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[00:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Left-of-Launch Attacks May be Bringing Down North Korean Missles - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:14] <exec> 08└─That's what happens when you go Akamai.
[00:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Left-of-Launch Attacks May be Bringing Down North Korean Missles - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:16] <exec> 08└─This reminds me of the story which goes: a gas pipeline was built in the USSR, using electronic chips imported from the USA; the chips were designed to fail, which they did, resulting in a huge explosion. https://sofrep.com [sofrep....
[00:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Signs Bill Allowing ISPs to Share or Sell Customers' Browsing History - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:34] <exec> 08└─More like slightly less than half of everyone who voted.
[00:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Signs Bill Allowing ISPs to Share or Sell Customers' Browsing History - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:35] <exec> 08└─take your business elsewhere, exactly as the free market demands!
[00:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Signs Bill Allowing ISPs to Share or Sell Customers' Browsing History - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:37] <exec> 08└─Its revealing of your own grasp of the situation that you replied to a sarcastic post by taking it at face value.
[00:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Signs Bill Allowing ISPs to Share or Sell Customers' Browsing History - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:40] <exec> 08└─That said, I'd rather him [T] than HRC. Mostly because I think he'll be forced out of office
[00:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Signs Bill Allowing ISPs to Share or Sell Customers' Browsing History - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:42] <exec> 08└─"compromise privacy as it's aggregate data" Right... it's impossible to deanonymize anybody using aggregate data. Sure thing..
[00:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Signs Bill Allowing ISPs to Share or Sell Customers' Browsing History - 1193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:44] <exec> 08└─Yup. We should be uniting in an effort to fix that actual problem. Pretty much every single time you encounter a monopoly you can find the dead hand of government somewhere in the background. The last mile is a 'natural monopoly' and we probably have to accept that. But there ARE market based soluti...
[00:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Signs Bill Allowing ISPs to Share or Sell Customers' Browsing History - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:46] <exec> 08└─You're repeating thoroughly discredited talking points and mindless insults. But......you are correct that this is a pretty terrible source article. The first sentence of the title article starts: "ORANGE MAN AND SOMEHOW PRESIDENT Donald Trump..." I agree, but damn, let's save the flamebait for the...
[00:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03FunkyLich [4689] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Signs Bill Allowing ISPs to Share or Sell Customers' Browsing History - 959 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:48] <exec> 08└─For those who are able to do it, it will become more and more attractive the use of self built vpn-s. Getting a VPS like the ones offered here, https://www.time4vps.eu [time4vps.eu] and then setting up openvpn in it is not really very complicated and they are hosted outside of US territory,...
[00:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06To Preserve Natural Resources, El Salvador Becomes First Country to Ban All Metal Mining - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:19] <exec> 08└─It isn't news until Trump tweets about reading it on Brietbart.
[00:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Preserve Natural Resources, El Salvador Becomes First Country to Ban All Metal Mining - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:21] <exec> 08└─Self-evident truths are an American thing, you know, the country was founded on “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” It’...
[00:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Preserve Natural Resources, El Salvador Becomes First Country to Ban All Metal Mining - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:23] <exec> 08└─Wait a minute, "The love that dare not speak its name"? jmorris is an Oscar Wilde aficionado? Well, he is defending Milo. But not like Cicero, in Pro Milone http://www.thelatinlibrary.com [thelatinlibrary.com]
[00:47:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Preserve Natural Resources, El Salvador Becomes First Country to Ban All Metal Mining - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:25] <exec> 08└─Your page at beau.org led me down the path to having to read about and watch again.... BABYLON 5! Urgh... Now i have to finish Doctor Who (up to Tom Baker), watch The Godfather 3, and now THIS!!! Shit... Just thought about Red Dwarf. Sigh... Too little time!
[00:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Preserve Natural Resources, El Salvador Becomes First Country to Ban All Metal Mining - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:27] <exec> 08└─BALDRICK!!! :)
[00:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microbial "Gatling Guns" Observed - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:37] <exec> 08└─One of the funnest parts of playing red dead redemption was shooting a gatling gun, so this is pretty cool. I think I wanna be a microbiologist now.
[00:48:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boffin Builds, Flies Jet Suit - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:09] <exec> 08└─Model airplane jet turbines are commonly available, thanks to modern CNC. Jet suits are impractical because of engine heat, noise, but especially fuel consumption.
[00:48:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boffin Builds, Flies Jet Suit - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:11] <exec> 08└─"And how can it be a daydream when he has a working, physical prototype?" Come on, man. You're not understanding; keep reading it until you understand.
[00:48:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Offtopic) 02 - 06Powerful Solar Flares Found at TRAPPIST-1 Could Dim Chances for Life - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:22] <exec> 08└─The term "Red Dwarf" is offensive and a triggering word to the little people community. We believe it should instead be called "little red star." The proper term for midgets and dwarves is "little people." Until that becomes offensive, and then some academic Jew will narrow the range of thought and...
[00:49:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06IoT Garage Door Opener Maker Bricks Customer's Product After Bad Review - 815 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:38] <exec> 08└─Probably would have worked at the user been able to use the Android version. I bet what happened was that the lone startup coder who didn't know iOS took a crash course in such ugly shit languages as Objective C and Swift and cranked out a polished turd as shinily ugly as the languages in which it w...
[00:49:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IoT Garage Door Opener Maker Bricks Customer's Product After Bad Review - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:39] <exec> 08└─Uhhhh, unless the garage door opener worked perfectly as stated in the specs without access to the central servers, then removing access to the server precludes the proper function of the garage door. Hence, it was bricked. Did it work after server access was revoked? Otherwise you're playing a game...
[00:49:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IoT Garage Door Opener Maker Bricks Customer's Product After Bad Review - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:42] <exec> 08└─Bad analogy is bad and you should feel bad. Sit down think it through and don't post another, until you can be trusted to come up with one that bears the slightest resemblance to the situation in question.
[00:49:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IoT Garage Door Opener Maker Bricks Customer's Product After Bad Review - 1037 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:44] <exec> 08└─> The device has not been altered. The definition I posted says nothing about changing the device itself. I suppose that's part of your own personal definition. All right, so you like to use the word in a different way than the dictionary site suggests, differently than the author of the article, et...
[00:49:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IoT Garage Door Opener Maker Bricks Customer's Product After Bad Review - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:46] <exec> 08└─I do have to agree about the horror stories scaring people away from this crap. However, I disagree about the Crapsman tools, if you're talking about anything made in the last decade or so. Their hand tools are all junk now. The place to buy inexpensive hand tools is Harbor Freight.
[00:51:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LGBT Workers in Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin Gain Protection - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:35] <exec> 08└─And your just too logical to see the stupid connections! Naayaaa, nyaaaa!!!
[00:51:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LGBT Workers in Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin Gain Protection - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:37] <exec> 08└─There are such good points all over the place; people refuse to see the world for what it is. The most entrenched religion of them all is Statism.
[00:51:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LGBT Workers in Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin Gain Protection - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:39] <exec> 08└─> she was reprimanded for kissing her girlfriend "I'm sorry to hear about your previous employer. Here is a teaching offer with a 30% raise at our college... Why? We know our customers well. We expect your class will be full... Yes, even if you teach Ancient Sumerian Flower Arrangements, trust us."
[00:52:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03marcello_dl [2685] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rising Incomes Make People Less Likely to Attend Religious Services - 853 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:40] <exec> 08└─Here we go again. > There is no good evidence that a god or gods exist There is no smell for square roots either. The problem being the undefined meaning of smell for square roots. The problem in the incredibly stupid assertion I am responding to, is that 'to exist' means 'to belong to the universe'...
[00:52:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Rising Incomes Make People Less Likely to Attend Religious Services - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:41] <exec> 08└─Are you trying to argue something? For it appears that you have an opinion. Stop bothering yourself with the falsest religion on earth, atheism.
[00:52:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rising Incomes Make People Less Likely to Attend Religious Services - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:44] <exec> 08└─I agree. If we can get more people out of churches and doing more productive things that would be ideal.
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[01:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Left-of-Launch Attacks May be Bringing Down North Korean Missles - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:08] <exec> 08└─This sounds like a misinformation campaign to me. "Those crazy gooks can't even build a good missile, but we're going to make them think that it's our fault that the missiles fall out of the sky. Instead of engineering the defects out of their missiles, they'll waste resources trying to figure out h...
[01:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Signs Bill Allowing ISPs to Share or Sell Customers' Browsing History - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:34] <exec> 08└─Start poisoning the well.
[01:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Signs Bill Allowing ISPs to Share or Sell Customers' Browsing History - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:35] <exec> 08└─"take your business elsewhere" It must be nice to live somewhere that you can choose between thirty, forty, maybe fifty ISP's.
[01:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Signs Bill Allowing ISPs to Share or Sell Customers' Browsing History - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:37] <exec> 08└─Technically slightly less than half of everyone who voted.
[01:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Signs Bill Allowing ISPs to Share or Sell Customers' Browsing History - 777 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:39] <exec> 08└─"attacks on Planned Parenthood" Do you mean the Title X funding? A different perspective, maybe? Obama TOOK those Title X funds from our county health clinic, and GAVE them to PP. Then he issued an edict, saying that the state couldn't take those funds back from PP, and give them back to the county...
[01:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Preserve Natural Resources, El Salvador Becomes First Country to Ban All Metal Mining - 772 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:15] <exec> 08└─> CIA messing around in Central American countries was always for political reasons, not the "big evil corporation" interests. According to the CIA (emphasis mine), Guatemala is a perfect example. Following its 1944 revolution, which brought democratically elected leftist governments to power, this...
[01:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06To Preserve Natural Resources, El Salvador Becomes First Country to Ban All Metal Mining - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:17] <exec> 08└─Tokyo has 38 million people; Shanghai, 34 million; and Jakarta, 30 million. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[01:47:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Preserve Natural Resources, El Salvador Becomes First Country to Ban All Metal Mining - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:19] <exec> 08└─Not that it makes much difference, but the mercury pollution described in that article came from a paper mill, not a mine.
[01:49:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IoT Garage Door Opener Maker Bricks Customer's Product After Bad Review - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:49:33] <exec> 08└─"You need to drag your lazy couch potato ass onto a bicycle and ride that to work, rain or shine." Honda built my bicycle, and I can and do ride it, rain and shine. I won't ride it when the water turns solid, but otherwise, I'm good. There's some difference between using electronics to do everything...
[01:49:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IoT Garage Door Opener Maker Bricks Customer's Product After Bad Review - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:49:35] <exec> 08└─That is a 'here is your refund sorry it didnt work out' moment. Instead they doubled down. That is how you handle the issue. Get rid of them as a customer and minimize what is going sideways. I have over the years dealt with 'fuck you you gave us your money ha ha sucker' and 'sorry it didnt work out...
[01:53:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Dropping Unity; Will Return to Gnome for Release 18.04 - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:53:10] <exec> 08└─In 2011, it was said that Cinnamon was intended to resemble GNOME 2. https://www.maketecheasier.com [maketecheasier.com]
[01:53:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chromium_One [4574] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Dropping Unity; Will Return to Gnome for Release 18.04 - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:53:12] <exec> 08└─Unity is a pig, but it's mostly the compositing layer that screws everything up. Turn that off and it's ... well, less of a pig.
[01:53:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Dropping Unity; Will Return to Gnome for Release 18.04 - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:53:14] <exec> 08└─Yup. and there's Mate and Xfce, which frankly is what Gnome 2.x always should have been. I figured out the Plasma crash; my git build of qtcurve is the problem apparently. Plasma 5.9 may be the best KDE release since 3.5.10 and that is a *very* high bar for me; it's the first one that made me stop p...
[01:53:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Dropping Unity; Will Return to Gnome for Release 18.04 - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:53:16] <exec> 08└─LXQt doesn't have any GTK+ 3 in it. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] It's claimed to use less memory than Xfce. https://blog.lxde.org [lxde.org]
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[02:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Left-of-Launch Attacks May be Bringing Down North Korean Missles - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:12] <exec> 08└─Fine by me. I'd do the exact same to them actually; layer on layer on layer of deception and frustration. We cannot let that fat sack of shit succeed in a launch, and this is both the gentlest and most deniable way to stop it from happening.
[02:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Left-of-Launch Attacks May be Bringing Down North Korean Missles - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:14] <exec> 08└─No... They shop at Radio Shack for the electronics and Estes Industries for the rocket parts.
[02:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Left-of-Launch Attacks May be Bringing Down North Korean Missles - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:16] <exec> 08└─He looks like the North Korean version of Colonel Sanders, waiting to see him in an ad for Korean Fried Chicken.
[02:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Left-of-Launch Attacks May be Bringing Down North Korean Missles - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:19] <exec> 08└─It's treason to ask what's in the chicken.
[02:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Left-of-Launch Attacks May be Bringing Down North Korean Missles - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:21] <exec> 08└─Well, rather than subterfuge relating to the electronics NK buys for their weapons programs, we could go direct to the problem and somehow infect the luxury comestibles and spirits that their leadership imports...use something that takes awhile to work in case there are food testers that eat everyth...
[02:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Signs Bill Allowing ISPs to Share or Sell Customers' Browsing History - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:50] <exec> 08└─If none of the ISPs were selling the data then why would they care about getting this overturned?
[02:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Signs Bill Allowing ISPs to Share or Sell Customers' Browsing History - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:52] <exec> 08└─That's trite. What exactly does it mean to "deserve" something? And who is this "we" you are talking about? Does the premature baby born to a woman thrown off medicaid 'deserve' to die from lack of medical treatment?
[02:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Signs Bill Allowing ISPs to Share or Sell Customers' Browsing History - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:54] <exec> 08└─Pretty much every single time you encounter a monopoly you can find the dead hand of government somewhere in the background. ... Break up the telcos and cable companies one final time.
[02:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Signs Bill Allowing ISPs to Share or Sell Customers' Browsing History - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:56] <exec> 08└─You are delusional. Probably got prions from eating too many dead babies.
[02:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gault.Drakkor [1079] (Score: 1) 02 - 06To Preserve Natural Resources, El Salvador Becomes First Country to Ban All Metal Mining - 995 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:36] <exec> 08└─It is a success El Salvador can determine this project will cost them more then they will gain. Shutting down all projects seems a bit short sighted. If It will cost them more then they will gain do you believe they should go ahead? All development is good? Mines are capital intensive. Most of that...
[02:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06To Preserve Natural Resources, El Salvador Becomes First Country to Ban All Metal Mining - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:37] <exec> 08└─If only an editor would notice that submission!
[02:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06To Preserve Natural Resources, El Salvador Becomes First Country to Ban All Metal Mining - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:39] <exec> 08└─The forbidden diversity, the one that none dare speak of, is diversity of thought and ideas.
[02:47:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Preserve Natural Resources, El Salvador Becomes First Country to Ban All Metal Mining - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:42] <exec> 08└─They banned ALL metal mining. If it is a good idea for them to do that it is a good idea for everyone else, right? Logically that follows, doesn't it? If everybody did it we would have 90% population losses (or a reversal of the policy, much more likely) in a decade or so, hence my use of the word s...
[02:47:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06To Preserve Natural Resources, El Salvador Becomes First Country to Ban All Metal Mining - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:44] <exec> 08└─That's odd. You must not be able to tell the difference between a pristine, natural environment right here on earth and a small lifeless rock floating in space.
[02:49:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IoT Garage Door Opener Maker Bricks Customer's Product After Bad Review - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:59] <exec> 08└─He didn't buy a server. The device wasn't tampered with. As I wrote in another comment, IF he has a solid enforceable contract for the service he might have a case. Otherwise he's just an idiot who bought junk. The other idiots that bought the same junk are no better. Don't buy junk.
[02:50:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IoT Garage Door Opener Maker Bricks Customer's Product After Bad Review - 704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:01] <exec> 08└─Oddly enough the builder of the houses on the block I live on added as a bonus sliding gates at the bottom of the drive way, manual gates the require you to get out of your car and open them, and then had automatic garage door openers installed. I just leave the gate open all the time but I happily...
[02:50:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IoT Garage Door Opener Maker Bricks Customer's Product After Bad Review - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:03] <exec> 08└─"The definition I posted says nothing about changing the device itself."
[02:50:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 0621 Years Later, Experts Connect the Dots on One of the First Cyber-Espionage Groups - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:41] <exec> 08└─The web of 1996 was smaller, but it was far more sane. The email virus was still only an urban myth, and while we were already three years into September, the majority of the net was still thriving, blissfully unaffected.
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[03:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:01] <exec> 08└─This is an example of Donald Trump showing the world that he has a big dick, and that his is bigger than Assad's, and indeed his is bigger that Putin's. Anyone who thinks Trump actually cares for dead Syrian children needs to perform a reality check.
[03:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:02] <exec> 08└─Anyone who feels the need to demonize a political opponent to that extreme should seek help.
[03:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 1014 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:04] <exec> 08└─Of course he responded rapidly, Assad gave him exactly what he needed - a distraction from failing at every single domestic policy initiative he's tried so far. He gets to act like a tough guy and all of his worshippers will cheer. FYI, old men who had military training (like military boarding schoo...
[03:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:07] <exec> 08└─Fun fact: nobody cares about dead Syrians, or this would have been over long ago.
[03:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:09] <exec> 08└─I'm sure Hillary Clinton is cackling with glee over Trump's murder shot, but pissed she didn't get to push the button herself. I don't think it is possible to demonize these two enough.
[03:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:11] <exec> 08└─"Yes, we prefer Clinton at war than the Donald at war".
[03:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 4, Disagree) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:13] <exec> 08└─With Clinton, there was a 100% chance she'd be war criminal. With Trump, there was a remote chance he would choose not to be. In any event, both are despicable but we should never forget, the reason we have Trump is because the DNC coronated Hillary rather than run an honest contest. So of any entit...
[03:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:15] <exec> 08└─Anyone who feels the need to demonize a political opponent to that extreme should seek help.
[03:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:17] <exec> 08└─With Clinton, there was a 100% chance she'd be war criminal. With Trump, there was a remote chance he would choose not to be.
[03:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:20] <exec> 08└─"Yes, we prefer Clinton at war than the Donald at war".
[03:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:22] <exec> 08└─Blaming the democrats for trump is bullshit.
[03:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03ben_white [5531] (Score: 1) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:24] <exec> 08└─Bombs yes, refugees no. I fear we will reap what we sow Credit: https://mobile.twitter.com [twitter.com]
[03:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:26] <exec> 08└─In case anyone was wondering why minorities and women vote Democrat, THIS IS WHY. We are absolutely terrified of war-mongering white men running the world. Yes, Assad gassed his own people repeatedly. But starting World War 3 is NOT THE APPROPRIATE RESPONSE.
[03:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:28] <exec> 08└─>Clinton >plan She failed to plan against a buffoon, despite all the connections, despite all the donations, despite all the favors, yet you are telling me that was her strength?
[03:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:31] <exec> 08└─Wow, that's a false dichotomy if I ever saw one. It's so very simplistic and it Others your opponents, so it makes rabid partisans feel good to believe it.
[03:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:33] <exec> 08└─There was no immediate word on casualties. U.S. officials told NBC News that people were not targeted and that aircraft and infrastructure at the site were hit, including the runway and gas fuel pumps.
[03:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:35] <exec> 08└─But they are absolutely shitting-bricks terrified of live syrians coming to live with us.
[03:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:37] <exec> 08└─Yes, why won't they vote against bigger welfare? I like how women despite being 50% of humanity is in the same category as minorities.
[03:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:39] <exec> 08└─Modded +1 Touche because we do not, as of yet, possess a "+1, Sick Burn" category :D But in all seriousness, no, the man has no sense of irony. That requires the ability to critically self-examine.
[03:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:41] <exec> 08└─Yes, we gotta bring in more illegals to pick our cotton fields, I mean, keep labor costs down, despite rising unemployment and outsourcing.
[03:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:44] <exec> 08└─The Democratic Party has almost half a century of this corporatist horseshit backed up in it. As I've said many times before, they sold their soul after McGovern lost in '72, and since then, *no one* has been on the side of the poor. The GOP makes some shallow, cynical attempts to pretend it resonat...
[03:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:46] <exec> 08└─Looks like you're the racist with a simplistic view, projecting it into everyone you disagree with.
[03:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:48] <exec> 08└─I know right? https://www.change.org [change.org]
[03:47:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Left-of-Launch Attacks May be Bringing Down North Korean Missles - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:10] <exec> 08└─Thanks to snowden we already know that the NSA intercepts comms equipment en route from warehouses to customers and adds their own backdoors. It is no stretch to think they would do the same to shipments destined for the DPRK. DPRK nukes are the single greatest near term threat, more so than Iran's...
[03:47:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Signs Bill Allowing ISPs to Share or Sell Customers' Browsing History - 1395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:43] <exec> 08└─They aren't entirely "private companies" if they are government granted monopolies, right? How else do we justify the extensive regulation and oversight we put them under? What I propose is to reduce the government monopoly grant to the absolute smallest entity in control of only the section of the...
[03:48:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Preserve Natural Resources, El Salvador Becomes First Country to Ban All Metal Mining - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:29] <exec> 08└─The Bay of Pigs and 40+ years of bupkis.
[03:48:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Preserve Natural Resources, El Salvador Becomes First Country to Ban All Metal Mining - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:30] <exec> 08└─It sounds like you'd rather not hear progressive ideas on this site.
[03:50:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IoT Garage Door Opener Maker Bricks Customer's Product After Bad Review - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:50:49] <exec> 08└─> Which thread did you post it in? In this thread. You replied. /comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=18848&cid=489845#commentwrap [soylentnews.org] At any rate the 'common dictionary definition' that I get with a single obvious search and no cherry-picking is: 2. informal cause (a...
[03:50:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IoT Garage Door Opener Maker Bricks Customer's Product After Bad Review - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:50:50] <exec> 08└─correction: This thing, assuming it was ever actually refused service at their server to begin with (which we have no indication actually happened,)
[03:53:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rising Incomes Make People Less Likely to Attend Religious Services - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:47] <exec> 08└─Thanks for that wonderful tale. I did visit New York City once. Even without your warning, I know better than bothering going back, at least without being paid a lot of money.
[03:53:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rising Incomes Make People Less Likely to Attend Religious Services - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:48] <exec> 08└─You presume too much, especially about how naive and stupid anyone with faith must be.
[03:53:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rising Incomes Make People Less Likely to Attend Religious Services - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:50] <exec> 08└─Absolutely.
[03:53:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rising Incomes Make People Less Likely to Attend Religious Services - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:52] <exec> 08└─I agree. There is also no need to bundle the two in the same argument. I am mostly interested in the former, whether or not it leads into insights about the later.
[03:53:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rising Incomes Make People Less Likely to Attend Religious Services - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:55] <exec> 08└─Take a pill. He is relating about a personal experience. I can't see why he would lie about it. I'm pretty sure he didn't feel to take notes when it happened, nor does it sound so unreasonable that it could not happen. Perhaps he was not very precise describing it, but I don't get your outburst. On...
[03:53:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rising Incomes Make People Less Likely to Attend Religious Services - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:57] <exec> 08└─May I recommend traveling outside America then? There is much to learn.
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[04:46:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 185 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:12] <exec> 08└─I'm sure Hillary Clinton is cackling with glee over Trump's murder shot, but pissed she didn't get to push the button herself. I don't think it is possible to demonize these two enough.
[04:46:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 335 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:14] <exec> 08└─With Clinton, there was a 100% chance she'd be war criminal. With Trump, there was a remote chance he would choose not to be. In any event, both are despicable but we should never forget, the reason we have Trump is because the DNC coronated Hillary rather than run an honest contest. So of any entit...
[04:46:37] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 756 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:38] <exec> 08└─The war was turning in his favor. I fail to see how gassing a couple hundred civilians could help his cause. Not to mention, this looks staged for the media. Lots of pictures of dead babies, lots of videos of suffering civilians. It's not passing the smell test. I've got a record on this site, I'm n...
[04:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:39] <exec> 08└─> Looks like you're the racist with a simplistic view, projecting it into everyone you disagree with. Ah, the old he who smelt it delt it defense. The Real Racists™ are the ones who point out racism!
[04:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:41] <exec> 08└─Russian and Iranian Basing in Syria Map March 21, 2017 [blogspot.com] http://understandingwar.org [understandingwar.org] Source: Institute for the Study of War
[04:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:43] <exec> 08└─A little from column A, a little from column B, is my guess. The guy's a complete no-op when it comes to anything outside coding, sad to say.
[04:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:45] <exec> 08└─(other AC) The opposition party typically gets the win after 2 terms of the party in power. No mystery there.
[04:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:48] <exec> 08└─I'm not a troll.
[04:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:50] <exec> 08└─Yes, I wonder what Steve "Jared Kushner is a Globalist Cuck" Bannon has to say about this action.
[04:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:52] <exec> 08└─The Russian government was notified prior to the launch as they have resources in the area that was attacked.
[04:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:54] <exec> 08└─Furthermore, winning a campaign doesn't mean you did everything right nor does losing a campaign mean you did everything wrong.
[04:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:57] <exec> 08└─Tens of millions of people voted for Trump. Are you really going to say that there are literally only two reasons to vote for Trump, that you're rich or that you're racist? What if many people mistakenly believed that Trump would bring jobs back? What if many people mistakenly believed that he would...
[04:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:59] <exec> 08└─The military value of the chemical attacks is minor. So why generate a brouhaha by using them? Assad and Putin are TESTING Trump, our intelligence, and our military capabilities. It's a friggen game.
[04:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:01] <exec> 08└─I'm not a troll. Said every troll ever.
[04:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:03] <exec> 08└─At first I didn't like your comment. Now I realize that nothing outside of my bubble is real.
[04:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 1267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:05] <exec> 08└─> The guy's a complete no-op when it comes to anything outside coding, sad to say. Even then I don't think he's all that bright. Remember that crusade he went on to 'fix' the moderation system here because 'good' posts were getting downvoted too much? He never had any solid proof of his premise but...
[04:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:07] <exec> 08└─Exactly, there was no racism to begin with, only racists make them up.
[04:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:10] <exec> 08└─All true, but the code itself works. If the idea behind it is bad, well, it's at least competently coded I guess \(O_o)/ I dunno. Makes it easier to make changes later maybe?
[04:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:12] <exec> 08└─> Are you really going to say that there are literally only two reasons to vote for Trump, that you're rich or that you're racist? Racism was the number one focus of his campaign. Literally his opening statement when he announced his candidacy. Not to mention his most popular chant, "Build the wall!...
[04:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:14] <exec> 08└─Assad gave him exactly what he needed..
[04:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:16] <exec> 08└─> I post under my name, not as an AC. Grow a pair, tell us who you are. Your parents must really hate you to name you "snotnose." > Howso? You literally just said the bombing was a false flag because a brutal dictator who doesn't give flying fuck about the lives of regular people would never just sl...
[04:47:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:18] <exec> 08└─> All true, but the code itself works. And yet meta-moderation was too hard to get working.
[04:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:21] <exec> 08└─People voted for trump because either they were rich republicans or they were racist.
[04:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:23] <exec> 08└─> Exactly, there was no racism to begin with, only racists make them up. I honestly can not tell if you are Poe'ning me. But if you aren't, you need to read the intercept article linked back up near the top of the thread.
[04:47:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:25] <exec> 08└─Not to mention, this looks staged for the media. Lots of pictures of dead babies, lots of videos of suffering civilians.
[04:48:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Signs Bill Allowing ISPs to Share or Sell Customers' Browsing History - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:24] <exec> 08└─Voting is the bare minimum to feel good about yourself for your civic participation. People who merely vote don't even get to choose who is on the ballet. Voting in elections really doesn't man jack. Good governance requires a shit ton more work from an engaged citizenry than merely voting.
[04:49:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06To Preserve Natural Resources, El Salvador Becomes First Country to Ban All Metal Mining - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:49:12] <exec> 08└─If there is fake news on Brietburt, and Trumpf does not Tweet it, does it make a sound? A philosophical question.
[04:49:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06To Preserve Natural Resources, El Salvador Becomes First Country to Ban All Metal Mining - 1165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:49:14] <exec> 08└─Major General Smedley Butler, USMC, Ret. in his book "War is a Racket" confirmed [wikiquote.org] that USA.mil exists for the purpose of Mercantilism. I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business...
[04:51:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IoT Garage Door Opener Maker Bricks Customer's Product After Bad Review - 997 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:51:37] <exec> 08└─OK, same definition. "I'm not seeing how that says the device itself has to be altered." You don't see how making a device completely non-functional means altering the device? "My understanding is that those signals could only reach the opener through the central server." That makes no sense at all....
[04:51:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Fans, Android World Scramble to Patch Broadcom's Nasty Drive-by Wi-Fi Security Hole - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:51:58] <exec> 08└─Broadcom added that it is "considering implementing exploit mitigations in future firmware versions."
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[05:46:01] <exec> 08└─"English-speaking regions rallying against what they saw as the latest attempt by the government to "erase" their culture and heritage." If English represents their culture and heritage, it is sure a good indication that England was very successful at erasing whatever culture and heritage they prev...
[05:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Blackout in Cameroon Continues - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:02] <exec> 08└─Language is a "use it or lose it" proposition. If they are forced to speak french in daily life, they may no longer be fluent in English. In Quebec (Canada). they have laws on the books that say the signs must display French at least as prominently as English (due to a similar concern for French cul...
[05:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Blackout in Cameroon Continues - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:04] <exec> 08└─I'd say French in Canada deserves exactly as much respect as Breton, Flemish, Waloon and Occitan enjoy in France.
[05:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:04] <exec> 08└─I'm not a troll.
[05:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:05] <exec> 08└─Of course you're right, it's absurd to think that Assad is behind this and it makes far more sense to think it's another jihadi false flag attack designed to trigger just this sort of stupid and destructive response. But for the sake of argument, let's suppose he did launch an attack that resulted i...
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[05:47:08] <exec> 08└─just said the bombing was a false flag because a brutal dictator who doesn't give flying fuck about the lives of regular people would never just slaughter for the purposes of intimidation.
[05:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:10] <exec> 08└─Ah, but der Drumpfenscheisser is an autotheist (he thinks he's God...) so it all checks out in the end!
[05:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:12] <exec> 08└─This attack on their ally, Syria, would seem to have a likelihood of provoking the Russians.
[05:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fossilized Tick Reveals Perfectly Preserved Red Blood Cells - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:19] <exec> 08└─I can only assume, like the authors of the paper, that if this tick was implicated in the complicity of the use of banned illegal chemical weapons against ticks, that there would be a few comments here. But as it is, it is only some actually preserved evidence, that may be enough to re-sequence and...
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[05:49:02] <exec> 08└─If they ban all mining the multinational corporations can't sue them in the International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes over discriminatory practices. If a local company puts forward a viable business plan, the law can be changed again.
[05:49:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Preserve Natural Resources, El Salvador Becomes First Country to Ban All Metal Mining - 1189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:49:04] <exec> 08└─> Read back up thread and try to keep up. The bitching is about the one sided nature of it here and in anywhere that isn't explicitly right-wing, the bias that the Proggie viewpoint isn't just the correct one, but that it is the only viewpoint. I did read it, and didn't see anyone commenting that hi...
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[05:49:06] <exec> 08└─> No clandestine CIA-backed overthrow [of Fidel Castro] to save the poor evil companies. No repeated attempts. Nada. The CIA did endeavour to kill Mr. Castro. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] http://mentalfloss.com
[05:49:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Preserve Natural Resources, El Salvador Becomes First Country to Ban All Metal Mining - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:49:08] <exec> 08└─I wonder where you saw that.
[05:51:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06IoT Garage Door Opener Maker Bricks Customer's Product After Bad Review - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:51:31] <exec> 08└─Personally - I wonder WTF anyone needs a garage door opener at all? I open and close very large overhead doors, manually, all the time.
[05:51:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06IoT Garage Door Opener Maker Bricks Customer's Product After Bad Review - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:51:33] <exec> 08└─Note that in this system "the device" is not just the box at the customer's garage, but also the server at the company that runs the cloud. If you tamper with the server, it causes malfunction of the device. If your email provider deletes your account at their server, will you state that since your...
[05:53:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LGBT Workers in Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin Gain Protection - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:53:27] <exec> 08└─If you cannot subject your possessions to your will... then you're really not the owner, are you? This very question is quite critical for every "American home owner" to examine closely, not to mention the typical small-business "owner".
[05:53:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scrutinizer [6534] (Score: 1) 02 - 06LGBT Workers in Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin Gain Protection - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:53:29] <exec> 08└─Of course you're not really the owner [of your house and/or business] [...] Most societies are built on fraud, often mixed with violence. Assuming you're American, consider how the land was violently taken from the previous owners and how much fraud was used in the treaty making when it was traded f...
[05:54:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03cykros [989] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rising Incomes Make People Less Likely to Attend Religious Services - 1079 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:54:40] <exec> 08└─Scenario 3: The entire world's arsenal of nuclear weapons is set off simultaneously, evenly spaced around the globe. All humans are killed off near instantly, and thus there would be none in the future to ever suffer at all. Your approach to ethics is in need of a re-think. Perhaps consider maximizi...
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[06:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internet Blackout in Cameroon Continues - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:16] <exec> 08└─Quebec has been separate from France for longer than the US has been separate from England. Common historical legal frameworks aside, blaming one for the current laws of the other seems loopy to me.
[06:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Blackout in Cameroon Continues - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:18] <exec> 08└─I used the example of France and its vile laws [wikipedia.org], although indeed Quebec is as bad [wikipedia.org]. The french language is as much a pox on humanity as Islam: when they're a minority, they ask for protection, when they get the upper hand, they outlaw everything else. Francophones will...
[06:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Internet Blackout in Cameroon Continues - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:20] <exec> 08└─I could see some jealousy here. English wins for connecting with the outside world. I'm not aware of any strongly English-speaking country that is doing badly. Even in the slightly-English places like India, the English-speaking people tend to do better. Probably the most obvious step for getting a...
[06:47:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 809 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:21] <exec> 08└─Of course you're right, it's absurd to think that Assad is behind this and it makes far more sense to think it's another jihadi false flag attack designed to trigger just this sort of stupid and destructive response. But for the sake of argument, let's suppose he did launch an attack that resulted i...
[06:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:25] <exec> 08└─Why is it that when we try to kill terrorists and wind up with dead civilians, it's just a tragic accident, but when the Syrians do the same thing it's just so awful and absolutely inexcusable?
[06:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:27] <exec> 08└─J.K Rowling has been politically active in favor of refugees, but she doesn't suffer the impact because she is isolated by her wealth. She's effectively saying "refugees for you, in your neighborhood, not anywhere near me". This is typical of wealthy liberals who have become detached from normal peo...
[06:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:30] <exec> 08└─Trump's Twitter feed is the gift that keeps on giving: Now that Obama’s poll numbers are in tailspin – watch for him to launch a strike in Libya or Iran. He is desperate. 2:39 PM - 9 Oct 2012
[06:47:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Left-of-Launch Attacks May be Bringing Down North Korean Missles - 30 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:46] <exec> 08└─It is a LOL attack, after all.
[06:49:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Preserve Natural Resources, El Salvador Becomes First Country to Ban All Metal Mining - 1781 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:49:24] <exec> 08└─Oh, dear irony! A reference to Oscar Wilde modded flamebait? Oh the Irony! Oh the Huge Manatees! Oh the complete and total ignorance of history and culture that is the right, and even more the alt-right. Did you know, for example, that most of the "white" races were once only considered useful as sl...
[06:50:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boffin Builds, Flies Jet Suit - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:50:08] <exec> 08└─Why? You are the one with the problem with his posts. He's happy doing them his way. Why should he do anything extra to accommodate you?
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[07:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Making Curved "Double Full-HD" Displays With a 32:9 Aspect Ratio - 704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:07] <exec> 08└─milking the customer for what it's worth. the perfect monitor will sit on your head, just like the perfect speaker sits in your ear. not today, not tomorrow, but the monitor you can bring along anyhere and doesnt use up a whole room in your dwelling. it will happen with a bang, because whoever decid...
[07:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Making Curved "Double Full-HD" Displays With a 32:9 Aspect Ratio - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:08] <exec> 08└─the perfect monitor will sit on your head
[07:46:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 92 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:36] <exec> 08└─Anyone who feels the need to demonize a political opponent to that extreme should seek help.
[07:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:35] <exec> 08└─When most people write a post its to convince the readers of ideas the writer believes. But when j-mo posts its usually in response to something that challenges the legitimacy of the alternate reality that's been constructed for him by the alternative press. You can tell the only person he's trying...
[07:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:37] <exec> 08└─thinking back i slept better last night then the night before the news of sarin gasing came out.
[07:48:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Left-of-Launch Attacks May be Bringing Down North Korean Missles - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:48:00] <exec> 08└─Butthurt, do you read these links you so love to pile on? Your second link pretty much puts the lie to the other two. Kinda the way I feel about the left-of-launch theory.
[07:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Left-of-Launch Attacks May be Bringing Down North Korean Missles - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:48:02] <exec> 08└─I wrote "dubious" in the subject. I assume you didn't notice it. > Your second link pretty much puts the lie to the other two. The first two are critical of the story; the third, as I wrote, is not. Forgive me for presenting conflicting information and expecting you to make up your own mind about it...
[07:49:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06To Preserve Natural Resources, El Salvador Becomes First Country to Ban All Metal Mining - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:49:35] <exec> 08└─[begin yet another coded message] Special SJW Task Force, jmorris Division, interim update. jmorris has gone off the deep end. We have no idea how to moderate. The few actual positions the Left has they fear to speak in public since they know widespread knowledge of them would get them all drowned...
[07:49:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Preserve Natural Resources, El Salvador Becomes First Country to Ban All Metal Mining - 724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:49:37] <exec> 08└─> Articles cut/pasted form explicitly socialist organizations get posted without a raised eyebrow. A submission of a story from Breitbart would most likely simply be ignored and would attract flamage from a lot more users than a fringe like me. Please don't insult everyone's intelligence by disputin...
[07:49:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06To Preserve Natural Resources, El Salvador Becomes First Country to Ban All Metal Mining - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:49:39] <exec> 08└─12 characters. El Salvador's, 13 characters. I suppose they just couldn't fit that last one in the title and needed to figure an alternative.
[07:55:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Dropping Unity; Will Return to Gnome for Release 18.04 - 757 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:55:55] <exec> 08└─Then you LET PEOPLE CHANGE THINGS. Maybe someone prefers a touch interface because they use all-touch devices. Maybe someone else doesn't. Maybe someone else wants a compromise of a large-button-but-traditional-look desktop because they use so many differing devices. Maybe someone has hand trouble o...
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[08:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Making Curved "Double Full-HD" Displays With a 32:9 Aspect Ratio - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:16] <exec> 08└─I'm not seeing the use-case for monitors more than 3 times wider than they are tall. Immersive gaming, really? How many games make sense in this kind of aspect ration, how many of those will support it, and how many players will shell out for a monitor for those games? Calculate 1/x * 1/y/ * 1/z = t...
[08:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Making Curved "Double Full-HD" Displays With a 32:9 Aspect Ratio - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:17] <exec> 08└─Your normal monitor doesn't get drenched in your disgusting sweat.
[08:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Making Curved "Double Full-HD" Displays With a 32:9 Aspect Ratio - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:19] <exec> 08└─Woe ist mir! No one should build what I won't buy! How about you just let rich folk spend their money on some monster cables?
[08:47:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 1378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:49] <exec> 08└─So: After the US secretly started this mess, in an attempt to topple Assad, Assad is finally about to regain control of his country. So "someone" drops sarin gas on some civilians. Assad would have to be braindead stupid to do this, because of the international reactions. I'm just not seeing it. But...
[08:47:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:50] <exec> 08└─I meant the comment I quoted in support of the petition. Could be real, could be satire.
[08:47:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:53] <exec> 08└─#JustDeplorableThings
[08:47:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:55] <exec> 08└─#TCM Dude!
[08:47:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:57] <exec> 08└─Such a weapon is deemed to be indiscriminate in its nature, which supposedly is what the fuss is about.
[08:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:59] <exec> 08└─How about all those who believe that the US has a two party system, and voting third-party is throwing your vote away? There were a lot of people who didn't vote for a candidate, but against one. A log of people voted against Hillary (and a lot of people voted against Trump, but not enough to make a...
[08:48:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:48:01] <exec> 08└─Tens of millions of people voted for Trump.
[08:48:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Left-of-Launch Attacks May be Bringing Down North Korean Missles - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:48:27] <exec> 08└─free tour of the factory if you do ask (hey, maybe that's where Saddam's 'losing soccer team shredder ended up...)
[08:48:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Left-of-Launch Attacks May be Bringing Down North Korean Missles - 820 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:48:29] <exec> 08└─> It is no stretch to think [the NSA] would do the same to shipments destined for the DPRK. It's a certainty that they'd like to do so. That they have the means is more doubtful. Mr. Snowden told us about tampering of equipment shipped by Cisco, which is based in the United States. I found a 2003 re...
[08:49:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Signs Bill Allowing ISPs to Share or Sell Customers' Browsing History - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:49:08] <exec> 08└─Ask the typical joe on the street what he'd say if his ISP came up to him and asked for his consent to sell his browsing history for their own profit at his expense. Somehow I think you'd always hear a "hell no" as a response. Thus user consent was actually an important point. ISPs likely never sold...
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[08:50:07] <exec> 08└─"And they showed that even a very poor country can stay poor."
[08:50:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06To Preserve Natural Resources, El Salvador Becomes First Country to Ban All Metal Mining - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:50:08] <exec> 08└─Are you suggesting that jmorris and Milo, . . . OMG! I need TMB strength brainlbleach, stat!
[08:52:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IoT Garage Door Opener Maker Bricks Customer's Product After Bad Review - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:52:34] <exec> 08└─Harbor Freight: Cheap, low quality tools with the distinctive aroma of Chinese cancer-causing chemicals.
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[09:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Details About the "Project Scorpio" Xbox One Successor - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:00] <exec> 08└─More important than clockspeeds or GPU: How is the spying? Is it also new and improved?
[09:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Details About the "Project Scorpio" Xbox One Successor - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:02] <exec> 08└─It will be the same for all their recent platforms - all spyware and adverts, no functionality.
[09:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kawumpa [1187] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Samsung Making Curved "Double Full-HD" Displays With a 32:9 Aspect Ratio - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:14] <exec> 08└─I don't get it. The move from 16:10 to 16:9 was idiotic but at least understandable, given the manufacture of TV panels with this aspect ratio and the scale economies involved, but making the aspect ratio even greater is useless in most settings.
[09:47:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:47:51] <exec> 08└─Yes, absolutely, they are banned and their use is considered a war crime. I was skipping past the fact that they're banned to the reason they're banned. Your link tells us "the results were indiscriminate and often devastating." As for why they're indiscriminate, another commenter in the earlier sto...
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[09:47:52] <exec> 08└─ISIS was a problem mostly local to Iraq. Syria had an army that was capable of keeping them out of the country. That is until the US started providing air support for ISIS by bombing the Syrian army. Oh sure, it was done under the pretense of helping a bunch of rebels who never had a chance against...
[09:47:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:47:54] <exec> 08└─The ex-UK ambassador to Syria Peter Ford just said it might be a false flag a few minutes ago on BBC, comparing it to another chemical incident from months ago.
[09:47:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 1362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:47:56] <exec> 08└─There are several things that come into consideration when the international community outlaws weapons. Interestingly, one of the first efforts was in St. Petersburg in 1868, and one of the prime targets of that convention was the use of "dum-dum" projectiles in British muskets in India. Still a thi...
[09:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 1157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:47:59] <exec> 08└─If I understand you, you're saying that a chemical attack was planned by Mr. Assad and Mr. Putin personally and jointly, for the express purpose of provoking the Americans so that knowledge could be gained about their inclinations and abilities. It seems to me that, for Mr. Assad, the damage to his...
[09:48:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:48:01] <exec> 08└─You strawman too much?
[09:49:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Signs Bill Allowing ISPs to Share or Sell Customers' Browsing History - 994 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:49:07] <exec> 08└─What amazes me is how everyone on the left still sings the praises of Planned Parenthood when they have never disavowed their founder, even give an award in her name, when she was racist as fuck. Oh yeah and was hardcore into Eugenics, you know, the thing the Nazis were into? Yeah and she thought "m...
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[09:49:08] <exec> 08└─We even have a legal reason for implementing your plan as the major telecos under Slick Willie took 200 billion from the American People for a national network upgrade [wordpress.com] and promptly stuck it in their pockets, giving us nothing for all that money but a low res Goatse. So you plan could...
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[09:49:46] <exec> 08└─> CIA messing around in Central American countries was always for political reasons, not the "big evil corporation" interests. According to the CIA (emphasis mine), Guatemala is a perfect example. Following its 1944 revolution, which brought democratically elected leftist governments to power, this...
[09:50:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boffin Builds, Flies Jet Suit - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:50:53] <exec> 08└─Unless he's got a ton of signal processing to maintain the unstable equilibrium of having a bunch of thrust mounted on his limbs, he doesn't really have a prototype. He's just using his own brain and muscles to keep from immediately going titsup.
[09:56:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Ubuntu Dropping Unity; Will Return to Gnome for Release 18.04 - 536 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:56:08] <exec> 08└─And here we have another example why it's folly to take your lead from Microsoft. Unity was Canonical's Me-Too attempt to replicate MS's genius Windows 8 interface everywhere move. Gnome at the time also screwed the pooch with its performance killing 3D effects. I had previously not been an explorer...
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[10:46:11] <exec> 08└─The name as been leaked. It will be called the XBox ThreeSixty, as it's the followup to the XBox One.
[10:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Making Curved "Double Full-HD" Displays With a 32:9 Aspect Ratio - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:24] <exec> 08└─I'm not seeing the use-case for monitors more than 3 times wider than they are tall.
[10:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The First FDA-Approved Drug that uses Deuterium - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:32] <exec> 08└─So a well placed deuterium (or two, or three) can actually have a significant effect on how long a drug will circulate in the bloodstream, by slowing down the liver's clearance mechanism.
[10:46:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 1014 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:56] <exec> 08└─Of course he responded rapidly, Assad gave him exactly what he needed - a distraction from failing at every single domestic policy initiative he's tried so far. He gets to act like a tough guy and all of his worshippers will cheer. FYI, old men who had military training (like military boarding schoo...
[10:49:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Signs Bill Allowing ISPs to Share or Sell Customers' Browsing History - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:49:17] <exec> 08└─George Minafer, is that you?
[10:53:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 0621 Years Later, Experts Connect the Dots on One of the First Cyber-Espionage Groups - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:53:26] <exec> 08└─Systemd is not really a threat if you think about it. A threat is "I will kill you if I find you near my girl again". Systemd kills you, your family, your dog, a couple who was passing by, two north koreans that were in their house minding their own business, then returns 10 years later to stomp on...
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[11:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Viral Trigger for Celiac Disease - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:17] <exec> 08└─[O]reovirus - a virus propagating orally and causing gluten intolerance.
[11:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06More Details About the "Project Scorpio" Xbox One Successor - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:27] <exec> 08└─Why do they have all this memory left unusable to game devs? This makes no sense. Imagine the PS1 had 512K of memory unusable for games. The problem with modern consoles is that they are just PC's. There's nothing to optimize for because it's just a standardized PC build with shitloads of DRM all ov...
[11:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Details About the "Project Scorpio" Xbox One Successor - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:29] <exec> 08└─They all but dumped the Kinect, so it's not all doom and gloom.
[11:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Making Curved "Double Full-HD" Displays With a 32:9 Aspect Ratio - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:43] <exec> 08└─You probably should think of it as two 16:9 displays that just happen to be fused together horizontally.
[11:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The First FDA-Approved Drug that uses Deuterium - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:52] <exec> 08└─Don't swim in regular water after you take this stuff. You'll drop like a rock.
[11:48:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:48:29] <exec> 08└─But starting World War 3 is NOT THE APPROPRIATE RESPONSE.
[11:48:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 811 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:48:31] <exec> 08└─Not to mention, the last time Assad was accused of using chemical weapons, the US threatened to bomb, Russia stepped in, and under international oversight (and confirmation by all parties) the chemical weapon stockpile held by Assad was removed from the country and destroyed. Since then Assad has no...
[11:48:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:48:33] <exec> 08└─Planning? "At this point, what does it matter???" I wiped my planning... "You mean, like, with a cloth?" Hillary plans her poops in the morning, maybe, but wtf else?
[11:48:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:48:36] <exec> 08└─A lot of people voted against Hillary because she scared da fuck! If they'd run Sanders, I'm guessing he would have won. They shoulda dropped the pig.
[11:48:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:48:38] <exec> 08└─http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/06/politics/hillary-clinton-syria-assad/index.html [cnn.com] (CNN)Hillary Clinton called on the United States to take out Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad's Air Force on Thursday, days after a chemical attack killed more than 70 people in the war-torn country. Day before Trum...
[11:48:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fossilized Tick Reveals Perfectly Preserved Red Blood Cells - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:48:47] <exec> 08└─may be enough to re-sequence and re-create this mammalian DNA, using a frog to patch in the missing parts
[11:49:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06To Preserve Natural Resources, El Salvador Becomes First Country to Ban All Metal Mining - 64 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:50:00] <exec> 08└─I can't help thinking they're going to somewhat dislike the cost
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[12:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's How Much Money Doctors Actually Make - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:19] <exec> 08└─He would have been buried in windowless rooms all day long. That's a risk to his mental health that he couldn't take.
[12:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's How Much Money Doctors Actually Make - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:20] <exec> 08└─The solution is VR. With VR you can be anywhere! During your lunch break.
[12:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's How Much Money Doctors Actually Make - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:22] <exec> 08└─If all these doctors aren't "getting rich" then who is playing Scrooge McDuck and rolling in the thousands of dollars I pay per year in co-pays, deductibles, out-of-pocket expenses, uncovered procedures & prescriptions, etc?
[12:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's How Much Money Doctors Actually Make - 1236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:24] <exec> 08└─Everyone in the system is getting a cut. The HR drone who helps you select a plan. The receptionist who books the appointments. The insurance specialist who sees how much your coverage will cover. The medical biller who bills you and your insurance. The negotiators who set the rates the insurance co...
[12:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Details About the "Project Scorpio" Xbox One Successor - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:43] <exec> 08└─No no no, Xbox One ThreeSixty sounds silly. They should go with Xbox 1360.
[12:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Details About the "Project Scorpio" Xbox One Successor - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:44] <exec> 08└─It's particularly true of the Xbox, as Microsoft are pushing Direct3D, where portability is emphasised. The PS4 is different: it has its 'GNM' low-level graphics API, specific to the platform.
[12:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Making Curved "Double Full-HD" Displays With a 32:9 Aspect Ratio - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:00] <exec> 08└─The solution is to buy more. Two of them, one on top of the other, would be pretty great.
[12:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Making Curved "Double Full-HD" Displays With a 32:9 Aspect Ratio - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:01] <exec> 08└─Crunching those numbers... ... Hey, that's 16:9 again!
[12:48:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:54] <exec> 08└─If you haven't noticed, we already have been in WW3, only not against Russia. There is another global force, one which is not a regular nation state.
[12:48:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:56] <exec> 08└─Clinton is a planner.
[12:48:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:58] <exec> 08└─yes, there was a third option: being an idiot.
[12:48:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:00] <exec> 08└─Oh puhleeze, "100% chance" my ass. That's nothing more than you claiming your fantasies as fact. Grow up.
[12:50:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Signs Bill Allowing ISPs to Share or Sell Customers' Browsing History - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:12] <exec> 08└─Oh, but AC says that we are delusional. Maybe you and I should drink the Kool-Aid that the progressives are sharing.
[12:52:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boffin Builds, Flies Jet Suit - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:01] <exec> 08└─Because if you're posting a comment, then the chances are that you want your comment to be read. Therefore, it should be desirable to post in a manner that makes it easy for the largest portion of the readership to see the comment.
[12:52:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Powerful Solar Flares Found at TRAPPIST-1 Could Dim Chances for Life - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:14] <exec> 08└─I was going to say: less likely to host life Earth style. If there are oceans, they should provide pretty good shelter from solar flare radiation. Maybe life out of the ocean and at the surface will be more challenging, but hardly impossible, and if it's not impossible - given billions of years, gig...
[12:52:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Powerful Solar Flares Found at TRAPPIST-1 Could Dim Chances for Life - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:15] <exec> 08└─In rivers it's called a pulse ecosystem. It does make it harder for big trees to take root and big fish to hang out, but it is far from a desert. Actually, desert rivers that dry for years also bloom, richly, when the water "pulses" through.
[12:52:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Powerful Solar Flares Found at TRAPPIST-1 Could Dim Chances for Life - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:17] <exec> 08└─This happens annually in the Earth's polar seas - huge blooms of algae and krill when sunny, turns to nutrient goo when dark.
[12:53:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03gidds [589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IoT Garage Door Opener Maker Bricks Customer's Product After Bad Review - 1170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:53:50] <exec> 08└─One of the interesting things about all these comments is that many seem to be implicitly marking one side as being ‘in the right’ and hence the other as ‘in the wrong’, and then complaining only about the latter. That's a very natural human reaction, and I think it goes right back to deep...
[12:55:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LGBT Workers in Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin Gain Protection - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:55:48] <exec> 08└─Keep trying.
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[13:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Douglas Coupland: "The Nine to Five is Barbaric" - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:38] <exec> 08└─I'm not a human working. I'm a human being. Fuck you if you think I'm going to be on call 24/7. You get my time 9-5, and that's all you get you fucking cocksucker.
[13:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Douglas Coupland: "The Nine to Five is Barbaric" - 906 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:39] <exec> 08└─A fucking writer is telling us how barbaric nine-to-five is?? No shit. In the civilized and not-too-distant-future, we'll all sit in Starbucks with our iWhatever making a grand display of ourselves working on our jobs and feeling good about ourselves. All the manufacturing will be done by robots in...
[13:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Douglas Coupland: "The Nine to Five is Barbaric" - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:41] <exec> 08└─There are just so many things in TFA that just make you say, "Uh... really?" We will need to learn to adapt to a freeform schedule, which will present a psychological challenge to those who crave structure.
[13:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03cloud.pt [5516] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Douglas Coupland: "The Nine to Five is Barbaric" - 2107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:43] <exec> 08└─When I look around people my age (not my peers, those are at my workplace), the ones getting the most out of their time are the ones in one of 2 conditions: - they either have a semi-fixed hours job with unlimited, yet plausible work-from-home days AND holidays/vacation/days off - they have very fle...
[13:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Douglas Coupland: "The Nine to Five is Barbaric" - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:46] <exec> 08└─What the hell is this guy smoking, and where can I get some?
[13:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Douglas Coupland: "The Nine to Five is Barbaric" - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:48] <exec> 08└─Yeah, on second thought, you're absolutely right... :)
[13:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Douglas Coupland: "The Nine to Five is Barbaric" - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:50] <exec> 08└─You're not a masochist, you just have Stability weighted heavily as one of your criteria for what qualifies as a Good Job. There's nothing intrinsically wrong with that. It simply is what you want. Me, I did the whole self-employed thing during my twenties and thirties. It was a damned fine gig if y...
[13:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Douglas Coupland: "The Nine to Five is Barbaric" - 997 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:52] <exec> 08└─Our "civilized" world still doesn't have a cultural appreciation for the sanctity of well-defined contracts. Indeed, even the "law" of governments is not something upon which you can depend—one year, you can take a stroll down to the local pub to enjoy a pint, but the next year, you've got to slip...
[13:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Douglas Coupland: "The Nine to Five is Barbaric" - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:54] <exec> 08└─Fuck you if you think I'm going to be on call 24/7
[13:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Here's How Much Money Doctors Actually Make - 1762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:05] <exec> 08└─Doctors work ridiculously hard (it's stupidly part of the culture), and have a lot of student debt to pay off.A huge number of people are "poor" or sick. Government forces you to pay for them. First and foremost, the government requires emergency rooms to treat anybody who seeks help; traditionally,...
[13:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's How Much Money Doctors Actually Make - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:07] <exec> 08└─Doctors are getting rich. They're pulling down $200k to $300k per year. Doctors would be even richer, but most don't bother with little things like listing prices, frugality, penny pinching, accounting, and budgeting. Why should they? They have money to burn. Frugality is for poor people. One of the...
[13:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's How Much Money Doctors Actually Make - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:09] <exec> 08└─That's why there are "in-network" and "out-of-network" doctors. That's why a flu shot costs $112 without insurance, but $12 with insurance (paid entirely by the insurance company); insurance doesn't pay the exorbitant costs that you think it does. Through governmental meddling, the insurance system...
[13:47:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03BenJeremy [6392] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Making Curved "Double Full-HD" Displays With a 32:9 Aspect Ratio - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:47] <exec> 08└─I'd like to have a curved monitor I can replace my center WQHD with, and turn my side WQHD monitors to Portrait mode. So I need a vertical res of 2560 on the curved monitor and 23.5" in actual height to match up. I'd prefer it deep enough to fit nicely in the corner. That setup would be nice for wor...
[13:47:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The First FDA-Approved Drug that uses Deuterium - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:56] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta-D [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org(psychedelic) [wikipedia.org]
[13:47:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe [2583] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The First FDA-Approved Drug that uses Deuterium - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:58] <exec> 08└─non-deuterated form, tetrabenazine, is not as free of side effects/warnings as one may expect
[13:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Blackout in Cameroon Continues - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:13] <exec> 08└─In Quebec, if you don't speak French, the court will provide you with a translator.
[13:49:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:48] <exec> 08└─Oh Snap! As soon as I saw the announcement of the strike I turned to my wife and said "Time to watch Wag The Dog again". http://www.imdb.com [imdb.com]
[13:49:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:49] <exec> 08└─We are absolutely terrified of war-mongering white men running the world.
[13:49:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:53] <exec> 08└─Sometimes a missile is just a missile.
[13:49:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03GlennC [3656] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:55] <exec> 08└─I'm sure Hillary Clinton is cackling with glee over Trump's murder shot, but pissed she didn't get to push the button herself.
[13:49:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03rondon [5167] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:57] <exec> 08└─Completely ignore Miss "Superpredator" because it is convenient. Both parties ran a racist candidate, even if one was more racist than the other.
[13:49:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:59] <exec> 08└─This is an example of Donald Trump showing the world that he has a big dick
[13:50:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:01] <exec> 08└─We have a lot of straw men around here, but I don't think that's one of them.
[13:50:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:04] <exec> 08└─You forgot: despite robotic worker drones.
[13:50:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03butthurt [6141] 02 - 06Left-of-Launch Attacks May be Bringing Down North Korean Missles - 498 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:20] <exec> 08└─This reminds me of the story which goes: a gas pipeline was built in the USSR, using electronic chips imported from the USA; the chips were designed to fail, which they did, resulting in a huge explosion. https://sofrep.com [sofrep....
[13:50:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03gidds [589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Left-of-Launch Attacks May be Bringing Down North Korean Missles - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:33] <exec> 08└─"Left-of-launch" strategies involve electromagnetic propagation or cyber attacks against missiles immediately after launch
[13:51:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03gidds [589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Signs Bill Allowing ISPs to Share or Sell Customers' Browsing History - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:18] <exec> 08└─[...] There's one winner of this privacy-destroying bill, though, and that's VPN providers. NordVPN said it has already seen an 86 per cent spike in [inquiries].
[13:53:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03gidds [589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boffin Builds, Flies Jet Suit - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:05] <exec> 08└─Why would you write like this?
[13:53:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03joshuajon [807] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boffin Builds, Flies Jet Suit - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:07] <exec> 08└─I honestly can't tell if this is real. If it's not, it appears to be a pretty elaborate hoax... anyone found the supposed patents yet?
[13:56:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LGBT Workers in Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin Gain Protection - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:56:54] <exec> 08└─That's actually not easy to do. Reply doesn't give you anything but very comment you are replying to. I often have to manually go to the article comments, find the start of the comment chain, and read through again. Especially for replies that are a day or two after my last comment. Though i know yo...
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[14:46:24] <exec> 08└─It's not like educating the next generation is a newfangled idea; why does it always feel like the governmental schooling system is figuring it out anew every single year? The reason is that there is no objective standard—teacher's cannot be fired easily, money cannot be reallocated to working sc...
[14:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:25] <exec> 08└─These teacher obviously don't appreciate things like "No Retard Left Behind". And, "Core Curriculum". And, teaching the children that they can pee wherever the hell they want. And, "alternative lifestyles". These teachers probably think that school should be reserved for things like teaching readin'...
[14:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:27] <exec> 08└─"Higher" learning (for those who choose to spend their own resources), or alternatively (and most likely) vocational skills; the vast majority of people are not only ill suited for "higher" learning, but also are not needed in societal positions where "higher" learning is necessary—they are instea...
[14:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Douglas Coupland: "The Nine to Five is Barbaric" - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:44] <exec> 08└─...teachers (!!!), both basic and college level who only have 2 to 4 hours a day of fixed classes, 3 months out of every semester, and can distribute the rest of their tasks mostly arbitrarily
[14:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Douglas Coupland: "The Nine to Five is Barbaric" - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:45] <exec> 08└─A 9 to 5 job will not give you an 80 hour week. I don't care how you slice it.
[14:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Douglas Coupland: "The Nine to Five is Barbaric" - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:47] <exec> 08└─Must be the trump effect. Everyone is more stupid now.
[14:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Douglas Coupland: "The Nine to Five is Barbaric" - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:49] <exec> 08└─Our working days are becoming interspersed with leisure and home activities
[14:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Douglas Coupland: "The Nine to Five is Barbaric" - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:52] <exec> 08└─If you can have your dick sucked at whim, then you've arrived—or should I say, you've come.
[14:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Douglas Coupland: "The Nine to Five is Barbaric" - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:54] <exec> 08└─9 to 5 died sometime in the 1980s. At best now it's 8 to 5 (really 7:55 to 5:05, doesn't do to appear to be a clockwatcher), with an hour lunch break that might be interrupted or cut short. Plus another hour, unpaid of course, for the commute in rush hour traffic.
[14:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Douglas Coupland: "The Nine to Five is Barbaric" - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:56] <exec> 08└─Shitty employers will and they will exploit as much as they can. Ie if they can't they won't.
[14:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's How Much Money Doctors Actually Make - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:10] <exec> 08└─My wife works as a Physician Assistant. Doctors are doing just fine. I only skimmed the article, so maybe I missed it but... Every doctor that I encounter has about 3 months of vacation time and "works" less than 40 hours a week. My wife just shakes her head when the radiologist takes 5 minutes to r...
[14:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's How Much Money Doctors Actually Make - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:11] <exec> 08└─Ignore reality at your own peril.
[14:47:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's How Much Money Doctors Actually Make - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:13] <exec> 08└─I read tfa but didn't see anywhere if the reported earnings numbers were before or after expenses, that is, gross earnings or net earnings. With the 900# gorilla likely being malpractice insurance. Anyone?
[14:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's How Much Money Doctors Actually Make - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:15] <exec> 08└─> Obamacare has forced people to buy insurance plans that cover not only sick people, but also all kinds of new benefits (such as birth control). You are being forced to pay for poor baristas who just like a good weekly fuck with a stranger from the night club. But this should reduce system costs! P...
[14:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's How Much Money Doctors Actually Make - 975 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:17] <exec> 08└─[American] Doctors are some of the hardest working people on the planet; it's in their culture, which probably hails from the military of yore. When doctors are training, they have traditionally been put on brutal 24-hour shifts, though new rules limited that. Just recently, it was reported [soylent...
[14:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's How Much Money Doctors Actually Make - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:20] <exec> 08└─Nobody is arguing that it would be cheaper to let fools get pregnant. The point is that this is where your money is going: Poor fools.
[14:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's How Much Money Doctors Actually Make - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:22] <exec> 08└─You have just reconfirmed my belief that most doctors are autocratic assholes.
[14:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03obfiscator [6554] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Viral Trigger for Celiac Disease - 676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:31] <exec> 08└─I had never heard of a reovirus before this article. The article mentions that doesn't have a definition, but mentions that children are commonly infected with them, and they are not known to cause disease in people. However, some web searching suggests that they are associated with some diseases in...
[14:47:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Details About the "Project Scorpio" Xbox One Successor - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:45] <exec> 08└─I find it very hard to believe that Sony would be pushing anything of a proprietary nature.
[14:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Blackout in Cameroon Continues - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:28] <exec> 08└─This is a majority *French* country we're talking about. For French speakers, it seems to more about language than actual culture, or anything else for that matter, much to their detriment.
[14:48:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Blackout in Cameroon Continues - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:29] <exec> 08└─I thought it was "wiping your ass with silk".
[14:50:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:11] <exec> 08└─That makes is easier for this to be staged for the media. Because everyone is the media. And "staged" could simply be a poor description of "false flag attack" for the media. But indirectly, for Trump. You couldn't have handed Trump a better reason to get into a shooting war and tweeting war.
[14:50:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 986 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:12] <exec> 08└─As I commented just after the election [soylentnews.org], this was a fairly typical election in terms of results. The real differences were that: 1. Older, blue collar Americans who had previously voted Democratic felt ignored by the Democratic party and voted for Trump in the mistaken belief that h...
[14:50:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:14] <exec> 08└─The dude had to call a specialist to hammer in a nail. I'll let that sink in. Such a person is in no way a planner.
[14:50:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:17] <exec> 08└─Completely ignore Miss "Superpredator" because it is convenient. Both parties ran a racist candidate, even if one was more racist than the other.
[14:55:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score: 1) 02 - 06IoT Garage Door Opener Maker Bricks Customer's Product After Bad Review - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:06] <exec> 08└─If your email provider deletes your account at their server, will you state that since your mail user agent (KMail, Outlook, whatever) was not touched by them, everything is just peachy?
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[15:46:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 1389 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:38] <exec> 08└─"report for military duty to learn some discipline." I have multiple opinions on that idea. 1. As a petty officer, I learned to HATE all the SOB's in the country who shipped their precious snowflakes out to the fleet so that I, and other petty officers like me, could teach that little snowflake how...
[15:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:40] <exec> 08└─Education research is the first place the NHST idea took root, and education is probably the most f-ed up government run program. Just sayin.
[15:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:42] <exec> 08└─I figure they would be funneled into the military, where they may well fail. They should then be court-martialled for insubordination, and sent to a military prison, where they are again given the keys to their success (i.e., the keys to their release): You have a schooling bank account just as befo...
[15:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 1001 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:44] <exec> 08└─If you don't want the guy with sideburns using the men's room because he was assigned the female gender at birth, I guess that has nothing to do with either of us. Personally it'll never cease to be amusing to me when one of you assholes walks into the men's room and immediately walks out thinking h...
[15:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:46] <exec> 08└─If there were a way for students to prove competency, then there wouldn't be a need for "schools", per se. A student could learn in any way that works best for him, and then he just need to show up at the place that will test his competency—perhaps there are centers for official monthly testing of...
[15:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 1144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:48] <exec> 08└─The whole education thing needs to be taken out of the hands of federal and state governments, and given back to local governments. There are few if any local governments that can fek it up as badly as the feds - and there are a lot of local governments that can do a much better job if the feds keep...
[15:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:50] <exec> 08└─I'll see some flaws in this scheme. Bad schools will make derail any chances to go with the program. Some just mature later. And higher education should be offered to everyone that had a real chance to prove they can do it. Instead of just having money or luck.
[15:46:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:53] <exec> 08└─It's not like educating the next generation is a newfangled idea; why does it always feel like the governmental schooling system is figuring it out anew every single year?
[15:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:55] <exec> 08└─You definitely have a point on parenting. Being one should necessitate proof that one can handle it or the children should be relocated.
[15:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:57] <exec> 08└─This discussion is about shools. Innocent little shits, for the most part, who haven't even reached puberty. And, when they do reach puberty, they can conform to school standards until they reach the age of majority. Once reaching age 18, and leaving school (with or without a diploma) they can prett...
[15:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:59] <exec> 08└─The new program is "No teacher left behind in school" ;-)
[15:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:01] <exec> 08└─students cannot see the virtue of their studies
[15:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:03] <exec> 08└─A country should serve its people not the other way around. But I do see your point on other things you've said.
[15:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 1184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:06] <exec> 08└─This comment [soylentnews.org] points out the fact that such a scheme would actually obviate the need for traditional "schools"; the method of teaching doesn't matter, because it relies on a student being motivated by self-interest to learn the material by any means available. In essence, it is the...
[15:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 2072 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:08] <exec> 08└─I had the misfortune of working at a charter school, and the entire place was disheartening. And that's not even mentioning using USED Linksys WiFi routers as access points, or the utter stupidity of assigning only 254 private IPs for the entire high school. The board "felt very strongly" that the m...
[15:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:10] <exec> 08└─If you understood that, you'd understand why OP's scheme makes sense. Profit is more than "making money"; money is just one way to measure profit.
[15:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:12] <exec> 08└─Definitions may be required here. By serving your country, you are serving your fellow Americans (or whatever, depending on your place on earth). I did NOT say "serve your government", but, "serve your country". If you are Chinese, and unwilling to help your fellow Chinese, then you are a sorry Chin...
[15:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:14] <exec> 08└─On the matter of fixing the schools, see this comment [soylentnews.org]As for the military aspect, see this comment [soylentnews.org]; the "coercion" is actually corrective retaliation for a person's abuse of society.
[15:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:16] <exec> 08└─She is probably doing what I like to do: force policy changes by following them to the letter. I am passive-aggressive that way.
[15:47:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 1025 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:19] <exec> 08└─Hey, to be fair, classic restroom etiquette (AKA the last bit of civility holding this goddamned country together) mandates that you, above and beyond all other requirements, engage in ZERO eye contact while within the confines. These men have no idea you're not wearing makeup. Unless they're barbar...
[15:47:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Douglas Coupland: "The Nine to Five is Barbaric" - 163 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:28] <exec> 08└─I'm not a human working. I'm a human being. Fuck you if you think I'm going to be on call 24/7. You get my time 9-5, and that's all you get you fucking cocksucker.
[15:47:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06Douglas Coupland: "The Nine to Five is Barbaric" - 207 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:31] <exec> 08└─There are just so many things in TFA that just make you say, "Uh... really?" We will need to learn to adapt to a freeform schedule, which will present a psychological challenge to those who crave structure.
[15:47:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Douglas Coupland: "The Nine to Five is Barbaric" - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:45] <exec> 08└─This is why dealing with outsourcing companies in India or China is a disaster.
[15:47:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Douglas Coupland: "The Nine to Five is Barbaric" - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:46] <exec> 08└─Hmm.. so even if the idiot is one feet away, it won't help? ;-) Guess remote work isn't the problem, but intelligent lifeform is. ;)
[15:47:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Douglas Coupland: "The Nine to Five is Barbaric" - 684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:48] <exec> 08└─The point to take home is that the supply of cookie cutter jobs is shrinking. And we don't need humans to do work machines can do. People that can do something that offers value above this can make a bargain. There's also some confusing about "work", some people needs someone else to tell them what...
[15:47:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Douglas Coupland: "The Nine to Five is Barbaric" - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:50] <exec> 08└─I think that you have good ideas. How long do you think it'll take humans to evolve out of the idea that violence is a legitimate way of negotiating a contract? My money's on about 100,000 years give or take. Do you think it could happen sooner or am I being wildly optimistic?
[15:47:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Douglas Coupland: "The Nine to Five is Barbaric" - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:53] <exec> 08└─Thank you SO MUCH for reading TFA so I don't have to. Looks like it's about as trashy as I expected.
[15:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's How Much Money Doctors Actually Make - 1374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:15] <exec> 08└─You can follow the supply chain of any industry and see all the people who are involved, and all of whom make money off process. The fact that's it a long list of people does not imply that the industry is corrupt, nor does it imply the industry is inefficient. I recall years ago seeing an apportion...
[15:48:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's How Much Money Doctors Actually Make - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:16] <exec> 08└─Yet McDonald's has a list of prices posted, does promotions to bring people in, and doesn't charge me three times the price if I don't have Platinum Hamburger Insurance.
[15:48:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's How Much Money Doctors Actually Make - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:18] <exec> 08└─1990s talk radio would like their talking points back.
[15:48:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's How Much Money Doctors Actually Make - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:20] <exec> 08└─Cost of healthcare per year per head OECD 2015 figures. USA: $9451 Germany: $5267 Canada: $4608 France: $4407 Japan: $4150 UK: $4003 Italy: $3272 WHO 2014 figures USA: $9403 Germany: $5182 Canada: $4641 France: $4508 Japan: $3727 UK: $3377 Italy: $3239 The USA spends 17% of its GDP on health care. E...
[15:48:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's How Much Money Doctors Actually Make - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:23] <exec> 08└─"And that doesn't count the insurance companies themselves, the politicians, or the attorneys." I think that is actually where most of the money we spend on health care goes.
[15:48:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe [2583] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Viral Trigger for Celiac Disease - 944 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:33] <exec> 08└─You are correct. TFA possibly misinterpreted this statement from the abstract of the scientific paper, "Reoviruses commonly infect humans and mice asymptomatically". Viral nomenclature is a bit of a mess due to a lack of standardization, different preferences for naming, and consolidation of viral f...
[15:48:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Details About the "Project Scorpio" Xbox One Successor - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:48] <exec> 08└─Their consoles have always been this way. They never really made an effort with OpenGL.
[15:49:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Making Curved "Double Full-HD" Displays With a 32:9 Aspect Ratio - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:07] <exec> 08└─Did you see those gamers from Anandtech? They had curved displays. Curved. Displays.
[15:49:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Making Curved "Double Full-HD" Displays With a 32:9 Aspect Ratio - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:08] <exec> 08└─Are you one of those people that has to maximise everything?
[15:49:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Making Curved "Double Full-HD" Displays With a 32:9 Aspect Ratio - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:10] <exec> 08└─I'm not seeing the use-case for monitors more than 3 times wider than they are tall.
[15:49:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The First FDA-Approved Drug that uses Deuterium - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:21] <exec> 08└─Huh, the only deuterated compound I need is Li6. Guaranteed to get rid of Huntinton's chorea, and pretty much anything else, if used as directed.
[15:49:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Blackout in Cameroon Continues - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:39] <exec> 08└─That's why I used France as the example. Quebec tries as much as they can to sabotage federal rules, but the constitution of Canada can still, at least on paper, overrule provincial laws. In France, they don't even pretend to pay lip service to the UN Charter.
[15:49:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Blackout in Cameroon Continues - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:41] <exec> 08└─I'm not aware of any strongly English-speaking country that is doing badly.
[15:49:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Blackout in Cameroon Continues - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:43] <exec> 08└─Some context missing from the story below. Cameroon is a country divided by languages. Officially bilingual, though English majority is scarce [wikipedia.org]. Recently, the (french-speaking) government has been acting against the English minority: - Cameroon continues its oppression of English spea...
[15:51:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyper [1525] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:29] <exec> 08└─Should have used nukes
[15:51:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:30] <exec> 08└─Maybe, but I do have to say that for whatever faults this site's moderation system may have, it's still light-years better than Slashdot's. Discussion there has devolved to nothing more than nasty bickering and flame-wars over inconsequential bullshit. At least here I don't see so much of that, and...
[15:51:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 1021 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:33] <exec> 08└─Why are you and so many others so determined to turn away from the actual research? Its like you don't want to admit that america is full of racism. I can understand politicians not wanting to call a turd a turd because they need votes from some of those turds who have decided that the r-word is an...
[15:51:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:35] <exec> 08└─Why are you and so many others so determined to turn away from the actual research? Its like you don't want to admit that america is full of racism.
[15:52:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Left-of-Launch Attacks May be Bringing Down North Korean Missles - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:05] <exec> 08└─Part of the beauty of a "left-of-launch" attack, said Lance Gatling, a defence analyst and president of Tokyo-based Nexial Research Inc, is that the North Koreans cannot be sure that any imported electronics have not been deliberately permitted to evade sanctions because they are infected with malwa...
[15:54:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boffin Builds, Flies Jet Suit - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:40] <exec> 08└─ACs not being as visible is a feature. Instead of complaining about it and making your comments more difficult to read, you could just make an account. Posting AC in this context is a solution in search of a problem.
[15:54:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boffin Builds, Flies Jet Suit - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:41] <exec> 08└─To clarify: 1 video on 31st of March, 1 on 1st of April. Having a date of 31st of March isn't that weird - posted before midnight, picked up after midnight. While I share your outlook that there's bound to be someone working on this somewhere on the planet, I'd be a lot less suspicious if the videos...
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[16:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:27] <exec> 08└─The whole education thing needs to be taken out of the hands of federal and state governments, and given back to local governments.
[16:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:28] <exec> 08└─On the matter of fixing the schools, see this comment
[16:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:30] <exec> 08└─Story didn't mention specifically publicly resigning via Twitter but I'm sure plenty do. Could someone come up with a word for resignation through Twitter? I'm too lazy and disinterested to bother.
[16:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:32] <exec> 08└─no objective standard—teacher's cannot be fired easily,
[16:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 1044 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:35] <exec> 08└─The government should inspire students by example. I remember when students were inspired by the possibility that one day they could potentially become president. You have to work hard. Embrace illiteracy. Never speak in complete sentences. Never use big words. If you ever use three syllable words t...
[16:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:37] <exec> 08└─My HOA doesn't want your lazy disrespectful ass sleeping on our park's benches. I'm going to retaliate for your trespassing by having you rounded up and processed as per whatever contracts have been established for this purpose.
[16:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:39] <exec> 08└─In a libertarian world, result would be the same. (
[16:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:41] <exec> 08└─The tests are objectively available for people to scrutinize, as are the monetary rewards; this will lead to a healthy local discussion on what should be what.
[16:47:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:43] <exec> 08└─You say "stopping them from trespassing", but that's even more loosey-goosey and hand-wavy than "testing for competence". You are just taking retaliation that you do not like and labeling it with emotion-evoking words like "slavery". Well, guess what? The productive part of society doesn't want to b...
[16:47:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:46] <exec> 08└─Why don't you start your own charter school with your own ideas. A free[er] market doesn't obviate failure; rather a free[er] market allows people to allocate their scarce resources to different solutions when the failures become obvious. Through this trial (selection) and error (variation), society...
[16:47:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:48] <exec> 08└─Don't forget the hookers and blackjack.
[16:47:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:50] <exec> 08└─That is pretty much my idea too: school should be something where you go voluntarily, because you expect it to help you learn what you need to gain certain competencies, which will be judged by someone else, as occasions arise, or none, if there is no requirement for that. But, in the world of natio...
[16:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:52] <exec> 08└─You know what drives students to excellence? keeping up with their peers, the Joneses. That's why gaps close when inner city black kids are dumped into majority-white suburban schools; they start conforming to keep up appearances with their better-reared peers. This is why the other comment [soylent...
[16:47:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 1094 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:54] <exec> 08└─I don't care which bathroom you use. Just go in, do your business, then leave. You don't need to loiter and play head games with other people who are just trying to get their business done. I really think this is a manufactured issue. If you are passable as a male you should use the men's room, if y...
[16:47:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:56] <exec> 08└─Did they note all the "I'm leaving this job because I'm moving" letters that went viral too? Are we to assume that the kind of people who feel the need to resign in a fashion where they want to air their grievances by posting their letters online is a fair representation of teachers to quit their jo...
[16:48:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Douglas Coupland: "The Nine to Five is Barbaric" - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:25] <exec> 08└─That was my comment, not the author's. I have never worked for a company that didn't go on and on about work-life-balance and 10-6pm schedule, but in reality expected you to be on call 24/7. Even the Clinton Foundation; That fucker Doug Band, Bill Clinton's butt-boy, sent me text messages asking for...
[16:48:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Douglas Coupland: "The Nine to Five is Barbaric" - 1637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:27] <exec> 08└─The sad thing is the need to know something real and the opportunity do use it professionally has been so deeply abstracted away from American society (and perhaps others--can't speak to that) that more and more people like Coupland are drifting away into the fairy ether, thinking that shit automagi...
[16:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Douglas Coupland: "The Nine to Five is Barbaric" - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:29] <exec> 08└─May be for you, but for many people "Our underpaid working days are becoming interspersed with anxiety and digging for food & cloths in trash".
[16:48:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Douglas Coupland: "The Nine to Five is Barbaric" - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:31] <exec> 08└─"making the office obsolete" Sorry bub, but the majority of people don't work in an office. They may get their jobs replaced by automation, but it's doubtful they'll be able to telecommute. Try to telecommute in to make sandwiches at Subway, or fix someones furnace. One of the most common jobs in th...
[16:48:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Douglas Coupland: "The Nine to Five is Barbaric" - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:33] <exec> 08└─9 to 5 is a metaphor. It's only partially true in the Midwest. On the east coast it skews to 10 to 6, on the west coast it's 8 to 4. That's why you can still get a meal at a restaurant in New York at 11pm while after 9 you'd be out of luck in LA. The only ones there who cook later than that there ar...
[16:48:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Douglas Coupland: "The Nine to Five is Barbaric" - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:36] <exec> 08└─Douglas Coupland:
[16:49:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's How Much Money Doctors Actually Make - 1055 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:03] <exec> 08└─Your McDonald's visit does not require the time of a highly trained professional with a lot of education debt. Someone who must review your record before coming to the exam room. Who must quickly asses and diagnose your problem. Quickly decide what action to take. Try to quickly decide if any of the...
[16:49:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's How Much Money Doctors Actually Make - 1125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:04] <exec> 08└─I don't like paying to prevent poor people from getting pregnant. I like even less having to pay to terminate poor people's unwanted pregnancy. I like even less to pay to feed and care for their children because the poor parents either can't or won't take adequate care of them. Given the choice, I w...
[16:49:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's How Much Money Doctors Actually Make - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:06] <exec> 08└─what kind of bitchy little rat modded you a troll? is there not a disagree mod? i'm sure there is. this bitch just wants to rat. i hope someone in your daily life beats you to death for being the little weasel you are.
[16:49:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Viral Trigger for Celiac Disease - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:18] <exec> 08└─i have hypothesized that ms may be due to an unknown viral infection in the brain. people always want to blame the immune system like it's just crazy but i see evidence to the contrary. just because researchers can't see the cause doesn't mean it's not there.
[16:49:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Making Curved "Double Full-HD" Displays With a 32:9 Aspect Ratio - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:55] <exec> 08└─The shorter display gives you a larger diagonal measurement for the same screen area. I thought 16:10 was a nice ratio myself.
[16:49:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Making Curved "Double Full-HD" Displays With a 32:9 Aspect Ratio - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:56] <exec> 08└─This is completely senseless. Widescreen is useless on a computer monitor, yet they just keep getting wider, and wider, and wider. Older displays are 5:4 or 4:3 so they're still wider than they are tall, just not quite so wildly out of proportion. The ideal aspect ratio for a computer monitor is app...
[16:49:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Making Curved "Double Full-HD" Displays With a 32:9 Aspect Ratio - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:59] <exec> 08└─"You probably should think of it as two 16:9 displays that just happen to be fused together horizontally." Except if they're going to be 'fused together' at all then it needs to be vertically.
[16:50:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Making Curved "Double Full-HD" Displays With a 32:9 Aspect Ratio - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:01] <exec> 08└─"Monitors like this are essentially like having two smaller displays, sans bezel." And sans the ability to rearrange them. They're permanently locked, 'fused' as another poster put it, together in the most useless configuration imaginable, and you can't move them. This sounds useful for 'immersive g...
[16:50:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Making Curved "Double Full-HD" Displays With a 32:9 Aspect Ratio - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:03] <exec> 08└─Are you one of those people that spends hours of their day fiddling with window positioning and sizing, getting it just right?
[16:50:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Making Curved "Double Full-HD" Displays With a 32:9 Aspect Ratio - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:05] <exec> 08└─[1800R curvature] means that the circle that defines the curvature of the panel has a radius of 1800 mm (70.866 inches), which is much tighter than other panels on the market (2700R or 3000R typical).
[16:50:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Making Curved "Double Full-HD" Displays With a 32:9 Aspect Ratio - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:07] <exec> 08└─(Yet another) step backwards
[16:50:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Making Curved "Double Full-HD" Displays With a 32:9 Aspect Ratio - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:09] <exec> 08└─just like the perfect speaker sits in your ear.
[16:50:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The First FDA-Approved Drug that uses Deuterium - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:21] <exec> 08└─It's the only way to fly. Hey, it sounds to me like you need to unplug, man.
[16:50:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03KiloByte [375] 02 - 06Internet Blackout in Cameroon Continues - 558 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:32] <exec> 08└─I used the example of France and its vile laws [wikipedia.org], although indeed Quebec is as bad [wikipedia.org]. The french language is as much a pox on humanity as Islam: when they're a minority, they ask for protection, when they get the upper hand, they outlaw everything else. Francophones will...
[16:52:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02 - 06 U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base after Chemical Weapons Attack - 150 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:10] <exec> 08└─A lot of people voted against Hillary because she scared da fuck! If they'd run Sanders, I'm guessing he would have won. They shoulda dropped the pig.
[16:52:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fossilized Tick Reveals Perfectly Preserved Red Blood Cells - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:40] <exec> 08└─I thought if you mixed Bush with the genes for Trump you got Hillary Clinton?
[16:53:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Left-of-Launch Attacks May be Bringing Down North Korean Missles - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:04] <exec> 08└─I guess North Korea is west of the U.S. so countering the missile at its launch site is considered West/Left? As opposed to intercepting it in-flight, which apparently usually happens during the descent phase, which over California could be considered "East"? Or maybe this is a "right-vs-left" thing...
[16:53:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Left-of-Launch Attacks May be Bringing Down North Korean Missles - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:06] <exec> 08└─see signature \/
[16:53:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Signs Bill Allowing ISPs to Share or Sell Customers' Browsing History - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:52] <exec> 08└─Unlike your monopolistic ISP, at least you can choose (and switch) your VPN provider. You could even muddy the waters further by using multiple VPN providers, if you're in the sweet spot of paranoid-but-not-enough-to-use-TOR. You can also use a VPN from a different country. I'd rather my data is swe...
[16:53:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Signs Bill Allowing ISPs to Share or Sell Customers' Browsing History - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:54] <exec> 08└─It's not more like that than what i said; I didn't think the deficiencies of that particular system were worth dragging out again.
[16:54:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06To Preserve Natural Resources, El Salvador Becomes First Country to Ban All Metal Mining - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:56] <exec> 08└─I don't think mercury and cyanide are safe to shower in :/
[16:54:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Preserve Natural Resources, El Salvador Becomes First Country to Ban All Metal Mining - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:57] <exec> 08└─Depends on the concentrations, I expect.
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[17:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Takes On Japan in Terrifying Giant Mech Battle This August - 1168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:26] <exec> 08└─Come on, this 13 or 15 foot tall stuff is for kids. The original ROBOSAURUS would have these for a snack, http://www.canosoarus.com [canosoarus.com] from the developer's page: ROBOSAURUS is the most incredible man made monster ever conceived. He was designed to grip, l...
[17:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:20] <exec> 08└─Not what the article is about genius. This is a discussion of K-12 education not college.
[17:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:21] <exec> 08└─Go back to school, the discussion on this topic is abysmal. There were only two interesting points: pay kids for getting "certified" or whatever to give them motivation, and some comments about the military. I'd like to say three, but this comment is just complaining and not very useful.
[17:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:23] <exec> 08└─Clearly, you do not comprehend this thread.
[17:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:26] <exec> 08└─The teachers here (BC, Canada) put more energy into fighting tests that might reveal bad teachers than they put into actually teaching. Too bad for the students.
[17:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:28] <exec> 08└─I won't, however, fault your idea of financial incentive. I kinda like it. Give the kids something concrete to work for, a lot of kids will work harder. Ten grand at graduation, vs nothing for failure, is a big incentive!
[17:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:30] <exec> 08└─That was the unspoken rule for decades and seemed to be working fine, then IIRC what sparked the crisis was a very NON-passing man demanding that he be allowed to use the lady's room. And frankly that IS a problem.
[17:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:32] <exec> 08└─Most of all, kids want to keep up with their peers [soylentnews.org]. Certainly, kids will see how their older siblings' generation fared in this scheme, and will want to emulate the successful people—the people who now have jobs that allow them to buy high-quality sneakers. If there's one thing t...
[17:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:34] <exec> 08└─every subject that this child masters yields a non-taxable payout to this bank account
[17:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:37] <exec> 08└─That is pretty much my idea too: school should be something where you go voluntarily,
[17:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:39] <exec> 08└─Perhaps they don't get made fun of for "acting white" in those schools when they do well.
[17:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:41] <exec> 08└─The only way you'd get me to pay for such teachers is if you stole the money from me... oh wait... that's what you do. You're not actually complaining about the teachers; rather, you're actually complaining about the fact that schooling is run by not just a monopoly, but by a monopoly that is violen...
[17:47:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 1481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:43] <exec> 08└─My wife is an Educational Assistant in the school board: she gets the worst kids in the school, because she has a Behavioural Sciences education and background. She gets the kids the TEACHERS can't handle. She is wishing that she could retire because kids are getting worse and there is little suppor...
[17:48:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Douglas Coupland: "The Nine to Five is Barbaric" - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:19] <exec> 08└─Suck it up, you big pussy.
[17:48:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Douglas Coupland: "The Nine to Five is Barbaric" - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:21] <exec> 08└─“I haven’t been employed since 1988. I’m still trying to recover from the trauma. Sometimes I wake up and think: ‘Oh my God, I don’t have a job’,” he says.
[17:48:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Douglas Coupland: "The Nine to Five is Barbaric" - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:23] <exec> 08└─*clap clap clap* I'm not being sarcastic, I'm glad to see a little more writing and not a short manifesto. However, I do see a problem. What happens to people who can't afford a contract enforcement specialist? I'm sure they get paid by the hour, so if someone reneges on their contract and you don't...
[17:48:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Douglas Coupland: "The Nine to Five is Barbaric" - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:25] <exec> 08└─What kind of self-employment did you do? Hourly jobs or weeks-long gigs? I'm curious because I'm in a regular job and thinking of going the self-employment route. Would you say the stability of being employed is better than the freedom of self employment?
[17:48:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Douglas Coupland: "The Nine to Five is Barbaric" - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:27] <exec> 08└─There needs to be a special +10 ceiling allowed for comments like these.
[17:48:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's How Much Money Doctors Actually Make - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:58] <exec> 08└─Rev up those GMOs and that HFCS! There's a country that is clearly undernourished!!
[17:49:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06More Details About the "Project Scorpio" Xbox One Successor - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:25] <exec> 08└─That joke went so far over your head that I had to report it to the FAA.
[17:49:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Details About the "Project Scorpio" Xbox One Successor - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:26] <exec> 08└─There's an expectation of services running parallel to the game, and instant access to them while the game is still running. For example, voice chat, streaming to console/Twitch/Beam/whatever, and just screenshots and recording. You might be able to update one game while playing another. There may b...
[17:49:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Making Curved "Double Full-HD" Displays With a 32:9 Aspect Ratio - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:56] <exec> 08└─For any sort of normal work, the advantage of lots of monitor space is allowing you to see multiple windows simultaneously. For this, multiple monitors are better, because windows snap naturally to the monitors.
[17:50:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internet Blackout in Cameroon Continues - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:30] <exec> 08└─is why he moved there, I wonder if perhaps his view of Belize's corruption/drug trade wasn't in fact a self-inflicted viewpoint.
[17:52:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Left-of-Launch Attacks May be Bringing Down North Korean Missles - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:57] <exec> 08└─I thought it was because a sabotage before launch, on a traditional western left-to-right timeline, would be on the left side of the countdown.
[17:52:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spook brat [775] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Left-of-Launch Attacks May be Bringing Down North Korean Missles - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:58] <exec> 08└─OK, that explains what the story is about. But how is 'left-of-launch' supposed to be parsed?
[17:53:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Signs Bill Allowing ISPs to Share or Sell Customers' Browsing History - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:46] <exec> 08└─It's actually quite scary in itself, that the least scary of the Republican VP/running-mates since the start of the century ... is Obamacare-botched-replacement-tax-hacking Paul Ryan.
[17:54:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02 - 06To Preserve Natural Resources, El Salvador Becomes First Country to Ban All Metal Mining - 785 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:06] <exec> 08└─Since they can spurn economic development like this, can we now declare the country a "total success" and cease all assistance from the 1st world to them? Obviously they have economic plenty, everybody has adequate food and shelter, everybody has a job, etc. since they can now afford to forgo all mi...
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[18:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Takes On Japan in Terrifying Giant Mech Battle This August - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:49] <exec> 08└─We can't have that. Imagine what could happen if a terrorist rolled out a Robosaurus in the middle of a city. All those laughing children suddenly swallowed up and engulfed in flame.
[18:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Takes On Japan in Terrifying Giant Mech Battle This August - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:50] <exec> 08└─Got to see that thing at an air show once in the mid 90s. That thing was awesome!
[18:46:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Takes On Japan in Terrifying Giant Mech Battle This August - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:53] <exec> 08└─complete with touchscreen UI
[18:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Takes On Japan in Terrifying Giant Mech Battle This August - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:55] <exec> 08└─You can use a robotic hand to operate it. What happens when you get grease on your robotic hand? Well, you burn it.
[18:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Takes On Japan in Terrifying Giant Mech Battle This August - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:58] <exec> 08└─Yes, but is it terrorism if you place one on your lawn and wait for the kids to come to you?
[18:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Takes On Japan in Terrifying Giant Mech Battle This August - 704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:00] <exec> 08└─While I'm not denying the appeal and technical achievement of ROBOSAURUS, these "giant mechs" are significantly different. Their main difference is their highest technical achievement: two legged walking. Unfortunately, if you watch the videos, it also appears to be something they suck at. There's l...
[18:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Takes On Japan in Terrifying Giant Mech Battle This August - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:02] <exec> 08└─It doesn't matter how cool the guns look on the arms of the robots. You can't have a real fight if you use ranged weapons, at short range in an arena, with slow-moving bots. That's why tanks don't look like bipedal tall targets. They're going to line up, empty their canisters, and someone will be ca...
[18:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Takes On Japan in Terrifying Giant Mech Battle This August - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:04] <exec> 08└─That's actually completely idiotic too. If you're being shaken around, a touchscreen is one of the worst possible ways to control a complex machine, unless each control is two inches wide..
[18:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Develop Marburg Virus Treatment Effective Five Days After Infection - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:12] <exec> 08└─That's why nobody has anything to say.
[18:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:13] <exec> 08└─You say "stopping them from trespassing", but that's even more loosey-goosey and hand-wavy than "testing for competence".
[18:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:15] <exec> 08└─My what a wonderful sheltered little world you live in. You should get out more. The world does not work the way you think it does. Maybe a vacation in Detroit or East L.A.
[18:48:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 951 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:17] <exec> 08└─Everyone should be happy to serve. Unfortunately, many governments have pre-empted that whole service thing. I would have said "all governments", but you may be able to point to an exception. If so, I suspect that the exception is temporary, as centralization of power leads those in charge to isolat...
[18:48:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 1553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:19] <exec> 08└─That statement that you are attacking is not absolute; it has a very particular meaning withing the context of the whole comment. "School" should be an organization that a person wants to attend in order to help him gain the benefits of proving that he's competent in some field of inquiry, whether t...
[18:48:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:21] <exec> 08└─And frankly that IS a problem. Because the women and girls who use that bathroom weren't comfortable with his presence, and it's hard to blame them.
[18:48:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:23] <exec> 08└─kids do not keep track of social status? then what was that movie Mean Girls about? Even the name of the clique, The Plastics, epitomized the entire scenario of how fake one has to be in order to be popular in some circles. They had to be aware of and keep track of, and them emulate or implement the...
[18:48:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 1209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:26] <exec> 08└─We are talking about stopping trespassing, not determining whether someone has trespassed. Your rebuttal is a straw man. If you're not certified as a productive individual, then you're defined as trespassing wherever you stand; you should be processed accordingly, as per the system of contracts that...
[18:48:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 992 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:28] <exec> 08└─The money need to be no-strings-attached, available ASAP. For security and time/testing/grading reasons you can't really do hourly cash payouts, but one should strive to get as close to that as possible. Weekly paychecks could work. In some families it would go to feed the family and pay the rent. O...
[18:48:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:30] <exec> 08└─Idle hands and empty minds usually turn to violent pursuits. Let's leave Trump [soylentnews.org] out of this, okay?
[18:48:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:32] <exec> 08└─What their peers think is what matters.
[18:48:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:34] <exec> 08└─Suspension is an old method that requires parents who care. The parent takes the child out behind the woodshed and beats the child's ass with a stick. Suspension was never a punishment. In the absence of old-style parenting, it is a reward. Misbehave if you want a vacation. About the only good thing...
[18:48:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:37] <exec> 08└─You check the numbers. People who complain about being forced to use a different restroom than the one they want to are like 1% of the population.
[18:48:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:39] <exec> 08└─In some countries you have to join the monopoly school regardless of how it's financed.
[18:48:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:41] <exec> 08└─You're probably right; I wanted to avoid the obvious exploitation to which being a "provider" of the family could lead. You don't want that money going to pay for Daddy's drinking, and you don't want kids getting whipped for failing to bring home the bacon. Perhaps students could receive "student st...
[18:48:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:43] <exec> 08└─Good luck trying to study with parents fighting each other and a school environment as simulation of civil war. Children would need to have a nuclear option to have a real shoot. Ie they can divorce their parents for some kind of decent shelter.
[18:48:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:45] <exec> 08└─Suspension is an old method that requires parents who care. The parent takes the child out behind the woodshed and beats the child's ass with a stick.
[18:48:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 985 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:47] <exec> 08└─All sorts of peer interactions could be tied to GPA rank. For example... The dress code could be eliminated for the best students. The worst students could have a unisex uniform, maybe faded mauve velvet 1-piece horribleness. Good students could get to come and go as they like, testing excepted. Bad...
[18:48:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:49] <exec> 08└─Libertarian straw man strikes again!
[18:48:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spook brat [775] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:52] <exec> 08└─In a libertarian world, forcing people into involuntary servitude would not be a thing. Maybe stopping them from trespassing, but enslaving them? No.
[18:48:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:54] <exec> 08└─Require that authorities be eunuchs.
[18:48:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 779 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:56] <exec> 08└─"Oh, so it's a problem because of people's feelz." Which is part of why I say it's a manufactured issue. It's nearly 100% feelz in terms of the mainstream discourse. It's all about manipulating emotions and stimulating feelz. The blue americans sympathize more with the gender disphoric who feelz bad...
[18:48:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:58] <exec> 08└─Why is it that people think that the main issue with teachers is the difficulty of firing them? How about questioning the quality of teachers coming into the profession? Why are those bad teachers in the classrooms in the first place? Even if you fire those bad teachers, there is no pool of better t...
[18:48:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:00] <exec> 08└─I have 7 boys. Mine tend to be unusually well behaved, including less violent than typical. I don't actually need to beat them much, and almost never beyond elementary school age, because they learn quickly that bad behavior will not be tolerated. Consistency is important. It's also important to res...
[18:49:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 661 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:02] <exec> 08└─"People who complain about being forced to use a different restroom than the one they want to are like 1% of the population." Sure. But that, in and of itself, doesn't really mean anything. Just because they're ~1% of the population doesn't mean they're not human or that it's somehow ok to act as if...
[18:49:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:04] <exec> 08└─Alas, society is not allowed to evolve by variation and selection; the violently imposed monopoly tries to hold everything down in one specific shape—representative democracy means that this shape disallows any sort of distinction in social class: The bell-curve suggests that there will always be...
[18:49:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:07] <exec> 08└─Have you ever licked inside someone's ear?
[18:50:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's How Much Money Doctors Actually Make - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:19] <exec> 08└─Two different takes on malpractice insurance -- WSJ 2009 (this version is less paywalled than the source), http://www.law.uchicago.edu [uchicago.edu] And 2010 from doctors side, http://epmonthly.com
[18:50:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's How Much Money Doctors Actually Make - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:20] <exec> 08└─I've seen that show too, it's okay. Too dramatic for me though.
[18:50:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's How Much Money Doctors Actually Make - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:22] <exec> 08└─You forgot marketing. Pharmaceutical Companies Spent 19 Times More On Self-Promotion Than Basic Research: Report [huffingtonpost.com]
[18:50:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's How Much Money Doctors Actually Make - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:25] <exec> 08└─Capitalist medicine! USA USA USA
[18:50:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe [2583] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Viral Trigger for Celiac Disease - 1324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:36] <exec> 08└─The immune system doesn't just go crazy - there is a break-down of immunological tolerance (that may be triggered by an infection) that causes it to improperly recognize healthy tissue as something that needs to be destroyed. The "just because researchers can't see [it] doesn't mean it's not there"...
[18:50:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Details About the "Project Scorpio" Xbox One Successor - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:55] <exec> 08└─Next gen console is previous gen PC : /
[18:51:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Making Curved "Double Full-HD" Displays With a 32:9 Aspect Ratio - 933 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:27] <exec> 08└─Well there's the rub. Windows was ahead of the curve in 2009 for offering an easy way to tile windows side-by-side on a single display, but the other tiling features in Windows are not easy to find and very inflexible. OS X does not come with a tiling solution at all. I would think you'd have found...
[18:52:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Blackout in Cameroon Continues - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:01] <exec> 08└─I'd say French in Canada deserves exactly as much respect as ...Flemish... enjoy in France. Spoken by tens of thousands and actively defended? [flanderstoday.eu]
[18:56:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Preserve Natural Resources, El Salvador Becomes First Country to Ban All Metal Mining - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:56:18] <exec> 08└─And yet the same people shouting this biased story up scream like banshees when I link a Breitbart, Yiannopoulos, or otherwise biased the other direction link. Are we? one [soylentnews.org] two [soylentnews.org] (Note the timestamps)
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[19:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Latest News on Cannibalism - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:31] <exec> 08└─You eat one human. An hour later, you have to eat another. Do Chinese eat humans?
[19:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Latest News on Cannibalism - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:33] <exec> 08└─You are what you eat - therefore, if you want to stay human, better eat some other ones.
[19:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Latest News on Cannibalism - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:35] <exec> 08└─Yes, Chinese do indeed eat humans. Usually fetuses and newborns. from the let's-invite-grandma-for-dinner dept.
[19:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Latest News on Cannibalism - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:37] <exec> 08└─All these overeducated scientists seem to miss the point. Humans fight other humans for all the usual reasons territorial pack hunters do. Once you accept that they fight and kill one another the question is simply do you leave the meat for the buzzards or eat the losers. When survival is in questio...
[19:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Latest News on Cannibalism - 1631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:39] <exec> 08└─i dont get it. wat is this article about? comparing jeffery damer to assad? getting kicks from violating the global A.I. sphere of morals and feeling special because of it? of course cannibalism is a very highly developed society. its very human. it has to be because under normal circumstances anima...
[19:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Takes On Japan in Terrifying Giant Mech Battle This August - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:56] <exec> 08└─It's called destruction derby.
[19:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Takes On Japan in Terrifying Giant Mech Battle This August - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:58] <exec> 08└─Cars are bad, mmmkay? Between the exhaust/spills/fires, and the space required to get up to speed , destruction derbys qualify for less arenas than 12-foot robots.
[19:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Takes On Japan in Terrifying Giant Mech Battle This August - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:00] <exec> 08└─Wowing the crowd in Texas, https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[19:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Takes On Japan in Terrifying Giant Mech Battle This August - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:02] <exec> 08└─maybe this walking robot fight will look like sumo -- whoever pushes the other out of the ring (or knocks them over?) is the winner. I wonder if they can get up after they fall over?
[19:47:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Develop Marburg Virus Treatment Effective Five Days After Infection - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:11] <exec> 08└─It's even better news if you have read "the Hot Zone" or "Virus Hunter", both of which are pretty explicit about what happens when people's insides literally dissolve. If I had Marburg or Ebola, I'd go looking for a gun and a single bullet ASAP. I'm really glad that scientists are making progress ag...
[19:48:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:38] <exec> 08└─WTF do you make it a hobby to shock people?
[19:48:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:39] <exec> 08└─It takes effort, but that is what produces a superior human: Reasoning with him even when he has not yet fully attained the age of reason. By telling the child that his behavior is making him and you look bad, or by telling him that his snack time is coming up "when the big hand gets here", or whate...
[19:48:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:42] <exec> 08└─For instance, if a person cannot repay the debt, the contract should specify what happens and how that is enforced—the debtor agreed to the rules of this game ahead of time, and made a bet. Guess what? The creditor also agreed to those rules and made a bet; perhaps those rules specify that the cre...
[19:48:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:44] <exec> 08└─I don't think you should try to "keep the parents away from the money". It's pretty messed up if a kid gets whipped for failing to pay for Daddy's drinking but... that is what is required to get the child learning in such an awful home. That "exploitation" provides pressure to succeed. The alternati...
[19:48:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:46] <exec> 08└─Nope, sorry, it's always you assholes who try to block my way or are asking me to leave until I whip out my cock. Then you shut up all sheepish like and let me go about my business.
[19:48:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 2757 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:48] <exec> 08└─I have many in my family on both sides that have served. I agree with you that service in some form may be better compulsory than voluntarily, and some countries do just that. Isn't South Korea a nation where military service is required? I would have not minded serving 2-3 years and then moving on...
[19:48:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:50] <exec> 08└─"This endeavor is failing, so let's invest in it more!" —said no productive person ever.
[19:48:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:52] <exec> 08└─If I'm reading this right, you're claiming to be passable as female and using the mens bathroom, is that right?
[19:48:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:55] <exec> 08└─I would suggest also some basic life skills that are valuable to almost everyone: Logic / debate - how to express their thoughts coherently and recognize the common logical fallacies. Basic handyman skills - how to wire a lamp, fix a leaky faucet, etc. Personal finance - investments, retirement plan...
[19:48:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:57] <exec> 08└─Because of unions, we can't give more money to better teachers without also giving it to awful teachers. Because of the sheer number of teachers, paying even the median income is a serious problem. People aren't keen on 30% tax or classrooms with 120 students per teacher. Teaching degrees are a joke...
[19:48:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:59] <exec> 08└─Forcing citizens to join the military in peace-time is a terrible idea. You ideally only want citizens that actually want to be there. The whole "learn some discipline" idea has very little to do with the military and more to do with intimidating children and giving them busy work (no idle hands). I...
[19:49:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:01] <exec> 08└─The school districts in my region of the US usually use in-school suspension instead. Students are "suspended" but actually go to special classes where they study responsible behavior instead of their normal classes (or, that's what I'm told - never seen one myself). Out-of-school suspension is pret...
[19:49:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:03] <exec> 08└─says the lady who has never raised boys or even had a brother... eh, probably an only child with no kids I'm not saying I don't reason with them, but that isn't going to cut it without something to back it up. Also, a lot of you anti-spanking fanatics are into really cruel emotional manipulation. It...
[19:49:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:06] <exec> 08└─Education is society's way of making sure there is not large pool of useless people that need to be fed, housed, and clothed, but who are totally unable of doing any of those things for themselves. Education is not, and on a grand scale never was about an individual improving his/her own lot. It has...
[19:49:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:08] <exec> 08└─Your approach doesn't really work with very young children (such as age 2) because their brains are not yet developed enough to reason as older kids do. You must use age appropriate techniques: distraction onto something else, promise of some token reward if they do as you say, and many more. Very y...
[19:49:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:10] <exec> 08└─Massachusetts limits charter schools to lower-income areas, so it's not an option. A free market, indeed.
[19:49:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 1578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:12] <exec> 08└─You are really dumb if you think there is never a time in almost every child's life where they need a spanking. To say the person's children are and will be stunted is a fucked up assessment based on some knee-jerk reaction you apparently have. The most fucked up kids I've ever seen are the ones who...
[19:49:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:14] <exec> 08└─I like the idea of mandatory service, but what I don't like is our guys and gals dying in bullshit wars for Israel and Saudi Arabia. What they should do is be stationed at the border, with orders to shoot on sight any unauthorized crossers.
[19:49:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:17] <exec> 08└─It isn't that hard to find out the bad teachers, that is the job of the administration. Kids can complain to parents, admin can review teaching materials, etc. Standardized tests and any other "system" which is used to constantly assess performance and pass judgment is a horrible way to treat human...
[19:49:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Goghit [6530] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Douglas Coupland: "The Nine to Five is Barbaric" - 705 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:58] <exec> 08└─"The nine to five is barbaric. I really believe that. I think one day we will look back at nine-to-five employment in a similar way to how we see child labour in the 19th century," he says. Whoever the fuck this dude is he needs to spend more time researching the factories and mines of the industria...
[19:49:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Douglas Coupland: "The Nine to Five is Barbaric" - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:00] <exec> 08└─" Feminization – increasing respect for "the interests and values of women."
[19:51:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Details About the "Project Scorpio" Xbox One Successor - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:07] <exec> 08└─XBox 11, obviously.
[19:51:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Making Curved "Double Full-HD" Displays With a 32:9 Aspect Ratio - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:40] <exec> 08└─Well there's the rub. Windows was ahead of the curve in 2009 for offering an easy way to tile windows side-by-side on a single display, but the other tiling features in Windows are not easy to find and very inflexible. OS X does not come with a tiling solution at all.
[19:51:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Making Curved "Double Full-HD" Displays With a 32:9 Aspect Ratio - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:41] <exec> 08└─I suppose 16:10 is acceptable for people who can't stand ccfl psu screech or want maximum pixels. For me it's 4:3 for lyfe, too bad that 1600x1200 is max that can be bought. Perhaps in the future there will be 100:1 for diagonal freaks and 4:3 for not entirely braindead folk.
[19:51:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Making Curved "Double Full-HD" Displays With a 32:9 Aspect Ratio - 703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:43] <exec> 08└─There are two uses for your monitor, which call for different answers... If you want to work, vertical lines are your friend. I work on a 4K monitor (40"), because 1080p doesn't display enough information without scrolling. BUT if you want immersive entertainment, what's your visual range, again? es...
[19:51:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03BenJeremy [6392] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Making Curved "Double Full-HD" Displays With a 32:9 Aspect Ratio - 967 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:46] <exec> 08└─Well, it is certainly senseless if they do nothing to increase the vertical resolution. 1080p just isn't practical these days. Toolbars, menus, fixed divs in web pages... all conspire to make 1080p unusable. I don't mind being wider... as long as they also increase the actual vertical resolution. Th...
[19:51:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The First FDA-Approved Drug that uses Deuterium - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:58] <exec> 08└─Only is about 11% heavier than normal water, and it takes a looong time to replace all water in your body.
[19:52:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Blackout in Cameroon Continues - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:21] <exec> 08└─https://www.uoc.edu/euromosaic/web/document/neerlandes/an/i1/i1.html#2.4 [uoc.edu]
[19:54:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Left-of-Launch Attacks May be Bringing Down North Korean Missles - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:48] <exec> 08└─Considering they aimed some missiles at Japan, it wouldn't surprise me if Japan shipped them some crummy parts.
[19:55:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Signs Bill Allowing ISPs to Share or Sell Customers' Browsing History - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:36] <exec> 08└─Sorry but reality and regressive beliefs are two completely different things which is why we are seeing a hard right shift happening pretty much planet wide. People are being tired of being told "who are you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes?" and thanks to Wikileaks we now know that a huge perce...
[19:55:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03FunkyLich [4689] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Signs Bill Allowing ISPs to Share or Sell Customers' Browsing History - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:38] <exec> 08└─It definitely is shifting the problem. But there is the option of choosing which entity has more conflicting interests with you. While there is no reason at all to trust the vpn provider vs. the isp, the level of potential harm from misuse of your metadata is not the same. It is similar to the level...
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[20:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Latest News on Cannibalism - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:46] <exec> 08└─There's a new film about a fictional cannibal. https://www.theguardian.com [theguardian.com] http://www.chicagotribune.com [chicagotribune.com]
[20:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Latest News on Cannibalism - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:48] <exec> 08└─I had a teacher who hypothesized that institutional cannibalism typically occurred on islands where there just isn't large game. I think he was misinformed, however this article seems to support that claim, as the argument of "why eat people when deer are a better choice" breaks down in the absence...
[20:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Latest News on Cannibalism - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:50] <exec> 08└─The caloric content varies from person to person. (Apologies to Futurama.)
[20:46:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06The Latest News on Cannibalism - 1958 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:52] <exec> 08└─People have always sought patterns, causal connections between events, to understand the world. Of course burdened by vast ignorance, ancient peoples saw many patterns that weren't, made many quite ridiculous connections that weren't there, such as astrology. Superstition was rampant. They anthropom...
[20:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Latest News on Cannibalism - 834 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:55] <exec> 08└─1. lack of a cranial base (to get to the brain) on otherwise complete or near-complete skeletons 2. virtual absence of vertebrae (due to crushing or boiling to get at bone marrow and grease) 3. cut- and chop-marks 4. cutmark arrangement: position, number and placement 5. long bone breakage (to acces...
[20:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Latest News on Cannibalism - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:57] <exec> 08└─Obviously it would be easier to kill a fellow hominin while they are asleep rather than go hunt down a wooly mammoth. You need to subtract the calories used to hunt and transport the food back to base. If the media article is this dumb, wow! If the scientific report is this dumb, idiocracy is here.
[20:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Latest News on Cannibalism - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:59] <exec> 08└─So eating Kim Jong Un would not be a good Chinese solution to solving the North Korean nuke problem then. Chubby, yes. Fit, not so much. Possibly infected with Mad Cow at that.
[20:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Develop Marburg Virus Treatment Effective Five Days After Infection - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:27] <exec> 08└─..."Researchers Develop Marburg Virus."
[20:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Develop Marburg Virus Treatment Effective Five Days After Infection - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:29] <exec> 08└─*googles ebola fatality rate* it varies from 25% to 90%. [who.int] do u hate life or what?? cheer up dude
[20:49:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:17] <exec> 08└─Firstly, see this existing comment [soylentnews.org], and probably also this comment [soylentnews.org]; your reply has basically already been covered and should be marked "redundant". Secondly, nobody is saying that the military should be composed exclusively from these people. Your reply is a stra...
[20:49:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 956 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:18] <exec> 08└─I'd have to say "advanced infiltrator-class woman suit" pretty much covers the "passable" part, yet she's being forced to use the men's room due to her lack of female genitals, by the sound of it. She has every right to fuck with peoples' heads until they start treating her like a human being instea...
[20:49:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 1061 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:20] <exec> 08└─What you say is just not true. It takes patience and a lot of work, but children do learn to appreciate reasoning very early on if you actually do try to reason with them. And you're right, it does take very primitive forms at first and hell of a lot of repetition, such as by telling a small child t...
[20:50:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Douglas Coupland: "The Nine to Five is Barbaric" - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:03] <exec> 08└─You're so hard to mod, sometimes...
[20:50:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Here's How Much Money Doctors Actually Make - 3990 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:41] <exec> 08└─Yeah. You really don't have a clue what you're talking about. It's that simple. So. Why you're being told things like that: A) When you walk into the office for a first visit, there are five levels of classification for how much the charge for your services will be. Five. And while there are general...
[20:50:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's How Much Money Doctors Actually Make - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:42] <exec> 08└─Always put https:// in your hyperlink; if you don't, your link will likely turn into useless junk. Always put https://domain.com in your hyperlink; if you don't, your link will likely turn into useless junk. Additionally, stuff like utm_term= is almost always junk. In some cases, it is tracking data...
[20:50:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's How Much Money Doctors Actually Make - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:44] <exec> 08└─I don't believe that poverty is a large cause of problems in our society; rather, I believe the problems in our society are what cause poverty. That's why welfare programs do not work, even in countries where the vast majority of people approve of such problems. To borrow a line, "It's not the pover...
[20:51:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Making Curved "Double Full-HD" Displays With a 32:9 Aspect Ratio - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:50] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the breakthrough is called not buying cheap shit. (And just because you overpaid doesn't mean it ain't cheap shit!)
[20:52:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Blackout in Cameroon Continues - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:28] <exec> 08└─Which doesn't seem very effective at removing poo, when you think about it.
[20:54:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fossilized Tick Reveals Perfectly Preserved Red Blood Cells - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:27] <exec> 08└─Sorry, no. Sex aside, you'd need to mix the gene from Obama and Bush to get Hillary - and probably add some from Nixon and JE Hoover for perfection.
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[21:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DmT [6439] (Score: 1) 02 - 06 The Beast is Back: Reborn Ekranoplan Heads for the Arctic - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:29] <exec> 08└─Seems like a safe alternative to flying. In case of danger the plane just slides over the ice until it comes to a stop. Why not use it more then in colder regions?
[21:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 The Beast is Back: Reborn Ekranoplan Heads for the Arctic - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:30] <exec> 08└─Arctic is melting, new opportunities in hydrocarbon extraction and boat routes. On the technical side: If the ekranoplan flies 3-6 meters above the ground at airplane speeds. Any ground contact would be fatal I assume. And the time to react be less than any normal human can react to and avert. So wi...
[21:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 The Beast is Back: Reborn Ekranoplan Heads for the Arctic - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:32] <exec> 08└─Speaking of microbursts, has there ever been a clear video of one wrecking a building or something?
[21:46:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Latest News on Cannibalism - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:53] <exec> 08└─Another off-topic. Science Daily articles are usually reprints. Unlike Phys.org, they usually link directly to the source, in two sentences reading: Materials provided by University of Southampton. Note: Content may be edited for style and length.
[21:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Latest News on Cannibalism - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:54] <exec> 08└─Thank you for catching that. I may have never read anything on Science Daily before, because it renders as a pig's breakfast for me. Even in the archived version, "Source" displayed as "So..." until I disabled style sheets. I suppose something like "Science Daily reprinted a University of Southampto...
[21:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Latest News on Cannibalism - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:56] <exec> 08└─I would also imagine that small island populations would have significantly reduced exposure to communicable disease.
[21:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Latest News on Cannibalism - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:58] <exec> 08└─We'll figure it out. Just letting you know about SD.
[21:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Takes On Japan in Terrifying Giant Mech Battle This August - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:19] <exec> 08└─You mean like-a dis? https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[21:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Develop Marburg Virus Treatment Effective Five Days After Infection - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:30] <exec> 08└─The most recent epidemic (the big one that made the news) had those low rates, surprising most specialists. Normal Ebola death rates are closer to 90%. Think about it in these terms: Ebola outbreaks had always been limited in scope because it kills almost everyone too efficiently to propagate.
[21:47:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] 02 - 06Teacher Resignation Letters Paint Bleak Picture of US Education - 2072 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:57] <exec> 08└─I had the misfortune of working at a charter school, and the entire place was disheartening. And that's not even mentioning using USED Linksys WiFi routers as access points, or the utter stupidity of assigning only 254 private IPs for the entire high school. The board "felt very strongly" that the m...
[21:50:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Douglas Coupland: "The Nine to Five is Barbaric" - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:04] <exec> 08└─Well, CLEARLY there won't be any bad or expensive contract enforcers around because all the bad/expensive ones will be driven out of the market. When you do hire one, remember that you'll need to hire another contract enforcer specialist to make sure your contract with the first contract enforcer is...
[21:50:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's How Much Money Doctors Actually Make - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:44] <exec> 08└─In fact, those aspects of health care that resemble a free market are super cheap and safe: LASIK surgery is the prime example.
[21:50:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's How Much Money Doctors Actually Make - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:45] <exec> 08└─This system is junk. It's awful for discussion.
[21:50:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's How Much Money Doctors Actually Make - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:47] <exec> 08└─Let me tell you, these doctors look down upon nurses and physician "assistants", who generally come from low-quality backgrounds with little education beyond their vocational training, and who display a startling degree of the Dunning–Kruger effect.
[21:50:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's How Much Money Doctors Actually Make - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:49] <exec> 08└─4 years of bachelors degree with medical requirements. + 4 years of medical school. + 5–7 years of residency maybe +1 year special focus. Bish, please.
[21:50:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's How Much Money Doctors Actually Make - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:52] <exec> 08└─Let me widen your scope here. I work closely with cardiologists that can work 60+ hours a week. These are mostly the interventional types. They get about 5-6 weeks vacation a year which they get in quarterly increments and if they don't use it, they lose it. They do make some nice coin for all their...
[21:50:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's How Much Money Doctors Actually Make - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:54] <exec> 08└─I'd say that's net earnings after expenses. Some hospitals require them to pay their own malpractice insurance (which is a great idea) and pay their own midlevels (who don't work for cheap).
[21:50:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's How Much Money Doctors Actually Make - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:56] <exec> 08└─Never let reality get in the way of a doctor's ego. 1.) All the programs are bachelors with medical requirements. 2.) Alright, medical school is two years longer than a Masters program. Got me there! 3.) Residency is the where the practitioner has their decisions reviewed by a supervising doctor. Th...
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[21:52:17] <exec> 08└─Could this result in some "New" deuterated old chemotherapy drugs working better in HCC.
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[22:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Sues U.S. over User's Anonymity - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:22] <exec> 08└─This highlights a real need to post stories quicker. The case already been dropped, [techdirt.com] because the government has withdrawn the summons.
[22:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Sues U.S. over User's Anonymity - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:24] <exec> 08└─Someone must have pointed out that a Twitter user who criticizes the president or government in pretty shameful ways, may end up running it.
[22:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Sues U.S. over User's Anonymity - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:26] <exec> 08└─Oh, it's alright, the chilling effect has already been accomplished. l see that CBP and ICE seem to have officially become Mr Trump's "SS". I'm not sure most people realize how bad this is.
[22:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Sues U.S. over User's Anonymity - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:28] <exec> 08└─On one hand, I feel like that cheapens the atrocities committed in Nazi Germany. On the other hand, I might just be a little numb to this since I got told about it by a friend who works for the government who got a warning from on high about doing this kind of stuff months ago.
[22:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Sues U.S. over User's Anonymity - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:30] <exec> 08└─I just want to say, I am @ALT_uscis! And you can be, too. You can't beat the Tweet, Donald!
[22:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Sues U.S. over User's Anonymity - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:33] <exec> 08└─Trump dropped the request.
[22:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Sues U.S. over User's Anonymity - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:35] <exec> 08└─They seem to partake in censorship (there was some truly weird shit going on with their tags during a few wikileaks releases) that causes vast confusion and uncertainty in the userbase. But at the same time have an established history of protecting user privacy. I know there's no inherent reason the...
[22:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Sues U.S. over User's Anonymity - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:37] <exec> 08└─Crazy notion: people can have values and still not want racists, mysoginists, and trolls on their private platform.
[22:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Sues U.S. over User's Anonymity - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:39] <exec> 08└─But then your "values" don't include being as pro-free speech (the principle, not the legal implementation) as possible. So while you can still have values if you censor, you're definitely decreasing the amount of free speech that your platform offers. And just because someone has a legal right to d...
[22:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 The Beast is Back: Reborn Ekranoplan Heads for the Arctic - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:50] <exec> 08└─Even if you don't have trees, 3 to 6 m isn't very high, so poles, buoys, boats, icebergs and waves can be interesting. Plus, you're going through ground-level thick air (especially in the cold), so the friction is pretty high, thrashing your fuel consumption. The engines are also special issue, to o...
[22:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Latest News on Cannibalism - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:15] <exec> 08└─In the absence of large animals, perhaps the humans needn't form such large groups. A small group of humans (perhaps even a lone human) would, I imagine, be able to gather plant foods or fish.
[22:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Latest News on Cannibalism - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:16] <exec> 08└─Fess up, riverside vato.
[22:47:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Latest News on Cannibalism - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:19] <exec> 08└─Rather, those that couldn't handle the existing diseases went extinct. Same for genetic diseases among American Indians. Too small groups breed with each others so inherited diseases wiped out a lot. But those that survived did well given enough generations. It should show up as a lack of dormant ge...
[22:47:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Takes On Japan in Terrifying Giant Mech Battle This August - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:40] <exec> 08└─Exactly, but less ridiculous looking, without the crutch and at least 50% taller. Better mobility would help too, and the ability to pick up weapons off the corners of the arena would make it highly entertaining. This video looks like the plastic boxing game...
[22:47:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Takes On Japan in Terrifying Giant Mech Battle This August - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:41] <exec> 08└─I think they should have gone with pneumatics or electrics rather than hydraulics; the latter are too rigid for fluid motion.
[22:47:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Develop Marburg Virus Treatment Effective Five Days After Infection - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:53] <exec> 08└─shotgun to the head is 99% lethal, chance of surviving both ebola and suicide must be less than 1%. why would you do that, man??
[22:50:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Douglas Coupland: "The Nine to Five is Barbaric" - 760 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:27] <exec> 08└─Contracted out as a systems/network admin to SMBs and schools primarily. Depended entirely on the job as to how much work was involved; sometimes it was a month of no days off and sometimes it was a half hour of hand holding over the phone. Quite often it was feast or famine, so you'd better be good...
[22:51:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's How Much Money Doctors Actually Make - 4535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:13] <exec> 08└─On the contrary, you don't need to be an expert to see that there is a lot of gouging, recklessness, and outright dishonesty in medical billing in the US. "You don't know what you're talking about" is exactly the kind of useless criticism I'd expect from medical people who know very well that their...
[22:51:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmcmonster [401] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's How Much Money Doctors Actually Make - 1158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:15] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry you've dealt with those physicians. Most physicians I know (and as a physician, I know a lot of them) take 4-6 weeks of vacation time a year. The ones that take more than that are in "lifestyle practices" which encourage low patient volumes and lots of vacation time. The physicians in thes...
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[23:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Sues U.S. over User's Anonymity - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:45] <exec> 08└─Well, that's why we're here instead of on Twitter. Even as a bleeding heart liberal, I'd still rather be here. Many of my comments might fit in 140 characters, but sometimes I may need a long-winded essay with citations.
[23:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Sues U.S. over User's Anonymity - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:46] <exec> 08└─The problem with Twitter and Facebook is that it's like mental poo for flies. One might simple prefer a higher intelligent life to noise ratio.
[23:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Sues U.S. over User's Anonymity - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:48] <exec> 08└─We'll see how long it takes them to start rounding up Mexicans. They'll be first since there's really no problem with rounding up and deporting illegals. Next will be Moslems, and then will be homosexuals and socialists. Well, I don't know if that'll actually happen, but it will be interesting to se...
[23:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Twitter Sues U.S. over User's Anonymity - 1252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:51] <exec> 08└─But they also censored anything trending about Bernie Sanders. So Twitter acted as a de-facto shield against anything that might make HRC look bad. Wikileaks, Bernie, and anything right-wing were actively suppressed from trending news feeds. Post-election, Dorsey started banning right-wingers who we...
[23:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 The Beast is Back: Reborn Ekranoplan Heads for the Arctic - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:01] <exec> 08└─Type "microburst building" or "destroyed" into a video service of your choice? (google even has a explicit video search function)
[23:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 The Beast is Back: Reborn Ekranoplan Heads for the Arctic - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:03] <exec> 08└─Lots of fog in the arctic, might be a big advantage to staying very close to the surface (ice, water, ground) and under all but the most dense and lowest fog. If you are above the fog/clouds there is no way to see what is below and it's scary to descend if you don't know what's down there.
[23:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Latest News on Cannibalism - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:32] <exec> 08└─Humans and pigs looks very similar in the early stages of pregnancy so there are more similarities than a quick look may hint.
[23:47:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Latest News on Cannibalism - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:33] <exec> 08└─Callate, mamon pendejo.
[23:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Latest News on Cannibalism - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:35] <exec> 08└─Many dietary restrictions are based on observations of how safe particular foods were. Pretty well known that Jews do not eat pork.
[23:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Takes On Japan in Terrifying Giant Mech Battle This August - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:59] <exec> 08└─I take it you haven't ridden in a proper flight simulator on electro-hydraulic (Moog valve) actuators? One of the final sign-offs before acceptance is that the turn-around of any actuator has to be not felt by a person in the cockpit. This means the actuator smoothly comes to rest and starts moving...
[23:48:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Develop Marburg Virus Treatment Effective Five Days After Infection - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:12] <exec> 08└─Chance of drowning in your own bodily fluids as your lungs dissolve is 90%... I'll take the bullet, thanks. Side-effects if survived are unclear an potentially nasty. I'd give the docs until I feel so weak I can barely pull that trigger.
[23:52:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Details About the "Project Scorpio" Xbox One Successor - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:07] <exec> 08└─XSpy Nineteen Eighty-Four :p
[23:52:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Details About the "Project Scorpio" Xbox One Successor - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:08] <exec> 08└─The killer question. Can you install a real operating system on it and use it for whatever? calculation cluster?
[23:52:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Making Curved "Double Full-HD" Displays With a 32:9 Aspect Ratio - 1516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:46] <exec> 08└─Yeah, looks like we're after different things -- fair enough. (Which in a way goes right back to your point about different interfaces for different requirements, doesn't it.) I'm maybe not as oblivious to what I'm missing as you might think, I'm just perfectly happy to make some tradeoffs you would...
[23:53:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internet Blackout in Cameroon Continues - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:25] <exec> 08└─English speaking lawyers are complaining about the favoring of civil law as used in the French areas, compared to common law in the English areas. It is under the English common law system where the priesthood of lawyers decides what the law means.
[23:53:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Blackout in Cameroon Continues - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:26] <exec> 08└─The system with civil code seems better than the priesthood thing.. Besides one can have (french) civil code in English language.
[23:53:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Blackout in Cameroon Continues - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:29] <exec> 08└─It ought to be possible to deprive the country of any economical benefit from the English population to send a message? I think Zimbabwe is about to get the insight that the (white) English population has some benefits. Oh and satellite connections.. Optical links, short range radio links .. all to...
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