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[00:31:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 758 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:31:50] <exec> 08└─Normally we do nothing but bash American Education system and its reliance on Lowest Common Denominator Public Schools. We cry and lament for alternative solutions. Liberals were first in line demanding change. Then Trump campaigns to Abolish the Dept of Education which would allow States to innovat...
[00:31:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:31:52] <exec> 08└─Yes I changed it, but I didn't change or remove any of the content for your submission. I felt the headline itself was needlessly provocative and likely to incite knee-jerk reactions, without actually considering the content of the summary and article. I have no dog in this fight, my goal was to fra...
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[00:31:54] <exec> 08└─They will not hear from scholars who blame Sweden's choice system for the collapse of its international test scores.
[00:31:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:31:56] <exec> 08└─Off with his head!
[00:31:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 969 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:31:58] <exec> 08└─The PBS News Hour often invites 2 or 3 experts on opposing sides of some issue on to the show to do a debate. And sometimes the debates are a farce because the issue is artificial or settled, and one side is clearly wrong. The "expert" they end up having to turn to for the weak side has nothing conv...
[00:32:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Flamebait) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:00] <exec> 08└─Well, we know one thing for sure. Continuing on with the Liberal indoctrination fest that is TODAY'S education system certainly isn't working. Throwing a neverending pile of money at the problem doesn't increase test scores or high school graduation rates either. I'm willing to give Devos a try. See...
[00:32:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 2749 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:03] <exec> 08└─I actually don't have a problem with PBS running something like this. Admittedly, I haven't seen it, but I assume it's something along the lines of previous documentaries talking about problems in public schools and alternatives that sometimes do better -- I'm thinking of documentaries like Waiting...
[00:32:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:05] <exec> 08└─via anti-white racism,
[00:32:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:07] <exec> 08└─Oh you Original Owner. We don't want tards in our public schools. We are about Survival of the fittest.
[00:32:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:09] <exec> 08└─"After all, in a free market of television, where there are so many choices available, why should the federal government pay for a television channel?" Federal funding is only a tiny sliver at this point - these stations are mostly supported by viewer donations already. But more to the point, why sh...
[00:32:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:12] <exec> 08└─Just send all the children to Trump University.
[00:32:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:14] <exec> 08└─The problem is that people like DeVos are not interested in replacing public schools with schools that would: 1. Provide a real educations (they want to replace science with religion). 2. Provide real education for all (those charter schools will find a way to discriminate). Charter schools do not p...
[00:32:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:16] <exec> 08└─I thought the headline (as modified) must be some kind of joke. Everyone knows there are no positives to DeVos's agenda. Highlighting what does not even exist has to be glorifying, as in straight up propaganda.
[00:32:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:18] <exec> 08└─It's an opinion piece. I would've hoped for an article that points out the upcoming show, perhaps provides a little bit of background information, then let us discuss amongst ourselves. To me, this article is simply telling me what I should think.
[00:32:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 805 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:20] <exec> 08└─The charter schools get to cherry-pick their students and those places look more and more like the all-White schools of 1953. ...and, after cherry-picking, less than 20 percent of kids do better, about half do the same, and about a third do worse than in public schools. Oh, and they get to expel kid...
[00:32:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:23] <exec> 08└─The local PBS affiliate in Philadelphia is constantly showing their equivalent of infomercials every week. Most of the educational content is gone, and replaced with cookie cutter speeches in front of a studio audience that tout a health or finance theory. A lot of the crafting or home improvement s...
[00:32:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:25] <exec> 08└─Yet more cherry-picked data. [google.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
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[00:32:37] <exec> 08└─If you want payments that make sense, the best option I know is Ting, an MVNO reselling both Sprint and T-Mobile service. Payments are monthly (I don't think you can avoid that at this point), but at least you pay for (roughly) what you used that month. OTOH, it's still $6/line/month even at zero us...
[00:33:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SAS Troops Posing as Homeless on UK Streets Amid Terror Fears - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:12] <exec> 08└─posting anon for obvious reasons I served in the Parachute Regiment starting in 1987. I went on to pass selection for a unit called 14 Intelligence Company(AKA The Det). We did all the information gathering clouding photographic(still, video and audio) for the SAS to then go and take action on. My...
[00:33:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SAS Troops Posing as Homeless on UK Streets Amid Terror Fears - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:13] <exec> 08└─They call it "France"
[00:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SAS Troops Posing as Homeless on UK Streets Amid Terror Fears - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:16] <exec> 08└─I conclude that California is either an impenetrable fortress or a homeless magnet.
[00:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03harmless [1048] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SAS Troops Posing as Homeless on UK Streets Amid Terror Fears - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:18] <exec> 08└─So, once the War on Terror is over
[00:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Faces Reconstructed by Reading Brain Waves - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:38] <exec> 08└─Your sarcasm detector needs calibration. Preferably with an NIST traceable certificate.
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[01:32:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:32:10] <exec> 08└─So as the population replaces itself via anti-white racism, the test scores "collapse".
[01:32:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:32:12] <exec> 08└─https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-03-24/how-russia-is-weaponizing-migration-to-destabilize-europe [bloomberg.com]
[01:32:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:32:14] <exec> 08└─Sorry to break your reality. But this is what is going on in many European countries right now.
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[01:32:16] <exec> 08└─Diane Ravitch is an experienced educator and was an appointee of G.H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton. She also briefly advised the Dubya campaign. She was the architect of the No Child Left Behind program. She became its strongest critic when she saw that it didn't work. Administrations are still, however,...
[01:32:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 732 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:32:19] <exec> 08└─No-one does propaganda quite like the US Government. When I was a teenager I remember being quite worried about the Soviet Navy, after watching a TV Documentary about how much stronger than the US Navy they were, and how they were beginning to move to a war footing. Several years later it came out t...
[01:32:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:32:21] <exec> 08└─You've been consuming crap media. The vast majority of people are not radical. That's the reason the word "radical" stands out. ...and if USA's population was to magically be converted to 100 percent recent immigrants, the crime rate would plummet. immigrants are actually less likely to commit crime...
[01:32:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 801 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:32:23] <exec> 08└─Reading Rainbow, Sesame Street, and Mr. Rogers, all of the 'greats' of my childhood, are all still paywalled 30 years later. Worse yet at least 2 if not all 3 of those, are further being stonewalled by either the key people (producer, publisher, main actor), or their descendants in regards to provid...
[01:32:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:32:25] <exec> 08└─But this is what is going on in many European countries right now.
[01:32:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:32:27] <exec> 08└─Do you think the programming quality might be better if Reactionaries and Neoliberals hadn't been cutting the funding for Public Broadcasting for 3 decades? -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[01:32:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 927 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:32:30] <exec> 08└─Back in the 70's. Why? Realized later was bored, at the time I just hated it. I had a 4.0 when I dropped out, and was taking advanced classes. I was flat out bored. Dropped out I think Sep '75. At the time I was selling hash in high school, making some good money buying by the ounce and selling by t...
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[01:32:32] <exec> 08└─We are about Survival of the fittest.
[01:32:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06T-Mobile’s New 600 MHz Network Rollout Begins This Summer - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:32:44] <exec> 08└─Yeah so it'd end up costing me more than the minutes I can put in all at once that last a year just to maintain it looks like. Also I assume they don't do that because then they can't charge crazy amounts and also justify more price increases when people use the data forced on them. I mean people I...
[01:32:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06T-Mobile’s New 600 MHz Network Rollout Begins This Summer - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:32:46] <exec> 08└─... OTOH, it's still $6/line/month even at zero usage, which is expensive if you really are a light user. ...
[01:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SAS Troops Posing as Homeless on UK Streets Amid Terror Fears - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:25] <exec> 08└─You sound like an interesting person to share a pint with. Good stuff.
[01:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Faces Reconstructed by Reading Brain Waves - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:47] <exec> 08└─2 neurons for Angelina?
[01:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Texas Sanctions FDA-Unapproved Stem Cell Therapies - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:45] <exec> 08└─That Stanislaw Burzynski fellow seems an awful lot like Milan Brych [wikipedia.org] who killed an awful lot of people with his brand of quackery.
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[02:31:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Server Goes Rapid Release - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:31:44] <exec> 08└─Two updates per year is "rapid"? That's down from once a week on patch tuesday, right?
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[02:31:46] <exec> 08└─When riding the rapids, remember to grab onto the pointy rocks.
[02:32:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:32:25] <exec> 08└─Surely you're not criticizing "The Liberal Media". Heh. Yeah, I weaned myself off of TeeVee "news" in the early years of the century. By the time of the NTSC-ATSC switchover, I was down to PBS, watching maybe 3 NewsHour segments per week--and most of those got shut off before they were finished. Sad...
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[02:32:27] <exec> 08└─This has nothing to do with radical anything. This has to do with burdening the native peoples and social systems with a deluge of foreigners. Your first link is broken and points to nothing. Your second link pulls up multiple articles which are all published during February of this year (2017) whic...
[02:32:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:32:29] <exec> 08└─The problem is that people like DeVos are not interested in replacing public schools with schools that would:
[02:32:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 754 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:32:31] <exec> 08└─Normally we do nothing but bash American Education system and its reliance on Lowest Common Denominator Public Schools. We cry and lament for alternative solutions. Liberals were first in line demanding change. Then Trump campaigns to Abolish the Dept of Education which would allow States to innovat...
[02:32:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:32:33] <exec> 08└─No, not really. The funding for programming hasn't depended on federal money since... ages ago, if it even ever did. More likely it would be better if they'd succeeded in cutting it free entirely instead of leaving these vestigial little dregs of funding with strings attached.
[02:32:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:32:35] <exec> 08└─No. I don't believe it would be better.
[02:32:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:32:38] <exec> 08└─I didn't know about Bert leaving, but maybe you could complain that Ernie and Elmo is bestiality.
[02:32:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06T-Mobile’s New 600 MHz Network Rollout Begins This Summer - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:32:52] <exec> 08└─I was recently in the mountains, hence my interest....;-)
[02:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SAS Troops Posing as Homeless on UK Streets Amid Terror Fears - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:33] <exec> 08└─If it is true, I'm sure that the real homeless can spot the fake ones even at great distance.
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[02:35:37] <exec> 08└─Try again.
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[03:31:44] <exec> 08└─Now you really can be black if you want to be?
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[03:31:46] <exec> 08└─Yes [wikipedia.org]
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[03:31:48] <exec> 08└─Tropic Thunder becomes reality. But never go full retard [youtube.com].
[03:31:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Compound Can Mimic the Effects of a Sun Tan - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:31:50] <exec> 08└─"Now you really can be black if you want to be?" $ $ $ To get the full effect you will need to sniff glue or deprive your brain of oxygen, so you have brain damage, and then take a lot of steroids so you are prone to fits of illogical rage which leads to pointless violence. After these procedures, y...
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[03:31:52] <exec> 08└─You idiots label the above post a troll, but those of us with some experience in the real world know it reflects how things are in the real world. What's the real world ? It's that scary place outside your mommy's house. You may have seen videos of it on YouTube.
[03:32:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 862 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:32:47] <exec> 08└─Everyone in the Western Hemisphere is an immigrant or is descended from immigrants. White people didn't show up till a little over 500 years ago--at which point they started to oppress and murder the folks who had been here thousands of years. ...and the Iroquois, as an example, were more civilized...
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[03:32:48] <exec> 08└─You weren't around before Reagan? I saw a steady decline. Turned off TeeVee permanently when my equipment became incompatible with OTA. Didn't see anything worth spending more money on. At that point it was just "chewing gum for the eyes". [quoteinvestigator.com] Had found better sources of informat...
[03:32:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:32:50] <exec> 08└─those places look more and more like the all-White schools of 1953.
[03:32:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:32:53] <exec> 08└─I believe I said that: "Pro-charter school pieces usually showcase some of the best success stories -- and there are lots of them -- while ignoring the disasters." There were lots of problems with that film. What is real about that film is that a lot of Americans are looking at their local public sc...
[03:32:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:32:55] <exec> 08└─why bother with OTA broadcast at all? Show creation is funded in other ways, and there's no longer a need for middlemen to rebroadcast them locally when the audience has the internet.
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[03:34:07] <exec> 08└─And, what's this racist shit about "Asians"? Asians here was in reference to western names adopted by Asians, principally in the business world, and also in academia. Its a LONG standing practice, not found among Germans, Russians, hispanic or middle eastern people. But its VERY common among those...
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[03:40:58] <exec> 08└─I used the movie as an example: do you really want to be constantly moving programs around to different desktops and resizing them, etc, when all you have to do is hit F12, type what you want, then hit F12 again? Your way: Open a terminal and close it: 1. mod+enter 2. exit+enter. This is 7 different...
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[04:31:54] <exec> 08└─Oh that's all. Here I thought somebody had a theory that Hypatia in Alexandria was mixed race or something. I think it's just TERF confusion. Transracialism would be cultural appropriation, so they need to resolve that noodle first.
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[04:31:56] <exec> 08└─Er, never mind, they have solved that noodle in their minds. They have the insane belief that being a woman is a culture. Their idea of the kind of culture women should have... short hair, masturbatory obsession with their body parts, no sex... yuck. Who'd want that?
[04:32:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 732 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:32:38] <exec> 08└─No-one does propaganda quite like the US Government. When I was a teenager I remember being quite worried about the Soviet Navy, after watching a TV Documentary about how much stronger than the US Navy they were, and how they were beginning to move to a war footing. Several years later it came out t...
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[04:32:57] <exec> 08└─Betsy DeVos
[04:32:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:32:59] <exec> 08└─When did American TV start to decline? And when did American education start that fall too?
[04:33:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:01] <exec> 08└─When DeVos and her cohorts have completely destroyed the public schools, parents (other than wealthy parents) won't have a choice.
[04:33:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:03] <exec> 08└─It would be great. It's called Youtube channels etc. Broadcast TV is for dinosaurs by now.
[04:33:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:05] <exec> 08└─You lost me when you forgot that Mexicans don't speak their evil Spanish instead of Murican. But maybe this is a positive. The alt-right cares about LGBT issues, and now they've come to appreciate the contributions of Hispanics to the USA. Are you going to suggest next that bilingual education in th...
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[04:33:07] <exec> 08└─New Orleans is doing significantly better education wise after they were rebuilt following Katrina following a similar model. PBS propaganda = good when dems do it PBS prop = bad when reps do it Its always bad, stop only noticing because your guy isnt in power.
[04:33:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:10] <exec> 08└─Alcoholics are defective, OFF WITH HIS HEAD!
[04:33:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:12] <exec> 08└─If that was true, they'd immediately improve the teacher:student ratio. It's the #1 most effective measure, proven time and again. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[04:33:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 1155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:14] <exec> 08└─It can't be worse at this point. I went to an "alternative school" when I was a kid, it was a lottery based school that received public funding but also got money from grants and running non-stop fundraisers. When I was there it was in the top 5 schools in my state. The high rank made problems for t...
[04:33:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03hash14 [1102] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:16] <exec> 08└─Normally we do nothing but bash American Education system and its reliance on Lowest Common Denominator Public Schools. We cry and lament for alternative solutions. Liberals were first in line demanding change.
[04:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SAS Troops Posing as Homeless on UK Streets Amid Terror Fears - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:13] <exec> 08└─I was just waiting for Sir Digby Chicken Caesar to come up in this discussion :-).
[04:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SAS Troops Posing as Homeless on UK Streets Amid Terror Fears - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:14] <exec> 08└─This is a very odd story, if true. One wonders in either case why the media would even write about it.
[04:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SAS Troops Posing as Homeless on UK Streets Amid Terror Fears - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:16] <exec> 08└─Obviously their strategy has paid off handsomely, since there haven't been any successful terrorist attacks since 2014.
[04:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SAS Troops Posing as Homeless on UK Streets Amid Terror Fears - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:18] <exec> 08└─For extra evil bonus points the undercover agents do not even have to exist.
[04:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SAS Troops Posing as Homeless on UK Streets Amid Terror Fears - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:21] <exec> 08└─But the UK doesn't have FEMA concentration camps ready to go. :( Or do they....?!
[04:41:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review of Devuan 1.0.0 - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:25] <exec> 08└─There were similar comments when Windows were "solid and established" who would want a hobbyist hack like Linux or BSD.
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[05:31:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:31:38] <exec> 08└─stupid fines coming from stupid politicians
[05:31:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:31:40] <exec> 08└─I am happy to hear that gun amnesties are illegal in Australia but they are doing it anyway that takes balls.
[05:31:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:31:42] <exec> 08└─Will keep you alive when the need for revolution comes! Hold those fly by night guns tight, and when the lawman comes for you, give him quite the f(r)ight!
[05:31:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:31:44] <exec> 08└─Australia is apparently a nation of sheep who like the taste of the bottom of a government boot. I've never been more glad I live in the US. With all the problems in the US, at least we haven't allowed the government to take guns away. And we never will, because millions of Americans will use all av...
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[05:31:47] <exec> 08└─"“My expectation is it will probably not be the case that we will have hardened criminals who have made a big effort to get a hold on illegal guns would necessarily hand them in.” - Keenan You can't make this shit up, I tell you.
[05:31:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:31:49] <exec> 08└─Politicians admit the truth, they have no intention of taking guns away from the criminals, they only want to take them away from the law-abiding citizens.
[05:32:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Compound Can Mimic the Effects of a Sun Tan - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:32:02] <exec> 08└─The redhead version of the receptor doesn't respond to the make-more-melanin signal, which explains why redheaded humans tend to burn, not tan.
[05:32:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Compound Can Mimic the Effects of a Sun Tan - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:32:04] <exec> 08└─Wow - I just read through parent's Wikipedia link, and it's an amazing example of exactly what's wrong in 'progressive' academia today. (Trigger warning!)
[05:32:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimios [201] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Server Goes Rapid Release - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:32:15] <exec> 08└─I tried a non LTS ubuntu server once. ONCE. Let's just say I was glad I had backups.
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[05:32:17] <exec> 08└─I haaaaaaaaaaaate Windows Server. It's the clunkiest, most unintuitive piece of shit I've ever used and don't get me started on bleepity-bleep Powershell. So of course a bunch of customers want it, and on the bare metal, not in Xen...
[05:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:18] <exec> 08└─It's called Neoliberalism. [soylentnews.org] It got a big boost from The Powell Memo in 1971. [google.com] (He did such a good job with that that he later got a gig with SCOTUS.) Ronnie Raygun really kicked it into gear in 1981. Newt Gingrich was also instrumental. WRT TeeVee, it was Reagan's guys....
[05:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:19] <exec> 08└─PBS has kept up with the stupid of your parents, they run deepak chopra specials and not five doctors, the stupid is starting to burn very badly
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[05:33:21] <exec> 08└─this is pure BS, lot of troubles right now on New Orleans and charter schools are one of them
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[05:33:23] <exec> 08└─...though they did pay $200B to get bandwidth capable of fullscreen video. http://archive.li [archive.li] (The original is 404. Imaginary Property sucks.) -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[05:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 3396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:26] <exec> 08└─You have got to be kidding me. The teacher:student ratio is not proven, beyond the most broken examples, to be a key thing. To offer my own anecdotal experience, I graduated from a high school with fantastic results (measured nationally), where the typical class was well over 30, with some in the 40...
[05:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SAS Troops Posing as Homeless on UK Streets Amid Terror Fears - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:26] <exec> 08└─Sure because "blogging" === "coding" somehow.
[05:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SAS Troops Posing as Homeless on UK Streets Amid Terror Fears - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:28] <exec> 08└─The SAS are also being given an extra 1500 men.. which will happen when the poor fuckjers can pass the course and I can tell you I have seen some hard as fuck, solid soldiers get minced by that course and come back somewhat more humble than they were before going on selection.
[05:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06According to Statistics, Programming with Spaces Instead of Tabs Makes You Richer - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:35] <exec> 08└─That you have such a visceral hate for /** * This is a long comment, the * at the beginning of the text * on these lines is optional. */ is perverse. (And I hope that comes out as intended, preview was showing that slash is reformatting things.
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[06:31:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:31:47] <exec> 08└─they only want to take them away from the law-abiding citizens.
[06:31:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:31:48] <exec> 08└─Australia is apparently a nation of sheep who like the taste of the bottom of a government boot. I've never been more glad I live in the US. With all the problems in the US, at least we haven't allowed the government to take guns away. And we never will, because millions of Americans will use all av...
[06:31:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:31:50] <exec> 08└─The government will lay waste to your pathetic civilian arsenal. You would be absolutely flattened by heavy infantry with real military equipment, logistical support, air support, and training. The idea that your guns make you safe from this is a pathetic fantasy. Our civilization can't survive revo...
[06:31:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:31:52] <exec> 08└─Actually the kinds you can have legally are quite limited.
[06:31:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:31:55] <exec> 08└─... and that was the U.S. military, which makes the Australian military look like a ragtag militia.
[06:31:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:31:57] <exec> 08└─Just from curiosity: what arms would you think Ozzies should have access to but they are not legally allowed to?
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[06:32:13] <exec> 08└─Baffle
[06:32:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 595 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:32:47] <exec> 08└─The problem is that people like DeVos are not interested in replacing public schools with schools that would: 1. Provide a real educations (they want to replace science with religion). 2. Provide real education for all (those charter schools will find a way to discriminate). Charter schools do not p...
[06:32:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Mykl [1112] 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 247 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:32:49] <exec> 08└─It's an opinion piece. I would've hoped for an article that points out the upcoming show, perhaps provides a little bit of background information, then let us discuss amongst ourselves. To me, this article is simply telling me what I should think.
[06:32:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 805 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:32:51] <exec> 08└─The charter schools get to cherry-pick their students and those places look more and more like the all-White schools of 1953. ...and, after cherry-picking, less than 20 percent of kids do better, about half do the same, and about a third do worse than in public schools. Oh, and they get to expel kid...
[06:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:32] <exec> 08└─Then Trump campaigns to Abolish the Dept of Education which would allow States to innovate. They're not going to "innovate", they're going to use it as an excuse to indoctrinate Christianity and private interests into students.
[06:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 3013 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:33] <exec> 08└─A lot of parents are NOT doing a good job and are looking to blame everybody else. It may not be their fault because both parents work and then come home and do not want to spend as much of their time actually parenting. They do not give classes on parenting... they should have public schools offer...
[06:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:35] <exec> 08└─https://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/05/10/us/charter-driven-gains-in-new-orleans-schools-face-a-big-test.html?_r=0&referer= [nytimes.com] I would love to see some citations that aren't just teacher union hit pieces to protect under achieving teachers. I have been following this for a while and that seem...
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[06:33:37] <exec> 08└─I dunno, I live around a lot of blue folks who scrimp and save to get their kids out of public schools - or if they're not that flush, they move like maniacs to get that good school district love. Not a lot of Hillary voters around me willingly putting their kids into those troubled inner-city schoo...
[06:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:40] <exec> 08└─So what are you proposing? Force every six figure administrator to teach classes? Or halve their salaries to hire more teachers? Or what? Who's paying for this? Or will there be teaching conscription? How is this going to work? Numbers. Details. Specifics.
[06:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:42] <exec> 08└─It is puzzling that PBS would accept millions of dollars for this lavish and one-sided production from a group of foundations with a singular devotion to the privatization of public services.
[06:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:44] <exec> 08└─Gotta start a book on The World According to gewg. Ronald Reagan and Newt Gingrich were neoliberal powerhouses! Alongside their best buddy, Bill Clinton! And it's a plot, by Justice Powell! Actually, the memo can mostly be summarised as: "Lobby and PR". Given that it's pretty much the parallel to wh...
[06:39:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06According to Statistics, Programming with Spaces Instead of Tabs Makes You Richer - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:57] <exec> 08└─How can anyone who's never enountered a line such as --->--->thingy->ops.krudge_wotsit(&thingy->wotsit, --->--->--->--->--->--->--->--->··thingy->settings.wotsit_mode, --->--->--->--->--->--->--->--->··krudge_mode, --->--->--->--->--->--->--->--->··ostream); have had enough experience in the r...
[06:39:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06According to Statistics, Programming with Spaces Instead of Tabs Makes You Richer - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:59] <exec> 08└─Not unless you *also* know the original author's tab width.
[06:40:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06According to Statistics, Programming with Spaces Instead of Tabs Makes You Richer - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:01] <exec> 08└─from 2nd link: "Indenting a line is like adding an opening curly brace, and de-denting is like a closing curly brace." He starts inventing words in his opening paragraph? How can I take anything this guy says seriously, he's clearly a complete nob! Well, I could read on and see what his actual argum...
[06:40:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06According to Statistics, Programming with Spaces Instead of Tabs Makes You Richer - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:03] <exec> 08└─As are tabs.
[06:41:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pirate Bay Ruling is Bad News For Google & YouTube, Experts Say - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:10] <exec> 08└─Anybody care to say why this is 'flamebait'? Probably not, because it isn't. Somebody is just shillin'...
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[06:41:11] <exec> 08└─No, it is not stealing. There, question asked and answered,
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[07:31:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 63 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:31:58] <exec> 08└─they only want to take them away from the law-abiding citizens.
[07:32:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:32:04] <exec> 08└─Given you're unable to recognise that most devious of English-language constructs, the hyphen. I'm guessing English isn't your native language. American? Ewww, looks like it. Please wipe off your chaw drool.
[07:32:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:32:06] <exec> 08└─You seem to have overlooked the fact that when you have a functioning democracy, you don't need a revolution. Let me guess - you come from a country with either a non-functioning democracy or no democracy at all? And apparently you're happier that way. Why?
[07:32:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:32:09] <exec> 08└─OK, let me guess, English isn't your native language, because this story is about illegal guns, not legal ones.
[07:32:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 4426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:32:11] <exec> 08└─Once again, the tired old argument. "The army will defeat you!" In a civil war, it isn't a matter of the people rising up against the army, to be flattened. Instead, you start off with an information and propaganda war. Each individual soldier, sailor, and airman is exposed to all the propaganda, fr...
[07:32:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 1869 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:32:13] <exec> 08└─It may not be the police that one should fear but the thugs that the police is to afraid to confront because.. racism. That seems to be the case in Melbourne and the Apex gang at least. Protecting oneself with a knife or bat is not that easy when opposed by several fight experienced and drugged thug...
[07:32:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:32:15] <exec> 08└─Oh, come on now. You're posting as AC, you have nothing to fear from moderators and the politically correct crowd. They aren't known as "sand people". Use the common vernacular. Sand niggers. Try it, "sand niggers". "camel jockies", "ragheads", try them all. It's one thing to act like a pussy if you...
[07:32:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 1033 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:32:17] <exec> 08└─And yet, despite your 'Murican Freedom, you feel you must post AC to hide behind the veil of anonymity, lest you place yourself in danger... You do realize that the time for you to take up arms against your corrupt government was decades ago? So, how's that going for you? Just when will it get bad e...
[07:32:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 1829 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:32:20] <exec> 08└─http://www.mintpressnews.com/the-facts-that-neither-side-wants-to-admit-about-gun-control/207152/ [mintpressnews.com] The National Rifle Association (NRA) would have you believe that guns stop murders. The gun control lobby would have you believe that gun control reduces murders. They are both wrong...
[07:32:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:32:22] <exec> 08└─Democracies can be subverted and then you might need to have leverage.
[07:32:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:32:24] <exec> 08└─Redundant: machine guns ... full automatic self loading rifles These are the same thing.
[07:32:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:32:26] <exec> 08└─Apex has pretty much been shut down now. By the police. True, they did commit a spate of violent crimes, however no deaths have been linked to their activities. The Current Affairs articles about them are a bit of a beat-up too - a ratings grab. I would feel much less safe walking around in downtown...
[07:32:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:32:29] <exec> 08└─We have these things call planes now. You can deploy troops quite aways from their hometowns.
[07:32:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Compound Can Mimic the Effects of a Sun Tan - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:32:45] <exec> 08└─In other words it won't pay for redheads to try sun exposure to get a tan?
[07:32:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03jb [338] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Windows Server Goes Rapid Release - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:32:57] <exec> 08└─Personally, I have been testing Windows 10 since 1507
[07:32:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows Server Goes Rapid Release - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:32:59] <exec> 08└─Be thankful that you are unfamiliar with Windows 10 build/release numbers.
[07:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 958 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:14] <exec> 08└─I have an alternative interpretation of "The GOP will bash schools while giving them money for political points and promote reforms that weaken them--- because public education is too popular they have to wreck it to replace it." You see, this is kind of complex, but basically the parties are coalit...
[07:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:16] <exec> 08└─Force every six figure administrator to teach classes? They aren't able to. I was just reading another of Ravitch's articles. [commondreams.org] A retired teacher with 30 years experience had to go back to work where she ran into the Teach For America bunch. I joined a staff of over 50 teachers in a...
[07:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:18] <exec> 08└─PRIVATIZE EVERYTHING. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[07:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Turning E-Cigarettes Into Hacking Tools - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:44] <exec> 08└─Tell that to these bunch: While e-cigarettes could be used to provide malicious payloads to machines, there is typically very little space available on them to host this code. "This puts limitations on how elaborate a real attack could be made," said Mr Bevington.
[07:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Chipmakers Had a Toxic Problem. Then They Outsourced It - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:45] <exec> 08└─Intel brings in cheap Mexican labor to handle the dangerous chemicals, and then uses their Internapult to fling them into the Atlantic or Pacific ocean (depending on which plant they work at) when they become unproductive through illness.
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[08:32:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:32:12] <exec> 08└─You seem to have overlooked the fact that when you have a functioning democracy, you don't need a revolution.
[08:32:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:32:13] <exec> 08└─Does a Anti Aircraft machine gun (like this one [wikipedia.org]) qualify as a rifle? Because it is a machine gun alright
[08:32:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:32:15] <exec> 08└─And, you're holding out some bit of technology, hoping that it will trump people's loyalties? Maybe you'll rely on yet another bit of technology - maybe an algorithm that prevents any individual from ever being assigned a duty station within their home state/county/city?
[08:32:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:32:17] <exec> 08└─You forget that robot armies are on their way. Not many will need to be convinced to fire on some armed militia. Orders will be given to clear an area, and the robot armies will do it effectively. No conscience to worry about. It is quite easy to see actually, when you connect the dots. David Icke t...
[08:32:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:32:20] <exec> 08└─Blimey, funniest thing I never saw was a drop bear chasing after a hoop snake downhill, strewth!
[08:32:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:32:22] <exec> 08└─Bazookas. Always wanted one for outside-lane hogs, for when the horn and high beam doesn't work...
[08:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:09] <exec> 08└─It seems pretty clear that you consume Lamestream Media and little else. Spend some time at Media Matters for America and/or Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[08:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 1142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:10] <exec> 08└─Read something interesting related to this discussion. I do not know who wrote it but it is insightful: One of the University lecturers wrote an expressive message to his students at the doctorate, masters and bachelors level and placed it at the college entrance in the university in south Africa. A...
[08:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SAS Troops Posing as Homeless on UK Streets Amid Terror Fears - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:14] <exec> 08└─Well, if we've got Sir Digby above, then I might as well add this here: http://youtube.com
[08:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SAS Troops Posing as Homeless on UK Streets Amid Terror Fears - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:16] <exec> 08└─Of course it is. After all, as modern blogger you write in Unicode! ;-)
[08:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SAS Troops Posing as Homeless on UK Streets Amid Terror Fears - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:18] <exec> 08└─> a British disinformation campaign, trying to deceive the Axis into thinking there was a paratrooper regiment > Its first mission, in November 1941, was a parachute drop The ultimate in disinformation - tell the truth, noone expects that!
[08:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SAS Troops Posing as Homeless on UK Streets Amid Terror Fears - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:20] <exec> 08└─"Armed special forces troops disguised as beggars and road sweepers have been deployed at key locations in London and other cities, they Daily Mirror reported." A story they consider so important they (a) didn't investigate the claim themselves; and (b) didn't even get it proof-read?
[08:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SAS Troops Posing as Homeless on UK Streets Amid Terror Fears - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:22] <exec> 08└─> Is the next ISIS target going to be killing beggars in metropolitan areas of Britain in hope of them finding an SAS operative to kill? Just waiting for some idiots to start kidnapping homeless people to make homegrown beheading videos. That I doubt, it really wouldn't be good for their public imag...
[08:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03nishi.b [4243] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Faces Reconstructed by Reading Brain Waves - 1526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:45] <exec> 08└─Seriously, the most amazing thing about Quiroga's work was that he was able to record a cell that responded to the name of the actress displayed on the screen, her face, her voice, so a cell that reacted to multiple types of input (audio, video, text, image) for the same concept. This was in the hip...
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[09:31:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review of OpenIndiana 2017.04 Hipster - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:31:37] <exec> 08└─Stick with Linux implies a died-in-the-wool Linuxer. Linux is a very different Unixalike from *Solaris, it's hardly surprising he feels a bit lost. SunOS was a BSD4 derivative - what would a BSD user think? His descriptions make the OS sound somewhat like how Slackware felt to me after nearly 2 deca...
[09:31:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Shimitar [4208] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review of OpenIndiana 2017.04 Hipster - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:31:38] <exec> 08└─Outside the bushes, how may BSD users still alive? I am a hardcore unix lover myself, and i have given up on anything else since the last 10 years for Linux, and i am not regretting it. To be honest, anything non-linux like is quite dead today. (Unfortnately, this does not hold true for Windows, but...
[09:31:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review of OpenIndiana 2017.04 Hipster - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:31:41] <exec> 08└─There's more to that. I've actually run OI for awhile on an older laptop; it's very similar to running a non-x86 version of Linux as your desktop. A lot of the problem was that beside hardware compatibility issues, you had to deal with things like poor GL support, weak at best wifi support, no Bluet...
[09:32:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:32:25] <exec> 08└─Clearly you have never actually been to Australia. You know... those guys who had that "white Australia policy" not so long ago?
[09:32:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:32:26] <exec> 08└─+1 depressing truth
[09:32:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:32:28] <exec> 08└─You think it's funny, but a dropbear killed my family.
[09:32:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:32:30] <exec> 08└─I, for one, would like to get a Bondarms Bullpup to carry in my pocket, but they are illegal for being too short.
[09:33:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Server Goes Rapid Release - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:01] <exec> 08└─Back when Fedora had just replaced Red Hat Linux as a free OS, I switched our server to it, and hated having to upgrade every six months. When I discovered CentOS, I switched to it and never looked back. You want stability on your server, so updating its OS is the last thing you want to do. When and...
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[10:31:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stephen Furst -- Flounder in 'Animal House'; Vir Coto in 'Babylon 5' -- Dies at 63 - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:31:50] <exec> 08└─Rest in Peace, Stephen. Even though they were supporting roles, they were iconic. It's a mark of his craft that he could disappear into such diverse characters and make them breathe. Flounder will be the standard of the pledge in all fraternity movies forever. "Virrrr" will be the principled underli...
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[10:32:01] <exec> 08└─Old time Gentoo user here. To be honest, all this fuss about SystemD, PulseAudio, Network Manager and so on does not touch "us" Gentooers too much. Gentoo proves it can be done "the linux way", which means with freedom. You can use one or all of them, or just avoid all of them with no problems on Ge...
[10:32:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Review of OpenIndiana 2017.04 Hipster - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:32:03] <exec> 08└─Stick with Linux implies a died-in-the-wool Linuxer. Linux is a very different Unixalike from *Solaris, it's hardly surprising he feels a bit lost. SunOS was a BSD4 derivative - what would a BSD user think?
[10:32:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review of OpenIndiana 2017.04 Hipster - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:32:05] <exec> 08└─Lovely. Not only is this guy clueless about OpenSolaris, he's clueless about ZFS on Linux [zfsonlinux.org] and snapshot support in same, including Ubuntu [ubuntu.com] (crap that Ubuntu is).
[10:32:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review of OpenIndiana 2017.04 Hipster - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:32:07] <exec> 08└─OpenSolaris had some patches to GNOME that integrated ZFS snapshots into the file browser to give a clean TimeMachine-inspired GUI. Were those patches upstreamed and made to work on other ZFS systems? (Honestly curious - I've never tried using this stuff on FreeBSD, but it would be nice if it worked...
[10:32:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:32:56] <exec> 08└─I'm not against private gun ownership, but this is, to use the technical terms, fucking stupid. The primary means to ensure the continuation of a democracy is through political will. There are many democracies which function just fine without guns, and is a certain well-armed democracy which functio...
[10:32:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:32:57] <exec> 08└─An armed populace is a deterrent to illegitimate tyrannical suppression of civil freedom, not to legitimate elected bodies making terrible laws.
[10:32:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:32:59] <exec> 08└─It's both, just not to the same extent.
[10:33:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:01] <exec> 08└─You never served, did you? I have and I tell you right now there is no way in hell the US military could take US gun owners. For starters they'd be at a 100:1 numerical disadvantage. For another they'd be shooting at their fathers and brothers. For another, their adversaries look precisely like peac...
[10:33:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 947 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:04] <exec> 08└─First, there's the obvious question of self-defence against humans, and the right to carry arms for that purpose. The radical disagreement that the sort of Americans who find fault with Australia's gun laws tend to have on this should be so obvious that I'm not even going to address it further. Semi...
[10:33:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:06] <exec> 08└─You call that a rifle? This [wikimedia.org] is a rifle.
[10:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Server Goes Rapid Release - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:38] <exec> 08└─I can't actually say I hate Windows Server because it's been writing my paychecks for the last few months but unless Microsoft makes the in place upgrade story suck less, this is going to go over like a lead balloon. (you can in place upgrade Windows Server; I did that for a client recently because...
[10:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SAS Troops Posing as Homeless on UK Streets Amid Terror Fears - 1079 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:06] <exec> 08└─If I were cynical... wait, I am cynical, so here goes: Given that this is coming from the Sun, it sounds like a piece saying 'look, the Tories aren't responsible for a massive housing crisis and increase in homelessness, those aren't actually homeless people that you're seeing, they're all undercove...
[10:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SAS Troops Posing as Homeless on UK Streets Amid Terror Fears - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:07] <exec> 08└─I would hope that the SAS (which are an air-service, people, even if they do have particular roles related to terrorism sometimes - it's the equivalent of saying the Navy SEALs are doing this)
[10:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SAS Troops Posing as Homeless on UK Streets Amid Terror Fears - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:10] <exec> 08└─Wow. Just.. wow. We all remember the love affair with our first Windows PC? Sure, in that kind of 'OMG, I'm so glad to be out of that abusive relationship' way, I suppose.
[10:36:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] 02 - 06Erdogan Decries 'Unacceptable' US Arrest Warrants for Staff in Washington Brawl - 3207 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:55] <exec> 08└─It was my pleasure to welcome President Erdogan for his first visit to the White House in years. The American and Turkish peoples have been friends and allies for many, many decades. Turkey was a pillar in the Cold War against communism. It was a bastion against Soviet expansion. And Turkish courage...
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[10:37:11] <exec> 08└─I thought Trump seemed like a better choice than Clinton. With Clinton, you continue the gradual boiling-of-the-frog slide towards authoritarianism. With Trump, you try to do it so fast that people will notice and there's a better chance that they'll react. I don't think either would make a good pre...
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[10:37:13] <exec> 08└─Or a reasonable person who dislikes conspiracy nutjobs.
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[12:08:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Soylentbob [6519] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Stephen Furst -- Flounder in 'Animal House'; Vir Coto in 'Babylon 5' -- Dies at 63 - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:08:10] <exec> 08└─I find the imdb [imdb.com] or wiki [wikipedia.org] link usually more informative for actors. (Not sure if there is any recent scandal why IMDB would be a bad idea. It gives imo a better overview than the wikipedia-article to the actor. Although the summary already contains some nice wiki-links to th...
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[12:08:11] <exec> 08└─Could be why he lost weight during B5.
[12:08:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stephen Furst -- Flounder in 'Animal House'; Vir Coto in 'Babylon 5' -- Dies at 63 - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:08:13] <exec> 08└─"After almost needing to have his left foot amputated due to diabetes complications in 1996, Furst reduced his weight from 260 lbs to 175 lbs."
[12:08:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06Review of OpenIndiana 2017.04 Hipster - 206 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:08:25] <exec> 08└─Stick with Linux implies a died-in-the-wool Linuxer. Linux is a very different Unixalike from *Solaris, it's hardly surprising he feels a bit lost. SunOS was a BSD4 derivative - what would a BSD user think?
[12:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:22] <exec> 08└─say wha ? ? ? PLEASE let me know where ONE 'functioning democracy' (yeah, let's see what definition that entails) exists on this dog-forsaken planet of grubby greedtard zillionaires running the show ? ? ? ONE functioning democracy... unless you proscribe the meaning of 'functioning' and/or 'democrac...
[12:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:24] <exec> 08└─Clearly you have never actually been to Australia. You know... those guys who had that "white Australia policy" not so long ago?
[12:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03J_Darnley [5679] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:26] <exec> 08└─Ah the UK. The country where throwing your pint at the charging islamist radical is supposed to stop them.
[12:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:28] <exec> 08└─Yeah, sure; I get that. My point was that the GP seemed to have mistaken Australia for somewhere in the middle east with distinctly different demographics.
[12:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:30] <exec> 08└─functioning democracy, Athens. They foolishly decided to turn on their more militarily prow former allies, Sparta, and in turn got their asses kicked and their no longer functioning democracy crushed. But that is what happens when a group of overly successful and complacent fools get full of themsel...
[12:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:33] <exec> 08└─Saltwater crocodiles too large for a .22 to have much effect :) But now you know why Crocodile Dundee only carried a Bowie knife: The gun control didn't give him an alternative :P
[12:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:35] <exec> 08└─It might?
[12:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmn32480 [443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Server Goes Rapid Release - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:08] <exec> 08└─It was two feature updates per year. The monthly patch Tuesday will (most likely) still exist for security updates.
[12:11:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:11:28] <exec> 08└─It's worth pointing out that despite all the money poured into our educational system, teachers don't make all that much. This isn't because we have so many teachers, proportionally, but because we have a terribly wasteful administrative system. This has been covered on Soylent before, but it also b...
[12:11:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 940 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:11:30] <exec> 08└─No, but the states of Ohio, Alabama, Mississippi, Kansas, Florida, and a lot of other places are doing everything they can to include private profit motive and sometimes religious nutjobs into their public education system. Should the kids living in those areas be condemned to an even worse educatio...
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[12:11:32] <exec> 08└─Looking at establishment political values, I am WAY holier than thou if I go on twitter or otherwise shitpost in support of immigration as an individual. As an individual, I'm rewarded for my "defection" and the damage is microscopic. As a group, that belief system destroys entire countries and cult...
[12:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SAS Troops Posing as Homeless on UK Streets Amid Terror Fears - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:43] <exec> 08└─Since Grenfell Tower appears to have been populated mostly by muslim immigrants, I'm just waiting for the fire to be blamed on right-wing extremists.
[12:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03radu [1919] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China's Quantum Communications Satellite Beats Record - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:18] <exec> 08└─... made in China?
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[13:08:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US District Court: Approval of Dakota Access Pipeline Violated the Law - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:05] <exec> 08└─And massively contaminate the groundwater/downstream ecosystem, would it result in the pipeline getting shut down, or simply a payout, eminent domaining of the land, and forced relocation of the tribes to another (smaller) reservation made somewhere else? That could be win win for the oil company an...
[13:08:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06US District Court: Approval of Dakota Access Pipeline Violated the Law - 739 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:07] <exec> 08└─It's too bad the judgment turned against the pipeline though at least the remedy is something reasonable. But this illustrates the morass of laws that make up environmental regulation. A sane policy could have been in place years ago to handle the problems of oil pipelines rather than this long, dra...
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[13:08:09] <exec> 08└─the judge ignored the Obama administration's malfeasance
[13:08:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US District Court: Approval of Dakota Access Pipeline Violated the Law - 1497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:11] <exec> 08└─I didn't read the whole opinion, but just picked one of the issues to look at: "environmental justice". I expect this section is typical of the rest of the document. First, the undisputed facts: - The government is required to consider whether or not there is a disproportionate environmental impact...
[13:08:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review of OpenIndiana 2017.04 Hipster - 1014 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:36] <exec> 08└─"Doesn't want to use the command line?" When I "reviewed" Solaris, years ago, I felt much like this reviewer does today. I didn't understand much about *nix OS's, and despite the fact I knew my way around DOS, *nix was quite different. I was lost for a long time. It's hard to say at what point in my...
[13:08:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Review of OpenIndiana 2017.04 Hipster - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:38] <exec> 08└─X/xdm/ configuration seems beyond this guy.
[13:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 677 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:41] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, there's a lot of truth in your post. Robot armies are coming, drones are here already. Robot soldiers will change things, but none of us can say exactly how things will change. But, it's worth keeping in mind that much of the government does a pretty crappy job of security. The rebel...
[13:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:42] <exec> 08└─That's why you shouldn't pitch your tent under any trees where drop-bears might live.
[13:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:44] <exec> 08└─Is there any difference between the two? 'Cause I don't see any in the effects.
[13:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:46] <exec> 08└─The Sheeple in the US are already brainwashed idiots. It's not hard to get a bunch of soldiers riled up and point them in the right direction.
[13:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:49] <exec> 08└─We try not to shoot the snakes, they keep the other pests under control. Don't step on them, don't ride the lawnmower over them, and you're typically good. If there's a need, there's the shotgun though. For rabbits, .22 is the go-to afaiu.
[13:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Compound Can Mimic the Effects of a Sun Tan - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:07] <exec> 08└─after spending a year as a very dark-skinned person
[13:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Compound Can Mimic the Effects of a Sun Tan - 1781 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:08] <exec> 08└─Let me tell you folks, I've always wanted melanin. More than anything. But believe me, spelling can be a bitch. As can wives. Some wives. A lot, a lot of wives can be bitches. Guys -- men -- this is for the men out there. Men, let me tell you something. There's nothing really nice about it. But in o...
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[13:11:47] <exec> 08└─When DeVos and her cohorts have completely destroyed the public schools, parents (other than wealthy parents) won't have a choice.
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[14:08:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tech Execs to Meet With President Trump on Monday - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:10] <exec> 08└─... then your system is poorly constructed.
[14:08:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03J_Darnley [5679] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech Execs to Meet With President Trump on Monday - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:12] <exec> 08└─What are the employees going to do if they don't like the outcome their employers want? Are they going to quit their six figure jobs or are they going to be silent because they like being employed? My money is on most of them staying silent. They wouldn't like being one of the proletariat despite th...
[14:08:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech Execs to Meet With President Trump on Monday - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:14] <exec> 08└─From TFS: Despite unease and rumblings from below, many are going to attend anyway.
[14:08:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tech Execs to Meet With President Trump on Monday - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:16] <exec> 08└─Virtually no one gives a fuck about any of this stuff.
[14:08:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US District Court: Approval of Dakota Access Pipeline Violated the Law - 1256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:27] <exec> 08└─Its interesting how the issue has been abstracted and politicized into a referendum on Trump, which is all the discussion is at this point. However, I found it interesting to learn "the hidden truth" about the actual situation via some google searches. Some interesting things to google for... "oil s...
[14:08:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US District Court: Approval of Dakota Access Pipeline Violated the Law - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:29] <exec> 08└─You are absolutely correct. The Trump haters (and I did not vote for him) are irrational. They have let their blind hatred of what they think he represents to cloud their judgment of everything (they think) he stands for. The plain letter text of law is being contorted to suit their own prejudices....
[14:08:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stephen Furst -- Flounder in 'Animal House'; Vir Coto in 'Babylon 5' -- Dies at 63 - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:41] <exec> 08└─Sad day. His character was so iconic on B5. 63 is way too young. RIP buddy. We lost so many greats from that show already: http://www.imdb.com [imdb.com] (probably incomplete)
[14:08:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review of OpenIndiana 2017.04 Hipster - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:59] <exec> 08└─X/xdm/ configuration seems beyond this guy.
[14:09:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Review of OpenIndiana 2017.04 Hipster - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:01] <exec> 08└─SunOS was BSD based, but Sun felt they had to go SysV in the 1990s, and that became Slowlaris. To me, SunOS was the benchmark Unix that Linux aspired to: When hacking Makefiles and configure scripts to get software to compile on Linux, SunOS definitions provided a good starting point.
[14:09:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review of OpenIndiana 2017.04 Hipster - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:03] <exec> 08└─I know that I had a GUI desktop, but after all this time, I can't even remember which desktop it was. I do remember that it was clunky, and disappointing. Suse Linux Gnome had prepared me to expect great things from a *nix desktop. Whichever Solaris I was diddling with was so very far behind the cur...
[14:09:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review of OpenIndiana 2017.04 Hipster - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:05] <exec> 08└─The direction where Linux is going is "nowhere". Or better, it is NOT where Ubuntu and Redhat are driving toward. Linux is not "going" somewhere... Somebody is driving to oblivion, somebody else is missing the point. Desktop is going to die... Soon(er) than anybody expects, there will only be "power...
[14:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lockheed Martin Negotiating $37 Billion F-35 Deal - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:13] <exec> 08└─NATO members don't need this non-working plane. They need 2 other types of plane, fighters for air-superiority and bombers. And with current war theaters, and what I can think of nearby future, it needs significantly more bombers. And for the bombers, lets face it, WWII era stuff is probably good en...
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[14:10:11] <exec> 08└─That's why you shouldn't pitch your tent under any trees where drop-bears might live.
[14:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:15] <exec> 08└─You mean "Undocumented" guns. How can a gun be illegal?
[14:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:17] <exec> 08└─I pretty sure professional feral pig shooters carry a hefty sidearm as backup to their rifles. At least they used to back when I knew one. Those pigs are bloody dangerous, ever seen the documentory "Razorback"? As for shooting snakes, it doesn't matter how venomous the bastards are, they are protect...
[14:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:20] <exec> 08└─Maybe you'll rely on yet another bit of technology - maybe an algorithm that prevents any individual from ever being assigned a duty station within their home state/county/city?
[14:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:22] <exec> 08└─The country where throwing your pint at the charging islamist radical is supposed to stop them.
[14:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:24] <exec> 08└─Don't kid yourself. Deploy Alaskan troops in California, Massachusetts troops in fly-over-country, and Arkansas troops in New York, and tell them "They voted Hillary/Trump, they mocked Palin; they are responsible for the mess we are in and look, the fools a rebelling now, teach them a lesson".
[14:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:26] <exec> 08└─The difference is that the later is done with the consent of the governed, begrudging as it may be. Violence is never an acceptable response to a political force acting in such a way.
[14:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:28] <exec> 08└─No need. Just carry a tree with a nest of drop bears with you and plant it above those hogs when you see them. The nature will run its course and you don't need a license to carry that tree.
[14:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:31] <exec> 08└─Violence is never an acceptable response to a political force acting in such a way.
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[14:10:51] <exec> 08└─So far the scariest people I've encountered are Christians. While I've met a number of people who were black while acting like idiots, the closest I've come to life-threatening fight-or-flight situations is with Christians. I now carry a weapon in my car because I'm worried that a Christian may feel...
[14:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Compound Can Mimic the Effects of a Sun Tan - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:52] <exec> 08└─A lot of people would stop saying racism is "over" after spending a year as a very dark-skinned person.
[14:12:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:34] <exec> 08└─The latest trend is that high schools no longer report class ranks, and either don't announce a valedictorian or announce a "top 10". Nobody dares suggest, however, that they stop awarding medals and recognition for the sports programs.
[14:12:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 1275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:36] <exec> 08└─OK, so let's unwrap this a bit. The states of *insert list here* want to do things that you don't like. Presumably, these states have voters that are quite often parents. I suppose it's possible that a sinister conspiracy of shadow government social architects from the secret american reactionary so...
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[14:12:38] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't be so quick to say there are no positives. As a father of a young one, I am horrified at the shit I see happening in public schools to a point where I will most likely have to opt for Catholic School education, at a considerable cost. Allowing us to choose where we send our kids would all...
[14:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:40] <exec> 08└─Does not answer the question. Where are you proposing to get the resources to do this? How will those people be paid? Simply blandly asserting that it should be done does not constitute a plan.
[14:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:42] <exec> 08└─Businesses don't have the power to privatise anything. They can lobby for it. They can argue for it. They can't enforce it.
[14:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:44] <exec> 08└─HAHAHAHAHA - if I could guaranteed that my kid would become a "failed billionaire" by going to Trump U, I would send them there. "Failed billionaire" stupidest thing I ever heard from the left, and that's saying something.
[14:12:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:47] <exec> 08└─Well now a days if your child is legitimately bored in HS you can have them take the GED and go to Community College. That is what I plan on doing with my kid after I realized I wasted about 3 years of my life in HS. I was bored to tears!
[14:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pax [5056] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SAS Troops Posing as Homeless on UK Streets Amid Terror Fears - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:05] <exec> 08└─As for the Sun, Mirror etc... well if you used them for toilet roll, more shit would come off the paper than your arse.. I don't know why I've never heard that one before, but than
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[19:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06The Tick That Gives People Meat Allergies Is Spreading - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:36] <exec> 08└─Found in the southeast states, has a Texas-shaped splotch on its back and causes an allergy to meat? That just reeks of a life-form bio-engineered to troll Texans.
[19:12:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Tick That Gives People Meat Allergies Is Spreading - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:37] <exec> 08└─there was a short story in asf&f [rocketstackrank.com] about this 2 months ago... maybe it's not ticks, but mosquitoes.
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[19:12:40] <exec> 08└─Vegans? Nah. However, the Illuminati is constantly talking about the need for people to shift their diet from cattle to insects, you know, for the sake of that catch-all power-grab: Global Warming Climate Change
[19:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Tick That Gives People Meat Allergies Is Spreading - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:42] <exec> 08└─What about transgenders? Can we somehow include them in this conspiracy theory? There should be a double-entendre with meat. Transgenders suddenly start existing for the first time in human history, and people become allergic to meat. Coincidence? I think not! I admit, though, the bug angle is prett...
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[19:12:44] <exec> 08└─I have another angle we could try. We could rope Muslims in as well, since they would want to get out ahead of immigration requirements forcing them to eat bacon. If enough people have an allergy to meat, obviously it wouldn't be practical to implement the bacon-eating test.
[19:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Tick That Gives People Meat Allergies Is Spreading - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:46] <exec> 08└─I'm doing a Game of Thrones rewatch (just in time for the new season), and tonight ... > for the unluckiest few—difficulty breathing, passing out, and even death. ... we watched S04E02 - /The Lion and the Rose/, sometimes known as "the purple wedding".
[19:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Audiences Stare Straight Ahead 75% of the Time - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:59] <exec> 08└─Seriously. Give up computing; it's a total waste of time, especially now that computers don't really exist anymore—everything is just a "device" now. You don't need these things in your life, and you'll feel so much better when you start spending your time with aspects of being alive which do not...
[19:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Audiences Stare Straight Ahead 75% of the Time - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:01] <exec> 08└─For instance, an interaction between 2 characters is frequently shot with one in the background and one in the foreground; I'm almost never satisfied with the choice of focus—I tend to be interested in looking at the person who is blurry, which kind of ruins the magic of visual media. If VR tech c...
[19:13:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Audiences Stare Straight Ahead 75% of the Time - 1072 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:03] <exec> 08└─no. according to MARKETING the best VR experience is the one that fleeces the buyers pocket. imagine: nice brown fertil dirt. it just rained and if you look closely you see a small two leaf sprout (w/ a nice rain drop that covers half a leaf). along jumps a merry market-guru and happens upon this...
[19:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Audiences Stare Straight Ahead 75% of the Time - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:05] <exec> 08└─The advantage of VR is the immersion you get because you can look anywhere and still see the virtual world. Having the action move around you is at best annoying because you need to keep turning around to watch what is happening, and at worst really detrimental to the experience because you are cons...
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[19:13:07] <exec> 08└─3D in VR is pretty cool. it doesnt need a big TV and you can watch in the bed or stretched out on the couch. nevermind, that the "occulus app store" app "occulus video" cannot even access a samba share and the +1 GB 3D movie file has to reside on the mobile phone, which has like, you know ... storag...
[19:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Audiences Stare Straight Ahead 75% of the Time - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:10] <exec> 08└─surprisingly, people spent 75% of their time within the front 90 degrees of a video
[19:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Audiences Stare Straight Ahead 75% of the Time - 1727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:12] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I'm not sure honestly what kind of potential VR has for movies. Isn't everything the director wants me to see going to be straight ahead anyway? I mean, maybe they could release a remake of Cloverfield where you're the camera guy, which would be cool. I don't see many other movies where that w...
[19:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Audiences Stare Straight Ahead 75% of the Time - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:14] <exec> 08└─People seem to be acting very cynical and taking the wrong lesson here. The YouTube advice doesn't seem to be "treat VR like video" or "ignore what makes VR unique" (as someone else suggested here). Read on to the next paragraph from TFA: Google therefore offers the following sage advice for those w...
[19:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Audiences Stare Straight Ahead 75% of the Time - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:16] <exec> 08└─Isnt this great news? You can just compress the shit out of everything that isn't straight forward, or whatever is considered to be in focus. Really dropping down on the amount of things that need to be rendered and by that increasing performance?
[19:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Audiences Stare Straight Ahead 75% of the Time - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:18] <exec> 08└─Probably about as useful as 3D TV which died in 2 years...
[19:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Audiences Stare Straight Ahead 75% of the Time - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:21] <exec> 08└─Socializing is for winners and I'm a loser so I'll just stay in the basement with a big pile of books. Can't ever have a toxic relationship with a book. Except those books that are printed on glossy lead based paper. Those books are toxic so I don't have any of those books.
[19:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Audiences Stare Straight Ahead 75% of the Time - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:23] <exec> 08└─Have you seen the shit on youtube? I'd say 99.999% of it is too awful to watch. Fake videos, scam videos, horrible copies of hollywood crap, incompetent instructional videos, advertising videos, etc. Only thing worse than network TV is youtube.
[19:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Wanderers" - a Short SF Movie - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:43] <exec> 08└─All sci-fi is Star Wars, all music is Justin Bieber, all news are Buzzfeed, and all software is Windows :) More seriously, I don't think that Star Wars and Guardians of the Galaxy can be considered as even the softest of science fiction. They are, at best, space fantasy.
[19:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Wanderers" - a Short SF Movie - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:45] <exec> 08└─Let's say I'm aware that books exist and I read fairly often, and I was purposefully remaining topical to movies. Can we do that?
[19:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Wanderers" - a Short SF Movie - 766 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:47] <exec> 08└─Ohhhh-kay. Science fiction in movies. How about TV series? Have you watched 'The Expanse'? It leaves some things lacking, but it does give a hell of a lot of realistic stuff too. http://www.the-expanse.com [the-expanse.com] This is one time when I was so impressed with the screenplay, that I went t...
[19:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Wanderers" - a Short SF Movie - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:49] <exec> 08└─Let me understand your complaint. Because works of fiction have been written that take place out in the big, wide galaxy, a video or story that explains how we might expand out into the solar system first is "lame". I don't think the public agrees with you. People trekked to the theaters to pay good...
[19:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Wanderers" - a Short SF Movie - 860 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:51] <exec> 08└─Life like mad max is totally impossible. They'd fucking run out of water so fast, no one would live. Well, I did say "something like a Mad Max movie", not something exactly like it. Also, did you not see the first Mad Max movie? There were trees and greenery in it; it wasn't until The Road Warrior t...
[19:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Wanderers" - a Short SF Movie - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:54] <exec> 08└─Everyone will be dead and nothing of value will be lost. At last the insects will have their chance to evolve into something better. Personally, I'm rooting for the birds. They kinda blew it before by not building a good space program before the K-T asteroid, but I think they should get a second cha...
[19:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Wanderers" - a Short SF Movie - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:56] <exec> 08└─Hell, with offerings like Malazan Book of the Fallen, calling Star Wars and Guardians of the Galaxy fantasy is an insult to that genre. The 80s seemed like it was really good for the fantasy genre in film, but I don't see that era returning any time soon. I think there is a term we can apply to what...
[19:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Wanderers" - a Short SF Movie - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:58] <exec> 08└─Sure, I'll acknowledge that we're in the golden age of TV, and there's some excellent serial material out there.
[19:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Wanderers" - a Short SF Movie - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:00] <exec> 08└─I'm just saying civilization and agriculture goes with water sources, and a lack of them means total death. Your post-apocalypse is going to be defined by some kind of substantial social structure, almost certainly including a government, if human beings survive at all. Virtually everything post-apo...
[19:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech Execs to Meet With President Trump on Monday - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:30] <exec> 08└─This bit: Despite unease and rumblings from below, many are going to attend anyway.
[19:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tech Execs to Meet With President Trump on Monday - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:31] <exec> 08└─Of the three issues: immigration, climate change and transgender rights, these tech execs would seem most interested in H1B visas. They will find a sympathetic ear with Trump, who likes to employ foreign workers himself in the US. As a shrewd negotiator, he will ask for something in return though. W...
[19:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tech Execs to Meet With President Trump on Monday - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:34] <exec> 08└─Sorry, not all of us are lucky enough to be able to live in SV long enough to be able to get a six figure salary job to afford the rent to be able to live in SV.
[19:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech Execs to Meet With President Trump on Monday - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:36] <exec> 08└─But never mind that now. What is your point, oh sticklerly NotSanguine?
[19:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US District Court: Approval of Dakota Access Pipeline Violated the Law - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:57] <exec> 08└─politicized into a referendum on Trump
[19:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US District Court: Approval of Dakota Access Pipeline Violated the Law - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:58] <exec> 08└─Guess who's approval is required to grant an easement that crosses a US border? Guess who's approval wasn't granted. It's almost like one of the President's powers is to veto bad ideas...
[19:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US District Court: Approval of Dakota Access Pipeline Violated the Law - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:00] <exec> 08└─Trump Phelatiotic Syndrome
[19:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US District Court: Approval of Dakota Access Pipeline Violated the Law - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:03] <exec> 08└─The problem with your logic is that many had issues with this process before Trump was even involved. Hmm...I wonder if those issues could have prevented the issuance of the original permits? And then, when word came down to approve no matter what, I wonder if they ensured those issues were resolved...
[19:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US District Court: Approval of Dakota Access Pipeline Violated the Law - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:05] <exec> 08└─You don't even know the name of the organization you are "citing" yet you accuse others of anecdotes.
[19:15:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review of OpenIndiana 2017.04 Hipster - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:48] <exec> 08└─The problem is the Gentoo learning cliff. As much as I do like Gentoo, I got off it originally for Ubuntu because I don't get a lot of enjoyment with constantly fiddling with my system. Installing a system with Ubuntu and my preferred DE of the time took about an hour. Setting up Gentoo from stage3...
[19:15:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review of OpenIndiana 2017.04 Hipster - 976 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:49] <exec> 08└─Quite a few years ago I rescued a pair of Sun Ultra 80s from a skip. They're identical, with four UltraSPARC IIi 450MHz CPUs, 2GB RAM and Creator 3D graphics. They had Solaris 8 on them IIRC, and put a Solaris Nevada (Solaris nv/11) development build on them. The idea was I'd be able to keep my Sola...
[19:15:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review of OpenIndiana 2017.04 Hipster - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:51] <exec> 08└─The first Unix I used back in about 1993 was Solaris. I remember one of the machines on the network was enormous. It had 128MB of RAM. I ran some home made FORTRAN on it. I used to love the OpenLook Window Manager and in 1995 when I installed Slackware at home for the first time, I used olvwm [wikip...
[19:16:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03unauthorized [3776] 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 385 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:46] <exec> 08└─I'm not against private gun ownership, but this is, to use the technical terms, fucking stupid. The primary means to ensure the continuation of a democracy is through political will. There are many democracies which function just fine without guns, and is a certain well-armed democracy which functio...
[19:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:30] <exec> 08└─Depends on the person. A few years ago, yeah dead snake and fuck the law. Now a majority would probably call the local council and get a snake catcher sent around. But that wasn't the point anyway. Arguing that you need a gun to shoot snakes isn't going to work because you're not allowed to shoot th...
[19:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:31] <exec> 08└─Maybe you've heard of these people? /www.oathkeepers.org/
[19:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:33] <exec> 08└─Halal tax on what? Is there any law to enforce that? There will be no Impunity as long as the three alphanumeric agencies are operative. There might be a continuous occurrences of smaller events but nothing really big. Speaking in terms of probability.
[19:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:35] <exec> 08└─it may depend on what happens with trump. i didn't vote for trump but he has "the right" convinced that he is trying to MAGA. if he is obstructed enough, impeached, assassinated, too much rioting, etc. you may see a serious reaction. the people with the largest caches of weapons, the groups with the...
[19:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:38] <exec> 08└─If we get to that point - then we deserve whatever. We've had generations of forefathers who warned us to safeguard our liberties. If we permit the government to bring us to the point you describe, then we simply deserve what they dish out to us.
[19:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 1411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:40] <exec> 08└─insurgency is battle proven to be a pain in the ass for any large military to deal with. even though the US has been getting lots of practice the US civilian population is *heavily* armed. also, the military will not simply side against the american people in one organized group of traitors. a high...
[19:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 2048 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:42] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the clarifications. Professional hog hunters, though -- as in, do it for a living, so same deal as an armed security guard, right? (Not seen that documentary, but my uncle shoots wild hogs in Louisiana, so I know a little about them.) But when I speak of handguns for hunting, I'm thinking...
[19:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Compound Can Mimic the Effects of a Sun Tan - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:04] <exec> 08└─All the above are trolls. But its okay to slander Christians.
[19:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Compound Can Mimic the Effects of a Sun Tan - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:06] <exec> 08└─A lot of people would stop saying racism is "over" after spending a year as a very dark-skinned person.
[19:20:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:12] <exec> 08└─Well I can guarantee that your child can become a failed billionaire. Just like Trump U., all you have to do is send me some money and I won't actually do anything! PS: Is your child a billionaire? If not, send me my money, I already succeeded sucker!
[19:20:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:13] <exec> 08└─The problem happens when the focus is on winning rather than gaining knowledge. But prizes for just breathing is of course just rubbish.
[19:20:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:15] <exec> 08└─Happy Father's Day to you as well! You are doing great work, and I applaud you for taking your child's development so seriously. It is a great commitment, but it will be worthwhile. With subsidy, homeschooling would be a very appealing avenue for me to explore. Hopefully some things will change in t...
[19:20:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:18] <exec> 08└─Hourly cost? so you hire a private teacher from time to time? Is that not deductible on the tax? because as you say otherwise you will be sponsoring the education of other children. Oh.. the bucket crabs. They are f-cking everywhere. But usually they are poor to handle people that are independent an...
[19:20:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:20] <exec> 08└─Alas, the bucket crabs are not original with me. But they sure as hell explain a lot of lowest common denominator policies and their proponents.
[19:20:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 989 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:22] <exec> 08└─Right because in your reality there is no way to discriminate in public schools, like say by moving to a different school district where house prices are out of reach for certain demographics. And in your reality, where such discrimination does not exist, there is no move to punish the districts tha...
[19:20:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PBS Runs a Three-Hour Series Highlighting Positives of DeVos Education Agenda - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:24] <exec> 08└─No, hourly cost in terms of the value of our time. Both of us are highly educated, and could sell our time that we currently spend on teaching for around $100/hour on the open market. Devoting our time to our children and their education has a realistic cost - but one we have agreed to bear, and one...
[19:20:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06T-Mobile’s New 600 MHz Network Rollout Begins This Summer - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:40] <exec> 08└─I glanced through T-mobile's press release and it looks like this is a 5G network. Does anyone know of the technology or if this new spectrum will be used for anything more reminiscent of older generations?
[19:21:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06SAS Troops Posing as Homeless on UK Streets Amid Terror Fears - 687 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:17] <exec> 08└─posting anon for obvious reasons I served in the Parachute Regiment starting in 1987. I went on to pass selection for a unit called 14 Intelligence Company(AKA The Det). We did all the information gathering clouding photographic(still, video and audio) for the SAS to then go and take action on. My...
[19:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SAS Troops Posing as Homeless on UK Streets Amid Terror Fears - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:44] <exec> 08└─The Sun is printing news now? Who cares. Are the boobs any good today? And who won the footie?
[19:21:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SAS Troops Posing as Homeless on UK Streets Amid Terror Fears - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:45] <exec> 08└─I hear what you say about the Isle of Wight, but what about Gruinard Island [wikipedia.org]? If the anthrax doesn't get you, the midgies [wikipedia.org] will.
[19:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SAS Troops Posing as Homeless on UK Streets Amid Terror Fears - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:48] <exec> 08└─I hear the Tories might be looking for a new leader in a couple of weeks. Thought of applying?
[19:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SAS Troops Posing as Homeless on UK Streets Amid Terror Fears - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:50] <exec> 08└─Are you the session who played lead for Ritchie Blackmore on Smoke on the water? :-) I played session for Rick Wakeman on all his best stuff.
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[20:12:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nerdfest [80] 02 - 06The Tick That Gives People Meat Allergies Is Spreading - 163 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:53] <exec> 08└─Found in the southeast states, has a Texas-shaped splotch on its back and causes an allergy to meat? That just reeks of a life-form bio-engineered to troll Texans.
[20:13:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Tick That Gives People Meat Allergies Is Spreading - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:00] <exec> 08└─So that's how it happened; I must have been bitten by a lone star tick. Except I was living in Portland Oregon at the time when I developed a lifelong meat allergy, so I'm going to blame Michael David Crawford for ruining my entire life. Do you have any idea how much money I've wasted on organic veg...
[20:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Tick That Gives People Meat Allergies Is Spreading - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:02] <exec> 08└─It might not be lifelong. I've heard that after some years of avoiding exposure to the ticks, the allergy fades, and I know of at least one case of that being true.
[20:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06The Tick That Gives People Meat Allergies Is Spreading - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:04] <exec> 08└─I think we should deport anybody who doesn't eat meat, no matter what their excuse is. "Allergy" my ass. They're a bunch of vegan Muslims and should be deported.
[20:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Tick That Gives People Meat Allergies Is Spreading - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:06] <exec> 08└─Is it the Jews for bacon, the Indians for beef, the Californians and their fish tacos, the texans to keep good meat to themselves, the blacks tired of fried chicken jokes, the Asians plotting a tofu takeover ? One small tick, so many conspiracy options...
[20:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Tick That Gives People Meat Allergies Is Spreading - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:09] <exec> 08└─Exactly what i was thinking... like a tick in Canada that gives us an allergy to good beer and maple syrup.
[20:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Tick That Gives People Meat Allergies Is Spreading - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:11] <exec> 08└─Americans (well, some at least) elect a meat head, and suddenly you're all developing allergies to meat. COINCIDENCE!?!?! I. Think. Not! ;)
[20:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Tick That Gives People Meat Allergies Is Spreading - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:13] <exec> 08└─AIDS can be cured by raping virgin girls, and you can't become infected again either.
[20:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Tick That Gives People Meat Allergies Is Spreading - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:15] <exec> 08└─And AC's too. 'Cause! Earache, my eye! Turn down that MUSIC!!
[20:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Audiences Stare Straight Ahead 75% of the Time - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:41] <exec> 08└─I'm split between the need to point out people dwindling attention spans, with the need to always look around rather than focus on something, and the need to point out that people's lives and ficus now seem to fit on 5 degrees of their visual space, or whatever less than 6 inches resolves to at arms...
[20:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Audiences Stare Straight Ahead 75% of the Time - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:42] <exec> 08└─It is quite idiotic to use VR, a system designed for free-form 360 degrees viewing, to watch a movie or documentary, where a big part of the director's effort go to making you look at various things in a certain sequence to create a narrative. Use VR for open-world games (renew the detective genre,...
[20:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Audiences Stare Straight Ahead 75% of the Time - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:44] <exec> 08└─I'm telling you that I think the director made a mistake; he has failed to capture my attention, and has instead broken the illusion. Then again, when I watch movies with other people, I find that they have almost zero conscious appreciation for the cinematographic choices that are being made; they...
[20:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Audiences Stare Straight Ahead 75% of the Time - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:47] <exec> 08└─Those things don't take the advice.
[20:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Audiences Stare Straight Ahead 75% of the Time - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:49] <exec> 08└─Comments don't get deleted and you made a comment anyway. Fix your head.
[20:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Weasley [6421] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Wanderers" - a Short SF Movie - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:19] <exec> 08└─You said: "sci-fi has been failing". Can we stop being condescending and admit that you're post sounded like your definition of sci-fi didn't go beyond the silver screen?
[20:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Wanderers" - a Short SF Movie - 1348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:20] <exec> 08└─Why is anarchy unrealistic after a really big collapse? With a sufficiently large collapse of the human population, there simply wouldn't be enough people left to form an actual "civilization", there's just be survivors wandering around in the ruins trying to survive or figure out what to do next. J...
[20:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Wanderers" - a Short SF Movie - 749 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:22] <exec> 08└─To me Moon, Oblivion and Edge of Tomorrow are sci-fi movies that ask "what if something was different". You might not count Moon as Hollywood but the other two are. The Planet of the Apes reboot also counts for "what if something was different". Same for District 9. As for Elysium, it might have bee...
[20:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Wanderers" - a Short SF Movie - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:24] <exec> 08└─> We've been to the moon and there weren't any moonwomen to rape. Space exploration is done. That's because you silly Americans kniggits just do not understand Good Cheese. Now, go to Mars, before I taunt you a second time!
[20:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Wanderers" - a Short SF Movie - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:27] <exec> 08└─If you think people are lazy, destructive, and easily distracted then i don't think you should have much hope for cats. I'm thinking something like Kzinti only instead of war-like they are west-coast surfer dudes.
[20:15:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03arulatas [3600] 02 - 06US District Court: Approval of Dakota Access Pipeline Violated the Law - 101 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:15] <exec> 08└─The problem with your logic is that many had issues with this process before Trump was even involved.
[20:15:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US District Court: Approval of Dakota Access Pipeline Violated the Law - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:27] <exec> 08└─I notice too the judge ignored the Obama administration's malfeasance in deliberate obstruction of pipeline construction and operation. For example, the judge stated: The Corps’ February 8, 2017, decision to grant the easement was arbitrary, capricious, and contrary to law because the Corps revers...
[20:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US District Court: Approval of Dakota Access Pipeline Violated the Law - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:28] <exec> 08└─Yes, the people who have been protesting for like two years now can all see the future and have been referenduming against Trump this whole time.
[20:16:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Review of OpenIndiana 2017.04 Hipster - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:15] <exec> 08└─We use it on some of our large file servers. The unholy speed and low load you get from using sendfile() on FreeBSD seems unmatched by most alternatives, including the same call on Linux. But other than that one use case, we use Linux on servers. There is some debate about transitioning to all Linux...
[20:16:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lockheed Martin Negotiating $37 Billion F-35 Deal - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:26] <exec> 08└─> the average price of the 440 jets was expected to be $85 million It's a bit like US healthcare, really. The US has been paying an obscene amount, now foreign markets will get the same one much cheaper, and have better outcomes.
[20:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:02] <exec> 08└─maybe you shoud a new interpretarion framework. Democracy has been a facade for imperiaslism for a couple of centuries now. fuck off with your fantasyland BS
[20:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Compound Can Mimic the Effects of a Sun Tan - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:28] <exec> 08└─What the hell is TERF. Now cultural appropriation is something to get worked up over? So non-French people shouldn't use penicillin? Only Americans can use transistors? Relativity theory is for the Jewish diaspora? Get a life.
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[21:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Venezuelans Flock to Cryptocoins When Inflation Explodes - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:46] <exec> 08└─... the Venezuelans were rioting in protest of their government giving money to the Trump administration!
[21:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venezuelans Flock to Cryptocoins When Inflation Explodes - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:47] <exec> 08└─Venezuela used to be a wealthy country and had many social welfare programs for the citizens. They have lots oil reserves and as I remember, they had world's lowest price for petrol. How did they manage to screw up so badly that inflation is so high, people are rioting in the streets and the country...
[21:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Venezuelans Flock to Cryptocoins When Inflation Explodes - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:49] <exec> 08└─Venezuela used to be a wealthy country and had many social welfare programs for the citizens. They have lots oil reserves and as I remember, they had world's lowest price for petrol. How did they manage to screw up so badly that inflation is so high, people are rioting in the streets and the country...
[21:12:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Venezuelans Flock to Cryptocoins When Inflation Explodes - 841 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:51] <exec> 08└─It's because central planning DOES NOT WORK! Time and again, it's been revealed that societal flows of resources (especially on a global scale) are way too complex to be managed by even a group of would-be experts; it must instead be managed by the decentralized interactions between individuals with...
[21:12:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Venezuelans Flock to Cryptocoins When Inflation Explodes - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:54] <exec> 08└─Why didn't their society diversify its investments? Why did they build their entire society around this one resource, especially a society with heavy-handed socialist handouts? Well, because they organized according to top-down, central planning. When you place the organization of flows of resources...
[21:12:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venezuelans Flock to Cryptocoins When Inflation Explodes - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:56] <exec> 08└─Thanks for your response. However, I do not think that price of petrol is the ONLY cause. Even now, the Gulf Countries (Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, UAE, Oman, Bahrain) have some of the lowest prices of petrol and most of them are "single good" economies. Are you suggesting that they too will head i...
[21:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Tick That Gives People Meat Allergies Is Spreading - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:18] <exec> 08└─Dude.... I'm listening to that song right now as I read your post........
[21:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dale [539] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Tick That Gives People Meat Allergies Is Spreading - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:19] <exec> 08└─We do put our state image on everything (pasta, shower curtains, if you can think of it we have a version with Texas on it). Maybe we engineered the little buggers. Seems a bit off since we raise so much cattle, but maybe it was an experiment gone wrong.
[21:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Tick That Gives People Meat Allergies Is Spreading - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:21] <exec> 08└─Off topic, what do you think of the new editor at Analog? I'm not a fan, I used to look forward to reading the issues, now it's a chore. The stories just aren't interesting anymore.
[21:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Tick That Gives People Meat Allergies Is Spreading - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:24] <exec> 08└─Is it the Jews for bacon, the Indians for beef, the Californians and their fish tacos, the texans to keep good meat to themselves, the blacks tired of fried chicken jokes, the Asians plotting a tofu takeover ? One small tick, so many conspiracy options...
[21:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Tick That Gives People Meat Allergies Is Spreading - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:26] <exec> 08└─Doesn't that only work when combined with circumcision?
[21:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Tick That Gives People Meat Allergies Is Spreading - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:28] <exec> 08└─Insects are meat
[21:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Tick That Gives People Meat Allergies Is Spreading - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:30] <exec> 08└─Seems a bit off since we raise so much cattle, but maybe it was an experiment gone wrong.
[21:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Tick That Gives People Meat Allergies Is Spreading - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:32] <exec> 08└─A Discordian is Required during his early Illumination to Go Off Alone & Partake Joyously of a Hot Dog on a Friday; this Devotive Ceremony to Remonstrate against the popular Paganisms of the Day: of Catholic Christendom (no meat on Friday), of Judaism (no meat of Pork), of Hindic Peoples (no meat of...
[21:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Tick That Gives People Meat Allergies Is Spreading - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:35] <exec> 08└─Naughty spawn, you face The Tick! Oh wait... wrong tick... my bad...
[21:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Audiences Stare Straight Ahead 75% of the Time - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:06] <exec> 08└─Found the old dude who somehow managed to figure out the internet!
[21:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Audiences Stare Straight Ahead 75% of the Time - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:07] <exec> 08└─The advantage of VR is the immersion you get because you can look anywhere and still see the virtual world.
[21:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Audiences Stare Straight Ahead 75% of the Time - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:09] <exec> 08└─virtual tours
[21:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Audiences Stare Straight Ahead 75% of the Time - 1612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:12] <exec> 08└─It's up to filmmakers to make it worth a damn for narrative experiences that aren't games. One glaring problem is that if the camera is translating and rotating, there's a disconnect between those changes in view and your lack of movement. I guess the test for this would be to watch something like H...
[21:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Audiences Stare Straight Ahead 75% of the Time - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:14] <exec> 08└─Nah, we're just in the painful inbetween stage. Once we get privacy clawed back from the corporations (or at least popular non-central alternatives) then we can get back to human value with computing. It is funny, you say go out into the world cause people suck... so what is the difference between h...
[21:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Audiences Stare Straight Ahead 75% of the Time - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:16] <exec> 08└─The politics of visiting the grand canyon are, so far, tolerable and profitable.
[21:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Audiences Stare Straight Ahead 75% of the Time - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:18] <exec> 08└─Even a minuscule amount of head rotation while mostly looking straight forward is going to feel immersive in VR. Think of something like the opening of TES V: Skyrim.
[21:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Audiences Stare Straight Ahead 75% of the Time - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:21] <exec> 08└─Try again.
[21:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Wanderers" - a Short SF Movie - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:55] <exec> 08└─Laziness isn't necessarily incompatible with developing advanced technology. After all, isn't one of the primary aims of technology to replace labor with automation, and make life easier? With enough intelligence, cats should be great at developing automation technologies.
[21:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Wanderers" - a Short SF Movie - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:57] <exec> 08└─As for Elysium, it might have been interesting if they'd made the "healing tech" cost a huge amount in energy and resources. Then as the poor overload those machines they find that the harsh reality is even if the social barriers are dropped, you still can't heal everyone or even feed everyone great...
[21:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Wanderers" - a Short SF Movie - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:59] <exec> 08└─No, knumbskull, the complaint is about "Recreations Of Actual Places" in someplace small when MUCH BIGGER recreations have been done decades ago. Why doesn't every live action movie filmed on location carry a notice declaring "FILMED ON PLANET EARTH!!!" ?
[21:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tech Execs to Meet With President Trump on Monday - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:33] <exec> 08└─I think I covered your smartass reply with "it sure would be amazing". But go ahead, by a cynically redundant jagoff.
[21:15:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tech Execs to Meet With President Trump on Monday - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:35] <exec> 08└─You have mastered literacy, now how about basic analysis / critical thinking? Or maybe you just have extreme OCD which makes you need everything defined to pinpoint accuracy?
[21:16:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stephen Furst -- Flounder in 'Animal House'; Vir Coto in 'Babylon 5' -- Dies at 63 - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:20] <exec> 08└─Daaaamn...
[21:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:37] <exec> 08└─The only snakes you're going to able to shoot with a handgun are too slow to bother you. Death adders, red-bellies and the like. Leave them alone and everyone goes home happy. On the other hand, if an eastern brown decides he doesn't like you then you'll have a couple of puncture marks by the time y...
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[22:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Assassination Markets Just a Revenge Fantasy? - 1737 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:44] <exec> 08└─So have you been in a position where you know you could hurt someone but the actual idea of it turns you off? The same is going to apply if you think about killing them, except you'll probably get sick or something. I have never had to do a contract kill before but I would assume people that do are...
[22:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Assassination Markets Just a Revenge Fantasy? - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:45] <exec> 08└─I have never had to do a contract kill before but I would assume people that do are pretty desperate.
[22:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Tick That Gives People Meat Allergies Is Spreading - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:29] <exec> 08└─I know... that's why i posted it! By the way... you can take off the pink tutu now. :)
[22:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Tick That Gives People Meat Allergies Is Spreading - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:30] <exec> 08└─My brother in law developed a moderately short lived meat allergy (as in it lasted a few years) and then it went away. I wonder if it could be related to a tick bite. As I recall, he did travel to Houston, and to New Orleans around when it happened.
[22:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Tick That Gives People Meat Allergies Is Spreading - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:32] <exec> 08└─I dated an alpha-gal once, but she gave me a meet allergy.
[22:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Audiences Stare Straight Ahead 75% of the Time - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:12] <exec> 08└─People care more for content than the delivery. If two people are talking then the importance of the videography is second to the story line. Generally people focus on what the people are saying more than the atmosphere they're saying it in. That is just normal, deviations from that norm require foc...
[22:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Audiences Stare Straight Ahead 75% of the Time - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:13] <exec> 08└─making it impossible to produce something not-leftist while nobody non-leftist wants to watch.
[22:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Audiences Stare Straight Ahead 75% of the Time - 761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:15] <exec> 08└─Oh just wait, it will take a while for people to create the content. It will be a different approach to entertainment, and likely one that requires some choices to be made. Off the top of my head I see two basic choices for movie makers: 1) allow viewers to pause, go back, or otherwise explore the d...
[22:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Wanderers" - a Short SF Movie - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:53] <exec> 08└─You can grow food with seawater or closed loop hydrophobic farms. Not enough for billions, but certainly enough to have a functional society after the majority dies off. Virtually everything post-apocalyptic is virtually obsessed with the notion of anarchy, and the reason for that is more to provide...
[22:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech Execs to Meet With President Trump on Monday - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:29] <exec> 08└─I bet we'll see a massive uptick in political involvement once people's vote actually matters.
[22:15:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US District Court: Approval of Dakota Access Pipeline Violated the Law - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:59] <exec> 08└─It's Felatio, but on a person with really small....... hands... yeah. Hands.
[22:16:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US District Court: Approval of Dakota Access Pipeline Violated the Law - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:00] <exec> 08└─Yeah, you know the world energy group: headed by Barnacle P. Whutzaburgerbun, with his deputies Barney Fife, and Barney the big purple dinosaurorwhateverhisnameis. Yeah, you know them... you've just forgotten. Easy to do. :)
[22:16:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US District Court: Approval of Dakota Access Pipeline Violated the Law - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:02] <exec> 08└─We've always been at war with world energy group: it's group world energy that are our allies.
[22:16:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US District Court: Approval of Dakota Access Pipeline Violated the Law - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:04] <exec> 08└─And massively contaminate the groundwater/downstream ecosystem, would it result in the pipeline getting shut down, or simply a payout, eminent domaining of the land, and forced relocation of the tribes to another (smaller) reservation made somewhere else? That could be win win for the oil company an...
[22:16:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US District Court: Approval of Dakota Access Pipeline Violated the Law - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:07] <exec> 08└─Guess who didn't read their parent's post. The Corps’ February 8, 2017, decision to grant the easement was arbitrary, capricious, and contrary to law because the Corps reversed a prior policy without reasoned justification and because the decision constituted a breach of trust responsibilities
[22:16:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review of OpenIndiana 2017.04 Hipster - 1254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:54] <exec> 08└─Who is this reviewer and why should I care about his opinion? He clearly doesn't know jack about Solaris. He basically did the equivalent of, "I'm driving this mac truck but it's crap cause it's not a car!" Why does everything have to be "for the desktop"? Solaris isn't a desktop operating system. I...
[22:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:43] <exec> 08└─> An armed population is the primary manner in which a democracy continues to be a functioning democracy. Don't need to ask your nationality... The only armed thing that preserves a democracy is having police and military who only serve the people.
[22:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:44] <exec> 08└─Outside of a few rare-if-overly-publicized lunatics, criminals don't want to use their weapons. A criminal sure of his upper hand is less likely to cause unnecessary injury. Victims who are still alive can resort to simple civilized ways to recover their losses. If you don't take my word for it, you...
[22:18:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:47] <exec> 08└─It's that tax on screaming "Halalalalalalalalalal" just before pushing the button on the bomb strapped to their chest and saying "Death to infidels!" I hear it's hard to collect on that tax, though.
[22:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Compound Can Mimic the Effects of a Sun Tan - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:12] <exec> 08└─> A lot of people would stop saying racism is "over" after spending a year as a very dark-skinned person. Since a significant number of them would be either dead or in jail, we wouldn't hear them say it anymore. > The tanning industry is huge True, and the goal is not to be too dark, so the dosage w...
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[23:12:38] <exec> 08└─List of people I want dead: https://wiki.soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[23:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are Assassination Markets Just a Revenge Fantasy? - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:40] <exec> 08└─DIE COCKFUCKERS DIE
[23:12:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venezuelans Flock to Cryptocoins When Inflation Explodes - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:53] <exec> 08└─Socialism, duh. It destroys every nation it touches.
[23:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmcmonster [401] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Tick That Gives People Meat Allergies Is Spreading - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:27] <exec> 08└─Heard the podcast about this a couple months ago. http://www.radiolab.org [radiolab.org] Quite informative and interesting at the same time.
[23:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Audiences Stare Straight Ahead 75% of the Time - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:09] <exec> 08└─Have you actually tried it? I have on my cheap $5 google cardboard, first version a while ago, and it is pretty good. Much better than the gimmicky 3D in cinemas. Yes things you're supposed to focus on is straight ahead, but the things that move past you are within your peripheral vision making it m...
[23:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03r1348 [5988] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Wanderers" - a Short SF Movie - 878 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:48] <exec> 08└─Every generation has its own apocalyptic cults, you're just a member of the last one in order. Not so much time ago, a sizable part of the Christian world was sure we were done with the year 1000. Some wackos even though that the whole 2012 mayan whatever bullcrap was worth believing in. My point is...
[23:15:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech Execs to Meet With President Trump on Monday - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:26] <exec> 08└─I'm sure some of the execs will make good suggestions. Trump may even listen to them. His inability to focus, though, will prevent any of them from going anywhere. A key limitation of being President is time. Everybody wants some of it. If you do not have a plan you mean to execute, and filter accor...
[23:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:38] <exec> 08└─t's not impossible that things could slowly worsen to the point that the military really would be willing to kill their own civilians though, right?
[23:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:39] <exec> 08└─> representative democracy oxymoron detected.
[23:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:42] <exec> 08└─So immigrant gangs is not a big problem in Australia anymore?
[23:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:44] <exec> 08└─Actually the POTUS can take control of the National Guard "in time of natural disasters or other public emergencies" and override a Governor's authority. http://tenthamendmentcenter.com [tenthamendmentcenter.com] So if the POTUS had to...
[23:18:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Announces Illegal-Gun Amnesty - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:46] <exec> 08└─https://imgur.com/Ohf85aL [imgur.com] I thing the conclusion is pretty obvious.
[23:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Compound Can Mimic the Effects of a Sun Tan - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:12] <exec> 08└─You might need to get an IV. This is trivial if your veins show.
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