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[00:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:21] <exec> 08└─For instance, the value of new treatments discovered by biomedical researchers is far greater than what they or their employers get paid, so they have positive spillovers.
[00:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:22] <exec> 08└─CEOs
[00:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:24] <exec> 08└─Look, I contribute almost a million dollars of value to society!
[00:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:27] <exec> 08└─...but I'd be interested to see how some other 'professions' turn out, like: - Patent Assertion Entities - Lobbyists - Televangelists - The cast of Jersey Shore
[00:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:29] <exec> 08└─A friend of mine was a lab assistant at UC Berkeley. The best she could afford was a one-room apartment. She asked me how she could make more money. I suggested coding. She took some classes, then got an internship at a startup. Quite soon she was offered a permanent position with stock options - fo...
[00:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 825 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:32] <exec> 08└─Politicians, CEOs, Managers, Executive Staff... probably lots of others I am forgetting. Executive Staff in this case referring to upper administrative staff like at colleges, universities, etc. While I am sure there are a few who are value adds to schools, just like with politicians, ceos, and mana...
[00:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:34] <exec> 08└─Especially "researchers" striving to knock down open doors... Can we mod the research itself "unsubstantiated flamebait", or just the media for propagating it for clickbait?
[00:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 916 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:36] <exec> 08└─The reproducibility project is actually now 4 out of 7 (after dropping an initial 25% because it was impossible for the original labs to explain how they got the results), but they have relaxed the definition of reproduced to allow for changing the protocol: http://www.sciencemag.org
[00:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:39] <exec> 08└─"Now she's a director of a successful company. She often travels to foreign lands to oversee their outsourcing." She made it, so fuck everyone around her trying to make it here now.
[00:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:41] <exec> 08└─Sports 'stars'/'athletes'. People who would do badly at "Would you like fries with that?" but get angry when their not paid more and more millions for hitting a baseball. And CEO's and politicians.
[00:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:43] <exec> 08└─"when their not paid more ..." People who don't fucking know the difference between "their" and "they're".
[00:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03datapharmer [2702] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Contractors Lose Jobs After Hacking CIA's in-House Vending Machines - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:54] <exec> 08└─So this is a learning opportunity. Next time turn off the port via the switch instead of being obvious and unplugging it from the wall. Is it really their fault the machine chose to give them snacks when the cards had no value? Shouldn't the machine just had said no sale? Was there a sign saying do...
[00:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Contractors Lose Jobs After Hacking CIA's in-House Vending Machines - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:55] <exec> 08└─We gave each other a chuckle as student hackers for sure. Friends showed me how to get into one of the old sandwich machines that had clear sliding doors for access to a multi-story lazy susan. Turned out that the mechanical lock was just off to the side and a simple bent wire tripped it easily. I n...
[00:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Contractors Lose Jobs After Hacking CIA's in-House Vending Machines - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:57] <exec> 08└─I think it's funny they were ripping off the vending machine. For some reason, who they are and what they were doing... just makes me laugh. I bet they were stoned.
[00:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Contractors Lose Jobs After Hacking CIA's in-House Vending Machines - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:59] <exec> 08└─They wanted them gone for other reasons, the snack thefts were convenient cause.
[00:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Caltech Replaces Lenses With Ultra-Thin Optical Phased Array - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:17] <exec> 08└─LOL! ACME catalog for the win.
[00:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Development of a Heroin Vaccine - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:51] <exec> 08└─Sounds like a big business opportunity... hence: probable.
[00:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:09] <exec> 08└─When the Cylons attacked, the Galactica was one of the few ships that survived because it used outdated software. All of the new ships in the fleet were taken over and neutralized in seconds. It's essential that we keep systems like WinXP around, as any self-respecting Cylon wouldn't be caught dead...
[00:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Coat of Paint Is Rocking the Global Shipping Industry - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:58] <exec> 08└─And, here I was thinking they were going to do something with real long-term impact like improved paints that lengthen the lifespan of the containers, or (before the summary loaded) maybe improved bottom paint that uses less fuel underway... I'm sure the container factory workers will appreciate the...
[00:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Coat of Paint Is Rocking the Global Shipping Industry - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:00] <exec> 08└─To even think that somehow the (mostly) water based paint might be more toxic once dried than the old paint is ludicrous, though.
[00:39:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM to Create TrueNorth Neuromorphic Supercomputer for the U.S. Air Force - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:47] <exec> 08└─The two things Dems love most are unmasking and surveillance. And OBSTRUCTIONISM. That's why you got unmasked. I don't know why they schlonged you on the Moderator Points, but I got some this afternoon. Everybody else is missing their Moderator Points, and I got my first ones. Even the Dems do the r...
[00:40:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Concorde Without the Cacophony: NASA Thinks It's Cracked Quiet Supersonic Flight - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:45] <exec> 08└─...besides being rattly, slow, crap bikes, that is: (South Park clip) https://vimeo.com [vimeo.com]
[00:40:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Concorde Without the Cacophony: NASA Thinks It's Cracked Quiet Supersonic Flight - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:46] <exec> 08└─The train only starts to look competitive if you deliberately make all other transportation modes unpleasant: don't construct adequate parking for cars, have bullshit TSA style security burdens at the airport, etc. Trains are just inflexible and slow for long distance travel. The only way they make...
[00:40:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Concorde Without the Cacophony: NASA Thinks It's Cracked Quiet Supersonic Flight - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:48] <exec> 08└─Protectionism from American plane makers, right. They actually looked into building one of their own but decided it made no business sense. Guess what? They were right.
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[01:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nokia (HMD Global) Attempting U.S. Comeback With Midrange Android Smartphones - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:29] <exec> 08└─>Amazon subsidizes this [discounted] price by putting personalized ads on the lock screen. For some it’ll be worth it; for others, no way. Not quite correct: NO [bleep] [bleep] [bleep] [bleep] [bleep] [bleep] [bleep] WAY, you [bleeping] [bleep] [bleeping] of a [bleeping] [bleeping] [bleep] !!!!! ....
[01:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moderation Point Issues Today (2017-06-28) - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:36] <exec> 08└─What made the difference so you could stay up longer than 12 hours?
[01:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moderation Point Issues Today (2017-06-28) - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:38] <exec> 08└─Good to know you guys take this as, if not more, seriously than that other site :) p.s. Datestamped 'old news' pages are the best for bookmarking old stories you might want to look up years later. It is too bad every other site decided to move to the 'pages from current news' indexing instead :(
[01:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moderation Point Issues Today (2017-06-28) - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:40] <exec> 08└─I am happy to have Hanlon's razor confirmed yet again. Well, only the part about it not being malice. Good work, eds and admins!
[01:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moderation Point Issues Today (2017-06-28) - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:43] <exec> 08└─Disabling Dr. Watson, which was called in every four hours. [ducks]
[01:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:01] <exec> 08└─And a lot of basketball coaches too.
[01:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:02] <exec> 08└─Good managers are worth a lot, bad ones worth negative amounts.
[01:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 767 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:04] <exec> 08└─Problem is, when the government is after you for whatever reason you're looking at a 20k minimum to have a lawyer help you. That's minimum. Think DUI. Look at Bill Cosby's case. Don't care if he's guilty or not, he spent several hundred grand, minimum, for his defense. If the government retries him...
[01:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:06] <exec> 08└─Sports is entertainment. Whether entertainment is valuable is an involved philosophical question. If you say entertainment (including sports) is NOT valuable, then you'd have to also discount Beethoven, Bach, Stanley Kubrick, Rembrandt, etc.
[01:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:09] <exec> 08└─One of the major reasons for high healthcare costs is "new treatments discovered by biomedical researchers". Is the idea that the value is positive because people pay money for it? Is that the value? This is a defective way of looking at things. We find ourselves unable to say "NO" to an expensive t...
[01:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Contractors Lose Jobs After Hacking CIA's in-House Vending Machines - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:24] <exec> 08└─Not hacking. I find it laughable the CIA would fire these presumably highly trained "hackers" for stealing $0.75 cent bags of fritos. My guess is, the CIA has hacked all they can hack and needs to cut back, when word came for volunteers these suckers stayed put while everyone else took a step back.
[01:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Contractors Lose Jobs After Hacking CIA's in-House Vending Machines - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:25] <exec> 08└─Unlikely, since they can't employ someone who's taken what the feds see as an illegal narcotic substance... Why else have the TLAs been having trouble recruiting hacker talent? Between that and the fact that any of the really good hackers (not posers like these) wouldn't be caught dead working for t...
[01:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Britain Signals That It Could Launch Air Strikes After Hackers Target Parliament - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:46] <exec> 08└─It's pretty much certain that around the time of the Iran-Iraq War Saddam Hussein had ambitions of joining the nuclear club. However, did they have a credible nuclear program in 2003 when they were invaded? From the looks of things, no. The sanctions imposed on Iraq after 1991 appear to have success...
[01:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:37] <exec> 08└─The three of you can now team up and split the cost of a new keyboard for me. The Dr. Pepper nose hose......
[01:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ransomware Attacks Hitting Russia, Ukraine, and Europe - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:11] <exec> 08└─What would Microstuffed be without Trumpet Winsock? ;-) That shit could not even handle multiple terminal sessions without freezing. Pile of shit, not that it's any news.
[01:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ransomware Attacks Hitting Russia, Ukraine, and Europe - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:12] <exec> 08└─Rig the network such that if the CEO computer or any other tries to do what viruses does it will shut down their network access. That way the CEO gets the illusion of open access but gets "IT-problems" whenever his own computer is compromised. It could be as simple as ban-me.corporate.com with open...
[01:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel First to Market With 64-Layer 3D NAND SSDs - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:04] <exec> 08└─(3-D SSD ≠ SS/DD FD) = FU
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[02:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nokia (HMD Global) Attempting U.S. Comeback With Midrange Android Smartphones - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:28] <exec> 08└─Give us a phone with a tiny screen. Maybe even a mono display in candybar form, and a two week battery. Let us add that to our plan for 5 bucks a month. They's sell a gazillion of them.
[02:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Nokia (HMD Global) Attempting U.S. Comeback With Midrange Android Smartphones - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:30] <exec> 08└─Is it one of those phones for which bootloader unlock, root, and custom ROM are a reasonably well-documented procedure that a power user can perform (cf. the Nexus devices) or is Nokia/HMD one of those manufacturers that work as hard as the game console companies to prevent the people who buy their...
[02:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nokia (HMD Global) Attempting U.S. Comeback With Midrange Android Smartphones - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:32] <exec> 08└─Nokia made its name by its designs, the mechanical bits. That's irrelevant on smartphones.
[02:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nokia (HMD Global) Attempting U.S. Comeback With Midrange Android Smartphones - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:34] <exec> 08└─Not tiny: 4 inches or so, with slim bezels to fit in any pocket. Not crazy resolution, just enough to check maps and mail. Make it thick enough for a big battery, because slim doesn't matter, and neither does weight at this point: Charge once or twice a week for light use. Security updates wouldn't...
[02:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nokia (HMD Global) Attempting U.S. Comeback With Midrange Android Smartphones - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:36] <exec> 08└─Not so irrelevant. If they can make a smartphone with the kind of build quality and durability that their feature phones were famous for back in their heyday, they could become a serious contender.
[02:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nokia (HMD Global) Attempting U.S. Comeback With Midrange Android Smartphones - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:38] <exec> 08└─Likewise here. I still use a Nexus 5. I've been waiting for a phone with a reasonable price and reasonable specs that is not ruined by poorly done UI corruptions and bundled bloatware. This may very well be it, but it would be nice to have it well supported by the mod community.
[02:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nokia (HMD Global) Attempting U.S. Comeback With Midrange Android Smartphones - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:41] <exec> 08└─Precisely, a modern Nokia 3310 clone. With the indestructibility that goes with it. Screen: Monochrome and small - Saves battery CPU/RAM: Less - Saves battery and opportunities for malware to stick around. Keys: Real! - works even without light etc. Unlocked bootloader of course. But I'll suspect a...
[02:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nokia (HMD Global) Attempting U.S. Comeback With Midrange Android Smartphones - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:43] <exec> 08└─I was running a N5 for a few years but sadly the power button gave up...I didn't really have time to fix it so I replaced it with a N5X. One thing about the N5X that is significantly better then the N5 is the radio; I get much much better reception then I ever did on the N5. Other then that the upgr...
[02:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Moderation Point Issues Today (2017-06-28) [Updated] - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:53] <exec> 08└─All those complaining that I saw were ACs. Since when did they start getting mod points?
[02:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moderation Point Issues Today (2017-06-28) [Updated] - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:55] <exec> 08└─Oh there's a moderate likelihood it'll turn out to be stupidity causing it. I'm just hoping it was an old slashcode dev's instead of mine.
[02:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moderation Point Issues Today (2017-06-28) [Updated] - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:57] <exec> 08└─I could give em some if you like. Wouldn't help though cause there are too many !$user->{is_anon} checks for an AC to actually use them.
[02:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moderation Point Issues Today (2017-06-28) [Updated] - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:59] <exec> 08└─Thanks for tracking it down, guys. I am relieved that I don't have to keep asking myself why I haven't made myself disagreeable enough to have my mod points taken away, also. An AC told me I have a bad-boy image to maintain.
[02:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 1012 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:22] <exec> 08└─The very first thing they drill into you at Law School is that justice is inexistent, there is only application of the law; so you are correct, as with many other things, the ‘justice system’ is a misnomer and we really have only a legal system. My professional malformation, I can’t imagine a...
[02:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:24] <exec> 08└─Politicians might actually need to be paid more, they take on a hell of a lot of responsibility sometimes and it might help a little with corruption. The ability to tell someone to piss off because you're doing fine. Corruption is what is killing us.
[02:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:26] <exec> 08└─Not everyone can code, yadda yadda, automate away tons of jobs, bippitty bop, we have the lowclass jobless and the elite employables. Stratify society yeah!!! Keep a history long enough and you can start learning from it.
[02:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:28] <exec> 08└─I'm in that situation and know many other people that are leaving the field. Four years of undergrad and six years for a PhD and what we're qualified for are $40,000/year "training positions" as postdoctoral researchers with no job security. Because there are already ~35,000 biomedical postdoctoral...
[02:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:30] <exec> 08└─I think we can have the law handle matters quite well, we've proven it as an effective means to maintain civilized society. The issue is varying forms of justice in the form of lawyers and personal ability to hire one. How about we provide a much broader public defender support base, reduce the clie...
[02:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:33] <exec> 08└─An alternative? How about 1/3 of the DA's budget goes to public defenders. As it is the DA has no skin in the game, they have a fixed (unlimited to you and me) budget, force them to pay for your defense. It's absurd the average American has to take a second mortgage on their house to defend themselv...
[02:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:35] <exec> 08└─not perfect but better than every other system we tried
[02:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:37] <exec> 08└─- The cast of Jersey Shore
[02:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:39] <exec> 08└─The medical researchers are thus effectively helping to steal resources
[02:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:41] <exec> 08└─Seems to me we could task an AI with the entirety of the legal system, and get vastly better justice out of it.
[02:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:44] <exec> 08└─Politicians can always get more by letting others pay so no salary will be enough. The solution is to be found elsewhere.
[02:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:46] <exec> 08└─Hey, I'm not a big fan of sports or sports stars either (in fact I think spectator sports are a complete waste of time), but I will admit that professional sports do generate a lot of economic effects. All those game tickets, cable TV sports packages, etc. add up to a lot of money, and a lot of empl...
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[02:34:48] <exec> 08└─The problem is that, by and large, the bad ones are getting huge paychecks. Just look at Carly Fiorina, Marissa Meyer, Bob Nardelli, etc. They ran their companies into the ground and got enormous compensation packages out of the deal. This even works for middle managers.
[02:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:50] <exec> 08└─No, she was really lucky, and probably also very talented and would have done a good job in any field she entered. But the point of the OP's anecdote, I'm sure, was that the biology field was a financial dead-end for her, whereas coding was the ticket to big success.
[02:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:52] <exec> 08└─Personally, I think sports is NOT valuable, but (good) music and movies are. However, you can't deny the economic effects of both sports and bad music and movies. How much money have the Transformers movies made, and how many people did they provide a good living for, for instance?
[02:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:55] <exec> 08└─. * Executives and shareholders in major industrial polluters * Executives and shareholders that risk the ecosystem for the whole planet in search for a more profitable GMO (Monsanto etc) * Ecosystem destroyers by farming Penaeus monodon, palm oil, overfishing, antibiotics in meat industry...
[02:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Contractors Lose Jobs After Hacking CIA's in-House Vending Machines - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:12] <exec> 08└─And the cheap bastards wouldn't share!!
[02:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Britain Signals That It Could Launch Air Strikes After Hackers Target Parliament - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:34] <exec> 08└─This is almost as bad as the time the Canadians bombed the Baldwins [wikia.com].
[02:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 1058 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:27] <exec> 08└─Doesn't help when there is a keyboard. The US Navy's "Smart Ship" program used Windoze last century. They had ridiculous failures. Testbed Gets An F-Minus [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [wired.com] N.B. "stalled in port" is not the story that is typically told. "system failures had required Yorktown...
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[03:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nokia (HMD Global) Attempting U.S. Comeback With Midrange Android Smartphones - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:41] <exec> 08└─That already exists. Google it. But the bigger the screen the more Temptation for advertisers, so small is good.
[03:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nokia (HMD Global) Attempting U.S. Comeback With Midrange Android Smartphones - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:42] <exec> 08└─I don't have so much first hand experience with all these goddamn phone manufacturers, but I get the impression that even the Chinese brands are upping their quality while keeping prices low. And certainly there is a lot of "choice": https://en.wikipedia.org
[03:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nokia (HMD Global) Attempting U.S. Comeback With Midrange Android Smartphones - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:45] <exec> 08└─Wrong. You see, smartphone is not really a phone, it's a handheld computer with touch interface, it's a thin rectangular device with screen on it. Mechanical design is just not a factor.
[03:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nokia (HMD Global) Attempting U.S. Comeback With Midrange Android Smartphones - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:47] <exec> 08└─How about one of these [wired.com], also from Nokia? No mono display, but it claims 38 day battery life so should pass the 2 week bar. I don't know if I'll get that exact one, but my next phone will be a dumb phone.
[03:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nokia (HMD Global) Attempting U.S. Comeback With Midrange Android Smartphones - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:49] <exec> 08└─Mechanical design is just not a factor.
[03:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Moderation Point Issues Today (2017-06-28) [Updated] - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:03] <exec> 08└─As long as they show up as available. Imagine the frustration as they keep trying to mod things.
[03:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:44] <exec> 08└─Even third-world countries are moving away from the inquisitorial system: Mexico, with the help of the U.S. Government [usembassy.gov], moved to a modern, oral system. Again, not perfect but the best we tried.
[03:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 1079 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:45] <exec> 08└─Politicians might actually need to be paid more No. When you look at the 5-star healthcare plan they get while deciding on a fuck-you plan for everybody else, it could easily be said that they're already paid too much for delivering bad results. it might help a little with corruption Y'know what wou...
[03:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 1138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:47] <exec> 08└─Sports stars are like actors. There is public demand for them, they generate ticket sales and more importantly, ad revenue. Attention is paid to their personalities, personal lives, disputes/fights, etc. They are branded not just by performance but also personality to extent (Lebron James is undenia...
[03:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:49] <exec> 08└─He was a lab assistant (chemistry). He got himself a new gig. Now he has cool threads, cool digs, and a cool car. [google.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[03:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 1407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:52] <exec> 08└─Many functions of the legal system can indeed be automated, even without true AI but the core must and will, remain human-centered. I’m an engineer by training and vocation, but I happen also to be a lawyer, so I can see the two sides of the fence :-) The concept of mens rea [wikipedia.org] is the...
[03:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:54] <exec> 08└─Just a reminder here that not so long ago in SoCal, For Rent signs had an addendum: No dogs and no actors. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[03:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Caltech Replaces Lenses With Ultra-Thin Optical Phased Array - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:30] <exec> 08└─Would love to have you submit some of those. Sounds like good info. Thx
[03:38:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 410 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:12] <exec> 08└─Are you mocking me? Malcolm Turnbull mocked me. He's looking for trouble. I don't want to broadcast to the enemy exactly what my plan is, but we are sending an armada, very powerful. We have submarines, very powerful, that I can tell you. To totally obliterate Canberra. We will work with our allies,...
[03:38:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 1158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:26] <exec> 08└─Many industries suffer this same problem: established/entrenched change control processes which take extremely long to execute. As complex as a warship is, going with XP may have accelerated their time to launch by months or years as compared to doing the same job with "modern" software/OS. Is it as...
[03:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:28] <exec> 08└─It was called stoned, and at its peak it infected 90%+ of floppy booting DOS based PCs in the mid 1980s. There were others, but stoned was the first I personally encountered.
[03:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Slapped With $2.7 Billion EU Fine - 774 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:39] <exec> 08└─Thanks. I know that. I didn't mean what you understood. There is also a philosophy part, like a doctrine, that runs through the system. Western capitalist societies have as a rule made it easy to do business. This has got nothing to do with market. They have regulated and deregulated with explicit g...
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[04:33:27] <exec> 08└─(grumble-grumble...what can one expect from some Christians monitoring the science!) 6,914 lbs. = 3.136138 tonnes 3 tonnes = 6613.87 lbs.
[04:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India Surges in Space Race as its Most Powerful Rocket Launches Satellite Into Orbit - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:28] <exec> 08└─Earth orbit isn't anywhere near the Moon. Look! https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Space Race? You're fucking deluded.
[04:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blue Origin will Build its Rocket Engine in Alabama - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:36] <exec> 08└─It's not really surprising. Alabama has long been popular with the science crowd. They even mention it in the theme song for the "Big Bang Theory": Our whole universe was in a hot dense state
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[04:33:57] <exec> 08└─Not as big a factor as it was for feature phones, but a typical smartphone still goes through a lot of wear and tear when being used by a typical person in the course of a day. Durability is still something I'd pay for, and if they aren't the sort to pretend that they still own the device after I pa...
[04:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nokia (HMD Global) Attempting U.S. Comeback With Midrange Android Smartphones - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:59] <exec> 08└─Sharp used to make a colour LCD display that could be viewed without a back-light. The Danger Hiptop had it.
[04:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nokia (HMD Global) Attempting U.S. Comeback With Midrange Android Smartphones - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:01] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the "Good device for a fair price" thing doesn't seem to be popular anymore. I'd rather have a mid-range device that can be rooted and tweaked than a "high-end" device with a locked bootloader and a horrid replacement UI.
[04:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nokia (HMD Global) Attempting U.S. Comeback With Midrange Android Smartphones - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:03] <exec> 08└─Maybe they could drop the "thin" part, add 3mm to it and have 3 or 4 days of battery life like we all keep screaming for.
[04:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nokia (HMD Global) Attempting U.S. Comeback With Midrange Android Smartphones - 1198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:05] <exec> 08└─The Nokia 3310 reloaded seems to have these specifications: * Charging by micro-USB * 2.4" color TFT display at 240 x 320 pixels 18 bpp, 167 ppi * 2 Mpix camera with LED flash, 1600 x 1200 pixels * mp3-player * 3,5 mm headset jack (WH-108?) * 2G compatible, GPRS, EDGE, 0.236 Mbit/s...
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[04:34:08] <exec> 08└─Is this phone is as "drop" sturdy as the original?
[04:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nokia (HMD Global) Attempting U.S. Comeback With Midrange Android Smartphones - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:10] <exec> 08└─As frojack may have been hinting, there's a current phone called the Nokia 3310 (they could at least have added bis to the name). https://en.wikipedia.org(2017) [wikipedia.org] It runs Java Micro Edition apps. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[04:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Moderation Point Issues Today (2017-06-28) [Updated] - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:26] <exec> 08└─I'm just hoping it was an old slashcode dev's instead of mine.
[04:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:12] <exec> 08└─With dozens and dozens of women claiming that he victimized all of them in similar ways, Bill Cosby isn't the best example. I would have used a whistleblower who got screwed by O'Bummer and his "transparency in gov't" bullshit as the example. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[04:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:13] <exec> 08└─I guess your example of Mexico switching is at least better than Pontius and Solomon, but the logic of "Even third-world countries are [jumping off bridges/smoking Marlboro Reds]" isn't incredibly compelling. You made the claim that our system is the best, but haven't really provided evidence for th...
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[04:35:16] <exec> 08└─Fortunately, they stacked the court with incompetent jurists that will find whatever ruling they're looking for. Just look at what the likes of Thomas and Scalia ruled over their tenure on the court. I don't think we've ever had jurists on the bench that were that lacking in competence. Hell, Thomas...
[04:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:18] <exec> 08└─Nardelli? I had to double check that he was who I think he was. He increased the value of Home Depot by billions while he was leading the company. Granted, the stores were understaffed, but including his name with those other incompetent hacks is rather ridiculous.
[04:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 847 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:20] <exec> 08└─It's rather more complicated than that. The US system is being split into different legal systems and some of them are very different. Drug court and family court around here are very different from what you'd see in civil court or criminal court. Mental health problems are also handled by a differe...
[04:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 1165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:22] <exec> 08└─Not true. The main reason for the high cost of medical care is that there's a large number of people who don't have medical coverage who then get charity care. Or, after years of no routine preventative care they get a job with coverage and all those expenses that weren't being paid come back in tri...
[04:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:24] <exec> 08└─Politicians might actually need to be paid more,
[04:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Contractors Lose Jobs After Hacking CIA's in-House Vending Machines - 651 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:42] <exec> 08└─Its been my experience that every really good creative person I have ever known had his way of doing things. When placed under someone else with "leadership" skills, the creative person would have to be fired for insubordination of one sort or another. Creative people by their very nature tend to th...
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[05:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India Surges in Space Race as its Most Powerful Rocket Launches Satellite Into Orbit - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:19] <exec> 08└─Does Pakistan have a space program?
[05:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India Surges in Space Race as its Most Powerful Rocket Launches Satellite Into Orbit - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:21] <exec> 08└─Wise man say the journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.
[05:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India Surges in Space Race as its Most Powerful Rocket Launches Satellite Into Orbit - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:23] <exec> 08└─The first step was in 1969. THE LAST STEP WAS IN 1972. The Space Race began AND ENDED before you were even born. Get the fuck off my lawn.
[05:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India Surges in Space Race as its Most Powerful Rocket Launches Satellite Into Orbit - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:25] <exec> 08└─Good for India, competition will be good for the industry as a whole. I just hope the satellite never has to call home for tech support.
[05:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India Surges in Space Race as its Most Powerful Rocket Launches Satellite Into Orbit - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:28] <exec> 08└─Oh yeah, let's interpret your ignorance literally, shall we? The Moon is two hundred thirty eight thousand nine hundred (238,900) miles away. Journey of a thousand miles, you say? Up your fucking asshole, wise ass.
[05:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Surges in Space Race as its Most Powerful Rocket Launches Satellite Into Orbit - 757 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:30] <exec> 08└─India launched a communication satellite using its most powerful rocket on Monday [csmonitor.com] 2017-06-26, improving its prospects of winning a bigger share of the more than 300e9 US$ global space industry and its hopes of a manned mission. The 13-story high rocket (~32.5 m), the Geo...
[05:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India Surges in Space Race as its Most Powerful Rocket Launches Satellite Into Orbit - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:32] <exec> 08└─Woosh. I guess you can get a mobility scooter for your effort.
[05:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blue Origin will Build its Rocket Engine in Alabama - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:41] <exec> 08└─More to the point, everyone's already so inbred and mutated that a leak of some of those horrible rocket fuels won't make much of a difference.
[05:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moderation Point Issues Today (2017-06-28) [Updated] - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:24] <exec> 08└─Froj! These are not the ACs you are looking for! Do you see that little button, just above the "Submit" button on the comment screen? It says, "post as AC". Some ACs are not ACs, so they have mod points under their regular user account, but are just posting as AC in case the purge has started, and...
[05:34:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Mykl [1112] 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 160 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:35] <exec> 08└─...but I'd be interested to see how some other 'professions' turn out, like: - Patent Assertion Entities - Lobbyists - Televangelists - The cast of Jersey Shore
[05:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:18] <exec> 08└─An addendum: I'm talking specifically about state college coaches here. In almost every state in the United States the highest paid public employee (often by a million or more dollars) is the head coach of whatever sport is popular locally. Does paying the coach that much really help the team play b...
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[05:36:59] <exec> 08└─Not only the oxygen bit, but their full complement of arms at the moment - two machine guns with just shy of two thousand rounds - I forget the calibre, but it is about on a par with a WW1 Sopwith Camel (yes, seriously) Maybe it could go in strafing! Take that, Red Cyber-Baron!
[05:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 1098 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:53] <exec> 08└─Somehow, I would like to think of buying a support agreement for open source software is like buying a support agreement for a hammer. Proprietary stuff, by its very nature, is intended to be understood by the very few privy to its inner workings, so if it stops working, very few have the knowledge...
[05:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 1288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:55] <exec> 08└─I remember those days well. Never lost a machine to them though, albeit I did end up reformatting drives and restoring from backup. It taught me a lot of what it takes to make a robust resilient system if I was going to trust putting something like critical infrastructure under control of a machine...
[05:39:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Coat of Paint Is Rocking the Global Shipping Industry - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:47] <exec> 08└─They may be talking about smelling the ozone. Prior to some storms, usually thunderstorms, you will have a high count of trioxygens. Those are three oxygen molecules that are bonded together. That only happens in limited conditions. The smell is different because we're used to a greater number of mo...
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[05:40:37] <exec> 08└─I was pretty surprised by how uncritical this post was (though have not followed it through to the originals). For anybody interested in the horrible effects of human-generated undersea sounds on non-humans, I recommend getting ahold of "Sonic Sea". The full film is about an hour, but here is a shor...
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[05:40:38] <exec> 08└─Sorry, just to clarify, by "this post" I meant the original story, not the post to which I responded. I suspect I am in agreement with davester666.
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[05:42:11] <exec> 08└─Since you used the plural and indicated large groups of people, go ahead and name 2 such "societies" where ownership of the means of production by The Workers is a thing. Keep in mind that when -you- "own" something, -you- get to make the decisions about that something. The closest I can come is Yug...
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[06:33:19] <exec> 08└─What's the catch? side effects? Or will it be like the female British teenager that got enormous boobs because the milk contained growth hormones. Didn't think of that... "oops". Let's not have such events shall we? Asbestos, DDT, PFOS, smoking etc were all harmless until they were not.
[06:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Innovation Feeds the World With More Fish Protein - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:21] <exec> 08└─Why not Rice? Why can't we feed the world with a protein everyone can consume regardless of dietary restriction? Cue asshats shouting "yo goober where's the meat?"
[06:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India Surges in Space Race as its Most Powerful Rocket Launches Satellite Into Orbit - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:37] <exec> 08└─No... not a mobility scooter... I believe that would assume the guy is old... An older person most likely has been exposed to education, as the phrase commented on is a well known axiom attributed to Lao Tzu of China, as he related great things often have humble beginnings. The comment you replied t...
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[06:35:22] <exec> 08└─Cesare Beccaria, On Crimes and Punishments, chapter XLII Philosophers acquire needs and interests unknown to uneducated men; above all, philosophers do not recant in the public forum the principles that they have upheld in private, and they acquire the habit of loving truth for itself. A good selec...
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[06:35:23] <exec> 08└─The profession "Holocaust Survivor(tm)" get paid for life without providing any value in return. What they do provide is false stories that were imagined. An example is "Anne Frank diary", which was written by the jewess' father after the war to make money and to lay the foundation of the holocaust...
[06:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:02] <exec> 08└─I just bought a GUI panel from Saelig.... only to discover it was running Windows. I do not know if I can trust the damned thing, or if it will wait till I am 100 miles from nowhere then insist on an internet connection. So, I put it back in the box, and going Nextium. When I am taking this thing 1...
[06:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 2168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:04] <exec> 08└─Can you imagine the frustration of hacking a Commodore64? You spend all this time trying to get your code in the machine... you execute it and the ship begins to malfunction. The captain sees it, realizes he no longer has control, goes to the C64, turns it off, unplugs the remote, and turns it back...
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[07:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The United States Space Corps Wants You... - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:28] <exec> 08└─When do we get to the part with giant humanoid robots in space powered by Compact Fusion Reactors. Sig Zeon
[07:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Innovation Feeds the World With More Fish Protein - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:37] <exec> 08└─Just grow big sheets of sterile fish muscle protein in the lab.
[07:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Surges in Space Race as its Most Powerful Rocket Launches Satellite Into Orbit - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:54] <exec> 08└─The first step was in 1969.
[07:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Surges in Space Race as its Most Powerful Rocket Launches Satellite Into Orbit - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:56] <exec> 08└─Good for India, competition will be good for the industry as a whole. I just hope the satellite never has to call home for tech support.
[07:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blue Origin will Build its Rocket Engine in Alabama - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:05] <exec> 08└─Hey - I have a lot of kinfolk in Alabama! All farmers. God fearing folks. A lot of 'em are way too superstitious though, and often mis-led by folks with a suit and microphone. If it isn't beggaring preacher-men, its snake oil salesmen. One followed by the other. Constantly. Get on the good side o...
[07:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:44] <exec> 08└─That's small thinking. We pay the people who decide on trillion dollars budgets a shlub salary of 180k. Then you wonder why they don't put the people's interest first. Pay them like big company CEOs. That is their level of responsibility.
[07:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:46] <exec> 08└─Less carrot and more stick. It works for leakers and security clearances. Try to bribe them, if they accept, shoot them in the head.
[07:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Caltech Replaces Lenses With Ultra-Thin Optical Phased Array - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:24] <exec> 08└─...It was like the fad for making phones smaller and smaller, then laughing at people with larger ones even though that gave a better display area.
[07:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Development of a Heroin Vaccine - 1873 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:02] <exec> 08└─By the time its gone this far, I know this sounds terribly inhumane, but the individual wants his fix so bad he is in pure misery. Let him have all he wants. The stuff is cheap enough to make. I hate to have this guy making everyone else's life miserable by being forced to rob and pillage everyone...
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[08:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The United States Space Corps Wants You... - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:24] <exec> 08└─It's just not the Space Corps without the Women's Hospitality Order Refortifying & Encouraging Spacemen ("W.H.O.R.E.S").
[08:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The United States Space Corps Wants You... - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:25] <exec> 08└─Space Corp ... Sounds like the peace corp. They should have just called them Space Marines. If Games Workshop complained they can just drone-strike them.
[08:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The United States Space Corps Wants You... - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:28] <exec> 08└─Space. Space. Space...space! Space! Spacespacespacegottagotospace...oh wait, Space *Corps.* Erm, sorry. Carry on.
[08:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The United States Space Corps Wants You... - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:30] <exec> 08└─http://thehill.com/policy/defense/339972-plans-for-space-corps-stand-after-amendment-to-defense-policy-bill-fails [thehill.com] Most science fiction has the space corps as part of a navy, with naval ranks, terms and "culture". Are spaceships ships, planes, or... rockets?
[08:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Innovation Feeds the World With More Fish Protein - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:41] <exec> 08└─What is an innovation if not new? Surely a tautologous headline. https://en.wikipedia.org(grammar) [wikipedia.org]
[08:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Innovation Feeds the World With More Fish Protein - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:43] <exec> 08└─When it's being contrasted with a previous innovation.
[08:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Innovation Feeds the World With More Fish Protein - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:45] <exec> 08└─I have this novel idea for feeding the world's hottest women (and some dudes) with a a specially crafted protein. I can create one serving per day. First come first served.
[08:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondrake [2658] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Surges in Space Race as its Most Powerful Rocket Launches Satellite Into Orbit - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:04] <exec> 08└─$units Currency exchange rates from www.timegenie.com on 2016-06-21 2926 units, 109 prefixes, 88 nonlinear units You have: 6914 lbs You want: tons * 3.457 / 0.28926815 Are there different kind of tons?
[08:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:55] <exec> 08└─You identify generation of economic activity - but what is the societal benefit there?
[08:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:57] <exec> 08└─Yup, the current model means only millionaires get represented in the legislature.
[08:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:39:39] <exec> 08└─...who crashed his trusty old VW bug on the way home from Jim Williams' funeral and died. Whoa. Too much like Russian nesting dolls. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[08:39:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 975 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:39:41] <exec> 08└─Yeh, he loved his old VW bug.... he was always writing about it in "Pease Porridge" column. I considered those two people to be probably the most knowledgeable folks in the analog world. I sure miss reading the stories they posted in the technical magazines. I was quite envious of them being able to...
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[09:33:29] <exec> 08└─Too late, someone already thought about this in 1979 and called the demonstration video "Moonraker" [youtube.com]. So much for not militarizing space. Welcome your new bureaucratic overlords, black budgets, reckless testing etc. Btw the two persons that led this are part of the subcommittee for Stra...
[09:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Innovation Feeds the World With More Fish Protein - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:42] <exec> 08└─People eating fish will stop reproducing, so there'll be more for the rest of us...
[09:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Innovation Feeds the World With More Fish Protein - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:44] <exec> 08└─What's the catch? side effects?
[09:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Innovation Feeds the World With More Fish Protein - 1528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:46] <exec> 08└─Seriously. It seems nearly all attempts at agricultural and biological engineering is being done under the pretext of 'combating hunger', 'feeding the world', 'managing an ever increasing global population', or whatever other feel good phrase there is. The reality is that now many 'third world' nati...
[09:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Surges in Space Race as its Most Powerful Rocket Launches Satellite Into Orbit - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:05] <exec> 08└─Actually there is. It's a total mess. Better to use kg.
[09:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nokia (HMD Global) Attempting U.S. Comeback With Midrange Android Smartphones - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:43] <exec> 08└─It's called a transflective LCD, and my Garmin GPS has one. Not only is it easily readable in direct sunlight, it also only needs the backlight turned on when used in low light conditions. Basically it replaces the backlight with a mirror. Well, not quite replaces, it has both.
[09:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:00] <exec> 08└─You do know who the public defenders are, right? There are three classes: - Freshly minted attorneys, who don't yet have a client base or reputation. They may be good or bad, but they are certainly inexperienced. - Incompetent attorneys who cannot make a living any other way. - Good attorneys who do...
[09:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Contractors Lose Jobs After Hacking CIA's in-House Vending Machines - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:19] <exec> 08└─Well let's keep it real, if you think you weren't stealing when doing shenanigans this then you need to in a much higher pay-grade.
[09:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Britain Signals That It Could Launch Air Strikes After Hackers Target Parliament - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:46] <exec> 08└─At least at the end they were able to get the Devil to undo all the mayhem and bring everyone back to life.
[09:37:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06Development of a Heroin Vaccine - 495 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:57] <exec> 08└─How does this work when you need legit surgery or have a legit orthopedic failure? My guess is rather poorly. You know for a fact this will start being injected voluntarily into addicts with a history of relapse and will end with it being mandatory for all participants in high school sports, everyon...
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[10:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India's Martian MOM Clocks Up 1,000 Days Circling the Red Planet - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:19] <exec> 08└─How much Space debris do Mars have by now? Earth is at 17 852 artificial objects.
[10:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The United States Space Corps Wants You... - 1383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:32] <exec> 08└─The air-force command structure isn't organized for long-range missions and seniority* based promotions. If it's about near-orbit aerospace dog fights, bombing satellites and escorting large ships to orbit, the air-force can, should, and will do it. But if you're talking about escorting large fleets...
[10:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Innovation Feeds the World With More Fish Protein - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:49] <exec> 08└─What's the catch? side effects?
[10:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Surges in Space Race as its Most Powerful Rocket Launches Satellite Into Orbit - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:10] <exec> 08└─Are there different kind of tons?
[10:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moderation Point Issues Today (2017-06-28) [Updated] - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:06] <exec> 08└─Because it was a conspiracy of satanic nazi space chickens and we didn't want them to find us.
[10:35:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moderation Point Issues Today (2017-06-28) [Updated] - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:08] <exec> 08└─I always admit when I'm wrong. It just happens so rarely.
[10:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moderation Point Issues Today (2017-06-28) [Updated] - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:10] <exec> 08└─They migrated from Windows servers to Linux.
[10:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moderation Point Issues Today (2017-06-28) [Updated] - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:12] <exec> 08└─That AC is delusional. Your bad girl image was shattered last week when you were spotted trading your v card for a spliff in Lefty's Bar
[10:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:13] <exec> 08└─I'm not a fan of watching sports (let's invent a game that's fun to play, and then pay other people to play it while we watch seems very silly), but I'd consider them to be no different to authors in measuring their value. If 10,000 people get two hours of enjoyment each week from watching a couple...
[10:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:14] <exec> 08└─If the law required that the DA spend the same amount on the public defender as they spend on the prosecution for each case, perhaps that would change.
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[11:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pornhub's Newest Videos Can Reach Out and Touch You - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:25] <exec> 08└─If it can be controlled via the internet then it can be hacked via the internet. The first news story about a DDoS of these devices will be a rather interesting mix of euphemisms and innuendo.
[11:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pornhub's Newest Videos Can Reach Out and Touch You - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:27] <exec> 08└─What would the hackers do? cause pre-ejaculation? ;) Now VR could actually set of epilepsy etc which can have consequences.
[11:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pornhub's Newest Videos Can Reach Out and Touch You - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:29] <exec> 08└─perfect for low res streaming
[11:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The United States Space Corps Wants You... - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:49] <exec> 08└─Not sure if I'd want to be a Space Cadet.
[11:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The United States Space Corps Wants You... - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:51] <exec> 08└─I can't comment on the Army, but naval aviators are in fact a significant portion of the senior Navy command structure and have been since WW2. There is a natural diversity in the Navy officer corps, since the Army and Air Force do not operate a large submarine force in addition to other mission-spe...
[11:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The United States Space Corps Wants You... - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:53] <exec> 08└─Air Force has the X-37B [wikipedia.org]. If a single-stage-to-orbit spaceplane [wikipedia.org] gets built, I couldn't see the Navy using it for anything relevant. Air Force will have their Space Corps around for a while until such time that the Space Corps is no longer a gimmick (decades or even a c...
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[11:34:09] <exec> 08└─Neurokinin B [wikipedia.org] During the ovarian cycle, GnRH secretion along with that of luteinizing hormone (LH) is highly regulated. This regulation occurs by a negative feedback system. Neurokinin B along with its sister peptides of the KNDy subpopulation regulate this feedback. The NK3R receptor...
[11:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Innovation Feeds the World With More Fish Protein - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:11] <exec> 08└─The question isn't why, but $Subject... :-D
[11:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Innovation Feeds the World With More Fish Protein - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:13] <exec> 08└─more cheap food = more sex slaves = good
[11:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blue Origin will Build its Rocket Engine in Alabama - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:44] <exec> 08└─[singing] I hope Azuma Hazuki will remember a southern man don't need him around anyhow. Sweet home Alabama...
[11:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blue Origin will Build its Rocket Engine in Alabama - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:46] <exec> 08└─A BMW doesn't mean a thing to them, however you better know your red tractors from the green ones.
[11:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blue Origin will Build its Rocket Engine in Alabama - 1386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:48] <exec> 08└─I lived in Huntsville in the 90s for a summer courtesy of uncle sam, and its a pretty nice place. It has a Roman Empire feel of PHDs and engineers and "civilization" in general surrounded by barbarians. I was attending a couple on base classes. The weird thing about Hunstville was no one on base was...
[11:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:41] <exec> 08└─When was the last time a politician went to prison for their decisions? We could start with the murder of thousands of people in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. "War" is just a term for murder that nobody gets held responsible for. No, they get to make the decisions without ever being held responsible.
[11:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:42] <exec> 08└─Bankers- all they do is trapping people into dept and cause a financial crisis once in a while. Lawyers - making sure the law is so complicated that nobody can defend themselves without hiring a lawyer. That alone should be enough to require lawyers to work for free until the legal system is fixed....
[11:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:44] <exec> 08└─No economy => no society ?
[11:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:46] <exec> 08└─It is like democracy, not perfect but better than every other system we tried.
[11:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:48] <exec> 08└─How politically correct of you. bleh. you get paid what the market will bear, 'social value' has nothing to do with this.
[11:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 1230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:51] <exec> 08└─Concept of mens rea is bringing thought crime into real crime and diluting the concept of responsibility. You should have known better then to drink or to push people around in a room with hard protrusions. If you are afraid for your life, you have to make a tough decision, a bargain of your life o...
[11:41:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Coat of Paint Is Rocking the Global Shipping Industry - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:29] <exec> 08└─lengthen the lifespan of the containers
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[12:33:27] <exec> 08└─Why do I start to think about.. "keeping a low profile" ? ;-)
[12:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pornhub's Newest Videos Can Reach Out and Touch You - 711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:37] <exec> 08└─> What would the hackers do? cause pre-ejaculation? ;) Nah, you are thinking too narrowly. Really really evil hackers will hack the video and the controls to ensure that those who start out wanking to white blonde girl porn will end up ejaculating to big black gay porn. This will cause havoc in the...
[12:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The United States Space Corps Wants You... - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:01] <exec> 08└─the Army and Air Force do not operate a large submarine force in addition to other mission-specific specialties.
[12:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The United States Space Corps Wants You... - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:02] <exec> 08└─Civies think "way cool, I can't wait to sign up for Battlestar Galactica for real" Military and IT people know that "is intended to manage national security in space" means its Mordac the information preventer, denying your firewall requests in space. "Look sgt all I want from you is my satphone onl...
[12:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The United States Space Corps Wants You... - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:04] <exec> 08└─Gotta mine asteroids first. That's where the gundanium is.
[12:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The United States Space Corps Wants You... - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:07] <exec> 08└─I was hoping they were building an X-303 [wikia.com].
[12:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The United States Space Corps Wants You... - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:09] <exec> 08└─Why not? Service guarantees citizenship!
[12:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Innovation Feeds the World With More Fish Protein - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:29] <exec> 08└─That's not practical yet and people will take a while to get over the whole "cancer meat" part.
[12:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Innovation Feeds the World With More Fish Protein - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:30] <exec> 08└─Doesn't rice have a high glycemic index? Also, food isn't just about sustenance even in cultures that have been living in scarce conditions.
[12:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nokia (HMD Global) Attempting U.S. Comeback With Midrange Android Smartphones - 1031 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:33] <exec> 08└─> (except for the form factor being just too big, this wish list translates to "gimme a new Priv") I'm actually on the page of "gimme a new Curve" (I never tried the Priv though, maybe a smaller Priv would in fact suffice :-) ). Slightly larger / higher res screen than the Curve wouldn't hurt, a bet...
[12:36:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 26 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:25] <exec> 08└─- The cast of Jersey Shore
[12:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:04] <exec> 08└─Ill take your share then, since you dont want it.
[12:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:05] <exec> 08└─Now, clearly, "campaign contributions" have been given a waiver. The way to fix that is publicly-funded election campaigns.
[12:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:08] <exec> 08└─The textbook definition of finance is connecting those with capital to those that need capital. So every dollar taken by the finance industry is one less available to those that will create companies/products/jobs etc. They do work so they deserve some compensation. But the current finance industry...
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[13:33:39] <exec> 08└─There was a patent covering almost 100% of the online to user sexual toy market. It is expiring this year or next year. Except to see a ton of new interactive sex products in the upcoming few years.
[13:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pornhub's Newest Videos Can Reach Out and Touch You - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:40] <exec> 08└─There are still some patents for MP3. I bet there are at least ten sex toy patents for each orifice.
[13:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pornhub's Newest Videos Can Reach Out and Touch You - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:42] <exec> 08└─Install shitty app for sex toys, doesn't work with VPN.
[13:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Pornhub's Newest Videos Can Reach Out and Touch You - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:45] <exec> 08└─The future of sex could be pretty interactive...
[13:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pornhub's Newest Videos Can Reach Out and Touch You - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:47] <exec> 08└─Yeah, well, I still jerk off manually.
[13:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pornhub's Newest Videos Can Reach Out and Touch You - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:49] <exec> 08└─Pfft, weak. Lurk moar on the internet, normie.
[13:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India's Martian MOM Clocks Up 1,000 Days Circling the Red Planet - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:58] <exec> 08└─Welcome to the 20th Century, India!
[13:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The United States Space Corps Wants You... - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:20] <exec> 08└─I'd prefer the BC-304 with the Asgard beam weapons and a fully loaded ZPM.
[13:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The United States Space Corps Wants You... - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:22] <exec> 08└─Gotta walk before you run... there aren't replicators on the way, are there?
[13:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The United States Space Corps Wants You... - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:24] <exec> 08└─Nobody's ever proposed "The Truck Force".
[13:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03mayo2y [6520] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Blue Origin will Build its Rocket Engine in Alabama - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:19] <exec> 08└─There are a lot of Russian and Eastern European science and computer engineering students there. Many stay after their schooling is complete. It's not your northern fantasy of a barbaric, redneck, hick state.
[13:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nokia (HMD Global) Attempting U.S. Comeback With Midrange Android Smartphones - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:50] <exec> 08└─I'm still using my Nokia N800 and wishing I could use it as a phone, too. Granted, today's version would probably need more RAM and so-called disk storage. And I'd like it to use a stock Linux kernel without proprietary drivers so I could keep it up-to-date after the manufacturer lost interest, but...
[13:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 833 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:23] <exec> 08└─I see yet another warning sign that the research is bunk. There's no common measure of the alleged externalities. For example, biomedical researchers' externalities are based on the public's alleged willingness to pay for better medical research, while financiers' externalities are based on fees fo...
[13:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:25] <exec> 08└─The textbook definition of finance is connecting those with capital to those that need capital. So every dollar taken by the finance industry is one less available to those that will create companies/products/jobs etc.
[13:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:27] <exec> 08└─Ever think that is because most of the "training" is actually learning incorrect stuff, ie a waste of time? The post-doc salary actually is close to reflecting the true value of the average biomed project. It is probably 2x too high if anything.
[13:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:29] <exec> 08└─The correct solution to this is to pay for medical school and medicare for all singlepayer system where the government handles the accounting and payment for all medical care received in the country. It's what every other industrialized country does.
[13:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:31] <exec> 08└─You are a murderer, the law makes that perfectly clear, but what penalty should be given to you? If your intention was to harm that person, you get first-degree murder; if you and him/her were horseplaying, you get manslaughter, even if you were not horseplaying, you can allege that it was a friendl...
[13:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:33] <exec> 08└─The positive externality of the cast of Jersey Shore is incalculable. Every one of us, no matter how mean, how low, how down-and-out, how dark a hole we feel we have fallen into, can turn to the Jersey Shore and realize we have not yet sunk to that level of vapidity, that level of retardation, and w...
[13:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:36] <exec> 08└─I can’t imagine a different system
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[14:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Police Used Lyft as ‘Trojan Horse’ to Capture Suspect in Murder of Tech CEO Albert DeMangus - 1078 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:32] <exec> 08└─Headline (which is from TFA) makes it sound like Lyft is sending data to law enforcement, or that law enforcement can "take over" Lyft rides using some kind of technological means. That's...not at all what happened. The suspects in a crime fled into a hard-to-search area. Police set up a perimeter a...
[14:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pornhub's Newest Videos Can Reach Out and Touch You - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:49] <exec> 08└─The last patent for MP3 that mattered expired earlier this year.
[14:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pornhub's Newest Videos Can Reach Out and Touch You - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:51] <exec> 08└─Did your team of lawyers tell you that?
[14:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India's Martian MOM Clocks Up 1,000 Days Circling the Red Planet - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:00] <exec> 08└─Not quite the 20th century. They're still short on sanitation, clean drinking water and paved roads.
[14:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The United States Space Corps Wants You... - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:25] <exec> 08└─Space Cadets.
[14:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The United States Space Corps Wants You... - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:27] <exec> 08└─Of course they don't want it. This bill was written like it was designed to specifically troll the Air Force. Seriously asking, was one of the bill's authors former Navy? Anyway, this pisses all over the Air Force's space Wheaties. As far as the USAF is concerned they should be in charge of anything...
[14:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The United States Space Corps Wants You... - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:29] <exec> 08└─since the Army and Air Force do not operate a large submarine force
[14:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The United States Space Corps Wants You... - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:31] <exec> 08└─naval aviators are in fact a significant portion of the senior Navy
[14:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The United States Space Corps Wants You... - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:33] <exec> 08└─The US Army has the logistics branch. AKA the wheel of shame.
[14:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Surges in Space Race as its Most Powerful Rocket Launches Satellite Into Orbit - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:15] <exec> 08└─Except in space distance doesn't matter much unless you're in a hurry - coasting for mind-bending distances comes free (as long as you can handle the radiation exposure) What matters for the cost and difficulty is the required delta-V, and getting from the surface to low orbit is the hard part. From...
[14:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moderation Point Issues Today (2017-06-28) [Updated] - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:20] <exec> 08└─I have 10 billion Moderator Points.
[14:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Contractors Lose Jobs After Hacking CIA's in-House Vending Machines - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:59] <exec> 08└─The really creative people can build the idiot up, and up, and up, and then finally deflate the big headed sumbitch, with an audience watching.
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[15:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Guardian Admits WhatsApp Story Was Flawed - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:27] <exec> 08└─>report >amend article 6 months later How responsible.
[15:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Guardian Admits WhatsApp Story Was Flawed - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:28] <exec> 08└─Looks like we reported it skeptically: WhatsApp Vulnerability Allows Snooping on Encrypted Messages -- Or Does it? [soylentnews.org]
[15:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Panel Notes Progress Towards Commercial Crew Flights - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:36] <exec> 08└─Yes air travel is affordable to the pleb scum. Billionaires need to go farther to assert their membership in the plutocrats club.
[15:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Panel Notes Progress Towards Commercial Crew Flights - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:38] <exec> 08└─Any guesses on when the first commercial crew flight with actual human passengers will lift off?
[15:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Panel Notes Progress Towards Commercial Crew Flights - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:40] <exec> 08└─As far as Pluto! Buh huh huh huh.
[15:33:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MrGuy [1007] 02 - 06Police Used Lyft as ‘Trojan Horse’ to Capture Suspect in Murder of Tech CEO Albert DeMangus - 1078 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:49] <exec> 08└─Headline (which is from TFA) makes it sound like Lyft is sending data to law enforcement, or that law enforcement can "take over" Lyft rides using some kind of technological means. That's...not at all what happened. The suspects in a crime fled into a hard-to-search area. Police set up a perimeter a...
[15:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Police Used Lyft as ‘Trojan Horse’ to Capture Suspect in Murder of Tech CEO Albert DeMangus - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:51] <exec> 08└─Yeah. There's not actually much of a tech angle here. It could just as easily been a regular taxi.
[15:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Used Lyft as ‘Trojan Horse’ to Capture Suspect in Murder of Tech CEO Albert DeMangus - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:53] <exec> 08└─Also it wasn't a horse, just a car.
[15:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police Used Lyft as ‘Trojan Horse’ to Capture Suspect in Murder of Tech CEO Albert DeMangus - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:55] <exec> 08└─Nor was it Trojan.
[15:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The United States Space Corps Wants You... - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:52] <exec> 08└─20+ replies and not one smegging Red Dwarf reference? Shame! Space Corps Directive 349 : Any officer found to have been slaughtered and replaced by a shape-changing chameleonic life form shall forfeit all pension rights. Space corps directive 5796: No officer above the rank of Mess Sergeant is permi...
[15:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The United States Space Corps Wants You... - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:53] <exec> 08└─Benny, is that you?
[15:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The United States Space Corps Wants You... - 1078 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:56] <exec> 08└─Military geopolitics is an arms race. The strength of our military is to be judged against our potential adversaries, not against some theoretical absence of force or yesterday's military. Given these two facts, every attempt we make to strengthen our position must be counterbalanced against the lik...
[15:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The United States Space Corps Wants You... - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:58] <exec> 08└─Or the Committee for the Liberation and Integration of Terrifying Organisms and their Rehabilitation Into Society.
[15:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The United States Space Corps Wants You... - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:00] <exec> 08└─The US has the US Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM) out of Scott AFB in Illinois that covers most of the military's logistics operations. It's a joint command that incorporates the USAF Air Mobility Command, Navy Military Sealift Command, Army Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command,...
[15:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moderation Point Issues Today (2017-06-28) [Updated] - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:49] <exec> 08└─-1 Triggered
[15:36:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stretch611 [6199] 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 4 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:58] <exec> 08└─CEOs
[15:37:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 197 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:07] <exec> 08└─Sports 'stars'/'athletes'. People who would do badly at "Would you like fries with that?" but get angry when their not paid more and more millions for hitting a baseball. And CEO's and politicians.
[15:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 1413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:09] <exec> 08└─Um, do you really need an answer to that? As the other poster said, no economy = no society and no civilization. Seemingly pointless stuff like that gives people jobs and makes the economy function. I'm sure sports fans can give you intangible reasons sports benefit society too, though I disagree wi...
[15:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:10] <exec> 08└─I guess someone has never typed faster than their brain can autocorrect. Get some new fingers slowpoke
[15:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 1348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:13] <exec> 08└─Everything I read about him at the time trashed him, saying he took enormous amounts of money out of the company for his personal compensation, while ruining the store's reputation among customers by replacing knowledgeable staff with an insufficient number of idiot know-nothing teenagers. He was ev...
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[16:33:24] <exec> 08└─Legitimate New Organizations: When reality conflicts with our opinion, it's our opinion that changes.
[16:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Guardian Admits WhatsApp Story Was Flawed - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:26] <exec> 08└─There is no such thing as objective reality anymore.
[16:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Panel Notes Progress Towards Commercial Crew Flights - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:36] <exec> 08└─Any guesses on when the first commercial crew flight with actual human passengers off will lift?
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[16:34:06] <exec> 08└─> a rather interesting mix of euphemisms and innuendo. Back in the 1980s (in a gaming company research lab) this was called "teledildonics". Looks like the name has stuck, https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[16:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The United States Space Corps Wants You... - 991 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:50] <exec> 08└─It really seems to me that the Air Force is just a relic of the Cold War, and based on the ridiculous and obsolete idea of eliminating the Navy altogether and just using nuclear-tipped ICBMs for warfare. A while back, the US really did try to mostly eliminate the Navy, because the doctrine was that...
[16:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The United States Space Corps Wants You... - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:52] <exec> 08└─EmDrive 2.0 could make it for real. It's up to you to determine whether that's an imposhiburu drive pro or con.
[16:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nokia (HMD Global) Attempting U.S. Comeback With Midrange Android Smartphones - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:20] <exec> 08└─Give it an easily-removable battery and an unlocked bootloader and root so I can load LineageOS or some other 3rd-party ROM if I want, give it a nice AMOLED screen, and make sure Otterbox makes a Defender case for it, and I'm getting one.
[16:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moderation Point Issues Today (2017-06-28) [Updated] - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:44] <exec> 08└─I'm friendly with the SAS.
[16:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:07] <exec> 08└─I was more interested in which professions pay too little. Top of that list: school teachers?
[16:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:09] <exec> 08└─Depends on your definition of "true value". Relative to the value cited in TFA, postdocs are underpaid. Market prices set the value of industry postdocs higher than academic postdocs and industry prefers those with postdoctoral experience over those without it. There is a societal cost for highly ed...
[16:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:11] <exec> 08└─A single payer system is essentially mandatory insurance. Nobody chooses to be sick. So requiring the individual to pay won't really reduce the use of the system.
[16:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:13] <exec> 08└─Times change slowly bit by bit.
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[17:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03SemperOSS [5072] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Formic Acid Powered Bus Demonstrated - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:25] <exec> 08└─As impressive as the invention is, it is a bit of a problem with a power density that makes this vehicle run about 150 litres per 100 km (or about 1.88 miles per gallon (UK) or 0.67 km/l). I have an 80-litre tank in my car, so it would (provided I get twice as many litres per km) be just under 110 k...
[17:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03pr [5942] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Guardian Admits WhatsApp Story Was Flawed - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:36] <exec> 08└─Anyone here use Telegram ?
[17:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Guardian Admits WhatsApp Story Was Flawed - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:38] <exec> 08└─From the summary: This claim was withdrawn within eight hours of initial publication online, but withdrawn incompletely. The story retained material predicated on the existence of a backdoor, including strongly expressed concerns about threats to freedom, betrayal of trust and benefits for governmen...
[17:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Panel Notes Progress Towards Commercial Crew Flights - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:49] <exec> 08└─> Any guesses on when the first commercial crew flight with actual human passengers will lift off? You mean successfully? To orbit and back? I'd say 2019-2025. It depends on how soon someone figures out how to profit from human bodies in LEO. Also the next bitcoin bubble. And I guess it will be only...
[17:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Panel Notes Progress Towards Commercial Crew Flights - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:50] <exec> 08└─To me it reads like takyon wrote it. That what's the summary says. takyon writes: ... Any guesses on when the first commercial crew flight with actual human passengers will lift off? If an editor added personal comments to the summary then maybe they should put their name over their comment? I'm not...
[17:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Police Used Lyft as ‘Trojan Horse’ to Capture Suspect in Murder of Tech CEO Albert DeMangus - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:03] <exec> 08└─True. It only makes it more likely (if the story becomes widely known) to make a suspect who's murdered someone that much more likely to murder the Lyft or Uber driver who comes to pick them up. (Since they could be a cop now, why take the chance? Why not just kill them and take the car? They're alr...
[17:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pornhub's Newest Videos Can Reach Out and Touch You - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:23] <exec> 08└─i've seen that mentioned before but it's still hilarious!
[17:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pax [5056] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The United States Space Corps Wants You... - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:09] <exec> 08└─Or the Committee for the Liberation and Integration of Terrifying Organisms and their Rehabilitation Into Society.
[17:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The United States Space Corps Wants You... - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:11] <exec> 08└─> Imagine how cool it would be to serve on a riverboat... FFC already imagined that for us, just watch "Apocalypse Now", the long version is highly recommended, https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[17:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The United States Space Corps Wants You... - 1270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:13] <exec> 08└─https://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html [ratical.org] "WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and th...
[17:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Innovation Feeds the World With More Fish Protein - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:35] <exec> 08└─"just give that food away and it would likely depress prices which could put farmers out of business and create a very dangerous cycle" i know that's the excuse but it sounds like bullshit to me.
[17:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Innovation Feeds the World With More Fish Protein - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:36] <exec> 08└─That's what it comes down to... If everyone has some money, and they want to spend it on food, then someone else will setp up to meet that need.
[17:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nokia (HMD Global) Attempting U.S. Comeback With Midrange Android Smartphones - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:44] <exec> 08└─Not as big a factor as it was for feature phones, but a typical smartphone still goes through a lot of wear and tear when being used by a typical person in the course of a day. Durability is still something I'd pay for, and if they aren't the sort to pretend that they still own the device after I pa...
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[17:38:35] <exec> 08└─The healthcare market is propped up by FDA approval (do NHST twice and see an effect at least as large as the current standard) acting as a proxy for "a treatment works" though. Many people still don't realize the danger they are put in by accepting these treatments. You will still see people who cl...
[17:38:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:36] <exec> 08└─There is another big effect of pro sports. They are ritual combat and to the extent that they substitute for actual combat (war) they save society a huge amount of damage and expense. Without the World Cup (soccer) to soak up a lot of testosterone, I wonder how many more countries would solve their...
[17:40:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Britain Signals That It Could Launch Air Strikes After Hackers Target Parliament - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:24] <exec> 08└─any government agency running windows with tax dollars needs to be shot/whoops i meant hacked.. whatever. they deserve whatever they get.
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[18:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Formic Acid Powered Bus Demonstrated - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:23] <exec> 08└─Good point -- I'm kind of surprised that right out of the gate it would make people so range antsy.
[18:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Formic Acid Powered Bus Demonstrated - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:24] <exec> 08└─We can indeed expect the energy density to be lower than for an alcohol or a liquid hydrocarbon, because this fuel contains more oxygen: it's partially oxidised before it's used. That much is true. Perhaps this bus could be fitted with a larger fuel tank than what your car has? Oh, I see in the summ...
[18:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Formic Acid Powered Bus Demonstrated - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:27] <exec> 08└─>Perhaps this bus could be fitted with a larger fuel tank than what your car has? And it will waste even more energy lugging that tank around. School physics, man. It does not pay to forget it.
[18:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Guardian Admits WhatsApp Story Was Flawed - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:39] <exec> 08└─Yes there is. The people telling you otherwise are lying to you. What else might they be lying about??
[18:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Guardian Admits WhatsApp Story Was Flawed - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:41] <exec> 08└─Nope. In the era of post-objective reality (as the other AC noted), any retraction is backpedaling and proof that the source was lying all along. The correct thing to do is what Trump does: double down.
[18:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Guardian Admits WhatsApp Story Was Flawed - 1247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:43] <exec> 08└─the problem is still what is maybe called a "unique identifier"? for mobile phone networks, it's you phone number. for your snail mail, it's your address. for your person as a person in america it is your social security number. for your website or (such service) it is the domain name. whoever contr...
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[18:33:55] <exec> 08└─SN needs a feature where readers can compare the Original Submission to the Story in unified diff format just like GitHub. SN needs to recognize GitHub accounts as registered users just like GitHub. SN needs to allow images in comments just like GitHub. In fact forget SN and let's just move SoylentN...
[18:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police Used Lyft as ‘Trojan Horse’ to Capture Suspect in Murder of Tech CEO Albert DeMangus - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:09] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but they'd just been a plebe civilian murdering another civilian. Being a Cop Killer™... that means they've killed somebody important, so retribution will be increased against them tenfold.
[18:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Used Lyft as ‘Trojan Horse’ to Capture Suspect in Murder of Tech CEO Albert DeMangus - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:10] <exec> 08└─So, would it be more painful for Uber marketing to to hear the guy say: "Dude, I may be a murdered in a tight spot, but I'd rather not patronize Uber" or "Bastard Lyft driver ratted me out. Let that be a warning to scumbags to only use Uber" Lyft isn't good at advertising. It's so nice of Uber to he...
[18:34:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JeanCroix [573] 02 - 06Pornhub's Newest Videos Can Reach Out and Touch You - 48 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:25] <exec> 08└─The future of sex could be pretty interactive...
[18:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India's Martian MOM Clocks Up 1,000 Days Circling the Red Planet - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:41] <exec> 08└─They've got to get there to clear space in the 19th century for at least half of the US.
[18:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Innovation Feeds the World With More Fish Protein - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:45] <exec> 08└─Why not Rice? Because rice, by itself, isn't a complete protein. [wikipedia.org] Meaning, if that's all you eat, you'll eventually starve to death. There's some GMO efforts to rectify this but I don't know if they're readily available or not. Fish does provide complete protein. (Rice and beans toget...
[18:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nokia (HMD Global) Attempting U.S. Comeback With Midrange Android Smartphones - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:54] <exec> 08└─My phone is a used 5x. I don't see any reason to move away from the platform if I need a replacement. You are right about the radios and miss another aspect: it covers a lot of LTE radio bands. If you travel internationally the 5x is about as old of a phone as you can go and still get LTE most place...
[18:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Crash [1335] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nokia (HMD Global) Attempting U.S. Comeback With Midrange Android Smartphones - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:55] <exec> 08└─A few months ago Motorola's G5 Plus was $239 (from $299) via Amazon's lockscreen-AD-discount. Yet today, the base price of the G5 Plus has already dropped to $229 at most retailers. The G5 Plus trounces the Nokia 6 on hardware specs, with Nokia 6 tending towards low midrange, while the G5 Plus is hi...
[18:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moderation Point Issues Today (2017-06-28) [Updated] - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:21] <exec> 08└─Wow, that's way more than Obama had!
[18:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Contractors Lose Jobs After Hacking CIA's in-House Vending Machines - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:10] <exec> 08└─If they were fired for stealing $0.75 bags of Fritos, they were fired for stealing (the equivalent of) FOUR THOUSAND of them. There's being clever and figuring out a way of hacking a vending machine. Then there's using that knowledge to steal $3,000 in snacks. If these clowns had just done a proof o...
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[19:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Help Wanted: Americans Don’t Need More Degrees, They Need Training - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:27] <exec> 08└─As long as there is HR heads in the loop, this will just be talk and no business. Especially when generalists of any kind (MBA) are at the helm.
[19:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Help Wanted: Americans Don’t Need More Degrees, They Need Training - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:28] <exec> 08└─You just don't have the youth.
[19:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Help Wanted: Americans Don’t Need More Degrees, They Need Training - 770 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:31] <exec> 08└─the claimed shortage now is a half million, and expected to be a million by 2020. I cry bullshit on that. I know lots of coders who can't find work. I've got an iPhone App I'm working on. Once it's in the App Store I should be able to get work as an iOS coder. But I won't qualify for Android despite...
[19:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Help Wanted: Americans Don’t Need More Degrees, They Need Training - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:33] <exec> 08└─I get lots of interviews but when they see my grey hair they start coming up with reasons not to hire me.
[19:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Help Wanted: Americans Don’t Need More Degrees, They Need Training - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:35] <exec> 08└─Clearly you should find your niche by claiming a disability to fill a diversity hire quota.
[19:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Help Wanted: Americans Don’t Need More Degrees, They Need Training - 947 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:37] <exec> 08└─Long past due. I've been bitching about this since the '90s. Programmers, admins, data centre maintenance - all those and related groups could and should be trained by apprenticeship. A modern apprenticeship includes classroom time, so you can get in your classes on big-O notation, and computer orga...
[19:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Help Wanted: Americans Don’t Need More Degrees, They Need Training - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:39] <exec> 08└─If you're hiring a trade guy to help with your crew, you ask "what can you do?" (or the Spanish/Polish/Armenian translation, if you like to save cash). If you have an HR department with a pile of resumes, they need "what's the expected education" as a way to start sorting.
[19:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Help Wanted: Americans Don’t Need More Degrees, They Need Training - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:42] <exec> 08└─Should have been done when Reagan was in office, really.
[19:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Help Wanted: Americans Don’t Need More Degrees, They Need Training - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:44] <exec> 08└─> I realized that if I ever wanted a different job I was gonna have to have that useless piece of paper A bit self-contradictory, isn't it?
[19:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Formic Acid Powered Bus Demonstrated - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:54] <exec> 08└─>Perhaps this bus could be fitted with a larger fuel tank than what your car has? And it will waste even more energy lugging that tank around. School physics, man. It does not pay to forget it.
[19:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Formic Acid Powered Bus Demonstrated - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:56] <exec> 08└─A bus in the Netherlands does not need a giant range. Neither do most car trips (which is why they move around on bikes, when they could afford motorized scooters). If you can make an affordable fuel with H2O, CO2, and renewable electricity, especially excess production during peaks, rather than imp...
[19:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Panel Notes Progress Towards Commercial Crew Flights - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:25] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I'd agree with that. In magazines don't they usually do an [-ed.] or something to denote editor comments?
[19:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The United States Space Corps Wants You... - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:49] <exec> 08└─Senior aviators do get a little ship-driving experience. CVN's are always captained by aviators. While the airedales have done *most* of the hot war fighting since WW2, the sheer relative size of the surface and submarine forces ensures an eclectic mixture.
[19:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The United States Space Corps Wants You... - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:50] <exec> 08└─SPAAAAHHS MAREEEEENS!!!!1!!one FOR THE EMPRAH!
[19:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Surges in Space Race as its Most Powerful Rocket Launches Satellite Into Orbit - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:38] <exec> 08└─Are those metric stories, Imperial-UK stories, or Imperial-US stories? I need to know if I'm going up using the lift, elevator, or stairs. I left my carbonated drink at the top, and I don't even know how to name that anymore: el soda, or gaseosa?
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[19:36:39] <exec> 08└─They're upwind from India, so they don't need.
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[20:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Seeing the Forest Through the Trees With a New LiDAR System - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:23] <exec> 08└─Where's aristarchus on this? Surely he would like to claim LiDAR as evidence for the theory that human vision is made possible by light emitted from the eyes. Or is aristarchus not pretending to be an ancient greek. Modern robotics is finally confirming Empedocles was right all along.
[20:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Help Wanted: Americans Don’t Need More Degrees, They Need Training - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:39] <exec> 08└─Bit of hair dye, spot of makeup, and you'll look as good as fotie.
[20:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Help Wanted: Americans Don’t Need More Degrees, They Need Training - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:41] <exec> 08└─> I realized that if I ever wanted a different job I was gonna have to have that useless piece of paper A bit self-contradictory, isn't it?
[20:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Help Wanted: Americans Don’t Need More Degrees, They Need Training - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:43] <exec> 08└─I can tell the university system is not quite adequate to prepare people for real world work. Glad to see this change.
[20:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Help Wanted: Americans Don’t Need More Degrees, They Need Training - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:45] <exec> 08└─If they rely on the pieces of paper, said paper is not useless, descriptivist-ly.
[20:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Help Wanted: Americans Don’t Need More Degrees, They Need Training - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:47] <exec> 08└─Apprenticeships.... aka "You ain't ever changing career fields again, baby!" aka "We'll train you in the job we want you to do, and when that is modernized away, you won't have any fallbacks and damme if we'll re-educate you as that's your own expense!" aka "Let's get you to do more work at less pay...
[20:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Help Wanted: Americans Don’t Need More Degrees, They Need Training - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:50] <exec> 08└─If they rely on the pieces of paper, said paper is not useless, descriptivist-ly.
[20:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Help Wanted: Americans Don’t Need More Degrees, They Need Training - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:52] <exec> 08└─I'm finding the same thing. It's difficult to get hired as a fifty year old programmer. I keep meeting people who, when I tell them I interviewed at a place they'll tell me they have a friend who was hired there and that I'm a far better programmer. Nice for the ego, but not so much for meeting the...
[20:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Help Wanted: Americans Don’t Need More Degrees, They Need Training - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:54] <exec> 08└─Just For Men?
[20:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Help Wanted: Americans Don’t Need More Degrees, They Need Training - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:56] <exec> 08└─I'm protected by the Americans with Disabilities Act but I have little doubt they'd find some other reason not to hire me.
[20:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Help Wanted: Americans Don’t Need More Degrees, They Need Training - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:59] <exec> 08└─When I started my coding career I feared all the competition from CS grads. After a couple years I learned not to worry because in my actual experience, recent CS grads couldn't code their way out of a wet paper bag.
[20:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Help Wanted: Americans Don’t Need More Degrees, They Need Training - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:01] <exec> 08└─Or, a friend of a friend already knew GeoDjango so they tailored the requirements to his resume...
[20:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Help Wanted: Americans Don’t Need More Degrees, They Need Training - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:03] <exec> 08└─And then you can go and put it into practice under the eye of a master who has a couple of decades of experience.
[20:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Help Wanted: Americans Don’t Need More Degrees, They Need Training - 874 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:05] <exec> 08└─It's not about training or degrees, it's about IQ. Not all people are created equal, there are some training some people will never understand. This is true. And there are lot of things that even thou you could train a person of not the highest intellect to do, these things change OFTEN (due to rapi...
[20:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Help Wanted: Americans Don’t Need More Degrees, They Need Training - 1114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:07] <exec> 08└─Are you trying to do web/phone startups in San Francisco? Um, well, you may be screwed. OTOH, that stuff mostly sucks anyway. Why work 90-hour weeks for a 1-bedroom studio apartment when you could work 40-hour weeks for a 5-bedroom on an acre? You need to find something like a defense contractor in...
[20:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Formic Acid Powered Bus Demonstrated - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:20] <exec> 08└─But he didn't say the mass of the fuel, he said the mass of the tank -- for compressed fuels like hydrogen gas and CNG, tank mass can be substantially more than the fuel it contains, and you get to drag the tank mass around even when running on empty. So it's not an unreasonable concern about altern...
[20:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Guardian Admits WhatsApp Story Was Flawed - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:37] <exec> 08└─No, but more than 1 billion use Whatsapp. Right.
[20:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Guardian Admits WhatsApp Story Was Flawed - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:38] <exec> 08└─They were forced to change their story by the government so that people don't look for an alternative to WhatsApp. This is lapdog press in action (Remember, The Guardian is pro war, until the ratings take a dip). Anything run by facebook is definitely going to have plenty of backdoors. People should...
[20:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Panel Notes Progress Towards Commercial Crew Flights - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:54] <exec> 08└─all the tech was developed with taxes money now the benefits get privatized so a few can make even more
[20:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Panel Notes Progress Towards Commercial Crew Flights - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:55] <exec> 08└─I'm more than happy for the billionaires to take the risk and shake out all the bugs. I dare say if I were a billionaire, I'd be involved, but alas no. I'm not against private space flight as long as they don't fill Earth orbit up with any more junk or ruin places like the Moon, Mars or asteroids be...
[20:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06NASA Panel Notes Progress Towards Commercial Crew Flights - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:57] <exec> 08└─Update to story submission was mine. Updated story to own my update.
[20:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Panel Notes Progress Towards Commercial Crew Flights - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:59] <exec> 08└─Any guesses on when the first commercial crew flight with actual human passengers will lift off?
[20:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police Used Lyft as ‘Trojan Horse’ to Capture Suspect in Murder of Tech CEO Albert DeMangus - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:14] <exec> 08└─...and switch off your pacemaker [soylentnews.org] before doing crimes.
[20:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India's Martian MOM Clocks Up 1,000 Days Circling the Red Planet - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:45] <exec> 08└─Well, with Fake President Pull-My-Finger at the helm, the People's Democratic Republic of America will be back there soon, and shortly after that, it'll be way back to the 19th century.
[20:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The United States Space Corps Wants You... - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:28] <exec> 08└─USTRANSCOM coordinates requests that go through the DoD but there's no direct chain of command to the actual forces. That's is, if a USTRANSCOM officer says "take a right" to an Army truck driver while his direct officer tells him to "take a left", he takes a left.
[20:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gault.Drakkor [1079] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Innovation Feeds the World With More Fish Protein - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:54] <exec> 08└─I thought the complete protein thing was debunked? By no less then the person who originally proposed the theory. Proposed by Frances Moore Lappe in "Diet for a small Planet". In the tenth edition(1981) she retracted the statement. Basically some foods don't have enough protein (think some of the st...
[20:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Surges in Space Race as its Most Powerful Rocket Launches Satellite Into Orbit - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:20] <exec> 08└─You know those calls from India where someone claims to be from the "IT support department" and tells you that "Microsoft has detected a problem with your computer?" Well, they've actually made some arrests [bbc.co.uk] in the UK at last!
[20:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nokia (HMD Global) Attempting U.S. Comeback With Midrange Android Smartphones - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:09] <exec> 08└─Thank you, that's it. Some pages about it: article explaining why transflective displays are uncommon in mobile phones https://www.manufacturing.net [manufacturing.net] photos of such a display on a Garmin GPS, compared with an AMOLED display http...
[20:38:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] 02 - 06Moderation Point Issues Today (2017-06-28) [Updated] - 35 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:31] <exec> 08└─I have 10 billion Moderator Points.
[20:40:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:03] <exec> 08└─acting as a proxy for "a treatment works" though
[20:40:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:05] <exec> 08└─The law if perfectly clear: the act of killing someone is murder. That describes the action. Then the penalties associated to how the action was performed: was it self-defense? Walk away free. Was is accidental? It is manslaughter. Was it intentional? Yes, then sub-clause, was it premeditated? The p...
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[21:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seeing the Forest Through the Trees With a New LiDAR System - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:23] <exec> 08└─And the fact that you're 80% water means Thales of Miletus was basically right.
[21:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seeing the Forest Through the Trees With a New LiDAR System - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:24] <exec> 08└─According to Archimedes, in The Sand Reckoner, Aristarchus invented a new type of sundial that he used to measure the sun's altitude and azimuth. That would indicate that he had some idea of how light worked.
[21:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seeing the Forest Through the Trees With a New LiDAR System - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:26] <exec> 08└─A couple specialists would like to have a chat with you about their published works on the matter of eyes emitting light beams. They'll give you a call under the aliases Scott Summer and Clark Kent.
[21:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seeing the Forest Through the Trees With a New LiDAR System - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:28] <exec> 08└─*Summers (D'oh!)
[21:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seeing the Forest Through the Trees With a New LiDAR System - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:31] <exec> 08└─Aristarchus of Samos may have been a heliocentrist but Aristarchus is not an uncommon name. How old does aristarchus claim to be exactly? Perhaps he is the critic Aristarchus of Samothrace.
[21:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seeing the Forest Through the Trees With a New LiDAR System - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:33] <exec> 08└─Agent Orange is nasty stuff, even when it's not contaminated.
[21:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Help Wanted: Americans Don’t Need More Degrees, They Need Training - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:03] <exec> 08└─What? I have nothing else other than the subject. I entirely expect Trump to choose an apprenticeship system over trade school because he's a retard and likes the word "Apprentice".
[21:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Help Wanted: Americans Don’t Need More Degrees, They Need Training - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:04] <exec> 08└─But how can this help with tech workers when the US already has a tech sector apprenticeship program: current tech workers train their H-1B replacements?
[21:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Help Wanted: Americans Don’t Need More Degrees, They Need Training - 770 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:06] <exec> 08└─You mostly can't test applicant IQ. It isn't exactly against the law to test, but you open yourself up to lawsuits. Courts have held that IQ testing is racial discrimination... incidentally showing that courts have racist beliefs about IQ. :-) You can get away with demanding a particular education,...
[21:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Beau Slim [6628] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Help Wanted: Americans Don’t Need More Degrees, They Need Training - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:09] <exec> 08└─If there was a real shortage, companies would pay more or hire someone and then do in-house training. Their real goal is to hire cheap foreign workers so they can pay less. So they tighten the job requirements to ensure that nobody qualifies, and then go to a hiring firm that claims a foreign worke...
[21:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Help Wanted: Americans Don’t Need More Degrees, They Need Training - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:11] <exec> 08└─Shave everything and go with the Shinzon look.
[21:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Help Wanted: Americans Don’t Need More Degrees, They Need Training - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:13] <exec> 08└─There's no shortage of fake jobs for internal promotions or H1B fraud.
[21:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Help Wanted: Americans Don’t Need More Degrees, They Need Training - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:15] <exec> 08└─It's not about training or degrees, it's about IQ.
[21:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Help Wanted: Americans Don’t Need More Degrees, They Need Training - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:18] <exec> 08└─Hire a 30-something actor to go to job interviews, then show up to work as an old fart when the actor gets hired.
[21:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Help Wanted: Americans Don’t Need More Degrees, They Need Training - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:20] <exec> 08└─When Obama even tried to do something remotely good I gave him praise for it. This "yeah well fuck him" isn't going to lead to positive progress, it just leads to the other side deciding to go it alone. Why not, "This is a good first step, although greater investments in trade schools would be bette...
[21:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Help Wanted: Americans Don’t Need More Degrees, They Need Training - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:22] <exec> 08└─> Wrong, they shouldn't be relying on pieces of paper. Yet they do, which makes the paper useful.
[21:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Help Wanted: Americans Don’t Need More Degrees, They Need Training - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:25] <exec> 08└─> Any politician buying into this nonsense is being played. You should proofread before you post, to avoid typos. The correct spelling is "paid"
[21:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Help Wanted: Americans Don’t Need More Degrees, They Need Training - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:27] <exec> 08└─Read your comment, then saw your name: ROFL! ;)
[21:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Formic Acid Powered Bus Demonstrated - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:40] <exec> 08└─It's a bus! If you expect a bus to get the same mileage as a typical passenger vehicle then you've gone mad.
[21:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Formic Acid Powered Bus Demonstrated - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:42] <exec> 08└─To begin with, keep in mind that busses get less than ten miles per gallon for diesel (probably more like five depending on the drive cycle). Still, your point is valid, you need more litres of fuel for the same distance. However, we also don't know the cost of hyrozone (what a stupid name). Ultimat...
[21:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Formic Acid Powered Bus Demonstrated - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:44] <exec> 08└─So it's not an unreasonable concern about alternative fuel proposals in general; however, a quick google reveals formic acid is liquid at normal temperatures, and wouldn't require much different tankage than gasoline.
[21:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Guardian Admits WhatsApp Story Was Flawed - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:01] <exec> 08└─What else might they be lying about??
[21:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03etherscythe [937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Guardian Admits WhatsApp Story Was Flawed - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:03] <exec> 08└─I do. Has a bit of a lag problem at times, but does everything I want it to do.
[21:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pornhub's Newest Videos Can Reach Out and Touch You - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:57] <exec> 08└─The only normies are those who are sexually attracted to real people. Enough of this nonsense.
[21:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06New Innovation Feeds the World With More Fish Protein - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:18] <exec> 08└─I thought the complete protein thing was debunked? You definitely need all nine amino acids a.k.a. complete protein. That's well established biology. But otherwise complete proteins is not an issue for diets based on plants. If anyone claimed otherwise then that's probably what was debunked. It's ab...
[21:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Innovation Feeds the World With More Fish Protein - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:19] <exec> 08└─Yes, if there's one thing Hebrew University of Jerusalem is known for it's for being a den of corporate villainy.
[21:40:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheRaven [270] 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 151 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:01] <exec> 08└─If the law required that the DA spend the same amount on the public defender as they spend on the prosecution for each case, perhaps that would change.
[21:40:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:29] <exec> 08└─If you think you can hack the statistics to get a better approval rate, then you should pursue a very lucrative career in the drug industry (or as an investor).
[21:40:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:31] <exec> 08└─I do in fact think that, and no I don't want to help to scam people about their health.
[21:40:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:33] <exec> 08└─the act of killing someone is murder
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[22:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Time Magazine Asks Trump to Remove Fake Covers From Display at Golf Clubs - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:24] <exec> 08└─I can't wait to see if he tweets anything about this. Personally, I'd love my own picture on a man of the year time magazine cover. I'd frame it and hang it. It's funny, come on people.
[22:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03shanen [6084] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Time Magazine Asks Trump to Remove Fake Covers From Display at Golf Clubs - 1239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:25] <exec> 08└─Eh? After several months the Soylent News website is suddenly visible again? So what's been going on over here? As I said before, I think conventional journalism is dying the big death, and I hoped that SN might be the start of something better. Can't pretend to be clinging to that hope. Can't even...
[22:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Time Magazine Asks Trump to Remove Fake Covers From Display at Golf Clubs - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:27] <exec> 08└─The irony doesn't get too much more iron filled than this really. The entertaining and spot on rant by the journalist the other day at the press briefing, this story about pots and kettles calling each other black. It would only get funnier if somehow someone started to question Trumps country of bi...
[22:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Time Magazine Asks Trump to Remove Fake Covers From Display at Golf Clubs - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:30] <exec> 08└─Fake Time cover, Fake President. Real malignant narcissist and a continuing embarrassment to the USA.
[22:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Time Magazine Asks Trump to Remove Fake Covers From Display at Golf Clubs - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:32] <exec> 08└─He was busy cyberbullying women this morning.
[22:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Time Magazine Asks Trump to Remove Fake Covers From Display at Golf Clubs - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:34] <exec> 08└─Can't even keep the DNS working?
[22:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Time Magazine Asks Trump to Remove Fake Covers From Display at Golf Clubs - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:36] <exec> 08└─Source: https://twitter.com [twitter.com] https://twitter.com [twitter.com]
[22:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Time Magazine Asks Trump to Remove Fake Covers From Display at Golf Clubs - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:39] <exec> 08└─Fake News: CaitrionaPerry after meeting with realDonaldTrump [imgur.com]
[22:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Time Magazine Asks Trump to Remove Fake Covers From Display at Golf Clubs - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:41] <exec> 08└─Maybe shanen has an IPv6 problem. Or maybe just a lie-node problem.
[22:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Time Magazine Asks Trump to Remove Fake Covers From Display at Golf Clubs - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:43] <exec> 08└─A mere insult is not bullying, especially not when the other side engaged you in the first place.
[22:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Time Magazine Asks Trump to Remove Fake Covers From Display at Golf Clubs - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:45] <exec> 08└─would be born in Doucheland, right? :)
[22:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Time Magazine Asks Trump to Remove Fake Covers From Display at Golf Clubs - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:47] <exec> 08└─This sounds like an error code 18: the error occurred within 18 inches of the keyboard.
[22:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Time Magazine Asks Trump to Remove Fake Covers From Display at Golf Clubs - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:50] <exec> 08└─The whole "fake news" thing he adopted in the first place was in discussion because a huge number of fabulatory publications, with no publication history, appeared from nowhere to support his campaign, then disappear into the Balkan night after the election. He then adopted the term to describe fact...
[22:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Time Magazine Asks Trump to Remove Fake Covers From Display at Golf Clubs - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:52] <exec> 08└─That's funny, I don't have a keyboard. PEBKAC problem? Nope, no chair either. Update your shit insults, son.
[22:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Time Magazine Asks Trump to Remove Fake Covers From Display at Golf Clubs - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:54] <exec> 08└─Sounds like an error inside your tent under the bridge.
[22:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Time Magazine Asks Trump to Remove Fake Covers From Display at Golf Clubs - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:56] <exec> 08└─That's funny, I don't have a keyboard.
[22:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Help Wanted: Americans Don’t Need More Degrees, They Need Training - 2279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:52] <exec> 08└─I'll give him credit if and when he ever does something deserving of it. Apprenticeships are not a good idea for this problem. I'll say this much: it is, at minimum, better than doing nothing at all. Even that is contingent on how it's implemented. Just as his financial situation is likely a state o...
[22:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03JP Funkeldump [6631] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Formic Acid Powered Bus Demonstrated - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:09] <exec> 08└─The biggest problem I see is ther cost and effort of milking enough ants.
[22:35:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Formic Acid Powered Bus Demonstrated - 1171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:11] <exec> 08└─If I wanted to defend my claim, I could point out the summary doesn't list a range of temperatures and pressures, and given the way everyone, quack or no, seems to have an alt-fuel idea, and a willingness to tout the benefits and ignore the downsides, one could reasonably distrust that a simple stat...
[22:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Surges in Space Race as its Most Powerful Rocket Launches Satellite Into Orbit - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:11] <exec> 08└─- 1 tonne = 1 metric ton = 1000kg - 1 short ton = 1 US ton = 907.185 kg - 1 long ton = 1 imperial ton = 1016.05 kg Rational, right?
[22:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Surges in Space Race as its Most Powerful Rocket Launches Satellite Into Orbit - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:13] <exec> 08└─You know those calls from India where someone claims to be from the "IT support department" and tells you that "Microsoft has detected a problem with your computer?"
[22:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Surges in Space Race as its Most Powerful Rocket Launches Satellite Into Orbit - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:15] <exec> 08└─No, 1016.05 is irrational.
[22:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blue Origin Will Build its Rocket Engine in Alabama - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:29] <exec> 08└─I took the road less traveled by. I have an L6060. It is orange.
[22:41:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:04] <exec> 08└─The FDA would love to have a 100% approval rate
[22:41:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:05] <exec> 08└─I was told it
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[23:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Time Magazine Asks Trump to Remove Fake Covers From Display at Golf Clubs - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:39] <exec> 08└─LOL, I know right?! There's a stain on the sidewalk here that I swear looks like the silhouette of an Imperial walker. The stain won't fade no matter how much I piss on it.
[23:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Time Magazine Asks Trump to Remove Fake Covers From Display at Golf Clubs - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:40] <exec> 08└─Especially when he could use the real cover [time.com].
[23:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Time Magazine Asks Trump to Remove Fake Covers From Display at Golf Clubs - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:42] <exec> 08└─It's one thing to make your own fake Time Magazine cover and keep it in your own office or home. Putting several copies on public display: that shows a level of narcissism that is not healthy.
[23:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Time Magazine Asks Trump to Remove Fake Covers From Display at Golf Clubs - 842 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:45] <exec> 08└─I just posted this in my journal [soylentnews.org] this morning. If this was already in the queue I didn't see it. Not a submission I know but I generally refrain from stuff like that. Unless I can figure out a sufficiently clever way to be a shithead in the summary. Also this is private property (m...
[23:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03e_armadillo [3695] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Time Magazine Asks Trump to Remove Fake Covers From Display at Golf Clubs - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:47] <exec> 08└─they voted against the establishment and (gasp!) in their own interests. Agree with the first, but am pretty sure the second will turn out to be more correctly "against" . . . but that, only time will really tell.
[23:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Time Magazine Asks Trump to Remove Fake Covers From Display at Golf Clubs - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:49] <exec> 08└─It would only get funnier if somehow someone started to question Trumps country of birth...
[23:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Time Magazine Asks Trump to Remove Fake Covers From Display at Golf Clubs - 1220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:51] <exec> 08└─Um, he's the president of the United States of America. He's got the world's biggest target painted squarely on his ass because he is the highest ranking public official in our (once) great nation. As such he will always be the subject of debate, discussion, criticisms, lampooning, parodying, satire...
[23:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Time Magazine Asks Trump to Remove Fake Covers From Display at Golf Clubs - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:54] <exec> 08└─Eh? After several months the Soylent News website is suddenly visible again? So what's been going on over here?
[23:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Time Magazine Asks Trump to Remove Fake Covers From Display at Golf Clubs - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:56] <exec> 08└─We've been here and serving up hundreds of thousands of pages per day. Nothing wrong with our DNS. Either your DNS provider is glitchy or someone is actively interfering with resolution of our domain like your government or employer. I'd suggest setting up your own recursive name server if you conti...
[23:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Time Magazine Asks Trump to Remove Fake Covers From Display at Golf Clubs - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:58] <exec> 08└─Hah. As if we'd let a ridiculously coiffed, weirdly-off-yellow haired buffoon who can barely string together a coherent sentence anywhere near a position of power.
[23:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Help Wanted: Americans Don’t Need More Degrees, They Need Training - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:55] <exec> 08└─Is job training "for real world work" the only value you see in university education?
[23:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Help Wanted: Americans Don’t Need More Degrees, They Need Training - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:57] <exec> 08└─It was not done under Reagan, he defunded and ruined the more open exploration of higher education. What you're imagining happened is that defunding education caused more people to pursue apprenticeship type programs. It was supposed to be the glory of the free market for people to educate themselve...
[23:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Help Wanted: Americans Don’t Need More Degrees, They Need Training - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:59] <exec> 08└─"Any politician buying into this nonsense is being paid." FTFY
[23:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Help Wanted: Americans Don’t Need More Degrees, They Need Training - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:01] <exec> 08└─Right. Astute observation. The idea isn't to have an apprentice Go programmer. The idea is to have an apprentice programmer. A programmer who can't move to a flow control language, to an aspect oriented language, to a functional language, to a stack language, isn't a real programmer. And that's what...
[23:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Help Wanted: Americans Don’t Need More Degrees, They Need Training - 1950 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:03] <exec> 08└─I agree. One of the biggest problems with the idea of IQ is that it is a gross oversimplification. It's taking something complicated and reducing it to a single number. At least schools consider more than test scores on the SAT or ACT or whatever, which are pretty close to being just IQ tests, when...
[23:35:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Help Wanted: Americans Don’t Need More Degrees, They Need Training - 1120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:06] <exec> 08└─Obama also didn't rant on twitter about shit that people on bad trips do like people visiting them and bleeding from the face. He just expanded surveillance powers stealthily and had good PR. This guy however is bluntly unhinged and leaking with ulterior motive. Known to have a vocabulary and unders...
[23:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Guardian Admits WhatsApp Story Was Flawed - 835 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:44] <exec> 08└─The open letter describes the issue in a clear and concise manner: Here’s the crux of the matter: Signal and WhatsApp–which share the same protocol designed by the same team at Open Whisper Systems–both have to decide what to do when the recipient of an undelivered message changes phones or SI...
[23:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pornhub's Newest Videos Can Reach Out and Touch You - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:39] <exec> 08└─Can Hell's #1 succubus Gwyneth Paltrow reach out to me through VR?
[23:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The United States Space Corps Wants You... - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:34] <exec> 08└─Well, I'm glad somebody else noticed that absence. Although this one is a bit dated: Space Corps Directive 592: In an emergency situation involving two or more officers of equal rank, seniority will be given to whichever officer can program a VCR.
[23:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03tekk [5704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The United States Space Corps Wants You... - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:35] <exec> 08└─Isn't there the small matter of the Outer Space Treaty? Doesn't the very idea of creating a branch of the military, but specifically concerned with space contravene that little clause nobody cares about how you aren't allowed to militarize space?
[23:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Surges in Space Race as its Most Powerful Rocket Launches Satellite Into Orbit - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:32] <exec> 08└─If 1016.05 is irrational, then 907.185 is pure and unadulterated madness.
[23:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moderation Point Issues Today (2017-06-28) [Updated] - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:49] <exec> 08└─To put it bluntly, we got slashdotted :). More specifically, at the time, none of us had a lot of experience on dealing with a large codebase, and Slashcode was a rather massive beast, and with a lot of obsolete dependencies. The usual problem was slashd would hang. I can't actually remember how we...
[23:41:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Professions are Paid Too Much Given their Value to Society? - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:25] <exec> 08└─I didn't describe a conspiracy. I described an incentive system that encourages a certain outcome. I also don't think drug companies are sitting on their hands, or that the denials are arbitrary (although you surely agree that, eg, alpha = 0.05 in 2 trials involves two arbitrary numbers). So your mo...
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