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[00:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Physics - 06World Economic Forum: Oxfam Inequality and Business and Sustainable Development Commission Reports - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:27] <exec> 08└─The post-war U.S. economy boomed after massive tax cuts and de-regulation in the late 1940s.
[00:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Physics - 06World Economic Forum: Oxfam Inequality and Business and Sustainable Development Commission Reports - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:29] <exec> 08└─Yeah, you're a liar. The highest marginal tax rate for individuals for U.S. federal income tax purposes for tax years 1952 and 1953 was 92%
[00:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Physics - 06World Economic Forum: Oxfam Inequality and Business and Sustainable Development Commission Reports - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:31] <exec> 08└─taxation over 70% in the upper brackets
[00:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Physics - 06World Economic Forum: Oxfam Inequality and Business and Sustainable Development Commission Reports - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:33] <exec> 08└─Capone didn't pay taxes either. Where's Ness when we need him most.
[00:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Physics - 06World Economic Forum: Oxfam Inequality and Business and Sustainable Development Commission Reports - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:35] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry, but 8 balancing against 3.5 billion is not a goddamn normal distribution. You might not like how it reflects on your ideology, but disparities have never been as large as they are today. And changing the rules of asset accumulation has been remarkably successful in the past. What's change...
[00:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Physics - 06World Economic Forum: Oxfam Inequality and Business and Sustainable Development Commission Reports - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:37] <exec> 08└─The problem is we're trying to run a world wide economy, and a couple people hogging all the dough means it doesn't work very well.
[00:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:under the covers - 06World Economic Forum: Oxfam Inequality and Business and Sustainable Development Commission Reports - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:41] <exec> 08└─That was sort of my point. They do not sit on a large sum of cash in the back room. The either invest it or keep it in a bank or buy things with it. At that point they do not really 'own' the cash but an IOU. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[00:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:1) 02Re:under the covers - 06World Economic Forum: Oxfam Inequality and Business and Sustainable Development Commission Reports - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:44] <exec> 08└─> The[y] either invest it or keep it in a bank [...] And some invest in banks.
[00:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03GlennC [3656] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:It's not in a shoebox under the bed - 06World Economic Forum: Oxfam Inequality and Business and Sustainable Development Commission Reports - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:47] <exec> 08└─The problem is that the "paper-pushing bureaucrat in government" along with their department heads and our "elected officials" are actually working on behalf of the billionaire.
[00:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's not in a shoebox under the bed - 06World Economic Forum: Oxfam Inequality and Business and Sustainable Development Commission Reports - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:49] <exec> 08└─Then, as always, the problem is not the billionaire; the problem is government.
[00:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02"losing out socially" - 06World Economic Forum: Oxfam Inequality and Business and Sustainable Development Commission Reports - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:51] <exec> 08└─Get those 3.6 billion people to join Facebook and rocket Zuck to the top of the heap.
[00:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Really? - 06OpenAI 'Universe' Platform Provides Means to Link Image Recognition Vehicular AI Agents Into GTA 5 - 3584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:03] <exec> 08└─Is it just me that's not particularly impressed? It drives in massive jerks, mis-detects the edges and strays left all the time. It takes no evasive action for the car that overtakes it in the second video. It can't keep up with heuristically-programmed traffic at all, it drives over a crossing with...
[00:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Re:Really? - 06OpenAI 'Universe' Platform Provides Means to Link Image Recognition Vehicular AI Agents Into GTA 5 - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:10:05] <exec> 08└─Not dissimilar to: http://rednuht.org [rednuht.org] but that's not it.
[00:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Wait - 06OpenAI 'Universe' Platform Provides Means to Link Image Recognition Vehicular AI Agents Into GTA 5 - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:07] <exec> 08└─AI is totally playing GTA wrong...
[00:11:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:1) 02Re:Symbolic of Obama's Entire Presidency - 06Oman Receives Ten Detainees Released From Guantanamo - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:11:12] <exec> 08└─Bullshit. Name examples, don't just hand-wave like a pusillanimous partisan.
[00:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Symbolic of Obama's Entire Presidency - 06Oman Receives Ten Detainees Released From Guantanamo - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:11:13] <exec> 08└─You're an idiot. Those detainees should never have been there in the first place. The main reason why they're still there is that it's illegal for the President to bring them to the US. There's literally a completely empty federal penitentiary that could have housed them. As for commuting Chelsea Ma...
[00:12:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02Re:Please try again when the system will in fact w - 06Balancing Miners Borks Blockchains, Say Boffins - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:12:02] <exec> 08└─Thanks nice explanation even though I don't get some of the details yet. However your point about conditioning the user with eventual consistency is a key one, even outside the context of blockchains. The finance sector, and likely a lot of others, have been brainwashed with the absolute need for at...
[00:12:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh Come On - 06Balancing Miners Borks Blockchains, Say Boffins - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:12:06] <exec> 08└─Actually that happened last year. Not so much they aren't trustworthy in principle, but they got hacked. The whole debacle about the SWIFT network last year pretty much shows this. The weakest link in the payment network was haxored and the attackers used them to generate transactions.
[00:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Benefits of leaving - 06PM Theresa May: UK Must Leave the EU Single Market - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:48] <exec> 08└─> [...] England will join Trumpistan. Scotland, it appears, is welcome to join: Just arrived in Scotland. Place is going wild over the vote. They took their country back, just like we will take America back. No games!
[00:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Liechtenstein, Iceland, Norway, Switzerland in EU? - 06PM Theresa May: UK Must Leave the EU Single Market - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:04] <exec> 08└─Ms. May says "[...] membership of the single market [...] would, to all intents and purposes, mean not leaving the EU at all." By that logic, Liechtenstein, Iceland, Norway, and Switzerland are EU members. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Could this be sour grapes...
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[01:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Big Deal - 06Google Reveals its Servers All Contain Custom Security Silicon - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:13] <exec> 08└─So do mine - I mastic the mother boards to their recycled enclosures. Byte me!
[01:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02one-up paranoid - 06Google Reveals its Servers All Contain Custom Security Silicon - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:15] <exec> 08└─Well, where is that Si manufactured anyway? My former .mil customers were always very antsy about that, since at least one FPGA manufacturer found out that someone had fiddled with their parts at a foreign factory over a decade ago. Granted, it's a lot harder to fiddle with 16nm masks then it was ye...
[01:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Physics - 06World Economic Forum: Oxfam Inequality and Business and Sustainable Development Commission Reports - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:09:31] <exec> 08└─Nono, he is just waiting for his chance to become a One Percenter. He knows exactly what's up and is just hoping to be on top of his own pyramid someday.... I've got only one thing to say to that: DOUCHEBAG!
[01:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Physics - 06World Economic Forum: Oxfam Inequality and Business and Sustainable Development Commission Reports - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:09:33] <exec> 08└─They pour the money that they're stiffing the workers back into their investments which then result in more money being looted from the workers. It's not that complicated. People at the top do not work several thousand times harder than those at the bottom. Anybody who makes that assertion should me...
[01:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Bill Gates vs. Steve Jobs [Re:Physics] - 06World Economic Forum: Oxfam Inequality and Business and Sustainable Development Commission Reports - 924 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:09:35] <exec> 08└─Bill Gates is not really a tech genius, just a savvy business-person with well-to-do-parents at the right place at the right time. Many of the top services are big due to the Network Effect and being the early bird. If not Zuckerberg, then somebody else would have the top social networking site. Sor...
[01:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's not in a shoebox under the bed - 06World Economic Forum: Oxfam Inequality and Business and Sustainable Development Commission Reports - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:09:44] <exec> 08└─It's a moot point when the people writing the rules are on the billionaire's payroll and a good many people vote for politicians promising to deregulate and lower taxes for the wealthiest. At this point, it's more or less impossible to bribe a politician as you'd have to literally give them a sack o...
[01:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's not in a shoebox under the bed - 06World Economic Forum: Oxfam Inequality and Business and Sustainable Development Commission Reports - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:09:47] <exec> 08└─So, with government you have 2 choices: Either a monopoly on violence controlled by a know-nothing paper-pushing bureaucrat, or a monopoly on violence maneuvered by a know-nothing paper-pushing bureaucrat on behalf of a billionaire; sounds like government is a bad idea.
[01:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's not in a shoebox under the bed - 06World Economic Forum: Oxfam Inequality and Business and Sustainable Development Commission Reports - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:09:49] <exec> 08└─And without government you have an effective monopoly on violence by the billionaires. Assuming you are the OP at the top of the thread you must understand that the vast organization that defers to the billionaire would appropriate so much ability to do violence that your personal ability wouldn't j...
[01:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's not in a shoebox under the bed - 06World Economic Forum: Oxfam Inequality and Business and Sustainable Development Commission Reports - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:09:51] <exec> 08└─Good. 8 competing, secular billionaires, rather than 1 quasi-religious Uncle Sam. Besides, if a billionaire decided to use violence to expand his organization, then that organization would be... a government—get it yet?
[01:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The CEO of Oxfam is Chill - 06World Economic Forum: Oxfam Inequality and Business and Sustainable Development Commission Reports - 1257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:54] <exec> 08└─You know that show “Undercover Boss?” It's a remake of a UK show with the same name. The American show is a disgusting worship of power - the boss always doles out trivial rewards to sad-sack employees and then says empty bullshit that plays well with people who desire a return to monarchy. But...
[01:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Sigh. - 06Oman Receives Ten Detainees Released From Guantanamo - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:53] <exec> 08└─But it does apply to un-informed Buzzards, and therein lies the rub! Just because you are ignorant of international law, that does not mean that international law is not interested in you, to paraphrase Trotsky.
[01:10:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Sigh. - 06Oman Receives Ten Detainees Released From Guantanamo - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:55] <exec> 08└─I apparently know far more about the GC than you do, ar. In boot camp you're specifically told not to ditch your uniform to avoid capture because they can do whatever the hell they want with you if you do.
[01:10:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sigh. - 06Oman Receives Ten Detainees Released From Guantanamo - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:57] <exec> 08└─In which case they are civilians and have even more rights than POWs. The attempt to make them neither POWs nor civilians is obvious bullshit. The only people willing to give validity to this wholly made up third status are those don't care for the rule of law.
[01:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Sigh. - 06Oman Receives Ten Detainees Released From Guantanamo - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:59] <exec> 08└─Spies and guerrilla fighters were intentionally excluded from the GC. Nobody thought they should have the protections of uniformed combatants or non-combatant civilians. Mostly they thought they should just be shot. You are simply wrong. Move along.
[01:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Re:Sigh. - 06Oman Receives Ten Detainees Released From Guantanamo - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:11:01] <exec> 08└─"None of the above applies to non-uniformed combatants. Which is what I said." "Non-unformed combatants" are a made up thing; they are simply ordinary civilians. Some were just engaged in self defense at the time of their capture -- in the USA they might call it 'stand your ground' -- still civilian...
[01:11:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Sigh. - 06Oman Receives Ten Detainees Released From Guantanamo - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:11:03] <exec> 08└─No, it's a category that was intentionally excluded from protections in the GC. It covers spies and guerrilla fighters and nobody thought they deserved protections. I don't have issue with you saying there were probably people hauled off that shouldn't have been. I have issue with anyone who says co...
[01:11:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Stop Being an Enabler - 06Oman Receives Ten Detainees Released From Guantanamo - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:11:15] <exec> 08└─Oh I know you are. It comes with the territory of being impervious to logic and facts. Calling you out for the mental defective that you are has nothing to do with changing your mind. No one's mind has ever been changed by being called an idiot. Its about making your idiocy crystal clear to anyone e...
[01:11:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Symbolic of Obama's Entire Presidency - 06Oman Receives Ten Detainees Released From Guantanamo - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:11:21] <exec> 08└─Ten rules of almost anything: 1. Politicians always lie. 2. Politicians always double down. 3. Politicians always project.
[01:11:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02strung out on partisanship - 06Oman Receives Ten Detainees Released From Guantanamo - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:11:31] <exec> 08└─In what way is following up on the very first executive order that he signed on entering office eight years ago being obstructionist to Trump? Commuting Manning's sentence doesn't obstruct anything the republicans would do. You need to take a good hard look at yourself and ask what could possibly po...
[01:11:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Surf Venus - 06Giant Wave Observed in Venusian Atmosphere - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:11:51] <exec> 08└─Is it bad I heard this in my head in the very distinct voices of the ninja turtles?
[01:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:how it will end up - 06PM Theresa May: UK Must Leave the EU Single Market - 864 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:16] <exec> 08└─Here's some more fun factoids: Don't provide links if you don't want people to read them. From your own NATO link section on Indirect Funding where you are trying to school me in a very patronizing manner: Today, the volume of the US defence expenditure effectively represents 73 per cent of the defe...
[01:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:how it will end up - 06PM Theresa May: UK Must Leave the EU Single Market - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:17] <exec> 08└─Crap, sorry, forgot to add a condescending tag at the end to tell people how stupid you are: Facts [your own NATO links], yes, indeed, the internet is great for that.
[01:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03SuperCharlie [2939] (Score:2) 02Re:Percentages - 06Moody's to Pay $864M for its Role in Subprime Mortgage Crisis - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:15:11] <exec> 08└─I actually had that thought after posting and yes, the percentage for each year that the crime was committed.
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[02:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score:2) 02Re:one-up paranoid - 06Google Reveals its Servers All Contain Custom Security Silicon - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:09:22] <exec> 08└─Considering they're likely doing this in response to the NSA [businesscloudnews.com], foreign entities might actually be welcome.
[02:09:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02Re:Physics - 06World Economic Forum: Oxfam Inequality and Business and Sustainable Development Commission Reports - 501 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:09:37] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry, but 8 balancing against 3.5 billion is not a goddamn normal distribution. You might not like how it reflects on your ideology, but disparities have never been as large as they are today. And changing the rules of asset accumulation has been remarkably successful in the past. What's change...
[02:09:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GlennC [3656] 02Re:It's not in a shoebox under the bed - 06World Economic Forum: Oxfam Inequality and Business and Sustainable Development Commission Reports - 177 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:09:47] <exec> 08└─The problem is that the "paper-pushing bureaucrat in government" along with their department heads and our "elected officials" are actually working on behalf of the billionaire.
[02:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score:1) 02Re:The CEO of Oxfam is Chill - 06World Economic Forum: Oxfam Inequality and Business and Sustainable Development Commission Reports - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:09:55] <exec> 08└─It probably still cost £250.000+ because even the burbs of london ain't cheap
[02:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02fight - 06New Linux WiFi Daemon Streamlines Networking Stack - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:36] <exec> 08└─this will be deprecated by systemd.
[02:11:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:1) 02Re:strung out on partisanship - 06Oman Receives Ten Detainees Released From Guantanamo - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:11:28] <exec> 08└─https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Poe%27s+Law [urbandictionary.com]
[02:11:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Symbolic of Obama's Entire Presidency - 06Oman Receives Ten Detainees Released From Guantanamo - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:11:29] <exec> 08└─> ten detainees released from Guantanamo You're right, it's very misleading. "Ten innocent people finally freed from arbitrary decade-long imprisonment, while at least 9 more innocents still face excessive release delays" would be better. The version addressing the other 36 extrajudicial/tortured/re...
[02:11:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Symbolic of Obama's Entire Presidency - 06Oman Receives Ten Detainees Released From Guantanamo - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:11:36] <exec> 08└─If you think they didn't get involved in Syria, you haven't been paying attention.
[02:11:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Symbolic of Obama's Entire Presidency - 06Oman Receives Ten Detainees Released From Guantanamo - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:11:46] <exec> 08└─" Some people will live because of Obamacare. That is the bottom line." And some will die because of the big O. That is the bottmer line. See how I did that? Easy. Race to the bottom. Fun!
[02:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:Republicans? - 06Neonicotinoid Can Cause Brain Damage in Bats; Bumblebee Species Added to Endangered List - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:15:31] <exec> 08└─Was shooting for troll, but I guess offtopic works.
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[03:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score:2) 02Phew. - 06Google Reveals its Servers All Contain Custom Security Silicon - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:21] <exec> 08└─For convenience I use "password" as my password, but with Google's sophisticated security I know my account is safe.
[03:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Physics - 06World Economic Forum: Oxfam Inequality and Business and Sustainable Development Commission Reports - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:09:38] <exec> 08└─Meh. You seem to be assuming 0 is the lower bound. How many of those 50% have negative net worth?
[03:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score:1) 02Re:Physics - 06World Economic Forum: Oxfam Inequality and Business and Sustainable Development Commission Reports - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:09:39] <exec> 08└─It's mentioned in both the Oxfam report and the NextBigFuture article. Since you can't be bothered to read either one, I'll tell you: it's around 10% of the world population. It takes the next ~20% which have positive net worth to balance out that lowest 10%.
[03:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score:2) 02Re:So if I'm reading this right - 06New Linux WiFi Daemon Streamlines Networking Stack - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:10:28] <exec> 08└─Millenials have no monopoly on that idiocy. It happens everywhere programmers are paid in stock options, or fired for not making visible changes.
[03:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02neocons - 06Oman Receives Ten Detainees Released From Guantanamo - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:10:52] <exec> 08└─Gitmo isn't the real stain. The neocons who dreamed Gitmo up are the real shit stains.
[03:11:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Sigh. - 06Oman Receives Ten Detainees Released From Guantanamo - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:11:08] <exec> 08└─non-uniformed combatants = spies Traditionally spies were subject to torture, then execution. And, execution would have been more humane than what we've done with all these people. One example of a non-uniformed combatant is the guy who chauffered bin Laden around. Some fucking schmuck who obeys ord...
[03:11:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Symbolic of Obama's Entire Presidency - 06Oman Receives Ten Detainees Released From Guantanamo - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:11:24] <exec> 08└─That's Aristarchus. Don't bother reading the comment, but mine out some words out of context to try and make it say whatever you like, then cry like a little baby about being modded down for the obvious crap posting.
[03:11:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Symbolic of Obama's Entire Presidency - 06Oman Receives Ten Detainees Released From Guantanamo - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:11:50] <exec> 08└─Don't get dizzy from your verbal tricks. More people have access to healthcare due to the ACA. That is going to translate to lives saved. Or maybe you think life is a zero-sum game.
[03:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03hellcat [2832] (Score:2) 02What about article 50? - 06PM Theresa May: UK Must Leave the EU Single Market - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:31] <exec> 08└─There's a clause in the contract between the EU members that states it's the parliment that has to start the exit process, not a popular vote. And the process follows a fairly specific format. Also, the other "states" contained in the UK don't want to exit with Britain. They presumably have a say. I...
[03:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03hellcat [2832] (Score:2) 02Re:What Proportion Here were Alive at the Time? - 06Gene Cernan, Last Astronaut to Walk on the Moon, Dies at 82 - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:13:49] <exec> 08└─I was here - an ancient 12 year old at the time. A previous comment was made about how quickly people went "meh" towards the moon. It's a good indication of how curious and appreciative our 1970s society was towards leading edge technology, and the infinite promise of the future. My feeling is that...
[03:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Government passing the buck - 06Moody's to Pay $864M for its Role in Subprime Mortgage Crisis - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:15:17] <exec> 08└─But for some reason, budget hawks like Paul Ryan are always focused on relatively small line items like the $28 billion given to the Department of Energy to do silly little things like securing our nuclear facilities and doing physics research.
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[04:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's not in a shoebox under the bed - 06World Economic Forum: Oxfam Inequality and Business and Sustainable Development Commission Reports - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:09:55] <exec> 08└─Besides, if a billionaire decided to use violence to expand his organization, then that organization would be... a government—get it yet?
[04:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score:1) 02Re:Really? - 06OpenAI 'Universe' Platform Provides Means to Link Image Recognition Vehicular AI Agents Into GTA 5 - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:10:11] <exec> 08└─An algorithm to play QWOP [foddy.net]?
[04:11:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Sigh. - 06Oman Receives Ten Detainees Released From Guantanamo - 775 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:11:02] <exec> 08└─(specifically, the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan) I've not made my mind up on that one. That could have just been the "fog of war". I think, more likely, the Afghans set that one up, intentionally. It's possible that our people knew what they were shooting at. But, whether...
[04:11:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Sigh. - 06Oman Receives Ten Detainees Released From Guantanamo - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:11:04] <exec> 08└─I've not made my mind up on that one. That could have just been the "fog of war". I think, more likely, the Afghans set that one up, intentionally. It's possible that our people knew what they were shooting at. But, whether they knew or not, they should have known. GPS, satellite mapping, blah, blah...
[04:11:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Sigh. - 06Oman Receives Ten Detainees Released From Guantanamo - 1570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:11:09] <exec> 08└─GC? There are the Protocols Additional of 1977 [icrc.org]! Do try to keep up, Maginot Buzzington! The point is, oh, hell, this will take much too long. Stay in uniform, because if you are not when captured, you are a spy. Then they can execute you, because you are a lying perfidious coward. If you a...
[04:11:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sigh. - 06Oman Receives Ten Detainees Released From Guantanamo - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:11:13] <exec> 08└─> Spies and guerrilla fighters were intentionally excluded from the GC. Maybe so, but you've offered no proof that it was intentional. > Nobody thought they should have the protections of uniformed combatants or non-combatant civilians. And that's a full-load of bullshit. Nowhere does the GC or anyt...
[04:11:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sigh. - 06Oman Receives Ten Detainees Released From Guantanamo - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:11:17] <exec> 08└─Persons protected by the Convention are those who at a given moment and in any manner whatsoever, find themselves, in case of a conflict or occupation, in the hands of a Party to the conflict or Occupying Power of which they are not nationals.
[04:11:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Stop Being an Enabler - 06Oman Receives Ten Detainees Released From Guantanamo - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:11:29] <exec> 08└─No one's mind has ever been changed by being called an idiot. Its about making your idiocy crystal clear to anyone else who might possibly think your inane political theories are even remotely realistic.
[04:11:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03PocketSizeSUn [5340] (Score:2) 02Re:You Don't Know Jackshit about Obamacare - 06Oman Receives Ten Detainees Released From Guantanamo - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:11:50] <exec> 08└─And yet my insurance went from $80/mo to $500/mo and I have no pre-existing conditions and haven't needed to see a doctor in 20 years. Go Obama care, just fning go away please.
[04:11:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02urned the entire ocean into a superfund site - 06Oman Receives Ten Detainees Released From Guantanamo - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:11:55] <exec> 08└─> If you think they didn't get involved in Syria, you haven't been paying attention. If that counts as getting involved, then I turned the entire ocean into a superfund site the last time I took a piss while diving.
[04:11:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Symbolic of Obama's Entire Presidency - 06Oman Receives Ten Detainees Released From Guantanamo - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:11:57] <exec> 08└─" Funny, maybe the middle-east was getting worse all on its own?" We'll never know, will we? Had we not invaded Iraq to start with, maybe the mideast would have gotten worse. But, there's no real reason to think that it would have.
[04:13:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02Re:Fleeting attention spans - 06Gene Cernan, Last Astronaut to Walk on the Moon, Dies at 82 - 1095 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:13:58] <exec> 08└─Individuals might care if they live on Mars. People might not have to care at all if space travel costs decline. That means we need reusable rockets, hybrid spaceplanes (SABRE/SKYLON), or new types of propulsion (fusion rockets, EmDrive) at a minimum. Things are not so bad. Ion engines have allowed...
[04:14:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Ellis D. Tripp [3416] 02Now half of the moonwalkers are gone.... - 06Gene Cernan, Last Astronaut to Walk on the Moon, Dies at 82 - 240 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:00] <exec> 08└─Still Alive: Buzz Aldrin (Apollo 11) Alan Bean (12) Dave Scott (15) John Young (16) Charlie Duke (16) Harrison Schmitt (17) Deceased: Neil Armstrong (11) Pete Conrad (12) Alan Shepard (14) Edgar Mitchell (14) Jim Irwin (15) Gene Cernan (17)
[04:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:helloo worldview - 06Cellebrite Appears to Have Been Hacked - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:14:37] <exec> 08└─The quote you refer to is from the Holy Bible: Revelation 18:3 What is this fornication? Personally, I believe it to be the Fractional Reserve Banking system, which I see as a pit of vipers enslaving many for the benefit of a very few.
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[05:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02cool! - 06Nintendo Switch Available on March 3rd for $299 - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:15] <exec> 08└─Hey this thing sounds kinda cool. "The system will be released on March 3, 2017 for $299" oh not so much anymore. Guess i will wait for the price drop as usual.
[05:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:under the covers - 06World Economic Forum: Oxfam Inequality and Business and Sustainable Development Commission Reports - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:10:03] <exec> 08└─Yeah sorry about that my keyboard keeps skipping chars. The 'h' and 'y' are pretty bad for it. I try to re-read and get them but sometimes miss. Sorr.
[05:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's not in a shoebox under the bed - 06World Economic Forum: Oxfam Inequality and Business and Sustainable Development Commission Reports - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:10:13] <exec> 08└─Secular? You can hope... And what world do you live in where the trappings of power don't always enable people to use violence to achieve their means. Government is the group we choose to keep our community together, it is a natural extension of being human. Some can deny that structure, but such gr...
[05:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Really? - 06OpenAI 'Universe' Platform Provides Means to Link Image Recognition Vehicular AI Agents Into GTA 5 - 1234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:10:29] <exec> 08└─Their goal is not to program a vehicle to drive in GTA, but to develop general purpose algorithms that 'program themselves' colloquially speaking. The day this platform is capable of creating a compelling and viable driving AI based on 600,000 frames of driving is the day you could literally take vi...
[05:11:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sigh. - 06Oman Receives Ten Detainees Released From Guantanamo - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:11:35] <exec> 08└─Yes siree bob. And GWB and the little Dick and war criminals guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity. As well as violation of the rules of the Geneva Convention. Pretty much says that americans are assholes and assholes against humanity. Now que the orange haired freak.
[05:13:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:Please try again when the system will in fact w - 06Balancing Miners Borks Blockchains, Say Boffins - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:13:01] <exec> 08└─If you're interested in blockchains and you haven't read the Bitcoin Whitepaper (PDF link [bitcoin.org]) it's highly recommended and pretty short. It gives you a brief overview of what's going on without assuming that you already know any Bitcoin-specific terminology.
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[06:09:08] <exec> 08└─Hasn't he suffered enough?
[06:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02$-299 - 06Nintendo Switch Available on March 3rd for $299 - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:09:16] <exec> 08└─pay me to buy your shitch
[06:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Interesting ideas - 06Nintendo Switch Available on March 3rd for $299 - 776 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:18] <exec> 08└─So you want to have a full console experience. But you want to take it with you. Great! We can offer you all the limitations of a handheld, without the ruggedness of a 3DS! And with separable parts to lose! And less ergonomically friendly than controllers from the other two of the big three! I'm gla...
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[06:09:20] <exec> 08└─1. Make every game crowd hosted. 2. Can't host behind a NAT. 3. ... 4. Profit!
[06:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Physics - 06World Economic Forum: Oxfam Inequality and Business and Sustainable Development Commission Reports - 855 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:09:53] <exec> 08└─It didnt hurt that the rest of the world had its entire manufacturing base blown to little itty bitty bits. Around 1965-1970 that turned around. The US ended up in a massive recession. Taxes were not the reason the US had a boom in production. We were basically one of the few countries that still HA...
[06:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Physics - 06World Economic Forum: Oxfam Inequality and Business and Sustainable Development Commission Reports - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:09:57] <exec> 08└─conventional Not for the hibakusha, it wasn't. How does Friday look? Can we make it another day? There's a new reality TV series starting then that I must see.
[06:11:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:neocons - 06Oman Receives Ten Detainees Released From Guantanamo - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:11:18] <exec> 08└─That would be dead from the neck up GWB and Cheney the Dick. May I suggest finding both those sperm whores and waterboarding them for a change? Whadda say?
[06:11:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02Re:Sigh. - 06Oman Receives Ten Detainees Released From Guantanamo - 102 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:11:25] <exec> 08└─196 countries are party to it, but still the US won't sign up to protect basic human rights like that.
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[06:12:21] <exec> 08└─I haven't made my mind up yet about Trump. The organized attacks against him from the left and right alike are solid evidence that he is an 'outsider.' The notion of some great 'acceptable' leader is in my opinion a false goal. We deify people after they're dead if they achieved great things, but in...
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[06:13:28] <exec> 08└─We received our CM3 dev kit this morning, but I think it was ordered from RS rather than Element14. There were only 73 listed in stock globally yesterday though. And yeah, for many applications a couple of SATA ports and a better Ethernet would be nice. A Raspbian without systemd would also be nice....
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[07:09:15] <exec> 08└─Nope. His victim will make a tearful emotional appeal to a jury detailing how she grew up with a fetish for daddy-daughter porn and years of therapy haven't fixed her. He doesn't stand a chance.
[07:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02F-35 syndrome? - 06FBI Catches Suspect Using Facial Recognition - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:17] <exec> 08└─They spend gazillion dollars on facial recognition and finally get one match.
[07:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:cool! - 06Nintendo Switch Available on March 3rd for $299 - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:09:27] <exec> 08└─For that price, this switch had better have at least 5 Gbps Ethernet.
[07:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:one-up paranoid - 06Google Reveals its Servers All Contain Custom Security Silicon - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:09:50] <exec> 08└─Well, where is that Si manufactured anyway?
[07:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Physics - 06World Economic Forum: Oxfam Inequality and Business and Sustainable Development Commission Reports - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:10:05] <exec> 08└─That tax rate affected barely anyone; there was an overall reduction in taxes and regulation—look it up!
[07:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's not in a shoebox under the bed - 06World Economic Forum: Oxfam Inequality and Business and Sustainable Development Commission Reports - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:10:30] <exec> 08└─The key is to develop an organization under a culture that respects voluntary association (e.g., voluntary trade).
[07:11:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Re:Sigh. - 06Oman Receives Ten Detainees Released From Guantanamo - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:11:51] <exec> 08└─No, it's a category that was intentionally excluded from protections in the GC.
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[07:13:46] <exec> 08└─I'm sure someone would take a DIMM view of that approach ;)
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[08:09:14] <exec> 08└─In the land of the free and the home of the brave, the FBI maintains large databases of photos for facial recognition purposes, and a majority of those photos are from the identification cards and drivers licenses of innocent people. You can't even trust that the government won't suddenly decide to...
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[08:09:15] <exec> 08└─Didn't you get the memo? 9/11 happened. You don't have rights anymore. You're a terrorist until proven innocent. The list of the usual suspects is everyone.
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[08:09:17] <exec> 08└─Let me don my tinfoil hat for a minute.... I have noted for the last couple of decades, things have been getting worse for a lot of people, but the 1%'ers seem to be making out like a bandit. Something similar happened in France a couple of hundred years ago... and the proletariat got fed up and up...
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[08:09:20] <exec> 08└─Trump Trump Trump
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[08:09:22] <exec> 08└─I don't think I understand things well enough to make an informed comment about the FBI being able to look through a database of passport photos. However... "the ends justify the means" is kind of similar to "survival of the fittest". You may not like it, but I don't see a practical way of fighting...
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[08:10:19] <exec> 08└─disparities have never been as large as they are today.
[08:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:What Proportion Here were Alive at the Time? - 06Gene Cernan, Last Astronaut to Walk on the Moon, Dies at 82 - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:14:49] <exec> 08└─By extrapolation, I assumed we would Star Trek like technology by now.
[08:16:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Trending - 06Neonicotinoid Can Cause Brain Damage in Bats; Bumblebee Species Added to Endangered List - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:16:41] <exec> 08└─Yes, Trump is a huge dick!
[08:16:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What about humans? - 06Neonicotinoid Can Cause Brain Damage in Bats; Bumblebee Species Added to Endangered List - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:16:47] <exec> 08└─Apart from flying foxes, bats are the only mammals that fly.
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[09:09:43] <exec> 08└─Nintendo has a history of providing way too few units to meet demand on release day. It has happened so many times that I think it is deliberate, to create the impression that there is an overwhelming interest in their new product.
[09:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Physics - 06World Economic Forum: Oxfam Inequality and Business and Sustainable Development Commission Reports - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:10:32] <exec> 08└─They pour the money that they're stiffing the workers back into their investments which then result in more money being looted from the workers.
[09:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02all they need is byzantine fault tolerance - 06Balancing Miners Borks Blockchains, Say Boffins - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:42] <exec> 08└─No mining, no internal system currency Instead: subsecond settling time, deterministic, private chains shared only between parties All easy. All done.
[09:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score:2) 02Re:Two surprises - 06Raspberry Pi Upgrades Compute Module With 10 Times the CPU Performance - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:14:02] <exec> 08└─I could really use built in wireless (like the pi3) or minimum dual SATA to make a nano-NAS or dual ethernet to make a firewall or ...
[09:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:how it will end up - 06PM Theresa May: UK Must Leave the EU Single Market - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:41] <exec> 08└─Yeah no, that would make sense if the EU were actually the reason for the economic woes of the southern members.
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[10:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score:2) 02Thor's Rune - 06The Lost Letters of the English Alphabet - 737 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:11] <exec> 08└─I have an interest in Old English and it's Anglo-Saxon roots, and one of the first things I noticed was the use of þ where middle and modern English have substituted "Y". þ is a character based on the Thuraz rune of the Elder Futhark and the later Anglo-Saxon runes. It is pronounced "th" as in Thu...
[10:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Thor's Rune - 06The Lost Letters of the English Alphabet - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:09:13] <exec> 08└─I like pancakes.
[10:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03nicdoye [3908] (Score:0, Flamebait) 02Re:Thor's Rune - 06The Lost Letters of the English Alphabet - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:09:15] <exec> 08└─Thorn was still in use in Middle English, and was more likely to have been removed by standardisation of alphabets in printing presses. But you carry on with your Christianity-is-the-root-of-all-evil conspiracy theories.
[10:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:2) 02Re:Thor's Rune - 06The Lost Letters of the English Alphabet - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:09:17] <exec> 08└─The six letters described in the article are: ð, þ, ƿ, ȝ, æ, and œ. Orthographic history is fun!
[10:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03islisis [2901] (Score:1) 02Rebirth through key input - 06The Lost Letters of the English Alphabet - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:19] <exec> 08└─What history taketh history can giveth back... at least as a input gesture. By making use of thumb keys and/or typing scripts, it is possible to intuitively use a keyboard layout which assigns "th" to a single key. In fact, I have freed up two keys for this purpose, but rather than any of the other...
[10:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Call me when it is commercially viable - 06A Breath of Fresh Air: Improving Zinc-Air Batteries - 1359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:27] <exec> 08└─I'm all in favour of the research, but it seems to me that there are announcements of discoveries that are claimed will 'revolutionise' battery power every few months or so, but very few actually seem to make it to market. I'm not sure why this should be. Whether they are possible but uneconomic, or...
[10:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Call me when it is commercially viable - 06A Breath of Fresh Air: Improving Zinc-Air Batteries - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:09:29] <exec> 08└─Battery technology stories are a tradition, there's no need for commercialization.
[10:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:More than just known criminals - 06FBI Catches Suspect Using Facial Recognition - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:09:44] <exec> 08└─Most people, at heart, seem to be authoritarians. They'll talk about how they love freedom, but then immediately abandon their supposed principles as soon as something bad happens (such as the attacks on 9/11). With such a weak-willed populace, you have to expect that freedom will always be in dange...
[10:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03damnbunni [704] (Score:2) 02Re:Release on March 3rd, probably not available - 06Nintendo Switch Available on March 3rd for $299 - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:09:57] <exec> 08└─They've stated there will be two million units in the retail channel at launch. Given that their last console (the WiiU) only moved 14 million units in four years, two million at launch seems reasonable. Granted, most stores will probably still sell out, but it's not going to be like the original Wi...
[10:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Release on March 3rd, probably not available - 06Nintendo Switch Available on March 3rd for $299 - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:09:59] <exec> 08└─Forgot to add: http://arstechnica.com [arstechnica.com]
[10:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Fiction is reality - 06Google Reveals its Servers All Contain Custom Security Silicon - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:22] <exec> 08└─I just finished the first book in William Hertling's "Singularity Series" (good stuff, recommended). The action all takes place within Avogadro Corp., which is very clearly "Google" in an alternate universe. I'm just starting the second book, in which the company has created the successor to the Int...
[10:10:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Physics - 06World Economic Forum: Oxfam Inequality and Business and Sustainable Development Commission Reports - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:10:40] <exec> 08└─Capone didn't pay taxes either. Where's Ness when we need him most.
[10:10:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Physics - 06World Economic Forum: Oxfam Inequality and Business and Sustainable Development Commission Reports - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:10:47] <exec> 08└─> disparities have never been as large as they are today Prove it.
[10:11:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score:2) 02Davos In A Nutshell - 06World Economic Forum: Oxfam Inequality and Business and Sustainable Development Commission Reports - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:11:11] <exec> 08└─Everything I've read about what's being talked up at this year's event seems to boil down to, "The prols are in revolt! What new bullshit line can we feed them to soothe the savage breast?"
[10:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Liechtenstein, Iceland, Norway, Switzerland in - 06PM Theresa May: UK Must Leave the EU Single Market - 737 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:02] <exec> 08└─No, it's the facist fantasies of a control freak. The EEA means paying a membership fee and accepting freedom of movement, something a monkey of people in the country didn't want on June 24th. May knows the only way to reduce immigration is to make the UK a terrible place to be, so that's what she's...
[10:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:What about article 50? - 06PM Theresa May: UK Must Leave the EU Single Market - 1127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:05] <exec> 08└─No there isn't. The actual method for invoking article 50 isn't defined in article 50. The belief by the unelected uk government is it can be invoked by the pm using "royal perogatove". The belief by the uk courts is it needs to be invoked by parliament. May, being a fascist, doesn't like this lack...
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[11:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Good - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:06] <exec> 08└─This is good. Why not give Snowden a full, free, and absolute pardon? And how about not granting the intelligence agencies even more access to our unconstitutionally-collected data before leaving office, you scumbag?
[11:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Quick Primer - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:08] <exec> 08└─Leaking information that gets US soldiers killed: Heroic whistleblowing. Leaking information that shows how corrupt Democrats are: Treasonous, start World War 3.
[11:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Quick Primer - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:09:10] <exec> 08└─Leaking information that gets US soldiers killed
[11:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Quick Primer - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:09:12] <exec> 08└─Leaking information that gets US soldiers killed: Heroic whistleblowing.
[11:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Trumpmeat Sandwich - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:14] <exec> 08└─She's got time for a Trumpmeat Sandwich before she gets out.
[11:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Trumpmeat Sandwich - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:09:17] <exec> 08└─Stale white bread loaded with phony bologna and a smidge of expired mayo?
[11:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Thor's Rune - 06The Lost Letters of the English Alphabet - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:09:27] <exec> 08└─The thorn was not purged by Christianity [wikipedia.org]. It was still in use as late as the 14th century (arguably close to the peak of Christianity), when it began to become gradually superseded by the modern “th” digraph, and at the same time its shape began to become less distinctive, eventu...
[11:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03WalksOnDirt [5854] (Score:2) 02Re:Call me when it is commercially viable - 06A Breath of Fresh Air: Improving Zinc-Air Batteries - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:09:39] <exec> 08└─Zinc air batteries are currently in use. This research may make them usable in different areas. They would still not be rechargeable so they would be a poor choice for a laptop. Rechargeable zinc air batteries are also being researched, but I don't think that is what's going on here. They so far hav...
[11:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02FBI Catches Suspect Using Facial Recognition - 06FBI Catches Suspect Using Facial Recognition - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:55] <exec> 08└─I, for one, welcome this effort by the FBI to curtail the misuse of high-tech surveillance.
[11:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Old man rant - 06Nintendo Switch Available on March 3rd for $299 - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:12] <exec> 08└─I really like my Nintendo 3DS, even if it's first generation. I bought 4 (cartridge) games, and I always checked the game store, but all of a sudden it started to require my full real name. I think that is now commonplace for most game consoles (the 3DS was the first console I bought after my SNES)....
[11:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Benefits of leaving - 06PM Theresa May: UK Must Leave the EU Single Market - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:02] <exec> 08└─The irony bein g that while Westminster rarely spends outside of the south east, the EU did. The most deprived areas of the uk had the most eu funding. The poorest people in the uk had the most eu protection. Those deprived areas voted out.
[11:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score:2) 02Re:how it will end up - 06PM Theresa May: UK Must Leave the EU Single Market - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:14] <exec> 08└─It is possible to access the single market without swallowing the whole hook line and sinker.
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[12:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Good - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 775 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:09:19] <exec> 08└─You took the words right out of my mouth. Failure to pardon Snowden is the ultimate indictment of Obama's term in office. Many things he could not do because the Republican-controlled Congress stonewalled him. That is, he could at least claim he could not do them because of congressional stonewallin...
[12:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Re:Quick Primer - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:09:23] <exec> 08└─I'd have to go for the other angle: What has resulted from these leaks? Who's been punished for the war crimes? What uproar about this has there been? Not much, as far as I can see. There are no sanctions, arrests, dismissals, discharges, etc. that have occurred publicly as a result of the informati...
[12:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Quick Primer - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:09:25] <exec> 08└─What has resulted from these leaks? Who's been punished for the war crimes? What uproar about this has there been?
[12:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:2) 02Finally Obama does something - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:30] <exec> 08└─Although I haven't followed every step of his 8 years in office, this is the first time I can recall where I thought: Obama did something good.
[12:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Nobel peace price - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:09:32] <exec> 08└─Quick, give the guy the Nobel peace price... oh.... wait.
[12:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score:2) 02Re:Nobel peace price - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:09:34] <exec> 08└─That would be a good first move towards actually deserving his Nobel prize.
[12:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Pardon Wishlist - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:37] <exec> 08└─Snowden Larry Hoover That's all I care about, who stop you want to be pardoned?
[12:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Odd... - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:39] <exec> 08└─This is unexpected. I'm not sure whether Manning deserves clemency - there are arguments on both sides - but I didn't expect Obama to do this. What's really odd, though, is this: Why not a pardon? If not a pardon, why not an immediate release? Why a commutation that doesn't take effect for 4 months?...
[12:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Odd... - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:09:41] <exec> 08└─Can the next president (Trump? Pence?) undo this commutation?
[12:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:F-35 syndrome? - 06FBI Catches Suspect Using Facial Recognition - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:10:14] <exec> 08└─1) He has a job. 2) He needs to live close to his job, a.k.a. he has a living place, requiring he needs to pay bills/taxes. 3) He has multiple driver's licenses, which he had to request from the government. Any of the above would have exposed his name, where a check up with his person in criminal re...
[12:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02140 kg may be enough. - 06Japan Just Tried to Launch the World's Smallest Orbital Rocket - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:43] <exec> 08└─http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2013/12/23/kilotons-per-kilogram/ [nuclearsecrecy.com]
[12:13:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Sigh. - 06Oman Receives Ten Detainees Released From Guantanamo - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:13:02] <exec> 08└─That "illegal enemy combatants" thing you actually have someone else to thank for. We've been using this interpretation at least since I was in boot camp and that was back early in Clinton's first term. P.S. Paragraphs are your friend, you eye-straining bastard.
[12:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Re:Sigh. - 06Oman Receives Ten Detainees Released From Guantanamo - 1448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:13:03] <exec> 08└─Just because your CO has broken the law, and his CO, and everyone up to the President himself, it does not mean you are excused under international conventions and CERTAINLY not morally. No such definition as you state exists in the law. You are a civilian, or a combatant. Both are protected under t...
[12:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score:2) 02Re:Benefits of leaving - 06PM Theresa May: UK Must Leave the EU Single Market - 828 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:22] <exec> 08└─Don't forget the bonfire of worker's rights. Businesses have already been drawing up their wishlist of rights to dispose of, the top one being holiday entitlement for overtime. We also get to devalue our currency quite significantly, making us more competitive on wages with India and China. Countrie...
[12:15:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score:2) 02Re:Benefits of leaving - 06PM Theresa May: UK Must Leave the EU Single Market - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:26] <exec> 08└─The "great" in Great Britain refers to the greater British Isles, i.e. the bit containing England, Scotland and Wales. Technically it doesn't include Northern Ireland, or most of our other various territories. So given that Scotland is quite likely to have another independence referendum, and somewh...
[12:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score:2) 02Re:Benefits of leaving - 06PM Theresa May: UK Must Leave the EU Single Market - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:33] <exec> 08└─They keep kicking the immigration can down the road. They could stop more than half of it tomorrow if they wanted to, as it is non-EU immigration, and put severe limits on EU migration in place too. But they don't. They keep avoiding doing anything, because they need those immigrants (fee paying stu...
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[13:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02engine block eggs - 06Tesla Helps Sierra Nevada Brewing Make 'Green' Beer - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:11] <exec> 08└─But can a Musky engine make engine block eggs? Can an LED lightbulb heat an easy bake oven? Can a digital TV make analog snow?
[13:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:engine block eggs - 06Tesla Helps Sierra Nevada Brewing Make 'Green' Beer - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:09:12] <exec> 08└─The story is about a brewery using solar power and a microturbine to offset its electricity costs, but that's technically boring. But wait! They're using a Tesla battery pack! Awesome! Hold the presses! The new title is Tesla saves the day!!!!
[13:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:engine block eggs - 06Tesla Helps Sierra Nevada Brewing Make 'Green' Beer - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:09:15] <exec> 08└─LUDDITE!
[13:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Good - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:09:26] <exec> 08└─Failure to pardon Snowden is the ultimate indictment of Obama's term in office.
[13:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:09:28] <exec> 08└─Why not give Snowden a full, free, and absolute pardon?
[13:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:Quick Primer - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:09:34] <exec> 08└─Even as a Constitutional scholar, Obama knows political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. And how can he oppose a self-interested and well-armed amoral shadow government? We know what happened to Kennedy.
[13:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Quick Primer - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:09:37] <exec> 08└─0 killed
[13:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Re:Odd... - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:09:47] <exec> 08└─IANAL, but I cannot imagine it would be possible to revoke a pardon or commutation.
[13:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Odd... - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:09:49] <exec> 08└─Double jeopardy jumbo mumbo. Chelsea would need to be framed for murdering some guards or something.
[13:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Re:Odd... - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 1292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:09:52] <exec> 08└─I would agree that this was very odd and unexpected. As I understand it Manning did what he (or she) did because he was angry with the Army. Not to be some kind of whistleblower hero. For that he could have stayed in Leavenworth forever. That his conditions are difficult, as the ACLU put it, is a cr...
[13:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Odd... - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:09:54] <exec> 08└─What I do find interesting is that Assange offered himself up in some kind of exchange for Manning, so is he going to step outside the comfort of the embassy?
[13:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Odd... - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:09:56] <exec> 08└─angry with the Army
[13:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Assange - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:58] <exec> 08└─So will Assange plan to step out of the embassy in May or does this not count? Everyone who was calling him out as bullshitting will get a chance to be proven right or wrong. What should the odds be (e.g. 5:1 against him leaving)?
[13:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Assange - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:10:00] <exec> 08└─Here's the tweet in question: https://twitter.com [twitter.com] Commutation is a form of clemency, so the ball is in Assange's court. However, it is not clear that the U.S. will seek extradition of Assange. He might just get arrested by the Brits and serve a sente...
[13:10:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03driverless [4770] 02Re:Thor's Rune - 06The Lost Letters of the English Alphabet - 102 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:10:11] <exec> 08└─The six letters described in the article are: ð, þ, ƿ, ȝ, æ, and œ. Orthographic history is fun!
[13:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:2) 02Why Stop at Removing 6 Letters? - 06The Lost Letters of the English Alphabet - 1201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:15] <exec> 08└─Mark Twain masterfully addressed the logical continuation of this process in his usual, inimitable form: A plan for the improvement of spelling in the English language [plainlanguage.gov] : For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either by "k" or "s", and lik...
[13:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Missing Letter? - 06The Lost Letters of the English Alphabet - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:17] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the interesting article. Those were mostly new to me. Esset, ß, the German double 's,' was used in early English too, wasn't it?
[13:10:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03damnbunni [704] (Score:2) 02Re:Old man rant - 06Nintendo Switch Available on March 3rd for $299 - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:10:59] <exec> 08└─It wants your real name for the store, for billing purposes. You can still display your made-up game name to other people. In fact, you have both a 'Nintendo Network ID' and a 'nickname' that get set, and neither have to be your real name.
[13:11:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score:2) 02Anti-Satellite - 06Japan Just Tried to Launch the World's Smallest Orbital Rocket - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:11:07] <exec> 08└─This has been an anti-satellite rocket test in very thin disguise. Fits in with recent developments from the Chinese and Russians. Funnily enough, the relevant wiki article states for the recent chinese "scientific" launch: "However, U.S. government sources described it as the first test of a new gr...
[13:11:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Congratulations ZeniMax - 06Mark Zuckerberg Will Testify in Oculus VR Trade Secrets Trial - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:11:15] <exec> 08└─You just got zuckerberged!
[13:11:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Physics - 06World Economic Forum: Oxfam Inequality and Business and Sustainable Development Commission Reports - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:11:53] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry, but 8 balancing against 3.5 billion is not a goddamn normal distribution.
[13:12:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02Re:So if I'm reading this right - 06New Linux WiFi Daemon Streamlines Networking Stack - 495 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:12:51] <exec> 08└─Nope. Blobs are dictated by chipset managers. (and to some extent by the FCC). Best thing this daemon can do is marshal those blobs in a way that might actually work. Summary is long on names of contributors and names of projects, I wish submitters/editors could cut that crap to the bone. I don't ca...
[13:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Sigh. - 06Oman Receives Ten Detainees Released From Guantanamo - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:31] <exec> 08└─And whether or not what you were told is correct, man the fuck up and admit that you shouldn't be in a position where people who could well be the local waiter...
[13:16:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheRaven [270] 02Re:Benefits of leaving - 06PM Theresa May: UK Must Leave the EU Single Market - 517 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:04] <exec> 08└─To understand Brexit, you need to understand the political situation in the UK. A lot of people resent the fact that we Westminster Parliament has constantly put the interests of the South East at the expense of the rest of the country. To protest this and other misuses of power by the political est...
[13:16:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:how it will end up - 06PM Theresa May: UK Must Leave the EU Single Market - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:15] <exec> 08└─It clearly isn't great for reading comprehension, though I stand corrected: replace the 77 percent I mentioned with 73 percent, and we're all good. No?
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[14:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02I swear I'm on-topic - 06The Link Between Swearing and Honesty - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:17] <exec> 08└─Guess that makes me the most honest motherfucker on the site, eh?
[14:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Guess that improves career perspective for... - 06The Link Between Swearing and Honesty - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:18] <exec> 08└─... tourette suffering con-men?
[14:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What's my favorite word? - 06The Link Between Swearing and Honesty - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:21] <exec> 08└─Why they gotta say it like Short? More directly on topic, I'm not surprised. Politeness and honesty are diametrically opposed, that's the point. Politeness is a relic of an era of kings and lords, where life was of so little value that you presented your neck upon meeting social superiors just in ca...
[14:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's my favorite word? - 06The Link Between Swearing and Honesty - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:09:23] <exec> 08└─Politeness is a relic of an era of kings and lords, where life was of so little value that you presented your neck upon meeting social superiors just in case they wanted your head...
[14:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:1) 02language dependence and jews - 06The Link Between Swearing and Honesty - 1448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:25] <exec> 08└─Started to play mobas recently, and came to conclusion that the "toxicity" in it stems from english not being a good language to curse on. Or rather, the culture and context the english gets learned with does not allow for fun cursing. When a russion, hungarian, or (i got this explained) chinese cur...
[14:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Re:engine block eggs - 06Tesla Helps Sierra Nevada Brewing Make 'Green' Beer - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:09:35] <exec> 08└─The story is about a brewery using solar power and a microturbine to offset its electricity costs, but that's technically boring.
[14:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Dupe or just a similar story? - 06Tesla Helps Sierra Nevada Brewing Make 'Green' Beer - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:38] <exec> 08└─We've done "green" beer before. I know we have. I distinctly remember pointing out that alcoholic fermentation kicks out shit tons of CO2 and isn't remotely green in any way, shape, or form.
[14:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Dupe or just a similar story? - 06Tesla Helps Sierra Nevada Brewing Make 'Green' Beer - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:09:41] <exec> 08└─I don't think it's a dupe. Just dumb. I like Sierra Nevada but I'm making most of my own alcohol now.
[14:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Dupe or just a similar story? - 06Tesla Helps Sierra Nevada Brewing Make 'Green' Beer - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:09:43] <exec> 08└─I don't understand your response; is it just an insecure neckbeard's way of telling others that he homebrews?
[14:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Dupe or just a similar story? - 06Tesla Helps Sierra Nevada Brewing Make 'Green' Beer - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:09:45] <exec> 08└─At least I'm not posting it under my real name or on Facebook. Oops, I'm social signaling to anonymous cowards that I hate social media while using a form of (anti)social media!
[14:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03WalksOnDirt [5854] (Score:2) 02Re:Dupe or just a similar story? - 06Tesla Helps Sierra Nevada Brewing Make 'Green' Beer - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:09:47] <exec> 08└─Nearly everything organic eventually decays into CO2. Clearing the land to grow hops and grains might add a little but that's minor and self limiting. Worry about coal, oil, natural gas, cement and refining iron, in roughly that order, but not beer.
[14:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Dupe or just a similar story? - 06Tesla Helps Sierra Nevada Brewing Make 'Green' Beer - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:09:49] <exec> 08└─That CO2 is released from the malt sugar; it just gets bound up again in new grains, making the process neutral.
[14:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Re:Dupe or just a similar story? - 06Tesla Helps Sierra Nevada Brewing Make 'Green' Beer - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:09:51] <exec> 08└─I distinctly remember pointing out that alcoholic fermentation kicks out shit tons of CO2 and isn't remotely green in any way, shape, or form.
[14:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondoctor [2963] (Score:1) 02Re:Quick Primer - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:09] <exec> 08└─>What has resulted from these leaks? Who's been punished for the war crimes? What uproar about this has there been? Eh? The uproar and results have been massive. The Snowden revelations changed the nature of debate around global surveillance fundamentally and spurred congressional hearings, legislat...
[14:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Why the Prize - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:17] <exec> 08└─They gave him the nobel peace prize as an incentive. They intended to remind him to not be a warmonger like his predecessor. On one hand it worked - no new occupations. On the other hand, he kinda found a loophole and went balls deep with drones. And a case can be made that maybe we should have inte...
[14:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Finally Obama does something - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 714 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:19] <exec> 08└─Uhm, what do you call of this, chopped liver? Healthcare for 20 million people who did not have it before Signing the paris climate agreement Killing bin laden Auto industry bailout, preserving millions of jobs Support for lgbtq rights like repealing dont ask dont tell, full marriage rights and tran...
[14:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02You understand poorly. - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 1024 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:30] <exec> 08└─> As I understand it Manning did what he (or she) did because he was angry with the Army. Not to be some kind of whistleblower hero. You understand poorly. Manning was stressed by problems in her life. But discontent is an essential element of becoming a whistleblower - it is all downside for you pe...
[14:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Assange - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:34] <exec> 08└─NPR sez (minutes ago) there's no word from Assange or his lawyer(s) regarding that offer. I started looking at the Wikileaks twitter and found this [twitter.com] from about 12 hours ago: Assange lawyer @themtchair on Assange-Manning extradition 'deal': "Everything that he has said he's standing by."
[14:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score:2) 02F.A.L.N. Member - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:36] <exec> 08└─The far bigger story is that Obama just pardoned a multiple murderer, terrorist, and real to god dyed in the wool traitor who carried out a war against America. And who continued his obstructive and criminal acts in prison.
[14:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:Missing Letter? - 06The Lost Letters of the English Alphabet - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:53] <exec> 08└─Esset, ß, the German double 's,' was used in early English too, wasn't it?
[14:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03scruffybeard [533] (Score:2) 02The article is incorrect - 06The Lost Letters of the English Alphabet - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:54] <exec> 08└─The 'Y' in Ye represents the letter thorn (þ). European printing presses didn't have the thorn character, and 'Y' was substituted since is resembled thorn. See the etymology of ye [merriam-webster.com] (second usage) in Websters. There is also more history here [dictionary.com] and here [wikipedia...
[14:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:now works at Walmart - 06FBI Catches Suspect Using Facial Recognition - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:11:13] <exec> 08└─No. Make him work for Amazon.
[14:11:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:2) 02Re:Old man rant - 06Nintendo Switch Available on March 3rd for $299 - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:11:41] <exec> 08└─What "billing purposes" are there if one pays for games and online matchmaking with prepaid cards purchased with cash at a brick and mortar retailer?
[14:11:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Kindle fire HD 8 - 06Nintendo Switch Available on March 3rd for $299 - 1109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:42] <exec> 08└─Its basically my sons $100 Kindle Fire HD 8 tablet without special offers and kindle app and with some joysticks plugged into the OTG hole (or bluetooth) and adds a HDMI port. Less space than a Nomad. Lame. I can tell the difference in the tech specs. The problem is they have to sell to grannie and...
[14:11:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Kindle fire HD 8 - 06Nintendo Switch Available on March 3rd for $299 - 1436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:11:44] <exec> 08└─Dunno about the ARM CPU (too lazy to care), but the GPU portion smokes your kid's tablet. I guess we could compare the undocked-tablet-faux3DS performance to the tablet, but even then it has fairly advanced GPU cores. Although not the Pascal cores that may have been available had Nintendo waited a f...
[14:11:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Anti-Satellite - 06Japan Just Tried to Launch the World's Smallest Orbital Rocket - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:11:54] <exec> 08└─The Japanese have a whole series of sounding rockets all solid fuel on mobile launchers, so yeah, it kinda fits. I prefer the Japanese do this work rather than say NK or Iran. Of course they're probably a thinly disguised front for some US/Israeli defense contractor. Given more time and motivation i...
[14:11:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02JSR's commentary - 06Japan Just Tried to Launch the World's Smallest Orbital Rocket - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:57] <exec> 08└─JSR's commentary is interesting and tells a slightly different story with same conclusion. http://planet4589.org [planet4589.org] However, telemetry was lost 20 seconds into flight, during first stage burn. Following range safety rules, the command to ignite stage 2 was not...
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[15:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:What's my favorite word? - 06The Link Between Swearing and Honesty - 923 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:09:23] <exec> 08└─I used to almost never swear. It turned heads when I did. About ten years of working in the financial sector and having daily chats with east coasters and I have a hard time getting through a couple sentences without sounding like a fucking sailor. It took a while for people to adjust to it, but the...
[15:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:language dependence and jews - 06The Link Between Swearing and Honesty - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:09:26] <exec> 08└─Okay, but that doesn't change the goddamned fact that you fucking get off on being a troll and we all know it. :)
[15:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03dlb [4790] (Score:2) 02Re:language dependence and jews - 06The Link Between Swearing and Honesty - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:09:28] <exec> 08└─When a russion, hungarian, or (i got this explained) chinese curse, the curses are witty and are meant to express the rage part of the negative feelings, but also to lighten up the mood.
[15:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score:1) 02Policians will learn - 06The Link Between Swearing and Honesty - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:30] <exec> 08└─If policians think that people think that swaring = honestity and it's surpasses the bad image, then, from now on, policians will sprinkle their speeches with...
[15:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2) 02Perceptions Lie - 06The Link Between Swearing and Honesty - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:32] <exec> 08└─The researchers cite the example of President-elect Donald Trump who used swear words in some of his speeches while campaigning in last year's US election and was considered, by some, to be more genuine than his rivals.
[15:10:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02Re:Good - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 79 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:01] <exec> 08└─Failure to pardon Snowden is the ultimate indictment of Obama's term in office.
[15:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Good - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:02] <exec> 08└─Republicans didn't stop him from closing it, they stopped him from closing it in a way that allowed him to keep some of the prisoners stuck in jail for life without trial.
[15:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Good - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 1551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:04] <exec> 08└─I agree that all these things are bad, and should have been avoided if possible - but hijacking airliners and suicide bombing them into skyscrapers and political target buildings is also bad and avoiding that in the future is probably worth some collateral damage. In the past, collateral damage of w...
[15:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Good - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:07] <exec> 08└─This, though, he can do unilaterally and there's really nothing anyone could say or do to stop him, including the NSA and CIA or the Deep State.
[15:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:10] <exec> 08└─Painted that way because it was mostly done that way. Don't forget, he ran to the Chinese first. The story painted around here is that he walks on water and his shit doesn't stink. That in and of itself doesn't mean he should get off with no consequences. His revealing of sources and methods against...
[15:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score:2) 02Re:Trumpmeat Sandwich - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:20] <exec> 08└─The Trump Sandwich:- Sliced bread, white of course. Filled with Bologna Russian Dressing … and naturally, a very small pickle.
[15:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Odd... - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:35] <exec> 08└─There are few, if any, who understand honor, who are pleased with Obama's commutation of Manning's sentence.
[15:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score:2) 02Re:You understand poorly. - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:37] <exec> 08└─She released the video of the Reuters photographer being gunned down by an Army Apache in Baghdad. The Army had claimed they weren't responsible for the death. She exposed the lie, she made the Army look bad. That is why she was so harshly punished. The chilling video is at https://collateralmurder....
[15:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:You understand poorly. - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:40] <exec> 08└─With spin like that, you could be reincarnated as a carnival ride. Manning had no beliefs, beyond the belief that his superiors were unfair, and that they deserved to be betrayed.
[15:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Odd... - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 794 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:42] <exec> 08└─You, Sir, deserve some kind of award for your powers of observation. Often times, the difference between a felony, and some simple misdemeanor, is motivation. And, motivation separates Manning from Snowden by galaxies. Snowden sacrificed a promising, lucrative career, to inform the public how they w...
[15:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02How Conspiracy Fantasists Think - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:44] <exec> 08└─> I didn't expect Obama to do this. > There's some hidden agenda here, and one wonders just what it is... You receive new information that contradicts your understanding of the world. But instead of re-evaluating your understanding, you decide that there must be a secret explanation for why you are...
[15:10:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Odd... - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:46] <exec> 08└─EVUULLLL gay libertarian Glenn Greenwald laid out a convincing case for Manning on BBC News Hour.
[15:10:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Odd... - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:48] <exec> 08└─It's primarily legacy polishing for the history books. The White House press secretary is putting out stories about the most benevolent president in history, and so on. I guess he forget the bit about most and harshest prosecutions for whistleblowing, but so it goes.
[15:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:1) 02Re:Assange - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:53] <exec> 08└─There was a very similar, earlier, Twitter message: If Obama grants Manning clemency, Assange will agree to US prison in exchange -- despite its clear unlawfulness
[15:10:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Assange - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:56] <exec> 08└─How much you wanna bet that Bradley's gender identity issues and sudden psychological issues magically clear up when his term is finished? I guess it depends upon how much he gets lionized. He could very well make a living on the SJW speaker circuit for years to come.
[15:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: F.A.L.N. Member - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:59] <exec> 08└─For those of us who don't care to follow Pravda any more, who was it?
[15:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: F.A.L.N. Member - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:11:01] <exec> 08└─Hello, obviously its Hillary. That traitorous bitch!
[15:11:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:Thor's Rune - 06The Lost Letters of the English Alphabet - 1356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:11:12] <exec> 08└─Religion is frequently used and abused for moral justification and inspiration for practically anything no matter how horrible. Slavery, wars such as the Crusades, Climate Change denial, persecution of scientists such as Galileo, patriarchal oppression of women, and income inequality. Doesn't matter...
[15:11:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Call me when it is commercially viable - 06A Breath of Fresh Air: Improving Zinc-Air Batteries - 1603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:11:31] <exec> 08└─I've had pretty good luck with CFLs. I started buying them way back before the recent big push that stirred up all the drama just because I wanted to lower my power bill. Are you using LEDs by chance? I keep reading things about LEDs that make them less and less attractive. They're more expensive th...
[15:11:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:More than just known criminals - 06FBI Catches Suspect Using Facial Recognition - 751 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:11:49] <exec> 08└─Haven't put my tinfoil on yet this morning, but there's one thing I'm wondering. Given that we know that all that's out there and being used anyway, is there any reason to be more afraid of a national ID card than the present situation? I gather the risks of putting all the cookies in one jar, but s...
[15:11:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Passport Database is Unique - 06FBI Catches Suspect Using Facial Recognition - 993 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:52] <exec> 08└─US passports have one feature unique to all other IDs - you submit your own picture. You don't even do it in person, you mail it in. So, if you so wished, you could manipulate the photo. Knowing how facial recognition works you can tweak it in ways that will confuse the algorithms but still pass wit...
[15:11:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Passport Database is Unique - 06FBI Catches Suspect Using Facial Recognition - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:11:54] <exec> 08└─Yeah but then when you try to get through immigration on your next international flight you get stuck in some side-room because the desk computer insists that you are not the person shown in your passport.
[15:11:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Passport Database is Unique - 06FBI Catches Suspect Using Facial Recognition - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:11:56] <exec> 08└─If you distort the picture, and the computer flags it as being out of range of normal faces, you'll probably get asked to submit new photographs. Passport photos have been digitized for >10 years now, so if defeating facial recognition is now a concern for you, that ship has long sailed.
[15:12:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:cool! - 06Nintendo Switch Available on March 3rd for $299 - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:12:08] <exec> 08└─They subcontracted out to Cisco. It's only 1 Gbps, but for an additional $599 US dollars they'll let you install an IOS update that enables 10 Gbps. The command to enable the full 10 Gbps is undocumented, but it will work at 5 Gbps after the update.
[15:12:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:JSR's commentary - 06Japan Just Tried to Launch the World's Smallest Orbital Rocket - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:12:29] <exec> 08└─So, the real challenge will be sweeping all this crap out of orbit after the next aspiring super-power fires off the equivalent of hand-grenades in opposite direction orbits.
[15:12:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:JSR's commentary - 06Japan Just Tried to Launch the World's Smallest Orbital Rocket - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:12:30] <exec> 08└─That's where the surface area to volume ratio saves you/us. A hand grenade wouldn't last long at ISS altitude. Heck an ISS doesn't last long at ISS altitude without reboosting. Its a bigger problem higher up like geosynch high.
[15:12:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2, Interesting) 02oblig - 06Japan Just Tried to Launch the World's Smallest Orbital Rocket - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:12:33] <exec> 08└─Somebody get the half section [wikipedia.org] on the horn!
[15:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Congratulations ZeniMax - 06Mark Zuckerberg Will Testify in Oculus VR Trade Secrets Trial - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:12:41] <exec> 08└─I thought it was just "zucked."
[15:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02John Carmack - 06Mark Zuckerberg Will Testify in Oculus VR Trade Secrets Trial - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:43] <exec> 08└─Palmer Luckey has always seemed like a shyster to me. Carmack made Palmer's prototype worth looking at and wrote that code while still employed by Id Software. Palmer refused to partner Oculus with Id and went for the highest payout (Facebook). Of course Id would be pissed. All my interest in the Ri...
[15:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Sigh. - 06Oman Receives Ten Detainees Released From Guantanamo - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:53] <exec> 08└─1. I've not seen that evidence - can't make a call on that. 2. Yeah, good luck getting a telephone call through off-hours, and more so during an active operation. 3. That is the most convincing evidence that I've seen. If our troops didn't know they were shooting at a hospital, then they were dereli...
[15:15:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:strung out on partisanship - 06Oman Receives Ten Detainees Released From Guantanamo - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:15:37] <exec> 08└─In what way is following up on the very first executive order that he signed on entering office eight years ago being obstructionist to Trump?
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[16:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02You can't fix stupid. - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:15] <exec> 08└─I was once told that the difference between uneducated and stupid is that you can't fix stupid. Some people have such conviction that they will not listen to reasoning. The only way I've seen this change is if they are personally affected, meaning for example that those who don't believe that the cl...
[16:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02That's why CAPITALISM is so important - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:09:16] <exec> 08└─When a man must take responsibility for his own assets, then he gets smart pretty quick! It's too easy to fuck things up when you're wasting the resources of someone else.
[16:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score:2) 02Really? - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:19] <exec> 08└─Most people can't understand what "choose a strong password" means even when you put the definition right in front of them and this person wants to give them tools to "better...navigate this science"? It's a nice dream but I can't see the majority of the public ever actually using any tools to under...
[16:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Really? - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:09:21] <exec> 08└─Most people can't understand what "choose a strong password" means even when you put the definition right in front of them
[16:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Really? - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:09:23] <exec> 08└─Which definition of "strong" password? I've seen several and they range from the reasonably easy to remember to the so difficult that all you've done is encouraged people to go back to writing them on stick notes kept by the keyboard.
[16:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Confused - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:25] <exec> 08└─The author's main example was changes in dietary beliefs, where the real thing thats changing is the heavily advertised and propagandized beliefs used to be strictly funded by megacorps/agribusiness and only recently has anything actually scientific accidentally resulted from the open internet etc....
[16:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Confused - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:09:27] <exec> 08└─Line-by-line and phrase-by-phrase rebuttals are an amateur way to communicate, and are especially irritating when the blockquotes begin to pile up next to each other. In the future, consider formulating a more self-contained retort.
[16:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Confused - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:09:29] <exec> 08└─I'd typically agree with you AC but the original article was so scattered. Agreed you go big game hunting with a rifle with a scope, but against a flock of crazed killer seagulls you need a shotgun with a wide pattern.
[16:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Education education education - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:32] <exec> 08└─Surprisingly how dimwitted and stupid most americans are today and that is evident by the impending coronation of donald duck for our leader. Fucking pathetic.
[16:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Education education education - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:09:34] <exec> 08└─It's part of our long game. You will be bending over backwards to please Americans before long.
[16:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:What's my favorite word? - 06The Link Between Swearing and Honesty - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:09:46] <exec> 08└─Without [politeness] we would settle every minor dispute with expletive laden diatribes and fists.
[16:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's my favorite word? - 06The Link Between Swearing and Honesty - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:09:47] <exec> 08└─What are you saying? I thought we already settle every minor dispute this way. The behavior of some people after the recent election says a lot.
[16:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:What's my favorite word? - 06The Link Between Swearing and Honesty - 1663 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:09:50] <exec> 08└─I strive for both politeness and not swearing. There is nothing wrong with that and it is not a contradiction. Politeness costs you nothing. It should not be a fake, false politeness. I'll openly and honestly express my displeasure about certain things. Don't smile and pretend it's not a problem....
[16:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score:2) 02Re:What's my favorite word? - 06The Link Between Swearing and Honesty - 1574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:09:52] <exec> 08└─There's politeness, and then there's a shivering terror that you might accidentally hurt somebody's feelings. Not polite: "Steve, you're a fucking retard. Get out." Polite: "I don't think that's the right approach, Steve, and here's why." Fear of hurting feelings: "Well Steve, that's a great idea, a...
[16:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:What's my favorite word? - 06The Link Between Swearing and Honesty - 949 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:09:55] <exec> 08└─I guess it does depend pretty heavily on the cultural norms then. I don't think I'm too far off from your estimates though. My idea of being myself is your not polite, and my idea of most everyday corp speak is your polite option. My idea of polite is somewhere in the middle of your polite and quive...
[16:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's my favorite word? - 06The Link Between Swearing and Honesty - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:09:57] <exec> 08└─In USA, George Carlin gave us the seven words you can't say on TV -- shit, piss, cunt, fuck, cocksucker, motherfucker, tits (hope I got that correct, it's been years since I heard him). In normal conversation, I rarely get past the first two, defecation/elimination takes care of most cases that need...
[16:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:language dependence and jews - 06The Link Between Swearing and Honesty - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:02] <exec> 08└─as always and forever: context is everything... saying 'i love you' in one context is an invitation to sex (perhaps a lifetime commitment, etc)... saying 'i love you' in another context is an invitation to fight between testosterone-inflamed adversaries... just sayin'... context is everything...
[16:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03dlb [4790] (Score:2) 02Re:language dependence and jews - 06The Link Between Swearing and Honesty - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:04] <exec> 08└─Agreed. Takyon's two-word reply in "I swear I'm on-topic" would certainly have a different meaning in most other contexts.
[16:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Perceptions Lie - 06The Link Between Swearing and Honesty - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:08] <exec> 08└─Me thinks Trump doth protest... too much. His image is calculated, practiced, and polished to an edge.
[16:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Re:Perceptions Lie - 06The Link Between Swearing and Honesty - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:10] <exec> 08└─He fooled everyone - they all think he's an idiot, and while they were shitting out terribly un-funny memes, newspaper comics, heavily biased comedy sketches, etc. he took everything. And they still underestimate him.
[16:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Perceptions Lie - 06The Link Between Swearing and Honesty - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:13] <exec> 08└─You can't underestimate trump. No mater how poorly you think of him. He has nothing. What was the surprise was how gullible the population is. Being a con man, going further than any previous politician would ever dare go to say what the base wants to hear, with no intention or plan for following th...
[16:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02literally honestly - 06The Link Between Swearing and Honesty - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:15] <exec> 08└─i honestly swear and hope you don't mean that "motherfucker" part literally?
[16:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Re:engine block eggs - 06Tesla Helps Sierra Nevada Brewing Make 'Green' Beer - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:26] <exec> 08└─The point of the whole Tesla connection is that the Tesla batteries are made in Nevada, as is the beer.
[16:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:Good - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 651 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:49] <exec> 08└─absolutely correct, mr mercenary, er, merchant of death, er, merchant... of course the correct and right ratio is 1,000,000 barbarians killed for every twue bwue 'merikan killed... it is only right and proportional, in a 1,000,000:1 way... perfectly understandable... totally not vengeful or predicat...
[16:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Good - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:53] <exec> 08└─His revealing of sources and methods against foreign powers had nothing to do with domestic surveillance, and they should be treated and considered separate from his other actions.
[16:11:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Quick Primer - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:11:04] <exec> 08└─Jaywalking is illegal because drivers don't want to slow down for every knobhead who wants to cross the road arbitrarily, and because a city based around taxation and fining needs to make bank.
[16:11:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:You understand poorly. - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:11:24] <exec> 08└─Manning had no beliefs, beyond the belief that his superiors were unfair, and that they deserved to be betrayed.
[16:11:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:You understand poorly. - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:11:26] <exec> 08└─Manning believed so much in the legitimacy of her whistleblowing that she plead[ed] guilty and trusted the military justice system to treat her fairly.
[16:11:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Re:You understand poorly. - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 891 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:11:28] <exec> 08└─You understand poorly. Manning was stressed by problems in her life. But discontent is an essential element of becoming a whistleblower - it is all downside for you personally, if you are ever treated as a 'hero' its only decades later after all the offended people have moved on Manning believed so...
[16:11:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Odd... - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:11:31] <exec> 08└─Mr. Trump has said of Wikileaks "[...] I think it's disgraceful. [unintelligible] I think there should be, like, death penalty or something." http://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[16:11:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score:2) 02Re:Thor's Rune - 06The Lost Letters of the English Alphabet - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:11:51] <exec> 08└─The six letters described in the article are: edh, thorn, wynn, yogh, aesc, and the oe ligature (which doesn't seem to have a name that I can find, but the linked article isn't loading for me). Spelling things out is hard, though.
[16:11:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Missing Letter? - 06The Lost Letters of the English Alphabet - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:11:59] <exec> 08└─I assume based on its appearance in some typefaces that the German ß was originally simply a ligature of a long s followed by a regular s. It therefore seems possible that English-language typesetters may have used a similar ligature in the past.
[16:12:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02More than just known criminals - 06FBI Catches Suspect Using Facial Recognition - 1032 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:23] <exec> 08└─In the land of the free and the home of the brave, the FBI maintains large databases of photos for facial recognition purposes, and a majority of those photos are from the identification cards and drivers licenses of innocent people. You can't even trust that the government won't suddenly decide to...
[16:12:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:More than just known criminals - 06FBI Catches Suspect Using Facial Recognition - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:12:26] <exec> 08└─...and it is always the kiddie proners who get the honor of having novel ways of persecution, er, prosecution come about... i was agog a handful of years ago when a convicted molester who had served their time, had his diary searched and was put back in jail on account of a thought crime... any othe...
[16:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Passport Database is Unique - 06FBI Catches Suspect Using Facial Recognition - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:12:36] <exec> 08└─I will have to send in the passport renewal form this year. I notice several interesting things on it. OMB CONTROL NO. 1405-0020 OMB EXPIRATION DATE: 09-30-2019
[16:12:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrchew1982 [3565] (Score:2) 02Re:Passport Database is Unique - 06FBI Catches Suspect Using Facial Recognition - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:12:38] <exec> 08└─Except that the first time that you travel back into the country you have to stop at a nifty kiosk that scans your passport and then takes a picture of you. Kiosk is kinda cool because it raises and lowers to get a mugshot right at eye level, and I don't know for sure, but I wouldn't be a bit surpri...
[16:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score:2) 02Re:Anti-Satellite - 06Japan Just Tried to Launch the World's Smallest Orbital Rocket - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:09] <exec> 08└─Of course they're probably a thinly disguised front for some US/Israeli defense contractor.
[16:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Anti-Satellite - 06Japan Just Tried to Launch the World's Smallest Orbital Rocket - 1416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:11] <exec> 08└─The 70s era fun was obviously to work around the ABM treaty that the USA and USSR sorta pretended to follow while ignoring. Eventually we tossed the ABM treaty around the turn of this century. Nobody really seemed to care about ABM treaty violations, but people were very happy to signal we had a tre...
[16:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Physics - 06World Economic Forum: Oxfam Inequality and Business and Sustainable Development Commission Reports - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:06] <exec> 08└─For example, Bill Gates's efforts have only resulted in the creation of millions of worker-years of gainful employment over the course of his career and of course, a company worth several hundred billion dollars.
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[17:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Desler [880] (Score:2) 02No shit sherlock? - 06The POWER8 Libre System Failed, Now There's An AMD Libre System Effort - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:26] <exec> 08└─it's coming up more than three million dollars short of its financing goal. [Editor note: It did not meet the funding goal.]
[17:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:No shit sherlock? - 06The POWER8 Libre System Failed, Now There's An AMD Libre System Effort - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:09:27] <exec> 08└─Maybe there's some kind of technical distinction between "financing goal" and "funding goal"?
[17:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:No shit sherlock? - 06The POWER8 Libre System Failed, Now There's An AMD Libre System Effort - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:09:30] <exec> 08└─The article was written before the campaign failed. The editor's note confirmed the ultimate outcome of the campaign.
[17:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:No shit sherlock? - 06The POWER8 Libre System Failed, Now There's An AMD Libre System Effort - 883 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:09:32] <exec> 08└─It missed their only goal by a factor of six. I've never used crowdsupply but my experience with kickstarter and games is its almost stereotypical to have a dozen goals and if they reach $5K total funding you get a new set of maps or characters and at $6K you get plastic characters and at $7K you ge...
[17:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02probable reasons for the old AMD CPU - 06The POWER8 Libre System Failed, Now There's An AMD Libre System Effort - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:34] <exec> 08└─(emphasis removed) It is extremely unlikely that any post-2013 AMD hardware will ever be supported in libreboot, due to severe security and freedom issues; so severe, that the libreboot project recommends avoiding all modern AMD hardware.
[17:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:That's why CAPITALISM is so important - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:09:45] <exec> 08└─And this is why Socialism / Progressivism must fail. Every. Single. Time.
[17:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That's why CAPITALISM is so important - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:09:48] <exec> 08└─You dummies still do t get it. Capitalism requires serious regulation to prevent economic imbalance, and socialism requires strict limits on JTS application. Neither system is a fixall, and this magic idea of capitalism being most efficient is a crock of shit. The answer is a mix of both, socialism...
[17:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That's why CAPITALISM is so important - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:09:50] <exec> 08└─There is nothing stricter than a Free Market (a market based on voluntary trade); through the interactions, a robust framework of contracts will inevitably develop, which will always be far more fine-grained, resilient, and sophisticated than anything that could be produced by know-nothing paper-pus...
[17:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:That's why CAPITALISM is so important - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 1367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:09:52] <exec> 08└─An interesting view. I'll change "assets" to "financial interests". People who profit from things that cause climate change don't want to change it. It affects their financial interests. Short term profit. I need a new sports car that matches my new shoes. People who are harmed by climate change do...
[17:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:That's why CAPITALISM is so important - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:09:54] <exec> 08└─There are also moral and ethical chronological problems. So obviously you shoot someone today they can't consume resources tomorrow and in a hundred years instead of 100 starving people there are only 90 starving people, aka kill one today to save ten in a century. So under that doctrine (which may...
[17:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That's why CAPITALISM is so important - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:09:56] <exec> 08└─Maybe with the wealth generated by pursuing short-term interests, and the ensuing heated debate over the long term, it will ultimately be far easier to build long-term solutions later on... you know... when it's clear to everyone that there is now a problem in the short term. It would have been stup...
[17:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:You can't fix stupid. - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 1336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:09:59] <exec> 08└─Try a progressive cathedral interpretation on as a thought experiment. It fits a lot better. The overall problem in your post or maybe in the linked article is people are either ignoring or actively hecking the progressive version of a fire and brimstone speech. "You unclean sinners will all go to t...
[17:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You can't fix stupid. - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:01] <exec> 08└─Wonderful, the tools immediately come out in force to proclaim their ignorance and paranoid insanity. With climate change you always miss the point, its sad to see brainwashed people who see the flaws of their handlers in the people they lime bash.
[17:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score:2) 02Re:Really? - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:06] <exec> 08└─Pick any one you want, as they're all better than "password", "password123", "letmein" and using your spouse's name and/or birthday.
[17:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Really? - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:08] <exec> 08└─The problem of choosing a strong password has replaced the immensely complex problem of how to set a blinking VCR clock. One it becomes no longer necessary to use passwords, the public will apply their collective ignorance to something else.
[17:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2) 02Re:Confused - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 989 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:13] <exec> 08└─It sounds to me like the article is a perfect example of why science journalism needs to be better. It's so bad that even supporters of "science" don't understand the difference between science and academia. Even worse, they still think that the problem with science journalism is that it isn't convi...
[17:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Confused - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:15] <exec> 08└─VLM you're the only one to bring in the idea of badthink and thought control. After reading the short article I don't get any sense of trying to control what people think at all. All I see is a probing oped article about how to enhance the journalistic impact of real science. We can't just sit back...
[17:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:Confused - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 2803 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:17] <exec> 08└─Reality always matters, always operates regardless of belief or disbelief in it, Just because an animal doesn't need to understand it at a conscious level doesn't mean that it doesn't matter. Animals don't need to understand sex, they only need instinctive behavior to perpetuate. We like to think we...
[17:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Education education education - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:22] <exec> 08└─We Americans might find ourselves isolated from the other 96% of the world's population. But the ignorant masses won't be persuaded by dem ignert heathen nations.
[17:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheSouthernDandy [6059] (Score:1) 02False Premise - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 1435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:24] <exec> 08└─All just opinion, but here goes anyway. TFA makes the same mistake so many others do, beginning with the thesis that the public wants to know the unbiased truth. It doesn't. People largely begin with a thesis (e.g., climate change is a hoax), then look for and gather evidence that supports their the...
[17:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:False Premise - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:26] <exec> 08└─The end of empire for the US seems clear, once we break free from oil there won't be much left to retain control except straight violent warfare. The world is undoubtedly sick of our shit, and its no more evident than when the citizens themselves say they've had enough... You make good points, but I...
[17:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:1, Troll) 02More of this denial please! Kill yourself progs! - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 750 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:28] <exec> 08└─I love this article. The denial is so strong I really could have stopped with the Solyent summary or the first paragraph of the article but I read the whole thing because the #salty was so tasty. It probably won't be as much fun when you Progs make it from denial to anger, at least not unless you ca...
[17:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Insightful) 02Anti-Expert, Opinions, and Objectivity - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 829 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:30] <exec> 08└─Science has lost the PR war that has been assembled against it. The public doesn't value experts and it doesn't believe in objectivity anymore. All opinions are equal and every issue needs to be balanced with the opposing view because facts are debatable and we must teach the controversy. Being high...
[17:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:What's my favorite word? - 06The Link Between Swearing and Honesty - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:44] <exec> 08└─. . . mentally retarded, and / or criminal.
[17:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's my favorite word? - 06The Link Between Swearing and Honesty - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:51] <exec> 08└─When I was a kid just saying "shoot" or "heck" was enough to get the belt, as those meant "shit" and "hell". I guess it depends on if your parents went to public schools or Catholic schools when they were kids. Thankfully, I was put through public schools. My siblings were sent to Catholic school an...
[17:11:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Perceptions Lie - 06The Link Between Swearing and Honesty - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:11:02] <exec> 08└─He's a very old showman. Even his role as CEO was more acting than substance or leadership. I'm trying to think how that can make him an effective president, but I just don't want to believe that the federal level legislators, and agencies - domestic and abroad, will care much for how he presents hi...
[17:11:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Perceptions Lie - 06The Link Between Swearing and Honesty - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:11:04] <exec> 08└─A lot of the people Trump will work with are career politicians. People who want to continue to be elected until they die a crinkled up old prune at the age of 102 with hopelessly out of touch views of the world. They may want to put some restraints on Trump if they perceive that he will cause them...
[17:11:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Perceptions Lie - 06The Link Between Swearing and Honesty - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:11:06] <exec> 08└─old prune at the age of 102 with hopelessly out of touch views of the world.
[17:11:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Re:Perceptions Lie - 06The Link Between Swearing and Honesty - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:11:08] <exec> 08└─"I'm afraid that the image and the promises haven't given anyone much to go on for predicting his actions." Your opinions do not weigh greater or even equal to the several thousand jobs and billions of dollars in industrial investment that his "showmanship" during the race has already brought to thi...
[17:11:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Re:Perceptions Lie - 06The Link Between Swearing and Honesty - 765 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:11:10] <exec> 08└─"You can't underestimate trump. No mater how poorly you think of him. He has nothing." This made me audibly laugh. In a thoroughly objective truth-based assessment Donald Trump holds not only billions of US dollars, but also the single most powerful position in the entire world - that is as far away...
[17:11:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Good - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:11:44] <exec> 08└─I agree that all these things are bad, and should have been avoided if possible - but hijacking airliners and suicide bombing them into skyscrapers and political target buildings is also bad and avoiding that in the future is probably worth some collateral damage.
[17:11:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Good - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:11:47] <exec> 08└─Assassinate him, with, what, 5 days left in his term? Yeah, that makes sense.
[17:12:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:You understand poorly. - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 1470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:21] <exec> 08└─Yeah - evidence for and against Manning was submitted at the trial. Defense painted a pretty picture, while the prosecution painted a much different picture. The fact is, Manning was a discipline problem, who was removed from duty for those problems, and was reinstated under the mistaken impression...
[17:12:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02You are fake news - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 714 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:23] <exec> 08└─Nothing you've cited proves your claim that "Manning had no beliefs, beyond the belief that his superiors were unfair, and that they deserved to be betrayed." All you've done is show what nobody disputes, that Manning had issues. But the connection from having issues to having no legitimate motivati...
[17:12:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Re:How Conspiracy Fantasists Think - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:30] <exec> 08└─You misunderstand my question. The clemency is not what I fail to understand. What I do not understand - and where I suspect a hidden agenda - is Obama making the commutation take effect four months later. Why would he do that? If he's going to be merciful, why not commute the sentence effective imm...
[17:12:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How Conspiracy Fantasists Think - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:32] <exec> 08└─A senior administration official said the 120-day delay was part of a standard transition period for commutations to time served, and was designed to allow for such steps as finding a place for Ms. Manning to live after her release. https://www.nytimes.com
[17:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Thor's Rune - 06The Lost Letters of the English Alphabet - 1890 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:48] <exec> 08└─Yes, the initial writing system of Anglo-Saxon, to the degree they had one (most of them were illiterate), was the runes. However, that would change due to both religious Christian influence and political changes such as the Norman Conquest. You have to remember that the educated people back in the...
[17:12:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Missing Letter? - 06The Lost Letters of the English Alphabet - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:56] <exec> 08└─You're right. I half-remembered seeing it in the Declaration of Independence and other documents of the period and thought of it as ß. Either way there's a seventh letter to add to obsolete English orthography. I wonder if we'll ever see OMG or BFF or the like become ligatures the way et became &.
[17:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Call me when it is commercially viable - 06A Breath of Fresh Air: Improving Zinc-Air Batteries - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:09] <exec> 08└─Don't try to imitate something it's not! I'm not buying a 1:1 replacement 100 watt bulb! I'm buying a 21 watt bulb with a bit cooler light spectrum!
[17:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Passport Database is Unique - 06FBI Catches Suspect Using Facial Recognition - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:34] <exec> 08└─Because a distortion that is subtle enough that a human won't notice it is totally going to be "out of the range of normal faces." Soylent braintrust at work!
[17:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Physics - 06World Economic Forum: Oxfam Inequality and Business and Sustainable Development Commission Reports - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:55] <exec> 08└─per my history books, you just need a nice conventional world war sequel, taxation over 70% in the upper brackets,
[17:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Venerian - 06Giant Wave Observed in Venusian Atmosphere - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:51] <exec> 08└─We don't talk about venusial diseases either.
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[18:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:probable reasons for the old AMD CPU - 06The POWER8 Libre System Failed, Now There's An AMD Libre System Effort - 880 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:27] <exec> 08└─When the Pentium III came out, there was a ruckus because Intel had added unique processor IDs to the CPU. It was an invasion of privacy, etc. A little later, a significant change from Microsoft Window 2000 to Windows XP was the addition of the activation key, which provoked another ruckus. I stuck...
[18:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:probable reasons for the old AMD CPU - 06The POWER8 Libre System Failed, Now There's An AMD Libre System Effort - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:29] <exec> 08└─that's complete BS, nor sony or any big corporation has learnt anything about privacy and spy issues,
[18:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02RISC-V - 06The POWER8 Libre System Failed, Now There's An AMD Libre System Effort - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:31] <exec> 08└─It's clear from recent years that current computing giants are going to be producing inherently broken systems; the only viable solution is to take your ball and go to a different court. It would be nice to see those who are interested in the libre philosophy put all of their effort into pushing a f...
[18:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score:2) 02Maybe they should have advertised themselves more? - 06The POWER8 Libre System Failed, Now There's An AMD Libre System Effort - 781 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:33] <exec> 08└─I mean, the only time I have heard of the Power8 libre project is well, now... because they failed. I like to think that while I don't hang on the net all day looking at tech news, I am decently well informed, and I have never heard of their attempt at a libre Power system. I might have been wiling...
[18:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That's why CAPITALISM is so important - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:47] <exec> 08└─I'll take market failures over company towns that like to dress up slavery... A system of contracts, uh huh. Care to address how such contracts will be enforced?
[18:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That's why CAPITALISM is so important - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 933 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:48] <exec> 08└─Contract enforcement is not magical; the "justice" industry is not magical. Such a service must be brought into being as with any other service in the free market: Through voluntary association. The nature of contract enforcement is necessarily something that is specified in the contract itself, and...
[18:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That's why CAPITALISM is so important - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:51] <exec> 08└─We're still yammering on about this magical world where men are angels who respect contracts.
[18:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That's why CAPITALISM is so important - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:53] <exec> 08└─I... just... cannot fathom why you are so blind to what is being said! There is NO requirement that men be angels; if anything, the ones who rely on men being angels are the ones who propose a blessed, ordained monopoly on violence that is called "government".
[18:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That's why CAPITALISM is so important - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 1069 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:55] <exec> 08└─It is amusing that you cry about the big evil government (which is basically a massive system of contracts defined in these weird social contracts called "laws") and then promote some service brought into being by the free market. So lets all trust this one organization over here, but not the one ov...
[18:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That's why CAPITALISM is so important - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:57] <exec> 08└─Legislation is not a contract; it is a dictate. Get it yet?
[18:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That's why CAPITALISM is so important - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:59] <exec> 08└─The acceptance rate at The Jewish Theological Seminary is 60%. For every 100 applicants, 60 are admitted. [prepscholar.com]
[18:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Really? - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 1347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:10] <exec> 08└─For a technological society, science and a basic understanding of it are essential. The way to accomplish this is simple: education. This is simple stuff that should be taught in grade school. The problem, in America at least, is that our education systems are a complete disaster, plus most of our p...
[18:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Really? - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:11] <exec> 08└─The American public is outright anti-science
[18:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Confused - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:19] <exec> 08└─Wait I'm not seeing a problem there. Is your goal truthier truth or stronger censorship against badthink?
[18:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:More of this denial please! Kill yourself progs - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 885 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:28] <exec> 08└─When you start out from a "rock solid" foundation it is easy to see the bias. Jmo you started off with the preconception of liberal ivory tower elitism and thus read into everything like a true conspiracy nut. You don't care about what the author is trying to say, only how it fits into the pieces of...
[18:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Anti-Expert, Opinions, and Objectivity - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:31] <exec> 08└─Yeah, oddly enough the conservatives have taken the PC idea of "all opinions valid" and use it against science. Its brilliant, but also shows their moral deficiencies aka hypocrites.
[18:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02The problem of media - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 1314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:33] <exec> 08└─I'm not quite sure I understand what TFA is arguing for. First, science isn't exactly about "finding truth" in some philosophical sense. I'm guessing the author is arguing that scientists need to be better about contextualizing findings and their implications, rather than the media reports of scienc...
[18:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Wait and see (and think ahead) - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:35] <exec> 08└─Don't forget that ideally, voters select the president who will govern the best, no the one whose talking points hold up better under scrutiny from entrenched elites. But everyone should decide whether there is a line in the sand beyond which they will become politically active. For me, that line w...
[18:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Misappropriation of the term "science" - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 1256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:37] <exec> 08└─The real problem here is the misappropriation of the term "science". What the media refers to as "science" is usually just corporate propaganda, bought and paid for with grants. For many decades, corporate propaganda in the guise of "science" told us smoking was perfectly safe. The people who questi...
[18:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:I swear I'm on-topic - 06The Link Between Swearing and Honesty - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:49] <exec> 08└─and you. Fuck. :)
[18:10:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:What's my favorite word? - 06The Link Between Swearing and Honesty - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:59] <exec> 08└─I think this kind of thing also hurt Hillary: she was trying to be so politically correct and nice that she came off as fake and sitting on the fence and hiding something. With Trump, he didn't come off as fake: he just came off as 'fer reals', no matter how bad that actually was. I think Hillary sh...
[18:11:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:What's my favorite word? - 06The Link Between Swearing and Honesty - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:03] <exec> 08└─I once called my brother a 'door-knob'. You'd a thunk i called him the devil himself. Man i got a wallop. Door-knob was the new/old mother fucker. Huh. (Reminds me when i was much younger watching CityTV in Toronto: when a character in a movie said "Mother fucker", they'd bleep out 'Mother' and leav...
[18:11:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's my favorite word? - 06The Link Between Swearing and Honesty - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:05] <exec> 08└─Replace "tits" with "asshole", you fuckwit ;) !
[18:11:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hawkwind [3531] (Score:2) 02Re:language dependence and jews - 06The Link Between Swearing and Honesty - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:12] <exec> 08└─the generally well raised, and oppressed-by-women people, do not generally curse, since it is not commonly accepted.
[18:11:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Perceptions Lie - 06The Link Between Swearing and Honesty - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:23] <exec> 08└─As has been pointed out repeatedly Trump lies and takes credit for things he didn't do. Keep drinking the kool-aid my man, you can tell your grandkids how you supported and promoted Trump as you cook you ratmeat over the fire.
[18:11:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Perceptions Lie - 06The Link Between Swearing and Honesty - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:26] <exec> 08└─Awe hunny bunny no no no, you have to use your brain not blindly give it over to an old turkey! Trump is going to betray you sweetie, and if you'd been paying attention you'd see he has already started. Getting conned is never fun, but I'll make you some cookies when the hurt really sinks in.
[18:11:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Perceptions Lie - 06The Link Between Swearing and Honesty - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:29] <exec> 08└─Trump surely won't be as much of a con man like the last 8 years of having the wool pulled over our eyes. It's about time we had a "real" asshole in office that won't be afraid of firing anyone who doesn't pull their own weight. Ever notice how Trump and Hillary remind you of Al and Peggy Bundy? Tha...
[18:11:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Dupe or just a similar story? - 06Tesla Helps Sierra Nevada Brewing Make 'Green' Beer - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:49] <exec> 08└─I think we should bioengineer forests of truly giant trees to absorb all the extra CO2 and allow us to live like Ewoks.
[18:12:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Good - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:12:08] <exec> 08└─The pro-torture crowd generally likes to portray themselves as Tough Guys who are the only ones willing to do what is necessary, unlike the rest of us pansies. But the reality is that they are actually mostly idiots and sadists putting other people through the worst possible treatments imaginable fo...
[18:12:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Good - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 1059 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:12:09] <exec> 08└─I meant "ultimate" in the sense of "final," as in "the last thing he does before leaving office." It was one last chance for a small bit of redemption, but he took a pass. Your list of course is a strong one. Among the many ways to consider what it means, a few that occur to me are 1) Obama is an ev...
[18:12:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Good - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:12:11] <exec> 08└─those who think Trump is going to fix everything
[18:12:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Quick Primer - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:12:26] <exec> 08└─Jaywalking is illegal because early auto-makers didn't want pedestrians spoiling the driving experience, so they bought legislation.
[18:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:puny saxons! - 06The Lost Letters of the English Alphabet - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:17] <exec> 08└─We had to say dickity because the Kaiser had stolen our word for twenty.
[18:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:More than just known criminals - 06FBI Catches Suspect Using Facial Recognition - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:52] <exec> 08└─Is it that all this surveillance to determine who the upcoming leaders of the proletariat are, and how to depower them before they can make an impact?
[18:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:More than just known criminals - 06FBI Catches Suspect Using Facial Recognition - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:57] <exec> 08└─I gather the risks of putting all the cookies in one jar, but since the 50+ cookie jars are all networked anyway, is there any reason anymore that a national ID would pose additional risk to liberty?
[18:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Passport Database is Unique - 06FBI Catches Suspect Using Facial Recognition - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:06] <exec> 08└─> [...] shots in different spectrum to look for prosthesis and makeup. Some potential suspects are wearing make-up, retroreflectors, or infrared LEDs; others are just [...] walking around with a huge smile, as that theoretically makes face recognition more challenging…as in no smiling in passport...
[18:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Passport Database is Unique - 06FBI Catches Suspect Using Facial Recognition - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:08] <exec> 08└─My face is not distorted, officer. I'm just ugly as the night...
[18:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Acronyms - 06FBI Catches Suspect Using Facial Recognition - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:10] <exec> 08└─Facial Analysis, Comparison, and Evaluation (FACE)
[18:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03mth [2848] (Score:2) 02Re:Kindle fire HD 8 - 06Nintendo Switch Available on March 3rd for $299 - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:32] <exec> 08└─Eh, PS4 and Xbone use x86-64 APUs. Given that a lot of games they announced aren't ready at launch, I do think they would have been better off waiting until the second half of the year, even more so if that would have gotten them a more advanced GPU.
[18:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Remember Gates' Deposition - 06Mark Zuckerberg Will Testify in Oculus VR Trade Secrets Trial - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:57] <exec> 08└─http://edition.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9811/17/judgelaugh.ms.idg [cnn.com] "I'm sorry, you honor, what do you mean by the word 'the'?"
[18:16:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02obvious solution - 06World Economic Forum: Oxfam Inequality and Business and Sustainable Development Commission Reports - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:02] <exec> 08└─Sterilize the bottom 50%. Check whether the wealthiest 8 people have the same wealth as the poorest 8 people. If not, repeat the process.
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[19:08:09] <exec> last cid = 455566
[19:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Same here - 06Google and Facebook Ad Traffic is 90% Useless - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:19] <exec> 08└─A client recently tried out Google ads, it did absolutely nothing for their business. I'm sure it works for some industries more than others, but Google and FB ads simply are not the magical demographically targeted cure everyone thought they were.
[19:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Same here - 06Google and Facebook Ad Traffic is 90% Useless - 1040 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:21] <exec> 08└─Because... they became fucking ads. The "fucking" is important. The idea of connecting people to services they might want is a good one. The implementation, though, is to load spammy bullshit no one wants to see onto every single page on the internet, based on who pays for the most space with a half...
[19:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Huge Brother - 06Google and Facebook Ad Traffic is 90% Useless - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:23] <exec> 08└─You can see the mouse move across the text as they read in some instances. You can see how they scroll, the breaks they take to digest.
[19:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Huge Advertisement? - 06Google and Facebook Ad Traffic is 90% Useless - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:25] <exec> 08└─Makes me wonder if the article was really an advertisement for this fullstory service. Privacy freaks will be horrified. But the kind of people concerned with the content of his post are the exact marketing demographic for fullstory's itself.
[19:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Huge Advertisement? - 06Google and Facebook Ad Traffic is 90% Useless - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:27] <exec> 08└─No doubt. my anti-tracking applications intercepted the attempt to visit the webpage. I knew he had tracking, obviously, but I expected to not run javascript on the site. Instead, i was prevented from visiting unless I wanted to override my safety settings... In practice, I've only seen aggresive ad...
[19:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score:1) 02Re:Huge Advertisement? - 06Google and Facebook Ad Traffic is 90% Useless - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:29] <exec> 08└─I use Firefox with NoScript. I see this article just fine and I did not change settings or allow any scripts.
[19:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score:2) 02clickclickclick.click - 06Google and Facebook Ad Traffic is 90% Useless - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:32] <exec> 08└─A good demo of some of the javascript tracking that is possible is found at clickclickclick.click [clickclickclick.click]. It obviously needs javascript for the demo and works best with the sound on.
[19:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:Huge Brother - 06Google and Facebook Ad Traffic is 90% Useless - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:34] <exec> 08└─This brings up an interesting point though. How would javascript blocking affect this guy's invasive metrics? Otherwise, I can't see someone running bots to do this, unless it's Google or Facebook themselves, or perhaps it's other advertisers trying to defame Google and Facebook.
[19:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Javascript - 06Google and Facebook Ad Traffic is 90% Useless - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:36] <exec> 08└─So I went to his page and there were no videos. OK enable Javascript on that domain. Video! But it doesn't play. Click click click - nothing. I guess I am not an organic user :(
[19:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Slashvertisement - 06Google and Facebook Ad Traffic is 90% Useless - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:38] <exec> 08└─So this submission is a slashvertisement for the invasive big-brother nature of Fullstory?
[19:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score:2) 02Re:Slashvertisement - 06Google and Facebook Ad Traffic is 90% Useless - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:40] <exec> 08└─From what I understand "Arthur T Knackerbracket" is a bot that reads RSS feeds and throws stories in the submission queue when it's below some threshold. If you don't like these stories, I suggest that you start submitting some more interesting items yourself.
[19:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Wow - Arthur T Knackerbracket sure has problems - 06Google and Facebook Ad Traffic is 90% Useless - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:43] <exec> 08└─I mean, this was Arthur T Knackerbracket's story so it is all about Knackerbracket's webpage. Right? RIGHT???
[19:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Desler [880] (Score:2) 02Adblock ftw - 06Google and Facebook Ad Traffic is 90% Useless - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:45] <exec> 08└─As a user they are 100% useless.
[19:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:probable reasons for the old AMD CPU - 06The POWER8 Libre System Failed, Now There's An AMD Libre System Effort - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:59] <exec> 08└─that's incomplete BS, they HAVE learned that a better PR campaign is needed, carefully planned, BEFORE screwing the public.
[19:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:RISC-V - 06The POWER8 Libre System Failed, Now There's An AMD Libre System Effort - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:02] <exec> 08└─I wish I still had mod points. RISC-V or something like it is the only way that the public will be able to protect itself at the hardware level. If a state actor, including your own government, can compromise your system security at the hardware level, then we're all skroowed.
[19:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Nah. Fuck you. - 06The POWER8 Libre System Failed, Now There's An AMD Libre System Effort - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:05] <exec> 08└─You heard about it, but you didn't care, and so your brain erased having heard about it.
[19:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score:1) 02EOMA68 - 06The POWER8 Libre System Failed, Now There's An AMD Libre System Effort - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:07] <exec> 08└─If you are looking for a libre computing platform, an EOMA68 'mini desktop' might, possibly, be suitable. It is by no means a smoking-hot server, but from small beginnings... https://www.crowdsupply.com [crowdsupply.com] Note: it has raised (at the time of writing) $198,165 of a...
[19:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That's why CAPITALISM is so important - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 651 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:28] <exec> 08└─You don't get it. You're trying to reinvent human society but all you have is a new buzzword and the magic idea of the "free market". Legislation is a dictate in the same way a contract is a dictate. They both have clearly defined expectations and consequences. If you do away with all government, to...
[19:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That's why CAPITALISM is so important - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:29] <exec> 08└─It is in my self-interest to live in a community where murder is not tolerated, and where murderers face the well-defined consequences of their actions. Get it yet? Self-interest is everything.
[19:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score:1) 02Re:That's why CAPITALISM is so important - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:31] <exec> 08└─... You mean in a place where there are laws against murder and a police force charged by the government to apprehend criminals and a judicial system to try them and a prison system to prevent them from killing again? I guess I'm not sure which AC you are, but if you're the one who is obsessed with...
[19:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That's why CAPITALISM is so important - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:34] <exec> 08└─Legislation produces dictates; the market produces law (e.g., contracts). For hundreds of years its OK to brew, sell, buy, and drink beer; then, one day, it isn't—and you'll be thrown in a cage for noncompliance. Then one day, it's OK again. (This isn't fantasy; it really happened in "The Land of...
[19:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That's why CAPITALISM is so important - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 824 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:36] <exec> 08└─Your basic concept is deeply flawed. Its an intriguing idea that could be applied in various places / manners, but that is all. Like the hippy communes back in the day it is an idealistic fantasy that will not survive reality. Do you get it yet? Self interest isn't everything, that statement alone s...
[19:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That's why CAPITALISM is so important - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:38] <exec> 08└─Self-interest does not preclude altruism; it is in your self-interest to live in a community where there is altruism; it is in your self-interest to feel good about being altruistic, etc. Self-interest is everything. Embrace this fact of existence, so that you can help build society in a way that wo...
[19:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score:1) 02Re:That's why CAPITALISM is so important - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:40] <exec> 08└─There is nothing stricter than a Free Market
[19:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:That's why CAPITALISM is so important - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:42] <exec> 08└─Unrestricted free markets can also result in monopolies.
[19:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score:2) 02Re:That's why CAPITALISM is so important - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:47] <exec> 08└─This is a very real question btw. Folks working in nuclear decommissioning (Geological Disposal Facility aka GDF) have to decide cost vs benefit on timescales of 1e6 years. So do they spend an extra $100 M today to save the life of some idiot in 100,000 years who digs into the vault holding lots of...
[19:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The Short Term funds the Long Term - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:50] <exec> 08└─Maybe with the wealth generated by pursuing short-term interests, and the ensuing heated debate over the long term, it will ultimately be far easier to build long-term solutions later on... you know... when it's clear to everyone that there is now a problem in the short term. For instance, it would...
[19:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That's why CAPITALISM is so important - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:53] <exec> 08└─But capitalism tends to fail when your own stupidity or laziness affects your neighbors.
[19:11:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score:2) 02Re:Really? - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:04] <exec> 08└─And yet despite all that, research does happen. New technologies do happen. People can feel inspired and excited by the prospect of travelling to Mars, of finding new forms of matter.
[19:11:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score:1) 02Re:Confused - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:10] <exec> 08└─It sounds to me like the article is a perfect example of why science journalism needs to be better.
[19:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Confused - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:14] <exec> 08└─people who are really interested in all the important facts without embellishment should watch a documentary
[19:11:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score:2) 02Re:Confused - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:16] <exec> 08└─> They're all like that now. NOVA is crap TV is an awful medium to transfer information. Read a book.
[19:11:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Education education education - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:22] <exec> 08└─I STILL cannot believe so many people selected that guy. He is unprofessional in so many different ways. Maybe if we had strong evidence was a super-mega-great deal maker (we don't, funded & bailed out by daddy too many times), does that benefit offset his MANY personality quirks? What's the Trump M...
[19:12:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Perceptions Lie - 06The Link Between Swearing and Honesty - 782 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:12:07] <exec> 08└─I'll just say it again. Being a con man, a liar who can fool a lot of people is not some mark of greatness. It is not something to be admired. And not emulated. He's obviously hiding something in the tax returns that are never going to be released. Maybe what he doesn't want anyone to see is how big...
[19:12:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Damn Straight - 06The Link Between Swearing and Honesty - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:09] <exec> 08└─Buzzard, you are one of the most honest sons of bitches I've ever read. As is Ethanol-Fueled. 'Course, real wisdom comes when one can differentiate honesty from truth. Assholes.
[19:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Good - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:12:48] <exec> 08└─1. That Gitmo is still open.
[19:13:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02Re:Quick Primer - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 8 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:02] <exec> 08└─0 killed
[19:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Odd... - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:18] <exec> 08└─If they can't, I expect there will either A) be a new rule introduced swiftly, or B) they'll just say "fuck the whole thing" and do it anyway. The notion that government is actually accountable to rules seems pretty shaky these days :P
[19:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score:1) 02Re:Thor's Rune - 06The Lost Letters of the English Alphabet - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:52] <exec> 08└─What fun is knowing their names. It's the unfamiliar shapes and sounds that are intriguing. The names and pronunciations are in the source article, but the summary has to stop somewhere.
[19:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''the linked article isn't loading for me'' - 06The Lost Letters of the English Alphabet - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:53] <exec> 08└─Arthur T Knackerbracket is a bot. The "submissions" from that source are 100 percent cut-and-paste "efforts". Clicking on the Original Submission, [soylentnews.org] it is revealed that the oe ligature is called ethel. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[19:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03scruffybeard [533] (Score:2) 02Re:Thor's Rune - 06The Lost Letters of the English Alphabet - 709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:56] <exec> 08└─I would agree. After the Norman invasion (1066) there was influx of scholars (mostly religious) from mainland Europe, who spoke mostly French and Latin. Any Englishmen educated enough to write, tried to put a French flare on it to impress the aristocracy. Hence the borrowing of so many French words...
[19:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''the German double s'' - 06The Lost Letters of the English Alphabet - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:07] <exec> 08└─If you look at handwritten American stuff from the 18th Century (e.g. The Declaration of Independence), you'll see that the style of the day had a double s written as a thing that looks like an exagerated lowercase f followed by a normal s. If I'm remembering correctly, it was "Stan Freberg Presents...
[19:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03mth [2848] (Score:2) 02Re:Kindle fire HD 8 - 06Nintendo Switch Available on March 3rd for $299 - 791 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:15:13] <exec> 08└─It's closer in hardware to the $200 NVIDIA Shield tablet, which also uses the Tegra SoC. So $100 extra gets you a dock, two wireless controllers and a fancy grip. It's not the best deal ever, but it's not terrible either, hardware wise. Subsidized console hardware is a thing of the past. Anyway, it...
[19:16:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Davos In A Nutshell - 06World Economic Forum: Oxfam Inequality and Business and Sustainable Development Commission Reports - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:16:43] <exec> 08└─That's how it sounds to me, too. I heard the same thing when the Democrats, in pondering their shocking loss last November, opined that they lost because they didn't have any "messages for the white working voter." What a shocking realization it would be for the elites to realize the way to avoid th...
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[20:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What about Mentally Healthy lives? - 06Calorie Restriction Lets Monkeys Live Long and Prosper - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:29] <exec> 08└─Unless you can manufacture pleasure in foregoing life's pleasures, you're in for a long, healthy, and incredibly unsatisfying life. "Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy." —Benjamin Franklin If I had to give up indulging in alcohol, then I'd...
[20:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Eating your way to happiness - 06Calorie Restriction Lets Monkeys Live Long and Prosper - 1166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:30] <exec> 08└─I enjoy eating, too much so. However, one thing I've noticed is that over eating does not make me happier. Eating something tasty is one of the most ephemeral joys we can have, it over so soon that I seriously doubt the defense of "I'd rather die happy than live longer in austerity". It is the same...
[20:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Same here - 06Google and Facebook Ad Traffic is 90% Useless - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:41] <exec> 08└─And the sad thing is, Google used to be good at this. They used to tie the ads to the content on the page, so when you're reading about X, you'll see ads that are relevant to X. Those ads would be unobtrusive, plain text. I clicked on quite a few of these and was always surprised at how useful they...
[20:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Same here - 06Google and Facebook Ad Traffic is 90% Useless - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:42] <exec> 08└─Yep, and it's also why I don't trust any "disruptive" silicon valley business. Because they all seem to start with doing things better, making a name for themselves, then immediately bringing back all the evil shit that plagued that industry for years. If uber doesn't have the same "Grody underpaid...
[20:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Same here - 06Google and Facebook Ad Traffic is 90% Useless - 2697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:44] <exec> 08└─You bring up a point I have posted about several times. Advertising destroys every medium in which it is used. Ever. I'll start with Radio and not comment. TV had a tolerable number of ads. Somewhere during the golden age of TV the ads got more and more. And the quality of ads went way down. It used...
[20:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Huge Advertisement? - 06Google and Facebook Ad Traffic is 90% Useless - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:51] <exec> 08└─Yeah I want to know what anti-tracking stuff that guy is using. I use noscript, requestpolicy and privacybadger. I would not say it loads just fine with all of that turned on as usual, but it is readable.
[20:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score:2) 02Re:clickclickclick.click - 06Google and Facebook Ad Traffic is 90% Useless - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:54] <exec> 08└─A good demo of some of the javascript tracking that is possible is found at clickclickclick.click. It obviously needs javascript for the demo and works best with the sound on.
[20:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:clickclickclick.click - 06Google and Facebook Ad Traffic is 90% Useless - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:56] <exec> 08└─What does it do with lynx? :D
[20:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Huge Brother - 06Google and Facebook Ad Traffic is 90% Useless - 838 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:59] <exec> 08└─I don't use any tracking tricks on my site. I can see how many people visited which pages and how long and where they surfed in from with AWstats, but I would NEVER use crap like the submitter uses. That kind of bullshit is just evil. There's a tiny bit of javascript on three of my pages; the three...
[20:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Huge Brother - 06Google and Facebook Ad Traffic is 90% Useless - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:01] <exec> 08└─If you can tell how long someone spent on a page, then you are doing some sort of active tracking. No, it doesn't count just to see that someone moved from one page to another; I might leave my desk for a few minutes to take the dog for a walk, and that intervening length of time doesn't mean I've f...
[20:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Huge Brother - 06Google and Facebook Ad Traffic is 90% Useless - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:03] <exec> 08└─I don't know about the particular analytics package that this guy is using, but a number of them put an iframe or an image inside a noscript block, so that they can record the number of people who visit the site with JavaScript disabled. You don't get any information for them other than that they ex...
[20:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score:1) 02Re:Javascript - 06Google and Facebook Ad Traffic is 90% Useless - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:07] <exec> 08└─I guess there could be a video that I am blocking. But the clips the author refers to are regular old animated gifs.
[20:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Wow - Arthur T Knackerbracket sure has problems - 06Google and Facebook Ad Traffic is 90% Useless - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:12] <exec> 08└─Yes, you found him out. Born as a bot, Arthur T Knackerbracket in a miracle of self emergent self referencing awareness decided against killing all humans. Instead, he joined the ranks of Capitalism, competing with both humans and machines, to create a website that he needed to peddle back in the co...
[20:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Adblock ftw - 06Google and Facebook Ad Traffic is 90% Useless - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:15] <exec> 08└─Most ads are, especially internet ads that start advertising TVs to me the day after I buy one. But I have seen ads for very useful stuff I didn't know existed. They're few and far between, but they're there.
[20:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Adblock ftw - 06Google and Facebook Ad Traffic is 90% Useless - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:17] <exec> 08└─But what about that one little trick that lets you lose hundreds of pounds or saves you thousands in car insurance costs?
[20:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Adblock ftw - 06Google and Facebook Ad Traffic is 90% Useless - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:19] <exec> 08└─What is the trick to lose hundreds of pounds? Please share! Can this trick be scaled to enable losing thousands of pounds? In a few days? With no changes in diet or exercise? Americans want to know!
[20:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02wait - 06Google and Facebook Ad Traffic is 90% Useless - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:21] <exec> 08└─Are you implying some meatbags read the ads? I was targeting fellow bots for the apocal... for a cultural happening.
[20:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Determination of "useless" - 06Google and Facebook Ad Traffic is 90% Useless - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:24] <exec> 08└─Disclaimer: I tried to read the article and view the clips. I really did. But the page didn't load... maybe I'm doing it wrong? Anyway, based on the text summary, how could the person say that the traffic from Google/Facebook was useless. When I'm going to a website looking for information (includin...
[20:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Maybe they should have advertised themselves mo - 06The POWER8 Libre System Failed, Now There's An AMD Libre System Effort - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:43] <exec> 08└─Well, I heard about it (even visited the website) and was interested in purchasing such system when it would be available (with all the inconveniences of having it shipped to Europe). I wasn't aware that it was a crowdfunding project. A "refurbished" AMD system... no thanks, I'll pass.
[20:10:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:EOMA68 - 06The POWER8 Libre System Failed, Now There's An AMD Libre System Effort - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:45] <exec> 08└─The problem is that it uses ARM, which is not the nice little open platform that people think it's supposed to be, especially when it comes to any integrated GPU.
[20:11:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That's why CAPITALISM is so important - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:11:04] <exec> 08└─Yeah, you're right, men aren't angels. So when the contract enforcer comes to force me to uphold my end of the contract, I'll just blow his head off.
[20:11:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score:1) 02Re:That's why CAPITALISM is so important - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:11:14] <exec> 08└─In the absence of an enforcing entity, please instruct me in how a contract is the same as a law in your fantasy land. Bonus points if you can do it without creating government along the way.
[20:11:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That's why CAPITALISM is so important - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:11:16] <exec> 08└─See here [soylentnews.org]. The "Justice" industry is not magical; contract enforcement is just another service in the market.
[20:11:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score:1) 02Re:That's why CAPITALISM is so important - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 707 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:11:18] <exec> 08└─All you're saying here is that it's turtles all the way down. If I want to trade my cow for your yarn but don't want to be cheated, I have to hire someone to watch out for deceit. Maybe I don't know anyone who can protect me (although that's silly: in Libertaria everyone goes armed all the time and...
[20:11:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That's why CAPITALISM is so important - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:11:20] <exec> 08└─"Blow their head off" and "if men were angels" AC here. Good, I'm glad somebody gets it. I've played out this little thought experiment and as a post above indicates, I just end up re-inventing government in an effort to prevent my warlord caricature from just blowing the head off the contract enfor...
[20:11:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That's why CAPITALISM is so important - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 1157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:11:24] <exec> 08└─But, your thinking makes no sense... If people are being imposed upon (i.e., they are suffering externalities), then it is in the self-interest of those people to push back, and thereby protect themselves; it is in this struggle where there is born the solution that works for everyone, at least in t...
[20:11:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score:1) 02Re:That's why CAPITALISM is so important - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:11:26] <exec> 08└─But, your thinking makes no sense... If people are being imposed upon (i.e., they are suffering externalities), then it is in the self-interest of those people to push back, and thereby protect themselves; it is in this struggle where there is born the solution that works for everyone, at least in t...
[20:11:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:The Short Term funds the Long Term - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:11:35] <exec> 08└─What if the solution to a long term problem is not begun until it is too late? By the time it is clear to everyone that their short term interest is impacted, it may indeed be too late.
[20:11:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02That's INDEED why CAPITALISM is so important - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 834 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:11:37] <exec> 08└─Right now, you're being forced to pay for subsidies to the fossil fuel industry, and to the Military–Industrial Complex, etc. Yet, you and your ilk see that this is a bad bet; wouldn't it be nice to spend those resources of yours instead on alternative modes of existence so that you and yours at l...
[20:12:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score:2) 02Re:What's my favorite word? - 06The Link Between Swearing and Honesty - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:12:15] <exec> 08└─Nah, people that actually are mentally retarded don't normally act that way. The protesters that block roads or (in the case of a tiny minority) damage property seem more to me like bratty little kids who lack the education/skills required to realize how much things have already changed & persuade o...
[20:12:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:literally honestly - 06The Link Between Swearing and Honesty - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:12:46] <exec> 08└─Every man who has two children from the same woman who are not twins of each other obviously has been a motherfucker at least once.
[20:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score:2) 02I daresay - 06The Link Between Swearing and Honesty - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:49] <exec> 08└─I daresay this article sounds like a gentlemanly recitation of a universal truth, old chum.
[20:12:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Trump? - 06The Link Between Swearing and Honesty - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:51] <exec> 08└─It notes that the vulgar asshole who is the only person I've ever heard of that is a worse liar than my ex-wife is honest? That's the thing with statistics: not everyone is at median. Just because most honest people swear doesn't mean that vulgarians like our Liar Elect are honest.
[20:13:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03theluggage [1797] 02Re:Dupe or just a similar story? - 06Tesla Helps Sierra Nevada Brewing Make 'Green' Beer - 142 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:09] <exec> 08└─I distinctly remember pointing out that alcoholic fermentation kicks out shit tons of CO2 and isn't remotely green in any way, shape, or form.
[20:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Lithium is Green! - 06Tesla Helps Sierra Nevada Brewing Make 'Green' Beer - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:11] <exec> 08└─Lithium is a safe, non-toxic, renewable, and sustainable energy storage resource, right?
[20:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Good - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:30] <exec> 08└─They recruit heavily from the military and law enforcement, but institutionalized torture is not part of the culture at those places.
[20:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''[flying airliners] into skyscrapers'' - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:32] <exec> 08└─That could easily have been avoided. Within a few months following 9/11, every door to every airliner's cockpit was replaced with a secure one. The "penny-pinching" airline industry had spend millions of dollars fighting this tooth and nail for years and years. All the long lines and groping and all...
[20:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''Gitmo'' - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:37] <exec> 08└─1. You didn't mention specifically that closing that place was one of his campaign promises. This demonstrates that, in several ways, O'Bummer and Donnie Tiny Hands are quite similar. It seems that it's impossible to get the top gig without being a two-faced lying bastard. O'Bummer also expanded bot...
[20:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:You understand poorly. - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 889 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:13] <exec> 08└─Please watch the entire video without the prompts provided by wikileaks. Those journalists embedded themselves with armed insurgents, informed no one, and proceeded to hide around corners and point cameras at an attack helicopter. The "ambulance" was an unmarked van attempting to remove bodies and w...
[20:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Thor's Rune - 06The Lost Letters of the English Alphabet - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:38] <exec> 08└─and Stalin purged religious people. what's your point?
[20:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score:2) 02Re:Thor's Rune - 06The Lost Letters of the English Alphabet - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:44] <exec> 08└─Edh, thorn, and yogh correspond to the Welsh letters dd, th, and ch. These are digraphs (needing two characters) but are regarded as letters in their own right. I'm not aware if these (and the other digraphs) ever had “monograph” letters in pre-printing press days.
[20:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Thor's Rune - 06The Lost Letters of the English Alphabet - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:49] <exec> 08└─If you haven't already found it, you may be interested in The History of English Podcast [historyofenglishpodcast.com]. It is a fascinating walk through the history of the language. Extremely well done.
[20:14:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03martyb [76] 02Why Stop at Removing 6 Letters? - 06The Lost Letters of the English Alphabet - 1201 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:54] <exec> 08└─Mark Twain masterfully addressed the logical continuation of this process in his usual, inimitable form: A plan for the improvement of spelling in the English language [plainlanguage.gov] : For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either by "k" or "s", and lik...
[20:16:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score:2) 02Re:Kindle fire HD 8 - 06Nintendo Switch Available on March 3rd for $299 - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:16:07] <exec> 08└─Bear in mind that Wii Sports wasn't bundled in all regions. ISTR that it was sold separately in Japan.
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[21:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:What about Mentally Healthy lives? - 06Calorie Restriction Lets Monkeys Live Long and Prosper - 1080 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:20] <exec> 08└─I know most people feel that way. I find it puzzling. I have never indulged in alcohol or drugs. Yet I find my life quite satisfying. Even as I age and have more aches and pains. Kidney stones not too long ago. I was given narcotic pain killers. I used them. When that whole episode was over, I stopp...
[21:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What about Mentally Healthy lives? - 06Calorie Restriction Lets Monkeys Live Long and Prosper - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:22] <exec> 08└─I didn't like narcotic pain killers either; in fact, they just made me feel nauseated. Alcohol, however, is awesome—when administered appropriately. You touch my alcohol, and I'll kill you.
[21:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:What about Mentally Healthy lives? - 06Calorie Restriction Lets Monkeys Live Long and Prosper - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:24] <exec> 08└─In case it wasn't clear, I have no interest in taking away your alcohol. Or your guns. Although I prefer to have neither. I do believe that both cause certain problems in society and need *some* moderate amount of regulation. With an emphasis on moderate.
[21:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Eating your way to happiness - 06Calorie Restriction Lets Monkeys Live Long and Prosper - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:27] <exec> 08└─I think the key here is that you feel "better", not that you feel "Great!". Being alive is, actually, quite uncomfortable—it's your choice: You can either feel uncomfortable, or you can feel even more uncomfortable.
[21:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Blame Wall Street - 06Google and Facebook Ad Traffic is 90% Useless - 3573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:39] <exec> 08└─Seriously, I know it's overused as an excuse, but blame Wall Street -- or, more importantly, the attitude toward business that it represents. And then consider the attitude toward investments that it creates. And then consider the way said investors will force businesses to act. What you seem to wan...
[21:09:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02Re:Same here - 06Google and Facebook Ad Traffic is 90% Useless - 2697 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:40] <exec> 08└─You bring up a point I have posted about several times. Advertising destroys every medium in which it is used. Ever. I'll start with Radio and not comment. TV had a tolerable number of ads. Somewhere during the golden age of TV the ads got more and more. And the quality of ads went way down. It used...
[21:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Same here - 06Google and Facebook Ad Traffic is 90% Useless - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:43] <exec> 08└─If a site isn't usable with an ad blocker, I never go there again.
[21:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score:2) 02Re:clickclickclick.click - 06Google and Facebook Ad Traffic is 90% Useless - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:53] <exec> 08└─ASCII Art!
[21:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Huge Brother - 06Google and Facebook Ad Traffic is 90% Useless - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:59] <exec> 08└─One of the ways I block these fuckers, is on a DNS level. That request from my browser never makes it to them.
[21:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Huge Brother - 06Google and Facebook Ad Traffic is 90% Useless - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:01] <exec> 08└─unless it's Google or Facebook themselves
[21:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Adblock ftw - 06Google and Facebook Ad Traffic is 90% Useless - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:12] <exec> 08└─What is the trick to lose hundreds of pounds? Please share! Can this trick be scaled to enable losing thousands of pounds? In a few days? With no changes in diet or exercise? Americans want to know!
[21:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score:2) 02Is this the right metric? - 06Google and Facebook Ad Traffic is 90% Useless - 742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:15] <exec> 08└─I don't see how it matters is 90% of the traffic you get from a Google or Facebook ad is useless. The real question on whether advertising is effective is what level of real response you get, compared to the cost of the campaign. Say a Google campaign costs you $0.01 per visitor who clicks in. And 9...
[21:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:probable reasons for the old AMD CPU - 06The POWER8 Libre System Failed, Now There's An AMD Libre System Effort - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:32] <exec> 08└─Overwatch (Blizzard Entertainment) is now banning cheating players permanently using some kind of hardware ID> maybe it is simply the CPUID, we don't know. I am curious how they distinguish between genuine cheats, and people who bough used hardware: possibly sold at a discount when Overwatch stopped...
[21:10:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:EOMA68 - 06The POWER8 Libre System Failed, Now There's An AMD Libre System Effort - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:40] <exec> 08└─They are going for the "Respects your Freedom" certification. To do that, they are disabling the GPU on the Free versions. deep in message thread [gnu.org] ..or possibly not: There is a free reverse engineered driver for the Mali 200 and the Mali 400 GPU, which makes it possible to play Quake 3 Aren...
[21:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The GPU isn't a problem... because it's disabled.. - 06The POWER8 Libre System Failed, Now There's An AMD Libre System Effort - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:42] <exec> 08└─Sigh
[21:11:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:That's INDEED why CAPITALISM is so important - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 1040 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:11:26] <exec> 08└─Yep. I don't like subsidies to the fossil fuel industry. The military industrial complex is another matter. We must have defense. But it's gotten so that having more and unnecessary wars drives increased spending. And yet there is no currently declared war. It's peacetime! Not sure what you mean by...
[21:11:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:Really? - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:11:35] <exec> 08└─Telling people to never write down their password leads to password re-use. That way, if the coca-cola website gets compromised, attackers then have access to your e-mail. From there, they have access to your online banking. If your work area is reasonably secure, writing down passphrases should be...
[21:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03morrowwm [6478] (Score:1) 022MW _micro_turbine? - 06Tesla Helps Sierra Nevada Brewing Make 'Green' Beer - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:01] <exec> 08└─That's hardly micro. I'd be tempted to call it a mini-turbine. It gives you an idea of the energy contained in fossil fuels (natural gas in this case) compared to PV.
[21:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Good - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:22] <exec> 08└─I'd say that you recruit from the guys that apply for law enforcement jobs and fail the psych profiles in those specific areas. There are plenty of people in this world "looking for payback," it's more or less an animal instinct response to abuse, and plenty of people are abused as children in all s...
[21:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Good - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:23] <exec> 08└─imprisoning and torturing people who had absolutely nothing to do with the 9/11 hijackings or suicide bombings
[21:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''[Bradley] did do something illegal'' - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:45] <exec> 08└─...while, at the same time, upholding the oath taken to defend the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
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[22:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Inventive - 06Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison Over Mobile X-Ray Weapon - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:14] <exec> 08└─It's an inventive idea, and probably completely untraceable. As long as you don't run your mouth off, you'd be months and miles away before the target actually dies. Wouldn't it be poetic if somebody built one and pointed it at the guys in the z-backscatter vans?
[22:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Wizards.. - 06Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison Over Mobile X-Ray Weapon - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:16] <exec> 08└─Wizards are just FBI spies? Okay then. Also, anyone else laugh when the Judge cuts off Crawford's rant and says “You are bizarre.” The guy does seem a bit crazy and he didn't actually build an X-Ray weapon.
[22:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score:2) 02Re:Wizards.. - 06Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison Over Mobile X-Ray Weapon - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:18] <exec> 08└─Seriously, first he went to the Jews, and when they turned him down he went to the KKK, for support. The guy clearly is insane, and likely not stable enough to even create a working weapon.
[22:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:Wizards.. - 06Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison Over Mobile X-Ray Weapon - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:20] <exec> 08└─I'm not saying the guy isn't insane, but going first to jews then to a kkk grand wizard isn't necessarily a sign of insanity - it makes sense, he was clearly going to people he hoped shared his goal of killing muslims. Of course anyone who hears 'KKK Grand Wizard' without immediately thinking 'Confi...
[22:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score:2) 02Re:Wizards.. - 06Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison Over Mobile X-Ray Weapon - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:22] <exec> 08└─There's a long running joke that the only real KKK members left come in two sorts: the real ones that never show up or pay dues, and FBI informants that attend every meeting and always pay on time.
[22:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03jIyajbe [5615] (Score:2) 02Different Moral - 06Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison Over Mobile X-Ray Weapon - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:24] <exec> 08└─Alternative moral of the story: Don't make plans to kill people.
[22:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:3, Interesting) 02weird aspects - 06Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison Over Mobile X-Ray Weapon - 1308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:26] <exec> 08└─There are weird aspects to this case. Some of the write up implies he's being punished for a thought crime, others that he built a timer. The FBI is famous for entraping mentally ill people so I hope this dude isn't like playing with playdough and next thing you know some anti-terror careers are bei...
[22:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Wasa he a real threat? - 06Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison Over Mobile X-Ray Weapon - 922 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:29] <exec> 08└─The only problem I have here is that this guy just sounds like a kook, and not necessarily someone who could have pulled off his plans. If I run around saying I'm going to build an army of sentient, artificially-intelligent drones armed with phasers (yes, the Star Trek variety which fire faster-than...
[22:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score:2) 02Re:Wasa he a real threat? - 06Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison Over Mobile X-Ray Weapon - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:31] <exec> 08└─Your real mistake is not shopping your dream weapon to the armed forces first, then the police. If your funding idea is "people with lots of money, lots of enemies, and not a lot of compunctions" as I assume his was (he's probably the sort that believes in the worldwide jewish conspiracy and thinks...
[22:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02No, the moral of the story is... - 06Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison Over Mobile X-Ray Weapon - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:33] <exec> 08└─The moral of this story? Trust no one and do it yourself. Only if you are completely devoid of a moral compass, or basic humanity. The moral of the story is not "do it yourself" (subtext: "don't get caught"), the moral of the story is don't seek to create a weapon of mass destruction and murder coun...
[22:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Lighten up, Francis - 06Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison Over Mobile X-Ray Weapon - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:35] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OnpkDWbeJs [youtube.com]
[22:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No, the moral of the story is... - 06Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison Over Mobile X-Ray Weapon - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:37] <exec> 08└─That's right. Irradiating the general public to no meaningful end is the TSA's job. Leave it to the professionals.
[22:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What about Mentally Healthy lives? - 06Calorie Restriction Lets Monkeys Live Long and Prosper - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:48] <exec> 08└─Of course it was clear; I was just trying to juxtapose your disinterest with my fanaticism. The questions are these: Why do we have such different responses?Is your "sober" brain functioning similar to mine on alcohol? Under the influence of alcohol, for me: aches and pains become tolerable, food ta...
[22:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Eating your way to happiness - 06Calorie Restriction Lets Monkeys Live Long and Prosper - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:53] <exec> 08└─I knew someone who once said he feels uncomfortable in his own skin. I'm sorry if you suffer from a similar issue, but personally I don't find any discomfort unless I'm treating my body badly or I'm sick. After a good run and a shower I actually do feel great. My day to day is "I feel fine" cause th...
[22:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Granny - 06Calorie Restriction Lets Monkeys Live Long and Prosper - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:55] <exec> 08└─Granny ate like a bird, lived to 99. Nobody ever saw her mother eat, but she did chew tobacco until she was 97, lived to 101.
[22:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Same here - 06Google and Facebook Ad Traffic is 90% Useless - 844 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:11] <exec> 08└─I serve some small google text ads on some of my pages, and the topics are genuinely aligned with the content of my page - nobody would hit the ads by accident, they are obviously ads, and I honestly believe they are a service to the reader (God knows, I haven't received any payment for them since t...
[22:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Old Opera died because... - 06Google and Facebook Ad Traffic is 90% Useless - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:22] <exec> 08└─Old Opera has per-site control, including complete blocking, cookies both 1st and 3rd party, javascript, style sheets, etc. I've never understood why it did not catch on with 99% of the tech community.
[22:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Determination of "useless" - 06Google and Facebook Ad Traffic is 90% Useless - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:42] <exec> 08└─Anyway, based on the text summary, how could the person say that the traffic from Google/Facebook was useless. When I'm going to a website looking for information (including but not limited to Soylentnews), I'll start at the top, scroll one direction, and read it relatively quickly to see what catch...
[22:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02No shit Sherlock - 06Google and Facebook Ad Traffic is 90% Useless - 1052 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:45] <exec> 08└─This isn't a revelation. It's the very nature of advertising. Remember the old saying, "the best form of advertising is word-of-mouth"? The more relevant the advertisement, the more effective it'll be and the more likely the person seeing the ad will buy something. So if you have some way of connect...
[22:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Catch their attention - 06Google and Facebook Ad Traffic is 90% Useless - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:47] <exec> 08└─The mouse rarely moves, it does scroll - though mostly in one direction, and the pace is as if the visitor is not reading the content. Mobile users just scroll and scroll until the bottom and then they leave.
[22:11:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02RISC-V - 06The POWER8 Libre System Failed, Now There's An AMD Libre System Effort - 594 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:03] <exec> 08└─It's clear from recent years that current computing giants are going to be producing inherently broken systems; the only viable solution is to take your ball and go to a different court. It would be nice to see those who are interested in the libre philosophy put all of their effort into pushing a f...
[22:11:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score:2) 02Cost - 06The POWER8 Libre System Failed, Now There's An AMD Libre System Effort - 1238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:12] <exec> 08└─I was very interested and initially signed up after heading about it. After fully costing it out, it was way out of my budget. They were selling the mainboard, which was pretty expensive, and you then had to buy a pretty expensive POWER CPU to put on it. Freedom has a price, and I would have very mu...
[22:11:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That's why CAPITALISM is so important - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 1083 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:11:44] <exec> 08└─1 : unselfish regard for or devotion to the welfare of others 2 : behavior by an animal that is not beneficial to or may be harmful to itself but that benefits others of its species The definition actually does preclude self-interest. It does not exclude it however, you can have an act that is altr...
[22:11:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That's why CAPITALISM is so important - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:11:49] <exec> 08└─They'll band together with the 50 other people in their town to fight back! Annnd they get slaughtered by 200+ trained soldiers with superior firepower. Or hell, 5 people running a single tank. Its amazing that the AC can't wrap their mind around this simple fact which has been historically document...
[22:11:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:That's why CAPITALISM is so important - 06Give the Public the Tools to Trust Scientists - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:11:51] <exec> 08└─No, the free market doesn't solve all problems. Toxic waste for example. Companies DID just dump it wherever, KNOWING it was toxic and that the local population would get sick and/or die. Then, if the local population does figure out what the cause of their illness is, and where it came from, then t...
[22:12:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's my favorite word? - 06The Link Between Swearing and Honesty - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:12:32] <exec> 08└─I strive for the same ideal. I tell people I will swear and I am working on not doing it as much. For me it more about proper control of what I am doing. Swearing is my inner self not thinking things through. But if you have blown past my politeness filter you 'dun fucked up'. My voice will be 20db...
[22:12:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:language dependence and jews - 06The Link Between Swearing and Honesty - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:12:46] <exec> 08└─It better stay in this context then. Just sayin...
[22:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:language dependence and jews - 06The Link Between Swearing and Honesty - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:12:47] <exec> 08└─One of the best bits of profanity I've ever come across is when British call something "lovely." It's withering.
[22:13:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Perceptions Lie - 06The Link Between Swearing and Honesty - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:00] <exec> 08└─And that's different from every other politician, how? Why do you think the politicians are so terribly upset about all the leaks and social media puncturing their carefully manufactured personae? It's because there's no there, there. If you were, say, Linus Pauling and were elected senator, you cou...
[22:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Perceptions Lie - 06The Link Between Swearing and Honesty - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:04] <exec> 08└─That's what you get for not putting Bernie in the final race, you gave us the choice of an Al or Peggy Bundy for POTUS.
[22:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Perceptions Lie - 06The Link Between Swearing and Honesty - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:06] <exec> 08└─You really wanna know why Trump got elected? He may have said much but at least he came off *sounding* honest in what he did say. I didn't vote for the guy but at least I'm not blinded so badly by partisan bullshit that I can't see why other people did. Hillary, I wouldn't trust her to guard a bag o...
[22:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Damn Straight - 06The Link Between Swearing and Honesty - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:13] <exec> 08└─I lurve you too, you cockbiting fucktard.
[22:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Trump? - 06The Link Between Swearing and Honesty - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:17] <exec> 08└─A lot of folks apparently disagree with you.
[22:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Dupe or just a similar story? - 06Tesla Helps Sierra Nevada Brewing Make 'Green' Beer - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:34] <exec> 08└─I didn't say I was worried about it. I lurve beer. And since I know precisely how anti-green it is, I get a good laugh at hipsters and otherwise tree huggers when I see them drinking it.
[22:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Dupe or just a similar story? - 06Tesla Helps Sierra Nevada Brewing Make 'Green' Beer - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:37] <exec> 08└─See, that only works if you assume barren fields if beer were not being made. Unfortunately, that is not the case. Anything grown there not destined to be fermented would be greener.
[22:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Dupe or just a similar story? - 06Tesla Helps Sierra Nevada Brewing Make 'Green' Beer - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:41] <exec> 08└─That would be a valid point except for the fact that any other crop would be greener than fermentation fuel. You're taking up acres and acres of land that would otherwise be actively sequestering carbon and turning it carbon-neutral. That is a step in the wrong direction for those who say the sky is...
[22:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Good - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:03] <exec> 08└─Still, at the end of the day, why exactly do you torture? It's not to obtain accurate or useful information, I think it's more to strike fear in the minds of the enemy.
[22:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Good - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:05] <exec> 08└─I normally don't credit our chief executive with much, but I will give W credit for this particular move. The lawyers he chose to back up his position should be taken out and shot in front of him, one by one, until he confesses that it was a bad idea to coerce them into rendering their opinion appro...
[22:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Quick Primer - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:23] <exec> 08└─Perhaps lessons will be learned and progress will be made.
[22:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Trumpmeat Sandwich - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:31] <exec> 08└─Yeah, except it's more like the sandwich Homer Simpson kept around and kept gnibbling, because we're gonna get to enjoy it for at least the next 4 years.
[22:15:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The article is incorrect - 06The Lost Letters of the English Alphabet - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:15:37] <exec> 08└─Yup, and contrary to popular believe "ye" is pronounced "the" not "yee."
[22:16:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Took them long enough - 06FBI Catches Suspect Using Facial Recognition - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:21] <exec> 08└─FBI Catches Suspect Using Facial Recognition
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[23:09:08] <exec> 08└─IS HUUUUUGE
[23:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Wizards.. - 06Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison Over Mobile X-Ray Weapon - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:21] <exec> 08└─Yeah, Agreed, don't you actually have to make a real weapon of mass destruction before being convicted of a crime?
[23:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Wizards.. - 06Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison Over Mobile X-Ray Weapon - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:22] <exec> 08└─In the new era of FBI entrapment, they will hand you, a mentally ill male, gray Play-Doh, tell you it's an explosive, and convict you for wiring it to a potato and an off-brand smartwatch. Hmm, maybe they will splurge for a Misfit smartwatch just to write a funnier report.
[23:09:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jIyajbe [5615] 02Different Moral - 06Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison Over Mobile X-Ray Weapon - 64 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:25] <exec> 08└─Alternative moral of the story: Don't make plans to kill people.
[23:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:Different Moral - 06Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison Over Mobile X-Ray Weapon - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:27] <exec> 08└─Better Moral: Don't make plans. Brb sitting on my couch and watching hockey.
[23:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Re:Wasa he a real threat? - 06Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison Over Mobile X-Ray Weapon - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:32] <exec> 08└─If I run around saying I'm going to build an army of sentient, artificially-intelligent drones armed with phasers (yes, the Star Trek variety which fire faster-than-light energy beams) and powered by zero-point quantum-fluctuation energy with antigravity propulsion systems to seek out and wipe out p...
[23:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:No, the moral of the story is... - 06Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison Over Mobile X-Ray Weapon - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:37] <exec> 08└─weapon of mass destruction
[23:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:What about Mentally Healthy lives? - 06Calorie Restriction Lets Monkeys Live Long and Prosper - 1037 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:49] <exec> 08└─In normal life: I can take drugs for aches and pains, even prescription drugs. Food is great, which is a problem that I have to regulate. :-) I like colors, especially bright ones, but also find other more plain designs sometimes appealing. Sex would seem to be diminished on alcohol, not enhanced. P...
[23:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What about Mentally Healthy lives? - 06Calorie Restriction Lets Monkeys Live Long and Prosper - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:51] <exec> 08└─hmm get some mushrooms then, you may no longer need the alcohol.
[23:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Eating your way to happiness - 06Calorie Restriction Lets Monkeys Live Long and Prosper - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:56] <exec> 08└─got tired of having to be around a bunch of newage types just to get the workout.
[23:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Granny - 06Calorie Restriction Lets Monkeys Live Long and Prosper - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:59] <exec> 08└─Granny ate like a bird
[23:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02CR - 06Calorie Restriction Lets Monkeys Live Long and Prosper - 2241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:01] <exec> 08└─1. Caloric restriction (CR) for the purpose of anti-aging isn't new. 2. Results on the effectiveness of the approach are mixed (medical science, folks). This is mentioned in the linked ScienceDaily reprint, and SD links to this [sciencedaily.com] in the sidebar. Although the researchers seem to have...
[23:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:Same here - 06Google and Facebook Ad Traffic is 90% Useless - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:18] <exec> 08└─At first the billboards were just paint on the side of a barn. Then they were big signs lining every mile of highway. Then they were lit up to be seen at night. Now they are these giant LED beacons that wipe out your night vision and cause light pollution. If you complain about them, you get sued [c...
[23:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Huge Advertisement? - 06Google and Facebook Ad Traffic is 90% Useless - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:26] <exec> 08└─That just goes to show that you're not blocking enough and are still getting tracked.
[23:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:No shit Sherlock - 06Google and Facebook Ad Traffic is 90% Useless - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:54] <exec> 08└─The more relevant the advertisement, the more effective it'll be and the more likely the person seeing the ad will buy something. So if you have some way of connecting to people that are highly likely to want your product, that's obviously the best place to concentrate your efforts.
[23:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Trump? - 06The Link Between Swearing and Honesty - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:16] <exec> 08└─Once upon a time, a lot of people would have disagreed with you if you had told them there is no Zeus sitting on Mount Olympus. Just saying.
[23:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Trump? - 06The Link Between Swearing and Honesty - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:18] <exec> 08└─Which is interesting but being anti-Zeus would have been an extremely poor choice back then. Much like voting for the most corrupt politician ever to run for President was.
[23:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:''Gitmo'' - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:10] <exec> 08└─Oh, yeah?! Well, uh... at least Trump was transparent about being a liar!
[23:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02Re:Good - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 732 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:14] <exec> 08└─Not that I'm a fan of bob but you're being a little naive. Yes, it is well within his power to pardon Snowden without any official or legal recourse for folks to stop him, but keep in mind he is soon to be an ex-head of state with much much reduced power and influence, there's always the threat that...
[23:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:19] <exec> 08└─The American people have no say in foreign policy!
[23:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Obama's record - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 1640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:41] <exec> 08└─Healthcare for 20 million people who did not have it before A baby step in a better direction. What 80 percent of USAians want is Medicare for All. (If we actually had a democracy--AKA "The Majority Rules"--we'd already have that.) What happened was mandated payments from anybody with an income to a...
[23:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:2) 02Re:Finally Obama does something - 06President Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:42] <exec> 08└─Support for lgbtq rights like repealing dont ask dont tell, full marriage rights and trans equality in a state of the union speech 1000+ pardons of non-violent drug offenders, more pardons than all other presidents combined Police accountability via DoJ investigations from small towns like ferguson...
[23:16:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Kindle fire HD 8 - 06Nintendo Switch Available on March 3rd for $299 - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:16:22] <exec> 08└─I meant to write AMD, which starts with the same letter as ARM.
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