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[00:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do Humans Come With a Built-in Sense of Obligation to One Another? - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:38] <exec> 08└─Fuck you, got mine.
[00:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Do Humans Come With a Built-in Sense of Obligation to One Another? - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:39] <exec> 08└─Now, next question?
[00:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Do Humans Come With a Built-in Sense of Obligation to One Another? - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:41] <exec> 08└─Hence, "White Man's Burden".
[00:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Do Humans Come With a Built-in Sense of Obligation to One Another? - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:43] <exec> 08└─My daughter was that age. She'd always get me for bed, saying "come to bed daddy". (her twin had picked mom) One night, I was busy hacking on code and didn't want to quit. She walked away sad. She never called me to bed again. We've have a cold relationship ever since, despite my efforts to mend thi...
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[00:36:46] <exec> 08└─See title.
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[00:36:48] <exec> 08└─I was being humorous, but allow me to be serious. I think this is more in your head than anything. You need to tell yourself that this isn't true, and when you feel cold next, push the thought aside and instead grab your daughter in a giant bear hug, and then look her in the face and tell her that y...
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[00:36:50] <exec> 08└─She'll look away in embarrassment, but it's up to you not to give into those feelings. Just keep smiling at her.
[00:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do Humans Come With a Built-in Sense of Obligation to One Another? - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:52] <exec> 08└─That sounds soooo........ incestuous!
[00:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Plot Twist: Cheesy Soap Opera Script is Deceptive Drug Ad, Doctors Warn - 1074 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:05] <exec> 08└─I'll bite ... I know who's gonna violently disagree already. Pretty much every non-US social agreement includes restrictions on the freedom of speech (the US also does, though they are the smallest I'm aware of). Besides enforcing a certain form of polite cohabitation between people of various opini...
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[00:37:07] <exec> 08└─Pretty much every non-US social agreement includes restrictions on the freedom of speech (the US also does, though they are the smallest I'm aware of).
[00:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Plot Twist: Cheesy Soap Opera Script is Deceptive Drug Ad, Doctors Warn - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:09] <exec> 08└─My doctor gave me a prescription for something that would've had the opposite effect of what he wanted. After arguing with him he finally looked it up in the PDR and found I was correct. Another doctor kept changing his diagnosis from "needing major spine surgery" to "I see nothing wrong". I got sec...
[00:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plot Twist: Cheesy Soap Opera Script is Deceptive Drug Ad, Doctors Warn - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:11] <exec> 08└─The vast majority of which are simply insane. Also, the US is only a bit better by comparison; it's still terrible when it comes to free speech. The US has obscenity laws, arrests people over bomb jokes, and still has things like FCC censorship. A lot of these restrictions restrict sexual content in...
[00:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plot Twist: Cheesy Soap Opera Script is Deceptive Drug Ad, Doctors Warn - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:13] <exec> 08└─You are right about New Zealand being the only other place that allows drug ads on TV. As far as I can remember, it was because the pay TV company (Sky, mostly owned by that notorious pantomime villain Rupert Murdoch) saw an opportunity, and the Government is always keen on keeping the Media happy....
[00:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plot Twist: Cheesy Soap Opera Script is Deceptive Drug Ad, Doctors Warn - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:15] <exec> 08└─Sounds as competent as the cook on the Muppet show.. di do dooodoiid diid.ah SURGERY! ;-)
[00:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:11] <exec> 08└─We offer over market salary
[00:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:12] <exec> 08└─That's good to hear that there are at least some companies out there that get it. Obviously, if there weren't jobs that genuinely required more knowledge and experience, companies wouldn't bother hiring people with knowledge and experience as that would be expensive. What pissed me off more than any...
[00:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 1094 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:14] <exec> 08└─This is what is awesome about San Diego, you don't need to worry about shit like that. Women, when leaning in close to see what you are doing, press their boob against you and make dirty jokes by the water-cooler as the men do. Ex-military lesbos are bro-tier to work with and flirting in the hallway...
[00:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 808 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:17] <exec> 08└─That's a rather psychopathic world view to have. If they aren't interested in dating those men, the simplest thing to do is to just reciprocate by helping them out when they need a hand or turn down help that isn't being offered on a wider basis. Accepting the help, not considering dating and not re...
[00:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:19] <exec> 08└─somebody has to hire us out of college
[00:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Plan to Sell Oil Reserve Shows Declining Import Needs - 746 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:44] <exec> 08└─You are fighting the last war. There is no telling where the next oil supply disruption will come from. (Well except for the 'we ain't got no more' crisis, but even that could happen many different ways.) The lesson of the 70's oil crisis was that lots of useful stuff depends on a supply of oil. Ren...
[00:43:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are Laws Like the French Ban on Emails After Work Saving Us or Burying Our Jobs? - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:37] <exec> 08└─Methinks you need to ponder more about the origin of the word "union".
[00:43:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03lx [1915] 02 - 06WHO Spends More on Travel Than on AIDS, Malaria - 85 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:49] <exec> 08└─Travel is necessary, business class travel and five star hotels is just being greedy.
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[01:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Close-Up of Enceladus's North Polar Region - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:26] <exec> 08└─How can the atmosphere have a composition by volume with 91% water vapor and a temperature maximum of −128 °C ? Not even considering how damp that would be.
[01:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Close-Up of Enceladus's North Polar Region - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:27] <exec> 08└─By having a pressure that's extremely low: https://upload.wikimedia.org [wikimedia.org]
[01:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Do Humans Come With a Built-in Sense of Obligation to One Another? - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:44] <exec> 08└─But professional victims who whine and sob about "White genocide," and how unfair everything is for white people these days, don't.
[01:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Do Humans Come With a Built-in Sense of Obligation to One Another? - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:46] <exec> 08└─It is said that non-white people do not express this same sense of obligation towards other people; the result of this asymmetry is that non-white people take advantage of white people, to the ultimate detriment of white people. You always hear of "white guilt", but never "arab guilt" or "Japanese g...
[01:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:05] <exec> 08└─Things like recess, PE and music have largely been cut and it's no wonder that boys are struggling when those were things that boys need in order to maintain focus and attention during the rest of the class.
[01:43:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Laws Like the French Ban on Emails After Work Saving Us or Burying Our Jobs? - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:26] <exec> 08└─There's also no such thing as pure communism. Ditto pure socialism. They are unicorns unicorn. Never have and never will exist on a national scale. Let us instead speak of the communist and socialist governments that have actually existed.
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[02:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Switching to Off-Peak Delivery Times Reduces City Congestion - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:19] <exec> 08└─It is constantly being revealed to me that humans are only marginally more sentient than a pile of bricks.
[02:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Switching to Off-Peak Delivery Times Reduces City Congestion - 1954 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:21] <exec> 08└─It's a no brainer to any truck driver. When I drove truck, arriving in any city near rush hour meant hours of riding the clutch to drive a few miles. But, given the opportunity, you can go into any of America's cities, drive all the way through it, get unloaded, and get the hell out while everyone s...
[02:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Do Humans Come With a Built-in Sense of Obligation to One Another? - 776 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:48] <exec> 08└─Of course *most* people have *at least some* sense of reciprocal altruism [wikipedia.org]. We wouldn't have built all of this civilization around us if we didn't have that. We'd still be locked in a war of all against all, or 100-member tribe versus every other 100-member tribe. Humans can develop a...
[02:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do Humans Come With a Built-in Sense of Obligation to One Another? - 1011 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:50] <exec> 08└─See: History. Slavery and wars carried out by oppressive cultures against peaceful ones is practically the entire history of humanity rolled up; this is especially well documented and particularly incriminating of European-based culture with its slavery, wars, forcing Christianity down the throats o...
[02:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Do Humans Come With a Built-in Sense of Obligation to One Another? - 808 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:52] <exec> 08└─For instance, where do you think White people got their black slaves? They bought them from Arabs, who bought them from Africans, who enslaved people from some rival tribe during a war (hell, at first, whites actually bought slaves as temporary indentured servants, who would become free with land an...
[02:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:11] <exec> 08└─Psychopathic what now? Men are real assholes, especially when they are young and stupid. Women are in a bind no matter what they do. Reject assistance offered and you're stuck up. Accept it and you're agreeing to an unspoken contract (purely in the man's mind) that requires repayment. If you renege...
[02:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:12] <exec> 08└─Your office sounds fabulous and I would love for the whole world to be like that. But let's not fool ourselves that it is, or that there are not bad actors both female and male. Let's also note that the reasons you cite are that the women are "bro-tier" and they don't mind swinging their boobs into...
[02:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Plan to Sell Oil Reserve Shows Declining Import Needs - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:39] <exec> 08└─That's not a band-aid, it's a classic pension raid. We don't really need the gold in Fort Knox, either, do we? Why not sell that too?
[02:38:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Plan to Sell Oil Reserve Shows Declining Import Needs - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:41] <exec> 08└─And, keep Russia cozy because: China, India, North Korea, etc.
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[03:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03its_gonna_be_yuge! [6454] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Switching to Off-Peak Delivery Times Reduces City Congestion - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:19] <exec> 08└─One main reason trucks aren't allowed to go through residential areas at night is air brakes. So rather than an outright ban, mandating smaller trucks with hydraulic brakes (less than ~12000 kg) should do the job without the blast.
[03:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Switching to Off-Peak Delivery Times Reduces City Congestion - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:20] <exec> 08└─Won't there be more truck robberies under cover of darkness? Road banditry will become a popular criminal endeavor again. Think of the terrible cost to poor insurance companies which will lose money in payouts when truckloads of deliveries are stolen.
[03:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03a-zA-Z0-9$_.+!*'(),- (3868) (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do Humans Come With a Built-in Sense of Obligation to One Another? - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:51] <exec> 08└─You know Anon, I agree with you so much, you really should register an account.
[03:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03a-zA-Z0-9$_.+!*'(),- (3868) (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plot Twist: Cheesy Soap Opera Script is Deceptive Drug Ad, Doctors Warn - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:10] <exec> 08└─they were designed to sell soap? What really gets me is how paid content - like HBO - has the gall to require you to pay for their service/programs (e.g. The Sopranos) and then embeds dozens of product placements in it - which don't even agree with the earlier shows (i.e. they suddenly find scarfing...
[03:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03a-zA-Z0-9$_.+!*'(),- (3868) (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plot Twist: Cheesy Soap Opera Script is Deceptive Drug Ad, Doctors Warn - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:12] <exec> 08└─Big Pharma is an evil drug lobby, easily as responsible for the opiate epidemic as the corrupt doctors who (over)prescribe them and other addictive drugs. Where is the "war on drugs" when you need it?
[03:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 1731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:16] <exec> 08└─"Even the ugly ones get loads of attention" Eth, think about that. Even as a young man, when sex was on my mind about 27 hours each day, there were times when I really didn't need or want the attention of females. I noted often that when I was seeking feminine company, I couldn't find a female. But,...
[03:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:18] <exec> 08└─How many of these shit articles is Soylent obligated to post in a week? It's lazy clickbait. So, you say, just don't read them. The problem is that these sorts of articles become *addictive* to the story submitters and pretty soon that's all the site posts. Don't believe me? Look at the vast majorit...
[03:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Plan to Sell Oil Reserve Shows Declining Import Needs - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:51] <exec> 08└─Some naively assume that if the gold is leased to commercial banks such as J.P. Morgan that the leasing bank backs up a truck and takes it away. That is not true. The gold can be leased in paper transactions without ever leaving Ft. Knox or West Point. The leased gold can then be rehypothecated by J...
[03:41:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Google Takes Another Step Towards Being Big Brother - 583 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:00] <exec> 08└─I'm not saying that it is okay for Google to be doing this. I'd rather they didn't. But I think their motives are different than the government's motive to invade my privacy. Google motive: I'm a drop in an ocean of data that they don't care about -- they simply want their machines to put fewer but...
[03:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bziman [3577] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AlphaGo Beats Ke Jie in First Match of Three - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:55] <exec> 08└─this machine is a massively parallel
[03:41:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03unhandyandy [4405] (Score: 1) 02 - 06AlphaGo Beats Ke Jie in First Match of Three - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:56] <exec> 08└─Ke Jie and AlphaGo are playing a 3 game match. AlphaGo has won the first game; the outcome of the match is not yet decided. Why is it so hard for journalists to get this right? Are they just copying text from the last stupid article?
[03:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03a-zA-Z0-9$_.+!*'(),- (3868) (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says New Tesla Autopilot is 'Smooth As Silk' - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:03] <exec> 08└─Although you may be right, theoretically, that a single data point is hard to extrapolate from with confidence, a death is perhaps the most tragic of data points. The ability of self-driving cars to kill their occupants and other people has yet to be "solved" - and is, I believe, a pressing issue. A...
[03:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03a-zA-Z0-9$_.+!*'(),- (3868) (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Says New Tesla Autopilot is 'Smooth As Silk' - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:04] <exec> 08└─I feel you are right. Which is why I felt the need for my harsh contrarianism. Look at what a sack of shit that advertising company Google turned out to be. With luck Musk will go the way of the Segway inventor guy.
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[04:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Space Aggressors" Train US Forces for Extraterrestrial Conflict - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:23] <exec> 08└─I believe this all started when the Sovets manuevered a satellite to take out a White one. A few years ago. WHy spend all those dollars when you can fire the thrusters on junk?
[04:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Space Aggressors" Train US Forces for Extraterrestrial Conflict - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:25] <exec> 08└─A phased array of masers taking out spy satellites. One would only need to get them hot enough to melt some of the solder joints.
[04:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Space Aggressors" Train US Forces for Extraterrestrial Conflict - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:27] <exec> 08└─-e. Not long after china's first test of their own missile, a US-owned satellite failed to achieve its correct orbit. Under the pretense that we were protecting the public from the satellite's deadly hydrazine station-keeping fuel, we blew it to bits with a missile launched from a Navy ship.
[04:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Space Aggressors" Train US Forces for Extraterrestrial Conflict - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:29] <exec> 08└─Even a mile wide asteroid would not end all current life on Earth (much less all life forever), but deorbited spy sats would? Or do you suggest the lack of sat capability would cause a nuclear war?
[04:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Space Aggressors" Train US Forces for Extraterrestrial Conflict - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:32] <exec> 08└─I miss voting for Ronald Reagan. Let's have another Cold War, with China this time.
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[04:36:42] <exec> 08└─14) After January 1 next no one shall drive a wagon along the streets of Rome or along those streets in the suburbs where there is continuous housing after sunrise or before the tenth hour of the day, except whatever will be proper for the transportation and the importation of material for building...
[04:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Switching to Off-Peak Delivery Times Reduces City Congestion - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:43] <exec> 08└─That's easily solved by making deliveries in the summer. Even in Stockholm (only about 1/3 of the way up this vast country), there are only a few hours of semi-darkness during the summer months.
[04:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Switching to Off-Peak Delivery Times Reduces City Congestion - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:46] <exec> 08└─I drove to LA on Interstate 5. I hit the jam shortly after sunrise. There were trucks as far as I could see both ahead and behind. I expect that jam occurs every morning.
[04:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Do Humans Come With a Built-in Sense of Obligation to One Another? - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:16] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc1xbNCBnbw [youtube.com]
[04:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do Humans Come With a Built-in Sense of Obligation to One Another? - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:18] <exec> 08└─I once had a play-date with khallow. He didn't show. I can never forgive him. Even if he brought his backhoe, I still could not forgive him! I think he is one of those libertarian egoists my mother warned me about. For them, all relationships are transactional, and unless you have collateral, you c...
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[04:37:20] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure that Conservatives necessarily skew more toward "selfish" (or sociopathic) and Liberals toward altruism. I think it's more complicated than that. Rather Conservatives (again, speaking very generally) often tend to be very altruistic, but more toward "in group" folks. They care about fam...
[04:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do Humans Come With a Built-in Sense of Obligation to One Another? - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:22] <exec> 08└─I think it's more complicated than that.
[04:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hawkwind [3531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:48] <exec> 08└─Yeah, one of the items not covered here is that no positive effect [insidehighered.com] was shown when women were mentored by men. At least from my neck of the woods where the Engineering college is top 5 in the number of women ladder rank faculty, and graduate students, it was a long haul where men...
[04:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Plan to Sell Oil Reserve Shows Declining Import Needs - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:18] <exec> 08└─declare bankruptcy. That's how Trump rolls.
[04:40:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06Soldiers Deployed in UK as Threat Level Raised to Critical - 72 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:31] <exec> 08└─The tsa is intended to disrupt the planning phase of a terrorist attack.
[04:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hawkwind [3531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unanimous SCOTUS Ruling Closes Court-Shopping Loophole for Patent Trolls - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:37] <exec> 08└─Thanks, now this decision makes sense. From the decision: 1897, Congress enacted a patent specific venue statute. This new statute (§1400(b)’s predecessor) permitted suit in the district of which the defendant was an “inhabitant” or in which the defendant both maintained a “regular and est...
[04:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SpaceX Technician says Concerns about Test Results Got Him Fired - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:00] <exec> 08└─Yes, false equivalence. The difference is that someone can shoot a rocket and the results would be similar to what actually happened.
[04:43:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Quants" With Supercomputers Run Wall Street - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:25] <exec> 08└─Hedge Funds cannot act as market makers though so who will add liquidity and hold onto positions to create a flow business?
[04:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Quants" With Supercomputers Run Wall Street - 1719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:26] <exec> 08└─The average human investor can't trade with sub millisecond precision. These funds are draining retirement accounts. I'd be taking money from my mother. The average human investor is worthless as a target. They don't trade enough to be worth the bother, even if HFT could somehow exploit their behavi...
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[05:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Space Aggressors" Train US Forces for Extraterrestrial Conflict - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:24] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure what he's getting at with the spy sat thing, but it is interesting to contemplate what'd happen if someone destroyed all our satellites like that: GPS, communications, etc. It'd be a little chaotic I think, and I'm not really sure just how dependent our society is on them now, so it cou...
[05:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Switching to Off-Peak Delivery Times Reduces City Congestion - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:38] <exec> 08└─Once again the Roman Empire proves to have been more civilized than the Terrorist American Empire Of Evil.
[05:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Switching to Off-Peak Delivery Times Reduces City Congestion - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:40] <exec> 08└─In the name of almighty productivity, store employees should be stocking shelves on Sunday morning at 4AM, as trucks should move much more efficiently then, cutting costs. It will both protect produce from the sun, and boost coffee sales around the neighbourhood.
[05:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Switching to Off-Peak Delivery Times Reduces City Congestion - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:42] <exec> 08└─Seriously, pick a city.
[05:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Do Humans Come With a Built-in Sense of Obligation to One Another? - 1008 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:17] <exec> 08└─Conservatives will pour money (and time) into their church, but only to help other people in that church; fuck everyone else who isn't, especially non-church-goers. They'll give lip service to charity, but only if it goes through their church, and anyone hoping for a free meal (because they're starv...
[05:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do Humans Come With a Built-in Sense of Obligation to One Another? - 1024 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:19] <exec> 08└─You have a rather biased view of history. The middle easterners have a terrible history of human rights and slavery themselves. The Berbers in Northern Africa, in particular, were infamous for invading southern Europe (largely Italy) and abducting people, especially women, to be kept as slaves. The...
[05:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 1103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:46] <exec> 08└─Over large populations, gender preferences stand out strongly. Men have a preference for things, women have a preference for people. The women who enjoy CS today are, bluntly, more like men in their personalities and preferences (which is NOT to say they are unfeminine in every way). As the field to...
[05:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 1238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:48] <exec> 08└─Oh, please, not more of that feminist bullshit. First off, if you've got no class, and it's clear you don't, then you're in a bit of a bind. None of those things are actual real problems to women with class. You can reject the help and as long as you've not been a stuck up witch before that, you're...
[05:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:50] <exec> 08└─The point of PE is to get some exercise and hopefully find at least one physical exercise that you enjoy. There's ample evidence that PE helps with concentration as well as blood flow to the brain which both help with education. Not to mention that it tends to increase the growth hormones that help...
[05:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:52] <exec> 08└─I really enjoy the ad hominem attacks, they are absolutely convincing me that you're correct. You have analyzed women's poor behavior very well, in great detail. But men can do no wrong, apparently.
[05:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Plan to Sell Oil Reserve Shows Declining Import Needs - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:22] <exec> 08└─I gather a key aspect is that a strategic reserve protects against short term supply disruptions not against long term changes in supply. With fracking, the US is far more resistant to supply disruptions (it takes some time to bring up production of such wells, but not months) and thus, doesn't have...
[05:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Holographic Microscopy of Cells in Near Realtime at 100 nm - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:30] <exec> 08└─About 12 hours later. Seriously, this would be very cool. I was expecting to see 3D renderings of Golgi apparatuses, walls of nuclei etc. The few pictures I was able to find weren't very detailed at all, but it should be a good start.
[05:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AlphaGo Beats Ke Jie in First Match of Three - 984 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:28] <exec> 08└─"Anyway, the human brain is generally much more efficient than any computer, and is the result of millions of years of evolution..." The human brain is more efficient in some particular areas. However, our brains lose massively in others. Today computers can do more than 6 billion floating point ope...
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[06:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kill Google AMP Before It Kills the Web - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:16] <exec> 08└─If only TFS actually describes what the fuck it is getting all worked up about.
[06:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kill Google AMP Before It Kills the Web - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:17] <exec> 08└─Oh good grief. Just... I hate to say it but... Google it. Or don't. Life is short, web surfing is hard. Here: https://www.ampproject.org [ampproject.org]
[06:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kill Google AMP Before It Kills the Web - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:20] <exec> 08└─I investigated Google AMP and found that the general concept was good but the detail and its reason for being is only to Google's advantage. Microsoft's Desktop Bridge [soylentnews.org] is in the same category. Good architecture but it exists primilary to consolidate the power of a corrupt multi-nat...
[06:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kill Google AMP Before It Kills the Web - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:22] <exec> 08└─All that verbiage in the summary, but you have to "google it" to figure out what it's yepping about?
[06:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kill Google AMP Before It Kills the Web - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:24] <exec> 08└─This sounds bad! In my opinion, I cannot even post under my actual username, so here I am, Runaway1956 (2926) posting as AC to make the point that if we do not stop these foreigners from being able to just get Google account and post as if they were natural born Americans, that the entire system of...
[06:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Space Aggressors" Train US Forces for Extraterrestrial Conflict - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:36] <exec> 08└─I miss voting for Ronald Reagan.
[06:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Switching to Off-Peak Delivery Times Reduces City Congestion - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:54] <exec> 08└─Day shift workers need to check their privledge. They have discriminatory laws to protect their precious quiet sleepy-weepy time, and then they all simultaneously run their lawn mowers when night shift workers are trying to sleep. Shift-ism is going to be the next big thing in victimhood. The oppres...
[06:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do Humans Come With a Built-in Sense of Obligation to One Another? - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:31] <exec> 08└─So decreased female interest in STEM careers correlates with daddy issues? I bet someone could get a grant out of this.
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[07:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kill Google AMP Before It Kills the Web - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:18] <exec> 08└─I am Runaway, too! Or Runaway1956 (2926) trying to point out to everyone that that pederast, aristarchus, is trying to get my shadow-banned under the new Code of Conduct that The Mighty Buzzard had implemented without telling any one! This is one of the "unwritten rules" of which an AC mentioned not...
[07:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kill Google AMP Before It Kills the Web - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:19] <exec> 08└─The obvious rebuttal, is that there are only two Soylentils left, Runaway and aristarchus, locked in an infinite cycle of contrapunctal ideological reparte- No, that is just silly. Where is jmorris when we need him?
[07:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Space Aggressors" Train US Forces for Extraterrestrial Conflict - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:33] <exec> 08└─So is this the same place where the US trained Tibetans to infiltrate and overthrow the ChiCom menace back in the fifties? With the same chances of success? How interesting! Marx said that Hegel said, that everything in history happens twice: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. So w...
[07:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Space Aggressors" Train US Forces for Extraterrestrial Conflict - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:35] <exec> 08└─Oh boy, Trump induced insanity! Ahem, I mean do go on, very fascinating. How would you describe your relationship with your parents?
[07:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Space Aggressors" Train US Forces for Extraterrestrial Conflict - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:37] <exec> 08└─So that means there won't be a World War 3, 2nd time was the last, peace on Earth.
[07:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Space Aggressors" Train US Forces for Extraterrestrial Conflict - 713 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:39] <exec> 08└─My parents were Union Members, Ticket Democratic voters, why do you ask? Only in the beginning stages of dementia did Dad start complaining about the "at risk urban youth" (though he did not use such an euphemism), and much later that Mom called herself a Republican, mostly under the influence of an...
[07:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Space Aggressors" Train US Forces for Extraterrestrial Conflict - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:42] <exec> 08└─How about a couple of tons of pea-gravel in an elliptical polar orbit? This is the brute-force way, but I believe it would wipe out everything up there.
[07:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Space Aggressors" Train US Forces for Extraterrestrial Conflict - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:44] <exec> 08└─The third one will knock us back to the stone age. And we will stay there for quite some time, as all the "easy" natural energy resources of this planet ( which fueled our industrial revolution ) have already been consumed. This is one of my greatest fears for humanity as we seem so hell-bent on res...
[07:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do Humans Come With a Built-in Sense of Obligation to One Another? - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:38] <exec> 08└─Troll mod? OK, I accept it. But could you explain how it is applicable? I was not the one the buggered out on the play date. khallow was in arrears on this, he did not provide what he promised, a ontologically sound basis for property. So now I am modded down? I feel so breakup, I wanna go home. Da...
[07:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Plot Twist: Cheesy Soap Opera Script is Deceptive Drug Ad, Doctors Warn - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:00] <exec> 08└─While deplorable in many aspects. The basis seems to be sound.
[07:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Plot Twist: Cheesy Soap Opera Script is Deceptive Drug Ad, Doctors Warn - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:01] <exec> 08└─We don't need the war on drugs. Not for opiates, and not for other drugs. Imprisoning everyone just tends to make things worse.
[07:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 1297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:12] <exec> 08└─Exactly what I was thinking. Norway is generally considered one of if not the single most 'gender equal' society there is. And something they discovered is that they were able to shift gender standards by putting enormous resources and effort into pushing women in a direction they were not otherwise...
[07:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03migz [1807] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:14] <exec> 08└─How many of the men dropped out? Did they get mentors?
[07:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Holographic Microscopy of Cells in Near Realtime at 100 nm - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:52] <exec> 08└─Yes, scientific advances do not get the recognition they deserve on SoylentNews. This is very interesting, as the cellular difference are what divide the kingdoms, not some sky-fairy books!
[07:42:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] 02 - 06Google Takes Another Step Towards Being Big Brother - 957 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:13] <exec> 08└─Yes, this is exactly right. Parent post is not exaggerating in the slightest, and nor am I. I went to Munich earlier this year and was surprised to find that instead of warm hospitality, ancient architecture and smiling drindl-clad Fraulien serving fine bier and traditional fare in beautiful surroun...
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[08:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS: NC's Gerrymandered Districts are Unconstitutional - 991 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:11] <exec> 08└─The most blatant case of gerrymandering I know of happens to also be racially motivated: Illinois' 4th congressional district [wikipedia.org]. The argument in favor of having it gerrymandered like this is that there is a large population of folks with Hispanic origin, but they're not neatly packed i...
[08:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kill Google AMP Before It Kills the Web - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:25] <exec> 08└─The Accelerated Mobile Pages Project (AMP) is an online publishing format, created by Google as a competitor to Facebook's Instant Articles, that is similar to HTML and optimized for mobile web browsing. Using special code, AMP-HTML is intended to help webpages load rapidly when clicked in the Googl...
[08:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kill Google AMP Before It Kills the Web - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:26] <exec> 08└─The obvious rebuttal, is that there are only two Soylentils left, Runaway and aristarchus
[08:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Do Humans Come With a Built-in Sense of Obligation to One Another? - 2753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:42] <exec> 08└─For many, it isn't about a church. It's about family, the nation, and perhaps neighbors. Atheist conservatives exist. Liberals are plenty racist. It's just... different. One of my coworkers, who is black, had a weird encounter with this. He was at the supermarket with his baby. A white lady has an i...
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[08:37:44] <exec> 08└─In a huge bed, left to right: her, me, a newborn, the wife/mom, the twin Every kid gets to be next to at least 1 parent. Her twin was still breastfeeding, possibly because she'd picked mom instead of dad. (works better that way)
[08:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Do Humans Come With a Built-in Sense of Obligation to One Another? - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:46] <exec> 08└─I'm still trying to figure out if idiot_king (6587) actually believes the nonsense he keeps posting. He acts severely racist against white people. He acts as if he basically hates America, Europe, western culture, English, and more. I guess there are 3 possibilities: a. just a troll b. an actual Mus...
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[08:38:09] <exec> 08└─So, where would you draw the line then? Is lying about your product allowed speech? Is emotional manipulation allowed speech? Is chemical manipulation allowed speech? Is subliminal messaging allowed speech? Is blackmail allowed speech? Is bartering at gunpoint allowed speech? Should ammunition be th...
[08:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:39:22] <exec> 08└─"sis-tier" I can't recall ever seeing this phrase used despite seeing "bro-tier" loads of times.
[08:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Takes Another Step Towards Being Big Brother - 1563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:41] <exec> 08└─In Denmark, the process is called Registersammenkørsel, where they aggregate all data on you from Kommunal (your CPR number and passport number, everywhere you worked, any interactions with Kommune, properties, family status, your registered place of residence, schools you been to) and bank systems...
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[09:36:22] <exec> 08└─If you make districts by race: you are racist and this is illegal! If you don't do that: your districts don't ensure that each race gets to "be heard" by being a majority in a district, so you are racist and this is illegal! Grrr. We should just make districts equal-area, ignoring state borders and...
[09:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kill Google AMP Before It Kills the Web - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:38] <exec> 08└─I thought he ran away and we're the only one left.
[09:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Space Aggressors" Train US Forces for Extraterrestrial Conflict - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:59] <exec> 08└─Nope, I'm not American, but Americans such as yourselves are fascinating. The conservatives, I can understand, "My country right or wrong" or so they say; but the "liberals"? They're hell bent on being anti-conservative, opposing conservative view points for opposing sake, whether it makes sense or...
[09:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Space Aggressors" Train US Forces for Extraterrestrial Conflict - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:00] <exec> 08└─In my day, it was common knowledge among many of us how to build radio amateur transmitters. We could have even built the vacuum tubes if we had to. How many of us can build an IC? Solar Panel? LCD Display?
[09:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:36] <exec> 08└─Humans are expected to moderate their instinctive behaviour all the time. Back in prehistoric times I might simply have clubbed your head in for for that post, these days I'm expected to resolve our differences with words and reason. In fact, I think most people prefer to moderate their instincts, b...
[09:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:37] <exec> 08└─I prefer to split the bill on first dates, because if I don't there is a kind of unwritten expectation that I'm owed something. If we do end up in bed, it kinda feels like I paid for it.
[09:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:40] <exec> 08└─I prefer & lt ; (with spaces removed), easier to remember, shorter to type
[09:39:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 3448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:42] <exec> 08└─Take the following as seen from the chair of a 65+ year old retired electronic engineer .... I believe the problem a lot of us are having in STEM is a lack of a *particular* skill. Most likely a technology that is less than ten years old. I know there are a helluva lot of us older geezers out there,...
[09:39:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:44] <exec> 08└─...but the point of an education is not to find employment...
[09:39:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:46] <exec> 08└─Google quickly suck up all the best and the brightest, because they know their manager is not going to be some asshat
[09:39:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:48] <exec> 08└─The problem with PE is that it manages to take a bunch of activities that were created for the sole purpose of being enjoyable and turn them into a chore. It was a couple of years after I stopped having mandatory PE lessons that I discovered that sports can actually be fun.
[09:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:50] <exec> 08└─I'm tired of this nonsense being repeated. If computing is an inherently male pursuit, why do Romania, Iran, Israel, Korea, and India have far more even gender distributions for the subject than the UK and US?
[09:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:53] <exec> 08└─What in holy hell is wrong with you people?
[09:43:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AlphaGo Beats Ke Jie in First Match of Three - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:43:32] <exec> 08└─Erm, the coprocessor it was running on was *massively parallel*, one of the most massively parallel processors I've ever hard of (but I don't religiously follow GPU announcements).
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[10:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple, Verizon Join Forces to Lobby Against New York's 'Right to Repair' Law - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:21] <exec> 08└─people is sovereign only when they pass without even debating a law that says whatever you sell must be documented and repairable by anyone with SUFFICIENT skill, else it is not a sale, it is a service contract which must clearly specify duration and cover maintenance costs both by wear and by consu...
[10:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple, Verizon Join Forces to Lobby Against New York's 'Right to Repair' Law - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:22] <exec> 08└─Not repairable after 4 years? A lot of this junk isn't even workable after 0 days. The first computer I built came with full technical specs on all the components and an exhaustive dictionary for the software. Ever since, the trajectory has been fairly clear, even if it occasionally reversed for a y...
[10:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS: NC's Gerrymandered Districts are Unconstitutional - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:32] <exec> 08└─Grrr. We should just make districts equal-area, ignoring state borders and minimizing the sum of the perimeters.
[10:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kill Google AMP Before It Kills the Web - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:49] <exec> 08└─What about khallow? Perhaps the Market has eliminated him.
[10:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Space Aggressors" Train US Forces for Extraterrestrial Conflict - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:11] <exec> 08└─You are not following the news? We are living a WW now, only it is not what we thought it would be: It is an asymmetric war against global enemy who is not a technological industrial superpower.
[10:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Space Aggressors" Train US Forces for Extraterrestrial Conflict - 1635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:13] <exec> 08└─I was thinking more like the edison valve as far as actually making one. Filament, grid, and plate. Assuming I could get old-school flashlight bulbs. I could not come even close to making an operable 6L6. You are so right, there are many things, like just pumping water, that will take a big hit. L...
[10:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Close-Up of Enceladus's North Polar Region - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:39] <exec> 08└─Your diagram cuts of at 10uPa, but if we extrapolate the edges of phase zones, for -128 degrees centigrade, to get water vapor the pressure should be in pico- or even nano- bars
[10:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Takes Another Step Towards Being Big Brother - 920 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:21] <exec> 08└─Not DannyB, but I think the powerful have realized that freedom of speech is a pretty good distraction. It does come with a little risk, but so far they've managed to pursue their agendas while using psychological techniques to keep the masses off track. "Conspiracy" became a word only crazies use,...
[10:43:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AlphaGo Beats Ke Jie in First Match of Three - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:44] <exec> 08└─Did he win the first board of a 3 board game? Did he win the first game of a 3 game match? Did he win the first match of a 3 match tourney? Arbitrary splitting or grouping is arbitrary, arbitrary naming is arbitrary. Stop pretending that your choice of words is the one true choice of words.
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[11:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SCOTUS: NC's Gerrymandered Districts are Unconstitutional - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:46] <exec> 08└─When are they going to tackle Maryland's [wikipedia.org] gerrymandering? Since it benefits Democrats I wouldn't expect anytime soon.
[11:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03cockroach [2266] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kill Google AMP Before It Kills the Web - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:04] <exec> 08└─a subset of HTML that Google has approved along with a few tags it invented
[11:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kill Google AMP Before It Kills the Web - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:05] <exec> 08└─Looks beautiful! http://fatphil.org
[11:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kill Google AMP Before It Kills the Web - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:08] <exec> 08└─And nutscrape, it's always been the way; sure there's a standard, but we need a unique selling point, so need something extra.
[11:38:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jimbrooking [3465] 02 - 06Plot Twist: Cheesy Soap Opera Script is Deceptive Drug Ad, Doctors Warn - 500 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:44] <exec> 08└─Last I heard, the USA and New Zealand are the only countries in the world that allow the advertising of prescription pharmaceuticals. I don't know what the Kiwis' problem is, but here in the USA our form of government has morphed into corporatocracy, for, by, and of corporate beneficiaries. The huma...
[11:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Plot Twist: Cheesy Soap Opera Script is Deceptive Drug Ad, Doctors Warn - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:57] <exec> 08└─Probably all media, but western media in particular is saturated with propaganda and advertising. Really badly saturated. Every cop show is basically pro-police state, and so many hit minor talking points to legitimize a specific viewpoint. It is disgusting.
[11:40:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Plan to Sell Oil Reserve Shows Declining Import Needs - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:40:53] <exec> 08└─Buy high, sell low. That's the business sense he brought to the Whitehouse. I seem to recall GW Bush built up the reserve when oil was at $150/barrel. Plus Trump gets a +$500M in the WIN column to spend on holidays to Mar-a-logo.
[11:43:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Takes Another Step Towards Being Big Brother - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:45] <exec> 08└─Of course it is sarcasm, you steaming moron. Germany is a safe, stable, affluent country. It's a great place to live or to visit. Go there. Sure, it has some crime like anywhere else, but it's not some kind of warzone like Breitbart would have you believe.
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[12:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electric Car Sales Up 91% in California Q1 2017 - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:07] <exec> 08└─I finally got someone else to join me today...
[12:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Sales Up 91% in California Q1 2017 - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:08] <exec> 08└─Are they finally realizing that while, yes, it takes the electric car four hours to recharge if you run it all the way out, which prevents you from driving it from LA to Vegas, almost no one actually drives from LA to Vegas on a regular basis? Most commutes in the US are 45 minutes or less (might be...
[12:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:16] <exec> 08└─Guilty of being black. Are there any queers in the theatre tonight? Get them up against the wall! There's one in the spotlight, he don't look right to me, Get him up against the wall! That one looks Jewish! And that one's a coon! Who let all of this riff-raff into the room? There's one smoking a joi...
[12:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:19] <exec> 08└─So what did he do to break his probation?
[12:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:21] <exec> 08└─He didn't commit an armed robbery.
[12:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:23] <exec> 08└─It is obvious from the data. The presiding judge did the armed robbery, and framed mr. Chatman for it. Did I win an Internet?? A box of ms. Marple videos??? A dog-eared Ellery Queen pocket then???? Oh never mind..
[12:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:25] <exec> 08└─America at it's finest.. ;)
[12:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:27] <exec> 08└─The summery seems to state it two different ways. 1. "judge ruled he had breached the rules of his probation". Basically, the man committed a crime and got sentenced for it. The only weird thing is that they imply that the same judge handled both cases at the same time. 2. "Chatman was re-sentenced...
[12:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:30] <exec> 08└─Guilty of being black.
[12:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple, Verizon Join Forces to Lobby Against New York's 'Right to Repair' Law - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:40] <exec> 08└─Good ideas on how to make corporate life for Apple, Verizon, Toyota, Lexmark, Caterpillar, Asurion, and Medtronic a big pain?
[12:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple, Verizon Join Forces to Lobby Against New York's 'Right to Repair' Law - 1332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:42] <exec> 08└─One way is to vote with your dollars. As a single consumer that doesn't have much effect on the companies, but at least you can then complain with a clear conscience. It also does make a difference to talk to your circle of acquaintances about why you won't buy from Apple or the others anymore. The...
[12:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kill Google AMP Before It Kills the Web - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:13] <exec> 08└─So how will we screw this domination attempt?
[12:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kill Google AMP Before It Kills the Web - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:14] <exec> 08└─Not use it.
[12:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kill Google AMP Before It Kills the Web - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:16] <exec> 08└─Can we please get worked up about Facebook's Instant Articles at the same time - at least group the similar demons into the same discussion?
[12:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Space Aggressors" Train US Forces for Extraterrestrial Conflict - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:41] <exec> 08└─I'm not the AC poster above but I am American... I laugh at the limpwristed conservatives and SJW'ers all the time. No one has any balls anymore and it's turning them into *ussies.
[12:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Switching to Off-Peak Delivery Times Reduces City Congestion - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:00] <exec> 08└─You should stick to the limit. Breaking the speed limit is particularly dangerous with large trucks. Speeding motorcycles are like mosquitos buzzing around. A heavy rig speeding is a completely different, riskier, gambit. The law exists for the protection and benefit of all road users - not just you...
[12:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Switching to Off-Peak Delivery Times Reduces City Congestion - 731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:01] <exec> 08└─The problem can be partly blamed on corporations like IBM [soylentnews.org] that demand people in a physical office at a specific time. Maybe the board of transportation should send a bill? and the EPA for the CO2? for an offensive attempt to shift costs. Anyway the idea to send hordes of people to...
[12:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Close-Up of Enceladus's North Polar Region - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:12] <exec> 08└─Actually the diagram cuts of at 1 Pa .. But the shape of the vapor phase seems like it's possible to model using formulas and thus calculate the values for -128 ⁰C and lower.
[12:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Do Humans Come With a Built-in Sense of Obligation to One Another? - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:46] <exec> 08└─You people are robots.
[12:40:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:35] <exec> 08└─I know three people there. Two are engineers, one's a salesman, so I get the story from both sides.
[12:40:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:36] <exec> 08└─The women who enjoy CS today are, bluntly, more like men in their personalities and preferences ...
[12:41:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Plan to Sell Oil Reserve Shows Declining Import Needs - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:10] <exec> 08└─So, more imaginary basis for value... nice.
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[13:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Sales Up 91% in California Q1 2017 - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:38] <exec> 08└─> But anyone who knows anything about math[sic] can tell you that it doesn't take long for a 91% growth rate to start making serious inroads into a particular market. But anyone who really knows anything about maths would never confuse a logistic curve for an exponential one, and is well aware that...
[13:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Sales Up 91% in California Q1 2017 - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:39] <exec> 08└─> logistic curve for an exponential one It's clearly logistic. The excitement is that the logistic curve is on an upward trend, with a maximum >> 0. That's not been true of electric vehicles for the past 20 years.
[13:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electric Car Sales Up 91% in California Q1 2017 - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:42] <exec> 08└─Rather, we're talking about math.
[13:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electric Car Sales Up 91% in California Q1 2017 - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:44] <exec> 08└─This is great to hear, EVs are the future. But there are still some fundamental problems that no amount of improved car technology will solve: 1. Not everyone has the space to charge at home. Ironically this is more of a problem in cities where EVs are better suited. 2. Not everyone has 2 cars at ho...
[13:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Sales Up 91% in California Q1 2017 - 1099 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:46] <exec> 08└─There are lies, damn lies and statistics. Sales up 91%. To 13,804 (we'll exclude hybrids for a moment). That means they went from 7000-ish to 13000-ish, from one year to the next. By comparison - STILL FOR CALIFORNIA ONLY: "third quarter of 2015 — 531,514 between July and September in 2016 compare...
[13:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:00] <exec> 08└─> The only weird thing is that they imply that the same judge handled both cases at the same time. Yes, that is the only weird thing about this. ::rolleyes::
[13:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:02] <exec> 08└─> that at worst I'll get personal attacks which grossly misattribute my political affiliations, Nah, it can get a whole lot worse than that. I just put a 500 bitcoin bounty on your life. You best go to ground ASAP.
[13:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:04] <exec> 08└─You are correct - there is nothing on the record that unequivocally states that his race was the determining factor in the judge's decision. However, like the judge in this case, we can make a determination based on the balance of probabilities. In this case, it's probable that the judge is a dick a...
[13:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:06] <exec> 08└─Unless his attempt to enter an Alford plea on the charge of aggravated assault can be construed as an confession of probation violation, I don't see anything.
[13:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:08] <exec> 08└─If you are an american you are register for a Pacer account (https://pacer.psc.uscourts.gov/pscof/regWizard.jsf) to view court documents.
[13:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:11] <exec> 08└─I would propose that in an old die-hard slave state in a country where presidential advisors (e.g. Ehrlichman) has explicitly stated that laws were deliberately designed to be racist, that Ockham's razor points to racism as the simplest explanation. The hypothesis of no racism being involved is the...
[13:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:13] <exec> 08└─Yeah, double jeopardy, or sloppy reporting, seems to be going on here.
[13:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:15] <exec> 08└─All I have is a Poirot box set. Will that work?
[13:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:17] <exec> 08└─...a judge decided it was likely he did commit the robbery
[13:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:19] <exec> 08└─So what did he do to break his probation?
[13:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple, Verizon Join Forces to Lobby Against New York's 'Right to Repair' Law - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:30] <exec> 08└─Hack all their insecure IoT gadgets and use them for pure evil.
[13:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple, Verizon Join Forces to Lobby Against New York's 'Right to Repair' Law - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:32] <exec> 08└─Disintermediation sounds to hard for many consumers considering their behavior in general.
[13:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple, Verizon Join Forces to Lobby Against New York's 'Right to Repair' Law - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:34] <exec> 08└─Perhaps the concept is, but if it's done right the outcome proceeds swiftly. The film example is one. It's so much easier to pull your phone out, snap a picture, and instantly see if you need to take another because the first one wasn't so good, than to take a roll of film to a store and wait some p...
[13:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple, Verizon Join Forces to Lobby Against New York's 'Right to Repair' Law - 2713 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:36] <exec> 08└─I do side work for a family run forklift repair business. Father, son, and daughter run it out of a small building. Father started it in the 70's after he was forced to retire from the police force as he was badly burnt saving a woman from a burning car. Like Caterpillar and John deere, the fork lif...
[13:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06SCOTUS: NC's Gerrymandered Districts are Unconstitutional - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:48] <exec> 08└─If you want the voters to win then redistricting must be taken out of the hands of politicians. Politicians cannot be trusted not to look after their own sectarian interests above all else. An independent commission charged with creating compact, contiguous districts, that keep political units and c...
[13:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SCOTUS: NC's Gerrymandered Districts are Unconstitutional - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:49] <exec> 08└─The ruling can be applied now to Maryland districting. Nor has the Supreme Court favored Democrats in the past. Further, North Carolina congressional districts have been even worse [governing.com] than Maryland ones.
[13:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS: NC's Gerrymandered Districts are Unconstitutional - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:51] <exec> 08└─And who creates those independent commissions? The politicians? Yea, good luck with that. The voters? Hate to tell you, but they are just as partisan as the politicians. Even in "non-partisan" elections, the candidates usually fall into one of the two parties, if not officially.
[13:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kill Google AMP Before It Kills the Web - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:15] <exec> 08└─Best of all, in order to actively, wherever possible, not use it, all you have to do is ... nothing! I'm up for that kind of protest. Bring me my coffee cup, someone, it's on the table next to me, IIRC.
[13:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kill Google AMP Before It Kills the Web - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:16] <exec> 08└─The problem is you have hordes of idiots.. led by a group of psychopaths. But sure, maybe it's possible to make software to refuse to touch any AMP coded pages..
[13:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Switching to Off-Peak Delivery Times Reduces City Congestion - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:03] <exec> 08└─Many towns in the West have "No Jake Brakes" signs on the outskirts of town for that reason. Seems like it could work generally.
[13:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Switching to Off-Peak Delivery Times Reduces City Congestion - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:05] <exec> 08└─Chicago still has a network of rail tunnels under downtown that were used more than a hundred years ago to move freight around the area. That was the network that flooded when the construction barges working on bridge pilings on the Chicago River pierced the retaining wall in the 90's and knocked ou...
[13:39:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Switching to Off-Peak Delivery Times Reduces City Congestion - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:07] <exec> 08└─This is also a good use for electric delivery vehicles. Most of these vehicles that are doing deliveries into downtown cores aren't long-haul truckers. An electric delivery truck can get in and out of a city a lot quieter than a diesel one, and of course with fewer on-site emissions.
[13:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Switching to Off-Peak Delivery Times Reduces City Congestion - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:10] <exec> 08└─Make the road smaller. Increase traffic until it suffocates. Then tell unions.. I have noooo idea how to solve this...... ;) Oh and no money to fix the road either.
[13:39:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do Humans Come With a Built-in Sense of Obligation to One Another? - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:55] <exec> 08└─Happens to everybody, aristarchus. I was modded troll last week because the Dutchmen in the community have no sense of humor. I mean, what's the world coming to when you can't poke fun at the Dutch? :-)
[13:39:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do Humans Come With a Built-in Sense of Obligation to One Another? - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:57] <exec> 08└─What happens when whitey gets sun burn? Riddle me that, Einstein!
[13:39:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Do Humans Come With a Built-in Sense of Obligation to One Another? - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:59] <exec> 08└─Perhaps he had suddenly realised that he'd saved up enough pocket money to afford a one-off transactional relationship with a professional lady? He's getting to that age, I hear.
[13:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:50] <exec> 08└─You, sir, are an all-American hero.
[13:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03fnj [1654] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Plan to Sell Oil Reserve Shows Declining Import Needs - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:26] <exec> 08└─We don't really need the gold in Fort Knox, either, do we? Why not sell that too?
[13:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Plan to Sell Oil Reserve Shows Declining Import Needs - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:27] <exec> 08└─Are you saying that the gold at Fort Knox is not owned by the US, or just the gold at the Federal Reserve Bank? Anyway, in order to sell the gold at the FRB, first we just have to declare war on the depositors, then seize their assets, then sell it to the highest bidder. Isn't it great how you can m...
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[14:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mission to Metal Asteroid Psyche Moved Up a Year - 665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:27] <exec> 08└─Location: Psyche, an asteroid orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter. Rocket launch in 2022, arrival in 2026. Questions mission will answer: The mission team seeks to determine whether Psyche is the core of an early planet, how old it is, whether it formed in similar ways to Earth's core, and wha...
[14:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electric Car Sales Up 91% in California Q1 2017 - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:42] <exec> 08└─I don't drive (I don't know how to drive, didn't have the time or a pressing need). So please explain something to me: why not own a cheap electric car for regular things and rent a long-distance car when you need to make a long trip? Is it really that much more expensive? Even if it's every weekend...
[14:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Sales Up 91% in California Q1 2017 - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:44] <exec> 08└─Excitement should not be an excuse to introduce misleading mathematics. Like most explicit uses of "exponential" in the media, this implicit suggestion that the growth will be exponential does nothing but harm people's comprehension of mathematics.
[14:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electric Car Sales Up 91% in California Q1 2017 - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:46] <exec> 08└─Renting is a lot of hassle, and quite expensive. On top of that, you've already paid more to own an EV. If I only needed to do it 2-3 times a year, it would be worth considering. But if it's 1-2 times a month (which it is), it's never going to be a viable solution unless I live next to the car renta...
[14:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:10] <exec> 08└─An Alford plea means the defendant enters a guilty plea, but maintains his innocence. It is often used when a defendant feels like despite his innocence, he will lose at trial. An Alford plea means the defendant enters a guilty plea, but maintains his innocence. It is often used when a defendant fee...
[14:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:12] <exec> 08└─Juries do not rule you innocent. They rule you to be not guilty. They aren't the same thing.
[14:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:14] <exec> 08└─Spoken like a white dude, who believes that punitive excess directed towards Black people is an extraordinary myth, not a statistically demonstrable norm. The extraordiary circumstance is when race bias is NOT an element.
[14:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:16] <exec> 08└─How do they verify "being American" ?
[14:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple, Verizon Join Forces to Lobby Against New York's 'Right to Repair' Law - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:31] <exec> 08└─Maybe that is the gigantic blind spot for the managerial clique. Speed and insight? So how does one outdo the lobbying to prevent repairing? distributed plans for 3D printers? or cheap x-ray machines?
[14:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple, Verizon Join Forces to Lobby Against New York's 'Right to Repair' Law - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:32] <exec> 08└─Emulate the pressure sensor? and install generic control boards that replace the whole proprietary blob and is then configured with a laptop? How much does that 1000 lbs vacuum pump cost to buy?
[14:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SCOTUS: NC's Gerrymandered Districts are Unconstitutional - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:46] <exec> 08└─The alternative is what the person at the top of this thread said: eliminate districts. The constitution does not require them to exist. Each state is free to decide how to elect their representatives, which could be a state-wide at-large election along the lines of proportional representation. Or,...
[14:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS: NC's Gerrymandered Districts are Unconstitutional - 827 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:48] <exec> 08└─While it wouldn't result in square districts I have thought that a simple unsupervised clustering algorithm would be the best way to do redistricting. Put a few constraints on it to try and keep cities and counties together. Initially have the sitting elected representative's home be the center of t...
[14:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kill Google AMP Before It Kills the Web - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:15] <exec> 08└─I meant don't code pages using it. If you don't, there's no problem.
[14:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kill Google AMP Before It Kills the Web - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:16] <exec> 08└─Just build proper webpages with HTML and CSS and stick to the standards.
[14:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kill Google AMP Before It Kills the Web - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:18] <exec> 08└─The problems comes when others do it or users demand it.
[14:39:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Switching to Off-Peak Delivery Times Reduces City Congestion - 1074 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:08] <exec> 08└─That borders on silliness, Bob_super. Not for one, but for two reasons. First, Wally World DOES have people stocking shelves at 4AM. Don't believe me? Just set your alarm early enough to visit your local WalMart SuperCenter, and wander the aisles. Your neighbors kids will be there, pulling pallets o...
[14:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Switching to Off-Peak Delivery Times Reduces City Congestion - 980 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:09] <exec> 08└─Ho-hum. First, Illinois is one of those states with a split speed limit. That is, trucks are permitted to run 55 mph, while traffic whips by at speeds up to 80. Second, split speed limits cost more lives than almost any amount of speeding does. Arizona was considering a split speed limit in Intersta...
[14:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Switching to Off-Peak Delivery Times Reduces City Congestion - 1244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:11] <exec> 08└─Hmmm. I'm not certain that you meant what you said, or said what you meant. Air brakes are standard on all big trucks, for valid safety reasons. That has been true since my grandfather's time. (Well, the last years of his career, anyway.) Air brakes really aren't very noisy. See Phoenix' post below,...
[14:40:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Do Humans Come With a Built-in Sense of Obligation to One Another? - 1967 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:00] <exec> 08└─He's also displayed the usual presumption of female hegemony as the natural order of the universe, that the female gender is not only authentic but also ascendant (this is not a simple gender swap of the heteronormative notion of male gender inherent authenticity) while the male gender is inauthenti...
[14:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:54] <exec> 08└─I believe there's actually been a couple states that have already made such changes or similar for publicly-funded universities, so it's hardly impossible even here.
[14:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03fnj [1654] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Plan to Sell Oil Reserve Shows Declining Import Needs - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:32] <exec> 08└─I referred to the Federal Reserve Bank. Fort Knox is the official US gold reserve. Nobody even knows verifiably how much gold is in Fort Knox. Nobody is allowed to see it or audit it. Not even Congress. There are public tours [newyorkfed.org] of the repository at the Federal Reserve Bank. As of 2015...
[14:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Plan to Sell Oil Reserve Shows Declining Import Needs - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:33] <exec> 08└─The purpose of [...] any SR is to remove supply as a military and diplomatic constraint.
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[15:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inquiry: ESA's Schiaparelli Spacecraft was "Ill-Prepared" for Mars Landing Attempt - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:27] <exec> 08└─They managed to accidentally find America, a few hundred years ago. They won't get much luck outside the atmosphere.
[15:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inquiry: ESA's Schiaparelli Spacecraft was "Ill-Prepared" for Mars Landing Attempt - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:28] <exec> 08└─No doubt islamist immigrant sabotage. Maybe if it was shaped like a camel they'd be more supportive.
[15:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Sales Up 91% in California Q1 2017 - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:52] <exec> 08└─If you can do that every day, we'll all be in your cult before 33 days elapse. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[15:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:21] <exec> 08└─On the contrary, for jury trials it indicates that juries really like to convict people. "Well if they were innocent it would never have gotten this far," "tough on crime," etc. If it's a judge trial, then that's a different story.
[15:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:23] <exec> 08└─They require an address and phone number. And since you must pay if you use the site over a certain amount, I image they require a credit card number up front. Even if the credit card is not used to verify your address, I would not lie on a form I gave to the US government when my real credit card i...
[15:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:25] <exec> 08└─Guy gets sentenced to community service, which he does Guy gets falsely accused of a different crime He tries to plead to a lesser crime to avoid a bunch of jail time Judge denies Found innocent because there's no evidence whatsoever he's guilty of the second crime Judge disagrees but can't put him...
[15:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 774 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:27] <exec> 08└─My extended family has it's criminal element. Although I've never been to prison, or even charged with a crime, I know far more about prison than I ever wanted to know. Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas will all do the very same thing. You don't have to be found guilty of a crime to be returned to priso...
[15:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:30] <exec> 08└─I don't think I understand. What is the difference between innocent and not guilty?
[15:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple, Verizon Join Forces to Lobby Against New York's 'Right to Repair' Law - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:47] <exec> 08└─So how does one outdo the lobbying to prevent repairing? distributed plans for 3D printers? or cheap x-ray machines?
[15:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple, Verizon Join Forces to Lobby Against New York's 'Right to Repair' Law - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:48] <exec> 08└─If we had spines, we would stand up, en masse, and TELL the corporations that they don't get things their way. We want what we want, and we'll have it, or you can all go out of business. Then, back it up with some serious boycotts, and maybe take a few of them to court. Contracts our asses - we're t...
[15:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS: NC's Gerrymandered Districts are Unconstitutional - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:05] <exec> 08└─"We should just make districts equal-area" I won't argue against that idea very hard. But, I think all districts should be county based. No matter what state you are from, the counties (or parishes) were established for economic or political reasons. Everything seems to be organized by county - the...
[15:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Kill Google AMP Before It Kills the Web - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:35] <exec> 08└─Just build proper webpages with HTML and CSS
[15:38:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kill Google AMP Before It Kills the Web - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:36] <exec> 08└─One key difference between AMP and Microsoft's proprietary extensions to HTML in the IE 3-6 era is that Google has provided a polyfill for all AMP tags [github.com] under Apache License 2.0.
[15:38:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Kill Google AMP Before It Kills the Web - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:38] <exec> 08└─And watch your visitors dry up once the most popular search engines and news aggregators are boosting the visibility of AMP documents [searchengineland.com] over plain HTML documents.
[15:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kill Google AMP Before It Kills the Web - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:40] <exec> 08└─All that verbiage in the summary, but you have to "google it" to figure out what it's yepping about?
[15:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kill Google AMP Before It Kills the Web - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:43] <exec> 08└─But a lot of users demand dynamic features
[15:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Space Aggressors" Train US Forces for Extraterrestrial Conflict - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:09] <exec> 08└─How would that "end all life on earth forever"? It just makes space travel a real bitch. I doubt we have enough satellites up there that blowing them all up would put enough ash in the atmosphere to cause any appreciable nuclear winter. Or do you mean starting to laser satellites would result in nuc...
[15:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Space Aggressors" Train US Forces for Extraterrestrial Conflict - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:11] <exec> 08└─What?
[15:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Switching to Off-Peak Delivery Times Reduces City Congestion - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:38] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I've only driven past it, never into it. I think I said "major city". Fresno counts as a "major city", San Francisco, Sacramento, LA, and several other California towns and cities. 50,000 population is about the same size as the city I grew up in, and we certainly didn't think of our hometown...
[15:40:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plot Twist: Cheesy Soap Opera Script is Deceptive Drug Ad, Doctors Warn - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:54] <exec> 08└─Yes and no - the selling of soap was because there were soap adverts blocked for that time of day on that channel. So the intention you indicate was there, get the housewives listening to dross and sell them household consumables, it's just that it wasn't direct product placement. I'm sure the moder...
[15:40:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Plot Twist: Cheesy Soap Opera Script is Deceptive Drug Ad, Doctors Warn - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:55] <exec> 08└─God how I HATE when I get half-way through an article only to figure out that it was an ad all this time. TIME is pretty good about not doing this, but it does get me every once in a while. Yes, I know it say ADVERTIZEMENT at the top of the page, but if you aren't looking for it, it is easy to miss.
[15:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Weasley [6421] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:25] <exec> 08└─We were talking about women receiving excessive attention, not sexual harassment. Women must deal with constant male attention, it comes with the chromosomes. It's true everywhere and in every species.
[15:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:27] <exec> 08└─Maybe it's not a social stigma to be a female programmer over there? In the U.S. there's this whole "neckbeard"/"ew nerds" stereotype. In which case it's not really academia's fault, but the fault of the population as a whole.
[15:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:29] <exec> 08└─Women are in a bind no matter what they do. Reject assistance offered and you're stuck up. Accept it and you're agreeing to an unspoken contract (purely in the man's mind) that requires repayment.
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[16:36:28] <exec> 08└─There's no better way to squander society's wealth than to allow paper-pushing bureaucrats to allocate resources. When a government agency performs badly, it gets rewarded with more money.
[16:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inquiry: ESA's Schiaparelli Spacecraft was "Ill-Prepared" for Mars Landing Attempt - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:30] <exec> 08└─Should have coded in this: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[16:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inquiry: ESA's Schiaparelli Spacecraft was "Ill-Prepared" for Mars Landing Attempt - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:32] <exec> 08└─Europeans colonized South Africa, and South Africa gave us the most perfect Elon Musk. Ask any person of your generation about Africa (trust me, I have asked) and they will say without a doubt, South Africa is the only part of Africa that isn't Shit Africa. Negroes cannot govern themselves without...
[16:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inquiry: ESA's Schiaparelli Spacecraft was "Ill-Prepared" for Mars Landing Attempt - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:34] <exec> 08└─"Negroes cannot govern themselves" There are many sides to that story. And, several sides are even true. But none of them are the whole truth. And, to tell you the truth, I kinda doubt that any person is smart enough to put the whole truth together. Either of us can point to specific points in time,...
[16:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Sales Up 91% in California Q1 2017 - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:59] <exec> 08└─99% of people aren't knowledgeable enough about math not to confuse logistic for exponential. Exponential growth is used in all kinds of places maybe it shouldn't be, such as interest rates and economic growth rates, Moore's law, and population growth. I think exponential interest rates can work, as...
[16:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Sales Up 91% in California Q1 2017 - 973 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:00] <exec> 08└─Renting isn't that bad. Many years ago, paid $500 to rent a minivan for a week, for a road trip. Probably cost more like $1000 today. The cost to own a vehicle for a year can easily be more than $500. Auto insurance alone can be $500 per year, plus licensing and inspection is another $100 to $200, a...
[16:37:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03theluggage [1797] 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 41 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:25] <exec> 08└─So what did he do to break his probation?
[16:37:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 353 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:26] <exec> 08└─An Alford plea means the defendant enters a guilty plea, but maintains his innocence. It is often used when a defendant feels like despite his innocence, he will lose at trial. An Alford plea means the defendant enters a guilty plea, but maintains his innocence. It is often used when a defendant fee...
[16:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:36] <exec> 08└─if you can't do the time. This is only a story because people expected the jury verdict to be the last word. In fact, parolees are also subject to these kinds of judge's decisions. It's not like we know that the jury is right and the judge is wrong.
[16:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:38] <exec> 08└─Your statistical argument might have more weight than a pingpong ball were it not for the demonstrable disproportion of blacks committing vastly more crime compared to the general population.
[16:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:40] <exec> 08└─Easy solution: abolish parole/probation completely. Parole officers unemployed, thugs off the streets longer. Wn-win.
[16:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:43] <exec> 08└─Spoken like a white dude, who believes that punitive excess directed towards Black people is an extraordinary myth, not a statistically demonstrable norm. The extraordiary circumstance is when race bias is NOT an element.
[16:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:45] <exec> 08└─I would propose that in an old die-hard slave state in a country where presidential advisors (e.g. Ehrlichman) has explicitly stated that laws were deliberately designed to be racist, that Ockham's razor points to racism as the simplest explanation.
[16:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:47] <exec> 08└─You can be found "not guilty" of the specific charge against you, but still have committed the act that inspired the charge. For example, someone may be found not guilty of murder, but still have killed someone. Perhaps the charge should have been manslaughter, or assault, or some other charge. Bein...
[16:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:49] <exec> 08└─Not guilty: none or not enough proof to convict Innocent: proven not to be the person involved The difference is that a "not guilty" verdict has a bad taste of "he might've done it, but we cannot prove it, even though you may not be involved at all. An innocent verdict shows that the police and just...
[16:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:52] <exec> 08└─However, like the judge in this case, we can make a determination based on the balance of probabilities. In this case, it's probable that the judge is a dick and that the guy was fucked over for being black, particularly while living in a southern state.
[16:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:54] <exec> 08└─You can buy fully-functional pre-paid credit cards with cash and use them without giving away any valid personal information. Just be sure to avoid "Green Dot" cards and the like that do require US SSAN verification before they can be used.
[16:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple, Verizon Join Forces to Lobby Against New York's 'Right to Repair' Law - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:13] <exec> 08└─For cars (atleast) EU mandates that manufacturers need to make the software and tools available to all maintenance shops, not just dealerships.
[16:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple, Verizon Join Forces to Lobby Against New York's 'Right to Repair' Law - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:15] <exec> 08└─Good luck with your home microchip fab.
[16:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple, Verizon Join Forces to Lobby Against New York's 'Right to Repair' Law - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:17] <exec> 08└─And spend how much to reverse engineer the original hardware? And then get sued for how much for copyright infringement?
[16:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple, Verizon Join Forces to Lobby Against New York's 'Right to Repair' Law - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:19] <exec> 08└─A simple PID loop should be easy. Reverse engineering by automated measurements which is then feed into a generic control board. Selling a generic control board unprogrammed is unlikely to be vulnerable to legal attack. Everything that can be expressed in bits can float around anonymously. Emulating...
[16:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kill Google AMP Before It Kills the Web - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:11] <exec> 08└─If anyone needed more reason to avoid AMP, it's got a code of conduct [github.com].
[16:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kill Google AMP Before It Kills the Web - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:12] <exec> 08└─AMP is not required to provide dynamic features.
[16:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kill Google AMP Before It Kills the Web - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:14] <exec> 08└─Feeling pretty good today, Ari? You dove deep into that intergluteal cleft last night?
[16:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kill Google AMP Before It Kills the Web - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:17] <exec> 08└─how should a site that has sponsors reassure its sponsors that viewers are seeing their messages?
[16:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kill Google AMP Before It Kills the Web - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:19] <exec> 08└─Is that the Imperial (Royal) We? I ask, because you make it singular with "we're the only one left.)
[16:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kill Google AMP Before It Kills the Web - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:21] <exec> 08└─"It was a pitifully lame and lazy complaint." THIS IS SPARTA!!! WE HAVE NO PITY FOR THE LAME OR THE LAZY!! THROW HIS ASS TO THE WOLVES! Oh, wait. This isn't Sparta, is it? Soylent is New York, right? My mistake. Just put his ass on a table at the clinic, play some soothing music, and let him die. Pa...
[16:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Space Aggressors" Train US Forces for Extraterrestrial Conflict - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:49] <exec> 08└─Forget my parents, let's talk about my relationship with your mother!
[16:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Space Aggressors" Train US Forces for Extraterrestrial Conflict - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:51] <exec> 08└─That seems pretty apt. And, of course, we're all playing Macho Man so hard, that we refuse to put up any sissy mosquito nettings, thus providing the mosquitos with a never ending banquet. But, TSA will save us, right? Right? Amirite? Please, tell me I'm right!!
[16:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Space Aggressors" Train US Forces for Extraterrestrial Conflict - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:53] <exec> 08└─Sounds like a Space Invaders clone. Or a bad 50's movie.
[16:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Space Aggressors" Train US Forces for Extraterrestrial Conflict - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:55] <exec> 08└─What do you think about let's talk about my relationship with your mother?
[16:40:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03its_gonna_be_yuge! [6454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Switching to Off-Peak Delivery Times Reduces City Congestion - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:24] <exec> 08└─Air brakes are standard on all big trucks, for valid safety reasons.
[16:40:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Switching to Off-Peak Delivery Times Reduces City Congestion - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:25] <exec> 08└─Ohhhh-kay. Let me ask where you are from? I think we have a terminology thing going on here. Again, even poorly to moderately well maintained air brakes aren't very loud. I've never seen a sign banning air brakes. I've seen many a sign banning engine compression and/or Jacob's brakes. I'm pretty con...
[16:40:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03hotsushi [6608] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Switching to Off-Peak Delivery Times Reduces City Congestion - 696 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:27] <exec> 08└─The San Francisco branch of the Federal Reserve published a research article on reducing traffic congestion in the Bay Area. In the article, vehicles are equipped with transponders that talk to highway on ramps and off ramps allowing the vehicles "highway usage" to be tracked by time of day. If vehi...
[16:41:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Do Humans Come With a Built-in Sense of Obligation to One Another? - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:18] <exec> 08└─Strangely, conservatives now care more about LGBT people than liberals do.
[16:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Plot Twist: Cheesy Soap Opera Script is Deceptive Drug Ad, Doctors Warn - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:46] <exec> 08└─Imprisoning everyone just tends to make things worse.
[16:43:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Plan to Sell Oil Reserve Shows Declining Import Needs - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:56] <exec> 08└─That's a sticky situation in itself.
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[17:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Touché) 02 - 06EPA Nixes Chlorpyrifos Ban & Training Rule; Farm Workers Sickened - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:53] <exec> 08└─Lucky to have jobs, they are! Arrest the fuckers and charge all of them with felony disorderly conduct. A felony arrest record will fix them, never find work anywhere ever again!
[17:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EPA Nixes Chlorpyrifos Ban & Training Rule; Farm Workers Sickened - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:54] <exec> 08└─Yeah! Fuck these losers, can't handle a little crop dusting. Its not like its agent orange or some crap, probably just some liberal doctors working with some fucking witch hunting journalists trying to make a mountain out of a mole hill. Jesus no wonder the country is going down the tubes, how can w...
[17:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EPA Nixes Chlorpyrifos Ban & Training Rule; Farm Workers Sickened - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:56] <exec> 08└─Don't forget that farm workers in Bakersfield are very likely to have brown skin, so if Pruitt can't kill them and Sessions can't deport the US-born ones, Trump will make sure they don't have healthcare and die fast.
[17:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EPA Nixes Chlorpyrifos Ban & Training Rule; Farm Workers Sickened - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:59] <exec> 08└─What part of regulatory freeze did you miss? If Mother Jones is hyping it I'm happy it was put on hold for a review. If Obama's EPA did it there is probably a lot if evil hidden in the morass of regulations we are talking about. If this stuff is being misused those harmed will sue, the industry will...
[17:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inquiry: ESA's Schiaparelli Spacecraft was "Ill-Prepared" for Mars Landing Attempt - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:11] <exec> 08└─Must be the darn Metric system, which was invented after they discovered America.
[17:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inquiry: ESA's Schiaparelli Spacecraft was "Ill-Prepared" for Mars Landing Attempt - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:13] <exec> 08└─"only the British know how to colonize and leave behind civilization" They certainly knew how to wipe out a civilization to replace it with their own.
[17:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mission to Metal Asteroid Psyche Moved Up a Year - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:22] <exec> 08└─“Metal Asteroid Psyche” sounded like it should be a film in the style of Heavy Metal [wikipedia.org], perhaps a stylized retelling of the myth.
[17:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Electric Car Sales Up 91% in California Q1 2017 - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:42] <exec> 08└─Obligatory XKCD: Extrapolating https://www.xkcd.com [xkcd.com]
[17:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Sales Up 91% in California Q1 2017 - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:43] <exec> 08└─Last year we rented a car and drove it up into and around Canada. We put close to 2k miles on it, and I scraped up the ground effects by the front tire which they didn't see (got squeezed over to the curb by an Ambulance in Montreal on a packed one way street, couldn't see the curb at the slow speed...
[17:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electric Car Sales Up 91% in California Q1 2017 - 1018 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:45] <exec> 08└─Your thinking is sensible. And if people complain it is a hassle to rent a car, well "hassle" is also a subjective term. People's tolerance of "hassle" really varies a lot across the population. I find a lot of things a "hassle" so I married a woman who finds almost nothing a "hassle" and I just out...
[17:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Sales Up 91% in California Q1 2017 - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:48] <exec> 08└─Of course, there's a relevant XKCD [xkcd.com].
[17:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Sales Up 91% in California Q1 2017 - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:50] <exec> 08└─There's real incentive to commuters in California: tax incentives, fuel savings, and a pass in the carpool lane for single occupants. Yeah, I'm sitting there in traffic on the 405 and a guy cruises past me, alone, in his clean air OK vehicle. I do feel a little jealous.
[17:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:33] <exec> 08└─There is a process for deciding if the guy did a second crime. It was the jury trial. They said no. So unless there is something else, it seems like the judge overstepped his bounds. If he was otherwise a model citizen, should make a great appeal case.
[17:38:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scrutinizer [6534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 1183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:34] <exec> 08└─It also indicates that the prosecution and judges collaborate to stack the deck against the accused, instead of allowing the accused "every advantage" to the point that "ten guilty men might go free before one innocent is wrongly convicted". It's not just a skin-color thing - judges are behaving lik...
[17:38:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:36] <exec> 08└─Interesting point. However, if the justice system can't respect its own decisions (jury trial outcome), then who can respect them?
[17:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03oldmac31310 [4521] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:39] <exec> 08└─What's the difference and who cares? Not Soylent editors for sure.
[17:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:41] <exec> 08└─There is a process for deciding if the guy did a second crime. It was the jury trial. They said no.
[17:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:43] <exec> 08└─Sorry no go on that idea: Judges can't overturn not guilty decisions [kennethballard.com] which is why he made a ruling about the guy's original crime and revoked his parole. Talk about a fucked up loophole to punish someone just because the judge is of the opinion the guy "did it".
[17:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03mr_mischief [4884] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:45] <exec> 08└─There's a much lower standard for breach of probation or parole than for being found guilty of the new crime. The new conviction would require the prosecution to prove a case beyond a reasonable doubt. Probation or parole revocations in Georgia can happen based on a preponderance of evidence (51% li...
[17:39:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple, Verizon Join Forces to Lobby Against New York's 'Right to Repair' Law - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:08] <exec> 08└─Rtd? Only so many things it could've been. My solution would be to find a good working one, take some resistance readings at different temperatures, and search for those figures in NIST charts
[17:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple, Verizon Join Forces to Lobby Against New York's 'Right to Repair' Law - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:10] <exec> 08└─Like a fund which consumers can apply for a corporation to be shitlisted. The fund will then announce a boycott, sue them, reverse engineer and publish, investigate the board etc.. ?
[17:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SCOTUS: NC's Gerrymandered Districts are Unconstitutional - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:28] <exec> 08└─When are they going to tackle Maryland's [wikipedia.org] gerrymandering? Since it benefits Democrats I wouldn't expect anytime soon.
[17:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS: NC's Gerrymandered Districts are Unconstitutional - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:29] <exec> 08└─What do you call someone wielding political power? The power to draw district lines is inherently political, the ones given the authority to do that will quickly become politicians even if you pick random names from a phone directory. Faster in fact if you do that since they will lack any hardening...
[17:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SCOTUS: NC's Gerrymandered Districts are Unconstitutional - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:32] <exec> 08└─"Waah waah they're bad tooooo" says the snowflake who has only expectations.
[17:40:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kill Google AMP Before It Kills the Web - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:13] <exec> 08└─I mean, if we're going to abandon standards and use some proprietary crap that a big corporation happened to shit out, that serves themselves under the guise of helping others, we may as well have just stuck with ActiveX and IE6. I mean, come on... I can understand if people have forgotten the lesso...
[17:40:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03oldmac31310 [4521] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Space Aggressors" Train US Forces for Extraterrestrial Conflict - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:48] <exec> 08└─Yeah right.
[17:41:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Switching to Off-Peak Delivery Times Reduces City Congestion - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:21] <exec> 08└─Not to defend his argument, but I would imagine should something like it be implemented, I should say the speed should vary depending on some ratio of wind speed to the weight of your vehicle. I may be mistaken in thinking so, but I would almost imagine an empty truck whipping around a corner at 80m...
[17:41:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Switching to Off-Peak Delivery Times Reduces City Congestion - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:22] <exec> 08└─I forget the official population is that low. I guess the university isn't counted. The surrounding cities are also growing together into one contiguous urban/suburban sprawl. Driving into LA has been a nightmare no matter what time of the day or night, and it feels like it goes on for hundreds of k...
[17:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plot Twist: Cheesy Soap Opera Script is Deceptive Drug Ad, Doctors Warn - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:42] <exec> 08└─Feel free to constructively disagree.
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[18:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06EPA Nixes Chlorpyrifos Ban & Training Rule; Farm Workers Sickened - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:51] <exec> 08└─But isn't that just what politicians generally want to happen? To get more loyal voters?
[18:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06EPA Nixes Chlorpyrifos Ban & Training Rule; Farm Workers Sickened - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:52] <exec> 08└─If this stuff is being misused those harmed will sue, the industry will sort it out.
[18:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06EPA Nixes Chlorpyrifos Ban & Training Rule; Farm Workers Sickened - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:55] <exec> 08└─If this stuff is being misused those harmed will sue, the industry will sort it out.
[18:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EPA Nixes Chlorpyrifos Ban & Training Rule; Farm Workers Sickened - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:57] <exec> 08└─Scott Pruitt only eats organic vegetables grown without pesticides. I wonder if he knows something we don't.
[18:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EPA Nixes Chlorpyrifos Ban & Training Rule; Farm Workers Sickened - 1147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:59] <exec> 08└─"a pesticide crucial to U.S. agriculture." Crucial. Meaning, without the stuff, we can't grow food? I find that hard to believe. I've never used this stuff, and certainly never studied it. But, when Agri-business says something is "crucial", it usually only means that the stuff is profitable, or mor...
[18:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EPA Nixes Chlorpyrifos Ban & Training Rule; Farm Workers Sickened - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:01] <exec> 08└─Obligatory "you're full of crap and deluded more than Trump".
[18:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06EPA Nixes Chlorpyrifos Ban & Training Rule; Farm Workers Sickened - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:04] <exec> 08└─But, when Agri-business says something is "crucial", it usually only means that the stuff is profitable, or more profitable than alternatives.
[18:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EPA Nixes Chlorpyrifos Ban & Training Rule; Farm Workers Sickened - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:06] <exec> 08└─It usually means it's the cheapest one. I'll be honest though, I'm not entirely convinced you can develop a chemical that's designed to rapidly kill one entire class of life effectively while having zero adverse effects on another species. Short of hyper-efficient laser robots that can ID and shoot...
[18:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EPA Nixes Chlorpyrifos Ban & Training Rule; Farm Workers Sickened - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:08] <exec> 08└─Source?
[18:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EPA Nixes Chlorpyrifos Ban & Training Rule; Farm Workers Sickened - 671 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:10] <exec> 08└─Indeed, nobody sued Monsanto for the filth they spewed into the air despite the fact that you had to roll the windows up on a hot August day when driving past because the air burned your lungs, and cars weren't air conditioned then. It took the EPA and government regulations to get it to clean up it...
[18:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EPA Nixes Chlorpyrifos Ban & Training Rule; Farm Workers Sickened - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:13] <exec> 08└─I'll be honest though, I'm not entirely convinced you can develop a chemical that's designed to rapidly kill one entire class of life effectively while having zero adverse effects on another species.
[18:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inquiry: ESA's Schiaparelli Spacecraft was "Ill-Prepared" for Mars Landing Attempt - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:28] <exec> 08└─Indeed the British Empire set the standard for Nazi concentration camps during the Boer War.
[18:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mission to Metal Asteroid Psyche Moved Up a Year - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:37] <exec> 08└─The last fragment of a once-living planet, its body blasted into dust by the madness of its own inhabitants, while its head was cursed to roam aimlessly through time and space, screaming in pain and sorrow. In legend and in fact, it is known as: Metal Hurlant. [wikipedia.org]
[18:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mission to Metal Asteroid Psyche Moved Up a Year - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:39] <exec> 08└─FWIW, Metal Hurlant Chronicles was rather unfairly ignored when it came out in 2014. If you overlooked it then, as I did, you should probably track down a copy online. While it's far from great, it's IMO definitely worth watching, if you like that sort of thing at all.
[18:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Sales Up 91% in California Q1 2017 - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:05] <exec> 08└─True. The other important question is: "what's the ratio of the people who could accommodate and afford an electric car actually buying one". The 200-mile-EV class is still very limited (about to change), and the 100-mile range class, which is more affordable, may not fit the needs of those who coul...
[18:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Sales Up 91% in California Q1 2017 - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:06] <exec> 08└─Indeed, in CA, EVs can save you many hours every week to be with your family (or hobby), while being safer than a motorcycle. How much do you value your time?
[18:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Sales Up 91% in California Q1 2017 - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:09] <exec> 08└─Just don't get too greedy [smbc-comics.com].
[18:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Electric Car Sales Up 91% in California Q1 2017 - 1627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:11] <exec> 08└─I have a 30A charger right next to my parking spot. I will NOT buy an EV at this time. Here is why: I have only one car. It has to do all that I need. I sometimes take long road trips to the middle of nowhere. There are no chargers. There are hardly any gas stations! Renting is so expensive (I chec...
[18:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:01] <exec> 08└─Where is your proof that blacks commit more crime? What we have proof of is that blacks get arrested more often, charged more often, and convicted more often. As this case demonstrates, that's not necessarily proof of committing crimes. Supposing we knew for certain, for all crimes, who committed wh...
[18:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 2024 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:02] <exec> 08└─Yes, this is a clear explanation -- the standards of proof are different. The rationale for those different standards usually makes some sense. Remember that "parole" is supposed to be a grant of leniency, i.e., you could have been sentenced to 10 years in jail, but instead we'll sentence you to par...
[18:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:05] <exec> 08└─He tries to plead to a lesser crime to avoid a bunch of jail time
[18:39:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:07] <exec> 08└─*Except* if evidence emerges the trial was bought. Harry "The Hook" Aleman (January 19, 1939 – May 15, 2010) was a Chicago mobster [...] He is also famous for being the only person in the United States ever to be acquitted of murder, then legally tried and convicted for murder when the initial tri...
[18:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:10] <exec> 08└─Ahhhhh...okay now the whole thing is staggering back into the vicinity of making any kind of sense. But if he was acquitted of the second crime, it sounds like the logic for increasing the punishment on the first can only really be "that n****r just gotta be guilty."
[18:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:12] <exec> 08└─He did plead to a lesser crime, aggravated assault, (which would automatically violate his parole), whether or not that plea was accepted
[18:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple, Verizon Join Forces to Lobby Against New York's 'Right to Repair' Law - 825 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:37] <exec> 08└─Documentation is haaaaard! But in seriousness, things have gotten so complicated that manuals are next to impossible for anyone to read and would be very very large. I agree with your sentiment, but unless consumers are willing to demand and pay higher price for full open / documented systems then w...
[18:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple, Verizon Join Forces to Lobby Against New York's 'Right to Repair' Law - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:39] <exec> 08└─Thanks man :)
[18:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple, Verizon Join Forces to Lobby Against New York's 'Right to Repair' Law - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:41] <exec> 08└─Enough people have stood up, but the thing is without a high profile politician / judge / whatever you can't get traction. Money buys influence and power, masses of people have a very limited amount of power and are much harder to organize than some bank account numbers. It is probably the biggest p...
[18:40:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06SCOTUS: NC's Gerrymandered Districts are Unconstitutional - 1252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:01] <exec> 08└─So if you ignore race the SCOTUS has ruled in the past that you are a racist. In my state we are under court order to create a certain quantity of 'majority minority' Congressional Districts for example. But now if you do it too much, i.e. if you don't disenfranchise enough white people by mapping t...
[18:40:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SCOTUS: NC's Gerrymandered Districts are Unconstitutional - 1863 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:03] <exec> 08└─It's a nice idea, but the problem is that there's generally no political will to make it happen. If either party has even a slight majority in a given state, that party, and thus the majority of people in the state, would much rather win all the seats in Congress (or as many as jerrymaniacally possi...
[18:40:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS: NC's Gerrymandered Districts are Unconstitutional - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:05] <exec> 08└─> Since it benefits Democrats I wouldn't expect anytime soon. President: Trump House: republican Senate: republican SCOTUS: 5-4 conservative WTF are you talking about?
[18:40:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS: NC's Gerrymandered Districts are Unconstitutional - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:07] <exec> 08└─Doing it strictly by county would eliminate the hypothetical where the district where you're living makes it pointless for you to vote, you move one or two over to get solve the problem, then a few years later find you're back in the same district when they redraw the borders. Since our representati...
[18:40:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Pino P [4721] 02 - 06Kill Google AMP Before It Kills the Web - 183 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:40] <exec> 08└─And watch your visitors dry up once the most popular search engines and news aggregators are boosting the visibility of AMP documents [searchengineland.com] over plain HTML documents.
[18:41:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Space Aggressors" Train US Forces for Extraterrestrial Conflict - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:23] <exec> 08└─Got something coherent to share with the class?
[18:42:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do Humans Come With a Built-in Sense of Obligation to One Another? - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:50] <exec> 08└─For what it's worth, you just got a +1 Funny from a van Eck :)
[18:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do Humans Come With a Built-in Sense of Obligation to One Another? - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:52] <exec> 08└─It is said that non-white people do not express this same sense of obligation towards other people... Yes, by racists.
[18:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:53] <exec> 08└─There is a distinction between "answer each other's lab questions", and "always provide detailed answers to the cute brunette's questions". Where men are bad, it is at judging the line between "she's friendly because she appreciates knowledgeable help" and "She's friendly so I've got a shot if I kee...
[18:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03mayo2y [6520] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Plan to Sell Oil Reserve Shows Declining Import Needs - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:33] <exec> 08└─This is not a pension raid. It's lying politicians and union leaders that are the cause of pension short falls (There should not be any deferred liabilities to pension funds etc...) This is something completely different. If we don't need to store this oil what should we do? Do nothing? Of course no...
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[19:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Doctor Teaches Children Critical Thinking Skills - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:47] <exec> 08└─Yes yes, childish behavior, but I'm just relishing the irony of this story being posted here.
[19:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doctor Teaches Children Critical Thinking Skills - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:48] <exec> 08└─Oxman now holds the best blueprint out there
[19:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Doctor Teaches Children Critical Thinking Skills - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:50] <exec> 08└─Good luck to the doctor actually getting this to fly. For some inexplicable reason, the US populace get their panties in a serious twist whenever the concept of "critical thinking" comes up. The current of anti-intellectualism in the US is so shockingly strong that they would rather hamstring their...
[19:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Doctor Teaches Children Critical Thinking Skills - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:52] <exec> 08└─Well, this is Uganda we're talking about, they're still basically in the stone age and crucify and eat peoples' hearts to gain their courage -- their sweet, tasty courage! Idi Amin Dada! Idi Amin Dada!
[19:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Doctor Teaches Children Critical Thinking Skills - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:55] <exec> 08└─Hope they don't get your heart, they'll turn into cowards! But since you're just a troll I'll recommend you read the book instead of continuing your lame stupidity.
[19:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Doctor Teaches Children Critical Thinking Skills - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:57] <exec> 08└─I feel sorry for any kids in the US unfortunate enough to learn critical thinking skills.
[19:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Doctor Teaches Children Critical Thinking Skills - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:59] <exec> 08└─YOU talking about skepticism, pretty rich. The secret to fighting propaganda is to not believe it is real. Continue talking to people in the real world, continue educating people. Stop pushing the ivory tower academic elites bullshit. Encourage people to think and learn, trust they'll sift out any e...
[19:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Doctor Teaches Children Critical Thinking Skills - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:01] <exec> 08└─We did not obtain assent from individual children or consent from their parents. The intervention posed minimal risk and no more risk than other teaching materials, almost none of which have been evaluated. Informed consent by individual children or their parents, in effect, would be meaningless onc...
[19:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doctor Teaches Children Critical Thinking Skills - 1025 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:03] <exec> 08└─I understand what the article is trying to convey but the term "critical thinking" alone has become an incredibly loaded phrase and can mean anything from a systematic (i.e. psuedo-Socratic) questioning of the material to a "Critical Theory"-esque (and thus Marxist/Queer/Ethnocentric) critique of th...
[19:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doctor Teaches Children Critical Thinking Skills - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:06] <exec> 08└─You're right, in that there needs to be a lot more critical thinking in politics. But health is, to me, an area where there's even more scam-like misleading claims thrown around, and with greater potential harm to the individual trying to analyze them. If I gave you two studies describing the result...
[19:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EPA Nixes Chlorpyrifos Ban & Training Rule; Farm Workers Sickened - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:29] <exec> 08└─Phew, when I saw the GP modded up I was afraid it would gain more traction, but at least this other troll has gone nowhere. "Fake news! libtard cucks!" lol
[19:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03lonehighway [956] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EPA Nixes Chlorpyrifos Ban & Training Rule; Farm Workers Sickened - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:30] <exec> 08└─Help yourself to a big bowl of it, you won't be missed.
[19:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EPA Nixes Chlorpyrifos Ban & Training Rule; Farm Workers Sickened - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:32] <exec> 08└─Hey hey hey, government is evil, taxes are theft, OSHA is a front for lizard men. What everrrrrr.
[19:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EPA Nixes Chlorpyrifos Ban & Training Rule; Farm Workers Sickened - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:34] <exec> 08└─I think you found the weed. Hurry hurry and chlorpyrifosify that thing ;-) The boss probably need it too. Can't be easy to keep those towers clean..
[19:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EPA Nixes Chlorpyrifos Ban & Training Rule; Farm Workers Sickened - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:37] <exec> 08└─I know another thing that got nixed, Peace. And there will be training..
[19:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EPA Nixes Chlorpyrifos Ban & Training Rule; Farm Workers Sickened - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:39] <exec> 08└─Although that creates an entire new set of horrifying potential hazards.
[19:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EPA Nixes Chlorpyrifos Ban & Training Rule; Farm Workers Sickened - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:41] <exec> 08└─Was it basically the plot of Alien Covenant?
[19:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EPA Nixes Chlorpyrifos Ban & Training Rule; Farm Workers Sickened - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:43] <exec> 08└─If it wasn't Jmorris, I'd call Poe's Law on that post. Sadly...
[19:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EPA Nixes Chlorpyrifos Ban & Training Rule; Farm Workers Sickened - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:45] <exec> 08└─Good, then wages will go up and Whites will do those jobs. Don't even say Whites won't, they will, just not at third-world wages. I for one applaud Trump's moves to expel illegals -- Too many goddamn activist judges being difficult and whatnot.
[19:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EPA Nixes Chlorpyrifos Ban & Training Rule; Farm Workers Sickened - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:48] <exec> 08└─Why would the whites bother to do the job? The Citizen children of deported brown illegals will need survival jobs, and if we run low, we have plenty of private prisons ready to help provide cheap black labor for a cut. US fields were not meant for white people...
[19:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EPA Nixes Chlorpyrifos Ban & Training Rule; Farm Workers Sickened - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:50] <exec> 08└─Or just use sterile insectivores with a short life-span in the same way Zika is being fought off using sterile mosquitoes...
[19:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inquiry: ESA's Schiaparelli Spacecraft was "Ill-Prepared" for Mars Landing Attempt - 1888 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:06] <exec> 08└─In the investigation report. Page 14 "Failure tree" seems almost like a TD;LR.. AOA - Angle Of Attack COG - Center Of Gravity EDM - Entry Demonstration Module FDIR - Failure Detection, Isolation and Recovery GNC - Guidance Navigation and Control IMU - Inertial Measurement Unit IMU Malfunctioning: ...
[19:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 1, Redundant) 02 - 06Electric Car Sales Up 91% in California Q1 2017 - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:47] <exec> 08└─> But anyone who knows anything about math[sic] Math [merriam-webster.com] You forget that over here we say "trunk", not "boot" and "hood", not "bonnet". You have the OED, we have Webster's.
[19:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Sales Up 91% in California Q1 2017 - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:49] <exec> 08└─Indeed. When Rauner was running for governor, he claimed that state employeed had an average income of $65,000 a year, which is true, but the MEDIAN is closer to half that.
[19:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Sales Up 91% in California Q1 2017 - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:51] <exec> 08└─That should be "employees". Damned fat fingers!
[19:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Electric Car Sales Up 91% in California Q1 2017 - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:53] <exec> 08└─I don't drive (I don't know how to drive, didn't have the time or a pressing need).
[19:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Sales Up 91% in California Q1 2017 - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:55] <exec> 08└─I think I've fallen in love with your wife.
[19:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Sales Up 91% in California Q1 2017 - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:57] <exec> 08└─Really? That's interesting. My brother-in-law loses 4 hours a day commuting down the peninsula from SF to his job at Facebook. He takes the company shuttle because traffic is so bad. But if an EV would give him license to use the carpool lane and get there faster he could get his life back.
[19:39:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:55] <exec> 08└─Occam's Razor only applies when the other proposition is ridiculously outlandish. You cannot ignore plausible explanations just because another explanation appeals better to your sensibilities.
[19:39:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:57] <exec> 08└─Nice try, Skippy. Picking the statistics that suit you and dismissing anything contrary neither validates your argument nor invalidates mine.
[19:39:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:59] <exec> 08└─Neither of those seem to be relevant here, but thanks for the details.
[19:40:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple, Verizon Join Forces to Lobby Against New York's 'Right to Repair' Law - 979 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:28] <exec> 08└─Simple: we don't. The solution is for people to stop buying from these companies. No, enough people have no stood up; if they had, these companies would be out of business or at least in dire straits financially. But they're not, they're prospering, even though they do all have competitors which are...
[19:40:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple, Verizon Join Forces to Lobby Against New York's 'Right to Repair' Law - 1053 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:30] <exec> 08└─Exactly. I have some companies that I don't buy from. This is a nerd site - I don't like Microsoft's practices, and I don't buy from them. I don't like Intel's business practices, so I don't buy from them. Unfortunately, I am part of a minority, in both cases, so my "boycott" is pretty meaningless....
[19:40:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] 02 - 06SCOTUS: NC's Gerrymandered Districts are Unconstitutional - 356 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:42] <exec> 08└─If you want the voters to win then redistricting must be taken out of the hands of politicians. Politicians cannot be trusted not to look after their own sectarian interests above all else. An independent commission charged with creating compact, contiguous districts, that keep political units and c...
[19:40:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS: NC's Gerrymandered Districts are Unconstitutional - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:55] <exec> 08└─But also create them as close to squares as possible, none of this snaking around and through based on party registrations.
[19:40:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SCOTUS: NC's Gerrymandered Districts are Unconstitutional - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:57] <exec> 08└─Sorry -- should have caught this before submitting, but for my first "metric" I meant: "ones that perhaps line up with reasonable municipal and/or community boundaries." (I meant "political boundaries" in the sense of county or city lines, etc., not according to political party affiliation.)
[19:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kill Google AMP Before It Kills the Web - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:41] <exec> 08└─One line in TFS says it all--web developers mostly SUCK, especially the ones who woek for newspapers. My sites are in HTML 4.1 and render fast (unless the page has heavy graphics) and render well on any device you can get on the internet with. I look at code for others' web pages ans say "WTF, this...
[19:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kill Google AMP Before It Kills the Web - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:42] <exec> 08└─Better placement of the ad on the page in the first place is less annoying
[19:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kill Google AMP Before It Kills the Web - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:44] <exec> 08└─If users demand it, remind them they're just holding their browser wrong.
[19:43:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do Humans Come With a Built-in Sense of Obligation to One Another? - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:45] <exec> 08└─Everyone is different. There are empathetic people, sociopaths, and everything in between.
[19:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Do Humans Come With a Built-in Sense of Obligation to One Another? - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:47] <exec> 08└─We know where Milo went after Breitbart.
[19:43:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do Humans Come With a Built-in Sense of Obligation to One Another? - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:49] <exec> 08└─There are also emphatic people. Don't forget about us!
[19:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Plan to Sell Oil Reserve Shows Declining Import Needs - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:28] <exec> 08└─And the question becomes: do we need it or not? Should the US sell this oil now, while oil is still cheap and readily available? It would seem like a small win today, as compared to having a bigger win in the not so distant future when oil shoots up to 10x current prices due to under-supply / over-d...
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[20:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doctor Teaches Children Critical Thinking Skills - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:42] <exec> 08└─Like the experience in "They Live" [youtube.com] movie where a special type of sunglasses reveal all lies? About the thoughts behind the movie.. [youtube.com]
[20:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Doctor Teaches Children Critical Thinking Skills - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:43] <exec> 08└─If I gave you two studies describing the results of a cancer treatment regimen, could you figure out which one is actually more likely to save your life should you get that variety of cancer?
[20:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Doctor Teaches Children Critical Thinking Skills - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:45] <exec> 08└─Lol, I wasn't quite sure what to make of this. Then, with sickening clarity it struck me. Yes, sorry for those poor bastards indeed. He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee.
[20:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doctor Teaches Children Critical Thinking Skills - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:48] <exec> 08└─The problem is that it's not in the vested interest of those that control education to have critical thinkers in large numbers.
[20:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doctor Teaches Children Critical Thinking Skills - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:50] <exec> 08└─If you're not a critical thinker, you may well end up killing yourself thinking pot puts metastatic tumors into remission.
[20:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doctor Teaches Children Critical Thinking Skills - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:52] <exec> 08└─I'm more inclined to think that it's not human nature to think critically when a convenient answer exists. And they do teach critical thinking in schools. I got the core elements of critical analysis at least a half dozen times over my public school education, in several completely different context...
[20:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Doctor Teaches Children Critical Thinking Skills - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:54] <exec> 08└─His theory is correct, but technically cancer is caused by a bacteria which is inside of cancer cells – not a fungus. However, the fungus is highly pleomorphic.
[20:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Doctor Teaches Children Critical Thinking Skills - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:56] <exec> 08└─And they do teach critical thinking in schools.
[20:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Doctor Teaches Children Critical Thinking Skills - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:59] <exec> 08└─Current? Things may or may not be a bit worse right now than they were in the past, but anti-intellectualism has always reigned supreme.
[20:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doctor Teaches Children Critical Thinking Skills - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:01] <exec> 08└─My own inclination, looking at improvement rates, is that it's a mitigated disaster. There's all sorts of toxic threads of idiocy weaving their way into the schools of the US, but by the standards we were judging ourselves on in the "good old days": literacy, drop-out rates, teen pregnancy, college-...
[20:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Doctor Teaches Children Critical Thinking Skills - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:03] <exec> 08└─If you look at the example in the paper, "thinking critically" amounts to "don't take medical advice from a talking parrot". I think the average US educated person has passed that point.
[20:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Doctor Teaches Children Critical Thinking Skills - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:05] <exec> 08└─Some fungus actually cause cancer.
[20:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doctor Teaches Children Critical Thinking Skills - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:08] <exec> 08└─Perhaps anti-intellectualism has reigned in some groups. The skill needed is to not be reigned in by the neanderthals.
[20:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doctor Teaches Children Critical Thinking Skills - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:10] <exec> 08└─DARE certainly improved my critical thinking skills. Just not in the manner they were hoping for.
[20:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Doctor Teaches Children Critical Thinking Skills - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:12] <exec> 08└─The USA is so enormous, and so numerous are its schools, colleges and religious seminaries, many devoted to special religious beliefs ranging from the unorthodox to the dotty, that we can hardly wonder at its yielding a more bounteous harvest of gobbledygook than the rest of the world put together.
[20:37:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mcgrew [701] 02 - 06EPA Nixes Chlorpyrifos Ban & Training Rule; Farm Workers Sickened - 671 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:32] <exec> 08└─Indeed, nobody sued Monsanto for the filth they spewed into the air despite the fact that you had to roll the windows up on a hot August day when driving past because the air burned your lungs, and cars weren't air conditioned then. It took the EPA and government regulations to get it to clean up it...
[20:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EPA Nixes Chlorpyrifos Ban & Training Rule; Farm Workers Sickened - 1195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:46] <exec> 08└─They used to be. Coming from a family of farmers in the Midwest, farming and harvesting is very much for "white" people (everyone actually). It's hard work though, so I'm not surprised that many people would balk at doing hard manual labor in general. I would say it has more to do with Americans gro...
[20:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electric Car Sales Up 91% in California Q1 2017 - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:48] <exec> 08└─Does anyone have any statistics on what percentage of those "electric" cars are being recharged with electricity generated by coal (or other non-renewable, non-clean sources)? I'm not sure that using coal (indirectly) is any better than using gasoline.
[20:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Sales Up 91% in California Q1 2017 - 1323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:49] <exec> 08└─The 100 mile commute might be a california thing. Its pretty unusual even there, unless you count BOTH ways. There are starting to be companies that provide charger-equipped parking. Still its nice to have the range to do a whole day's driving on a single charge, so you can charge at home and not ha...
[20:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Sales Up 91% in California Q1 2017 - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:51] <exec> 08└─Also I have to wake up in the middle of the night, go to the garage and unplug the car as soon as it is done charging
[20:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Sales Up 91% in California Q1 2017 - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:53] <exec> 08└─He doesn't have a wife, he duped a woman into being his mom.
[20:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Electric Car Sales Up 91% in California Q1 2017 - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:56] <exec> 08└─Where the hell did that come from?
[20:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 1732 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:56] <exec> 08└─We don't need stats. The truth is that white people also get shot and abused by police. Specifically, poor people on the wrong side of the tracks, vagrants, and other undesirables as far as LE is concerned. It's also the truth that minorities, specifically black men, are abused several times more th...
[20:40:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple, Verizon Join Forces to Lobby Against New York's 'Right to Repair' Law - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:28] <exec> 08└─Ever since, the trajectory has been fairly clear, even if it occasionally reversed for a year or two. It's not in a good direction.
[20:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kill Google AMP Before It Kills the Web - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:41] <exec> 08└─Can we please get worked up about Facebook's Instant Articles at the same time - at least group the similar demons into the same discussion?
[20:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kill Google AMP Before It Kills the Web - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:42] <exec> 08└─Users are the boss of any site operator that relies on revenue from users or from advertisers to cover the cost of continuing to maintain the site.
[20:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kill Google AMP Before It Kills the Web - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:45] <exec> 08└─I can't think of much in e-commerce that webkit can't handle just fine. Quit trying to be whiz-bang and just sell the product and things will be fine. How ever did newspapers and magazines ever manage to sell ads without scripting, I wonder? But if that's all you wanna know, it should't require mult...
[20:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kill Google AMP Before It Kills the Web - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:47] <exec> 08└─THIS IS SPARTA!!! WE HAVE NO PITY FOR THE LAME OR THE LAZY!! THROW HIS ASS TO THE WOLVES!
[20:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kill Google AMP Before It Kills the Web - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:49] <exec> 08└─And watch your visitors dry up once the most popular search engines and news aggregators are boosting the visibility of AMP documents [searchengineland.com] over plain HTML documents.
[20:43:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Do Humans Come With a Built-in Sense of Obligation to One Another? - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:52] <exec> 08└─I'm a staunch.
[20:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 1398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:54] <exec> 08└─I submitted this story. I submit a lot of stories as my way of trying to help the community. The same day I submitted this story, I also submitted: Nissan Leaf EV Enters 10,000-Mile Mongol Rally Study by MIT Economist: U.S. has Regressed to a Third-World Nation for Most of its Citizens Elon Musk Say...
[20:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:55] <exec> 08└─Oh please, you weren't reading my posts even before that. You're just upset because I called you out. It's the same bullshit that feminists have been spewing for years to rationalize why they aren't responsible for anything. Half of your post was in response to things that weren't said.
[20:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:57] <exec> 08└─There seem to be a lot of raw nerves on this subject. It's understandable given how male-dominated many technical industries are. Given the long hours and intense pressure that go along with those industries, there is often little time for people working in them to socialize and develop relationship...
[20:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:59] <exec> 08└─I'm sure no matter what stage in life you're in if someone holds your hand through everything you'll do better. Male, female, black, white, whatever. It's just not a sustainable/efficient luxury.
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[21:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03oakgrove [5864] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ransomware Operators Give Free Decryption to Taiwanese Man - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:31] <exec> 08└─P.S. But if you indeed liked something about ThunderCrypt and would like to donate us a few cups of coffee, always feel free to do so: [Bitcoin Address]
[21:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ransomware Operators Give Free Decryption to Taiwanese Man - 861 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:33] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of The Princess Bride. Count Rugen: Beautiful isn't it? It took me half a lifetime to invent it. I'm sure you've discovered my deep and abiding interest in pain. Presently I'm writing the definitive work on the subject, so I want you to be totally honest with me on how the machine makes y...
[21:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ransomware Operators Give Free Decryption to Taiwanese Man - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:35] <exec> 08└─why?
[21:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ransomware Operators Give Free Decryption to Taiwanese Man - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:37] <exec> 08└─So I gather this is not wannacry, but another, earlier ransomware. Is there any news yet that anyone hit by wannacry has got their files decrypted by paying the ransom?
[21:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doctor Teaches Children Critical Thinking Skills - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:10] <exec> 08└─That's rather insulting to Neanderthals [plos.org].
[21:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Doctor Teaches Children Critical Thinking Skills - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:12] <exec> 08└─There's all sorts of toxic threads of idiocy weaving their way into the schools of the US, but by the standards we were judging ourselves on in the "good old days"
[21:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doctor Teaches Children Critical Thinking Skills - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:14] <exec> 08└─What on earth about the average educated person in the US that you've met convinces you of that?
[21:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Doctor Teaches Children Critical Thinking Skills - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:16] <exec> 08└─If only we knew how to test for fungal infections.
[21:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Doctor Teaches Children Critical Thinking Skills - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:18] <exec> 08└─Can you find any drug commercials that use talking parrots? In contrast, choosing insurance seems to require a lower threshold: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] (top comment: "I just switched to geico only because of this commercial. litterally not saving anything at all, bu...
[21:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Doctor Teaches Children Critical Thinking Skills - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:21] <exec> 08└─It depends on your definition of "cause". Cell division causes cancer (because it is an imperfect process), so anything that ups the division rate ("mitogens") will increase the chance for cancer.
[21:37:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03julian [6003] 02 - 06EPA Nixes Chlorpyrifos Ban & Training Rule; Farm Workers Sickened - 142 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:38] <exec> 08└─But, when Agri-business says something is "crucial", it usually only means that the stuff is profitable, or more profitable than alternatives.
[21:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EPA Nixes Chlorpyrifos Ban & Training Rule; Farm Workers Sickened - 1446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:55] <exec> 08└─No need to worry! Soon news like these lies will evaporate. I eat these and other chemicals for breakfast. Stay strong and believe. Soon we will finish "fixing" education. As we move to grade based evaluations, we will have the needed data to show why our current public education needs should be alt...
[21:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EPA Nixes Chlorpyrifos Ban & Training Rule; Farm Workers Sickened - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:57] <exec> 08└─Imported.
[21:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inquiry: ESA's Schiaparelli Spacecraft was "Ill-Prepared" for Mars Landing Attempt - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:14] <exec> 08└─One of the recommendations is that NASA's JPL should double-check ESA's work.
[21:39:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Sales Up 91% in California Q1 2017 - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:06] <exec> 08└─Yes, but if the US editors can [sic] English spellings, then I can [sic] US spellings.
[21:39:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Sales Up 91% in California Q1 2017 - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:07] <exec> 08└─Why not "S cuarve"? Because the context was people who know something about maths.
[21:40:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:08] <exec> 08└─Look at proportional and per-capita rates for US prisons. The expressed bias of America's legal systems and by extension, its society and norms, is evident. Anomalies in these statistics don't occur on orders of magnitude.
[21:40:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:10] <exec> 08└─If he wasn't guilty that is, in fact, what he was jailed for. "Not being in the nearby vicinity of any crime" is not a reasonable thing to ask of anyone.
[21:40:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:12] <exec> 08└─That's some mighty fine lawyerin', son.
[21:40:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:14] <exec> 08└─Did either the judge or the defendant use the evil voice at any point? https://www.youtube.com
[21:40:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03compro01 [2515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:16] <exec> 08└─demonstrable disproportion of blacks committing vastly more crime compared to the general population
[21:40:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:19] <exec> 08└─The misspelling is quoted exactly, it deserves a [sic] more than the rather dumb highlighting of English spelling that some editors do, but it is not the editors' error, it is The Independent's.
[21:40:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:21] <exec> 08└─> Look at proportional and per-capita rates for US prisons. In 2010 black men were 6x more likely to be incarcerated than white men. [pewresearch.org] If white men had the same rate of incarceration as black men, our justice system would be fixed overnight. Anyone who says that white men get the sam...
[21:40:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:23] <exec> 08└─I see you have taken frojack at his word. You shouldn't do that. The guy is a total bullshitter.
[21:40:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:25] <exec> 08└─So what did he do to break his probation?
[21:40:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:27] <exec> 08└─The whole point of an alford plea versus a regular plea is that it is not an admission of guilt.
[21:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kill Google AMP Before It Kills the Web - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:14] <exec> 08└─But sure, maybe it's possible to make software to refuse to touch any AMP coded pages..
[21:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kill Google AMP Before It Kills the Web - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:16] <exec> 08└─My idea was akin to a "usenet death penalty". Maybe it's not possible. But I got the idea when there was a craze for weird .tld's and to add to the injury puny-code to handle non-english domain names. If bind refuses them.. well no gain.
[21:42:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kill Google AMP Before It Kills the Web - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:18] <exec> 08└─We are committed to providing a friendly, safe and welcoming environment for everyone, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, personal ability or disability, ethnicity, religion, level of experience, set of skills or similar personal characteristics.
[21:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kill Google AMP Before It Kills the Web - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:20] <exec> 08└─They meat the latest (most expensive) phones with the last bug ridden OS. Not your old proven to work phone :p
[21:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kill Google AMP Before It Kills the Web - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:22] <exec> 08└─They meant .. :-)
[21:45:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 1586 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:31] <exec> 08└─charon never replies, so I'll just do it myself. See my post is the way testosterone mentors some testosterone. If I wanted to schmooooze people with BS I'd have gone into marketing. I'd probably have kicked ass there too. It actually paraphrases a conversation I had with a coworker. Look at the err...
[21:45:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 711 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:39] <exec> 08└─Well that's rather the problem with treating skilled technical people like utterly replaceable commodities--they don't like it. And it's always the MBAs and salespeople doing it. As a technical person after a while you learn you never want to work for those people again. It's also why companies run...
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[22:36:33] <exec> 08└─This guy tries to shut down any discussion that goes against dark matter. He is like the inquisition: The blogger (@StartsWithABang) contacted @scilogscom on January 24 by replying to a 15-day old tweet that announced our blog’s move to the new domain. He tweeted “Bummed that @scilogscom is in t...
[22:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Busts The Biggest Myth Ever About Why Bridges Collapse - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:34] <exec> 08└─You mean this "biggest myth" is busted? Nobody's ever thought that before [seattletimes.com]? I hope this is an explanatory article and not claiming any new "busts". You can see a nice fluid dynamics article here [arxiv.org].
[22:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Science Busts The Biggest Myth Ever About Why Bridges Collapse - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:37] <exec> 08└─Replace by: Some guy has a supplemental scientific hypothesis about one famous bridge collapse.
[22:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ransomware Operators Give Free Decryption to Taiwanese Man - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:47] <exec> 08└─"I'm broke, I got tech skillz, can I haz tech job?" "No! You must be thiiiiis rich to get richer!" Another example of how the "tech" industry is PURE FUCKING EVIL.
[22:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ransomware Operators Give Free Decryption to Taiwanese Man - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:49] <exec> 08└─The salt content of your man milk dried it out, similar to how females suffer vaginal dryness in your mere presence. You are sick and should be charged with sexual mollusctation.
[22:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Sales Up 91% in California Q1 2017 - 1319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:14] <exec> 08└─The Leaf's original 80 miles is perfect for most of Europe/Asia, but in the US where commutes are often 20 to 30 miles, it doesn't provide a lot of margin for a round-trip with a swing by a store or two. Most people will indeed not want to reply on topping up at the office. I wouldn't want to be tra...
[22:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03gman003 [4155] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Sales Up 91% in California Q1 2017 - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:15] <exec> 08└─True, but on the other hand, doubling transistor count every 18 months got us from the 4004 to the 6950X. If BEV sales continue to roughly double annually, they'll quickly reach market domination, slowing only when they hit near-total saturation. The real question is, what kind of curve are we looki...
[22:39:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03driverless [4770] 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 34 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:27] <exec> 08└─He didn't commit an armed robbery.
[22:39:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 368 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:37] <exec> 08└─I would propose that in an old die-hard slave state in a country where presidential advisors (e.g. Ehrlichman) has explicitly stated that laws were deliberately designed to be racist, that Ockham's razor points to racism as the simplest explanation. The hypothesis of no racism being involved is the...
[22:41:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SCOTUS: NC's Gerrymandered Districts are Unconstitutional - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:24] <exec> 08└─Going by area is easy. Even better, just hold a contest and let the winner be the map with it's longest perimeter being smaller than that of any other proposed map. (What is your worst-case huge district? Is yours less awful than what your competition has? If so, your map wins and you get famous.) G...
[22:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kill Google AMP Before It Kills the Web - 862 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:21] <exec> 08└─I like Google's cached pages because I can add markup, highlighting stuff that is particularly applicable to a point I am trying to make. I find the &strip=0 version of the page to often be especially desirable. Those remove (unnecessary) scripts, (unnecessary, IMO) images, etc. In those pages, Goog...
[22:45:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06Study Finds Female Students Less Likely to Drop Engineering Program if Female Mentored - 1419 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:14] <exec> 08└─You guys are reading it all wrong. All it means is Stockholm Syndrome is stronger when the victims share an identity. Lets be victims together is always going to sell better than let me be a martyr by myself. Something fairly obvious is you assign mixed couples in a corporate environment and HR is g...
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[23:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skirting User Account Control on Windows 10 With fodhelper.exe - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:27] <exec> 08└─I know it's fun to bash Microsoft but this shows security is hard. Windows takes the heat because it has the most market penetration. Linux security would also suck if it had anywhere near 50% saturation. I have to wonder about the Linux servers, are they pretty secure, does nobody care, or don't th...
[23:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Science Busts The Biggest Myth Ever About Why Bridges Collapse - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:37] <exec> 08└─There is no article at that address. There is only 29 lines of text, there is no content, there isn't even any HTML aside from the header it's just some script garbage. Please don't give me a link to malware and claim it's an article. Thanks.
[23:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Busts The Biggest Myth Ever About Why Bridges Collapse - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:39] <exec> 08└─The article is available here: https://archive.fo [archive.fo]
[23:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Science Busts The Biggest Myth Ever About Why Bridges Collapse - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:41] <exec> 08└─Just thought I'd throw that in since he seems to be blamed for everything.
[23:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ransomware Operators Give Free Decryption to Taiwanese Man - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:53] <exec> 08└─I'm a vagitarian, you insensitive clod. I like it raw and moist!!!
[23:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03ese002 [5306] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doctor Teaches Children Critical Thinking Skills - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:34] <exec> 08└─Ah, no. Nothing new here. Just another gushing reporter astounded to find someone still teaching skepticism in the modern age when such is unfashionable.
[23:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doctor Teaches Children Critical Thinking Skills - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:35] <exec> 08└─There's a link to the article Testing Treatment [testingtreatments.org], a book on how to tell true medicine from false. But it is not suitable for ten-year-olds. Has anyone found a link to the teaching material that actually is suitable for ten-year-olds? -- hendrik
[23:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doctor Teaches Children Critical Thinking Skills - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:38] <exec> 08└─Kids that are taught that 1+1=2 do better than kids that aren't taught math at all! Whodathunkit!!
[23:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doctor Teaches Children Critical Thinking Skills - 997 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:40] <exec> 08└─They hand you a bag of tools but don't teach you how to apply them to the problem at hand. They need to not only have the tools but be shown how they might apply. In many cases there are a lot of variables and value judgments to be made. A lot of people fail there in medicine. Great, so X is 10% mor...
[23:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doctor Teaches Children Critical Thinking Skills - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:42] <exec> 08└─I get what you're saying, but this is definitely a "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink" situation.
[23:37:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NewNic [6420] 02 - 06EPA Nixes Chlorpyrifos Ban & Training Rule; Farm Workers Sickened - 84 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:54] <exec> 08└─If this stuff is being misused those harmed will sue, the industry will sort it out.
[23:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EPA Nixes Chlorpyrifos Ban & Training Rule; Farm Workers Sickened - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:19] <exec> 08└─Monopolizing the lawyer market is done (or at least attempted) more often than you might imagine. If you need to sue and the first one you consult tells you you're crazy, keep looking - it's not unusual for the bought and paid for trolls to register with the bar association for "convenient, low cost...
[23:38:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inquiry: ESA's Schiaparelli Spacecraft was "Ill-Prepared" for Mars Landing Attempt - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:37] <exec> 08└─And it all went tumbling down back to the law of the jungle the moment they left, strange isn't it.
[23:40:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Will Spend Six Years in Georgia Prison Despite Jury Finding him 'Not Guilty' - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:43] <exec> 08└─He did plead to a lesser crime, aggravated assault, (which would automatically violate his parole), whether or not that plea was accepted,
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