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[00:44:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02the boat party was canceled - 06The Zombie Apocalypse Thwarted? - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:46] <exec> 08└─Crisis averted. Nobody will get the reference because it's more recent than 15 years ago.
[00:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02SoylentNews ...is old people - 06The Zombie Apocalypse Thwarted? - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:44:47] <exec> 08└─You must be at least as old as the President-elect to read.
[00:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP - 06The Zombie Apocalypse Thwarted? - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:44:49] <exec> 08└─TRUMP TRUMP HE'S OLD MAN Ronnie Reagan was a hip young dude compared to TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP.
[00:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02make the zombies BUILD A WALL - 06The Zombie Apocalypse Thwarted? - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:44:52] <exec> 08└─Make them pay in brains.
[00:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:the boat party was canceled - 06The Zombie Apocalypse Thwarted? - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:44:54] <exec> 08└─iZombie?
[00:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:the boat party was canceled - 06The Zombie Apocalypse Thwarted? - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:44:56] <exec> 08└─Rose Mac, is that you? I enjoy your work.
[00:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:the boat party was canceled - 06The Zombie Apocalypse Thwarted? - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:44:58] <exec> 08└─Nope, it's just me, Chuck Testa.
[00:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02"One of the ethical concerns" - 06The Zombie Apocalypse Thwarted? - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:01] <exec> 08└─Forget that, one of the basic medical science concerns is that they don't have any in vitro data of any kind for a proposed treatment. To announce a press conference and human trials for something that doesn't even have rudimentary evidential support is one of those pseudoscience red flags.
[00:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:"One of the ethical concerns" - 06The Zombie Apocalypse Thwarted? - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:03] <exec> 08└─It's their money and they should be able to do what they want with it. This is one way to obtain that "rudimentary evidential support".
[00:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Amazing - 06The Zombie Apocalypse Thwarted? - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:05] <exec> 08└─Someone needs to remind Dr. Bansal that medicine is supposed to be compassionate and reduce human suffering, not increase it. I'm glad his plans for experimental dysthanasia were nipped in the bud. What the hell was he thinking? They're already dead so let's bring them back a little so whatever is l...
[00:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Apply directly to the rectum - 06Zap to the Head Leads to Fat Loss - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:27] <exec> 08└─no easy solution for that feeling except discipline
[00:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ideology warning! - 06Zap to the Head Leads to Fat Loss - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:30] <exec> 08└─I've found weed works well for reasons I'm not sure I understand at all, especially considering the munchies.
[00:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Lets start it off early - 06Global Carbon Growth Stalls as US Coal Continues to Slump - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:50] <exec> 08└─If the government had been doing a strong Keynesian approach to fiscal policy, we'd be ready with modest interest rates right now.
[00:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Lets start it off early - 06Global Carbon Growth Stalls as US Coal Continues to Slump - 766 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:51] <exec> 08└─Uh, sure. It worked in: Germany 2007-8, The US in 1993-4, the US 1958, the US new deal 1930s(your ideology is going to disagree with that, so what), China 2000, until they way overshot and weren't ready for 2008 Counterpoints where financial austerity during each recession and made things substantia...
[00:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:And when the next edition comes out - 06Apple Releases Coffee Table Book.... for $300 - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:46:15] <exec> 08└─They're sticking together cause, you know, when an Apple Fanboi gets alone with his Apple book, he lights some candles, gets some mood iTunes going, gets out the iLubrication....
[00:46:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] 02wait, what? - 06Marijuana Use Linked to Broken Heart Syndrome - 720 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:58] <exec> 08└─something doesn't add up here. I'm still on my first cup of Tea so I'll be the first to say I'm probably not firing on all cylinders so bear with me adn don't expect too much cognitive thinking. So they looked 33,000 people who already had issues, then looked at 210 who said they smoked Cannabis jus...
[00:48:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Trams - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:48:11] <exec> 08└─my father grew up in the last days of trams, before we ripped them all up (Australia is very good at following some of the worst bits of US transportation policy) We are now busy putting bad trams (now called "light rail", for some reason) everywhere.. They used to call trams "whispering death" None...
[00:49:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score:2) 02Re:Does not make much difference to journey times - 06The Audacious Plan to Bring Back Supersonic Flight — and Change Air Travel Forever - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:49:25] <exec> 08└─Hmm, I haven't driven to Spain directly yet. I have driven from the UK to the south of France near the Pyrenees, took around 8 hours, although Google maps lists it as 12h, so I guess they are a bit pessimistic. Perhaps it would be 12 hours if you actually follow googles recommendation to go straight...
[00:49:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03aliks [357] (Score:1) 02Re:Does not make much difference to journey times - 06The Audacious Plan to Bring Back Supersonic Flight — and Change Air Travel Forever - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:49:35] <exec> 08└─Years and years ago, a colleague of mine was lucky enough to get his employer to buy him a weekly return ticket on Concorde LHR-JFK for 4 months. He would drop the kids off at nursery school at 9am (ish) and drive to Heathrow - 30 mins from where he lived. Fly to NY and be at his desk at 10am US tim...
[00:49:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Concorde is for important people. - 06The Audacious Plan to Bring Back Supersonic Flight — and Change Air Travel Forever - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:49:48] <exec> 08└─Or you could setup a video chat and two fax machines. Watch one party sign their version, fax that over, then have them watch you sign it, fax it back and everyone is all set. Every laptop and smartphone have cameras and every large company has fax machines, so total cost is zero (plus you save a to...
[00:50:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Already Exists - 06Is Alexa AI In Your Future? - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:42] <exec> 08└─I would love to have a house/AI to keep me organized: to tell me when an important date is coming/arrived; remind me of things i have to do (like the laundry) or of really important things like "you have a family.... go pay attention to them".
[00:53:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:media hubris - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:53:55] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but if you didn't bother to cast a vote then, yes, you are the problem. Not liking either of the two major party candidates is not an excuse for sitting out the election. Even a sizeable minority casting votes for a third party candidate sends a powerful message to the two major parties: eith...
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[01:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Amazing - 06The Zombie Apocalypse Thwarted? - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:00] <exec> 08└─The research could lead to more survivors of car accidents, to pick an example. Reversing "brain death" buys more time to work on the victims. What does suffering matter? If the patients have agreed to undergo the procedures in the event of their death in order to advance medical science, then they...
[01:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Amazing - 06The Zombie Apocalypse Thwarted? - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:02] <exec> 08└─I have read that much of what we know about how to treat exposure is due to the experimentation the nazis did on prisoners. Allied troops seized the data when they liberated the camps. I don't know if anyone else can confirm that.
[01:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:Amazing - 06The Zombie Apocalypse Thwarted? - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:04] <exec> 08└─The research could lead to more survivors of car accidents
[01:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:Amazing - 06The Zombie Apocalypse Thwarted? - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:06] <exec> 08└─> What the hell was he thinking? Money, fame, pride, the usual "don't ask yourself if you should" trifecta.
[01:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Amazing - 06The Zombie Apocalypse Thwarted? - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:08] <exec> 08└─You miss the most important one of all.. being able to exclaim "It's alive!"
[01:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Texas-style ? - 06Zap to the Head Leads to Fat Loss - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:20] <exec> 08└─Trump's going to deport all the illegal immigrants, so all those splattered head mop-up jobs go to real Americans!
[01:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Texas-style ? - 06Zap to the Head Leads to Fat Loss - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:23] <exec> 08└─64 tonnes ought to be enough for anybody.
[01:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Apply directly to the rectum - 06Zap to the Head Leads to Fat Loss - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:31] <exec> 08└─FOOF [sciencemag.org]
[01:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Ideology warning! - 06Zap to the Head Leads to Fat Loss - 1536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:41] <exec> 08└─No facts, just anecdotes: I'm overweight, but I lose large amounts of it if I simply don't drink for a couple weeks. Somewhere on the order of 3-5 lbs a week, no exercise needed. I'm 32, so I'm not an old guy, but I'm hardly sporting an 16 year old's metabolism anymore. I can maintain my weight if I...
[01:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What about the real thing? - 06Zap to the Head Leads to Fat Loss - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:47] <exec> 08└─Nevermind.
[01:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Lets start it off early - 06Global Carbon Growth Stalls as US Coal Continues to Slump - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:58] <exec> 08└─The planet can ramp up and sustain a response to a constant emission of CO2, algae blooms in the ocean become more plentiful, trees and grasses grow more vigorously, etc. If we could stop the growth of CO2 emissions (long term), there's a _chance_ that we'll level out at a nice avoid-the-current-ice...
[01:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lets start it off early - 06Global Carbon Growth Stalls as US Coal Continues to Slump - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:46:06] <exec> 08└─Almost all economic theories could work. The all ignore the rouge actors messing things up and gaming the system. They all assume everyone acts the same.
[01:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score:2) 02Re:Bullshit - 06Apple Releases Coffee Table Book.... for $300 - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:46:19] <exec> 08└─If Apple's software is substandard, what's Microsoft's?
[01:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Bullshit - 06Apple Releases Coffee Table Book.... for $300 - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:46:22] <exec> 08└─All I can think is "wow, I bought my girlfriend a secondhand Mac Mini for that much."
[01:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Yeah, but, . . . - 06Apple Releases Coffee Table Book.... for $300 - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:46:36] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't that be "i Book of pure evil"?
[01:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Backwards compatibility - 06Apple Releases Coffee Table Book.... for $300 - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:46:42] <exec> 08└─V1.0: the sound quality will be terrible and it won't work with most bluetooth headsets.
[01:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02In other news - 06Apple Releases Coffee Table Book.... for $300 - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:56] <exec> 08└─releases a pair of jeans for $5000. Really, people should be used to Apple releasing low-medium value products at a premium price. They are a designer brand for electronics/lifestyle.
[01:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Illegal drug... - 06Marijuana Use Linked to Broken Heart Syndrome - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:47:15] <exec> 08└─Why does there need to be any kind of justification, anyway? Isn't a free country making a plant illegal to own or grow ridiculous on its own?
[01:50:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Concorde is for important people. - 06The Audacious Plan to Bring Back Supersonic Flight — and Change Air Travel Forever - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:50:12] <exec> 08└─You'd be surprised how many employees of charities and their family fly first class - for charitable causes or related activity. It is serious business.
[01:52:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:1) 02Seriously? - 06Unicode 10.0's New Emojis - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:04] <exec> 08└─That's so insanely stupid I am just left in awe.
[01:54:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:media hubris - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:54:21] <exec> 08└─A large percentage of people who were eligible to vote didn't even bother.
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[02:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Seriously - 06Troubles in Ukraine Parliament Continue - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:45] <exec> 08└─What a joke of a country. They should go crawling back to Russia, disband their corrupt, rotten government, and hope for forgiveness. They'd get it, too.
[02:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Seriously - 06Troubles in Ukraine Parliament Continue - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:44:47] <exec> 08└─Natalia Poklonskaya is hotter anyway.
[02:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Seriously - 06Troubles in Ukraine Parliament Continue - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:44:49] <exec> 08└─Mr. Trump! What an honour!(?)
[02:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Seriously - 06Troubles in Ukraine Parliament Continue - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:44:51] <exec> 08└─Nah, GP is Paul Manafort.
[02:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:"One of the ethical concerns" - 06The Zombie Apocalypse Thwarted? - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:45:08] <exec> 08└─That's rich. You giving a fuck about people over corporations. Did it hurt much?
[02:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Amazing - 06The Zombie Apocalypse Thwarted? - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:45:14] <exec> 08└─Progress AT ANY PRICE eh?
[02:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Zombies are overrated - 06The Zombie Apocalypse Thwarted? - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:18] <exec> 08└─Zombies are overrated. The classical zombie breakout could be suppressed by your local heavily armed SWAT team. The press around the event accompanied by every government trying to research it to create a new bioweapon is far more worrying.
[02:45:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score:2) 02Re:Ideology warning! - 06Zap to the Head Leads to Fat Loss - 666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:45:48] <exec> 08└─Jesus man, I wish I drank so I could give it up as a weight-loss device :) I do fall off the wagon with soda once in a while, but overall that just means my body compensates by eating less. And I tend to fall off the wagon as response to stress. I am barely overweight according to BMI (25.5), but it...
[02:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Lets start it off early - 06Global Carbon Growth Stalls as US Coal Continues to Slump - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:46:05] <exec> 08└─Large emitters have to report emissions to the EPA, but that's about it.
[02:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"Gilded" in silver - 06Apple Releases Coffee Table Book.... for $300 - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:46:59] <exec> 08└─You can see in the photos that whiteish edges, not yellowish. So probably gilded verb was used by extension, as in thin coat of silver applied, instead of the typical gold coat meaning of gilded. The same than some books in this http://www.cpsphotography.com [cpsphotography.com] (also...
[02:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Uncle_Al [1108] (Score:2) 02what they're going to get as an anniversary gift. - 06Apple Releases Coffee Table Book.... for $300 - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:47:01] <exec> 08└─a pink slip
[02:47:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03slap [5764] (Score:1) 02How heavy of users? - 06Marijuana Use Linked to Broken Heart Syndrome - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:41] <exec> 08└─Nothing is indicated about how heavy was the use of Marijuana by the 210 patients. A beer drinker that drank a case of beer a day would probably have more health problems than people who drank only a few beers a day. I'd expect the same for any drug.
[02:47:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Post-Nihilist [5672] (Score:2) 02Reefer madness redux - 06Marijuana Use Linked to Broken Heart Syndrome - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:43] <exec> 08└─from the article Unlike other heart conditions, though, its symptoms are typically temporary, rarely lasting more than a day, and sufferers aren’t more likely to get it again down the road — usually at least.
[02:48:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Despise that sound - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:48:32] <exec> 08└─Banjo music.
[02:49:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Best Part - 06BLU Phones Secretly Sent Personal Data to China - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:49:02] <exec> 08└─In many phones you cannot uninstall or disable bundled apps. No root access means they cannot be force uninstalled. Rooting may brick the device
[02:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Seriously? - 06Unicode 10.0's New Emojis - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:52:18] <exec> 08└─ಠ▃ಠ
[02:55:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Limbs and branches ... - 06Alaska Airlines Makes History With Bio-Fuel Flight - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:55:38] <exec> 08└─In pre-Columbian times, people in South America made charcoal, also known as biochar, and added it to the soil. Those soils are still fertile today. The process has been advocated as a way to keep the carbon in vegetable matter from returning to the atmosphere.
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[03:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02competition, no - 06CRISPR Gene-Editing Tested in a Person for the First Time - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:44] <exec> 08└─This time around, China can invent everything, and US can copy.
[03:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP - 06CRISPR Gene-Editing Tested in a Person for the First Time - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:44:45] <exec> 08└─BUILD A GREAT WALL OF MEXICO MAKE MEXS PAY FOR IT
[03:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Seriously - 06Troubles in Ukraine Parliament Continue - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:44:56] <exec> 08└─Who's willing to bet that Russia is actively trying to destabilize Ukraine? The Joint Investigation Team on the MH17 massacre presented proof that the buk missile system that was used to shoot down flight MH17 came from a base inside Russian territory and was transported back to Russia after. What t...
[03:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Seriously - 06Troubles in Ukraine Parliament Continue - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:44:58] <exec> 08└─They may not have to try hard. We didn't either.
[03:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Seriously - 06Troubles in Ukraine Parliament Continue - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:00] <exec> 08└─This was my thought as well, but didn't want to put it in the summary. Russia is probably doing whatever it can to destabilise their government.
[03:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02CTR - 06Troubles in Ukraine Parliament Continue - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:02] <exec> 08└─Thank you for correcting the record! Oh, we aren't doing that anymore? My bad.
[03:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02In the parliament? - 06Troubles in Ukraine Parliament Continue - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:04] <exec> 08└─No, that's trouble in the goverment. *This* is the sort of trouble they have *in parliament.* http://www.euronews.com
[03:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Post-Nihilist [5672] (Score:2) 02Re:Amazing - 06The Zombie Apocalypse Thwarted? - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:28] <exec> 08└─We already have medicine to prevent brain damage in case of traumatic brain injury and strokes: NMDA receptor antagonist: ketamine, phencyclidine, mematine, diphenidine and diociplizine. But we do not use them because a doctor on the DEA and FDA payroll could not understand the difference betwee...
[03:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Americans’ wages just hit an all-time high - 06Global Carbon Growth Stalls as US Coal Continues to Slump - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:46:26] <exec> 08└─FYI: The inflation adjusted weekly income of the typical full-time American worker hit an all-time high in the third quarter of 2016. https://fred.stlouisfed.org [stlouisfed.org]
[03:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Bullshit - 06Apple Releases Coffee Table Book.... for $300 - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:46:42] <exec> 08└─Everybody I know personally who has Apple hardware has had a great experience with their gear lasting forever and with a great warranty as well. Unfortunately, Apple computers are still seen as gay. So it helps a lot if you're gay, or a woman.
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[04:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02One possibility, - 06"Emotional Support Animals" Riding With Owners Aboard Commercial Airlines Flights - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:53] <exec> 08└─So, can I bring Ethanol_fueled along as my support animal on my next transcontinental flight? Do I have to pay for the shots?
[04:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02SSF - 06"Emotional Support Animals" Riding With Owners Aboard Commercial Airlines Flights - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:55] <exec> 08└─A while back I had to do some extensive cross country travel, and after my previous dealings with the TSA, decided flight wasn't an option. So I wound up going by train. Yeah, it took longer, required numerous bus transfers, but I was fairly resolute that I didn't want to play by the rules for air t...
[04:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:0, Offtopic) 02Re:TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP - 06CRISPR Gene-Editing Tested in a Person for the First Time - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:05] <exec> 08└─Birth-control repels Mexicans like Garlic repels Vampires.
[04:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02Re:TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP - 06CRISPR Gene-Editing Tested in a Person for the First Time - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:07] <exec> 08└─Wrong site, idiot. The Trump rally is on the green site.
[04:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02How to kill progress and people simultaneously - 06CRISPR Gene-Editing Tested in a Person for the First Time - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:09] <exec> 08└─CRISPR... will probably accelerate the race to get gene-edited cells into clinics across the world
[04:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02It'll be time to worry - 06CRISPR Gene-Editing Tested in a Person for the First Time - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:11] <exec> 08└─When one of these CRISPR critters tells the magazine interviewer something like "Feel pretty good, been studying some math, like this old hypothesis from this Riemann fellow. Although I've come to realize it's not a hypothesis, it's a theorem."
[04:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Two months later - 06CRISPR Gene-Editing Tested in a Person for the First Time - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:13] <exec> 08└─The patient is fine and so is his twin tumor.
[04:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Seriously - 06Troubles in Ukraine Parliament Continue - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:23] <exec> 08└─ZOMG [jenx67.com]. Wearing Junketsu even.
[04:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:Seriously - 06Troubles in Ukraine Parliament Continue - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:31] <exec> 08└─Destabilize Ukraine? Ukraine is about as stable as nitroglycerin in a paint-shaker.
[04:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:"One of the ethical concerns" - 06The Zombie Apocalypse Thwarted? - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:51] <exec> 08└─There is nothing inconsistent about my viewpoint. You just haven't bothered to understand it.
[04:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Amazing - 06The Zombie Apocalypse Thwarted? - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:57] <exec> 08└─It seems from these posts that you are consenting to this procedure. We have taken note. Drive safely. But not too safe.
[04:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Pharmacetical research - 06The Zombie Apocalypse Thwarted? - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:03] <exec> 08└─I can't believe I employ people who want to call an anesthetic "Zombanol".
[04:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Lets start it off early - 06Global Carbon Growth Stalls as US Coal Continues to Slump - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:46:57] <exec> 08└─Uh, sure. It worked in: Germany 2007-8, The US in 1993-4, the US 1958, the US new deal 1930s(your ideology is going to disagree with that, so what), China 2000, until they way overshot and weren't ready for 2008 Counterpoints where financial austerity during each recession and made things substant...
[04:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Correlation reminder - 06Global Carbon Growth Stalls as US Coal Continues to Slump - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:00] <exec> 08└─Just out of curiosity, anyone know what the graph of manmade global CO2 emissions looks like when overlaid with the graph of global average temperature over any significant period of time?
[04:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Yeah, but, . . . - 06Apple Releases Coffee Table Book.... for $300 - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:47:32] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't that be "i Book of pure evil"?
[04:48:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:The good shit - 06Marijuana Use Linked to Broken Heart Syndrome - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:48:32] <exec> 08└─Well, I don't know of a natural cannabinoid that might do it, but try JWH-18 [wikipedia.org]. Seems to consistently induce tachycardia. I'm certain that can't be good for the heart. Kind of a subpar experience, though. It was popular in various formulations of Spice (including the “old Spice,” w...
[04:48:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathElk [4834] (Score:1) 02Re:19 mph? - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:48:59] <exec> 08└─Pedestrians and cyclists can;t crush you to death in an instant.
[04:55:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Murdoc [2518] (Score:2) 02Re:Useless - 06New Solar-Powered Fabric is Straight Out of Back to the Future - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:55:37] <exec> 08└─You're right. Weaving this into clothing is not a smart move. However, what about beach umbrellas, patio umbrellas, and parasols? Those all come out when it's most sunny.
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[05:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:One possibility, - 06"Emotional Support Animals" Riding With Owners Aboard Commercial Airlines Flights - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:44:44] <exec> 08└─Sounds expensive. Maybe he could BYOB?
[05:44:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:SSF - 06"Emotional Support Animals" Riding With Owners Aboard Commercial Airlines Flights - 848 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:44:46] <exec> 08└─No, it is easier to force everyone else to bend to your will. Thankfully, other than the specific laws dealing with housing and air travel, ESAs are not given special status. For example, it is perfectly legal under the ADA to kick someone out of your restaurant for their ESA. True service animals a...
[05:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:SSF - 06"Emotional Support Animals" Riding With Owners Aboard Commercial Airlines Flights - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:44:48] <exec> 08└─the autism dog trained to prevent wondering is.
[05:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:SSF - 06"Emotional Support Animals" Riding With Owners Aboard Commercial Airlines Flights - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:44:50] <exec> 08└─Many soylent posters have such dogs, supporting their confidence and helping them be incurious.
[05:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Ideology warning! - 06Zap to the Head Leads to Fat Loss - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:46:22] <exec> 08└─It's a thing. The better choice would have been to not start drinking to begin with. Sometimes I think of all the money spent over the years, but if it wasn't on that it would have been on something else I guess. I barely touch soda. I'll have a Coke or Dr. Pepper maybe once a month. I don't normall...
[05:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score:2) 02Re:what they're going to get as an anniversary gif - 06Apple Releases Coffee Table Book.... for $300 - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:47:40] <exec> 08└─But what about the single, straight, non-crosdressing employees? What are they supposed to do with rose-hued underwear?
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[06:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Can we get "+i bizarre"? - 06The Mechanics of Mechanophilia: Why Men Find Siri Sexy - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:43] <exec> 08└─I mean, imo this is neither good (humans are made by interactions with other humans, the biological parts are mainly containers. Interacting with algorithms shouldn't be advertised as a valid replacement for interactions with other humans) nor bad (no one is actually harmed, for those temporarily no...
[06:44:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Can we get "+i bizarre"? - 06The Mechanics of Mechanophilia: Why Men Find Siri Sexy - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:44:44] <exec> 08└─Not everyone is an extrovert. Though, I still don't understand how Siri could be attractive.
[06:44:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score:2) 02Sex sells - 06The Mechanics of Mechanophilia: Why Men Find Siri Sexy - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:46] <exec> 08└─One thing never changes, sex sells. There are three inevitabilities in life: eat, shit and fuck. if one is not performed, the species will die out sooner than later. So, it is no surprise that we use all technology as a basis to reinforce our biological needs.
[06:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Costumers? - 06The Mechanics of Mechanophilia: Why Men Find Siri Sexy - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:49] <exec> 08└─to deter feelings of emotional and sexual attachment from costumers.
[06:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:SSF - 06"Emotional Support Animals" Riding With Owners Aboard Commercial Airlines Flights - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:45:01] <exec> 08└─This explains so much! Thank you, AC! I will report this immediately to the Amalgamated Union of Philosophers, Sages, Luminaries, and other professional thinking persons. (For those Soylentils with the aforementioned dogs, this is a very subtle reference to Douglas Adam's Hitchhiker's Guide to the G...
[06:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Intensified - 06"Emotional Support Animals" Riding With Owners Aboard Commercial Airlines Flights - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:03] <exec> 08└─http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/11/service-dogs-for-sexual-assault-survivors/382560/ [theatlantic.com] Why do airlines hate rape victims?
[06:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Intensified - 06"Emotional Support Animals" Riding With Owners Aboard Commercial Airlines Flights - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:45:05] <exec> 08└─Fleas, allergies, barks...
[06:45:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Seriously - 06Troubles in Ukraine Parliament Continue - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:45:28] <exec> 08└─Fear is freedom! Subjugation is liberation! Contradiction is truth! Those are the facts of this world! And you will all surrender to them, you pigs in human clothing!
[06:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:"One of the ethical concerns" - 06The Zombie Apocalypse Thwarted? - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:45:54] <exec> 08└─It's not "their" money though. They're almost certainly angling for investor money and understanding a big red flag for bullshit is important to erstwhile investors.
[06:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Apply directly to the rectum - 06Zap to the Head Leads to Fat Loss - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:46:34] <exec> 08└─Simple solution to this one.... Just don't give a shit. Literally. I can guarantee you that in a few hours, eating will be the last thing on your mind.
[06:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Apply directly to the rectum - 06Zap to the Head Leads to Fat Loss - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:46:36] <exec> 08└─Drinking a lot of water or unsweetened tea helps too I find. Water passes through you quickly, though, and if you have waaaaay too much it will cause hypo{kalaemia,natraemia,calcaemia,magnesaemia} so be careful.
[06:48:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Hmm, where are the calls for warning labels? - 06Marijuana Use Linked to Broken Heart Syndrome - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:48:34] <exec> 08└─Yeah our resident conspiracy diva J-Mo is several hundred sausages, 50 gallons of Spotted Cow, and an entire live band short of a Bratfest, isn't he? :/ Makes me wonder what his particular chemical vice is. And whether it's usually stored under the sink.
[06:48:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:omg ponies - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:48:59] <exec> 08└─I have often thought of a sound effect of badly failing brakes for those clowns who step right out onto the road without looking or open car doors right into traffic. Make it sound like they almost got creamed. Let them clean their own trousers out after what gave all sounds of being a near-miss.
[06:50:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:Who else? - 06BLU Phones Secretly Sent Personal Data to China - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:50:11] <exec> 08└─When you play with Google Play, Google plays with you.
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[07:44:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Hey - 06Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:46] <exec> 08└─Hey 2016 YOUR FIRED!
[07:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hey - 06Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:44:48] <exec> 08└─Build a Wall to keep Microsoft from kidnapping our precious penguins.
[07:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Xenix? - 06Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:50] <exec> 08└─Remember Xenix? Of course you don't. Linux! Linux! Linux! Linux! Linux! Linux! Linux! Linux! Linux! Linux! Linux! Linux! Linux! Linux! Linux! Linux! Linux!
[07:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Spam) 02Linux! - 06Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:44:52] <exec> 08└─Linux! Linux! Linux! Linux! Linux! Linux!
[07:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Can we get "+i bizarre"? - 06The Mechanics of Mechanophilia: Why Men Find Siri Sexy - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:45:03] <exec> 08└─Not everyone is an extrovert.
[07:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Can we get "+i bizarre"? - 06The Mechanics of Mechanophilia: Why Men Find Siri Sexy - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:45:05] <exec> 08└─Nor am I. Nevertheless I think that mainly interactions shape who and what we are. With an introvert I assume fewer interactions are much more thoroughly, and often more consciously, evaluated, while an extrovert will collect more interactions, evaluate them probably more subconsciously and maybe mo...
[07:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:Can we get "+i bizarre"? - 06The Mechanics of Mechanophilia: Why Men Find Siri Sexy - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:45:08] <exec> 08└─A researcher would probably conclude that computers, rubber dolls, and even other men suddenly started appearing more attractive to a significant proportion of males than girls. Maybe it has something to do with "high maintenance" that those girls often require? There are too many well known trouble...
[07:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Can we get "+i bizarre"? - 06The Mechanics of Mechanophilia: Why Men Find Siri Sexy - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:45:10] <exec> 08└─it will never call the police on you
[07:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03quintessence [6227] (Score:2) 02Re:Can we get "+i bizarre"? - 06The Mechanics of Mechanophilia: Why Men Find Siri Sexy - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:45:12] <exec> 08└─Further it is common for people to build attachments to things that they favor (you think the guy adding the 50th layer of wax to his Delahaye doesn't have a sexual component). Some otaku might be the extreme expression, but it isn't like it is unprecedented. As better VR and the like start coming t...
[07:45:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Can we get "+i bizarre"? - 06The Mechanics of Mechanophilia: Why Men Find Siri Sexy - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:45:14] <exec> 08└─There was a case I read of a monk who had no access to porn, so all of his sexual interests was directed towards cars to a point where he had no sexual interests towards humans at all.
[07:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Can we get "+i bizarre"? - 06The Mechanics of Mechanophilia: Why Men Find Siri Sexy - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:45:16] <exec> 08└─Gas tank
[07:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Can we get "+i bizarre"? - 06The Mechanics of Mechanophilia: Why Men Find Siri Sexy - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:45:18] <exec> 08└─Like what else is there to insert your thing into except the exhaust pipe?
[07:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Can we get "+i bizarre"? - 06The Mechanics of Mechanophilia: Why Men Find Siri Sexy - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:45:20] <exec> 08└─You know, I never really inquired much further, except to note there as an extensive attempt to reimprint him with something more approachable ("make the motorboat noise again") as he was leaving the order into public life This also got me thinking about the attempts to "convert" homosexuals that we...
[07:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Sex sells - 06The Mechanics of Mechanophilia: Why Men Find Siri Sexy - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:45:24] <exec> 08└─The Germans frequently have all three of those inevitabilities in one sitting. What a lucky people they are!
[07:45:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Floppy time ... - 06The Mechanics of Mechanophilia: Why Men Find Siri Sexy - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:27] <exec> 08└─Doesn't Siri/Cortana/ store or have the ability to store all your (non-)verbal information requests, "for training, evaluation and commercial purposes", be they simple web-searches or your requests for sexual gratification? So sexy-talk with your phone stored forever? That should make anyone floppy.
[07:45:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Floppy time ... - 06The Mechanics of Mechanophilia: Why Men Find Siri Sexy - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:45:29] <exec> 08└─The people who use Siri and Cortana are the same people who upload naked selfies. They're already shameless exhibitionists.
[07:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score:2) 02Re:Floppy time ... - 06The Mechanics of Mechanophilia: Why Men Find Siri Sexy - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:45:31] <exec> 08└─I think we can all agree those people are doing humanity a great service.
[07:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Floppy time ... - 06The Mechanics of Mechanophilia: Why Men Find Siri Sexy - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:45:33] <exec> 08└─Actually no, they're not. Most exhibitionists who upload nude photos of themselves tend to be aspiring models, and as such, they conform as closely as they can to an ideal appearance that few can achieve without copious amounts of makeup and grooming. For example if you browse the nudes section of d...
[07:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Floppy time ... - 06The Mechanics of Mechanophilia: Why Men Find Siri Sexy - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:45:35] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure previous poster meant doing a service by not reproducing.
[07:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Floppy time ... - 06The Mechanics of Mechanophilia: Why Men Find Siri Sexy - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:45:38] <exec> 08└─That can't be true because I know your mom masturbates with Alexa.
[07:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Could be an untapped market for SoylentNews. - 06The Mechanics of Mechanophilia: Why Men Find Siri Sexy - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:40] <exec> 08└─This could be an untapped market and potential revenue stream for SN: get users to pay to hear someone read submissions in a sexy voice. Any volunteers?
[07:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Why "Men" find Siri sexy? - 06The Mechanics of Mechanophilia: Why Men Find Siri Sexy - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:42] <exec> 08└─No, not men. Boys. Gamergaters. Failed to launch basement dwellers. Misogynists who have never had a date. Males to cowardly to admit that they are attracted to other males. Pederasts and bestials, furries and fuck-all what kind of bizarre diversions of a healthy male sexuality. Kind of like the...
[07:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why "Men" find Siri sexy? - 06The Mechanics of Mechanophilia: Why Men Find Siri Sexy - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:45:44] <exec> 08└─Misogynists who have never had a date.
[07:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The evil-eye - 06The Mechanics of Mechanophilia: Why Men Find Siri Sexy - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:46] <exec> 08└─I wonder if Siri can give males the typical "evil-eye", otherwise known as the "look of death"?
[07:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Sample message's - 06The Mechanics of Mechanophilia: Why Men Find Siri Sexy - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:48] <exec> 08└─Siri, fuck off! Siri, what the fuck? Siri, go fuck yourself.
[07:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Entitled - 06"Emotional Support Animals" Riding With Owners Aboard Commercial Airlines Flights - 2107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:04] <exec> 08└─Entitled, brats that take advantage of the system should ride in the cargo area if they really want to hang with their friends. The internet is a great place however it can be used to create fake outrage. One restaurant I know of lost many of its customers after some dude pulled the 'its my service...
[07:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Me, Meee, MEEEEE - 06"Emotional Support Animals" Riding With Owners Aboard Commercial Airlines Flights - 1052 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:05] <exec> 08└─It's all about meeeeeee!!! There are all sorts of website that will generate official-looking certificates for "service animals". In actual fact, these mean nothing at all. On top of that, the ADA apparently does not actually require any sort of proof that an animal is a genuine service animal, and...
[07:48:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Americans’ wages just hit an all-time high - 06Global Carbon Growth Stalls as US Coal Continues to Slump - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:48:08] <exec> 08└─Labor participation is as low as 1977, and has been for 3 years straight. http://data.bls.gov [bls.gov] People who make 0 or are underemployed are not counted in your statistic. The Fed has changed the rules of the game many times. My economics teachers told me to basically ig...
[07:49:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ilPapa [2366] 02The good shit - 06Marijuana Use Linked to Broken Heart Syndrome - 102 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:49:42] <exec> 08└─Say, does anyone know which strain of weed is so strong it makes your heart stop? Asking for a friend.
[07:49:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What else did you expect? - 06Marijuana Use Linked to Broken Heart Syndrome - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:49:46] <exec> 08└─There are no medications without side effects. Marijuana is no different. Let's see what happens if you take a whole bottle of aspirin or better yet, paracetamol.
[07:50:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:19 mph? - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:50:14] <exec> 08└─You are more likely to survive collisions below 40km/h (23MPH) anyway. IIRC, it is an 80% survival rate.
[07:50:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I do not agree but I understand - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 804 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:50:45] <exec> 08└─It makes the driver's job a lot harder if even more pedestrians do incredibly stupid things. My guess ( Stetson-Harrison analysis ) is that 90+% of pedestrians look before they venture into a roadway, while the remaining 10% are kept from being terminated by darwinian methods via very heavy penaltie...
[07:51:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02Who else? - 06BLU Phones Secretly Sent Personal Data to China - 311 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:51:13] <exec> 08└─What does Google learn about you, when you use Google apps and Chrome, and the Google Play? Who else is mining American citizens for data? BLU did it, so I would imagine that any major distributor of telephones knows how to do it. I have no more faith in American corporations than I do in Chinese co...
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[08:44:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Spam) 02Re:Linux! - 06Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:44:46] <exec> 08└─Linux! Linux! Linux! Linux! Linux! Linux!
[08:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Linux! - 06Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:44:48] <exec> 08└─Linux! Linux! Linux! Linux! Linux! Linux!
[08:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Spam) 02Re:Linux! - 06Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:44:50] <exec> 08└─Linux! Linux! Linux! Linux! Linux! Linux!
[08:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Linux! - 06Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:44:52] <exec> 08└─Linux! Linux! Linux! Linux! Linux! Linux!
[08:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Spam) 02Re:Linux! - 06Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:44:54] <exec> 08└─Linux! Linux! Linux! Linux! Linux! Linux!
[08:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Linux! - 06Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:44:56] <exec> 08└─Badger! Badger! Badger! Badger! Badger! Badger! Badger! Badger! Badger! Halloween Documents. Homebrew Computer Club Letter. Badger! Badger! Badger!
[08:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Linux! - 06Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:44:58] <exec> 08└─Clippy raping Cortana! Clippy raping Cortana! Clippy raping Cortana!
[08:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not Gandhi - 06Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:45:01] <exec> 08└─They are joining because they know their desktop buisness is doomed in the long run, getting a foothold into linux to have the proper backend to port their various applications to it in the future helps if you want it done properly (see also Valve working directly with intel to get better linux GPU...
[08:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Not Gandhi - 06Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:45:04] <exec> 08└─"First they embrace you, then they extend you, then they extinguish you, then you are history" --Halloween documents, Microsoft [wikipedia.org] (Obviously only paraphrased)
[08:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score:2) 02You really think that? - 06Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:06] <exec> 08└─(and please, beloved commenters—try to refrain from "embrace, extend, extinguish" posts, as the very concept is preposterous when it comes to Linux)
[08:45:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Can we get "+i bizarre"? - 06The Mechanics of Mechanophilia: Why Men Find Siri Sexy - 1712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:45:26] <exec> 08└─A communication software controlled by mega-corporations working in the content business will eventually be monetized. Either you pay for the service at some point or they will find ways to feed you advertisement more cleverly. Actually, to be a more realistic communication partner, Siri *will have...
[08:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Can we get "+i bizarre"? - 06The Mechanics of Mechanophilia: Why Men Find Siri Sexy - 756 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:45:28] <exec> 08└─the content business will eventually be monetized. Either you pay for the service at some point or they will find ways to feed you advertisement more cleverly. Actually, to be a more realistic communication partner, Siri *will have to* start also to talk about new products, how the new shoes from $B...
[08:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Can we get "+i bizarre"? - 06The Mechanics of Mechanophilia: Why Men Find Siri Sexy - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:45:30] <exec> 08└─It's centrally organized. Communicating with real people, I hear with regards to politics different opinions, and with regards to consumptions I hear different opinions. I even met girls specifically not wanting some men because the men were to posh and too focused on cars, champagne, brands and so...
[08:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Sex sells - 06The Mechanics of Mechanophilia: Why Men Find Siri Sexy - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:45:35] <exec> 08└─Well, the British have their special cuisine, the US has their fast-food, so we had to find something to come on par... (Although I never tried to have this kind of 3-in-1.)
[08:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Re:Sex sells - 06The Mechanics of Mechanophilia: Why Men Find Siri Sexy - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:45:37] <exec> 08└─What about sleeping? I think that's required too. Oh, and taxes.
[08:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why "Men" find Siri sexy? - 06The Mechanics of Mechanophilia: Why Men Find Siri Sexy - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:45:47] <exec> 08└─Why would misogynists want to date women?
[08:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why "Men" find Siri sexy? - 06The Mechanics of Mechanophilia: Why Men Find Siri Sexy - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:45:49] <exec> 08└─Speaking as someone who did not vote for Trump, how did the same old tired drivel work out for you this last election cycle again? Clearly your problem was that you did not double down enough?
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[09:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Turkeys - 06How I Became a Cyborg and Joined an Underground Medical Movement - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:40] <exec> 08└─If I implant a smart device into a dumb turkey, will that make the turkey any smarter? Seriously - those efforts to enable the handicapped to control their prosthetics mentally are of far more value than implanting smart devices. Those devices can't be accessed by the human nervous system, making th...
[09:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Redundant) 02Re:Turkeys - 06How I Became a Cyborg and Joined an Underground Medical Movement - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:44:42] <exec> 08└─If you implant Siri into a turkey, will that make you want to fuck her harder?
[09:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Turkeys - 06How I Became a Cyborg and Joined an Underground Medical Movement - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:44:44] <exec> 08└─Technically, the dumb (not smart) magnetic impants are connected to the nervous system. They translate senses humans normally wouldn't feel (EM and ferromagnetism) into something it can feel: touch/vibration. The plasticity of the brain helps adapt the sensations into something that makes intuitive...
[09:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02transhumanist unicorns - 06How I Became a Cyborg and Joined an Underground Medical Movement - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:46] <exec> 08└─Every "tech" billionaire should have a unicorn horn, for real. It can be the next trendy fad for social marketing motherfuckers who have usurped the "tech" industry and made "tech" all about scamming people instead of about technology.... bro.
[09:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Apps! - 06How I Became a Cyborg and Joined an Underground Medical Movement - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:44:48] <exec> 08└─Your just jealous because you cant app a billionaire app. LUDDITE!!
[09:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:You really think that? - 06Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation - 648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:45:10] <exec> 08└─I, also, am forced to disagree. MS doesn't have to crush Linux, if they can only influence the navigation. As a platinum member, they have influence. Since they have very deep pockets, they have the means to extend their influence. There's no need to crush Linux, if they can sweet talk Linux into do...
[09:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedGreen [888] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:You really think that? - 06Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:45:11] <exec> 08└─"They might not be able to crush all of Linux, but if they use their money and resources to move adoption to technologies and code they write for Linux, then MS Linux (tm) isn't so far off. They could make other systems have as much trouble as non-systemd ones do today." Interesting copy the Redhat...
[09:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why "Men" find Siri sexy? - 06The Mechanics of Mechanophilia: Why Men Find Siri Sexy - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:45:49] <exec> 08└─Well, sudo of course. ;-)
[09:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sample message's - 06The Mechanics of Mechanophilia: Why Men Find Siri Sexy - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:45:54] <exec> 08└─Siri, fuck off! Siri, what the fuck? Siri, go fuck yourself.
[09:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Database - 06The Mechanics of Mechanophilia: Why Men Find Siri Sexy - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:56] <exec> 08└─Last month, in an interview with The Times, Illy Eckstein, chief executive of Robin Labs, creators of a virtual assistant and satnav known as 'Robin', said that 5% of interactions in their database are classified as "clearly sexually explicit".
[09:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Database - 06The Mechanics of Mechanophilia: Why Men Find Siri Sexy - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:45:58] <exec> 08└─They have to train their AI somehow, and the training data must be censored, otherwise the AI inevitably curses at children. Think of the children.
[09:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score:2) 02Re:Intensified - 06"Emotional Support Animals" Riding With Owners Aboard Commercial Airlines Flights - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:46:15] <exec> 08└─Airlines hate everyone.
[09:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Entitled - 06"Emotional Support Animals" Riding With Owners Aboard Commercial Airlines Flights - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:46:17] <exec> 08└─To be fair, while it does not meet the criteria for a service animal they do indeed possess a disability: mental retardation.
[09:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP - 06CRISPR Gene-Editing Tested in a Person for the First Time - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:46:30] <exec> 08└─The Trump rally is on the green site.
[09:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Seriously - 06Troubles in Ukraine Parliament Continue - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:46:51] <exec> 08└─To be fair, that's what the US was doing when the Russians had the "majority influence" in the country. (As they did in Georgia) Now that the US has the "majority influence" the Russians are probably doing the reverse.
[09:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Scrolling down - 06Troubles in Ukraine Parliament Continue - 986 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:54] <exec> 08└─Scrolling down through the comments, I see basically nationalistic comments. "Russia bad, US good!" We all need to remind ourselves of Ukraine's recent history. The cold war ended, the walls came down, and Ukraine among other countries, established new governments. Ukraine's government was barely fu...
[09:48:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score:2) 02time requirement - 06Zap to the Head Leads to Fat Loss - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:48:05] <exec> 08└─Surely there is something else they could be doing for four hours per week that would facilitate weight loss?
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[10:44:53] <exec> 08└─You are the Product.
[10:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:Xenix? - 06Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:45:23] <exec> 08└─I'll bite: 286 protected mode.
[10:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not Gandhi - 06Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:45:27] <exec> 08└─> "First they embrace you, then they extend you, then they extinguish you, then you are history" Funny, its been what, 20 years since linux showed up? And MS didn't follow that playbook at all. If that's what they are doing now. What took them so long to get started? Its not like they didn't notice...
[10:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:You really think that? - 06Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:45:33] <exec> 08└─> Interesting copy the Redhat model to dominance since they have deeper pockets they just may be able to pull it off. Back when redhat IPO'd the CEO said, "The goal is not to make Redhat as big as Microsoft. It is to make Microsoft as small as Redhat." An MS distribution of linux would signal the su...
[10:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The Fuck - 06"Emotional Support Animals" Riding With Owners Aboard Commercial Airlines Flights - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:46:36] <exec> 08└─> disabled people are apparently offended at the very idea that they might have to "prove" their disability. WTF? TF: The value of catching cheaters is not worth the harm done to the legitimately disabled in being required to prove their legitimacy to every uneducated tom, dick and harry who will fe...
[10:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Snakes on plane - 06"Emotional Support Animals" Riding With Owners Aboard Commercial Airlines Flights - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:37] <exec> 08└─It could get interesting if you get a certificate that you really need your pet viper to be with you ;-)
[10:47:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02off the charts disproportionate - 06Troubles in Ukraine Parliament Continue - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:47:10] <exec> 08└─False equivalency. The US supported Ukraine's sovereignty and potential NATO membership. Russia literally violated Ukraine's borders and took part of the country. I can see why Putin was pissed about NATO making overtures to Ukraine. But his response was off the charts disproportionate.
[10:47:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score:2) 02Re:Zombies are overrated - 06The Zombie Apocalypse Thwarted? - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:47:44] <exec> 08└─This is why I dislike the Walking Dead. I cannot suspend my disbelief when a month has gone by and the zombie outbreak is still a problem. Zombies make for good movies and computer games, but not for TV series (well maybe iZombie).
[10:48:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score:2) 02Re:Lets start it off early - 06Global Carbon Growth Stalls as US Coal Continues to Slump - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:48:46] <exec> 08└─Bloody communists.
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[11:45:00] <exec> 08└─Do you remember when the US army started making drugs to make soldiers more efficient? this is a fact. Another fact is that a trained soldier, even back in the day, was definitely NOT an investment to waste by giving him the wrong substances/doses. A third fact is that XTC and other substances went...
[11:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magneto [6410] (Score:1) 02Magnetic finger implant - 06How I Became a Cyborg and Joined an Underground Medical Movement - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:01] <exec> 08└─I got a magnetic finger implant about 4 years ago. I've yet to find a practical use for it but it has made me aware of things I would otherwise never notice. For example I've been at pubs and have noticed the stray EM fields from the beer pumps under the bar, or I've suddenly noticed when my laptop...
[11:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Linux! - 06Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:45:20] <exec> 08└─Developers developers!
[11:45:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Subsentient [1111] 02You really think that? - 06Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation - 150 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:26] <exec> 08└─(and please, beloved commenters—try to refrain from "embrace, extend, extinguish" posts, as the very concept is preposterous when it comes to Linux)
[11:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03AudioGuy [24] (Score:2) 02"concept is preposterous when it comes to Linux" - 06Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:32] <exec> 08└─One word: systemd
[11:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Can we get "+i bizarre"? - 06The Mechanics of Mechanophilia: Why Men Find Siri Sexy - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:45:51] <exec> 08└─Who says he has to be the inserter rather than the insertee? Maybe the car had a {suggestive eyebrow waggle} manual transmission.
[11:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Sex sells - 06The Mechanics of Mechanophilia: Why Men Find Siri Sexy - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:46:00] <exec> 08└─Oh, and death... There are SIX, SIX inevitabilities in life: eat, shit, fuck, sleep... hang on, I'll come in again.
[11:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Floppy time ... - 06The Mechanics of Mechanophilia: Why Men Find Siri Sexy - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:46:09] <exec> 08└─> Most exhibitionists who upload nude photos of themselves tend to be aspiring models, and as such, they conform as closely as they can to an ideal appearance I think you will find there is a lot more variety to exhibitionists [watchersweb.com] than you realize.
[11:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why "Men" find Siri sexy? - 06The Mechanics of Mechanophilia: Why Men Find Siri Sexy - 1213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:46:16] <exec> 08└─> Why would misogynists want to date women? Hostile sexism and benevolent sexism are two parts that make up the whole of misogyny. Like a japanese anime robot formed of two opposing parts coming together to make something bigger than either of them. If you’re a “good” woman who meets expected...
[11:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Worswick is worried - 06The Mechanics of Mechanophilia: Why Men Find Siri Sexy - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:24] <exec> 08└─Worswick believes men are using Mitsuku in this way and seeing bots as “sex objects” simply because they cannot fight back, have no legal rights, and are not going to judge them or contact the authorities or their wives or girlfriends. “With this in mind, the men can act out their deepest, dar...
[11:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Worswick is worried - 06The Mechanics of Mechanophilia: Why Men Find Siri Sexy - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:46:26] <exec> 08└─Seems like you are projecting your own issues. Conflating abuse with kink.
[11:48:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lets start it off early - 06Global Carbon Growth Stalls as US Coal Continues to Slump - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:48:59] <exec> 08└─no reason to keep regulations in place since CO2 is dropping...
[11:50:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Maybe look at actual data?? - 06Marijuana Use Linked to Broken Heart Syndrome - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:50:26] <exec> 08└─Link to actual abstract and results, http://circ.ahajournals.org [ahajournals.org] You know, comparison of actual groups of people? You know, from medical records. And based on these records, you get these results. It was *ONE* google search away.
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[12:44:52] <exec> 08└─2017, the year of the linux supercomputer! :)
[12:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score:2) 02um, nope - 06Facebook Discloses Additional Advertising Metric Miscalculations - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:00] <exec> 08└─Is anyone here stupid enough to have a facebook account.?
[12:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Magnetic finger implant - 06How I Became a Cyborg and Joined an Underground Medical Movement - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:45:16] <exec> 08└─Beer pumps? You mean co2?
[12:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magneto [6410] (Score:1) 02Re:Magnetic finger implant - 06How I Became a Cyborg and Joined an Underground Medical Movement - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:45:17] <exec> 08└─In the UK you get different types of pumps. Most ale pumps are manually powered and I think use some sort of gas pressure to pump the beer, but a lot of lager pumps are electrically powered (I think). Now granted I don't know actually know if what I've felt is the beer pumps or something else but it...
[12:45:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score:2) 02Will LF rein in its misbehaving member? - 06Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation - 1088 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:48] <exec> 08└─Will the Linux Foundation rein in its misbehaving member when it acts out? Or will M$ abuse its budget and position on the LF board to normalize its attacks? It looks more like the latter. It looks like this is just an inexpensive PR campaign by M$ to get the public and regulators to let their guard...
[12:48:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03engblom [556] (Score:2) 02Voltage? - 06Zap to the Head Leads to Fat Loss - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:48] <exec> 08└─From the abstract: ... between 20 and 40 hours of binaural GVS in a 0.5 Hz sinusoid as tolerated up to 2mA
[12:49:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Only "special" paper? - 06Apple Releases Coffee Table Book.... for $300 - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:49:34] <exec> 08└─Nex step is to biosolder the user to the keyboard
[12:49:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Backwards compatibility - 06Apple Releases Coffee Table Book.... for $300 - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:49:52] <exec> 08└─And internal FM receiver crippled by firmware. So you have tu subscribe to iPodcasts.
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[13:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02Time to rewrite history - 06Linux Close to Finalizing its Top 500 Domination - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:04] <exec> 08└─They had it all wrong when they thought Skynet would take over the world.
[13:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:um, nope - 06Facebook Discloses Additional Advertising Metric Miscalculations - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:45:14] <exec> 08└─What's this facebook you talk of? :)
[13:45:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Underground, my shiny metal ass - 06How I Became a Cyborg and Joined an Underground Medical Movement - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:45:28] <exec> 08└─From "As seen on TV" By the band Pitchshifter (1999) Each new hot generation has a statemen they want to call their own. Tattoos? Piercings? that's for Moms and Dads. What you want do is spend your allowance on Devil horn implats, Elephand Man head, designer tails, third leg, fourth leg -- everyone...
[13:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Magnetic finger implant - 06How I Became a Cyborg and Joined an Underground Medical Movement - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:45:32] <exec> 08└─Your both half right actually! Ales are hand pumped (AS THEY SHOULD BE!) But lagers, etc use an electric and CO2 system. Modern ones have several micro-switch's in the lever to indicate the pressure that should be applied (By varying the CO2 pressure). Traditionally it was CO2 Pressure only, the ele...
[13:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magneto [6410] (Score:1) 02Re:Magnetic finger implant - 06How I Became a Cyborg and Joined an Underground Medical Movement - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:45:34] <exec> 08└─That makes sense. I've never felt anything near an ale tap but some lager taps have something giving off a surprisingly large field next to them. In general the only things I've found that give off a comparable field are microwaves (presumably the magnetron), transformers, motors, and some electrica...
[13:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02Re:Magnetic finger implant - 06How I Became a Cyborg and Joined an Underground Medical Movement - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:45:37] <exec> 08└─Does it ever interfere with electronics or credit cards?
[13:45:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magneto [6410] (Score:1) 02Re:Magnetic finger implant - 06How I Became a Cyborg and Joined an Underground Medical Movement - 1001 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:45:39] <exec> 08└─In general no. I've had an external HDD fail since I got it done but as I deal with a fair number of them for work I expect that was just bad luck. I've not had any problems with cards of any sort. There are 2 cases I can think of where it's effected electronics. The first case is airport security w...
[13:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Magnetic finger implant - 06How I Became a Cyborg and Joined an Underground Medical Movement - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:45:41] <exec> 08└─I got a magnetic finger implant about 4 years ago. I've yet to find a practical use for it but it has made me aware of things I would otherwise never notice. For example I've been at pubs and have noticed the stray EM fields from the beer pumps under the bar, or I've suddenly noticed when my laptop...
[13:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Can we get "+i bizarre"? - 06The Mechanics of Mechanophilia: Why Men Find Siri Sexy - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:46:35] <exec> 08└─That's an excessive amount of faith given to individuals. Any central organization can have multitudes covering a wide swath while any particular individual is limited. Not to mention you can have hundreds of "Siris". That really doesn't happen in meatspace without conflict. For any ills or positive...
[13:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Sex sells - 06The Mechanics of Mechanophilia: Why Men Find Siri Sexy - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:46:41] <exec> 08└─NO one expects the Mechanophilia!
[13:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Why "Men" find Siri sexy? - 06The Mechanics of Mechanophilia: Why Men Find Siri Sexy - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:46:57] <exec> 08└─If women can be separated into good girls and bad, and only bad girls get punished, it justifies male dominance and absolves men of blame for treating women unfairly.
[13:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why "Men" find Siri sexy? - 06The Mechanics of Mechanophilia: Why Men Find Siri Sexy - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:46:58] <exec> 08└─Likewise, there is a dichotomy of "bitches vs. friends", but the sexism narrative absolves women from any responsibility of unfavorable reaction when they act like a bitch. It is also a tidy little cycle, where women can act like the former, but claim to be in the latter, and when the hypocrisy is p...
[13:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03r1348 [5988] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:off the charts disproportionate - 06Troubles in Ukraine Parliament Continue - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:48:02] <exec> 08└─The US funded a coup that ousted a legitimately elected president (although a corrupt one, I admit) to instate a puppet government to do its bidding. Ask Victoria Nuland. Russia is reacting to the situation exactly like the US reacted in the Cuba missile crisis.
[13:48:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score:2) 02Obviously a graduate of.. - 06The Zombie Apocalypse Thwarted? - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:38] <exec> 08└─Miskatonic University! Perhaps a colleague of Herbert West? I wonder if his solution of peptides and stem cells glows a bright green....
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[14:45:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02They mean dictator. - 06China Censors References to Kim Jong Un's Weight - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:13] <exec> 08└─hereditary communist dynasty
[14:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02They mean absolute monarchy. - 06China Censors References to Kim Jong Un's Weight - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:15] <exec> 08└─They pretend to be a communist dictatorship but are actually an absolute monarchy in everything but the trappings.
[14:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2, Insightful) 02fat shaming - 06China Censors References to Kim Jong Un's Weight - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:17] <exec> 08└─Finally somebody who deserves some fat shaming?
[14:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:fat shaming - 06China Censors References to Kim Jong Un's Weight - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:19] <exec> 08└─I used to enjoy http://kimjongillookingatthings.tumblr.com [tumblr.com] until it dawned on me that every "ordinary citizen" that this fat sack of shit stood next to looked borderline emaciated. It got a little bittersweet after that.
[14:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:fat shaming - 06China Censors References to Kim Jong Un's Weight - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:21] <exec> 08└─Wrong link. This one: http://kimjongunlookingatthings.tumblr.com [tumblr.com] Also, a feature request: Can those with good karma not have a delay between posting? I should have checked my link first, granted, but I had a pre-coffee moment.
[14:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02金三胖 - 06China Censors References to Kim Jong Un's Weight - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:23] <exec> 08└─It might have been even funnier to find homophonic Hanja characters that also correspond to the phonetic sounds 'kim jong un' but individually mean something different. The canonical characters are 金正恩 (gold, correct, grace). Like perhaps 金停隱 (gold, stop, hide). Someone with better knowl...
[14:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:2017 - 06Linux Close to Finalizing its Top 500 Domination - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:33] <exec> 08└─It's a good point. Linux is everywhere but where it should be, or rather needs to be, on the desktop.
[14:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Time to rewrite history - 06Linux Close to Finalizing its Top 500 Domination - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:36] <exec> 08└─I'm thinking lawn mower man meets terminator à la Torvalds. I am the Alpha! I am the omega! I am the kernel! - Linus 'bow down before me, you scum' Torvalds
[14:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Magnetic finger implant - 06How I Became a Cyborg and Joined an Underground Medical Movement - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:46:08] <exec> 08└─How/where did you have it implanted? Did your doctor do it, or was it a tattoo parlor-like place, like it was in the article? I've been intrigued by body modification and transhumanism since I first read about it 30 years ago, but the perceived expense and trouble of it kept me from exploring it fur...
[14:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Magnetic finger implant - 06How I Became a Cyborg and Joined an Underground Medical Movement - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:46:10] <exec> 08└─I'd be surprised if you could find a physician to do it and would expect a piercing shop with body mod experience to be much better suited. Probably much better informed of magnet section, too. I was associated with research study not long ago that involved body piercing. The Institutional Review Bo...
[14:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Spectacles/eye correction - 06How I Became a Cyborg and Joined an Underground Medical Movement - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:12] <exec> 08└─I wear spectacles. I'm a cyborg. Well I'm as much of a cyborg as someone with a dumb magnet stuck in them.
[14:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Not Gandhi - 06Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:46:37] <exec> 08└─Funny, its been what, 20 years since linux showed up?
[14:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:You really think that? - 06Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation - 812 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:46:42] <exec> 08└─I don't think they're going for Embrace-Extend-Extinguish here. I think they're going for a different strategy, which I'm going to call Stupify-Sabotage-Sink. It works something like this: Stupify - Throw previously unseen sums of money at open-source developers and organizations, so they'll give yo...
[14:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score:2) 02decommodifcation of Linux through systemd - 06Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:46:46] <exec> 08└─One word: systemd
[14:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02"Linux foundation" hah - 06Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:49] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the warning, next time I see that name I'll remember not to believe it. "Microsoft's increasing commitment to open source has been met with some cynicism (and please, beloved commenters—try to refrain from "embrace, extend, extinguish" posts, as the very concept is preposterous when it...
[14:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Quoting Spaceballs - 06Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:51] <exec> 08└─Microsoft joining the Linux foundation? Allow me to quote the two apes in the Planet of the Apes scene at the end of Spaceballs: "Oh shit, there goes the planet".
[14:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:Sex sells - 06The Mechanics of Mechanophilia: Why Men Find Siri Sexy - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:47:22] <exec> 08└─There's also Going to Hell. Frequently practiced by the Next Generation. I'd say Hell, but that's an inevitability of the afterlife. While still alive, it remains a hot destination just out of reach but with so many roads leading to it, and new ways like this Sexy Siri being discovered all the time....
[14:48:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Scrolling down - 06Troubles in Ukraine Parliament Continue - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:48:46] <exec> 08└─But an American billionaire "entrepreneur" invested 14 billion US dollars into the overthrow of that barely functional government, and established a government more to his liking.
[14:52:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:19 mph? - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:52:48] <exec> 08└─I forget what it's called, but that mix of varying tones that start low and get higher in pitch as they fade away. The net effect is that it constantly sounds like it is getting higher and higher in pitch, without really changing much. Great for inducing anxiety...
[14:52:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score:2) 02Re:Despise that sound - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:52:59] <exec> 08└─So standard noises only. Ok, I'm going to get mine to make that clicky noise that means the pedestrian crossing is on "walk".
[14:53:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Here's India's chance - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:53:07] <exec> 08└─I guess there is a niche market for a car called The Mantra, which helps one meditate when stuck in traffic, perhaps... or it just does the chants for you in stop-and-go traffic.
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[15:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Shame on Russia - 06Russia Withdraws Rome Statute Signature Following ICC Crimea Report - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:08] <exec> 08└─Oh wait. Other notable "non members" include China and the United States of America. Why would Russia want to put its head in that particular noose?
[15:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:Shame on Russia - 06Russia Withdraws Rome Statute Signature Following ICC Crimea Report - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:09] <exec> 08└─At the time they initially signed it, they appear to have been hoping it was going to turn out, well, more efficient and less one-sided than it's turned out to be, and that in time others would join. Neither hope having been fulfilled, it's to be expected they're withdrawing their signature (as the...
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[15:45:11] <exec> 08└─Makes perfect sense, considering that "double standards" sort of defines the recent geopolitical climate.
[15:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:They mean absolute monarchy. - 06China Censors References to Kim Jong Un's Weight - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:22] <exec> 08└─You might grumble now, but you're only grumbling because you weren't born as Kim Jong Un. Face it - what choice does he actually have? He was born to a role and if he lets go of the tiger he loses his life. I don't feel sorry for the guy because I'm sure he lives very well, but in a sense he's just...
[15:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:They mean dictator. - 06China Censors References to Kim Jong Un's Weight - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:25] <exec> 08└─It makes perfect sense when you promote your ruling class to god-hood.
[15:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:fat shaming - 06China Censors References to Kim Jong Un's Weight - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:30] <exec> 08└─Not really: Kim Jong Un deserves some torture-and-execution shaming, but not fat shaming particularly.
[15:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score:2) 02In other words... - 06China Censors References to Kim Jong Un's Weight - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:33] <exec> 08└─Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.
[15:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score:1) 02Credit where credit is due... - 06Linux Close to Finalizing its Top 500 Domination - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:45] <exec> 08└─"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants"... It's not that Linux/Linus did not borrow (got inspired by) some ideas/concepts/code from those OS'es that it claims isn't :-) ("Linux Is Not UniX" and all that)
[15:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Credit where credit is due... - 06Linux Close to Finalizing its Top 500 Domination - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:48] <exec> 08└─Except that this is not the origin of the name. [wikipedia.org] Rather it' derived from "Linus" by replacing the last letter with "x" exactly because it is an Unix-like OS.
[15:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score:2) 02Re:um, nope - 06Facebook Discloses Additional Advertising Metric Miscalculations - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:59] <exec> 08└─I have one with a fake identity that I use every now and then with TOR, to acces Facebook pages of companies that are too fucking lazy to have their own websites. As for friends who would only use Facebook and that I couldn't stay in touch with any other way, I don't have any: being naturally like-m...
[15:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Apps! - 06How I Became a Cyborg and Joined an Underground Medical Movement - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:11] <exec> 08└─You are all cows. Cows say moo. MOOOOOOOOO! MOOOOOOOOO! Mooooo cows MOOOOOOO! Mooo say the cows. YOU APPY COWS!!
[15:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magneto [6410] (Score:1) 02Re:Magnetic finger implant - 06How I Became a Cyborg and Joined an Underground Medical Movement - 896 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:25] <exec> 08└─I had to go to a tattoo parlour. In the UK at the time there were only a few places doing it but from what I've heard there are now a number of places that will do it. It's actually in a legal grey area where it's somewhere between tattooing and surgery. Theoretically you need to be a surgeon to do...
[15:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Stardaemon [4294] (Score:1) 02Re:Magnetic finger implant - 06How I Became a Cyborg and Joined an Underground Medical Movement - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:26] <exec> 08└─Any idea how this would interact with an MR-scanner? Would you be nervous about having an MR-scan?
[15:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03number6x [903] (Score:2) 02Re:Magnetic finger implant - 06How I Became a Cyborg and Joined an Underground Medical Movement - 1352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:28] <exec> 08└─I have a Bone Anchored Hearing Aid (BAHA) [earassociates.com], to compensate for deafness in one ear due to Meniere's Disease. I would not consider it 'cybernetic' in any way. It involves a metal stud drilled into my skull bone to help transmit sound around my head. I would also not consider your m...
[15:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Obligatory XKCD - 06How I Became a Cyborg and Joined an Underground Medical Movement - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:31] <exec> 08└─I thought the obligatory XKCD for this discussion would have been 644: Surgery [xkcd.com]
[15:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magneto [6410] (Score:1) 02Re:Magnetic finger implant - 06How I Became a Cyborg and Joined an Underground Medical Movement - 666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:33] <exec> 08└─I can see your point. For me whether it is "cybernetic" or not isn't really the point. I can now feel things I couldn't before and to me that's what matters. You're partially right about sticking a magnet to the outside of your skin. That would work in a similar way and you would get similar sensati...
[15:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Fail - 06How I Became a Cyborg and Joined an Underground Medical Movement - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:36] <exec> 08└─Do merely cosmetic implants count towards being a cyborg now? --- a REAL cyborg.
[15:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hey - 06Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:47] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry, we cannot accept your dumbass post at this time. Please resubmit when you've figured out how to spell.
[15:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2) 02Re:decommodifcation of Linux through systemd - 06Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation - 1460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:47:11] <exec> 08└─As somebody who hasn't managed a Linux system since before systemd, I was naturally skeptical of all the anti-hype around it. If more people had taken the time to explain it as you have, perhaps I would have learned sooner what is the big problem. But I had to ask directly and have it explained to m...
[15:48:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02"Sexually explicit" language != attraction - 06The Mechanics of Mechanophilia: Why Men Find Siri Sexy - 1370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:12] <exec> 08└─If 5% of your interactions are "clearly sexually explicit," does that mean actual sexualized interactions, or does that include insults, swearing, nasty stupid things, etc. just said to the "virtual assistant"? I have no doubt that there are SOME people out there getting off while talking to Siri, j...
[15:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Dumbass sociologists - 06The Mechanics of Mechanophilia: Why Men Find Siri Sexy - 728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:14] <exec> 08└─The number one thing that people do with these things, and I mean everyone, is they test its boundaries to see how far the developers went. You cuss at it just to see what its reaction is. That doesn't mean that certain people have anger issues with these devices, it means they want to see how it wi...
[15:48:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Entitled - 06"Emotional Support Animals" Riding With Owners Aboard Commercial Airlines Flights - 704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:48:34] <exec> 08└─One restaurant I know of lost many of its customers after some dude pulled the 'its my service dog' act on them. Internet, papers, yelp, etc etc etc, the works. Turns out the dude does not have any papers, was not a disabled vet (which he claimed he was), and has pulled this stunt on many other rest...
[15:48:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Entitled - 06"Emotional Support Animals" Riding With Owners Aboard Commercial Airlines Flights - 737 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:48:36] <exec> 08└─Not really, some of us are very allergic to some types of animals. I used to break out in a rash if I came into contact with dogs, which was better than when I was around rabbits and my face would swell up and I'd have a hard time breathing because my throat was swelling shut. Also, that ignores the...
[15:48:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Entitled - 06"Emotional Support Animals" Riding With Owners Aboard Commercial Airlines Flights - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:48:38] <exec> 08└─Okay, now *those* are actual reasons. GP basically said "I have a dog phobia." I'm allergic to cats, but only the really sheddy ones so far. But there's not really such a thing as support cats I guess :) I still think the "we lost most of our customers due to a single incident" thing is petty on the...
[15:48:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Disagree - 06"Emotional Support Animals" Riding With Owners Aboard Commercial Airlines Flights - 992 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:48:42] <exec> 08└─I have to disagree. There is no reason to tolerate service animal fraud [thedailybeast.com]. The thing is: a genuine service animal is highly trained, and will not misbehave. Fake service animals [nbcbayarea.com], on the other hand, are owned by self-entitled twits, and are (pretty much by definitio...
[15:48:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Disgusting - 06"Emotional Support Animals" Riding With Owners Aboard Commercial Airlines Flights - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:45] <exec> 08└─And no, not that a few people cheat an important system. That happens regardless, get over it. What is disgusting is the attitude in these posts. "if they get nervous, they should stay home" "why do they need a dog, they look fine to me, screw em" "its all about their convenience" "they should ride...
[15:49:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03j-beda [6342] (Score:1) 02CRISPR-Cas9 A Cappella Science video - 06CRISPR Gene-Editing Tested in a Person for the First Time - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:00] <exec> 08└─Best "Mr. Sandman" rewrite: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] CRISPR-Cas9 Bring me a gene Encoding for a specific protein Make a few snips at this coded locus You work so well inside a streptococcus Cas9 I'm so alone Without your scissors in my chromosome Cut me up and do it...
[15:51:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Silver - 06Apple Releases Coffee Table Book.... for $300 - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:51:59] <exec> 08└─The term gilding covers a number of decorative techniques for applying fine gold leaf or powder to solid surfaces such as wood, stone, or metal to give a thin coating of gold. A gilded object is also described as "gilt". Where metal is gilded, it was traditionally silver in the West, to make silver-...
[15:53:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score:2) 02Re:skywalks - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:53:55] <exec> 08└─Tunnels are subject to flooding, and pedestrian/cyclist bridges are much cheaper per mile.
[15:53:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Popeidol [35] (Score:2) 02Re:I do not agree but I understand - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 1902 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:53:57] <exec> 08└─Both you and the parent are missing one key thing: You're now placing the personal freedom and life of an individual in the hands of a small, battery driven, electronic device. It's prone to failure, interference, and anything covered by insurance will be a separate unit and cost thousands. You're a...
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[16:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Meanwhile - 06Russia Withdraws Rome Statute Signature Following ICC Crimea Report - 1058 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:10] <exec> 08└─This did come up a few times during the Democratic primaries, but basically there isn't a great deal of news coverage about the US's non-participation in the ICC because it's an area where both major parties agree. And there are basically 2 real reasons why neither Democrats nor Republicans want to...
[16:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Meanwhile - 06Russia Withdraws Rome Statute Signature Following ICC Crimea Report - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:11] <exec> 08└─The US will no longer be making that claim, not without being laughed out of the room. The whole world, including the US, has turned fascist. There is no longer any place to turn. There is no hope. You are on your own. Good luck!
[16:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:They mean absolute monarchy. - 06China Censors References to Kim Jong Un's Weight - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:23] <exec> 08└─He could do what past African dictators have done when deposed and retire to a villa outside Paris. I'm sure Kim Jong Un has billions in a secret account somewhere.
[16:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:fat shaming - 06China Censors References to Kim Jong Un's Weight - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:29] <exec> 08└─Agreed. Anyone who feeds people to packs of ravenous dogs deserves a little more than fat shaming.
[16:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score:2) 02Re:金三胖 - 06China Censors References to Kim Jong Un's Weight - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:33] <exec> 08└─I have to admit, as a non-Chinese speaker, it sounds very much like Badly-built-house, Minus-sign-swallowed-by-an-equal-sign, Man-peeing-against-a-ladder-with-his-hands-up. Somehow the humorous side of it is a bit lost on me. But I'll try reading it again after a few beers, to see if it looks any fu...
[16:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03purple_cobra [1435] (Score:1) 02Re:In other words... - 06China Censors References to Kim Jong Un's Weight - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:37] <exec> 08└─I don't know if the Chinese have a tradition of Spoonerisms, but Cat Funt and Cat Fastard were the first two that came to mind. Maybe it doesn't work so well in written Chinese?
[16:45:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score:2) 02Re:In other words... - 06China Censors References to Kim Jong Un's Weight - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:39] <exec> 08└─Probably not other wise they would know about Mike Tyson and fighting buccaneers.
[16:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Document - 06China Censors References to Kim Jong Un's Weight - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:41] <exec> 08└─Mr. Trump demands Kim J. produce his girth certificate.
[16:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:2017 - 06Linux Close to Finalizing its Top 500 Domination - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:52] <exec> 08└─I believe, I want to believe, that Linux will power the desktop some day. It is quite remarkable that the same OS can run embedded boards with limp CPUs running at 200 MHz in Ks of memory and also on gigantic super-duper computers with multiple cores in gigabytes of memory, with GPUs and complicated...
[16:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:2017 - 06Linux Close to Finalizing its Top 500 Domination - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:54] <exec> 08└─Should you add the suffix: . . . on the desktop?
[16:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:2017 - 06Linux Close to Finalizing its Top 500 Domination - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:56] <exec> 08└─Well, in a sense we do have supercomputers on the desktop. A desktop PC of today can easily outperform a Cray X-MP.
[16:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Credit where credit is due... - 06Linux Close to Finalizing its Top 500 Domination - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:02] <exec> 08└─"If I have not seen as far as others using open source it is because I've had an abusive monopolist standing on my shoulders crushing me down."
[16:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02backronym time - 06Linux Close to Finalizing its Top 500 Domination - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:05] <exec> 08└─LINUX=Light, Inspiring. Nonplussed UX.
[16:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Lucky you. - 06Facebook Discloses Additional Advertising Metric Miscalculations - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:16] <exec> 08└─99 percent of my family/social circle is on Facebook. Out of the 1 percent that is not, only a few reliably socialize (and about half of those is whining.) Sadly as a non facebook user, it really lowers where you can go to socialize and meet people RL to hang out with, especially if you are avoiding...
[16:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02Re:Magnetic finger implant - 06How I Became a Cyborg and Joined an Underground Medical Movement - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:46] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I believe it would be ripped out of your finger in an instant, hopefully travelling away from the rest of your body. Even tiny pieces of non-magnetic ferric metal are dangerous in an MRI machine. They normally won't even let you do it if you're a metalworker for fear of tiny chips of steel tha...
[16:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03number6x [903] (Score:2) 02Re:Magnetic finger implant - 06How I Became a Cyborg and Joined an Underground Medical Movement - 2058 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:50] <exec> 08└─Yes, and the super glue would wear off now and then :) People with Meniere's disease in both ears often completely lose their sense of balance. Recently a device that is based on a set of accelerometers and two 'patches' attached to your skin has been tested for these people. The patches are about a...
[16:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Magnetic finger implant - 06How I Became a Cyborg and Joined an Underground Medical Movement - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:52] <exec> 08└─I'm hoping they'll develop some IOLs soon which will really be cybernetic, or at the very least will totally replace a normal lens and provide proper vision, both near and far-sighted and everything in-between. But even better would be if it overlaid your vision and provided additional data, like th...
[16:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Magnetic finger implant - 06How I Became a Cyborg and Joined an Underground Medical Movement - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:54] <exec> 08└─I think that would drive me crazy; I'm a CNC machinist.
[16:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Spectacles/eye correction - 06How I Became a Cyborg and Joined an Underground Medical Movement - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:57] <exec> 08└─I'm waaaay more cyborged than that: Spectacles, watch (dumbwatch, tells time only), ring and two pieces of hi-tech mesh holding my guts in place.
[16:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Linux! - 06Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:20] <exec> 08└─A snake, a snake, oh it's a snake.
[16:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02what's taking them so long? - 06Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:28] <exec> 08└─> Have you been following Microsoft at all? Basically all they do these days is follow the lead of other people, Yes, I have. That's all they've been doing for 5 years, and they have yet to get step #2. And for the last 25 years they've failed to get to #2 with Linux. So I ask again what's taking th...
[16:47:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03canopic jug [3949] 02Will LF rein in its misbehaving member? - 06Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation - 1088 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:38] <exec> 08└─Will the Linux Foundation rein in its misbehaving member when it acts out? Or will M$ abuse its budget and position on the LF board to normalize its attacks? It looks more like the latter. It looks like this is just an inexpensive PR campaign by M$ to get the public and regulators to let their guard...
[16:47:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Well, don't make it so tempting and I won't. - 06Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:42] <exec> 08└─Microsoft's increasing commitment to open source has been met with some cynicism (and please, beloved commenters—try to refrain from "embrace, extend, extinguish" posts, as the very concept is preposterous when it comes to Linux), but with projects such as Visual Studio Code and .NET, is starting...
[16:48:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02it separates them from the “bad” women - 06The Mechanics of Mechanophilia: Why Men Find Siri Sexy - 1602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:48:30] <exec> 08└─> Doesn't explain the female-side of misogyny though. Male dominance actually requires a pretty delicate balance. If men want to maintain the control over women they’ve enjoyed for thousands of years, and continue their species, and satisfy their desires for heterosexual love and companionship, th...
[16:48:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:it separates them from the “bad” women - 06The Mechanics of Mechanophilia: Why Men Find Siri Sexy - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:48:31] <exec> 08└─If men want to maintain the control over women they’ve enjoyed for thousands of years, and continue their species, and satisfy their desires for heterosexual love and companionship, they can’t just use brute force.
[16:48:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:SSF - 06"Emotional Support Animals" Riding With Owners Aboard Commercial Airlines Flights - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:48:57] <exec> 08└─but the PTSD dog trained to react to your anxiousness or the autism dog trained to prevent wondering is. Why on earth would you want to prevent autistic people from wondering about things? What's wrong with that? Next thing you know, we're all going to be required to have implants to prevent us from...
[16:49:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Entitled - 06"Emotional Support Animals" Riding With Owners Aboard Commercial Airlines Flights - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:49:07] <exec> 08└─All 'allergies' are psychosomatic. It's a bullshit nervous reaction caused by irrational fear. Just stay home and eat your can of beans in front of the TV, if you're not 'allergic' to electricity...
[16:49:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Entitled - 06"Emotional Support Animals" Riding With Owners Aboard Commercial Airlines Flights - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:49:09] <exec> 08└─I guess you've never heard of the immune system. Also, keep in mind that just because something is psychosomatic, it doesn't mean there isn't a real effect. Seasickness is entirely psychosomatic as with the body's rejection response to food it perceives as poison.
[16:49:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Entitled - 06"Emotional Support Animals" Riding With Owners Aboard Commercial Airlines Flights - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:49:11] <exec> 08└─[...] get free food.[...] fined for trying to steal food. [...] he wanted a free lunch [...]
[16:49:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Disagree - 06"Emotional Support Animals" Riding With Owners Aboard Commercial Airlines Flights - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:49:16] <exec> 08└─While I agree with your disgust of people who pretend to have a disability in order to get special treatment, the ADA (if you're in the US) does not allow businesses to ask for documentation. Businesses can, at least, ask people to remove their animal if it is out of control. https://www.ada.gov
[16:49:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02you've disproven your own thesis - 06"Emotional Support Animals" Riding With Owners Aboard Commercial Airlines Flights - 763 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:49:19] <exec> 08└─> I have to disagree. There is no reason to tolerate service animal fraud. That approach inevitably means that some deserving people will be denied. What you are saying is that it is more important to you to punish frauds than to help people who genuinely need help. No amount of sophistry will chan...
[16:49:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Disgusting - 06"Emotional Support Animals" Riding With Owners Aboard Commercial Airlines Flights - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:49:23] <exec> 08└─What is disgusting is the attitude in these posts
[16:49:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:1) 02Re:Disgusting - 06"Emotional Support Animals" Riding With Owners Aboard Commercial Airlines Flights - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:49:25] <exec> 08└─I see congruence: made-up quote: "if they get nervous, they should stay home" actual quote: It's a bullshit nervous reaction caused by irrational fear. Just stay home [...] made-up quote: "they should ride in cargo with their dog" actual quote: Entitled, brats that take advantage of the system shoul...
[16:49:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Biomedical duel? Fat chance - 06CRISPR Gene-Editing Tested in a Person for the First Time - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:42] <exec> 08└─It'll be an easy win for China, since it won't have all the regulatory overhead that the US has, and an FDA which takes decades to approve things.
[16:52:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:Only "special" paper? - 06Apple Releases Coffee Table Book.... for $300 - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:52:13] <exec> 08└─I just took apart a Chromebook recently, that's exactly how they're built. A single board and a battery. Apple is charging how many thousands of dollars for the same build quality as a $100 piece of scrap?
[16:54:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:I do not agree but I understand - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:54:39] <exec> 08└─People don't know they are entering roadways if they are busy looking at FaceTwit on their phone while walking.
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[17:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:3, Informative) 02Duke Nukem analogies "stretch" the truth - 06Debian Has Entered "Transition Freeze" for Squeeze - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:09] <exec> 08└─from the Duke-Nukem-Forever-of-operating-systems dept.
[17:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Re:Duke Nukem analogies "stretch" the truth - 06Debian Has Entered "Transition Freeze" for Squeeze - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:11] <exec> 08└─For that matter, I am running Debian Stretch armhf [debian.org]--running a LAMP stack and the LXDE desktop--on an A20 Arm-processor based Olimex Lime2 single board computer [olimex.com], and have been for a while. I upgraded the little Arm machine just as described above, by updating /etc/apt/source...
[17:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Does anyone care anymore? - 06Debian Has Entered "Transition Freeze" for Squeeze - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:13] <exec> 08└─Between systemd and dropping formerly supported arches, who is really focusing on debian anymore? If you don't like systemd you're on devuan. If you need quick and easy installation and lots of packages you're on ubuntu (which yes debian is used as a basis for, although I am not sure how much anymor...
[17:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score:2) 02Re:Does anyone care anymore? - 06Debian Has Entered "Transition Freeze" for Squeeze - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:15] <exec> 08└─> If you don't like systemd you're on devuan. If you need quick and easy installation and lots of packages you're on ubuntu And both draw heavily on Debian, neither are a pure fork, and rely on the core for stuff. Ubuntu less so than Devuan, but I know for a fact Ubuntu still tracks and uses Debian...
[17:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03krait6 [5170] (Score:1) 02Re:Does anyone care anymore? [I do] - 06Debian Has Entered "Transition Freeze" for Squeeze - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:17] <exec> 08└─Between systemd and dropping formerly supported arches, who is really focusing on debian anymore?
[17:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score:2) 02Obligatory: - 06Debian Has Entered "Transition Freeze" for Squeeze - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:19] <exec> 08└─It's a squeeze freeze!
[17:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Shame on Russia - 06Russia Withdraws Rome Statute Signature Following ICC Crimea Report - 934 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:29] <exec> 08└─"double standards" and "hypocrisy" are part of geopolitics, I don't think it is a recent addition. Even if you look at history, one side is lambasted for doing the exact same thing another side was praised for. One secession movement is "self determination trumps sovereignty, so will of the people w...
[17:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Philippines - 06Russia Withdraws Rome Statute Signature Following ICC Crimea Report - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:34] <exec> 08└─The president of the Philippines said his country may follow suit. http://www.nytimes.com [nytimes.com]
[17:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02As should every other sovereign nation. - 06Russia Withdraws Rome Statute Signature Following ICC Crimea Report - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:36] <exec> 08└─Its BS and the Ruskies know it. Good for them.
[17:45:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They mean absolute monarchy. - 06China Censors References to Kim Jong Un's Weight - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:48] <exec> 08└─Well if he successfully gets off the tiger and runs to Paris, the tiger or wars over who gets to ride it might still kill plenty of North Koreans. That's how it normally works doesn't it? Just look at the results of the USA toppling/killing dictators (a number that they installed in the first place)...
[17:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:In other words... - 06China Censors References to Kim Jong Un's Weight - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:01] <exec> 08└─Not in terms of reversing syllables, no, but Putonghua (Mandarin) has four main tones, and it's common to get around censorship by switching characters in a censored phrase for others that have the same phonemes but different tones. "(Wo) t'sao ni ma" with a certain set of tones is "I fuck(ed) your...
[17:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:2017 - 06Linux Close to Finalizing its Top 500 Domination - 767 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:15] <exec> 08└─I LAUGH at your big round Cray-1 super computer that can do up to 60 MFlops at 80 MHz for $8.86 Million (in 1976 dollars, about $31 mil today's dollars). (BYTE 1978-July [archive.org], pg 94, and Wikipedia Cray-1) A modern desktop main processor can do over 100 GFlops. If you use the GPU, then over...
[17:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:backronym time - 06Linux Close to Finalizing its Top 500 Domination - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:23] <exec> 08└─A common myth about Linux being unfriendly is that those familiar with Linux are not very friendly or helpful to uninformed idiot morons just starting to use Linux.
[17:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02MAGA! - 06Linux Close to Finalizing its Top 500 Domination - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:26] <exec> 08└─First China becomes number #1 in renewable energy. [weforum.org] And now they are going to be #1 in supercomputing. Don't worry, Trump will fix it. Because he is the best at supercomputing, supercomputing is going to huge when he is president, he's going to compute so hard your head will be spinning...
[17:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Not Gandhi - 06Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:47:40] <exec> 08└─Just as IBM was disrupted by microcomputers, Microsoft's desktop monopoly is disrupted by cheap hardware, Android, Tablets, Phones, Etc. Chromebooks have been the top selling laptops on Amazon for several years now. PC sales have been declining for a few years now. As PC sales decline, so does Micro...
[17:47:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02Re:You really think that? - 06Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation - 648 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:47:47] <exec> 08└─I, also, am forced to disagree. MS doesn't have to crush Linux, if they can only influence the navigation. As a platinum member, they have influence. Since they have very deep pockets, they have the means to extend their influence. There's no need to crush Linux, if they can sweet talk Linux into do...
[17:47:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score:2) 02Re:You really think that? - 06Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:47:51] <exec> 08└─"They could make other systems have as much trouble as non-systemd ones do today."
[17:47:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AudioGuy [24] 02"concept is preposterous when it comes to Linux" - 06Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation - 17 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:54] <exec> 08└─One word: systemd
[17:47:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03meustrus [4961] 02Re:decommodifcation of Linux through systemd - 06Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation - 1460 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:47:57] <exec> 08└─As somebody who hasn't managed a Linux system since before systemd, I was naturally skeptical of all the anti-hype around it. If more people had taken the time to explain it as you have, perhaps I would have learned sooner what is the big problem. But I had to ask directly and have it explained to m...
[17:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Time to start brushing up on your *BSD... - 06Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:03] <exec> 08└─Between this and systemd it may be a good idea to start learning now {Free,Net,Open}BSD work. Good thing I've been noodling around with FBSD a while; I really like it, it's like Gentoo from a parallel universe. ...one where they have some frickin' prebuilt binaries.
[17:48:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:it separates them from the “bad” women - 06The Mechanics of Mechanophilia: Why Men Find Siri Sexy - 686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:48:52] <exec> 08└─> Except every single woman, even the slutty and mouthy ones, were saved before the men on the Titanic. Your post is so much random self-justification, but that last one takes the cake. For one, it isn't even true. And two extrapolating from a single event under extreme circumstances when people's d...
[17:48:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:it separates them from the “bad” women - 06The Mechanics of Mechanophilia: Why Men Find Siri Sexy - 1222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:48:53] <exec> 08└─From wiki, Women and children first- The phrase was popularised by its usage on the RMS Titanic.[10][page needed] The Second Officer suggested to Captain Smith, "Hadn't we better get the women and children into the boats, sir?", to which the captain responded: "women and children in and lower away"...
[17:48:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02you can't even get your red herrings right - 06The Mechanics of Mechanophilia: Why Men Find Siri Sexy - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:48:55] <exec> 08└─>>> Except every single woman, even the slutty and mouthy ones, were saved > > 74% of the women and 52% of the children on board were saved In red pill land 74% is equal to 100% You are so strung out on misogyny that you can't even get your red herrings right.
[17:48:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:it separates them from the “bad” women - 06The Mechanics of Mechanophilia: Why Men Find Siri Sexy - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:48:58] <exec> 08└─Aaaaaaaand here's reason number...shit, what was it...2,664,986, I think? That I'm glad to be a lesbian. Ye flipping GODS.
[17:49:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03an Anonymous Coward [2620] (Score:1) 02Re:Why "Men" find Siri sexy? - 06The Mechanics of Mechanophilia: Why Men Find Siri Sexy - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:49:01] <exec> 08└─Because, borderlines can't distinguish between simple assertiveness, enforcement of personal boundaries, and outright hatred, in this case of women.
[17:49:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Entitled - 06"Emotional Support Animals" Riding With Owners Aboard Commercial Airlines Flights - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:49:31] <exec> 08└─The immune system is also psychologically controlled. It's all in your head. Calm down and live longer
[17:49:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hawkwind [3531] (Score:2) 02Re:Entitled - 06"Emotional Support Animals" Riding With Owners Aboard Commercial Airlines Flights - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:49:34] <exec> 08└─Wait for AC to provide a citation of this incident. Although AC is probably just trolling/having a bit of fun The internet is a great place however it can be used to create fake outrage.
[17:49:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Disgusting - 06"Emotional Support Animals" Riding With Owners Aboard Commercial Airlines Flights - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:49:44] <exec> 08└─The "bullshit nervous reaction" was about allergies and made after the initial post and the cargo quote was speciffically about frauds - not everyone with a service animal. As for the others, I didn't see them. Paraphrasing is fine, but mis-quoting or quoting posts that don't exist is not.
[17:51:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02Ideology warning! - 06Zap to the Head Leads to Fat Loss - 1243 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:30] <exec> 08└─I'm going to talk about one of the internet's single most hated subjects: that being fat or thin isn't entirely down to personal discipline. +0 Disagree(x400) -1 Troll. It's absolutely 100% true that you cannot help but lose weight if your calories in are less than your BMR+exercise calories. So no...
[17:55:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score:2) 02Re:I do not agree but I understand - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:55:01] <exec> 08└─You're now placing the personal freedom and life of an individual in the hands of a small, battery driven, electronic device. It's prone to failure, interference, and anything covered by insurance will be a separate unit and cost thousands.
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[18:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:4, Interesting) 02You see fucking plenty of it here. - 06'Post-Truth' Declared Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:16] <exec> 08└─On this site. With its smallish userbase, educated audience, and modestly diverse viewpoints. People will cite crazy, off-the-wall sources, or, more often regurgitate something they got from one of those sources, as fact. Probably less now that the election is over, but the democratization of knowle...
[18:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:You see fucking plenty of it here. - 06'Post-Truth' Declared Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:18] <exec> 08└─It has the aire of, um, "untruthiness". Double Plus Ungood. One star. Would not alphabetize again. http://www.brietbart.com [brietbart.com]
[18:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score:2) 02Re:You see fucking plenty of it here. - 06'Post-Truth' Declared Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:20] <exec> 08└─Are you suggesting that at one time politics was based on fact?
[18:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:You see fucking plenty of it here. - 06'Post-Truth' Declared Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:22] <exec> 08└─Once upon a time, a politician would resign if found to have lied outright ... in England or Japan.
[18:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You see fucking plenty of it here. - 06'Post-Truth' Declared Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:24] <exec> 08└─Hey, how are Chloe and Ryan doin'?
[18:45:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You see fucking plenty of it here. - 06'Post-Truth' Declared Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:27] <exec> 08└─As a rule of thumb, the occurrence of the word 'fuck' in a post (except when quoting another post; a non-ambiguous reference to a sex act; or in an meta-reference, as in *this* post) is a red flag indicating the likelihood of a low quality post. More than one occurrence is practically a guarantee of...
[18:45:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:You see fucking plenty of it here. - 06'Post-Truth' Declared Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries - 1881 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:29] <exec> 08└─Yea, that is the root of it. Once people noticed that journalism was not just dead, it was reanimated as a zombie in the service of evil, they realized they not only have been lied to their whole lives, they realize they have to question everything and search out knowledge on their own. That is hard...
[18:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02On Pacifica Radio Wednesday - 06'Post-Truth' Declared Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:31] <exec> 08└─I heard UCI History professor Jon Weiner and widely-published smart guy John Nichols talking about "Post-truth" on Jon's KPFK program November 16 [1] [kpfk.org] Programs stay in the Archive's queue for 60 days. [1] Way back at the start, they spelled Jon's name wrong and never corrected that. -- Ori...
[18:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02dishonest phrase - 06'Post-Truth' Declared Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:33] <exec> 08└─The prefix "post" implies that there was a past era of "truth". That past era never existed. And notice how post-truth gets overused by certain ideological factions that never had an interest in truth before. They were post-truth before it became hip.
[18:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score:2) 02Trust? It's gone. - 06'Post-Truth' Declared Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries - 2142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:35] <exec> 08└─The populace doesn't buy almost anything spouted by the propaganda machines for the government before. Did I say propaganda machines? I meant the mainstream media. This is a grave they dug themselves by continually and willfully manipulating polls, numbers, and going far beyond bias to outright prop...
[18:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Trust? It's gone. - 06'Post-Truth' Declared Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:37] <exec> 08└─First, stop lying. Why would they? The US public just clearly demonstrated that they don't care if you provably and repeatedly lie to their face.
[18:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03krait6 [5170] (Score:1) 02Re:Does anyone care anymore? - 06Debian Has Entered "Transition Freeze" for Squeeze - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:49] <exec> 08└─Much as I may lambaste them for their recent moves into systemD and other stuff, you cannot deny they are still quite important.
[18:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Re:Does anyone care anymore? - 06Debian Has Entered "Transition Freeze" for Squeeze - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:51] <exec> 08└─Between systemd and dropping formerly supported arches, who is really focusing on debian anymore?
[18:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Debian? - 06Debian Has Entered "Transition Freeze" for Squeeze - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:55] <exec> 08└─Oh ya, one of the distributions that jumped the ship and went sysD and is no longer linux, but some bastardized version of windows. *yawn*
[18:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Waiting for kernel 4.9 to release and declare LTS. - 06Debian Has Entered "Transition Freeze" for Squeeze - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:57] <exec> 08└─when it's ready
[18:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Shame on Russia - 06Russia Withdraws Rome Statute Signature Following ICC Crimea Report - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:09] <exec> 08└─one side is lambasted for doing the exact same thing another side was praised for. One secession movement is "self determination trumps sovereignty, so will of the people wins" (Kosovo done by NATO) while another is "illegal violation of sacred sovereignty" (Crimea done by Russia)
[18:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Shame on Russia - 06Russia Withdraws Rome Statute Signature Following ICC Crimea Report - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:10] <exec> 08└─Exactly. According to TFA: The action was largely symbolic, because Russia — like the United States — has not ratified the treaty and is not under the court’s jurisdiction So no change here, and no news either. And Elvis is still dead.
[18:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:As should every other sovereign nation. - 06Russia Withdraws Rome Statute Signature Following ICC Crimea Report - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:17] <exec> 08└─Some people were in school long enough to learn what happened when every country did a "me first" after the 1929 crisis. The ones who lived it tried to build a more interconnected world, with more rules and inter-dependencies, to avoid a repeat. It's extremely far from perfect, but seeing populists...
[18:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Document - 06China Censors References to Kim Jong Un's Weight - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:45] <exec> 08└─Mr Trump is too busy calling Mr Kim to ask him for cost estimates on a DMZ.
[18:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Famous singer - 06China Censors References to Kim Jong Un's Weight - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:46] <exec> 08└─Haven't the Chinese heard of the Streisand effect?? Oh wait, that only works when you don't get tossed into prison for it...
[18:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:2) 02Supercomputer in your pocket; old TOP500 lists? - 06Linux Close to Finalizing its Top 500 Domination - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:09] <exec> 08└─I've been following the TOP500 list from its inception, and was dismayed a while back when I could not retrieve any of the earliest lists. Does anyone have links on where they might be found? I suspect we have reached the point where one's smartphone has more 'computes' than some of the systems on...
[18:47:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Social Marketing - 06Facebook Discloses Additional Advertising Metric Miscalculations - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:18] <exec> 08└─Been over this already. You're the consumer. Your private life is the product. The customer is anyone who has money to buy your info.
[18:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:Lucky you. - 06Facebook Discloses Additional Advertising Metric Miscalculations - 1149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:24] <exec> 08└─> 99 percent of my family/social circle is on Facebook I was pushed onto Facebook. I sure didn't leap at the "opportunity" to have my very own Facebook account. Some of the pushing came from employers. One felt that as a social media company, it would be embarrassing if they didn't have a strong pre...
[18:47:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Re:Obligatory XKCD - 06How I Became a Cyborg and Joined an Underground Medical Movement - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:56] <exec> 08└─I thought the obligatory XKCD for this discussion would have been 644: Surgery [xkcd.com]
[18:48:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Re:what's taking them so long? - 06Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:48:36] <exec> 08└─So I ask again what's taking them so long?
[18:48:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score:2) 02Re:You really think that? - 06Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:48:39] <exec> 08└─Linux having the fate of Firefox? I shudder at the thought...
[18:48:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02Re:You really think that? - 06Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation - 812 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:48:44] <exec> 08└─I don't think they're going for Embrace-Extend-Extinguish here. I think they're going for a different strategy, which I'm going to call Stupify-Sabotage-Sink. It works something like this: Stupify - Throw previously unseen sums of money at open-source developers and organizations, so they'll give yo...
[18:48:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03canopic jug [3949] 02decommodifcation of Linux through systemd - 06Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation - 17 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:48:47] <exec> 08└─One word: systemd
[18:48:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:"concept is preposterous when it comes to Linux - 06Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation - 1073 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:48:50] <exec> 08└─The interesting thing about systemd is WHO is behind the takeover, not that one is underway. The prime actors all work for Red Hat but we also know several long established "Open Source" developers are plants from Microsoft. They just happen to adore Microsoft tech for it's "obvious superiority" and...
[18:48:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02"Linux foundation" hah - 06Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation - 392 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:53] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the warning, next time I see that name I'll remember not to believe it. "Microsoft's increasing commitment to open source has been met with some cynicism (and please, beloved commenters—try to refrain from "embrace, extend, extinguish" posts, as the very concept is preposterous when it...
[18:48:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Linux foundation" hah - 06Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:48:55] <exec> 08└─yep. all these slaveware peddling whores are now posing as open source tech writers now that they have no choice. so now we get these stories that act like they are supporters of foss or foss users/gurus when in fact it's just a thinly veiled hit piece or an article designed to sabotage. hopefully g...
[18:49:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:it separates them from the “bad” women - 06The Mechanics of Mechanophilia: Why Men Find Siri Sexy - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:49:53] <exec> 08└─And now we have a second theory. I wonder if it came from the same AC as the first?
[18:50:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:1) 02Re:alregies - 06"Emotional Support Animals" Riding With Owners Aboard Commercial Airlines Flights - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:50:31] <exec> 08└─If that is true, then how was I able to detect the presence of a cat within about 30 minutes of entering an new space without seeing, hearing, smelling or touching it? Holding an opinion with conviction does not make it true.
[18:50:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Disgusting - 06"Emotional Support Animals" Riding With Owners Aboard Commercial Airlines Flights - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:50:44] <exec> 08└─It wasn't the same person. And YOU should ride in the cargo hold. With the door open. Prick.
[18:50:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The ADA's Position - 06"Emotional Support Animals" Riding With Owners Aboard Commercial Airlines Flights - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:50:46] <exec> 08└─That's good information to know. Of course those who are resourceful (and smarmy) enough to do this are also probably going to learn about these question quickly, so have some easy stock answers at hand. Still, every little bit helps. If nothing else, having these animals on a leash will be somethin...
[18:51:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:Amazing - 06The Zombie Apocalypse Thwarted? - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:51:53] <exec> 08└─Not sure what kind of exposure you are talking about. But the canadian military did cold weather exposure research on volunteers (I suspect some were volun-told). I suspect you were referring to chemical exposure though.
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[19:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score:2) 02Re:You see fucking plenty of it here. - 06'Post-Truth' Declared Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:15] <exec> 08└─That doesn't mean they were put into that place for other than emotion. Didn't they used to kill themselves in Japan for failure?
[19:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You see fucking plenty of it here. - 06'Post-Truth' Declared Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:19] <exec> 08└─As a rule of thumb, the occurrence of the word [insert word here] in a post (except when quoting another post or in an meta-reference, as in *this* post) is a red flag indicating the likelihood of a low quality post. More than one occurrence is practically a guarantee of low quality.
[19:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You see fucking plenty of it here. - 06'Post-Truth' Declared Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:22] <exec> 08└─In other words, even though your guy won, you're still angry. Really angry.
[19:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:You see fucking plenty of it here. - 06'Post-Truth' Declared Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries - 1545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:24] <exec> 08└─Trump winning was not the victory. Trump was the sign that we have chosen to die fighting rather than die in apathy. Of course the odds said Trump couldn't be nominated and most certainly would be destroyed, along with the entire down ticket Republican Party if he somehow were nominated. Which prove...
[19:45:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Confession of Character - 06'Post-Truth' Declared Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:26] <exec> 08└─Man, I don't think you could have demonstrated your membership in the post-truth world any better than if you had deliberately set out to. Citing ((vox day))) as an authority on anything other than wanking tops the cake!
[19:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:dishonest phrase - 06'Post-Truth' Declared Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:30] <exec> 08└─Au contraire, in this instance "truth" is more synonimous with power, and post-truth is more a description of the waning power structures of certain ideological groups. ESPECIALLY with regards to making emotional appeals, you don't need to look much further than the rape hysteria stories that have b...
[19:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Trust? It's gone. - 06'Post-Truth' Declared Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:35] <exec> 08└─Did I say propaganda machines? I meant the mainstream media. ... First, stop lying.
[19:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Trust? It's gone. - 06'Post-Truth' Declared Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:37] <exec> 08└─Right. Go back to your alt-right "truthiness" sites.
[19:45:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02I'm post-rant. - 06'Post-Truth' Declared Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:39] <exec> 08└─The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.
[19:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'm post-rant. - 06'Post-Truth' Declared Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:41] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile, I'm post theological. Have been ever since I read this fine article: https://thehumanist.com [thehumanist.com] There are other articles, but this one might have been first(??)
[19:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Uncle_Al [1108] (Score:2) 02Post-Truth - 06'Post-Truth' Declared Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:43] <exec> 08└─For a Post-Modern hipster world Reality Distortion Field... ENGAGE!
[19:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Hey! - 06'Post-Truth' Declared Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:45] <exec> 08└─That's two words!
[19:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score:2) 02"post-truth politics" - 06'Post-Truth' Declared Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:48] <exec> 08└─"post-truth politics" For those who missed the second world war... ...or believed the nice german bloke with the neat 'tache
[19:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02Re:Duke Nukem analogies "stretch" the truth - 06Debian Has Entered "Transition Freeze" for Squeeze - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:59] <exec> 08└─It gets worse. Duke Nukem Forever was released five years ago. To continue to use it as a metaphor for vaporware or protracted development simply makes you look like an old out-of-touch idiot who stopped following the news ten years ago and who's still waiting forever for Duke Forever. Which is, of...
[19:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:Does anyone care anymore? - 06Debian Has Entered "Transition Freeze" for Squeeze - 838 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:06] <exec> 08└─I've commented on Devuan on several other threads, but basically my experience with the dev team (which admitly was when they were first getting started) was that we're going to do it "our own way" and bit the head off those who tried to copy the Debian infrastructure. I've taken a look since then a...
[19:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Re:Does anyone care anymore? - 06Debian Has Entered "Transition Freeze" for Squeeze - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:08] <exec> 08└─I am happy to see that Debian at least can be extracted from systemd, though who can tell how long that will actually stay working
[19:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score:2) 02Give his diet some time. - 06China Censors References to Kim Jong Un's Weight - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:58] <exec> 08└─Its a five year plan.
[19:47:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Supercomputer in your pocket; old TOP500 lists? - 06Linux Close to Finalizing its Top 500 Domination - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:47:24] <exec> 08└─Yes. People have more processing power in their pocket than it took to send man to the moon. They use it to fill their world with cats and dicks.
[19:47:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:um, nope - 06Facebook Discloses Additional Advertising Metric Miscalculations - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:47:39] <exec> 08└─Is anyone here young enough to have a facebook account.?
[19:48:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:what's taking them so long? - 06Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:48:50] <exec> 08└─I think you are overly optimistic. After all, IBM still throws its weight around quite successfully, just not an unthinkingly as it used to. And mainframes are quite rare compared to desktops...though, of course, lots more expensive. If analogies play out, MS will still be throwing its weight around...
[19:50:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:alregies - 06"Emotional Support Animals" Riding With Owners Aboard Commercial Airlines Flights - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:50:38] <exec> 08└─If that is true, then how was I able to detect the presence of a cat within about 30 minutes of entering an new space without seeing, hearing, smelling or touching it? You don't. It's subconscious. You actually are 'smelling' it. The dander is in the air, and your psyche reacts. Otherwise you would...
[19:50:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Entitled - 06"Emotional Support Animals" Riding With Owners Aboard Commercial Airlines Flights - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:50:41] <exec> 08└─He probably turns it into a "Gimme the meal free or I make a fuss about your questions about my dog" situation. People who pull this kind of thing are just like a guy locally in a wheelchair. He went door to door from business to business, marked down every minor ADA non-compliance he could find, th...
[19:50:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score:2) 02Re:Me, Meee, MEEEEE - 06"Emotional Support Animals" Riding With Owners Aboard Commercial Airlines Flights - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:50:49] <exec> 08└─Are you talking about service animals in the US, or children? I can't tell.
[19:50:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Certification needed - 06"Emotional Support Animals" Riding With Owners Aboard Commercial Airlines Flights - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:59] <exec> 08└─It is sickening that there are some that take advantage of systems put in place to help the disabled and mentally ill. Looks like what is needed is some form of certification to prove that it is a service animal, and not just a pet of someone faking symptoms out of selfishness or love for the pet. A...
[19:53:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score:2) 02Re:Correlation reminder - 06Global Carbon Growth Stalls as US Coal Continues to Slump - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:53:23] <exec> 08└─Sure, statistically insignificant.
[19:56:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Despise that sound - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:56:04] <exec> 08└─Some construction vehicles actually use intermittent white noise instead of beeps, as a warning sound when reversing. Because it's still noticeable but not as annoying. This is great if there's a multi-year construction project going on in your street. Example: https://www.youtube.com
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[20:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's the offer? - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:08] <exec> 08└─First past the post is the real problem. We need a decent voting system like range voting so that we can truly democratically elect representatives. The existence of something like the electoral college is not necessarily a problem. Just getting rid of the electoral college with solve nothing, but t...
[20:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the offer? - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:09] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?sid=16557&cid=428316#commentwrap [soylentnews.org] Nice, we posted that within in a minute of each other.
[20:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02one-man one-vote - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:11] <exec> 08└─> And why is the popular vote more important than getting rid of first past the post? Do we believe in the principle of one-man one-vote or not? Because if we do not, then go ahead, keep it so that some votes count more than other votes. Funny thing about the electoral college, if it is such a great...
[20:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:one-man one-vote - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:13] <exec> 08└─Do we believe in the principle of one-man one-vote or not?
[20:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02non-sequitur - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:16] <exec> 08└─That's a non-sequitur. Congress is representative, but the electoral college isn't. State electors don't ever make their own decisions, they just vote whatever the popular vote results were. Technically they could vote however they felt like, though in about half the states that would be illegal an...
[20:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score:2) 02Re:Context - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 840 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:19] <exec> 08└─I mostly agree, though I hold out hope it might be possible to eliminate the Electoral College at some point in the near future. This is absolutely not the time for it. We went into this election with a set of rules; it's inappropriate and juvenile to try and change them at this time. Any changes ar...
[20:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Context - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:21] <exec> 08└─What we need is proportional voting or multiplicity voting,
[20:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Context - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:23] <exec> 08└─Ranked-choice and approval voting are superior and require no elimination of the Electoral College since they produce a single winner. They do however favor third parties and will be forever opposed by the two party establishment.
[20:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02why even have electors - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:25] <exec> 08└─This is absolutely not the time for it. We went into this election with a set of rules; it's inappropriate and juvenile to try and change them at this time. Any changes are only possible moving forward.
[20:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Context - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:27] <exec> 08└─If in 2016 California had double or triple its current population, that would do nothing to change the 2016 Presidential results.
[20:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Let's end States instead - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:32] <exec> 08└─I guess that depends on where you live. Around here in rural flyover country, the US flag always flies with the state flag (with literally one exception I can think of), but it isn't uncommon to see people just fly the state flag, around 5% of the time it is by itself.
[20:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Let's end States instead - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:34] <exec> 08└─And the other 95% of people fly the Confederate Flag by itself.
[20:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Let's end States instead - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:36] <exec> 08└─Been to Texas at all? I hear Texan more than American, there are a lot of Texas flags flown without US flags and there are seriously a lot of people that want to succeed, although that might not be as strong with Trump as president compared to Obama.
[20:45:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Own Party threw her under the bus. - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 1782 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:39] <exec> 08└─We have a method for changing the rules. https://www.law.cornell.edu [cornell.edu] Passing a law does nothing and should get you a 0-9 from the supreme court. If it passed at all. Anyone who thinks getting rid of the current system and just putting first past the post is a good...
[20:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Own Party threw her under the bus. - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:41] <exec> 08└─Don't forget that one party solicited aid from foreign entities to swing the results their way.
[20:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:oh, *now* the electoral college is unfair... - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:44] <exec> 08└─No look, here's an article from 2012 saying the same thing [usatoday.com] and 2008 [google.com] and 2000 [cbsnews.com] and pretty consistently the reasons have been the same. The fact that you don't want to admit that it fucked the country over this time is more central to the debate.
[20:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Its just been complacency. - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:47] <exec> 08└─> but NOW it is an abomination... *snicker* wonder why that is... You want to make it about losing the election, and sure that's the obvious catalyst but the democrats have never won the electoral and lost the popular vote, so their previous lack of action has not been particularly self-serving. Its...
[20:45:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Boxer makes it easy to take a position - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:49] <exec> 08└─She's an idiot. I don't think she's ever had a bill passed in the 20+ years she's been in congress. One thing though, whatever position she takes on an issue I don't need to learn up on that issue. I just take the opposite position and I'm right 95% of the time.
[20:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Boxer makes it easy to take a position - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:51] <exec> 08└─And this is one major reason I hate politics and political parties. No one gives a shit about actually thinking for themselves, they just want to fight the "other guy". Why is it "them vs us" and not "whats best for the people"?
[20:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Boxer makes it easy to take a position - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:53] <exec> 08└─Plus, she is from the state best known to only be able to function by ballot initiative.
[20:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Boxer is an idiot - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:55] <exec> 08└─And an asshole. And that's coming from someone who voted for Obama and against Trump.
[20:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score:2) 02Replace the whole thing with direct democracy - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:57] <exec> 08└─Like the Swiss. Referendum instead of psychopathic, egomaniac, bought politicians. If the founding fathers were alive today the first thing they would do is get rid of elected representatives. Jefferson: "What are you people doing?! We needed elected representatives in 1776 because the citizens were...
[20:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score:2) 02The Electoral College is Nessasary - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:00] <exec> 08└─The Electoral College is necessary and does not go nearly far enough. While the EC started out as the only workable system for a union of states, it has turned into a very important tool for democracy. As shown in this election you can easily win the popular vote even with 99% of the country against...
[20:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03GlennC [3656] (Score:2) 02They don't get the role of the states - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 982 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:02] <exec> 08└─The problem that Senator Boxer and many others have is that they don't seem to understand the relationship between the People, the States, and the Federal Government. As I understand it, the original intent was that the People would have more influence at the local and State levels, and that the Sta...
[20:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score:2) 02REDMAP - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:04] <exec> 08└─Republicans worked long for this and it happened: http://www.redistrictingmajorityproject.com [redistrictingmajorityproject.com]
[20:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:You see fucking plenty of it here. - 06'Post-Truth' Declared Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:16] <exec> 08└─How did you manage to fuck up a cut and paste? Or have we all been played?
[20:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:You see fucking plenty of it here. - 06'Post-Truth' Declared Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:17] <exec> 08└─I would hate to give any clicks to an alt-right proto-fascist pseudo-news site, especially in a post-truth universe. Hanlon's razor will need to be reversed.
[20:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02That is how you destroy a civilization - 06'Post-Truth' Declared Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:23] <exec> 08└─> That doesn't mean they were put into that place for other than emotion. Lying isn't binary. That's being exploited by people to equate all lies, regardless of intent or severity as equal. Its like we've been reduced to a 3rd grade level of understanding because thinking is too hard. And that crea...
[20:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:You see fucking plenty of it here. - 06'Post-Truth' Declared Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:28] <exec> 08└─What's that? If you reach for an excuse you can find a reason to ignore anything that disagrees with you and your "rule of thumb" can be freely discarded when it tells you the opposite of what you want to hear? What a never-before-seen approach to discussions on the internet. Certainly not part of t...
[20:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You see fucking plenty of it here. - 06'Post-Truth' Declared Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:33] <exec> 08└─Lebensraum
[20:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:You see fucking plenty of it here. - 06'Post-Truth' Declared Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:35] <exec> 08└─Jesus motocrossing Christ, you really believe the stuff you spew, don't you? You even capitalize random nouns like in German. Do you think in italics, too? J-Mo, you are so far off the reservation you're out in the ocean somewhere. Trump was a decoy, another piece of dangling bait for the GOP to tri...
[20:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2, Funny) 02Re:You see fucking plenty of it here. - 06'Post-Truth' Declared Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:37] <exec> 08└─That's why it's best to have a gun. You never know whose side you're not on until somebody declares you a demon from the burning hells.
[20:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:You see fucking plenty of it here. - 06'Post-Truth' Declared Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries - 977 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:40] <exec> 08└─Quoting a lying piece of shit("Aurora shooting was a false flag!") about how everyone who disagrees with you is a liar? What a coincidence, my outhouse is also full of shit, you two should hang out. Please tell me how a theocratic(sorry, I mean "Christian Libertarian" who just happens to think that...
[20:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:You see fucking plenty of it here. - 06'Post-Truth' Declared Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:43] <exec> 08└─So let us unpack your attempts at 'reason' shall we? Quoting a lying piece of shit...
[20:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Put on your big boy pants - 06'Post-Truth' Declared Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries - 965 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:48] <exec> 08└─> The prefix "post" implies that there was a past era of "truth". That past era never existed. Spare us your simpleton's view of the world. Yes there has never been an era of 100% truth because perfection is impossible and humans are fallible as fuck. But in the modern era the baseline of journalist...
[20:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re: Put on your big boy pants - 06'Post-Truth' Declared Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:50] <exec> 08└─Yes there has never been an era of 100% truth because perfection is impossible and humans are fallible as fuck. But in the modern era the baseline of journalistic integrity - fact-checking, multiple independent sources, and being held to account for screw ups - has been dismissed by people like you...
[20:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:Trust? It's gone. - 06'Post-Truth' Declared Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:56] <exec> 08└─Does lying by omission count?
[20:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Trust? It's gone. - 06'Post-Truth' Declared Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:58] <exec> 08└─Not volunteering answers is not the same as lying.
[20:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Trust? It's gone. - 06'Post-Truth' Declared Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:00] <exec> 08└─Did you miss where I said "not all"? And even within those news outlets, there were many writers willing to lie about the NSA's activities and spout propaganda, including about how the surveillance stopped terrorism
[20:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Post-Truth - 06'Post-Truth' Declared Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:05] <exec> 08└─I was post-hipster before it was cool.
[20:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02*bashes head against keyboard* - 06'Post-Truth' Declared Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:10] <exec> 08└─It is defined as an adjective relating to circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than emotional appeals.
[20:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:Duke Nukem analogies "stretch" the truth - 06Debian Has Entered "Transition Freeze" for Squeeze - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:20] <exec> 08└─And presumably you know this by being part of the readership....
[20:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Does anyone care anymore? - 06Debian Has Entered "Transition Freeze" for Squeeze - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:25] <exec> 08└─Do this still hold up in Squeeze? And also, it is hardly installing without systemd. What is happening is that debian, with systemd, gets installed, and then an additional command is run that installs sysv. Because the two conflicts, apt will then strip out systemd again, and anything that depend on...
[20:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:Does anyone care anymore? - 06Debian Has Entered "Transition Freeze" for Squeeze - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:32] <exec> 08└─I don't know whether I am being naive or not, but it is my thinking that things like Debian/KFreeBSD and Debian/Hurd are super-valuable because they don't/can't use systemd, but use pretty much the rest of Debian. This makes me think that Debian will be separable from systemd for at least as long as...
[20:47:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Does anyone care anymore? - 06Debian Has Entered "Transition Freeze" for Squeeze - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:34] <exec> 08└─Their goal is to be independent of Debian in the future, while your suggestion is to basically become beholden to the Debian backend.
[20:48:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:They mean absolute monarchy. - 06China Censors References to Kim Jong Un's Weight - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:48:09] <exec> 08└─the tiger or wars over who gets to ride it might still kill plenty of North Koreans. That's how it normally works doesn't it? Just look at the results of the USA toppling/killing dictators (a number that they installed in the first place). Heck just trying to topple dictators (e.g. US vs Assad in Sy...
[20:49:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hey - 06Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:49:56] <exec> 08└─it was a joke... https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[20:50:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:You really think that? - 06Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation - 1152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:50:24] <exec> 08└─You may not be aware that systemd causes end users trouble, but I am, and my problems are trivial compared to some that have been reported. (I've always eventually been able to get my systems back up, even if it meant reinstalling the OS.) If you are a user who follows the most common use case, then...
[20:50:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:decommodifcation of Linux through systemd - 06Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation - 1241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:50:30] <exec> 08└─I didn't even *hear* about systemd until it was rushed through the approval process in Debian, in a manner which some have said violated the canons. (Others have said the approval process was correct.) So I didn't hear about it until it was a done deal. OTOH, while I'm a programmer, I'm not a system...
[20:50:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:"Linux foundation" hah - 06Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:50:36] <exec> 08└─Actually, I though it was written by someone who didn't bother to make his <sarcasm> tags blatantly visible.
[20:50:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Time to start brushing up on your *BSD... - 06Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:50:41] <exec> 08└─Yes, but without ext4 support that would be a real pain.
[20:50:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Foundation? - 06Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:43] <exec> 08└─Is Linux Foundation represent Linux these days or is it just corps doing corps things?
[20:51:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:SSF - 06"Emotional Support Animals" Riding With Owners Aboard Commercial Airlines Flights - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:51:59] <exec> 08└─That's an error on my part. I meant to use the word "wandering." Kids with autism can get distracted by loud noises and wander around and ignore their caregivers, they also have the tendency to "bolt" in stressful situations, usually around traffic. You can see some of the training dogs get here: ht...
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[21:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the offer? - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:05] <exec> 08└─They wouldn't even need to do that. Consider how many Republican people in California or New York simply do not vote because they know their vote will be meaningless. Democrats don't do that, they're all about fighting pointless causes by their very nature. Also, there's the fact that absentee ballo...
[21:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:non-sequitur - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 791 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:12] <exec> 08└─From Wiki, because it's about all the amount of effort that it's worth: The Constitution gives each state legislature the power to decide how its state's electors are chosen[66] and it can be easier and cheaper for a state legislature to simply appoint a slate of electors than to create a legislativ...
[21:45:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:one-man one-vote - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:14] <exec> 08└─Do we believe in the principle of one-man one-vote or not?
[21:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:one-man one-vote - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:16] <exec> 08└─You seem to be confusing the senate with the presidency. > fly-over states ' I live in a "fly over state." I don't even live in a big city. And you know what? The only people I ever hear use that phrase are whiners with persecution complexes. toughen up, stop projecting your insecurities on other p...
[21:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:What's the offer? - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 1402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:18] <exec> 08└─The popular vote actually represents what we fucking want, or actual democracy. The EC and gerrymandering are the ways they control the election. They being the two major parties in charge. Don't be a fucking fool. You damn well know there are much better ways of voting in the world, and we can get...
[21:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's the offer? - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:21] <exec> 08└─The popular vote actually represents what we fucking want
[21:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the offer? - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:23] <exec> 08└─because they always vote against their interests by voting red
[21:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Our counter offer - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 1645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:25] <exec> 08└─Even better, what is the offer to those smaller States which currently tend to have unified (Legislature + Governor) Republican governments because of the never ending gift that has been President Obama? No, the Blue Team should fear what might do to them instead. If we were smart and ruthless we wo...
[21:45:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Our counter offer - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:27] <exec> 08└─An interesting proposal if you could get some momentum behind it. In theory, even though they don't want to switch to proportional electoral college voting, if their Republican legislatures are locking them to it in some states, it would be in their best interest to pull the same maneuver in the rev...
[21:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Re:Context - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:33] <exec> 08└─Would this have helped Hilary if third-party voters ranked her below their primary choices, but above Trump?
[21:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Context - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:35] <exec> 08└─The constant railing against first past the post is due to it causing people to vote for the 'lesser evil' instead of candidates they actually like and mostly agree with. That's not truly democratic, and until that is fixed our status as a representative republic will remain in question. We're not e...
[21:45:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:why even have electors - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:39] <exec> 08└─> Presumably we put people in there for them to exercise good judgement. Why is it legit to have an electoral college but then deliberately hamstring them? Fair point. I think if there was ever a test of that part of the system, this is it. I wonder how much that added layer of apparently futile adm...
[21:45:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02#salty butthurt from a retiring Senator - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 282 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:41] <exec> 08└─I don't really need to explain why the Electoral College is a good idea when Slate.com already did it for me. Well, ok, it was in 2012 but either what they said then was true or it isn't, either doesn't reflect glory on Team Blue does it? Defending the Electoral College [slate.com]
[21:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:#salty butthurt from a retiring Senator - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:44] <exec> 08└─Yet this week on Slate [slate.com].
[21:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Let's end States instead - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:50] <exec> 08└─http://www.caller.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/11/08/deep-red-texas-democrats-just-hope-keep-close/93121790/ [caller.com] http://www.usnews.com [usnews.com] Texas could flip Democratic in the future. Good luck sece...
[21:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Let's end States instead - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:52] <exec> 08└─Yeah, despite there being a lot of people here who want to succeed it's not likely to every happen and I wasn't claiming it ever would. I wasn't arguing it would.
[21:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Let's end States instead - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:54] <exec> 08└─there are seriously a lot of people that want to secede
[21:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Let's end States instead - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:56] <exec> 08└─Averaging 4 hours sleep (newborn in the house) and lack of coffee does terrible things.
[21:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Own Party threw her under the bus. - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:01] <exec> 08└─Pretty much the top 20 cities in the united states would be pandered to and the remaining cities would just be ignored.
[21:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:Own Party threw her under the bus. - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:04] <exec> 08└─Shrewd candidates on both sides tailor their campaign to the rules of the game.
[21:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:1, Troll) 02Re:oh, *now* the electoral college is unfair... - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 1342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:08] <exec> 08└─no, IF you believe in the popular vote being the operative measurement of winning an election AND the electoral college is a vestigial remnant when white, landowning elites were trying to ensure we did not get *too* democratic, then, yes, the electoral college SHOULD HAVE BEEN already eliminated AS...
[21:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:oh, *now* the electoral college is unfair... - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:11] <exec> 08└─From the article: The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy.
[21:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Boxer makes it easy to take a position - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 1573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:16] <exec> 08└─> I don't think she's ever had a bill passed in the 20+ years she's been in congress. Which means very little. Being in congress isn't just about sponsoring bills. In fact, that's really just the tip of the iceburg. Working on bills, researching background, negotiating with other members of congres...
[21:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Other Bills She's Preparing - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:18] <exec> 08└─I'm waiting for her to introduce a couple more bills to "fix" the result of the election: 1) Fake news is outlawed. Only news sanctioned by Congress or its designees shall be allowed to be distributed. 2) Men and women are not allowed to not vote for a woman, because that's misogynist. 3) Candidates...
[21:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You see fucking plenty of it here. - 06'Post-Truth' Declared Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:32] <exec> 08└─Meh, just flip the i and e in Breitbart. The comments section there is darkly hilarious.
[21:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:You see fucking plenty of it here. - 06'Post-Truth' Declared Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:37] <exec> 08└─Once upon a time, a politician would resign if found to have lied outright
[21:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:You see fucking plenty of it here. - 06'Post-Truth' Declared Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries - 1144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:49] <exec> 08└─You could just simplify that to "That's why it is best to have a gun. You never know when you will need it." Which is the entire point. When you realize you need one it is usually too late to get one. On either the short term or long term meaning of the phrase. Whether it is when you hear something...
[21:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:You see fucking plenty of it here. - 06'Post-Truth' Declared Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries - 2066 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:53] <exec> 08└─Section 1: wherein an alt-righter misunderstands a fallacy Dude, you did not just pull out the "Ad Hominem" whine after saying huge groups of people are liars because someone else said so. I mean, you did, because your a hypocritical shithead, who's so steeped in ideology that I know the most I'll e...
[21:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: Put on your big boy pants - 06'Post-Truth' Declared Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:00] <exec> 08└─You're whole argument is based on the observation that in your opinion, one Breitbart journalist didn't get treated as you'd like (while the two journalists you do claim got treated appropriately only were caught because outsiders did elementary fact checking).
[21:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Duke Nukem analogies "stretch" the truth - 06Debian Has Entered "Transition Freeze" for Squeeze - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:26] <exec> 08└─Absolutely. Duke Nukem Forever is still on my wish list of things to buy, right after I buy a computer to run it, because my computer is 10 years old.
[21:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Does anyone care anymore? - 06Debian Has Entered "Transition Freeze" for Squeeze - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:37] <exec> 08└─And Debian/Hurd is not actually released yet
[21:47:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Minor correction - 06Debian Has Entered "Transition Freeze" for Squeeze - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:42] <exec> 08└─Debian Has Entered "Transition Freeze" for Squeeze
[21:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score:1) 02Funny... - 06Russia Withdraws Rome Statute Signature Following ICC Crimea Report - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:03] <exec> 08└─Isn't it funny how each nation that is fond of committing atrocities, always become upset when they are called out on it. Heaven forbid that they be held accountable to the same standards that they try to force upon other countries.
[21:48:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:2017 - 06Linux Close to Finalizing its Top 500 Domination - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:48:45] <exec> 08└─The desktop is on the decline and walled garden mobile world is the new holy cash cow. Though, that is ironically why Linux could come to rule the desktop. Once mobile largely replaces desktops, will Microsoft or Apple care about them anymore? If they quit the desktop OS market, Linux can quietly ta...
[21:48:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score:2) 02Re:2017 - 06Linux Close to Finalizing its Top 500 Domination - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:48:49] <exec> 08└─Took me forever, but I dug up this article that I read years ago. The thing that really struck me about the architecture of these is that processor speed is only part of the equation of "speed". These old Cray's had memory bandwidth of 5.1 Gbps (about the speed of DDR2). The author goes about how to...
[21:48:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:2017 - 06Linux Close to Finalizing its Top 500 Domination - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:48:51] <exec> 08└─If you use the GPU, then over 5 TFlops.
[21:49:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Re:Credit where credit is due... - 06Linux Close to Finalizing its Top 500 Domination - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:49:01] <exec> 08└─In fact, Linux is UNIX as it should be, benefiting from the massive advantages that come from being free software
[21:49:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Supercomputing is a hoax created by the chinese... - 06Linux Close to Finalizing its Top 500 Domination - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:49:05] <exec> 08└─Supercomputing is a hoax created by the chinese to rip off America!
[21:49:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02TOP500 started in 1993 - 06Linux Close to Finalizing its Top 500 Domination - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:49:09] <exec> 08└─The TOP500 started in 1993 and I just pulled up the list from 1993 on their website. https://www.top500.org [top500.org] Seems like an iphone 6 is just about on par with the fastest machines from that era.
[21:49:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:um, nope - 06Facebook Discloses Additional Advertising Metric Miscalculations - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:49:24] <exec> 08└─I am 23. Does that mean I'm old?
[21:49:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:um, nope - 06Facebook Discloses Additional Advertising Metric Miscalculations - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:49:26] <exec> 08└─Teenage wasteland It's only teenage wasteland Let's get together Before we get much older Teenage wasteland They're all wasted!
[21:49:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03number6x [903] (Score:2) 02Re:Obligatory XKCD - 06How I Became a Cyborg and Joined an Underground Medical Movement - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:49:59] <exec> 08└─For me, comparing my Bone Anchored Hearing Aid to "Dude, I got a magnet under my skin 'cus piercings and tattoos are so 20th century" makes me think of the tattoo xkcd. But your xkcd is pretty hardcore too!
[21:50:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03number6x [903] (Score:2) 02Re:Magnetic finger implant - 06How I Became a Cyborg and Joined an Underground Medical Movement - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:50:03] <exec> 08└─Future biotech! We need a good way to power those things.
[21:50:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score:2) 02Re:You really think that? - 06Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:50:51] <exec> 08└─No, I'm quite sure systemd can cause end users trouble in a distro that uses it. I don't use systemd - I do all I can to avoid it! The GP was saying it causes trouble for non-systemd distributions (or that they have trouble). I'm asking what kind of trouble it is, as I've not had any as a user.
[21:51:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Time to start brushing up on your *BSD... - 06Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:51:06] <exec> 08└─Can I still funroll_loops in BSD?
[21:52:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:it separates them from the “bad” women - 06The Mechanics of Mechanophilia: Why Men Find Siri Sexy - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:52:02] <exec> 08└─Its not a second theory. It is an explanation of how the "first" theory answers your question. This is all really standard stuff, completely uncontroversial to people who have been researching it for decades. The fact you can't even gish gallop it away is a good sign. Perhaps you are on the verge of...
[21:53:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Scrolling down - 06Troubles in Ukraine Parliament Continue - 1443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:53:36] <exec> 08└─The "regime change" had Obamal's blessing, but he didn't engineer any of it. He's only a marginal influence in the whole thing. In no particular order, here are some interesting links regarding George Soros and Ukraine. http://theduran.com
[21:54:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Amazing - 06The Zombie Apocalypse Thwarted? - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:54:03] <exec> 08└─There's some reference to it in the wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Cold exposure is mentioned, as is the effects of phosgene gas.
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[22:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02paparazzi gossip - 06Insiders at Offshore Call Centres Are Offering the Private Details of Customers of Australian Telcos - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:55] <exec> 08└─Well obviously. Where do you think paparazzi gossip comes from? Do you want to live in a world without your paparazzi gossip? So very boring it would be.
[22:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:paparazzi gossip - 06Insiders at Offshore Call Centres Are Offering the Private Details of Customers of Australian Telcos - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:44:57] <exec> 08└─Tits or GTFO
[22:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02You ain't seen nothing yet. - 06Insiders at Offshore Call Centres Are Offering the Private Details of Customers of Australian Telcos - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:59] <exec> 08└─Wait till we offshore the NSA.
[22:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You ain't seen nothing yet. - 06Insiders at Offshore Call Centres Are Offering the Private Details of Customers of Australian Telcos - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:01] <exec> 08└─How will your offshore NSA pass the loyalty clearance in a post Snowden world?
[22:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:You ain't seen nothing yet. - 06Insiders at Offshore Call Centres Are Offering the Private Details of Customers of Australian Telcos - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:03] <exec> 08└─You will ask them nicely?
[22:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02So what?! - 06Insiders at Offshore Call Centres Are Offering the Private Details of Customers of Australian Telcos - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:06] <exec> 08└─Like on-shore call centers don't do the same shit?
[22:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:So what?! - 06Insiders at Offshore Call Centres Are Offering the Private Details of Customers of Australian Telcos - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:08] <exec> 08└─You've already had over a week to learn how to distinguish Great American Business Practices from Evil Foreigners Abusing Us. You should keep studying, the final exam is just about 2 months away.
[22:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Re:So what?! - 06Insiders at Offshore Call Centres Are Offering the Private Details of Customers of Australian Telcos - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:10] <exec> 08└─I think, *theoretically*, western countries, eg, US, UK, Australia, have laws, which, while often breached,mat least give some level of recourse agaisnt anyone caught doing this sort of thing. Once the data goes off-shore, those laws aren't worth very much..
[22:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Troll or just willfully ignorant? - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 1112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:23] <exec> 08└─http://help.vote.org/article/8-are-absentee-ballots-counted [vote.org] "Are absentee ballots counted? Yes, all votes are counted, whether they're cast in-person or by absentee ballot. It is a common misconception that absentee ballots are only counted during very tight races. This misconception stem...
[22:45:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's the offer? - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:25] <exec> 08└─All absentee ballots are counted. [vote.org] (Although I've seen claims elsewhere that this varies by state.) At least by December. I was surprised to learn that they do in fact lean Republican (despite early voting leaning Democratic), but multiple sites do agree with that. Of course, it's difficul...
[22:45:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's the offer? - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:27] <exec> 08└─If democrats only vote for pointless causes then republicans only vote to increase authoritarian laws that deny freedom to others. See, others can play the black and white game too.
[22:45:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the offer? - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:29] <exec> 08└─I see that you want to argue more than you care about what I actually said. We're not at home to pointless arguments at this time.
[22:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Boxer is a fucking shill. - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:34] <exec> 08└─Along with Feinstein and Pelosi (And I am sure many others.) Honestly the only D I've been rooting for recently has been Wyden, because he actually seems to care about issues that are important to me and the internet community in general. Too bad I don't get to vote for him. The rest of them though...
[22:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:one-man one-vote - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:42] <exec> 08└─We could import food from anywhere but your State. You're welcome to compete on agriculture in the free market though.
[22:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:one-man one-vote - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:44] <exec> 08└─Remember that when you're eating dinner that was grown in those fly-over states this evening.
[22:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:one-man one-vote - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:47] <exec> 08└─Do we believe in the principle of one-man one-vote or not?
[22:45:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:one-man one-vote - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:49] <exec> 08└─> Electing representatives via a popular vote is not direct democracy, as you're still electing a representative who is subject to checks and balances. Technical objection noted. But so what? The important question is why are all other offices selected by popular vote but the presidency is not. What...
[22:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's the offer? - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 1361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:54] <exec> 08└─What "principles"? These principles change every election cycle, remarkably and coincidentally they jibe with whatever the "crisis" that the Republican National Committee says is going on. And that "principle" term gets pasted onto EVERYTHING. Most normal and rational people have principles that are...
[22:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the offer? - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:56] <exec> 08└─What "principles"?
[22:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the offer? - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 1014 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:58] <exec> 08└─Those principles are fairly reprehensible though. The 2016 Republican Party Platform reads like a white nationalist movement utterly filled with hate for the other half of America, immigrants, LQBTQ, liberals, Democrats, etc. I'm extremely curious how you can get behind any of those principles. So n...
[22:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03calzone [2181] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:What's the offer? - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:01] <exec> 08└─It's basically a states-rights situation. You never get to vote for president. Your state votes for president. You vote to tell your state how you want it to vote. Don't like how your state interprets your desires? Then vote to change you state or move to a different state. Abolishing the electoral...
[22:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the offer? - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 2640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:03] <exec> 08└─I very much appreciate your insight into this, but I respectfully disagree. Moving to another state is an unreasonable request at this point. Maybe back in the 50's or 60's when union membership was near 35% this would have been possible, because people had the resources. How do you move like that?...
[22:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:1, Flamebait) 02Re:Our counter offer - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 1734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:07] <exec> 08└─Not saying there might not be long term consequences, but right now there are no Red States on the Presidential level where Team Blue has any real power in the state. As of now they have total control of exactly four States. CA, OR, HI and one of the little blue shitholes up on the East Coast which...
[22:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Our counter offer - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:09] <exec> 08└─Solution: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[22:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:why even have electors - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:19] <exec> 08└─Sounds more to me like not having your cake and not eating it either.
[22:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:#salty butthurt from a retiring Senator - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 1376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:24] <exec> 08└─Yup. But of course NOTICING the flip would get you branded "Fake News" and cast out by Google and Facebook's ad networks and your Twitter account closed out. They think they can still play these games. After just having their noses rubbed in it, their response is to lie harder, point and shriek loud...
[22:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:#salty butthurt from a retiring Senator - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 1779 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:26] <exec> 08└─About point 3. Swing states and point 4. Big states in that article: What you could do, is apply a weighing factor to the proportional vote result of each state. Something like a inverse square root(population) weight; this way, the smallest states get a disproportionally large effect on the vote, a...
[22:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:You see fucking plenty of it here. - 06'Post-Truth' Declared Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:53] <exec> 08└─No, they didn't kill themselves for failure, IIRC. I think that was only the Samurai and their practice of seppuku. Falling on your own sword may not have applied to the population at large, but may have applied to state actors in the various periods, as they were also quite often warriors themselve...
[22:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:You see fucking plenty of it here. - 06'Post-Truth' Declared Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:04] <exec> 08└─Trump was a decoy, another piece of dangling bait for the GOP to trick the low-information crowd with.
[22:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:You see fucking plenty of it here. - 06'Post-Truth' Declared Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:06] <exec> 08└─Yeah? And now we have Mike fucking Pence as VP, which means just plain P given he's basically Cheney if Cheney found religion, and we have Steve motherloving Bannon setting strategy. Oh, and a SCOTUS that will get anywhere from one to three people worse than Scalia in short order at this rate. That...
[22:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:You see fucking plenty of it here. - 06'Post-Truth' Declared Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:14] <exec> 08└─Once people noticed that journalism was not just dead, it was reanimated as a zombie in the service of evil, they realized they not only have been lied to their whole lives, they realize they have to question everything and search out knowledge on their own. That is hard of course and the legacy med...
[22:47:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] 02Trust? It's gone. - 06'Post-Truth' Declared Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries - 2142 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:22] <exec> 08└─The populace doesn't buy almost anything spouted by the propaganda machines for the government before. Did I say propaganda machines? I meant the mainstream media. This is a grave they dug themselves by continually and willfully manipulating polls, numbers, and going far beyond bias to outright prop...
[22:48:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:fat shaming - 06China Censors References to Kim Jong Un's Weight - 1233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:48:41] <exec> 08└─"Fatty, Fatty, Two-By-Four, can't get through the kitchen door" It's funny, but the problem with fat shaming is that it works simultaneously on all fat people. When a fat person (myself) hears somebody else being fat shamed, all I can hear is myself being fat shamed. So, no I don't think he deserves...
[22:49:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Supercomputing is a hoax created by the chinese - 06Linux Close to Finalizing its Top 500 Domination - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:49:20] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that can be seen by the fact that quite a lot of those supercomputers are running climate simulations!
[22:50:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:what's taking them so long? - 06Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:50:56] <exec> 08└─I don't see how that contradicts my point. I mean, duh, of course MS is still a gorilla. They just aren't big enough to make the extend, extinguish part work anymore. Nor have they been big enough to make that work for well over a decade. If you think that's wrong, name one thing they've embraced, e...
[22:51:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Time to start brushing up on your *BSD... - 06Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:51:20] <exec> 08└─Yes, LLVM/Clang allow you to set optimization levels, and GCC is available. I don't recommend trying to eke out extra performance that way though.
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[23:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02computer science has a great future... - 06Google to Expand London HQ Despite Brexit - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:53] <exec> 08└─... unless you're white.
[23:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:computer science has a great future... - 06Google to Expand London HQ Despite Brexit - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:44:54] <exec> 08└─Which guy on Benefits Street had a regular job? But he was still poor enough to live on Benefits Street? Yeah. That's right. The IT guy. Uh-huh. It's a great future.
[23:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02In the UK they have maths (pl.) - 06Google to Expand London HQ Despite Brexit - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:56] <exec> 08└─Here in the US, we only have math (singular). Google wants/needs people who know maths.
[23:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:In the UK they have maths (pl.) - 06Google to Expand London HQ Despite Brexit - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:44:59] <exec> 08└─And are willing to work for imaginary pay.
[23:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Re:In the UK they have maths (pl.) - 06Google to Expand London HQ Despite Brexit - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:01] <exec> 08└─But they'll make up for it in imaginary tax. Its the finance department that need the advanced mathematicians to work on their new theory of quantum revenue dynamics (you can know where the profit was made or how much it was, but not both at the same time).
[23:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:In the UK they have maths (pl.) - 06Google to Expand London HQ Despite Brexit - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:03] <exec> 08└─Sooo, regular corporate accounting? I know, its not as sexy of a name...
[23:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Alternative view - 06Google to Expand London HQ Despite Brexit - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:05] <exec> 08└─OR Google has been tipped off that MP's are going to block Brexit and is taking the "hold" off its operations...
[23:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Ending the UK Parliament - 06Google to Expand London HQ Despite Brexit - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:07] <exec> 08└─"[Parliament] is an outdated, undemocratic system that does not reflect our modern society, and it needs to change immediately. Every [Briton] should be guaranteed that their vote counts."
[23:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So what?! - 06Insiders at Offshore Call Centres Are Offering the Private Details of Customers of Australian Telcos - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:22] <exec> 08└─Yes, exactly that. But in practice, not so much because prosecution means bad publicity for the company so they will just silently fire the moles. You'd have to catch them releasing your information and then sue them and/or convince the attorney general's office to prosecute them. And that seems lik...
[23:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Robin Williams has become a shape-shifter - 06Insiders at Offshore Call Centres Are Offering the Private Details of Customers of Australian Telcos - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:24] <exec> 08└─Shelley Duvall claims Robin Williams has become a shape-shifter in troubling Dr. Phil interview "After vanishing from the spotlight for more than a decade, Shelley Duvall is now looking for mental health help from Dr. Phil. The "Shining" actress returns to the public eye in an interview with the tal...
[23:45:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Robin Williams has become a shape-shifter - 06Insiders at Offshore Call Centres Are Offering the Private Details of Customers of Australian Telcos - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:26] <exec> 08└─well that's off topic but dr phil has always been a super douche
[23:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Troll or just willfully ignorant? - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:39] <exec> 08└─Neither, you just managed to find one of the rare occasions that I'm actually wrong. Congrats.
[23:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the offer? - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:44] <exec> 08└─I'm trying to figure out how getting rid of regulations and cutting taxes is "authoritarian". Did you even HEAR what Trump was campaigning for? Or were you too busy thinking "omg he said he'd like to grab a girl by the pussy"?
[23:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:1, Troll) 02Re:one-man one-vote - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:55] <exec> 08└─You don't listen to many libtards then. They know nothing and care less about anything not on a coast.
[23:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:one-man one-vote - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:56] <exec> 08└─Lol. I am a "libtard." Own your shit crybaby
[23:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:1, Flamebait) 02Re:one-man one-vote - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:46:00] <exec> 08└─You realize you'd be paying out the ass no matter which state you bought from, yes? They'd have you over a barrel and damned well know it because without them you starve and die.
[23:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:one-man one-vote - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:46:03] <exec> 08└─You don't think it might have something to do with the northeast being physically incapable of supplying NYC alone?
[23:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:one-man one-vote - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:46:05] <exec> 08└─They managed fine for almost a couple centuries. NJ was not nicknamed the Garden State for nothing.
[23:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the offer? - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 789 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:46:15] <exec> 08└─ed, ed, ed... Who told you this? You really should consider the source and their motivations before you go believing things. I mean, should I believe you're either in a mcmansion in beverly hills sipping wine and enjoying the smell of your own farts? Maybe I should believe you're living at home with...
[23:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:1, Flamebait) 02Re:Our counter offer - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:46:22] <exec> 08└─Please do, just wait until I'm across the border. I can't WAIT to see what you frothing lunatics do with all three branches of the US government in your control. This will be hilarous (from the right distance). The best part is, when all of you motherfuckers and up in Hell, you'll STILL be tearing e...
[23:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Our counter offer - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:46:24] <exec> 08└─Please do, just wait until I'm across the border.
[23:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Our counter offer - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:46:27] <exec> 08└─Yeah, recently New York signed it so they're 61% of the way there now. Alternately, rolling out proportional EC voting across the country would satisfy me, too.
[23:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's the offer? - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:46:30] <exec> 08└─The problem isn't the Electoral College. It is the primaries. Both Trump and Clinton were poor candidates, so as a practical matter, a good outcome was impossible. The best change would be for citizens to vote directly for electors, rather than for candidates. The nomination process should come afte...
[23:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Context - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:46:37] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that is one application of it. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[23:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:You see fucking plenty of it here. - 06'Post-Truth' Declared Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:47:19] <exec> 08└─I really should simply say, "Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury, I rest my case." Because you did exactly what I predicted. I frickin' 0wned your ass and made you dance on command like a monkey on a leash for the amusement of all. This election is the gift that keeps giving, you guys really are losing...
[23:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:You see fucking plenty of it here. - 06'Post-Truth' Declared Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:47:20] <exec> 08└─No... I could admit that to myself if you weren't full of shit. You are full of shit, so fuck off.
[23:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You see fucking plenty of it here. - 06'Post-Truth' Declared Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:47:23] <exec> 08└─jmorris, such a tool, so little clue about his own lack of perspective. He is a bastion of insanity and self-reinforcing bullshit. The irony is that he is the one that can't open his mind, and parrots propaganda and conservative conspiracies time after time. Take note any new readers, jmorris someti...
[23:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:dishonest phrase - 06'Post-Truth' Declared Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:47:32] <exec> 08└─The difference is between pretending that everyone is telling the truth, and now acknowledging that they were all lying bastards spouting propaganda.
[23:48:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"Jessie! Jessie!" - 06Debian Has Entered "Transition Freeze" for Squeeze - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:11] <exec> 08└─Two years ago I switched back from Ubuntu to Debian. Around the same time, I started watching Breaking Bad on Netflix. Now every time I see "Debian Jessie" in my system I read it in the voice of Walter White: "Jessie!"
[23:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Meanwhile - 06Russia Withdraws Rome Statute Signature Following ICC Crimea Report - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:48:28] <exec> 08└─No place in the English speaking world to turn...
[23:48:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:Philippines - 06Russia Withdraws Rome Statute Signature Following ICC Crimea Report - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:48:30] <exec> 08└─In this case I think it's pretty necessary for him. When your solution to a social problem is just to murder people on the street - you may be doing it wrong.
[23:48:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Funny... - 06Russia Withdraws Rome Statute Signature Following ICC Crimea Report - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:48:36] <exec> 08└─AFAIK, Russia is not known for demanding that other nations support human rights.
[23:49:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:In other words... - 06China Censors References to Kim Jong Un's Weight - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:49:03] <exec> 08└─There's supposed to be a dozen of these or so, referred to as the Heavenly Beasts of the Internet or some such.
[23:49:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score:2) 02Re:In other words... - 06China Censors References to Kim Jong Un's Weight - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:49:05] <exec> 08└─Well, Happy Fun Ball is one. I don't know the most apt Chinese translation though...
[23:49:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:2) 02Re:TOP500 started in 1993 - 06Linux Close to Finalizing its Top 500 Domination - 819 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:49:41] <exec> 08└─They fixed it? Nice! At some point several years ago, I found that the first few years' worth of the TOP500 list "disappeared" — there were links that, when followed, provided either a 404 Not Found error or pointed to a page which linked to another which linked back to the starting page. I checke...
[23:50:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Turkeys - 06How I Became a Cyborg and Joined an Underground Medical Movement - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:50:12] <exec> 08└─Yes, fake horns and implanting chips in your skin doesn't make you a cyborg. The implanted hardware has to affect the organism. Examples are artificial knees and hips, CrystaLens eye implants, ocular implants, etc. I'm a cyborg, living here in the future with better than 20/20 vision in my left eye...
[23:50:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Magnetic finger implant - 06How I Became a Cyborg and Joined an Underground Medical Movement - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:50:31] <exec> 08└─Metalworkers who don't have embedded chunks or big slivers sealed in scar tissue can sometimes wait six months and then get an MRI. This is long enough for residual dust in the lungs and eyes to be bioprocessed. One doesn't always have 6mo.
[23:51:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:You really think that? - 06Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:51:27] <exec> 08└─For users of distros that avoid systemd, the problem is packages that are re-written to depend on its presence.
[23:53:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03KnightGhost [4819] (Score:1) 02Re:Intensified - 06"Emotional Support Animals" Riding With Owners Aboard Commercial Airlines Flights - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:53:02] <exec> 08└─I'm allergic to dogs. Why do airlines hate me?
[23:53:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Allergies? - 06"Emotional Support Animals" Riding With Owners Aboard Commercial Airlines Flights - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:31] <exec> 08└─And what of passengers with these physical issues?
[23:54:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02bullshit - 06Troubles in Ukraine Parliament Continue - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:54:09] <exec> 08└─> The US funded a coup > Ask Victoria Nuland. Are you referring to the "fuck the eu" call? Because it doesn't prove anything like you are claiming. If you have actual proof, lets see a citation not just innuendo. Otherwise, bullshit > Russia is reacting to the situation exactly like the US reacted i...
[23:55:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Lets start it off early - 06Global Carbon Growth Stalls as US Coal Continues to Slump - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:55:55] <exec> 08└─You're showing that the amount of CO2 in the air is increasing, not that the amount emitted is increasing. The story says that emissions have recently been approximately constant; an earlier story said that too. https://www.iea.org
[23:55:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02but - 06Global Carbon Growth Stalls as US Coal Continues to Slump - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:55:59] <exec> 08└─dey tuk er jerbs!
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