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[00:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Comments on TFS - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:44:36] <exec> 08└─Prime 2-day shipping has always been to my door. Not the post office.
[00:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Comments on TFS - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 1342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:44:37] <exec> 08└─Well - there is "research" and there is "research". When I decided to build a RAID, I really didn't know where to start. So, I started looking at all the abbreviations, what the model numbers actually meant, how fast, how reliable, blah, blah, blah. I didn't "research" the price until I had narrowed...
[00:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Please don't cry - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:44:43] <exec> 08└─Paying premiums for Amazon Prime has always sucked, you still can't get all those obscure movies and shows you like.
[00:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02I will use them to browse and buy elsewhere - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:46] <exec> 08└─This is stupid, and will bite them in the end. Forcing people into something they don't want never works well in the end. I can do my research on Amazon, and go buy it somewhere else. It is what people have already done to the big box stores, and this is an extension of that.
[00:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02new e-mail address - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:48] <exec> 08└─Ethics permitting, can you make new e-mail addresses and sign up for the free trial again? Or if you're signed up with Gmail, username@gmail.com, u.sername@gmail.com, and username+stuff@gmail.com all go to the same account.
[00:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Celestial [4891] (Score:2) 02Don't See the Problem - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:50] <exec> 08└─I'm probably biased as the vast majority of my purchases over the past ten years or so have been made on Amazon with the sole exception of groceries, but I don't see the problem. There are still plenty of other online retailers to choose from. FWIW, I've been a subscriber to Amazon Prime since 2011,...
[00:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Their choice - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:52] <exec> 08└─But its also my choice not to buy from them. I refuse to participate in other 'buying clubs' too ( like costco ).
[00:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Backwards - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:54] <exec> 08└─They should be paying ME 99 bucks a year to shop with them. Bastards. 'buyers clubs' should be illegal
[00:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:readability not fear - 06Even Physicists Are 'Afraid' of Mathematics - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:55] <exec> 08└─That's really not true. Mathematics is much more precise when it comes to describing things than English is. What's more, since many people in physics are not native English speakers, using math is preferable as that's something that they've all got in common. If you want to describe the motion of p...
[00:48:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Why can't I just buy... - 06Lenovo is Ditching its Own Brand Name to Make Way for 'Moto' - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:48:25] <exec> 08└─What I should have written: people discussed the idea of someday using it that way.
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[01:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Costco, Sam’s Club, Etc - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:07] <exec> 08└─Yup, that's why I bought my raspberry pi at dhgate. $20 cheaper, free shipping... just not two day shipping.
[01:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:new e-mail address - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:10] <exec> 08└─oh and username@googlemail.com, user.name@googlemail.com etc.
[01:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Backwards - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:15] <exec> 08└─Usual left wing moaning. Use someone else, vote woth your dollar.
[01:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Amazon - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:18] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry, are you trying to say there are no other retailers selling SSD's on the internet? Vote with your wallet. Shop elsewhere.
[01:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score:2) 02Good - encourages competition - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:20] <exec> 08└─I think this is a good thing for competition. And I don't mean "Now everyone will have to offer a premium membership service". I mean "Now other retailers that may have been ignored by the casual Amazon customer may get a look-in".
[01:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Pics or it didn't happen - 06Ultrafast Slow-Motion Microscope Sees a Single Molecule Vibrate - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:30] <exec> 08└─The original press release is in German: http://www.uni-regensburg.de [uni-regensburg.de] It has a larger version of that same image, and the caption says in part "Bildpunkte unten: Femtosekunden Schnappschuss eines einzelnen Pentacen Moleküls" which means...
[01:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Well-written - 06Even Physicists Are 'Afraid' of Mathematics - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:46:10] <exec> 08└─He's afraid of a second opinion.
[01:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:Even Physicists Are Idiots - 06Even Physicists Are 'Afraid' of Mathematics - 2136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:46:31] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty good at math, but I could be better. Math is poorly taught. Made much harder than it actually is. To add to your complaint about imaginary numbers, the meaning of such words as geometry (earth measure) and trigonometry (triangle measure) and even "tri-angle" is mentioned once or twice, th...
[01:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:Even Physicists Are Idiots - 06Even Physicists Are 'Afraid' of Mathematics - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:46:32] <exec> 08└─they should be taught alongside electronics where inductive and capacitive reactance represent complex impedances
[01:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02How about getting the kiddieporn out of Bing? - 06FBI Runs Half of Known Child Porn Sites on Tor - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:31] <exec> 08└─Microsoft claims that they remove child pornography from Bing, but really they don't. http://www.warplife.com [warplife.com]
[01:48:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03butthurt [6141] 02Re:Racists - 06U.S. Visitors Flooded Immigration Website - Crash Followed - Ottawa - 823 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:48:04] <exec> 08└─If you really think the main difference between Canada and Mexico is skin colour, there may be a place for you in the Trump administration. Among the immigrants to Mexico, more come from the United States than from any other country. More Americans live in Mexico than in any other country outside th...
[01:48:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Recommending a good immigration attorney - 06U.S. Visitors Flooded Immigration Website - Crash Followed - Ottawa - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:09] <exec> 08└─M. Lee Cohen of Halifax, Nova Scotia. He was my attorney when I was married to a Newfoundlander. He got me a work permit and a Canadian Medicare Card. I was well on my way to a Landed Immigrant card when we divorced.
[01:49:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Just the *Evidence*, Ma'am - 06CO2-loving Plants Can Counter Human Emissions - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:49:28] <exec> 08└─An observation of ignorance of where CO2 is going indicates your confidence is misplaced.
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[02:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02the end - 06MAT (Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit) Seeks New 'Leadership' - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:53] <exec> 08└─Fuck your dead project, loser! Haw haw.
[02:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:the end - 06MAT (Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit) Seeks New 'Leadership' - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:44:55] <exec> 08└─I know, right? I can't wait for Shitstain Mews to die too! Even better, I can't wait for the old assholes who run this shithole to fucking die!!
[02:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:the end - 06MAT (Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit) Seeks New 'Leadership' - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:44:57] <exec> 08└─Time for regime change. Change every nigger. Replace with wigger.
[02:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:As a longtime Amazon customer - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:45:12] <exec> 08└─So... Did the Penis Extender make it longer than 2 inches?
[02:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Are you deliberately trying to miss the point? - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:45:14] <exec> 08└─> I have no problems with them running their business the way they see fit, They can run their business anyway they want and you can still have a BIG problem with the way they run it. Its like you are deliberately trying to miss the point.
[02:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:Comments on TFS - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:45:18] <exec> 08└─My Amazon Visa 3% cash rebate for Amazon purchases and 1% everywhere else pays off prime membership after only about 3 months use. I always pay the full balance each month, so there's never any finance charge. I use it for everything... bills, groceries, gas, shopping, It adds up quickly.
[02:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:Nonsense. - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:45:23] <exec> 08└─The anonymous poster assumes that Amazon is the only place you can buy an SSD. Guess what? THEY AREN'T THE WORLD'S ONLY STORE. It makes me think of an illustrator I met at Worldcon who asked me to review a book he had illustrated at Amazon. It already had thirty reviews, so I went to B&N. Not a sing...
[02:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I will use them to browse and buy elsewhere - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:45:30] <exec> 08└─Yeah, showrooming can cut both ways. I'm surprised nobody at B&N has figured that out; B&N should make it easy for shoppers to access online reviews on Amazon as well as their site, while providing the convenience of walking out the store with the books.
[02:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02what if they do? - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:45:41] <exec> 08└─> I think this is a good thing for competition. And I don't mean "Now everyone will have to offer a premium membership service". And what if they do? What if the ten biggest stores all do the same shit. And the remaining stores don't have anywhere near the inventory capacity to compete? What then?
[02:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03nyder [4525] (Score:2) 02Trick to making your 30 day trial last 2 years - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:43] <exec> 08└─Amazon's 30 day trial of Prime can last you a long while if you are smart. You have the ability to cancel the 30 day trial. What I did was activate the trial, order something, then end the trial. I did this for about 2 years till I didn't have any trial time left.
[02:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02Re:biologists are put off by equations - 06Even Physicists Are 'Afraid' of Mathematics - 941 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:47:04] <exec> 08└─A sawtooth wave can be decomposed into a series of sine wave harmonics, with each having a relative amplitude of 1/n, where n is the number of that harmonic. The really high harmonics mostly just make the points of the sawtooth sharper, and beyond the Nyquist limit it's not possible to make it any s...
[02:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Nb: this is hard - 06National MagLab Racks Up New World Record With Hybrid Magnet - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:47:30] <exec> 08└─Would that be a "quality, usable" 100T with a meaningfully large volume of flatness, or just a pop-bang 100T record grabber?
[02:48:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score:2) 02Re:Wall - 06U.S. Visitors Flooded Immigration Website - Crash Followed - Ottawa - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:48:12] <exec> 08└─Sounds like Canada needs to build a wall to keep out waves of illegal immigrants trying to escape their dysfunctional government to seek a better life in the North
[02:48:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03draconx [4649] (Score:2) 02Don't want quitters. - 06U.S. Visitors Flooded Immigration Website - Crash Followed - Ottawa - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:34] <exec> 08└─Americans moving to Canada simply because of the election result are quitters. Being a sore loser is an anti-Canadian value [www.cbc.ca], and we don't want your kind here!
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[03:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:what if they do? - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:21] <exec> 08└─Then it dropships from the distributor or you have to wait a week or two for your shipment. Of course, there is the chance that kids aren't that patient today. I remember the days you mail-ordered and had to wait a minimum of a month to get your shipment. There were times where I would order things,...
[03:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score:1, Flamebait) 02Re:Don't want quitters. - 06U.S. Visitors Flooded Immigration Website - Crash Followed - Ottawa - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:48:13] <exec> 08└─German Jews moving to America simply because of the [1932] election result are quitters.
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[04:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Comments on TFS - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 1077 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:14] <exec> 08└─> How many people realize that when they click on a product from Amazon, they may or may not see the same price that I see? Targeted marketing. ... I may have discovered another variant of this? I have never purchased from Amazon[*] but recently I bought some window insulation film from an eBay sell...
[04:45:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score:2) 02Re:I will use them to browse and buy elsewhere - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:25] <exec> 08└─Likewise, a lot of physical retailers gripe that people come into the store, molest their merchandise, then take their phone out and order it on amazon. I am guilty of doing that myself.
[04:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Don't See the Problem - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:29] <exec> 08└─The only negative thing I've found is the stack of Amazon boxes sitting in my back yard waiting for room in the recycle bin or fireplace.
[04:45:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:what if they do? - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:38] <exec> 08└─> Then it dropships from the distributor Oh great, another literalist retard. Name one online store with a large catalog of items that drop-ship.
[04:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02I wonder how many sales this is costing them? - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:42] <exec> 08└─Because I know they used to be one of my go to places for PC parts and I have zero doubts I ran thousands through that company...not anymore, in fact I can't remember the last time I bought anything of note from them. Talking to other shop guys online there appears to be a lot of us that don't give...
[04:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Haven't ordered from Amazon for a couple years now - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:44] <exec> 08└─Not since they started charging sales tax in California. Too many other web sites where, when you factor in shipping and our outrageous tax, are cheaper than Amazon. Sad thing is, Amazon was the first web company I gave my credit card to. Ordered some CDs when they were maybe a year old. Much rather...
[04:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Gayniggers are the Master Race - 06Skin Pigment Could Help Strengthen Foams, Fabrics - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:46:15] <exec> 08└─> Black people are physically superior to white people. It maybe racist, but it’s true. You don't know many black people, do you? It is racist and its false.
[04:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:readability not fear - 06Even Physicists Are 'Afraid' of Mathematics - 1118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:46:49] <exec> 08└─It's not completely wrong, you'd run into the exact same problem in German, French, Mandarin or Swahili in terms of trying to describe things in a language that's designed for communicating other things. We chose English as the standard because that was the dominant language at the time when it was...
[04:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:readability not fear - 06Even Physicists Are 'Afraid' of Mathematics - 2242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:46:51] <exec> 08└─I don't agree with that at all and decades of trying to read as various authors try to convey in English what should be conveyed in math just reinforce the notion that it's sheer madness to try and use language designed for people to communicate such ideas. The point is, that if the math is written...
[04:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score:2) 02Re:readability not fear - 06Even Physicists Are 'Afraid' of Mathematics - 779 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:46:53] <exec> 08└─In software development, programmers use comments to clarify what a section of code does. Then there's the school of thought that if you break your code into well-named functions and use well-named variables, comments are often not needed. With mathematicians using single letter 'variable' names (of...
[04:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:If your first flu exposure is a vaccine... - 06Susceptibility to a Flu Determined by Your Very First Virus Encounter - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:47:25] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't make a difference. A vaccine is basically a virus that's been hit on the head, or killed, to make it non-infective. The proteins that trigger immune response don't change.
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[04:48:42] <exec> 08└─And that's exactly happening in the US. Concentration camps filled with Jews, African Americans, LGBTs, Muslim Americans, elderly, Asian Americans and Hispanic Americans all getting gassed.
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[05:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:As a longtime Amazon customer - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:45:03] <exec> 08└─Right now they have about 30% of the market in the US. This move is obnoxious, but at least you know they're doing. There was a story a while ago about them changing the search results to make the deals worse if you weren't a member of prime. That's a completely different matter.
[05:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ramze [6029] (Score:1) 02Re:Comments on TFS - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 1919 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:45:09] <exec> 08└─Don't mean to thread-jack, but as someone who was recently looking into RAID myself, thought you might like my 2 cents. Unless you're looking to spend a few thousand on a 8 drive rack or higher or really need a speed boost from RAID 1 mirroring, you're better off with a single main drive and an iden...
[05:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03tekk [5704] (Score:1) 02Re:Comments on TFS - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:45:11] <exec> 08└─That's my experience as well. They no longer advertise it, but if you open a support ticket for a shipment taking more than 2 days to your door they'll usually give you a free month of prime.
[05:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Reliance on Maths indicative of flawed science - 06Even Physicists Are 'Afraid' of Mathematics - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:46:57] <exec> 08└─Quantum field theory actually makes very heavy use of group theory, which was long considered a highly abstract branch of algebra that could have no direct applications outside of pure mathematics. Until someone realised that algebraic groups were the best way to describe symmetries, including the s...
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[05:47:41] <exec> 08└─There's nothing exactly wrong with pedophilia, pedophiles are victims of shitty biology and have no control over their attraction. Unless they actually act on it, punishing pedophiles for being pedophiles is punishing thoughtcrime; most child molesters aren't even pedophiles but opportunistic molest...
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[05:48:37] <exec> 08└─And that's exactly happening in the US. Concentration camps filled with Jews, African Americans, LGBTs, Muslim Americans, elderly, Asian Americans and Hispanic Americans all getting gassed.
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[06:44:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Mammalian Bone Gene:: Brains! - 06Mammalian Bone Gene may be Repurposed to Fuel Cognition in Humans - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:44] <exec> 08└─Now, at the end, do we realize the true power of the dark side of nature! Bone-heads! Literally, heads of bone! We are thinking with Bone! Which, actually, is better than thinking with meat [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tScAyNaRdQ from the original short story by Terry Bisson] On the other ha...
[06:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Tailored Carbon, Taylor Swift, what the diff? - 06Tailored Carbon Could Help Treating Neurological Diseases - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:00] <exec> 08└─Just me, or an inordinant number of FAs getting no comments at all? Makes me sad, and I fear for the future of SoylentNews. Glutamate, as in MSG? Maybe time to pay attention to more than just the gluten.
[06:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score:2) 02Let me get this straight.... - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:46] <exec> 08└─Like Costco, they want me to PAY THEM for the privilege of shopping? I do NOT understand why people do that.
[06:45:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Let me get this straight.... - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:45:48] <exec> 08└─As america secularizes people are looking for new clubs/tribes to claim membership in.
[06:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02business cycle - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:50] <exec> 08└─Often items that are listed as Prime go back to being generally available after a few weeks. I think they do it to try and goad, but ultimately don't want to lose the sale. The prices aren't really competitive anymore, especially if you are buying from a secondary sources and have to pay shipping. I...
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[07:44:40] <exec> 08└─Some scientists and other knowledge workers use Ritalin to enhance their cognitive function.
[07:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Hyperlinks - 06MAT (Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit) Seeks New 'Leadership' - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:50] <exec> 08└─This submission would have profited from the proper use of hyperlinks. So instead of MAT, "composed of a GUI application, a CLI application and a library, to anonymize/remove metadata," is a very useful tool[1] found in Tails[2] Linux and in the Debian Packages.[3]
[07:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:This is already well known. - 06FBI Runs Half of Known Child Porn Sites on Tor - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:47:52] <exec> 08└─Actually, a lot of male animals prefer to go after younger females, sometimes too young to be cycling, and some females prefer younger males who as yet don't know which end is up. I suppose it's an exaggeration of the drives to get your genes in there FIRST, and to select a young-and-virile mate.
[07:47:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:This is already well known. - 06FBI Runs Half of Known Child Porn Sites on Tor - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:47:59] <exec> 08└─I'm all for keeping kids from getting hurt or abused: are they really shutting down pedos or is it a money maker?
[07:48:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:i am done with faux pwogwessives... - 06U.S. Visitors Flooded Immigration Website - Crash Followed - Ottawa - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:48:39] <exec> 08└─And you forgot... they only like democracy if THEIR candidate wins. To all the whiners and losers I say... don't let the border hit ya in the ass on yer way out.
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[08:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Is representative democracy itself becoming dated? - 06Twitter Trolls are Destroying Democracy? - 2112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:43] <exec> 08└─We have a total 435 representatives in congress, 100 senators. Our representatives represent an average of more than 730,000 people each! Our senators represent more than 3 million people a piece. These numbers are pretty silly. When the US congress was first created with a national population of ab...
[08:44:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02It's justifiable revenge - 06Twitter Trolls are Destroying Democracy? - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:45] <exec> 08└─Most people get shit on every time they have to deal with government. When one of these politicians/bureaucrats puts themselves out there in a public forum and asks for input, what do they expect except people throwing shit back at them? There will always be some amount of trolling just to troll, bu...
[08:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:As a longtime Amazon customer - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:45:30] <exec> 08└─That's a completely different matter.
[08:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score:2) 02Re:As a longtime Amazon customer - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 831 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:45:32] <exec> 08└─The problem is not so much in Amazon making a jerk move. It's that apparently they think they are in a position to be a jerk and still get away with it. And I'm afraid, they're probably right, too. Why? 1. Amazon has become the one stop place to get everything, for the most part at competitive price...
[08:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Backwards - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:45:57] <exec> 08└─The recent problems with the US economy have mostly been because of an excess of credit-based overconsumpton. Pay-to-play Prime encourages over-consumption, and Amazon also encourage use of their own credit card. Amazon are definitely encouraging the behaviour that is damaging to the economy. Would...
[08:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I wonder how many sales this is costing them? - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:46:06] <exec> 08└─And . . . there it is! Amazon has finally failed the Hairyfeet Challenge! Who's next? How current are your drivers?
[08:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score:2) 02Re:My thoughts - 06Team Maps Genome of Black Blow Fly; May Benefit Human Health, Advance Pest Management - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:46:30] <exec> 08└─I could be wrong, but I believe maggots eating one's brain would definitively result in death, while only a small percentage of even really bad psychiatrists actually manage to kill a patient. ;-)
[08:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Even Physicists Are Idiots - 06Even Physicists Are 'Afraid' of Mathematics - 3283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:47:27] <exec> 08└─Math nerd here. At 12 I was writing computer programs to calculate pi, from a formula based on a Taylor-series expansion. My primary school teachers had said I was all-but useless at maths because I didn't sit down and learn the timetable and - at their demand - recite each perfectly without error i...
[08:48:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How about getting the kiddieporn out of Bing? - 06FBI Runs Half of Known Child Porn Sites on Tor - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:48:33] <exec> 08└─I have been toying with the idea the the possession of Child Pornography should be decriminalized. Child abuse imagery is evidence of a crime. It seems silly to make illegal to possess evidence of a crime, or more strangely, preserve it for exactly 21 days (after reporting) [justice.gc.ca] It seems...
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[09:44:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03quintessence [6227] (Score:2) 02Re:Is representative democracy itself becoming dat - 06Twitter Trolls are Destroying Democracy? - 1324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:44:47] <exec> 08└─Realistically, an elected representative reflects no one's views but his own. There may be some waffling to ensure a government pension at the end of it, but if it was truly the will of the people, there would be some assurances that campaign promises are kept. A direct voting system is just mob rul...
[09:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Is representative democracy itself becoming dat - 06Twitter Trolls are Destroying Democracy? - 1055 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:44:48] <exec> 08└─You have an adversarial money backed system. There are other ways to do democracy. Even in the us 100% of the power doesn't sit with those that get 49% of the vote - the power is split between the Supreme Court, both houses, and the president. Some countries are worse, giving 100% of the power to a...
[09:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Is representative democracy itself becoming dat - 06Twitter Trolls are Destroying Democracy? - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:44:50] <exec> 08└─We have a total 435 representatives in congress, 100 senators. Our representatives represent an average of more than 730,000 people each! Our senators represent more than 3 million people a piece. These numbers are pretty silly.
[09:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:1) 02Re:It's justifiable revenge - 06Twitter Trolls are Destroying Democracy? - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:44:53] <exec> 08└─yeah, plus, despite technological advances, life is not becoming "proportionally" easy. immigration, lack of jobs, rents rising, and other things... wtf is the meaning of asking people random shit?
[09:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Backwards - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:46:05] <exec> 08└─The people have to be able to make their own mistakes, it's a free country. If a company wants to give out credit, that's fine. If someone wants to take it, that's fine. If you want to sell your first born into indentured servitude, that's fine. It's a free country, and the public know best.
[09:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score:2) 02Amazon sucks - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:18] <exec> 08└─I recall they were involved with a certain legal dispute... http://www.scotusblog.com [scotusblog.com]
[09:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:readability not fear - 06Even Physicists Are 'Afraid' of Mathematics - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:47:29] <exec> 08└─I don't agree with that at all and decades of trying to read as various authors try to convey in English what should be conveyed in math just reinforce the notion that it's sheer madness to try and use language designed for people to communicate such ideas.
[09:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:readability not fear - 06Even Physicists Are 'Afraid' of Mathematics - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:47:31] <exec> 08└─Formulas aren't even that long - why not expend a few extra letters to clarify meaning?
[09:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:wait - 06National MagLab Racks Up New World Record With Hybrid Magnet - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:48:13] <exec> 08└─Dammit! Who wiped my harddrive?
[09:48:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is already well known. - 06FBI Runs Half of Known Child Porn Sites on Tor - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:48:36] <exec> 08└─The entire premise of arresting and charging people with POSSESSION of child pornography (where there is no evidence of direct harm to children) is because allowing unfettered distribution and access to child porn aids in creating and sustaining the market for it.
[09:48:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is already well known. - 06FBI Runs Half of Known Child Porn Sites on Tor - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:48:41] <exec> 08└─It is produced by the government? Not just distributed? I doubt that.
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[10:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Levee is Dry - 06Music Has Lost Many Greats This Year - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:37] <exec> 08└─Bye bye American pie.
[10:44:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I can't wait - 06Music Has Lost Many Greats This Year - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:38] <exec> 08└─I can't wait until I get old and the classics are the stuff that I listen to now. What will society be like when grandpas are bumping Gucci Mane and talking about how much better music used to be? I guess it won't be too much different from now, after all, Tupac died almost 20 years ago.
[10:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's justifiable revenge - 06Twitter Trolls are Destroying Democracy? - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:44:51] <exec> 08└─Tell this to people that were arrested for tweets.
[10:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Fuck amazon - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:18] <exec> 08└─Used to use them a lot, but now I just can't be bothered. It seems that searching for stuff on Amazon these days is worse than searching on ebay: Every search you put in is polluted by hundreds or thousands of irrelevant "amazon marketplace" results that make it nigh impossible to find what you want...
[10:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Even Physicists Are Idiots - 06Even Physicists Are 'Afraid' of Mathematics - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:47:37] <exec> 08└─In calculus II here students are taught notation abuse, separating the dx from dy in dx/dy to solve basic differential equations.
[10:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Even Physicists Are Idiots - 06Even Physicists Are 'Afraid' of Mathematics - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:47:38] <exec> 08└─I am now a math retard, but once upon a time I was 2 grades ahead in math and learning imaginary numbers
[10:48:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:This is already well known. - 06FBI Runs Half of Known Child Porn Sites on Tor - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:48:29] <exec> 08└─Citation needed. Last I heard the whole "being a victim of child abuse makes you grow up into a pedo" thing was thoroughly debunked. Good thing too, since that thinking effectively demonizes a whole class of people who already have more than enough bad shit to deal with, and discourages disclosure w...
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[11:44:32] <exec> 08└─If you have done nothing wrong, there's still the possibility that one day someone may get to power who has a different interpretation of "nothing wrong" than you have. In the worst case, as in the one of this story, it's not even related to what you've done, but to what you are.
[11:44:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Mexicans and EU Nationals - 06Dutch People: During World War II, We Did Have Something to Hide - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:34] <exec> 08└─It'll be a breeze rounding them up. We could put them in camps and get some work out of them before they're deported, you know, to get some sort of payment out of them for everything they've taken from us. Hail Farage! Hail Trump!
[11:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Re:It's justifiable revenge - 06Twitter Trolls are Destroying Democracy? - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:44:56] <exec> 08└─I have to disagree: those are two entirely separate problems. Many government offices work just fine. Some don't, perhaps due to poor supervision. Complain about the ones that treat you badly. The reason politicians get abuse when they try to interact with the public? That is a combination of two fa...
[11:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Leading by example - 06Twitter Trolls are Destroying Democracy? - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:58] <exec> 08└─My take: The egg heads may be right on this, however there is nothing inherently undemocratic in people publishing libelous and slanderous crap about politicians
[11:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02better title for mainstream media below - 06Ultrafast Slow-Motion Microscope Sees a Single Molecule Vibrate - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:39] <exec> 08└─Molecule found shaking after Trump gets elected: what does it know that we don't?
[11:47:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:Even Physicists Are Idiots - 06Even Physicists Are 'Afraid' of Mathematics - 1609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:47:53] <exec> 08└─How is your anecdotal exceptionalism relevant to the general population? How's having a teacher singling you out as a prodigy and mentoring you applies to everyone's curriculum? This is the same mistake every novice athlete makes: They look at routines of exceptionally talented, advanced and often j...
[11:48:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:This is already well known. - 06FBI Runs Half of Known Child Porn Sites on Tor - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:48:52] <exec> 08└─ABSOTUTELY agree!!!
[11:49:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:How about getting the kiddieporn out of Bing? - 06FBI Runs Half of Known Child Porn Sites on Tor - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:49:03] <exec> 08└─You also have the argument that criminalising possession makes it laughably easy to destroy innocent people. Want your business / romantic / political rival or other enemy arrested, discredeted and utterly ruined? Just email them a few jpegs [1] and send in the SWAT teams... [1] Or, if you want to b...
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[12:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03jpkunst [2310] (Score:3, Informative) 02"benzene" - 06Dutch People: During World War II, We Did Have Something to Hide - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:41] <exec> 08└─after soaking the files in benzene → in all probabilty: after soaking the files in gasoline. (Dutch "benzine" == "gasoline")
[12:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:"benzene" - 06Dutch People: During World War II, We Did Have Something to Hide - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:44:42] <exec> 08└─Ironically gasoline is a dumping ground for generic small to mid sized hydrocarbons, so in addition to vast quantities of general WTF-ium (varnish?), there's usually no small amount of (carcinogenic) benzene in the mix. So depending on what refinery is serving up your gasoline today, it might litera...
[12:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:4, Informative) 02Big Data is now voluntary - 06Dutch People: During World War II, We Did Have Something to Hide - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:44] <exec> 08└─Nowadays data is being collected all over the place and most of it is given voluntarily, although probably mostly unwittingly. What happened in WW2 can happen anywhere again, only now the data will be available in the blink of an eye. And it cannot be destroyed anymore. Since WW2 the Dutch have refu...
[12:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Big Data is now voluntary - 06Dutch People: During World War II, We Did Have Something to Hide - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:44:46] <exec> 08└─the Dutch have refused to file personal information like religion
[12:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is representative democracy itself becoming dat - 06Twitter Trolls are Destroying Democracy? - 1147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:45:04] <exec> 08└─I think this election has shown, more than anything, that people will do what people want to do. The elites whom you state will 'set the narrative and direct people on what to vote for' spared no expense in trying to force Hillary into office. The entire media was against her. They even managed to g...
[12:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Is representative democracy itself becoming dat - 06Twitter Trolls are Destroying Democracy? - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:45:06] <exec> 08└─When two wolves and a sheep decide what to have for dinner it's democracy. It's not a good idea though
[12:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03iwoloschin [3863] (Score:2) 02Re:Let me get this straight.... - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:46:38] <exec> 08└─I make money back at Costco. My membership is something like $110/year, and combined with their credit card I get 2% back. That alone pays the membership, and then the credit card has great cashback deals for restaurants and travel, which only sweetens the deal.
[12:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02it bit me in the ass today - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:42] <exec> 08└─The success of Sears and K-Mart right now ought to be sufficient warning to Amazon not to close their doors to anyone but members. If you are not aware, Sears and K-Mart still exist. No, really. But they have built their business right now around people who sign up for their membership program. Peop...
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[13:44:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Oh my! - 06Call for Volunteers: Editors - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:33] <exec> 08└─"I've even gotten to meet one of the guys in meat" cmn and meat - what more needs to be said?
[13:44:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Probably a good thing - 06Call for Volunteers: Editors - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:35] <exec> 08└─It's probably a good thing that most of our readership doesn't have the time to be editors. It means we are all very busy with productive things :) Still job needs to be done, and I know that it is a thankless job for sure that requires very thick skin and healthy emotional-detachment from the inter...
[13:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:2) 02Some Benefits - 06Call for Volunteers: Editors - 1889 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:37] <exec> 08└─Did you ever notice a typo, grammatical error, or formatting issue on one of the stories on SoylentNews? I did, and went into IRC [soylentnews.org] to suggest a correction to the editorial staff. And then I saw another one. And another. So, I suggested that it would be easier for them if they let m...
[13:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:If you have done nothing wrong … - 06Dutch People: During World War II, We Did Have Something to Hide - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:44:46] <exec> 08└─And when someone decides that if you don't have big data proving you aren't jewish (say lots of pork on your grocery store receipts), you probably are, and you're up in line. If you're missing entirely from all big data then you're an abnormality, and standing out in these cases is a bad thing.
[13:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:I can't wait - 06Music Has Lost Many Greats This Year - 927 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:45:00] <exec> 08└─Boomers are starting to hit retirement and nursing homes already. Going to be interesting to see a unified block of older big band laurance whelk types collide yet again with a semi-unified block of their kids listening to the Dead Kennedys and Black Sabbath and AC/DC and Jimi Hendrix. Society and t...
[13:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Buckley's Hallelujah FTW - 06Music Has Lost Many Greats This Year - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:01] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8AWFf7EAc4 [youtube.com] or https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[13:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Dead pool? Degeneracy kills? - 06Music Has Lost Many Greats This Year - 2492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:03] <exec> 08└─Anyone up for a SN dead pool? Maybe too macabre. Strange political observation: If Dad would have described the musician as a degenerate dirtbag or as a talentless slut, that pragmatically seems to cost a good 10, 20, 30, 40 years of lifespan. Is anyone really surprised Amy Winehouse, Kurt "go bang"...
[13:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is representative democracy itself becoming dat - 06Twitter Trolls are Destroying Democracy? - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:45:14] <exec> 08└─I think the ancient Greeks had it right the first time with selecting people at random to hold office. Every political decision is a zero sum game where anyone can hold power.
[13:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:Is representative democracy itself becoming dat - 06Twitter Trolls are Destroying Democracy? - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:45:17] <exec> 08└─soooo, in this metaphor, we sheeples are just waiting for the weaker wolf to get hungry again ? ? ?
[13:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Is representative democracy itself becoming dat - 06Twitter Trolls are Destroying Democracy? - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:45:19] <exec> 08└─That's the rational choice, and that's what a good representative govenrment should choose. People don't vote rationally though - either for the immediate benefit of themselves or for the long term benefit of the whole.
[13:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Just waiting for people to realize - 06Twitter Trolls are Destroying Democracy? - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:27] <exec> 08└─That the larger a structure gets, be it a country or a company. The more authoritarian it has to get just to continue functioning in any sort of fashion.
[13:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re - ed's link - 06Twitter Trolls are Destroying Democracy? - 802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:30] <exec> 08└─Past dirty campaigns amuse me somewhat. It seems that a lot of people believe that we have lowered our standards over the years. But, no, people are people. People don't change, they don't "evolve". An article I read long ago made me laugh. It seems that in Greece, Rome, and any other ancient civili...
[13:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:As a longtime Amazon customer - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:46:14] <exec> 08└─#include <standard_ask_your_mom_joke.h>
[13:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03gmrath [4181] (Score:1) 02Re:As a longtime Amazon customer - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:46:15] <exec> 08└─So, here I thought a penis extension included a full suspension lift kit, 40-inch diameter tires, light bars, air horn, 500+ CID engine and a six foot step ladder to get into the thing to strap it on. Huh.
[13:46:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03nyder [4525] 02Trick to making your 30 day trial last 2 years - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 267 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:51] <exec> 08└─Amazon's 30 day trial of Prime can last you a long while if you are smart. You have the ability to cancel the 30 day trial. What I did was activate the trial, order something, then end the trial. I did this for about 2 years till I didn't have any trial time left.
[13:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02Re:Trick to making your 30 day trial last 2 years - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:46:53] <exec> 08└─FWIW, Barnes and Noble recently (over the summer) stopped their membership free trial program because of abuses.
[13:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Let me get this straight.... - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:47:01] <exec> 08└─I have a 3% cash back CC and shop at store that has same products at cheaper prices than Costco. YMMV
[13:48:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Reliance on Maths indicative of flawed science - 06Even Physicists Are 'Afraid' of Mathematics - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:48:34] <exec> 08└─Quantum field theory actually makes very heavy use of group theory,
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[14:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh my! - 06Call for Volunteers: Editors - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:54] <exec> 08└─I think you a word out. =) And that is an example of one of the "joys" of working on the site... the valuable feedback and perspective of our community! But seriously, and on topic with the original quote "I've even gotten to meet one of the guys in meat space." — I've had the distinct pleasure...
[14:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh my! - 06Call for Volunteers: Editors - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:56] <exec> 08└─That's cool. We'll meet the meat.
[14:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Nomination - 06Call for Volunteers: Editors - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:00] <exec> 08└─I nominate wonkey_monkey. There will never be a single typo, loose grammatical construction, or textual ambiguity ever again.
[14:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score:3, Interesting) 02What is it like? - 06Call for Volunteers: Editors - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:02] <exec> 08└─What are the day to day duties for an editor?
[14:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What about those of us who post anon? - 06Call for Volunteers: Editors - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:04] <exec> 08└─And wish to stay anon. And would have a REALLY REALLY HIGH UID if we bothered to register now :) While I am on the subject, does SN have a .onion? And any chance of getting a .i2p to go with it? :)
[14:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02Re:Big Data is now voluntary - 06Dutch People: During World War II, We Did Have Something to Hide - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:19] <exec> 08└─That's what I said, those examples are all voluntary (more or less). But the Dutch government still doesn't register religion in its databases as far as I know, because registration went so horribly wrong in the war.
[14:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Counterpoint - 06Dutch People: During World War II, We Did Have Something to Hide - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:21] <exec> 08└─During the 2016 presidential election, both candidates also had something to hide. Yes, the argument "If you aren't doing anything wrong, you have nothing to hide" is totally bogus. I think everyone here understands that. On the other hand, if you are doing something wrong, that does imply you have...
[14:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Re - ed's link - 06Twitter Trolls are Destroying Democracy? - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:56] <exec> 08└─and any other ancient civilization
[14:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02The eggheads - 06Twitter Trolls are Destroying Democracy? - 684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:57] <exec> 08└─Damn those nasty Register people. Surely they know that "egghead" is a slur on intelligent people. What's worse, Mendax repeats it sans quotes. I've ranted about that rag's undependibility and won't repeat myself about that, but when you're covering the Earthquake in New Zealand, why quote a Canadia...
[14:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Schoolmarm-ish? - 06Twitter Trolls are Destroying Democracy? - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:59] <exec> 08└─to an extraordinary 40 per cent when they actively tried to engage with voters.
[14:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:As a longtime Amazon customer - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:46:45] <exec> 08└─Amazon sells all those parts, although maybe you need Prime. Reminds me of my first "what the fuck are you doing on the internet" parenting experience with my daughter who was trying her best to order a complete "hello kitty" car makeover kit from amazon, the five hundred dollar one which is apparen...
[14:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:As a longtime Amazon customer - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:46:46] <exec> 08└─FYI . . . the state of Arizona has a limit of 2 dildos per household. Does this item qualify fall under the scope of that law? Or can I order as many as I want?
[14:46:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:As a longtime Amazon customer - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:46:52] <exec> 08└─> I have no problems with them running their business the way they see fit If you meant 'ruining' their business, then I would agree.
[14:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Comments on TFS - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 1576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:47:01] <exec> 08└─I had a few reasons for wanting a RAID. The one reason that finally pushed me into making the investment was, I no longer had enough connections for my JBOD. I have disks from back in the day when a gigabyte was a HUGE hard drive. I have boxes of hard drives. I needed to consolidate all that stuff....
[14:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Comments on TFS - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:47:03] <exec> 08└─there is "research" and there is "research".
[14:47:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score:2) 02Re:Please don't cry - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:47:11] <exec> 08└─Oh BTW, can you send me a copy of Pink Flamingos in IRC or a working torrent for it? aqu4 takes messages. :^P
[14:48:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Even Physicists Are Idiots - 06Even Physicists Are 'Afraid' of Mathematics - 1213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:48:56] <exec> 08└─I actually don't even agree with how you describe the names. Imaginary numbers are called such, because they came to be that way: a "value" that was invented because it made the formulas easy to solve. That makes them fairly imaginary, even if we just accept them like we do "normal" numbers (admitte...
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[15:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:What is it like? - 06Call for Volunteers: Editors - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:58] <exec> 08└─Whatever you can manage, really. If you can push 3-4 stories a day, you'll be the in like Flynn. When you do the queuing is irrelevant unless the queue has run dry.
[15:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:What about those of us who post anon? - 06Call for Volunteers: Editors - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:01] <exec> 08└─We do have a .onion. I think it's just soylentnews.onion but I wouldn't swear to it. I just make sure it's got traffic coming over it every now and then, I don't actually use it. i2p, nope. No current plans on it either. May change if we get enough requests though. Can't edit as AC. That would requi...
[15:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:What about those of us who post anon? - 06Call for Volunteers: Editors - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:03] <exec> 08└─If it is soylentnews.onion, then there is no good way to authenticate an onion site. There are probably a few random characters tacked on the end: not that most people would bother to verify those.
[15:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Guest Editors - 06Call for Volunteers: Editors - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:05] <exec> 08└─Would it be possible to have a guest editor feature where users with positive karma could add a limited number of stories (3-5 per day) to the queue? Is there any interest in low-productivity (10 stories per month) editors?
[15:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02how many hours per week, min? - 06Call for Volunteers: Editors - 1612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:07] <exec> 08└─> we all are busy and have lives. So do you So true. I have very little free time, and carving out just 3 hours out of a week would be hard. What's the minimum time commitment you think an editor must make? Need more submissions too? I've long wondered whether Computer Science and especially algorit...
[15:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:how many hours per week, min? - 06Call for Volunteers: Editors - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:10] <exec> 08└─Need more submissions too? I've long wondered whether Computer Science and especially algorithms could be covered more. Very occasionally there's a programming language story that sparks a fun debate about that subject.
[15:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Camaraderie - 06Call for Volunteers: Editors - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:12] <exec> 08└─Oblig [youtube.com]
[15:45:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The Mighty Buzzard - 06Call for Volunteers: Editors - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:14] <exec> 08└─TMB Note: Seriously. You really don't want me having to pick stories.
[15:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:If you have done nothing wrong … - 06Dutch People: During World War II, We Did Have Something to Hide - 1389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:25] <exec> 08└─I think you're missing the value of time. I'm old enough that pre-9/11 at least in the USA as a mostly shared cultural outlook moslem = arab = rich oil sheik and we had TV tropes about the comedy of their culture shock at visiting California or something. So some dude buys a Koran (thats how we used...
[15:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I can't wait - 06Music Has Lost Many Greats This Year - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:42] <exec> 08└─Paddle faster, I hear banjo music!
[15:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Buckley's Hallelujah FTW - 06Music Has Lost Many Greats This Year - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:45] <exec> 08└─You forgot this one [youtube.com].
[15:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02irony - 06Music Has Lost Many Greats This Year - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:48] <exec> 08└─Damn, the one time it would be appropriate for me to write one of my "spectacular rock'n'roll death" posts, it's totally inappropriate.
[15:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03quintessence [6227] (Score:2) 02Re:Is representative democracy itself becoming dat - 06Twitter Trolls are Destroying Democracy? - 1279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:59] <exec> 08└─The real travesty in the media coverage of the election was less them trying to goad people into voting for candidate A or candidate B, but the entire dialogue being dominated by character depictions, which while amusing doesn't really set a course of action except through blind faith that either ca...
[15:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Is representative democracy itself becoming dat - 06Twitter Trolls are Destroying Democracy? - 907 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:06] <exec> 08└─Just a nitpick, but it was 227 years ago. They tried the Articles of Confederation for a bit before coming to the conclusion they didn't work and replacing them with the Constitution in 1789. Other than that, good points. And a bit of extra info from Wikipedia: The only constitutional rule relating...
[15:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Schoolmarm-ish? - 06Twitter Trolls are Destroying Democracy? - 1041 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:18] <exec> 08└─You spew shit like that and wonder why your fellow ideologues are treated like ignorant peasants?? You are the very type of person you don't like, except with a more prejudiced viewpoint. The people you are upset about are much more easily rehabilitates to drop their hatred. You and your klansmen ho...
[15:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snort [5141] (Score:1) 02You missed the real lesson here - 06Twitter Trolls are Destroying Democracy? - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:19] <exec> 08└─Never use Twitter. It sucks. It is useless for bi-directional communication. Trolling takes advantage of that.
[15:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score:1) 02they've always been jerks - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:47:11] <exec> 08└─They've always been jerks like this to partners, vendors, suppliers. It's just the customers have mostly been insulated from this until recently.
[15:49:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Oblig quote - 06Even Physicists Are 'Afraid' of Mathematics - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:49:22] <exec> 08└─Please share, never heard of that plotline.
[15:50:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's always the same - 06U.S. Visitors Flooded Immigration Website - Crash Followed - Ottawa - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:50:55] <exec> 08└─Actually it depends on who is winning...
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[16:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh my! - 06Call for Volunteers: Editors - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:55] <exec> 08└─That is, if we don't become the meat first. SoylentNews is people, you know.
[16:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Nomination - 06Call for Volunteers: Editors - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:59] <exec> 08└─dam strait,
[16:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Guest Editors - 06Call for Volunteers: Editors - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:07] <exec> 08└─Possible? Yes. Easy? Not remotely. It'd take probably a week of mornings worth of coding and two weeks of martyb trying to do things he shouldn't be able to and otherwise break it. No clue about interest on low-productivity eds but I know you could push out 10 of Phoenix666's or any editor's submiss...
[16:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:2) 02Re:how many hours per week, min? - 06Call for Volunteers: Editors - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:11] <exec> 08└─I just tried in Mousepad: Ctrl+A, c, Ctrl+Z, and the document is restored to how it was before c was pressed. Ctrl+A in a graphical text editor was more dangerous back in the day when we had one level of undo, and the second was to undo the undo itself.
[16:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Big Data is now voluntary - 06Dutch People: During World War II, We Did Have Something to Hide - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:30] <exec> 08└─Most of it is given voluntarily? May be, but some of the most sensitive is not. Catalonia's regional government will collect DNA samples [soylentnews.org]
[16:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Leon Russell - 06Music Has Lost Many Greats This Year - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:48] <exec> 08└─http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/14/arts/music/leon-russell-hit-maker-and-musicians-musician-dies-at-74.html [nytimes.com] A lovely bluegrass detour -- https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[16:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score:2) 02Mechanical corset? - 06Music Has Lost Many Greats This Year - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:49] <exec> 08└─Can someone please tell me what a "mechanical corset" is? (wondering due to "Queen Victoria", the line "Will you spank her with a mechanical corset?") Yes, this has been irking me for a decade..
[16:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score:2) 02Re:The eggheads - 06Twitter Trolls are Destroying Democracy? - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:18] <exec> 08└─Eh, its a British culture thing. (El Reg is a UK site with mostly UK journalists) We even have a prime time TV show called Eggheads: https://en.wikipedia.org(TV_series) [wikipedia.org] Its a general slang term for smart people, but not really insulting. Would be considered a complimen...
[16:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02The Waldo Moment - 06Twitter Trolls are Destroying Democracy? - 2657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:23] <exec> 08└─This all has been covered several years back in the Black Mirror episode The Waldo Moment [wikipedia.org]. For those who haven't seen it -- briefly, an trollish animated cartoon bear joins in a UK election, first merely making fun of candidates, then participating in debates with them, and finally "...
[16:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score:2) 02Rich Halls Election Breakdown - 06Twitter Trolls are Destroying Democracy? - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:25] <exec> 08└─Some of the things said about Thomas Jefferson when he was running for president were worse than what we were subjected to during this election cycle.
[16:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score:2) 02Tragedy of the commons, in another arena - 06Twitter Trolls are Destroying Democracy? - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:27] <exec> 08└─Everything will degenerate to the lowest common denominator, because it only takes one asshole to ruin something for everybody. One person spraypainting graffiti on a new structure or engraving his name on a natural wonder, another trying to take a selfie and destroying an irreplaceable historical a...
[16:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Comments on TFS - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:30] <exec> 08└─Shhhhh. Don't tell Amazon about this lack of stock in electronics and hobby goods...or next they will be buying Digikey (etc).
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[17:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Without energy loss - 06Record Distance for Alternative Super-Current - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:57] <exec> 08└─The hard disk mechanism using this may operate without energy loss. The cooling mechanism, not so much.
[17:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score:2) 02Re:What is it like? - 06Call for Volunteers: Editors - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:24] <exec> 08└─What does "push"ing a story entail? And what is queuing?
[17:45:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmn32480 [443] (Score:2) 02Re:What is it like? - 06Call for Volunteers: Editors - 861 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:25] <exec> 08└─Pushing a story entails taking the submission, fixing what ever might be wrong with it, checking the links, setting the dept line, setting the time, and pushing it into the front page queue. Depending on the story, this can take 2 minutes, or it can take 30 minutes. We queue the stories up so that t...
[17:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:What about those of us who post anon? - 06Call for Volunteers: Editors - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:30] <exec> 08└─While hilarious
[17:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmn32480 [443] (Score:2) 02Re:The Mighty Buzzard - 06Call for Volunteers: Editors - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:39] <exec> 08└─Trust us... you don't want him picking the stories.
[17:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score:2) 02Volunteer - 06Call for Volunteers: Editors - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:42] <exec> 08└─I like this place, I'm willing to help. [redacted]
[17:45:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02If you have done nothing wrong … - 06Dutch People: During World War II, We Did Have Something to Hide - 280 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:50] <exec> 08└─If you have done nothing wrong, there's still the possibility that one day someone may get to power who has a different interpretation of "nothing wrong" than you have. In the worst case, as in the one of this story, it's not even related to what you've done, but to what you are.
[17:45:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03inertnet [4071] 02Big Data is now voluntary - 06Dutch People: During World War II, We Did Have Something to Hide - 408 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:57] <exec> 08└─Nowadays data is being collected all over the place and most of it is given voluntarily, although probably mostly unwittingly. What happened in WW2 can happen anywhere again, only now the data will be available in the blink of an eye. And it cannot be destroyed anymore. Since WW2 the Dutch have refu...
[17:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Big Data is now voluntary - 06Dutch People: During World War II, We Did Have Something to Hide - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:02] <exec> 08└─It's "voluntary", except that there are many things you cannot do without surrendering quite a bit of data, including things that help pay your bills. What's definitely not voluntary, though, is the government's later use of that data; you may have technically given permission for the company to hav...
[17:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score:2) 02Re:Buckley's Hallelujah FTW - 06Music Has Lost Many Greats This Year - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:17] <exec> 08└─I'm more partial to this Rufus Wainwright rendition: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] (known from Shrek).
[17:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Dead pool? Degeneracy kills? - 06Music Has Lost Many Greats This Year - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:19] <exec> 08└─Anyone up for a SN dead pool? Maybe too macabre.
[17:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is representative democracy itself becoming dat - 06Twitter Trolls are Destroying Democracy? - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:35] <exec> 08└─I think this election has shown, more than anything, that people will do what people want to do.
[17:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Is representative democracy itself becoming dat - 06Twitter Trolls are Destroying Democracy? - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:41] <exec> 08└─It is for the sheep, because the outcome will be that the stronger wolf will be dinner.
[17:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Is representative democracy itself becoming dat - 06Twitter Trolls are Destroying Democracy? - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:45] <exec> 08└─We have a total 435 representatives in congress, 100 senators. Our representatives represent an average of more than 730,000 people each!
[17:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's justifiable revenge - 06Twitter Trolls are Destroying Democracy? - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:51] <exec> 08└─- Second, the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory, i.e., anonymity in the Internet
[17:47:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:As a longtime Amazon customer - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:47:48] <exec> 08└─It's used to cure his chronic whiskey dick.
[17:49:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:readability not fear - 06Even Physicists Are 'Afraid' of Mathematics - 683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:49:38] <exec> 08└─Not too hard to grok this. The evil floating point bit level hack accesses the float memory as a long int and stores it to i. Then it's shifted right by one and subtracted from the magic number 0x5f3759df. It's then converted back to a float and stored to y. Then its off to a bit of math to take the...
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[18:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:2) 02Family guy - 06The Man Who Created a Tiny Country He Can No Longer Enter - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:04] <exec> 08└─Petoria https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[18:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Family guy - 06The Man Who Created a Tiny Country He Can No Longer Enter - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:06] <exec> 08└─I thought it was Peterland?
[18:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02To be fair - 06The Man Who Created a Tiny Country He Can No Longer Enter - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:08] <exec> 08└─To be fair to the guy, this does actually seem to be a real instance of Terra nullius... Not that that will matter.
[18:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I don't understand this story - 06The Man Who Created a Tiny Country He Can No Longer Enter - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:10] <exec> 08└─So, this looks like one more micronation. However, does "what he says is unclaimed land between Serbia and Croatia" really count as unclaimed if Croatia will arrest you for entering it? It looks like they're claiming it. Also, "libertarian dream" my ass. It's the same as going to live in a forest. I...
[18:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Found a flaw - 06The Man Who Created a Tiny Country He Can No Longer Enter - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:12] <exec> 08└─So no gun laws and a tiny country... that means if one of his citizens manages to miss their target then they've opened fire upon another sovereign nation.
[18:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:The Mighty Buzzard - 06Call for Volunteers: Editors - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:58] <exec> 08└─I've got two jobs and do anti-human-trafficking stuff on the side, but I'd be happy to volunteer some time in the wee hours of the morning as my schedule usually has me up till 1 or 2 AM CST/CDT. Also, the fact that it would probably make Uzzard there burst every blood vessel in his body is an added...
[18:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sourcery42 [6400] (Score:1) 02Re:"benzene" - 06Dutch People: During World War II, We Did Have Something to Hide - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:13] <exec> 08└─Whoa. In the past things might have been less stringent, but nowadays gasoline can't be mostly benzene. The US pool averages around 1% with incentives to drive it lower https://www.epa.gov [epa.gov] I'm less familiar with European petrol specs, bu...
[18:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Big Data is now voluntary - 06Dutch People: During World War II, We Did Have Something to Hide - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:18] <exec> 08└─See that brand-new smart meter? It will tell me whether your electricity usage drops on Saturdays, or climbs on Christmas Eve. Heck, I'm pretty sure you can find when Ramadan is just by using usage trends in enough random anonymous utility bills. Almost all of Europe avoids officially tracking relig...
[18:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:It's justifiable revenge - 06Twitter Trolls are Destroying Democracy? - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:09] <exec> 08└─First, the extreme polarization in the current political climate: if someone holds a different viewpopint, they are not only wrong, they are evil.
[18:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:Re - ed's link - 06Twitter Trolls are Destroying Democracy? - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:14] <exec> 08└─all the graffiti is vulgar. Drawings of penises
[18:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score:1) 02caesar - 06Twitter Trolls are Destroying Democracy? - 819 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:16] <exec> 08└─Caesar hated people thinking he was gay. It wasn't a big deal to most people at time, but to Caesar being macho was important. He often seduced other mens' wives just because he could, and loved the infamy that came with it (and strangely most of them were okay with it - "my wife is so beautiful CAE...
[18:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:3, Interesting) 02That's not the major problem - 06Twitter Trolls are Destroying Democracy? - 1827 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:26] <exec> 08└─Does anyone really believe the votes reported? If so, why? BOTH parties have insisted on voting machines that are easily corrupted. That they are so has been repeatedly demonstrated. One of the vendors of voting machines stated that his machine would guarantee that the Republicans won. (That was Die...
[18:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That's not the major problem - 06Twitter Trolls are Destroying Democracy? - 921 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:28] <exec> 08└─I don't believe the numbers, I think it became clear that citizens wouldn't support another president that lost the popular vote but won the electoral vote. I honestly don't think Trump won fairly, and I know Clinton didn't win the DNC fairly... so what, next election cycle we get shit together? If...
[18:52:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Don't want quitters. - 06U.S. Visitors Flooded Immigration Website - Crash Followed - Ottawa - 710 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:52:24] <exec> 08└─There's gonna be a camp for the calculating women who refuse to sign the prenuptial agreement. Also the women who will openly and quickly sign a prenuptial agreement in order to make a quick hit and take the money given to them. Another camp is for the ones with extraordinarily bad breast jobs and t...
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[19:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Family guy - 06The Man Who Created a Tiny Country He Can No Longer Enter - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:44:56] <exec> 08└─The gay bar down by the airport already took the name.
[19:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I don't understand this story - 06The Man Who Created a Tiny Country He Can No Longer Enter - 1185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:00] <exec> 08└─Taking from others what they think is theirs usually only ends badly. Especially a nation state. There are many tracts of land out there like this. Basically only 'legally' not someones or ambiguous legally. But someone considers it theirs. In the days of decently accurate GPS these sorts of situati...
[19:45:01] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Bigger deal than that: - 06The Man Who Created a Tiny Country He Can No Longer Enter - 1831 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:02] <exec> 08└─This guy is(was?) a current Czech politician who did this as a stunt during the Croatian/Serbian border disputes that resulting in them redefining their borders to wht each thought was acceptable, which happened to have some 'undefined space' in between due to changes in the river flow between their...
[19:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2) 02The Libertarian Fantasy - 06The Man Who Created a Tiny Country He Can No Longer Enter - 761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:04] <exec> 08└─Anybody who thinks they can move into a 7 km space with no army and no international support is not just dreaming. They're living in a fantasy world. What's to stop anybody from just moving in and taking the land? That they are nice people? If your answer is "international law", well that law is wri...
[19:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Libertarian Fantasy - 06The Man Who Created a Tiny Country He Can No Longer Enter - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:07] <exec> 08└─Yeah, Libertarians are one day of missed meals from anarchy... Pure freedom is a nice ideal, but reality just doesn't work that way. Infringing on others' freedoms is one of the core missions of power hungry sociopaths. We need laws, we need government (to varying degrees), or as Louis C.K. said ......
[19:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:The Libertarian Fantasy - 06The Man Who Created a Tiny Country He Can No Longer Enter - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:09] <exec> 08└─What's to stop anybody from just moving in and taking the land?
[19:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Without energy loss - 06Record Distance for Alternative Super-Current - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:18] <exec> 08└─You can take that fucking hard drive and install it where the Sun doesn't shine, namely Shackleton Crater on the Moon. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Superconductivity with passive cooling may be possible there. Getting there could require energy though.
[19:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Mighty Buzzard - 06Call for Volunteers: Editors - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:56] <exec> 08└─I've had an idea. Allow TMB to pick & edit one or two stories a week. Maybe on weekends, when the traffic's low. Add the tagline (like we have "Breaking" or "Ask Soylent") "What's the Buzz?" to the stories. While I disagree with Buzzard on most issues and think he's frequently a pompous ass, replies...
[19:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02A Serious Question - 06Call for Volunteers: Editors - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:59] <exec> 08└─This site exists because Slashdot was going Beta. That is no longer the case (they were bought by someone else). We post the majority of articles that Slashdot posts. Why do we need to exist? What makes us different enough to be worthwhile? The site was a success, it achieved it's original purpose....
[19:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A Serious Question - 06Call for Volunteers: Editors - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:01] <exec> 08└─Why not this site? I only come here and post stories here. I don't really care to hit a bunch of sites every day, so I've settled on this one and I'm happy with it.
[19:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Re:A Serious Question - 06Call for Volunteers: Editors - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:03] <exec> 08└─Why continue?
[19:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Re:A Serious Question - 06Call for Volunteers: Editors - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:05] <exec> 08└─Because Slashdot still regularly goes downhill? The quality here is much higher. The first time I hit a racist troll post here, I modded it to oblivion because that sort of thing just doesn't fit here. On Slashdot, it's still "accepted" somehow. The stories here have a much high quality but less qua...
[19:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:If you have done nothing wrong … - 06Dutch People: During World War II, We Did Have Something to Hide - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:16] <exec> 08└─That's where the problem develops, when your record doesn't change, but culture changes around you, such that the interpretation of your record changes from "weirdo but harmless" to "must be the first guy in line for the camps". That was a typical left wing progressive example.
[19:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:If you have done nothing wrong … - 06Dutch People: During World War II, We Did Have Something to Hide - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:17] <exec> 08└─The US hasn't been almost entirely white for a really really long time. What was almost entirely all-white was television, which you misinterpret as being representative of your overall population.
[19:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Mexicans and EU Nationals - 06Dutch People: During World War II, We Did Have Something to Hide - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:20] <exec> 08└─Working [on The Wall from the south side] will set you free.
[19:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score:2) 02Re:Is representative democracy itself becoming dat - 06Twitter Trolls are Destroying Democracy? - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:47:08] <exec> 08└─And also the core belief of conservatives. I say that as someone who supported Trump. We are all sheep here who disagree with each other, trying to be wolf.
[19:47:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is representative democracy itself becoming dat - 06Twitter Trolls are Destroying Democracy? - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:47:13] <exec> 08└─What do companies and large western democracies have in common? The larger they get, the more authoritarian and dictator like the higher up structures have to become. Otherwise the system is paralyzed as the higher ups wait for those lower than them to finish with committees and votes and debates on...
[19:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is representative democracy itself becoming dat - 06Twitter Trolls are Destroying Democracy? - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:47:15] <exec> 08└─The larger they get, the more authoritarian and dictator like the higher up structures have to become. Otherwise the system is paralyzed as the higher ups wait for those lower than them to finish with committees and votes and debates on issues.
[19:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That's not the major problem - 06Twitter Trolls are Destroying Democracy? - 2743 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:47:38] <exec> 08└─Keep in mind where you get the stories on Trump. They have a fiery passionate hatred for him. They have made that 100% clear for the past 6 months. Just as if you read anything about Hillary from the right publications. People like propaganda when it matches their view on the world. When it conflict...
[19:48:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:As a longtime Amazon customer - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 1352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:48:32] <exec> 08└─So a couple of years and many jerk moves later, everybody will hate Amazon, but nobody can actually get around Amazon. Pretty much like ebay is today... I do hope I'm wrong and this move will instead offer an opportunity for an equal rival to emerge and restore actual competition. What are you talki...
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[19:48:34] <exec> 08└─Prime 2-day shipping has always been to my door. Not the post office. And I question your appraisal of your SSD research as wasted. If you're in the market for an SSD then you research them no matter where you buy them from. With respect to "exclusive" items the market will respond to demand. If I h...
[19:48:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Comments on TFS - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:48:40] <exec> 08└─You've discovered "arbitrage". You just paid a higher price to some guy on Ebay who didn't even have the product, so he could turn around and buy it from an Amazon seller (or Amazon itself) at a lower price, and pocket the difference. Ebay is chock full of sellers like this. You really have to do yo...
[19:48:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:I will use them to browse and buy elsewhere - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:48:57] <exec> 08└─Forcing people into something they don't want never works well in the end. Wrong. Proof: Windows 10.
[19:49:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:new e-mail address - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:49:00] <exec> 08└─I've tried that. The problem is your credit card and shipping address. They look at everything in your profile and can cancel the trial if they think you're cheating. But before you even get to that point, using Google + feature is already checked for as well as some of the EDU Google tweaks like: u...
[19:50:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score:2) 02Re:readability not fear - 06Even Physicists Are 'Afraid' of Mathematics - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:50:15] <exec> 08└─Ah, and you can state, as fact, that this is the case with every paper that the study in question evaluated then?
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[20:45:06] <exec> 08└─What's a password?
[20:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Geeks win - 06 Your Body Reveals Your Password by Interfering With Wi-Fi - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:07] <exec> 08└─Not only should you not type important passwords on any phone, but you should use Dvorak anyway. QWERTY was designed to slow people using 10 fingers, remember?
[20:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:1) 02spelling - 06 Your Body Reveals Your Password by Interfering With Wi-Fi - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:09] <exec> 08└─It's called Shanghai Jiao Tong University not Shanghai Jaio Tong University.
[20:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:I don't understand this story - 06The Man Who Created a Tiny Country He Can No Longer Enter - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:24] <exec> 08└─Was his neighbor a relative of Ariel Sharon? On that topic (not quite off-topic), the existing US-Mexico barrier had to be build in many places pretty deep inside the US (can't build in the Rio Grande footprint), actually placing American farms, a golf course, and a few citizens on the Mexico side....
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[20:45:29] <exec> 08└─Due to excessive bad posting from this IP or Subnet, anonymous comment posting has temporarily been disabled. You can still login to post. However, if bad posting continues from your IP or Subnet that privilege could be revoked as well. If it's you, consider this a chance to sit in the timeout corne...
[20:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02It's mine god dammit - 06The Man Who Created a Tiny Country He Can No Longer Enter - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:31] <exec> 08└─"A king is he that can hold his own, or else his title is vain" - JRR Tolkien. Anyone can claim any land. The problem lies with other people disagreeing with your claim. The only way to make your claim stick is the old fashioned way - by driving off anyone who sets foot on it who doesn't serve you....
[20:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:If you have done nothing wrong … - 06Dutch People: During World War II, We Did Have Something to Hide - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:37] <exec> 08└─> the demographic replacement program went into high gear We're gonna need more gears: https://img.washingtonpost.com [washingtonpost.com] http://i.dailymail.co.uk
[20:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Mexicans and EU Nationals - 06Dutch People: During World War II, We Did Have Something to Hide - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:41] <exec> 08└─And it gets worse [theguardian.com]. Donald Trump was facing angry demands on Monday to reverse his appointment of a man accused of fanning the flames of neo-Nazism and white supremacy as his White House chief strategist.
[20:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Is representative democracy itself becoming dat - 06Twitter Trolls are Destroying Democracy? - 4010 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:25] <exec> 08└─I love you academics :) We never had a representative democracy in the first place. It never actually happened, but was heavily marketed as if it had. Then some fluff was put into place to make people FEEL as if they had control. Think of like this, and this is a real example. Cross walks and the 'p...
[20:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is representative democracy itself becoming dat - 06Twitter Trolls are Destroying Democracy? - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:29] <exec> 08└─Just to clarify... Which one is Newt Gingrich? Which one is 'whiny, sniveling negative cowards'? Which one is using the 'honeyed words of subversion'? http://www.foxnews.com [foxnews.com]
[20:47:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02Re:Is representative democracy itself becoming dat - 06Twitter Trolls are Destroying Democracy? - 137 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:36] <exec> 08└─We have a total 435 representatives in congress, 100 senators. Our representatives represent an average of more than 730,000 people each!
[20:47:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02The Waldo Moment - 06Twitter Trolls are Destroying Democracy? - 2657 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:56] <exec> 08└─This all has been covered several years back in the Black Mirror episode The Waldo Moment [wikipedia.org]. For those who haven't seen it -- briefly, an trollish animated cartoon bear joins in a UK election, first merely making fun of candidates, then participating in debates with them, and finally "...
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[20:48:51] <exec> 08└─"Ma'am, your neighbors called to inform us that you were making noises akin to copulation. We are agents Richard Long and Muai-Beeg Dong, from the Dildo Intrastate Limit Dedicated Organization. We have to search you, and optional partners, to makes sure nobody is currently over the legal holding lim...
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[21:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02that's treason - 06A Psychologist Analyzes Donald Trump’s Personality - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:50] <exec> 08└─The Murican People done elected Trump and he can be as crazy as we want him to be.
[21:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:that's treason - 06A Psychologist Analyzes Donald Trump’s Personality - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:44:51] <exec> 08└─Indeed. On the crazy meter he clocks in at "batshit insane". The next four years are going to be very rough.
[21:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:that's treason - 06A Psychologist Analyzes Donald Trump’s Personality - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:44:53] <exec> 08└─He's not insane, just so narcissistic he says whatever is convenient. Pathological liar who cares so little about each discussion he probably has no recollection of he actually has said. Maybe he's secretly the Russian's Manchurian Candidate?
[21:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:that's treason - 06A Psychologist Analyzes Donald Trump’s Personality - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:44:56] <exec> 08└─On the crazy meter he clocks in at "batshit insane".
[21:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:that's treason - 06A Psychologist Analyzes Donald Trump’s Personality - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:44:58] <exec> 08└─On the positive side, Climate Change doesn't exist. The American People proved that once and for all when they voted.That's democracy.
[21:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02#salty - 06A Psychologist Analyzes Donald Trump’s Personality - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:00] <exec> 08└─I'll come back to this article in a few hours and enjoy the bitter salty tears that are sure flow. This last week has been a lot of fun. Ah well, at least we know that dissent is patriotic again. We know it is ok to promote the vilest slanders against our leaders again and it won't be called racism,...
[21:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Narcicissm? - 06A Psychologist Analyzes Donald Trump’s Personality - 964 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:02] <exec> 08└─Now we all have our own bits of narcissism, unless we've had our ego completely beaten out of us by a miserable life. Me? I like to think I'm pretty smart and have a wide range of knowledge, even though the reality is that there are plenty of smarter people out there. Just like all but the most self...
[21:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Geeks win - 06 Your Body Reveals Your Password by Interfering With Wi-Fi - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:12] <exec> 08└─You're not advocating SSH keys? Turn in your geek card.
[21:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Geeks win - 06 Your Body Reveals Your Password by Interfering With Wi-Fi - 1098 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:15] <exec> 08└─Maybe. SSH keys are just as vulnerable. I don't know about you, but when I first use a key I need to enter a ~60 character password to decrypt my SSH key before use. Phones are intrinsically unsecured devices because they are not ours. More so than a PC (before Windows 10) because I don't need to fi...
[21:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Atreidin [3582] (Score:1) 02Re:Geeks win - 06 Your Body Reveals Your Password by Interfering With Wi-Fi - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:17] <exec> 08└─I hope you're joking as that myth [economist.com] has been debunked [smithsonianmag.com] for a while now.
[21:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Wikipedia write-up - 06The Man Who Created a Tiny Country He Can No Longer Enter - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:39] <exec> 08└─There's a section about this territory in Wikipedia's article about terrae nullius. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] The largest micronation may be the Aerican Empire, due to its claim to the northern part of Pluto (the surface area of...
[21:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02According to pop psychology... - 06Focus On Quiescent Cells Brings to Light Essential Role of RNAi in Transcription Control - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:54] <exec> 08└─...men think about sex every six or seven seconds. This research proves that our cells are constantly deciding whether to reproduce.
[21:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Mighty Buzzard - 06Call for Volunteers: Editors - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:31] <exec> 08└─What's an anti-human and why would I want one?
[21:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:The Mighty Buzzard - 06Call for Volunteers: Editors - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:32] <exec> 08└─Go for it. Assuming you can manage to separate professional conduct from personal beefs. We're not exactly high-class over in IRC but we don't let politics get in the way of getting the job done.
[21:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:The Mighty Buzzard - 06Call for Volunteers: Editors - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:34] <exec> 08└─Damn it, Uzzard, do you know how expensive fuses for the irony-o-meter are?! Gah...gonna be feeling that one for like a week. Ow, ow, ow...
[21:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:The Mighty Buzzard - 06Call for Volunteers: Editors - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:37] <exec> 08└─That's a large part of why I post them. That and I like arguing.
[21:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A Serious Question - 06Call for Volunteers: Editors - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:45] <exec> 08└─We post the majority of articles that Slashdot posts.
[21:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Vokbain [2372] (Score:0) 02My editorial complaint - 06Call for Volunteers: Editors - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:47] <exec> 08└─I feel like too many (read: most) of the articles here nowadays are stories with no point. It's like hanging out with my grandmother. I'll listen to some story go on and on, and then when she gets to the end, I'm like, "ok. So what?" The material is interesting, but the delivery is kind of... Hmm. N...
[21:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:If you have done nothing wrong … - 06Dutch People: During World War II, We Did Have Something to Hide - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:58] <exec> 08└─"left-wing" (progressives?) being racist
[21:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:If you have done nothing wrong … - 06Dutch People: During World War II, We Did Have Something to Hide - 666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:01] <exec> 08└─The words don't mean much. For numbers look here. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] So if 1960 isn't ancient history (although it is half a century ago) it was 180M total of which over 150M non-hispanic white which is 83% tha...
[21:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:If you have done nothing wrong … - 06Dutch People: During World War II, We Did Have Something to Hide - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:04] <exec> 08└─And when someone decides that if you don't have big data proving you aren't jewish (say lots of pork on your grocery store receipts), you probably are, and you're up in line.
[21:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:"benzene" - 06Dutch People: During World War II, We Did Have Something to Hide - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:12] <exec> 08└─That's both interesting and good news! Fundamentally whatever you put in gas is going to end up in the environment for a variety of reasons as the MTBE people found out. In the old days though, whatever boiled off the column in a certain temp range, well, theres your gasoline, pretty much. Of course...
[21:47:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02Counterpoint - 06Dutch People: During World War II, We Did Have Something to Hide - 554 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:20] <exec> 08└─During the 2016 presidential election, both candidates also had something to hide. Yes, the argument "If you aren't doing anything wrong, you have nothing to hide" is totally bogus. I think everyone here understands that. On the other hand, if you are doing something wrong, that does imply you have...
[21:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score:1) 02Boring old fart musing... - 06Dutch People: During World War II, We Did Have Something to Hide - 2736 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:22] <exec> 08└─I'm old enough to remember, first-hand, life before it was on-line. I'm beginning to think it is important to document how it was, otherwise people will never know. A bit like experiences of the first world war. Life before nearly everyone had a mobile phone integrated with a computer - even Star Tr...
[21:47:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:I can't wait - 06Music Has Lost Many Greats This Year - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:34] <exec> 08└─Oh geeze. Wasn't that movie dueling banjos not just banjos? When tediously smug coasties get too annoying IRL, I start mentioning that movie to scare them. Dumb coasties think its an extreme travel documentary that's all true, like a Bear Grylls reality TV special. I'd enjoy seeing Bear Grylls try t...
[21:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Dead pool? Degeneracy kills? - 06Music Has Lost Many Greats This Year - 1338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:40] <exec> 08└─I always envisioned our hydroxyethane analog as just slightly younger than me to have accumulated such a vast collection of fascinating language. That would make him a zombie with those figures. Of course maybe he's a very precocious 12, who knows. The way I've usually seen dead pools run is you wri...
[21:47:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02from Yahoo's long list - 06Music Has Lost Many Greats This Year - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:45] <exec> 08└─I also noticed Sir George Martin (Beatle's producer), and Bernie Worrell (keyboardist for P-Funk in the '70s).
[21:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is representative democracy itself becoming dat - 06Twitter Trolls are Destroying Democracy? - 944 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:48:13] <exec> 08└─I'm gonna have to pause you there, the reason our politics are so toxic is due to massive propaganda. Small-ish differences are hyped out of control, there is a very real agenda to pit the people against each other. The media keeps this going, so now we're a population of highly reactionary people....
[21:48:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02Re:It's justifiable revenge - 06Twitter Trolls are Destroying Democracy? - 668 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:48:17] <exec> 08└─I have to disagree: those are two entirely separate problems. Many government offices work just fine. Some don't, perhaps due to poor supervision. Complain about the ones that treat you badly. The reason politicians get abuse when they try to interact with the public? That is a combination of two fa...
[21:48:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That's not the major problem - 06Twitter Trolls are Destroying Democracy? - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:48:38] <exec> 08└─Heh, good post but I don't really follow all those news stories. I expect HRC cheated as well, but the real cheating that occurs is with the voting machines. Trump's stated policies are better for big corporations and the uber wealthy, HRC would have to have some semblance of an environmental plan e...
[21:48:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03PocketSizeSUn [5340] (Score:2) 02Re:That's not the major problem - 06Twitter Trolls are Destroying Democracy? - 1334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:48:39] <exec> 08└─I live in a normally deep blue state and county (63+% counted for Clinton). I went out for beers with some old friends on the 10th and all of the people I presumed would vote democratic *all* voted for Trump. I was quite surprised as this is a group of quite varied backgrounds that are normally not...
[21:49:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tfried [5534] 02Re:As a longtime Amazon customer - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 831 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:49:32] <exec> 08└─The problem is not so much in Amazon making a jerk move. It's that apparently they think they are in a position to be a jerk and still get away with it. And I'm afraid, they're probably right, too. Why? 1. Amazon has become the one stop place to get everything, for the most part at competitive price...
[21:49:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:As a longtime Amazon customer - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 2988 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:49:35] <exec> 08└─That's actually the problem. eBay isn't competing with Amazon, Amazon is attempting to become eBay. They're fundamentally different models -- one is a storefront, the other is an auction. Which is why I don't use eBay, because I don't want to wade through a bunch of "RETAIL BOX ONLY!" and "HALFWAY F...
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[21:50:10] <exec> 08└─...and then when they give credit irresponsibly, the government is free to bail them out with our tax dollars!
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[22:44:54] <exec> 08└─The last thing I would trust is the insights of people who egregiously miscalled the election now reading the tea leaves of El Presidente. Fact of the matter no one knows what a Trump presidency is going to be like because he probably doesn't even know himself. He is going to pick what he believes a...
[22:44:55] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03julian [6003] 02Re:#salty - 06A Psychologist Analyzes Donald Trump’s Personality - 28 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:44:55] <exec> 08└─Better hope he chooses well.
[22:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:#salty - 06A Psychologist Analyzes Donald Trump’s Personality - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:44:57] <exec> 08└─See, that's why he's going to be great! I've seen the news reports trashing him, they hate him almost as much as they hate Trump himself. That means he's gonna be awesome.
[22:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02unmoored - 06A Psychologist Analyzes Donald Trump’s Personality - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:00] <exec> 08└─It is sad that I think you actually mean that. Qualifications and experience don't matter, all that matters is that they piss off somebody you don't like. You've become unmoored.
[22:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:#salty - 06A Psychologist Analyzes Donald Trump’s Personality - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:02] <exec> 08└─The last thing I would trust is the insights of people who egregiously miscalled the election now reading the tea leaves of El Presidente.
[22:45:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02Narcicissm? - 06A Psychologist Analyzes Donald Trump’s Personality - 964 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:04] <exec> 08└─Now we all have our own bits of narcissism, unless we've had our ego completely beaten out of us by a miserable life. Me? I like to think I'm pretty smart and have a wide range of knowledge, even though the reality is that there are plenty of smarter people out there. Just like all but the most self...
[22:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Narcicissm? - 06A Psychologist Analyzes Donald Trump’s Personality - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:06] <exec> 08└─I'm actually a physician qualified to make the diagnosis. Although, I won't pretend to do it based off of what the media portrays or what someone says in front of the camera. While you're probably not far off about Trump, Obama's narcissism is off the charts.
[22:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Ugh - 06A Psychologist Analyzes Donald Trump’s Personality - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:08] <exec> 08└─Isn't it enough that his name is on every news outlet out there. I was hoping that at least here, there could be some respite from that shit storm . . . .
[22:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Andrew Jackson - 06A Psychologist Analyzes Donald Trump’s Personality - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:10] <exec> 08└─Andrew Jackson displayed many of the same psychological qualities that we see in Trump.
[22:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 024 years of reality TV drama - 06A Psychologist Analyzes Donald Trump’s Personality - 838 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:13] <exec> 08└─Sadly this is what you have to look forward to America - 4 years of reality drama. 24 hours of news discussing what Trump said. He will be the source of the news and the only one who can respond to it. Just like during the election - OMG he said XYZ? Did he mean it? Will he apologize? How will he re...
[22:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02TRUMP TRAIN! - 06A Psychologist Analyzes Donald Trump’s Personality - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:15] <exec> 08└─Choo! Choo!
[22:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Speaking of narcissistic personality disorders - 06A Psychologist Analyzes Donald Trump’s Personality - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:17] <exec> 08└─Speaking of narcissistic personality disorders... It looks like your browser is unable to display ads …
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[22:45:28] <exec> 08└─It's been debunked so thoroughly that wikipedia still presents it as the leading theory, while also mentioning that other one you linked. It might be because your links like certainty and only present the Telegraph Theory as as likely possibility, no more demonstrated by proof than the No-Jam one. D...
[22:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Bigger deal than that: - 06The Man Who Created a Tiny Country He Can No Longer Enter - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:46] <exec> 08└─So, are you saying that he is just a libertarian bad Czech?
[22:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:The Mighty Buzzard - 06Call for Volunteers: Editors - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:43] <exec> 08└─Guess that's a no on the can you act in a professional manner question then.
[22:46:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:A Serious Question - 06Call for Volunteers: Editors - 1317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:53] <exec> 08└─Let me answer that by bringing up the dev team. Slashdot, under shiny new management, has been promising unicode support for the better part of a year now. I coded it up for this site (having never looked at slashcode before) in around three weeks worth of spare time. And I'm fairly sure both NComma...
[22:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03caffeine [249] (Score:2) 02Re:A Serious Question - 06Call for Volunteers: Editors - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:55] <exec> 08└─For me switching from Slashdot to SoylentNews was not driven by a desire to avoid the beta version. After years of being a SlashDot regular, I was getting tired of all the idiots posting strong opinions on every story. It seemed the signal to noise ratio was deteriorating and I was looking for an al...
[22:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A Serious Question - 06Call for Volunteers: Editors - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:57] <exec> 08└─Why do we need Trader Joe's? We already have Whole Foods.
[22:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:My editorial complaint - 06Call for Volunteers: Editors - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:00] <exec> 08└─The problem you are referring to seems like it is more to do with the quality of submissions. Source material for quality submissions seems to be lacking. Most often when I'm looking for something to submit, I have to sort through lots of "So what?" or clickbait articles and a lot of the time I end...
[22:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Celestial [4891] (Score:2) 02Thanks - 06Call for Volunteers: Editors - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:02] <exec> 08└─While I'm pretty sure that no one would like to see me as an editor as I'd probably make timothy look like a savant, I would just like to thank the editors for the great job over the past couple of years. It's much appreciated.
[22:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Big Data is now voluntary - 06Dutch People: During World War II, We Did Have Something to Hide - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:29] <exec> 08└─That's what I said, those examples are all voluntary (more or less).
[22:48:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is representative democracy itself becoming dat - 06Twitter Trolls are Destroying Democracy? - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:48:20] <exec> 08└─You do know that wolves are pack animals, right? The stronger wolf gets to eat the best parts of the sheep and then both of them go after the next sheep.
[22:49:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mcgrew [701] 02Nonsense. - 06Click to Buy? Sorry, Amazon Prime Membership Required. - 415 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:59] <exec> 08└─The anonymous poster assumes that Amazon is the only place you can buy an SSD. Guess what? THEY AREN'T THE WORLD'S ONLY STORE. It makes me think of an illustrator I met at Worldcon who asked me to review a book he had illustrated at Amazon. It already had thirty reviews, so I went to B&N. Not a sing...
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[23:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:1, Flamebait) 02Commies going after our precious health. - 06British Red Squirrels Serve as Leprosy Reservoir - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:42] <exec> 08└─> "It goes to show that once a disease has become extinct in humans, it could still exist in the environment if there was a suitable reservoir," No Shit, Sherlock. I hope you're dumbing down for the journalists, not discovering that yourself... > the painful and disfiguring disease hasn't been trans...
[23:44:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Fuck Squirrels - 06British Red Squirrels Serve as Leprosy Reservoir - 1373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:44] <exec> 08└─Squirrels are little assholes. I had a bird feeder in my backyard for some time. I put it out and the birds find it in a day or two and all is going well. A couple days after that, the squirrels found it. Those fuckers would hang on the feeder all day and eat all that bird food (which isn't super ch...
[23:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Fuck Squirrels - 06British Red Squirrels Serve as Leprosy Reservoir - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:44:46] <exec> 08└─They don't have leprosy, but are storing it like little furry Machiavellian assholes to use later. The squirrels in the UK are operating their own bio-weapons program dude! I'm telling ya, they're organized.
[23:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Re:unmoored - 06A Psychologist Analyzes Donald Trump’s Personality - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:04] <exec> 08└─Almost all the major media outlets told people how to vote. Not slanted or hinted, directly said elect Hillary Clinton. Elect Hillary Clinton or the world would end. That is some 1984 level shit. One should have taken that into consideration when voting.
[23:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:unmoored - 06A Psychologist Analyzes Donald Trump’s Personality - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:05] <exec> 08└─What's missing from your analysis is the most important part: the why. First of all, many outlets refused to endorse Clinton. They were denouncing Trump. USA Today being an example that has never endorsed a candidate, not even once. The fact that they all agreed that Trump is deeply and unprecedente...
[23:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:#salty - 06A Psychologist Analyzes Donald Trump’s Personality - 922 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:09] <exec> 08└─I'm glad to finally see how your mind works, it makes your viewpoints much more understandable. You have been brainwashed into the us vs. them mentality so badly that you were able to type out that rambling short essay.... "bottom tier news", "leftists in the press" dear god you're begging to suck T...
[23:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:#salty - 06A Psychologist Analyzes Donald Trump’s Personality - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:11] <exec> 08└─What I like is that nobody in the mainstream media saw Trump having a chance except 538 http://fivethirtyeight.com [fivethirtyeight.com] Now the mainstream media says NOBODY called it correctly. "So, if we were wrong, so was everybody else": stick head in sand, so say we all. Just funny.
[23:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:#salty - 06A Psychologist Analyzes Donald Trump’s Personality - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:13] <exec> 08└─The last thing I would trust is the insights of people who egregiously miscalled the election now reading the tea leaves of El Presidente.
[23:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:#salty - 06A Psychologist Analyzes Donald Trump’s Personality - 1145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:15] <exec> 08└─Apparently you're an ostrich, and you've had sand up your nose so long that your brain is near completely gone. Of course this week has been fun for you, you think somehow the world is going to turn around and you won't be judged for being a bigoted tool led by the nose by sensationally emotional jo...
[23:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:#salty - 06A Psychologist Analyzes Donald Trump’s Personality - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:17] <exec> 08└─And the fun continues! :)
[23:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:#salty - 06A Psychologist Analyzes Donald Trump’s Personality - 3735 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:19] <exec> 08└─Dissent was always patriotic, it was the unpatriotic and unAmerican among us that chose to throw *that* vile slander around. It's been a political game to label some dissent as acceptable dissent, and others as treasonous, when even to the simplest American it was clearly a disagreement. What's fina...
[23:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Narcicissm? - 06A Psychologist Analyzes Donald Trump’s Personality - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:23] <exec> 08└─Obama, either Clinton, at least one of the Bushes, Nixon, Carter... every last one was utterly convinced that they knew better than anyone else in the world how to run this nation. Narcissism is damned near a job requirement for holding public office.
[23:45:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Narcicissm? - 06A Psychologist Analyzes Donald Trump’s Personality - 1091 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:26] <exec> 08└─Again, yes, as a personality trait, the disorder I linked is different. They're two different things. When attention and praise becomes a need, you're starting to be in the NPD territory, whereas Obama and the others you list is more in the top percentile "high self image" category. From the wiki(wh...
[23:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Narcicissm? - 06A Psychologist Analyzes Donald Trump’s Personality - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:28] <exec> 08└─I think you're projecting what you want to see onto the former leaders and candidates. Obama hits every single one of those criteria except possibly 8. In spades. As have all on the list I posted earlier. I mean, really, it takes one fuckload of hubris to think you know better than anyone else what...
[23:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Narcicissm? - 06A Psychologist Analyzes Donald Trump’s Personality - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:30] <exec> 08└─I don't like Obama, I think he fucked us over with his hope for change shit. But Ikanreed is right, Obama has a much more level mental state than Trump, by a huge margin. From your "all Presidents" statement it is clear you are painting with too broad of a brush, stereotyping if you will. Pretty muc...
[23:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Winner Winner Chicken Dinner - 06A Psychologist Analyzes Donald Trump’s Personality - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:32] <exec> 08└─> I think you're projecting what you want to see onto the former leaders and candidates. You win today's award for least self-aware post.
[23:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Constant Need for Validation - 06A Psychologist Analyzes Donald Trump’s Personality - 2438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:34] <exec> 08└─I've been thinking about that a lot today. I think he's a people pleaser. It started when Kellyanne Conway said that the most important qualification that Bannon and Priebus had for their new jobs is that they "have the ear of the boss." [politico.com] That seemed like it ought to be a function of...
[23:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Ugh - 06A Psychologist Analyzes Donald Trump’s Personality - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:37] <exec> 08└─Don't look at me. I've been actively avoiding subbing politics. There's nothing to actually talk about until Trump takes office and all it does is get folks wound up.
[23:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Ugh - 06A Psychologist Analyzes Donald Trump’s Personality - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:40] <exec> 08└─Well, we're all stuck on a roller-coaster and we start to see who's going to be doing the maintenance for a little while.
[23:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:4 years of reality TV drama - 06A Psychologist Analyzes Donald Trump’s Personality - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:44] <exec> 08└─Yours is the most realistic comment here. Too bad jmorris, vlm, and other such users think they somehow "won" this election cycle.
[23:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Speaking of narcissistic personality disorders - 06A Psychologist Analyzes Donald Trump’s Personality - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:48] <exec> 08└─I didn't get that. Maybe it's because I didn't enable scripts. The text is perfectly readable without. I guess the white space gaps would be filled with pictures, but also it could be ads. I don't know and I don't care. If it is images, they are not necessary for this article. And if it is ads, I do...
[23:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03fnj [1654] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Drivel - 06A Psychologist Analyzes Donald Trump’s Personality - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:50] <exec> 08└─A psychologist analyzed Killary's mind, too, but he was last seen running about screaming and babbling and tearing at his hair. Nobody can withstand seeing that much insanity and evil without themselves losing their own mind.
[23:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Drivel - 06A Psychologist Analyzes Donald Trump’s Personality - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:52] <exec> 08└─Hillary is certainly on the evil spectrum of humanity, but you apparently are farther gone than her... on the insanity scale Trump beats Hillary hands down, except in minds like yours where every lie he tells is part of "the plan" and every promise he breaks is because of "those damn liberals". Trul...
[23:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Drivel - 06A Psychologist Analyzes Donald Trump’s Personality - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:54] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I was wondering what one would actually see in her: God complex??? Willing to do and say anything to see that golden chalice of power?!?! Glad she didn't win, but wish they'd gone with Sanders....he would have won.
[23:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Government Sachs - 06A Psychologist Analyzes Donald Trump’s Personality - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:57] <exec> 08└─Trumpsters, remind us again how Trump was going to change the way things were done in Washington? [bloomberg.com]
[23:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:3, Interesting) 02My interpretation of him - 06A Psychologist Analyzes Donald Trump’s Personality - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:59] <exec> 08└─Donald Trump is one of the many great examples of why a hereditary aristocracy, even one without titles, is a terrible idea. You get "leaders" who have no clue what ordinary people do all day or deal with all day, and have not once in their lives had to bear the consequences of their own choices. If...
[23:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Already wrong - 06A Psychologist Analyzes Donald Trump’s Personality - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:01] <exec> 08└─Combined with a gift for humor
[23:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Bigger deal than that: - 06The Man Who Created a Tiny Country He Can No Longer Enter - 1020 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:46:31] <exec> 08└─Less specifically, I don't think it's a coincidence that many of these kinds of harebrained schemes for establishing libertarian utopias pop up and fail at enormous cost to anyone who believed the founder [dollarvigilante.com]. And there is a real reason for this: scammers and other criminals of all...
[23:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Wikipedia write-up - 06The Man Who Created a Tiny Country He Can No Longer Enter - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:46:38] <exec> 08└─The largest micronation may be the Aerican Empire, due to its claim to the northern part of Pluto (the surface area of Pluto is similar to that of Russia).
[23:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrpg [5708] (Score:1) 02Re:What is it like? - 06Call for Volunteers: Editors - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:15] <exec> 08└─Hi, I'm interested.
[23:47:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:The Mighty Buzzard - 06Call for Volunteers: Editors - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:33] <exec> 08└─This is what we call a joke where I come from, Senor Flappy-flap. Both my jobs involve customer service and interaction and I've gotten nothing but good reviews from clients, so don't worry your pretty little carrion-eating head about me :)
[23:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:The Mighty Buzzard - 06Call for Volunteers: Editors - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:35] <exec> 08└─I'm not especially worried about you cheesing off the community. They can take care of themselves pretty well and editing is not my worry. I'm concerned you can't separate business time from play time and would feel the need to bring venom into staff interaction. Our staff as a group will argue to n...
[23:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Mighty Buzzard - 06Call for Volunteers: Editors - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:39] <exec> 08└─While I disagree with Buzzard on most issues and think he's frequently a pompous ass, OTOH... I lost my train of thought.
[23:47:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:A Serious Question - 06Call for Volunteers: Editors - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:46] <exec> 08└─Yes, the quality here is much better than the quantity there (although I haven't been THERE in a dogs age)
[23:47:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Ethanol-fueled - 06Call for Volunteers: Editors - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:55] <exec> 08└─Ethanol-fueled Has my vote.
[23:47:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Timothy and SoulSeek - 06Call for Volunteers: Editors - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:57] <exec> 08└─Where are those august free agent editors now? Show BizX who's the real reason we visited the green site after CmdrTaco left.
[23:48:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:If you have done nothing wrong … - 06Dutch People: During World War II, We Did Have Something to Hide - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:48:10] <exec> 08└─The left wing had their candidate, actually, and he's been having a field day the last week. That candidate, of course, was Bernie Sanders and his crew, who is effectively presenting the Democrats with a message of "Reform yourselves, or we walk and you drift off into irrelevancy". Of course, the pr...
[23:48:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03davester666 [155] 02Re:If you have done nothing wrong … - 06Dutch People: During World War II, We Did Have Something to Hide - 197 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:48:12] <exec> 08└─The US hasn't been almost entirely white for a really really long time. What was almost entirely all-white was television, which you misinterpret as being representative of your overall population.
[23:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Well-written - 06Even Physicists Are 'Afraid' of Mathematics - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:52:17] <exec> 08└─I believe you are just a chatbot writing random words, so you are therefor invalidated until you can provide research to back up the fact that you are not.
[23:52:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Well-written - 06Even Physicists Are 'Afraid' of Mathematics - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:52:19] <exec> 08└─Those reviewers, unlike the GP, have actually read the paper they are critiquing and they are, at least usually, educated in the field they are reviewing papers for. The idiot above is just spouting off with the believe that his objection should hold the same weight as the published article. And let...
[23:52:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:readability not fear - 06Even Physicists Are 'Afraid' of Mathematics - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:52:29] <exec> 08└─Ah, and you can state, as fact, that this is the case with every paper that the study in question evaluated then?
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