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[00:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06DVA Scraps Home Grown EHR Systems, Opts For OTS Replacement - 2208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:35] <exec> 08└─As a veteran who receives care through the VA system (along with about nine million other veterans), I can relate a few problems that I have noticed. First problem: My records don't follow me. I moved two counties away several years ago, and it had no effect on my records; the VA clinics and VA prov...
[00:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DVA Scraps Home Grown EHR Systems, Opts For OTS Replacement - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:37] <exec> 08└─What other country has the size of problem that the US Military does? Agreed it seems logical to put the VA on the same system, assuming of course the the DOD system does work. (DOD has more hospitals in more places than the VA does). Would the Service be the same if all Vets got health care where t...
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[00:35:39] <exec> 08└─For Joe Citizen, with just about any level of healthcare, normally your medical record PRECEDE you. The new doc has it before you get there. Worst case you walk in and sign a paper and its all in the new Doc's system the next day. Even when moving from one big-hospital-system to another. Sometimes t...
[00:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03damnbunni [704] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06DVA Scraps Home Grown EHR Systems, Opts For OTS Replacement - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:41] <exec> 08└─It makes absolutely fantastic sense to throw out a system with decades of development IF IT SUCKS. And if the replacement is BETTER. Presumably it is, since the replacement is already in wide use by another department so they should know what its strengths and shortcomings are. And while I would pre...
[00:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Air Conditioning Changed the World - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:06] <exec> 08└─You must live in a warm area... Most northerly-adapted people I know get uncomfortable above 70, southerners think below 60 is cold (and they're scared to drive in snow or rain but that's a whole 'nother story).
[00:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bd [2773] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Air Conditioning Changed the World - 1031 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:07] <exec> 08└─The peltier elements I worked with had something on the order of 0.6 W thermal for every 1 W electrical you put in, so the efficiency P_thermal/P_electrical would be something below 1. I think there was some fundamental physical reason for that efficiency being below 1, but not sure anymore. That ef...
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[00:36:30] <exec> 08└─Wood would be a step forward from coal, it's renewable after all, and can be burned relatively cleanly.
[00:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Antarctic Ice Rift Close to Calving, After Growing 17km in 6 Days - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:31] <exec> 08└─If its thawing and re-freezing, that would add stress too. Since water that refreezes in the crevice would have to expand.
[00:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Antarctic Ice Rift Close to Calving, After Growing 17km in 6 Days - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:33] <exec> 08└─10% of land has glacier ice. Antarctica and Greenland etc. Estimates if it all melted is 70m rise.
[00:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Antarctic Ice Rift Close to Calving, After Growing 17km in 6 Days - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:35] <exec> 08└─Well, we could burn politicians for warmth, but I doubt they would burn cleanly.
[00:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Antarctic Ice Rift Close to Calving, After Growing 17km in 6 Days - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:38] <exec> 08└─Climate change definitely causes this to happen more, but we can't know if any particular calving was caused by climate change or would have happened regardless even if humans were out of the equation. It's like how there will be more and stronger hurricanes due to climate change, but hurricanes exi...
[00:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:32] <exec> 08└─Oh boy! Oh, goody gumdrops! One arrest! By Jove! After all the expense and fuss, I would have thought that there would have been total control of all dissident factions and a return to a peacefully bucolic existence, untroubled by any crime more significant than the occasional disorderly drunk. ...
[00:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:34] <exec> 08└─How the fuck are you going to vet that many people and monitor them for the next couple of years? Impossible.
[00:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Ideas Are Getting Harder to Find - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:22] <exec> 08└─Etsy [etsy.com], Kickstarter [kickstarter.com], indiegogo [tindie.com], tindie [tindie.com] Create an account and sell whatever you make. This is the bootstrap for your new company. Maybe you have an idea and don't know how to fabricate? Here is where your first prototype can come from: https://www....
[00:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Ideas Are Getting Harder to Find - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:23] <exec> 08└─Some thoughts: * Please fix https for your site: http://onemodel.org [onemodel.org] It's pre-Snowden now and no-one can't say they didn't know. * The site is slightly disorganized. Have a look at some Wikipedia pages on software descriptions for inspiration. A few descriptive screenshots right...
[00:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Play or Flashcards? New Study Nods to More Rigorous Preschools - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:11] <exec> 08└─It's not a matter of there being no use for calculus, there is. But as the starter thread said -- we are not going to teach calculus to 10 year old kids. If they are to be taught math lets at least spend the time and effort on something that will or might be useful for the most of them -- and if we...
[00:39:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Graphics' IRIX and Magic Desktop Return as Linux Desktop - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:46] <exec> 08└─The licence gives permission to modify and redistribute, in both source and binary form. A notable restriction (which I had mentioned in a separate comment) is that it's only allowed to be used on certain architectures. However, it could be added to a repo or packaged, if anyone could get a copy in...
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[01:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Pitches Virtual Border Wall - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:25] <exec> 08└─... Virtual Border Wall. Will Mexicans program it?
[01:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Pitches Virtual Border Wall - 1062 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:26] <exec> 08└─So human ( or AI ) monitoring of alarms will be necessary. . . Rumor has it that the sensors which surround Area 51 have some sort of "sniffer" technology which is able to distinguish between wild animals and humans. Such tech may be needed along with the LIDAR sensors. I've personally witnessed sea...
[01:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Air Conditioning Changed the World - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:06] <exec> 08└─You know, I honestly just thought if they were capable of cooling a modern CPU, that at scale that must be capable of cooling a room. I really thought that they were more efficient than that these days. Perhaps I was confused with the Seebeck effect instead where you generate electricity. Thanks for...
[01:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Skwearl [4314] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Antarctic Ice Rift Close to Calving, After Growing 17km in 6 Days - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:34] <exec> 08└─sooo....we have the world's biggest iceberg....lets put some motors on it, drive it to the middle east or cali and sell the water.
[01:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Antarctic Ice Rift Close to Calving, After Growing 17km in 6 Days - 1996 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:36] <exec> 08└─I don't know how you could be that wrong, but you are. If you believe the simple terms crap. Google has a map where you can see sea level rise and what happens. Not all of the ice is in the water, as the other poster said. This is decided science already, where it is even more ludicrous to be a deni...
[01:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Antarctic Ice Rift Close to Calving, After Growing 17km in 6 Days - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:38] <exec> 08└─Dubai already has plans. Seriously.
[01:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:35] <exec> 08└─France.
[01:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:36] <exec> 08└─the government plan of demographic replacement
[01:38:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03lcall [4611] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Big Ideas Are Getting Harder to Find - 1334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:26] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the comments. My thoughts; I'd appreciate your pointing out what I am missing: *To me the site is highly organized so I must not appreciate your point, or am deeply embedded in it. Elaboration welcome. I hoped the tabs at top would give top-level navigation from anywhere, and on every pag...
[01:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Ideas Are Getting Harder to Find - 700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:27] <exec> 08└─Some ISPs are known to inject data into streams. Comcast, for example, has injected ads into HTML documents delivered through cleartext HTTP. HTTPS makes this sort of tampering trivial for your browser to detect. For this reason, several JavaScript features that are especially sensitive to tampering...
[01:41:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UNESCO Urges Efforts to Save the Great Barrier Reef - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:24] <exec> 08└─Funny, how there were molluscs millions of years ago, when there was massively more CO2 in the atmosphere that there is today.
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[02:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Pitches Virtual Border Wall - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:33] <exec> 08└─Waiting for realdonaltrump to rant, errrr, comment.
[02:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Pitches Virtual Border Wall - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:34] <exec> 08└─": You cannot cherry-pick which laws you want to obey. End of discussion." Unless you're rich.
[02:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Pitches Virtual Border Wall - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:37] <exec> 08└─One of the articles or comments I read about it mentioned animals triggering the LIDAR. It seems like an easy machine learning problem, something already being considered with autonomous vehicles, and not something that needs Area 51 grade expertise. Obviously, autonomous vehicles need to be able to...
[02:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Pitches Virtual Border Wall - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:39] <exec> 08└─Anyone else feel that someone who ends their opening arguement with "End of discussion", both doesn't understand how a thread works and is a bit of a cunt?
[02:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03terrab0t [4674] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Pitches Virtual Border Wall - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:41] <exec> 08└─The first thing I looked for when I saw this story shared elsewhere was some detail on the technology. I read the entire article and a source it linked and found nothing. All I found were extensive back stories and gossip about the company’s founder. He supports US President Donald Trump and on th...
[02:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Pitches Virtual Border Wall - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:43] <exec> 08└─I'm really getting tired of this idea that supporting the wrong political position is a firing offense..... but only for SOME. I'd like to see snowflakes fired for being snowflakes. And when they raise Hell, which of course they would, slap the shit outta them and point to the list of people on the...
[02:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Pitches Virtual Border Wall - 1148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:46] <exec> 08└─There's no wall Trump could build big enough to hide the "Help Wanted" sign American businesses have put up behind it. If Republicans were serious about stopping illegal immigration they'd focus on punishing business owners who employ them. But the secret is, they actually want a permanent class of...
[02:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Pitches Virtual Border Wall - 851 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:48] <exec> 08└─"Anyone else feel that someone who ends their opening arguement with "End of discussion", both doesn't understand how a thread works and is a bit of a cunt?" OP here. I've been using computers and network for longer than you've been alive. So your fantasy that "I don't know how a thread works" is no...
[02:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DVA Scraps Home Grown EHR Systems, Opts For OTS Replacement - 944 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:02] <exec> 08└─cerner is very good at sales. The Millenium system is no better (and far worse, in some ways) than any other patient admin system. If every user has to log in as themselves - that will not, and has not eve worked, on any hospital system, ever. None of these systems integrates with other systems prop...
[02:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DVA Scraps Home Grown EHR Systems, Opts For OTS Replacement - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:03] <exec> 08└─I can't help thinking any modern big city or small city hospital would do a far better job..
[02:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Air Conditioning Changed the World - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:31] <exec> 08└─It's also the most dangerous invention in the history of the world, responsible for slaughtering countless lives. More dangerous than ISIS. No, really. Secretary of State John Kerry said in Vienna on Friday that air conditioners and refrigerators are as big of a threat to life as the threat of terro...
[02:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Antarctic Ice Rift Close to Calving, After Growing 17km in 6 Days - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:02] <exec> 08└─Hmm, that's 230 feet in Murcan. My lawn is about 750 feet above sea level. I won't have to worry about moving, but I think I'm going to have to get used to telling masses of refugees to get off my lawn. I'm not worried, though. Lots of ACs here have given me plenty of witty one-liners to use against...
[02:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 2522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:03] <exec> 08└─I'm honestly surprised that most people still believe it is impossible. I calculated once the drive space needed to store all telephone communication data in the U.S, getting my data from the U.S census as to the number of people. Google has more drive space than that now. It only took about a coupl...
[02:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:04] <exec> 08└─Theresa May specified foreign-born, not UK-born.
[02:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:07] <exec> 08└─Many (likely, most) people present there, far from being innocent, are directly responsible for the actions of the UK government, because it's the government they elected.
[02:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:09] <exec> 08└─As if I needed another reason to hate May. Anal-ysts say that the terrorist attacks aren't going to sway voters away from May. We'll see.
[02:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:11] <exec> 08└─I just want a safe space for my illegal science experiments.
[02:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:13] <exec> 08└─Ship them to some camp hosted in a country of a bribable African government. Cheap and humane. Keep men and women separate so they won't procreate and to protect the women and children.
[02:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:16] <exec> 08└─That's bullshit. They will carry on with their terrorist and replacement agenda regardless whether you do something about it or not. So you might just as well.. do something about it. A strict cold analysis is that the replacement initiative have far worse consequences than any current terrorism.
[02:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:18] <exec> 08└─And when these poor people get to the top of the power pyramid. They will stop initiating wars and frying the planet? ;-) I don't think so. Instead they will add a abusive state of affairs for everyone with theological oppression and dog-eat-dog. I think that just suck and has no benefit.
[02:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:20] <exec> 08└─One partial solution is clever workarounds on a individual level or in cooperation with others to render the government meddling useless.
[02:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Ideas Are Getting Harder to Find - 1099 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:11] <exec> 08└─Low hanging fruits are taken first. That is kind of natural. But there are things that can be done to improve the situation: * Stable funding without complicating paper filing. * Banning of bureaucrats and death by MBA people. * Mitigate barrier to entry through regulatory compliance help....
[02:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Ideas Are Getting Harder to Find - 932 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:13] <exec> 08└─If you want to generate ideas, you can sit down with some sort of writing device and come up with all sorts of ideas. It's not hard. What's hard is (A) knowing enough to know what ideas are good, and (B) following through on turning those ideas into reality. If you need further proof, talk to about...
[02:40:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Graphics' IRIX and Magic Desktop Return as Linux Desktop - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:37] <exec> 08└─None of the mainstream distros would accept a package with that sort of use restriction because they all now tend to have ARM ports. So even if somebody gets the sources it will be an obscure personal repo. Dead end. As I said, I wouldn't put money on it ever achieving >1% desktop Linux usage, even...
[02:40:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Graphics' IRIX and Magic Desktop Return as Linux Desktop - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:39] <exec> 08└─Hmm, something in what you said didn't make sense instantly. When I looked earlier there were download links for Fedora and Debian binaries and no source apparent. Those are now gone and a link to a source repo is there instead. What did you see? Apparently the site is undergoing rapid change.
[02:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Data Mining Astronomical Records Fails to Falsify Einstein - 2592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:55] <exec> 08└─DM can be disproved in any number of ways. There was a chance with Lambda-CDM structure formation theory, which predicted the formation of galaxy clusters at around z=2.5. If someone found galaxy clusters coming together at a much greater or smaller distance, that would have been a big blow to dark...
[02:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jean Sammet, Co-Designer of a Pioneering Computer Language, Dies at 89 - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:14] <exec> 08└─... and the really sad part is that JCL is still used. What a nightmare. I'm of the opinion only one person ever wrote any JCL and everybody else just copied it, commented out a few of the lines and changed a couple of values.
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[03:35:36] <exec> 08└─If they actually want to solve this, I don't know why they just don't loft a high-resolution geostationary satellite or several, if need be, with image subtraction, visible and IR, and set up a monitoring center that directs a few teams here and there. I've done this kind of software; it's incredibl...
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[03:35:38] <exec> 08└─You cannot cherry-pick which laws you want to obey. End of discussion.
[03:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Pitches Virtual Border Wall - 1285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:40] <exec> 08└─"And it wouldn't matter if there was one. We could magically deport every illegal immigrant and the material conditions of the white working class would not improve one bit." You seem to believe your above claim about the white working class is the only reason some American citizens would like to se...
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[03:35:42] <exec> 08└─Slavery has nothing to do with this discussion. Perhaps you are intoxicated on drugs or alcohol ? That could explain your impaired thinking.
[03:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Pitches Virtual Border Wall - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:44] <exec> 08└─The white working class? The black working class has a big amount of skin in the game too, as they were doing many of the jobs the illegals took.
[03:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Pitches Virtual Border Wall - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:46] <exec> 08└─Now I'm confused. Could you break this down for me? You'd like us to know what you think? But, you don't care what we think about what you think? However it's very important to you that we know that you don't care what we think about what you think? Do you see where I'm getting lost? At least you're...
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[03:35:49] <exec> 08└─Easy there old chap, you have to read the quote at the top of the post for some context. Take it step by step, you'll be caught up in no time
[03:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Pitches Virtual Border Wall - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:51] <exec> 08└─It's all a game to you, isn't it?
[03:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03pgc [1600] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Pitches Virtual Border Wall - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:53] <exec> 08└─Silicon valley is so liberal, unless you are supporting the wrong political party/candidate.
[03:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Pitches Virtual Border Wall - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:55] <exec> 08└─Mr. Luckey was pressured to leave Facebook months after news spread that he had secretly donated to an organization dedicated to spreading anti-Hillary Clinton internet memes.
[03:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03sbgen [1302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DVA Scraps Home Grown EHR Systems, Opts For OTS Replacement - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:11] <exec> 08└─".. your medical records precede you..private hospital chain to University medial center in another state..." Hmm Let me see, I moved from a University Hospital system to a private hospital system, in the same town - that was over two years ago. My records are not here - not even after signing the "...
[03:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DVA Scraps Home Grown EHR Systems, Opts For OTS Replacement - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:12] <exec> 08└─You haven't worked a shit job until they start insisting that some other key besides tab should move to the next field for some convoluted reason involving arthritis. That's fun, especially if management is taking them seriously and the software is closed source.
[03:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Air Conditioning Changed the World - 795 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:41] <exec> 08└─I think most people whine too much about temperature. I grew up in the North. I generally set my A/C around 80F at home in summer, and I set my heat around 60F in the winter. If it's hot, I wear fewer clothes; if it's cold, I put some more on. In the process, I save a lot in bills for heating/coolin...
[03:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Air Conditioning Changed the World - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:43] <exec> 08└─I heard "Anonymous Conditioner" is a thing :p
[03:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Air Conditioning Changed the World - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:45] <exec> 08└─Yup. Upper-midwest here. I haaaaaaaaate it when it's hotter than 70*F or so, especially with no breeze, and *especially* when it's humid. I can tolerate dry heat to 90*F or so but humidity is a killer.
[03:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Air Conditioning Changed the World - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:47] <exec> 08└─Maybe it should been "How air conditioning increased the electrical power demand" ;) Mostly on daytime when the grid is heavily loaded. Not to mention all environmental issues. Central cooling is a thing in some places.
[03:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03WalksOnDirt [5854] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Antarctic Ice Rift Close to Calving, After Growing 17km in 6 Days - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:19] <exec> 08└─Current scientific estimates are that there will be fewer but stronger hurricanes. It's difficult to predict, so that may or may not come to be.
[03:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Antarctic Ice Rift Close to Calving, After Growing 17km in 6 Days - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:20] <exec> 08└─That does seem likely. As well as stress from tides, there will be some pretty fierce storms at this time of the year on the Antarctic Peninsula you would imagine.
[03:37:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 587 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:55] <exec> 08└─Britain is a step or two ahead of the United States on the Orwellian scale. They have CCTV cameras everywhere, and the GCHQ monitoring every communication in that country. They don't even have to wipe their ass on a Bill of Rights to do it. So why isn't anyone in that country asking the obvious ques...
[03:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:31] <exec> 08└─So the UK situation is like this? * Conservatives: Lead by a surveillance fascist with a document falsifying minister in wait as a replacement? * Labour Party: Islam appeaser and connected. That want to nationalize just about anything? * Crossbenchers: ? * Liberal Democrats: ? What a cho...
[03:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 2221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:32] <exec> 08└─How quaint. Somebody thinks voting for politicians actually changes anything. FUCK YOU. I'm not responsible in any way, shape, or form for the drone attacks. Zero responsibility. Voting never does jack diddly shit, and if you need members of the public to blame, then blame the 1%. They're far more r...
[03:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:34] <exec> 08└─This is just so ridiculous and dangerous. So what good ideas are there to circumvent this rubbish? I'll suppose ISPs will be obliged to block or report the usual tools.
[03:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 1583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:36] <exec> 08└─Wasn't it Berkley or some other uni in California that had violent protests and continually cancelled appearances by anyone controversial on the alt-right? That's an example of the safe-space crowd ranting that they have a right to create spaces safe from dissent, culture, morality, and ethical inte...
[03:40:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Play or Flashcards? New Study Nods to More Rigorous Preschools - 828 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:17] <exec> 08└─wow, different results in different studies. It's almost like children are not all identical little bricks in the wall. Just as a far out theory, maybe some do better with structure and guidance, while others do better without. /end sarcasm. I would think that the type of intellect and self-confiden...
[03:40:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Graphics' IRIX and Magic Desktop Return as Linux Desktop - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:55] <exec> 08└─When I was college in the 90's there was a bank of IRIX machines in the computer lab. I used them a little, but I preferred the SPARCstations where I had installed fvwm along with TkDesk. Does anybody remember TkDesk?
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[04:35:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Pitches Virtual Border Wall - 70 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:49] <exec> 08└─You cannot cherry-pick which laws you want to obey. End of discussion.
[04:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Pitches Virtual Border Wall - 1993 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:58] <exec> 08└─Rage bait maybe, but the tech already exists. I'm a huge proponent of secured borders for the U.S, but a wall is impossible. I have a really long comment somewhere else where I broke it down, but there are 9 different borders for the U.S including physical and cyberspace as well as space space. All...
[04:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Pitches Virtual Border Wall - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:00] <exec> 08└─Sure you can cherry pick the laws to obey, just look at all the highway speeders (nearly every driver) who are otherwise law-abiding.
[04:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Pitches Virtual Border Wall - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:03] <exec> 08└─but I've seen more than enough bad behavior by white skinned folk in the US, where are you going to also deport them/us?
[04:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Pitches Virtual Border Wall - 807 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:05] <exec> 08└─So I'm riding my bike om Boundary Rd, in Whatcom County, Washington. You&re telling me that your tech would be able to signal ICE were I to get off my bike, quite literally jump across the ditch to the road just north of the ditch, and jump back into Washington, and to come arrest me for that illega...
[04:40:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Play or Flashcards? New Study Nods to More Rigorous Preschools - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:19] <exec> 08└─What does outperforming mean in a school system that is propagandized as a failure yet is actually pretty top tier?
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[05:35:49] <exec> 08└─someone digging around in federal donation disclosure documents? someone connecting dots in 4chan, Reddit, or perhaps bragadoccio on Breitbart noticed by others? or even Facebook postings by himself?
[05:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Pitches Virtual Border Wall - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:51] <exec> 08└─Why? supporting LGBT causes while working at Michael's, Chick-filleh, Deseret Industries, etc. will not help one move into management roles in those companies... Questioning the anti-abortion and birth controls at the Catholic hospital you work at isnt going to bode well for you, either...
[05:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Pitches Virtual Border Wall - 848 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:53] <exec> 08└─Your knowledge of Mexicans in America comes from racist diatribes, movies, gang populated areas. Gang activity goes across all demographics. Hells Angels? Triads? Yakuza? MS-13? Cosa Nostra? PETA? I'm so glad I exposed myself to other people and cultures. Having spent many nights in a Mexican househ...
[05:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Pitches Virtual Border Wall - 3500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:55] <exec> 08└─Folks, I promised you that as your President I would build a wall on our Mexican border. And that Mexico would pay for it. One of my biggest promises to you. You elected me, with a huge majority, to build that wall. Because I'm a great, great builder. The only guy who could build the wall. And I'm v...
[05:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Pitches Virtual Border Wall - 4047 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:57] <exec> 08└─There are some exception areas, but I did not list them. What you said is nothing. There is a town on the U.S-Canadian border where the border literally goes through some books in a library. How the fuck do you handle that with sensors? The answer is you don't It's a special area, a small town, and...
[05:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Air Conditioning Changed the World - 901 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:46] <exec> 08└─IDSHVAC (I did study HVAC, although I don't practice professionally). The one piece that pulls it all together is the ASHRAE comfort chart, here's one small link, http://pages.uoregon.edu [uoregon.edu] There are many others. "Comfort" is defined as a combination of: + Air...
[05:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Air Conditioning Changed the World - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:48] <exec> 08└─AC is a prime candidate for photovoltaic cell. Assuming enough Sun, even if you only have enough solar cells to power your AC, that is where it counts the most.
[05:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03dwilson [2599] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Antarctic Ice Rift Close to Calving, After Growing 17km in 6 Days - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:22] <exec> 08└─I think you should re-read the message you replied to a bit more carefully.
[05:38:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:35] <exec> 08└─he did it outside the gate, where parents were picking up kids, and out of 23 people dead on the scene, only 10 were under 20 years old.
[05:40:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03engblom [556] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Graphics' IRIX and Magic Desktop Return as Linux Desktop - 792 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:56] <exec> 08└─I was for a very long time Window Maker user. When other people used new stuff like GNOME, KDE, *box window managers, I stayed with Window Maker. Some years ago I finally made the switch away from Window Maker to dynamic tiling window managers (first dwm, currently xmonad). Why did I switch? Because...
[05:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD GPU Supply Exhausted By Cryptocurrency Mining, AIBs Now Directly Advertising To Miners - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:48] <exec> 08└─Since I was running Folding @ Home anyway I decided to try Curecoin. It looks decent so far, getting a small payout for something I was doing for free anyway.
[05:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toddler In Barbie Jeep Flees Traffic Stop - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:19] <exec> 08└─Same here. I have FB blackholed in my /etc/hosts file.
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[06:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feds Arrest NSA Contractor in Leak of Top Secret Russia Document - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:21] <exec> 08└─So: why did she pick this journailst? Did they have a "track record" of treating leaks or whistle-blowers with appropriate care? OR: who *else* (other than the journalist) had access, once she mailed it?
[06:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feds Arrest NSA Contractor in Leak of Top Secret Russia Document - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:22] <exec> 08└─How can The Intercept have any credibility today because of its incredible blunder? If I were a leaker I would think twice before sending any information to them. However, I suspect there may be more to this story than meets the eye. First, the leaker sent an e-mail to The Intercept. Bad move. If sh...
[06:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feds Arrest NSA Contractor in Leak of Top Secret Russia Document - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:24] <exec> 08└─The government found out about the leaker, Reality Leigh Winner [heavy.com] a 25 year old female. By using hidden dots in the document as explained by erratasec [erratasec.com] and arstechnica [arstechnica.com]. EFF has a list of which printers [eff.org] that have this tracking function (Okidata and...
[06:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feds Arrest NSA Contractor in Leak of Top Secret Russia Document - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:26] <exec> 08└─I read that her employer read the printer queue too. So double "you been had".
[06:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03migz [1807] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:51] <exec> 08└─Australia :-P
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[07:35:40] <exec> 08└─It's not conclusively known that the yellow dots led to the arrest. Here's another account: The FBI says it determined that “the pages appeared to be folded and/or creased, suggesting they had been printed and carried out of a secured space.” The agency says it determined who at the NSA had acce...
[07:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feds Arrest NSA Contractor in Leak of Top Secret Russia Document - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:42] <exec> 08└─She should have feed the documents to a offline OCR process. That should remove most of this stuff. However that the Intercept.. didn't intercept this leak is kind of embarrassing. Btw, how can folding or creasing indicate a secured space?
[07:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feds Arrest NSA Contractor in Leak of Top Secret Russia Document - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:44] <exec> 08└─Btw, how can folding or creasing indicate a secured space?
[07:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feds Arrest NSA Contractor in Leak of Top Secret Russia Document - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:46] <exec> 08└─Photographing the screen using a micro camera might be an idea?
[07:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Pitches Virtual Border Wall - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:34] <exec> 08└─Aaaaand that's why slavery was perfectly okay! Because it was the law! End of discussion, right? Your reasoning is so awesome...
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[07:36:52] <exec> 08└─Four decades ago, in 1977, a conspiracy began bubbling up from the basements of the vast network of hospitals belonging to the Veterans Administration. Across the country, software geeks and doctors were puzzling out how they could make medical care better with these new devices called personal comp...
[07:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Air Conditioning Changed the World - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:28] <exec> 08└─O-O-O-O-O-kla0homa! Where the heat comes sweeping down the plain! (do we have music note emojis? But then again, I don't use emojis, anyway. Must the the heat, or not so much the humidity. Oklahoma! OK!)
[07:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Air Conditioning Changed the World - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:29] <exec> 08└─Photovoltic cells have issues with installation price and access to sun irradiated areas.
[07:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Refugee from beyond [2699] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:18] <exec> 08└─Internet repeats calls to limit UK prime minister.
[07:40:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Ideas Are Getting Harder to Find - 1118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:40:12] <exec> 08└─organization) When I look at the description I want some 2-3 screenshots to get a quick grip on what it feels like to operate. And a quick description in 2-3 sentences what it does and thus is worthwhile to spend time on. A further description should quickly describe the important features. How they...
[07:41:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Play or Flashcards? New Study Nods to More Rigorous Preschools - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:03] <exec> 08└─10 year old kids are taught plain four +, -, *, / math operators etc and no algebra nor calculus? But there has to be an option to get the foundation on the path to calculus. Regarding Fourier transform, I think it takes more for eternal employment.
[07:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Millimeter-Wave Technology Could Make Future Vehicles Much Safer - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:03] <exec> 08└─Wood and bricks is something else than walking water.
[07:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE Sever Diplomatic Ties with Qatar - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:33] <exec> 08└─Was tired when I wrote it so Pakistan geography came from directly from distorted memory ;) Israel trigger happiness referred to nuclear trigger happiness. Use of conventional weapons is another ballgame. Most likely because nations know that they are suicide to use.
[07:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE Sever Diplomatic Ties with Qatar - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:35] <exec> 08└─Read the article now. So yes it seems Saudi has a standing order for these weapons. If they get them exported during a time of high tension is another matter.
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[08:35:32] <exec> 08└─In other news, Tesla starts a insurance company.. ;-)
[08:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AAA: Tesla Owners Should Pay More for Insurance - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:34] <exec> 08└─I fully support any tax on hipsters.
[08:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feds Arrest NSA Contractor in Leak of Top Secret Russia Document - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:49] <exec> 08└─It's still a device, and suspicious if found.
[08:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Pitches Virtual Border Wall - 1614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:40] <exec> 08└─There is a big difference between: Stating support for political candidate X. or Secretly donating to an organization dedicated to spreading anti-candidate-Y internet memes. One of these actions is an plain and direct statement. I respect a person for voicing that statement even if that statement mi...
[08:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DVA Scraps Home Grown EHR Systems, Opts For OTS Replacement - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:59] <exec> 08└─Proprietary software is inferior by definition.
[08:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DVA Scraps Home Grown EHR Systems, Opts For OTS Replacement - 715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:01] <exec> 08└─But guess what, there is no magic way for the data to get into a computer system, either the old one or the new one. Somebody has to sit there and type it in, in a timely and correct way. It is unlikely DVA is going to spring for someone to be a data-entry person who sits there and enters just what...
[08:37:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06How Air Conditioning Changed the World - 1743 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:20] <exec> 08└─This is all true, though there's an even simpler summary metric: dew point [wikipedia.org], which is essentially a measure of absolute humidity. I've never quite understood why modern air conditioning systems don't adopt a "constant dewpoint" setting, particularly in humid climates, which would actu...
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[08:37:38] <exec> 08└─Yeah. The Persians even had ice making and storage tech: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] See also: http://www.cais-soas.com [cais-soas.com]
[08:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Antarctic Ice Rift Close to Calving, After Growing 17km in 6 Days - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:13] <exec> 08└─As they say, anecdotes are not data. Despite all climate doomsaying, sea level acceleration has not been detected. [nature.com] Who cares about this kind of regular event, unless you're a researcher who studies ice? Now we're all experts who can gauge the significance of this? Paging Al Gore and Leo...
[08:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Graphics' IRIX and Magic Desktop Return as Linux Desktop - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:41:51] <exec> 08└─OK, shameful stories time - I still quite like both FVWM and it's pregenitor TWM - I have a friend who still uses TWM. Were I to want to go untiled, I'd probably pull out my old fvwmrc. And worse - my favourite MS Windows UI is the 3.1 one. Possibly because it had the best file manager ever. It just...
[08:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Millimeter-Wave Technology Could Make Future Vehicles Much Safer - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:12] <exec> 08└─To me, the whole idea of HAM radio is you can communicate around the world - without having anyone else involved. Just you and the guy you are talking to. Just the ticket for the doomsday scenario.... complete collapse of the telecom system brought on by either power grid failures or political ( ma...
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[08:42:13] <exec> 08└─I don't know... I'll have to ask the Dodgers.
[08:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03caffeine [249] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD GPU Supply Exhausted By Cryptocurrency Mining, AIBs Now Directly Advertising To Miners - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:49] <exec> 08└─Imagine if all the effort put into mining bitcoins was used for folding@home or any number of useful endeavours.
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[09:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AAA: Tesla Owners Should Pay More for Insurance - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:30] <exec> 08└─Their premiums will shock you!
[09:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Pitches Virtual Border Wall - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:36] <exec> 08└─Let's say that you created such a LIDAR-based [or sophisticated movement sensor] wall of say, half a mile, depth. Try the following: take your group of immigrants onto a part of the border where border guards are only passing every 2 hours or so. Cross into the United States, then return. Do this a...
[09:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Pitches Virtual Border Wall - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:38] <exec> 08└─Helping Carmack defect and taking proprietary information from Bethesda/Zenimax to improve their financial bargaining with Facebook during the buyout? Crooks beget crooks and all that. Far more successful crook than Carmack was at 2x his age btw.
[09:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bd [2773] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Air Conditioning Changed the World - 944 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:37] <exec> 08└─They are totally capable of cooling a room or being used as A/C in a car. Peltiers do not have particularily bad efficiency, the problem is just that closed cycle chillers are _much_ better. Actually, disregard the thing about the coefficient of power for the peltier always being below 1. I read up...
[09:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Antarctic Ice Rift Close to Calving, After Growing 17km in 6 Days - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:13] <exec> 08└─The thing that worries me is that it is winter in Antarctica. It has been getting colder for the last few months, and yet this rift is still growing.
[09:39:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 2522 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:13] <exec> 08└─I'm honestly surprised that most people still believe it is impossible. I calculated once the drive space needed to store all telephone communication data in the U.S, getting my data from the U.S census as to the number of people. Google has more drive space than that now. It only took about a coupl...
[09:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:29] <exec> 08└─Nauru Manus Island Mars Vietnam Ethiopia Pick one.
[09:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Graphics' IRIX and Magic Desktop Return as Linux Desktop - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:41:54] <exec> 08└─Funny story, I still use FVWM when I get bored of KDE. Or vice-versa. Did you know that it is currently being reworked? With a possibility of new config format? I know!
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[10:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:20] <exec> 08└─Stay the f-%k out of swamps like facebook. It will suck you in and bite you. Socializing in an environment full of mines and stasi guards is not a good idea.
[10:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AAA: Tesla Owners Should Pay More for Insurance - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:30] <exec> 08└─Betweèn beard trimming and hairdressing costs, cigarettes, and replacement tight pamts, most hopsters can't afford rent, let alone a Tesla.
[10:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Feds Arrest NSA Contractor in Leak of Top Secret Russia Document - 1095 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:47] <exec> 08└─Only six people were given access to this document. It contains no meaningful intelligence. Interestingly enough even in the diagrams it's stated that the "Russian connection" is speculation from analysts - which is already public knowledge. Even the phishing attacks are very public knowledge. You c...
[10:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Pitches Virtual Border Wall - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:40] <exec> 08└─The point is not to stop anybody from crossing but to extract preferably hundreds of millions of tax payer dollars for building this boondoggle.
[10:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:32] <exec> 08└─It makes "incompetence vs. false flag" a legitimate debate
[10:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:34] <exec> 08└─Of course, of course! :^) times one million
[10:40:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Ideas Are Getting Harder to Find - 998 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:40:28] <exec> 08└─There are plenty of ideas. Big and small. The issue is when you don't have the right people or system to efficiently and effectively identify, curate and implement the good ones. Take the Manhattan project ( https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] ). It started with p...
[10:44:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Denuvo Accused of Using Unlicensed Software to Protect its Anti-Piracy Tool - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:00] <exec> 08└─I'm in favor of more loot. :p
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[11:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:20] <exec> 08└─Stay the f-%k out of swamps like Haavaad. It will suck you in and bite you. There, FTFY.
[11:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:22] <exec> 08└─Racism and rape jokes? That's tame! They should read bash.org [bash.org] or sickipedia.net [sickipedia.net] before some of the really twisted stuff.
[11:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:24] <exec> 08└─tl;dr: Stupid Facebook users are stupid.
[11:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Feds Arrest NSA Contractor in Leak of Top Secret Russia Document - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:50] <exec> 08└─In addition to Reality Winner being a Prison Term Winner, she has a sister called Internet Winner.
[11:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feds Arrest NSA Contractor in Leak of Top Secret Russia Document - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:52] <exec> 08└─Photographing the screen using a micro camera might be an idea?
[11:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feds Arrest NSA Contractor in Leak of Top Secret Russia Document - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:54] <exec> 08└─they're also getting to imply The Intercept, one of the few remaining reputable independent media outlets, was somehow at fault for this leaker's complete lack of any security precautions whatsoever.
[11:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Feds Arrest NSA Contractor in Leak of Top Secret Russia Document - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:56] <exec> 08└─funny name, serious leaker
[11:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DVA Scraps Home Grown EHR Systems, Opts For OTS Replacement - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:09] <exec> 08└─And exactly what is so incredibly difficult about pushing a custom keyboard map out to network clients? Sounds like 15 minutes worth of help desk-level work to me.
[11:37:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06How Air Conditioning Changed the World - 930 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:24] <exec> 08└─You don't need the crappy Peltier effect for cooling air, you can use vapor-compression refrigeration just like we do now and like they did with the first A/C systems. Vapor-compression refrigeration goes back to the 1830s too [wikipedia.org], though it wasn't really used practically for another 15...
[11:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Air Conditioning Changed the World - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:49] <exec> 08└─New York's Sackett & Wilhelms Lithographing and Printing Company ... Even a millimetre's misalignment
[11:38:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 855 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:35] <exec> 08└─Just about every terrorist has been reported before, MULTIPLE TIMES. If I didn't know any better I would say that being reported as terrorist turns one into a terrorist. But the reality of the situation is a lot shittier, and that is there are tens of thousands people who have been reported as terro...
[11:38:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03turgid [4318] 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 764 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:56] <exec> 08└─Theresa May is a Tory. Tories are obsessed to the point of mania with cutting costs, especially in public services. Before she was made Prime Minister, Theresa May was Home Secretary, i.e. in charge of the Police. To cut costs, she cut the number of police officers by tens of thousands. The intellig...
[11:38:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 80 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:59] <exec> 08└─It seems that about 40-50 people have died due to terrorism in the UK since 2005
[11:39:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03purple_cobra [1435] 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 2738 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:05] <exec> 08└─Trouble is that there are still people - and quite a few of them, at that - who think Thatcher was the greatest Prime Minister we've had since Churchill. They are, of course, wrong; were some of the reforms she rammed through necessary? Yes, of course. But the way she got them enacted - and for some...
[11:39:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:45] <exec> 08└─Then why are they allowing these people in their country? Kick them out.
[11:39:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:47] <exec> 08└─What?
[11:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:49] <exec> 08└─They said that in Australia. Can't offend the muslims. They will riot, be violent, etc. Oh no. Pacify them then they will not come at us. If one person speaks and the response from another is violence then the second is in the wrong.
[11:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:51] <exec> 08└─> This is what you vote for when you vote Conservative [conservatives.com]. It's why the NHS, Schools and other public services are at breaking point. It's the Tory way. Alas, we need to pay for what we spend. At the moment, the expenditure is larger than the income. Who can fix that? The magic Labo...
[11:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:53] <exec> 08└─Next thing will be for potential criminals to obscure their faces...
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[12:35:29] <exec> 08└─The lesson should be, "don't be an asshole or you will be treated as such". Maybe Harvard doesn't want to be associated with assholes? Imagine that!
[12:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:30] <exec> 08└─They should have used whatever the replacement for this [wikipedia.org] is.
[12:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:33] <exec> 08└─This really seems like a missed opportunity for educating these individuals. If this is Harvard's approach to education, these folks might be better off.
[12:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:35] <exec> 08└─I think those clowns just learned a lesson.
[12:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03a-zA-Z0-9$_.+!*'(),- (3868) (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:37] <exec> 08└─and economic polarization makes symbolic gesture to appear politically correct while doing nothing about the problems it pretends to oppose. News at 11. see "virtue signaling".
[12:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AAA: Tesla Owners Should Pay More for Insurance - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:48] <exec> 08└─That's what Patreon begging accounts are for.
[12:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03oakgrove [5864] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Feds Arrest NSA Contractor in Leak of Top Secret Russia Document - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:09] <exec> 08└─Reality Leigh Winner
[12:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Feds Arrest NSA Contractor in Leak of Top Secret Russia Document - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:11] <exec> 08└─And even that method would be defeated if the govt. ever gets the bright idea to send unique docs with a few words changed to every recipient.
[12:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feds Arrest NSA Contractor in Leak of Top Secret Russia Document - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:13] <exec> 08└─The Intercept, one of the few remaining reputable independent media outlets
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[12:37:07] <exec> 08└─Slavery has nothing to do with this discussion.
[12:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Pitches Virtual Border Wall - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:08] <exec> 08└─Advocacy for adherence to the law is in no way expressing support for every law that ever has existed.
[12:37:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03requerdanos [5997] 02 - 06DVA Scraps Home Grown EHR Systems, Opts For OTS Replacement - 2208 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:19] <exec> 08└─As a veteran who receives care through the VA system (along with about nine million other veterans), I can relate a few problems that I have noticed. First problem: My records don't follow me. I moved two counties away several years ago, and it had no effect on my records; the VA clinics and VA prov...
[12:37:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06DVA Scraps Home Grown EHR Systems, Opts For OTS Replacement - 944 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:23] <exec> 08└─cerner is very good at sales. The Millenium system is no better (and far worse, in some ways) than any other patient admin system. If every user has to log in as themselves - that will not, and has not eve worked, on any hospital system, ever. None of these systems integrates with other systems prop...
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[12:37:32] <exec> 08└─It is unlikely DVA is going to spring for someone to be a data-entry person who sits there and enters just what the doctors wants, while the doctor is examining you (and do you want that person in the room while the doctor is examining you?). And it would be worse if the doctor has to dictate after...
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[12:38:12] <exec> 08└─countless lives
[12:41:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Ideas Are Getting Harder to Find - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:08] <exec> 08└─[Tesla is more genius than Edison; therefore, Edison was not an inventor.]
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[13:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cryptocurrencies Hit $100 Billion Market Cap - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:33] <exec> 08└─The intrinsic value of bitcoin is to trade for altcoins, and the intrinsic value of altcoins are to trade for bitcoin. They are so easy to trade and people love trade.
[13:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cryptocurrencies Hit $100 Billion Market Cap - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:34] <exec> 08└─The intrinsic value of bitcoin is
[13:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cryptocurrencies Hit $100 Billion Market Cap - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:36] <exec> 08└─Something is either useful to someone or it's not.
[13:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon is Forced to Fix 15,000 “Double Poles” and Other Network Problems - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:44] <exec> 08└─There are also "dangling pieces of old poles" resulting from Verizon doing "everything it can to avoid the expense of moving its facilities to a new pole," as shown in the pictures above and detailed in the union's complaint against Verizon. "When VZPA does nothing, and the electric utility must rem...
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[13:35:47] <exec> 08└─Mergers and other financial foolishness is expensive, so if you want the New York Banks to get richer, you gotta cut somewhere, like infrastructure across the country. Just kinda how it is. I don't live in the area and never worked for either although I was at a utility with CWA union members a long...
[13:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Verizon is Forced to Fix 15,000 “Double Poles” and Other Network Problems - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:49] <exec> 08└─15000 pole transfers is insane. I can't believe the company that owns them hasn't fined them.
[13:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:05] <exec> 08└─Out of curiosity, what action could Harvard take in this case that you would not see as virtue signaling?
[13:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:06] <exec> 08└─You're interpreting his comment wrong. Saying "virtue signaling" is the newest way right wing authoritarian followers have of virtue signaling. People in the Political Correctness movement are new to the right-wing authoritarian follower game so they haven't quite figured out how to fit in with more...
[13:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:08] <exec> 08└─I disagree...their education just kicked off, big time.
[13:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AAA: Tesla Owners Should Pay More for Insurance - 1556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:20] <exec> 08└─This smacks a lot of other attempts to smear Tesla and break their momentum as a company. The New York Times, the bastion of American journalism, deliberately tried to get the Model S they test drove on the East Coast to fail, ignoring every warning and then claiming the car broke down on the side o...
[13:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AAA: Tesla Owners Should Pay More for Insurance - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:22] <exec> 08└─My conspiracy theory goes like this: The teslas have proven to be safe, reliable vehicles. Good for insurance companies. Even better if they can somehow claim that they are less reliable, jack up rates and rake in the dough. Overall the teslas cost less to insure in the long run and their owners hav...
[13:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hot Jupiter Exoplanet May Have a Comet-Like Tail - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:52] <exec> 08└─The equilibrium temperature is not any real temperature, for Earth it is 255 K. For the moon it is 271K, and for Venus it is 260K. So who cares about this value? It has nothing to do with reality.
[13:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Pitches Virtual Border Wall - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:43] <exec> 08└─Why? supporting LGBT causes while working at Michael's, Chick-filleh, Deseret Industries, etc. will not help one move into management roles in those companies...
[13:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Pitches Virtual Border Wall - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:45] <exec> 08└─The well-educated guards will decide that there's something wrong with the sensors on that part of the border.
[13:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Air Conditioning Changed the World - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:48] <exec> 08└─Aside note: to me it seems it would have been easier to send the Roman Emperor to the snow rather than bringing the snow to him. But I guess despots are unable to think like that.
[13:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Air Conditioning Changed the World - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:49] <exec> 08└─Photovoltic cells have issues with installation price and access to sun irradiated areas.
[13:39:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03zocalo [302] 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 136 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:51] <exec> 08└─But the reality of the situation is a lot shittier, and that is there are tens of thousands people who have been reported as terrorists.
[13:40:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:49] <exec> 08└─Washington, DC
[13:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Big Ideas Are Getting Harder to Find - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:47] <exec> 08└─You need to be this smart (Tesla) to be an inventor.
[13:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Big Ideas Are Getting Harder to Find - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:48] <exec> 08└─See the E-cat story as an example. No matter if it works or not, the fact that a supremely strategic idea like that is yet to be deemed valid or bogus is sign of lack of interest.
[13:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Big Ideas Are Getting Harder to Find - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:51] <exec> 08└─I know there are some who hate when I bring this up... but once again look at figure 2. The blue curve (their index of research efficiency) is basically the inverse of NHST adoption.
[13:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03rondon [5167] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Play or Flashcards? New Study Nods to More Rigorous Preschools - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:42] <exec> 08└─Tiering, by its very nature, is a method whereby one compares one thing to other things of the same nature for classification as "more" or "less" of something. Which is exactly what GP did. Just because you have an ax to grind that is on topic, doesn't mean you should go about building straw men on...
[13:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Free Play or Flashcards? New Study Nods to More Rigorous Preschools - 1134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:43] <exec> 08└─I'm unclear on why 2.5 months is supposed to be worthwhile, particularly since students are then usually channeled into the public school systems (which are commonly notorious for wasting years of students' life and removing such educational advantages). It sounds like one of those paperclip optimiz...
[13:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Graphics' IRIX and Magic Desktop Return as Linux Desktop - 1247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:26] <exec> 08└─I was mistaken. I had looked at: http://dev.maxxdesktop.com [maxxdesktop.com] (gives me an error page) https://sourceforge.net [sourceforge.net] (no downloads) http://maxxdesktop.co [maxxdesktop.co] (parking page linked from Sourceforge) I confused those with...
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[14:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cryptocurrencies Hit $100 Billion Market Cap - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:41] <exec> 08└─...bitcoin has traded better than JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Tesla, Apple, Google and gold.
[14:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cryptocurrencies Hit $100 Billion Market Cap - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:43] <exec> 08└─With a tulip bulb, you can still grow a tulip.
[14:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cryptocurrencies Hit $100 Billion Market Cap - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:45] <exec> 08└─Wait, what? Source: Bitcoin Magazine
[14:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cryptocurrencies Hit $100 Billion Market Cap - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:47] <exec> 08└─no one has a problem with the bills in my wallet.
[14:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Cryptocurrencies Hit $100 Billion Market Cap - 1482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:50] <exec> 08└─Intrinsic is problematic even outside finance. There's a whole wikipedia article about value in the sense of philosophy and intrinsic vs non-intrinsic and its basically the same problem and nobody's figured it out in 2000+ years in philosophy so don't expect the financiers to figure it out for at le...
[14:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Cryptocurrencies Hit $100 Billion Market Cap - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:52] <exec> 08└─I suppose you are suggesting that cryptocurrencies are in a financial bubble. You may be correct; however, that's entirely irrelevant in this discussion. Try again.
[14:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cryptocurrencies Hit $100 Billion Market Cap - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:54] <exec> 08└─Bitcoins are an easy political target given their perceived link to cyber crime, terrorism, speculation, and CO2 emissions. It is like gold, but with an extra level of stink. If the value grows too big, there will be a government crackdown restricting this to a black market activity. How much will y...
[14:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cryptocurrencies Hit $100 Billion Market Cap - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:57] <exec> 08└─It sounds like you're just taking another word and making "intrinsic" a synonym for it, and then writing a tautology with these two words. More to the point, I have no idea what you mean by "static"; in this context, it's another stupid word—something is only static in the context of certain param...
[14:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cryptocurrencies Hit $100 Billion Market Cap - 1545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:59] <exec> 08└─Bitcoin will still function; it will still be a way to measure and record the value of transactions across the Internet in a fashion that nobody can disrupt. That's still a useful ability. More concretely: People like drugs and blowjobs and all manner of "illicit" stuff. Let's say governments the wo...
[14:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon is Forced to Fix 15,000 “Double Poles” and Other Network Problems - 2647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:10] <exec> 08└─The company that owns them is the local power company and the government agency that regulates pole attachments "for the greater good" as a public resource is the FCC. There is a constant dance of muni and state trying to weasel into the relationship. The muni can regulate when and where constructio...
[14:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon is Forced to Fix 15,000 “Double Poles” and Other Network Problems - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:12] <exec> 08└─> 15000 pole transfers is insane. Once again, PA seems to have problems when it comes to infrastructure. While I don't have data, we are right next door in NY and I think I've seen a dozen doubled poles in the last 50 years. Could it be the difference between fairly consistently Rep (PA) and Dem (NY...
[14:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 850 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:31] <exec> 08└─Special snowflakes rejoice, free speech is dead, victim to the right to not be offended. The established academia finally shows its ugly elitist face: not only it does nothing to stop the censorship against errr... conservative speakers, but now is directly and without shame involved in censorship....
[14:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 832 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:33] <exec> 08└─For people who want to offend snowflakes there are schools for that. Even Christian schools for white, male, heterosexual, christian, rich, conservative students. Schools where racism and sexism are embraced. Sexual assault may not be openly embraced but at least tolerated -- especially when perpetr...
[14:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:35] <exec> 08└─I hope they take it even further! I hope they start rejecting admission from people who listen to metal music. I hope they start banning users who have drug-related social media posts, or who use guns. They will soon cease to be known for producing alumni who are capable of not just thinking, but li...
[14:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:37] <exec> 08└─Do you even know what free speech means in the context of our constitution? Have you recently read the first amendment? Based on your comment, I'm guessing no, but if you have, please point to the part that covers speech between private parties.
[14:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:39] <exec> 08└─The amount of outrage and grandiose compliments of genius is ridiculous. What happened to "its a private business sorry but they can do what they want"? Oh,this time they targeted people you like? I am shocked that the right wingers are falling over themselves to condemn the punishment of horrible l...
[14:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AAA: Tesla Owners Should Pay More for Insurance - 889 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:53] <exec> 08└─Safety and insurance rates have, unfortunately, almost nothing to do with each other. Insurance rates for a specific model of car in a specific area to a specific driver are determined by average costs for that car/area/driver demographic. Just because a car is the least likely to kill or injure you...
[14:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AAA: Tesla Owners Should Pay More for Insurance - 1860 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:54] <exec> 08└─I'll admit with the difficulties Tesla has suffered over the years (particularly trying to get around dealership laws) that I've occasionally wondered about the excess amount of negative press and whether some stories weren't pushed by interests with opposing agendas. On the other hand, Tesla and Mu...
[14:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AAA: Tesla Owners Should Pay More for Insurance - 962 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:57] <exec> 08└─It may have the side effect of a tax on hipsters, but I strongly suspect the real reason is that Model S and X are aluminum intensive. Aluminum bodied cars are *much* more expensive to repair than the steel equivalent. Ask any premium car owner -- Jag, Audi have been early with aluminum, but it's ev...
[14:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AAA: Tesla Owners Should Pay More for Insurance - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:59] <exec> 08└─Well, the idea is to eventually make them commonplace. Once the tax is in place, it is hard to take back.
[14:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AAA: Tesla Owners Should Pay More for Insurance - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:01] <exec> 08└─This article makes it sound like Teslas crash more.
[14:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06AAA: Tesla Owners Should Pay More for Insurance - 1877 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:03] <exec> 08└─I'm thinking Tesla owners just need to shop around if they're with AAA. I mean, I look at it this way. After my folks discovered I was a shapeshifting demon from the burning hells and disowned me, I needed to find car insurance. So, I was aware that car insurance penalizes people for being assigned...
[14:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Feds Arrest NSA Contractor in Leak of Top Secret Russia Document - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:28] <exec> 08└─She was not very smart. I don't need a degree in clinical psychology to diagnose a narcissistic personality disorder in this one either. The fact idiots like this get security clearance is ridiculous. Her online presence is pure retard-level vitriol. The left propaganda has rotted another brain, and...
[14:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feds Arrest NSA Contractor in Leak of Top Secret Russia Document - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:29] <exec> 08└─OR: who *else* (other than the journalist) had access, once she mailed it?
[14:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Pitches Virtual Border Wall - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:31] <exec> 08└─>You cannot cherry-pick which laws you want to obey. Then why aren't you in prison? These days it's pretty much impossible to even walk around the block without breaking a few laws. Seriously - there used to be a show where to win the prize you had to walk around the block without breaking any laws,...
[14:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Pitches Virtual Border Wall - 1054 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:32] <exec> 08└─You have a point in that the vast majority of the US-Mexico border is pretty desolate scrubland with minimal appeal and could be efficiently "patrolled" electronically. In fact you'd have to do the same thing with a wall anyway, since ladders exist. (Yeah, you can't drive across a wall so well, but...
[14:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Air Conditioning Changed the World - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:39] <exec> 08└─Thank you captain obvious. There is no such thing as a one-size-fits all solution to a complicated problem. Any other deep thoughts you want to share with us?
[14:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Ideas Are Getting Harder to Find - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:41] <exec> 08└─Inventors are defined by their inventions which are, in turn, judged by their usefulness and novelty. One can be a prolific inventor of poor quality, unimaginative crap but they would still be an inventor. Inventors can produce inventions by accident, brute force, and insight.
[14:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Ideas Are Getting Harder to Find - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:43] <exec> 08└─There's not much left in the realm of "unmet needs."
[14:44:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Graphics' IRIX and Magic Desktop Return as Linux Desktop - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:18] <exec> 08└─It later dawned on me that the word "Linux" is also a restriction.
[14:44:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Graphics' IRIX and Magic Desktop Return as Linux Desktop - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:19] <exec> 08└─and how come sourceforge is still around after their malware idiocy?
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[15:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:29] <exec> 08└─"I became the director of the patent office, and I still haven't invented any Noble-prize winning theories of physics!"
[15:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:31] <exec> 08└─Trump hasn't even named a nominee for 431 of them.
[15:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:33] <exec> 08└─Nobody. Patents should be done away with.
[15:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:35] <exec> 08└─So you wouldn't mind if the pharma industry collapsed overnight, right?
[15:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota Partner Tests Flying "Car"; It Crashed - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:43] <exec> 08└─People have a hard enough time driving in 2D without fucking something up (check YouTube for the worst offenders). 3D "driving" will be a clusterfuck of disaster raining down fireballs of car parts. Then there are those idiots that throw their rubbish and other crap out of the windows whenever they...
[15:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota Partner Tests Flying "Car"; It Crashed - 3241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:45] <exec> 08└─I suppose for flight training we could watch old episodes of "Knight Rider" with the Hoff from the 80s. I never was very clear on the physics of how KITT could fly. That was a TV show from after the "its the 70s so everyone involved is smoking weed heavily" and before the "its the late 80s so everyo...
[15:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota Partner Tests Flying "Car"; It Crashed - 803 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:48] <exec> 08└─Note that you could 2.5D hovercraft it 5 feet off the ground and stop spending billions on roads. You'd still have to spend millions to put up signs and cut down trees and stuff like that, but it could be a lot cheaper. And every driver taking the hovercraft trail to work is one less on my legacy ro...
[15:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota Partner Tests Flying "Car"; It Crashed - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:50] <exec> 08└─1) Build a fairly big quadcopter using any parts you find lying around 2) Arrange press conference using the term "Flying Car" 3) ??? 4) Profit * * I do hope not. Seriously, any investor that sees those photos and thinks "Wow! The future is here - must get in on the ground floor!" should seek medica...
[15:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota Partner Tests Flying "Car"; It Crashed - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:52] <exec> 08└─Perhaps overly pedantically, it has eight rotors, not four.
[15:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toyota Partner Tests Flying "Car"; It Crashed - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:54] <exec> 08└─KITT was automatic transmission though.
[15:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cryptocurrencies Hit $100 Billion Market Cap - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:14] <exec> 08└─The return on investment has been better. That's what it means.
[15:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cryptocurrencies Hit $100 Billion Market Cap - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:15] <exec> 08└─The market cap of cryptos is largely fanboy BS, who want to make it look more important than it is really is. Just look at most of these coins, the order depths on most exchanges are shallow as hell. Cashing out just a fraction of this market cap will push the overall market cap down a lot.
[15:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cryptocurrencies Hit $100 Billion Market Cap - 840 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:17] <exec> 08└─So, as usual, you completely miss your own point. It takes a lot of resources to mint a coin or produce the bills in your wallet—hey, it even takes electricity to do it! What you're missing is that while the miner does need to take into account his expenditure for finding a block, that's not the d...
[15:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cryptocurrencies Hit $100 Billion Market Cap - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:19] <exec> 08└─A bubble implies there is an asset that is overvalued, except here there is no asset at all.
[15:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cryptocurrencies Hit $100 Billion Market Cap - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:21] <exec> 08└─Sure, if you dump your BTC on some shallow exchange, then you may not get a very good deal. But what about "cashing out" by selling your BTC for weed? What about "cashing out" by paying a Polish teenager to make your website? Forget your dollar bills; Bitcoin makes it possible to organize human ac...
[15:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cryptocurrencies Hit $100 Billion Market Cap - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:24] <exec> 08└─To a degree, that's how markets work. Not all of Apple's shares are available for trading either. In the last 24 hours, $1.6 Billion worth of Bitcoin has traded hands. If you wanted to sell $1M worth of bitcoin on Bitfinex, it would slip $40, or 1.4% (possibly less if there are hidden buy orders)
[15:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cryptocurrencies Hit $100 Billion Market Cap - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:26] <exec> 08└─It won't stop others from getting shit done.
[15:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cryptocurrencies Hit $100 Billion Market Cap - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:28] <exec> 08└─Bitcoin is maybe one of the exceptions, but only accounts for 45% of the market cap (source: http://coinmarketcap.com). [coinmarketcap.com] Lots of these alts are considered worth 1000's of BTC, yet if you would sell about 10BTC, the value would drop to 0.
[15:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cryptocurrencies Hit $100 Billion Market Cap - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:30] <exec> 08└─The drug dealers, in fact any recipient, will want to eventually convert their bitty box-top stamps to some real currency that they can use to buy a cup of coffee. If nobody is willing to trade any green for them, either because of illegality or futility, the "cryptocurrencies" may be less useful th...
[15:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon is Forced to Fix 15,000 “Double Poles” and Other Network Problems - 770 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:42] <exec> 08└─We have the same problem in NYC: http://www.brooklyndaily.com [brooklyndaily.com] Plenty in my neighborhood and there is one right on my block cut at the base and tied to the new pole with rope. That pole supports the secondary lines (l...
[15:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon is Forced to Fix 15,000 “Double Poles” and Other Network Problems - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:44] <exec> 08└─Sorry, should have mentioned that I'm in Western NY State. NY City is often very different than the rest of the state, on many different fronts.
[15:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:09] <exec> 08└─So I guess you missed the memo. Right wingers are the snowflakes most of the time. They demand everyone accept their shitty behaviors including the right to ignore the rights of others. The brains are broken. Free spirits who choose to amuse themselves with fucked up memes? Sounds like psychopath ma...
[15:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:10] <exec> 08└─Indeed, they learned that moral busybodies will hound them to the ends of the earth just for that rush of drugs your brain releases when you punish the evildoers, or the wrongthinkers as this case might be.
[15:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:12] <exec> 08└─For people who want to offend snowflakes there are schools for that. Even Christian schools for white, male, heterosexual, christian, rich, conservative students.
[15:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:15] <exec> 08└─The students in the spinoff group exchanged memes and images "mocking sexual assault, the Holocaust and the deaths of children," sometimes directing jokes at specific ethnic or racial groups, the Crimson reported. One message "called the hypothetical hanging of a Mexican child 'piñata time'" while...
[15:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 3206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:17] <exec> 08└─Given the "(grin)" I'm not sure how much of this is serious. But let's keep in mind that Harvard rejects about 95% of its applicants, as it is. Every year it rejects applicants who are valedictorians, who have perfect SAT scores, etc. Those rejections happen for all sorts of subjective reasons. Yet...
[15:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 788 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:19] <exec> 08└─They learned an important lesson: When you do something you know you shouldn't do, even if you're doing it for the lulz, even if it's legal to do it, there are consequences. I mean, how many people have lost their jobs due to stupidity on social media? Harvard's attitude, in essence, is "We're Harva...
[15:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:21] <exec> 08└─> When you do something you know you shouldn't do, even if you're doing it for the lulz, even if it's legal to do it, there are consequences. Sometimes. http://www.businessinsider.com [businessinsider.com]
[15:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AAA: Tesla Owners Should Pay More for Insurance - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:42] <exec> 08└─Understanding anything P666 posts is pretty simple: P666 is obsessed with established (and thus evil) "elites" and wants them overthrown by new elites. So the insurance companies are evil elites, while billionaire musk is a 'good' elite. Anything an established elite does that doesn't help a new eli...
[15:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AAA: Tesla Owners Should Pay More for Insurance - 994 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:43] <exec> 08└─Understanding anything is simple when you reduce it to a caricature. That's OK. It's hard to think. Processing complexity takes effort. Nuance and critical thinking are for oldsters who believe not everything can be reduced to a one-click smartphone app, which every right-thinking AC knows absolutel...
[15:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AAA: Tesla Owners Should Pay More for Insurance - 1046 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:45] <exec> 08└─See my earlier post -- by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 07, @10:06AM (#521902) It may have the side effect of a tax on hipsters, but I strongly suspect the real reason is that Model S and X are aluminum intensive. Aluminum bodied cars are *much* more expensive to repair than the steel equivalen...
[15:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AAA: Tesla Owners Should Pay More for Insurance - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:47] <exec> 08└─> ...I supplied substantiation that the New York Times... But none of your examples have anything to do with the cold facts that actuaries work with when setting insurance rates. Things like: the types of drivers attracted to certain models of car, cost to repair, where the car is garaged, etc. As s...
[15:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AAA: Tesla Owners Should Pay More for Insurance - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:50] <exec> 08└─'Teslas aren't that green because they're just shifting fossil fuel burning from gasoline to the coal-fired power plants, herpa derp.'
[15:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AAA: Tesla Owners Should Pay More for Insurance - 1545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:52] <exec> 08└─They don't have to pay off all the insurance companies to produce this article or announcement. I did not claim they had. I said I take announcements with a grain of salt now because it's not the first time damning claims have been made about the cars and the company, and were quickly proven false....
[15:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Feds Arrest NSA Contractor in Leak of Top Secret Russia Document - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:18] <exec> 08└─How can The Intercept have any credibility today because of its incredible blunder?
[15:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Feds Arrest NSA Contractor in Leak of Top Secret Russia Document - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:20] <exec> 08└─For months now we've been hearing all these pronouncements about the nefarious "deep state" conspiracy of obama-embedded, political insider elites that are trying to thwart the democratic will of the people in order to maintain their death grip on power. And when of these swamp-monsters is revealed....
[15:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Feds Arrest NSA Contractor in Leak of Top Secret Russia Document - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:22] <exec> 08└─> This silliness is indeed self-imposed. Citation? Her mother's last name [cnn.com] is "Winner-Davis" - Davis is her stepfather's last name. So Reality Leigh Winner is likely her given name.
[15:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Pitches Virtual Border Wall - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:22] <exec> 08└─>They are just as "normal" as any other American family... >and they are a friendly people Contradiction detected...
[15:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Pitches Virtual Border Wall - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:23] <exec> 08└─"long but very narrow" - doesn't it now extend 100 miles into the USA?
[15:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Pitches Virtual Border Wall - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:25] <exec> 08└─"We are benevolent and tolerant masters. We allow anyone to say whatever they want as long as they don't break the rules. Anyone who breaks the rules is immoral scum and will be sent to federal 'pound me in the ass' prison. Just don't break the laws! Otherwise do whatever you want. We love freedom h...
[15:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Pitches Virtual Border Wall - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:27] <exec> 08└─Area 51 is easier. They have enough security to check those things out any time there's a question about it. Plus, they use multiple kinds of sensors, so they can correlate those together to figure out what it is. The point of the virtual wall is that there's too much border to secure and much of it...
[15:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Pitches Virtual Border Wall - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:30] <exec> 08└─It is a perfectly reasonable position to obey the law to the best of your abilities and reject the law all the same.
[15:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Pitches Virtual Border Wall - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:32] <exec> 08└─That's the extend of the zone within which the feds have declared they can ignore the 4th amendment. But it's not the actual border. Crossing the actual border is the trigger for this issue.
[15:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Pitches Virtual Border Wall - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:34] <exec> 08└─You missed the point. The US has become a paranoid country ruled by fear. Gone are the days of freedom, and things like this are trying to stop the symptoms instead of curing the disease. More reactionary imperialism is not the answer. Can it be done? Yes. Will it stop illegals? Somewhat. Is it wort...
[15:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Pitches Virtual Border Wall - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:36] <exec> 08└─Moron, they were highlighting the fact that conservatives aren't the only ones who face such discrimination. But you and your butt buddy jmo are too busy with your rage boners to think clearly.
[15:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Pitches Virtual Border Wall - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:38] <exec> 08└─And as always if your personal choices can be kept secret then such problems are usually swept under the rug. Only when it becomes public and reflect on the business do you have a real problem.
[15:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Pitches Virtual Border Wall - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:41] <exec> 08└─My experiences have been similar. They are good people, friends, and neighbors. In my favorite Mexican restaurant there's a handwritten sign up on the wall, in English and Spanish, offering free English lessons. Most of them want to learn, try, and achieve here and work hard to do so. They're better...
[15:39:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] 02 - 06DVA Scraps Home Grown EHR Systems, Opts For OTS Replacement - 1174 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:59] <exec> 08└─Four decades ago, in 1977, a conspiracy began bubbling up from the basements of the vast network of hospitals belonging to the Veterans Administration. Across the country, software geeks and doctors were puzzling out how they could make medical care better with these new devices called personal comp...
[15:40:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Air Conditioning Changed the World - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:48] <exec> 08└─Ok, but even with steam engines now you're looking at having to have a big, noisy steam engine and all the associated overhead (giant pile of coal, big smoke-belching smokestack) located right next to your A/C unit to make it work. Installing this at the White House means it won't be white much long...
[15:40:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Air Conditioning Changed the World - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:49] <exec> 08└─I grew up in the North. I generally set my A/C around 80F at home in summer, and I set my heat around 60F in the winter. If it's hot, I wear fewer clothes; if it's cold, I put some more on. In the process, I save a lot in bills for heating/cooling energy. You must not be married.
[15:40:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Air Conditioning Changed the World - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:52] <exec> 08└─But I agree with you about the often unnecessarily low temperature settings with AC that contribute to some of the effects you mention. Those "unnecessarily low temperature settings" don't seem so unnecessary to millions of obese Americans.... Remember, we need to keep our offices chilled to 60F in...
[15:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 1102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:53] <exec> 08└─No, there will be rules, classes, need to use, etc. As an ordinary citizen, you have no need to use encryption. As soon as you have access to "State Secrets" that's another matter entirely. Then, there's the Banking industry, they obviously get whatever they want. The promulgation, distribution and...
[15:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 1998 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:54] <exec> 08└─Actual violence (distinct from mere vandalism which may at times have legitimate uses) is of course totally unacceptable. However...you seem to be asserting that Milo's right to free speech also entitled him to a platform for that speech, which is not at all true. There's absolutely no conflict in d...
[15:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Millimeter-Wave Technology Could Make Future Vehicles Much Safer - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:57] <exec> 08└─So basically it's highly attractive to right-wing nutcases who think the Rapture is just around the corner?
[15:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Millimeter-Wave Technology Could Make Future Vehicles Much Safer - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:59] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I understand that part. My question is more basic than that: what hobbyist application would you want that for? That seems to be something only really useful for radars and certain radios, for instance. Even cellular radios don't go that high, so you wouldn't need this even for making your own...
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[16:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 1165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:49] <exec> 08└─What happens when all these various functions of the Federal government are unstaffed because no one with half a brain wants to work in Trump's administration? From my reading of the 25th Amendment and Constitution, the President can only be deposed if 1) he's impeached for some kind of crime (which...
[16:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:50] <exec> 08└─That wouldn't happen and you know it. You just made that up. Sure. Pfizer might have to earn its money in the marketplace instead of relying on corporate welfare. And Johnson & Johnson would have to keep on manufacturing the inexpensive old, reliable, problem-free hernia mesh and stop making overly...
[16:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:52] <exec> 08└─Trump has been a do nothing executive. He has done nothing at all so far that causes any lasting damage. Paris accord? The new president in three years could get us back in and we would still be on track to meet our 2021 goals I'll care once he actually starts doing something wrong other than be an...
[16:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:55] <exec> 08└─Nope, wouldn't mind in the least if a bunch of rent seeking, thieving parasites suddenly had to earn a real living doing real work. Price of Epipens and Daraprim could use a little collapsing.
[16:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:57] <exec> 08└─Like, doing nothing if NATO is attacked? The heck with Article 5?
[16:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:59] <exec> 08└─Yeah... you do realise patents are how they make money, right? Without patents to protect new drugs, all companies are allowed to manufacture all drugs (cloning drugs isn't hard), and whoever is stupid enough to invest in research gets no benefit from doing so.
[16:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:02] <exec> 08└─So you're going with Screw them, they're rich. I don't care if we sacrifice medical advancement? Or do you too fail to realise that patents are what incentivise drug research?
[16:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:04] <exec> 08└─Then try declaring a holiday on for-profit health care research in the first place.
[16:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:06] <exec> 08└─How does the continuing price hike in EpiPen and Daraprim products after their patents have expired reflect the cost of research?
[16:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:08] <exec> 08└─Have you completely forgotten that the invention of new drugs is a good thing? No more drug patents would mean no more for-profit drug research, which would pretty much mean no more drug research.
[16:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 869 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:11] <exec> 08└─Trump's only been in office for less than 5 months now, and I'm not talking about him doing "lasting damage", as in helping pass some horrible law or starting a war or something, I'm talking about his administration not actually performing the duties that the Executive branch of the government is su...
[16:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:13] <exec> 08└─If they're no longer under patent-protection, why is no-one else manufacturing them at a lower price?
[16:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:15] <exec> 08└─I'm surprised that anyone here would bemoan the loss of the gatekeeper of ideas especially considering the entrenched view of patents and copyright amongst open sourcies, or at the very least, *nix users. I can sense a slight amount of cognitive dissonance about this especially considering the menti...
[16:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:17] <exec> 08└─whoever is stupid enough to invest in research gets no benefit from doing so.
[16:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:19] <exec> 08└─This has fooled many people, sadly. Dems can't obstruct a nominee until he actually offers one.
[16:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:22] <exec> 08└─Actually a good question. Why do out of patent drugs, maybe not this one, but others get price hiked to extraordinary levels once a new use is found for the same old drug?
[16:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:24] <exec> 08└─You have not convinced us medical advancement would cease or even slow.
[16:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:26] <exec> 08└─Which part are you failing to grasp? The temporary monopoly granted by patents are what incentivise expensive research into new drugs. If there are no patents, all drugs companies can manufacture all drugs equally well, and there's no incentive for anyone to pour money into research: if you do, ever...
[16:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:28] <exec> 08└─Sure, there are perverse incentives, and big pharma misbehaves all the damn time. More than just about any other industry. The fact remains: kill their incentive to do research, and you kill for-profit research. Do that, and you've just about killed drugs research completely in your country. (Which,...
[16:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 1264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:30] <exec> 08└─Even if NATO were not attacked, Trump is alienating our allies. Spilling their secrets. Throwing them under the bus. You should have said when NATO is attacked. Or maybe even when the US is directly attacked. Steps: 1. Put a country's administration into internal chaos 2. Make the country bitterly d...
[16:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:33] <exec> 08└─The NIH supports a lot of basic science, but the vast majority of drugs are discovered by pharmaceutical companies. http://blogs.sciencemag.org [sciencemag.org] http://www.nature.com [nature.com]
[16:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:35] <exec> 08└─I forget, does the US allow a new patent for a new use of an existing drug? If so, that's pretty messed up. The other possible reason is market failure, but that's not something you'd fix by wiping out patents.
[16:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota Partner Tests Flying "Car"; It Crashed - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:47] <exec> 08└─4 Rotors Should Be Enough For Everybody.
[16:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota Partner Tests Flying "Car"; It Crashed - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:49] <exec> 08└─I would feel more comfortable with lighter-than-air craft that wouldn't catastrophically plummet to the ground if they lost power.
[16:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota Partner Tests Flying "Car"; It Crashed - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:51] <exec> 08└─That looks like an overfunded high school club project rather than the product of "30 engineers". Have to wonder what kind of engineers they are -- software, perhaps. They must have just abstracted away weight vs lift.
[16:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cryptocurrencies Hit $100 Billion Market Cap - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:19] <exec> 08└─calling a web blog a magazine
[16:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cryptocurrencies Hit $100 Billion Market Cap - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:21] <exec> 08└─You misread that statement: Since the Bitfinex hack low on August 2, bitcoin has traded better than JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Tesla, Apple, Google and gold.
[16:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cryptocurrencies Hit $100 Billion Market Cap - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:23] <exec> 08└─Any advice on purchasing bitcoins or other virtual currency? It would be fun to sink a couple hundred bucks into speculative trading of these currencies, but I also am protective of my personal information so I am wary of dealing with the cryptocurrency sites.
[16:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cryptocurrencies Hit $100 Billion Market Cap - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:25] <exec> 08└─Don't be so confident. Speculative bubbles are a part of human nature, and with bitcoins, nobody would step in if the market panics.
[16:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cryptocurrencies Hit $100 Billion Market Cap - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:27] <exec> 08└─bitsquare
[16:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cryptocurrencies Hit $100 Billion Market Cap - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:29] <exec> 08└─This AC already pointed that out [soylentnews.org] over an hour before you did.
[16:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cryptocurrencies Hit $100 Billion Market Cap - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:32] <exec> 08└─The exchange will occur in the black market, because people with dollars also want to do illicit stuff. Bitcoin can simply facilitates a huge portion of the black market—perhaps even in a closed-loop fashion that doesn't require converting to dollars, anyway! Money means nothing; it's the human ac...
[16:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cryptocurrencies Hit $100 Billion Market Cap - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:34] <exec> 08└─How can you not perceive the irrelevance of your comment?
[16:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon is Forced to Fix 15,000 “Double Poles” and Other Network Problems - 842 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:48] <exec> 08└─I'm in SE PA and I see these cut hanging poles and other similar things and wondered how/why. Gives me a cynical but sad chuckle. Years ago a very wise insightful friend of mine suggested that all utility poles, wires, etc., should be owned and maintained by a publicly owned non-profit that would be...
[16:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon is Forced to Fix 15,000 “Double Poles” and Other Network Problems - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:50] <exec> 08└─PA is a sadly backward state. ... We're rife with idiots. I hate to break it to you, but your state is nothing special in this regard. This whole nation is rife with idiots and backwards states.
[16:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 1482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:22] <exec> 08└─To be fair, Larry Summers was ousted for several reasons; he was already rather unpopular at Harvard and had other issues beyond the speech. And the reception of the speech [wikipedia.org] was oversimplified. It was widely reported that he was implying "women are dumber in science and math," but wha...
[16:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:23] <exec> 08└─Do you even know what free speech means in the context of our constitution?
[16:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:25] <exec> 08└─Was at a museum a while ago. Policy allowed photos, but (reasonably) no flash, and, surprizingly, no "posing". When another patron inquired as to the reason for the "no pose" policy, they responded that some young people engage in lewd and obscene behavior in public places, so they can photograph it...
[16:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:28] <exec> 08└─In this case it's both though. Which is to say, while the poster is virtue-signalling, *so is Harvard.* GP is completely right about Harvard's elitism, especially in the economic sense; how many of our greediest greedheads went to the Ivy Leagues, for example?
[16:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:30] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but while these stupid kids were, IMO, clearly deserving of losing their Harvard acceptance due to the nasty things they wrote, you can easily make enemies no matter what you write if it's political in the slightest. So to me, the real lesson here is to avoid stupid places like Facebook where...
[16:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:32] <exec> 08└─It's not the job of institutions like Harvard to educate young adult in basic manners. If they haven't learned that by age 18, then they need to just start working a McJob because they're beyond hope for anything more advanced than stocking shelves or flipping burgers.
[16:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:34] <exec> 08└─The founders of the messaging group demanded that students post provocative memes in the main group chat to gain admittance to the smaller group
[16:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:36] <exec> 08└─some young people engage in lewd and obscene behavior in public places, so they can photograph it and post it to social media First 1984, now Brave new World got real. I wonder if they were works of fiction or instruction manuals hidden in plain sight.
[16:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:39] <exec> 08└─> What happened to "its a private business..." It got a squiggly red line under it.
[16:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sourcery42 [6400] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:41] <exec> 08└─Bingo. This has nothing to do with First Amendment rights. These kids were being assholes, and they got shown to the door. They could probably be assholes all they want, except they shouted it into the big megaphone for stupid that is social media.
[16:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 1476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:43] <exec> 08└─It's an interesting list of Ivies with movers and shakers. For example, among presidents, you have: Harvard - John Adams, John Q Adams, Rutherford B Hayes, Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, John F Kennedy, George W Bush, and Barack Obama. Of those, I'd say the Roosevelts were good, Jack Kennedy a...
[16:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:45] <exec> 08└─> Otherwise we'd have free flowing beer [...] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[16:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AAA: Tesla Owners Should Pay More for Insurance - 830 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:12] <exec> 08└─Yes, because my examples were about other parties gaming data to smear Tesla and its cars before. The NYT reporter was gaming the review, unaware that Tesla had put a black box in the car after they got burned by Top Gear doing the same thing. And PR companies specialize in hits like this. I don't k...
[16:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AAA: Tesla Owners Should Pay More for Insurance - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:13] <exec> 08└─Yup, car insurance is a much fairer game than health insurance. Significantly simpler for the consumer too, which makes comparison shopping much easier. The job of actuaries is to figure out the premium needed to cover the costs associated. If they are low, the company loses money, if they are high...
[16:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AAA: Tesla Owners Should Pay More for Insurance - 648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:15] <exec> 08└─Exactly, and when you follow their logic and say that a person driving a Tesla in the Pacific Northwest where hydroelectric is a much bigger share of the total is shifting less carbon accordingly, or in Iowa where wind is a bigger share of the total and shifting less carbon accordingly, isn't their...
[16:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AAA: Tesla Owners Should Pay More for Insurance - 970 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:18] <exec> 08└─As far as the insurance company is concerned, if it gives you fifteen minutes warning then bursts into flames or if you just barely escape before the whole thing explodes, the end result is the same -- your car is totaled and they have to pay for it. Failing *safe* doesn't necessarily make it cheape...
[16:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AAA: Tesla Owners Should Pay More for Insurance - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:20] <exec> 08└─"Among other things, it compares Model S and X to cars that are not remotely peers, including even a Volvo station wagon."
[16:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AAA: Tesla Owners Should Pay More for Insurance - 1489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:22] <exec> 08└─I strongly suspect the real reason is that Model S and X are aluminum intensive. Aluminum bodied cars are *much* more expensive to repair than the steel equivalent. Ask any premium car owner -- Jag, Audi have been early with aluminum, but it's everywhere now. Oh please, these sounds pretty overblown...
[16:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AAA: Tesla Owners Should Pay More for Insurance - 2255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:24] <exec> 08└─To be fair, I wasn't just responding to your initial post, but more directly to another parent post below yours that WOULD require some sort of collusion among insurance companies to work. Yes, in the process of replying there, I also made some comments you have related to your post, but I agree tha...
[16:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feds Arrest NSA Contractor in Leak of Top Secret Russia Document - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:54] <exec> 08└─1) Scan it in? 2) Run the scan through some kind of destructive color-reducing filter, i.e., reduce to 1-bit black and white? 3) Rotate, scale, transform, and otherwise distort the image some? 4) Knock out the EXIF data? 5) Save it as some kind of obfuscated file format? 6) Password protect it? I'm...
[16:40:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Aeronautics Books from NASA - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:08] <exec> 08└─Cool, another organization is bucking the instinct to hoard info as if it is gold. Way to go NASA!
[16:40:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Aeronautics Books from NASA - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:09] <exec> 08└─Curious about the readability of these: where to they sit in the spectrum between popular fiction and textbook? Looking through the list I'm interested in a few of them. Thanks for the article, this is a good source of ebooks.
[16:41:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Pitches Virtual Border Wall - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:09] <exec> 08└─You cannot cherry-pick which laws you want to obey. End of discussion.
[16:41:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Pitches Virtual Border Wall - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:11] <exec> 08└─The War on Drugs is fucking over. What do we need to worry about from Canada? The scourge of smuggled poutine and cheap pharma pills? Same with Mexico. Other than people, just what do we need to be concerned about? Cheaper parts and economic competition? That's more likely than a real threat to nati...
[16:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03oldmac31310 [4521] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Air Conditioning Changed the World - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:21] <exec> 08└─Totally agree. Moved office a few months ago and have had one cold after another. It's 60F outside and here I am wearing four layers just to be comfortable sitting at my desk. AC sucks.
[16:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03oldmac31310 [4521] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Air Conditioning Changed the World - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:22] <exec> 08└─Yeah. Bushels and pecks.
[16:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Antarctic Ice Rift Close to Calving, After Growing 17km in 6 Days - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:59] <exec> 08└─Now we're all experts who can gauge the significance of this
[16:44:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03oldmac31310 [4521] (Score: 1) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:28] <exec> 08└─Seriously, a few people die due to terrorist attacks every few years. Big deal. Sad indeed for family and friends of the the deceased, but really who else really gives a fuck? Surely various diseases are more of a concern. Traffic accidents? Terrorism is aptly named. It strikes fear into the mass po...
[16:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Ideas Are Getting Harder to Find - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:31] <exec> 08└─I was not clear enough. Let's say that guy builds a new kind of atomic bomb. Before he has even finished designing it, the armi and the secret services are already storming his lab. - "Hey stop I have to patent it!!" - "National security, lad, we get this and you get to work for us with a nice pay,...
[16:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Play or Flashcards? New Study Nods to More Rigorous Preschools - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:25] <exec> 08└─It doesn't actually follow. The fact is neither white or black kids are likely to climb very far out of poverty. Likewise, no matter how low their IQ, rich kids are not all that likely to find themselves poor later in life. Having parents able to give them a "small million dollar loan" has a lot to...
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[17:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:44] <exec> 08└─The Al Jazeera story says that ISIS claimed to have made the attack.
[17:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:46] <exec> 08└─This is a covfefe. No matter who losses, we win!
[17:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:21] <exec> 08└─Which is worse? 1. Can't get a drug because it is unaffordable 2. Can't get a drug because it was not developed Suffer either way. I remain unconvinced that the extreme and rapid rise of drug prices reflects the cost of research. Why do people in neighboring countries get the exact same drug for muc...
[17:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 921 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:22] <exec> 08└─Getting a generic medication approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as bioequivalent to the brand name requires certain red tape that Mylan (EpiPen) and Turing (Daraprim) are deliberately obstructing. From Wikipedia's article about the active ingredient in Daraprim [wikipedia.org] (...
[17:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:24] <exec> 08└─I hear you making an argument for public financing of research.
[17:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:27] <exec> 08└─Thanks
[17:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:29] <exec> 08└─Then you have a "regulatory capture" problem.
[17:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:31] <exec> 08└─Suffer either way.
[17:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:33] <exec> 08└─My understanding is that there isn't a good history of that getting results. I'm not opposed to the idea in principle though. I also support charitable drug-research. The Cancer Research UK charity does this, for instance. (I'm not certain of the details or how they manage patent issues.)
[17:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:35] <exec> 08└─Remember: don't interrupt your enemy when they're making a mistake. The only problem with this plan is that we all get to pay the price for his mistakes.
[17:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:38] <exec> 08└─How exactly are the drug company profits funding research at taxpayer supported universities? Or is it like when I was getting my comp sci degree where they bring in a bunch of companies and make you pay thousands of dollars to spend six months writing code for a private corporation after which they...
[17:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:40] <exec> 08└─If there are no patents, all drugs companies can manufacture all drugs equally well,
[17:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:42] <exec> 08└─Many companies do all they can to prevent their drugs from going generic because it eats at their profit. Less profit means less ROI, which means less investment/R&D. Lack of patent protection would make most companies drop their small molecule programs (that are easily copied) because they will not...
[17:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:44] <exec> 08└─What? Pharma companies invest in research. I'm not talking about the small amount of drugs research that's funded by the government. Or is it like when I was getting my comp sci degree
[17:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:46] <exec> 08└─I'm surprised that anyone here would bemoan the loss of the gatekeeper of ideas especially considering the entrenched view of patents and copyright amongst open sourcies, or at the very least, *nix users.
[17:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Toyota Partner Tests Flying "Car"; It Crashed - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:03] <exec> 08└─Why would you go to Statler Toyota for a hover conversion? It's a rip-off anyway. I recommend Goldie Wilson III. Prices as low as $39,999.95! Remember, keep 'em flying!
[17:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota Partner Tests Flying "Car"; It Crashed - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:04] <exec> 08└─Yes. That. Imagine millions of these things on the . . . er, above the road, and they only have a failure rate of 0.01 percent. What could possibly go wrong?
[17:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota Partner Tests Flying "Car"; It Crashed - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:06] <exec> 08└─Flight control software written for Arduino. Runs on Arduino emulator written in Python running in Linux on a virtual machine written in JavaScript running on a web browser [bellard.org] that happens to be Internet Explorer on Windows XP on VirtualBox on a Linux PC.
[17:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota Partner Tests Flying "Car"; It Crashed - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:08] <exec> 08└─Have you ever seen a hovercraft navigate a turn? There is a reason that hovercraft are typically used on wide open spaces.
[17:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cryptocurrencies Hit $100 Billion Market Cap - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:46] <exec> 08└─yeah cuz government(the biggest criminals of all) have really killed the price of drugs over the years with their "war on drugs". you bankster/government apologists are ridiculous slaves.
[17:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cryptocurrencies Hit $100 Billion Market Cap - 772 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:47] <exec> 08└─yeah, as oc(original commentor) above says, bitsquare. it's still in beta and setting up the funding (without banks, etc) and figuring out how to do a trade where your funds are protected seems a little daunting to me so far, but that's what i'm ultimately planning to use. if you just want to buy bt...
[17:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon is Forced to Fix 15,000 “Double Poles” and Other Network Problems - 719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:04] <exec> 08└─WTF? I'm not in the US, so maybe I just don't understand, but: the FCC? Why would a federal agency be regulating poles in local communities? Seems like that ought to be the job of the local utility commission (or whatever it's called). Keep it local, then the responsible officials are in reach of th...
[17:38:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 850 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:25] <exec> 08└─Special snowflakes rejoice, free speech is dead, victim to the right to not be offended. The established academia finally shows its ugly elitist face: not only it does nothing to stop the censorship against errr... conservative speakers, but now is directly and without shame involved in censorship....
[17:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:49] <exec> 08└─What does the world look like to you? A scary place where everyone judges you? Did you buy extra guns and ammo because Obummer was coming for your 2nd amendment? You really think Harvard administrative personnel got excited at a chance to kick in the teeth of some asshole students? Get real you fool...
[17:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:50] <exec> 08└─Which is why those immature punks were given the boot. That was your point right?
[17:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 882 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:52] <exec> 08└─It isn't 1984 or Brave New World until the government steps in. We're getting close though, the whole "no dancing" bit at our monuments was a big clue. I think we're losing sight of what freedoms really mean. It isn't a right to do anything and everything, and it is actually a good thing for us to e...
[17:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:55] <exec> 08└─And meanwhile, the President banning people from his Twitter necause they hurt his precious feelings is totally fine. [soylentnews.org]
[17:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:57] <exec> 08└─obummer was coming for our guns. he just couldn't get traction, even when smuggling guns via fast and furious(or whatever it was called) and getting border patrol agents killed. wtf are you talking about, jackass?
[17:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03wolfinator [3173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06AAA: Tesla Owners Should Pay More for Insurance - 2044 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:31] <exec> 08└─There's a lot of arguing about whether Teslas are unsafe, or if their drivers crash more, or if there's an insurance conspiracy to make the media undermine Teslas brilliant, revolutionary product that has no equal. I think this entire discussion thread is missing the more mundane, likely factor: Tes...
[17:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AAA: Tesla Owners Should Pay More for Insurance - 680 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:33] <exec> 08└─Oh, and the victims won't hear it coming. This isn't really true: EVs are just as loud as gas cars, at speeds over 20mph or so. Modern cars are already extremely quiet (unless you have some stupid muscle car, especially one with a modified exhaust system). Volvos in particular are very quiet. It's o...
[17:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AAA: Tesla Owners Should Pay More for Insurance - 1381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:35] <exec> 08└─I've done some of your work for you, since I'm legitimately curious about this story (which I guess I missed when it happened years ago). Here's Musk's account [tesla.com] and criticisms, including lots of graphs. Here's a point-by-point rebuttal [nytimes.com] by the reporter, including explanations...
[17:40:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Feds Arrest NSA Contractor in Leak of Top Secret Russia Document - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:06] <exec> 08└─Governments, especially law enforcement and spy agencies, are always tight lipped. Too tight lipped. Too worried about "loose lips sink ships", and covering their butts. Often "need to know" isn't enough to move them. Good thing we have the Freedom of Information Act. I view this latest incident wit...
[17:40:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feds Arrest NSA Contractor in Leak of Top Secret Russia Document - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:07] <exec> 08└─So: why did she pick this journailst?
[17:40:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feds Arrest NSA Contractor in Leak of Top Secret Russia Document - 1029 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:09] <exec> 08└─EFF's list is outdated. I use an OKI MC562w printer for office work, and it seems to use forensic markers as well. It ruins print jobs where you run a sheet through several times--the color builds up with each successive print until it is visible. We also have a Kyocera TASKalfa 3550ci multifunction...
[17:40:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Feds Arrest NSA Contractor in Leak of Top Secret Russia Document - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:12] <exec> 08└─yes, and i can see her hippy parents discussing/creating the name now...i'm sure a baby is a heavy dose indeed.
[17:40:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Aeronautics Books from NASA - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:27] <exec> 08└─Not much to comment unfortunately but these kind of posts are important and I will give it a try, specially the U2 one.
[17:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03rider_prider [5146] (Score: 1) 02 - 06DVA Scraps Home Grown EHR Systems, Opts For OTS Replacement - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:51] <exec> 08└─Important to note that nearly all 'modern' medical systems are based on the old MUMP's architecture, basically just closed source versions of the VA system. This is a lost opportunity for us all. If any system should be fully free and open source it's this.
[17:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03rider_prider [5146] (Score: 1) 02 - 06DVA Scraps Home Grown EHR Systems, Opts For OTS Replacement - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:53] <exec> 08└─"If every user has to log in as themselves - that will not, and has not eve worked, on any hospital system, ever" Actually unique logins for every user is fundamental to health systems, good clinical practice and most privacy legislation requires it.
[17:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DVA Scraps Home Grown EHR Systems, Opts For OTS Replacement - 921 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:55] <exec> 08└─yep, spending tax dollars on closed source should be illegal as you are using the people's money on something they won't own and therefore won't fully benefit from, while simultaneously lining the pockets of the dev/dev company. if you can't spend everyone's money on something that will benefit ever...
[17:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Air Conditioning Changed the World - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:45] <exec> 08└─It made it hotter, is what it did.
[17:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Air Conditioning Changed the World - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:46] <exec> 08└─Indeed. In regards to the Sun, that is why I mentioned it preemptively. What I was trying to suggest is; one can reduce the installation cost with a closed system dedicated to run AC only, dispensing of a grid-tie inverter and most of the battery storage. One can always choose to upgrade later.
[17:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Air Conditioning Changed the World - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:48] <exec> 08└─AC keeps making rude comments. I hate him too.
[17:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 2078 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:54] <exec> 08└─Some days ago I made a comment on SN which is similar to yours, about the nature of wars and what are legitimate targets in wars. I pointed out, like you do, that there is no distinction between so called legitimate and not legitimate targets in a war. Not legitimate targets of the victor will be de...
[17:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03dublet [2994] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 1418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:55] <exec> 08└─The problem with your argument is that (iii) isn't by definition a bad thing. Governments can borrow money rather cheaply and invest it in projects, which in turn increase income (i). This effect is called the fiscal multiplier [wikipedia.org]. It describes how doing (ii) actually can cause reduced...
[17:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:57] <exec> 08└─we caused this problem in the first place and/or didn't do our jobs so give us more power so we can fix it! how about fuck you?
[17:45:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Big Ideas Are Getting Harder to Find - 555 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:13] <exec> 08└─If you want to bend a socio-economic angle into the topic, it has always been hard for small-time inventors to be competitive with well resourced competitors (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philo_Farnsworth comes to mind, but even in Eli Whitney's day and before, those with resources could usually ou...
[17:45:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Big Ideas Are Getting Harder to Find - 879 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:25] <exec> 08└─FM radio, as a counter-cultural outlet, was credited with the shaping of the classic rock icons of the late 60s / early 70s. By 2001, the stations were "owned" to a point that John Lennon's "Imagine" was placed on a "Do Not Play" list following the September 11 attacks. The internet is even more "fr...
[17:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03terryk30 [1753] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Millimeter-Wave Technology Could Make Future Vehicles Much Safer - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:07] <exec> 08└─Or left-wing nutcases who think the Rupture is just around the corner? (Couldn't resist - FWIW I don't think believing the latter makes you the former...)
[17:48:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03terryk30 [1753] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Millimeter-Wave Technology Could Make Future Vehicles Much Safer - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:08] <exec> 08└─...but more seriously, if telecom systems are being confiscated, I suppose you may have to get creative with where you put that shortwave antenna. (I'm reminded of a movie of the Nazi era where they had a truck w. rotating directional antenna driving around a neighbourhood trying to find a transmitt...
[17:48:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Millimeter-Wave Technology Could Make Future Vehicles Much Safer - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:11] <exec> 08└─General ham radio screwing around, mostly. Just a much more exotic frequency band than, say, 20 meters band. Can I hear my transmitter sending morse code across the workbench... ok now how about across a field ... now from hilltop to hilltop some miles maybe? Its very much like mountain climbing, it...
[17:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Millimeter-Wave Technology Could Make Future Vehicles Much Safer - 1472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:13] <exec> 08└─Naw thats AM broadcast radio. More seriously there's corners of 20 meters and 80 meter sideband that are basically CB for all intents and purposes filled with nuts, but I don't hang out there (I escaped LOL). Ham radio is big, really big, so anyone who tells you its all about HF contesting or VHF pu...
[17:48:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06AMD GPU Supply Exhausted By Cryptocurrency Mining, AIBs Now Directly Advertising To Miners - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:49] <exec> 08└─Another option is to participate unprofitably.
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[18:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:50] <exec> 08└─Are you sure? It might be a bunch of Christian white supremacists!! Why would you be so quick to assume that DAESH is responsible? Just because they say so, doesn't make it so. /sarcasm
[18:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:51] <exec> 08└─So... Saudi Arabia, no? A shot across the bow for supporting Qatar?
[18:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:53] <exec> 08└─Well, stats are pretty clear that Americans kill Americans, Europeans kill Europeans, and Middle-East people kill each other. Statistically, a young Iranian raised in a Muslim family is likely the culprit of a crime in Tehran.
[18:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:56] <exec> 08└─Arms reaching out, in our prayers, stay strong! No? No sympathy or condemnations? So when terrorists attack a western country its all about sympathy and anger with very little critical thinking. When its the middle east suddenly the armchair experts are predicting why they did it? Lemme guess: they'...
[18:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:58] <exec> 08└─Time to put a transparent Iranian flag across my farcebook profile picture.
[18:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 1624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:00] <exec> 08└─Not surprising: ISIS claims responsibility for anything that could be remotely them. Among the tiny minority people in the Muslim world that like to pull this kind of stuff, this is great propaganda for them. ISIS, among other things, sees the Iranians as not Muslim, in no small part because Iran de...
[18:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:02] <exec> 08└─I just think it's interesting how we only ever cover murder-while-brown on this site. Within a few days three people were stabbed to death in on incident. Five people were shot to death in another incident. Which one did we cover?
[18:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:05] <exec> 08└─In the old days (peak W), we had proper terrorist suicide attacks, I'm telling you, with airplanes and lovingly crafted truck bombs ... Where's the worker pride and dignity in resorting to hammers, knives and driving vans into crowds? Get those those lazy millennials off my cloud!
[18:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:07] <exec> 08└─How about a burning one? Better yet one with a big red target superimposed over it.
[18:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:55] <exec> 08└─What? Pharma companies invest in research. I'm not talking about the small amount of drugs research that's funded by the government.
[18:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:56] <exec> 08└─Which is worse?
[18:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:58] <exec> 08└─public financing of research
[18:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 1331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:00] <exec> 08└─*cough* *cough* Holy shit! You're trying to kill us, aren't you? Surely, you are joking, and/or being sarcastic? Sorry, you sounded serious at first reading. Oh, WTF - serious answer, just in case you are serious. If "the industry" were to collapse, the world would probably be better off. If the ten...
[18:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:03] <exec> 08└─So, Big Pharma drops their R&D. We still have the universities. Even if the big corporations just cease and desist from all research and development, said R&D won't simply stop, for all time. No, it won't be the end of life as we know it.
[18:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:05] <exec> 08└─(1) Greed. (2) Broken market, particularly with various middlemen (insurers, pharmacies, etc.) negotiating prices rather than consumers comparing them. (3) Issues with generic approval (ensuring quality control for generics, additional testing required by FDA in some circumstances, etc.). (4) For le...
[18:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:07] <exec> 08└─431 unfilled positions? Sounds like the conservative ideal of small government! Don't bother trying to get rid of the departments /officially/, just don't fill the positions! No patents? No problem, let the free market reign! No regulation, lower taxes, MAGA!
[18:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:09] <exec> 08└─No, you can't "re-patent" the same drug. You *can* make modifications to that drug and/or the manufacturing process and patent that. Biologics are particularly prone to this sort of manipulation. For devices (such as EpiPens), you can also patent new modifications to the device.
[18:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 931 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:11] <exec> 08└─That bitterly divided bit? Don't blame that on Trump. It's been both parties, for the past 20 years, and more. Ask yourself, "When and why did the term "RINO" come into existence?" I can't say that one party is more guilty than the other, but I can most definitely say that MSM has been fanning the f...
[18:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:14] <exec> 08└─These aren't Jefferson's days. With a $40billion budget, I'm sure the state department can manage moving the workload to lower rank staffers.
[18:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota Partner Tests Flying "Car"; It Crashed - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:35] <exec> 08└─SUVs with knobby tires and Harleys with "special" pipes are not loud enough for you?
[18:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota Partner Tests Flying "Car"; It Crashed - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:36] <exec> 08└─I doubt it could ever exceed a 640k payload.
[18:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon is Forced to Fix 15,000 “Double Poles” and Other Network Problems - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:32] <exec> 08└─> Those have got to be heavy, one good windstorm and they're down That's the point. Don't fix them on regular budgets, fix them on emergency state/federal funding after a storm.
[18:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 790 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:24] <exec> 08└─These people were perhaps assholes and Harvard spared their existing students a lot of chagrin. But the point is that real-name social media where all official institutions scrutinize whatever people write at any time is not a good idea to express one self. Any communication there should have the fl...
[18:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 1356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:25] <exec> 08└─what he actually was arguing is that the standard deviations for men in cognitive tests tend to be larger, which leads the distribution for men to have longer "tails." While the difference in standard deviation is relatively small (a ratio of around 1.1), it makes a huge difference when you get out...
[18:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:27] <exec> 08└─>>One message "called the hypothetical hanging of a Mexican child 'piñata time'" while other messages quipped that "abusing children was sexually arousing," according to images of the chat described by the Crimson. itt: idiots post /b/ shit on facebook instead of /b/, somehow surprised when it gets...
[18:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:30] <exec> 08└─Didn't someone recently promise to drain those swamps?
[18:39:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06AAA: Tesla Owners Should Pay More for Insurance - 51 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:49] <exec> 08└─This article makes it sound like Teslas crash more.
[18:40:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feds Arrest NSA Contractor in Leak of Top Secret Russia Document - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:43] <exec> 08└─Just a little counter hint.. The image on a page is built up using a bitstream that is scanned onto the drum inside the laser. Now if that laser on/off controlled by a bitstream were to come from somewhere else then, viola the whole design is circumvented ;) I think the bitrate is in the 4.6 Mbit/s...
[18:40:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feds Arrest NSA Contractor in Leak of Top Secret Russia Document - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:45] <exec> 08└─Your method might still slip through watermarking.
[18:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Pitches Virtual Border Wall - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:04] <exec> 08└─If you were conservative, and not just anti-strawman-justice-warrior, you might be concerned about the massive expansion of federal government power required to set up a deportation force capable of tracking down and deporting 11 million people.
[18:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Pitches Virtual Border Wall - 3005 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:05] <exec> 08└─Uh, huh. Not so fast. This is why I don't like talking about border security, because the conversation instantly gets fucked with border usage. Immigration and trade tariffs are separate issues. I have the opinion, that if everyone coming into the country were tracked and given a visa of some kind,...
[18:43:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Air Conditioning Changed the World - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:25] <exec> 08└─There's something called the Einstein fridge which is entirely heat driven. Maybe that could be used to build a sun driven AC with very few if any intermediate steps and thus losses?
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[19:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:55] <exec> 08└─'Is Muslim, isn't Muslim'... Who the hell cares?! [thehindu.com]
[19:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:57] <exec> 08└─Within a few days three people were stabbed to death in on incident.
[19:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:59] <exec> 08└─Look, buddy, we know people who are ideologically in lock-step with you are killing americans every month. Your sarcasm is unwarranted.
[19:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:01] <exec> 08└─Police shootings have been covered quite a bit before, but I agree the trend on this site is the more politically divisive stories. The middle east is a bigger deal right now, the world is gearing up for WW3 so naturally people will be more interested in stories involving that area. Of course a lot...
[19:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 1, Redundant) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:03] <exec> 08└─What does this have to do with tech news?
[19:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 823 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:05] <exec> 08└─Another sucker sticks his nose out. Compare that /day rate to population size. Besides, using religion as a scapegoat is the #1 used strategy of all time. Who cares about a little racism and the murders of innocent locals, we need to be outraged about a problem that statistically does not matter for...
[19:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 886 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:08] <exec> 08└─"ISIS, among other things, sees the Iranians as not Muslim, in no small part because Iran declared ISIS not Muslim a long time ago and helped Iraq and Syria fight them in one of the most significant commitments of forces since the 1979 revolution." While it's no doubt true that ISIS see Shiite Irani...
[19:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:10] <exec> 08└─Do you feel better? Do we need to get you your own personal drone control unit? Let you go apply your big red target? /sarcasm Middle Eastern sponsored terrorism is horrible, but I don't see your Western terrorism being any better.
[19:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:12] <exec> 08└─It is either human nature, divisive propaganda tactics, or a mix of both. Not gonna stop, just filter out political stories and ignore the shitstorm.
[19:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:14] <exec> 08└─Besides, using religion as a scapegoat is the #1 used strategy of all time. Who cares about a little racism and the murders of innocent locals, we need to be outraged about a problem that statistically does not matter for any locals outside the middle east.
[19:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:17] <exec> 08└─My experience is that convenience and military necessity tend to trump ideology in wartime. If the Iranians had been offering help to ISIS rather than their enemies, I'm pretty sure that ISIS would have found a way to be OK with Shiites. It's sort of like how between 1938 and 1948 in the US, the USS...
[19:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:19] <exec> 08└─Terrorists need technology to kill, and also to spread the news of their deeds. Without technology there would be no terrorism.
[19:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:21] <exec> 08└─Arms reaching out, in our prayers, stay strong!
[19:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 1029 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:23] <exec> 08└─Statistically you goof. Terrorist attacks are scary, but statistically you're more likely to die from just about anything else. You're pushing a narrative of fear and xenophobia unfounded in reality, my counter example of the Iraq War was to point out the hypocrisy and ignorance of your stance. It d...
[19:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:25] <exec> 08└─You appear to be the one with the preconceptions here
[19:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 776 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:24] <exec> 08└─"or if I see some concrete good come of it" Well, on the bright side, there are a lot of six and seven digit salaries that the government is not paying out. We might ponder the benefits of hamstringing government agencies. Agencies always try to grow. They push self aggrandizing statements and repor...
[19:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 1437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:25] <exec> 08└─I went and looked through the list provided by ourpublicservice.org. Trump is probably up there with the most Marxist president we have ever had. He seems to be keeping the functional people around but not appointing any management positions. I went through and looked up some of the positions on wik...
[19:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:27] <exec> 08└─Yeah... you do realise patents are how they make money, right?
[19:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:30] <exec> 08└─Ask yourself, "When and why did the term "RINO" come into existence?" I can't say that one party is more guilty than the other,
[19:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:32] <exec> 08└─Reminder: patents expire. That's central to the whole market model. Without patents, the drugs would simply never have been discovered in the first place. So no, your two options aren't even close to equivalent.
[19:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:34] <exec> 08└─Ask yourself, "When and why did the term "RINO" come into existence?"
[19:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toyota Partner Tests Flying "Car"; It Crashed - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:56] <exec> 08└─...and if all of that wasn't annoying enough, the voice of the car was Dr. Craig from "St. Elsewhere". [google.com] The 80s were weird. TeeVee was, and always will be, weird. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[19:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toyota Partner Tests Flying "Car"; It Crashed - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:58] <exec> 08└─If you look at the photos, however, you will notice that it has only 4 nacelles. The suggested dept. line was from the large-plexiglass-quadracopter-with-wheels dept. The editor's dept. line mentioned a thing with no wheels. (George's flying car collapsed into a briefcase which a human could carry w...
[19:38:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cryptocurrencies Hit $100 Billion Market Cap - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:37] <exec> 08└─> cause runaway inflation Great... as if one wasn't enough already.
[19:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cryptocurrencies Hit $100 Billion Market Cap - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:39] <exec> 08└─Additionally, in many cases, the person mining the bitcoin did not invest said electricity, or even computing resources. Ask big IT departments how many times they've found bitcoin mining software on machines. Like an idiot, instead of pocketing that extra computing power the landlord and boss pay f...
[19:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cryptocurrencies Hit $100 Billion Market Cap - 1150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:41] <exec> 08└─LocalBitcoins.com [localbitcoins.com] doesn't sell bitcoins, they simply pair up buyers and sellers. They don't have to collect your personal information, so you can make a throwaway email account and create an account. You can find highly rated sellers who will send you bitcoins in exchange for cas...
[19:39:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 1077 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:52] <exec> 08└─I can certainly agree that speech shouldn't be used to brand someone a terrible person or be cause for expulsion from a uni. If someone randomly posts something offensive on some random board to let off some steam, I personally can understand that (it's an anger release). But, the thing is you now h...
[19:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 1235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:53] <exec> 08└─That joke about Obama living in the *white* house and planting watermelon gardens goes from a groaner you share over beer with a few friends to let off some steam is now your daily routine. It degrades into a swamp of hate and anger. While I agree about this, I have to make a tangential comment abou...
[19:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jiro [3176] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:55] <exec> 08└─"It's a private business" just means that the private business's activity shouldn't be made illegal. It doesn't mean you can't complain about the private business. In fact, you're supposed to complain about the private business in order to put pressure on them. It's perfectly legal to sell bad-tasti...
[19:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:57] <exec> 08└─I would rather that they all shout it into a big megaphone. That makes them easier to identify. Like wearing brown shirt uniforms or black arm bands. I DON'T WANT them mixing in with normal people. People that commit violence and sexual assault first think these things and say these things. Let's ca...
[19:39:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:59] <exec> 08└─All the downmods on your post prove exactly who the real snowflakes are.
[19:40:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AAA: Tesla Owners Should Pay More for Insurance - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:37] <exec> 08└─Understanding anything is simple when you reduce it to a caricature
[19:40:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AAA: Tesla Owners Should Pay More for Insurance - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:38] <exec> 08└─*My* conspiracy theory goes like this: [some other conspiracy theory] their owners have deeper pockets. So they can make much more money [remainder of other conspiracy theory]
[19:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Pitches Virtual Border Wall - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:35] <exec> 08└─"But, you don't care what we think about what you think?" To clarify, I know it is pointless to debate things on web forums. No one ever changes his or her mind after such debates. It's just a form of amusement or a way to waste time. And with that in mind, I have more important things to do now.
[19:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03J053 [3532] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:04] <exec> 08└─But, as I recall (and I could well be wrong), all of the "terrorist" attacks in the UK for the past several years have been conducted by UK-born UK citizens. So, again, how is May's proposal going to help anything?
[19:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Ideas Are Getting Harder to Find - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:09] <exec> 08└─Citation needed. I seriously doubt *anyone* is actually making any new glam metal any more. Sure, you'll see old bands/musicians from past eras play concerts of their old stuff, or you might see cover bands playing someone's old stuff, but that doesn't count, just like doing "Hamlet" at your local c...
[19:49:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Millimeter-Wave Technology Could Make Future Vehicles Much Safer - 1846 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:17] <exec> 08└─So just what I suspected: there's zero practical application to this stuff (wire-bonding equipment), it's to support an entirely esoteric hobby. Not that there's anything wrong with that, just don't expect many other people to understand or care about it if they aren't already interested in the exac...
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[20:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dish Network Receives $280M Fine for Relentless Robocalling - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:41] <exec> 08└─The fact that the federal government is involved, and that the federal government's own solution didn't work very well, and that the result is a massive fine and court case, all proves that the entire communications system is a total fuckup. Thanks government.
[20:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dish Network Receives $280M Fine for Relentless Robocalling - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:43] <exec> 08└─The fine should have been ten times larger. 280 million is a pretty big number. It's kinda hard to picture 280 of anything. Just make it 2.8 billion, and it's easier to visualize. One billion, two billion, two point 8 billion. Keep things simple, alright? More seriously, I'm kinda curious how the ju...
[20:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dish Network Receives $280M Fine for Relentless Robocalling - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:45] <exec> 08└─Most likely $1 per phone call.
[20:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dish Network Receives $280M Fine for Relentless Robocalling - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:47] <exec> 08└─Dish is happy the robocalls didn't use copyrighted music, because the RIAA settles for a discounted $10k per call.
[20:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dish Network Receives $280M Fine for Relentless Robocalling - 721 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:49] <exec> 08└─No the true problem is that a communication system that does not give the destination of a call more control over who can call them than the originator of a call will not be acceptable anymore going forwards. I should be allowed at the protocol level to mark numbers/addresses/contacts/whatever I do...
[20:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dish Network Receives $280M Fine for Relentless Robocalling - 1064 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:52] <exec> 08└─Not necessarily larger. This is a good sign of the system working, and I've been telling people for years that the DNC works. 8 fucking years is a joke, and I think they should have only let them give out the rope to hang them for a year or so max. That part confuses and disappoints me, however ther...
[20:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:26] <exec> 08└─Statistically you goof. Terrorist attacks are scary, but statistically you're more likely to die from just about anything else. You're pushing a narrative of fear and xenophobia unfounded in reality
[20:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:27] <exec> 08└─Really? You are the one who thinks the guy in portland attacked those muslim women because bernie sanders told him to hate muslims. Putting the blame on sanders is like putting the blame on the chocolate bars the guy liked to eat. However there was another candidate with a message the guy really lik...
[20:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:29] <exec> 08└─Unwarranted, you say? Did you check with NCIS?
[20:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:31] <exec> 08└─Currently averaging around 60 islamist murders a day during this years ramadan. [CITATION NEEDED] Even assuming you're unsupported assertion is correct how does that compare to the US murder rate of 44 murders per day on all 365 days of the year? [reference.com] Keep in mind that only 1 per every 4-...
[20:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:34] <exec> 08└─Well clearly they're more about crime and politics than religion at a certain level. These are not a bunch of pious guys, and a bunch of pious guys would never build something like this, no matter what religion. But they can't just shrug off religious arguments like the USA could in the cold war - t...
[20:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:36] <exec> 08└─Unwarranted I say. Plenty of white supremacist terrorist fucks. And they're all pretty much the exact same kinda person as you, only more willing to take action. Your ideology sucks, runaway. It sucks so hard.
[20:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:38] <exec> 08└─"It was a war, not civilians being murdered while socialising during peace time." https://en.wikipedia.org It's possible to be murdered even when one is not socializing during peace time, btw.
[20:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:40] <exec> 08└─OK genius here is a list of random causes of death: Death by Police Auto Accident Airplane Crash Bathtub Slip and Fall Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Terrorism Now let's say I really wish to avoid being a statistic and I do some of the following: Not own a bathtub, I'm fine with showers Obey the fucking...
[20:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:43] <exec> 08└─Soylent News... is people!
[20:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:45] <exec> 08└─It's a Big Deal™. Here's an article you can comment on: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[20:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:47] <exec> 08└─I dunno, the bible and koran did a decent job for two thousand years.
[20:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 3460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:49] <exec> 08└─Its a hell of a stretch to extend all the way to domestic fracking natgas but not too far. The whole thing with Iran and Qatar is too complicated to summarize into less than a couple books. None the less... Iran and Qatar split 50:50 the biggest natgas deposit known on the planet. So they're economi...
[20:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:52] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_against_peace
[20:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:54] <exec> 08└─No, I never stated that
[20:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:56] <exec> 08└─Submit tech articles if you have them. I'd like to see more too, but there haven't been as many recently.
[20:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:58] <exec> 08└─[CITATION NEEDED]
[20:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:01] <exec> 08└─You should read your own source. https://en.wikipedia.org
[20:37:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03julian [6003] 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 95 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:28] <exec> 08└─This has fooled many people, sadly. Dems can't obstruct a nominee until he actually offers one.
[20:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:05] <exec> 08└─The parent did not say that companies could not make profits off of generics. There is generic epinephrine available, but the EpiPen brand has convinced people that it is worth paying a premium for.
[20:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 1672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:06] <exec> 08└─You're not listening, so it sounds like an indictment of one party, to you. How 'bout that DNC hack? Hillary and Wasserman-Schultz were "feeling the Bern", so they threw him under the bus. Dirty politics, and divisive as all hell. The whole point is, politics are dirty, neither party even attempts t...
[20:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 859 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:09] <exec> 08└─From just the other day: EpiPen manufacturer says Go fuck yourselves [gizmodo.com] The New York Times has a new article about the fact that prices for the live-saving allergy medication haven’t actually come down since last year [nytimes.com]. And the article has a rather strange way of describing...
[20:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:11] <exec> 08└─My point remains: without patents, the drugs would never have been discovered.
[20:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:13] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't. If those parasites can't find a way to compete in a real free market, they deserve to die and be replaced with those who could.
[20:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toyota Partner Tests Flying "Car"; It Crashed - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:38] <exec> 08└─The fuel (and pollution) costs of everyone flying 5 feet off the ground will far outweigh the costs of building roads.
[20:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon is Forced to Fix 15,000 “Double Poles” and Other Network Problems - 1931 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:38] <exec> 08└─I'm not an expert on legal history of that topic but the FCC totally regulates the hell our of our broadcasters and the earliest days of cable before cable-only networks were imagined, cable was like a shared antenna system so they somehow fell into regulating that. Think of the "must carry" rules a...
[20:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon is Forced to Fix 15,000 “Double Poles” and Other Network Problems - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:39] <exec> 08└─Why would a federal agency be regulating poles in local communities?
[20:40:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:38] <exec> 08└─it is actually a good thing for us to explore and discover the boundaries.
[20:40:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:40] <exec> 08└─Can universities reject people on the basis of sexual orientation? Vi vs Emacs? Tabs vs Spaces? Semicolons vs not semicolons?
[20:41:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AAA: Tesla Owners Should Pay More for Insurance - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:20] <exec> 08└─If people drive the super-safe car like they're in a demolition derby, crashing into every moving and stationary object they can find
[20:41:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AAA: Tesla Owners Should Pay More for Insurance - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:21] <exec> 08└─Drive it in France. Then you've got a nuclear-powered car. :-)
[20:41:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Feds Arrest NSA Contractor in Leak of Top Secret Russia Document - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:59] <exec> 08└─All that presumes the content itself isn't watermarked, like using interchangeable synonyms for unimportant words or punctuation like the use of the oxford comma or abberviations like use "will not" versus "won't."
[20:42:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Feds Arrest NSA Contractor in Leak of Top Secret Russia Document - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:00] <exec> 08└─I don't need a degree in clinical psychology to diagnose a narcissistic personality disorder in this one either. The fact idiots like this get security clearance is ridiculous.
[20:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Pitches Virtual Border Wall - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:21] <exec> 08└─You have a point in that the vast majority of the US-Mexico border is pretty desolate scrubland with minimal appeal and could be efficiently "patrolled" electronically. In fact you'd have to do the same thing with a wall anyway, since ladders exist. (Yeah, you can't drive across a wall so well, but...
[20:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Antarctic Ice Rift Close to Calving, After Growing 17km in 6 Days - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:16] <exec> 08└─Exactly! So let's repeat this experiment on at least 10,000 Earths first, and determine a baseline incidence rate before we jump to any conclusions!
[20:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Repeats Calls to Limit Encryption, End Internet "Safe Spaces" - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:50] <exec> 08└─The GP intended to write one million of courses, but got bored after the first two.
[20:47:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03lcall [4611] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Big Ideas Are Getting Harder to Find - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:56] <exec> 08└─Good point; thanks. I'll raise the priority of this in my todos.
[20:47:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03lcall [4611] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Big Ideas Are Getting Harder to Find - 1402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:57] <exec> 08└─Thanks again for the comments. organization) Are you basically saying take some of the text from this page (from top, click: About or "More about", then the first link "Features, limitations, internals", or to go directly): http://onemodel.org [onemodel.org] ...and...
[20:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03lcall [4611] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Big Ideas Are Getting Harder to Find - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:59] <exec> 08└─It would be convenient for me but of course not required, to move the discussion to the OM discussion mailing list. Either way, the announcements list is low-volume if interested in future developments: http://onemodel.org [onemodel.org]
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[21:35:29] <exec> 08└─Is this now the buzzard whiny little bitchfest site? He's graduated from passive-aggressive submissions to outright, "I'm so studly, everybody else is just a bunch of pansies." We get it, you are a dick who can't make friends, stop trying to turn it into some sort of virtue. And you wonder why nobod...
[21:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:30] <exec> 08└─i bet this is TMB trolling himself as AC just so that he can come back with a snappy retort.
[21:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:32] <exec> 08└─"Employees join companies, but leave managers."
[21:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03lgsoynews [1235] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:35] <exec> 08└─who here has never held a job where someone on staff was a dickhead/bitch but you kept on working anyway?
[21:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 2308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:37] <exec> 08└─Three problems with the study / analysis The first is its Github which is politically unreliable. You won't find any weirder politics anywhere in FOSS. Its like mistakenly thinking some nutcases at "Evergreen College" represent a generation. Or for that matter, thinking "Heavens Gate" nuts represent...
[21:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 1) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:39] <exec> 08└─These are OSS projects, why would volunteer labor put up with ANY "personality" issues. Why would you expect them to? If it stops being fun, you stop, seems pretty simple.
[21:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dish Network Receives $280M Fine for Relentless Robocalling - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:52] <exec> 08└─What is wrong with you people?
[21:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:44] <exec> 08└─[CITATION STILL NEEDED] A random jpeg also making an unsupported assertion is not a citation.
[21:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:45] <exec> 08└─Ah, literalism! The last refuge of the online coward: I never said that I just implied it by citing this totally unrelated fact right in the middle of saying the attacks weren't racist.
[21:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:47] <exec> 08└─We all know the story, that resolution was never anything but a pretext and veil of legitimacy. The US and UK lied to get it passed, were never sanctioned and likely never will be.
[21:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:49] <exec> 08└─A random jpeg also making an unsupported assertion is not a citation. you're unsupported assertion
[21:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:52] <exec> 08└─Haven't you been paying attention? The pepes memed don the con into the whitehouse. Jpegs are more powerful and authoritative than any other source in the world. The entire freakin world!#$!%!! Respect my jpeg's authoritay!!!
[21:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:54] <exec> 08└─Its a hell of a stretch to extend all the way to domestic fracking natgas but not too far.
[21:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:04] <exec> 08└─Open Source cannot exist without copyright.
[21:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:05] <exec> 08└─This isn't Congress, where you have to hold a new election and your state isn't represented in votes until you do. This is the executive branch. What happens when #1 dies? #2 is in charge until a new #1 is appointed.
[21:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:08] <exec> 08└─Academic drug discoveries from 1998-2007: 14 out of 117 “standard” small molecules that don’t have drug-company fingerprints on their original discovery
[21:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota Partner Tests Flying "Car"; It Crashed - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:33] <exec> 08└─3D commuter vehicles are perhaps the best argument ever for self-driving vehicles. The type of vehicle in the article will have very limited battery life and require reliable planning to ensure that nobody runs out of juice at 500 feet AGL. That alone is a sufficient argument for me to say that your...
[21:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota Partner Tests Flying "Car"; It Crashed - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:35] <exec> 08└─Don't forget the Dukes of Hazard influence on "TV car shows" that lasted well into the conceptual formation of Knight Rider... The censors may have been confused thinking that the mechanic was sister Daisy or something.
[21:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon is Forced to Fix 15,000 “Double Poles” and Other Network Problems - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:37] <exec> 08└─I suppose that would include substations, switchgear, etc. The only trouble I see is: how to incentivize them to be proactive in maintenance to reduce long-term costs.
[21:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon is Forced to Fix 15,000 “Double Poles” and Other Network Problems - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:38] <exec> 08└─2. Localities are often underfunded and/or seriously corrupt, and thus unable to spend any resources on relatively obscure areas of regulation.
[21:40:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:39] <exec> 08└─Pretty much. It's one of the best fruits so why not love it? There is a little background info here: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] What stands out is this line: Free blacks grew, ate, and sold watermelons, and the fruit became a symbol of freedom.[6]
[21:40:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:41] <exec> 08└─obummer was coming for our guns. he just couldn't get tractors
[21:40:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:43] <exec> 08└─Nobody has made any attempt whatsoever to prevent those ex-students from speaking nor to keep others from listening/rteading it. I suppose you also think it's an attack of free speech if you claim in an oral exam that Colombo discovered America in 1972 and you get an F? Free speech can be a two edge...
[21:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feds Arrest NSA Contractor in Leak of Top Secret Russia Document - 680 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:02] <exec> 08└─Reality Leigh Winner That has got to be some kind of name change gag, her parents can't have been that clueless. Wrong. People around that age have all kinds of weird and idiotic names these days. I've heard tons of them. There's absolutely something wrong with a large fraction of Americans in the 4...
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[22:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:44] <exec> 08└─Neutral article = lengthy commentary added Biased article = quip or nothing added I think I see the pattern
[22:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:45] <exec> 08└─I've heard github is bad, but its not that bad. Oh you mean work on projects hosted there. A little different. Seriously though I salute your obviously high level of self discipline, younger me for sure, or probably even present day me, would have had an uncontrollable urge to out do them at their o...
[22:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03SemperOSS [5072] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 1128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:47] <exec> 08└─I think The Mighty Buzzard have oversimplified this somewhat. Most people work best in a positive work environment and he may well find himself capable of working with difficult people, as do I, often working in government organisations, but it does not mean that there are not toxic environments. I...
[22:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 1326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:50] <exec> 08└─He is not joking in the slightest. He all but openly admits to being a sociopath, and he is a liar when certain "realities" are more convenient to whatever conversation thread he's in. Assholes are always trying to justify why they aren't the problem and ironically they are always the biggest snowfl...
[22:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 1738 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:52] <exec> 08└─I can spot more then two or three problems with the survey. That said I do agree with what you said. This is probably a horribly biased collection of data. The people responding are probably really skewed. One could download it but I seriously can't be arsed. Just from looking at the information the...
[22:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:54] <exec> 08└─(Yes I'm bitter, you cannot imagine how far things went, I could write a book on my experiences)
[22:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:56] <exec> 08└─Breaking this down by phrase makes it clearer: Most of the negative behaviour is explained as "rudeness", which has been experienced witnessed by 45 per cent of participants and experienced by 16 per cent. GitHub's summary of the survey says really nasty stuff like "sexual advances, stalking, or dox...
[22:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:58] <exec> 08└─True. But I also remember Linus being a raging, venomous tyrant at times, but people generally laughed it off as, you know, "Linus being Linus", especially since it was usually funny as hell. Maybe we're a bit thin-skinned now too? Maybe we need more Doctor House and less Doctor Phil? But most defin...
[22:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:00] <exec> 08└─It wasn't directed at me. But I didn't want to be associated with it. All the aged neckbeards on the newsgroup were quite cruel to the newbies. I moved to Debian but gave it up because of its self-righteousness. I left Ubuntu because of Unity. I'm presently using Mint with Cinnamon now. I don't like...
[22:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 1645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:03] <exec> 08└─No matter where you go, no matter what you do, there's always at least one angry/unpleasant/unstable/unbathed person. About ten years ago, I was on a contract at an organization, doing IT stuff (I'm being intentionally vague to protect both the guilty and the innocent). One of my colleagues was a li...
[22:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:05] <exec> 08└─When I was doing QA for MacTCP I wrote to the SNMP list and just asked them to "tell me about SNMP". Some right chap flamed me mercilessly, but after I pointed out that there was a human being at the other end of the Internet, he apologized and was quite helpful. What he angrily told me was that the...
[22:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:07] <exec> 08└─"Come on, who here has never held a job where someone on staff was a dickhead/bitch but you kept on working anyway?"
[22:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 2867 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:09] <exec> 08└─Low Barrier to entry. Having worked elsewhere in open source software (and closed mud developments) dating back to the 80s I can tell you the caustics were still there, but good staff would discipline them (IE you lose your submission privileges, we pull your code, etc etc.) However, where these sit...
[22:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:11] <exec> 08└─When I join a project, everybody else leaves. Then I compliain about how NOBODY DOES ANY WORK EXCEPT ME. Fuck Open Source. It's all shit, and you're all assholes. Fuck you fuckers.
[22:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 808 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:14] <exec> 08└─Now I take an entirely different conclusion than El Reg on this. To me this says that two or three percent of respondents have valid reason to bitch about bad behavior but a further eighteen or nineteen percent above that simply are not capable of working with other people. Come on, who here has nev...
[22:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 953 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:16] <exec> 08└─At the end of every day the owner would ask me to come into a closed room, where he would yell at me for a solid hour. I felt I really needed the work so I defended myself as best I could. But when he yelled at me in front of a coworker, I realized that this anger was due to him being alcoholic. On...
[22:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:18] <exec> 08└─when I was but a lowly QA engineer, our developer looked down upon me. He was good, but not so good that I couldn't find bugs in his code. One day I reported a bug to him, he said it was in my test tool. The next day I asked him down to the lab where I had stopped the machine debugger in the assembl...
[22:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:20] <exec> 08└─Master Troll, tell me about your mastery of trolling? Is it true you are secretly Eris Blaster? How many other blasters are you? Did you code MacTCP and MacIPX and MacAppleLocalPhaseTalk and are you that guy who gave stupid things stupid names like Finder and Chooser and So-Sue-Me?
[22:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:23] <exec> 08└─Nah, I can definetly say that my time working at a multinational bank was inspired by a decent manager, but I left because the corporation was basically a constant stream of shitty policies.
[22:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 1004 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:25] <exec> 08└─"He's the bad cop. I'm the good cop." Why Brian Lazara is an ignorant mother fucker - a synopsis [warplife.com]The Ethical Engineer [warplife.com]Hilarity Ensues [warplife.com] (You'll need to scroll down quite a bit as the formatting is all fucked up.) Two of those essays resulted in a seventeen pa...
[22:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:27] <exec> 08└─True. But I also remember Linus being a raging, venomous tyrant at times, but people generally laughed it off as, you know, "Linus being Linus",
[22:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:29] <exec> 08└─You missed the point as usual. The important skill is backstabbing. You're just lucky the idiot developer didn't have you fired for being uppity. Obviously he was as much a loser as you. You're both beta cucks and what you needed was for a strong female to fire both of you for being cucks.
[22:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:31] <exec> 08└─Quit your whining you motherfucking piece of shit and check your goddamned motherfucking privilege. You are successful despite being: (1) Old (2) Bald (3) White (4) Male (5) Crazy (6) American Any one of those traits is a fucking death sentence in America. Fuck you Michael Motherfucker Crawfucker. T...
[22:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:34] <exec> 08└─What "power"? The volunteer holds all the power. Unless emotionally defective.
[22:36:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 443 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:59] <exec> 08└─Arms reaching out, in our prayers, stay strong! No? No sympathy or condemnations? So when terrorists attack a western country its all about sympathy and anger with very little critical thinking. When its the middle east suddenly the armchair experts are predicting why they did it? Lemme guess: they'...
[22:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pax [5056] (Score: 0, Redundant) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:44] <exec> 08└─seeing as how suicide bombers first exploded onto the scene* IN Iran and then exported worldwide and now it's finally bounced back on them! *yeah.. shit pun and I meant it!
[22:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:45] <exec> 08└─[CITATION STILL NEEDED] That link does not support your claim. But, let's take this non-sequitur at face value. Last 30 Days - During this time period, there were 190 Islamic attacks in 27 countries, in which 1535 people were killed and 1806 injured. That's 51 per day. So, you need to combine 27 co...
[22:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:47] <exec> 08└─kill everyone? I'm all for a humanity culling, but the only you'll be safe is to kill absolutely everyone on the planet, except yourself. So it doesn't matter whether we like it, do YOU?
[22:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:50] <exec> 08└─Good point, can you point me to where you submitted an article on the subject?
[22:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota Partner Tests Flying "Car"; It Crashed - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:29] <exec> 08└─KITT was automatic transmission though.
[22:40:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cryptocurrencies Hit $100 Billion Market Cap - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:16] <exec> 08└─I guess that this is the creative economics people speaking in the article but does having 47.9% of all at $46.6 billion ever get the total over the $100 billion mark?
[22:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:43] <exec> 08└─Given the "(grin)" I'm not sure how much of this is serious.
[22:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:44] <exec> 08└─Magister, I find myself disappointed. What?... A serious and didacticist reply? To a tongue-in-cheek trolling post, using as much as I could the memes and reality distortion of right wing trolls? Inviting to a "honest debate" in the end? Really, that's all I could elicit from you? An as moralizing a...
[22:43:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feds Arrest NSA Contractor in Leak of Top Secret Russia Document - 1109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:05] <exec> 08└─The question I'm sure Trump is asking, if we have ANY vetting at all of people getting a classified clearance this obviously disturbed person should have been identified and prevented from being in the same building as classified info so what is wrong? At this point, we must purge the Intel communit...
[22:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hot Jupiter Exoplanet May Have a Comet-Like Tail - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:14] <exec> 08└─Haven't read the provided link - even ACs have principles (that spelled right?). But me guess: fat asses full of hot gas?
[22:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03tizan [3245] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Antarctic Ice Rift Close to Calving, After Growing 17km in 6 Days - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:24] <exec> 08└─Nope i donot believe in the simple thing... i was quoting a "reasonable" person that did not believe that global warming will have the predicted effect when she told me look at a glass of water and ice melting !
[22:49:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Play or Flashcards? New Study Nods to More Rigorous Preschools - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:59] <exec> 08└─Just because you have an ax to grind that is on topic, doesn't mean you should go about building straw men on other folks posts.
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[23:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oregon City Approves Permit for US' First All-Wood High-Rise - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:31] <exec> 08└─People have been talking about this tech for a bit so why not try it and see if it actually works? I'm in a timber area too so anything that moves product sounds like a good idea. Trees are just a crop that takes a few years to grow. And if it doesn't work this building looks like it is destined to...
[23:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oregon City Approves Permit for US' First All-Wood High-Rise - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:32] <exec> 08└─To make CLT, lumber manufacturers align 2-by-4 boards in perpendicular layers and then glue them together like a giant sandwich before sliding the resulting panels into a massive press for drying.
[23:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oregon City Approves Permit for US' First All-Wood High-Rise - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:34] <exec> 08└─How flammable is it? How easily do people get out from the tenth floor in case of fire?
[23:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oregon City Approves Permit for US' First All-Wood High-Rise - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:37] <exec> 08└─You have to compare it to steel and concrete.
[23:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oregon City Approves Permit for US' First All-Wood High-Rise - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:39] <exec> 08└─They built (or are building for completion this year) a 14-story one in Norway. Overall it's starting to be a eco-friendly-trend up here in the north of the world. Considering that Oregon and Canada and such places are more or less on the same Longitude this probably makes sense all over. http://tre...
[23:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oregon City Approves Permit for US' First All-Wood High-Rise - 863 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:41] <exec> 08└─The Portland City Council had a meeting where they discussed whether they should permit relocating the Right2DreamToo homeless shelter to underneath an overpass in the Pearl District. Two or three hundred homeless people attended, many of us testifying in favor of the permit. R2D2 is run by the home...
[23:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oregon City Approves Permit for US' First All-Wood High-Rise - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:43] <exec> 08└─It's a laminate. When you say 'plywood' some people will object that that only means really cheap shitty laminates and shouldn't be used for good ones but meh. Yeah, a sort-of-plywood thing.
[23:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oregon City Approves Permit for US' First All-Wood High-Rise - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:45] <exec> 08└─there's far more homeless than there are shelter beds. The mayor instructed the police to avoid enforcing the camping ban, so now there's tents all over the city. I live in subsidized housing now. It enabled me to get quite a good job; I'm going to start paying my own rent in August.
[23:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oregon City Approves Permit for US' First All-Wood High-Rise - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:48] <exec> 08└─... what a CLT is?
[23:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oregon City Approves Permit for US' First All-Wood High-Rise - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:50] <exec> 08└─The article says the construction will meet fire codes (obviously) but doesn't really elaborate. I suspect evacuation will work pretty much the same as other buildings of this size, using fire-isolated stairwells.
[23:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oregon City Approves Permit for US' First All-Wood High-Rise - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:52] <exec> 08└─I'm in a timber area too so anything that moves product sounds like a good idea.
[23:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oregon City Approves Permit for US' First All-Wood High-Rise - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:54] <exec> 08└─Just because Home Depot mostly sells cheap plywood doesn't mean that this isn't plywood. Actually, you can get reasonable quality plywood at Home Depot. If Plywood is strong enough to make one of the fastest planes that the UK had during WWII [historynet.com], I expect a building can be constructed...
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[23:36:06] <exec> 08└─Three problems with the study / analysis The first is its Github which is politically unreliable. You won't find any weirder politics anywhere in FOSS. Its like mistakenly thinking some nutcases at "Evergreen College" represent a generation. Or for that matter, thinking "Heavens Gate" nuts represent...
[23:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:33] <exec> 08└─Our mod system is "everyone gets mod points". If that makes you unhappy, there are plenty of other venues that are all too happy to make sure yours is the only point of view; seek one of them.
[23:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:35] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I wasn't going for "grin and bear it" as much as "deal with it as appropriate but above all get the job done".
[23:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:37] <exec> 08└─It's a sound line of reasoning, I'll grant you. It just has been the exact opposite of the truth in my experience. Projects die far more quickly and pitifully when project maintainers start being social referees instead of code referees. YMMV of course.
[23:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:39] <exec> 08└─Small is beautiful. [wikipedia.org] Unix and FOSS are designed around small kernels and programs, written by individuals or small teams. Personality clashes? Technical justifications? Commercial \ Licensing interests? Fork it or write something modular and less bloated. We already have enough huge c...
[23:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:41] <exec> 08└─There sure are a lot of useless assholes who really hate this place but seem to be in no hurry to leave.
[23:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:43] <exec> 08└─I previously said that I did Quality Assurance for MacTCP. This involved debugging the original test tool then writing a new one, so no I didn't code MacTCP.
[23:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:46] <exec> 08└─I don't entirely agree. While on the surface open source developers can leave on a whim, in reality there are often unwritten social obligations which can keep us working hard on projects long after they ceased to be pleasant uses of ones time. In my case, this was about three years of the systemd f...
[23:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:48] <exec> 08└─My next job after MacTCP was Product Development Manager for Working Software.
[23:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:50] <exec> 08└─Filter Error: Comment too short
[23:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:52] <exec> 08└─Our mod system is "everyone gets mod points".
[23:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:55] <exec> 08└─You said two problems then listed three, nicely played. Anyway it's easy to spin. If "16% have experienced rudeness" that seems to me a shockingly low number, we should be asking how it's possible that 84% of any population has not experienced such a universal annoyance. Doubtless those are people t...
[23:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03lonehighway [956] (Score: 1) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:57] <exec> 08└─Yes, please write that book, I'd love to read it.
[23:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:59] <exec> 08└─Surely you can't be that naive? Did you miss the word "tyrant" in Geezer's post? Nothing gets into the mainline kernel tree that Linus does not want there. He doesn't micro-manage every check-in, but he's got the final say on anything he wants. He's got billions of dollars of social capital backing...
[23:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:01] <exec> 08└─Twist: And then you married his girlfriend.
[23:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:04] <exec> 08└─Projects die far more quickly and pitifully when project maintainers start being social referees instead of code referees.
[23:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:06] <exec> 08└─TMB, let's say for a moment you were not a upper management type of SN. You were simply a code monkey.
[23:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:22] <exec> 08└─As far as I care, you can turn the entire area into fused glass.
[23:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:24] <exec> 08└─That link does not support your claim.
[23:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:26] <exec> 08└─OK so you are saying the numbers are acceptable given the US homicide rate? Just out of curiosity, what would be an unacceptable level of Islamic terrorism for you?
[23:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:15] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but while these stupid kids were, IMO, clearly deserving of losing their Harvard acceptance due to the nasty things they wrote
[23:42:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:17] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but while these stupid kids were, IMO, clearly deserving of losing their Harvard acceptance due to the nasty things they wrote,
[23:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:19] <exec> 08└─Totally different from other "safe spaces" because this time its about freedom!!
[23:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:21] <exec> 08└─Why are we even using pseudoscience like IQ? We don't even understand intelligence, yet so many people believe that IQ is an accurate measurement of it. The social sciences tend to be nonsense and we should pay little attention to them until they clean up their act or on the very rare occasions when...
[23:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 951 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:23] <exec> 08└─http://pdfernhout.net/post-scarcity-princeton.html [pdfernhout.net] "Wikipedia. GNU/Linux. WordNet. Google. These things were not on the visible horizon to most of us even as little as twenty years ago. Now they have remade huge aspects of how we live. Are these free-to-the-user informational produc...
[23:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:26] <exec> 08└─Do you even know what free speech means in the context of our constitution?
[23:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:28] <exec> 08└─Schools where racism and sexism are embraced.
[23:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:30] <exec> 08└─In the real world, people get fired from jobs for what they post on social media.
[23:43:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Feds Arrest NSA Contractor in Leak of Top Secret Russia Document - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:51] <exec> 08└─... is there is less incentive to moderate if you know you get 25 yrs whether it is one document or a disk drive of them.
[23:45:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Roger Murdock [4897] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Pitches Virtual Border Wall - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:13] <exec> 08└─There are a number of legitimate methods to challenge bad laws, such as writing to your representatives, informing your fellow citizens of the downsides of such laws and protesting against them.
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