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[00:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Uncle_Al [1108] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Populism Surge Unlikely to Dent Corporate Deal Making - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:56] <exec> 08└─Seriously?
[00:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Populism Surge Unlikely to Dent Corporate Deal Making - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:57] <exec> 08└─You may want to read about Plutonomy [wikipedia.org], it could explain the issue. Us minions matter less and less, as the puppets keep ruling according to the real bosses' interests.
[00:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Populism Surge Unlikely to Dent Corporate Deal Making - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:59] <exec> 08└─No, it's pseudopopulism.
[00:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Populism Surge Unlikely to Dent Corporate Deal Making - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:01] <exec> 08└─America First? Really? I've heard a lot of rhetoric and then seen quieter reversals on most of that. And some of them not so quiet. Yet another president is running into the limits of presidential power when confronted with both the realities of the world and the massive inertia in a government syst...
[00:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Global Populism Surge Unlikely to Dent Corporate Deal Making - 926 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:04] <exec> 08└─I haven't heard anything about TPP or whatever its next incarnation is meant to be. I know that with Mexico we have the upper hand in negotiations by far, and that the same goes for Canada. Companies cannot change strategies on legislation which has not been passed, or on trade agreements which have...
[00:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Populism Surge Unlikely to Dent Corporate Deal Making - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:06] <exec> 08└─and two non-establishment party presidential candidates go head to head in France.
[00:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Months on, No Linksys Router Patches for Remote Holes - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:22] <exec> 08└─Big difference being most cars do not get recalled once.
[00:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Months on, No Linksys Router Patches for Remote Holes - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:23] <exec> 08└─My point is that there was nothing wrong with the source, meaning that the editor shouldn't have felt the need to insert himself in where it isn't needed.
[00:46:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 74 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:50] <exec> 08└─because you happen to have the drive and ambition to make more of yourself
[00:46:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 2515 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:57] <exec> 08└─It's my money because I worked for it you dumb mother fucker. They need to PAY ME, because I WORKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FUCK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!! You insinuate that we never deserved it in the first place. That's what you forget. It was taking from us. Why the fuck would I work for...
[00:47:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:45] <exec> 08└─Result: All those minimum wage workers at Walmart and McDonalds are replaced with robots. The stores are supplied by robotic trucks. Their lowest paid worker is the technician responsible for maintaining a dozen locations. After a little dip from the initial development costs, profits go up and mana...
[00:47:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:46] <exec> 08└─Is it really basic income if you're working for it? Cut another 10% for logic-fail but add another 15% for making me laugh.
[00:47:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:48] <exec> 08└─I'm not remotely angry, man. This is just how I talk. Now back on-topic... Have you ever, in your entire life, worked in a union shop? They absolutely have enough bargaining power to make it cheaper on a company to pull up stakes and relocate somewhere cheaper. Why do you think manufacturing has bee...
[00:47:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:50] <exec> 08└─Damn, good one. And me without any mod points.
[00:47:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:53] <exec> 08└─That would indeed change some regimes. However, it's unclear that it would result in regimes of which Azuma Hazuki approves.
[00:48:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robert M. Pirsig, Author of “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,” Dies at 88 - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:18] <exec> 08└─...or did he reach that speed and travel in time?
[00:48:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robert M. Pirsig, Author of “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,” Dies at 88 - 1485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:19] <exec> 08└─To explain my last line, there are two things from "Zen and the Art" that have stayed with me. The first is the consideration of "stuckness" that Pirsig gives: what do you do if, when working on your motorcycle, you snap off the head of the screw you need to remove? This is an analogy for all kinds...
[00:48:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robert M. Pirsig, Author of “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,” Dies at 88 - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:21] <exec> 08└─I was amazed by GEB in High School and bring it up mostly nowadays as trivia, with it being the first item sold on Amazon and all. For Zen Buddhism, you have to read books by Zen Buddhists. Happiness by Mattieu Ricard is a secular exploration of the Buddhist philosophy on happiness - how it function...
[00:51:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Obama Administration Undermined Iranian Counterproliferation - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:00] <exec> 08└─I dunno, Sulla. I'm tempted to mod it up. It made more sense than many of the on topic replies to this article.
[00:51:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Roger Murdock [4897] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Obama Administration Undermined Iranian Counterproliferation - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:02] <exec> 08└─Probably the most accurate comment so far.
[00:51:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Obama Administration Undermined Iranian Counterproliferation - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:04] <exec> 08└─US and USSR/Russia share direct borders in Alaska - Siberia ie Bering Strait. The nearest land (two ice lands) are only 3.8 km apart.
[00:51:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Obama Administration Undermined Iranian Counterproliferation - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:06] <exec> 08└─http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2017-04-25 [schlockmercenary.com] Says it all, really. MAD works until one party believes that destroying both sides is an improvement.
[00:51:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 063D-Printing of Glass Now Possible - 912 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:25] <exec> 08└─The MIT article points out that glass has a strong temperature dependent viscosity which makes it hard to work with. And the printer uses a 3-stage temperature heating to get just the right heat. Not runny but still adhesive and possible to shape. The advantage with this Karlsruhe Institute of Techn...
[00:51:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 063D-Printing of Glass Now Possible - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:27] <exec> 08└─But how do they get the glass particles to fuse without causing a non-transparent material?
[00:53:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Fight 'Fake News' in a Post-Truth Environment - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:19] <exec> 08└─Note, though, that Altemeyer wrote several books about the right-wing authoritarian personality trait years before the free online book you mention.
[00:55:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Urged to Dump Trump - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:02] <exec> 08└─I've made those or similar comments many times, online, verbally, and in writing. If you haven't noticed yet, I don't have a party brain.
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[01:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Populism Surge Unlikely to Dent Corporate Deal Making - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:54] <exec> 08└─The same story was run by CNBC http://www.cnbc.com [cnbc.com] U.S. executives are shrugging off domestic policy concerns as they look to strike M&A deals. Nearly 80 percent of U.S. executives expect their comp...
[01:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Populism Surge Unlikely to Dent Corporate Deal Making - 1226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:56] <exec> 08└─Maybe you, or the "two non-establishment party presidential candidates", are talking about (Le Pen and) Melonchon, who ended 4th and so doesn't goes to the final round (Le Pen does)? https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] is soooooooooooooo socialist. Yeah, worked for Rothschi...
[01:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03its_gonna_be_yuge! [6454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Populism Surge Unlikely to Dent Corporate Deal Making - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:58] <exec> 08└─HaHaHaHa! That was my first reaction too.
[01:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Populism Surge Unlikely to Dent Corporate Deal Making - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:00] <exec> 08└─The term populism can designate either democratic or authoritarian movements.
[01:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03its_gonna_be_yuge! [6454] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Global Populism Surge Unlikely to Dent Corporate Deal Making - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:02] <exec> 08└─"I know that with Mexico we have the upper hand in negotiations by far, and that the same goes for Canada." You do realize that many readers here are not Americans, right? And as far as "we have the upper hand" goes, that may be fine for your own wanking but you won't get the better of us in Canad...
[01:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Months on, No Linksys Router Patches for Remote Holes - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:20] <exec> 08└─I recently bought a Linksys WRT1900ACS and flashed it with dd-wrt, and will never look back. Fuck this crap with one or two factory firmware updates and then "sucks to be you" that you get from the manufacturer. For anyone who hasn't gone that route, I can't recommend it enough. It's also quite a bi...
[01:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Months on, No Linksys Router Patches for Remote Holes - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:21] <exec> 08└─This works for me. [a.co] Have had it a few years now and dd-wrt updates don't appear to be an issue. Also I could probably throw it through a wall in a furious rage and it'd still work fine with antennas attached. Seems to be one of those models where the ears actually help a little. Besides, who u...
[01:47:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:47] <exec> 08└─>"... did not somehow earn or merit that ..." >"They earned every penny;" It is a matter of opinion whether what the did was worth what they got. The real problem is that the US is not using anti-monopoly regulations to limit consolidation of businesses. The reason we don't is that the people making...
[01:47:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:49] <exec> 08└─If Bob isn't paying you as much as you want, quit working for him and work somewhere else. You might consider the possibility that your personality is getting in the way of getting paid well.
[01:47:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:51] <exec> 08└─On first reading, I get the impression that is written in code. Much like "revelations" in what I assume to be one of the "copybook headings."
[01:47:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:53] <exec> 08└─Scenario 1 corrected ((Base - (Earned*.5))+(Earned*.8) is your actual yearly income. (16,989-25,636)+41,017.6) Did it say anywhere what happens when you make more than 33,976 as a single person? Do you simply get zero back or do you now owe taxes? Going to assume it is zero. So anyone making more th...
[01:47:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:55] <exec> 08└─Unions are tangential to the point I'm making, but you're only underlining my point: without ganging up, workers cannot even come close to applying pressure to an employer. When was the last time you heard about someone getting a job and having the company move to them, for example?
[01:47:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:57] <exec> 08└─I also question what a pilot project of 4,000 is going to prove. It's one thing for a small number of people to get this additional income. When lots of people get it then stores will react by raising prices. Then the poor will still be poor.
[01:47:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:00] <exec> 08└─Without humanity, what passes for an economy is what we call ecology (yes, the words have related roots).
[01:48:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:02] <exec> 08└─Copybooks were used by schoolchildren to learn to write. A short saying would be on the top of the page and the child would copy it over and over as writing practice. Not ones to miss the opportunity to instill values back in the day, the people who produced the books with the copybooks made sure th...
[01:48:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:04] <exec> 08└─I got as far as him confiscating large corporation's profit for no apparent reason. The Elephant in the room is that the US finds a way to spend half a trillion on wars, yet things like universal healthcare would "cost too much". He appears to be arguing against deficit spending is a very round-abou...
[01:48:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bart9h [767] 02 - 06Robert M. Pirsig, Author of “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,” Dies at 88 - 95 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:15] <exec> 08└─Q: What one would think of a book that Ethanol-fueled said it sucks? A: It must be great, then!
[01:49:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 439 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:49:41] <exec> 08└─Going to the mall requires wearing clothing and some minimum level of personal hygiene. Worse is having to experience being outdoors. But intolerable is sunlight. Why go to the mall when I can stay in the comfort of the basement, and experience the excitement of tracking my shipment. In a mall you h...
[01:50:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 13 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:50:18] <exec> 08└─find his size
[01:51:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Obama Administration Undermined Iranian Counterproliferation - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:51:15] <exec> 08└─World war 3, here we come.. or has it already started?
[01:51:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Obama Administration Undermined Iranian Counterproliferation - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:51:16] <exec> 08└─Tell me something I don't already know.
[01:51:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Obama Administration Undermined Iranian Counterproliferation - 930 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:51:18] <exec> 08└─As a blasphemer of abolutely everything, I laugh at how Jesus and Mohammed are equated because they are simply "religious figureheads." Nobody realizes that in the Bible, Jesus does not kill anyone, because they have not read it. Even the fucking Christians (who defend Muslims) do not know what is i...
[01:52:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drivers Look at their Phones on 88 Percent of Trips - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:24] <exec> 08└─I'm not seeing much similarity. The map at your link is labelled "Percentage of a county's population identifying as both black or African-American and non-Hispanic." The highest percentages are in the southeastern part of the U.S.--a legacy of slavery, I assume. On the map in the article, Vermont i...
[01:52:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drivers Look at their Phones on 88 Percent of Trips - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:25] <exec> 08└─was I the only one that actually pulled over to read the map I had tucked in the passenger side door?
[01:53:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06How to Fight 'Fake News' in a Post-Truth Environment - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:53:34] <exec> 08└─Fake news: "The server isn't working and we should try to find the problem" Whenever people speak up about actual problems. It becomes fake news because it hurts someones agenda or safe space.
[01:54:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Radioactive Boy Scout" David Charles Hahn was Regularly Visited by FBI - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:06] <exec> 08└─He had serious, lifelong mental health problems that predated the "radioactive boy scout" thing. It's quite reasonable that people were concerned about what he would get up to next, and asked the FBI to keep an eye on him.
[01:55:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Urged to Dump Trump - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:19] <exec> 08└─Let them have their fun - their Weimar Republic they so desire.
[01:56:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Geeks v Government: the Battle Over Public Key Cryptography - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:56:34] <exec> 08└─The Earth is billions of years old. Based on your logic, Julius Caesar was killed just now.
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[02:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plastic-Eating Caterpillars Can Degrade Polyethylene - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:44] <exec> 08└─Dr Bombelli and colleague Federica Bertocchini of the Spanish National Research Council have patented the discovery.
[02:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Plastic-Eating Caterpillars Can Degrade Polyethylene - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:46] <exec> 08└─It's not just wax worms eating plastic. It's wax worms eating plastic on a computer.
[02:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Populism Surge Unlikely to Dent Corporate Deal Making - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:06] <exec> 08└─The guy is a Communist
[02:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03nethead [4970] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Populism Surge Unlikely to Dent Corporate Deal Making - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:07] <exec> 08└─Not just the US, the 120 year old French company that I work for is getting absorbed by a young 93 year old French company that is 14% owned by the French government. Soon, I too, will be an agent of a foreign government!
[02:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Populism Surge Unlikely to Dent Corporate Deal Making - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:10] <exec> 08└─You do realize that many readers here are not Americans, right?
[02:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Populism Surge Unlikely to Dent Corporate Deal Making - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:12] <exec> 08└─If/when a number of nations elect "populist" presidents/PM's/members of parliament/congress critters/senators, then laws may well be enacted to curb some of the corporate abuses. There will always be corruption, even in the best of governments. Corporate leaders probably believe that they can contin...
[02:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03its_gonna_be_yuge! [6454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Populism Surge Unlikely to Dent Corporate Deal Making - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:14] <exec> 08└─"I was referring to myself and my country, not "our" site SoylentNews, or its readers." Your post assumes the audience is American, and that you Americans can get the better of Canadians and Mexicans. That's what you said. I really find Americans who belittle the rest of us a PITA, but whatever.
[02:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Populism Surge Unlikely to Dent Corporate Deal Making - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:16] <exec> 08└─You'd trust the libtards in the rest of the MSM to cover business?
[02:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Populism Surge Unlikely to Dent Corporate Deal Making - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:19] <exec> 08└─No such thing. You either have the backing of the people or you don't. Trump does. That's reality. Learn to recognize it.
[02:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Populism Surge Unlikely to Dent Corporate Deal Making - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:21] <exec> 08└─And losing the popular vote gets you the backing of the people in what twisted universe?
[02:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Populism Surge Unlikely to Dent Corporate Deal Making - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:23] <exec> 08└─Most of the community is American. That's not me shitting on other nationalities, just traffic statistics. Strangely though, a larger percentage of the staff are from/living elsewhere than in the community as a whole.
[02:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Months on, No Linksys Router Patches for Remote Holes - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:43] <exec> 08└─I've been running Advanced Tomato and love it.
[02:48:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:18] <exec> 08└─Having wealth disparity is not a huge problem: income disparity is a problem. With large income disparity, you are no longer rewarded for hard work, or punished for being careless.
[02:48:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:20] <exec> 08└─Because there's such an abundance of jobs, it's easy to find a better one.
[02:48:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:22] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of a typing program my high-school had available. I think it was even a free download back in the day.
[02:48:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 1890 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:24] <exec> 08└─Again, misunderstanding of basic economics abounds here. The minimum wage is best understood as the floor below which it is illegal to hire an American. So because the work isn't worth the minimum it must be outsourced, done off the books by an illegal or replaced by a robot. What will not happen lo...
[02:48:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:27] <exec> 08└─Do you even read the news? Or do you even read what you write before hitting post? Good grief. When was the last time you heard about someone getting a job and having the company move to them, for example?
[02:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:29] <exec> 08└─Do you really want to go there? Ecology is often squeezed out in the name of economic growth. The fauna generally have no ability to sue for damages.
[02:48:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:31] <exec> 08└─it is the vast gulf of inequality between the U.S. and the poorest 3rd world country with just enough political stability and infrastructure to allow it to compete for your job.
[02:48:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:33] <exec> 08└─Interesting but you need to factor in at least two more points: 1) robots and AI will replace more and more human workers. 2) companies can simply move to other countries/states where the laws/taxes are more profitable for them.
[02:48:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:36] <exec> 08└─Take Google or Windows ...please!
[02:48:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:38] <exec> 08└─Robots are repaired either by other robots or by volunteers who get mentioned on the news or something in payment.
[02:50:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 107 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:08] <exec> 08└─If Radio Shack was like a mini best buy then you missed out. I remember when they were like a mini DigiKey.
[02:52:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 063D-Printing of Glass Now Possible - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:12] <exec> 08└─They use one of those resin printers. SLA/DLP: a pool of resin and light that cures it. This resin is not just binder but also glass particles. A later step gets rid of the binder and fuses the glass, the cooking takes place then, not in the printer.
[02:54:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Fight 'Fake News' in a Post-Truth Environment - 1402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:08] <exec> 08└─That sort of 'fake news' was easy to spot. It was obvious. Tabloids would only appeal to the people who do not care they are mislead or can really not tell. A small enough group to not really mater. There is a different style that most people are starting to see. I personally saw it about 20 years a...
[02:54:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Fight 'Fake News' in a Post-Truth Environment - 938 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:10] <exec> 08└─He picked a racial one. But the whole media is full of that shit. I have come to the conclusion you can not figure out what they are saying unless you know their pre-bias they are going to spin it with. Hell one station had a 'no spin zone'. I think they could have powered the entire state of califo...
[02:54:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Fight 'Fake News' in a Post-Truth Environment - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:12] <exec> 08└─He should know they are fake. He probably made them up to find out who he could trust.
[02:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Fight 'Fake News' in a Post-Truth Environment - 1927 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:14] <exec> 08└─This exchange really reminds me of a piece at 538 [fivethirtyeight.com] a while back. The basic story: there's a guy out there who claims to study false but well-known debunking stories. His classic example is the idea that spinach contains a lot of iron and is thus a super food (hence Popeye, etc.)...
[02:56:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Urged to Dump Trump - 1099 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:56:01] <exec> 08└─It might be argued that he didn't win the popular vote. But, he did win the electoral college vote - that old "representative" part of "representative democracy". Both parties have been happy enough with the process by which presidents are elected, for a long long time. Both parties have had their c...
[02:56:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Urged to Dump Trump - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:56:02] <exec> 08└─Reading comprehension - visit a community college near you. I was a suckling baby when Ike was president. I didn't have an opinion about Eisenhower, until much later in life. Have you ever thought of putting Runaway on ignore, so that you don't have to read his opinions? Oh - sorry - you have that r...
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[03:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Preliminary Results of Breakthrough Listen Project Released - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:40] <exec> 08└─If ET is out there it probably has enough tech to make a pretty obvious signal. We have not seen it. So we can probably conclude that if ET is out there it ain't using radio or the optical frequencies we have been looking at. So there is physics we don't understand and we aren't looking for the righ...
[03:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Preliminary Results of Breakthrough Listen Project Released - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:41] <exec> 08└─This answer always amuses me. We just have to discover subspace and warp drive and it'll be STAR TREK!!!!!omgomgomg!!! except for that communism part, since that wouldn't happen in jmorris' fantasies.
[03:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Preliminary Results of Breakthrough Listen Project Released - 1087 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:43] <exec> 08└─Besides ignoring the other two possibilities I mentioned, nothing in my wondering if we lack the physics to see any signal being sent out implies FTL communication or travel. Normal optical and radio frequencies are subject to many distortions and noise. Perhaps ET is sending something else in an ot...
[03:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Plastic-Eating Caterpillars Can Degrade Polyethylene - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:53] <exec> 08└─How exactly does someone patent "We found something, think this might be happening, so we own all of it - though we're not sure what 'it' is yet"?
[03:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Populism Surge Unlikely to Dent Corporate Deal Making - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:22] <exec> 08└─Yes, we're all very sorry that your feels got hurt by losing, Hillary. Don't you have money you should be busy laundering or contracts to take out on your enemies? I mean, really, posting on SN?
[03:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Populism Surge Unlikely to Dent Corporate Deal Making - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:23] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't count on it. If you want a vision of the future, imagine a violently imposed monopoly stamping on a human face - forever.
[03:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Populism Surge Unlikely to Dent Corporate Deal Making - 815 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:26] <exec> 08└─No chance, Le Pen will get close to what she just got, might even manage to crack 1/3 of the vote if things really get whacky. I'd put money she doesn't get to half with all of the other candidates already having or soon to endorse the Communist. Her only hope is to get close enough to frighten the...
[03:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03idetuxs [2990] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Global Populism Surge Unlikely to Dent Corporate Deal Making - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:28] <exec> 08└─populism doesn't exclude "nationalist bigotry"
[03:48:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:33] <exec> 08└─No, unions are the answer to your point. They need not even be localized. They could simply be all class-3 widget makers declaring that class-3 widgets will not be made for under $23/hr across the nation. Mind you, they're each and every one cannibalistic by nature and will end up destroying the job...
[03:48:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:34] <exec> 08└─So basically this is a plot to discredit basic income by paying welfare and calling it basic income.
[03:48:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:36] <exec> 08└─It is a matter of opinion whether what the did was worth what they got.
[03:48:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 777 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:38] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, you would be paying 50%+ on the rest too, where do you think the money is coming from to redistribute? These rules are only for a pilot program anyway. I ran the numbers for here in the U.S. and I get it requiring about 22 1/2% of GDP to fund that 16, 989 per adult in the U.S. Or about...
[03:48:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03dyingtolive [952] 02 - 06Robert M. Pirsig, Author of “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,” Dies at 88 - 173 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:47] <exec> 08└─Definitely one of those books that I feel had a very influential and profound effect upon me when I first read it. I heartily recommend it to anyone who like to read things.
[03:49:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robert M. Pirsig, Author of “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,” Dies at 88 - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:49:08] <exec> 08└─I was going to mod you flamebait, then I noticed it was you and didn't bother as "ethanol-fueled" and "troll"/"flamebait" are synonymous terms.
[03:49:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robert M. Pirsig, Author of “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,” Dies at 88 - 883 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:49:09] <exec> 08└─You've got the shim story correct (according to my memory...where it also stuck). The friend/artist looked to BMW and their genuine parts as the source of perfection. Whereas the author was a perfectly good troubleshooter and mechanic, just not anointed by the almighty German firm. The other fix for...
[03:49:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robert M. Pirsig, Author of “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,” Dies at 88 - 1673 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:49:11] <exec> 08└─In my memory, he offers up the empty can of a beer he had been drinking as a source of shims, but as you say, _my_ memory may also be incorrect -- it's been decades since I read it. Two parts stuck with me the most: First, was the thread interwoven throughout the story about the beauty of function....
[03:53:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drivers Look at their Phones on 88 Percent of Trips - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:05] <exec> 08└─The headline is about a percentage of trips, not a percentage of drivers. I conclude that some trips are too banal to share on social media.
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[04:45:42] <exec> 08└─In the civilised world we have child labour laws that actually work.
[04:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:43] <exec> 08└─If only those Republican-voting snowflakes who they think that they might some day be wealthy would realize that they won't ever join the ranks of the wealthy, and that the Republican tax breaks for the wealthy will never benefit them. They should realize that Republican policies are aimed at increa...
[04:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03idetuxs [2990] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Global Populism Surge Unlikely to Dent Corporate Deal Making - 1244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:34] <exec> 08└─I suggest to look at South American countries, the incubators of populism (of this decade at least) QUoting the first paragraph of wikipedia's definition: "Its goal is uniting the uncorrupt and the unsophisticated "little man" *against* the corrupt dominant elites (usually established politicians) a...
[04:48:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:45] <exec> 08└─Block him from SoylentNews!!! [soylentnews.org]
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[05:45:42] <exec> 08└─Chicago would be the next Detroit if not for the financial sector keeping the city from crumbling down and falling into Lake Michigan. Outside of downtown where the quants work and gentrified condo neighborhoods where the quants live, Chicago is all vacant lots, abandoned storefronts, failing busine...
[05:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:43] <exec> 08└─If only we can jail ambitious people and stop them from ever becoming wealthy in the first place.
[05:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:45] <exec> 08└─If only those snowflakes would have voted Democrat, they could have received small business loans to open their own coffee shops to compete with Starbucks, because, aw crap. Small business is dead in this country. If only those snowflakes would have voted Green! Then we'd all have Basic Income by no...
[05:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 661 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:47] <exec> 08└─Given that Trump got in with the slogan "Make America Great" and seemingly little else of substance, I do wonder what the sentiment is like in the average US citizen? How do stats like this not hit some serious wake-up calls that the country isn't going in the right direction at the moment? I've nev...
[05:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:50] <exec> 08└─Part of the problem is that all the economic growth is in the cities, but cost of housing in the cities is increasing even more rapidly, mostly due to limited supply. That makes it hard for people to move from a rural area to a city to look for a better paying job.
[05:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:52] <exec> 08└─How do you think it happened? New guy comes in and promises golden rainbows in the midst of doom-and-gloom, while the other candidate is the same as the previous guy. PS If anybody is leaving the US, can we exchange citizenship or something? America still better than the other hellholes, by a huge m...
[05:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:54] <exec> 08└─... in the midst of doom-and-gloom
[05:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:56] <exec> 08└─I guess it depends on your occupation, if you're blue collar, it's been doom and gloom since the 70s.
[05:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:59] <exec> 08└─It's been doom and terror for the past 16 years. They hate us for our freedoms to drive an Uber and be poor! Support the troops in our designated overseas warzones.
[05:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:01] <exec> 08└─You have a good point, in that no party seems to be offering serious solutions to this problem. Bernie Sanders, on the other hand, does seem to get both the problem and its magnitude.
[05:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:03] <exec> 08└─Thankfully no liberal actually wants to do that or promotes a policy which would even inadvertently cause this. I'm glad that's just an absurd right wing hyperbolic scaremongering tactic to fool gullible rubes into voting against their own self-interest.
[05:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Preliminary Results of Breakthrough Listen Project Released - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:14] <exec> 08└─If ET is out there it probably has enough tech to make a pretty obvious signal.
[05:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Preliminary Results of Breakthrough Listen Project Released - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:17] <exec> 08└─Because there is no reason not to share knowledge, barring FTL they have no need to worry of invasion.
[05:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Populism Surge Unlikely to Dent Corporate Deal Making - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:59] <exec> 08└─Oh so it's no true populism!
[05:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Months on, No Linksys Router Patches for Remote Holes - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:21] <exec> 08└─Basic Income? No, we clearly need Python Income.
[05:55:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Radioactive Boy Scout" David Charles Hahn was Regularly Visited by FBI - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:55:19] <exec> 08└─they tried over and over for years to get the guy into some semi-false-flag op where they either make some prosecuter's career OR they let him do a dirty bomb and then clamp down on civil rights as a response,
[05:56:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Urged to Dump Trump - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:56:36] <exec> 08└─If you voted for Trump, apologize, promise never to vote for a charlatan game show host again, admit Clinton was the better choice, and this convo can continue. Otherwise I'm not interested in someone disconnected from reality and decent morality.
[05:56:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Urged to Dump Trump - 1013 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:56:38] <exec> 08└─Because for going on two decades Musk has been shown himself, over and over, willing to risk it all for endeavors that aren't about maximizing profit but about maximal benefit to society. If you want to actually make money then starting an electric car company and an aerospace company are not exactl...
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[06:45:47] <exec> 08└─Who sucked whose cock?
[06:45:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber vs Apple — Kalanick cut off by Cook - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:48] <exec> 08└─His whole "act first, get permission later" shtick seemed like just smart business at first. But damn, nigga! You keep doing that shit everywhere and pretty soon you will find yourself in jail. We really should have paid attention to the fact that he named the company after an ayn rand dystopian fan...
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[06:45:50] <exec> 08└─Never trust a Nietzschean.
[06:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 1003 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:10] <exec> 08└─Bullshit false equivalence. Democrats hold the line on inequality because that's all you can hope to do in 4 or 8 years. Then the GOP gets in there and makes things worse, every time, and people get fed up. Then Democrats get in and stem the tide of rising inequality while undoing the damage done by...
[06:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:12] <exec> 08└─It's truly sad to think that you actually believe that. "How do you know when a politician is lying? His lips are moving." may be a joke but it's also a statistical fact. Aside from brief moments of altruism after Thanksgiving dinner when they're too stuffed to scheme, not a one of them ever stops t...
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[06:46:14] <exec> 08└─http://requiemfortheamericandream.com/watch/ [requiemfortheamericandream.com]
[06:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:16] <exec> 08└─It is the best place in the world only if you value standard of living (not relative wealth, actual standard of living) and liberty. If those don't matter to you, you're probably better off elsewhere.
[06:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:18] <exec> 08└─Yes as an American I'm aware of my standard of living. No jobs, no healthcare, crumbling roads, library hours dwindling, museum admission prices skyrocketing, bus drivers too apathetic to stop at bus stops. And wherever I go I see people spitting on the street. I hate America as much as the next Ame...
[06:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Preliminary Results of Breakthrough Listen Project Released - 924 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:30] <exec> 08└─It cold also be something as simple as "nobody nearby is actively trying to be heard by savages". I've heard that an alien race with identical technology to our own would find it almost impossible to detect us even from only a few light years away, and even then it might only be our high-power milit...
[06:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Preliminary Results of Breakthrough Listen Project Released - 2080 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:31] <exec> 08└─Way I see it is there are two possibilities. If we stick to the limit that FTL is not possible. Lets work the problem. Assume ET is 10,000 light years away and has improbable tech that would permit 0.5C travel. 1. Tech expands almost unlimited at something like our current breakneck speed, perhaps e...
[06:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Populism Surge Unlikely to Dent Corporate Deal Making - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:15] <exec> 08└─> You'd trust the libtards in the rest of the MSM to cover business? I remember when I taught you the word 'libtard' — you were so ignorant you thought it was a slight against libertarians. Now its your favorite word, you wail on it every chance you get, like boy who just started puberty and reali...
[06:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Populism Surge Unlikely to Dent Corporate Deal Making - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:16] <exec> 08└─I haven't heard anything about TPP or whatever its next incarnation is meant to be. I know that with Mexico we have the upper hand in negotiations by far, and that the same goes for Canada.
[06:47:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Populism Surge Unlikely to Dent Corporate Deal Making - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:19] <exec> 08└─The word populism covers a lot of territory. Trump's populism - anti-establishment authoritarianism, essentially replacing complex institutions with a simplistic concentration of corruption in a man and his family - is a common form. But it isn't the only kind. Sanders has also has an enemy, the 1%,...
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[06:47:21] <exec> 08└─> Le Pen herself is to the left of Bernie if you discount her one good idea of wanting to close the borders And her denial of France's complicity in the holocaust. That's another great idea!
[06:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Populism Surge Unlikely to Dent Corporate Deal Making - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:23] <exec> 08└─Apparently math is not for the birds. Winning an election with 3 million less votes than the other guy just means you won the election, you sure didn't win the backing of the people. That fact is reflected in trumps inability to accomplish anything. He's been excellent at letting important stuff go...
[06:47:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Populism Surge Unlikely to Dent Corporate Deal Making - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:25] <exec> 08└─Of course the deals will continue. Didn't you watch Trump's campaign? At his rallies, working class voters would chant "cut taxes on corporations and limited liability partnerships" with enormous enthusiasm.
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[06:47:27] <exec> 08└─"Prevent those inheriting over $10m from being taxed" - another crowd favorite.
[06:50:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robert M. Pirsig, Author of “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,” Dies at 88 - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:50:09] <exec> 08└─You know, posting this has made me dig out my copy! And as you might imagine, the library of a 2400 year old philosopher can be rather large. Fortunately I have moved several times recently. But I seem to be missing the back cover of the paperback edition, and although there is an ad at the bottom o...
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[06:50:11] <exec> 08└─Agree. First 2 times were the best tho.
[06:50:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robert M. Pirsig, Author of “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,” Dies at 88 - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:50:13] <exec> 08└─Lila is not good. Reads like ad copy. It's like Pirsig had a point to prove how he solved everything. Maybe will try again in a few years.
[06:50:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robert M. Pirsig, Author of “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,” Dies at 88 - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:50:15] <exec> 08└─Philosophy would have been my major if I had done philosophy. Can haz cred 2?
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[07:45:48] <exec> 08└─Defacing accounts that don't belong to him is wrong and violates freedom of speech.
[07:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber vs Apple — Kalanick cut off by Cook - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:58] <exec> 08└─You'd have thunk that all their App Store vetting policies would have caught that. Or does it have nothing to do with the App Store at all, because the app is gone and the device reset? And hence, none of their business anyway? Or do Apple just rely on people noticing that apps are doing creepy thin...
[07:46:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 367 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:08] <exec> 08└─If only those Republican-voting snowflakes who they think that they might some day be wealthy would realize that they won't ever join the ranks of the wealthy, and that the Republican tax breaks for the wealthy will never benefit them. They should realize that Republican policies are aimed at increa...
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[07:46:19] <exec> 08└─Bullshit false equivalence. Democrats hold the line on inequality because that's all you can hope to do in 4 or 8 years. Then the GOP gets in there and makes things worse, every time, and people get fed up. Then Democrats get in and stem the tide of rising inequality while undoing the damage done by...
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[07:46:25] <exec> 08└─I say we identify early, and staple their scrotums to the bench, to save them from committing later crimes against humanity.
[07:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:27] <exec> 08└─Scrotums and/or labia, Shirley.
[07:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:29] <exec> 08└─No, pretty sure it would only be scrotums, unless you want to include Betsy DeVos. But even then, I am not convinced that a) she had anything substantial in the raking in millions from the barely legal pyramid scheme that is Amway, or b) that she does not actually have a scrotum.
[07:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:31] <exec> 08└─increasing wealth inequality, not helping people move upwards in society So long as the rich get richer, those aren't mutually exclusive.
[07:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:33] <exec> 08└─I'll volunteer to identify them, you'll snatch them up in the middle of the night!
[07:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plastic-Eating Caterpillars Can Degrade Polyethylene - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:56] <exec> 08└─Must be a thing with Italians working for Spanish institutuions [wikipedia.org].
[07:48:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Three Months on, No Linksys Router Patches for Remote Holes - 875 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:48:00] <exec> 08└─If you want open-source, libre firmware for SOHO routers, you might prefer to look at the LEDE project (Linux Embedded Development Environment) ( https://lede-project.org [lede-project.org] ) , which is a fork of the OpenWrt project which later remerged*. Current firmware is LEDE 17.01.1 (In contra...
[07:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three Months on, No Linksys Router Patches for Remote Holes - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:48:02] <exec> 08└─I have a Buffalo router and it is great (running OpenWRT). Even the company is great (at least, when I last interacted with the a few years ago). I sent them an email thanking them for their stance on alternative firmware and the person responded appreciatively and said they would bring it up in the...
[07:48:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 625 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:48:38] <exec> 08└─I think his point might be that your minimum wage job now pays 50% for the first $17k. You'd better be making a lot more than that, to have an incentive to bother to get out of bed and put the kids in daycare. "Normal" fixed UBI doesn't discourage you from working if you want, because everything ext...
[07:48:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 1039 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:48:58] <exec> 08└─How about--this is really revolutionary, you guys--how about people get it through their heads that the economy is for humanity, not humanity for the economy, and pass some simplifying laws. Easy ones. Things like "For any publicly-traded company, if you can't pay your workers enough that they can s...
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[07:50:28] <exec> 08└─For some Zen literature, you could always read Zen in the Art of Archery which preceded the motorcycle maintenance book.
[07:50:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bacteria's DNA Fingerprint Suggests it Could be Spreading via Food Distribution - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:50:43] <exec> 08└─No, "Toxic megacolon" sounds more like an article title covering a dissertation on over-use of the colon in the English language.
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[07:53:16] <exec> 08└─Funny, that's the same thing my car mechanic says. When things are more complicated than put car on blocks, change oil, he gets agitated. His geopoliitical solution to the middle east is exactly what you said. Great minds etc.
[07:57:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Urged to Dump Trump - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:57:30] <exec> 08└─Thank you, Runaway, thank you! The merest derogatory response from you fills me with insight and stuff! I am so amazed that people could ignore you! How is that even possible? I know people who log in from the other side of the world just to read your latest comments. They really enjoy the ones abo...
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[08:46:02] <exec> 08└─Right on, nigga! Praise Osiris!
[08:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03nixmule [6570] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06ISIS Threaten Hacker After He Fills Jihadi Twitter Accounts With Porn - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:04] <exec> 08└─But in this particular case I'm not even mad.
[08:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ISIS Threaten Hacker After He Fills Jihadi Twitter Accounts With Porn - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:06] <exec> 08└─Would you be mad if I hacked your SN account and filled your journal with gay incest fiction?
[08:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ISIS Threaten Hacker After He Fills Jihadi Twitter Accounts With Porn - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:08] <exec> 08└─I suspect nixmule doesn't behead people
[08:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ISIS Threaten Hacker After He Fills Jihadi Twitter Accounts With Porn - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:10] <exec> 08└─>incest fiction Oh that's the guy who put all those pics of motherboards in my feed.
[08:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06ISIS Threaten Hacker After He Fills Jihadi Twitter Accounts With Porn - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:13] <exec> 08└─All you need now is to mount a honeypot and send the beheaders to a swat team. If only we werent in bed with terrorists...
[08:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ISIS Threaten Hacker After He Fills Jihadi Twitter Accounts With Porn - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:15] <exec> 08└─How does saying something offensive from someone else identity violate free speech? I just don't see it. Also, the haxxor did in fact owned the accounts he used to post from, just before the posting happened.
[08:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber vs Apple — Kalanick cut off by Cook - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:25] <exec> 08└─Vetting: Is it rude? Will any faith-based types complain about it? Does it try to bypass the payments system? Does it do anything obviously criminal? Then, when someone complains, yank it, and tell everyone the problem wasn't related to the app or the vetting, but "something else".
[08:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Plastic-Eating Caterpillars Can Degrade Polyethylene - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:19] <exec> 08└─Dr Bombelli and colleague Federica Bertocchini of the Spanish National Research Council have patented the discovery.
[08:48:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Populism Surge Unlikely to Dent Corporate Deal Making - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:48:01] <exec> 08└─So now uzzard is pro trump after saying so many times that he wasn't. Liar, hypocrite, douchebag. You are many shades of terrible, but at least you got downmodded for it.
[08:48:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Populism Surge Unlikely to Dent Corporate Deal Making - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:48:03] <exec> 08└─Don't bother, jmorris and tmb are either total whack job idiot savants, massive trolls (non exclusive), or paid shills. Don't waste your typing unless it is for the benefit of the readers. Nearly every "fact based" comment they make gets rebutted with better info. They ways have the wrong idea about...
[08:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Months on, No Linksys Router Patches for Remote Holes - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:48:28] <exec> 08└─I suspect the editor believed it should be "Linksys are yet to", believing that linksys are a group of people rather than a single entitiy.
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[09:46:05] <exec> 08└─> In before Twitter apologizes to ISIS. This is a great story because it illustrates how buzzard's claim to support of absolute freedom of speech is just hypocritical support for speech he agrees with. He will cheerlead for milo pedolopolous to the point of pretending that milo's own self-published...
[09:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:46] <exec> 08└─Your nihilism is tedious. Just because you are a social retard doesn't mean everybody else is. If you have half a brain you'd realize your own ignorance and work to figure out why you so utterly suck at understanding people. But that takes work and humility. So instead you take the easy out and just...
[09:47:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Populism Surge Unlikely to Dent Corporate Deal Making - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:47:54] <exec> 08└─Everybody could see right through the guy's denials/ If you are racist, you like trump. The mighty racist is mighty racist, his love for trump was pre-ordained.
[09:52:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06Documentary Highlights Mass Die-Off of Malls - 5006 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:52:43] <exec> 08└─^ THIS ^ The only reason a business owner is going to put with extortionate rent is if it is profitable. What killed malls? Technology killed the malls. They were a distribution model if you will, and they controlled the distribution channels ruthlessly. There was a time that malls were premium loca...
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[09:55:57] <exec> 08└─The ruling class seems to have taken a lessen from the Bible here.
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[10:46:10] <exec> 08└─>incest fiction Oh that's the guy who put all those pics of motherboards in my feed.
[10:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ISIS Threaten Hacker After He Fills Jihadi Twitter Accounts With Porn - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:14] <exec> 08└─It's alright to come out of the closet now, your alternative facts have been long debunked.
[10:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ISIS Threaten Hacker After He Fills Jihadi Twitter Accounts With Porn - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:16] <exec> 08└─How does the First Amendment apply to the case of a pissing contest between a hacker and a bunch of murderous goat-humpers? There are certainly statutory issues of property and moral issues of content at play, but I see no Constitutional point of law here.
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[10:46:19] <exec> 08└─>buzzard's claim to support of absolute freedom of speech "absolute" really? when did he claim that?
[10:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ISIS Threaten Hacker After He Fills Jihadi Twitter Accounts With Porn - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:21] <exec> 08└─You shouldn't troll them, they're a vindictive and violent people after all :)
[10:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:47:03] <exec> 08└─You should let go of all that hatred you've got festering there in yourself. It's going to make you nothing but miserable until you do.
[10:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:47:04] <exec> 08└─And don't call me surely..... Wait a sec......
[10:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:47:07] <exec> 08└─S'funny, the jobs numbers have done nothing but increase since Obama left office and you lot were touting his "recovery" every chance you got. Oh, I get it, reality only exists when it fits your narrative.
[10:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:47:09] <exec> 08└─Yes, Alex, I'd like to take the assinine response for $2000! What is "a pathetic response to a truth?"
[10:48:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Populism Surge Unlikely to Dent Corporate Deal Making - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:48:17] <exec> 08└─Nope, I just like rubbing it in your face that you lost. To Cheeto Jesus. That was how badly everyone hated your candidate.
[10:48:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Populism Surge Unlikely to Dent Corporate Deal Making - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:48:19] <exec> 08└─Tell me more about how badly it burns to see him in office. It's music to my soul.
[10:48:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Populism Surge Unlikely to Dent Corporate Deal Making - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:48:21] <exec> 08└─Sorry, you don't get to claim that. That particularly useful bit of language was introduced to me by a shit-posting porn actress.
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[10:51:12] <exec> 08└─I read it twice. It hit me differently each time. I suspect you're also a quick reader. It flew by like a summer ride for me both times. I liked that instead of proof, it offered arguments in favour; showing, in doing so, that the subjectiveness of quality is what makes strong positions akin to tast...
[10:53:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Hartree [195] 02 - 06Obama Administration Undermined Iranian Counterproliferation - 111 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:53:53] <exec> 08└─I dunno, Sulla. I'm tempted to mod it up. It made more sense than many of the on topic replies to this article.
[10:54:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Obama Administration Undermined Iranian Counterproliferation - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:54:02] <exec> 08└─Not even very hard to be accurate: one just needs to use numbers (preferably, use those numbers properly).
[10:58:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Urged to Dump Trump - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:58:19] <exec> 08└─It is redonkadonk. /Oh god you made me say it. //I don't actually know, I'm sure I'd recognize them but I don't consume pop culture so this is an assumption based on people writing about her butt repeatedly, as in the example above
[10:58:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Urged to Dump Trump - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:58:21] <exec> 08└─Lobbyists give 220:1 returns, recently claimed. 400k is a small investment to influence major market influencers. The ad itself is not intended to make Musk do anything. It's intended to make Musk look bad or distract him. This guy (or more likely others in a consortium) have shorted Musk and will m...
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[10:58:23] <exec> 08└─Let me quote and emphasize from the parent what made me ask that question: Dumping Obama was a great idea too. Dissidents got branded as racists forever for dumping Obama. Lost their jobs in the middle of the Great Recession, never worked again. I've met folks who Dumped Obama and they eat dog food...
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[11:46:00] <exec> 08└─Its sad how the only time conservatives give a shit about gay rights is when they can uses them as a club to bash muslims. Meanwhile, in america support for marriage equality is higher among muslims than it is among evangelicals. [reason.com] And of course, utter silence about american evangelicals...
[11:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:02] <exec> 08└─Your blatant politicizing of the deaths of those you purport extremely loudly to care about is also noted.
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[11:46:04] <exec> 08└─> Your blatant politicizing of the deaths of those you purport extremely loudly to care about is also noted. Is that some kind of "I know you are but what am I" defense?
[11:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:06] <exec> 08└─Sweety, there is nothing even approaching conservative about me. It just looks that way to you because you're blinded by your side's insistence on a two party narrative.
[11:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:09] <exec> 08└─What does a semantic argument about the definition of "conservative" have to do with the fact that you and your fellow travelers DGAF about gay rights? Absolutely Nothing. Why is that your response to an accusation of politicizing people's deaths for your own political goals? Deflection.
[11:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:11] <exec> 08└─I like how it is claimed that there are no gays in Chechnya, these men were merely suspected, so it doesn't count. "How can you eliminate something that doesn't even exist?" 10/10 logic, can't argue with that.
[11:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:13] <exec> 08└─I didn't politicize this. You did. I just shared a story on a terrible thing that was happening. And you don't have a clue what you're talking about when you say I don't give a fuck about gay rights. Gays are human and I'm a strong proponent of human rights. You misunderstand this because you think...
[11:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:15] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile in the Middle-East (Syria, Yemen, Iraq, ...), people are bombed to death in scores and no mention of that because it is not "disturbing". And when a few gay men are stopped from harming society (from that society's point of view), it is "disturbing"? The government is reportedly hoarding[...
[11:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:17] <exec> 08└─Its OK for Chechnya to round up gays though, because American muslims support gay marriage.
[11:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cloud Solution Proposed for Coral Bleaching - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:26] <exec> 08└─So they plan to upload the corals to a server farm? :-)
[11:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ISIS Threaten Hacker After He Fills Jihadi Twitter Accounts With Porn - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:46] <exec> 08└─The guy constantly rides around on that high horse. For example: by The Mighty Buzzard (18) on Friday April 14, @01:40PM (#493954 [soylentnews.org]) All offensive speech is the most important kind to protect because you can always find someone offended by anything.
[11:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ISIS Threaten Hacker After He Fills Jihadi Twitter Accounts With Porn - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:47] <exec> 08└─So he takes over the account of an organization well known for beheading people just for disagreeing with their world view and fills it with stuff that is meant to offend them, and now he's surprised that they threaten to behead him? Honestly, I would have been surprised if he didn't get such threat...
[11:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ISIS Threaten Hacker After He Fills Jihadi Twitter Accounts With Porn - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:49] <exec> 08└─Please cite a real source where it says that he was surprised.
[11:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber vs Apple — Kalanick cut off by Cook - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:47:01] <exec> 08└─If Uber was big enough, it could do practically anything, including murdering people during the day and Apple would not even mention that. The world has been corrupted by those with absolute power, and they are not Fascists. Its good that Uber does not have to be around for very long and that it doe...
[11:47:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02 - 06Preliminary Results of Breakthrough Listen Project Released - 1087 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:47:45] <exec> 08└─Besides ignoring the other two possibilities I mentioned, nothing in my wondering if we lack the physics to see any signal being sent out implies FTL communication or travel. Normal optical and radio frequencies are subject to many distortions and noise. Perhaps ET is sending something else in an ot...
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[12:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:03] <exec> 08└─> Sevier is a disbarred attorney who has sued major tech companies, blaming them for his pornography addiction, and sued states for the right to marry his laptop. Reporters Ben Collins and Brandy Zadrozny uncovered a lengthy legal history for Sevier, including an open arrest warrant and stalking con...
[12:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:04] <exec> 08└─Nah, not really. But it is par for the course for the party that is consistently interested in regulating sexuality.
[12:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:22] <exec> 08└─"If any of my relatives realize I'm gay, they won't hesitate a minute before killing me," said one 28-year-old victim according to the outlet. "And if they don't do it, they will get killed themselves for failing to uphold the family honor."
[12:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03justinb_76 [4362] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:23] <exec> 08└─meanwhile there won't be a peep about homosexuals being executed legally by the state because you know, racism and/or islamophobia... https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[12:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 1034 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:25] <exec> 08└─> I didn't politicize this. You did. I just shared a story on a terrible thing that was happening. Your mendacity isn't fooling anyone. >And you don't have a clue what you're talking about when you say I don't give a fuck about gay rights. Yet you never mention gay rights in any context other than m...
[12:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:28] <exec> 08└─The Criminal Zionist Khazar Jews are behind these "disturbing" manufactured, promoted "news". Send them all to hell. Shifting focus somewhere else, to something insignificant so you wouldn't notice you are being pushed into another World War of their making.
[12:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:30] <exec> 08└─A link to milo yiannopoulos's web site really brings credibility to the story, right? Right? You may have the right to the freedom of speech, but I also have a right not to listen to it if you use your speech to peddle bullshit. There, I said it.
[12:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:32] <exec> 08└─As he's said before, [soylentnews.org] he doesn't give a damn about the quality of discussion, he just wants to make noise. He's an insecure pissant who is all about the attention but can't back up his beliefs with anything more complex than "I'm smart and yer dumb." I love watching people dismiss...
[12:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:34] <exec> 08└─Yet you never mention gay rights in any context other than muslims.
[12:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:36] <exec> 08└─Yes, in fact I do.
[12:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06ISIS Threaten Hacker After He Fills Jihadi Twitter Accounts With Porn - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:06] <exec> 08└─The hacker pissed off the Israelis. He hacked the accounts of one of their militias and mercenaries meant to destabilize large parts of the world in order to be taken over. ISIS Paying Foreign Fighters $1,000 Per Month [nbcnews.com] Their paycheck is coming from the Israelis and their lapdog Americc...
[12:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ISIS Threaten Hacker After He Fills Jihadi Twitter Accounts With Porn - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:08] <exec> 08└─I don't see anything indicating that he hacked their accounts and did this. I don't even see any evidence that he is supporting the actions the hacker took. At least not in the summary. Are you sure you're not reading something that doesn't exist but you want it to?
[12:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber vs Apple — Kalanick cut off by Cook - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:21] <exec> 08└─when 'we' as a society value profit uber alles, then what will be the end result ? ? ? 99% of the people are worthless, and zillionaires are the best and most deserving on the planet... um, given the premise of profit uber alles, *what* other possible outcome can you expect ? ? ?
[12:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:58] <exec> 08└─Oh, come on, W wasn't a movie star or a game show host, he was a spoiled rich and powerful frat boy - just like all the rubes wish they were.
[12:49:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Populism Surge Unlikely to Dent Corporate Deal Making - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:11] <exec> 08└─Tell me more about how badly it burns to see him in office. It's music to my soul.
[12:49:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Populism Surge Unlikely to Dent Corporate Deal Making - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:12] <exec> 08└─Your fantasies about me are disgusting, but unsurprising.
[12:49:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Months on, No Linksys Router Patches for Remote Holes - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:39] <exec> 08└─In case any thread reader missed it a BrickerBot is already on the hunt "Rash of in-the-Wild Attacks Permanently Destroys Poorly Secured IoT Devices [soylentnews.org]" (2017-04-07). Destroying IoT attack vectors for fun and security. BickerBot.2 was out by the time of the original source article [ra...
[12:49:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Months on, No Linksys Router Patches for Remote Holes - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:40] <exec> 08└─Establish a law that put the manufacturer in 20 year update obligation unless full documentation or source is made available?
[12:51:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06Robert M. Pirsig, Author of “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,” Dies at 88 - 167 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:51:47] <exec> 08└─... one of those books that more or less defined an era..... does not resonate the way it did in the '70's..... one year, in the early '80's it just stopped working...
[12:51:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02 - 06Robert M. Pirsig, Author of “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,” Dies at 88 - 1485 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:51:56] <exec> 08└─To explain my last line, there are two things from "Zen and the Art" that have stayed with me. The first is the consideration of "stuckness" that Pirsig gives: what do you do if, when working on your motorcycle, you snap off the head of the screw you need to remove? This is an analogy for all kinds...
[12:52:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robert M. Pirsig, Author of “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,” Dies at 88 - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:07] <exec> 08└─You're coming off petulant about that 50k you spent on your gender studies degree, brah.
[12:52:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bacteria's DNA Fingerprint Suggests it Could be Spreading via Food Distribution - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:23] <exec> 08└─For some visual shocking examples of "mega" this or that in medicine, search images of Chagas disease.
[12:55:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03infodragon [3509] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Obama Administration Undermined Iranian Counterproliferation - 2070 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:55:01] <exec> 08└─In the same line the only people, group of people, Jesus had anything "negative" to say about were the religious leaders at the time. Not all of them but every time Jesus is "coming down" on someone are the religious leaders. He even called them vipers, which is quite a descriptive analogy. A viper...
[12:57:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Fight 'Fake News' in a Post-Truth Environment - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:57:26] <exec> 08└─Or one can just have some due diligence before accepting information? ;) I recall when a local paper started with a debunking section. Well they got most right but seemed to lack serious capability to actually pay attention and not be under the influence of vested interests. So they got the *plonk*...
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[13:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:11] <exec> 08└─Consumers would be forced to pony up $20 per device in order to surf the Internet without state censorship
[13:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:13] <exec> 08└─If you build your society around the principle of imposition, then that is what you'll get: Imposition.
[13:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:15] <exec> 08└─Pornography is not speech. And a pornography ban or restriction no more hampers your right to free speech than anti-assault laws hamper your ability to express your anger by punching someone.
[13:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:17] <exec> 08└─With this half baked bill, where does it stop though?
[13:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:19] <exec> 08└─Or, alternatively, it is speech and is protected.
[13:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:22] <exec> 08└─Congress will never go for something that costs themselves money. They exempt themselves from the law.
[13:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:24] <exec> 08└─I had a quick look at the draft legislation in one state. Key provisions from the introduction: "pornography is a public health crisis", "...products with pre-set activated filters", "pays for the cost of..." In a nutshell: "The state is your mommy", "pay and register if you want to look at naughty...
[13:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:51] <exec> 08└─the majority-Muslim province's effort to eliminate the LGBTQ community entirely.
[13:46:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:52] <exec> 08└─Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name
[13:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:54] <exec> 08└─You just said that attached to a story I submitted about their right to life. How stupid can you possibly be?
[13:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:57] <exec> 08└─> What can I say, I'm a complex guy. You can say anything. But if you said were a socially retarded narcissist, at least that would be true.
[13:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:59] <exec> 08└─Your blatant politicizing of the deaths of those you purport extremely loudly to care about is also noted.
[13:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:01] <exec> 08└─Try it without the trailing slash, like this: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[13:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:03] <exec> 08└─Another detail is that the authorities claiming that "there are no gays in Chechnya" is a plain admission that they killed them. If they had kicked them out, we would know about it (we are talking around 10% of the population here), and there really are no other options.
[13:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:06] <exec> 08└─The problem is that they're mad at US Republicans. Yerp. Once we get rid of those, only then will people on the opposite side of the world stop murdering and oppressing others. That's why us liberals love Muslims.
[13:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:08] <exec> 08└─And yet all you've added to the conversation is substance-less invective. You even seem to be trying for High Ground with your Ad Hominem despite bravely posting as AC. Gunning for a participation trophy?
[13:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03cloud.pt [5516] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:10] <exec> 08└─As soon as the Russians stop being useful to the trumpists, Breitbart just makes a sharp turn to the left.
[13:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:12] <exec> 08└─By his own admission he submits articles to generate noise, not signal. And when he succeeds you hold everyone but him responsible? Sounds like sociopath apologia to me.
[13:48:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:34] <exec> 08└─The two are (surprisingly) not mutually exclusive. Americans are continuously concerned about economic issues (well, it comes and goes in waves a few times each generation), but the pervasive belief in American exceptionalism is pretty much unquestioned for many folks. Thus, while expressing belief...
[13:48:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Preliminary Results of Breakthrough Listen Project Released - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:49] <exec> 08└─I think you're looking for the Kardashev scale [wikipedia.org]. But I did giggle a bit. A Type I Kardashian civilization—has asses the size of a planet. A Type II Kardashian civilization—has asses the size of a star. A Type III Kardashian civilization—has asses the size of a galaxy.
[13:49:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03butthurt [6141] 02 - 06Global Populism Surge Unlikely to Dent Corporate Deal Making - 77 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:20] <exec> 08└─The term populism can designate either democratic or authoritarian movements.
[13:50:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Months on, No Linksys Router Patches for Remote Holes - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:20] <exec> 08└─The vulnerable models are: WRT Series: WRT1200AC, WRT1900AC, WRT1900ACS and WRT3200ACM. EAxxxx Series: EA2700, EA2750, EA3500, EA4500 v3, EA6100, EA6200, EA6300, EA6350 v2, EA6350 v3, EA6400, EA6500, EA6700, EA6900, EA7300, EA7400, EA7500, EA8300, EA8500, EA9200, EA9400 and EA9500.
[13:50:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Three Months on, No Linksys Router Patches for Remote Holes - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:22] <exec> 08└─I have a Buffalo WHR-HP-G54 which has been rock-solid stable for years (running on an internal, non-Internet connected network) using OpenWrt 10.03.1 (Backfire). It has too little memory and flash to reliably run a more up to date version ( https://wiki.openwrt.org [openwrt.org] ), but...
[13:55:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Obama Administration Undermined Iranian Counterproliferation - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:55:47] <exec> 08└─Not relevant since the military targets and the populations aren't located there. The lower 48 states and western Russia (where most of Russia's people are) are much further apart.
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[14:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gloves Convert Sign Language to Written Text, SMS or Speech - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:59] <exec> 08└─What's the benefit? You can already type on your phone and show it to the other person.
[14:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:18] <exec> 08└─How indoctrinated must one be to believe that the USA has free speech, even when that requires making exceptions for everything that gets censored? Porn = "not speech" Disagreeing with the ruling party = "shouting fire in a crowded theatre". Even China has free speech under the US definition.
[14:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:19] <exec> 08└─Someone put a bullet in his ear, to help him get over his pornography addiction. Just 1/2 ounce of lead will cure that problem, and others.
[14:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:21] <exec> 08└─Pornography is not speech.
[14:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:23] <exec> 08└─Pornography is not speech.
[14:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:26] <exec> 08└─Isn't this also the party that says something like: "they can take my pr0n when they pry it from my warm sticky fingers!"
[14:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:28] <exec> 08└─Why waste a perfectly good bullet on him? He's not worth it.
[14:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:30] <exec> 08└─If we don't have a government with laws, and the power of imposition to enforce those laws, then we'll instead have anarchy with other people imposing their own unregulated will upon us. I would rather have a sane, non-corrupt government. Lead in the drinking water? We'll just classify lead as an im...
[14:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:32] <exec> 08└─Congress critters need access to pr0n for legitimate "research" purposes. Therefore an exhaustive collection needs to be maintained, and the library of congress is hereby directed to do so.
[14:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:35] <exec> 08└─Can you please define Pornography? Do you have an absolute test that can be applied to anything? What about legitimate works of art that include nudity? What about works of art that also are erotic in some form? How many R rated movies would be swept up by your definition of pornography? Next, how m...
[14:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:37] <exec> 08└─Where do these clueless politicians come from? repressive church culture. every corner on every street in the deep south is a church. its bakes into their culture. they can't separate themselves from it even if they tried. it controls them and damages their thinking ability.
[14:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:39] <exec> 08└─In the Bible, would the book "Song of Solomon" be defined as pornography? If not, then what about other writings such as novels, dime store books, or classic literature? Pornography must be a new 21st century scourge because people in times past have never thought about sex. Nope. Nosiree.
[14:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:41] <exec> 08└─What about ancient stone paintings and carvings that depict sexual acts? Would those qualify as pornography?
[14:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:44] <exec> 08└─Plus, whoever gets to run that filter will be able to rake in the bucks from all sides.
[14:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03letssee [2537] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:22] <exec> 08└─While the prosecution of gays in Chechnya (and probably Iran) is certainly a real problem. Citing Breitbart and Milo Yiannopoulos as sources makes me not want to read the story or discuss the conclusions. Breitbart is so full of 'newspeak' and plain old lies that I (as a non-american) can't understa...
[14:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:23] <exec> 08└─Ah, so it's just an anti-Muslim ploy. Thank goodness, for a minute I thought there might be a human rights issue here. Glad to know we don't need to care about it. It's always good to make sure we focus on the important parts of these stories.
[14:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:26] <exec> 08└─Its sad how the only time conservatives give a shit about gay rights is when they can uses them as a club to bash muslims.
[14:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:28] <exec> 08└─By his own admission he submits articles to generate discussion, not agreement.
[14:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:30] <exec> 08└─Yes, in fact I do. I just don't cheerlead for them because I, unlike you, treat them as equal to anyone else; i.e. I don't give two shits about them unless there's something noteworthy going on.
[14:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:33] <exec> 08└─What part of "I love watching people dismiss a message" do you consider to be discussion? I don't think you get the point of words.
[14:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 1519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:35] <exec> 08└─Muslims, Christians, and Jews all follow broken combination religions and political systems that worship a cruel war god as the head of state. One of the laws of that religion is that homosexuals and crossdressers must absolutely be put to death, no exceptions. Fortunately, they all hate each other...
[14:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:37] <exec> 08└─What part of this do you think is of the left? Cechnya is Putin's go-to for inciting unthinking nationalism and support for authoritarianism. In fact, his ascendancy to the throne in 1999 was cemented by an actual false-flag attack he orchestrated and blamed on Chechens. [the-american-interest.com]...
[14:47:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:39] <exec> 08└─Also: there are no gays in Iran [dailymail.co.uk], according to Holocaust denier, supporter of terrorism and Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
[14:47:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cloud Solution Proposed for Coral Bleaching - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:49] <exec> 08└─How the hell is cloud computing going to help coral reefs? Oh wait...
[14:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ISIS Threaten Hacker After He Fills Jihadi Twitter Accounts With Porn - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:15] <exec> 08└─Ok I'd love to know how money from Israel finds its way to ISIS. The article you linked is barely three paragraphs and offers no details beyond its headline.
[14:48:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06ISIS Threaten Hacker After He Fills Jihadi Twitter Accounts With Porn - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:16] <exec> 08└─How would that make it any different than it is now? If anybody has reason to be pissed about this, anyway, its' Isis supreme commander John "McFifthColumnist" McCain.
[14:49:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:07] <exec> 08└─If only those Republican-voting snowflakes who they think that they might some day be wealthy would realize that they won't ever join the ranks of the wealthy, and that the Republican tax breaks for the wealthy will never benefit them.
[14:49:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Plastic-Eating Caterpillars Can Degrade Polyethylene - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:33] <exec> 08└─And wax worms eating your credit cards.
[14:50:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three Months on, No Linksys Router Patches for Remote Holes - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:54] <exec> 08└─Regardless of the editor's wrongly held beliefs, blockquote should obviate the need to add any sics.
[14:50:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Months on, No Linksys Router Patches for Remote Holes - 1090 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:55] <exec> 08└─Probably, even though that editor would be wrong, along with anyone who speaks British English. "LinkSys" is not a "group of people" at all; it's a legal corporate entity. While corporations usually have "groups of people" as employees, and sometimes even as owners, this isn't always the case. There...
[14:57:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drivers Look at their Phones on 88 Percent of Trips - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:30] <exec> 08└─A glance when changing lanes. Also an occasional glance at the speedometer. Ever had a deer cross the interstate right in front of you? You might hit it even if you're looking intently.
[14:57:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drivers Look at their Phones on 88 Percent of Trips - 945 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:32] <exec> 08└─Your individual anecdotes are probably correct but the most striking part of the 3rd link to "looking at the phone" was the general red glow from the american south. Which is in fact a legacy of slavery as you mention. I'd be willing to throw down other cultural southern characteristics. Obviously c...
[14:57:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drivers Look at their Phones on 88 Percent of Trips - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:34] <exec> 08└─It only takes a fraction of a second to glance at the speedometer. Not so a text.
[14:57:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drivers Look at their Phones on 88 Percent of Trips - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:36] <exec> 08└─Taking your eyes off the road any time you're moving is dangerously idiotic. Stop doing it! A glance when changing lanes. Also an occasional glance at the speedometer. So you're a hypocrite?
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[15:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dentist Accused of Extracting Teeth While Riding Hoverboard - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:06] <exec> 08└─I smell two Darwin Awards coming soon.
[15:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dentist Accused of Extracting Teeth While Riding Hoverboard - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:07] <exec> 08└─I seem to visualize it. If you wish, call it . . . a premonition.
[15:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03its_gonna_be_yuge! [6454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dentist Accused of Extracting Teeth While Riding Hoverboard - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:09] <exec> 08└─I wonder if he could see Russia while riding his hoverboard doing his dental extractions.
[15:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gloves Convert Sign Language to Written Text, SMS or Speech - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:18] <exec> 08└─I'm surprised the DOD didn't fund automated logging and transmission of infantry hand signals. I'm sure the more micromanagement style of officers would fund that. Integration with radios would be fascinating... can't see your squad leader, who cares your earpiece tells you he says to run to the lef...
[15:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:52] <exec> 08└─Plumbing wrench then?
[15:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:53] <exec> 08└─Speech should be free because people should have the freedom to do whatever they want as long as they aren't infringing someone else's right to life, liberty, or property. When somebody else exercises their freedom, whether or not it is "speech" is irrelevant as far as determining whether or not the...
[15:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:55] <exec> 08└─every corner on every street in the deep south is a church. its bakes into their culture. they can't separate themselves from it even if they tried.
[15:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:57] <exec> 08└─Poe's Law strikes again!
[15:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:59] <exec> 08└─Pornography is not and should never be protected by free speech laws because no one ever tried to express themselves through pornography. That is not why pornography is made. A video can be speech, that video can even include nudity and sex, but pornography is a sub type of video that is never speec...
[15:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:02] <exec> 08└─Where do I send my $20? I've got Natalie Portman and a tub of hot grits so what's an extra $20?
[15:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:04] <exec> 08└─no one ever tried to express themselves through pornography.
[15:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:06] <exec> 08└─people should have the freedom to do whatever they want as long as they aren't infringing someone else's right to life, liberty, or property.
[15:47:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03letssee [2537] 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 371 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:45] <exec> 08└─While the prosecution of gays in Chechnya (and probably Iran) is certainly a real problem. Citing Breitbart and Milo Yiannopoulos as sources makes me not want to read the story or discuss the conclusions. Breitbart is so full of 'newspeak' and plain old lies that I (as a non-american) can't understa...
[15:47:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:54] <exec> 08└─Tmb is their special leader, he is the Tump of soylentnews. I checked Slashdot the other day, I'm close to migrating back there as the ads are becoming less annoying than the libertarian trolls around here. I don't think they realize or care that their crappy trolling is ruining the site, they just...
[15:47:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:56] <exec> 08└─Smart people would call this "common ground".
[15:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:59] <exec> 08└─That's what happens when you let yourself get trolled by somebody like TMB who's an expert at "trapping hands."
[15:48:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:01] <exec> 08└─Can't it be both things at once? I'm glad that, in this moment, more people are becoming sympathetic to the plight of homosexuals in less civilized parts of the world. But like I said in a longwinded way in a longer comment below, it's not something that should engender trust. They absolutely are no...
[15:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:03] <exec> 08└─I don't think they realize or care that their crappy trolling is ruining the site,
[15:48:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03pe1rxq [844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:05] <exec> 08└─Is the point of SN to give one troll a podium against the rest of the world? If so this article is a great success.
[15:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:08] <exec> 08└─I didn't politicize this.
[15:48:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 1650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:10] <exec> 08└─Having been personally harmed by Christian violence and child abuse, it took me a while to see that Muslims were no better. I would encourage liberals to realize that, assuming they're simply not partisans, Muslims are using the same source material as Christians, so every reason one might have for...
[15:48:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:12] <exec> 08└─JFC would you quit with the whinging already?
[15:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:14] <exec> 08└─Alright, then don't listen and just fuck off. I want to hear what he has to say.
[15:48:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cloud Solution Proposed for Coral Bleaching - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:24] <exec> 08└─I was hoping "alter the clouds above the reef" was going to turn out to mean "we're going to fly the Amazon Cloud above the reef, then drop it" or something like that. I don't pretend to understand how it'd help but I'd support the project.
[15:48:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ISIS Threaten Hacker After He Fills Jihadi Twitter Accounts With Porn - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:52] <exec> 08└─I'm sure they only used sheep of the opposite sex.
[15:48:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06ISIS Threaten Hacker After He Fills Jihadi Twitter Accounts With Porn - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:53] <exec> 08└─Ok I'd love to know how money from Israel finds its way to ISIS. It's delivered (along with the weapons) by the Americans through Benghazi.
[15:49:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03julian [6003] 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 254 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:28] <exec> 08└─Thankfully no liberal actually wants to do that or promotes a policy which would even inadvertently cause this. I'm glad that's just an absurd right wing hyperbolic scaremongering tactic to fool gullible rubes into voting against their own self-interest.
[15:49:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 803 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:47] <exec> 08└─I'll note that I don't vote Republican, but I have benefited from Republican tax breaks both directly through income saved from the tax man and from my employers having more money to employ people and pay higher wages. They don't pay higher wages out of the goodness of their hearts! The do so only w...
[15:49:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 1271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:49] <exec> 08└─Democrats' main job seems to be make Republican bullshit, the new normal. For example, globalism is just wonderful, until regular people might want to use such a system. 13 Democrats who helped kill Bernie Sanders' bill to allow Americans to buy drugs in Canada: https://theintercept.com
[15:49:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03lcall [4611] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 863 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:51] <exec> 08└─https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-03-28/how-utah-keeps-the-american-dream-alive [bloomberg.com] https://www.reddit.com [reddit.com] https://news.ycombinator.com [ycombinator.com] (Disclaimer: I'...
[15:49:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03lcall [4611] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:53] <exec> 08└─...which is another reason I hope the federal government stops trying to solve every problem and let states, communities, or families do it. Because we are not all alike and can learn from each others' efforts, but that is much harder if the federal level takes so much money and makes so many rules....
[15:49:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:55] <exec> 08└─The constitutional freedom to speech is quite different from many other countries. Something that various other countries like Canada [wikipedia.org], Germany [wikipedia.org] etc indirectly undermines. In Britain various companies and (rich) people (ab)uses slander laws to silence criticism. Free en...
[15:49:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:58] <exec> 08└─Perhaps this is because Democrats has to collect funding unlike Republicans that may be rich from the start. And so whoever holds the money bag sets the agenda.
[15:49:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:00] <exec> 08└─I agree with you more than you probably realize. The last good Democratic President IMO was Carter, who has been the victim of a massive and slanderous campaign of historical revisionism. After that the Clintons sold out this party to Wall Street and abandoned the white working class, who are natura...
[15:50:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:02] <exec> 08└─Part of that problem in turn is that investment capital is limited to .. cities, really large ones.
[15:50:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Preliminary Results of Breakthrough Listen Project Released - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:18] <exec> 08└─I think you're looking for the Kardashev scale.
[15:50:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Preliminary Results of Breakthrough Listen Project Released - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:19] <exec> 08└─There already is alternatives to EM spectrum transmissions namely a neutrino transmission that is something that is already known to be able to penetrate a wall made of 9 light years of solid lead. Now that is seriously better than most electromagnetic waves. There has already been a experiment to t...
[15:50:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Preliminary Results of Breakthrough Listen Project Released - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:21] <exec> 08└─Perhaps also known as.. No sane alien would contact Earthlings ;-)
[15:51:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Three Months on, No Linksys Router Patches for Remote Holes - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:57] <exec> 08└─My point is that there was nothing wrong with the source
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[16:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dentist Accused of Extracting Teeth While Riding Hoverboard - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:18] <exec> 08└─You commie liberals and your pinko socialist licensing! Why shouldn't the dentist have the freedom to ride his hoverboard while performing oral surgery? How will the state of the dental arts advance if not for experimentation? I am incensed that the state interferes in what should be a private matte...
[16:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dentist Accused of Extracting Teeth While Riding Hoverboard - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:19] <exec> 08└─The volcano went off or the meteor struck. What if is pointless only what did happen, matters.
[16:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dentist Accused of Extracting Teeth While Riding Hoverboard - 864 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:21] <exec> 08└─I think what this dentist did is condemn-able, but should it be illegal? Why should the state be interfering in this case? If the patient were injured, then there could be a crime. However, do we really want such an extensive state that "acting dumb" is per say illegal? I hate the trend to over-crim...
[16:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03a-zA-Z0-9$_.+!*'(),- (3868) (Score: 1) 02 - 06Dentist Accused of Extracting Teeth While Riding Hoverboard - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:23] <exec> 08└─not to be too blase, but isn't tooth extraction something that was done with a string connected to a door or a pair of pliers by barely trained "barbers" back in the day? It's not like he was doing a root canal while playing guitar hero. Now *that* I'd like to see.
[16:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dentist Accused of Extracting Teeth While Riding Hoverboard - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:26] <exec> 08└─I'd guess it's in the same arena as speeding is illegal, even if you don't have a car accident... Taking unnecessary risks with potential to cause injury is negligence. Another example would be building code violations, just because the building didn't fall down or the electrical installation didn't...
[16:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dentist Accused of Extracting Teeth While Riding Hoverboard - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:28] <exec> 08└─although seeing how the patient could have said "no" and walked away
[16:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Techwolf [87] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dentist Accused of Extracting Teeth While Riding Hoverboard - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:30] <exec> 08└─How far off the ground did it hover at?
[16:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dentist Accused of Extracting Teeth While Riding Hoverboard - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:33] <exec> 08└─But you can't get there unless you've got powa [youtu.be]!
[16:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dentist Accused of Extracting Teeth While Riding Hoverboard - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:35] <exec> 08└─Of course! Any good Randian bootstrapper is capable of negotiation in his sleep! Literally! You mean you can't negotiate while sedated? Are you some kind of untermensch?
[16:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gloves Convert Sign Language to Written Text, SMS or Speech - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:45] <exec> 08└─I remember seeing something like this back in the mid to late 1990's, I think it was on "Beyond 2000" or some other tech show of the time. And then hearing about someone else in the mid 2000's developing the same tech again. Be great if one of these developers could actually get these devices into p...
[16:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gloves Convert Sign Language to Written Text, SMS or Speech - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:47] <exec> 08└─Military hand signals are outdated already. They now wear a vest that can silently buzz those signals. On a different but related subject, I'm surprised they still don't have a microphone mesh network (at least 1 mic per soldier and/or drone/bot) that can determine the exact location of ambient soun...
[16:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gloves Convert Sign Language to Written Text, SMS or Speech - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:49] <exec> 08└─My mind was blown about 20 years ago seeing a similar Science Fair project (I was young at the time). That one was not terribly reliable: essentially switches glued to a glove. Computer (Apple II) decoded hand positions.
[16:47:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03theluggage [1797] 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 26 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:09] <exec> 08└─Pornography is not speech.
[16:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:31] <exec> 08└─> it's a shame that men act nothing like angels. You state exactly the proof of why laws are necessary, with the power to impose and enforce those laws. > . . . there would be voluntary contracts . . . Imaginary contracts are worth even less than verbal agreements.
[16:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:32] <exec> 08└─That's the whole point, who gets to decide. You get to decide for you, I get to decide for me, he for him, she for her, they for themselves. Freedom of speech not only means freedom of expression, but the freedom to consume(*) other people's expressions as well. (*) consume for lack of a better word...
[16:47:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03OrugTor [5147] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:34] <exec> 08└─Speaking as an AZ resident (I would never admit to being an Arizonan) I would say this guy has our legislature beaten for sheer looniness. That's quite an achievement.
[16:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:36] <exec> 08└─http://tasteofcountry.com/john-rich-stalker-arrested-teen-girl/ [tasteofcountry.com]
[16:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03OrugTor [5147] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:39] <exec> 08└─"Consume" is not just good English, it's a sophisticated word choice. Your English skills may be far better than you think.
[16:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farmer Tim [6490] (Score: 1) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:41] <exec> 08└─Pornography is not speech.
[16:47:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:43] <exec> 08└─I think the idea is that these angels would have written contracts, but I certainly agree on the basis that men are not angels. That was the point of how I framed my post.
[16:47:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:45] <exec> 08└─So we should burn all romance novels then?
[16:47:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03a-zA-Z0-9$_.+!*'(),- (3868) (Score: 1) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:48] <exec> 08└─when you need them?
[16:47:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:50] <exec> 08└─Set to background music. Now consider: the background music of any pr0n is the same as the background music for any power point presentation.
[16:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:52] <exec> 08└─But he does stumble over reading the title. So you would need to title the order something like: "The Trump Protects America Order"
[16:47:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:54] <exec> 08└─Hate speech is not an opinion if you don't actually believe what you say.
[16:47:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:57] <exec> 08└─Living is not speech. And a living ban or restriction no more hampers your right to free speech than anti-assault laws hamper your ability to express your anger by punching someone. Easy, see?
[16:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:59] <exec> 08└─they're busy fapping!
[16:48:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 1) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 1865 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:01] <exec> 08└─It is unfortunate that this is cast as an issue of speech, because it's really an issue of a much more fundamental nature (and doubly unfortunately, not one that is constitutionally well defined, although it should be.) That issue is personal liberty. When the issue at hand is a matter of informed,...
[16:48:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:59] <exec> 08└─I can't wait until the worlds' adult population pulls up their big boy pants and realizes that people are people. If you're gay, WTF can you do about it? Nothing! It's been said that "homosexuality is a choice". WTF?!?! Did i, as a teenager, look at guys and girls and say "Yeah, guys are gorgeous an...
[16:49:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:01] <exec> 08└─Considering the vast majority of the conversation on this here is about the publisher of the article, and not the actual issue being brought up, I'm going to have to say no, apparently we can't.
[16:49:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03a-zA-Z0-9$_.+!*'(),- (3868) (Score: 1) 02 - 06ISIS Threaten Hacker After He Fills Jihadi Twitter Accounts With Porn - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:41] <exec> 08└─Check out this cool live fire drill vid: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[16:50:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:43] <exec> 08└─I hope the federal government stops trying to solve every problem and let states, communities, or families do it. Show some effort in reducing state/local corruption, and you might get your wish.
[16:50:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:45] <exec> 08└─Troll troll troll, no opinions of substance, troll troll troll ARE WE HAVING FUN YET?
[16:50:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 1183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:47] <exec> 08└─I would estimate that a decent chunk (10-20%) of people see the charade for what it is. Another 40-60% see problems but still believe the US is good and everything will get worked out. Then the remaining people are true believers, "America" is the only free nation in the world (and would be offended...
[16:50:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 663 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:49] <exec> 08└─I will be the first to point out that income inequality in the U.S. has been increasing, and lower classes have not shared in the gains of the top 1% (or 0.1% or 0.01% or whatever, where wealth is increasingly concentrated). But I do have to wonder a bit about the metrics used in this study. The imp...
[16:50:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:52] <exec> 08└─:-) I think you're looking at last year's numbers. Not that it makes much difference since the jobs being offered are hardly what anybody would call 'upwardly mobile', or even anything close to being stable, just two of the hallmarks of a civilized society.
[16:50:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:54] <exec> 08└─No. HRC was the worst choice because it would cement the Clinton wing for decades. With her loss it has given the Democrats a chance to reform itself. Whether they'll embrace that chance remains to be seen, but it doesn't appear that they will, which will necessitate additional defeats until they ge...
[16:50:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 1230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:56] <exec> 08└─The Utah compassionate conservative program [bloomberg.com] seems to be about: * Housing first, before trying to address the problems that contributed to their homelessness. * Mormon Church support, ie the virtue of the population matters. * Functional bureaucracy. * Food and furniture f...
[16:52:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Months on, No Linksys Router Patches for Remote Holes - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:49] <exec> 08└─If only we had Basic Income and Open Source then Many Eyes could make the Bugs Shallow.
[16:52:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Months on, No Linksys Router Patches for Remote Holes - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:51] <exec> 08└─Establish a law that put the manufacturer in 20 year update obligation unless full documentation or source is made available?
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[17:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06Marathon Pharmaceuticals Cashes Out on Regulatory Loopholes - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:57] <exec> 08└─This is a poster-child example for crony capitalism, i.e., undeserved profits made possible through bought-and-paid-for government regulation. Less government would be more.
[17:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dentist Accused of Extracting Teeth While Riding Hoverboard - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:17] <exec> 08└─The last time anyone in my family went to a dentist in Alaska my wife was told that her checkup went great and she just had a few things to keep an eye on. She was experiencing some tooth pain so I took her to my dentist in Oregon, she had 7 cavities. Dentist put the scan up on the board to point th...
[17:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dentist Accused of Extracting Teeth While Riding Hoverboard - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:19] <exec> 08└─I'm told zero above ground. But it'll do that zero in any unit of distance you want it to!
[17:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dentist Accused of Extracting Teeth While Riding Hoverboard - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:21] <exec> 08└─Here I was all enthusiastic that hoverboards were finally a thing. And then I saw the image. That thing has WHEELS!!! Wheels are for rolling over the ground! There is nothing there that in any way, shape or form can be said to be hovering! That is by definition NOT a hoverboard! I have been lied to!...
[17:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Dentist Accused of Extracting Teeth While Riding Hoverboard - 975 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:23] <exec> 08└─Even if we totally ignore the negligence of operating a motor vehicle while operating, he's still guilty of HIPPA violations for spreading around videos of himself operating on sedated patients. I'm kinda shocked that all the comments here are 100% focused on the hoverboard angle and nobody has both...
[17:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dentist Accused of Extracting Teeth While Riding Hoverboard - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:25] <exec> 08└─Just because medicine practice may have been crude in the past is no excuse to not give the highest standards of care available today.
[17:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dentist Accused of Extracting Teeth While Riding Hoverboard - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:28] <exec> 08└─It's called being unprofessional. Next up, tooth extraction while balancing on a tight-rope, without a net.
[17:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dentist Accused of Extracting Teeth While Riding Hoverboard - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:30] <exec> 08└─I don't live there and wouldn't know, but it is possible that not all dentists in Alaska are equally bad. A problem might be finding a good one near you, if there are any.
[17:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dentist Accused of Extracting Teeth While Riding Hoverboard - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:32] <exec> 08└─My wife had gone through five or six dentists that she found lacking in ability, ended up just going to my dentist when we did family vacations until we moved. I am sure there is a good one somewhere, we were just unable to find one.
[17:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gloves Convert Sign Language to Written Text, SMS or Speech - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:44] <exec> 08└─I need one of those, connected to a screen at the back of my car. Coding should be easy, as it mostly needs to translate one gesture. It can also use a tiny screen, since the intended reader is always so close. (actually, for the second most-needed gesture, I need someone to translate "have you hear...
[17:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 0, Offtopic) 02 - 06Gloves Convert Sign Language to Written Text, SMS or Speech - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:46] <exec> 08└─Cars already have signal lights to replace hand gestures. You are supposed to know those gestures in case somebody on the road is using them because their signal light either failed or are not present.
[17:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gloves Convert Sign Language to Written Text, SMS or Speech - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:48] <exec> 08└─I'm unfamiliar with the vest, but familiar with boomerang https://en.wikipedia.org(countermeasure) [wikipedia.org]
[17:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gloves Convert Sign Language to Written Text, SMS or Speech - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:50] <exec> 08└─What's the Poe's law equivalent for "can't tell if missed the point" ?
[17:46:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gloves Convert Sign Language to Written Text, SMS or Speech - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:52] <exec> 08└─Supposedly bicyclists use those hand signals. You're about as likely to see that as you are to see a bicyclist follow every other traffic rule (all of which apparently are optional if you have no motor)
[17:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Gloves Convert Sign Language to Written Text, SMS or Speech - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:55] <exec> 08└─I mostly ignored the point.
[17:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gloves Convert Sign Language to Written Text, SMS or Speech - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:57] <exec> 08└─It is considered proper etiquette to start your own thread, then. Answering with an unrelated statement and no warning does not contribute to optimum reading pleasure.
[17:47:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:56] <exec> 08└─And not just angels, angels with infinite free time to negotiate contracts and a big fat wallet to afford lawyers.
[17:47:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:57] <exec> 08└─You don't need lawyers if there is no law. That contract is all you got, and our resident libertrollian thinks having those contracts means people will obey their letter and spirit, or get some non-violently-imposed non-monopolistic entity to shame them for it.
[17:47:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:00] <exec> 08└─> because no one ever tried to express themselves through pornography There are so many counter-examples to that statement, which are now major attractions in museums all over the world, that I don't even know where I would start a list. You may need a book or a class in History of Art and Censorshi...
[17:48:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:02] <exec> 08└─I know that he wants to cure his porn addiction by making everybody have filters installed, but with a $20 escape he could just bypass the filter. What will keep him from paying $20 for porn? Will he then demand that the price be raised to something he can't afford?
[17:48:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 1120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:04] <exec> 08└─repressive church culture Sadly, I know. I have family in the South in the US. I took my kids to one church service with some cousins, just so they would have had the experience. Even I had forgotten how freakishly bizarre a pentacostal church service could be: The minister up front, after a hell-an...
[17:48:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:06] <exec> 08└─My understanding is that enforcement is still voluntary, because the parties agreed to such enforcement—no angels required. Government requires angels: After all, it's one organization that has been blessed and ordained with a monopoly on enforcement; putting that kind of power into men's hands re...
[17:48:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:09] <exec> 08└─Maybe its (pornography) not some grand philosophical treatise. But it is at least as expressive as small-talk and anyone who tried to outlaw small-talk would be quickly laughed out of the state-house.
[17:48:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:11] <exec> 08└─When will the police "find" drugs in his home and IRS flawed tax returns? :p As for the technical side of things. Re-install the computerphone and laptops with a real operating system. That will flush out shit like this.
[17:48:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:13] <exec> 08└─I'd say receive rather than consume. Nothing is consumed or lost. But an idea is expressed, or communicated, and it's up to the recipient to make their own interpretation.
[17:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:15] <exec> 08└─> enforcement is still voluntary, because the parties agreed to such enforcement—no angels required Subsequently, the party collecting the most money agreed with the enforcement party, to share the raw profit from not holding up its part of the contract. The party being fucked in the process agree...
[17:48:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 246 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:36] <exec> 08└─A link to milo yiannopoulos's web site really brings credibility to the story, right? Right? You may have the right to the freedom of speech, but I also have a right not to listen to it if you use your speech to peddle bullshit. There, I said it.
[17:49:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:15] <exec> 08└─The democrats have noticed that Muslims make more Muslims, unlike gays, and can be imported in huge numbers. This is now their strategy. Of course they won't openly speak of abandoning gays; the hope is that gays are not smart enough to notice that democrats are welcoming people who kill gays. The r...
[17:49:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:16] <exec> 08└─If anyone had doubts as to what Muslims will do once they get in power. Have a deep study in to Chechnya! And don't forget the countries in middle eastern..
[17:49:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:18] <exec> 08└─Seems reasonable to me. Religion is terrifyingly harmful with few, if any, positives.
[17:49:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:21] <exec> 08└─I'm no fan of Milo Yiannopoulos either, but you know the old saw about broken clocks. Unfortunately everyone has gotten hung up on his name and has said almost nothing about the story. I assumed y'all might be big enough to evaluate the content independently of its author. You know, like you do with...
[17:49:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:23] <exec> 08└─After all Islam is a "religion of peace", isn't that what the left says? And its no different than Christianity or Judaism? Funny I haven't see any concentration camps set up by the local Baptists, I guess I'll have to ask the local pastor about that..
[17:49:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:25] <exec> 08└─But we can join them, in this moment, while circumstances are such, and denounce people who, for whatever reason, blatantly disregard human rights.
[17:49:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cloud Solution Proposed for Coral Bleaching - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:37] <exec> 08└─You now can get same-day delivery of Antiacids and CO2 scrubbers.
[17:49:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cloud Solution Proposed for Coral Bleaching - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:39] <exec> 08└─That may, indeed, be necessary to save the coral reef, but there's a large question in my mind as to whether it would be sufficient. Chemical pollution, as from coal dust, will kill the coral even if the temperature is right. And Australia is planning a giant coal processing port about as close to t...
[17:49:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03nixmule [6570] 02 - 06ISIS Threaten Hacker After He Fills Jihadi Twitter Accounts With Porn - 45 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:51] <exec> 08└─But in this particular case I'm not even mad.
[17:50:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ISIS Threaten Hacker After He Fills Jihadi Twitter Accounts With Porn - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:13] <exec> 08└─Ever heard on "nigger ball" ? a special delicacy consisting of oat bran, sugar, chocolate (hence the name), vanilla sugar and butter. Some consider it a offensive word. Others just don't give a shit. This then forms a spherical ball. Throwing it may hit something.. Right on! ;-)
[17:50:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ISIS Threaten Hacker After He Fills Jihadi Twitter Accounts With Porn - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:14] <exec> 08└─Hey.. I live here: Booby traps-R'-us 56789 Militia Road Bluff valley ZZ 23456 The hamburger chain sponsors my rent!
[17:50:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ISIS Threaten Hacker After He Fills Jihadi Twitter Accounts With Porn - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:16] <exec> 08└─Ok I'd love to know how money from Israel finds its way to ISIS. It's delivered (along with the weapons) by the Americans through Benghazi.
[17:50:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ISIS Threaten Hacker After He Fills Jihadi Twitter Accounts With Porn - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:19] <exec> 08└─I am offended that my favorite pedophile pizza place is really a cover-up for ISIS money laundering. Give me back my underwear, I'll go patronize ethical molesters.
[17:50:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ISIS Threaten Hacker After He Fills Jihadi Twitter Accounts With Porn - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:21] <exec> 08└─> https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] I love the Korean B2 at 7:27. Thanks for the fun!
[17:50:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ISIS Threaten Hacker After He Fills Jihadi Twitter Accounts With Porn - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:23] <exec> 08└─How does the First Amendment apply to the case of a pissing contest between a hacker and a bunch of murderous goat-humpers? There are certainly statutory issues of property and moral issues of content at play, but I see no Constitutional point of law here.
[17:50:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber vs Apple — Kalanick cut off by Cook - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:37] <exec> 08└─Basically, the Uber app noted the unique serial number of the device. Whether this was a useful thing to do or not, I can't say - the reason given doesn't really make much sense. But that's beside the point... My real question is: Why does Apple care? What's wrong with an app noticing which device i...
[17:51:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:33] <exec> 08└─I think many find it hard to establish a steady work income to at least have a 1960s level of material standard. The shifting job market makes it hard to establish a stable economy.
[17:51:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:34] <exec> 08└─Some things is maybe missing in the current scheme of things: * Good and free education from elementary to a college degree (and let kids switch schools if needed). * Social security that gives a poor standard of living but still food and shelter. * Decent health care for every citizen. Eve...
[17:51:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03lcall [4611] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 1665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:36] <exec> 08└─Yes, corruption is a bad thing, and we should all do our part to elect honest people and promote honesty and the Golden Rule, in every level and setting. I've studied soviet communism in college, observed things, have family with a degree in Asian Studied who traveled to China, learned some Russian,...
[17:51:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03lcall [4611] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:38] <exec> 08└─My comment from higher in the discussion: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[17:51:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:40] <exec> 08└─Elizabeth Warren gave an interesting lecture [youtube.com] on this subject. The middle class's gains have been eaten up by 3 expenses that have risen faster than their income: health care, housing, education. Also, the increases in real wages slowed or even stopped a couple decades ago, driving a ma...
[17:51:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03lcall [4611] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:43] <exec> 08└─sorry, the better link might have been: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[17:51:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03i286NiNJA [2768] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:45] <exec> 08└─Why did it take you a college freshman size essay to say you're not sure.
[17:51:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03lcall [4611] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:47] <exec> 08└─I don't think that is at all what he said. Rather, that the meaning of "good" has changed over time, and direct comparisons are hard to do non-deceptively.
[17:51:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:49] <exec> 08└─Eh, who cares. It's basically the same body part either way. Scrotums are just fused together and floppier so easier to staple.
[17:51:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:52] <exec> 08└─"And there was a time in this country, a long time ago, when reading wasn't just for fags and neither was writing. People wrote books and movies, movies that had stories so you cared whose ass it was and why it was farting, and I believe that time can come again!" - Not Sure
[17:51:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:54] <exec> 08└─> Republicans didn't create seven billion people in the world ... Well, judging by their lack of support for birth control programs (in USA and as part of foreign policy & aid), they are not helping this problem at all.
[17:51:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:56] <exec> 08└─In other words governments geographical range should be small so people can vote system with their feet.
[17:53:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three Months on, No Linksys Router Patches for Remote Holes - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:52] <exec> 08└─My objection is perfectly valid. The whole point of including sic is for the conveyor of information to say: "Hey, I know this is wrong, but it isn't my fault". If there is nothing to worry about in the source, there is no reason to include. Otherwise, we should just throw it around everywhere when...
[17:53:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Three Months on, No Linksys Router Patches for Remote Holes - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:53] <exec> 08└─No, the whole point of [sic] – literally – is to say "this is literal as per the source." You have a mistaken conception of what it means, insisting it is an indication of error, which it is not, so you're making a mistake in interpreting what it's telling you. Your attention has been called to...
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[18:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales Creates News Service "Wikitribune" - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:07] <exec> 08└─Jimbo announces Team Wikipedia: 'Global News Police' [theregister.co.uk] Say what you want about The Register, but they've taught me to recognize Lily Cole by name: 'I got a little bit upset by that Register article...' says millionaire model. Bless! [theregister.co.uk] (more info linked from the ar...
[18:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales Creates News Service "Wikitribune" - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:09] <exec> 08└─His goal is for Wikitribune to offer "factual and neutral" articles that help combat the problem of "fake news".
[18:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales Creates News Service "Wikitribune" - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:11] <exec> 08└─One of the biggest problems with vague dictator terms like "fake news" is that you legitimize them by "fighting" them. A while ago, fake news was something said by idiots that don't know how to handle things they don't like reading. Now it's a "problem" that needs dedicated organizations and website...
[18:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales Creates News Service "Wikitribune" - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:13] <exec> 08└─The definition of "Fake" is pretty clear: fake noun Definition of fake : one that is not what it purports to be: such as a : a worthless imitation passed off as genuine The signature was a fake. b : impostor, charlatan He told everyone that he was a lawyer, but he was just a fake. c : a simulated mo...
[18:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Marathon Pharmaceuticals Cashes Out on Regulatory Loopholes - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:23] <exec> 08└─Government regulation seems to work pretty well overall in western Europe; we never see stories like this over there, and drug prices are really cheap both there and in neighboring Canada. So why is it the government regulation in the US usually results in crap like this?
[18:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Marathon Pharmaceuticals Cashes Out on Regulatory Loopholes - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:26] <exec> 08└─How about: Less government CORRUPTION. Government exists to regulate. The problem isn't the regulation so much as the corruption, the crony capitalism that you point out. I'm for less government, as long as it can regulate abusive behavior.
[18:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Marathon Pharmaceuticals Cashes Out on Regulatory Loopholes - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:28] <exec> 08└─So why is it the government regulation in the US usually results in crap like this?
[18:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Marathon Pharmaceuticals Cashes Out on Regulatory Loopholes - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:30] <exec> 08└─Yep. Play by the rules. Get screwed. Government is not doing its job. And IMO it cannot be fixed. It will spiral out of control. It's not what I want. I simply believe it is inevitable. I am able to separate what I want from what I think is going to actually happen. Not a pessimist. And God Forbid n...
[18:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Marathon Pharmaceuticals Cashes Out on Regulatory Loopholes - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:32] <exec> 08└─Yeah, same here. My parents were big fans of this "real" world where that sort of thing would pay off. If I were still on speaking terms with them, I'd love to hear what they had to say about the "real" world where shit like this happens. In fact, if anybody knows how to get to this "real" world, I'...
[18:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe [2583] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Marathon Pharmaceuticals Cashes Out on Regulatory Loopholes - 1727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:35] <exec> 08└─The program was developed to address a very real problem with market-based solutions for drug development. The problem is obvious: the market will only drive development of profitable drugs and will neglect diseases that are either rare (e.g. muscular dystrophy, ALS, Huntington's) or only prevalent...
[18:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dentist Accused of Extracting Teeth While Riding Hoverboard - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:02] <exec> 08└─That is unfortunate. It would be worse if it were doctors instead of dentists.
[18:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dentist Accused of Extracting Teeth While Riding Hoverboard - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:04] <exec> 08└─Hippa [youtube.com]. But don't worry, hippos are also involved in HIPAA compliance [youtube.com]. (Sorry, pet peeve.)
[18:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dentist Accused of Extracting Teeth While Riding Hoverboard - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:06] <exec> 08└─The ancients used to drill holes in peoples head. So I guess no standards during brain surgery?
[18:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03zaxus [3455] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Dentist Accused of Extracting Teeth While Riding Hoverboard - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:08] <exec> 08└─Sharing video of the procedure without the patient's consent is a HIPAA violation.
[18:48:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:34] <exec> 08└─Too bad the Supreme Court was unable to properly define pornography without referring to the subjective mental state of the viewer and producer. Because of that, allowing the censorship of pornography opens the door to all manner of censorship.
[18:48:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:36] <exec> 08└─And I was thinking this would be Tipper Gore's later life pursuit....
[18:48:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:38] <exec> 08└─How about a pointed stick?
[18:48:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:40] <exec> 08└─Living is not speech. And a living ban or restriction no more hampers your right to free speech than anti-assault laws hamper your ability to express your anger by punching someone.
[18:48:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:42] <exec> 08└─And who upholds the agreement with the enforcer, and who upholds THAT agreement? Turtles all the way down! Then there's that minor matter of infinite time to negotiate all those contracts.
[18:48:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:45] <exec> 08└─Princess Leia in a gold bikini was depiction of both porn and exploitation - getting licked by Jabba was a bonus. And... it is mainstream enough to be embraced by Disney, the same Disney that draws cartoon princesses in all sorts of sexy manner. So, do we stop porn when it's "more hardcore" than Dis...
[18:48:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:47] <exec> 08└─Let's for the moment pretend that this law were indeed a measure against human trafficking. Then wouldn't the fact that you can circumvent it by paying $20 to the state imply that the state profits from human trafficking?
[18:48:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:49] <exec> 08└─In the Bible, would the book "Song of Solomon" be defined as pornography?
[18:48:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 1065 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:51] <exec> 08└─I mean, what could your point possibly be? In your scenario, the contract is poorly defined. The fact that you have come up with this scenario off the top of your head proves that it would be something deeply considered by both sides of any considerable agreement. Indeed, such a scenario would be i...
[18:48:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:54] <exec> 08└─The classic definition is "socially redeeming value" such as entertainment. Of course, the classic definition is just used by law enforcement to temporarily shut down things they don't like, and it only holds in cases where the target doesn't fight back and take them to court - courts invariably com...
[18:48:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:56] <exec> 08└─Well we all know that the Venus of Willendorf [soylentnews.org] was clearly used as a way for primitive hunters to correctly identify what not to hunt. Those Greek/Roman [wikipedia.org] pottery examples were nothing more that sex-ed as well. So clearly those would be allowed.
[18:48:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 1039 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:58] <exec> 08└─Libertarians and contracts, it always makes me LOL. Libertarians have to be the most naive bunch I have ever seen, as not only do they ignore there are several groups of really nasty people that are only held in limited check by a government but they ignore the entire history of civilization going a...
[18:48:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:00] <exec> 08└─The politicians are full of clue - projects like these line their friends' pockets, make their friends more powerful, and their friends help the politicians stay in power, in an endless vicious cycle until some guy dressed in a bath sheet plays violin while the capital city burns.
[18:49:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:03] <exec> 08└─Absolutely - just as the "war on drugs" can't be fought to win, it would stop a valuable income stream.
[18:49:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:05] <exec> 08└─Nah, not really. But it is par for the course for the party that is consistently interested in regulating sexuality. But Buzzard and Runaway assure me that the right is the pro freedom-of-expression party!
[18:49:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:07] <exec> 08└─So, yes, that's where these prudes come from.
[18:49:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 1144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:10] <exec> 08└─Competition within a market of voluntary trade is an evolutionary process—it's an iterative process; there's no dependence on an infinite regression of turtles—you just have to start somewhere, a starting point that is usually primitive and ugly and woefully incomplete. Given enough time, variat...
[18:49:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:12] <exec> 08└─My "ilk", LOL... My history books remember what happens when contract enforcers don't have a monopoly over the enforcement of the contracts between trading entities: They wage War. After the fall of the Roman Empire, Europe experienced centuries where people were still trading, but there was no unif...
[18:49:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:14] <exec> 08└─Oh. I thought the deal with the human traffic bill was no more pr0n to sell more $20 mail order brides. The pr0n-block was like a... sales motivator. Amazon Prime delivering a bride with free two day shipping would help the neets on /r9k/ work thru a lot of issues.
[18:49:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 1263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:16] <exec> 08└─Um... what? Robber Barons got to their position through Government's imposition; why would you expect them to behave in any way other than Governmental? Contrast the Robber Barons with, say, James J. Hill. [mises.org] Anyway, the history of civilization is clear: There is an increasing devol...
[18:49:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:19] <exec> 08└─Pornography is not speech.
[18:49:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 397 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:28] <exec> 08└─Its sad how the only time conservatives give a shit about gay rights is when they can uses them as a club to bash muslims. Meanwhile, in america support for marriage equality is higher among muslims than it is among evangelicals. [reason.com] And of course, utter silence about american evangelicals...
[18:50:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:25] <exec> 08└─> She willingly insisted on mutilating her daughter's genitals, even to the point of traveling half way around the world to get it done! Fuck you and your bullshit. FGM is not a religious practice. Its cultural and it applies across all religions in the same geography - primarily central africa. The...
[18:50:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:27] <exec> 08└─That's fine, this blade gets dull if it isn't regularly used. I'll always be around to kick him and his fellow travelers up and down the aisle, and now that it seems to have hit critical mass and the rest of the site is knocking him too, things may actually improve a bit :)
[18:50:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:29] <exec> 08└─Religion strikes again.
[18:50:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:31] <exec> 08└─Yes there is. You're one of those very xenophobic, vaguely racist people who identify as "libertarian", as if you don't pick up all the worst elements(except the strictly theological ones) of conservative ideology and rub them all over your body, moaning in ecstacy as you imagine yourself as some ki...
[18:50:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:33] <exec> 08└─We post what the community finds interesting and submits to us.
[18:50:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:35] <exec> 08└─> Funny I haven't see any concentration camps set up by the local Baptists, You haven't seen any concentration camps set up by the local muslims either. But maybe you remember this photo [time.com] of a christian run concentration camp imprisoning muslims [wikipedia.org] as part of the bosnian genoc...
[18:51:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ISIS Threaten Hacker After He Fills Jihadi Twitter Accounts With Porn - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:25] <exec> 08└─Sounds like they were just making mutton kebabs and got confused about what "spit roast" actually means :D
[18:52:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03lcall [4611] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:48] <exec> 08└─For many things, yes, heartily agreed. I am glad the US is big enough to defend ourselves though. Like, if we hadn't have been able to access our combined resources (and ship goods around effectively e.g. via rail, air, & water), WW2 might have gone differently (ouch). And things like the bill of ri...
[18:52:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:50] <exec> 08└─I understand the logic of thinking this way, I just believe the price we had to pay (Trump) is too high.
[18:52:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 1913 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:52] <exec> 08└─At the heart of the problem is Capitalism (the concentration of wealth among non-producers). Bernie is not an Anti-Capitalist. Neither does Bernie have a strong position supporting the collective ownership of the means of production by the workers e.g. no stated support for a USAian version of Italy...
[18:52:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:54] <exec> 08└─Over the last 4 decades, China's workers have seen a 4x increase in their wealth. For USAian workers, there has been exactly zero increase. Prof. Wolff discussed this in his Economic Update for the week of March 17, 2017. The good stuff is between 17:20 and 26:50. [kpfa.org] -- OriginalOwner_ [soyle...
[18:54:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Populism Surge Unlikely to Dent Corporate Deal Making - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:14] <exec> 08└─Shit, I hated Hillary too, but unlike you, I have the maturity to understand that this isn't some fucking football game. Western civilization itself is in danger for the next 20-30 years because of this.
[18:54:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Three Months on, No Linksys Router Patches for Remote Holes - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:53] <exec> 08└─Otherwise, we should just throw it around everywhere when we quote anything, as sort of a poor man's hash to authenticate quoted material.
[18:57:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bacteria's DNA Fingerprint Suggests it Could be Spreading via Food Distribution - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:57:41] <exec> 08└─The drainage culverts I played in weren't shut down for pollution, but basically most natural waterways collect surface runoff and concentrate it - you know: bird poo, cat poo, dog poo, etc. Thing was, in the 1970s, most people didn't spring money for fancy glycophosphate chemicals in their suburban...
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[19:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:57] <exec> 08└─People voted not only for American jobs but against Clintons foreign policy which is now being enacted by Secretary Exxon-Mobil. Without American involvement, for instance, he fears Iraq could splinter apart entirely. [politico.com]
[19:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:59] <exec> 08└─Justify the crap out of this one.
[19:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:01] <exec> 08└─he has yet to use the power of the pen to stop corporations that receive taxpayer dollars from shipping American jobs overseas
[19:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:03] <exec> 08└─I mean, I despise Trump and his policies, and his general hypocrisy, but so many signs right now are pointing to yet another recession about to start in a year or two(eyes on energy costs as OPEC changes course and the Silicon valley investment bubble). More Americans will lose their jobs from that...
[19:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 953 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:06] <exec> 08└─You mean he is fucking over all his rabid bigoted White Nationalist supporters once he got into office? But...but...but... he wasn't supposed to turn out like crooked Hillary! :D The rest of the country, the majority of which didn't vote for this retarded hamburgler, would like to deliver an I-Told-...
[19:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:08] <exec> 08└─Maybe wait for a better source than the ultra-liberal Common Dreams.
[19:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 855 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:10] <exec> 08└─This doesn't surprise me in the least (I wrote about his backpeddling in my journal, and if I can spot this shit it must be obvious) but the exact numbers kind of do. Of the top 50 awarded companies, 56% engage in offshoring. 41 of them received over $176 billion. The top 5 companies in award amount...
[19:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales Creates News Service "Wikitribune" - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:21] <exec> 08└─Wikipedia has built a trustworthy reputation. Can it be transferred to journalism?
[19:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales Creates News Service "Wikitribune" - 1382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:22] <exec> 08└─This kinda "All kinds of bias are exactly the same" bullshit is what us got us here in the first place. We all know that academic papers taking an analytical look at a specific fact are still vulnerable to p-hacking, misleading analysis, and a frequent lack of replication. We all know that major new...
[19:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales Creates News Service "Wikitribune" - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:25] <exec> 08└─I mean this in the sense of treating the concept of "fake news" as defined by Trump and his cultists only as if it were a legitimate issue. Fake news very well may be a problem. But it's quoted because this is something they apply to everything dissenting up to and including wikileaks.
[19:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales Creates News Service "Wikitribune" - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:27] <exec> 08└─My post agrees with yours. I was just being much, much more general.
[19:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales Creates News Service "Wikitribune" - 1745 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:29] <exec> 08└─I was, and still am, extremely confused by what fake news actually is. To me, it is abundantly clear to be information constructed and imparted by individuals wholly divested of the truth in order to create parody or deliberate misinformation. Jon Stewart is a very famous purveyor of fake news. The...
[19:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales Creates News Service "Wikitribune" - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:32] <exec> 08└─Liberals created that monster of a phrase, as a desperate move to discredit the Podesta and other DNC leaks. Only problem is, it backfired against them when others were able to prove their own media collusion. What we'll have here is the same old shit - "unbiased fact-checking experts" from Salon, N...
[19:47:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03urza9814 [3954] 02 - 06Dentist Accused of Extracting Teeth While Riding Hoverboard - 975 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:08] <exec> 08└─Even if we totally ignore the negligence of operating a motor vehicle while operating, he's still guilty of HIPPA violations for spreading around videos of himself operating on sedated patients. I'm kinda shocked that all the comments here are 100% focused on the hoverboard angle and nobody has both...
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[19:47:18] <exec> 08└─Well, had his operation failed, he could have blamed it on Russian Hackers and would have the sympathy of the liberal weenies.
[19:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dentist Accused of Extracting Teeth While Riding Hoverboard - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:20] <exec> 08└─Did I miss anything?
[19:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dentist Accused of Extracting Teeth While Riding Hoverboard - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:22] <exec> 08└─that with Doctors, it is hard for the patient to file a complaint if the condition was bad enough. And for those patients who DO pass, there is plenty of permafrost to dispose of them in until the next season :)
[19:48:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03khallow [3766] 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 26 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:02] <exec> 08└─Pornography is not speech.
[19:49:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 940 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:11] <exec> 08└─I can't answer your philosophical question. IMO some basic level of public modesty is a reasonable thing. I don't mind people doing otherwise if I can choose whether or not to see it. I just don't want it imposed upon me. Just like I can choose to go to a nightclub or not. Or drink alcohol or not. (...
[19:49:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:13] <exec> 08└─Pornography is not and should never be protected by free speech laws because no one ever tried to express themselves through pornography. [...] A video can be speech, that video can even include nudity and sex, but pornography is a sub type of video that is never speech.
[19:49:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:15] <exec> 08└─Straw man, much? (see subject) How do contemporary representative democracies tackle the fundamental problem of society being built around one local organization that has been blessed and ordained with a monopoly on imposition? You are the one who requires men to be angels; I am the one who acknowle...
[19:49:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:17] <exec> 08└─The type of service you describe is practically an art form.
[19:49:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:19] <exec> 08└─How is pornography communication or performance art? What is "Back door man 5" communicating? What sort of beauty or emotional power does it display?
[19:49:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:21] <exec> 08└─Idea: what if you could pay $20 to the state to be exempt from the war on drugs.
[19:49:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:24] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, if you don't believe what you say, you should probably keep your trap shut.
[19:49:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:26] <exec> 08└─I am sure you have used the Internet enough to know that consuming Pornography is not necessarily consensual at all. Their is no gateway, behind which all the pornography lays, it is everywhere and whether you consent or not you will see it. If we actually cared about the consentuality of pornograph...
[19:49:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:28] <exec> 08└─I can't answer your philosophical question.
[19:49:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:30] <exec> 08└─to correctly identify what not to hunt
[19:49:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 1546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:33] <exec> 08└─So... how fairly do people compete, when their livelihood and family is at stake? > How do contemporary representative democracies tackle the fundamental problem of society being built around > one local organization that has been blessed and ordained with a monopoly on imposition? Explain how it is...
[19:49:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 1581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:35] <exec> 08└─We meet again. If you are keeping track of my promises, as we roll along together on the internet, I said in the Introduction that we would figure out why authoritarian followers think in the bizarre and perplexing way they so often do. The key to the puzzle springs from Chapter 2's observation that...
[19:49:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:37] <exec> 08└─The contemporary, "western" societies are so wealthy, because there is already a great deal of contract culture in place. That is, the ideas have already been tried and proved wildly successful, but for one problem: There is a giant, ancient cultural parasite sucking up and then squandering the reso...
[19:50:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:49] <exec> 08└─Fair point, we don't post everything that is submitted. Stuff like the flamebait sub you mentioned sits around in the queue because no editor wants to post it; eventually it gets deleted. In the case of this particular story, I would probably have passed on it too, if not for the other link provide...
[19:50:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 1457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:51] <exec> 08└─You make a very good point. "The point is, gay-hate has been exaggerated and reinserted into modern religious doctrine. Its more a reflection of the people interpreting the scriptures than it is of the scriptures themselves. " But this is not quite correct. It can't have been exaggerated if it wasn'...
[19:50:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 2774 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:53] <exec> 08└─Well, that's true. I'm sorry I conflated those things. Male genital mutilation is a something that Christianity, Islam, and Judaism all demand. Female genital mutilation seems to be peculiar to different cultures, but as you've illustrated, none of those religions have any compunction against it, al...
[19:50:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:55] <exec> 08└─Female genital mutilation seems to be peculiar to different cultures, but as you've illustrated, none of those religions have any compunction against it, all coming from the same book of laws that prescribes the same political system.
[19:50:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:57] <exec> 08└─I tire so much of etymological lawyers and apologists. You're not going to change anybody's mind, and on top of that, why would The Message of all translations screw this up? Why would the NIV also screw it up? Is there anybody whose translated this in a way that's more accurate? KJV first: If a ma...
[19:50:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:59] <exec> 08└─You're not going to change anybody's mind, and on top of that, why would The Message of all translations screw this up? Why would the NIV also screw it up?
[19:51:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ISIS Threaten Hacker After He Fills Jihadi Twitter Accounts With Porn - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:49] <exec> 08└─He will cheerlead for milo pedolopolous to the point of pretending that milo's own self-published videos supporting pedophilia have been 'debunked' but when some crazy ass muslims get their speech shutdown by vigilantes, that's legit.
[19:53:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 805 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:15] <exec> 08└─The labor non-participation rate (people who want a job and can't find one) remains at 23 percent, same as it's been for years. Anything else is numbers games. (Thanks for the "improved" counting method, Slick Willie.) Meanwhile, Trump has claimed to have saved jobs, but anything that has happened i...
[19:53:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:17] <exec> 08└─Copypasta: TMB he has a malfunctioning brain.
[19:53:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:19] <exec> 08└─Free enterprise is perhaps also something unique You're gonna have to explain that one. Specific examples of places to the contrary of which you are aware would be useful. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
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[20:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Google Has a Database Containing 25 Million Books and Nobody is Allowed to Read Them - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:08] <exec> 08└─The legal agreement was bullshit. It gave google special permission to break the law, but everybody else was still constrained by the law. The only thing worse than a shitty law is a shitty law with special exceptions for the rich and powerful. If google cared about the benefit to humanity rather th...
[20:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Has a Database Containing 25 Million Books and Nobody is Allowed to Read Them - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:09] <exec> 08└─I'm surprised they couldn't turn this around and charge some all-access fee to make authors happy, like all you can watch movies on Netflix or all you can listen to music on Google Play -- except with books.
[20:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Google Has a Database Containing 25 Million Books and Nobody is Allowed to Read Them - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:12] <exec> 08└─Hey publishers, sue google for digitizing them without permission in the first place. Then watch as they crush your sorry ass, buy ownership and do whatever the hell they want with your precious books. Copyright needs to be abolished, for the common good.
[20:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Has a Database Containing 25 Million Books and Nobody is Allowed to Read Them - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:14] <exec> 08└─Imagine if the accumulated knowledge within a century of books were to be elevated up to the level of 4chan, Twitter and The Kardashians. Would we be be able to handle the profound effect this could wreck upon our society? Ignoring other large scale effects, think of the profound effect upon voters...
[20:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Has a Database Containing 25 Million Books and Nobody is Allowed to Read Them - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:16] <exec> 08└─Leave the U.S.
[20:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Has a Database Containing 25 Million Books and Nobody is Allowed to Read Them - 1263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:18] <exec> 08└─Copyright was never intended to be the vast money making machine it is today. It was intended to be limited in duration. A benefit to authors for a short term. Then the work should become public domain for the benefit of all. Imagine if the public domain that existed before 1910 were no longer avail...
[20:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Has a Database Containing 25 Million Books and Nobody is Allowed to Read Them - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:21] <exec> 08└─I'm surprised they couldn't turn this around and charge some all-access fee to make authors happy,
[20:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DmT [6439] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Has a Database Containing 25 Million Books and Nobody is Allowed to Read Them - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:23] <exec> 08└─Can't someone hack it, leack it and then share via torrent?
[20:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Has a Database Containing 25 Million Books and Nobody is Allowed to Read Them - 971 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:25] <exec> 08└─There isn't any ASCAP for books that could sort out the royalties. Unlike composers who, I believe, almost all sign up with a publishing company, authors don't all sign up with Author's Guild or other independent organization that could track the "reads" or "views". ASCAP (as I understand it) was fo...
[20:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Has a Database Containing 25 Million Books and Nobody is Allowed to Read Them - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:27] <exec> 08└─Canada would build a wall. Sadly, I wouldn't blame them. If another country put a bumbling illiterate clown circus into power, would we want their citizens coming into our country?
[20:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:42] <exec> 08└─and then once it's all over we'll learn to stop calling concepts that we don't like rape, racism and sexism so societal reactions like that stop happening so much. Heheheheheh nah we won't learn shit (I do agree with the spirit of your post for what it's worth, I just find it hard to not poke fun at...
[20:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:43] <exec> 08└─No they aren't, and the one who says the loonie left and the loonie right are equally wrong is wronger than both of them. The loonie left is smaller, weaker, less invested in causing widespread misery, and far more educable than the loonie right, who are basically the Christian version of the Taliba...
[20:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:46] <exec> 08└─Again? Lololol! Double dip Greatest Recession gonna be HUGE.
[20:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 804 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:48] <exec> 08└─Looking at the phrase in the headline "Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs," I'm really struck by how that phrase can be used to justify a particular point of view. As in "We don't want welfare, that rewards people for not working." It might be economically true that certain policy decisions...
[20:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:50] <exec> 08└─Trump! Trump! Trump! #MAGA!!! (Make America Grotesque Again!)
[20:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:52] <exec> 08└─I'm gonna blow your mind here, but it's been a decade since the last one. Lehman was mid-fucking '07. Big crash was late '08. The one before that was dotcom in '00, and before that was savings and loan in like... 90? 91? I was too young for it. But we're duuuuuue.
[20:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:55] <exec> 08└─The rest of the country, the majority of which didn't vote for this retarded hamburgler, would like to deliver an I-Told-You-So to that portion of America too busy investing in hate and fear to figure out that they were electing a professional con artist to office.
[20:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:57] <exec> 08└─The point with Trump is that he halts the covert Muslim invasion, femnazi, enforced diversity, safe spacing bullshit etc. Maybe he's a greedy bastard but crooked Hillary is surely isn't better. Besides her foreign police almost came to a dangerous direct conflict with Russia in Syria. As Michael Moo...
[20:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:59] <exec> 08└─Look, I have no idea what Trump's policies will turn out to be, if he even has a consistent policy. But TFA is just stupid. Do you have any idea how long it takes to award a major federal contract? It takes years. RFAs, RFPs, negotiations, challenges from competitors, challenges to the challenges. I...
[20:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:01] <exec> 08└─What do you think will set it of this time? Over priced stocks? Saving and loans? Specific sector bubble? Financial services firm? Economic depressions are great because then you can buy many assets cheaply. Oh well.. if you got money..
[20:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:04] <exec> 08└─It's not yet clear that it's the most corrupt administration in history. That's a pretty high bar, and they've got a ways to go. But they seem to be trying to clear it.
[20:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:06] <exec> 08└─Sure technically the recession ended but it was a jobless recovery. Employment seems high only if you deliberately neglect to count the permanently unemployed who don't participate since the economy just doesn't need as many employed people anymore. If you look at the state of the workforce today, t...
[20:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:08] <exec> 08└─Uber fires all the drivers.
[20:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales Creates News Service "Wikitribune" - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:26] <exec> 08└─I...... that was one impressive rant bordering on old man rambling of the highest caliber. I'm glad that we have you to defend us from the tiny pee pees, VLM. God bless you. Although, you do seem to have some sort of weird fascination with it..... Reminds me of old gay men explaining to me the vast...
[20:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales Creates News Service "Wikitribune" - 1025 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:27] <exec> 08└─So they want to be better than an article like "2017 shooting of Paris police officers [wikipedia.org]". It's usually faster in place, with more information, better accuracy than most news sites. Albeit it may lack the absolute latest information from say the last hour. Wikitribune seems like a proj...
[20:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales Creates News Service "Wikitribune" - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:29] <exec> 08└─Nope. First I heard of the term it was being used to describe Facebook posts that had egregiously incorrect information being presented as fact. It was meant to look as if it came from a reputable news organization, but didn't. Had nothing to do with the DNC leaks, and you're trying your hand at rev...
[20:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales Creates News Service "Wikitribune" - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:31] <exec> 08└─Wiki deletism is a problem however. It seems to usually come from people that think their perspective is the only one. Especially since they know gene splicing and theoretical physics by heart. No one needs to write any article about it because it's self evident.... Oh and of course if an article is...
[20:47:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales Creates News Service "Wikitribune" - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:34] <exec> 08└─Wikimedia Foundation can finally find a semi-worthwhile place to waste the millions they have crowdbegged. A "real news" site that nobody reads and replaces a pre-existing Wikimedia project, instead of private jet trips and executive salaries. Woohoo!
[20:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales Creates News Service "Wikitribune" - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:36] <exec> 08└─Yeah someone should really put an accountant to check the books and balances of the Wikipedia project.
[20:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales Creates News Service "Wikitribune" - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:38] <exec> 08└─You were deleting the important bit, though: that there really is such a thing as genuinely fake news. And my point is that it promulgates itself not through a lack of concern for bias, but a naive, absolutist concern for bias.
[20:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales Creates News Service "Wikitribune" - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:40] <exec> 08└─Every time I see a deleted wiki article I sigh and think to myself, I can't read about WTF because some wikipedia editor pulled down his pants and a girl laughed in his face, so somehow that gave him the right to delete this cool WTF article in his anguish.
[20:47:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Marathon Pharmaceuticals Cashes Out on Regulatory Loopholes - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:56] <exec> 08└─Oh sure, and by that metric, because some people use guns to commit murders, the solution is less guns, riiiiiiiiiight? :D THINK before you say something like that. Regulations don't kill people, regulatory capture does.
[20:47:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Marathon Pharmaceuticals Cashes Out on Regulatory Loopholes - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:57] <exec> 08└─It is not 'govmint'. It's 'gubmit'. A noun. Here is an example of the proper use of the word in a sentence: Dem gubmit foaks shore is ignert.
[20:48:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Dentist Accused of Extracting Teeth While Riding Hoverboard - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:33] <exec> 08└─isn't tooth extraction something that was done with a string connected to a door or a pair of pliers by barely trained "barbers" back in the day?
[20:50:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 811 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:35] <exec> 08└─It seems that you start with an objective definition like nudity. Then one is suddenly confronted with things such as recognized existing art that contains nudity -- and OMG -- is displayed in public. Remember when Ashcroft had to cover up the Spirit of Justice [wikipedia.org] statue because she had...
[20:50:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:37] <exec> 08└─Then why don't you take the same stance for other speech? What if I'm offended by religious speech and don't want to see it? Should we have government-mandated filters on all computers to make sure that I don't encounter this speech unintentionally? The fact of the matter is, whenever you visit a lo...
[20:50:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:39] <exec> 08└─With all these attempted 'fake news' filters, expect soon that you have to pay to get past them to get actual truth in news reporting. Only state approved news services will be deemed 'free'.
[20:51:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:57] <exec> 08└─> it also became necessary at a sort of gut level for those religious groups to pick one or the other. Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter
[20:52:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ISIS Threaten Hacker After He Fills Jihadi Twitter Accounts With Porn - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:50] <exec> 08└─I'm never eating mutton kebabs.
[20:54:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:19] <exec> 08└─The maximum anyone can give to a primary campaign is $2700. Bernie got some donors who hit the limit [google.com] but his average donation was 0.01 of that. [google.com] In chasing mega-donors, the Elite Blues have lost their claim to being "The party of the people". That goes back to their loss in...
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[21:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney Will Never Alter or Restore Original Star Wars Trilogy - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:07] <exec> 08└─In the I/O port.
[21:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney Will Never Alter or Restore Original Star Wars Trilogy - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:08] <exec> 08└─So where is the digitization of the originals? Oh yeah, pirates did the hard work yet again: Original 1977 Star Wars 35mm Print Restored and Released Online [soylentnews.org]
[21:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney Will Never Alter or Restore Original Star Wars Trilogy - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:11] <exec> 08└─They're gonna remake Star Wars IV, V, and VI staring Caitlyn Jenner as princess Leia and Tom Cruise as Luke Skywalker.
[21:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney Will Never Alter or Restore Original Star Wars Trilogy - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:13] <exec> 08└─There is this enormous gap between "will never" and "isn't planning on". Just remember that the gap between "isn't planning on" and "is working on" is often filled by answering the question: "how much?"
[21:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Has a Database Containing 25 Million Books and Nobody is Allowed to Read Them - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:30] <exec> 08└─Someone can just walk out with it on a flash drive. That was intended as humor. Then it struck me. Seriously. Would it fit on a modern 128 GB SD Card? Or a pocket 4 TB drive?
[21:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Has a Database Containing 25 Million Books and Nobody is Allowed to Read Them - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:31] <exec> 08└─Would the torrent system handle a 227 Terrabyte file? Because that's the size magnitude we are talking about. (ie 2.5e14 bytes)
[21:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Has a Database Containing 25 Million Books and Nobody is Allowed to Read Them - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:34] <exec> 08└─Release the works as copyright goes away. In the US it's authors life span + 70 years. In most sane parts of the world works published before 1947 is now public domain. Now many mishaps could happen. Some experimental high density disk with Petabyte capacity could be stolen.. Or someone could simply...
[21:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Has a Database Containing 25 Million Books and Nobody is Allowed to Read Them - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:36] <exec> 08└─copyright law [...] needs fixing
[21:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Has a Database Containing 25 Million Books and Nobody is Allowed to Read Them - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:39] <exec> 08└─It makes more sense to lobby for shorter copyright terms. We have this mess, at least in part, because Disney has successfully lobbied for copyright extensions every time Mickey Mouse was at risk of falling into the public domain. They even rub it in our faces by playing steamboat Willie at the begi...
[21:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Has a Database Containing 25 Million Books and Nobody is Allowed to Read Them - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:41] <exec> 08└─A torrent-like system where people only have a small part of the whole, and you can request a section from those who have it, with nobody having the whole thing, is a pretty interesting concept. Legally, it would be fun too, especially if every chunk was small and encrypted so nobody has anything mo...
[21:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03shanen [6084] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Google Has a Database Containing 25 Million Books and Nobody is Allowed to Read Them - 1019 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:44] <exec> 08└─Or perhaps I should ask "Why now?" Not saying that the digital book project was a bad idea, though I did have substantial concerns about the google's plans to monetize it, and that was even before I realized how evil the google was becoming. I even wish I had access to such a database of books, and...
[21:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Has a Database Containing 25 Million Books and Nobody is Allowed to Read Them - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:47] <exec> 08└─Copyright was never intended to be the vast money making machine it is today. It was intended to be limited in duration.
[21:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:15] <exec> 08└─Lockheed Martin Corporation Boeing Company General Dynamics Corporation Raytheon Company Northrop Grumman Corporation
[21:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:16] <exec> 08└─I told you the two big ones I had my eye on: Silicon Valley(we learned nothing from dotcom, nothing) bullshit startup speculation, and the fact that we're riding a wave of overproduction from OPEC that's going to end soon.
[21:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:18] <exec> 08└─We learned two things from dotcom: Open Source is free labor! and Cloud scale means we can build it bigger!
[21:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:20] <exec> 08└─Jobs for all! Build a wall!
[21:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:23] <exec> 08└─Student loan bubble bursts.
[21:47:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:25] <exec> 08└─That's the plan. Still a repeat of the 1930s 1) Have the Hugest War 2) Wait up to 16 years 3) Build wall to divide people
[21:47:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales Creates News Service "Wikitribune" - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:50] <exec> 08└─What really floored me about #pizzagate is that when I went to review the supposed evidence, I was confronted by something that looked like it was written by somebody with Something Awful, meant purely to be parody of conspiracy theories a la National Treasure. I still find myself shocked that peopl...
[21:50:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:49] <exec> 08└─You need to travel and read History books, a whole lot.
[21:50:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 1) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:51] <exec> 08└─What you seem to be advocating is to remove personal choice, to allow pornography to be anywhere and everywhere, to prevent someone from being able to choose not to view it.
[21:50:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:53] <exec> 08└─Further idea: what if we recognized that, unlike First Prohibition, no attempt was made to give Congress even the pretense of authority via the amendment process to the US Constitution. The War on Drugs is flat out illegal, and everyone participating in it from the legislators who passed it, the jud...
[21:52:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:12] <exec> 08└─If anyone had doubts as to what Muslims will do once they get in power. Have a deep study in to Chechnya!
[21:54:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 1066 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:34] <exec> 08└─You assume that "own self-interest" would be to oppose inequality and get more benefits. I doubt even the typical liberal feels that way. Conservatives sure don't. People feel better if they earn their keep. People hate freeloaders. People tolerate lots of inequality if they feel it is well-deserved...
[21:54:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 1523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:35] <exec> 08└─Not only is hemocyanin correct, he's not alone. [google.com] 4 (or, $DEITY forbid, 8) more years of Democrat elites and their Neoliberalism would have done no good for Joe Average. It's worth noting that about half of the nitwits who voted for Trump^W^W against Hillary now have buyer's remorse. That...
[21:54:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Preliminary Results of Breakthrough Listen Project Released - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:54] <exec> 08└─Now if we got really unlucky and a hostile ET is only a few hundred light years away we could have a problem. But if life is that commonplace we should be seeing signs, right?
[21:56:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Months on, No Linksys Router Patches for Remote Holes - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:36] <exec> 08└─You missed the or. The proposal would quickly solve itself to a PC like router standard and hardware makers would all make commodity 'compatible' gear varying in details like WiFi standard, number of antennas, USB ports, etc. but all capable of running any of several operating systems designed to ru...
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[22:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney Will Never Alter or Restore Original Star Wars Trilogy - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:04] <exec> 08└─While I agree it's not equivalent, I also think it's silly for the fans to hold out hopes for this.
[22:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Disney Will Never Alter or Restore Original Star Wars Trilogy - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:06] <exec> 08└─Tom Cruise as Luke Skywalker I think you meant to say Jaden Smith, the skirt wearing son of will smith. SJW's would rejoice. More bonus points if he were: LGBTQWERTY (what ever the fuck it is now), muslim, mexican or fat.
[22:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney Will Never Alter or Restore Original Star Wars Trilogy - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:08] <exec> 08└─I only threw TC in there because he's a shitty over rated actress.
[22:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney Will Never Alter or Restore Original Star Wars Trilogy - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:10] <exec> 08└─I a way I'm kinda glad because if they put out a box set of the original trilogy I'd feel obligated to buy it to replace the bootleg DVDs ripped from Laserdisc I have been using for years. And I really do not want to give the Evil Mouse any money I don't really have to.
[22:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Has a Database Containing 25 Million Books and Nobody is Allowed to Read Them - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:35] <exec> 08└─"Hello?" "Hi. According to the listings you have volume S of Le Grand Encyclopedia?" "Yep." "I was hoping to borrow it. Any interest in trading for G?" "Hmm. I've already read G; got any other letters?" "Well, I was thinking about rereading R but..." "R's on my to-do list." "Alright. Standard shippi...
[22:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Has a Database Containing 25 Million Books and Nobody is Allowed to Read Them - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:37] <exec> 08└─Then let's hope there will be a torrent release that contains ALL Disney productions.. Btw, nice office they got...... ;)
[22:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Has a Database Containing 25 Million Books and Nobody is Allowed to Read Them - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:39] <exec> 08└─Orphaned works have no authors, they are orphans. Off to the public domain for them! Better than falling in with some unsavory types like Fagin and the Artful Dodger. And guess who got published illegally in the United States, ignoring British copyright claims?
[22:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Has a Database Containing 25 Million Books and Nobody is Allowed to Read Them - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:41] <exec> 08└─Even harddrives is not sufficient in this case. A better option is a femtolaser hitting a fused quartz disc which gives a capacity of 360 TB. Which will make it possible to fit it ALL on one disc. Image that, all that is in several major libraries in one disc with a diameter of circa 5 cm with room...
[22:47:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 689 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:04] <exec> 08└─Look, I have no idea what Trump's policies will turn out to be, if he even has a consistent policy. But TFA is just stupid. Do you have any idea how long it takes to award a major federal contract? It takes years. RFAs, RFPs, negotiations, challenges from competitors, challenges to the challenges. I...
[22:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:15] <exec> 08└─People seem to be forgetting that those don't count as offshoring. Because of their sensitive business and (gasp!) government regulations, their "offshoring" is essentially in western democracies (and the authorized kinds of Semites), not Evil Brown and Yellow People.
[22:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 1435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:17] <exec> 08└─If you grew up in the United States you can be forgiven for having little contact with actual loonie leftists. I went to graduate school and delved in a lot of anthropology in my course of study, and there are a handful of actual, un-reconstructed Marxists still in that field; afterward I was active...
[22:47:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:19] <exec> 08└─(and the authorized kinds of Semites) How else do you expect them to defend the land (which god deeded them) from the evil semites who were originally living there?
[22:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:21] <exec> 08└─The education industry hasn't imploded yet? Students are young and naive as ever.
[22:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:23] <exec> 08└─So a stock market downturn but how bad? and high oil prices soon then? Any idea on how soon this will occur? I know it's all probability so it's hard to make deterministic answers.
[22:47:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:25] <exec> 08└─Ah they will sue the university if the compiler dears to output a ERROR which will break their safe space? ;-) But then employers don't need anyone. They can just google all of it! :p Let's hope the naivety is limited to non-STEM subjects.
[22:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:27] <exec> 08└─Anti-Trump points failures that are Obama's at Trump, and successes that are Trump's at Obama. Nothing new. These types of headlines are D&C clickbait intended to divide Trump's supporter base. Too bad we've completely lost faith in the ability of the MSM to present facts with only a slight bias.
[22:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:30] <exec> 08└─That thing with input elimination and discussion cut off seems all too familiar. ;( Any idea how to enable a life without the need to handle loonies in any great amount?
[22:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:32] <exec> 08└─Python coders love their safe spaces.
[22:47:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:34] <exec> 08└─I thought MSM died out 65 million years ago when a huge cluebat hit their poor heads? ;-)
[22:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:36] <exec> 08└─Is it that indentation nazigrammar that gives them a hardon? ;-)
[22:51:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06States Introduce Dubious Anti-Pornography Legislation to Ransom the Internet - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:01] <exec> 08└─s/t
[22:52:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03pe1rxq [844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gay Russians in Chechnya Speak Out - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:21] <exec> 08└─The story is a pile of crap. The sources are websites that are well known to post incredible amounts of crap. The submitter has a track record of posting crap on SN. (And appearantly we are suppposed to be ok with that because he manages to pull some working code out of his ass every once in a while...
[22:56:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06Details of Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project Announced - 1588 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:53] <exec> 08└─Fair would be killing the rich, or grabbing them by their fucking necks, turning them upside down, and shaking out OUR fucking money. Basic Income is only required when the Owning Classes are stealing so much fucking daily production, that our daily production is *somehow* not enough to survive. Do...
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[23:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cassini Has Made its Last Flyby of Titan - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:59] <exec> 08└─Milestones: Cassini's First Grand Finale Dive: Milestones [nasa.gov] -- No earlier than around midnight PDT on April 26 (3 a.m. EDT on April 27): Earth has its first opportunity to regain contact with Cassini as the giant, 230-foot (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, California, list...
[23:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cassini Has Made its Last Flyby of Titan - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:00] <exec> 08└─I'd prefer if they found a way to crash gently into one of the barren moons, but given the shape of those orbits, that's quite impossible... > Look, guys, if it's a driving ability problem I'll be happy to come over and show you now to not run into a gigantic planet... I can't imagine the amount of...
[23:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cassini Has Made its Last Flyby of Titan - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:03] <exec> 08└─Silly Buzzard, you don't get megaviews on youtube by not running into a planet.
[23:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cassini Has Made its Last Flyby of Titan - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:05] <exec> 08└─They have to avoid pretty much all of these moons. Enceladus and Titan are thought to be capable of hosting life [nasa.gov]: Two moons of Saturn, Enceladus and Titan, have captured news headlines over the past decade as Cassini data revealed their potential to contain habitable – or at least "preb...
[23:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney Will Never Alter or Restore Original Star Wars Trilogy - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:20] <exec> 08└─They're gonna remake Star Wars IV, V, and VI staring Caitlyn Jenner as princess Leia and Tom Cruise as Luke Skywalker.
[23:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney Will Never Alter or Restore Original Star Wars Trilogy - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:21] <exec> 08└─Keep in mind most people who want to buy star wars have it at this point. These 'original editions' would sell 'ok' but may not be worth their time messing with when they can crank out another star wars and rake in 2 billion...
[23:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney Will Never Alter or Restore Original Star Wars Trilogy - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:23] <exec> 08└─I just watch my laserdiscs....
[23:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03J_Darnley [5679] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Disney Will Never Alter or Restore Original Star Wars Trilogy - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:25] <exec> 08└─> leave the movies the way that George Lucas did when he revisited them in the 90s Don't you mean the '00s? The fucker shopped Hayden Christiansen into the ending of Jedi.
[23:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Has a Database Containing 25 Million Books and Nobody is Allowed to Read Them - 1161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:55] <exec> 08└─If you are referring to this [petapixel.com], that's a theoretical capacity, not anything available on the market. Getting new technologies to market can be very difficult. We were supposed to have 1 TB Blu-ray discs and 6 TB holographic discs by now. Instead, we went from 25 GB Blu-ray to 100-128 G...
[23:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Has a Database Containing 25 Million Books and Nobody is Allowed to Read Them - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:56] <exec> 08└─JRR Tolkien?
[23:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Has a Database Containing 25 Million Books and Nobody is Allowed to Read Them - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:59] <exec> 08└─You mean: leave the U.S. because of its heavy-handed copyright regime, right? I would think that you'd also want to avoid WIPO member states. That leaves several options: Non-members are the states of Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Solomon Islands, South Sudan and E...
[23:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Has a Database Containing 25 Million Books and Nobody is Allowed to Read Them - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:01] <exec> 08└─I guarantee you Trump will sign another copyright term extension act bumping it up to life+90 / 120 years since the last 20 year extension was almost 20 years ago. Gotta protect Steamboat Willie.
[23:47:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:46] <exec> 08└─The terms "depression" and "recession" gauge how The Speculators' Market is doing. That has nothing to do with the actual economy and hasn't for a long, long time. USA's GDP growth has been flat for ages and the Labor Non-Participation Rate has been 23 percent for years. It's time we started ignorin...
[23:47:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:47] <exec> 08└─Hey, Donnie Tiny Hands: You stood up before and stated a policy. Now it's time to stand up and point out which corporations are acting contrary to your policy. It's called The Bully Pulpit. Use it, you two-faced piece of crap. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[23:47:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:49] <exec> 08└─I'd still rather deal with an unreconstructed Marxist than, say, a Dominionist. They're wrong, and I know why they're wrong, but they're less wrong and less self-contradictory than, for example, Rushdoony was. Which is to say, both are equally nutty in economic terms but the Marxist is usually going...
[23:54:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Upward Mobility Has Fallen Sharply in US - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:58] <exec> 08└─I didn't say I wasn't sure -- I'm pretty sure about the trends I noted. The question of whether people are "better off" at a future date is complex. And my post was longer because if I just said "People spent money differently back then so this study's claims need qualification" without any links, n...
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