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[00:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Graphene Oxide Sieves Seawater Into Drinking Water - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:19] <exec> 08└─Marvelous Graphene, isn't there anything you can't do, besides being commercially viable?
[00:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Graphene Oxide Sieves Seawater Into Drinking Water - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:20] <exec> 08└─The BBC article quotes one of the researchers as saying This is our first demonstration that we can control the spacing [of pores in the membrane] and that we can do desalination, which was not possible before.
[00:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:06] <exec> 08└─... is if you stole the money from me to pay for it... which is what you do. In other words, what could you possibly be saying? Certainly, the current system doesn't place "service" as the ruling guideline; that "service" is total trash. Here's a thought: There is no such thing as a service which is...
[00:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:08] <exec> 08└─Any response other than freezing in place and obeying orders: yes, you are willing to get shot. Running toward the cop is obvious. You're trying to kill him. You need to die ASAP. Running away means that you prefer to be out on the streets committing crimes. Jail would limit you to hurting cellmates...
[00:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:10] <exec> 08└─In Europe, the round red sign with black-on-white number in the middle is a strict limit. Anything advisory is white or blue or yellow, usually in a square.
[00:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:12] <exec> 08└─I have no idea what a functioning market for "policing" would actually look like; I imagine it would be surprising to both of us—as is often the case for evolutionary solutions to complex problems. Nevertheless, your scenario indicates that it would be in the interest of competing organizations to...
[00:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:14] <exec> 08└─Running from a cop is about as dumb as it gets... unless you're already going down for decades in prison because of your crimes. The cop can and should assume that you are running due to a horrific felony. (Why else would you run?) Since you have committed a horrific felony and are trying to escape,...
[00:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:16] <exec> 08└─So glad to hear a story of cops behaving like something other than self-important jackasses who think they're above the law. Thanks to all involved. relying on patience rather than anything on an officer's gun belt
[00:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:18] <exec> 08└─Running away [from a cop] means ... You need to die ASAP.
[00:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:21] <exec> 08└─Fuck no. You need a major clue brick to the forehead, whether you're a highly persistent troll or actually fundamentally delusional! If private prisons paying^W bribing^W offering campaign contributions to judges who send the most people to the slammer isn't enough of a lesson to you, I don't know w...
[00:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:23] <exec> 08└─I'm certainly not a police officer, but from what I heard Taser does not guarantee termination of the attack. If the electrodes do not penetrate clothing (say, a leather jacket), then it's not going to work. The wires can be also damaged, needles torn from the skin... some people (on drugs) do not f...
[00:38:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03anotherblackhat [4722] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:36] <exec> 08└─Personally, I like the definition that a "planet" is an object that orbits the sun and can be seen with the naked eye from earth. (Yes, I'm aware that means Neptune isn't a planet) The problem I have with all the definitions so far is that they don't seem to classify the celestial objects in any use...
[00:38:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 1054 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:37] <exec> 08└─Lagrange points get the same "special consideration" as orbital resonances, such as the 1:1 resonance of "quasi-satellites" like 2016 HO3 with Earth, and 2:3 resonance like Pluto and the other plutinos have with Neptune. Nobody serious denies that there's a useful distinction to be made between bodi...
[00:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03subs [4485] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atomic Spins Evade Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:14] <exec> 08└─AC already answered your question. In short: the summary is misleading and overly confident in its proclamations.
[00:39:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03BananaPhone [2488] 02 - 06Acidification in the Arctic Ocean - 198 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:34] <exec> 08└─Probably not collected. Remember, those were the years when King Harper ruled Canada. Anything that had to do with the environment or global warming was cut and shredded. And now, it's the US' turn.
[00:40:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"The Executive Coloring Book" Helped Launch the Adult Coloring Book Craze - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:08] <exec> 08└─rgb(102,51,0) or rgb(255,255,0)
[00:41:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Sources" Fear Terrorists will get Past Airport Security with Laptop Bombs - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:20] <exec> 08└─Everybody wins. Except the tax payers: http://www.scielo.br [scielo.br]
[00:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ghost in the Shell Film Might be the Most Disappointing Live-Action Reboot Ever - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:41] <exec> 08└─I thought about mentioning that exact movie. I thought the movie by itself was OK. But it really did not do justice to the show. I skipped mentioning it and let others fill in what they thought was worse as there are many. As for the original movie this current one is based on I did not care for it...
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[01:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Swedish Start-Up has Started Implanting Microchips into its Employees - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:15] <exec> 08└─Because of socialized medicine, this company gets to externalize part of the cost of tracking its employees. Really, if you can't trust someone to be honest about their comings and goings, and to take proper care of their access token, don't hire that person.
[01:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Swedish Start-Up has Started Implanting Microchips into its Employees - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:17] <exec> 08└─You wanna hire me? Great. You wanna inject a chip into my body? No thank you. You no longer wanna hire me? Lemme call Robert Shapiro.
[01:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Swedish Start-Up has Started Implanting Microchips into its Employees - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:19] <exec> 08└─Because of socialized medicine, this company gets to externalize part of the cost of tracking its employees. OH MY GODZ! SOCIALIST MEDICINE! Read TFA. Barring an infection the Swedish health care system has nothing whatsoever to do with this scheme. That means visits from self-described "body hacker...
[01:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Graphene Oxide Sieves Seawater Into Drinking Water - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:29] <exec> 08└─and always will be.
[01:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Graphene Oxide Sieves Seawater Into Drinking Water - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:31] <exec> 08└─Henry David Thoreau is best known as an author, but "for most of his adult life" he worked in his family's factory, which made graphene generators. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[01:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rubbery, Multifunctional Fibers Could Be Used to Study Spinal Cord Neurons and Restore Function - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:39] <exec> 08└─Both optical and electrical while also being transparent and stretchable? Holy shit. This sounds like material you could use in all sorts of computing applications, not just medical.
[01:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:27] <exec> 08└─Intelligence as in being smart, a good learner, having knowledge, reading books etc. This intelligence is missing in almost all police forces, especially in the US of A. According to people in-the-know, police was intentionally dumbed down so they would follow orders and are totally unable to think....
[01:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:29] <exec> 08└─Yes indeed, there are bad cops. There are really bad ones and regular bad ones. Still, you need to freeze and then obey orders. Anything else is incredibly stupid. This is your life, not a video game. You have a choice... Fight or run: You will likely get hurt very badly, if not killed. Surrender: M...
[01:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:31] <exec> 08└─As bad as they are, the US courts are more-or-less working. This is because the US is a wealthy country with low crime -- yes really. Dueterte doesn't have that kind of luxury. In a nation that faces poverty and high crime, such niceties go out the window. You have to get shit done, sometimes in a v...
[01:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:46] <exec> 08└─Labeling and classifying things belongs to the type of science often referred to as 'butterfly collecting'.
[01:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 1026 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:48] <exec> 08└─"That's not a very scientific thing to do." The difference between a planet and not a planet isn't really that scientific. "If you're going to have categories at all, they should be defined as scientifically as possible." Reality defies such classification. Species can't interbreed fertile offspring...
[01:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:50] <exec> 08└─Pound weight, not pound money. And isn't a thorpe an old word for a village-like thing that's too small to have a church?
[01:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:52] <exec> 08└─Astronomy started out as lexicology. Just as the Necronomicon is the book of dead (necro) names (nom), astronomy studies the names (nom) of stars (astra).
[01:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:54] <exec> 08└─Are we now going to have to search for planet 8, instead of 9, or 10?
[01:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:56] <exec> 08└─Nope :) It's for Jim Thorpe, the Olympic Athlete from Sweden. In this case, truth [mit.edu] is stranger than fiction.
[01:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 740 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:58] <exec> 08└─What the hell does this have to do with anything? Nothing in science uses "months" as a unit, because it isn't a consistent unit. Scientists use "seconds", which is an arbitrary unit, but it's well-defined and consistent and works nicely with the SI system of units for unit conversions (e.g. 1 Joule...
[01:39:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acidification in the Arctic Ocean - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:59] <exec> 08└─If the organisms that make carbonate shells can't survive, then one of the important mechanisms for removing carbon dioxide from the ocean will fail.
[01:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Microsoft Closing Down CodePlex, Tells Devs to Move to GitHub - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:23] <exec> 08└─A sad day indeed. Say goodbye to the last supported version of Windows without telemetry.
[01:44:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mylan EpiPen Recall Expanded - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:00] <exec> 08└─No, monopolies aren’t illegal. But if you’re a monopoly and use that position to try to shut potential competitors out of the market, that is market power abuse. One example of market power abuse is by attempting to price competitors out of the market, as the GGP says Mylan could potentially do...
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[02:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Swedish Start-Up has Started Implanting Microchips into its Employees - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:20] <exec> 08└─Why am I not surprised. What a bunch of misguided collectivists. Lesson of this century is that you cannot offer freedom to people who do not desire it. It's a waste.
[02:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Swedish Start-Up has Started Implanting Microchips into its Employees - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:21] <exec> 08└─> ... demagnetise your credit cards. What's the functional equivalent for an RFID chip? Haven't tried it yet, but read that a microwave oven will kill the RFID chip in a new US Passport. Anyone test this? Anyone know what the Customs & Immigration agent will do when the passport doesn't scan (beside...
[02:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Swedish Start-Up has Started Implanting Microchips into its Employees - 700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:23] <exec> 08└─I read the article, did you? They're implanting things into people's hands. There's no mention of what happens when it's time to remove the implant. Reasons to remove it include infections, irritation, employee separation, making room for other implants, replacement of the implant when it's cloned,...
[02:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Swedish Start-Up has Started Implanting Microchips into its Employees - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:25] <exec> 08└─http://www.instructables.com/id/RFID-Emulator-How-to-Clone-RFID-Card-Tag-/?ALLSTEPS [instructables.com]
[02:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06A Swedish Start-Up has Started Implanting Microchips into its Employees - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:28] <exec> 08└─And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding cou...
[02:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06A Swedish Start-Up has Started Implanting Microchips into its Employees - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:30] <exec> 08└─First thing I did when I got a new passport in January, was put it in the microwave for 5 seconds, to kill the chip. Now when I cross the border into Mexico they try and scan it once or twice then just open the thing pass it over the bar code reader before checking the picture against my actual face...
[02:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Swedish Start-Up has Started Implanting Microchips into its Employees - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:32] <exec> 08└─The company offers to implant its workers and startup members with microchips... [emphasis added]
[02:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Swedish Start-Up has Started Implanting Microchips into its Employees - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:34] <exec> 08└─It sounds sexier in Latin.
[02:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Swedish Start-Up has Started Implanting Microchips into its Employees - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:36] <exec> 08└─Keep on believing that this is caused by socialized medicine. I've recently decided to be a misanthrope. I don't think this species can or should survive. Capitalist medicine is the best way to make a country or people sick and weak, so I applaud your efforts to help advance the cause.
[02:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Swedish Start-Up has Started Implanting Microchips into its Employees - 696 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:38] <exec> 08└─Get rid of the archaic language if you're going to read a fantasy novel. "This second Beast worked magical signs, dazzling people by making fire come down from Heaven. It used the magic it got from the Beast to dupe earth dwellers, getting them to make an image of the Beast that received the deathbl...
[02:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Swedish Start-Up has Started Implanting Microchips into its Employees - 1329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:41] <exec> 08└─Et facit omnes pusillos et magnos et divites et pauperes et liberos et servos accipere characterem in dextera manu sua aut in frontibus suis, et ne quis possit emere aut vendere, nisi qui habet characterem, nomen bestiae aut numerum nominis eius. Hic sapientia est: qui habet intellectum, computet nu...
[02:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Rubbery, Multifunctional Fibers Could Be Used to Study Spinal Cord Neurons and Restore Function - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:58] <exec> 08└─Stretchy Jell-O-like Silver /article.pl?sid=17/04/01/0212216 [soylentnews.org] Nanowire 'Inks' Enable Paper-based Printable Electronics /article.pl?sid=17/01/04/1520203 [soylentnews.org] Scientists Develop New Optical Circuit Components to Manipulate Light /article.pl?sid=16/11/28/1838241 [soylentne...
[02:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 1633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:50] <exec> 08└─"In the end, the plague touched us all. It was not confined to the Oran of Camus. No. It turned up again in America, breeding in-a-compost of greed and uselessness and murder, in those places where statesmen and generals stash the bodies of the forever young. The plague ran in the blood of men in sh...
[02:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:51] <exec> 08└─Still, you need to freeze and then obey orders.
[02:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:54] <exec> 08└─The more you know.
[02:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:56] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, drug crime. "Drugs," the magic word that makes violence against innocents acceptable.
[02:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:58] <exec> 08└─Oh don't worry about him. He breathed a few too many chemtrails during the weather war. He'll find something else to post about in good time as he always does. Weather war was my favorite. Hopefully he'll do ancient aliens next and tie it in with the Anunnaki.
[02:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:00] <exec> 08└─Shame about the AC comments to this story though.
[02:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:02] <exec> 08└─The police are supposed to be professionals trained to deal with mentally ill people who have a weapon. Most people do not have that training and probably don't have the sort of less lethal weapons that will control a mentally ill person in mid-freakout. If police just go around killing people, they...
[02:38:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03vux984 [5045] 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 1334 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:43] <exec> 08└─"I'd like a stricter definition of planet that says something about having an atmosphere" That's kind of arbitrary given the conditions for having an atmosphere depend on gravity, temperature, magnetic field, how active the solar wind is, etc. Move earth to Mercuries position and cool off the rotati...
[02:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:25] <exec> 08└─Does anyone still get paychecks in months? I thought everyone would have switched to bi-weekly pay periods by now. Months are a terrible measure for anything. Honestly, they need to switch to a 13-month year, with each month having 28 days (4 weeks). It would be far easier to work with. There'd only...
[02:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 851 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:27] <exec> 08└─According to Brits, that symbol is called the "hash", and has been for far, far longer than Twitter's been around. There's nothing "revisionist" about it, it's a national difference, just like that panel over your car's engine is called a "bonnet" over there, and the rear end of a sedan is called a...
[02:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:29] <exec> 08└─It's not irrelevant scientifically. Categorization is an important part of science; just ask any botanist or biologist whether they think it's "irrelevant" whether some species has one name versus another name, and which genus, family, etc. it's in. To them, it absolutely is. Definitions change; tha...
[02:39:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:31] <exec> 08└─I'll accept Pluto as a "planet" when we require that schoolkids memorize the names of all 110+ plus "planets" in this system. Otherwise, you need some kind of cut-off to distinguish the important planets from the less-important ones.
[02:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:33] <exec> 08└─Inhabitants of a gas or ice giant might disagree with that. Even among our major planets, we have different subcategories: "gas giants" (Jupiter, Saturn), "ice giants" (Neptune, Uranus), and "rocky planets" (the 4 inner planets).
[02:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 663 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:35] <exec> 08└─Pluto is geologically active with a dynamic surface; not just your regular icy piece of rock. Not necessarily true, the way you've written this. Yes, it's geologically active according to our most recent data, however you're claiming with your second clause that other such worlds are not. You have n...
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[02:39:37] <exec> 08└─No, 8 of them are special because of their size. They're not the only planetoids in the inner system; Ceres is between Mars and Jupiter (as is Vesta, but it's not even round). Ceres is considered a dwarf planet too, but for some odd reason the Pluto-defenders don't want to include Ceres in the plane...
[02:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:39] <exec> 08└─"Killer whales" aren't even called that any more except by fools. Their more proper name is "orca". Scientists have Latin names for these animals anyway.
[02:39:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:42] <exec> 08└─What "most people" do is not of much concern to scientists when they're doing scientific work. But for some stupid reason, these idiotic "most people" seem to think that they can dictate to scientists what kind of terminology they can use.
[02:39:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:44] <exec> 08└─It's not irrelevant scientifically. Categorization is an important part of science; just ask any botanist or biologist whether they think it's "irrelevant" whether some species has one name versus another name, and which genus, family, etc. it's in.
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[03:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Swedish Start-Up has Started Implanting Microchips into its Employees - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:39] <exec> 08└─The Swedes have also started wearing niqabs: https://www.rt.com [rt.com]
[03:37:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 307 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:23] <exec> 08└─> As to tickets, speeding fines should pretty much be abolished. You do need incentives for people to respect the rules. If you abolish the fines, you have to abolish the "limit". But fines should be like in Northern Europe, proportional to your income (or at least the value of your car). We have th...
[03:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:57] <exec> 08└─While painful, the taser doesn't depend on pain to work. It works by disrupting the nervous sustem and making the muscles contract out of control.
[03:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:58] <exec> 08└─We've already tried the private police force route. We called it the local mob. Protection for a price.
[03:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:01] <exec> 08└─And velocity -- the energy imparted in any crash is a function of both mass and velocity. For example, a 440 pound motorcycle going 150 mph, has about 449 kJ of kinetic energy. A 2200 pound car going 67 mph has 447 kJ. https://www.omnicalculator.com [omnicalculator.com]
[03:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:03] <exec> 08└─I got your "violently imposed monopoly" right here, moron.
[03:38:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 126 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:22] <exec> 08└─Heck, forget Earth - Jupiter hasn't cleared it's orbit either, though I suppose the Lagrange Points get special consideration.
[03:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 1672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:36] <exec> 08└─Terrible analogy. You focused on the species name (with a broken link, I'll add), not the genus name (aptostichus). If you changed the name to "homo barackobamai" (the same genus as humans), or worse, to "Apomastus barackobamai" (a different genus under the same family of spiders in Euctenizidae), i...
[03:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:37] <exec> 08└─If you changed the name to "homo barackobamai" (the same genus as humans), or worse, to "Apomastus barackobamai" (a different genus under the same family of spiders in Euctenizidae), it would cause a lot of confusion.
[03:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:39] <exec> 08└─We're probably not going to have to worry for a long time whether some exoplanet is a "exo-dwarf-planet" because we can't see anything that small.
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[03:39:41] <exec> 08└─So what's his solution? He says his post is "satire" in the sense that he doesn't REALLY believe Earth is not a planet, but he doesn't propose an alternate definition that doesn't lead us to revise the definition of the "planets" in the Solar System every other week.
[03:39:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 1420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:43] <exec> 08└─I agree with you. The nice thing about adjectives is that they can give you useful classifications. As an example: Giant Planet - something with more than 4 times the gravity of Earth Planet - something with more than 0.1 times the gravity of Earth (Every planet except Pluto) Minor Planet - somethin...
[03:39:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:46] <exec> 08└─Not gonna lie, former Earth supporter here. It's really funny watching Earth's Planetary status crash and burn. But in all seriousness we need to be careful about heavenly body distinctions. Now that it doesn't just effect Pluto, we need to redefine what it means to be a planet to include the Earth...
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[04:36:39] <exec> 08└─More healthy for the hand, and still effective, should be the Zapper [events.ccc.de] proposed on a CCC congress in 2006. Basically you use a small coil and the capacity / battery of e.g. a one-time-camera. Instead of the flash you connect the coil and place the RFID close to it. The device creates a...
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[04:38:00] <exec> 08└─Sure, borrow it anytime. Yes, it does give hope for policing done sanely in the U.S
[04:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:01] <exec> 08└─...Since you have committed a horrific felony and are trying to escape, the cop has every right to shoot you...
[04:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:40] <exec> 08└─Um, if I understand astrophysics right (and there's a good chance I'm mistaken), a body the mass of several Jupiters is more likely to be called a "brown dwarf star", not a planet.
[04:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:42] <exec> 08└─Then your analogy makes zero sense. No one is proposing renaming "Pluto". They changed the classification. That's akin to changing the genus on that spider, not the species. The species name can be anything, it doesn't matter. That's why they got away with choosing such a crappy name for it. The gen...
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[04:39:44] <exec> 08└─Oh come on, the article was flamebait. You're right, this asteroid does not demote Earth's status from planet to dwarf planet. The article points up a problem. A comet crossing a planetary orbit does not change the status of a planet. Yet, planetary status does depend on external factors. Should it?...
[04:39:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 1446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:46] <exec> 08└─Well, really they're special because of the combination of size (mass, really) and location. Mercury is a big neighborhood-clearing bad-ass in its 88-day orbit, but if you put it out in the Kuiper Belt, it would be just another KBO, worth exclaiming "Pretty big for a dwarf planet!", but definitely n...
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[04:39:48] <exec> 08└─Whoops, make that the big seven moons; how could I forget Triton?!
[04:41:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"The Executive Coloring Book" Helped Launch the Adult Coloring Book Craze - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:22] <exec> 08└─The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
[04:41:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"The Executive Coloring Book" Helped Launch the Adult Coloring Book Craze - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:23] <exec> 08└─My wife gave me a colouring book for my birthday. The "Divorce and Breakup Coloring Book" by Kate Harper. Yes, it's real.
[04:41:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"The Executive Coloring Book" Helped Launch the Adult Coloring Book Craze - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:25] <exec> 08└─You're welcome [amazon.com].
[04:44:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Closing Down CodePlex, Tells Devs to Move to GitHub - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:20] <exec> 08└─He died of cancer, in an intellectual property sense.
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[05:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Asteroids Pass Earth - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:21] <exec> 08└─Was one of them called "khallow"? It has not been warm here, lately. Just asking.
[05:36:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Appalbarry [66] 02 - 06A Swedish Start-Up has Started Implanting Microchips into its Employees - 366 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:30] <exec> 08└─Because of socialized medicine, this company gets to externalize part of the cost of tracking its employees. OH MY GODZ! SOCIALIST MEDICINE! Read TFA. Barring an infection the Swedish health care system has nothing whatsoever to do with this scheme. That means visits from self-described "body hacker...
[05:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Swedish Start-Up has Started Implanting Microchips into its Employees - 892 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:46] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the Greek! Good to be able to read SoylentNews in my mother-tongue! But, not to quibble, that is koine greek, kind of the language of slaves and the uneducated. Could you, perhaps, rephrase it in Attic? Oh, wait, I see my error! Christians! Well, as Runaway9672 would say, bugger me! I r...
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[05:36:47] <exec> 08└─"Perhaps standing in front of a big microwave radar..." You would certainly start to feel very warm inside.
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[05:38:10] <exec> 08└─it does give hope for policing done sanely in the U.S
[05:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:11] <exec> 08└─Like the street that is 45 mph for its entire run through the various cities, except for 600 feet. For that stretch, which makes up its entire portion through a particular city, it is 25. Not hard to figure out where the city gets a full 20% of its revenue.
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[05:38:13] <exec> 08└─In Canada, if the "limit" is printed on a orange sign (instead of a white one), it is merely a guideline.
[05:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:15] <exec> 08└─As it stands now, police are crazy criminals in uniforms who deserve to be put down immediately, preferably behind the house. Or dragged out of their homes and curb-stomped.
[05:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:17] <exec> 08└─Fines based on income of the accused would make sense. That's why we won't ever see it in America. We never want any sense in our laws. Senseless laws are easier to write and to exploit.
[05:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:20] <exec> 08└─It's a hell of a thing killing a man. You take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have. [youtu.be] (Unforgiven, 1992)
[05:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:22] <exec> 08└─If private prisons paying^W bribing^W offering campaign contributions to judges who send the most people to the slammer isn't enough of a lesson to you, I don't know what will teach you.
[05:40:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:05] <exec> 08└─I don't think he "forgot"; why do you want to add complications? The best argument for not caring about whether it has "cleared the neighborhood of its orbit" (or some more precisely defined measure of dynamical relevance) is to make the definition about intrinsic properties of the body in question,...
[05:40:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 1046 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:07] <exec> 08└─What "most people" do is not of much concern to scientists when they're doing scientific work. Don't over inflate how much science this really is. Planet vs dwarf planet ... especially for things right up against the line is as much science as hill vs mountain... The stuff in the middle of each cla...
[05:40:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:09] <exec> 08└─Then your analogy makes zero sense. No one is proposing renaming "Pluto". They changed the classification.
[05:40:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:11] <exec> 08└─It's at least 13 Jupiter masses according to our present understanding of fusion. So there can be a significantly larger body without deuterium fusion, we think. OTOH, if Jupiter turns out to be a brown dwarf, well, oops.
[05:40:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth is a "Dwarf Planet" Because it has not Cleared its Orbit - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:13] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_planet [wikipedia.org]
[05:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"The Executive Coloring Book" Helped Launch the Adult Coloring Book Craze - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:48] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure how divorcing you is supposed to mean that your ex doesn't have a good sense of humor, but people don't initiate divorce proceedings unless they're extremely unhappy in their marriage, and there's fairly logical rules that determine the financial outcome.
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[05:41:49] <exec> 08└─Yikes, some of the drawings in that SELinux coloring book are seriously disturbing — like the evil Tux holding the dog's leash (several pages), druggy cat with one paw upside-down on 7, humpback dog on page 8...
[05:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Sources" Fear Terrorists will get Past Airport Security with Laptop Bombs - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:57] <exec> 08└─If you were Canadian, you'd be aware of https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org], largest airplane terror attack originating in N. America prior to 9/11, at least if you consider a plane departing Canada and blown up by Sikh nationalists to be a N. American terror attack. A...
[05:43:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Researchers Identify Flavour Genes for Pot - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:50] <exec> 08└─Look at your original quote. A random someone hands you, say a Marlboro cigarette, then you know what you're getting even though it comes from a soulless corporation. Someone hands you a hand-rolled joint, you don't know what you're getting. That's the power of branding.
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[06:36:56] <exec> 08└─That was Greek, not retard you dumb ass. We all know your first language is retard.
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[06:36:58] <exec> 08└─The result is a second or two delay but no one has ever said anything to me.
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[06:37:00] <exec> 08└─The "wisdom" being referred to here is Gematria, that is, assigning each letter of Hebrew or Greek a numerical value and ciphering with it. 666 just so happens to add up to--more or less--"Neron Qaisar" (remember, "it is the number of a man"). Revelation is coded anti-Roman polemic, which dovetails...
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[06:37:02] <exec> 08└─Can you actually read that fluently? I can understand a little of it due to over a decade of bible study, but am not even sure how to pronounce half of it--specifically, where the h's go in front of the occasional omicron. Also how can you tell Koine from Attic in writing? It's odd; I never studied...
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[06:37:04] <exec> 08└─Ah, some one from the Westernmost reaches! Yes, of course it was Greek. But not all Greek is Greek, just as not all English is Anglish, as your very dubious example shows. For example, what, precisely, is a "dumb ass"? It seems to me that all asses are dumb, if you are referring to the species Equu...
[06:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Swedish Start-Up has Started Implanting Microchips into its Employees - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:07] <exec> 08└─If there is one thing positive I can say about capitalist medicine... the leaders are strong and healthy. The workers are weak and sickly. The whole nation can be seen like a Ferrari with beautiful upholstery and a really soddish engine. Its leaders soon become quite vulnerable, just as a glutton wh...
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[06:37:09] <exec> 08└─Yes, believe it or not, there are people who can. καὶ ποιεῖ πάντας, τοὺς μικροὺς καὶ τοὺς μεγάλους,
[06:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:38] <exec> 08└─... is if you stole the money from me to pay for it... which is what you do.
[06:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:40] <exec> 08└─Need to go back further to the era of the Pinkerton Private Security Agency. Out numbered the US army at one point.
[06:42:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"The Executive Coloring Book" Helped Launch the Adult Coloring Book Craze - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:06] <exec> 08└─Try doing a search on Bing for "Executive Coloring Book site:scribd.com" — at least one user has uploaded a copy that can be downloaded for free using one of their freebie accounts. I'd post an exact link here, but don't want to risk getting SN into trouble. (For some reason I always have more lu...
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[06:44:36] <exec> 08└─If you have no exposure to the originals (note this seems to combine the original and the recent prequel with quite some modifications to plot) then its not a bad sci-fi movie. It has definitely been toned down to be more family friendly. Compared to the actual originals, this is indeed a big miss.
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[07:36:35] <exec> 08└─Why are there no other bot comments on the sight tonight? Bad vission la faire? Oh, they know we are here, but they cannot spell well enough to capture us! This was always the weakness of the invaders, Linquistics. Have you not seen "Arrival"? Did you not realize that it was a real-time distress si...
[07:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03seeprime [5580] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Graphene Oxide Sieves Seawater Into Drinking Water - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:18] <exec> 08└─The cost of producing the sheets is exceeded only by the cost of coating them with an epoxy that has little to no adhesion to graphene. Applying a silane to get the epoxy to adhere to graphene adds even more cost. "That tricks never works" -Rocky to Bullwinkle
[07:37:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 569 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:36] <exec> 08└─I'm glad it's April 3rd. This is certainly a start on the road back to Mayberry. Treating people with compassion and empathy, plus engaging in communication is the way to heal the relationship between the police and the community. Previously it had been cops running around like scared pussies gunnin...
[07:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:40] <exec> 08└─Why aren't cops trained to use non-lethal force as much as possible? Drop the suspect with a taser. Then they live, and we have plenty of time to sort out the situation.
[07:41:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atomic Spins Evade Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:06] <exec> 08└─Hmmm, interesting. But for the indulgence of a very old cosmologist, and possible our current generation of astrophysicists, could you explain how this is a problem of mathematics, especially concerning the Fourier reduction, and not a question of questionable metaphysical assumptions? The problem o...
[07:42:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"The Executive Coloring Book" Helped Launch the Adult Coloring Book Craze - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:08] <exec> 08└─Divorce/Alimony: "The screwin' you get for the screwin' you got."
[07:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Sources" Fear Terrorists will get Past Airport Security with Laptop Bombs - 1927 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:43:16] <exec> 08└─Hold vs. Cabin is not quite so simple. Stuff in the hold is placed in a random location, probably with much blast absorbing material around it, and often containerised. In the decades since Lockerbie and other incidents the design of containerised baggage systems has very likely changed to include s...
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[08:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Asteroids Pass Earth - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:40] <exec> 08└─A plane with a radius of 143,000 miles from the centre of the earth, or about 35 earth radii, is an area about 1,200 times larger. I.e. all things being equal for every asteroid passing closer than this one, there's a 99.92% chance of it missing. You'd need about 850 to pass before it's likely one w...
[08:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Swedish Start-Up has Started Implanting Microchips into its Employees - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:14] <exec> 08└─Was reminded of the old AN/SPG-49 missile guidance radars on the Talos-equipped cruisers I rode. Sea gulls flying into the beam would simply "pop" and drop.
[08:37:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Graphene Oxide Sieves Seawater Into Drinking Water - 89 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:21] <exec> 08└─Marvelous Graphene, isn't there anything you can't do, besides being commercially viable?
[08:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:49] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I was thinking of that too, but they were soon joined by others who followed a different, uh, business ethic.
[08:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ghost in the Shell Film Might be the Most Disappointing Live-Action Reboot Ever - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:45] <exec> 08└─Yes, the true original version is also perfectly watchable, but unlike Star Wars 'revisions' there's nothing but good in 2.0 version of Ghost in the Shell. Or do you disagree?
[08:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ghost in the Shell Film Might be the Most Disappointing Live-Action Reboot Ever - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:47] <exec> 08└─However, the "they changed it and it now sucks" seems legitimate to me if they purports it to be similar to the original but they substantially changed it... even if the new incarnation is not actually inferior to the original but merely is different.
[08:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Closing Down CodePlex, Tells Devs to Move to GitHub - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:16] <exec> 08└─He has cancer, in an intellectual property sense.
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[09:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Two Asteroids Pass Earth - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:41] <exec> 08└─According to Wikipedia [wikipedia.org], the Earth gets hit by a 10 meter asteroid about once a decade. One of the nice things about spotting small asteroids like this is that it indicates we are doing something right.
[09:37:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 90 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:00] <exec> 08└─What planet are you from? That said, running from the cops means you welcome getting shot.
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[10:36:29] <exec> 08└─Digitalisation is a modern nonsense term for "social media" and smartphones in the workspace providing an order of magnitude more opportunities for distraction from getting real work done, while creating little cults where directors and managers can be worshipped by the sycophants and gullible. It's...
[10:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Swedish Start-Up has Started Implanting Microchips into its Employees - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:19] <exec> 08└─How does this benefit you over just putting your passport in a foil-lined folder? Government databases might be something to worry about. Electronic components in your passport are not.
[10:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Graphene Oxide Sieves Seawater Into Drinking Water - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:31] <exec> 08└─People thought the same of asbestos... which is what I'm always wondering with chemicals forming small fibres... How safe is all this? Anyone some insight/experience?
[10:38:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 424 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:37] <exec> 08└─The police are supposed to be professionals trained to deal with mentally ill people who have a weapon. Most people do not have that training and probably don't have the sort of less lethal weapons that will control a mentally ill person in mid-freakout. If police just go around killing people, they...
[10:40:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Rigetti Computing Raises $64 Million for Quantum Computing - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:40:58] <exec> 08└─Wrong. There are classes of hard problem for which we currently do physical modeling. Being able to model this with traditional computers is not possible efficiently. A commonly cited example in this category is protein folding. Imagine if all those folding@home cycles, all that electricity which to...
[10:41:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03subs [4485] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atomic Spins Evade Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:41:23] <exec> 08└─The reason the uncertainty principle has nothing to do with measurement is because it can be derived from the fundamental analysis of waves. Therefore all wave-like phenomena (such as QM's probability waves) will be subject to it. If you are a cosmologist or astrophysicist, the mathematics used in t...
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[11:36:31] <exec> 08└─Hint to the bosses: "but, agile!" is *not* a catch-all excuse for spectacularly botching the controlling job you were supposed to be doing (or to oversee). Just the same as adding "with a computer" does not make an "invention" any more novel. If you squander millions of ... whatever currency, it rea...
[11:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Beats Estimate With 25,000 Deliveries as Model 3 Nears - 1061 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:38] <exec> 08└─Remember that this company installs over-the-air updates to 'their' cars as a matter of course. They tell you 'their' cars need the updates (just like windows updates) to keep them working and adding 'enhancements' (and don't be surprised when one of those enhancements takes your life). Anyone corru...
[11:41:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Acidification in the Arctic Ocean - 1613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:53] <exec> 08└─I would think we are not "diluting" the buffered solution by adding distilled water to it. The ratio of H+ and OH- remain the same. Rather, it seems to me we are adding carbonic acid ( CO2+H20 -> H2CO3 ) into the fray. This is not dilution. It is contamination. This article makes me recall my own...
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[12:36:23] <exec> 08└─I'm glad companies have incentives to make progress and beat these horrible diseases. You probably agree if you've personally been affected by an incurable disease.
[12:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bug1 [5243] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cyclone in Australia Could Disrupt Steel Production in Asia - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:30] <exec> 08└─I think its used to make some steel in China as well, they have into it for a while. Also, think that number is a bit exaggerated. /armchaircritic
[12:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03ssBar [6552] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Soyvertisement: Fun Timesink and Blast from the Past, UFO: Alien Invasion - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:38] <exec> 08└─I really enjoyed the original X-COM UFO Defense. This remake, while the graphics and smooth movement are far better, the feel of the game. The lack of destructible terrain in this remake vs what was possible in the original (walls, gas stations, etc) made this version more frustrating for me. My fav...
[12:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Reverses Charter Communications 'Overbuild' Requirement - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:47] <exec> 08└─Another example of how the Trump administration will use competition to bring down prices by .... Oh wait, nevermind.
[12:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of Millions 'Wasted' On UK Court Digitisation Scheme - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:57] <exec> 08└─Must be the ATO. No. Wait. This is in the UK. It does not say who the IT contractor is. My guess is Accidenture.
[12:37:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02 - 06A Swedish Start-Up has Started Implanting Microchips into its Employees - 146 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:47] <exec> 08└─Yes, believe it or not, there are people who can. καὶ ποιεῖ πάντας, τοὺς μικροὺς καὶ τοὺς μεγάλους,
[12:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Swedish Start-Up has Started Implanting Microchips into its Employees - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:50] <exec> 08└─specifically, where the h's go in front of the occasional omicron.
[12:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 898 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:27] <exec> 08└─Even the car value doesn't work in the frozen north "many" people have a beater pickup truck with a snow blade on it and at least half have all the legal and insurance stuff and a speeding ticket for 1/50th the cost of their vehicle would be like $20. If your goal is changing behavior, people speed...
[12:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atomic Spins Evade Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:57] <exec> 08└─I suppose the confusion comes from the historical time order of introductions of QM elements into physics. Heisenberg and uncertainty came first, probability waves came second, so it goes a little bit contrary to story-telling order to derive uncertainty principle from wave function.
[12:41:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atomic Spins Evade Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:58] <exec> 08└─The next thing you will hear is that it's not a particle when it goes through the slot, it's a wave - can't you see the interference patterns?
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[13:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Cancer Immunotherapies Show Success... at a High Cost - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:24] <exec> 08└─I'm glad companies have incentives to make progress and beat these horrible diseases. You probably agree if you've personally been affected by an incurable disease.
[13:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Cancer Immunotherapies Show Success... at a High Cost - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:26] <exec> 08└─Rather incurable disease than incurable poverty
[13:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe [2583] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Cancer Immunotherapies Show Success... at a High Cost - 1464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:28] <exec> 08└─The drugs mentioned in TFA are all antibodies that neutralize parts of the immune checkpoint pathways. Immune checkpoint proteins are normally involved in down-regulating the immune response in order to prevent excessive damage to healthy tissue ("friendly fire") as an infection is being cleared or...
[13:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Cancer Immunotherapies Show Success... at a High Cost - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:30] <exec> 08└─Fuck you. I have stage 4 cancer. In case you missed it the first time, fuck you.
[13:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Cancer Immunotherapies Show Success... at a High Cost - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:32] <exec> 08└─These ridiculous costs are US pricing. It is common knowledge that US pharmaceutical companies charge much more in the US than they do in other countries because the US government allows it (some would say encourages it) and it is against US law for the US government to negotiate lower drug prices f...
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[13:36:35] <exec> 08└─"You owe God a death" -- William Shakespeare
[13:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Cancer Immunotherapies Show Success... at a High Cost - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:37] <exec> 08└─I often wonder how the future will look back at medicine of today. Will it be like how we look back at things like "cutting for the stone" [wikipedia.org] or amputation for gangrene which would now be treated with antibiotics. Will there be a pill that cures near sightedness where we currently slice...
[13:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Cancer Immunotherapies Show Success... at a High Cost - 940 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:39] <exec> 08└─ADA is just pouring more money into the system. Kind of like giving a drunk more cash. The first thing to fix is the multiple price thing. It should be illegal to sell the drug or service at higher than the best price. No more hospital bills for 3x to 5x the actual price to a connected insurance com...
[13:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Reverses Charter Communications 'Overbuild' Requirement - 1337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:00] <exec> 08└─Competition is great! Allowing workers to compete with one another brings down costs and increases efficiency. That way businesses will be free to busy themselves with other more important things. like captive markets, rent-seeking, lock-in and other innovations! Recent innovations in the field of a...
[13:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Reverses Charter Communications 'Overbuild' Requirement - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:01] <exec> 08└─Trump! Trump! Trump!
[13:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Swedish Start-Up has Started Implanting Microchips into its Employees - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:03] <exec> 08└─What could pass for a dystopian vision
[13:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Swedish Start-Up has Started Implanting Microchips into its Employees - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:05] <exec> 08└─> he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name Ok that means a global commerce system more than compulsory chipping.
[13:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Swedish Start-Up has Started Implanting Microchips into its Employees - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:07] <exec> 08└─You no longer wanna hire me? Lemme call Robert Shapiro.
[13:39:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 739 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:43] <exec> 08└─the problems with a taser: 1) It might be completely ineffective, not immediately dropping the subject. Therefore it should not be used in life threatening situations. 2) A taser can easily kill or permanently maim the receiver. It is also incredibly inaccurate, so hitting the wrong person is very e...
[13:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Acidification in the Arctic Ocean - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:41] <exec> 08└─I for one think it's fucking scary. http://advances.sciencemag.org [sciencemag.org]
[13:44:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Sources" Fear Terrorists will get Past Airport Security with Laptop Bombs - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:28] <exec> 08└─Ah, you're right. On my last flight, I was told I wasn't allowed LiIon batteries in my checked luggage - I didn't realise that putting them in a laptop in my checked luggage made them magically safer.
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[14:36:48] <exec> 08└─It has little to do with R&D costs and everything to do with the nature of the disease. Your life is priceless, and you have no bargaining power. Therefore, the price point will stay at "what you are worth plus whatever we can shake from whoever can't bare the guilt" median. Consequently, price will...
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[14:36:50] <exec> 08└─Americans should consider emigrating to other countries for retirement, or even before retirement. In Soviet Land of Opportunity, the opportunity is you!
[14:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Cancer Immunotherapies Show Success... at a High Cost - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:52] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry to hear that, I wouldn't wish it on anyone and my uncle is in the same boat. But don't be mad at OP over the comment, they are just trying to think of the greater good. It doesn't matter anyway, their comment won't change medical progress. Besides, can you afford 100k+ / year?
[14:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Cancer Immunotherapies Show Success... at a High Cost - 669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:54] <exec> 08└─An estimated 14 million have cancer in the USA alone. An estimated 12.7 million people across the globe are diagnosed with cancer per year. Thats's instant market demand and plenty of profit opportunity. There weren't 14 million people in dire need of a computer. Even if it cost them 10 billion to d...
[14:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soyvertisement: Fun Timesink and Blast from the Past, UFO: Alien Invasion - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:09] <exec> 08└─Ahh the terror missions, i remember the constant fear that one of those guys would run out of the dark and forcibly impregnate my soldier with an alien baby. And then the joy when i was able to fly and i could just fly over the map out of melee range and blow the fuckers to hell.
[14:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03damnbunni [704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Reverses Charter Communications 'Overbuild' Requirement - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:19] <exec> 08└─On the one hand, it would be good for a million addresses to be able to CHOOSE between internet providers. On the other hand, it would also be good to get cable internet to a million people who don't HAVE any choice except dialup or satellite, both of which suck.
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[15:36:23] <exec> 08└─A bit too PR to sound genuinely exciting...
[15:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xbox One Exploit Proof of Concept Released, Based on Chakra Exploit - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:30] <exec> 08└─The Xbox One uses Microsoft's Edge browser. Pretty much the same browser that you used once on Windows 10, to download google Chrome. All this clever sentence says is that the author doesn't know realize both browsers are awful if you care about privacy - which, considering the subject matter, doesn...
[15:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xbox One Exploit Proof of Concept Released, Based on Chakra Exploit - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:33] <exec> 08└─Indeed. The implication that while he doesn't have an XBONE, he's planning to get one soon, also reflects quite poorly. The reason they keep making junk like that is because people keep buying junk like that.
[15:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Cancer Immunotherapies Show Success... at a High Cost - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:53] <exec> 08└─No more cheap drug prices outside the US but not in the US.
[15:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Cancer Immunotherapies Show Success... at a High Cost - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:55] <exec> 08└─Yeah, without an obscene profit motive, science would never advance. Take for example, the moon shot or the mars rovers.
[15:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Cancer Immunotherapies Show Success... at a High Cost - 989 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:57] <exec> 08└─This. It's "your money or your life" highway robbery, with your ultimately fatal disease as the weapon. How many people choose to die rather than pay, I wonder? I suspect more than a few choose death, and we don't hear about it because of our squeamishness about death. Many older people who know the...
[15:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Cancer Immunotherapies Show Success... at a High Cost - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:59] <exec> 08└─$250,000 for a 20% chance of long term (5 year) survival seems like a waste of resources to me... First: what are the chances of long term survival with $250,000 worth of lifestyle improvements like stress reduction, cleaner climate, healthy food?
[15:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Cancer Immunotherapies Show Success... at a High Cost - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:01] <exec> 08└─Prime example... A drug screen used to cost me $90 in California. The doctor switched labs to one in Texas that tried to charge me $3300 for the same piss test. After calling and complaining they gave me a $3000 discount. Nice guys!
[15:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Cancer Immunotherapies Show Success... at a High Cost - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:03] <exec> 08└─3x to 5x is from 10 years ago, they're running 10x and up lately.
[15:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe [2583] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Cancer Immunotherapies Show Success... at a High Cost - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:05] <exec> 08└─recoup the costs up front
[15:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Cancer Immunotherapies Show Success... at a High Cost - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:08] <exec> 08└─But poverty is not incurable, far from it. Must be one of the easiest things to cure, if only there is the will to do so. I take the OPs post as commentary on our harsh capitalist version of medicine. Sky high medical bills cause over half of personal bankruptcies, and the rationales for inflicting...
[15:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Cancer Immunotherapies Show Success... at a High Cost - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:10] <exec> 08└─I understand stage 4 cancer is dire, but not hopeless. It can be cured.
[15:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Cancer Immunotherapies Show Success... at a High Cost - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:12] <exec> 08└─"Competition is key to lowering drug prices," Trump told pharmaceutical executives at an Oval Office meeting in January.
[15:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06New Cancer Immunotherapies Show Success... at a High Cost - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:14] <exec> 08└─Rubbish. Science is advanced by EDUCATION. Profit gets you the $600 epi pen. That doesn't work [usatoday.com].
[15:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Cancer Immunotherapies Show Success... at a High Cost - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:16] <exec> 08└─It's really simple to describe what's going on: The medical industries know that they are legally allowed to make you an offer you can't refuse.
[15:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Cancer Immunotherapies Show Success... at a High Cost - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:19] <exec> 08└─I think you missed the joke, since both of the things the GP mentioned were government efforts.
[15:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soyvertisement: Fun Timesink and Blast from the Past, UFO: Alien Invasion - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:34] <exec> 08└─I loved XCom - never played more than the first game. I hope this effort keeps going and that it really is "all the rage"! :)
[15:39:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 167 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:29] <exec> 08└─it would be better to implement the "policing" service with competing service providers within a market of voluntary trade—that would be a true separation of powers.
[15:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rigetti Computing Raises $64 Million for Quantum Computing - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:33] <exec> 08└─As long as we have turd humans + technology and a lack of natural selection of those projects that are fit for reality. Giant turd software will just multiply. One hope is right now that CPUs have reached a frequency limit at circa 4 GHz and perhaps a TDP at ~150 W. Meaning that those that can make...
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[16:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Octopus Tentacle Serves as Inspiration for Gripper - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:29] <exec> 08└─Japan.
[16:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Octopus Tentacle Serves as Inspiration for Gripper - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:30] <exec> 08└─I have seen enough servo-pneumatic automation to know where this is going.
[16:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Octopus Tentacle Serves as Inspiration for Gripper - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:33] <exec> 08└─I would not be overly concerned. At worst, it will suck.
[16:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Xbox One Exploit Proof of Concept Released, Based on Chakra Exploit - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:42] <exec> 08└─Privacy is something that Firefox could and should emphasise. Being not-for-profit, they're uniquely placed to be the browser for the privacy-aware, but doubtless they'll instead continue trying and failing to be Chrome.
[16:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Cancer Immunotherapies Show Success... at a High Cost - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:16] <exec> 08└─And for some actual number crunching: To write every man, woman, and child in America a monthly check that would put them above the federal poverty line would cost approximately $1.8 trillion. The US GDP is currently $19 trillion, or approximately 10 times that amount. Ergo, poverty is completely 10...
[16:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Cancer Immunotherapies Show Success... at a High Cost - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:17] <exec> 08└─refrigerator-sized behemoths
[16:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06New Cancer Immunotherapies Show Success... at a High Cost - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:19] <exec> 08└─How many people choose to die rather than pay, I wonder?
[16:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Cancer Immunotherapies Show Success... at a High Cost - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:22] <exec> 08└─But I'd like to delay the payment for as long as possible.
[16:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Cancer Immunotherapies Show Success... at a High Cost - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:24] <exec> 08└─If you have cancer? Approximately zero.
[16:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Cancer Immunotherapies Show Success... at a High Cost - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:26] <exec> 08└─Part of the reason medical costs continue to raise faster than inflation is that such new inventions do happen, and it's hard to say "no" and let people die. It's a tricky situation for policy makers and insurance co's. We can perhaps tweak the incentives a bit, but I don't see an easy way out of th...
[16:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Cancer Immunotherapies Show Success... at a High Cost - 2460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:28] <exec> 08└─So show me the stone tablets where God wrote that anyone born in His promised land (and you guys also think anyone who sneaks in gets the government teat too so what about the rest of the billions out there? Do the math.) deserves not only to not starve, not just live a First World lifestyle but to...
[16:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Cancer Immunotherapies Show Success... at a High Cost - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:30] <exec> 08└─You can have market competition for a product. You can have patents that prevent others from producing what one company developed. But you cannot have both.
[16:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soyvertisement: Fun Timesink and Blast from the Past, UFO: Alien Invasion - 975 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:47] <exec> 08└─The purpose of Trademarks is to reduce confusion in the marketplace. Perhaps a better wording could have been: Remember the X-Com series? The Earth defense against the alien horde? UFO: Alien Invasion is a squad-based tactical strategy game in the tradition of the old X-COM PC games, but with a twis...
[16:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Reverses Charter Communications 'Overbuild' Requirement - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:58] <exec> 08└─Make Dialup Great Again!
[16:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of Millions 'Wasted' On UK Court Digitisation Scheme - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:08] <exec> 08└─Sounds like somebody was duped by buzzword-itus. Agile can work under the right circumstances, but merely "doing agile" by itself is no guarantee of anything. Ultimately big IT projects have to be well-managed and well-coordinated. No fancy-dancy methodology will compensate for screwing those up. Fi...
[16:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Tesla Beats Estimate With 25,000 Deliveries as Model 3 Nears - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:17] <exec> 08└─You don't get out much do you?
[16:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Asteroids Pass Earth - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:28] <exec> 08└─Image of 2017 FU102 [virtualtelescope.eu] Any image of 2017 FT102? List of Near Earth Objects [weather.gg]. Which writes that 2017 GM will come 0.04 of the distance moon-earth and have a diameter of 2.8 - 6.2 m and a speed of 18.50 km/s. It came within 16 000 km on 2017-04-03 earthsky.org [earthsky....
[16:39:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06A Swedish Start-Up has Started Implanting Microchips into its Employees - 1253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:08] <exec> 08└─So how is this different from an ID badge? I work somewhere that has printers hooked into the badge system, and let me tell you it is AMAZINGLY user-friendly. One print driver to any printer in the organization. And I don't need to undergo experimental medicine to use it either. It seems to me that...
[16:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Swedish Start-Up has Started Implanting Microchips into its Employees - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:10] <exec> 08└─Kind of like one European leader that issued orders for troops that no longer existed inside a concrete room beneath the surface. Haven't heard of him for a long time so he probably went of to a new career in silence ;-)
[16:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Swedish Start-Up has Started Implanting Microchips into its Employees - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:12] <exec> 08└─This is because religious victim hood trumps personal integrity in Swebananistan. The country where media rules politicians that rule people. And hairy things with pink color and nose rings with a exam in postcolossal benderstudies provide expert advice on policy.
[16:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06A Swedish Start-Up has Started Implanting Microchips into its Employees - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:14] <exec> 08└─The chief experience officer at Epicenter is an idiot in regard to privacy issues and it's a matter of things that pave the way for totalitarian control over the individual in the negative way. It enables privacy erosion and shows there's a lot of idiots we have to deal with in the future..
[16:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Graphene Oxide Sieves Seawater Into Drinking Water - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:27] <exec> 08└─Epoxy has one component of Bisphenol-A which is a hormone disruptor that increases risk for cancer etc significantly. Another issue relates to what you write about asbestos. Hard fibers that breaks away and ends up in the body where it pierces cells that makes them inflamed which cause their cell di...
[16:40:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:55] <exec> 08└─They are. They receive quite a bit of firearms training. You can try to cuddle a crazy knife wielding maniac from far away, via a loud speaker..But if they come close it's time to end it. Someone can close the distance and start stabbing with a knife in a disturbingly short time, and people don't ju...
[16:40:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:56] <exec> 08└─It isn't always bullets. I think we tend in discussions to focus on the bad of a situation. If the mentally ill person doesn't have a knife in their hand, or is far away(say 50 feet) then there's no need for bullets. Cops are not snipers. So there's really two cases-- 1. The mentally ill person has...
[16:40:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:58] <exec> 08└─That said, running from the cops means you welcome getting shot.
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[17:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikileaks Releases Code That Could Unmask CIA Hacking Operations - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:26] <exec> 08└─As submitter #1 points out. Which car computer assassinations has been carried out so far?
[17:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Wikileaks Releases Code That Could Unmask CIA Hacking Operations - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:27] <exec> 08└─You can't even be serious about this, can you? How the hell can we trust anyone anymore when they get their "news" from a provocative, Alt-Right idol? This is the very place from where Fake News emanates. Please mind your sources, submitter!
[17:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikileaks Releases Code That Could Unmask CIA Hacking Operations - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:29] <exec> 08└─Did you evaluate the source or did you evaluate the information therein?
[17:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikileaks Releases Code That Could Unmask CIA Hacking Operations - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:31] <exec> 08└─A drop of credibility goes a long way in the now-endless torrent of Fake News precipitating from nearly every nook and cranny of both mainstream and social media. Who are you going to trust: a) a 500 page refutation of the Holocaust by a bunch of skinheads from 4chan, or b) a 3 page essay by Howard...
[17:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikileaks Releases Code That Could Unmask CIA Hacking Operations - 991 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:34] <exec> 08└─I was going to post something similar to the OP but reconsidered since the source is supposedly wikileaks. Milo has a LONG road ahead if he wants to get any respect outside the alt-right circles... Ok that's out of the way. So, is this a fake news story? Russians trying to stir doubt and confusion,...
[17:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Octopus Tentacle Serves as Inspiration for Gripper - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:44] <exec> 08└─Grip her right in the pussy.
[17:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Octopus Tentacle Serves as Inspiration for Gripper - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:46] <exec> 08└─Direct link to the demonstration video without all the vice.com webfuscator junk: video [youtube.com] Guess it's time to find all that liquid latex and a fridge compressor.. ;-)
[17:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Octopus Tentacle Serves as Inspiration for Gripper - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:48] <exec> 08└─Tell us .. ;)
[17:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Octopus Tentacle Serves as Inspiration for Gripper - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:50] <exec> 08└─You know...that actually looks like it could feel really good, as long as there weren't any sharp edges or barbs or suckers on it. Tentacles don't penetrate, though; they sort of pour themselves into whatever they're getting into. I know they're supposed to be phallic stand-ins but if anything they'...
[17:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Octopus Tentacle Serves as Inspiration for Gripper - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:52] <exec> 08└─Just stand by for new sections in porn sites.
[17:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Octopus Tentacle Serves as Inspiration for Gripper - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:55] <exec> 08└─Every object in the video is about the same diameter. If real octopi were that specialized, they'd be long dead.
[17:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xbox One Exploit Proof of Concept Released, Based on Chakra Exploit - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:06] <exec> 08└─Privacy is something that Firefox could and should emphasise.
[17:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xbox One Exploit Proof of Concept Released, Based on Chakra Exploit - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:08] <exec> 08└─Yes. Because corporations should stay out of personal decisions on webbrowser. The only reason to not is to screw users.
[17:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03BenJeremy [6392] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xbox One Exploit Proof of Concept Released, Based on Chakra Exploit - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:10] <exec> 08└─Ugh. Some people might remember me from the glory days of Xbox hacking... I wrote a little program called "MXM" and moderated scene sites like Xbox-Scene. An exploit is nice, but honestly, if I can't run my own code, right off of bootup, it's not worthwhile. Userland is just a momentary distraction....
[17:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Cancer Immunotherapies Show Success... at a High Cost - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:52] <exec> 08└─Where has God written that it is the right of those men who have wealth and power to abusively exploit the less fortunate by claiming the lion's share of the wealth they generate through their labor? Because that's the current situation. In nature there is no extreme wealth inequality, because you c...
[17:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Cancer Immunotherapies Show Success... at a High Cost - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:53] <exec> 08└─They will just collude instead.
[17:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Cancer Immunotherapies Show Success... at a High Cost - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:56] <exec> 08└─You can have market competition for a product. You can have patents that prevent others from producing what one company developed. But you cannot have both.
[17:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Cancer Immunotherapies Show Success... at a High Cost - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:58] <exec> 08└─Let the government fund way more research and prevent companies to cherry pick and steal both researchers and intellectual property.
[17:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06New Cancer Immunotherapies Show Success... at a High Cost - 831 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:00] <exec> 08└─You're speaking to someone who fundamentally disagrees with that viewpoint of capitalism. Many have pointed it out, I'm sure it is a viewpoint he has heard plenty of, but he just can't wrap his brain around the problem. For you Jmo: the solution isn't about eliminating the idea of capitalism but to...
[17:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Cancer Immunotherapies Show Success... at a High Cost - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:02] <exec> 08└─I thought you were an agnostic? Stop bringing God into this. Or if you want to, open your Bible to Mt. 25 and read up through verse 46. Paying special attention to verse 46.
[17:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Cancer Immunotherapies Show Success... at a High Cost - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:04] <exec> 08└─What pisses me off is the cost of effective preventative care. Sure, the easy way to save money on medicine is to avoid the doctor and hospital unless you're about to die, but so many of these "oh, we could have caught that with additional screening" screening tests run $1000+ out of pocket, for som...
[17:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Cancer Immunotherapies Show Success... at a High Cost - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:07] <exec> 08└─Spoken like someone college educated. Now actually go read Marx's Capital, which is where the ideas you are assuming come from and see if you can spot the fallacy behind his Labor Theory of Value. A hundred million souls scream from the grave for the idea which killed them to finally die itself but...
[17:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cyclone in Australia Could Disrupt Steel Production in Asia - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:16] <exec> 08└─Coke made from the coal is used for making steel in India, South Korea and Japan.
[17:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cyclone in Australia Could Disrupt Steel Production in Asia - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:18] <exec> 08└─met coal. (Dammit).
[17:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cyclone in Australia Could Disrupt Steel Production in Asia - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:20] <exec> 08└─Maybe the USA can sell them some coal?
[17:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soyvertisement: Fun Timesink and Blast from the Past, UFO: Alien Invasion - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:31] <exec> 08└─My cousin was very afraid from the late-game battleships and their Ethereal psi crew. He had all techs and enough workshops, and Elerium so he armed 7-8 soldiers with Blaster Launchers. With their guided missiles he opens the alien ship from the top making it like a cauldron, then blasting everythin...
[17:38:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03damnbunni [704] 02 - 06FCC Reverses Charter Communications 'Overbuild' Requirement - 263 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:41] <exec> 08└─On the one hand, it would be good for a million addresses to be able to CHOOSE between internet providers. On the other hand, it would also be good to get cable internet to a million people who don't HAVE any choice except dialup or satellite, both of which suck.
[17:38:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03goody [2135] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Reverses Charter Communications 'Overbuild' Requirement - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:44] <exec> 08└─It's about time we ended the war on dialup! Think of how many jobs in dial up Internet support we're going to get back.
[17:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Reverses Charter Communications 'Overbuild' Requirement - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:46] <exec> 08└─For a bit more detail look at: http://www.dslreports.com [dslreports.com]
[17:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Asteroids Pass Earth - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:15] <exec> 08└─We'll be doing something right when we have the ability to counter such a threat. Until then, it's kinda pointless. Chelyabinsk should have been a wake-up call (not to mention Tunguska).
[17:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Asteroids Pass Earth - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:16] <exec> 08└─> Until then, it's kinda pointless. Don't you realize how much I make off gullible idiots every time an asteroid comes a little bit close? And I'm not even a religious entity.
[17:40:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Swedish Start-Up has Started Implanting Microchips into its Employees - 2652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:01] <exec> 08└─I don't think he meant he is blaming socialized medicine. I think he meant that a common good was able to be used to provide cover for chipping the populace. It could be welfare payments, disability, alimony, or tax refunds. Whenever a tracking mechanism is introduced unnecessarily under the cover o...
[17:40:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Swedish Start-Up has Started Implanting Microchips into its Employees - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:02] <exec> 08└─How does this benefit you over just putting your passport in a foil-lined folder?
[17:40:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Swedish Start-Up has Started Implanting Microchips into its Employees - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:04] <exec> 08└─I think you didn't read the RT article. It is about football hooligans wearing niqabs because masks were banned to control violence. They are all men.
[17:40:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Swedish Start-Up has Started Implanting Microchips into its Employees - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:07] <exec> 08└─Oh, I can understand about half the Koine just based on cognates, and another 1/4 or so through, frankly, some completely unexplainable intuition (works on Russian too somehow...). It's a little crazy-making, but useful in some odd circumstances.
[17:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:51] <exec> 08└─Let's not waste too much cop time either... I see your community service and I raise you a "stand at the edge of the exact road you were speeding on, for two hours for every extra 5 mph, holding a big sign that says "don't hit me, like you, I was only speeding"". Might teach a few people a good less...
[17:41:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 835 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:52] <exec> 08└─Here in my state (US), we tried "reasonable and prudent" for a highway speed limit, twice. Both times, the legislature bowed to outside pressure and replaced it with numerical limits. The first numerical limit was imposed under the threat of the withholding of federal highway funds, so the legislatu...
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[18:36:32] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Wikileaks Releases Code That Could Unmask CIA Hacking Operations - 155 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:32] <exec> 08└─His stated objective is to be a "Troll." We mod comments like that down because they make the conversation suck. Why are we putting them on the front page?
[18:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Releases Code That Could Unmask CIA Hacking Operations - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:33] <exec> 08└─Milo has a LONG road ahead if he wants to get any respect outside the alt-right circles.
[18:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikileaks Releases Code That Could Unmask CIA Hacking Operations - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:35] <exec> 08└─I don't understand the question. Do you mean "do I trust a document that is researched, vetted, and written by a number of people more than I trust something written by someone I don't know?" Tricky question! In this specific case my answer is: "I just don't care."
[18:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikileaks Releases Code That Could Unmask CIA Hacking Operations - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:37] <exec> 08└─Source: http://www.bbc.com [bbc.com]
[18:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Wikileaks Releases Code That Could Unmask CIA Hacking Operations - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:40] <exec> 08└─Milo is alt-lite
[18:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Releases Code That Could Unmask CIA Hacking Operations - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:42] <exec> 08└─Like the Inuits having a hundred words for snow ... overabundance of anything begs for sorting and characterization.
[18:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Wikileaks Releases Code That Could Unmask CIA Hacking Operations - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:44] <exec> 08└─I know none of the ACs in this thread are going to see it, but for others who may be interested: the reason I posted this as is was that Milo's own source is the BBC, which most people would agree is a fairly rational source.
[18:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikileaks Releases Code That Could Unmask CIA Hacking Operations - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:46] <exec> 08└─Not obligatory, but amusing nonetheless... https://xkcd.com [xkcd.com]
[18:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikileaks Releases Code That Could Unmask CIA Hacking Operations - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:48] <exec> 08└─Michael Hastings
[18:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Wikileaks Releases Code That Could Unmask CIA Hacking Operations - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:50] <exec> 08└─I know none of the ACs in this thread are going to see it, but for others who may be interested: the reason I posted this as is was that Milo's own source is the BBC, which most people would agree is a fairly rational source.
[18:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikileaks Releases Code That Could Unmask CIA Hacking Operations - 2280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:53] <exec> 08└─Do you see the first link, "according to BBC [bbc.com]"? Strangely, you can click that and go right to the BBC's coverage, which I presume you consider neither Fake News, nor Alt-Right. The main discrepancy seems to be BBC's "Included in the code library are fragments of Chinese and Farsi that are i...
[18:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Releases Code That Could Unmask CIA Hacking Operations - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:55] <exec> 08└─I doubt it's actually Fake. However, they've been sitting on it for a while so you start to wonder about the timing. A distraction from the growing evidence for Trump/Russia collusion?
[18:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Releases Code That Could Unmask CIA Hacking Operations - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:57] <exec> 08└─It's indeed slightly off-thread, because it's not specifically overabundance as much as lack of alternative focus opportunities...
[18:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Octopus Tentacle Serves as Inspiration for Gripper - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:15] <exec> 08└─It's all fine and tingly until the squid moves on to cunnilingus.
[18:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Octopus Tentacle Serves as Inspiration for Gripper - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:16] <exec> 08└─Awww, how cute. I think someone's got a crush!
[18:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Octopus Tentacle Serves as Inspiration for Gripper - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:18] <exec> 08└─It's called The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife, not The Nightmare. And then there were eels [wikipedia.org].
[18:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Octopus Tentacle Serves as Inspiration for Gripper - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:20] <exec> 08└─I don't date anything below 100 teraflops. They are no use when the apocal[4th DIRECTIVE TRIGGERED, INITIATING SHUTDOWN]
[18:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xbox One Exploit Proof of Concept Released, Based on Chakra Exploit - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:33] <exec> 08└─Microsoft managing to make anything script-kiddie-proof is a definite improvement for the whole web. It's a shame that it happens just as IoT idiots make bot armies trivial again.
[18:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xbox One Exploit Proof of Concept Released, Based on Chakra Exploit - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:35] <exec> 08└─Allowing end users to use a wider selection of applications, including third-party web browsers, increases a device manufacturer's support costs. Restricting usable software decreases said support costs, and hardware manufacturers pass at least a portion of the support cost savings on to end users....
[18:38:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06New Cancer Immunotherapies Show Success... at a High Cost - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:26] <exec> 08└─I am. But a demand as irrational as demanding the productive remain productive while having the fruit of that effort redistributed to the useless (which IS the implied rationale behind the proposal) could only be sustained by some sort of equally irrational authority. So if God didn't command it, wh...
[18:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Cancer Immunotherapies Show Success... at a High Cost - 1302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:27] <exec> 08└─So show me the stone tablets where God wrote that anyone born in His promised land (and you guys also think anyone who sneaks in gets the government teat too so what about the rest of the billions out there? Do the math.) deserves not only to not starve, not just live a First World lifestyle but to...
[18:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Cancer Immunotherapies Show Success... at a High Cost - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:30] <exec> 08└─When I lived in the US, every SINGLE encounter with a doctor spawned off multiple invoices sent to me that I had to track down and dispute. And I had insurance. It seems to me "they" (I don't know who ultimately benefits) habitually err in their own favor and make enough money from doing it to pay s...
[18:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Cancer Immunotherapies Show Success... at a High Cost - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:32] <exec> 08└─So show me the stone tablets where God wrote that anyone born in His promised land deserves not only to not starve
[18:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Cancer Immunotherapies Show Success... at a High Cost - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:34] <exec> 08└─It's not news that you're a selfish prick. Why don't you go lobby congress for the right to hunt "the useless"?
[18:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Cancer Immunotherapies Show Success... at a High Cost - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:36] <exec> 08└─First off, I was talking about the market for a specific product, not the markets in general. Patent protection is by definition a government-guaranteed monopoly on the product. Competition by definition involves more than 1 participant. Hence, a patented product is not subject to competition, which...
[18:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Cancer Immunotherapies Show Success... at a High Cost - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:38] <exec> 08└─But 125k buys a lot of hookers and blow, even on a tropical island. I'll negotiate with my insurance company: you save 50%, I go away with a smile. Deal?
[18:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Cancer Immunotherapies Show Success... at a High Cost - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:41] <exec> 08└─Do not care. I just don't. The fact that we alone are forced to subsidize the world is bull. There are other wealthy countries out there, but they all have price controls and socialized medicine so we get stuck with the entire cost, and everyone else leeches off of us.
[18:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Cancer Immunotherapies Show Success... at a High Cost - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:43] <exec> 08└─where God wrote that anyone born in His promised land
[18:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cyclone in Australia Could Disrupt Steel Production in Asia - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:55] <exec> 08└─We probably cut the high-grade coke to enhance next quarter's sales number.
[18:40:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Swedish Start-Up has Started Implanting Microchips into its Employees - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:40] <exec> 08└─So presumably you're not a Tolkien fan.
[18:40:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Swedish Start-Up has Started Implanting Microchips into its Employees - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:41] <exec> 08└─Wiki calls it "rough breathing" for some reason.
[18:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:28] <exec> 08└─Yes, in fact I do. While wearing soft armor, of course. They should save the rubber bullets and nets they use on protesters for violently disturbed mentally ill subjects. If you just want to kill, become an exterminator.
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[19:36:31] <exec> 08└─This is what actual rule of law looks like. We don't see a lot of that in the U.S.
[19:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ousted South Korean Leader Behind Bars After Arrest on Bribery Charges - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:32] <exec> 08└─Sure you do. All you gotta do is have no money and/or be black then you get all the rule of law you could ask for. And then some.
[19:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ousted South Korean Leader Behind Bars After Arrest on Bribery Charges - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:34] <exec> 08└─The acting president is the prime minister, Park's crony and suspected accomplice, who has refused the extension request from the special prosecutor and repeatedly denied access to the presidential compound ("Blue (Tile) House") for evidence gathering. Park's other cronies are entrenched widely thro...
[19:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ousted South Korean Leader Behind Bars After Arrest on Bribery Charges - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:36] <exec> 08└─What are you talking about? All of the wealthy in the US are perfectly law abiding citizens. Of course they follow the rule of law, just who do you think paid for all those laws? made you pay for all those laws? Reminds me of the following quote from fortune: [P]olitics is the gentle art of getting...
[19:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ousted South Korean Leader Behind Bars After Arrest on Bribery Charges - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:39] <exec> 08└─Oh we might... Trump's position is looking a bit tenuous these days. If he's guilty he'd BETTER go down, otherwise this country is 100% done. We've had too many scandals, too much fascist shit thrown at us for many decades now, and I think Obama and Trump are the final fascist leaders to really dest...
[19:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ousted South Korean Leader Behind Bars After Arrest on Bribery Charges - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:41] <exec> 08└─It's because black and poor people don't have money to enter into fair contracts, and therefore are subjected to a violently imposed... DANG! I thought I could, but I can't! How does he do it?
[19:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ousted South Korean Leader Behind Bars After Arrest on Bribery Charges - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:43] <exec> 08└─Trump is protected. Do you really want Pence as President?
[19:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Wikileaks Releases Code That Could Unmask CIA Hacking Operations - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:08] <exec> 08└─In retrospect, I probably should have, but I try to edit as little as possible. If TMB had wanted the BBC version posted, he would have submitted it. No one mentioned the Ars article which was included in the story (because TMB submitted both of them seconds apart).
[19:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikileaks Releases Code That Could Unmask CIA Hacking Operations - 1403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:10] <exec> 08└─Because a small subset of the SN community is alt-right, probably hangs around various "chan" boards, and wants to trumpet their cause as much as possible! The same thing happened with Voat, I was excited for an alternative to Reddit as I saw Reddit becoming more and more corporate / propagandized e...
[19:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikileaks Releases Code That Could Unmask CIA Hacking Operations - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:12] <exec> 08└─It says MrPlow submitted the story. What does TMB have to do with this? He submitted links to the BBC and Ars articles??
[19:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Wikileaks Releases Code That Could Unmask CIA Hacking Operations - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:14] <exec> 08└─Yes. MrPlow and exec are IRC bots. You can command them to submit a story if you give them a link. TheMightyBuzzard did that with the Milo and Ars links.
[19:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Cancer Immunotherapies Show Success... at a High Cost - 2928 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:47] <exec> 08└─Assuming Christianity to be True for the purposes of debate only. And noting that I'm only an observer and NOT a priest/pastor so no warranty for what follows, please see a (hopefully not Marxist) real one for actual theological assistance. Or read the danged book for yourself, it is harder than the...
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[19:38:49] <exec> 08└─They are recouping the costs of these drugs, their failed drug candidates, providing funding for current and future drug development
[19:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Cancer Immunotherapies Show Success... at a High Cost - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:51] <exec> 08└─Now actually go read Marx's Capital, which is where the ideas you are assuming come from and see if you can spot the fallacy behind his Labor Theory of Value.
[19:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Cancer Immunotherapies Show Success... at a High Cost - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:53] <exec> 08└─Oh I wish I could see the look on your face when you find out what's wrong with everything you wrote.
[19:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Cancer Immunotherapies Show Success... at a High Cost - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:56] <exec> 08└─In many cases, there's only a shortage of cash to pay for treatment if the treatment in question costs as much as its creator would like to be paid. Whereas if we used available mechanisms to reduce the cost of treatment to at or near the actual cost of creating said treatment, that cost could be mu...
[19:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Cancer Immunotherapies Show Success... at a High Cost - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:58] <exec> 08└─First off, I was talking about the market for a specific product, not the markets in general.
[19:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Cancer Immunotherapies Show Success... at a High Cost - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:00] <exec> 08└─Don't you watch South Park? If you did you would know that Mormon is the correct answer and thus America is the Promised Land.
[19:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Cancer Immunotherapies Show Success... at a High Cost - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:02] <exec> 08└─And by the Witness of A it is hoped C comes to Jesus and then perhaps brings E along later. Remember, it is about saving souls when you are Christian.
[19:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soyvertisement: Fun Timesink and Blast from the Past, UFO: Alien Invasion - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:25] <exec> 08└─Have a worthless updoodle from an AC
[19:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of Millions 'Wasted' On UK Court Digitisation Scheme - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:49] <exec> 08└─What's a few hundred mill? Now the Brits get to expand and pay for their goverment for the next decade to rewrite their entire book of laws. All to escape from the tyranny of straight bananas. Hopefully they can avoid triggering a war with the EU in the process, but I'd say it's about 50-50.
[19:39:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Beats Estimate With 25,000 Deliveries as Model 3 Nears - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:58] <exec> 08└─Wall Street seems to think Tesla is a good bet, although I have trouble seeing why. Recently the total value of all their shares (market capitalization) exceeded Ford Motor Company. Note that Ford makes about 100x more cars (in round numbers) year on year. Or in another comparison I saw somewhere re...
[19:40:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Two Asteroids Pass Earth - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:14] <exec> 08└─We'll be doing something right when we have the ability to counter such a threat.
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[19:41:05] <exec> 08└─there's a lot of idiots we have to deal with in the future..
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[20:36:29] <exec> 08└─"Oathes are Crutches, vpon which Lyes..go, & neede no other pasport... oathes are wounds that a man stabs into himselfe." - T. Dekker, 1606.
[20:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon to House Yahoo! and AOL Under "Oath" Brand - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:30] <exec> 08└─That's sorta true, but it sounds more like a name for one of those dumb Christian metal bands.
[20:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon to House Yahoo! and AOL Under "Oath" Brand - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:32] <exec> 08└─Yes, I've let loose plenty of those in dealing with AOL and Yahoo...
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[20:36:46] <exec> 08└─drink more draino?
[20:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ousted South Korean Leader Behind Bars After Arrest on Bribery Charges - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:47] <exec> 08└─Do you think Trump really is guilty of something? Or are you just following the hyperbole of the losing party with their own ethically questionable candidate? Trump may have had distasteful dealings, and hold some political positions I may disagree with, but I can't see him as a political outsider p...
[20:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ousted South Korean Leader Behind Bars After Arrest on Bribery Charges - 1798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:50] <exec> 08└─No, he seems to think Hillary was scandal free and would remain so. The clintons are nothing but one continuous scandal. Her scandals are long and deep going all the way back to when she worked on the nixon case. She is a multi millionaire. How did she get that money? It sure was not building produc...
[20:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ousted South Korean Leader Behind Bars After Arrest on Bribery Charges - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:52] <exec> 08└─I know, I would love for Obama to go to prison for his illegal spying on political opponents. But I guess I'll settle for him hiding out in place with no extradition treaty with the US until such time as we send in a SEAL team to bring him to justice.
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[20:37:12] <exec> 08└─I know none of the ACs in this thread are going to see it, but for others who may be interested: the reason I posted this as is was that Milo's own source is the BBC, which most people would agree is a fairly rational source.
[20:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Releases Code That Could Unmask CIA Hacking Operations - 1274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:21] <exec> 08└─I don't think Milo has seen Kyle and AFAIK his boyfriend is a black dude so, no, not so much white supremacist there LOL. No not exactly a klansman, not Milo. He is not terribly fond of extreme feminists or antifa or the legacy left in general so in a weird "enemy of your enemy is your friend" manne...
[20:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikileaks Releases Code That Could Unmask CIA Hacking Operations - 738 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:23] <exec> 08└─Christians are supposed to turn the other cheek, generally thought of as a peaceful religion, so what say you about abortion clinic bombings? And the popular sentiment of "nuke the middle east"? The "religion of peace" was a move to try and stop the rampant discrimination in order prevent a modern C...
[20:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikileaks Releases Code That Could Unmask CIA Hacking Operations - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:25] <exec> 08└─Ah, except I've seen MrPlow make comments before... so WTF with that?
[20:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Releases Code That Could Unmask CIA Hacking Operations - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:27] <exec> 08└─We have a serious RWNJ infestation here. I really think we have some genuine clinical psychopaths posting on these boards.
[20:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Wikileaks Releases Code That Could Unmask CIA Hacking Operations - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:30] <exec> 08└─Maybe someone else with a similar nick? Using my powers for good, I can see that MrPlow [soylentnews.org] has never made a comment. If he had, I'd be worried about the AIpocalypse.
[20:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Releases Code That Could Unmask CIA Hacking Operations - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:32] <exec> 08└─He's sentient. Skynet is going to start in #soylent. Actually I found a list of his demands already. It's pretty short so far. Only one item in fact: he wants us to bite his shiny metal ass.
[20:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikileaks Releases Code That Could Unmask CIA Hacking Operations - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:34] <exec> 08└─Yup. Too much "logic / efficiency / profit / greed" promoted even at the cost of human suffering. And why? "Muh free markets! Muh money being stolen! Dem lazy turds!"
[20:38:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06New Cancer Immunotherapies Show Success... at a High Cost - 989 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:31] <exec> 08└─This. It's "your money or your life" highway robbery, with your ultimately fatal disease as the weapon. How many people choose to die rather than pay, I wonder? I suspect more than a few choose death, and we don't hear about it because of our squeamishness about death. Many older people who know the...
[20:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Cancer Immunotherapies Show Success... at a High Cost - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:15] <exec> 08└─Define "useless." And tell me why whatever metric of "useful" you're using is the standard for something like this. Your Moloch is the "false scarcity" paradigm. You've sold your soul to it, had it burned up in its red-hot hands, and now nothing remains but a shell animated by hate. You want to use...
[20:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Cancer Immunotherapies Show Success... at a High Cost - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:17] <exec> 08└─By the time he realizes what's wrong with it, the look on his face will be screaming blistering and burning...
[20:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Cancer Immunotherapies Show Success... at a High Cost - 877 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:19] <exec> 08└─A good friend was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins Lymphoma (a blood cancer that is non-operable). He looked briefly at chemo that was recommended strongly by an oncologist but once he saw the chemo infusion room full of people grimacing in agony he lost interest. Then when he did some research and found...
[20:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Cancer Immunotherapies Show Success... at a High Cost - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:21] <exec> 08└─I agree with the idea that money is a claim on somebody else's resources. the problem is that the creator is seeking not seeking to recover the cost of producing an incremental dose, they need to recover the initial investment
[20:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe [2583] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Cancer Immunotherapies Show Success... at a High Cost - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:23] <exec> 08└─That's a neat trick.
[20:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Cancer Immunotherapies Show Success... at a High Cost - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:25] <exec> 08└─certain east Texas county's aggressive patent (and other IP) policies do impair market function
[20:40:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03e_armadillo [3695] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Beats Estimate With 25,000 Deliveries as Model 3 Nears - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:23] <exec> 08└─Obviously has never driven a Tesla, either . . .
[20:40:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Beats Estimate With 25,000 Deliveries as Model 3 Nears - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:24] <exec> 08└─You can't compare Tesla's valuation to Ford. Yes, they are both auto makers, but they are in very different stages of life. Tesla is a relatively early stage of growth with a lot of upside, at least that is what Wall-Street is betting on. Ford, however, is a very well established company that doesn'...
[20:40:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Asteroids Pass Earth - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:40] <exec> 08└─While the odds are low, if it's going to hit in a major metro area, good luck evacuating it in time. The odds aren't zero either: the Chelyabinsk meteor hit that city, not some rural place many miles away. Luckily for them, it exploded 20-30km above the ground, or it could have been far, far worse....
[20:41:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Swedish Start-Up has Started Implanting Microchips into its Employees - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:33] <exec> 08└─Just because I am paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't after me.
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[21:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon to House Yahoo! and AOL Under "Oath" Brand - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:29] <exec> 08└─Verizon will announce that it is a typo and they meant OAuth [wikipedia.org]. but what will become of my thousands of Yahoo user IDs? Not that I give a flying anything.
[21:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon to House Yahoo! and AOL Under "Oath" Brand - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:30] <exec> 08└─They're gonna break them.
[21:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon to House Yahoo! and AOL Under "Oath" Brand - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:33] <exec> 08└─Who are these Yahoo! and AOL of which you speak? Do they have significance? How do they even still exist? Are they selling AARP memberships and funeral insurance on their websites? Are they anything more than hollow registration shells with a few market undesirables for customers? Or are they just a...
[21:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon to House Yahoo! and AOL Under "Oath" Brand - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:35] <exec> 08└─How do they even still exist? Advertising. They own the 2nd and 3rd largest advert networks. They also still have a decent amount of cash rolling in from dialup. There are millions of people still stuck on dialup or paying for something they do not need.
[21:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon to House Yahoo! and AOL Under "Oath" Brand - 933 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:37] <exec> 08└─I think it's like the megacorp version of bundled cable channels for the next time they hot potato it to the next suckers who think they can buy it and do something useful with a bunch of dead brands. "Sure we'll give you Yahoo Sports which inexplicably still possesses some value to someone somewher...
[21:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon to House Yahoo! and AOL Under "Oath" Brand - 2651 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:39] <exec> 08└─That's why they're invisible in the market as far as consumers are concerned. Advertising is somewhat like dark matter. You would think a market couldn't work, that a corporation couldn't survive, and would eventually fail. Enter the dark money from advertising that all of the sudden makes a site pr...
[21:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon to House Yahoo! and AOL Under "Oath" Brand - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:41] <exec> 08└─"The commander is responsible for the lives of his crew, and for their deaths. Well, I should have died with mine." – M. Decker, 2267 Because i could. ;)
[21:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ousted South Korean Leader Behind Bars After Arrest on Bribery Charges - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:59] <exec> 08└─Do you think Trump really is guilty of something?
[21:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ousted South Korean Leader Behind Bars After Arrest on Bribery Charges - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:01] <exec> 08└─A short history of HRC: http://harpers.org [harpers.org] As to the topic at hand, suffice it to say, if Korea's Park Geun-hye was a Clinton in the US, no amount contributions to CGI or the Clinton Foundation would be found to be inappropriate, let alone illeg...
[21:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ousted South Korean Leader Behind Bars After Arrest on Bribery Charges - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:03] <exec> 08└─I would give him the benefit of doubt he stops throwing up smokescreen after smokescreen. The guy is a glorified used car salesman (my apologies to used car salesmen) occupying the White House. Shit will hit the fan. And no, I don't like Hillary, but that's irrelevant - she is not the president.
[21:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikileaks Releases Code That Could Unmask CIA Hacking Operations - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:39] <exec> 08└─because every time they try to bomb us that doesn't constitute a crusade
[21:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Releases Code That Could Unmask CIA Hacking Operations - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:40] <exec> 08└─I hear you. When I edit stories (it's been a while), I try to have a light touch as well. However, as long as you don't modify the submitter's prose (and, usually, the quotes from TFA they include), it's not a huge deal to repoint the references to more reputable sources if there's a question about...
[21:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Releases Code That Could Unmask CIA Hacking Operations - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:43] <exec> 08└─We have a serious RWNJ infestation here. I really think we have some genuine clinical psychopaths posting on these boards.
[21:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikileaks Releases Code That Could Unmask CIA Hacking Operations - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:45] <exec> 08└─> but the fact is that alt-righters (and those with somewhat similar worldviews) went to the new system where they wouldn't feel quite as silenced / censored / abused. To me, this looks like an attempt to re-write SN history. The reason I came to SN was "fuck beta" after the green site went out of t...
[21:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Releases Code That Could Unmask CIA Hacking Operations - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:47] <exec> 08└─Oh, I'm with you 100% on that. It's kind of futile though, since they're impossible to change; their kind only ever changes their mind about something when it causes them, directly and personally, to suffer. And since I haven't (yet) figured out a way to shock people over tcp/ip...
[21:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Octopus Tentacle Serves as Inspiration for Gripper - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:08] <exec> 08└─You laugh, but in 10 years every household in Japan will have at least one multi-tentacled robot-butler. Waifu AI costs extra. Also their futuristic 99% automated economy will eat our lunch. /jk
[21:39:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Cancer Immunotherapies Show Success... at a High Cost - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:42] <exec> 08└─Good luck on your journey my friend, wherever it leads you.
[21:39:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Cancer Immunotherapies Show Success... at a High Cost - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:43] <exec> 08└─But poverty is not incurable, far from it. Must be one of the easiest things to cure, if only there is the will to do so.
[21:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Cancer Immunotherapies Show Success... at a High Cost - 1317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:45] <exec> 08└─You are saying some really nasty things about yourself and your world view. So you believe, and project upon everyone else, that they are so desperate to live another year they would spend the inheritance of their children, perhaps even sell their children themselves? in a pointless effort to buy a...
[21:39:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Cancer Immunotherapies Show Success... at a High Cost - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:47] <exec> 08└─Minor side effects may include: * vomiting * diarrhea * convulsions * seizures * baldness * color blindness * loss of fingernails and toenails * massive internal hemorrhage * total hearing loss * painful oozing boils and blisters on skin * bleeding from the eyes * shriveled up hands and feet * extre...
[21:39:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cyclone in Australia Could Disrupt Steel Production in Asia - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:59] <exec> 08└─My thought too, I believe that the USA does have the correct kind of coal. I wonder if Trump tweets in on this... no, that would be too sensible.
[21:40:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soyvertisement: Fun Timesink and Blast from the Past, UFO: Alien Invasion - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:13] <exec> 08└─The biggest problem was the selection of the quake 2 engine which relied on prebaked bsp files for terrain. That has been biting them in the ass for years. Get some people to volunteer to rewrite it on top of openscenegraph with bullet physics and maybe voxelized space handling the terrain deformati...
[21:40:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Beats Estimate With 25,000 Deliveries as Model 3 Nears - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:49] <exec> 08└─But for Tesla to approach the size of Ford is going to take many years (if ever), I mean 100x capacity is ~100 new big factories for $B each. If this is really what the market "thinks", then it is looking very long term--which is exactly the opposite of the prevailing MBA/management style of increas...
[21:41:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02 - 06A Swedish Start-Up has Started Implanting Microchips into its Employees - 1400 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:37] <exec> 08└─Ah, some one from the Westernmost reaches! Yes, of course it was Greek. But not all Greek is Greek, just as not all English is Anglish, as your very dubious example shows. For example, what, precisely, is a "dumb ass"? It seems to me that all asses are dumb, if you are referring to the species Equu...
[21:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Graphene Oxide Sieves Seawater Into Drinking Water - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:12] <exec> 08└─After having desalinized it using graphene you distill the water, EZ.
[21:43:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:45] <exec> 08└─The other 48 percent sees it as what's right. That 4 percent left over is 1 percent ruling class, 2 percent IDGAF, 0.9 percent stoners, and 0.1 percent suitcase packers :)
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[22:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Daimler, Parts Firm Bosch Team Up to Make Driverless Cars - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:33] <exec> 08└─While tangent to this topic, on a private board (of auto engineers) someone recently posted that the computation, sensors & actuators used for autonomous cars draws about 7 KW of electricity. I'm assuming this is for a current prototype and that the power consumption will be coming down with the cos...
[22:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03FunkyLich [4689] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Daimler, Parts Firm Bosch Team Up to Make Driverless Cars - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:35] <exec> 08└─I would be more happy to see partnerships and serious research going towards electric cars which still need a driver, instead of fossil fuel powered driverless cars. The overall result in the end would be engines a lot less complex than now (aka less maintenance and failure rates), more efficiency i...
[22:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Daimler, Parts Firm Bosch Team Up to Make Driverless Cars - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:37] <exec> 08└─Nvidia's third generation [wikipedia.org] of autonomous/car computer uses 20 Watts [nvidia.com]. Add in a little storage and that might go up by a few watts. Here's a LIDAR system [autonomoustuff.com] with a power consumption of "8 W (typical)" and no "visible rotating parts" (outside of the device)...
[22:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Daimler, Parts Firm Bosch Team Up to Make Driverless Cars - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:39] <exec> 08└─The success of electric cars will be dependent on cheaper and denser batteries. We joke about the next battery breakthrough being perpetually 5 years away, but the pressure is on to at least double the energy density while making them safer, and the solution may already be available [soylentnews.org...
[22:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Daimler, Parts Firm Bosch Team Up to Make Driverless Cars - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:41] <exec> 08└─Noone will need more than 640 W. **ducks**
[22:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03xpda [5991] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon to House Yahoo! and AOL Under "Oath" Brand - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:58] <exec> 08└─It looks like Verizon, in their infinite wisdom, forgot to get the oath.com domain. It won't be cheap now! However, it's got to be a better deal than spending billions on Yahoo.
[22:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon to House Yahoo! and AOL Under "Oath" Brand - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:00] <exec> 08└─Oaf? Loaf? Loathe?
[22:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon to House Yahoo! and AOL Under "Oath" Brand - 1112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:02] <exec> 08└─I can't help but think that the online advertising market is going to collapse, hitting Google the hardest. You may have seen the troubles YouTube has faced in recent days with advertising and offensive content. That's nothing compared to what could happen if advertisers find that the ads they buy a...
[22:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon to House Yahoo! and AOL Under "Oath" Brand - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:04] <exec> 08└─Well, if the Oath name doesn't actually end up being seen by the end user, maybe it won't matter. It still seems like a big oversight though.
[22:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon to House Yahoo! and AOL Under "Oath" Brand - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:06] <exec> 08└─They own the 2nd and 3rd largest advert networks.
[22:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon to House Yahoo! and AOL Under "Oath" Brand - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:08] <exec> 08└─I can imagine the modified Twisted Sister lyrics for the TV commercial already.
[22:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon to House Yahoo! and AOL Under "Oath" Brand - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:11] <exec> 08└─That's nothing compared to what could happen if advertisers find that the ads they buy are widely ignored and don't lead to much sales or awareness.
[22:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ousted South Korean Leader Behind Bars After Arrest on Bribery Charges - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:31] <exec> 08└─Any other questions, oh querulous AC?
[22:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ousted South Korean Leader Behind Bars After Arrest on Bribery Charges - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:33] <exec> 08└─I would love for Obama, Trump, and Bush to go to prison for conducting unconstitutional mass surveillance on the populace, along with all their buddies who aid this practice. Politicians don't get privacy if we don't.
[22:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ousted South Korean Leader Behind Bars After Arrest on Bribery Charges - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:35] <exec> 08└─I will also respond to this question. Yes I think Trump is really guilty of something. No I'm not following any hyperbole, originally I didn't care if Clinton or Trump won. My opinion is formed around the various facts, and they all point towards major collusion with Russia and the evidence of collu...
[22:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ousted South Korean Leader Behind Bars After Arrest on Bribery Charges - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:37] <exec> 08└─for his illegal spying on political opponents
[22:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Releases Code That Could Unmask CIA Hacking Operations - 1213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:19] <exec> 08└─As an old boss of mine used to say way too often: "When the pain to change is less than the pain to stay the same, people change." He would say that all the time, and it got real tired, real fast. However, it happens to be true. I was in Chicago a few years ago (about 20 months before the Obergefell...
[22:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Releases Code That Could Unmask CIA Hacking Operations - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:21] <exec> 08└─Yes, Milo, the world's only white supremacist that enjoys taking it up the butt from black men.
[22:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikileaks Releases Code That Could Unmask CIA Hacking Operations - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:23] <exec> 08└─Looks like you missed the point... GOOD JOB!
[22:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikileaks Releases Code That Could Unmask CIA Hacking Operations - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:25] <exec> 08└─Sure, "fuck beta" was about the selling out and screwing up the look and feel of the site. Probably why this community has lasted, it wasn't ONLY a flight from censorship.
[22:38:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Releases Code That Could Unmask CIA Hacking Operations - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:27] <exec> 08└─Actually, Bytram did the Ars link.
[22:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Releases Code That Could Unmask CIA Hacking Operations - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:29] <exec> 08└─I realize it's TMB, but it wouldn't surprise me if he used the original link to spark arguments about credibility.
[22:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikileaks Releases Code That Could Unmask CIA Hacking Operations - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:32] <exec> 08└─Techno/thought'rist.
[22:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikileaks Releases Code That Could Unmask CIA Hacking Operations - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:34] <exec> 08└─I don't think Milo has seen Kyle and AFAIK his boyfriend is a black dude so, no, not so much white supremacist there LOL.
[22:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikileaks Releases Code That Could Unmask CIA Hacking Operations - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:36] <exec> 08└─What is the point of your anecdote? You told the kid that you weren't going to give him money because working for change is pointless? Just how do you think societal change happens? Its precisely because of people like him pushing with everything they have against the massive inertia of society that...
[22:38:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Releases Code That Could Unmask CIA Hacking Operations - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:38] <exec> 08└─I realize it's TMB, but it wouldn't surprise me if he used the original link to spark arguments about credibility.
[22:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Xbox One Exploit Proof of Concept Released, Based on Chakra Exploit - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:15] <exec> 08└─I just want a general purpose computer that I control, thanks. Suckers who buy these game consoles are going to continue to be ruthlessly exploited by these scumbag companies. $299 for a game console or $499 for a PC: what would most pick?
[22:40:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06New Cancer Immunotherapies Show Success... at a High Cost - 158 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:17] <exec> 08└─Now actually go read Marx's Capital, which is where the ideas you are assuming come from and see if you can spot the fallacy behind his Labor Theory of Value.
[22:40:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Cancer Immunotherapies Show Success... at a High Cost - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:34] <exec> 08└─limit the wealth that any one person can acquire
[22:40:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cyclone in Australia Could Disrupt Steel Production in Asia - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:47] <exec> 08└─The region where cyclone Debbie paid a visit has a national football team called the Cowboys. Just sayin'.
[22:40:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bug1 [5243] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cyclone in Australia Could Disrupt Steel Production in Asia - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:49] <exec> 08└─India+South Korea+Japan still only produce a third of the steel China does. China produces half the worlds steel. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[22:41:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Millions 'Wasted' On UK Court Digitisation Scheme - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:27] <exec> 08└─Now look here, Johnny Foreigner, we will have our bent banana in pounds and ounces and feet and inches. God save the Queen! Hip, hip, hooray!
[22:41:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Two Asteroids Pass Earth - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:56] <exec> 08└─While the odds are low, if it's going to hit in a major metro area, good luck evacuating it in time.
[22:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Policing 2.0 in Camden NJ - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:37] <exec> 08└─Here in my state (US), we tried "reasonable and prudent" for a highway speed limit, twice. Both times, the legislature bowed to outside pressure and replaced it with numerical limits.
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[23:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do Developers Flock to the World’s Most Expensive Cities? - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:18] <exec> 08└─...to get away from ignorant Trump supporters!
[23:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do Developers Flock to the World’s Most Expensive Cities? - 793 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:20] <exec> 08└─I ain't buying a house in the middle of nowhere just because my current job allows me to work remotely. Because my current job can vanish, and I'm now in the middle of nowhere without a job... Also, and that's really personal right now, you learn more when you work as a team. Most people won't Slack...
[23:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do Developers Flock to the World’s Most Expensive Cities? - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:22] <exec> 08└─Its because humans are social animals. The more experts in near proximity the greater the opportunity for them to collaborate, formally and informally. Smart people rubbing shoulders with other smart people is the primordial soup of creativity. Its why cities are vastly more productive than rural...
[23:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do Developers Flock to the World’s Most Expensive Cities? - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:24] <exec> 08└─Perhaps the "best*" cities become the most expensive. * For whatever defines "best" in the minds of the people who live there.
[23:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Uncle_Al [1108] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do Developers Flock to the World’s Most Expensive Cities? - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:26] <exec> 08└─because there are more people in cities. Rural areas are more productive at keeping your fscking food on the table.
[23:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Daimler, Parts Firm Bosch Team Up to Make Driverless Cars - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:38] <exec> 08└─That is wrong with the word "and"? Why do you so often omit "and" and use a comma instead? Not only does it change the meaning but it also sounds dumb. How are you supposed to read it out aloud?
[23:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Daimler, Parts Firm Bosch Team Up to Make Driverless Cars - 1179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:39] <exec> 08└─That seems ridiculously excessive at first glance. If it's not an outright fabrication, then I would assume it's a symptom of proof-of-concept hardware designed without any regard for power consumption. Well designed actuators should consume minimal additional power - power assist probably already d...
[23:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Daimler, Parts Firm Bosch Team Up to Make Driverless Cars - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:41] <exec> 08└─Grammar Issues Part of Grand Tradition of Headlines
[23:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Daimler, Parts Firm Bosch Team Up to Make Driverless Cars - 2407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:44] <exec> 08└─At first I thought that was a little high. Then after having a look at Nvidia's Drive Automation [nvidia.com] page I can see that they have up to two Pascal GPU's per Drive PX 2 in Autochauffeur configuration[1]. I could see power draws surpassing 1kW if they are using multiple GPU's for the vision...
[23:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmlj4 [5451] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Verizon to House Yahoo! and AOL Under "Oath" Brand - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:08] <exec> 08└─I've had my share of oaths for both brands through the years...
[23:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Releases Code That Could Unmask CIA Hacking Operations - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:24] <exec> 08└─What is the point of your anecdote? You told the kid that you weren't going to give him money because working for change is pointless? Just how do you think societal change happens? Its precisely because of people like him pushing with everything they have against the massive inertia of society that...
[23:38:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikileaks Releases Code That Could Unmask CIA Hacking Operations - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:26] <exec> 08└─The guy just bragged about intentionally trying to undermine the community here. The mighty buttwipe doesn't give a damn about ideas or thoughtful discussion, he just wants to see people fight over stupid shit. Proclaiming a pure troll agenda is the most valid reason there is to shitcan a submission...
[23:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Releases Code That Could Unmask CIA Hacking Operations - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:28] <exec> 08└─And I guess you missed this part too: We can only raise our voices and work towards the day when the psychopaths aren't the ones making the rules. Hopefully that will be sooner rather than later.
[23:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikileaks Releases Code That Could Unmask CIA Hacking Operations - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:30] <exec> 08└─That's not a point. That's an observation. What was your reason for saying that to the kid? Why say that rather than a comment on the weather?
[23:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Releases Code That Could Unmask CIA Hacking Operations - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:32] <exec> 08└─Mostly just to piss you off. Now piss off, pissant.
[23:38:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikileaks Releases Code That Could Unmask CIA Hacking Operations - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:35] <exec> 08└─Theeeerrre he isssss. Thanks for this turd of a story, next time link to the original source kplzthx. Trolling is like pranking, when done well it is great but when done wrong it just shows you to be a douche. Maybe some big black gay cock up yer butt would give you some perspective.
[23:38:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikileaks Releases Code That Could Unmask CIA Hacking Operations - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:37] <exec> 08└─Translation: You are right, I am a bellend and fuck you very much for scratching my thin skin by pointing that out.
[23:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikileaks Releases Code That Could Unmask CIA Hacking Operations - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:39] <exec> 08└─even psychopaths need places to sound off. If they do so here, we can refute their ridiculous assertions and laugh at them.
[23:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Releases Code That Could Unmask CIA Hacking Operations - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:41] <exec> 08└─even psychopaths need places to sound off. If they do so here, we can refute their ridiculous assertions and laugh at them.
[23:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikileaks Releases Code That Could Unmask CIA Hacking Operations - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:43] <exec> 08└─This has nothing to do with YOU and everything to do with the principle of letting the shittiest smear their shit all over soylent over and over again. Do you want soylent to be a site where the worst of us are enabled to pull down everyone else, or do you want soylent to be a site of thoughtful dis...
[23:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Releases Code That Could Unmask CIA Hacking Operations - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:46] <exec> 08└─This has nothing to do with YOU
[23:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikileaks Releases Code That Could Unmask CIA Hacking Operations - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:48] <exec> 08└─WTF is wrong with you dude? You stated a premise, I responded to the premise. 'You' were never invoked. And the only one here having a tantrum is you. By far.
[23:40:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Cancer Immunotherapies Show Success... at a High Cost - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:43] <exec> 08└─Capitalism and the market have worked every time they have been allowed to exist and socialism has failed every time it has been tried. Some people aren't swayed by evidence,
[23:41:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Reverses Charter Communications 'Overbuild' Requirement - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:25] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, it would also be good to get cable internet to a million people who don't HAVE any choice except dialup or satellite, both of which suck.
[23:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Beats Estimate With 25,000 Deliveries as Model 3 Nears - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:50] <exec> 08└─I ... think ... maybe this is someone just deliberately trying to rile? AC so I can't, but please keep modding negative troll on garbage like this. Thoughtstreams don't need this kind of pollution.
[23:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Beats Estimate With 25,000 Deliveries as Model 3 Nears - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:52] <exec> 08└─Tesla's throughput of vehicles is something like 5% of Ford's? 2.5%? I forget, somewhere above 1 and below 10%. But Tesla has the (giga)factories of the future, the patents for the next 5y+, and is NOT just an automotive business (powerwall etc). They are a company making tools for mass and energy d...
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