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[00:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Isaac Newton Vs. Las Vegas: How Physicists Used Science To Beat The Odds At Roulette - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:18] <exec> 08└─Sieg, Heil! Son of a Jewish postal wanker, that's classic.
[00:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Isaac Newton Vs. Las Vegas: How Physicists Used Science To Beat The Odds At Roulette - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:21] <exec> 08└─This is basically like card counting except they counted the number of rotations of the roulette wheel, yeah.
[00:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Think Technology is Disrupting the Job Market Like Never Before? Think Again. - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:45] <exec> 08└─Shit, I got an A in economics, and it shows. My economics teacher was the most foul mouthed motherfucker who ever taught. You are aware that high taxes incentivize job creation right? Because the job creators have two choices. They either give their surplus money to the government in tax, or they ge...
[00:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Think Technology is Disrupting the Job Market Like Never Before? Think Again. - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:46] <exec> 08└─Let basic income just provide exactly those basic needs like food, shelter, care etc and nothing else.
[00:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Think Technology is Disrupting the Job Market Like Never Before? Think Again. - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:49] <exec> 08└─Dude, Ayn Rand was like totally hot.
[00:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Think Technology is Disrupting the Job Market Like Never Before? Think Again. - 651 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:51] <exec> 08└─And when I don't volunteer to follow rules that you want to impose? Or my house is not in a HOA area? You want to be able to disrupt others with your food business, but don't want disruption from others. Life doesn't work like that. But back to your specific example, you have arbitrarily raised the...
[00:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Think Technology is Disrupting the Job Market Like Never Before? Think Again. - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:53] <exec> 08└─Sorry, GP post constructed an unrealistic example. You just went along with the weak-minded thinking.
[00:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Think Technology is Disrupting the Job Market Like Never Before? Think Again. - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:55] <exec> 08└─Perhaps, but you should try to refrain from sticking your dick into crazy.
[00:41:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twisted Textile Cords May Contain Clues to Inca Messages - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:32] <exec> 08└─Am I the only on who watched The Mysterious Cities of Gold in the 80's or did you guys all skip the mini documentary that was on at the end of each episode? I don't even live on your continent ffs; http://m.imdb.com [imdb.com]
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[01:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RadioShack in Liquidation Process is Selling Musty Old Clipboards for Only 50 Cents - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:22] <exec> 08└─you know they're not coming back when they sell the shop fittings.
[01:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RadioShack in Liquidation Process is Selling Musty Old Clipboards for Only 50 Cents - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:23] <exec> 08└─If I wasn't willing to pay while Radio Shack was in business, why would I want to pay for their garbage now?
[01:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06RadioShack in Liquidation Process is Selling Musty Old Clipboards for Only 50 Cents - 779 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:25] <exec> 08└─Lubuntu 17.04 & Current Debian LiveCD's Missing Critical Utilities The Lubuntu 17.04 Desktop/Live CD(ISO) is missing: Package: net-tools[1] It's pathetic when you use a LiveCD today and discover you don't have something as simple as netstat and other important tools available. It's also quite pathet...
[01:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RadioShack in Liquidation Process is Selling Musty Old Clipboards for Only 50 Cents - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:28] <exec> 08└─Will people be content with online only electronic components shopping or will there be a new business opportunity for some entrepreneur to sell those over the counter?
[01:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RadioShack in Liquidation Process is Selling Musty Old Clipboards for Only 50 Cents - 755 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:30] <exec> 08└─All today's consumer wants is a phone, phone case, and phone charger. You could get those at Radioshack (up until its demise). Or at the Sprint store. Or Verizon etc. But if you already have the phone you can get the case and charger at Ross Dress for Less. Throw in a set of steak knives and glasswa...
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[01:36:32] <exec> 08└─Their selection was shit though. I need SMD parts and replacement capacitors with actually common values.
[01:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Isaac Newton Vs. Las Vegas: How Physicists Used Science To Beat The Odds At Roulette - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:43] <exec> 08└─He's not a jackass, he is a FAGGOT. And he is married to a man. If that doesn't make you want to puke, you aren't much of a man.
[01:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Think Technology is Disrupting the Job Market Like Never Before? Think Again. - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:14] <exec> 08└─You can demand a lot of things right now but you will only get it if you have something to trade with. And well if someone wants to give away stuff, then that's their choice. If a populist or some moron gets elected. Insightful people can move away, even in anticipation before the shit hits the fan.
[01:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Think Technology is Disrupting the Job Market Like Never Before? Think Again. - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:16] <exec> 08└─Those tax cuts were for the top rich right? not for small business or the inventor type? Tax cut for HP makes the top richer and produces more entertaining cat-fiona-fights. Tax cuts for Joe's fuel monitor production gives more employees because that enables expansion and thus more profit.
[01:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Think Technology is Disrupting the Job Market Like Never Before? Think Again. - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:18] <exec> 08└─Preteen girls can run lemonade stands with no food inspection, set their prices as high as they want, and they don't pay taxes either. If I try to sell food on the street, I would be arrested. That's all kinds of ageist sexist prejudice right there.
[01:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Think Technology is Disrupting the Job Market Like Never Before? Think Again. - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:20] <exec> 08└─The problem is Apple and Amazon and Alphabet don't use tax cuts for expansion. They just hoard money.
[01:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Think Technology is Disrupting the Job Market Like Never Before? Think Again. - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:22] <exec> 08└─Lol it's the bootleg cable guy. Your services are valuable to me. Shut up and take my money!!
[01:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Think Technology is Disrupting the Job Market Like Never Before? Think Again. - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:24] <exec> 08└─Bob the Angry Flower [angryflower.com]
[01:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cold Tech Turns "on the Rocks" Into "in the Rocks" - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:30] <exec> 08└─they will be upset that they don't already know how to make one. This because I invented it, but have ordered it only a few times. Put some ice in a blender then crush it. Pour it into a large glass. Pour Midori - Japanese melon liquer - over it. I've always wanted to try selling these at a carnival...
[01:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Wants to Make Thunderbolt 3 the New USB - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:25] <exec> 08└─It's not hindsight. The Beta vs. VHS format wars came *long* before Firewire, and there were plenty of other examples of consumers generally preferring the alternatives that cost less.
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[02:36:31] <exec> 08└─Ebay or Amazon has components.
[02:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RadioShack in Liquidation Process is Selling Musty Old Clipboards for Only 50 Cents - 1049 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:32] <exec> 08└─1970 vs 2010 and beyond? Radio Shack was where I went to learn about stuff. It was the only place to find stuff. Need a radio tube, so you go down to Radio Shack, if the clerk wasn't busy, he would direct you to your specific tube - otherwise, you wandered the aisles. Either way, you wandered about...
[02:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RadioShack in Liquidation Process is Selling Musty Old Clipboards for Only 50 Cents - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:34] <exec> 08└─Educational for its time, but only a fool would learn anything about electronics today. Everything is made in China, so unless you want to go to China and get a job in China, you're wasting your time and money in electronics, and anything you do will be at most a hobby. Substitute "China" with "Indi...
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[02:37:22] <exec> 08└─The tech valley billionaires have the solution: more H1B.
[02:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Think Technology is Disrupting the Job Market Like Never Before? Think Again. - 951 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:23] <exec> 08└─Right, because if we allow people to run a small business from their home the next thing that will happen is people will be having rock concerts in their backyards. Like, noise ordinances don't exist, I guess? Oh, wait. The real reason we can't have sensible regulation is assholes like you constantl...
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[02:37:25] <exec> 08└─Rapid change in task done may still be required for economic growth under capitalism -- but that does not mean the new tasks have to be mostly doable profitably by humans (as opposed to machines). No one would employ a trained chimpanzee to work in a modern factory or modern service provide. In the...
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[02:37:41] <exec> 08└─Every day I pray for the death of soylentnews.
[02:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03VanessaE [3396] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dubai Deploys "Robocop" - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:04] <exec> 08└─Looks like a cross between the steward bots from WALL-E and the NS-5's from I, Robot.
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[03:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Snakes Can Hunt in Packs - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:21] <exec> 08└─Sure thing science guy. So when will the retraction be published. Next paper, bats hunt in packs. Followed by another retraction.
[03:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snakes Can Hunt in Packs - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:22] <exec> 08└─Damn .... Was sure this was going to be about politicians.
[03:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RadioShack in Liquidation Process is Selling Musty Old Clipboards for Only 50 Cents - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:39] <exec> 08└─> Everything is made in China, so [...] Apple have done rather well for themselves by hiring contract manufacturers in China for electronic items that are designed elsewhere.
[03:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RadioShack in Liquidation Process is Selling Musty Old Clipboards for Only 50 Cents - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:40] <exec> 08└─Someone observed that liquidation sales begin with a good selection and unexciting prices, then end with a poor selection and good prices.
[03:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Think Technology is Disrupting the Job Market Like Never Before? Think Again. - 731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:31] <exec> 08└─There's definitely a shortage of job makers because the people who own the companies that produce the things that people buy are too selfish to pay a decent wage. Companies don't create jobs out of thin air, they do it in response to demand. Insufficient pay for most people stifles demand and ultima...
[03:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Think Technology is Disrupting the Job Market Like Never Before? Think Again. - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:33] <exec> 08└─And when I don't volunteer to follow rules that you want to impose? Or my house is not in a HOA area?
[03:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Think Technology is Disrupting the Job Market Like Never Before? Think Again. - 2126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:35] <exec> 08└─I predict That's interesting when you consider that it ALREADY happened. that a populist will rise You don't often hear the guy called by that term but he did get himself elected to a 4-year term 4 times. who promises [houses, cars, clothes to the people] ...and the guy I'm referencing not only prom...
[03:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Think Technology is Disrupting the Job Market Like Never Before? Think Again. - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:37] <exec> 08└─You are aware that high taxes incentivize job creation right?
[03:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Think Technology is Disrupting the Job Market Like Never Before? Think Again. - 851 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:39] <exec> 08└─Well, considering that there is a risk of killing people with a food business, I would say that that is quite disruptive. More locally, he is talking about a soda business, which would involve large trucks to pick up the product, possible smells, the waste product might affect the sewage system, etc...
[03:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dubai Deploys "Robocop" - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:18] <exec> 08└─The SoylentNews discussion about that event is linked from the summary. /article.pl?sid=16/07/08/1411237 [soylentnews.org]
[03:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cold Tech Turns "on the Rocks" Into "in the Rocks" - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:48] <exec> 08└─God I love porters... And extra pale ales that are hop a plenty. The extremes of both give the flavours: probably also why I love horseradish, heavy pepper use, sriracha sauce... My taste buds suck, and so need the extremes. But porters! Mmmmm!!
[03:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cold Tech Turns "on the Rocks" Into "in the Rocks" - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:50] <exec> 08└─I made sake once from scratch: an entire carboy of it. The first two bottles were great, but after that: must have not sterilised well enough. Haven't tried melon liqueur, though. Warm sake didn't thrill me, but was nice as a chilled white wine.
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[04:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Nuclear Regulators Greatly Underestimate Potential for Nuclear Disaster - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:14] <exec> 08└─I've mentioned multiple times in the comments about the problems with nuclear energy. It's not the actual nuclear part that's bad, it's the waste products, every single time. They are just too much of a liability to leave around for future generations to clean up. We have clean energy now-- nuclear...
[04:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Nuclear Regulators Greatly Underestimate Potential for Nuclear Disaster - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:15] <exec> 08└─if you figure in the cost of the disposal of waste. I will assume for the sake of argument that a way to dispose of it can be found. How much will it cost? The half-life of plutonium is over twenty thousand years.
[04:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snakes Can Hunt in Packs - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:26] <exec> 08└─Alfred is not going to be happy to hear this.
[04:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Snakes Can Hunt in Packs - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:28] <exec> 08└─I came here for planes and I leave disappointed.
[04:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Snakes Can Hunt in Packs - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:30] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uMkdqLypsQ [youtube.com]
[04:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RadioShack in Liquidation Process is Selling Musty Old Clipboards for Only 50 Cents - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:48] <exec> 08└─Still, it's super cheap, so why not pick one up if you have the space for it?
[04:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RadioShack in Liquidation Process is Selling Musty Old Clipboards for Only 50 Cents - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:49] <exec> 08└─I went to a Home Depot looking for a "squirrel cage" type fan. I asked the guy that worked the HVAC department if they carried them and he said I'd probably have to go to a farm supply store for something like that. I just shook my head and walked away. https://www.youtube.com [y...
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[04:36:51] <exec> 08└─Why would I pay $0.50 for a waterlogged clipboard when a brand new one is $1 at the dollar tree? Humm?
[04:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RadioShack in Liquidation Process is Selling Musty Old Clipboards for Only 50 Cents - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:53] <exec> 08└─Your mistake was talking to the regular joe-blow workers. If you know what you need, always go to the "trade," "pro," or "contractors" desk. They'll run an inventory check for you, order if necessary and will usually give you a discount for having to wait for the special order.
[04:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Think Technology is Disrupting the Job Market Like Never Before? Think Again. - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:49] <exec> 08└─No no no; we need to abolish all tax on the rich. Don't you understand?? The job creators can't create enough jobs fast enough because they're too busy evading taxes to do any productive work!
[04:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 067-Year-Old Samba Flaw Lets Hackers Access Thousands of Linux PCs Remotely - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:32] <exec> 08└─> Yeah, there seems to be a simple fix. [...] Samba 4.6.4, 4.5.10 and 4.4.14 have been issued as security releases to correct the defect.
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[04:39:33] <exec> 08└─Samba Flaws is going around the world, giving away computers. It's like Christmas for hackers.
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[04:39:35] <exec> 08└─trying again: with Samba Flaws flying around the world, hackers are owning computers like it's Christmas.
[04:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 067-Year-Old Samba Flaw Lets Hackers Access Thousands of Linux PCs Remotely - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:38] <exec> 08└─Barry Feigenbaum originally designed SMB at IBM with the aim of turning DOS "Interrupt 33" (21h) local file access into a networked file system. Microsoft has made considerable modifications to the most commonly used version.
[04:40:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cold Tech Turns "on the Rocks" Into "in the Rocks" - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:08] <exec> 08└─> I would not be surprised he's using the CO2 as a refrigerant. The triple point of carbon dioxide is around -70 Celsius (at lower temperatures, it only exists as a solid); for R-134a the triple point is -153.4 Celsius, and for R-404A it's at -148 Celsius. When the goal is to obtain lower temperatur...
[04:41:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Levels of PFOA Found in Mid-Ohio River Valley Residents from 1991 to 2013 - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:28] <exec> 08└─they had limited knowledge ...unlike us.
[04:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Piracy Killing Hollywood So Bad That Disney Made More Money in 2016 Than Any Studio Ever - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:08] <exec> 08└─...West Side Story is just a rip off of Romeo and Juliet. And of course, anyone should be able to copy any or all of that work without paying one cent to those [people who legitimately borrowed from the public domain] who created it.
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[04:42:09] <exec> 08└─Yawning is something. Therefore, we must yawn.
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[05:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Nuclear Regulators Greatly Underestimate Potential for Nuclear Disaster - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:16] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, it seems they only disagree with the NRC because they think the NRC low-balled the potential consequences of a fire because of concerns that increased costs ...
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[05:36:18] <exec> 08└─It has nothing to do with political correctness or opinion. The NRC was basing their analysis on provably false assumptions to lowball the potential damages as a result of extensive lobby and cronyism on behalf of the nuclear industry. When your potential damages after off by more than an order of m...
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[05:36:20] <exec> 08└─I will assume for the sake of argument that a way to dispose of it can be found. How much will it cost? The half-life of plutonium is over twenty thousand years.
[05:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Nuclear Regulators Greatly Underestimate Potential for Nuclear Disaster - 1623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:22] <exec> 08└─It's not just that. Uranium is a nonrenewable resource and its quantities are limited. Right now there are relatively few nuclear plants. But just to provide the power for the US you'd need in the ballpark of 400-500 nuclear plants. And that's at today's energy expenditures. Imagine what we could do...
[05:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Nuclear Regulators Greatly Underestimate Potential for Nuclear Disaster - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:24] <exec> 08└─We've already had a couple of 'disasters', and they were no big deal. Everything was sufficiently contained.
[05:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Nuclear Regulators Greatly Underestimate Potential for Nuclear Disaster - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:26] <exec> 08└─> The half-life of plutonium is over twenty thousand years. The plutonium-239 you're talking about can be recovered and used as fuel. Shorter-lived isotopes such as caesium-137 and strontium-90 are enough of a problem: a rule of thumb is that they ought to be stored for 10 half-lives so that their r...
[05:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Nuclear Regulators Greatly Underestimate Potential for Nuclear Disaster - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:29] <exec> 08└─We've never "disposed" of the waste. We've only stored it. And we've stored it in pools right next to the reactor sites. Dispersed in poorly guarded facilities around the country. Or mountains of low-level waste placed in barrels and shipped quietly to other facilities. The actual weight of plutoniu...
[05:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Nuclear Regulators Greatly Underestimate Potential for Nuclear Disaster - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:31] <exec> 08└─Where everything is made by the lowest bidder and the quality is equivalent... Because "it may not be good for you and you may even hate it, but at least with *this* guy here, you get three scoops of it instead of just the two" This whole "it can't cost a thing" is what is going to kill us all. Peop...
[05:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Nuclear Regulators Greatly Underestimate Potential for Nuclear Disaster - 1148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:33] <exec> 08└─The nuclear waste will probably not be waste in the future because there's not enough raw material to go around. Circa 2035 the peak of uranium supplies vs consumption will occur. And then that waste will have to be used in accelerator power stations to get enough power. Thorium, liquid cores, gener...
[05:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Nuclear Regulators Greatly Underestimate Potential for Nuclear Disaster - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:35] <exec> 08└─The actual weight of plutonium needing disposal could probably have been launched into the sun for the far less money than we've spent on the Space Shuttle and ISS over the years.
[05:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Nuclear Regulators Greatly Underestimate Potential for Nuclear Disaster - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:37] <exec> 08└─It's solved by ruining peoples lives and not compensating or helping them - problem solved. The powerful and rich can always arrange a comfort zone.
[05:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Nuclear Regulators Greatly Underestimate Potential for Nuclear Disaster - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:40] <exec> 08└─Well, AC, which is it going to be, 500 plants total or hundreds to thousands PER STATE? Waste is a political problem, not a technical one. We could very easily join the rest of the nuclear world by constructing and using a fuel reprocessing facility that would have the two-fold benefit of getting mo...
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[05:36:42] <exec> 08└─as a result of extensive lobby and cronyism on behalf of the nuclear industry.
[05:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Nuclear Regulators Greatly Underestimate Potential for Nuclear Disaster - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:44] <exec> 08└─The USA had an INES level 5 incident: Three Mile Island accident near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (United States), 28 March 1979. A combination of design and operator errors caused a gradual loss of coolant, leading to a partial meltdown. An unknown amount of radioactive gases were released into the at...
[05:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Nuclear Regulators Greatly Underestimate Potential for Nuclear Disaster - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:46] <exec> 08└─Another BIG problem is the management and bean counter people that simple don't grasp what's going on and thus make bad decisions.
[05:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Isaac Newton Vs. Las Vegas: How Physicists Used Science To Beat The Odds At Roulette - 2101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:30] <exec> 08└─I tried some variation of this while observing that one particular roulette wheel at a local Indian Casino was not very stable -- when customers would lean on the table you could see it visibly tilt. I figured if they didn't care about that, they probably didn't care about some other things. Anyway,...
[05:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Isaac Newton Vs. Las Vegas: How Physicists Used Science To Beat The Odds At Roulette - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:32] <exec> 08└─Also, I'm surprised the article didn't mention Joe Jagger: http://www.roulettestar.com [roulettestar.com] He was an engineer in 1800s, went to Monte Carlo, employed a half dozen people to take data on all of the wheels, found a good one, and then won some amount that would translat...
[05:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Think Technology is Disrupting the Job Market Like Never Before? Think Again. - 888 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:18] <exec> 08└─Here's a crazy idea: Make America Great Again. Note that my notion differs from Trump's plan to make America WHITE again. We could repeat what worked 8 decades ago by rebuilding USA's crumbling infrastructure: fix the roads that are full of potholes; fix the bridges that are falling into rivers; fix...
[05:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NVMe 1.3 Specification Published - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:12] <exec> 08└─Me too. I've only got one machine capable of socketing a NVMe. As prices fall we can move away from drive-bay SSDs and put it all on the the mother board and use drives for backup only. But even today, a drive bay SSD using clunky old Sata II or III makes for an amazing upgrade to any older laptop.
[05:40:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 067-Year-Old Samba Flaw Lets Hackers Access Thousands of Linux PCs Remotely - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:05] <exec> 08└─Then those distributions has to import the new source, compile and save. Takes time.
[05:40:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cold Tech Turns "on the Rocks" Into "in the Rocks" - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:37] <exec> 08└─They called the Wright brothers silly. They called space whisky silly. If no one tried silly ideas, we'd never progress.
[05:40:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Medical Research Discovered to Have Been Peer Reviewed by a Dog - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:58] <exec> 08└─"Scientific research" is bunkum, medical research doubly so. Woof woof. Remember to immunize, or watch VAXXED and think for yourself.
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[06:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Malvertising Campaign Finds a Way Around Ad Blockers - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:21] <exec> 08└─But isn't the software industry trying to become more diverse?
[06:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Malvertising Campaign Finds a Way Around Ad Blockers - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:23] <exec> 08└─One might say the notion is spreading like a virus.
[06:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Malvertising Campaign Finds a Way Around Ad Blockers - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:25] <exec> 08└─Once more with feeling.
[06:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Nuclear Regulators Greatly Underestimate Potential for Nuclear Disaster - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:50] <exec> 08└─Uranium is a nonrenewable resource and its quantities are limited.
[06:40:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 067-Year-Old Samba Flaw Lets Hackers Access Thousands of Linux PCs Remotely - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:10] <exec> 08└─You can't hack my Samba if I don't have it.
[06:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High Levels of PFOA Found in Mid-Ohio River Valley Residents from 1991 to 2013 - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:03] <exec> 08└─"Better Things for Better Living...Through Chemistry"
[06:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Piracy Killing Hollywood So Bad That Disney Made More Money in 2016 Than Any Studio Ever - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:46] <exec> 08└─Has been the first movie I watched in the theatre in the last 5 years. > I have to ask, why? Throw Ridley Scott a pittance once in a while. Maybe to recall the taste of giant popcorn with a huge soda sugary drink and hear the noisy slurp at the end. The last video rental store in the area is closing...
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[06:42:47] <exec> 08└─Or that, indeed.
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[07:36:09] <exec> 08└─Loads of hot air but not a word on how it actually gets past ad blockers.
[07:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Malvertising Campaign Finds a Way Around Ad Blockers - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:10] <exec> 08└─will they figure out how to block it, now that it's been discovered? I'm quite happy with Ublock Origin.
[07:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Nuclear Regulators Greatly Underestimate Potential for Nuclear Disaster - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:36] <exec> 08└─it's got $25 billion. However the courts have held that the fund [wikipedia.org] must stop collecting payments until a way is found to collect the waste. Hanford is building a facility to convert military waste into glass, which is the safest way found so far to keep it from leaking all over the pla...
[07:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Snakes Can Hunt in Packs - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:48] <exec> 08└─2 snakes zero in on the same prey animal. One starts eating it from 1 end and the other starts at the other end. When they meet in the middle, neither being able to bite the prey animal in 2, the bigger of the 2 snakes proceeds to eat the other snake. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[07:40:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cold Tech Turns "on the Rocks" Into "in the Rocks" - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:40:28] <exec> 08└─The new CO2 (R744) based refrigeration systems would definitely have no problem freezing vodka. R744 has some very good thermodynamic characteristics for sub-zero cooling. Although its a little hard to work with because the high-side pressures are quite high. Design pressures typically 90 BAR. [dan...
[07:40:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cold Tech Turns "on the Rocks" Into "in the Rocks" - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:40:30] <exec> 08└─Thanks... I did not recall the critical point for CO2 was that high... ummm, maybe CO2 not so good. Just begging for my thermal expansion valve to plug up with dry ice, no?
[07:40:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cold Tech Turns "on the Rocks" Into "in the Rocks" - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:40:32] <exec> 08└─Ignore above... Butthurt below made an observation which made my post above moot. I had neglected the triple point of CO2. Old age, forgetfullness, and posting without researching, I suppose. Sure seems I recall the triple point of CO2 being much lower... but sometimes one's memory plays tricks....
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[08:36:26] <exec> 08└─If you had RTFA you'd know it gets past ublock origin. But the whole thing relies on JavaScript so it's trivial to snip in the bud. I only browse with JavaScript disabled, the only real negative is my bookmarklets won't work. I guess I could fiddle with NoScript to fix this but I rather enjoy my fai...
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[08:36:27] <exec> 08└─...I call it a successful digital campaign.
[08:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Malvertising Campaign Finds a Way Around Ad Blockers - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:29] <exec> 08└─Also (like stated in the article) blacklisting is a losing proposition. It's almost security theater to operate under the fool me once paradigm.
[08:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Malvertising Campaign Finds a Way Around Ad Blockers - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:31] <exec> 08└─You could disable all javascript with ublock/umatrix, and then add your own userscripts which are not affected.
[08:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Malvertising Campaign Finds a Way Around Ad Blockers - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:34] <exec> 08└─If you block all scripts with uBlock Origin, how does it get past? I block everything by default and only whitelist sites that I trust on an as needed basis...
[08:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Malvertising Campaign Finds a Way Around Ad Blockers - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:36] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the JavaScript tidbit. As I have said here before, I do not run ad blockers. Never have. I run Script blockers. For the exact reason this topic is all about. N.B. I run the full "web experience" on my phone. Its damned near useless for surfing the net... Ever tried to read a page that t...
[08:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Nuclear Regulators Greatly Underestimate Potential for Nuclear Disaster - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:02] <exec> 08└─I am pretty sure they know what is going on. What they are looking for is plausible deniability so they can do the more profitable thing. They are looking for scapegoats. Privatize the profit fast, and socialize the flak. Been there, seen that.
[08:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RadioShack in Liquidation Process is Selling Musty Old Clipboards for Only 50 Cents - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:37] <exec> 08└─I suppose I could pick up barely used suppositories quite cheaply too.
[08:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RadioShack in Liquidation Process is Selling Musty Old Clipboards for Only 50 Cents - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:39] <exec> 08└─Why would I pay $0.50 for a waterlogged clipboard when a brand new one is $1 at the dollar tree?
[08:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Paradise Pete [1806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Isaac Newton Vs. Las Vegas: How Physicists Used Science To Beat The Odds At Roulette - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:53] <exec> 08└─This is basically like card counting
[08:41:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cold Tech Turns "on the Rocks" Into "in the Rocks" - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:41:02] <exec> 08└─No, its not a silly idea. Look how rich the inventor of "slushie" drinks became. This guy is not marketing to kids with a dime in their pocket. He is marketing to rich people that have lots of disposable ( as in throwaway ) income. They may cut costs with employees, but when it comes to personal l...
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[09:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Thousands Disrupted as British Airways Flights Axed Amid IT Crash - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:13] <exec> 08└─This comes about a year after significant outsourcing of IT where BA replaced the UK workers to cut costs... http://www.contractoruk.com [contractoruk.com] https://www.theregister.co.uk
[09:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Thousands Disrupted as British Airways Flights Axed Amid IT Crash - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:15] <exec> 08└─They may have well outsourced their hardware engineers too.
[09:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Laptops and Tablets in the Classroom: How to Integrate Electronic Devices in the University - 1976 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:23] <exec> 08└─Should they? Tablets may be ok for reading, or certain electronic design/art classes, but they would be horrible for everything else, especially digital copies of books which can't be resold and may only last for a semester. Laptops are useful for taking notes for those of us with atrocious handwrit...
[09:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snakes Can Hunt in Packs - 1460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:19] <exec> 08└─Snake packs do seem far fetched. Maybe it happens, maybe it doesn't - if I had to bet, I'd say it doesn't. I've heard stories of them hunting in pairs, though. They're just stories, but mates apparently watch out for each other. That's kind of believable, but I've never heard any serious claims that...
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[09:37:20] <exec> 08└─Cuban crocodiles are suspected of pack-hunting as well! "Tool" use (luring birds with promising twigs) is well documented in crocs too. Maybe this kind of cooperative behavior was more common in reptiles historically, when larger animals were plentiful and they weren't the biggest predators around?
[09:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06RadioShack in Liquidation Process is Selling Musty Old Clipboards for Only 50 Cents - 792 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:45] <exec> 08└─That's why I wait until the "Last Day" signs to go up. Those liquidation guys are super good at hiking the list price to max, so they can offer hefty "discounts" that on first glance look good. For the first several weeks of liquidation, I rarely see them beat WalMart everyday price. They play gam...
[09:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06RadioShack in Liquidation Process is Selling Musty Old Clipboards for Only 50 Cents - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:47] <exec> 08└─Regardless of how much space I may have or how low the price, if I don't need or want it, I won't buy it.
[09:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RadioShack in Liquidation Process is Selling Musty Old Clipboards for Only 50 Cents - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:49] <exec> 08└─only a fool would learn anything about electronics today.
[09:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RadioShack in Liquidation Process is Selling Musty Old Clipboards for Only 50 Cents - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:51] <exec> 08└─I need SMD parts and replacement capacitors with actually common values.
[09:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06RadioShack in Liquidation Process is Selling Musty Old Clipboards for Only 50 Cents - 1116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:53] <exec> 08└─One reason: Our hearts are in it. Same reason some people like to paint, while others make music. Some like Sudoku. We are all different and all of us seem to come pre-wired to enjoy certain things. One man's cup of tea in another man's glass of swill. These passions are not pursued for monetary g...
[09:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Think Technology is Disrupting the Job Market Like Never Before? Think Again. - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:54] <exec> 08└─I find it interesting that, in California, they are decrying the lack of workers to pick farm produce [nytimes.com]. While, at the same time, there are roughly 40 million Californians on welfare. In other news, as Georgia imposes a work requirement for welfare, around half the welfare recipients dec...
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[09:41:40] <exec> 08└─It's better to not allow unwanted cookies in the first place. Try it, you might like it.
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[10:36:03] <exec> 08└─> "our teams are working as hard as they can" He means they are facing problem and kindly doing the needful.
[10:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands Disrupted as British Airways Flights Axed Amid IT Crash - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:04] <exec> 08└─They may have well outsourced their hardware engineers too.
[10:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Malvertising Campaign Finds a Way Around Ad Blockers - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:29] <exec> 08└─If anything, I was hoping more web metrics might result in the following conversation in the executive suite: Since we inserted that javascript that runs the video ad, we are noticing that 99.5% of our customers click off our site before it finishes loading.
[10:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Nuclear Regulators Greatly Underestimate Potential for Nuclear Disaster - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:57] <exec> 08└─The USA had an INES level 5 incident: There was a level 4 event too. From the same page: Another was level 3: Some events that haven't been assigned an INES level, in which radioactive materials were released:
[10:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snakes Can Hunt in Packs - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:13] <exec> 08└─The bloated time.com site didn't show me the video, perhaps they want to do things on my computer that I didn't want them to do. Here's a video from BBC: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[10:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RadioShack in Liquidation Process is Selling Musty Old Clipboards for Only 50 Cents - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:43] <exec> 08└─waterlogged with pure unadulterated genuine RadioShack water?
[10:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RadioShack in Liquidation Process is Selling Musty Old Clipboards for Only 50 Cents - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:44] <exec> 08└─Yes, I know those things are chock full of mechanical goodies.
[10:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Think Technology is Disrupting the Job Market Like Never Before? Think Again. - 1376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:47] <exec> 08└─Georgia, Out Migrant Workers, Turns to Prison Labor https://www.commondreams.org [commondreams.org] As Georgia's agricultural fields are finding themselves without its usual mirgrant workforce due to harsh immigration laws, the state is...
[10:41:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Medical Research Discovered to Have Been Peer Reviewed by a Dog - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:41:36] <exec> 08└─But it's a dog, I tell you. A DOG. Don't you know scientists are mocking us and siphoning off sweet, sweet grant money from hard working tax payers like the Koch brothers?
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[11:36:35] <exec> 08└─other than discussions on cheating, which can be solved with wifi/cell phone jamming if necessary, assuming material isn't already on the device
[11:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Nuclear Regulators Greatly Underestimate Potential for Nuclear Disaster - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:22] <exec> 08└─Quoting exactly what I said: "Right now there are relatively few nuclear plants. But just to provide the power for the US you'd need in the ballpark of 400-500 nuclear plants. And that's at today's energy expenditures. Imagine what we could do if we bumped our energy production up a magnitude or two...
[11:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Nuclear Regulators Greatly Underestimate Potential for Nuclear Disaster - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:23] <exec> 08└─Trump wants to cut $120 million for Hanford in budget proposal despite incidents [seattletimes.com] Republicans, eh? The rascals. When that contamination reaches the Pacific Ocean though, it will be a larger problem than just some internal American unsolved issue from the Cold War. I don't know who...
[11:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snakes Can Hunt in Packs - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:40] <exec> 08└─Hm, in the above link from BBC there's nothing about packs. Nevertheless here they are already talking about it: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] . Maybe it's just the journalists putting some similar-looking video in theirs. If that's how science is made then let's do some...
[11:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Isaac Newton Vs. Las Vegas: How Physicists Used Science To Beat The Odds At Roulette - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:25] <exec> 08└─> I basically averaged a $50 win for 3 hours of work at the casino (plus all the effort to learn memorize the order of the numbers on the wheel) -- it started to feel like a dead-end second job barely paying minimum wage, so I quit. That's not so bad in India.
[11:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Think Technology is Disrupting the Job Market Like Never Before? Think Again. - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:15] <exec> 08└─More locally, he is talking about a soda business, which would involve large trucks to pick up the product, possible smells, the waste product might affect the sewage system, etc.. Really, it doesn't take much imagination to realize that you don't want someone running a bulk food business in a dense...
[11:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dubai Deploys "Robocop" - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:56] <exec> 08└─Today Robocop, tomorrow Judge Dredd.
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[12:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surfing the Internet… From My TRS-80 Model 100 - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:11] <exec> 08└─Surfing the internet might be a bit of an overstatement. Null-modem to a Raspery PI and using that as a bridge to the internet. Not sure I would really qualify that as even connecting to the internet. It would in that regard have been a bit more impressive if he had used the internal modem, dialed u...
[12:36:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tonyPick [1237] 02 - 06Thousands Disrupted as British Airways Flights Axed Amid IT Crash - 548 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:18] <exec> 08└─This comes about a year after significant outsourcing of IT where BA replaced the UK workers to cut costs... http://www.contractoruk.com [contractoruk.com] https://www.theregister.co.uk
[12:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03tomtomtom [340] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands Disrupted as British Airways Flights Axed Amid IT Crash - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:23] <exec> 08└─If their site is large enough to have its own substation (which seems pretty likely), then they likely have a significant single point of failure right there. Substations do fail reasonably frequently and the effects can be surprising - for example I have personally lost water supply for c.1 day as...
[12:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Think Technology is Disrupting the Job Market Like Never Before? Think Again. - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:10] <exec> 08└─We could repeat what worked 8 decades ago by rebuilding USA's crumbling infrastructure: fix the roads that are full of potholes; fix the bridges that are falling into rivers; fix the railways that are so awful that trains can't go fast on them; fix the water systems that leak as much as they deliver...
[12:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Think Technology is Disrupting the Job Market Like Never Before? Think Again. - 1048 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:12] <exec> 08└─If only Bob had actually read the story. The Galt's Gulch people, who had been running the Gulch in isolation for many years, had already figured out things like food production and other basic needs, and how to do it more efficiently than the crumbling outside world. Now, I gather you don't agree w...
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[12:39:14] <exec> 08└─Such robots will be removed from the production floor even if they cost nothing to hire.
[12:40:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tyrannosaurus Rex Had a Biting Force Equaling Three Cars' Weight - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:24] <exec> 08└─Tyrannosaurus Regina ?
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[13:36:33] <exec> 08└─It's a dupe. https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[13:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pax [5056] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Thousands Disrupted as British Airways Flights Axed Amid IT Crash - 997 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:45] <exec> 08└─EU rules you see, up to 600 euros each plus hotels and accomodation fees for those held up overnight! If your flight has been delayed by at least three hours or cancelled then you have the right to compensation under European law. Under EU Regulation 261/2004, passengers are entitled to up to €600...
[13:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Nuclear Regulators Greatly Underestimate Potential for Nuclear Disaster - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:43] <exec> 08└─It has nothing to do with political correctness or opinion. The NRC was basing their analysis on provably false assumptions to lowball the potential damages as a result of extensive lobby and cronyism on behalf of the nuclear industry.
[13:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Nuclear Regulators Greatly Underestimate Potential for Nuclear Disaster - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:44] <exec> 08└─I'm meant that they take bad decisions on security and efficiency of the operation. That they deny responsibility and wants a scapegoat when it goes wrong is another (bad) issue.
[13:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RadioShack in Liquidation Process is Selling Musty Old Clipboards for Only 50 Cents - 1179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:33] <exec> 08└─Here in the UK, RadioShack (trading as Tandy) used to have a significant "high-street presence" but they were bought out by a mobile phone dealer in 1999 (probably because their high street locations were more valuable than the electronics biz). Maplin, originally a mail-order outfit with only a han...
[13:38:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RadioShack in Liquidation Process is Selling Musty Old Clipboards for Only 50 Cents - 1584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:34] <exec> 08└─Prices at radio shack toward the end were about 1000% over mail order minimum. I'm kinda busy so I can't shop till next thursday, I could stop at RS on the way home from work on thursday and buy a 6 foot HDMI cable for $50, but amazon can deliver one of those mysterious "amazon basics" cables for $4...
[13:38:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RadioShack in Liquidation Process is Selling Musty Old Clipboards for Only 50 Cents - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:37] <exec> 08└─You know there is a real shortage of technical professionals when you see businesses sponsoring kids through school in order to secure their services after training.
[13:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RadioShack in Liquidation Process is Selling Musty Old Clipboards for Only 50 Cents - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:39] <exec> 08└─What is the Tandy business model or focus?
[13:39:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Think Technology is Disrupting the Job Market Like Never Before? Think Again. - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:47] <exec> 08└─His method was to CREATE JOBS. He put 15 million USAians on the payroll of USA.gov when the Capitalists hadn't been hiring for 4 years (though they had continued to lay off workers as the economy continued to shrink without ordinary folks buying ordinary stuff).
[13:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Think Technology is Disrupting the Job Market Like Never Before? Think Again. - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:49] <exec> 08└─The way he financed this thing which he called The New Deal was to tax the billionaire class of his day at 94 percent.
[13:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Think Technology is Disrupting the Job Market Like Never Before? Think Again. - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:51] <exec> 08└─Sounds like the obvious fix then is to do away with social programs in the first place. Then you don't have to worry about the problems of basic income or robotics. Another easy problem dealt with by the hive mind of the internet!
[13:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Think Technology is Disrupting the Job Market Like Never Before? Think Again. - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:53] <exec> 08└─Sorry, GP post constructed an unrealistic example. You just went along with the weak-minded thinking.
[13:40:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NVMe 1.3 Specification Published - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:50] <exec> 08└─Virtualization - Won't boot
[13:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Build Your Own VPN if You’re Wary of Commercial Options - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:20] <exec> 08└─What about a SN VPN? Is the cost prohibitive? How much would monthly/yearly cost? Does anyone have experience with this? I use PIA, but don't know them from Jack Off, .....
[13:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Build Your Own VPN if You’re Wary of Commercial Options - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:21] <exec> 08└─We've talked about it but came to the conclusion that we didn't want the feds coming to us with a blanket warrant and getting access to all of what little information we do store; website and vpn both. Doing it as a separately incorporated project we haven't really looked into yet.
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[14:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Wants to Add Machine Learning Chips to Smartphone SoCs - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:11] <exec> 08└─So are there TPUs available as standalone chips at online shops for a decent price? "Sorry David, Now is the time for the daily Facebook required rectal exam.."
[14:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple Wants to Add Machine Learning Chips to Smartphone SoCs - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:13] <exec> 08└─Another way to improve battery performance would be the mainframe model: do much of the computation at a central location, with the handset performing mainly input and output. A TRS-80 Model 100 might be able to handle it.
[14:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Wants to Add Machine Learning Chips to Smartphone SoCs - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:15] <exec> 08└─It would be a smart move but would currently just give more undue power to the megamonoliths. Not a good idea as of now.
[14:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi Merges With CoderDojo - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:23] <exec> 08└─In other news, Hasbro, owners of the popular game Operation, have joined forces with DoctorDojo in a merger that will give many more young people (especially women, except transgendered one, yet black and Hispanic ones, but not Asian ones) all over the world new opportunities to learn how to be crea...
[14:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi Merges With CoderDojo - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:25] <exec> 08└─Just have an instinctive feeling there's something to go bad on this deal. Design creep into the unusable? "inclusion"? bells and whistles until the device price itself out? Must use javaterror site with gigamanygigs browser to get started?
[14:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surfing the Internet… From My TRS-80 Model 100 - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:35] <exec> 08└─The C64 with 64 kB of DRAM could actually get a lot of stuff done. Which can be seen even today with new expansion devices. Now if he had written a IP and TCP driver for the TRS-80 and connected it using PPP or SLIP over asynchronous serial, Then it would be connected to internet rather than being a...
[14:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands Disrupted as British Airways Flights Axed Amid IT Crash - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:48] <exec> 08└─The solution is usually diesel-generator backup. But oh.. that cost money. Can't have the 20M$ yacht then.. horror!
[14:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands Disrupted as British Airways Flights Axed Amid IT Crash - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:49] <exec> 08└─Will the saved costs make up for the compensations galore and part of the customers taking business elsewhere? I'll hope people getting the outsource shaft does the "oops I didn't mention how to fix script /root/path/deep/daily_fixing.sh, the backup machine or that the transformer needs a dust clean...
[14:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands Disrupted as British Airways Flights Axed Amid IT Crash - 1100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:52] <exec> 08└─United, Delta, and SWA have all had similar massive IT failures causing similar disruption over the past few years. All of them have significant onshore development and IT groups. https://www.washingtonpost.com
[14:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands Disrupted as British Airways Flights Axed Amid IT Crash - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:54] <exec> 08└─That is exactly the sort of meddling from unelected foreign bureaucrats that turned Britain into the shithole it is today.
[14:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands Disrupted as British Airways Flights Axed Amid IT Crash - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:56] <exec> 08└─I've worked with a lot of these systems, more interfacing with them, than coding, but still. Like many other early adopter industries, they're mainly mainframe COBOL spaghetti that's just hanging together. It doesn't take much for a change to bring the pile crashing down.
[14:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Laptops and Tablets in the Classroom: How to Integrate Electronic Devices in the University - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:06] <exec> 08└─So are tables or laptops good for taking notes? I'll assume writing a formula will take plenty more time on a electronic device than simply using pen and paper.. And then the question is, what is really the optima learning scenario? It seems that shuffling people around the country to squalid accomm...
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[14:37:08] <exec> 08└─In general, I agree with your sentiment, if not necessarily the implementation. I can see very good reasons for times to allow an "open books exam" that also allows internet access, too. There are two primary reasons -- from my perspective -- that it can be helpful to restrict exam materials, though...
[14:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03pgc [1600] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Malvertising Campaign Finds a Way Around Ad Blockers - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:28] <exec> 08└─And what audience are they trying to reach? Do they really expect that those who employ ad-blockers will be happy to see their commercial?
[14:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RadioShack in Liquidation Process is Selling Musty Old Clipboards for Only 50 Cents - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:53] <exec> 08└─Invest in Circuit City
[14:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RadioShack in Liquidation Process is Selling Musty Old Clipboards for Only 50 Cents - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:54] <exec> 08└─What is the Tandy business model or focus?
[14:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RadioShack in Liquidation Process is Selling Musty Old Clipboards for Only 50 Cents - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:56] <exec> 08└─Plus, I confess, its a long, long time since I needed a NE555 and a 150k Ohm resistor...
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[15:36:16] <exec> 08└─Certainly not a good idea for privacy or security either. Apple especially does not have a great history with that. Google's is pretty good, but I think they have enough of my information already. I'm actually surprised how well Microsoft has done at not getting completely exploited at either XBox o...
[15:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Apple Wants to Add Machine Learning Chips to Smartphone SoCs - 786 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:18] <exec> 08└─Your phone is no longer a tool for the spies to use, to spy on you. Now, the phone IS THE SPY!! It has it's own brain, learns all about you, and reports what it decides to report. If you talk to it nicely, it may decide it likes you better than the spy masters. Whether that be so, or not, the AI can...
[15:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Apple Wants to Add Machine Learning Chips to Smartphone SoCs - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:20] <exec> 08└─Don't apps like Siri already do that? It's a privacy and security nightmare but anyone who cared about that wouldn't use an Apple or Google or Microsoft product as supplied anyway.
[15:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Wants to Add Machine Learning Chips to Smartphone SoCs - 1275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:22] <exec> 08└─"Google's is pretty good, but I think they have enough of my information already." I wonder about that from time to time. Despite my precautions, it is safe to say that Google knows more about me than all the rest of the nosy bastards combined. There are ways to limit Google's data gathering, to som...
[15:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Wants to Add Machine Learning Chips to Smartphone SoCs - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:24] <exec> 08└─And then the iPhones will go all KILL ALL HUMANS on everyone. Hey, there's an app for that!
[15:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands Disrupted as British Airways Flights Axed Amid IT Crash - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:00] <exec> 08└─What stops them from ditching the mainframe COBOL spaghetti and start over with more modern tools? (provided all manager style thinking and webmonkeys are kept at a safe distance)
[15:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands Disrupted as British Airways Flights Axed Amid IT Crash - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:01] <exec> 08└─I hope someone goes to the shareholders' meeting and asks if the cost of this disruption was greater than the savings through outsourcing IT. If you can't operate your business when IT is down, then it should be a core competency.
[15:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands Disrupted as British Airways Flights Axed Amid IT Crash - 726 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:03] <exec> 08└─I've found that they tend to reject almost any improvements out of fear it will break something ... a valid fear based on the quality of the system they'd be building on. These are the Everest of technical debt. That, combined with the cost (they usually think just throw money at IBM for an all or n...
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[15:37:14] <exec> 08└─Tablets, particularly when used with a stylus, actually offer more solutions for writing formulas, diagrams, etc. than a traditional laptop. (Touchscreen laptops maybe could do something similar, but generally less conveniently.) Another concern with laptops is whether one actually takes "notes" or...
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[15:37:15] <exec> 08└─-- END OF LINE --
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[15:37:36] <exec> 08└─As with bullets, the ultimate recipients are not customers.
[15:37:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ese002 [5306] 02 - 06US Nuclear Regulators Greatly Underestimate Potential for Nuclear Disaster - 161 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:48] <exec> 08└─I will assume for the sake of argument that a way to dispose of it can be found. How much will it cost? The half-life of plutonium is over twenty thousand years.
[15:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Nuclear Regulators Greatly Underestimate Potential for Nuclear Disaster - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:10] <exec> 08└─The actual weight of plutonium needing disposal could probably have been launched into the sun for the far less money than we've spent on the Space Shuttle and ISS over the years.
[15:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Isaac Newton Vs. Las Vegas: How Physicists Used Science To Beat The Odds At Roulette - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:21] <exec> 08└─If you get the "Forbes Welcome" page, try this: https://www.webcitation.org [webcitation.org]
[15:43:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Medical Research Discovered to Have Been Peer Reviewed by a Dog - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:11] <exec> 08└─often not even minimally vetted.
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[16:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Creationist Geologist Sues the National Park Service Over Grand Canyon Sample Collection - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:18] <exec> 08└─a global flood about 4,300 years ago was responsible for rock layers and fossil deposits around the world
[16:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creationist Geologist Sues the National Park Service Over Grand Canyon Sample Collection - 1226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:19] <exec> 08└─from TFA: "On Jan. 30, Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) stepped in on behalf of Snelling, requesting via a letter to NPS Congressional Liaison Elaine Hackett that the permit be issued. "I am confident there is a misunderstanding regarding the denial or lack of response to Dr. Snelling's request for issui...
[16:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Creationist Geologist Sues the National Park Service Over Grand Canyon Sample Collection - 933 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:21] <exec> 08└─According to his Wikipedia page [wikipedia.org], his last scientific paper on Geology was in 1990. His publications since then (as listed in the complaint) are exclusively in creationist journals. Sorry, but that's just as relevant as publishing in any other "write only" journal. As such, I expect t...
[16:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creationist Geologist Sues the National Park Service Over Grand Canyon Sample Collection - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:23] <exec> 08└─The problem is that it has been ruled out. Sedimentation and erosion rates are well-understood by, well, people who build safe bridges. Calling it a "possibility" reveals either willful ignorance or an agenda to fuel willful ignorance.
[16:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands Disrupted as British Airways Flights Axed Amid IT Crash - 3058 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:15] <exec> 08└─A few things are problematic. One of the most important is a negative network externality. Most travel (not just airfares) is distributed through global distribution systems [wikipedia.org], which are basically the same underlying technology and data structures. This is how different groups like tra...
[16:40:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Think Technology is Disrupting the Job Market Like Never Before? Think Again. - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:35] <exec> 08└─You realize that the ludicrous tax laws in the US aren't helping? Things like a high base rate, and taxing money earned outside the country? Most of them are sitting on a lot of cash, but they're sitting on a lot of cash _outside the US_, because if they brought it back in to use it they'd take a hu...
[16:40:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Think Technology is Disrupting the Job Market Like Never Before? Think Again. - 1181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:36] <exec> 08└─Khallow, you're an idiot. In order for the economy to grow there need to be people with money spending money. The situation prior to the start of the WPA was that there wasn't any hiring going on as there was little spending going on. The companies that were going out of business were spending as li...
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[16:40:39] <exec> 08└─Sigh, another post from the resident cock-holster for the wealthiest. Do you get hard thinking of all those people refusing to pay their fair share? And yes, there were loopholes, but you're completely full of shit if you think they weren't paying more tax than they are now. Nobody is saying we have...
[16:40:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Think Technology is Disrupting the Job Market Like Never Before? Think Again. - 1056 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:41] <exec> 08└─There are degrees of welfare, my brother gets la bit each month to help feed my nephew and that's welfare, but there's no way on earth that he could afford to quit his job to take one of those farming jobs. He'd require even more social assistance after doing that. As for Georgia, the point of those...
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[16:40:43] <exec> 08└─Legally they shouldn't, but people tend to turn a blind eye to that sort of thing. Food poisoning from that is rather rare, but if it does happen, then their parents had better have insurance as that's where the money would be coming from. In practice though, those lemonade stands tend not to be up...
[16:40:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Think Technology is Disrupting the Job Market Like Never Before? Think Again. - 1239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:45] <exec> 08└─And this is why the GOP keeps winning, people who have no idea what they're talking about and are too lazy to find out. In this case, you probably can have a home based business where the previous poster is living, just not that kind of business. Anything that requires that much shipping in and out...
[16:40:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Think Technology is Disrupting the Job Market Like Never Before? Think Again. - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:47] <exec> 08└─Welcome to the concept of the welfare trap. If you work full time at a crappy job you lose your benefits. So, lots of people can't afford to work the crappy job because then they literally can't pay for their rent / bills / food. Also, there is motivation to hire illegals or recent immigrants who do...
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[16:40:49] <exec> 08└─You're an idiot Khallow. The reason why high taxes on the wealthy create more jobs is not even difficult to understand. You're showing Aristarchusian levels of incompetence with your posts here. Higher taxes on the wealthiest discourage them from just building the largest possible estate. Knowing th...
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[17:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Relation of Income, Geography to Life Expectancy Studied in U.S. - 1172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:15] <exec> 08└─These issues have been raised by the common person for years and years, and for some reason it seems to be a surprise when a study is done about it. I'm sick of the government dragging their feet on these things, and after Trump is ousted and the Far Right follows him out the door (possibly by force...
[17:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03kanweg [4737] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Relation of Income, Geography to Life Expectancy Studied in U.S. - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:17] <exec> 08└─More evidence for the god(s) liking rich people more than poor people. Similar to the god(s) liking people who wear their safety belt better. Also enjoying favor are those who have a sturdy car with a crumple zone of ample length and with air bags. Spending money in that area must be considered a mo...
[17:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Relation of Income, Geography to Life Expectancy Studied in U.S. - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:19] <exec> 08└─Poor people are often obese, and obesity kills. Rich people are not responsible for the eating habits of others.
[17:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Relation of Income, Geography to Life Expectancy Studied in U.S. - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:21] <exec> 08└─Trump is voted in to block the presidency from a warmongering pay-for-play puppet. Other reasons is to block the whole intersectional genderstudiespostcolonialiewfprekfr and definitely to put an end to the Muslim influence. That corporations shafted American workers doesn't help credibility either....
[17:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Relation of Income, Geography to Life Expectancy Studied in U.S. - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:23] <exec> 08└─>(possibly by force) Good luck with that, beta cuck. We own all the guns, farms, and factories. You have Hollywood and a bunch of trannies.
[17:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Relation of Income, Geography to Life Expectancy Studied in U.S. - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:26] <exec> 08└─It's really simple. People with enough money can move from good ideas into practice and make use of the knowledge acquired. Poor people usually have a hard time to change their circumstances. And often no money for education to become aware either.
[17:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Relation of Income, Geography to Life Expectancy Studied in U.S. - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:28] <exec> 08└─Nice bit of stone age knowledge you pulled from your backside there. Care to read more modern research on the subject of causes of obesity? Also consider, eating habits are also dictated by how much money you can afford to spend on food and how much time you have left over after earning enough to pa...
[17:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Relation of Income, Geography to Life Expectancy Studied in U.S. - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:30] <exec> 08└─What's a couple of decades between classes, hm? I'll harp on the Trumpster's age again here - at what point are our leaders going to be older than the constituents they represent will ever hope to be? Is there a better definition with "out of touch with your constituency" than to be 10 years older t...
[17:36:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Creationist Geologist Sues the National Park Service Over Grand Canyon Sample Collection - 933 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:40] <exec> 08└─According to his Wikipedia page [wikipedia.org], his last scientific paper on Geology was in 1990. His publications since then (as listed in the complaint) are exclusively in creationist journals. Sorry, but that's just as relevant as publishing in any other "write only" journal. As such, I expect t...
[17:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03its_gonna_be_yuge! [6454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creationist Geologist Sues the National Park Service Over Grand Canyon Sample Collection - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:43] <exec> 08└─Just to get this nonsense out of the system, let this creationist go and collect samples alongside a certified parks geologist. Every sample Snelling takes, the parks geologist also takes. And when the creationist puts out his religious tome, the parks geologist can come back with real geology ins...
[17:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Creationist Geologist Sues the National Park Service Over Grand Canyon Sample Collection - 1084 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:45] <exec> 08└─It gets even more bizarre if you click the first reference [noanswersingenesis.org.au] on the Wikipedia page. It appears that early in his career, Snelling lived a sort of "double life" publishing legitimate geology research in mainstream journals that clearly acknowledged the mainstream scientific...
[17:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Creationist Geologist Sues the National Park Service Over Grand Canyon Sample Collection - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:47] <exec> 08└─Not to mention that the guy is one of the most outspoken "creationist geologists" in the world. Claiming that there might not be a "necessary connection to creationism" here is being blind to who this guy is. Here's his most prominent web bio [answersingenesis.org], including the following statement...
[17:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creationist Geologist Sues the National Park Service Over Grand Canyon Sample Collection - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:50] <exec> 08└─Maybe he will ruin something during collection or open the flood gates to the nut crowd that also wants to collect samples. A lot of sampling can become a big burden in many small steps.
[17:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Creationist Geologist Sues the National Park Service Over Grand Canyon Sample Collection - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:52] <exec> 08└─Leaving aside his general nutjobbery, what's the problem with collecting samples? The more samples everyone takes the bigger the canyon gets!
[17:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Wants to Add Machine Learning Chips to Smartphone SoCs - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:07] <exec> 08└─That's what Google is doing with TPUs and Apple with GPUs and Xeons probably (Siri). In addition to battery life, putting hardware-accelerated machine learning capabilities in the phone also cuts down on latency and could theoretically be better for your privacy (but let's face it, you're screwed wi...
[17:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Wants to Add Machine Learning Chips to Smartphone SoCs - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:09] <exec> 08└─So it doesn't work with a Bluetooth mouse, eh? That's amusing. They are more interested in "force touch" or whatever they are calling it.
[17:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surfing the Internet… From My TRS-80 Model 100 [Updated] - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:27] <exec> 08└─Thanks AC. You are right — this story is a dupe. I've updated the story to acknowledge this. As folks have already posted comments on this story, I've decided to leave this one up... just in case someone has some additional insights they can add since the prior story ran..
[17:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands Disrupted as British Airways Flights Axed Amid IT Crash - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:50] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't be so dismissive of the power supply issue. Without going into details, I know of a couple of organizations which faced the same kind of problems, starting about one and a half year ago. At least one of those organizations had redundancy galore and didn't spare any costs, to the point of...
[17:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Laptops and Tablets in the Classroom: How to Integrate Electronic Devices in the University - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:04] <exec> 08└─The ability to focus does. This is what needs to be taught. Not "technological literacy."
[17:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Laptops and Tablets in the Classroom: How to Integrate Electronic Devices in the University - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:05] <exec> 08└─Do tablet with a stylus really have that granularity? Seems like laptop + pad is the thing then. Maybe the key is to process the lecture in away such that it involves many neurological circuits and create a network where the given information from the lecturer is only one part of that network. This...
[17:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Laptops and Tablets in the Classroom: How to Integrate Electronic Devices in the University - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:07] <exec> 08└─They think they can just "figure it out on the fly." I personally realized the flaw with this strategy when I first encountered a "bring anything you want" type exam as an undergrad. I dutifully loaded my backpack with my notebooks and a stack of maybe 7 or 8 books -- and realized after that test th...
[17:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Laptops and Tablets in the Classroom: How to Integrate Electronic Devices in the University - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:09] <exec> 08└─Any bad experiences at college?
[17:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Nuclear Regulators Greatly Underestimate Potential for Nuclear Disaster - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:03] <exec> 08└─Yes, well, you will find that your petrochemicals and coal spread their contamination much farther and wider [sgvtribune.com] and kill a lot more people on a yearly basis. And with nukes even the waste can be useful for a very long time. Either way the main problem is plain old corruption/incompeten...
[17:41:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Think Technology is Disrupting the Job Market Like Never Before? Think Again. - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:21] <exec> 08└─There is another problem, in order to actually compete you have to operate on the same economy of scale. Massive producers have their production so streamlined that their costs are very very low. To compete is next to impossible unless you can build a similar production system, so from hundreds or t...
[17:41:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Think Technology is Disrupting the Job Market Like Never Before? Think Again. - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:23] <exec> 08└─The problem isn't them having the money overseas and not bringing it into the US. The problem is that they're allowed to book the losses from those overseas ventures without repatriating profits. It allows them to get out of paying the taxes that they're supposed to be paying. This isn't an issue of...
[17:41:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Think Technology is Disrupting the Job Market Like Never Before? Think Again. - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:25] <exec> 08└─OMG GOVERNMENT MIGHT HAVE LEGITIMATE REASONS FOR REGULATION!!! **BRAIN IMPLODES** What you seem to be going for here is FLEXIBLE regulation, but that involves human judgment so it is likely a bit of a problem.
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[18:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03slap [5764] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Relation of Income, Geography to Life Expectancy Studied in U.S. - 1260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:24] <exec> 08└─"black life expectancy is lower than white life expectancy" From the report: "Life expectancy at age 65 in 2014 was 18.2 years for blacks (so an expected age of death at 83.2 [65+18.2=83.2]) and 19.3 years for whites (so an expected age of death at 84.3 years [65+19.3=84.3])" Also, "CBO compares tod...
[18:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 3, Flamebait) 02 - 06Relation of Income, Geography to Life Expectancy Studied in U.S. - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:26] <exec> 08└─We own all the guns, farms, and factories.
[18:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Relation of Income, Geography to Life Expectancy Studied in U.S. - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:28] <exec> 08└─the rich get better medical treatment than even the middle class.
[18:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Relation of Income, Geography to Life Expectancy Studied in U.S. - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:30] <exec> 08└─often no money for education to become aware either
[18:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Relation of Income, Geography to Life Expectancy Studied in U.S. - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:32] <exec> 08└─For some reason you seem to think I'm as poor and resourceless as you. I'll be doing just fine.
[18:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creationist Geologist Sues the National Park Service Over Grand Canyon Sample Collection - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:48] <exec> 08└─Plate tectonics were also ruled out not too long ago.
[18:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creationist Geologist Sues the National Park Service Over Grand Canyon Sample Collection - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:49] <exec> 08└─If the park service had a real reason to deny the man a research permit, they would have offered that reason to Rep. Franks.
[18:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Creationist Geologist Sues the National Park Service Over Grand Canyon Sample Collection - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:52] <exec> 08└─he cites scientific credentials he obtained saying one thing to bolster his claims saying something completely antithetical doesn't exactly exude credibility.
[18:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Creationist Geologist Sues the National Park Service Over Grand Canyon Sample Collection - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:54] <exec> 08└─The same problem as with exploring the possibility we are all surrounded by invisible clowns: complete lack of evidence for the hypothesis and overwhelming amount of evidence that contradicts it.
[18:41:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Think Technology is Disrupting the Job Market Like Never Before? Think Again. - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:20] <exec> 08└─while i agree with your general point, it's only true if you are trying to sell the same poison the whores at big cola are producing. if you wanted to sell something that was full of buzzwords(organic, heirloom, non-gmo, etc) you could charge more.
[18:41:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Think Technology is Disrupting the Job Market Like Never Before? Think Again. - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:21] <exec> 08└─but that's why the sacks of shit in government run a protection racket for big cola. if you will be paying a certain level of tax then you will be allowed to compete. otherwise go get a job from the big boys or operate on the margins of society and be victimized by slave catchers working for big pri...
[18:41:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Think Technology is Disrupting the Job Market Like Never Before? Think Again. - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:24] <exec> 08└─if you get a license to do honest business with your fellow man, you're a pitiful slave.
[18:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NVMe 1.3 Specification Published - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:22] <exec> 08└─only the dumbest windows using whores would use vmware
[18:43:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 067-Year-Old Samba Flaw Lets Hackers Access Thousands of Linux PCs Remotely - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:18] <exec> 08└─and do these mythical distros with samba shares enabled by default also have the share set up on the public/only interface? If so, then i have to assume that those distros are only supposed to be used inside of a lan. if not, that's hilarious.
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[18:43:20] <exec> 08└─look, you poor, ignorant windows user, if it's designed to be run on a lan, then you don't put it on the internet without more steps/filters being in front of it. firewall rules, openvpn, etc. the password auth of the application or some such shit, doesn't freaking count. if the "victim" doesn't kno...
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[19:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jim Hackett’s Toughest Job Yet: Leading Ford into the Driverless Era - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:14] <exec> 08└─This bet is entirely predicated on Americans wanting self-driving cars. This is not currently the case [google.com].
[19:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jim Hackett’s Toughest Job Yet: Leading Ford into the Driverless Era - 1419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:16] <exec> 08└─From the Technology Review link (also repeated in WaPo today), the submitter missed the best parts -- at Steelcase, Hackett made friends with and then bought the Silicon Valley design firm IDEO, well known for working with Apple. From this led to furniture for open offices. So Hackett was part of th...
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[19:36:18] <exec> 08└─Doesn't matter what you or I want. What the big bucks are headed for is a "mobile office" and "mobile theater" where everyone in the self-driving car is subscribed to one or more SaaS plans, either work or entertainment related. They want all the money and they want it all the time, subscription pla...
[19:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Uncle_Al [1108] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jim Hackett’s Toughest Job Yet: Leading Ford into the Driverless Era - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:20] <exec> 08└─"designed to encourage more collaboration among employees." and eliminate any semblance of privacy
[19:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jim Hackett’s Toughest Job Yet: Leading Ford into the Driverless Era - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:22] <exec> 08└─They're called "horses".
[19:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Relation of Income, Geography to Life Expectancy Studied in U.S. - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:42] <exec> 08└─Belgium http://www.therichest.com [therichest.com]
[19:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Relation of Income, Geography to Life Expectancy Studied in U.S. - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:44] <exec> 08└─Dr. Carson is that you?
[19:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Relation of Income, Geography to Life Expectancy Studied in U.S. - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:46] <exec> 08└─I had always assumed that what the poster Idiot_king said was right - just for the heck of it I looked it up and found out that we were both wrong.
[19:36:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06Creationist Geologist Sues the National Park Service Over Grand Canyon Sample Collection - 1084 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:58] <exec> 08└─It gets even more bizarre if you click the first reference [noanswersingenesis.org.au] on the Wikipedia page. It appears that early in his career, Snelling lived a sort of "double life" publishing legitimate geology research in mainstream journals that clearly acknowledged the mainstream scientific...
[19:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Creationist Geologist Sues the National Park Service Over Grand Canyon Sample Collection - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:06] <exec> 08└─"Complete lack of evidence?" There are cultures all around the world that have the same story about a huge flood sometime in the distant past. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[19:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Creationist Geologist Sues the National Park Service Over Grand Canyon Sample Collection - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:08] <exec> 08└─Why do you hate the invisible dragon in my garage? :(
[19:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Creationist Geologist Sues the National Park Service Over Grand Canyon Sample Collection - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:11] <exec> 08└─Are these the same tectonic plates talked about in the bible?
[19:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Creationist Geologist Sues the National Park Service Over Grand Canyon Sample Collection - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:13] <exec> 08└─Peoples all around the world also believe in a giant sky fairy who watches to see if we touch ourselves at night and, if we're really good, helps our football team win.
[19:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Creationist Geologist Sues the National Park Service Over Grand Canyon Sample Collection - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:15] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that will silence them once and for all.... /slaps_forehead It will just be fodder for another 10 years of "teach the controversy" public lectures between geology and bible studies. Sharing a platform with this type of quackery really brings creationism into disrepute. The freedom-hating geolo...
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[19:37:17] <exec> 08└─it is religion based discrimination even if he wanted to collect water to prove it's not made of h2o. How big the samples need to be BTW?
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[20:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Plans on Building a New Gigantic Submarine - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:09] <exec> 08└─two sets of wing-like sonar receivers that give the sub a futuristic appearance. The "wings," which retract into the hull like the blade of a pocket knife, are meant to receive sonar signals broadcast from the ship's hull. This allows the Arctic Research Submarine to image its surroundings in all di...
[20:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jim Hackett’s Toughest Job Yet: Leading Ford into the Driverless Era - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:22] <exec> 08└─...nnd the ability to concentrate on anything for more than 30 seconds and hence get anything meaningful done. Noise-cancelling headphones are a necessity.
[20:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jim Hackett’s Toughest Job Yet: Leading Ford into the Driverless Era - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:24] <exec> 08└─And they provide unlimited free fertiliser for your garden. All you need is a shovel.
[20:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jim Hackett’s Toughest Job Yet: Leading Ford into the Driverless Era - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:26] <exec> 08└─And you can eat them, or grab them in the pussy, or fuck them in the pussy.
[20:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jim Hackett’s Toughest Job Yet: Leading Ford into the Driverless Era - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:28] <exec> 08└─What do we know about Ford that will make this near impossible? ;-)
[20:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Relation of Income, Geography to Life Expectancy Studied in U.S. - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:51] <exec> 08└─Belgium isn't capitalist?
[20:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Relation of Income, Geography to Life Expectancy Studied in U.S. - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:53] <exec> 08└─For some reason you seem to think I'm as poor and resourceless as you.
[20:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Relation of Income, Geography to Life Expectancy Studied in U.S. - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:55] <exec> 08└─Yes, plenty. Pay attention to what's grown there. You'll definitely not have a shortage of nuts and fruits over in California, that's for sure.
[20:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Relation of Income, Geography to Life Expectancy Studied in U.S. - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:57] <exec> 08└─Oh, and only a Tolerant Liberal (TM) could be ignorant and hypocritical enough to prejudge people based on what state they live in. You're in great company.
[20:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Relation of Income, Geography to Life Expectancy Studied in U.S. - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:59] <exec> 08└─Young is relative. With Kurzweil's predicted advances, it's about to get blown fat far out of proportion. Used to be, average life expectancy was +/-10% based on wealth, today that might be moving closer to +/-20%, but with "immortality around the corner," that marginal difference could trend to inf...
[20:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creationist Geologist Sues the National Park Service Over Grand Canyon Sample Collection - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:25] <exec> 08└─Really just curious.. Are you claiming that a global flood about 4,300 years ago has been ruled out because people building bridges have done the research, or that a global flood has been ruled out all together?
[20:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Creationist Geologist Sues the National Park Service Over Grand Canyon Sample Collection - 1802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:27] <exec> 08└─Haha, that's pretty good! For anybody who missed it, Runaway is clearly poking fun at the idea of a feminist programming language! Same situation. If it weren't for all the misogynerds and if womyn-born-womyn [wikipedia.org] had designing computing principles and programming languages [wikipedia.org...
[20:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Creationist Geologist Sues the National Park Service Over Grand Canyon Sample Collection - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:29] <exec> 08└─He wants a rock that's the same size as Ayers rock.
[20:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creationist Geologist Sues the National Park Service Over Grand Canyon Sample Collection - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:31] <exec> 08└─being blind to who this guy is
[20:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creationist Geologist Sues the National Park Service Over Grand Canyon Sample Collection - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:33] <exec> 08└─Have you actually BEEN to the grand canyon? Every Geologist on earth could sample that area for the next million years and never make a dent. Since the sample would remain property of the Park Service they need only stipulate that the samples would be returned or be made available for other geologis...
[20:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creationist Geologist Sues the National Park Service Over Grand Canyon Sample Collection - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:35] <exec> 08└─By the way, its odd you chose to rant on this subject after choosing a Nom-du-Soylent of a guy who was was a German Jesuit scholar and polymath who published around 40 major works, most notably in the fields of comparative religion, geology, and medicine.
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[21:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Plans on Building a New Gigantic Submarine - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:08] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't the way to map the arctic be with a fleet of cheap drone subs, instead of one very expensive one?
[21:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Plans on Building a New Gigantic Submarine - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:09] <exec> 08└─Would you rather have one Big Dick, or many little ones?
[21:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Plans on Building a New Gigantic Submarine - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:11] <exec> 08└─> Wouldn't the way to map the arctic be with a fleet of cheap drone subs, instead of one very expensive one? The sub is a base, from which drones etc... will be sent (from TFA). Not unlike how research vessels will have drones/submersibles for certain tasks. It is easier than trying to get a drone t...
[21:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Plans on Building a New Gigantic Submarine - 1844 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:14] <exec> 08└─I found the story interesting on many levels, which I guess is why I submitted it. Firstly it's the part about the wings. If it is indeed a pure research vessel then it won't matter much. If not one would think that extending and retracting the wings would create a fair amount of noise. Having gigan...
[21:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Plans on Building a New Gigantic Submarine - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:16] <exec> 08└─I'll take two medium.
[21:36:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03idiot_king [6587] 02 - 06Relation of Income, Geography to Life Expectancy Studied in U.S. - 1172 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:39] <exec> 08└─These issues have been raised by the common person for years and years, and for some reason it seems to be a surprise when a study is done about it. I'm sick of the government dragging their feet on these things, and after Trump is ousted and the Far Right follows him out the door (possibly by force...
[21:36:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02 - 06Relation of Income, Geography to Life Expectancy Studied in U.S. - 42 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:48] <exec> 08└─We own all the guns, farms, and factories.
[21:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Relation of Income, Geography to Life Expectancy Studied in U.S. - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:01] <exec> 08└─Did the US do better because of capitalism, or simply by being in the right place at the right time (away from the destruction of WWII, but close enough to profit from the rebuilding)? "Progress" is what you define it to be. Slaving away 45+ hours a week for 35+ years to have a chance of "not outliv...
[21:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Relation of Income, Geography to Life Expectancy Studied in U.S. - 663 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:02] <exec> 08└─...but - amongst the people we know, there is something really odd. We know a lot of people in the lower quintile. And they seem have huge numbers of health problems that are just not easily explained. Adult-onset diabetes, in a guy who is fit and not overweight. Serious eye problems that just canno...
[21:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creationist Geologist Sues the National Park Service Over Grand Canyon Sample Collection - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:35] <exec> 08└─Anyway: Why do "scientists" like this feel any need to campaign against actual scientific knowledge? I mean, the easy answer is "God created the earth to look old". Fine, it all looks like it's billions of years old, but God created it yesterday. There's no disproving such a thing, they can believe...
[21:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creationist Geologist Sues the National Park Service Over Grand Canyon Sample Collection - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:37] <exec> 08└─Seems they want to throw some sand in this researchers machinery then.
[21:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Creationist Geologist Sues the National Park Service Over Grand Canyon Sample Collection - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:39] <exec> 08└─What if we touch ourselves during the day? Or does he only hover over the night side of the earth?
[21:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Creationist Geologist Sues the National Park Service Over Grand Canyon Sample Collection - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:41] <exec> 08└─he could just as easily ask Navajo or Hopi for permisssion to get samples outside of GCNP. Or ask a private landholder alomg the Colorado River. He's grandstanding on purpose, to try and create an awkward position for everyone. At thrle very least gives him ammo to say "see? we're being persecuted b...
[21:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creationist Geologist Sues the National Park Service Over Grand Canyon Sample Collection - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:43] <exec> 08└─If he has actual geologist credentials, doesn't it amount to something like a hate crime to say no to him, based solely on his belief system?
[21:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creationist Geologist Sues the National Park Service Over Grand Canyon Sample Collection - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:46] <exec> 08└─There's a 50/50 chance the losers in this state will side with the guy that can't seem to figure out if he wants to science or not. Or if he wants to science at all in the next 30 years. Could also possibly be a reason this is where the lawsuit is. People are aware of how friendly AZ is towards this...
[21:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creationist Geologist Sues the National Park Service Over Grand Canyon Sample Collection - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:48] <exec> 08└─The majority of (western) science was funded and conducted by the Catholic church in those days... Science was viewed as a way to better understand God by better understanding of Creation. The crazy reality-denial is a relatively new thing in Christianity, and still nowhere near mainstream.
[21:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Surfing the Internet… From My TRS-80 Model 100 [Updated] - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:23] <exec> 08└─I guess part of the answer is pure masochism and way too much spare time, perhaps some strange geek cred but mostly I guess it's why does a dog licks its balls...
[21:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Think Technology is Disrupting the Job Market Like Never Before? Think Again. - 846 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:21] <exec> 08└─It's called protectionism. The "players" in a market are all of a certain size, they might be vulnerable to upstarts with fresh ideas and good growth in the market, but that vulnerability can be heavily mitigated by placing these barriers to entry in laws, regulations, trade secrets, and every other...
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[21:42:22] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry, do we really need to increase our standard of living? Most everyone in the US lives in well heated and/or air conditioned buildings. Food is readily available, clothing is practically free if you don't need to wear the latest fashion. Flat panel screens are piling up so fast that anyone w...
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[22:36:41] <exec> 08└─Ex footballer big ideas guy with design leadership cred. ... you know what, let's just assume he's the right guy for the job. I mean, I doubt it, based on concerns that others have already raised, but let's assume. They will design the most jackable cars ever. Small street gang occupies pedestrian c...
[22:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jim Hackett’s Toughest Job Yet: Leading Ford into the Driverless Era - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:43] <exec> 08└─It rather does if the self-driving cars don't sell for shit. Big companies have power because they have money because they're exceedingly good at not throwing money away on ideological nonsense.
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[22:36:45] <exec> 08└─...was being PM.
[22:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Relation of Income, Geography to Life Expectancy Studied in U.S. - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:15] <exec> 08└─I don't care about the overall topic in this (hypocrisy shows on both sides quickly) but you're giving America way too much credit putting it on the world history stage like that. It's like challenging someone to have softer skin than a toddler. America is the toddler among the feet of giants. We co...
[22:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Relation of Income, Geography to Life Expectancy Studied in U.S. - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:17] <exec> 08└─I think you need to learn what Capitalist means.
[22:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Relation of Income, Geography to Life Expectancy Studied in U.S. - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:19] <exec> 08└─You're blinded by your ideology then. No nation in the history of the world has ever does as much for its people or humanity as a whole in the span of two hundred years and change.
[22:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Relation of Income, Geography to Life Expectancy Studied in U.S. - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:21] <exec> 08└─We could very well be a failed state and just not know it yet.
[22:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Relation of Income, Geography to Life Expectancy Studied in U.S. - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:23] <exec> 08└─to block the presidency from a warmongering pay-for-play puppet
[22:37:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03https [5248] 02 - 06Creationist Geologist Sues the National Park Service Over Grand Canyon Sample Collection - 235 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:34] <exec> 08└─The problem is that it has been ruled out. Sedimentation and erosion rates are well-understood by, well, people who build safe bridges. Calling it a "possibility" reveals either willful ignorance or an agenda to fuel willful ignorance.
[22:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Creationist Geologist Sues the National Park Service Over Grand Canyon Sample Collection - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:03] <exec> 08└─I mean, the easy answer is "God created the earth to look old". Fine, it all looks like it's billions of years old, but God created it yesterday.
[22:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Creationist Geologist Sues the National Park Service Over Grand Canyon Sample Collection - 2076 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:05] <exec> 08└─I thought family values included the earth being 6,000 years old? Ok, ok. There's something here. Before my mommy and daddy went completely bonkers, they believed that the account of the creation of the Earth in Genesis was accurate from the point of view that a day to Yahweh may be a billion years...
[22:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creationist Geologist Sues the National Park Service Over Grand Canyon Sample Collection - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:07] <exec> 08└─You're really barking up the wrong tree here. It was barely a week ago on this site that I vigorously defended [soylentnews.org] the possibility of doing science and religion at the same time, particularly historically. I even came to the defense of my 17th-century Jesuit colleagues. In the present...
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[22:38:09] <exec> 08└─still nowhere near mainstream
[22:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Wants to Add Machine Learning Chips to Smartphone SoCs - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:27] <exec> 08└─> Don't apps like Siri already do that? That's what I'd heard, but this article seems to say otherwise: Apple devices currently handle complex artificial intelligence processes with two different chips: the main processor and the graphics chip.
[22:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Wants to Add Machine Learning Chips to Smartphone SoCs - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:29] <exec> 08└─There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'.
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[22:41:17] <exec> 08└─But its been hard to watch one of the greats slowly fall over the decades. Sure, they have been a shadow of themselves for a long time now, but if you go far enough back in time, ( before many of you around here were born ) they were a great thing. Unfortunately many others ( like sears, for example...
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[23:36:16] <exec> 08└─Is anyone else sick and tired of hearing about these twisted people and their sense of entitlement ? My bet is that the VAST MAJORITY of humanity doesn't like homosexuals and doesn't want anything to do with them. One thing's for sure : the human race would be extinct if not for heterosexuals.
[23:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Taiwanese Court Invalidates Ban on Same-Sex Marriage - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:17] <exec> 08└─Come at me, bro
[23:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Taiwanese Court Invalidates Ban on Same-Sex Marriage - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:19] <exec> 08└─Is anyone else sick and tired of hearing about these twisted people and their sense of entitlement ?
[23:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taiwanese Court Invalidates Ban on Same-Sex Marriage - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:21] <exec> 08└─We are conservatives, we believe in small government, and to that end we will be micromanaging your sex and romantic life.
[23:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Taiwanese Court Invalidates Ban on Same-Sex Marriage - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:24] <exec> 08└─If there ever was an oxymoron. That would be it ;-)
[23:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Taiwanese Court Invalidates Ban on Same-Sex Marriage - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:26] <exec> 08└─If you want me to "come at you" you need to post your address, bitch.
[23:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Relation of Income, Geography to Life Expectancy Studied in U.S. - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:39] <exec> 08└─Except Belgium.
[23:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Relation of Income, Geography to Life Expectancy Studied in U.S. - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:41] <exec> 08└─Bah what have the Romans ever done for us?! And why are all those fancy science terms named after people with weird names? From now on everything is gonna be in Freedom Units.
[23:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Relation of Income, Geography to Life Expectancy Studied in U.S. - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:43] <exec> 08└─Is it because they show up at hospital when their health issue is end-stage? Because they have no health coverage.
[23:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Relation of Income, Geography to Life Expectancy Studied in U.S. - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:45] <exec> 08└─"black life expectancy is lower than white life expectancy" From the report: "Life expectancy at age 65 in 2014 was 18.2 years for blacks (so an expected age of death at 83.2 [65+18.2=83.2]) and 19.3 years for whites (so an expected age of death at 84.3 years [65+19.3=84.3])"
[23:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Creationist Geologist Sues the National Park Service Over Grand Canyon Sample Collection - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:28] <exec> 08└─Son, don't touch yourself. It ain't worth it. Be extra careful not to shake off too much after you pee. And as for wiping after pooping... that's a thin sheet of paper away from sodomy. If your finger slips thru, boy you're fucked. He is watching.
[23:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surfing the Internet… From My TRS-80 Model 100 [Updated] - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:09] <exec> 08└─In the previous discussion someone commented that TRS-80 Model 100's have a good keyboard. The article does explicitly mention "patience/techno-masochism/insanity," however.
[23:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Surfing the Internet… From My TRS-80 Model 100 [Updated] - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:10] <exec> 08└─Thank you for adding the link, but the one you added is erroneous: The requested URL (soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=15/08/05/0949218) was not found.
[23:41:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snakes Can Hunt in Packs - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:01] <exec> 08└─It's the worst nightmare of anyone who suffers from ophidiophobia.
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