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[00:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score:1) 02What constitutes 'fake news'? - 06Google to Ban Fake News - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:50] <exec> 08└─It's all lies...
[00:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Does propaganda count? - 06Google to Ban Fake News - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:51] <exec> 08└─If a news site runs a bunch of articles lying about Snowden (for example) and his reasons for being in Russia, as well as simply repeating the statements of government officials without investigating to see if they're true (in the case of the NSA spying, they were often outright lies or misleading),...
[00:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Well then... - 06Google to Ban Fake News - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:53] <exec> 08└─Well then... I'm glad that this is a problem that is solved.</sarcasm>
[00:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Gell-Mann Amnesia - 06Google to Ban Fake News - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:55] <exec> 08└─I came across the "Gell-Mann Amnesia effect" the other day. It fits well with my experience, most likely almost all "news" is worse than nothing at explaining what is going on.
[00:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Dear google. - 06Google to Ban Fake News - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:58] <exec> 08└─Block sky news thx. News as given elsewhere> Migrants in greek island attacked, their tents put on fire, earlier some migrants had broken into a firework place and started detonating stuff around the island. Misleading (Some migrant idiots play with stolen firework, some locals react badly, migrant...
[00:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02I've figured it all out at last... - 06Google to Ban Fake News - 1081 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:01] <exec> 08└─I have the solution: We need to start a religion. The fundamental tenant of it is that humans are totally impure due to all the lies they've told and been told. Only facts can purify our imperfect existence. It's what must be done to save our very souls*. That's phase 1. Phase 2 is that we get peopl...
[00:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:I've figured it all out at last... - 06Google to Ban Fake News - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:04] <exec> 08└─Sorry not to be able to contribute, I started my own religion last month and I am already into my first holy war so my resources are pretty limited right now.
[00:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03dlb [4790] (Score:2) 02Re:OK - 06Four Nations Map Course to Carbon-Free Economies - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:14] <exec> 08└─Now that's a word-of-the-day I'll reuse sometime, somewhere! defenestration 1. formal - the action of throwing someone or something out of a window. 2. informal - the action of dismissing someone from a position of power or authority. And when I do, I'm having it mean the formal former, rather th...
[00:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Step back; perspective; thought - 06Four Nations Map Course to Carbon-Free Economies - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:16] <exec> 08└─When it comes to purging fossil fuels from the global economy by mid-century—our only hope of staving off catastrophic climate change—
[00:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What? Huh? - 06User Needed 40-minute Lesson in Turning It Off and Turning It On Again - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:34] <exec> 08└─What?
[00:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:hell desk ended my employment prospects - 06User Needed 40-minute Lesson in Turning It Off and Turning It On Again - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:43] <exec> 08└─That's funny. All I ever see are big businesses getting bigger and small businesses failing. Small businesses that don't invest in social media reputation management just fail even faster. Seems like people prefer big and people prefer bullshit. A business that tries to fight for change will not sur...
[00:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:hell desk ended my employment prospects - 06User Needed 40-minute Lesson in Turning It Off and Turning It On Again - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:45] <exec> 08└─True, if you can't find a niche to fill. People tend not to care about things like privacy and decentralization, so expecting everyone to use your service for those reasons is unrealistic. But even people in hiring positions in large businesses can make a difference.
[00:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:hell desk ended my employment prospects - 06User Needed 40-minute Lesson in Turning It Off and Turning It On Again - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:47] <exec> 08└─People don't get into hiring positions in large businesses if there's any hint that they might be trying to make a difference.
[00:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Computers for everyone! - 06User Needed 40-minute Lesson in Turning It Off and Turning It On Again - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:52] <exec> 08└─Yes, but the problem was that the customer couldn't shut it off. I'd have said "unplug the power plug from the wall, count to 20, plug it back in and call back if it doesn't work."
[00:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Computers for everyone! - 06User Needed 40-minute Lesson in Turning It Off and Turning It On Again - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:54] <exec> 08└─"unplug the power plug from the wall,
[00:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02This is not a cupholder story - 06User Needed 40-minute Lesson in Turning It Off and Turning It On Again - 3249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:01] <exec> 08└─... but it does concern a DVD drive. I had a user about 10 years ago who needed some help with her personal laptop. Now, it was my usual policy to tell users "Take it to your local computer shop" when they came to me with their personal computer issues. However, this user was the receptionist for my...
[00:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Skwearl [4314] (Score:1) 02Front line tech support stories - 06User Needed 40-minute Lesson in Turning It Off and Turning It On Again - 884 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:04] <exec> 08└─Ok I got one. Back in the late 80's I worked for a small vertical software firm. Working in the shipping and receiving department, I also did afternoon tech support calls, as our software was all shipped out by 3pm. This one lady had a problem, disk 2 didn't work. Our software shipped on 5 5.25inch...
[00:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:Rob Pike and Plan 9 - 06Go: Free Fonts for Go's Emerging Gui Toolkit. - 1080 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:46:24] <exec> 08└─>What's wrong with the monospaced slab-serif? Looks great to me. I suppose it's personal preference, but without getting into arguments about qualia, monospaced serif code is disconcerting to read. The serifs make me feel like I'm reading paper literature written in a natural language. It's similar...
[00:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Rob Pike and Plan 9 - 06Go: Free Fonts for Go's Emerging Gui Toolkit. - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:46:26] <exec> 08└─I don't understand why this was posted in the first place, because you can find thousands of free fonts on the internet. I have lots of them on this laptop, most of which I use for graphics.
[00:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''Left'' - 06"Crying Wolf" About Trump's "Openly Racist" State of Being - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:46:42] <exec> 08└─Any nitwit can edit Wikipedia and use whatever incorrect terms occur to him. The only Pacifica presenter I can think of who is overtly anti-Capitalist is Richard Wolff ("Economic Update"). Now, Pacifica (the first listener-sponsored[1] radio network, started in 1949) -is- overtly Progressive. [1] Th...
[00:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Dumbass okie - 06"Crying Wolf" About Trump's "Openly Racist" State of Being - 813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:47:28] <exec> 08└─> the problem is if you are remotely good at being Islamic, you are a horrible person by western values Oh shut the fuck up already. You dumbass okie who has never met a muslim in your entire life. I grew up in Dewey, but then I got the fuck out of dumbassistan and actually met real people who were...
[00:48:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:lucky - 06Clinton Campaign Relied Heavily on Computer Algorithm - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:48:34] <exec> 08└─Either that or he's got some sort of . . .
[00:48:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Oversampling WHAT THE FUCK!?! - 06Clinton Campaign Relied Heavily on Computer Algorithm - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:48:50] <exec> 08└─How can a fucking geek on this fucking website and not know what fucking oversampling [wikipedia.org] means? I means jesus fucking christ, does hearing the name clinton initiate some sort of mind-wipe where you become more ignorant than the dumbest high-school jock? That email is talking about polli...
[00:51:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Demena [5637] (Score:1) 02Re:Accountability is the Only Recourse - 06Appeals Court To Cops: If You 'Don't Have Time' For 'Constitutional BS,' You Don't Get Immunity - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:51:07] <exec> 08└─The only (arguably) legal way.
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[01:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What constitutes 'fake news'? - 06Google to Ban Fake News - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:44:50] <exec> 08└─So CNN?
[01:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:1) 02Re:I've figured it all out at last... - 06Google to Ban Fake News - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:44:57] <exec> 08└─Here you go, buddy, you're ordained. http://discordia.wikia.com
[01:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02SoylentNews to ban fake news - 06Google to Ban Fake News - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:00] <exec> 08└─Starting next week.
[01:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Just cut out the middleman - 06Google to Ban Fake News - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:02] <exec> 08└─More like, soylent to start posting more fake news. There are so many devotees already here. Just cut out the middleman.
[01:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02I think this video summed it up best - 06Google to Ban Fake News - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:04] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyS3Ghevf2I [youtube.com] but yeah, basically anything even remotely right-leaning that goes against their narrative is going to get blocked. I really enjoy watching this blatant fascism unfold from a generation of people who were never taught to be a good loser becau...
[01:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I think this video summed it up best - 06Google to Ban Fake News - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:06] <exec> 08└─Yeah, PJW has progressed from an eyelinered loon ranting about chemtrails to a fairly well rounded political commentator and agitator. He's a star who called it exactly on the US presidential race and is actually belittled by his association with Alex Jones. What people fail to understand is that if...
[01:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score:2) 02Fake news - 06Google to Ban Fake News - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:08] <exec> 08└─is news that isn't approved by the powers that be - namely the rich fucks who own the media and the government. Partisan bad actors are people who disagree with said rich fucks and voice it. It's quite simple really...
[01:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score:2) 02Some examples - 06Google to Ban Fake News - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:10] <exec> 08└─Some of the obviously fake news items that really need banning: Companies providing "free" service not trying hard enough to prevent fake news stories from circulating
[01:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Easy... - 06Google to Ban Fake News - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:13] <exec> 08└─What constitutes 'fake' news?
[01:45:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03dlb [4790] (Score:2) 02Re:Step back; perspective; thought - 06Four Nations Map Course to Carbon-Free Economies - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:25] <exec> 08└─Those sudden climate change swings that occurred from time to time "over geologic time" caused mass extinctions. And we're well on the way to a human-caused biocatastrophy. Accelerated modern human–induced species losses: Entering the sixth mass extinction [sciencemag.org]
[01:45:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedGreen [888] (Score:2) 02Don't mean jack - 06Four Nations Map Course to Carbon-Free Economies - 713 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:27] <exec> 08└─The incoming administration in the US is getting set to move back to the 1950's when coal was king, black people rode the back of the bus, women shut the fuck up and gays were in the closet. Thus climate change scam is first on the hit list for them and their supporters. And while I am at it just wh...
[01:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What? Huh? - 06User Needed 40-minute Lesson in Turning It Off and Turning It On Again - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:42] <exec> 08└─The "This is windows calling, you computer have virus" helpdesk.
[01:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:support - 06User Needed 40-minute Lesson in Turning It Off and Turning It On Again - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:46:04] <exec> 08└─Bullshit. Must be one of those Mac salesmen.
[01:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score:2) 02Bioweapons and Botox - 06Poison Dart Frog Neurotoxin Synthesized - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:17] <exec> 08└─Oh please. Yes, it might be used as a bioterror weapon, but so can botulism, and I imagine it's a hell of a lot easier to make large quantities of botulism toxin than poison dart frog venom. And just like Botox this will probably find actual medical uses too. There's also a number of naturally-occur...
[01:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:''Left'' - 06"Crying Wolf" About Trump's "Openly Racist" State of Being - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:46:50] <exec> 08└─"Any nitwit can edit Wikipedia" I think we all understand that. Some nitwit posted something you don't agree with, but soon, some other nitwit will edit to something you like better. I believe that it is fairly obvious though, that Pacifica is indeed leftist? Making it more or less the obverse of th...
[01:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''Left'' - 06"Crying Wolf" About Trump's "Openly Racist" State of Being - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:46:51] <exec> 08└─It's possible to be non-Republican without being "Left". (The Blues are pro-Capitalism.) Lazy nitwits (like you) won't make the distinction. Lazy nitwits (like you) use 1-dimensional terms where they aren't appropriate and aren't accurate to describe the the political position of someone on what is...
[01:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:He's a negotiator - 06"Crying Wolf" About Trump's "Openly Racist" State of Being - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:47:02] <exec> 08└─You missed the point of that statement. By phrasing it that way he got everyone to agree the wall was going to be built. And focused them all on the 'and mexico will pay for it'. He got everyone to agree to the wall as a given.
[01:49:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Molecular Annotations - 06Beyond the DNA: Comprehensive Map of the Human Epigenome Completed - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:49:38] <exec> 08└─defined by an instructive layer of molecular annotations on top of the genome -- the epigenome -- which acts as a blueprint unique to each cell type and developmental stage
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[02:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Underwhelming. - 06Famicom Classic Mini Console Sold 263k Units in Japan - 1416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:46] <exec> 08└─The NES Classic has an ARM CPU (Allwinner R16), and plays a fixed library of 30 classic Nintendo games by emulation, with no provision to load additional games. (A different 30 games depending on whether it's the Japanese Famicom version or the NES version in the rest of the world.) It comes with re...
[02:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Underwhelming. - 06Famicom Classic Mini Console Sold 263k Units in Japan - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:44:47] <exec> 08└─No wireless. Less space than an Xbox. Lame.
[02:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What constitutes 'fake news'? - 06Google to Ban Fake News - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:44:57] <exec> 08└─Just make sure that your news comes from professional journalists, like those working for the ever-diligent Hearst corporation (Esquire, Cosmo, ESPN, etc). Also, don't believe anything coming out of Spain, because those bastards killed our young lads on the USS Maine by torpedoing her in Havana harb...
[02:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I think this video summed it up best - 06Google to Ban Fake News - 675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:45:09] <exec> 08└─agreed, Alex Jones really does drag PJW down a lot, which is why I only follow him and not the whole of infowars. the thing though that I really hate is how there is so much contempt for bipartisanship by the MSM, but I suppose that's mostly due to the cultural marxists that control it, along with t...
[02:45:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Newsflash: Google blocks Fox news - 06Google to Ban Fake News - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:14] <exec> 08└─Or Google blocks MSNBC. Or blocks CBS/ABC/NBC. What's fake and what is spin? Hell, National Enquirer had an awfully lot of ridiculous stories that turned out to be true. Where is the line between fake and biased?
[02:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Money. - 06Google to Ban Fake News - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:16] <exec> 08└─if you can't afford to pay to have your news displayed or promoted, or you can't afford to buy advertising on a "search engine site", then your news *must* be fake.
[02:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02something big - 06Google to Ban Fake News - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:18] <exec> 08└─maybe with all the attention about eavesdropping and lose of privacy enough people have gone "underground" with their communication that now enough information is reliably flowing over secured channels that the powers that are are getting cold feet. so instead of outright banning unofficial eavedrop...
[02:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:OK - 06Four Nations Map Course to Carbon-Free Economies - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:45:29] <exec> 08└─Defenestration is what the technology industry has done over the past 15 years or so.
[02:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Do I still have to buy Ethanol laced gas? - 06Four Nations Map Course to Carbon-Free Economies - 775 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:34] <exec> 08└─Cuz my car might be able to handle it, but my 20 y/o lawnmower can't. Sick and tired of the extra maintenance I have to do every year to my lawnmower to make it last til spring. And oh, hey! Was reading on /. an hour ago Volvo's had a tendency to puke gas while refilling. Why? Ethanol was the root c...
[02:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Ah, Help Desk memories - 06User Needed 40-minute Lesson in Turning It Off and Turning It On Again - 2691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:17] <exec> 08└─I remember trying to assist a lady whose Microsoft Word crashed in the middle of a document that she did not save. This was before we had any remote access to the machines. I was trying to picture the scenario in my mind, and try to talk her through getting to the folder to see if there was a recove...
[02:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Neurological Impairment - 06User Needed 40-minute Lesson in Turning It Off and Turning It On Again - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:19] <exec> 08└─I don't remember which product but it was a customer for Working Software of Santa Cruz, in the early 90s. The user was sorely confused, so was I. Finally I asked "Can you tell me the title of your frontmost window?" "Do you mean the glass thing on top of my Macintosh?" Further questioning revealed...
[02:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like - 06"Crying Wolf" About Trump's "Openly Racist" State of Being - 828 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:47:31] <exec> 08└─Wow. You do realize how full of shit you are right? You did not demonstrate a change of race: In her memoir Just Lucky I Guess (2002), Channing revealed that in 1937, when she was a 16-year-old about to head off to Bennington College, her mother told her that her father's birth certificate had mark...
[02:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Do Americans change their race? Yes, millions d - 06"Crying Wolf" About Trump's "Openly Racist" State of Being - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:47:32] <exec> 08└─Man, you're a fucking Genius with a capital G! What I need now is an official form with check boxes for the length of my penis, how many minutes I can last with 10 cheerleaders, and my yearly income. Three check boxes away from being able to change reality! "I have seen the top of the mountain .......
[02:48:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RamiK [1813] 02Re:Heh too bad - 06Clinton Campaign Relied Heavily on Computer Algorithm - 915 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:48:44] <exec> 08└─Hillary: AI computer on the wall, who's the best president-elect of them all? Watson: Famed is thy tenure, Majesty. But hold, a popular candidate I see. Old age cannot hide his gentle grace. Alas, he is more likely to be voted than thee. Hillary: Alas for him! Reveal his name. Watson: Infrastructure...
[02:51:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:File under - 06Appeals Court To Cops: If You 'Don't Have Time' For 'Constitutional BS,' You Don't Get Immunity - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:51:13] <exec> 08└─Rabid, tribal partisans tend not to be principled, yes. But it applies to both parties and most people.
[02:51:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Accountability is the Only Recourse - 06Appeals Court To Cops: If You 'Don't Have Time' For 'Constitutional BS,' You Don't Get Immunity - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:51:36] <exec> 08└─mandatory education comes to mind as one of those things
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[03:44:50] <exec> 08└─https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3713 [debian.org] Debian Security Advisory DSA-3713-1 gst-plugins-bad0.10 -- security update Date Reported: 15 Nov 2016 Affected Packages: gst-plugins-bad0.10 Vulnerable: Yes Security database references: No oth...
[03:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I've figured it all out at last... - 06Google to Ban Fake News - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:08] <exec> 08└─Google is essentially declaring war on the favored tactic of discordians (playing jokes, seeing the outer extreme of gullibility). Pox and Jake Day be upon them. The Jihad has started.
[03:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I think this video summed it up best - 06Google to Ban Fake News - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:15] <exec> 08└─> cultural marxists No wonder you guys are treated to so contemptuously You are only reaping what you sow Enjoy the taste of those tears while you can
[03:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I think this video summed it up best - 06Google to Ban Fake News - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:17] <exec> 08└─You're an idiot to think it is PC culture and "everyone is special" which is the problem. You just play into the stereotype which promotes this kind of fascism.
[03:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I think this video summed it up best - 06Google to Ban Fake News - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:19] <exec> 08└─oh really now? because last I remember, the losers of an election didn't go outside and start destroying their own fucking neighborhoods when they lost in the past, what else could explain that?
[03:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Newsflash: Google blocks Fox news - 06Google to Ban Fake News - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:25] <exec> 08└─> National Enquirer had an awfully lot of ridiculous stories that turned out to be true. In snotnose world 0.0001% is "an awful lot" No wonder you can't figure out what news is fake and what news is real.
[03:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Great!! - 06Google to Ban Fake News - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:29] <exec> 08└─Once people realize the fascism that is Google/fb/twitter then we may finally see some adoption of distributed / open networks designed to prevent this sort of control. Let idiots share fake news, only by making such colossal mistakes might any of them learn.
[03:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02plugged into the top wall plug or the bottom? - 06User Needed 40-minute Lesson in Turning It Off and Turning It On Again - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:46:24] <exec> 08└─I did some help desk and other support decades ago. You can't just ask if it is turned on or plugged in. You have to ask which buttons were used to turn it on. With power, to prevent indignant inaction you can't just straight out ask if it is plugged in. You have to ask which wall socket it is plugg...
[03:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Which ones? - 06Poison Dart Frog Neurotoxin Synthesized - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:40] <exec> 08└─There are many species of poison dart frogs. Which one was this particular poison from? Do they all have the same or similar poisons? If it was Phyllobates terribilis, that's one thing. But if it was only a Dendrobates, well, a different thing.
[03:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:''Left'' - 06"Crying Wolf" About Trump's "Openly Racist" State of Being - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:47:15] <exec> 08└─Whatever, nitwit. Meanwhile, I'm neither left nor right, neither Republican nor Democrat. I have my place on the political spectrum, as defined by several European sites - but that place doesn't fit into American politics at all. Now, who is the nitwit?
[03:47:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You're half right - 06"Crying Wolf" About Trump's "Openly Racist" State of Being - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:47:53] <exec> 08└─I'm sure that is what a lot of people said before the Nazis carted them off. "Don't worry, they just don't want us here. They'll take us somewhere till they have somewhere to send us!" Taking this stuff lightly is not an option for me, and it is sad that you consider it a viable path. You even offer...
[03:48:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:You're half right - 06"Crying Wolf" About Trump's "Openly Racist" State of Being - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:48:08] <exec> 08└─TMB is right. Islam is mostly an ideology and political system, with a small dab of religion stuck on sideways. For enlightenment, check out Bill Warner's videos (Political Islam on Youtube). And it's entirely fair and reasonable to discriminate against an ideology, especially one that flat out stat...
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[04:44:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score:2) 02"right" to keep their identity hidden? - 06Canadians Surveyed on Digital Privacy and Police Powers - 1090 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:46] <exec> 08└─Silly car analogy time again. "Nearly half of the respondents to a survey agreed that citizens should have a right to rapid travel with motor vehicles. But many appeared to change their mind when asked if an individual suspected of committing a serious crime should have the same right to use motor v...
[04:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"right" to keep their identity hidden? - 06Canadians Surveyed on Digital Privacy and Police Powers - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:44:48] <exec> 08└─I disagree. I think there is a right to keep your identity hidden from police. Maybe there are cases where that right can be temporarily suspended with oversight from the courts, but it's a right nonetheless. Also, I interpreted it as meaning that the police should have the ability to make the attem...
[04:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:"right" to keep their identity hidden? - 06Canadians Surveyed on Digital Privacy and Police Powers - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:44:50] <exec> 08└─The issue here is a lack of sense in the judiciary. Something being done in public where people can see it, is not the same thing as one person following you around all day every day taking notes. When it's a private citizen, we generally call that stalking. When it's the police that's usually somet...
[04:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score:1) 02Court oversight? - 06Canadians Surveyed on Digital Privacy and Police Powers - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:52] <exec> 08└─Does Canada have the same rubber stamp problem as the US? I prefer the various technical solutions to protect us from the cops so we don't have to argue about it.
[04:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedGreen [888] (Score:2) 02Re:Court oversight? - 06Canadians Surveyed on Digital Privacy and Police Powers - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:44:54] <exec> 08└─"Does Canada have the same rubber stamp problem as the US? I prefer the various technical solutions to protect us from the cops so we don't have to argue about it." Indeed we do they do not even have to show up in person anymore they can fax it in then approved by fax back. Then you have the idea th...
[04:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Underwhelming. - 06Famicom Classic Mini Console Sold 263k Units in Japan - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:04] <exec> 08└─It is just a nostalgia grab. Hell I considered getting one. But then came to my senses and could just go get my old NES out and play THAT. The games I would care about would be sitting in the same box with the NES.
[04:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score:1) 02You know, for kids - 06Famicom Classic Mini Console Sold 263k Units in Japan - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:07] <exec> 08└─I've been thinking about getting the American version for my kids. I don't really have the time to mess around with raspberry pi's and emulators and illegal rom downloads. I'm at the age where I just want something that works when you take it out of the box. Also, it would look better under the Chri...
[04:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I think this video summed it up best - 06Google to Ban Fake News - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:32] <exec> 08└─PJW? WTF PJW est? SJW en alia nomen? Cui est "Alex Jones"?
[04:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score:2) 02Wow people - 06Google to Ban Fake News - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:43] <exec> 08└─We're not talking little news companies being beaten down by the man. We're talking companies that literally make up the most crazy things they can think of to get people to share their articles to sell advertising. Fake news != the little guy. Fake news = made up bullshit.
[04:46:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02Re:What? Huh? - 06User Needed 40-minute Lesson in Turning It Off and Turning It On Again - 1057 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:46:12] <exec> 08└─Working the help desk, I have come up with an extra script for my customers who refuse to learn passable English -- I just say, "What?" "What?" "What" so many times until my script is basically a DMX [tvgcdn.net] song. They usually just hang up and call somebody else, I close the ticket with good ti...
[04:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:What? Huh? - 06User Needed 40-minute Lesson in Turning It Off and Turning It On Again - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:46:18] <exec> 08└─Ah...must be Windoze. Reboot usually does fix the problem.
[04:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:hell desk ended my employment prospects - 06User Needed 40-minute Lesson in Turning It Off and Turning It On Again - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:46:26] <exec> 08└─More like 69.5 hours per week under Trumpilavina.
[04:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:He's a negotiator - 06"Crying Wolf" About Trump's "Openly Racist" State of Being - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:47:40] <exec> 08└─The wall is to keep out not only illegal Mexicans but also illegal Guatemalans, El Salvadorians, Nicaraguans, as well as illegal aliens from places other than South America who seek to enter the United States illegally though the Mexican-American border -- including terrorists of Middle-Eastern orig...
[04:48:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02Re:You're half right - 06"Crying Wolf" About Trump's "Openly Racist" State of Being - 406 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:48:06] <exec> 08└─True, the problem is if you are remotely good at being Islamic, you are a horrible person by western values and values can and absolutely should be discriminated against because they are a large part of what decide our actions. By "western values" in this case I mean egalitarianism, tolerance, and p...
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[05:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I Am Nothing - 06I Am Capital - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:54] <exec> 08└─I am not on Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn. I have no life, no friends, and no job. I have been on the internet for 20 years, but I do not exist in modern society. Social media has usurped the internet and ruined the lives of antisocial nerds like me.
[05:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I Am Nothing - 06I Am Capital - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:44:55] <exec> 08└─Beat it, AC!
[05:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Free Software makes Everyone Poor - 06I Am Capital - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:44:57] <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.
[05:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Even data collection violates privacy - 06Canadians Surveyed on Digital Privacy and Police Powers - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:10] <exec> 08└─First of all, the idea that they would only use the collected ISP user data when they have a warrant is absurd; that requirement would be worked around in no time. More importantly, even collecting the data violates users' privacy, so it's unacceptable to begin with. The only time they should ever b...
[05:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Underwhelming. - 06Famicom Classic Mini Console Sold 263k Units in Japan - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:45:20] <exec> 08└─In a weird way it comes down to relaunching classic consoles... with the main attraction being an... HDMI port.
[05:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score:2) 02Bad Actor - 06Google to Ban Fake News - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:59] <exec> 08└─Who is a 'partisan bad actor'?
[05:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Actual "fake" news vs. "slanted"/ideological news - 06Google to Ban Fake News - 2798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:01] <exec> 08└─I have no doubt a system like this can and will be abused. I'll start out by saying that. And for those of you who are responding just by saying, "Oh, who gets to determine bias?" or whatever -- believe me, when I first started reading about this stuff, that was my first reaction too. But since we'v...
[05:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You're half right - 06"Crying Wolf" About Trump's "Openly Racist" State of Being - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:48:28] <exec> 08└─" You have beliefs that are extreme, one might call you an extremist! " This is problem with liberals. You think that people on the political right are extremists. You literally think that having an opinion - even an outright racist one - is extremism.
[05:48:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Culture is Race - 06"Crying Wolf" About Trump's "Openly Racist" State of Being - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:48:53] <exec> 08└─And in that he would be absolutely correct. By any objective standard you care to think up, western culture will come out superior to Islamic culture.
[05:48:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02geneticists: ''Race is a social concept" - 06"Crying Wolf" About Trump's "Openly Racist" State of Being - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:48:55] <exec> 08└─Most English speakers use only one definition for the word, which is the classification of people based on external traits as it defined in the old anthropological models of classifying humans.
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[06:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:I Am Nothing - 06I Am Capital - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:44:54] <exec> 08└─I don't remember who said it, but I read it here, somebody said that what we need is not a branded Twitter-like service but an open protocol. Expanding on that, allowing control over what the user consumes and gives off, but with modern features which would allow the user those benefits while enabli...
[06:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I Am Nothing - 06I Am Capital - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:44:55] <exec> 08└─You are still tracked on those sites. All of those services create fingerprinted accounts for you. They do not care if you post or not. In fact that you do not post actually is better for them. All of them track you through their ad networks and ping sites. Your ISP also tracks you. You *ARE* tracke...
[06:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Hm. - 06I Am Capital - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:57] <exec> 08└─Define "own." Define "myself."
[06:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02Grab life by the Pussy - 06I Am Capital - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:44:59] <exec> 08└─Rape to Own!
[06:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I've been reading a book by Nicholas Carr - 06I Am Capital - 2086 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:01] <exec> 08└─He's the business writer who became (in)famous by writing the article "IT Doesn't Matter" in Harvard Business Review way long time ago, which he later expanded into a book. But I'm reading his follow-up, The Big Switch [amazon.com], where he compares cloud computing (it was just becoming a buzzword...
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[06:45:13] <exec> 08└─Yes, in the sense that there was a government-wide shift in law enforcement profiling shifting investigation priority from immigrants with known ties to terror and arms smuggling to White middle-class males. Which means that in only a few years Canada will be a third-world country with tents and fil...
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[06:45:26] <exec> 08└─Pretty much. The TV I own has HDMI AND RCA. For this TV HDMI introduces about 20 frames of latency. Just enough to mess me up on most twitchy games. I know this because I bought a decent NUC to play emulated games. Can not play them on the screen. Get out the old NES and the RCA cable? No probs. Pla...
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[06:45:56] <exec> 08└─Political correctness is not a bad thing as it was originally intended, which is to prevent the use of phrases like "Chinese fire-drill." The problem with the progressives and PC is what is the problem with is with damn-near every movement which goes to shit -- being co-opted by extremists who thriv...
[06:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:hell desk ended my employment prospects - 06User Needed 40-minute Lesson in Turning It Off and Turning It On Again - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:46:57] <exec> 08└─The trick is to stop thinking of humans as reliable or rational. Say it every day on the way to work, "Humans are not rational, humans are not rational, humans are not rational, humans are not rational..." It's a cheap form of self-hypnosis.
[06:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score:2) 02Re:support - 06User Needed 40-minute Lesson in Turning It Off and Turning It On Again - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:47:05] <exec> 08└─Ha ha, very funny, but you know YouTube uses HTML5 video now, right? Also, I guess you just copy-pasted the entire wiki article for some distro's flash package that has every bit of troubleshooting advice anyone might need in any special case, but for most people Flash is as easy as installing a sim...
[06:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02English, Please - 06User Needed 40-minute Lesson in Turning It Off and Turning It On Again - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:15] <exec> 08└─Computers are labelled stupidly. Label the bottom "Off, or hold for reset". The international symbol looks like somebody fucking a butthole, many don't know what it is, and to describe it you have to describe somebody fucking a butthole.
[06:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:English, Please - 06User Needed 40-minute Lesson in Turning It Off and Turning It On Again - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:47:18] <exec> 08└─Correction: 'Label the button "On, or hold for reset"...
[06:49:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Name Calling No Longer Works - 06Lego Group Ends Daily Mail Promotion - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:49:38] <exec> 08└─You consider the likes of CBS/NBC/CNN/WSJ and the political elites to be 'the weak'? Interesting.
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[07:44:57] <exec> 08└─Bathroom Stall-Man wants you all working retail by day and githubbing for free by night. He said as much in his prophetic manifesto. Actually, many people will program with absolutely no monetary incentive. Programming has an irresistible fascination for some people, usually the people who are best...
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[07:45:00] <exec> 08└─But but but but how will I find my friends on the open twitter if it not twitter?????? Anyone can start their own social network, but no one will use it until everyone else uses it, which means no one will use it.
[07:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I Am Nothing - 06I Am Capital - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:45:03] <exec> 08└─You lose the bet. I don't have any facebook.com cookies. Facebook has been blackholed in my hosts file for years.
[07:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I Am Nothing - 06I Am Capital - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:45:05] <exec> 08└─I don't have a Facebook cookie in my browser and use various add-ons to block these ping sites and ad networks. My ISP is not Facebook.
[07:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02IF - 06I Am Capital - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:10] <exec> 08└─If personal data is the oil of the 21st century—a commodity companies pay billions of dollars for—then why aren’t we, the source of such data, the oil sheiks?
[07:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You know, for kids - 06Famicom Classic Mini Console Sold 263k Units in Japan - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:45:38] <exec> 08└─Also, it would look better under the Christmas tree than a box full of open circuit boards and hot-glue. That depends on the person :) For me, a box full of open circuit boards looks awesome. But then again, for a while I had on my key-chain a circuit board from an old (SD, I think?) memory card, wi...
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[07:45:39] <exec> 08└─I submitted a story [soylentnews.org] before the Classic Mini NES became available in the shops. At least one commenter remarked favourably on Nintendo's choice of games for the other console. Reports since its release have mentioned the shortness of the cable to the controller; I suppose that could...
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[07:46:08] <exec> 08└─I think it is actually the start of the end. It's much like when a protest starts and people gather only to realize they aren't the only ones pissed off; Trump's election is the start of dismantling the excesses of the left, and if they're not careful, being obliterated from political life for a dec...
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[07:49:18] <exec> 08└─That's some fancy ad populum fallacy.
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[08:44:48] <exec> 08└─https://portswigger.net/burp/proxy.html [portswigger.net]
[08:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02We'll see - 06Google to Ban Fake News - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:46:11] <exec> 08└─I'll believe it when I see it. There's been a lot of blowhards prophesying the end of various political factions and the major parties. Hasn't happened yet. After Dubya left and subsequent political trouncing in the beginning of 2009, the Republicans were licking their wounds. Yet here we are a mere...
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[08:46:13] <exec> 08└─This isn't about Republicans per se, but the strident PC aspects of the left. The Republicans can lose everything tomorrow and it won't matter to the people who are sick to death of the left. They know now they have the political clout to even get Trump elected, and that is the death knell of PC cul...
[08:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:English, Please - 06User Needed 40-minute Lesson in Turning It Off and Turning It On Again - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:47:32] <exec> 08└─It isn't a true power button these days anyway: It doesn't cut power.
[08:50:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:lucky - 06Clinton Campaign Relied Heavily on Computer Algorithm - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:50:20] <exec> 08└─OTOH, this is why we speculate too. Unless you're of the school that poorly understood means no need to understand.
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[09:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02so much wasted space - 06Cosmic Whistle Packs a Surprisingly Energetic Punch - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:49] <exec> 08└─So much wasted space to support the one and only earth. Praise Allah.
[09:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I think this video summed it up best - 06Google to Ban Fake News - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:46:02] <exec> 08└─there is no other word best suited to describe them.
[09:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What? Huh? - 06User Needed 40-minute Lesson in Turning It Off and Turning It On Again - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:46:51] <exec> 08└─So here's the deal. You will pay a tax to provide jackasses with a basic income.
[09:50:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:lucky - 06Clinton Campaign Relied Heavily on Computer Algorithm - 830 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:50:17] <exec> 08└─Correct. But there is a vast difference between groundless speculation and speculation grounded in some degree of knowledge that produces testable hypotheses. We are getting none of that here. Instead we have conspiracy theories that purport to somehow to be related to a failure of speculation by th...
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[10:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Energy requirements? - 06Storing Carbon Dioxide Underground by Turning It Into Rock - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:47] <exec> 08└─So, how much energy does it require to put all this carbon into the ground? How easy would it be to extract it again if we would need it in a far future?
[10:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Does injecting CO2 into rock really make more sens - 06Storing Carbon Dioxide Underground by Turning It Into Rock - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:48] <exec> 08└─> Does injecting CO2 into rock really make more sense than not putting it into the atmosphere in the first place? Think of it like taking medication to counter your obesity. Make sense now?
[10:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score:2) 02Funnily enough... - 06Four Nations Map Course to Carbon-Free Economies - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:50] <exec> 08└─Funnily enough noone seems to listen to countries like sweden and france (not even themselves - both are recently increasing their CO2/kWh) who almost decarbonised (41g/kWh, 78g/kWh - 2003 figures) their electricity sector decades ago, and did it in a manner that can be expanded to cover even a comp...
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[11:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 0218 y/o voters - 06Illinois Senate Overrides Governor's Veto of Automatic Voter Registration - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:45] <exec> 08└─> should need to vote is being 18 years old So if you are 19 (or more), you cannot vote any more? Weird system if you want my opinion...
[11:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Energy requirements? - 06Storing Carbon Dioxide Underground by Turning It Into Rock - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:44:53] <exec> 08└─You can get the CO2 back from the rock by just adding acid.
[11:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03garrulus [6051] (Score:1) 02Plant trees - 06Storing Carbon Dioxide Underground by Turning It Into Rock - 2 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:56] <exec> 08└─nt
[11:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03StupendousMan [103] (Score:2) 02Full paper for free on arXiv - 06Cosmic Whistle Packs a Surprisingly Energetic Punch - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:11] <exec> 08└─https://arxiv.org/pdf/1611.03139v1 [arxiv.org]
[11:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score:2) 02You aren't the Sheik.... - 06I Am Capital - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:32] <exec> 08└─To stretch the analogy: You are one of the millions of pieces of organic matter that decomposed down to form the oil. In this process you are no more valuable or significant than a single plankton. The oil sheiks are the people who can recover and package the result of that process in bulk, and dist...
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[11:46:28] <exec> 08└─Bellatores Pajama.
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[12:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Selective Sevice should be automatic - 06Illinois Senate Overrides Governor's Veto of Automatic Voter Registration - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:52] <exec> 08└─Bring back the draft, then the people will care about the wars.
[12:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02oxygen shortage - 06Storing Carbon Dioxide Underground by Turning It Into Rock - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:03] <exec> 08└─Could injecting CO2, rather than burying pure carbon, cause an imbalance of oxygen?
[12:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02education - 06Storing Carbon Dioxide Underground by Turning It Into Rock - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:05] <exec> 08└─When I was a kid, I was taught in school that storing chemicals in the Earth mucked with nature and was called "pollution." And that pollution was bad.
[12:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score:2) 02Re:education - 06Storing Carbon Dioxide Underground by Turning It Into Rock - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:45:07] <exec> 08└─Yeah, so we put them in the sky instead. Worked out really well that did. When I was a kid the solution to industrial smog was to build taller chimneys, and in fact it worked. It caused acid rain thousands of miles away in another country, but hey can't have everything, and anyway that wasn't our pr...
[12:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Cosmic Whistle - 06Cosmic Whistle Packs a Surprisingly Energetic Punch - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:22] <exec> 08└─cosmic whistles
[12:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score:2) 02Re:I Am Nothing - 06I Am Capital - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:45:36] <exec> 08└─Open protocol is great. Open protocol implementation is where it starts to get problematic, because infrastructure costs and big infrastructure costs a lot. YOu need to build your infrastructure before your users arrive, and build it big enough so it doesn't collapse and drive them away again, all t...
[12:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:I've been reading a book by Nicholas Carr - 06I Am Capital - 3013 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:45:44] <exec> 08└─Technology caused our current concentration of wealth? The Internet polarized communities? I don't quite buy that. Those are only the means of the day. Society's ability to distribute the fruits of advancement determines how much wealth concentration is possible. The powerful have done a great deal...
[12:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score:2) 02Re:IF - 06I Am Capital - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:45:47] <exec> 08└─More than that, not only is the oil worth more, but the riches from personal data are spread across orders of magnitude more people. House of Saud is maybe 20k people, Facebook user base is close to 2 billion people. The real answer is that we already got rewarded for our data by getting free email...
[12:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"right" to keep their identity hidden? - 06Canadians Surveyed on Digital Privacy and Police Powers - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:45:58] <exec> 08└─One keeps one's online identity hidden, for legitimate purposes or not, by using encryption. One has a right not to be spied on by the police unless they have a warrant and probable cause.
[12:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score:2) 02RF to HDMI? - 06Famicom Classic Mini Console Sold 263k Units in Japan - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:19] <exec> 08└─On that note - do anyone know of any good rf-to-hdmi (or rf-demodulators, I can deal with it from RCA) converters or schematics? I have a bunch of stuff (c64, nes, snes, atari2600, one-game-units) that feed via RF/coax and I don't intend to open any of them up. I fear the day my vcr dies and renders...
[12:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Re:Step back; perspective; thought - 06Four Nations Map Course to Carbon-Free Economies - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:47:19] <exec> 08└─By examining available evidence on the rate at which mammalian species seem to be going extinct, your linked article concludes that there has been an exceptionally rapid loss of biodiversity over the last few centuries
[12:48:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Rob Pike and Plan 9 - 06Go: Free Fonts for Go's Emerging Gui Toolkit. - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:48:41] <exec> 08└─>because you can find thousands of free fonts on the internet All with the very minimal coverage - ASCII, or at best Latin1. Which translates to "useless" in most parts of the world. Any free font with *useful* coverage is notable; there are still too few of them around, now in 2016.
[12:50:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:the latter - 06Lego Group Ends Daily Mail Promotion - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:50:21] <exec> 08└─Son, if you consider yourself moderate - and I only have the opinions you post here as evidence - then the USA is fucked.
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[12:50:42] <exec> 08└─If I can over-generalise, the problem with everyone is over-generalisation. Not *everyone* with left-leaning politics thinks you shouldn't debate/let anyone into the country, nor is everyone with right-leaning politics a Heil Jesus xenophobe. All this partisan bullshit is what led to Chief Wotsit ve...
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[12:51:24] <exec> 08└─To an outsider in the modern age, it looks like the originators of the Electoral College system took a look at the first past the post system and asked themselves "how can we make it worse?". I don't have skin in the game beyond if the US farts my country has to either hold its breath or berate the...
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[13:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Cars vs. phones - 06Plug-In Electric Vehicles—a Consumer Wish List - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:45] <exec> 08└─Strange that people are apparently aware of the importance of control when it comes to their cars, but not when it comes to their phones.
[13:44:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score:2) 02Re:Cars vs. phones - 06Plug-In Electric Vehicles—a Consumer Wish List - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:44:47] <exec> 08└─People would like to take control of their phones. Very much so. The trouble is, Google and Apple, made it extra-hard from the get-go. How many phones can be rooted, and how many owners of these phones are technically able, and willing to void their warranty, to do so? Not very many unfortunately. B...
[13:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Giant moving transformers - 06Plug-In Electric Vehicles—a Consumer Wish List - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:49] <exec> 08└─even though inductive wireless charging could enable a self-fueling vehicle.
[13:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score:2) 02Yes, cut the middle man - 06Plug-In Electric Vehicles—a Consumer Wish List - 929 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:51] <exec> 08└─My main form of transportatiom is an electric vehicle (not a car mind you, but an electric-assist velomobile, which is close enough in the city). I like to be able to recharge at home and make good use of my solar panels, instead of paying people to provide the service for me in the form of electric...
[13:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Not seeing the problem... - 06Illinois Senate Overrides Governor's Veto of Automatic Voter Registration - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:01] <exec> 08└─Seems like one half of a good solution. Why should you have to take any extra steps to be allowed to vote? If the local government knows you exist, are of legal age, and are a citizen - that's really all it should take. When you apply for just about any government document or ID, you're done. The ot...
[13:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03fnj [1654] (Score:2) 02Why would we want more stupid people to vote? - 06Illinois Senate Overrides Governor's Veto of Automatic Voter Registration - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:03] <exec> 08└─It's already far too easy for IDIOTS to vote. It would be better if it were much more tedious to register to vote. It ought to be a privilege earned by passing a test of IQ and knowledge of economics. It would be best if you could pass a test for genuine realism, but how could you test effectively f...
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[13:45:13] <exec> 08└─The more interesting question is does the process require 24/7 power to run. If not, it can be supplied from excess renewable power that can't be used on the grid, and you can think of it as a kind of electricity storage (dig stuff out of the ground and burn it when solar/wind is low, put stuff back...
[13:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:education - 06Storing Carbon Dioxide Underground by Turning It Into Rock - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:45:21] <exec> 08└─Carbon dioxide is unlike the usual pollution. It is a gas that naturally is in the atmosphere (you yourself are adding some with every breath). The problem is not that it is released at all (indeed, without any CO2 our planet would be doomed), but that we are adding more of it than is removed by nat...
[13:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Re:education - 06Storing Carbon Dioxide Underground by Turning It Into Rock - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:45:23] <exec> 08└─we are adding more [CO2 to the air] than is removed by natural processes
[13:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Re:Actual "fake" news vs. "slanted"/ideological ne - 06Google to Ban Fake News - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:47:16] <exec> 08└─You're not wrong, but: (a) So what? People have been telling lies as long as there have been people. (b) Where do you draw the line? We have fiction - every novel ever written is a lie. We have parody sites, like The Onion, that are happy to sucker people into taking them seriously. We have April Fo...
[13:47:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The fake news that they need to ban - 06Google to Ban Fake News - 2323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:18] <exec> 08└─(adapted from an anonymous /. comment that hit the nail on the head) If they want to ban fake news, they can start with fake stories like... Reports that Trump was racist to Mexicans when he said that smugglers were raping women. Reports that Trump's son's use of Pepe the Frog makes Trump a white su...
[13:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Re:Do I still have to buy Ethanol laced gas? - 06Four Nations Map Course to Carbon-Free Economies - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:47:37] <exec> 08└─Lots of gas stations here (coastal North Carolina) have a separate "ethanol free" pump primarily for small engine use, enriched with mtbe [epa.gov] instead. I had (wrongly, I see) sort of assumed that this was the norm. Wonder why more places don't do that?
[13:48:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03purple_cobra [1435] (Score:1) 02Re:support - 06User Needed 40-minute Lesson in Turning It Off and Turning It On Again - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:48:22] <exec> 08└─I've had to explain the former to a consultant surgeon; it wasn't a cat in that case, just a habit of dumping paperwork on the desk, but I did get a second phone call from the same person about the same thing about a week later. Worryingly this is a person who is allowed to cut you open and poke aro...
[13:49:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02Re:He's a negotiator - 06"Crying Wolf" About Trump's "Openly Racist" State of Being - 254 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:49:23] <exec> 08└─The proposed wall is to keep illegal Mexicans out. Illegal is not a race. Mexican is not a race. Thus the wall is not racist. The comment I replied to said the wall was a racist argument. I refuted that. Do please go look up the definition of a strawman.
[13:49:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02Re:Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like - 06"Crying Wolf" About Trump's "Openly Racist" State of Being - 142 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:49:40] <exec> 08└─I assume he bases it on the definition of the word "race". Each of the major divisions of humankind, having distinct physical characteristics.
[13:49:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] 02Re:You're half right - 06"Crying Wolf" About Trump's "Openly Racist" State of Being - 656 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:49:56] <exec> 08└─" You have beliefs that are extreme, one might call you an extremist! " This is problem with liberals. You think that people on the political right are extremists. You literally think that having an opinion - even an outright racist one - is extremism. No. If you would like, I will link you a video...
[13:52:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03purple_cobra [1435] (Score:1) 02Re:The last paragraph of the article - 06Jay W. Forrester Dies at 98; a Pioneer in Computer Models - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:52:39] <exec> 08└─It's *an* American's dream. A rich one.
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[14:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02common charging ports? - 06Plug-In Electric Vehicles—a Consumer Wish List - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:57] <exec> 08└─How about we have a standard for fast charging? I read that there are proliferating standards to simply slow Tesla down....
[14:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Selective Sevice should be automatic - 06Illinois Senate Overrides Governor's Veto of Automatic Voter Registration - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:07] <exec> 08└─More importantly, draft women into combat roles and people will really care about foreign policy.
[14:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Nominal Benefit - 06Illinois Senate Overrides Governor's Veto of Automatic Voter Registration - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:10] <exec> 08└─The other half Insist on seeing some government document or ID, before allowing someone to vote, just to ensure that the person voting is (a) who they say they are, and (b) qualified to vote. I never have understood the resistance to voter-ID laws.
[14:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02a privilege earned - 06Illinois Senate Overrides Governor's Veto of Automatic Voter Registration - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:13] <exec> 08└─Remind me what all the soldiers die for again? Something about being able to do something, no I can't remember.
[14:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Re:Why would we want more stupid people to vote? - 06Illinois Senate Overrides Governor's Veto of Automatic Voter Registration - 760 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:15] <exec> 08└─Perhaps. The thing is: any sort of test can easily turn into a test of political correctness. If you are going to restrict voting, I think the restriction should be simple and objective: you must have skin in the game. There are various ways "skin" coule be measured, but one good candidate: - You mu...
[14:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Electoral College too - 06Illinois Senate Overrides Governor's Veto of Automatic Voter Registration - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:17] <exec> 08└─- You must pay more in direct taxes (sales, income, property, etc.) than you receive in direct benefits (welfare, social security, medicaid, government salary, government pension, etc.)
[14:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Plant trees - 06Storing Carbon Dioxide Underground by Turning It Into Rock - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:29] <exec> 08└─One barrel of oil is the energy equivalent of 2 large trees. Oil consumption per day in the table below. You do the math on how many trees we need to plant. 1 United States 19,396,000 2015. 2 China 11,968,000 2015. 3 India 4,159,000 2015. 4 Japan 4,150,000 2015. 5 Saudi Ara...
[14:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Honest question... - 06Storing Carbon Dioxide Underground by Turning It Into Rock - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:35] <exec> 08└─Let's assume that injecting CO2 into rock formations is a desireable goal. An honest question that I haven't seen answered anywhere: What is the energy requirement to extract CO2 from the atmosphere, liquify it, and inject it? Does this energy exceed the energy once gained by burning carbon to produ...
[14:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:3, Interesting) 02interesting... - 06Decrypting TLS Browser Traffic with Wireshark - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:44] <exec> 08└─I had misplace knowledge of this - seems like a fantastic backdoor, if its deployment can be hidden.... Am I misreading this? The browser will "leak" private keys - sure for debugging that's great. But if it can be set by an environment variable, what's to stop a malign sysadmin making this default?
[14:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:interesting... - 06Decrypting TLS Browser Traffic with Wireshark - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:46] <exec> 08└─> what's to stop a malign sysadmin making this default? Nothing. And that's why it isn't a problem. If you are trying to protect your usage of a system from the person with privileged access to the system then you've already lost the fight.
[14:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03dlb [4790] (Score:2) 02Re:Step back; perspective; thought - 06Four Nations Map Course to Carbon-Free Economies - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:47:51] <exec> 08└─Like most people, it makes me sad when species go extinct, even though this is as natural a thing as any other life and death. But that doesn't make me a mankind-hating alarmist.
[14:51:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:Name Calling No Longer Works - 06Lego Group Ends Daily Mail Promotion - 1730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:51:16] <exec> 08└─ummm, ye-a-a-a-h-h-h-no... you are falling into the left/right trap, mein gut freund... it is NOT left/right we 99% should be concerned with, we can sort that out in the wash; it is the top/bottom, 1%/99% schism which is the problem... the 1% WANT US to be divided and to blame each other for what ar...
[14:51:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:lucky - 06Clinton Campaign Relied Heavily on Computer Algorithm - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:51:42] <exec> 08└─I think that your concerns aren't warranted here. Obviously, whatever algorithm in play here is likely to remain a black box and thus, there is a certain futility to speculation about the operation of said black box. But Francis has actually given strong indications, going back over a year I might a...
[14:51:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:lucky - 06Clinton Campaign Relied Heavily on Computer Algorithm - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:51:43] <exec> 08└─More likely the algorithm assumed that the Sanders supporters wouldn't refuse to vote for her in such large numbers. And it almost certainly wouldn't have factored in the possibility that a lot of them would wind up voting for Trump. Nor is it likely that the algorithm would consider the large turno...
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[15:44:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"Delay" - 06U.S. Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Delay Enhanced Government Hacking Powers - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:46] <exec> 08└─Not that they are against the extra power, just postponing it a while so the marketing machine can get more public support to give up their rights.
[15:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:Selective Sevice should be automatic - 06Illinois Senate Overrides Governor's Veto of Automatic Voter Registration - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:09] <exec> 08└─heh, i'll go you one better: let's bring back the constitution, and NOT have standing armies ! !! (nor sitting ones, either)
[15:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score:2) 02Re:Not seeing the problem... - 06Illinois Senate Overrides Governor's Veto of Automatic Voter Registration - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:12] <exec> 08└─I never have understood the resistance to voter-ID laws.
[15:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:Why would we want more stupid people to vote? - 06Illinois Senate Overrides Governor's Veto of Automatic Voter Registration - 898 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:18] <exec> 08└─@ fnj- call you robert heinlein ? ? ? no fucking way, whatever you think of his politics, he was smart and could write entertainingly... you are not smart... you see, this is NOT a meritocracy of some stripe you seem to think it is, and your fucking YYYUUUUUGE intellect (and $10) will get you a latt...
[15:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Plant trees - 06Storing Carbon Dioxide Underground by Turning It Into Rock - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:31] <exec> 08└─One barrel of oil is the energy equivalent of 2 large trees.
[15:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:oxygen shortage - 06Storing Carbon Dioxide Underground by Turning It Into Rock - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:34] <exec> 08└─Eventually, but you'd have to burn a lot of carbon in the first place to create that imbalance. Currently, we're speaking of CO2 concentrations of 0.04% and oxygen concentrations of 21%.
[15:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Honest question... - 06Storing Carbon Dioxide Underground by Turning It Into Rock - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:41] <exec> 08└─Let's assume that injecting CO2 into rock formations is a desireable goal.
[15:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02oh god! PROFIT! - 06Storing Carbon Dioxide Underground by Turning It Into Rock - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:43] <exec> 08└─if the plants (and algae) could vote, they'd massively vote 99% against this idea (unless they are suicidal). Further more, plants and algae argue that they make oxygen for the guys that dig up energetic carbon and oxidized it so we humans can stay alive and keep on giving them more carbon-dioxide....
[15:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02whistle - 06Cosmic Whistle Packs a Surprisingly Energetic Punch - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:02] <exec> 08└─> In spite of this relatively well-coordinated response, no long-lived X-ray, ultraviolet or optical counterpart was seen A cosmic hot chick would explain the phenomenon, though.
[15:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You aren't the Sheik.... - 06I Am Capital - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:27] <exec> 08└─Facebook is valued at $100 per user or so. Lives are worth $100k to a few million, if looking for the monetary equivalent. Keep things in perspective.
[15:48:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Re:Step back; perspective; thought - 06Four Nations Map Course to Carbon-Free Economies - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:48:01] <exec> 08└─that the species which very well could go extinct is us.
[15:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03dlb [4790] (Score:2) 02Re:Step back; perspective; thought - 06Four Nations Map Course to Carbon-Free Economies - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:48:02] <exec> 08└─Bottom line question, where to look for good evidence not (very) influenced by the above?
[15:48:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Step back; perspective; thought - 06Four Nations Map Course to Carbon-Free Economies - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:48:04] <exec> 08└─Getting back on track, evidence for the "accelerated modern human-induced species loss" is the human-induced climate changes that have indeed happened, and are happening.
[15:48:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:What? Huh? - 06User Needed 40-minute Lesson in Turning It Off and Turning It On Again - 1976 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:48:24] <exec> 08└─and how about when the shoe is on the other foot ? ? ? when i -rarely, don't need hand-holding on baby problems- call in for tech support (which companies can make so onerous that you KNOW they don't want you actually using 'support' services), and the tech is a foreigner with such a thick accent th...
[15:50:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Re:You're half right - 06"Crying Wolf" About Trump's "Openly Racist" State of Being - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:50:28] <exec> 08└─"You even offer to behead me, that right there shows your mental state." NEVER would I do that to somebody. I would rather shoot myself or cut my own throat than saw the head off of a disarmed person. The true extremists would not - and I can show you a VIDEO of that as empirical evidence - I never...
[15:50:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Re:You're half right - 06"Crying Wolf" About Trump's "Openly Racist" State of Being - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:50:30] <exec> 08└─You misunderstand - you have every right to call me an extremist, but we would then only be extremists relative to Western civilization. That is a relative scale. On an absolute scale, we would be extremely moderate, because of the "real" extremists for whom genocide of those who you disagree with -...
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[16:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Did you read the section on data privacy? - 06Internet Association Releases Policy Roadmap - 955 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:47] <exec> 08└─From TF letter: People, as consumers, are the ultimate winners from data innovation, which improves their lives by: ● Getting them to work on time with accurate traffic data from the aggregated location of others. ● Healing them with the latest healthcare services developed using anonymized pati...
[16:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Merry Christmas! - 06U.S. Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Delay Enhanced Government Hacking Powers - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:56] <exec> 08└─Shitter was full!
[16:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03dlb [4790] (Score:2) 02Careful, now - 06Plug-In Electric Vehicles—a Consumer Wish List - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:09] <exec> 08└─"We noticed that people tend to prefer the things that give them the most control, rather than the most convenience,"
[16:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Not seeing the problem... - 06Illinois Senate Overrides Governor's Veto of Automatic Voter Registration - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:24] <exec> 08└─I completely agree that many states make ID laws rather cumbersome, and not just for voting. Establishing residency for even tasks like getting a driver's license, car registration, etc. can often be a hassle too. (I've definitely had to go back home and get other ID stuff in at least two states to...
[16:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Auto Registration + ID Requirements - 06Illinois Senate Overrides Governor's Veto of Automatic Voter Registration - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:30] <exec> 08└─Why can't we get both automagic registration and voter identification requirements at the same time and law?
[16:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ellis D. Tripp [3416] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Energy requirements? - 06Storing Carbon Dioxide Underground by Turning It Into Rock - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:40] <exec> 08└─But why would we want it back? The useful carbon has already been oxidized, so there is no energy to be had from CO2, which is essentially the "ash" from burning fossil fuels...
[16:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Energy requirements? - 06Storing Carbon Dioxide Underground by Turning It Into Rock - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:42] <exec> 08└─I asked the question. I also don't know why we would need it, at this time. But there might be a point in the future (even if it's 10.000 years in the future) that we might have a need for it. Making it completely inaccessible would be a wrong decision.
[16:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Re:Honest question... - 06Storing Carbon Dioxide Underground by Turning It Into Rock - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:56] <exec> 08└─I imagine we would see increasing returns on conversion/extraction technology if it were opened to the free market and used by companies to offset pollution in response to tighter environmental regulations. Rather than re-design your whole plant or throw away your perfectly good old machinery that j...
[16:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03dlb [4790] (Score:2) 02Re:interesting... - 06Decrypting TLS Browser Traffic with Wireshark - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:08] <exec> 08└─I'm out of mod points, so instead I'll add, Well put! And as long as I'm handing out unsolicited (and maybe not particularly wanted) praise, compliments to Phoenix666 for finding an article that's interesting and tech related.
[16:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Re:I Am Nothing - 06I Am Capital - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:36] <exec> 08└─Our lives were always ruined, we were just able to insulate ourselves from the world more easily and be around our own kind, alone, together. Now it's inescapable to see the "success" of others on Facebook, Twitter, etc. where people either post only the highlights of their lives, or a combination o...
[16:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I've been reading a book by Nicholas Carr - 06I Am Capital - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:41] <exec> 08└─It sounds like you're more than OK with the loss of jobs in the music, publishing, film, and journalism industries, but you insist of protectionism for American technology workers. Can you imagine having an argument about H1-B with an unemployed musician who graduated from music school? Maybe he's o...
[16:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02What ho, old bean - 06I Am Capital - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:47] <exec> 08└─I Am Capital
[16:47:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score:2) 02Re:I think this video summed it up best - 06Google to Ban Fake News - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:43] <exec> 08└─I have to agree with him thou, "cultural marxist" is actually very very fitting from what I been able to gather. It is insane the lengths to which the narrative has gone, and everything we see now is the society convulsing after realizing it swallowed this poison. Shit even I started thinking some s...
[16:47:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:We'll see - 06Google to Ban Fake News - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:53] <exec> 08└─The Republicans can lose everything tomorrow and it won't matter to the people who are sick to death of the left. They know now they have the political clout to even get Trump elected, and that is the death knell of PC culture.
[16:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Great!! - 06Google to Ban Fake News - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:48:03] <exec> 08└─4 years of learning ahead buddy...
[16:48:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02FAKE NEWS: Clinton 98% Chance to win! - 06Google to Ban Fake News - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:10] <exec> 08└─Time to ban the NYT, idiots!
[16:48:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03dlb [4790] (Score:2) 02Re:Step back; perspective; thought - 06Four Nations Map Course to Carbon-Free Economies - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:48:30] <exec> 08└─Yes, I agree with what you're saying...I just would say it a little differently: Climate change has a high potential to make life real miserable for us...and habitat destruction sure ain't helpin'!
[16:49:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score:2) 02Re:hell desk ended my employment prospects - 06User Needed 40-minute Lesson in Turning It Off and Turning It On Again - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:49:11] <exec> 08└─If I have to play-act to get a job, then that job isn't one that will make me happy. I make a point of never pretending to be someone I'm not in a job interview. It doesn't take long for them to figure out that I'm not a compliant liar. That what I say can be trusted because it is not always to my a...
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[17:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score:1) 02A few things must happen - 06Internet Association Releases Policy Roadmap - 629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:48] <exec> 08└─All intermediaries must be declared 'common carriers' to avoid the liability issue. The entire infrastructure must be nothing more than a dumb pipe and preferably a public utility subject to public oversight with teeth. Ad hoc (true P2P) networking must be developed to relieve dependence on the ISP,...
[17:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Giant moving transformers - 06Plug-In Electric Vehicles—a Consumer Wish List - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:07] <exec> 08└─Carbots with the means to kill American families indefinitely!
[17:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Perhaps people more familiar with EVs? - 06Plug-In Electric Vehicles—a Consumer Wish List - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:12] <exec> 08└─73 percent of people would elect optimized charging vs. on-demand charging.
[17:45:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ilPapa [2366] 02Re:Not seeing the problem... - 06Illinois Senate Overrides Governor's Veto of Automatic Voter Registration - 56 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:26] <exec> 08└─I never have understood the resistance to voter-ID laws.
[17:45:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score:2) 02Re:Not seeing the problem... - 06Illinois Senate Overrides Governor's Veto of Automatic Voter Registration - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:28] <exec> 08└─I don't think that's an "interesting distinction" at all. Many if not most states make distinctions between the uses of identification issued by the government vs. ID issued by a private entity.
[17:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Desler [880] (Score:2) 02Re:Not seeing the problem... - 06Illinois Senate Overrides Governor's Veto of Automatic Voter Registration - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:30] <exec> 08└─Because their only purpose is to supress the votes of the poor and minorities. Despite what old, white GOP people claim there is not some vast amount of voter fraud.
[17:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Why would we want more stupid people to vote? - 06Illinois Senate Overrides Governor's Veto of Automatic Voter Registration - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:36] <exec> 08└─Since you mentioned Heinlein: this does not prevent retired military from voting, if they go on to sufficiently lucrative careers, and pay more in taxes that they receive in retirement.
[17:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Why would we want more stupid people to vote? - 06Illinois Senate Overrides Governor's Veto of Automatic Voter Registration - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:40] <exec> 08└─It would be better if it were much more tedious to register to vote. It ought to be a privilege earned by passing a test of IQ and knowledge of economics.
[17:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Why would we want more stupid people to vote? - 06Illinois Senate Overrides Governor's Veto of Automatic Voter Registration - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:42] <exec> 08└─Because even idiots have rights, and voting is NOT a privilege. What an incredibly stupid question, do you thing asking that stupid question should disqualify you from voting?
[17:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Auto Registration + ID Requirements - 06Illinois Senate Overrides Governor's Veto of Automatic Voter Registration - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:45] <exec> 08└─In Illinois, your signature is your proof. Your signature is on file when you get any public document, and when you vote, you sign your name under a copy of your signature they obtained when you registered to vote. It's foolproof, with no physical ID needed.
[17:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score:2) 02Re:Plant trees - 06Storing Carbon Dioxide Underground by Turning It Into Rock - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:02] <exec> 08└─We're not interested in energy equivalent. We're instead interested in carbon content.
[17:46:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03choose another one [515] 02Re:education - 06Storing Carbon Dioxide Underground by Turning It Into Rock - 308 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:06] <exec> 08└─Yeah, so we put them in the sky instead. Worked out really well that did. When I was a kid the solution to industrial smog was to build taller chimneys, and in fact it worked. It caused acid rain thousands of miles away in another country, but hey can't have everything, and anyway that wasn't our pr...
[17:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:education - 06Storing Carbon Dioxide Underground by Turning It Into Rock - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:10] <exec> 08└─When I was a kid, I was taught in school that storing chemicals in the Earth mucked with nature and was called "pollution." Not every chemical is a pollutant. The chemical H2o, for example. Carbonates are not pollution.
[17:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Honest question... - 06Storing Carbon Dioxide Underground by Turning It Into Rock - 859 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:15] <exec> 08└─It might be possible to do at an energy profit. The trick is to burn plants, which get their carbon from the atmosphere, in a biomass power plant, and run the concentrated CO2 from that plant through this process. The reason this works is that the reaction that locks the CO2 in the rock is slightly...
[17:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Underwhelming. - 06Famicom Classic Mini Console Sold 263k Units in Japan - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:47:30] <exec> 08└─Already happened. Here is the public progress, but they are even farther behind the scenes in some places, including access to the file systems and controlling it through the USB port: https://www.reddit.com [reddit.com]
[17:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I think this video summed it up best - 06Google to Ban Fake News - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:48:07] <exec> 08└─because last I remember, the losers of an election didn't go outside and start destroying their own fucking neighborhoods when they lost in the past
[17:48:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Actual "fake" news vs. "slanted"/ideological ne - 06Google to Ban Fake News - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:48:27] <exec> 08└─The US ideal of freedom of speech should hold
[17:49:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:hell desk ended my employment prospects - 06User Needed 40-minute Lesson in Turning It Off and Turning It On Again - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:49:32] <exec> 08└─Would you like to run for President?
[17:52:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:Oversampling WHAT THE FUCK!?! - 06Clinton Campaign Relied Heavily on Computer Algorithm - 1019 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:52:50] <exec> 08└─I only see one reductionist argument in a vast sea of caps-locked "FUCK"s, accusations of partisanship, and assumptions of ignorance. Surely you understand that oversampling does skew a poll if it isn't properly weighted against -- if so, your whole comment is a distraction that dances around this o...
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[18:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Arabs are savages - 06Reporting Rape in UAE Could Lead to the Victim's Arrest - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:55] <exec> 08└─Nuke the fuckers.
[18:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Arabs are savages - 06Reporting Rape in UAE Could Lead to the Victim's Arrest - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:57] <exec> 08└─But.... Oil!
[18:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Arabs are savages - 06Reporting Rape in UAE Could Lead to the Victim's Arrest - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:00] <exec> 08└─You're just mad because you don't have an assortment of skyscrapers and artificial islands, an army of South Asian slaves to do your bidding, and a government that will allow you to do a lot more than grab women by the pussy and get away with it. You're a savage who wasn't born into obscene wealth,...
[18:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2, Flamebait) 02Worse than that! - 06Reporting Rape in UAE Could Lead to the Victim's Arrest - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:02] <exec> 08└─The barbarians are known for executing women who successfully defend themselves against rape. http://www.breitbart.com [breitbart.com] But, it isn't just the barbarians, either. European women who defend themselv...
[18:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Worse than that! - 06Reporting Rape in UAE Could Lead to the Victim's Arrest - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:04] <exec> 08└─You weren't there - she was probably asking for it. How dare you besmirch the fair UAE for protecting the real victims here. Dubai is the new Rome. The real barbarians are those chain-smoking limey tourists and expats who think they can waltz down the streets in their animal hides.
[18:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02 - 06Reporting Rape in UAE Could Lead to the Victim's Arrest - 913 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:07] <exec> 08└─That blows. Also, I had no idea that the expatriate population was that high. I'm surprised that so many South Asian workers (more like slaves in many cases) are sticking around since Dubai got hurt by the recession: http://www.news.com.au
[18:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score:2) 02Assumptions - 06Reporting Rape in UAE Could Lead to the Victim's Arrest - 885 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:09] <exec> 08└─My assumptions from what i've read is the native population in the UAE, like in Saudi Arabia are a protected class. They are not expected to do manual labor or menial jobs, so for all the unnecessary construction to happen, and all the cleaners, nannies and similar roles have to be filled with impor...
[18:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score:2) 02Why go all the way to the UAE? - 06Reporting Rape in UAE Could Lead to the Victim's Arrest - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:11] <exec> 08└─They don't have a monopoly on punishing the victim [cnn.com].
[18:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score:2) 02What Do You Want From Them? - 06Reporting Rape in UAE Could Lead to the Victim's Arrest - 1300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:13] <exec> 08└─Should they make all accusers immune from criminal prosecution? They have strict codes of conduct that are primarily designed to prevent rape, and in fact if you follow their laws you will be far less likely to be raped than in most other countries (as well as having proof of the rape if it did occu...
[18:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02We're past Patent Reform. - 06Internet Association Releases Policy Roadmap - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:23] <exec> 08└─Patents are a tax evasion scam: 1. R&D in the states enjoying US financed STEM programs and infrastructure and make a bunch of patents. Costs are fully deductible. 2. Transfer patents to an off-shore shell company for 1$. Pay 35cents on the 1$ (or whatever) to Uncle Sam. 3. License the patents back...
[18:45:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:We're past Patent Reform. - 06Internet Association Releases Policy Roadmap - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:25] <exec> 08└─Might as well try reforming slavery.
[18:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 024th anyone? - 06U.S. Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Delay Enhanced Government Hacking Powers - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:35] <exec> 08└─From the article: Under the modified rule, a judge may issue a warrant to remotely search, copy, and seize information from a device that does not have a known location,
[18:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:4th anyone? - 06U.S. Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Delay Enhanced Government Hacking Powers - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:37] <exec> 08└─Correct because some VIP will step in and explain to the judge(s) how important it is for the safety of the good ol' US of A.
[18:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Cars vs. phones - 06Plug-In Electric Vehicles—a Consumer Wish List - 949 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:48] <exec> 08└─Funny you mention phones, I have inductive charging on my phone using the (early adopter therefore shitty) Qi standard where ten watts go in and five watts turn to heat. Only in BS marketing material is the efficiency as high as 75% or whatever nonsense they claim. It does work, it just makes things...
[18:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Range anxiety - 06Plug-In Electric Vehicles—a Consumer Wish List - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:56] <exec> 08└─allows the system to manage and plan vehicle charging, for example, charging at off-peak times.
[18:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Not seeing the problem... - 06Illinois Senate Overrides Governor's Veto of Automatic Voter Registration - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:14] <exec> 08└─Yeah, except we weren't trying to use it to establish identity, but rather to establish residency.
[18:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Re:Not seeing the problem... - 06Illinois Senate Overrides Governor's Veto of Automatic Voter Registration - 1696 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:15] <exec> 08└─It seems to me that the parent post already answered your questions. Texas requires a Texas government ID or a federal ID. No, an ID from a university is not a government ID for this purpose. It seems to me that you are being deliberately obtuse. I also work for a state-run university, and I would n...
[18:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Not seeing the problem... - 06Illinois Senate Overrides Governor's Veto of Automatic Voter Registration - 4046 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:18] <exec> 08└─Here's a short list of voter registration problems 1) In theory we don't require ID cards to vote, only to register. Yes jump thru ten hoops and you can register without a free state ID card. Of course free state ID cards require sometimes expensive registered birth certificates. The point is regist...
[18:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why would we want more stupid people to vote? - 06Illinois Senate Overrides Governor's Veto of Automatic Voter Registration - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:25] <exec> 08└─Wow, that is a crazy dystopia you've imagined there. Crazy.
[18:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Re:Plant trees - 06Storing Carbon Dioxide Underground by Turning It Into Rock - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:48] <exec> 08└─I prefer the idea of planting trees, especially when one considers how useful they are. Not only are they beautiful, they can be turned into many useful products such as houses, books, toys. I like the idea of someone considering the building, funding, and stocking of a library because it is a carbo...
[18:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03nethead [4970] (Score:1) 02Re:Plant trees - 06Storing Carbon Dioxide Underground by Turning It Into Rock - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:50] <exec> 08└─When my wife complains that I haven't broken down and recycled all the damn Amazon boxes I just tell her it's carbon sequestration.
[18:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score:1) 02Wow, man, - 06Storing Carbon Dioxide Underground by Turning It Into Rock - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:03] <exec> 08└─it's a drag being a rock [youtube.com]
[18:47:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:I've been reading a book by Nicholas Carr - 06I Am Capital - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:47] <exec> 08└─Are you okay with the loss of jobs in the horse and carriage industry? Maybe we should all go back to horses for personal transport? Might even help with Global Warming. You make a connection that is unwarranted. I agree that artists deserve compensation. I do not agree with copyright as the means....
[18:47:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You aren't the Sheik.... - 06I Am Capital - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:52] <exec> 08└─this guy has no grasp on reality if he thinks he is "capital" pro tip: capital is a social relationship
[18:49:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I think this video summed it up best - 06Google to Ban Fake News - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:49:02] <exec> 08└─FFS if you make these issues out to be about left vs right, you're part of the problem! Authoritarianism is the problem and the left and right both are in love with it.
[18:49:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Great!! - 06Google to Ban Fake News - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:49:13] <exec> 08└─What? How dare you insinuate something like that you leftist baby killer! I'm not your buddy guy :p
[18:49:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Actual "fake" news vs. "slanted"/ideological ne - 06Google to Ban Fake News - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:49:19] <exec> 08└─Actually this time they're silent on that regard because "freedom of speech"!! It is amusing, I wish I could pull up the comments whee constitutional worries were blown off by "its a private company, don't like it? Go somewhere else!" All because they think it is some attempt to dethrone their guy o...
[18:49:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The fake news that they need to ban - 06Google to Ban Fake News - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:49:22] <exec> 08└─Palestinians are not under Israeli occupation?
[18:50:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:What? Huh? - 06User Needed 40-minute Lesson in Turning It Off and Turning It On Again - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:50:09] <exec> 08└─Tell them the problem is they need to reboot their phone.
[18:50:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:hell desk ended my employment prospects - 06User Needed 40-minute Lesson in Turning It Off and Turning It On Again - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:50:29] <exec> 08└─She already lost, it was back on the 8th.
[18:52:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You're half right - 06"Crying Wolf" About Trump's "Openly Racist" State of Being - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:52:16] <exec> 08└─Well in case you haven't been paying attention, there are extremists on both sides. Maybe not up to beheading people on camera, but violence has been done to liberals and conservatives. Many people have advocated violence this election cycle, and while much of it is hot air (such as you) it is impos...
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[19:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Money solves Everything - 06Economist's Research Reveals Poverty Should be Measured by More than Income - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:51] <exec> 08└─health : money buys healthcare education : money buys degrees standard of living : money buys food security : money buys bodyguards social connections : money buys friends housing quality : money buys houses
[19:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Give to Soylentnews - 06Economist's Research Reveals Poverty Should be Measured by More than Income - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:44:53] <exec> 08└─Funding Goal [soylentnews.org]: $3,000 Progress So Far: $2,439
[19:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Arabs are savages - 06Reporting Rape in UAE Could Lead to the Victim's Arrest - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:04] <exec> 08└─Seems like he's happy to nuke all the women who've been raped too. Because that shit doesn't just happen to the white women, they are the ones who get treated best.
[19:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Worse than that! - 06Reporting Rape in UAE Could Lead to the Victim's Arrest - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:07] <exec> 08└─Oi, stop shitposting. You're horning in on my gig.
[19:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Biased claims maybe? - 06Reporting Rape in UAE Could Lead to the Victim's Arrest - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:09] <exec> 08└─You don't think that the second link might have a bit of bias, beginning as it does with: A 17-year-old Danish girl who used pepper spray to defend herself from a rape attack by a nonwhite invader “refugee" in the southern city of Sønderborg [...]
[19:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Biased claims maybe? - 06Reporting Rape in UAE Could Lead to the Victim's Arrest - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:12] <exec> 08└─Sure, it's biased. Doesn't change the facts though.
[19:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Why go all the way to the UAE? - 06Reporting Rape in UAE Could Lead to the Victim's Arrest - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:17] <exec> 08└─Same thing with Baylor. [washingtonpost.com] Its classic misogyny - if you aren't a good girl (by conforming to the rules) then you deserve whatever horrible thing people do to you. It is no surprise that these are all places with regressive religious principles - yes Baylor is basically the johns-h...
[19:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:What Do You Want From Them? - 06Reporting Rape in UAE Could Lead to the Victim's Arrest - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:20] <exec> 08└─"Our" Christian laws? Fuck no. Have you read the Bible on rape? You pay the father 50 shekels (about $100) and marry her. Or maybe you mean, the Conservative version of rape. Legitimate rape, not the other types that don't count. You know, like if she was asking for it. Good Conservative values. No,...
[19:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What Do You Want From Them? - 06Reporting Rape in UAE Could Lead to the Victim's Arrest - 1158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:22] <exec> 08└─> "Our" Christian laws? Fuck no. Have you read the Bible on rape? You pay the father 50 shekels (about $100) and marry her. That is no joke. I've told this story before- I have a friend living in the philippines which may be the most catholic country in the world. As a teen she was forced to marry h...
[19:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:What Do You Want From Them? - 06Reporting Rape in UAE Could Lead to the Victim's Arrest - 1801 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:24] <exec> 08└─You are correct that Islamic law is utterly unlike Western law. However, you are off on a few points. - Western law does now say "you must believe the woman". You yourself pointed out that the foundation of Western law is "innocent until proven guilty". While there is a tendency to believe the victi...
[19:45:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score:2) 02Re:What Do You Want From Them? - 06Reporting Rape in UAE Could Lead to the Victim's Arrest - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:26] <exec> 08└─The four witnesses mentioned in Quran is for accusation of adultery to a woman. That is simply not how rape is tried, all sorts of physical and medical evidence is allowed and examined. You yourself said, that any legal system that used your methods would never find a single raper guilty, and yet ma...
[19:45:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What Do You Want From Them? - 06Reporting Rape in UAE Could Lead to the Victim's Arrest - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:28] <exec> 08└─While the Bible says that unless significant evidence is found counter to the woman's claim of rape, that you must believe the woman.
[19:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:What Do You Want From Them? - 06Reporting Rape in UAE Could Lead to the Victim's Arrest - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:31] <exec> 08└─in fact if you follow their laws you will be far less likely to be raped than in most other countries
[19:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:1) 02Re:What Do You Want From Them? - 06Reporting Rape in UAE Could Lead to the Victim's Arrest - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:33] <exec> 08└─Your third point is a distortion. This law appears twice, in slightly different words, and if you read the version in Deut. only it could be ambiguous, but if you look at the other occurrence in Exodus it's much more clear. These passages are not referring to 'rape' in the modern sense, but to unaut...
[19:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score:2) 02This is why we don't want Islamic refugees... - 06Reporting Rape in UAE Could Lead to the Victim's Arrest - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:35] <exec> 08└─The Syrian refugee scourge won't be coming here, at least.
[19:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02should have stayed in UK - 06Reporting Rape in UAE Could Lead to the Victim's Arrest - 1062 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:37] <exec> 08└─Because in the UK, sex is legal! It's always been legal! Except when it wasn't legal. Sodomy was historically known in England and Wales as buggery, and is usually interpreted as referring to anal intercourse between two males or a male and a female. In England and Wales buggery was made a felony by...
[19:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:4th anyone? - 06U.S. Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Delay Enhanced Government Hacking Powers - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:58] <exec> 08└─Did you see what Ivanka was wearing? Amazing color. Vote for your favorite Ivanka outfit on our website. OMG the latest Trump tweet about the Broadway musical was just SHOCKING! Do you agree or disagree? Etc.
[19:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cars vs. phones - 06Plug-In Electric Vehicles—a Consumer Wish List - 1063 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:09] <exec> 08└─I don't think you'll find many 90% efficient transformer-based wall warts. (I assume we're comparing regulated DC power supplies, as that is required for Qi chargers or even for directly charging phones of that era.) First, the SMPS takeover was mostly complete by the time 90% efficiency was mandate...
[19:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score:2) 02Re:Not seeing the problem... - 06Illinois Senate Overrides Governor's Veto of Automatic Voter Registration - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:35] <exec> 08└─False. From the page I linked: Election officials will still be required by State law to determine whether the voter’s name on the identification provided matches the name on the official list of registered voters
[19:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score:2) 02Re:Not seeing the problem... - 06Illinois Senate Overrides Governor's Veto of Automatic Voter Registration - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:37] <exec> 08└─For civilians, if you truly *just* moved, this policy is inconvenient. However, that is very much an edge case - we are talking about a tiny fraction of voters.
[19:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:a privilege earned - 06Illinois Senate Overrides Governor's Veto of Automatic Voter Registration - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:43] <exec> 08└─Poontang. Specifically, to be able to fuck that poon. Not sure about the females, but they probably have their reasons. Cite: Full Metal Jacket
[19:46:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why would we want more stupid people to vote? - 06Illinois Senate Overrides Governor's Veto of Automatic Voter Registration - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:52] <exec> 08└─I think you're putting too much stock in pseudoscientific IQ tests, which emerged from the social 'sciences'. but how could you test effectively for that?
[19:47:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Plant trees - 06Storing Carbon Dioxide Underground by Turning It Into Rock - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:47:12] <exec> 08└─You can burn an entire 2 ton tree in a day but it doesn't grow to even half that size in one day. So the enormous number of trees required is likely magnitudes more than you imply with your calculations.
[19:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02Re:Plant trees - 06Storing Carbon Dioxide Underground by Turning It Into Rock - 1425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:47:16] <exec> 08└─Reforesting the deserted areas of the world could solve a lot of the worlds problems. Climate change - carbon is stored in trees/shrubs/plants, the respiration of the vegetation increases cloud cover, water from melting icecaps is now in the air, land, and vegetation offsetting sea level rise, large...
[19:47:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Re:education - 06Storing Carbon Dioxide Underground by Turning It Into Rock - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:47:25] <exec> 08└─Not every chemical is a pollutant. The chemical H2O, for example.
[19:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03nethead [4970] (Score:1) 02Re:Honest question... - 06Storing Carbon Dioxide Underground by Turning It Into Rock - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:47:31] <exec> 08└─Does this energy exceed the energy once gained by burning carbon to produce the CO2 in the first place? Since this was done on the Hanford Reservation I'm guessing the energy was nuclear.
[19:50:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03nethead [4970] (Score:1) 02Re:What? Huh? - 06User Needed 40-minute Lesson in Turning It Off and Turning It On Again - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:50:29] <exec> 08└─But no damn Irish!
[19:51:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:This is not a cupholder story - 06User Needed 40-minute Lesson in Turning It Off and Turning It On Again - 3269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:51:13] <exec> 08└─Total head shaker, AC. First of all where I am receptionists are hired based on looks so she was probably a single young cutie, and you being here you're probably a guy so was her age back in the old days, and she was trying to get you to go back to her house and check the wiring on the DVD player w...
[19:51:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Ah, Help Desk memories - 06User Needed 40-minute Lesson in Turning It Off and Turning It On Again - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:51:16] <exec> 08└─Doctors: mechanics for humans. Nothing special about their profession.
[19:51:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Which ones? - 06Poison Dart Frog Neurotoxin Synthesized - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:51:27] <exec> 08└─Not good form to respond to your own comment, but I had to know. Many poison dart frogs secrete lipophilic alkaloid toxins such as allopumiliotoxin 267A, batrachotoxin, epibatidine, histrionicotoxin, and pumiliotoxin 251D through their skin. Alkaloids in the skin glands of poison frogs serve as a c...
[19:52:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:You're half right - 06"Crying Wolf" About Trump's "Openly Racist" State of Being - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:52:45] <exec> 08└─Have you ever had a seemingly moderate and seemingly reasonable muslim threaten to kill you if you finish the sentence where you explain why you became an atheist? I have. "If you finish that sentence I will have to kill you" were his exact words. In disbelief I let one more word out, and he immedia...
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[20:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Lies - 06Economist's Research Reveals Poverty Should be Measured by More than Income - 1435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:52] <exec> 08└─The Human Development Index (what they are really after) use to consider spending (i.e.- it matters not one whit who earns the money, but who spends the money) in their calculations with regards to income, but reworked the definitions around the time the Gender Development Index started coming into...
[20:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score:2) 02How about we factor in the children... - 06Economist's Research Reveals Poverty Should be Measured by More than Income - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:54] <exec> 08└─The 7 children from 6 different fathers. How about we factor that in? When you adjust for that a lot of poverty is self inflicted.
[20:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How about we factor in the children... - 06Economist's Research Reveals Poverty Should be Measured by More than Income - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:44:56] <exec> 08└─But that's 6 different income streams! Pshaw! Haven't you heard about diversifying your portfolio?
[20:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score:2) 02Re:Arabs are savages - 06Reporting Rape in UAE Could Lead to the Victim's Arrest - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:09] <exec> 08└─Um... so is that a "yes" for nukes?
[20:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Biased claims maybe? - 06Reporting Rape in UAE Could Lead to the Victim's Arrest - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:16] <exec> 08└─Now we don't tell you what laws you should have in your country
[20:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score:2) 02Re:Biased claims maybe? - 06Reporting Rape in UAE Could Lead to the Victim's Arrest - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:18] <exec> 08└─You don't think that the second link might have a bit of bias
[20:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Worse than that! - 06Reporting Rape in UAE Could Lead to the Victim's Arrest - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:20] <exec> 08└─Runaway busted as a reg of the founding alt-right site Breitbart.
[20:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What Do You Want From Them? - 06Reporting Rape in UAE Could Lead to the Victim's Arrest - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:31] <exec> 08└─Rape is far less common? And how can you actually prove this scientifically?
[20:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:What Do You Want From Them? - 06Reporting Rape in UAE Could Lead to the Victim's Arrest - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:36] <exec> 08└─Your third point is a distortion. This law appears twice, in slightly different words, and if you read the version in Deut. only it could be ambiguous, but if you look at the other occurrence in Exodus it's much more clear.
[20:45:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What Do You Want From Them? - 06Reporting Rape in UAE Could Lead to the Victim's Arrest - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:39] <exec> 08└─Is this like saying that we have to give the bible credit for introducing slavery lite? Come on now.
[20:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:What Do You Want From Them? - 06Reporting Rape in UAE Could Lead to the Victim's Arrest - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:41] <exec> 08└─Is this like saying that we have to give the bible credit for introducing slavery lite? Come on now.
[20:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score:2) 02Re:What Do You Want From Them? - 06Reporting Rape in UAE Could Lead to the Victim's Arrest - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:43] <exec> 08└─Another post has already pointed out the actual standard here
[20:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:What Do You Want From Them? - 06Reporting Rape in UAE Could Lead to the Victim's Arrest - 1781 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:45] <exec> 08└─Your link to Stack Exchange has most of the highly-rated answers more-or-less agreeing with my interpretation of the passage. At NO POINT in that passage does it explicitly mention any doctrine of "believing the woman" about a rape charge EXCEPT in that one scenario, which basically fails the usual...
[20:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Re:Did you read the section on data privacy? - 06Internet Association Releases Policy Roadmap - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:56] <exec> 08└─crushing competition by bundling features into Windows,
[20:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Did you read the section on data privacy? - 06Internet Association Releases Policy Roadmap - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:58] <exec> 08└─They bundled IE tightly with the Windows kernel so it couldn't be removed by an OEM. When European antitrust regulators ordered MS to make a version of Windows that didn't have IE, Steve Ballmer sputtered, "I don't know how to do that". Now, of course, they're paying for the deliberately bloated arc...
[20:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Re:Did you read the section on data privacy? - 06Internet Association Releases Policy Roadmap - 742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:00] <exec> 08└─Sure, it was a tangled mess, but a tangled mess with more features than before. Still perfectly simple to add third-party browsers just as easily as any other third-party software of the time. You don't get to pick and choose how a proprietary software product is built -- that's their nature. The wh...
[20:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:4th anyone? - 06U.S. Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Delay Enhanced Government Hacking Powers - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:15] <exec> 08└─just wait till they torify all TEH interwebz transparently in utah. "so where is everybody located?" "we don't know!"
[20:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''there is not some vast amount of voter fraud'' - 06Illinois Senate Overrides Governor's Veto of Automatic Voter Registration - 930 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:54] <exec> 08└─This. Those people who -claim- that there are vast amounts of voter fraud could easily prove their point with a list of names of perps. Without the list, this is just blowing smoke. It doesn't happen in any significant numbers. This fraudulent act would be a FELONY. The risk is simply not worth the...
[20:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score:2) 02Re:Not seeing the problem... - 06Illinois Senate Overrides Governor's Veto of Automatic Voter Registration - 669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:57] <exec> 08└─2) See above if you let lazy people register at the polls you have 95+ year old volunteers making all kinds of judgment calls about adequate identification papers but if you register then my local municipal clerk takes her time crossing all the t and dotting all the i to make sure I'm properly regis...
[20:47:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Electoral College too - 06Illinois Senate Overrides Governor's Veto of Automatic Voter Registration - 185 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:03] <exec> 08└─- You must pay more in direct taxes (sales, income, property, etc.) than you receive in direct benefits (welfare, social security, medicaid, government salary, government pension, etc.)
[20:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score:2) 02Re:Why would we want more stupid people to vote? - 06Illinois Senate Overrides Governor's Veto of Automatic Voter Registration - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:07] <exec> 08└─If you are going to restrict voting, I think the restriction should be simple and objective: you must have skin in the game. There are various ways "skin" coule be measured, but one good candidate: - You must pay more in direct taxes (sales, income, property, etc.) than you receive in direct benefit...
[20:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Plant trees - 06Storing Carbon Dioxide Underground by Turning It Into Rock - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:34] <exec> 08└─What fun! We get to deny the laws of physics in coming up with solutions. I propose we increase the size of the earth by 2x. More space for everyone and more room for planting trees.
[20:47:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:education - 06Storing Carbon Dioxide Underground by Turning It Into Rock - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:44] <exec> 08└─Your honor, plaintiffs have been observed dumping gallons of Dihydrogen Monoxide into soil on public school property on multiple occasions, yet they have the nerve to make accusations against my client, who is one of the largest employers in our state.
[20:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:interesting... - 06Decrypting TLS Browser Traffic with Wireshark - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:48:02] <exec> 08└─P666 left us with a pile of tech stories which have been used since Friday onwards. A very prolific submitter!
[20:48:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:interesting... - 06Decrypting TLS Browser Traffic with Wireshark - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:48:04] <exec> 08└─Note these are transient TLS session keys, not RSA private keys they're talking about.
[20:48:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02Re:I've been reading a book by Nicholas Carr - 06I Am Capital - 3013 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:48:36] <exec> 08└─Technology caused our current concentration of wealth? The Internet polarized communities? I don't quite buy that. Those are only the means of the day. Society's ability to distribute the fruits of advancement determines how much wealth concentration is possible. The powerful have done a great deal...
[20:48:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I've been reading a book by Nicholas Carr - 06I Am Capital - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:48:40] <exec> 08└─What Carr is saying is that the profession of IT administrators, and of many other techies, is going the way of the music and journalism professions. It won't disappear entirely, but industry won't need nearly so many workers. I just find the juxtaposition of "Unlimited sharing of digital content: Y...
[20:48:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02bad data - 06I Am Capital - 748 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:48] <exec> 08└─My problem with these vast databases of personal information has been how totally wrong they usually are. You have no control over what information about you is being stored in them, no way to correct it, no appeal to anyone, and no recourse. Even more strangely is how one of my email addrs gets add...
[20:49:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:What constitutes 'fake news'? - 06Google to Ban Fake News - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:49:31] <exec> 08└─I think the biggest problem with news, news being any format, is that it's NOT about selling news. It never really was. It's about selling advertising. After years of refining their business models, news companies fine tune for maximum eyeballs to drive advertising revenue. So it's easy for them to...
[20:49:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I think this video summed it up best - 06Google to Ban Fake News - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:49:59] <exec> 08└─I had to stop watching and close the window when the narrator said that occupy wallstreet was "extreme left liberal media" or something to that effect. The guy is a right wing blowhard upset that he behaves like the lady he is whining about. She just provided the list of "approved" sites without ask...
[20:50:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Actual "fake" news vs. "slanted"/ideological ne - 06Google to Ban Fake News - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:50:17] <exec> 08└─Actually, I see this argument more from leftist when a company is doing something to promote their narrative, and more resignation from the right that the market will eventually correct itself. But yes, they are private companies, and they can do as they wish. And people are free to complain about i...
[20:50:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Re:Step back; perspective; thought - 06Four Nations Map Course to Carbon-Free Economies - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:50:39] <exec> 08└─Thanks. I still contend that saying flat-out "purging fossil fuels from the global economy by mid-century [is] our only hope of staving off catastrophic climate change" falls under "alarmist nutjob nonsense".
[20:53:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Re:You're half right - 06"Crying Wolf" About Trump's "Openly Racist" State of Being - 1084 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:53:12] <exec> 08└─"Have you ever had a seemingly moderate and seemingly reasonable muslim threaten to kill you if you finish the sentence where you explain why you became an atheist?" No, but estimates of muslim extremists worldwide are held at an estimated 15%-25%. With a worldwide muslim population of almost 2 bill...
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[21:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02This is why we can't have nice science! - 06Icy Surprises at Rosetta's Comet - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:50] <exec> 08└─By what possible mechanism would a comet acquire CO2 and H2O from a planet? **** And CO2 was never seen on a comet before because humans have not seen things on a comet very often before. Like, once or twice?
[21:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Re:This is why we can't have nice science! - 06Icy Surprises at Rosetta's Comet - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:44:52] <exec> 08└─By what possible mechanism would a comet acquire CO2 and H2O from a planet?
[21:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:This is why we can't have nice science! - 06Icy Surprises at Rosetta's Comet - 762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:44:54] <exec> 08└─I think Ed was being sarcastic. It kinda looks like sarcasm font, doesn't it? What is actually happening is, that comet will pass through the water vapor barrior out near the edege of the solar system to replenish the water lost to the sun. Then it will pass through the CO2 vapor barrier where more...
[21:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Give to Soylentnews - 06Economist's Research Reveals Poverty Should be Measured by More than Income - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:04] <exec> 08└─Give all that you have to SoylentNews, and follow SN on Twitter.
[21:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lies - 06Economist's Research Reveals Poverty Should be Measured by More than Income - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:07] <exec> 08└─(the very wealthy have essentially no income and can live off of reserves)
[21:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:How about we factor in the children... - 06Economist's Research Reveals Poverty Should be Measured by More than Income - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:12] <exec> 08└─Yes, because there are no structural effects like the lack of access to effective birth control or women being forced to temporarily rely on men for income and being pressured into having their children (either by the men or as a way to attempt to ensure the man stays). That's clearly 100% the poor...
[21:45:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How about we factor in the children... - 06Economist's Research Reveals Poverty Should be Measured by More than Income - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:14] <exec> 08└─lack of access to effective birth control
[21:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Apparently you do not live on the planet earth. - 06Economist's Research Reveals Poverty Should be Measured by More than Income - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:16] <exec> 08└─> I didn't realize abstinence was so difficult to procure. Apparently you do not live on the planet earth. The idea that the single most primal driving force of our species can simply be shut-off by normal people, much less people with major stresses, is beyond unrealistic its alien.
[21:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Apparently you do not live on the planet earth. - 06Economist's Research Reveals Poverty Should be Measured by More than Income - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:18] <exec> 08└─You're right! I live on an alternate reality earth where birth rates are plummeting not due to our space age, comprehensive birth control, but more and more men are realizing the legal pitfalls of having relations and the sheer unseemliness of most women; they'd rather go without. Hell, some places...
[21:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score:2) 02Re:How about we factor in the children... - 06Economist's Research Reveals Poverty Should be Measured by More than Income - 709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:20] <exec> 08└─Do you want to be self-righteousness and smug or do you want to put aside ideology and actually solve the problem? Telling poor people to just stop fucking and making babies might make you feel good and superior but it's not going to work. It has never worked. It never will work. So what else you go...
[21:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score:2) 02Re:How about we factor in the children... - 06Economist's Research Reveals Poverty Should be Measured by More than Income - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:22] <exec> 08└─How about we pay them to be sterilized. If someone shows both an ineptitude in supporting their children while continuing to have more it sounds pretty much like child abuse to me.
[21:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How about we factor in the children... - 06Economist's Research Reveals Poverty Should be Measured by More than Income - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:25] <exec> 08└─As parent post pointed out, illegitimacy is THE primary driving force behind most poverty. As your more thoughtful, dispassionate engineering has already exacerbated this problem, and none of your current suggestions address the root cause, you'll excuse me if I laugh in the face at your smug, self-...
[21:45:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03gringer [962] (Score:2) 02Moving the Goal Posts - 06Economist's Research Reveals Poverty Should be Measured by More than Income - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:27] <exec> 08└─Because now it looks like we're winning the fight against poverty, we need to change the definition so that all those employed people get to keep their job and won't descend into "poverty": https://ourworldindata.org [ourworldindata.org]
[21:45:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02The elephant in the room - 06Economist's Research Reveals Poverty Should be Measured by More than Income - 1605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:29] <exec> 08└─Why not notice the elephant in the room here. The article is just the usual word salad of proggie nonsense to get more government. No, the elephant in the room is the url. phys.org for this non-science political crap? There aren't enough journals for fuzzy non-science science to publish this in? Or...
[21:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Juhmorris is offended. - 06Economist's Research Reveals Poverty Should be Measured by More than Income - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:31] <exec> 08└─> No, the elephant in the room is the url. phys.org for this non-science political crap Juhmorris is offended. Is there ever a time when juhmorris is not either offended or trying to offend? It would be nice if you could stop re-offending.
[21:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Re:The elephant in the room - 06Economist's Research Reveals Poverty Should be Measured by More than Income - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:33] <exec> 08└─Couldn't bother getting an education? Well that doesn't pay as well now does it.
[21:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Arabs are savages - 06Reporting Rape in UAE Could Lead to the Victim's Arrest - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:47] <exec> 08└─Seems like a pretty clear "you are two steps away from being horrible too."
[21:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Biased claims maybe? - 06Reporting Rape in UAE Could Lead to the Victim's Arrest - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:55] <exec> 08└─> If the story is accurate then I don't really care who reported it or what their bias is. Are you suggesting the story is not accurate? Apparently its not a popular opinion around here, but when a reporter injects obviously partisan statements into a story that itself has implications on that same...
[21:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score:2) 02Re:Biased claims maybe? - 06Reporting Rape in UAE Could Lead to the Victim's Arrest - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:57] <exec> 08└─It does, or rather it means it isn't useful as a single data point. Additional information is needed before any evaluation can be useful. If you have context for the source you might find that it's agenda 'fit the narrative' bent makes it useless for anything other than possibly pointing out an even...
[21:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Biased claims maybe? - 06Reporting Rape in UAE Could Lead to the Victim's Arrest - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:59] <exec> 08└─Better I should offer a link that is biased in the other direction? I've posted many times - other people have posted many times - THE MEDIA IS BIASED!! You think that I should post a more socialist article, instead? I should have searched for an article written by an SJW? Because, of course, the bi...
[21:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:What Do You Want From Them? - 06Reporting Rape in UAE Could Lead to the Victim's Arrest - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:18] <exec> 08└─You are looking at a small selection of primitive cultures. The relative rights of men and women even varied a lot within the middle east, much less if you go outside that area. Equality (well, of a separate but equal kind) wasn't rare, and there were even cultures where the women were dominant, alt...
[21:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score:2) 02Re:What Do You Want From Them? - 06Reporting Rape in UAE Could Lead to the Victim's Arrest - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:21] <exec> 08└─From the link: 25 But if the man meets the engaged woman in the open country, and the man seizes her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die. 26 You shall do nothing to the young woman; the young woman has not committed an offense punishable by death, because this case is li...
[21:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:should have stayed in UK - 06Reporting Rape in UAE Could Lead to the Victim's Arrest - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:26] <exec> 08└─sexual acts between two adult males, with no other people present, were made legal in (...) Isle of Man in 1992. Huh. Talk about deceptive naming.
[21:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Did you read the section on data privacy? - 06Internet Association Releases Policy Roadmap - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:37] <exec> 08└─The whining at the time over this fact was pathetic then, and it's pathetic now.
[21:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Did you read the section on data privacy? - 06Internet Association Releases Policy Roadmap - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:38] <exec> 08└─It's already happened. When Windows Phone was rolled out 10 or so years ago - I can't remember what they called it back then - everyone from OEMs to mobile phone providers to retailers to bloggers to consumers looked at it and said, Thanks but no thanks. Doesn't suit my needs, but maybe I'll check b...
[21:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Pay it back - 06Internet Association Releases Policy Roadmap - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:40] <exec> 08└─You can start great business. Ship products over the world. Then keep all those proceeds oversees. The US gov (that is us) is the first Angel Invester. Giving space, roads, sewers, water systems, telephone lines, railroads, Internet, ... They want more from us (US) pay the first angel back.
[21:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:We're past Patent Reform. - 06Internet Association Releases Policy Roadmap - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:45] <exec> 08└─At least slavery was transparently evil.
[21:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03zeigerpuppy [1298] (Score:2) 02Foxes in the hen house - 06Internet Association Releases Policy Roadmap - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:48] <exec> 08└─These are exactly the corporations that already collude with the government to undermine your privacy. What they are really saying is "please Mr President, remember that we have a good cushy relationship here and you wouldn't want us releasing your search history now would you?"
[21:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03zeigerpuppy [1298] (Score:2) 02Re:Foxes in the hen house - 06Internet Association Releases Policy Roadmap - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:50] <exec> 08└─"big hand Luke goes to Dallas" was way up there in the search history by the way
[21:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Not seeing the problem... - 06Illinois Senate Overrides Governor's Veto of Automatic Voter Registration - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:38] <exec> 08└─But the name on my Connecticut license is the same as the one on the official list of registered voters, so you're going to have to find some other straw man.
[21:47:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''what all the soldiers die for''? - 06Illinois Senate Overrides Governor's Veto of Automatic Voter Registration - 1182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:49] <exec> 08└─Imperialism. Mercantilism. Hegemony. When you have to go to the other side of the globe in order to find people to kill, that is not "defense"; it's AGGRESSION. I can't think of a single deployment of USA's military since WWII[1] (outside of the Coast Guard[2] in our own territorial waters) which ha...
[21:47:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''even 'stupid' people deserve [...] a voice'' - 06Illinois Senate Overrides Governor's Veto of Automatic Voter Registration - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:56] <exec> 08└─...and, if Lamestream Media AKA TeeVee (where most folks get their "information") was doing their job properly, those "stupid" people would be becoming better informed on the issues. All they've been seeing, however, is horse-race bullshit--not the track conditions. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.or...
[21:48:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02Re:Plant trees - 06Storing Carbon Dioxide Underground by Turning It Into Rock - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:48:26] <exec> 08└─Where are the laws of physics being denied?
[21:48:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:education - 06Storing Carbon Dioxide Underground by Turning It Into Rock - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:48:35] <exec> 08└─So are you proposing we should try to reduce H2O evaporation rates instead?
[21:48:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03dlb [4790] (Score:2) 02Re:interesting... - 06Decrypting TLS Browser Traffic with Wireshark - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:48:56] <exec> 08└─I've noticed!
[21:51:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03dlb [4790] (Score:2) 02Re:Step back; perspective; thought - 06Four Nations Map Course to Carbon-Free Economies - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:51:32] <exec> 08└─flat-out "purging fossil fuels from the global economy by mid-century [is] our only hope of staving off catastrophic climate change" falls under "alarmist nutjob nonsense"
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[22:44:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I invented email! I can haz lawyer? - 06Peter Thiel in a Trump Administration a Threat to Free Speech. - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:46] <exec> 08└─http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/peter-thiel-email-inventor_us_581a50cde4b0c43e6c1dc44a [huffingtonpost.com]
[22:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02The real fallout - 06Peter Thiel in a Trump Administration a Threat to Free Speech. - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:47] <exec> 08└─All the libbies have their panties in a wad. Has Thiel be involved in any scandals filled with suicides? Come on Aristarchus - get yourself some new panties that don't wad up, and just get over this crap. Had the other leading candidate won, things would be much worse than with the present company o...
[22:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02make him Secretary of Agriculture - 06Peter Thiel in a Trump Administration a Threat to Free Speech. - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:49] <exec> 08└─Dealing with farmers in the Deep South. heh
[22:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:This is why we can't have nice science! - 06Icy Surprises at Rosetta's Comet - 1116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:00] <exec> 08└─We used to call it "Wormwood". In medieval times there was widespread belief that comets could disperse miasma or somesuch, causing all kinds of trouble on the terrestrial plane. But superstition aside, (and it may have been more a matter of the unpredictable appearance of heavenly bodies, which acc...
[22:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:This is why we can't have nice science! - 06Icy Surprises at Rosetta's Comet - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:02] <exec> 08└─By passing through the comet's tail. Noted astronomer Camille Flammarion has warned that such an event may "impregnate the atmosphere and possibly snuff out all life on the planet." https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] http://www.slavinskas.com
[22:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is why we can't have nice science! - 06Icy Surprises at Rosetta's Comet - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:05] <exec> 08└─And let the alien immigrant aliens into our solar system??
[22:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:This is why we can't have nice science! - 06Icy Surprises at Rosetta's Comet - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:07] <exec> 08└─We saw how that worked out in Heavy Metal, the movie. Just take a look at the UN building, FFS.
[22:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is why we can't have nice science! - 06Icy Surprises at Rosetta's Comet - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:09] <exec> 08└─Good thing Trump doesn't believe in global warming. Even Mexico couldn't afford to build a wall way out there past the Sun.
[22:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:This is why we can't have nice science! - 06Icy Surprises at Rosetta's Comet - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:11] <exec> 08└─What is actually happening is, that comet will pass through the water vapor barrior out near the edege of the solar system to replenish the water lost to the sun.
[22:45:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Space probes and new knowledge are exciting - 06Icy Surprises at Rosetta's Comet - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:13] <exec> 08└─As Rosetta's comet approached its most active period last year
[22:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Space probes and new knowledge are exciting - 06Icy Surprises at Rosetta's Comet - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:16] <exec> 08└─New Horizons will fly by 2014 MU69 [wikipedia.org] on January 1st, 2019. That object is considerably bigger than 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, although I doubt it will fly as close as the comet orbiter did. 2014 MU69 is the first object to be targeted for a flyby that was discovered after the spacecr...
[22:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03EETech1 [957] (Score:1) 02Need to brush up on my unit conversions - 06Icy Surprises at Rosetta's Comet - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:18] <exec> 08└─I keep forgetting how many Olympic swimming pools are there in a football pitch? It's the football pitch the size of a football field, or is it the other football? I'm trying to wrap my head around this.
[22:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Re:Need to brush up on my unit conversions - 06Icy Surprises at Rosetta's Comet - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:20] <exec> 08└─Just think about it in volumetric libraries of congress.
[22:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Money solves Everything - 06Economist's Research Reveals Poverty Should be Measured by More than Income - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:31] <exec> 08└─social connections : money buys friends
[22:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Money solves Everything - 06Economist's Research Reveals Poverty Should be Measured by More than Income - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:32] <exec> 08└─Bullshit. You should try poverty sometime. As soon as you go broke, all your friends suddenly become too busy to hang out.
[22:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Money solves Everything - 06Economist's Research Reveals Poverty Should be Measured by More than Income - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:34] <exec> 08└─You should try working some time. You are so busy and tired from busting your ass you never have the opportunity to hang out with friends and they fall off the radar. I've done both. Misery loves company.
[22:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Money solves Everything - 06Economist's Research Reveals Poverty Should be Measured by More than Income - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:37] <exec> 08└─It's like you've never heard of nights and weekends, those times when working people have ample opportunity to meet friends.
[22:45:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:Money solves Everything - 06Economist's Research Reveals Poverty Should be Measured by More than Income - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:39] <exec> 08└─It's like you've never heard of mandatory overtime you self-entitled bourgeois.
[22:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Money solves Everything - 06Economist's Research Reveals Poverty Should be Measured by More than Income - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:41] <exec> 08└─It's like you've never heard of the 40-hour work week. Your greed legitimizes the abusive practices of capitalist scum, because you want to make your big break into the capitalist class yourself. Keep climbing that golden ladder, aspiring rich asshole.
[22:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Money solves Everything - 06Economist's Research Reveals Poverty Should be Measured by More than Income - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:43] <exec> 08└─Drinks at the joint, Thursday night. Nobody invite Bob, he can never afford to buy a round.
[22:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Lies - 06Economist's Research Reveals Poverty Should be Measured by More than Income - 1097 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:47] <exec> 08└─Did you know that there are cities in America that aren't San Francisco or New York City? Cities where Whites are free to be White and openly support Donald Trump? Here in San Diego that anti-White shit doesn't fly, and if you even mention "safe spaces" or "CIS" at work your ass is on the fast-track...
[22:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lies - 06Economist's Research Reveals Poverty Should be Measured by More than Income - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:49] <exec> 08└─Whites are free to be White and openly support Donald Trump
[22:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:How about we factor in the children... - 06Economist's Research Reveals Poverty Should be Measured by More than Income - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:59] <exec> 08└─How about we pay them to be sterilized.
[22:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:How about we factor in the children... - 06Economist's Research Reveals Poverty Should be Measured by More than Income - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:03] <exec> 08└─And where do the vast majority of illegitimate babies come from? Yep, that's right, minorities! And those in this discussion are giving "poor people" too much credit for their family planning decisions. They think the "urban poor" are having kids because they want to have a family, and doggone-it th...
[22:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02benchmarking - 06Economist's Research Reveals Poverty Should be Measured by More than Income - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:06] <exec> 08└─Your error is in thinking 'poverty' was ever the problem. No its not. The problem has, and always will be, actual results. Its like benchmarking video cards. You design a benchmark that you hope adequately represents performance in all games. Then everybody goes and maximizes their scores on the ben...
[22:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:The elephant in the room - 06Economist's Research Reveals Poverty Should be Measured by More than Income - 1290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:11] <exec> 08└─We are dumping unholy quantities of resources into government schools. The literacy rate is going DOWN, educational attainment measured by any metric you care to point out has been going DOWN as spending per pupil has went UP. Yet when I notice this indisputable but inconvenient truth I'm the bad gu...
[22:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:The elephant in the room - 06Economist's Research Reveals Poverty Should be Measured by More than Income - 816 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:13] <exec> 08└─And your answer to everything ... blame the victims. Despite the much increased need for education in society, education spending as a percentage of GDP is barely higher now than it was in the 1970s. So, no we haven't been dumping unholy amounts of money into schools, funding hasn't been going up in...
[22:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The elephant in the room - 06Economist's Research Reveals Poverty Should be Measured by More than Income - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:15] <exec> 08└─If that isn't your goal, YOU are a bad person. Yes YOU.
[22:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The elephant in the room - 06Economist's Research Reveals Poverty Should be Measured by More than Income - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:17] <exec> 08└─Let's see, if I threw my vote away on a third party candidate, does that mean I effectively voted for the winner? I forget how that works. Obama: “If you vote for a third-party candidate who’s got no chance to win, that’s a vote for Trump”
[22:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Arabs are savages - 06Reporting Rape in UAE Could Lead to the Victim's Arrest - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:30] <exec> 08└─So we rescue the women and children, and kill the remaining males. Problem solved, and with a healthy supply of pleasantly thick and subservient breeding stock. What's not to like about that plan?
[22:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Religious are savages - 06Reporting Rape in UAE Could Lead to the Victim's Arrest - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:34] <exec> 08└─Lay the blame squarely where it belongs to.
[22:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Worse than that! - 06Reporting Rape in UAE Could Lead to the Victim's Arrest - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:39] <exec> 08└─Are...are you okay, dude? You should really stay away from that malt liquor, everybody knows it's made by the CIA to make Black people violent.
[22:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Worse than that! - 06Reporting Rape in UAE Could Lead to the Victim's Arrest - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:41] <exec> 08└─I make my own alcohol now. Just took out 5.5 gallons of mead.
[22:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score:2) 02Re:Worse than that! - 06Reporting Rape in UAE Could Lead to the Victim's Arrest - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:51] <exec> 08└─Runaway busted for having the Google on his Internet. News at 9. Also, Breitbart is not Stormfront. It appears to be better described as the American rights answer to the American lefts constant shitposting and Nazi finger pointing. You know, like your comment. I dislike shitpost reporting, but r...
[22:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:What Do You Want From Them? - 06Reporting Rape in UAE Could Lead to the Victim's Arrest - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:01] <exec> 08└─While they required two witnesses for a conviction, their sentencing went far and beyond anything the bible spells out. e.g. In the three accounts of rape in the old testament, the rapist was executed. Moreover, in 2/3 cases their family and neighbors were executed as well.
[22:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What Do You Want From Them? - 06Reporting Rape in UAE Could Lead to the Victim's Arrest - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:06] <exec> 08└─By pointing to the number of reported cases, of course.
[22:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Re:What Do You Want From Them? - 06Reporting Rape in UAE Could Lead to the Victim's Arrest - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:09] <exec> 08└─No, the number of convictions.
[22:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:What Do You Want From Them? - 06Reporting Rape in UAE Could Lead to the Victim's Arrest - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:18] <exec> 08└─The relative rights of men and women even varied a lot within the middle east, much less if you go outside that area. Equality (well, of a separate but equal kind) wasn't rare, and there were even cultures where the women were dominant, although these seem to be largely (though not entirely) pre-agr...
[22:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:should have stayed in UK - 06Reporting Rape in UAE Could Lead to the Victim's Arrest - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:26] <exec> 08└─It's the Isle of Man, not the Isle of Men.
[22:48:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Ending our for-profit wars of aggression - 06Illinois Senate Overrides Governor's Veto of Automatic Voter Registration - 743 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:48:27] <exec> 08└─In the 1920s, after serving in the USMC (starting as an enlisted man and being awarded 2 Congressional Medals of Honor before his retirement), Major General Smedley Butler wrote "War is a Racket". In that, he noted that during his service he had been a thug for USAian corporations like the United Fr...
[22:48:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score:2) 02Re:Not seeing the problem... - 06Illinois Senate Overrides Governor's Veto of Automatic Voter Registration - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:48:36] <exec> 08└─So this whole discussion was about nothing then? The voter ID laws "are not the problem"?
[22:48:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03hash14 [1102] (Score:2) 02Re:Not seeing the problem... - 06Illinois Senate Overrides Governor's Veto of Automatic Voter Registration - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:48:39] <exec> 08└─Yep. And, since I have to repeat myself, how does the "Great State of Texas" know that your work ID is legit, rather than something you had printed up at Kinkos or whatever? Are the Texas poll officials supposed to know what every business in their district's IDs look like?
[22:48:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''there is not some vast amount of voter fraud' - 06Illinois Senate Overrides Governor's Veto of Automatic Voter Registration - 697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:48:45] <exec> 08└─Not a Democrat or Republican, but I can see how thin this logic is. Voter fraud largely isn't looked for, so of course there's not many stories about it. Taking my local county as example, we're stuck with those horrendous eSlate voting machines. Pure electronic, no paper trail at all. The votes are...
[22:48:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''there is not some vast amount of voter fraud' - 06Illinois Senate Overrides Governor's Veto of Automatic Voter Registration - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:48:47] <exec> 08└─I agree with your thesis but your conclusion is faulty: If they're going to make the charge, they need to show the evidence. I'm an enthusiast of this guy's work Brad Friedman [google.com] Bev Harris of BlackBoxVoting deserves a shout-out here too. In California, if you request a paper ballot[1], th...
[22:48:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Why would we want more stupid people to vote? - 06Illinois Senate Overrides Governor's Veto of Automatic Voter Registration - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:48:59] <exec> 08└─- You must pay more in direct taxes (sales, income, property, etc.) than you receive in direct benefits (welfare, social security, medicaid, government salary, government pension, etc.)
[22:49:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why would we want more stupid people to vote? - 06Illinois Senate Overrides Governor's Veto of Automatic Voter Registration - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:49:05] <exec> 08└─I'd be all in favor of this provided only I get to decide the questions that need to be answered to be able to vote. Question 1 - True or False: Both the Democrats and Republicans are tools for economic forces to force their wishes on the general population.
[22:49:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Auto Registration + ID Requirements - 06Illinois Senate Overrides Governor's Veto of Automatic Voter Registration - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:49:09] <exec> 08└─Why can't we get both automagic registration and voter identification requirements at the same time and law?
[22:49:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03EETech1 [957] (Score:1) 02Re:Plant trees - 06Storing Carbon Dioxide Underground by Turning It Into Rock - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:49:28] <exec> 08└─It's crazy to think that a 300-pound barrel of oil can produce 950 pounds of carbon dioxide when burned! I had no idea that you produced three times as much carbon dioxide in the exhaust as fuel into the burner. Wow...
[22:49:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What about making CO2 into paper? - 06Storing Carbon Dioxide Underground by Turning It Into Rock - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:52] <exec> 08└─Even little kids know that paper beats rock.
[22:50:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I am Nothing also. - 06I Am Capital - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:50:34] <exec> 08└─Consider joining I2P and IRC2P, come become a nothing with the rest of us :) Sadly you will become a something to 5(44) eyes, but if you use Tor, or don't use Facebook, you are probably already on their radar as a person of interest. And yes the eyes are increasing. Go read the list at http://en.wik...
[22:52:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Purge" - 06Four Nations Map Course to Carbon-Free Economies - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:52:32] <exec> 08└─"enema"
[22:52:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Step back; perspective; thought - 06Four Nations Map Course to Carbon-Free Economies - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:52:43] <exec> 08└─I expect synergy: wildlife in isolated pockets will be hindered from migrating as the Earth heats up.
[22:52:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Don't mean jack - 06Four Nations Map Course to Carbon-Free Economies - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:52:46] <exec> 08└─And yet for some reason they don't want to return to the '50s tax structure with an upper rate of income tax of 91%.
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[23:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Linux News - 06Tails Linux 2.7 is Released - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:47] <exec> 08└─Does the community want to know when Tails updates occur?
[23:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Keep it coming. - 06Tails Linux 2.7 is Released - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:48] <exec> 08└─I don't use it, but I'm happy to hear about it as well as any other Distro/OS news. It sure beats political junk. (Not to imply all political articles are junk, mind -- discussion about different voting systems are great, reporting outcomes of elections and ballot questions is great, but I've had ab...
[23:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:1, Flamebait) 02Re:The real fallout - 06Peter Thiel in a Trump Administration a Threat to Free Speech. - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:44:59] <exec> 08└─Neocons? I thought it was alt-right? FFS, you guys can't even make up your minds which tags you're going to use. The neocons are almost history now. Bush-Cheney, remember? I'm not going to argue that the current bunch are "better" than neocons, but they are different. Trump hasn't signed on to a pro...
[23:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:The real fallout - 06Peter Thiel in a Trump Administration a Threat to Free Speech. - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:00] <exec> 08└─I thought it was alt-right? FFS, you guys can't even make up your minds which tags you're going to use.
[23:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:The real fallout - 06Peter Thiel in a Trump Administration a Threat to Free Speech. - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:02] <exec> 08└─I meant "you guys who have to constantly tag and label human beings into categories". If you must categorize people so that it is easier to make stereotypes, at least keep them straight!! If the president-elect were a neo-con, a hell of a lot of Republicans would have jumped up to support him.
[23:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The real fallout - 06Peter Thiel in a Trump Administration a Threat to Free Speech. - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:05] <exec> 08└─If you must categorize people so that it is easier to make stereotypes, at least keep them straight!!
[23:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:The real fallout - 06Peter Thiel in a Trump Administration a Threat to Free Speech. - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:07] <exec> 08└─but now he's appointing establishment hacks left and right
[23:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:The real fallout - 06Peter Thiel in a Trump Administration a Threat to Free Speech. - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:09] <exec> 08└─Ms. Clinton had a former Goldman Sachs investment banker as her campaign chief executive, and another as her national finance chairman, didn't she? http://www.bloomberg.com [bloomberg.com]
[23:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:The real fallout - 06Peter Thiel in a Trump Administration a Threat to Free Speech. - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:11] <exec> 08└─https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/27/hillary-clinton-necono-republican-endorsements-donald-trump-policy-issues [theguardian.com]
[23:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:The real fallout - 06Peter Thiel in a Trump Administration a Threat to Free Speech. - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:13] <exec> 08└─Donald Trump is signaling that he wants to appoint his campaign finance chairman, Steven Mnuchin, as Treasury secretary, according to a person close to the campaign. Trump's preference for the Goldman Sachs alumnus is the latest evidence that the GOP presidential nominee would be inclined to hire of...
[23:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:1) 02Re:Hahahahaha - 06Peter Thiel in a Trump Administration a Threat to Free Speech. - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:17] <exec> 08└─Thiel isn't a Jew. He's German.
[23:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hahahahaha - 06Peter Thiel in a Trump Administration a Threat to Free Speech. - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:19] <exec> 08└─Gawker outed Thiel while he was on a business trip in Saudia Arabia, where people have been flogged or even stoned to death for homosexuality. Gawker endangered Thiel's life, and he retaliated by taking down Gawker. I have absolutely no problem with that.
[23:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not that there's anything wrong with it - 06Peter Thiel in a Trump Administration a Threat to Free Speech. - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:22] <exec> 08└─--dept
[23:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2, Troll) 02Cry me a f*cking river - 06Peter Thiel in a Trump Administration a Threat to Free Speech. - 799 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:24] <exec> 08└─Ok, Team Blue just fielded a candidate who literally said she would repeal the 1st Amendment if it took it to overturn the Citizens United decision. You are all cheering yourselves hoarse as Twitter hands the banhammer over to the bigots at the SPLC and is literally censoring accounts with millions...
[23:45:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Cry me a f*cking river - 06Peter Thiel in a Trump Administration a Threat to Free Speech. - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:26] <exec> 08└─who literally said she would repeal the 1st Amendment if it took it to overturn the Citizens United decision
[23:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:Cry me a f*cking river - 06Peter Thiel in a Trump Administration a Threat to Free Speech. - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:28] <exec> 08└─Ok, Team Blue just fielded a candidate who literally said she would repeal the 1st Amendment if it took it to overturn the Citizens United decision.
[23:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Phht .... - 06Peter Thiel in a Trump Administration a Threat to Free Speech. - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:30] <exec> 08└─Find a non-biased take on this guy and maybe it's worth a read. This is just some bedwetting leftists squealing because the clinton crime family has been run out of the influence peddling business. Poor babies ...
[23:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Phht .... - 06Peter Thiel in a Trump Administration a Threat to Free Speech. - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:32] <exec> 08└─OK, here! [gizmodo.com]
[23:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:This is why we can't have nice science! - 06Icy Surprises at Rosetta's Comet - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:50] <exec> 08└─I need to send a paper in.
[23:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Money solves Everything - 06Economist's Research Reveals Poverty Should be Measured by More than Income - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:46:13] <exec> 08└─Lazy fucker. REAL working people work nights and weekends too. You've probably never worked 100 hours in one week, in your life. Lazy fuck!
[23:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Lies - 06Economist's Research Reveals Poverty Should be Measured by More than Income - 1015 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:46:18] <exec> 08└─I was re-hired. Kind of a long story, but I hired a good Jewish lawyer and he pleaded the case that I acted under duress from a hostile environment due to anti-White male bias. Like a good judo practitioner he leveraged the company's momentum against itself and I won the case. Unfortunately, there w...
[23:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Lies - 06Economist's Research Reveals Poverty Should be Measured by More than Income - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:46:20] <exec> 08└─a hostile environment due to anti-White male bias
[23:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Apparently you do not live on the planet earth. - 06Economist's Research Reveals Poverty Should be Measured by More than Income - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:46:28] <exec> 08└─Gay Lesbians have never been happier.
[23:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Apparently you do not live on the planet earth. - 06Economist's Research Reveals Poverty Should be Measured by More than Income - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:46:30] <exec> 08└─What about those lesbians who are not gay?
[23:46:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02Re:How about we factor in the children... - 06Economist's Research Reveals Poverty Should be Measured by More than Income - 39 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:46:34] <exec> 08└─How about we pay them to be sterilized.
[23:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:How about we factor in the children... - 06Economist's Research Reveals Poverty Should be Measured by More than Income - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:46:36] <exec> 08└─False. PP makes it's money on abortions, not on birth control. Woman wants the pill and condoms for a year, PP makes no profit. If they don't supply her pills and condoms, they can get almost a thousand dollars off of her in a few months. Maybe twice a year. Besides, few of us find it palatable that...
[23:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How about we factor in the children... - 06Economist's Research Reveals Poverty Should be Measured by More than Income - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:46:40] <exec> 08└─You really are a sexist pig. You have little idea that women like to fuck, and less idea that women want babies of their own. Just like men, women have these glands and hormones in their bodies that pretty much REQUIRE that they engage in sexual intercourse. The need - the need - she feels the need...
[23:46:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02Re:The elephant in the room - 06Economist's Research Reveals Poverty Should be Measured by More than Income - 816 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:46:48] <exec> 08└─And your answer to everything ... blame the victims. Despite the much increased need for education in society, education spending as a percentage of GDP is barely higher now than it was in the 1970s. So, no we haven't been dumping unholy amounts of money into schools, funding hasn't been going up in...
[23:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:The elephant in the room - 06Economist's Research Reveals Poverty Should be Measured by More than Income - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:46:50] <exec> 08└─To a large extent blaming victims is a valid pastime. Time and time again, we see the results of poor decisions - but people continue to make those same poor decisions. You want what, exactly? YOu want me to pay more taxes, so that the people who make the worst decisions don't have to face the conse...
[23:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The elephant in the room - 06Economist's Research Reveals Poverty Should be Measured by More than Income - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:46:55] <exec> 08└─The daily jmo naivety, I think I've got a new method of syncing up my time pieces.
[23:47:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:1) 02Re:What Do You Want From Them? - 06Reporting Rape in UAE Could Lead to the Victim's Arrest - 2286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:47:44] <exec> 08└─"No, sorry, but you are the one distorting the text." I don't think I am but I'll be happy to consider your argument. "This is a common way for modern Christian fundamentalists to "explain away" this passage and make it sound less bad to modern sensibilities." Even if that's true, it's not relevant...
[23:47:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:What Do You Want From Them? - 06Reporting Rape in UAE Could Lead to the Victim's Arrest - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:47:52] <exec> 08└─When a woman accuses a man of rape, and their are no witnesses to disprove her, she is innocent and he is guilty. Period.
[23:47:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is why we don't want Islamic refugees... - 06Reporting Rape in UAE Could Lead to the Victim's Arrest - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:47:55] <exec> 08└─Where is "here"? Single white male looking for a non-multicultral non-islamic society to join. Willing to learn a new language and fully adopt a new country.
[23:49:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Not seeing the problem... - 06Illinois Senate Overrides Governor's Veto of Automatic Voter Registration - 1286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:49:05] <exec> 08└─I'm truly sorry that you can't understand logical argumentation and can't seem to see how you have switched argumentation strategies repeatedly. I understand that you don't agree with the system, but your failure to recognize that it has a very logical and clear set of criteria baffles me. And the f...
[23:49:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Not seeing the problem... - 06Illinois Senate Overrides Governor's Veto of Automatic Voter Registration - 2978 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:49:16] <exec> 08└─I don't think my arguments are an "Oceans Eleven" blueprint for precisely how to commit fraud or even observations of specific events, but more along the lines of given a blank sheet to design, here are some often proposed ideas that lead to scenarios that are just dumb and can be trivially designed...
[23:49:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Energy requirements? - 06Storing Carbon Dioxide Underground by Turning It Into Rock - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:49:47] <exec> 08└─Carbon is an essential part of plastics and every living thing. Carbon nanotubes and diamond nanothreads are among the materials being considered for building space elevators.
[23:49:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Plant trees - 06Storing Carbon Dioxide Underground by Turning It Into Rock - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:49:57] <exec> 08└─It's because a carbon atom has a mass of 12 atomic mass units, but an oxygen atom has a mass of ~16 atomic mass units, so in a CO2 molecule most of the mass is due to the oxygen. Most of the mass of petroleum is due to the carbon in it.
[23:50:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03zeigerpuppy [1298] (Score:2) 02Paying the polluters - 06Storing Carbon Dioxide Underground by Turning It Into Rock - 772 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:21] <exec> 08└─The real story of carbon capture and storage is hundreds of millions spent on paying coal companies to run CC&S trials that have shown marginal viability at best. The main problem is that most power plants are nowhere near appropriate rock formations. The exception is places like Iceland where they...
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