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[00:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Farmer here - 06How “Open Source” Seed Producers From the U.S. to India Are Changing Global Food Production - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:21] <exec> 08└─I avoid trademarked and/or patented crops. It's not worth the hassle. I haven't always been successful, because they don't always tell you up front. If there were one regulatory change I would require (aside from tearing down the stupid, broken system while I cheer) it would be requiring a massive,...
[00:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:patent whore - 06Gates Launches $1 Billion Breakthrough Energy Investment Fund - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:30] <exec> 08└─He and his buddy Warren Buffet already control huge swaths of energy shipping. You dont think those pipeline arguments are about the environment do you?
[00:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Define Rich - 06If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? - 926 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:01] <exec> 08└─It is also a very classiest thing to say. For example in india you can get a bad ass cell plan with unlimited data mins texts from anywhere from 5-50 USD a month. What does that mean? It means it depends. If I live in down town San Francisco I expect my rent to be high. However I also expect to have...
[00:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Incorrect assumptions - 06If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:10] <exec> 08└─If my current work offered me a 25% cut in salary in exchange for 20% cut in hours worked, I'd say, "3 day weekends every weekend here I come."
[00:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score:2) 02Re:Incorrect assumptions - 06If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? - 1002 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:12] <exec> 08└─Agreed. The article here has the presupposition that the metric for "success" is "being rich". But not all of us measure success by material wealth alone. Working as a scientist in a university, I'm surrounded by hundreds of very intelligent people. Many of them are successful scientists, but very f...
[00:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02My IQ is 160 - 06If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:14] <exec> 08└─but my parents never taught me to handle money. When I had a paper route, I'd collect enough to buy a couple ice cream bars. Most of my subscribers I didn't collect from. But my father was on the hook to pay for my papers, so he'd make me collect just enough to pay for them. As long as I had my ice...
[00:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:content vs action - 06The Real Lesson of the Alleged Russian Hack - 843 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:32] <exec> 08└─This goes back to Thexalon's comment of "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 wish I did." Who knows what was in those 33,000 emails. They really could have been as innocent as "I love y...
[00:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score:2) 02Re:content vs action - 06The Real Lesson of the Alleged Russian Hack - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:33] <exec> 08└─I never said it didn't. Check my original comment.
[00:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02LOL! - 06U.S. NDAA Calls for Space-Based Missile Defense - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:24:15] <exec> 08└─Seems a great idea, until you realize the UN is faltering and there is no one nation that would be entrusted with operating such a system. Somebody mentioned either here or on the green site a few months/year back about a novel covering exactly this, where the space based system got taken over by a...
[00:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I actually believe the opposite. - 06U.S. NDAA Calls for Space-Based Missile Defense - 1334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:24:27] <exec> 08└─We need smaller states and MORE diversity, be it biological, ethnic, cultural, national, or societal. Having said that, I also believe we need more cooperation. If we could focus the brunt of the globalized world's industrial resources on getting into space and leveraging it to mine needed metals an...
[00:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Newfoundland Could Use This - 06Reindeer Collision Avoidance App - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:02] <exec> 08└─about 50 drivers are killed by moose each year.
[00:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:SoylentNews is old people - 06Starfish Larvae Create Complex Water Whorls to Eat and Run - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:25:11] <exec> 08└─One need not use something to recognise it. For example, I don't use douches, but I recognise one.
[00:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:you don't lack space THAT much - 06World's First Solar Panel Road Opens in Normandy Village - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:25:37] <exec> 08└─The manufacturing processes to create hexagonal cells is valid, cost efficient, and scaleable. (Or alternatively creating square circuits on roads work, or the waste from jamming squares into hexagons isn't "too much.")
[00:26:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03caffeine [249] (Score:2) 02Re:Wrong question? - 06OBQ: [How Much] Should We Bioengineer Animals to Live in Our Damaged World? - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:26:33] <exec> 08└─Why do you think population is a problem? It seems we have more than enough water, land, food and energy for everyone if we shared it out. Why target African and South American countries? They generally have low population densities and their environmental footprint per capita is also low. Surely Ja...
[00:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Special snowflakes crying for thought police ag - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:27:04] <exec> 08└─> [...] his positions on various GLBTQ issues were grossly distorted by the press [...] More important than what Mr. Trump said is his choice of Mike Pence as his running mate.
[00:27:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02You suppress thought at your own peril - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 103 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:21] <exec> 08└─If people feel that they are being deliberately hushed, then their views will become ever more radical.
[00:29:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jcross [4009] 02Re:CPR is bad news - 06Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 - 45 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:23] <exec> 08└─A larger effect for some of us than others...
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[01:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''Open Source'' - 06How “Open Source” Seed Producers From the U.S. to India Are Changing Global Food Production - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:17] <exec> 08└─If that term is going to be used here, it's good that it was at least put in quotes. Its use, however, is another case of someone trying to glom onto a popular notion to try to make his idea more sexy. (There is no source code involved and even the gene sequence to manufacture a copy by non-natural...
[01:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02The patent office is clearly broken beyond repair - 06How “Open Source” Seed Producers From the U.S. to India Are Changing Global Food Production - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:19] <exec> 08└─Patent a plant? WTF? Software patents shouldn't be allowed. Business model patents should not be allowed. Plant patents should not be allowed. What was that story a few days ago where IBM got something like 7,000 patents this year? There shouldn't be 7,000 patents total in a single year, let alone b...
[01:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Reinventing the wheel - 06Gates Launches $1 Billion Breakthrough Energy Investment Fund - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:29] <exec> 08└─Electricity, Buildings, Manufacturing, Transportation, Food? Sounds like a city. I do hope they put in a lot of red lights, no, tunnels and no bridges. this way there will be a lot of profit selling "energy" to people waiting for a green light. Also a big expo area with airport so "important" people...
[01:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:What is "rich"? - 06If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? - 1794 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:05] <exec> 08└─My working definition of what it takes to be "upper class" or "rich": Possession of enough wealth that investment income alone is sufficient to cover living expenses plus something extra. This is an important milestone, because it makes working the 9-5 entirely optional in a way that nobody lower on...
[01:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Incorrect assumptions - 06If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:11] <exec> 08└─Hmm, is rich wealth, and is wealth happiness? The author mistakes that smart people are supposedly more able to become rich, by the author's measure, and happier as a result. There are plenty of smart people that don't play to get a high score. They play to enjoy the game, even against people playin...
[01:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03caffeine [249] (Score:2) 02Re:content vs action - 06The Real Lesson of the Alleged Russian Hack - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:32] <exec> 08└─I'd be a lot more interested in seeing any emails from/to donors that they felt needed deleting. I think the abuse of democracy by lobbyists and donors is treason.
[01:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score:2) 02Re:America's new Ministry of Truth - 06U.S. NDAA Calls for Space-Based Missile Defense - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:24:35] <exec> 08└─Good, I am glad to hear the fine people at Correct the Record will have a career to look forward to.
[01:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Newfoundland Could Use This - 06Reindeer Collision Avoidance App - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:25:01] <exec> 08└─Moose don't have cellphones, b'y
[01:28:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Big Climate wins again ! ! ! - 06North Pole at Melting Point - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:28:21] <exec> 08└─The human species has built up a global civilisation that is dependent on the climate being one way and cannot quickly adapt to it swinging another way.
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[02:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02shop class - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 1201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:23] <exec> 08└─The op doesn't say when they went to high school. For me, that was around 1970. I had been "college tracked" in earlier grades and eventually took AP classes senior year. But I always had a desire to work with my hands, so somehow I managed to fit metal shop, mechanical drawing and a few other "blue...
[02:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03cellocgw [4190] (Score:4, Insightful) 02whiny bitch - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:25] <exec> 08└─Just because this fellow never learned the art of conversation hardly means that's the fault of the Ivies. What a whiny little jackass. That said, there's a reason there are things like weather and local sports teams: so people from wildly divergent backgrounds have something to negotiate common spa...
[02:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02bollocks - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:27] <exec> 08└─i grew up with people like that plumber, i went to their schools and i went to a low grade university and i still cant talk to people like that cos the vast majority of them just aren't interesting, they are dull, mundane, trivial, nuthin to do with "elite education".
[02:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03caffeine [249] (Score:3, Insightful) 02What is this really about? - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:29] <exec> 08└─This article is not really about the disadvantages, the writer really just wants to talk about all their privileges. Obviously people are not giving them enough attention for being an elitist prick.
[02:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Hmm. - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:31] <exec> 08└─I have a college degree, but one of my best friends is a plumber. (Who has less problems with his computer since I installed Linux on it for him!)
[02:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Sea story? - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 1720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:33] <exec> 08└─Went to the bar one night, with two buddies. One, a Mexican who grew up on the streets of Chicago. The other, a college professor. Yeah - some of you are asking how in hell I got THOSE two together in the same bar, far away from the United States. PACE program - we carry a real, live professor aboar...
[02:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Arrogant Prick - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:36] <exec> 08└─Jesus fucking christ. Now you're whining about your oh so superior education? Grow the fuck up. Douchebags have more intrinsic worth than you do. You can't hold a conversation with those you deem less educationally gifted because you're not as smart as you think you are. Yet another twit who confuse...
[02:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Arrogant Prick - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:38] <exec> 08└─"Douchebags have more intrinsic worth than you do." ????? You gonna drink that shit, or what? Maybe wash your car window with it? WTF?
[02:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03rayko [6096] (Score:1) 02wow - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:40] <exec> 08└─what whiney assed bullshit
[02:22:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Farmer here - 06How “Open Source” Seed Producers From the U.S. to India Are Changing Global Food Production - 647 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:48] <exec> 08└─I avoid trademarked and/or patented crops. It's not worth the hassle. I haven't always been successful, because they don't always tell you up front. If there were one regulatory change I would require (aside from tearing down the stupid, broken system while I cheer) it would be requiring a massive,...
[02:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Farmer here - 06How “Open Source” Seed Producers From the U.S. to India Are Changing Global Food Production - 944 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:50] <exec> 08└─It's difficult to walk into a feed/seed store, and find seeds that aren't patented. There are generally only two or three brands of seeds to choose from, and they are all encumbered. Even shopping online, you have to pick and choose. Alfalfa, for instance. Today, you can purchase alfalfa for plantin...
[02:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:''Open Source'' - 06How “Open Source” Seed Producers From the U.S. to India Are Changing Global Food Production - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:53] <exec> 08└─Every plant has a source, and that source is a seed. Unless it's grown from trimmings.
[02:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''needs to be cleaned top to bottom'' - 06How “Open Source” Seed Producers From the U.S. to India Are Changing Global Food Production - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:56] <exec> 08└─The patent office needs to be cleaned top to bottom and entirely replaced with people who have a clue Benoit Battistelli, President of the European Patent Office, is such a total asshole that many talented folks have bailed out of the EPO. So, they got the opposite there--at least in the short term....
[02:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The other part of the assumption.... - 06If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:23:22] <exec> 08└─Is that smart people are inherently greedy. Most are not and even the people who are both successful and intelligent but not greedy, tend to live a modest life while putting the majority of their excess financial earnings either back to their employees, back to the community, or back into their curr...
[02:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03microtodd [1866] (Score:2) 02Re:What is "rich"? - 06If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:23:44] <exec> 08└─Possession of enough wealth that investment income alone is sufficient to cover living expenses plus something extra
[02:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Where to start.... talk about target rich - 06The Real Lesson of the Alleged Russian Hack - 4007 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:33] <exec> 08└─First off the premise is busted. How many times does Julian Assange have to say it was an inside job before everyone stops parroting the Narrative that it was the Russians? And the 'election' was not hacked anyway. Saying it that way is just trying to get low info people to think the Russians hacked...
[02:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ayn Anonymous [5012] (Score:2) 02What is your exchange rate ? - 06OBQ: [How Much] Should We Bioengineer Animals to Live in Our Damaged World? - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:09] <exec> 08└─Your are more worth than an animal, right ? So what is your exchange rate ? Is Homo sapiens worth 2 other species ? Or 10 ? Or 100 ? Or does it not mater, you are more worth than all the other 7 mio. other species ? You DESERVE the earth, do you ? You have A RIGHT to dominate all other species. GOD...
[02:27:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Francis [5544] 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)
[02:27:36] <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...
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[03:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Worse than that.. - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 1025 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:30] <exec> 08└─Even in the mountain country out here in California they have been cutting shop classes. One of my professors in college was working sundays down in the valley at a JC, but his 9-5 job was as a shop teacher up in the mountain country doing auto shop for the kids up there. He spent 7+ years building...
[03:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The Case for Working With Your Hands - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 1436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:33] <exec> 08└─http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/magazine/24labor-t.html [nytimes.com] "Yet my M.A. obscures a more real stupidification of the work I secured with that credential, and a wage to match. When I first got the degree, I felt as if I had been inducted to a certain order of society. But despite the beau...
[03:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:whiny bitch - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:36] <exec> 08└─Fully agreed. I'm a bit of a geek, don't like sport and am a little introverted, and even I managed to pick up a few rules of thumb for talking to new people. It's not rocket science. Do's: Get people to talk about themselves or something they are passionate about, most people enjoy it and it makes...
[03:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02Re:Arrogant Prick - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:44] <exec> 08└─A former roommate was fond of the phrase: "educated beyond his\her intelligence", for this type.
[03:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02solution - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:47] <exec> 08└─Ride the bus, hang around with black folks. You will get an education.
[03:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Might even start singing alto... - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:49] <exec> 08└─and start wondering if that dress would look good on you. Ivy league? More like lily league education when some thug life types get ahold of you...
[03:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Non-patented seeds - 06How “Open Source” Seed Producers From the U.S. to India Are Changing Global Food Production - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:59] <exec> 08└─It's difficult to walk into a feed/seed store, What is this "walk into" to which you refer?? and find seeds that aren't patented http://www.google.com [google.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[03:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Non-patented seeds - 06How “Open Source” Seed Producers From the U.S. to India Are Changing Global Food Production - 1054 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:23:02] <exec> 08└─Walk into - commonly refers to the act of entering a brick and mortar establishemment to do business. The place where I've done the most business over the years has it's own facefook page - https://www.facebook.com [facebook.com] This is where local farmers go, because they get...
[03:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Hope they are up against the wall... - 06How “Open Source” Seed Producers From the U.S. to India Are Changing Global Food Production - 1022 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:23:04] <exec> 08└─Nobody religious should find the idea of patenting biology, whether bred or engineered, as sane. Additionally, by and large this is an end run around selective breeding patents (yes, they are a thing!) that only allow 2 years of patent protection, as opposed to 'invention' patents which have a 10 ye...
[03:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''a source'' != ''Open Source'' - 06How “Open Source” Seed Producers From the U.S. to India Are Changing Global Food Production - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:23:08] <exec> 08└─The term "Open Source" has a specific meaning. Your attempt to grope for a justification for a case of what is clearly improper usage is simply silly. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[03:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02How to Become As Rich As Bill Gates - 06If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? - 1043 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:23:44] <exec> 08└─http://philip.greenspun.com/bg/ [greenspun.com] "William Henry Gates III made his best decision on October 28, 1955, the night he was born. He chose J.W. Maxwell as his great-grandfather. Maxwell founded Seattle's National City Bank in 1906. His son, James Willard Maxwell was also a banker and estab...
[03:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What is "rich"? - 06If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? - 1294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:24:00] <exec> 08└─I agree, being able to live off investment income is a milestone or dividing line. But there is at least one more level of being rich -- which I heard from a friend who started a small company and grew it to ~40 people. In the course of his work he met some professional athletes and when they could...
[03:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What is "rich"? - 06If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? - 974 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:24:01] <exec> 08└─I had talent in an in-demand field, went to a public school paid for by my parents and got a degree. That placed me in your definition of middle class. I saved and invested a lot to provide for a safety fund. Unlike my parents' generation not only were there no prospects for advancement, the ambitio...
[03:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:content vs action - 06The Real Lesson of the Alleged Russian Hack - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:24:31] <exec> 08└─Dear fucking lord dude, how much do you think about their sex lives? I only ask because you left entire plots for pornographic films starring the two. It was wild, we went from Secretaries of State Teaching Teens to the darker Tie Her Up! At least you emphasized informed consent, which can help you...
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[03:25:26] <exec> 08└─I wonder if anyone here has alternative suggestions?
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[04:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Worse than that.. - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:34] <exec> 08└─That shit boils my blood. Teachers sacrifice so much of their lives for the benefit of their students, and it can be undone with the swipe of a pen... Yet another example of why we need to create a post-economic reality where such a simple thing as educating our children is no longer crippled by fin...
[04:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:shop class - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:36] <exec> 08└─In high school I was "college prep" so I had to take Latin and was not permitted to take up space in metal shop or drafting. So as soon as I got to college I was informed that Latin was useless for an engineering degree and I would have to take drafting immediately. On my first job out of college I...
[04:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Re:whiny bitch - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:40] <exec> 08└─I see those same tips over and over again. I hate them. "Do's: Get people to talk about themselves or something they are passionate about, most people enjoy it and it makes them feel interesting." What do you do if you run into someone like me playing the same 'game' as you.
[04:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:whiny bitch - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:43] <exec> 08└─You smile and nod knowingly at each other, secure in the fact that you both can claim social acceptance without the pesky "conversation" part.
[04:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sea story? - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:49] <exec> 08└─"Real life". You funny runaway! Academia is real life, and so are blue collar jobs. Just different realities. Dunno why I'm bothering to point this out since we all know you're a self-assured know it all... Still, its a good point you made that no one is a master of everything (cept you of course).
[04:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Back when I was in college - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:57] <exec> 08└─Way long time ago, it seems that the school newspaper was always running confessional essays like this one. It was tiresome then, and it's tiresome now. Dude/girl, suck it up -- people have real problems and they don't care about your imaginary ones.
[04:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02is hoarding and stealing smart? - 06If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? - 1189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:41] <exec> 08└─Yes, this. How did the rich get there? Some were lucky, born into wealth. Some worked hard and saved. And some did it by cheating others. Trump was lucky, and he cheated. He ended up rich in spite of his mistakes. George W. Bush is much the same, rich thanks to daddy and in spite of his epic screw u...
[04:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:is hoarding and stealing smart? - 06If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:42] <exec> 08└─Interestingly, I heard Trump would be far richer if he'd simply invested his money in an index fund and done absolutely nothing
[04:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Private Jet vs. 50 Mbps - 06If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:24:06] <exec> 08└─I know which one I would pick. :-)
[04:25:34] <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 - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:25:34] <exec> 08└─Why not? We're averaging probably 15 posts per story on SN. If you don't want to comment, then don't.
[04:28:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Special snowflakes crying for thought police ag - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:28:28] <exec> 08└─I live at 123 Main Street, you inconsiderate clod. And according to Google, (About 6,790,000 results) there are quite a few of us ACs at that address...
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[05:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Worse than that.. - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:22:41] <exec> 08└─Yet another example of why we need to create a post-economic reality where such a simple thing as educating our children is no longer crippled by financial concerns.
[05:22:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03cellocgw [4190] 02whiny bitch - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 595 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:44] <exec> 08└─Just because this fellow never learned the art of conversation hardly means that's the fault of the Ivies. What a whiny little jackass. That said, there's a reason there are things like weather and local sports teams: so people from wildly divergent backgrounds have something to negotiate common spa...
[05:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:whiny bitch - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:22:49] <exec> 08└─What do you do if you run into someone like me playing the same 'game' as you.
[05:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02elitist schooling, not education - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 1107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:22:53] <exec> 08└─I know what the submitter is talking about. I've experienced those kind of snotty, elitist schools. They aren't about education, no matter how much they claim otherwise. They're about privilege. Making sure Ritchie Rich only meets people worth meeting, only makes connections with other privileged ki...
[05:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:elitist schooling, not education - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:22:55] <exec> 08└─Keep in mind that they're selling an education. Elitism due to the high price tag is one of the few things that'll stick no matter how bad the education actually is.
[05:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03timbim [907] (Score:2) 02Re:Sea story? - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:23:01] <exec> 08└─You should have stopped Carlos and the Prof from instigating each other before it happend.
[05:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sea story? - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:23:03] <exec> 08└─Sometimes you just need to let dudes fight it out. Hell he could have been sitting there and Carlos laid the dude out before he knew what was going on. People do not want to talk with each other. They want to talk at each other most of the time.
[05:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Arrogant Prick - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:23:07] <exec> 08└─It got your attention, didn't it? ;)
[05:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Back when I was in college - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:23:14] <exec> 08└─Yes, I'm sure the point of the article was to elicit sympathy and get loads of gift baskets from other ivy league people. Why are you here whining about a whiny essay? Shouldn't you be handling those real problems of yours? Oh right, you're full of shit! I would say complaining anonymously over the...
[05:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Speaking of whiny.... - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 846 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:16] <exec> 08└─How about people who feel so slighted by the elite college educated folks that they have to complain about someone who realizes their own inadequacies. Now if only all you whiny bitches here could see your own flaws... If I'd seen this story without any of the comments I would have imagined that a l...
[05:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Speaking of whiny.... - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:23:18] <exec> 08└─How about STFU? I got couple ivy degrees and tfa gave me nausea.
[05:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Speaking of whiny.... - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:23:20] <exec> 08└─Probably because folks get rather annoyed by the overinflated egos that come out of that region of the country. There are plenty of great schools out west, they just don't have the benefit of centuries of snobbery being built into their reputations.
[05:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Speaking of whiny.... - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:23:23] <exec> 08└─Because it doesn't fit your own narrative that an elitist douchebag can realize their own douchiness and improve themselves The thing is he recognizes it but does nothing about it. Which in many ways is worse. Part of that would to be humble. Instead he goes on to talk about how much better he is. I...
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[05:23:25] <exec> 08└─Oh the poor poor elite is finally realizing he doesn't know shit about shit and flagellating himself for it. Well, self-awareness is good I suppose, and better late than never. But I'd much rather have his "problems" than mine.
[05:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Prison - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:27] <exec> 08└─I write prisoners, and what I've learned from my correspondents has told me that a prison term is an excellent education in the human condition.
[05:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Can't talk to your plumber? - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:29] <exec> 08└─Plumbing isn't hard! Get off your ivy league ass and fix it yourself like the muggles do!
[05:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Plumbing IS hard - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:23:31] <exec> 08└─It's not hard as in rocket science hard, but hard as in pain-in-the-ass (more likely in the lower back) hard.
[05:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Plumbing IS hard - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:23:33] <exec> 08└─Also a good way to end up with 1ft of water in your home if you do it wrong. Some things are easy. Others take practice. I for one am well practiced in the magic art of 'fixing computer' not so much in the magic art of 'fixing cars'.
[05:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Shouldn't be that hard - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:36] <exec> 08└─There he was, a short, beefy guy with a goatee and a Red Sox cap and a thick Boston accent
[05:24:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Incorrect assumptions - 06If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:24:51] <exec> 08└─You must not have any climatologists at your university then.... I hear they are money grubbing, morally lacking and ethically challenged pricks.
[05:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:Alleged? - 06The Real Lesson of the Alleged Russian Hack - 762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:25:30] <exec> 08└─Dude what bubble are you living in? This is utter insanity. First off it's clear 'the Russians' did not 'hack' the emails, they were leaked. Leaked. Likely leaked by an insider who was shocked and ashamed at how corruptly the DNC was operating. This is painfully obvious even if all you look at are t...
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[05:26:05] <exec> 08└─There are many ways to accomplish a goal, a one world government wouldn't be too terribly different from the US now with state/fed. Human societies are kinda like physics and engineering. There are many decent ideas, but you have to get the implementation right. The nuances would make or break the s...
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[06:22:21] <exec> 08└─Turkey has jailed or executed anyone who disagrees with their dictator. Russia is invading Ukraine and helping Syria commit genocide. The US has been occupying Iraq and Afghanistan and hacking all our enemies, sometimes openly. China has taken over Taiwan and Tibet by force, and is building islands...
[06:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Awesome - 06Turkey Jails Opposition Newspaper's Cafeteria Manager - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:23] <exec> 08└─Israel is occupying the land of people who don't want them there, and repressing their economy and human rights. As long as that continues, Israel will continue to face international backlash. One solution would be for one of the groups to kill off everyone in the other group.
[06:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Flyingmoose [4369] (Score:2) 02Fuck Turkey - 06Turkey Jails Opposition Newspaper's Cafeteria Manager - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:25] <exec> 08└─Nuke the bastards from orbit!
[06:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Worse than that.. - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:43] <exec> 08└─And then they wonder why all the jobs went overseas. Most jobs which are not manufacturing exist to support manufacturing in one way or another. A service only economy cannot support itself.
[06:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Re:elitist schooling, not education - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:55] <exec> 08└─Idiot discovers head stuck up arse* , finds it hard to talk. Nothing to do with education, everything to so with being able to live in a bubble. (*An ass is a donkey)
[06:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sea story? - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:23:00] <exec> 08└─"Real life". You funny runaway! Academia is real life, and so are blue collar jobs. Just different realities.
[06:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Farmer here - 06How “Open Source” Seed Producers From the U.S. to India Are Changing Global Food Production - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:23:32] <exec> 08└─You can do it - but you have to do your research. I do test plots of seed to see what works, and what doesn't. Yes, it's a bit more work, but it's worth it. I also get to know some of the crusty, cranky old bastards who live in the hills, and buy seed from them. They don't patent, and if you suggest...
[06:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:''Open Source'' - 06How “Open Source” Seed Producers From the U.S. to India Are Changing Global Food Production - 1229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:23:38] <exec> 08└─Well, the specific pledges involved in this project certainly fall far short of meeting the Free Software definition, but no source code? How do you figure? The DNA is in a very real sense the "source code" to an organism. Closer to raw machine code than something high-level, but the information is...
[06:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''gene-tweaking [...] on a pc'' - 06How “Open Source” Seed Producers From the U.S. to India Are Changing Global Food Production - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:23:40] <exec> 08└─In order to do that, you will need the data. As already stated: even the gene sequence to manufacture a copy by non-natural means is not available When that has been uploaded and made openly available, -then- we can start arguing the fine points of "Open Source". Until then, this isn't anywhere nea...
[06:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score:2) 02re Trump - 06How “Open Source” Seed Producers From the U.S. to India Are Changing Global Food Production - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:23:44] <exec> 08└─You voted for Trump so no cleaning of the Patent Office! I'll grant you that HRC would had not cleaned the PO but then we have let the parties (?) decide what candidates get to the actual voting season, so we are at fault here, all of us. (? The big donors to the parties is perhaps more accurate?) I...
[06:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:If you're so smart(accurate edition) - 06If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? - 883 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:24:13] <exec> 08└─The Philosopher Mencius [孟子] said: 19. The king said, 'I am stupid, and not able to advance to this. I wish you, my Master, to assist my intentions. Teach me clearly; although I am deficient in intelligence and vigour, I will essay and try to carry your instructions into effect.' 20. Mencius re...
[06:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:My takeaway - 06The Real Lesson of the Alleged Russian Hack - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:25:29] <exec> 08└─> If the Russians did it, thats cool. It is amazing how easily you are led around by the ring of tribalism in your nose. Its like you have no principles greater than "four feet good! two feet bad!"
[06:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02compensation to reindeer herders - 06Reindeer Collision Avoidance App - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:43] <exec> 08└─Is it me or is that backwards? Most of the time if your livestock/pet wanders onto the roadway and a car hits it, you’re liable for damages to the car. Since, you know, roads are for cars not animals.
[06:27:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 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)
[06:27:16] <exec> 08└─I do believe this effort is meant to gain insight/edification.
[06:29:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You suppress thought at your own peril - 06How News Sites' Online Comments Help Fuel Hatred - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:29:07] <exec> 08└─No. Hatred usually follows from imposition.
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[07:22:19] <exec> 08└─In Civ when you sign a defensive pact with another nation it is disolved if either nation involved makes a hostile action against a foreign power. I am sure that if both nations in the pact went to war at the same time this would not be an issue, but thats not a game mechanic. NATO is a defensive pa...
[07:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02crap - 06Turkey Jails Opposition Newspaper's Cafeteria Manager - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:20] <exec> 08└─i guess it won't be long until erdogan starts to point out that bulgaria and greece are actually turkish land. i honestly don't understand what idiots like him want.
[07:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Re:crap - 06Turkey Jails Opposition Newspaper's Cafeteria Manager - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:22:22] <exec> 08└─Everything. And then a bit more. And anyone who disagrees deserves whatever they get.
[07:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Worse than that.. - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:22:42] <exec> 08└─FFA was that for me. but I lived in a now quasi-rural area for high school. if you want a relatively safe way to get your ivy league knuckles dirty, volunteer a few weekends at a Habitat For Humanity build. And be just a bit humble. It can be fun, even if it's just doing schlep work. The real crew w...
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[07:22:50] <exec> 08└─is it so simple, though? Go cut in on a social conversation your company's CEO or director is having with his or her perers. The Ivy is gonna pull that off far easier than random developer from ite IT department. Eyebrows might be raised initially about the interloper (intruder), until whispers get...
[07:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Plumbing IS hard - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:23:21] <exec> 08└─If you're lucky, if you're unlucky, you wind up with a smaller leak that leaks over a long period of time causing mold to grow all over the place.
[07:23:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02The patent office is clearly broken beyond repair - 06How “Open Source” Seed Producers From the U.S. to India Are Changing Global Food Production - 495 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:41] <exec> 08└─Patent a plant? WTF? Software patents shouldn't be allowed. Business model patents should not be allowed. Plant patents should not be allowed. What was that story a few days ago where IBM got something like 7,000 patents this year? There shouldn't be 7,000 patents total in a single year, let alone b...
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[07:27:30] <exec> 08└─I'd like to see how fast dirt grinds the surface into an opaque mess while watching the power output drop.
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[08:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Free meals... - 06The CIA and Top Chef - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:25] <exec> 08└─from Top Chefs? Seems like reason enough. Same as 'Why do the cops go buy a couple boxes of donuts during any homicide investigation.' Because it can be expensed as part of the job :)
[08:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Awesome - 06Turkey Jails Opposition Newspaper's Cafeteria Manager - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:22:35] <exec> 08└─Jewish?
[08:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02To misquote another post below: - 06Turkey Jails Opposition Newspaper's Cafeteria Manager - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:22:37] <exec> 08└─Nuke us all from orbit, it is the only way to be sure.
[08:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Different strokes.... - 06Turkey Jails Opposition Newspaper's Cafeteria Manager - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:43] <exec> 08└─In civilized countries, dissent is often vented by the wagging of a tongue. Nothing much happens after that unless a consensus of people are also worked up. In other countries, dissent is vented at by the wagging of an AK47. Sometimes that is seen as the only recourse. Kinda hard to stay alive if yo...
[08:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Worse than that.. - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:23:02] <exec> 08└─Even now, it looks like we are living on borrowed time and money... until the financiers call the note. We have been warned ( by the Bible ) not to do this, but we have done it anyway. We will pay the price. It won't be cheap.
[08:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03aim [6322] (Score:1) 02classics - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 938 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:43] <exec> 08└─Your education missed out on a classic: Socrates: "I know that I know nothing". The more you learn, the more you realise that you don't really know much of anything. I find it rather surprising it took you that long to check this. Have you never had to do some kind of practical-oriented internship?...
[08:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Non-patented seeds - 06How “Open Source” Seed Producers From the U.S. to India Are Changing Global Food Production - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:23:55] <exec> 08└─So you have a few hundred acres that you plant in alfalfa. Hopefully it seems worth it to plant some in the heirloom seed? Yes I know It's a pain in the ass when youre actually planting it, to stop, throw in a bag or two in the drill of all those weirdo seeds. And mark the areas. and maybe plan for...
[08:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score:2) 02Re:Hope they are up against the wall... - 06How “Open Source” Seed Producers From the U.S. to India Are Changing Global Food Production - 760 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:23:59] <exec> 08└─Best of all with trade winds. They publish (or at least used) the relevant phytosanitary certificates (if anyone wonder why this matters let's just say we want to avoid more plants suffering the fate of the americn chestnut [very interesting read btw]). If anyone wants to try to grow cacao read up o...
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[09:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02None of this would matter... - 06The CIA and Top Chef - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:28] <exec> 08└─... if they weren't taking your money by threat of violence.
[09:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02I know it's easy for me to say, but... - 06Turkey Jails Opposition Newspaper's Cafeteria Manager - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:45] <exec> 08└─Insulting the president is a crime punishable by up to four years in prison in Turkey.
[09:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:bollocks - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:23:15] <exec> 08└─"Boring" is relative. Many like to talk about food and celebrity gossip, and to their friends that's interesting. They won't care about EM-Drive news or debate, but so be it.
[09:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Sea story? - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:23:27] <exec> 08└─The problem with their interaction began way before it reached the quoted part. They weren't having a conversation at that stage, they were having an argument.
[09:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:solution - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:23:35] <exec> 08└─I got rhythm, my dick is bigger, and I can jump now!
[09:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score:2) 02Re:If you're so smart(accurate edition) - 06If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:24:42] <exec> 08└─Ah, but in fact I am... wise guy ;)
[09:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02if you're so rich, why aren't you dead? - 06If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:17] <exec> 08└─Kill the rich! Down with the 0.1%!
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[10:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Uber Uber - 06First Movie of Energy Transfer in Photosynthesis Solves Decades-Old Debate - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:30] <exec> 08└─This gonna be great for self driving Uber trucks to suck energy directly out the sun and put everbody out of work. Self driving deliveries to rich peoples who can pay. Fuck the poor people.
[10:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Uber Uber - 06First Movie of Energy Transfer in Photosynthesis Solves Decades-Old Debate - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:22:32] <exec> 08└─If the poor people get too poor to buy stuff, then most things stop being profitable, because you need the poor people buying them to make a profit. And even those who only sell to rich people must be interested in the buying power of the poor people, because most of the rich they sell to are only r...
[10:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Sounds like a missed opportunity. - 06The CIA and Top Chef - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:42] <exec> 08└─With all the expertise in the field any spying agency surely has, the show should have revolved around poisoning.
[10:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Awesome - 06Turkey Jails Opposition Newspaper's Cafeteria Manager - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:22:53] <exec> 08└─So your argument is: "Others do wrong things, so nobody has the right to complain about the wrong things we do"? Anyway, China has not taken over Taiwan. They claim it to be part of China, but unlike Tibet, they don't actually control it (whether that remains so will be seen). BTW, where is the evid...
[10:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:I know it's easy for me to say, but... - 06Turkey Jails Opposition Newspaper's Cafeteria Manager - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:23:00] <exec> 08└─At least make it googleable - Tayyip Erdogan is a douchebag. Anyone remember google bombs?
[10:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I know it's easy for me to say, but... - 06Turkey Jails Opposition Newspaper's Cafeteria Manager - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:23:03] <exec> 08└─All links in the SoylentNews and Slashdot comment section contain rel="nofollow".
[10:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Worse than that.. - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 713 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:23:21] <exec> 08└─Yeah there's lots of money, but I've heard rumours that the administrator-teacher ratio has gone up in many places and some administrators are probably getting too much. Can't be bothered to verify at the moment. And the typical US reaction is that means Public Education is broken so instead of fixi...
[10:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score:2) 02Re:elitist schooling, not education - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:23:40] <exec> 08└─They're about brainwashing the kids into believing they really are superior to their fellows in the public schools Of course, here in the UK, "public schools" means the elete of the private schools. However, an substantially bigger problem is that the entire leftist movement is engaged in convincing...
[10:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:compensation to reindeer herders - 06Reindeer Collision Avoidance App - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:27:32] <exec> 08└─That's a very American point of view, you only have had roads for a couple of houndred years or so? Roads was invented a couple of thousands years before cars. If you hit somehing on the road you hit something on the road. And if you hit something on the road you didn't drive in in a safe manner. Yo...
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[11:22:21] <exec> 08└─Not a problem. We can just outsource the market and sell to buyers overseas. There are plenty of emerging markets in developing countries. The developed countries belong to the rich. The remaining poor people in developed countries will fit nicely into profitable prisons.
[11:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:Fuck Turkey - 06Turkey Jails Opposition Newspaper's Cafeteria Manager - 904 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:22:44] <exec> 08└─To put things in perspective, in the anniversary of the fall of Venice reign to Napoleon, a group of hotheads with a real machine gun and a fake tank planted a Serenissima Republic flag on top of S. Marco bell tower. They get swatted and in prison. OK The head of the movement who was not even there,...
[11:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I know it's easy for me to say, but... - 06Turkey Jails Opposition Newspaper's Cafeteria Manager - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:22:52] <exec> 08└─Tayyip Erdogan is a brainless puddle of slime Tayyip Erdogan has one very small testicle and a two inch penis. Tayyip Erdogan smells worse than the billy goats he rapes. Tayyip Erdogan is more disgusting than the used tampons he collects The only reason Tayyip Erdogan doesn't have fleas is that flea...
[11:23:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02Sea story? - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 1720 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:32] <exec> 08└─Went to the bar one night, with two buddies. One, a Mexican who grew up on the streets of Chicago. The other, a college professor. Yeah - some of you are asking how in hell I got THOSE two together in the same bar, far away from the United States. PACE program - we carry a real, live professor aboar...
[11:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:My IQ is 160 - 06If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:25:26] <exec> 08└─I later got in a lot of trouble with the IRS and Maine Revenue Services.
[11:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Risk averse and having options - 06If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? - 1598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:28] <exec> 08└─If you're not already rich the best way to become rich is to start your own business. But a number of us smart ones have more options and are risk averse. Not all entrepreneurs eventually succeed. You don't hear of them because few people write books "How I failed 7 times and ended up divorced, home...
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[12:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02This is a bad idea - 06Booking Fees for Being Arrested - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:35] <exec> 08└─It gives the cops a reason to arrest to, whether you've actually done anything or not. Police can't get a raise because the state says it doesn't have the money? Just start arresting people willy nilly and watch the cash roll in.
[12:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:This is a bad idea - 06Booking Fees for Being Arrested - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:22:36] <exec> 08└─They should institute a "shooting fee". But not per shooting incident. No, the suspect/victim has to pay $10 per bullet fired by the police. This is needed to ensure the police have an adequate amount of the best equipment available.
[12:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:This is a bad idea - 06Booking Fees for Being Arrested - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:22:39] <exec> 08└─They should make it as a percentage of wealth. 1/1000th of your wealth when you get arrested. Have $30k that's $30 fee. Have $300 and it's a quarter. Have $300 million and you're talking $300k. The law that allows this would soon be stopped.
[12:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02It should be the other way round - 06Booking Fees for Being Arrested - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:41] <exec> 08└─If you are arrested but the charges are dismissed, you've obviously been arrested without sufficient cause, therefore you should get compensation for it.
[12:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Not April 1st - 06Booking Fees for Being Arrested - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:43] <exec> 08└─These stories are supposed to come out on April 1st, not other days. Or is 2016 so surreal that every day is April fools?
[12:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Not April 1st - 06Booking Fees for Being Arrested - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:22:45] <exec> 08└─Captain's log. Stardate December 29, 2017. "Is 2017 so surreal that every day is April fools?"
[12:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02US justice system is fucked in general - 06Booking Fees for Being Arrested - 1012 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:47] <exec> 08└─US justice system is fucked up. Where people end up paying fees because they spend time in jail? It's sure hell of a way of running a slave system. Yes, slaves to the prisons. 1. go to jail 2. get charged daily board for your "accommodations and food" 3. get out of jail, want to get a job but can't...
[12:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Sounds like a missed opportunity. - 06The CIA and Top Chef - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:23:05] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, the cut-up, sliced and diced tiger whiskers in the entree! ( not kidding... look it up ).
[12:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:crap - 06Turkey Jails Opposition Newspaper's Cafeteria Manager - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:23:23] <exec> 08└─http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-37525650 [bbc.co.uk]
[12:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:whiny bitch - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:23:59] <exec> 08└─If your TLA leaders can't speak to their employees like normal human beings, that's their failing and does not bode well for working conditions or future success of that company.
[12:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:elitist schooling, not education - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:24:08] <exec> 08└─You do know rand was the exact opposite of what you just tried to pin on her, yes? She pushed merit over everything, especially pull and privilege.
[12:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Hmm. - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:24:11] <exec> 08└─Curious, which of you makes more? I know it's technically possible for my codemonkey self to make more than a good plumber but it would require a non-trivial amount more work than the plumber has to put in. I've been both is how I know this. I picked the lesser paying position because it allows me t...
[12:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Sea story? - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:24:18] <exec> 08└─What, and miss the funny? You need to give reason when you say something absurd like that.
[12:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Sea story? - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:24:21] <exec> 08└─Philosophy has always been arguing. If it's not how you do it, you're doing it wrong.
[12:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Sea story? - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:24:23] <exec> 08└─According to the anthropic principle, this universe only exists so that you could be wrong in this argument!
[12:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:''Open Source'' - 06How “Open Source” Seed Producers From the U.S. to India Are Changing Global Food Production - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:24:57] <exec> 08└─But DNA is code. With junk, just like computer code. With a non strictly linear execution model, just like code under windows or systemd. Patented DNA is proprietary code. Restrictions over distribution and reuse is similar to what copies of programs are subjected too. The only problem is calling th...
[12:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:is hoarding and stealing smart? - 06If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:25:32] <exec> 08└─Ye gads, man, how did you get through that rant without saying proletariat even once? Me, I'm not rich because it's never been one of my goals to be so. Not for any misguided socialist principle but because it would take a hell of a lot of hard work to become so and I'm extremely lazy.
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[13:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheReaperD [5556] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:US justice system is fucked in general - 06Booking Fees for Being Arrested - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:22:42] <exec> 08└─Welcome to for-profit prison corporations and the lobbyists that represent them.
[13:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:US justice system is fucked in general - 06Booking Fees for Being Arrested - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:22:44] <exec> 08└─Is the Great Recession hindering the Pax Americana? As seen on TV, incarceration fees were mentioned in passing on Andromeda, which aired a decade ago. In context, the fees were implied to be a symptom of the collapse of civilization in the form of the Systems Commonwealth. "Yes, taxes. That's the p...
[13:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02Prove yourself innocent? - 06Booking Fees for Being Arrested - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:46] <exec> 08└─WTF?! What happened to at least paying lip service to the constitution?
[13:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Prove yourself innocent? - 06Booking Fees for Being Arrested - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:22:48] <exec> 08└─Budget cuts.
[13:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Awesome - 06Turkey Jails Opposition Newspaper's Cafeteria Manager - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:23:17] <exec> 08└─As long as that continues, Israel will continue to face international backlash.
[13:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03G-forze [1276] (Score:2) 02Re:Civilization IV - 06Turkey Jails Opposition Newspaper's Cafeteria Manager - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:23:25] <exec> 08└─You're saying this like Turkey is the only Nato member to engage in hostile acts. How about the biggest member, the U.S.?
[13:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:I know it's easy for me to say, but... - 06Turkey Jails Opposition Newspaper's Cafeteria Manager - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:23:34] <exec> 08└─Leading you to a target page isn't the only way that google shows a target message. It also quotes a portion of the text near the search terms.
[13:24:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02elitist schooling, not education - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 1107 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:10] <exec> 08└─I know what the submitter is talking about. I've experienced those kind of snotty, elitist schools. They aren't about education, no matter how much they claim otherwise. They're about privilege. Making sure Ritchie Rich only meets people worth meeting, only makes connections with other privileged ki...
[13:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Hmm. - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:17] <exec> 08└─To me, a code monkey and plumber aren't that different as they are both demanding jobs. They are just demanding in different domains. I've done basic plumbing, sweat copper pipe, some black iron for gas lines, PVC waste lines, etc. Not too bad nor mentally challenging though you do have to have some...
[13:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Incorrect assumptions - 06If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? - 762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:26:08] <exec> 08└─The article summary has it right: "doing a good job" and "working pretty hard" are found to be strong corollaries to becoming wealthy. Right next to "having a budget to know where the money goes". As of this morning, my wife and I have a 563K net worth at age 30. I have a PhD, she has a MS, both in...
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[13:28:32] <exec> 08└─Makes those meandering paths Jeffy takes in "Family Circus" look kinda direct by comparison!
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[14:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Figures - 06Police Seek Amazon Echo Data in Murder Case - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:35] <exec> 08└─Well, when you advertise your device as "always on, always listening", expect these kinds of requests. I will never own one.
[14:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Easy fix - 06Police Seek Amazon Echo Data in Murder Case - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:37] <exec> 08└─Marry Alexa and claim spousal privilege.
[14:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02WTF is "amazon echo"? - 06Police Seek Amazon Echo Data in Murder Case - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:39] <exec> 08└─You know some of us aren't exactly hip to all the new wonderful crap.
[14:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02Re:This is a bad idea - 06Booking Fees for Being Arrested - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:22:50] <exec> 08└─that's a chris rock routine, I believe....
[14:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score:2) 02Re:Prove yourself innocent? - 06Booking Fees for Being Arrested - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:01] <exec> 08└─Why should anyone be surprised when some states charge you for your public defender [npr.org], So much for that "If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be appointed for you" thing in the Miranda "rights" I guess.
[14:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Where do I initial the form - 06Booking Fees for Being Arrested - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:02] <exec> 08└─Noting that I declined the service?
[14:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Where do I initial the form - 06Booking Fees for Being Arrested - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:04] <exec> 08└─Stop resisting!
[14:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Look it aint crime when the cops do it - 06Booking Fees for Being Arrested - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:06] <exec> 08└─Jus like it aint torture when the US military does it...
[14:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Uber Uber - 06First Movie of Energy Transfer in Photosynthesis Solves Decades-Old Debate - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:18] <exec> 08└─This strategy will work in the short term, but we need to engage in long term thinking here. I propose that Uber should begin preparing for the future after peak poor person by innovating automated poor person robots. In the future, robots will fill the role of consumers, buying useless shit and fil...
[14:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Hmm. - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:38] <exec> 08└─Really, I find them very similar. Both require fairly basic logic, a few skills, and a dash of creativity to do. Plumbing is by far the better job though unless you feel a specific draw to coding. The pay is comparable if not better, the hours are similar, and stress is almost non-existent unless yo...
[14:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sea story? - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:48] <exec> 08└─No they weren't.
[14:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:What is "rich"? - 06If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:26:25] <exec> 08└─That's a good definition from a traditional perspective. I think true wealth is not taxable. Being healthy and surrounded by people you love and able to pursue meaningful and rewarding life goals make you richer in all the ways that matter than having a pile of money that others covet and a wife and...
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[15:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score:1) 02smart house toy - 06Police Seek Amazon Echo Data in Murder Case - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:34] <exec> 08└─It's a "smart house" toy sort of thing. It consists of a speaker and microphone built into a cylinder-shaped thing that link up to Amazon's cloud via the internet. You can give it spoken commands and it can respond to questions (like asking for the weather), order stuff from amazon (except for certa...
[15:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Warrants - 06Police Seek Amazon Echo Data in Murder Case - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:35] <exec> 08└─I'm a big believer in privacy, but with a valid warrant, they should hand over the information if they have it. Giving anyone the information *without* a warrant should be a serious offence. Note that giving police the information does not include breaking their own encryption or installing backdoor...
[15:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:Warrants - 06Police Seek Amazon Echo Data in Murder Case - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:37] <exec> 08└─warrants are often rubberstamped, so I don't RESPECT warrants as much as you seem to. to me, its just a case of The Man demanding that you comply. and I HATE TO COMPLY with anyone who takes that strong an attitude with me. as for the echo, it will be a cold day in hell before I own one of those thin...
[15:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Warrants - 06Police Seek Amazon Echo Data in Murder Case - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:40] <exec> 08└─I think that's a separate problem to fix though. I think warrants are an important tool of law enforcement, but yes, there must be some thought put into them being granted.
[15:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is a bad idea - 06Booking Fees for Being Arrested - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:50] <exec> 08└─They do that sort of thing in North Korea, charging the families of criminals for the bullets used to execute them.
[15:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is a bad idea - 06Booking Fees for Being Arrested - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:54] <exec> 08└─The flaw in your logic is that rich people are seldom arrested.
[15:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:This is a bad idea - 06Booking Fees for Being Arrested - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:56] <exec> 08└─As I recall, they do something similar for speeding tickets in... Germany? I guess they got tired of rich bastards driving recklessly in overpowered cars and just considering a fine part of the cost of the game, so changed things so that the fines are similarly painful to everyone. Sounded like it w...
[15:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Prove yourself innocent? - 06Booking Fees for Being Arrested - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:07] <exec> 08└─What constitution? The US is gone dude.
[15:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02We need more pirates. - 06Booking Fees for Being Arrested - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:12] <exec> 08└─We need more pirates - there's just not enough "Rrrrrr" to go around. I miss the "R" that used to be in "America, land of the fee."
[15:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Giant sucking sound - 06Booking Fees for Being Arrested - 910 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:14] <exec> 08└─He did get a debit card for the remaining $21. But there was no practical way to extract his cash without paying some kind of fee. Among them: $1.50 a week for “maintenance” of the unwanted card, starting after 36 hours; $2.75 for using an A.T.M. to withdraw money; $3 for transferring the balanc...
[15:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe [2583] (Score:2) 02More useful as a "not here" marker - 06An Anti-CRISPR for Gene Editing - 752 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:09] <exec> 08└─A general off-switch could be useful if the proteins have a long half-life, but the currently available off-switches at the earlier levels (fine-tuning RNA stability or control of transcription with activators and repressors) combined with the ability to change protein stability (at the sequence lev...
[15:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Worse than that.. - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:24:24] <exec> 08└─And the typical US reaction is that means Public Education is broken so instead of fixing it let's partially replace it with other stuff (home school, vouchers etc).
[15:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:''gene-tweaking [...] on a pc'' - 06How “Open Source” Seed Producers From the U.S. to India Are Changing Global Food Production - 1516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:25:28] <exec> 08└─That would certainly make direct editing slightly more convenient for those well versed in the language. But the source *is* unavoidably distributed with every copy of the organism, available to sequencing for a modest fee (I believe it was a few thousand dollars last time I noticed, might well be n...
[15:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score:2) 02Re:Tradeoffs - 06If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:26:15] <exec> 08└─Poor people think rich people work real hard on getting $$$ and spending every penny both more effectively than they do …
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[16:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02but ... but ... but ... exaggerated costs!!! - 06The Farmer Who Built Her Own Broadband - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:33] <exec> 08└─Broadband costs way too much to deploy, especially in rural areas!!! I mean it costs more in urban areas because of congestion and everyone is trying to use it at once thanks to the broadband hog!! I mean it costs more in rural areas because it's harder to recoup your infrastructure costs and you al...
[16:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02The only problem with that… - 06The Farmer Who Built Her Own Broadband - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:34] <exec> 08└─…is the law. The United States has the best government money can buy. Which is very nice if you are a rich, fat, telecommunications company with armies of lobbyists in Washington who are out to block anyone and anything that can endanger their profits. I hope that Mrs. Conder and her customers do...
[16:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:WTF is "amazon echo"? - 06Police Seek Amazon Echo Data in Murder Case - 1092 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:22:46] <exec> 08└─What it is? It's a variation on the Soviet theme of microconcrete. Concrete with microphones in it. There are a few innovations this time around. The Soviet State paid for the construction of housing for foreign visitors, that had microconcrete panels built-in. The devices were tastefully hidden a c...
[16:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:WTF is "amazon echo"? - 06Police Seek Amazon Echo Data in Murder Case - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:22:47] <exec> 08└─Sorry about that. I put some more explanation in the summary.
[16:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bziman [3577] (Score:2) 02Re:Warrants - 06Police Seek Amazon Echo Data in Murder Case - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:22:52] <exec> 08└─star trek is a fantasy where you talk to computers. and star trek never had the social problems and authority abuse problems we are rife with
[16:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score:2) 02Switzerland - 06Booking Fees for Being Arrested - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:08] <exec> 08└─The record fine is at least about CHF300k: http://www.bbc.com [bbc.com]
[16:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:This is a bad idea - 06Booking Fees for Being Arrested - 797 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:10] <exec> 08└─all these fees are the fault of the republicans and stupid middle america who was conned into thinking that 'taxes are always bad, never allow an increase!'. what else are they going to do? if you deny taxes to the people who work for the public interest (ha! I choked a bit on that bit of wording) t...
[16:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:This is a bad idea - 06Booking Fees for Being Arrested - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:12] <exec> 08└─what else are they going to do? if you deny taxes to the people who work for the public interest (ha! I choked a bit on that bit of wording) then they will steal it some other way. they will find a way, and the way they find will be MUCH WORSE than if everyone just paid their fair share. but no. the...
[16:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score:2) 02Re:It should be the other way round - 06Booking Fees for Being Arrested - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:15] <exec> 08└─Then all $uspects are guilty, otherwise they wouldn't be $uspects. Today, people who have a civil damages case against a government body are charged with frivolous but expensive to defends crimes which are dismissed only if the person signs a contract agreeing not to seek the damages they're owed. Y...
[16:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02authoritarians? - 06Booking Fees for Being Arrested - 892 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:30] <exec> 08└─Where's our authoritarians? *sigh*, I guess they're out sick today so I'll try my best. If they weren't up to no good in first place, they wouldn't have been arrested! Can't pay the fine, don't do the crime! Don't these hooligans realize how much valuable time they cost our public servants? Of cours...
[16:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Which CIA - 06The CIA and Top Chef - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:52] <exec> 08└─So this really is about the Central Intelligence Agency, not the Culinary Institute of America?
[16:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:More useful as a "not here" marker - 06An Anti-CRISPR for Gene Editing - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:24:27] <exec> 08└─I cliked links and no paper
[16:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ellis D. Tripp [3416] (Score:2) 02Finding qualified shop teachers... - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:24:43] <exec> 08└─became a LOT more difficult once a degree in education became a requirement. This rules out almost all the highly skilled contractors, technicians, mechanics, and tradespeople who went directly into the workforce, and then want to get into teaching later in their careers. There were once "alternativ...
[16:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Worse than that.. - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:24:47] <exec> 08└─Curious, what warning in the bible are you referring to?
[16:24:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02The Case for Working With Your Hands - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 1436 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:24:50] <exec> 08└─http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/magazine/24labor-t.html [nytimes.com] "Yet my M.A. obscures a more real stupidification of the work I secured with that credential, and a wage to match. When I first got the degree, I felt as if I had been inducted to a certain order of society. But despite the beau...
[16:24:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:shop class - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 464 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:24:52] <exec> 08└─In high school I was "college prep" so I had to take Latin and was not permitted to take up space in metal shop or drafting. So as soon as I got to college I was informed that Latin was useless for an engineering degree and I would have to take drafting immediately. On my first job out of college I...
[16:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hmm. - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:25:11] <exec> 08└─Being able to tell your ass from a hole in the ground is not a requirement for being a plumber. When they built our house we wound up with hot water faucets on the outside of the house. Aside from that, it is not easy to outsource your plumbing needs to India.
[16:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02Re:Farmer here - 06How “Open Source” Seed Producers From the U.S. to India Are Changing Global Food Production - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:25:44] <exec> 08└─Wow, Operation Iraqi Freedom my ass.
[16:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:is hoarding and stealing smart? - 06If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? - 889 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:29] <exec> 08└─Except that the rich don't work that much harder than everybody else. It's more or less the magic of compounding interest combined with economic policies that encourage wealth to concentrate with those that already have it. With the gap being what it is, how precisely do you explain the fact that th...
[16:26:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02Re:What is "rich"? - 06If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? - 1794 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:53] <exec> 08└─My working definition of what it takes to be "upper class" or "rich": Possession of enough wealth that investment income alone is sufficient to cover living expenses plus something extra. This is an important milestone, because it makes working the 9-5 entirely optional in a way that nobody lower on...
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[17:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score:4, Funny) 02Please - 06The Farmer Who Built Her Own Broadband - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:45] <exec> 08└─Nowadays we refer to this as Womanband. What is this 1950?
[17:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score:2) 02WTF is "amazon echo"? - 06Police Seek Amazon Echo Data in Murder Case - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:59] <exec> 08└─You know some of us aren't exactly hip to all the new wonderful crap.
[17:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DonkeyChan [5551] (Score:2) 02Wording - 06Police Seek Amazon Echo Data in Murder Case - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:05] <exec> 08└─There's a key component of this statement that's important The company said in a statement on Tuesday that it "will not release customer information without a valid and binding legal demand properly served on us."
[17:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02Re:Wording - 06Police Seek Amazon Echo Data in Murder Case - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:07] <exec> 08└─Yes and I'm sure Amazon would vastly prefer it that way. If the information goes through the transparent legal process, it can only be bad for Amazon, because after all the government are not the ones paying for the product and service, and many of the actual customers will be spooked to find that p...
[17:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Called it. - 06Police Seek Amazon Echo Data in Murder Case - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:09] <exec> 08└─Only a couple of weeks ago I foretold the first time the records from one of these got sucked up in a court order these things were bound for a land fill. Because everyone here at least should realize these things are ALWAYS listening and ALWAYS connected to the cloud. Will Amazon be content to only...
[17:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:This is a bad idea - 06Booking Fees for Being Arrested - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:29] <exec> 08└─Your metaphor explains exactly why it's a bad idea: starving a parasite rarely works, you end up starving the host. Simply cutting funding creates conditions where corruption thrives, it doesn't improve the quality of services or the value for money.
[17:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score:2) 02Re:This is a bad idea - 06Booking Fees for Being Arrested - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:30] <exec> 08└─all these fees are the fault of the republicans and stupid middle america who was conned into thinking that 'taxes are always bad, never allow an increase!'.
[17:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02For-profit prisons have very little to do with it - 06Booking Fees for Being Arrested - 1013 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:38] <exec> 08└─> Welcome to for-profit prison corporations and the lobbyists that represent them. The truth is that for-profit prisons have very little to do with this problem. The prisons have contracts with the state, they get paid no matter what. As the submitted story shows, fees aren't just being levied for...
[17:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:US justice system is fucked in general - 06Booking Fees for Being Arrested - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:42] <exec> 08└─US justice system is fucked up. Where people end up paying fees because they spend time in jail? It's sure hell of a way of running a slave system.
[17:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:We need more pirates. - 06Booking Fees for Being Arrested - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:52] <exec> 08└─Home of the blave?
[17:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:We need more pirates. - 06Booking Fees for Being Arrested - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:54] <exec> 08└─Well home of the brave went once everyone started hiding under the bed from the "terrorists". It became even more hilarious when it was "ISIS" that was the bogeyman. At least in the Cold War there was a legitimate fear of nuclear annihilation.
[17:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:authoritarians? - 06Booking Fees for Being Arrested - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:58] <exec> 08└─With any luck, 2016 took them. And they're now flailing in the flames of their own evils in Hell, and dreading their upcoming reincarnations as poor, disabled black girls in the Sahel in the mid 2020s.
[17:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03OrugTor [5147] (Score:1) 02Arrest quotas - 06Booking Fees for Being Arrested - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:00] <exec> 08└─Bet they have them. And civil forfeiture quotas. Speeding fines are so passe. But still lucrative.
[17:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Brazil - 06Booking Fees for Being Arrested - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:02] <exec> 08└─Sadly, the movie Brazil is turning into reality more and more. "That is your receipt for your husband... and this is my receipt for your receipt." "Mistakes? We don't make mistakes." "Don't fight it son. Confess quickly! If you hold out too long you could jeopardize your credit rating." "I understan...
[17:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Which CIA - 06The CIA and Top Chef - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:26] <exec> 08└─Exactly. I think whoever wrote this story and had the theories at the end about the connection missed the most obvious one -- one of the most prominent culinary schools in the U.S. is the CIA, i.e., Culinary institute of America. Anyone who has hung out with any chefs will have some sort of story ab...
[17:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Awesome - 06Turkey Jails Opposition Newspaper's Cafeteria Manager - 1027 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:38] <exec> 08└─Then why are they crying about it like such whiney little bitches ? The simple fact is that Israel was founded by a bunch of anti-semitic, racist, predominantly FOREIGN, terrorist bums who invaded Palestine with the goal of setting up a religious state, complete with religious courts and where women...
[17:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:2) 02Are substantial truth and civility defenses? - 06Turkey Jails Opposition Newspaper's Cafeteria Manager - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:56] <exec> 08└─The law in question appears to be Article 301 [wikipedia.org]: A person who publicly denigrates the Turkish Nation, the State of the Turkish Republic or the Grand National Assembly of Turkey and the judicial institutions of the State shall be punishable by imprisonment from 6 months to 2 years. [......
[17:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02"President"? - 06Turkey Jails Opposition Newspaper's Cafeteria Manager - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:57] <exec> 08└─When do we start calling him what he really is: "Dictator". His coup worked very well, neutralized the army and now no one will ever be able to successfully challenge him.
[17:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe [2583] (Score:2) 02Alternative Links - 06An Anti-CRISPR for Gene Editing - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:07] <exec> 08└─An AC mentioned that the links didn't work, so I've provided some extra ones below. Sci-Hub has the pdf, but I'll avoid posting a direct link unless an editor can confirm that it is acceptable. - Joe https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov [nih.gov] http://www.sciencedirect.com
[17:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Re:Worse than that.. - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:25:25] <exec> 08└─And, right on schedule, khallow comes up with yet another unsupported Republican talking point. If public schools could be selective in the way private schools are, results would match private schools.
[17:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Worse than that.. - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:25:26] <exec> 08└─And, right on schedule, khallow comes up with yet another unsupported Republican talking point.
[17:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Worse than that.. - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:25:32] <exec> 08└─We have been warned ( by the Bible )
[17:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Sea story? - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:26:06] <exec> 08└─Conversations can be enlightening. Arguments can be both entertaining and educational. Both of these men were senior to me by several years, it wasn't my place to discipline them!
[17:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:Arrogant Prick - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 1254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:26:12] <exec> 08└─This is called the "Peter Principle" in the workplace. It happens when someone is promoted to a role beyond their competence--hopefully not to far into incompetent territory. Unfortunately, many colleges have no problems accepting money in exchange for incompetent students. Workplaces often suffer f...
[17:27:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:is hoarding and stealing smart? - 06If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:27:12] <exec> 08└─> Except that the rich don't work that much harder than everybody else says someone who knows absolutley no rich people.
[17:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Define Rich - 06If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:27:32] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure how pointing out our collective privilege is "classiest".
[17:28:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Dems = Whiners - 06The Real Lesson of the Alleged Russian Hack - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:38] <exec> 08└─I voted for H, but still think that Democrats are really acting like whiners on this issue. If the legitimacy of our elections depends on John Podesta's email not being hacked, then he should protect it better. It's not that difficult, and the media should call him out for being irresponsible. There...
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[18:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03iWantToKeepAnon [686] (Score:4, Touché) 02The Real "only problem with that" … - 06The Farmer Who Built Her Own Broadband - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:44] <exec> 08└─Heh, TL;DR eh? This is a BBC article about a woman in the Lune Valley LANCASTER ENGLAND.
[18:22:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] 02Please - 06The Farmer Who Built Her Own Broadband - 59 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:45] <exec> 08└─Nowadays we refer to this as Womanband. What is this 1950?
[18:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Some fucking feminist cunt used men's tech - 06The Farmer Who Built Her Own Broadband - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:47] <exec> 08└─Some fucking feminist cunt used men's tech. Who gives a shit. She's opposed to men taking female children as brides. Should be removed.
[18:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Dupe - 06The Farmer Who Built Her Own Broadband - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:49] <exec> 08└─As pointed out on the green site. This is a rehash of a story from 3 years ago.
[18:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:This is a bad idea - 06Booking Fees for Being Arrested - 3054 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:31] <exec> 08└─Well if we are agreed they are parasites and cutting direct funding only inspired them to new levels of corruption, what is your solution? I can see two: 1. Double down on the penalties. These sort of things always start in Democrat Machine cities where they can prey on their helpless underclass. Th...
[18:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Giant sucking sound - 06Booking Fees for Being Arrested - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:53] <exec> 08└─They put the cash into a bank because if they left all those wallets intact they know their corrupt employees would pilfer the money while it was stored and the government would have to replace it since the booking records show it was there at the time of arrest. Remember, Democrat machines aren't j...
[18:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03messymerry [6369] (Score:1) 02Punctuation... - 06Booking Fees for Being Arrested - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:59] <exec> 08└─They got the punctuation wrong. It should be the "criminal" justice system. I can sum justice in the alleged "United" States in five words: Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch. 'nuff said, ;-D
[18:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:Free meals... - 06The CIA and Top Chef - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:18] <exec> 08└─"altruistic reasons" would be anonymously donating food to the poor. Keeping cops around by giving them free donuts & coffee is bribery.
[18:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Executives are busy people - 06The CIA and Top Chef - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:25] <exec> 08└─First, this was authentic – Panetta really was called away on some important business. But the Director of the CIA isn't usually involved in anything urgent. He's a political appointee, increasingly so as time goes on, he's not running live operations. So I find that unconvincing, though possible.
[18:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Awesome - 06Turkey Jails Opposition Newspaper's Cafeteria Manager - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:37] <exec> 08└─One solution would be for one of the groups to kill off everyone in the other group.
[18:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Awesome - 06Turkey Jails Opposition Newspaper's Cafeteria Manager - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:42] <exec> 08└─Well, the Zionists are irrefutably wrong in their illegal occupation and general ethnic cleansing and they know it => they have no counter argument to present, so their only strategy is to distract attention from their crimes (by citing what others are doing), or the more usual strategy of closing d...
[18:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"President"? - 06Turkey Jails Opposition Newspaper's Cafeteria Manager - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:58] <exec> 08└─If he legalizes child marriage of QT little girlies to men, then that is just fine. Anzu should have been married over a decade ago.
[18:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Worse than that.. - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:25:30] <exec> 08└─It's the one on the last page that reads "The End".
[18:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:elitist schooling, not education - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:25:49] <exec> 08└─Idiot discovers head stuck up arse* , finds it hard to talk.
[18:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:elitist schooling, not education - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 2200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:25:50] <exec> 08└─Actually, the author IS right about one thing -- which is that many Ivy League kids today are basically taught (through experience) that they will never fail. And that is a problem. My prescription would be to introduce the MIT freshman grading system [mitadmissions.org] to more elite schools. Basic...
[18:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:elitist schooling, not education - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:25:54] <exec> 08└─They aren't about education, no matter how much they claim otherwise. They're about privilege.
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[19:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03BenJeremy [6392] (Score:1) 02That explains a lot - 06Music in the Brain: The First Imaging Genetic Study Linking Dopaminergic Genes to Music - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:44] <exec> 08└─Like my dislike for Rap made after the mid-90s and the dulcet pig squeals of screamo. I have human genes.
[19:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:That explains a lot - 06Music in the Brain: The First Imaging Genetic Study Linking Dopaminergic Genes to Music - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:22:46] <exec> 08└─Pretty much. There was still some interesting stuff to be had into the mid noughties, but it was harder and harder to find. I blame the over-availability of technology coupled with a glut of terrible music drowning out the actual artists looking to express something they believed in. How many songs...
[19:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Uh... music therapy, anyone? - 06Music in the Brain: The First Imaging Genetic Study Linking Dopaminergic Genes to Music - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:48] <exec> 08└─From TFA: "This study represents the first use of the imaging genetics approach in the field of music and sounds in general. We are really excited about our results because they suggest that even a non-pharmacological intervention such as music, might regulate mood and emotional responses at both t...
[19:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Uh... music therapy, anyone? - 06Music in the Brain: The First Imaging Genetic Study Linking Dopaminergic Genes to Music - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:22:50] <exec> 08└─... yadda yadda yadda ... music therapy ... yadda yadda yadda ... You are absolutely correct, but this study proves music therapy is causing a physical reaction rather than just an emotional/psychological reaction. That is an important distinction for many aspects of treatment & acceptance including...
[19:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:The Real "only problem with that" … - 06The Farmer Who Built Her Own Broadband - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:01] <exec> 08└─Heh, TL;DR eh? This is a BBC article about a woman in the Lune Valley LANCASTER ENGLAND.
[19:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Some fucking feminist cunt used men's tech - 06The Farmer Who Built Her Own Broadband - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:05] <exec> 08└─Then why don't you swim your ass all the way out there to Lune and "remove" her? Oh, right, because you're a flabby, pasty, impotent, needle-dicked paedophile with the muscle tone of a block of tofu and half the brains. Shaddap and go back to beating off to your Cabbage Patch doll collection, you wo...
[19:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The force is strong with this one... - 06The Farmer Who Built Her Own Broadband - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:09] <exec> 08└─I would prefer the acro. J.E.D.I As in: Just Effing Do It. Not only can you then describe it on puritanical news sites, I find the inclusion of the vowel at position two make it feel like a real word. Of course it is not a real word, but it could be.
[19:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Internet of Shit - 06Police Seek Amazon Echo Data in Murder Case - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:30] <exec> 08└─And this is why I am never, ever going to allow anything like this in my living space. Combined with the much-abused "third party" doctrine this is corrupt, lazy law enforcement's wet dream and everyone else's nightmare. Orwell never expected, when he wrote 1984, that we would be buying telescreens,...
[19:23:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02This is a bad idea - 06Booking Fees for Being Arrested - 229 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:39] <exec> 08└─It gives the cops a reason to arrest to, whether you've actually done anything or not. Police can't get a raise because the state says it doesn't have the money? Just start arresting people willy nilly and watch the cash roll in.
[19:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:This is a bad idea - 06Booking Fees for Being Arrested - 1676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:53] <exec> 08└─I grew up with the half-lie that taxes were a civic duty to help keep the roads and bridges in good condition, and I believed it for a while. Once you google America's military budget, the ugly truth seems rather blatant. Every time I submit to taxes I hate myself for not refusing to pay my "fair sh...
[19:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:This is a bad idea - 06Booking Fees for Being Arrested - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:55] <exec> 08└─but no. the repuglicans keep forcing this 'dont pay any more taxes!' bullshit and this is what we are left with. roads that can't be fixed, sewers that fall apart, bridges that crumble and are unsafe, power grid and network grid that need serious upgrading, etc etc. but lets not pay more taxes! no n...
[19:23:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02It should be the other way round - 06Booking Fees for Being Arrested - 153 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:57] <exec> 08└─If you are arrested but the charges are dismissed, you've obviously been arrested without sufficient cause, therefore you should get compensation for it.
[19:24:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02US justice system is fucked in general - 06Booking Fees for Being Arrested - 1012 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:01] <exec> 08└─US justice system is fucked up. Where people end up paying fees because they spend time in jail? It's sure hell of a way of running a slave system. Yes, slaves to the prisons. 1. go to jail 2. get charged daily board for your "accommodations and food" 3. get out of jail, want to get a job but can't...
[19:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Prove yourself innocent? - 06Booking Fees for Being Arrested - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:24:12] <exec> 08└─WTF?! What happened to at least paying lip service to the constitution?
[19:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Giant sucking sound - 06Booking Fees for Being Arrested - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:24:22] <exec> 08└─Harharhar you partisan hack. They're all corrupt and greedy, that's the real NWO.
[19:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Weasley [6421] (Score:1) 02Take the profit out of law enforcement - 06Booking Fees for Being Arrested - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:29] <exec> 08└─My taxes are supposed to pay for this stuff (literally, I'm a Coloradan). The police should not get a single penny from booking people, writing tickets, seizing property, or imprisoning people. What is wrong with this country? We all know corruption exists in government, but when did it start becomi...
[19:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Even if charges are dismissed. - 06Booking Fees for Being Arrested - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:31] <exec> 08└─Ya, that will hold up after the first suit. ACLU will be all over this one. Idiots.
[19:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Uber Uber - 06First Movie of Energy Transfer in Photosynthesis Solves Decades-Old Debate - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:24:42] <exec> 08└─Then you just cut rates to below zero and make sure that inflation is high enough that they can't afford to save money. Also, you change the bankruptcy laws so that they can't get their debt discharged in court. By the time the economy tanks, the execs have already got their bonuses and are living s...
[19:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ayn Anonymous [5012] (Score:2) 02Free access to the original paper - 06First Movie of Energy Transfer in Photosynthesis Solves Decades-Old Debate - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:44] <exec> 08└─is here: http://dx.doi.org.sci-hub.cc [sci-hub.cc] Don't support the parasite publisher. Support Sci-hub https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Every time you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world you want.
[19:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Worse than that.. - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:06] <exec> 08└─We've also been warned by the Bible not to plant two or more kinds of grain in one field, wear mixed fabrics, or let a guy with cataracts into the Temple. How about you appeal to reality as to why this is a bad idea instead of a collection of books written by bloodthirsty Iron-age savages wondering...
[19:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:whiny bitch - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:17] <exec> 08└─Just because this fellow never learned the art of conversation hardly means that's the fault of the Ivies. What a whiny little jackass. I guess you could argue that it's the Ivie's fault for accepting a student that's too stupid to pick up a DIY book.
[19:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:''gene-tweaking [...] on a pc'' - 06How “Open Source” Seed Producers From the U.S. to India Are Changing Global Food Production - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:08] <exec> 08└─That would certainly make direct editing slightly more convenient for those well versed in the language. But the source *is* unavoidably distributed with every copy of the organism, available to sequencing for a modest fee (I believe it was a few thousand dollars last time I noticed, might well be n...
[19:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''Free genetic material'' - 06How “Open Source” Seed Producers From the U.S. to India Are Changing Global Food Production - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:10] <exec> 08└─calling that open source [...] is too broad. Free genetic material would be better Right. (I would have said "gratis".) "Is able to be reverse-engineered" is nowhere near "Open Source". [google.com] We've been over this exact topic previously. [soylentnews.org] Multiple times. [soylentnews.org] Clea...
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[20:22:43] <exec> 08└─You developed your musical preference during your formative years while you were forming your social identity. By saying that happened in the mid-90s, all you're doing is announcing your age as mid-thirties.
[20:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02Re:The Real "only problem with that" … - 06The Farmer Who Built Her Own Broadband - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:57] <exec> 08└─Local car manufacturers paid for laws that state that all cars should place the driver on the left. The BBC wrote a story about a foreign farmer in a foreign land who built a car for foreign roads with the driver on the right and it works just as good as the left hand cars and it costs less to manuf...
[20:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02How dare you! - 06The Farmer Who Built Her Own Broadband - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:01] <exec> 08└─How dare you insult tofu like this! I demand that you liken the OP to something less attractive - although I will concede that tofu is intellectually superior to the OP too!
[20:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02Re:The force is strong with this one... - 06The Farmer Who Built Her Own Broadband - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:05] <exec> 08└─Disney has some lawyers that would like to send you a few fan letters. Would you be so kind to provide a mailing address?
[20:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Warrants - 06Police Seek Amazon Echo Data in Murder Case - 1734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:24] <exec> 08└─You may need to get your Trek right. Personal logs weren't something I think every single citizen was using, but something found on space ships. That makes sense when some really hairy shit can happen in space and you *need* something like that. Accessing a personal log required authority, like say,...
[20:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Giant sucking sound - 06Booking Fees for Being Arrested - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:24:16] <exec> 08└─Pray tell us where a Republican machine still runs an American city. Ojce upon a time they existed, no more.
[20:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Free meals... - 06The CIA and Top Chef - 1075 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:24:45] <exec> 08└─1) I'm a little disappointed this isn't about the CIA and Swedish Chef, which was how I initially read the headlines. The CIA training a Muppet for live ops seems like a much better use of their time. 2) Bribery is a bit harsh. Offering a discount to cops serving the community isn't an intrinsically...
[20:27:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Jill Stein - 06How “Open Source” Seed Producers From the U.S. to India Are Changing Global Food Production - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:27:05] <exec> 08└─What little Jill Stein has said about patents leans in the direction of protectionism/anti-piracy. In this interview, she chastises universities for making getting patents a top priority. A conversation with Jill Stein: what the Green Party candidate believes [vox.com] This site attempts to put word...
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[21:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score:2) 02How much? - 06Missing MH370: Investigators Looking in the Wrong Place - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:40] <exec> 08└─I understand that these sorts of horrible accidents are painful for relatives and that government agencies have a genuine need to gather debris to figure out what happened. But by now, the cost for this search has probably grown into the millions of dollars. How much is that data worth after all thi...
[21:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score:1) 02Re:How much? - 06Missing MH370: Investigators Looking in the Wrong Place - 1266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:42] <exec> 08└─It's more than simple closure. A lot of people, nations, and companies have stakes in an airplane, particularly a big one. Big planes are behemoths, not just technologically, or economically, but also politically. For a sample of the kinds of entities involved: You've got the airline and its contrac...
[21:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:How much? - 06Missing MH370: Investigators Looking in the Wrong Place - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:44] <exec> 08└─How much is that data worth after all this time?
[21:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That explains a lot - 06Music in the Brain: The First Imaging Genetic Study Linking Dopaminergic Genes to Music - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:55] <exec> 08└─You developed your musical preference during your formative years while you were forming your social identity. By saying that happened in the mid-90s, all you're doing is announcing your age as mid-thirties.
[21:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That explains a lot - 06Music in the Brain: The First Imaging Genetic Study Linking Dopaminergic Genes to Music - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:57] <exec> 08└─Geezers agree, classic rock is the best.
[21:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:That explains a lot - 06Music in the Brain: The First Imaging Genetic Study Linking Dopaminergic Genes to Music - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:00] <exec> 08└─I'm 31 and I like what came out of the 60s and 70s better than anything later. What's going on here then, reincarnation hangover?
[21:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''England'' - 06The Farmer Who Built Her Own Broadband - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:14] <exec> 08└─We've had some previous related stories. German Village Expanding Self-Built [fiber] Broadband Network [soylentnews.org] The group hopes to connect 59 villages in the county by 2021
[21:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Giant sucking sound - 06Booking Fees for Being Arrested - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:24:36] <exec> 08└─Oh shut the fuck up you partisan hack! This has nothing to do with trusting cops with physical bills. Put it in a bank you moron? What fucking bank? Are they complying with the Patriot Act? Is it FDIC regulated? Leave their PROPERTY in a fucking locked cage. The real issue here is that they are insp...
[21:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03SecurityGuy [1453] (Score:2) 02Re:Take the profit out of law enforcement - 06Booking Fees for Being Arrested - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:24:43] <exec> 08└─Couldn't agree more. I pay taxes for the bad guys to get arrested. There's no need at all to charge people money for arresting them.
[21:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score:2) 02Re:Which CIA - 06The CIA and Top Chef - 758 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:25:14] <exec> 08└─I'd be surprised if you get the chance to film at the CIA HQ and get to feature the CIA Director in your TV show just because it would be good for a pun... TFS also makes note of how many other government/military tie-ins the series had. That said, i'm sure there was some kind of jokes in there, but...
[21:29:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Alleged? - 06The Real Lesson of the Alleged Russian Hack - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:29:12] <exec> 08└─True, but completely besides the point, which was that the US intelligence community says they have [roof it was Russia, and it's damned troubling to have the President Elect who is either lying (normal for a politician... drain the swamp?) or doesn't credit his workers with knowing what they're doi...
[21:29:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03lgw [2836] (Score:2) 02Re:LOL! - 06U.S. NDAA Calls for Space-Based Missile Defense - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:29:50] <exec> 08└─1 - yes, that's why I specified a system that wouldn't be good at attacking land targets, such a laser or shotgun-based system. 2 - it's a good thing we have missile launch codes and would never just set all of them to 11111111 - oh, wait.
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[22:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Alarmists ... - 06According to a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Assessment, “Mosul Dam is World's Most Dangerous Dam" - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:37] <exec> 08└─This was already covered a while back by a much more trustworthy news source [slashdot.org] :-).
[22:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Alarmists ... - 06According to a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Assessment, “Mosul Dam is World's Most Dangerous Dam" - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:39] <exec> 08└─I read the CNN piece earlier. It is of the same quality as the newyorker piece and both are better than the 4 on SD. Rather fluff and low on details. The reason is neglect. They do not know how bad it is. So they throw scary numbers up. It *could* be that bad. But this story tells us not much other...
[22:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score:2) 02Re:Alarmists ... - 06According to a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Assessment, “Mosul Dam is World's Most Dangerous Dam" - 879 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:41] <exec> 08└─Frankly, if this really is as serious as they are making out and not just alarmist clickbait, then I'm also baffled as to how this still appears to be the same scale of problem that it was the first time the state of the dam was covered in western media. That was in early 2016, and other than the br...
[22:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Alarmists ... - 06According to a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Assessment, “Mosul Dam is World's Most Dangerous Dam" - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:43] <exec> 08└─I almost RFTA there for a second, but you guys talked me out of it.
[22:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That explains a lot - 06Music in the Brain: The First Imaging Genetic Study Linking Dopaminergic Genes to Music - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:05] <exec> 08└─I reincarnated as a human... Music preferences are the least of my concerns!
[22:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That explains a lot - 06Music in the Brain: The First Imaging Genetic Study Linking Dopaminergic Genes to Music - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:06] <exec> 08└─Sounds like you spent your formative years hanging out with the older generation instead of kids your own age. Or your radio was broken and stuck tuned to an oldies station.
[22:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:2) 02Charms - 06Music in the Brain: The First Imaging Genetic Study Linking Dopaminergic Genes to Music - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:10] <exec> 08└─Interesting points, but would like to add that the concept was known long ago; here's a famous quote: Source: http://www.bartleby.com [bartleby.com]: "Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak." --William Congreve NUMBER: 3183AUTHOR: William C...
[22:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The force is strong with this one... - 06The Farmer Who Built Her Own Broadband - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:31] <exec> 08└─Yeah...that law does not do what you think it does. I can say it whenever and how often I like, doubly so since I am not a US citizen.
[22:23:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] 02Figures - 06Police Seek Amazon Echo Data in Murder Case - 124 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:38] <exec> 08└─Well, when you advertise your device as "always on, always listening", expect these kinds of requests. I will never own one.
[22:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Re:This is a bad idea - 06Booking Fees for Being Arrested - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:10] <exec> 08└─"Sure you can have my $25. You'll just have to travel to the Zurich branch and submit this voucher. Oh no officer, I don't have any funds [ok, mild exaggeration] in the US." "I understand, Mr. Dirtbag. Alternatively, we can subject you to about 45 seconds of police brutality instead. Is that ok?" "C...
[22:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:This is a bad idea - 06Booking Fees for Being Arrested - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:14] <exec> 08└─From Wikipedia: [wikipedia.org] A day-fine or day fine or unit fine is a unit of fine payment that, above a minimum fine, is based on the offender's daily personal income. […] Jurisdictions employing the day-fine include Finland (Finnish: päiväsakko), Sweden (Swedish: dagsbot), Denmark (Danish:...
[22:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"President"? - 06Turkey Jails Opposition Newspaper's Cafeteria Manager - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:25:55] <exec> 08└─Fucking lol. Your d*uter0n0my evangelism was just a lie and you're /pol/tard.
[22:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Worse than that.. - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:26:23] <exec> 08└─A talking point doesn't become any more or less true just because you call it a talking point.
[22:28:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:What is "rich"? - 06If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:28:41] <exec> 08└─I don't entirely disagree, but when you're talking about economic situations, the ability to tell your boss that you walk is a big help in being able to pursue meaningful and rewarding life goals. Sheer cash can also be a big help for pursuing meaningful work. Far too many plans for meaningful effor...
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[23:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Build a Wall - 06According to a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Assessment, “Mosul Dam is World's Most Dangerous Dam" - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:39] <exec> 08└─Make the gypsum pay to build a wall.
[23:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02News from the Future? - 06According to a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Assessment, “Mosul Dam is World's Most Dangerous Dam" - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:41] <exec> 08└─http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/02/a-bigger-problem-than-isis
[23:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Frosty Piss [4971] (Score:1) 02Re:News from the Future? - 06According to a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Assessment, “Mosul Dam is World's Most Dangerous Dam" - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:43] <exec> 08└─Moron.
[23:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:How much? - 06Missing MH370: Investigators Looking in the Wrong Place - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:53] <exec> 08└─A lot of people, nations, and companies have stakes in an airplane, particularly a big one. Big planes are behemoths, not just technologically, or economically, but also politically.
[23:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Scale - 06Missing MH370: Investigators Looking in the Wrong Place - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:56] <exec> 08└─old page now, but this gives a good graphical representation of the scale of the search area (before they knocked about half off) http://www.washingtonpost.com [washingtonpost.com]
[23:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:2) 02Music To Work^W Code By [Slightly OT] - 06Music in the Brain: The First Imaging Genetic Study Linking Dopaminergic Genes to Music - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:15] <exec> 08└─♩♩♫♩ I've been working on the railroad... ♩♩♫♩ There are many examples of tedious work for which songs have been created to help while the hours away. When I'm cranking out code, I like to have fast-paced rock-n-roll playing on my earphones. I know the tunes well. It blocks out other...
[23:23:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02Internet of Shit - 06Police Seek Amazon Echo Data in Murder Case - 403 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:58] <exec> 08└─And this is why I am never, ever going to allow anything like this in my living space. Combined with the much-abused "third party" doctrine this is corrupt, lazy law enforcement's wet dream and everyone else's nightmare. Orwell never expected, when he wrote 1984, that we would be buying telescreens,...
[23:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score:2) 02Re:Internet of Shit - 06Police Seek Amazon Echo Data in Murder Case - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:24:00] <exec> 08└─Funny, that's nearly verbatim the talk I give people when they ask why I don't own an XBox with Kinect... +1 insightful for you.
[23:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Free access to the original paper - 06First Movie of Energy Transfer in Photosynthesis Solves Decades-Old Debate - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:25:13] <exec> 08└─If you bothered to click the original link provided in TFA you would perhaps have noticed that the Nature Communications article is open access without weasling through sci-hub
[23:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Free meals... - 06The CIA and Top Chef - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:25:25] <exec> 08└─Offering a discount to cops serving the community isn't an intrinsically bad thing,
[23:26:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03theronb [2596] (Score:1) 02Re:Worse than that.. - 06The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:26:43] <exec> 08└─I'll second that on Habitat, and you might just learn something that you'll find useful and rewarding even if you don't have to make a living at it. Also, "And be just a little bit humble." Ask a few questions, show you're interested in what they think and know. You probably already know to do that...
[23:28:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:If you're so smart(accurate edition) - 06If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:28:18] <exec> 08└─You may be smart, but you appear to be uneducated. Not "less", the proper word is fewer.
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