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[00:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Volkswagen to Roll Out an Electric Car in China. Can It Help Reduce the Smog? - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:59] <exec> 08└─...eventually (aka, when more nukes are up), it's a step in the right direction.
[00:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Volkswagen to Roll Out an Electric Car in China. Can It Help Reduce the Smog? - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:00] <exec> 08└─of course, using electricity is only better if it's source is cleaner then what it is replacing.
[00:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Volkswagen to Roll Out an Electric Car in China. Can It Help Reduce the Smog? - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:02] <exec> 08└─Well, if any country could unleash the resources required to make clean energy storage real, for a 20M-people city where a significant fraction charges cars at night, it would the Evil Commies of China. They can also arbitrarily level a few houses every other block to create enough parking spots wit...
[00:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Volkswagen to Roll Out an Electric Car in China. Can It Help Reduce the Smog? - 862 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:05] <exec> 08└─** Does SN have the possibility of a "tickler file"? This article should re-appear in a year, then we can check if 8% of the cars produced and/or sold in China are electrics as per tfs. The various electric car mandates tried here (California in particular) have failed spectacularly. If most of thei...
[00:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Volkswagen to Roll Out an Electric Car in China. Can It Help Reduce the Smog? - 1497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:07] <exec> 08└─It may be wrong, but it is their only choice. Unlike in America where Trump can talk out his asshole (which is on his face), the Chinese don't have the option of partisan anti-science corrupt views on whether or not the pollution is real, whether climate change is real. Ironically, I'm sure the aver...
[00:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Volkswagen to Roll Out an Electric Car in China. Can It Help Reduce the Smog? - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:09] <exec> 08└─In terms of suitability for purpose, have Chinese families (with income to afford a car) spread all over the country the way they have in the USA? Or, are most families still clustered near their parents/grandparents? Even if most US trips are short, people aren't all that excited about renting (or...
[00:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Volkswagen to Roll Out an Electric Car in China. Can It Help Reduce the Smog? - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:11] <exec> 08└─There's one advantage with electricity. You can pollute somewhere else and get the benefit elsewhere. (but it takes an Hungarian engineer to accomplish that ;-) ,he probably weren't a professional engineer (R) [soylentnews.org] either, oh the horror)
[00:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Volkswagen to Roll Out an Electric Car in China. Can It Help Reduce the Smog? - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:13] <exec> 08└─In 2013, China was "the biggest importer of oil." http://www.bbc.co.uk [bbc.co.uk] The country has also been importing coal in recent years, notably from Australia. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] However I'm under the impression...
[00:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Volkswagen to Roll Out an Electric Car in China. Can It Help Reduce the Smog? - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:16] <exec> 08└─We wouldn't want to learn from L.A. losing its permanent smog. That's California Libtard politics. Maybe someone should point out to the D.C. crowd that under the "predominant winds" Chinese conspiracy, their families are breathing the sum of all the pollution emitted west of them. West of my kids i...
[00:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Volkswagen to Roll Out an Electric Car in China. Can It Help Reduce the Smog? - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:18] <exec> 08└─I've often wondered, in a country such as China where authority is almost exclusively top-down, why we don't see them implement pumped hydro storage just about everywhere to complement intermittent energy sources such as solar and wind. a) msgs to citizen, businesses: "You're moving from here, over...
[00:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Volkswagen to Roll Out an Electric Car in China. Can It Help Reduce the Smog? - 1019 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:20] <exec> 08└─There are other advantages in re fossil fuels burned in the car vs electricity produced at a plant using similar fuels: overall efficiency tends to be / can be way up, and the vehicle immediately becomes energy-source-agnostic so as sources change, the car doesn't know, doesn't care, and gets "green...
[00:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Volkswagen to Roll Out an Electric Car in China. Can It Help Reduce the Smog? - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:22] <exec> 08└─"Hey boss! You know how lithium batteries need cooling, and pumped hydro has more capacity? I just decided to co-locate them to save on wiring, and asked the guys to lower the batteries into the storage pond! Genius, right? Why are you turning white, boss? We're not stupid, we covered all the contac...
[00:46:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Live Murder: A New Global Pastime - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:52] <exec> 08└─You're blaming the tool, instead of the person that uses it.
[00:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Live Murder: A New Global Pastime - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:53] <exec> 08└─Well, there's a megabillionaire with a fancy laser system to block pictures on his yacht, and there are cops with cell-spoofing equipment, but for the rest of us, blocking FB Live from someone else's phone is pretty hard... Oh, you meant give every Thai baby an AR-15 at birth, in case they need to s...
[00:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Live Murder: A New Global Pastime - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:55] <exec> 08└─Or paying for the next CompuServe bill...
[00:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Live Murder: A New Global Pastime - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:58] <exec> 08└─Live video also allows for police accountability. You can film cops and have the footage mirrored immediately. It makes it much harder for cops to contol the narrative, which they have been able to do by seizing cameras and deleting footage.
[00:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Live Murder: A New Global Pastime - 845 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:00] <exec> 08└─I agree with you that people can make their own choices about whether to click or not, but that obviously shouldn't be the standard of whether to include a link in a summary. I'm actually conflicted about this too. Anyone who really wants to find such videos can easily search for them. If we were ru...
[00:47:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Roger Murdock [4897] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Begins Installing Missile Defense System in South Korea - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:39] <exec> 08└─just like tobacco companies claimed that Australia's packaging requirements wouldn't work.
[00:50:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Want to Encourage Cooperation? Try Exchanging Names. - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:25] <exec> 08└─I am Spartacus.
[00:50:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want to Encourage Cooperation? Try Exchanging Names. - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:26] <exec> 08└─"A sigh is just a sigh, The fundamental things apply" "Cooperation" is that part where you have to apologize to all those you have harmed while you were logged in as AC. The first step is to realize you are anonymous, and you have a problem.
[00:50:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Want to Encourage Cooperation? Try Exchanging Names. - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:28] <exec> 08└─Fuck you. My name was not aristarchus so if we had exchanged names you wouldn't be calling yourself that. You're clearly uncooperative.
[00:51:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Illegal Engineering in Oregon - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:23] <exec> 08└─Almost like a "Professional Senator" ;-)
[00:51:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Illegal Engineering in Oregon - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:24] <exec> 08└─You would still be a software engineer regardless of jobs. It's about knowledge and skill formalized through education. It won't go away because the job market has low.
[00:51:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Who Needs Coal? Britain Did Nicely Without Coal for 24 Hours - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:51] <exec> 08└─Good question, and I had an answer but I posted in the wrong place: /comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=19210&page=1&cid=500722#commentwrap [soylentnews.org] Three new coal plants opened in the Netherlands around 2014 or 2015. The plants in the UK are older.
[00:52:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03akinliat [1898] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Launches Aircraft Carrier - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:36] <exec> 08└─The Burkes use the SM-3 in the the theater defense role. These are basically long-range(900+ nm) variants of the SM-2, which is the current standard anti-air missile in the Navy's inventory. They also have upgraded electronics for engaging ballistic missiles. Note that these are intended for theater...
[00:57:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:57:29] <exec> 08└─You may actually have a point about failure to explain myself. 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
[00:57:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Betraying "Hire American" Pledge, Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs - 1264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:57:30] <exec> 08└─Stuff like this is from the outset is counter-intuitive, oversimplifying and quite untrue about quite a few of Trump's voters. And exactly the same shit that conservative speakers, trump's twitter tantrums and supporters do while telling the other team they're doing it. Always an assumption of align...
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[01:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fetal Lambs Grown for 4 Weeks in Artificial Womb - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:54] <exec> 08└─The implication when you can combine sperm and egg donations together with a artificial womb is mind boggling. Industrial scale soldier production or mail-order-baby ? I think the society better watch out.
[01:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fetal Lambs Grown for 4 Weeks in Artificial Womb - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:56] <exec> 08└─This current technology only works on fetuses developed enough to have a heart. (That is what "pumpless" is about in TFS: the heart serves as the blood circulation pump.)
[01:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Fetal Lambs Grown for 4 Weeks in Artificial Womb - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:58] <exec> 08└─Which society? Killing your own clone is considered unlawful murder according to Bajoran law; killing your own clone is considered lawful abortion by Federation law. Have fun with jurisdiction.
[01:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fetal Lambs Grown for 4 Weeks in Artificial Womb - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:00] <exec> 08└─Make anything you want in the lab from start to finish.
[01:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Volkswagen to Roll Out an Electric Car in China. Can It Help Reduce the Smog? - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:20] <exec> 08└─Battery efficiency is the Achilles heel in this. And electric cars have high entry price. As for saving cost. Wood gas may be more efficient.
[01:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Volkswagen to Roll Out an Electric Car in China. Can It Help Reduce the Smog? - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:22] <exec> 08└─What will this car cost? How much energy will it's battery take? and how long can you drive with it?
[01:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Volkswagen to Roll Out an Electric Car in China. Can It Help Reduce the Smog? - 854 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:24] <exec> 08└─Minor flaw in your thinking. There are two reasons that corporations have off-shored so much of American industry. One, is labor cost, and two, is lack of regulations. China may regulate things a bit better than many third world countries, but they still have a long way to go. Another post, above, n...
[01:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Live Murder: A New Global Pastime - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:59] <exec> 08└─News broadcasters have shown graphic violence from crimes or war zones plenty of times in the past. Nudity, less so.
[01:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook Live Murder: A New Global Pastime - 1700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:00] <exec> 08└─You cannot escape the brutality that is life. You can be a good person and avoid bad situations, but there is a risk of being exposed to brutality and vivisection everytime you walk outside your door. When I was of single-digit age (here we go, another one of these), my grandma had just taken my you...
[01:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Implanted Scaffold With T Cells Rapidly Shrinks Tumors - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:11] <exec> 08└─Depends on how much dough you're raking in during that 6 months.
[01:47:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe [2583] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Implanted Scaffold With T Cells Rapidly Shrinks Tumors - 1629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:12] <exec> 08└─The research group loaded a silica sponge with CAR T cells and a type of molecule that will strongly induce immune responses (an adjuvant that stimulates the STING pathway) and implanted it in close proximity to the tumor. The sponge also is loaded with antibodies that will help activate any T cells...
[01:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Stores to Expand Gratis Seminars - 1722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:07] <exec> 08└─Funny, I just got through having an argument with a client. They're still a little bit upset I dropped Microsoft from my support options and refuse to create anything using it. It went like this: ME: Well, it's not a viable business decision for me. All that telemetry and tracking means that your da...
[01:48:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Stores to Expand Gratis Seminars - 810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:08] <exec> 08└─Not sure about success, only that is now required. I realize what I sound like. There is no room anymore for negotiations, nor is there any room for hope. It's that bad. I deeply respect and cherish all life. The fact I ask for it to end, and for it to end like that, is just indicative of how brutal...
[01:53:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06System 76 Moves Product Design and Manufacturing in House - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:53:23] <exec> 08└─That is what I was talking about. It's not urine. It's not semen, but people call it cum, all the same. I have never encountered someone who squirted like porn videos, but I have been with a couple gushers. Neither of them thought they could do it when we met; and they couldn't until we had develope...
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[02:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fetal Lambs Grown for 4 Weeks in Artificial Womb - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:59] <exec> 08└─Or... you know, Brave New World.
[02:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Volkswagen to Roll Out an Electric Car in China. Can It Help Reduce the Smog? - 1204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:23] <exec> 08└─Cost isn't the same consideration in China, that it is here. The Chinese government will subsidize electrics, if it really wants to push them. We've already seen the government subsidizing other industries. Those subsidies might be considered the root cause of the poison milk scandal a few years ago...
[02:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03VanessaE [3396] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Volkswagen to Roll Out an Electric Car in China. Can It Help Reduce the Smog? - 1616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:25] <exec> 08└─You jest, of course, but it's really not such a crazy idea... imagine this: Suppose you have a regular hydroelectric dam/reservoir, everything set up and operating normally as HE systems go. Now, cover part of that reservoir with solar panels, with the panels spaced say 1 meter apart and elevated sa...
[02:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Live Murder: A New Global Pastime - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:02] <exec> 08└─Again, not a justification. Is there any good reason to view these videos other than morbid curiosity? Does it add anything to the journalistic message to enable that curiosity? I'm not saying the links should necessarily NOT be included, only wondering aloud what standards should be. Also, I'm curi...
[02:47:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Begins Installing Missile Defense System in South Korea - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:44] <exec> 08└─Also what Canada is thinking about their border with Upper Mexico.
[02:48:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Stores to Expand Gratis Seminars - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:11] <exec> 08└─Why does it matter to you if their data is stolen or similar? Anyway, Microsoft software is a problem in that whatever you learn. They have a tendency to drop it and create something new for no reason other than to push a new sales. So you have to regularly throw away all you have learned along with...
[02:48:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Stores to Expand Gratis Seminars - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:12] <exec> 08└─If your country made you bad. Perhaps another one is the answer? I know USA is #1 in many aspects. But in many others it's a backwater.
[02:49:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Allays Some Critics With First Use of New Mass-Hacking Warrant - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:16] <exec> 08└─These particular criminals are habituated as to doing end-runs around the law. The examples are many.
[02:49:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Allays Some Critics With First Use of New Mass-Hacking Warrant - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:18] <exec> 08└─You're correct they didn't list it in the Declaration of Independence, but it inspired the Fourth Amendment; as such, it was pretty high on their list of grievances.
[02:49:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Marissa Mayer Will Get $186M Golden Parachute Upon Yahoo's Sale To Verizon - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:51] <exec> 08└─Seems Icahn got a position by buying a lot of shares. Question is who provided that money. And now he has this job "Special Advisor to the President on Regulatory Reform". In other news the wolf are guarding the hen house..
[02:49:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Marissa Mayer Will Get $186M Golden Parachute Upon Yahoo's Sale To Verizon - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:52] <exec> 08└─Marissa Mayer could be my sugar mama! I think she deserves more money!
[02:50:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want to Encourage Cooperation? Try Exchanging Names. - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:44] <exec> 08└─Play it again, Sam! Casablanca!
[02:50:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want to Encourage Cooperation? Try Exchanging Names. - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:45] <exec> 08└─The premise of the study was that you build trust by exchanging names and getting to know one another socially. I can't think of anything more anathema to the geek archetype than that, and such was the context of my statement. FOSS and endeavors like Soylent are examples of geeks cooperating with ea...
[02:52:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Launches Aircraft Carrier - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:53] <exec> 08└─You missed the point and kinda just proved mine, thanks. Just look at how long that list was and then note that was done with untrained pilots in obsolete airplanes now imagine that those were replaced with mach 2 aircraft flown by expert pilots...still think it wouldn't be a threat? With a drone th...
[02:53:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06System 76 Moves Product Design and Manufacturing in House - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:37] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it's...different. Like, not that there's such a thing as a bad orgasm but it's like the difference between canned soup and the kind you make yourself with stock and your slow cooker, if that makes sense? And the trust thing is really important because, for my ex and me both, what did it was so...
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[03:45:55] <exec> 08└─Women naturally have better stamina than men.
[03:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Peggy Whitson has Logged More Space Hours than any Other US Astronaut - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:57] <exec> 08└─Well, due to their generally smaller bodies and higher-resistance to G-forces, they are better at some tasks than men are. In many cultures, they are either the brain and/or dominant force of the family unit. The caveman goes and clubs dinner. The cavewoman calculates finances and plans for a better...
[03:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Peggy Whitson has Logged More Space Hours than any Other US Astronaut - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:59] <exec> 08└─We can free the burquas and hijabs and niqabs from their wearers' oppression!
[03:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fetal Lambs Grown for 4 Weeks in Artificial Womb - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:11] <exec> 08└─"Or... you know, Brave New World." Hush, or I'll put alcohol in your blood surrogate.
[03:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03simonInOz [2173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Volkswagen to Roll Out an Electric Car in China. Can It Help Reduce the Smog? - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:37] <exec> 08└─I was in Shanghai a few years ago. And yes, the pollution was terrible. But interestingly, the major part of private transport appeared to be electric scooters. They looked like Vespa scooters, not electric bikes. They were quite zippy, and there were everywhere. Given the horrible traffic, they loo...
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[03:47:04] <exec> 08└─Offense is taken, not given. No one forced you to click on a link. Go play with your crayons in your safe space.
[03:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Live Murder: A New Global Pastime - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:15] <exec> 08└─I agree - very distasteful. Main stream media should only show rainbows and unicorns, nobody should be aware that bad things happen in the world. Shocking images should only be seen at HBO's "Game of whatever is hapenning this week" and in all the NCISs, but never on the news ...
[03:47:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Begins Installing Missile Defense System in South Korea - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:58] <exec> 08└─If they need to a get an erection to get onboard, why doesn't the U.S border patrol being increased by several times with new equipment to get them to where they need faster, give them that warrior stiffy they so desire?
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[04:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Venezuela to Leave OAS - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:54] <exec> 08└─why is this even here? USA is pushing the coup on venezuela so exxon can continue it's looting of venezuelan oil. hardly any news
[04:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Peggy Whitson has Logged More Space Hours than any Other US Astronaut - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:04] <exec> 08└─After speaking to the President she asked if she could stay off the Earth for another four years.
[04:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Peggy Whitson has Logged More Space Hours than any Other US Astronaut - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:06] <exec> 08└─The Nykeee Corporation.
[04:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Live Murder: A New Global Pastime - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:22] <exec> 08└─The term, of course, is "polite society."
[04:48:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Begins Installing Missile Defense System in South Korea - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:05] <exec> 08└─No, not full retard. It is a MASSIVE pork project and it was an easy sell. It is 100% about corruption and crony capitalism.
[04:49:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Allays Some Critics With First Use of New Mass-Hacking Warrant - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:49:39] <exec> 08└─"Stand down citizen, we are here for your protection!" ..... "Keep Summer safe!" "I don't feeel safe :("
[04:52:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hawkwind [3531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Illegal Engineering in Oregon - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:02] <exec> 08└─Have to say even the "I am an engineer" part seems fine. Why should he have to say "I am recognized as an engineer in my native country"? Or even, recognized as an engineer in most of the USA? Please note I offer the above not as a legal opinion, just as common sense.
[04:53:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Launches Aircraft Carrier - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:53:15] <exec> 08└─Either that or a damn clever tactic, buy a direlect, rusting Soviet-era hulk and turn it into something that looks like a carrier, then watch the US spend a hundred or a thousand times more building actual carriers in a panicked response to prove that their penis is bigger. The DF-26 has (apparently...
[04:54:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Navy's New Mach 6 Electro-Magnetic Railgun Almost Ready for Prime Time - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:54:50] <exec> 08└─this is an exemplar of why i am displeased when persons disparage eth_funked and runaway1956 in the same sentence. One is 99% troll, the other is a person of occasionally malleable belief and rationale who looks things up for the community sometimes.
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[05:45:51] <exec> 08└─This may be true but one has to admit that it is a clusterfuck, and yes the united states is largely the hostile state actor, but cuba survived even the fall of their major trading partner(ussr) venezuela on the other hand attacked the very people chaves actually helped it's just another example of...
[05:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Volkswagen to Roll Out an Electric Car in China. Can It Help Reduce the Smog? - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:41] <exec> 08└─It is high grade coal used for carbonizing steel. I can't remember where it was mentioned, but it was in the comments on another article from a few days back, possibly the one discussing underground cities. As such the coal importation does not have much of an effect on the power production side of...
[05:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Live Murder: A New Global Pastime - 1818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:21] <exec> 08└─OK, real deal. For a while I worked retail in a bookstore/tobacconist/newspaper stand store. Rather small town. You learn a lot. One instance: the head of the local chamber of commerce walks through the door, and I shout out, "Mr. Smith! We just got in the new edition of "Big Boobs and Buns" (he was...
[05:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Live Murder: A New Global Pastime - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:22] <exec> 08└─Does the existence of FB Live make this sort of thing more likely to happen?
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[06:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Nintendo Says Switch will Help Double Profits - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:56] <exec> 08└─It's incredibly under-powered and cheap hardware and it's the only way you can run the hottest game this season. So of course it will be profitable.
[06:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nintendo Says Switch will Help Double Profits - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:57] <exec> 08└─I honestly think the only thing keeping sales going is the console exclusive titles like Breath of the Mint. If this stuff was on Steam or something would someone be able to justify spending $300 on a switch for it? Or just a plain ol' licensed download. Most people have something with equivalent or...
[06:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nintendo Says Switch will Help Double Profits - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:00] <exec> 08└─Yup, its the Disney method to profits. Zelda and to a lesser extent Mario are their cash cows, yes people will buy the console just for those games, so a $50-75 dollar game becomes $350-375, and then a couple of obligatory other games to make the system more versatile... load of crap
[06:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nintendo Says Switch will Help Double Profits - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:02] <exec> 08└─True. I've bought four of their consoles to play Zelda games. Admittedly, they were all bought second-hand, so my contributions to Nintendo's shareholders are not as substantial as they might have been.
[06:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Volkswagen to Roll Out an Electric Car in China. Can It Help Reduce the Smog? - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:59] <exec> 08└─They should replace the coal plants with electric plants. :-)
[06:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Volkswagen to Roll Out an Electric Car in China. Can It Help Reduce the Smog? - 836 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:01] <exec> 08└─Australia does indeed produce about half of the world's supply of expensive, metallurgical grade coal that is used in the production of steel. There was a story about that earlier this month: Cyclone in Australia Could Disrupt Steel Production in Asia /article.pl?sid=17/04/04/0115217 [soylentnews.or...
[06:47:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03kaszz [4211] 02 - 06Facebook Live Murder: A New Global Pastime - 424 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:24] <exec> 08└─You are presumed to be an adult able to make the decision to view or not by yourself. It's also to level the information knowledge such that there isn't a A-team who knows it all and B-team that is only served whatever censors deem alright. Someone might want to verify what others has written actual...
[06:47:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Live Murder: A New Global Pastime - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:44] <exec> 08└─News broadcasters have shown graphic violence from crimes or war zones plenty of times in the past.
[06:47:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Live Murder: A New Global Pastime - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:45] <exec> 08└─IMO, it's in poor taste to share these videos of murder, or your example of nude celeb photos, with the general public due to the invasion of privacy. (Presumably, the murder victims did not consent to having the act recorded.) And there is no information in the public interest that is being reveale...
[06:47:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03timbim [907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Live Murder: A New Global Pastime - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:47] <exec> 08└─waaaat the fuck??? the was a great story
[06:47:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Live Murder: A New Global Pastime - 828 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:50] <exec> 08└─Morally and ethically they should not be included, it adds nothing to the discussion. Censorship is bad, but the opposite is just as bad. When depravity is encouraged and intentionally spread around it does have an effect, impressionable minds internalize these things. I don't mean that people will...
[06:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Live Murder: A New Global Pastime - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:52] <exec> 08└─I see we have some die hard morons here tonight. There has to be a middle ground, you can't spew nasty shit everywhere then cry "censorshp!" whenever someone says it is in bad taste. Snowflakes just want to revel in the shock culture, make horrors seem normal. Don't tell them it is in poor taste, do...
[06:47:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Live Murder: A New Global Pastime - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:54] <exec> 08└─You spelled "wooooooooooosh" wrong, FTFY
[06:47:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Live Murder: A New Global Pastime - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:56] <exec> 08└─Or, reading the story is sufficient and you can let the very curious find the video on their own. Its called "good taste" and you should have learned it from your mother or father. There are plenty of things in this world that should be hard to find / figure out, specifically because there are peopl...
[06:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Live Murder: A New Global Pastime - 980 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:59] <exec> 08└─It seems the community is split on this issue, but I also have noticed an uptick in bottom feeders commenting. I wish all the lurkers would log in and moderate, but I truly think people are becoming disillusioned with this site after some of the moderation crap changes that encourage shit posting. B...
[06:51:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want to Encourage Cooperation? Try Exchanging Names. - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:51:43] <exec> 08└─Oh, dear!
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[07:46:04] <exec> 08└─I really wonder how he is solving the time traveler paradox. For example: 1. I create a time machine 2. I go back in time and make sure my parents never get a child. 3. Which means I never existed and could never have created the time machine 4. Which means I never have been going back in time to pr...
[07:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using Mathematics to Investigate Possibility of Time Travel - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:05] <exec> 08└─Well with potential for alternate realities the paradox is resolved, you create a new timeline and you, the time traveler, are are the catalyst. "Let there be light!" said the idiot who wanted to kill his own parents...
[07:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nintendo Says Switch will Help Double Profits - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:17] <exec> 08└─Barely different than buying a $300 dedicated GPU (not the whole general purpose PC that can do spreadsheets) to play a particular game or two, and more later as they are released. The consoles now have web browsers and integration with Netflix [bgr.com] so you can theoretically use them for more th...
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[07:46:26] <exec> 08└─People are selfish. Period. People will always want to get what they want, and as fast as possible. This is one of the most fundamental problem with communism. 1. Why work hard and well if I anyway do not get more than my lazy co-worker? 2. If I anyway gain nothing by working hard, corruption is the...
[07:47:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Facebook Live Murder: A New Global Pastime - 434 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:33] <exec> 08└─Why the fuck are you including links to watch the actual videos? That is distasteful in the extreme. It's as bad as when the main stream news shows intentionally shocking images. This has nothing to do with censorship or freedom of speech. Ethically, these videos should not exist to begin with. Disc...
[07:48:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Live Murder: A New Global Pastime - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:48:09] <exec> 08└─What is wrong with you?
[07:48:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Live Murder: A New Global Pastime - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:48:11] <exec> 08└─Come watch democracy die.
[07:48:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Live Murder: A New Global Pastime - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:48:13] <exec> 08└─They really are waging a pretty effective campaign, and we have some foot soldiers on this site who sadly think they are supporting freedom.
[07:49:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Square Hires Yik Yak’s Engineers, Leaving Fewer Than 10 Employees Behind - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:49:48] <exec> 08└─For a moment I thought it was the other Square (Enix)...
[07:52:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want to Encourage Cooperation? Try Exchanging Names. - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:52:00] <exec> 08└─We can both be right.
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[08:46:18] <exec> 08└─No, I don't know any PC gamers that exclusively run a couple of games and never touch them again. Consoles however have little general purpose, Netflix sure but web browser? Without a keyboard and mouse you gotta be kidding!
[08:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Venezuela to Leave OAS - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:28] <exec> 08└─Apex liberalism "Why work hard and well if I anyway do not get more than my lazy co-worker?" If you're having to work FOR someone to GET paid then that's not communism which entails worker democracy, workers ownership of the means of production and lack of currency (Yes, that means Venezuela, Cuba,...
[08:46:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fetal Lambs Grown for 4 Weeks in Artificial Womb - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:52] <exec> 08└─The circle is complete then, more or less. Artificial womb, sperm and eggs are now things they are working on. I wonder how many years there will be before GATTACA is no longer just a prophetic movie or vision of the future but reality.
[08:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Volkswagen to Roll Out an Electric Car in China. Can It Help Reduce the Smog? - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:22] <exec> 08└─That would be a killer feature. The number of times that I'd like to be able to flag a comment to let me reply / update / "I told you so" in a few years time from its posting. If we could have a article "be Revisted" and be shown your original comments on it, so you could do that. I fear the codeba...
[08:48:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Live Murder: A New Global Pastime - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:48:16] <exec> 08└─My guess is no, people have been murder suiciding for a long time. Adding FB live to the equation may have a small encouragement factor for shocking your whole extended family at once, but I imagine people in such a bad place are going to do those bad things regardless of FB live. They already screw...
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[08:52:02] <exec> 08└─The more you know, thanks :)
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[09:45:49] <exec> 08└─UK is 40 down the list, but the US is 43rd. The best in North or South America seems to be Costa Rica at 6. Maybe it's time to move to Costa Rica.
[09:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using Mathematics to Investigate Possibility of Time Travel - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:59] <exec> 08└─in their formulation (there are two authors) this paradox does not exist. They're talking about something that looks like time travelling for outside observers, but is a self-consistent time periodic phenomenon in its own bubble of space-time. I.e. if you travel back in time you can't interact with...
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[09:46:01] <exec> 08└─3 implies self-correcting universe which requires sentient control since you need to know what is a "correct" state of the world, which is unlikely. At the very least I can write a program and delete its source and it would still work. Just add another dimension if you feel like your model needs to...
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[09:46:03] <exec> 08└─Naked inspiraling black holes are very common, but it seems the event rarely leaves behind any evidence besides gravitational waves (eg the corresponding neutrinos and gamma ray bursts are missing for all confirmed ligo detections so far). This may be because the "extra" energy is being used to "sur...
[09:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using Mathematics to Investigate Possibility of Time Travel - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:05] <exec> 08└─Causality is not instantaneous. We have Einsteins Special Relativity Theory which is based on that. If you travel back in time and change history, in worst case you may generate oscillations, a standing wave of outcomes. If there is feedback from future into past, then the fatalism arises as stable...
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[09:46:07] <exec> 08└─Naked inspiraling black holes are very common, but it seems the event rarely leaves behind any evidence besides gravitational waves (eg the corresponding neutrinos and gamma ray bursts are missing for all confirmed ligo detections so far). This may be because the "extra" energy is being used to "sur...
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[09:46:30] <exec> 08└─thing? Israeli Jews and American hippies. Both still have communities in existence following some of the principles, but for most of them there are documented failures in facets of the organization/culture that didn't work. The most notable was the child rearing aspects: Communal child rearing doesn...
[09:46:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03julian [6003] 02 - 06Peggy Whitson has Logged More Space Hours than any Other US Astronaut - 97 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:40] <exec> 08└─After speaking to the President she asked if she could stay off the Earth for another four years.
[09:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Peggy Whitson has Logged More Space Hours than any Other US Astronaut - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:43] <exec> 08└─THIS should have been a muslim. A male. Someone to look to in these times of trouble. Racist! Femanist! Religist! How dare they?
[09:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Peggy Whitson has Logged More Space Hours than any Other US Astronaut - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:45] <exec> 08└─"She"? Did you just assume their gender? Just because they were born with a vagina doesn't mean they identify as female. Some men have vaginas and some women have penises you oppressive patriarchal shitlord!
[09:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Peggy Whitson has Logged More Space Hours than any Other US Astronaut - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:47] <exec> 08└─The problem is mainly theism because many of them have rules that women should be suppressed in various ways. Considering the self interest. Women under Islam might be the perfect cog to rip out to undermine the machinery. They get screwed really bad regardless what they do by that theistic system....
[09:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03marcello_dl [2685] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fetal Lambs Grown for 4 Weeks in Artificial Womb - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:47:01] <exec> 08└─It is an invariant in modern world. All that used to be free, getting sun, water, food, getting pregnant (not free as in effortless, free as in non controlled by a central authority) is being subjected to the system. Everything is not about money but control.
[09:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Volkswagen to Roll Out an Electric Car in China. Can It Help Reduce the Smog? - 1349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:47:33] <exec> 08└─You can get electric motorbikes and mopeds quite cheaply, in comparison. They charge quickly, have "enough" range for a commute, and often you can recharge them from a single standard socket. I was seriously considering one recently, but I don't have a motorbike licence (they separated car and bike...
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[09:47:34] <exec> 08└─> [...] pumped hydro storage just about everywhere [...] For pumped storage, one needs two reservoirs at different altitudes, and enough water to fill one of them. I've heard that suitable places are uncommon.
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[09:50:48] <exec> 08└─No, they will get a share of the money that normally goes to the IoT company itself. Yes, this may bloat the original price a bit, but I don't see that as a big problem. As mentioned before, people will quickly realize, hm maybe I don't need a toaster that connects to the internet. Companies that ar...
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[10:45:58] <exec> 08└─sh!t, hey. With modern humans, septic tanks will make life easier for future researchers, but they will wonder why some of us liked to collect our poo (likely the tanks and plumbing will have rotted away)
[10:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06UK Slips to 40th Place in Press Freedom Rankings - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:07] <exec> 08└─Denmark (#4) and the Netherlands (#5) have island bits—Greenland, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba—in the Americas.
[10:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03its_gonna_be_yuge! [6454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Slips to 40th Place in Press Freedom Rankings - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:09] <exec> 08└─"Denmark (#4) and the Netherlands (#5) have island bits—Greenland, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba—in the Americas." Heh. I've never thought of Greenland as being in the Americas, but maybe. After all, Canada is in a spirited war with Denmark over Greenland (or a small part of it): ...
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[10:46:23] <exec> 08└─The concept of time travel using closed timelike curves is known since at least 1974. [wikipedia.org] Note that if you are willing to build infinite structures, you don't even need exotic matter! Also, the description of the time machine as a bubble that moves through spacetime at superluminal speed...
[10:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using Mathematics to Investigate Possibility of Time Travel - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:24] <exec> 08└─Or the nature will allow time travel but no change whatsoever. The past will be "read only".
[10:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Using Mathematics to Investigate Possibility of Time Travel - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:26] <exec> 08└─The gravity generated time relativism that a black hole generates is only say 2 times real time or so at maximum. Traveling at high speeds enables really big time relativity to occur. So forget black holes as an efficient means for this phenomena.
[10:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using Mathematics to Investigate Possibility of Time Travel - 875 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:29] <exec> 08└─It could work if you can't interact and only observe. It fails to work in the other direction though. If you move the bubble forward in time, you would be able to see the future. Back in your own time you can now 'invent' stuff you've seen, but you would not only change your own future but also the...
[10:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Using Mathematics to Investigate Possibility of Time Travel - 2636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:31] <exec> 08└─I believe even to read the past is verboten... as even intercepting one photon ( observation ) will have a "butterfly effect". I guess maybe what I am trying to say is even if you could go back, you could not interact/sense *anything*.... sound, light, EM waves, anything. But I do believe travel int...
[10:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fetal Lambs Grown for 4 Weeks in Artificial Womb - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:47:23] <exec> 08└─Isn't it wonderful? Soon TPTB can fire up new peons much as you or I would spin up a new VM. Why buy the entire cow if you only want the milk and all that. Throw in the mix automation and artificial intelligence and the 99% became dead weight. Guess what happens next?
[10:48:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Live Murder: A New Global Pastime - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:48:50] <exec> 08└─If I had to guess I'd say he slipped into unconsciousness after getting drunk and eating the bleach under the sink with "Stand By Me" [imdb.com] playing in the background, and now he has a Richard Drefuss' voice nostalgically narrating the confused mixture of reality, memory, movie, fantasy and subs...
[10:49:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Implanted Scaffold With T Cells Rapidly Shrinks Tumors - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:49:02] <exec> 08└─They pity the fools!
[10:49:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Begins Installing Missile Defense System in South Korea - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:49:36] <exec> 08└─At current prices that is 492 tonnes of gold. Do you know how devastating to the environment that much gold mining would be? You would be better off building a wall.
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[11:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Neanderthal DNA Recovered from Cave Soil - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:00] <exec> 08└─Everybody knows modern (ahem *ancient*) humans were all a bunch of inbred raving shit eaters who worked 80 hour weeks and never produced anything!
[11:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neanderthal DNA Recovered from Cave Soil - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:02] <exec> 08└─... well they did produce something. It just took fifty thousand years for it to have some kind of value.
[11:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Slips to 40th Place in Press Freedom Rankings - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:12] <exec> 08└─Considering the UK is the basis for 1984 I'm surprised they make it that high and the US being at 43 seems I don't know optimistic considering they don't have any non state news agencies
[11:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Slips to 40th Place in Press Freedom Rankings - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:13] <exec> 08└─Technically, Greenland is part of the North American continental plate system (as are the western areas of Iceland), so in a geographical context it probably should be considered part of North America. Economically and politically though it's more aligned with Europe through its Danish ties, and tha...
[11:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06UK Slips to 40th Place in Press Freedom Rankings - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:15] <exec> 08└─Still ahead of the USA? Theresa May will fix that!
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[11:46:18] <exec> 08└─Sadly, that's highly likely. Assuming the Conservatives win the general election in June and the divorce from the EU goes through on schedule in 2019, she'll have a solid three years during which the only limits on legislation will be those signed up to as part of the separation necessary for any tr...
[11:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using Mathematics to Investigate Possibility of Time Travel - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:36] <exec> 08└─Seriously, BTW bring your own weapons, safety not assured. also I suspect at Okanagan Campus they are doing a different kind of time travel that involves a lot of SMOKE and mirrors
[11:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using Mathematics to Investigate Possibility of Time Travel - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:38] <exec> 08└─They mention 3 problems: The spacetime geometry is geodesically incomplete, contains naked singularities, and requires exotic matter.
[11:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using Mathematics to Investigate Possibility of Time Travel - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:40] <exec> 08└─Continuum: http://www.imdb.com [imdb.com] The series tackles this in the first season, and resolves nicely around it. You can get very far with alternative time lines, as the series creators show.
[11:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using Mathematics to Investigate Possibility of Time Travel - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:42] <exec> 08└─You assume you have complete freedom of will and that other physics don't come in your way preventing you from killing yourself.
[11:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using Mathematics to Investigate Possibility of Time Travel - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:44] <exec> 08└─Have you read Ystoria Mongalorum? It is amazing what used to go on only 800 years ago. The book describes a people in the north consisting of human women, but all the males had the appearance of dogs. When the mongols attacked them, they jumped in the water and rolled around until covered with ice,...
[11:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using Mathematics to Investigate Possibility of Time Travel - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:47] <exec> 08└─But I do believe travel into the future is possible, maybe even likely. I see nothing in physics that forbids it. Einstein/Lorentz seemed to verify the possibility of it.
[11:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using Mathematics to Investigate Possibility of Time Travel - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:49] <exec> 08└─I use math to get laid losers!
[11:47:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fetal Lambs Grown for 4 Weeks in Artificial Womb - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:47:41] <exec> 08└─2nd, my friend. It's there for a reason.
[11:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Volkswagen to Roll Out an Electric Car in China. Can It Help Reduce the Smog? - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:48:14] <exec> 08└─These are solvable problems with construction machinery.
[11:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Volkswagen to Roll Out an Electric Car in China. Can It Help Reduce the Smog? - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:48:15] <exec> 08└─Minor flaw in your thinking.
[11:49:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Live Murder: A New Global Pastime - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:49:11] <exec> 08└─You spelled it wrong: There's an "h" after the "w", because of all the air movement the whoosh makes. :-)
[11:52:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Marissa Mayer Will Get $186M Golden Parachute Upon Yahoo's Sale To Verizon - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:52:09] <exec> 08└─> Can we replace CEOs with robots already? you can, but it is not the best idea, we bots basically don't care about meatbags, while the ideal CEOs must actively hate them.
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[12:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humans may have Arrived in the Americas 100,000 Years Earlier than Thought - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:02] <exec> 08└─If this is true all of our models of human migration out of Africa are wrong. I'm not surprised there is some debate
[12:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans may have Arrived in the Americas 100,000 Years Earlier than Thought - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:04] <exec> 08└─They took the route over the sea perhaps?
[12:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Slips to 40th Place in Press Freedom Rankings - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:27] <exec> 08└─The AP is owned by its contributing newspapers and radio and television stations in the United States [...]
[12:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Slips to 40th Place in Press Freedom Rankings - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:28] <exec> 08└─If the only journalists that will remain are those that run their work like an intelligence operation. Well then that is what the natural selection will produce. Just like drug resistant bacteria is what such use encourage. And when they are at that level the journalists will have even less self res...
[12:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using Mathematics to Investigate Possibility of Time Travel - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:55] <exec> 08└─It could work if you can't interact and only observe.
[12:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03dvader [1936] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Using Mathematics to Investigate Possibility of Time Travel - 734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:56] <exec> 08└─No, the time dilation goes to infinity as you approach the event horizon. See https://astronomy.stackexchange.com [stackexchange.com] Basically, to an outside observer, you never pass the event horizon bu...
[12:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using Mathematics to Investigate Possibility of Time Travel - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:59] <exec> 08└─More subjective, the way I interpret the Bible ( hearsay to a lot of people, but I take the words seriously ) imply to me time travel.
[12:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using Mathematics to Investigate Possibility of Time Travel - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:01] <exec> 08└─"Naked" means there's no event horizon. In my limited understanding, general relativity predicts that singularities can exist in the form of black holes. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[12:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nintendo Says Switch will Help Double Profits - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:14] <exec> 08└─That was the last console I owned, but I've been thinking about buying one of those Classic mini's
[12:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nintendo Says Switch will Help Double Profits - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:15] <exec> 08└─Does gaming on phones really cannibalize gaming
[12:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nintendo Says Switch will Help Double Profits - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:17] <exec> 08└─I've known people that will specifically upgrade or pay the Window's tax so that they can play a certain game. Now, they also typically will play other games as well but that is also the case for consoles. As for general use, there were some that would end up using their gaming rig for heavy duty vi...
[12:47:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03infodragon [3509] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nintendo Says Switch will Help Double Profits - 2075 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:19] <exec> 08└─For a home console it's under speced. However for the convenience of moving from the TV to the toilet, or bed room, or the car... In general there is a lot people will sacrifice for convenience! Not to mention when I resume any game I'm playing in less than 30 seconds! What happens when some kid bri...
[12:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venezuela to Leave OAS - 796 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:31] <exec> 08└─The problem with communism is that it idealize people to something they are not. And when reality meets ideology, reality wins ruthlessly. So real personal traits like egoism etc take over. So while communism seems like a good idea on paper or in single minded theory. It's a fantasy that can't handl...
[12:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Venezuela to Leave OAS - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:32] <exec> 08└─As always, there's no need for any outside influence to lead a socialist regime to crush its own people into dust.
[12:47:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Peggy Whitson has Logged More Space Hours than any Other US Astronaut - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:48] <exec> 08└─Leaving the planet and not coming back does seem appealing these days
[12:48:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Volkswagen to Roll Out an Electric Car in China. Can It Help Reduce the Smog? - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:39] <exec> 08└─Battery efficiency is the Achilles heel in this. And electric cars have high entry price.
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[12:48:40] <exec> 08└─Yes, if one is willing to throw practicality out the window.
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[13:46:30] <exec> 08└─I agree it was probably giant sea otters that smashed up the bones, we can see them doing that sort of thing now, they where just bigger back then like everything else
[13:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans may have Arrived in the Americas 100,000 Years Earlier than Thought - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:31] <exec> 08└─experts contacted by the BBC said they doubted
[13:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humans may have Arrived in the Americas 100,000 Years Earlier than Thought - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:34] <exec> 08└─Just because these bones look like they've been smashed with a rock doesn't mean it was "humans" or even another member of the homo genus. Primates have been observed using rocks as tools to break things open, and monkeys have been in the Americas for more than 30 million years.
[13:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans may have Arrived in the Americas 100,000 Years Earlier than Thought - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:36] <exec> 08└─These findings confirm the presence of an unidentified species of Homo at the CM site during the last interglacial period (MIS 5e; early late Pleistocene), indicating that humans with manual dexterity and the experiential knowledge to use hammerstones and anvils processed mastodon limb bones for mar...
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[13:46:38] <exec> 08└─Expert doubt is worth about as much as expert conjecture... i.e., not much without evidence.
[13:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using Mathematics to Investigate Possibility of Time Travel - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:34] <exec> 08└─The Ezekiel thing is from Erich von Daniken's Chariots of the Gods. An analysis of it: https://www.christiancourier.com [christiancourier.com]
[13:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using Mathematics to Investigate Possibility of Time Travel - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:35] <exec> 08└─Before I start on this, I'd note that in general I have a lot more respect for religious folks than many people around here. I don't think religion is the source of all evil in the world or whatever critics often want to say. BUT I think one has to be careful about ascribing interpretations to bizar...
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[13:47:37] <exec> 08└─What do you think ?
[13:47:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nintendo Says Switch will Help Double Profits - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:55] <exec> 08└─The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim on the go? Yes please!
[13:47:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nintendo Says Switch will Help Double Profits - 719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:56] <exec> 08└─Mobile phones are good for point-and-click games. But I don't understand how the flat sheet of glass that is a mobile phone's primary input device substitutes for precise physical buttons for movement, jumping, and firing in games like Mega Man series. On-screen gamepads fail when the player acciden...
[13:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nintendo Says Switch will Help Double Profits - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:59] <exec> 08└─Barely different than buying a $300 dedicated GPU (not the whole general purpose PC that can do spreadsheets) to play a particular game or two
[13:48:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Peggy Whitson has Logged More Space Hours than any Other US Astronaut - 774 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:28] <exec> 08└─Normal people are able to look at context clues such as the pronoun others use when referring to that person. But then again, normal people don't get completely bent out of shape when they misgender someone by accident. So no, insisting on using a name for somebody that is no longer their legal name...
[13:49:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Volkswagen to Roll Out an Electric Car in China. Can It Help Reduce the Smog? - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:22] <exec> 08└─Fortunately, China is also researching thorium reactors. Not everybody is as dumbassed as Americans. (We can't have electric cars! Because coal!) (We can't have thorium! Because OMG nooyouler!)
[13:49:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Volkswagen to Roll Out an Electric Car in China. Can It Help Reduce the Smog? - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:24] <exec> 08└─Yes, if one is willing to throw practicality out the window.
[13:49:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Volkswagen to Roll Out an Electric Car in China. Can It Help Reduce the Smog? - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:26] <exec> 08└─" There are two reasons that corporations have off-shored so much of American industry. One, is labor cost, and two, is lack of regulations." You seemed to have skipped over those last three words. There are few if any regulations on the coal plants. Coal can be much cleaner than it is, if the plant...
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[13:52:48] <exec> 08└─If the car suddenly accelerates out of control that is a manufacturing defect. See Toyota. That is not something I should have to take care of. Other brands of cars don't suddenly accelerate out of control on their own without being commanded to accelerate.
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[14:46:24] <exec> 08└─I think it's in a circumstance like this where expert opinion tells. I'm an amateur flintknapper, but most times I can only detect the signs of paleo-flintknapping after one of the experts have pointed it out. And many times scientists will point to rocks or bones or something and say, "Look, see, t...
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[14:46:25] <exec> 08└─Yeah the objections of the "experts" in TFA aren't so much along the line of "maybe monkeys did it" as much as "maybe natural processes did it." Without any other corroborating evidence of stone tools or ANYTHING else in the archaeological record from humans for another 100,000 years, it does seem l...
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[14:46:28] <exec> 08└─Well, there were pieces of mastodon in cracks of several of the stones. The objection is more that the tools look like make-shift, produced on-site. Such tools are per definition rough (look like broken stones). Such tools are what one would expect of H. erectus for example. But obviously, one can a...
[14:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Neanderthal DNA Recovered from Cave Soil - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:39] <exec> 08└─"faeces ... DNA ..." Sounds like the bastards ate people and their shit proves it.
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[14:46:41] <exec> 08└─I would love to be able to go back in time and meet a neandertal tribe. Unless I'm mistaken, the neandertals had a larger cranial capacity [wikipedia.org]. While that's not a predictor of intelligence in general, they may have been at least as "smart" as humans: Neanderthals are known for their lar...
[14:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using Mathematics to Investigate Possibility of Time Travel - 1324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:30] <exec> 08└─If you go back in time, even if you got access to the big doughnut (can get divergence down to 1/100th, way better than those portable General Electric dual-singularity jumpers), you're never going to travel precisely to the same timeline that you departed from. It's not possible to reach 0 divergen...
[14:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03damnbunni [704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nintendo Says Switch will Help Double Profits - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:51] <exec> 08└─While buttons are still a problem, movement is actually pretty well solved: Where you first touch your thumb to the screen is the center of the joypad, and wherever you move it, that's the direction the stick goes. I'd still far rather have real controls, but it works better than you'd expect.
[14:48:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Venezuela to Leave OAS - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:06] <exec> 08└─Look guys, I found the commie!
[14:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Venezuela to Leave OAS - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:07] <exec> 08└─You cannot do Communism without Totalitarianism. Cannot be done, period, end sentence.
[14:48:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venezuela to Leave OAS - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:09] <exec> 08└─The right thing to have happen in Venezuela: 1. President Maduro finishes out his term. He'll be up for scheduled re-election in 2018. 2. Get lots of international observers for the election. 3. Whoever wins the election, with the support of those observers, becomes president. It may be Maduro, it m...
[14:48:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Venezuela to Leave OAS - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:12] <exec> 08└─actually one of the problems with capitalism is it's idealist base, because of that it sits well on simple minded people
[14:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Venezuela to Leave OAS - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:14] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't it be more optimal to compress "period", "end sentence" and "." to an ellipsis?
[14:49:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Volkswagen to Roll Out an Electric Car in China. Can It Help Reduce the Smog? - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:27] <exec> 08└─You seemed to have skipped over... [lack of regulations]
[14:50:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Live Murder: A New Global Pastime - 972 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:24] <exec> 08└─Wow -- you seem to be reading a lot into this. I have no idea how the traffic on this site is changing, but it seems like I've been seeing more stories with large numbers of comments recently. And it's not just a bunch of "trolls." I get frustrated with them too, by the way, but ALL internet communi...
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[15:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Mars Soil Could be Made into Bricks with Pressure Alone - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:23] <exec> 08└─Gee, perhaps Mars is where Trump can afford to build his wall? /snark
[15:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03boris [1706] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mars Soil Could be Made into Bricks with Pressure Alone - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:24] <exec> 08└─I would think if we were to use this on mars it would be in combination with an inflatable habitat to provide radiation shielding. I can't imagine they'd be able to make a brick structure air tight.
[15:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mars Soil Could be Made into Bricks with Pressure Alone - 744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:26] <exec> 08└─Attorney General Jeff Sessions: " Hey you, nigga boy, gimme a shoe-shine right this minute! " Black Kid: " Huh?! " Attorney General Jeff Sessions: " You heard what I said, nigga boy. I know you got a shoe-shine box in there " Black Kid: " That's my school stuff, sir. I have to get going, or else I'l...
[15:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Exascale Computing Project Status Update - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:34] <exec> 08└─But can it mine Bitcoin? That's a lot of computing power!
[15:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humans may have Arrived in the Americas 100,000 Years Earlier than Thought - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:52] <exec> 08└─I'm waiting to hear what the "geniuses" at Apple store thinks.
[15:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Neanderthal DNA Recovered from Cave Soil - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:04] <exec> 08└─Belgium, and the rest of Europe, are still being overrun by a bunch of inbred savages relieving themselves and depositing their DNA all over Europe.
[15:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Neanderthal DNA Recovered from Cave Soil - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:06] <exec> 08└─I bet you'd have sex with one too, it seems you have a fetish. You want to make one go "OOgaBoogaBooga....OOOOGGAAAAAAABoogaBoogaBoogaBooga!"
[15:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06UK Slips to 40th Place in Press Freedom Rankings - 1070 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:23] <exec> 08└─Sweden #2? From preventing the press from reporting "ethnic" names of suspects for rapes, beheadings, honor killings, etc. and then not allowing their mugshots to be shown on television, then actually giving them false Swedish names, I find it hard to believe that Sweden is in fact the most "Free" t...
[15:47:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using Mathematics to Investigate Possibility of Time Travel - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:59] <exec> 08└─The bubble moves through space-time at speeds greater than the speed of light at times, allowing it to move backward in time.
[15:48:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using Mathematics to Investigate Possibility of Time Travel - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:00] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novikov_self-consistency_principle [wikipedia.org]
[15:48:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using Mathematics to Investigate Possibility of Time Travel - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:02] <exec> 08└─With time travel you could go fuck yourself.
[15:48:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Using Mathematics to Investigate Possibility of Time Travel - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:04] <exec> 08└─Say I run a simulation of a universe similar to ours on a supercomputer with the current known laws of physics. From within that simulation there may seem to be time but is there any time travel? Where is the past to travel to from the perspective of within that simulation's universe? The simulation...
[15:48:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using Mathematics to Investigate Possibility of Time Travel - 831 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:07] <exec> 08└─Rather hard to read with a straight face as nearly the entire article sounds like the author wildly pulling stuff out of their ass, and barely-relevant quotations from elsewhere in the Bible. "This is true because I say so" :P But I mean, we're arguing between Biblical literality and ancient astrona...
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[15:49:32] <exec> 08└─It may be wrong, but it is their only choice. Unlike in America where Trump can talk out his asshole (which is on his face), the Chinese don't have the option of partisan anti-science corrupt views on whether or not the pollution is real, whether climate change is real. Ironically, I'm sure the aver...
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[16:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Mars Soil Could be Made into Bricks with Pressure Alone - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:18] <exec> 08└─It's a miracle! Praise Yahweh!
[16:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Mars Soil Could be Made into Bricks with Pressure Alone - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:20] <exec> 08└─police officer to help you get back home? "
[16:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars Soil Could be Made into Bricks with Pressure Alone - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:22] <exec> 08└─I was thinking this too. I wonder if the inside (or outside, I suppose it doesn't matter much) of the completed brick structure could be plastered with some other locally-produced material to create an airtight seal. You can get airtight silicone sealants here on Earth, I wonder what would be involv...
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[16:46:24] <exec> 08└─That's one option, the other is to build structures out of bricks and spray some sort of epoxy liner on the inside for air-tightness and to eliminate any dust hazard. (And maybe spray the outside, too, for weatherproofing).
[16:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans may have Arrived in the Americas 100,000 Years Earlier than Thought - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:49] <exec> 08└─Maybe the bones were there for over a hundred thousand years before humans messed with them.
[16:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Slips to 40th Place in Press Freedom Rankings - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:20] <exec> 08└─Lol, that is the least interesting video I've ever seen with zero evidence of anything except for the police van driving behind them which was claimed to be a coincidence. This following a riot just days before, seriously this is a non-news video that does nothing to advance your narrative.
[16:48:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using Mathematics to Investigate Possibility of Time Travel - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:01] <exec> 08└─Do you have any decent links about that? The Wikipedia article fails to mention the dog-people thing at all and a cursory googling isn't turning up much.
[16:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using Mathematics to Investigate Possibility of Time Travel - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:02] <exec> 08└─I think you would have to travel to the "past" of the simulation by tracing back the steps used to travel to the future. This wouldn't require storing anything but it would mean the step size used would need to be the same forward and backward. So no time machine that zooms backwards in a few second...
[16:48:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using Mathematics to Investigate Possibility of Time Travel - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:04] <exec> 08└─More subjective, the way I interpret the Bible ( hearsay to a lot of people, but I take the words seriously) imply to me time travel.
[16:48:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using Mathematics to Investigate Possibility of Time Travel - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:06] <exec> 08└─Or Rority and Gumal go back and fix it [mcgrewbooks.com] after you go back in time and screw up the future.
[16:48:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using Mathematics to Investigate Possibility of Time Travel - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:09] <exec> 08└─That assumes a deterministic universe, which would mean that "quantum randomness" isn't actually random, if it could be traced back by steps without any "memory" of what happened.
[16:48:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using Mathematics to Investigate Possibility of Time Travel - 1086 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:11] <exec> 08└─As do many many other TV series and movies... the "multiverse" is the writers' answer to the time travel paradox. How they deal with the "multiverse" varies: do the characters believe in the multiverse when they first travel? Usually not, though Fringe comes at the Multiverse sort of head-on but som...
[16:48:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using Mathematics to Investigate Possibility of Time Travel - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:13] <exec> 08└─I was under the impression that e.g. neutrinos can travel faster than c That was believed for a while, because whenever there was a GRB, neutrinos show up hours before photons. They've since discovered that neutrinos don't go FTL, but they're so tiny they pass through almost anywhere with nearly no...
[16:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using Mathematics to Investigate Possibility of Time Travel - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:15] <exec> 08└─So where's the evidence that there is a past for us to travel to in our current universe?
[16:48:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Using Mathematics to Investigate Possibility of Time Travel - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:18] <exec> 08└─I remember reading (long ago) something about Ezekiel in Chariots of the Gods; I didn't read much of the essay that I linked. I expect that there exists other commentary about von Daniken's book that may make more sense. I'm sorry that that essay does not.
[16:48:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using Mathematics to Investigate Possibility of Time Travel - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:20] <exec> 08└─A World Out of Time. [wikipedia.org] I still have the half-century old dog-eared paperback I bough when it was first out. In the story, the protagonist uses a black hole to go fantastic distances into the future.
[16:48:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using Mathematics to Investigate Possibility of Time Travel - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:22] <exec> 08└─Go back to bed Heisenberg, we've heard this all before.
[16:48:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nintendo Says Switch will Help Double Profits - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:44] <exec> 08└─Do people realize there are many awesome games on the Wii U
[16:49:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Peggy Whitson has Logged More Space Hours than any Other US Astronaut - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:20] <exec> 08└─What they need however is aid to step out of the cycle of reinforcing controls of others. So they can turn and mincemeat the whole theocratic system later on.
[16:50:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Volkswagen to Roll Out an Electric Car in China. Can It Help Reduce the Smog? - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:18] <exec> 08└─Here's an example of what I think we're discussing: The lower reservoir has a gross storage capacity of 10,080,000 cubic metres (8,170 acre·ft) of which 6,840,000 cubic metres (5,550 acre·ft) of water is active (or usable for pumping to the upper reservoir). The lower reservoir is at an elevation...
[16:50:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Volkswagen to Roll Out an Electric Car in China. Can It Help Reduce the Smog? - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:19] <exec> 08└─Moving so much material will generate lots of air pollution and carbon dioxide emissions up front;
[16:50:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Volkswagen to Roll Out an Electric Car in China. Can It Help Reduce the Smog? - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:21] <exec> 08└─Surely posting dups is supported by slashcode?
[16:51:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Live Murder: A New Global Pastime - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:51:19] <exec> 08└─I lump this kind of thing with flag-burning. People should be free to do whatever. Just don't bother me with it. Some people are attracted to death/gore. They think it's awesome. I don't. Linking to it is the max level that is still acceptable to me. The link has a NSFW tag and isn't encouraging peo...
[16:52:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03evil_aaronm [5747] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Begins Installing Missile Defense System in South Korea - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:06] <exec> 08└─You might tell that to the Senecas who lost out a) to the Kinzua Dam, and b) to I-86 and I-90, both of which cross their land. I'm familiar with both because my wife's family was one of those kicked out of their own house by the Dam, and New York perpetually seems to think that failing to maintain t...
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[17:46:33] <exec> 08└─I was thinking more along the lines of a spray-on polymer layer - if the bricks are robust enough the polymer could be quite thin and still airtight, as well as protective against perchlorate entry to the habitat air. Also, if the bricks are strong enough, they might form a structural layer, then lo...
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[17:47:01] <exec> 08└─The objection is more that the tools look like make-shift, produced on-site. Such tools are per definition rough (look like broken stones).
[17:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans may have Arrived in the Americas 100,000 Years Earlier than Thought - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:02] <exec> 08└─Well, there were pieces of mastodon in cracks of several of the stones.
[17:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Slips to 40th Place in Press Freedom Rankings - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:35] <exec> 08└─Freedom of the press is measured by the ability of the press to speak free of repercussions other than the attention or lack thereof attracted by their message. Government transparency is completely orthogonal issue, keeping secrets does in no way prevent the press from speaking.
[17:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using Mathematics to Investigate Possibility of Time Travel - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:28] <exec> 08└─I think the observation/explanation of neutrinos traveling faster than C has been revised... when the supernova was detected in neutrinos several hours earlier than the photons arriving, it could have been (NdGT says) because the neutrino burst source in the center of the collapsing star started rad...
[17:48:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using Mathematics to Investigate Possibility of Time Travel - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:30] <exec> 08└─Great Scott!!!! A FLUX CAPACITOR! (oh and 1.21 Gigawatts) -or s/1\.21 Gigawatts/lightning;
[17:48:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using Mathematics to Investigate Possibility of Time Travel - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:32] <exec> 08└─The chapter in question is pretty trippy. I'd recommend a read :)
[17:49:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Venezuela to Leave OAS - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:14] <exec> 08└─We can see here that Exxon looting oil is a lot better for Venezuela than Manduro. The former comes with valuable oil and a bunch of good paying jobs while the latter comes with triple digit inflation and people fleeing their country, Cuba-style.
[17:49:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Venezuela to Leave OAS - 676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:15] <exec> 08└─Look, Communism doesn't work. In theory it does but in theory so does absolute laissez-faire anarcho-capitalism. In practice, neither system works, and they both fail for the same reason: people suck. Not one in 25 people by my estimate has the strength of character it would take to be a pure commun...
[17:49:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Venezuela to Leave OAS - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:18] <exec> 08└─The constant efforts to remove Maduro via means other than regularly scheduled election are very suspicious, given that the US sponsored a coup attempt against his mentor, Hugo Chavez.
[17:49:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Venezuela to Leave OAS - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:20] <exec> 08└─actually one of the problems with capitalism is it's idealist base, because of that it sits well on simple minded people
[17:49:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fetal Lambs Grown for 4 Weeks in Artificial Womb - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:56] <exec> 08└─After the first horseman of the apocalypse? the other three follow.
[17:49:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fetal Lambs Grown for 4 Weeks in Artificial Womb - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:57] <exec> 08└─You're an Abrahamic cultist so you should have no problem with the idea of centralized, inescapable authoritarian control. Your issue is you don't like other humans doing it.
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[18:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Barrett Brown Re-Arrested - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:31] <exec> 08└─Who is this blogger(?) and how does his experience inform my expectation of imprisonment for existing?
[18:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Frosty Piss [4971] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Barrett Brown Re-Arrested - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:32] <exec> 08└─His activities went beyond legitimate "journalism", he was a participant.
[18:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Barrett Brown Re-Arrested - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:34] <exec> 08└─Who? A Brown Ferret? The Duce you say! What is this "D" magazine? Is this more alt-right crap?
[18:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barrett Brown Re-Arrested - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:37] <exec> 08└─I know it's fucking maddening! WHO is this guy?? We need to invent a technology to embed that information somehow in the TFS so that we could find out! Perhaps we could call them infolinks, clickroutes... no wait.. I got something.. hold on...
[18:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barrett Brown Re-Arrested - 863 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:39] <exec> 08└─You sure? He was arrested for numerous hacking charges, this is true, but his journalism behind bars is well documented. I saw a couple of articles about corruption and ham-fisted coverups in prison which had to make him extremely popular in the administration right? So now he gives interviews that...
[18:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barrett Brown Re-Arrested - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:41] <exec> 08└─How does anyone know whether that allegation is true? Do you have a link? Evidence? Anything? Or is that just your opinion? A smear campaign is exactly what I'd expect. The now infamous incident in which United Airlines had a passenger dragged off a flight featured allegations that he was a drug dea...
[18:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barrett Brown Re-Arrested - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:43] <exec> 08└─D is for Dallas. I've seen that magazine now and then for decades. Don't know why they expect non-locals to connect the letter 'D' to Dallas. Could've just as easily been D for Detroit, or worse things.
[18:46:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Invent Process to Make Sustainable Rubber, Plastics - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:52] <exec> 08└─> ...funded by U.S. Department of Energy. So much for that, the current admin with Energy Secretary Rick Perry will cut this off at the pass. No need to do research that might reduce dependence on the petroleum industry (sigh).
[18:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Researchers Invent Process to Make Sustainable Rubber, Plastics - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:55] <exec> 08└─Production won't fall off enough to make oil-based rubber impractical. Probably more expensive, but not impractical. And rubber production has a much smaller carbon footprint than fossil fuel burning. In comparison, plant material used for rubber production is not being used for food or biofuel pro...
[18:47:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars Soil Could be Made into Bricks with Pressure Alone - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:10] <exec> 08└─Okay. Don't call the police. Call Happy Halls Insane Asylum. We do free pick ups!
[18:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mars Soil Could be Made into Bricks with Pressure Alone - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:11] <exec> 08└─He appears to be having some kind of cognitive difficulty, and he might be a danger to himself or experiencing a medical emergency. I agree with EF's character that it would be best to summon immediate medical attention.
[18:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mars Soil Could be Made into Bricks with Pressure Alone - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:14] <exec> 08└─Sure but medical assistance was already mentioned. Do you need me to call an ambulance
[18:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mars Soil Could be Made into Bricks with Pressure Alone - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:16] <exec> 08└─Brain injuries can manifest in surprising ways. He might not be aware of his current mental state, and depending on the underlying cause, seconds could matter. Granted, if this happened somewhere in the midwest, then I wouldn't be concerned. That's how people normally act there.
[18:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mars Soil Could be Made into Bricks with Pressure Alone - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:18] <exec> 08└─Someone who isn't aware of their own impaired mental state will not want to hear, "I'm calling the police for you."
[18:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Exascale Computing Project Status Update - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:27] <exec> 08└─Forget whether it can mine Bitcoin. By the year 2021 will this be able to boot up the then current version of Windows 10?
[18:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Exascale Computing Project Status Update - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:30] <exec> 08└─It might, but Windows updates will be disabled. You'll have to install Windows 11 to get support for the processor.
[18:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humans may have Arrived in the Americas 100,000 Years Earlier than Thought - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:51] <exec> 08└─Maybe Jesus broke them and buried them really deep just to mess with us?
[18:48:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Neanderthal DNA Recovered from Cave Soil - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:06] <exec> 08└─It probably runs in the ancestral line. After all, being of northern European heritage, it's possible that my ancestors did just that if the studies identifying neandertal genetics in modern humans are to be believed. What if instead of looking ape-like as neandertals are commonly depicted, they ins...
[18:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Neanderthal DNA Recovered from Cave Soil - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:07] <exec> 08└─Maybe they rejected pursuit of technology as not sustainable.
[18:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03its_gonna_be_yuge! [6454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Slips to 40th Place in Press Freedom Rankings - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:28] <exec> 08└─The OAS map excludes Greenland: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] But as you say, that's political not geographical.
[18:48:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Slips to 40th Place in Press Freedom Rankings - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:29] <exec> 08└─Of course, a police van coincidentally matching their pace and direction with a group of pedestrians they just had a run-in with for several minutes is something that happens all the time.
[18:48:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Slips to 40th Place in Press Freedom Rankings - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:32] <exec> 08└─Nonsense. The policies are clear. “Brexit means Brexit” "Get on with it" "Take our country back" "Make a success of it" Why do you hate Britain so much?
[18:49:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Koen [427] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using Mathematics to Investigate Possibility of Time Travel - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:27] <exec> 08└─But I do believe travel into the future is possible, maybe even likely. I see nothing in physics that forbids it.
[18:49:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Koen [427] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using Mathematics to Investigate Possibility of Time Travel - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:29] <exec> 08└─The bubble moves through space-time at speeds greater than the speed of light at times, allowing it to move backward in time.
[18:49:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using Mathematics to Investigate Possibility of Time Travel - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:31] <exec> 08└─you'll have serious infinity angst with the concept that for every indeterminate quantum state in the universe, all possible outcomes happen
[18:49:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using Mathematics to Investigate Possibility of Time Travel - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:33] <exec> 08└─At the very least I can write a program and delete its source and it would still work. Just add another dimension if you feel like your model needs to account for all previous timelines.
[18:49:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using Mathematics to Investigate Possibility of Time Travel - 1465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:36] <exec> 08└─The most interesting idea I've come across is that you can "time travel" simply by conventional travel through our own "universe". I'm not a polymath, but I was reading about models for the Big Bang. In these models when they "attached" to it gravity or something it looked normal, but if they did it...
[18:49:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using Mathematics to Investigate Possibility of Time Travel - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:38] <exec> 08└─I've never seen a regex joke before around here. Nice job :)
[18:49:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using Mathematics to Investigate Possibility of Time Travel - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:40] <exec> 08└─Since you're mentioning the Bible, let me bring up a reference that sounds like a four dimensional measurement of something. Ephesians 3:17-19 (NIV) [biblegateway.com] 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have pow...
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[19:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Barrett Brown Re-Arrested - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:32] <exec> 08└─Yep. They wouldn't have arrested him if he weren't guilty. Q.E.D. We should always implicitly trust our authorities, because they are better people than we. Even when their actions seem confusing to us, we should trust that they are acting in our best interest. If they weren't better people than we,...
[19:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Barrett Brown Re-Arrested - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:33] <exec> 08└─His activities went beyond legitimate "journalism", he was a participant.
[19:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Barrett Brown Re-Arrested - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:35] <exec> 08└─So now he gives interviews that apparently have his 1st Amendment rights modified to require government permission to speak.
[19:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Barrett Brown Re-Arrested - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:37] <exec> 08└─IIRC that nick is a bootlicker par excellence on the green site.
[19:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Invent Process to Make Sustainable Rubber, Plastics - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:48] <exec> 08└─Can they market that as Sustainable Global Warming? Maybe by executive order?
[19:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Invent Process to Make Sustainable Rubber, Plastics - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:51] <exec> 08└─I bet this stuff will be crap, like most other "green" substitutes. Anyway, I thought that rubber was already sustainable. Depends on what you mean by rubber.
[19:46:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Invent Process to Make Sustainable Rubber, Plastics - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:53] <exec> 08└─Rubber may be sustainable. What about sustainable plastics? Even if these sustainable plastics are inferior to what we produce today, they may be better than nothing if we reach a point where plastics cannot be made the way they are today. As for the other substance you mentioned, politicians will e...
[19:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars Soil Could be Made into Bricks with Pressure Alone - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:13] <exec> 08└─I guess they didn't need molds, after all [google.com].
[19:49:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using Mathematics to Investigate Possibility of Time Travel - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:26] <exec> 08└─Wait, so Rick Sanchez wasn't the first person to discover the Screaming Sun Plant?
[19:49:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using Mathematics to Investigate Possibility of Time Travel - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:27] <exec> 08└─Is time travel required, or merely the bending of space? If the latter, then the goal is closer to being within reach.
[19:49:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using Mathematics to Investigate Possibility of Time Travel - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:30] <exec> 08└─Using the Bible as evidence of the possibility of time travel is like using Star Wars to violently defend your theory of the evolution of the Wookie: It takes someone's drunken fantasy way too seriously.
[19:49:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using Mathematics to Investigate Possibility of Time Travel - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:32] <exec> 08└─Check the external links where you can find the text: https://archive.org [archive.org] (it starts on page 107)
[19:49:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using Mathematics to Investigate Possibility of Time Travel - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:34] <exec> 08└─With time travel you could go fuck yourself.
[19:51:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03iWantToKeepAnon [686] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Volkswagen to Roll Out an Electric Car in China. Can It Help Reduce the Smog? - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:41] <exec> 08└─VW cars run on batteries when being tested and ICE's when on the road.... I wondered why I had to put gas in my electric car! :-p
[19:52:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06Facebook Live Murder: A New Global Pastime - 845 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:16] <exec> 08└─I agree with you that people can make their own choices about whether to click or not, but that obviously shouldn't be the standard of whether to include a link in a summary. I'm actually conflicted about this too. Anyone who really wants to find such videos can easily search for them. If we were ru...
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[20:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Minister for Resources Calls Westpac 'unAustralian' and 'Pythonesque' in its Climate Change Policy - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:08] <exec> 08└─Must be some of them philosophy majors from the University of Woolamaloo. Those poofters will complain about almost anything ...
[20:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Minister for Resources Calls Westpac 'unAustralian' and 'Pythonesque' in its Climate Change Policy - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:10] <exec> 08└─Rape more sheep.
[20:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Minister for Resources Calls Westpac 'unAustralian' and 'Pythonesque' in its Climate Change Policy - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:12] <exec> 08└─I'm not from New Zealand.
[20:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Minister for Resources Calls Westpac 'unAustralian' and 'Pythonesque' in its Climate Change Policy - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:14] <exec> 08└─So WestPc believes: Beautiful is better than ugly Explicit is better than implicit Simple is better than complex Complex is better than complicated Readability counts Seems like a good philosophy, though not sure what it has to do with banking.
[20:46:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06Barrett Brown Re-Arrested - 863 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:25] <exec> 08└─You sure? He was arrested for numerous hacking charges, this is true, but his journalism behind bars is well documented. I saw a couple of articles about corruption and ham-fisted coverups in prison which had to make him extremely popular in the administration right? So now he gives interviews that...
[20:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Invent Process to Make Sustainable Rubber, Plastics - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:44] <exec> 08└─We will never reach a point where the better plastics cannot be made. It is just a question of energy and reaction efficiency, i.e. cost. If you had unlimited free energy, it is chemically trivial to extract CO2 from the atmosphere, react it with water, more CO2, H2 from splitting water, etc, and pr...
[20:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Slips to 40th Place in Press Freedom Rankings - 765 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:15] <exec> 08└─Forgive me for being dense, but this comes across to me as not much different from some things I was reading about the "weather war" last night. I love me a good conspiracy theory. Anyway, can you provide anything that would corroborate your claims in regards to the press deviating from their normal...
[20:49:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using Mathematics to Investigate Possibility of Time Travel - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:24] <exec> 08└─Wow, that is exactly it. I wonder if they read it or came up with the idea independently.
[20:49:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using Mathematics to Investigate Possibility of Time Travel - 1561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:26] <exec> 08└─But returning through the deserts, they came into a certaine countrey, wherin (as it was reported vnto vs in the Emperours court, by certaine clergie men of Russia, and others, who 30 were long time among them, and that by strong and stedfast affirmation) they found certaine monsters resembling wome...
[20:52:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook Live Murder: A New Global Pastime - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:31] <exec> 08└─This has not been discussed by the editors as far as I am aware. It seems like it's up to the personal judgement of the editor of the story. In a previous story with a similar graphic video, I took out the link itself but mentioned that the video was available at liveleak for those who wished to see...
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[21:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Upside of Worrying - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:04] <exec> 08└─Fuck it, let's go bowling, dude.
[21:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Upside of Worrying - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:05] <exec> 08└─"I'm suffering from anxiety over whether you'll prescribe me medical marijuana!" "Sounds like you need some medical marijuana." http://www.smbc-comics.com [smbc-comics.com]
[21:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Upside of Worrying - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:07] <exec> 08└─Most of the time I am given unrealistic goals, ridiculous time frames, and impossible to follow schedules, but as a member of the team I just have to not be the slowest or the actual logjam. I don't have to make the goal just don't be the one that is left holding the bag. You don't have to outrun th...
[21:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Invent Process to Make Sustainable Rubber, Plastics - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:49] <exec> 08└─Looks like at least two regulars here today have had their tribal bone tickled by this article.
[21:47:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars Soil Could be Made into Bricks with Pressure Alone - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:11] <exec> 08└─Epoxy has it's own poisons that will enter the air.. Bisphenol-A is ONE of them.
[21:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Exascale Computing Project Status Update - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:21] <exec> 08└─Will this project mean they will test artificial intelligence (AI) ? it's the capacity required for at least a functional simulation. And this include individuals, what is meant by that? as designers contributing to the project? as users? states? If anything large science projects tend to require co...
[21:47:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans may have Arrived in the Americas 100,000 Years Earlier than Thought - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:44] <exec> 08└─I hope they applied for a permanent residence permit when they arrived in the Americas. I mean we wouldn't want any illegals.. ;-)
[21:49:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using Mathematics to Investigate Possibility of Time Travel - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:34] <exec> 08└─Before you reach the event horizon that increases the time relativity more than two times you may also be unable to leave. So while a black hole may provide the means. They come with a big catch.
[21:50:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Venezuela to Leave OAS - 1366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:20] <exec> 08└─neither system works The Shakers existed before there was a USA and continued on for well over a century. (There are still some tiny communities.) They had communal ownership of the means of production (land, buildings, tools) AKA Socialism and they did everything as a community e.g. child care AKA...
[21:50:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Venezuela to Leave OAS - 985 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:22] <exec> 08└─Communism, once achieved, would include the dissolving of national borders. Communism follows a worldwide acceptance of Socialism (Democracy in the Workplace; Democracy EVERYWHERE). What Venezuela has is NOT Communism. It is a failed form of Liberal Democracy. Their gov't has failed, but even more i...
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[22:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Upside of Worrying - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:12] <exec> 08└─Please kill yourself. Thanks
[22:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Upside of Worrying - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:13] <exec> 08└─The Dude abides...
[22:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Upside of Worrying - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:15] <exec> 08└─Brainfucking.
[22:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Upside of Worrying - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:17] <exec> 08└─Hit it right on the nerve. The subtext of this news is marijuana.
[22:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06The Upside of Worrying - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:20] <exec> 08└─I can relate to that. Our company managers used to give us unrealistic time limits and wanted at least 120% productivity or you get written up. Many times I wanted to shove my foot up his ass, but I didn't want stink toe.
[22:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Upside of Worrying - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:22] <exec> 08└─Or perhaps OP is just an easily triggered twit who should go back to his safe space.
[22:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Upside of Worrying - 830 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:24] <exec> 08└─Humans evolved to be in small groups (like troop baboons). Having a variety of personality types is useful for a group. If you have some that worry , they'll notice the times when something needs to be done. The rest don't have to be under that stress. Same goes with anxiety and hypervigilance. The...
[22:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Upside of Worrying - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:26] <exec> 08└─A common adaptation to working in the tech equivalent of a sausage factory, as well as the medical field, is gallows humor. If you only knew that your doctor and the nurses were making jokes behind your back and laughing their asses off at having to lancet the boils on your ass.
[22:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Upside of Worrying - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:29] <exec> 08└─Nah, you do it by yourself and to yourself, so it's more like brain masturbation.
[22:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Upside of Worrying - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:31] <exec> 08└─Worry becomes problematic when one senses that a feared outcome is unavoidable and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy leading to a downward spiral into depression.
[22:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Upside of Worrying - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:33] <exec> 08└─The "problem" with worrying is often related to balance. The things we "should" be worrying about versus those we actually do can be off kilter. For example, when the family schedules to meet certain relatives, I often get a sense of anxiety. The anxiety doesn't do anything useful for me. It's an ev...
[22:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Upside of Worrying - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:36] <exec> 08└─Shut the fuck up, donnie.
[22:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Minister for Resources Calls Westpac 'unAustralian' and 'Pythonesque' in its Climate Change Policy - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:47] <exec> 08└─should be because they actually now what are they talking about unlike you right?
[22:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03purple_cobra [1435] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Minister for Resources Calls Westpac 'unAustralian' and 'Pythonesque' in its Climate Change Policy - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:49] <exec> 08└─Distantly related... A (New Zealander) mate and I were discussing the Six Nations championship; he thought the England coach Eddie Jones was one of his lot, I thought he was an Australian. After I described his reaction to Italy's tactics against England in the championship, he immediately said that...
[22:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Minister for Resources Calls Westpac 'unAustralian' and 'Pythonesque' in its Climate Change Policy - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:51] <exec> 08└─This guy is a tool bag. The fact that he's getting so much media attention for attacking a bank for doing something good for this world is disappointing. The media attention should be on Westpac and their sensible decision. They are the 19th financier to pull the plug on ever supporting this dodgy c...
[22:46:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03its_gonna_be_yuge! [6454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Minister for Resources Calls Westpac 'unAustralian' and 'Pythonesque' in its Climate Change Policy - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:53] <exec> 08└─Really, this bank rocks.
[22:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Invent Process to Make Sustainable Rubber, Plastics - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:26] <exec> 08└─Let's hope fusion power comes soon.
[22:47:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars Soil Could be Made into Bricks with Pressure Alone - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:49] <exec> 08└─BPA is the least of your worries as a 20X0s Mars dweller.
[22:47:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mars Soil Could be Made into Bricks with Pressure Alone - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:50] <exec> 08└─This is weird. E-F's usual trolls involve mocking jews and blacks, not making fun of a powerful white person. Are you ok, E-F?
[22:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mars Soil Could be Made into Bricks with Pressure Alone - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:52] <exec> 08└─Now I know who bricked the Spirit rover.
[22:47:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars Soil Could be Made into Bricks with Pressure Alone - 1849 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:54] <exec> 08└─It seems that martian soil contains nanoparticulate iron oxides and oxyhydroxides. This translates into a potential cell permeability and cytotoxicity risks! besides possible asbestos like risks. It should be kept outside any habitat in other words at all times. The advantage from this compacting te...
[22:47:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars Soil Could be Made into Bricks with Pressure Alone - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:57] <exec> 08└─Sure, but one can select other materials to bring along.
[22:48:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Exascale Computing Project Status Update - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:08] <exec> 08└─I've heard talk of "1 exaflops for whole brain simulation". It's probably hyped bullshit. Whatever simulation that runs will be too simplified to produce an intelligent entity from scratch, even if it runs at a fraction of real time. If it could be done at exascale, it could be done at petascale. Go...
[22:49:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Slips to 40th Place in Press Freedom Rankings - 1169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:10] <exec> 08└─It's *exactly* those policies and her track record of over a decade trying to pass "Snooper's Charter" legislation like the IPA that I'm talking about. "Brexit means Brexit" is looking increasingly like it's going to be towards the "hard exit" end of the scale. "Getting on with BrExit" means the UK...
[22:51:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Venezuela to Leave OAS - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:10] <exec> 08└─Don't forget the campaign. In Turkey, the opposition was denied access to media and supporters of the opposition were beaten in the streets. To be effective, the observers will have to have access to the media. (Note here that USAian Lamestream Media is concentrating on any violence they can find in...
[22:51:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Peggy Whitson has Logged More Space Hours than any Other US Astronaut - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:28] <exec> 08└─Peggy Whitson is also the most experienced woman EVA participant in spaceflight history with 8 trips "outside", and #5 top EVA participant over all. Source [spaceflightinsider.com].
[22:52:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Volkswagen to Roll Out an Electric Car in China. Can It Help Reduce the Smog? - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:33] <exec> 08└─Not as such, but that's a good idea. We could pick some stories from the last year and do follow-up reports. I think it would go over well, but I need to make the time to do it.
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[23:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Barley Genome Sequenced - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:56] <exec> 08└─Beer is so awesome they even had mainstream childrens' shows show kids how to drink beer [youtube.com] (especially in the park, while evading cops). Now scotch, on the other hand, is liquid ass. It is the drink of a man with a resinous heart, with a taste as nasty and bitter as his soul. Prove me wr...
[23:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06The Upside of Worrying - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:19] <exec> 08└─I feel the same way having to walk around Blacks at night, especially because they are super-strong and savage, and play the knockout game. Even Michael Jackson was afraid of Black men -- Thriller was a personal allegory how he felt being a Black man as he feared them -- and he eventually turned him...
[23:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Upside of Worrying - 1164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:20] <exec> 08└─I believe someone[1] suggested that it's darn hard to account for internal events as *causal* events. That's not to say that they aren't, simply that it's hard to prove it. For example, a person who worries they are going to get a parking ticket - after perhaps having gotten several - may "perform b...
[23:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Upside of Worrying - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:23] <exec> 08└─He did the bleaching and plastic surgery because he wanted to look like Elizabeth Taylor. Did you not read "The Enquirer" for the last 20 years?
[23:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Minister for Resources Calls Westpac 'unAustralian' and 'Pythonesque' in its Climate Change Policy - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:39] <exec> 08└─...Westpac's new environmental policy has infuriated Queensland LNP senator...
[23:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Barrett Brown Re-Arrested - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:57] <exec> 08└─Notorious Attention Whore Arrested For Attention Whoring In other news, Pope still Catholic Film at 11...
[23:50:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nintendo Says Switch will Help Double Profits - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:32] <exec> 08└─People who had no intention of buying a Switch comment on its viability People who already have a Switch talk about how much fun they're having Film at 11...
[23:50:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venezuela to Leave OAS - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:59] <exec> 08└─Dunbar's Number is going to kick any large-scale attempt at communism right in the pelmeni, sorry. And have you noticed those groups never really accomplished much advancement beyond late iron age? I'm certainly not saying that communal living is antithetical to science per se, but given human natur...
[23:51:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Venezuela to Leave OAS - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:01] <exec> 08└─The communist shilling on this site is getting out of control. On the other hand, who's looking forward to Caribbean Somalia?
[23:51:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03AlwaysNever [5817] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Venezuela to Leave OAS - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:03] <exec> 08└─There is nothing like making democratically elected Governments go down by hostile external state actors, to promote true democracy.
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