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[04:55:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:4, Informative) 02Nothing more than republican virtue signaling - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 2213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:55:19] <exec> 08└─Nothing more than a republican virtue signaling to his base of bigots. This is at least the second time the bill has been submitted and yet the author is unable to cite a single case of censorship at UT. Last year the republicans withdrew the bill when it was pointed out that ISIS could also recruit...
[04:55:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:Nothing more than republican virtue signaling - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:55:21] <exec> 08└─So, it's okay when it's _not_ Republicans doing it? Can you clarify a bit about when it's okay and not okay?
[04:55:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Re:Nothing more than republican virtue signaling - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 2762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:55:23] <exec> 08└─It is not ok when the primary purpose of speech is to cause violence. Milo has come really close to being nothing but this, and if some alt-right types want to flaunt the bloody shirt of free speech about this, well that is just more of the same. Incitement. So I would propose a test for free speec...
[04:55:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nothing more than republican virtue signaling - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:55:25] <exec> 08└─Do you truly care more about political correctness than the free exchange of ideas? In that case, I cannot agree with you in any way. If you refuse to allow an argument because it is "offensive", then you can refuse to allow any argument whatsoever for the same reason. I am offended by your argument...
[04:55:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Nothing more than republican virtue signaling - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:55:27] <exec> 08└─I cannot agree with you in any way.
[04:55:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:0, Troll) 02Re:Nothing more than republican virtue signaling - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:55:29] <exec> 08└─Freedom of speech is not about Milo or any one person. It is about affording the constitutional rights of every person while the same people were bitching about and attempting to subvert the constitution suddenly cared about it while 2 weeks before they were attempting to subvert it as an antiquated...
[04:55:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Nothing more than republican virtue signaling - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:55:32] <exec> 08└─I have read the article you linked in regards to Milo. I have not found any sort of "wink-wink advocating for violence and harassment". Did you link the wrong article? They so utterly lost their shit over it that they actually killed the entire diversity office.
[04:55:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Nothing more than republican virtue signaling - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:55:34] <exec> 08└─I have read the article you linked in regards to Milo. I have not found any sort of "wink-wink advocating for violence and harassment".
[04:55:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nothing more than republican virtue signaling - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:55:36] <exec> 08└─If you can't see that putting her face up on the giant screen, naming her and then proceeding to call her a man who just wants to follow women into the bathroom is not incitment to violence against her, then you are a motivated simpleton.
[04:55:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02incitement - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:55:38] <exec> 08└─That isn't incitement to violence,
[04:55:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:incitement - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:55:41] <exec> 08└─This isn't provoking unlawful behavior unless he actually intended for violence to occur. Do you have evidence that he had such intent?
[04:55:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:incitement - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:55:43] <exec> 08└─There was no other reason to identify her by name and image. Any other point he could have made could have been made equally as well without that. She was not a public figure.
[04:55:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:incitement - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:55:45] <exec> 08└─Are you arguing that his speech was/should be recognized as illegal, or that his speech could be categorized as incitement according to certain definitions of the word?
[04:55:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:Nothing more than republican virtue signaling - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:55:47] <exec> 08└─That's absolute horseshit. He in no way shape or form called for any violence, that was not there in word or in tone.
[04:55:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nothing more than republican virtue signaling - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:55:50] <exec> 08└─You just have to read his mind to know his intentions, or be able to read the Secret Code. Making such accusations based on such vague, flimsy reasoning is just fine. Twist your head sideways to see The Tower, then you'll reach enlightenment!
[04:55:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:3, Insightful) 02Something is wrong - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:55:52] <exec> 08└─Something is wrong with your party if you rely on hate-mongers to score political points.
[04:55:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Something is wrong - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:55:54] <exec> 08└─Moron is not a protected class.
[04:55:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Something is wrong - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:55:56] <exec> 08└─Moron lives matter, too! Let the morons speak! Milo the moron may have something to tell us all, like that he is a moron and Steve Bannon is like a god to him! Let Milo speak! He is a disruptive faggot, because he has sided with the gay bashers, like VP Pence! Let him tell us why homosexual re-conv...
[04:55:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Danger - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:55:58] <exec> 08└─Berkeley ended the Milo speech because there was danger, NOT to censor him. Is Tennessee going to legislate living in danger?
[04:56:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Danger - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:56:01] <exec> 08└─Is Tennessee going to legislate living in danger?
[04:56:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Danger - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:56:03] <exec> 08└─A danger they themselves *allowed* to happen. The mayor basically told the police to gather up in the student union and sit there. None in the police broke ranks. They LET that riot happen. Then turned around and blamed Milo. I do not agree with him on a lot of things. But what they did to him shoul...
[04:56:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Cognizant [3932] (Score:1) 02Lost mease. - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:56:05] <exec> 08└─I was reading along taking it in just fine until someone had to insert his opinion about what is correct. It would be nice if you save your fucking opinion for the comments section and stop slopping all over the news headline please. I do not like my news run through a filter of any kind, Fox news,...
[04:56:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Lost mease. - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:56:07] <exec> 08└─I'm not entirely clear what the problem is. Are you talking about the headline, the comment after the blockquote, something on the Tennessean.com site, or something else? If you are talking about the comment after the blockquote, it should be fairly obvious that text is written by TheMightyBuzzard....
[04:56:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02THIS IS HOW TO WIN! - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:56:09] <exec> 08└─Holy shit - this is how to win! Whatever social ends we want, we should push by making it a controversial issue for some minority hard-conservative group. Gay hard-conservative (ha) rejected from the tea party club in school, or a straight Christian missionary preaching conversion therapy rejected b...
[04:56:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03tisI [5866] (Score:2) 02It's All About "Free Speech" - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:56:12] <exec> 08└─Free speech is like this Mr Milo Yaiwantitupmyassanddownmythroatopoulos, you want to spew your racist hate into my face, you may feel have a right to, and you may attempt it .. I will rebut your racist views with my own free speech statement of a sharp punch to your face. Simple as that. Problem sol...
[04:56:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:When and how much? - 06Innovative Spirit: These "Smart Glasses" Adjust to Your Vision Automatically - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:56:22] <exec> 08└─I had the same problem with my proctologist. Faulty depth perception.
[04:56:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score:1) 02Re:Oh it comes with an app! - 06Innovative Spirit: These "Smart Glasses" Adjust to Your Vision Automatically - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:56:26] <exec> 08└─Probably needs to be married to an eye tracking camera facing inward to tell where the eyes are actually pointed. Cool tech though. I recall references to such things in sci-fi stories forever, it's neat to see it become reality.
[04:56:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03slap [5764] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Cost and longevity - 06Innovative Spirit: These "Smart Glasses" Adjust to Your Vision Automatically - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:56:29] <exec> 08└─A pair of progressive prescription glasses can run $400-$700, and can be good for many years if your eyes don't change much. How much will these new glasses cost, and how long will they last?
[04:56:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Knock on effects - 06Ford Investing $1 Billion in Self-Driving Car Startup - 796 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:56:40] <exec> 08└─My argument might suck, but smart phones and washing machines are a whole different ball-game from roadworthy vehicles. As far as I know, those "faulty acceleration pedals" came from electric cars, but in my car, there are mechanical linkages from the gas and clutch pedals to the transaxle/engine, a...
[04:56:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Knock on effects - 06Ford Investing $1 Billion in Self-Driving Car Startup - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:56:42] <exec> 08└─You should not have a cellphone, because they are necessarily tracking devices. I don't have one. As for computers in cars, the concern should be that the software is proprietary and therefore users can't educate themselves what it does; self-driving cars will obviously increase this problem immense...
[04:56:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02driving while black - 06Ford Investing $1 Billion in Self-Driving Car Startup - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:56:44] <exec> 08└─Seems like a good vehicle (heh) to build trust and then quietly execute dissidents and other malcontents with a statistical profile optimized to not pique the public's interest.
[04:56:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:driving while black - 06Ford Investing $1 Billion in Self-Driving Car Startup - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:56:47] <exec> 08└─Not really. Blacks could be transporting huge amounts of drugs, guns, or dead bodies. You mean to tell me that all drug smugglers need to do in 2030 to transport drugs across state lines is load up an autonomous vehicle? With prominent LIDAR sticking out on the top or a big Google sticker slapped on...
[04:56:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03WalksOnDirt [5854] (Score:2) 02Ford is learning - 06Ford Investing $1 Billion in Self-Driving Car Startup - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:56:49] <exec> 08└─Ford seems to realize that they are behind in autonomous travel and they need to catch up. I agree with that, but I doubt that buying a startup is the best way to go. I would prefer either developing it internally or licensing it from a supplier.
[04:57:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Haw. - 06Russian Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny Found Guilty of Embezzlement - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:57:02] <exec> 08└─It seems to be true that America is becoming Russia.
[04:57:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score:2) 02The legal system is broken - 06Russian Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny Found Guilty of Embezzlement - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:57:03] <exec> 08└─Lame
[04:57:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Tempting fate - 06Proposing From the Bridge of the Enterprise - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:57:15] <exec> 08└─That he's not circumcised? ;)
[04:57:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:senior vision? - 06Helium Bonds With Sodium at a High Pressure - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:57:24] <exec> 08└─That makes carbon a slut.
[04:58:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ban prefentive use of antibiotics for animals - 06Brazilian Peppertree Extract Disrupts MRSA Bacteria - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:58:19] <exec> 08└─Its the reason 2 of the 3 branches of the US government currently deny the existence of climate change. So yeah.
[04:58:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Another... - 06Brazilian Peppertree Extract Disrupts MRSA Bacteria - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:58:22] <exec> 08└─Tea tree oil + eucalyptus extract kills MRSA. Or i'd be fucked right now...
[04:59:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Extremely culture-specific question - 06Is Owning a Car Still Key for a Date? - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:59:15] <exec> 08└─So, you're cheap - that's a trait some women like.
[04:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Depends on where (I can speak for Europe) - 06Is Owning a Car Still Key for a Date? - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:59:31] <exec> 08└─Ditto for central New York City, OTOH a car means you can get *out* of the city to all sorts of things.
[05:00:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:2) 02But it was noble - 06Explosion at Nuclear Power Plant in France - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:00:09] <exec> 08└─But it was noble to build it near Cherbourg. In fact, it was Cher-noble.
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[05:55:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Faith - 06NBC Says Russia May Consider Handing Edward Snowden to the U.S. - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:55:19] <exec> 08└─Place not your faith in princes, 'cause that is not a good place for faith.
[05:55:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Faith - 06NBC Says Russia May Consider Handing Edward Snowden to the U.S. - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:55:20] <exec> 08└─Also keep in mind NBC is not above making things up. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] I used to watch that show every week. Loved it. Then found out what sorts of things they were doing. At that point they lost my trust. They never got it back.
[05:55:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Nothing more than republican virtue signaling - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 2213 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:55:29] <exec> 08└─Nothing more than a republican virtue signaling to his base of bigots. This is at least the second time the bill has been submitted and yet the author is unable to cite a single case of censorship at UT. Last year the republicans withdrew the bill when it was pointed out that ISIS could also recruit...
[05:55:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Nothing more than republican virtue signaling - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:55:36] <exec> 08└─Eth...the first rule of drug dealing is: DO NOT SAMPLE THE MERCH. You're a hilarious troll, but the instant you start actually believing the shit you spew, it's game over.
[05:55:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:incitement - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 1029 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:55:45] <exec> 08└─You're simply and demonstrably wrong, he was very much a public figure already. He did indeed sue the university to force his way into the women's facilities, which naturally attracted press coverage, and his face and name were widely published in many places as a result. Milo apparently referred to...
[05:55:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Danger - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:55:56] <exec> 08└─You are criticizing the police for being where the crowd of protestors were and where the riot happened. [cbslocal.com] As the gathered crowd got more agitated, masked “black bloc” activists began hurling projectiles including bricks, lit fireworks and rocks at the building and police. Some use...
[05:55:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Cognizant [3932] (Score:1) 02Re:Lost mease. - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 1117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:56:00] <exec> 08└─It was obvious it was written by him surely. I am not a fan of what I perceive as to much opinion in my news. Maybe i miss the point of what your trying to do here with the headline portion. Is there not plenty of opinion in the comments without writers and editors flavoring a news story? Or in this...
[05:56:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:It's All About "Free Speech" - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:56:04] <exec> 08└─violence = free speech? I wonder which approach will win out in actual courts (not the court of public opinion).
[05:56:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:It's All About "Free Speech" - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:56:06] <exec> 08└─So you don't understand the difference between speech and violence. Thanks for admitting that, it can be hard at times to convince normal people that folks like you actually exist.
[05:56:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Someone stole my glasses - 06Innovative Spirit: These "Smart Glasses" Adjust to Your Vision Automatically - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:56:23] <exec> 08└─I was sleeping in a homeless shelter. I put my glasses and my phone in my boots for safekeeping. Someone stole my boots. The shelter gave me a pair of shoes so I wasn't left barefoot, my friend bought me a new phone but I've been a year without glasses. I have mild astigmatism. It's not debilitating...
[05:56:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02What of Salesky's employment contract with Google? - 06Ford Investing $1 Billion in Self-Driving Car Startup - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:56:39] <exec> 08└─Surely he signed an NDA? Perhaps his new company licensed some technology from waymo.
[05:57:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Good; now then... - 06No Data Manipulation at NOAA - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:57:43] <exec> 08└─Project any harder and AMC is going to sue you for patent offenses.
[06:00:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:its not about cores - 06UK and US Prices for AMD R7 Ryzen Processors Spotted - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:00:43] <exec> 08└─...uh...what? 1) you're supposed to blame Obama 2) if you think Intel's any safer you're nuts 3) no one in the Puzzle Palace gives a shit about your bestiality-watersports-bdsm-electroshock torture porn habit.
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[06:55:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Faith - 06NBC Says Russia May Consider Handing Edward Snowden to the U.S. - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:55:32] <exec> 08└─Fake news at its finest.
[06:55:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score:2) 02cool story bro - 06NBC Says Russia May Consider Handing Edward Snowden to the U.S. - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:55:33] <exec> 08└─But wait, why does Russia even need to 'cozy up' to Trump, I thought they already owned him? Since we're on the subject of Russia, I just want to tell everybody what I learned from my own anonymous sources. They said there is an alien base beneath lake Baikal and the land giveaways in the far east a...
[06:55:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:cool story bro - 06NBC Says Russia May Consider Handing Edward Snowden to the U.S. - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:55:36] <exec> 08└─But wait, why does Russia even need to 'cozy up' to Trump, I thought they already owned him?
[06:55:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score:2) 02Re:Nothing more than republican virtue signaling - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:55:48] <exec> 08└─There are quite a few ideas that don't qualify for the moniker "civil discourse". For example, Milo & crew's inference that being black means you deserve a premature and violent death is an idea that doesn't need free exchange - it needs a kick in the balls. With a baseball bat. Suggesting such argu...
[06:55:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Nothing more than republican virtue signaling - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 1062 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:55:50] <exec> 08└─Citation needed because I have watched the live stream of several of Milo's stops in his "Dangerous Faggot" tour and never seen anything that, in a sane world, would be all that objectionable. Trollish? Often. Intended to provoke a bit? Yes. Stand up comedy? Yes. Incitement to violence? No. Mostly w...
[06:55:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nothing more than republican virtue signaling - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:55:52] <exec> 08└─If you can't see that Cultural Marxism
[06:56:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:incitement - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:56:03] <exec> 08└─You're simply and demonstrably wrong, he was very much a public figure already.
[06:56:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Tipped Your Hand - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:56:05] <exec> 08└─he was very much a public figure already. ... He did indeed sue the university to force his way into the women's facilities ... his face
[06:56:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Re:Nothing more than republican virtue signaling - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:56:10] <exec> 08└─"Will no one rid me of this troublesome priest?" Do you see an explicit call for violence in that? What happened as a result?
[06:56:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nothing more than republican virtue signaling - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:56:13] <exec> 08└─I'm just glad the regressives on the left all trying to win the fascism olympics and control what we can see, hear and say are getting such a strong pushback. Our society is not dying after all. Censorship pushed by the left wing to suppress anything that doesn't further their agenda won't stand, it...
[06:56:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Danger - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:56:22] <exec> 08└─Well fuck me! Is such an ass a Milo was coming to my community, I would not just "allow" the danger to happen, I would make sure it did happen, so I would not have to listen to his gay shit! Blue lives matter, bro!
[06:56:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Cost and longevity - 06Innovative Spirit: These "Smart Glasses" Adjust to Your Vision Automatically - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:56:45] <exec> 08└─$10/month. Fail to pay for the next month, glasses stop working.
[06:56:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Someone stole my glasses - 06Innovative Spirit: These "Smart Glasses" Adjust to Your Vision Automatically - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:56:48] <exec> 08└─Godspeed, MDC. What kind of Republican steals prescription glasses?
[06:58:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Too late - 06No Data Manipulation at NOAA - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:58:14] <exec> 08└─Anyway blind Freddy can see that the climate is changing, getting warmer here, colder there, more extreme in some parts, less extreme in others. The question everyone asks is what is the cause of it? The answer is, who cares...
[06:58:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score:2) 02Re:Too late - 06No Data Manipulation at NOAA - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:58:22] <exec> 08└─You should read this basic primer on why the simple adjustments you mock as byzantine must be made. It is not that complicated: different types of measuring devices have predictably different kinds of bias [arstechnica.com]. Actually Mr. Trump, anyone who wants to understand why your whole post is w...
[06:59:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02Re:Is it Accessible yet? - 06Pale Moon 27.1 Released With Major Compatibility Improvements - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:59:07] <exec> 08└─Man, what a sense of entitlement. The dev was right, there are other browsers you can use, maintaining a whole bunch of accessibility code is a lot of work that could be put into other areas they are more interested in. Demanding that every application cater to the disabled is like requiring every v...
[06:59:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:''chomped by a polar bear'' - 06Is Owning a Car Still Key for a Date? - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:59:25] <exec> 08└─As usual, the closer to the city core, the better the public transit, likewise, if you're close to the light rail, it's pretty good. The city and suburbs are spread out and there are lots of places, especially on the outskirts where you might buy a house for less then a million dollars or actually f...
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[07:55:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nothing more than republican virtue signaling - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:55:51] <exec> 08└─My god your reliance on buzz words is annoying! You have no original thoughts, just key phrases dropped by talk radio and promoted throughout the news cycle. They are manipulating you, manufacturing consensus by seeding specific words and phrases so that all your buddies say the same things and you...
[07:55:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Nothing more than republican virtue signaling - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:55:53] <exec> 08└─There are quite a few ideas that don't qualify for the moniker "civil discourse". For example, Milo & crew's inference that being black means you deserve a premature and violent death is an idea that doesn't need free exchange - it needs a kick in the balls. With a baseball bat.
[07:55:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:Nothing more than republican virtue signaling - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 1450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:55:55] <exec> 08└─You can care about both. They aren't mutually exclusive. Freedom of speech is not an absolute, not license for anyone to say anything whatsoever anywhere and anytime they want, no. We have laws against libel and slander. That means, you can't fabricate a video of people you dislike that seems to sho...
[07:55:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Nothing more than republican virtue signaling - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:55:57] <exec> 08└─We have laws against libel and slander.
[07:55:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:Nothing more than republican virtue signaling - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:55:59] <exec> 08└─IMO, when you start making shit up, to incite outrage directed at a specific group (one person in the case of libel), you cross the line into hate speech.
[07:56:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nothing more than republican virtue signaling - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:56:02] <exec> 08└─And we're back to those days with the rise of Trump. He can say the most vile and factually incorrect shit, but when he is criticized legitimately he throws a hissy fit more appropriate to a 5 year old. The bigots have had enough shaming (and to be fair PC has gotten ridiculously out of hand) and ar...
[07:56:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nothing more than republican virtue signaling - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:56:06] <exec> 08└─You do realize you are describing the conservative base of the US right? If not you'd better link some sources for your wild claims.
[07:56:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Tipped Your Hand - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:56:17] <exec> 08└─Yup, welcome to the shit stains that inhabit soylent news. They really don't see their prejudice and bias, they think they are freedom loving fair folk, but they would gladly slam boots on faces if it was socially acceptable. The silver lining of Trump's victory, letting the assholes think their shi...
[07:56:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nothing more than republican virtue signaling - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:56:23] <exec> 08└─If anyone acts on the speech by being violent, that's entirely their fault.
[07:56:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Danger - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:56:33] <exec> 08└─Nailed it
[07:58:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good; now then... - 06No Data Manipulation at NOAA - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:58:18] <exec> 08└─There is no money in it for garden variety deniers either. They've just been socially conditioned to behave the way they do by their monied overlords. Group loyalty and all that. And at the same time they congratulate themselves for being free thinkers.
[07:59:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03ShadowSystems [6185] (Score:1) 02At the coward, re:Is it Accessible yet? - 06Pale Moon 27.1 Released With Major Compatibility Improvements - 1957 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:59:20] <exec> 08└─Entitlement? No. Age proofing. Yes. We all get old, Our eyesight gets worse. We need glasses, magnifiers, screens that can zoom to 100x normal magnification, or a screen reader if vision fails entirely. What good are all your "pretty icons" if there's no AltText to go with them that your glasses, ma...
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[08:56:04] <exec> 08└─A man who wishes to be a woman is still a man.
[08:57:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Refugee from beyond [2699] (Score:2) 02Re:Haw. - 06Russian Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny Found Guilty of Embezzlement - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:57:15] <exec> 08└─Hey now, our language is Abyssal, tyvm! ☺
[08:57:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Refugee from beyond [2699] (Score:2) 02tl;dr - 06Russian Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny Found Guilty of Embezzlement - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:57:18] <exec> 08└─Basically, they declared him guilty in the past. European Court of Human Rights said “no.” Russia paid damages and made a retrial using a heavy amount of copy/paste and denying basically everything defendant tried to present as his defense because they felt like it. Presidential elections in 201...
[08:59:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Hardware acceleration is available - 06Pale Moon 27.1 Released With Major Compatibility Improvements - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:59:02] <exec> 08└─Nope - Pale Moon utilizes hardware acceleration. It could be you're using older hardware which is looked at with scorn by the Mozilla devs (and thus also by Pale Moon). Try forcing hardware acceleration if your hardware has the proper capabilities using the following instructions at: https://wiki.mo...
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[08:59:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is it Accessible yet? - 06Pale Moon 27.1 Released With Major Compatibility Improvements - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:59:12] <exec> 08└─We're Disabled, our money/opinions don't matter
[08:59:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:So much data - 06Is Owning a Car Still Key for a Date? - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:59:23] <exec> 08└─You oughta see the looks I get from women with my old diesel van. You know, one day, even today's pretty woman will be old and dumpy too. Does she want a guy who still wants her for what she is, not what she looks like? To me, the "new car paradigm" is a sure fire display of one's willingness to tos...
[09:02:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:works here - 06Internet Backbone Provider Cogent Blocks Pirate Bay and Other "Pirate" Sites - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:02:35] <exec> 08└─Yes, it definitely is helpful for others to chime in with their findings when one reports this kind of censorship, both good and bad.
[09:02:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Hosts File can fix this - 06Internet Backbone Provider Cogent Blocks Pirate Bay and Other "Pirate" Sites - 291 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:02:45] <exec> 08└─Cloudflare routes by hostname and all IPs in Cloudflare are capable of serving any other site under Cloudflare. So add a piratebay.se entry that uses any other cloudflare IP and the problem goes away. Also these cogent dumbasses only blocked the IPv4 address, the IPv6 one is perfectly fine.
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[09:55:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02interesting - 06Uber Leads to Divorce - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:55:14] <exec> 08└─is there a confidentiality clause when you sign up to use uber? I guess regular cab companies should not willingly give out this information, so it could be called "negligence".
[09:55:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score:2) 02Blame and responsibility - 06Uber Leads to Divorce - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:55:16] <exec> 08└─The blame game is a futile one. He got caught and had to pay the price. It is like saying: someone told the cashier that I had stuff under my coat and blaming the messenger. That said, the software industry "as we know it" /should/ die. The software industry does have a responsibility and they have...
[09:55:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02bullshit - 06Uber Leads to Divorce - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:55:18] <exec> 08└─he got in shit for something that he was doing. if uber had caused his wife to think he was seeing a mistress when he wasn't, there might be some case. But he got caught doing something, he has to pay the price.
[09:55:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Faith - 06NBC Says Russia May Consider Handing Edward Snowden to the U.S. - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:55:33] <exec> 08└─The Price of Darkness has not let me down yet!
[09:55:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Game2 Winter - 06NBC Says Russia May Consider Handing Edward Snowden to the U.S. - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:55:36] <exec> 08└─In the same category, I read an article in the Guardian about a new Russian TV show: Russian reality TV show Game2: Winter to 'allow' rape and murder in Siberia [theguardian.com] The show is the brainchild of entrepreneur Yevgeny Pyatkovsky who says he “will refuse any claim of participants even...
[09:55:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Nothing more than republican virtue signaling - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:55:58] <exec> 08└─Even if it is hate speech, hate speech should be legal.
[09:56:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nothing more than republican virtue signaling - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:56:01] <exec> 08└─The bigots have had enough shaming (and to be fair PC has gotten ridiculously out of hand
[09:56:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Terry Gilliam - 06Innovative Spirit: These "Smart Glasses" Adjust to Your Vision Automatically - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:56:53] <exec> 08└─Meh, can't hold a candle to some Steampunk eyewear. [google.com]
[09:58:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Too late - 06No Data Manipulation at NOAA - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:58:34] <exec> 08└─I never said it didn't need to be done.
[09:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Extremely culture-specific question - 06Is Owning a Car Still Key for a Date? - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:59:48] <exec> 08└─Did it ever see a wax job?
[10:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Pandering to SJWs is not profitable - 06Twitter Remains Unprofitable in Q4 2016 - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:02:06] <exec> 08└─Tax credit? You cheap bastard, nothing less than subsidies will do. At least not for Twitter.
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[10:55:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Refugee from beyond [2699] (Score:2) 02Re:Blame and responsibility - 06Uber Leads to Divorce - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:55:26] <exec> 08└─I’m not sure you’d be able to afford such a software.
[10:55:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02Software industry as we know it... - 06Uber Leads to Divorce - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:55:29] <exec> 08└─In some countries plumbers and electricians have to be licensed in order to do their work, just like doctors. Same should apply to software engineers, especially if their code is connecting to the internets.
[10:55:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kawumpa [1187] (Score:1) 02Re:Software industry as we know it... - 06Uber Leads to Divorce - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:55:31] <exec> 08└─In a first step we should refrain from calling programmers engineers. The word alone implies a certain kind of training and responsibility which is rarley justified. As soon as companies and programmers start to take responsibility and assume a degree of liability for their work and products we may...
[10:55:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Software industry as we know it... - 06Uber Leads to Divorce - 737 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:55:33] <exec> 08└─That sounds fine with me as long as you come up with the way to functionally prove any code will have an expected outcome, no matter the outcome or complexity. Building a bridge is simpler than the shit management asks the dev team to do on a weekly basis. And I'm the QA team. I build shit code to t...
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[10:55:35] <exec> 08└─Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. -- Benjamin Franklin
[10:55:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03migz [1807] (Score:2) 02The real problem - 06Marathon Pharmaceuticals is Part of the Problem - 1315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:55:43] <exec> 08└─I cannot understand why companies are always painted as the culprits, when the problem is one that has been created by government. In this case the FDA should not be involved at all in regulating anything except fraud. If company A invents a drug, then that is great. Some would argue that as a resul...
[10:56:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nothing more than republican virtue signaling - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:56:14] <exec> 08└─What, specifically, are you saying should happen to such people?
[10:56:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Nothing more than republican virtue signaling - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:56:20] <exec> 08└─hate speech should be legal.
[10:56:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nothing more than republican virtue signaling - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:56:27] <exec> 08└─Wowee Free Speech is bad now that the other party is advocating for it! So many unprincipled partisan idiots on soylent lately.
[10:56:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Tipped Your Hand - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:56:39] <exec> 08└─A man who wishes to be a woman is still a man.
[10:56:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nothing more than republican virtue signaling - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:56:46] <exec> 08└─Why do you hate free speech? Yes diversity offices should be killed, there is no need for thought police.
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[11:55:34] <exec> 08└─I’m not sure you’d be able to afford such a software.
[11:55:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score:2) 02Re:bullshit - 06Uber Leads to Divorce - 1310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:55:36] <exec> 08└─> if uber had caused his wife to think he was seeing a mistress when he wasn't, there might be some case. First time I read this news (a different article), that is exactly what it sounded like. Uber caused his wife to think he was having an affair when he wasn't by repeating old pick-up/drop-off ev...
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[11:55:41] <exec> 08└─> at least a bridge can't accept non-integer values of mass Erm, mass is a float...
[11:55:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Re:Software industry as we know it... - 06Uber Leads to Divorce - 2553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:55:44] <exec> 08└─The analogy I see comparing bridge engineering to software engineering is at least the bridge engineers can verify the specifications of their materials... that is, if one is shipped a load of faulty rebar that fails to have the tensile strength claimed, this can be tested and demonstrated. Same if...
[11:55:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:2) 02FDA is the enemy - 06Marathon Pharmaceuticals is Part of the Problem - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:55:53] <exec> 08└─This is not a case of too little regulation but too much. The only thing the FDA should control is whether a product gets a sticker or logo saying "approved by FDA". Then, if you're the sort of person who wants to wait for the results of 10 years of tests, you don't try anything that might help you...
[11:55:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score:2) 02Greedy sociopaths - 06Marathon Pharmaceuticals is Part of the Problem - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:55:56] <exec> 08└─And they're also allowing the likes of Marathon to make the rest of the drug industry look like greedy sociopaths Because it isn't? The whole pharma industry is an unending lithany of profiteering on the back of sick people, price fixing and corruption. When was the last time you saw any of these co...
[11:56:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Nothing more than republican virtue signaling - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:56:34] <exec> 08└─Sweety, the only violence caused by Milo's speaking has been from the left.
[12:00:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:''date ugly fat girls'' - 06Is Owning a Car Still Key for a Date? - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:00:39] <exec> 08└─Jimmy Soul said it better [youtube.com]
[12:01:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score:2) 02Re:''no [...] renewable that works well enough'' - 06Explosion at Nuclear Power Plant in France - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:01:22] <exec> 08└─Your let's-not-move-forward pessimism aside,
[12:01:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:its not about cores - 06UK and US Prices for AMD R7 Ryzen Processors Spotted - 795 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:01:59] <exec> 08└─I know you want to think I'm all "yay Trump" so you can argue with me but that's never been the case. I just hated Hillary worse. Intel's even worse, which is why I'm sticking with my Phenom II x6 until the wheels fall off and hoping Libreboot gets done with neutering the ME on ARM by then. I mean t...
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[14:07:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02640 whales - 06640 Pilot Whales Run Aground on New Zealand Beach - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:18] <exec> 08└─This is an animal kingdom tragedy, but at least it should stop now. 640 should be enough for anyone.
[14:07:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Xiaomi has a good FOSS track record. - 06Xiaomi to Build its Own "Pinecone" Smartphone SoCs - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:25] <exec> 08└─They're routinely making device trees available and on github. Their MiUI launcher (android home app) is also open source and on github. We'll need to wait and see how and what they'll release for this new SoC of theirs but as companies go, they've done well so far.
[14:07:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02typo - 06Xiaomi to Build its Own "Pinecone" Smartphone SoCs - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:28] <exec> 08└─they should really re-write it as "Show-Me" because that's how it seems it needs to be pronounced. but maybe chinese cant read-write english : ) not get me started on "WOW-way!" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gfuE5nwe0A)
[14:07:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Somebody please explain... - 06Recent News Dispatches From Standing Rock (DAPL) - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:35] <exec> 08└─... what the hell has US army to do with the pipeline approval?
[14:07:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:Somebody please explain... - 06Recent News Dispatches From Standing Rock (DAPL) - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:07:38] <exec> 08└─The US Army Corps of Engineers, along with the Bureau of Reclamation, control the dams and waterways of the country. The Bureau controls those that are used for irrigation, and the Corps controls those that are used for flood control (such as the dam that forms Lake Oahe, which flooded the best Lako...
[14:07:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:Blame and responsibility - 06Uber Leads to Divorce - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:07:49] <exec> 08└─Obviously I'm sympathetic. I'm all in favor in jail time for these assholes that claim to be "Engineers" because they know how to click a few buttons. But what he's advocating is dangerous too. By the time that idea makes it through a legislature, it's likely to be strict enough to make it impossibl...
[14:07:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Software industry as we know it... - 06Uber Leads to Divorce - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:07:56] <exec> 08└─Another example to illustrate that programmers aren't real engineers.
[14:07:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score:2) 02Re:Software industry as we know it... - 06Uber Leads to Divorce - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:07:58] <exec> 08└─If the mass of the brigde is a float, then there is the possibility of a fractional atom's mass. That sounds very very wrong... The approximation using a float may be "good enough" for most cases, but the fact remains that it is an approximation.
[14:07:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03anubi [2828] 02Re:Software industry as we know it... - 06Uber Leads to Divorce - 2553 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:08:00] <exec> 08└─The analogy I see comparing bridge engineering to software engineering is at least the bridge engineers can verify the specifications of their materials... that is, if one is shipped a load of faulty rebar that fails to have the tensile strength claimed, this can be tested and demonstrated. Same if...
[14:08:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:Software industry as we know it... - 06Uber Leads to Divorce - 998 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:08:02] <exec> 08└─Thanks for posting. That's why I got out of programming (ages ago) because I saw this happening and I couldn't be a part of it, yet even today, when it's so obvious and repugnant to me, others can't see it and I have difficulty showing it to them. But the software industry has spent decades consiste...
[14:08:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02False dichotomy - 06Uber Leads to Divorce - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:06] <exec> 08└─Some say liability is needed to force some responsibility; others say it would be the death of the software industry as we know it.
[14:08:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Serious offense - 06Uber Leads to Divorce - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:08] <exec> 08└─liability of tech companies for bugs in their software? Some say liability is needed to force some responsibility; others say it would be the death of the software industry as we know it.
[14:08:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:3, Funny) 02Uber leads to *getting a ride* - 06Uber Leads to Divorce - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:10] <exec> 08└─Uber Leads to Divorce
[14:08:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:2) 02Re:Greedy sociopaths - 06Marathon Pharmaceuticals is Part of the Problem - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:08:21] <exec> 08└─Since you don't need or want money, perhaps you could do the good deed you seem to expect others to do, and start a pharma company that is unprofitable. I mean, no one's stopping you. No one but those pesky regulators, that is.
[14:08:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Greedy sociopaths - 06Marathon Pharmaceuticals is Part of the Problem - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:08:24] <exec> 08└─Can't you understand the difference between a new, useful molecule at, say, 5x profit margin and an old, tired one at 100x? I'm all for pharma companies making profit - especially considering how much R&D and red tape they have to deal - but I'm totally against obscene profits that benefit no-one. M...
[14:08:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:2) 02Re:Greedy sociopaths - 06Marathon Pharmaceuticals is Part of the Problem - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:08:26] <exec> 08└─Yes, I understand the difference, and since you do too, buy the rights to the old tired one and sell at 2x. the very regulators you seem to value so much
[14:08:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Faith - 06NBC Says Russia May Consider Handing Edward Snowden to the U.S. - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:08:37] <exec> 08└─I used to watch that show every week. Loved it.
[14:08:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03axsdenied [384] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:cool story bro - 06NBC Says Russia May Consider Handing Edward Snowden to the U.S. - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:08:43] <exec> 08└─Putin may already own Trump but there will be backlash in the US if Trump starts doing what Putin wants. Trump must act like he is pulling the strings. So, people will be much more "understanding" if "good guy" Putin does a "favor" to the US first by gifting Snowden.
[14:08:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score:2) 02Re:cool story bro - 06NBC Says Russia May Consider Handing Edward Snowden to the U.S. - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:08:45] <exec> 08└─> why does Russia even need to 'cozy up' to Trump, I thought they already owned him? Because Trump needs to score in the eyes of his fellow Amerikans. Both mobsters are on a quest to restore authoritarianism so they naturally support each other.
[14:08:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:3, Insightful) 02No idea - 06NBC Says Russia May Consider Handing Edward Snowden to the U.S. - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:48] <exec> 08└─I have no idea whether Russia might deport Snowden back to the US. All I can do, is hope they don't. But, there may be a kernel of truth to the idea. Snowden has been granted permission to remain in Russia for another three years. They aren't granting him permanent asylum. They don't seem to be offe...
[14:09:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02Re:Nothing more than republican virtue signaling - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 1062 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:09:02] <exec> 08└─Citation needed because I have watched the live stream of several of Milo's stops in his "Dangerous Faggot" tour and never seen anything that, in a sane world, would be all that objectionable. Trollish? Often. Intended to provoke a bit? Yes. Stand up comedy? Yes. Incitement to violence? No. Mostly w...
[14:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nothing more than republican virtue signaling - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:09:05] <exec> 08└─Silly fungus - you're jealous of the Morris!
[14:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nothing more than republican virtue signaling - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:09:08] <exec> 08└─"My god your reliance on buzz words is annoying! You have no original thoughts, just key phrases dropped by talk radio and promoted throughout the news cycle. They are manipulating you, manufacturing consensus by seeding specific words and phrases so that all your buddies say the same things and you...
[14:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02You are too busy cheering him on - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:09:10] <exec> 08└─never seen anything that, in a sane world, would be all that objectionable
[14:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Nothing more than republican virtue signaling - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:09:14] <exec> 08└─^ this ^ Whatever happened to the concept, "I despise what you're saying, but I'll defend your right to say it to the death if necessary." Let's take televangelists for instance. I've never heard one, or even heard OF one, that I can respect. If/when I get trapped into listening to one for even a mi...
[14:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Nothing more than republican virtue signaling - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:09:21] <exec> 08└─Hate speech is legal.
[14:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Nothing more than republican virtue signaling - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:09:27] <exec> 08└─FFS, who mods this shit up? Aristarchus is in effect telling us, "Censorship is bad, unless censorship conforms to my expectations!" Or, maybe more accurately, he is saying, "You're doing censorship all wrong, let me show you how it should be done!" And, for that, he gets modded "insightful"?
[14:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Tipped Your Hand - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:09:42] <exec> 08└─he was very much a public figure already. ... He did indeed sue the university to force his way into the women's facilities ... his face Let it be noted that he has a kind face. It's the kind of face most of us would like to kick. It's the kind of face that some of you would like to fuck. That disti...
[14:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Tipped Your Hand - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:09:45] <exec> 08└─Well, shit stain, stop hating on real people so much. Most of the country is sick of your politically correct shit, and the stain it leaves in public places. At least have the courtesy to keep your stained self hidden.
[14:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:incitement - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:09:47] <exec> 08└─Obviously, then, liberals intend for gunowners to be killed when they post those gunowner's names and addresses on the internet, along with GPS coords superimposed on a map. See how that works? What's good for the goose is good for the goose fuckers.
[14:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:incitement - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:09:49] <exec> 08└─Obviously, then, liberals intend for gunowners to be killed when they post those gunowner's names and addresses on the internet, along with GPS coords superimposed on a map.
[14:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Nothing more than republican virtue signaling - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:09:56] <exec> 08└─Cross dressing dude who demanded to use the women's restroom? And, you call it a "she"? Your gaydar is fubar'd.
[14:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03randmcnatt [671] (Score:2) 02Needs a lot more work - 06Innovative Spirit: These "Smart Glasses" Adjust to Your Vision Automatically - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:20] <exec> 08└─And not just to the frames. Everyone I know with glasses require astigmatism correction, and some (including myself) require prism in the prescription. The article doesn't mention those little problems, and from the shot of the prototype lens it doesn't appear the lens is able to or even designed to...
[14:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Ford is learning - 06Ford Investing $1 Billion in Self-Driving Car Startup - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:36] <exec> 08└─Ford seems to realize that they are behind in autonomous travel and they need to catch up. I agree with that, but I doubt that buying a startup is the best way to go. I would prefer either developing it internally or licensing it from a supplier.
[14:12:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score:2) 02Re:Ban prefentive use of antibiotics for animals - 06Brazilian Peppertree Extract Disrupts MRSA Bacteria - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:12:12] <exec> 08└─#2: Ban people who don't finish their full course of antibiotic treatments.
[14:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02Re:Extremely culture-specific question - 06Is Owning a Car Still Key for a Date? - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:25] <exec> 08└─I have a friend with 15 Jaguars, 4 Audis, a Range Rover, a Lincoln stretch limo, a 1950's Cadillac sedan, and a small Renault. Before you get excited, they are all rust buckets sitting in a yard except for 3 of the Jags, two of the Audis, and the Renault (and even those are old). For a date he uses...
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[15:07:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pax [5056] (Score:1) 02obviously..... - 06640 Pilot Whales Run Aground on New Zealand Beach - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:14] <exec> 08└─just think of the timing..... this is a porpoise protest against Trump's anti-muslim ban.. :P
[15:07:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02The whales are up to something. - 06640 Pilot Whales Run Aground on New Zealand Beach - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:15] <exec> 08└─Perhaps they tried to reach Peter Thiels doomsday bunker? The whales know something we don't ... https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[15:07:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:1) 02Re:typo - 06Xiaomi to Build its Own "Pinecone" Smartphone SoCs - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:07:25] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinyin
[15:07:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02called it - 06Recent News Dispatches From Standing Rock (DAPL) - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:36] <exec> 08└─"I have determined that there is no cause for completing any additional environmental analysis," wrote Douglas W Lamon, the senior official performing the duties of assistant secretary of the army, wrote in a notice to the federal register.
[15:07:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Fun Valentine's Day story - 06Uber Leads to Divorce - 868 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:07:49] <exec> 08└─I worked for a while at one of the largest online greeting card companies in the business, we always got a lot of traffic on Valentine's Day, and my boss told the following war story (confirmed by others who were there): One Valentine's Day, there was a storm that dropped about 0.5m of snow on the r...
[15:07:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:bullshit - 06Uber Leads to Divorce - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:07:52] <exec> 08└─now wait a minute, i thought one of the dog-given rights of froggies was that YOU get a mistress, and YOU get a mistress, and EVERYONE gets a mistress !! ! has that been rescinded ? ? ? day-am, the world *is* going to shit...
[15:07:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Re:bullshit - 06Uber Leads to Divorce - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:07:54] <exec> 08└─it sounded like... Uber caused his wife to think he was having an affair when he wasn't... [In this] situation (IMO) he is fully in the right to sue Uber, as their cock up and reporting falsehoods resulted in damage to his interests.
[15:08:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:Uber leads to *getting a ride* - 06Uber Leads to Divorce - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:08:07] <exec> 08└─It was the fault of his penis. It should get the guillotine.
[15:08:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score:2) 02Personal responsibility - 06Uber Leads to Divorce - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:09] <exec> 08└─Guy does something untoward and ends up getting caught..... sooooo it MUST be someone else's fault, of course! In this case, what he did wrong was literally improper execution of the "Collect underpants" phase but by blaming Uber this then still becomes the latest iteration of "???" put into action!...
[15:08:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Easy fix - 06Marathon Pharmaceuticals is Part of the Problem - 1041 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:23] <exec> 08└─Step 1: allow imports from other reasonable countries. Step 2: give the FDA the ability to call out sham differences where two drugs are different enough to get different rules but essentially the same Step 3: perhaps include price versus benefit into the mix of things considered during patent and d...
[15:08:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Any good outcome? - 06NBC Says Russia May Consider Handing Edward Snowden to the U.S. - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:08:41] <exec> 08└─Do we get to rule over qt3.14 little girls as master of the female in the end? Like in the Old Testament (Dt 22, 28-29, hebrew, Numbers 31, etc) I'd rather rule some cute girls than a have political power.
[15:08:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02News ambiguity - 06NBC Says Russia May Consider Handing Edward Snowden to the U.S. - 1812 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:43] <exec> 08└─Many news sources that are quoting each other, based on an anonymous report that can't be verified in any way. Sure that sounds reliable, and not like the current fad of 'fake news' at all. Lets make news of it, but lets be vague and toss in a lot of ambiguity so we'll have our back clear if nothing...
[15:08:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:Nothing more than republican virtue signaling - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:08:59] <exec> 08└─thank you for proving you know nothing of the principles of free speech, nor freedom in general... (go back and re-read your chomsky, moron) what *is* amusing is the complete lack of self-awareness in your custom-made definitions to fit your 'morals', never for a second realizing you are acting in t...
[15:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:Tipped Your Hand - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:09:36] <exec> 08└─You're actually tipping your hand instead, you're that out of touch. You actually think that speaking proper grammatical English is a signal of contempt for minorities. You'll actually argue that with a straight face. You have no idea what my actual attitudes are, you know nothing about my history o...
[15:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Wah! - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:09:40] <exec> 08└─You actually think that speaking proper grammatical English is a signal of contempt for minorities.
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[16:07:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score:2) 02In short, Yes. - 06Solve Security-Enhanced Linux Issues With Ease Using SELinux Alert Browser - 1553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:08] <exec> 08└─A few places I've worked, have by default just disabled SELINUX support outright, or at least kept it in bitch mode. There are a number of big name software vendors whose first installation step is "Disable SELINUX". While in principle I really disagree with this, I tried to go rogue at work and say...
[16:07:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:typo - 06Xiaomi to Build its Own "Pinecone" Smartphone SoCs - 1499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:07:27] <exec> 08└─really i don't understand. there's like 3 different "chinese". they cannot talk to each other but they seem to be able to write to each other (using the same written down characters) so if chinese language number ONE reads some chinese characters they vocalize it differently then if chinese language...
[16:07:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:bullshit - 06Uber Leads to Divorce - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:07:55] <exec> 08└─Does Uber tell you beforehand that you will receive messages on that phone even if you are not logged in? If not, then I'd say Uber did fuck up. And that is regardless on what specific consequences this had on that specific person.
[16:07:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score:2) 02Re:bullshit - 06Uber Leads to Divorce - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:07:56] <exec> 08└─Infidelity not withstanding, the security implications of this are pretty horrifying.
[16:08:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Software industry as we know it... - 06Uber Leads to Divorce - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:08:04] <exec> 08└─A bridge consist of different types of atoms. An arbitrary atom's mass is not an integer multiple of a common base mass. The approximation using an integer may be "good enough" for most cases, but the fact remains that it is an approximation.
[16:08:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Re:Footer fortune - 06Uber Leads to Divorce - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:08:09] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure, but I just got this one: "To err is human. To blame someone else for your mistakes is even more human."
[16:08:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score:2) 02Re:Serious offense - 06Uber Leads to Divorce - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:08:13] <exec> 08└─Why should Uber have to utter even a single syllable of an apology? They were not the one cheating on their wife, nor did they act in any kind of malicious manner that enabled the wife to find out. Just my 2 ¥.
[16:08:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Re:Serious offense - 06Uber Leads to Divorce - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:08:16] <exec> 08└─Why should Uber have to utter even a single syllable of an apology?
[16:08:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The Naive Ignorance of History - 06Marathon Pharmaceuticals is Part of the Problem - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:08:26] <exec> 08└─In this case the FDA should not be involved at all in regulating anything except fraud. ... If someone sells chalk pills as aspirin, then they can get involved.
[16:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:Wah! - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:09:47] <exec> 08└─"Deliberately using incorrect pronouns is literally the opposite of proper english." Exactly! Which is why I avoided doing it. "Wah! You are a hypocrite for judging me for my judgments!" You're judging me based on sheer prejudice. You don't know my positions, and you show no interest in learning abo...
[16:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:When and how much? - 06Innovative Spirit: These "Smart Glasses" Adjust to Your Vision Automatically - 995 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:08] <exec> 08└─when you 'chance' upon the right prescription, have the optometrist make a copy of it for you... (they SHOULD be gracious about it, but some are dicks, but they should give it to you, dicks or no...) you can do two things with that, 1. take to new optometrist if you move/whatever and (presumably) ge...
[16:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:Haw. - 06Russian Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny Found Guilty of Embezzlement - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:52] <exec> 08└─You are an ed - how did you react?
[16:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03ShadowSystems [6185] (Score:1) 02At AC#2, re:Is it Accessible yet? - 06Pale Moon 27.1 Released With Major Compatibility Improvements - 968 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:12:52] <exec> 08└─I take it you've never used the donation link to reward someone for having done something you find worthy of gratitude? I & many others do just that to show our thanks to developers that write something useful, well designed, & kept maintained so it continues to be so. I have donated to FireFox & ot...
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[17:07:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Live by the Gun, Die by the Gun - 06Beyoncé Sued for Over $20 Million by Slain YouTube Star's Estate for Sampling a Song - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:12] <exec> 08└─As someone on the top of the music industry pyramid, Beyonce is one of the largest beneficiaries of copyright law. Any blowback she receives from copyright law is just deserts.
[17:07:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Re:Live by the Gun, Die by the Gun - 06Beyoncé Sued for Over $20 Million by Slain YouTube Star's Estate for Sampling a Song - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:07:14] <exec> 08└─I hope she has decent sunscreen.
[17:07:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Footnote - 06Beyoncé Sued for Over $20 Million by Slain YouTube Star's Estate for Sampling a Song - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:16] <exec> 08└─I cannot too highly recommend Spider Robinson's 1983 Hugo Award winning short story: Melancholy Elephant . -Ed
[17:07:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Nope! - 06Beyoncé Sued for Over $20 Million by Slain YouTube Star's Estate for Sampling a Song - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:18] <exec> 08└─Don't care, unless it happens to get rid of stupid patenting/copyright and patent/copyright trolls and 60000000 year long patent/copyright life...you know... gets rid of stupidity! Wait. Get rid of stupidity? Where would all the sheeple go? Beyoncé? Nope don't care.
[17:07:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Copyright trolling - 06Beyoncé Sued for Over $20 Million by Slain YouTube Star's Estate for Sampling a Song - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:20] <exec> 08└─While I'm no fan of Beyonce, this reeks of trolling. The family hasn't produced any music. Any income they may receive from Messy Mya's recording is not affected - indeed, they may well experience increased sales due to the free advertising. This reminds me of the Tolkein estate, busily monetizing T...
[17:07:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Culture - 06Beyoncé Sued for Over $20 Million by Slain YouTube Star's Estate for Sampling a Song - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:22] <exec> 08└─Culture cannot be "appropriated". Culture evolves, changes, is adapted by other cultures, etc. Does New Orleans think "their culture" was created out of nothing?
[17:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:In short, Yes. - 06Solve Security-Enhanced Linux Issues With Ease Using SELinux Alert Browser - 1366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:07:31] <exec> 08└─Yup, that is my experience too. Every install I mess with SELinux a bit and then just turn the darned thing off. If you use the "troubleshooter" all it does is write you a rule to bypass every warning. But since you usually do not understand what the warning was, why it was dangerous and whether the...
[17:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Re:In short, Yes. - 06Solve Security-Enhanced Linux Issues With Ease Using SELinux Alert Browser - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:07:33] <exec> 08└─It depends what you are trying to do. I have setup webservers that have SELinux enabled and this task wasn't too difficult.
[17:07:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Disabled is required for some platforms - 06Solve Security-Enhanced Linux Issues With Ease Using SELinux Alert Browser - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:36] <exec> 08└─Some platforms I've seen have setenforce 0 as one of the first commands during installation and there are zero plans at the end to turn it back on. The general feeling I've got is that you turn it off on servers that have no business with users and home directories. That, and OpenBSD doesn't even ha...
[17:07:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03requerdanos [5997] 02640 whales - 06640 Pilot Whales Run Aground on New Zealand Beach - 100 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:43] <exec> 08└─This is an animal kingdom tragedy, but at least it should stop now. 640 should be enough for anyone.
[17:07:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:The whales are up to something. - 06640 Pilot Whales Run Aground on New Zealand Beach - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:07:47] <exec> 08└─Peter Thiel is a man of exotic taste. The bunker is to be made out of the whale bones, skin for lavish furnishing, and whale oil lamps for that rustic look.
[17:07:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score:2) 02Un/natural? - 06640 Pilot Whales Run Aground on New Zealand Beach - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:50] <exec> 08└─Is it a common/natural thing for pods of whales to do this, or can this be blamed on the usage of sonar? From what I understand the US/Europe/UK/Russia do not use the sort that disorients whales unless necessary. But does China care? I kind of assumed wherever there was a pod of whales sudokuing it...
[17:08:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:typo - 06Xiaomi to Build its Own "Pinecone" Smartphone SoCs - 1385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:08:00] <exec> 08└─"there's like 3 different "chinese". they cannot talk to each other" More like 7 actually but in this day and age virtually everyone in China speaks passable Mandarin, so they can actually talk to each other just fine. It's true many speak e.g. Cantonese at home instead, and have to consciously swit...
[17:08:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:called it - 06Recent News Dispatches From Standing Rock (DAPL) - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:08:11] <exec> 08└─Here, what one president can arbitrarily do, another can arbitrarily undo.
[17:08:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fun Valentine's Day story - 06Uber Leads to Divorce - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:08:32] <exec> 08└─Actually if they hadn't be opened yet couldn't you technically be able to swap what was displayed at the links? Charge $$$$ for the service and I'm sure he'll pay :).
[17:08:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] 02Re:Software industry as we know it... - 06Uber Leads to Divorce - 83 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:08:42] <exec> 08└─> at least a bridge can't accept non-integer values of mass Erm, mass is a float...
[17:08:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Software industry as we know it... - 06Uber Leads to Divorce - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:08:48] <exec> 08└─Why buy an Self Driving car, if it goes wrong the manufactors says "It was a sfotware bug"? Today, we hold car and food manufactors to a higher standard. Force full recall at their cost, plus libility to killed/injured. Alphabet, Uber, Telsa, ... should be held to the higher standard since their err...
[17:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03migz [1807] (Score:2) 02Re:The Naive Ignorance of History - 06Marathon Pharmaceuticals is Part of the Problem - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:09:07] <exec> 08└─> You are hopelessly naive. Ad hominum > The FDA wasn't created out of nowhere. I never claimed that it was. >It exists because people were being killed. Yep, that's fraud. > No amount of after the fact action can undo death or serious injury. Yep. >The FDA is imperfect because it is a creation of i...
[17:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The real problem - 06Marathon Pharmaceuticals is Part of the Problem - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:09:09] <exec> 08└─Some would argue that as a result of those costs, companies should be granted a monopoly to license that drug. I don't think that is a good idea.
[17:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Faith - 06NBC Says Russia May Consider Handing Edward Snowden to the U.S. - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:09:27] <exec> 08└─Did you see it before Drew Carey started hosting it?
[17:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:cool story bro - 06NBC Says Russia May Consider Handing Edward Snowden to the U.S. - 819 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:09:33] <exec> 08└─"Trump must act like he is pulling the strings." If Trump acts in Russia's best interests, then Russia is pulling the strings. If Trump acts in the USA's best interests, then Russia is pulling the strings. Do you believe yourself to be an objective thinker, by any chance? Last I checked, the FBI (No...
[17:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:No idea - 06NBC Says Russia May Consider Handing Edward Snowden to the U.S. - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:09:38] <exec> 08└─I hope not too, or if it DOES happen, that Trump goes up and shakes his hand, and pats it a couple times so that Snowden can give this odd "Well that was awkward" look, but that he gives Snowden an immediate pardon. http://www.cnn.com [cnn.c...
[17:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wah! - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:35] <exec> 08└─I have conspicuously refrained from emitting a specific signal
[17:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:When and how much? - 06Innovative Spirit: These "Smart Glasses" Adjust to Your Vision Automatically - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:54] <exec> 08└─A purist would have monocles with a pipe between them.
[17:11:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Meh, no thanks. - 06Ford Investing $1 Billion in Self-Driving Car Startup - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:26] <exec> 08└─Me, I'll wait for the Microsoft car.
[17:11:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Haw. - 06Russian Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny Found Guilty of Embezzlement - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:11:43] <exec> 08└─I leld
[17:12:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Nobel Prize - 06Helium Bonds With Sodium at a High Pressure - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:11] <exec> 08└─One of my chemistry professors used to say that if you ever wanted a Nobel Prize, then all you had to do was get Helium to react with something. I'll be happy to see if he's right.
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[18:07:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Copyright trolling - 06Beyoncé Sued for Over $20 Million by Slain YouTube Star's Estate for Sampling a Song - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:07:32] <exec> 08└─A non-productive entity monetizing someone else's invention, while producing nothing of value themselves.
[18:07:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Music? - 06Beyoncé Sued for Over $20 Million by Slain YouTube Star's Estate for Sampling a Song - 1482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:34] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I don't like Beyonce. And, sorry, I can't really call a Youtube star an "artist". Maybe I'm just to old fashioned to appreciate either of them, but I can't really care. (Some Youtuber's do some pretty cool stuff, but little of it can be called "art" IMO) The best takeaway here, is Ed's link t...
[18:07:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Music? - 06Beyoncé Sued for Over $20 Million by Slain YouTube Star's Estate for Sampling a Song - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:07:36] <exec> 08└─I can't really care.
[18:07:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:In short, Yes. - 06Solve Security-Enhanced Linux Issues With Ease Using SELinux Alert Browser - 940 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:07:48] <exec> 08└─Yes, if you do something utterly ordinary it all 'just works' but the slightest variation and everything breaks. Put home directories on NFS and watch how many SELinux rules explode. And that is a very common use case, isn't it? Then it gets worse. Go back to that web server of yours and try anythin...
[18:08:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Flyingmoose [4369] (Score:2) 02Re:Un/natural? - 06640 Pilot Whales Run Aground on New Zealand Beach - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:08:01] <exec> 08└─Sudokuing? You mean sitting around playing that crossword-like numbers game?
[18:08:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:typo - 06Xiaomi to Build its Own "Pinecone" Smartphone SoCs - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:08:14] <exec> 08└─the slow and steady erosion of Latin alphabet and its sounds
[18:08:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02MediaTek - 06Xiaomi to Build its Own "Pinecone" Smartphone SoCs - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:15] <exec> 08└─One thing I noticed is that the TFAs I looked at don't mention MediaTek as a competitor, just Qualcomm, and Samsung/Apple/Huawei as smartphone makers that also make their own SoCs (Samsung = Exynos, Apple = A(n), Huawei = Kirin) Is MediaTek's Helios line of SoCs not doing well? They make 8 and 10 co...
[18:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Naive Ignorance of History - 06Marathon Pharmaceuticals is Part of the Problem - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:17] <exec> 08└─> Ad hominum Nope. For your future reference: Ad hominem: "You are wrong because you are stupid." Not ad hominem: "You are stupid because you are wrong."
[18:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:The Naive Ignorance of History - 06Marathon Pharmaceuticals is Part of the Problem - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:18] <exec> 08└─There is justification for regulating novel drugs and inactive ingredients in drugs, but fundamentally, the FDA is just as much after the fact as anyone else. They do not have anything in place that could actually prevent a bad actor from including a toxic substance into a remedy except the knowledg...
[18:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03migz [1807] (Score:2) 02Re:The real problem - 06Marathon Pharmaceuticals is Part of the Problem - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:21] <exec> 08└─> Do you have a better idea? Sure. Don't grant monopolies. > Doing research, developing drugs, and running clinical trials all cost money. Sure. None of those should be required to manufacture and distribute substances. > That money has to come from somewhere No it does not. You only need the money...
[18:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Greedy sociopaths - 06Marathon Pharmaceuticals is Part of the Problem - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:29] <exec> 08└─You claim to know the difference, but you demonstrate that you don't. If the FDA were stripped of the power to grant exclusivity in exchange for ass kissing and we then enforced existing laws against such practices as paying potential competitors to stay out of the market AND we force the FDA to tre...
[18:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Game2 Winter - 06NBC Says Russia May Consider Handing Edward Snowden to the U.S. - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:46] <exec> 08└─I would watch the rape and murder show. Siberia is a magical place where people go to die.
[18:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Nothing more than republican virtue signaling - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 949 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:00] <exec> 08└─No, what Milo did was far, far worse than inciting violence, so horrible you can't even speak it. He put him up on the screen to make him an object of ridicule, so everyone in the room could laugh at the mentally challenged 'tard and the evil people who refuse to explain reality to him because they...
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[19:07:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:3, Touché) 02"Economics" is crap - 06Reforming Economics - 684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:09] <exec> 08└─At least it was in 1976 when I was in college. I enrolled in an economics class with three professors, all of whom said that by 1990 Americans were going to be living on $1000 a year like they do in the third world. But I'd been in Thailand three years earlier in the Air Force, where the median inco...
[19:07:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:4, Informative) 02Actually... - 06Reforming Economics - 749 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:11] <exec> 08└─Actually anyone who cares already knows mainstream economics is a failure because we can look at the 20th century. Marx is pathetic and so is the mushy pseudo science of Keynes who takes most of Marx and tarts it up for popular consumption. Again, I can say it is a failure because we can all see the...
[19:07:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Actually... - 06Reforming Economics - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:07:13] <exec> 08└─Austrian economics... What a libertarian swamp! Con artists, the lot of you. Or just morons... A system of contracts!!! Lololol jmorris stay off drugs eh? Or, if you are a teetoler like you sound then get ON some drugs. Alabama institute of crazy, calling themselves austrian economics with a story a...
[19:07:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Actually... - 06Reforming Economics - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:07:15] <exec> 08└─Like I said, don't assume Mises is Ayn Rand or Laup Nor. Go and actually read his book. He doesn't assume everyone is Homo Economicus. He doesn't propose a world where governments don't exist either. The title is intended as a spoiler; he assumes economics isn't math, it should instead begin as a st...
[19:07:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Uncle_Al [1108] (Score:2) 02The Guardian? - 06Reforming Economics - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:18] <exec> 08└─"a growing international movement within the world of economics itself, started by a group of students" How did "Occupy Wall Street" work out for you? Wake me when The Economist takes notice.
[19:07:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02First we need principles - 06Reforming Economics - 1218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:20] <exec> 08└─The thing that most distinguishes the "real" sciences from economics, social sciences, and other not-quite-science sciences is the general method of publication and research. In the latter group there is a very typical pattern: 1. Sample a certain group and observe a pattern. 2. Create a hypo...
[19:07:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Telling signs - 06Reforming Economics - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:22] <exec> 08└─It seems everyone (in politics) wants to push for austerity based on a paper that was discredited years ago. In fact, once the math errors in the paper were corrected (by a student) it showed that austerity was the worst response to the situation. Yet years later there is still the big austerity pus...
[19:07:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Telling signs - 06Reforming Economics - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:07:24] <exec> 08└─It wasn't incompetence it was malicious greedy intent.
[19:07:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score:3, Insightful) 02re Rational - 06Reforming Economics - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:27] <exec> 08└─When a rational agent operating in a free market is postulated as the basis of your models you are setup for failure. There are no rational agents nor free markets. People buy things out of perceived need, status and other irrational feelings. Corporations will try to rig the market every way they...
[19:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02more from tfa - 06Reforming Economics - 1419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:29] <exec> 08└─The most devastating evidence in this book concerns what goes into making an economist. The authors analysed 174 economics modules for seven Russell Group universities, making this the most comprehensive curriculum review I know of. Focusing on the exams that undergraduates were asked to prepare for...
[19:07:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Footnote - 06Beyoncé Sued for Over $20 Million by Slain YouTube Star's Estate for Sampling a Song - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:07:40] <exec> 08└─Also, the sentence reads rather awkward. I assume the ed meant "I cannot recommend xxx highly enough."
[19:07:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Copyright trolling - 06Beyoncé Sued for Over $20 Million by Slain YouTube Star's Estate for Sampling a Song - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:07:45] <exec> 08└─Because teens and young adults are impressionable and media is great at selling images. When you call out pop culture you don't suddenly become popular...
[19:07:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondoctor [2963] (Score:1) 02Re:Culture - 06Beyoncé Sued for Over $20 Million by Slain YouTube Star's Estate for Sampling a Song - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:07:48] <exec> 08└─Vanilla Ice begs to differ... I'm a skateboarder and my culture is appropriated all the time to sell things for companies that dgaf about skateboarding.
[19:07:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondoctor [2963] (Score:1) 02Re:Music? - 06Beyoncé Sued for Over $20 Million by Slain YouTube Star's Estate for Sampling a Song - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:07:52] <exec> 08└─One of the more fascinating phenomena displayed by Webulus Posteris in the wild.
[19:08:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Un/natural? - 06640 Pilot Whales Run Aground on New Zealand Beach - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:08:16] <exec> 08└─I kind of assumed wherever there was a pod of whales sudokuing
[19:08:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrchew1982 [3565] (Score:2) 02Re:Un/natural? - 06640 Pilot Whales Run Aground on New Zealand Beach - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:08:18] <exec> 08└─Seppuku is the word you're looking for I think... But it means to disembowel one's self, not commit suicide per se, same as harakiri. I think karoshi is probably more apropos... My first thought was Chinese sonar too, especially given the tensions in the South China Sea.
[19:08:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:MediaTek - 06Xiaomi to Build its Own "Pinecone" Smartphone SoCs - 1175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:08:32] <exec> 08└─Drawing attention to the distinction between fabs, fabless, ISA licensees, OEMs, brand names and so on while cross-referencing volume of sales, target platforms, revenues and profits might be a bit above the average pay-grade of a WSJ press-release re-digestion. From what I can tell, the WSJ reporte...
[19:08:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:called it - 06Recent News Dispatches From Standing Rock (DAPL) - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:08:43] <exec> 08└─In a previous story on the subject, I pointed out the importance of rule of law.
[19:08:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03tisI [5866] (Score:2) 02Already a done deal - 06Recent News Dispatches From Standing Rock (DAPL) - 1159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:45] <exec> 08└─Those people, Standing Rock Indian Reservation, were fucked from the start and didn't even know it. This standoff is over the final mile of pipe. Construction was started at both ends by the conglomeration of oil companies and billionaire investors (trump being one, and still is), and built backward...
[19:08:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Blame and responsibility - 06Uber Leads to Divorce - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:08:58] <exec> 08└─We don't need regulation, we need laws to protect privacy. The rest will sort itself out in a decade of failures and lawsuits.
[19:09:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Blame and responsibility - 06Uber Leads to Divorce - 3612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:00] <exec> 08└─Jail time because someone calls themselves an engineer? When something at a hotel breaks they call 'engineering' to fix it. Where do you draw the line between an engineer and a non-engineer? and the amount of licensing required to do anything is ridiculous. For instance in some states you need a lic...
[19:09:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mechanicjay [7] 02Re:bullshit - 06Uber Leads to Divorce - 85 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:09] <exec> 08└─Infidelity not withstanding, the security implications of this are pretty horrifying.
[19:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02obvious solution - 06Uber Leads to Divorce - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:28] <exec> 08└─Uber needs to merge with Ashley Madison.
[19:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:cool story bro - 06NBC Says Russia May Consider Handing Edward Snowden to the U.S. - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:09] <exec> 08└─> [...] LEAK by the DNC IT worker Seth Rich [...] There's no evidence for that. Roger Stone, a veteran black-ops propagandist who occasionally advises Donald Trump, has declared, without evidence, that Hillary Clinton ordered Rich killed to prevent him from talking to the FBI. Assange doesn’t go...
[19:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:News ambiguity - 06NBC Says Russia May Consider Handing Edward Snowden to the U.S. - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:15] <exec> 08└─Recall, though, that the United States revoked Mr. Snowden's passport whilst he was in transit. https://www.theguardian.com [theguardian.com] http://www.reuters.com [reuters.com]
[19:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nothing more than republican virtue signaling - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:38] <exec> 08└─Even the AC who sticks up for jmorris can't come up with an original thought! "What you said, but in Wallymart!" It's almost too perfect of a setup, right down to the shopping venue, but I can't imagine someone sarcastically defending jmorris.
[19:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Re:Nothing more than republican virtue signaling - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 824 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:53] <exec> 08└─I am convinced that this site has been targeted for wrongthink, and is being shilled on accordingly. Suddenly, after Trump's victory, this site went from about 50-50 wrongthink vs progressive, and now the modding is like 20-80. Call me paranoid, but I can post objective fucking documented proof that...
[19:11:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:When and how much? - 06Innovative Spirit: These "Smart Glasses" Adjust to Your Vision Automatically - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:38] <exec> 08└─That's not been my experience, but maybe I was just lucky. I never had a problem with any eye doctor I ever visited, and I was extremely nearsighted from before age 7 when I was first tested until I had a CrystaLens implanted in my left eye at age 54. My sight in the eye that had surgery is better t...
[19:11:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Cost and longevity - 06Innovative Spirit: These "Smart Glasses" Adjust to Your Vision Automatically - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:48] <exec> 08└─For $15,000 you can get corrective surgery. The FDA approved the CrystaLens implant [bausch.com] in 2003, I had one implanted in my left eye in 2006 and went from coke bottle glasses to no eyewear at all, not even reading glasses, and I turn 65 this year. They were developed for cataracts, but since...
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[20:07:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02huge profits ahead - 06The Curious Case of Cockroach Magnetization - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:17] <exec> 08└─This discovery is sure to be put to use soon. Finally, the freshness issue [telegraph.co.uk] that has dogged cockroach farming will be solved. The industry is about to take flight.
[20:07:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02so much for pesticides - 06The Curious Case of Cockroach Magnetization - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:18] <exec> 08└─In our old and roach infested dorm, fumigation techniques (evacuation over the summer, tenting) was ineffective. We did much better with boric acid sprinkled around the baseboards. Had we only known they were magnetic--our electrical engineers could have cooked up a big magnet to catch them!
[20:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Actually... - 06Reforming Economics - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:07:30] <exec> 08└─*facepalm* This gets voted informative?
[20:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Guardian? - 06Reforming Economics - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:07:32] <exec> 08└─Some have. Here is one: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] The ones that have not are in the pocket of those that profit from the status quo (and thus get the columns in the big name newspapers etc). BTW, check out Nakedcaptialism.com while at it. And no, thats not a porn site.
[20:07:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Guardian? - 06Reforming Economics - 756 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:07:34] <exec> 08└─When he says "The Economist", with that capitalization, a literate person would assume he means the news magazine The Economist, or if they'd never heard of it, something named The Economist. A further clue might be found in the context, where GP contrasts it to The Guardian, thus allowing the suppo...
[20:07:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Telling signs - 06Reforming Economics - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:07:39] <exec> 08└─There is a lot of greed and malice involved, mostly by those doing the bidding of others who will one day pull out a chair for a cushy very well paying job. However, in academia there is also incompetence involved in not calling them on it and discussing the massive failball with students.
[20:07:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I'm sure some people know real economics - 06Reforming Economics - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:44] <exec> 08└─The people who understand real economics are just not pretending to teach it like the snake-oil salesmen in universities. They're the ones who own the world. Economics is a social science concerned with the factors that determine the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.
[20:07:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Economics isn't a real science. - 06Reforming Economics - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:46] <exec> 08└─If it were, Obama would have won Nobel Prizes in it.
[20:07:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Start analysing the data... - 06Reforming Economics - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:48] <exec> 08└─Every day millions of data points are generated by the economy... the data in "big bioinformatics data" is nothing compared to that. Start accumulating that data, process it and start working on THAT. I can guarantee it will generate more interesting scientific output and might even move Economics o...
[20:07:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Live by the Gun, Die by the Gun - 06Beyoncé Sued for Over $20 Million by Slain YouTube Star's Estate for Sampling a Song - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:07:58] <exec> 08└─She hasn't been found guilty of the killing. It could be a multiple gunshot suicide, like Gary Webb.
[20:08:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Copyright trolling - 06Beyoncé Sued for Over $20 Million by Slain YouTube Star's Estate for Sampling a Song - 1320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:08:06] <exec> 08└─> this reeks of trolling. The family hasn't produced any music. Any income they may receive from Messy Mya's recording is not affected Look, if I make a painting, a one-off, and keep the rights to the image with no plans to ever reproduce it, and then you come and take a picture and start selling Pe...
[20:08:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:In short, Yes. - 06Solve Security-Enhanced Linux Issues With Ease Using SELinux Alert Browser - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:08:22] <exec> 08└─My experience with SElinux exactly. I've tried numerous times to tackle SElinux, and have never succeeded. Most of the blame is on the Fedora policykit being bad and lacking documentation. Last time I just got mad at it, when I discovered Fedorapolicykit had rules for executables that didn't exist o...
[20:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Already a done deal - 06Recent News Dispatches From Standing Rock (DAPL) - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:05] <exec> 08└─> Almost like planned incompetence. More likely geology. It can be faster and cheaper to do 300km of pipeline than 3km, if the 300km is on exposed bedrock and the 3km is clay and sand and silt. I haven't looked at the specifics for this case, of course. It could be planned incompetence.
[20:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:Blame and responsibility - 06Uber Leads to Divorce - 742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:21] <exec> 08└─It's false advertising. An engineer is someone who has demonstrated expertise in creating solid, enduring edifices of enduring quality. An engineer is someone whose work product has to be of consistently high quality because if it is not people will die, and someone who has an insurance policy appro...
[20:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Personal responsibility - 06Uber Leads to Divorce - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:49] <exec> 08└─Well, what do you expect from hypocritical Eurotards who sue at the drop of a hat because everything is someone else's fault?
[20:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Game2 Winter - 06NBC Says Russia May Consider Handing Edward Snowden to the U.S. - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:30] <exec> 08└─Strange country.
[20:11:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nothing more than republican virtue signaling - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 1736 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:11:18] <exec> 08└─> So I would propose a test for free speech: First, it has to be speech. That means actual communication of ideas, not just dog-whistles and race-baiting and being all gay only for effect. Hypothetically: an artist goes "all gay" to make people react and think about their reactions. Unfortunately an...
[20:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Too late - 06No Data Manipulation at NOAA - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:00] <exec> 08└─Reread that excerpt about the (I agree, totally necessary) adjustments. The idea the final numbers are accurate to within more than a few K seems insane.
[20:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''date ugly fat girls'' - 06Is Owning a Car Still Key for a Date? - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:15:39] <exec> 08└─I'd think that a gal that is "plain" or has "unremarkable looks" might be a choice (with offsetting values like that she has a valuable skillset e.g. high earner, good cook, knows how to make money go a long way). ...but to pair off with a gal who is actually ugly requires a peculiar kind of guy. --...
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[21:07:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02FTL - 06'Faster Than Light' Successor Shows Off Adorable Mech Battles - 855 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:03] <exec> 08└─"perfectly-balanced chaos-management" Like fuck. It's almost impossible. Unless you want to learn every detail, pause CONSTANTLY on every action, movement or order, and micro-manage every damn detail, and do it over and over and over again until you hit the lucky weapons and sectors and missions, to...
[21:07:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Ahhhh... - 06The Curious Case of Cockroach Magnetization - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:12] <exec> 08└─So that's how the Mexicans know where the industrial copper, which they steal, is stored.
[21:07:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02Actually... - 06Reforming Economics - 749 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:21] <exec> 08└─Actually anyone who cares already knows mainstream economics is a failure because we can look at the 20th century. Marx is pathetic and so is the mushy pseudo science of Keynes who takes most of Marx and tarts it up for popular consumption. Again, I can say it is a failure because we can all see the...
[21:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:First we need principles - 06Reforming Economics - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:07:31] <exec> 08└─Study the philosophy of science before you presume to lecture others on what is, or is not a science. Economics is, for the record, a science. It just doesn't happen to be a physical science. Nor is it an analytical science. It's a human science.
[21:07:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Telling signs - 06Reforming Economics - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:07:36] <exec> 08└─Exactly. I hear people throwing around names and theories but what it all comes down to is, those who fuck with the money are going to give the people with lots of money even more money at the expense of everybody else. This is why we're now in its final form of madness -- infinite growth at all cos...
[21:07:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Telling signs - 06Reforming Economics - 895 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:07:38] <exec> 08└─If you're talking about the paper that described a productivity cliff at 90% debt-to-GDP ratio, you should probably also acknowledge the correction of the math error, and the consequences: The link between debt and reduced productivity remained unassailed. Except, instead of being mostly OK until ab...
[21:07:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:re Rational - 06Reforming Economics - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:07:41] <exec> 08└─This has been well known for decades. You may be interested to discover that there are a few approaches to solving this, of which the best known is probably behavioural economics. It's pretty interesting stuff. I suggest that you look into it.
[21:07:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Nope! - 06Beyoncé Sued for Over $20 Million by Slain YouTube Star's Estate for Sampling a Song - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:07:58] <exec> 08└─Duuuuhhh WUT? [sourcefed.com]
[21:08:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''I've tried numerous times to tackle SElinux'' - 06Solve Security-Enhanced Linux Issues With Ease Using SELinux Alert Browser - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:08:19] <exec> 08└─I've tried numerous times to tackle SElinux, and have never succeeded So, do you think that the Soyvertised app and Jack's little tutorial might increase your chances of success in the future? ...or are you never looking back. mechanicjay (Fristy) mentioned AppArmor. Have you already gone that route...
[21:08:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Disabled is required for some platforms - 06Solve Security-Enhanced Linux Issues With Ease Using SELinux Alert Browser - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:08:22] <exec> 08└─> [...] OpenBSD doesn't even have SELinux. The Communications Security Establishment has a mandate to provide advice, guidance and services to help ensure the protection of electronic information and of information infrastructures of importance to the Government of Canada [...]
[21:08:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:The whales are up to something. - 06640 Pilot Whales Run Aground on New Zealand Beach - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:08:33] <exec> 08└─You don't even wanna know what he uses their blowholes for.
[21:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Already a done deal - 06Recent News Dispatches From Standing Rock (DAPL) - 781 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:06] <exec> 08└─Another reason for a particular route* is to parallel existing pipelines -- it is much harder to fight a new pipeline on private land if there is an existing one already in place. Not sure if this was a factor in this particular pipeline, but it is very common. * I found this out the hard way when a...
[21:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Uber leads to *getting a ride* - 06Uber Leads to Divorce - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:49] <exec> 08└─I'd rather see it hanged.
[21:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Uber leads to *getting a ride* - 06Uber Leads to Divorce - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:50] <exec> 08└─It's the same excuse men in many countries use to rape women, because the women weren't covered in 5 layers of cloth they were provoking to be raped. It has nothing to do with the willpower of those men to be a bit civilized.
[21:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:cool story bro - 06NBC Says Russia May Consider Handing Edward Snowden to the U.S. - 761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:37] <exec> 08└─"The U.S. Intelligence Community (USIC) is confident that the Russian Government directed the recent compromises of e-mails from US persons and institutions, including from US political organizations." [dni.gov] It's definitely the official position of the US government that the DNC hack was done by...
[21:12:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score:2) 02Re:Cost and longevity - 06Innovative Spirit: These "Smart Glasses" Adjust to Your Vision Automatically - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:12:15] <exec> 08└─...And what happens if you drop them or knock them off the bathroom counter?
[21:12:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03fubari [4551] (Score:2) 02some already on the market.... - 06Innovative Spirit: These "Smart Glasses" Adjust to Your Vision Automatically - 3058 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:20] <exec> 08└─I wish the Utah kids luck, and they're a long ways away from a viable product. And if they can focus to any arbitrary prescription, why not self-calibrate and bypass the prescription ceremony altogether? Interestingly glycerin can have a freezing point as low as -50F (depending on concentration) so...
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[22:07:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score:2) 02Re:FTL - 06'Faster Than Light' Successor Shows Off Adorable Mech Battles - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:07:12] <exec> 08└─> "perfectly-balanced chaos-management" > > Like fuck. > > It's almost impossible. That's chaos management. > And so much is luck. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
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[22:07:13] <exec> 08└─I don't give 2 shits about playing the game, but I've found some new coding background music in the soundtrack - It's atmospheric without using too many annoying queefy sounds Thanks!
[22:07:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score:2) 02Re:FTL - 06'Faster Than Light' Successor Shows Off Adorable Mech Battles - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:07:15] <exec> 08└─FYI there are two versions of each track: one for peace time ("Explore") and one for combat ("Battle"). The latter has more percussions. My favorite track, a bit of dubstep-ish at the end: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[22:07:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Actually... - 06Reforming Economics - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:07:37] <exec> 08└─Yes, occasionally jmorris is that, tho I would have gone for interesting personally. Inasmuch as we're rethinking economics, Mises seems like a good place to start. It may not be the end-all-be-all, but 20th century economics has very little predictive power for macroeconomics.
[22:07:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:First we need principles - 06Reforming Economics - 1395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:07:43] <exec> 08└─Econ degree checking in here. I would argue it *could* be a science. They are however right. Econ has a reproduction problem. With a good scientific test you should be able to come up with a theory test it and see if it is correct. Change the parameters and see if the hypothesis still holds true. Th...
[22:07:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:more from tfa - 06Reforming Economics - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:07:54] <exec> 08└─Depends on where you study it. I had to write essays, participate in debates and seminars, and otherwise demonstrate critical analysis skills. One place offering shitty training doesn't prove anything about the rest of the world.
[22:07:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:more from tfa - 06Reforming Economics - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:07:56] <exec> 08└─I was about to ask what school had you, "...demonstrate critical analysis skills." But then I realized it might be more interesting to ask when you got your econ degree? It's possible things have gone downhill academically since your time at uni? The students quoted in tfa were from a number of diff...
[22:08:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Here's an idea: - 06Reforming Economics - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:01] <exec> 08└─How about, if economics wants to be treated as a science, it obeys the laws of thermodynamics? Infinite growth in a finite universe, let alone a finite planet, is insanity. And how about it starts taking human nature into account? We get abominations like laissez-faire and communism because these pi...
[22:08:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score:2) 02Re:Copyright trolling - 06Beyoncé Sued for Over $20 Million by Slain YouTube Star's Estate for Sampling a Song - 1091 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:08:19] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, if someone had a zero-lawn-impact lemonade stand that did not affect you or your lawn in any way, but you find out**, would you then sue for monetary damages? If so, is $20 million appropriate? I would expect that if they are truly copyright holders that under copyright law they c...
[22:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:typo - 06Xiaomi to Build its Own "Pinecone" Smartphone SoCs - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:07] <exec> 08└─but rather the slow and steady erosion of latin alphabet and its sounds because the best way to conquer your enemy is subtly and subversively by taking away his written language, because like even indiana johns dad knows "the pen is mightier then the sword". once your dubious enemies kow-tow t...
[22:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Pinecone computers - 06Xiaomi to Build its Own "Pinecone" Smartphone SoCs - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:10] <exec> 08└─Time to pop the champagne! Edgar, is that you?
[22:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Already a done deal - 06Recent News Dispatches From Standing Rock (DAPL) - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:26] <exec> 08└─They were going to get screwed by either side. As the other side wants rail car oil (who also play the right of way game). Two of the larger funders of the DNC just happen to control large swaths of the rail in the continental united states.
[22:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Software industry as we know it... - 06Uber Leads to Divorce - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:59] <exec> 08└─I meant to say "non-numerical". At any rate, that's just why I shouldn't post at 4 am drunk.
[22:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:The real problem - 06Marathon Pharmaceuticals is Part of the Problem - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:30] <exec> 08└─The FDA is a serious enabler but Marathon and their ilk play it for all it's worth. You may leave your backpack on the bench at the park, but I'm still a thief if I take it away, remove your ID, and treat it as my own.
[22:11:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''[Milo] kicked off twitter...'' - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:11:28] <exec> 08└─He didn't get kicked off twitter for being a swell guy Back on January 24, I submitted a thing about violent vigilantism. It was "Accepted" but never made the front page. The New National Debate: Is It Ever OK to Punch a Nazi? [soylentnews.org] On [January 20], Richard Spencer, president of the whi...
[22:11:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''conservative'' - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:11:49] <exec> 08└─Actual Conservatives are the broad middle who like things pretty much as they are and want to preserve/conserve that. That's not the bunch to which you are referring. That bunch is NOT Conservative; they are RADICAL . They don't like workers having rights, they don't like women being able to vote, a...
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[23:07:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02No surprise - 06ACLU Claims: TSA's Behavioral Detection Program is Useless, Biased, and Based on Junk Science - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:10] <exec> 08└─I think we all knew that already. Makes someone a lot of money though so...
[23:07:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Thanks ACLU! - 06ACLU Claims: TSA's Behavioral Detection Program is Useless, Biased, and Based on Junk Science - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:11] <exec> 08└─Always heroically standing up for the terrorists when no one else will!
[23:07:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Thanks ACLU! - 06ACLU Claims: TSA's Behavioral Detection Program is Useless, Biased, and Based on Junk Science - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:07:13] <exec> 08└─There is no such thing as terrorism.
[23:07:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:Thanks ACLU! - 06ACLU Claims: TSA's Behavioral Detection Program is Useless, Biased, and Based on Junk Science - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:07:16] <exec> 08└─What an interesting comment! Would you mind if I and a couple of my friends just followed you for a while?
[23:07:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Isreal - 06ACLU Claims: TSA's Behavioral Detection Program is Useless, Biased, and Based on Junk Science - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:18] <exec> 08└─Phone is acting up so I am not going to look for a citation, hoping someone else here also heard the same thing. I thought that the isrealies did a behaviorial checkpoint thing that was working pretty well? Last saw an article a few years back as an alternative to the cancer machines.
[23:07:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Tesla - 06The Curious Case of Cockroach Magnetization - 898 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:38] <exec> 08└─10K legacy gauss is a Tesla. So thats "pretty damn impressive" of a magnet but not quite NMR/MRI or research magnet strength. If you have a legacy "hi fi" that is probably about how strong the woofer magnet is. So not exactly a cheap kids toy but it is also a long way from needing liq helium cooling...
[23:07:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:First we need principles - 06Reforming Economics - 1571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:07:59] <exec> 08└─Both econ and philosophy checking in here ... Mathematics does not something scientific make, any more than a (mis)application of empirical techniques to fields that are not generally suited to such techniques. In fields such as physics, the mathematics used is intended to provide a model for what i...
[23:08:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Telling signs - 06Reforming Economics - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:08:05] <exec> 08└─This is probably quite shocking, so I hope you're sitting down, but it turns out that siphoning off money from a country's coffers to pay interest is not good for the country at the time.
[23:08:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Telling signs - 06Reforming Economics - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:08:07] <exec> 08└─You're right. I'm sorry. Paying interest totally benefits the country. Pay lots of interest! Can we pay more? Will ... will the evil banksters turn it down?
[23:08:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Economics isn't a real science. - 06Reforming Economics - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:08:17] <exec> 08└─May I conclude that peace is a science?
[23:08:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Here's an idea: - 06Reforming Economics - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:08:21] <exec> 08└─You're confusing the barking of politicians abusing economic jargon for their own ends, with serious economists studying the limits of growth. It's been a topic of discussion for economists since, famously, Malthus at least.
[23:08:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:Copyright trolling - 06Beyoncé Sued for Over $20 Million by Slain YouTube Star's Estate for Sampling a Song - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:08:40] <exec> 08└─Had Beyonce properly negotiated a license with the family for the voice, would the family have reasonably asked for $20 million, or 1% of profits, or whatever? Then yes, $20 million is appropriate. If someone made a dude, then a 1% profit license wouldn't have paid off anything, so of course there's...
[23:08:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Copyright trolling - 06Beyoncé Sued for Over $20 Million by Slain YouTube Star's Estate for Sampling a Song - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:08:42] <exec> 08└─The point of copyright - if it is to exist, which I'm not saying is the case nor that the current length is sane - is to stop others from using your creative works in ways you don't want.
[23:08:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Which was totally true... - 06Beyoncé Sued for Over $20 Million by Slain YouTube Star's Estate for Sampling a Song - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:08:46] <exec> 08└─back in the 90s. People don't remember just how much it was exploited. Sort of like all the people claiming 'open source' or 'free software' support today, who have nothing to do with it, or only provide dumps of 'waste' projects that even they can no longer manager because it has been rendered func...
[23:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Serious offense - 06Uber Leads to Divorce - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:31] <exec> 08└─Why should Uber have to utter even a single syllable of an apology?
[23:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The real problem - 06Marathon Pharmaceuticals is Part of the Problem - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:53] <exec> 08└─Otherwise people can find other ways to fund research, trials, and drugs.
[23:11:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:No idea - 06NBC Says Russia May Consider Handing Edward Snowden to the U.S. - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:11:29] <exec> 08└─They're keeping Snowden around because he's a valuable bargaining chip against the US. If Trump truly is buddy-buddy with Russia, this might be Russia paying back Trump's favor.
[23:11:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:Nothing more than republican virtue signaling - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 447 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:11:44] <exec> 08└─Do you truly care more about political correctness than the free exchange of ideas? In that case, I cannot agree with you in any way. If you refuse to allow an argument because it is "offensive", then you can refuse to allow any argument whatsoever for the same reason. I am offended by your argument...
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