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[00:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03gringer [962] (Score:2) 02Psychological effects - 06Tesla ‘Easter Egg’ Makes the World’s Quickest Car Even Quicker - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:51] <exec> 08└─The horizontal acceleration is greater than the vertical acceleration of gravity — in other words it can accelerate faster on pavement than it could fall off a cliff.
[00:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:1) 02Re:Ending the UK Parliament - 06Google to Expand London HQ Despite Brexit - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:06] <exec> 08└─Non-binding referenda are "a disaster for a democracy."
[00:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Alternative view - 06Google to Expand London HQ Despite Brexit - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:07] <exec> 08└─Or maybe Google has figured out the GB might be a whole lot more business friendly being OUT of the EU than in it.
[00:45:22] <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 - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:22] <exec> 08└─Obvious troll is hilarious.
[00:45:23] <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 - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:23] <exec> 08└─Hillarious.
[00:45:27] <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 - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:27] <exec> 08└─https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Privacy_Commissioner [wikipedia.org] One extra level of protection, at least in (within) Australia.
[00:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:one-man one-vote - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:59] <exec> 08└─Give us a kiss, sugar. It'll hurt more than your weakass attempts at trolling. Maybe go practice in a mirror some more before you come back.
[00:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:one-man one-vote - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:46:01] <exec> 08└─I ever hear use that phrase are whiners with persecution complexes.
[00:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:one-man one-vote - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:46:08] <exec> 08└─Yeah, there was a time it was possible. Urban expansion over the last century put the last nail in that coffin very, very thoroughly though.
[00:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the offer? - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 2495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:46:19] <exec> 08└─TMB, TMB, TMB, no I get my information directly from the Republican Party. It's the platform chosen by Republicans, just like the Democratic Platform was rewritten this year by Progressives taking over the party. Are you saying the news outlets directly misrepresented the exact words of the platform...
[00:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the offer? - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:46:21] <exec> 08└─All I can think then is that you're suffering from a severe case of confirmation bias; only seeing what you want to see and flat out ignoring anything that doesn't fit. This saddens me to see in any of the SN community.
[00:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02not what we want - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 829 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:46:25] <exec> 08└─The important thing is that candidates must be forced to travel beyond California, New England, and a handful of big cities in the middle. The popular vote would cast nearly all of the land area of the USA into complete dispair. (picture suicide, violence, starvation...) I fear you relish the though...
[00:46:47] <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 - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:46:47] <exec> 08└─Meh, just flip the i and e in Breitbart.
[00:47:07] <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 - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:47:08] <exec> 08└─They are signs that chaos, while currently straining against the chains, isn't yet out of control.
[00:47:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 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)
[00:47:10] <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...
[00:47:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score:2) 02Re:Does anyone care anymore? - 06Debian Has Entered "Transition Freeze" for Squeeze - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:47:57] <exec> 08└─Despite Devuan still being officially beta, I've been running it ("ascii") for a long time now (probably over a year?), and I think I've had less issues than I did with Debian itself (pre-systemd I mean, post-systemd was just b0rked on my system).
[00:48:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Jessie! Jessie!" - 06Debian Has Entered "Transition Freeze" for Squeeze - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:48:03] <exec> 08└─Crystal meth really helps you take the edge off OS troubles.
[00:48:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:They mean absolute monarchy. - 06China Censors References to Kim Jong Un's Weight - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:48:41] <exec> 08└─It would not be a big deal for them. It's not like the North Koreans are a completely alien culture and as you note, China has plenty of people, cultural dilution via immigration just isn't going to happen.
[00:49:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Credit where credit is due... - 06Linux Close to Finalizing its Top 500 Domination - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:49:27] <exec> 08└─I like those other Unices, too, and didn't say anything to imply they aren't free. My very first UNIX I personally installed was NetBSD/Mac68k. On a 100M Zip disk. Those were the days. (In fact it took a long time to get me from NetBSD to Linux...)
[00:49:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score:2) 02Re:Social Marketing - 06Facebook Discloses Additional Advertising Metric Miscalculations - 808 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:49:44] <exec> 08└─As of today, I'm not required to be a Facebook member. My argument is that there should never be a requirement that I agree to a third party's ever changing terms (Facebook in this example) in order to do business with or communicate with a company, person or any other entity not owned by that thir...
[00:50:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Turkeys - 06How I Became a Cyborg and Joined an Underground Medical Movement - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:50:05] <exec> 08└─Sure some of these ideas are lame, but technically they are correct. Melding a human with machine. Beta cyborgs if you will.
[00:50:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Underground, my shiny metal ass - 06How I Became a Cyborg and Joined an Underground Medical Movement - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:50:11] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of Cory Doctorow's Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom.
[00:50:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Magnetic finger implant - 06How I Became a Cyborg and Joined an Underground Medical Movement - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:50:20] <exec> 08└─It must be an Apple. "You're holding it wrong!"
[00:50:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Magnetic finger implant - 06How I Became a Cyborg and Joined an Underground Medical Movement - 691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:50:27] <exec> 08└─I had my eye implant done at St. Johns Hospital here in Springfield by Dr. Yea of the Prairie Eye Center. It's a variable-focus replacement for the eye's natural lens. Took my eyesight in the eye she did surgery on from 20/400 to 20/16 back in 2006, the FDA just approved the device in 2003. I'm havi...
[00:52:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why "Men" find Siri sexy? - 06The Mechanics of Mechanophilia: Why Men Find Siri Sexy - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:52:39] <exec> 08└─My house was not foreclosed on. I've had regular raises. All my extended family that wants a job has a job. My nephew is back intact from special forces duty in afghanistan. I have health insurance despite a pre-existing condition. So, all in all, pretty good.
[00:53:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Entitled - 06"Emotional Support Animals" Riding With Owners Aboard Commercial Airlines Flights - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:53:12] <exec> 08└─service animals are a bit different in that they're always properly trained
[00:53:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Entitled - 06"Emotional Support Animals" Riding With Owners Aboard Commercial Airlines Flights - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:53:13] <exec> 08└─If you had put the rest of my quote you would have noticed I would have made no fuss about it and just left and come back at another time. Also most cities/counties/states consider dogs as a health hazard and you end up with fines.
[00:53:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Entitled - 06"Emotional Support Animals" Riding With Owners Aboard Commercial Airlines Flights - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:53:18] <exec> 08└─http://restaurantsforsale.com/weblistings/ivens-on-the-bay-brainerd-lakes/ [restaurantsforsale.com]
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[01:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I've got it! - 06Tesla ‘Easter Egg’ Makes the World’s Quickest, Currently-Produced Car Even Quicker - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:44:50] <exec> 08└─No no no, it's rockets! FSSHHWWWOOOSHHH KABOOOOM!!! And the emergency brake makes a great "drop da bomb" lever too!
[01:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:needs magnets on the bottom - 06Tesla ‘Easter Egg’ Makes the World’s Quickest, Currently-Produced Car Even Quicker - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:44:52] <exec> 08└─Tesla vehicles replace SpaceX rockets! Just need a tall track and a very dense battery.
[01:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02urk - 06Tesla ‘Easter Egg’ Makes the World’s Quickest, Currently-Produced Car Even Quicker - 1408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:54] <exec> 08└─http://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/news/a30536/tesla-model-s-p100d-quickest-not-fastest/ [roadandtrack.com] But as quick as it is, the Model S P100D isn't the quickest production car ever built. The Ferrari LaFerrari did 0-60 in 2.4 seconds; the Porsche 918 Spyder did it in 2.2 seconds. To its cr...
[01:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:2) 02Re:urk - 06Tesla ‘Easter Egg’ Makes the World’s Quickest, Currently-Produced Car Even Quicker - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:44:56] <exec> 08└─Appreciate the feedback! The original submission called it the "fastest" which is very different from being the "quickest". I've updated the story title to note that it is the quickest currently produced car. If you follow the Wikipedia link, it will dutifully note that it is not the all-time quicke...
[01:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's the offer? - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:52] <exec> 08└─I don't think he's arguing or out to pick a fight. He's simply calling you out on your strawman.
[01:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the offer? - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:46:26] <exec> 08└─The Red states simply voted out of fear and hatred. Fear of the American worker losing even more than we've lost in that last 40 years, and the hatred directly stoked by Trump against immigrants and the "theys" that are responsible for the fetid hell that is the existence of the American worker. Nev...
[01:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the offer? - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:46:28] <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." You're going to need to back up that assertion with some quotes. Shouldn...
[01:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the offer? - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 1084 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:46:30] <exec> 08└─Uh, huh. Yeah.... ummmm you caught me. The Republican Party is just filled with love for LGBTQ. It was my fault I didn't notice that before. All that hate for the Muslims? Rumor mongering. Nobody is interested in registries of people, or internment camps. That was just baseless rumors, just like the...
[01:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:You see fucking plenty of it here. - 06'Post-Truth' Declared Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:46:53] <exec> 08└─mcgrew's razor trumps Hanlon: Never attribute to ignorance or stupidity what self-interest will explain.
[01:48:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Re:Shame on Russia - 06Russia Withdraws Rome Statute Signature Following ICC Crimea Report - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:48:23] <exec> 08└─NATO is not a country. It occupied and annexed no one.
[01:49:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02fortune for this thread - 06China Censors References to Kim Jong Un's Weight - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:49:09] <exec> 08└─He looked at me as if I were a side dish he hadn't ordered. -- Ring Lardner
[01:50:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Magnetic finger implant - 06How I Became a Cyborg and Joined an Underground Medical Movement - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:50:44] <exec> 08└─Present, not future. They're powered by the same muscles that focus a young person's eyes (see earlier comments). I have one implanted. We live in the future!
[01:50:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Magnetic finger implant - 06How I Became a Cyborg and Joined an Underground Medical Movement - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:50:46] <exec> 08└─It was approved by the FDA in 2003, I had one implanted in 2006. My vision is now better than 20/20 at all distances in that eye, it was 20/400 before. I'm 64 and don't need reading glasses or any other vision aids. I'm getting the other eye done soon. Look up CrystaLens. If you can wait until 2023,...
[01:50:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Fail - 06How I Became a Cyborg and Joined an Underground Medical Movement - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:50:53] <exec> 08└─No. To be a cyborg, the implant has to enhance the organism's abilities. Think "pacemaker".
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[02:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Social norms - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:47] <exec> 08└─My first cars were manual shift because I was given the impression that automatics were viewed as "effeminate". But my arm got sore shifting often when stuck in stop-and-go traffic, which was common for my particular commute, so I decided to ignore such social norms and buy an automatic. Has the eff...
[02:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Social norms - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:44:49] <exec> 08└─Automatics are totally normal, except in fly-over country, real men still drive stickshifts there...
[02:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Social norms - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:44:51] <exec> 08└─Yes. It went away when political correctness came in. Now you can self-select whether you are effeminate or virile when you choose to drive stick or autistic.
[02:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02electric cars - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:53] <exec> 08└─Electric cars do have transmissions, but most of them are single speed. Efficient, lightweight electric motors spin faster than the wheels on the car, so the motor has to be geared down.
[02:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The Disappearing Car - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:55] <exec> 08└─Who has money to buy a car in the post Bushbama perpetual recession economy?
[02:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The rich, of course - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:44:57] <exec> 08└─Anecdote is not data but... old and small cars, if any, for workers, big and new for rich people. I'm sure their ultra fat SUV are very useful in their daily tarmac adventures. Even saw one of those Italian cars warm up the engine while the guy was putting the jacket in the back seats... yeah, I was...
[02:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Free Software makes Everyone Poor - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:44:59] <exec> 08└─Thank RMS. Give your hero Dick "Bathroom" Stall-Man a blowjob through the glory hole. You'll want to swallow, else you might not eat anything at all today.
[02:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I'm rich and I still buy used. - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:45:02] <exec> 08└─I'm rich and I still buy used. Well I plan too, I'm still driving my 2001 because its only got 55K miles on it (I work from home). BTW, median US wages hit an all time high this previous quarter. [stlouisfed.org] Things have been looking up for nearly everybody recently. Trump's gonna crater it. Be...
[02:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:The Disappearing Car - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 1009 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:45:04] <exec> 08└─Funny thing is.... you're correct. There is a concerning trend with younger people to spend that money instead on cell phones, iTarded's, Internet, and mobile data plans. Owning and operating a car was for their parents who were slightly less better of than their parents who had real union jobs shor...
[02:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:I've got it! - 06Tesla ‘Easter Egg’ Makes the World’s Quickest, Currently-Produced Car Even Quicker - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:45:15] <exec> 08└─The secret code is... Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start.
[02:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:needs magnets on the bottom - 06Tesla ‘Easter Egg’ Makes the World’s Quickest, Currently-Produced Car Even Quicker - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:45:19] <exec> 08└─Take a physics course. A lot of what you mention only requires velocity not acceleration. As for the driving up the side of the building part, good luck with that. If your car is vertical exactly what do you think is going to keep your wheels glued to the building? Make the incline too steep and tra...
[02:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:needs magnets on the bottom - 06Tesla ‘Easter Egg’ Makes the World’s Quickest, Currently-Produced Car Even Quicker - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:45:21] <exec> 08└─That only works if you create downward force through proper aerodynamics. Doing so you can certain cars upside down in a tunnel. Without it, the car would hit a bump like a window or crevice (this is a building after all) and unfortunately would start going not perpendicular to the building. That's...
[02:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not the fastest or quickest... - 06Tesla ‘Easter Egg’ Makes the World’s Quickest, Currently-Produced Car Even Quicker - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:25] <exec> 08└─Ask any cop what the fastest car is and he'll tell you it's his squad car. After all, it's got a Motorola under the hood.
[02:45:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not the fastest or quickest... - 06Tesla ‘Easter Egg’ Makes the World’s Quickest, Currently-Produced Car Even Quicker - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:45:27] <exec> 08└─Have your local cops switched to SUV squad cars yet, so they can murder more pedestrians when they drive on the sidewalk?
[02:45:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02when acceleration isn't so great - 06Tesla ‘Easter Egg’ Makes the World’s Quickest, Currently-Produced Car Even Quicker - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:29] <exec> 08└─A good friend and serious lifetime motorhead was a couple of months away from dying of a blood cancer. He had lost a lot of weight and was just barely able to walk short distances, but was stubbornly staying at home. One of his rich buddies with a Tesla took my friend on an errand to help out. Of co...
[02:46:05] <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 - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:46:05] <exec> 08└─on-shore call centers...do the same...
[02:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Troll or just willfully ignorant? - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:46:22] <exec> 08└─Neither, you just managed to find one of the rare occasions that I'm actually wrong. Congrats.
[02:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the offer? - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:46:29] <exec> 08└─cutting taxes is dumb when we are so far behind in our infrastructure repairs, healthcare, education - you name it. raise taxes on the priv'd few (those one percenters) and keep it the same for the rest of us. taxes make a country WORK. no taxes and you end up with cops writing tickets just to pay f...
[02:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:one-man one-vote - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:46:39] <exec> 08└─congress represents business interests. they stopped caring about us LONG time ago.
[02:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the offer? - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:46:59] <exec> 08└─religion. it grabs the red states by - well - by the pussy. and those idiots ALWAYS fall for it. their church leaders (bought for by the red party) tell them how to vote and the stupid sheep just abide. its JUST that simple. and just that WRONG for the country. religion runs the red group and it nev...
[02:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's the offer? - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:47:05] <exec> 08└─All I can think then is that you're suffering from a severe case of confirmation bias; only seeing what you want to see and flat out ignoring anything that doesn't fit. This saddens me to see in any of the SN community.
[02:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the offer? - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:47:10] <exec> 08└─"Likewise, the Republican Party fully supports the EPA" This is the level of bullshit you have fallen to. You talk about 'white nationalism' and practically invoke Godwin and what do you have? Anyone that doesn't support the EPA obviously hates the environment and all the people that have to live in...
[02:47:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the offer? - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 1602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:47:13] <exec> 08└─I talk about white nationalists because that is what they are. I haven't invoked Godwin, you did :) Neither have I mentioned the word fascist, at all. Not in any one of these posts have I mentioned it. Anybody that doesn't support the EPA usually does believe that only God can affect the weather of...
[02:47:38] <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 - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:47:38] <exec> 08└─If my Chichen-Itza memory serves me well, it was the greatest honor to get sacrificed to the gods after you won an Aztec ball game. It's a good way to keep suspense in your championship: kill the best players after each game.
[02:47:39] <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 - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:47:39] <exec> 08└─It's a good way to keep suspense in your championship: kill the best players after each game.
[02:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Trust? It's gone. - 06'Post-Truth' Declared Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:48:15] <exec> 08└─Are you referring to electing Trump? It'd be difficult to determine who lied more: Trump or Clinton. Trump likely has more general lies while Hillary has more deceptive lies. Not all lies are equal. Trump will get in your face and call you an asshole one day and then an angel the next. Hillary will...
[02:50:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Social Marketing - 06Facebook Discloses Additional Advertising Metric Miscalculations - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:50:33] <exec> 08└─Soooo, so far I am neither the product nor consumer.
[02:51:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Re:Underground, my shiny metal ass - 06How I Became a Cyborg and Joined an Underground Medical Movement - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:51:02] <exec> 08└─The reports of LSD being literally pushed at woodstock and the laurel canyon hippies having strong ties with the military/intelligence community are other potential facts to keep in mind.
[02:54:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:Biomedical duel? Fat chance - 06CRISPR Gene-Editing Tested in a Person for the First Time - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:54:41] <exec> 08└─And not just regulatory overhead, but also serious political opposition from the religious right. Say what you like about godless communists, they aren't afraid to crack some fucking eggs when there are freaky genetically engineered omelettes to be made. I hypothesize that if the US wins the GMO arm...
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[03:44:45] <exec> 08└─Can't we just drone that noid?
[03:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score:2) 02Re:Social norms - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:44:55] <exec> 08└─my arm got sore shifting often when stuck in stop-and-go traffic
[03:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:Social norms - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:44:57] <exec> 08└─The population has just become so effeminate no one cares. I joke. A real man uses the best tool for the job. Modern automatic transmissions are really quite excellent tech, they work very very well, and have relatively few drawbacks. I would *still* demand a manual on a work truck, but the days whe...
[03:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Social norms - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:44:59] <exec> 08└─Not only are automatics excellent these days, but they continue to evolve. I know it's controversial among some, but I find CVTs to be pretty awesome. Super smooth ride and acceleration, relatively quiet, great fuel economy, and they've definitely worked out the kinks from the early years (which wer...
[03:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:electric cars - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:02] <exec> 08└─I read somewhere that Bosch was going to develop a multi speed transmission for electric cars. It had something to do with power savings.
[03:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:The Disappearing Car - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:09] <exec> 08└─When people can't afford, they steal, and then we'll all be living Les Miserables again. Fruit is easy to steal, I accidentally stole some from the grocery store the other day. Regrettably, that was unintentional. Data plans are easy to steal too, you think I paid a telco to post this comment? Nope,...
[03:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Valkor [4253] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Theft - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:11] <exec> 08└─I view it as an anti-theft feature. The last time I took it to a car wash nobody knew how to drive a stick. Pretty funny stuff.
[03:45:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Learnin' to drive - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:14] <exec> 08└─My dad parked the car facing up on a steep hill, got out and switched with me. Got my first lesson by having to not stall, and not roll backwards: very carefully working the gas and clutch til i finally got it going forward without jerking or stalling. Ah, fun times.
[03:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Learnin' to drive - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:16] <exec> 08└─You had a dad? Stop bragging.
[03:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02mastery - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 795 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:18] <exec> 08└─After 20 years my small stick shift car rusted out, would not pass state inspection anymore. By then it was a "winter car" for use on salted roads. My newer car (2001) has an automatic. After a little while I realized that I was getting out of practice in shifting. Took a couple of years, but I even...
[03:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I still drive a stick - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:20] <exec> 08└─It's not that I can make better decisions than an automatic. But I feel it keeps me in the game when I'm driving.
[03:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I still drive a stick - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:22] <exec> 08└─You must really hate self driving cars, LUDDITE.
[03:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I still drive a stick - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:24] <exec> 08└─Vinyl records came back, didn't they? Maybe cars with stick shifts will too.
[03:45:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:I still drive a stick - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:27] <exec> 08└─People using a stick actually drive, because fiddling with your phone, doughnut, mascara and coffee is a lot harder. Honestly, my dinky subcompact (Versa) seriously benefits from being a manual: The automatic gearboxes in that price range make the engine feel pathetically anemic (4 longs gears). Wit...
[03:45:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Re:I still drive a stick - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:30] <exec> 08└─Manual transmissions, in most cars, are fun - but not in bumper-to-bumper traffic. Driving in most cities, these days. is not something anyone does for fun - too much traffic. In absence of opportunity to have fun while driving, automatics take over. Finding out the peak power in my Suzuki Sierra wa...
[03:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score:2) 02Re:I still drive a stick - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:33] <exec> 08└─My automatic will let me manually shift through all the gears. Even if it does have a "pretend gate" for the shift lever, that turns the lever into one of those paddle things (push forward to shift up, pull back to shift down) and no clutch pedal. So it's a little like doing a video game instead of...
[03:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02This is all true, but... - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 3203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:35] <exec> 08└─Realistically, your average midsize SUV, sedan, minivan, whatever, the cars that make up the bulk of the vehicles on the road, were never going to have manual transmissions. There are three segments where sticks have been popular: 1) Economy cars 2) Pickup trucks 3) Sports cars #1 is really where au...
[03:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:needs magnets on the bottom - 06Tesla ‘Easter Egg’ Makes the World’s Quickest, Currently-Produced Car Even Quicker [Updated] - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:49] <exec> 08└─The magnets keep your wheels glued to the building. This feature has been available in slot cars -- mere toys -- for decades. It even allows driving upside-down. Most cars could only climb up vertical while losing speed. This one can maintain speed because it can accelerate better than gravity.
[03:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:needs magnets on the bottom - 06Tesla ‘Easter Egg’ Makes the World’s Quickest, Currently-Produced Car Even Quicker [Updated] - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:52] <exec> 08└─The downward force comes from the magnets. The magnets would hold you to the building. That's the last thing this car needs to make it as capable as slot car toys from decades ago. It would be like that building-climbing car-thing in Minority Report. Drive right up to your window.
[03:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02TRUMP WON BITCH! - 06Tesla ‘Easter Egg’ Makes the World’s Quickest, Currently-Produced Car Even Quicker [Updated] - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:46:00] <exec> 08└─TrumpWon_FeministsBTFO_KeyboardJamSession2016.ogg https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Fuck all you pro-women's rights faggots. TRUMP WON. He sexually assaults women. Doesn't respect women. And had the hots for his young daughter. That's why I VOTED FOR TRUMP AND DEFEATED YOU PR...
[03:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:TRUMP WON BITCH! - 06Tesla ‘Easter Egg’ Makes the World’s Quickest, Currently-Produced Car Even Quicker [Updated] - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:46:02] <exec> 08└─Have the feminist bitches moved to Canada yet? It would be fabulous if all the women left and Trumpland became a gay sausage fest.
[03:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Troll or just willfully ignorant? - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:46:55] <exec> 08└─Play devil's advocate to your own positions before you go claiming mine are wrong. I do. It's why your arguments are weak while mine can stand up to a site full of quite intelligent people. And, yes, we are talking opinions here mostly because you'll rarely find me factually incorrect.
[03:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the offer? - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:47:00] <exec> 08└─No, he's in fact creating a strawman because what he is arguing against is not what I said nor what I meant.
[03:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:What's the offer? - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:47:05] <exec> 08└─cutting taxes is dumb when we are so far behind in our infrastructure repairs, healthcare, education - you name it.
[03:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:one-man one-vote - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 1080 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:47:28] <exec> 08└─Interesting idea. Not currently economically viable I wouldn't think but in the hypothetically split union it might be. The few blue states certainly wouldn't be getting good prices from the red for simple supply and demand reasons. California? It'd empty very quickly. One word: water. The price for...
[03:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's the offer? - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:47:36] <exec> 08└─Wonderful response, very informative. From what I know of those "principles" you want to promote jobs (the only decent principle) and take away the rights of other human beings. Short sighted selfish principles, very admiral.
[03:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the offer? - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:47:39] <exec> 08└─Then educate yourself, because you have no clue why Republicans believe what they believe. And stop saying "you". I'm not a Republican.
[03:47:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the offer? - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:47:47] <exec> 08└─There wasn't much of a choice for them this time around. Either the most corrupt and outright criminal person to ever run for the office or Trump with all his baggage. They did what they felt they had to do. This all has nothing whatsoever to do with the EC though, so I'm going to drop myself from t...
[03:47:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:1) 02Re:What's the offer? - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 1704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:47:55] <exec> 08└─"Anybody that doesn't support the EPA usually does believe that only God can affect the weather of Earth, and suffers quite heavily from being unable to see a position beyond that which is dictated by their paychecks." You need to find a way to step back and gain some self-awareness. That's an incre...
[03:47:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the offer? - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 1534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:47:57] <exec> 08└─Dude, the fucking evidence is overwhelming and substantial. You just disagree with the science, so please don't act like it doesn't exist. It's not a legitimate concern when the concern itself is derived from junk science known to be funded by those whose paycheck would suffer from the truth. Scienc...
[03:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:1) 02Re:What's the offer? - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:47:59] <exec> 08└─"Dude, the fucking evidence is overwhelming and substantial. You just disagree with the science, so please don't act like it doesn't exist." What are you even talking about? Evidence for what? What science? Have you completely forgotten what we were talking about?
[03:48:17] <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 - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:48:17] <exec> 08└─mcgrew: what possible self-interest could be involved here? And since your razor only trumps (shouldn't that be capitalized, now?) Hanlon's razor, which really is only a cynical restatement of Ockham's Razor, and mine is a double backflip Flying Camel Sowtoe reverse Hanlon's razor, you will have to...
[03:48:39] <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 - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:48:39] <exec> 08└─> Most of the cultural battles progressives have been fighting for for generations have been won. Average black household wealth is still just ~7% of average white household wealth [pewresearch.org] and most of that is in a single depreciating asset - a car. Life is unfair, but when the unfairness i...
[03:49:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re: Put on your big boy pants - 06'Post-Truth' Declared Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:49:00] <exec> 08└─Khallow is regressing. We can only hope that he gets to the antidote in time. You do not want to see khallow angry! He turns into one of {{{those}}}.
[03:52:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Magnetic finger implant - 06How I Became a Cyborg and Joined an Underground Medical Movement - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:52:04] <exec> 08└─I'm also a cyborg by that more stringent definition, but it would be nice to have augmentation rather than mere maintenance. Also, something you can DIY is attractive.
[03:54:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:alregies - 06"Emotional Support Animals" Riding With Owners Aboard Commercial Airlines Flights - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:54:52] <exec> 08└─-1, Flunked first-year biochemistry
[03:54:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:Entitled - 06"Emotional Support Animals" Riding With Owners Aboard Commercial Airlines Flights - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:54:55] <exec> 08└─It's not the dog that's destructive; it's all the spurious bad reviews they'll get from "animal lovers" once word gets out.
[03:55:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Re:bullshit - 06Troubles in Ukraine Parliament Continue - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:55:54] <exec> 08└─Wait, so walking around Maidan and distributing food is not proof enough? Openly talking about who to instate as the PM, not enough? If you have actual proof, lets see a citation not just innuendo. Otherwise, bullshit
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[04:44:51] <exec> 08└─I might just have to buy a shotgun if these things start violating the airspace over my yard. Or maybe just a jammer so I can take manual control? As well as the satisfaction of bringing down a drone, there is the added benefit of the free pizza...
[04:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:drone - 06Domino's Delivers -- by Drone - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:44:52] <exec> 08└─Shut Up grandpa. This is why we can't have nice things.
[04:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Boomerang - 06Domino's Delivers -- by Drone - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:44:55] <exec> 08└─New Zealand is not Australia. Handy guide: New Zealand : Land of the Long White Cloud Australia : The Land Down Under Canada : The Great White North America : Eagle Land
[04:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02alt-pizza? - 06Domino's Delivers -- by Drone - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:57] <exec> 08└─Isn't Domino's the alt-right cuck pizza? The "entreprenuer, no unions, underpay your workers, and buy a company yacht" pizza company? The even worse than the "if I have to pay for health care for my employees, it will cost you! Suckers!" Papa Johannos Pizzas? The pizza that tastes like cardboard f...
[04:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Social norms - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:12] <exec> 08└─My dad always claimed you got better mileage on a stick (at least, if you didn't gear-head around). While I don't know for certain how true that is, maybe automatics improved to the point where the difference is negligible? Also an anecdote: A friend of mine has a manual Ford Fusion. He loves it in...
[04:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:electric cars - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:15] <exec> 08└─Efficient, lightweight electric motors spin faster than the wheels on the car, so the motor has to be geared down.
[04:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The rich, of course - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:22] <exec> 08└─Italian cars usually have smaller oil galleries (warmer climate), and require more of a warm-up before the oil is circulating fully. The more you know, the less you look like an envious ass.
[04:45:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Disappearing Car - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:26] <exec> 08└─torrents, GPL, Google Fiber, DMCA safe harbor What were your other trigger words?
[04:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Learnin' to drive - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:32] <exec> 08└─This is also a real handy technique at the boat launch where rolling backwards can really dampen your day.
[04:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I still drive a stick - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:38] <exec> 08└─Only for hipsters.
[04:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:I still drive a stick - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 757 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:42] <exec> 08└─All my cars have been manual, and surprisingly, many of my friends still have manual transmissions as well. I find you have more road feel, pay more attention, and in the winter have far better control of the car in ice and snow. I'm Canadian, so your mileage may vary. With a manual transmission, sn...
[04:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is all true, but... - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 830 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:46] <exec> 08└─You said with an automatic, you have to wait 5 or 10 seconds before the car starts to move with power. This is total bullshit. I say this as someone who drove nothing but stick Hondas for 20 years or so and now drive an automatic. The automatic is a Toyota Sienna 3.5L V6. That Toyota delivers butter...
[04:45:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02A worthy cause? - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:49] <exec> 08└─http://gearheartshirts.com/products/42338-save-the-stick-red-cross [gearheartshirts.com]
[04:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the offer? - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:47:16] <exec> 08└─Regulatory overreach costs the economy an estimated trillion dollars or so every year. Get rid of the needless regulations and that's a trillion dollars in business profits that falls from the sky -- all of it taxable, and I'd guess at a net revenue gain even after our highest-anywhere business taxe...
[04:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:Boxer is a fucking shill. - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:47:22] <exec> 08└─Yep, having watched her entire career, my first thought was "It's Boxer, so it has to be a bad bill".
[04:47:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02Re:one-man one-vote - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 58 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:47:29] <exec> 08└─Do we believe in the principle of one-man one-vote or not?
[04:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:one-man one-vote - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:47:36] <exec> 08└─This is a patent lie, since they actually have NO idea where their food is grown. Signed, a flyover redneck ;)
[04:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:one-man one-vote - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:47:38] <exec> 08└─Darn it -- ran out of mod points by the time I got to you. Virtual +1 funny.
[04:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the offer? - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:48:14] <exec> 08└─"...the nation is ready for REVOLUTION." ...with great irony, funded by George Soros.
[04:50:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:金三胖 - 06China Censors References to Kim Jong Un's Weight - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:50:39] <exec> 08└─First one is gold, second is three, last one I wouldn't know from looking but has the "flesh" radical on the left side. Gold-three-skins?
[04:50:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:In other words... - 06China Censors References to Kim Jong Un's Weight - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:50:46] <exec> 08└─Yes, that's them :) I'd read that a little more like "Baidu 10 Great God-beasts," those are definitely what I had in mind. Language is a fascinating thing...
[04:55:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Entitled - 06"Emotional Support Animals" Riding With Owners Aboard Commercial Airlines Flights - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:55:02] <exec> 08└─Okay, now *those* are actual reasons. GP basically said "I have a dog phobia."
[04:55:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:Disagree - 06"Emotional Support Animals" Riding With Owners Aboard Commercial Airlines Flights - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:55:21] <exec> 08└─In fact, a good way to distinguish might be to innocently inquire if they've had the "service dog" since it was a puppy....
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[05:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02who cares - 06Subsurface Ocean Could Explain Pluto's "Heart" Feature Aligning with Charon - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:44] <exec> 08└─No one will ever go there. Space exploration is mental masturbation for eggheads.
[05:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:alt-pizza? - 06Domino's Delivers -- by Drone - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:44:57] <exec> 08└─I know it as the "weight loss" pizza, or alternatively the "comes out both ends" pizza.
[05:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Welcome to the Club - 06Domino's Delivers -- by Drone - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:58] <exec> 08└─Dodo Pizza Delivery Service somewhere in provincial Яussia: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[05:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02It depends on the transmissions... - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 1498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:45:14] <exec> 08└─A standard front or rear wheel transmission or a locker style 4/awd would be far easier to repair/replace/maintain. If you start getting into modern manual AWD transmissions, or automatics or any number of variations, the reliability and maintainability go out the window. One of the things people of...
[05:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Social norms - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:45:16] <exec> 08└─People don't like CVTs because of the unnatural-seeming (really just different) behavior. If you accelerate, the engine goes straight to its power peak and stays there while the gear ratio slowly gets taller as the car accelerates. Even though this is the most effective way to accelerate, for whatev...
[05:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:1) 02Re:electric cars - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:45:22] <exec> 08└─The Tesla roadster had a 2 speed transmission. Have not been getting to that amount of detail with their more recent models.
[05:45:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The rich, of course - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:45:29] <exec> 08└─Yeah, pity that it was in a garage in warm climate place, few Km away from Italy itself... and only happens when someone is looking. Nevermind that modern cars are designed to start moving as soon as possible, or some seconds in the case of diesels.
[05:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:The Disappearing Car - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:45:34] <exec> 08└─That disconnect the Elites have, fueled by their avarice, results in the inability to figure out that we are quickly coming into an age where nobody can afford the products or services from their jobs.
[05:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Learnin' to drive - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:45:41] <exec> 08└─> Once you master "heel and toe", then start using your feet on other pedals: Why? So if you get in an accident trying to drive with the wrong feet you won't have to retrain?
[05:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Just as a point... - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 1253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:45:52] <exec> 08└─Most of those, unless they are the 'elite model' of either that particular car, or your brand's model range have horribly sloppy pseudo-manual shifting. I actually got an opportunity to drive a C6 corvette a few years back and it was the most miserable experience ever, in sport mode! While slamming...
[05:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I still drive a stick - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:45:55] <exec> 08└─I have a VW with auto transmission. I definitely can make better shift decisions then it. Even in my sleep.
[05:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02steering wheel - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:45:57] <exec> 08└─> But I feel it keeps me in the game when I'm driving. That's what the steering wheel is for.
[05:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is all true, but... - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:46:01] <exec> 08└─Dunno. I inherited a 2010 Lexus ES350. I don't know if it's the same transmission as in the Sienna, but it's the same engine, at least. Transmission was just as crap as every other automatic transmission. Sure, it was smooth. And if you pushed the pedal halfway down, it would try every gear in the b...
[05:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's the offer? - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:47:31] <exec> 08└─Ahhh... but cutting taxes also means you get to keep more of your money. Businesses can afford to hire more people, take more risks on new ideas, etc. The economy grows.
[05:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:one-man one-vote - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:47:52] <exec> 08└─[bowing] We here knows where the eats is, cuz we's got forks in the road... ;)
[05:47:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:one-man one-vote - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:47:55] <exec> 08└─So you have the rightish view with Buzzard, let me give you the lefty view. Whenever you grow a population density so thick it can't feed itself, it will take what it needs from those surrounding it. The pillage will extend as far and wide as required to sate the city's needs. In other words, cities...
[05:48:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02Re:What's the offer? - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 1014 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:48:12] <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...
[05:48:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the offer? - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 1531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:48:31] <exec> 08└─That irony is not lost on me. Which is why this Revolution is occurring from the ground up. It's well beyond the ability of anybody like Soros to steer either. The moment his ilk would attempt to bring their corruption instead of the incumbent corruption, Soros would find that the Revolution will fi...
[05:48:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the offer? - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:48:32] <exec> 08└─[scratching head] I *did* live in 1900s America. Tho I suspect you mean pre-WW2. Okay, I'm not *that* old... There is no case where a revolution didn't end in blood, and with a worse crowd taking over... generally with the revolution's founders going under the blade. Be careful what you wish for. Th...
[05:49:21] <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 - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:49:21] <exec> 08└─jmorris has a little Peter Thiel in him. Literally. Just a little. Very little, when it comes right down to it. And that always happens too soon. Just saying.
[05:49:31] <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 - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:49:31] <exec> 08└─Jesus H Christ. Do you hear yourself? The point is that quality journalism means accountability. Those people got busted and they were held accountable.
[05:49:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:dishonest phrase - 06'Post-Truth' Declared Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:49:34] <exec> 08└─Hasn't happened yet. As I noted, post-truth is premature simply because there has been no other such era. There has always been widespread theater that one's own side has truth on its side while other sides did not. Post-truth is a pretense to a situation that has never changed.
[05:55:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:SSF - 06"Emotional Support Animals" Riding With Owners Aboard Commercial Airlines Flights - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:55:05] <exec> 08└─That's an error on my part.
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[06:44:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02How many to obliterate Linux - 06Disk Drive Failure Rates - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:46] <exec> 08└─How many disk failures would it take to obliterate every copy of Linux source code everywhere? Asking on behalf of ....... an extraterrestrial ......... friend ........ who is doing a ................ school project ............... on social change, yeah.
[06:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:who cares - 06Subsurface Ocean Could Explain Pluto's "Heart" Feature Aligning with Charon - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:44:55] <exec> 08└─I said the same to Magellan, Columbus, Cook. The idiots ignored me. Morons! Cook even got eaten.
[06:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:who cares - 06Subsurface Ocean Could Explain Pluto's "Heart" Feature Aligning with Charon - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:44:57] <exec> 08└─The differences being, dear smug asshole, the vast distance involved and the inhospitable environment. By the time of Columbus, intercontinental migrations had occurred multiple times, without ships, by people on foot. Whereas no one has ever, at any time in history, ever ventured beyond the moon.
[06:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score:2) 02Re:Boomerang - 06Domino's Delivers -- by Drone - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:45:09] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, the summary was written by a member of a country whose schooling system is so pathetic, their government has to go to war every ten years or so to teach their population world geography.
[06:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatOutdoors [6408] (Score:1) 02Re:Boomerang - 06Domino's Delivers -- by Drone - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:45:11] <exec> 08└─As soon as drone delivery is legal in the USA, you will see a spike in the sales of shotguns and likely new varieties of "drone killer" shells that are specifically tasked with taking out drones. It will be interesting watching the legal battles unfold.
[06:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:alt-pizza? - 06Domino's Delivers -- by Drone - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:45:15] <exec> 08└─I have always thought that "cuck" was short for "regurgitation". Not sure why. Something to do with jmorris, no doubt. The only other possibility is that it is short for "canuck", but the people using the term do not seem to be swinging towards the Great Socialist North. Hoseheads.
[06:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Social norms - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 769 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:45:33] <exec> 08└─"I guess they like to listen to the engine sound" Yep. I'm a dinosaur who learned to drive in a six cylinder chevy pickup, three on the tree. The pickup wasn't noisy, but I could hear it. You could hear when it was time to shift. Big trucks, ditto, whether they were 5-speed or 18-speed. Listen to th...
[06:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Social norms - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:45:35] <exec> 08└─It was very true, until about (guessing) 1985 or so. Given two cars, with all the same specs, except one was auto and the other standard, the standard would get at least 1/4 mpg better mileage, and sometimes 2 mpg better mileage. Today, I think the autos actually get better fuel mileage. I'm not cer...
[06:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Social norms - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 1157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:45:37] <exec> 08└─The real killer of fuel efficiency is wasted braking. It kills your brake pads, too. Some drivers seem to think they must either be accelerating or braking at all times. The idea of maintaining a constant speed, or slowly decelerating by coasting, or just maintaining a reasonable distance behind the...
[06:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Your stupid page requires JavaScript - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:45:48] <exec> 08└─median US wages The page says that it includes salaried positions. When Satya Nadella walks in, the average income of the room goes up sharply. The income of the 1 Percent may have been going up nicely but Joe Average keeps getting the short end of the stick. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[06:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:The rich, of course - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:45:52] <exec> 08└─Oh, please, explain that to my wife. Her car is never ready to move for at least two or three minutes. Me? I stick the key in the ignition, turn it, put the car in gear, and immediately raise a cloud of dust. I'm usually slowing down to go through town before the heater begins to blow warm air. Ever...
[06:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:The Disappearing Car - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:45:58] <exec> 08└─China does have that problem, and avarice isn't unique to the U.S. What are you smoking tonight?
[06:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:Theft - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:46:01] <exec> 08└─Soon only car thieves will know how to drive a stick. (Hardly rocket science.) The main theft deterrent is not the skills of the thief, but the vanishing resale market. What will a thief do with a car that nobody else can drive?
[06:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''start with hand brake on'' - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 886 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:46:08] <exec> 08└─old Saab USAian cars: My 1965 subcompact still had a "hand" brake. You worked that with your left hand. To use it, you had to lean forward into a not-good-for-driving position. My 1967 pony car had an "emergency brake". You operated that with your left foot. To release it, you had to lean forward in...
[06:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''start with hand brake on'' - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:46:10] <exec> 08└─My buddy's 1969 TBird had the left-foot deal but, as soon as you put the car in gear, that automatically released the "emergency brake".
[06:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''Driving in most cities'' - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:46:20] <exec> 08└─"Most cities" doesn't even begin to cover it. In the 1960s, a funny guy who was still popular had a bit about having a car with a clutch in a city with lots of HILLS. Bill Cosby - Driving in San Fransisco [youtube.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[06:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''snow'' - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 885 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:46:23] <exec> 08└─if everyone drove a standard, traffic would flow much more smoothly Where I grew up, we got snowfall about 1 day every 6 years. It was usually melted away in 3 days or less. One time, we had an especially "heavy" snowfall. A woman who lived a block away had managed to get her Cadillac over to our st...
[06:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:I still drive a stick - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 1552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:46:25] <exec> 08└─And, as so many in this discussion already realized, very few people nowadays enjoy driving. First of all, driving in a city is rarely fun - it is not just you and the road; it's you and another 100 cars around you, in less than a foot from your bumpers. You cannot do anything but go with the flow....
[06:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score:2) 02Re:I still drive a stick - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:46:31] <exec> 08└─Automatics are annoying. Last I heard they can't be flat towed or push started either. I'm not too worried about what new cars come with. I already retrofitted my 35-year-old car with a 6-speed manual and I have some spare 5-speed boxes in the basement.
[06:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:needs magnets on the bottom - 06Tesla ‘Easter Egg’ Makes the World’s Quickest, Currently-Produced Car Even Quicker [Updated] - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:46:47] <exec> 08└─Do you have any idea how powerful a magnet needs to be: 1. to hold a 1.5 ton vehicle to the side of a building 2. to hold a 2.5 ton electric vehicle, with batteries, to the side of a building 3. to hold a car to the side of a building which is mostly made of glass, wood, or stone, with minimal ferro...
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[06:46:48] <exec> 08└─Um, I dont think the GGP was being terribly serious.
[06:46:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02urk - 06Tesla ‘Easter Egg’ Makes the World’s Quickest, Currently-Produced Car Even Quicker [Updated] - 1408 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:52] <exec> 08└─http://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/news/a30536/tesla-model-s-p100d-quickest-not-fastest/ [roadandtrack.com] But as quick as it is, the Model S P100D isn't the quickest production car ever built. The Ferrari LaFerrari did 0-60 in 2.4 seconds; the Porsche 918 Spyder did it in 2.2 seconds. To its cr...
[06:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Alternative view - 06Google to Expand London HQ Despite Brexit - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:47:16] <exec> 08└─OR Google decided Brexit is still better than Trump. Just saying.
[06:47:36] <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 - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:47:36] <exec> 08└─Wasn't there a guy going off about this at DefCon last year? Yeah, this one - https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[06:48:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:one-man one-vote - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:48:26] <exec> 08└─>its real, very real >trust me, I've got anecdotal evidence Here's some competing anecdotal evidence. I grew up on the west coast, went to college on the east coast. I've had exposure to both the (middle-ish class) ivory tower and the plebeian masses (high school with sea level graduation rates). Ye...
[06:48:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the offer? - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 1245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:48:52] <exec> 08└─That doesn't fit part would be justice, prosperity for the working class, evidence of decreasing income inequality, etc. If I'm suffering that, then there are millions of us curiously suffering in the same way, with the same narratives, the same observations. Particularly good evidence would've been...
[06:51:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:金三胖 - 06China Censors References to Kim Jong Un's Weight - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:51:27] <exec> 08└─胖 - fat (pàng) It's very rare in Japanese, as it's considered a hyougai kanji (outside the official Joyo and Jinmeiyo lists), but it's common in Chinese.
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[07:44:43] <exec> 08└─I can't wait to see a bunch of armchair statisticians once again explaining how having a data set of nearly 70,000 drives of various ages, with mixed sizes and brands, is totally useless for determining which drive brands and models may be more (or less) reliable than others. I still can't understan...
[07:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Oh joy - 06Disk Drive Failure Rates - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:44:45] <exec> 08└─Well, since you mentioned it. The standard critique is that backblaze puts consumer drives in an industrial environment because they buy the cheapest available models. That the drives are not designed for the amount of 24x7 vibration that occurs in a case with 48+ total spinning drives packed togeth...
[07:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:alt-pizza? - 06Domino's Delivers -- by Drone - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:45:11] <exec> 08└─up-cuck
[07:47:20] <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 - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:47:20] <exec> 08└─The main problem is that all Australians have to send a colour scan of their ID etc to the phone company to enable a sim. Which is bloody stupid as all of the call centres are overseas. Every day thousands of Australians send their information to call centres just to prevent a few terrorists from ac...
[07:48:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's the offer? - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:48:50] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2016_Presidential_Election_by_County.svg You just told all those red areas you don't give a shit about them. Best hope they never return the favor. It won't work out well.
[07:49:27] <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 - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:49:27] <exec> 08└─Sup bitch. --MikeeUSA
[07:50:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Fuck Systemd. - 06Debian Has Entered "Transition Freeze" for Squeeze - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:50:24] <exec> 08└─Fuck SJW poettering.
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[08:44:41] <exec> 08└─> Wrongthink will not be permitted, citizens. Uh no. Those sites were just the latest iteration of SEO link-farming for profit. Just because they figured out how to hack people instead of PageRank to accomplish the same goal doesn't make them any more legitimate than SEO spam.
[08:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:who cares - 06Subsurface Ocean Could Explain Pluto's "Heart" Feature Aligning with Charon - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:45:00] <exec> 08└─So, are you arguing that because no-one has yet travelled beyond the moon that no-one ever will? Are you ignoring whatever discoveries and inventions might happen in the future that make travelling such huge distances possible. I bet they scoffed when someone once said 'I am going to build a flying...
[08:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Social norms - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:45:41] <exec> 08└─I‘m not sure operating “a stick” can be considered masculine.
[08:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Your stupid page requires JavaScript - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:45:51] <exec> 08└─That's why he wrote "median", not "average". Basically, line up all Americans from lowest to highest income, and pick the person in the middle. Their income is the median (of American income). The claim is that that has been rising. Note that the median is not affected by the rich getting richer, no...
[08:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Learnin' to drive - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:46:10] <exec> 08└─aka, "unintended acceleration" due to driver error
[08:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02While we are projecting... - 06Google to Expand London HQ Despite Brexit - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:47:11] <exec> 08└─IF we are going to be projecting our opinions of brexit on this story, allow me to add: Google realized that real-estate, construction and salary costs were about to get much cheaper because the UK screwed themselves so it was still worth it even if the project produced less gross revenue.
[08:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02How many Brexit voters are qualified to work there - 06Google to Expand London HQ Despite Brexit - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:13] <exec> 08└─Somehow I don't think the people who voted Brexit are going to benefit from all these jaaaabs. Computer-related and based in London? Not much help. What Britain needs is an influx of businesses looking for vast quantities of unskilled labor in rural northern communities. This is an exciting opportun...
[08:47:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 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)
[08:47:27] <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.
[08:48:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02Re:What's the offer? - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 2495 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:48:45] <exec> 08└─TMB, TMB, TMB, no I get my information directly from the Republican Party. It's the platform chosen by Republicans, just like the Democratic Platform was rewritten this year by Progressives taking over the party. Are you saying the news outlets directly misrepresented the exact words of the platform...
[08:49:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score:2) 02Re:That is how you destroy a civilization - 06'Post-Truth' Declared Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:49:26] <exec> 08└─It's the natural evolution of the feeling people had that all politicians are liars. If they all lie, then claiming to tell the truth is not going to work. Instead, be like the Brexit leave campaign, be like Donald Trump. Just lie outrageously. The voters know you are lying. You know that they know...
[08:49:47] <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 - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:49:47] <exec> 08└─Fear is the mind-killer. That's not figurative either. The long-term stress of living in constant terror literally shrinks the brain.
[08:49:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02ad hominem does not mean what you think - 06'Post-Truth' Declared Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries - 870 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:49:59] <exec> 08└─> First of many Ad Hominem attacks in your post What is it about the ad hominem fallacy that dunces can't understand? Calling you a name is not an ad hominem, its just an insult. The ad hominem fallacy is "you are wrong because you are an idiot." But that's not what is going on here. Ikanreed is exp...
[08:50:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score:2) 02Re:You see fucking plenty of it here. - 06'Post-Truth' Declared Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:50:01] <exec> 08└─This is a perfect example of post-truth thinking, thanks. If everything is a lie, you can substitute reality for your own version and it's just as valid. There is no objective truth, which means there is also no objective untruth, no conspiracy theory or batshit idea can be wrong. All that matters i...
[08:50:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Sane - 06'Post-Truth' Declared Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:50:12] <exec> 08└─> So what? They shouldn't have even gotten to that point! What: No one is perfect all of the time. What matters more than accuracy is how you handle fuck-ups. > As to Vox Day, I pointed him out because you're matching the template to a "T". If he's a nutcase, what does that make you? Sane.
[08:52:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Supercomputer in your pocket; old TOP500 lists? - 06Linux Close to Finalizing its Top 500 Domination - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:52:18] <exec> 08└─Huh? My phone won't take me to the moon. What is wrong, it must be broken, should I upgrade?
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[09:44:47] <exec> 08└─In those rare times I log into facebook, I don't think I've ever seen a REAL ad. They're all for some brain booster wonder pill or vitamin supplement.
[09:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03quintessence [6227] (Score:2) 02Re:SEO spam. - 06Now that the US Elections are Over, Google and Facebook to Block their Ads on Fake News Sites - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:44:48] <exec> 08└─So where does the Onion figure in all this? Weekly World News? Fnord? Yeah yeah yeah, their platform, their rules, but this will have backlash as people are essentially getting false assurances from google that all their advertised news is vetted to be true. That can't backfire. And this essential p...
[09:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:SEO spam. - 06Now that the US Elections are Over, Google and Facebook to Block their Ads on Fake News Sites - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:44:50] <exec> 08└─Conflating parody with manipulating is willful ignorance. If your standard is perfection, everyone is a failure. And sure, it puts a target on them. Just like there is a target on other media companies. They chose to get into this business, this is part of the price. TANSTAAFL
[09:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Interesting) 02Great! - 06Now that the US Elections are Over, Google and Facebook to Block their Ads on Fake News Sites - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:53] <exec> 08└─Hopefully there will now be some accountability in the making for the federal agencies too for spreading fake news about how the terrorists are winning due to encryption. Right?
[09:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Great! - 06Now that the US Elections are Over, Google and Facebook to Block their Ads on Fake News Sites - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:44:55] <exec> 08└─> Right? That's the job of the non-fake media. And while some are uncritical kiss-asses, not all are.
[09:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:3, Insightful) 02News Media Dishonesty - 06Now that the US Elections are Over, Google and Facebook to Block their Ads on Fake News Sites - 752 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:57] <exec> 08└─If the prior arbiters were not nearly-all universally headquartered in NYC, and held urban-area views, this would never had become a problem. The Left's endless attacks on tiered government [slate.com] and everything else that isn't orthodox to big city beautiful people created a credibility gap tha...
[09:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02New term for SJW censorship - 06Now that the US Elections are Over, Google and Facebook to Block their Ads on Fake News Sites - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:59] <exec> 08└─Worth a read: The Term "Fake News" Joins "Hate Speech" As A New Tool for Ideological Speech Suppresion [coyoteblog.com]
[09:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How many to obliterate Linux - 06Disk Drive Failure Rates - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:45:09] <exec> 08└─Eighty seven dollars says you voted trump. 13 cents sez you didn't vote at all.
[09:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Social norms - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:46:00] <exec> 08└─It's called a Honda. The newer Hyundai's have it too.
[09:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm rich and I still buy used. - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:46:12] <exec> 08└─Don't we all? My GT4 is 1996 and 141k Miles. Still does 0-60 in about 4.8 seconds. Looking after your car isn't hard, it just takes a little time and some knowledge.
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[09:48:17] <exec> 08└─"As of Saturday, projections from the United States Elections Project show that there were 231,556,622 Americans eligible to vote, but 134,457,600 voted. That means that 42.1 percent didn't vote, while 58.1 percent did. The voter turnout will likely increase as the popular vote continues to be count...
[09:49:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the offer? - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:49:21] <exec> 08└─I find it helps, when thinking about fascism, to do the following little thought experiment: Imagine that you believe your world is spoiled by <hated_minority> Now imagine, that your fascist government has painlessly made all of them disappear in a cloud of smoke. Poof! What does your world look lik...
[09:49:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02You see fucking plenty of it here. - 06'Post-Truth' Declared Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries - 590 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:49:38] <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...
[09:49:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''Sowtoe'' - 06'Post-Truth' Declared Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:49:44] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure you mean "salchow" (saul-kow), named for its inventor, Ulrich Salchow. [wikipedia.org] The dude was the Michael Jordan of his day, dominating his sport. He was World Champion from 1897 through 1911, missing the gold only in 1898 and 1906. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[09:50:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Does anyone care anymore? - 06Debian Has Entered "Transition Freeze" for Squeeze - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:50:55] <exec> 08└─Might be. They also aimed to release a good 1.5 years ago ("This distribution should be ready about the time Debian Jessie is ready"), see https://devuan.org [devuan.org] I guess talk is cheap ;)
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[10:45:01] <exec> 08└─But that isn't fake. One terrorist phone or message or email couldn't be read due to encryption is all the proof needed - see the entire plan for every terrorist attack in the next decade are in there, we just can't read it, therefore the terrorists are winning due to encryption. Proved. [ The smart...
[10:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:New term for SJW censorship - 06Now that the US Elections are Over, Google and Facebook to Block their Ads on Fake News Sites - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:45:04] <exec> 08└─Not really. Some rando blogger with his panties inatwist. Seen that a million times before.
[10:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02And then they came for... - 06Now that the US Elections are Over, Google and Facebook to Block their Ads on Fake News Sites - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:07] <exec> 08└─Nobody ever thinks censorship will be used against them when they support it. never believe it will be exploited. or sold. today it's 'fake news'. tomorrow it's pirate sites. next it's places like soylent. (it's obviously ripping off slashdot a well known brand owned by a large company....)
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[10:45:09] <exec> 08└─By that logic, we are already doomed since google and facebook have refused to run ads on all kinds of content for years now. Google for over a decade. But yeah, the end is coming because refusing to fund content via advertising is censorship. BTW, you are now required to give me $100 so that I can...
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[10:45:20] <exec> 08└─For example the (former) WD Green vs WD Red.
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[10:45:43] <exec> 08└─Gaark was firing from the hip, but, then, so were you. His slip had nothing to do with the summary or America. For what it's worth, I've been to Australia and New Zealand (South Island and North Island) and don't have anything bad to say about either place. The people are lovely and the land is beau...
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[10:46:12] <exec> 08└─I have empirical evidence that it held true for some marques up to at least 1995, having two versions of the same car from that era with different transmissions. The auto has only 4 gears versus the manual's 5, but also a different final drive meaning faster engine speeds for given road speeds. I've...
[10:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Your stupid page requires JavaScript - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:46:24] <exec> 08└─Did you just admit to not understanding the definition of median? As in 50% of the population is below and 50% of the population is above. Man, you keep showing yourself to be dumber and dumber with every post. And to believe that I once that you were insightful. Turns out you are just a loud-mouthe...
[10:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Learnin' to drive - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:46:45] <exec> 08└─Unless the clutch sticks. I have personally had that experience with my first car. A 1983 nissan sentra.
[10:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:computer science has a great future... - 06Google to Expand London HQ Despite Brexit - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:47:38] <exec> 08└─Are you trying to admit you oppose racism?
[10:49:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:one-man one-vote - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:49:00] <exec> 08└─Pshaw! Yes, they do. Food is grown at Zabar's [zabars.com].
[10:49:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:one-man one-vote - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:49:02] <exec> 08└─I've never gotten that attitude from the West Coast. Washington and Oregon have too much exchange with Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Nevada, and Utah through blood ties, frequent travel, etc. California's a little different. There you have to break out the Bay Area, LA, and San Diego from the rest of the...
[10:49:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:one-man one-vote - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:49:04] <exec> 08└─I live in Brooklyn and hear East Coast natives use the term "fly-over country" with frequency. I grew up in the West and spent my childhood travelling to see relatives in Washington, Oregon, California, and the rest of the intermountain West. I even spent a good bit of time in Texas and the Deep Sou...
[10:49:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:one-man one-vote - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:49:15] <exec> 08└─That's true under the current system of water supply. I'm pretty sure California could figure out mass desalinization quickly if their feet were held to the fire.
[10:49:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:one-man one-vote - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:49:18] <exec> 08└─It's astonishing how much of the northeast has to be tasked just with trucking food and supplies in and out of NYC alone. Once you cross the George Washington Bridge or come up in New Jersey through the Lincoln or Holland tunnels, New Jersey is nothing but mile after endless mile of container depots...
[10:55:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:it separates them from the “bad” women - 06The Mechanics of Mechanophilia: Why Men Find Siri Sexy - 1610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:55:42] <exec> 08└─White dominance actually requires a pretty delicate balance. If white people want to maintain the control over black people they’ve enjoyed since the time of slavery, they can’t just use brute force. They need black people to actually like them and not resent their dominance. And so a compromise...
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[11:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Re:SEO spam. - 06Now that the US Elections are Over, Google and Facebook to Block their Ads on Fake News Sites - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:45:12] <exec> 08└─The Onion leans left, they will never be targeted.
[11:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Great! - 06Now that the US Elections are Over, Google and Facebook to Block their Ads on Fake News Sites - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:45:15] <exec> 08└─What non-fake media? Better still, what is "fake"? Is it fake to sensationalize to gain marketplace buzz? They all do it. It's a business, after all. Is it fake to adopt an unbalanced opinion-shaping narrative? They all do that too. Is it merely positing the empirically false? Maybe the core questio...
[11:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Facebook - 06Now that the US Elections are Over, Google and Facebook to Block their Ads on Fake News Sites - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:23] <exec> 08└─Facebook has been hiding right wing news for years, until they were called out for it by Louder with Crowder when they paid Facebook to advertise their articles and they did the opposite and suppressed them. Now they can continue that agenda by labeling it “Fake News.” Nice scam they got going,...
[11:45:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02Start blocking ads on youtube then - 06Now that the US Elections are Over, Google and Facebook to Block their Ads on Fake News Sites - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:26] <exec> 08└─Because youtube falls in the category 'fake news' as well: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[11:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score:2) 02Re:Social norms - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 1510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:46:29] <exec> 08└─"I have read somewhere that the best way to improve the fuel efficiency of the average driver is to put a real-time live MPG readout right in front of them." I set my '95 Vettes fuel monitor to that once. It just made me cry. In all seriousness however, I use that setting frequently, and it really d...
[11:48:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:In the UK they have maths (pl.) - 06Google to Expand London HQ Despite Brexit - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:48:01] <exec> 08└─Who works for imaginary pay? We all know that remuneration schemes are complex.
[11:48:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's the offer? - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:48:59] <exec> 08└─I'll take the experience of living through the Reagan years and the booming 80's over some economic theory. Economists can be wrong.
[11:49:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:one-man one-vote - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:49:34] <exec> 08└─Quickly enough and cheaply enough? I'm fairly dubious.
[11:52:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geoff Clare [2397] (Score:1) 02Re:Credit where credit is due... - 06Linux Close to Finalizing its Top 500 Domination - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:52:48] <exec> 08└─If your name is Huawei or Inspur, you can sell Linux and call it UNIX, and you won't be sued. Those companies have both certified their Linux systems as UNIX® and licensed the trademark. http://www.opengroup.org [opengroup.org] http://www.opengroup.org
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[12:44:49] <exec> 08└─Given the role and inherent power of the DNI, I wonder if this part of the swamp is still reserved as "Deep State Only" territory and how far the incoming swamp-drainers can go in defying the Establishment, or if in fact the whole "drain the swamp" thing is just a marketing slogan. Time will tell.
[12:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score:2) 02Re:News Media Dishonesty - 06Now that the US Elections are Over, Google and Facebook to Block their Ads on Fake News Sites - 1159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:45:12] <exec> 08└─> Hopefully some right-minded folks will make their own Googles and Facebooks and we won't need to fill the pockets of those > trafficking in opinion shaping, or at least ones that aren't opposed to the views of half the country. Is "right-minded" the opposite of "left-minded" or the opposite of "wr...
[12:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:New term for SJW censorship - 06Now that the US Elections are Over, Google and Facebook to Block their Ads on Fake News Sites - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:45:16] <exec> 08└─Some rando blogger with his panties inatwist.
[12:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02About Time - 06Now that the US Elections are Over, Google and Facebook to Block their Ads on Fake News Sites - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:22] <exec> 08└─Both companies said they will prohibit fake news websites from advertising on their platforms
[12:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Freedom of BTFO - 06Now that the US Elections are Over, Google and Facebook to Block their Ads on Fake News Sites - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:24] <exec> 08└─OTOH I still think that Google and FB should be able to censor whoever they want, it is impossible for them to get regulated without law enforcement taking over the whole infrastructure. The only regulation I would like to see would be for them to stop using propaganda terms. Google is not a search...
[12:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrNemesis [1582] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh joy - 06Disk Drive Failure Rates - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:45:36] <exec> 08└─Anecdata time... Personally we've experienced higher failure rates in our NAS racks with the WD reds than we have with the WD greens (with their idle timer disabled via idle3-tools). Only have experience from the 3TB and 6TB ranges of both to compare. Mechanically, the reds and greens are identical,...
[12:46:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Valkor [4253] 02Theft - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 127 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:51] <exec> 08└─I view it as an anti-theft feature. The last time I took it to a car wash nobody knew how to drive a stick. Pretty funny stuff.
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[13:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02likely causes - theorize? - 06Astronomers Measure Roundest Known Star - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:47] <exec> 08└─I wonder whether it's a lack of processes present otherwhere, or additional processes, or conditions that just smooth out processes, that lead to the more nearly circular shape. Any planetary/stellar geologists have a theory?
[13:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03quintessence [6227] (Score:2) 02Re:SEO spam. - 06Now that the US Elections are Over, Google and Facebook to Block their Ads on Fake News Sites - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:45:12] <exec> 08└─Manipulation is in the eye of the beholder. It isn't like this is black and white, from news commentary to even satire. Poe's law exists for a reason. The only thing willfully ignorant is thinking this won't be abused. It's not like google and facebook are apolitical. And even the most gullible woul...
[13:45:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02New term for SJW censorship - 06Now that the US Elections are Over, Google and Facebook to Block their Ads on Fake News Sites - 119 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:20] <exec> 08└─Worth a read: The Term "Fake News" Joins "Hate Speech" As A New Tool for Ideological Speech Suppresion [coyoteblog.com]
[13:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh joy - 06Disk Drive Failure Rates - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:45:42] <exec> 08└─Speaking of anecdata, of the 4 drives I have purchased in the last 10 years for personal use, 2 were WD, and they both died early. I bought a WD black to replace the WD green when it died after just 9 months, then the black failed 4 years later and I decided I definitely didn't want another WD, and...
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[14:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Where's the queue? - 06Nested Pyramids Discovered Within Mayan Kukulkan Pyramid - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:54] <exec> 08└─Queue the "Yo dawg..." jokes in 1... 2... 3...
[14:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02That's the Eye of Providence's matryoshka doll. - 06Nested Pyramids Discovered Within Mayan Kukulkan Pyramid - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:55] <exec> 08└─Please make sure to put it back together when you're done playing or the all-seeing eye will focus it's gaze on you and prevent you from returning the ring to Mordor by having the freemasons audit your taxes. There. a pi entendre with tau layers.
[14:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:likely causes - theorize? - 06Astronomers Measure Roundest Known Star - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:05] <exec> 08└─Earth is getting rounder and rounder with time[1], supposedly Newton predicted this would lead to rising sea levels as time goes on "...if our earth were not a little higher around the equator than at the poles, the seas would subside at the poles and, by ascending in the region of the equator, woul...
[14:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:likely causes - theorize? - 06Astronomers Measure Roundest Known Star - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:07] <exec> 08└─I supposed it was simply a very slow rate of rotation. The sun's rotational period is 25 days. Maybe this star takes a year or longer. At the other extreme is Altair, with one of the fastest rates of rotation known: 8.9 hours.
[14:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score:2) 02Re:Interesting Test - 06US Spy Chief James Clapper Resigns - 666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:16] <exec> 08└─I think the trajectory says that it's marketing, from Jamie Dimon being an adviser and in running for Treasury Secretary, to the latest appointment of Mike Pompeo to head the CIA. It's going to be business as usual in practical terms, but the rhetoric will be more pleasing to the people who didn't l...
[14:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Interesting Test - 06US Spy Chief James Clapper Resigns - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:18] <exec> 08└─This is certainly a position where you want to bring in someone who knows what they're doing. "Drain the swamp" can run perilously close to "don't know what they're doing".
[14:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02don't let the door hit you in the ass you bald #@$ - 06US Spy Chief James Clapper Resigns - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:21] <exec> 08└─good riddance professional liar.
[14:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:don't let the door hit you in the ass you bald - 06US Spy Chief James Clapper Resigns - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:23] <exec> 08└─all hail/heil the new professonal liar.
[14:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02ok, google - 06Now that the US Elections are Over, Google and Facebook to Block their Ads on Fake News Sites - 1114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:57] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, if only it weren't for that “fake news” (WaPo excepted of course!) we'd have unlocked the “female head of state” achievement. Yeah, I get how upset y'all are. I've been on double secret probation since the election. Then why the hell did you nominate Wall Street's lizard person liais...
[14:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score:2) 02Fascinating! - 06Subsurface Ocean Could Explain Pluto's "Heart" Feature Aligning with Charon - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:22] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the article. Always nice to read such things. Don't have much to comment on because it is a bit beyond my knowledge, but a great read none the less!
[14:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Social norms - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:47:05] <exec> 08└─Given two cars, with all the same specs, except one was auto and the other standard, the standard would get at least 1/4 mpg better mileage, and sometimes 2 mpg better mileage.
[14:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:The Disappearing Car - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:47:28] <exec> 08└─China does have that problem
[14:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Learnin' to drive - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:47:40] <exec> 08└─Subaru used to have a "hill holder" where if you step on the brakes with the clutch petal down, the brakes will still be on when you switch to the gas pedal. As you ease up on the clutch, the brakes release. It's basically a line-lock.
[14:47:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:nice - 06Tesla ‘Easter Egg’ Makes the World’s Quickest, Currently-Produced Car Even Quicker [Updated] - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:47:54] <exec> 08└─Uh... Because we're all geeks and/or nerds?
[14:49:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:one-man one-vote - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:49:44] <exec> 08└─Who knew??! My goodness, they're really expert at it -- look at those prices! The bones of a conversation I had *twice* while living in SoCal, with nominal adults of apparently-average education: Them (munching hamburger): Killing animals is wrong! Me: So where'd you get that hamburger?? Them: McDon...
[14:50:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:one-man one-vote - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:50:02] <exec> 08└─Do we believe in the principle of one-man one-vote or not?
[14:51:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score:2) 02Re:Does anyone care anymore? - 06Debian Has Entered "Transition Freeze" for Squeeze - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:51:40] <exec> 08└─Well, I'm using Devuan since the first alpha on my desktop, and had zero problems so far.
[14:52:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:They mean absolute monarchy. - 06China Censors References to Kim Jong Un's Weight - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:52:28] <exec> 08└─cultural dilution via immigration just isn't going to happen.
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[15:45:01] <exec> 08└─What country counts down "1... 2... 3" instead of "3... 2... 1"?
[15:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:Where's the queue? - 06Nested Pyramids Discovered Within Mayan Kukulkan Pyramid - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:02] <exec> 08└─Australia?
[15:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:4, Informative) 02Do this cheesy tourist thing - 06Nested Pyramids Discovered Within Mayan Kukulkan Pyramid - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:06] <exec> 08└─Went to Uxmal and Chichen Itza in the mid-80s. At night they had this thing where they play music and play different colored lights on the pyramids. Sounds cheesy as hell, I don't know why we decided to do it. Short story short, it was fricken awesome. The ruins themselves give you a real sense of h...
[15:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score:2) 02"Yo dawg" jokes? - 06Nested Pyramids Discovered Within Mayan Kukulkan Pyramid - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:08] <exec> 08└─Seriously? What are you, 12 years old?
[15:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:"Yo dawg" jokes? - 06Nested Pyramids Discovered Within Mayan Kukulkan Pyramid - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:10] <exec> 08└─I didn't do that. Check the original submission.
[15:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Are they SURE? - 06Astronomers Measure Roundest Known Star - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:21] <exec> 08└─I mean this star is 5,000 light years away. That's quite far. Are they positive this phenomenon is not simple a..... rounding error?
[15:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:Are they SURE? - 06Astronomers Measure Roundest Known Star - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:23] <exec> 08└─That was my first thought too. So they say the deviation is 3km, and this star is 5,000 light years away. Just how small of a fraction of a minute of angle do you need to mark 3km at 5kly? So what's the margin for error on that observation? What are the confidence intervals?
[15:45:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Roundest natural object? - 06Astronomers Measure Roundest Known Star - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:26] <exec> 08└─Electrons are known to have an out-of-roundness below 1e-15 or so. This star doesn't come close. https://www.google.com [google.com]
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[15:45:36] <exec> 08└─For a long time we used to feel obliged vote for the lesser evil, now we're voting for different flavors of evil.
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[15:45:38] <exec> 08└─I was being hyperbolic when using the term evil, and really only as a reference to well known disposition of 'pick the lesser evil' I do in essence agree with your point though. However, I completely accept I am in a minority and my views are not going to be represented, because I don't really have...
[15:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Interesting Test - 06US Spy Chief James Clapper Resigns - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:40] <exec> 08└─Well, yes and no. Trump seems to be basically eliminating the middlemen between the government and the rich people that own it.
[15:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score:2) 02Re:Interesting Test - 06US Spy Chief James Clapper Resigns - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:42] <exec> 08└─That is one way of making a smaller and more efficient government for sure, it's good to have a campaign promise he can stick to.
[15:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03tisI [5866] (Score:2) 02Re:Interesting Test - 06US Spy Chief James Clapper Resigns - 676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:45] <exec> 08└─Just as long as Trump chooses to not go the route of becoming the next convicted war criminal repuglican president we may be okay. Safe to assume your civil rights, constitutional protections and amendments will be under assault under the new repuglican rule just as with the last number of nazi pres...
[15:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Interesting Test - 06US Spy Chief James Clapper Resigns - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:48] <exec> 08└─More important than having someone who knows what they're doing is having someone is doesn't want to violate the constitutional rights of hundreds of millions of Americans and even more foreigners.
[15:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Interesting Test - 06US Spy Chief James Clapper Resigns - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:50] <exec> 08└─Constitutional rights? What constitutional rights? Most of the US population lives in a Border Zone where you have no rights, constitutional or otherwise! [aclu.org]
[15:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:don't let the door hit you in the ass you bald - 06US Spy Chief James Clapper Resigns - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:54] <exec> 08└─The thing is, most white-collar people are professional liars [dilbert.com]. Spies are simply more able to get away with it because everything they're talking about is a closely guarded secret.
[15:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:New term for SJW censorship - 06Now that the US Elections are Over, Google and Facebook to Block their Ads on Fake News Sites - 2045 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:24] <exec> 08└─I agree that there seems to be a lot of stuff conflated under the term "fake news" right now, from parody and satire to deliberate ideological lies, to sites which simply have a strong political slant (but which tend to interpret facts and stats "creatively" sometimes). That last category, as discus...
[15:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:And then they came for... - 06Now that the US Elections are Over, Google and Facebook to Block their Ads on Fake News Sites - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:27] <exec> 08└─The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. - H.L. Mencken
[15:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02good little traitors - 06Now that the US Elections are Over, Google and Facebook to Block their Ads on Fake News Sites - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:34] <exec> 08└─so now we need facebook and google to filter our news for us? supporters of this shit deserve what's coming. you are disgusting, groveling slaves. way to tow the party, csmonitor! not that i'm surprised. next the powers that be will have all the mega churches preaching censorship as religion, if the...
[15:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:good little traitors - 06Now that the US Elections are Over, Google and Facebook to Block their Ads on Fake News Sites - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:37] <exec> 08└─I'm wondering just how good an idea the NSA's and CIA's enablers now think it was to give them a free pass on their crimes and even encourage them to do more. Do you think they're re-thinking that issue at all? How sanguine are they now about normalizing assassination-by-drone? Extraordinary renditi...
[15:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How many to obliterate Linux - 06Disk Drive Failure Rates - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:47] <exec> 08└─How many disk failures would it take to obliterate every copy of Linux source code everywhere?
[15:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedGreen [888] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh joy - 06Disk Drive Failure Rates - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:54] <exec> 08└─"In the near 30 years I've been using hard drives, the only failures I've had are those 2 WD drives. I still have most of my old drives and they all still work." Well in my thirty + years of using them just about every seagate I have owned in the 1tb and above size have died still have one 1.5 and 1...
[15:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Oh joy - 06Disk Drive Failure Rates - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:56] <exec> 08└─IIRC they use datacenter drives for the hitachi drives. so the standard whining must be from wd/wd users. maybe their commercial drives are too expensive? either way i don't give a shit. i buy the hitachi.
[15:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Anecdata - 06Disk Drive Failure Rates - 1265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:58] <exec> 08└─150 machines running WD Blue's in a high-use end-user environment (boarding school). Failures number in the single digits, 3 years later. By comparison, Seagate's sitting in relatively idle NAS or servers. Failure rate: Absolute. Every single drive. RAID array, or not. Single disk, or not. 24/7 usag...
[15:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score:2) 02Re:alt-pizza? - 06Domino's Delivers -- by Drone - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:47:29] <exec> 08└─And in a related innovation, Domino's Pizza will now be able to make their pizzas fresher by using drones to directly drop squirrels in to traffic on a road near you. But how they will get the same "sat in the sun for 10 hours" taste remains to be seen.
[15:47:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Social norms - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:47:49] <exec> 08└─I guess they like to listen to the engine sound to tell how fast they are accelerating. Of course, the early CVTs weren't very reliable either, and that has improved quite a bit.
[15:48:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:electric cars - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:48:03] <exec> 08└─More importantly, various types of electric motors (including brushless DC motors and polyphase induction motors) can be run at low speeds without loss of power or torque. Since you can simply adjust the rotational speed of the motor, it is no longer as important to be able to change gear ratios.
[15:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The rich, of course - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:48:15] <exec> 08└─You should really give everything about 15-30 seconds after you start before you beat on the darn thing.
[15:48:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:Learnin' to drive - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:48:34] <exec> 08└─That's kind of how I learnt it; but I've never on purpose operated the brake and throttle with one foot. I still hate to do that manoeuvre, since nobody seems to keep proper distance in this country, they clamber right up my ass, expecting that my car will move forward rather than backward crashing...
[15:49:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not the fastest or quickest... - 06Tesla ‘Easter Egg’ Makes the World’s Quickest, Currently-Produced Car Even Quicker [Updated] - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:49:01] <exec> 08└─Egypt's police force has Lamborghini, McLaren, Aston Martin, Bentley and Ferrari. And they want billions of dollars for a financial bailout from USA.
[15:49:48] <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 - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:49:48] <exec> 08└─Data wants to be free. Just ask anyone who is trying to share it ...
[15:50:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's the offer? - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:50:22] <exec> 08└─we're behind in our infrastructure repairs because the taxes are "given" to thieves, who, of course, don't spend it on what they are supposed to. regarding 1%ers: next it will be those damn 10%ers, then 50% ers. taxes make a country work? it should be quite obvious to anyone with any brains that the...
[15:50:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's the offer? - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:50:23] <exec> 08└─Democrats fight pointless causes by their very nature? I sort of thought the same thing about far right leaning convservatives trying to shape the world to fit their view. Democrats often want to blemish this view; conservatives want to wipe the slate of all that they deem offensive to them. There i...
[15:50:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:one-man one-vote - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:51:00] <exec> 08└─When the alternative is dying of thirst, the "cheap enough" calculus changes quite a bit. Also, since dying of thirst only takes 3 days, "quickly enough" would have a good deal of pressure behind it. So, bye-bye Mono Lake, hello massive chain of nuclear power plants powering desalinization plants. I...
[15:52:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Sane - 06'Post-Truth' Declared Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:52:11] <exec> 08└─What: No one is perfect all of the time.
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[16:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Great Result - 06Florida Voters Defeat Deceptive Utility-Backed Solar Amendment - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:10] <exec> 08└─It's a great result for Floridians, but it's certain that the utilities will try again and keep trying until they succeed or they collapse. The same goes for every other market in the country. Solar has reached grid parity in about 60% of the states now, so they have no choice.
[16:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03BenJeremy [6392] (Score:2, Informative) 02Thinly veiled? - 06Florida Voters Defeat Deceptive Utility-Backed Solar Amendment - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:12] <exec> 08└─I don't think it was "thinly" veiled at all... that implies it was easily understood to be deceptive. If anything, this was "thickly" veiled.
[16:45:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score:3, Informative) 02In other news - 06Florida Voters Defeat Deceptive Utility-Backed Solar Amendment - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:14] <exec> 08└─In other news, Florida also voted overwhelming to approve constitutional amendment allowing medical marijuana.
[16:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02ballot results - 06Florida Voters Defeat Deceptive Utility-Backed Solar Amendment - 1431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:16] <exec> 08└─Too busy/lazy to submit a follow-up days ago but here it is: 2016 U.S. Elections: The Ballot Initiatives [soylentnews.org] All cannabis measures were approved except for Arizona's recreational. Oklahoma's SQ 780 to reclassify some drug crimes as misdemeanors was approved. Colorado's assisted suicide...
[16:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score:1) 02Pennsylvania - 06Florida Voters Defeat Deceptive Utility-Backed Solar Amendment - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:18] <exec> 08└─Less exciting, but I was annoyed at PA's maximum retirement age for judges amendment. On the ballot it said it would "require judges to retire at age 75" (paraphrased); it failed to mention that they were currently required to retire at 70. It was not introducing a new limitation, as suggested by th...
[16:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Pennsylvania - 06Florida Voters Defeat Deceptive Utility-Backed Solar Amendment - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:20] <exec> 08└─I'm not really a big fan of mandatory retirement age for judges. There are judges like John Paul Stevens who were very effective into their 90's, and others who go senile long before age 70. What I am a fan of is set terms for judges, with re-appointment allowed. For example, I'd like SCOTUS judges...
[16:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Caballo Negro [1794] (Score:1) 02The voting figures - 06Florida Voters Defeat Deceptive Utility-Backed Solar Amendment - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:23] <exec> 08└─If, like me, others are wondering what the voting figures on Amendment 1 were, there were 50.78% for, 49.22% against. But it failed because of that 60% requirement.
[16:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Re:likely causes - theorize? - 06Astronomers Measure Roundest Known Star - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:46] <exec> 08└─I supposed it was simply a very slow rate of rotation.
[16:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:Are they SURE? - 06Astronomers Measure Roundest Known Star - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:49] <exec> 08└─TFS says the confidence interval is 1km. It also says they spent 4 years making the measurement.
[16:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Get ready... - 06Astronomers Measure Roundest Known Star - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:52] <exec> 08└─Who is... YOUR MOTHER, Trebek
[16:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdccdevel [1329] (Score:2) 02How did they account for the rotation axis? - 06Astronomers Measure Roundest Known Star - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:55] <exec> 08└─How can they tell the rotation axis of the star? Since the star is deformed by rotational inertia, it seems like if earth is directly in line with the stars axis of rotation, wouldn't the star appear almost perfectly round? Also, it seems to me like some form of precession could cause the stars axis...
[16:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score:2) 02Re:SEO spam. - 06Now that the US Elections are Over, Google and Facebook to Block their Ads on Fake News Sites - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:34] <exec> 08└─Actually, there is some black. There was lots of completely false news, such as for example The Pope endorsing Trump. It's not political bias to filter out complete lies.
[16:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score:2) 02Re:SEO spam. - 06Now that the US Elections are Over, Google and Facebook to Block their Ads on Fake News Sites - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:36] <exec> 08└─As the Fake News problem leading up to the election was universally right-wing, that's probably true.
[16:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondoctor [2963] (Score:1) 02Re:Great! - 06Now that the US Elections are Over, Google and Facebook to Block their Ads on Fake News Sites - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:41] <exec> 08└─>Maybe the core question is, "What is journalism?". Now we're getting somewhere... it's a very interesting question. Journalism is not a business in the sense that it's purpose is to create wealth, and holds to different ethical standards. A frightening amount of what is represented as 'journalism'...
[16:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Great! - 06Now that the US Elections are Over, Google and Facebook to Block their Ads on Fake News Sites - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:44] <exec> 08└─Journalism requires standards and accountability. If you won't print retractions, if you won't fire people who fail to apply standards like fact-checking, then its not journalism.
[16:46:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:New term for SJW censorship - 06Now that the US Elections are Over, Google and Facebook to Block their Ads on Fake News Sites - 841 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:53] <exec> 08└─The interesting (scary) thing to me is that it provides a path to delegitimize any sort of news that's not sponsored by one of the major networks. Someone actually finds something out and hands it off to the "correct news" orgs only for them to ignore it because it doesn't satisfy their narrative, a...
[16:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Re:And then they came for... - 06Now that the US Elections are Over, Google and Facebook to Block their Ads on Fake News Sites - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:57] <exec> 08└─Today it's 'fake news'. tomorrow it's pirate sites. next it's places like soylent. (it's obviously ripping off slashdot....)
[16:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03oldmac31310 [4521] (Score:1) 02Re:ok, google - 06Now that the US Elections are Over, Google and Facebook to Block their Ads on Fake News Sites - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:05] <exec> 08└─off your meds?
[16:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02We know where this is going - 06Now that the US Elections are Over, Google and Facebook to Block their Ads on Fake News Sites - 1854 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:09] <exec> 08└─We know how this is going to end up. Not in years, not months, days. We see Twitter out front already wildly swinging the banhammer at the exact same time the other two monsters of the midway announce efforts. If they really just dropped the few really egregious examples of sites registering domain...
[16:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:1) 02Re:We know where this is going - 06Now that the US Elections are Over, Google and Facebook to Block their Ads on Fake News Sites - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:11] <exec> 08└─I feel like the last question is checking if we read your linked articles a few days ago...
[16:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03oldmac31310 [4521] (Score:1) 02Who wrote this shit? - 06Now that the US Elections are Over, Google and Facebook to Block their Ads on Fake News Sites - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:14] <exec> 08└─Seriously.
[16:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh joy - 06Disk Drive Failure Rates - 2056 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:31] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't say the data isn't without use for those running server farms but I WOULD say its pretty useless for the average use case of a consumer hard drive. What they are doing is buying COTS consumer drives and then slamming them hard 24/7 in a role that they were never intended to do and publish...
[16:47:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Anecdata - 06Disk Drive Failure Rates - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:33] <exec> 08└─FWIW, reads also use up the usable lifetime of SSDs, but at a much slower rate. It is also worth running SMART tests on SSDs every so often because they use the time to fix some problems before they become big problems. Also, an offline data collection is probably necessary to update some of the val...
[16:49:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03fliptop [1666] (Score:2) 02Re:Learnin' to drive - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:49:08] <exec> 08└─release the hand brake while feeding a little throttle and releasing the clutch
[16:49:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:Not the fastest or quickest... - 06Tesla ‘Easter Egg’ Makes the World’s Quickest, Currently-Produced Car Even Quicker [Updated] - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:49:37] <exec> 08└─Sidewalks? Ours prefer to run their SUVs through peoples' living rooms...
[16:51:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the offer? - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:51:03] <exec> 08└─Have you met a feminist lately? The qualities of tolerance and empathy are not within them. At all. And, unlike the evangelicals on the Republican side, feminists are not a minority within the Democrats.
[16:51:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03fliptop [1666] (Score:2) 02Re:one-man one-vote - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:51:14] <exec> 08└─congress represents business interests
[16:52:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Re:You see fucking plenty of it here. - 06'Post-Truth' Declared Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries - 1760 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:52:38] <exec> 08└─As an outside observer reading this discussion, I facepalmed heavily when I saw how this brick of text started out: "Dude, you did not just pull out the "Ad Hominem" whine after saying huge groups of people are liars because someone else said someone else said so. I mean, you did, because your a hyp...
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[17:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02don't tell me... - 06JPMorgan Chase to pay ~$264 Million in Settlement - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:00] <exec> 08└─...they will write it off as a bidness expense, so -effectively- all the rest of us end up paying the fine... nice...
[17:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score:2) 02Re:don't tell me... - 06JPMorgan Chase to pay ~$264 Million in Settlement - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:01] <exec> 08└─That brings up this years legal expenses for JP Morgan up to around $1.43bn dollars, before the cost of lawyers... I'm sure lessons will be learned and new safeguards will be introduced to stop rogue traders, departments, divisions, subsidiaries from going outside the company policy and understood i...
[17:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Cultural Superiority - 06JPMorgan Chase to pay ~$264 Million in Settlement - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:03] <exec> 08└─Asian businesses value personal ties because you're less likely to screw over someone who can screw over one of your close relatives. Why should our cut-throat no-holds-barred capitalism be forced upon those countries?
[17:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02quid pro quo - 06JPMorgan Chase to pay ~$264 Million in Settlement - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:05] <exec> 08└─Aren't you one of those meritocracy, hire-the-most-qualified-for-the-job types? If the most important qualification for the job is your family ties, that's no meritocracy at all. Besides, these people weren't hired for actual work. They were just put on the payroll as a kickback. One of the internal...
[17:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:In other news - 06Florida Voters Defeat Deceptive Utility-Backed Solar Amendment - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:17] <exec> 08└─In other, OTHER news, they voted for Trump! Getting high, and getting by in Florida!!! :)
[17:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:ballot results - 06Florida Voters Defeat Deceptive Utility-Backed Solar Amendment - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:19] <exec> 08└─https://ballotpedia.org/Florida_Medical_Marijuana_Legalization,_Amendment_2_(2016)#Campaign_finance [ballotpedia.org] Top donor in favor of Florida medical cannabis was John Morgan, a prominent attorney who has been spearheading the issue in Florida. The top opponent was Sheldon Adelson, followed by...
[17:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:2) 02Periodic testing - 06Florida Voters Defeat Deceptive Utility-Backed Solar Amendment - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:23] <exec> 08└─Another possibility is to periodically test judges over 65 for cognitive impairment, and fire any judge that turns out to be clearly impaired in a manner that isn't reversible with diet or the like. It'd be like the eye test to renew a driver's license.
[17:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Periodic testing - 06Florida Voters Defeat Deceptive Utility-Backed Solar Amendment - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:25] <exec> 08└─That addresses the senility issue. It doesn't address the problem with lifetime appointments, where the politicians try to appoint younger less-experienced judges so that their pick will have a longer appointment term than a more experienced and thus older judge would have.
[17:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:1) 02Re:Periodic testing - 06Florida Voters Defeat Deceptive Utility-Backed Solar Amendment - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:28] <exec> 08└─There's no magic line at 65, if you're going to have cognitive testing you should start on day 1 and keep checking periodically after, regardless of age.
[17:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02It wasn't a bad amendment - 06Florida Voters Defeat Deceptive Utility-Backed Solar Amendment - 771 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:31] <exec> 08└─The argument the utilities were making was reasonable, namely that the wholesale price they would have to pay for electricity sent back to the grid doesn't cover the overhead of keeping up the infrastructure. Some have argued that the amount that will be sent back to the grid would be pretty negligi...
[17:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:It wasn't a bad amendment - 06Florida Voters Defeat Deceptive Utility-Backed Solar Amendment - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:33] <exec> 08└─yeah, damn us stupid citizens for not voting to benefit fictitious legal entities over the interests of actual people... authoritarian suckup, those are OUR rights of way the utility company gets for free...
[17:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:It wasn't a bad amendment - 06Florida Voters Defeat Deceptive Utility-Backed Solar Amendment - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:35] <exec> 08└─As we can see, it's always a big gamble with Florida since you have to get 60% to pass your ballot measure. That is usually a tough hurdle compared to 50% in other states. Enough voters were deceived on the solar amendment to get it past 50%. Florida medical cannabis failed with 57% in 2014, but it...
[17:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Where's the queue? - 06Nested Pyramids Discovered Within Mayan Kukulkan Pyramid - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:45] <exec> 08└─I was thinking more along the lines of the joke being: "Nested? Must have been built by the Russians!"
[17:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:"Yo dawg" jokes? - 06Nested Pyramids Discovered Within Mayan Kukulkan Pyramid - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:51] <exec> 08└─OK OK no dawg. Pyramidception?
[17:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Interesting Test - 06US Spy Chief James Clapper Resigns - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:23] <exec> 08└─Your points would be much more effective and much less flamebait if you avoided words like, "repuglican," "raygun," "baby bush," "dubya," and, "the donald." But, troll's gotta troll, eh?
[17:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Edward Snowden for Director of National Intelligen - 06US Spy Chief James Clapper Resigns - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:30] <exec> 08└─Edward Snowden for Director of National Intelligence. And Trump's replacement pick: Mike Pompeo. On record saying Snowden deserved the death penalty, opposes closing Guantanamo, and supports even more domestic surveillance. Keep draining that swamp by adding more water. [commondreams....
[17:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:News Media Dishonesty - 06Now that the US Elections are Over, Google and Facebook to Block their Ads on Fake News Sites - 1224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:47:02] <exec> 08└─Come to gab.ai and see how it works. The only censorship from the system itself is for things that are illegal and would bring liability to Gab itself. They then give YOU tools to filter what you get and YOU are free to use or not use them as you think wise. That is how the Right builds social media...
[17:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:New term for SJW censorship - 06Now that the US Elections are Over, Google and Facebook to Block their Ads on Fake News Sites - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:47:08] <exec> 08└─And to some people, it's become hard to even figure out what's parody or serious anymore.
[17:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:We know where this is going - 06Now that the US Elections are Over, Google and Facebook to Block their Ads on Fake News Sites - 1134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:47:23] <exec> 08└─how is this different from draining the swamp? I'd much rather people did nice things than bad things, but I can tell you this -- if soylent ever accepts money to promote political ads, I'll visit here as much as I do twitter -- which is never. I dont need a social machine shaping my bubble, I alrea...
[17:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02As long as... - 06Now that the US Elections are Over, Google and Facebook to Block their Ads on Fake News Sites - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:26] <exec> 08└─It is very telling how the conservative user base comes out of the woodwork about potential censorship by those "leftist" corporations, but complain about shady business practices done to maximize their profit and they reply with, "It is their job to maximize profit!". So private businesses have the...
[17:47:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Anecdata - 06Disk Drive Failure Rates - 882 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:47:47] <exec> 08└─I have found the seagate constellation series of disk drive to be, by far, the most reliable they sell. I had a hybdrid drive fail on me after 3 years; it had a 2 year warranty. It was light use (signifcant other's desktop).The constellations are still going--in my desktop. I have western digital bl...
[17:48:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:alt-pizza? - 06Domino's Delivers -- by Drone - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:48:18] <exec> 08└─It comes from cuckold, meaning a man whose wife is cheating on him. The alt-right uses it because it perfectly hits that combination of hypocrisy, projection, inner insecurity, sexual dominance ritual, and satisfying monosyllabilic-ness. I'll bet you it fires the same parts of the brain swearing doe...
[17:48:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Social norms - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:48:40] <exec> 08└─Whether it's on the highway in 5th (I badly need a sixth), or in the canyon in 3rd, the noise of the engine tells me how fast I'm going, so I don't need to look down at the tach. I also have actual physical (cheap-plastic) controls, so I can set anything while keeping my eyes on the road, even when...
[17:48:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:electric cars - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 785 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:48:55] <exec> 08└─> various types of electric motors (including brushless DC motors and polyphase induction motors) can be run at low speeds without loss of power or torque. Since you can simply adjust the rotational speed of the motor, it is no longer as important to be able to change gear ratios. Don't be so sure,...
[17:49:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:The rich, of course - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:49:08] <exec> 08└─What is it with women like that? WTF are they doing in there anyway? Messing around with their makeup or something?
[17:51:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:What's the offer? - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 469 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:51:21] <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...
[17:51:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Boxer is a fucking shill. - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:51:26] <exec> 08└─Well I rooted for Bernie in the primaries, but he wasn't exactly a "real" Democrat either.
[17:51:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Reziac [2489] 02Re:one-man one-vote - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 110 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:51:39] <exec> 08└─This is a patent lie, since they actually have NO idea where their food is grown. Signed, a flyover redneck ;)
[17:51:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:one-man one-vote - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:52:00] <exec> 08└─Indeed but I wasn't speaking of "can it be done" cheap enough but of "can it be done in such a way as the average citizen can afford the water it produces" cheap enough.
[17:52:44] <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 - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:52:44] <exec> 08└─Not too much, but you're gonna love this: I'm an editor now :) Still training but in a few days I'll be helping the flow of stories along.
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[18:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:2, Funny) 02Re:don't tell me... - 06JPMorgan Chase to pay ~$264 Million in Settlement - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:05] <exec> 08└─So what? The point of the SEC is merely to engender trust in financial institutions. They don't need funding for that.
[18:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:don't tell me... - 06JPMorgan Chase to pay ~$264 Million in Settlement - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:06] <exec> 08└─How do you do enforcement if you have no one to assign to any cases? And how do you litigate cases if you don't have lawyers to litigate? The SEC chairman saw the writing on the wall and knew that they were going to be doing squat under the next administration, and she just resigned [washingtonpost....
[18:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: quid pro quo - 06JPMorgan Chase to pay ~$264 Million in Settlement - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:10] <exec> 08└─My family is rich, therefore they must have earned it. If they wouldn't have earned it, they wouldn't be rich. Similarly, I am a member of my family, therefore I earned the right to be rich too because my family earned that right.
[18:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: quid pro quo - 06JPMorgan Chase to pay ~$264 Million in Settlement - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:13] <exec> 08└─Well human nature has us protecting and helping this close to us, it is the basis of community / society. The best solution is to fix our economic systems so that such behavior has minimal impact. No one should NEED to get their son a decent job. This is an easily fixed scenario, but way too much of...
[18:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re: quid pro quo - 06JPMorgan Chase to pay ~$264 Million in Settlement - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:15] <exec> 08└─My grandfather was king. Therefore he must have earned it. If he hasn't earned it, he wouldn't have been king. Similarly, I am a member of the royal family. Therefore, I earned the right to be king too because my family earned that right.
[18:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score:2) 02Re:Cultural Superiority - 06JPMorgan Chase to pay ~$264 Million in Settlement - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:17] <exec> 08└─If you can't 'do business' in another country without violating laws and regulations where your business is legally based, then perhaps you shouldn't do business with those countries. There are plenty of cultural variations on business norms around the world, and if you're operating in another count...
[18:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Need to tie up loose ends - 06JPMorgan Chase to pay ~$264 Million in Settlement - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:19] <exec> 08└─Before Jamie Dimon's confirmation hearings as Treasury Secretary.
[18:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:ballot results - 06Florida Voters Defeat Deceptive Utility-Backed Solar Amendment - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:37] <exec> 08└─Maine established statewide ranked-choice voting. That should be fun.
[18:45:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It wasn't a bad amendment - 06Florida Voters Defeat Deceptive Utility-Backed Solar Amendment - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:48] <exec> 08└─Are you deliberately obtuse, or just naturally stupid? Perhaps you can't read and hyperventilate at the same time, so take a few breaths, wipe the spittle off of your screen, and re-read what was written. It was simply stating what the argument was, and it did not disparage in any way the intelligen...
[18:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:1) 02Re:It wasn't a bad amendment - 06Florida Voters Defeat Deceptive Utility-Backed Solar Amendment - 981 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:50] <exec> 08└─It was eminently reasonable. Imagine if everyone put in enough solar to cover their needs and trickle back into the grid every day. The electric company is obligated to pay top dollar on that trickle-back, which they really don't have any use for. They are also obligated to maintain the grid, and su...
[18:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It wasn't a bad amendment - 06Florida Voters Defeat Deceptive Utility-Backed Solar Amendment - 709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:52] <exec> 08└─That is quite a narrative you just created. There are plenty of non-wealthy folks who install solar, it often makes financial sense to reduce utility bills. As for the energy companies, sure it can lead to a real problem if they don't earn enough to maintain the system. However, I personally don't w...
[18:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Do this cheesy tourist thing - 06Nested Pyramids Discovered Within Mayan Kukulkan Pyramid - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:06] <exec> 08└─It was sad to read that you can't climb El Castillo anymore. I understand why they need to protect the pyramid (or, apparently, idiots from themselves), but the view from up there is a very very different perspective on the site. And Disney/Six_Flags could learn something about thrill rides from tho...
[18:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02da dawg trippin' - 06Nested Pyramids Discovered Within Mayan Kukulkan Pyramid - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:10] <exec> 08└─Yo dawg, what yo prob with 12-year olds?!
[18:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03pvanhoof [4638] (Score:2) 02Re:Edward Snowden for Director of National Intelli - 06US Spy Chief James Clapper Resigns - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:51] <exec> 08└─Just a small correction on this: "President-elect Donald Trump has reportedly chosen the hawkish Tea Party Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.) to serve as head of the CIA.". James Clapper was NSA, not CIA.
[18:46:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02the clapper - 06US Spy Chief James Clapper Resigns - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:52] <exec> 08└─clap on. clap off. the clapper.
[18:47:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] 02Re:SEO spam. - 06Now that the US Elections are Over, Google and Facebook to Block their Ads on Fake News Sites - 170 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:14] <exec> 08└─Actually, there is some black. There was lots of completely false news, such as for example The Pope endorsing Trump. It's not political bias to filter out complete lies.
[18:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03quintessence [6227] (Score:2) 02Re:SEO spam. - 06Now that the US Elections are Over, Google and Facebook to Block their Ads on Fake News Sites - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:15] <exec> 08└─Just to be clear: this is taking an article researched by Buzzfeed http://www.nationalreview.com [nationalreview.com] especially when Clinton was claiming Pepe was a symbol of white nationalism. You sure you want to die on that...
[18:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:SEO spam. - 06Now that the US Elections are Over, Google and Facebook to Block their Ads on Fake News Sites - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:17] <exec> 08└─Yet parody shows are considered news for some. For example 'the daily show' and 'last week tonight'. Those shows are comedy shows dressed up as news organizations. They even repeatedly admit as much. But they once and awhile look in the camera and go 'i am being serious'. So they are 'news'.
[18:47:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:SEO spam. - 06Now that the US Elections are Over, Google and Facebook to Block their Ads on Fake News Sites - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:19] <exec> 08└─Conflating parody with manipulating is willful ignorance.
[18:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03evil_aaronm [5747] (Score:1) 02Re:News Media Dishonesty - 06Now that the US Elections are Over, Google and Facebook to Block their Ads on Fake News Sites - 684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:31] <exec> 08└─"Win the argument"? The Right's argument is that "government should be small," but yet intrusive in our personal lives - dictating against abortion, gay marriage and butt sex, as if any of that concerns them. The Right's argument is that minorities and non-Christian religions are certainly *not* equ...
[18:47:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:About Time - 06Now that the US Elections are Over, Google and Facebook to Block their Ads on Fake News Sites - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:45] <exec> 08└─“I think Trump is in the White House because of me. His followers don’t fact-check anything — they’ll post everything, believe anything,” Horner, 38, told the Washington Post. [nypost.com] “His campaign manager posted my story about a protester getting paid $3,500 as fact. Like, I made t...
[18:47:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:We know where this is going - 06Now that the US Elections are Over, Google and Facebook to Block their Ads on Fake News Sites - 1584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:55] <exec> 08└─Actually, I would settle for honesty. Let them come out and say they are enforcing a Progressive SJW code of conduct and my objection vanishes. Same for the legacy media, stop pretending to be journalists (after WikiLeaks only the ignorant could still believe anyway) and admit to being the Public Re...
[18:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Look in the mirror to see the real problem - 06Now that the US Elections are Over, Google and Facebook to Block their Ads on Fake News Sites - 830 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:59] <exec> 08└─YOU are the real problem. Journalism has gone downhill because there are very few journalists any more, from the national level all the way down to the local level. And the reason for that is that YOU don't want to pay for it. The news industry cannot support itself. You don't want to pay for the ne...
[18:48:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Boomerang - 06Domino's Delivers -- by Drone - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:48:46] <exec> 08└─Yeah, sorry: the first line says "Land down under" and i fixated.
[18:49:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Social norms - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:49:15] <exec> 08└─Whether it's on the highway in 5th (I badly need a sixth)
[18:49:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Social norms - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:49:17] <exec> 08└─I drive a subcompact (nissan Versa). The gear ratio in 5th is about 20MPH per thousand RPM. For long distance, having a longer 6th to let the engine run around 2500rpm would be a lot less noisy than my current 3500rpm, and would reduce wear and tear and gas mileage (not complaining about almost 40,...
[18:49:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:The rich, of course - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:49:45] <exec> 08└─My folks have Hispanic neighbors who like to warm them up their vehicles for literally a half-hour in the winter.
[18:50:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02only need that much for full upside-down - 06Tesla ‘Easter Egg’ Makes the World’s Quickest, Currently-Produced Car Even Quicker [Updated] - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:50:15] <exec> 08└─On the side of a building, the tires hold you up. The magnets only need to stick you to the building. If you drive carefully, not slamming into windowsills, a few hundred pounds of force ought to do the job. Going full upside-down is of course harder. Reducing the gap would help. It's not an unsolva...
[18:50:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:urk - 06Tesla ‘Easter Egg’ Makes the World’s Quickest, Currently-Produced Car Even Quicker [Updated] - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:50:21] <exec> 08└─Curious that the LaFerrari is allowed to hold position #2 on the lists despite its runs having been performed on a downhill track. Its flat track 1/4 mile time wouldn't even be good enough to get it included on the list at all.
[18:53:26] <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 - 682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:53:26] <exec> 08└─Counterpoint: The point was retarded and didn't deserve to be logically addressed. Further counterpoint: Yes I did. The part where I say it's trivially untrue? There's a simple refutation there. Let me put it in terms "rationalists" can understand. The claim is an over-generalization fallacy, suppor...
[18:54:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Does anyone care anymore? - 06Debian Has Entered "Transition Freeze" for Squeeze - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:00] <exec> 08└─it seems they're still using jenkins but have cleaned up a lot of other stuff they were doing
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[19:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:0, Flamebait) 02Interesting - 06Denver to Become First U.S. City to Legalize Social Marijuana Use - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:08] <exec> 08└─So we aren't getting the lecture about forcing the wait staff to endure second hand dope? Wasn't that the 'reasonong' used to ban smoking in every place of employment nationwide? It does get hard to #DoubleThink at the speed required in ${currentyear}. You could almost be excused for concluding Prog...
[19:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Right - 06Denver to Become First U.S. City to Legalize Social Marijuana Use - 629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:10] <exec> 08└─> So we aren't getting the lecture about forcing the wait staff to endure second hand dope? The initiative [denverpost.com] explicitly says, "must comply with the Colorado Clean Indoor Air Act," > You could almost be excused for concluding Progs don't actually believe a word of the shit that spews f...
[19:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:1, Troll) 02Re:Right - 06Denver to Become First U.S. City to Legalize Social Marijuana Use - 904 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:12] <exec> 08└─Uh huh, however the practical reality is smoking is universally banned because compliance wasn't possible. And as the regs are written it isn't. There is no imaginable system that would protect wait staff standing a foot or two from somebody smoking dope from being exposed to it, same as they couldn...
[19:45:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Right - 06Denver to Become First U.S. City to Legalize Social Marijuana Use - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:14] <exec> 08└─> Uh huh, however the practical reality is smoking is universally banned because compliance wasn't possible. Have you heard of hookah bars? They are very popular. Delete your account already.
[19:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Right - 06Denver to Become First U.S. City to Legalize Social Marijuana Use - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:16] <exec> 08└─Now we will demand wait staff expose themselves to something
[19:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Right - 06Denver to Become First U.S. City to Legalize Social Marijuana Use - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:18] <exec> 08└─J-Mo, you know what you need right now? A biiiiig fat blunt. Smoke the entire thing and just sit and relax for a bit.
[19:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Right - 06Denver to Become First U.S. City to Legalize Social Marijuana Use - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:20] <exec> 08└─What is also true is that yet again one of the biggest dumbfucks on the site projects his own idiocy on people he disagrees with rather than spend the 2 minutes necessary to fact-check his own bullshit. What was that about "shit spewing hate holes" again?
[19:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:Interesting - 06Denver to Become First U.S. City to Legalize Social Marijuana Use - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:23] <exec> 08└─Who says that the marijuana has to be smoked inside or smoked at all? Do you have a mat in your doorway for jumping to conclusions?
[19:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:1, Offtopic) 02Re:Interesting - 06Denver to Become First U.S. City to Legalize Social Marijuana Use - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:25] <exec> 08└─Who says that the marijuana has to be smoked inside or smoked at all?
[19:45:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Interesting - 06Denver to Become First U.S. City to Legalize Social Marijuana Use - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:27] <exec> 08└─Now it is true they could just limit themselves to brownies and such
[19:45:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Interesting - 06Denver to Become First U.S. City to Legalize Social Marijuana Use - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:29] <exec> 08└─Vaping and edibles are also banned by current law. Only losers burn weed when it can be vaped instead. U dumb btw
[19:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Interesting - 06Denver to Become First U.S. City to Legalize Social Marijuana Use - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:31] <exec> 08└─Did you even read the summary before going on a rant? (No, of course you didn't) The law allows for smoking [insert childish nickname for marijuana here] in designated areas just like every other kind of smoking
[19:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03pendorbound [2688] (Score:2) 02"certain exceptions" - 06Denver to Become First U.S. City to Legalize Social Marijuana Use - 834 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:34] <exec> 08└─I'm curious what the restrictions look like. Cannabis is compared to alcohol a lot, and I'd agree their relative danger to their consumers are on par. The difference is that getting "second hand booze" from standing next to someone who's drinking in a bar isn't really a problem. I mean.. If someone...
[19:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fauxlosopher [4804] (Score:1) 02Thanks, Mommy! - 06Denver to Become First U.S. City to Legalize Social Marijuana Use - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:36] <exec> 08└─Joy! We now have official permission to use certain foliage in a narrowly-proscribed manner! C'mon, everyone, sing with me! ~/o'er the laaaaaaand of the freeeeeeee!!!!/~ Don't get me wrong - this is a good net change, as owners of private property (which includes businesses open to the public) in a...
[19:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Thanks, Mommy! - 06Denver to Become First U.S. City to Legalize Social Marijuana Use - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:38] <exec> 08└─You want freedom? What are you, some kind of terrorist?
[19:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:don't tell me... - 06JPMorgan Chase to pay ~$264 Million in Settlement - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:50] <exec> 08└─From that article: “If we want strong economic growth and more freedom, we must empower Americans, not Washington bureaucrats,” Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas), chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, said this summer when he released a blueprint for undoing Dodd-Frank.
[19:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:don't tell me... - 06JPMorgan Chase to pay ~$264 Million in Settlement - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:52] <exec> 08└─Again, what is this talk of enforcement? The point I'm making here is that the SEC is first and foremost an organization for creating gullibility in a huger number of would-be investors. Maybe second on the list would be protecting existing cartels and oligopolies in the relevant fields of commerce....
[19:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:don't tell me... - 06JPMorgan Chase to pay ~$264 Million in Settlement - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:54] <exec> 08└─Your begging the question is tiresome. Quit it with the bullshit virtue signaling already. Your cynical disinterest in holding institutions accountable is exactly what gives them permission to fail the public interest.
[19:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: quid pro quo - 06JPMorgan Chase to pay ~$264 Million in Settlement - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:00] <exec> 08└─> This is an easily fixed scenario, but way too much of humanity is caught up with greed. You have a really interesting definition of "easy."
[19:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02MJPGA! - 06JPMorgan Chase to pay ~$264 Million in Settlement - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:05] <exec> 08└─They have long suffered under the globalist Obama administration, losing out to (((Goldman Sachs))). Donald J Trump will Make JPMorgan Great Again. So Much Winning!!!
[19:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Need to tie up loose ends - 06JPMorgan Chase to pay ~$264 Million in Settlement - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:07] <exec> 08└─Yeah that kind of move guarantees that a revolution must happen. A much more interesting move would be to put in robert reich or elizabeth warren. That would have wall street crapping its pants.
[19:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Off with their heads - 06JPMorgan Chase to pay ~$264 Million in Settlement - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:09] <exec> 08└─And people really wonder why the "Drain the Swamp" rhetoric was so effective? I think a few high profile prosecutions of the global and financial elite who break laws would do a lot of good for the mood of the country. Q: Who is the only high-profile banker to go to jail for defrauding people in th...
[19:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Off with their heads - 06JPMorgan Chase to pay ~$264 Million in Settlement - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:12] <exec> 08└─> And people really wonder why the "Drain the Swamp" rhetoric was so effective? Nobody wonders that. What they wonder is why anybody believed it coming from a billionaire who was a egregious beneficiary of the swamp for his entire life.
[19:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02pay of legislators - 06Florida Voters Defeat Deceptive Utility-Backed Solar Amendment - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:30] <exec> 08└─If non-corrupt legislators can earn more money running corporations, all the non-corrupt ones will leave. The only ones remaining will be the ones who earn a living by being corrupt. To reduce corruption, we ought to pay each state legislator millions of dollars per year. (8 or even 9 figures for Ca...
[19:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:ballot results - 06Florida Voters Defeat Deceptive Utility-Backed Solar Amendment - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:32] <exec> 08└─Anonymous: Washington's "anti-Citizens United" measure passed.
[19:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02There is value in youth - 06Florida Voters Defeat Deceptive Utility-Backed Solar Amendment - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:38] <exec> 08└─There is value in youth, just as there is value in age. It isn't like they've been putting people fresh out of law-school on the bench. Elena Kagan is the current youngest and she was appointed at 50 years of age.
[19:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:There is value in youth - 06Florida Voters Defeat Deceptive Utility-Backed Solar Amendment - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:40] <exec> 08└─you didn't address the concern. the concern was "politicians will choose younger judges not based on merit, but because they will stay there longer". if the appointment time is limited, then age will no longer matter, only competence.
[19:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02teach me something - 06Florida Voters Defeat Deceptive Utility-Backed Solar Amendment - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:51] <exec> 08└─Well someone won. What was won? can we know lay open the "deception" in plain day-light -aka- in simple words so everyone can understand it or is it still a "sekret" everyone has to figure out for themselves?
[19:46:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:teach me something - 06Florida Voters Defeat Deceptive Utility-Backed Solar Amendment - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:53] <exec> 08└─Previous story https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[19:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Interesting Test - 06US Spy Chief James Clapper Resigns - 853 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:47:38] <exec> 08└─> I was being hyperbolic when using the term evil, and really only as a reference to well known disposition of 'pick the lesser evil' What does that even mean? Because the point is that the entire concept of "lesser evil" is a path to failure. You pick what matters to you. You set minimum requiremen...
[19:48:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:SEO spam. - 06Now that the US Elections are Over, Google and Facebook to Block their Ads on Fake News Sites - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:48:16] <exec> 08└─It's not political bias to filter out complete lies.
[19:48:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:SEO spam. - 06Now that the US Elections are Over, Google and Facebook to Block their Ads on Fake News Sites - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:48:21] <exec> 08└─They won't be targeted because they lean *establishment*. Particularly now that they're owned by one of Hillary's major supporters...
[19:48:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Infantism - 06Now that the US Elections are Over, Google and Facebook to Block their Ads on Fake News Sites - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:48:33] <exec> 08└─The Right's argument is that "government should be small," but yet intrusive in our personal lives - dictating against abortion, gay marriage and butt sex, as if any of that concerns them. The Right's argument is that minorities and non-Christian religions are certainly *not* equal to white Christia...
[19:48:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:News Media Dishonesty - 06Now that the US Elections are Over, Google and Facebook to Block their Ads on Fake News Sites - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:48:34] <exec> 08└─Nice strawman you are debating. Lemme clue in to what your actual opponents want. The Right's argument is that "government should be small," but yet intrusive in our personal lives..
[19:48:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:News Media Dishonesty - 06Now that the US Elections are Over, Google and Facebook to Block their Ads on Fake News Sites - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:48:36] <exec> 08└─Ugh, there really is no hope for a valid discussion here. I agree the GP threw around some pretty nasty labels, but quite a few are true. full on infanticide if they can get away with it
[19:48:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:News Media Dishonesty - 06Now that the US Elections are Over, Google and Facebook to Block their Ads on Fake News Sites - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:48:39] <exec> 08└─Do they have a "jmorris" filter? Can we get one of those here?
[19:48:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Done - 06Now that the US Elections are Over, Google and Facebook to Block their Ads on Fake News Sites - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:48:51] <exec> 08└─Start blocking ads on youtube then
[19:48:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:About Time - 06Now that the US Elections are Over, Google and Facebook to Block their Ads on Fake News Sites - 613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:48:55] <exec> 08└─Wow, did he also fake the video evidence where DNC affiliates admit inciting violence at Trump rallies? [projectveritasaction.com] Did he also fake the Chicago video with all the busses? [zerohedge.com] Did he also fake the public record showing George Soros contributing to MoveOn and groups around...
[19:49:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:good little traitors - 06Now that the US Elections are Over, Google and Facebook to Block their Ads on Fake News Sites - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:49:02] <exec> 08└─so now we need google to filter our news for us? You understand that the entire purpose of a search engine is to filter stuff, right? When searching for news most people don't actually want to find completely fake BS.
[19:49:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:We know where this is going - 06Now that the US Elections are Over, Google and Facebook to Block their Ads on Fake News Sites - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:49:08] <exec> 08└─Next you'll be telling us you're the next incarnation of Jesus, what with your persecution complex and all. These come after a string of false news that trended throughout the campaign season that ranged from Hillary Clinton calling for civil war to Mike Pence insulting Mrs. Obama.
[19:49:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02Re:We know where this is going - 06Now that the US Elections are Over, Google and Facebook to Block their Ads on Fake News Sites - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:49:10] <exec> 08└─I'm curious whether we know that google was directly behind the youtube behavior, or if it could have been created by an angry mob (or opposition campaign staff) clicking some "report content" button? Obviously the fact that the feature is easy to abuse would be a problem in the latter case, but at...
[19:49:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh joy - 06Disk Drive Failure Rates - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:49:28] <exec> 08└─Then again, I'm only a bear, and bears are said to have remarkably small brains.
[19:49:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02My favorite advertisements - 06Disk Drive Failure Rates - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:33] <exec> 08└─This Backblaze ad is longer than most news articles, yet is filled with interesting and useful data. Not only is it neat to read about the customization they've made to their software and equipment to tailor it to their specific needs (and therefore to the needs of backup-using customers), but it's...
[19:50:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:alt-pizza? - 06Domino's Delivers -- by Drone - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:50:06] <exec> 08└─I thought it was more specifically "a man raising the child that isn't his from said wife who cheated on him." I can't say I'm surprised to see the term used by such people, but I totally agree with you that it says more about the person making the comment than it does the person the comment is dire...
[19:50:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:alt-pizza? - 06Domino's Delivers -- by Drone - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:50:07] <exec> 08└─Tell our resident alt-right diva JMorris that. Uzzard's mostly phoning it in and being a troll, but J-Mo there seems to believe every single last word...
[19:50:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Social norms - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:50:33] <exec> 08└─If you ever wear out a set of tires on your Versa, switch to somewhat larger diameter tires. Will move all your gears up a little bit. Every little bit helps...and there are a lot of choices in tire size. Years ago with a chain drive motorcycle, I installed a larger front sprocket. The result was th...
[19:50:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Actually, it's EASIER to demonstrate with median - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 1104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:50:55] <exec> 08└─A median makes it easier and quicker to see via a graph on the back of an envelope--without doing any complicated arithmetic: You have a roomful of guys who make a Blue Collar wage of $50,000. Their jobs get exported and the new jobs they find pay $30,000. The graph shows that the median goes down t...
[19:51:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:when acceleration isn't so great - 06Tesla ‘Easter Egg’ Makes the World’s Quickest, Currently-Produced Car Even Quicker [Updated] - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:51:46] <exec> 08└─I dunno a real motorhead might be happy to die due to extreme _acceleration_ in a car. Of course, dying due to "extreme deceleration" is boring, plenty have done it. If I'm dying from cancer, with months to live and no cure in sight, I wouldn't consider dying in an accelerating Tesla to be a big pro...
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[20:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Right - 06Denver to Become First U.S. City to Legalize Social Marijuana Use - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:07] <exec> 08└─What does that have to do with what he actually said?
[20:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Right - 06Denver to Become First U.S. City to Legalize Social Marijuana Use - 1023 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:08] <exec> 08└─That's your defense? Someone posted something as an AC? My god, is there an epidemic of people posting as AC??? What can we dooooo? The AC wasn't me, but I'll gladly say jmorris is a reactionary narrow minded conservative who spews hatred in almost every comment he makes. He has zero critical thinki...
[20:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Right - 06Denver to Become First U.S. City to Legalize Social Marijuana Use - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:10] <exec> 08└─Might be logged in and just posting AC.
[20:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Nope - 06Denver to Become First U.S. City to Legalize Social Marijuana Use - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:12] <exec> 08└─(1) Nope, I read this site as an AC (2) So what if I had done that? What's the point of digging up other shit-spewing posts from jmorris when he kindly provided plenty of spewed shit in the post I was responding to?
[20:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Interesting - 06Denver to Become First U.S. City to Legalize Social Marijuana Use - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:18] <exec> 08└─Considering that this whole discussion is about openly consuming a product that is still a Schedule I controlled substance, pardon me if I express my doubts that strict adherence to law is really going to be all that important to backers of this political initiative.
[20:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:Interesting - 06Denver to Become First U.S. City to Legalize Social Marijuana Use - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:20] <exec> 08└─And with that, the American Revolution was retroactively erased from history.
[20:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Interesting - 06Denver to Become First U.S. City to Legalize Social Marijuana Use - 1133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:22] <exec> 08└─No, I ain't letting you get away with that one. This case already went to the SCOTUS, what you idiots declare they absolute unquestionable lawgivers and you lost. But somehow Federalism is a sacred thing to be protected when it allows YOU to ignore Federal law, ignore Supreme Court decisions, anythi...
[20:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Interesting - 06Denver to Become First U.S. City to Legalize Social Marijuana Use - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:24] <exec> 08└─I'll pardon your assumption that people will tolerate violations to the Clean Indoor Air Act. I hope that any business that violates the act will be prosecuted or sued, regardless of whether the smoke is tobacco or marijuana.
[20:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:Interesting - 06Denver to Become First U.S. City to Legalize Social Marijuana Use - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:29] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure it's karma bonus. I have that set to 0 in my preference, and he's at -1 for me. Logged out he's at 0.
[20:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Interesting - 06Denver to Become First U.S. City to Legalize Social Marijuana Use - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:32] <exec> 08└─I'm logged in and he's at zero logged in or out. I didn't know there were any limits beyond the max of 5, and I'm pretty sure I've seen comments moderated below -1, am I imagining things?
[20:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:Interesting - 06Denver to Become First U.S. City to Legalize Social Marijuana Use - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:34] <exec> 08└─We might both be. I couldn't make it go below -1. I loaded defaults which has a 0 for karma bonus, and it was still at -1. Actually, I think I might have found a bug with the user prefs. If I set karma bonus to +1, it looks like it stays at 0 in the prefs but that comment goes to 0, flamebait. If I...
[20:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:1, Flamebait) 02Re:Interesting - 06Denver to Become First U.S. City to Legalize Social Marijuana Use - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:36] <exec> 08└─It's something like how FB won't let more than a certain number of people block a given profile. Apparently he's such a complete frothing maniac he caused an underflow somewhere.
[20:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Interesting - 06Denver to Become First U.S. City to Legalize Social Marijuana Use - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:38] <exec> 08└─forcing the wait staff to endure second hand dope? You havent worked at a restaurant before have you?
[20:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:Interesting - 06Denver to Become First U.S. City to Legalize Social Marijuana Use - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:40] <exec> 08└─hey, is this where the kick-jmorris-in-the-nutz party is ? ? ? hee hee hee i would mention one oyher salient factoid, and that is if you 'vape' your mj, it releases close to zero smoke... personally, i am not big on vaping (i'm a bong man from way back), i think you are eliminating some of the psych...
[20:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"certain exceptions" - 06Denver to Become First U.S. City to Legalize Social Marijuana Use - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:43] <exec> 08└─Couple of things, first they address the second hand smoke bit with designated areas (I know, it wasn't in the summary uggghh) The Colorado measure will permit private businesses to allow marijuana use by adults in designated areas with certain exceptions.
[20:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"certain exceptions" - 06Denver to Become First U.S. City to Legalize Social Marijuana Use - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:46] <exec> 08└─> I'd agree their relative danger to their consumers are on par. Its not even close. No one has died from overdosing on pot. Thousands of people die each year from overdosing on alcohol. Practically no one becomes violent when stoned on pot. Alcohol relaxes the inhibitions that keep the inner asshol...
[20:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Thanks, Mommy! - 06Denver to Become First U.S. City to Legalize Social Marijuana Use - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:50] <exec> 08└─Yes. I am some kind of terrorist.
[20:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Thanks, Mommy! - 06Denver to Become First U.S. City to Legalize Social Marijuana Use - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:52] <exec> 08└─as owners of private property (which includes businesses open to the public) in a free country have the authority to do whatever they like with their own property.
[20:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fauxlosopher [4804] (Score:1) 02Re:Thanks, Mommy! - 06Denver to Become First U.S. City to Legalize Social Marijuana Use - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:54] <exec> 08└─So you're fine then if I put up a "Whites Only, No Queers Allowed" sign in my establishment. Interesting.
[20:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:don't tell me... - 06JPMorgan Chase to pay ~$264 Million in Settlement - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:09] <exec> 08└─I don't respect the SEC or its alleged mission. And I believe the SEC is used precisely to lull the US public into a false sense of security with respect to investing in the stock market and related things. As to your accusation of begging the question, why is the SEC underfunded in the wake of th...
[20:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02''they voted for Trump'' - 06Florida Voters Defeat Deceptive Utility-Backed Solar Amendment - 1787 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:35] <exec> 08└─Actually, they voted -against- continued Neoliberalism. If you think about it just a moment, you realize that the Democrats shot themselves in the foot. They ran the -only- candidate that Trump was capable of beating. Martin O'Malley or Jim Webb would have beat Trump. Bernie Sanders, who was drawing...
[20:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Oh, and about Keith Ellison... - 06Florida Voters Defeat Deceptive Utility-Backed Solar Amendment - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:37] <exec> 08└─Warmonger Keith Ellison is the WRONG guy to lead the Blues. [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [counterpunch.org] (I agree strongly with David Swanson's choice of Dennis Kucinich, a guy who grew up poor and knows what it's like to like in a car.) -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[20:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Kucinich - 06Florida Voters Defeat Deceptive Utility-Backed Solar Amendment - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:39] <exec> 08└─s/like in a car/live in a car -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[20:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''California's Prop 61'' - 06Florida Voters Defeat Deceptive Utility-Backed Solar Amendment - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:48] <exec> 08└─[gewg_]: California's Prop 61 to regulate prescription drug prices was rejected. Was it Himmler that said if you just keep repeating the lie, it becomes the truth. ...and he didn't have TeeVee; Big Pharma did and apparently[1] scared the shit out of the electorate with their false narrative. [1] So...
[20:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score:2) 02Re:Do this cheesy tourist thing - 06Nested Pyramids Discovered Within Mayan Kukulkan Pyramid - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:20] <exec> 08└─When I was 18 I vacationed in Mexico near Chichen Itza, and I agree. The climb up and the view from the top was simply breathtaking. Some tourist died [blogspot.com], and now it's off-limits. Even better than the climb up though? Racing my brother down by using the flat edges along the stairs as sli...
[20:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Re:Are they SURE? - 06Astronomers Measure Roundest Known Star - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:38] <exec> 08└─So, 1km +/- 4996 years :-(
[20:47:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Are they SURE? - 06Astronomers Measure Roundest Known Star - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:40] <exec> 08└─Are you just messing around or doing some real conversion? Like this: the Sun's mass of 2.0×10^30 kg in SI units is equivalent to 1.5 km.
[20:47:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Re:Are they SURE? - 06Astronomers Measure Roundest Known Star - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:42] <exec> 08└─YEAAAAAHHHHH!!!! Unfortunately nobody heard that because, you know, space.
[20:47:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:How did they account for the rotation axis? - 06Astronomers Measure Roundest Known Star - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:47] <exec> 08└─I think - might be wrong - that they can detect the motion of the "horizons" of the star towards and away from Earth by the Doppler shift.
[20:47:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score:2) 02Re:Interesting Test - 06US Spy Chief James Clapper Resigns - 1431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:59] <exec> 08└─1)What I meant by that was... I do not believe either of the main candidates are evil but they are products of their environment, very different environments from what I can relate to. They cannot relate or empathize with me, I cannot with them, based on information publicly available. 2) Maybe she...
[20:48:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:SEO spam. - 06Now that the US Elections are Over, Google and Facebook to Block their Ads on Fake News Sites - 1215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:48:36] <exec> 08└─You can still say that with a straight face after WikiLeaks? You have big balls on ya, give ya that. If we are discussing the banning of fake news and ANY of the outlets named there escape the list, it is just a political purge of dissent. Somehow I do not think nytimes.com, huffingtonpost.com, cnn....
[20:48:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03quintessence [6227] (Score:2) 02Re:SEO spam. - 06Now that the US Elections are Over, Google and Facebook to Block their Ads on Fake News Sites - 756 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:48:42] <exec> 08└─To me it's less a question of left or right, but more a philosophical stance that the best way to address this is through more speech. Any of these stories could be debunked. People could engender a more skeptical perspective, especially given it is a political season. That people are focusing on su...
[20:49:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:who cares - 06Subsurface Ocean Could Explain Pluto's "Heart" Feature Aligning with Charon - 677 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:49:52] <exec> 08└─Yes, that's the assertion. No one will travel to Pluto. Your example of flying birds is terrible, because humans have been capable of flying forever. Climb a tree and jump, or jump off a cliff, and you're flying. Now you might well die when you land, but the fact is you flew. No one has ever travele...
[20:49:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:who cares - 06Subsurface Ocean Could Explain Pluto's "Heart" Feature Aligning with Charon - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:49:54] <exec> 08└─Cook even got eaten. Could have seen that one coming!
[20:50:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:alt-pizza? - 06Domino's Delivers -- by Drone - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:50:21] <exec> 08└─I see you go back and forth with them so many times. I do agree that Buzz is likely just trolling you more often than not, but it is kind of enjoyable to watch the trainwreck sometimes, to be honest. :) Sadly, I do not think there is anything you can say to such a person to get them to change. Any a...
[20:50:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Social norms - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:50:47] <exec> 08└─I tried when I finally got rid of the original tires (don't expect to need new ones for a while). Even figured out the right tires to not have to buy new rims. The problem is that legitimate shops in California all told me that they are not supposed to put tires over 3% bigger than stock, and actual...
[20:53:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Check your facts first - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:53:12] <exec> 08└─The Pentagon alone misplaced 6 TRILLION dollars last year.
[20:53:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fauxlosopher [4804] (Score:1) 02Analyzing claim: "businesses pay taxes" - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:53:30] <exec> 08└─Well, businesses do pay taxes too.
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[21:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Right - 06Denver to Become First U.S. City to Legalize Social Marijuana Use - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:12] <exec> 08└─I disagree with most of what jmorris writes, but he's not incomprehensible. He makes good points; sometimes you have to sift through verbiage to get to them, but they're there. He stakes out a corner of the philosophical spectrum that I have no interest in championing, and I don't know that that cor...
[21:45:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Right - 06Denver to Become First U.S. City to Legalize Social Marijuana Use - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:13] <exec> 08└─We have a lot of posting lately by ACs contributing nothing except calling signed-in posters/the community at large names. Yes, it's not an on-topic contribution to this argument, but calling out ACs is never going to be on-topic anyway.
[21:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Nope - 06Denver to Become First U.S. City to Legalize Social Marijuana Use - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:17] <exec> 08└─We've derailed : ) Logging in to post the exact same message doesn't improve the message. Someone could also be logged in and post AC to avoid attention.
[21:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Nope - 06Denver to Become First U.S. City to Legalize Social Marijuana Use - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:19] <exec> 08└─Logging in to do your mudslinging at other usernames at least offers a slim chance of a two-way-street inasmuch as you can be called on your own shenanigans if you post under a username.
[21:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:Right - 06Denver to Become First U.S. City to Legalize Social Marijuana Use - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:21] <exec> 08└─What is also true is that yet again one of the biggest dumbfucks on the site projects his own idiocy on people he disagrees with rather than spend the 2 minutes necessary to fact-check his own bullshit. What was that about "shit spewing hate holes" again?
[21:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score:2) 02Re:Right - 06Denver to Become First U.S. City to Legalize Social Marijuana Use - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:24] <exec> 08└─Dunno. I do believe in keeping discussion civil, I do believe in your point in general. Might make if a signature, if I were into that... But I also believe there are situations where "up yours" is a quite appropriate response. Do note that "shit spewing hate holes" was an only mildly paraphrased qu...
[21:45:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02wrestling with pigs - 06Denver to Become First U.S. City to Legalize Social Marijuana Use - 898 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:26] <exec> 08└─> A better response would be a straight up citation to refute the point. You mean like a relevant quote from the initiative along with a link that included both the full text and some analysis? Gee, you are right. I really should have done that. > Name-calling doesn't yield anything. Funny that you...
[21:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Re:Interesting - 06Denver to Become First U.S. City to Legalize Social Marijuana Use - 885 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:34] <exec> 08└─Ah, ok, calm down. I figured you were going hard authoritarianism. I think enforcing the 10th Amendment properly would be a good change. Since this isn't interstate commerce, the Controlled Substances Act should be struck down for violating the 10th Amendment. Sanctuary cities? Sure, have at them. N...
[21:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Interesting - 06Denver to Become First U.S. City to Legalize Social Marijuana Use - 1595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:36] <exec> 08└─Exactly. I'm saying my team on the Right should take an absolutist position as an opening position in the negotiations. And that sort of no holds barred negotiating does seem to be something Mr. Trump understands. Only by making the left tremble in terror of what the Federal Government, that they we...
[21:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:Interesting - 06Denver to Become First U.S. City to Legalize Social Marijuana Use - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:38] <exec> 08└─I don't know who you think I am. I'm a card-carrying member of the Libertarian party. The Constitution was dead when I got here, bro, had been for a while. Of course I'm used to the fact that being LGBTOMGWTFBBQ and a cannabis consumer puts me squarely NOT on your side.
[21:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:Interesting - 06Denver to Become First U.S. City to Legalize Social Marijuana Use - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:41] <exec> 08└─I say we should urge President Trump to send swarms to CO and arrest everyone involved and seize every asset.
[21:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Interesting - 06Denver to Become First U.S. City to Legalize Social Marijuana Use - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:51] <exec> 08└─Underflow isn't the opposite of overflow. Underflow is when a number is a fraction too small to differentiate it from zero using rounding, not when the number approaches negative infinity. And could you please stop with the constant namecalling. It doesn't help anything.
[21:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:Interesting - 06Denver to Become First U.S. City to Legalize Social Marijuana Use - 749 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:55] <exec> 08└─But you can be exposed to second-hand nicotine/THC from somebody vaping near you. It releases vapor. It just isn't as visible and smelly, it's not literally smoke (probably not super healthy to inhale regardless of the substance), and since it isn't as hot I'd expect it to not spread quite as far (a...
[21:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:"certain exceptions" - 06Denver to Become First U.S. City to Legalize Social Marijuana Use - 831 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:00] <exec> 08└─um, no offense, but you are a virgin ? (so to speak, i used to be a 'my body is a temple' insufferable jerk, but now i am just a plain ole insufferable jerk) if you have ANY experience w both mj and yhe demon rum, you would KNOW -regardless of reefer madness propaganda- that not only is ther NO COMP...
[21:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Thanks, Mommy! - 06Denver to Become First U.S. City to Legalize Social Marijuana Use - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:07] <exec> 08└─There are laws about discrimination. The libertarian viewpoint of anyone can do whatever they want on their private property is deeply flawed and quickly breaks down. Discriminating against people as a business, illegal. Discriminating against people as an individual? That's your right, just don't b...
[21:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Thanks, Mommy! - 06Denver to Become First U.S. City to Legalize Social Marijuana Use - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:09] <exec> 08└─Why shouldn't businesses be allowed to discriminate?
[21:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Thanks, Mommy! - 06Denver to Become First U.S. City to Legalize Social Marijuana Use - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:11] <exec> 08└─The libertarian viewpoint of anyone can do whatever they want on their private property is deeply flawed and quickly breaks down.
[21:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:don't tell me... - 06JPMorgan Chase to pay ~$264 Million in Settlement - 784 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:28] <exec> 08└─Technically, the SEC does enforce laws. That's why the people who come to power since 2010 have decided to defund it, like they will now defund the EPA. It doesn't mean that the people working for the agency itself are not motivated and competent, just actors playing a lie for the greater good. The...
[21:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''pay each state legislator millions'' - 06Florida Voters Defeat Deceptive Utility-Backed Solar Amendment - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:03] <exec> 08└─Better idea: Put the crooks in jail. To do that, appoint special prosecutors. N.B. Kamala Harris is now Senator-elect for California (to replace the retiring Barbara Boxer). Harris has been California's Attorney General for 6 years. In that time, she has been opposed to appointing special prosecutor...
[21:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03shipofgold [4696] (Score:1) 02Re:Pennsylvania - 06Florida Voters Defeat Deceptive Utility-Backed Solar Amendment - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:14] <exec> 08└─If, say, John Roberts is doing just fine, then he should have no problem getting re-appointed to the court.
[21:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Re:It wasn't a bad amendment - 06Florida Voters Defeat Deceptive Utility-Backed Solar Amendment - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:23] <exec> 08└─So, basically, you are concerned about a theoretical situation in which there is so much residential solar electricity production that the utilities don't need to provide any power while the sun is shining? Wow, just wow. Do you realize how unlikely this is to happen? This measure would have made ev...
[21:48:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Interesting Test - 06US Spy Chief James Clapper Resigns - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:48:18] <exec> 08└─> I'm interested in an example of a time where she did "shoot for the moon" to pursue her political vision in the previous jobs and positions of influence she had. She's more of a 'go with the flow' kind of politician from what i've seen and heard. You frame that like you are expecting me to provide...
[21:49:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03PocketSizeSUn [5340] (Score:2) 02Re:Great! - 06Now that the US Elections are Over, Google and Facebook to Block their Ads on Fake News Sites - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:49:07] <exec> 08└─Given that MSM (WTVT: Fox channel 13 in Tampa Bay, FL) did fire journalists who refused to present false information as fact I'm not sure where you think you are going to get 'non-fake' news in the land of the free. There is a very old joke from the 80s about communist Russia and the press. "The dif...
[21:51:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Actually, it's EASIER to demonstrate with media - 06The Disappearing Stick Shift: Less Than 3% of Cars Sold in the U.S. Have Manual Transmissions - 719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:51:27] <exec> 08└─Hey --gweg_, you're babbling like an idiot, again. YOU are the one who didn't actually acquire the knowledge, and should have done the assigned homework -- then you would know the difference between the median and the mean. I don't know what you think the median is, but you're saying "median" and th...
[21:54:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:one-man one-vote - 06Ending the US Electoral College - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:54:19] <exec> 08└─The important question is why are all other offices selected by popular vote but the presidency is not. What value does that provide?
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[22:44:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Smell - 06Solving the Riddle of Putrid Camel Urine Could Aid Millions Affected by Sleeping Sickness - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:46] <exec> 08└─That smell has been described as "the smell of Hillary Clinton's campaign."
[22:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Smell - 06Solving the Riddle of Putrid Camel Urine Could Aid Millions Affected by Sleeping Sickness - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:44:48] <exec> 08└─They do drink camel urine for 'medicinal' purposes in Saudi Arabia and much of the Islamic world.
[22:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Smell - 06Solving the Riddle of Putrid Camel Urine Could Aid Millions Affected by Sleeping Sickness - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:44:50] <exec> 08└─I rather thought it smelled like the body odor of the average Trump supporter...
[22:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Smell - 06Solving the Riddle of Putrid Camel Urine Could Aid Millions Affected by Sleeping Sickness - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:44:52] <exec> 08└─Nah, that's closer to gunpowder, incest, and cheap beer.
[22:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Smell - 06Solving the Riddle of Putrid Camel Urine Could Aid Millions Affected by Sleeping Sickness - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:44:54] <exec> 08└─It smells like a hot date. With a lady camel.
[22:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Why only make a few sites inaccessible? - 06Final Warning: Popular Browsers Will Soon Stop Accepting SHA-1 Certificates - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:02] <exec> 08└─They should also set a date to remove support for SHA-2 in a few months, and start issuing SHA-3. So on and so forth.
[22:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:Why only make a few sites inaccessible? - 06Final Warning: Popular Browsers Will Soon Stop Accepting SHA-1 Certificates - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:04] <exec> 08└─Algromiths are only retired when they are broken, or at risk of a collision attack (which is the case of SHA-1). The SHA program is designed to have multiple algros available to provide diversity in the ecosystem, and I won't be surprised that browser support for SHA3 will be coming along soon. With...
[22:45:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Right - 06Denver to Become First U.S. City to Legalize Social Marijuana Use - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:25] <exec> 08└─Yes, I've seen some good points float through his stream of consciousness which is why I specifically added: As for the second hand smoke concern, that would be a valid topic of conversation but of course he ropes in politics
[22:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nope - 06Denver to Become First U.S. City to Legalize Social Marijuana Use - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:32] <exec> 08└─So its not about facts and accuracy its about somebody's definition of a "fair fight." Won't someone please think of what's best for jmorris? He didn't deserve any of this. I use the site as an AC with all the downsides that come with it. Jmorris uses the site logged in with all the downsides that c...
[22:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Nope - 06Denver to Become First U.S. City to Legalize Social Marijuana Use - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:34] <exec> 08└─Offering facts is one thing. Plumbing the depths of hypocrisy by cursing someone out over their posting history while posting as AC is just stupid. You speak as if you're a member of this community when you don't even sign your posts. You don't have a leg to stand on.
[22:45:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:wrestling with pigs - 06Denver to Become First U.S. City to Legalize Social Marijuana Use - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:39] <exec> 08└─This times a lot! I seriously feel sometimes like the more extreme posters on this site are shills, here to derail conversations and keep the community divided. But on a more realistic note, there simply are lots of people with extremely different viewpoints and plenty of internet trolls to go aroun...
[22:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Interesting - 06Denver to Become First U.S. City to Legalize Social Marijuana Use - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:50] <exec> 08└─... and muster the will (against every instinct that we on the Right have) to use it to abuse the holy hell out of you guys
[22:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Interesting - 06Denver to Become First U.S. City to Legalize Social Marijuana Use - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:01] <exec> 08└─"Complete frothing maniac" is not an insult to JMorris; it is a description of him. And underflow refers to what happens when a data type is given a negative number too large (or in the case of unsigned types, a negative number period) for it to handle, which causes wraparound starting at the top of...
[22:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Interesting - 06Denver to Become First U.S. City to Legalize Social Marijuana Use - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:02] <exec> 08└─And underflow refers to what happens when a data type is given a negative number too large (or in the case of unsigned types, a negative number period) for it to handle, which causes wraparound starting at the top of the largest value it can identify.
[22:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"certain exceptions" - 06Denver to Become First U.S. City to Legalize Social Marijuana Use - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:11] <exec> 08└─If someone pours a drink in your lap, you should probably reevaluate the life choices that made them think you're that much of an asshole
[22:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Need to tie up loose ends - 06JPMorgan Chase to pay ~$264 Million in Settlement - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:39] <exec> 08└─So the process begins [bbc.com]. Will this scandal be carried above-the-fold on Fox News, Drudge, Breitbart every day for the next four years? That's a ridiculous question, isn't it.
[22:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Off with their heads - 06JPMorgan Chase to pay ~$264 Million in Settlement - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:42] <exec> 08└─Because you fools wouldn't vote for anyone who wasn't either that billionaire OR the millionaire who has been desperately pandering to the swamp so that she could become that billionaire herself.
[22:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Where's the queue? - 06Nested Pyramids Discovered Within Mayan Kukulkan Pyramid - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:37] <exec> 08└─Must be some kind of pyramid scheme.
[22:48:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:SEO spam. - 06Now that the US Elections are Over, Google and Facebook to Block their Ads on Fake News Sites - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:48:56] <exec> 08└─Show us these lies if they are so obvious to your discerning eye.
[22:49:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:New term for SJW censorship - 06Now that the US Elections are Over, Google and Facebook to Block their Ads on Fake News Sites - 91 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:49:19] <exec> 08└─Not really. Some rando blogger with his panties inatwist. Seen that a million times before.
[22:49:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh joy - 06Disk Drive Failure Rates - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:49:53] <exec> 08└─Wait, what? First you said we've experienced higher failure rates in our NAS racks with the WD reds than we have with the WD greens
[22:49:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh joy - 06Disk Drive Failure Rates - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:49:55] <exec> 08└─That the drives are not designed for the amount of 24x7 vibration that occurs in a case with 48+ total spinning drives packed together.
[22:49:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh joy - 06Disk Drive Failure Rates - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:49:58] <exec> 08└─slamming them hard 24/7 in a role that they were never intended to do
[22:50:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Anecdata - 06Disk Drive Failure Rates - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:50:04] <exec> 08└─And furthermore, 1 year isn't a valid test for an SSD. I think it was mentioned here on SN earlier: SSDs all outlive their warranted life time by absurd orders of magnitude. [techreport.com]
[22:55:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:Does anyone care anymore? - 06Debian Has Entered "Transition Freeze" for Squeeze - 991 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:55:44] <exec> 08└─Debian/Hurd is unlikely to ever reach release-criteria anytime soon. I was involved with that project in my college days (and I learned a lot about kernel engineering from it), but the fact of the matter is that GNU mach is very slow because its using Mach messaging to do microkernel stuff, and that...
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[23:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Smell - 06Solving the Riddle of Putrid Camel Urine Could Aid Millions Affected by Sleeping Sickness - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:44:51] <exec> 08└─Just keep your pants on, you're definitely too short for her.
[23:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Smell - 06Solving the Riddle of Putrid Camel Urine Could Aid Millions Affected by Sleeping Sickness - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:44:52] <exec> 08└─Love knows no bounds. But it does know a stool. Or stool.
[23:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrpg [5708] (Score:1) 02Urine_therapy - 06Solving the Riddle of Putrid Camel Urine Could Aid Millions Affected by Sleeping Sickness - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:55] <exec> 08└─Offtopic: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[23:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:Why only make a few sites inaccessible? - 06Final Warning: Popular Browsers Will Soon Stop Accepting SHA-1 Certificates - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:04] <exec> 08└─Much of the SHA-2 set is practically within the reach of state actors: https://eprint.iacr.org [iacr.org] Regardless, throw out general purpose programming and I'm sure a custom DSP could run circles around those super-computers with their over-sized caches and deep predictive trees cau...
[23:45:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Right - 06Denver to Become First U.S. City to Legalize Social Marijuana Use - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:26] <exec> 08└─I disagree with most of what jmorris writes, but he's not incomprehensible. He makes good points; sometimes you have to sift through verbiage to get to them, but they're there.
[23:45:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''conservative'' - 06Denver to Become First U.S. City to Legalize Social Marijuana Use - 783 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:29] <exec> 08└─jmorris is a reactionary narrow minded conservative You need to make up your mind which of those is accurate. (They're not the same.) A Conservative wants to conserve the status quo. William F. Buckley Jr. described that lot this way: A Conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling "St...
[23:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nope - 06Denver to Become First U.S. City to Legalize Social Marijuana Use - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:37] <exec> 08└─You're a riot! I don't see you trying to change the rules of the site. You don't have a leg to stand on.
[23:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Re:Interesting - 06Denver to Become First U.S. City to Legalize Social Marijuana Use - 1219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:54] <exec> 08└─It might fall under retail tobacco stores or cigar bars. Note the last sentence where a bar sharing space with a tobacco shop is exempt. Statewide smoking ban: On July 1, 2006, the Colorado Clean Indoor Air Act went into effect, banning smoking in all enclosed workplaces statewide, incl...
[23:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Interesting - 06Denver to Become First U.S. City to Legalize Social Marijuana Use - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:46:07] <exec> 08└─Colloquially I'd call that "wrapping around" regardless of which direction you're going. Not sure if there's a more ivory tower way of saying it.
[23:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Where's the queue? - 06Nested Pyramids Discovered Within Mayan Kukulkan Pyramid - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:47:34] <exec> 08└─"It's like a Russian nesting doll. Under the large one we get another and another," researcher Rene Chavez Seguro told a news conference.
[23:47:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Do this cheesy tourist thing - 06Nested Pyramids Discovered Within Mayan Kukulkan Pyramid - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:47:39] <exec> 08└─fixed link: https://endlesscancun.blogspot.fr [blogspot.fr]
[23:47:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score:2) 02Dig Deeper - 06Nested Pyramids Discovered Within Mayan Kukulkan Pyramid - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:45] <exec> 08└─It seems that the single most important archaeological revelation this century has been that if you find some really old building, and look underneath, you find another older building. Or a dead king.
[23:48:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02note to Kepler 11145123 - 06Astronomers Measure Roundest Known Star - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:06] <exec> 08└─If you're reading - yesterday there was a story, "Zap to the Head Leads to Fat Loss" [soylentnews.org], that may be of interest to you. No offense meant.
[23:48:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Edward Snowden for Director of National Intelli - 06US Spy Chief James Clapper Resigns - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:48:34] <exec> 08└─Small correction to your correction. James Clapper was DNI (Director of National Intelligence.) Not NSA (Adm. Michael Rogers.) Not CIA (John Brennan.) Not National Security Advisor (Susan Rice.) Not Director of Defense Intelligence Agency (Lt. Gen. Vincent Stewart,) an office few people know exists.
[23:49:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Facebook - 06Now that the US Elections are Over, Google and Facebook to Block their Ads on Fake News Sites - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:49:32] <exec> 08└─Facebook has been hiding right wing news for years
[23:49:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:ok, google - 06Now that the US Elections are Over, Google and Facebook to Block their Ads on Fake News Sites - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:49:41] <exec> 08└─Take a nap, your humor reserves are running low.
[23:50:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score:1) 02<3<3<3 - 06Subsurface Ocean Could Explain Pluto's "Heart" Feature Aligning with Charon - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:23] <exec> 08└─Awwww, I love you too, Pluto!
[23:52:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Cheating? - 06Tesla ‘Easter Egg’ Makes the World’s Quickest, Currently-Produced Car Even Quicker [Updated] - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:22] <exec> 08└─Why not turn the VW scandal on it's head? Use more power under specific testing. The car may opt to only enable to super-ludicrous mode when it detects that it is on a drag-strip. So one trigger may be spinning the tires then immediately braking. Another may be to use the camera to detect the distin...
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