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[00:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Positronium - 06Light Spectrum of Antimatter Observed - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:35] <exec> 08└─one can create a short-lived hydroven-like bound state between an electron and a proton. But it doesn't have a nucleus, rather the two particles have symmetric orbitals. There is also charmonium, whose spectrum was measured in the early 80s.
[00:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Positronium - 06Light Spectrum of Antimatter Observed - 819 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:46:36] <exec> 08└─I assume that should read "electron and positron" rather than proton. I don't think I've ever heard it given a name before. Now I'm curious as to whether it has multiple excitation states and corresponding emission lines, or would just come apart. Not to mention whether such a thing can be created w...
[00:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Impossible. - 06Sex Evolved to Help Future Generations Fight Infection, Scientists Show - 795 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:47:05] <exec> 08└─Well the description here is certainly of pseudoscience, it does not motivate me to read the paper. Here is the apparent reasoning: Observation (O): sexually produced [waterflea] offspring were more than twice as resistant to infectious disease as their clonal sisters Theory (T) : Sex Evolved to Hel...
[00:47:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Obligatory Dilbert - 06Sex Evolved to Help Future Generations Fight Infection, Scientists Show - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:10] <exec> 08└─https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/f8/1e/f8/f81ef8b1d72f0d51ccc8785e4bbc3c97.jpg [pinimg.com]
[00:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:But what about the Change? - 06Huge Solar Plant Beams Power and Hope to Rural Uganda - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:47:29] <exec> 08└─They figured out a way to convert Obama into a beam of light?! A thousand points... After all, like all powerful democrats, he is a moderate republican.
[00:49:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Just keep your skills up! - 06If the U.S. Won't Pay Its Teachers, China Will - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:49:44] <exec> 08└─one way or another you need a way of telling who has and who hasn't had at least some exposure to the methods used in the trade.
[00:49:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Just keep your skills up! - 06If the U.S. Won't Pay Its Teachers, China Will - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:49:46] <exec> 08└─And I also do not respect any credentials to be a Soylentil, or a khallow, because the intent is just to mindless catapult the propaganda.
[00:49:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score:2) 02Re:Just keep your skills up! - 06If the U.S. Won't Pay Its Teachers, China Will - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:49:58] <exec> 08└─Just to throw some more confusion at the matter, it should be mentioned that "Ontario, CA" is often used to represent a city in San Bernardino county, California.
[00:50:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Is it sensitive enough to pick up signals - 06Tiniest Radio Receiver Created - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:38] <exec> 08└─Sent from the world's smallest violin?
[00:51:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Felt Good to Kill GNU - 06Linux at 20, Some Personal Memories - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:51:00] <exec> 08└─Following that (unusual) logic, we'll have to FIRST wait until the new equivalent of Linus comes along.
[00:52:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:not really surprising - 06Culture Not a Factor in Management Styles Globally - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:52:00] <exec> 08└─Because from the sound of it, "humanity" in this context is another content-free snarl word to you, whose closest meaning seems to be "hurr hurr feelz over realz derka duhhrrr."
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[01:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Open the Smog Factories!! - 06China's Smoggiest City Closes Schools Amid Public Anger - 651 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:27] <exec> 08└─Americans demand cheap shit, not to be built in our perfect cuntry, but the fucking Chinese aren't people, so kill the fuckers to make more cheap shit for Americans! Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Tr...
[01:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Open the Smog Factories!! - 06China's Smoggiest City Closes Schools Amid Public Anger - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:46:28] <exec> 08└─why 81?
[01:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"Pollution" - 06China's Smoggiest City Closes Schools Amid Public Anger - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:31] <exec> 08└─Hmm, classmates in Beijing assured us air pollution in China came from Siberia.
[01:47:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Refits - 06Huge Solar Plant Beams Power and Hope to Rural Uganda - 1328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:47:34] <exec> 08└─Don't make the mistake of lumping hydro in with the 'green' sources usually cited. Hydro is stone cold rational, very profitable if the local geography supports it and has been happily turning out craploads of reliable electricity for about a century. Just look at the numbers you cite; hundreds of m...
[01:52:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:not really surprising - 06Culture Not a Factor in Management Styles Globally - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:52:08] <exec> 08└─and it is capitalism's reduction of all value to this single one is what Marx refers to as "commodity fetishism" in the opening pages of Das Kapital.
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[02:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Re:Open the Smog Factories!! - 06China's Smoggiest City Closes Schools Amid Public Anger - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:46:36] <exec> 08└─If you care about the environment you probably want more things manufactured here in the US where environmental regulations actually stand a chance of being enforced, where you have a population that is so much more informed than the average Chinese citizen about global events/climate change that it...
[02:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02China is Ahead of the USA - 06China's Smoggiest City Closes Schools Amid Public Anger - 1715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:39] <exec> 08└─Well, they might be ahead of where the US was [bloomberg.com] when the US started to clean up its pollution problem. One famous paper, by economists Gene M. Grossman and Alan Krueger, found that (in current dollars) the turning point for environmental improvement comes in “almost every case” wh...
[02:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:not really surprising - 06Culture Not a Factor in Management Styles Globally - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:52:17] <exec> 08└─So, Azuma got to you, eh? Alright, I can wait until you are capable of rational discussions of the issues again. However long it takes.
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[04:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02I'm an underwhelmingTaster - 06Supertasters a Super Opportunity for Advertisers - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:18] <exec> 08└─Have been since I heard of SuperTasters 30 years ago. I can identify flavors in mystery food, but can't say what they are. My brother in law can taste something I cooked and say shit like "a bit of oregano, some thyme, bit of garlic". I can taste the same thing, even though I cooked it, and say "dam...
[04:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm an underwhelmingTaster - 06Supertasters a Super Opportunity for Advertisers - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:20] <exec> 08└─I should add, when I resist the temptation to add jalapenos and habaneros to what I cook (I like hot stuff), most people label me an excellent cook. Those who don't tend to have dietary restrictions, like glucose free, which I don't even try to accommodate.j I'm the cook, here's the food, chow down....
[04:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02WOW!!!! - 06Supertasters a Super Opportunity for Advertisers - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:22] <exec> 08└─This is clearly the most important research in the history of human kind. If you think not then you have not been paying to attention to what our entire society devotes itself to almost exclusively...
[04:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02has anyone tried this? - 06Supertasters a Super Opportunity for Advertisers - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:24] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synsepalum_dulcificum [wikipedia.org] Seems like a fun thing for New Year's and this story reminded me about it. Amazon is selling 3.5 grams (10 servings) for $15 or 7 grams for $25. Has added corn starch. As for the actual topic, is the way to figure out you're a "supe...
[04:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Decades ago - no girls - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 1340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:32] <exec> 08└─I got my start in computers pretty early... mainframes. The local community college was offering several courses in computer programming, and I eagerly took them all. It was so much fun I went into the lab all day every Saturday to experiment and learn. There were plenty of females at this college s...
[04:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Decades ago - no girls - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:34] <exec> 08└─I don't know why... I just know this is how it was back then. A few years later, I was making a ton of money compared to them, and the males they adored. Suddenly I was painted as discriminating against them because I was winning the jobs race and they weren't.
[04:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Same reason men aren't nurses - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 2097 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:36] <exec> 08└─There are some professions that just appeal to gender stereotypes. Stereotypes exist because most people in a group will share at least some traits with the stereotype. In the case of both computing and nursing, there is a stereotypical bias in the ability to form meaningful relationships. Computer...
[04:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Money - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:39] <exec> 08└─The only reason this matters is that people want to take even more of your money... you know... "to help the girls and minorities!"
[04:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03grub [3668] (Score:2) 02This could be bad. - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:41] <exec> 08└─Who will make the sandwiches in the future?
[04:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Social Robots - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:43] <exec> 08└─Robots. Robots will make the sandwiches. on the packaging will be printed "We're Social! Join The Conversation!" and the packaging will be emblazoned with the logos of Facebook and Instagram and Pinterest and Twitter and YouTube
[04:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Social Robots - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:45] <exec> 08└─As long as it has lab-grown roast beef and is handed to me by a sexbot, I'm all for it.
[04:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Something I've been thinking about recently - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 1055 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:47] <exec> 08└─It seems to me that the current dialogue may overemphasize a desire for Computer Science literacy, especially as expressed via programming languages. I'd think it would be useful for kids to play around with Excel/Google Sheets -- first by using it to keep textual information (e.g., to-do lists, pho...
[04:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02They're smarter than we are - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:50] <exec> 08└─They see the jobs going offshore, and decide to do things that can't be offshored. Like nursing. Or teaching. Here's hoping the Great Orange Hope kills the H1-B program, or at least makes it work as it was originally intended. / my breath? // holding it? /// nope, not holding my breath
[04:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:They're smarter than we are - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:52] <exec> 08└─This story is about the UK, so I'm not sure they have an H-1B visa to kill. But, I completely agree that Trump should kill the program. It's been abused for long enough.
[04:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:They're smarter than we are - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:54] <exec> 08└─How's this sound: no change for 18 years. Ignored by another 2 administrations and Congress, and a couple extra years for any changes to take effect.
[04:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score:2) 02There were women in CS in 1970s - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:56] <exec> 08└─I was in engineering school (RPI) with a 10:1 ratio, so there weren't many women in the whole school. They were, however, represented in the nascent Computer Science department. When I went to graduate school at Rutgers, and worked as a teaching assistant, there were plenty of women undergrads *and*...
[04:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Open the Smog Factories!! - 06China's Smoggiest City Closes Schools Amid Public Anger - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:06] <exec> 08└─81 because Lameness filter encountered. Your comment violated the "postercomment" compression filter. Try less whitespace and/or less repetition.
[04:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Open the Smog Factories!! - 06China's Smoggiest City Closes Schools Amid Public Anger - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:10] <exec> 08└─So America can go from the #1 polluter of greenhouse gasses, to the extra #1++ version. You are already winning, let the rest of the world catch up. Or, you know, pollute less rather than more.
[04:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Positronium - 06Light Spectrum of Antimatter Observed - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:22] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positronium [wikipedia.org] It is in general unstable and will decay into two gamma rays in about 10-10 second.
[04:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Well, what did they find out? - 06Light Spectrum of Antimatter Observed - 665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:24] <exec> 08└─It would have been helpful, I think, to have included the following additional quote FTFA in TFS instead of leaving us in suspense. Today’s ALPHA result is the first observation of a spectral line in an antihydrogen atom, allowing the light spectrum of matter and antimatter to be compared for the...
[04:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Well, what did they find out? - 06Light Spectrum of Antimatter Observed - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:26] <exec> 08└─This is a great example of when the nil null hypothesis makes sense. Now if two groups of people/rodents/cells are supposed to be "exactly the same on average", different story.
[04:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Well, what did they find out? - 06Light Spectrum of Antimatter Observed - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:28] <exec> 08└─My son just informed me that antimatter is just like normal matter only emo.
[04:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Impossible. - 06Sex Evolved to Help Future Generations Fight Infection, Scientists Show - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:58] <exec> 08└─Agreed. Car analogy: my car uses gas, therefore the engine evolved to burn gasoline. I'm sure someone has an even better analogy out there, but mine evolved on the fly (therefore, flies evolved to prove analogies).
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[05:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm an underwhelmingTaster - 06Supertasters a Super Opportunity for Advertisers - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:22:27] <exec> 08└─Like imperfect pitch?
[05:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02masochist - 06Supertasters a Super Opportunity for Advertisers - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:30] <exec> 08└─individuals whose increased amount of taste bud papillae leave them prone to disliking bitter foods while preferring sweet ones
[05:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:masochist - 06Supertasters a Super Opportunity for Advertisers - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:22:33] <exec> 08└─I've found that to be rather hit or miss in practice. If it's just somewhat bitter that's something I've been able to get used to for things like tea. But, it doesn't work if it's a really strong bitter taste, like you get from certain greens. I'm not sure how it is for other people that are sensiti...
[05:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Decades ago - no girls - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:22:43] <exec> 08└─You don't realize it but you are describing the exact problem being discussed. You excelled in a learning environment that was designed by and for people like yourself. Of course it was fun for you to immerse yourself in it. You think that was easy for you just happens to also be a completely neutra...
[05:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Same reason men aren't nurses - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:22:47] <exec> 08└─Men aren't nurses because its easier for men to become doctors. And don't tell me there is a "stereotypical bias in the ability to form meaningful relationships" that applies to nurses but not doctors.
[05:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Same reason men aren't nurses - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:22:49] <exec> 08└─Stereotypes exist because most people in a group will share at least some traits with the stereotype.
[05:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Or put another way: - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 989 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:22:51] <exec> 08└─If women want to break gender stereotypes, then they need to get off their asses and prove themselves to the incumbents in that field, same as male nurses (my uncle was one for ~15 years, before moving into teaching.) We CAN smash social, gender, and professional stereotypes, but only if people get...
[05:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Same reason men aren't nurses - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:22:53] <exec> 08└─I agree that American-born women tend to be less interested in math and computer science, compared with their male classmates. However, this does not seem to hold true of women immigrating to America from Russia, India, or the Far East. Why not?
[05:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Money - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 760 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:22:56] <exec> 08└─There is no such thing as "your money"! Read the fine print, you libertarian moron! Property of the bank (Federal Reserve, in the case of the US) that issued it. You own nothing. You are nothing. The entire existence of your ego is the result of a configuration of skandhas that have come together...
[05:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Something I've been thinking about recently - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:23:02] <exec> 08└─The kinds of people who would be pulled into programming by coming up with whiz-bang Excel spreadsheets are probably the kind that would have gravitated to programming without extra training or prodding.
[05:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Lol. Like the Chinese - 06China's Smoggiest City Closes Schools Amid Public Anger - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:23:18] <exec> 08└─have ever lived under it. Communism is supposed to be about the WORKERS OWNING THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION BY WAY OF THE STATE. Neither Russia nor China has been communist basically since their inception, they only had a thin veneer and good PR machine claiming so, while actually helping the rich get ri...
[05:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lol. Like the Chinese - 06China's Smoggiest City Closes Schools Amid Public Anger - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:23:19] <exec> 08└─Except the Chinese middle class is expnding and getting more and more well off. 30 years of solid growth and a long term plan will do that to a country. How is America's next quarter looking?
[05:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I guess we now know... - 06Light Spectrum of Antimatter Observed - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:23:37] <exec> 08└─why physical interaction with your past self can have catastrophic consequences. Without realizing it your past self and your anti-self coming into contact will result in an antimatter reaction blasting them both out of existence. Be very afraid of contacting your past self! This has been a PSA of t...
[05:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This won't kill patent trolls - 06US Supreme Court to Hear Case That May Ruin Lone Star Patent Trolls - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:24:57] <exec> 08└─It's not necessarily a bad thing that Delaware courts ends up hear a large fraction of corporate lawsuits, unless it can be shown that they are one-sided in their rulings the way east Texas court is on patents. The Delaware judges are more likely to be familiar with relevant case law and to ask bett...
[05:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:updates are risky, vendors aren't trustworthy - 06Why Don't People Secure Their IoT Gadgets? 'It's Not My Problem' - 2649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:26:12] <exec> 08└─It's not that I didn't know there were risks. It's a judgment call. Is it worth my time to thoroughly investigate networking hardware? I really do not want to spend time on that. Should I have to, to avoid corporate control of my LAN? I should also spend time backing up my data, setting up anonymous...
[05:26:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Just keep your skills up! - 06If the U.S. Won't Pay Its Teachers, China Will - 1018 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:26:50] <exec> 08└─No, just no. So, you're suggesting that every time a school needs to hire a new teacher, that they waste class time for a dozen or more students for each applicant rather than just accept the practicum done once by an accredited trainer? How is that better than the current set up where the prospecti...
[05:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Just keep your skills up! - 06If the U.S. Won't Pay Its Teachers, China Will - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:26:52] <exec> 08└─So, you're suggesting that every time a school needs to hire a new teacher, that they waste class time for a dozen or more students for each applicant rather than just accept the practicum done once by an accredited trainer?
[05:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Just keep your skills up! - 06If the U.S. Won't Pay Its Teachers, China Will - 1600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:26:54] <exec> 08└─First off, where do you get students to sit through those lessons from? Students are students, they're supposed to be studying. If you're interviewing for a job at a college, you might get away with having them give a lecture, but for the K-12 system there's just no time to do that. Students arrive...
[05:29:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:not really surprising - 06Culture Not a Factor in Management Styles Globally - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:29:18] <exec> 08└─Azuma is sincere. Even though we disagree strongly, I don't have a problem with her. You sound like you're in tarbaby mode [soylentnews.org] again.
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[06:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02With applications for.. - 06Graphene Able to Transport Huge Currents On the Nano Scale - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:22] <exec> 08└─High frequency trading
[06:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:With applications for.. - 06Graphene Able to Transport Huge Currents On the Nano Scale - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:23] <exec> 08└─Basic income! Or since basic income doesn't involve pretending to work, how about selling high-frequency-trading boxes to lazy people. But the boxes have to be expensive, and the lazy people have to work menial jobs for x years to "pay their dues" until they earn enough money to buy a trading box.
[06:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:With applications for.. - 06Graphene Able to Transport Huge Currents On the Nano Scale - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:25] <exec> 08└─Pretty much exactly what every asshole investor insists you should be doing anyway.
[06:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02atto - 06Graphene Able to Transport Huge Currents On the Nano Scale - 913 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:28] <exec> 08└─The article promises "ultra-fast electronics", though not computing specifically. Is this problem [wikipedia.org] still around? Graphene does not have an energy band-gap, which presents a hurdle for its applications in digital logic gates. The efforts to induce a band-gap in graphene via quantum con...
[06:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:WOW!!!! - 06Supertasters a Super Opportunity for Advertisers - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:39] <exec> 08└─If you think not then you have not been paying to attention to what our entire society devotes itself to almost exclusively...
[06:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:masochist - 06Supertasters a Super Opportunity for Advertisers - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:43] <exec> 08└─Some bitter things are good for you. Tea has a slight bitter edge, as do some of my favorite low-potency medical herbs (selfheal flower spike, chrysanthemum, chickenbone grass, etc). Bitter melon too, for obvious reasons. I've found these can be simmered long and low and they ptisane they leave behi...
[06:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Money - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:23:01] <exec> 08└─fucking buddhists, i fucken hate them. come over here, this illusion would like to give you a slap. there is no good/bad karma you idiot, yuse gotta get off the wheeeeeeel! if yuse got any karma at all, good, bad or fucking whoopee karma yuse is still on the wheeeeeeel! 'sides all this karmaic nonse...
[06:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Something I've been thinking about recently - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:23:07] <exec> 08└─I'd think it would be useful for kids to play around with Excel/Google Sheets
[06:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:2, Insightful) 02In other news... - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:13] <exec> 08└─Why is it girls are not attracted to computer science? Is it some deeply embedded gender bias, or something else?
[06:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:In other news... - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:23:16] <exec> 08└─Mastery of sewing and knitting is a great first step for a high-paying 21st century career.
[06:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:China is Ahead of the USA - 06China's Smoggiest City Closes Schools Amid Public Anger - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:23:32] <exec> 08└─That just means that increases in average wages have lagged behind during China's explosive industrialization, compared with the experience in first world countries.
[06:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03rickatech [4150] (Score:1) 02The Genial Gene, Joan Roughgarden - 06Sex Evolved to Help Future Generations Fight Infection, Scientists Show - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:23] <exec> 08└─Joan Roughgarden addressed quite a bit about the economic efficiency for more adaptability and other benefits rewarding species with sexual genders. It is a fascinating read [ucpress.edu].
[06:27:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Just keep your skills up! - 06If the U.S. Won't Pay Its Teachers, China Will - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:27:05] <exec> 08└─If you're interviewing for a job at a college, you might get away with having them give a lecture, but for the K-12 system there's just no time to do that.
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[07:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02I guess it's a French thing - 06French Court Finds IMF Chief Christine Lagarde Guilty of Negligence but Doesn't Impose Penalty - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:24] <exec> 08└─"We think you're negligent, but we still trust you!"
[07:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:With applications for.. - 06Graphene Able to Transport Huge Currents On the Nano Scale - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:22:34] <exec> 08└─While every asshole freeloader chants gimme free shit for free gimme free shit for free.
[07:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:Or put another way: - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:23:05] <exec> 08└─It gets to be tiresome as hell. I can't tell you how many times I've been asked "Honey can I talk to a technician now?" Sir...I *am* the technician, and have been fixing computers since third grade. And those are the polite ones. I've had people tell me to my face a bunch of variants on "women can't...
[07:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Or put another way: - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 1172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:23:07] <exec> 08└─They do that to EVERYONE that doesn't fit the "revenge of the nerds" stereotype. I'm a big hairy biker looking guy so I usually got a variation on the "IDK whether to let him work on my PC or give him my wallet" bullshit, James who worked in the back with me got plain old ignored as they looked for...
[07:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Or put another way: - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:23:09] <exec> 08└─Fun fact though. Rosie the riveter quit the job she was working on where she posed for that iconic poster a week after said poster was done. Why? She felt it was too dangerous.
[07:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:In other news... - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:23:26] <exec> 08└─Cosplay celebrity?
[07:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:In other news... - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:23:27] <exec> 08└─Etsy mogul?
[07:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Let me understand this - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 1186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:29] <exec> 08└─If we find some thing, some area, some interest, in which boys excel over girls, then we must dissuade boys from pursuing that interest? An area of study in which boys are tops, must be discontinued? Especially if it turns out that white wealthy boys do the best, we must shut that study off? WTF?!?!...
[07:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Let me understand this - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:23:31] <exec> 08└─> If we find some thing, some area, some interest, in which boys excel over girls, then we must dissuade boys from pursuing that interest? Your constant victimhood mentality is so damn tiring. You are not a special snowflake. Just because everybody's catered to you for most of your life doesn't mean...
[07:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Let me understand this - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:23:34] <exec> 08└─And just because someone feels oppressed doesn't mean they actually are. It seems many people are suffering from the illusion of mass inequality, or at the very least, are unable to prove that this mass inequality actually exists with hard, objective science.
[07:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Let me understand this - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 1481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:23:36] <exec> 08└─You sound like the whiner here. Because I am more self assured than you are, you attribute that to some kind of "privilege". You, the brain damaged child, point at the school's star athletes, and complain that they can do things that you can't. You, the genetically deformed, complain that the childr...
[07:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score:3, Insightful) 02There exists no problem - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:38] <exec> 08└─There was complete gender equality in computer science before 1980s. In fact, there were more women in computer science than men. The gender disparity has come exactly when PC became famous and were marketed to middle class men. At some point of time we have to accept that women are not 'oppressed m...
[07:27:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The politics and turfing in education... - 06If the U.S. Won't Pay Its Teachers, China Will - 878 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:27:50] <exec> 08└─is truly disgusting. It is however partially the fault of the educators. None of them want the higher rung jobs (they want to teach) so the punters ending up in the administrative positions tend to be do-nothings with power complexes and good schmoozing skills (but often abusive/corrupt/elitist pers...
[07:28:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02GPP, not GP. - 06Linux at 20, Some Personal Memories - 1754 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:28:35] <exec> 08└─The kernel bloat is mostly undocumented. A lot of the new features added over the years are implicit rather than explicit with configuration options. One notable complaint for me is: They are taking hardware Kconfig patches without vetting their system/bus ifdefs. As an example: many ARM SoC GPUs sh...
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[08:22:18] <exec> 08└─Better the negligent devil you know.
[08:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Gotta ask - 06French Court Finds IMF Chief Christine Lagarde Guilty of Negligence but Doesn't Impose Penalty - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:19] <exec> 08└─Was she wearing a Hillary mask?
[08:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Gotta ask - 06French Court Finds IMF Chief Christine Lagarde Guilty of Negligence but Doesn't Impose Penalty - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:22:21] <exec> 08└─And why does a woman have to wear a woman's mask? That's sexist!
[08:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Current density - 06Graphene Able to Transport Huge Currents On the Nano Scale - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:33] <exec> 08└─I have worked around power cabling of modest current flow, and noted the mechanical effects of the resultant magnetic fields. Even if the thing does not burn up due to heating effects, will the magnetostrictive effects wreak havoc? Not trying to diss this, but I have been known to be looking up one...
[08:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Decades ago - no girls - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:23:01] <exec> 08└─Yah, some asshole designed the computer course to be run in a computer lab with dozens of computers around and having to talk in computer language and be humiliated by making logic errors on a computer. It's as if they deliberately tried to exclude people who didn't want to sit motionless in front o...
[08:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Re:There exists no problem - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 970 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:23:32] <exec> 08└─"There was complete gender equality in computer science before 1980s. In fact, there were more women in computer science than men." What planet were you on back then? I've been programming since the 1970s, and I have never seen anything close to the same number of women and men. In the 1980s, in cer...
[08:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Compiler optimization harms students? - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:34] <exec> 08└─How does global common subexpression elimination (GCSE) leave girls and poorer students behind? Well, I guess GCSE has some other meaning. So what about expanding that abbreviation, or linking to the relevant Wikipedia article? [wikipedia.org]
[08:27:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Francis [5544] 02Re:Just keep your skills up! - 06If the U.S. Won't Pay Its Teachers, China Will - 1170 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:27:04] <exec> 08└─It's astonishing that this bullshit was actually modded up. The people who did that ought to be ashamed of themselves for encouraging this sort of mindlessness. In other words, you know nothing about public education and would rather bash unions that actually address any of the problems related to t...
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[09:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Dude! - 06Artificial Leaf as Mini-Factory for Drugs - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:31] <exec> 08└─The GROW FARM is growing METH and LSD while I sleep!
[09:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Dude! - 06Artificial Leaf as Mini-Factory for Drugs - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:22:33] <exec> 08└─You get to sleep during the day?
[09:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Once we understand how to do this... - 06Artificial Leaf as Mini-Factory for Drugs - 1225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:35] <exec> 08└─I get the very strong impression that once we become adept at coding DNA for molecular synthesis, we will find ourselves awash in abundance for any particular chemical configuration we can dream up, in much the same way we now find ourselves awash in every circuit configuration we dream up. Today: A...
[09:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Once we understand how to do this... - 06Artificial Leaf as Mini-Factory for Drugs - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:22:37] <exec> 08└─You're lucky because you'll miss seeing the social unrest this causes as today's billionaires become trillionaires. I can't wait to hear which mythical animal will be used to denote the trillion dollar startups. I can't wait to see the streets running red with blood as poor people murder each other...
[09:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Should wear a Trump mask... - 06French Court Finds IMF Chief Christine Lagarde Guilty of Negligence but Doesn't Impose Penalty - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:22:48] <exec> 08└─because she sure Trumped that conviction :)
[09:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Decades ago - no girls - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 953 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:23:27] <exec> 08└─Computers used to be the ultimate perfectionists. One had to have everything absolutely perfect or the thing flat would not run. It was like a big puzzle... and computer programming appealed to those who loved solving puzzles. Which mostly seemed to be guys with asperger's or some other aspect of t...
[09:23:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02They're smarter than we are - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 286 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:46] <exec> 08└─They see the jobs going offshore, and decide to do things that can't be offshored. Like nursing. Or teaching. Here's hoping the Great Orange Hope kills the H1-B program, or at least makes it work as it was originally intended. / my breath? // holding it? /// nope, not holding my breath
[09:23:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02Let me understand this - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 1186 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:54] <exec> 08└─If we find some thing, some area, some interest, in which boys excel over girls, then we must dissuade boys from pursuing that interest? An area of study in which boys are tops, must be discontinued? Especially if it turns out that white wealthy boys do the best, we must shut that study off? WTF?!?!...
[09:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Let me understand this - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:23:59] <exec> 08└─...special snowflake...privilege...oppression...big boy pants...
[09:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score:2) 02Re:There exists no problem - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:24:03] <exec> 08└─I am from planet earth and I look at data. Here is some data: http://www.npr.org [npr.org] That is the average - in reality there were plenty of places, specially academia, where women were in higher numbers. Now I don't agree with the co...
[09:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Re:There exists no problem - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 914 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:24:05] <exec> 08└─Nice graph in the linked article, but it appears to agree with me, not with you. You said that half the coders were women before 1980. I said it peaked at more like 1/3 in the 1980s. According to the chart in your link, the peak was 37% in 1983/84. As for the equal opportunity (rather than equal res...
[09:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03terryk30 [1753] (Score:1) 02next up... (but probably down) - 06Light Spectrum of Antimatter Observed - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:38] <exec> 08└─FYI, from the linked NYT article: the team at CERN is working on new experiments, including one that looks at how antihydrogen is affected by gravity.
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[10:22:24] <exec> 08└─I can sleep WHENEVER I want now CASH MONEY grows DRUGS on TREES!
[10:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Once we understand how to do this... - 06Artificial Leaf as Mini-Factory for Drugs - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:22:27] <exec> 08└─I can't wait to hear which mythical animal will be used to denote the trillion dollar startups.
[10:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:With applications for.. - 06Graphene Able to Transport Huge Currents On the Nano Scale - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:22:49] <exec> 08└─Still not sure that this should not be the aim of society overall... ...instead of the current aim... ...which appears to be to commit suicide slowly and methodically...
[10:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score:2) 02Re:Decades ago - no girls - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:23:21] <exec> 08└─Back in the 80s around 38% of CS graduates in the US were female. Now it's down to well under 20%. Women were always better represented in computing up until the 90s. It's not a lack of understanding, it's just a cultural thing. At a very simplistic level girls are told that they like dolls, ponies...
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[10:23:26] <exec> 08└─It gets to be tiresome as hell. I can't tell you how many times I've been asked "Honey can I talk to a technician now?" Sir...I *am* the technician, and have been fixing computers since third grade. And those are the polite ones. I've had people tell me to my face a bunch of variants on "women can't...
[10:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Same reason men aren't nurses - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 2458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:23:31] <exec> 08└─Among other things, I am responsible for computer science admissions at one of Cambridge's all-women colleges[1]. We often see more (competent) women applying from Romania than from England. Romania has roughly a third of the population of the UK, and applications from there are already self-selecti...
[10:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score:2) 02Re:There exists no problem - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:23:58] <exec> 08└─You are right about that graph. But it doesn't matter if the pendulum swings back - that means we are not actually not making any progress. True progress is made when (sorry to continue using this awesome analogy) the fulcrum is moved. And for what its worth, the fulcrum/center was always about men...
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[10:23:59] <exec> 08└─Before the '80s, programming was seen as an offshoot of secretarial work, so women were pushed into the subject. Afterwards, it was seen as an offshoot of engineering and so women were pushed away. If you're Runway1956, none of these social pressures exist and it's all because girls are different.
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[11:22:38] <exec> 08└─What I am hoping for is that money become somewhat like water in the sense that it does not matter how much water is in the ocean, rather it matters a lot to you how much water is in your glass. It is my best hopes that technology be used for the betterment of all, to make sure everyone has their ba...
[11:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:has anyone tried this? - 06Supertasters a Super Opportunity for Advertisers - 1691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:23:15] <exec> 08└─Yes, and I have a plant. It's fun stuff, though mostly a novelty for me. Apparently much more useful in places and times where sweeteners are less available, and for people with diabetes or undergoing chemo. Make sure to take your time eating the fruit or pill. It's all about coating your tastebuds...
[11:23:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Justin Case [4239] 02Decades ago - no girls - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 1340 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:27] <exec> 08└─I got my start in computers pretty early... mainframes. The local community college was offering several courses in computer programming, and I eagerly took them all. It was so much fun I went into the lab all day every Saturday to experiment and learn. There were plenty of females at this college s...
[11:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:2) 02Re:Decades ago - no girls - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:23:33] <exec> 08└─How could the girls find out it "wasn't designed for them"? They never showed up for class.
[11:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Or put another way: - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:23:42] <exec> 08└─Sir...I *am* the technician
[11:23:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheRaven [270] 02Re:Same reason men aren't nurses - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 2458 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:23:46] <exec> 08└─Among other things, I am responsible for computer science admissions at one of Cambridge's all-women colleges[1]. We often see more (competent) women applying from Romania than from England. Romania has roughly a third of the population of the UK, and applications from there are already self-selecti...
[11:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Re:There exists no problem - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 1631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:24:15] <exec> 08└─"Before the '80s, programming was seen as an offshoot of secretarial work" Says someone who apparently wasn't alive, or at least not programming, before the 1980s. Flip through the pictures in this timeline [computerhistory.org]. Women did data entry, but the people doing the technical work were mos...
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[11:24:16] <exec> 08└─If you're Runway1956
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[12:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02frenchfriesleaks - 06French Court Finds IMF Chief Christine Lagarde Guilty of Negligence but Doesn't Impose Penalty - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:48] <exec> 08└─From a phone convo: - Hello Christine! - Hello, so, any news? - Hehe you bet, we set up two different terror attacks from two different sides, and an ISIS video on top, there is no way anybody will put the trial on front page. - Oui, I meant news about the trial, this is a normal phone line, remembe...
[12:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Bye-Bye Bretton Woods - 06French Court Finds IMF Chief Christine Lagarde Guilty of Negligence but Doesn't Impose Penalty - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:49] <exec> 08└─Brexit, Bitcoin, BRICs, Trump, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, and now this. It seems like the Bretton Woods system [wikipedia.org] has fallen on hard times. If it falls apart completely, does Pax Americana go too?
[12:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:In other news... - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:24:02] <exec> 08└─Trauma surgeon.
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[13:22:41] <exec> 08└─My biggest regret is my biological clock is going to tick out before I get to see the end of it.
[13:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Once we understand how to do this... - 06Artificial Leaf as Mini-Factory for Drugs - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:22:42] <exec> 08└─>Believe in incredible scientific advancement >Doesn't believe in anti-aging
[13:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Same reason men aren't nurses - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:23:51] <exec> 08└─Stereotypes exist because most people in a group will share at least some traits with the stereotype.
[13:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Something I've been thinking about recently - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:02] <exec> 08└─And end up with even more people who use the spreadsheet as if it were a database system? Better give them NAND and XOR gates to play with.
[13:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:In other news... - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:12] <exec> 08└─Or, perhaps, journalists will finally realize that boys and girls are different and stop asking stupid questions?
[13:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:In other news... - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:14] <exec> 08└─CS is not very social. What I don't understand is why no one asks them. This article is asking us. All we can do is just guess. Why does no one ever ask the people who go into CS why they choose CS over other areas and then ask the other areas why they chose those areas over others. No one does that...
[13:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Let me understand this - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 1258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:21] <exec> 08└─I don't personally care if there's a gender imbalance in this or any other profession. I am not concerned that most pre-K teachers are women, nor that most CompSci grads are men. As a purely intellectual exercise, then, why is there such a disparity in CompSci? It's not because university programs a...
[13:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:"Mud hut and solar panels?" I'll take it - 06Huge Solar Plant Beams Power and Hope to Rural Uganda - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:26:00] <exec> 08└─Absolutely. This is literally a proving ground. I'm not sure scaling to national sizes is that important, as country boundaries are an artifiial concept anyway. Scaling to national levels in Estonia is a smaller task than something serving only half of California, for example. Provide to population...
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[14:23:05] <exec> 08└─Back when Dominique Strauss-Kahn got publicly shamed, he was on route to becoming the next IMF boss. At the time I wondered who would become the next chief, because that might be the one who made sure he would fall.
[14:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:Social Robots - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:09] <exec> 08└─HEY, THAT'S MY GIRLFRIEND! How would you feel if your women screwed one of us machi.... oh wait.
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[15:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02My own method - 06Gift Idea for Soylent's Editors - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:34] <exec> 08└─My own method is to find tech/science articles that I can politicize. I add my own special trollish spin to whatever would normally just be an interesting article in the hope of fomenting hostility and arguments in the comments.
[15:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:My own method - 06Gift Idea for Soylent's Editors - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:35] <exec> 08└─Don't forget your links to the World Socialist Web Site, which is Stormfront for the Left.
[15:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Oh, so they want article submissions? - 06Gift Idea for Soylent's Editors - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:37] <exec> 08└─I thought editors only needed hookers and blow.
[15:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Hanukkah? - 06Gift Idea for Soylent's Editors - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:40] <exec> 08└─What's that? 40% of Jews live in the United States, and they comprise only 2% of the American population; and, their almost exclusively located on the coasts of the United States. That's just the United States; surely, this website reaches out to an audience in the rest of the world. What the FUCK i...
[15:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02I got it - 06"Iron Jet Stream" Found in Earth's Outer Core - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:47] <exec> 08└─> 50km/year jet stream. Is it an F35 kind of jet?
[15:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Yawn - 06Solar Now Produces a Better Energy Return On Investment Than Oil - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:56] <exec> 08└─Those numbers must be based on subsidies. Wake me up when storage is included.
[15:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Cheaper WITHOUT Subsidies - 06Solar Now Produces a Better Energy Return On Investment Than Oil - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:58] <exec> 08└─> Those numbers must be based on subsidies. Wake me up when storage is included. Incorrect. Even without subsidizes utility-scale solar is cheaper than even the cheapest form of natural gas. Here is a chart that compares unsubsidized lower and upper bounds of recent projects [vox-cdn.com] using a me...
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[15:23:59] <exec> 08└─"a bit of oregano, some thyme, bit of garlic"
[15:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:China is Ahead of the USA - 06China's Smoggiest City Closes Schools Amid Public Anger - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:25:29] <exec> 08└─Or the cost of living is substantially less.
[15:26:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"missing paper" - 06Huge Solar Plant Beams Power and Hope to Rural Uganda - 684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:48] <exec> 08└─nothing is going to happen in africa if they cannot learn to build all the shit themselves. leap frog you say? thats jumping over a generation of technolgy that most certainly contributed to the next one. if you don't know how to build and maintain the previous generation of shit then most certainly...
[15:28:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score:2) 02Re:IoT vs PVRs etc. - 06Why Don't People Secure Their IoT Gadgets? 'It's Not My Problem' - 1115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:28:12] <exec> 08└─Yes, they did roll back the change that bricked 3rd party lights. No, Philips doesn't think that was the best solution. They are convinced that blocking 3rd party/non-"friends of Hue" products is the best solution and their corporate non-apology is very clear about that. They rolled it back after a...
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[16:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:My own method - 06Gift Idea for Soylent's Editors - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:32] <exec> 08└─If I link to both in the same story, would that cause the site to receive SIGFPE?
[16:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:My own method - 06Gift Idea for Soylent's Editors - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:34] <exec> 08└─Stormfront has long been infiltrated by jewish vermin. There is no way to verify members' identities, so the JIDF goes there unchecked. If you go there, you will see that many members want their data to be deleted after they see that it is having real effects on their lives. Sickening. It has become...
[16:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmn32480 [443] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh, so they want article submissions? - 06Gift Idea for Soylent's Editors - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:38] <exec> 08└─What, exactly, do my cats have to do with this?
[16:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hanukkah? - 06Gift Idea for Soylent's Editors - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:41] <exec> 08└─Your post confuses me. You did not clearly make your point. Are you saying that Hanukkah shouldn't be mentioned because only 2% of the US is jewish? And where does the "rest of the world" comment fit in? And you may not realize it, but the Christmas/Hanukkah comment was made in regards to the editor...
[16:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Hanukkah? - 06Gift Idea for Soylent's Editors - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:43] <exec> 08└─Today is also Festivus. Just sayin'.
[16:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hanukkah? - 06Gift Idea for Soylent's Editors - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:46] <exec> 08└─The reason to doubt is that Jews are almost non-existent; they are dust.
[16:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hanukkah? - 06Gift Idea for Soylent's Editors - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:48] <exec> 08└─Perhaps it was included due to relatively high Jewish fraction of the tech sector? I couldn't find numbers for the overall percentage (my guess is much more than 2% in USA), but here's a list (somewhat out of date...) of corporate leaders http://jewishtechs.com [jewishtechs.com] Plen...
[16:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Alternative suggestion - 06Gift Idea for Soylent's Editors - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:50] <exec> 08└─Can't we just all be okay with fewer stories coming through? I mean, I'm personally okay with the editors chillaxing regardless of what's in the queue; the world won't end if the news stream slows down a bit or even stops for a few days.
[16:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Alternative suggestion - 06Gift Idea for Soylent's Editors - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:52] <exec> 08└─Personally, would rather have normal pace or even faster...since there is plenty of time to kill while avoiding all the relatives that show up over the holidays. Also, if the feed actually stopped for a day or so, I wonder how many eyeballs would go away and not come back?
[16:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I got it - 06"Iron Jet Stream" Found in Earth's Outer Core - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:01] <exec> 08└─It can't be, it doesn't require billions of taxpayers money to run.
[16:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score:2) 02Catching up with Holywood - 06"Iron Jet Stream" Found in Earth's Outer Core - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:03] <exec> 08└─This is all well and good, but can we restart it if The Core [imdb.com] stops spinning?
[16:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Nope - 06Solar Now Produces a Better Energy Return On Investment Than Oil - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:13] <exec> 08└─These numbers are based on wishful thinking about solar panels durability and omitting some of the energy used during production and probably completely omitting energy used during transporting them. Real EROEI is probably somewhere between 3 and 6. Better than in 70s when it was below 1 or food and...
[16:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03garrulus [6051] (Score:1) 02Re:Yawn - 06Solar Now Produces a Better Energy Return On Investment Than Oil - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:15] <exec> 08└─Yep batteries are the critical thing. And cheap good converters. But I assume its full chain else comparisons make no sense. Btw this royal society, are they the same guys that couldn't even calculate the "smart meter" yield?
[16:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Decades ago - no girls - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:24:36] <exec> 08└─Birds don't take swims find out how unpleasant it is to be underwater either. Please tell me you aren't so hyper-literal that you think no woman ever showed up for any class ever? That women don't talk to anyone about what classes are like and hear through word of mouth how unpleasant they and the...
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[16:24:45] <exec> 08└─> They do that to EVERYONE that doesn't fit the "revenge of the nerds" stereotype. That is binary thinking. Just because it happens to you too doesn't mean its applied equally. When will nerds learn that degree matters? > show them the bosses 16 year old daughter blasting her techno while she coded...
[16:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03tempest [3050] (Score:2) 02Re:Or put another way: - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:24:48] <exec> 08└─Sir...I *am* the technician
[16:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score:2) 02Re:Same reason men aren't nurses - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 747 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:24:54] <exec> 08└─Well my (2 yr old) daughter is growing up in a house full of construction toys, and she pays little attention to the one ragdoll she owns. I'm woring hard to dispell gender stereotypes in this household. (The fact that her mother and father are engineers helps.) One of her first birthday presents wa...
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[16:25:15] <exec> 08└─on Osiris in Capital City
[16:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Pulling a Trump - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:25:22] <exec> 08└─> Because I am more self assured than you are, That must be why you pulled a trump and went all thin-skinned attack everything you can possibly think of in response to an AC. Yeah, you are bigly self-assured!!
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[17:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Schizophrenia - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:38] <exec> 08└─Trump is a staunch denier of global warming... except where it threatens his investments. [politico.com] I sometimes wonder if he himself actually believes anything he says, or if his opinion simply changes every now and again according to some recent input and as soon as he does so his brain immedi...
[17:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:Schizophrenia - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:40] <exec> 08└─I sometimes wonder if he himself actually believes anything he says, or if his opinion simply changes every now and again according to some recent input and as soon as he does so his brain immediately erases all memory of him ever having believed anything different.
[17:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Schizophrenia - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:42] <exec> 08└─Modded up! This is a hugely important distinction, and one that people NEED to know. If the truth is a woman, then a liar is her rapist and a bullshitter is her pimp.
[17:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Schizophrenia - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:44] <exec> 08└─Rising waters are a thing—certainly a potential thing; it makes sense to build up some kind of insurance against it. However, that doesn't mean that you must accept the worse predictions of Global Warming, or that you must accept such outcomes as being solely due to the preventable actions of man.
[17:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Schizophrenia - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:46] <exec> 08└─Yeah Cthulhu forbid we do stuff that grants us energy independence, cleaner air and water, and less pollution. What if we make the world a better place for no reason?! Hurrrrrr.
[17:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Schizophrenia - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:48] <exec> 08└─"We"
[17:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Schizophrenia - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:50] <exec> 08└─Okay, you can go sit on the beach somewhere in Florida and drown slowly. That's absolutely fine by me.
[17:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Emotions rather than Facts - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 1001 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:52] <exec> 08└─An "open letter" is the last refuge of the scientifically incompetent; it's exactly the kind of drivel one would expect from modern institutions of so-called "higher learning", where hard-nosed, unblinking inquiry has been replaced with safe spaces. The truth of the matter is that there is a dispute...
[17:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:Emotions rather than Facts - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:55] <exec> 08└─do not pretend to lecture us on facts you are the one whose made a religion of elevating minor technical disagreements and margins of error into scientific heterodoxy its neither scientific nor heterodoxy, its just propaganda from the people who benefit the most from ignoring the facts
[17:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Emotions rather than Facts - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:57] <exec> 08└─It's the middle stage, remember when big tobacco was still holding forth with "their scientists" claiming no tobacco-cancer linkage? That went on for what, 30 years? These days the tobacco companies have finally been brought to heel.
[17:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Emotions rather than Facts - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:59] <exec> 08└─Remember when the rulers of Europe persecuted Galileo for trying to present evidence that not every "Heavenly" body revolves around the Earth? The rulers were finally brought to heel.
[17:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Emotions rather than Facts - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:01] <exec> 08└─Uh huh sure buddy, so what do you think about a full blown creationist on the white house cabinet? Is evolution and radioisotope dating also up for debate? Is the earth being round IP for debate? Do we ignore all the facts just because some corporate shills were paid to confuse you? Oh right, the iv...
[17:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Emotions rather than Facts - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:03] <exec> 08└─Clearly, you're not involved in Academia. That is exactly what the grant process is all about; these days, the Governments do control the purse strings, and you're pretty well fucked if you don't toe the line.
[17:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Emotions rather than Facts - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:06] <exec> 08└─Well then, since the US will shortly have a government packed full of climate change deniers, logically we can expect all of these sycophantic scientists to suddenly change their tune, can't we? Pray tell AC, exactly how much would you be willing to bet that the massive consensus on climate change a...
[17:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Emotions rather than Facts - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:08] <exec> 08└─That's a straw man. Clearly, there is cultural inertia, and Global Warming has become a facet of the very culture; people do not give up their religions easily, even when those religions are so crazy as to involve cutting up boys' and girls' sexual organs.
[17:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Emotions rather than Facts - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:10] <exec> 08└─The truth of the matter is that there is a dispute about global warming; there are questions about not only the way measurements are made and how those measurements are interpreted, but also about the very models used to make predictions, including questions about the correctness of the application...
[17:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Emotions rather than Facts - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:12] <exec> 08└─What is in dispute? http://www.spiegel.de [spiegel.de]
[17:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Action - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:14] <exec> 08└─What is the actual action proposed and provide some engineering estimates of the effects. Oh, you say the action recommended is great piles of money for researchers and some theater acts that will have no or minimal impact? Oh what a complete surprise.
[17:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02want to support climate change? - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:17] <exec> 08└─Burn a few tires.
[17:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Action - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:19] <exec> 08└─> Oh, you say the action recommended is great piles of money for researchers Yeah, those PhD's are raking in the big bucks with their climate scams. They know that climate research is so lucrative that they chose to forgo jobs in silicon valley and wallstreet because those jobs pay peanuts in compar...
[17:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Action - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:21] <exec> 08└─Yeah, those PhDs are angels—demigods formed of finer clay than the rest of us; they want nothing but to serve others and then by virtue of their goodness, transform into energy beings, and ascend into the 5th dimension where they can watch over each and every one of us.
[17:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hanukkah? - 06Gift Idea for Soylent's Editors - 666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:38] <exec> 08└─Holiday schedule, during which Odin the Allfather will be leading the Wild Hunt: Hanukkah began Dec 6 sunset, ended Dec 14 sunset, so that one's done and gone now. Saturnalia began Dec 17. Solstice occurred Dec 21 at 10:44 UTC, so that one's done and gone now. Friends and I celebrated on Wednesday....
[17:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hanukkah? - 06Gift Idea for Soylent's Editors - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:39] <exec> 08└─Dec 25 0:00 UTC Santa departs the north pole
[17:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:Hanukkah? - 06Gift Idea for Soylent's Editors - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:43] <exec> 08└─So you admit to fraternizing with jews? Sleeping with a jewess? You might as well sleep with a donkey. You know well that Jew is a race, not a religion.
[17:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hanukkah? - 06Gift Idea for Soylent's Editors - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:46] <exec> 08└─?? Arabs and Jews look the same to me -- as far as I can tell the only differences are religion.
[17:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hanukkah? - 06Gift Idea for Soylent's Editors - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:48] <exec> 08└─Meh. They both cut up little boys' sexual organs.
[17:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hanukkah? - 06Gift Idea for Soylent's Editors - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:50] <exec> 08└─One of them lets an old man suck the penis after being freshly cut link [subvertednation.net]
[17:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Hanukkah? - 06Gift Idea for Soylent's Editors - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:52] <exec> 08└─I do. I fraternize with Jews. I also slept with a Jewess. She was the one who slept with a donkey.
[17:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hanukkah? - 06Gift Idea for Soylent's Editors - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:54] <exec> 08└─2% of US population does not matter to the rest of the world. It does not matter what that 2% celebrates. Be it young boys, be it ritual human sacrifice, be it intentional animal suffering. That 2% of US population is a very small percentage of the actual world. That is why they want to massively re...
[17:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hanukkah? - 06Gift Idea for Soylent's Editors - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:56] <exec> 08└─What the FUCK is Hanukkah?
[17:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Alternative suggestion - 06Gift Idea for Soylent's Editors - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:00] <exec> 08└─I would prefer many spicy stories over holidays, better than normal days. Not everyone enjoys R.L, meeting shitheads that one managed to avoid for the whole year. There should be more discussions. And can we please disallow moderation of comments over the next two weeks? (feel free to disagree with...
[17:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Alternative suggestion - 06Gift Idea for Soylent's Editors - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:03] <exec> 08└─You could set -1/-1 Threshold/Breakthrough to read all comments. Easy to save those settings if you have a throwaway account, but I imagine you could make a script to automatically apply them once you land on an article ( https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]...
[17:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02It's all ogre - 06Gift Idea for Soylent's Editors - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:05] <exec> 08└─EmDrive 2.0 [soylentnews.org] will be used to create a free energy relativistic kill vehicle. Everyone you know and love is living on borrowed time. With that in mind we might as well get all the news out at a fast pace.
[17:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02One hell of a tour - 06"Iron Jet Stream" Found in Earth's Outer Core - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:16] <exec> 08└─I know a lot of people write them off as a mere tribute act, but I think Iron Jet Stream raised themselves out of that category when they started performing their affectionate tributes whilst wearing the skins of original Iron Maiden musicians. As I understand it Steve Harris is the only remaining u...
[17:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Again - 06"Iron Jet Stream" Found in Earth's Outer Core - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:18] <exec> 08└─The mongol horde are gonna fuck up Europe again.
[17:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:Cheaper WITHOUT Subsidies - 06Solar Now Produces a Better Energy Return On Investment Than Oil - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:28] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the link. But if we have more solar or wind plants, we'll also need more gas peaker plants for when renewables are idle. Those peakers look pricey. I'll agree that there is social good associated with using renewables, but there is also a cost that seems to be ignored.
[17:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Nope - 06Solar Now Produces a Better Energy Return On Investment Than Oil - 711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:31] <exec> 08└─And does that "Real EROI" for oil factor in all the externalized costs of oil? The total cost of all the wars fought in the Middle East since WWI? And the value of the subsidies and tax breaks given to oil companies? Not to mention the total cost of oil spill cleanups paid by the government? And the...
[17:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02There is no one kind of supertaster - 06Supertasters a Super Opportunity for Advertisers - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:41] <exec> 08└─It's not just about density of taste buds, it's also about variety. Some people can taste things that others just don't. Celery is one example; to most people it's just neutral, while to a minority it's foul. Also remember that a lot (if not most of) the experience is really olfactory, and there's a...
[17:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Or put another way: - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:26:08] <exec> 08└─Yes, actually :) I had a bunch of co-workers both laughing and calling me a racist. "'Ave joo trrried turning joor com-pyoo-ter off and den back on again, sahr? Okay here is what joo doo: joo hold down de following keys: esss, ahhr, dee, zee, and de numbah tooo, and pound on de space bar vif joor he...
[17:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Open the Smog Factories!! - 06China's Smoggiest City Closes Schools Amid Public Anger - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:26:58] <exec> 08└─you probably want more things manufactured here in the US where environmental regulations actually stand a chance of being enforced
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[18:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The ET angle - 06More Fast Radio Bursts Detected from Same Location - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:35] <exec> 08└─ET war using star-fueled weapons? Please don't let the Mid. East get a hold of those.
[18:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The ET angle - 06More Fast Radio Bursts Detected from Same Location - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:37] <exec> 08└─Wow, those aliens need to find Jesus this Christmas.
[18:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Schizophrenia - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:51] <exec> 08└─I would say Trump is pure Id.
[18:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Schizophrenia - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:56] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, Trump and his buddies have a penchant for retiring to tropical islands. It's a problem that will solve itself, and will be a sorely needed laugh while the rest of us are bailing out our basements.
[18:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Emotions rather than Facts - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:02] <exec> 08└─I 'member. 'Member when Ptolemy threw out Hipparchus' model of the solar system in favor of epicycles?
[18:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Emotions rather than Facts - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:04] <exec> 08└─Things move faster now, Ptolemaic (earth-centered) beliefs hung on for centuries before the Copernican (and Galilean) heliocentric explanation was widely accepted.
[18:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:1) 02Re:Emotions rather than Facts - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:10] <exec> 08└─Now that was an off-topic strawman. Why are you bringing circumcision into this?
[18:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Emotions rather than Facts - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:13] <exec> 08└─How is possible that you cannot understand the context of those remarks?
[18:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Emotions rather than Facts - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:15] <exec> 08└─That's a straw man.
[18:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Emotions rather than Facts - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:17] <exec> 08└─Yeah. And right now all of the academic infrastructure has evolved around the selective pressures of Global Warming Fearmongering; now that the selective pressures are perhaps altering, there is significant resistance, because it threatens the very ecosystem that has become so cozy. Get it yet?
[18:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Emotions rather than Facts - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 1563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:19] <exec> 08└─Nope. You said that researchers want government money, and will say whatever they have to say to get it. You said that. [1] If the government wants research that points to "global warming is all fake" then the researchers will say so. They don't need a few generations of selective breeding to do it,...
[18:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Emotions rather than Facts - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:21] <exec> 08└─In Academia and Politics (and now in popular culture), Global Warming has become an industry. Now that this industry is threatened, incumbents are doing all they can to protect their industry. If they fail to protect their industry, then their industry will dissipate, and researchers will begin buil...
[18:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Emotions rather than Facts - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:23] <exec> 08└─Yeah. And right now all of the academic infrastructure has evolved around the selective pressures of Global Warming Fearmongering; now that the selective pressures are perhaps altering, there is significant resistance, because it threatens the very ecosystem that has become so cozy. Get it yet?
[18:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Emotions rather than Facts - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:26] <exec> 08└─People spend a lot of resources promoting their ridiculous religions; the battle could be very long-lived indeed. See here. [soylentnews.org]
[18:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Emotions rather than Facts - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 1739 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:28] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't take that bet yet. We still haven't seen any indication whether Trump intends to give the NSF an enema and clear out the political hacks. We still aren't even sure if he intends to truly clean house at EPA. The problem is the government machinery is very resilient against Republican admin...
[18:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Emotions rather than Facts - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:30] <exec> 08└─I love the money claim, like all these scientists are really devoting their time to bad studies just to keep some grant money flowing.
[18:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:Emotions rather than Facts - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:33] <exec> 08└─Here you go: Josh takes on XKCD’s ‘climate timeline’ [wattsupwiththat.com]
[18:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:1) 02Re:Emotions rather than Facts - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:36] <exec> 08└─They are jumping on the fact they there was more ice farther north this year.
[18:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Emotions rather than Facts - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:38] <exec> 08└─Who is disputing global warming? What are their sources? Everyone can come up with an incoherent conspiracy rant. If you are going to argue that the global scientific consensus is wrong, you better have some really conclusive evidence.
[18:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Emotions rather than Facts - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:40] <exec> 08└─Science is about questioning any so-called "consensus", not relying on that so-called "consensus".
[18:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Action - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:46] <exec> 08└─Wow, I want to get a PhD in Stargate Dynamics now.
[18:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Action - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:49] <exec> 08└─Hey, that why I got a Ph.D. in science. It's all fast cars, fast women, and I eat steak every day.
[18:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Action - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:51] <exec> 08└─I feel like I should watch/listen to conservative news channels just so I can see how their propaganda talking points get spread. There are specific arguments that get created, and new ones are always needed because the old ones eventually lose their distraction potential as people catch on. The gre...
[18:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Oh, so they want article submissions? - 06Gift Idea for Soylent's Editors - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:05] <exec> 08└─I would've guessed "Die" and "RIAA".
[18:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Hanukkah? - 06Gift Idea for Soylent's Editors - 1027 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:20] <exec> 08└─It was reflexive. Ever since I went away to college in Chicago, and now living in New York, Christmas has been paired with Hanukkah. At first it was also twined with Kwanzaa, but that seems to have dropped off the radar (go to the heart of Harlem at Christmas time now and you cannot find any Kwanzaa...
[18:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02Re:Alternative suggestion - 06Gift Idea for Soylent's Editors - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:26] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I hear that! I just figure there're plenty of sources of distraction available, although maybe that's not so good for SN given your second point. I definitely was not trying to imply that Real Life is somehow awesomer than usual around "the holidays", but just that if the editors have somethin...
[18:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrpg [5708] (Score:2) 02News from where? - 06Gift Idea for Soylent's Editors - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:29] <exec> 08└─Where else to look for submissions? I like: https://www.theguardian.com [theguardian.com] https://www.theguardian.com [theguardian.com] http://www.bbc.com [bbc.com] Happy Festivus!
[18:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The gift has pros and cons - 06Gift Idea for Soylent's Editors - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:31] <exec> 08└─As a potential submitter, I'll challenge the notion that it takes about 5 minutes a story right now, because it takes that long to go through the submission queue to make sure it isn't a dupe, which there is at least one I noticed: Submission: Mainpage 12/24 00:54 LIGO Black Hole Echoes Hint at Ge...
[18:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score:2) 02Re:Bye-Bye Bretton Woods - 06French Court Finds IMF Chief Christine Lagarde Guilty of Negligence but Doesn't Impose Penalty - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:25:32] <exec> 08└─BRICS and Bitcoin are the two things that are a threat to Bretton Woods (in some way)... Brexit and Trump are dependent on the system continuing as-is, and the IMF is much like the UN in that it's shielded from any serious criticism or scrutiny because it has a noble mission statement and it's techn...
[18:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:has anyone tried this? - 06Supertasters a Super Opportunity for Advertisers - 884 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:26:01] <exec> 08└─Yes, I've tried both the berries and the tablets. They both work fine, so I'd go with the tablets (just remind people to move them around on their tongue until they mostly dissolve ~7min) because they are cheaper and do not spoil. Lemons and limes are the best things I've used with them, but hot sau...
[18:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I'm not a whiner! You're a whiner! - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:27:07] <exec> 08└─Classic! You literally replied in the most insecure possible way -- "I'm not a whiner, you're a whiner!" Are you nine years old? So entertaining! You win the prize for this month's most unintentionally revealing post.
[18:28:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Impossible. - 06Sex Evolved to Help Future Generations Fight Infection, Scientists Show - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:28:16] <exec> 08└─I believe it's a literary shortcut. Our languages naturally anthropomorphize a lot of things because humans made them in their own image such that to give a more technically accurate description would probably take a lot more text and make for a long-winded headline. It's a trade-off between brevity...
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[19:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The ET angle - 06More Fast Radio Bursts Detected from Same Location - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:22:32] <exec> 08└─Maybe it's alien technopunk, if you downshift the frequencies into the human audible range.
[19:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Resistance is futile - 06More Fast Radio Bursts Detected from Same Location - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:33] <exec> 08└─You will be assimilated.
[19:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:1) 02For Azuma - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:22:54] <exec> 08└─This one is for you Azuma: http://politicalhumor.about.com [about.com]
[19:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Schizophrenia - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:22:55] <exec> 08└─or that you must accept such outcomes as being solely due to the preventable actions of man.
[19:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Compartmentalization Re:Schizophrenia - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 875 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:22:57] <exec> 08└─In the book "the Authoritarians" by Altemeyer (PLEASE download it before it suddenly disappears or times out or is wiped to make disk room or Manitoba is conquered by the USA!), Altemeyer mentions something he called "compartmentalization" [wikipedia.org], somethign all people have, but authoritaria...
[19:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:1) 02Re:Emotions rather than Facts - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:10] <exec> 08└─I initially assumed they were talking about sex reassignment surgery. However, I concluded that must not be right because I am not aware of any jurisdiction that allows the surgery to be performed on minors.
[19:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Emotions rather than Facts - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 768 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:15] <exec> 08└─In Academia and Politics (and now in popular culture), Global Warming has become an industry. Now that this industry is threatened, incumbents are doing all they can to protect their industry. If they fail to protect their industry, then their industry will dissipate, and researchers will begin buil...
[19:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Emotions rather than Facts - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 752 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:21] <exec> 08└─"deniers" When you can't even engage on the issue like a rational person without casting slurs on the other side it only broadcasts that your position is weak and at some level you know it. "how much would you be willing to bet that the massive consensus on climate change among scientists suddenly i...
[19:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Emotions rather than Facts - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:30] <exec> 08└─Such as evolution [ideacenter.org], or even the atomic theory. Has anyone ever seen an atom?
[19:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Emotions rather than Facts - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:32] <exec> 08└─* Evolution has been the subject of a humongous global debate; that's why the evidence for Evolution is so meticulous. * Yes. People have "seen" an atom.
[19:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Emotions rather than Facts - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:34] <exec> 08└─That's all fine and good when you have decent evidence. Just claiming to be "challenging the consensus" sounds very dramatic and brave, but when you dig a little deeper there is no substance. You poor oppressed conservatives, THIS WOULD BE HILARIOUS IF IT WASN'T SO IMPORTANT!
[19:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Hanukkah? - 06Gift Idea for Soylent's Editors - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:02] <exec> 08└─At least it's not a warp 10 journey. I already have enough salamanders.
[19:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Alternative suggestion - 06Gift Idea for Soylent's Editors - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:17] <exec> 08└─It is distracting, while adding nearly nothing of value.
[19:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:Alternative suggestion - 06Gift Idea for Soylent's Editors - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:21] <exec> 08└─We are slowing down the posting rate too - to approximately one story every 2 hours or so. But not everyone is on holiday. Some people don't celebrate the holiday, some are working or on call, others are travelling. Our community is global. They might all want to browse the site during the 'holiday'...
[19:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:News from where? - 06Gift Idea for Soylent's Editors - 965 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:24] <exec> 08└─Right now I have the Anandtech, Ars Technica, EFF/Deeplinks, HPCwire, KurzweilAI.net, Next Big Future, The Register, Tom's Hardware, and TorrentFreak RSS feeds open in Claws Mail. I would also consider adding Futurity, The Intercept, NPR, NYT, The Platform, and Reuters. Although Science Daily [scien...
[19:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmn32480 [443] (Score:2) 02Re:News from where? - 06Gift Idea for Soylent's Editors - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:26] <exec> 08└─Double posting? How rotten!!!11!
[19:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:News from where? - 06Gift Idea for Soylent's Editors - 965 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:28] <exec> 08└─Right now I have the Anandtech, Ars Technica, EFF/Deeplinks, HPCwire, KurzweilAI.net, Next Big Future, The Register, Tom's Hardware, and TorrentFreak RSS feeds open in Claws Mail. I would also consider adding Futurity, The Intercept, NPR, NYT, The Platform, and Reuters. Although Science Daily [scien...
[19:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmn32480 [443] (Score:2) 02Re:News from where? - 06Gift Idea for Soylent's Editors - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:30] <exec> 08└─Double posting? How rotten!
[19:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Last year I gave you ASCII art - 06Gift Idea for Soylent's Editors - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:33] <exec> 08└─But the very next day, you gave it away.
[19:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I got it - 06"Iron Jet Stream" Found in Earth's Outer Core - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:24:43] <exec> 08└─And it can't possibly live up to the promised hype of "excellent-at-every-possible-role, one-size-fits-all" like the F35: Think of the F35 as the F111 of today, only on cost-overrun steroids.
[19:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02Cost/efficiency vs GMO? - 06Artificial Leaf as Mini-Factory for Drugs - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:20] <exec> 08└─I wonder whether these techniques will be more cost-effective or efficient than genetically modifying plants/yeasts/whatever to produce chemicals? Either way, I'm betting these will be very useful if we ever get into space in a big way.
[19:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I guess it's a French thing - 06French Court Finds IMF Chief Christine Lagarde Guilty of Negligence but Doesn't Impose Penalty - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:25:30] <exec> 08└─How's that different from the US thing with Trump?
[19:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:I guess it's a French thing - 06French Court Finds IMF Chief Christine Lagarde Guilty of Negligence but Doesn't Impose Penalty - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:25:32] <exec> 08└─Well - with Trump the alternative would have been pure evil, and at least equally negligent. Are you saying the same is true in France?
[19:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm an underwhelmingTaster - 06Supertasters a Super Opportunity for Advertisers - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:03] <exec> 08└─Same here, in fact I think this is why I have a tendency to prefer very strong flavors and dislike a lot of very sweet things - I like very hot peppers and strong spices, very sour fruit (I love eating lemons and limes, peel and rind included), very dark chocolate, black tea/coffee (sweetened or wit...
[19:26:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] 02Re:Or put another way: - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 1172 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:35] <exec> 08└─They do that to EVERYONE that doesn't fit the "revenge of the nerds" stereotype. I'm a big hairy biker looking guy so I usually got a variation on the "IDK whether to let him work on my PC or give him my wallet" bullshit, James who worked in the back with me got plain old ignored as they looked for...
[19:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Or put another way: - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:38] <exec> 08└─This is a pattern I see over and over again - people arguing one side of a debate citing an example that contradicts them as if it actually supported their position. What makes people do that? Is it unfocused thinking?
[19:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02Re:Something I've been thinking about recently - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:58] <exec> 08└─I've had this same thought, and really I think we should be teaching basic logical constructs and stack-based math first. Might as well jump straight into algebra as well, it's not like kids can't understand this stuff, we just have a lot of stupid archaisms in education that really need to be updat...
[19:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Let me understand this - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:18] <exec> 08└─Your warped mind cannot accept that your are a second place, second class nobody. You ARE the special snowflake here
[19:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Let me understand this - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:21] <exec> 08└─^^ THIS ^^ Don't stand in any woman's way - whether she wants to do computer science, become a Marine Corps combat commander, or if she chooses to stay at home, and raise babies. Just don't presume to tell the woman what she may do, or can do, or is prohibited from doing. O'bummer and the DNC don't...
[19:28:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Security through obscurity - 06Sex Evolved to Help Future Generations Fight Infection, Scientists Show - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:28:30] <exec> 08└─Yeah. Sex is one way for slower reproducing multicellular organisms to keep up with rapidly reproducing organisms. If there's not enough diversity they can get wiped out: https://www.damninteresting.com [damninteresting.com] With sex a species can have thousan...
[19:28:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03zafiro17 [234] (Score:2) 02Re:Refits - 06Huge Solar Plant Beams Power and Hope to Rural Uganda - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:28:56] <exec> 08└─Short answer in response: in over ten years working in Africa, I haven't heard Russia mentioned one single time. Turkey is active in Somalia, and China is heavily involved absolutely everywhere. But I'm not aware of any Russian interventions/projects/investments anywhere on the continent.
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[20:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:3, Informative) 02Summary wrong. - 06EU Rules Against UK "Snooper's Charter" Data Retention - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:23] <exec> 08└─Can't be post-Brexit as the summary says. Brexit hasn't started yet, and won't until at least March and won't actually take effect until March 2019 at the earliest.
[20:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Summary wrong. - 06EU Rules Against UK "Snooper's Charter" Data Retention - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:24] <exec> 08└─Ehhhh, that is really just picky semantics unless there is a significant chance that brexit will not happen. Would their ruling have no teeth post-real-brexit?
[20:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Summary wrong. - 06EU Rules Against UK "Snooper's Charter" Data Retention - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:26] <exec> 08└─post-Brexit-vote just doesn't have that same ring to it.
[20:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Silly EU - 06EU Rules Against UK "Snooper's Charter" Data Retention - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:29] <exec> 08└─The EU is just out of touch. They're not governed by corporations and fear like all the happenin' countries.
[20:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score:2) 02Looks like Brexit's gonna happen after all. - 06EU Rules Against UK "Snooper's Charter" Data Retention - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:31] <exec> 08└─I mean, you can't have another body telling you that you can't spy on your citizens! That's a government's fundamental right, to exploit people! If Brexit might not have actually been triggered before, it will be now.
[20:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The ET angle - 06More Fast Radio Bursts Detected from Same Location - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:41] <exec> 08└─Jesus is on the internet now so they should be able to find him much easier. It's not like the old days when you had to wander through the desert.
[20:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The ET angle - 06More Fast Radio Bursts Detected from Same Location - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:44] <exec> 08└─it's alien technopunk, if you downshift the frequencies into the human audible range
[20:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:It's an SOS - 06More Fast Radio Bursts Detected from Same Location - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:48] <exec> 08└─You mean they tried to replace squishy organic bodies with mind uploads on silicon?
[20:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score:2) 02Re:Trump U - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:59] <exec> 08└─It's virtue-signalling and nothing more. The effect of this letter, if it has any at all, will be to increase political polarization. People who already believe in AGW will engage in a circle-jerk about how dumb Trump is and how he won't listen (see elsewhere in this thread). People who already reje...
[20:23:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:Schizophrenia - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 266 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:02] <exec> 08└─I sometimes wonder if he himself actually believes anything he says, or if his opinion simply changes every now and again according to some recent input and as soon as he does so his brain immediately erases all memory of him ever having believed anything different.
[20:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Emotions rather than Facts - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:26] <exec> 08└─that allows the surgery to be performed on minors
[20:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Emotions rather than Facts - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:39] <exec> 08└─Denying facts is what brought up the term "deniers". What level of wording would be acceptable to your feels? Climate change argumentalist? Person who does not agree with the scientific community? Orthodoxy? There is no reason for scientists to be magically pro-climate change. The simple fact that y...
[20:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Emotions rather than Facts - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:41] <exec> 08└─banished from working in ANY field
[20:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Emotions rather than Facts - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:52] <exec> 08└─It's not that important.
[20:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Nope - 06Solar Now Produces a Better Energy Return On Investment Than Oil - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:25:04] <exec> 08└─But, how would doing that result in oil industry execs getting raises?
[20:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yawn - 06Solar Now Produces a Better Energy Return On Investment Than Oil - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:25:06] <exec> 08└─Those numbers must be based on subsidies.
[20:27:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Well, what did they find out? - 06Light Spectrum of Antimatter Observed - 665 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:58] <exec> 08└─It would have been helpful, I think, to have included the following additional quote FTFA in TFS instead of leaving us in suspense. Today’s ALPHA result is the first observation of a spectral line in an antihydrogen atom, allowing the light spectrum of matter and antimatter to be compared for the...
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[21:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:2, Informative) 02People use fedora? - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:28] <exec> 08└─I'd give mint a shot, it's got generally good software supporters and I haven't had much trouble with it. Except for Bluetooth which is still an unworkable mess if you want to use a headset for telephony.
[21:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:People use fedora? - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:30] <exec> 08└─Mint has long been a security disaster and frankly I think people are batshit bonkers to keep recommending it.
[21:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:People use fedora? - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:32] <exec> 08└─Mint has a dependency on network-manager. I have now downloaded slackware for testing (but have not installed it yet). It is relatively free of Redhat software.
[21:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03jbernardo [300] (Score:2) 02Try something else - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:34] <exec> 08└─Use something more solid - antix or mx Linux are light, solid, and mostly systemd free. They have very recent kernels (licorix), so you might have more luck with it. I never bought apple kit, so can't help you any more.
[21:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Try Ubuntu Gnome Flashback - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:36] <exec> 08└─Start with the Ubuntu Gnome ISO, then install compiz, gnome-flashback, and all the recommends. What you'll get is the traditional Ubuntu desktop without the Unity crap. It still has systemd, but on all the PCs I've installed it on it hasn't been a problem. My only wish is that Ubuntu would make a fl...
[21:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03pvanhoof [4638] (Score:2) 02Meh ... - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 1137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:39] <exec> 08└─The main user interaction I have with my workstation nowadays are things like apt-get or yum, make, a whole lot of UNIX tools like find, make, tar, vim, cp, etc. And things like qtcreator, but that's because I got spoiled at some point. For that, the Linux thing is awesome. In the end, most of the s...
[21:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score:2) 02Sorry to hear that. - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:41] <exec> 08└─I'm on Fedora right now, and it's generally very stable for me. If I'm blunt honest, I think a large part of it is that you're on a Mac. Jumpy cursors is not something I've had before unless the system was running out of RAM and swapping like mad. Try it on a PC, even a new PC, should perform FAR be...
[21:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Re:Summary wrong. - 06EU Rules Against UK "Snooper's Charter" Data Retention - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:51] <exec> 08└─It means the ruling is law for the next two years, minimum, and then will be absorbed into UK law. Then it would be up to Parliament to repeal that UK-inherited-from-the-EU law specifically. So it does matter - it says that this ruling is valid for two years, quite possibly longer. And there's an el...
[21:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Summary wrong. - 06EU Rules Against UK "Snooper's Charter" Data Retention - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:54] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure the UK and almost any other sovereign nation can simply ignore such rulings or treaties, accepting whatever consequences that come as a result. That is to say, there is no need to comply with the ECJ, ECHR, Article 50, etc. They are all just formalities. Who is going to use economic...
[21:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score:2) 02Re:Summary wrong. - 06EU Rules Against UK "Snooper's Charter" Data Retention - 1938 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:57] <exec> 08└─True, but to be strictly accurate you're getting dangerously close to something Sir Humphrey might have said on "Yes, Minister", to wit: Technically the UK has only responded to a non-binding vote that led the government to announce an unofficial decision to aim to officially announce their intentio...
[21:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Looks like Brexit's gonna happen after all. - 06EU Rules Against UK "Snooper's Charter" Data Retention - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:01] <exec> 08└─Theresa May is very keen to extract us from the European Court of Human Rights. Although it's not part of the EU, being party to it is a prerequisite of being a member of the EU. When (if) we leave the EU, Theresa May and her fellow lunatic-fringe Conservatives will be delighted to withdraw from the...
[21:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Looks like Brexit's gonna happen after all. - 06EU Rules Against UK "Snooper's Charter" Data Retention - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:03] <exec> 08└─Relevant: https://www.theguardian.com [theguardian.com]
[21:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:Looks like Brexit's gonna happen after all. - 06EU Rules Against UK "Snooper's Charter" Data Retention - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:05] <exec> 08└─That's a good one :-)
[21:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Trump U - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:31] <exec> 08└─Im not sure where I fall in your worldview. What exactly does "belief in AGW" entail?
[21:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Emotions rather than Facts - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:24:06] <exec> 08└─>"a statistically significant decrease in the consensus for AGW" I think you meant this to be some unlikely possibility, but this is just a matter of sample size. I assure you that by throwing money at skeptics there will be a non-zero decrease. Looking for statistically significant deviations from...
[21:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Emotions rather than Facts - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:24:09] <exec> 08└─I think you are wrong that "big oil" is against governments acting on the climate change narrative. Increased government activity creates a barrier to entry and they are already entrenched in the energy sector.
[21:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Emotions rather than Facts - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:24:16] <exec> 08└─a thousand young skulls of mush working their way through the university system ... the ones who actually took the advanced statistics classes and know how to see the bullshit
[21:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Science sometimes gets things wrong. - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:24:27] <exec> 08└─> Just claiming to be "challenging the consensus" sounds very dramatic and brave, but when you dig a little deeper there is no substance. Trump surrogate on climate change last week: [cnn.com] Science sometimes gets things wrong. Climate change is scientific, therefore climate change is wrong. PS,...
[21:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Science sometimes gets things wrong. - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:24:29] <exec> 08└─You did make that up though, the dude said: "I'm not suggesting that we're not affecting the change. I honestly don't know." In fact, despite their best efforts, this guy sounds eminently reasonable: "Whether you believe in climate change or not, we want clean air. We want clean water for the Americ...
[21:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Emotions rather than Facts - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:24:31] <exec> 08└─And with what evidence are you questioning this consensus? You must have some amazing evidence if you argue that the entire scientific community is wrong.
[21:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03lcklspckl [830] (Score:1) 02Re:Hanukkah? - 06Gift Idea for Soylent's Editors - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:52] <exec> 08└─Chanukah in 2016 will start on Sunday, the 25th of December and will continue for 8 days until Sunday, the 1st of January. Note that in the Jewish calander, a holiday begins on the sunset of the previous day, so observing Jews will celebrate Chanukah on the sunset of Saturday, the 24th of December....
[21:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hanukkah? - 06Gift Idea for Soylent's Editors - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:04] <exec> 08└─Then [Soylent's Editors will] be able to schedule in their appearance on the home page ahead of time and take Christmas (or Hanukkah) off to spend time with their friends and families.
[21:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02I blame the internet - 06"Iron Jet Stream" Found in Earth's Outer Core - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:34] <exec> 08└─The iron core of the Earth used to be solid. Now it's melting and flowing around? Climate change is real, folks.
[21:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02This was a n1 and Anonymous Coward team effort - 06French Court Finds IMF Chief Christine Lagarde Guilty of Negligence but Doesn't Impose Penalty - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:30] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?sid=17095&cid=444628 [soylentnews.org] Check the dates and the original story link there. :) You also get a note about DSK debacle, and a comment about playing with someone else money.
[21:27:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:masochist - 06Supertasters a Super Opportunity for Advertisers - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:05] <exec> 08└─Bitter melon is nigh inedible due to the taste. I don't get how anybody can eat enough to not mind it.
[21:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:masochist - 06Supertasters a Super Opportunity for Advertisers - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:06] <exec> 08└─I really like it actually. I just add it to a soup about 3-5 mins before it's done so as not to leach/destroy all its phytochemical-y goodness =p
[21:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:masochist - 06Supertasters a Super Opportunity for Advertisers - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:08] <exec> 08└─I don't get how anybody . . .
[21:27:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Re:Something I've been thinking about recently - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:55] <exec> 08└─Great point on the stack-based math -- I had to see an RPN calculator with 3 or 4 visible stack levels before I understood the utility. Now I absolutely prefer it [gnu.org] for all of my day-to-day calculations.
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[22:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:People use fedora? - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:33] <exec> 08└─Mint choked hard during the install. If it can't even install itself, I can only imagine the horrors I'd have to deal with if it did install. Using Mint is like dating Oriental women, that is, those who recommend it have never tried it themselves.
[22:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:People use fedora? - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:35] <exec> 08└─My girlfriend is Chinese by way of Malaysia and we're doing fine :) Sorry to mess up your data set. Of course we're both women so for all I know that isn't in your sample set so...
[22:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Try Ubuntu Gnome Flashback - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:39] <exec> 08└─What you'll get is the traditional Ubuntu desktop without the Unity crap. It still has systemd, but on all the PCs I've installed it on it hasn't been a problem.
[22:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:Meh ... - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:42] <exec> 08└─The irony of course is that Linux was originally designed for a desktop OS, and now desktop is the ONLY area where Linux isn't dominating, all other areas are dominated by Linux (smartphone, embedded, supercomputer, server, appliance, etc.).
[22:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:1) 02Re:Sorry to hear that. - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:45] <exec> 08└─Using the VESA rather than accelerated video modes can conceivably cause jumpy cursors.
[22:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Sorry to hear that. - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:47] <exec> 08└─Just commented below very much in line with this. Macs haven't been Linux friendly for a few iterations. Apple does not play well with others. It's not just the software that is going downhill.
[22:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02Of course it doesn't measure up - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:50] <exec> 08└─There are a few distros that have GUIs, programs, and all the necessary drivers to work well on Apple hardware out of the box. They're all relatively usable, but standard UI and standard configurations just won't compare to an OS that is designed specifically for that hardware. Honestly, I just don'...
[22:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Better Hardware - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:52] <exec> 08└─You should probably start with a better piece of hardware. MacBooks used to be nice, and were well supported, but the last few iterations have had various hardware incompatibilities. You don't need to spend a lot of money to get something supported, you just can't spend it at Apple. I believe most o...
[22:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmcmonster [401] (Score:2) 02What we have here is a failure to communicate - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 903 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:54] <exec> 08└─So from what I gather, the original poster is a Red Hat employee who uses MacOS as their main desktop OS for a number of years. With a reasonable familiarity of Linux desktops, he installs one and is running into issues. This is truly a failure of Linux on the desktop. Why should he have to tinker w...
[22:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:What we have here is a failure to communicate - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:56] <exec> 08└─Apple doesn't exactly make it easy to install other OSes on their hardware. I suspect the author would have had a much better time using more commonly supported hardware, like a Thinkpad or Dell.
[22:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score:4, Insightful) 02How not to quote - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:58] <exec> 08└─Phoenix666 writes: [...]
[22:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:How not to quote - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:00] <exec> 08└─I thought it was Phoenix666 writing the article as well. It's not. It's an employee of RedHat trash talking Linux support (mostly from his own company). What the fuck is Redhat doing not running Linux in-house, and what are they doing rewarding Apple, whose hardware they don't even support well? Has...
[22:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:How not to quote - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:03] <exec> 08└─Some person named "Christophe de Dinechin" actually wrote the words. I think.
[22:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score:2) 02Complex Outlier Case Has Issues. Blames OS. - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:05] <exec> 08└─I didn't read the whole article in detail, but read enough to come away thinking: this is a guy with very specific, very complex, and probably unique needs. I'm not sure that any OS would make all of his stuff work happily without issues. For an average user without specific needs like gaming or Pho...
[22:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:Summary wrong. - 06EU Rules Against UK "Snooper's Charter" Data Retention - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:18] <exec> 08└─Nitpick: I agree it hasn't started yet, and will probably start March 2017, but it doesn't have to wait until March 2019; that's just the deadline if all goes according to some kind of negotiated orderly procedure. Up to 2 years after triggering. Also the EU negotiator Barnier has said to expect jus...
[22:23:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02Re:Looks like Brexit's gonna happen after all. - 06EU Rules Against UK "Snooper's Charter" Data Retention - 145 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:22] <exec> 08└─Relevant: https://www.theguardian.com [theguardian.com]
[22:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's an SOS - 06More Fast Radio Bursts Detected from Same Location - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:39] <exec> 08└─Just wait and see...
[22:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:1) 02Re:Emotions rather than Facts - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:19] <exec> 08└─I was under the impression that they try hormone blockers first (age ~12), then hormones (age ~16), then surgery (age ~18). Your example must have been an extreme case.
[22:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Emotions rather than Facts - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:20] <exec> 08└─The boy was getting hormone therapy and had the double mastectomy at 11-12 and said the other surgeries followed shortly after (they didn't mention where, but it seemed like everything occurred in California). They did mention that it was very difficult to find doctors that would diagnose the condit...
[22:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:Emotions rather than Facts - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 1056 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:22] <exec> 08└─Those are all part of the same process. It's not complete without all three steps. Using hormone blockers with HRT can cause the endoskeleton chassis to weaken, and estrogen is known to create a subcutaneous layer of fat within the living human tissue. This helps soften the human tissue and mask the...
[22:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe [2583] (Score:2) 02Re:Emotions rather than Facts - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:36] <exec> 08└─Hey! Don't slander my good name.
[22:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02What does it mean? - 06Scientists Detect a Quantum Crystal of Electrons and 'Watch' It Melt - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:16] <exec> 08└─It's pretty cool to actually witness a state predicted 80 years ago, but what are the implications of this if any? I'm surprised the comment count is 0 here. Was hoping for some explanation....
[22:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:masochist - 06Supertasters a Super Opportunity for Advertisers - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:27:29] <exec> 08└─Hey aristarchus, did your mom get my present? I'm sure the tube of lube will last at least a month.
[22:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Or put another way: - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 1985 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:27:58] <exec> 08└─You just answered why more women are not into computing. I've always felt it was because they realized they had other options than being treated like shit by the men in the field, and then brutally fucking exploited by the suits above. That, and the long ass days, the noise of data centers, and scre...
[22:28:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:In other news... - 06Computing GCSE 'Leaves Girls and Poorer Students Behind' - 1181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:28:30] <exec> 08└─AC above: CS is not very social. And that's about all you want to know. Other reasons are in the noise. Girls are genetically programmed to want babies, raise kids, have a family. These are social activities, where interaction with other humans is everything. Boys are genetically programmed to prot...
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[23:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Variation I - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:26] <exec> 08└─Humans are pretty adaptable. I expect we'll be doing just as well five degrees from now as we are today.
[23:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score:2) 02Re:Variation I - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:27] <exec> 08└─Yeah but don't forget climate change is a racial issue now, whitey.
[23:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Variation I - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:29] <exec> 08└─I wonder if you have "5 degrees of separation" from the bacon i'll be cooking Christmas morning! :) I'd have to adjust what you said to "some humans are pretty adaptable", but that is where Darwin will come in. Those that can't adapt will probably become my bacon, lol. I hear, anyways, that if there...
[23:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Variation I - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:32] <exec> 08└─Exactly. Five degrees is neither objectively better nor worse for humanity, unless you define humanity as temperate, coastal cities, which is horribly incorrect.
[23:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Variation I - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:34] <exec> 08└─I can get on board with this, regardless of whether humans are the primary cause at least we can work on minimizing our impact and planning for the future so we don't get civilization ending problems that we're too late to address.
[23:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Variation I - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:36] <exec> 08└─If the ice ages didn't do us in, I don't see the few degrees of predicted warming doing so. There are currently uninhabitable places on the planet. We resolve this problem by not inhabiting them, by in large. We're quite capable of doing that to more places should it become necessary. I don't actual...
[23:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Variation I - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:38] <exec> 08└─I've never heard of climate science being "settled" beyond "its definitely getting warmer". As for doom and gloom, that is directly referencing our current society. Sure humans will undoubtedly survive massive climate change and even nuclear war, but people are worried about more than pure simple sp...
[23:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02Let's see... - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:40] <exec> 08└─Climate change is real and human activity has an important effect on it. We must agree on this point in order to move forward, and social/economic issues must be handled after needed environmental changes."
[23:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score:2) 02Re:Let's see... - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:43] <exec> 08└─Clearly stasis is the only reasonable option. If we accept the supposition: social/economic issues must be handled after needed environmental changes
[23:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Let's see... - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:45] <exec> 08└─Neither of your stated examples are social or economic issues. Unless you plan on legislating not only how people must act but how they must feel. Which progressives do, so I suppose that's fair.
[23:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score:2) 02Re:Let's see... - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:47] <exec> 08└─Making my point. Also, the supposition spoke to issues being 'handled', not legislated. Legislation is but one way to handle something...
[23:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Let's see... - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:49] <exec> 08└─Stop sending aid to countries which would not survive without it, especially those which don't practice family planning. Man's effect on the climate is negative but it it politicised a lot more than it should be, which is why it is difficult for some to accept that it is real - because, especially n...
[23:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Let's see... - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:51] <exec> 08└─Stop sending aid to countries.
[23:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Let's see... - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:53] <exec> 08└─politicians are shit-mouthed goddamn liars.
[23:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:Let's see... - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:56] <exec> 08└─Don't forget the technology issue. We have a possibly fatal issue like climate change, and people are allowed to put patents on energy related inventions. This is either a sign we are getting played, or that satan is in charge.
[23:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Let's see... - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:58] <exec> 08└─Go with Satan FTW, everytime. It'll put you in good stead: 1. it pisses off the truly religious 2. if there REALLY is a Satan, then he may treat you better, lol.
[23:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Unproductive premise - 06A Christmas Miracle for Soylent News? - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:00] <exec> 08└─Climate change is real and human activity has an important effect on it.
[23:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Try Ubuntu Gnome Flashback - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:17] <exec> 08└─If you're just a desktop user, systemd isn't a problem until it suddenly is. The latest version of Mint runs on systemd now and so far my install hasn't killed itself in the last couple months (knock on wood). I would counter that you telling people they aren't enjoying their OS the right way makes...
[23:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Try Ubuntu Gnome Flashback - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:18] <exec> 08└─My only wish is that Ubuntu would make a flashback version that is standalone, instead of jumping through hoops to get it.
[23:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:What we have here is a failure to communicate - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:28] <exec> 08└─Redhat is not the same a Linux either (Linux is just the kernel). Redhat has an incentive to make Linux on the Desktop slightly awkward in order to sell support. (But not so awkward that people want MS Windows back). It has gotten to the point that I do not trust their (or more specifically Lennart...
[23:23:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tfried [5534] 02How not to quote - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 25 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:30] <exec> 08└─Phoenix666 writes: [...]
[23:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:How not to quote - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:34] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure that's altogether helpful in clarifying authorship, as I believe it's considered de rigueur to give oneself a pseudonym on the internet these days, and Phoenix666 might just be one...
[23:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:How not to quote - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:36] <exec> 08└─The last several times I actually checked the article, the byline would most accurately be given as, Phoenix666 quotes verbatim the first three paragraphs from
[23:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Grand Master LGBTQ+ - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:39] <exec> 08└─Tim Cook, the Grand Master LGBTQ+, says "All your data and dough [money] are belong to us."
[23:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02kubuntu... - 06Back to Linux, and Not Impressed - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:42] <exec> 08└─My work gave me a mac-pro - I upgraded to sierra, installed docker, vms etc for development, but I'm still using my cheap dell xps11 as kubuntu desktop. Why? KDE tools plus kdeconnect and just as many cheesy ads for software I couldn't care about. Nice hardware, really weak GPU (intel is terrible),...
[23:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:1) 02Re:Emotions rather than Facts - 06More Than 170 Colleges and Universities Urging Trump to Support Climate Action - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:24:57] <exec> 08└─Are you trying to take back the 'it' pronoun?
[23:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score:1) 02Own your opinion, Coward - 06Gift Idea for Soylent's Editors - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:41] <exec> 08└─You mean people who are assholes are being treated like assholes? I am shocked — shocked! I thought you alt-right neo-nazi white-supremacist dickheads were too tough for international jewry to bother you. If you really believe what you say you do, be proud: tell the world. And when the world repli...
[23:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score:1) 02Re:The gift has pros and cons - 06Gift Idea for Soylent's Editors - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:19] <exec> 08└─It's fairly easy for us to see that an article is a dupe. So if you do some quick checking and we do some slightly less quick checking, it will be fine. Also, sending it as a nicely formatted ready to publish article is not necessary either. A lot of people send us a bare link. Some send original sh...
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