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[00:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Danish ISPs Stop Providing Copyright Industry with Subscriber Identities - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:19] <exec> 08└─Free Anonymity Free Internet Free Basic Income Free Hookers Free Booze Free Hamlet
[00:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Danish ISPs Stop Providing Copyright Industry with Subscriber Identities - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:21] <exec> 08└─No anonymity for you.
[00:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How can we Better Protect Crowds from Terrorism? - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:31] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, the slippery slope fallacy. First we contemplate how to address a growing criminality trend and then suddenly Orwell's nightmare!
[00:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How can we Better Protect Crowds from Terrorism? - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:32] <exec> 08└─The problem with that sentiment is that Islamic religious violence is not terrorism, it's Jihad. While Islamists would love nothing more to send you into terror, they will be only slightly less delighted without it. Adequate and effective disaster response.
[00:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How can we Better Protect Crowds from Terrorism? - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:34] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, the slippery slope fallacy.
[00:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How can we Better Protect Crowds from Terrorism? - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:37] <exec> 08└─That's definitely not indisputable evidence, that's an outlier. Switzerland is very different from most other countries, for example, they vote on basically everything including whether or not a person should receive citizenship and they have a culture that has peace as deeply embedded as violence i...
[00:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How can we Better Protect Crowds from Terrorism? - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:39] <exec> 08└─Why stop at deporting them? Why not drone them? If they're dead, they won't be able to raise more terrorists or become terrorists themselves. It's the perfect solution, I say! It's a good thing western society is finally opening up to collective punishment.
[00:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How can we Better Protect Crowds from Terrorism? - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:41] <exec> 08└─Doesn't appear that they're staging anything here. From the shot, it looks like they wanted a clear shot of the memorial and the officer walking away without a lot of bystanders walking too close to the camera and blocking the shot. Please keep in mind that paint chips are not potato chips, please d...
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[00:36:43] <exec> 08└─London [...] policeman had only his baton There are so many non-lethal weapons currently deployed by cops, it angers me when a cop's first move is to pull a gun. Tasers and pepper spray are VERY effective. A stick will cover most situations. Some PDs have discovered that nunchucks [google.com] are f...
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[00:36:46] <exec> 08└─The Cubans were largely non-violent when they hijacked a plane. They'd have whatever weapons and they'd demand that the plane be flown to Cuba and at that point everybody would disembark the plane and ultimately wind up back in the US. Apart from being inconvenienced it wasn't really that big of a d...
[00:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How can we Better Protect Crowds from Terrorism? - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:48] <exec> 08└─Once all of civilization has been totally destroyed those Ubermen that left all of us unproductive weakling behind to hide in government bunkers will return and make a new HUGE civilization just the best civilization, the kind of civilization you just want to sit down and have a beer with.
[00:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06How can we Better Protect Crowds from Terrorism? - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:50] <exec> 08└─if you don't like guns, then don't own one. No one is telling you that YOU must own a gun.
[00:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How can we Better Protect Crowds from Terrorism? - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:52] <exec> 08└─That's an exaggeration. There's huge numbers of people in Africa being displaced by wars there that have nothing to do with the US. The US never really had colonies in Africa. Liberia is the closest that I can think of and that's a pretty small country and ultimately gained independence without any...
[00:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How can we Better Protect Crowds from Terrorism? - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:54] <exec> 08└─I agree, perhaps we should fork version 1.5 that was far less volatile and prone to violence.
[00:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How can we Better Protect Crowds from Terrorism? - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:56] <exec> 08└─Our we could just nuke Mecca. No more magic rock, no more muslims.
[00:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How can we Better Protect Crowds from Terrorism? - 742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:59] <exec> 08└─Not true, there are far more white terrorists in the US than Islamic ones, it's just that we don't normally use the term terrorist to describe them. We tend to use words like mass-shooter and bomber. But, they're terrorists. Same goes for the Bundy morons that took over that wildlife refuge last yea...
[00:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How can we Better Protect Crowds from Terrorism? - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:01] <exec> 08└─Making firearms easier to get hasn't worked anywhere ever. All it does is increase the ease with which criminals get guns and increase the amount of firepower used when crimes are committed.
[00:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How can we Better Protect Crowds from Terrorism? - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:03] <exec> 08└─Pakistan is over 95 percent Muslim and they have a bunch of nuclear weapons. What do you think their response would be to blowing up The Holy of Holies? It's interesting how "Nuke them" is repeatedly a thing among the poorly-informed. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[00:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How can we Better Protect Crowds from Terrorism? - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:05] <exec> 08└─Hunt them where the live, and kill them.
[00:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How can we Better Protect Crowds from Terrorism? - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:07] <exec> 08└─Just because you don't think it's a great idea to have every random untrained trigger-happy person always walking around with guns doesn't mean you're "anti-gun." [...] If you're going to wander the streets with it, you should at least have some training.
[00:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How can we Better Protect Crowds from Terrorism? - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:10] <exec> 08└─"Physicist, cellist, former OTTer (1190), MORON resume: https://app.box.com" [box.com]
[00:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How can we Better Protect Crowds from Terrorism? - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:12] <exec> 08└─So, one country proves what? Is the US the outlier? Rwanda, South Africa, Syria all have guns galore, and, oh, yes, lots of deaths. Switzerland shows how far the US has to go to qualify as "civilized"
[00:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How can we Better Protect Crowds from Terrorism? - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:14] <exec> 08└─This is indisputable evidence that gun ownership does not correlate to increased gun violence.
[00:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Lesbian Dating App Rela Shuts Down - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:25] <exec> 08└─> and please await its return! this does not work in internet age
[00:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Edward Snowden Claims to Have Been in Contact with President Obama’s White House - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:56] <exec> 08└─They should at least get an equal shot. Compare Obama's resume with the guys who proceeded and followed him. They aren't even on the same level. Fuck, trump barely got a 4 year degree.
[00:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Without Subsidies, Three Mile Island Could Go Dark, Operator Asserts - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:32] <exec> 08└─> Is 3 mile island in a known tsunami zone? Yes, tropical storms driven by all the hot air from MBA managers.
[00:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Without Subsidies, Three Mile Island Could Go Dark, Operator Asserts - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:34] <exec> 08└─Coal = 30.4% Nuclear = 19.7% [...] You WILL reduce your electricity use by 80% if coal and nuclear plants are shut down tomorrow.
[00:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Without Subsidies, Three Mile Island Could Go Dark, Operator Asserts - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:36] <exec> 08└─Would you like me to help you pull your head out?
[00:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Without Subsidies, Three Mile Island Could Go Dark, Operator Asserts - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:38] <exec> 08└─Solar and wind aren't renewable either on time scales where the Sun goes nova. With fuel recycling, nuclear is going to last a hell of a long time. It's lack of renewability is a ridiculous consideration.
[00:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Without Subsidies, Three Mile Island Could Go Dark, Operator Asserts - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:40] <exec> 08└─The next question becomes why this isn't done.. I think there's talk about a plant in south-west Britain. But it seems to be stuck.
[00:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Without Subsidies, Three Mile Island Could Go Dark, Operator Asserts - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:43] <exec> 08└─And as long as we rationally evaluate those externalities rather than merely price them to stop behavior we don't like.
[00:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Without Subsidies, Three Mile Island Could Go Dark, Operator Asserts - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:45] <exec> 08└─> The good news is eventually less chance of another Fukushima. The article notes that Three Mile Island itself had "a partial meltdown in 1979." Radioactive iodine and noble gases were released. There are two reactors at the site; the one that had the melt-down has been shut down ever since, and th...
[00:40:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump's Infrastructure Proposals to Include Privatization of Air-Traffic Control - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:19] <exec> 08└─> I suspect they'll be some quality of service issues much like USPS vs UPS/FEDEX. Citation needed. I've had a lot more problems with UPS/FedEx (latest two in the last couple of weeks) than with the US Post Office. And the Post Office has handled many more items for me.
[00:40:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump's Infrastructure Proposals to Include Privatization of Air-Traffic Control - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:20] <exec> 08└─Because talking about privatization and going for non-profit seems contradictory.
[00:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 066 Killed, At Least 20 Injured in Two Attacks in London, 3 Suspects Killed by Police - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:19] <exec> 08└─whatever implications you saw there are in your head
[00:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 066 Killed, At Least 20 Injured in Two Attacks in London, 3 Suspects Killed by Police - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:21] <exec> 08└─Trumps gift to the coal industry isn't about the miners' jobs. Its about enriching the owners.
[00:43:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biker Gang Gains Access to Database Used to Program Car Keys; Steals 150 Jeeps Worth $4.5 Million - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:09] <exec> 08└─how was the gang named? Jeepers Creepers?
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[01:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Use the "Removal of Net Neutrality Simulator" to Experience an Internet Without Net Neutrality - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:21] <exec> 08└─I've never heard an argument against Net Neutrality from someone who clearly understood what they were talking about. Propaganda talking points based on false information have certainly spread very far, however.
[01:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Use the "Removal of Net Neutrality Simulator" to Experience an Internet Without Net Neutrality - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:22] <exec> 08└─if one of your fav sites then route thru Comcast else route thru normal carrier
[01:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Use the "Removal of Net Neutrality Simulator" to Experience an Internet Without Net Neutrality - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:25] <exec> 08└─If you don't like what your ISP is doing, just make use of the massive ISP free market in the US to vote with your wallet. There are dozens of ISPs offering high-speed Internet access to choose from in any given area, so take your pick. And while we're at it, let's ban those damn municipal ISPs that...
[01:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How can we Better Protect Crowds from Terrorism? - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:05] <exec> 08└─So, you skipped First Grade and never learned to count properly? GGGP said "That'll stop this". I pointed to some[1] guys whose acts rebut his oh-so-confident assertion. Clearly, he was wrong and it appears that you're headed up the same wrong illogical alley. [1] Had I been really interested, I'm s...
[01:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How can we Better Protect Crowds from Terrorism? - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:07] <exec> 08└─And those who preach violence.
[01:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How can we Better Protect Crowds from Terrorism? - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:09] <exec> 08└─So, Kill them all and let god sort them out. Problem solved.
[01:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How can we Better Protect Crowds from Terrorism? - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:12] <exec> 08└─You say Jihad, I say terrorism. Either way, they need to die.
[01:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03oakgrove [5864] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How can we Better Protect Crowds from Terrorism? - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:14] <exec> 08└─Subtract the gun violence perpetrated by non-whites and the US is one of the safest countries in the world. Ahead of many European countries including places like Finland.
[01:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How can we Better Protect Crowds from Terrorism? - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:16] <exec> 08└─Who? Are you suggesting pre-crime, or what?
[01:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How can we Better Protect Crowds from Terrorism? - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:18] <exec> 08└─Wrong, you have it: Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to anger, ANGER leads to hate, hate leads to suffering. Educate the world and raise them out of ignorance to defeat the Dark Side.
[01:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How can we Better Protect Crowds from Terrorism? - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:20] <exec> 08└─Stop bombing, invading, and occupying their countries. Stop staging coups in their countries. Iraq wasn't democratic under Saddam, but it was stable. Same deal with Libya and Gaddafi. ...and more/continued imperialism/hegemony will cause MORE extremism. The fact that anyone misses the logic confound...
[01:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How can we Better Protect Crowds from Terrorism? - 1167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:23] <exec> 08└─Statistics surrounding terrorism are highly suspect (subject to all kinds of reporting bias), but, no matter how twisted they are, injury by terrorist has to be far far down the list of likely ways to die or even be hurt - like: people winning $100K+ in lotteries far outnumber those even injured by...
[01:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How can we Better Protect Crowds from Terrorism? - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:25] <exec> 08└─I like this plan! Radicalize everybody! Let's do it to Christians also and blame it on Muslims! Let's get this Armageddon started! Incidentally, this plan may also have a positive effect on AGW. I can't see the downside here.
[01:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How can we Better Protect Crowds from Terrorism? - 680 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:27] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, the masked man fallacy. The position you are trying to defend is that there is a good reason to suspect that the article is somehow going to lead to a more authoritarian society. As your premise, you cite various organizations and governments which are completely unrelated to the author (Rob...
[01:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How can we Better Protect Crowds from Terrorism? - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:29] <exec> 08└─No, I don't think he's suggesting pre-crime. Just good old fashioned genocide.
[01:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Without Subsidies, Three Mile Island Could Go Dark, Operator Asserts - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:55] <exec> 08└─Three Mile Island is on an island in the Susquehanna River. Whether the grandparent poster meant that the site could be flooded or just meant that a serious accident could occur, I don't know. Flooding has happened in the area: Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station (TMI) is a nuclear power pl...
[01:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 066 Killed, At Least 20 Injured in Two Attacks in London, 3 Suspects Killed by Police - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:31] <exec> 08└─Muslims being killed by terrorists certainly has nothing to do with, "because we didn't let them into the country by the millions, call them refugees, and then prevent anyone from talking about the rape gangs and bombings."
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[02:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Use the "Removal of Net Neutrality Simulator" to Experience an Internet Without Net Neutrality - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:31] <exec> 08└─As always, it sounds like the problem is Government picking winners and losers; as you imply, that's not a Free Market. Also, Net Neutrality restricts a market's ability to produce networks that cater to various usages; this is bad, because it is not the case that all bytes are equal.
[02:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Use the "Removal of Net Neutrality Simulator" to Experience an Internet Without Net Neutrality - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:33] <exec> 08└─Just wait a few months. and it will be standard practice. No matter what ISP you use.
[02:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Use the "Removal of Net Neutrality Simulator" to Experience an Internet Without Net Neutrality - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:35] <exec> 08└─The arguments I find most ridiculous were all based on the idea that "net neutrality" was going to be some kind of effort to apply the old Fairness Doctrine (that had required political balance from broadcasters from 1949 to 1986) to the Internet. That required some creativity, but it was common eno...
[02:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Use the "Removal of Net Neutrality Simulator" to Experience an Internet Without Net Neutrality - 1292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:37] <exec> 08└─Large corporations like Amazon and Netflix and Facebook pushed Net Neutrality as a means to get the US government to fight other large corporations like Verizon. They did this because they wanted the ISPs to treat all data the same way and to not discriminate based on IP address. A packet is a packe...
[02:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Use the "Removal of Net Neutrality Simulator" to Experience an Internet Without Net Neutrality - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:39] <exec> 08└─More tedious political bandwagoning that somehow escaped the "Politics" sub-ghetto. Come on editors, do your damn jobs! Sad!
[02:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Use the "Removal of Net Neutrality Simulator" to Experience an Internet Without Net Neutrality - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:42] <exec> 08└─That's what I had in mind. It's the most egregious example of a totally fabricated talking point flogged by RWNJ radio hosts and FNC talking heads. The conservative low-information voter doesn't investigate deeper than what they hear from Hannity and Limbaugh. They're pushing what's best for giant m...
[02:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Use the "Removal of Net Neutrality Simulator" to Experience an Internet Without Net Neutrality - 741 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:44] <exec> 08└─You are, knowingly or unknowingly, repeating an inaccurate talking point. NN does not stop ISPs from doing QOS. Also, the physical infrastructure of the Internet is a natural monopoly, so free market principles break down. You cannot rely on competition to police the big players because, for the mos...
[02:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How can we Better Protect Crowds from Terrorism? - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:37] <exec> 08└─So, one country proves what?
[02:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How can we Better Protect Crowds from Terrorism? - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:38] <exec> 08└─Ban all 1.6 Muslims and you'll multiply the ranks of the disgruntled and violent by 10 fold. There aren't that many pissed off Muslims out there, yet, keep abusing them and you can change that.
[02:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How can we Better Protect Crowds from Terrorism? - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:40] <exec> 08└─Phone rings at police headquarters. Excited caller: There are 2 men with guns and knives killing people at my school! Dispatcher: Right, ma'am. Offer them seats so you can teach them out of ignorance. Excited caller: Thank you, officer, the dead feel so much better now.
[02:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How can we Better Protect Crowds from Terrorism? - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:42] <exec> 08└─So a clear-cut example in which gun ownership does not lead to gun violence is not indisputable evidence evidence that gun ownership does not lead to gun violence?
[02:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How can we Better Protect Crowds from Terrorism? - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:45] <exec> 08└─The US should have learned by now that it can't win a war, when it voluntarily ties it's own hands behind it's back. Despise Trump all you like, but he told us how to win the war against "Islamic extremists". Stop Muslims coming into the US. If there are no Muslims here, then Muslims won't be causin...
[02:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How can we Better Protect Crowds from Terrorism? - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:47] <exec> 08└─Oh yes, let's prosecute people for the sins of their fathers. We'll show those terrorists how much better we are than their 4th century worldviews by regressing to 1st century worldviews. Huzzah for progress!
[02:40:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Without Subsidies, Three Mile Island Could Go Dark, Operator Asserts - 1333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:13] <exec> 08└─> What's the difference between that and using the THOUSANDS OF YEARS WORTH of uranium that's left? You seem to be disputing the characterisation of nuclear energy as "not sustainable." I assume you know that the fission process transmutes actinides such as uranium into other elements in a way that'...
[02:40:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Without Subsidies, Three Mile Island Could Go Dark, Operator Asserts - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:15] <exec> 08└─Renewable can't compete against Chinese, Russian and Middle Eastern oil and coal.
[02:40:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Without Subsidies, Three Mile Island Could Go Dark, Operator Asserts - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:17] <exec> 08└─I'm guessing you mean emitting carbon dioxide to the atmosphere?
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[02:42:52] <exec> 08└─Thank you for the rundown on this Poland thing that got started.
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[03:35:37] <exec> 08└─Free Hamlet
[03:37:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03splodus [4877] 02 - 06Edward Snowden Claims to Have Been in Contact with President Obama’s White House - 378 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:47] <exec> 08└─Seems to me Trump is on a personal crusade to simply do the opposite of whatever Obama did. So maybe Snowden is hoping that if he can get it onto Trump's radar that Obama would *never* grant a pardon. And that Snowden was an *embarrassment* to Obama... Well then, perhaps Trump will think 'Ha! I'll p...
[03:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Edward Snowden Claims to Have Been in Contact with President Obama’s White House - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:08] <exec> 08└─Obama got a pass: Nobel peace prize just because.... because! Obama care seemed to be a mess (I'm not American, so .....). What else did he do? Fuck Americans 'land of the free' shit around by taking away their rights! (A black man taking away the rights of all Americans). I don't get it... Why is/w...
[03:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Edward Snowden Claims to Have Been in Contact with President Obama’s White House - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:10] <exec> 08└─And you'd better hope Hillary doesn't get in, or more rights will probably leave..... Americans need someone like Sanders: someone who will stand for Americans. Or something.
[03:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03optotronic [4285] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Edward Snowden Claims to Have Been in Contact with President Obama’s White House - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:12] <exec> 08└─Obama is revered because: - he is intelligent - he is well spoken - he acts like an adult - he didn't embarrass the country with his words or actions - he exudes competence - he carefully considered problems before offering a solution - he was willing to work with the opposing party - he tried to he...
[03:39:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Without Subsidies, Three Mile Island Could Go Dark, Operator Asserts - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:00] <exec> 08└─Yes, that was careless of me. Sorry.
[03:40:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pirate Party MEP Says That Current EU Piracy Filtering Proposals Are Being Sabotaged - 1065 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:11] <exec> 08└─Yep. Nobody cares about the big things that are destroying our society. Nobody cares about our most basic rights and freedoms, or should I say that the freedom of a select few to profit (an "elect" few, if you will, but you don't vote for those people) is overshadowing and devouring any other freedo...
[03:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1) 02 - 066 Killed, At Least 20 Injured in Two Attacks in London, 3 Suspects Killed by Police - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:40] <exec> 08└─America is praying for you and your party as you face this election. Only a leader who understands that torture works can put an end to radical Islamic terrorism. You are that leader. You understand. Go Paul! Go UKIP! #BritainTogether #TrumpResorts
[03:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Administration Approves Tougher Visa Vetting Including Social Media Checks - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:17] <exec> 08└─And, AC is an outright liar. Moo commanded troops in the field. Merchants don't do that.
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[04:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swiss Court Sanctions Commenter For 'Liking' Defamatory Posts - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:26] <exec> 08└─Need a lawyer to read EULA, another to post on facebook, another for twitter.
[04:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swiss Court Sanctions Commenter For 'Liking' Defamatory Posts - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:28] <exec> 08└─Butt knot for ShitNews wear all fags hear.
[04:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Use the "Removal of Net Neutrality Simulator" to Experience an Internet Without Net Neutrality - 788 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:51] <exec> 08└─the problem is Government picking winners and losers If there was public ownership of the hardware (wires, cables, fiber) and -everyone- could compete providing services on an equal footing, that would be ideal, IMO. Having one for-profit entity (or two[1]) own everything and it not being required t...
[04:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Use the "Removal of Net Neutrality Simulator" to Experience an Internet Without Net Neutrality - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:53] <exec> 08└─journalists are beaten and opposition party members are routinely sent to prison You have been deceived about what Socialism is. Here it is: The collective ownership of the means of production by the workers. Notice that there's nothing about a political party in that. The notion of single-party sta...
[04:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Use the "Removal of Net Neutrality Simulator" to Experience an Internet Without Net Neutrality - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:55] <exec> 08└─Not sure why you think the two are linked. If people are using VPNs to avoid IP bans then of course services are going to raise the barrier. That has nothing to do with net neutrality. Your packet still arrived at the destination unmolested. The destination just thinks you might be scum. I'd suggest...
[04:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Use the "Removal of Net Neutrality Simulator" to Experience an Internet Without Net Neutrality - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:57] <exec> 08└─If you get control of the last Mile you can force competition, which is why municipal broadband is such an important concept. A County, or City can resell, or repackage content from the fastest provider for a specific source delivered to the last Mile provider's network. Chances are, barring collusi...
[04:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Danish ISPs Stop Providing Copyright Industry with Subscriber Identities - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:08] <exec> 08└─Free books in public libraries! Free basic education! Free police and fire protection! Free roads and ocean travel! Free sunlight! Free air! Health care? Pay up, you mooching freeloaders!
[04:40:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Without Subsidies, Three Mile Island Could Go Dark, Operator Asserts - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:32] <exec> 08└─It's also why Chinese coal use is in decline and their renewables and nuclear are getting all the love. 0 for 2, you did a great job there...
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[05:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swiss Court Sanctions Commenter For 'Liking' Defamatory Posts - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:19] <exec> 08└─By clicking the like button, “the defendant clearly endorsed the unseemly content and made it his own,” Complete rubbish. Just because the link says "like" doesn't mean someone "LIKES" something by clicking on it. Maybe they are indicating that the person was brave enough to express themselves...
[05:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Use the "Removal of Net Neutrality Simulator" to Experience an Internet Without Net Neutrality - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:46] <exec> 08└─I have actually heard people making this argument seriously. They are, of course, libertarians that would be fine using dialup while posting their manifestos from their woodland cabins, of course.
[05:36:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06How can we Better Protect Crowds from Terrorism? - 287 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:46] <exec> 08└─To everyone else : don't take this twit's advice. If your life and the lives of those you love are precious to you, be proactive and take responsibility for your own safety. Depending on others for safety is a losing strategy, as anyone who has dealt with serious business will tell you.
[05:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Edward Snowden Claims to Have Been in Contact with President Obama’s White House - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:33] <exec> 08└─He's getting that information from wiretapps. Terrible! He tapped my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy.
[05:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Edward Snowden Claims to Have Been in Contact with President Obama’s White House - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:35] <exec> 08└─There might be other factors involved such as having a few Queens as rulers
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[05:40:25] <exec> 08└─Pricing the externality of CO2 is a good example, but far from the only one. For example, more such common ones are driving an individual vehicle, any behavior that increases material going to a landfill, any behavior considered wasteful of electricity or other resource such as using an incandescent...
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[06:35:26] <exec> 08└─I thought this was a news site, not a history lesson: "Apple users too dumb to use most feature of their devices" seems right out of the 1 button mouse days.
[06:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Users Struggle to Use iPhone Features - 1148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:28] <exec> 08└─This is a general problem with computing. Whether we're talking about smart phones or office applications. - The developer and power users know the interface inside and out. Small tweaks seem like optimizations to them, but confuse the heck out of occasional users. - UX designers make changes for no...
[06:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Users Struggle to Use iPhone Features - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:30] <exec> 08└─Someone once thought that ABCXYZ gamepads were too easy...
[06:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swiss Court Sanctions Commenter For 'Liking' Defamatory Posts - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:41] <exec> 08└─To be fair, with all the terrorists they let into the country they really can't allow people to say the truth online, or even "Like" things they may like. Otherwise people would hear about the "urban youth"(Muslim invader) rape gangs,and we can't have that.
[06:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Swiss Court Sanctions Commenter For 'Liking' Defamatory Posts - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:43] <exec> 08└─Even if your points of dispute were somehow wrong, we'd still have that lightweight endorsement is not ownership. Anyway, these "likes" will now cost the person in question about $4000 which is ludicrous for the supposed offense, even if we consider it an offense worthy of punishment. Moving on, it...
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[06:38:32] <exec> 08└─Then Nixon ended the war. I don't care about anything else, he was a pretty good prez in my book.
[06:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Frost [3313] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Edward Snowden Claims to Have Been in Contact with President Obama’s White House - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:59] <exec> 08└─I mean, actually fired. With guns flamethrowers.
[06:40:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03compro01 [2515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Without Subsidies, Three Mile Island Could Go Dark, Operator Asserts - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:54] <exec> 08└─Doesn't PUREX also create large amounts of very nasty waste, like at Hanford?
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[06:40:55] <exec> 08└─Subsidies and laws pervert the market
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[07:35:28] <exec> 08└─Some users want to use special features, but other users may simply have no desire to use them, and the ability to understand how to use the feature may not have any bearing on whether a user makes use of the feature. * * However, it must be said that if the features were truly well designed, people...
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[07:35:29] <exec> 08└─"- UX designers make changes for no good reason." You have a good point there. I believe this occurs because the designers want to "make their mark" so they can point to something and say "I did that". Sadly, they don't seem to understand that often the best design choice is to leave something the f...
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[07:35:42] <exec> 08└─Yes, well, freedom of speech doesn't really exist in Western Europe, though fining someone for clicking a "like" button is a bit far-fetched. Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights states (bold is my emphasis): "1. Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall incl...
[07:37:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03julian [6003] 02 - 06How can we Better Protect Crowds from Terrorism? - 94 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:50] <exec> 08└─This is indisputable evidence that gun ownership does not correlate to increased gun violence.
[07:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Edward Snowden Claims to Have Been in Contact with President Obama’s White House - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:58] <exec> 08└─Yeah but Obama didn't have the sense to inherit a fortune and a job from his father. Typical lazy urban.
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[07:39:00] <exec> 08└─Don't forget the birth certificate forgery and the brown suit. Worst President EVER!
[07:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opioid Crisis Partly Blamed on a 1980 Letter to the New England Journal of Medicine - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:21] <exec> 08└─Whoosh... look it up, it's very reliable.
[07:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AI Researchers Develop Curiosity Algorithm - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:42] <exec> 08└─I didn't realize you were all Republicans. Maybe it's time to let robot AIs vote in elections, I mean openly.
[07:40:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Plans a "4nm" Process - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:40:00] <exec> 08└─> break the barriers of Moore’s law scaling Moore's law, when used as a predictive statement, indicates that the number of transistors that will fit on a die will grow exponentially. It has therefore been used to predict that there will be *no barriers*. (Not that it was intended to be a long-term...
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[08:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimios [201] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nintendo Switch Online Service to Include Classic Nintendo Titles - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:15] <exec> 08└─Well this is news. Nintendo usually is around 10 years late to most best practices that they didn't pioneer so them catching up to the basics is some really welcome news. Now they only need some other basic stuff like online saves, cheaper pricing for digital only games and some less braindead strea...
[08:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nintendo Switch Online Service to Include Classic Nintendo Titles - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:17] <exec> 08└─Cancel your subscription, on the other hand, and your access to the games goes away.
[08:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Users Struggle to Use iPhone Features - 851 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:29] <exec> 08└─Cars built for the right hand drive market usually/traditionally have the indicator stalk on the right, BUT the ignition (key or button) is also on the right of the wheel. Some cars built for both right- and left-hand drive markets will usually have the wiper controls as a stalk, on the left hand si...
[08:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Users Struggle to Use iPhone Features - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:31] <exec> 08└─Apple users can't even hold the thing right.
[08:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Users Struggle to Use iPhone Features - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:33] <exec> 08└─I remember trying to explain to an Apple rep that I wanted to sync my iPhone with my Mac without using iCloud, because I am often in a location where there is NO internet or cell phone service. The rep seemed to have trouble understanding that such a location was even possible !
[08:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swiss Court Sanctions Commenter For 'Liking' Defamatory Posts - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:45] <exec> 08└─You're probably thinking of Germany. This happened in Switzerland (geographically close, but a different country with very different laws and immigration policies).
[08:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swiss Court Sanctions Commenter For 'Liking' Defamatory Posts - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:47] <exec> 08└─Obviously there's a need for people with dissenting opinions in Europe to have their own discussion platforms.
[08:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swiss Court Sanctions Commenter For 'Liking' Defamatory Posts - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:49] <exec> 08└─Did people miss the memo on Facebook, Twitter etc. They attract the wrong crowd which often get into nonsense conflicts and then there's police watching you for any thought crime unless the vigilante groups gets done first. Those sites are shit and will cost you.
[08:39:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Edward Snowden Claims to Have Been in Contact with President Obama’s White House - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:39:06] <exec> 08└─Compare Obama's resume with the guys who proceeded and followed him. They aren't even on the same level. Fuck, trump barely got a 4 year degree.
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[08:41:04] <exec> 08└─Dunno, better read up on that. But even if it would be so, there's still the accelerator technology. And a lot of other technology that has not been tried fully. Polywell being one of them.
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[08:41:17] <exec> 08└─You forgot: 4) Right before the vote, change the wording for the "bad legislation" to match that of the "worse legislation"
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[09:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barcelona Cracks Down on Airbnb Rentals with Illegal Apartment Squads - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:12] <exec> 08└─Any ideas on how to prevent price hikes for tenants without forbidding letting out or airbnb-like services?
[09:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barcelona Cracks Down on Airbnb Rentals with Illegal Apartment Squads - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:13] <exec> 08└─You can't really. Airbnb, like Uber, is a parasitic institution slowly strangling cities. An outright ban is the best solution for all involved.
[09:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Barcelona Cracks Down on Airbnb Rentals with Illegal Apartment Squads - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:15] <exec> 08└─Any ideas on how to prevent price hikes for tenants without forbidding letting out or airbnb-like services?
[09:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Barcelona Cracks Down on Airbnb Rentals with Illegal Apartment Squads - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:17] <exec> 08└─You can't really. Airbnb, like Uber, is a parasitic institution slowly strangling cities. An outright ban is the best solution for all involved.
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[09:35:20] <exec> 08└─tax airbnb like a hotel, and make them respect all the rules of a hotel. problem solved. if an apartment is deemed "residential", it means people either live in it for three months or more, or they're not allowed to live there. If I live in a building with my family, I don't want strangers coming an...
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[09:35:42] <exec> 08└─It's not just changee to the old, but addition of new such that you can no longer easily access the old (the complexity of accessing a feature is usually proportional to some function of the number of features (a bit like the number of bits needed to represent a number depends on the quantity of num...
[09:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swiss Court Sanctions Commenter For 'Liking' Defamatory Posts - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:58] <exec> 08└─Plenty of sites implement a "Like" functionality. Forum software such as IP.Board for instance. This shit is just plain bad and it doesn't end at Facebook.
[09:38:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Lesbian Dating App Rela Shuts Down - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:34] <exec> 08└─The next genocide will be preceded by a dating app, which constantly reports one's location, and will be voluntarily installed. And 'community' facebook pages. And likes on youtube videos about how much are being oppressed. While China may not make use of this list now, it's going to be stored forev...
[09:38:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Lesbian Dating App Rela Shuts Down - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:36] <exec> 08└─...preceded by a <scapegoat> dating app... And <scapegoat> 'community' facebook... ..videos about how much <scapegoats> are being...
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[09:39:18] <exec> 08└─I take it you weren't intending to be sarcastic with that list? Because the first three items are the only ones I'm willing to grant of him. Even then, I'm not going to agree that he acted convincingly when he acted like an adult.
[09:43:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bootsy [3440] (Score: 2) 02 - 066 Killed, At Least 20 Injured in Two Attacks in London, 3 Suspects Killed by Police - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:43:54] <exec> 08└─Attacking London, a city that has Muslim Mayor in control of it, is particularly stupid. It reinforces how their rational is utterly regressive.
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[10:35:06] <exec> 08└─Good code is self-explanatory, how'bow dah? /ducks
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[10:35:07] <exec> 08└─Quack.
[10:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:09] <exec> 08└─It's not even that they don't know. It's just almost nobody wants to.
[10:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Barcelona Cracks Down on Airbnb Rentals with Illegal Apartment Squads - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:22] <exec> 08└─The trouble is that in practice Airbnb reduces living options by taking appartments off the market, reduces living quality by saddling neighbours with unaccountable tourists who are loud, litter and are gone in two weeks and it disrupts the local economy to the point where shops catering to the loca...
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[10:35:23] <exec> 08└─Could you quantify the statement "Airbnb reduces living options by taking apartments of the market" please? I can see how an apt used *solely* for Airbnb might reduce the market, but surely empty rooms not being used do not fall into this? Is it 1% , 10% etc? Anyone have the distribution of Airbnb s...
[10:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Users Struggle to Use iPhone Features - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:48] <exec> 08└─This was once (Android 3.x?) a house-shaped icon, which you could pretty easily associate with the "home" screen. They changed the symbol to a simple geometric shape. Don't peek: is it (a) a triagle, (b) a circle, or (c) a square?
[10:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Edward Snowden Claims to Have Been in Contact with President Obama’s White House - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:26] <exec> 08└─Yeah he inherited from his white mother instead.
[10:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Edward Snowden Claims to Have Been in Contact with President Obama’s White House - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:27] <exec> 08└─Well spoken? He has a stutter.
[10:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Edward Snowden Claims to Have Been in Contact with President Obama’s White House - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:29] <exec> 08└─- he acts like an adult - he didn't embarrass the country with his words or actions - he exudes competence He extended and expanded the spying (on YOU!) and on his allies and got CAUGHT! Are YOU not enraged by this? Are you not EMBARRASSED by this?
[10:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Edward Snowden Claims to Have Been in Contact with President Obama’s White House - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:32] <exec> 08└─Are the young generation so blind they don't know when someone is fecking their arse? Seriously. Governments and corporations today are fecking you, and you revere this? You use Facebook, you give Obama a pass. Bend over some more, cause the future is looking shitty unless MORE people start fighting...
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[10:40:31] <exec> 08└─> I'll grant you that it is not the clearest phrasing, but a little tolerance of a mis-translation to English... Because Samsung are a small cash-strapped company who can't afford a proof-reader who is familiar with technology, yeah, right. I shouldn't be surprised, even the contract I signed with S...
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[10:44:10] <exec> 08└─Tell that to the families of the victims and try not to come over so callous.
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[11:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 993 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:21] <exec> 08└─Writing good documentation is like writing a good program. It seems simple when you start, then it escalates, then you realise you maybe should've planned it out a bit before starting, then you go back to the drawing board, then you salvage what you can of what you have produced so far. Is it any su...
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[11:35:22] <exec> 08└─Yup. It's pulling teeth to get anyone on staff except audioguy to even document our own setup. Yes, this includes me.
[11:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:25] <exec> 08└─Surprisingly, this is largely true of Rust code. It's by far the easiest language I've coded in to deal with undocumented or poorly documented code.
[11:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 2389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:27] <exec> 08└─Say no more. I could not find any reasoning or explanation for how it's supposed to be used, only example code that was incomplete. Literally, there is no documentation (or even function) on how to validate a signed certificate, and the possible results. You have to imagine everything that could be...
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[11:35:29] <exec> 08└─Crappy documentation has been around for decades. Nothing new ;-) But one thing I often miss is that a lot of (free) software writers won't even begin to tell what their program is for even with like 4 sentences. Like "ls small program to list files in a directory with lots of options."
[11:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:31] <exec> 08└─Yup. I went to a talk about a decade ago that compared OSS to commercial software development, and one of the points they made was that in a commercial environment you get (mostly) decent documentation because you can pay someone to do it. In addition because you've got paid features in your product...
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[11:35:45] <exec> 08└─I see your point. Its kinda hard to know who belongs there and who doesn't when strangers keep coming and going around your home. The turnover will likely attract a "bad crowd" who is just there for opportunity theft, knowing the "whodunnit" is going to call up a lot of wild goose chases. I am alre...
[11:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barcelona Cracks Down on Airbnb Rentals with Illegal Apartment Squads - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:47] <exec> 08└─Someone with a really big apartment can keep it instead of downsizing because letting out via airbnb let them keep bearing the rental income.
[11:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barcelona Cracks Down on Airbnb Rentals with Illegal Apartment Squads - 1054 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:49] <exec> 08└─Buy to Let. It's not just AirBnB, it's a general practice of landlords offering properties for longer term leases too and is a major contributor to the problems people have with getting onto the housing ladder in some countries. Once they are established, a landlord has a lot of assets with which to...
[11:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swiss Court Sanctions Commenter For 'Liking' Defamatory Posts - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:30] <exec> 08└─Is it thoughtcrime yet?
[11:41:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Elledan [4807] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Without Subsidies, Three Mile Island Could Go Dark, Operator Asserts - 1538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:52] <exec> 08└─Natural gas is currently very inexpensive, yes. That wasn't the case before, however. It's very likely that prices will skyrocket again once the fracking bubble pops. It doesn't make sense to bet the farm on NG staying cheap for the next 40-50 years. The reasons why nuclear power is 'expensive' is v...
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[12:35:21] <exec> 08└─"Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding rocket" Huddersfield Town just go from strength to strength after their promotion!
[12:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Alarm About the Influence of Standardized Tests on American Society - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:29] <exec> 08└─people who are very good at advancing themselves, often at other people’s expense
[12:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Alarm About the Influence of Standardized Tests on American Society - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:31] <exec> 08└─intelligence that’s not modulated and moderated by creativity, common sense and wisdom is not such a positive thing to have. What it leads to is people who are very good at advancing themselves, often at other people’s expense.
[12:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Alarm About the Influence of Standardized Tests on American Society - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:33] <exec> 08└─we need to look at things that will make the world a better place
[12:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:49] <exec> 08└─What do you mean "no documentation"? Here's all the OpenSSL docs you'll ever need [peereboom.us].
[12:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:51] <exec> 08└─man ls
[12:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03fraxinus-tree [5590] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:53] <exec> 08└─I hate to say it, but a lot of them don't know how to write code, either.
[12:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03dak664 [2433] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Users Struggle to Use iPhone Features - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:33] <exec> 08└─It's not a problem with computing, it's a problem with documentation. Don't accept repository commits that don't include documentation changes. And show random bits of documentation on every startup.
[12:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Use the "Removal of Net Neutrality Simulator" to Experience an Internet Without Net Neutrality - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:19] <exec> 08└─What you call a "natural" monopoly is, as always, just Government coercing people into a particular pattern of existence.
[12:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Use the "Removal of Net Neutrality Simulator" to Experience an Internet Without Net Neutrality - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:21] <exec> 08└─As OP already stated. Some are time-dependent; others are urgent. An email could take an hour, and it wouldn't matter in most cases, but clearly that is not the case for Netflix streaming data.
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[12:37:23] <exec> 08└─You want to own the means of production? By some fucking stock; invest your capital productively. If socialism is to work, it must be built atop capitalism; capitalism is the fundamental theory of human interaction.
[12:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Danish ISPs Stop Providing Copyright Industry with Subscriber Identities - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:35] <exec> 08└─See what a democratic monarchy brings into life? Bribing govts and justices become more expensive, there's is someone who can't be bribed and who can dismiss evident corrupt officials. Tell ye, the monarchy is an institution... umm... opposed to progress.
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[13:35:20] <exec> 08└─I'm surprised the contrail/chemtrail fringe isn't going nuts over this
[13:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06An Alarm About the Influence of Standardized Tests on American Society - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:31] <exec> 08└─people who are very good at advancing themselves, often at other people’s expense
[13:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Alarm About the Influence of Standardized Tests on American Society - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:32] <exec> 08└─Just remember, the endpoint of your philosophy is that the rest of us should incinerate those people for the good of all. Does that ring a bell?
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[13:35:34] <exec> 08└─So the interviewee, Sternberg, says "We have a guy [representative-elect Greg Gianforte of Montana] who allegedly assaulted a reporter and just got elected to the U.S. House of Representatives—and that’s after a 30-point average increase in IQ. We had violence in campaign rallies. Not only do we...
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[13:35:36] <exec> 08└─Derailing by assholes in many small steps until implosion? ;-)
[13:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Alarm About the Influence of Standardized Tests on American Society - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:39] <exec> 08└─Does that ring a bhell?
[13:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:58] <exec> 08└─Indeed, and that observation applies to software in general. 99% of programmers don't know how to write code. They're "unconscious incompetent." At least I'm "conscious incompetent" and trying hard to improve. Arrogance and hubris seem to be the order of the day. I weep for the future of the Huma...
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[13:36:00] <exec> 08└─Cheers for that. If that link doesn't prove my point, nothing does. And I can't imagine all that much has changed even with all the problems with OpenSSL discovered in recent years.
[13:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:02] <exec> 08└─Not all programs have man pages. That's when you get into the hmm territory.
[13:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:04] <exec> 08└─An incredible 93 percent of people reported being frustrated with “incomplete or confusing documentation”.
[13:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:06] <exec> 08└─That, and do they really not know how to write docs, or just not care? Coding is challenging, people dive into it with something to prove: they are masters of that universe. Some people will take up testing as an obsession, good testing is far from trivial and very valuable - especially to keep the...
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[13:36:09] <exec> 08└─Documentation is a thankless job - you do a great job of documenting the existing setup, then the coders and testers change it all and your documentation is broken, but nobody cares enough to help you fix it. Autogenerated documentation like doxygen at least moves the problem closer to the source......
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[13:36:11] <exec> 08└─I'm not necessarily disagreeing, but its hardly limited to FOSS. If you are unfamiliar with vmware's products lets try a little game, you have five minutes to figure out what the vRealize product does. Not accepting an answer of manager bullshit like "improve efficiency, performance and availability...
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[13:36:13] <exec> 08└─A proper install guide may be intellectually rewarding (to some) but it's socially thankless. In essence, documentation is "programming the users" - which is orders of magnitude more difficult than computer code. You can "get it right" for one set of people and completely wrong for the next batch, n...
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[13:36:15] <exec> 08└─They claim it's not security by obscurity, but in practice, it is. The flaws are hard to find, but they're there waiting for exploit.
[13:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:17] <exec> 08└─Wait until the dregs show up; they always do.
[13:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Barcelona Cracks Down on Airbnb Rentals with Illegal Apartment Squads - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:34] <exec> 08└─Someone with a really big apartment can keep it instead of downsizing because letting out via airbnb let them keep bearing the rental income.
[13:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Users Struggle to Use iPhone Features - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:01] <exec> 08└─I believe this occurs because the designers want to "make their mark" so they can point to something and say "I did that".
[13:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Users Struggle to Use iPhone Features - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:03] <exec> 08└─Have they designed and shipped anything as disruptive and profitable than what Steve did since he died?
[13:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Users Struggle to Use iPhone Features - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:05] <exec> 08└─iTunes is a good example : it's been a monstrous overly complex turd for years.
[13:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Users Struggle to Use iPhone Features - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:07] <exec> 08└─Doh. Rather has the Apple management succeeded with anything significant since Jobs went away?
[13:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Users Struggle to Use iPhone Features - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:09] <exec> 08└─(no, I did get what you meant. Just found the structure of the phrase deliciously ambiguous re who was expected to deliver the disruption)
[13:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03What planet is this [5031] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Users Struggle to Use iPhone Features - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:11] <exec> 08└─Whatever happened to simple menus that are relevant to what you are looking for. That's why I am a KDE fan. I have to go on a click quest to find anything in Win10.
[13:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Yog-Yogguth [1862] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swiss Court Sanctions Commenter For 'Liking' Defamatory Posts - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:29] <exec> 08└─Exactly, I've done the same. I kind of always do because I never fully agree with anyone including myself :P Sad to see such insanity in Switzerland, I thought better of them (a case of "the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence" I suppose). "Liking" content which you do not agree w...
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[13:37:31] <exec> 08└─This is the kind of thought control crapola that kept me from voting for Clinton. Hopefully the next Democratic presidential candidate in 2020 won't be the 'if you don't vote for me you are a racist' type.
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[13:41:03] <exec> 08└─Did you just respond to yourself? We can practically see the spittle dripping off your monitor. I can only conclude that you are a plant working for the NSA paid to make all protestors of the surveillence state look like off-their-rocker nutjobs. With friends like you, who needs enemies?
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[14:35:24] <exec> 08└─Do these voice mail services record the telephone number that were used to make the call? And time?
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[14:35:25] <exec> 08└─Hear me out: If this world actually made any sense, then I would have control of my services and devices sufficient to allow me to implement the following: If I know you, I put you on the whitelist; If you're a spammer, I put you on the blacklist; if I don't know you, I require you to pay me $1 wort...
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[14:35:28] <exec> 08└─Advertising is dying. As it's dying, advertisers are trying anything they can think of to get what they have to say into your brain, because you are getting better and better at avoiding what they want to tell you. I'm guessing almost everybody reading this comment is using an adblocker in your brow...
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[14:35:30] <exec> 08└─Yes, but since the bad guys routinely fake the incoming phone number, that's not much help. You can tell the FTC about it [donotcall.gov] if you like, though.
[14:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No, Your Phone Didn’t Ring. So Why Voice Mail from a Telemarketer? - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:32] <exec> 08└─First time I get one of these I'm changing my voice message to "Don't bother, I never check voice mail anymore. Send a text". I'll then change my password to something I have no chance of remembering. As it is I have voice mail anyway. I spend more time listening to "you have x new messages. Message...
[14:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No, Your Phone Didn’t Ring. So Why Voice Mail from a Telemarketer? - 1253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:34] <exec> 08└─Here, where I live, it is illegal to make a sales call to someone you do not have a business relationship with, unless the specifically opt in. Of course, some call centers ignore this. I mean, how is some Swiss citizen going to punish a call center in India or Pakistan? Others just cheat. "This isn...
[14:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No, Your Phone Didn’t Ring. So Why Voice Mail from a Telemarketer? - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:36] <exec> 08└─I really like the direction it's going. I've seen a lot more "high quality" goods but typically made in smaller numbers. People who want higher quality goods seek out those goods themselves. There's no point in a company even trying to mass market a niche product. Companies whose products have no re...
[14:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Alarm About the Influence of Standardized Tests on American Society - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:59] <exec> 08└─but the "real" theory correlates with a zillion measurable outcomes indicating success.
[14:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Alarm About the Influence of Standardized Tests on American Society - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:01] <exec> 08└─100% accurate. SAT's were introduced to promote meritocracy and overcome class differences. Sternberg's crap is about ensuring equality of outcome and to do that there must be something we are missing because Orientals and Jews cannot be (on average) more intelligent and successful than Caucasians w...
[14:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Alarm About the Influence of Standardized Tests on American Society - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:03] <exec> 08└─That seems like a window into what this really is, which is a thinly veiled bombastic insult ... ... ...but rather re-educate everyone who's recalcitrant that that global system of exploitation and corruption is actually a good thing and that they're stupid if they don't realize that.
[14:36:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03driverless [4770] 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 97 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:19] <exec> 08└─What do you mean "no documentation"? Here's all the OpenSSL docs you'll ever need [peereboom.us].
[14:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:33] <exec> 08└─It's the least fun part of your job. I barely do it when they pay me, why do it for free?
[14:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:34] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, too many people believe that. It's not just expressing something in a human language. It's expressing it comprehensibly, efficiently and unambiguously, in a way that lends itself to translation. Turns out, this is basically a hard, AI-complete problem. Most devs don't have those skill...
[14:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:36] <exec> 08└─None of my programs have man pages. That would be another boring and stupid markup language to learn and more stuff to keep up to date :-) And if you write a man page some poor soul might get the mistaken impression that your code actually works and can be used...
[14:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:39] <exec> 08└─Why does this particularly affect open source software?
[14:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nintendo Switch Online Service to Include Classic Nintendo Titles - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:04] <exec> 08└─Sell me the same shit for 5th time, what innovation!
[14:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Users Struggle to Use iPhone Features - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:29] <exec> 08└─The purpose of an iDevice is to show off to people that you can afford to pay 3x as much as an android device to do the same thing. Functionality has nothing to do with it. Its like watching a fashion show and complaining that none of those dresses would be suitable for gardening work or taking the...
[14:37:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03driven [6295] 02 - 06Swiss Court Sanctions Commenter For 'Liking' Defamatory Posts - 497 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:39] <exec> 08└─By clicking the like button, “the defendant clearly endorsed the unseemly content and made it his own,” Complete rubbish. Just because the link says "like" doesn't mean someone "LIKES" something by clicking on it. Maybe they are indicating that the person was brave enough to express themselves...
[14:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Yog-Yogguth [1862] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swiss Court Sanctions Commenter For 'Liking' Defamatory Posts - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:50] <exec> 08└─How far back would you like to go? Everything has always been thoughtcrime, to me it's why Socrates drank the poison [wikipedia.org].
[14:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Yog-Yogguth [1862] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swiss Court Sanctions Commenter For 'Liking' Defamatory Posts - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:52] <exec> 08└─2020 is canceled, wildcard Trump was Clinton too just like Stein and Johnson.
[14:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Yog-Yogguth [1862] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swiss Court Sanctions Commenter For 'Liking' Defamatory Posts - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:54] <exec> 08└─By the way on a more cheerful note and to give you an answer: this is obviously the very wrong planet :D Nice name :)
[14:38:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03julian [6003] 02 - 06Use the "Removal of Net Neutrality Simulator" to Experience an Internet Without Net Neutrality - 741 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:16] <exec> 08└─You are, knowingly or unknowingly, repeating an inaccurate talking point. NN does not stop ISPs from doing QOS. Also, the physical infrastructure of the Internet is a natural monopoly, so free market principles break down. You cannot rely on competition to police the big players because, for the mos...
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[15:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Catalytic Converter Composite Reduces Rare Earth Element Usage - 760 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:13] <exec> 08└─This all makes me yearn for the simplicity of an electric car. CCaaS Catalytic Converter as a Service provided by my local electric company. Of course I participate in the local power companies greenwashing plan where every kilowatt hour I purchase from them, they pinkie swear to buy a kilowatt hour...
[15:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No, Your Phone Didn’t Ring. So Why Voice Mail from a Telemarketer? - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:28] <exec> 08└─Because that always helps... Occasionally, I have found that quoting statute to them that enables you to sue them in small claims court for harassment, $500 per instance, etc. does seem to chill them out. It helps if you've gotten them to ID themselves first.
[15:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03BananaPhone [2488] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06No, Your Phone Didn’t Ring. So Why Voice Mail from a Telemarketer? - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:29] <exec> 08└─Hello Cell phone provider, please disable my voice mail feature. Oh you won't? Ok, my greeting will be telling people not to leave a message because uses it for advertising. (Later, BananaPhone creates script to call cell phone and leave multiple large messages to fill up Voice Mailbox.)
[15:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No, Your Phone Didn’t Ring. So Why Voice Mail from a Telemarketer? - 1816 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:32] <exec> 08└─Advertising is NOT dying; that's plainly absurd. Proof: 1) The fact that the web is still around and so many journalism (or if you prefer, "journalism") sites exist and are highly profitable. Also, YouTube. All that stuff only exists because of advertising revenue. 2) The subject of this very articl...
[15:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No, Your Phone Didn’t Ring. So Why Voice Mail from a Telemarketer? - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:34] <exec> 08└─The one remaining mystery: How can this pay off? I don't know anyone who likes these calls; I don't know anyone who has ever bought anything because of one of these calls. How can it actually pay off? It's not a mystery; it works because there's enough suckers out there buying their crap to make it...
[15:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No, Your Phone Didn’t Ring. So Why Voice Mail from a Telemarketer? - 1020 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:36] <exec> 08└─You use an iphone or what exactly is the problem here? I have Android and Mr Number and If I know you, you get a nice telephone sounding ring tone (not rickroll or some BS) If you're a spammer mr number blocks you If I don't know you, you get my default ringtone which is silence and if you leave a n...
[15:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No, Your Phone Didn’t Ring. So Why Voice Mail from a Telemarketer? - 830 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:38] <exec> 08└─Know what you mean. More and more, I don't like or want voicemail. Text is better. Is there cell phone service that doesn't come with voicemail? I have not found any. Can I opt out of voicemail? Not have the service? It seems not. Why not? I can think of one reason: $. Why else is the interface so d...
[15:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06No, Your Phone Didn’t Ring. So Why Voice Mail from a Telemarketer? - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:40] <exec> 08└─Please add your comments to the actual filing so that the FCC understands how consumers feel about this proposal. You can add a filing here [fcc.gov]. Reference filing 02-278 and help the FCC understand.
[15:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No, Your Phone Didn’t Ring. So Why Voice Mail from a Telemarketer? - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:43] <exec> 08└─In case you were confused about how it works, the article is sparse in details but it appears to be a special feature of modern voice mail systems. I am not too voice mail savvy, so I thought that voice mail was just a digital answering machine that would pick up after x number of rings. “The conc...
[15:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Sounding Rocket will Release Early Morning Artificial Clouds Lighting up the Mid-Atlantic Coast - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:52] <exec> 08└─It reads like English but can't make any sense of it.
[15:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Sounding Rocket will Release Early Morning Artificial Clouds Lighting up the Mid-Atlantic Coast - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:55] <exec> 08└─I wanted it to say "Artificial Aurorae over Eastern U.S. Scheduled for 11 June."
[15:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Alarm About the Influence of Standardized Tests on American Society - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:13] <exec> 08└─You can get normies to believe anything if you state it authoritatively enough, so it sells well to journalists and readers. It makes no measurable predictions about reality, and existing theory predicts the future far better than the proposed theory.
[15:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Alarm About the Influence of Standardized Tests on American Society - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:14] <exec> 08└─The number doesn't bear any indication of the truth value. If it did, we wouldn't be today still in the rabbit hole we sunk after zillions were saying "House prices never fall"
[15:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Alarm About the Influence of Standardized Tests on American Society - 1449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:16] <exec> 08└─Instead of breaking society up into a bunch of little compartments where everyone is trying to fill theirs with the most water to float their boat the highest; how about if we just had one ocean and everyone was interested in raising the water level so everyone's boat would rise. A society with more...
[15:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Alarm About the Influence of Standardized Tests on American Society - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:19] <exec> 08└─Yeah fair enough. Science is a race (competition) so my wimpy disclaimer holds. but the dude's produced numbers at a quality and rate beneath existing theories.
[15:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Alarm About the Influence of Standardized Tests on American Society - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:21] <exec> 08└─Reforge a system where merit matters again
[15:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Alarm About the Influence of Standardized Tests on American Society - 1001 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:23] <exec> 08└─What if as you progress through school, the testing gradually becomes more focused toward individuals that fall into general classes. Obviously there are people who are more humanities oriented, and others who are technically oriented. And probably other pigeon holes as well. But most people do fall...
[15:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:57] <exec> 08└─I would love to write documentation if someone payed me to do it. but I'm actually payed for running the code I write and analyzing the results.
[15:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 890 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:58] <exec> 08└─It's not just Free software that suffers here though; proprietary software is no better for the most part. Quick, pull out your Windows 10 user's manual... oh wait, such a thing doesn't exist. The problem here, as I see it, is that technical writing is not rewarded or valued appropriately, so no one...
[15:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:01] <exec> 08└─What we need is a high level language for documentation, something that lets you write it once and then compile it for all users, instead of writing our documentation in "user level" code.
[15:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 746 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:03] <exec> 08└─Before it was called "Gonzo" there was Normal Mailer's "The Naked and the Dead" -- this sets a very high bar for the "hyper-realistic war documentary fiction" category, which I believe Mailer invented(?), although in other writings Mailer says that he was inspired by Faulkner... Tom Wolfe and Hunter...
[15:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 2069 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:05] <exec> 08└─Bad code can be written in any language. When you've been around long enough, you eventually see everything. Nothing surprises you any more. IMO: 0. Change your mindset. You're not writing code for the compiler. You're audience is another human being -- not a compiler. Once you get this philosophy y...
[15:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:07] <exec> 08└─I wrote several items I believe in a different comment. But one worth repeating here. Change your philosophy of programming. You're not writing code for the compiler. The compiler is not your audience. Another human reader is. The exercise of programming is not merely to get successful execution on...
[15:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Users Struggle to Use iPhone Features - 1694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:59] <exec> 08└─The root of the problem is capitalism, I think. These devices and UIs are becoming mature, but instead of just focusing on making them more reliable and fixing the bugs and other things that users don't notice much unless they run into them, and which don't help sell new devices (since software upda...
[15:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Users Struggle to Use iPhone Features - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:01] <exec> 08└─So now Apple, the 'masters of innovation and invention' are reduced to copying from the Chinese. Did they run out of Android features to copy?
[15:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Users Struggle to Use iPhone Features - 1374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:03] <exec> 08└─That's a bunch of BS; you're talking about two completely different things. You're sorta right about both of them, but you're wrong because you're trying to link them together and conflate them. For iDevices, you're absolutely correct: the purpose is to show off that you can afford to pay 3x as much...
[15:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Users Struggle to Use iPhone Features - 829 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:05] <exec> 08└─That's BS. Apple stuff is perfectly designed for people willing to do everything the Apple Way. You're using it wrong by not wanting to use iCloud, or being in places where there's no internet/cell service at all. Stop doing that. Don't go places where there's no cell service, and stop trying to do...
[15:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Yog-Yogguth [1862] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swiss Court Sanctions Commenter For 'Liking' Defamatory Posts - 1408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:28] <exec> 08└─Sad to hear it's as bad in Switzerland as elsewhere. One illusion more gone, it was to be expected but even so. Thirty going on forty years of backlash building up, and it's not stopping any time soon by the looks of it. Meanwhile those in power keep killing those they're intended to represent (as w...
[15:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Yog-Yogguth [1862] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swiss Court Sanctions Commenter For 'Liking' Defamatory Posts - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:29] <exec> 08└─Yeah but those are usually set up, run, and funded by the CIA and/or run Disqus or some other data-hoovering surveillance monstrosity, at least where I live. Not that there's actually any need because there isn't.
[15:38:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03rondon [5167] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surgical Advance Could Improve Prosthetic Limb Response - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:38] <exec> 08└─Very, very cool. Let me know when I can get my cybernetic legs and arms. I don't need them just yet, but I will want them here in a few years when this meat sack isn't getting the job done any more.
[15:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Edward Snowden Claims to Have Been in Contact with President Obama’s White House - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:05] <exec> 08└─Don J. "Smallhands" Trump ran businesses all right, to the ground.
[15:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opioid Crisis Partly Blamed on a 1980 Letter to the New England Journal of Medicine - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:27] <exec> 08└─Interesting comparison with the waterfall model. What I love about this one is that Royce never advocated for the kind of rigid, linear process that "agile" claims it is. And his paper has a section called "involve the customer". Anyway, it's become a stereotype for better or worse.
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[16:35:31] <exec> 08└─Of course I participate in the local power companies greenwashing plan
[16:35:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06No, Your Phone Didn’t Ring. So Why Voice Mail from a Telemarketer? - 158 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:42] <exec> 08└─Yes, but since the bad guys routinely fake the incoming phone number, that's not much help. You can tell the FTC about it [donotcall.gov] if you like, though.
[16:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No, Your Phone Didn’t Ring. So Why Voice Mail from a Telemarketer? - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:55] <exec> 08└─"It was literally a telemarketing voice mail to try to sell telemarketing systems." phew, i thought it was a metaphorical telemarketing voice mail for a minute there...
[16:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No, Your Phone Didn’t Ring. So Why Voice Mail from a Telemarketer? - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:56] <exec> 08└─yes, and you funded all of the things that enslave you. you probably even shill for free every now and then. stop acting like a mindless slave.
[16:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No, Your Phone Didn’t Ring. So Why Voice Mail from a Telemarketer? - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:58] <exec> 08└─people who cut up their own sons' sexual organs to please the creator
[16:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No, Your Phone Didn’t Ring. So Why Voice Mail from a Telemarketer? - 704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:00] <exec> 08└─Do you people not have visual voicemail? I haven't seen a modern smartphone without it. They'll even transcribe your mail into text (poorly), for an extra fee, but the free service works well usually and lets you skip all the overhead. It downloads the voicemails when you have data service and you c...
[16:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No, Your Phone Didn’t Ring. So Why Voice Mail from a Telemarketer? - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:03] <exec> 08└─Either you face hard truths about what was done to you, or you make up a good story that implies you got the better end of the stick. It's the human way.
[16:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No, Your Phone Didn’t Ring. So Why Voice Mail from a Telemarketer? - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:05] <exec> 08└─Actually you don't have to set up voice mail in the first place. The last time I upgraded my phone I just didn't set up voice mail. When my phone rings I either recognize the ring tone, or can check to see who has called then call them back if I want to. Voice mail is a big waste of time. Actually t...
[16:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No, Your Phone Didn’t Ring. So Why Voice Mail from a Telemarketer? - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:07] <exec> 08└─I don't understand why it is that the government has so much power in this area; could it be because the government established monopolies around the flow of telecommunications data? I THINK SO! Tell me, where was your kind advice when we were all dealing with email spam all these years? Well, you...
[16:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03its_gonna_be_yuge! [6454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Sounding Rocket will Release Early Morning Artificial Clouds Lighting up the Mid-Atlantic Coast - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:18] <exec> 08└─+1 for obscure football reference that only the Brits would understand. And those of us in Canada old enough to have been tortured by the CBC radio drone of the English football results.
[16:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Alarm About the Influence of Standardized Tests on American Society - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:43] <exec> 08└─So studying the effects of standardized testing and wanting to change things so as to improve the world, this you call a racist dog whistle? I think you're just bent out of shape by the civil rights movement and the attempts to correct years of abuses. You're like the minorities that see everything...
[16:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Alarm About the Influence of Standardized Tests on American Society - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:44] <exec> 08└─Yes I've heard other good ideas before.
[16:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 1753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:25] <exec> 08└─I tend to think that if you need much of an install guide, you're doing it wrong. The development team, or perhaps a separate installation team should do the heavy lifting of doing the install. How difficult is it to install Firefox? Chrome? Both of these are extremely complex pieces of software. Ex...
[16:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:27] <exec> 08└─Normal Mailer's "The Naked and the Dead"
[16:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:29] <exec> 08└─Crappy documentation has been around for decades. Nothing new ;-)
[16:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:31] <exec> 08└─yeah, cuz you're a zealot if you're not a sycophantic whore.
[16:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:33] <exec> 08└─These "learn programming in 24 hours" type books need to be: Learn to program in only ten years! It's not that you're not writing code right away. It's that you don't really know what you're doing. With experience comes the "what was I thinking when I wrote this?!?"
[16:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 1075 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:35] <exec> 08└─> I'm not necessarily disagreeing, but its hardly limited to FOSS. No it's not, but at least with commercial there is potentially some money in the budget to pay for docs. There is also an incentive, up to a point - better docs mean fewer calls to support means less cost more profit (assuming annual...
[16:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:38] <exec> 08└─well documented code involves trying to make explanatory comments unnecessary. Comments explain things that the reader cannot understand from the identifier names.
[16:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:40] <exec> 08└─I know I‘m being pedantic, but I disagree with the last comment that working code is secondary. Executimg code is primary. Although I totally agree with you otherwise. And I don't think this makes writing understandable code secondary either. I would argue that part of executing code is fixing/mai...
[16:38:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Users Struggle to Use iPhone Features - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:36] <exec> 08└─We have a winner. They simply want to mark their territory and do so much in the same way a dog does.
[16:38:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Users Struggle to Use iPhone Features - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:38] <exec> 08└─"That's BS. Apple stuff is perfectly designed for people willing to do everything the Apple Way." - I hope you have access to a tongue extractor, because your tongue is rather firmly stuck in your cheek ;-)
[16:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Users Struggle to Use iPhone Features - 1237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:40] <exec> 08└─"For iDevices, you're absolutely correct: the purpose is to show off that you can afford to pay 3x as much as an Android device to do the same thing. Also, that you're a dumb lemming happy to buy into Apple's walled garden and do everything the Apple way." - - Your above post was humorous in a heavy...
[16:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Lesbian Dating App Rela Shuts Down - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:50] <exec> 08└─This is an outrage. I volunteer to host and administer any content required to bring this app back to the oppressed lesbians of China!!!
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[17:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:18] <exec> 08└─No seriously. Kill these people, consume their flesh, and use their skeletons to construct a marginally less shitty society.
[17:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:20] <exec> 08└─Don't be an idiot. You are what you eat. Nothing will change! :)
[17:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:22] <exec> 08└─I fear it will come to violence. These sociopaths are only human in the biological sense; their souls are empty.
[17:35:23] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03NewNic [6420] 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 141 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:24] <exec> 08└─"You don't want that leg set by an E.R. doc at a local medical center. You want it set by the head of orthopedics at a hospital in the city."
[17:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 814 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:26] <exec> 08└─If you were the filthy rich guy, would you want to be denied special treatment though you were willing and able to pay for it ? No, you'd want the special treatment and you'd get it. I'm not saying I like this, but the people who are going to whine about it have the maturity level of a young child....
[17:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 1640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:29] <exec> 08└─I came here to say exactly that. This is what you get when you let money and avarice run literally everything in your society. When money is in of itself a goal that sets aside all compassion, empathy, and humanity. You end up with a shitty society that mimics the Psychlo society, which is based ent...
[17:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:31] <exec> 08└─Don't be a hypocrite. You would do the same thing if you had that kind of money. It may be disgusting, but that's a reflection of the society we've built more than of any individual's choices.
[17:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 1186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:33] <exec> 08└─The American health care system is broken. Obamacare did not fix it. The exact why's and wherefore's of that subject are huge and complex and I couldn't begin to do it justice, so I won't try. I will say that emergency rooms are a special kind of nightmare. Even in big hospitals with a lot of throug...
[17:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:35] <exec> 08└─And then the new top 1% takes their place, acting just like the assholes they replaced. People suck.
[17:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:38] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but at the ER, you're going to have to sit around *gasp* waiting your turn among *bigger gasp* poor people! You might even end of conversing with one of them! The horror! This is, however, one of the major reasons the rich don't want universal health care in the US: They don't get to go to the...
[17:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No, Your Phone Didn’t Ring. So Why Voice Mail from a Telemarketer? - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:16] <exec> 08└─This isn't exactly new. About 8 years ago when I was with Sprint (*shudder*) I found out that through their voicemail system I was able to record a new message and then specify which number to send that voicemail to.
[17:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No, Your Phone Didn’t Ring. So Why Voice Mail from a Telemarketer? - 1916 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:18] <exec> 08└─Well that's sort of half-right. Advertising of the sort he's talking about is dying. You are sort of correct that advertising in the broader sense is alive and well. Cord-cutting, on-demand, and DVR are killing off traditional TV commercials. Advertisers are responding by pumping up how much of the...
[17:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No, Your Phone Didn’t Ring. So Why Voice Mail from a Telemarketer? - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:20] <exec> 08└─In an ideal world, purchases are demand-driven rather than supply-driven. In other words, you buy things because you need or want them. TV ads and the like are almost all about supply-driven purchases: "We have gazillions of widgets, and want to sell them to you!" regardless of whether you need or e...
[17:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No, Your Phone Didn’t Ring. So Why Voice Mail from a Telemarketer? - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:22] <exec> 08└─The reason the government needs to be involved is that tracking down the bad guys involves an amount of data sharing between phone carriers that they probably aren't willing to do on their own. Because trade secrets and NDAs and such. I should also point out that email spam hasn't gone away. It's ju...
[17:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No, Your Phone Didn’t Ring. So Why Voice Mail from a Telemarketer? - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:24] <exec> 08└─Note though that spam is an ongoing problem. Apparently the government free way to deal with it is just put up with it?!?
[17:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Alarm About the Influence of Standardized Tests on American Society - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:02] <exec> 08└─Instead of breaking society up into a bunch of little compartments where everyone is trying to fill theirs with the most water to float their boat the highest; how about if we just had one ocean and everyone was interested in raising the water level so everyone's boat would rise.
[17:37:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 110 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:27] <exec> 08└─An incredible 93 percent of people reported being frustrated with “incomplete or confusing documentation”.
[17:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:52] <exec> 08└─4. DO write documentation in your language's documentation system. Eg, for Java use JavaDoc. Or similar mechanism in C#. Specially formed comments on classes, methods, etc are automatically gathered and generate hyper-linked documentation that is extremely useful. Once you've used other people's goo...
[17:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:54] <exec> 08└─better docs
[17:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:56] <exec> 08└─one of the points they made was that in a commercial environment you get (mostly) decent documentation because you can pay someone to do it.
[17:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:58] <exec> 08└─If it is not obvious, then the comment would be necessary. Nevertheless, I would strive to make the comment unnecessary if possible. Another thing is that experience comes as much from reading other people's code than writing code. You gain the insights in what you struggled to understand. A good ID...
[17:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 1784 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:00] <exec> 08└─Like you I miss the pre-internet days. I think you're mixing your memes, I had momentary access to VMS and a DEC wall and a DEC wall was about 3 feet of color coded binders and supposedly it made sense after you memorized all three feet. All I remember was the CLI for VMS was something like DCL DEC...
[17:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:02] <exec> 08└─you get examples. To me, this is good documentation.
[17:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:05] <exec> 08└─You misunderstand to say working code is secondary. Working is the number one goal. If it doesn't work. Then there is no point. But the compiler processing your code is secondary to a human being able to comprehend it. The compiler doesn't count. Of course it has to work. But if it works and nobody...
[17:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Without Subsidies, Three Mile Island Could Go Dark, Operator Asserts - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:08] <exec> 08└─Everyone who wants the coal plants shut down, should just disconnect from the electric grid. Just stop using coal-powered electricity, NOW! Ditto with nuclear. You know you're getting nucelar generated electricity, so just shut it off, NOW!
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[18:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jean Sammet, Co-Designer of a Pioneering Computer Language, Dies at 89 - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:22] <exec> 08└─but billions of lines of COBOL code still run on the mainframe computers
[18:35:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 124 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:30] <exec> 08└─No seriously. Kill these people, consume their flesh, and use their skeletons to construct a marginally less shitty society.
[18:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:41] <exec> 08└─Oh, whether or not they'd do the same if they were rich has nothing to do with the fact that literally guillotining the richest half a percent of people(and their inheritors) in every country would magically solve more problems than it would cause. No policy changes, no justice served, nothing else,...
[18:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:42] <exec> 08└─Wait, so if I eat the rich.... Let me make sure I have this correct. 1. Eat the rich. 2. ??? 3. Profit! I don't see a downside here!
[18:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:44] <exec> 08└─The ER doctors are interns who frankly don't know what the heck they're doing.
[18:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:46] <exec> 08└─How old is this story, 80s or something? I'm just saying: But with annual fees that range from $40,000 to $80,000 (more than 10 times what conventional concierge practices charge)
[18:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 1297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:49] <exec> 08└─What you propose is not only dangerous and unethical, but also unlawful. It would do neither. 1) It would cause shit-storm of problems. 2) 30-100 years later (depending on how long it would take for dust to settle) the same exact thing would still take place. So at best you are just advocating for a...
[18:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 1777 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:51] <exec> 08└─Yeah, pretty much. I don't blame him for doing for his kids the absolute best. Blame the system that allows this shit. Blame the system where this kind of shit is built in. But maybe this is one of those instances where greed is good. I don't know. I'm just an AC on the internet. This one single guy...
[18:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 1367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:53] <exec> 08└─I wonder how urgent care fits into this. I've gone there a couple times. There's generally no line and they don't seem flooded with illegals which makes me think urgent care isn't covered for illegals. But I've been there for some pretty messed up stuff requiring xrays and hospitalization (not me, M...
[18:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:55] <exec> 08└─That's a story the sociopathic rich tell themselves to excuse their actions.
[18:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:57] <exec> 08└─Actually, if you're poor in this country, the grim reaper tends to visit you sooner. As for the rest, wallow in the cesspool and call it a spa treatment if you want, but that's not how change happens.
[18:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:00] <exec> 08└─but also unlawful.
[18:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03slap [5764] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:02] <exec> 08└─Frankly, any type of health care system is broken. Because there are tradeoffs due to cost, availability, and coverage (among other things). Even in countries that have "model health care systems" there are wait times and limits on what treatments that will be offered. In the US, the problems with h...
[18:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:04] <exec> 08└─I suppose that assumes E.R. doc at a local medical center
[18:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:06] <exec> 08└─broke his leg at a suburban soccer game
[18:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:08] <exec> 08└─It may not be this way everywhere, but where I am, urgent care can't actually seem to DO anything but tell you to go to the ER. I took my wife to one and they said she looked a bit dehydrated, so since they can't give an IV, we needed to go to the ER. Of course, if you don't seem to be trying to die...
[18:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03slap [5764] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:11] <exec> 08└─A friend of my son broke his leg playing soccer - I think it was when an opposing player did a slide tackle on him. And my son broke his wrist playing soccer - he was knocked down by an opposing player, and tried to use his hands to brace himself when he landed.
[18:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:13] <exec> 08└─It's an iterative process: Cull the top 0.1% every year. See how they try to escape it: The "Good" ones will realize they have way too much cash and don't need to live the threat, and give back enough to drop safely in the safe zone. The others will try to run or hide, or pay someone else to hide so...
[18:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:15] <exec> 08└─I'm already paying for our existing socialized medicine system for disabled and elderly people, AND I'm paying for the fake-socialized medicine system where poor folks and all illegals get free care that I pay for via my very high premiums...why can't I get tolerably decent care for myself and my fa...
[18:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 677 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:17] <exec> 08└─I bet that's regulated at state level, much like physicians assistants. One interesting problem with "federalizing" medical care is its already been done with old and disabled people but the regulation is still at state level so it must be hilarious fun trying to impose federal care standards on 50...
[18:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 1863 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:20] <exec> 08└─See a concierge...or a clinic. I'm doing alright but certainly nowhere near this level of wealth ($70k salary) I've got health insurance though work, but I never use it because of the waits (was Cigna, now Aetna, both suck the same AFAICT). You try to get an appointment for an infection or a virus o...
[18:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03WalksOnDirt [5854] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Catalytic Converter Composite Reduces Rare Earth Element Usage - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:29] <exec> 08└─Cerium is the most abundant of the rare earths, a little more common than copper. I can't believe there's any problem with securing enough for a catalyst. Like all rare earths it's expensive to refine, so this is a minor cost saving material change.
[18:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Catalytic Converter Composite Reduces Rare Earth Element Usage - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:32] <exec> 08└─The less of anything we use for a fixed output, the better. Not that I expect them to reduce catalytic converter prices anyway...
[18:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No, Your Phone Didn’t Ring. So Why Voice Mail from a Telemarketer? - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:06] <exec> 08└─Occasionally, I have found that quoting statute to them that enables you to sue them in small claims court for harassment, $500 per instance, etc. does seem to chill them out. It helps if you've gotten them to ID themselves first.
[18:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No, Your Phone Didn’t Ring. So Why Voice Mail from a Telemarketer? - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:08] <exec> 08└─I thought I had heard a rumor a handful of years back that you could hold pound or star when it started ringing to bypass to voicemail, but never tried it.
[18:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:42] <exec> 08└─Back when I was a snot nosed 20 year old kid, I was able to brain download manuals. Much later, in about 1986 (as a Mac developer) I discovered Lisp. There was this XLisp I could download from CompuServe. Later I spent $495 (in 1989 dollars) on Macintosh Common Lisp. Used it until about 1993. Loved...
[18:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:44] <exec> 08└─Strictly speaking, the compiler *is* your audience, but so is anyone else who has to maintain it. In effect, you're trying to express yourself in a way the compiler can read that also makes sense to a human. We can trust the compiler to break the code down to its component machine-code no matter how...
[18:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:46] <exec> 08└─The simple text editor or shovel require no learning.
[18:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:48] <exec> 08└─Back when modems were 2400 bits/second as God intended.
[18:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:50] <exec> 08└─That brings us back to what does better mean.
[18:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Users Struggle to Use iPhone Features - 781 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:50] <exec> 08└─The Apple "ecosystem" has advantages over Android. Apple stuff will be compatible with Apple stuff and for some of us this is worth the price of admission. If that advantage means nothing to YOU, that's fine for you, but it in no way negates the very real advantage the Apple ecosystem offers. Some o...
[18:43:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Lesbian Dating App Rela Shuts Down - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:05] <exec> 08└─Those old guys in Beijing definitely prefer the fake, model-looking, lesbians doing nasty stuff in front of a camera, to those silly real lesbians who shrink the highly unbalanced Chinese dating market.
[18:43:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Edward Snowden Claims to Have Been in Contact with President Obama’s White House - 1191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:55] <exec> 08└─I want to add that the guy who founded facebook should get his profile set to public every now and then without his being aware of it, so that everyone can see what he otherwise thought was private. i dont approve of the governments actions and spying on the populace, and I try hard to not be a one-...
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[19:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jean Sammet, Co-Designer of a Pioneering Computer Language, Dies at 89 - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:39] <exec> 08└─It doesn't sound appealing to have a life that ends with the description "lived in a retirement community". Why is life so dismal? Almost makes a person want to ride lorry down a busy bridge.
[19:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jean Sammet, Co-Designer of a Pioneering Computer Language, Dies at 89 - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:41] <exec> 08└─That's only because the media never wants to mention how much sex those "retirement community" people keep filling their long boring days with. They're experienced, they're good at whatever their replacement hip and arthritis still allows them to do. That lorry is just a one-way street to "your mom...
[19:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jean Sammet, Co-Designer of a Pioneering Computer Language, Dies at 89 - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:43] <exec> 08└─All depends on the retirement home/village - one of my Grandmas "partied" until she couldn't get out of bed anymore, the other lived at home with a grandson and 8 cats. They both lived until their late 90s, but cat grandma had much less social contact with the world _and_ sucked 10 years out of my b...
[19:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:20] <exec> 08└─It may just be crappy urgent care. I recieved an IV from the oral surgeon when I had my wisdom teeth out. Paramedics can give you an IV at the side of the road. When the Nats visit here, Strasburg gets an IV in the clubhouse before the game so he doesn't get heat stroke later. So much for going to u...
[19:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:21] <exec> 08└─I broke a classmate's leg playing kick-ball in middle-school PE - I was sliding into home plate while he was standing on top of it. Concussions happen very often during soccer because players use their head to hit the ball around.
[19:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 812 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:24] <exec> 08└─The US as a whole spends $9,451 per person per year on healthcare. Canada spends $4,167 Germany spends $4,647 Frane spend $4,063 The UK spends $3,621 Whether this is private or public, whether the burden falls on the rich, the sick, or more evenly, is irrelevant. That's what is spent on healthcare -...
[19:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:26] <exec> 08└─I'm not a Marxist, but you have to be goddamn blind to not see the problem with 8 lives being weighted equally to 3.6 billion as the current world wealth distribution seems to suggest is correct. Dead rich people is becoming a necessity now from crying Marx at every attempt to redress an increasingl...
[19:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 859 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:28] <exec> 08└─Having single payer is just such a no-brainer I don't know why we don't have it. No wait, I do know why we don't have it. Too many people have been trained like good dogs to go OMG socialism! when asked about "single payer" and to pretend that somehow they're not paying for the disabled, the elderly...
[19:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:30] <exec> 08└─you forgot "4. Be eaten"
[19:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:33] <exec> 08└─This is, however, one of the major reasons the rich don't want universal health care in the US: They don't get to go to the finest specialists for relatively minor problems while somebody else is dying of liver failure. You really think that the rich in the UK don't have access to the finest special...
[19:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:35] <exec> 08└─I'm not a Marxist, but . . .
[19:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:37] <exec> 08└─I think it was when an opposing player did a slide tackle on him.
[19:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zyx Abacab [3701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:39] <exec> 08└─Back in my day, kids used to say: "the law is powerless to help you, not punish you." They also said those things semi-seriously, as if though they were quoting something with bitter sarcasm, but hey....
[19:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:42] <exec> 08└─And then the new top 1% takes their place, acting just like the assholes they replaced.
[19:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 1968 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:44] <exec> 08└─Yeah, this is the real capitalist alternative to single payer. I wanted to say that this is evidence that it can work, in certain ways. When it can work, it works beautifully. Low cost (vs. insurance premiums), quick quality service, skilled people who are interested in your health, and no back offi...
[19:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:46] <exec> 08└─I agree, rather than being upset about how life is unfair, all I see is "Rich people scammed even more by healthcare providers than poor people".
[19:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:48] <exec> 08└─I'm not a Marxist
[19:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:50] <exec> 08└─Too many people have been trained like good dogs to go OMG socialism! when asked about "single payer"
[19:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Catalytic Converter Composite Reduces Rare Earth Element Usage - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:01] <exec> 08└─I'm sure they'll find a way to DRM the process to make them, thereby bricking cars with non-DRM cats.
[19:37:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06No, Your Phone Didn’t Ring. So Why Voice Mail from a Telemarketer? - 1031 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:12] <exec> 08└─Advertising is dying. As it's dying, advertisers are trying anything they can think of to get what they have to say into your brain, because you are getting better and better at avoiding what they want to tell you. I'm guessing almost everybody reading this comment is using an adblocker in your brow...
[19:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No, Your Phone Didn’t Ring. So Why Voice Mail from a Telemarketer? - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:40] <exec> 08└─As much as I do report scams and telemarketers (is there really any difference) I a feeling that those electrons could likely have been put to better use if I were to have attempted to mine bit coins on a Raspberry Pi.
[19:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zyx Abacab [3701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:20] <exec> 08└─Then again, neither vim nor emacs is only a text editor. One is a programmable command environment, and the other is almost a full-fledged OS; in either one, the text-editing functionality is merely a coincidence.
[19:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:21] <exec> 08└─in either one, the text-editing functionality is merely a coincidence.
[19:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:23] <exec> 08└─FWIW, if you write documentation in almost any form, your build scripts can use pandoc to change it to man pages.
[19:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 738 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:25] <exec> 08└─I agree, install guide is a bad example, software literally should install itself properly with zero intervention in all systems that even resemble a standard configuration. Maaaaybe have a few options for "advanced" users as to how invasively it integrates into handling certain file types or how ma...
[19:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:28] <exec> 08└─Documentation isn't just for programmers, either. A vast swath of open source code completely lacks user facing documentation.
[19:39:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barcelona Cracks Down on Airbnb Rentals with Illegal Apartment Squads - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:46] <exec> 08└─AND short-term rentals don't come with a lot of the hassles of long-term ones, which have been codified by law to protect tenants. Sure, you need a cleaning crew. But you get more money in less time, can use the place for your friends with minor planning, don't have to evict scumbags, all that witho...
[19:40:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swiss Court Sanctions Commenter For 'Liking' Defamatory Posts - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:56] <exec> 08└─> these "likes" will now cost the person in question about $4000 which is ludicrous for the supposed offense As usual, the US accepts the challenge, and offers its Ludicrous Champion [aljazeera.com] credentials in return.
[19:41:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Use the "Removal of Net Neutrality Simulator" to Experience an Internet Without Net Neutrality - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:30] <exec> 08└─We've got to stop using the term "net neutrality". Americans don't like the word "neutral". Cars in neutral don't go anywhere. Countries that are neutral never take sides. The whole concept of neutral is suspect for a lot of Americans. It was a dumb idea to call it that, even if "neutrality" correct...
[19:41:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Use the "Removal of Net Neutrality Simulator" to Experience an Internet Without Net Neutrality - 915 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:31] <exec> 08└─[Buy] [...] stock You will then own a piece of paper. The majority stockholders (billionaires) will then vote as a bloc, outvote you, and show how worthless your piece of paper is. If socialism is to work, it must be built atop capitalism Nitwits who can't think outside the box of Capitalism have no...
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[20:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Data Mining Astronomical Records Fails to Falsify Einstein - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:27] <exec> 08└─I am not an astronomer but I thought that black holes were named. What black hole is being referred to in the article?
[20:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Data Mining Astronomical Records Fails to Falsify Einstein - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:28] <exec> 08└─The media and science-popularizers treat Einstein like he popped into existence from some other dimension, delivering unto us The Word. The truth of the matter is that the man was a product of exactly his times, and his work would not have been perfected—let alone even made possible—without the...
[20:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03pvanhoof [4638] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Data Mining Astronomical Records Fails to Falsify Einstein - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:30] <exec> 08└─I believe at the time of writing his most important papers, he was together with Mileva Marić. As I understood history, she often double checked his work.
[20:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Data Mining Astronomical Records Fails to Falsify Einstein - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:32] <exec> 08└─I am sure without Einstein, another would have stepped up.
[20:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Data Mining Astronomical Records Fails to Falsify Einstein - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:35] <exec> 08└─The theory has proven to be so robust that anyone who thinks it's wrong gets slapped around by reality in a pretty serious way.
[20:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Data Mining Astronomical Records Fails to Falsify Einstein - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:37] <exec> 08└─"I am sure without Einstein, another would have stepped up." Well, turned up at least. Steins do not, in my experience, step.
[20:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jean Sammet, Co-Designer of a Pioneering Computer Language, Dies at 89 - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:48] <exec> 08└─I'm no cobolist so I looked it up. 000100 IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. 000200 PROGRAM-ID. HELLOWORLD. 000300 000400* 000500 ENVIRONMENT DIVISION. 000600 CONFIGURATION SECTION. 000700 SOURCE-COMPUTER. RM-COBOL. 000800 OBJECT-COMPUTER. RM-COBOL. 000900 001000 DATA DIVISION. 001100 FILE SECTION. 001...
[20:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:43] <exec> 08└─At my location if you call an ambulance you get kicked to the front of the line. So if your insurance covers it or have a small copay (mine is $100) it might be worth doing that. Personally I think its wrong to use that loophole for anything not actually serious so have never tried.
[20:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 1039 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:44] <exec> 08└─Oh, no see, here's the thing, fucking marxists will tell you there marxists, you goddamn idiot. They're proud-as-fuck of it. I'm not one because I don't buy into: classesless society, dialectics, any of the anarcho-whatever variants that don't account for how to maintain a stable state. I just think...
[20:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:46] <exec> 08└─Can we stop it with this bullshit arguement? Everytime someone says a person with X shouldn't have done Y, down smug cunt says "you'd do the same if you could". Every day there are countless people doing the right thing, not always out for themselves, keeping the fucking shit together so it doesn't...
[20:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:48] <exec> 08└─Played some soccer in High School. 2 guys trying to kick the ball at the same time, their femurs collided, and you could hear the snap of a bone breaking clear across the field.
[20:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 937 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:51] <exec> 08└─Heh, at least the propaganda terms are becoming more erudite. "Marxist" is sure a step up from "damn reds" or "commie scum". So you're probably an opponent of the US Revolution against Great Britain? For better or for worse violent overthrows seem to be the common method of changing society. Once a...
[20:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:53] <exec> 08└─"You don't want that leg set by an E.R. doc at a local medical center. You want it set by the head of orthopedics at a hospital in the city."
[20:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:55] <exec> 08└─You must live in a really cheap area. $80k/yr is enough to live without fear / anxiety if you're single, but with a family private schooling would probably take all extra cash. Is the private school worth losing the money on savings? I have yet to see private school students excel beyond their publi...
[20:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:57] <exec> 08└─Bullshit. There are approximately half a dozen people in history who would go stand in the long line for healthcare when they could afford faster and better treatment for themselves. For their children there are zero.
[20:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:00] <exec> 08└─I didn't submit it but I bloody love this article. It instantly highlights those so full of greed and envy that they cannot see the justification for anyone ever having it better than themselves for any reason.
[20:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:02] <exec> 08└─Ah, so this is what happens when I try to show support for one of the more rational Soylentils! I am on your side, icanreed! No attribution of leftist gradualism or Bernsteinian revisionist Marxism! Trotsky all the way, bro! And viva la Che! All I am saying, is give communism a chance. But then, I...
[20:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:04] <exec> 08└─And there's a bed-wetting mods I've come to know and love from this site's right wing. "Calling me on my bullshit is exactly the same as trolling right?"
[20:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 872 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:06] <exec> 08└─The saddest part is that you think Trump is playing extra dimensional chess. He has repeatedly shown that he is only there for crony capitalism and he has zero regard for the general public, even his own supporters! Creating some crisis and then using powers that amount to a dictatorship... that is...
[20:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 1709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:09] <exec> 08└─You are going beyond the pale with this. How does the Wealth distribution matter on a global scale when discussing medical care in a single country? Apples and Oranges. But I will bite nonetheless. Tell me, why does a goat herder in some African backwater need whatever your desired level of wealth w...
[20:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:11] <exec> 08└─I always wonder at people like you who will burn every shred of intellectual honesty you have in order to checkmate a strawman. You want to debate a marxist? I can direct you to several. But my experience with your kind is that you just use the term and run away when faced with someone who actually...
[20:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:13] <exec> 08└─Money is the most efficient tool man has ever invented. It is probably 100x more instrumental to human progress than the wheel. Nothing you see today would be possible without money. Deny this if you want, but I doubt you could do better.
[20:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 976 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:15] <exec> 08└─The scenario described happened to me in first grade: I broke my arm at school, school called my parents, parents came and picked me up and instead of taking me to the ER, they drove me directly to a specialist's office where he set my arm so well that the 4 break lines were virtually undetectable a...
[20:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Catalytic Converter Composite Reduces Rare Earth Element Usage - 891 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:27] <exec> 08└─> I'm sure they'll find a way to DRM the process to make them, thereby bricking cars with non-DRM cats. They already do this. Mid 2000's Mercedes had one of the cats fail, so to save some money the owner bought a third party manufacturer one. It worked fine (emissions OK), but the cars computer dete...
[20:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No, Your Phone Didn’t Ring. So Why Voice Mail from a Telemarketer? - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:06] <exec> 08└─I set up mine but kept getting garbage. I cut it down drastically by going back to the default "The number you have dialed, 877-382-4357, is not available. Please leave a message after the tone. *beep*" However, some scammers were very persistent, so I just let my box fill up. No new messages now. A...
[20:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No, Your Phone Didn’t Ring. So Why Voice Mail from a Telemarketer? - 835 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:07] <exec> 08└─Your post got me to doing a little research. Whats disappointing is every hit is some snake oil advertising company looking to sell you a great new way to develop leads! Plus a lot of them are work at home scams. Something to do with "ringless voicemail drops". So that leaves me with almost no techn...
[20:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Alarm About the Influence of Standardized Tests on American Society - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:46] <exec> 08└─Is that addressed at the commenter or the person quoted in the story? If the commenter, how exactly do you think scrupulously respecting others rights leads to violating others rights?
[20:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Alarm About the Influence of Standardized Tests on American Society - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:47] <exec> 08└─Education(college, or above) often focuses on making someone a well rounded person that is able to speak, write, and generally express themselves in whatever medium at the level one would expect for someone college educated. A degree of any sort is not job-prep, it's life prep. As one becomes more s...
[20:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Alarm About the Influence of Standardized Tests on American Society - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:50] <exec> 08└─Instead of breaking society up into a bunch of little compartments
[20:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 804 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:56] <exec> 08└─Actually it looks like it's a sort of management console for creating, managing and monitoring "everything" from bare metal (obviously it can't create bare metal, but probably just gives an undocumented error number if you try) through virtual stuff to cloudy shite (and hybrids of). It therefore giv...
[20:39:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:57] <exec> 08└─i can agree with this. i've been learning a language for a couple years(?) now and i can make things that that are well above my pay grade. i am well aware that i have much to learn but i can see evidence everywhere that many people think that they excrete petunias.
[20:39:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 1593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:00] <exec> 08└─I've started predocumenting. I start to explain what I'm trying to do and how I'm trying to do it in English. It's often quite vague, but it shows the approach I'm taking, and after a while, also shows the approaches I'm not taking. It's only after I do this that I start writing code. Sometimes the...
[20:42:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Use the "Removal of Net Neutrality Simulator" to Experience an Internet Without Net Neutrality - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:03] <exec> 08└─Start calling it "net freedom" "Net" is still quite abstract to most folks. "Freedom of connectivity" would be better. Being able to connect with whoever you want is a very concrete notion. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[20:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Use the "Removal of Net Neutrality Simulator" to Experience an Internet Without Net Neutrality - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:04] <exec> 08└─Who said this was about creating an accurate term? The vaguer the better as long as it's catchy.
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[21:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Data Mining Astronomical Records Fails to Falsify Einstein - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:32] <exec> 08└─The fact that it doesn't explain everything is a known limitation (like most of science). But everyone who's tried to prove it wrong has hit a wall...
[21:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Data Mining Astronomical Records Fails to Falsify Einstein - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:34] <exec> 08└─But everyone who's tried to prove it wrong has hit a wall...
[21:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jean Sammet, Co-Designer of a Pioneering Computer Language, Dies at 89 - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:46] <exec> 08└─Was it really too difficult to write COBOL on the headline instead of "pioneering"?
[21:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jean Sammet, Co-Designer of a Pioneering Computer Language, Dies at 89 - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:48] <exec> 08└─It's the NYT title, which is for general audiences. Interestingly, the NYT URL includes the word COBOL... Should all COBOL programmers now put her name in their code, so it never stops being spoken?
[21:36:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 1640 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:03] <exec> 08└─I came here to say exactly that. This is what you get when you let money and avarice run literally everything in your society. When money is in of itself a goal that sets aside all compassion, empathy, and humanity. You end up with a shitty society that mimics the Psychlo society, which is based ent...
[21:36:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 78 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:10] <exec> 08└─The ER doctors are interns who frankly don't know what the heck they're doing.
[21:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:59] <exec> 08└─Liberals absolutely should compromise on all of the following because they're popular but not right: restricting GMOs, Promoting organic farming, uh... dumb twitter hashtags? Damn, I ran out fast.
[21:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:01] <exec> 08└─It all depends... some ER docs are great, some are too f-ing tired and careless to bother cleaning broken glass out of a wound before they stitch it up.
[21:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 3097 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:03] <exec> 08└─I'm seriously proposing that iterative process. My problem is not income inequality, but the undue suffering of the American worker, which is largely representative of the American People. I believe we can have a society where overachievers can rise to billionaire status, without brutally exploiting...
[21:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 949 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:05] <exec> 08└─Here's a thought: what if we all paid for decent care for everyone - care "good enough" to meet your standards? What if we did that in such a way that there wasn't a shite tonne of billing and coding work tacked on to every basic care activity? Oh, wait, I know this one: then the super rich wouldn't...
[21:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:08] <exec> 08└─Chill, dude! I am not the anti-leftist you are looking for.
[21:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:10] <exec> 08└─My BxBs primary referred me to a BxBs specialist in town who didn't get back to me in over 3 months to set up an initial appointment, I called the office myself multiple times and they never answered or returned messages. A friend at work had seen the same kind of specialist (obviously takes our ins...
[21:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:12] <exec> 08└─I pointed out above, you don't have to be rich to spend money on good doctors. My public school teaching parents did this kind of thing for me once, not as a subscription service, just common sense: when your kid has a broken arm there are various choices of how to deal with that, and some of the be...
[21:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:14] <exec> 08└─If it's after 3 or 4 on Sunday, you'll probably be seen sooner by getting a GP to squeeze you in for an office visit on Monday.
[21:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:17] <exec> 08└─Soccer can absolutely lead to injuries like that. Just because European pro footballers routinely pop up after writhing around on the ground trying to convince the ref that they're horribly injured doesn't mean you can't actually get banged up pretty badly. The worst I experienced was just some fair...
[21:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:19] <exec> 08└─For what it's worth, I'd take aristarchus' last message at face value.
[21:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:21] <exec> 08└─Just maybe, if your policies did not leave poor people with their only option to go to the most expensive form of healthcare (the ER), then your total costs might actually drop. Oh, and provide better overall care for the homeless, who cost society far more than actually housing and feeding them wou...
[21:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:23] <exec> 08└─Well we never got far in restricting GMOs so that doesn't seem like a big deal. Maybe more open to updated and properly funded safe nuclear reactors. I'd say something along the lines of stop religious persecution, but I think that amounts to saying "Merry Christmas" and never "Happy Holidays".
[21:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 822 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:26] <exec> 08└─> although I disagree with the idea they are giving back. It's more truthful to represent it as they are returning the goods that they stole "Give his toy back to your brother, now!" The confusion might stem, and we see it with some of the regulars here, that getting money doesn't intrinsically make...
[21:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:28] <exec> 08└─Yes Canadian taxes are higher but the difference goes to pay for their health care. Americans pay more for employer-provided insurance through the prices of US-made products. Canada has a longer life expectancy. Happily, the California Senate just voted for single-payer health care. It's now before...
[21:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No, Your Phone Didn’t Ring. So Why Voice Mail from a Telemarketer? - 1181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:20] <exec> 08└─That's not true. IT ALWAYS HELPS. The issue is, that it may not help you personally or immediately. If you are on the DNC list, and somebody calls you, it is $50K per incident if the FCC goes after them. By law, all telemarketers are required to "scrub" their lists of phone numbers against the DNC d...
[21:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No, Your Phone Didn’t Ring. So Why Voice Mail from a Telemarketer? - 2649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:21] <exec> 08└─I don't know why you are paying that much. I've got as much experience as you with Asterisk, maybe more, I dunno. The server doesn't really cost all that much money, and you know you can run Asterisk on very little WRT hardware. Sounds like you may only have a channel or two active at any one moment...
[21:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No, Your Phone Didn’t Ring. So Why Voice Mail from a Telemarketer? - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:23] <exec> 08└─Well, I've been on the DNC list since its inception, so god help those who are not. I still get tons of harassing promotions.
[21:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No, Your Phone Didn’t Ring. So Why Voice Mail from a Telemarketer? - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:25] <exec> 08└─In each case it's been a scam which says something like "I'm getting back to you about that $250,000 line of credit." or some such bullshit. Clearly a scam. Yes, I'm on the DNC list. No, scammers don't care. They're trying to defraud you. Do you really think they care about FTC rules? That telecoms...
[21:39:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Alarm About the Influence of Standardized Tests on American Society - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:07] <exec> 08└─describes the absolute bare minimum required to be considered moral
[21:40:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 3768 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:17] <exec> 08└─On their own, no. Definitely not simple text editors. Compared to IDEs like Visual Studio, Eclipse, IntelliJ, Netbeans, yes I would call them simple text editors. I'll focus on Eclipse since that is what I use. But the others I mention will have similar capabilities. The IDE has deep integration wit...
[21:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Edward Snowden Claims to Have Been in Contact with President Obama’s White House - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:28] <exec> 08└─Transparency of secret practices is a tricky business.
[21:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Edward Snowden Claims to Have Been in Contact with President Obama’s White House - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:29] <exec> 08└─Smashing success is in the eye of the beholder. He is sandwiched between the two biggest circus shows since Bedtime for Bonzo made the oval office.
[21:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Edward Snowden Claims to Have Been in Contact with President Obama’s White House - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:31] <exec> 08└─You've got to compare him to his peers - starting with W, I'd say O spoke quite well.
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[22:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Isolation by the West Fuels a Tech Startup Boom in Iran - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:29] <exec> 08└─Khamenei's Flogged Chicks: quite popular, though not as much as Homos Banned Outright, United Persian Stonings, or Analysis Teardown Intelligence - Advanced Military Drones...
[22:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Data Mining Astronomical Records Fails to Falsify Einstein - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:45] <exec> 08└─+1 gratuitous and unnecessary mythical bunny reference.
[22:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Data Mining Astronomical Records Fails to Falsify Einstein - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:46] <exec> 08└─It's the one at the centre of the galaxy, so Sagittarius A*. They don't tend to get named with anything other than a designation, or sometimes after their host galaxy.
[22:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jean Sammet, Co-Designer of a Pioneering Computer Language, Dies at 89 - 694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:01] <exec> 08└─> I thought of a computer as some obscene piece of hardware Which needed some matching obscene piece of software, therefore COBOL. 000100 IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. 000200 PROGRAM-ID. GOODBYEWORLD. 000300 000400* 000500 ENVIRONMENT DIVISION. 000550 PLACEMENT. TOMBSTONE. 000555 COORDINATES. 34.34225E...
[22:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:27] <exec> 08└─> if you're poor in this country, the grim reaper tends to visit you sooner. "Nobody's ever died from not having access to healthcare" [cbsnews.com] - Some (R) elected dimwit. (I know he meant ERs will take you in anyway, but it's so amazingly wrong in so many ways...)
[22:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:29] <exec> 08└─If I think I need to check in to a psychiatric inpatient unit, I go to the emergency room. If they agree they'll set me up with such a unit. Sometimes I go for a ride in a special kind of limousine, from which escape is impossible.
[22:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:31] <exec> 08└─If you're going to call someone else a troll, it would help your credibility if you did NOT go on to insinuate that Africans are backwards, goatfucking pedos. Jut saying.
[22:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:33] <exec> 08└─Some non life threatening conditions cause blackout level pain. It would be nice if there was somewhere you could go that would help people manage that in under 12 hours. Urgent care won't touch that with a 10 foot pole and you can't get anything over the counter that will even make a difference. Od...
[22:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No, Your Phone Didn’t Ring. So Why Voice Mail from a Telemarketer? - 710 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:29] <exec> 08└─Just a minor correction, but Chuck was an ongoing advertisement for Buy More the fictional store he was in. To me, that could've been an Office Depot as easily as a BestBuy, as it could perhaps a Fry's. It was fairly generic to me. That being said, the whole show was long advertisement for Subway sa...
[22:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No, Your Phone Didn’t Ring. So Why Voice Mail from a Telemarketer? - 1652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:30] <exec> 08└─Visual voicemail is just some patent encumbered crap that any moron with two brain cells would've found obvious. Just more USPTO bullshit that it was even approved as a patent. I have voicemail completely disabled on my cell phone so that I can properly use it as a endpoint in my Asterisk servers. T...
[22:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Alarm About the Influence of Standardized Tests on American Society - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:14] <exec> 08└─>People have only a duty to themselves, and to fulfil the obligations they undertake. By that logic, if you are a threat to the well being or prosperity of me and mine in your quest to advance yourself at my expense, directly or via your social impact, I should simply eliminate you. I don't, because...
[22:40:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:25] <exec> 08└─So who's going to get a technical degree, plus a language degree(s), to be highly qualified for this job?
[22:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Use the "Removal of Net Neutrality Simulator" to Experience an Internet Without Net Neutrality - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:28] <exec> 08└─That's their side. Our side should say "Net Neutrality AKA Freedom of Connectivity". -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[22:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Lesbian Dating App Rela Shuts Down - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:45] <exec> 08└─Two ways to do that are to choose "Extrans (html tags to text)" instead of "Plain Old Text" or type out < and > for the angle brackets.
[22:44:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Lesbian Dating App Rela Shuts Down - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:47] <exec> 08└─Thanks for pointing out the extrans option, but doesn't "plain old text" not actually treating the text typed into the box as plaintext seem a little misleading?
[22:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opioid Crisis Partly Blamed on a 1980 Letter to the New England Journal of Medicine - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:02] <exec> 08└─What I don't understand is that when an old family friend was on his last legs, back in the late 70s, I remember hearing my parents discussing the problems with the opioids that were being prescribed. In particular, I remember the discussions touching upon the adddictive nature of the drugs. (And th...
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[23:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toddler In Barbie Jeep Flees Traffic Stop - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:22] <exec> 08└─Cute stuff from FB on SN? How dare you challenge my ultra-cynicism and dare me to point out that 4-year-old Abdelkader Muhammad, doing the same in a black pickup truck would have been droned, shot in the back, tazed, and taken to Gitmo? I'm not falling for it! You will not get me!
[23:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toddler In Barbie Jeep Flees Traffic Stop - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:23] <exec> 08└─Well, it's a good thing the toddler was white. Or we'd undoubtedly have had another child-execution by the Police to deal with.
[23:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toddler In Barbie Jeep Flees Traffic Stop - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:26] <exec> 08└─I'll just leave this public service announcement here [youtube.com].
[23:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toddler In Barbie Jeep Flees Traffic Stop - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:28] <exec> 08└─A US cop doing his duty without beating or killing someone is newsworthy I would say...
[23:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Isolation by the West Fuels a Tech Startup Boom in Iran - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:39] <exec> 08└─Well it seems they have an active copyright violation industry. Not so sure they are producing anything or much in the way of new and exciting never seen before things or am I missing something from the article?
[23:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Isolation by the West Fuels a Tech Startup Boom in Iran - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:41] <exec> 08└─Porn
[23:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Isolation by the West Fuels a Tech Startup Boom in Iran - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:44] <exec> 08└─Khomeini's Fried Christian?
[23:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Isolation by the West Fuels a Tech Startup Boom in Iran - 613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:46] <exec> 08└─It's not like they are able to go and get the appropriate licenses for the intellectual property due to the sanctions and general exclusion from the global economy, so calling it 'copyright violation industry' is not really appropriate. They are not under the jurisdiction where this copyright is rec...
[23:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Isolation by the West Fuels a Tech Startup Boom in Iran - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:48] <exec> 08└─I looked into this carefully when I was mailing free copies of my piano CD [soggywizards.com]. Certain individuals and organizations - such as the Republican Guard - are embargoed, but most of the population is not.
[23:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Isolation by the West Fuels a Tech Startup Boom in Iran - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:50] <exec> 08└─Snapp, the ride-hailing app Meisami uses
[23:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Isolation by the West Fuels a Tech Startup Boom in Iran - 944 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:53] <exec> 08└─Iran has a thriving and prosperous minority of religious Christians, mostly ethnic Armenians and Assyrians, both of whom are native within Iranian borders. Christian doctrines and religious imagery are a noticeable component in the historical development of Persian mystical and love poetry, with a v...
[23:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 1070 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:52] <exec> 08└─Sociopath continues down the path of selfish greed. Your beliefs are myopic and you react out of fear. Are you a billionaire? Or even just a multi-multi millionaire? No? Then get over yourself, no one is saying you need to only ever have as much as the next guy. Wealth inequality is very out of whac...
[23:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:53] <exec> 08└─They will have to fix the medical pricing problems, it is going to be a long ugly process that will also be undermined by various parties who want to see it fail. Here's hoping it gets pulled off successfully!
[23:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 2527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:56] <exec> 08└─Hate seems to be the prevailing sentiment for just about everything these days. Hate allows you to scream things like "Kill 'em All!" And mean it. First hate, then action. The rich are the reason you don't have anything. Take their stuff. Make them work for once. I believe every despot uses this to...
[23:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:58] <exec> 08└─...because the truth is that all humans are NOT FUCKING EQUAL. Some are superior, some are inferior...
[23:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:00] <exec> 08└─And so the great wheel turns...
[23:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:02] <exec> 08└─Translation: You don't want a overworked medical student to do the job when a person that isn't sleep deprived and has experience can do it.
[23:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:05] <exec> 08└─Perhaps your father remembered his out of pocket cost from 5 years previous and wasn't going to do that again.
[23:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:07] <exec> 08└─I'll see the problem come from three sources: (0) Where does this dude get his 80 000 US$/year from? (1) The fucked up default health care system. (2) Admission to education based on money not talent. And the fucked up elementary school with violence and testing, not teaching. What is it th...
[23:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boutique Medical Services Offer Wealthy Americans the Chance to Cut the Line - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:09] <exec> 08└─The confusion might stem, and we see it with some of the regulars here, that getting money doesn't intrinsically make it "my money", in the sense that every dime taken from it is stolen from me. My boss knows that I pay taxes, and pays me based also on how much of that raw paycheck will then go to v...
[23:39:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No, Your Phone Didn’t Ring. So Why Voice Mail from a Telemarketer? - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:07] <exec> 08└─You should pick just one or two of them, and go along for the ride. Even to the point of giving them a fake CC number or bank account number (with routing wrong). The DNC does make a difference, I promise you. It gives them teeth to go after this outfits for millions. 20 unauthorized calls is $1,000...
[23:39:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No, Your Phone Didn’t Ring. So Why Voice Mail from a Telemarketer? - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:08] <exec> 08└─...or it's an illegal download/stream that didn't have the ads in the first place...
[23:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No, Your Phone Didn’t Ring. So Why Voice Mail from a Telemarketer? - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:11] <exec> 08└─Did you miss the part where those spam messages get delivered directly to voicemail, by agreement with your carrier? It doesn't matter what type of phone you have as long as you have a VM box, you're just told you got a message, and you have to call and start listening in order to erase it. The fact...
[23:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No, Your Phone Didn’t Ring. So Why Voice Mail from a Telemarketer? - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:13] <exec> 08└─Can I opt out of voicemail?
[23:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No, Your Phone Didn’t Ring. So Why Voice Mail from a Telemarketer? - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:15] <exec> 08└─Time for some pre-approved list of numbers? Fake numbers should also not checkout when looking up their validity in the PSTN network? Or something like this [youtube.com] ?
[23:39:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Alarm About the Influence of Standardized Tests on American Society - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:59] <exec> 08└─Anonymous got his virtue signalling in for the day! Congrats, the two minute hate was successful. You've labeled somebody a racist on the internet. You're a hero! Here's a gold star for your Facebook page. Now back to the discussion about how tests must be wrong because stupid people keep failing at...
[23:41:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software is Suffering Because Coders Don’t Know How to Write Documentation - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:12] <exec> 08└─Make a simple text file. It solves a lot for very little effort.
[23:42:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03julian [6003] 02 - 06Use the "Removal of Net Neutrality Simulator" to Experience an Internet Without Net Neutrality - 211 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:52] <exec> 08└─I've never heard an argument against Net Neutrality from someone who clearly understood what they were talking about. Propaganda talking points based on false information have certainly spread very far, however.
[23:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Use the "Removal of Net Neutrality Simulator" to Experience an Internet Without Net Neutrality - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:16] <exec> 08└─Yet the evil drumpf is letting them profit off of our browsing habits. Clearly they are so evil that they are even going to sabotage their own profits!! This is the sort of doublethink I still see everywhere. "Trump is controlled by Russia, so he wants to start a war with them!!!" WTF are these peop...
[23:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Lesbian Dating App Rela Shuts Down - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:35] <exec> 08└─Yes, I suppose it does. As far as I've noticed--and I haven't looked at the Perl code, only its output--the difference between "Plain Old Text" and "HTML Formatted" is purely in the way newlines are treated. The former turns a single newline into <br> (line break) and turns a pair into a <p> (paragr...
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