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[00:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Claims Successful Test of InterContinental Ballistic Missile - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:21] <exec> 08└─The two "Axis of Evil" leaders who did not possess WMD's are dead, and Kim has no intention of joining them Poor old Iran will be next, as they have been conned into dropping their Nuclear research.
[00:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Claims Successful Test of InterContinental Ballistic Missile - 785 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:22] <exec> 08└─Under Obama the Norks could have kept doing this shit. I suspect the orange one is getting his panties in a bunch, and is planning some sort of retaliation. I can think of several forms that could take, as in target the missile/bomb makers via Seal Team Six, bomb where they make the missiles/bombs,...
[00:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Claims Successful Test of InterContinental Ballistic Missile - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:25] <exec> 08└─"as they have been conned into dropping their Nuclear research." Well, yeah - that IS the official party line. Is it true, though?
[00:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Claims Successful Test of InterContinental Ballistic Missile - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:27] <exec> 08└─I mostly agree with your post - but Seal Team Six? I don't see that happening. I hear that Trump watches a lot of television, so maybe he has bought into all that Hollywood hype, and he sees it happening. Holy shit, imagine that. Hollywierd forming national security policy by proxy. Now, that's scar...
[00:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Claims Successful Test of InterContinental Ballistic Missile - 952 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:29] <exec> 08└─2017-06-30 United States president and South Korean president: End of strategic patience with North Korea. 2017-07-04 NK executes a missile launch test. Adding to the insult, it's executed on the national day of the US. 2017-07-05 US demands closed meeting with the UN security council. * Will th...
[00:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Claims Successful Test of InterContinental Ballistic Missile - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:31] <exec> 08└─NK have very few missiles that work in combination with nuclear bombs that work. So strategically knocking them all out should be possible. One US ship that fires self guided missiles to these sites and the missile against missile defense should be able to nullify any such NK action. I'll bet there...
[00:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Credit Suisse Transfers IT Employees to Indian Company - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:50] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it's not the Indians. I've worked with hundreds of them over the years, most of them are nice, hardworking people trying to better their lives without screwing anyone over. The problem is the Cxx's. Both the Americans who sell out the American engineers, and the Indians, who sell out the India...
[00:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Credit Suisse Transfers IT Employees to Indian Company - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:52] <exec> 08└─Not all of us went through exactly this 6 months ago. I think it's important to document it when an organization abuses IT professionals. It seems to be a big mystery to the 1%ers and their propaganda department, the mass media, why certain demographics don't flock to careers in IT. It must only be...
[00:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Credit Suisse Transfers IT Employees to Indian Company - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:54] <exec> 08└─It's not the Indians, it's the Cxx who decide to oursource, At least aim stright, dumb motherfucker.
[00:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Credit Suisse Transfers IT Employees to Indian Company - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:56] <exec> 08└─Don't find another job. Make one and put the asshole company into Chapter 11. Because now they are staffed with "me very good, what is your problem? I fix everything good.". And will not be agile enough to deal with it.
[00:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Credit Suisse Transfers IT Employees to Indian Company - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:58] <exec> 08└─Hopefully you can help some other company that can put H1B cheats into a economic disadvantage?
[00:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Lifts Laptop Restriction for Flights from Abu Dhabi - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:18] <exec> 08└─I once went through preclearance in Ireland. It seemed that the officers were locals who held dual US citizenship. I don't think they were carrying weapons either.
[00:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Exploding the Myths of Ada Lovelace's Mathematics - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:13] <exec> 08└─Here. [phrases.org.uk]
[00:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Roger Murdock [4897] (Score: 1) 02 - 06TLS Security: Past, Present and Future - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:07] <exec> 08└─Blue Coats (and any other corporate MITM devices) don't need a root cert from symantec or anywhere else to do SSL packet inspection on a corporate network because the IT dept can just create it's own cert and makes sure it's trusted by all the PCs on the network, which they have full control over.
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[00:40:19] <exec> 08└─linky [osvr.org]
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[01:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Claims Successful Test of InterContinental Ballistic Missile - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:24] <exec> 08└─You miss the point. They have thousands of artillery pieces targeting Seoul, we have no way of taking them all out. Unless we take them all out we can count on millions of casualties in Seoul. My fear is The Orange One will decide a million South Koreans is a good tradeoff for preventing a nuke from...
[01:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Claims Successful Test of InterContinental Ballistic Missile - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:25] <exec> 08└─NK have very few missiles that work in combination with nuclear bombs that work. So strategically knocking them all out should be possible. One US ship that fires self guided missiles to these sites and the missile against missile defense should be able to nullify any such NK action. I'll bet there...
[01:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Claims Successful Test of InterContinental Ballistic Missile - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:27] <exec> 08└─Independence Day is still a holiday, even in California. He's probably too shitfaced to type by now.
[01:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Claims Successful Test of InterContinental Ballistic Missile - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:29] <exec> 08└─Unless we take them all out we can count on millions of casualties in Seoul.
[01:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Claims Successful Test of InterContinental Ballistic Missile - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:31] <exec> 08└─Undermining the government doesn't do much when it's a military dictatorship with a large enough army to staunch any sort of uprising. Just saying.
[01:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Claims Successful Test of InterContinental Ballistic Missile - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:34] <exec> 08└─Don't get your point. Seoul is one of the most populated regions in the world. A few hundred artillery shells can cause a lot of damage. Figure if we missed that artillery battery in the first strike it's cuz we didn't know it was there, guessing they can get 3-4 more artillery rounds off before we...
[01:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Credit Suisse Transfers IT Employees to Indian Company - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:58] <exec> 08└─has just informed 58 of it's IT specialists
[01:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Credit Suisse Transfers IT Employees to Indian Company - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:59] <exec> 08└─It's twitter/smartphone auto-correct world. No wonder jobs are getting oursourced.
[01:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Lifts Laptop Restriction for Flights from Abu Dhabi - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:21] <exec> 08└─Beautiful tweet, I just want to add that Aruba is part of the Netherlands. And speaking of beautiful, when you're in the Caribbean, stop at Saint-Martin for a few nights at Trump National Le Chateau des Palmiers. Sleeps 20. youtu.be/aMAxgNz5cxY 🇫🇷
[01:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Lifts Laptop Restriction for Flights from Abu Dhabi - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:22] <exec> 08└─Just so you understand, I never mentioned the word or the name Israel. Never mentioned it during that conversation with Sergei & Sergey. They were all saying I did. But I didn't tell the Russian foreign minister & ambassador. Never mentioned the word 'Israel' when we talked about laptop bombs. Did n...
[01:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Workers Killed in Molten Slag Spill at Tampa, Florida Power Plant - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:55] <exec> 08└─this is the fault of oppressive safety and environmental regulations. If we had fewer job-killing regulations, fewer workers would be killed on the job.
[01:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03In hydraulis [386] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Exploding the Myths of Ada Lovelace's Mathematics - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:20] <exec> 08└─What a bunch of gibberish. ’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. “Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Ju...
[01:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kaspersky Willing to Hand Source Code Over to U.S. Government - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:37] <exec> 08└─It would be good for the EU. It would be bad for American companies and their nation. American companies should resist. The US government should apply pressure to the companies to help them resist, and should apply pressure to the EU to discourage the EU from demanding source code. Maybe one governm...
[01:40:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Palmer Luckey Donates to CrossVR Patreon - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:28] <exec> 08└─I backed castAR. They refunded me like 1.5 years later because VC money bought them off.
[01:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:52] <exec> 08└─Free people have the right to murder me with their freedom (penis-substitute) gun when I am busy going about my daily activities, maybe taking my kid to the store, maybe with my back turned. That's not freedom. That's giving the crazies access to convenient deadly weapons. Gun nuts do nothing for my...
[01:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Attempt to Achieve YouTube Stardom, Woman Accidentally Kills Her Boyfriend - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:53] <exec> 08└─The overwhelming odds are that the child will not remember this. Too young.
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[02:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Putin Signs Law to Remove Pirate Proxies From Search Engines - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:22] <exec> 08└─Didn't know Russia needed a law to do that.
[02:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Putin Signs Law to Remove Pirate Proxies From Search Engines - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:24] <exec> 08└─Russia now has a legal way to censor any side that allows users to post links. For example, suppose Russia wishes to block this site. They just have someone upload links to pirated content, then they can force ISPs and search engines to block it. This obviously can be used politically. It also provi...
[02:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Claims Successful Test of InterContinental Ballistic Missile - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:46] <exec> 08└─Independence Day is still a holiday, even in Commiefornia.
[02:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Claims Successful Test of InterContinental Ballistic Missile - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:48] <exec> 08└─I mostly agree with your post - but Seal Team Six? I don't see that happening.
[02:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Claims Successful Test of InterContinental Ballistic Missile - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:50] <exec> 08└─Yes, yes they can. They cannot, however, kill millions.
[02:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Claims Successful Test of InterContinental Ballistic Missile - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:52] <exec> 08└─You've been watching too much bad TV. Maybe episodes of the A Team or something equally stupid.
[02:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Claims Successful Test of InterContinental Ballistic Missile - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:54] <exec> 08└─Trump! Trump! Trump!
[02:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Claims Successful Test of InterContinental Ballistic Missile - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:57] <exec> 08└─The way I hear it, Kim Jong Un's position at any given moment is unknown to many in the Army, and he'll move around a lot. Killing Kim just means someone else in the Army will assume power. Whether or not they unleash fury upon South Korea is a known unknown.
[02:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score: 1) 02 - 06North Korea Claims Successful Test of InterContinental Ballistic Missile - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:59] <exec> 08└─Are you stupid? North Korea has NUKES. A nuclear cannon has been done before and there's nothing to suggest that NK does not have them. Even if they can't fit one on an ICBM they can definitely hit South Korea with nukes.
[02:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score: 1) 02 - 06North Korea Claims Successful Test of InterContinental Ballistic Missile - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:01] <exec> 08└─Nuclear cannon: https://m.youtube.com [youtube.com] Tell me North Korea certainly has not developed this technology? It's much simpler than an ICBM. North Korea only needs a few nuclear cannons to kill millions of South Koreans.
[02:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Claims Successful Test of InterContinental Ballistic Missile - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:03] <exec> 08└─We were talking about artillery, slappy. Get with the program.
[02:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06North Korea Claims Successful Test of InterContinental Ballistic Missile - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:06] <exec> 08└─reaching an altitude of 2,802 km
[02:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Claims Successful Test of InterContinental Ballistic Missile - 1190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:08] <exec> 08└─25 million population in the Seoul Capital Area, with 10 million of those in a crunchy Seoul center. Last time I checked, experts guessed that North Korea had about 10 nuclear bombs. Here's a recent estimate [isis-online.org] that guesses 13-30 (great name btw). There's questions over whether or not...
[02:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Claims Successful Test of InterContinental Ballistic Missile - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:10] <exec> 08└─One thing to note is that many of their tests are estimated to have had sub-10 kiloton yields. Miniaturizing the weapons might make the yields even worse. Although if they can fire 20-30 of them into the Seoul Capital Area, maybe it won't matter.
[02:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Claims Successful Test of InterContinental Ballistic Missile - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:12] <exec> 08└─Again, we were talking about artillery.
[02:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Credit Suisse Transfers IT Employees to Indian Company - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:38] <exec> 08└─If they actually got what they paid for, they should've been a lot better off having paid the $36,000 ;)
[02:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Credit Suisse Transfers IT Employees to Indian Company - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:40] <exec> 08└─Is the math off a bit (10x)? 8 x $90 = $720 and 120 x $30 = $3,600 according to my calculator, or did I miss some details? Also, $3,600 - $720 = $2,880 But yeah, way to make it 'cheaper', not . . . ;-)
[02:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Credit Suisse Transfers IT Employees to Indian Company - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:42] <exec> 08└─Powers of 10. :(
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[03:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Putin Signs Law to Remove Pirate Proxies From Search Engines - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:21] <exec> 08└─might be a dumb question, but to they block "piratebay.se" or do they block 104.31.16.3 ??
[03:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Putin Signs Law to Remove Pirate Proxies From Search Engines - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:23] <exec> 08└─It probably doesn't. The law makes it MANDATORY however.
[03:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Putin Signs Law to Remove Pirate Proxies From Search Engines - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:25] <exec> 08└─Why don't you go there and you tell us.
[03:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Putin Signs Law to Remove Pirate Proxies From Search Engines - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:27] <exec> 08└─See my kickstarter to raise the airfare... No, on second thought, maybe someone here actually knows some of these details, so I'll save a trip.
[03:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Putin Signs Law to Remove Pirate Proxies From Search Engines - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:29] <exec> 08└─Internet censorship in the United Kingdom is conducted under a variety of laws, judicial processes, administrative regulations and voluntary arrangements. It is achieved by blocking access to sites as well as the use of laws that criminalise publication or possession of certain types of material.
[03:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Putin Signs Law to Remove Pirate Proxies From Search Engines - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:32] <exec> 08└─Duh, hey! We have this global communication network called the internet. Why not use a Russian proxy in Russia to browse pirate sites and see what is blocked.
[03:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Putin Signs Law to Remove Pirate Proxies From Search Engines - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:34] <exec> 08└─This will get you started. http://www.gatherproxy.com [gatherproxy.com]
[03:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Claims Successful Test of InterContinental Ballistic Missile - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:09] <exec> 08└─I think so, that is why analysts claim it can get to Alaska. NK has been using high "lob" trajectories for testing so the missiles land short of Japan, but at the same time show their potential capability. This is not the first test with a high trajectory like this.
[03:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Claims Successful Test of InterContinental Ballistic Missile - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:10] <exec> 08└─I'm afraid military action could trigger full out war, killing roughly of half of S. Korea. Instead we may have to starve average citizens to weaken NK by blocking food and supplies going in. It's ugly, but it's either us or them.
[03:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Claims Successful Test of InterContinental Ballistic Missile - 1619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:12] <exec> 08└─Just happened to be reading about S-400 today on Wikipedia. China has signed on to buy a few sets. Are any deployed in China yet? China could say they deploy a set that is to protect some strategic this or that in China, and that installation will happen to overlap over enough of North Korea and per...
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[03:34:15] <exec> 08└─They can cause a lot of chaos, yes. It'd take awhile (weeks) for them to cause a lot of damage. The chaos, though, would be incredible, at least initially. The disruption on global markets, especially in the US, would be HUGE. Way bigger than the Orange One's great hands.
[03:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Claims Successful Test of InterContinental Ballistic Missile - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:17] <exec> 08└─but when said government is rudely smacked around, all that in-the-ranks morale and esprit de corps goes directly into the shitter. They're a country built up on a huge mythology (far more so than the US is). But will the Great Orange One throw the US economy into the macerator just to make us think...
[03:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Claims Successful Test of InterContinental Ballistic Missile - 1213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:19] <exec> 08└─Like I'm sure you probably know, getting into orbit isn't about height - but speed. The ISS is traveling at more than 17,000 miles an hour. Things in space don't float because they're in space - but rather move very rapidly around an object that they're falling towards. There's an old Douglas Adams...
[03:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Credit Suisse Transfers IT Employees to Indian Company - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:48] <exec> 08└─Between destroying jobs and killing the workers left behind ( https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] ), they're the most highly compensated sociopaths around and almost fully insulated from any legal repercussion.
[03:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Credit Suisse Transfers IT Employees to Indian Company - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:49] <exec> 08└─Repeat several hundred times and there will be no jobs left for those former workers to get.
[03:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Credit Suisse Transfers IT Employees to Indian Company - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:51] <exec> 08└─Yes... I screwed up. My mistake. Of course this is only one project. Over the course of a year, the amount would be even higher than my accidentally inflated numbers.
[03:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Credit Suisse Transfers IT Employees to Indian Company - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:54] <exec> 08└─Repeat several hundred times and there will be no jobs left for those former workers to get.
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[03:36:14] <exec> 08└─Story about Ada, nobody wants to talk about the programming language named after Ada. Dudes! Bros! Let's discuss Rust!
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[03:37:32] <exec> 08└─Unjustly?? https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
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[04:33:33] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I'll do it for you lazy sack of shit. NWTools.com tell me where I appear to be. "Russian Federation (RU) in region Eastern Europe" Visit ThePirateBay.org now. ThePirateBay Warning – Lawsuits & Huge fines in Russia
[04:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Putin Signs Law to Remove Pirate Proxies From Search Engines - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:34] <exec> 08└─Kickstarter, right? It's not your money. Make the trip, and drink some vodka. Not some old stale vodka that sat in a ship's hold for several weeks. You'll get to drink it like the Russians drink it, fresh out of the distillery.
[04:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06North Korea Claims Successful Test of InterContinental Ballistic Missile - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:16] <exec> 08└─NK will not have much trouble delivering a nuke into Seoul. They have lots of short range missiles. But who can say that they haven't already delivered one or two just by sea and trucks? The area is chock full of small fishing vessels; any of them can be overtaken by NK, driven to any of SK's ports...
[04:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Claims Successful Test of InterContinental Ballistic Missile - 903 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:18] <exec> 08└─Fundamentally this is what North Korea wants. The entire ideology of North Korea is a sort of self sustaining socialism. And real socialism as in government owned industry as opposed to what Americans call socialism which is just capitalism social welfare in lieu of corporate welfare. And I would no...
[04:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Credit Suisse Transfers IT Employees to Indian Company - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:51] <exec> 08└─I recently did a contract gig at a company that had recently shifted its IT infrastructure outsourcing from IBM to HCL. The consensus was that things were far better with HCL (at that point in time) than they ever were with IBM. Just a data point...
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[04:34:53] <exec> 08└─As the comment above stated, there will be plenty of phone calls along the lines of "How does this work?"
[04:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Credit Suisse Transfers IT Employees to Indian Company - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:55] <exec> 08└─Eye've bean bittern buy autocorrect serval thymes...
[04:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Media Blackout of Seymour Hersh's Exposé on US Missile Strike Against Syria - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:31] <exec> 08└─The article itself not only references numerous sources
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[05:33:12] <exec> 08└─Shit.
[05:33:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Space Race: 6 Manned Moon Missions With the Best Chances of Success - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:13] <exec> 08└─Can't happen, won't happen.
[05:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Space Race: 6 Manned Moon Missions With the Best Chances of Success - 1246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:16] <exec> 08└─America has been becoming an ever more divided country. I think a big part of the reason for this is a lack of direction for people. This generation is looking to be the first to actually earn less, on average, than their parents' generation. The US education and performance in the sciences continue...
[05:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03sweettea [2023] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Space Race: 6 Manned Moon Missions With the Best Chances of Success - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:18] <exec> 08└─>Japan announced an ambitious plan to land an astronaut on the moon Friday. Ah, well, you know, Thursday is just too soon, but we can probably do Friday, eh?
[05:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Putin Signs Law to Remove Pirate Proxies From Search Engines - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:35] <exec> 08└─Trump likes to drink vodka filtered through a Russian.
[05:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Claims Successful Test of InterContinental Ballistic Missile - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:19] <exec> 08└─Look, it's a country with an unstable and erratic leader that does bizarre things. Uh....which country are we talking about? But seriously, do you really believe that it's down to "us or them"? So close that it's okay to starve children half a world away to teach them a lesson? Ever wonder what you'...
[05:34:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stretch611 [6199] 02 - 06Credit Suisse Transfers IT Employees to Indian Company - 3433 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:38] <exec> 08└─I was outsourced in 1999 only to have the outsourcer offshore the entire group one year later in 2000. Also with a different job in 2007 I was offshored. Both times I was able to get a new job in a short period of time and left before I fully trained my replacement(s). It doesn't matter... the chanc...
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[05:37:54] <exec> 08└─National Socialism was about as socialist as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is democratic.
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[06:33:22] <exec> 08└─Give people something to remind them that America, and being American, is actually something to be proud of again
[06:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Space Race: 6 Manned Moon Missions With the Best Chances of Success - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:24] <exec> 08└─VR does not require rocket science or expensive space travel. If you do it right [wikipedia.org], people can use VR while living in pods [wikipedia.org] on universal basic income. The bread can come from a plastic tube. And you ain't seen nothing like these circuses.
[06:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Claims Successful Test of InterContinental Ballistic Missile - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:27] <exec> 08└─I'm thinking snipers at 1m+ range.
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[06:34:28] <exec> 08└─Suppose they have. How many nuclear shells do you suppose they have? if you take out 90% or more of their artillery emplacement, how many do you expect will be on hand at the remaining emplacements?
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[07:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Women Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment - 1423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:22] <exec> 08└─The actual title of TFA is "Women in tech speak frankly on culture of harassment", and indeed "tech" is mentioned throughout the text. Women in tech. Give me a break. None of the women mentioned in TFA are "in tech". Doing a non-technical job for a tech company does not make you "tech". Being physic...
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[07:33:23] <exec> 08└─Silicon Valley. Spearhead of ultra-progressive California. It's sexist. Aggressively, exploitatively sexist. We get it. It will start to be news when these things stop happening. When women look up and say: "What? No, I guess I heard of that happening once, but never to me." Until then, this is just...
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[07:33:25] <exec> 08└─But the in-ness of tech-ness is mostly moot-ness. The key as that young start-ups still have old-fashioned views of women.
[07:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Women Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:27] <exec> 08└─It's not like they're only 15% of the population. I don't know who's playing whom, but their 'weakness' game is for suckers, and man, we sure have a lot of them these days, trippin' all over themselves to get that pussy. So, I guess I do know who's playing whom.. Men really can be awful stupid..
[07:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Women Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:30] <exec> 08└─bradley12 in tech. Give me a break.
[07:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Putin Signs Law to Remove Pirate Proxies From Search Engines - 636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:00] <exec> 08└─How are the circumvention efforts going? Are we making headway in preventing anybody from blocking anything? And what about about hiding the physical location of servers? Can we do it? For how long? See, instead of stories about censorship and state power, can anybody find stories about the tech nee...
[07:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03In hydraulis [386] (Score: 1) 02 - 06North Korea Claims Successful Test of InterContinental Ballistic Missile - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:47] <exec> 08└─Operation Upshot–Knothole [wikipedia.org] Artillery and nuclear weapons are not mutually exclusive concepts.
[07:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Claims Successful Test of InterContinental Ballistic Missile - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:49] <exec> 08└─I have it on good authority that cannons are artillery.
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[07:35:25] <exec> 08└─Funnily enough I had a similar experience, with the "they're a third of the cost, how can we lose?" argument coming down the pipe from above. Hilariously it turned out the "they could be less than a third of the productivity" never seemed to occur to anyone - and having reviewed a couple of the proj...
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[07:35:27] <exec> 08└─That doesn't surprise me. My experience was in Software Engineering, though, not IT.
[07:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Workers Killed in Molten Slag Spill at Tampa, Florida Power Plant - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:23] <exec> 08└─Two people dying is certainly uninteresting but as you yourself point out the policies and liabilities related to such incidents are interesting and should be debated and probably changed.
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[07:36:24] <exec> 08└─To be entirely fair, there are a lot of regulations out there that are outdated, inappropriately applied, or irrationally written. Or just incompetently executed. One particular case to my certain knowledge: Apply for *business activity permission* Time passes while bureaucrats work at the speed of...
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[08:33:28] <exec> 08└─Yes, Google and Facebook preach tolerance and diversity while still being 70% White males and 29.9% Asian (What we Americans call "oriental" to distinguish good workers from Arab scum) males. Funny thing is, in my part of California, I've seen plenty of Female STEM bosses. Not a majority, but not a...
[08:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Women Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:30] <exec> 08└─"investor types are exploitative dicks" Speaking from current experience: this is simple truth. What I find strange is that some of them are so out to screw people that they actually (imho) act counter to their own interests. Present them with a situation where "win-win" is clearly the way to go? Fo...
[08:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Women Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment - 1622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:32] <exec> 08└─Seriously, you need to look at each case, individually, and judge for yourself. The guy who hit on an applicant, then didn't give her the job after being shot down? Yeah, that was almost certainly harassment. He thought he would set up a nice cozy relationship with the new girl, and when she shot hi...
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[08:33:34] <exec> 08└─She was a lawyer turned investment partner. She had absolutely 0 to do with tech other than the fact that she worked at a venture capital company based in Silicon Valley. And she indeed brought her case to court - with numerous charges. A jury of her peers determined all charges were completely with...
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[08:33:36] <exec> 08└─Personally, I wouldn't try to start a relationship with a women who I already have a business relationship. If money is changing hands, that's most definitely business. But, there are stories of stuff like that working out to his and her mutual benefit.
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[08:33:39] <exec> 08└─An investor hitting on an entrepreneur?
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[08:33:41] <exec> 08└─Speaking from current experience: this is simple truth.
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[08:33:43] <exec> 08└─How the hell is this a troll comment? From what I remember I think I generally dislike bradley13, but this a factual claim that can be either confirmed or refuted: "these women have nothing to do with technology". Furthermore, some of the women complain that they are being harassed by investors, and...
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[08:33:45] <exec> 08└─It will start to be news when these things stop happening. When women look up and say: "What? No, I guess I heard of that happening once, but never to me."
[08:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Women Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:48] <exec> 08└─She had absolutely 0 to do with tech other than the fact that she worked at a venture capital company based in Silicon Valley.
[08:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Women Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:50] <exec> 08└─With #GamerGate we had second-rate whores getting game reviews and promotion in exchange for sexual favors. With #SiliconGate we have second-rate whores getting investment and promotion in exchange for sexual favors.
[08:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Women Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:52] <exec> 08└─The founder of Silicon Valley-based venture capitalist firm 500 Startups has resigned following sexual harassment claims by several women. Dave McClure announced his resignation in a blog entitled: "I'm a creep. I'm sorry." Entrepreneur Sarah Kunst had claimed in the New York Times that Mr McClure s...
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[08:34:23] <exec> 08└─Perhaps because you are an idiot?
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[08:34:24] <exec> 08└─How are the circumvention efforts going?
[08:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Claims Successful Test of InterContinental Ballistic Missile - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:13] <exec> 08└─And the potentially tens of thousands of civilian casualties across almost half the world from NK retaliation would just be acceptable losses, right?
[08:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Claims Successful Test of InterContinental Ballistic Missile - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:15] <exec> 08└─Like I'm sure you probably know, getting into orbit isn't about height - but speed. The ISS is traveling at more than 17,000 miles an hour. Things in space don't float because they're in space - but rather move very rapidly around an object that they're falling towards.
[08:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Credit Suisse Transfers IT Employees to Indian Company - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:54] <exec> 08└─Nothing to get upset about... Nothing you can do... Nothing to even discuss. It's just business. Let it go.
[08:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Credit Suisse Transfers IT Employees to Indian Company - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:55] <exec> 08└─If H1B imports...
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[08:36:19] <exec> 08└─Your comment (with which i heartily agree) brought to my mind how even carry-on for sensitive equipment has changed. Take laptop out of bag, out of sleeve, put delicate, expensive equipment in plastic bouncy tray where it'll be jostled by all the bags and coats behind it. On the one hand, I'd like t...
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[08:36:20] <exec> 08└─Exactly: do I go to the US or not? Which is the smart business decision? Most annoying is that, while the business in the US has very good value, the potential for disaster is included in the trip. (e.g. my laptop is my one and only computer. If it breaks, I'll definitely lose a week of work.)
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[08:36:56] <exec> 08└─Evidently it wooshed so hard you could only read one word in five. Let's try this again: If it's ALWAYS SAFETY FIRST, and every other concern comes second or further down the line? You'll never do anything because you could slip and fall on your way to doing anything. In agriculture it doesn't matte...
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[09:33:20] <exec> 08└─The actual title of TFA is "Women in tech speak frankly on culture of harassment", and indeed "tech" is mentioned throughout the text. Women in tech. Give me a break. None of the women mentioned in TFA are "in tech". Doing a non-technical job for a tech company does not make you "tech". Being physic...
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[09:33:38] <exec> 08└─An investment firm that is headquartered in Silicon Valley is an investment firm head quartered in Silicon Valley, not a tech company. None of the allegations in this article are in any way directed at tech companies or individuals inside of tech companies. They're literally all targeted at investor...
[09:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Women Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:39] <exec> 08└─None of the allegations in this article are in any way directed at tech companies or individuals inside of tech companies. They're literally all targeted at investors, lawyers, and other such types.
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[09:33:41] <exec> 08└─I say, as you literally quoted, None of the allegations in this article are in any way directed at tech companies or individuals inside of tech companies... and you link to a new article. That alone is rather silly, but on top of it the new article also seems to provide 0 allegations of wrongdoing t...
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[09:33:43] <exec> 08└─> A business setting is not such a time a place. I don't think you realize how many couples met in a business setting.
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[09:33:56] <exec> 08└─I definitely think things are connected, but not really in the way you're implying. Even the most despicable examples of 'profit over everything' today at one time were companies really trying to change the world and provide a great new service. McDonalds for instance was something that had never be...
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[09:35:08] <exec> 08└─"1m+" range? Yeah, it would be pretty hard to miss at 1 meter!
[09:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03fnj [1654] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Claims Successful Test of InterContinental Ballistic Missile - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:09] <exec> 08└─Did you ever hear of a place called Hiroshima? Nagasaki? In each case, a single explosion of around 15 kilotons killed around 100,000 people. Per inverse square scaling, a couple of kilotons could easily kill tens of thousands. Twenty to thirty of those? Are you kidding? In a city like Seoul tat cou...
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[09:35:11] <exec> 08└─Nuclear cannons are simple in concept but pretty sophisticated in actual execution. First, your warhead needs to be miniaturized far smaller than it does for a missile. More importantly, you have to arrange for it to survive the terrific concussion of being fired, and still be intact enough to opera...
[09:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03fnj [1654] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Claims Successful Test of InterContinental Ballistic Missile - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:13] <exec> 08└─Your point is? What difference does it make whether they use missiles, artillery, or ballistae? Or whether they deliver nuclear mines into harbors using submarines?
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[09:36:52] <exec> 08└─You paint a gruesome picture, but my guess (only a guess) is that you are overcome/rendered-unconscious by fumes before you have time to notice that you are trapped in solidifying slag.
[09:38:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03fraxinus-tree [5590] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kaspersky Willing to Hand Source Code Over to U.S. Government - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:36] <exec> 08└─3-letter and 4-letter agencies of major world powers (at least down to and including Russia) have the source code of almost anything of interest anyway. There is an established culture of "trading" these things between them even outside usual allies.
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[09:39:37] <exec> 08└─Hard to take seriously when first problem they have is arguing over the definition of the word "morning", arguing that the official time of the bombing (11:30, no time zone) is hours later than "morning". As for the rest, their argument is based on a report that - according to the comments - itself...
[09:40:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TLS Security: Past, Present and Future - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:40:19] <exec> 08└─That would be correct if they were only targeting corporate networks. Thus we can conclude that their need for a root certificate must mean that they are targeting networks where there is no one central admin to push out such certificates - such as intercepting information from all those people who...
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[10:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Women Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:46] <exec> 08└─Doubling down on the not-true things you have said not only makes you look even more incredibly stupid, but it seems to imply that you think that Soylentils are stupid as well. And it is so easily proven that it is the former. Half a dozen women working in the tech industry say they have faced unwa...
[10:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Women Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:48] <exec> 08└─Wow! You utterly decimated that argument! However, it seems that while you were busy constructing that strawman, I accidentally slipped and my cock fell into your asshole and shot out all of my feces-mating liquid. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Too good! But wait, what is this...
[10:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Women Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:50] <exec> 08└─There's no such thing as a woman, let alone a "woman in tech," It's a ridiculous myth bandied about by subversive liberals looking for unfair advantages over diligent patriots. Every time they find themselves on the receiving end of some red-blooded right-wing right-thinking manly patriotic banter a...
[10:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Claims Successful Test of InterContinental Ballistic Missile - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:18] <exec> 08└─First time hearing\reading this one. I wonder how such a racial\ethnic\national slur came to be. It's not like people spontaneously started shortening it while chit-chatting... Like, compared to the British Paki for Pakistanis or Polack for Polish in the States, you could imagine a conversation goin...
[10:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Claims Successful Test of InterContinental Ballistic Missile - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:20] <exec> 08└─Potential damage. The amount of artillery they have simply is not capable of killing millions unless they stand there going lalala waiting to be killed.
[10:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Claims Successful Test of InterContinental Ballistic Missile - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:22] <exec> 08└─You reckon NK has managed to go through the trouble of making a nuke that can survive being used as artillery? It's not a simple thing. One solder joint dislodged and no earth-shattering kaboom.
[10:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Claims Successful Test of InterContinental Ballistic Missile - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:24] <exec> 08└─Oh I expect they can. We were talking artillery though.
[10:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Credit Suisse Transfers IT Employees to Indian Company - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:04] <exec> 08└─Know.
[10:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondrake [2658] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Media Blackout of Seymour Hersh's Exposé on US Missile Strike Against Syria - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:50] <exec> 08└─Read the OPCW report yourself, then come back again with an apology. (Short version: the investigators relied on samples collected by people at the site and were in several cases present when samples were took from victims. They did not visit the site in person, but there is a preponderance of evide...
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[11:33:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beijing Arrests 32 Over Transit Elevated Bus Scam - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:11] <exec> 08└─that got some funding. They built some (a?) model. That got more funding. wonkey_monkey was correct: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] Just because there was a model, doesn't make the actual bus/train/car eater a real vehicle.
[11:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Women Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:48] <exec> 08└─To be fair, those guys that harassed them probably aren't 'tech' either, but management making a living off 'tech'. And harassing obviously. They probably think if they do this to a hundred women, surely one or two will 'byte'. They're not concerned about the other 98, those are forgotten immediatel...
[11:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Women Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:49] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure if you're being ironic. Poe's law makings interpreting meaning pretty hard now a days! I'm going to assume you're being serious. Disregard and +1 if your comment was humor that I'm missing. Assuming you're being serious, you're now engaging in circular logic. The whole conversation was...
[11:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Women Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:52] <exec> 08└─Aristarchus Read my first comment. TFA is flat-out wrong, or worse, deliberately lying. The three women in the cover photo - not tech. Look up their company, Wethos [angel.co]: "Wethos allows nonprofits to create and post their creative freelance needs.". Now, that company will have to have a websit...
[11:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Putin Signs Law to Remove Pirate Proxies From Search Engines - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:26] <exec> 08└─Both. They could even block newer IPs automatically which recently led to hilarious results as someone bought unused (but still blocked) domains and wrote various IPs into their DNS data.
[11:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Lifts Laptop Restriction for Flights from Abu Dhabi - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:30] <exec> 08└─Yes, those stupid wheeled assembly line things. I swear the TSA likes to make it as hard as possible for you to keep your laptop safe. They get pissy sometimes because I put the laptop on top of the sleeve on top of the tray so the bumpy ride is less likely to wreck it, and they expect you to spread...
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[12:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beijing Arrests 32 Over Transit Elevated Bus Scam - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:22] <exec> 08└─This town needs a monorail!
[12:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beijing Arrests 32 Over Transit Elevated Bus Scam - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:24] <exec> 08└─There is a place for funding impossible pie-in-the-sky and/or scam projects and that place is Indiegogo.
[12:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Roman Concrete Explained - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:32] <exec> 08└─... did they knew sea water would have this effect at the time?
[12:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03number6 [1831] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Roman Concrete Explained - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:34] <exec> 08└─Roman Seawater Concrete Holds the Secret to Cutting Carbon Emissions - Berkeley Lab, June 2013 [lbl.gov]
[12:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Roman Concrete Explained - 770 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:36] <exec> 08└─According to this earlier article, https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] Roman concrete was used in other places around the Mediterranean, with raw materials shipped from Italy, so it was known to be a good material. I also posted this story (shortly after takyon)...
[12:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Women Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:10] <exec> 08└─Oh, thou pompous and disingenuous ass, please go away. Far away. Please? Trolling couched in flowery verbosity and irrelevant links is still trolling. Away, foul troll, and the broken wind thou bring.
[12:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Claims Successful Test of InterContinental Ballistic Missile - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:44] <exec> 08└─I don't see removing Kim Jong Un as helping. It's entirely possible that he's less belligerent than the other people who would take over if he were out of the picture.
[12:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Claims Successful Test of InterContinental Ballistic Missile - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:46] <exec> 08└─With artillery they need to fire a lot which means it's a lot easier to find and wipe out the shooter.
[12:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Claims Successful Test of InterContinental Ballistic Missile - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:48] <exec> 08└─Ah.. the west coast. Is that salmon with Fukushima spices? :p
[12:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Credit Suisse Transfers IT Employees to Indian Company - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:29] <exec> 08└─see! "autocorrect" has already solved the humor problem other A.I.s are struggling with :D
[12:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Credit Suisse Transfers IT Employees to Indian Company - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:31] <exec> 08└─+ a job with a competitor... ... The first choice is likely to be more lucrative
[12:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Lifts Laptop Restriction for Flights from Abu Dhabi - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:57] <exec> 08└─Have a hot backup laptop stashed away in some "sane country" ? As an alternative some backup media and cash which takes little weight. So you can buy and transform any laptop into your liking?
[12:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Lifts Laptop Restriction for Flights from Abu Dhabi - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:59] <exec> 08└─Buy laptops made with titanium shells coated with rubber?
[12:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exploding the Myths of Ada Lovelace's Mathematics - 1025 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:02] <exec> 08└─I'm glad I didn't have to spend 2 years on learning calculus... Also, the concept that one "requires background" in order to do basic mathematics is fairly absurd. The end product of groundbreaking foundational publication is the antithesis of building upon background learning, it is making somethin...
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[12:38:04] <exec> 08└─reproductive system is privileged over the body part between the ears?!
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[13:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Microsoft is Cutting 'Thousands' of Jobs in Global Reorganization - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:24] <exec> 08└─Feels odd writing this, but I think I preferred the MS overlords to the FB and Goog ones.
[13:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft is Cutting 'Thousands' of Jobs in Global Reorganization - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:25] <exec> 08└─Agreed, but it's a terrible choice to have to make! Not that there really is any choice. We can choose not to use their products, but their influence over the wider populace remains.
[13:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03technoid_ [6593] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Women Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment - 810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:19] <exec> 08└─Sorry to break this to you, but Tech is an industry and along with that there are support roles. To run a large business, you need people doing things that are not your direct product. Janitors, receptionists, cafeteria cooks, lawyers, and business people are all needed in a large company to provide...
[13:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03technoid_ [6593] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Women Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:20] <exec> 08└─There is a difference between "being news" and "making the news". Hoping for it being a language difference issue, but I am unaware of what the native tongue of AC-land is.
[13:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Women Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment - 1085 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:22] <exec> 08└─To be honest, I have mostly tuned out these so-called sexual harassment and unwelcome/unwanted advances complaints. Everything from "He was looking at me wrong" to "I didn't get invited to the after hours drinking party" has become sexual harassment. I once had a female coworker, who knew I was marr...
[13:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Women Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:25] <exec> 08└─so why are you calling them liars
[13:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Women Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:27] <exec> 08└─There's no such thing as a woman...
[13:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Women Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment - 1920 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:29] <exec> 08└─I've already stated that the job interview was very much out of line. But, business settings aren't entirely inappropiate, depending on exactly what your business relationship is. Asking my own secretary out is pretty much out of line in any code of ethics I've ever read or heard. Asking a secretary...
[13:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Putin Signs Law to Remove Pirate Proxies From Search Engines - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:05] <exec> 08└─You do it by communicating openly only at random times for random IP-addresses. And by require people to first join a less privileged social circle where they have to prove their worth to advance to the next more connected circle. Just like people climb the ladder in corporations.
[13:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Claims Successful Test of InterContinental Ballistic Missile - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:08] <exec> 08└─"Oh, hello, American spy" "How do you know I'm American? My accent or what?" "No. You're black". Do you have many Korean looking and NK accent speaking precision snipers? Maybe a (self-inflatable?) sniper riffle that can be carried inconspicuously until needed? Or maybe those snipers can enter hiber...
[13:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03infodragon [3509] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Claims Successful Test of InterContinental Ballistic Missile - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:09] <exec> 08└─Pack a bunch of plutonium in a shell; dirty artillery. They could easily contaminate anything their artillery can reach and they would have plenty of non-weapons grade, not capable of critical mass, radioactive material as a byproduct of production of weapons grade radioactive material. The result...
[13:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03arulatas [3600] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Workers Killed in Molten Slag Spill at Tampa, Florida Power Plant - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:02] <exec> 08└─I seriously had to take a second look at the poster's name to make sure this wasn't by realDonaldTrump. Was shocked that it wasn't.
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[14:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03r1348 [5988] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Ukrainian Software Firm Suspected of Spreading Global Virus, Servers Seized - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:18] <exec> 08└─We were told it was Putin's fault! ... OMG ... WHO DO WE HATE NOW?!?
[14:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ukrainian Software Firm Suspected of Spreading Global Virus, Servers Seized - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:20] <exec> 08└─Polskis are always telling people to watch out for the Ukies.
[14:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ukrainian Software Firm Suspected of Spreading Global Virus, Servers Seized - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:22] <exec> 08└─Still quite possible. It wouldn't be at all out of character for corrupt company officers to take money for something nefarious. I don't have a horse in the race though so my give a shit level is pretty well bottomed out.
[14:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ukrainian Software Firm Suspected of Spreading Global Virus, Servers Seized - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:24] <exec> 08└─Just because mainstream west media tries to assign all kinds of blame on Putin. Doesn't mean that Russian government would not do anything nefarious. But to trust mainstream media to inform on the matter is worthless.
[14:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03zafiro17 [234] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft is Cutting 'Thousands' of Jobs in Global Reorganization - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:34] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure this reflects any huge change in corporate priorities. Probably just looking for reduction in inefficiencies caused by competing sales mandates. Got to be tough to be in software sales, as you run the risk of being 'reorganized' just about every day. I'm friends with a MS salesguy in Eu...
[14:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft is Cutting 'Thousands' of Jobs in Global Reorganization - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:37] <exec> 08└─Kinda like magic, huh? So, if I want to apprentice to a wizard to learn magic, I should go to Microsoft?
[14:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft is Cutting 'Thousands' of Jobs in Global Reorganization - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:39] <exec> 08└─I don't have this preference. MS products still cause me grief in ways that Facebook and Google can't match.
[14:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft is Cutting 'Thousands' of Jobs in Global Reorganization - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:41] <exec> 08└─Guys will actually be MS support.
[14:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft is Cutting 'Thousands' of Jobs in Global Reorganization - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:43] <exec> 08└─Free Unix ate Microsoft income for lunch and now they have to deal with the consequences? :p
[14:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft is Cutting 'Thousands' of Jobs in Global Reorganization - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:45] <exec> 08└─MS is doing the same thing as Google/FB, except they have access to all your data, rather than merely the data you expose to the web browser.
[14:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Roman Concrete Explained - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:05] <exec> 08└─I don't think that Roman concrete on land grew these crystals. The claim here is that the crystals grew over time in sea water, constantly strengthening the structure. I don't see a similar claim for either dry structures, or structures surrounded by fresh water. Obviously, Roman concrete was damned...
[14:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Roman Concrete Explained - 997 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:07] <exec> 08└─Well they probably didn't know the exact chemistry, but they knew volcanic ash was a key to making marine cement structures: The Romans made concrete by mixing lime and volcanic rock. For underwater structures, lime and volcanic ash were mixed to form mortar, and this mortar and volcanic tuff were p...
[14:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Roman Concrete Explained - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:09] <exec> 08└─Seems concrete made without rebar is what makes structures stand the test of time. So maybe some constructions should be made this way?
[14:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Roman Concrete Explained - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:11] <exec> 08└─But, there is no reason (yet, at least) to think that they knew the concrete placed in seawater would grow stronger with time.
[14:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Women Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:52] <exec> 08└─Alright, so you have a tech company. If your janitor hits on your office maid, are you going to call that misbehaviour in tech? I can see the headlines: "Floor buffer tech sexually harasses Lemon Pledge tech!"
[14:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Women Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:53] <exec> 08└─Agreed, if it had been attend interview, next day get an emailed rejection. "I'm sorry that with the slew of qualified candidates we had, that we went with another option. However, I did find you personally very interesting and would be excited to go for drinks sometime." That gets back to the more...
[14:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Women Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment - 1273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:56] <exec> 08└─Ok, thanks for letting us know that you're still OK with sexual harassment in general. Focusing on the 'women in *tech*' phrasing of the problem, as opposed to, say, the *problem*, is not illuminating you in what can be called a favorable light. If this article was about 'women in tech' that somehow...
[14:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Women Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment - 747 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:58] <exec> 08└─Your one anecdote about the wiles of women pale by comparison to the volumes of harassment women undergo every day. To paraphrase and slightly misapply comedian Chris Rock, he says women get offered dick every day. 'Can I get that for you? (Would you like some dick?)' Whereas us men are like 'Damn t...
[14:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Women Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:00] <exec> 08└─Just to cut through some of the crap ... this is horrible, disgusting behaviour and I hope the guys responsible are punished appropriately.
[14:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Women Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment - 1813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:02] <exec> 08└─Here are a few other things that are sexual harassment. All of these have happened to me, all in retaliation for my perceived membership in a conspiracy of 3.5 billion people preventing womyn-born-womyn from learning programming and my refusal to be a sex object and bank account for womyn-born-womyn...
[14:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Women Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:04] <exec> 08└─... while women just like to bitch.
[14:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Space Race: 6 Manned Moon Missions With the Best Chances of Success - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:18] <exec> 08└─This generation is looking to be the first to actually earn less, on average, than their parents' generation.
[14:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Space Race: 6 Manned Moon Missions With the Best Chances of Success - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:19] <exec> 08└─The problem is that once these companies 'win' they lose any sense of purpose. What next? Well there's nothing really.
[14:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Space Race: 6 Manned Moon Missions With the Best Chances of Success - 1496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:22] <exec> 08└─There's a few problems with that logic. First, there wasn't the kind of extreme inequality & poverty that is now the norm — a person could feasibly earn enough to support a family in a nice middle-class lifestyle without even finishing high school, and knew they'd almost certainly have their job a...
[14:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Claims Successful Test of InterContinental Ballistic Missile - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:49] <exec> 08└─Yup, it'd be nasty. Might cause quite a lot of radiation sickness, cancer down the road, and some amount of extra death. Still not capable of killing millions though.
[14:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Claims Successful Test of InterContinental Ballistic Missile - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:50] <exec> 08└─You get real. The yields on NK's weaponizable nukes could easily be less than 2 kilotons each. There are less wooden buildings in Seoul. 20-30 nukes is the high estimate. And I never said millions wouldn't die. Maybe the Cold War has addled your brain.
[14:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Claims Successful Test of InterContinental Ballistic Missile - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:53] <exec> 08└─even funnier, in the UK "norks" is slang for a womans breasts.
[14:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Credit Suisse Transfers IT Employees to Indian Company - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:36] <exec> 08└─assigned males who work in IT are just terrible, horrible, no good, very bad people.
[14:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Lifts Laptop Restriction for Flights from Abu Dhabi - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:05] <exec> 08└─Yeah... I should have saved longer and invested in a toughbook. But decided on some Windows 10 tablet hybrid shit. It works though, I mean up until I boot into linux and that driver mess with combo tablet HIDs. Also would a toughbook actually protect the drive or is it assumed this stuff has SSDs no...
[14:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06U.S. Lifts Laptop Restriction for Flights from Abu Dhabi - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:06] <exec> 08└─I'll suspect toughbooks are all flashmemory by now. Any Microsoft tablet is likely prepared to ensure it won't work with FOSS..
[14:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Exploding the Myths of Ada Lovelace's Mathematics - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:13] <exec> 08└─Meh, it is okay for people to question things (isn't that the central idea of science?), but this article didn't "explode" anything, merely confirmed what I had already been taught. It doesn't take a wealth of knowledge to make every advancement, sometimes it just needs a fresh pair of eyes, but kno...
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[15:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03zoward [4734] (Score: 1) 02 - 06TUXEDO Computers to Develop Own Ubuntu-Based Linux Distro Using Xfce Desktop - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:25] <exec> 08└─This doesn't do wonders for my confidence that the major linux distros are going to work OOB with their hardware. I always thought that was the reason why people would pay extra for hardware from small linux specialty vendors, versus buying a windows-based machine known to work with linux hardware (...
[15:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TUXEDO Computers to Develop Own Ubuntu-Based Linux Distro Using Xfce Desktop - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:26] <exec> 08└─The only thing OSS seems to really have gotten down to this day.
[15:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TUXEDO Computers to Develop Own Ubuntu-Based Linux Distro Using Xfce Desktop - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:29] <exec> 08└─So will it run FreeBSD? Otherwise it seems not that attractive..
[15:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TUXEDO Computers to Develop Own Ubuntu-Based Linux Distro Using Xfce Desktop - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:31] <exec> 08└─For it is much more effective to have one systemdOS to rule them all, isn't it?
[15:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TUXEDO Computers to Develop Own Ubuntu-Based Linux Distro Using Xfce Desktop - 776 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:33] <exec> 08└─Buying a machine like this will *almost* certainly mean that you can run other distros on it. They're using Ubuntu. Just go to the Ubuntu repository and/or the special repository where the drivers are found and download. Swap out hard drive, install Suse, Deb, or whatever. You find that there is no...
[15:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ukrainian Software Firm Suspected of Spreading Global Virus, Servers Seized - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:43] <exec> 08└─Basically, this company's IT infrastructure was seized because it was an unwitting accomplice in spreading the malware: I'm pretty sure the company's officers did not intentionally get involved with this. I think this is a good idea, but it should be done consistently, worldwide: anyone who's comput...
[15:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Ukrainian Software Firm Suspected of Spreading Global Virus, Servers Seized - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:45] <exec> 08└─Are you kidding me?! We're still allowing submissions which cite rt.com and nothing else? Is the colour scheme more apropos than I realised?
[15:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft is Cutting 'Thousands' of Jobs in Global Reorganization - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:00] <exec> 08└─I must admit to being a little amused by this. So often we hear of massive downsizing and out-sourcing in engineering, support, logistics, and manufacturing at many companies, while the smart-ass sales and marketing jerks polish their BMW's. Nice the see some of the crapmeisters at MS, IBM, and othe...
[15:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft is Cutting 'Thousands' of Jobs in Global Reorganization - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:02] <exec> 08└─Considering that chrome installs it's own system service I wouldn't be too sure about that.
[15:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft is Cutting 'Thousands' of Jobs in Global Reorganization - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:04] <exec> 08└─Micro$off already fired all the techies in the previous round. They only got lawyers and UI "designers" (aka random web designers/hipsters that LARP working at abble) left.
[15:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft is Cutting 'Thousands' of Jobs in Global Reorganization - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:06] <exec> 08└─There is no winning in a world of unregulated large corporations making ad hoc decisions about what makes them the most profit. The market absolutely will not correct behavior until far, far, far too late at the scales these businesses operate.
[15:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft is Cutting 'Thousands' of Jobs in Global Reorganization - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:08] <exec> 08└─But, it's all cloud stuff. Personalized ads and scripts that send emails and repeated ads eliminate the need for even a human to hound you. The only people kept, I am sure, are those proven to be attractive looking to the buyers in their market, male or female. If the tracking and endless stream of...
[15:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft is Cutting 'Thousands' of Jobs in Global Reorganization - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:10] <exec> 08└─Oligopolies and monopolies usually suck. Always have and always will. Anti-trust laws should be more heavily enforced.
[15:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Roman Concrete Explained - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:34] <exec> 08└─This "mystery" is "solved" every couple of years. As noted, it is described in ancient Roman writings. Breathless announcements probably date back only to the scramble for grant money being the driver for [scams disguised as] science. This pattern is becoming tedious. /grumble
[15:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Roman Concrete Explained - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:36] <exec> 08└─My bad. I read TFS, and went with various articles I've read in the past. I've not read Pliny's quote before.
[15:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Roman Concrete Explained - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:38] <exec> 08└─My guess is that an ed was confused by us using the exact same headline. I glanced at your sub and it did look better. Maybe this concrete will revive the "seasteading" concept.
[15:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Women Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:27] <exec> 08└─sexual harassment in the tech start-up ecosystem goes beyond one firm and is pervasive and ingrained.
[15:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03technoid_ [6593] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Women Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:28] <exec> 08└─It is happening in the tech industry, it can be. Part of the problem is the culture of the office/industry that allows this to go on. If the company does nothing about the problem, then it is a company problem. If multiple companies in the industry have this problem and do nothing to fix it due to t...
[15:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Credit Suisse Transfers IT Employees to Indian Company - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:59] <exec> 08└─If only we had editors to proofread stuff that isn't direct quotes...
[15:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Credit Suisse Transfers IT Employees to Indian Company - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:00] <exec> 08└─well it didn't bring up "womyn-born-womyn" or "assigned at birth" so probably not kurenai
[15:40:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kaspersky Willing to Hand Source Code Over to U.S. Government - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:55] <exec> 08└─Presumably they would include the exact build process they use to produce the binary. Then you take the source code, do the build yourself, and checksum the two binaries. If they match, they're being honest.
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[16:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TUXEDO Computers to Develop Own Ubuntu-Based Linux Distro Using Xfce Desktop - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:28] <exec> 08└─Nobody is asking for it, what people are asking for is >compatibility between them. A coherent API that can be used across all different distros that allows something to be compiled in one place and ran everything.
[16:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TUXEDO Computers to Develop Own Ubuntu-Based Linux Distro Using Xfce Desktop - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:30] <exec> 08└─No, not all Linux people are asking for what you say.
[16:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TUXEDO Computers to Develop Own Ubuntu-Based Linux Distro Using Xfce Desktop - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:32] <exec> 08└─...but is it a fork or a rebranding: making your own theme with your logo on the desktop? Forking it would seem to be kind of silly and a lot of work they probably can't afford when you could have the Ubuntu people to do the work and you just stick in your theme.
[16:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03pe1rxq [844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TUXEDO Computers to Develop Own Ubuntu-Based Linux Distro Using Xfce Desktop - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:34] <exec> 08└─Great idea! It only needs a nice name... maybe something like 'Portable Operating System Interface'?
[16:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TUXEDO Computers to Develop Own Ubuntu-Based Linux Distro Using Xfce Desktop - 1029 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:37] <exec> 08└─a custom distro effort is not really aimed at "linux geeks". you think only "linux geeks" use linux? every family member, friend, and customer that i help with computers runs various distros. not a damn one of them is a linux geek. i'm outnumbered 20:1 by non geeks. I suspect a custom distro effort...
[16:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TUXEDO Computers to Develop Own Ubuntu-Based Linux Distro Using Xfce Desktop - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:39] <exec> 08└─Yeah, um, no. I distinctly do not want kitchen-sink packages installed on my machine. I most certainly do not want every library under the sun installed on my box just so I can install anything I feel like without having to also install that library. I actively do want any performance impacting bina...
[16:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Beau Slim [6628] (Score: 1) 02 - 06TUXEDO Computers to Develop Own Ubuntu-Based Linux Distro Using Xfce Desktop - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:41] <exec> 08└─Stop forking for forks sake!
[16:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ukrainian Software Firm Suspected of Spreading Global Virus, Servers Seized - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:54] <exec> 08└─He still might be. The malware was distributed from their servers but the servers were known vulnerable for ages. Anyone could have put it there.
[16:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ukrainian Software Firm Suspected of Spreading Global Virus, Servers Seized - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:55] <exec> 08└─Why not? They're a fuckload more reliable than CNN, FNC, or the BBC as long as you go into it realizing that everything involving Russia is going to have a pro-state spin.
[16:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft is Cutting 'Thousands' of Jobs in Global Reorganization - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:17] <exec> 08└─how to spot a windows user...
[16:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft is Cutting 'Thousands' of Jobs in Global Reorganization - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:19] <exec> 08└─No, actually, what ate MS's lunch was free Windows by pirates. If this becomes the Year of the Linux Desktop, great, but I doubt that's what's in store.
[16:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft is Cutting 'Thousands' of Jobs in Global Reorganization - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:21] <exec> 08└─... and, as you point out, it usually sucks! What does it mean to enforce "anti-trust laws" on government? Well, it means that society should implement a true separation of powers: Competition in the market; "law" created by contracts between individuals, not vote-grabbing legislators; contract-en...
[16:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Roman Concrete Explained - 833 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:47] <exec> 08└─That is a second factor definitely - as rebar rusts it expands and shatters the concrete. But modern concrete suffers from spalling and other degradation problems as well. It's a pretty safe to bet that nothing made in the last few centuries will still be around and structurally sound after two thou...
[16:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Roman Concrete Explained - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:48] <exec> 08└─Breathless announcements probably date back only to the scramble for grant money being the driver for [scams disguised as] science. This pattern is becoming tedious.
[16:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Women Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:40] <exec> 08└─fucking propagandist whores. i'm not clicking on their BS link to find out that their characterization doesn't match the evidence. This is just another angle on the whole 'not enough women in tech' bs. i guess blacks and browns weren't enough victims for them to create and use, now they need somethi...
[16:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Women Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:41] <exec> 08└─Your not seeing the forest because of the trees there slugger. This is rife in EVERY industry. In particular its bad with attorneys and financiers. Blaming that on the "techies" is misplaced.
[16:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Women Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:44] <exec> 08└─You are being Completely. Fucking. Disingenuous. From TFA: More than two dozen women in the technology start-up industry spoke to The Times in recent days about being sexually harassed. Ten of them named the investors involved, often providing corroborating messages and emails, and pointed to high-p...
[16:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Women Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:46] <exec> 08└─Your one anecdote about the wiles of women pale by comparison to the volumes of harassment women undergo every day.
[16:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Space Race: 6 Manned Moon Missions With the Best Chances of Success - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:03] <exec> 08└─It already did in 1957
[16:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Claims Successful Test of InterContinental Ballistic Missile - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:34] <exec> 08└─When you're in Hawaii, treat yourself to a few nights at the Trump International Hotel Waikiki. It's a destination in itself. Enjoy! youtu.be/txc1QDVZLiw [youtu.be]
[16:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Claims Successful Test of InterContinental Ballistic Missile - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:35] <exec> 08└─You really don't need a seal team to snipe from 1 meter. Virtually anyone could do that.
[16:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06North Korea Claims Successful Test of InterContinental Ballistic Missile - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:37] <exec> 08└─Are you a professional goal post mover for the NFL, or is this just a hobby?
[16:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03fnj [1654] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Claims Successful Test of InterContinental Ballistic Missile - 1638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:39] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that WWI thing was overrated, right? 8 million military combat deaths, almost all of them from artillery and machine guns, with some crude chemical weapons thrown in, while NK almost certainly has nerve gas, and quite possibly biological weapons. And let's not forget nuclear artillery shells....
[16:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03fnj [1654] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Claims Successful Test of InterContinental Ballistic Missile - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:41] <exec> 08└─Ask the US Marines how tough it is to find and wipe out fortified positions. Caves and cocoanut-log pillboxes had to be assaulted individually at point-blank range. Heavy naval gunfire and sustained air attack just didn't do squat.
[16:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03fnj [1654] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Claims Successful Test of InterContinental Ballistic Missile - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:44] <exec> 08└─The only way you could possibly get any significant results would be to decapitate the entire twisted leadership cult in a mass coordinated system of assassinations. "Pour encourager les autres".
[16:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Claims Successful Test of InterContinental Ballistic Missile - 1280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:46] <exec> 08└─I've always said, Chairman Kim is a smart cookie. I love his hairdo! It's great that he knows about our Independence Day. Amazing how much those North Korean kids learn! But with the rockets, they're not so smart. Because the Russians -- and I always listen to the Russians, very smart folks -- say t...
[16:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03fnj [1654] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Claims Successful Test of InterContinental Ballistic Missile - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:48] <exec> 08└─I'm afraid I've got some bad news for you. You can't PREVENT a war by wishing it away, nor by clever planning. It's like trying to talk a rabid animal out of biting and killing you; "nice doggie". When your opponent is a brainwashed rabble of savage madmen, they have the initiative. Because they don...
[16:41:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kaspersky Willing to Hand Source Code Over to U.S. Government - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:29] <exec> 08└─yeah, the dumb whores in washington should be requiring source from all companies that want to sell software to tax payers. singling out kaspersky, under false pretenses, is disgustingly stupid. i've seen many indications in the past that, for slaveware peddlers, they at least try to do what they sa...
[16:41:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kaspersky Willing to Hand Source Code Over to U.S. Government - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:30] <exec> 08└─but it's patriotic to use american (yes, The America, motherfuckers!) slaveware to deny american children the technical knowledge necessary to free themselves from the tax funded plantation!
[16:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TLS Security: Past, Present and Future - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:15] <exec> 08└─the IT dept can just create it's own cert and makes sure it's trusted by all the PCs on the network
[16:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TLS Security: Past, Present and Future - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:16] <exec> 08└─All that work spent improving the strongest part of the chain, while doing absolutely nothing about the weakest link - the reliance on Certificate Authorities
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[17:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:17] <exec> 08└─Just more proof the Capitalist pigs running most of the country could care less about the common man. Get rid of all of 'em, put in university profs who actually STUDY economics and what the average human being needs.
[17:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:18] <exec> 08└─http://www.history.com/news/history-lists/8-reasons-why-rome-fell [history.com] There are enough parallels to discuss.
[17:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:20] <exec> 08└─Were this a matter of capitalism, the people of these states would be signing up with other, more competent service providers by now; instead, all they can do now is complain while writing more checks to the government at the point of gun. Try again.
[17:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 1107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:23] <exec> 08└─Anyone trying to convince you that the government should be run "more like a business" is setting the government up for failure so that they can later point at it going "see, despite running it as a business and cutting everything we could and gutting the core of what a government who is concerned a...
[17:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:25] <exec> 08└─Wow, is this a parody account? Because almost all these states suffer fiscal crisis because they have unfunded pension liabilities. Who could have guess giving "the worker" insane lifetime pension with full health benefit after only 25 years of work somehow was a recipe for disaster.... Mind you a l...
[17:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:27] <exec> 08└─Well as the GOP keeps telling us it's a republic not a democracy, that is no accident get begging to your Don now before all the patronage is taken
[17:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:29] <exec> 08└─You either allocate those resources profitably, or you don't. That's it. It doesn't matter whether you call your organization "government" or "business" or anything else. You either allocate resources profitably, or you don't.
[17:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:32] <exec> 08└─Define: "profitably"
[17:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:34] <exec> 08└─For one, a government doesn't (and/or shouldn't) have a profit motive.
[17:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:36] <exec> 08└─Of course, they could also have avoided the problem by noting that having offered that significant benefit in lieu of competitive salary, they needed to actually FUND it as they went along rather than raiding the retirement fund to give tax cuts to the wealthy.
[17:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:38] <exec> 08└─as the GOP keeps telling us it's a republic not a democracy
[17:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 1262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:41] <exec> 08└─Here's the big secret: NOBODY KNOWS WHAT IS GOING TO BE PROFITABLE! That's why capitalism is so valuable: It allows many people to make bets on what is going to be a profitable allocation of resources; those who make good bets are rewarded with the power to make more and larger decisions for society...
[17:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:43] <exec> 08└─Either resources are allocated profitably [soylentnews.org], or they are not. That's it. There is NOTHING else in this universe. A bank balance is just one way to try to measure profit, but it's not the only way. Maybe that is your confusion.
[17:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:45] <exec> 08└─Despite the fact that people are engaging in genuine discussion, the users of this website still mark them as "Troll". What a shit website; I seriously don't know why I bother coming back here—I must be a masochist. Please, admins, come up with a better system for managing the discussion.
[17:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TUXEDO Computers to Develop Own Ubuntu-Based Linux Distro Using Xfce Desktop - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:04] <exec> 08└─A distro that doesn't just jump on the Gnome3 bandwagon!
[17:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03zafiro17 [234] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TUXEDO Computers to Develop Own Ubuntu-Based Linux Distro Using Xfce Desktop - 1485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:05] <exec> 08└─I've bought three computers from System76 over the years. They all came with Ubuntu installed, plus some custom package that provided any drivers System76 needed to install for your hardware. That seemed like a pretty good compromise to me. Even still, I wiped them and installed the distros I wanted...
[17:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Ukrainian Software Firm Suspected of Spreading Global Virus, Servers Seized - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:21] <exec> 08└─Folks, they were saying this cyber is ransomware. It's not ransomware. It's a wiper. Like Hillary uses. It wipes your disk, like with a cloth or something. Deletes your cyber. Crooked Hillary loves to delete her EMAILS so she's always wiping. But honest folks don't do that. This cyber will delete yo...
[17:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ukrainian Software Firm Suspected of Spreading Global Virus, Servers Seized - 788 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:22] <exec> 08└─How about because in this instance the story is *highly* likely to have that spin? Ukraine and Russia are at war, Russia is occupying a chunk of Eastern Ukraine, and Russia has been accused of being behind several cyberattacks on Ukraine, including this one. I don't have any objection to a source kn...
[17:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ukrainian Software Firm Suspected of Spreading Global Virus, Servers Seized - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:24] <exec> 08└─The important question is whether the news reported is actually true: Did the Ukrainian authorities seize the servers of the company accused of spreading the virus? Note that I didn't say "writing", nor other words implying their guilt beyond being hacked and used as a distributor. The question is "...
[17:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft is Cutting 'Thousands' of Jobs in Global Reorganization - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:48] <exec> 08└─How to spot a freetard.
[17:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft is Cutting 'Thousands' of Jobs in Global Reorganization - 959 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:50] <exec> 08└─We're winning so much that you may be getting bored with the winning. Believe me, you'll never get bored with winning. We never get bored. We are going to turn this country around. We are going to start winning big on trade. Militarily, we're going to build up our military. We're going to have such...
[17:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Women Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:14] <exec> 08└─Away, fowl troll, and the broken wing thou bring.
[17:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Women Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:15] <exec> 08└─Refreshing as always. Regardless, there are stupid things people do that can be seen as harassment, and there are people who take someone's misinterpretation as malice. Either way I feel that there are people who will try to assign the most vicious label to the most benign things. And as such create...
[17:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Women Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:17] <exec> 08└─Leeches in suits struggle for perks, dominance. Oldest story in the book, happens in every industry because every industry has leeches in positions of power who aren't capable of contributing but still expect to be rewarded.
[17:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kaspersky Willing to Hand Source Code Over to U.S. Government - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:55] <exec> 08└─don't be a hooker.
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[18:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:36] <exec> 08└─People who offered it did not know the actual cost of what they were offering, or in fact knew but didn't care (which is malicious). A lot of them just offered up this shit for votes. Now the outcome will be that you can't get blood from the stone, so the same people who sold their votes will now ge...
[18:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:37] <exec> 08└─Nah, the problem is they dipped into those accounts like it was their personal piggy bank and failed to live up to their funding obligations.
[18:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 1, Redundant) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:39] <exec> 08└─8 Reasons Why Rome Fell [history.com]: 1. Invasions by Barbarian tribes 2. Economic troubles and overreliance on slave labor 3. The rise of the Eastern Empire (only to be overrun by the Ottoman empire in the 1400s) 4. Overexpansion and military overspending 5. Government corruption and political ins...
[18:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:42] <exec> 08└─If you leave you're just going to encourage bad mods. You shouldn't have been -1 Troll'd and I don't think it qualifies, it was a simple expression of opinion. (to which I have no opinion because it feels fallacious to say it's a business and managed like one but not really) That too is why the syst...
[18:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:44] <exec> 08└─It should be concern of government because PROFITABILITY = SUSTAINABILITY. You cannot hope something to endure while it hemorrhages money.
[18:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:46] <exec> 08└─At least it isn't as bad as that other green site. Back to the subject... New Jersey is a fchking joke, a goverbater that shuts down shit when he gets butthurt.
[18:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:48] <exec> 08└─Do people like Christie realize this is what they are though? The last few elections and associated controversy have proven beyond any reasonable doubt that these people don't think on the same plane you do. Also, he was pretty flagrant about how the media would "get a pulitzer" as if they're pests...
[18:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:51] <exec> 08└─Better than democracy? Okay. All hail our new benevolent moderation dictator, Me.
[18:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 895 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:53] <exec> 08└─That's investment. In slave economies, people invested in slaves. In feudal economies, people invested in castles and weapons. In a socialist economy, people still invest in their worker-owned companies. You have been brainwashed into thinking that concentrated ownership is some kind of magic. It is...
[18:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:55] <exec> 08└─Just more proof the sun is hot. I think you are piling up evidence against a claim nobody made. No one says business owners started their companies so that they could "care" for people. Pretty obviously, they want to sell stuff, and they hope to sell it for more than it costs, otherwise, why go to a...
[18:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:57] <exec> 08└─I don't disagree with the spirit of your comment. But consider that intelligent people are still people. They are subject to biases, brainwashing and convincing like anyone else is. The thing with an intelligent person and especially an academic is that they're really good at internalizing what they...
[18:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:00] <exec> 08└─Well, if you're an international banker, you can survive just fine while hemorrhaging money. You'll be too big to fail. (Not sure if I'm refuting or illustrating your point. Probably illustrating it, since the international banker is only able to do so thanks to our violently imposed monopolies.)
[18:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 908 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:02] <exec> 08└─"Just more proof the Capitalist pigs running most of the country" It's not "capitalist pigs" who are the problem. We are specifically talking about governments that have spent themselves to bankruptcy. In capitalism, if a company overspends, it goes bankrupt and gets replaced by a competitor. If you...
[18:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:04] <exec> 08└─In a 'finite' world, there can be no profit, only circulation. It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity! It is ecological balance! The world is a ledger.
[18:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:06] <exec> 08└─Indeed, it's unlikely that capitalism could produce a concentration of ownership that is dangerous or unprofitable for society, as any concentration will be the result of "do as we agreed" cooperation. In contrast, when you build society around a government, you build the very culture itself arou...
[18:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 975 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:08] <exec> 08└─I agree with the grandparent on this one. A government should not be judged on its profitability, but entirely on its RESPONSIBILITY. It is responsible for collecting taxes for the services it performs and its obligations. It is responsible for not overspending its revenue. It is responsible for tre...
[18:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:11] <exec> 08└─Rather than letting poorly managed banks fail, and thereby allow their resources to become controlled by more competent minds, the governments of the world instead decided to prop up those bad banks by using money stolen from citizens at the point of a gun. Your government did that.
[18:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:13] <exec> 08└─You're kidding right? The tyranny of the majority votes to take more money from people who have it is morally correct? Looks like Mitt Romney was right. For you idiots who can't remember more than the last 5 minutes Romney said almost half the voters in the country — 47 percent — believe they ar...
[18:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:15] <exec> 08└─these people don't think on the same plane you do. They are sociopaths, and they win. The lapdog press asks Christie if it was fair. Dumbasses... They should ask the public if this will affect their vote next season. Chances are it won't, but it's worth asking to get it on record. The sociopaths wil...
[18:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:17] <exec> 08└─the Capitalist pigs running most of the country could care less about the common man.
[18:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:19] <exec> 08└─Chances are, you're going to get a "left leaning" or "right leaning" professor.
[18:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 893 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:22] <exec> 08└─There is NOTHING else [besides profitably] in this universe Now, describe the profit motive WRT SoylentNews. Repeat for your town's community chest. Hint: Not all endeavors need to make a profit. You have been brainwashed by greedy people for whom "enough" is never enough. A system that provides soc...
[18:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TUXEDO Computers to Develop Own Ubuntu-Based Linux Distro Using Xfce Desktop - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:43] <exec> 08└─In theory this is a really good idea. The manufacturer could take the often slightly rough and imperfect parts from upstream and provide the final polish and fit, so to speak, along with the correct system drivers etc. In practice I've seen several of these and I think I've noticed a common pattern....
[18:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06TUXEDO Computers to Develop Own Ubuntu-Based Linux Distro Using Xfce Desktop - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:44] <exec> 08└─http://www.slackware.com/
[18:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TUXEDO Computers to Develop Own Ubuntu-Based Linux Distro Using Xfce Desktop - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:46] <exec> 08└─"to be compiled in one place and ran everything." That's a truly awful idea. What's your objection to me compiling my own binaries, huh? Of course if you have a business model that relies on malware you want binary compatibility. No one else should want it. The minor inconvenience of local compilati...
[18:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ukrainian Software Firm Suspected of Spreading Global Virus, Servers Seized - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:04] <exec> 08└─In this instance, because I actually RTFA before submitting and there wasn't anything much said that could have been spin. Outright lies, possibly, but not spin.
[18:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft is Cutting 'Thousands' of Jobs in Global Reorganization - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:31] <exec> 08└─Use an alternate browser, a NoScript+UBlock equivalent, and suddenly you're a lot less exposed to G/MS/FB. I am delighted to report that FB believes I'm black, as they try to make me sign up to their spying. That's a better result than I expected.
[18:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beijing Arrests 32 Over Transit Elevated Bus Scam - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:42] <exec> 08└─Only applies if you scam poor people.
[18:36:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03technoid_ [6593] 02 - 06Silicon Valley Women Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment - 810 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:36] <exec> 08└─Sorry to break this to you, but Tech is an industry and along with that there are support roles. To run a large business, you need people doing things that are not your direct product. Janitors, receptionists, cafeteria cooks, lawyers, and business people are all needed in a large company to provide...
[18:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Women Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:59] <exec> 08└─So.. We need to smack you with a rolled up news paper and rub your nose in your own waste? Cause YOU ARE THE ONE WHO CANT GET WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING. We understand what your saying, but it doesn't make any sense champ. Calm down, reread the thread and apologize.
[18:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Women Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment - 977 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:00] <exec> 08└─While there are Vulture Capitalists who had their start in tech, most of the aforementioned ones are frat boy and trust fund types, not techies who graduated into VC from actually starting/running/IPOing tech firms then moving on to being venture capitalists or angel investors. Furthermore, most of...
[18:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Women Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment - 1008 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:02] <exec> 08└─How many times did you actually fail informal logic, khallow? bradley says that what the FA says is not true. Does he mean that they do not know what they are talking about, or, as usual, as the craven misogynist he is, is he trying to change the subject from the fact of sexual harassment being rife...
[18:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Women Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:05] <exec> 08└─We understand what your saying, but it doesn't make any sense champ.
[18:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Claims Successful Test of InterContinental Ballistic Missile - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:00] <exec> 08└─Wow - sounds like you need simethicone. Or loperamide.
[18:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Claims Successful Test of InterContinental Ballistic Missile - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:02] <exec> 08└─You're comparing an entire world war to the expected initial artillery strike here? Really? Come on...
[18:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Claims Successful Test of InterContinental Ballistic Missile - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:04] <exec> 08└─Are we talking WWII marines or modern ones that have access to equipment from 2017?
[18:40:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Workers Killed in Molten Slag Spill at Tampa, Florida Power Plant - 1093 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:57] <exec> 08└─Thank you for your support. I agree, it's a brilliant tweet. The regulations are too complicated. Unbelievably complex. You have to be Einstein to figure them out. And if you don't figure them out, you die in molten slag. I've signed an executive order. My government agencies, whenever they want to...
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[19:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toshiba's 3D QLC NAND Could Reach 1000 P/E Cycles - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:30] <exec> 08└─Regular EEPROM is on the order of 100 000 writes and 10 years retention. A memory used as secondary storage "disc" ought to have way more write cycles to be viable. Maybe I'm missing something fundamental here. But currently this memory seems to fit the role of a mostly read only cache for often use...
[19:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toshiba's 3D QLC NAND Could Reach 1000 P/E Cycles - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:31] <exec> 08└─There are numerous 3D TLC NAND SSDs out there. Typical warranty for TLC seems to be three [tomsitpro.com] years [anandtech.com]. If QLC NAND can somehow match the endurance of TLC, then it could work just fine. The massive capacity of 3D NAND SSDs can allow for overprovisioning to keep the capacity...
[19:33:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 118 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:42] <exec> 08└─http://www.history.com/news/history-lists/8-reasons-why-rome-fell [history.com] There are enough parallels to discuss.
[19:33:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 261 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:50] <exec> 08└─Of course, they could also have avoided the problem by noting that having offered that significant benefit in lieu of competitive salary, they needed to actually FUND it as they went along rather than raiding the retirement fund to give tax cuts to the wealthy.
[19:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 1489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:17] <exec> 08└─I think you misunderstand the word "profit". Suppose I go over to the orange grove and buy a truckload of oranges. That cost me (let's say) $1000. Now I drive around to a bunch of grocery stores and sell them oranges. Wear and tear on my truck, plus fuel: $100. But I sold the oranges for $1200, so a...
[19:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:19] <exec> 08└─So, worked at a university? In food service, or janitorial? Not that there is anything wrong with that. But let me guess, just in case I have misread you: despite your Matt Damon level of brilliance, and all your hunting for good will, they flunked you out, right? I am sorry for you. Perhaps more re...
[19:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:21] <exec> 08└─capitalism [...] overspending [...] government [...] Socialism
[19:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:23] <exec> 08└─Suppose I go over to the orange grove and buy a truckload of oranges. That cost me (let's say) $1000. Now I drive around to a bunch of grocery stores and sell them oranges. Wear and tear on my truck, plus fuel: $100. But I sold the oranges for $1200, so at the end of the day I have $100 left over. T...
[19:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:25] <exec> 08└─I was expecting this.
[19:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 1281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:28] <exec> 08└─it's unlikely that capitalism could produce a concentration of ownership You don't understand Capitalism in the slightest. that is dangerous or unprofitable for society You remind me of the scene in "Guide for the Married Man" [google.com] where a woman catches her husband in bed with another woman....
[19:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:30] <exec> 08└─So do you have anything to say that is on topic, or do you generally agree with my analysis?
[19:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:32] <exec> 08└─Why didn't the Coast Guard just tow him off the beach?
[19:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:34] <exec> 08└─and yes an intelligent person can buy this shit.
[19:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:36] <exec> 08└─Context is a thing; try reading whole sentences. It's clear you are a reactionary who responds based on triggers.
[19:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:39] <exec> 08└─The only comment to get a Troll mod is now at Score: 1. One "bad" mod! OMG the system is broken! Maybe your whine directed people to upmod the comment. In that way you are a crucial cog in the system.
[19:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 1659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:41] <exec> 08└─What capitalism is, is exploiting the ... wait, what? Capitalism is about accumulating capital. It doesn't even have to be monetary capital. It can be fixing the roof in your house - an accumulation of value, as you perceive it. Why does it matter, that I mentioned perception? Because value is conte...
[19:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 791 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:43] <exec> 08└─8 Reasons Why Rome Fell [history.com]: 1. Invasions by Barbarian tribes - Mexicans/Indians/East Asians? 2. Economic troubles and overreliance on slave labor - US Economy and pay of the debt-slaves? 3. The rise of the Eastern Empire (only to be overrun by the Ottoman empire in the 1400s) - China? 4....
[19:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:45] <exec> 08└─Yes New Jersey is a sick joke. But the reason is not the governor, it's the fact that property taxes here are higher than mortgages in other states! So even if you pay off your mortgage, you are in essence paying rent to live in your own home. Don't give me the BS that it costs blah blah blah, whate...
[19:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:48] <exec> 08└─Maybe someone needs to re-plug governor Christie into the control system feedback loop. The one where if you mismanage your job it hurts the paycheck and the boss tells you to do more hours, perhaps reading up on economy. Suppose water supply to that state park closed to the public by his own execut...
[19:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 951 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:50] <exec> 08└─That is definitely part of it, but this part is unsolvable. You simply cannot tell the government where you keep your money, because they will always find a way to steal it. To them if you have money lying around, then you don't really need it. Regardless, the funds that were siphoned off, were only...
[19:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:52] <exec> 08└─Heh. Have you considered going into comedy? Have you considered completing your education? You use words that you clearly don't understand. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[19:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:54] <exec> 08└─Heh. Have you considered going into comedy? Have you considered completing your education? You use words that you clearly don't understand. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[19:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:56] <exec> 08└─Well I mean the courses at MCC don't set the bar very high so no. Oh and I learned my field from reading TCPL and other such material starting at age 14. Meanwhile one of my profs thought hexadecimal went past F. I just went there to get the toilet paper. Amusingly it turns out the places that still...
[19:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 1617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:59] <exec> 08└─Listen there Comrade. Have you ever met any rich people? I have, and by and large most of them (with exception of some old-money hags) actually work real fucking hard. In the US if you are a workaholic, you will get rich, it's a guarantee. Lot of smart folk who aren't pathologically tied ot their jo...
[19:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03rcamera [2360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:01] <exec> 08└─Illinois, NJ and Maine are blue states
[19:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TUXEDO Computers to Develop Own Ubuntu-Based Linux Distro Using Xfce Desktop - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:25] <exec> 08└─POSIX and similar standards provide source portability. This is a good thing, the same logic in the same human readable form will do the same thing even though the underlying hardware is different - exactly what we want. What the dingbat you replied to wants is something entirely different - binary...
[19:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TUXEDO Computers to Develop Own Ubuntu-Based Linux Distro Using Xfce Desktop - 1242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:26] <exec> 08└─repo. The current one has all sorts of crap the average user will never install/use, but meanwhile they keep removing/breaking packages that people *MIGHT* want/need to use (such as old gcc versions, old EABIs for upgrading gentoo installs that are more than a year or two out of date, glibc/g++ vers...
[19:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TUXEDO Computers to Develop Own Ubuntu-Based Linux Distro Using Xfce Desktop - 892 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:28] <exec> 08└─Felis catus is your taxonomic nomenclature, An endothermic quadruped, carnivorous by nature; Your visual, olfactory, and auditory senses Contribute to your hunting skills and natural defenses. I find myself intrigued by your subvocal oscillations, A singular development of cat communications That o...
[19:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TUXEDO Computers to Develop Own Ubuntu-Based Linux Distro Using Xfce Desktop - 892 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:30] <exec> 08└─Felis catus! is your taxonomic nomenclature, An endothermic quadruped, carnivorous by nature; Your visual, olfactory, and auditory senses Contribute to your hunting skills and natural defenses. I find myself intrigued by your subvocal oscillations, A singular development of cat communications That o...
[19:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TUXEDO Computers to Develop Own Ubuntu-Based Linux Distro Using Xfce Desktop - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:33] <exec> 08└─PCLinuxOS [pclinuxos.com] rejected GNOME 3 as well, likely because it'd be a megabitch to free it from systemd's tentacles.
[19:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TUXEDO Computers to Develop Own Ubuntu-Based Linux Distro Using Xfce Desktop - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:35] <exec> 08└─that its a preconfigured xfce with dotfiles, .menus and .desktops for the boatload of things that don't have them or don't have them 'done right' .. printers preinstalled.. synaptic at the ready .. then it would be a sweet value added deal for everyone i know who's never heard of the command-line an...
[19:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ukrainian Software Firm Suspected of Spreading Global Virus, Servers Seized - 1885 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:54] <exec> 08└─In this particular instance that does seem to be the case; I didn't find any particular spin in the RT article compared to a random sampling of other outlet's coverage in the Google search I linked either. At best you could say the title and story "conveniently" make it seem like the malware was som...
[19:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ukrainian Software Firm Suspected of Spreading Global Virus, Servers Seized - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:55] <exec> 08└─Folks, I'm replying to my own tweet. To tell you I misspoke. I mistyped. I don't know how to delete my tweet. But one of my cyber guys tells me this NotPetya probably isn't supposed to be a wiper. He says maybe it's just badly built. The builders are just trying to make some money -- cyber money --...
[19:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft is Cutting 'Thousands' of Jobs in Global Reorganization - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:23] <exec> 08└─There's only one on SoylentNews, really.
[19:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft is Cutting 'Thousands' of Jobs in Global Reorganization - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:24] <exec> 08└─Right here [wikipedia.org].
[19:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Roman Concrete Explained - 844 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:55] <exec> 08└─You must not live in an Earthquake area. I went to the epicenter of the 99 quake in Taiwan. I ain't living in a stone house without rebar, unless it's massively overbuilt stone like the Romans did for their major works. Similar images to what I saw there: http://blogs.agu.org
[19:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Roman Concrete Explained - 1914 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:56] <exec> 08└─https://seasteading.org [seasteading.org] or https://forum.seasteading.org [seasteading.org] - Apparently Thiel himself no longer believes in the org/site, forums still have lots of dreamers though! vivalarevolucion.i2p/#arc @ IRC2P - Less ambitious project that has been hovering around the darknet...
[19:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Roman Concrete Explained - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:58] <exec> 08└─Do I have to eat fish on the sustainable seastead?
[19:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Roman Concrete Explained - 960 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:01] <exec> 08└─Between aeroponics, hydroponics, greenhouse growing (needed for salt intolerant plants to avoid salt spray/sea mist, unless you either have a shore buffer, or are 100+ feet above sealevel), and salt tolerant crop species, you can grow pretty much anything you want without relying on seafood. However...
[19:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Women Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:03] <exec> 08└─Blaming that on the "techies" is misplaced.
[19:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Women Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:04] <exec> 08└─When the whole effing world is stacked against you
[19:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Women Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:06] <exec> 08└─Ok, thanks for letting us know that you're still OK with sexual harassment in general.
[19:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Women Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:08] <exec> 08└─My sympathy will improve when the last woman on Earth for the last time cries her way or bats her eyes to get out of a speeding ticket. Or when the last woman goes on her last date to get a free meal. Life is not fair.
[19:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Women Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:11] <exec> 08└─The three women in the cover photo - not tech.
[19:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Women Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:13] <exec> 08└─I think bradley13 linked a few research papers in the GP of this drivel. Google it yourself, I refuse to spoon feed you that which you won't believe anyway.
[19:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Space Race: 6 Manned Moon Missions With the Best Chances of Success - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:31] <exec> 08└─If The Market wanted Man to walk on the Moon it would have made Earth cheese prohibitively expensive.
[19:40:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06North Korea Claims Successful Test of InterContinental Ballistic Missile - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:13] <exec> 08└─It probably uses kerosene.
[19:40:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03infodragon [3509] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Claims Successful Test of InterContinental Ballistic Missile - 887 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:14] <exec> 08└─Killing millions via a dirty bomb *MAY* be an over statement. The economic impact of a dirty bombs, i.e. artillery packed with dirty material, would eventually cause millions of deaths. 1. All of Seoul could be irradiated quite easily, only 10s of shells needed and dirty material is abundant for NK....
[19:40:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Claims Successful Test of InterContinental Ballistic Missile - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:17] <exec> 08└─A one+ mile shot is actually very rare. At that range you can't be 100% certain to make your kill, and you can't count on getting a second shot. Most shots IIRCC are at a max range of ~800 meters. Still impressive as all Hells in my book. The laser guided .50cal bullet they are developing has a max...
[19:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Workers Killed in Molten Slag Spill at Tampa, Florida Power Plant - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:12] <exec> 08└─All that paperwork for a mere two deaths? Government overreach commie yacht-killer scum!
[19:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Workers Killed in Molten Slag Spill at Tampa, Florida Power Plant - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:13] <exec> 08└─Since it followed a jmorris post, you could excuse GP, as well as myself, for having to call Poe's Law on OP.
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[20:34:36] <exec> 08└─Yes that is a fail. It's like preventing intermittent disaster to create a longer and enduring one. I understand the FEELs argument behind it. Workers are poorly insulated from such happenings. But these were mostly White Collar workers, who would have been better able to weather the storm. Collapse...
[20:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:37] <exec> 08└─Yea and both Christie and LePage are not well liked in their states. I think you intended to disprove but ended up proving. *golf clap*
[20:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:40] <exec> 08└─Well hey look at that I proved the thing about everyone having the capacity to be stupid by getting lost in my own thread. Still topical I would hope. Idea that educators are infallible is as silly as placing any role or right to leadership on someone for their class alone.
[20:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:42] <exec> 08└─The government org in charge of making that call was closed due to budget cuts?
[20:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:44] <exec> 08└─Capitalism is making money from money. If someone somewhere isn't PRODUCING something, how does he make profit? Now, if people came to his cave to buy from him what he produced in his 1-man operation, that would be entrepreneurship. That would more accurately be described as Socialism (the workers^W...
[20:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:47] <exec> 08└─The word you're looking for is entrepreneur. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[20:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:49] <exec> 08└─Feel free to enlighten us where he went wrong, O Almighty AC, instead of just pointing and laughing.
[20:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03rcamera [2360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:51] <exec> 08└─not liked, but are both multi-term. how's that work? agreed, they're not popular NOW. they were both very popular when they ran on a platform of cutting taxes. of course, the spending cuts to go with those tax cuts never really materialized (other than NJ cutting infrastructure and education funding...
[20:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:53] <exec> 08└─A bank balance is just one way to try to measure profit, but it's not the only way. Maybe that is your confusion.
[20:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 858 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:55] <exec> 08└─Y'all are talking at cross purposes. There's profit as counted in strict cash terms, and then there's profit in the broader sense of desirable outcomes for acceptable costs. "A system that provides social stability for all (Socialism) is more viable than a system (Capitalism) that maximizes profits...
[20:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:58] <exec> 08└─I would trust you in that position as far as I could throw you, and I've got a bum shoulder.
[20:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:00] <exec> 08└─No hes saying your biased. Shoot before this comment we could only assume you never graduated, after this comment you've removed all doubt. Thanks slugger.
[20:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:02] <exec> 08└─Capitalism is making money from money.
[20:35:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:04] <exec> 08└─Whelp, we have found our temporarily embarrassed millionaire.
[20:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TUXEDO Computers to Develop Own Ubuntu-Based Linux Distro Using Xfce Desktop - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:34] <exec> 08└─For what it's worth, as someone who kept System76's original setup on a box I don't use for my heavy dev work, it's not terrible: They have a special kernel module for specific hardware they have, and a few other tweaks, but I think this is about more than just re-branding Ubuntu. It gives them the...
[20:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TUXEDO Computers to Develop Own Ubuntu-Based Linux Distro Using Xfce Desktop - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:36] <exec> 08└─What do you think they develop systemd on, osx and virtualization. They're not linux users.
[20:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft is Cutting 'Thousands' of Jobs in Global Reorganization - 683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:26] <exec> 08└─Government is a Monopoly Government, properly done, is a democracy. In a democracy, the majority rules. If the majority isn't getting what it wants and a minority is, what you have clearly isn't a democracy. So, why do you keep voting for Democrats or Republicans? ...or not voting at all? ...and why...
[20:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Roman Concrete Explained - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:00] <exec> 08└─Are you just making stuff up?
[20:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Roman Concrete Explained - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:02] <exec> 08└─2. Financing. The ideas being promoted on seasteading.org all center around luxury housing, rather than starting with a solid, but relatively cheap floating foundation and low cost infrastructure
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[20:37:18] <exec> 08└─She was a lawyer turned investment partner. She had absolutely 0 to do with tech other than the fact that she worked at a venture capital company based in Silicon Valley. And she indeed brought her case to court - with numerous charges. A jury of her peers determined all charges were completely with...
[20:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Women Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:10] <exec> 08└─Sexism is a culture
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[21:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congressional Panel Puts Plans for a US Space Corps in 2018 Defense Budget - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:30] <exec> 08└─The US is a signatory to the Space Treaty [wikipedia.org] which precludes militarising space. I'm not surprised it was Rumsfeld who pushed for this though, he has made a lot of money out of war, and could no doubt see a great opportunity to make a lot more.
[21:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congressional Panel Puts Plans for a US Space Corps in 2018 Defense Budget - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:31] <exec> 08└─A mere technicality. Don't call it Space Corps. Call it Space Cadets.
[21:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congressional Panel Puts Plans for a US Space Corps in 2018 Defense Budget - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:33] <exec> 08└─Honest question: hasn't the US (and every other major space capable power) already crossed the line of militarizing space? Didn't China demonstrate an anti-satellite weapon a few years ago -- creating a cloud of debris? Wasn't GPS originally primarily a military application of space? Isn't good sate...
[21:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03LVDOVICVS [6131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congressional Panel Puts Plans for a US Space Corps in 2018 Defense Budget - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:36] <exec> 08└─The U.S. is a signatory to the Geneva Conventions, too. The one that forbids torture, among other things. So much for the integrity of U.S. commitments to international treaties.
[21:33:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 1107 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:55] <exec> 08└─Anyone trying to convince you that the government should be run "more like a business" is setting the government up for failure so that they can later point at it going "see, despite running it as a business and cutting everything we could and gutting the core of what a government who is concerned a...
[21:35:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:03] <exec> 08└─Still a Blue State. Governor of Illinois: Bruce Rauner (R) [wikipedia.org] - assumed office 2015 President of the Illinois House: Michael Madigan - Assumed House Seat 1970 - Speaker of the House 1983. Stretch of years 1995 - 1997, House under Republican Rule. Years the State of Illinois could even b...
[21:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:05] <exec> 08└─> Indeed, it's unlikely that capitalism could produce a concentration of ownership that is dangerous or unprofitable for society, > as any concentration will be the result of "do as we agreed" cooperation. History books definitely demonstrate otherwise. I do like "do as we agreed", though, because i...
[21:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 1018 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:07] <exec> 08└─That's a lie. It's a lie that's been going around so maybe you don't know you're lying. Trust me, there's no such thing as the golf clap. Folks, I was examined by a doctor. By Dr. Jacob Bornstein, M.D. That means he's a medical doctor, if you didn't know. A fellow of the American College of Gastroen...
[21:35:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:09] <exec> 08└─You've got good points, but your rhetoric needs help. The people you envision as the bogey men are not the ones to worry about. It is a range. Also, taxes are a civic duty, this is not a new concept.
[21:35:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:11] <exec> 08└─We can now see that every time two people agree to a trade they both profit. Otherwise they would not have agreed.
[21:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:14] <exec> 08└─You can't improve the world around you without believing that you can do so.
[21:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:16] <exec> 08└─Your last sentence really shows the problem with your idealized scenario of basic capitalism. There are many caveats, so like every other system it falls prey to exploitation. As humans we have to agree on the problems we face, and come to terms with how to handle such problems. History seems to sho...
[21:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:18] <exec> 08└─Also, IQ is unproven nonsense.
[21:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:20] <exec> 08└─History books definitely demonstrate [that a concentration of ownership is dangerous for society] Demonstrated very recently once again by Economics professor Thomas Piketty in his 696-page book [wikipedia.org] which analyzed 250 years of Capitalism and reached the conclusion that that economic syst...
[21:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ukrainian Software Firm Suspected of Spreading Global Virus, Servers Seized - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:12] <exec> 08└─Here are some Ukrainian sources for you https://strana.ua [strana.ua] http://podrobnosti.ua [podrobnosti.ua] The real question is why "free"...
[21:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft is Cutting 'Thousands' of Jobs in Global Reorganization - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:43] <exec> 08└─Heh. iophk, an editor on the quasi-daily news digest at TechRights, said [techrights.org] "fifth-columnists now so reliable that paid sales teams can be reduced"
[21:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft is Cutting 'Thousands' of Jobs in Global Reorganization - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:44] <exec> 08└─What ate M$'s lunch was mobile. A new market where they didn't have a monopoly from Day 1 (via an "in" with a sole hardware vendor and subsequent volume pricing chicanery with whitebox vendors) is what destroyed Redmond's business model. ...and the fact that MICROS~1 sucks at developing software, in...
[21:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft is Cutting 'Thousands' of Jobs in Global Reorganization - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:46] <exec> 08└─...and there go the salesmen out the door. (Traditionally, a large part of M$'s business model.) Now, with fewer M$ salesmen to bribe company purchasing agents with steak dinners, will desktop FOSS see a jump in acceptance in corporations? (These days, it's increasingly difficult to find a business...
[21:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Beijing Arrests 32 Over Transit Elevated Bus Scam - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:58] <exec> 08└─No, it's Kickstarter. Let the...ummm... debate begin (grin)
[21:40:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Claims Successful Test of InterContinental Ballistic Missile - 832 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:33] <exec> 08└─Target that high-density metropolis with explosive and incendiary warheads, and you essentially get into the five figures in the first hour. Probably six figures shortly thereafter, if you blow up enough hospitals as people are trapped surrounded by burning everywhere, not enough firemen, and the wa...
[21:40:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Claims Successful Test of InterContinental Ballistic Missile - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:35] <exec> 08└─Cyanide.
[21:41:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Credit Suisse Transfers IT Employees to Indian Company - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:22] <exec> 08└─> Doesn't anyone know basic grammar any more? Maybe you meant: > Does anyone know... Anyway, here you go line ::= number statement CR | statement CR statement ::= PRINT expr-list | IF expression relop expression THEN statement | ...
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[22:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Congressional Panel Puts Plans for a US Space Corps in 2018 Defense Budget - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:28] <exec> 08└─The U.S. does not torture. George W Bush said so. Instead, the U.S. does "enhanced interrogation" which is a kinder and gentler torture which Trump would not approve of. Londo: . . . but we have treaties Lord Refa: Ink on a page!
[22:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congressional Panel Puts Plans for a US Space Corps in 2018 Defense Budget - 770 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:29] <exec> 08└─Militarizing space is not the same thing as having weapons and monitoring systems on earth that could reach space. China, a signatory to this treaty you seem to place great stock in, has already demonstrated a satellite killer technology [wikipedia.org], (and made a huge mess in the process). The Ru...
[22:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congressional Panel Puts Plans for a US Space Corps in 2018 Defense Budget - 1057 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:32] <exec> 08└─The red line is in essence placing or testing weapons of mass destruction in space or taking out other countries satellites. From the Outer space treaty of 1967 [wikisource.org]: The treaty bars countries "from placing nuclear weapons or any other weapons of mass destruction in orbit of Earth, insta...
[22:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congressional Panel Puts Plans for a US Space Corps in 2018 Defense Budget - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:34] <exec> 08└─Lord Refa: We won't torture anyone. We just beat them up and put them under a cloth soaked in water!
[22:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congressional Panel Puts Plans for a US Space Corps in 2018 Defense Budget - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:36] <exec> 08└─Honest question: hasn't the US (and every other major space capable power) already crossed the line of militarizing space?
[22:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Congressional Panel Puts Plans for a US Space Corps in 2018 Defense Budget - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:38] <exec> 08└─There will be a lot of flag-rank and SES slots opening up. More budget, more minions, more golf courses.
[22:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congressional Panel Puts Plans for a US Space Corps in 2018 Defense Budget - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:41] <exec> 08└─Picture me oh-so-surprised that the US would initiate a no-weapons treaty while badly trailing (first crewed Apollo was 1968), but seem to ignore it ever bothered under the current "winning" me-myself-and-moi administration.
[22:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congressional Panel Puts Plans for a US Space Corps in 2018 Defense Budget - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:43] <exec> 08└─Look, every time we get a Republican president, we disregard a major cold-war era treaty. The OST is the sacrificial lamb for the republican administration just like the ABMT was the one for the Bush administration. In 16 years, when the public has once again forgotten that republicans are basically...
[22:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:19] <exec> 08└─Some day the alt-wrong are going to have to accept that there is such a thing as society, and that we have to share to make it work. Further more, the most important parts of this sharing must be legally enforced by a democratically elected body representing the interests of that society. The contri...
[22:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TUXEDO Computers to Develop Own Ubuntu-Based Linux Distro Using Xfce Desktop - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:52] <exec> 08└─Buying a machine like this will *almost* certainly mean that you can run other distros on it. They're using Ubuntu. Just go to the Ubuntu repository and/or the special repository where the drivers are found and download.
[22:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TUXEDO Computers to Develop Own Ubuntu-Based Linux Distro Using Xfce Desktop - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:53] <exec> 08└─outnumbered 20:1 by non geeks.
[22:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ukrainian Software Firm Suspected of Spreading Global Virus, Servers Seized - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:16] <exec> 08└─The real question is why "free" "independent" "liberal" press does not report it. Perhaps it is because this press is at war with Trump using Russia as a weapon?
[22:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft is Cutting 'Thousands' of Jobs in Global Reorganization - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:50] <exec> 08└─I thought they got rid of all the QC people earlier?
[22:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Roman Concrete Explained - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:28] <exec> 08└─I assumed they were white longhaired monkeys :)
[22:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Roman Concrete Explained - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:29] <exec> 08└─I'm not denying the usefulness of rebar, especially under high-stress conditions where you can be fairly certain that it will crack at some point and lives will be on the line. Rebar buys you time when a structure starts to fail for unrelated reasons. But it also pretty much guarantees that your con...
[22:41:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Credit Suisse Transfers IT Employees to Indian Company - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:31] <exec> 08└─A friendly HR girl was leaving my place of employment the other day. She run a "diversity report" for our enjoyment. I guess it was her way to say goodbye. Anyway, 80% of our "international" American based IT with multi-billion budget were Indians, around 10% Chinese and the rest shared between othe...
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[23:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tor Browser 7.0.2 is Released - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:23] <exec> 08└─The last Tor release (7.0.1) came out June 13th, less than a month ago. This appears to be a minor bug fix version. Very little is changed that I see, just some security updates. Plus, given Tor now auto-notifies on updates, everyone who uses Tor probably knows about this. For people who don't use T...
[23:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Congressional Panel Puts Plans for a US Space Corps in 2018 Defense Budget - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:43] <exec> 08└─put them under a cloth soaked in water It sounds like you are attempting to describe waterboarding. "Cloth" is not necessarily a prominent feature of that. Waterboarding is the process of drowning someone slowly. The mouth of the victim is sealed with plastic wrap or tape or several layers of a satu...
[23:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congressional Panel Puts Plans for a US Space Corps in 2018 Defense Budget - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:44] <exec> 08└─Almost sounds like "The China syndrome" ;-) It would be a dismal world where no satellites can exist and space travel would be extremely hazardous from a debris point of view.
[23:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congressional Panel Puts Plans for a US Space Corps in 2018 Defense Budget - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:46] <exec> 08└─It was just a nudge that it's possible to abide to regulations on a superficial level. But then twist the wording and intention a long way.
[23:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03xpda [5991] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congressional Panel Puts Plans for a US Space Corps in 2018 Defense Budget - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:49] <exec> 08└─It seems like if a geostationary satellite was hit by another satellite, it's change in velocity would force it into an elliptical orbit, almost certainly missing the other geostationary satellites for the next few thousand years. I haven't run the numbers, but it a domino effect seems impossible in...
[23:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Congressional Panel Puts Plans for a US Space Corps in 2018 Defense Budget - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:51] <exec> 08└─The point of Trump is a way for the citizens to tell the establishment "Fuck You!". Additionally to put rocks into the cogs of TTIP, silent surveillance, multiculturalism toxicity, gender nonsense, war mongering, questionable loyalty etc. And yeah republicans seem to do a lot of insane things. Otoh...
[23:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congressional Panel Puts Plans for a US Space Corps in 2018 Defense Budget - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:53] <exec> 08└─Especially golf courses, big contracts, expensive dinners, lobbying, fat paycheck positions.. Standard operating procedure. Romans were good teachers on how to wreck your own empire ;)
[23:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congressional Panel Puts Plans for a US Space Corps in 2018 Defense Budget - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:55] <exec> 08└─It would force the development of what will be inevitable sooner or later: Some sort of de-orbit plan for this junk.
[23:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congressional Panel Puts Plans for a US Space Corps in 2018 Defense Budget - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:58] <exec> 08└─The WMD are already there. There are literally millions of kinetic weapons, just floating around up there. All that is needed are some thrusters to nudge them into intercept orbits. The WMD come in many sizes, small enough to wipe out small villages, to large enough to crack the earth's crust. Some...
[23:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congressional Panel Puts Plans for a US Space Corps in 2018 Defense Budget - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:00] <exec> 08└─So he has a new job?
[23:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:37] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't trust me in that position and I know I'd go into it trying to be 100% objective.
[23:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US State Budget Crises Lead to Shutdowns of Offices, Parks, Schools - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:38] <exec> 08└─You underestimate my lack of ambition severely.
[23:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TUXEDO Computers to Develop Own Ubuntu-Based Linux Distro Using Xfce Desktop - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:13] <exec> 08└─There's no fragmentation here idiot. Its Ubuntu with Gnome or Ubunto with XFCE. Both of which already exist. They all use the same code. The only fragmentation is in your windows loving mind.
[23:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TUXEDO Computers to Develop Own Ubuntu-Based Linux Distro Using Xfce Desktop - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:15] <exec> 08└─Exactly. I bet they even point to Ubuntu repositories and hang their own tiny repository to hold the wall paper. This adds nothing. It might sell hardware. And hopefully that hardware would be speced to handle linux well (which is easy, just avoid AMD and Nvidia GPUs and you are good to go).
[23:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TUXEDO Computers to Develop Own Ubuntu-Based Linux Distro Using Xfce Desktop - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:17] <exec> 08└─I can't imagine keeping some extremely niche distro on my machine. I'd almost certainly wipe it upon arrival,
[23:36:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Ukrainian Software Firm Suspected of Spreading Global Virus, Servers Seized - 171 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:30] <exec> 08└─Why not? They're a fuckload more reliable than CNN, FNC, or the BBC as long as you go into it realizing that everything involving Russia is going to have a pro-state spin.
[23:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ukrainian Software Firm Suspected of Spreading Global Virus, Servers Seized - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:40] <exec> 08└─The Eds actually do that quite often if they can find another credible source. RT, however, is not Breitbart or one of gewg_'s socialist rags. They are one of the best international news organizations out there as long as you know they're going to have a pro-Russia slant.
[23:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Women Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:01] <exec> 08└─So will you stop blaming all cisgender women for your problems now, Kurenai? :D :D :D :D
[23:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Women Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:03] <exec> 08└─Here's the problem. We're not talking about technical professionals, e.g. server admins, programmers, etc. You absolutely are confusing the issue by continuing to attempt to draw attention back to the technical professions. We're talking about investment bankers and managers. Those are different pro...
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[23:41:08] <exec> 08└─Or they could just as easily be considerably more than 20 kilotons. What's the point of completely unsupported wild-assed guesswork? You plan based on what you know is possible.
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