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[00:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02To do what? - 06Quantum Computing, Coming Soon for Real? - 1119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:16] <exec> 08└─TFA: > This rapidity should allow quantum computers to perform certain tasks, such as searching large databases or factoring large numbers, > which would be unfeasible for slower, classical computers. The machines could also be transformational as a research tool, performing > quantum simulations th...
[00:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:terrible shit happens - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:38] <exec> 08└─Because people like Azumi like to respond to anything he says with knee-jerk insults.
[00:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:terrible shit happens - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:40] <exec> 08└─Because people like Azumi like to respond to anything he says with knee-jerk insults.
[00:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:terrible shit happens - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:42] <exec> 08└─Because it's much easier to respond with a knee-jerk insult than formulate an actual coherent argument?
[00:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02Re:terrible shit happens - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:45] <exec> 08└─Not trying to invoke Godwin's Law, but I want to point out that what you said sounds eerily similar to German sentiment in the 1930's. A final solution...
[00:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:Three main reasons - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:56] <exec> 08└─Elvis. Wash your mouth out with soap and water!
[00:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:Three main reasons - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:59] <exec> 08└─Nano???!! Haven't you heard of Pico? Give me strength... I'd like to see you use that newfangled nonsense on a 120 baud modem anyway. Kids these days...
[00:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Three main reasons - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:10:07] <exec> 08└─You know, I could write a bot that would throw out better insulting replies than you. If I let you have the source would you promise not to try manually anymore? You're really bad at it.
[00:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Three main reasons - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:10:12] <exec> 08└─Calling BS on this: > Without privately owned guns, there would not be a United States of America; there would be a bunch of British colonies. Obvious counterexamples from different eras are Canada and India, along with many other former British colonies, many of which left the empire without major...
[00:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Three main reasons - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:10:15] <exec> 08└─Final fun fact: if we could exclude the counties of the US that voted Hillary, we'd lead the world in both safety from criminal violence and gun ownership.
[00:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:How dangerous is this? - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:10:22] <exec> 08└─Hey now, shooting drunk is a time honored tradition in the US. And still there are so very few accidental shootings.
[00:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:How dangerous is this? - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:10:24] <exec> 08└─It is unquestionably harder to inflict significant self-injury through bad maintenance or drunk state, with a gun than with a car. If we all shot high-explosive shells out of cannons, the stats would likely reflect our clumsiness (or irresponsibility) better. I'm wondering how many objects would tes...
[00:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03J053 [3532] (Score:2) 02Re:How dangerous is this? - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:10:26] <exec> 08└─There are no gun accidents. Every unintentional shooting is strictly and provably caused by negligence on someone's part. A properly handled and maintained firearm does not fire itself by "accident".
[00:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:How dangerous is this? - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:10:31] <exec> 08└─That is no shit. I picked up like eight extra hits qualifying in basic vs qualifying at my unit.
[00:11:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What should be the limits of power? - 06The FTC IoT Security Case Against D-Link is a Test of Power - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:11:41] <exec> 08└─What the fuck does the FCC have to do with any of this?
[00:11:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hurtling? - 06Hubble Provides Interstellar Road Map for Voyagers' Galactic Trek - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:11:58] <exec> 08└─Yes it helps to have some perspective before getting breathless with enthusiasm about space travel. Voyager I = 2.03e10 km from the Sun Closest star = 4.02e13 km from the Sun A factor of 2000. The *nearest* damn place is 100s of thousands of years away.
[00:12:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score:2) 02Re:Better gif in the comments - 06Visualization of a Phased Array Antenna System - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:12:08] <exec> 08└─The typical, old school, Yagi-like TV antenna has many tines of different lengths and spacing.
[00:12:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cheap Speakers - 06Ultrasound Tracking Could be Used to Deanonymize Tor Users - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:12:44] <exec> 08└─That is why god created band-pass filters.
[00:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score:2) 02Re:anonymous - 06Read the news like a spy - 1379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:25] <exec> 08└─I think you're exactly missing the point and are still conflating the term "progressive" as the Sanders supporters are calling themselves, and a Democrat. The things that Thexalon outlined are exactly what the "progressives" want. Those of us that are trying to push some of these ideas in the Democ...
[00:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:anonymous - 06Read the news like a spy - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:27] <exec> 08└─Marijuana would be legal under federal law.
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[01:09:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score:2) 02Thanks for the heads-up - 06Surprise Flyby of Asteroid on January 9, 2017 - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:02] <exec> 08└─Nice - mainstream news reports potential killer asteroid _after_ it's flown by. Guess they don't want to panick the unwashed masses. I see that watchers.news [watchers.news] reported it yesterday.
[01:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Thanks for the heads-up - 06Surprise Flyby of Asteroid on January 9, 2017 - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:04] <exec> 08└─> Guess they don't want to panick the unwashed masses. Or... it literally wasn't on their radar. They aren't omniscient and once it was detected it was immediately known that the trajectory made it harmless. So not really big news.
[01:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Thanks for the heads-up - 06Surprise Flyby of Asteroid on January 9, 2017 - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:06] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, ISIS will claim it, Trump will tweet about the surveillance agency's incompetence, and then it will be the only topic on the news for 24 hours.
[01:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Small - 06Surprise Flyby of Asteroid on January 9, 2017 - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:08] <exec> 08└─thought to be between 36 and 111 feet
[01:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Small - 06Surprise Flyby of Asteroid on January 9, 2017 - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:10] <exec> 08└─I believe there are some newer missions going up in the next 5 yeara that will improve our detection of smaller rocks. One of the currently running missions is WISE/NEO-WISE. - takyon
[01:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No - 06Quantum Computing, Coming Soon for Real? - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:09:20] <exec> 08└─You say that as if large institutions with more money than they know what to do with have not been scammed by junk science peddlers before.
[01:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No - 06Quantum Computing, Coming Soon for Real? - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:09:22] <exec> 08└─No, I'm asking you whether you specifically believe these companies are being duped. I'm not interested in insinuations and loose possibilities.
[01:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Three main reasons - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:04] <exec> 08└─What's the exact scope of the Apocalypse? My edition didn't come with a map.
[01:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03lgw [2836] (Score:2) 02Re:Three main reasons - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:08] <exec> 08└─While I think that most gun-nuts wouldn't even notice when they would have to take up their arms.
[01:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Three main reasons - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:10] <exec> 08└─I think that most gun-nuts wouldn't even notice when they would have to take up their arms
[01:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Three main reasons - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:20] <exec> 08└─Which of them were the major center of goods and profit that the colonies within current US borders were for the British again? Oh, right, none of them.
[01:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Three main reasons - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:23] <exec> 08└─Hillary? Nothing, really. I just find it an interesting correlation that the blue counties are by far the most violent counties.
[01:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:How dangerous is this? - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:32] <exec> 08└─This is true. No pond has never complained that I just missed the turtle I was shooting at while drinking beer.
[01:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03lgw [2836] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:How dangerous is this? - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:43] <exec> 08└─About 36,000 people in the US were killed by cars in 2016
[01:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score:2) 02Re:Cheap Speakers - 06Ultrasound Tracking Could be Used to Deanonymize Tor Users - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:12:52] <exec> 08└─A few days ago I was trying to explain to my young daughter what a millisecond was. I searched YouTube for the sound of a 1kHz square wave and then explained that there is a click every millisecond. Of course, the sound was a tone, but I digress... The video went on to play higher frequencies, and a...
[01:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score:2) 02Re:When do we start handling this in hardware? - 06Ultrasound Tracking Could be Used to Deanonymize Tor Users - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:04] <exec> 08└─If you're just trying to block the ultrasonic audio tags, the faraday bags aren't the best option. A pillow would be a good low-pass filter, but a shoebox might work just as well. Ultrasonic audio is easily attenuated.
[01:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bullshit - 0650 Ways to Avoid Getting Hacked in 2017 - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:31] <exec> 08└─I have never had a virus, spyware or any other nasty on any of my machines.
[01:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:anonymous - 06Read the news like a spy - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:14:38] <exec> 08└─Dunno about his supporters, but Senator Sanders is quite open that HE is a Socialist. You get static from the Democratic Party because they want to actually win political power and hold it, not just virtue signal. So yes, occasionally thay have to smash a Holiness spiral to stop the activists from g...
[01:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:anonymous - 06Read the news like a spy - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:14:43] <exec> 08└─> Correct the Record superPAC Please cite one example of CTR acting nefariously.
[01:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:anonymous - 06Read the news like a spy - 944 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:14:46] <exec> 08└─> but Correct the Record openly did. See this FEC complaint for details. That's pretty empty. Did you read the complaint? Because I just did. And the complaint is that they used public blogs to coordinate and that despite current FEC rules permitting exactly that, its somehow not permitted because t...
[01:15:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Important details you left out: - 06GMO Grass That 'Escaped' Defies Eradication, Divides Grass Seed Industry - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:15:54] <exec> 08└─Did your grandpa accede to their demands and purchase Monsanto corn seed/pay licensing fees for 'contaminated' corn crops? Did your grandpa eventually become financially insolvent as a result of this? Is the farm still in your family, or was it one of Monsanto's bankrupt and buy schemes?
[01:16:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02One problem... - 06GMO Grass That 'Escaped' Defies Eradication, Divides Grass Seed Industry - 1805 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:16:14] <exec> 08└─Is people spraying weeds rather than physically removing them. For particularly invasive species, removing at least a foot of topsoil (which will eliminate anything short of bamboo or similiar 'long-rooted' regenerating plants.) and either irradiated, heated, or composted until the contaminants are...
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[02:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Weasley [6421] (Score:1) 02Re:Small - 06Surprise Flyby of Asteroid on January 9, 2017 - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:22] <exec> 08└─It's getting better as time goes on. We're discovering ever smaller and smaller asteroids as time goes on. We could be doing more though. Last time I was still paying attention to the minor planet scene (about 5 or 6 years ago) everyone was saying the two telescope projects LSST and Pan-Starrs were...
[02:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Oh, that thing - 06Surprise Flyby of Asteroid on January 9, 2017 - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:23] <exec> 08└─It's known as a Trump. Is it still there?
[02:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03zeigerpuppy [1298] (Score:2) 02Theory - 06Quantum Computing, Coming Soon for Real? - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:37] <exec> 08└─I had a fascinating conversation with a quantum physicist a few years ago. He'd just received a multi-million pound grant from the UK and was working on quantum entangling domains by seeding crystalline substrates with impurities. At the conclusion of our conversation, I asked him how long he though...
[02:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No were not! - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:09:49] <exec> 08└─That idea has been shot down.
[02:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:1, Flamebait) 02Re:terrible shit happens - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:09:59] <exec> 08└─That is not an insult; that is a fair description of his modus operandi. And yours, I notice. What made you come rushing to his aid anyway? No one was talking to you, and he's a big boy; he can handle this himself...riiiiight? Go back to your hugbox, carrion-breath. The grownups are talking.
[02:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:terrible shit happens - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:01] <exec> 08└─What made you come rushing to his aid anyway?
[02:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:terrible shit happens - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:03] <exec> 08└─Some part of you know what just happened here, Uzzard. Even you can't be so completely dense as not to realize it. We've gone down the wrong leg of the trousers of time, *again,* and this time when SHTF ain't *none* of us getting out of it alive. Even your insults are lacking the usual joie d'vivre.
[02:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:terrible shit happens - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:11] <exec> 08└─Actually, the inverse of that was my point: basically "If you're gonna go this route, you've already sold your soul. Go the whole hog. If you're gonna be evil, be evil with a capital E."
[02:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:terrible shit happens - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 1384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:15] <exec> 08└─Don't forget that the laws restricting guns in the first place to keep blacks from being able to defend themselves against racist violence. Just look up the documentary "fear of an armed negro" and see for yourself as those that wrote those laws? Really weren't shy or coy about their racism, they we...
[02:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03nethead [4970] (Score:2) 02Re:Three main reasons - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:27] <exec> 08└─Catholic or Protestant holy water? Just go with Episcopalian. It's kind of the O-positive of holy water.
[02:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Three main reasons - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:38] <exec> 08└─You stole that one from me anyway, dipshit. Remember when I replied to you and said something along the lines of "I could take a text dump of your post history, hook it up to a Markov generator, and no one would tell the difference?" Pepperidge Farm remembers, and so do I :D But you apparently don't...
[02:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Three main reasons - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:39] <exec> 08└─I like guns. You like to shitpost. Our getting crossways in this story was a foregone conclusion. No, I don't bother remembering what you say. It's unimportant and doesn't even have the saving grace of being especially witty. And "go away or I will replace you with a very small script" isn't somethi...
[02:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Three main reasons - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 883 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:41] <exec> 08└─Hey, I like guns too, surprisingly. Shot a fair few since moving out here to Wisconsin. I consider it a good skill to have under my belt, like cooking or fixing my own computers. Some people shouldn't own the things, though. Sorry you think my posts are shitposts. But I suppose it's inevitable you w...
[02:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Three main reasons - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:45] <exec> 08└─No. The Press is uniformly Democrat. Democrats are not lefties, liberals, or progressives. Therefor the Press is not lefty.
[02:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Three main reasons - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:53] <exec> 08└─Yet instead of thinking critically to have an informative opinion you throw out "that voted hillary" which isn't even quite correct. Urban areas still have a significant percentage of red voters. It is interesting that urban centers have higher crime rates, the answer being at least partially becaus...
[02:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Three main reasons - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:55] <exec> 08└─No, it's only mostly correct. This is true. I hang my head in shame that generalizations are not true to the last man/woman/child. Wealth inequality is the cause of violence you say? Well, you would, wouldn't you? The reason it's happening has to fit your narrative. Must be someone else causing them...
[02:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Division of labour - 06Read the news like a spy - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:14:39] <exec> 08└─To whoever's going around modding my posts flamebait: suck it up, buttercup. As your kind will no doubt say whenever someone points out how the recent election has been a disaster: "Get over it. You lost." Why are you people such delicate, fragile, easily-triggered snowflakes? (See, THIS is worthy o...
[02:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:anonymous - 06Read the news like a spy - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:14:51] <exec> 08└─As usual, somebody is always dumb enough to bring the talking points. Watch this folks, and remember this is how the Left always works, there just isn't always somebody around to fisk every TV journalist. So lets Google each of these names and see what we can find out, shall we? Sure, how about Joh...
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[03:10:09] <exec> 08└─easier to respond with a knee-jerk insult than formulate an actual coherent argument?
[03:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score:2) 02Re:terrible shit happens - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:10:16] <exec> 08└─They sure seem to have a lot of guns though.
[03:10:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02Re:Three main reasons - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 186 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:10:34] <exec> 08└─I think you miss the prime reason. Obsession with guns is due to being prudish about sex and therefore continuously frustrated. Is there a higher gun fascination among right wing people?
[03:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Three main reasons - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:10:52] <exec> 08└─You aren't fooling anyone. You're trying to pick a fight. Stop baiting people with nonsense. It's childish and what you would expect from angsty teenagers. If a grown man needs to satisfy his ego by smacking down someone on the internet, well I just feel bad for them. It's exactly what runaway did i...
[03:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:When do we start handling this in hardware? - 06Ultrasound Tracking Could be Used to Deanonymize Tor Users - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:13:14] <exec> 08└─NO don't teach them to text, they will be prank messaged by cats if you do.
[03:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Firejail to the rescue - 0650 Ways to Avoid Getting Hacked in 2017 - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:13:54] <exec> 08└─Firejail can do that... and a lot more. Private tmp, private etc, private dev, private bin, private home, full tmpfs overlay that discards upon exit, blacklist some files only... read the man page. Or visit https://firejail.wordpress.com [wordpress.com] Add xpra or xephyr and you can get even thing...
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[04:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2, Disagree) 02anti-American - 06How the University of California Exploited a Visa Loophole to Move Tech Jobs to India - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:05] <exec> 08└─UC is anti-American to start with. Berkeley, for instance, demonstrated against military recruiters, until the recruiters simply shut the door and left. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] http://www.cnn.com
[04:09:06] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02Re:anti-American - 06How the University of California Exploited a Visa Loophole to Move Tech Jobs to India - 240 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:09:06] <exec> 08└─You can't see the difference between anti-military and anti-American? Really? It must be nice having a monochrome world view. Things must seem so much simpler. I guess decisions just don't take much effort when there are no nuances to life.
[04:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02not very much difference - 06How the University of California Exploited a Visa Loophole to Move Tech Jobs to India - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:09:09] <exec> 08└─To be against the military is to say that we shouldn't defend our interests. This suggests that, on some level, you are OK with the world being dominated by others. Maybe you even want that, which is definitely anti-American. Alternately you think the world shouldn't be dominated by anybody, but tha...
[04:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02Re:anti-American - 06How the University of California Exploited a Visa Loophole to Move Tech Jobs to India - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:09:11] <exec> 08└─When you volunteered to serve in the navy, were you the petty officer in charge of storing the torpedoes up your spaciously stretched homosexual ass?
[04:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:anti-American - 06How the University of California Exploited a Visa Loophole to Move Tech Jobs to India - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:09:13] <exec> 08└─Posts like yours definitely cross the line from sophistry into faggotry. Why your obsession with my ass?
[04:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:anti-American - 06How the University of California Exploited a Visa Loophole to Move Tech Jobs to India - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:09:15] <exec> 08└─Protesting the Iraq war is anti-American? From your link: "UC Berkeley had no connection to the council's decision". Also, it seems that the recruiting center never closed.
[04:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:anti-American - 06How the University of California Exploited a Visa Loophole to Move Tech Jobs to India - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:09:17] <exec> 08└─You can't see the difference between UCSF and UC Berkeley? Perhaps this will help-- http://colleges.startclass.com [startclass.com]
[04:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"What message are they sending?" - 06How the University of California Exploited a Visa Loophole to Move Tech Jobs to India - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:19] <exec> 08└─https://web.archive.org/web/20051220102519/http://geekworld.org/ [archive.org] <title>A World of Geek-Domination is Approaching.</title>
[04:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Anyone give me odds? - 06How the University of California Exploited a Visa Loophole to Move Tech Jobs to India - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:22] <exec> 08└─Will there be a Trump-tweet on this topic? Or is he only out for manufacturing industries and jobs to Mexico?
[04:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Anyone give me odds? - 06How the University of California Exploited a Visa Loophole to Move Tech Jobs to India - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:09:24] <exec> 08└─Uber Trump will need to consult his bedfellows at Facebook, Google, Uber, etc, to be told what to tweet. By sending IT jobs abroad, UC is undermining its own mission, which includes preparing California students to serve the high-tech industry.
[04:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Google replace university IT staff. - 06How the University of California Exploited a Visa Loophole to Move Tech Jobs to India - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:26] <exec> 08└─"But UC is a public institution, not driven by profit. It's qualitatively different from other employers."
[04:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Small - 06Surprise Flyby of Asteroid on January 9, 2017 - 677 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:44] <exec> 08└─Based on the impact calculator [ic.ac.uk], assuming the maximum size, dense rock, and at typical velocities for asteroids, the impact energy would be 18.5 megatons, approximately the yield of the largest nuclear warheads used for the old Russian SS-18 ICBMs, the sort they’d have used to take out N...
[04:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:To do what? - 06Quantum Computing, Coming Soon for Real? - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:09:58] <exec> 08└─justifying the ROI?
[04:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Schrödinger's Qubits - 06Quantum Computing, Coming Soon for Real? - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:01] <exec> 08└─They may be in the box, or they may not. We may never know.
[04:11:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score:2) 02Re:Three main reasons - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:11:05] <exec> 08└─I go to soylent for the articles, I say for the back and forth argument. Regardless of dislike between you if either of you were not here the disussion would be of a much lower quality.
[04:11:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Three main reasons - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:11:17] <exec> 08└─Some fights need picked.
[04:11:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Three main reasons - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:11:19] <exec> 08└─You forgot phallic symbol.
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[05:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02orbited by a Popeye's - 06"Nearby" Supermassive Black Holes Discovered - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:04] <exec> 08└─and the Watermelon nebula
[05:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:not very much difference - 06How the University of California Exploited a Visa Loophole to Move Tech Jobs to India - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:09:14] <exec> 08└─There's a difference between having a defense force and having an invasion force. The American military is in the business of invasion, and that needs to stop.
[05:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:not very much difference - 06How the University of California Exploited a Visa Loophole to Move Tech Jobs to India - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:09:16] <exec> 08└─Being against increasing the standing army of the US, against offensive military actions, or against going further into debt to funnel more money into the military industrial complex is not necessarily anti-American. Actually, it could be very pro-American to work more on domestic problems at the ex...
[05:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score:2) 02Re:anti-American - 06How the University of California Exploited a Visa Loophole to Move Tech Jobs to India - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:09:18] <exec> 08└─Without the military we would not be speaking English right now. You may have a nuanced view of the world, but our enemies do not.
[05:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Amazon/Facebook replace university web sites. - 06How the University of California Exploited a Visa Loophole to Move Tech Jobs to India - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:09:28] <exec> 08└─Large universities use Amazon for their web sites now. Small universities have moved their entire web presence to Facebook already.
[05:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Amazon/Facebook replace university web sites. - 06How the University of California Exploited a Visa Loophole to Move Tech Jobs to India - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:09:30] <exec> 08└─Citation or links please? I haven't seen either of these and I work with hundreds of universities (but most of them are mid-sized or large).
[05:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03zeigerpuppy [1298] (Score:2) 02Outsourcing - 06How the University of California Exploited a Visa Loophole to Move Tech Jobs to India - 973 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:32] <exec> 08└─The problem with most hospitals' IT policies are that management sees IT as a cost rather than an opportunity. My company has been developing health sector software to try and fill this gap but I steadfastly advice hospital managers not to outsource their core functions. Hospitals with thriving IT d...
[05:10:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:terrible shit happens - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:10:45] <exec> 08└─I used to think this way too. No way the Holocaust could have happened if every time they went to round up some Jews there was a shootout to the death. Then humans invented killer robots. Personal firearms are going to be useless against the next Hitler, who will use robots that don't at all think a...
[05:11:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Three main reasons - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:11:24] <exec> 08└─He's a Red Pillar, you know, an erect phallus that has been stroked a bit too much, like until the skin comes off. No wonder all these MRA types like metal rods instead! Although, you know, on full-auto they can get too hot to handle. Maxim, the gun, not the magazine. Water-cooling, without the over...
[05:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score:2) 02Re:anonymous - 06Read the news like a spy - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:15:22] <exec> 08└─Dunno about his supporters, but Senator Sanders is quite open that HE is a Socialist. You get static from the Democratic Party because they want to actually win political power and hold it, not just virtue signal. So yes, occasionally thay have to smash a Holiness spiral to stop the activists from g...
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[06:09:23] <exec> 08└─Who are all these enemies that justify the huge amount of taxpayer money being spent on the military? Once the cold war was over, the US kept doing its best to create enemies to justify its military spending. Even when the military says they don't want new toys, politicians fall-over themselves tryi...
[06:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:anti-American - 06How the University of California Exploited a Visa Loophole to Move Tech Jobs to India - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:09:24] <exec> 08└─Um, didn't they teach you about the British Empire? That's why English is spoken around the world. Nothing to do with American military power.
[06:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Amazon/Facebook replace university web sites. - 06How the University of California Exploited a Visa Loophole to Move Tech Jobs to India - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:09:36] <exec> 08└─An AC asking another AC to identify specific universities? Isn't it ironic. Why don't you just spam A/S/L and cyber?
[06:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Small - 06Surprise Flyby of Asteroid on January 9, 2017 - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:57] <exec> 08└─I wonder how much global cooling from the impact ejecta into the atmosphere would be. We'd almost certainly be observing some stunning sunsets/rises.
[06:11:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:stoking the fires? - 06WikiLeaks Proposes Tracking Verified Twitter Users’ Homes, Families and Finances - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:11:57] <exec> 08└─Funny that a few short years ago, fox news and the RNC were all buttsore over Wikileaks exposing their dirt and swinging that election to Obama, and were calling for someone to kill asange any way possible. Today, that WL handed the election to them, now fox news has hannity over there where assange...
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[07:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score:2) 02Tee Hee. - 06FBI Arrests Volkswagen Executive for Role in Emissions Conspiracy - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:05] <exec> 08└─I never liked those stupid looking VW beatles. I also didn't like that stupid kids game when they'd see a VW beatle, yell "Slug Bug!" and then punch me in the arm. Fuck you Volkswagon.
[07:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Tee Hee. - 06FBI Arrests Volkswagen Executive for Role in Emissions Conspiracy - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:09:06] <exec> 08└─As an owner of a TDI, I have to say there is something satisfying about this. Of course, I am still getting close to 50mpg, which is also sweet.
[07:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Who cares - 06FBI Arrests Volkswagen Executive for Role in Emissions Conspiracy - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:08] <exec> 08└─Honestly, who gives a fuck? WV has been around for a very long time. They've been building better vehicles than any american auto manufacturer for generations. I drive a new ford truck everyday. It's the biggest piece of shit on the road I've driven since that '08 GMC Sierra abortion I had. No body...
[07:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Who cares - 06FBI Arrests Volkswagen Executive for Role in Emissions Conspiracy - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:09:10] <exec> 08└─Honestly, who gives a fuck?
[07:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Bad news: it missed - 06Surprise Flyby of Asteroid on January 9, 2017 - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:06] <exec> 08└─Hopefully, a really big one will hit the eastern US soon.
[07:10:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:terrible shit happens - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:10:47] <exec> 08└─Excessive vitriol is a GREAT personality trait to have post-apocalypse.
[07:11:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Three main reasons - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:11:30] <exec> 08└─We will always have a crime problem. No jobs, crime pays when work won't. Plain and simple as that. The problem we face now is how to avoid civil war. Our right wing media outlet, fox news is inciting literal civil war by promoting Black Lives Matter as terrorists and cops as heros. The rub is that...
[07:16:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Important details you left out: - 06GMO Grass That 'Escaped' Defies Eradication, Divides Grass Seed Industry - 1661 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:16:51] <exec> 08└─Grandpa wasn't making much money, but enough to pay taxes, buy whatever he needed, keep a wife and four kids fed, clothed, and educated, and not a day on welfare. He worked his ass off. Took care of himself, his family, and several of his neighbors. He fed quite a few people in addition to his anima...
[07:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Surprised by due process - 06FBI Let Alleged Pedo Walk Free Rather Than Explain How They Snared Him - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:18:03] <exec> 08└─here's another idea - a correct one. the judge has seen a lot of criminals and makes a quick decision about guilty or not by looking at them. statistically there are many more black criminals, so most of the time, his "guilty" decision is about a black man. blacks are statistically much more likely...
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[08:09:00] <exec> 08└─The dog did it. In a galaxy full of shapeshifting lifeforms and godlike aliens, nobody suspected the dog.
[08:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Who cares - 06FBI Arrests Volkswagen Executive for Role in Emissions Conspiracy - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:12] <exec> 08└─From what I have seen, the typical Corporate response is to hang this on some engineer that was told to do this or they would find someone else who will. Firing that engineer documents the Corporate Executive Team has taken the matter seriously.
[08:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Who cares - 06FBI Arrests Volkswagen Executive for Role in Emissions Conspiracy - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:14] <exec> 08└─If he was an American executive (billionaire?) there is a 0% chance he would have been arrested. He probably would have been asked to be part of Trump's cabinet right?
[08:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score:2) 02Re:Who cares - 06FBI Arrests Volkswagen Executive for Role in Emissions Conspiracy - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:16] <exec> 08└─This guy looks to be middle management, not a suit. Expendable, unless he's got dirt on upper management, in which case quickly expendable.
[08:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Missing matter? - 06"Nearby" Supermassive Black Holes Discovered - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:26] <exec> 08└─I remember reading quite a few stories about how gravitation forces operating in the universe predicted a lot more matter than we observe. Are places like this where the unaccounted-for matter is hiding?
[08:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Missing matter? - 06"Nearby" Supermassive Black Holes Discovered - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:28] <exec> 08└─Dark matter is real! according to faith based science.
[08:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03WalksOnDirt [5854] (Score:2) 02Re:To do what? - 06Quantum Computing, Coming Soon for Real? - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:31] <exec> 08└─No, I don't need uncrackable encryption, my 2048-bit keys should still be good for a little while.
[08:11:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03tekk [5704] (Score:1) 02Re:Three main reasons - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:11:45] <exec> 08└─You mean like Canada, the world center of the incredibly lucrative fur trade which was the reason the British beat the French up over it in the first place? Or maybe India, not like any valuable products were extracted from there. No sir, haven't heard of tea (literally the reason the subcontinent w...
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[09:09:49] <exec> 08└─Um, didn't they teach you about the British Empire?
[09:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:Google replace university IT staff. - 06How the University of California Exploited a Visa Loophole to Move Tech Jobs to India - 887 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:10:02] <exec> 08└─Have you ever worked with Indian IT support? Using Google hosted email is leagues better than trying to get support for a Microsoft Exchange server from an Indian speaking broken English telling you to reboot your computer. I think it's reasonable for an organization to outsource their IT, as long a...
[09:11:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:terrible shit happens - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:11:09] <exec> 08└─Ve haff sayink in old country: "CRY SUM MOAR!"
[09:11:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Three main reasons - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:11:33] <exec> 08└─I've used Emacs on a 1200 baud modem. 120 baud would still be quite usable. I don't believe these other text editors actually exist, they're merely wicked rumors spread by the evil one, VI.
[09:11:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Three main reasons - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:11:53] <exec> 08└─Our right wing media outlet, fox news is inciting literal civil war by promoting Black Lives Matter as terrorists and cops as heros.
[09:12:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02Re:stoking the fires? - 06WikiLeaks Proposes Tracking Verified Twitter Users’ Homes, Families and Finances - 91 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:12:32] <exec> 08└─So basically Wikileaks wants to build a dox database of celebs, politicians, and reporters.
[09:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score:2) 02Re:Trump will stop this. - 06The FTC IoT Security Case Against D-Link is a Test of Power - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:13:20] <exec> 08└─I don't think so, considering D-Link is not an American company.
[09:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Better gif in the comments - 06Visualization of a Phased Array Antenna System - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:13:42] <exec> 08└─From the Wikipedia article: Electrically, it simulates a series of two or three-element Yagi antennas connected together, each set tuned to a different frequency.
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[10:09:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Dept - 06Fossilized Tomatillos Discovered - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:02] <exec> 08└─What does "in-bad-taste dept" mean? Had the editor a chance to taste them? Suggested: "long-past-the-expiration-date dept"
[10:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Dept - 06Fossilized Tomatillos Discovered - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:09:03] <exec> 08└─Or even: "expired-before-fabrication dept".
[10:09:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Dept - 06Fossilized Tomatillos Discovered - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:09:05] <exec> 08└─Fossils taste like rocks.
[10:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Umm... what? - 06DARPA Plans to Demonstrate Temporary Underwater Fiber-Optic Networks - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:14] <exec> 08└─strong, hair-thin, buoyant fiber-optic cables able to withstand the pressure
[10:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:anti-American - 06How the University of California Exploited a Visa Loophole to Move Tech Jobs to India - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:09:52] <exec> 08└─Who are all these enemies that justify the huge amount of taxpayer money being spent on the military?
[10:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score:1) 02Re:Outsourcing - 06How the University of California Exploited a Visa Loophole to Move Tech Jobs to India - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:10:09] <exec> 08└─Money, that's the name of the game. if "shorter review cycle and better communication" means lower cost, it is good. if it means higher cost in the short term, but lower cost int the medium/long term, it deserves to be studied and analyzed and then (after clearly proved) it may be accepted depending...
[10:10:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03zeigerpuppy [1298] 02Theory - 06Quantum Computing, Coming Soon for Real? - 608 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:46] <exec> 08└─I had a fascinating conversation with a quantum physicist a few years ago. He'd just received a multi-million pound grant from the UK and was working on quantum entangling domains by seeding crystalline substrates with impurities. At the conclusion of our conversation, I asked him how long he though...
[10:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DmT [6439] (Score:1) 02Re:Disable Javascript - 06Ultrasound Tracking Could be Used to Deanonymize Tor Users - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:14:16] <exec> 08└─Have you actually read the privacy statement of anti-virus software? They send back a lot of data, some even all the URL-s you have visited - for advertising purposes! So be careful with them ...
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[11:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02TRUMP AKBAR - 06A Potentially Fatal Blow Against Patent Trolls - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:08] <exec> 08└─ALLAHLAHLAHLAHLAHLAHLAHLAH
[11:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Nope... - 06A Potentially Fatal Blow Against Patent Trolls - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:10] <exec> 08└─There are ways for attorneys to work around this on future cases. To stop patent trolls, the actual patent system needs fixing.
[11:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score:2) 02They deserve it. - 06A Potentially Fatal Blow Against Patent Trolls - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:12] <exec> 08└─That is interesting, because the lawyers representing the patent troll, according to Bruno, had already told the firm that suing the patent troll was pointless because it had no money, making it judgment-proof. That statement helped convince the judge to go after the law firm’s funds, Bruno said.
[11:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Tomatillos! - 06Fossilized Tomatillos Discovered - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:23] <exec> 08└─Crunchy on the outside, juicy on the inside! with their papery husks and the remains of their fleshy interiors
[11:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Tomatillos! - 06Fossilized Tomatillos Discovered - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:09:25] <exec> 08└─Verde!
[11:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Missing matter? - 06"Nearby" Supermassive Black Holes Discovered - 1003 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:09:56] <exec> 08└─I have had it up to about *here* with "faith-based" science, which in my mind is synonymous with superstition aka religion, which for all appearances to me has very little to show for edification of truth and everything to do with subjugating other people. I do believe in God, and my observation so...
[11:12:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Three main reasons - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:12:21] <exec> 08└─Obvious counterexamples from different eras are Canada and India, along with many other former British colonies, many of which left the empire without major wars.
[11:13:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02Re:What should be the limits of power? - 06The FTC IoT Security Case Against D-Link is a Test of Power - 814 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:13:34] <exec> 08└─An ideal, of course, is to make IoT devices need as few updates as possible. Ideally zero over their lifespan. If companies had liability for damages caused by their IoT devices, they would invest in security. They would reduce attack surface area. Eliminate default credentials. No back doors intend...
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[12:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02double trademark violation - 06"Finder for Airpods" Not Allowed in Apple's Walled Garden - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:15] <exec> 08└─FinderAirPods
[12:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:double trademark violation - 06"Finder for Airpods" Not Allowed in Apple's Walled Garden - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:09:17] <exec> 08└─"The app will not return back" even if they rename it to "Find the goddamn overpriced earbuds".
[12:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03J_Darnley [5679] (Score:1) 02You gave the reason - 06"Finder for Airpods" Not Allowed in Apple's Walled Garden - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:19] <exec> 08└─> A new pair of AirPods costs $159 and a single replacement costs just $69.
[12:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Turkeys won't vote for Xmas - 06A Potentially Fatal Blow Against Patent Trolls - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:30] <exec> 08└─Part of the patent-troll economic model is based on lawyers taking a contingency fee, meaning that they take a percentage of whatever money is extracted from victims rather than being paid an hourly fee. This makes the lawyers more of a partner than a traditional contractor, which factored into the...
[12:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Black holes are not monsters - 06"Nearby" Supermassive Black Holes Discovered - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:14] <exec> 08└─According to current theory, you can replace the sun with a black hole of the same mass and Earth will remain in the same orbit. Simple simulations will bear this out. In fact, you can get really far using Newtonian mechanics and treating everything like black holes. I don't think this grad student...
[12:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Being anti-recruiter doesn't have to mean... - 06How the University of California Exploited a Visa Loophole to Move Tech Jobs to India - 1064 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:10:33] <exec> 08└─anti-military. I dealt with recruiters in both High School and Junior College. They were some of the sleaziest fucks around. Like seriously they make ambulance chasing lawyers look like upstanding citizens. I even went assessment and such for the Army at one point (dropped out after reading through...
[12:11:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bad news: it missed - 06Surprise Flyby of Asteroid on January 9, 2017 - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:11:11] <exec> 08└─A "really big one" will have major global effects.... Let's say, global warming won't be an issue any more.
[12:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Is there a link to the actual video - 06Surprise Flyby of Asteroid on January 9, 2017 - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:11:13] <exec> 08└─The webpage is a javascript monstrosity (seemed to have scripts from about 15 different sites), and I was unable to work out where the actual video was (neither could file2hd, nor youtube-dl). Flash? In 2017?
[12:11:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Is there a link to the actual video - 06Surprise Flyby of Asteroid on January 9, 2017 - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:11:15] <exec> 08└─It could be this unlisted YouTube video [youtube.com] I found here [cnet.com].
[12:12:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Three main reasons - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:12:44] <exec> 08└─Ever hear of an echo chamber? Cops are watching Fox et.al. and being encouraged to shoot BLM terrorists. Blacks are watching lefty MSM and hearing that the cops are murdering peaceful blacks with impunity, BLM heroes are their only hope. Both sides are encouraging this.
[12:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Three main reasons - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:12:49] <exec> 08└─Erm... sorry, no. Not a one of the above came anywhere close to matching the production value of the American colonies. Not even matching just the southern colonies.
[12:12:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:Three main reasons - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:12:58] <exec> 08└─some noses need picked...
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[13:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:double trademark violation - 06"Finder for Airpods" Not Allowed in Apple's Walled Garden - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:09:08] <exec> 08└─Well yeah, it's the one-strike-and-you're-gone-forever rule, popular among plutocrats.
[13:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score:4, Funny) 02If only... - 06"Finder for Airpods" Not Allowed in Apple's Walled Garden - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:10] <exec> 08└─If only they had some sort of cable to keep them together.
[13:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02walls - 06"Finder for Airpods" Not Allowed in Apple's Walled Garden - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:13] <exec> 08└─The higher the walls get, the happier I am that I'm outside them. Also WRT to phrasing, those aren't garden walls, those are prison walls.
[13:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:walls - 06"Finder for Airpods" Not Allowed in Apple's Walled Garden - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:09:15] <exec> 08└─From the ideal point of view yes. From the practical point of view, let's say that it is a walled garden, but once getting out of it becomes difficult enough, nobody has any interest to water the plants.
[13:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:They deserve it. - 06A Potentially Fatal Blow Against Patent Trolls - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:09:26] <exec> 08└─I'm not directly in the legal system, but from the outside it looks like the owner of the patent just told the judge that in his opinion the patent he owns is worthless, so he won't mind being ordered to sign it over to the victim.
[13:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:Who cares - 06FBI Arrests Volkswagen Executive for Role in Emissions Conspiracy - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:09:58] <exec> 08└─Nope, Trump has no interest in dealing with losers, and he would be the first one to give the guy a public dressing down. He is not afraid of shaming people for their actions regardless of how smug they are or how many zeros they have attached to their name. That's one quality of his that has endear...
[13:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Black holes are not monsters - 06"Nearby" Supermassive Black Holes Discovered - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:10:13] <exec> 08└─I don't see how the article contradicts what we know about gravitational mechanics. Monsters may simply be sleeping giants. They may have a scary roar of electromagnetic radiation. They don't need to be twisting spacetime for millions of miles to be monsters.
[13:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score:2) 02Re:anti-American - 06How the University of California Exploited a Visa Loophole to Move Tech Jobs to India - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:10:29] <exec> 08└─Of course we can be more efficient, that is why we put someone in the White House who will have the balls to make sure we get our money's worth, and someone who respects and listens to the people (mostly men) who spent (or given) their lives keeping our country safe from all kinds of assholes. A lot...
[13:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:anti-American - 06How the University of California Exploited a Visa Loophole to Move Tech Jobs to India - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:10:31] <exec> 08└─Of course we can be more efficient, that is why we put someone in the White House who will have the balls to make sure we get our money's worth
[13:10:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Google replace university IT staff. - 06How the University of California Exploited a Visa Loophole to Move Tech Jobs to India - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:10:47] <exec> 08└─They're cheap for a reason.
[13:11:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Is there a link to the actual video - 06Surprise Flyby of Asteroid on January 9, 2017 - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:11:16] <exec> 08└─Thank you, sir.
[13:12:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Three main reasons - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:12:31] <exec> 08└─I would think medicine would be the more valuable find. You can make your own ammunition or even fall back on primitive weapons, but it's pretty tough to make modern medications without clean, laboratory conditions. You could do OK with minor complaints if you knew the natural pharmacopeia the India...
[13:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Three main reasons - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:12:43] <exec> 08└─Agreed, but I often wish the back & forth was wittier. Knee-jerk insults I can get on Huffington Post or Drudge. Here I hope for more.
[13:12:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Three main reasons - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:12:46] <exec> 08└─I would say they're uniformly corporate, Establishment. I have watched the modern, post-fairness doctrine press kiss up to administration after administration no matter which party occupied the Whitehouse. The New York Times cheerled the invasion of Iraq, even. They cheerled for Hillary recently bec...
[13:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Three main reasons - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:04] <exec> 08└─Most all of em but I'm not going to infringe on anyone else's nasal liberties. That's a step too far.
[13:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Three main reasons - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:06] <exec> 08└─The second one is the primary one. Without privately owned guns, there would not be a United States of America; Just like there isn't an India. Or Austrailia. Or New Zealand. However I think a more accurate statement would be "without private parity with armed forces" the US revolution would not ha...
[13:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Three main reasons - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:08] <exec> 08└─Yes. Without question. If only every tenth gun owner killed one jackbooted thug, they would run out of jackbooted thugs before we ran out of gun owners. You massively underestimate how many armed people there are in the US.
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[14:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score:2) 02Re:You gave the reason - 06"Finder for Airpods" Not Allowed in Apple's Walled Garden - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:09:27] <exec> 08└─How do they manage pricing if two singles are cheaper than one pair?
[14:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:If only... - 06"Finder for Airpods" Not Allowed in Apple's Walled Garden - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:09:30] <exec> 08└─Or even a light headband to keep them in place...
[14:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Solution - 06"Finder for Airpods" Not Allowed in Apple's Walled Garden - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:34] <exec> 08└─Make is a separate device instead, sold over independent channels. The people who need it certainly have the money to pay for that. I guess such a device could easily be made to sell profitably even if much cheaper than an AirPod, and as an independent device, Apple can't do anything against it.
[14:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Solution - 06"Finder for Airpods" Not Allowed in Apple's Walled Garden - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:09:36] <exec> 08└─Port the finder software to Android & Windows. Then you can use a friend's phone or a laptop (many have Bluetooth) to find the airbuds.
[14:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Solution - 06"Finder for Airpods" Not Allowed in Apple's Walled Garden - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:09:38] <exec> 08└─Very bad idea. Better solution, don't give your money to companies like Apple that you know damn well will only use it against you, and against humanity. Just say no to overpriced poorly-engineered garbage.
[14:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Duplicate functionality - 06"Finder for Airpods" Not Allowed in Apple's Walled Garden - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:41] <exec> 08└─Doesn't Apple have some rule about not duplicating functionality they already provide? This would violate that rule because you already have a way of "finding" the lost one by buying a replacement from Apple.
[14:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Baaaaaah says the sheep. - 06"Finder for Airpods" Not Allowed in Apple's Walled Garden - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:43] <exec> 08└─Excitement about Apple's new wireless earphones
[14:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03weeds [611] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Insulting - 06A Potentially Fatal Blow Against Patent Trolls - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:55] <exec> 08└─Even a 2014 U.S. Supreme Court decision that was highly critical of patent trolls has done little to slow their slimy, reptilian-like existence.
[14:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Contradiction - 06A Potentially Fatal Blow Against Patent Trolls - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:56] <exec> 08└─to slow their slimy, reptilian-like existence.
[14:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Contradiction - 06A Potentially Fatal Blow Against Patent Trolls - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:09:58] <exec> 08└─They would be if you had a wank on them. Not that I'm advising, condoning, or understanding such behavior.
[14:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02title and closing comment - 06A Potentially Fatal Blow Against Patent Trolls - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:01] <exec> 08└─potentially fatal blow != won't finish off patent trolls
[14:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Dissapointed - 06Fossilized Tomatillos Discovered - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:13] <exec> 08└─I was hoping for tomaccoes.
[14:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Pretty early to i.d. a fossil - 06Fossilized Tomatillos Discovered - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:15] <exec> 08└─Did they get a genetic match from the fossilized remains? (Somehow, I doubt it.) Could it be an alternate branch of the nightshade family that just looks like a tomatillo after 52 million years of fossilization? ----- All of this has happened before, and will happen again.
[14:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Who cares - 06FBI Arrests Volkswagen Executive for Role in Emissions Conspiracy - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:40] <exec> 08└─And his legal defense may hinge on whether he was passing along information that he was fed from the parent company, in which case he's gullible, but maybe not all that guilty? Or, if he actually knew that the software was written to defeat emissions testing, then he really was lying to regulators....
[14:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03dbv [6022] (Score:1) 02Next, GM execs? - 06FBI Arrests Volkswagen Executive for Role in Emissions Conspiracy - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:41] <exec> 08└─I guess they'll be arresting GM execs next. No? A bailout then maybe? Maybe they'll get around to Wall Street at some point? This is a slippery slope, I tell you.
[14:11:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:anti-American - 06How the University of California Exploited a Visa Loophole to Move Tech Jobs to India - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:11:12] <exec> 08└─I think that we will see military spending drop
[14:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:terrible shit happens - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:21] <exec> 08└─I haven't seen any evidence of guns settling the problems in Syria. Nor did I see any evidence of guns settling the problems in Northern Ireland -- in the later case it was only when the guns were put down that the problems were reduced.
[14:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Three main reasons - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:41] <exec> 08└─What's the exact scope of the Apocalypse?
[14:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:Three main reasons - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:47] <exec> 08└─It will be quite obvious: when the Brown Shirts come to pull your neighbors out of their house and take them away or shoot them on the street.
[14:17:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Bullshit - 0650 Ways to Avoid Getting Hacked in 2017 - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:17:05] <exec> 08└─Now throw Win 10 on that father's computer and watch him have a coronary, lol. I am a Linux user with almost no experience with win 10, but this is how I heard the conversation go between an older person and a newish win 10 user: "How do I get my desktop back?!?!?!?" "Just click on the Office thing....
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[15:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score:2) 02alt-text - 06See What Facebook Thinks Is in Your Photos - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:20] <exec> 08└─The text appears when the photo doesn't load. I saw it accidentally other day, and was quite amused. The extension probably just prevents the photo from loading.
[15:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02turk - 06See What Facebook Thinks Is in Your Photos - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:22] <exec> 08└─is largely aided by machine learning
[15:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:turk - 06See What Facebook Thinks Is in Your Photos - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:09:24] <exec> 08└─But mechanical turk is based on neural networks. Quite literally neural networks, indeed.
[15:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03epl [1801] (Score:1) 02Re:You gave the reason - 06"Finder for Airpods" Not Allowed in Apple's Walled Garden - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:09:36] <exec> 08└─Two singles don't have the charging/holding unit you do get with a pair, since that's a complete set.
[15:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You gave the reason - 06"Finder for Airpods" Not Allowed in Apple's Walled Garden - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:09:38] <exec> 08└─On a side note: assuming someone wants to buy these, why would they ever buy a pair instead of two singles at this pricing?
[15:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Solution - 06"Finder for Airpods" Not Allowed in Apple's Walled Garden - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:09:47] <exec> 08└─If you sell such a device, you do not give your money to Apple. Rather, you are getting money from people who otherwise would probably have given it to Apple for a replacement AirPod. So you make money, and Apple gets less money. Win-win, I would say.
[15:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Solution - 06"Finder for Airpods" Not Allowed in Apple's Walled Garden - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:09:49] <exec> 08└─I'm no Apple fan, but do you have an argument for "poorly-engineered"? In this particular case, I'd say poor design choice (don't make tiny expensive things that can be lost), but I doubt it was an engineer who decided to actually build these things; engineers just build to specifications.
[15:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Go to bed with a whore - 06"Finder for Airpods" Not Allowed in Apple's Walled Garden - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:53] <exec> 08└─Wake up with a whore...
[15:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Monopoly? - 06"Finder for Airpods" Not Allowed in Apple's Walled Garden - 904 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:55] <exec> 08└─Walled garden == Appstore is a monopoly If you hold a monopoly in one thing (Appstore), you a not supposed to use that monopoly to encourage a monopoly in another thing (Ear buds). Apple probably has a good for the customer reason for doing this? It will be interesting to hear their backpeddl^H^H^H^...
[15:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Re:Nope... - 06A Potentially Fatal Blow Against Patent Trolls - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:06] <exec> 08└─To stop patent trolls, the actual patent system needs fixing.
[15:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nope... - 06A Potentially Fatal Blow Against Patent Trolls - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:08] <exec> 08└─Indeed. Want to kill patent trolls? Kill USPTO.
[15:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Just what my fossilized Bloody Marillos needed! - 06Fossilized Tomatillos Discovered - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:29] <exec> 08└─n/t
[15:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Who cares - 06FBI Arrests Volkswagen Executive for Role in Emissions Conspiracy - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:53] <exec> 08└─I would assume this has to do with said suit not paying the proper "union of rich dudes" dues (aka lining the pockets of government officials) and had no protection.
[15:11:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Black holes are monsters - 06"Nearby" Supermassive Black Holes Discovered - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:11:09] <exec> 08└─Here's the counterargument: It's just the beasts under your bed In your closet, in your head Exit: light Enter: night
[15:11:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Special Snowflakes - 06How the University of California Exploited a Visa Loophole to Move Tech Jobs to India - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:47] <exec> 08└─Why should tech people get special treatment? All the other jobs are getting outsourced or automated these days. I'm not crying because some geek's job gets sent overseas or when illegal labor gets used for it. We do it for everything else, don't we?
[15:12:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] 02No were not! - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 65 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:43] <exec> 08└─I will shoot the next person that says we are obsessed with guns!
[15:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Three main reasons - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:33] <exec> 08└─Yes, but. Pharmaceuticals have a limited shelf life, under the best conditions. Post-apocalypse conditions aren't likely to be the best. Nothing wrong with your thinking. The limited stocks of properly stored drugs will be as valuable as anything that might be salvaged from the old civilization. But...
[15:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Three main reasons - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 1997 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:46] <exec> 08└─I agree with Phoenix666 that holier than thou eye rolling is weak sauce. If you like banjos, the only thing better than a banjo is dueling banjos, played well. Even if you don't like banjos, dueling banjos sound better. But a banjo plus eyerolling or ranting, eh go home and sleep it off. The problem...
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[16:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Meanwhile in America.. - 06German Green Party MP Considers Subsidized Sex for the Disabled - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:23] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile in America, sex work is illegal and publishers (Baxkpage) get arrested.. Land of the free and all that...
[16:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Killing gently - 06German Green Party MP Considers Subsidized Sex for the Disabled - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:24] <exec> 08└─Interestingly, in the German source, in the links to related stories there is one that says a new study shows for men above 57, sex increases the probability for heart attacks. [www.welt.de] [text also in German, obviously] So maybe it's a clever way to reduce health costs: Let them reduce their lif...
[16:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Killing gently - 06German Green Party MP Considers Subsidized Sex for the Disabled - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:09:26] <exec> 08└─It sounds too perilous.
[16:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score:2) 02Exciting - 06German Green Party MP Considers Subsidized Sex for the Disabled - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:29] <exec> 08└─As a taxpayer, I would be pissed if the government was paying for other people to have sex. Clearly I feel my ugliness is a disability, although I am sure I would not qualify for the program.
[16:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Exciting - 06German Green Party MP Considers Subsidized Sex for the Disabled - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:09:31] <exec> 08└─Since you are tax payer, you surely could also pay for a prostitute, so one of the given conditions would not be fulfilled.
[16:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:turk - 06See What Facebook Thinks Is in Your Photos - 784 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:09:42] <exec> 08└─I think much of this mechanical turk stuff was really done by my girlfriend's mother and father, who believe they have nothing to hide and will expose everyone via tagging even if told they don't want to participate in the tracking scheme. They loved personalized ads because it is less junk to sift...
[16:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02This reminds me of - 06See What Facebook Thinks Is in Your Photos - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:44] <exec> 08└─See through the eyes of a bending unit [youtube.com]. I think is on-topic: Fry looks like an unsuspecting Facebook user to me.
[16:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:You gave the reason - 06"Finder for Airpods" Not Allowed in Apple's Walled Garden - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:09:58] <exec> 08└─Because people who care about the money and can calculate would not buy either to begin with?
[16:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Solution - 06"Finder for Airpods" Not Allowed in Apple's Walled Garden - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:09] <exec> 08└─it's too late for that, since facebook is free and costs you nothing except for the privacy given up by others to make their experience more convenient for them even if it comes at a cost to you. social burdens are best when hidden behind the facade of everyone is doing it so you are a loser if you...
[16:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Baaaaaah says the sheep. - 06"Finder for Airpods" Not Allowed in Apple's Walled Garden - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:12] <exec> 08└─We've had wireless Bluetooth earphones for over a decade already.
[16:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Contradiction - 06A Potentially Fatal Blow Against Patent Trolls - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:32] <exec> 08└─So what are they, slimy or reptilian-like? Both at the same time is not possible, as reptilians are not slimy. They aren't? What about when they're crawling around in swamps?
[16:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Meh - 06A Potentially Fatal Blow Against Patent Trolls - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:35] <exec> 08└─I'll believe it when the Federal Circuit Court doesn't overturn it. Of course, they will overturn it as soon as it gets appealed, because they're a bunch of patent lawyers protecting their turf. It's why they've rolled back most of the Supreme Court decisions that have been restricting patent trolli...
[16:10:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score:2) 02But did they find fossilized salsa? - 06Fossilized Tomatillos Discovered - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:51] <exec> 08└─I'm not expecting chips . . .
[16:11:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Next, GM execs? - 06FBI Arrests Volkswagen Executive for Role in Emissions Conspiracy - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:11:19] <exec> 08└─Never happen. GM and Ford are the merkan good 'ol boy club. American corruption is allowed, even condoned. Others must be prosecuted to the full extent of what ever law they can make up.
[16:11:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Black holes are monsters - 06"Nearby" Supermassive Black Holes Discovered - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:11:34] <exec> 08└─Not enough light exiting the black holes I know personally. However, what we've learnt from the recent gravity wave chirp from two black holes merging is the fact that a small region of space is only big enough for one black hole, due to Hawkins Radiation - here's a quick documentary explaining that...
[16:11:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:not very much difference - 06How the University of California Exploited a Visa Loophole to Move Tech Jobs to India - 1438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:11:47] <exec> 08└─Actually, the American military is in the "business" of doing congress' bidding. The military is a tool, sometimes used properly, other times used improperly. If a kid uses a hammer to smash all your windows, you don't blame the hammer. If he uses that hammer to make needed repairs on your property,...
[16:11:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:not very much difference - 06How the University of California Exploited a Visa Loophole to Move Tech Jobs to India - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:11:49] <exec> 08└─Going back to the original point, protesting the Iraq war (or other offensive action) at a military recruitment center is not anti-American. Trying to reduce the number of "hammers" that Congress has access to may (not that they really care) discourage them from breaking shit when there isn't popula...
[16:11:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:anti-American - 06How the University of California Exploited a Visa Loophole to Move Tech Jobs to India - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:11:57] <exec> 08└─"BTW, your addition of "mostly men" says a lot about your fear of women and being emasculated." No one wants to be a ball-less bitch like you.
[16:12:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:anti-American - 06How the University of California Exploited a Visa Loophole to Move Tech Jobs to India - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:12:03] <exec> 08└─And that, my friend, is why it is so hard to argue with people that are always right. There is no room for differing opinions.
[16:12:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Google replace university IT staff. - 06How the University of California Exploited a Visa Loophole to Move Tech Jobs to India - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:12:17] <exec> 08└─why did you use the term SJW? you could have stated "anyone", because most people against outsourcing appeared to have voted for Trump; remember that whole TPP thing, and his rants about building cars in Mexico and threatening high tarfis? You'd have come across as smarter if you didn't have to add...
[16:12:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Special Snowflakes - 06How the University of California Exploited a Visa Loophole to Move Tech Jobs to India - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:12:21] <exec> 08└─Is this runaway writing anonymously? I guess when they come for you, I won't say anything because you didn't stick up for my rights either. Just because everyone is doing it is not a reason to continue doing it.
[16:12:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score:2) 02Re:Bad news: it missed - 06Surprise Flyby of Asteroid on January 9, 2017 - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:12:46] <exec> 08└─Hey, there's a lot of us living here who aren't orange assholes.
[16:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Three main reasons - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:23] <exec> 08└─This is so true. Find a guy that knows how to use a sword, and he'll be called a geek, every single time. Something is more masculine about knowing how to attack and defend in personal combat, but the typical 'gun nut' is more about the size of the weapon... There are certainly gun enthusiasts that...
[16:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Time - 0650 Ways to Avoid Getting Hacked in 2017 - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:16] <exec> 08└─For those of us with little time, it would have been nice if he'd told us how to use these log systems, which log systems are best, how to set up these systemd Privatetmp=yes things, etc.
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[17:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02China Will Soon Have $360 Billion in Green Energy - 06Beijing Creates Environmental Police Force to Tackle Smog Problem - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:24] <exec> 08└─Pollution cops is a cute story. How about the $360 billion [csmonitor.com] they are spending over the next 4 years on renewable energy? While we drill babies in alaska, they are investing in the energy technology of the future. Tech that will pay dividends in the form of market dominance.
[17:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Exciting - 06German Green Party MP Considers Subsidized Sex for the Disabled - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:09:37] <exec> 08└─Since all this is about Europe, maybe the taxpayer part is just the paid sales tax, not income tax. In most of Europe sales tax is about 20% up to 27% which in fact makes him a taxpayer paying more of their income as taxes than many others elsewhere with their income taxes.
[17:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:Exciting - 06German Green Party MP Considers Subsidized Sex for the Disabled - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:09:39] <exec> 08└─You want pissed? I live in California and our wonderful government has decided to pay for a sex change operation. For a prisoner serving a life sentence. Whisky Tango Foxtrot? First, taxpayers should not pay for this type of operation. Second, especially not for assholes serving a life sentence.
[17:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Government contracts... - 06German Green Party MP Considers Subsidized Sex for the Disabled - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:41] <exec> 08└─...are usually outsourced to the lowest bidder. Just something to think about before you get excited about this idea.
[17:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not just a chrome extension - 06See What Facebook Thinks Is in Your Photos - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:52] <exec> 08└─The author has a github account with the source available and it is also in the firefox add on repositories: https://github.com [github.com] https://addons.mozilla.org [mozilla.org]
[17:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Solution - 06"Finder for Airpods" Not Allowed in Apple's Walled Garden - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:19] <exec> 08└─don't give your money to companies like Apple that you know damn well will only use it against you, and against humanity.
[17:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Monopoly? - 06"Finder for Airpods" Not Allowed in Apple's Walled Garden - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:25] <exec> 08└─Apple already explained why they pulled it: it isn't "appropriate for the app store". That's a good enough explanation, and all any Apple customer needs to know. The bottom line is that no one really needs this app. If you lose your AirPod, it's very simple: go buy another one for a mere $69. If you...
[17:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Enjoy Your Crapple. - 06"Finder for Airpods" Not Allowed in Apple's Walled Garden - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:27] <exec> 08└─It just works.
[17:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Dept - 06Fossilized Tomatillos Discovered - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:58] <exec> 08└─Are you suggesting rock is in bad taste?
[17:10:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Dept - 06Fossilized Tomatillos Discovered - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:11:00] <exec> 08└─Fossils taste like Jews? --Ethanol fueled
[17:11:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Dept - 06Fossilized Tomatillos Discovered - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:11:02] <exec> 08└─No kidding. The big green ones you see in stores aren't the ones to get. There are small yellow ones that make a trip to the garden like a trip to the candy store. http://www.seedsavers.org [seedsavers.org]
[17:11:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Tomatillos! - 06Fossilized Tomatillos Discovered - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:11:06] <exec> 08└─http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0014243/quotes [imdb.com]
[17:11:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Tee Hee. - 06FBI Arrests Volkswagen Executive for Role in Emissions Conspiracy - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:11:27] <exec> 08└─Fartfignewton.
[17:11:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score:2) 02Double standard for friends - 06FBI Arrests Volkswagen Executive for Role in Emissions Conspiracy - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:39] <exec> 08└─I find very interesting the little bit of "gusto" with which they are going after those who gamed the environemental regulation system. Contrast this to the outright fraudsters who systematically manipulated entire financial markets with their bogus "products" to the point of causing a global crisis...
[17:11:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Black holes are not monsters - 06"Nearby" Supermassive Black Holes Discovered - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:11:55] <exec> 08└─Then the sun is just as much a "monster".
[17:12:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Google replace university IT staff. - 06How the University of California Exploited a Visa Loophole to Move Tech Jobs to India - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:37] <exec> 08└─If they wanted to save money they should have used grad students.
[17:12:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Special Snowflakes - 06How the University of California Exploited a Visa Loophole to Move Tech Jobs to India - 705 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:42] <exec> 08└─On paper, H1B visa's are SUPPOSED to fill skill shortages, and not be a tool to pay workers less. As written, it's a lie. Let's screw everyone equally and maybe our cost of living will be more aligned. Make it easier to outsource or visa-tize doctors and lawyers, for example, so our medical and lega...
[17:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Three main reasons - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:49] <exec> 08└─You are laboring under the assumption that Democrats are NOT warmongering corporate whores when that is EXACTLY what they are.
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[18:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:China Will Soon Have $360 Billion in Green Ener - 06Beijing Creates Environmental Police Force to Tackle Smog Problem - 918 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:15] <exec> 08└─So here's the thing. The Chinese government knows the pollution is unsustainable and is making their most productive cities unlivable. But big piles of cheap, dirty energy were crucial to their core strategy of "catching up with the west". I wouldn't be surprised if, as Chinese citizens start demand...
[18:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:China Will Soon Have $360 Billion in Green Ener - 06Beijing Creates Environmental Police Force to Tackle Smog Problem - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:17] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't be surprised if, as Chinese citizens start demanding better conditions and better wages, if all the super-cheap outsourcing companies decide to seek new shores to do their work. And it also won't surprise me if Trump takes credit for the fact that "fewer jobs are moving to china", as thei...
[18:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:China Will Soon Have $360 Billion in Green Ener - 06Beijing Creates Environmental Police Force to Tackle Smog Problem - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:19] <exec> 08└─You seem to be angry at ikan. Yet, everything you wrote agrees with his analysis.
[18:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:China Will Soon Have $360 Billion in Green Ener - 06Beijing Creates Environmental Police Force to Tackle Smog Problem - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:21] <exec> 08└─Good! Let the Chinese spend their resources doing the research; the "West" can just copy their hard work.
[18:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:China Will Soon Have $360 Billion in Green Ener - 06Beijing Creates Environmental Police Force to Tackle Smog Problem - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:23] <exec> 08└─Copy ... then manufacture in China?
[18:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02You can't copy people. - 06Beijing Creates Environmental Police Force to Tackle Smog Problem - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:25] <exec> 08└─> Good! Let the Chinese spend their resources doing the research; the "West" can just copy their hard work. It took Japan decades to turn western research into market-leading production. China still hasn't reached that point despite all their growth. Expertise is something that takes at least a gene...
[18:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Meanwhile in America.. - 06German Green Party MP Considers Subsidized Sex for the Disabled - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:38] <exec> 08└─The Originalists should just admit that quite a few of the Founding Fathers were banging their slaves. Maybe it's the idea of paying that is the problem...
[18:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score:2, Funny) 02Re:Killing gently - 06German Green Party MP Considers Subsidized Sex for the Disabled - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:42] <exec> 08└─Oh, let me have just a little bit of peril?
[18:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score:2) 02Re:Exciting - 06German Green Party MP Considers Subsidized Sex for the Disabled - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:48] <exec> 08└─I guess it's this: http://www.latimes.com [latimes.com] Woah! California is crazy. Female convicts get necklaces and nightgowns too??
[18:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:turk - 06See What Facebook Thinks Is in Your Photos - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:00] <exec> 08└─> and believe Alexa is a great way to keep tabs on criminals in the future, if it can get built into every appliance and connected to every network. Orwell was wrong: We're not getting one government Big Brother. We're getting half a dozen private ones. Until the bonuses beat the CEOs' egos and they...
[18:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not just a chrome extension - 06See What Facebook Thinks Is in Your Photos - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:03] <exec> 08└─You just know the people that need to see it will be exclusive users of edge or safari browsers.
[18:10:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02Re:Solution - 06"Finder for Airpods" Not Allowed in Apple's Walled Garden - 206 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:26] <exec> 08└─Very bad idea. Better solution, don't give your money to companies like Apple that you know damn well will only use it against you, and against humanity. Just say no to overpriced poorly-engineered garbage.
[18:11:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Umm... what? - 06DARPA Plans to Demonstrate Temporary Underwater Fiber-Optic Networks - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:27] <exec> 08└─If your fiber is made properly, it doesn't need special treatment to sustain pressure anyway. The whole "being glass" thing helps a bit. The goal of floating around in an active operation theater, without getting cut by the first propeller that comes by, tells me it's probably fiber suspended a few...
[18:11:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Tee Hee. - 06FBI Arrests Volkswagen Executive for Role in Emissions Conspiracy - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:37] <exec> 08└─Since I don't resell my cars until they're worth their weight in steel, if I lived in a state without emission standards, I'd be picking up one of these puppies. Sure, they do pollute a bit more than advertised, but probably less than a quarter of my neighbors' pickups... And that torque, man ... th...
[18:11:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Who cares - 06FBI Arrests Volkswagen Executive for Role in Emissions Conspiracy - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:44] <exec> 08└─Yup. Between choosing Trump's lies and Hillary's lies, I'd choose Trump. He is a doof, whereas she could fuck your ass with a big BIG stick. Her connections got her in above Sanders, who should have been running.
[18:11:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Who cares - 06FBI Arrests Volkswagen Executive for Role in Emissions Conspiracy - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:51] <exec> 08└─Obviously Comey gives a feck. He must be a VW owner.
[18:12:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:anti-American - 06How the University of California Exploited a Visa Loophole to Move Tech Jobs to India - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:12:29] <exec> 08└─There is the general problem of too much money being spent on the military and wasteful military-type projects is part of that. Great places to start: Specifically dropping wasteful programs and asking the military to rank problems by level of importance. Reevaluating the level of military aid given...
[18:12:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Google replace university IT staff. - 06How the University of California Exploited a Visa Loophole to Move Tech Jobs to India - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:12:51] <exec> 08└─Its a display of degree inflation.
[18:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Special Snowflakes - 06How the University of California Exploited a Visa Loophole to Move Tech Jobs to India - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:00] <exec> 08└─They protect their turf with trade unions and US-centric certification rules, we don't.
[18:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No - 06Quantum Computing, Coming Soon for Real? - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:39] <exec> 08└─That would depend entirely on what they think D-Wave is selling them.
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[19:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02LIDAR - 06Google Waymo Vehicles to Hit the Road This Month - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:11] <exec> 08└─by building its own LIDAR sensors, for example, the company was shaving 90 percent off its costs.
[19:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:LIDAR - 06Google Waymo Vehicles to Hit the Road This Month - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:13] <exec> 08└─To be fair, they also need those same protections on the half-dozen computers that are in low-end new cars these days too.
[19:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:LIDAR - 06Google Waymo Vehicles to Hit the Road This Month - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:15] <exec> 08└─Oh totally agree about the internal machinery its the external sensors that'll get expensive to add. There's really nothing like lidar sensors on modern cars.
[19:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Passive voice - 06Google Waymo Vehicles to Hit the Road This Month - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:17] <exec> 08└─The summary and article have a very passive voice when discussion when a human tester needs to take control of a self-driving car
[19:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Worried - 06Google Waymo Vehicles to Hit the Road This Month - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:20] <exec> 08└─I hope they don't cause waymo crashes than ordinary vehicles.
[19:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:China Will Soon Have $360 Billion in Green Ener - 06Beijing Creates Environmental Police Force to Tackle Smog Problem - 651 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:30] <exec> 08└─Is it mental gymnastics to lay out an expectation for how things will play out given that we've already had years of moving towards this point? Honestly, it could be. Far be from me to suggest I'm above bias. It's far better to layout predictions first and then learn from being wrong than to do ever...
[19:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:China Will Soon Have $360 Billion in Green Ener - 06Beijing Creates Environmental Police Force to Tackle Smog Problem - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:35] <exec> 08└─Certainly beats doing it the other way around.
[19:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:China Will Soon Have $360 Billion in Green Ener - 06Beijing Creates Environmental Police Force to Tackle Smog Problem - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:37] <exec> 08└─I suppose the US could also spend $360 billion on the Chinese renewable energy industry, but what would be the point? The money the US has already spent on renewables has done well for Chinese industry, but hasn't resulted in market dominance for the US.
[19:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:China Will Soon Have $360 Billion in Green Ener - 06Beijing Creates Environmental Police Force to Tackle Smog Problem - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:39] <exec> 08└─Because market dominance is the be-all and end-all purpose of human existence, right? "For one brief shining moment, we made shareholders a lot of value" as the cartoon says...
[19:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02ecopig hunting club - 06Beijing Creates Environmental Police Force to Tackle Smog Problem - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:41] <exec> 08└─oh so all the pollution is from people cooking some food outside etc, not the companies who have paid off government officials. now the same corrupt thieves are going to send out ecopigs to steal from the poor.
[19:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Government contracts... - 06German Green Party MP Considers Subsidized Sex for the Disabled - 788 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:59] <exec> 08└─Also the government gravy train attracts some fat and ugly cat ladies in general, so people are thinking it'll be $500/night pr0n star look alike hotties but being a government program the .gov will be charged a mere $1250/hr and the lady is going to literally be former postal service desk clerks, D...
[19:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Kinda gives a whole new meaning to "On the dole"! - 06German Green Party MP Considers Subsidized Sex for the Disabled - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:01] <exec> 08└─pun intended
[19:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:alt-text - 06See What Facebook Thinks Is in Your Photos - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:11] <exec> 08└─I can't decide what's sadder about your confession: you just now noticed alt-text exists, or you never ever view page source.
[19:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02As Usual - 06See What Facebook Thinks Is in Your Photos - 875 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:17] <exec> 08└─Facebook gets 300 million new photos each day. [zephoria.com] (Let's not even talk about instagram) Even if a turk could do 300 photos per day - and that's a major stretch given all the overhead and how mind-numbing the work is - it would require 1 million full time turks working 365 days per year....
[19:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Who am I, NASA? - 06See What Facebook Thinks Is in Your Photos - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:22] <exec> 08└─No, that's not a black hole.
[19:10:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:Solution - 06"Finder for Airpods" Not Allowed in Apple's Walled Garden - 769 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:47] <exec> 08└─Poor engineering can come just as easily from not letting engineers do their job as from hiring ones that are not good at engineering. And I'm not just talking about these earbuds, I'm talking about Apple crap in general. There was a time they were rightly known for relatively good designs and execu...
[19:11:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02No honor among thieves... - 06A Potentially Fatal Blow Against Patent Trolls - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:18] <exec> 08└─How dare those "pure evil", "slimy, reptilian-like existence" patent "trolls" parasite off our perfected system of tax evasion and resource grabbing? Don't they realize that as patent cases land in courts, more and more people become aware of the ridiculousness of the actual patents? Can't they unde...
[19:12:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score:2) 02Re:Who cares - 06FBI Arrests Volkswagen Executive for Role in Emissions Conspiracy - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:12:11] <exec> 08└─They never ripped off consumers. They gave consumers engines with too high mpg, too high reliability, and too low maintenance costs. In some circumstances the engine produced too much emissions in some categories and it's questionable that really mattered.(Diesel produce less emissions in some areas...
[19:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Google replace university IT staff. - 06How the University of California Exploited a Visa Loophole to Move Tech Jobs to India - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:13] <exec> 08└─Another aspect of this is security. For my small business, I think it's safer to hire Google to run email than managing my own server. I can even force everyone to use two-factor auth. Of course Google is becoming a bigger and bigger target for attacks, but emails shouldn't be that sensitive, given...
[19:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Special Snowflakes - 06How the University of California Exploited a Visa Loophole to Move Tech Jobs to India - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:21] <exec> 08└─While that may be true, it won't necessarily benefit IT workers. Cheaper doctors would benefit many OTHERS also, just NOT doctors. Why should IT workers be the sacrificial economic lambs? Spread the pain/benefits.
[19:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DmT [6439] (Score:1) 02Well named asteroids - 06NASA Selects Two Missions to Visit Asteroids - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:29] <exec> 08└─Great names, Trojan and Psych ...
[19:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:No were not! - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:29] <exec> 08└─Can an article be modded "flaimbait"?
[19:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Three main reasons - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:15:09] <exec> 08└─Arnold Schwarzenegger blew up Satan with a grenade launcher in End of Days. Didn't kill him, but slowed him down and messed up his plans.
[19:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Three main reasons - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:15:18] <exec> 08└─unless those neighbors [being pulled out of their house, taken away or shot on the street] are black, mexican, muslim, homosexual, transgender, jewish, catholic, hipsters, liberals
[19:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I do not think it means what you think it means - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:15:31] <exec> 08└─There are certainly gun enthusiasts that understand very well how their weapons work, how to maintain them, all of the complicated aspects of owning and maintaining and improving upon a weapon.
[19:15:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Three main reasons - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:15:41] <exec> 08└─Actually if you look up the stats, places and times with more gums, and especially with some form of legal carry, have noticeably less violent crime. Especially rape.
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[20:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:LIDAR - 06Google Waymo Vehicles to Hit the Road This Month - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:30] <exec> 08└─Yeah, you're right. That's a relevant distinction. (off topic) At first I typed "That's a totally relevant distinction" but that came across as sarcastic. I think I've discovered that intensifying adverbs are inherently sarcastic on the internet.
[20:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Passive voice - 06Google Waymo Vehicles to Hit the Road This Month - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:33] <exec> 08└─Those are California/US disengagements. Multiply by 20 for Southern Europe. Multiply by 2000 for Asian or South American metropolis. Abort CPU and engage manual for mid-size African or Indian towns
[20:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Passive voice - 06Google Waymo Vehicles to Hit the Road This Month - 981 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:35] <exec> 08└─I know there's going to be cultural issues too. I've driven in Ireland while visiting and in the USA we simply make our roads 30 feet wide so its not an issue but in Ireland they make them like 3 meters wide and its simply understood that you go off roading when you meet another vehicle. Like their...
[20:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:China Will Soon Have $360 Billion in Green Ener - 06Beijing Creates Environmental Police Force to Tackle Smog Problem - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:49] <exec> 08└─seek new shores to do their work
[20:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:ecopig hunting club - 06Beijing Creates Environmental Police Force to Tackle Smog Problem - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:57] <exec> 08└─When it comes to smog inefficient combustion does have an out-sized impact. Even before environmental concerns it's in the best interests of e.g. power plants to burn efficiently because that means they need to use less fuel.
[20:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02I must not read the right books - 06German Green Party MP Considers Subsidized Sex for the Disabled - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:19] <exec> 08└─They would have to prove a medical need
[20:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03anotherblackhat [4722] (Score:1) 02Re:I must not read the right books - 06German Green Party MP Considers Subsidized Sex for the Disabled - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:21] <exec> 08└─I can conceive of a condition that could only be treated with hormones released by the opposite sex during sex. Ever thought "That politician/worker/boss really needs to get laid"? If so, I bet you didn't think masturbation would do.
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[20:10:23] <exec> 08└─My guess would be something lost in translation implying something like arms blown off in the military or industrial accident. That would be a pretty good excuse. I could see it being incredibly motivational for physical therapy. I hurt my back like a decade ago and had to do this and that, which wa...
[20:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03anotherblackhat [4722] (Score:1) 02Politics have been legal since 2015! - 06German Green Party MP Considers Subsidized Sex for the Disabled - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:25] <exec> 08└─Prostitution has been legal in Germany since 2002
[20:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Politics have been legal since 2015! - 06German Green Party MP Considers Subsidized Sex for the Disabled - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:27] <exec> 08└─with the prostitutes taking a "fuck you" attitude.
[20:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Don't forget - 06German Green Party MP Considers Subsidized Sex for the Disabled - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:30] <exec> 08└─80 years ago, Germans were getting ready to throw their disabled in the oven. Now the pendulum swings the other way.
[20:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02The Taxman Cometh - 06German Green Party MP Considers Subsidized Sex for the Disabled - 1292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:32] <exec> 08└─As I understand it when I read it (both the BBC and the Welt) is that what is suggested in some form of tax deductible. So you'll have to keep up with your prostitutes on your own for a year before you can deduct their services on your next tax form. I'm sure there might be a limit of how much and h...
[20:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02This why you got Trump - 06German Green Party MP Considers Subsidized Sex for the Disabled - 1067 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:34] <exec> 08└─And BrExit, you will be getting Ms. Le Pen, and I shudder to imagine what the backlash will deliver as a replacement for Mad Merkel. Germans can be pretty ruthlessly efficient when they set their mind to it and they look ready to do just that, only question is whether it happens in the coming electi...
[20:11:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03J_Darnley [5679] 02You gave the reason - 06"Finder for Airpods" Not Allowed in Apple's Walled Garden - 75 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:02] <exec> 08└─> A new pair of AirPods costs $159 and a single replacement costs just $69.
[20:11:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score:2) 02Re:You gave the reason - 06"Finder for Airpods" Not Allowed in Apple's Walled Garden - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:11:05] <exec> 08└─Ah, that makes sense.
[20:11:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03gmrath [4181] (Score:1) 02Re:If only... - 06"Finder for Airpods" Not Allowed in Apple's Walled Garden - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:11:11] <exec> 08└─. . . and keep them tethered to the iPhone or i-whatever What an idea!
[20:11:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Solution - 06"Finder for Airpods" Not Allowed in Apple's Walled Garden - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:11:17] <exec> 08└─Don't port anything. Side load the fucker onto jailbroken iPhones and other iTarded devices. Otherwise, it's as if, just possibly, Apple owners don't actually enjoy ownership of Apple devices......
[20:11:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score:2) 02Re:title and closing comment - 06A Potentially Fatal Blow Against Patent Trolls - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:11:51] <exec> 08└─potentially fatal blow != won't finish off patent trolls
[20:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Missing matter? - 06"Nearby" Supermassive Black Holes Discovered - 1732 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:12:59] <exec> 08└─In short, no. Dark matter, in the amounts required, cannot be black holes, dim stars, clouds of gas, Jupiter-like objects, or similar ordinary matter. Matter of this sort in the quantities required to fit observations would be easily detectable. As such, it has to be matter that can only interact vi...
[20:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Black holes are not monsters - 06"Nearby" Supermassive Black Holes Discovered - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:05] <exec> 08└─You don't need a black hole to do anything to actively "try to kill you;" the mere absence of light coming from the sun would inevitably cause human extinction on Earth. "Monster" can also be a synonym for "gigantic."
[20:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Black holes are not monsters - 06"Nearby" Supermassive Black Holes Discovered - 920 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:07] <exec> 08└─Yes, a black hole is only special in the region near and beyond the event horizon. They are not the all-sucking cosmic vacuum cleaners most people imagine them to be. Far enough away from the event horizon Newtonian gravity suffices to explain the behaviour of an object orbiting it, and while your o...
[20:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Theory - 06Quantum Computing, Coming Soon for Real? - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:45] <exec> 08└─it may even be that a true quantum computer ends up being theoretically impossible." Heisenberg may yet have his day...
[20:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:terrible shit happens - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:15:19] <exec> 08└─Who will weep for you when you are gone?
[20:16:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Three main reasons - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:16:14] <exec> 08└─I am not laboring under that assumption. It's that I don't want to feed the false dichotomy and false narrative of Left vs. Right/Democrat vs. Republican anymore. It's tricky because many many billions of dollars have been spent to indoctrinate all of us with it so we spend all our time fighting eac...
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[21:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Enjoy being tracked, consumer! - 06Oakland May Become Rare American City With Strict Rules for Spy Gear Use - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:26] <exec> 08└─Last week I walked past an abandoned store that used to be a U Spy. With the demise of brick and mortar stores everywhere, I guess I won't be able to buy my spy gear in person with cash anymore.
[21:09:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02Re:China Will Soon Have $360 Billion in Green Ener - 06Beijing Creates Environmental Police Force to Tackle Smog Problem - 918 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:49] <exec> 08└─So here's the thing. The Chinese government knows the pollution is unsustainable and is making their most productive cities unlivable. But big piles of cheap, dirty energy were crucial to their core strategy of "catching up with the west". I wouldn't be surprised if, as Chinese citizens start demand...
[21:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: You can't copy people. - 06Beijing Creates Environmental Police Force to Tackle Smog Problem - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:58] <exec> 08└─You can import talented people. Offer lots of money and pussy/dick.
[21:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02The Power Is Yours - 06Beijing Creates Environmental Police Force to Tackle Smog Problem - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:05] <exec> 08└─The environmental police force are said to be organized into five units, each denoted by a unique ring they wear. These police, or "Planeteers" as they have come to be called, are tasked with helping defend the planet from environmental disasters and making an effort to educate mankind so-as to prev...
[21:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Re:Meanwhile in America.. - 06German Green Party MP Considers Subsidized Sex for the Disabled - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:16] <exec> 08└─It is probably more about choice - they don't want women empowered, and payment suggests power and choice. If there isn't force, or a power imbalance, there isn't the same titillation.
[21:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Exciting - 06German Green Party MP Considers Subsidized Sex for the Disabled - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:26] <exec> 08└─if the government was paying for other people to have sex.
[21:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score:1) 02Re:I must not read the right books - 06German Green Party MP Considers Subsidized Sex for the Disabled - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:34] <exec> 08└─There should be a (-1, Completely Disconnected from Reality) mod...
[21:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:The Taxman Cometh - 06German Green Party MP Considers Subsidized Sex for the Disabled - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:40] <exec> 08└─Then I suspect they'll be handing these out like they hand out those medical marijuana cards.
[21:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score:2) 02Re:This why you got Trump - 06German Green Party MP Considers Subsidized Sex for the Disabled - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:43] <exec> 08└─The sun's not burning out anytime soon: there's no resource shortage. And only a crank uses r/K selection to analyze human politics.
[21:11:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You gave the reason - 06"Finder for Airpods" Not Allowed in Apple's Walled Garden - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:11:18] <exec> 08└─Maybe it could be modded funny, but the correct info was given just above... charger station for the pods.
[21:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:terrible shit happens - 06Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns? - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:15:29] <exec> 08└─Who cares? This isn't my first time in the body, though I'm hoping it'll be the last. Throw all that away; the ego is temporary and transient.
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[22:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Ah the mouse model - 06Long-Term Stress Erodes Memory - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:13] <exec> 08└─I'll be the first to admit that we'd be fucked in terms of scientific advancement without the humble house mouse serving as our proxy for research. But at the same time, every time a see a psychological study focused on mouse-model behavior make the general news, I have this cringing reaction where...
[22:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I Want to Forget - 06Long-Term Stress Erodes Memory - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:15] <exec> 08└─I want to forget the past 16 years of American history but the trouble is the Department of Homeland Security still exists. When might I expect POETUS Trump to eliminate everything Bushbama did. Also fuck all of you to flaming hell for voting for 16 years of Bushbama. You'll all shit.
[22:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Uber - 06Google Waymo Vehicles to Hit the Road This Month - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:37] <exec> 08└─Remember when Uber left california because they didn't want to pay for a $150 autonomous vehicle testing license? [bgr.com] Its the terms of that license which requires Google to publicly report these disengagement numbers. Google is now at a horrible competitive disadvantage to Uber because of this...
[22:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02You can't import an entire community. - 06Beijing Creates Environmental Police Force to Tackle Smog Problem - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:55] <exec> 08└─You can't import an entire community. Not everyone is a friendless hermit living in their mom's basement with no culture to be shocked out of.
[22:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score:2) 02Re:ecopig hunting club - 06Beijing Creates Environmental Police Force to Tackle Smog Problem - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:01] <exec> 08└─When it comes to smog inefficient combustion does have an out-sized impact.
[22:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Meanwhile in America.. - 06German Green Party MP Considers Subsidized Sex for the Disabled - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:14] <exec> 08└─Couldn't they overcome that by trying to look at it as a "jobs creation" program?
[22:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Meanwhile in America.. - 06German Green Party MP Considers Subsidized Sex for the Disabled - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:16] <exec> 08└─Be glad we don't have this in America. The government paying for sex workers is just one more way for the government to be sure everyone gets f**ked.
[22:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Filing Insurance Claims... - 06German Green Party MP Considers Subsidized Sex for the Disabled - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:28] <exec> 08└─Will the sex worker file insurance claims? If yes, then the 'patient' receiving services only pays the co-pay and therefore doesn't care if the sex worker is the lowest bidder.
[22:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:I must not read the right books - 06German Green Party MP Considers Subsidized Sex for the Disabled - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:35] <exec> 08└─Is there any conceivable (hmm, punny) medical problem for which the only treatment is sex? I have a hard time imagining such a thing that couldn't just be solved by jerking off even if you did find one.
[22:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:This why you got Trump - 06German Green Party MP Considers Subsidized Sex for the Disabled - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:44] <exec> 08└─Stoners don't have any more rights than anyone else. Including a right to their medication. 10. The medication is needed because they are unable to work. 20. They are unable to work because they are stoned. 30. They are stoned because they took their medication. 40. GOTO 10 I would expect that compa...
[22:11:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score:2) 02Pairing Replacements?! - 06"Finder for Airpods" Not Allowed in Apple's Walled Garden - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:40] <exec> 08└─So assume, one got lost. And (maybe thanks to the unavailability of the finder app) stays so. The owner of the remaining one decides to shell out $69 (we read the price above) for a replacement. How does that get paired? Do you have to plan in a week of spiritual and bodily purification (and pilgrim...
[22:12:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Who cares - 06FBI Arrests Volkswagen Executive for Role in Emissions Conspiracy - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:12:55] <exec> 08└─You're the AC that's been trolling the green site with "Who Cares" threads, aren't you? People started ignoring you there already?
[22:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Don't Give them Excuses - 06FBI Arrests Volkswagen Executive for Role in Emissions Conspiracy - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:12:59] <exec> 08└─Your attitude guarantees that the current system of "too big to jail" is perpetuated. Instead of bitching that other criminals got away in the past, you should be cheering this on and expressing support for more prosecutions of corporate criminals. This guy seems like a patsy though. He was arrested...
[22:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Anyone give me odds? - 06How the University of California Exploited a Visa Loophole to Move Tech Jobs to India - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:53] <exec> 08└─My guess is when he lowers the visa limit and starts investigating these shenanigans he gets labeled a racist, again.
[22:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Re:Outsourcing - 06How the University of California Exploited a Visa Loophole to Move Tech Jobs to India - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:07] <exec> 08└─Instead they end up spending their time maintaining WinXP (not kidding).
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[23:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score:2) 02wasn't me... - 06Razer Prototypes Stolen at CES - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:08] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't do such a thing.... but out of curiosity... anyone know where I can download the linux drivers for that laptop?
[23:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ah the mouse model - 06Long-Term Stress Erodes Memory - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:18] <exec> 08└─Psychiatry kicks it up a notch and just uses any observed behavior as evidence to support a diagnosis that requires medication with whatever drug big pharma is pushing this month.
[23:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Ah the mouse model - 06Long-Term Stress Erodes Memory - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:20] <exec> 08└─I see, you never get to step 6, because at step 4 you always go back to step 1. ;-)
[23:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Ah the mouse model - 06Long-Term Stress Erodes Memory - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:22] <exec> 08└─And here we have the post-modernist "modernist". By assuming nefarious intent by an entire field of study that applies to scientific method, they can safely distance themselves from any sort of structured, objective evidence. When you have an objection to a methodology used, object to that methodolo...
[23:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I Want to Forget - 06Long-Term Stress Erodes Memory - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:26] <exec> 08└─So ... at the level beyond human, do we evolve past the need for shitting?
[23:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I Want to Forget - 06Long-Term Stress Erodes Memory - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:28] <exec> 08└─Since you've gone to this alternate universe, how did the Gore admin react to 9-11? My guess is nearly the same troop commitment but a completely different tone and mission -- using the military as a police force to catch nasty bad guys. No declaring of "war on terror" -- war is between countries.
[23:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I Want to Forget - 06Long-Term Stress Erodes Memory - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:30] <exec> 08└─In the alternate universe, 9/11 never happened because George W Bush and Osama bin Laden are the same man. Without presidential power to pull off a false flag operation or start a war against his alter ego, his secret identity was discovered and he became a laughingstock. "Guess Who Batman" was stil...
[23:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I Want to Forget - 06Long-Term Stress Erodes Memory - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:33] <exec> 08└─You shouldn't have a hard time forgetting, given that by the time you hit Reply you forgot what the article was about.
[23:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I Want to Forget - 06Long-Term Stress Erodes Memory - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:35] <exec> 08└─The chronic stress associated with being labelled a terrorist has not yet eroded the memory of my undying hatred. FUCK AMERICA!
[23:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I Want to Forget - 06Long-Term Stress Erodes Memory - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:37] <exec> 08└─OK lining up the giant dildo to penistrate the statute of liberty.
[23:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:I Want to Forget - 06Long-Term Stress Erodes Memory - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:39] <exec> 08└─I want to forget the past 16 years of American history but the trouble is the Department of Homeland Security still exists.
[23:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02I Was Going To Submit This Story ... - 06Long-Term Stress Erodes Memory - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:42] <exec> 08└─Posted in Mind & Brain on May 20, 2016
[23:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I Was Going To Submit This Story ... - 06Long-Term Stress Erodes Memory - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:44] <exec> 08└─Too much stress worrying about the election, had to make sure Hillary won.
[23:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I Was Going To Submit This Story ... - 06Long-Term Stress Erodes Memory - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:47] <exec> 08└─Arthur T Knackerbracket is a dumbbot.
[23:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score:2) 02Hmmm - 06Long-Term Stress Erodes Memory - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:49] <exec> 08└─Ok, my short term memory is shot. Is it due to the effects of ECT or the tremendous amount of high level stress I've been subjected to over the past 2+ years? I can say this: My short term memory was shot prior to the long term stress. I can also say this, it's gotten worse. So, perhaps, a number of...
[23:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02BULLSHIT!!! - 06Long-Term Stress Erodes Memory - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:51] <exec> 08└─Long term str... WTF you talking about?! Like I was saying ... who took my onion belt?!
[23:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Passive voice - 06Google Waymo Vehicles to Hit the Road This Month - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:12] <exec> 08└─OMG! That just made me remember some road at New Zealand. One line in each direction, nice road for a while, went narrower to a single line... and just when i was thinking how crazy that was... the road got on top of the railway tracks to use the railroad bridge to cross some river. waymo scary! ......
[23:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:You can't import an entire community. - 06Beijing Creates Environmental Police Force to Tackle Smog Problem - 2003 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:33] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but when whole communities are unable to eat, clothe themselves, or find any medical care? There isn't jack shit in the U.S anymore, and there is zero hope of escaping brutal, brutal exploitation at the hands of the few growing ever richer. America is *ONLY* for the Owning Class and well payin...
[23:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You can't import an entire community. - 06Beijing Creates Environmental Police Force to Tackle Smog Problem - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:34] <exec> 08└─I have meetings next week for several South American consulates to talk about asylum in their countries.
[23:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Re:The Power Is Yours - 06Beijing Creates Environmental Police Force to Tackle Smog Problem - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:43] <exec> 08└─Excellent! They could start by planting some trees [youtube.com].
[23:11:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03AssCork [6255] (Score:1) 02Re:Exciting - 06German Green Party MP Considers Subsidized Sex for the Disabled - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:11:05] <exec> 08└─Texas here, so let me just say "AH HA HA HA HA HA!!" Life sentences, pfft - pansies.
[23:11:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03AssCork [6255] (Score:1) 02Re:I must not read the right books - 06German Green Party MP Considers Subsidized Sex for the Disabled - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:11:15] <exec> 08└─> slow clap < You, sir. Deserve more drugs. Never before have I seen someone riding the snake quite this hard on a Tuesday before.
[23:11:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:You gave the reason - 06"Finder for Airpods" Not Allowed in Apple's Walled Garden - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:12:00] <exec> 08└─Let me guess, you must not be an Apple user to ask a question like that.
[23:12:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02walls - 06"Finder for Airpods" Not Allowed in Apple's Walled Garden - 138 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:04] <exec> 08└─The higher the walls get, the happier I am that I'm outside them. Also WRT to phrasing, those aren't garden walls, those are prison walls.
[23:12:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02Re:Monopoly? - 06"Finder for Airpods" Not Allowed in Apple's Walled Garden - 723 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:12:20] <exec> 08└─Apple already explained why they pulled it: it isn't "appropriate for the app store". That's a good enough explanation, and all any Apple customer needs to know. The bottom line is that no one really needs this app. If you lose your AirPod, it's very simple: go buy another one for a mere $69. If you...
[23:12:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Meh - 06A Potentially Fatal Blow Against Patent Trolls - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:12:45] <exec> 08└─No such think as Federal Circuit court...you probably mean Federal Appeals Court.... Accuracy counts.
[23:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03J053 [3532] (Score:2) 02Re:Dept - 06Fossilized Tomatillos Discovered - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:12:59] <exec> 08└─Those are known as 'poha' in Hawaii. They make an excellent jam/preserve.
[23:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02every journey begins with a single step - 06FBI Arrests Volkswagen Executive for Role in Emissions Conspiracy - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:31] <exec> 08└─From what I have seen, the typical Corporate response is to hang this on some engineer
[23:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Dish that Dirt - 06FBI Arrests Volkswagen Executive for Role in Emissions Conspiracy - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:36] <exec> 08└─> unless he's got dirt on upper management, The arrest may be strategic. He can plea-bargain a reduced sentence in exchange for dishing that dirt.
[23:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Who cares - 06FBI Arrests Volkswagen Executive for Role in Emissions Conspiracy - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:39] <exec> 08└─They arrested a foreigner and will probably use him as a hostage to obtain a more favorable settlement. This schmuck may not have been important enough for VW to keep him far away from the US until the situation has blown over, but any career minded person would think twice before taking a transfer...
[23:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Killed 60-180 people - 06FBI Arrests Volkswagen Executive for Role in Emissions Conspiracy - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:45] <exec> 08└─> it's questionable that really mattered. Just "asking questions," right? Well MIT asked those questions [mit.edu] and they found that the pollution from these vehicles will kill at least 60 people. And depending on how crappy a job VW does of getting these vehicles off the road, up to 180.
[23:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Google replace university IT staff. - 06How the University of California Exploited a Visa Loophole to Move Tech Jobs to India - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:51] <exec> 08└─Even if you've learned Six Sigma, you still don't know shit, but you at least have a POS certification that says you went through the marketing BS to get it.
[23:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Google replace university IT staff. - 06How the University of California Exploited a Visa Loophole to Move Tech Jobs to India - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:53] <exec> 08└─Even if you've learned Six Sigma, you still don't know shit, but you at least have a POS certification that says you went through the marketing BS to get it.
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