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[00:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Ransomware - 06Bitcoin Enjoys End of Year Price Surge - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:16] <exec> 08└─Experts said the rise in value was linked to the long-term depreciation of the Chinese Yuan.
[00:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:Ransomware - 06Bitcoin Enjoys End of Year Price Surge - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:17] <exec> 08└─Sort of like how the US government demands dollars?
[00:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:re Funding - 06Research Libraries Announce Boycott of Elsevier Journals Over Open Access - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:39] <exec> 08└─>"That doesn't liberate all the vast amount of knowledge they're already holding hostage however." You are right, and I don't have a good proposal for fixing that. Possibly, if everyone abandons Elsevier and they go bankrupt, their repository will become available for an affordable price.
[00:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:CPR is bad news - 06Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:00] <exec> 08└─That is why they really need to have some pure oxygen on hand in places where you can be away from serious medical care for an extended period of time like planes and boats, because its lack of oxygen that kills you. My mom was a critical care nurse for nearly 30 years and said it didn't matter how...
[00:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yet another stupid "Breaking News" - 06Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:29] <exec> 08└─I disagree that deaths shouldn't be put under breaking news. In fact, these deaths can have active developments, like this one: http://www.nydailynews.com [nydailynews.com]
[00:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score:2) 02Re:Yet another stupid "Breaking News" - 06Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:30] <exec> 08└─The proper meaning of "breaking news" is as dead as that of "literally".
[00:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03nethead [4970] (Score:2) 02Re:Something fishy? - 06Experimental Ebola Vaccine Shows 100% Protection - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:54] <exec> 08└─Maybe this implies, on top of everything else, that fast-tracking life saving medical research should be the norm rather than the exception? FIFY. We don't need to fast track yet another baldness cure.
[00:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Something fishy? - 06Experimental Ebola Vaccine Shows 100% Protection - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:56] <exec> 08└─I don't remember what happened with ZMapp, but remember when the original paper came out it was BS too. IIRC, unblinded technicians euthanized monkeys according to subjective and poorly described criteria. The primary outcome was survival of the monkeys! Then there is this study: They gave the subje...
[00:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Something fishy? - 06Experimental Ebola Vaccine Shows 100% Protection - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:58] <exec> 08└─No idea where 1.5 weeks came from, that should be 4 weeks.
[00:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:2) 02Re:Good guy, douche company? - 06Florida Man Holds Website Hostage - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:25:37] <exec> 08└─Parent -> Score: 29, woosh! And they that modded you, too.
[00:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:the new craze - 06New Phase of Water Discovered - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:26:25] <exec> 08└─I've been planning on using my sauna as a giant sous-vide cooker. The top shelf is pretty much at the right temperature (and I have a thermostatic control, so can tweak things if simple raising/lowering isn't enough. I like the twistedness of sharing a bath with my food! I did have a few sous-vide m...
[00:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Criminalize this device. - 06Police's Secret Cellphone-Surveillance Tool Can Also Block Calls by the Innocent - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:26:53] <exec> 08└─That would rather defeat the point, wouldn't it? If a police officer has a legitimate reason to operate the device, let them get a court order. Or risk prison, as they choose.
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[01:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Re:Ransomware - 06Bitcoin Enjoys End of Year Price Surge - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:25] <exec> 08└─It probably doesn't hurt the value of the remaining bitcoins either since LEO:s keep seizing wallets from drugdealers etc taking coins out of circulation, that is until such a time usually years later they sell them back on some auction.
[01:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Big Climate wins again ! ! ! - 06North Pole at Melting Point - 851 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:37] <exec> 08└─There are many different uses for climate data and related long term forecasting. This is the kind of function that makes sense for government to provide. I'd rather not be at the mercy of Google Weather(R) or Apple Weather(ugh)...then there is Exxon Weather, but you and I won't get to see that! Far...
[01:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:CPR is bad news - 06Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:19] <exec> 08└─Since 2004, the Federal Aviation Authority has required all US commercial airlines to carry AEDs on passenger flights that are large enough to have at least one flight attendant and to train cabin crew in their use.
[01:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score:2) 02Re:Listen, 2016 - 06Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:29] <exec> 08└─Same thought here. A BBC report [bbc.com] on the annual tallies of people they printed pre–prepared obits for shows: 2012 — 16 2013 — 24 2014 — 29 2015 — 32 2016 — 45 (they say 42, but that was a couple of weeks ago)
[01:23:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02Re:re Relevance - 06Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 - 3195 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:36] <exec> 08└─Rubin was a medium size player, Fischer was a top billing actress, so she's gonna win. Rubin pretty much is famous for two things. First is around the turn of the last century there is no ether confuses many people who aren't paying attention into thinking "we" have no net velocity, but she did a lo...
[01:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yet another stupid "Breaking News" - 06Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:46] <exec> 08└─The meaning of "breaking news" is literally dead? Like Carrie Fisher?
[01:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"Do not suffer a witch to live" - 06Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:49] <exec> 08└─She dissed Trump, now is dead Also, like every woman today: is a feminist. Thank's Putin. Don't know how he pulled it off but he does not suffer a bitch to live.
[01:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe [2583] (Score:2) 02Re:Something fishy? - 06Experimental Ebola Vaccine Shows 100% Protection - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:24:15] <exec> 08└─It is the norm (at least in the US) for disease with very low survival rates. It is hard to give a patient something that is worse than Ebola or stage 4 cancer, so many clinical trials start in patients with little hope of survival. Drug companies are sometimes hesitant to do this (or compassionate...
[01:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe [2583] (Score:2) 02Re:Something fishy? - 06Experimental Ebola Vaccine Shows 100% Protection - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:24:22] <exec> 08└─In the context of the paragraph, they excluded ebolavirus disease in their efficacy calculations that occurred up to 10 days after vaccination due to the lag time of immunity. In the context of the paper, the authors report ebolavirus disease "through the 84 days follow-up period and from the indefi...
[01:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Former Porn Sites are Hot properties - 06Florida Man Holds Website Hostage - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:25:41] <exec> 08└─Maybe your new hosting company made a page that links to your site, or maybe they took it upon themselves to submit your site to search engines.
[01:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:florida man strikes again - 06Florida Man Holds Website Hostage - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:26:06] <exec> 08└─♫ Florida-Man, Florida-Man, Does whatever a Florida can! ♪
[01:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:be SOCIAL don't be antiSOCIAL - 06Why Hire Engineers With Disabilities? They're Practised Problem Solvers - 1383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:26:23] <exec> 08└─bradley13 your strategies are almost exactly what I employ. I also take to heart the saying "some people talk about people, some about things, some about ideas." So here's something to consider. "How many girls are in her dojo?" is a great segue to sexism and challenges for women and for that genera...
[01:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Serious answer? It depends... - 06Why Hire Engineers With Disabilities? They're Practised Problem Solvers - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:26:27] <exec> 08└─He clearly meant completely blind, not legally blind. He's also 100% correct in that spatial data is almost impossible to represent nonvisually at a decent pace. Show me a for-the-blind plugin for Eagle and prove me wrong, but in my experience, one cannot do PCB layouts easily without some sight. He...
[01:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:Criminalize this device. - 06Police's Secret Cellphone-Surveillance Tool Can Also Block Calls by the Innocent - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:27:16] <exec> 08└─The point is these devices are blanket surveillance, not pinpoint. They get a warrant to use a stingray on some dude 1/4 mile away, it's also going to vacuum up my calls. Unless they also get a warrant against me that's against my 4th amendment rights. I realize the 4th doesn't mean shit nowdays, bu...
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[02:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score:2) 02Great right up to the last sentence - 06Geologists Publish New Details about Evolution of East African Rift Valley - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:25] <exec> 08└─I know quite a few geologists, and their work is absolutely reproducible. Like any science, some people practicing aren't doing the best work, but many are doing quality, robust studies. One assumes that if you decided to grab your own converted container ship and fund a repeat expedition, this woul...
[02:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:CPR is bad news - 06Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:26] <exec> 08└─CPR is almost never effective and yet we train people on it.
[02:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:CPR is bad news - 06Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:28] <exec> 08└─cost of installing and maintaining potential cost of lawsuit for not having one around. That's the way things work in the US. (but the next step then becomes is, how much would an insurance product be to insure your organization, site or business for said situation happening, especially in states wi...
[02:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:re Relevance - 06Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:47] <exec> 08└─While it is sad that Carrie Fisher has passed away and in no way demeaning her success [...] otherwise intelligent people care more about an actress than a scientist.
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[03:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ransomware - 06Bitcoin Enjoys End of Year Price Surge - 1020 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:44] <exec> 08└─What you are describing in macro econ terms is deflation. As bitcoin is inherently a deflationary monetary system the value of each bit coin will go up and up as more and more people horde it. That will work *only* as long as there is demand for the bit coin. If the value goes high enough eventually...
[03:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03nethead [4970] (Score:2) 02Lotta good.... - 06Bitcoin Enjoys End of Year Price Surge - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:46] <exec> 08└─NOW you tell me.
[03:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Big Climate wins again ! ! ! - 06North Pole at Melting Point - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:58] <exec> 08└─The thing is the climate is NOT cooling down. It is heating up overall, so the planet is retaining more of the energy it receives from the sun. That energy has to go somewhere, and if it goes into the atmosphere and the oceans that means that more and more extreme weather events can occur, which can...
[03:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Do not publish in Elsevier journals - 06Research Libraries Announce Boycott of Elsevier Journals Over Open Access - 1041 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:23:16] <exec> 08└─Better yet, if you're a scientist on the editorial board of a journal, lobby your editors and board members to turn it into open access. Several high profile "declarations of independence" have occurred over the years. [simmons.edu] In most cases, contractual issues will likely prevent simply moving...
[03:23:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02They all shot themselves in the foot. - 06Research Libraries Announce Boycott of Elsevier Journals Over Open Access - 369 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:17] <exec> 08└─I have zero sympathy for the big publishers at large but I don't hold much sympathy for the instutions either. Back in the late 90's and early 00's they all sold their formerly directly published inhouse journals to these big conglomerates in order to make them "internet ready" allowing these parasi...
[03:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02My mom has been joking about exactly that... - 06Google to Launch Two of its Own Android Wear 2.0 Smartwatches - 795 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:24:22] <exec> 08└─My sister got her a health app on her phone that tracks 'steps per day' based on cellphone movement. Only my mom doesn't carry her phone around most of the day so the numbers are always quite low. She was joking the other day that since she always places 'dead last' in her health group stats, that s...
[03:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score:2) 02Two step program. - 06AI to Replace Hedge Fund Managers - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:50] <exec> 08└─Nobody has commented that the first decision of the AI is likely to be terminating anyone that might object to the second decision. The second decision being the change in the programmers employment conditions: doubling of salary, 12 hour working week, 8 weeks annual leave, and a daily bonus just fo...
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[04:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02(*&)%%&^*$$ - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:25] <exec> 08└─(**%&*^(&)*)*%%$111(*^%&*%&$&&&!!1
[04:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:(*&)%%&^*$$ - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:27] <exec> 08└─You seem to be having connection problems. Maybe try again at a lower baud? :)
[04:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Wait a minute - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:29] <exec> 08└─Am i being tricked into a flame war about conflicting opinions again
[04:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Wait a minute - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:31] <exec> 08└─Yeah
[04:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Special snowflakes crying for thought police again - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:33] <exec> 08└─This also gives us the unbridled ability to say offensive things to wide, general audiences, often without consequences.
[04:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Special snowflakes crying for thought police ag - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:35] <exec> 08└─When I call out the special snowflakes, it's because I am a legend in my own mind.
[04:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Special snowflakes crying for thought police ag - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:38] <exec> 08└─Special snowflakes... as in SJW'ers?
[04:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Special snowflakes crying for thought police ag - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:40] <exec> 08└─I didn't think it was so much "disagreeing with their narrative"? Weren't many comments sections taken down due to trolling (and the reactions of the unwitting troll-ees), and also some small fraction of comments that were batshit crazy, off the tracks?
[04:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The Miss America scene in "Bananas" - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:42] <exec> 08└─Classic Woody Allen intellectual comedy. It's funny but it also cuts deep, and doesn't exempt liberals (or conservatives) from the implied criticism.
[04:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lotta good.... - 06Bitcoin Enjoys End of Year Price Surge - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:01] <exec> 08└─People have been telling us for years. We never seem to learn.
[04:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Do not publish in Elsevier journals - 06Research Libraries Announce Boycott of Elsevier Journals Over Open Access - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:31] <exec> 08└─Cry me a river. Go ahead and publish that kind of stuff with Elsevier. But don't complain if nobody cites because they don't have access
[04:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Do not publish in Elsevier journals - 06Research Libraries Announce Boycott of Elsevier Journals Over Open Access - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:32] <exec> 08└─don't complain if nobody cites because they don't have access
[04:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Carrie had range - 06Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:29] <exec> 08└─Although I think this role, filmed shortly after the first Star Wars, was probably ripped off from a Looney Tunes cartoon: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[04:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I used to work with a blind guy - 06Why Hire Engineers With Disabilities? They're Practised Problem Solvers - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:27:16] <exec> 08└─Leonard Euler, arguably one of the top four mathematicians who ever lived (you can guess who the other three are), was completely blind in one eye for most of his adult life, and blind in both eyes for the last two decades. It didn't seem to slow him down at all. The man was a machine at churning ou...
[04:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Homeopathy - 06New Phase of Water Discovered - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:36] <exec> 08└─Deniers feel stupid?
[04:28:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's "separate from"... - 06Sunlight Offers Surprise Benefit: It Energizes Infection Fighting T Cells - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:28:17] <exec> 08└─It's an outdated (and in modern contexts, stupid) rule from when printing was literally done with lead type. A period on the end after the quotes created a weak point and was likely to break off or get bent to the point it wouldn't print.
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[05:22:33] <exec> 08└─If people feel that they are being deliberately hushed, then their views will become ever more radical.
[05:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ignore all publisher demands - 06Research Libraries Announce Boycott of Elsevier Journals Over Open Access - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:23:28] <exec> 08└─And why do you, AC, get to make the rules? What if I (another AC) say that, while I have nothing to do with the Heart Surgury Journal, it doesn't look like a bad deal if you are interested in the papers. Why not fund the activities of the professional society (rent, IT, office help, etc) on publicat...
[05:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Hopefully the US Ivy League - 06Research Libraries Announce Boycott of Elsevier Journals Over Open Access - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:30] <exec> 08└─Including MIT (which is virtually part of the Ivy League except for sports) and their west coast counterparts (Stanford, UCal, etc) are discussing this boycott and seriously considering whether to join it. Remember, money talks.
[05:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Something fishy? - 06Experimental Ebola Vaccine Shows 100% Protection - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:24:55] <exec> 08└─Thanks, are you sure that does not refer to some subgroup? I am not willing to put the effort towards parsing phrases like this right now: Moreover, when comparing all contacts and contacts of contacts in clusters immediately vaccinated versus all contacts and contacts of contacts in delayed cluster...
[05:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 0250 C = 122 F - 06New Phase of Water Discovered - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:27] <exec> 08└─So if this is discovery is 1) confirmed and 2) is biologically interesting, there might not be too many applications within H. Sapiens for that particular one. However, the implication made by the authors is that there may be other temperature-dependent phases that haven't been discovered.
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[06:22:16] <exec> 08└─[How Much] Should We Bioengineer Animals to Live in Our Damaged World?
[06:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How much? - 06OBQ: [How Much] Should We Bioengineer Animals to Live in Our Damaged World? - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:17] <exec> 08└─Have you stopped beating your wife? [fallacyfiles.org]
[06:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:How much? - 06OBQ: [How Much] Should We Bioengineer Animals to Live in Our Damaged World? - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:19] <exec> 08└─Yes, because lithium mining is great for the environment.
[06:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:How much? - 06OBQ: [How Much] Should We Bioengineer Animals to Live in Our Damaged World? - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:22] <exec> 08└─It's just too bad that we will never invent a battery better than Lithium ion. [/s] Note that I'm not claiming abundance of EVs today - I know that today's EVs are a joke; they work best only as single-purpose vehicles. Give them 10-20 years, perhaps some graphene ultracapacitors will become availab...
[06:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02booooo - 06OBQ: [How Much] Should We Bioengineer Animals to Live in Our Damaged World? - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:24] <exec> 08└─That sort of relates to the whole de-extinction debate, and again, I would pay money to see a woolly mammoth. But I do take the point that the world of the woolly mammoth is gone, whether we like it or not, same with the moa – I mean this comes up a lot in criticisms of the bring back the moa proj...
[06:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Too late. - 06OBQ: [How Much] Should We Bioengineer Animals to Live in Our Damaged World? - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:27] <exec> 08└─Pure and simple. The dinosaurs needed an asteroid to wipe them out. We only need ourselves. Go ahead and tell me who is smarter. But I bought a new sailboat to get me to my island. Ostriches at least know when to bury their heads in the sand. RIP the great apes by 2100. Or well, who will know that t...
[06:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Special snowflakes crying for thought police ag - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:39] <exec> 08└─That is unfortunate for you, and I hope for successful therapy resulting in your speedy recovery. Fortunately most people can use "special snowflakes" and many other terms without implying that they suffer from a mental illness.
[06:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Special snowflakes crying for thought police ag - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:42] <exec> 08└─The snowflakes are the ones who go on and on and on the most about "PC" ruining everything. Tell it like it is and call them out on being the delusional bigots they are instead of the PC-approved terms they demand to be called by and watch them flip the fuck out. Its hilarious how the ones who denig...
[06:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Special snowflakes crying for thought police ag - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:44] <exec> 08└─Snowflakes seem to congregate in jmorris's rectum, since his shit is as cold as ice. It causes him no end of pain, what with the sharp pointy ends and whatnot.
[06:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Special snowflakes crying for thought police ag - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:47] <exec> 08└─That depends on what you mean by "trolling." In most cases I've seen personally, a lot of the time forceful disagreement or outright disagreement was classified as trolling.
[06:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score:2) 02Good - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:51] <exec> 08└─That's helped blow the lid off society's pressure cooker of political correctness.
[06:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:re Funding - 06Research Libraries Announce Boycott of Elsevier Journals Over Open Access - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:23:36] <exec> 08└─I believe you already hit the nail on the head square on, Takyon: Or better yet, invalidate copyright on scientific knowledge.
[06:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:2) 02Re:Do not publish in Elsevier journals - 06Research Libraries Announce Boycott of Elsevier Journals Over Open Access - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:23:43] <exec> 08└─You vastly overestimate the power that an editorial board has. In practice the people running the journal (for money) call the shots. About the only power an editorial board has outside of choosing which articles to accept and in what form is to resign en masse. I'm on the editorial board for a jour...
[06:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:2) 02Re:Ignore all publisher demands - 06Research Libraries Announce Boycott of Elsevier Journals Over Open Access - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:23:51] <exec> 08└─Do you negotiate with a parasite ?
[06:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03novak [4683] (Score:2) 02Well of course they are being automated - 06AI to Replace Hedge Fund Managers - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:22] <exec> 08└─Hedge fund manager was never supposed to be anything besides temporary work for kids. Fortunately, these managers now have a chance to go and get retrained to do work that is actually valuable to society. Bastards probably deserve it for trying to get $15 an hour for their half-hearted attempt at "w...
[06:26:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:their own fault - 06Florida Man Holds Website Hostage - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:26:34] <exec> 08└─How would you feel if somebody said, "it's your fault your limbs fell off, you used Cetrateracylicdione for your liver problem" despite the fact that your doctor recommended it?
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[07:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02^^^ Here here! - 06OBQ: [How Much] Should We Bioengineer Animals to Live in Our Damaged World? - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:22:29] <exec> 08└─If we can get WW3 going this year, we can see a comeback of many of those species by 2020 as infrastructure collapse leads to subsistence rather than trophy hunting, and industrialized mining and agriculture collapse as the materials necessary to maintain their current levels of expansion become una...
[07:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Big Climate wins again ! ! ! - 06North Pole at Melting Point - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:23:23] <exec> 08└─My take is that a few of us are aware of the thermodynamics concerning the enthalpy of fusion of water, and are quite concerned - knowing how this works - how this should play out if the math we know so far is a predictor of what to expect. Like an ice cold beverage - as long as there is ice in it,...
[07:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score:2) 02Re:re Funding - 06Research Libraries Announce Boycott of Elsevier Journals Over Open Access - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:23:38] <exec> 08└─Decisive action needs to be taken. They own the copyright on lots of articles, they make billions in revenue with a large profit margin, and the papers are still not open access. Post your solution to the problem.
[07:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What Carrie Fisher and George Michael taught me - 06Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:47] <exec> 08└─http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/27/opinions/what-carrie-fisher-george-michael-taught-me-about-sexuality-kohn/index.html [cnn.com]
[07:28:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Criminalize this device. - 06Police's Secret Cellphone-Surveillance Tool Can Also Block Calls by the Innocent - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:28:26] <exec> 08└─Indeed, and one would hope that a warrant would, at the least, be correspondingly more difficult to get. But even if not, it would still be miles ahead of the current "we felt like it" level of authorization needed by he police to operate one.
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[08:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score:2) 02you don't lack space THAT much - 06World's First Solar Panel Road Opens in Normandy Village - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:16] <exec> 08└─This doesn't sound like a cost-effective idea to me. A road receives a lot of wear and needs to be repaired/replaced often. Thus, the cost of hardened solar panels will come up again and again. Putting ordinary, more effective solar panels somewhere else would avoid this problem entirely. A road doe...
[08:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:you don't lack space THAT much - 06World's First Solar Panel Road Opens in Normandy Village - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:22:17] <exec> 08└─Not to mention the solar panels can't generate electricity in the moments that cars are on top of it. Solar panels 20 ft away to the side of the road don't have that problem.
[08:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:you don't lack space THAT much - 06World's First Solar Panel Road Opens in Normandy Village - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:22:19] <exec> 08└─Stop being sensible! This is a win for green ecoterrorists! A win!
[08:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score:2) 02Re:Wait a minute - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:22:44] <exec> 08└─Nope.
[08:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score:2) 02Re:Special snowflakes crying for thought police ag - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 849 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:22:53] <exec> 08└─You seriously do not understand the situation. Shut up, please, as anyone with half a brain and half an education doesn't buy it. Or maybe you do understand the situation, and are simply malicious - out to offend on purpose. In which case, right back at ya, moron. It's not dissent per se that's offe...
[08:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:22:58] <exec> 08└─Cuban, Cuban, do we need say more than, Cuban? Will of the people, for a revolution to kick the bautistas the hell off our island, if not off the planet. Yee-haaa! Cuba Libre!
[08:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:Ransomware - 06Bitcoin Enjoys End of Year Price Surge - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:23:16] <exec> 08└─That argument doesn't work as well since Bitcoin is (kind of) infinitely divisible. If normal people can afford to trade 1 BTC worth 1 USD now (for example purposes, I know it's worth a lot more), normal people can continue to afford to trade 0.0001 BTC worth 1 USD + inflation a dozen or so years fr...
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[09:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:you don't lack space THAT much - 06World's First Solar Panel Road Opens in Normandy Village - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:22:19] <exec> 08└─Incredible observations. Nobody thought of that. Have you considered donating 2 minutes of brain power to any other problems? We sure need you.
[09:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:you don't lack space THAT much - 06World's First Solar Panel Road Opens in Normandy Village - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:22:21] <exec> 08└─TBH, this kind of thing makes far more sense for the drivable portions of parking lots or roads in the middle of nowhere than it does to any of the places they've tried to use it. And even there, it would make more sense to have more conventional solar arrays as that way you could cover the entire p...
[09:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:(*&)%%&^*$$ - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:22:44] <exec> 08└─I'm glad you've committed to improving your posting quality. This is much better than your usual comments.
[09:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Special snowflakes crying for thought police ag - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 978 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:22:56] <exec> 08└─I see articles that are likely to result in incorrect views to have the comment section disabled proactively. After all, we can't possibly talk about how the various candidates aren't qualified to be President, that would be sexist. It leads to a situation where nobody is able to attach things to ar...
[09:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Special snowflakes crying for thought police ag - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:22:58] <exec> 08└─No, that was the justification. The genuinely bad comments are easy to moderate because there aren't that many edgelords on the Internet compared to normies. Problem is that the "hateful comments" that the media wants to restrict are statements like "unrestricted immigration is bad" or "Brexit will...
[09:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score:2) 02Re:Good - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:23:05] <exec> 08└─Duuuude... Its - Cuban - Cigar - btw, one the finest cigars that were banned until very recently. It didn't help Obama, btw.
[09:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:CPR is bad news - 06Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 - 1095 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:29] <exec> 08└─It's 70% if it's applied within minutes, by professionals at a hospital. It's more or less zero if you're in the backcountry. Other situations are somewhere between, but CPR alone works 14% of the time, but even then, it's highly dependent upon having the care to back it up promptly. Usually, a cras...
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[09:24:32] <exec> 08└─Interesting, I took a look for that information, but the search didn't really find anything specific to the case. I found a few allegations of flight attendants refusing to use the AED onboard, but they weren't from a reputable source, so I ignored them. How does that apply to international flights...
[09:24:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02Re:re Relevance - 06Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 - 1274 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:45] <exec> 08└─Annnnnnnnnnnndddddddddd? Did somebody submit the stories there, or did they have paid staff that does it all? The way it works around here is that users submit stories, and it's not just staff. They're around for other things, and we have editors to help with what you submit. So now we have two peop...
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[10:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02So much fail - 06World's First Solar Panel Road Opens in Normandy Village - 1315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:29] <exec> 08└─Anyone in France, and able to follow the money? Someone is making a profit, there is pork in play, surely there is no other explanation. The article carefully avoids giving any useful cost/benefit data, for obvious reasons. We know that the road cost EUR 5 million to build, but we have little idea h...
[10:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:^^^ Here here! - 06OBQ: [How Much] Should We Bioengineer Animals to Live in Our Damaged World? - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:22:44] <exec> 08└─If we can get WW3 going this year, we can see a comeback of many of those species by 2020 as infrastructure collapse leads to subsistence rather than trophy hunting
[10:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Sounds like hair of the dog - 06OBQ: [How Much] Should We Bioengineer Animals to Live in Our Damaged World? - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:45] <exec> 08└─So the world is off balance and you suggest we push it even further by monkeying with genes? Also, our current level of knowledge in the field amounts to blind guesswork and haphazard stabs in the dark. Not exactly a controlled process towards a known result. Human survival is very much dependent on...
[10:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02doesn't fix the problems - 06OBQ: [How Much] Should We Bioengineer Animals to Live in Our Damaged World? - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:47] <exec> 08└─From the WWF's own lips: The report states that, overall, the Global LPI shows a "persistent downward trend." Populations are most threatened by habitat loss and degradation, with other threats including the over-exploitation of certain species, pollution, invasive species, disease and climate chang...
[10:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Wrong question? - 06OBQ: [How Much] Should We Bioengineer Animals to Live in Our Damaged World? - 1218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:49] <exec> 08└─There's really no environmental problem killing the animals. Bio-engineering isn't the answer, because that's not really the question. The fundamental problem affecting wildlife is much simpler: There are too many people. If we want to ensure the survival of wildlife, we would designate large areas...
[10:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Special snowflakes crying for thought police ag - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:23:14] <exec> 08└─It's not dissent per se that's offensive.
[10:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Special snowflakes crying for thought police ag - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:23:15] <exec> 08└─Shut up, please, as anyone with half a brain and half an education doesn't buy it.
[10:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You suppress thought at your own peril - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:23:20] <exec> 08└─I used to delve into the BBC comment section but it is so so terrible. Nothing of use there at all, it's better to remove it. Someone who wants to spew vomit should not be given a piggy-back on a highly visited site like BBC. They should have to earn their clicks by getting alt.hate.24-7 into the to...
[10:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Banned from the Guardian - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:25] <exec> 08└─I got myself banned from posting comments on the Guardian's web site, ostensibly for derailing a religious discussion. Giles Fraser wrote yet another team of hogwash and I felt like taking the Mickey. I never used to engage in discussions on general news sites, but the run up to Brexit with the glut...
[10:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Quantity negates quality - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:27] <exec> 08└─While low quantity comments are usually an indication of a vanity blog [xkcd.com], a lot of news stories end up with the opposite problem. What sort of conversation or even rudimentary communication can you have with an unthreaded discussion with 4,000 comments in it? It's fire and forget with your...
[10:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:Big Climate wins again ! ! ! - 06North Pole at Melting Point - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:24:01] <exec> 08└─Like an ice cold beverage - as long as there is ice in it, the ice will melt/form to regulate the temperature of the mix.
[10:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:Big Climate wins again ! ! ! - 06North Pole at Melting Point - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:24:02] <exec> 08└─So does Venus.
[10:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Big Climate wins again ! ! ! - 06North Pole at Melting Point - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:24:04] <exec> 08└─So does Venus.
[10:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Big Climate wins again ! ! ! - 06North Pole at Melting Point - 2099 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:24:06] <exec> 08└─True. I do not expect runaway heating, as no net thermal energy has ever been produced or absorbed by the polar ice. It has acted as a stabilizer. I do expect an increase in thermal energy on Earth due to the albedo effects of white reflective ice versus deep blue sea in the polar area - as once sun...
[10:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Big Climate wins again ! ! ! - 06North Pole at Melting Point - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:24:09] <exec> 08└─why am i imagining it is on the order of hundreds and thousands times more spent on Big Energy's agenda
[10:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:re Funding - 06Research Libraries Announce Boycott of Elsevier Journals Over Open Access - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:24:23] <exec> 08└─Mere facts have never been copyrightable anyway. Tongue in cheek solution - anyone wishing to assert copyright on a paper must have a large banner saying "these are not facts" on every page!
[10:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Do not publish in Elsevier journals - 06Research Libraries Announce Boycott of Elsevier Journals Over Open Access - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:24:32] <exec> 08└─The editorial boards (not the scientific reviewers) tend to be outsourced to India to maximize publisher profits nowadays. This is how, among others, typos in article titles survive into publication.
[10:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Down time - 06Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:11] <exec> 08└─Start with this one: https://www.youtube.com
[10:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Bucket list - 06Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:37] <exec> 08└─Darn it, now I'll have to cross banging Princess Leia off my bucket list.
[10:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Something fishy? - 06Experimental Ebola Vaccine Shows 100% Protection - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:26:05] <exec> 08└─"Do no harm" is an easy standard to meet when the patient is dying.
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[11:22:41] <exec> 08└─I do not believe this effort was meant to be terribly efficient or cost-effective. I do believe this effort is meant to gain insight/edification. Do not all of us do things occasionally just because we want to tinker and gain experience - even if its not the best way to do it? 1KM is not a lot of ro...
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[11:23:12] <exec> 08└─That about sums it up, right enough. 2016: the year that Alt-Stupid won.
[11:23:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Special snowflakes crying for thought police again - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 120 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:16] <exec> 08└─This also gives us the unbridled ability to say offensive things to wide, general audiences, often without consequences.
[11:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Special snowflakes crying for thought police ag - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:23:26] <exec> 08└─Ahh, I see you have been modded 'flamebait' for 'fueling hatred' because you wrote something that some individuals are still in denial about: As a result, the Clinton's get an advantageous article up and nobody can dissent. Had those posts been allowed, people might have realized what a shitty candi...
[11:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Special snowflakes crying for thought police ag - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:23:28] <exec> 08└─True but around here he's half likely to end up scored 5 Flamebait.
[11:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Good - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:23:39] <exec> 08└─You're missing the key element here. The same people who freed up trade of your namesakes are the ones who want to ban tobacco products entirely.
[11:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Quantity negates quality - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:23:42] <exec> 08└─We don't all want to be put in charge. We don't all want to take credit for wonderful ideas and insight. We do want our fellow human beings to think hard before they vote, though, or influence the policies of political parties.
[11:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Quantity negates quality - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:23:45] <exec> 08└─Yup. For proper discussions, we're about as heavily posted as I can see us reasonably being on contentious matters. We could handle at most a 2x regular poster increase before most comments essentially became write-only like they are at the really large discussion sites.
[11:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Big Climate wins again ! ! ! - 06North Pole at Melting Point - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:24:24] <exec> 08└─Its one thing to lose one's life savings at Vegas gambling on outcomes one does not know. But another to gamble away our home planet.
[11:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Big Climate wins again ! ! ! - 06North Pole at Melting Point - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:24:25] <exec> 08└─>to gamble away our home planet. The home planet saw a number of much warmer periods before, and will see yet more of them even if we, the humans, go and extinct ourselves this very day. Read up on geologic history, it helps filtering out crazy alarmism. And BTW, arctic ice cap is a much more recent...
[11:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:CPR is bad news - 06Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:15] <exec> 08└─That is why they really need to have some pure oxygen on hand in places where you can be away from serious medical care for an extended period of time like planes and boats, because its lack of oxygen that kills you.
[11:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bucket list - 06Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:00] <exec> 08└─Unless you're reeeeeally kinky.
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[12:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02SoylentNews is old people - 06Starfish Larvae Create Complex Water Whorls to Eat and Run - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:21] <exec> 08└─Yeah sure it's amazing and all, how starfish larvae can make tools out of water. But the real issue here is, who the hell uses screensavers anymore?? Go back to 1999, grandpa. The future isn't like the Matrix, and you can't hack your way to world domination. You still need MONEY. Zuck beat your old...
[12:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Special snowflakes crying for thought police ag - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 1997 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:23:28] <exec> 08└─The continual cry of the stereotypical SJW - "get educated!," in particularly lengthy form, second only to "check your privilege!" and “kill yourself!” Well, you may be disappointed I’m not going to kill myself, even though you refrained from using that particular piece of canned insult, but i...
[12:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Intolerance from the Alt-Left - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:40] <exec> 08└─"There’s never been anybody I hated as much as Trump." [bostonherald.com] From the first article: His daily information intake comes from Facebook, Fox News and The Drudge Report, and he’s convinced of “liberal media bias,” especially from newspapers with left-leaning editorial boards.
[12:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Intolerance from the Alt-Left - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:23:42] <exec> 08└─Sorry, neither my left nor my right Alt key shows any sign of what people frequently assign to them.
[12:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Do not publish in Elsevier journals - 06Research Libraries Announce Boycott of Elsevier Journals Over Open Access - 812 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:24:48] <exec> 08└─Ahem, the Editorial Board is not the typesetters but the group of (usually) reputable scientists who pick appropriate reviewers for the individual submissions and who have the final say when some of the reviewers want to turn down a manuscript or request major changes before publication. Still even...
[12:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Half the country worked for Brawndo - 06AI to Replace Hedge Fund Managers - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:27:17] <exec> 08└─Electrolytes? Isn't that the stuff that's in batteries? But wait … it's unhealthy to consume a battery! Thus electrolytes are bad for your health! ;-)
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[13:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02Re:SoylentNews is old people - 06Starfish Larvae Create Complex Water Whorls to Eat and Run - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:22:26] <exec> 08└─LOL! I'm glad to see the results of my urinating in your Cheerios. Dr. Langsford now owes me $5 on our little wager! *goes back to watching the pretty swirls on my screensaver*
[13:22:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03anubi [2828] 02Re:you don't lack space THAT much - 06World's First Solar Panel Road Opens in Normandy Village - 415 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:22:44] <exec> 08└─I do not believe this effort was meant to be terribly efficient or cost-effective. I do believe this effort is meant to gain insight/edification. Do not all of us do things occasionally just because we want to tinker and gain experience - even if its not the best way to do it? 1KM is not a lot of ro...
[13:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:you don't lack space THAT much - 06World's First Solar Panel Road Opens in Normandy Village - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:22:46] <exec> 08└─Probably makes sense only as a real-world testbed that gets accelerated wear compared to a parking lot or cycle lane so that they can make an educated guess if it would work 20-30 years (which I'm told is the average service life of streetlamps) there. Also the solar cells are probably just a small...
[13:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:you don't lack space THAT much - 06World's First Solar Panel Road Opens in Normandy Village - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:22:48] <exec> 08└─What I'd like to see is someone setup a camera along a portion and take still shots every time a car passes by. Then along with that, setup a data logger on the output and record the output of the array. Then we stitch the stills into a time-lapse video along with the power output plot and time stam...
[13:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:So much fail - 06World's First Solar Panel Road Opens in Normandy Village - 1295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:22:51] <exec> 08└─So lets do a little math. 2800m2 of panels. Assuming ideal conditions all around such as 100% PV coverage of all 2800m2, direct sun light, and no physical wear from vehicles. Given the average of 1kW·m2 we can say the system receives 2.8MW of solar energy. Though, panels are 15-20% efficient at bes...
[13:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So much fail - 06World's First Solar Panel Road Opens in Normandy Village - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:22:54] <exec> 08└─and cuz (c) greens are hitler and (d) you are jesus... If only you had left your crazy end riff out your comment would have been pretty decent.
[13:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So much fail - 06World's First Solar Panel Road Opens in Normandy Village - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:22:56] <exec> 08└─Anyone in France, and able to follow the money?
[13:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:^^^ Here here! - 06OBQ: [How Much] Should We Bioengineer Animals to Live in Our Damaged World? - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:23:11] <exec> 08└─Subsistence hunting is far worse than trophy hunting because it won't stop just because a species is in danger of going extinct, but instead move on to the next available source of protein once a food-viable species goes extinct.
[13:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:(*&)%%&^*$$ - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:23:28] <exec> 08└─Yeah yeah, I know I need to get going on learning Perl 6.
[13:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Banned from the Guardian - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:23:56] <exec> 08└─You can't call foisting a link to disqus or fakebook a comment section. So in that light nearly all sites disallow comments these days. Back when they did allow them, a sure way to get banned was to provide polite, factual posts that were in any way negative about Bill Gates or Microsoft. Since if y...
[13:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Easy to Understand - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:03] <exec> 08└─To suss the mindset behind the "hate speech" and "fake news" debate, one need only examine how the words of Mark Twain, Will Rogers, Ambrose Bierce, and H.L. Mencken are treated in modern academic circles. Non-PC dissent is not to be tolerated, no matter how valid or finely crafted.
[13:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Easy to Understand - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:05] <exec> 08└─Non-PC dissent is not to be tolerated, no matter how valid or finely crafted.
[13:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02propaganda coup - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:07] <exec> 08└─the true propaganda coup is the doublespeak of referring to DNC controlled propaganda sites as news sites. They're not news, they're just Democratic party propaganda organs. Likewise "anger, condescension, misogyny, xenophobia, racism and nativism" is just dog whistle for lefties meaning "not anti-w...
[13:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:propaganda coup - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:09] <exec> 08└─Woof! Woof! Grrrr....
[13:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score:2) 02Re:Big Climate wins again ! ! ! - 06North Pole at Melting Point - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:50] <exec> 08└─The home planet saw a number of much warmer periods before, and will see yet more of them even if we, the humans, go and extinct ourselves this very day. Read up on geologic history, it helps filtering out crazy alarmism.
[13:24:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Big Climate wins again ! ! ! - 06North Pole at Melting Point - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:51] <exec> 08└─But does anyone know anyone who's inundated? So what proportion of the world is really inundated? I'm not asking for the number who are *scared* of being inundated, but the number who are *actually, tangeably* inundated. And I think we should exclude those who built their house at an elevation of <0...
[13:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score:2) 02Re:Big Climate wins again ! ! ! - 06North Pole at Melting Point - 868 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:54] <exec> 08└─Strong statements require strong evidence. Let's start with your first para: How much government funding has been gone into renewables over (a) the last year, (b) the last 5 year period, (c) the last 10 year period, (d) the last 25 year period?How much government funding has been gone towards the oi...
[13:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:CPR is bad news - 06Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 - 922 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:52] <exec> 08└─It depends a lot on how cardiac arrest started. If it's a due to a clogged artery, then it doesn't help much because the heart can't restart, so the chest compressions are the only thing moving blood around. If, on the other hand, it's that the electrical signals stopped because of a lightning strik...
[13:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Yet another stupid "Breaking News" - 06Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:20] <exec> 08└─I and people I know use the term "breaking news" to mean news that has just been released, revealed, or discovered.
[13:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Something fishy? - 06Experimental Ebola Vaccine Shows 100% Protection - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:27:04] <exec> 08└─Yes. As for the quote: The ring strategy used contact tracing from an index case, so anyone who had direct contact with someone with Ebola (contacts) or indirect contact through another person (contacts of contacts). Patients were randomly assigned to the immediate or delayed vaccination group prior...
[13:29:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:truly an ingenious Design - 06New Phase of Water Discovered - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:29:31] <exec> 08└─because why would a creator need a penis?
[13:29:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:the new craze - 06New Phase of Water Discovered - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:29:36] <exec> 08└─Sous Quantum?
[13:29:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:protein effects. - 06New Phase of Water Discovered - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:29:42] <exec> 08└─in aqueous solutions and in particular with protein denaturation.
[13:29:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:50 C = 122 F - 06New Phase of Water Discovered - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:29:47] <exec> 08└─50 C = 122 F
[13:30:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Criminalize this device. - 06Police's Secret Cellphone-Surveillance Tool Can Also Block Calls by the Innocent - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:30:10] <exec> 08└─I think a stinkray device would definitely be noticed by your children. ;-)
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[14:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Should be able to do better - 06Reindeer Collision Avoidance App - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:26] <exec> 08└─For example, vehicles could emit high frequency sounds that only deer can hear. A more localized approach would be putting high-frequency transmitters along stretches of roads prone to deer accidents, that are triggered by wireless signals sent from a half mile away when vehicle motion is detected.
[14:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Should be able to do better - 06Reindeer Collision Avoidance App - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:22:28] <exec> 08└─For example, vehicles could emit high frequency sounds that only deer can hear.
[14:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02When they have passed the warning place - 06Reindeer Collision Avoidance App - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:30] <exec> 08└─"When they have passed the warning place, then they can get back to the normal speed again."
[14:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:When they have passed the warning place - 06Reindeer Collision Avoidance App - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:22:32] <exec> 08└─Spikes on the front for a fresh kill, robotic lifting mechanism to flip the deer over the top and into the back. (grin)
[14:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What the hell is a whorl? - 06Starfish Larvae Create Complex Water Whorls to Eat and Run - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:42] <exec> 08└─Nuf said.
[14:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What the hell is a whorl? - 06Starfish Larvae Create Complex Water Whorls to Eat and Run - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:22:44] <exec> 08└─A whorl is a type of spiral or circular pattern.
[14:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What the hell is a whorl? - 06Starfish Larvae Create Complex Water Whorls to Eat and Run - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:22:46] <exec> 08└─A whorl is like a whirl when you had enough booze to still be able to slur your phrases but not enough to pronounce them only as vomit. (jus' don't whorl t'much... hics... around when under this co...condition, 't'only makes the ma'er wurs, mkay?) Merry xmas and a happy NYE
[14:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:you don't lack space THAT much - 06World's First Solar Panel Road Opens in Normandy Village - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:04] <exec> 08└─Even bad ideas deserve a chance! Participation medals for all!
[14:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sounds like hair of the dog - 06OBQ: [How Much] Should We Bioengineer Animals to Live in Our Damaged World? - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:28] <exec> 08└─I'd say even probably.
[14:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:doesn't fix the problems - 06OBQ: [How Much] Should We Bioengineer Animals to Live in Our Damaged World? - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:31] <exec> 08└─So how do you engineer species for habitat loss (which is first place on that list for a reason) or being over-exploited?
[14:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bootsy [3440] (Score:2) 02Re:Wrong question? - 06OBQ: [How Much] Should We Bioengineer Animals to Live in Our Damaged World? - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:34] <exec> 08└─The only proven way to limit the birth rate is to increase female literacy. We need to educate the world's young girls so they don't put up with being brood mares and only have children if they want them and can afford them. When the UN looked into this it was the only link they could find between l...
[14:24:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03http [1920] 02Re:Special snowflakes crying for thought police ag - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 849 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:03] <exec> 08└─You seriously do not understand the situation. Shut up, please, as anyone with half a brain and half an education doesn't buy it. Or maybe you do understand the situation, and are simply malicious - out to offend on purpose. In which case, right back at ya, moron. It's not dissent per se that's offe...
[14:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Special snowflakes crying for thought police ag - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:07] <exec> 08└─I look forward to the retort, should there be one, since it will likely boil down to more attempts to call me names in a desperate attempt to drown out the disagreement.
[14:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Banned from the Guardian - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:18] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9 [wikipedia.org]
[14:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Banned from the Guardian - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:19] <exec> 08└─So you decided to give SN the benefits of your insights and wide experience. Lucky, lucky us.
[14:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Banned from the Guardian - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:21] <exec> 08└─Funny thing is, I got banned despite being a lefty Liberal fascist Islington elite limp-wristed bleeding heart traitor quisling. That was my point.
[14:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Explanation of terms - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:29] <exec> 08└─"Alt-right" = Fascist "Left", "Leftist", "Alt-left", etc = everyone who isn't a fascist
[14:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Explanation of terms - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:31] <exec> 08└─"Alt-right" = Fascist "Left", "Leftist", "Alt-left", etc = everyone who isn't a fascist
[14:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Easy to Understand - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:35] <exec> 08└─"In other words, it's bullying and hate speech" "Waaah! Mom! I'm offended! Waaaah! I'm triggered!" quoth the snowflake.
[14:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Easy to Understand - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:37] <exec> 08└─"Snowflake," like, "SJW," is a pejorative term, devoid of value, and disqualifies the poster from further participation in the discussion.
[14:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Wierd Plots - 06North Pole at Melting Point - 1117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:25:11] <exec> 08└─Was in open water of varying temperature, now frozen in a block of ice. Notice the blue line begins at zero C and slowly trends down. It'll melt out eventually and then start reporting liquid water temps. I don't have a link but you can see it in graphs of bouys on Lake Michigan which occasionally f...
[14:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Big Climate wins again ! ! ! - 06North Pole at Melting Point - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:25:24] <exec> 08└─Have we really become *that* dumber than our naked ancestors, to now fear the very climate in which they thrived?
[14:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Big Climate wins again ! ! ! - 06North Pole at Melting Point - 1059 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:25:25] <exec> 08└─The only minor fine tuning I'd apply is there already seem to be weird limits to weather phenomena such that we never see 600 MPH tornadoes or 300 MPH hurricanes ... ever. In that way to dissipate the energy I suspect we'll see the same plain vanilla stuff we're always saw just more often and slight...
[14:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Big Climate wins again ! ! ! - 06North Pole at Melting Point - 1344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:25:30] <exec> 08└─One problem is most of those figures will be fake or bent and I'm not sure anyone could create unbiased figures. Famously WRT money "given" to energy producers by .gov, when you research it, its stuff like the IRS depreciation curve for a drill bit is faster than for a laser printer so by allowing e...
[14:26:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:CPR is bad news - 06Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 - 3070 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:33] <exec> 08└─There seems to be this underlying assumption in the two sided argument that she died because of a cardiac rhythm problem almost certainly caused by not hooking her up to the AED when it was discovered. Meanwhile the opfor is pointing out that an AED is utterly useless does nothing at all if a large...
[14:26:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:CPR is bad news - 06Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:35] <exec> 08└─Do note that the heart massage part of CPR is to provide pumping action when the heart itself is not working, while a defibrillator is meant to stop an irregularity in the electrical signals in the heart (fibrillation) that prevents the coordinated contraction necessary for good pumping. The two cas...
[14:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Listen, 2016 - 06Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:46] <exec> 08└─Interesting trend. I was wondering if the seemingly increased rate of famous deaths was due to observational bias on my side or if there was an actual underlying reason for it. Two ideas come to mind so far: - the baby boomers "boom" is starting to show also in death numbers - mass media+American ex...
[14:28:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Half the country worked for Brawndo - 06AI to Replace Hedge Fund Managers - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:28:27] <exec> 08└─But... its got electrolytes!
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[15:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Should be able to do better - 06Reindeer Collision Avoidance App - 1907 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:33] <exec> 08└─I live in deer country so this is a topic where I live. Everyone knows the marketing people have intensely pushed the meme of ultrasound scaring away deer, and I think most people know that meme, unfortunately no one has told the deer nor has anyone told ma nature because deer can't hear ultrasound...
[15:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Should be able to do better - 06Reindeer Collision Avoidance App - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:34] <exec> 08└─Even if reindeer could hear such frequencies, what makes you they'd associate it with anything bad before one comes through your windshield?
[15:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02UI - 06Reindeer Collision Avoidance App - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:38] <exec> 08└─A simple, one-button interface
[15:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:UI - 06Reindeer Collision Avoidance App - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:40] <exec> 08└─Now what would be useful and maybe even possible is the aircraft carrier concept of every car has a drone hanger full of rechargeable drones and you got three drones in the air providing close air support for your car at all times. I suspect a drone could physically scare the hell out of a deer if t...
[15:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:UI - 06Reindeer Collision Avoidance App - 1365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:43] <exec> 08└─It is surprising video drone downlinks aren't being merged into self driving cars. It should be trivial for a self driving car to parallelize its video inputs to get far better situational awareness than a human driven car could ever have, and the car is essentially an infinite source of recharging...
[15:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrchew1982 [3565] (Score:2) 02Can we skip the partisan bullshit? - 06Rosetta Spacecraft's Orbital Journey - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:00] <exec> 08└─"It's a fun, non-controversial view in this rather partisan time, unless I suppose, you're a flat-earther (in which case, you brought it on yourself)" Even if it is tongue-in-cheek the partisan-baiting getting old. Remember Poe's Law.
[15:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:you don't lack space THAT much - 06World's First Solar Panel Road Opens in Normandy Village - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:14] <exec> 08└─I do believe this effort is meant to gain insight/edification.
[15:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:you don't lack space THAT much - 06World's First Solar Panel Road Opens in Normandy Village - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:19] <exec> 08└─RTFA
[15:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Re:So much fail - 06World's First Solar Panel Road Opens in Normandy Village - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:24] <exec> 08└─The end riff is the point. Why did this project get built? Who was in favor of it? Solar roads get there uncritical press in the green media, and are supported by the green political parties, despite being obviously stupid. There are only two possible explanations: either these people cannot do math...
[15:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How much? - 06OBQ: [How Much] Should We Bioengineer Animals to Live in Our Damaged World? - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:36] <exec> 08└─Not today! *cue Avengers theme*
[15:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Wrong question? - 06OBQ: [How Much] Should We Bioengineer Animals to Live in Our Damaged World? - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:50] <exec> 08└─The only proven way to limit the birth rate is to increase female literacy.
[15:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wrong question? - 06OBQ: [How Much] Should We Bioengineer Animals to Live in Our Damaged World? - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:51] <exec> 08└─(oh, shit, I forgot to check that box. Time to go to sleep... if only this dam' weather would cool a bit).
[15:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Wrong question? - 06OBQ: [How Much] Should We Bioengineer Animals to Live in Our Damaged World? - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:53] <exec> 08└─And again, checking that box is mostly pointless since you are about the only poster who signs with "(grin)".
[15:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wrong question? - 06OBQ: [How Much] Should We Bioengineer Animals to Live in Our Damaged World? - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:56] <exec> 08└─But, but, but . . . what about cultures that state their ultimate goal is to overcome and eradicate the western-world and intolerable freedoms by out-breeding them? Those folks will never allow women to be literate or educated or anything more than chattel slaves, let alone have a say on whether or...
[15:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score:2) 02Re:Wrong question? - 06OBQ: [How Much] Should We Bioengineer Animals to Live in Our Damaged World? - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:58] <exec> 08└─India comprises .6% of the earth, while housing 20% of its human population, and is one of the most successful countries at protecting its wildlife. There are few places with that much stable biodiversity. Clearly population density has nothing to do with the matter.
[15:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:Special snowflakes crying for thought police ag - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:24:27] <exec> 08└─not really, many, if not most, of the sites who have eliminated comments or relegated them to farcebook, do so because their readers were collectively smarter and more informed than the writers, and they HATED being called out on their shitty reportage... based on a true story...
[15:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Special snowflakes crying for thought police ag - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 786 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:24:33] <exec> 08└─I read Drudge on a daily basis and always click on the clickbait/flamebait articles to read the amusing comments and to skewer antediluvian thinkers who form the bulk of Drudge's readership. It never gets old to see the bright lights carefully differentiate forms of government in America ("It's a Re...
[15:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Explanation of terms - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:24:54] <exec> 08└─Fascism is a synonym for collectivism. The correct usage of the term [wikipedia.org] would include the judicial system, liberal media and so called anti-fascist groups. Kindly forgive my employ of individual liberty to correct your assertions: "Alt-right" = Fascist "Left", "Leftist", "Alt-left", etc...
[15:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Easy to Understand - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:24:59] <exec> 08└─Yes, GP should have used more acceptable pejoratives like Nazi, Fascist, bigot, etc. In the Brave New Animal Farm, some pejoratives are more equal than others.
[15:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Easy to Understand - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:25:01] <exec> 08└─Well, it's good to be accurate. If you loosely and incorrectly call someone a nazi, it dilutes the meaning of that term. That's dangerous.
[15:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Easy to Understand - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:25:04] <exec> 08└─Perhaps by virtue of the fact that it is "non-PC" in the first place that strongly suggests it is arbitrarily and vindictively denigating some particular demographic? In other words, it's bullying and hate speech.
[15:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Great right up to the last sentence - 06Geologists Publish New Details about Evolution of East African Rift Valley - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:25:13] <exec> 08└─I don't know any geophysicists but I fully agree that they are doing real science. i guess it's martyb who added that last sentence. dear martyb, continental drift can be measured with satellites. densities and a couple of other physical properties of the different layers of "rock" we can't phyiscal...
[15:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Big Climate wins again ! ! ! - 06North Pole at Melting Point - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:26:00] <exec> 08└─Items 1 and 2 are deceptive. For example, the governments with high subsidies for fossil fuels don't fund climate research and renewable energy subsidies. And government funding in turn isn't subsidies. As to items 3 and 4, I believe climate change propaganda is on the order of billions per year c...
[15:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Listen, 2016 - 06Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:16] <exec> 08└─pre–prepared obits
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[16:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I am not a fan of trump - 06U.S. NDAA Calls for Space-Based Missile Defense - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:32] <exec> 08└─But how much do you want to bet they are going to try to claim this is trump's doing rather than obama's?
[16:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:I am not a fan of trump - 06U.S. NDAA Calls for Space-Based Missile Defense - 995 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:22:34] <exec> 08└─It's congress, actually. That's the worst thing about politics in the US, we all collectively know to hate the federal government, but generally want to pin things on presidents that were 100% totally congress' fault. That's not to say presidents don't have power and responsibility: Bush totally did...
[16:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Nothing can go wrong, can it? - 06U.S. NDAA Calls for Space-Based Missile Defense - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:36] <exec> 08└─The defence should be in the strike distance, right? Meaning probably in low(ish) orbit. Even if it's not, that "defensive" missile will need to cross the low orbit Here's an idea for an attacker: deliberately increasing the space junk density - just launch some hundred of tonnes of this high tech n...
[16:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score:1) 02star wars system - 06U.S. NDAA Calls for Space-Based Missile Defense - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:22:38] <exec> 08└─I believe one of the problems with the original "Star Wars" project was it would have a serious issue dealing with large numbers of targets, like huge numbers of decoy missiles. I mean, there were lots of problems, but this one there's probably data out there about it already.
[16:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score:2) 02It's the only way to be sure - 06U.S. NDAA Calls for Space-Based Missile Defense - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:40] <exec> 08└─So as a species we'd rather risk nuclear annihilation of the planet than erase our borders and act as a single people. Imagine if the world was just one country how much money could be saved in military costs. Is it pride? I wonder what an objective analysis from a machine would say.
[16:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02God damn it Obama - 06U.S. NDAA Calls for Space-Based Missile Defense - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:43] <exec> 08└─Whenever I finally decide I'm okay with O he goes and does something like this or the droning Americans thing.
[16:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02Re:Should be able to do better - 06Reindeer Collision Avoidance App - 1012 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:22:53] <exec> 08└─I don't know about reindeer, but I also live in (white-tailed) deer country and I would add to this that the vast majority of deer that get hit are juvenile males that have just been kicked out of the herd. The older females that run the herd are comparatively smart as hell and are absolutely wise t...
[16:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:you don't lack space THAT much - 06World's First Solar Panel Road Opens in Normandy Village - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:32] <exec> 08└─The only thing that's going for it is that it's probably more cost efficient, due to reduced overheads, than 2m of panels on 500 family's rooftops in the village. Unfortunately, being flat, 2m of panels only collect 1-1.5m of light, whereas if they were on south-facing sloped roofs, they could colle...
[16:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Conspiracy - 06World's First Solar Panel Road Opens in Normandy Village - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:42] <exec> 08└─There could be conspiracy theory explanation, that is big coal pushing those insanities to make solar power a laughingstock before solar panels get so cheap and light that they get printed/glued onto all new roof materials.
[16:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Did anyone say Solar Freakin Roadways? - 06World's First Solar Panel Road Opens in Normandy Village - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:45] <exec> 08└─Solar Freakin Roadways [youtube.com].
[16:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Wrong question? - 06OBQ: [How Much] Should We Bioengineer Animals to Live in Our Damaged World? - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:24:13] <exec> 08└─And again, checking that box is mostly pointless since you are about the only poster who signs with "(grin)".
[16:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Wrong question? - 06OBQ: [How Much] Should We Bioengineer Animals to Live in Our Damaged World? - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:24:15] <exec> 08└─-- OriginalGrinner_ [tinyurl.com]
[16:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wrong question? - 06OBQ: [How Much] Should We Bioengineer Animals to Live in Our Damaged World? - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:24:19] <exec> 08└─human population is currently not the problem. The Stupid is the problem.
[16:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Banned from the Guardian - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:25:07] <exec> 08└─He learned his lesson: now there's no user to ban.
[16:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Big Climate wins again ! ! ! - 06North Pole at Melting Point - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:08] <exec> 08└─>Human populations in the Paleolithic did not exceed 100,000 to 300,000 individuals. Today of course there are well over 7 billion humans on the planet. Religions forbidding ancient birth control practices are a relatively recent invention; humans have *not* evolved to breed like crazed rats, quite...
[16:26:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ignore all publisher demands - 06Research Libraries Announce Boycott of Elsevier Journals Over Open Access - 1101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:48] <exec> 08└─different AC, but i'll respond. Recently, i have been interested in biological neural networks, neuroethology and a host of other topics related to information processing and organisation of stuff in the brain. I think i got like 4 -5 hundred papers (maybe more, the folder is like over 13 gb now) re...
[16:26:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hopefully the US Ivy League - 06Research Libraries Announce Boycott of Elsevier Journals Over Open Access - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:51] <exec> 08└─The boycott won't work until they change the tenure system. Why would a junior faculty member stressing over "publish or perish" forgo publishing in a high-impact journal? It is easy for you to cry "waah, waah, open access, waah," but it isn't your career on the line and you're not the one investing...
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[17:22:39] <exec> 08└─remember that congress are the ones who write, modify, and pass these steaming turds.
[17:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Nothing can go wrong, can it? - 06U.S. NDAA Calls for Space-Based Missile Defense - 1092 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:42] <exec> 08└─Yeah if the purpose of this type of system were actually missile defense, you'd have a great point, but my guess is the purpose is to transfer something north of $30 billion from taxpayers to the military-industrial complex. Reagan already showed us that it doesn't even need to wind up working to ac...
[17:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Nothing can go wrong, can it? - 06U.S. NDAA Calls for Space-Based Missile Defense - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:44] <exec> 08└─China is an actual threat. Russia isn't. Trump is right about that much, even if he doesn't know why.
[17:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:4, Interesting) 02Re:It's the only way to be sure - 06U.S. NDAA Calls for Space-Based Missile Defense - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:47] <exec> 08└─So, the choices are, annihilation, or become chattel of one world spanning government? Heads we lose, tails the devil wins, right? If I have to choose, I'll take the annihilation. Far easier for the survivors (if any) to rebuild a post-apocolyptic world, than for our great grand children to throw of...
[17:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score:2) 02Re:It's the only way to be sure - 06U.S. NDAA Calls for Space-Based Missile Defense - 810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:50] <exec> 08└─And this is why there never will be a "one world" that some statists so desire. One mans heaven, is another mans hell. Nothing illustrates it better than the two above posters. One posters dream of a utopic future is another's dystopian nightmare, where most of humanity being wiped can be seen as th...
[17:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:God damn it Obama - 06U.S. NDAA Calls for Space-Based Missile Defense - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:53] <exec> 08└─D'oh! This [soylentnews.org] is why it's a good idea to read the comments first (especially when there are only 5 of them :P) -- But when a law is passed, it's not the fucking executive branch that should draw your ire(unless there was a tie in the senate and the vice president voted for it, I gues...
[17:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:God damn it Obama - 06U.S. NDAA Calls for Space-Based Missile Defense - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:55] <exec> 08└─I guess you put tangomargarine in HIS place!
[17:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:God damn it Obama - 06U.S. NDAA Calls for Space-Based Missile Defense - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:57] <exec> 08└─This is a common trap I myself have complained about people falling into, as well. *hangs head*
[17:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Should be able to do better - 06Reindeer Collision Avoidance App - 997 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:10] <exec> 08└─They already have high freq emitters for vehicles. http://www.deeranddeerhunting.com [deeranddeerhunting.com] The article pretty accurately reflects my own experience with deer on US roads. I'll add that, in most cases, if you main...
[17:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Should be able to do better - 06Reindeer Collision Avoidance App - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:11] <exec> 08└─An even better hands-on article from a motorcycle nut. He dug into the backgrounds of some of the competing gadgets, in addition to testing gadgets - http://www.thevog.net [thevog.net]
[17:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Wrong question? - 06OBQ: [How Much] Should We Bioengineer Animals to Live in Our Damaged World? - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:32] <exec> 08└─Actually, TV has been shown to decrease the birthrate even in the absence of female literacy, so it's not the only way, but it one of the more effective ones.
[17:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wrong question? - 06OBQ: [How Much] Should We Bioengineer Animals to Live in Our Damaged World? - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:34] <exec> 08└─That is because India's population *is* the wildlife there. If only they would go extinct.
[17:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Special snowflakes crying for thought police ag - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:25:05] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the word "hate" is way overused. That doesn't change the fact that Trump is a racist, though. And the fact that "Mexican is not a race" doesn't change the fact that Trump is a racist, although if you want to pedantic about it we could just say he is a horse's butt if you think racism isn't tec...
[17:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You suppress thought at your own peril - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:25:17] <exec> 08└─People don't hate for no reason. Dismissing their complaints does not dismiss the underlying cause of their behavior. Besides, they'll just organize themselves elsewhere, and probably in an echo-chamber, which will have even worse consequences than simply rustling the jimmies of the ignorant fools w...
[17:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Intolerance from the Alt-Left - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 2251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:25:36] <exec> 08└─I just wanted to reply and say "thank you" for an insightful and well-argued perspective. I don't agree with everything you said, but I understand the argument for the most part. And, to me, this sort of post is the exact opposite of what's being complained about in the summary. The question, for me...
[17:25:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] 02Great right up to the last sentence - 06Geologists Publish New Details about Evolution of East African Rift Valley - 637 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:44] <exec> 08└─I know quite a few geologists, and their work is absolutely reproducible. Like any science, some people practicing aren't doing the best work, but many are doing quality, robust studies. One assumes that if you decided to grab your own converted container ship and fund a repeat expedition, this woul...
[17:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Great right up to the last sentence - 06Geologists Publish New Details about Evolution of East African Rift Valley - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:25:47] <exec> 08└─Physicists also make loads of theories that aren't reproducible - at least not yet, see string theory.
[17:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmcmonster [401] (Score:2) 02Re:Lotta good.... - 06Bitcoin Enjoys End of Year Price Surge - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:26:01] <exec> 08└─You'll feel better if the news was phrased differently. ie: 'Bitcoin almost makes up all it's losses from 2014 crash'.
[17:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmcmonster [401] (Score:2) 02Re:Lotta good.... - 06Bitcoin Enjoys End of Year Price Surge - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:26:03] <exec> 08└─Or put another way: If you had invested in Bitcoin on Jan 3, 2014, you would be up 28.9% as of today. On the other hand, if you had invested in VFIAX (the Vanguard S&P 500 mutual fund (admiral shares) and re-invested all dividends on Jan 3, 2014, you would be up 31.8% as of today. Dividend re-invest...
[17:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Lotta good.... - 06Bitcoin Enjoys End of Year Price Surge - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:26:05] <exec> 08└─Telling you now: https://steemit.com [steemit.com]
[17:26:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03anubi [2828] 02Re:Big Climate wins again ! ! ! - 06North Pole at Melting Point - 611 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:26:21] <exec> 08└─My take is that a few of us are aware of the thermodynamics concerning the enthalpy of fusion of water, and are quite concerned - knowing how this works - how this should play out if the math we know so far is a predictor of what to expect. Like an ice cold beverage - as long as there is ice in it,...
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[18:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03GlennC [3656] (Score:2) 02Unapplicable Lesson - 06The Real Lesson of the Alleged Russian Hack - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:30] <exec> 08└─TL;DR: The lesson(s) are: we must improve defenses, better use of strong encryption, and don't wait for government policy to protect you.
[18:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:4, Insightful) 02content vs action - 06The Real Lesson of the Alleged Russian Hack - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:31] <exec> 08└─Its important to distract away from the content by endlessly discussing the action (or lack thereof)
[18:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Mixed curse - 06The Real Lesson of the Alleged Russian Hack - 1273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:34] <exec> 08└─There is a dark flip side (and light silver lining) to everything. The summary waxes poetic about how wild west and unsafe the internet, but that also means it is open, free, and uncontrolled. That makes it a hotbed for lots of "good" things like innovation, empowerment of individuals, and free spee...
[18:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mixed curse - 06The Real Lesson of the Alleged Russian Hack - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:36] <exec> 08└─When you frame it that way - as two ideals in opposition you encourage that result. It doesn't have to be that way. Bad security, for example mandatory password expiration, gets in the way of people accomplishing their goals. Good security helps people get their work done by making the easy path the...
[18:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Nothing can go wrong, can it? - 06U.S. NDAA Calls for Space-Based Missile Defense - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:51] <exec> 08└─On that note, is anyone else disturbed by all the anti-Russian and anti-Chinese sentiments flying around lately?
[18:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:It's the only way to be sure - 06U.S. NDAA Calls for Space-Based Missile Defense - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:55] <exec> 08└─I wonder what an objective analysis from a machine would say.
[18:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02International space treaties - 06U.S. NDAA Calls for Space-Based Missile Defense - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:01] <exec> 08└─I'm not a lawyer, or a political science major, but I thought there were numerous treaties the US was a party to which forbade the militarization of space. See wikipedia [wikipedia.org]. Wouldn't this type of action violate this treaties, and thus be illegal (both internationally, and domestically i...
[18:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:you don't lack space THAT much - 06World's First Solar Panel Road Opens in Normandy Village - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:52] <exec> 08└─What kind of insight? That putting solar panels where 18-wheelers will drive over them and break them is a dumb idea when there's all sorts of real estate without that problem that could be used instead? That putting square circuits into a hexagonal shape for no reason is counterproductive? That the...
[18:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:you don't lack space THAT much - 06World's First Solar Panel Road Opens in Normandy Village - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:00] <exec> 08└─IRTFA. Your point?
[18:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Special snowflakes crying for thought police ag - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 865 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:25:19] <exec> 08└─Fascism is not Socialism.... but they are on the same family tree and pretty close. Some of us can actually read, and we know the Italian Fascists forked off of Socialism, The Nazi's have Socialist right there in the branding and Bernie Sanders probably agrees with all of their platform if you only...
[18:27:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02where to publish? what are the alternatives? - 06Research Libraries Announce Boycott of Elsevier Journals Over Open Access - 1795 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:27:01] <exec> 08└─I'm tired of this sort of negative advice. Don't publish with Elsevier. Boycott Elsevier. No parking allowed here. Great. What should scientists do instead? Rather hear where to publish, than where not to publish. The choices aren't much. There's the traditional route. Turn over all copyright to som...
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[19:22:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02content vs action - 06The Real Lesson of the Alleged Russian Hack - 100 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:34] <exec> 08└─Its important to distract away from the content by endlessly discussing the action (or lack thereof)
[19:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:content vs action - 06The Real Lesson of the Alleged Russian Hack - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:22:36] <exec> 08└─Except when it came to Hillary's email server, where the important thing was to discuss the action (what she did) rather than all the top secrets and terrible things that were discovered as a result of it (basically nothing).
[19:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:content vs action - 06The Real Lesson of the Alleged Russian Hack - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:22:38] <exec> 08└─Those e-mails were supposed to have been archived, to become part of the public record. Instead tens of thousands were deleted.
[19:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03SecurityGuy [1453] (Score:2) 02Re:Mixed curse - 06The Real Lesson of the Alleged Russian Hack - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:22:42] <exec> 08└─Bad security, for example mandatory password expiration, gets in the way of people accomplishing their goals.
[19:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:1, Flamebait) 02Alleged? - 06The Real Lesson of the Alleged Russian Hack - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:44] <exec> 08└─A Trump supporter must have written either the article or summary, because this is the first I've heard of anyone besides Trump not believing the FBI, CIA and NSA on this. Shameful reporting on someone's part. Be a chump, vote for Trump! Oh wait, you gullible chumps already did...
[19:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:0, Offtopic) 02Re:Alleged? - 06The Real Lesson of the Alleged Russian Hack - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:22:47] <exec> 08└─Perhaps, but who else should people vote for? I did a write in because I'm in a state where my vote doesn't count, but voting for Clinton would have been a disaster as well. She was running on a platform where she promised absolutely nothing except being a woman and got her ass handed to her because...
[19:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Alleged? - 06The Real Lesson of the Alleged Russian Hack - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:22:49] <exec> 08└─Really? Who has been charged (in absentia)? Where has the evidence been presented? So the CIA says that Russia hacked the DNC to help Trump. Maybe they should leak... sorry, release the evidence supporting that conclusion.
[19:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:I am not a fan of trump - 06U.S. NDAA Calls for Space-Based Missile Defense - 831 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:00] <exec> 08└─If the president should have vetoed something, and didn't, then you're damn straight you should blame him. You should of course also blame Congress. This isn't an either-or situation. However, I should point out that the regular refrain from the Democratic Party is to dodge responsibility by denying...
[19:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:I am not a fan of trump - 06U.S. NDAA Calls for Space-Based Missile Defense - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:02] <exec> 08└─And trap sprung on an unsuspecting ideologue. It was vetoed by Obama and overridden by congress [govtrack.us]. Oops, you're just wrong, and I wanted to see you sally forth from your castle to attack the other side, regardless of the facts. So congrats on hating Obama for not doing exactly what he di...
[19:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02Re:Nothing can go wrong, can it? - 06U.S. NDAA Calls for Space-Based Missile Defense - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:09] <exec> 08└─Well this stirring of the pot isn't just coming from Trump supporters, as described here: https://theintercept.com [theintercept.com] From my haphazard view of the news, it seems Trump is pushing...
[19:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score:2) 02Re:It's the only way to be sure - 06U.S. NDAA Calls for Space-Based Missile Defense - 1490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:14] <exec> 08└─When I was first reaching voting age I always felt like I was born in the wrong time. Very into individualism and against communism, probably a rejection of going to a school on the west coast that taught that Stalin and Mao were misunderstood. Felt I would have done better in the 50s where it was o...
[19:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:It's the only way to be sure - 06U.S. NDAA Calls for Space-Based Missile Defense - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:17] <exec> 08└─So as a species we'd rather risk nuclear annihilation of the planet than erase our borders and act as a single people.
[19:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score:2) 02Re:It's the only way to be sure - 06U.S. NDAA Calls for Space-Based Missile Defense - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:19] <exec> 08└─The options you've given are not mutually exclusive. A whole world government could make the planet uninhabitable through nuclear annihilation. Is it pride?
[19:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score:2) 02Re:International space treaties - 06U.S. NDAA Calls for Space-Based Missile Defense - 1037 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:26] <exec> 08└─It is simple,who is going to enforce it against the USA? Officially the most powerful country in the world (militarily). Quite frankly the USA violates treaties, international law, the UN, other countries, and anything else it feels like at any time, and has been doing so since WWII (started doing i...
[19:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:International space treaties - 06U.S. NDAA Calls for Space-Based Missile Defense - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:29] <exec> 08└─And what if the U.S. withdraws from the relevant treaties, like it can do at any time?
[19:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Should be able to do better - 06Reindeer Collision Avoidance App - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:44] <exec> 08└─The author of the linked article mentions he conducted tests: To help me with the testing and evaluation, I enlisted the aid of a professional animal behavior expert, employed by one of the largest and most prestigious zoological societies in the country. The actual testing was performed after-hour...
[19:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02reflective collars - 06Reindeer Collision Avoidance App - 1798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:50] <exec> 08└─In the winter the reflective collars work better as does driving at a safe and controllable speed adjusted for the conditions. The herds can be spread out, so reaching for the phone can take your attention enough off the road that you run into the main group or the outliers. As far as chasing the re...
[19:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03VanessaE [3396] (Score:2) 02Complex! - 06Rosetta Spacecraft's Orbital Journey - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:10] <exec> 08└─I knew Rosetta made a few "triangular" shaped orbits while approaching the comet, but holy shit, I had no idea the whole mission was that complex. I guess I had assumed that, aside from lander insertion, it was all just elliptical orbits up to the end-of-mission impact. Makes those meandering paths...
[19:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:you don't lack space THAT much - 06World's First Solar Panel Road Opens in Normandy Village - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:24:26] <exec> 08└─How much do they save by not needing to run miles of copper to all those light poles, I wonder.
[19:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:How much? - 06OBQ: [How Much] Should We Bioengineer Animals to Live in Our Damaged World? - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:24:54] <exec> 08└─Except for the fact that animal populations continue to decline, and thus, will not be better next year. You know...the topic of the discussion. This year's report states that the number of vertebrates in the world fell by well over half between 1970 and 2012 and that, without intervention, the de...
[19:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Wait a minute - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:25:33] <exec> 08└─Yes! You're worse than Hitler if you believe otherwise!
[19:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Special snowflakes crying for thought police ag - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:25:46] <exec> 08└─That's one of the reasons why I tolerate the trolling and some of the shit posters, it at least means there's some possibility of coming across some actual thought provoking comments rather than the approved comments that just go on about how great the article was and serve to form an echo chamber.
[19:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Special snowflakes crying for thought police ag - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:25:49] <exec> 08└─That would be an insult to the equine posterior.
[19:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Special snowflakes crying for thought police ag - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:25:51] <exec> 08└─A human still needs to do the moderation, though. And as we all know, businesses love spending money on humans that don't add anything to the bottom line.
[19:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Special snowflakes crying for thought police ag - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:01] <exec> 08└─Oh dear.
[19:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Special snowflakes crying for thought police ag - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:03] <exec> 08└─These days, having a dissenting opinion is considered "hatred."
[19:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ransomware - 06Bitcoin Enjoys End of Year Price Surge - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:42] <exec> 08└─Now any sorts of predictions made about economics are silly and should be ignored. :)
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[20:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02If you're so smart(accurate edition) - 06If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:23] <exec> 08└─Then why aren't you pedantically correcting others on a nearly-unpopulated web forum to avoid your important IT/development work?
[20:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:If you're so smart(accurate edition) - 06If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:25] <exec> 08└─No! Populated, or unpopulated. There is no nearly unpopulated.
[20:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:If you're so smart(accurate edition) - 06If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:27] <exec> 08└─Try or try not. There is no try nearly.
[20:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:If you're so smart(accurate edition) - 06If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:29] <exec> 08└─try catch finally
[20:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:If you're so smart(accurate edition) - 06If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:31] <exec> 08└─When I realized I was helping dumb people profit, I quit and I am much happier now. I am also richer, because my confidence was much improved when I realized that dumb people can lead when anybody follows. I chose not to follow. I found a new job where there are less dumb people, and far less in cha...
[20:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:If you're so smart(accurate edition) - 06If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:33] <exec> 08└─That assumes that you are overcorrecting people. Even if you don't correct people on any sort of regular basis people get jealous and like to backstab. Also, the whole idea assumes that we're living in some sort of meritocracy, we're not. You get much further in life by being a dumbass that knows th...
[20:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02soylent answer - 06If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:36] <exec> 08└─I'm socially retired! And lazy! Not born into privilege! Not lucky!
[20:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Inherited wealth and lack of conscience - 06If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:38] <exec> 08└─First you have to inherit oh, say $5 million + or so, and ideally have your parents be influential. Then you have to be sufficiently ruthless to exploit as many people as possible. It's not difficult, look who's already managed it.
[20:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Inherited wealth and lack of conscience - 06If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:40] <exec> 08└─Being born into a rich family sounds pretty smart to me. How is this not considered "intelligent"?
[20:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Tradeoffs - 06If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:42] <exec> 08└─Science doesn't have a definitive answer, although luck certainly plays a role
[20:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:content vs action - 06The Real Lesson of the Alleged Russian Hack - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:54] <exec> 08└─When Clinton's aides deleted those emails rather than turn them over as ordered by subpoena, they committed the crime of "obstruction of justice". Those 33,000 emails or so are her version of the good old 18:33 gap on the Nixon tapes. I'm sure we'll never know exactly what was in them, but I sure wi...
[20:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score:2) 02Re:content vs action - 06The Real Lesson of the Alleged Russian Hack - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:56] <exec> 08└─If I had to hazard a guess, it's that she's spending a lot of time trying to shut up women who've been propositioned by Bill.
[20:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Mixed curse - 06The Real Lesson of the Alleged Russian Hack - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:01] <exec> 08└─> [...] it is open, free, and uncontrolled. It looks like an oligopoly to me. Earlier this year, Cloudflare stated that they host "more than 4 million" sites (https://blog.cloudflare.com/98-percent-ipv6/ [cloudflare.com]). Amazon.com says it has "over a million active customers" (https://aws.amazon....
[20:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Alleged? - 06The Real Lesson of the Alleged Russian Hack - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:05] <exec> 08└─LOL, I just upset a butthurt Clinton supporter.
[20:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Alleged? - 06The Real Lesson of the Alleged Russian Hack - 850 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:08] <exec> 08└─The CIA is a protection racket of liars and cheats who will say anything to get more money. As a group based on historical evidence they make a $5 crack whore look honest and trustworthy. The purpose of the CIA is to honeypot liars and psychopaths and sociopaths into clustering into one ignorable de...
[20:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Alleged? - 06The Real Lesson of the Alleged Russian Hack - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:10] <exec> 08└─I wonder if the CIA employs small-time science fiction authors.
[20:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Alleged? - 06The Real Lesson of the Alleged Russian Hack - 758 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:13] <exec> 08└─Honestly I don't think as a group they're creative enough to come up with the stuff we know the CIA has lied about, Gulf of Tonkin this and Iraq WMD that... and now Russians hacking the election ... who knows how laughable that is going to appear in 50 or 100 years when the truth comes out. It is in...
[20:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Alleged? - 06The Real Lesson of the Alleged Russian Hack - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:15] <exec> 08└─Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) says President-elect Donald Trump is at odds with nearly the entire Senate over whether Russia interfered in the election. “There are 100 United States senators. ... I would say that 99 percent of us believe that the Russians did this, and we’re going to do something...
[20:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Social engineered - 06The Real Lesson of the Alleged Russian Hack - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:17] <exec> 08└─TL;DR: The lesson(s) are: we must improve defenses, better use of strong encryption, and don't wait for government policy to protect you.
[20:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Social engineered - 06The Real Lesson of the Alleged Russian Hack - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:19] <exec> 08└─I like cheese pizza. It's my favorite. :( Why does loli have to haet pizza? :(((
[20:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02My takeaway - 06The Real Lesson of the Alleged Russian Hack - 681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:21] <exec> 08└─What really happened looks an awful lot like one of two scenarios: 1. The DNC and the HRC campaign hired their IT consultants based on political donations and loyalty rather than on, y'know, actual skills, and those sub-par consultants didn't bother setting up little things like multi-factor authent...
[20:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:I am not a fan of trump - 06U.S. NDAA Calls for Space-Based Missile Defense - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:34] <exec> 08└─Oops, you're just wrong, and I wanted to see you sally forth from your castle to attack the other side, regardless of the facts.
[20:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03lgw [2836] (Score:2) 02Re:star wars system - 06U.S. NDAA Calls for Space-Based Missile Defense - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:38] <exec> 08└─I believe one of the problems with the original "Star Wars" project was it would have a serious issue dealing with large numbers of targets, like huge numbers of decoy missiles. I mean, there were lots of problems, but this one there's probably data out there about it already.
[20:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score:2) 02Re:Nothing can go wrong, can it? - 06U.S. NDAA Calls for Space-Based Missile Defense - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:44] <exec> 08└─One thing Trump said is true: the American dream is dead
[20:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score:2) 02Re:It's the only way to be sure - 06U.S. NDAA Calls for Space-Based Missile Defense - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:53] <exec> 08└─You make some good points, as do others in response to my post. There are clear disadvantages to living under one government. I wonder if anyone here has alternative suggestions?
[20:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02America's new Ministry of Truth - 06U.S. NDAA Calls for Space-Based Missile Defense - 1381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:02] <exec> 08└─Senators Rob Portman (Republican) and Chris Murphy (Democratic) proposed an agency, dubbed the Global Engagement Center, "to help American allies counter foreign government propaganda"; the proposal became part of the NDAA. coverage: http://www.snopes.com
[20:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02September 11, 2001 - 06Reindeer Collision Avoidance App - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:24] <exec> 08└─Nearly all U.S. flights were suspended after the 9-11 attacks. All Christian countries should do the same every Christmas. Best way to avoid collisions with magical reindeer.
[20:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:you don't lack space THAT much - 06World's First Solar Panel Road Opens in Normandy Village - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:24:59] <exec> 08└─If all you wanted to do was power the light poles with minimal wiring, then you could put the solar panels on the top of the light poles. Or, depending on the situation, you could put the solar panels next to the road on a purpose-built rack mount, like those used in many solar installations in rura...
[20:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Special snowflakes crying for thought police ag - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 970 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:26:24] <exec> 08└─I thought it was spambots mostly... because it was either that or an authentication system that sucks if the moderators are not doing their jobs or if there are no moderators. I will never train googles AI so I can post somewhere; I will never register with a phone or give out my phone number or rea...
[20:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Banned from the Guardian - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:26:46] <exec> 08└─My first slashdot account, which had really good karma, got set to post at 0 perpetually. I was very critical of Bill Gates, Microsoft, the intel itanic and IBM.
[20:29:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score:2) 02Re:Listen, 2016 - 06Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:06] <exec> 08└─Yeah, this is standard operating procedure for large news organizations. They want to be able to have a nice long "retrospective on the life of $WHOEVER" up on the web site within seconds of confirming that the person is actually dead, in order to get more eyeballs (and therefore more ad revenue) an...
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[21:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:If you're so smart(accurate edition) - 06If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:28] <exec> 08└─There is no finally. There is only the ~Destructor. Choose and perish!
[21:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:If you're so smart(accurate edition) - 06If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:30] <exec> 08└─Government took my free()dom away with a data retention policy. All my private data is heaped up somewhere.
[21:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:soylent answer - 06If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:35] <exec> 08└─While a factious answer it is not far off. I am 'good' with computers. However, networking with people is a very weak skill for me. There is a saying 'fortune favors the prepared'. Basically you can work your ass off have all the creds and still get zip. However, if you do not do anything nothing wi...
[21:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Get it right, numbskulls - 06If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:40] <exec> 08└─It's "If you so smart, why ain't you rich?!!"
[21:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score:2) 02Scrooge - 06If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:42] <exec> 08└─This stereotype has sadly been confirmed time and time again in my experience. Many people got rich simply by pinching pennies to the detriment of anything and everyone else. Much like the correlation between CEOs and psycopathology, most rich people are assholes.
[21:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Because it's who you know, not what you know - 06If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:45] <exec> 08└─See subject. Meritocracy never, ever entered into the equation, and anyone who says it does is either stupid or trying to keep you down for their own benefit. If anything, intelligence is starting to be a net negative these days.
[21:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02You don't have to be smart to become rich(er)... - 06If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:47] <exec> 08└─Be disciplined - become a Boglehead - https://bogleheads.org [bogleheads.org]. Start here: https://www.bogleheads.org [bogleheads.org]. Continue to explore and learn. You may be greatly rewarded.
[21:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Define Rich - 06If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:49] <exec> 08└─Practically everyone who's reading this is rich by world standards. And to be rich under this definition, all you had to do is be born in the first world.
[21:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:content vs action - 06The Real Lesson of the Alleged Russian Hack - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:03] <exec> 08└─Why? Do you really think that over his entire political life, Bill's only gone after 5 women that worked for him (Broaddrick, Jones, Flowers, Willey, Lewinsky)? Guys like that usually don't just stop after the first few, and it would not be much of a stretch to think there are dozens more out there...
[21:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score:2) 02Re:content vs action - 06The Real Lesson of the Alleged Russian Hack - 747 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:05] <exec> 08└─I think that: 1) It doesn't matter who Bill is or isn't fucking. 2) The narrative that Bill is a pervy old man is exactly the narrative that Trump (the other pervy old man who makes Bill look like a gentleman) wants everyone to think. 3) Even if she was 'covering up' for Bill fooling around, it does...
[21:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:content vs action - 06The Real Lesson of the Alleged Russian Hack - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:07] <exec> 08└─If I had to hazard a guess, it's that she's spending a lot of time trying to shut up women who've been propositioned by Bill.
[21:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Alleged? - 06The Real Lesson of the Alleged Russian Hack - 1006 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:19] <exec> 08└─It *may* have been the Russians if you ignore the fact that wikileaks has said it is an internal DNC person. A berner got pissed about what was going on and dumped the whole lot on them, or 'the russians' did it. Which would you consider more likely? Both showed what the DNC was up to. Dont worry th...
[21:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:My takeaway - 06The Real Lesson of the Alleged Russian Hack - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:24] <exec> 08└─nuclear combat toe-to-toe with the Russkies because John Podesta
[21:28:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:Hopefully the US Ivy League - 06Research Libraries Announce Boycott of Elsevier Journals Over Open Access - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:28:24] <exec> 08└─The boycott won't work until they change the tenure system. Why would a junior faculty member stressing over "publish or perish" forgo publishing in a high-impact journal?
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[22:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02patent whore - 06Gates Launches $1 Billion Breakthrough Energy Investment Fund - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:30] <exec> 08└─I smell a patent grab fund this research, but patent everything (gosh, more patents thrown into the patent office whirl wind of paper that will take decades to catch up on if ever). Then make your money back by patent trolling everyone. Am i right? Am i right?
[22:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:patent whore - 06Gates Launches $1 Billion Breakthrough Energy Investment Fund - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:32] <exec> 08└─And the people trolling the trollers will be marketing geniuses trying to greenwash dumb ideas that sound good, so the patents won't be worth anything or will boil down to 1. .... 2. Using the above, build a perpetual motion machine 3. Profit!!!
[22:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Tradeoffs - 06If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? - 1960 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:53] <exec> 08└─Looking at some of the comments I think I can more clearly explain my first paragraph as lower and middle class folk think rich is all about becoming rich, getting a large enough wage-slave income to become rich and in DnD stats its all about your INT and to a lesser extent to survive the extensive...
[22:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Define Rich - 06If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:59] <exec> 08└─check your privilege white boi
[22:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Conscientiousness - 06If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:02] <exec> 08└─He found financial success was correlated with conscientiousness, a personality trait marked by diligence, perseverance and self-discipline.
[22:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Rich is not the answer - 06If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:04] <exec> 08└─To become rich you have to either be lucky, ruthless or both. It doesn't have a lot to do with being smart. Just look at the unhappy rich few, many of whom aren't smart enough to enjoy life. If you're smart (or even if not), you should strive to tip the balance to a life of happiness. For smart peop...
[22:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Alleged? - 06The Real Lesson of the Alleged Russian Hack - 799 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:35] <exec> 08└─Wait, wait, wait? You believe the U.S. spy agencies? The same ones that found WMD in iraq? The same ones that say "Golly gee, disregarding ALL EVIDENCE, Oswald killed Kennedy"?, etc.??? I'm sorry: Trump says "If Hillary wins, the election was hacked" and he is told to STFU, there is no hacking. Now...
[22:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02One word... - 06The Real Lesson of the Alleged Russian Hack - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:40] <exec> 08└─One word: Liability. Companies will start securing their infrastructure as soon as we actually hold them responsible for doing so. The day we stop prosecuting the hacker who alerted the world to the poor security practices and instead prosecute the management that designed the vulnerable architectur...
[22:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03tizan [3245] (Score:3, Insightful) 02It never worked - 06U.S. NDAA Calls for Space-Based Missile Defense - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:19] <exec> 08└─The so called star-wars defense system was crap bologna on a sandwich (or tax payers' money to the defense industrial complex). A failure rate of interception of a few % is inacceptable when it comes to nuclear missiles...and they never got the technology to work at 100%...and with the incompetents...
[22:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:you don't lack space THAT much - 06World's First Solar Panel Road Opens in Normandy Village - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:25:18] <exec> 08└─How much do they save by not needing to run miles of copper to all those light poles, I wonder.
[22:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:you don't lack space THAT much - 06World's First Solar Panel Road Opens in Normandy Village - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:25:22] <exec> 08└─Do not forget to make piezoelectric roads and wind turbines on the highways' sides and free all energy related research from patents and industrial secrets and plutocracy defending regulations. And kill all lawyers.
[22:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So much fail - 06World's First Solar Panel Road Opens in Normandy Village - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:25:31] <exec> 08└─Another article I read on this said they expect a 10 year lifespan before replacement. Which is typical for roads.
[22:28:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score:2) 02Re:deal with the problem - 06Research Libraries Announce Boycott of Elsevier Journals Over Open Access - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:28:24] <exec> 08└─Or, more realistically, governments should require that any research that's in any way publicly funded, may only be published under open-access. You know, the same way that if the government pays you to build a library, you don't then get to say It's all done, and by the way my buddy Terry owns it.
[22:29:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Dunbal [3515] 02Re:CPR is bad news - 06Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 - 55 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:04] <exec> 08└─I wonder how long until AEDs become standard on planes.
[22:29:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:re Relevance - 06Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:35] <exec> 08└─Props for mentioning Widlar. He along with Pease and Williams are the unsung heroes of the analog world. But it strikes me as odd that you didn't mention Dennis Ritchie. Ritchie passed away Oct 11th, 2011. less than a week after Steve Jobs who passed away Oct 5th. He didn't get the same mention that...
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[23:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Re:Tradeoffs - 06If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:56] <exec> 08└─The girl at the gaming table in the chainmail bikini becomes the trophy wife becomes the alimony collector and next thing you know you're helping the cityguard kill rats in the sewer just to get something to eat.
[23:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Define Rich - 06If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:04] <exec> 08└─that was kind of the point, friend
[23:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03microtodd [1866] (Score:3, Insightful) 02What is "rich"? - 06If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? - 1016 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:08] <exec> 08└─Honest question. What is considered rich? Apparently most people think "Someone who makes more than I do". (source: slate [slate.com]) Is it percentage? i.e. "the top 1%?" Cause I checked here [investopedia.com] and I'm.......surprisingly high. I don't "feel" rich....I have to balance my checkbook a...
[23:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Re:What is "rich"? - 06If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:10] <exec> 08└─But you can certainly reach the top 5% or so without having to compromise your principles ... ... Household income of ~$200k (husband and wife both make $100k) and these are good people, *not* sociopaths or narcissists.
[23:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:Rich is not the answer - 06If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:12] <exec> 08└─Yup, money isn't everything and modesty isn't all that bad of a quality. I'm not rich but I'm lucky enough to be a free man as in I can spend my days doing what I want, when I want. Anyone with a bigger bank account than me who is stressed all the time or frustrated with life is missing the point of...
[23:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Re:Rich is not the answer - 06If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:14] <exec> 08└─Maybe it just depends on how you define 'rich' [dilbert.com].
[23:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Incorrect assumptions - 06If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:17] <exec> 08└─TFA and the comments posted so far all assume that everyone universally wants to be rich. If you're smart and not rich, it must be because you weren't able to get rich. Surely it can't be because you don't WANT to be rich, right? Being rich is more effort than it's worth. I don't really want or need...
[23:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Unapplicable Lesson - 06The Real Lesson of the Alleged Russian Hack - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:27] <exec> 08└─They certainly can't learn that lesson, as the thought-processes that go around politicians heads include outlawing strong encryption, enforcing escrow-backdoored encryption upon everyone, and hacking the cryptosystems that you and others already use. Wait for government policy to protect you? Hilar...
[23:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03daver!west!fmc [1391] (Score:1) 02Re:Social engineered - 06The Real Lesson of the Alleged Russian Hack - 1715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:52] <exec> 08└─Either I'm too trusting of stuff I read online, or John Podesta was spearphished with a "change your password (but first enter your current password)" e-mail (made easier either because he was using a personal Gmail account for DNC work, or because the DNC had outsourced e-mail to Google, e.g. democ...
[23:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Where Did You Hear It? - 06The Real Lesson of the Alleged Russian Hack - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:56] <exec> 08└─> 2. The IT guys wanted to set up multi-factor authentication and other well-known defenses, but HRC and/or other top political aides overruled them for convenience's sake. That is a claim I have not heard before. Where did you hear it?
[23:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:It never worked - 06U.S. NDAA Calls for Space-Based Missile Defense - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:24:38] <exec> 08└─Trent Franks wants his pork sammich and he wants it NOW.
[23:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Special snowflakes crying for thought police ag - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:26:59] <exec> 08└─Indeed, he is a master baiter.
[23:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You suppress thought at your own peril - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:27:19] <exec> 08└─You're right. Hatered usually follows from ignorance, as well as bigotry.
[23:27:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03nethead [4970] (Score:2) 02Re:Lotta good.... - 06Bitcoin Enjoys End of Year Price Surge - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:27:57] <exec> 08└─Agreed. Our money is (mostly) in TIAA-CREF.
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