#comments | Logs for 2017-06-17

« return
[00:30:08] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[00:30:09] <exec> last cid = 526683
[00:31:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03McGruber [3038] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Acquires Whole Foods for $13.7 Billion - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:31:40] <exec> 08└─Even Amazon paid too much shopping at Whole Foods...
[00:31:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Acquires Whole Foods for $13.7 Billion - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:31:42] <exec> 08└─"Whole Foods employees murdered Jesus." That's at Portland's Pearl District store.
[00:31:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Acquires Whole Foods for $13.7 Billion - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:31:44] <exec> 08└─I thought I was joking when I resurrected the Amazonk Prometheans in the summary. Then I opened Google News a couple hours ago and found that this was the #1 top story, leading a group of related Whole Amazon Foods stories: People are worried Amazon will replace Whole Foods workers with robots [wash...
[00:31:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Acquires Whole Foods for $13.7 Billion - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:31:46] <exec> 08└─Where does Whole Foods have stores where minimum wage is 50 cents?
[00:31:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Acquires Whole Foods for $13.7 Billion - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:31:48] <exec> 08└─How many people live within drone reach of a Whole Foods?
[00:32:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wind Farms are Hardly the Bird Slayers They're Made Out to Be - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:05] <exec> 08└─Based on a sample size of one, chicken coops are responsible for an average of about 0.5 fatalities per chicken capacity per year, or a lifetime average of around 2 fatalities per chicken. We're working on a selective breeding program to develop a population of house sparrows with chicken-coop-avoid...
[00:32:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Wind Farms are Hardly the Bird Slayers They're Made Out to Be - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:07] <exec> 08└─This is just another example of Leftist hypocrites selectively being righteous for their own selfish needs. Allowing unfettered hordes of third-worlders is okay as long as they're not in their doorstep, but Earth-saving wind-farms are not okay [washingtontimes.com] even miles from their houses.
[00:32:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Wind Farms are Hardly the Bird Slayers They're Made Out to Be - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:09] <exec> 08└─Human fatalities? I believe it, those coops are full of mean motherfuckers and they can and will rip a young human or small animal to shreds.
[00:32:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wind Farms are Hardly the Bird Slayers They're Made Out to Be - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:11] <exec> 08└─Fried chicken.
[00:32:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wind Farms are Hardly the Bird Slayers They're Made Out to Be - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:13] <exec> 08└─What if we add a string or a cat treat or a cat treat suspended from a string?
[00:32:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada to Require Unlocking of All Phones - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:27] <exec> 08└─So will they stop locking phones to begin with and avoid the unlocking cost (which they will pass on to consumers)?
[00:33:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03noneof_theabove [6189] (Score: 1) 02 - 06President Trump Revises U.S. Policy Towards Cuba - 1834 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:05] <exec> 08└─Humans are "social" animals with the exceptions of lawyers, most politicians(R), and the Liar-in-Chief, they fall under "snakes". Evidently you failed human history and reading the bible. Capitalism is a creation of the USA especially having "extreme" in front of it. Up until a few hundred years ago...
[00:33:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Revises U.S. Policy Towards Cuba - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:06] <exec> 08└─Azuma's technique of "arguing" is just calling people idiots as loudly, rudely, and often as possible, so don't read too much into it.
[00:33:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Revises U.S. Policy Towards Cuba - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:09] <exec> 08└─Tell me what good capitalism has brought outside of the ultra rich being enriched which we have become and that is a oligarchy.
[00:33:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Revises U.S. Policy Towards Cuba - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:11] <exec> 08└─How many more decades do we have to try this before the jingoists admit it doesn't work?
[00:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Antibiotic Effective Against Drug-Resistant Bacteria - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:24] <exec> 08└─Maybe there is something to the urge that many kids have to eat some dirt?
[00:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:53] <exec> 08└─Well, i believe in investigating when there is an acusation: you know, someone says "there was a hack" and you say "oh, really... i better investigate to see if there is evidence to follow this up with". You go: 1. Find evidence: follow through with an investigation. 2. Find no evidence: don't follo...
[00:40:35] <exec> count new = 17
[00:40:35] <exec> count top = 0
[00:40:35] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[01:30:07] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[01:30:08] <exec> last cid = 526703
[01:31:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Navy Destroyer Collides With Container Vessel - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:31:51] <exec> 08└─There goes another boat driver and boat driver's assistants careers. As well as whomever was riding shotgun and was supposed to navigate. Possibly as well the stoned dude in the back seat who was supposed to look out for cops. Seriously, I'm waiting to hear how a modern destroyer can fail to notice...
[01:32:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Acquires Whole Foods for $13.7 Billion - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:32:04] <exec> 08└─Right here. Whole Foods is my neighborhood grocery store. Also my neighborhood cell tower is on the roof of the Whole Foods. I do most of my shopping in the next neighborhood over the river on the wrong side of the railroad tracks. Unless I'm feeling particularly lazy I don't shop at the Whole Foods...
[01:32:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Acquires Whole Foods for $13.7 Billion - 1015 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:32:06] <exec> 08└─That's why I won't buy anything at Amazon period. They kill mom & pop shops locally, have killed independent bookstores, and now want to do the same with grocery stores. I don't give a fuck how low the prices can be, it hurts American Workers every single time you buy anything from them. When, not i...
[01:32:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Acquires Whole Foods for $13.7 Billion - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:32:08] <exec> 08└─I went to Whole Foods once. I was triggered by the high prices and left. I went back another time to pick up some enoki mushrooms since I figured my chances of finding them elsewhere were nil. They didn't have a price for them and rang them up as some other mushrooms, at a very reasonable price per...
[01:32:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Acquires Whole Foods for $13.7 Billion - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:32:10] <exec> 08└─Elites don't like to shop amongst people flashing WIC and EBT cards.
[01:32:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Acquires Whole Foods for $13.7 Billion - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:32:12] <exec> 08└─Maybe Amazon will introduce its "take items off the shelves and walk out of the store" concept into all Whole Foods locations. You have to have an Amazon account and an expensive smart phone. If you don't have either of those, you get gassed or poison darted at the entrance.
[01:32:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03ese002 [5306] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wind Farms are Hardly the Bird Slayers They're Made Out to Be - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:32:35] <exec> 08└─Among other problems, the nuclear bird kills comes from two mismanaged uranium mines, except that one the mines is a copper mine and collisions with a cooling stack that is actually attached to a fossil fuel plant [atomicinsights.com] There are a lot of back and forth claims [biodiversivist.com] due...
[01:32:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wind Farms are Hardly the Bird Slayers They're Made Out to Be - 1518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:32:36] <exec> 08└─How many bald eagles did wind turbines kill today? They are an environmental & aesthetic disaster. Not only are wind farms disgusting looking, but even worse they are bad for people’s health. Wind farms are killing many thousands of birds. They make hunters look like nice people! Thousands of bird...
[01:32:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wind Farms are Hardly the Bird Slayers They're Made Out to Be - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:32:39] <exec> 08└─No, no, see, you strap a piece of toast to the cat's back butter-side-up, then tie a big fookin' magnet to it, then pick the cat up and let go of it when it's dead-center in the middle of the generator. Murphy's Law does the rest!
[01:32:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] 02 - 06Canada to Require Unlocking of All Phones - 41 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:32:51] <exec> 08└─Canada to Require Unlocking of All Phones
[01:32:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canada to Require Unlocking of All Phones - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:32:54] <exec> 08└─The former two because of the GPL, and the latter because fuck proprietary drivers. I could care less about the userspace, but being unable to rebuild the necessary drivers to use a piece of hardware on a non-proprietary operating system is ludicrous in this day and age.
[01:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Revises U.S. Policy Towards Cuba - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:37] <exec> 08└─Oh cry harder. I've learned not to engage in substantive discussion with the worst degenerates because they don't have anything to say and can't stay on topic, so all that's left to do is insult them. Got a problem with me? De-lurk and use your real name and we can discuss things, assuming you're ca...
[01:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Revises U.S. Policy Towards Cuba - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:39] <exec> 08└─You are being disingenuous as fuck and you know it. The last presidential election had nothing to do with SJWs and everything to do with the fact that Trump was running against the corrupt as fuck and ruthlessly competent Darth Clinton. Hillary is so rotten that even Donald Duck could have won again...
[01:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Revises U.S. Policy Towards Cuba - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:41] <exec> 08└─Absolutely, and I hear she's a serial killer, too. Smells like sulfur! We really dodged a bullet, I tell ya.
[01:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Antibiotic Effective Against Drug-Resistant Bacteria - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:55] <exec> 08└─I would not be surprised if the itch of teething was behind that. However, I remain convinced that all this concern over sanitation is overblown, and likely causing more harm than good for the same reason the anti-vaxxers are diluting "herd resistance" by introducing susceptible elements. I believe...
[01:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Polynesian People Used Binary Numbers 600 Years Ago - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:19] <exec> 08└─Help me out here...
[01:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Polynesian People Used Binary Numbers 600 Years Ago - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:20] <exec> 08└─That's it. Show's over. All of you who aren't direct descendants of 300-year-old French Polynesians and are currently using binary-based computer systems and internet need to GTFO right now or be called out, shamed, and doxxed for the crime of cultural appropriation. You have been warned, shitlords....
[01:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple's Tim Cook Confirms Self-Driving Car Plans - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:42] <exec> 08└─Seems like automated cars are the flavour of the day for all these tech companies. Should just focus on their core products and leave the bandwagon alone.
[01:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03J053 [3532] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advanced CIA Firmware Has Been Infecting Wi-Fi Routers for Years - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:25] <exec> 08└─One of the firmware builds listed (page 174 of the document) is: 16.7 Firmware Upgrade Procedures: Linksys WRT54GL v1 fw ddwrt_v24_sp1_std_generic_10011
[01:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:32] <exec> 08└─Fuck off and die in a fire
[01:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03J053 [3532] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:33] <exec> 08└─Just what in the actual fuck is the cause of the hardon so many on the right have for George Soros? OK, he started MoveOn.org - so what? He's just some moderately-wealty dude who has decided to spend some of his money on political advocacy, but to hear the righties tell it, he's a Nazi Collaborator...
[01:38:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03J053 [3532] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:35] <exec> 08└─The Speaker of the House is next in line after the Vice President.
[01:40:04] <exec> count new = 21
[01:40:05] <exec> count top = 1
[01:40:05] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[02:30:07] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[02:30:08] <exec> last cid = 526728
[02:31:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:31:53] <exec> 08└─Nobody would troll and on-line survey would the? Say it ain't so.....
[02:31:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:31:55] <exec> 08└─This... Sanitize your fucking inputs. Any survey which allows for self-selection sure as fuck isn't sound science. I might be biased.
[02:31:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:31:57] <exec> 08└─I say... bullshit! I don't place any level of confidence in the ability of surveyors to produce accurate results, as almost every survey I've seen is shown or evident to be totally false. Damn near every kid in America knows you can make chocolate milk with nesquik or chocolate syrup, and you're try...
[02:31:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:31:59] <exec> 08└─Sanitize your inputs my ass. 7% is enough to put Trump over HRC, and I firmly believe 7% of US voters think chocolate milk comes out of brown cows. / I should not have to say this // I did not vote for Trump /// Nor HRC, went Johnson. Fucking dumass he turned out to be.
[02:32:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:32:01] <exec> 08└─E. Ms Pac-Man ate the Easter Bunny
[02:32:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:32:04] <exec> 08└─You're reading it wrong. This is actually a surprising and relevant result. It tells us that only 7% of Americans are proper smartasses.
[02:32:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 1372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:32:06] <exec> 08└─Agreed. The number is nowhere near that low. I'd guess at least a quarter of American adults should believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows, based on other surveys of ignorance. Actually, reading some other arcles, I'm probably right, since 48% of people in this survey indicated they "don'...
[02:32:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:32:08] <exec> 08└─-- ( Y ) <---- Look, ass!
[02:32:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Navy Destroyer Collides With Container Vessel - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:32:18] <exec> 08└─How do you spell Schettino in American?
[02:32:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06U.S. Navy Destroyer Collides With Container Vessel - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:32:20] <exec> 08└─US Ship: Please divert your course 0.5 degrees to the south to avoid a collision. CND reply: Recommend you divert your course 15 degrees to the South to avoid a collision. US Ship: This is the Captain of a US Navy Ship. I say again, divert your course. CND reply: No. I say again, you divert YOUR cou...
[02:32:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Navy Destroyer Collides With Container Vessel - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:32:22] <exec> 08└─As per http://www.bbc.co.uk [bbc.co.uk]: currently 7 missing Also, nice picture there...
[02:32:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06U.S. Navy Destroyer Collides With Container Vessel - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:32:24] <exec> 08└─* [navy.mil]
[02:32:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06U.S. Navy Destroyer Collides With Container Vessel - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:32:27] <exec> 08└─There goes another boat driver and boat driver's assistants careers.
[02:32:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06U.S. Navy Destroyer Collides With Container Vessel - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:32:29] <exec> 08└─Also, nice picture there...
[02:32:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrpg [5708] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Navy Destroyer Collides With Container Vessel - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:32:31] <exec> 08└─The link in the parent comment says: The following is being transmitted around the Internet as an event that really took place, but it never happened. It is simply an old joke like those found in popular magazines:
[02:32:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06U.S. Navy Destroyer Collides With Container Vessel - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:32:33] <exec> 08└─Amidship-Starboard-on-navy to bow-port-on freighter. Head on approach, last minute turn, and someone made a bad decision. Glancing blow I'd guess.
[02:32:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrpg [5708] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Navy Destroyer Collides With Container Vessel - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:32:36] <exec> 08└─7th Fleet https://twitter.com [twitter.com]
[02:32:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Navy Destroyer Collides With Container Vessel - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:32:38] <exec> 08└─Yeah... This is gonna be a wee bit more than a Captain's Mast. Someone's getting six, six, and a kick - at best. Probably quite a few of 'em.
[02:32:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06U.S. Navy Destroyer Collides With Container Vessel - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:32:40] <exec> 08└─a U.S. Navy sailor who was reported missing and presumed dead after a search by the Navy, Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, and Japan's Coast Guard. He was found days later, hiding in one of the engine rooms.
[02:32:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Navy Destroyer Collides With Container Vessel - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:32:42] <exec> 08└─They were training navigating by the stars and everyone was looking up? ;) http://www.skyandtelescope.com [skyandtelescope.com] http://www.telegraph.co.uk
[02:32:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Navy Destroyer Collides With Container Vessel - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:32:45] <exec> 08└─The captain's career is done. The sailor hiding in the engine room will probably face court marshal for dereliction of duty. Probably the entire bridge crew is toast.
[02:32:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Navy Destroyer Collides With Container Vessel - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:32:47] <exec> 08└─I realize that a container ship has kilotons of momentum (and yes I also realize those are the wrong units), but isn't a Navy ship supposed to be tough enough to survive some attack damage?
[02:33:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Acquires Whole Foods for $13.7 Billion - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:04] <exec> 08└─You should be asking Where does Whole Foods have stores with flat roofs for drone landing pads. Amazon has no interest in dealing with walk in customers.
[02:33:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] 02 - 06Wind Farms are Hardly the Bird Slayers They're Made Out to Be - 1518 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:28] <exec> 08└─How many bald eagles did wind turbines kill today? They are an environmental & aesthetic disaster. Not only are wind farms disgusting looking, but even worse they are bad for people’s health. Wind farms are killing many thousands of birds. They make hunters look like nice people! Thousands of bird...
[02:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wind Farms are Hardly the Bird Slayers They're Made Out to Be - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:30] <exec> 08└─That just means that each house cat is equivalent to several Gigawatt hours of power generation. Power kitties!
[02:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wind Farms are Hardly the Bird Slayers They're Made Out to Be - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:33] <exec> 08└─I've always considered the bird kills to be a bogus story. I have a friend that does maintenance on turbines in Oklahoma, and he has never actually found and blade-kill near his rigs. He has found birds nesting in the nooks and carnies, because not all models are perfectly faired. I suspect the subs...
[02:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wind Farms are Hardly the Bird Slayers They're Made Out to Be - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:35] <exec> 08└─And they've got nothing on airports, especially since the "Sully" event.
[02:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wind Farms are Hardly the Bird Slayers They're Made Out to Be - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:37] <exec> 08└─Too lazy to read the article, but are they counting bird deaths from fossil fuel by poisoning? Acid rain, heavy metal broadcasting, habitat destruction for the coal strip mines, fly ash runoff into waterways, etc.? Windmills are right up-front about it - look around the base and count the dead birds...
[02:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Polynesian People Used Binary Numbers 600 Years Ago - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:15] <exec> 08└─So no, they didn't have binary. 0 has been a surprisingly illusive concept throughout history.
[02:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 062017 Brings Record Heat Waves - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:12] <exec> 08└─Regardless, the end result is the same. Climate changes are resulting in more frequent heat waves, and more frequent heat waves mean more dead people. The problem is the increase in heat waves, the increase in human deaths is simply trying to get people such as yourself to actually care.
[02:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 062017 Brings Record Heat Waves - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:13] <exec> 08└─You should send them an email to get clarification
[02:40:46] <exec> count new = 30
[02:40:46] <exec> count top = 1
[02:40:46] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[03:30:08] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[03:30:09] <exec> last cid = 526763
[03:31:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BAE Systems Sold Cyber-Surveillance Tools to Autocratic Regimes - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:31:42] <exec> 08└─The Evident system has also been sold to the Tunisian government (before the Arab Spring protests and successful ousting of longtime president Ben Ali in 2011), Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, Morocco and Algeria, whose governments have questionable human rights records.
[03:31:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:31:58] <exec> 08└─That saying came from somewhere. Tomatoes are red, ketchup is red. Cows are brown, milk is brown. 7% of Americans are WOKE!
[03:31:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:32:00] <exec> 08└─7 % of cows are brown. 7 % of the time you drink chocolate milk, it came from a brown cow.
[03:32:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:32:02] <exec> 08└─I don't place any level of confidence in the ability of surveyors to produce accurate results
[03:32:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:32:04] <exec> 08└─Most dairy cows are Holsteins though - which are black and white.
[03:32:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 943 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:32:06] <exec> 08└─It pains me to admit that I am, technically, a scientist. In my defense, I am retired. What I want to ask, is what happened to reporting that whole, you know, confidence level thing? And, of course, the methods for establishing confidence. I'd like to ask someone to reproduce this, but it's not gonn...
[03:32:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:32:09] <exec> 08└─I don't care for chocolate milk. What about strawberry milk?
[03:32:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:32:11] <exec> 08└─She was a pill munching slut, is what she was.
[03:32:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:32:13] <exec> 08└─Yup. I've had people, apparently intelligent people, ask me where duck eggs come from - like from special chickens? Lord knows what they'd have thought if I'd given them an emu or ostrich egg. I had one woman who confidently asserted that she had no problem with dairy, but could never eat veal. When...
[03:32:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 781 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:32:15] <exec> 08└─At that point he resolved to move to a more rural area and grow a lot of his own food in his garden and get away from the morons And need I point to all the polls about how many Americans believe in angels Your friend made the wrong move. The people believing in angels are much more concentrated in...
[03:32:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06U.S. Navy Destroyer Collides With Container Vessel - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:32:37] <exec> 08└─My guess its like hardening a tank to withstand a freight train.
[03:32:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Navy Destroyer Collides With Container Vessel - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:32:39] <exec> 08└─Could have been worse. At least it didn't sink.
[03:32:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Navy Destroyer Collides With Container Vessel - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:32:41] <exec> 08└─I found the comments in this article here very interesting: https://news.usni.org [usni.org] The consensus opinion is that the Navy ship was the giveway vessel (Merchant was on Destroyer's right) and thus Destroyer is at fault in th...
[03:32:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Navy Destroyer Collides With Container Vessel - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:32:43] <exec> 08└─I'm afraid this boat needs to hand in it's destroyer license.
[03:32:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Navy Destroyer Collides With Container Vessel - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:32:45] <exec> 08└─The sailor hiding in the engine room will probably face court marshal for dereliction of duty. That part's wrong. You're confusing this with a separate incident on the USS Shiloh.
[03:32:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Navy Destroyer Collides With Container Vessel - 1043 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:32:48] <exec> 08└─The commanding officer is (was) Cmdr. Bryce Benson, So not yet a full Captain. Even if they were going dark they should have had big radar hit. Also a container ship that size surely had an active AIS which would only require an open receiver on the destroyer. Not to mention a sound signal like 100...
[03:33:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Acquires Whole Foods for $13.7 Billion - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:06] <exec> 08└─Some 15-20 years ago a Whole Foods opened up in my neighborhood. I was both the buyer and the cook in my marriage, I went to Whole Foods and could not believe the prices. About 3 years ago they opened a store in Del Mar (San Diego north), went to it with a friend and was surprised with the prices. M...
[03:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada to Require Unlocking of All Phones - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:51] <exec> 08└─First line of the Summary: The CRTC will require all phones and other mobile devices to be sold unlocked So... yes.
[03:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Polynesian People Used Binary Numbers 600 Years Ago - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:14] <exec> 08└─Just because a system lacks zero doesn't mean it isn't binary (at least in terms of number base systems). Binary just implies based on powers of 2, like decimal implies based on powers of 10. In common parlance, people use decimal to also imply a place value system that has zero, but the Roman numer...
[03:35:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] 02 - 06Netflix Has More Subscribers Than Major Cable Providers in the U.S. - 587 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:26] <exec> 08└─Not a problem for the cable companies, now that we're losing our net freedom (that is, what is usually called "net neutrality"). Since most high speed internet users get their access via the cable companies, they'll just start inserting ads into the Netflix stream. Now the entire internet is cable t...
[03:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Has More Subscribers Than Major Cable Providers in the U.S. - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:07] <exec> 08└─Darn it, ran out of mod points upvoting Buzzard -- this is actually funnier.
[03:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Has More Subscribers Than Major Cable Providers in the U.S. - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:09] <exec> 08└─Netflix in my opinion, has reached a very fair balance between convenience for the user and desires of the content producers. The price is very modest -- $12 month and you can watch 4 different streams simultaneously on different devices and you can even download (at least some) stuff now for offlin...
[03:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ammonia On-Demand? Alternative Production Method for a Sustainable Future - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:27] <exec> 08└─Pee!
[03:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Advanced CIA Firmware Has Been Infecting Wi-Fi Routers for Years - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:25] <exec> 08└─So the practical effect (i.e. what actually matters here, not their intentions) of the FCC's rules was encouraging more proprietary junk? Good to know. At least there are still some options.
[03:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03sbgen [1302] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Brings Record Heat Waves - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:20] <exec> 08└─It appears India already has a sizable deficit. You have a sigmoidal curve - what does it say this deficit will be by 2050? What if you include the rate of population growth in it? I hope there is some data from IEA report about this, the one that you quote there.
[03:40:37] <exec> count new = 24
[03:40:37] <exec> count top = 1
[03:40:37] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[04:30:07] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[04:30:08] <exec> last cid = 526789
[04:31:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BAE Systems Sold Cyber-Surveillance Tools to Autocratic Regimes - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:31:55] <exec> 08└─no company thinks about what is RIGHT anymore. they gave up caring and figured its just time to cash in on the mass surveillance bullshit. been that way for decades, in fact; maybe longer. but the point is: we have stopped expecting our leaders to CARE about people and rights and even quality of lif...
[04:31:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BAE Systems Sold Cyber-Surveillance Tools to Autocratic Regimes - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:31:57] <exec> 08└─Humanity is a complex organism and there is no "really deep down" fundamental aspect. We embody a lot of values, it speaks more about the culture we've allowed to develop. We still have learning and growth to do, I'm trying to remain hopeful that we've laid a good ideological foundation with our con...
[04:31:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BAE Systems Sold Cyber-Surveillance Tools to Autocratic Regimes - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:31:59] <exec> 08└─quite telling about what humanity is really about, deep down.
[04:32:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:32:23] <exec> 08└─How did we get a Red and White Holstein population in North America when all of their imported ancestors were Black and White? [psu.edu] Feed them strawberry.
[04:32:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 976 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:32:25] <exec> 08└─Okay I can't believe there isn't some kind of trollery afoot right now. I shit you guys not, I just saw someone ranting about how trump voters are so stupid they'd think chocolate milk comes from brown cows. Before this article. I mean come on now. Do people think these americans buy the premixed ch...
[04:32:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:32:27] <exec> 08└─There's no point in listing the confidence interval in a country that has no confidence in science at all. Doesn't matter how tight the confidence is, people still won't believe it because scientists haven't completely nailed down absolutely every possible angle, including the ones that Alex Jones j...
[04:32:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:32:29] <exec> 08└─Do you know what "though" means? 93 % of cows can be non-brown.
[04:32:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:32:31] <exec> 08└─7 out of 100 people you see, with some slight variance but I don't have to account for that as I bet they didn't, will believe chocolate milk comes from brown cows.
[04:32:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:32:33] <exec> 08└─I think properly surveying is hard, but a competent surveying company is quite able to produce accurate(ish) results, or they would be out of business by now.
[04:32:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:32:35] <exec> 08└─We see it here every day, intelligent people searching for reasons to disbelieve science. I'm all for critical thinking, but confirmation bias is also a real problem.
[04:32:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:32:38] <exec> 08└─Go on? I am /technically/ a farmer. I have just about 1.5 acres of garden, a bit under 2000 acres of woodlot, and 400 acres of blueberries. Also, I have chickens - but they're assholes. I also didn't invite them. They come from the neighbor's farm and decided to live on my lawn. I built them a house...
[04:32:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:32:40] <exec> 08└─Suspicion: yet another internet attempt to make people believe everyone else is a total idiot and therefore democracy can never work. Seriously, stupid shit like this hammered over and over can create a widespread belief.
[04:32:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:32:42] <exec> 08└─I don't even care. I'll agree with their silly numbers. It's still bullshit! ;-) Ain't no way in hell - at least in my neighborhood - you can find even 1:100 people to say chocolate milk comes from brown cows. Trust me, you sure as hell don't want me to get started on my rant about the media and sci...
[04:32:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:32:44] <exec> 08└─I made another comment about how I suspect polls and clickbait articles are part of a larger propaganda campaign to discredit democracy because "everyone's an idiot so we need smart dictators that aren't impeded by morons."
[04:32:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:32:47] <exec> 08└─*can't* Stupid marijuana.
[04:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Navy Destroyer Collides With Container Vessel - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:15] <exec> 08└─She sure is peeing out a lot of water... rip a seam below the waterline?
[04:33:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Navy Destroyer Collides With Container Vessel - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:16] <exec> 08└─Judging by the amount of water coming from the destroyer's bilge pumps visible in the photos, it looks like the came close to sinking the thing....if those bilge pumps shut down, it looks like it just might do a Titanic on us.
[04:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Navy Destroyer Collides With Container Vessel - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:19] <exec> 08└─You know how accurate the news can be, esp. when it's a fresh story... story is Navy ship is damaged above and below waterline. Pics show huge damage midship, starboard side. If she was rammed by the container vessel, there will be a big hole below waterline. Somewhat recently someone discovered tha...
[04:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Navy Destroyer Collides With Container Vessel - 671 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:21] <exec> 08└─Not being a sailor, I had to decode your comment a bit. Here is the Wikipedia link [wikipedia.org] with a picture. In it the pink ship (here the Navy) was supposed to yield to the yellow (container) ship. The latter was not required to change course; probably it even couldn't do that in time, when i...
[04:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Acquires Whole Foods for $13.7 Billion - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:40] <exec> 08└─Which is why they have those grocery stores they built? https://www.usatoday.com [usatoday.com]
[04:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Acquires Whole Foods for $13.7 Billion - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:41] <exec> 08└─It depends what you're looking to buy. Most things they sell are grossly overpriced, but there are good deals to be had on things like bulk herbs if you're paying attention. The big problem they had was that they were asking more than the competition and weren't really giving anything that other sto...
[04:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wind Farms are Hardly the Bird Slayers They're Made Out to Be - 853 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:11] <exec> 08└─I RTFA and it didn't say how a nuke plant quietly sitting there emitting steam manages to kill more birds than spinning blades of death, it didn't even hint. We are expected to simply believe them because.... ???? They lie. They lie because it what they are. It is the core of the Prog personality. O...
[04:37:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03pTamok [3042] 02 - 06Advanced CIA Firmware Has Been Infecting Wi-Fi Routers for Years - 94 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:38] <exec> 08└─Unless they're exploiting something other than the OS itself, which seems almost impossible...
[04:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 062017 Brings Record Heat Waves - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:55] <exec> 08└─I do recall saying the key word "crude". But perhaps you could just tell me what the future will be, and then I can fit the model to that?
[04:40:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:15] <exec> 08└─"Leaks"... please. How does anybody know they aren't planted also? Sorry, until this stuff is thoroughly and publicly cross examined, we are getting nothing but hearsay.
[04:40:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:16] <exec> 08└─I read the whole thing and stand by what I said. This kind of bullshit happens all the time. It is a means of deflection.
[04:40:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 1505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:18] <exec> 08└─The weak point in manual counting, at least in a close election, are the absentee voters. We just had an election here in BC which was close to a statistical tie, takes 44 seats to clearly win, results on election day were 43-41-3 with one of those 41 winning by something like 8 votes. Lots of peopl...
[04:40:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:21] <exec> 08└─There's no need for all the emotional baggage. Use paper ballots and the problem is solved.
[04:41:21] <exec> count new = 27
[04:41:21] <exec> count top = 1
[04:41:21] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[05:30:07] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[05:30:08] <exec> last cid = 526817
[05:31:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Utah Facility Can Turn Food Waste into Enough Natural Gas to Power a Small City - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:31:46] <exec> 08└─... Mormons do not waste food, for it is a sin.
[05:31:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Utah Facility Can Turn Food Waste into Enough Natural Gas to Power a Small City - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:31:47] <exec> 08└─Hungry people starve to DEATH. Murka #1 forever.
[05:31:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Utah Facility Can Turn Food Waste into Enough Natural Gas to Power a Small City - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:31:50] <exec> 08└─From the farts of Latter Day Saints ariseth the doom of the realm of Tejas.
[05:32:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:32:36] <exec> 08└─Now we know, the Minty Broussard is in the Seven Percent! He just knows when chocolate milk is the result of too much blood and pus to pass as just plain milk.
[05:32:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:32:37] <exec> 08└─I gotta go fishing in the morning(ish). Otherwise, that's a good effort to get a KGIII rant. I don't usually get angry, but the state of science education makes me angry. However... Do NOT think that my anger is only directed at one side of the political spectrum. Yeah, I'm gonna stop now, take my o...
[05:32:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 936 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:32:40] <exec> 08└─Calves could be grown before slaughter. That would make them normal beef, not veal. Vegan farming is easy enough. Use a greenhouse. Use doors and air filters to keep out the pests. Done carefully, this also eliminates fungus and other pathogens. If you do the red/blue LED lighting, you can choose a...
[05:32:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:32:42] <exec> 08└─Oh, I get all your criticism and agree. A lot of these studies are crap from a stats standpoint. On the other hand, plenty of other studies over the years have shown the considerable ignorance of people about basic food source stuff. So this study sounds plausible, and even if it isn't accurate, oth...
[05:32:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06U.S. Navy Destroyer Collides With Container Vessel - 466 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:32:52] <exec> 08└─US Ship: Please divert your course 0.5 degrees to the south to avoid a collision. CND reply: Recommend you divert your course 15 degrees to the South to avoid a collision. US Ship: This is the Captain of a US Navy Ship. I say again, divert your course. CND reply: No. I say again, you divert YOUR cou...
[05:33:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Navy Destroyer Collides With Container Vessel - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:15] <exec> 08└─That name seems to have a curse [youtube.com] on it.
[05:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Acquires Whole Foods for $13.7 Billion - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:36] <exec> 08└─NB! remember that poison, the dart and the blowpipe HAVE all got to be Vegan Certified Organic. Next year's headline per Amazon's Master Plan: "Amazon buys ALDI". :)
[05:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wind Farms are Hardly the Bird Slayers They're Made Out to Be - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:07] <exec> 08└─Wind Farms are Hardly the Bird Slayers They're Made Out to Be
[05:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Has More Subscribers Than Major Cable Providers in the U.S. - 673 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:41] <exec> 08└─One of the excuses I heard for cable (in Oz) adding commercials was that a lot of their content was made in expectation of it. Hour long shows were less than 50 minutes and half hour shows were around 20. They wanted to keep in sync with the on-the-hour/half-hour program changes and needed something...
[05:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Has More Subscribers Than Major Cable Providers in the U.S. - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:43] <exec> 08└─In Oz there were 0 to 5 OTA channels depending on location. Almost anywhere cable rolled out it would have been at least 3 channels. Cable offered 30 or 40 more channels, as well as the OTA channels. When people say they were ad-free, they usually are not including the rebroadcast OTA channels.
[05:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Has More Subscribers Than Major Cable Providers in the U.S. - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:45] <exec> 08└─That they don't include them is hardly my fault. I don't think I'm to blame for that? I'm guilty of many things, but probably not that one.
[05:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Has More Subscribers Than Major Cable Providers in the U.S. - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:47] <exec> 08└─Gotcha covered.
[05:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Has More Subscribers Than Major Cable Providers in the U.S. - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:49] <exec> 08└─Not blaming you, just pointing out a miscommunication. At least, in Oz anyway. Although OTA is rebroadcast through the cable, it is almost never included as part of the discussion on cable content. The rebroadcasting is merely treated as an inprovement of OTA signal reception.
[05:40:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:22] <exec> 08└─Absence of the comma transforms meaning.
[05:41:03] <exec> count new = 16
[05:41:03] <exec> count top = 1
[05:41:03] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[06:30:08] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[06:30:08] <exec> last cid = 526836
[06:31:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Utah Facility Can Turn Food Waste into Enough Natural Gas to Power a Small City - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:31:55] <exec> 08└─I doubt it. Don't tell me the supermarkets don't have standards for size/shape of the produce they are buying for the farmers/agribusinesses. When was the last time you saw an odd shape cucumber, an apple with a scar from growing to close to branch or an oversized banana on the shelves? I can bet at...
[06:32:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:32:47] <exec> 08└─90+% of US dairy cows are holsteins, and I very much doubt that 70% of the rest are brown. More likely, of the 10% left, 7% are brown. Unless 70% of the remainder are brown, there is not a 7% likelihood of your chocolate milk coming from a brown cow. Also, due to the way distribution networks work,...
[06:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Navy Destroyer Collides With Container Vessel - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:21] <exec> 08└─Woooo.... I wasn't even thinking about that..... Likely we haven't seen hardly the start of the damage then. Given the damage seen above the waterline, I can only imagine the damage below the waterline ( to both vessels ). Sure explains the pee rate shown in the videos. Wonder why its not worse?
[06:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Navy Destroyer Collides With Container Vessel - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:22] <exec> 08└─As with the submarines routinely do hidding under other ships, the destroyer was hiding in the radar shadow of the container ship. So even if they royaly screwed up, no, didn't fail to notice the container vessel, just didn't react in time to some issue.
[06:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Navy Destroyer Collides With Container Vessel - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:24] <exec> 08└─Breaking news? Breaking ship. But pushed to the head of the queue ahead of all the fine articles submitted by Soylentils? Who is the editorial voice of SN? Please reveal yourself, and make it official, so we know what we are up against when we submit news that matters, as opposed to yet another US...
[06:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wind Farms are Hardly the Bird Slayers They're Made Out to Be - 2316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:18] <exec> 08└─Going off topic: This article makes a lot of assumptions, but I crunched numbers using only the numbers in the article. Americans own 84 million cats. 40 - 70 percent are allowed to go outside. 50 - 80 percent of those are actually hunters. 84M * 0.7 * 0.8 = 47.04M on the high end. 84M * 0.4 * 0.5 =...
[06:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Revises U.S. Policy Towards Cuba - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:19] <exec> 08└─just calling people idiots as loudly, rudely, and often as possible
[06:41:13] <exec> count new = 7
[06:41:13] <exec> count top = 0
[06:41:13] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[07:30:08] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[07:30:08] <exec> last cid = 526845
[07:31:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Utah Facility Can Turn Food Waste into Enough Natural Gas to Power a Small City - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:31:46] <exec> 08└─Do you miss the good old days when Grade F food was fed to niggers?
[07:31:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Utah Facility Can Turn Food Waste into Enough Natural Gas to Power a Small City - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:31:48] <exec> 08└─alas, not all tomatoes are square... http://sqtomato.com [sqtomato.com]
[07:31:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Utah Facility Can Turn Food Waste into Enough Natural Gas to Power a Small City - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:31:50] <exec> 08└─Sod off you fucking niggers.
[07:31:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Utah Facility Can Turn Food Waste into Enough Natural Gas to Power a Small City - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:31:52] <exec> 08└─Do you miss the good old days when Grade F food was fed to niggers?
[07:31:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Utah Facility Can Turn Food Waste into Enough Natural Gas to Power a Small City - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:31:54] <exec> 08└─The odd-shaped heirloom tomatoes taste better. Last summer was a good season for those on my veggie patch.
[07:31:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Utah Facility Can Turn Food Waste into Enough Natural Gas to Power a Small City - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:31:56] <exec> 08└─cherry tomatoes were most successful for us.
[07:32:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:32:48] <exec> 08└─[pedantic] actually they're much more concentrated in urban areas due to simple math, [/pedantic] your point is otherwise valid tho
[07:32:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:32:49] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I am really skeptical. I am a scientist, I guess. I'm really a mathematician who used the scientific method to model traffic. So, I admit I am biased with regards to the soft sciences. If someone has a link to the paper, I am more than happy to rip into it, as soon as I have the time. I'm goin...
[07:32:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:32:51] <exec> 08└─A chicken butt is a multipurpose hole called a cloaca. There will be a quiz.
[07:32:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06U.S. Navy Destroyer Collides With Container Vessel - 355 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:00] <exec> 08└─There goes another boat driver and boat driver's assistants careers. As well as whomever was riding shotgun and was supposed to navigate. Possibly as well the stoned dude in the back seat who was supposed to look out for cops. Seriously, I'm waiting to hear how a modern destroyer can fail to notice...
[07:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06U.S. Navy Destroyer Collides With Container Vessel - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:29] <exec> 08└─George W. Bush. Got a fine ship from the previous captain, ran it into the ground, fled but wasn't caught.
[07:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Navy Destroyer Collides With Container Vessel - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:30] <exec> 08└─Regardless of port and starboard, we can all agree that the captain who lets a navy ship get rammed by a freighter is at fault. Even if an evil terrorist freighter was chasing him intentionally, he should have dodged, given the manoeuvrability gap.
[07:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Navy Destroyer Collides With Container Vessel - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:32] <exec> 08└─If they sealed the watertight compartments, it will not sink even without pump (the shipyard would face some really tough questions if it did). But not sinking isn't the same as being seaworthy. It would limp to port or need help.
[07:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Has More Subscribers Than Major Cable Providers in the U.S. - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:06] <exec> 08└─I should have included the smiley face.
[07:40:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:40:41] <exec> 08└─another round of paranoid Americans feeding off of their own phychosis isn't all that implausible.
[07:41:22] <exec> count new = 14
[07:41:22] <exec> count top = 1
[07:41:22] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[08:30:08] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[08:30:09] <exec> last cid = 526862
[08:31:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Utah Facility Can Turn Food Waste into Enough Natural Gas to Power a Small City - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:32:00] <exec> 08└─So. Torn. On. This. Troll.
[08:32:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BAE Systems Sold Cyber-Surveillance Tools to Autocratic Regimes - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:32:11] <exec> 08└─While you are right, BAE Systems are arms manufacturers. They have no qualms in selling fighter jets etc. to known human rights abusers, so it doesn't really come as a shock that they would sell them surveillance equipment. What is sickening is that some western governments not only allow this to ha...
[08:32:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:32:56] <exec> 08└─To all those folks who think chocolate milk comes from brown cows: I have a cousin who'd like to sell you all a nice dish of mountain oysters, with a big loaf of sweetbread to serve it on.
[08:33:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06U.S. Navy Destroyer Collides With Container Vessel - 68 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:10] <exec> 08└─There goes another boat driver and boat driver's assistants careers.
[08:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Navy Destroyer Collides With Container Vessel - 2462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:37] <exec> 08└─Just to make sure... Facing ahead, use your thumb and pointer to make an L. L is your left side. It has four fingers. Port has four letters. Port is on your left. But, what I want to mention is that she will probably steam home under her own power. If not, they will send out a ship that can ballast...
[08:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Navy Destroyer Collides With Container Vessel - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:39] <exec> 08└─From the sources, can you opine on maritime law? I have a passing familiarity but am not qualified to speculate.
[08:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Revises U.S. Policy Towards Cuba - 1697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:33] <exec> 08└─They gave me an iPhone. I don't use it. I mean, my intern uses it. The iPhone is the best of the modern cyber, she tells me. But you have to be Einstein to figure it out. Complicated! And let me tell you, a lot, a lot of the modern cyber comes from China. The iPhone and a lot of the cyber. They're e...
[08:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Polynesian People Used Binary Numbers 600 Years Ago - 1011 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:16] <exec> 08└─Clearly they were simply mistranslating from the 2,000 year old Chinese... http://www.historyofinformation.com [historyofinformation.com] The crucial exchange began on 15 February 1701, when Leibniz wrote to Bouvet describing for his correspondent the principles of his binary ar...
[08:40:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:40:51] <exec> 08└─"Leaks"... please.
[08:40:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 1472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:40:52] <exec> 08└─Let me guess, absolutely no evidence of collusion with the Trump campaign or evidence that the Russian government had anything to do with this at all? Or wait, maybe the attacks originated from Putin's laptop which was revealed to be running Windows 7 without the latest updates (Only available in Wi...
[08:41:33] <exec> count new = 9
[08:41:33] <exec> count top = 1
[08:41:33] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[09:30:08] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[09:30:09] <exec> last cid = 526873
[09:32:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 1128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:32:51] <exec> 08└─From a mathematical point of view Online surveys are nothing. They are statistically non-significant What this online survey concluded is: 99.99900%: Don't know/ Not available / REF Refusal 0.00007%: think have answered that chocolate milk comes from brown cows 0.00093%: have answered that chocolate...
[09:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Navy Destroyer Collides With Container Vessel - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:33] <exec> 08└─Thanks, KGIII, I love it when Marines attain self-consciousness!
[09:34:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Common Joe [33] 02 - 06Wind Farms are Hardly the Bird Slayers They're Made Out to Be - 2316 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:26] <exec> 08└─Going off topic: This article makes a lot of assumptions, but I crunched numbers using only the numbers in the article. Americans own 84 million cats. 40 - 70 percent are allowed to go outside. 50 - 80 percent of those are actually hunters. 84M * 0.7 * 0.8 = 47.04M on the high end. 84M * 0.4 * 0.5 =...
[09:41:24] <exec> count new = 2
[09:41:24] <exec> count top = 1
[09:41:24] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[10:30:08] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[10:30:09] <exec> last cid = 526875
[10:32:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pax [5056] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:32:57] <exec> 08└─half of middle schoolers don't know that beef comes from cows or that pickles are cucumbers, etc. (A few years back I personally witnessed a member of my extended family come to the realization that pickles are cucumbers. She was 22 and had just completed college.
[10:32:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:32:58] <exec> 08└─Give that marketing manager a promotion; she just spun the new Leftist-pushed self-hating-American ideology into an effective advertisement.
[10:33:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:00] <exec> 08└─Yeah most of the people who actually think chocolate milk comes from brown cows probably couldn't answer online surveys for many reasons - e.g. can't figure out this "online stuff".
[10:33:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:03] <exec> 08└─Banana milkshake, on the other hand, is made by milking monkeys.
[10:33:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:05] <exec> 08└─Well, just add as first question: "Are you going to answer the following questions honestly?" All those who answer "No" to that are excluded from the statistics. :-)
[10:33:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:07] <exec> 08└─Sure, but is the banana milkshake that is made by milking monkeys made from the milk milked by the milking monkeys, or do the milking monkeys keep the milk they milk for themselves and use other milk to make their monkey-made banana milkshake?
[10:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Navy Destroyer Collides With Container Vessel - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:50] <exec> 08└─It will be interesting, in a sad way, to get to the bottom of why the could not avoid the collision. In 1998, M$ Windows caused a crusier to be dead in the water [gcn.com] and have to be towed back to port like a barge. If Vista10 or any of its predecessors were infecting the control systems of this...
[10:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wind Farms are Hardly the Bird Slayers They're Made Out to Be - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:45] <exec> 08└─I RTFA and it didn't say how a nuke plant quietly sitting there emitting steam manages to kill more birds than spinning blades of death, it didn't even hint. We are expected to simply believe them because.... ????
[10:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Antibiotic Effective Against Drug-Resistant Bacteria - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:02] <exec> 08└─Make the drug in another country and don't share the manufacturing engineering with anyone?
[10:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Advanced CIA Firmware Has Been Infecting Wi-Fi Routers for Years - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:47] <exec> 08└─I suddenly remember a joke from Neil Gaiman's American Gods: Q: How do you know the CIA had nothing to do with the Kennedy assassination? A: He's dead, ain't he?
[10:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Advanced CIA Firmware Has Been Infecting Wi-Fi Routers for Years - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:48] <exec> 08└─I think the term that the CIA prefers is "assets". They long referred to Osama bin Laden himself as such. And well, they managed to fund the Nicaraguan Contras with drug money, rather literal assets there.
[10:40:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 153 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:40:47] <exec> 08└─The afterlife switchboard just called, asking in which order you would like to take the calls of all the foreign ex-leaders eager to point out the irony.
[10:41:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:41:10] <exec> 08└─Weak point? Absentee/postal votes are a problem whether they are counted manually or electronic count. Electronic counting would make that problem even worse.
[10:41:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:41:12] <exec> 08└─You might have 10 counters producing 10 or more different results and more than 10 arguments and fights.
[10:41:52] <exec> count new = 13
[10:41:52] <exec> count top = 1
[10:41:52] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[11:30:08] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[11:30:09] <exec> last cid = 526898
[11:32:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Utah Facility Can Turn Food Waste into Enough Natural Gas to Power a Small City - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:32:04] <exec> 08└─Same here. Even some with a medium sized fruit, yellow variegated with green, went quite well too. The larger red ones got some rot onto the fruits, unfortunately.
[11:32:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 136 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:32:29] <exec> 08└─You're reading it wrong. This is actually a surprising and relevant result. It tells us that only 7% of Americans are proper smartasses.
[11:33:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:09] <exec> 08└─Well, just add as first question: "Are you going to answer the following questions honestly?" All those who answer "No" to that are excluded from the statistics. :-)
[11:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Navy Destroyer Collides With Container Vessel - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:53] <exec> 08└─Is it this conversation between a US naval ship vs Spanish authorities [youtube.com] ..? Dunno why the Spanish land won't move out of the way.. :-)
[11:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Acquires Whole Foods for $13.7 Billion - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:16] <exec> 08└─Why do I come to think of the German V-1 when you write that? ;-)
[11:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Acquires Whole Foods for $13.7 Billion - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:17] <exec> 08└─Northern California Olliver's Market and local shops is the place to go now that Whole Foods will be ruined?
[11:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wind Farms are Hardly the Bird Slayers They're Made Out to Be - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:51] <exec> 08└─Heavy metal broadcasting? How does "Back in Black" on my radio have anything to do with killing birds?
[11:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Revises U.S. Policy Towards Cuba - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:54] <exec> 08└─...if they actually are idiots, and they refuse to pay attention to that fact, rude and loud protestations are emphatically called for. I do not see a problem here...
[11:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Antibiotic Effective Against Drug-Resistant Bacteria - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:11] <exec> 08└─Which is why it's a good idea to clean your hands after dealing with pathogen exchanges like keypads, gas pumps, door knobs and handshaking. And another cleaning before handling food.
[11:41:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:25] <exec> 08└─So far none of it is admissible in a court of law. All these 'analysts' are still speculating. Bring it before the judge, and then we can talk. So far, the only real evidence is within the DNC correspondence itself (if there isn't some fake stuff inserted there as well). And so far, all the plausibl...
[11:42:05] <exec> count new = 9
[11:42:06] <exec> count top = 1
[11:42:06] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[12:30:08] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[12:30:09] <exec> last cid = 526914
[12:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 985 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:18] <exec> 08└─The spaghetti hoax was a BBC April Fools' Day joke from 1957. [youtube.com] It supposedly documented the spaghetti harvest in the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland. And, yes, the average person is as dumb as a bag of hammers. And that's just the middle of the bell curve - half of them are dumber...
[12:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:20] <exec> 08└─Elizabeth Beck is disgusting! Lawyer Elizabeth Beck did a terrible job against me, she lost (I even got legal fees). I loved beating her, she was easy. And she pulled out that pump to be disgusting, to pump out her disgusting milk from her disgusting lawyer boobs because she's disgusting. She's a lo...
[12:39:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advanced CIA Firmware Has Been Infecting Wi-Fi Routers for Years - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:06] <exec> 08└─The amount of stupidity in the general population is staggering. Not that it's news anymore.
[12:41:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:31] <exec> 08└─Doctor a document, classify it, leak it. Mission accomplished.
[12:42:11] <exec> count new = 4
[12:42:11] <exec> count top = 0
[12:42:12] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[13:30:08] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[13:30:09] <exec> last cid = 526937
[13:33:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:09] <exec> 08└─Is sweetbread a product of the Sugarloaf region? Enquiring minds want to know. Please provide a reference to an organ of the state.
[13:33:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:11] <exec> 08└─...but the media and public eat up pseudoscience.
[13:33:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:13] <exec> 08└─Europe might outdo the US on the cow colour topic: Quite a few apparently believe there are lilac cows, because market leader "Milka" runs those in their ads. :) Moooo!
[13:33:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:15] <exec> 08└─...yet another internet attempt to make people believe everyone else is a total idiot and therefore democracy can never work
[13:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:17] <exec> 08└─According to this [iqcomparisonsite.com], about 7 percent of the population has an IQ below 77. And that's the highest number in that cohort. So if you take a survey across the whole population including these people, of course about that percentage is going to believe wacky things. I'd be more inte...
[13:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:20] <exec> 08└─Actually, since my friend never lived in England, I don't think he was referring to the BBC hoax, but rather a derivative of it, like this commercial [youtube.com] which aired in the U.S. Although the commercial actually says that spaghetti does NOT actually grows on trees, lots of people apparently...
[13:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:22] <exec> 08└─To be fair, "sweetbread" is ambiguous. Generally two words or hyphenated, "sweet bread" can refer to stuff like "pan dulce" and other sweetened breads from the around the word. If you're referring to the glands, it's almost always "sweetbreads" with a final "s." No one would ever say "a big loaf of...
[13:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Navy Destroyer Collides With Container Vessel - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:06] <exec> 08└─I welcome a break from the Trump or large Silicon Valley company bullshit posts.
[13:35:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wind Farms are Hardly the Bird Slayers They're Made Out to Be - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:05] <exec> 08└─I almost stepped on one today
[13:35:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wind Farms are Hardly the Bird Slayers They're Made Out to Be - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:07] <exec> 08└─It's good that we have three studies contradicting years of known fact. Now comes the hard part. What is the truth?
[13:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ammonia On-Demand? Alternative Production Method for a Sustainable Future - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:12] <exec> 08└─random factoids gotten from the web - body expels excess nitrogen using pee - urea can be broken down into ammonia by bacteria - nitrogen, ammonia good for fertilizing - we dump the urea into the sea and use synthetic fertilizers instead (synthesis shits fluoride, which gets repurposed as dental aid...
[13:42:19] <exec> count new = 11
[13:42:19] <exec> count top = 0
[13:42:19] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[14:30:08] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[14:30:09] <exec> last cid = 526961
[14:33:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:14] <exec> 08└─Ahh, but if you average the color of a black and white cow, you get a brown cow. They were just overthinking it!
[14:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Navy Destroyer Collides With Container Vessel - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:01] <exec> 08└─Small correction, if I may. The damage is "forward". The boiler room is "midships", and the bridge is "forward". Thirty feet further forward, and the damage would be the starboard bow. Thirty to fifty feet further aft, the damage would have been to the boiler room. And, many ships have gone straight...
[14:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Navy Destroyer Collides With Container Vessel - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:03] <exec> 08└─If you look at the picture of the container ship, the bow bulb sticks way out in front of the visible damage above the waterline. That thing had to go somewhere and could well have punctured the hull.
[14:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Navy Destroyer Collides With Container Vessel - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:05] <exec> 08└─Amusing but I'm out of mod points. As to port/starbord, the trick I heard is to think of the phrase "the ship left port" -- port is on the left.
[14:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Navy Destroyer Collides With Container Vessel - 1498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:07] <exec> 08└─No. The US Navy, and most other navies, build a steel hull, with an aluminum superstructure. There are all sorts of benefits to this, but an aluminum superstructure isn't very tough at all. You can shoot through most of it with a high powered rifle. There isn't any part of it that won't be penetrate...
[14:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06U.S. Navy Destroyer Collides With Container Vessel - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:09] <exec> 08└─Sadly, I expect that some or all of the missing men will be found inside the flooded compartments, aboard ship. Someone may have gone overboard, can't rule that out, but if you're on the wrong side of the door in a confusing situation, you will stay on that side of the door when it is dogged down. S...
[14:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03number6 [1831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Navy Destroyer Collides With Container Vessel - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:11] <exec> 08└─"[is there any] red port [wine] left" "red port left" is extrapolated from the sentence and repeated ad infinitum until it sticks in your head. It becomes a fingertip mnemonic for the sailor to remember: Port is left and red, therefore Starboard is right and green.
[14:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 800 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:45] <exec> 08└─John Dowd, my lawyer for this -- great guy -- tells me that if I'm impeached, I still get to be President. I still get to sign executive orders, I still get to live in the White House, I still get to fly on Air Force One, I still get to send armadas, I still get to press the button. The red button o...
[14:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 968 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:46] <exec> 08└─Your choice of words is excellent. "I might find that" and "I don't think I'd agree". You seem to undertand perfectly that I was just throwing that out there for consideration. The one thing that almost makes the idea plausible, is the fact that MSM and the DNC seem to be obsessed with the idea of R...
[14:42:27] <exec> count new = 9
[14:42:27] <exec> count top = 0
[14:42:27] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[15:30:08] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[15:30:09] <exec> last cid = 526985
[15:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:20] <exec> 08└─in the famous words of picard:"make it so!"
[15:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Navy Destroyer Collides With Container Vessel - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:13] <exec> 08└─I would love to see the utube video - ship crashes are f'n awesome to watch!
[15:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Navy Destroyer Collides With Container Vessel - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:15] <exec> 08└─Just you watch, in the end it will turn out that the collision occurred because Trump ordered the Navy to never yield, and the cargo ship didn't change course because the Captain was on Facebook.
[15:34:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03McGruber [3038] 02 - 06Amazon Acquires Whole Foods for $13.7 Billion - 52 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:23] <exec> 08└─Even Amazon paid too much shopping at Whole Foods...
[15:34:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Wind Farms are Hardly the Bird Slayers They're Made Out to Be - 386 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:51] <exec> 08└─Other major contributors to bird death include: - cats - pesticides - skyscrapers with reflective windows - starvation - cold It was always a nonsense argument used by fossil fuel corporate spokesweasels to try to peel away the "Oh the poor animals!" environmentalists from the anti-fossil fuel effor...
[15:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Has More Subscribers Than Major Cable Providers in the U.S. - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:02] <exec> 08└─The cable-only channels were commercial free. This was a major selling point that the door to door cable salesman talked about, and a few years later I was quite miffed when they started having commercials.
[15:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advanced CIA Firmware Has Been Infecting Wi-Fi Routers for Years - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:23] <exec> 08└─I stand corrected! Thanks for the explanation.
[15:42:31] <exec> count new = 5
[15:42:31] <exec> count top = 2
[15:42:32] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[16:30:08] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[16:30:09] <exec> last cid = 527002
[16:32:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BAE Systems Sold Cyber-Surveillance Tools to Autocratic Regimes - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:32:25] <exec> 08└─Is anyone surprised at all?
[16:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:31] <exec> 08└─Rural areas have a lower concentration of stupid people because they have a lower concentration of people.
[16:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 1639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:33] <exec> 08└─Your refugee chickens do make me curious. As for more dumb shit city folk say? I recall the one who warned me that my having farmland on a slope meant that all the nutrients would be leached out of it by runoff rainwater. He was totally unable to explain the existence of 100 foot trees on my propert...
[16:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:35] <exec> 08└─The spaghetti harvest: http://news.bbc.co.uk
[16:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Revises U.S. Policy Towards Cuba - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:32] <exec> 08└─Just so you know, I'm not the AC above. But, I am highly amused by this whole discussion. ☺
[16:42:45] <exec> count new = 5
[16:42:45] <exec> count top = 0
[16:42:45] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[17:30:08] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[17:30:09] <exec> last cid = 527040
[17:32:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Utah Facility Can Turn Food Waste into Enough Natural Gas to Power a Small City - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:32:07] <exec> 08└─Those are probably turned into soups and such.
[17:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 2790 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:30] <exec> 08└─"Calves could be grown before slaughter. That would make them normal beef, not veal." This is true. However, it depends upon a wide range of factors, such as how big is the beef raising market this year? It fluctuates like a whiplash. "Vegan farming is easy enough. Use a greenhouse. Use doors and ai...
[17:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Navy Destroyer Collides With Container Vessel - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:25] <exec> 08└─I should point out that the commanding officer of a US Navy destroyer is almost always a full commander, and sometimes a lieutenant commander. The CO of a cruiser or carrier is a full captain. Captains also fill the traditional role of commodores, that is, commanding small groups of ships. A destroy...
[17:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Navy Destroyer Collides With Container Vessel - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:27] <exec> 08└─I would have sworn that I pasted the URL into my post, but it isn't there. http://www.maritimequest.com [maritimequest.com]
[17:42:44] <exec> count new = 4
[17:42:44] <exec> count top = 0
[17:42:44] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[18:30:08] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[18:30:09] <exec> last cid = 527057
[18:41:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:55] <exec> 08└─lmao! since "fucking with the foundations of our democracy" is just for tammany hall career criminals at the dnc...
[18:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:57] <exec> 08└─fuck you and your close sourced voting shitware. fuck you with your "sophisticated state haxxors". you are the malware.
[18:42:37] <exec> count new = 2
[18:42:37] <exec> count top = 0
[18:42:37] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[19:30:08] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[19:30:09] <exec> last cid = 527065
[19:31:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Just Three Genetic Changes Are Needed to Turn H7N9 Bird Flu Into a Human Pandemic - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:31:52] <exec> 08└─Up until yesterday [soylentnews.org], I would have promoted wide-scale adoption of wind generation as a solution to this looming threat. Deal with global warming and a global pandemic at the same time. Killing two birds with one stone, as they say...
[19:31:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Just Three Genetic Changes Are Needed to Turn H7N9 Bird Flu Into a Human Pandemic - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:31:54] <exec> 08└─Thank you very much, I'll be in my lab.
[19:31:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Just Three Genetic Changes Are Needed to Turn H7N9 Bird Flu Into a Human Pandemic - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:31:56] <exec> 08└─Seems we just need to wait for some DIY bioengineering lab to make something deliberate or by mistake. It's not that hard any longer to "write DNA".
[19:32:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Elon Musk Publishes Mars Colonization Plan - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:07] <exec> 08└─It would be fast if he can actually build it. But, he won't be able to build it with the plans he's using. To do it correctly would require something like 4 concentric tubes with decreasing amounts of pressure just to keep the thing from imploding. On top of that, the interior tube would have to be...
[19:32:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Publishes Mars Colonization Plan - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:10] <exec> 08└─The first settlers are probably going to be retirees. People who just retired, but aren't yet old and infirm. It's likely to be a one way suicide mission, so sending people young enough to reproduce before everything is set up and stable wouldn't make any sense. On top of that, there's ethical probl...
[19:32:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Publishes Mars Colonization Plan - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:12] <exec> 08└─Before sending all the B-ark crap, I suggest sending NASA's big magnetic field generator to Mars first, https://www.sciencealert.com [sciencealert.com] Then you can send the phone sanitizers (etc) to make sure the planet is re...
[19:32:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Publishes Mars Colonization Plan - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:14] <exec> 08└─Young people can get shit done. That is likely to defined the selection. The problem with children is that pregnancy and development until teens may be incompatible with the wrong amount of gravity. Tests on mice has not been encouraging.
[19:32:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Publishes Mars Colonization Plan - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:16] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but if you got an infinite money source courtesy of the taxpayers, you can afford to indulge in wild ideas that may just end up as expensive bondoogles. And if something eventually takes off, profit! A text book case of "socialise the losses, and privatise the profits" if I ever saw one.
[19:32:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Publishes Mars Colonization Plan - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:18] <exec> 08└─They don't mention [usra.edu] how much power it will need, how to get that power and how to stay still in that heliocentric orbit.
[19:32:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Publishes Mars Colonization Plan - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:21] <exec> 08└─Space tip, watch the launch of the space capsule Red Dragon [wikipedia.org] to Mars in 2020. SpaceX also says it will send something to Mars every time the planet is close to Earth. But there seems to be nothing planned for 2018. But from 2020, it's on! Btw, this magnetic deflector [stfc.ac.uk] tech...
[19:32:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Publishes Mars Colonization Plan - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:23] <exec> 08└─In the case of space. There's the possibility of "socializing advantages of a space technology".
[19:32:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Publishes Mars Colonization Plan - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:25] <exec> 08└─Surely, not even Musk expects that he's going to get everything "right" with the first plans, and the first builds.
[19:32:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03YeaWhatevs [5623] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Elon Musk Publishes Mars Colonization Plan - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:27] <exec> 08└─Right, it's always been a pipe dream ;)
[19:32:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Publishes Mars Colonization Plan - 1148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:30] <exec> 08└─Do the math people. 200K per head transport cost for a million people gets $200B I seriously doubt he is going to find a million paying passengers so where does the money come from? His only source of revenue is skimming excess market cap and green government subsidies from Tesla. Yea that is fundin...
[19:32:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Publishes Mars Colonization Plan - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:32] <exec> 08└─A modest proposal -- why not colonize Mars like England colonized Australia? Divert the cost of long term incarceration and send the miscreants to Mars.
[19:32:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Publishes Mars Colonization Plan - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:34] <exec> 08└─$200k can buy (i) a tiny house in Western Europe (ii) accommodation on Mars. Folks are presumably planning to give up their worldly possessions anyway, so it isnt out of the question to spend the money on the ticket.
[19:32:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03kaszz [4211] 02 - 06The Guy who Claims to have Invented E-Mail is at it Again - 755 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:44] <exec> 08└─SNDMSG on machines with the operating system TENEX were extended with the @ symbol by Ray Tomlinson so that it could send email to users on other machines in 1971. Unix "mail" command were released in 1971. RFC 561 from 1973 and "transmitted over the FTP telnet connection": Example: ...
[19:32:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Guy who Claims to have Invented E-Mail is at it Again - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:53] <exec> 08└─using the money from the Gawker case
[19:32:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Guy who Claims to have Invented E-Mail is at it Again - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:55] <exec> 08└─He sued Gawker at the right time. Didn't have to prove anything, they paid a settlement to close it when they collapsed.
[19:32:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06The Guy who Claims to have Invented E-Mail is at it Again - 1621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:58] <exec> 08└─What else did you expect from an Indian? Hell, their entire country's tech sector is built on fraudulent degrees and certifications. Go on stack exchange or any tech blog and you will find an Indian asking the fucking dumbest questions imaginable. If you have a mildly interesting tech bog post about...
[19:32:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Guy who Claims to have Invented E-Mail is at it Again - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:00] <exec> 08└─It was essentially a $750,000 handout [nymag.com] based on timing. When Gawker shutdown due to bankruptcy from the loss to Terry "Hulk Hogan" Bollea's laywer, it settled for that sum with Ayyadurai. He was apparently represented by Bollea's lawyer, Charles Harder. The well-documented facts are agai...
[19:33:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Guy who Claims to have Invented E-Mail is at it Again - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:02] <exec> 08└─So whenever there's an Indian showing up at your job. It's time to search for a new job? or maybe ask the boss to make sure you will have no interaction with any Indian as condition for you not accepting job elsewhere?
[19:33:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Guy who Claims to have Invented E-Mail is at it Again - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:04] <exec> 08└─Al Gore should sue for derivative work infringement ;-)
[19:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Debian 9 Stretch To Be Released Today! - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:29] <exec> 08└─Going to continue this thread because it was started by an AC so direct you're irritation there. If you don't like seeing the thread then change your profile setting. If you only came to complain about the people complaining then kindly stop shitpostong on a shitpost. You are adding noise and peoe r...
[19:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Debian 9 Stretch To Be Released Today! - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:31] <exec> 08└─Found the communist! "Beeeern heeerrrr!" *rabble rabble rabble*
[19:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Debian 9 Stretch To Be Released Today! - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:33] <exec> 08└─I'm not a big fan of those services, but come on! Why would they not use a massive marketing platform that has zero cost? Git commit -m "removing ivory tower elitism from the net" && git push
[19:33:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06College Attendance Drops After Widespread Job Loss - 349 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:43] <exec> 08└─Mr. Miller, who is now the company’s director of training, struggles to find technicians with the electrical and mechanical skills needed to operate and maintain the complex machines. One electrical maintenance job went unfilled for over a year as he searched for someone with an associate’s or b...
[19:33:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06College Attendance Drops After Widespread Job Loss - 703 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:52] <exec> 08└─More to the point, if there's a skills mismatch, why is it that it's always on the worker to make the investment of time and money to get the skills the company needs? Back in the heyday of the US economy, it was not uncommon at all for larger companies in particular to start people off in a complet...
[19:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06College Attendance Drops After Widespread Job Loss - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:04] <exec> 08└─So you whine about people not taking the jobs, then immediately explain why those jobs remain unfilled. BRILLIANT!
[19:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06College Attendance Drops After Widespread Job Loss - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:06] <exec> 08└─You don't walk into an airplane plant and ask for a machinist trainee job. They hire machinists, not create them. You go to small manufacturing plants, or auto repair shops and learn your way around tools. Maybe you start out in a complete different field. Maybe you carry rags, sweep shavings, and w...
[19:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06College Attendance Drops After Widespread Job Loss - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:08] <exec> 08└─you won't be learning that work near airplanes
[19:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06College Attendance Drops After Widespread Job Loss - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:10] <exec> 08└─This. Post hoc ergo propter hoc. STEM enrollment is up [insidehighered.com]. Humanities enrollment is down [insidehighered.com]. The poor are likely not taking on debt and four years of opportunity costs in order to get a humanities degree that will qualify them for TFS's "plenty of jobs in food ser...
[19:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06College Attendance Drops After Widespread Job Loss - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:12] <exec> 08└─Because the people to fill the jobs do not exist. A fry cook cannot fill an industrial electrician opening.
[19:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06College Attendance Drops After Widespread Job Loss - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:14] <exec> 08└─Get your shit straight. I bitch about people telling their snowflake children they are too good for blue collar work and need to go to college. This in no way precludes the possibility that employers share some of the blame for unfilled positions.
[19:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06College Attendance Drops After Widespread Job Loss - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:17] <exec> 08└─You know, they make schools for this now if you're not of a mind to take a lower paying job that will train you. I know, they're not prestigious. They don't take a hundred grand and four years to complete and they all but guarantee you a good paying job upon completion, but they're not fancy.
[19:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Reality of Life Working in an Ivanka Trump Clothing Factory - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:56] <exec> 08└─Oh look the turd dropping birdman is back with his little pellets of wisdom. Hark ye and be dumbed down.
[19:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Reality of Life Working in an Ivanka Trump Clothing Factory - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:57] <exec> 08└─Error in code block, linguistic paradox detected: "trump supporter" directly contravenes "critical thinking". Please retake the course on basic logic and analysis (code 5B101). Your global profile has been updated, "potential terrorist"threat value has increased to 8, complete the recommended rehabi...
[19:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Reality of Life Working in an Ivanka Trump Clothing Factory - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:59] <exec> 08└─> Their first and last concern should always be for their own people. Their first and last concern should always be for their own rich people. FTFY
[19:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Reality of Life Working in an Ivanka Trump Clothing Factory - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:02] <exec> 08└─most fashion designers do not have a job in the executive branch of the government, or involved in politics directly. most fashion designers are not running campaigns promoting local manufacturing whilst outsourcing that labour in their own businesses. most fashion designers are in it for the money...
[19:35:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Reality of Life Working in an Ivanka Trump Clothing Factory - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:04] <exec> 08└─No, you really didn't.
[19:35:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Reality of Life Working in an Ivanka Trump Clothing Factory - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:06] <exec> 08└─I know facts offend the weak-minded. They remain the facts though.
[19:35:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Reality of Life Working in an Ivanka Trump Clothing Factory - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:08] <exec> 08└─What in anything I've ever said leads you to the idea that I support such things?
[19:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Reality of Life Working in an Ivanka Trump Clothing Factory - 1198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:10] <exec> 08└─We don't have to follow the authors intention, we can see this and perhaps consider the source of our clothing more carefully in the future. We didn't run this story casually, it was discussed at length if it was valid or appropriate. Due to the official capacity Ivanka has in the current government...
[19:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Reality of Life Working in an Ivanka Trump Clothing Factory - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:13] <exec> 08└─I'm gladdened when i hear about people with ethics and morals: proper up-bringing and 'mindfulness': if more people acted ethically and treated their workers like family, the world would be a faaaaaar better place. We need more people with ethics in politics.... or maybe that is 'we need SOME people...
[19:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Reality of Life Working in an Ivanka Trump Clothing Factory - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:15] <exec> 08└─I know... i get it all. Just seems like we pick on those poor Trumps a lot, lol. (ducks and runs)
[19:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:34] <exec> 08└─I think properly surveying is hard, but a competent surveying company is quite able to produce accurate(ish) results, or they would be out of business by now.
[19:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:36] <exec> 08└─Post rants on your soylent journal. Then you can just say See My Journal. Read your own journal 6 months later and see if you still believe it. If so leave it alone. Rinse Repeat. Can be quite Therapeutic.
[19:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:38] <exec> 08└─So this study sounds plausible,
[19:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:40] <exec> 08└─My turtles have the same thing!
[19:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wind Farms are Hardly the Bird Slayers They're Made Out to Be - 1011 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:36] <exec> 08└─English isn't your strong suit I take it. Lets hope you do better reading tech documents. You repeated the same unsupported assertion as a reply to the question of HOW a nuke plant kills more birds than windmills. Yes, we know the greens SAY a nuke plant kills more, but I'm still waiting for a propo...
[19:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wind Farms are Hardly the Bird Slayers They're Made Out to Be - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:38] <exec> 08└─I totally agree with most of your post. Comparing the grand totals, when the market share is so imbalanced is simply polemic. But: Why merge nuclear and fossil fuel?
[19:41:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Polynesian People Used Binary Numbers 600 Years Ago - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:26] <exec> 08└─This looks a lot more like Roman Numerals
[19:42:47] <exec> count new = 49
[19:42:47] <exec> count top = 3
[19:42:47] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[20:30:08] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[20:30:09] <exec> last cid = 527119
[20:31:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Review of Devuan 1.0.0 - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:31:49] <exec> 08└─Bring back systemd.
[20:31:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review of Devuan 1.0.0 - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:31:50] <exec> 08└─[Editors Note: Debian 9 has been released. We ran a story on it a few hours ago.
[20:31:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Review of Devuan 1.0.0 - 1296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:31:52] <exec> 08└─1.0 is Jessie Stable. Which some people will want as a migration path away from Debian (Which is what Devuan 1.0 was always intended to be: An in-place replacement for Debian that would eliminate systemd as a prerequisite.) Having been running Ceres for almost a year now, I can tell you that all the...
[20:32:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Just Three Genetic Changes Are Needed to Turn H7N9 Bird Flu Into a Human Pandemic - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:04] <exec> 08└─First, we develop a vaccine. We vaccinate atheists, christians, buddhists, and possibly sikh or jain. Skip anybody who advocates for those not on the list. Second, we spread the virus everywhere. Each embassy can have a drone they launch that sprays a fine mist over the host city. Third, as the epid...
[20:32:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Publishes Mars Colonization Plan - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:28] <exec> 08└─$200K is pretty cheap to get rid of recidivist prisoners, the US should consider sponsoring their trips, and we have well over a million in jail - in Texas alone.
[20:32:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Publishes Mars Colonization Plan - 752 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:29] <exec> 08└─>That is a LOT of tonnage of computers, industrial tools, flatscreen TVs, smartphones, etc. Sorry, computers, flatscreens, smartphones - these are not my first concern when I go on a camping trip. Food, shelter, oh and breathable air and potable water - those are up near the top of the list. >a need...
[20:32:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Publishes Mars Colonization Plan - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:31] <exec> 08└─What is she doing to her towels??
[20:32:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Guy who Claims to have Invented E-Mail is at it Again - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:55] <exec> 08└─You know it takes a particular kind of person - one who has surely had the shame center of their brain removed - to claim revisionist history. Promptly try to poison the archives, then when it's all failing: Ayyadurai has been placing more emphasis recently on the idea that those who disagreed with...
[20:34:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06The Reality of Life Working in an Ivanka Trump Clothing Factory - 177 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:23] <exec> 08└─A whole lot of people can't, no. There's simply too much of a price difference between anything made in nations that don't enforce US-style working conditions and those that do.
[20:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Reality of Life Working in an Ivanka Trump Clothing Factory - 1723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:47] <exec> 08└─"Made in the USA" is like "Organic" and "SCSI" or "SAS". The younger crowd won't remember this, but there was a time when hard drives could be SCSI or IDE. SCSI was costly. I suppose today the alternative to SATA might be SAS. SCSI drives cost far more than IDE drives. It was about a 2x difference i...
[20:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Reality of Life Working in an Ivanka Trump Clothing Factory - 1424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:49] <exec> 08└─Do you realize this piece of shit of a president single handedly made this politically charged climate last far longer than it should have by turning everything into a rally so he can take a picture and cum all over it later when he's taking his 0300 commute. I don't like it, but SN is certainly not...
[20:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Reality of Life Working in an Ivanka Trump Clothing Factory - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:51] <exec> 08└─So will you offer numbers that don't smell? Not sure what you think of these, but your turn to provide something better: https://qz.com [qz.com] In summary, for a) produced in India, b) 25$ retail price, c...
[20:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Build Software for a Computer 50 Times Faster Than Anything in the World - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:21] <exec> 08└─Come on mate don't be spinnin
[20:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reports Warned of Weakening at Hanford Tunnel - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:31] <exec> 08└─There is a fleet of ageing nuclear legacy out there. Sellafield in UK has similar issues (rotting concrete). It needs dealing with in the long term, i.e. geological disposal. Needs government to stop f-ing about.
[20:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:17] <exec> 08└─> pickles are cucumbers Nb: Outside of US, pickles just means pickled veg. Pickling is the process of preserving food by storing in water with lots of salt, vinegar and sugar. I don't know what a gherkin is, is it a cucumber? But I rarely eat them, only in weird American fast food type places.
[20:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:19] <exec> 08└─Oblig https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[20:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wind Farms are Hardly the Bird Slayers They're Made Out to Be - 1915 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:17] <exec> 08└─Well then, if we are going to nit-pick to that degree I really hope it isn't your native tounge either. I mean, the article never said _a_ nuclear plant killed more birds (it said the fleet in total killed more birds) and for that matter it also said that per Wh that nuclear and wind killed about as...
[20:41:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Polynesian People Used Binary Numbers 600 Years Ago - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:08] <exec> 08└─Was your first unrequited love a Polynesian feminist, or something?
[20:42:09] <exec> count new = 17
[20:42:10] <exec> count top = 1
[20:42:10] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[21:30:08] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[21:30:09] <exec> last cid = 527137
[21:31:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review of Devuan 1.0.0 - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:31:59] <exec> 08└─If i had to reinstall (or had the time and inclination), Devuan would have to have a quicker release of a more up to date system: if i had to reinstall i'd keep Manjaro/Arch because it has been the best system i've tried, or i'd go with Gentoo (or Calculate, as someone pointed out to me as an easier...
[21:32:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Just Three Genetic Changes Are Needed to Turn H7N9 Bird Flu Into a Human Pandemic - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:10] <exec> 08└─There's nothing social about this experiment! I ain't gonna crowdbeg a prison cell.
[21:32:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Just Three Genetic Changes Are Needed to Turn H7N9 Bird Flu Into a Human Pandemic - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:12] <exec> 08└─If you bomb the water treatment plants, hospitals, electric power generation, radio and the internet it's going to shut down so much that in a large city it's not going to matter if you're immune. To hell with the flu. Thirst, cholera, hunger (much of food distribution is hampered) mean everyone get...
[21:32:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Publishes Mars Colonization Plan - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:40] <exec> 08└─It currently takes $1.25 millions to execute a prisoner in the US. Why can't we send them all to Mars? After all, the Australian experiment turned out rather well.
[21:33:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Guy who Claims to have Invented E-Mail is at it Again - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:04] <exec> 08└─Hopefully Gawker we re-appear as a onion site. Sue that.. ;)
[21:33:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Guy who Claims to have Invented E-Mail is at it Again - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:06] <exec> 08└─9/10 times, it is a sign to brush up on your resume and start looking for other opportunities. Because in most places it means you are soon to be outsourced. If you can't make yourself 'invaluable' to the company within a year or two (or sometimes less!), don't be surprised when all your fellow empl...
[21:33:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Guy who Claims to have Invented E-Mail is at it Again - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:08] <exec> 08└─Funded by the venture capitalist/Trumpf advisor who must not be named?
[21:33:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Guy who Claims to have Invented E-Mail is at it Again - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:10] <exec> 08└─The Plato "notes" system that incorporated personal notes (emails) was released August 7th 1973. Not the first, but yet another example of how many previous art implementations there were. http://just.thinkofit.com [thinkofit.com]
[21:33:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06College Attendance Drops After Widespread Job Loss - 1006 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:56] <exec> 08└─Actually, fewer risks than you might expect. Let's consider electrical work. A lot of electrical work REQUIRES that an electrician be "responsible" for it. So, you hire an electrician ("an", as in "one") who then "supervises" a cadre of people, each of whom has greater and lesser training, experienc...
[21:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06College Attendance Drops After Widespread Job Loss - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:16] <exec> 08└─You claimed even if a Sanders clone would run every company, the situation will be the same. I'll grant you it would be the same if a Sanders clone would start now to run every company, the situation will be the same. However, I'm unconvinced by your answer the situation will stay the same or it wou...
[21:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06College Attendance Drops After Widespread Job Loss - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:17] <exec> 08└─despite more and more money thrown at k-12, the kids come out severely ignorant of anything that matters in the real world and which is future/present compatible.
[21:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Navy Destroyer Collides With Container Vessel - 1455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:31] <exec> 08└─http://www.vesselofinterest.com/2017/06/mapping-acx-crystals-collision-with-uss.html [vesselofinterest.com] Marine radar and transponders tracking the container ship indicate a sudden speed reduction, and a 65 degree turn to to the right, after which it over corrected, back to the left, regained spe...
[21:41:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Polynesian People Used Binary Numbers 600 Years Ago - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:25] <exec> 08└─While that is true, sort of...Not having zero really screws stuff up.
[21:42:26] <exec> count new = 12
[21:42:26] <exec> count top = 1
[21:42:26] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[22:30:08] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[22:30:09] <exec> last cid = 527150
[22:31:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pirate Bay Ruling is Bad News For Google & YouTube, Experts Says - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:54] <exec> 08└─"Wait, you mean the EU is even more in the pocket of corporations than the US? Huh..." Yes, I recognize sarcasm, but I'll bite. Corporations created the EU, after all. Corporations have made and broken mere nations and countries for quite a long while now. The East India Company, I think it was, tha...
[22:31:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Pirate Bay Ruling is Bad News For Google & YouTube, Experts Says - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:55] <exec> 08└─Heh heh, A wimpy little island can create an empire around the globe, but the bulldog with the bowl-cut can't even hold mainland Europe together. It's what happens when you allow childless female Bolshevik scientists to be rulers of your federation.
[22:32:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review of Devuan 1.0.0 - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:07] <exec> 08└─Why do that when there's systemd free version?
[22:32:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Review of Devuan 1.0.0 - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:09] <exec> 08└─Aha, You mean you would install FreeBSD? :p
[22:32:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review of Devuan 1.0.0 - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:11] <exec> 08└─Devuan is jessie, which is ancient. Debian will release stretch tonight.
[22:32:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review of Devuan 1.0.0 - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:13] <exec> 08└─(a Manjaro arch system WITHOUT SYSTEMD would be EEEEXCELLLLANT!)
[22:32:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03purple_cobra [1435] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Review of Devuan 1.0.0 - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:15] <exec> 08└─Something like Manjaro-OpenRC [sourceforge.net], perhaps? I'm running it on a Celeron NUC and have had very few issues. There was a bit of weirdness that rendered Pacman unusable during the beta phase but that might just have been incompetence on my part whilst trying to fix it.
[22:32:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Publishes Mars Colonization Plan - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:56] <exec> 08└─Very true, if it happens. Call me a pessimist, but i suspect space tech will be privatised, and only the elite few will have the ability to access space (as anything other than a joyride). Excluding certain core scientific and military reasons that governments access it for, which while technically...
[22:32:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Publishes Mars Colonization Plan - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:57] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but if you got an infinite money source courtesy of the taxpayers, you can afford to indulge in wild ideas that may just end up as expensive bondoogles.
[22:32:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Publishes Mars Colonization Plan - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:59] <exec> 08└─Considering this: http://news.nationalgeographic.com [nationalgeographic.com] $80-100 billion for a few people vs. $200 billion for a million. $20 billion per head is affordable for governments. $200,000 is accessible to dentists and defens...
[22:33:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Publishes Mars Colonization Plan - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:01] <exec> 08└─The space ship is going to make 12 to 15 round trips? Possibly. But, stuff happens,
[22:33:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Publishes Mars Colonization Plan - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:04] <exec> 08└─But hey, we can hand waive that into existence simply by mining the asteroids to build it in place.
[22:33:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Publishes Mars Colonization Plan - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:06] <exec> 08└─Australia wasn't a death sentence. Neither was North America (Not even Roanoke). Mars is. There's no hope of achieving self sufficiency. "Transportation" as it was called wasn't always something the prisoners objected to. Free land in a warm continent had a lot of appeal to someone in a stone cold b...
[22:33:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Publishes Mars Colonization Plan - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:08] <exec> 08└─Seriously, I don't believe you've thought this through. What "tiny house" do they live in on mars? Where to they plant their garden? What do they breath?
[22:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Guy who Claims to have Invented E-Mail is at it Again - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:37] <exec> 08└─but was he was the first to coin the term?
[22:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06College Attendance Drops After Widespread Job Loss - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:43] <exec> 08└─Even Sanders wouldn't train machinists on the job. When you need a machinist it's because you need something made exactly right. I doubt he would train electricians or welders either. He might train general repair guys but then industry already does that today. When you're hiring someone you want th...
[22:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Build Software for a Computer 50 Times Faster Than Anything in the World - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:06] <exec> 08└─Remove Windoze and the associated pseudosecurity cruft. Of course, the crowd has beaten me to that notion. Operating systems used on top 500 supercomputers [wikimedia.org] Usage share of operating systems [wikipedia.org] (Windoze doesn't scale technically or economically.) -- OriginalOwner_ [soylent...
[22:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Build Software for a Computer 50 Times Faster Than Anything in the World - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:08] <exec> 08└─I was about to say the opposite Remove Windoze and the associated pseudosecurity cruft.
[22:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Navy Destroyer Collides With Container Vessel - 1252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:02] <exec> 08└─It's quite obvious this story was put up by takyon. I was the second editor and approved this story. This story was put in IN ADDITION to our regular scheduled stories. The next story came out 40 minutes after, usually stories are 90 minutes apart, 120 minutes or so on weekends. You are up against n...
[22:41:55] <exec> count new = 19
[22:41:55] <exec> count top = 0
[22:41:55] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[23:30:08] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[23:30:09] <exec> last cid = 527172
[23:31:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senators Say Cybersecurity Should be Top Priority for Autonomous Vehicles - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:31:45] <exec> 08└─They mean DRM, or am I mistaken? More mechanism to prevent you from tinkering with a device you 'bought'? When you do an oil change yourself, they can charge you under the DMCA.
[23:31:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Pirate Bay Ruling is Bad News For Google & YouTube, Experts Says - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:31:55] <exec> 08└─Linking is covered under the 1st Amendment, right?
[23:31:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pirate Bay Ruling is Bad News For Google & YouTube, Experts Says - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:31:57] <exec> 08└─First amendment doesn't apply in Europe, obviously. But how much extraterriorality can Europe and the US muster? -- hendrik
[23:31:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pirate Bay Ruling is Bad News For Google & YouTube, Experts Says - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:31:59] <exec> 08└─Experts Says
[23:32:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03weeds [611] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pirate Bay Ruling is Bad News For Google & YouTube, Experts Says - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:32:02] <exec> 08└─Wait, you mean the EU is even more in the pocket of corporations than the US? Huh...
[23:32:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03r1348 [5988] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review of Devuan 1.0.0 - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:32:18] <exec> 08└─Because that appeals only to a tiny fraction of userbase, while up to date software is much more appealing?
[23:32:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Review of Devuan 1.0.0 - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:32:19] <exec> 08└─Have you considered getting a new hard drive?
[23:32:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review of Devuan 1.0.0 - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:32:21] <exec> 08└─Sure: easy install and all my programs and devices worked perfectly!?!? Didn't think so, soooo.....
[23:32:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Review of Devuan 1.0.0 - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:32:24] <exec> 08└─Just switch to Slackware. There's even a most bodacious live version [slackbook.org] to put on a USB stick. In fact, I'm using it right now. Works flawlessly.
[23:32:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Review of Devuan 1.0.0 - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:32:26] <exec> 08└─Patty boy, get this going. Perhaps work together with them Devuan boys.
[23:32:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review of Devuan 1.0.0 - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:32:28] <exec> 08└─I do use xfce normally: when I want real speed, I log into i3wm... If my memory was better for remembering commands and man page -r -R -c, etc, I'd probably live in i3. i3 plus guake is nice.
[23:32:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review of Devuan 1.0.0 - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:32:30] <exec> 08└─That's my worry: manjaro is going so perfectly ,(really, pretty much the best distribution I've tried, since Corel Linux waaaaaay back), that I'm worried about fecking with it, lol.
[23:32:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review of Devuan 1.0.0 - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:32:33] <exec> 08└─Plus, there are known issues with replacement, which I don't have time to deal with, especially if with every update/upgrade.
[23:32:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review of Devuan 1.0.0 - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:32:35] <exec> 08└─Don't. Have. The. Time! :( Tried slack a couple times, and just too much work and time, unfortunately. Tried Linux from scratch, too. Was fun working with and in it, but that was the days of timey-wimey. No timey-wimey for me!, now. Maybe when I retire.
[23:32:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review of Devuan 1.0.0 - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:32:37] <exec> 08└─lxde is available in Devuan. Its package is called lxde. -- hendrik
[23:32:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Just Three Genetic Changes Are Needed to Turn H7N9 Bird Flu Into a Human Pandemic - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:32:50] <exec> 08└─What the fuck is wrong with you?
[23:32:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Just Three Genetic Changes Are Needed to Turn H7N9 Bird Flu Into a Human Pandemic - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:32:52] <exec> 08└─It's not easy to go bombing advanced nations with nukes, but you have to do that for the final blow. The virus gets most people too ill to fight back. The virus alone would kill only 40%. You can increase the mortality by disabling the medical response. The goal is supply-chain collapse for the enti...
[23:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Publishes Mars Colonization Plan - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:28] <exec> 08└─Mars... The black planet
[23:33:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06The Guy who Claims to have Invented E-Mail is at it Again - 65 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:36] <exec> 08└─http://www.sigcis.org/ayyadurai What a truly disgusting specimen.
[23:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03boxfetish [4831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Guy who Claims to have Invented E-Mail is at it Again - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:58] <exec> 08└─Isn't he running against Elizabeth Warren? I'd say he's got about a .0001 % chance of winning. He likely won't even get the "R" nomination, considering some of the possible candidates.
[23:35:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06College Attendance Drops After Widespread Job Loss - 1058 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:07] <exec> 08└─Thanks for those anecdotes. I'm many things- very hands-on tech, BSEE, done automation, do lots of wiring. I've seen brilliant work done by non-certified people. I've seen horrible work done by licensed, certified, "professionals", "experts", etc. (_all_ trades). As you know all too well, caring abo...
[23:35:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06College Attendance Drops After Widespread Job Loss - 823 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:08] <exec> 08└─As an aside, a quality megger would have detected the worn insulation very quickly. It is a very simple, quick, and reliable check to do, and the tools themselves are not astronomically expensive. You would do well to familiarize yourself with them. Or yeah, have your bosses get a damn electrician i...
[23:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06College Attendance Drops After Widespread Job Loss - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:10] <exec> 08└─Even Sanders wouldn't train machinists on the job. When you need a machinist it's because you need something made exactly right. I doubt he would train electricians or welders either. He might train general repair guys but then industry already does that today.
[23:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Reality of Life Working in an Ivanka Trump Clothing Factory - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:03] <exec> 08└─I don't dispute the current numbers there. I dispute what percentage of profit the manufacturers are willing to settle for. Right now they're making about 3-400% profit on the manufacturing process. It is my opinion that they would still want 3-400% profit after a 10x wage increase, as would the who...
[23:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Reality of Life Working in an Ivanka Trump Clothing Factory - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:05] <exec> 08└─Obviously clothing is too expensive to be manufactured in the US Not obvious and not true. Clothing cooperatives in USA [google.com] The problem (as usual) is Capitalism. That's where people who do none of the labor take a cut of the profits. That part is obviously not necessary. The article linked...
[23:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Surprising Number of American Adults Who Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:36] <exec> 08└─The closest I get to that is going down to the lake to watch the tourists wreck their boats and trucks while they try to navigate the boat ramp.
[23:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Navy Destroyer Collides With Container Vessel - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:34] <exec> 08└─I can even count to 11 without having to pull out my pecker.
[23:41:58] <exec> count new = 26
[23:41:58] <exec> count top = 1
[23:41:58] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********