06When Will Libre Office get a Working Update Tool for Windows? - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:46:14] <exec> 08└─WordPerfect does line numbering the way that lawyers need it done ("pleading line numbering"). Courts have very picky requirements about line numbering, and Word never did it well. WordPerfect supports it out of the box. Some academics and architects still use WordPerfect for right-hand margin line...
[14:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheReaperD [5556] (Score:2) 02Re:I forget, Libre or Open - 06When Will Libre Office get a Working Update Tool for Windows? - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:46:19] <exec> 08└─The majority of the world doesn't care about licence details. Few people even care about the differences between open and closed licences and that's the difference between being beholden to a corporate overlord or not. To be nitpicky about the details of two truly open licences means you're either a...
[14:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02PPA's and Synaptic package manager... - 06When Will Libre Office get a Working Update Tool for Windows? - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:38] <exec> 08└─Ubuntu and some other Linux flavors have it figured out. Why is it so hard for Mickeysoft to update all the software on Windows computers and not just the OS? Windows wants to be user friendly, but then you run into this problem, along with all the rest of the problems with the Windows chrome-plated...
[14:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Oldest trick in the book - 06India Scraps Existing 500 and 1,000 Rupee Banknotes to Fight Corruption - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:46:51] <exec> 08└─Ireland did something similar after some bank robberies by the IRA. It worked very well: they vast majority of the stolen money never entered circulation.
[14:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Solar System Sim - 06Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:47:14] <exec> 08└─Yes, it is angular momentum that is usually the culprit.
[14:48:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Pino P [4721] 02Sally-Anne test - 06Apes Appear to Think about Others' Thoughts - 575 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:48:09] <exec> 08└─Are you referring to hairless apes with autism? Because the false belief test in this experiment was used to diagnose autism by Simon Baron Cohen, cousin of the Borat star. He called it the Sally-Anne test [educateautism.com]. It's interesting that chimps and bonobos give the "neurotypical" response...
[14:48:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Spaceship of Theseus - 06Modified X-37B Spaceplane Could Act as "Astronaut Ambulance" for the ISS - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:48:21] <exec> 08└─I think X37C has been in the works for some time now. That's basically what the article is talking about.
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[15:44:26] <exec> 08└─I saw a three Roombas sexually assaulting a white college girl once. They were dealing drugs too.
[15:44:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Build a (very low) wall - 06 iRobot Says 20 Percent of the World’s Vacuums Are Now Robots - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:44:27] <exec> 08└─Doubtful. It was more likely STEM grant for a sexbot* experiment gone awry. It has a 14 inch attachment AND vacuums.
[15:44:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03MadTinfoilHatter [4635] (Score:2) 02Re:Mostly good, but YMMV - 06 iRobot Says 20 Percent of the World’s Vacuums Are Now Robots - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:44:31] <exec> 08└─I'm concerned that it may make my allergies worse by kicking up dust (I can't even use a normal vacuum cleaner due to the dust).
[15:44:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The numbers in the summary makes no sense - 06 iRobot Says 20 Percent of the World’s Vacuums Are Now Robots - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:34] <exec> 08└─The numbers in the summary makes no sense: Total robots: 100 * 14,000,000 / 70 = 20,000,000 Total vacuums: 100 * 20,000,000 / 20 = 100,000,000 Only 100 million vacuums worldwide?
[15:44:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score:2) 02Re:The numbers in the summary makes no sense - 06 iRobot Says 20 Percent of the World’s Vacuums Are Now Robots - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:44:36] <exec> 08└─Usually when people refer to having a percentage of the market, they're referring to sales. So, currently, say last quarter, robot vacuums were 20% of the total sold, and Roombas were 70% of that 20%.
[15:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:Larger risk/benefit anal - 06Optimal Travel Speed to Minimize Air Pollution Inhalation - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:06] <exec> 08└─unsure how this helps sticking things in a rectum
[15:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Neanderthal genes may be on the way out - 06Despite Human and Neanderthal Interbreeding, Weak Neanderthal Genes are Being Removed - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:30] <exec> 08└─I think the GGP was referring to Trump's voters rather than, necessarily to Trump ("I love uneducated people") himself. Trump is a professional con man; that's the line of business he went into, basically.
[15:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03termigator [4271] (Score:2) 02Re:Neanderthal genes may be on the way out - 06Despite Human and Neanderthal Interbreeding, Weak Neanderthal Genes are Being Removed - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:31] <exec> 08└─You just need to be clever emotionally, i.e. the ability to tap into people's emotional brain so it overrides the rational part. For the vast majority of humans, emotion trumps (pun alert) rationality. If you analyze elections, the candidate that can control the electorate's emotions has a good chan...
[15:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Book - 06Despite Human and Neanderthal Interbreeding, Weak Neanderthal Genes are Being Removed - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:40] <exec> 08└─Sub-Saharan Africans do not have any neanderthal genes in them making them pure humans. They seem to be pretty fit judging by their ability to win marathons and become good athletes.
[15:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02the inverse - 06Despite Human and Neanderthal Interbreeding, Weak Neanderthal Genes are Being Removed - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:43] <exec> 08└─"Despite Homo Sapiens and Neanderthal interbreeding that has been detected using evidence from modern genomes, weak homo sapien genes are gradually being removed by natural selection, according to researchers:" The related reading on the TFA had a lot of titles where if you changed out neanderthal f...
[15:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:I prefer the minimalist updater - 06When Will Libre Office get a Working Update Tool for Windows? - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:27] <exec> 08└─Matter of opinion, but I prefer software that just reminds you of an update.
[15:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:libreoffice junkie... - 06When Will Libre Office get a Working Update Tool for Windows? - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:31] <exec> 08└─I've used it alot - ditched windoze 10 years ago so no other choice :-/
[15:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:PPA's and Synaptic package manager... - 06When Will Libre Office get a Working Update Tool for Windows? - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:39] <exec> 08└─Ubuntu and some other Linux flavors have it figured out. Why is it so hard for Mickeysoft to update all the software on Windows computers and not just the OS?
[15:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02you have rights - 06When Will Libre Office get a Working Update Tool for Windows? - 792 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:41] <exec> 08└─no, your employer does NOT own everything you do. even if they stated as such (quite illegally) in some stupid contract. employers love to sucker you into signing illegal things and unless you call them on it, they think they won; but if challenged in court, they'll lose, dollars to donuts. if you u...
[15:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02They're aware of this issue - 06When Will Libre Office get a Working Update Tool for Windows? - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:43] <exec> 08└─TLDR: it's complicated see https://wiki.documentfoundation.org [documentfoundation.org]
[15:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Hey look, an anonymous user demanding features - 06When Will Libre Office get a Working Update Tool for Windows? - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:45] <exec> 08└─is not really worth having at all
[15:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02Re:And overseas money? - 06India Scraps Existing 500 and 1,000 Rupee Banknotes to Fight Corruption - 675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:47:00] <exec> 08└─Granted that I'm rich when I travel to India, and this represents the urban experience, but 500 and 1000 rupee notes are mostly what you're going to get out of an ATM, so they can't be too uncommon in transactions these days. I remember ten years ago someone like a rickshaw driver would absolutely g...
[15:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Brutal illusion - 06Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:47:25] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, a bit early to go to the press with it when you're still in the hypothesis stage, eh?
[15:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Brutal illusion - 06Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:47:29] <exec> 08└─But how would you define and measure time without processes which involve moving?
[15:47:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Coincidence again - 06Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:47:42] <exec> 08└─Anti-de Sitter space is that part of the room with no chairs.
[15:47:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"much anticipated" - 06Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:47] <exec> 08└─By whom?
[15:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score:2) 02Re:Meth 2.0 - 06US Military Successfully Tests Electrical Brain Stimulation to Enhance Staff Skills - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:47:58] <exec> 08└─The Wehrmacht wrote the book on cranked-up troops. We copied it. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[15:48:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Goodness, I need to take a break - 06Apes Appear to Think about Others' Thoughts - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:20] <exec> 08└─I originally read this headline as Ads Appear to Think about Others' Thoughts and the previous one as US Military Successfully Tests Electrical Brain Stimulation to Enhance Staff Kills.
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[16:44:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The pick of the litter - 06Adidas: Making One Million Pairs of its Much-Anticipated Sneakers from Recycled Ocean Plastic - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:22] <exec> 08└─(cue scratch music)
[16:44:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Uncle_Al [1108] (Score:2) 02how advanced - 06Adidas: Making One Million Pairs of its Much-Anticipated Sneakers from Recycled Ocean Plastic - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:23] <exec> 08└─next up, flip-flops out of US Army tires from the Vietnamese War
[16:44:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Mining human garbage - 06Adidas: Making One Million Pairs of its Much-Anticipated Sneakers from Recycled Ocean Plastic - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:25] <exec> 08└─This will be a (collection of ) growth industries in the 21st century, and not too soon either. There will be multiple benefits to society, the most important of which will be the gainful employment of software engineers using interesting technologies. j/k So, good work on Adidas' part.
[16:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Build a (very low) wall - 06 iRobot Says 20 Percent of the World’s Vacuums Are Now Robots - 996 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:44:47] <exec> 08└─happy owner of a cheap roomba knockoff ($150 vs $1000!) which works GREAT for our circumstances... we have hardwood or tile floors throughout, with only a few flat/non-plush rugs... with two dogs and ourselves traipsing in and out, we are constantly having gritty, hairy floors, until the once every...
[16:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:The numbers in the summary makes no sense - 06 iRobot Says 20 Percent of the World’s Vacuums Are Now Robots - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:44:55] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but what percent of square footage is done by robot? Probably not much.
[16:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 0220% market share != 20% of all vacuums - 06 iRobot Says 20 Percent of the World’s Vacuums Are Now Robots - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:57] <exec> 08└─iRobot Says 20 Percent of the World’s Vacuums Are Now Robots
[16:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:2) 02No bus, no broadband - 06Optimal Travel Speed to Minimize Air Pollution Inhalation - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:23] <exec> 08└─In many places, moving to "not the city" also means moving out of range of public transit between home and work as well as moving out of range of fiber, cable, or high-speed DSL Internet access suitable for working from home. A rural satellite or cellular ISP's 10 GB/mo cap with $5 per GB overages i...
[16:45:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:2) 02Dead red - 06Optimal Travel Speed to Minimize Air Pollution Inhalation - 845 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:28] <exec> 08└─One workaround that I've seen in some parts of my home town is to reserve a lane on each side of the road for narrow, slow-moving vehicles. In my experience, the practical problem with city cycling is the dead red [pineight.com], or a demand-actuated traffic signal with an induction loop that fails...
[16:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Good for him - 06Optimal Travel Speed to Minimize Air Pollution Inhalation - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:30] <exec> 08└─Those hybrid buses also have significant negative environmental impact, it's just not in-your-face diesel soot.
[16:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:2) 02Re:Good for him - 06Optimal Travel Speed to Minimize Air Pollution Inhalation - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:32] <exec> 08└─What's the emissions inhalation cost of waiting 59 minutes after missing one bus before catching the next, or of waiting 36 hours between the last bus on Saturday evening and the first bus on Monday morning? Source: Fort Wayne Citilink Hours of Operation [fwcitilink.com] and Schedules and Route Time...
[16:45:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:1) 02Re:Real Journal? - 06Optimal Travel Speed to Minimize Air Pollution Inhalation - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:39] <exec> 08└─Even if fossil fuels did not cause global warming at all, burning them is not sustainable. We are essentially using up stored energy from millions of years ago instead of energy captured in the last 2 years or so. I guess by that argument nuclear power is not really sustainable either, but it is com...
[16:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Real Journal? - 06Optimal Travel Speed to Minimize Air Pollution Inhalation - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:41] <exec> 08└─We are essentially using up stored energy from millions of years ago I've never looked into it but I imagine that is another theory that is way less controversial than it should be.
[16:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Neanderthal genes may be on the way out - 06Despite Human and Neanderthal Interbreeding, Weak Neanderthal Genes are Being Removed - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:05] <exec> 08└─Oh dear, pop-psychology. If this were true, why weren't there mass defectors from the DNC to vote for Trump? I mean he is skilled at manipulating the emotional part of the brain, which over-rides rationality, so initial biases shouldn't matter much. Are Democratic voters less emotional than Republic...
[16:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Neanderthal genes may be on the way out - 06Despite Human and Neanderthal Interbreeding, Weak Neanderthal Genes are Being Removed - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:08] <exec> 08└─another delusional socialist slave. trump is better than hillary (i voted for johnson's dumb ass. it doesn't matter. it's long term strategy). brexit was the right thing to do. why people think a bunch of un-elected bureaucrats in brussels is more accountable/benign than elected local bureaucrats is...
[16:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Finally! - 06YouTube Adds Support for High Dynamic Range Videos - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:26] <exec> 08└─It'll be the dream of any politician: a whole country to run without any people messing up opinion polls and elections.
[16:46:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I forget, Libre or Open - 06When Will Libre Office get a Working Update Tool for Windows? - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:52] <exec> 08└─sometimes it's not about self-righteousness. sometimes it's about not being a spineless, ignorant slave so you can leave the world a better place than you found it.
[16:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Same as it ever was, - 06When Will Libre Office get a Working Update Tool for Windows? - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:02] <exec> 08└─the reason apps want to update like that is b/c you're on a slaveware platform without proper package management and that crapware is insecure as shit and it needs to update so it doesn't get your whole pos "os" hosed. you're blaming the apps that are actually acting responsibly about their crapware...
[16:47:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03lgw [2836] (Score:2) 02Re:Solar System Sim - 06Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:55] <exec> 08└─This is what I care about: Run a solar system simulation with this model that includes a propagation time for gravity. Can it be done?
[16:47:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03lgw [2836] (Score:2) 02Re:Brutal illusion - 06Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:59] <exec> 08└─I'm quite skeptical of this because is claims to explain one part of what dark matter explains without explaining the rest. Immediately my crackpot alarms sound. Dark matter explains: galaxy/cluster rotation rates and the distribution of matter in the early universe and gravitational lensing where...
[16:48:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yeah yea, but what does it DO? - 06Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:48:22] <exec> 08└─this is what i wanted to know. will this allow anti-gravity boots, planes, etc.
[16:48:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02really - 06Apes Appear to Think about Others' Thoughts - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:56] <exec> 08└─does it really take until 2016 and a experiment to notice something anyone with common sense and 5 minutes should be able to figure out? no wonder w don't have shit cured... the apes are the scientists.
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[16:51:10] <exec> 08└─the who-cares-about-existing-Americans attitude To be fair, that is the single most important founding principle of the USA.
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[17:44:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Battle of eons still playing out - 06Fast Bats and Fast Birds - 1361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:17] <exec> 08└─Mammals and reptiles have been battling each other for supremacy for hundreds of millions of years* in roughly the same niches. It seems after each major extinction event they trade places in terms of dominance, or at least the balance shifts. After the "dinosaur asteroid" 65 mil years ago, for a wh...
[17:44:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The pick of the litter - 06Adidas: Making One Million Pairs of its Much-Anticipated Sneakers from Recycled Ocean Plastic - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:44:25] <exec> 08└─"Shoes for industry, shoes for the dead." https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[17:44:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"All content is behind scripts" - 06Adidas: Making One Million Pairs of its Much-Anticipated Sneakers from Recycled Ocean Plastic - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:29] <exec> 08└─http://archive.is/JE01P [archive.is] I use archive.is to read scriptwalled pages
[17:44:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"All content is behind scripts" - 06Adidas: Making One Million Pairs of its Much-Anticipated Sneakers from Recycled Ocean Plastic - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:44:31] <exec> 08└─I have noscript set to block everything and the original page loads well enough to read it without problem. But I also have requestpolicy blocking all 3rd-party content too, so its probably some css or other crap from a CDN that is making the page unreadable for the submitter.
[17:44:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Decay - 06Adidas: Making One Million Pairs of its Much-Anticipated Sneakers from Recycled Ocean Plastic - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:34] <exec> 08└─A large portion of plastics are recycled soon after their primary use is over. Does photodecay from sitting in the ocean for years affect the long-term stability of the final product? The prototype has only been around for a year now, which doesn't give a lot of useful data here. Also who the hell c...
[17:44:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Decay - 06Adidas: Making One Million Pairs of its Much-Anticipated Sneakers from Recycled Ocean Plastic - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:44:36] <exec> 08└─Also who the hell came up with that name?
[17:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Build a (very low) wall - 06 iRobot Says 20 Percent of the World’s Vacuums Are Now Robots - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:44:58] <exec> 08└─> a cheap roomba knockoff Brand/model?
[17:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Build a (very low) wall - 06 iRobot Says 20 Percent of the World’s Vacuums Are Now Robots - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:01] <exec> 08└─They weren't sexually assaulting her. They were just touching her... uh... cat? :}
[17:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:Mostly good, but YMMV - 06 iRobot Says 20 Percent of the World’s Vacuums Are Now Robots - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:06] <exec> 08└─They're not self-emptying? D:
[17:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Mostly good, but YMMV - 06 iRobot Says 20 Percent of the World’s Vacuums Are Now Robots - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:09] <exec> 08└─Had an early model Rumba. Unreliable. We never sought a replacement when it finally crapped out. Simply not worth the aggravation.
[17:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Battery [Re:Mostly good, but YMMV] - 06 iRobot Says 20 Percent of the World’s Vacuums Are Now Robots - 1040 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:11] <exec> 08└─This basically matches my experience also, per basic models. Battery issues are the biggest bottleneck we see. They only last about 8 months for us. If I used the timing tricks mentioned by the parent post, they'd probably last longer, but I forget to. I wish they had smarter obstacle detection to a...
[17:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Yeah, right - 06Semiconductor-Free Microelectronics Possible with Metamaterials - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:32] <exec> 08└─So they developed "something without semiconductors" that is made by putting layers of "something" on a silicon die, the layers being isolated by silicon oxide. Did I somehow miss the part about silicon not being semiconducting anymore?? Don't get me wrong: I'm not saying that the actual science is...
[17:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Larger risk/benefit anal - 06Optimal Travel Speed to Minimize Air Pollution Inhalation - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:53] <exec> 08└─How does this benefit sodomy?
[17:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02How about ... - 06Optimal Travel Speed to Minimize Air Pollution Inhalation - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:57] <exec> 08└─Please excuse my dumb question: how about reducing air pollution instead? Reducing air pollution reduces the intake of pollutants at all speeds! I know, I know, totally novel approach, does not make America great again.
[17:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Neanderthal genes may be on the way out - 06Despite Human and Neanderthal Interbreeding, Weak Neanderthal Genes are Being Removed - 722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:23] <exec> 08└─And there are really only 3 emotional hooks that most politicians use: - Fear: For the Trump campaign, that was fear of foreigners and . For the Clinton campaign, that was fear of bigots of various stripes. - Hope: This was most famously the hallmark of the Obama campaign. It was also used quite eff...
[17:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Neanderthal genes may be on the way out - 06Despite Human and Neanderthal Interbreeding, Weak Neanderthal Genes are Being Removed - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:25] <exec> 08└─For the Trump campaign, that was fear of foreigners and .
[17:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:libreoffice junkie... - 06When Will Libre Office get a Working Update Tool for Windows? - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:47:29] <exec> 08└─I've used it alot - ditched windoze 10 years ago so no other choice :-/
[17:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:PPA's and Synaptic package manager... - 06When Will Libre Office get a Working Update Tool for Windows? - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:47:37] <exec> 08└─What to update when should always be the user's choice. Having Windows update everything automatically is a recipe for disaster.
[17:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Oldest trick in the book - 06India Scraps Existing 500 and 1,000 Rupee Banknotes to Fight Corruption - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:47:52] <exec> 08└─I just took $1,000 out of the ATM and put it in my sock drawer. I do this almost every month. How do I prove I paid taxes on it? How can I even prove the ATM receipt is for the specific bills I have?
[17:47:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Re:Oldest trick in the book - 06India Scraps Existing 500 and 1,000 Rupee Banknotes to Fight Corruption - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:47:54] <exec> 08└─And apparently $1 and $2 Canadian bills in mint condition can fetch a good price these days:
[17:47:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Oldest trick in the book - 06India Scraps Existing 500 and 1,000 Rupee Banknotes to Fight Corruption - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:47:57] <exec> 08└─I've also noticed that once the new $100's came out, the old bills started becoming scarce. I think the Federal Reserve is withdrawing and shredding the old ones as they receive them, and replacing them with the new ones. My housemate pays the rent in cash and I almost always receive new bills.
[17:49:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Natural selection - 06US Military Successfully Tests Electrical Brain Stimulation to Enhance Staff Skills - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:49:02] <exec> 08└─> Kadosh urged people not to use brain stimulators at home I would have said: "do not use on non-legally-consenting parties". I'm all for allowing people who believe in pseudo-science (or extrapolate tiny findings) to blow up their own brains in peace. The home version of the machine should come wit...
[17:49:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Natural selection - 06US Military Successfully Tests Electrical Brain Stimulation to Enhance Staff Skills - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:49:03] <exec> 08└─> are you really so callous that you wouldn't give people the best advice you can? Wrong week for that. People do stupid shit regardless of how many times they're told about consequences. So you tell them not to hurt someone else who's unfit to consent, and you make sure to provide them the means to...
[17:51:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score:2) 02Re:Finally... - 06And the winner is..... - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:17] <exec> 08└─...especially less disappointed than when they re-elected him as he led the long war...
[17:52:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score:2) 02Re: F You from Flyover Country - 06And the winner is..... - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:29] <exec> 08└─This is true. I live in Seattle. During primary season I saw MAYBE 1 Hillary Sign for every 10+ Bernie signs. Considering the state when like 70% Bernie during the caucus this was not surprising. Even after the primary though, those Bernie signs were never replaced with Hillary signs. By this past...
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[18:44:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Battle of eons still playing out - 06Fast Bats and Fast Birds - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:33] <exec> 08└─Seems bats can't spot or escape airborne predators as well as birds can: https://www.researchgate.net [researchgate.net]
[18:44:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02My AI thinks clarification is necessary. - 06Fast Bats and Fast Birds - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:34] <exec> 08└─Was it an African or European bat?
[18:44:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:My AI thinks clarification is necessary. - 06Fast Bats and Fast Birds - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:36] <exec> 08└─African. They get better performance because they weight-train with coconuts.
[18:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:Decay - 06Adidas: Making One Million Pairs of its Much-Anticipated Sneakers from Recycled Ocean Plastic - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:51] <exec> 08└─I have bad news for you, apparently one year is the target shelf life for new shoes.
[18:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Decay - 06Adidas: Making One Million Pairs of its Much-Anticipated Sneakers from Recycled Ocean Plastic - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:52] <exec> 08└─> Also who the hell came up with that name? The 8-year-old whose side-job was writing someone's campaign speeches.
[18:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Not homogenous - 06Researchers Find Path for Light Through Opaque Materials - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:02] <exec> 08└─"Homogenous" and "heterogenous" are (I was surprised to learn) English words, but they don't pertain to this story. https://en.oxforddictionaries.com [oxforddictionaries.com] http://www.dictionary.com [dictionary.com] http://www.dictionary....
[18:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not homogenous - 06Researchers Find Path for Light Through Opaque Materials - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:05] <exec> 08└─Hell, it isn't our fault dictionaries are written by pompous nitwits who couldn't phonetically spell their way out of a papier bagge.
[18:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Not homogenous - 06Researchers Find Path for Light Through Opaque Materials - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:07] <exec> 08└─What would those guys say about an "opaque" material, when light can go through?
[18:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mostly good, but YMMV - 06 iRobot Says 20 Percent of the World’s Vacuums Are Now Robots - 756 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:30] <exec> 08└─We bought a house from the 1960s and a previous owner had installed a whole-house vacuum system. At the time of purchase I didn't think too much about it, but now I'm completely sold. For people with allergies, this system vacuums in the house, collects most of the dirt in a large canister in the ba...
[18:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:Good for him - 06Optimal Travel Speed to Minimize Air Pollution Inhalation - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:08] <exec> 08└─>The biggest cause of pollution is cyclists That's like saying the biggest cause of murder is vulnerable victims. The biggest cause of pollution (ignoring cows et al.) are the large vehicles.
[18:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Goodbye Geeks! - 06Despite Human and Neanderthal Interbreeding, Weak Neanderthal Genes are Being Removed - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:36] <exec> 08└─What does that taste like? I'm sure you can tell us in vivid, gory detail, AC.
[18:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02applies to you? - 06Despite Human and Neanderthal Interbreeding, Weak Neanderthal Genes are Being Removed - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:46] <exec> 08└─Manipulating emotions: claims that Trump would start nuclear war, or that he is horribly racist, or that he is some other "disqualifying" offensive whatever Vote against your best interest: choosing to endorse corruption, with corruption right at the top where it can set an example for all of Americ...
[18:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Deltas are probably rare in Linux - 06When Will Libre Office get a Working Update Tool for Windows? - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:22] <exec> 08└─Yes, I remembered that from the early times. Back then, with a modem, you saved 1 minute in download time, but it took 10 extra minutes for it to apply the delta. Typical example of a technology that sounds good, but in practice, at least in the way it is implemented, it is utter crap and a waste of...
[18:47:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02Re:I forget, Libre or Open - 06When Will Libre Office get a Working Update Tool for Windows? - 61 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:26] <exec> 08└─One true office to screw us all, and in the darkness ream us.
[18:48:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:you have rights - 06When Will Libre Office get a Working Update Tool for Windows? - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:48:01] <exec> 08└─That's certainly true in California, and as we all know, the world revolves around California. Check your state/federal laws.
[18:48:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score:2) 02Re:Good way to destroy a currency - 06India Scraps Existing 500 and 1,000 Rupee Banknotes to Fight Corruption - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:48:26] <exec> 08└─It also seems to have happened in the UK. I haven't seen a £50 or £100 note in years. If you withdraw that much out of an ATM, it will give you the cash in £20/£10 notes. It varies depending upon the machine. Lots of retailers stopped taking them, presumably due to counterfeiting.
[18:50:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Honestly - 06Method to Detect the Presence of Toxoplasmosis Parasite on Ham - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:50:35] <exec> 08└─It's not that harmless. Infected people have slower reflexes and are 2.5 times as likely to get into car accidents. And get mental illness: http://www.cbsnews.com [cbsnews.com] Allegedly infected women behave more attractive...
[18:50:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm so excited - 06Dubai to Study Possible Hyperloop Route to Abu Dhabi - 1339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:50:59] <exec> 08└─I played with this page for a couple minutes. http://www.ajdesigner.com [ajdesigner.com] Build that open ended hyperloop, capable of accelerating your vehicle at 3 gravities. (I use 3 G as a guideline, because Formula One cars accelerate at roughly 3G, but multipl...
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[19:44:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Insightful) 02Not only was the event a huge loss of face... - 06Samsung Takes Out Full-Page Ads to Apologise for the Note 7 - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:44:34] <exec> 08└─But making this apology publicly is culturally a huge deal for a Korean company. Americans might not get it, but if they are making an apology like this, unlike many american companies, were they to do similiar, it probably has significance (assuming they haven't been too americanized culturally yet...
[19:44:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not only was the event a huge loss of face... - 06Samsung Takes Out Full-Page Ads to Apologise for the Note 7 - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:44:35] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't marketing be making such moves based on the culture of customers (reading US newspapers) instead of local customs? That would imply that either marketing was overridden by top management, or that marketing didn't do their research. Or maybe apologies work. Just because Apple is successful...
[19:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Not only was the event a huge loss of face... - 06Samsung Takes Out Full-Page Ads to Apologise for the Note 7 - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:44:37] <exec> 08└─Nonsense. The ads appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.
[19:44:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wow - 06Samsung Takes Out Full-Page Ads to Apologise for the Note 7 - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:44:40] <exec> 08└─Nor the US President-elect.
[19:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2, Troll) 02Re:Wow - 06Samsung Takes Out Full-Page Ads to Apologise for the Note 7 - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:44:42] <exec> 08└─Enjoy your last few weeks of being able to anonymously and harmlessly slander The Dear Great Leader.
[19:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wow - 06Samsung Takes Out Full-Page Ads to Apologise for the Note 7 - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:44:44] <exec> 08└─Not that he ever made a mistake significant enough to merit an apology, apart from some locker room talk which should never have been recorded.
[19:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wow - 06Samsung Takes Out Full-Page Ads to Apologise for the Note 7 - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:44:46] <exec> 08└─Calling you low-brow would be an insult to low-brows.
[19:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Cursed - 06Samsung Takes Out Full-Page Ads to Apologise for the Note 7 - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:48] <exec> 08└─I loaded their ad on my browser, it crashed my PC, heated the CPU via a tight loop, and caught on fire.
[19:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Build a (very low) wall - 06 iRobot Says 20 Percent of the World’s Vacuums Are Now Robots - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:46] <exec> 08└─ACQUIRE THEM BY THE FELIS CATUS!
[19:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:Mostly good, but YMMV - 06 iRobot Says 20 Percent of the World’s Vacuums Are Now Robots - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:54] <exec> 08└─Doesn't work well in places with fixed obstacles, like stairs, high thresholds, et.c.
[19:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mostly good, but YMMV - 06 iRobot Says 20 Percent of the World’s Vacuums Are Now Robots - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:56] <exec> 08└─I used to have a cat, but not sure what happened to it. but the cat seemed to disappear right around when the Roomba had this big nasty blob of grey hair in it... Just a strange coincidence, I'm sure...
[19:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02No paper bags. - 06 iRobot Says 20 Percent of the World’s Vacuums Are Now Robots - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:03] <exec> 08└─Pros: cheaper to run. Cons: allergy or asthma sufferers beware! You need to manually empty the dust container, generating a cloud of dust to inhale!
[19:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:did they remember to sanitize - 06GitHub Open-Sources Its Tool to Track and Preview Puppet Changes - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:12] <exec> 08└─This is the social era. All work is done in the public eye. Privacy doesn't exist, and work/life balance doesn't exist. The coders who worked on this project knew that disrespecting their employer in any way would be social suicide in their personal lives.
[19:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score:2) 02Re:Yeah, right - 06Semiconductor-Free Microelectronics Possible with Metamaterials - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:22] <exec> 08└─should be fired with prejudice. from a cannon. Perhaps we need a special place in the checkout for "fact free journals"
[19:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score:2) 02Old hat? - 06Semiconductor-Free Microelectronics Possible with Metamaterials - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:24] <exec> 08└─This reminds me of an old technology where the movement of a cloud of electrons in a vacuum was controlled by an electric field (typically around 7V). I seem to recall thorium and heat were often involved.
[19:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How about ... - 06Optimal Travel Speed to Minimize Air Pollution Inhalation - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:50] <exec> 08└─Yeah, take us back to the time when smoke was good. An older friend of mine found a black & white print from early 1900s that showed a large brick factory building along a river. The factory stacks were belching black soot, as was the river boat delivering ore to the factory, as were the trucks taki...
[19:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Neanderthal genes may be on the way out - 06Despite Human and Neanderthal Interbreeding, Weak Neanderthal Genes are Being Removed - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:47:17] <exec> 08└─If this were true, why weren't there mass defectors from the DNC to vote for Trump?
[19:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:the inverse - 06Despite Human and Neanderthal Interbreeding, Weak Neanderthal Genes are Being Removed - 2378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:47:32] <exec> 08└─This post is all a comment on your last sentence, i.e., "Ragging on neanderthals is fine. Warlike, cannibals, raped to interbreed, etc. Completely acceptable. I don't think that the inverse would be tolerated.". But the problem is that those characteristics have not been shown to be characteristic o...
[19:47:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Progress... - 06YouTube Adds Support for High Dynamic Range Videos - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:45] <exec> 08└─I sat in the 4K production truck which did some experiments of soccer in 4K, HDR, and HFR (High Frame Rate) during the last major championship. The professional image specialists in there were pretty clear that HFR and 4K are really cool for sports. But they were the mostly enthusiastic about HDR, b...
[19:48:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Delegation - 06India Scraps Existing 500 and 1,000 Rupee Banknotes to Fight Corruption - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:48:51] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't be surprised to hear that the mafia is digging its own telco infrastructure, but I doubt that racketeering gangs fix potholes and bridges, or help build universities. Idiot.
[19:48:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Oldest trick in the book - 06India Scraps Existing 500 and 1,000 Rupee Banknotes to Fight Corruption - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:48:54] <exec> 08└─> How can I even prove the ATM receipt is for the specific bills I have? That's the easiest part, because the bank has a big database with the serial numbers and your transactions. Until you give them to you dealer or your girl's pimp, those are known as yours.
[19:50:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02I'm a little wary - 06US Military Successfully Tests Electrical Brain Stimulation to Enhance Staff Skills - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:12] <exec> 08└─On the drive home, Robert looked up "JITT." There were millions of hits, in medicine, in military affairs, in drug enforcement. He picked the Global-Security summary off the top of "respected contrarian" sources: JITT, "just-in-time-training" (also, "just-in-time-trainee", when referring to a victi...
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[21:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:3, Informative) 02And yet - 06America Has Never Had So Much TV — Even Hollywood is Overwhelmed - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:55] <exec> 08└─With all these channels, there's nothing to watch besides Friends re-runs, Die Hard, and cooking shows.
[21:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Funny) 02Re:And yet - 06America Has Never Had So Much TV — Even Hollywood is Overwhelmed - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:44:56] <exec> 08└─Soon there will be a whole new season of The Apprentice
[21:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score:2) 02Re:And yet - 06America Has Never Had So Much TV — Even Hollywood is Overwhelmed - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:44:59] <exec> 08└─And Orange is the New Black...
[21:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03BananaPhone [2488] (Score:2) 02Re:And yet - 06America Has Never Had So Much TV — Even Hollywood is Overwhelmed - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:01] <exec> 08└─And the reboots. Oh the AWFUL reboots...
[21:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02Re:And yet - 06America Has Never Had So Much TV — Even Hollywood is Overwhelmed - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:03] <exec> 08└─Reboots? I run Linux and my machine has a uptime of 487 days
[21:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02Re:And yet - 06America Has Never Had So Much TV — Even Hollywood is Overwhelmed - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:05] <exec> 08└─Off-Topic Linux bigotry will be modded Insightful BECAUSE LINUX.
[21:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And yet - 06America Has Never Had So Much TV — Even Hollywood is Overwhelmed - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:07] <exec> 08└─And you will be modded Flamebait BECAUSE DUMBFUCK.
[21:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And yet - 06America Has Never Had So Much TV — Even Hollywood is Overwhelmed - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:09] <exec> 08└─Thank you for replying, dumbfuck, because I LOVE YOU BACK.
[21:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:And yet - 06America Has Never Had So Much TV — Even Hollywood is Overwhelmed - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:12] <exec> 08└─But usually those are the Hollywood big production company reboots. (They own all the rights, after all). The new smaller production companies are often coming up with totally new stuff, not all of which is reality tv formula shows. Some are network canceled series that move to Netflix or Amazon wit...
[21:45:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And yet - 06America Has Never Had So Much TV — Even Hollywood is Overwhelmed - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:14] <exec> 08└─There are no cooking shows any more. They are all reality competition shows, and they are all crap.
[21:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:And yet - 06America Has Never Had So Much TV — Even Hollywood is Overwhelmed - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:16] <exec> 08└─thank you... not a foodie in the least (one of those who would not be heartbroken if i took all my required sustenance in a single pill), but used to love watching alton browns 'good eats' for the food science presented in a fairly entertaining way... then it was all downhill from there with his roa...
[21:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Celestial [4891] (Score:2) 02Star Trek: Discovery - 06America Has Never Had So Much TV — Even Hollywood is Overwhelmed - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:18] <exec> 08└─I read that CBS will spend $9 million per episode on the upcoming Star Trek: Discovery. That's insane. That's one of the reasons why they're limiting the first season to 13 episodes, in comparison to the 26 episode seasons of the four prior shows. I just hope the show is good...
[21:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score:2) 02Re:Star Trek: Discovery - 06America Has Never Had So Much TV — Even Hollywood is Overwhelmed - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:20] <exec> 08└─Yea that's trending into premium cable/Netflix money. Weird they are putting it out on their CBS-has-a-streaming-service? streaming service.
[21:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Star Trek: Discovery - 06America Has Never Had So Much TV — Even Hollywood is Overwhelmed - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:23] <exec> 08└─It makes sense if they're trying to turbo-charge their transition to streaming to compete with Netflix and Amazon Prime.
[21:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Star Trek: Discovery - 06America Has Never Had So Much TV — Even Hollywood is Overwhelmed - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:25] <exec> 08└─The trend is against you, every iteration has been worse than before.
[21:45:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score:2) 02Re:Star Trek: Discovery - 06America Has Never Had So Much TV — Even Hollywood is Overwhelmed - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:27] <exec> 08└─They have an uphill battle. Just watching Enterprise this evening on Netflix, getting towards the end of the Xindi arc. It's pretty dire. I don't think budget is that important. What really matters is the scriptwriting. Intelligent, interesting and engaging plots can not be replaced by spending vast...
[21:45:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Star Trek: Discovery - 06America Has Never Had So Much TV — Even Hollywood is Overwhelmed - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:29] <exec> 08└─The Xindi arc was nothing more than 9/11 in space. Clearly there should be an entire season of Trek Discovery detailing how United Earth was ruled by the iron fist of a dictatorial real estate mogul until billionaire bloggers toppled his regime by crashing self driving cars into his hotels and usher...
[21:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Star Trek: Discovery - 06America Has Never Had So Much TV — Even Hollywood is Overwhelmed - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:31] <exec> 08└─Man, lens flair is getting expensive.
[21:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Star Trek: Discovery - 06America Has Never Had So Much TV — Even Hollywood is Overwhelmed - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:33] <exec> 08└─Having worn prescription lenses since the 4th grade, I thought lens flare was a natural feature of human life.
[21:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:3, Interesting) 02That's funny ... - 06America Has Never Had So Much TV — Even Hollywood is Overwhelmed - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:35] <exec> 08└─That's odd because most people seem to have less and less time. Once upon a time you could discuss a show with people because most would have seen or at least heard of it. In the last few years, between the cord cutters and the glut of shows, it's becoming harder to find common topics, rather than a...
[21:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03quintessence [6227] (Score:2) 02Can't even see my feet. - 06America Has Never Had So Much TV — Even Hollywood is Overwhelmed - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:38] <exec> 08└─I'm currently watching a musical about a hunchback that haunts a Wal-mart. It's pretty obscure, you've probably never heard of it.
[21:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:1, Offtopic) 02Too much circuses, not enough bread. - 06America Has Never Had So Much TV — Even Hollywood is Overwhelmed - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:40] <exec> 08└─And they wonder why Trump got elected. Anyone for the Marie Antoinette variation?
[21:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Too much circuses, not enough bread. - 06America Has Never Had So Much TV — Even Hollywood is Overwhelmed - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:42] <exec> 08└─'Cause people are sick of your shit?
[21:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Too much circuses, not enough bread. - 06America Has Never Had So Much TV — Even Hollywood is Overwhelmed - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:44] <exec> 08└─Eat cake by the ocean.
[21:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score:2) 02Re:Too much circuses, not enough bread. - 06America Has Never Had So Much TV — Even Hollywood is Overwhelmed - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:46] <exec> 08└─Opinions clearly diverge on whether Trumps means any bread. But why would anybody vote Trump if they were tired of the circus?
[21:45:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Too much circuses, not enough bread. - 06America Has Never Had So Much TV — Even Hollywood is Overwhelmed - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:49] <exec> 08└─Its funny for years I got that 'let them eat cake' quote wrong in its context. I took it as to mean 'let them eat something impractical' or 'let them eat the scraps from my table' When the quote is more along the lines that she was so wildly out of touch she did not understand. She is like some subu...
[21:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02No Unemployment Problem - 06America Has Never Had So Much TV — Even Hollywood is Overwhelmed - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:51] <exec> 08└─There you have it, folks, there's no unemployment in America. Every person who wants a job can get a job, role playing for money, and if you're ugly, why, we can just fix your appearance with makeup. Never forget: All actors are professional liars.
[21:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:No Unemployment Problem - 06America Has Never Had So Much TV — Even Hollywood is Overwhelmed - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:53] <exec> 08└─We ugly folk do tech stuff: sound, lights, sets, etc. Duh.
[21:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02Re:No Unemployment Problem - 06America Has Never Had So Much TV — Even Hollywood is Overwhelmed - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:55] <exec> 08└─Sorry, dude, but no. The Linux Foundation trademarked the word "tech" so you're not doing tech stuff unless you're using Linux. You should use Linux.
[21:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:Wow - 06Samsung Takes Out Full-Page Ads to Apologise for the Note 7 - 986 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:12] <exec> 08└─Ahhh, so it's the death of free speech is it? Just like North Korea, nobody can insult Dear Fearless Leader? Get fucking used to it. We had 8 years of utterly toxic crap being thrown at Obama (I enjoyed throwing some of it), and I will never kow tow, be silent, intimated, by that utterly worthless f...
[21:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Wow - 06Samsung Takes Out Full-Page Ads to Apologise for the Note 7 - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:13] <exec> 08└─> He's a dumb misogynistic piece of shit Yet I don't think he can fuck up the country quite as much as Cheney's puppet did (note that there won't be much left if I'm wrong). Sadly, he will be my president, because he may be what you call him, but I won't contest his legitimate if appalling victory....
[21:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Wow - 06Samsung Takes Out Full-Page Ads to Apologise for the Note 7 - 2048 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:15] <exec> 08└─That's fine and all, but you need to be more fucking careful about it. I've read your posts before, and you're better than that. Don't go full fucking retard like the ordinary Trumpanzees, joyfully reveling in his upcoming instances of petty vengeful activities. Which is exactly what you had threate...
[21:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Wow - 06Samsung Takes Out Full-Page Ads to Apologise for the Note 7 - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:17] <exec> 08└─Somewhere, in the history of time, misogyny stopped being 'who hates women' and became 'women hate it'.
[21:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Wow - 06Samsung Takes Out Full-Page Ads to Apologise for the Note 7 - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:19] <exec> 08└─You mean there was a point in which it wasn't always both? You imply that the predilection of hating women wasn't consistently hated by women from the beginning? Are you awkwardly lamenting the rise of women to the extent that they now defend themselves and demand the rights of personhood?
[21:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Wow - 06Samsung Takes Out Full-Page Ads to Apologise for the Note 7 - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:22] <exec> 08└─Not defending GP, but I assume he's trying to make a distinction between misogyny as active "hatred of women" (e.g., somebody who simply enjoys beating women up because of a psychological problem or whatever) vs. misogyny as various acts that may not be viewed as hateful or with intent to harm by on...
[21:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Wow - 06Samsung Takes Out Full-Page Ads to Apologise for the Note 7 - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:24] <exec> 08└─Curious non-American here. What happens to the sexual assault charges/accusations now that he is president, or, if charges are not laid yet, but are after he's president? Can he pardon himself?
[21:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Wow - 06Samsung Takes Out Full-Page Ads to Apologise for the Note 7 - 1077 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:26] <exec> 08└─Fantastic question, but I think the answer is no. While I don't know that definitively, Nixon did not pardon himself. It was Gerald Ford that pardoned [wikipedia.org] him. Presidents can't pardon everyone for any reason either. IIRC, Presidents can only deal with the federal courts. So if a Presiden...
[21:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wow - 06Samsung Takes Out Full-Page Ads to Apologise for the Note 7 - 922 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:28] <exec> 08└─It had always been the case that cases against the President would be deferred until they were no longer President so, for the good of the country, he couldn't be distracted/railroaded by people bringing real or questionable cases against him. This was always more rooted in custom and not written in...
[21:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''What happens to the sexual assault charges'' - 06Samsung Takes Out Full-Page Ads to Apologise for the Note 7 - 794 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:30] <exec> 08└─While in office, a US president is immune from prosecution for "petty" crimes. If the House of Representatives decides that a sitting president needs to answer for "high crimes or misdemeanors", they can bring articles of impeachment against the president and vote to approve those. If the charges ar...
[21:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:''What happens to the sexual assault charges'' - 06Samsung Takes Out Full-Page Ads to Apologise for the Note 7 - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:33] <exec> 08└─> The Constitution does not specify what happens after that. > One assumes that either Trump would govern from inside prison or that another election would need to be held. Neither. A president incapable to fulfill his duties is replaced by his vice-president.
[21:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Wow - 06Samsung Takes Out Full-Page Ads to Apologise for the Note 7 - 920 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:35] <exec> 08└─This is a matter of unsettled law, actually. The consensus is that if a President commits illegal acts while in office, he would be impeached first, where Congress could vote to remove him from office. Assuming the vote succeeds and he is removed, criminal charges could then theoretically be filed....
[21:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Wow - 06Samsung Takes Out Full-Page Ads to Apologise for the Note 7 - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:37] <exec> 08└─Since they were pretty much all Democrat propaganda they will all probably shut up or be sued. You seem to have no understanding of the depths the Democrats will go to when smearing someone for political gain. Remember Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas? If you don't google them.
[21:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''America will somehow survive Trump'' - 06Samsung Takes Out Full-Page Ads to Apologise for the Note 7 - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:39] <exec> 08└─It's important to note that the greatest power a US president has[1] is to nominate federal judges who essentially have lifelong tenure. The stupid Blues typically appoint old farts who are on death's door and only get a few years of effect from that. The Reds appoint young whippersnappers who then...
[21:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sourcery42 [6400] (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:Wow - 06Samsung Takes Out Full-Page Ads to Apologise for the Note 7 - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:42] <exec> 08└─At the risk of being pedantic, this being a text based medium that was libel. Now if he had said that about the God Emperor-elect that would have been slander. ;)
[21:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Celestial [4891] (Score:2) 02Newspapers - 06Samsung Takes Out Full-Page Ads to Apologise for the Note 7 - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:45] <exec> 08└─Published a full page ad in a newspaper... Do people still read those? Like the ol' "if a tree falls in the forest but no one is around, does it make a sound," if you publish an apology in a newspaper, are you really apologizing?
[21:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Newspapers - 06Samsung Takes Out Full-Page Ads to Apologise for the Note 7 - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:47] <exec> 08└─The right newspapers filter the important stuff from the shallow crap that clogs the airwaves and the internet. You can get all the news faster elsewhere, but you have to sort yourself. Incidentally, knowing what some specific article said in the right newspaper makes you part of the in crowd.
[21:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02batteries? or not batteries? - 06Samsung Takes Out Full-Page Ads to Apologise for the Note 7 - 733 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:49] <exec> 08└─I'd be interested in a full and frank investigation to satisfy my (idle) curiosity about resolving an apparent conflict in the official story. As I understand it, first the problem was with locally-sourced batteries--the perfect, problem-free phone was a victim of these batteries. Then, the problem...
[21:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Re:batteries? or not batteries? - 06Samsung Takes Out Full-Page Ads to Apologise for the Note 7 - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:51] <exec> 08└─they seem to have been saying "oh, those darned battery manufacturers; it's all their fault."
[21:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02They should have kept quiet. - 06Samsung Takes Out Full-Page Ads to Apologise for the Note 7 - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:53] <exec> 08└─With the people's attention span the way it is and the elections & trade-wars in the foreground, they could have sailed free and clear if they just kept their heads down a little while longer.
[21:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score:1) 02google pixel - 06Samsung Takes Out Full-Page Ads to Apologise for the Note 7 - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:56] <exec> 08└─On release day I think it was, for the Pixel, Google got a full page ad. But they got a full page ad on the first two front pages of USA Today, with a single sentence and icon above the fold. I only noticed because I happened to see them when I was buying coffee that morning. I wonder how expensive...
[21:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 022 more recent embarrassments for Samsung - 06Samsung Takes Out Full-Page Ads to Apologise for the Note 7 - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:58] <exec> 08└─One of Samsung's most popular phones explodes and it's not the Galaxy Note 7 [phonearena.com] A Galaxy J5 exploded in the hands of Lamya Bouyirdane from France on Sunday. The woman noticed that her phone got unusually hot and quickly asked her four-year-old son to give it back to her during a famil...
[21:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Battle of eons still playing out - 06Fast Bats and Fast Birds - 755 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:08] <exec> 08└─Paper seems sort of focused on the predation upon bats and not the bat's prey. Prey (bugs) are probably slower in cooler night time temperatures. The bat's Endothermic advantage is amplified. It takes more power to fly in warm temperatures as anyone trying to climb a Cessna off a Texas runway in the...
[21:47:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02Bats are better fliers - 06Fast Bats and Fast Birds - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:13] <exec> 08└─Bats are much more agile fliers than birds too, and are one of the best defences humans have against mosquitos. Interestingly, bat's don't glide, they flap constantly (around 12 hours per day!), pretty amazing when you think about it.
[21:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:how advanced - 06Adidas: Making One Million Pairs of its Much-Anticipated Sneakers from Recycled Ocean Plastic - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:24] <exec> 08└─You're right. I smell Communism all over this. Banning to commence on Day 1.
[21:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"All content is behind scripts" - 06Adidas: Making One Million Pairs of its Much-Anticipated Sneakers from Recycled Ocean Plastic - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:29] <exec> 08└─You must be using a device which does not allow you to hover over the [1] in TFS and see the URL which corresponds with that. ...and the commenter before me is correct: Because that is typically ads and chintz, I do block most CDNs by default. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[21:47:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Decay - 06Adidas: Making One Million Pairs of its Much-Anticipated Sneakers from Recycled Ocean Plastic - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:34] <exec> 08└─This is why I only buy all-leather shoes. Plastic POS shoes just fall apart after a short time.
[21:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score:2) 02Re:Decay - 06Adidas: Making One Million Pairs of its Much-Anticipated Sneakers from Recycled Ocean Plastic - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:37] <exec> 08└─"UltraBoost Uncaged Parley" clearly means these shoes are designed to be used when sprinting out of a cage while carrying a black flag.
[21:47:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03zoward [4734] (Score:1) 02$200? - 06Adidas: Making One Million Pairs of its Much-Anticipated Sneakers from Recycled Ocean Plastic - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:40] <exec> 08└─While Adidas are to be commended for using recycled plastic, the list price on the limited edition is $200 a pair, if you can even find them (saw them at $375 from third-party retailers). I think I'll wait for the upcoming million pairs of shoes to hit the store shelves and see if I can pay a less a...
[21:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Mostly good, but YMMV - 06 iRobot Says 20 Percent of the World’s Vacuums Are Now Robots - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:48:16] <exec> 08└─Huh, never heard of that before. Thanks for posting.
[21:48:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Mostly good, but YMMV - 06 iRobot Says 20 Percent of the World’s Vacuums Are Now Robots - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:48:20] <exec> 08└─since it can remember their positions
[21:48:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aclarke [2049] 02Re:The numbers in the summary makes no sense - 06 iRobot Says 20 Percent of the World’s Vacuums Are Now Robots - 200 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:48:24] <exec> 08└─Usually when people refer to having a percentage of the market, they're referring to sales. So, currently, say last quarter, robot vacuums were 20% of the total sold, and Roombas were 70% of that 20%.
[21:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Want to pimp your vac? - 06 iRobot Says 20 Percent of the World’s Vacuums Are Now Robots - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:29] <exec> 08└─Get a central vacuum. Those things are amazing. Quiet and 1000% more effective than your HEPA crap. Why? Cause the bad stuff actually goes away instead of getting airborne again. If I was elected the Dark Lord I'd make those mandatory tomorrow.
[21:48:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Wow - 06Semiconductor-Free Microelectronics Possible with Metamaterials - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:50] <exec> 08└─That is so meta!
[21:49:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:Good for him - 06Optimal Travel Speed to Minimize Air Pollution Inhalation - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:49:06] <exec> 08└─The biggest cause of pollution is cyclists - who force drivers of large vehicles to drive in a lower gear by riding slowly in front of them.
[21:49:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Goodbye Geeks! - 06Despite Human and Neanderthal Interbreeding, Weak Neanderthal Genes are Being Removed - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:49:32] <exec> 08└─Wait... so it's not a series of tubes?
[21:49:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Goodbye Geeks! - 06Despite Human and Neanderthal Interbreeding, Weak Neanderthal Genes are Being Removed - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:49:33] <exec> 08└─That's the most beautiful description of IT reality I've ever read.
[21:49:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Goodbye Geeks! - 06Despite Human and Neanderthal Interbreeding, Weak Neanderthal Genes are Being Removed - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:49:39] <exec> 08└─Why did you say that in a pejorative tone? What a racist, anti-Semitic homophobe you are!
[21:49:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Goodbye Geeks! - 06Despite Human and Neanderthal Interbreeding, Weak Neanderthal Genes are Being Removed - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:49:42] <exec> 08└─Third, specifically a "fractally wrong" moderation doesn't make sense at all. There's no way to figure out what fraction of the comment you would refer to. fractally ≠ fractionally
[21:49:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Neanderthal genes may be on the way out - 06Despite Human and Neanderthal Interbreeding, Weak Neanderthal Genes are Being Removed - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:49:49] <exec> 08└─I voted for Trump and have a 60 point IQ advantage over you.
[21:49:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Neanderthal genes may be on the way out - 06Despite Human and Neanderthal Interbreeding, Weak Neanderthal Genes are Being Removed - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:49:54] <exec> 08└─I did.
[21:50:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Backcrossing - 06Despite Human and Neanderthal Interbreeding, Weak Neanderthal Genes are Being Removed - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:50:07] <exec> 08└─That does seem to be the same thing. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] ...or perhaps it could be called a "topcross"? In animal breeding, a backcross is often called a topcross.
[21:51:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score:2) 02Re:PPA's and Synaptic package manager... - 06When Will Libre Office get a Working Update Tool for Windows? - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:51:13] <exec> 08└─Ubuntu and some other Linux flavors have it figured out.
[21:51:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Oldest trick in the book - 06India Scraps Existing 500 and 1,000 Rupee Banknotes to Fight Corruption - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:51:33] <exec> 08└─Property tax, sales tax, income tax, excise tax and estate tax weren't enough, so now you want to tax fucking!? That's outrageous, even if it doesn't affect me personally.
[21:51:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:Oldest trick in the book - 06India Scraps Existing 500 and 1,000 Rupee Banknotes to Fight Corruption - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:51:39] <exec> 08└─"Incidentally, this is one of the reasons the government periodically makes pushes to move society to dollar coins... coins last substantially longer than paper currency does, and thus it is substantially cheaper to make and maintain them than to print and reprint all that money over and over." To m...
[21:51:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score:2) 02Re:And overseas money? - 06India Scraps Existing 500 and 1,000 Rupee Banknotes to Fight Corruption - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:51:44] <exec> 08└─You are in the cities. And I am pretty sure you in relatively big cities. I have the same experience as you in Bangalore, but most of India is still rural or semi-urban. Old cities such as Varanasi, which aren't economically important anymore have the same story to tell. Also, the announcement was m...
[21:51:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Another step in the War On Cash - 06India Scraps Existing 500 and 1,000 Rupee Banknotes to Fight Corruption - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:51:51] <exec> 08└─Original poster here. Yes ... they're issuing new bills of equal and greater domination after this is over. However, they're still making cash in rupees a less certain thing. If they withdrew bills once, they might do it again. It gives one pause when thinking about keeping their currency. Did you n...
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[22:44:44] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Actually... - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 512 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:44] <exec> 08└─Trump tapped into all types of anger. Front and center was these sanctimonious assholes dictating how racist and stupid nearly half of their countrymen are from their ivory towers. Not really a fan of Trump, but my god seeing these immature wanks having a breakdown over what at worst will be 4 years...
[22:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Actually... - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:44:46] <exec> 08└─Front and center was these sanctimonious assholes dictating how racist and stupid nearly half of their countrymen are from their ivory towers.
[22:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:Actually... - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:44:48] <exec> 08└─Then quite honestly you haven't been around them. I have. I've lived most everywhere from Texas to California to Kentucky and most places in-between. Most people are decent Most are exceedingly kind to a fault, and what minor prejudices they have are obliterated by their warmth of character. All the...
[22:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:Actually... - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:44:50] <exec> 08└─Yup, I'm a dirty coastal liberal and I agree that the vast majority of the US is made up of decent people. Even the blatant minor prejudices are usually a hold over, and the people themselves would swear they don't have such prejudices. I can work with a prejudiced person that swears they aren't, bu...
[22:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Actually... - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:44:52] <exec> 08└─Precisely. When you call someone a cocksucker, they're not going to be pleasantly disposed to your ideas going forward.
[22:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:Actually... - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:44:54] <exec> 08└─You aren't as enlightened as you think you are. Get over yourselves.
[22:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:Actually... - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:44:56] <exec> 08└─Sure, but saying every cis white male is evil because certain right-wing assholes have enacted laws to limit freedom is not a great way to gain support. Before you say "Not all...", stop and think.
[22:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Actually... - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:44:59] <exec> 08└─As if the totality of concerns for women and gays are their uteruses and some hypothetical about the state of marriage. Could you make a bigger caricature of them? I mean, gasp, there were women and gays that voted for Trump.
[22:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Actually... - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:01] <exec> 08└─women who may not be able to exercise their reproductive human-rights
[22:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Actually... - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:03] <exec> 08└─Do males have reproductive rights too?
[22:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Actually... - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:05] <exec> 08└─Absolutely not, males do not have the right to reproduce, but males are encouraged to make gay porn for female entertainment.
[22:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Actually... - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:07] <exec> 08└─Your post can be characterized as follows: first paragraph: Argumentum ad hominem second paragraph: Argumentum ad hominem third paragraph: Argumentum ad hominem We deserve better here at SN.
[22:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Actually... - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:09] <exec> 08└─"We deserve better here at SN." Deserve? Really? Where does it say any of us deserve anything? If you don't like it do something about it. But don't sit back and expect perfection to be given to you. And if you are lucky enough to have convinced someone to spoon feed you awesomeness while you sit ba...
[22:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Actually... - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:12] <exec> 08└─I've paid tens of thousands of dollars in Fed. income taxes each and every year for the last 20 years, from my employment in the private sector (only - no government jobs). Donald Trump is proud of having found a way of paying $0 in Fed. taxes, based on writing off money lost by other people. He bra...
[22:45:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Actually... - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 782 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:14] <exec> 08└─Its almost like we're seeing the exact opposite of what happened with Obama.... all the immature wanks breaking down thinking that the gubmint was going to take their guns, put them under sharia law, and murder every 3rd fetus as it was being born. Don't let the extremists shape your perceptions, th...
[22:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Easy peasy - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:16] <exec> 08└─Yes, US nerds were angry about training H-1B replacements, but how much could they have helped put him over the top?
[22:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Easy peasy - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:18] <exec> 08└─And plenty more that have already had to train their Indian(dot not feather) replacements and been laid off, yep.
[22:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Easy peasy - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:20] <exec> 08└─That's the free market & capitalism at work right there, buddy... I thought the republicans were in favor of that (and don't give me any crap about how trump is not a republican. A large part of his electorate voted for him because he's 'their' guy, namely the guy from 'their' party)
[22:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:Easy peasy - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:22] <exec> 08└─You ain't paid much attention this election cycle, have you? Like, none at all. Trump voters did the exact opposite of what you just said. They told their party to fuck right off and brought in an outsider.
[22:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Easy peasy - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 1783 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:24] <exec> 08└─I know of one person who had to train an off-shore replacement. He was a manager, forget where, and had to spend two months in Mumbai training the guy. They gave him a decent severance package which amounted to a years salary on top of paying for all of his travel expenses. It was that or take a hik...
[22:45:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Nerds voted for Cliton - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:27] <exec> 08└─I'M WITH HER [xkcd.com] Nerds voted for Cliton because Ram-Hole Man-Ho told them to.
[22:45:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nerds voted for Cliton - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:29] <exec> 08└─Nope, I've seen too many nerds that are pro Trump, they wanted a "fuck you" vote along with being highly entertained by his antics. Now which candidate got the majority of the nerd vote is something we'll probably never know.
[22:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Nerds voted for Cliton - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:31] <exec> 08└─Yup, I was pro-Trump in the primaries just for troll solidarity. The way he continually cock-slaps the media amuses me to no end.
[22:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Nerds voted for Cliton - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:33] <exec> 08└─Glad to see you have your priorities straight at least *rolls eyes* Yeah, the Democrats have had this coming since Nixon, and in that regard I'm glad this happened, but this is going to cause widespread misery for a hell of a lot of people. Call me silly, but that's a problem. I'm getting the hell o...
[22:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Nerds voted for Cliton - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:35] <exec> 08└─I'm not ashamed. My vote in the primaries didn't get him the nomination. He won my state by over ten percent.
[22:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Nerds voted for Cliton - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:38] <exec> 08└─Oh, I apologize. Where are my manners? Do you need help packing or loading the truck?
[22:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02Re:Nerds voted for Cliton - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:40] <exec> 08└─I lost some respect for Randall over that strip. It seemed to urge the reader to go vote for Hillary while making absolutely no argument for why, as if I would base my vote on which candidate a cartoonist endorsed. If it had just been an encouragement to vote at all, that would be great. If it were...
[22:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Nerds voted for Cliton - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:42] <exec> 08└─I pulled his strip out of my liferea feeds list over that horse shit. If I want to be told what to do it's going to be by a hot chick in leather not some stick-figure-drawing keyboard jockey.
[22:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nerds voted for Cliton - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:44] <exec> 08└─But you didn't lose respect for him because Randall is a condescending cunt who always insults the intelligence of his readers? You must be among the pseudo intellectual idiots who are his target audience.
[22:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Probably they helped a lot - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:46] <exec> 08└─Having educated people in the supposed golden tech sector put forth their case against H1Bs would be very compelling. I for one am sick of the white nerd rage that is so rabidly pro-Trump yet treats Sanders like a communist in the 1950's. My take is that he tapped the emotional anger of the US to ge...
[22:45:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Who? - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 2 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:48] <exec> 08└─
[22:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Who? - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:51] <exec> 08└─Right on, Brother! Keep the Black President Black!
[22:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score:4, Insightful) 02More Finger Pointing: - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:53] <exec> 08└─This is yet another bit of the "The whole reason it happened was because of $minor_factor." Where $minor_factor being at fault preserves the writer's worldview. I'm surprised I haven't seen a pundit saying "It was all those degenerates on Soylentnews that swung it to Trump."
[22:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:More Finger Pointing: - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:55] <exec> 08└─It's that guy on SN whose sig said vote for my johnson. A vote for a third party is a wasted vote just like wasted cum shooting anywhere except in a pussy.
[22:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:More Finger Pointing: - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:57] <exec> 08└─Hey, I changed my sig at least a week before the election, thank you very much you anti-sodomite.
[22:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:More Finger Pointing: - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:59] <exec> 08└─No, you've always had that sig. The archives are full of it dating back the Pleistocene.
[22:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Re:More Finger Pointing: - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:01] <exec> 08└─So what is the $major_factor? Is there one, single reason America couldn't manage a competition between decent presidential candidates?
[22:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:More Finger Pointing: - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:04] <exec> 08└─The two party system.
[22:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:And yet - 06America Has Never Had So Much TV — Even Hollywood is Overwhelmed - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:15] <exec> 08└─Coming up next: Big Brother - Trump Edition. I've been saying for years they need to have more reality in Reality TV. Somehow this wasn't what I had in mind.
[22:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:And yet - 06America Has Never Had So Much TV — Even Hollywood is Overwhelmed - 2039 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:24] <exec> 08└─I saw Alton was going downhill the moment he started shilling for Shun. I know everybody's gotta make money somewhere, but Alton Brown always had a reputation on Good Eats for eschewing expensive kitchen gadgets and just saying, "You can do this much more simply and cheaply with X." How many times d...
[22:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Celestial [4891] (Score:2) 02Re:Star Trek: Discovery - 06America Has Never Had So Much TV — Even Hollywood is Overwhelmed - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:30] <exec> 08└─Not entirely true, IMO. While Voyager was bad and Enterprise was terrible, Deep Space Nine was better than The Next Generation. Regardless, it's been twelve years and with (mostly) different people behind the scenes, so I have hope.
[22:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02And often overlooked: - 06America Has Never Had So Much TV — Even Hollywood is Overwhelmed - 724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:32] <exec> 08└─Is that DS9 offered character development for *BIT* characters. O'Brien, Keiko, Worf's son Alexander, etc all had parts in the series, and it really gave a lot of insight into life outside the confines of a starship, or 'shore leave'. Plus a lot of bit characters who later became integral parts of t...
[22:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Star Trek: Discovery - 06America Has Never Had So Much TV — Even Hollywood is Overwhelmed - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:36] <exec> 08└─I really liked the premis of Enterprise. Like the original Startrek. A ship in space discovering civilisations, planets, technology. I waa looking forward to seeing the upgrade path from "we have a starship" to where NG started. So much promise. But no. Someone thought a temporal cold war (wtF) woul...
[22:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Too much circuses, not enough bread. - 06America Has Never Had So Much TV — Even Hollywood is Overwhelmed - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:48] <exec> 08└─The funny thing is I've even heard "just get a job" from job interviewers during job interviews. Why are you applying for the advertised job opening here, they say, just go online and search for jobs elsewhere. Because I've found nothing, that's why. Job interviewers are idiots who have jobs and who...
[22:47:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:Wow - 06Samsung Takes Out Full-Page Ads to Apologise for the Note 7 - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:10] <exec> 08└─I was pretty sure that calling him "The Dear Great Leader" was sufficient to establish the tone of my comment. Maybe I'll try "His Wonderful Highness The Mighty Great Lord And Dear Savior" next time... I am deeply saddened that, after 18 months, "President Trump" stopped being a joke in itself.
[22:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Wow - 06Samsung Takes Out Full-Page Ads to Apologise for the Note 7 - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:14] <exec> 08└─Appropriately posted yesterday: http://www.theonion.com [theonion.com]
[22:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Nope - 06Samsung Takes Out Full-Page Ads to Apologise for the Note 7 - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:21] <exec> 08└─This was a plot point in a "The West Wing" episode. (Jed Bartlett had disabling episodes due to multiple sclerosis.) The Constitution specifies that the vice-president takes over if the president DIES in office. (Remember Edith Wilson after Woodrow had a stroke?) ...and it says nothing about someone...
[22:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Nope - 06Samsung Takes Out Full-Page Ads to Apologise for the Note 7 - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:23] <exec> 08└─The constitution has nothing to say about a random citizen until the day he is sworn in. >The Constitution specifies that the vice-president takes over if the president DIES in office. Incorrect. The constitution did specify "In Case of the Removal of the President from Office, or of his Death, Resi...
[22:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''Remember [...] Clarence Thomas?'' - 06Samsung Takes Out Full-Page Ads to Apologise for the Note 7 - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:28] <exec> 08└─I absolutely do. ...and there's yet ANOTHER case of sexual abuse against him. Sexual harassment claims continue to follow Justice Clarence Thomas [ajc.com] an attorney, who was 23-years-old at the time, claims that Thomas groped her at a dinner party in 1999. By then, Thomas had been on the bench f...
[22:47:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Battle of eons still playing out - 06Fast Bats and Fast Birds - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:47] <exec> 08└─A one-on-one battle would possibly favor the big bird, who was nimbler on 2 legs and had a massive ice-pick-like killer beak. One leg, ahaha! Two legs! A bat can use its sharp teeth and its numeracy. [simpsonswiki.com]
[22:48:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Not homogenous - 06Researchers Find Path for Light Through Opaque Materials - 792 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:48:24] <exec> 08└─Homogenous is frequently used as a synonym for homogeneous, as even your first link notes. And similarly, heterogenous is frequently used as a synonym [merriam-webster.com] for heterogeneous. Yes, the more technical folks tend to reserve the "-genous" versions for biology, but few English speakers (...
[22:48:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:Build a (very low) wall - 06 iRobot Says 20 Percent of the World’s Vacuums Are Now Robots - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:48:40] <exec> 08└─got from amazonians, brand was ilife, forget model...
[22:48:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:Mostly good, but YMMV - 06 iRobot Says 20 Percent of the World’s Vacuums Are Now Robots - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:48:56] <exec> 08└─Oh shit, I did not realize they had no positioning model built in, or if there is one, it is shit.
[22:50:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Neanderthal genes may be on the way out - 06Despite Human and Neanderthal Interbreeding, Weak Neanderthal Genes are Being Removed - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:50:27] <exec> 08└─"have a 60 point IQ advantage over you." Sure. https://xkcd.com [xkcd.com] Bottom right chart :D
[22:51:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Chocolatey - 06When Will Libre Office get a Working Update Tool for Windows? - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:51:47] <exec> 08└─I use ninite and it is fantastic. In fact my only beef with it is the size of LibreOffice downloads. :)
[22:52:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02And overseas money? - 06India Scraps Existing 500 and 1,000 Rupee Banknotes to Fight Corruption - 534 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:17] <exec> 08└─It is said that the US dropped large denominations (5,00 and above) mostly to fight undocumented money transfers and smuggling). So its kind of odd to see money replaced with new bills just to ferret out people with bulging mattresses. Especially when you find out 500 Rupees is a $7.60 bill. (In Ind...
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[23:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Oblig. - 06Debian GNU/Linux 9 "Stretch" will Drop Support for PowerPC - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:37] <exec> 08└─SYSTEMD HAS MADE ME ANGRY AND I"VE ALREADY ABANDONED DEBIAN FOR A BETTER OS! Ok now that that's over... serious discussions can occur below.
[23:44:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03julian [6003] 02Re:Actually... - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 68 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:44:51] <exec> 08└─You aren't as enlightened as you think you are. Get over yourselves.
[23:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Actually... - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:44:54] <exec> 08└─> Before you say "Not all...", stop and think. I'm thinking and your point is not coming through. Who says all cis white males are evil? The only people I've heard say shit like that are either butthurt panty-waists like you or total radicals who don't even begin to represent democrats, liberals or...
[23:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Actually... - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:44:57] <exec> 08└─totality of concerns for women and gays
[23:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Actually... - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:44:59] <exec> 08└─Indeed. A considerable amount of them when you look at the breakdown and then compare them to the male side of their corresponding races. It's almost like stuff Trump said and did 20 years ago didn't matter. Interestingly, and as I've pointed out elsewhere, he had about the same latino vote as Romne...
[23:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Actually... - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:01] <exec> 08└─> It's almost like stuff Trump said and did 20 years ago didn't matter. It's like stuff he said and did on stage during the campaign didn't matter. Or it did matter, but they just thought it wouldn't ever apply to them or their family, so no biggee. First they came...
[23:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Actually... - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 1016 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:03] <exec> 08└─I actually asked for it. I'd stated that it would be better for Trump to take us down in fire, than 4 more years of status quo politics from Hillary. I got excited because Progressive politics were getting a much more prominent mind share than ever before, but still worried and agitated about the sp...
[23:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Actually... - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:05] <exec> 08└─Exactly! When wasserman-schulz or whatever, f'd Bernie Sanders in favour of Hillary and got caught, the DNC SHOULD have given the leadership to HIM. If Bernie had won the leadership, he would have won the Presidency. Instead,they f'd Bernie and kept the pig. And pigs can't run well. They kept the pe...
[23:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Actually... - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:09] <exec> 08└─That's not an outrage. But women have the additional option of getting an abortion, seeing as how they carry the fetus in their body and all.
[23:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Actually... - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:12] <exec> 08└─> deal with pregnancy Funny how you forgot to put the accent on the right word, despite typing it. Men and women don't exactly deal with pregnancies in equal ways...
[23:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:4, Informative) 02Re:Actually... - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:15] <exec> 08└─Did you pay attention to a single goddamn element of the platform of the idiot you voted for? He came out explicitly in favor of arresting women who get abortions. And yes, he said women, not men, not doctors, not anyone else. So take your supercilious "what about men" bullshit and cram it right bac...
[23:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Actually... - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:17] <exec> 08└─Cite?
[23:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Actually... - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:19] <exec> 08└─K. http://www.huffingtonpost.com [huffingtonpost.com] (I know, I know, I don't like huffpo either, but it was the first result for my search and I'm feeling lazy)
[23:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Actually... - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:21] <exec> 08└─Some type of punishment isn't exactly arresting, fuckwad.
[23:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Actually... - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:23] <exec> 08└─Please indicate the non-traffic crimes that any one person or person has ever received through the US judicial system without first having been arrested. I'm aware of a few ways that's possible, but it doesn't happen often. Arresting is a precursor to "Some type of punishment" you pedantic child.
[23:45:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score:2) 02Re:Actually... - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:26] <exec> 08└─Do males have reproductive rights too?
[23:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Actually... - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:28] <exec> 08└─Well that was my thought when I considered the question, and I consider myself a liberal. By the true definition of the word that is what I am, but by the weird distorted version that has come about I'm sure some rabid folks would tear me down for agreeing with you.
[23:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Actually... - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:33] <exec> 08└─Nobody. Rest assured his accountants take a hefty chunk out of his ass for finding all those legal ways to avoid paying taxes.
[23:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Actually... - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:35] <exec> 08└─If HRC had done that, that's all that outfits like Fox News would talk about. They would metaphorically pick up each guest by the shoulders and say, "Are you saying that a person who did that should even be allowed to be President of the United States?"
[23:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Actually... - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:37] <exec> 08└─HRC could have set puppies on fire on national TV and the MSM would have had nothing to say about it but "Hillary makes world safe for cats!".
[23:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Actually... - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:39] <exec> 08└─I think the first paragraph is pretty spot on. Greenwald and Johnson (I think it was Johnson. It was late last night I read it) both penned pieces saying similar things. If you don't like those, go look at the bile spewing forth from HuffPo or NYT. Pretty sure they're still doing it.
[23:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Actually... - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 796 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:43] <exec> 08└─You are racist, though, if you're voting for this goddamn trash. Whether or not "half the country" believes they're not the policies you idiots voted for were undeniably destructive towards minorities and honestly, I view people like you with your half-assed ideological defense of "Don't call my rac...
[23:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Actually... - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:45] <exec> 08└─And you are an entitled, elitist shit stain without a clue what the world outside their ivory tower is like. Shall we have a reasonable discussion now or would you like to keep dealing in ad-homs? I'll warn you though, I'm much better at ad-homs than you are.
[23:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Actually... - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 1104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:47] <exec> 08└─No, go fuck yourself. Cry fallacy when people point out that you have become an amoral psychopath, that's new alt-right way to address legitimate grievances. There is a problem. And the problem is you and OP and how you voted. And the kind of people that indicates you are. Regardless of whatever oth...
[23:45:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Actually... - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:49] <exec> 08└─Not really a fan of Trump
[23:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score:2) 02Re:Actually... - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:51] <exec> 08└─It's important to note that Trump (and the GOP) have multiple policies, on a range of issues. Saying that you must be racist because you voted for him is extremely narrow-sighted. Hell, this very article which you're commenting on discussed precisely this point! If you were a Disney IT worker who lo...
[23:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Actually... - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:53] <exec> 08└─No, I'd argue it's not. If you were friends with someone who says they're going to kill their wife, but hey, he also makes okay ice cream I guess, so why not be pals, I'd probably condemn your tacit endorsement of his murdering. That might all be different if the wife-killer had changed his mind, re...
[23:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Actually... - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:56] <exec> 08└─Immature wank.
[23:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Being Angry Doesn't Make You Correct - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:58] <exec> 08└─> Trump tapped into all types of anger. He certainly encouraged the worst of it. That's why the neo-nazis and jihadis are celebrating their asses off. They understand his election represents the potential breakdown of all moral authority of the US. Exactly what they've been saying all along.
[23:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Being Angry Doesn't Make You Correct - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:46:00] <exec> 08└─The odd thing about that is that for all the anger that the right seems to have, if I google "violence against clinton supporters", all I get is articles and comments about the violence against Trump supporters. For being the angry side celebrated by the "neo-nazi's and jihadis", I'm having a hard t...
[23:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Being Angry Doesn't Make You Correct - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:46:02] <exec> 08└─Don't forget the assassination attempts on Trump. I mean look at all the peaceful disagreement with just in this thread, it's so hard to imagine. And the Grand Dragon for the KKK endorsed Clinton. http://www.usnews.com
[23:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:side note - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:46:09] <exec> 08└─I'm a feather not dot Indian and I'm from OK where most everyone has some Indian blood in them, so I'm just used to differentiating online by now. Pro-tip: If you want cheap, decent smokes: roll your own. You can get a month's worth of tobacco for like $15 and rolling papers for a buck or two per hu...
[23:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Easy peasy - 06Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:46:11] <exec> 08└─Didn't realize until a few minutes later that he was talking about the feather kind lol.
[23:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Star Trek: Discovery - 06America Has Never Had So Much TV — Even Hollywood is Overwhelmed - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:46:43] <exec> 08└─Judging by the teaser they released, they didn't spent it on the graphics.
[23:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02256 channels of... - 06America Has Never Had So Much TV — Even Hollywood is Overwhelmed - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:56] <exec> 08└─Crap. And I have to buy that many to get the 5 channels I actually only watch. If Mcdonalds operated the same way the cableco does... Would you like fries with that big mac? Well, you have to buy the variety menu which comes with the fries, a salad, pickled scrotum, watermelon juice, and frogs eggs...
[23:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Wow - 06Samsung Takes Out Full-Page Ads to Apologise for the Note 7 - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:47:20] <exec> 08└─Thank you for the explanation, the distinction was truly lost on me. In that regard, there is a lot of anger towards Hillary Clinton that I would not describe as misogynistic. There were quite legitimate reasons to not like here.
[23:49:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03jrial [5162] (Score:1) 02Re:Mostly good, but YMMV - 06 iRobot Says 20 Percent of the World’s Vacuums Are Now Robots - 1868 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:49:00] <exec> 08└─I have a Neato Botvac D85, and it maps the rooms in realtime. If I have the doors to the adjacent rooms open, it will first clean the room it starts in, then move to the next, and so on. In my case, it starts in the living room, which has a door to a currently unused room, which then leads to the li...
[23:49:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Larger risk/benefit anal - 06Optimal Travel Speed to Minimize Air Pollution Inhalation - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:49:51] <exec> 08└─Thanks for making America great again.
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