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[00:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Proposes a Magnetic Shield to Protect Mars' Atmosphere - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:12] <exec> 08└─And this device will be powered by unicorn farts and faerey dust
[00:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Proposes a Magnetic Shield to Protect Mars' Atmosphere - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:13] <exec> 08└─First step to the realization Neo-Venezia.
[00:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Proposes a Magnetic Shield to Protect Mars' Atmosphere - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:15] <exec> 08└─Venus has no magnetic field but has an atmosphere >90x thicker than earth...
[00:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Proposes a Magnetic Shield to Protect Mars' Atmosphere - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:17] <exec> 08└─But I expect easy financing for the Bruce Willis movie where he will repair the shield at the last second, sacrificing himself to save his daughter and grandchildren on Mars. As long as nobody objects that diverting Phobos to L1 (after the primary mission fails because the bad guy wants to Make Eart...
[00:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06If Surveillance Cameras Are to Be Kept in Line, the Rules Will Have to Keep Pace With Technology - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:28] <exec> 08└─That explains the telephoto lens.
[00:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sun Could be Used as a Gravitational Lens by a Spacecraft 550 AU Away - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:55] <exec> 08└─This sounds like a job for 232Th! https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[00:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sun Could be Used as a Gravitational Lens by a Spacecraft 550 AU Away - 1121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:56] <exec> 08└─Thing is, this will be on an escape trajectory -- you have to exceed escape velocity to get there in any reasonable time, and there's no point slowing down to orbital velocity once you reach 550 AU. (Especially since 550 AU is the minimum distance, but at that point you're peering through the corona...
[00:15:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Diego, a Centenarian Giant Tortoise Whose Sex Drive Saved His Species - 57 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:07] <exec> 08└─For Diego, it literally is lady turtles all the way down.
[00:16:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Legal Weed Far Better Than Drug War at Stopping Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:14] <exec> 08└─The worst that can happen to you is actually getting sick from being too saturated with [weed] I really enjoy the story about NYT's ridiculous redhead who went to Colorado, bought a candy bar, ate the whole thing (when the dose was 1 square), and completely freaked out. Maureen Dowd [google.com] --...
[00:16:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Legal Weed Far Better Than Drug War at Stopping Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:15] <exec> 08└─Obligatory [youtube.com]
[00:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lab-Grown Chicken (and Duck) Could be on the Menu in 4 Years - 676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:15] <exec> 08└─> The nutrient solution probably contains corn and soy that is not even processed by a stomach. That's what I expected, too. However it's been proposed, elsewhere, that tissue cultures could be nourished by a hydrolysate of ocean-grown cyanobacteria, so that little land or fresh water would be used....
[00:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The First Climate Model Turns 50 -- Predicted Global Warming Almost Perfectly - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:12] <exec> 08└─Since you're so curious, why don't you find out and submit an article about it?
[00:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The First Climate Model Turns 50 -- Predicted Global Warming Almost Perfectly - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:14] <exec> 08└─I did a quick search but didn't find anything. I am not willing to put forth more effort towards it because it is the type of topic that will be overrun by low quality info.
[00:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The First Climate Model Turns 50 -- Predicted Global Warming Almost Perfectly - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:16] <exec> 08└─"Wenn man eine große Lüge erzählt und sie oft genug wiederholt, dann werden die Leute sie am Ende glauben. ... wenn man die Wahrheit sagt." (Joseph Goebbels)
[00:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:57] <exec> 08└─My argument *is* a scientific one though, or at least a logical one. It's specifically saying "you are overextending your epistemological reach here. You cannot get ought from is in this manner." The facts *are* neutral; science itself, because it is a human endeavour, cannot help but be at least so...
[00:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 3092 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:59] <exec> 08└─Epistemology is a stone-cold bitch, isn't it? :) We're essentially trying to look at the back of our own heads by rolling our eyes up and back as far as they'll go, which is a losing proposition. Personally, I am a type of foundationalist. This means I have axioms, as few and as basic as possible, w...
[00:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:01] <exec> 08└─That doesn't look like Uzzard's usual tracheal diarrhea to me. It's written at a slightly higher grade level and doesn't seem to have that same undercurrent of vengeful, aggrieved persecution complex layered with entitlement and disdain.
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[01:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Troubled Covert Agency is Responsible for Trucking Nuclear Bombs Across America - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:18] <exec> 08└─Oh Shit, Rick Perry is running the U.S. Department of Energy. Which means there is no one managing the DOE. We're all gonna die now.
[01:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03fliptop [1666] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Troubled Covert Agency is Responsible for Trucking Nuclear Bombs Across America - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:21] <exec> 08└─The unmarked 18-wheelers ply the nation's interstates and two-lane highways, logging 3 million miles a year hauling the most lethal cargo there is: nuclear bombs.
[01:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Troubled Covert Agency is Responsible for Trucking Nuclear Bombs Across America - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:23] <exec> 08└─Military, special rules. You think they have to comply with such things? really? The bigger shock is, 1/4 of a billion dollars a year, and they are suffering from old trucks, and poor morale? FFS, what a god damn joke. They need expansion for 'thousands' of additional shipments over the next 15 year...
[01:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Proposes a Magnetic Shield to Protect Mars' Atmosphere - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:34] <exec> 08└─This is more related to Total Recall and if there are three-boobed women [blogspot.com] there, so am I.
[01:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Proposes a Magnetic Shield to Protect Mars' Atmosphere - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:35] <exec> 08└─Yes, and Venus is a bit smaller and less massive than the Earth. Like Mars, most of its atmosphere consists of carbon dioxide (molecular mass 44 a.u.). The desire, I assume, is for water (14 a.u.) to remain. Venus is thought to have had much more water in the past, which was stripped away by the sol...
[01:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Proposes a Magnetic Shield to Protect Mars' Atmosphere - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:37] <exec> 08└─Funny how all these planets have CO2 atmospheres and we freak out when our atmosphere gets a teenie tiny bit of CO2...
[01:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Proposes a Magnetic Shield to Protect Mars' Atmosphere - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:40] <exec> 08└─*correction, molecular mass of water is 18 atomic units not 14
[01:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Proposes a Magnetic Shield to Protect Mars' Atmosphere - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:42] <exec> 08└─This! We so want our atmosphere to be like Mars or Venus.
[01:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Proposes a Magnetic Shield to Protect Mars' Atmosphere - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:44] <exec> 08└─Oh, absolutely. When some people freak out over a little puff of hydrogen, methane and hydrogen sulfide, I tell them it's just a recreation of the atmosphere of Jupiter.
[01:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Proposes a Magnetic Shield to Protect Mars' Atmosphere - 1262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:46] <exec> 08└─The slide doesn't show it, but particles from the solar wind would, I expect, impinge upon the craft, much as they migrate along the lines of the Earth's magnetic field to form the aurora australis and aurora borealis. Perhaps their energy could be harvested. If a steady magnetic field were generate...
[01:15:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sun Could be Used as a Gravitational Lens by a Spacecraft 550 AU Away - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:27] <exec> 08└─and there's no point slowing down to orbital velocity
[01:15:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Study: Legal Weed Far Better Than Drug War at Stopping Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 124 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:58] <exec> 08└─If you think scientific studies can change these people's minds, or even make them think, you haven't been paying attention.
[01:16:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Legal Weed Far Better Than Drug War at Stopping Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 661 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:45] <exec> 08└─Asking this seriously: how does cannabinoid-mediated analgesia work? I ask this because in studying the effects of acetaminophen (Tylenol/Paracetamol) on myself, I noticed it has an anxiolytic effect, which further research suggests is because it's essentially a weak anandamide reuptake inhibitor. I...
[01:16:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Legal Weed Far Better Than Drug War at Stopping Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:46] <exec> 08└─Hmmm, getting an idea here. Do you really think that I could use pot to break my internet addiction? As it is, I work from home on the screen and also spend much of my "down time" on the screen reading (and SN commenting). I do get out for bicycle rides when the weather is reasonable (spring & fall)...
[01:16:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Legal Weed Far Better Than Drug War at Stopping Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:49] <exec> 08└─>Now that conservatives are literally talking about murdering liberals Fucking retard. We aren't the ones burning down college campuses when the wrong person tries to speak there. We didn't riot when Obama won. You bitter little slugs though, you're the ones we have to watch out for.
[01:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FTC on IoT Regulation: Nope, Not Enough Damage Yet - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:09] <exec> 08└─a violently imposed monopoly???
[01:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Team Announces Superconductivity Breakthrough - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:31] <exec> 08└─No direct power loss in the superconductor due to resistance, but any time you move any conducting object into or out of the magnetic field generated by the current you will get some power loss due to induced currents in the object. With decent design, this loss is far less than is lost in resistive...
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[02:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Troubled Covert Agency is Responsible for Trucking Nuclear Bombs Across America - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:20] <exec> 08└─There is usually a national security exception in the law.
[02:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Troubled Covert Agency is Responsible for Trucking Nuclear Bombs Across America - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:21] <exec> 08└─Eh, no. That would belong to the Centers for Disease Control. They have smallpox. It spreads like crazy and kills 25%. Imagine 2 billion people dead.
[02:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Troubled Covert Agency is Responsible for Trucking Nuclear Bombs Across America - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:24] <exec> 08└─> thousands of additional warhead shipments That's a lot of megatonnage, it might give smallpox a run for it's money. Time for some serious screaming -- https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] from the depths of the cold war.
[02:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Troubled Covert Agency is Responsible for Trucking Nuclear Bombs Across America - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:26] <exec> 08└─Ah, eradicate the smallpox with nuclear weapons! I find your ideas intriguing and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
[02:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Troubled Covert Agency is Responsible for Trucking Nuclear Bombs Across America - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:28] <exec> 08└─Clearly an example of the government failing at both management and efficiency. Private industry is better equipped to take on this task with better results and a lower price to the tax payers. That is the republican way, right? It's working so well for the prison system. Get ready for Trump Transpo...
[02:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Troubled Covert Agency is Responsible for Trucking Nuclear Bombs Across America - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:30] <exec> 08└─> ...your newsletter. It's called MAD. * The magazine * The national security policy Pick one (or both!)
[02:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Proposes a Magnetic Shield to Protect Mars' Atmosphere - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:48] <exec> 08└─A year ago, someone asked: Instead of placing many magnetic satellites close to Mars to artificially generate a magnetic field to protect Martian colonists from harming radiation, we could place a magnetic satellite at Lagrangian point L1. The magnetic field does not need to be as strong to deflect...
[02:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sun Could be Used as a Gravitational Lens by a Spacecraft 550 AU Away - 694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:31] <exec> 08└─For long term stability, obviously. For more human timescales...not so much Consider: At 1AU, the acceleration by the sun is a paltry ~0.006 m/s/s At 550AU that falls to 0.006m/s/s *(1/550)^2 = 2x10^-8m/s/s So, if we brought it to a total, complete stop, and waited for it to fall back just 1AU (1.5x...
[02:15:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Diego, a Centenarian Giant Tortoise Whose Sex Drive Saved His Species - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:50] <exec> 08└─Is it still called 'doggy style' when it's tortoises/turtles? I'm almost afraid to do a porn search for 'tortoise style', 'turtle style, or even 'galloping galápagos'.
[02:16:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study: Legal Weed Far Better Than Drug War at Stopping Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 1428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:55] <exec> 08└─Fuck if I know, that's way out of my league. The only thing I can say about all that is that being a drunk, I swear by ibuprofen rather than acetaminophen because ibuprofen is much more friendly on the liver and just works. And if one's stomach can't handle ibuprofen then they shouldn't be drinking...
[02:16:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Legal Weed Far Better Than Drug War at Stopping Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:56] <exec> 08└─I'm not personally a supporter of legalization without appropriate studies being conducted about the various pros and cons being done, but saying that it's going to cause overdoses or similar is rather ridiculous.
[02:16:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03theronb [2596] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Legal Weed Far Better Than Drug War at Stopping Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:58] <exec> 08└─Hi Lagg; I'll second this. There's about 10% of the population that will become addicted/dependent on whatever you've got (I've got that tendency), so it's probably better to have the pot option instead of heroin. Or alcohol, for that matter - fewer violent confrontations.
[02:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Mountain Observatory to Probe Cosmic-ray Origins - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:18] <exec> 08└─> You have said nothing about the utility or feasibility of this particular research People competing for available grants had 1.2 billion reasons to convince the approver that the money was better spent elsewhere. This reminds me of a previous grandiose project reported on SN, where someone announc...
[02:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Mountain Observatory to Probe Cosmic-ray Origins - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:19] <exec> 08└─> ...where's the evidence ... The evidence is all around you, in things we all use that were originally based on pure & applied math and/or theoretical & experimental physics. Hell, George Boole had no idea that playing with 0's and 1's would eventually let khallow post on SN. Luckily(?) for us, som...
[02:17:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06SCOTUS Dodges Civil Forfeiture Case, Justice Thomas Criticizes - 269 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:47] <exec> 08└─That's not the actual problem of asset forfeiture at all. That's a popular internet metaphor, but none of the legal basis takes that framing at all. The laws aren't written that way. The legal rulings aren't written that way. The police reports aren't written that way.
[02:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:25] <exec> 08└─So DON'T pack it up and sell it as the newest drug to get rid of those pesky kids on my lawn? Well... maybe.
[02:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:54] <exec> 08└─"give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free"?
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[03:14:27] <exec> 08└─You think they have to comply with such things? really?
[03:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Techwolf [87] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Troubled Covert Agency is Responsible for Trucking Nuclear Bombs Across America - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:28] <exec> 08└─I can't read the articial, it pops up an window that I can't get rid of. I'me sure if I waste enough time, I could get around it. But I wanted to get this comment out soon. The summery bothers me. I've personally seen those trucks a couple times and I am familiar with carriers that do gov loads. Tho...
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[03:14:30] <exec> 08└─Military. They technically own the Interstate system. They do have the legal authority to shut it down if they want do. Thats why Military convoys on the interstate system do not have much of the BS paperwork required by the states, like plates, licensed drivers, etc. The Interstate system was creat...
[03:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Techwolf [87] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Troubled Covert Agency is Responsible for Trucking Nuclear Bombs Across America - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:33] <exec> 08└─In this case, a big NO. They have there own system with dealing with any type of emersity. This is due first responders do have have any training on dealing with that type of haz-mat load. Those loads are excorted by at lease two cars/vans/suvs and is consent commutations with home base. They also h...
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[03:15:51] <exec> 08└─Are we celebrating this achievement or pointing out what is possibly the worst rapist in history?
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[03:16:59] <exec> 08└─From what I've seen it tends to make everything more interesting, internet included, so probably not...
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[03:20:38] <exec> 08└─---- offtopic comment - but this is the first time I have seen something like this happen... ---- Ok... now I am really confused. The original link kept routing me to "http://hosted.ap.org/specials/bluepage.html". I cut and pasted some stuff into Google, and got what Google returned... and posted th...
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[03:22:27] <exec> 08└─Well, yeah, to a degree that is true as well, and I am not advocating you trust an HDD controller either. But it's particularly obvious that you can't trust that what happens inside an SSD is going to match the commands you sent. Either way, physical destruction is best and trusting anything less is...
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[04:14:46] <exec> 08└─Wow. While your points are correct, the writing.. Just wow. I am actually impressed.. At to the parent poster. Yes. First responders are more likely to get arrested by military police if they tried to respond than anything else. This is far far out of their league.
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[04:14:47] <exec> 08└─Sticker seen on car: My Largepox can kick your smallpoxs butt! not really. ;-)
[04:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Criminal Investigation Into "Faith Healing" Practices That Led to Death of a Premature Baby - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:58] <exec> 08└─They feel hurt and offended that someone who should be a martyr to their crusade doesn't feel like a victim.
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[04:20:59] <exec> 08└─The only widely quoted study with that conclusion, Orange Farm, is so obviously biased that it's a prime example of junk science. They even destroyed the control group "to give them the benefits" right after the trial ended, before even publishing the results! And as for effects on sex life: a coupl...
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[05:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Research Leads to Discovery of Gene That Significantly Increases Seed Yield in Maize - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:21] <exec> 08└─Or, we could, you know, just stop planting optimized commodity yield monocultures and re-introduce diversity into the mainstream food supply? Do you think the supermarkets could take it? Random corn varieties with no branding? Doesn't seem likely to fly in a culture that supports McDonalds.
[05:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Research Leads to Discovery of Gene That Significantly Increases Seed Yield in Maize - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:22] <exec> 08└─Latest thing in our local supermarket organic section is a bag of carrots, all different colors - orange (of course), yellow, purple & istr tan. I'd try a mixed bag of different kinds of corn, assuming they all came ripe at the same time.
[05:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Troubled Covert Agency is Responsible for Trucking Nuclear Bombs Across America - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:51] <exec> 08└─I think these guys seriously outclass "Gold Hat" https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[05:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Troubled Covert Agency is Responsible for Trucking Nuclear Bombs Across America - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:52] <exec> 08└─250 million a year, divided as administered salary among 1000 decorated veterans, it's virtually all spent on personnel, and the office staff that oversees the money - there's nothing left over for things like new trucks or maintenance, why would we spend money on equipment when we can hire a few mo...
[05:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Proposes a Magnetic Shield to Protect Mars' Atmosphere - 864 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:12] <exec> 08└─Everything sounds great, Mars terraformed inside a realistic time frame, decades instead of the ten thousand year plan usually tossed around. But how big does that magnet have to be? A couple of Tesla? Are we talking about flying an MRI machine and a solar array or does it need to be a couple of Tes...
[05:15:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03WalksOnDirt [5854] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sun Could be Used as a Gravitational Lens by a Spacecraft 550 AU Away - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:55] <exec> 08└─I think 230Th looks better. I can't imagine needing billions of years but I could see tens of thousands.
[05:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Mountain Observatory to Probe Cosmic-ray Origins - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:45] <exec> 08└─Different anon here, will add that there are many cosmic-ray projects in progress around the world.
[05:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Chinese Mountain Observatory to Probe Cosmic-ray Origins - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:46] <exec> 08└─Because people who control that amount of cash love to invest in worthless shit to prove they can waste taxpayer money unaccountably.
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[06:14:55] <exec> 08└─The 1st responders find out what they're dealing with when people point full-auto guns at them. This is good, because the 1st responders need to be kept safe: the truck comes with exploding axles, some sort of sticky foam that can burst out in enough quantity to bury people to death, electric shocks...
[06:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Troubled Covert Agency is Responsible for Trucking Nuclear Bombs Across America - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:56] <exec> 08└─The increased workload will hit an agency already struggling with problems of forced overtime, high driver turnover, old trucks and poor worker morale This is all of the agencies doing their yearly dance of 'we are so important give us more cash'. Especially with the current president making a big...
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[06:14:59] <exec> 08└─Yeah I worked in that industry for years. This smells like bull. 240 million to run 40ish trucks for 1 year? If it is all OO then it smells even more like bull. As that would make them asset light. There would be a huge gap in the budget if true.
[06:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Proposes a Magnetic Shield to Protect Mars' Atmosphere - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:19] <exec> 08└─A large enough Radioisotope thermoelectric generator [wikipedia.org] would probably work.
[06:15:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Proposes a Magnetic Shield to Protect Mars' Atmosphere - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:20] <exec> 08└─At least Johnny Cab seems to be on track for market.
[06:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Proposes a Magnetic Shield to Protect Mars' Atmosphere - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:22] <exec> 08└─On second thought, that may be 2 orders of magnitude short. Apparently the Voyager RTG's were ~400W. Random doc it found [cocir.org] is talking about MRI machines using ~20kW in stand-by mode, or ~10kW in "off" mode. This page [fonar.com] is talking 60kW for the magnet (I assume all the processing e...
[06:16:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Diego, a Centenarian Giant Tortoise Whose Sex Drive Saved His Species - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:16:23] <exec> 08└─Are we celebrating this achievement or pointing out what is possibly the worst rapist in history?
[06:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Chinese Mountain Observatory to Probe Cosmic-ray Origins - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:54] <exec> 08└─The evidence is all around you, in things we all use that were originally based on pure & applied math and/or theoretical & experimental physics. Hell, George Boole had no idea that playing with 0's and 1's would eventually let khallow post on SN.
[06:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Criminal Investigation Into "Faith Healing" Practices That Led to Death of a Premature Baby - 1209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:16] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the insight! It sure puzzled me a lot, as I did the Google thing, clicked on the link Google gave me, got the story, then copied the link, pasted it to my post, saw the ?stuff, trimmed it off, previewed the post, clicked the link in the preview again just to make sure, got the story again...
[06:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Securely Recycle Or Dispose of Your SSD - 923 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:04] <exec> 08└─HDs are not worth shredding unless you are just being lazy. Name 1 company or 3 letter org that can recover a drive where someone has done this. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda or dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hda If you are feeling paranoid do it twice. They do not exist. There was 1 paper in the 90s abou...
[06:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:33] <exec> 08└─"Very relevant scientific studies I have done on authoritarian personalities" Scientific studies on personalities? Were they peer reviewed?
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[07:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Practical Color Theory for People Who Code - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:25] <exec> 08└─You mean red's not good?
[07:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Research Leads to Discovery of Gene That Significantly Increases Seed Yield in Maize - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:34] <exec> 08└─Or, we could, you know, just stop planting optimized commodity yield monocultures
[07:15:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06If Surveillance Cameras Are to Be Kept in Line, the Rules Will Have to Keep Pace With Technology - 844 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:42] <exec> 08└─I get the strong idea that once technology enables certain things, the cat is out of the bag, and trying to control it is futile. Among the things: 1) Invention of how to kindle a Fire 2) Invention of Camera: Surveillance 3) Invention of Computer/Digital mass storage/Internet: Copyright Technology a...
[07:16:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sun Could be Used as a Gravitational Lens by a Spacecraft 550 AU Away - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:16:15] <exec> 08└─It would be "hovering" on a yuuuge scale
[07:16:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Diego, a Centenarian Giant Tortoise Whose Sex Drive Saved His Species - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:16:37] <exec> 08└─Are we celebrating this achievement or pointing out what is possibly the worst rapist in history?
[07:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Legal Weed Far Better Than Drug War at Stopping Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:45] <exec> 08└─Well, there you go. These people actually want to strip you of your rights. But, a feminist was rude to you once. You really showed them!
[07:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Legal Weed Far Better Than Drug War at Stopping Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:47] <exec> 08└─Fucking retard. We aren't the ones burning down college campuses when the wrong person tries to speak there. Funny you should use the word "burning." No burning occurred at Berkeley. Bit of burning going on here, though. [revelist.com]
[07:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS Dodges Civil Forfeiture Case, Justice Thomas Criticizes - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:55] <exec> 08└─What is a warlord? Someone with a local monopoly on the use of force.
[07:19:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] 02 - 06European Team Announces Superconductivity Breakthrough - 894 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:23] <exec> 08└─The article doesn't say anything. Skimming the Eurotapes website - they seem to have been fiddling with industrialisation of existing technologies e.g. YBCO. US DoE tried something similar about 10 years ago but did not really get very far. But there is no "breakthrough". It's all about pushing manu...
[07:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06European Team Announces Superconductivity Breakthrough - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:38] <exec> 08└─It may have not been cromulent, but it was impotent.
[07:20:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lab-Grown Chicken (and Duck) Could be on the Menu in 4 Years - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:01] <exec> 08└─My guess it will taste like a McNugget, which is a chicken-flavored wad of toilet paper.
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[08:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Practical Color Theory for People Who Code - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:26] <exec> 08└─Or, LMGTFY - web color scheme generator online [google.com] One of the results: https://color.adobe.com [adobe.com] - switch from complementary, triad, custom, and some others. Many others listed as well.
[08:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Research Leads to Discovery of Gene That Significantly Increases Seed Yield in Maize - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:36] <exec> 08└─PHEW. I was just thinking last night that what we really need in this world is MORE CORN. There's just not enough high fructose corn syrup to go around. And bio ethanol not particularly clean fuel that costs more to produce than it's worth. That's totally like the wave of the future, man. CORN! YEEH...
[08:15:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If Surveillance Cameras Are to Be Kept in Line, the Rules Will Have to Keep Pace With Technology - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:46] <exec> 08└─3) Invention of Computer/Digital mass storage/Internet: Copyright
[08:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06If Surveillance Cameras Are to Be Kept in Line, the Rules Will Have to Keep Pace With Technology - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:47] <exec> 08└─Sorry... did not do a good job on that....I meandered too much. What I meant was when we learned how to kindle a fire, we lost the ability to control who could have a fire. When we learned how to make a camera, we lost the ability to control who could surveil us and retain photo documentation of wha...
[08:16:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sun Could be Used as a Gravitational Lens by a Spacecraft 550 AU Away - 1499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:16:21] <exec> 08└─But there is no upper limit for the lensing mechanism, or at least none that matters in a practical sense. Just keep improving our end of the communications link to keep up with the increasing distance. In fact, not only does the Sun work better as you go out (because the Einstein ring gets out of t...
[08:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:00] <exec> 08└─You're smart and technical enough to have been a regular slashdot reader. You are also curmudgeonly enough to have migrated to a new site when slashdot implemented "beta" (haurk-spit sound effect). You are almost certainly on the list already. Just buy or download the book, it won't change your TLA...
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[09:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ultrashort Laser Pulses Could Boost Clock Rates - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:20] <exec> 08└─> ultrashort laser pulses can actually move electrons back and forth in solids... > Everybody was immediately excited... I see what you did here.
[09:16:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sun Could be Used as a Gravitational Lens by a Spacecraft 550 AU Away - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:16:24] <exec> 08└─A low power rtg could last hundreds of years.
[09:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study: Legal Weed Far Better Than Drug War at Stopping Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 1158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:56] <exec> 08└─I got some Vicodin after some oral surgery. Like you, ended up taking two or three of 'em before I figured out those were best left in the bottle. For some reason, these drugs don't seem to do anything for me. Alcohol puts me to sleep. Both pot and tobacco makes it really hard for me to breathe and...
[09:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The First Climate Model Turns 50 -- Predicted Global Warming Almost Perfectly - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:09] <exec> 08└─Above post includes " rel="url2html-24263"> I doubt the AC posted that. I've seen similar stuff in a preview of my comment that had a link in it. I wonder whether having a link and a quote combine to give this problem somehow. Needs some eyeballs.
[09:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The First Climate Model Turns 50 -- Predicted Global Warming Almost Perfectly - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:11] <exec> 08└─Also Jesus didn't return to lead a jihad against the unbelievers.
[09:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Article Won't Change Your Mind - the Facts on Why Facts Alone Can't Fight False Beliefs - 758 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:07] <exec> 08└─The algorithm used is most probably more or less the following: 1. Create a matrix which for every pair of videos entry givies the number of people who marked it the same (both like or both dislike) minus the number of people who marked it the opposite (one like, the other dislike). 2. Create a vect...
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[10:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dark Matter Is Missing From Young Galaxies - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:22] <exec> 08└─Or, dark matter doesn't exist... God, get over it. Say it: there. is. no. 'dark. matter'. We have something wrong, but no one will admit it. It's like string theory: DAMN, DOG. 'SUP? Beat that dead horse some more: how's that horse working harder for you?
[10:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Troubled Covert Agency is Responsible for Trucking Nuclear Bombs Across America - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:22] <exec> 08└─Say, what is the appropriate hazard placard for all that?
[10:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Troubled Covert Agency is Responsible for Trucking Nuclear Bombs Across America - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:23] <exec> 08└─Many of the 322 employees (who all require advanced military combat training) average 75 hours per week ($73k p/y including overtime), 100+ SUV's to escort the trucks, driving countless miles ... RTFA before claiming OO and just 40ish trucks.
[10:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Troubled Covert Agency is Responsible for Trucking Nuclear Bombs Across America - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:26] <exec> 08└─or I am misunderstanding the whole problem.
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[10:15:49] <exec> 08└─18 not 14
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[10:18:13] <exec> 08└─So loorg. I'm curious. Genuinely curious. Now that all these people have responded to your post with factual information to improve your understanding of the topic, do you see things any differently? Did facts change your mind? Or are you now even more convinced that cannabis is a serious menace?
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[11:14:57] <exec> 08└─We've been there and done that already and suffered enough. If this were about increasing the quality of the yield, that would be great, but this seems to be again about increasing volume at the cost of nutrition. The first time we did that with maize on an industrial scale, it was the 1930s and we...
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[11:15:58] <exec> 08└─You want to harvest energy from the particles you are repelling? Well that's easy, all you need is a perpetual motion device.
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[12:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Dungeons & Dragons is Finally Going Digital - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:18] <exec> 08└─So, this sounds right nifty but I can't help thinking they're likely going to try the SaaS route with this. Probably with no export option. I think I'll stick with either good ole paper books or those online services that only make you pay once and allow you to export your data.
[12:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Dark Matter Is Missing From Young Galaxies - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:27] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't it pose more problems to theories that don't assume dark matter? I mean, if there's dark matter, it may be surprising, but not really problematic if it is missing in young galaxies. But if it is a modified law of gravitation, then it's a big issue if it works differently in young galaxies.
[12:15:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Proposes a Magnetic Shield to Protect Mars' Atmosphere - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:57] <exec> 08└─No, you don't need a PM. The device only needs to work as long as the sun provides a steady stream of charged particles. As soon as this influx of particles drops, youi'll certainly lose your energy source, but you'll also lose the problem which that satellite is made to solve (not that you wouldn't...
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[12:15:58] <exec> 08└─Random doc it found is talking about MRI machines using ~20kW in stand-by mode, or ~10kW in "off" mode.
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[13:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dark Matter Is Missing From Young Galaxies - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:31] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't it pose more problems to theories that don't assume dark matter?
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[13:14:59] <exec> 08└─ethanol not particularly clean
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[13:16:52] <exec> 08└─Since Oracle bought Sun everything went closed and paywalled, I don't hope this to be the exception and thus will be charged wit astronomic prices. So I don't expect Sun Cloud will be a gravitant service in the market.
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[14:14:30] <exec> 08└─If a commaless law is $10M, I wonder how much for a commatose [urbandictionary.com] law? (note: the link is SFW, even if the site may raise some eyebrows).
[14:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missing Oxford Comma Worth $10M - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:31] <exec> 08└─I told you bastards the Oxford comma was the proper way to do it. Now I got legal precedent to point to.
[14:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missing Oxford Comma Worth $10M - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:33] <exec> 08└─Also known as the Shatner comma.
[14:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missing Oxford Comma Worth $10M - 1362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:36] <exec> 08└─I've read about this on a couple of different sites. The most amusing thing is this: In the sentence given, commenters vehemently protest that there is no ambiguity. They are split about 50/50 on which way is the only possible way to interpret the sentence. The fact that other people are just as con...
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[14:14:38] <exec> 08└─Well, I'll be a monk, E's uncle.
[14:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Dungeons & Dragons is Finally Going Digital - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:47] <exec> 08└─They'll certainly have to be competing with the folks over at roll20.net [roll20.net] who have been at the SaaS side of PnP gaming for years now with some pretty sweet features such as infinite card decks, builtin webcam conferencing, etc. I'm sure this will get some adoption but they sure did wait...
[14:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Dungeons & Dragons is Finally Going Digital - 1122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:49] <exec> 08└─This is just a tired rehash/rebrand of their lame, failed D&D Insider program, updated to 5th edition. Anyone who was around for the 4th edition debacle should remember the abysmal failure of WotC's digital initiative for that release. They went to GenCon and demo'd digital products that didn't exis...
[14:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Dungeons & Dragons is Finally Going Digital - 3267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:52] <exec> 08└─This has been on ongoing new feature now in boardgames and pnp roleplaying games for the last few years, as far as I know it's quite a divider as in some people like it or don't mind and some people hate it. In some regard it is slowly eroding the line between the physical and digital gaming experie...
[14:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dark Matter Is Missing From Young Galaxies - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:03] <exec> 08└─https://physicsfromtheedge.blogspot.com [blogspot.com] This guy's idea - MiHSC , modified inertia. Makes a great deal more sense and is less handy wavy...
[14:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeKO [3672] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Dark Matter Is Missing From Young Galaxies - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:05] <exec> 08└─First tell me your credentials, Mr Armchair Astrophysicist. Since you're so sure of it, show us your modified General Relativity that explains the observations. You have to be literally smarter than Einstein to be claiming that, so please show us how you're reaching that conclusion. My answer to him...
[14:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dark Matter Is Missing From Young Galaxies - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:07] <exec> 08└─No emdrive, no sale.
[14:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dark Matter Is Missing From Young Galaxies - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:09] <exec> 08└─Quite simply, dark doesn't travel as fast as light. So there hasn't been enough time for the dark to get here yet, from the more distant / younger galaxies. That's why we can't see it. Oh, and also, looking for dark using a telescope that collects light... umm, no.
[14:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ultrashort Laser Pulses Could Boost Clock Rates - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:19] <exec> 08└─So, if they get this working, my graphics card can finally do ray tracing in real time?
[14:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Practical Color Theory for People Who Code - 732 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:30] <exec> 08└─Apple's colors gray on white, undersized characters show that lack of caring for color and font use. Just another @clean@ build design without understanding that people looking for this are needing options to stay in the computer field. US ADA needs to be supported and inclusive. Since must all site...
[14:15:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Research Leads to Discovery of Gene That Significantly Increases Seed Yield in Maize - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:43] <exec> 08└─Let's insert a gene into corn that produces LSD, and then contaminate all corn with the gene. We either eliminate corn diets or trip balls.
[14:16:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Proposes a Magnetic Shield to Protect Mars' Atmosphere - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:46] <exec> 08└─I know one thing though, that would be one hell of a case of 'climate change' to touch off and no way I'd want to be on the surface to find out how many unexpected processes would try to kill me. I mean we haven't even walked on the danged planet and we want to introduce that kind of sudden drastic...
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[15:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Force's Mysterious X-37B Space Plane Nears Orbital Record - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:20] <exec> 08└─Still the question remains - what is it doing up there. The answers seem to go from secret laser/doomsday weapons to spying and reconnaissance. http://www.airspacemag.com [airspacemag.com]
[15:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missing Oxford Comma Worth $10M - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:32] <exec> 08└─Just, to, be, sure,, it, is, probably, best, to, distribute, commas, liberally., I, mean,, in, our, language, nothing, really, has, meaning, any, more,, so, take, the, safe, bet. A 'similar 'strategy ha's been u'sed for apo'strophe's. Not 'sure where they 'should be 'seen? 'Sprinkle them un'sparingl...
[15:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Missing Oxford Comma Worth $10M - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:34] <exec> 08└─It's quite clear from the writing that "distribution" is a separate item from "packing for shipment". And this particular stretch of law apparently has the same missing comma in two other lists of things. And the phrase follows the actual drafting rules for writing Maine law (from the judge's own ru...
[15:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missing Oxford Comma Worth $10M - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:36] <exec> 08└─However, the ME guidelines also say to use the comma to avoid confusion when there is a modifier: From the decision, p15: http://cases.justia.com [justia.com] But the drivers point out that the drafting manual is not dogmatic on that point....
[15:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Missing Oxford Comma Worth $10M - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:38] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, the second half of this very sentence uses the Oxford comma (ok, it's a semicolon) - note that there is a semicolon before the "and" separating items 2 and 3 in the list.
[15:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missing Oxford Comma Worth $10M - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:40] <exec> 08└─lousy copying from the PDF -- missed a part. The quote should read: But the drivers point out that the drafting manual is not dogmatic on that point. The manual also contains a proviso -- "Be careful if an item in the series is modified" -- and then sets out several examples of how lists with modifi...
[15:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 4, Touché) 02 - 06Missing Oxford Comma Worth $10M - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:42] <exec> 08└─Also, known, as, the Shatner comma.
[15:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Missing Oxford Comma Worth $10M - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:45] <exec> 08└─- On the other hand, the second half of this very sentence uses the Oxford comma (ok, it's a semicolon) - note that there is a semicolon before the "and" separating items 2 and 3 in the list.
[15:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missing Oxford Comma Worth $10M - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:47] <exec> 08└─You missed this part: But the drivers point out that the drafting manual is not dogmatic on that point. The manual also contains a proviso -- "Be careful if an item in the series is modified" -- and then sets out several examples of how lists with modified or otherwise complex terms should be writte...
[15:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missing Oxford Comma Worth $10M - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:49] <exec> 08└─Here's your missing comma , I swear it came from Oxford. Can I have the $10M now?
[15:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missing Oxford Comma Worth $10M - 942 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:51] <exec> 08└─I was having this conversation the other day, and it occurred to me that it's actually fairly rare that the oxford comma or it's absence should create ambiguity. Consider - in the vast majority of cases a serial list must be linked with either "and" or "or" in order to indicate whether it's inclusiv...
[15:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Dungeons & Dragons is Finally Going Digital - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:02] <exec> 08└─Anybody who's anybody moved on to Pathfinder years ago.
[15:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03helel [2949] (Score: 1) 02 - 06 Dungeons & Dragons is Finally Going Digital - 1396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:04] <exec> 08└─I think Alchemist really does the digital aid thing well because you can always fall back to a human if you want to or in the future if (when) the application becomes unavailable. In the realm of rpgs I find online character sheets really really useful. I've written my own small character sheet mana...
[15:15:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung's 10nm Chips in Mass Production, "6nm" on the Roadmap - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:56] <exec> 08└─Rename 14nm to 10nm. Gain free publicity to distract from bribery and combustion scandals.
[15:16:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Troubled Covert Agency is Responsible for Trucking Nuclear Bombs Across America - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:27] <exec> 08└─Now there's a good idea...put a placard on the side of the truck so everyone knows there's a bomb inside.
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[16:15:02] <exec> 08└─Let me suggest an overlooked part of this argument. In the second part of the sentence, the items are joined by "and". In the first part of the sentence, "and" would be appropriate to join the items in the list. Now put one or more "and"s into the first part of the sentence, obviously not replacing...
[16:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Missing Oxford Comma Worth $10M - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:04] <exec> 08└─You missed this part: But the drivers point out that the drafting manual is not dogmatic on that point. The manual also contains a proviso -- "Be careful if an item in the series is modified" -- and then sets out several examples of how lists with modified or otherwise complex terms should be wri...
[16:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Missing Oxford Comma Worth $10M - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:06] <exec> 08└─And they would have gotten away with it except for those dirty comma lawyers.
[16:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Dungeons & Dragons is Finally Going Digital - 1572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:19] <exec> 08└─Character sheets might be one of those things that work good as a digital replacement. We all know that after a while of erasing and writing you have to transfer it all to a new paper. Problem comes as you mention when you have various householdrules or modifications to the game aspects of the sheet...
[16:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Dungeons & Dragons is Finally Going Digital - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:21] <exec> 08└─Rules are for noobs who need a guide to learn the game, experienced player left them behind long ago and concentrate on the role playing.
[16:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FTC on IoT Regulation: Nope, Not Enough Damage Yet - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:05] <exec> 08└─Actually a better car analogy would be: You park your car on the hill and put it in park, setting the break as normal. You also lock your car and take the keys. However the car manufacturer only has about 3 or 4 keys different keys. So someone unlocks your car with one of the 4 keys and releases the...
[16:21:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06European Team Announces Superconductivity Breakthrough - 1072 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:30] <exec> 08└─it also seems that with super conductors, you can "freeze" a magnetic field (configuration) to your liking: it seems possible to "charge" a super conductor with a current (amps) then loop it back onto itself (like a real loop), remove the current source and voila, the current keeps circling inside t...
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[17:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Celestial [4891] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Dungeons & Dragons is Finally Going Digital - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:01] <exec> 08└─I've used Roll20 to play both ICONS and Mutants & Masterminds (both super-hero tabletop RPGs), with a group of friends for three years now. It works really, really well. Roll20 is SaaS, but it's worth the money IMO. Still, I don't think that they're quite competition for D&D Beyond. D&D Beyond seems...
[17:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Celestial [4891] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Dungeons & Dragons is Finally Going Digital - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:03] <exec> 08└─Bah. In the genre of medieval fantasy, Magic World RPG by Chaosium is king. :P
[17:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Dark Matter Is Missing From Young Galaxies - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:18] <exec> 08└─Oh, and also, looking for dark using a telescope that collects light... umm, no.
[17:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ultrashort Laser Pulses Could Boost Clock Rates - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:28] <exec> 08└─I don't think being able to quickly toggle the clock is what limits clock rates at the moment. It is parasitic inductance and capacitance, and the resulting heat during clock transitions.
[17:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03GlennC [3656] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Legal Weed Far Better Than Drug War at Stopping Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:22] <exec> 08└─The "Big Lie Theory" has been around for quite a while. Here's a link to one of the original references: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
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[18:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Now Offering Legal Indemnity Program for Azure Users - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:34] <exec> 08└─Our lawyers will help your lawyers fight their lawyers if you use our product. At what point are we spending more in legal posturing than we do actually making and delivering the service?
[18:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Now Offering Legal Indemnity Program for Azure Users - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:35] <exec> 08└─> At what point are we spending more in legal posturing... For better or worse, I believe that lawyers dictating business conduct started with product liability law, as personified by Ralph Nader in the 1960s. At first it made sense to protect victims of crass corporate behavior, but has ballooned f...
[18:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Now Offering Legal Indemnity Program for Azure Users - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:37] <exec> 08└─Oh - Microsoft faggotry. Got it.
[18:15:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02 - 06Missing Oxford Comma Worth $10M - 376 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:04] <exec> 08└─You missed this part: But the drivers point out that the drafting manual is not dogmatic on that point. The manual also contains a proviso -- "Be careful if an item in the series is modified" -- and then sets out several examples of how lists with modified or otherwise complex terms should be writte...
[18:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DrkShadow [1404] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missing Oxford Comma Worth $10M - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:10] <exec> 08└─makes it clear that the final two items are both modified by "packing for"
[18:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Missing Oxford Comma Worth $10M - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:12] <exec> 08└─For engineering communication, a bullet list is my personal choice. Greatly reduces the chance of ambiguity and is also easier to read/parse. Legal clauses with long sentences and many commas are, imo, sometimes designed to obfuscate or hide important details, require lawyers with strict grammatical...
[18:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Missing Oxford Comma Worth $10M - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:15] <exec> 08└─The problem here is that this list immediately precedes a bullet list. And you've turned a sentence into a bunch of lines of stuff. So no, I don't agree that it is easier to read. Let's try it out: The canning; processing; preserving; freezing; drying; marketing; storing; packing for shipment; or...
[18:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missing Oxford Comma Worth $10M - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:17] <exec> 08└─I fail to see the ambiguity in the 2nd example, unless the stripper is named "JFK and Stalin".
[18:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missing Oxford Comma Worth $10M - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:19] <exec> 08└─In order for the second interpretation to be right, there has to be two errors: dropping the conjunction before "packing" and adding the comma before "packing". And at that point, when you are allowing interpretations based on two or more errors, you will get more than two possible interpretations.
[18:15:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Missing Oxford Comma Worth $10M - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:21] <exec> 08└─Or help uncle jack off his horse?
[18:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Missing Oxford Comma Worth $10M - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:23] <exec> 08└─Your list-fu needs work. Try this -- For any or all of the following operations: [establish the "or" before starting the list] 1. Canning ... 9. Distribution Pertaining to these products: ... Simple lists don't have semicolons inside them (at least not when I write the list!) I wonder if the paragra...
[18:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Missing Oxford Comma Worth $10M - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:25] <exec> 08└─Nonsense. I disagree because the ruling is shit. English is a hard language in the first place to write law in. But when parties willfully ignore actual meaning and grammar, it makes the problem impossible. You can't have rule of law when judges interpret writing as they wish.
[18:15:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Missing Oxford Comma Worth $10M - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:28] <exec> 08└─Uncle Jack is running an online stud service.
[18:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Missing Oxford Comma Worth $10M - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:30] <exec> 08└─We invited the stripper, JFK, and Stalin. That's just lousy sentence construction. "As well as" is useful in sentences. Not enough people use it. ...and a historic critique of the example: Stalin died in 1953 at age 74. At the time, JFK was a 35 year old 4th-term congressman. It's unlikely there was...
[18:15:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06 Dungeons & Dragons is Finally Going Digital - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:47] <exec> 08└─They help keep people honest. I played diceless a few times. A common problem was that the DM would occasionally rig combats to have certain cinematic outcomes. I recall, for example, one Winter Wolf game where my character attempted to attack the primary bad guy twice (in different conflicts) and f...
[18:16:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dark Matter Is Missing From Young Galaxies - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:03] <exec> 08└─Along similar lines, the young galaxies are just like a new instance of Firefox. At first it runs great, but after a few days (few billion years for galaxies) there is a lot of cruft left around that gets in the way. Like Firefox, the universe needs a garbage collector!
[18:16:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dark Matter Is Missing From Young Galaxies - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:04] <exec> 08└─Or, dark matter doesn't exist... God, get over it. Say it: there. is. no. 'dark. matter'. We have something wrong, but no one will admit it. It's like string theory: DAMN, DOG. 'SUP? Beat that dead horse some more: how's that horse working harder for you?
[18:16:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ultrashort Laser Pulses Could Boost Clock Rates - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:14] <exec> 08└─To make a car analogy for > It is parasitic inductance and capacitance... Instead of feeding cars into the freeway so that other cars get forced out at the next exit, we are going to pulse lasers from the entering cars directly to the exiting cars. No traffic jam (electrons in a wire) in the middle...
[18:16:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Practical Color Theory for People Who Code - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:26] <exec> 08└─Very cool stuff! As always it's so hard to know what you don't know. I had no idea a semi rigorous 'formalization' of color systems even existed. It never really occurred to me as a thing, even though in hind sight it's as obvious as the existence of the color red - after seeing it for the first tim...
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[19:15:12] <exec> 08└─For your interpretation to be correct, there also has to be two errors, because the items should be joined by "and" not "or", as they are in the second part of the statement.
[19:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Missing Oxford Comma Worth $10M - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:14] <exec> 08└─Funny how arguing about the grammar of legislative writing brings out the stupid in some people, eh? But I guess that's all you had in the first place. I suggest, if you wish to continue to be an idiot, that you get a SoylentNews account and then post your erudite musings to a journal. We can then m...
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[19:15:16] <exec> 08└─I think he's suggesting that "the stripper, JFK, and Stalin" could be read with JFK as a parenthetical, as "the stripper (JFK) and Stalin"; technically true, but you didn't see the ambiguity, and I had to hunt for it, because that isn't how any sane person would write it. We have three commonly used...
[19:15:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06Dark Matter Is Missing From Young Galaxies - 300 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:42] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't it pose more problems to theories that don't assume dark matter? I mean, if there's dark matter, it may be surprising, but not really problematic if it is missing in young galaxies. But if it is a modified law of gravitation, then it's a big issue if it works differently in young galaxies.
[19:15:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dark Matter Is Missing From Young Galaxies - 1211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:52] <exec> 08└─A few months back we had an article [soylentnews.org] about an acceleration law that many nearby galaxies seemed to obey. It seemed like it might be a victory for MOND, but then people started taking closer looks at galaxy dynamics simulations that assume cold dark matter (Lambda-CDM), and saw that...
[19:15:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dark Matter Is Missing From Young Galaxies - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:54] <exec> 08└─Dark matter predicts that galaxies at high redshifts should have different correlations than the ones seen at the present day.
[19:17:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Troubled Covert Agency is Responsible for Trucking Nuclear Bombs Across America - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:07] <exec> 08└─Try a truck with 6 guys in it, two SUVs also with 6-8 guys each, plus ammunition, fuel costs for hauling 2-4k extra pounds of armor per SUV, and probably 10k/20k per semi/trailer, not including the actual cargo. In addition to all this, imagine paying extra for security clearance, hazards pay, and o...
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[20:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Implements Equi-Angular Cubemaps Technique for Better VR Quality - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:39] <exec> 08└─NASA already has a standard for this, called HEALPix: http://healpix.jpl.nasa.gov [nasa.gov] . How is Google's EAC different from NASA's standard?
[20:15:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RamiK [1813] 02 - 06Missing Oxford Comma Worth $10M - 35 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:16] <exec> 08└─Also, known, as, the Shatner comma.
[20:15:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Missing Oxford Comma Worth $10M - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:37] <exec> 08└─Even if you don't accept my argument about "and", the judges make an interesting point. If "distribution" is meant to be an item in its own right, to be consistent with the rest of the sentence, it should be "distributing": "packing for shipment or distributing". Instead, "distribution" matches "shi...
[20:15:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Dungeons & Dragons is Finally Going Digital - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:57] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I'm a pretty big Roll20.net fan myself, as well as Fantasy Grounds (they actively support running the client under wine). Fantasy Grounds even allows for eternal purchases and exporting of your data.
[20:15:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Dungeons & Dragons is Finally Going Digital - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:58] <exec> 08└─Heh, our group motto used to be "Yet again the GOP* foils another carefully crafted DM plot." * We used the turn right method of mapping out dungeons.
[20:16:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dark Matter Is Missing From Young Galaxies - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:19] <exec> 08└─https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.06183 [arxiv.org] October 2016
[20:17:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung's 10nm Chips in Mass Production, "6nm" on the Roadmap - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:02] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately there isn't really an industry standard as to what node size is, particularly as we move to more and more 3d structures.
[20:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Diego, a Centenarian Giant Tortoise Whose Sex Drive Saved His Species - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:15] <exec> 08└─Not gonna dispute your findings, given your nickname.
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[21:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03garrulus [6051] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:20] <exec> 08└─it's getting annoying how much this site is pushing that religion.
[21:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03SparkyGSX [4041] (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:21] <exec> 08└─The Volkswagon scandal was about fine particle emission, not about CO2. The emission of CO2 corresponds pretty much directly with fuel consumption; the "fixed" vehicles actually produce more CO2, since the fuel consumption was increased somewhat by the fix, if I recall correctly. I think it's unlike...
[21:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:23] <exec> 08└─Anthropogenic climate change is real, unlike your grasp of reality. The only people still doubting it at this time are idiot ideologues, shills, and religious imbeciles. [wikipedia.org] I'm going to make a statistically informed guess that you're not a wealthy industrialist. This site skews towards...
[21:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:25] <exec> 08└─...you can read this. [skepticalscience.com] (always check for links, folks. I just got too heated. Like our climate!)
[21:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:28] <exec> 08└─The Volkswagon scandal was about fine particle emission, not about CO2.
[21:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:30] <exec> 08└─That link is rather old, I believe. More recent speculation on the part of climate change scientists is that sometimes, temperature has driven CO2 levels. See - the science isn't "settled". Science has a nice wad of facts, and some of those bright boys have made some educated guesses, but they don't...
[21:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:32] <exec> 08└─Now with idiots like Trump and his minions at the helm, it's finally up to us people-- you know, the ones with brains-- to take matters into our own hands. It was just a matter of time until the means of saving the planet would be seized by the people! Score one for Science and collectivism!!
[21:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 1806 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:34] <exec> 08└─> When your first sentence is this wrong, there really is no point reading the rest of your comment. Sorry. (Oh, and there is no "fix" for VW diesels, yet.) Shame, because the second part is correct, and the first partially correct. However your sentence was wrong (there is a "fix" as such, read bel...
[21:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 1219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:36] <exec> 08└─What was especially annoying was that the article proposed nothing that isn't already law -- if you engineer to the laws (say, emissions or structural integrity) and you cheat those laws, then you get busted and put your career in jeopardy or get fined or arrested. Taking some kind of silly oath doe...
[21:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:38] <exec> 08└─Oh shut up. You are more wrong than he is. His central thesis that the emissions cheating was not about CO2 is correct. VW emissions cheating was about NOx emissions and NOx does amplify the harm caused by fine particulates. This fact is illustrated by the study predicting 60+ premature deaths [theg...
[21:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Implements Equi-Angular Cubemaps Technique for Better VR Quality - 788 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:48] <exec> 08└─Well, EAC is based on a single projection applied to each of the six faces of a cube, just like cubemaps -- the only difference is that this uses a different projection. Like ordinary cubemaps, it's very good at not wasting pixels in raster texture buffers (each face is a true square, and the six sq...
[21:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Microsoft Now Offering Legal Indemnity Program for Azure Users - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:59] <exec> 08└─This is basically a protection racket. Oh well, they seem to get away with extortion where their "android patents" are involved, so why not.
[21:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Air Force's Mysterious X-37B Space Plane Nears Orbital Record - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:08] <exec> 08└─Sounds like its flying....
[21:15:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Missing Oxford Comma Worth $10M - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:48] <exec> 08└─Ppppppffffffftttttt Khalliw as usual knows more than judges about ruling on law. And of course you have a political spin...
[21:16:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Dungeons & Dragons is Finally Going Digital - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:09] <exec> 08└─Pathfinder was peachy keen if you weren't a 3E/4E fan but 5E kicks the utter crap out of it for one very simple reason: streamlined math.
[21:17:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03qzm [3260] 02 - 06Troubled Covert Agency is Responsible for Trucking Nuclear Bombs Across America - 265 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:31] <exec> 08└─Wow. While your points are correct, the writing.. Just wow. I am actually impressed.. At to the parent poster. Yes. First responders are more likely to get arrested by military police if they tried to respond than anything else. This is far far out of their league.
[21:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06If Surveillance Cameras Are to Be Kept in Line, the Rules Will Have to Keep Pace With Technology - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:25] <exec> 08└─Those who are too attached to the old ways will likely expend lots of futile energy trying to maintain yesterday's realities.
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[22:14:35] <exec> 08└─it's getting annoying how much this site is pushing that religion.
[22:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:36] <exec> 08└─No, fuck you
[22:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:38] <exec> 08└─Modern VolksWagens are for virtue-signaling leftists who want to show you how righteous they are, and they believe owning a newer VW is better for the environment for some reason -- much like they believe that their Macs make them more altruistic even as the people in China manufacturing them often...
[22:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:40] <exec> 08└─https://www.chicagofed.org/~/media/publications/chicago-fed-letter/2016/cfl357-pdf.pdf [chicagofed.org] It's all three - CO2, NOx, and particulates. If it were ONLY the CO2, the scandal would still have been a scandal, but it wouldn't be so damned big a scandal.
[22:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bug1 [5243] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:43] <exec> 08└─If you dont believe the science you dont belong here. Fuck off to your cave.
[22:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:45] <exec> 08└─The "fix" is to fit an urea injection system into their diesel cars, but turns out the cost of doing this is more than cost of the cars are worth second hand, so they are willing to do a recall and exchange/refund.
[22:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:47] <exec> 08└─Modded "funny" because you used "management" and "ethics" in the same sentence. I HOPE you weren't serious! I'd hate to think that EF were losing it!
[22:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:49] <exec> 08└─Maybe engineers should look for more solutions that don't mean lifestyle changes. Hard to make people do lifestyle changes when the people telling them they must do it do not do it themselves (Al Gore). Instead look into ways we can cheat the system and get the environment how we want it. Aluminum t...
[22:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:51] <exec> 08└─The link you provided does not assert that VW deliberately tried to cheat CO2 emissions standards. All it says is that diesel was attractive to auto manufacturers because burning diesel produces less CO2 than burning gasoline per mile.
[22:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:53] <exec> 08└─If all of you fuckface douchebags would just drop dead, there would be a lot of "safe space" around here. Has anyone ever told you that you have a kind face? What they meant was, you have the kind of face they'd like to fuck.
[22:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:55] <exec> 08└─Runaway! You should actually RTFL! You link says diesels have lower CO2 output, does not mention particulates, and does not provide any specifics on VW diesels. So thanks for the alternative information, bro!
[22:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:57] <exec> 08└─> Hard to make people do lifestyle changes when the people telling them they must do it do not do it themselves (Al Gore). The dude put his money where his mouth was by paying extra for carbon offsets.
[22:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:00] <exec> 08└─I'm going to build a house that can withstand high winds and rains, a good 25 metres above current sea level in a place with enough land to grow my own potatoes and somewhere to store water.
[22:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Insightful) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:02] <exec> 08└─Right - and if you believe in "settled science", you don't belong here either. You need to run along to your Climatology Synagogue.
[22:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:04] <exec> 08└─Read it again - Yet, relative to gasoline engines, diesel engines tend to emit more nitro-gen oxide (NOx ) and particulate matter,3 which contribute to the for-mation of smog. VW pur-sued a “clean diesel” strategy rather aggressive-ly; but when some of its diesel engines could not meet the strin...
[22:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 1082 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:06] <exec> 08└─Right. At least get the shit straight. Or you'll start BSing about Ozone too. Economy is NOT going to get decarbonized anytime soon. CO2 emissions will continue going up past 2050, easily. Most optimistically, they rate will not increase - almost doubled since 1990. The "green" lobby kind of guarant...
[22:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:08] <exec> 08└─What part of CO2 do you fail to understand?
[22:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:11] <exec> 08└─http://principia-scientific.org/climate-drives-carbon-dioxide-levels-not-the-other-way-round/ [principia-scientific.org]
[22:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:13] <exec> 08└─http://notrickszone.com/2016/08/04/non-existent-relationship-co2-temperature-correlation-only-15-of-last-165-years/ [notrickszone.com]
[22:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:15] <exec> 08└─https://skepticalscience.com/argument.php?a=7&p=11 [skepticalscience.com]
[22:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:17] <exec> 08└─Anthropogenic climate change is real, unlike your grasp of reality.
[22:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:19] <exec> 08└─Which part of particulates and NOx do you not understand? As already stated, the CO2 alone was enough to create a scandal. All three pollutants combined made a scandal into a helluva big scandal. It isn't JUST the CO2. Do you remember "acid rain"?
[22:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:21] <exec> 08└─OK, Runaway, you are a complete idiot, but I am intrigued by your thought process: How does the fact that diesels have lower CO2 emissions constitute a scandal? Please explain. I thought this might be right up your alley, but you are lowering my estimate of the intelligence of truck drivers.
[22:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:24] <exec> 08└─WTF is hard to understand here? VW cheated on the CO2, they cheated on the NOx, they cheated on the particulates. They cheated ALL of the emissions tests. They didn't ONLY cheat on the CO2. The original post, to which I responded, suggested that it was ALL ABOUT CO2, and CO2 alone. If you need more...
[22:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:26] <exec> 08└─Gore should put something in his mouth - like a huge diseased donkey dick. Gore only established that the rules don't apply to rich bastards.
[22:15:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Now Offering Legal Indemnity Program for Azure Users - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:44] <exec> 08└─Thank you, Fnord666, for making this a news article. I only gave the link.
[22:16:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missing Oxford Comma Worth $10M - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:34] <exec> 08└─What is definitely not lost on me is how sleazy it is to make a law with such an exemption that has no clear reasoning behind it other than "we want to fuck this subgroup of people over because it benefits some schmuck that gives us money."
[22:16:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03helel [2949] (Score: 1) 02 - 06 Dungeons & Dragons is Finally Going Digital - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:56] <exec> 08└─If your players can be trusted to read and remember the powers their characters have their a might bit better then mine, at least in that regard... Mansions of Madness requiring the app is doubly disappointing to me because I'd much rather see them work on expanding customization to make the game a...
[22:16:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Dungeons & Dragons is Finally Going Digital - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:58] <exec> 08└─5E is a power gamers dream for those that want to play superheros it's great!
[22:16:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Celestial [4891] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Dungeons & Dragons is Finally Going Digital - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:00] <exec> 08└─You're thinking of Fourth Edition. Fourth Edition was pretty much a super-hero tabletop RPG in all but name.
[22:17:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Dungeons & Dragons is Finally Going Digital - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:02] <exec> 08└─If you say so, I haven't played 5e but what I looked at from the tubes sure looked like superheros haven't really played since 2e unless you count NWN
[22:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dark Matter Is Missing From Young Galaxies - 2119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:22] <exec> 08└─My credentials are: i believe the data, not the fantasy. From an actual physicist: "In 1915 Einstein finished general relativity and this theory has been successful in regimes where the acceleration is high (such is in the inner Solar system and close-orbiting binary stars. Then in 1933 (by Fritz Zw...
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[23:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Disagree) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 1053 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:45] <exec> 08└─This site is a man made global warming religion sprooking website if you believe the average unscientific and unskeptical articles appaearing here. Scientists who say being skeptical is not being a scientist are not scientists. Science is based on skepticism - having faith is called religion. Meanwh...
[23:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:47] <exec> 08└─VW cheated on the CO2
[23:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:49] <exec> 08└─Extremist prepper! Git'im boys!
[23:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:51] <exec> 08└─It's not the sun [skepticalscience.com], but thanks for mouthing off about something you're ignorant about. You can always leave this site if you don't like seeing your bullshit torn down every day. You won't be missed.
[23:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 1056 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:53] <exec> 08└─The flaw in your hypothesis is that you seem to think it can only get better from here. Now, I actually majored in Earth Science, but managed to annoy a lot of people by stating agnosticism about just how much humans contribute to global warming--and make no mistake, the planet *is* getting hotter i...
[23:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:55] <exec> 08└─WTF is hard to understand here?
[23:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:58] <exec> 08└─Triggered!
[23:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:00] <exec> 08└─It is hard to understand why you keep saying things that are not true.
[23:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:02] <exec> 08└─Good luck with that. If civilization goes you are fucked anyway. All it will take are a group of people stronger than you to take it and kick you out. If you don't want to die, you should contribute to the solution rather than run away and wait for the problem to find you.
[23:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:05] <exec> 08└─Instead of putting it on the engineers with feelgood bullshit buzzwords, they should make management agree to take an ethics course to spend the extra pennies to make a decent product as well as not be so goddamn pushy and make bullshit promises to customers.
[23:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bug1 [5243] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:07] <exec> 08└─Your a crazy person
[23:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Call for Engineers to Act on Climate Change - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:09] <exec> 08└─Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na Stick man! [imgur.com] Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na... * Critical Hit! *
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