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[00:05:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:fast vs quick - 06Faraday Future Unveils Super Quick Electric Car at CES 2017 - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:05:00] <exec> 08└─If you think higher gears will make you go faster, you've not understood the mechanics fully.
[00:05:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02Re:There's a lesson here - 06Richard Feynman Put Himself on the FBI's Do Not Call List - 187 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:05:13] <exec> 08└─It is a very correct argument though, since the whole US economy is based on getting (or feeling that you have) as many things as possible so you can be trapped by the fear of losing them
[00:05:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:There's a lesson here - 06Richard Feynman Put Himself on the FBI's Do Not Call List - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:05:21] <exec> 08└─Invent some groundbreaking tech and you too can push around the FBI. Just kidding! Not anymore! We're all on a list of one sort or another... I bet asking them to stop will simply upgrade your threat level nowadays.
[00:05:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Busy Work for Sociopaths - 06Richard Feynman Put Himself on the FBI's Do Not Call List - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:05:30] <exec> 08└─... as opposed to...?
[00:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:yes - 06Microsoft's Browsers May Have Hit Rock Bottom - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:06:19] <exec> 08└─Wortmann.de sells computers with FreeDOS and OpenGEM pre-installed, according to another commenter. /comments.pl?sid=16903&cid=439178#commentwrap [soylentnews.org]
[00:06:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] 02is Edge that bad? - 06Microsoft's Browsers May Have Hit Rock Bottom - 914 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:33] <exec> 08└─Most of the other posters are saying it doesn't matter, it's Windows 10, but here's an actual opinion of Edge. Yes, it is bad. Featurewise, Edge is very similar to IE 11, but does less. There are sites I must use IE 11 for, because Edge does not work with them. IE 11 is still the default browser for...
[00:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:speaking of IE - 06Microsoft's Browsers May Have Hit Rock Bottom - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:06:46] <exec> 08└─FWIW, you don't need crossover cables any more. Not in the last decade or so. The NICs figure it out between themselves.
[00:07:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:We don't care, because we don't have to - 06Why Skimming Will Grow in 2017 - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:07:03] <exec> 08└─We left the UK in 1776, you chump. Up yours, as well.
[00:07:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:The update displayed the following... - 06Xmas Software Update to US Customs Computer Systems Didn't Work Too Well - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:07:50] <exec> 08└─and then Bill took Santa from behind, as he has been doing to MS users for Y E A R S ! ! ! (but Santa barely noticed because, you know, Micro and Soft.)
[00:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Fuck this - 06Tech Outlook Dampened by Political Uncertainty - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:24] <exec> 08└─At least you managed to spell "force" correctly, unlike duck tape. There's a reason "duct tape" isn't used on ducts: because it's not called "duct tape" at all, it's called "duck tape".
[00:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02time to stock up - 06One Man's Quest to Change the Way We Die - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:53] <exec> 08└─This is a great time to buy exit bags and nitrogen, before prices go through the roof.
[00:12:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Toddlers killed more people than terrorists - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 1506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:12:04] <exec> 08└─The Jesuits are going to find that that saying backfires on them rather badly; they're right, just in the precise opposite of the way they think they are. That is, anyone who can actually sit down with the Bible and read it, especially if you can do it in the original languages as I can, and come aw...
[00:12:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Collaborator - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 1438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:12:08] <exec> 08└─That last line of yours is idiocy. The 20th century communist dictators ran cults of personality, religions in all but name. You're gonna tell me "don't look at Dear Leader's portrait lest it blind you" is atheist thinking?! Good grief I'm not even an atheist and that pisses me off. Actually the res...
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[01:04:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score:2) 02Facebook is retarded - 06Facebook Censors Nude Neptune Statue, Writer Says - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:04:42] <exec> 08└─News at 23:00
[01:04:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Hot Neptunian Dick - 06Facebook Censors Nude Neptune Statue, Writer Says - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:04:43] <exec> 08└─News reported Facebook Live from inside your own ass.
[01:04:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02relevant image - 06Facebook Censors Nude Neptune Statue, Writer Says - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:04:45] <exec> 08└─https://cnet2.cbsistatic.com/img/kTAS9zjuUtcKt2CQw1JBZLl8U0I=/2010/07/10/85fd6b0e-fdc3-11e2-8c7c-d4ae52e62bcc/Opheliamain-420x0.jpg [cbsistatic.com]
[01:04:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02In the meantime - 06Facebook Censors Nude Neptune Statue, Writer Says - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:04:48] <exec> 08└─Fresh out of the media, FB let the torture of a special needs guy by four "members of the human race" run for 30 minutes. http://nypost.com [nypost.com] meatbags gonna meat.
[01:05:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:fast vs quick - 06Faraday Future Unveils Super Quick Electric Car at CES 2017 - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:05:04] <exec> 08└─Yeah, we went through this song and dance with this recent article: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] The error will probably be made perpetually.
[01:05:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:fast vs quick - 06Faraday Future Unveils Super Quick Electric Car at CES 2017 - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:05:10] <exec> 08└─My point was that I used to cruise past 200km/h with less than 100 horses (peugeot 806 minivan, 98HP minus the GPL penalty), which you now find in most US econoboxes. Sure, if your idea of "top speed" is past 250km/h, getting good power starts to matter. But most non-exotic cars are limited by geari...
[01:05:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Nothing to Hide? Shit in the middle of mainstre - 06Richard Feynman Put Himself on the FBI's Do Not Call List - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:05:30] <exec> 08└─> That's our problem -- we don't frame privacy questions in sufficiently extreme terms to make people realize what they're actually giving up. Not just privacy questions... Ask people about repealing Obamacare, or Net Neutrality, and you will get very different responses than if you ask them about t...
[01:05:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Busy Work for Sociopaths - 06Richard Feynman Put Himself on the FBI's Do Not Call List - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:05:40] <exec> 08└─> [...] government is merely a work program for society's knuckle-dragging bullies. Dr. Feynman worked for the government.
[01:05:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Busy Work for Sociopaths - 06Richard Feynman Put Himself on the FBI's Do Not Call List - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:05:42] <exec> 08└─That proves it then! He was either a knuckle-dragging bully or very strongly pro-knuckle-dragging bully.
[01:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score:2) 02re Electronic money - 06Gemcoin, Cryptocurrency That Never Existed, Was a Scam All Along - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:05:57] <exec> 08└─Some days ago I was researching something quite similar, because someone said most money in circulation was no longer printed and threw a figure of 90-95% of all money existed only as bits on some computer. I could not find a real source of U.S. money but found an official U.K. [whatdotheyknow.com]...
[01:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:re Electronic money - 06Gemcoin, Cryptocurrency That Never Existed, Was a Scam All Along - 775 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:05:58] <exec> 08└─I think the 90-95% figure answers the question "what fraction of the economy (the flow of "money"), is simply the exchange of things with no intrinsic value?". And I think it's at the upper end of that range. That puts most of us in rather a large bubble. Anyone who's lived through hyperinflation kn...
[01:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score:2) 02re Electronic money - 06Gemcoin, Cryptocurrency That Never Existed, Was a Scam All Along - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:06:02] <exec> 08└─In effect, all currency is worth whatever people believe it is. Dollars, Euros, Pounds, whatever are backed by nothing but the promise of some government that they would take them as payment. Quoting from the Treasury [treasury.gov] of the U.S. "United States coins and currency (including Federal...
[01:06:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:yes - 06Microsoft's Browsers May Have Hit Rock Bottom - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:06:35] <exec> 08└─Given the price of MS products When was the last time you or someone you know paid to use an MS product on their computer outside of a corp or data center? For most people it comes on the computer. They do not care much so long as it opens their email or whatever website they want.
[01:06:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score:2) 02Re:Question? - 06Microsoft's Browsers May Have Hit Rock Bottom - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:06:49] <exec> 08└─The only redeeming features in Edge I can think of is that the rendering engine actually appears to work for just about everything, and on a phone Edge is a lot more pleasant to use than IE. Of course, the Edge UI is completely different on the phone vs desktop (or at least was last time I used it,...
[01:06:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Question? - 06Microsoft's Browsers May Have Hit Rock Bottom - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:06:51] <exec> 08└─Hmmm, I detect a disturbance in the Force! First charon answers my rhetorical question about a rhetorical question, once again breaking the SoylentNews Irony Meter, this time maybe to beyond repair. And now a comment by someone who evidently does not even know what a rhetorical question is, which is...
[01:07:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:speaking of IE - 06Microsoft's Browsers May Have Hit Rock Bottom - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:07:09] <exec> 08└─Random thought? Given your "virgin" install, it might have been faster to copy your 50GB file to a USB 2/3 portable drive, then copy off that drive?
[01:11:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedIsNotGreen [2191] (Score:1) 02Re:brand new? It didn't exist until we saw it? - 06A Brand-New Human Organ Has Been Classified - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:11:10] <exec> 08└─Not according to quantum theory...
[01:12:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score:2) 02Re:Choose - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 1389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:12:00] <exec> 08└─Tribalism ie. "we're good, they're evil" is incorrect... it's a human failing to tell ourselves these lies when we get too afraid. In reality people are people - I've known Iranians, Somalis, Pakistanis, Sudanese etc... in general they're probably more aware of the best and worst of human nature, ju...
[01:12:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Toddlers killed more people than terrorists - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:12:29] <exec> 08└─Looks like you found exactly what you wanted to find. “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.” ― Anaïs Nin
[01:12:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Collaborator - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:12:35] <exec> 08└─Actually the rest of that post is idiotic too. You don't seem to understand what is meant by "moderates legitimize the extremists." This is twofold: first, "moderate" is always defined relative to two extremes, and second, those two extremes of a given worldview may themselves be far to one extreme...
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[02:04:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02"Diversity" - 06Google ‘Refuses’ to Hand Over Pay Data, Gets Sued by Feds - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:04:45] <exec> 08└─Hey Google, why don't you have more people of color working hard software and engineering roles? Aren't you all about diversity, like when your google doodle of the space mission depicted blacks and women when it was in actuality all white men?
[02:04:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Diversity" - 06Google ‘Refuses’ to Hand Over Pay Data, Gets Sued by Feds - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:04:47] <exec> 08└─OR its all h1b and they do not want to say what they are getting paid?
[02:04:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:"Diversity" - 06Google ‘Refuses’ to Hand Over Pay Data, Gets Sued by Feds - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:04:49] <exec> 08└─Google is all about gay rights and women's rights. They aren't so much into race relations. Google is into effeminate traits, and blacks aren't especially effeminate. Imagine that - the human rights advocate may actually be in violation of federal law, because they don't respect blacks.
[02:04:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:In the meantime - 06Facebook Censors Nude Neptune Statue, Writer Says - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:04:59] <exec> 08└─It was violent, therefore it was only bad because there was a victim likely to sue. Boobs are always bad, mmkay?
[02:05:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:fast vs quick - 06Faraday Future Unveils Super Quick Electric Car at CES 2017 - 1213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:05:24] <exec> 08└─I agree that for practical reasons, indeed power is not the limit. But for tweakers, on a private track with a long enough straight, or a simple law-breaker (isn't that what the M45 was for, before all the cameras popped up?) the mechanically-limited top speed is to first approximation a function of...
[02:05:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03hamsterdan [2829] (Score:2) 02Re:fast vs quick - 06Faraday Future Unveils Super Quick Electric Car at CES 2017 - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:05:25] <exec> 08└─Agreed. My 96HP '79 Celica GT could go pretty fast (Speedometer wouldn't go past 180), it just took a lot more time to get to that speed than my V8 Grand Marquis.
[02:05:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03hamsterdan [2829] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:fast vs quick - 06Faraday Future Unveils Super Quick Electric Car at CES 2017 - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:05:27] <exec> 08└─Torque (Electric or big displacement (V8 or turbo/super charged V6)) is how fast you can start moving a car. That's why Tesla cars (or most electrics) can do under 3 seconds from a standing start.
[02:05:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:the poison pen letter - 06Richard Feynman Put Himself on the FBI's Do Not Call List - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:05:52] <exec> 08└─Why isn't there a -1 Idiot moderation? That's not only the wrong decade, it's the wrong century.
[02:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Busy Work for Sociopaths - 06Richard Feynman Put Himself on the FBI's Do Not Call List - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:05:58] <exec> 08└─You mama........... bish
[02:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:1) 02Re:Busy Work for Sociopaths - 06Richard Feynman Put Himself on the FBI's Do Not Call List - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:06:02] <exec> 08└─I still love you.
[02:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score:2) 02Re:re Electronic money - 06Gemcoin, Cryptocurrency That Never Existed, Was a Scam All Along - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:06:19] <exec> 08└─Very good story. Actually he was honest, he could have pocketed the note and told you quite truthfully that it was worth nothing ;-) Thinking about this it dawned on me that I never tried to exchange U.S. dollars for gold, back when you supposedly could, may I would have learned something.
[02:06:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02greed - 06Gemcoin, Cryptocurrency That Never Existed, Was a Scam All Along - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:32] <exec> 08└─1849. Learn. Again. and. Again. and. Again.
[02:07:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:We don't care, because we don't have to - 06Why Skimming Will Grow in 2017 - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:07:47] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but you didn't up your game. Have you not noticed you're still the wild west?
[02:07:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Working overtime? - 06Why Skimming Will Grow in 2017 - 827 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:07:56] <exec> 08└─I'm in different countries a lot (OK, the same few countries over and over again, but still, I perform many international transactions). Sometimes the remote verification of the transaction happens quicker than the local PIN verification stage. Both of which together are quicker than the time it tak...
[02:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Toddlers killed more people than terrorists - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:12:52] <exec> 08└─Cut the postmodern horseshit. Do you need me to pull up the relevant verses for you and paste them into a comment here? You fucking act like I wrote the things.
[02:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Collaborator - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 1018 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:12:59] <exec> 08└─I mean "completely opposed to" the Reformed groups. I cut my counter-apologetic teeth on Cornelius van Til, and oh jeez, if you thought people like William Lane Craig were awful... And yes, I do believe "moderate" Christians, including my own submarine Catholic mother, legitimize the extremists, and...
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[03:04:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score:2) 02Re:"Diversity" - 06Google ‘Refuses’ to Hand Over Pay Data, Gets Sued by Feds - 1495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:04:48] <exec> 08└─Well, let me tell you a story, I’m sure you’ll get a chuckle out of it. Many years ago I was in charge of a project in Texas and a couple of my people, a boy and a girl, asked me to take them out one Friday night. I wasn’t and still aren’t very fond of loud music but they had worked hard for...
[03:04:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:"Diversity" - 06Google ‘Refuses’ to Hand Over Pay Data, Gets Sued by Feds - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:04:50] <exec> 08└─I think it was Rosecrans Blvd, in Norfolk Va, where I had my first exposure to gay blacks. Someone more familiar with Norfolk may correct my boulevard to avenue or street or something, but it was Rosecrans something or other. My bartender wasn't very big, but he was tatted up, scarred up, and looked...
[03:04:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Diversity" - 06Google ‘Refuses’ to Hand Over Pay Data, Gets Sued by Feds - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:04:52] <exec> 08└─Once again, SJW interfering with productivity. If I was in charge of hiring, I don't care if you're purple with green spots as long as you're qualified. And if someone came in and told me I had to fire a qualified worker and replace them with a less qualified worker only because of race, I'd give th...
[03:04:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:"Diversity" - 06Google ‘Refuses’ to Hand Over Pay Data, Gets Sued by Feds - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:04:54] <exec> 08└─Google loves brown people, especially from the subcontinent. My question is: why sue? If Google does not abide by their "federal contractor" obligations, just ban them immediately from being a federal contractor until they comply. Apply SEC math: for every day you're not in compliance, you will spen...
[03:04:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:"Diversity" - 06Google ‘Refuses’ to Hand Over Pay Data, Gets Sued by Feds - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:04:56] <exec> 08└─Its often hard to avoid falling into the Federal Contractor trap. Remember when Obama called in all the big tech companies to get Obamacare systems up and running? Do your country what you thought was a favor - BAM: Federal Contractor. Google Fiber runs past any Federal office, and they sign up? POW...
[03:04:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:"Diversity" - 06Google ‘Refuses’ to Hand Over Pay Data, Gets Sued by Feds - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:04:58] <exec> 08└─How is it a trap to accept my tax dollars? If you don't want to sell to .gov, tell them. If you get my cash, you have to comply with the fine print. If you don't like the fine print, either don't get the cash, or use the cash to make sure your congresscritter changes the fine print. Not everyone get...
[03:05:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Facebook is retarded - 06Facebook Censors Nude Neptune Statue, Writer Says - 986 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:05:09] <exec> 08└─yes, retarded and for retards. but that's not the point. the point is that they are owned by advertisers and once that happens, its a least-common-denom game, where the church ladies who clutch their pearls get more (most) of the say and the advertisers just don't want to lose ANY of those sweet, sw...
[03:05:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0, Flamebait) 02Re:In the meantime - 06Facebook Censors Nude Neptune Statue, Writer Says - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:05:15] <exec> 08└─members of the human race
[03:05:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:In the meantime - 06Facebook Censors Nude Neptune Statue, Writer Says - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:05:17] <exec> 08└─The idea is to call non-whites humans, until human becomes an offensive word. Do not mess with my AI, I know what I am doing.
[03:05:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:In the meantime - 06Facebook Censors Nude Neptune Statue, Writer Says - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:05:19] <exec> 08└─No, the media's preferred euphemism is "youths" and more recently "teenagers" in response to the nigger flash-mobs in malls.
[03:05:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02computer goof is news - 06Facebook Censors Nude Neptune Statue, Writer Says - 1435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:05:21] <exec> 08└─Website using a combination of machine vision aided by rabid SJWs* goofs and then does right thing. Meanwhile, thousands at least, who knows how many other users, whose voices will never be heard by the media are stuck with the goofs that happened to them as permanent, hidden demerits against their...
[03:05:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02'the last of the holiday turkey' - 063D Ocean Map Tracks Ecosystems in Unprecedented Detail - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:05:29] <exec> 08└─No carving up the last bits for me - it had mummified in my fridge. I tossed the carcass in the trash, then bought some chicken. I like to cook chicken into my canned soup. For a brief, shining moment I cooked turkey into my canned soup, but that moment is no longer.
[03:05:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:fast vs quick - 06Faraday Future Unveils Super Quick Electric Car at CES 2017 - 1121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:05:48] <exec> 08└─Not sure how Euro cars are geared. In USA I had a '92 Corolla 1600cc with 5 speed. Out on the flat high desert where there was -no- traffic it would indicate 110 mph in 4th gear, flat out. Probably close to true speed, I checked the speedo calibration by timing mile markers at slower speeds and it w...
[03:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Nothing to Hide? Shit in the middle of mainstre - 06Richard Feynman Put Himself on the FBI's Do Not Call List - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:06:08] <exec> 08└─I prefer to explain it as following you around in meatspace, everywhere you go except inside your house and when you go Inside your house I'm peeking through your windows and listening. If you have to use a public restroom I'm following you in there, too, just in case you're up to illegal activity....
[03:06:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Wrong question - 06Gemcoin, Cryptocurrency That Never Existed, Was a Scam All Along - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:06:44] <exec> 08└─That's pretty much the complete opposite of what I said. The computations are accomplishing something real. They are making a secure, unforgeable, finite supply, cryptographically sound currency. But if people don't think so, they don't have to have any of it. And if they have any extra and want to...
[03:08:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:Working overtime? - 06Why Skimming Will Grow in 2017 - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:08:19] <exec> 08└─I know it *can* but the current PCI regs are that it has to happen like a magnetic swipe.
[03:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02just. no. - 06Chrysler Unveils a High-tech Car for Millennials - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:50] <exec> 08└─The last thing humanity needs is millenials behind the wheel of a car, who cares what the car has and can do. encouraging millenials is not a good idea. period.
[03:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:Fuck this - 06Tech Outlook Dampened by Political Uncertainty - 1055 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:10:36] <exec> 08└─Huh? Duck tape is a brand of duct tape, "the handyman's secret weapon", "remember, if women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy"* From https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org], According to etymologist Jan Freeman, the story that duct tape was originally calle...
[03:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Scripture is software - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 783 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:13:22] <exec> 08└─> Do you need me to pull up the relevant verses for you and paste them into a comment here? Nope. They are in there. The point is that you chose to make those verses the most important ones, just like the crazies do. The fact is that the dark verses are a minority. The positive, hopeful, constructiv...
[03:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Bad Mother - 06German Security Vs the Constitution - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:13:30] <exec> 08└─I mean "completely opposed to" the Reformed groups.
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[04:04:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:2, Funny) 02Re:"Diversity" - 06Google ‘Refuses’ to Hand Over Pay Data, Gets Sued by Feds - 1195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:04:58] <exec> 08└─West Hollywood. Dragged in by my fag-hag girlfriend celebrating her gay best friend's birthday along with his most sensitive and well-dressed male friends, circa-2004. Since it wasn't a strip-club, they couldn't be bare-naked, so a large and muscular Black man got to dance on one of the pedestals we...
[04:05:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:In the meantime - 06Facebook Censors Nude Neptune Statue, Writer Says - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:05:19] <exec> 08└─Any updates on the chimpouts?
[04:05:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:In the meantime - 06Facebook Censors Nude Neptune Statue, Writer Says - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:05:21] <exec> 08└─Why ask Ethan for updates when you can just change the channel to Facebook Live?
[04:05:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:computer goof is news - 06Facebook Censors Nude Neptune Statue, Writer Says - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:05:24] <exec> 08└─Facebook isn't real FFS!
[04:05:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:computer goof is news - 06Facebook Censors Nude Neptune Statue, Writer Says - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:05:26] <exec> 08└─Website using a combination of machine vision aided by rabid SJWs* goofs and then does right thing.
[04:05:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:'the last of the holiday turkey' - 063D Ocean Map Tracks Ecosystems in Unprecedented Detail - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:05:35] <exec> 08└─Wow, what a waste. The best way to deal with leftover turkey is to cut it into tiny bits, brown some onions, add the turkey, brown it all to hell, then add coconut milk, tomatoes, and spices. Quick curry, serve on rice. Cooking the turkey long enough gets rid of the horrible leftover turkey taste. I...
[04:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:There's a lesson here - 06Richard Feynman Put Himself on the FBI's Do Not Call List - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:06:18] <exec> 08└─My cousin Usama tried to make atomic bomb. He was put *on* FBI wanted list instead. Maybe only works for American citizens?
[04:06:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Busy Work: Sociopath edition - 06Richard Feynman Put Himself on the FBI's Do Not Call List - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:33] <exec> 08└─If there's one thing that came out of the Cold War, it was the undeniable fact that government is merely a work program for society's knuckle-dragging bullies. ------- This comment is a repost; it was previously marked as "Troll" [soylentnews.org].
[04:07:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02Re:Let people be scammed - 06Gemcoin, Cryptocurrency That Never Existed, Was a Scam All Along - 592 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:07:02] <exec> 08└─I largely agree, but there is one point to address. There is NO SUCH THING as identity theft. If you convince a bank that you are me, I still have my identity. The BANK has been scammed. The whole identity theft thing is just the bank trying to scam me in return rather than accepting that they fooli...
[04:07:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:is Edge that bad? - 06Microsoft's Browsers May Have Hit Rock Bottom - 1170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:07:53] <exec> 08└─> and it appears to be more vulnerable to hijacking I can attest to that. Worked on a laptop that'd been upgraded from Windows 8 to 10, and spotted this Microfast PC virus. Its uninstaller hijacked the Edge start page to redirect the browser to one of those scam websites that won't let you close it...
[04:09:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Self Inflicted - 06Xmas Software Update to US Customs Computer Systems Didn't Work Too Well - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:09:02] <exec> 08└─One thing CBP is very careful to stress was that this was not a malicious attack. With the US currently embroiled in government hacking fears, it appears that this one can't be blamed on the Russians or the Chinese.
[04:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score:1) 02Re:Head-turning - 06Chrysler Unveils a High-tech Car for Millennials - 866 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:09:32] <exec> 08└─From the sides it looks like one of those futuristic pod designs that were floating around back in the late 80's-early 90's, back when GM thought designing a van to look like a dustbuster would be a good idea. On the other hand the ridiculously tall and bulky front end with 3 sets is very 2016. At l...
[04:12:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02not so new - 06A Brand-New Human Organ Has Been Classified - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:18] <exec> 08└─Leonardo da Vinci depicted it as one contiguous organ, and it remained that way for centuries until 1885, when Sir Frederick Treves' findings presented the mesentery as fragmented amongst the small intestine, transverse colon and sigmoid colon.
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[05:04:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Amazing - 06Google ‘Refuses’ to Hand Over Pay Data, Gets Sued by Feds - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:04:55] <exec> 08└─It turns out that not all black people are the same. Who knew?
[05:04:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Amazing - 06Google ‘Refuses’ to Hand Over Pay Data, Gets Sued by Feds - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:04:56] <exec> 08└─I wasn't certain. But I think they're talking about Gayniggers, not blacks. Blacks are all the same.
[05:05:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Diversity" - 06Google ‘Refuses’ to Hand Over Pay Data, Gets Sued by Feds - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:05:02] <exec> 08└─Correct me if I'm wrong, but this only applies to contracts valued at more than $50,000. If a government employee walks into your hardware store and buys a hammer, that's not going to make you an official federal contractor. Unless they paid $50,000 for the hammer, which, being government, they migh...
[05:05:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Didn't Really Think That One Through... - 06Google ‘Refuses’ to Hand Over Pay Data, Gets Sued by Feds - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:05:04] <exec> 08└─If Google does not abide by their "federal contractor" obligations, just ban them immediately from being a federal contractor until they comply.
[05:05:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Go Google go! - 06Google ‘Refuses’ to Hand Over Pay Data, Gets Sued by Feds - 1766 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:05:07] <exec> 08└─Why don't they hire more females/people of color? Because they don't fucking apply for the jobs, and when they do they can't pass the interview. Private industry is not like federal bureaucracy, in PI you have to know your chops and demonstrate them. As opposed to government bureaucracy where you ne...
[05:05:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02You were not the asshole - 06Google ‘Refuses’ to Hand Over Pay Data, Gets Sued by Feds - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:05:09] <exec> 08└─That would be whoever set up an interview for this guy who was obviously not qualified. Also, whoever in your company wasn't doing phone interviews before bringing someone on-site. It's not just about cost, but also embarrassment and goodwill. Also, in 2001 when half the qualified coders in the coun...
[05:05:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:1, Offtopic) 02Ask me again why I don't have a FB account - 06Facebook Censors Nude Neptune Statue, Writer Says - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:05:30] <exec> 08└─A) Mods are a bunch of dumasses b) Privacy? What is that of which you speak? I'll die before I make a FB account. Then again, I'm 58 so it's not long now.
[05:05:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score:2) 02Apparently - 06Facebook Censors Nude Neptune Statue, Writer Says - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:05:31] <exec> 08└─The sea was really cold that day.
[05:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score:1) 02Re:the bot - 06Richard Feynman Put Himself on the FBI's Do Not Call List - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:06:30] <exec> 08└─Arthur is a bot that scans a bunch of RSS feeds and puts the results on a page of the SoylentNews wiki [soylentnews.org]. Anyone in IRC can command the bot to submit a story by the number it is assigned on that page [e.g. ~arthur 0e77c2]. When the queue is running dry, editors can usually find somet...
[05:07:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:re Electronic money - 06Gemcoin, Cryptocurrency That Never Existed, Was a Scam All Along - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:07:01] <exec> 08└─They could, but unless some other form of payment was specified at the time the deal was struck, they wouldn't be able to sue for non-payment.
[05:07:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:re Electronic money - 06Gemcoin, Cryptocurrency That Never Existed, Was a Scam All Along - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:07:02] <exec> 08└─The same can be said about gold, gems and such. While they do have some intrinsic worth, it's nowhere close to what people think. I once heard an economist semi-seriously argue that the chicken would be an ideal currency. Takes enough maintenance that you won't hoard too much, generates interest in...
[05:08:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02When Bad Math Attacks - 06Microsoft's Browsers May Have Hit Rock Bottom - 801 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:08:12] <exec> 08└─They are comparing raw percentage drops as if this is a thing to do. They need to look at the percentage drop relative to the install base. Imagine I have a marketshare of 5% that declines to 4.5% to 4.05% and then to 3.645%. My losses month go from 0.5 to 0.45 to 0.405. I must be doing something ri...
[05:08:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:We don't care, because we don't have to - 06Why Skimming Will Grow in 2017 - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:08:31] <exec> 08└─Saw a show on skimmers a while back. It's surprising how fast a card reader can be swapped or modified in a store while the cashier is distracted. Swapped back at the end of the day as well.
[05:08:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Working overtime? - 06Why Skimming Will Grow in 2017 - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:08:42] <exec> 08└─The brits really do complement the french. One has better food, the other has better attitudes...
[05:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score:1) 02Re:Good features? - 06Chrysler Unveils a High-tech Car for Millennials - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:09:57] <exec> 08└─Cars have always been like that. Domestic mfgrs stopped shipping complete crap around 1980 but it took until, oh at least 2000 or so for many people to notice. By crap I mean door panels that rusted thru in the midwest in 18 or fewer months, engines that were delivered to the end user with casting s...
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[06:04:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02$23 million - 06Two Major Credit Reporting Agencies Have Been Lying to Consumers - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:04:45] <exec> 08└─Government-granted monopolies fleece the people, and what happens? The government gets a bonus.
[06:04:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The road to hell - 06Two Major Credit Reporting Agencies Have Been Lying to Consumers - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:04:46] <exec> 08└─We're all walking on it, calmly strolling by the horrors, acknowledging them as normal. Color me shocked that one of the cornerstones of our financial system is/was routinely abused for the sake of the almighty dollar. These slaps on the wrist are an insult to anyone who does some basic math, they s...
[06:04:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The road to hell - 06Two Major Credit Reporting Agencies Have Been Lying to Consumers - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:04:48] <exec> 08└─As a society we value the wrong things, not sure how to shift that ,_-O-_,
[06:04:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The road to hell - 06Two Major Credit Reporting Agencies Have Been Lying to Consumers - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:04:50] <exec> 08└─What else can you expect? The cultural corner stone of society is the exaltation of one particular organization to the demi-divine position of Monopoly on Violence? When you accept that coercion is a suitable foundation for civilization, what you'll get is just that: Imposition; and, it will be cele...
[06:04:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chrontius [5246] (Score:1) 02Re:The road to hell - 06Two Major Credit Reporting Agencies Have Been Lying to Consumers - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:04:52] <exec> 08└─If you're going to critique everything back to Hobbes' Leviathan, (and really every civilization before) I'd be intrigued to see if you have a counterproposal. We say that democracy is the worst system ever, except for all the other ones. I don't think you'll prove me wrong, but I look forward to be...
[06:04:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The road to hell - 06Two Major Credit Reporting Agencies Have Been Lying to Consumers - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:04:54] <exec> 08└─> We're all walking on it, calmly strolling by the horrors, acknowledging them as normal. As we have for all of history. If you think that people exploiting their position in society for their personal gain at the expense of society is new, then you must have been born yesterday.
[06:05:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02mmmmMMMMMmmmmm - 06US-trained Dolphins to Help Locate Mexico's Vaquita Porpoise - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:05:02] <exec> 08└─food.
[06:05:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I bet - 06US-trained Dolphins to Help Locate Mexico's Vaquita Porpoise - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:05:05] <exec> 08└─One of the dolphins must have been named "Runaway1956"! Because, you know, he was in the Navy.
[06:05:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score:2) 02Re:"Diversity" - 06Google ‘Refuses’ to Hand Over Pay Data, Gets Sued by Feds - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:05:20] <exec> 08└─I hear you brother. I slinked with by back to the wall on the way out… Not really. Nobody was disrespectful or aggressive, still, I was afraid. Nowadays I laugh about it. Just for kicks I checked and the place still is operating, I don’t know if is still a gay-club or not, but is in the same pla...
[06:05:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Go Google go! - 06Google ‘Refuses’ to Hand Over Pay Data, Gets Sued by Feds - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:05:30] <exec> 08└─Guy couldn't answer my first question. That had never happened to me before. I scrambled for another ez peazy question, he couldn't answer that either. The 45 minute interview ended with me trying to come up with a question he could answer, and failing... what an asshole I was.
[06:05:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Yay! - 06Google ‘Refuses’ to Hand Over Pay Data, Gets Sued by Feds - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:05:32] <exec> 08└─Great. Another story in which all the commenters get to demonstrate they are straight, white, male dinosaurs by making reductive posts about minorities.
[06:06:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nothing to Hide? Shit in the middle of mainstre - 06Richard Feynman Put Himself on the FBI's Do Not Call List - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:06:44] <exec> 08└─we don't frame privacy questions in sufficiently extreme terms to make people realize what they're actually giving up.
[06:08:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yes - 06Microsoft's Browsers May Have Hit Rock Bottom - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:08:18] <exec> 08└─Wait, should I use it before answering?
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[07:04:45] <exec> 08└─Mesh netwoks. End2endb cyncryption. Wifi enabled electric cars self dr8vinvg around. Cant shtop teh signals!@@!! World domination down under!!1! Don be uzing internets. Makeus a geek net for geeeeks.
[07:04:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02mesh net down under - 06Australia's Metadata Retention Laws May Soon Have Extra Customers - 1556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:04:47] <exec> 08└─Traveling in a fried-out Kombi On a hippie trail, head full of zombie I met a strange lady, she made me nervous She took me in and gave me breakfast And she said Do you come from mesh net down under? Where women glow and men plunder? Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder? You better run, you be...
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[07:04:59] <exec> 08└─There is nothing wrong with the idea of governance, and nearly every country has a military. It's up to the people to have integrity and support politicians with the same. Distributed systems are more resilient, but concentrated systems have more power. We will always have a balance between the two...
[07:07:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wrong question - 06Gemcoin, Cryptocurrency That Never Existed, Was a Scam All Along - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:07:23] <exec> 08└─This is why I worry about jdavidb. Homeschooling seems to predispose one to falling for scams. Goldbug? 5-gal survival food pails? Amber?
[07:08:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:is Edge that bad? - 06Microsoft's Browsers May Have Hit Rock Bottom - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:08:28] <exec> 08└─And after all that trouble, they won't allow you to run it from the administrator account or in safe mode.
[07:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Why would the brain would be spared? - 06The Wrong Eating Habits Can Hurt Your Brain, Not Just Your Waistline - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:27] <exec> 08└─Especially the grammar part with the grammar too.
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[08:04:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02Re:mesh net down under - 06Australia's Metadata Retention Laws May Soon Have Extra Customers - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:04:48] <exec> 08└─Will the mesh net have pirated music for my lyrics?
[08:04:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:mesh net down under - 06Australia's Metadata Retention Laws May Soon Have Extra Customers - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:04:49] <exec> 08└─Sure thing mesh buddy! Let me just plug in the internet gateway. oh fuck
[08:04:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:mesh net down under - 06Australia's Metadata Retention Laws May Soon Have Extra Customers - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:04:52] <exec> 08└─"Let's replace the internet!" always fails, as soon as someone wants something from the internet, mate.
[08:04:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:mesh net down under - 06Australia's Metadata Retention Laws May Soon Have Extra Customers - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:04:54] <exec> 08└─In the future of S.S.D.D [tvtropes.org] , the Maytec Consortium runs a very fast, secure, and expensive network. The internet is effectively run by the Collective of Anarchist States and banned pretty much everywhere else, though it's still popular because the Maytec network doesn't have free porn o...
[08:04:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:time for tor - 06Australia's Metadata Retention Laws May Soon Have Extra Customers - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:04:56] <exec> 08└─Just get a vpn like everyone else and poison the well with a random web crawler when you are not using your pc
[08:04:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:time for tor - 06Australia's Metadata Retention Laws May Soon Have Extra Customers - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:04:58] <exec> 08└─Great idea! Where will your unencrypted vpn endpoint be? A colocation facility which is already under government surveillance?
[08:04:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Oh it's just metadata - 06Australia's Metadata Retention Laws May Soon Have Extra Customers - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:05:00] <exec> 08└─And it'll just land you for enhanced interrogation
[08:05:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Oh it's just metadata - 06Australia's Metadata Retention Laws May Soon Have Extra Customers - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:05:02] <exec> 08└─Can I make toilet wine between beatings?
[08:05:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The road to hell - 06Two Major Credit Reporting Agencies Have Been Lying to Consumers - 1476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:05:16] <exec> 08└─I do not think its anything new, in general the percentage of the population experiencing true horrors has gone down. However, the modern connected world has allowed anyone to learn about many past horrors and it has made modern horrors more visible to the common person. Even a hundred years ago the...
[08:05:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02free - 06Two Major Credit Reporting Agencies Have Been Lying to Consumers - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:05:17] <exec> 08└─'free' as in does not work. It worked for the first 2 years. Thereafter it has made me call them and then mail stuff in.
[08:05:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02power corrupts, film at 11 - 06Two Major Credit Reporting Agencies Have Been Lying to Consumers - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:05:20] <exec> 08└─This $23 million penalty sounds like a very weak wrist slapping. When do the people responsible for the fraud and lying go to prison for it? That's how to put the brakes on Wall Street crime. Otherwise, why not whistle past the graveyard? Why not say and do the most outrageous, nakedly self-interest...
[08:05:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score:2) 02re Off Color - 06Google ‘Refuses’ to Hand Over Pay Data, Gets Sued by Feds - 1952 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:05:53] <exec> 08└─Good story. I never, believe or not, have a person of color for an interview. I have been threatened by white guys more than once, ‘You’ll regret not hiring me’ but never a person of color, and let’s be frank, I had many latinos but not anyone darker. (Sorry, SJW. I am considered a white boy...
[08:05:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yay! - 06Google ‘Refuses’ to Hand Over Pay Data, Gets Sued by Feds - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:05:55] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I had to double check the story to see what I was missing... Nope, nothing, just assholes doing their thing. However, Google is also undoubtedly the real asshole of this story. Why deny such data? Because they obviously don't want to get sued when the info gets out! But hey, lets focus on some...
[08:07:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:re Electronic money - 06Gemcoin, Cryptocurrency That Never Existed, Was a Scam All Along - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:07:42] <exec> 08└─Given the name of the UK currency, you should get a pound of Sterling silver. [wikipedia.org]
[08:12:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Vinyl? - 06Vinyl and Streaming Sales Offset CD Decline in UK Music Sales - 759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:12:31] <exec> 08└─Its about maximizing signal, or can you not read a simple volume display? [wikipedia.org] See that one at the top, the one that does NOT get close to 0db? THAT is the vinyl master, they simply used it to press the CDs as they did with all the early first releases....now look at the bottom, go on, I'...
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[09:04:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02automatic xfinitywifi penetration - 06Tor at the Heart: Firefox - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:04:44] <exec> 08└─Hey here's an idea since you're integrating shady crap into firefox. Make the browser automatically tunnel past Comcast login portals and make every xfinitywifi spot go straight to tor effortlessly. Seriously. Do it. I want to see which method you idiots choose to use (there are at least four ways i...
[09:04:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:automatic xfinitywifi penetration - 06Tor at the Heart: Firefox - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:04:45] <exec> 08└─Post all four ways.
[09:04:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:automatic xfinitywifi penetration - 06Tor at the Heart: Firefox - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:04:47] <exec> 08└─Dude you're supposed to whine "you lying bro cuz I seen every video on youtub and mac spoofing is the only way so fuk u their cant be 4 like no."
[09:04:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:automatic xfinitywifi penetration - 06Tor at the Heart: Firefox - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:04:50] <exec> 08└─If FireTorFox does MAC spoofing I will laugh my fucking ass off.
[09:04:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Yawning Angel - 06Tor at the Heart: Firefox - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:04:52] <exec> 08└─Yawning Angel was the ship who was sent by the Culture to spy on the Sleeper Service. Yep. No way Yawning Angel is a government spy tasked with ensuring Tor Browser is insecure by design. Not even possible.
[09:05:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Astounding breech of privacy - 06Australia's Metadata Retention Laws May Soon Have Extra Customers - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:05:08] <exec> 08└─I find laws like this to be just astounding invasions of privacy. This metadata represents your movement in cyberspace. Imagine requiring every citizen to wear a tracker that records all of their physical movements, and store this for future use "just in case". Sure, it's a handy investigative tool,...
[09:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Liability shift? - 06Why Skimming Will Grow in 2017 - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:34] <exec> 08└─What is this so-called "liability shift" referenced four times in the summary by not defined?
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[10:04:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score:2) 02Yes.... - 06AlphaGo Continues to Crush Human Go Players - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:04:40] <exec> 08└─Will there still be "Go celebrities" once DeepMind has finished mopping the floor with them
[10:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:re Off Color - 06Google ‘Refuses’ to Hand Over Pay Data, Gets Sued by Feds - 1283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:05:59] <exec> 08└─We had a black woman try to keep her job (she was getting laid off from customer service and trying for a linux oriented tech job) where I was the tech interviewer. I went easy on her, but wound up eviscerating her in the end, because she also couldn't answer even the most basic questions. "What's L...
[10:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:re Off Color - 06Google ‘Refuses’ to Hand Over Pay Data, Gets Sued by Feds - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:06:00] <exec> 08└─I... meant to reply to the OP. Apparently I am not as good at replying to things as I think I am at other things.
[10:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03dvader [1936] (Score:1) 02Re:Pavlovian Explanation - 06The Wrong Eating Habits Can Hurt Your Brain, Not Just Your Waistline - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:09:57] <exec> 08└─I don't get it. A tasty cake contains both fat, sugar and plenty of calories, so it should be perfectly OK then? The taste predicts the caloric intake well. Or, is the problem that the taste doesn't correlate with satiety? Enough cake makes you full though... Could someone explain what this means?
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[11:04:42] <exec> 08└─A car is not a running bipedal robot, or running blade leg man, or running double artificial leg cyborg.
[11:04:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Free Shit Army represent - 06AlphaGo Continues to Crush Human Go Players - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:04:44] <exec> 08└─Can the AlphaGo get me free Bitcoin.
[11:04:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score:1) 02Chess - 06AlphaGo Continues to Crush Human Go Players - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:04:46] <exec> 08└─Aren't there chess player stars any more, Fisher, Karpov, Kaspárov etc.? Well, no. Kaspárov was the last chess champion star. Nevertheless, there are still chess championships with a lot of followers. But it is a fact, great masters and champions aren't general public celebrities any more.
[11:04:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Chess - 06AlphaGo Continues to Crush Human Go Players - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:04:48] <exec> 08└─Holy hell, really? What's next?? Classical music goes out of style??? We must do something about this! We need to get the kids drinking milk and listening to classical music and and playing chess again.
[11:04:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Chess - 06AlphaGo Continues to Crush Human Go Players - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:04:50] <exec> 08└─Dope the milk with drugs and spent a night doing ultraviolence to old geezers! Let's see how many pawns fit up a pensioner's anus!!!
[11:04:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score:2) 02Re:Chess - 06AlphaGo Continues to Crush Human Go Players - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:04:52] <exec> 08└─But it is a fact, great masters and champions aren't general public celebrities any more.
[11:04:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Chess - 06AlphaGo Continues to Crush Human Go Players - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:04:55] <exec> 08└─From what I can see, the "quiet genius" is no longer celebrated at all, in any field really. They may get a note in the news from time to time if they do something globally impressive,
[11:05:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score:2) 02Mozilla implementing an improvement? - 06Tor at the Heart: Firefox - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:05:06] <exec> 08└─This is great. Mozilla actually implementing a useful new feature in firefox...
[11:05:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03zeigerpuppy [1298] (Score:2) 02Re:Astounding breech of privacy - 06Australia's Metadata Retention Laws May Soon Have Extra Customers - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:05:25] <exec> 08└─It's called a mobile phone and you probably already carry one friend.
[11:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yay! - 06Google ‘Refuses’ to Hand Over Pay Data, Gets Sued by Feds - 876 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:06:20] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure the dinosaurs are the people trying to guilt trip their way through life based on unfairness that happened generations ago. Reverse racism and sexism, dressed up as 'affirmative action', is the worst kind of ism today, because its intentional, government sanctioned, and unquestionable. I...
[11:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:We don't care, because we don't have to - 06Why Skimming Will Grow in 2017 - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:09:43] <exec> 08└─The wifi-ones, I can believe you can hand back a different plausible-looking box very easily. How you switch one on the end of a cable, I'm not sure.
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[12:04:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Basic Income Now - 06Global Debt Hits 325% Of World GDP, Rises To Record $217 Trillion - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:04:46] <exec> 08└─Tax the rich! Give to me!
[12:04:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02win-win! - 06Global Debt Hits 325% Of World GDP, Rises To Record $217 Trillion - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:04:47] <exec> 08└─we should create more jobs by making more debt because keeping track of debt is also work! scar-some(sic)
[12:04:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:2) 02Re:win-win! - 06Global Debt Hits 325% Of World GDP, Rises To Record $217 Trillion - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:04:49] <exec> 08└─No, you have it backwards! If we would fire all the people keeping track of the debt, we wouldn't have to worry about it any more.
[12:04:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:2) 02No problem - 06Global Debt Hits 325% Of World GDP, Rises To Record $217 Trillion - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:04:51] <exec> 08└─Nothing to worry about here. Just confiscate the entire wealth of a few billionaires who are probably mean people anyway. Not only will that pay off the $217 trillion, it will provide enough extra for us all to go on a binge spree for many years. (Every now and then, it would be nice if the tax-more...
[12:04:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score:2) 02Debt + Credit = 0 - 06Global Debt Hits 325% Of World GDP, Rises To Record $217 Trillion - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:04:54] <exec> 08└─What gets me is none of these "oooh scary massive debt" stories say who the money is owed to. If i am in debt for $1000, I owe that to someone. Who the hell does the world owe 217 trillion dollars to? Aliens from Rigel IV?
[12:04:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Debt + Credit = 0 - 06Global Debt Hits 325% Of World GDP, Rises To Record $217 Trillion - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:04:56] <exec> 08└─The problem is the various skim on debts. A couple percent in interest, fees, commissions, pretty soon you're talking about some serious wasted human and financial effort.
[12:04:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DmT [6439] (Score:1) 02Interest - 06Global Debt Hits 325% Of World GDP, Rises To Record $217 Trillion - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:04:58] <exec> 08└─Now imagine an average rise of 1% in interest rates all over the world. Boom!
[12:05:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yes.... - 06AlphaGo Continues to Crush Human Go Players - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:05:09] <exec> 08└─People may become interested in the methods of solution rather than the solution. Much like mathematicians are more interested in the methods for solving x^n+2x+1=0 than the actual solution itself.
[12:05:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score:2) 02Re:Yes.... - 06AlphaGo Continues to Crush Human Go Players - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:05:11] <exec> 08└─A better comparison would be chess. Grandmasters have been getting beaten since 1996. There are still celebrity chess players.
[12:05:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score:1) 02Re:Chess - 06AlphaGo Continues to Crush Human Go Players - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:05:17] <exec> 08└─I wasn't complaining, just telling that what happened to chess un going to happen to Go. But if you change to this topic, I complain. It's sad that new generations are more interested in hype and stuff that requires low attention that in deep matters.
[12:05:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Chess - 06AlphaGo Continues to Crush Human Go Players - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:05:21] <exec> 08└─Your "quiet genius" is now required to write grants that expire every 2 years and join committees to demonstrate sufficient service to the university. No-one is allowed to be quiet or have time to foment their genius. Get with the modern times, brah.
[12:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Diversity" - 06Google ‘Refuses’ to Hand Over Pay Data, Gets Sued by Feds - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:06:30] <exec> 08└─men trying to buy me drinks ...not realizing you are a teetotaler
[12:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It doesn't matter now - 06Microsoft's Browsers May Have Hit Rock Bottom - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:09:05] <exec> 08└─I have to use Windows 10 for work. My work makes me view advertisements! I want to get a new job.
[12:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:UI guessing - 06Microsoft's Browsers May Have Hit Rock Bottom - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:09:48] <exec> 08└─My interpretation: They want to blend search and URL in the UI so they can steal the data of every website you go to and send it to bung. Kids nowadays grow up thinking google is the same as URL field (to my embarrassment, my son calls the URL field "google", and he is old enough to know better).
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[13:04:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:No problem - 06Global Debt Hits 325% Of World GDP, Rises To Record $217 Trillion - 2715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:04:51] <exec> 08└─Well given that most of that 217 trillion in debt is probably owed to a handful of megarich organisations anyway, you wouldn't need to confiscate anything - just cancel the debt. However I don't think anyone is seriously suggesting that. I wouldn't mind governments shaking down a few big companies t...
[13:04:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Debt + Credit = 0 - 06Global Debt Hits 325% Of World GDP, Rises To Record $217 Trillion - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:04:54] <exec> 08└─Perhaps some of the debt is owed to you. For example, if you live in the USA, when you get really old you may be able to collect Social Security of $100,000 plus or minus during your retirement years. Or are they not counting future empty promises in the above "debt" -- in which case things are even...
[13:04:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Debt + Credit = 0 - 06Global Debt Hits 325% Of World GDP, Rises To Record $217 Trillion - 760 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:04:56] <exec> 08└─Future Social Security obligations are not counted in the debt, no. This is why the government is a whole lot more bankrupt than they are letting on. Any corporation that used the accounting rules that the US Government uses would be forced into bankruptcy immediately. AFAIK, most or all world gover...
[13:04:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03caffeine [249] (Score:2) 02Re:Debt + Credit = 0 - 06Global Debt Hits 325% Of World GDP, Rises To Record $217 Trillion - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:04:58] <exec> 08└─Total debt exceeds total money. The issue is banks create money by lending it as a debt, and don't create the extra money that is needed to cover the interest.
[13:05:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Debt + Credit = 0 - 06Global Debt Hits 325% Of World GDP, Rises To Record $217 Trillion - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:05:01] <exec> 08└─The Orion Syndicate. And if you don't pay up, they send this guy http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net [nocookie.net] to collect.
[13:05:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02Re:Mozilla implementing an improvement? - 06Tor at the Heart: Firefox - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:05:34] <exec> 08└─a process/task manager would be nice - now they have multiprocessing ;-)
[13:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:power corrupts, film at 11 - 06Two Major Credit Reporting Agencies Have Been Lying to Consumers - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:06:10] <exec> 08└─No, she lost.
[13:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:power corrupts, film at 11 - 06Two Major Credit Reporting Agencies Have Been Lying to Consumers - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:06:11] <exec> 08└─Solution: make these fines a percentage of revenue (not profit, revenue!)
[13:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03gidds [589] (Score:2) 02Re: Working overtime? - 06Why Skimming Will Grow in 2017 - 681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:10:23] <exec> 08└─2–5 minutes??? Someone's doing it wrong, then! Here (UK), even in restaurants and corner shops it rarely takes more than 20–30 seconds. Everything's been chip-and-pin for yonks; I don't think I've swiped a card* for, well, probably over a decade. In fact, I'd be surprised if it was still a...
[13:11:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Good features? - 06Chrysler Unveils a High-tech Car for Millennials - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:11:41] <exec> 08└─Yeah domestic compacts circa 1980 post gas crisis either skimped on aesthetics and interiors (like my ugly as hell Omni/Horizon) or skimped on mechanicals (most everything else, as you mention) They got their stuff together long before they got credit for getting their stuff together, however. Like...
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[13:11:51] <exec> 08└─Women in particular expect me to
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[13:11:55] <exec> 08└─I would agree with your factual data barring any actual counterexamples, but the bigger issue is "older than me" which is pretty old meant get any old random degree and then get a great job. After all if a mere HS diploma got you a sinecure on the factory floor, "any degree" should get you a nice jo...
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[14:04:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"Caution, contents may be hot" - 06Apple's FaceTime Blamed for Girl's Highway Crash Death in New Lawsuit - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:04:45] <exec> 08└─The age-old solution to this type of problem: remove all warning labels and let the problem solve itself...
[14:04:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03logan [3020] (Score:1) 02Responsibility - 06Apple's FaceTime Blamed for Girl's Highway Crash Death in New Lawsuit - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:04:47] <exec> 08└─I you drive a vehicle it is your duty to act responsibly. Shifting the blame on a manufacturer because you used their device in a situation where you clearly should not does not take away your responsibility. What's next? Lipstick manufacturers sued because the driver applied some lipstick while dri...
[14:04:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No problem - 06Global Debt Hits 325% Of World GDP, Rises To Record $217 Trillion - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:05:00] <exec> 08└─while employees can travel further to find the job that suits them and truly fulfils their potential
[14:05:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Interesting) 02Re:Debt + Credit = 0 - 06Global Debt Hits 325% Of World GDP, Rises To Record $217 Trillion - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:05:07] <exec> 08└─Oddly enough, the answer is "ourselves". Let's pretend there is a planet of only two people. Person 2 has 100% of all the resources, and Person 1 has none. Person 1 says that they will labor for three years for Person 2, in exchange for "one year" worth of consumption (presumably food). Person 2 doe...
[14:05:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02More debt than production - 06Global Debt Hits 325% Of World GDP, Rises To Record $217 Trillion - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:05:10] <exec> 08└─There is 3.25 times as much debt as there is actual economic activity. Keep buying shit, folks, keep buying shit... and for the love of all that is good, ignore the man behind the curtain.
[14:05:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score:2) 02The three problems with debt - 06Global Debt Hits 325% Of World GDP, Rises To Record $217 Trillion - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:05:12] <exec> 08└─1/ It generates money for lenders, who basically don't do anything of value in society. 2/ National debts don't die with their owners, like personal debts do. What happens is, people who have done nothing to be saddled with debt inherit the debt incurred by their parents. 3/ The fractional reserve s...
[14:05:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yes.... - 06AlphaGo Continues to Crush Human Go Players - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:05:23] <exec> 08└─That's true, and a car also can't run through terrains that a man can. Even among mammals, there seems to be the ability to go really fast for a moment like a cheetah or to go moderately fast for a long time like a man. I'm confident that Boston Dynamics will be successful in creating our robot chee...
[14:05:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02Re:Yes.... - 06AlphaGo Continues to Crush Human Go Players - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:05:27] <exec> 08└─An appropriate comparison. We know computers will beat humans as that is inevitable for any objective scored challenge. I'm not so impressed by AlphaGo, unless it has rules that improve a normal (or even skilled) human. The hardware however, is getting really interesting.... 1PF for my desktop soon?
[14:05:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Unixnut [5779] 02Re:Chess - 06AlphaGo Continues to Crush Human Go Players - 89 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:05:34] <exec> 08└─But it is a fact, great masters and champions aren't general public celebrities any more.
[14:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The road to hell - 06Two Major Credit Reporting Agencies Have Been Lying to Consumers - 1502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:06:20] <exec> 08└─I should think that the counterproposal is inherent: Replace the monopoly with a market of competing service providers; after all, you already understand the value of the separation of powers. It must become a cultural norm that "the law" is simply (and only) the collection of all the contracts that...
[14:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:power corrupts, film at 11 - 06Two Major Credit Reporting Agencies Have Been Lying to Consumers - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:06:28] <exec> 08└─Heh. I'm not sure, though. She still appears to be winning. Will be watching the next four years to see whether or not the international bankers are still running the world. I'm guessing they will be.
[14:07:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:computer goof is news - 06Facebook Censors Nude Neptune Statue, Writer Says - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:07:31] <exec> 08└─Yes. Facebook are curating their site so that nudity is forbidden, except when there's a public outcry in favour of it.
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[15:04:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:"Caution, contents may be hot" - 06Apple's FaceTime Blamed for Girl's Highway Crash Death in New Lawsuit - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:04:51] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure it wasn't that killed 5-year old girl who was using her iPhone while driving.
[15:04:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02So, what's next? - 06Apple's FaceTime Blamed for Girl's Highway Crash Death in New Lawsuit - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:54] <exec> 08└─When you get hit by a speeding car, do you also sue the car manufacturer because he didn't put a warning sign against speeding on the gas pedal? Hey, let's sue the radio station because at the time of the accident the driver was distracted by hearing his favourite song, and the radio station didn't...
[15:04:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03ThG [4568] (Score:2) 02Re:So, what's next? - 06Apple's FaceTime Blamed for Girl's Highway Crash Death in New Lawsuit - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:04:56] <exec> 08└─This happened in the US... Don't they have lawsuits like these all the time?
[15:04:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Apple exclusive - 06Apple's FaceTime Blamed for Girl's Highway Crash Death in New Lawsuit - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:58] <exec> 08└─Don't look for these safety features on other phones, because Apple has patented them.
[15:04:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02No, but interesting idea - 06Apple's FaceTime Blamed for Girl's Highway Crash Death in New Lawsuit - 902 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:00] <exec> 08└─Apple is obviously not to blame here. Although I wouldn't generalize to quickly, e.g. I do feel that gun makers are partly responsible for their gun's use. And the U.S. already has trade export laws that DO make a company responsible for who it sells to and what they will use it for. The interesting...
[15:05:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No, but interesting idea - 06Apple's FaceTime Blamed for Girl's Highway Crash Death in New Lawsuit - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:05:02] <exec> 08└─That would defeat the very purpose of patents: To make it possible for the tinkerers of America to protect their ideas from the moneyed powers-that-be. If you must have a product ready to go, then that adds considerably to the cost of receiving a patent. Come on, folks. For once in your lives, think...
[15:05:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02Personal responsibility falls by the wayside... - 06Apple's FaceTime Blamed for Girl's Highway Crash Death in New Lawsuit - 832 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:04] <exec> 08└─It may leave a bad taste in my mouth, but I have to agree with Apple in this case. The idiotic notion that Apple should have [x] is completely wrong in my opinion. If they had utilized the patent, then this idiot could have easily done the same thing trying to figure out what was wrong with his phon...
[15:05:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score:2) 02Follow the money - 06Apple's FaceTime Blamed for Girl's Highway Crash Death in New Lawsuit - 1097 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:06] <exec> 08└─I don't care for Apple. I like them better than Microsoft, but using the word "like" there is is purely in the relative sense only. Yes, it is Apple's phone and the software they installed on it. However, The asshat behind the wheel is to blame. When you drive you have to be responsible for your own...
[15:05:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Follow the money - 06Apple's FaceTime Blamed for Girl's Highway Crash Death in New Lawsuit - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:05:09] <exec> 08└─This case is nothing more than a lawyer looking for a big payoff by suing a large corporation. It is pure greed. Let's sue apple because they have a lot more money the the actual person responsible. Exactly. Also known as a "Steve Dallas lawsuit" [gocomics.com].
[15:05:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Basic Income Now - 06Global Debt Hits 325% Of World GDP, Rises To Record $217 Trillion - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:05:20] <exec> 08└─Basic income? Go with the times! Python income now!
[15:05:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Basic Income Now - 06Global Debt Hits 325% Of World GDP, Rises To Record $217 Trillion - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:05:22] <exec> 08└─In my day we had K&R C income and we liked it.
[15:05:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Re:No problem - 06Global Debt Hits 325% Of World GDP, Rises To Record $217 Trillion - 1510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:05:29] <exec> 08└─"given that most of that 217 trillion in debt is probably owed to a handful of megarich organisations" Speaking of needing to show your math...you need to, because that's nonsense. Governmental debt is owed to whoever has bought national bonds, which are in turn owned not only by the very rich, but...
[15:05:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:No problem - 06Global Debt Hits 325% Of World GDP, Rises To Record $217 Trillion - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:05:31] <exec> 08└─Well given that most of that 217 trillion in debt is probably owed to a handful of megarich organisations anyway,
[15:05:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Debt + Credit = 0 - 06Global Debt Hits 325% Of World GDP, Rises To Record $217 Trillion - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:05:35] <exec> 08└─You are missing the point. $217 trillion is an average of $31,000 per person on this planet. Who the fuck is that money owed to? If it is the same 65 people who own half the worlds wealth, why don't we load them on the B Ark, fire it into the Sun, and declare all debts paid?
[15:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Crushing Human Opponents - 06AlphaGo Continues to Crush Human Go Players - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:05] <exec> 08└─It is interesting to hear that AlphaGo is crushing human opponents. Now that AI can solve this complex strategy game, how about getting AI to solve other complex strategy games like War. To a computer, war is just an abstract problem to solve. And "crushing" human opponents can take on a dual meanin...
[15:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Missed oppertunity - 06Tor at the Heart: Firefox - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:20] <exec> 08└─Make Firefox great again.
[15:06:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The road to hell - 06Two Major Credit Reporting Agencies Have Been Lying to Consumers - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:06:53] <exec> 08└─What happens if I have a contract dispute with the contract enforcer for a contract with somebody? For that matter, if I'm required to pay damages by a contract, who's going to collect when I just keep shooting contract enforcers for getting on my lawn?
[15:07:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:power corrupts, film at 11 - 06Two Major Credit Reporting Agencies Have Been Lying to Consumers - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:07:02] <exec> 08└─This $23 million penalty sounds like a very weak wrist slapping.
[15:07:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score:2) 02Re:power corrupts, film at 11 - 06Two Major Credit Reporting Agencies Have Been Lying to Consumers - 1133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:07:04] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty libertarian but why can't companies be charged with stalking. If I, as a private individual, amassed the amount of information credit rating agencies and other data brokers have on just one individual I would be charged with stalking. Why can't some state attorney general go and do the sa...
[15:07:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bethany.Saint [5900] (Score:2) 02Proof that Regulations Harm Business. - 06Two Major Credit Reporting Agencies Have Been Lying to Consumers - 1125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:07] <exec> 08└─This is exactly why Trump should shut down the CFPB. We don't need regulations and they just don't work. Consumers need to step up and figure this stuff out for themselfs. Without regulation, credit agencies can just charge what the market bears and provides what returns the most profit. If consumer...
[15:08:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:In the meantime - 06Facebook Censors Nude Neptune Statue, Writer Says - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:08:06] <exec> 08└─Terrible Trump troll is terrible. You can do better than that. How about: Niggers gonna nigger.
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[16:04:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02I have to assume this is about TV ? - 06Univision Wins FCC Waiver to Let its Mexican Partner, Televisa, Increase Ownership Stake - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:57] <exec> 08└─I assume this is about either cable or broadcast television. Do people still watch that?
[16:04:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:I have to assume this is about TV ? - 06Univision Wins FCC Waiver to Let its Mexican Partner, Televisa, Increase Ownership Stake - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:04:58] <exec> 08└─Yes, people still do watch that. But it's mainly poorly-educated and/or lower-income people these days, plus old people. So I'm not sure why Univision is having a viewership problem.
[16:05:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Why is this being allowed? - 06Univision Wins FCC Waiver to Let its Mexican Partner, Televisa, Increase Ownership Stake - 1157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:01] <exec> 08└─Several of the private equity firms have been eager to unload their stakes in Univision, which is struggling with plummeting prime-time ratings and lower revenue. The move might also allow an increased financial investment in the Spanish-language media company. First off, if the channel is strugglin...
[16:05:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Responsibility - 06Apple's FaceTime Blamed for Girl's Highway Crash Death in New Lawsuit - 897 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:05:12] <exec> 08└─When I first read this headline a few days ago, my initial reaction was similar to yours. But, it's not the asshole who caused the wreck who is suing Apple. It's the victims of the asshole who caused the wreck who are suing. As I read the story, and the facts soaked in, I decided that the family pro...
[16:05:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:Responsibility - 06Apple's FaceTime Blamed for Girl's Highway Crash Death in New Lawsuit - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:05:13] <exec> 08└─>technology exists to shut the damned toys off when you are driving. Apple has chosen not to make use of that technology. A patent exists. We know what patents are really for...
[16:05:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03ben_white [5531] (Score:1) 02Re:Responsibility - 06Apple's FaceTime Blamed for Girl's Highway Crash Death in New Lawsuit - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:05:15] <exec> 08└─If a gun manufacturer were selling firearms that had no safety features at all, and someone's child were killed by that gun, you can be sure that they would win this suit against the gun manufacturer.
[16:05:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Responsibility - 06Apple's FaceTime Blamed for Girl's Highway Crash Death in New Lawsuit - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:05:17] <exec> 08└─If Apple has a way to automatically disable certain features for people who are driving a vehicle then this is to be seen as a heads-up - not as an absolution to do whatever you please as long as your device doesn't tell you to stop or prevents you from doing it.
[16:05:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:So, what's next? - 06Apple's FaceTime Blamed for Girl's Highway Crash Death in New Lawsuit - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:05:21] <exec> 08└─One more time - there is almost no comparison between fiddling with a radio, and playing games or texting on a cell phone. For music to be as equally distracting as a cell phone, the driver would have to be playing a musical instrument along with the music.
[16:05:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:So, what's next? - 06Apple's FaceTime Blamed for Girl's Highway Crash Death in New Lawsuit - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:05:24] <exec> 08└─For music to be as equally distracting as a cell phone, the driver would have to be playing a musical instrument along with the music.
[16:05:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Apple exclusive - 06Apple's FaceTime Blamed for Girl's Highway Crash Death in New Lawsuit - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:05:27] <exec> 08└─I think the editors should go back and bold that part since so many people are glossing over it. If the Modisettes' lawyer can find just one app company that was considering developing similar functionality and tabled it once Apple got the patent, I'd bet on the jury finding in favor of the Modisett...
[16:05:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Re:No, but interesting idea - 06Apple's FaceTime Blamed for Girl's Highway Crash Death in New Lawsuit - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:05:31] <exec> 08└─Although I wouldn't generalize to quickly, e.g. I do feel that gun makers are partly responsible for their gun's use.
[16:05:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Personal responsibility falls by the wayside... - 06Apple's FaceTime Blamed for Girl's Highway Crash Death in New Lawsuit - 1187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:05:34] <exec> 08└─I understand the plaintiff lawyer's reasoning here: I wouldn't be surprised in the least if they sued the driver first only to discover that he was broke and thus judgment-proof. The family, understandably upset because they lost their 5-year-old child, asked their lawyer if there was somebody else...
[16:05:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02Re:Personal responsibility falls by the wayside... - 06Apple's FaceTime Blamed for Girl's Highway Crash Death in New Lawsuit - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:05:36] <exec> 08└─Nice reply. I follow the reasoning you ascribe to the family, and I also figure that is the case here. Heck, if I was in the parent's shoes, I might even try the same thing out of grief and anger.(I can't even begin to imagine what that would be like, and no telling how I would react. I would hope t...
[16:05:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:No problem - 06Global Debt Hits 325% Of World GDP, Rises To Record $217 Trillion - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:05:56] <exec> 08└─Governmental debt is owed to whoever has bought national bonds,
[16:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:No problem - 06Global Debt Hits 325% Of World GDP, Rises To Record $217 Trillion - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:05:58] <exec> 08└─Except when it doesn't. Every one of those "sensible things" has notorious examples where there is at best a paltry return on investment, and sometimes a negative return on investment.
[16:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score:2) 02Re:No problem - 06Global Debt Hits 325% Of World GDP, Rises To Record $217 Trillion - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:06:00] <exec> 08└─Pension funds...
[16:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2) 02Re:No problem - 06Global Debt Hits 325% Of World GDP, Rises To Record $217 Trillion - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:06:02] <exec> 08└─(Every now and then, it would be nice if the tax-more spend-more crowd would show their math.)
[16:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:Debt + Credit = 0 - 06Global Debt Hits 325% Of World GDP, Rises To Record $217 Trillion - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:06:10] <exec> 08└─In fact money is neutral, while debt is control. Left and right ideologues like to talk about plutocrats and their desire to become richer, while the real game is about making us poor.
[16:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03tempest [3050] (Score:2) 02Re:Debt + Credit = 0 - 06Global Debt Hits 325% Of World GDP, Rises To Record $217 Trillion - 728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:06:14] <exec> 08└─Some of this debt is abstracted so it's almost hard to comprehend. For example, US Dollars aren't just printed into existence. The Federal Reserve writes a check (with nothing backing it) to buy government bonds. Those bonds pay interest, so essentially US Dollars are borrowed into existence. So you...
[16:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Interest - 06Global Debt Hits 325% Of World GDP, Rises To Record $217 Trillion - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:06:18] <exec> 08└─Except that a lot of that debt is in government bonds and governments (at least the ones that have control over their currency) can always pay off the debt by printing more money. This devalues the currency, but the debt is gone (effectively making everyone who owns some of the currency pay a propor...
[16:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:The three problems with debt - 06Global Debt Hits 325% Of World GDP, Rises To Record $217 Trillion - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:06:22] <exec> 08└─While I'll happily agree there are lots of things screwed up about our financial systems, this seems based on some fundamental (but popular) misconceptions. 1/ It generates money for lenders, who basically don't do anything of value in society.
[16:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:The three problems with debt - 06Global Debt Hits 325% Of World GDP, Rises To Record $217 Trillion - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:06:24] <exec> 08└─By the way - I should be clear that I agree with you at least to the extent that so many people believe the things you said (including lots of powerful people with lots of money) that we should be concerned about these things. My point is that a lot of the responses to various crises of debt are cau...
[16:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02666% of sigh - 06Global Debt Hits 325% Of World GDP, Rises To Record $217 Trillion - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:26] <exec> 08└─I can't repeat this often enough: If you divide GDP by debt, you get time, not a percentage. For a smart person it's not a big deal because you can figure out what it actually means but most people aren't that knowledgeable and will be mislead to think that there's something special about 100%. Thus...
[16:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Crushing Human Opponents - 06AlphaGo Continues to Crush Human Go Players - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:06:48] <exec> 08└─I seem to recall that someone is working on an ai to play Starcraft II with the same inputs that humans get. That's a big step in that direction.
[16:06:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02The novelty wore off long ago. - 06AlphaGo Continues to Crush Human Go Players - 1107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:50] <exec> 08└─Overall I don't really find this all that interesting, such as how the novelty of Deep Blue once upon a time beat all the chess players. It was interesting when it happens but hardly a surprise that it (machine) would eventually do it. From what I understand it's essentially the same - a piece of so...
[16:06:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scottingham [5593] (Score:1) 02Re:The novelty wore off long ago. - 06AlphaGo Continues to Crush Human Go Players - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:06:52] <exec> 08└─You missed the point. Go is so complex that, unlike chess, all moves CANNOT be determined. That's why this is still big news even some months after the story broke. I find it most interesting that less than two years ago we thought that it would take another 5-10 years before AI could beat a human a...
[16:07:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yawning Angel - 06Tor at the Heart: Firefox - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:07:04] <exec> 08└─Yeah because when you are a government spy you deliberately chose a name that gives away your intentions. That's totally how professional spies work. Opsec? We don't need any stinking opsec,
[16:07:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02First Party Isolation - 06Tor at the Heart: Firefox - 1044 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:08] <exec> 08└─The page about first party isolation, linked in the summary, is a great read. At least it was for me as I've been thinking a lot about the issue - especially using the URL in the urlbar as the key for each "identity." Their thoughts on spoofing (they call it randomization) were insightful and have...
[16:07:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The road to hell - 06Two Major Credit Reporting Agencies Have Been Lying to Consumers - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:07:42] <exec> 08└─These are not issues that are solved by the present exaltation of one particular enforcer, so what could your point possibly be?
[16:07:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The road to hell - 06Two Major Credit Reporting Agencies Have Been Lying to Consumers - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:07:44] <exec> 08└─Three things. I'm trying to determine how this system differs from the present exaltation of one particular enforcer. I would also like to know how that system handles bad actors. I'm also wondering what, exactly, contract enforcers do? (I.e. why would this industry spring up?)
[16:07:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:The road to hell - 06Two Major Credit Reporting Agencies Have Been Lying to Consumers - 815 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:07:46] <exec> 08└─first of all, the US is NOT a democracy! important detail. and, well, the US system is clearly NOT the best in the world. US folks do not have the best standard of living, they have some of the lowest trust in their government and authorities, we are overworked, we are being outsourced and sold out...
[16:07:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03tempest [3050] (Score:2) 02Re:power corrupts, film at 11 - 06Two Major Credit Reporting Agencies Have Been Lying to Consumers - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:07:56] <exec> 08└─I agree $23 million seems low and some folks going to jail seems appropriate. They were violating federal law. I got hit by this scam from Transunion. After listening to a talk, I decided to check my credit score as was recommended - Federal Law that they have to provide it for free so why not?. Got...
[16:07:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Proof that Regulations Harm Business. - 06Two Major Credit Reporting Agencies Have Been Lying to Consumers - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:07:59] <exec> 08└─These credit-rating agencies are the result of government-granted monopolies, not the markets.
[16:08:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I bet - 06US-trained Dolphins to Help Locate Mexico's Vaquita Porpoise - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:08:10] <exec> 08└─Only if it was a littoral dolphin.
[16:08:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:I bet - 06US-trained Dolphins to Help Locate Mexico's Vaquita Porpoise - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:08:12] <exec> 08└─you mispelled literal^W litoral^W littorial.
[16:08:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Diversity" - 06Google ‘Refuses’ to Hand Over Pay Data, Gets Sued by Feds - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:08:32] <exec> 08└─Offtopic? What about the shit up there^^^
[16:08:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:"Diversity" - 06Google ‘Refuses’ to Hand Over Pay Data, Gets Sued by Feds - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:08:33] <exec> 08└─> If I was in charge of hiring, I don't care if you're purple with green spots . . . I would be concerned enough to determine whether this was a condition that is contagious.
[16:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Ask me again why I don't have a FB account - 06Facebook Censors Nude Neptune Statue, Writer Says - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:09:13] <exec> 08└─Ditto. Never have been, never will be on FaceTwit.
[16:09:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:Nothing to Hide? Shit in the middle of mainstre - 06Richard Feynman Put Himself on the FBI's Do Not Call List - 835 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:09:59] <exec> 08└─As per Glenn Greenwald: Over the last 16 months, as I’ve debated this issue around the world, every single time somebody has said to me, “I don’t really worry about invasions of privacy because I don’t have anything to hide.” I always say the same thing to them. I get out a pen, I write d...
[16:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score:2) 02Re:Good features? - 06Chrysler Unveils a High-tech Car for Millennials - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:45] <exec> 08└─A promising battery for grid level storage that can take abuse is the Sodium-Sulfur battery [wikipedia.org]. They do require being kept hot so not something you want your regular end user maintaining but they have a high energy density and also don't really wear out as they are just 2 liquids.
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[17:04:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Try reading the article, genius, to learn why - 06Univision Wins FCC Waiver to Let its Mexican Partner, Televisa, Increase Ownership Stake - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:04:57] <exec> 08└─Genius, if you read the article, you would know why. They go into it in detail.
[17:04:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I think I've met you before - 06Univision Wins FCC Waiver to Let its Mexican Partner, Televisa, Increase Ownership Stake - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:04:58] <exec> 08└─http://www.theonion.com/amp/429 [theonion.com] Had to be done. :-)
[17:05:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score:2) 02Re:Responsibility - 06Apple's FaceTime Blamed for Girl's Highway Crash Death in New Lawsuit - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:05:16] <exec> 08└─Seriously, the 2nd sentence of your own link says: However, both [gun] manufacturers and [gun] dealers can still be held liable for damages resulting from defective products, breach of contract, criminal misconduct, and other actions for which they are directly responsible in much the same manner t...
[17:05:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03ticho [89] (Score:2) 02Re:Responsibility - 06Apple's FaceTime Blamed for Girl's Highway Crash Death in New Lawsuit - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:05:17] <exec> 08└─"Defective product" is the key word there. I do not think it applies to this situation, unless the word "defect" is stretched beyond belief.
[17:05:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03ACE209 [4762] (Score:1) 02Re:Responsibility - 06Apple's FaceTime Blamed for Girl's Highway Crash Death in New Lawsuit - 1053 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:05:19] <exec> 08└─I think regardless of victim or pepetrator this certain case has no merrit. In hindsight after an accident you can probably find multiple technologies which could have prevented it. Are now all parties who could have possibly implemented / manifactured this technology guilty? Though, it opens up the...
[17:05:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Responsibility - 06Apple's FaceTime Blamed for Girl's Highway Crash Death in New Lawsuit - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:05:22] <exec> 08└─Or a train. I suppose motion data could be correlated w/ GPS data except that trains often parallel roads, but the passenger issue is probably the best point.
[17:05:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So, what's next? - 06Apple's FaceTime Blamed for Girl's Highway Crash Death in New Lawsuit - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:05:28] <exec> 08└─For music to be as equally distracting as a cell phone, the driver would have to be playing a musical instrument along with the music.
[17:05:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Personal responsibility falls by the wayside... - 06Apple's FaceTime Blamed for Girl's Highway Crash Death in New Lawsuit - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:05:39] <exec> 08└─A: The driver should be insured. B: For the instances where A is false, this why you carry an Uninsured Motorist policy on your own car insurance.
[17:05:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Personal responsibility falls by the wayside... - 06Apple's FaceTime Blamed for Girl's Highway Crash Death in New Lawsuit - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:05:41] <exec> 08└─I agree both of those *should* be true, but it's quite possible neither of them were: There are lots of people who leave off UM coverage to try and save a few bucks if their state doesn't require it.
[17:05:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Follow the money - 06Apple's FaceTime Blamed for Girl's Highway Crash Death in New Lawsuit - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:05:45] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't they also sue the carrier for providing the phone?
[17:05:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Live by the Gun, Die by the Gun - 06Apple's FaceTime Blamed for Girl's Highway Crash Death in New Lawsuit - 1008 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:47] <exec> 08└─So far everybody is arguing about whether it is reasonable to hold apple responsible rather than the driver. I have a different take. Why does Apple get to claim a patent on this and not use it? And if it doesn't work, why were they given a patent? Yeah, I know literally why - because the industry i...
[17:05:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03ticho [89] (Score:2) 02Re:Live by the Gun, Die by the Gun - 06Apple's FaceTime Blamed for Girl's Highway Crash Death in New Lawsuit - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:05:49] <exec> 08└─Your point about patents being misused is of course valid, but it's completely off-topic here. This is simply about idiot behind the wheel being distracted and causing an accident. Nobody else is responsible for him voluntarily taking his attention away from driving but himself. Means of distraction...
[17:05:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Problem appears to be... - 06Apple's FaceTime Blamed for Girl's Highway Crash Death in New Lawsuit - 1027 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:51] <exec> 08└─...there is no state law banning the use of cell phones while driving. http://www.jrlawfirm.com [jrlawfirm.com] Denton, Texas has an ordinance banning hand-held use while driving, but that should only apply to the city. Denton county is mentioned in the a...
[17:06:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03deimtee [3272] 02Debt + Credit = 0 - 06Global Debt Hits 325% Of World GDP, Rises To Record $217 Trillion - 222 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:13] <exec> 08└─What gets me is none of these "oooh scary massive debt" stories say who the money is owed to. If i am in debt for $1000, I owe that to someone. Who the hell does the world owe 217 trillion dollars to? Aliens from Rigel IV?
[17:06:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:Chess - 06AlphaGo Continues to Crush Human Go Players - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:06:52] <exec> 08└─Are there celebrities in the FPS videogame area? because none of them can beat the reflexes of a bot. It takes the very top players to beat a top level bot, usually because of some bug, sloppy programming. And those bots are not made to specifically win.
[17:06:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Re:The novelty wore off long ago. - 06AlphaGo Continues to Crush Human Go Players - 1028 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:06:58] <exec> 08└─I don't think I have ever read anything about GO having infinite moves. There is a limit, it's just a really large amount of them. I do know that it's a more complex game then for example chess but there is still a finite amount of possible legal moves. A lot of those moves are not even going to be...
[17:07:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The road to hell - 06Two Major Credit Reporting Agencies Have Been Lying to Consumers - 2389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:07:50] <exec> 08└─It's different in that it requires every organization in society to be funded through the voluntary association of participants (consumers and producers), rather than through violent imposition; a "government" is just another organization in the market, but one that declares its income regardless of...
[17:07:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The road to hell - 06Two Major Credit Reporting Agencies Have Been Lying to Consumers - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:07:51] <exec> 08└─Thanks. That's a bit more to chew on.
[17:11:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:It doesn't matter now - 06Microsoft's Browsers May Have Hit Rock Bottom - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:11:15] <exec> 08└─"It is not 'awful' or 'better' than chrome. For that mater chrome is neither better or worse than Firefox." Sorry, not everything is perfectly relative, some things really are better than others. The Chrome UI is objectively awful, a major regression in a field already dominated by programs with rea...
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[18:04:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score:2) 02I'll tell you something else - 06Acid Suppression Medications Linked to Serious Gastrointestinal Infections - 697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:51] <exec> 08└─I'm about to undergo an experimental surgical procedure to my oesophageal sphincter, to cure my GERD permanently. To that end, the surgeon told me to get off IPPs 6 weeks prior to surgery (it's experimental, so he want to measure acid levels before and after, without the interference of IPPs). Well,...
[18:04:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'll tell you something else - 06Acid Suppression Medications Linked to Serious Gastrointestinal Infections - 734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:04:53] <exec> 08└─Give soylent 2.0 (the pre-bottled stuff) a try. You can order it from amazon [amazon.com] and get it overnight if you really want to. Lots of people have reported that a soylent diet made their GERD go away. I have seen a handful of people who tried the powdered version and got heartburn for the fir...
[18:04:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ezber Bozmak [764] (Score:2) 02Apple Cider Vinegar - 06Acid Suppression Medications Linked to Serious Gastrointestinal Infections - 1227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:55] <exec> 08└─Ironically, one of the most common causes of acid reflux, aka heartburn, is too little stomach acid. Or rather too little acid at the wrong time. There is a valve between your stomach and your esophagus that opens to let food in and closes to keep acid from going up into your throat (reflux). The bo...
[18:04:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Apple Cider Vinegar - 06Acid Suppression Medications Linked to Serious Gastrointestinal Infections - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:04:57] <exec> 08└─Could you just add vinegar and citric acid to every meal?
[18:04:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ezber Bozmak [764] (Score:2) 02Re:Apple Cider Vinegar - 06Acid Suppression Medications Linked to Serious Gastrointestinal Infections - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:04:59] <exec> 08└─I don't know. But the way I've seen it explained is that you need to take the apple cider vinegar before the meal, not with the meal. Because taking it with the meal is too late to stimulate the reflex. But there is nothing stopping you from trying it yourself and finding out what works for you.
[18:05:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Apple Cider Vinegar - 06Acid Suppression Medications Linked to Serious Gastrointestinal Infections - 771 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:05:01] <exec> 08└─Article's only scientific evidence is a single study. Study's abstract mentions extremely small sample size(N=7. Yeah, you read that right.). Study's placebo was chili, which... I'm not sure could be considered a legitimate non-factor in acid reflux reactions, nor anywhere near blind to the particip...
[18:05:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Apple Cider Vinegar - 06Acid Suppression Medications Linked to Serious Gastrointestinal Infections - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:05:03] <exec> 08└─"Folk remedy" "low cost and low risk to try" Were those disclaimers insufficient for you?
[18:05:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02In other news... - 06Acid Suppression Medications Linked to Serious Gastrointestinal Infections - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:05] <exec> 08└─duh!
[18:05:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ken_g6 [3706] (Score:2) 02Everything in moderation - 06Acid Suppression Medications Linked to Serious Gastrointestinal Infections - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:08] <exec> 08└─I've found that the dosage of a PPI, for me, is critical. Too little and I get heartburn, but too much and I get diarrhea. I was eventually able to lower my dosage from 40mg/day to 20mg/day, but it's hard to go below that because they don't make smaller dosages. I think more dosage levels would be v...
[18:05:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02Re:"Caution, contents may be hot" - 06Apple's FaceTime Blamed for Girl's Highway Crash Death in New Lawsuit - 93 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:05:28] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure it wasn't that killed 5-year old girl who was using her iPhone while driving.
[18:05:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02Re:Responsibility - 06Apple's FaceTime Blamed for Girl's Highway Crash Death in New Lawsuit - 897 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:05:30] <exec> 08└─When I first read this headline a few days ago, my initial reaction was similar to yours. But, it's not the asshole who caused the wreck who is suing Apple. It's the victims of the asshole who caused the wreck who are suing. As I read the story, and the facts soaked in, I decided that the family pro...
[18:05:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Responsibility - 06Apple's FaceTime Blamed for Girl's Highway Crash Death in New Lawsuit - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:05:34] <exec> 08└─A patent exists. We know what patents are really for... I don't think you do, and if you think it's to keep products off the market, you're wrong. Patents give a 20 year monopoly so the inventor can make money before everyone else. My eye implant is under patent until 2023, when all IOLs will be var...
[18:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Yes, - 06Apple's FaceTime Blamed for Girl's Highway Crash Death in New Lawsuit - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:01] <exec> 08└─it was facetime's fault, not the fault of the person using the device when they should be focused on the task at hand - driving and not killing people.
[18:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score:1) 02Re:No problem - 06Global Debt Hits 325% Of World GDP, Rises To Record $217 Trillion - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:06:24] <exec> 08└─just cancel the debt. However I don't think anyone is seriously suggesting that. That's too bad, because that is exactly what should be done. Private business does it all the time through bankruptcy proceedings. The other method is through wars of 'independence' *cough* USA. So, we, the people, shou...
[18:06:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03caffeine [249] 02Re:Debt + Credit = 0 - 06Global Debt Hits 325% Of World GDP, Rises To Record $217 Trillion - 159 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:06:31] <exec> 08└─Total debt exceeds total money. The issue is banks create money by lending it as a debt, and don't create the extra money that is needed to cover the interest.
[18:06:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score:1) 02Re:Debt + Credit = 0 - 06Global Debt Hits 325% Of World GDP, Rises To Record $217 Trillion - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:06:37] <exec> 08└─Who the hell does the world owe 217 trillion dollars to? The Wall Street derivatives markets, the biggest mob run casino in the world. The numbers are imaginary and irrational.
[18:06:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score:1) 02Re:The three problems with debt - 06Global Debt Hits 325% Of World GDP, Rises To Record $217 Trillion - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:06:45] <exec> 08└─There's nothing like a 'little' war to zero out the books. Replace the old lenders with new ones. All that money that went to the Royal Family now goes to the 'Founding Fathers'. Next thing you know you got a 'Whiskey Rebellion' on your hands.
[18:06:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yes.... - 06AlphaGo Continues to Crush Human Go Players - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:06:58] <exec> 08└─Hey Ned, I'm gonna go solve some quintic equations.
[18:07:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Re:The novelty wore off long ago. - 06AlphaGo Continues to Crush Human Go Players - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:07:15] <exec> 08└─Go is so complex that, unlike chess, all moves CANNOT be determined.
[18:07:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02crying over losing the gold - 06AlphaGo Continues to Crush Human Go Players - 2804 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:17] <exec> 08└─We aren't gold medalists anymore in chess and now in Go. This has terribly upset us. The whole tone of this news is mournful and fearful. Soon AI will be better than us at every game. Noooo!!! Get a grip. Games are in a way a huge simplification of reality, a better defined, rigid, and far, far smal...
[18:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mozilla implementing an improvement? - 06Tor at the Heart: Firefox - 833 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:07:32] <exec> 08└─I still think there are two huge improvements for security on the web. First would be to gut the user-agent header to just be a generic "Firefox" string. The reason is that this would drastically cut down the ability to track based on things like OS and processor architecture and would also affect h...
[18:08:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The road to hell - 06Two Major Credit Reporting Agencies Have Been Lying to Consumers - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:08:15] <exec> 08└─Yes. That balance can be achieved—and maintained—solely through a market of voluntary trade; in civilized society, there is no place for an organization that declares its income by dictate.
[18:08:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Proof that Regulations Harm Business. - 06Two Major Credit Reporting Agencies Have Been Lying to Consumers - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:08:28] <exec> 08└─There are four of them. How is that a monopoly?
[18:08:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Re:Proof that Regulations Harm Business. - 06Two Major Credit Reporting Agencies Have Been Lying to Consumers - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:08:30] <exec> 08└─So are you also going to make them responsible for the accuracy of the information that they provide? If they provide wrong information, they should compensate the victims not just a token amount, but the actual losses incurred by the victims. In many cases, this could be millions for an individual...
[18:08:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Proof that Regulations Harm Business. - 06Two Major Credit Reporting Agencies Have Been Lying to Consumers - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:08:32] <exec> 08└─You seem to have been lawyered. Poe lawyered.
[18:08:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Stop! - 06Two Major Credit Reporting Agencies Have Been Lying to Consumers - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:34] <exec> 08└─Stop calling it "credit score". It's a debt score, a measure of how much debt you're willing to take on (and how much banks will give you), nothing more. Try living your life on cash only, without a loan to your name, without a credit card, for say 7 years, and see what happens. Your "credit score"...
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[19:05:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02WCPGW? - 06Group Will Hand Out Free Cannabis in D.C. on Inauguration Day - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:00] <exec> 08└─So... you're telling the cops where and when you plan on bringing across state lines enough pot for 4200 joints, with intent to distribute? Man, I'm gonna need the extra-large box of Taco Bell to complement the popcorn on that one.
[19:05:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Federal Agents Field Day - 06Group Will Hand Out Free Cannabis in D.C. on Inauguration Day - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:02] <exec> 08└─We'll be celebrating our freedom by having black-clad enforcers [wikipedia.org] arresting people who rightfully believe that liberty means being able to enjoy a mind-altering drug that is neither offered by the pharma cartels nor Big Alcohol. Trump! Trump! Trump!
[19:05:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Apple Cider Vinegar - 06Acid Suppression Medications Linked to Serious Gastrointestinal Infections - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:05:18] <exec> 08└─Those are heuristics. Heuristics aren't always right. Evidence assessment, on the other hand, is timeless. For example: "rinse a cut in cold water" is more folk remedy than a prescribed medication. It's also cheap and low risk.. But the evidence says it works. I'm a firm believer in evidence-based...
[19:05:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Apple Cider Vinegar - 06Acid Suppression Medications Linked to Serious Gastrointestinal Infections - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:05:19] <exec> 08└─Harmless and pointless.
[19:05:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Apple Cider Vinegar - 06Acid Suppression Medications Linked to Serious Gastrointestinal Infections - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:05:21] <exec> 08└─Bull-fucking-shit. People die and suffer huge negative consequences all the time [whatstheharm.net] because they trusted treatments some ill-informed dickbag foisted on them. A dash of stomach acid refluxing up the throat isn't going to kill anyone, but there's no need to ignore reality just to be p...
[19:05:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Apple Cider Vinegar - 06Acid Suppression Medications Linked to Serious Gastrointestinal Infections - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:05:23] <exec> 08└─Lol. Talking about harmless folk remedies is just normalizing fatal quackery!!!! Get over yourself. Maybe the problem is crying wolf - you're just training people to ignore warnings about fatal quackery. Extremism in the defense of anything is a vice.
[19:05:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Apple Cider Vinegar - 06Acid Suppression Medications Linked to Serious Gastrointestinal Infections - 1064 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:05:25] <exec> 08└─See: you're extremely angry that I compared non-fatal quackery to fatal quackery on a pretty subjective "It's the same class of mistake" level. I even clarified the point that your whole point centrally depends on me glossing over. The only deduction I can draw is that you are extremely angry about...
[19:05:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Apple Cider Vinegar - 06Acid Suppression Medications Linked to Serious Gastrointestinal Infections - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:05:28] <exec> 08└─> I even clarified the point that your whole point centrally depends on me glossing over. Admitting you are doing something stupid and then still doing it doesn't make it any less stupid. > extremely angry Gee, your post sure comes across as really shouty. What with all the bolding and accusations....
[19:05:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Apple Cider Vinegar - 06Acid Suppression Medications Linked to Serious Gastrointestinal Infections - 740 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:05:30] <exec> 08└─Who cares? It's vinegar, Maybe next you'll be complaining that someone claiming "1 apple a day to keep doctor away" doesn't have scientific study behind it? And to counter, statistics don't apply to individuals. I was given medicine that was not suppose to have side-effects that I was having. I was...
[19:05:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Apple Cider Vinegar - 06Acid Suppression Medications Linked to Serious Gastrointestinal Infections - 757 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:05:32] <exec> 08└─You know, I wasn't expecting so much outrage over reading a scientific study and pointing out major issues. I was expecting someone to point out that maybe I looked at the wrong table, and have an analysis of how many different tests it takes before you get to accidental p-hacking. As to who cares?...
[19:05:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Get a Pill Cutter - 06Acid Suppression Medications Linked to Serious Gastrointestinal Infections - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:05:36] <exec> 08└─> they don't make smaller dosages. Get a pill cutter. They are less than $10. They are great for medicine that isn't priced proportionally to dosage. Some drugs are even priced per pill regardless of dosage. Buying 4x dosage and then cutting into quarters saves 75%. I saved a ton of money once i con...
[19:05:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02aye right... - 06Acid Suppression Medications Linked to Serious Gastrointestinal Infections - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:38] <exec> 08└─'..Maybe they should cut back on haggis and chips instead.'
[19:05:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Decline in Spanish Fluency - 06Univision Wins FCC Waiver to Let its Mexican Partner, Televisa, Increase Ownership Stake - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:05:48] <exec> 08└─From the article: Since the Great Recession, the growth in the U.S. Latino population has come from those born in the country, not abroad. U.S.-born Latinos typically are bilingual or speak mostly English and are inclined to watch TV in English — if they watch at all.
[19:05:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why is this being allowed? - 06Univision Wins FCC Waiver to Let its Mexican Partner, Televisa, Increase Ownership Stake - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:05:52] <exec> 08└─> Surely this rule about foreign ownership of media is there for a reason, And surely the process of applying for an exemption is there for a reason too. > what kind of idiot would want to increase investment into it (rather than getting it for pennies on the dollar and milking it dry)? Because they...
[19:05:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why is this being allowed? - 06Univision Wins FCC Waiver to Let its Mexican Partner, Televisa, Increase Ownership Stake - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:05:54] <exec> 08└─Free market, laissez faire, capitalism, etc. Why do you hate economic freedom?
[19:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Responsibility - 06Apple's FaceTime Blamed for Girl's Highway Crash Death in New Lawsuit - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:06:10] <exec> 08└─>> We know what patents are really for... > I don't think you do In corporations like Apple, tons of patents are used for competitors (defensively or offensively) rather than for actual products. They have people on staff who try to patent any idea they can, whether it has any chance of turning into...
[19:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Responsibility - 06Apple's FaceTime Blamed for Girl's Highway Crash Death in New Lawsuit - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:06:15] <exec> 08└─I think [...] this certain case has no [merit]. [...] Another part is that there is lots of software on that phones with the goal to grab your attention. Aren't the developers of that software the real culprits?
[19:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Re:Responsibility - 06Apple's FaceTime Blamed for Girl's Highway Crash Death in New Lawsuit - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:06:17] <exec> 08└─As I read the story, and the facts soaked in, I decided that the family probably has a case.
[19:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Responsibility - 06Apple's FaceTime Blamed for Girl's Highway Crash Death in New Lawsuit - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:06:21] <exec> 08└─Big Data to the rescue! Seriously, Apple (google/MS/...) knows when you're usually driving. A simple algorithm using the accelerometers can probably tell with well over 90% confidence whether you're doing driving motions while holding the phone, rather than sitting in a passenger seat. There's proba...
[19:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03LT218 [5345] (Score:1) 02Re:Responsibility - 06Apple's FaceTime Blamed for Girl's Highway Crash Death in New Lawsuit - 1196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:06:23] <exec> 08└─How does said technology differentiate between a passenger and a driver? GPS readings would be the same for both. Speed of changing scenery would be the same, etc. Even if they implemented some basic checks, history would seem to indicate that there will always be people who try to cheat the system...
[19:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:So, what's next? - 06Apple's FaceTime Blamed for Girl's Highway Crash Death in New Lawsuit - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:06:30] <exec> 08└─Does the instrument manufacturer have a hundred billion dollars in cash reserves?
[19:06:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Personal responsibility falls by the wayside... - 06Apple's FaceTime Blamed for Girl's Highway Crash Death in New Lawsuit - 822 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:06:41] <exec> 08└─Texas, like California and many other states requires basic liability coverage. In Texas the current minimum liability limits are $30,000 for each injured person, up to a total of $60,000 per accident, and $25,000 for property damage per accident. My guess is the offending driver is likely young (un...
[19:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Live by the Gun, Die by the Gun - 06Apple's FaceTime Blamed for Girl's Highway Crash Death in New Lawsuit - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:06:48] <exec> 08└─> Your point about patents being misused is of course valid, but it's completely off-topic here. Yeah, on a tech site a discussion of the deleterious effects of software patents is off-topic. Get over yourself.
[19:06:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Problem appears to be... - 06Apple's FaceTime Blamed for Girl's Highway Crash Death in New Lawsuit - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:06:51] <exec> 08└─How many states have laws against distracted driving of which texting while driving would be a subset and thus not worth creating another law for?
[19:07:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No problem - 06Global Debt Hits 325% Of World GDP, Rises To Record $217 Trillion - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:07:11] <exec> 08└─Shabam!! I love your well thought out posts, you seem to always manage a courteous air.
[19:07:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No problem - 06Global Debt Hits 325% Of World GDP, Rises To Record $217 Trillion - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:07:18] <exec> 08└─No one seriously advocates straight confiscation, if you hear such phrases they are usually just a reactionary generalization. The proper way is to reform our tax codes and just have companies / individuals pay their fair share.
[19:07:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Debt + Credit = 0 - 06Global Debt Hits 325% Of World GDP, Rises To Record $217 Trillion - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:07:25] <exec> 08└─Future Social Security obligations are not counted in the debt, no. This is why the government is a whole lot more bankrupt than they are letting on.
[19:07:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Debt + Credit = 0 - 06Global Debt Hits 325% Of World GDP, Rises To Record $217 Trillion - 982 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:07:27] <exec> 08└─Of course, but new people age into the system faster than old people die out of it,and the difference is growing. Not only are birthrates falling, but people live longer, spending more time taking money out of the system, and starting work later (due to longer education), spending less time paying i...
[19:07:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Yes.... - 06AlphaGo Continues to Crush Human Go Players - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:07:52] <exec> 08└─> Even among mammals, there seems to be the ability to go really fast for a moment like a cheetah or to go moderately fast for a long time like a man. The wolves would like to show you how they hunt. Just keep up with the bison, horses and wildebeests, and you might survive.
[19:08:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03WalksOnDirt [5854] (Score:2) 02Re:Chess - 06AlphaGo Continues to Crush Human Go Players - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:08:06] <exec> 08└─Have you never heard of Magnus Carlsen? He seems roughly as famous as Kasparov was.
[19:08:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The novelty wore off long ago. - 06AlphaGo Continues to Crush Human Go Players - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:08:14] <exec> 08└─I don't think I have ever read anything about GO having infinite moves. There is a limit, it's just a really large amount of them.
[19:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Stop! - 06Two Major Credit Reporting Agencies Have Been Lying to Consumers - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:30] <exec> 08└─One small nitpick. Neither "credit score" agencies nor banks are government. They're private businesses. Make of that what you will.
[19:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Refugee from beyond [2699] (Score:2) 02Re:UI guessing - 06Microsoft's Browsers May Have Hit Rock Bottom - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:25] <exec> 08└─> I don't want some mistyped crap sent to a search engine. You don’t, but they do.
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[20:05:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:WCPGW? - 06Group Will Hand Out Free Cannabis in D.C. on Inauguration Day - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:05:07] <exec> 08└─True, but we should also support these protesters and raise a big stink if they are harassed. Weed is legal in DC yet the feds still crack down on it... This is the less important/amazing version of the Civil Rights Movement. Where are all the conservatives calling out for less big Government interf...
[20:05:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:Federal Agents Field Day - 06Group Will Hand Out Free Cannabis in D.C. on Inauguration Day - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:05:10] <exec> 08└─But why skulls? [youtube.com]
[20:05:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Follow the Crowd - 06Group Will Hand Out Free Cannabis in D.C. on Inauguration Day - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:12] <exec> 08└─Be a dissenter by doing what everyone else is doing! So brave, so brave.
[20:05:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Follow the Crowd - 06Group Will Hand Out Free Cannabis in D.C. on Inauguration Day - 932 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:05:14] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure these people will be in the minority, "everyone else" will actually NOT be smoking any pot. Weed truly does replace a lot of pharmaceuticals, with many people having a better response to the weed with less side effects than the pharma drugs. It is also much safer/healthier for societ...
[20:05:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Follow the Crowd - 06Group Will Hand Out Free Cannabis in D.C. on Inauguration Day - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:05:16] <exec> 08└─Thanks for that stoner propaganda piece. I see you're in the in-crowd yourself, crowd-follower. Let's all do jimsonweed instead of marijuana. Jimsonweed is legal, has always been legal, and is more potent than marijuana. So potent you could die. "What the fuck is jimsonweed I don't even. STFU and GT...
[20:05:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Uncle_Al [1108] (Score:2) 02Yep, that's how that works. Ignorant scum. - 06Group Will Hand Out Free Cannabis in D.C. on Inauguration Day - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:05:18] <exec> 08└─The Brown Shirts are out in force today.
[20:05:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Follow the Crowd - 06Group Will Hand Out Free Cannabis in D.C. on Inauguration Day - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:05:21] <exec> 08└─Given the passage of a pro-cannabis referendum in the District of Columbia, it's reasonable to assume that the majority of the people there are in favour of the availability of cannabis (of course it's hyperbole to say "everyone" is in favour). However, what this group intends to do violates federal...
[20:05:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Wind direction? - 06Group Will Hand Out Free Cannabis in D.C. on Inauguration Day - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:23] <exec> 08└─Hopefully... Everybody must get high.
[20:05:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score:2) 02Re:I'll tell you something else - 06Acid Suppression Medications Linked to Serious Gastrointestinal Infections - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:05:34] <exec> 08└─I don't want the hateful stuff. I'd rather have GERD and gobble pills than eat Soylent. I want to eat normally again and enjoy my food. That's why I'm getting surgery - and something that promises a long-term cure too, not fundoplication.
[20:05:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Apple Cider Vinegar - 06Acid Suppression Medications Linked to Serious Gastrointestinal Infections - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:05:46] <exec> 08└─"It's stupid to examine evidence and discuss it" -AC. Fuck off. It's only in contention at all because you have some desperate need for validation.
[20:05:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score:2) 02re Cold Water - 06Acid Suppression Medications Linked to Serious Gastrointestinal Infections - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:05:47] <exec> 08└─I can testify that cold water is good but ice is much better. After I bang or cut my finger, I get me a glass, some whisky and ice; then I use the damaged finger to stir the ice & whisky. After a little while I feel no pain at all. So try ice instead of cold water.
[20:05:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Apple Cider Vinegar - 06Acid Suppression Medications Linked to Serious Gastrointestinal Infections - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:05:51] <exec> 08└─No wonder you are all worked up. You've made your objection into a part of your identity and the people telling you its misguided are now perceived as attacking your identity.
[20:05:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Apple Cider Vinegar - 06Acid Suppression Medications Linked to Serious Gastrointestinal Infections - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:05:54] <exec> 08└─"Sure you explained your motivations for bringing it up in fine detail, but I can still make up new ones for you that make you wrong" Congratulations, the fictitious version of me whose identity is tied up in this is utterly destroyed. You defeated that dragon, and saved the princess, you can go ho...
[20:05:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:In other news... - 06Acid Suppression Medications Linked to Serious Gastrointestinal Infections - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:05:57] <exec> 08└─Oh, blindingly obvious to you all this time, was it? You shouldn't keep these things to yourself.
[20:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Caution, contents may be hot" - 06Apple's FaceTime Blamed for Girl's Highway Crash Death in New Lawsuit - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:06:25] <exec> 08└─Her parents failed to protect her from the errant driver, who is a member of the same species as she. So, too, are the workers at Apple and the other participant in the FaceTime conversation. I think it's fair to say that human extinction would solve the problem of distracted driving, and that warni...
[20:07:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score:1) 02Re:Live by the Gun, Die by the Gun - 06Apple's FaceTime Blamed for Girl's Highway Crash Death in New Lawsuit - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:07:05] <exec> 08└─Your point about patents being misused is of course valid, but it's completely off-topic here. This is simply about idiot behind the wheel being distracted and causing an accident. Nobody else is responsible for him voluntarily taking his attention away from driving but himself. Means of distraction...
[20:07:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Basic Income Now - 06Global Debt Hits 325% Of World GDP, Rises To Record $217 Trillion - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:07:21] <exec> 08└─I think we should try out Go income instead, I want to be able to shout "Go income go!" every time I buy something :P
[20:07:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] 02Re:No problem - 06Global Debt Hits 325% Of World GDP, Rises To Record $217 Trillion - 2715 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:07:25] <exec> 08└─Well given that most of that 217 trillion in debt is probably owed to a handful of megarich organisations anyway, you wouldn't need to confiscate anything - just cancel the debt. However I don't think anyone is seriously suggesting that. I wouldn't mind governments shaking down a few big companies t...
[20:07:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] 02Re:No problem - 06Global Debt Hits 325% Of World GDP, Rises To Record $217 Trillion - 63 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:07:29] <exec> 08└─Governmental debt is owed to whoever has bought national bonds,
[20:07:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No problem - 06Global Debt Hits 325% Of World GDP, Rises To Record $217 Trillion - 826 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:07:36] <exec> 08└─I've tried pointing out that our stock system is basically a semi-legit method of gambling and things like high speed trading are just gaming the system. However, since there is a good chunk of legitimacy to the system the glaring flaw of "gambling" is just swept under the rug. The mere fact that 40...
[20:07:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:No problem - 06Global Debt Hits 325% Of World GDP, Rises To Record $217 Trillion - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:07:40] <exec> 08└─(Every now and then, it would be nice if the tax-more spend-more crowd would show their math.) When the other option is tax-less spend-more the math is pretty damn simple.
[20:07:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Debt + Credit = 0 - 06Global Debt Hits 325% Of World GDP, Rises To Record $217 Trillion - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:07:45] <exec> 08└─You are missing the point. $217 trillion is an average of $31,000 per person on this planet. Who the fuck is that money owed to?
[20:08:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The novelty wore off long ago. - 06AlphaGo Continues to Crush Human Go Players - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:08:37] <exec> 08└─You don't bruteforce go, or chess for that matter. However, the thing with chess is that a human player can be beaten with an algorithm that gives same results as bruteforcing next n moves which is a pretty uncreative approach. In go, that's a no-go. You absolutely need to do something "smarter" unl...
[20:08:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:crying over losing the gold - 06AlphaGo Continues to Crush Human Go Players - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:08:40] <exec> 08└─For instance, we found that checkers is a draw with perfect play. Seems very likely the same is true of chess and Go, but until they are solved, we can't be sure.
[20:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:The road to hell - 06Two Major Credit Reporting Agencies Have Been Lying to Consumers - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:38] <exec> 08└─Who said anything about the US? The premise was whether or not "coercion is a suitable foundation for civilization." Every system of government on the planet operates off that premise, therefore, whatever system actually is the best also operates off that principle.
[20:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:power corrupts, film at 11 - 06Two Major Credit Reporting Agencies Have Been Lying to Consumers - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:51] <exec> 08└─When do the people responsible for the fraud and lying go to prison for it? That's how to put the brakes on Wall Street crime. I'm sure Steven Mnuchin, a former partner at Goldman Sachs and Trump's finance adviser is going to get right on that. And if he doesn't get it done, I'm sure Jay Clayton, Q...
[20:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Proof that Regulations Harm Business. - 06Two Major Credit Reporting Agencies Have Been Lying to Consumers - 1039 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:55] <exec> 08└─True, the correct term would be quadropoly.. But they, collectively, act as a monopoly., and any one of them can act improperly without appreciable repercussions. OTOH, what are the alternatives? I can think of worse ones as well as better ones. Perhaps the NSA should be in charge? This is basicall...
[20:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Stop! - 06Two Major Credit Reporting Agencies Have Been Lying to Consumers - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:01] <exec> 08└─But but, everything is the fault of the big bad gov!
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[21:04:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Makes sense - 06Worries About Food Waste Appear to Vanish When Diners Know Scraps Go to Compost - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:50] <exec> 08└─People don't care about the stuff shrinking landfill space when the stuff doesn't go to the landfill and therefore doesn't shrink it? Sounds reasonable.
[21:04:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02One solution - more appropriate portions? - 06Worries About Food Waste Appear to Vanish When Diners Know Scraps Go to Compost - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:51] <exec> 08└─In the US, restaurant portions are huge. Leftovers and waste is a natural result. One solution is for a restaurant to server smaller portions, and charge a lower price. But the "go big or go home" attitude of US diners likely won't accept that.
[21:04:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Or Offer Free Seconds - 06Worries About Food Waste Appear to Vanish When Diners Know Scraps Go to Compost - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:04:54] <exec> 08└─Charge full price, serve small portions and then offer free seconds. But you have to put up with some hassle for the free seconds. Stand in line, wait while the kitchen prepares it, something like that. The idea being that the "free seconds" makes it sound like you are still getting the lots of volu...
[21:04:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Doggy bags - 06Worries About Food Waste Appear to Vanish When Diners Know Scraps Go to Compost - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:04:56] <exec> 08└─Around the states I've been in, it's common to take the leftovers home with you. Do other places not do doggy bags?
[21:05:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:WCPGW? - 06Group Will Hand Out Free Cannabis in D.C. on Inauguration Day - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:05:07] <exec> 08└─Federal laws trump local laws ... and conservatives only want "less government" when it comes to regulations and oversight of business. They are very much in favor of restricting personal freedoms and an individual's Constitutional rights.
[21:05:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yep, that's how that works. Ignorant scum. - 06Group Will Hand Out Free Cannabis in D.C. on Inauguration Day - 1904 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:05:15] <exec> 08└─Here, since you have so much trouble being helpful: Jimsonweed AKA Datura Stramonium [wikipedia.org] Stuff like this is why drug education is more important than drug prohibition. You teach kids about LD50 (lethal does that will kill 50% of subjects) and they'll know better than to fuck with jimsonw...
[21:05:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yep, that's how that works. Ignorant scum. - 06Group Will Hand Out Free Cannabis in D.C. on Inauguration Day - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:05:18] <exec> 08└─I'm only interested in mocking the cannabis culture for being a bunch of ignorant fuckers who smoke weed to belong to the cool crowd, thanks.
[21:05:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yep, that's how that works. Ignorant scum. - 06Group Will Hand Out Free Cannabis in D.C. on Inauguration Day - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:05:20] <exec> 08└─I have epilepsy that's not well controlled by anything else, but they still didn't let me into the cool crowd. :(
[21:05:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yep, that's how that works. Ignorant scum. - 06Group Will Hand Out Free Cannabis in D.C. on Inauguration Day - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:05:22] <exec> 08└─You're on the wrong website... go check some hip hop and/or skater forums. Do you direct that same derision against people who smoke cigarettes to be cool or lose weight? How about all the alcoholics? Nothing worse than the self-righteous preacher, live and let live guy. Save your anger for when it...
[21:05:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Follow the Crowd - 06Group Will Hand Out Free Cannabis in D.C. on Inauguration Day - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:05:24] <exec> 08└─Someone has some serious bitterness going on. "Yep, that's how that works." What are you on about? You still buy the "society will end and all men will rape women if they even look at marihuana" shtick? You think its OK for pharmaceutical companies to purchase legislation against a drug less detrime...
[21:05:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Follow the Crowd - 06Group Will Hand Out Free Cannabis in D.C. on Inauguration Day - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:05:26] <exec> 08└─More stoner propaganda! Jimsonweed is potentially much more harmful than either alcohol or marijuana, and jimsonweed is legal. Why is that? Because it's not popular with stupid idiots like you! You have no fucking clue, moron.
[21:05:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Follow the Crowd - 06Group Will Hand Out Free Cannabis in D.C. on Inauguration Day - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:05:28] <exec> 08└─Given your weird use of "logic" it would seem you're on a legal high right now... You can call me a moron all you want but its clear you are lacking in real information, you just memorized a few points (so far it seems like just one though, jimsonweed! JIMSONWEED! JIM SON WEEEEEED) which you seem to...
[21:05:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Follow the Crowd - 06Group Will Hand Out Free Cannabis in D.C. on Inauguration Day - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:05:31] <exec> 08└─Keep smoking that marijuana. It's what you were told to do by your peers. Gotta protest the man keeping your peer group down. Be disrespectful, but not too disrespectful, anti-Trumpers go too far, you know. Secure your social status in the peer group today.
[21:05:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Follow the Crowd - 06Group Will Hand Out Free Cannabis in D.C. on Inauguration Day - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:05:33] <exec> 08└─Speaking of no clue... You are just a bitter person trying to spew your personal anger. Its more likely that you were socially rejected for being a puritanical loudmouth, but you can blame a plant if that helps you cope. Ha! You're using marijuana in the ACTUAL most dangerous manner, to clooooose yo...
[21:05:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Follow the Crowd - 06Group Will Hand Out Free Cannabis in D.C. on Inauguration Day - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:05:35] <exec> 08└─Hemlock is also legal. And nightshade. And castor beans, but you might want to be careful with them. What is your point, AC?
[21:05:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Follow the Crowd - 06Group Will Hand Out Free Cannabis in D.C. on Inauguration Day - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:05:37] <exec> 08└─Waaah waaah some people mocked me for my ridiculously out of touch conservative values, waaah waaah! The "cool kids" are mean cause I'm a douche that doesn't realize it waaaah. The Protestant era is dying, deal with it.
[21:05:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Follow the Crowd - 06Group Will Hand Out Free Cannabis in D.C. on Inauguration Day - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:05:39] <exec> 08└─I literally told you to do a hallucinogenic drug, and you claim I have conservative values? How fucking stupid you?
[21:05:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ellis D. Tripp [3416] (Score:2) 02Re:Follow the Crowd - 06Group Will Hand Out Free Cannabis in D.C. on Inauguration Day - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:05:41] <exec> 08└─Jimsonweed would be considered a deliriant, not a hallucinogen....
[21:05:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Follow the Crowd - 06Group Will Hand Out Free Cannabis in D.C. on Inauguration Day - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:05:44] <exec> 08└─My god your double think matches a certain person I shall not name. Let's all do jimsonweed instead of marijuana. Jimsonweed is legal, has always been legal, and is more potent than marijuana. So potent you could die.
[21:05:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Follow the Crowd - 06Group Will Hand Out Free Cannabis in D.C. on Inauguration Day - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:05:46] <exec> 08└─Pick a crowd and follow it! Do some drugs! But not other drugs! Do not ever make your own choice! Always follow peer pressure!
[21:05:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Follow the Crowd - 06Group Will Hand Out Free Cannabis in D.C. on Inauguration Day - 662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:05:48] <exec> 08└─Why do you have such a stick up your ass? You must be pretty young, in highschool, college, or at best just graduated. After those time periods people generally grow up and I have yet to see any instances of people smoking weed to "be cool", but then again I'm a nerd not a cool kid. Oh, you could be...
[21:05:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Follow the Crowd - 06Group Will Hand Out Free Cannabis in D.C. on Inauguration Day - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:05:51] <exec> 08└─This is why we can't have real democracy, tyranny of the majority!! Sometimes people need to be forced into living better lives.
[21:05:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Follow the Crowd - 06Group Will Hand Out Free Cannabis in D.C. on Inauguration Day - 732 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:05:53] <exec> 08└─Yes, that's a huge problem with democracy--but no one has called for democracy. These cannabis advocates just want their weed, whether for pleasure or for medical reasons. I'm sure they would say that their lives are better when it's available to them. If you're implying that intoxication by the pla...
[21:05:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score:2) 02Re:Follow the Crowd - 06Group Will Hand Out Free Cannabis in D.C. on Inauguration Day - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:05:55] <exec> 08└─When majoritarians feel as though they need to commit civil disobedience in order to be listened to, perhaps that signifies a systemic problem. Those who currently hold power do no see it as a problem, but as a beneficial feature of the system. Therefore, no problem exists, citizen.
[21:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wind direction? - 06Group Will Hand Out Free Cannabis in D.C. on Inauguration Day - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:05:58] <exec> 08└─Everybody get high on the designated drug of the social group, claim social group membership.
[21:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wind direction? - 06Group Will Hand Out Free Cannabis in D.C. on Inauguration Day - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:06:01] <exec> 08└─Disregard I smoke nigger turds.
[21:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wind direction? - 06Group Will Hand Out Free Cannabis in D.C. on Inauguration Day - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:06:03] <exec> 08└─Disregard niggers I shit smoke.
[21:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'll tell you something else - 06Acid Suppression Medications Linked to Serious Gastrointestinal Infections - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:06:14] <exec> 08└─Sad to see you are yet another adherent of literally hating what you have no experience with. But it is your life. You get to live with the consequences of willful ignorance.
[21:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Apple Cider Vinegar - 06Acid Suppression Medications Linked to Serious Gastrointestinal Infections - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:06:28] <exec> 08└─Wow. You sure are projecting. As an AC I get zero validation. You, however are putting on a performance. Accusing me of all kinds of heinous evil. I mean come on!
[21:06:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Apple Cider Vinegar - 06Acid Suppression Medications Linked to Serious Gastrointestinal Infections - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:06:34] <exec> 08└─Yes, if there is one thing you've demonstrated with all of your hyperbole its that you are a creature of pure logic and no ego.
[21:06:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Apple Cider Vinegar - 06Acid Suppression Medications Linked to Serious Gastrointestinal Infections - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:06:36] <exec> 08└─[...] a little bit of diluted apple cider vinegar [theoretically] ups the acid content in your stomach [...]
[21:06:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:I think I've met you before - 06Univision Wins FCC Waiver to Let its Mexican Partner, Televisa, Increase Ownership Stake - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:06:53] <exec> 08└─I have a nice 60" television. It just uses several internet connected boxen instead of cable / broadcast tuners. The TiVo XL Premiere (series 4) is on a high closet shelf upstairs in my study. It served me well, may it rest in peace.
[21:07:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03dime [1163] (Score:2) 02Re:Responsibility - 06Apple's FaceTime Blamed for Girl's Highway Crash Death in New Lawsuit - 728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:07:15] <exec> 08└─An interesting shift in the argument exists. It could be argued that patents are traditionally for features or things that help the inventor gain profit, but the lock-out mechanism is a safety feature, or a limitation that a standard user would not desire. Should it be allowed that a car manufacture...
[21:07:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Responsibility - 06Apple's FaceTime Blamed for Girl's Highway Crash Death in New Lawsuit - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:07:23] <exec> 08└─Pintos, Mavericks, and Crown Victorias, I believe, were all known at various times for exploding after being rear-ended. I'm reminded of Nader's crusades against various vehicles, including the Chevy Corvair with it's rear engine. That auto industry has been subjected to many lawsuits regarding negl...
[21:07:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Responsibility - 06Apple's FaceTime Blamed for Girl's Highway Crash Death in New Lawsuit - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:07:25] <exec> 08└─How would this technology know the difference between being used by a driver or a passenger in a moving vehicle beyond asking the user?
[21:07:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Responsibility - 06Apple's FaceTime Blamed for Girl's Highway Crash Death in New Lawsuit - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:07:27] <exec> 08└─TFS and TFA claim that the phone uses the phone's built in camera to analyze the scenery visible from the phone. It's not difficult to distinguish between the driver's position in the vehicle, and any other position. The guy locked in the trunk need not worry about his phone being disabled.
[21:07:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03e_armadillo [3695] (Score:2) 02Re:Problem appears to be... - 06Apple's FaceTime Blamed for Girl's Highway Crash Death in New Lawsuit - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:07:58] <exec> 08└─Well, Texas ain't one of them, so it should be create there at least . . .
[21:08:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No problem - 06Global Debt Hits 325% Of World GDP, Rises To Record $217 Trillion - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:08:23] <exec> 08└─...but government spending triggers rightards and damages their safe space!
[21:08:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:More debt than production - 06Global Debt Hits 325% Of World GDP, Rises To Record $217 Trillion - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:08:47] <exec> 08└─Keep buying shit, folks, keep buying shit... and for the love of all that is good,
[21:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Chess - 06AlphaGo Continues to Crush Human Go Players - 1171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:19] <exec> 08└─In the US there were only chess stars for a few years, basically from when Fisher started his climb toward the championship until the guy who beat him lost it. And the peak was when Fisher was challenging for world champion. A year or two after then the "chess coffee-shop", HardCastle's, in Berkeley...
[21:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02seriously? - 06Tor at the Heart: Firefox - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:48] <exec> 08└─its 2017, tor is still a thing? really?!?
[21:11:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:computer goof is news - 06Facebook Censors Nude Neptune Statue, Writer Says - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:11:58] <exec> 08└─Their policies are being driven by society's general mores [...]
[21:11:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:computer goof is news - 06Facebook Censors Nude Neptune Statue, Writer Says - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:11:59] <exec> 08└─*My last remark should be qualified by "judging by this news story and the story about the 'napalm girl' image" because those were the only basis for it.
[21:15:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03gringer [962] (Score:2) 02Re:Pavlovian Explanation - 06The Wrong Eating Habits Can Hurt Your Brain, Not Just Your Waistline - 861 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:15:42] <exec> 08└─Yes, a tasty cake would be fine, as long as your other dietary consumption doesn't include any caloric intake-falsifying foods. One example is an artificially-sweetened cake that tastes exactly the same as the standard tasty cake. Your body / brain will get used to the low caloric value of the artif...
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[22:04:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Laser is so 80s... - 06Affordable LIDAR Chips for Self-Driving Vehicles - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:49] <exec> 08└─How many secret patents will I break when I introduce my much-safer miniature short-range AESA radar? That's the way it's supposed to go, right? Our tax dollars pay for super-toys, then we get the tech incorporated in our everyday devices...
[22:04:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Makes sense - 06Worries About Food Waste Appear to Vanish When Diners Know Scraps Go to Compost - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:04:57] <exec> 08└─The article touches upon reasons why composting food isn't desirable: [...] food that lands in trashcans instead of on the tables of those in need [...] ways to reduce waste and create a more sustainable food system [...] composting comes at a financial and societal cost [...]
[22:05:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Or Offer Free Seconds - 06Worries About Food Waste Appear to Vanish When Diners Know Scraps Go to Compost - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:05:02] <exec> 08└─This is literally how I feel going to the movie theater. They frequently give free refills on popcorn and pop but I never get them, during the movie or after. Also why I never go to all you can eat buffets as I never get my money's worth. But unlike most Americans I have self control so... yeah.
[22:05:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Re:Or Offer Free Seconds - 06Worries About Food Waste Appear to Vanish When Diners Know Scraps Go to Compost - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:05:04] <exec> 08└─I believe that is a buffet line. With most restaurants I want to say the labor is the largest factor in price, so cooking two small meals instead of one large meal is significantly more expensive.
[22:05:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Or Offer Free Seconds - 06Worries About Food Waste Appear to Vanish When Diners Know Scraps Go to Compost - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:05:06] <exec> 08└─Excellent. I've done it myself - sit at the table to finish eating a few bites that I really don't want, because I feel guilty at throwing food away. "Children are starving in Africa!" Just bring me a more sensible portion, and stop worrying about the lard asses who think they need to "super size it...
[22:05:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Or Offer Free Seconds - 06Worries About Food Waste Appear to Vanish When Diners Know Scraps Go to Compost - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:05:08] <exec> 08└─Probably the best idea written or cribbed today.
[22:05:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Or Offer Free Seconds - 06Worries About Food Waste Appear to Vanish When Diners Know Scraps Go to Compost - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:05:11] <exec> 08└─Best Idea I've heard all year.
[22:05:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Doggy bags - 06Worries About Food Waste Appear to Vanish When Diners Know Scraps Go to Compost - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:05:14] <exec> 08└─My wife does that all the time. Usually she gets a lunch out of it as well as the dinner from the night before. I try to get a plate size that I will finish as I do not like leftovers much. No you can not eat a 24oz steak and fries and megasalad and 6 breadsticks and 32oz of cola. You fist is about...
[22:05:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Doggy bags - 06Worries About Food Waste Appear to Vanish When Diners Know Scraps Go to Compost - 777 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:05:16] <exec> 08└─Doggy bags make sense for some people, in some situations. If you're traveling, for instance, and have no way to refrigerate your leftovers, you might not even consider a doggy bag. Or, the remaining portion is just awfully small for another meal, so you don't bother. Often times, the main course is...
[22:05:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Federal Agents Field Day - 06Group Will Hand Out Free Cannabis in D.C. on Inauguration Day - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:05:31] <exec> 08└─Please read up a bit on Nazi history. At its core you will find socialism. You do a large disservice to the people who were oppressed by comparing minor political crap in the US to Nazis. Perhaps you should question why you are doing that? I would postulate that you have been fed a line that sounds...
[22:05:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yep, that's how that works. Ignorant scum. - 06Group Will Hand Out Free Cannabis in D.C. on Inauguration Day - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:05:41] <exec> 08└─You're right I must be on the wrong site because there's nothing about shoving linux penguins up your ass while beating off to nude cosplay of lady stormtroopers. Where are the nerds? Send in the nerds.
[22:05:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yep, that's how that works. Ignorant scum. - 06Group Will Hand Out Free Cannabis in D.C. on Inauguration Day - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:05:43] <exec> 08└─You scared them off, asshole. Also you forgot to link to the nude Captain Phasma cosplay, you fucking loser.
[22:05:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yep, that's how that works. Ignorant scum. - 06Group Will Hand Out Free Cannabis in D.C. on Inauguration Day - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:05:45] <exec> 08└─Sure dude, I scared them off. Has nothing to do with the fact that linux isn't even nerdy anymore, linux is installed in almost every piece of cheap consumer crap, and star wars films are multibillion dollar blockbusters instead of obscure crap for nerds.
[22:05:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yep, that's how that works. Ignorant scum. - 06Group Will Hand Out Free Cannabis in D.C. on Inauguration Day - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:05:47] <exec> 08└─Jesus, the bitterness in this thread! If ever someone was in dire need of getting high and chilling out.... that is probably too much "drug slang" for you, but I'm not sure how to word it as if you would pop pills to adjust your brain chemistry. Seriously, mental stress is a killer and it is clear y...
[22:05:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yep, that's how that works. Ignorant scum. - 06Group Will Hand Out Free Cannabis in D.C. on Inauguration Day - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:05:49] <exec> 08└─Going to get raped now. Rape counts as getting laid.
[22:05:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Follow the Crowd - 06Group Will Hand Out Free Cannabis in D.C. on Inauguration Day - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:05:57] <exec> 08└─Let's just abandon controversial controlled substances and get our highs from uncontroversial unregulated legal substances instead. Especially since marijuana is weak anyway. Nope. Never going to happen. Can't make a political stunt to demand the legalization of legal substances. What's my point? Ma...
[22:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Follow the Crowd - 06Group Will Hand Out Free Cannabis in D.C. on Inauguration Day - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:05:59] <exec> 08└─Let's just abandon the Controlled Substances Act and get our highs from wherever we want.
[22:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Follow the Crowd - 06Group Will Hand Out Free Cannabis in D.C. on Inauguration Day - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:06:02] <exec> 08└─That's great why don't you start a movement to make JIMSONWEED ILLEGAL since it can kill people outright. You know why that won't work. Because all your ignorant faggot buddies will be like, "Jimsonweed, what the fuck is that shit I don't even."
[22:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Follow the Crowd - 06Group Will Hand Out Free Cannabis in D.C. on Inauguration Day - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:06:04] <exec> 08└─Actually, it's pretty easy. Just suggest it's becoming popular with teenagers. You know what, fuck it. Let's do this shit!
[22:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Follow the Crowd - 06Group Will Hand Out Free Cannabis in D.C. on Inauguration Day - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:06:06] <exec> 08└─If people want to use weed or any other substance including JIMSONWEED, let them.
[22:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Follow the Crowd - 06Group Will Hand Out Free Cannabis in D.C. on Inauguration Day - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:06:08] <exec> 08└─No no no no that won't work. If we don't have prohibition of some drugs, protesters won't have anything to protest. Don't you understand prohibition keeps the protesters' culture alive?
[22:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Follow the Crowd - 06Group Will Hand Out Free Cannabis in D.C. on Inauguration Day - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:06:16] <exec> 08└─No dude. I don't have the right kind of stick up my ass. I should shove a joint up my ass and join your million moron march on Washington for the holy cause of cannabis. Fuck you and fuck your cause.
[22:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Follow the Crowd - 06Group Will Hand Out Free Cannabis in D.C. on Inauguration Day - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:06:18] <exec> 08└─As much as I hate you now, I will probably be just as much of a cynical asshole in 10 years. So hat(e)'s off to you.
[22:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Dissent for Dissent's Sake? Lame - 06Group Will Hand Out Free Cannabis in D.C. on Inauguration Day - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:06:24] <exec> 08└─What kind of fool thinks the point of protesting is to protest? Did you never grow out of that rebellious teenager stage? The point of dissent is to initiate change. The more people doing this, the more likely that pot becomes fully legalized.
[22:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wind direction? - 06Group Will Hand Out Free Cannabis in D.C. on Inauguration Day - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:06:30] <exec> 08└─Disregard shit I smoke niggers.
[22:06:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wind direction? - 06Group Will Hand Out Free Cannabis in D.C. on Inauguration Day - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:06:33] <exec> 08└─Only because the dog ate my stash, I followed him around for 3 days to get it back.
[22:06:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Apple Cider Vinegar - 06Acid Suppression Medications Linked to Serious Gastrointestinal Infections - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:06:58] <exec> 08└─And this, children, is why we don't feed the trolls.
[22:06:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Apple Cider Vinegar - 06Acid Suppression Medications Linked to Serious Gastrointestinal Infections - 671 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:06:59] <exec> 08└─Not a troll. Ikanreed just can't handle criticism. He's got this nerd righteousness thing going on where he thinks the human component of life is unimportant, only context-free facts matter. He's the kind of person more interested in calling anti-vaxxers stupid than in convincing them to get their k...
[22:07:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Decline in Spanish Fluency - 06Univision Wins FCC Waiver to Let its Mexican Partner, Televisa, Increase Ownership Stake - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:07:23] <exec> 08└─The population of Latinos *as a group* is only assimilating because the influx of Latino immigrants has *dramatically slowed*. This is about *their young (US born, for the most part) children* assimilating, not immigrant Latino adults assimilating. So, in other words, like every other time, the rate...
[22:07:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Decline in Spanish Fluency - 06Univision Wins FCC Waiver to Let its Mexican Partner, Televisa, Increase Ownership Stake - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:07:24] <exec> 08└─Remember what? That this wave is exactly every other wave? Because that's what you just wrote. But even then your claim is without proof. Who says it has to slow down? Who says that the kids won't learn English regardless? Children of immigrants born 20 years ago learned english despite the wave cre...
[22:08:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Follow the money - 06Apple's FaceTime Blamed for Girl's Highway Crash Death in New Lawsuit - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:08:21] <exec> 08└─It is pure greed
[22:08:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Basic Income Now - 06Global Debt Hits 325% Of World GDP, Rises To Record $217 Trillion - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:08:41] <exec> 08└─I live in the Rust belt, you insensitive clod!
[22:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Yes.... - 06AlphaGo Continues to Crush Human Go Players - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:38] <exec> 08└─It uses TPUs so FLOPS may not be the best metric.
[22:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:The novelty wore off long ago. - 06AlphaGo Continues to Crush Human Go Players - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:59] <exec> 08└─unless you have a dyson sphere around the sun made of computronium.
[22:11:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Proof that Regulations Harm Business. - 06Two Major Credit Reporting Agencies Have Been Lying to Consumers - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:11:19] <exec> 08└─In some sense the problem is not enough government involvement. All of those improvements are to benefit citizens, the system mostly works great for corporations as is. Yeah they probably miss out on some customers because bad data makes them look like bad customers. But the harm is not proportional...
[22:11:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Diversity" - 06Google ‘Refuses’ to Hand Over Pay Data, Gets Sued by Feds - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:11:44] <exec> 08└─WE HAVE A WINNER! (if not for google then most other enterprises anyway. Google does have a number of highly paid white and Asian people; but their unofficial motto is "what can brown do for you?")
[22:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:computer goof is news - 06Facebook Censors Nude Neptune Statue, Writer Says - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:12:36] <exec> 08└─so wait you are saying SJW is a trigger -- ok I see that happen a lot here. But you just said that the SJW term fits the bill for *right-wing authoritarians* of the Altemeyer's description or sense of right-wing -- and that is where you totally set off my trigger. That's because everyone here that u...
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[23:04:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Laser is so 80s... - 06Affordable LIDAR Chips for Self-Driving Vehicles - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:04:49] <exec> 08└─[...] Toyota Motor Corp. is the first to manufacture an Automotive Phased Array Radar (APAR) that satisfies the requirements for widespread use in vehicle safety systems while also providing a wide 100-degree sensing arc capable of effectively detecting pedestrians.
[23:04:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03nethead [4970] (Score:2) 02Other uses.. - 06Affordable LIDAR Chips for Self-Driving Vehicles - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:50] <exec> 08└─I could see this being great for a yard or lot security system that could tell the difference between a dog or a human. Maybe incorporated with a marked crosswalk to determine when it's really safe to cross. Any other ideas for a static mounting of LIDAR?
[23:04:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What if... - 06Affordable LIDAR Chips for Self-Driving Vehicles - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:52] <exec> 08└─What if 2 self-driving cars cross paths and their "lidar" beams interfere with eachother? What if 3 "" "" ""? What if 4 "" "" ""? "" "" ""
[23:04:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03pe1rxq [844] (Score:2) 02Re:What if... - 06Affordable LIDAR Chips for Self-Driving Vehicles - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:04:54] <exec> 08└─Simple: CDMA You can share the same wavelength just fine if you can recognize your bitstream from the others. When each car uses its own orthogonal codes light from other sources will dissapear after correlation with your own code. (How far it will disapear depends on how orthogonal the different co...
[23:05:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score:2) 02Feeding food waste to the hogs... - 06Worries About Food Waste Appear to Vanish When Diners Know Scraps Go to Compost - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:15] <exec> 08└─...is banned (at least in Europe, but probably elsewhere also), following the last major foot and mouth outbreak in the UK. This was traced to (probably imported) infected meat from human food waste being put into pig swill. That one outbreak resulted in a cull of 10 million cows/sheep and an estima...
[23:05:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02WCPGW? - 06Group Will Hand Out Free Cannabis in D.C. on Inauguration Day - 231 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:24] <exec> 08└─So... you're telling the cops where and when you plan on bringing across state lines enough pot for 4200 joints, with intent to distribute? Man, I'm gonna need the extra-large box of Taco Bell to complement the popcorn on that one.
[23:05:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yep, that's how that works. Ignorant scum. - 06Group Will Hand Out Free Cannabis in D.C. on Inauguration Day - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:05:46] <exec> 08└─Your logic is flawless *golf clap*
[23:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Follow the Crowd - 06Group Will Hand Out Free Cannabis in D.C. on Inauguration Day - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:06:07] <exec> 08└─The first step is realizing you have a problem: We admitted we were powerless over hate - that our lives had become unmanageable.
[23:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:1) 02Re:Dissent for Dissent's Sake? Lame - 06Group Will Hand Out Free Cannabis in D.C. on Inauguration Day - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:06:14] <exec> 08└─The summary says it's related to "their hopes of federal marijuana legalization."
[23:07:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Re:Responsibility - 06Apple's FaceTime Blamed for Girl's Highway Crash Death in New Lawsuit - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:07:41] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but these are negligent designs or dangerous defects. The iPhone is not defective because it just happens to allow a driver to do FaceTime any more than a car is defective because it does not require the driver or passenger to wear a seat belt before starting.
[23:07:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Responsibility - 06Apple's FaceTime Blamed for Girl's Highway Crash Death in New Lawsuit - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:07:42] <exec> 08└─Well, over time, our definitions of negligence can change. Again - Ralsh Nader changed an entire industry. All it takes are a few attitudes to change, maybe as the result of a couple lawsuits. This isn't the first time the possibility of disabling a driver's cell phone has been discussed, after all....
[23:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The novelty wore off long ago. - 06AlphaGo Continues to Crush Human Go Players - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:48] <exec> 08└─unless you have a dyson sphere around the sun made of computronium.
[23:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:The novelty wore off long ago. - 06AlphaGo Continues to Crush Human Go Players - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:50] <exec> 08└─I gotta hoard all the Gemcoins so I can become a billionaire.
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