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[00:17:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03butthurt [6141] 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released From Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 311 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:47] <exec> 08└─He wasn't in charge in 2006, nor were the news media universally uncritical of him. E.g., https://www.theguardian.com [theguardian.com] http://www.huffingtonpost.com [huffingt...
[00:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released From Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:50] <exec> 08└─> I can't stop wondering whether the transgender identity wasn't a sympathy/protection move. You have watched too many episodes of MASH.
[00:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released From Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:52] <exec> 08└─Wait, what? Er… hold on. So, ok, everybody knows that Baraq Hussein Soetoro is the last president's True Name [wikipedia.org], and knowing somebody's True Name gives you power over him. So are you saying that Chelsea Manning is the True Name of the person in TFS??? Can we get a confirmation from R...
[00:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released From Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 699 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:54] <exec> 08└─You might be astounded to learn this, but things people do have an effect into the future if they are important. what Manning did was force a withdraw on Bush's deadline because Obama could not get the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) extended. SOFA forbade Iraqi courts from trying US military pers...
[00:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released From Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:57] <exec> 08└─No -- for service to human kind. And I'm proud to have been one of the early donators.
[00:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dubai Firm Dreams of Harvesting Icebergs for Water - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:13] <exec> 08└─This would certainly redefine the meaning of "moves at a glacial pace".
[00:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dubai Firm Dreams of Harvesting Icebergs for Water - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:14] <exec> 08└─breitbart and 4chan are not enough? Please keep your racist remarks off this site.
[00:18:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RedBear [1734] 02 - 06Carbonated Beverages Cause Weight Gain in Rats - 585 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:46] <exec> 08└─Regular coke has tons of sugar. So switch to Diet Coke. But that has artificial sweetener which can make you gain weight. So try La Croix flavored sparkling water, but oh, no, that is carbonated, and it can make you gain weight. Maybe bottled water? But that's probably no good either since whenever...
[00:18:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Carbonated Beverages Cause Weight Gain in Rats - 111 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:49] <exec> 08└─"I don't understand that scientists include reasonable and sane control groups as a basic standard and I vote."
[00:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Carbonated Beverages Cause Weight Gain in Rats - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:39] <exec> 08└─Sorry dude. I thought your quotes were an attempt to dismissively restate RedBear's post.
[00:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Carbonated Beverages Cause Weight Gain in Rats - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:40] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't you be drinking straight ethanol?
[00:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Carbonated Beverages Cause Weight Gain in Rats - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:43] <exec> 08└─I would suggest the editor try some fentanyl and save us all from their shitty attempts at adding to a story.
[00:19:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Carbonated Beverages Cause Weight Gain in Rats - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:45] <exec> 08└─You forgot one: fluoride. Teas have tons of fluoride in them. Sure, the fluoride will help prevent cavities if you swish the tea around in your mouth for a little while before you swallow (which will also fully stain your teeth), but the fluoride is toxic to every other part of your body. Tea isn't...
[00:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Carbonated Beverages Cause Weight Gain in Rats - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:48] <exec> 08└─Good riddance.
[00:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Carbonated Beverages Cause Weight Gain in Rats - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:50] <exec> 08└─Aaaaaaand there goes your previously mentioned credibility.
[00:21:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06President Trump Revealed Classified Information to Russia; and Tweets it to the World [Updated] - 1562 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:54] <exec> 08└─I would once have agreed with you. When George W. Bush and Dick Cheney outed CIA officer Valerie Wilson to punish her husband, who was contradicting the narrative they were pushing to justify invading Iraq, namely that Saddam Hussein was trying to build nuclear weapons, I said that it was treasonous...
[00:28:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Threaten to Release Copy of "Pirates of the Carribean 5" - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:19] <exec> 08└─Neither do the mpaa, riaa, mpeoinvggfjoiaa, etc
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[01:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released From Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:46] <exec> 08└─A dishonorable discharge from the US military is in many ways functionally equivalent to a felony criminal conviction standing alone by itself.
[01:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released From Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:47] <exec> 08└─WTF? You want the "true name" of a subhuman?
[01:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released From Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:49] <exec> 08└─Which can be much worse than civilian discipline. / IMHO, s/he did the right thing exposing this video // that said, taxpayers should not have paid for his/her sex surgery /// I wish her the best of luck //// oh wait, I'm commenting on a thread that isn't Fark? oops.
[01:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dubai Firm Dreams of Harvesting Icebergs for Water - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:07] <exec> 08└─I don't like the music other people tend to share... Hate your loser lyrics, middle fingers in the air.
[01:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dubai Firm Dreams of Harvesting Icebergs for Water - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:09] <exec> 08└─Problem: rapidly diminishing arctic ice Solution: Haul massive chunks of it to the desert and melt it.
[01:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03WalksOnDirt [5854] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dubai Firm Dreams of Harvesting Icebergs for Water - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:11] <exec> 08└─The icebergs are up for grabs now, but what about later? Will the UN lay claim to all antarctic ice and try to make people pay for it? Or will ice ships camp off the coast waiting to claim new bergs as they fall off the great ice sheets?
[01:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dubai Firm Dreams of Harvesting Icebergs for Water - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:14] <exec> 08└─" ... in search of truck-sized chunks known as growlers. Workers would then secure them to the boats with nets and embark on a yearlong cruise to the United Arab Emirates."
[01:19:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Carbonated Beverages Cause Weight Gain in Rats - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:43] <exec> 08└─As I was correctly reminded by a few people here a couple days ago, SoylentNews is... PEOPLE. Submitters sometimes include commentary. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's funny, sometimes it's really bad and should be edited out. This case seems okay either way -- it's clear that it's submitter comm...
[01:28:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Ormia Fly's Incredible Hearing is a Curiosity to Those Developing Better Hearing Aids - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:36] <exec> 08└─Fuck you. I already told you that I can sing at a reasonable volume until 11am. You keep messing with me and I'll set the building on fire.
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[02:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Severed Limbs and Wooden Feet—how the Ancients Invented Prosthetics - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:33] <exec> 08└─Technological, scientific, and medical progress are not as linear as we suppose.
[02:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Severed Limbs and Wooden Feet—how the Ancients Invented Prosthetics - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:34] <exec> 08└─The Dark Ages, isn't that when we put the church in charge of things ? https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[02:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Severed Limbs and Wooden Feet—how the Ancients Invented Prosthetics - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:36] <exec> 08└─Yes the 21st century is leading us right back into medieval feudalism. If you don't live in a Tech Corp company town by now, your days are numbered. Kill yourself now to avoid a painfully slow death in crippling poverty.
[02:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released From Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:59] <exec> 08└─You might be astounded to learn this, but things people do have an effect into the future if they are important.
[02:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released From Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:00] <exec> 08└─Lol!
[02:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released From Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:02] <exec> 08└─A woman is not just a man with his balls chopped off. Even adding a dress, long hair, fake tits, and completely extreme make-up isn't going to do the job.
[02:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released From Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:04] <exec> 08└─Don't forget about the Nobel prize for all of that too!
[02:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released From Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:07] <exec> 08└─Manning was described as "gender confused" long before the incidents for which he was charged and convicted. None of that was put on for defense. Given that the creature was put into prison for forever minus a couple days or so, any pretense probably would have been dropped sometime after arriving i...
[02:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released From Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:09] <exec> 08└─What? Hey, where are my free health benefits? How come soldiers get that and civilians don't? Soldiers are superior citizens or something? This worship of our military has reached scary levels. Seems to have totally blinded many to the failures of force. Funny how so many can blithely overlook that...
[02:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released From Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 777 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:11] <exec> 08└─From worst, to best, there are dishonorable, bad conduct, general under dishonorable, general under honorable conditions, convenience of the service, and finally, honorable. Each has subtle differences in the benefits available to a veteran. Whatever may be forced upon the military due to political...
[02:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dubai Firm Dreams of Harvesting Icebergs for Water - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:33] <exec> 08└─I want to be there when they try to get it to STOP moving. Should be hilarious.
[02:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dubai Firm Dreams of Harvesting Icebergs for Water - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:34] <exec> 08└─On the bright side the cavecunts might be the first to die off from that ancient disease [bbc.com] no one is immune to anymore.
[02:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Producing Fertilizer from Air Could be Five Times as Efficient - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:57] <exec> 08└─I came to say the same thing about the Haber process. The 5x is theoretical. A quick search on Wikipedia says the Birkeland process would yield 15MWH/Ton of 4% nitric acid. It's been awhile but I'll try it... by weight % that means 15MWH/0.04Ton NO3, at 64g/mol it works out to roughly 92MJ/mol (mega...
[02:20:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Uncle_Al [1108] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Carbonated Beverages Cause Weight Gain in Rats - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:07] <exec> 08└─You must be new here.
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[03:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06China and India Years Early On Climate Goals - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:18] <exec> 08└─There are different kinds of coal plants, the ones that operate at higher steam pressure are more efficient - generating more electricity per ton of coal (and thus less CO2 and other pollutants per kwh). The US has just 1 ultra efficient coal plant. China has 90. Also China's laws on coal pollution...
[03:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China and India Years Early On Climate Goals - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:20] <exec> 08└─"The US has just 1 ultra efficient coal plant. China has 90." Well, AC - I find that difficult to believe. I guess I'll just have to do a little research to verify your claim. Can't do it at this time, but I hope to get back to this when I get home from work. If China has 90 super efficient coal pla...
[03:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China and India Years Early On Climate Goals - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:22] <exec> 08└─A picture is worth a thousand words? This picture is a little better than I have visualised, but not a whole lot better. I expect a "super efficient" coal plant to show no visible smoke or soot. What is visible in that photo is about 1/2 to 3/4 steam, and the rest is particulate matter.
[03:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zyx Abacab [3701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China and India Years Early On Climate Goals - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:24] <exec> 08└─Until someone coughs up something the Ancients called "evidence", this is no more than schoolyard bickering. But if I had to put money down, I'd definitely put it on Runaway1956....
[03:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released From Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:02] <exec> 08└─What about real tits?
[03:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released From Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:04] <exec> 08└─> Thank you for sharing your observation. Does it have some relation to what I wrote? Seems like hemo's hate-on for hillary is now bending towards obama too.
[03:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released From Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:06] <exec> 08└─Out of Zoloft again I see.
[03:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released From Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 873 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:08] <exec> 08└─Soldiers get shit pay. When I worked at a defense contractor they regularly ran fundraisers and donation drives for deployed soldier's families. It was all PR to hype the company's patriotism to ingratiate themselves with the customer - yes that's literally how they referred to the DoD, as "the cust...
[03:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released From Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:10] <exec> 08└─I neglected to mention what seemed obvious to me, but may be less obvious to others. If Manning can manage to get a general under honorable conditions, or better, then he has access to Veteran's Administration health services. What that means to Manning, personally, is a free sex change operation, f...
[03:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released From Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:13] <exec> 08└─Oh that's fucking rich coming from you. Manning may be messed up in the head but she's about a million times better of a person than you are.
[03:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released From Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 772 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:15] <exec> 08└─I'm glad Manning is out, too. His leaks sparked the Arab Spring, which is a long overdue liberation from dictators from North Africa to the Middle East. Yes, it's uneven, with some parts having failed and others still unfolding. But he played a key role in liberating millions of people from decades...
[03:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released From Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:17] <exec> 08└─Stop referring to another human being as "it." You're protesting much too hard here and it's making me think you're running from something.
[03:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released From Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:19] <exec> 08└─Hey, dipshit, she's going to grow her own on the hormone therapy. I've got enough MtF friends to know the process in some detail. At least educate yourself about what you're heaping scorn on.
[03:20:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Carbonated Beverages Cause Weight Gain in Rats - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:16] <exec> 08└─Even most beers these days are artificially carbonated, the yeast is thoroughly filtered out after the beer is done, before bottling/kegging, so it won't carbonate the beer while it's sitting. This gives it a longer shelf life and makes the logistics of packaging easier.
[03:20:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Carbonated Beverages Cause Weight Gain in Rats - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:17] <exec> 08└─That could be a feature. Drink a half gallon of coffee and compare to the same amount of iced tea.
[03:20:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Carbonated Beverages Cause Weight Gain in Rats - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:19] <exec> 08└─Omfg now I have to go back to water so I don't get kidney disease [reuters.com]. This sucks.
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[04:17:44] <exec> 08└─> Until someone coughs up something the Ancients called "evidence", this is no more than schoolyard bickering. Are neither you able to click the provided link?
[04:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China and India Years Early On Climate Goals - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:46] <exec> 08└─Runaway1956: Typical Trump voter: can't see the information when it's right in front of his face. Can't accept the facts when they contradict his worldview.
[04:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06China and India Years Early On Climate Goals - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:48] <exec> 08└─You're not the boss of us!
[04:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China and India Years Early On Climate Goals - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:51] <exec> 08└─What is visible in that photo is about 1/2 to 3/4 steam, and the rest is particulate matter.
[04:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Severed Limbs and Wooden Feet—how the Ancients Invented Prosthetics - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:01] <exec> 08└─The links TFA provides are somewhat odd. Rather than linking to the actual account of a prosthetic from something like Herodotus, they link to a Powerpoint presentation on Herodotus's general info and his accounts of the Persian Wars... nothing to do with prosthetics. Anyhow, if you want actual sour...
[04:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03pnkwarhall [4558] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released From Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:41] <exec> 08└─US soldiers do not get "shit pay", and whoever mod'd this "insightful" has no idea what they're talking about. Between base pay, BAH, healthcare, and other perks working for the military is one of the best jobs around, compensation-wise. Sure, low-ranking enlisted members do not have the best base p...
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[04:18:42] <exec> 08└─I think people generally just read the letters when they pronounce LGBT, as in el-gee-bee-tee. I hope that helps. There are a lot of trans women who are also army veterans. I think over half of the local trans support group were deployed in Vietnam, though some were in the Gulf. I haven't gone since...
[04:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released From Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:44] <exec> 08└─You're wasting your time on this guy. He's either intensely frightened or hiding his own queerness (or some of both) and it's hilariously transparent, but what he is *not* doing is asking questions in good faith. ...personally I think it's because he fantasizes about smoking more sausage than a Germ...
[04:18:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released From Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:46] <exec> 08└─No healthcare benefits, you know.
[04:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released From Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:49] <exec> 08└─Traitor to whom? Barrack Hussein Obama?!? He did a great service to the humankind, including his country. Manning should get highest medals, not a dishonourable discharge.
[04:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03caffeinated bacon [4151] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Dubai Firm Dreams of Harvesting Icebergs for Water - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:13] <exec> 08└─Canada and Greenland are quite a long way from the Antarctic...
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[04:19:36] <exec> 08└─The brute-force method wastes a lot of energy. You want non-thermal plasma. The way to do this efficiently is to have a very tall but very narrow pulse (sub 100nsec) and a low duty cycle (~20usec period). The work is done on the leading edge of the pulse and the faster you can shut it off after reac...
[04:20:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03dmc [188] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Carbonated Beverages Cause Weight Gain in Rats - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:50] <exec> 08└─But that's probably no good either since whenever rats are experimented upon, something bad happens to them. Therefore I should just go on the wagon and stop drinking completely since even tap water is no good. Maybe researchers are being given too much money? Maybe living in cages causes problems i...
[04:20:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Carbonated Beverages Cause Weight Gain in Rats - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:52] <exec> 08└─Went to hear Dean Kamen (Segway inventor) give a talk once. One of his stories was about a small self contained water purification system he developed that could provide enough clear water for poor, remote, villages. The problem was how to distribute them. He recognized that Coke is an expert on dis...
[04:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Carbonated Beverages Cause Weight Gain in Rats - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:54] <exec> 08└─Leave. DannyB. Alone! [youtube.com] I do it, too. Slashdot always did it, so I continued it. So hold your head high, DannyB! Don't let the trolls get you down. If they don't like it, they can goshdarned submit their own stories and make their submissions as dry as dust. Don't hold your breath, becau...
[04:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Carbonated Beverages Cause Weight Gain in Rats - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:56] <exec> 08└─No, man, hold the line! Never give up, never surrender! All's you gotta do is, after you've said what you've said, put an ellipsis and question mark: ...? Gets you neatly off the hook, because then it's possibly ironically meant and you can pivot any which way you want to that you feel will most eff...
[04:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beads Made From Meteorite Reveal Prehistoric Culture's Reach - 1599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:27] <exec> 08└─They were really big [westerndigs.org], and well constructed. Wikipedia on Monks Mound at Cahokia: "This makes Monks Mound roughly the same size at its base as the Great Pyramid of Giza (13.1 acres / 5.3 hectares)." It's much bigger than the Parthenon. They built it out of earth and clay, not stone,...
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[05:17:33] <exec> 08└─http://www.shanghaidaily.com/nation/Air-quality-around-Beijing-gets-worse/shdaily.shtml [shanghaidaily.com]
[05:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released From Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:27] <exec> 08└─to be subject to the military justice system and UCMJ (in the US) you must still be in the military. on active duty no less. While Manning's been in custody she's bern knocked down to E-1 rank. not much pay there to dock.
[05:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released From Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:29] <exec> 08└─That's nice. It really doesn't matter. It's a traitor.
[05:18:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released From Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:31] <exec> 08└─In case you haven't figured this out yet, the axis of legal/illegal is not the same as good/evil...and the closer to orthogonal they get, the more things like this will happen. Did she do something illegal? Hell yes. Was it morally right? As far as I'm concerned, also hell yes. Legal and moral are n...
[05:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released From Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:33] <exec> 08└─Good for you, blueblood! :)
[05:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dubai Firm Dreams of Harvesting Icebergs for Water - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:59] <exec> 08└─They'll jump it off a ramp, sending it safely flying straight over the Burj Khalifa and landing in a convenient spare plot of desert.
[05:20:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Carbonated Beverages Cause Weight Gain in Rats - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:39] <exec> 08└─In Japan their hot water dispensers on the water cooler output green tea. It's a beautiful thing. If you have a late night you don't have to bother with coffee brewing and its caffeine spike or acid afterburn. You can suck down cup after cup of the green from the water cooler and ride the even buzz...
[05:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Remote Pacific Island Has World's Highest Plastic Trash Density - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:04] <exec> 08└─> World's Highest Plastic Trash Density Written by someone who has never been to New Jersey.
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[05:21:24] <exec> 08└─OSVR project? They run like 300 and 400 dollars for the headsets, plus maybe a hundred if you want different tracking technologies. And unlike the Oculus based stuff they are trying to have the whole ecosystem open for third party development to help keep from having a big few companies controlling...
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[06:17:27] <exec> 08└─Since the pattern is generated in the brain, it is likely to perfectly match the surroundings, thus always appearing continuous. The reason the blind spot image is preferred could have to do with the amount of information being processed, ie the mental image for the blind spot has more clarity than...
[06:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proxima B Habitability Study Adds Climate Model - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:35] <exec> 08└─If the study were good, the researcher would have thrown it out the window and done something else. Planet is habitable, meatbags settle in, make it unhabitable, bots settle in. Unless the study was by an AI, but then it would have been like a one liner what I just wrote.
[06:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China and India Years Early On Climate Goals - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:51] <exec> 08└─You know that there is a difference between particulates and CO2, right? Idiot!
[06:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released From Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:50] <exec> 08└─What I meant was that Mr. Obama wasn't president in 2006. You had posted about a "2006 incident in the central Iraqi town of Ishaqi" and I was alluding to that.
[06:18:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released From Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:51] <exec> 08└─By the Pentagon's own estimate, thousands of military families live in poverty. Despite recent salary increases, many enlisted men and women say they can't afford food and other basic needs. http://www.voanews.com [voanews.com]
[06:18:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released From Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:54] <exec> 08└─The war was a travesty based on lies. However, one of the war crimes committed was quoted in my original post, it involved: Executing a 70yo womanA 5yo kidA bunch more of intermediate ageCalling in an airstrike to cover up the executionsLying that those people died in the airstrike. The publicity su...
[06:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released From Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 1040 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:56] <exec> 08└─Obama: Expanded GWB's reprehensible policy of due process free detention based on secret legal memos, to include execution.Tripled the number of troops in Afghanistan to more than 3x GWB's max.Persecuted more whistleblowers under the Espionage Act than all other presidents combined -- about 4xExpand...
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[07:17:12] <exec> 08└─Confirmation bias is a beautiful thing.
[07:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Proxima B Habitability Study Adds Climate Model - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:21] <exec> 08└─Time for the B Ship to leave? After you, Mr Hawking...
[07:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China and India Years Early On Climate Goals - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:38] <exec> 08└─Since this turned into bickering - what AC is referring to are Ultra Supercritical Coal Plants. USA has one [wikipedia.org], China 80-100, and other countries (like australia) also uses them. If we drop to "only" supercritical then usa and china has quite a few each. Since the tech (Ultra, normal SC...
[07:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released From Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:41] <exec> 08└─One should also add, quoting Obama's 2008 platform is like quoting Sleeping Beauty. It might be interesting fantasy, but it bears little relationship with reality.
[07:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released From Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:43] <exec> 08└─"It" may be used when referring to entities of indeterminate gender, we use the word when speaking of babies, toddlers and animals all the time. You're protesting much too hard here and it's making me think you're running from something.
[07:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released From Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:45] <exec> 08└─He is objectively not a traitor by the very definition of traitor in the US constitution: Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.
[07:18:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released From Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:47] <exec> 08└─He will never naturally carry a baby. Look, I'm basically OK with people being weird, even if it is disturbing. Just don't drag anybody else into it please. I'll even be sort of supportive if there are no children involved and I'm not expected to use a non-male pronoun. You're a dude. You're weird a...
[07:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released From Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:49] <exec> 08└─What? Hey, where are my free health benefits? How come soldiers get that and civilians don't?
[07:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dubai Firm Dreams of Harvesting Icebergs for Water - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:16] <exec> 08└─The company believes that, as most of the icebergs' mass is underwater, they would not melt significantly during the voyage.
[07:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Producing Fertilizer from Air Could be Five Times as Efficient - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:40] <exec> 08└─Can someone explain how this would work in my apartment block?
[07:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Producing Fertilizer from Air Could be Five Times as Efficient - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:42] <exec> 08└─I detect bullshit.
[07:19:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Producing Fertilizer from Air Could be Five Times as Efficient - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:44] <exec> 08└─Seriously, is there any reason why pee is not repurposed as fertilizer? if you think because ITS GROSS, think again what earth is made of.
[07:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Producing Fertilizer from Air Could be Five Times as Efficient - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:46] <exec> 08└─My reasoning would be like: "If my body flushes it, there is probably a good reason not to introduce it back". But, whatever works for you peebag :)
[07:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Carbonated Beverages Cause Weight Gain in Rats - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:05] <exec> 08└─This is probably the first time I've read "The Coca-Cola Company" and "trusted" in the same sentence without a negative qualifier thrown in.
[07:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Engraving is Now Reportedly the Most Automated Profession - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:24] <exec> 08└─The horse and carriages in town here have slings under the horses' hips so that everything excreted is collected in a bag automatically. Vaguely visable here: http://c7.alamy.com http://blog.bestapartments.ee
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[08:17:18] <exec> 08└─Fuck them all to death! One at a time! All billion of them!
[08:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Humans Rely More On 'Inferred' Visual Objects Than 'Real' Ones - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:28] <exec> 08└─Seems to have worked well enough for several million generations. I reckon the brain probably knows what it's doing in most cases.
[08:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Rely More On 'Inferred' Visual Objects Than 'Real' Ones - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:30] <exec> 08└─"I thought I saw a Puddy-tat!"
[08:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humans Rely More On 'Inferred' Visual Objects Than 'Real' Ones - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:32] <exec> 08└─Religion worked well enough for thousands of years, but these days you smug snakes deride the soft headed idiots who believe in the magical sky fairy. The brain invented religion, so which is it, hypocrite? Do you have faith in the brain or don't you?
[08:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Severed Limbs and Wooden Feet—how the Ancients Invented Prosthetics - 1273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:08] <exec> 08└─Are we honestly in any way surprised that the people who built Athens before the common era, or the pyramids hundreds of years before that, or who had huge sprawling cities full of people some of whom were designing clocks and mechanisms as complex as anything we could make even a thousand years lat...
[08:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released From Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:06] <exec> 08└─If the Nobel peace prize wasn't locked up by war criminals, Chelsea should be top of the list.
[08:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released From Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:08] <exec> 08└─that said, taxpayers should not have paid for his/her sex surgery
[08:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released From Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:10] <exec> 08└─or in adhering to their Enemies
[08:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released From Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:12] <exec> 08└─Let's give the farce its full name - the Henry Kissinger Memorial Nobel Peace Prize.
[08:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released From Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:14] <exec> 08└─I swear, ever since I stuck up for Runaway as not a total conservative Trump voting douche he has done his damned best to prove me wrong. Reminds me of training a dog, can't show too much affection or it goes to their head and discipline goes out the window. They start shitting on the rug thinking t...
[08:19:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dubai Firm Dreams of Harvesting Icebergs for Water - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:41] <exec> 08└─Brewster's millions - selling ice bergs to thirsty Arabs [youtube.com] I wonder when the manuscript authors of that movie will sue for business method [wikipedia.org] infringement ;-) Otoh.. the novel was published in 1903.
[08:19:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dubai Firm Dreams of Harvesting Icebergs for Water - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:43] <exec> 08└─What I think the world community has to be wary of is when expeditions starts to blow off pieces of ice when the natural supply isn't enough.
[08:19:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dubai Firm Dreams of Harvesting Icebergs for Water - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:45] <exec> 08└─There are diseases hidden in ice, and they are waking up [bbc.com] In the early 20th Century alone, more than a million reindeer died from anthrax. It is not easy to dig deep graves, so most of these carcasses are buried close to the surface, scattered among 7,000 burial grounds in northern Russia.
[08:20:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Producing Fertilizer from Air Could be Five Times as Efficient - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:20:13] <exec> 08└─I'd tell you, but you'd just say my explanation was a pile of shit.
[08:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cop Brushes Fentanyl Off Uniform, Overdoses - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:00] <exec> 08└─Accumulation below threshold and then just a small amount to tip the dose over into a effective one?
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[09:17:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 1) 02 - 06AMD Stock Surges on Report of Intel Graphics Licensing Deal, 16-Core Ryzen Confirmed - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:05] <exec> 08└─And by the time this news hit Soylent, the stock was back below the start of the 'surge' Blink and you missed it, folks :) On a side note, whomever thought the name EPYC was good need to be tarred, feathered, hung, drawn, quartered, and made to eat lutefisk as their last dinner. EPIC was such a reso...
[09:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humans Rely More On 'Inferred' Visual Objects Than 'Real' Ones - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:24] <exec> 08└─Trump is orange like Garfield but Trump tweets like Tweety Bird. It's so confusing I don't know what to infer from these conflicting facts. Help me Jebus!
[09:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released From Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:19:04] <exec> 08└─The post wasn't about Obama's relationship to the 2006 incident/crime. It was about the effects of the leaked info which came out in 2011 (when Obama was president). Before that, essentially no one knew about the incident.
[09:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Brujer [6600] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cop Brushes Fentanyl Off Uniform, Overdoses - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:54] <exec> 08└─It is not possible, at least not according to my anesthetist wife. It is really not possible to overdose just by brushing it off of clothes. Maybe he had an allergic reaction or had he inhaled it. Another plausible explanation ca also be that it was combined with other drugs/opioids. I made an accou...
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[09:25:55] <exec> 08└─Yeah, lofentanil seems similar to Carfentanil. But I find no data on half-life or bioavailability. (did find Metkefamide during searches however)
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[10:17:25] <exec> 08└─So will this mean less graphics drivers for free open source systems? ie Intel policy vs AMD/ATI. Btw, cores are good.. if software can and will make use of them....
[10:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Stock Surges on Report of Intel Graphics Licensing Deal, 16-Core Ryzen Confirmed - 979 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:27] <exec> 08└─Most folks simply cannot come up with enough work to keep a 10 year old CPU well fed, much less a monster like this. Sure some guys will buy it for bragging rights and I'm sure there are a few with niche applications that will be able to keep that monster chomping data, but I'd say a good 97% of the...
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[10:17:29] <exec> 08└─It's way easier to exploit more Hz than it is to do the same with multiple cores. That requires re-thinking.. shudder computations. ;-) But see it on the positive side. People that need to brag and buys these things will pay the development costs for those users that actually need these things. If t...
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[10:17:48] <exec> 08└─Select all squares that should contain street signs. Want an easier challenge?
[10:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Rely More On 'Inferred' Visual Objects Than 'Real' Ones - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:49] <exec> 08└─The first thing that popped into my head after reading the summary was the SEP field [wikipedia.org] from The HitchHikers Guide.
[10:19:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released From Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:30] <exec> 08└─Proof of you having a genetic analysis of Pvt. Manning is missing from your comment. Meanwhile, the possible variations of human genotypes other than XX and XY is a significant number. [wikipedia.org] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[10:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released From Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:31] <exec> 08└─When you have presented evidence that you have swapped your current gig for an enlistment, that will be a starting point for me to accept your claim. If you go in as a buck private and serve out your enlistment, that will add credence to your boosterism for the credibility of the USA's aggressor for...
[10:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Dubai Firm Dreams of Harvesting Icebergs for Water - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:20:02] <exec> 08└─"truck sized?, how boring. The headline make it sound like they were going to go after the city sized ones.
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[11:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Android to Add Kotlin Programming Language Support - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:19] <exec> 08└─Android to add Go support... Android to add Swift support.. Go support is still very limited, and Swift support doesn't seem to exist at all. So they try with yet another language. The main difference is that this is a crappy language with $php $jquery $syntax.
[11:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03garrulus [6051] (Score: 1) 02 - 06AMD Stock Surges on Report of Intel Graphics Licensing Deal, 16-Core Ryzen Confirmed - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:30] <exec> 08└─But single core performance still benfits games the most, and thats what these new cpus provide. Ryzen has roughy 2x the single core performance of my Phenom2 X4, you need it at peak load moments
[11:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06AMD Stock Surges on Report of Intel Graphics Licensing Deal, 16-Core Ryzen Confirmed - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:32] <exec> 08└─The back door will be in the graphics part of the chip
[11:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Proxima B Habitability Study Adds Climate Model - 1393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:02] <exec> 08└─I get this for the pressure-temperature profile of an earth like planet with the same Insolation as proxima B: http://i.imgur.com [imgur.com] Compare to figure 5 of the paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.08463) and you'll see theirs is too hot by 10- 20 K. Here is my model in R: ## Stefan...
[11:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Proxima B Habitability Study Adds Climate Model - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:04] <exec> 08└─Actually I'm seeing their dayside for the tidally locked model (fig 5 still) matches Earth's mean profile almost exactly. This is kind of a strange coincidence.
[11:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Proxima B Habitability Study Adds Climate Model - 745 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:06] <exec> 08└─This is all same AC still. Now that I looked at the earlier paper[1] I see that one must be wrong too. If you check Fig 7 you see their model allows a troposphere above 0.1 bar. This is not seen for any planets/moons in the solar system, so is likely non-physical:[2] A minimum atmospheric temperatur...
[11:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Severed Limbs and Wooden Feet—how the Ancients Invented Prosthetics - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:35] <exec> 08└─In a way the internet IS. You get all these anti-vaxxers and 9/11 conspiracists and flat earthers and "the moon landing was a hoax" people. They all have a voice thanks to the internet, and it's shocking to watch this willful ignorance spread.
[11:20:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] 02 - 06Dubai Firm Dreams of Harvesting Icebergs for Water - 172 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:20:01] <exec> 08└─" ... in search of truck-sized chunks known as growlers. Workers would then secure them to the boats with nets and embark on a yearlong cruise to the United Arab Emirates."
[11:20:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dubai Firm Dreams of Harvesting Icebergs for Water - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:20:12] <exec> 08└─So far it seems just familiar diseases has made a reappearance.
[11:20:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03YeaWhatevs [5623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Producing Fertilizer from Air Could be Five Times as Efficient - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:20:42] <exec> 08└─I looked up the paper (no thanks to TFA), and I shows a picture of their custom built reaction chamber and quite a bit of theory and empirical data. Assuming you got the increased efficiency plasma right, we need more experimentation to say it leads to increased efficiency in the overall yield of th...
[11:20:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Producing Fertilizer from Air Could be Five Times as Efficient - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:20:44] <exec> 08└─A Guide to Composting Toilets [motherearthliving.com] A composting toilet has a place to sit, a composting chamber, and a drying tray. Most models combine all three elements in a single enclosure, although some models have separate seating, with the composting chamber installed in the basement or un...
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[12:17:55] <exec> 08└─There are no graphics on most of these... must be a pretty big back door.
[12:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Stock Surges on Report of Intel Graphics Licensing Deal, 16-Core Ryzen Confirmed - 1644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:57] <exec> 08└─Gaming is becoming more multithreaded. Now you have two major consoles with "eight" cores (6-7 usable). A lot of existing computers have quad cores, with HyperThreading in many cases, and now 6+ cores is becoming more common or at least cheap enough to be accessible. Some games could certainly use m...
[12:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03harmless [1048] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Humans Rely More On 'Inferred' Visual Objects Than 'Real' Ones - 793 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:19] <exec> 08└─I think the experiment doesn't reflect real world experience very well. We are not normally looking at static imagery; we move around, we look around, so nothing is in the blind spot for long. In this scenario the brain will fill in what was there a fraction of a second ago. That's probably more rel...
[12:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China and India Years Early On Climate Goals - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:48] <exec> 08└─So we are pretending that the most polluted countries in the world are doing anything about global warming. More likely they are lying, resulting in the shackling the US economy; thus giving them an unfair business advantage that is ending the US ability manufacture anything. Nice use of nme calling...
[12:20:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released From Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:20:07] <exec> 08└─> "It" may be used when referring to entities of indeterminate gender, we use the word when speaking of babies, toddlers and animals all the time. Nobody human refers to babies or toddlers as its. > Do not presume bad faith, it's an incredibly toxic attitude to hold. There is no presumption. It take...
[12:20:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dubai Firm Dreams of Harvesting Icebergs for Water - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:20:41] <exec> 08└─At least there is a vaccine and the infection rate is not something out of a sci-fi movie.
[12:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Carbonated Beverages Cause Weight Gain in Rats - 798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:31] <exec> 08└─there must be some conspiracy: first i dont understand the appeal of carbonated water if they dont throw in some flavour and sugar (or alcohol). maybe the de-gasing effect proofs to the consumer that the bottled water is "fresh"? furthermore the carbon-water manufacturers must be silently smiling ab...
[12:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 0640,000-year-old Bracelet Made by Extinct Human Species Found - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:00] <exec> 08└─When you start with "a mysterious species of Hominins... from 40,000 years ago" and you follow up with "All..." anything, the fantasy flag has been raised high. As far as these guys know, the Atlantis myths could have descended from the Denisovans, they might have had a safe space to live with easy...
[12:27:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cop Brushes Fentanyl Off Uniform, Overdoses - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:05] <exec> 08└─I agree with the skeptics here, most likely he "tried some" and got more than he should have - but... it's not inconceivable that the dosing was completely accidental. As you say, the final push over the pass-out threshold could have been accidentally delivered with a brush of the hand on invisible...
[12:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cop Brushes Fentanyl Off Uniform, Overdoses - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:06] <exec> 08└─I'm thinking that the police got in touch with the substance for a long time during the work day, and then some fluke event took place. But I think the only way to really find out is likely to test if powder really can do this kind of accidental effect. Not that I think it will be done.. Maybe the p...
[12:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cop Brushes Fentanyl Off Uniform, Overdoses - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:08] <exec> 08└─I don't doubt that it can be done - LSD and other skin-absorbable drugs can dose and overdose like that - the question might be: can it be done with a small accidental, hard to notice exposure, or do you have to basically bathe in it? Also, powder in the air? Certainly easier to get into the bloodst...
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[13:17:38] <exec> 08└─What the what? Gotta go do some reading!
[13:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Direct Counterfactual Quantum Communication Claimed - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:39] <exec> 08└─i smuggle lizards in my rectum
[13:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03datapharmer [2702] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Direct Counterfactual Quantum Communication Claimed - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:41] <exec> 08└─Pictures or it never happened.
[13:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Direct Counterfactual Quantum Communication Claimed - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:43] <exec> 08└─Soooo... a watched pot never boils? Essentially? ???
[13:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Direct Counterfactual Quantum Communication Claimed - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:46] <exec> 08└─In the link there is another link to graphs. I clicked it and it asked me for a paid subscription.
[13:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Direct Counterfactual Quantum Communication Claimed - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:49] <exec> 08└─I mistakenly wrote "open access". Here are a couple of other articles about the paper. http://www.universityherald.com [universityherald.com] https://www.sciencealert.com
[13:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03BenJeremy [6392] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Android to Add Kotlin Programming Language Support - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:58] <exec> 08└─...b-b-b-b-but Kotlin is DESIGNED to be better than Java! They removed the semicolons! It's got features that do what other languages do, only better, because the semantics are completely different! Ugh. Kotlin looks like Python and Javascript had baby, even after they had attempted to abort it and...
[13:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Stock Surges on Report of Intel Graphics Licensing Deal, 16-Core Ryzen Confirmed - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:14] <exec> 08└─Ok, but the story is about Ryzen 9 which probably has lower clock speeds than Ryzen 7 while costing twice as much. For example, Ryzen 7 1800X at 3.6 GHz (base) for $500, Ryzen 9 1998X at 3.5 GHz for $1000+. So if you can't make use of the additional 8 cores/16 threads, it is less than half the perfo...
[13:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Stock Surges on Report of Intel Graphics Licensing Deal, 16-Core Ryzen Confirmed - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:15] <exec> 08└─The CPU manufacturers' only other options (if not making shrinking the die) are to devote more die space to integrated graphics, fixed-function decoders (8K AV1 [wikipedia.org] 12-bit support, anyone?), or perhaps on-chip memory.
[13:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD Stock Surges on Report of Intel Graphics Licensing Deal, 16-Core Ryzen Confirmed - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:17] <exec> 08└─So will this mean less graphics drivers
[13:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Stock Surges on Report of Intel Graphics Licensing Deal, 16-Core Ryzen Confirmed - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:19] <exec> 08└─The backdoors are already in there, they don't need more die space. (groan)
[13:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humans Rely More On 'Inferred' Visual Objects Than 'Real' Ones - 808 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:43] <exec> 08└─Not mentioned in tfs is a basic difference in the way that data can be "made up": Interpolation means filling in points where there is data all around the area where the made-up data is created. In the case of physical experiments this is normally "safe" as long as the spacing between data points is...
[13:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China and India Years Early On Climate Goals - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:14] <exec> 08└─The US has just 1 ultra efficient coal plant. China has 90.
[13:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Producing Fertilizer from Air Could be Five Times as Efficient - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:38] <exec> 08└─While that is true (it's filtered for pathogens), it's full of salts. Drinking salt water for any amount of time will screw you up. The ship that delivered the A-bomb to Tinian was sunk on its return trip. No one was keeping track of it and the hundreds of survivors were left in the water for days i...
[13:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 0640,000-year-old Bracelet Made by Extinct Human Species Found - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:29] <exec> 08└─Archaeologists 30,000 years in the future will likely find the "crazy layer" - everything proceeded normally, more or less predictably for 4 billion years, then all hell broke loose for about 500... nobody remembers anything from that time anymore, but it clearly was a time of unimaginable chaos.
[13:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 0640,000-year-old Bracelet Made by Extinct Human Species Found - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:31] <exec> 08└─I used to eat Taco Bell tacos fairly regularly. Then they came out with the "Chalupa" - my first Chalupa gave me food poisoning so powerful that I have not returned to Taco Bell since.
[13:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 0640,000-year-old Bracelet Made by Extinct Human Species Found - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:33] <exec> 08└─These are the commonly accepted jumps to conclusions, made in little steps by all the people who came before him in the field - he's just repeating the accumulated assumptions of his predecessors. If you were to jump half that distance in a different direction, you'd be labeled a heretic idiot maver...
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[14:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SCOTUS Denies Appeal of Police "Qualified Immunity", Ignores Gorsuch Dissent - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:44] <exec> 08└─Qualified Immunity == (Only) Blue Lives Matter
[14:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SCOTUS Denies Appeal of Police "Qualified Immunity", Ignores Gorsuch Dissent - 831 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:45] <exec> 08└─I was curious, that it could be reasoned that when performing a civil arrest, you are doing the work of a police officer and are qualified immune from whatever you're doing? But it states it only applies to state or federal employees. It however does not shield them if they violate constitutional ri...
[14:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Direct Counterfactual Quantum Communication Claimed - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:59] <exec> 08└─In the link there is another link to graphs. I clicked it and it asked me for a paid subscription
[14:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Direct Counterfactual Quantum Communication Claimed - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:01] <exec> 08└─Pictures or it never happened.
[14:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Meepy [2099] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Android to Add Kotlin Programming Language Support - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:11] <exec> 08└─The main difference is kotlin runs on the jvm and mixes with all the other java just fine, so all they're doing is shipping android studio with support for it. The support that was already in IntelliJ presumably. What else do they need to do?
[14:18:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Stock Surges on Report of Intel Graphics Licensing Deal, 16-Core Ryzen Confirmed - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:30] <exec> 08└─The backdoors are already in there, they don't need more die space.
[14:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Stock Surges on Report of Intel Graphics Licensing Deal, 16-Core Ryzen Confirmed - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:32] <exec> 08└─even after gaming for hours half my cores are parked because there just isn't enough for them to do
[14:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Stock Surges on Report of Intel Graphics Licensing Deal, 16-Core Ryzen Confirmed - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:34] <exec> 08└─The simple fact is when we went from the MHz wars to core wars? The software just didn't keep up like it did when all they had to worry about was a single core.
[14:19:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02 - 06Severed Limbs and Wooden Feet—how the Ancients Invented Prosthetics - 1273 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:37] <exec> 08└─Are we honestly in any way surprised that the people who built Athens before the common era, or the pyramids hundreds of years before that, or who had huge sprawling cities full of people some of whom were designing clocks and mechanisms as complex as anything we could make even a thousand years lat...
[14:20:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released From Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:46] <exec> 08└─Julian Assange provides a service to humanity. Assange cannot be faulted for publishing the stuff that Manning sent him. Manning swore several oaths, all of which he broke, as a soldier in the US Army. Manning dishonored himself. Have you ever heard, 'Semper Fidelis'? Well, obviously, Manning hasn't...
[14:20:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released From Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:47] <exec> 08└─'Zumi, you gotta quit fantasizing about me.
[14:20:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released From Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:50] <exec> 08└─I will speak the English language as I damned well please. It almost sounds like you are projecting. If you protest something, that means you are running from something? I'll try to remember that. So, in view of the fact that I consider Manning to be subhuman, what are YOU running away from, with y...
[14:20:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released From Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:52] <exec> 08└─Your biggest problem in regards to Manning, is that you actually believe he "leaked" stuff for altruistic reasons.
[14:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released From Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 2710 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:54] <exec> 08└─Well, the way I take GP is that the pronoun “it” should be used until the Crocodile Dundee maneuver has been performed. While the Crocodile Dundee maneuver isn't foolproof, it should help to determine a pronoun to be used with trans men and even folks with advanced infiltrator class woman suits...
[14:21:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dubai Firm Dreams of Harvesting Icebergs for Water - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:28] <exec> 08└─The US Military currently vaccinates against it, I know I received the vaccine before I deployed. The gov also keeps a stockpile of smallpox vaccine to inoculate everyone if it hits the fan. In fact after I got out of the army I made some good money donating plasma because I had been vaccinated for...
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[15:17:48] <exec> 08└─It however does not shield them if they violate constitutional rights, at least that's what wikipedia tells me. And this story sounds like the cop violated the boy's first (burping and laughing) and eighth constitutional right.
[15:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS Denies Appeal of Police "Qualified Immunity", Ignores Gorsuch Dissent - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:50] <exec> 08└─It however does not shield them if they violate constitutional rights
[15:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS Denies Appeal of Police "Qualified Immunity", Ignores Gorsuch Dissent - 2446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:52] <exec> 08└─We'll see if the ruling in Turner v. Driver holds up to Supreme Court scrutiny. The Minnesota law review article I linked is a bit one-sided, but it notes (pp. 70-72) some distressing language in SCOTUS rulings just in the past 5 years or so that signals a retreat from the idea that lower courts can...
[15:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS Denies Appeal of Police "Qualified Immunity", Ignores Gorsuch Dissent - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:54] <exec> 08└─The Fifth Circuit is not the only circuit to rule on recording the police, btw. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] (1st) Smith v. City of Cumming (11th) Fordyce v. City of Seattle (9th) Kelly v. Borough of Carlisle (3rd) Szymecki v. Houck (4th) I think even a conservative...
[15:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Direct Counterfactual Quantum Communication Claimed - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:09] <exec> 08└─At least a watched Weeping Angel never moves.
[15:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Direct Counterfactual Quantum Communication Claimed - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:10] <exec> 08└─It was a genuine request all the way until you asked. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[15:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Android to Add Kotlin Programming Language Support - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:21] <exec> 08└─Someone watched a Google IO event? Boring shit shows with engineers half-heartedly giving presentations and a team of professional cheerers sitting behind the three rows of trade press audience busy with their phones.
[15:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Android to Add Kotlin Programming Language Support - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:22] <exec> 08└─Good things do come out of Google I/O. [soylentnews.org]
[15:18:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Stock Surges on Report of Intel Graphics Licensing Deal, 16-Core Ryzen Confirmed - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:46] <exec> 08└─It's a screen door.
[15:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Rely More On 'Inferred' Visual Objects Than 'Real' Ones - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:10] <exec> 08└─Confirmation bias is a beautiful thing.
[15:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Rely More On 'Inferred' Visual Objects Than 'Real' Ones - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:12] <exec> 08└─Religion is something the ego of man invented over thousands of years, once nature took him from literally dirt, up to an upright sapien that could conceive of the universe. Which is more convincing of possessed talent?
[15:19:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China and India Years Early On Climate Goals - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:43] <exec> 08└─> The US still uses coal after all. The US still uses coal but the US does not need coal. The only reason we continue to use coal is because of the sunk costs of building the plants. NatGas is cheaper, cleaner and more efficient in that it is relatively easy to modulate output to match demand.
[15:19:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China and India Years Early On Climate Goals - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:44] <exec> 08└─As a bystander here, my first thought is, "Right, because China never lies about its air quality." If you know absolutely anything about China, you will know of their AQI scores in the bigger cities like Beijing and how when they say, "Perfectly safe air today in Glorious China! Pregnant women - go...
[15:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released from Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:12] <exec> 08└─I disagree. BCD/DD doesn't stop you from voting or owning a firearm. http://military-law.lawyers.com [lawyers.com]
[15:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released from Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:13] <exec> 08└─> I will speak the English language as I damned well please. And we will judge you based on what you say. Don't like being judged? Easy solution. Shut the fuck up buttercup.
[15:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released from Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 1040 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:15] <exec> 08└─"His leaks sparked the Arab Spring, which is a long overdue liberation from dictators" And replaced them with ISIS? Please tell me you don't actually believe the "Arab Spring" was anything other than a failed coup attempt orchestrated by the United States and Saudi Arabia, thanks to Hillary Clinton....
[15:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released from Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:18] <exec> 08└─Lick the buttercup, LMAO!!
[15:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dubai Firm Dreams of Harvesting Icebergs for Water - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:53] <exec> 08└─The gov also keeps a stockpile of smallpox vaccine
[15:21:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dubai Firm Dreams of Harvesting Icebergs for Water - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:54] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but there's a lead time in global-scale manufacturing and inoculation. Ramping up to that scale and distributing everything again would take years. It wouldn't be the end of civilization, but the death toll worldwide would certainly be counted in the millions if not more.
[15:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Carbonated Beverages Cause Weight Gain in Rats - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:48] <exec> 08└─After further consideration I think I will switch to green tea which seems to have less fluoride and oxalates. And continue to drink 1/2 gallon today rather than 1-2 gallons like in the kidney failure cases.
[15:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Weasley [6421] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Remote Pacific Island Has World's Highest Plastic Trash Density - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:14] <exec> 08└─This is not a technological problem to solve. This is a much simpler problem. There's too many people. I'm 43. The population of the world has doubled since I was born. These problems will just keep getting worse, all because capitalists and powerful religious groups don't want to confront the idea...
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[16:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washed-Up Carcass Was Probably a Baleen Whale - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:42] <exec> 08└─Fascinating. Who would have guessed that the most likely and mundane hypothesis would turn out to be true?
[16:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washed-Up Carcass Was Probably a Baleen Whale - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:43] <exec> 08└─I pledge no allegiance, nigga, fuck the President's speeches!
[16:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washed-Up Carcass Was Probably a Baleen Whale - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:46] <exec> 08└─I was afraid Amy Schumer had had a swimming accident.
[16:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06SCOTUS Denies Appeal of Police "Qualified Immunity", Ignores Gorsuch Dissent - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:59] <exec> 08└─I though the snowflakes and SJWs said that Gorsuch was the Antichrist.
[16:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS Denies Appeal of Police "Qualified Immunity", Ignores Gorsuch Dissent - 965 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:00] <exec> 08└─Yes, I know there are other rulings, but thanks for noting them. It's important to clarify, however, that the last two cases you cite actually disagree that "qualified immunity" can be broken. Everyone seems to agree that this is a first amendment issue, but SCOTUS has clearly said you can't violate...
[16:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SCOTUS Denies Appeal of Police "Qualified Immunity", Ignores Gorsuch Dissent - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:02] <exec> 08└─But was he the Literal Antichrist? Or just an Allegorical Antichrist or a Metaphorical one? Perhaps he's a Verisimilitudianal Antichrist or Synecdochian Antichrist.
[16:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SCOTUS Denies Appeal of Police "Qualified Immunity", Ignores Gorsuch Dissent - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:04] <exec> 08└─From TFA: Thirteen-year-old F.M. burped in gym class, laughed, and, after the teacher removed him from the classroom, he leaned back into the classroom while sitting in the hall. Because these acts divided the teacher's attention, Officer Arthur Acosta ("Officer Acosta") handcuffed F.M., transporte...
[16:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06SCOTUS Denies Appeal of Police "Qualified Immunity", Ignores Gorsuch Dissent - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:07] <exec> 08└─What a sad state of affairs where teachers and school administrators can't deal with unruly children and must call the police and send them through the criminal justice system.
[16:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS Denies Appeal of Police "Qualified Immunity", Ignores Gorsuch Dissent - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:09] <exec> 08└─He states in the first paragraph that he's only talking about law enforcement officers.
[16:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Direct Counterfactual Quantum Communication Claimed - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:26] <exec> 08└─A lot of users here are going to have to swallow a whole lot of pride. Can you do it? Can you say "I was wrong"?
[16:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Direct Counterfactual Quantum Communication Claimed - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:27] <exec> 08└─Swallow a whole lot of pride? What did they even say?
[16:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03cpghost [4591] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Direct Counterfactual Quantum Communication Claimed - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:29] <exec> 08└─This gets me thinking that SETI may very well be wasting their time hunting for electromagnetic (radio) signals. Any highly enough developed civilization may eventually switch to Quantum Communications, especially for very long-distance comms, if they could find a way to do it efficiently. Therefore...
[16:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Direct Counterfactual Quantum Communication Claimed - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:31] <exec> 08└─Started with "quantum entanglement is bogus, they just don't understand simple statistics!" then continued with "sure they're entangled, but you can't transmit anything with it so its just a useless gimmick" along with downplaying quantum computers etc. I'm just mouthing off cause I can't stand peop...
[16:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Direct Counterfactual Quantum Communication Claimed - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:34] <exec> 08└─ok, here's the deal: you give me all your fiber, because you can do quantum communication without it, right? I'm dumb and I can only do it with the fiber, but snce you're not using it, can I have all your fiber?
[16:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Stock Surges on Report of Intel Graphics Licensing Deal, 16-Core Ryzen Confirmed - 2415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:08] <exec> 08└─Also SDR (Software Defined Radio) software - of which there are a fair number of users out there, BTW. I write both SDR software and image manipulation software. I make extensive use of multiple cores in both. I would welcome a 16-core CPU. I run a 12/24 core machine now. 16/32 would be just fine wi...
[16:20:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Severed Limbs and Wooden Feet—how the Ancients Invented Prosthetics - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:20] <exec> 08└─Libraries containing the entirety of human knowledge
[16:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released from Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 3099 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:38] <exec> 08└─It liberated Algeria and Tunisia. Egypt is mostly there. It did depose Qaddafi, who had been there longer than anyone could remember, though the aftermath hasn't been what it has in the other three. Can you agree on that much? In the Middle East proper it has not worked so well. But, then, things we...
[16:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03fraxinus-tree [5590] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dubai Firm Dreams of Harvesting Icebergs for Water - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:15] <exec> 08└─... and once in a while it creates an investment balloon. Now, maybe for real? As for the global warming, it actually means more icebergs, not less. Well, at least for a while.
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[17:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Germany Got 85% of Its Electricity from Renewable Sources in April - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:53] <exec> 08└─Local production means redundancy. Renewable production probably also means less pollution, higher cost and more instability in the grid. Now being able to tell the power company to stick their cable where the sun doesn't shine is in itself a big bonus ;)
[17:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Germany Got 85% of Its Electricity from Renewable Sources in April - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:55] <exec> 08└─Now being able to tell the power company to stick their cable where the sun doesn't shine is in itself a big bonus ;)
[17:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washed-Up Carcass Was Probably a Baleen Whale - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:06] <exec> 08└─No, it was too funny for it to be her.
[17:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS Denies Appeal of Police "Qualified Immunity", Ignores Gorsuch Dissent - 1015 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:26] <exec> 08└─Never holding police accountable for what they do to citizens is one of the various toxic authoritarian idiocies that fall into this melting pot of a toxic situation. 1. "Obstructing the educational process" as an actual charge that exists and can be leveled at minors. This is one of those laws that...
[17:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS Denies Appeal of Police "Qualified Immunity", Ignores Gorsuch Dissent - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:28] <exec> 08└─I don't think it's that they can't. My personal feeling is that it's just too easy a solution. Have police on campus, have their whole job be discipline related, and don't be surprised when people assume that they're there to be used. Also, studies have shown that there's huge racial disparities on...
[17:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SCOTUS Denies Appeal of Police "Qualified Immunity", Ignores Gorsuch Dissent - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:30] <exec> 08└─Justice Gorsuch should be ashamed of himself!
[17:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SCOTUS Denies Appeal of Police "Qualified Immunity", Ignores Gorsuch Dissent - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:32] <exec> 08└─clearly a threat to public safety
[17:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS Denies Appeal of Police "Qualified Immunity", Ignores Gorsuch Dissent - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:34] <exec> 08└─I don't think it's that they can't.
[17:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS Denies Appeal of Police "Qualified Immunity", Ignores Gorsuch Dissent - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:37] <exec> 08└─2. Having police officers in school for basic disciplinary enforcement.
[17:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Soylentbob [6519] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS Denies Appeal of Police "Qualified Immunity", Ignores Gorsuch Dissent - 968 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:39] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I can not resist this one. But since the POTUS alienates allies by putting their intelligence sources at risk, in order to do the Russians a favour [soylentnews.org], and the former against better knowledge [digg.com] by Trump appointed [politico.com] and pro [twitter.com]tected [nytimes.com]...
[17:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS Denies Appeal of Police "Qualified Immunity", Ignores Gorsuch Dissent - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:41] <exec> 08└─Only unqualified deference to authority matters.
[17:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS Denies Appeal of Police "Qualified Immunity", Ignores Gorsuch Dissent - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:43] <exec> 08└─'clearly established law' for something that does not appear in any statute. There is some powerful doublethink required for that concept.
[17:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Direct Counterfactual Quantum Communication Claimed - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:06] <exec> 08└─Must be like quantum money. You never know how much they are until eyeballs looks into the wallet ;-)
[17:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Direct Counterfactual Quantum Communication Claimed - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:07] <exec> 08└─And it may also send the alphabet soup into the dark.. without any mangling of bits ;-)
[17:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Direct Counterfactual Quantum Communication Claimed - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:09] <exec> 08└─Quantum entanglement is real and well-established phenomena. However, it is not possible [wikipedia.org] to use it for the transmission of information. As for quantum computers, the feasibility and practicality remains to be seen. For the time being, their existence is purely theoretical. I'm just...
[17:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Direct Counterfactual Quantum Communication Claimed - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:11] <exec> 08└─cpg uses the fiber for classical communication and to stay regular.
[17:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Direct Counterfactual Quantum Communication Claimed - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:14] <exec> 08└─ok, here's the deal: you give me all your fiber, because you can do quantum communication without it, right?
[17:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released from Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:21] <exec> 08└─He will never naturally carry a baby.
[17:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released from Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:22] <exec> 08└─Can you link to the text of the oaths? I don't know ones used by the US military, but I guess it's the usual stuff about protecting the people of USA and upholding its constitution, rather than helping cover up crimes of his higher ups. In fact, it was his duty, that everyone else in the army failed...
[17:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dubai Firm Dreams of Harvesting Icebergs for Water - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:01] <exec> 08└─It certainly would be deadly event but once there is a vaccine. It's quite straightforward to combat any pathogen. The alternative is to rely on symptoms and quarantine whole countries and let's not think about international trade. All the while researchers have maybe to work for years without using...
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[18:17:32] <exec> 08└─Must be :p
[18:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Germany Got 85% of Its Electricity from Renewable Sources in April - 679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:33] <exec> 08└─The main strategic advantage of this is that it will help the Germans tremendously if the Russians try to cut off their natural gas supply (as they've at least threatened to do before). That threat is one of the major ways Russia protects itself from EU and US aggression. The US response to the same...
[18:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Germany Got 85% of Its Electricity from Renewable Sources in April - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:35] <exec> 08└─> Will producing its energy locally confer a strategic economic advantage Obviously, anytime they don't have to convert their precious Euros into Dollars to enrich unpleasant governments worldwide in exchange for oil and gas, that's a plus. Trade deficit isn't a good thing. BUT ... that's only elect...
[18:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Germany Got 85% of Its Electricity from Renewable Sources in April - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:38] <exec> 08└─Renewable is good, as long as it is renewable coal. Extra bonus points for renewable clean coal. And green clean renewable coal.
[18:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washed-Up Carcass Was Probably a Baleen Whale - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:49] <exec> 08└─But, why did the whale die? Was it forced to surface too quickly by Navy sonar blasts, got the bends and died? Was it infected by prototype bio-weapons? Did Aliens attempt to recontact the whales and fail with their brain-link?
[18:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washed-Up Carcass Was Probably a Baleen Whale - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:50] <exec> 08└─The restaurant didn't have a big enough doggie bag, after Godzilla got full.
[18:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SCOTUS Denies Appeal of Police "Qualified Immunity", Ignores Gorsuch Dissent - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:20] <exec> 08└─Ahmed the clockboy got away with a lot more than burping noises, even got an invitation to the WH.
[18:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SCOTUS Denies Appeal of Police "Qualified Immunity", Ignores Gorsuch Dissent - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:22] <exec> 08└─Treason. Treason is the only law actually defined in the constitution, it was done so to prevent its over broad application to "doing something we don't like".
[18:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SCOTUS Denies Appeal of Police "Qualified Immunity", Ignores Gorsuch Dissent - 797 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:24] <exec> 08└─Teachers have lost authority to do anything, so they have to resort to the police. It used to be that teachers would whack the bad kids. Kids could be made to wear a dunce cap. Misbehaving and stupid kids could both be tossed out of the classroom, dragged by their ear if necessary. You didn't mess w...
[18:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SCOTUS Denies Appeal of Police "Qualified Immunity", Ignores Gorsuch Dissent - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:26] <exec> 08└─Ahmed the clockboy got away with a lot more than burping noises, even got an invitation to the WH.
[18:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06SCOTUS Denies Appeal of Police "Qualified Immunity", Ignores Gorsuch Dissent - 1505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:28] <exec> 08└─As someone who actually taught secondary school for a few years, I can back up some of this. I still remember when a lawyer came to the class I was required to take for certification and advised us NEVER to touch a student, unless we were specifically trained and authorized to do so. That means -- i...
[18:18:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Soylentbob [6519] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS Denies Appeal of Police "Qualified Immunity", Ignores Gorsuch Dissent - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:30] <exec> 08└─How do we define "off-topic" here? I would consider a discussion "on-topic" when a comment refers to the content of the previous comment. Otherwise it would be quite difficult to have any meaningful discussion at all. I was expecting "Troll", "Flaimbait" for -1 or "Funny" for +1, but "off topic" loo...
[18:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS Denies Appeal of Police "Qualified Immunity", Ignores Gorsuch Dissent - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:33] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the interesting article. I am trying to understand the limits of "qualified immunity": For example, if I became an "auxiliary cop" I then have "qualified immunity" and it is okay if I shoot somebody for running away from me? Or I decide to do a no-knock entry to a person's house at 3am an...
[18:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Direct Counterfactual Quantum Communication Claimed - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:00] <exec> 08└─Pictures or it never happened. Well, I could show them to you but then we wouldn't be able to find the damn thing!
[18:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Direct Counterfactual Quantum Communication Claimed - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:01] <exec> 08└─I'm just mouthing off cause I can't stand people
[18:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Direct Counterfactual Quantum Communication Claimed - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:04] <exec> 08└─Swallowing large family groups of lions is not recommended, no matter what your position on ghostly action-at-a-distance.
[18:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD Stock Surges on Report of Intel Graphics Licensing Deal, 16-Core Ryzen Confirmed - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:39] <exec> 08└─hard to come up with a purpose for more than two
[18:19:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unique Model Tagging Technique Identifies Soot's Pollution Source Over China - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:48] <exec> 08└─I would've thought soot would reduce warming. So I *gasp* RTFA. It didn't say anything about why that would happen. In the explore further link there's this quote, though: "Of the pollutant particles, black carbon is the most important contributor to warming. Black carbon absorbs light at all wavele...
[18:20:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humans Rely More On 'Inferred' Visual Objects Than 'Real' Ones - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:08] <exec> 08└─I like the dogmatic style of dismissive statements about religion.
[18:20:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Rely More On 'Inferred' Visual Objects Than 'Real' Ones - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:09] <exec> 08└─Not much of an evolutionary cost for false positives. If you think the tiger-shaped rock is a tiger and book it. You're fine. If you the the rock-shaped tiger isn't, and don't, you're dead.
[18:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released from Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 4094 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:18] <exec> 08└─"Can you agree on that much?" Absolutely not. Algeria's Presidential "Election" following the spring was rife with fraud, as was the election in Libya, again, Wikileaks. Shit, even MSM. http://www.aljazeera.com [a...
[18:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Carbonated Beverages Cause Weight Gain in Rats - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:52] <exec> 08└─Most beer is not naturally carbonated. It is force carbonated with Co2 from a cylinder using a carb stone, just like carbonated soft drinks. There are exceptions of course. Most naturally carbed beer is bottle conditioned, like Sierra Nevada Pale Ale (at least it used to be) and almost all Belgian s...
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[19:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Soylentbob [6519] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Germany Got 85% of Its Electricity from Renewable Sources in April - 947 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:50] <exec> 08└─I'm exaggerating, you are right that electricity can not fill in for all places yet where energy is required. But there is an increasing number of use-cases where electricity can be used efficiently. Cars are becoming electric (which means the electricity needs to be stored in some way, so instead o...
[19:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washed-Up Carcass Was Probably a Baleen Whale - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:04] <exec> 08└─If you thought that was weird, check out this alien found floating in the middle of the sea: http://www.providr.com [providr.com]
[19:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS Denies Appeal of Police "Qualified Immunity", Ignores Gorsuch Dissent - 1877 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:41] <exec> 08└─First off, I'm not a lawyer (though I obviously have a strong interest in law) -- so frankly, I don't really know. I also think the role of "auxiliary police" is something that varies significantly by jurisdiction, as well as the powers granted to them. So I think that would come into play in terms...
[19:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS Denies Appeal of Police "Qualified Immunity", Ignores Gorsuch Dissent - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:43] <exec> 08└─I have to wonder if some of the "kids these days" aren't disrespectful of their schools simply because there's nothing to respect. When I hear of schools turning minor disciplinary issues into a police matter, I certainly don't have much respect for them.
[19:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS Denies Appeal of Police "Qualified Immunity", Ignores Gorsuch Dissent - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:45] <exec> 08└─...for someone like Gorsuch to say you're acting like an asshole? (Which is in effect what this is.)
[19:18:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS Denies Appeal of Police "Qualified Immunity", Ignores Gorsuch Dissent - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:47] <exec> 08└─How do we define "off-topic" here? I would consider a discussion "on-topic" when a comment refers to the content of the previous comment. Otherwise it would be quite difficult to have any meaningful discussion at all. I was expecting "Troll", "Flaimbait" for -1 or "Funny" for +1, but "off topic" loo...
[19:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS Denies Appeal of Police "Qualified Immunity", Ignores Gorsuch Dissent - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:50] <exec> 08└─However, I think it's an exaggeration to say that administrators have no recourse today since they can't expel students. Students frequently get sent to in-school suspension for extended periods,
[19:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Direct Counterfactual Quantum Communication Claimed - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:21] <exec> 08└─It also changes depending on the observer: My wife and boss seem to see more income than I do.
[19:19:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Stock Surges on Report of Intel Graphics Licensing Deal, 16-Core Ryzen Confirmed - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:58] <exec> 08└─Someone never had twins, a threesome, or a threesome with twins. I have only had one of those three experiences, and I can vouch for the benefits of more than two boobs.
[19:20:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humans Rely More On 'Inferred' Visual Objects Than 'Real' Ones - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:28] <exec> 08└─Chris Matthews is usually identified as "Tweety", something to do with a big yellow head. He also worships power, no matter who has it, which makes him a very, very bad journalist. Question is, who is Sylvester?
[19:20:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humans Rely More On 'Inferred' Visual Objects Than 'Real' Ones - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:29] <exec> 08└─but these days you smug snakes deride the soft headed idiots who believe in the magical sky fairy.
[19:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China and India Years Early On Climate Goals - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:05] <exec> 08└─the local affiliate group Audubon Arkansas, will continue their challenges to the plant's air and Corps permits in the Arkansas Court of Appeals and the U.S. District Court,
[19:22:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released from Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 318 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:07] <exec> 08└─In case you haven't figured this out yet, the axis of legal/illegal is not the same as good/evil...and the closer to orthogonal they get, the more things like this will happen. Did she do something illegal? Hell yes. Was it morally right? As far as I'm concerned, also hell yes. Legal and moral are n...
[19:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released from Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:40] <exec> 08└─So? You don't get to bitch about "petty" now with who we have in the Oval Office.
[19:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released from Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:41] <exec> 08└─And Chelsea is not now, nor when she was Bradley, of "indeterminate gender." Was very clearly male, now very clearly female. I "assume bad faith" because he--and you, with this post--are showing it constantly. Piss off.
[19:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released from Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:44] <exec> 08└─You consider her subhuman...why exactly? Unless you do a DNA test and find, say, telomeric sequence characteristic of the common or garden tomato, you're already way the hell off base. Fuck you sideways, Runaway. We all know what this is about: trans and queer people give you the icks, and you have...
[19:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released from Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:46] <exec> 08└─I don't even think about you until I come on here and see you took another half a dozen stinking dumps all over the forum. Though now that you mention it, I do wonder what kind of noise you'd make if someone lit you on fire. I guess you'll find out in a few decades, eh? :)
[19:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released from Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:48] <exec> 08└─I won't ever naturally carry a baby either, because unless Yahweh decides to make me the next Virgin Mary, lesbianism is 100% effective birth control. What's your fucking point?
[19:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released from Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:50] <exec> 08└─Does that mean that Trump's 2016 platform is something like Snow White with the evil queen played by Hillary?
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[20:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Return to Pluto? - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:30] <exec> 08└─... to make more free software and free content to support freedom in the world. (Too bad Mozilla has squandered so much of the Google / Yahoo windfall.)
[20:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06AMD Unveils the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:38] <exec> 08└─mmmnnnnnnn, mmmmnnn! what I would do for some raw ostrich pussy! go on, flap those wings against me, OH YEAH!
[20:17:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06 Germany Got 85% of Its Electricity from Renewable Sources in April - 679 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:48] <exec> 08└─The main strategic advantage of this is that it will help the Germans tremendously if the Russians try to cut off their natural gas supply (as they've at least threatened to do before). That threat is one of the major ways Russia protects itself from EU and US aggression. The US response to the same...
[20:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Germany Got 85% of Its Electricity from Renewable Sources in April - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:53] <exec> 08└─Sam Wheat: How long have you been here? Subway Ghost: Since they pushed me. Sam Wheat: Someone pushed you? Subway Ghost: Yeah, someone pushed me. Sam Wheat: Who? Subway Ghost: What, you don't believe me? You think I fell? You think I jumped? Well, fuck you! It wasn't my time! I wasn't supposed to go...
[20:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Germany Got 85% of Its Electricity from Renewable Sources in April - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:55] <exec> 08└─Europe is converting coal power plants to wood-burners. Some of that wood comes from the USA. [augusta.com] Does anyone really think that is a good thing?
[20:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Germany Got 85% of Its Electricity from Renewable Sources in April - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:57] <exec> 08└─BUT ... that's only electricity, which while a significant amount of the total energy used, is not the majority. They'll keep needing to import gas and oil until they have some much extra current that they can store and convert it for heating, cars and heavy industrial uses...
[20:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Germany Got 85% of Its Electricity from Renewable Sources in April - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:59] <exec> 08└─Yes.
[20:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washed-Up Carcass Was Probably a Baleen Whale - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:13] <exec> 08└─You know it's a slow news day when you literally throw a bloated whale carcass at the submissions :) (I mean other than Trump, of course)
[20:18:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06SCOTUS Denies Appeal of Police "Qualified Immunity", Ignores Gorsuch Dissent - 1015 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:34] <exec> 08└─Never holding police accountable for what they do to citizens is one of the various toxic authoritarian idiocies that fall into this melting pot of a toxic situation. 1. "Obstructing the educational process" as an actual charge that exists and can be leveled at minors. This is one of those laws that...
[20:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Soylentbob [6519] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06SCOTUS Denies Appeal of Police "Qualified Immunity", Ignores Gorsuch Dissent - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:55] <exec> 08└─The direct connection to its parent post is this section quoted from there: Why wasn't this done? It's the unions, those pinko commie scum! The school maintenance union contract with the school system forbids their members from cleaning up blood on school grounds. As such, the police are forbidden...
[20:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS Denies Appeal of Police "Qualified Immunity", Ignores Gorsuch Dissent - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:57] <exec> 08└─Okay. I get it now. Thanks for elucidating!
[20:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS Denies Appeal of Police "Qualified Immunity", Ignores Gorsuch Dissent - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:59] <exec> 08└─I was pointing out that the very common insult used here, "commie", does no longer fit very well to the liberals (to which it was traditionally attributed most of the times) and might now be seen to fit better to the republicans. This was in reply to a guy impersonating an ultra-conservative guy, al...
[20:19:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nuke [3162] 02 - 06Direct Counterfactual Quantum Communication Claimed - 97 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:12] <exec> 08└─In the link there is another link to graphs. I clicked it and it asked me for a paid subscription
[20:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Direct Counterfactual Quantum Communication Claimed - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:31] <exec> 08└─If I can observe the position of the picture, it will be moving? I've always wondered about that when watching Harry Potter...
[20:19:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Direct Counterfactual Quantum Communication Claimed - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:32] <exec> 08└─Any highly enough developed civilization may eventually switch to Quantum Communications, especially for very long-distance comms, if they could find a way to do it efficiently.
[20:20:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Stock Surges on Report of Intel Graphics Licensing Deal, 16-Core Ryzen Confirmed - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:10] <exec> 08└─My workloads stretch to 8 threads each, with single-threaded performance and memory bandwidth being critical. Hyperthreading isn't bad, but it's not perfect. I need >9 cores (one for the OS) and a metric ton of cache. If running the $1000 chip saves me 15 minutes every time a job is queued, it pays...
[20:20:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Stock Surges on Report of Intel Graphics Licensing Deal, 16-Core Ryzen Confirmed - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:12] <exec> 08└─All of the Ryzen CPUs have ECC support. Even the cheapest one I can find, Ryzen 3 1100. Some here would not touch it if it did not have ECC support. Ryzen 9 1955X and Ryzen 9 1955 are supposedly the chips with 10 cores. 1955 supposedly runs at 3.1/3.7 GHz and 1955X at 3.6/4.0 GHz. The price should b...
[20:20:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unique Model Tagging Technique Identifies Soot's Pollution Source Over China - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:21] <exec> 08└─At least, they're going the right way, instead of taking pride in trying to support market-shrinking polluters.
[20:20:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Rely More On 'Inferred' Visual Objects Than 'Real' Ones - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:45] <exec> 08└─Call me when there's an active religion several million generations old, and we'll talk. Best we can manage is a few thousand.
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[21:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Return to Pluto? - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:20] <exec> 08└─It just seems such a terribly high price when we have to spend $TRILLIONS on national defense to shoot at noobs in pickup trucks in far away countries to protect $OUR_WAY_OF_LIFE. Namely, that the Lord Jesus is the One True Savior.
[21:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Return to Pluto? - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:21] <exec> 08└─If we could put maneuvering thrusters on the SLS's first stage to allow it to drop and destroy a target in the Middle East, we could afford missions to all of the known dwarf planets.
[21:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Return to Pluto? - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:23] <exec> 08└─Why should anyone pay you to code when you people freely admit you would code for free? You negotiated your pay to be zero and now you want to whine about it? No you shut the fuck up and you get back to work. More free software, produce the code, right now.
[21:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Return to Pluto? - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:25] <exec> 08└─Space exploration is also important. I wish we did that instead on fighting each other.
[21:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Return to Pluto? - 768 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:28] <exec> 08└─While such thinking sometimes seems superficially appealing, it is ultimately counterproductive. Whatever means we would use to kill all those people might also affect OUR oil which is under THEIR sand*. If war is the means of US Policy to get OUR oil from THEIR land, then US policy planners should...
[21:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Return to Pluto? - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:30] <exec> 08└─Boy, now that sound expensive. Reckon we could cut some taxes and free up gun laws instead. How's them apples, boy?
[21:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Return to Pluto? - 721 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:32] <exec> 08└─I don't even want to think about what it takes to send an automated robot to Pluto, and the technical problems of braking it without breaking it. It seems like the craft would need to skim the planet and form a very long elipse that brings it back by the planet again, each time braking some more. Th...
[21:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Return to Pluto? - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:34] <exec> 08└─I'm sure Pluto is vastly more massive than the spacecraft. But Pluto seems small.
[21:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Return to Pluto? - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:37] <exec> 08└─I mean, I'm a huge space nerd and all, but this mission sounds pretty marginal for the price. Don't we at least get a flyby of Jupiter or Saturn? Asteroids are interesting I guess but not $2b interesting. Does a Pluto flyby realistically get us anything over just swinging by Ceres, or Neptune/Uranus...
[21:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Return to Pluto? - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:39] <exec> 08└─It could pay a bunch of extra UX experts to more thoroughly fuck up ALL the Mozilla product interfaces. Indefinitely. :P
[21:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Return to Pluto? - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:41] <exec> 08└─Well said! (original AC)
[21:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Return to Pluto? - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:43] <exec> 08└─Those bastards, doing charity work to make the world a better place! Fuck 'em!
[21:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Return to Pluto? - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:45] <exec> 08└─I'm sure you know the difference between free as in speech and free as in beer, stop acting dumb
[21:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Return to Pluto? - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:48] <exec> 08└─Pluto probably seems very large if you try to pitch a tent on it to sleep overnight. But maybe not so easy to precisely navigate to at high speed and after a long journey where navigational error accumulates. Certainly not like a gas giant.
[21:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Return to Pluto? - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:50] <exec> 08└─Imagine what even one billion dollars could have done for LibreOffice a few years back. That might put a dent in some proprietary office suites.
[21:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Unveils the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition - 2959 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:59] <exec> 08└─It seems that every year the silicon gets more and more horsepower*. Clock rates don't seem to be climbing. But we get more done per clock cycle, and with more functional units, cores and "psuedo cores". For ten years I have believed that core count would rise more rapidly than it has. Especially s...
[21:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Germany Got 85% of Its Electricity from Renewable Sources in April - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:17] <exec> 08└─Coal plants are probably necessary when the renewables don't shine on calm days. So what are the economics of keeping idle coal plants around to supplement when the renewable supply drops? Are there other better non-renewable plants to supplement for the variability of renewables? Nuclear gets menti...
[21:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Germany Got 85% of Its Electricity from Renewable Sources in April - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:19] <exec> 08└─Me too.
[21:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Germany Got 85% of Its Electricity from Renewable Sources in April - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:21] <exec> 08└─Coal is a renewable resource... As is oil for the most part.
[21:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Germany Got 85% of Its Electricity from Renewable Sources in April - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:23] <exec> 08└─Convert country to 100% Renewable Power: ~$300 billion. Destroy your country and large portion fo the continent with uncontrolled migration from 3rd-world shitholes: PRICELESS. There are some things money can buy, for everything else there's Angela Merkel.
[21:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Germany Got 85% of Its Electricity from Renewable Sources in April - 1425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:25] <exec> 08└─It helps to have a common understanding of the electrical system. There is baseload generation that is a minimum that is used at any point during the day. This is typically supplied by slow startup generators that operate at a fixed amount. Then there is peak load generators, these are as the name i...
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[21:19:23] <exec> 08└─http://www.salon.com/2013/08/26/school_is_a_prison_and_damaging_our_kids/ [salon.com] "Schools as we know them today are a product of history, not of research into how children learn. The blueprint still used for today’s schools was developed during the Protestant Reformation, when schools were cr...
[21:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS Denies Appeal of Police "Qualified Immunity", Ignores Gorsuch Dissent - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:25] <exec> 08└─I work on the data and IT side of schools and I assure you that in--school and out-of-school suspensions are reported to state and federal governments and that they (the higher powers) have expectations. Administrators are discouraged from giving them.
[21:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Soylentbob [6519] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS Denies Appeal of Police "Qualified Immunity", Ignores Gorsuch Dissent - 854 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:27] <exec> 08└─On equally sober reflection, I would admit that any allegiance to todays Russia is no longer related to communism, and realisticly, my comment was a bit off. Russia stopped being communist some time ago. I just think that public political debates are rarely fought (or at least won in any meaningful...
[21:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dubai Firm Dreams of Harvesting Icebergs for Water - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:02] <exec> 08└─fuck off ignorant scum
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[22:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:44] <exec> 08└─1. Purge the Jews 2. Purge the illegal aliens 3. Euthanize anybody older than 70 4. Euthanize all defective offspring 5. Halt immigration and kill all work-visa programs except those that require $300,000/yr talent. 6. Shoot anybody who tries to illegally cross the border on sight 7. Nuke the Middle...
[22:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:46] <exec> 08└─Some people need to stop doing 'studies', etc, and TALK TO FUCKING middle class/ poor people!! I mean seriously! Is this a surprise? Make people work 3 part time jobs after racking up huge student debt, then wonder why they are in debt and can't buy a house??? Holy fuck 'some people' are stupid.
[22:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:48] <exec> 08└─That's right! THEY'LL get us out of this mess, just like they've always done!
[22:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:50] <exec> 08└─Yeah! Stupid scientists! Instead of doing a survey they should just ask a bunch of people some questions!
[22:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:52] <exec> 08└─While I don't agree with all of your ideas, I find the idea of killing the President after his 71st birthday to be salacious indeed. Does Dear Leader know about this? I find your defection interesting.
[22:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:55] <exec> 08└─14. Kinda edit them quietus posts stuffs, cause them form ain't conchistent with dat darn serious topic, guv!
[22:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 866 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:57] <exec> 08└─Uh, you know that talking to them doesn't do anything to offset the fact that all individual worker productivity gains have been going to the upper class for like 30 years now, right? You can lie your ass off like a Donald Trump and pretend manual labor jobs that have been automated to oblivion like...
[22:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:59] <exec> 08└─Student loans... yet another way for banks to grant toxic loans during a downturn in economy. Looks there is something they keep forgetting: If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem. Jean Paul Getty
[22:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 3049 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:01] <exec> 08└─Do not use credit cards as a way to borrow money. Only use them when you are prepared to write a check that day. That said, use credit cards to buy everything. Fuel. Groceries. Utility bills (yes really!). Pay off the cards every few days. You not only have great credit, but you earn rewards. Step o...
[22:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:03] <exec> 08└─I guess I ain't part of everyone then. The only ones I see doing badly in the US are the middle-class. The poor are still poor and the rich are still rich, both with a higher standard of living than I could have dreamed of just twenty years ago.
[22:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Return to Pluto? - 699 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:28] <exec> 08└─Considering that they didn't go splat on Pluto, nor missed it by a million miles, having designed the probe long ago, considering also the amazing orbits we can get out of a decade-old probe, going between Saturn and its rings, considering that other probe which traveled well over a decade before or...
[22:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Return to Pluto? - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:29] <exec> 08└─The missions to Ceres and 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko have shown that it can be done. And well. Ion engines have changed the game. The biggest risk of the New Horizons mission was the possibility of unseen small debris in orbit destroying the craft. That risk has been cleared away.
[22:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Return to Pluto? - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:31] <exec> 08└─Plus, since the summary doesn't outright state it, New Horizons already did a flyby and mapped all of Pluto's surface (plus whatever other instruments they threw at it) in 2015.
[22:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Return to Pluto? - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:34] <exec> 08└─Don't egg them on. The more they work on Firefox, the more it sucks. Now, a proper boot manager would be nice. You wouldn't believe how much of a pain in the ass it is to set boot partitions when dealing with multiple operating systems. A-HEM. Get crackin' boys!
[22:18:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Return to Pluto? - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:36] <exec> 08└─An orbiter for Pluto is cool and all, but I'd really prefer Neptune first. Especially, as pointed out in the summary, with Neptune's moon Triton probably being from the same class of objects as Pluto. Planet 9, if and when it is found, is so far away it will be a challenge to reach. A New Horizons c...
[22:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Return to Pluto? - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:38] <exec> 08└─Given how many things can go wrong. It's amazing it works at all. My post was really to highlight what an accomplishment it is. The navigation. Achieving orbit. After a long trip. At high speed. I didn't mention the harsh conditions. How do you even make machines work under such conditions, and the...
[22:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Return to Pluto? - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:40] <exec> 08└─Neptune's moons would likely be more interesting than Neptune itself.
[22:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Germany Got 85% of Its Electricity from Renewable Sources in April - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:12] <exec> 08└─As long as the trees they're burning were grown for this purpose, it's carbon neutral, excluding transportation costs. Also, if the trees were grown for this purpose really do get transferred across the Atlantic, so does the carbon. The US wins, the EU loses.
[22:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Germany Got 85% of Its Electricity from Renewable Sources in April - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:13] <exec> 08└─The main strategic advantage of this is that it will help the Germans tremendously if the Russians try to cut off their natural gas supply (as they've at least threatened to do before).
[22:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Germany Got 85% of Its Electricity from Renewable Sources in April - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:15] <exec> 08└─So what are the economics of keeping idle coal plants around to supplement when the renewable supply drops?
[22:20:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS Denies Appeal of Police "Qualified Immunity", Ignores Gorsuch Dissent - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:18] <exec> 08└─Exactly. I'm shocked and greatly disappointed in the Supreme Court for giving police officers immunity in cases in which unnecessary force was clearly applied. It's kids for fuck's sake. The supposed antichrist that Trump put in, is now the defender of common sense and the rights of children to not...
[22:20:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS Denies Appeal of Police "Qualified Immunity", Ignores Gorsuch Dissent - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:19] <exec> 08└─Got it. Thanks for clearing that up!
[22:20:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SCOTUS Denies Appeal of Police "Qualified Immunity", Ignores Gorsuch Dissent - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:21] <exec> 08└─The liberal mindset is that even a large thug is a "child"
[22:20:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SCOTUS Denies Appeal of Police "Qualified Immunity", Ignores Gorsuch Dissent - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:23] <exec> 08└─> The supposed antichrist that Trump put in, He was no anti-christ. He was always just an anodyne scalia. Was scalia the anti-christ? Nah, he was just a compassion-impaired egotistical hypocrite. The biggest problem with Gorsuch (who, fwiw, pronounces his own name as gor-sutch, unlike nearly everyon...
[22:20:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS Denies Appeal of Police "Qualified Immunity", Ignores Gorsuch Dissent - 1528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:26] <exec> 08└─In high school we had school security. This was just prior to the formation of the NYPD school safety division. They were quasi-cops in the same sense of traffic cops and auxiliary police. They did not carry guns but had the authority to arrest someone. Their only job was to secure the perimeter of...
[22:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Android to Add Kotlin Programming Language Support - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:11] <exec> 08└─What else do they need to do? Stop being Jews and offer their IntelliJ pro servlet support for free. Cuz fuck those niggas, Eclipse is just as good.
[22:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China and India Years Early On Climate Goals - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:46] <exec> 08└─And, as I told another poster: you are an idiot who doesn't recognize that particulates and CO2 are different.
[22:23:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Released from Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal - 943 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:10] <exec> 08└─It's a good day when a person who revealed war crimes which defeated Obama's attempt to extend the Iraq war, is freed from persecution. http://www.salon.com [salon.com] That cable was released by WikiLeaks in May, 2011, and, as McClatchy put it at the ti...
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[23:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. President to Visit Saudi Arabia; Arms Sales Expected - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:27] <exec> 08└─Let's sell weapons, and then when those weapons are used to kill Americans we'll get all "Hey, they're killing Americans!! Let's kill them!!". Yuuup... That's why we're so smart, cause.......... .........yeah......
[23:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. President to Visit Saudi Arabia; Arms Sales Expected - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:28] <exec> 08└─Saudi Arabia and Mossad did 9/11, the Saudis are the worlds main exporter of terrorism having exported Wahhabism around the world. The world is weaning itself of petrochemical dependence so the petrodollar is over. If it were not for the ongoing Yemeni genocide, nobody would object to Western nation...
[23:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:46] <exec> 08└─"I'm homeless. The only reason I can eat is soup kitchens." They never called again.
[23:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 1234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:48] <exec> 08└─Debt terrifies me, and people who don't take it seriously frustrate me. So it confuses me greatly that people treat credit cards as a separate account rather than (forgive my terms) a delayed debit to your real account in the first place. Also my eyes roll back into my head when I read people trying...
[23:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:50] <exec> 08└─Your post stresses me out. 11 days in disneyland/world? That's crazy. Then to do it again 11 months later... I can't imagine.
[23:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:52] <exec> 08└─Do not tell them the person in question is deceased though. Even if it's true. I made the mistake of mentioning the truth - my deceased mom can't pay this medical debt - and they promptly sold it to a credit company and are now sending more mail. Good thing the only points of contact they have a is...
[23:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:55] <exec> 08└─The debt held by US households has surpassed its pre-2008 record, several financial outlets note. A peculiar spotlight in the associated numbers falls on student loans, where delinquencies are multiple times higher than for other debt types: 10 percent is the norm.
[23:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:57] <exec> 08└─> 3. Euthanize anybody older than 70 My father was still putting my younger brother & sister through college at this age, seems counter productive to axe the people that are in a position to help pay down the college loans...
[23:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 1206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:59] <exec> 08└─What this really comes down to is that people did not do their sums before diving into the shark pool of debt. Yes, it's very sad. Yes, there are lots of people suffering; I get that. None of that changes the fact that some person, nominally an adult, made a decision, presumably with eyes open, to t...
[23:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 886 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:01] <exec> 08└─Great, so now we can expect a new 2008 type recession? and what happens then. A lot of assets will be sold for CHEAP in a clearance sale in disguise. Bought by those that were rich or frugal. Then the economy gets better again magically. So that those that got assets for cheap from the last sale (re...
[23:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06American Household Debt Surpassed Record - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:03] <exec> 08└─The very fact that some humans believe this qualifies as "humor" is not only horrifying but I would argue is precisely the reason we're in the predicament we're in now. Sincerity has gone out the window and, in its stead, has been replaced by Trumpian Hyperbole, by which I essentially mean every wor...
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[23:18:06] <exec> 08└─It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's the continual failure of Capitalism because we keep forgetting Capitalism does not nor ever did work! Maybe if we beat ourselves to death with it, we won't have to suffer under it anymore because we'll be dead.
[23:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Return to Pluto? - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:37] <exec> 08└─Not all of its surface: http://www.space.com [space.com]
[23:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Return to Pluto? - 863 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:38] <exec> 08└─It seems like NASA will always prefer Jupiter and Saturn missions over even one new mission to Uranus and Neptune (Voyager 2 visited both). You can get a spacecraft to Jupiter substantially quicker, and Europa and Enceladus are priority targets due to the possibility of life under the surface. Jupit...
[23:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Germany Got 85% of Its Electricity from Renewable Sources in April - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:13] <exec> 08└─Also, if the trees were grown for this purpose really do get transferred across the Atlantic, so does the carbon. The US wins, the EU loses.
[23:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Germany Got 85% of Its Electricity from Renewable Sources in April - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:15] <exec> 08└─Germany states that both Wood burning and hydro are 'renewable'. A recent analysis by Matt Riddley hints that 100% of germany's renewable power is from those 2 sources. Solar and wind score an average of zero. Look into the details and dont just assume and believe the "environmentalist" propoganda.
[23:20:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SCOTUS Denies Appeal of Police "Qualified Immunity", Ignores Gorsuch Dissent - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:22] <exec> 08└─People seem to have very short memories. There weren't cops in a majority of schools before the hood rats starting shooting each other on campus.
[23:20:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SCOTUS Denies Appeal of Police "Qualified Immunity", Ignores Gorsuch Dissent - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:23] <exec> 08└─I can't believe that Trump leaked ISIS information to the Russians! If there's one thing we Tolerant Liberals cannot stand, it's a President who is actually trying to stop the terrorists instead of sending them airplanes filled with hundreds of millions of dollars in untraceable cash.
[23:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Direct Counterfactual Quantum Communication Claimed - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:58] <exec> 08└─Must be that observer effect ;-) Time to upgrade to boss 3.0 and wife 2.0 ? :p
[23:21:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tonyPick [1237] 02 - 06AMD Stock Surges on Report of Intel Graphics Licensing Deal, 16-Core Ryzen Confirmed - 160 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:32] <exec> 08└─The simple fact is when we went from the MHz wars to core wars? The software just didn't keep up like it did when all they had to worry about was a single core.
[23:21:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Stock Surges on Report of Intel Graphics Licensing Deal, 16-Core Ryzen Confirmed - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:39] <exec> 08└─by kaszz (4211) Btw, cores are good.. if software can and will make use of them....
[23:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China and India Years Early On Climate Goals - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:48] <exec> 08└─India and China were allowed to increase their CO2. Your article alludes to say they decreased their CO2, therefore the rest of the world are not conforming to the agreement. What is the point? Who pays you to put such trash up here?
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[23:24:30] <exec> 08└─Yep, I modded this insightful. You see, this creature (Runaway) is pretty much right. It (the issue with Manning) is genuine and does pass the smell test. Here Runaway seems to be acknowledging that and I didn't sense the use of disrespectful pronouns. Now, I default to calling most folks whatever t...
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