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[00:19:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 1773 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:48] <exec> 08└─Just net neutrality. Although attempting to preserve net neutrality would be action in a good direction. Why should ISPs get to "double dip" and charge their customers for access to their pipes and then charge those who are supplying data across those pipes. That's charging twice for the same data....
[00:20:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:33] <exec> 08└─Yes it was possible with TV but the potential audience was smaller. Heard of public-access television? Ironically public-access was the model YouTube used in the early days when it was supposed to be a video blogging platform for individuals, literally a You-Tube. Of course YouTube had to go full co...
[00:20:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:34] <exec> 08└─Can we start spam-modding
[00:20:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:37] <exec> 08└─I love this site, (although I don't have a user account), and appreciate yours (and everyone else's) contributions that make it go. I hope you have a quick recovery and feel better soon! :)
[00:20:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 1144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:39] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqxwtEdxOCw [youtube.com] Today, we have relatively few gatekeepers. Google is one of them. The ISP's (among others) hope to become gatekeepers in their own right. My own ISP serves only a few tens of thousands. Comcast, on the other hand, serves a significan portion...
[00:20:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:41] <exec> 08└─what exactly there is going to be to preserve at a certain point.
[00:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:22] <exec> 08└─So, a hand job? ;)
[00:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 831 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:23] <exec> 08└─Oh please, jmorris' problem if he doesn't know what to expect from me just like I know what to expect from his posts by this point. This is also what pisses me off to no end. People with generally thick skin utterly fail to understand the concept of spreading rot. This is the only thing I can come u...
[00:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:25] <exec> 08└─Let's not forget they aren't Native American cities anymore.
[00:21:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:27] <exec> 08└─You hate whites, and you love blacks. You're the racist asshole. Do pedarasts only fuck their juvenile boys, or do they also like their big black bucks to fuck them?
[00:21:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:30] <exec> 08└─We used to have diversity. For example, you could visit an English city. Now you can't. A traditional native culture is going extinct. Why is it that we can have "black pride" or "muslim pride" but not "English pride"? Why the hatred for Europeans? Why are you so racist? Only a tiny portion of the w...
[00:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:32] <exec> 08└─If you don't like RT, you can read the interview in the other link provided, from an accepted Western MSM source.
[00:21:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 906 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:34] <exec> 08└─"(Full, very MSMish-sounding disclosure: My wife works as an adviser on gender issues to Melinda Gates’s office, but she was not involved in the drafting of the letter.)" "The world, Bill and Melinda tell Buffett in their letter, is becoming a better place." "“I live in an upper-middle class nei...
[00:21:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:36] <exec> 08└─One America News network (OAN or OANN) stays pretty factual and doesn't bury uncomfortable stories. Some cable systems have it. If yours doesn't, put in a request. (the more people who ask, the better) There is also an app which is WAY less invasive than CNN's spyware.
[00:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:38] <exec> 08└─Gaaark urges Gates to stop being such a cancer on operating systems and software and start being a human being, and not such a stupid prick.
[00:21:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:41] <exec> 08└─Just look at this story: https://www.theguardian.com [theguardian.com] They actually include multiple interviews with scientists saying "they looked into it and as far as they can tell the iceberg is not related to climate c...
[00:21:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:43] <exec> 08└─Oh, look - another self loathing white dude wants to see hetero white people punished! Just take their cities and countries from them, and take no notice when the non-white foreigners rape the white women to death!
[00:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:45] <exec> 08└─"I love watching people dismiss a message simply because they can't stand agreeing with the messenger." - The Mighty Buzzard [soylentnews.org]
[00:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 1005 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:47] <exec> 08└─Oh I loathe RT, its pre-election readership, its staff and especially its masters. Oh and the complacent citizenry that allows it to exist and revels in it who use terms I don't even understand like "Western MSM". Which is why I will continue to note their utter failure at journalistic integrity and...
[00:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:50] <exec> 08└─Spread society's resources across both high risk investments and low-intelligence governments.
[00:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:52] <exec> 08└─London is no longer an English city. Fuck the Romans and their Londinium! What have they ever done for us?
[00:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:54] <exec> 08└─Yeah this is actually one of my "secret" references now. It's rather conservative - but not something I inherently take issue with and frankly probably good for a balanced perspective.
[00:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 1017 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:56] <exec> 08└─When he went ashore he saw a great crowd, and he had compassion on them and healed their sick. Now when it was evening, the disciples came to him and said, “This is a desolate place, and the day is now over; send the crowds away to go into the villages and buy food for themselves.” But Jesus sai...
[00:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:33] <exec> 08└─What science depends on is peer review
[00:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:34] <exec> 08└─It is if they throw the rocks at him.
[00:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fedora 26 Released - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:51] <exec> 08└─Are there any other "user beware" for Fedora?
[00:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fedora 26 Released - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:52] <exec> 08└─Hasn't Perl been overtaken by Python lemmings?
[00:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fedora 26 Released - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:54] <exec> 08└─What is so MS-Windows like about Gnome?
[00:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03WalksOnDirt [5854] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Larsen C Calves Trillion Ton Iceberg - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:37] <exec> 08└─...it won't raise sea level one iota.
[00:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Larsen C Calves Trillion Ton Iceberg - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:39] <exec> 08└─"But while the birth of the huge iceberg might look dramatic, experts say it will not itself result in sea level rises. “It’s like your ice cube in your gin and tonic – it is already floating and if it melts it doesn’t change the volume of water in the glass by very much at all,” said Hogg...
[00:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blocked by @realDonaldTrump: Unconstitutional? - 751 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:59] <exec> 08└─No. First, nothing prevents a blocked user from commenting on Trump tweets. They can view them while logged out, can quote them, screenshot them, and publish their own comments. Twitter is the platform and all but the banned are free to publish and comment almost anything they want. Do I think it lo...
[00:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blocked by @realDonaldTrump: Unconstitutional? - 2917 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:00] <exec> 08└─Imagine leading (not back bencher) Republicans daily calling for Obama's impeachment for months on end with zero actual evidence. "Are you allowed to impeach a president for gross incompetence?" --Donald J Trump "It's very clear that allegation is one that everyone from Arlen Spector to Dick Morris...
[00:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Blocked by @realDonaldTrump: Unconstitutional? - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:02] <exec> 08└─On Twitter, can you reply to someone who has blocked you?
[00:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump not Quite Irrelevant but Isolated in Climate Change - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:19] <exec> 08└─His tiny hands are tied because Democrats control both Beauty Pagents of Congress.
[00:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump not Quite Irrelevant but Isolated in Climate Change - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:21] <exec> 08└─Broccoli gives me gas.
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[01:20:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:32] <exec> 08└─So big ISP is the problem?
[01:20:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03idetuxs [2990] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:33] <exec> 08└─I can't see any difference in the theme. Maybe I'm missing something
[01:20:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:35] <exec> 08└─The YouTube model is wrong. There needs to be a video platform that has no legal point of registration nor any servers.
[01:20:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:37] <exec> 08└─Yeah - except - disrupt them badly enough, and you've effectively DDOS'd millions of people.
[01:20:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:40] <exec> 08└─Good post! In summary: * ISPs get to charge content providers and customers for the same data. * Opportunity to raise barriers to entry for future competitors. * Corruption of and collusion with elected "representatives". * Asymmetric download/upload speed. * Abusive terms of service...
[01:20:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 781 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:42] <exec> 08└─As already noted, >$80/month isn't "free". I pay for my internet access. That is, I actually pay hard earned cash for my access. I did the rough math recently on providing genuine broadband (fiber) access to rural America. I was very much surprised to learn that in much of America, the fiber can pay...
[01:20:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:44] <exec> 08└─HTTPS should eat away intrusive HTML injections. And packet radio etc may route around moronic ISPs. The time has come to make ISPs redundant. Maybe hackers need to set the records straight with some miscreants.
[01:20:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:46] <exec> 08└─The train has left the station, its a matter of time. Enjoy things while they last.
[01:20:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 1036 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:49] <exec> 08└─Keeping things like they are will have people experience DDoS by corporate policy down the line. Better to make it clear right now that such corporate behavior will be shunned by most peers and be unworkable financially in the end. It might be the time to make passive financial support of assholes a...
[01:21:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:48] <exec> 08└─That money is locked up to keep it safe from theft by governments. What's the alternative? Quit threatening productive people with confiscation of the fruits of their labor, so that they can feel comfortable using their money instead of hiding it.
[01:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:49] <exec> 08└─from your link (bracketed text in original): Twila Moon, a glacier expert at the US National Ice and Snow Data Center agrees but, she said, climate change could have made the situation more likely. “Certainly the changes that we see on ice shelves, such as thinning because of warmer ocean waters,...
[01:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:52] <exec> 08└─Don't give handouts to people comes from give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day...
[01:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:54] <exec> 08└─Well that is because none of the North American ones could build past the large village stage without drowning in their own waste. Now the ones South of the border managed a few cities.... just don't look to close at the human sacrifice and other abhorrent practices. Kinda hard to condemn the Conqui...
[01:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:56] <exec> 08└─Fecking Brits! You know, some say the Friederich Nietzsche advocated genocide, and that is why the Nazi's tried to appropriate him. But for Nietzsche the target was the English. Something about a nation of shopkeepers not smart enough to stay in the market. Bloody Poms! You know, you pull that E...
[01:21:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:58] <exec> 08└─Dude, chill out. Everyone's views on immigration are more complex than is commonly expressed in a tabloid article or SN comment, perhaps even jmorris The rule of law in classical liberalism enables social liberalism; yin and yang. The mass importation of fighting age, male, muslim migrants into Eur...
[01:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 1174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:00] <exec> 08└─The world is filled with black and brown people who want to live with the white people. Why is that? Because most of them live in countries without high economic growth, without resources, corruption and bad governments, overpopulation, and so on and so on, lands without much hope for the present or...
[01:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:03] <exec> 08└─Yes, first it was that London was no longer a Roman Castre. Then it was no longer a Anglican city, thanks to William. I guess that is the point that jmorris, expert on English history that he is, must be pointing to. Norman invaders making everyone have to speak French, an oppressing the native Ang...
[01:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:05] <exec> 08└─Oh, look - another self loathing white dude wants to see hetero white people punished!
[01:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:07] <exec> 08└─There's an inherent assumption that the money came from productive people. They might do that at the bottom. But those in charge are too often rent seekers or legal scammers in various forms.
[01:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Skwearl [4314] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:09] <exec> 08└─feudalism
[01:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:11] <exec> 08└─My issues are based on the fact that RT is a tool of the state and disease of the mind spreads far. RT and co. are the people hackers are supposed to fight and hate. Cyberpunk is befalling us all without the benefit of the cool aesthetic and people are fine with it. Is it not a sign of intentionally...
[01:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:14] <exec> 08└─Other places: * Burma * China * Lebanon * Bosnia * Russia
[01:22:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 238 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:22] <exec> 08└─What crappy school did this guy get his PhD from? They really should revoke it: you can't be a real scientist if you start out with an answer and then selectively interpret evidence to support the answer which you're already convinced of.
[01:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Larsen C Calves Trillion Ton Iceberg - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:56] <exec> 08└─You have to wonder on whose payroll these "experts" are. The post by WalksOnDirt mentions the difference in fresh water vs salt watter. Yeah, that's a factor. A bigger factor is that this ice hasn't always been floating. It was part of the continental mass and -now- is floating. True, an ice cube th...
[01:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Larsen C Calves Trillion Ton Iceberg - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:57] <exec> 08└─A bigger factor is that this ice hasn't always been floating.
[01:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Larsen C Calves Trillion Ton Iceberg - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:59] <exec> 08└─A bigger factor is that this ice hasn't always been floating.
[01:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Larsen C Calves Trillion Ton Iceberg - 665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:01] <exec> 08└─I was president of our HOA some 25-30 years ago. They decided to add a sewage charge to our water bill. Within 5 years the sewage bill was equal to our water bill. Then they went all over the news media with "wahhhh! we haven't raised our rates in 5 years, we need moooore moneeeey!!!". Pointed out t...
[01:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump not Quite Irrelevant but Isolated in Climate Change - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:42] <exec> 08└─Clearly less than half the people can control the outcome of the election
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[02:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:55] <exec> 08└─Self serving assholes will always turn everything into a cash cow. Internet will not be an exception unless its users fully deter such actors.
[02:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 873 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:56] <exec> 08└─Yes, although it isn't only about ISPs. In America, people usually have just a few ISPs they can choose from. It's an oligopoly. With the Comcast-NBC and proposed AT&T-Time Warner combinations your cable company may be your ISP, and it also owns a TV production company. If net neutrality isn't enfor...
[02:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:58] <exec> 08└─"Without the mod-ban hammer coming down" may have been implied.
[02:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:00] <exec> 08└─Perhaps because, going by GMT, we're into the next day. As I write, it's around 01:42 GMT on July 13th. Your comment shows as being posted at 0:28.
[02:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:13] <exec> 08└─Regardless how many migrants that are let in to Europe or elsewhere. There will always be more. There's NO end to it. The buck has to stop somewhere. Providing aid to overpopulated areas without requirements on family planning is wasted. It just perpetuate overpopulation. That parents didn't adjust...
[02:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:14] <exec> 08└─But those in charge are too often rent seekers or legal scammers in various forms.
[02:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:16] <exec> 08└─Sauce? The ones who didn't build cities were hunter gatherers. When you move around you don't waste time building giant structures. Spot on with the just immigrants point though. Technically the europeans are the original african migrants.
[02:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:18] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile, in reality, mere months ago Gates expressed an opinion [theatlantic.com] that clearly shows his actual opinions on immigration are more complicated than the idiots at RT and other tabloids are presenting it.
[02:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:21] <exec> 08└─As Ronald McDonald Reagan said: "Khallow is not the solution. Khallow is the problem!"
[02:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:23] <exec> 08└─Worked for Texas!
[02:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:25] <exec> 08└─Gates would not be able to be such an computer parasite if corporate executives and MBAs weren't such complicit morons on making decisions on what to buy. Ie "nobody got fired for buying IBM"..
[02:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:27] <exec> 08└─Why is it that we can have "black pride" or "muslim pride" but not "English pride"? St George's Day [telegraph.co.uk] St George’s Day is England's national day and is celebrated on April 23 each year. The day remembers St George - England’s patron saint. A Christian martyr, St George represents...
[02:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:29] <exec> 08└─With the entire population of Africa taking refuge in Germany, who will remain to be taken care by Gates foundation?
[02:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:32] <exec> 08└─For example, you could visit an English city. Now you can't Don't they let you have a passport any more?
[02:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:34] <exec> 08└─Why doesn't jesus just come back and feed them all then? Maybe he knows something, and that they will just make more of them. Ok bad example, why dont the African sky faries help them?
[02:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:36] <exec> 08└─And then read the next sentence where they say "it was looked into but no that explanation doesn't fit".
[02:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 4064 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:38] <exec> 08└─As long as the Muslim population remains around or under 2% in any given country, they will be for the most part be regarded as a peace-loving minority, and not as a threat to other citizens. This is the case in: United States -- Muslim 0.6% Australia -- Muslim 1.5% Canada -- Muslim...
[02:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03iWantToKeepAnon [686] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:16] <exec> 08└─Further he promises to publish his findings in a peer reviewed journal. Perhaps even his own journal. Perhaps even his own peers.
[02:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03iWantToKeepAnon [686] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:18] <exec> 08└─[oblig] I must be new here.
[02:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blocked by @realDonaldTrump: Unconstitutional? - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:53] <exec> 08└─Right, and there's been a fuckton of lawsuits [wikipedia.org] challenging them.
[02:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blocked by @realDonaldTrump: Unconstitutional? - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:54] <exec> 08└─The Burgess quote is from when he spoke in 2011 to "a group of Tea Party activists in Keller, Texas" [upi.com] on the possibility of raising the debt ceiling, and "a constituent suggested impeaching Obama to stop his agenda." The Inhofe quote was about the Benghazi fiasco. [thehill.com]
[02:30:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Anthropocene News: Scientists Warn of "Sixth Mass Extinction", the Era of "Biological Annihilation" - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:30:35] <exec> 08└─Raising a tangential issue is not a red herring when it's done in a way that does not detract from the original conversation.
[02:30:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Anthropocene News: Scientists Warn of "Sixth Mass Extinction", the Era of "Biological Annihilation" - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:30:36] <exec> 08└─R&D results is not a deterministic activity. It requires hard work, persistence and indeed some luck. Previous gains will not guarantee future ones. Getting people to use resources efficiently without learning by hard mistakes is not an easy task. Free market economics is not necessarily overall eff...
[02:30:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Anthropocene News: Scientists Warn of "Sixth Mass Extinction", the Era of "Biological Annihilation" - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:30:38] <exec> 08└─That post is also voted overrated.
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[03:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:59] <exec> 08└─Right, GTE wasn't a Baby Bell. When Bell Atlantic gobbled up GTE, the two became Verizon. Just picking a nit. :)
[03:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:01] <exec> 08└─Maybe time to try different moo tactics. https://ep01.epimg.net [epimg.net] (Caption doesn't apply, just the picture)
[03:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:32] <exec> 08└─And you think a government less country will have less problems? Bad people cause problems. So there need to be a mechanism to keep them in check without the mechanism being run by.. bad people.
[03:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:33] <exec> 08└─Force them to upgrade to Windows 10.
[03:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:36] <exec> 08└─And you think a government less country will have less problems? Bad people cause problems. So there need to be a mechanism to keep them in check without the mechanism being run by.. bad people.
[03:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:38] <exec> 08└─There's really nothing worse than someone who's bought and doesn't know it.
[03:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 831 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:40] <exec> 08└─In the real basket cases I don't know how to do this without essentially taking over the government, but in the less insane ones, why not give charity mainly in the form of infrastructure? I am specifically thinking of small-scale concentrating solar plants, greenhouses, and other approaches on the...
[03:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:42] <exec> 08└─But for Nietzsche the target was the English. Something about a nation of shopkeepers not smart enough to stay in the market.
[03:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:44] <exec> 08└─propose to have the governments allegedly run by megacorporations, run the megacorporations. I'm sure that will end well.
[03:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 1679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:47] <exec> 08└─I've seen plenty of immigrants and plenty of assholes from over the border, but the absolute worst case of this is a result of being raised on catholic "values" that I might as well blame ancient spaniards for. I have little doubt Islam has similar bullshit to Catholicism because that's the nature o...
[03:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:49] <exec> 08└─Engineers Without Borders Doctors Without Borders Especially Engineers Without Borders should be better funded and more expansive. The problem is they have modern weapons, but they have no modern infrastructure. Looks upside down to me. Modern infrastructure first, let weapons remain primitive. Huma...
[03:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:51] <exec> 08└─Goths! No, after the Franks, no more, by God! How much can one continent stand? OK, Vandals, but only if they continue on to Iberia, and North Africa. Danes? You expect us to put up with Danes? And Beowulf? Just wait a minute! Europe is for Europeans! This immigration and Volkwanderungen thing can...
[03:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 1110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:53] <exec> 08└─You shouldn't make that assumption because as is implied - everyone is bought. But I'm safely bought by my own ego and I guarantee you that any sort of bitching, ranting, name calling and deserved labeling of whores I use. Will result in better results for the world and my own mental health than all...
[03:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:56] <exec> 08└─And I can tell you that you're a self-serving racist fuck who deserves the untimely death you not-so-secretly wish upon members of your out-group, "friend".
[03:23:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 140 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:22] <exec> 08└─Geology is critical in Australia: You learn to recognize under which type of rock each deadly creature is most likely to hide to ambush you.
[03:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Larsen C Calves Trillion Ton Iceberg - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:48] <exec> 08└─Use proper metric units. That is an exagram iceberg: 1 trillion tonne = 10*18 grams = 1 exagram.
[03:27:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump not Quite Irrelevant but Isolated in Climate Change - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:33] <exec> 08└─"...our values, our country and our way of life, will always prevail." - Theresa May "Our values will prevail. Our people will thrive. And our civilization will triumph." - Donald Trump
[03:31:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03EETech1 [957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Mosquitoes Should Not be Eliminated - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:31:52] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito_laser [wikipedia.org]
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[04:19:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Scientists Are Altering DNA to Genetically Engineer New Forms of Life - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:36] <exec> 08└─Great, I want high testosterone, big muscle, obedient soldier. Please fulfill our order with the attached check. Please research artificial wombs so we can indoctrinate them from the get go. Yours /D@RPA/D0D/C1A
[04:21:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 781 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:00] <exec> 08└─As already noted, >$80/month isn't "free". I pay for my internet access. That is, I actually pay hard earned cash for my access. I did the rough math recently on providing genuine broadband (fiber) access to rural America. I was very much surprised to learn that in much of America, the fiber can pay...
[04:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:11] <exec> 08└─What do? nothing. (can we have your liver, then?)
[04:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:12] <exec> 08└─It was indeed. Personally I think any low-content troll deserves a Spam mod, but I'm also not an admin.
[04:21:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:15] <exec> 08└─NCommander wrote "I'm feeling crummy enough that I don't trust myself to go into the site settings and lock the theme to black." The story has been changed to say the theme wasn't changed.
[04:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:17] <exec> 08└─Good post! In summary: * ISPs get to charge content providers and customers for the same data. * Opportunity to raise barriers to entry for future competitors. * Corruption of and collusion with elected "representatives". * Asymmetric download/upload speed. * Abusive te...
[04:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:19] <exec> 08└─Sysadmins on strike? :p
[04:21:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 734 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:34] <exec> 08└─It is a simple enough math problem, Mr. Gates isn't an idiot so of course he got the correct answer. If you allow even 10% of Africa's current population, even 10% of North Africa, to move to Europe it will destroy Europe. And the population of Africa, thanks to Western largess, is exploding so the...
[04:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:57] <exec> 08└─Can't. Trying to wedge a food-giving hole in the ground open wider still so he could have more food for himself and his family made their sky fairy angry. Every time he tried, the sky fairy closed the hole a little more until he was left with a bare minimum of unappealing food. This middle-Eastern s...
[04:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:58] <exec> 08└─Perspective. If you're a rich cocksucker with billions to give away, then yes, the world is a great place, and it looks better all the time. How the fuck would THESE people know whether the world is becoming a better place? Maybe if they lived in the ghetto somewhere, their views would change?
[04:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:01] <exec> 08└─They should go to the USA, then. They'll fit right in.
[04:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:03] <exec> 08└─You shouldn't make that assumption because as is implied - everyone is bought.
[04:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:05] <exec> 08└─It's a good thought, but the problem with a lot of modern infrastructure is it depends on things like supply chains for spare parts and the expertise to fix the inevitable problems. I've seen some good examples of appropriate technology, but unless something can at least in theory be built and maint...
[04:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:07] <exec> 08└─Perhaps it's possible to make the governments own shortcomings to work against themselves? Kind of like where big cities causes housing prices to soar until employees that make the city work moves away and the city starts to having trouble performing as well as other cities.
[04:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:09] <exec> 08└─The problem is not technology but virtues and education. Law and order etc.
[04:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:50] <exec> 08└─He sings like an angel.
[04:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03CZB [6457] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:51] <exec> 08└─Looking past the religious aspect, there is a place for well crafted contrarian research. The current majority viewpoint in geology is gradual effects over long time periods. The opposing view is quick catastrophic shaping of geological features. The interpretation of stones can handle the criticism...
[04:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump not Quite Irrelevant but Isolated in Climate Change - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:43] <exec> 08└─Actually, some of our best presidents were not assassinated. George Washington, James Polk, Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, and Dwight Eisenhower all avoided assassination attempts, and all managed to do quite a bit of good for this country.
[04:32:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Mosquitoes Should Not be Eliminated - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:32:01] <exec> 08└─Now, self-replicating...
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[05:19:18] <exec> 08└─Airborne retrovirus rewrites lesbian dna to transform the clitoris into a penis.
[05:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Scientists Are Altering DNA to Genetically Engineer New Forms of Life - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:19] <exec> 08└─Your virus discriminate against the transsexual reassigned lesbians.
[05:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Scientists Are Altering DNA to Genetically Engineer New Forms of Life - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:21] <exec> 08└─How Scientists Are Altering DNA to Genetically Engineer New Forms of Life
[05:19:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Scientists Are Altering DNA to Genetically Engineer New Forms of Life - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:23] <exec> 08└─Patents must be granted. How else will scientists gain the fame they crave?
[05:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:02] <exec> 08└─Create great software that appeals to the part of the population sheep. Which will complain and nag the hell out of ISP until they bend to their will. Seems the evils tries to control the internet using laws and money. While netizen exercise control by disobedience and technology. And if enforcement...
[05:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 1963 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:04] <exec> 08└─Please go at least study political science, or political economics, before confusing people with redefinitions. "Liberal" means inclined to afford others liberties. It contrasts with "authoritarian", and has nothing whatsoever to do with attitudes to capital as such. "Socialist" isn't strictly speak...
[05:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:06] <exec> 08└─Though upload speeds are quite good these times compared to the past. And what the ISP can't see they can't complain about ;->
[05:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:51] <exec> 08└─when thumbing through the English translation
[05:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 2461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:52] <exec> 08└─No my remark goes along with what you're thinking I assure you. Look at how I approach discussion. I just take no issue with acknowledging it because I'm honestly a lot more personable(?) than I was two years ago. In terms of why places and technique like RT's bother me and creep me out is they do w...
[05:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:54] <exec> 08└─..the native Angles, and Saxons, of course.
[05:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:56] <exec> 08└─Perhaps it's possible to make the governments own shortcomings to work against themselves? Kind of like where big cities causes housing prices to soar until employees that make the city work moves away and the city starts to having trouble performing as well as other cities.
[05:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora 26 Released - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:57] <exec> 08└─Redhat wants to be the brand overshadowing Linux, hence poetterfuck and the nonsense. Maybe it will force me to go with BSD after all. System V Release 4.2. Fuck me.
[05:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Releases of Multics and Multics CPU Simulator - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:03] <exec> 08└─It looks like the page size is 288 modern bytes, done word-addressable as 64 words of 36 bits each. This is tiny. It looks like the size of a page table entry is 9 modern bytes, done as 2 words of 36 bits each. This is huge. Modern 64-bit systems use less. The overhead is thus 1/32, which is about 3...
[05:29:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kaspersky Lab has been Working With Russian Intelligence - 1278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:29:40] <exec> 08└─One might say it takes an even bigger partisan to rewrite history to justify unfounded conspiracy theories. Here [go.com] is what the news media was reporting: In particular, current and former U.S. officials fear Kaspersky Lab products have the potential to facilitate Russian cyberattacks on power...
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[06:19:27] <exec> 08└─How DARE they plaster bases all over the world like some kind of mad empire!
[06:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Sends Troops to Djibouti Ahead of Establishment of its First Overseas Military Base - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:29] <exec> 08└─DEATH to SOYLENT NIGGER NEWS
[06:19:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Scientists Are Altering DNA to Genetically Engineer New Forms of Life - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:41] <exec> 08└─By changing red bulbs with green bulbs, of course! Look, I know it's a bit trivial for fame, but if it that trivial and obvious for anyone skilled in the trade, how can the patent office grant the patent.
[06:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Scientists Are Altering DNA to Genetically Engineer New Forms of Life - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:43] <exec> 08└─You mean like changing the GREEN SITE theme to the RED SITE theme? DEATH to SOYLENT NIGGER NEWS
[06:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03fleg [128] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:25] <exec> 08└─there was some discussion on this a while ago, here [soylentnews.org] and here [soylentnews.org] but basically the modfaq [soylentnews.org] gives some examples of what can be modded spam... >Posts so offtopic and lacking value to even be a troll that they can't be called anything else. so imo i'd sa...
[06:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:57] <exec> 08└─I wonder if I could get a bag of souvenirs if I say I'm looking for evidence of the FSM.
[06:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:58] <exec> 08└─This guy has already stated that no matter what he finds he will not change his mind about his preconceptions. That's as much as admitting he's not doing science.
[06:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:00] <exec> 08└─The problem is the precedent of allowing people who aren't really doing science to come take rocks. Pretty soon every student geologist is going to expect their share.
[06:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:02] <exec> 08└─And his application was peer reviewed and found lacking of merit. What's the problem with that?
[06:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:05] <exec> 08└─No, there was always peer review. It's just that previously, the peer review happened after publication, by other people saying what they thought of those ideas.
[06:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fedora 26 Released - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:24] <exec> 08└─How many times did your mommy dropped you on yo head?
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[07:19:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Sends Troops to Djibouti Ahead of Establishment of its First Overseas Military Base - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:44] <exec> 08└─This is not going to cause any change in Chinese expansionist policy! We must be increasingly on the alert to prevent them taking over our base space! Thus knocking us out with superior numbers when they emerge! Mr. AC, WE MUST NOT ALLOW A BASE GAP
[07:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06China Sends Troops to Djibouti Ahead of Establishment of its First Overseas Military Base - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:46] <exec> 08└─China has a population of well over a billion with a large imbalance of males over females. This is a global problem like Muslim extremism - they will export their demographic problem outward.
[07:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Sends Troops to Djibouti Ahead of Establishment of its First Overseas Military Base - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:48] <exec> 08└─Chinese already have superior numbers and they could zerg rush any country except india and win. New plan: arrange for china and india to go to war causing every indian and chinese to be drafted and destroying both populations; then america can be great again!!
[07:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03marcello_dl [2685] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Sends Troops to Djibouti Ahead of Establishment of its First Overseas Military Base - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:50] <exec> 08└─> "It's not about seeking to control the world" I didn't know they had such a fine sense of humour. Everything the elites do is about control. the true circles of hell can be described as recognition -> money -> wealth -> power -> control.
[07:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06China Sends Troops to Djibouti Ahead of Establishment of its First Overseas Military Base - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:52] <exec> 08└─As an AC truly I am better than you because I don't even receive recognition. I'm safe from hell, while you burn! Burn in hell!
[07:19:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Sends Troops to Djibouti Ahead of Establishment of its First Overseas Military Base - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:54] <exec> 08└─Throw Russia in - India is still no match for China by herself, especially with Pakistan lined up with China. Three-way gangbang for all-out annilhilation. #MAGA
[07:19:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Sends Troops to Djibouti Ahead of Establishment of its First Overseas Military Base - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:57] <exec> 08└─New plan: arrange for china and india to go to war...
[07:19:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Sends Troops to Djibouti Ahead of Establishment of its First Overseas Military Base - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:59] <exec> 08└─Yes but this time let's have a war of attrition to cut the population down to more manageable numbers, like kill 950 million chinese and kill another 950 million indians, that should just about do it.
[07:20:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NCommander [2] 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 304 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:34] <exec> 08└─The FCC had de-facto created NN before Title II classification under an act I can't be bothered to look up in 2011-ish. Verizon sued that it was an overstrech of the FCC's power to do that. They won, but the court said the FCC could reclassify them as Title II and re-instate Net Neutrality. So they...
[07:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 840 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:55] <exec> 08└─[Begin message so cleverly encrypted that no Soylentil will see it!] Trans-National Globalized Anthroponic Social Justice Warrior Strike Force, Special jmorris Unit, 2nd Left-tenet reporting: Major setback. jmorris seems to have found the "submit anonymously" button. This could complicate surveillan...
[07:21:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 903 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:56] <exec> 08└─You can create a protocol that can dynamically make use of different ports. If all incoming connections are blocked (ugly!) then one could send non-standard packets to confuse the firewall what is being sent. There's supposedly a technique for NAT bypass but I have not dug into the details. And then...
[07:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03marcello_dl [2685] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:33] <exec> 08└─> you can't be a real scientist if you start out with an answer and then selectively interpret evidence to support the answer which you're already convinced of Yeah but if you start out with a theory you are already convinced of, and interpret evidence to support it, I see no problem. If you see pro...
[07:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:34] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyVX3uJpqxc [youtube.com]
[07:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03marcello_dl [2685] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:36] <exec> 08└─> He will be able to collect about 40 fist-sized samples, provided that he makes the data from any analyses freely available. Was there the need to sue, to reach this agreement? Would not help his cause if he promised to do so as a religious guy, and then broke the promise, would it? What if his ana...
[07:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:39] <exec> 08└─he interpretation of stones can handle the criticism.
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[08:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This `Third Thumb' is the Unnecessary Prosthetic of my Dreams - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:32] <exec> 08└─Would they decide to go beyond prototype and make it reasonable priced.
[08:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This `Third Thumb' is the Unnecessary Prosthetic of my Dreams - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:33] <exec> 08└─Why not a third arm, and maybe an extra head?
[08:19:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This `Third Thumb' is the Unnecessary Prosthetic of my Dreams - 728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:35] <exec> 08└─If this was to move from prototype to actual product the control mechanism that appears to sit on the wrist would have to be a lot less intrusive, anything larger then a standard clock size is probably to large. That said as noted it seems somewhat unnecessary, I'm not sure what an extra thumb per h...
[08:19:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This `Third Thumb' is the Unnecessary Prosthetic of my Dreams - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:37] <exec> 08└─Why not a third arm,
[08:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This `Third Thumb' is the Unnecessary Prosthetic of my Dreams - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:39] <exec> 08└─Froody.
[08:19:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This `Third Thumb' is the Unnecessary Prosthetic of my Dreams - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:42] <exec> 08└─Control. What's next? Asking why aren't they providing a custom-made motor cortex area to expand your capabilities of controlling another arm in full? Maybe one than can play tennis better than the natural ones?
[08:19:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Sends Troops to Djibouti Ahead of Establishment of its First Overseas Military Base - 1416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:58] <exec> 08└─China has officially sent two warships and some undisclosed to the Colony of Djibouti in Africa, where it will open its first overseas foothold base: China has dispatched troops to Djibouti in advance to prevent any swift change of heart before doing the formal theatrical ceremonies establishing t...
[08:20:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Sends Troops to Djibouti Ahead of Establishment of its First Overseas Military Base - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:20:00] <exec> 08└─They are obviously acutely aware of the suspicions so they try to mitigate them by "oh, we won't do anything bad. Promise!". So what they say they won't do is what it will be about when the push comes to shove.
[08:20:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Sends Troops to Djibouti Ahead of Establishment of its First Overseas Military Base - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:20:02] <exec> 08└─It would had been much more tech news worthy if they created an floating artificial island military and naval resupply depot base with heavy armament *cough*death star^Wisland*cough*, which could be positioned anywhere , by any shore or even in the middle of an ocean. Sure something of an island siz...
[08:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Larsen C Calves Trillion Ton Iceberg - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:50] <exec> 08└─Just what I need to cool my hellaflops (1027) supercomputer.
[08:28:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump not Quite Irrelevant but Isolated in Climate Change - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:28:37] <exec> 08└─Take away: Republican Senate is dumb. But then, we knew that already. Republicans try to repeal Obamacare, but they can't! Thanks, Obama! No, seriously, Thank you President of the United States of America Obama. Dumb Republicans! (FBI, if you're reading, keep an eye on the parent AC.)
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[09:19:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Six Major US Airports Now Scan Americans' Faces When They Leave Country - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:19:32] <exec> 08└─"When you [land at] the airport, you are directed into two lines; there's a line for US citizens and green-card holders, and there's everyone else," he told Ars, noting that foreigners are already scanned when they land in the US. "We've determined that it's OK to treat Americans differently on entr...
[09:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This `Third Thumb' is the Unnecessary Prosthetic of my Dreams - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:19:46] <exec> 08└─I have terrible pain in all the diodes of my electronic thumb and I'm stuck on this bloody planet until I can replace the diodes and signal a passing spaceship. I could be here a while and I dare say your internet is rather dull. Do you have any entertainment that is more entertaining?
[09:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This `Third Thumb' is the Unnecessary Prosthetic of my Dreams - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:19:47] <exec> 08└─http://www.cnx-software.com/2017/07/07/ht-01-helping-hand-soldering-stand-comes-with-6-arms-a-usb-powered-fan/ [cnx-software.com] In case you've never done any soldering, you often need to prop a part\pcb while applying pressure \ yanking a part out while holding the solder in the one hand and the w...
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[09:20:08] <exec> 08└─Only problem is such a war would be a nuclear war, and even such a limited regional nuclear war could have devastating global consequences [popsci.com]. The example given is of an India-Pakistan nuclear war, and a China-India nuclear war would be even worse. Plenty more would die from famine even fa...
[09:22:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 1004 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:28] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but how do you help make their country better when you're not in that country? Just sending aid to those countries usually ends up feeding corruption instead of improving things for people there, but when Western nations take a more active role, they usually get labeled as "imperialistic". If...
[09:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fedora 26 Released - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:06] <exec> 08└─Arguably that started with RHEL6, at least in so far as that's the release that initiated a project I was involved in to evaluate alternative distros and identify candidates and potential issues with a possible migration (not entirely down to systemd, although it was a factor). The follow-up project...
[09:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fedora 26 Released - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:07] <exec> 08└─No, not really. Once you've switched to your preferred desktop and got things configured how you like them, systemd is the only real fly in the ointment. That said, since this *is* one of systemd's main distros and Poettering is more on the hook if something breaks, it's generally pretty well config...
[09:28:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tabloid Shock and Awe as Google Recommends Torrent and Streaming Sites - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:28:11] <exec> 08└─I'm shocked that people pirate music though... That's real art.
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[10:20:07] <exec> 08└─When I first read "People's Liberation Army" the first thought that came to mind was "The People's Front of Judea."
[10:20:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Sends Troops to Djibouti Ahead of Establishment of its First Overseas Military Base - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:20:08] <exec> 08└─I remember a planet called Digebiti [alioth.net]. It was quite a dangerous place.
[10:22:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 567 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:43] <exec> 08└─A sound strategy that worked for a while - but how do you implement it when the megacorps basically own the government? Another strategy is to tax the heck out of corporate profits - that has a proven track record of success when corporate tax rates topped out very close to 100%. Not because the cor...
[10:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:46] <exec> 08└─In return, all the scientists ask is a few samples from religious relics. Oops, already did that and found them to be fake garbage.
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[11:19:29] <exec> 08└─Quote for: Looker (1981) http://www.imdb.com [imdb.com] "John Reston: Television can control public opinion more effectively than armies of secret police, because television is entirely voluntary. The American government forces our children to attend school, but nobody forces...
[11:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Six Major US Airports Now Scan Americans' Faces When They Leave Country - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:31] <exec> 08└─Another recent article on the same topic of face scanning at the USA border, https://www.technologyreview.com [technologyreview.com] The article ends with this unsatisfying paragraph, No matter whose face i...
[11:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:45] <exec> 08└─The real question is how does the park service decide who is allowed to collect samples.
[11:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:47] <exec> 08└─Not only that - he also thinks his rock-finding mission is of no value to science: “Even if I don’t find the evidence I think I will find, it wouldn’t assault my core beliefs,” Snelling told The Australian. “We already have evidence that is consistent with a great flood that swept the wor...
[11:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fedora 26 Released - 778 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:11] <exec> 08└─Back in the dawn of time, before there was Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, I installed Red Hat 6 or 7, which I kept upgrading up to Fedora 25, every six months or so. When Fedora switched to KDE 5, I found that KDE kept crashing left and right, so a few months ago I started looking for somethin...
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[11:27:14] <exec> 08└─The Central Park analogy is missing one critical detail: "Suppose the president is often speaking and discussing with the public in Central Park" and everyone is invited. By making Twitter an (effectively) official means for everyone to communicate with him, he has changed the rules of the game. Twi...
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[12:19:47] <exec> 08└─Third eye sounds much more useful, though we already have a lot of this with surveillance cameras...
[12:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This `Third Thumb' is the Unnecessary Prosthetic of my Dreams - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:49] <exec> 08└─Probably a whole lot better to "replace" a weak thumb on the other side than to try to work around the existing one.
[12:20:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Scientists Are Altering DNA to Genetically Engineer New Forms of Life - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:20:25] <exec> 08└─The concept is simple (copy-paste and write), but the implementation (lentiviral vectors, CRISPR, ZFN, somatic cell nuclear transfer, iPSCs) is sophisticated. Genetic engineering has been greatly simplified by modern technology as we don't need to only rely on selective breeding anymore.
[12:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:52] <exec> 08└─It's a big canyon, and claiming that there is "one true science" would be rather insecure of those who practice it. Yeah, this guy is a wing-nut, but if "the science" can't handle a couple of loose wing-nuts, it needs to grow up and figure out how to.
[12:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:54] <exec> 08└─However, that's all of the politically polarized social sciences, economics, theoretical physics, some fuzzier theoretical corners of math...
[12:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 1427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:56] <exec> 08└─I think they're hoping for serendipity which plays a big part in discoveries. Sure he was hoping to prove what we already know which is that every culture on the planet seems to have an almost instinctual great flood myth which is because great floods really suck and are therefore kinda memorable, n...
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[13:19:33] <exec> 08└─The "robolawyer" is more analogous to Legal Zoom [legalzoom.com] or TurboTax [intuit.com] than it is to an "AI." DoNotPay is not an AI. It doesn't "learn." It can't generate new ideas, or evaluate possible option. It's not capable of considering individual situations it's not specifically pre-progra...
[13:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Six Major US Airports Now Scan Americans' Faces When They Leave Country - 983 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:49] <exec> 08└─Freedom requires responsibility for one's actions. In this sense, the accountability of being identifible is useful. If you are trying to hide your identity, you are likely doing something that eventually limits the freedom of all. This says that things that mask your identity should not be allowed...
[13:20:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This `Third Thumb' is the Unnecessary Prosthetic of my Dreams - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:07] <exec> 08└─A big "thumbs-up" from all the hitchhikers.
[13:20:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06This `Third Thumb' is the Unnecessary Prosthetic of my Dreams - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:08] <exec> 08└─Sir, you lack imagination. How about a second penis. Biologically engineered and integrated to the body. That way, when one is exhausted, you always have a spare that is ready to use. Best of all, you don't have to learn to control it. It controls you.
[13:22:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 194 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:40] <exec> 08└─I wonder what was in the other hand.... RT wouldn't be cherry-picking here would they? The fact that I can't find a transcript of the interview or the quote in it's entirety makes one wonder....
[13:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:16] <exec> 08└─thought and reason at one moment in time. Not sure, it counts when you are not actively using it.... No point revoking a PhD - the "appeal to authority" is of no use in science, even though there are some egotistical charlatans using it that way to make a crust... Don't get me start on the DO's....c...
[13:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:17] <exec> 08└─In the UK, we have the General Medical Council who license medical doctors to practice. This is effectively what you are talking about. No such provision exists for non-medical doctors
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[14:19:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MrGuy [1007] 02 - 06Robolawyer Files Appeals - 1557 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:23] <exec> 08└─The "robolawyer" is more analogous to Legal Zoom [legalzoom.com] or TurboTax [intuit.com] than it is to an "AI." DoNotPay is not an AI. It doesn't "learn." It can't generate new ideas, or evaluate possible option. It's not capable of considering individual situations it's not specifically pre-progra...
[14:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Robolawyer Files Appeals - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:24] <exec> 08└─The first thing we do, let's killall -9 lawyerd.
[14:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robolawyer Files Appeals - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:27] <exec> 08└─But it's not a "lawyer" any more than LegalZoom is. It can guide you to documents that were written by lawyers and paralegals that probably are better than what you can write from scratch as a non-expert.
[14:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robolawyer Files Appeals - 1028 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:29] <exec> 08└─AI != learning capability. A decision tree, or a rules-based system - these are classic "expert systems", which have always been considered a branch of AI. It's all about how to take human knowledge in an applied field, and represent it in a program. You don't actually *want* these systems to be lea...
[14:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bziman [3577] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Six Major US Airports Now Scan Americans' Faces When They Leave Country - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:45] <exec> 08└─If you're leaving the country, you better have your passport. And that has your picture on it. So obviously this new policy is a scam to sell some new unneeded piece of tech to the government. Like all of the so called security of DHS, this exists to extract money from taxpayers and transfer it to w...
[14:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Six Major US Airports Now Scan Americans' Faces When They Leave Country - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:46] <exec> 08└─Go by boat? Travel by land to Canada and then leave from there? Use geometricly disruptive facepaint? Wear a hood? ;-)
[14:20:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Sends Troops to Djibouti Ahead of Establishment of its First Overseas Military Base - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:27] <exec> 08└─"This is a global problem like Muslim extremism" Hardly. There is good and bad to be said about the Chinese, but they aren't a very violent people. Muslims, on the other hand, thrive on violence. In fact, they rely on violence to keep their population under control - or as much under control as it i...
[14:20:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China Sends Troops to Djibouti Ahead of Establishment of its First Overseas Military Base - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:29] <exec> 08└─Is that like Google's "Don't Be Evil" ? HHOS.
[14:20:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03j-beda [6342] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China Sends Troops to Djibouti Ahead of Establishment of its First Overseas Military Base - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:31] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WboggjN_G-4 [youtube.com]
[14:20:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Sends Troops to Djibouti Ahead of Establishment of its First Overseas Military Base - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:33] <exec> 08└─It's worse because they try to mislead about their intentions from the start. Of course they won't bother with a military base unless it gives them something back. Like a stronger military power. And the rationale is likely to protect "Chinese" business that is in the resource extraction business. S...
[14:20:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Sends Troops to Djibouti Ahead of Establishment of its First Overseas Military Base - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:36] <exec> 08└─More like "People's Suppression Tool" :p Not that it's that much different in other countries.
[14:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03marcello_dl [2685] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:21] <exec> 08└─Are you talking about the shroud? Here some data points. Carbon 14 says it is around 1250ad Controversy over the procedures involving the sampling Shroud barely escaped a fire btw Other analysis says it enveloped the same body of shroud of Oviedo Shroud of oviedo dating back at least to 900ad and pr...
[14:28:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blocked by @realDonaldTrump: Unconstitutional? - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:01] <exec> 08└─You used to be able to
[14:28:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tabloid Shock and Awe as Google Recommends Torrent and Streaming Sites - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:41] <exec> 08└─I got the big "Bob" face on mine. :)
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[15:19:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual Illusion Could Help You Read Smaller Font - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:36] <exec> 08└─It will give ISPs, Cable TV operators, and mobile network operators an excuse to use ever finer print in their contracts. Didn't you see that fine print about 2/3 of the way through the service agreement you signed, on page 223, where you gave permission for your ISP to sneak in the middle of the ni...
[15:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robolawyer Files Appeals - 2331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:48] <exec> 08└─So, here's the other thing. This only works until it becomes successful enough to be noticed. Right now, most people pay tickets. A few fight them, and those are either people who actually retained counsel (which generally makes it "not worth it" to collect a $80 ticket), or are feisty pro-se people...
[15:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robolawyer Files Appeals - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:49] <exec> 08└─There is something wrong with calling it AI: the term has been so watered down by the media that it can mean 'fully conscious artificial entity', 'algorithm', 'program', or 'computer'. Anyone who describes something as an AI is more likely to be demonstrating their ignorance than informing their aud...
[15:19:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robolawyer Files Appeals - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:51] <exec> 08└─Now imagine a jurisdiction actually having to budget properly and get approval for the budget from the taxpayers, rather than extorting a good portion of it by acting as highway bandits. You're acting like this is just a tit waiting for a tat with no larger context. There is a larger context. It's d...
[15:19:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robolawyer Files Appeals - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:53] <exec> 08└─> DoNotPay is not an AI. It doesn't "learn." It can't generate new ideas, or evaluate possible option. Back in the day, we called those AIs. We called them expert systems. They only did what they were told to do. And we liked it.
[15:19:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robolawyer Files Appeals - 682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:56] <exec> 08└─Your attribution of motive is misplaced. I am in no way ADVOCATING for governments to do more to collect these tickets (if you read what I actually wrote, I considered these so-called tickets an "abomination"). I am PREDICTING that response. Not the same thing. Today, multiple jurisdictions issue su...
[15:19:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robolawyer Files Appeals - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:58] <exec> 08└─He's not "advocating" anything, nitwit, he's predicting the countermeasure that will render this useless as soon as it becomes popular, regardless of any moral high ground.
[15:19:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robolawyer Files Appeals - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:00] <exec> 08└─Regarding the jokes, there was a canonical list of lawyer jokes back in the 90s. Search for it.
[15:20:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Six Major US Airports Now Scan Americans' Faces When They Leave Country - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:18] <exec> 08└─passport photo is only from one angle and may or may not actually be the person
[15:20:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This `Third Thumb' is the Unnecessary Prosthetic of my Dreams - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:38] <exec> 08└─That way, when one is exhausted, you always have a spare that is ready to use.
[15:20:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This `Third Thumb' is the Unnecessary Prosthetic of my Dreams - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:39] <exec> 08└─Thumbs up to the guy carrying all those glasses. Now show what happens when he starts walking.
[15:20:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This `Third Thumb' is the Unnecessary Prosthetic of my Dreams - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:42] <exec> 08└─No, just an extra heart.
[15:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06How Scientists Are Altering DNA to Genetically Engineer New Forms of Life - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:23] <exec> 08└─“Genetic engineering was like replacing a red light bulb with a green light bulb,”
[15:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:09] <exec> 08└─Comcast, AT&T, Verizon and the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) have spent 572 million US$ on attempts to influence the FCC and other government agencies since 2008 [dslreports.com]. Of course they won't spend this unless they think they can get more than spent in return. So it...
[15:25:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 65 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:16] <exec> 08└─How do you know whether he is going to be selective or objective?
[15:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:00] <exec> 08└─Since they ended up rich from the oil, they must have owned the land. They can hardly be accused of poaching on their own land.
[15:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:01] <exec> 08└─Yeah, and when everybody takes some rocks out the hole in the ground, pretty soon the hole goes away. Oh wait, no it doesn't, it gets bigger. Samples for everyone, lets make the Grand Canyon Great Again!!
[15:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03WalksOnDirt [5854] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Larsen C Calves Trillion Ton Iceberg - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:17] <exec> 08└─Which is in accord with what I said. There is only a slight change in volume from melting floating fresh ice into sea water, but it is definitely not none. Actually look at the link I posted, instead of ignoring it.
[15:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03WalksOnDirt [5854] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Larsen C Calves Trillion Ton Iceberg - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:18] <exec> 08└─A fresh ice cube melting in fresh water won't. It will, slightly, if the water is salty.
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[16:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nevada is in a State of Weed Emergency - 1157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:33] <exec> 08└─I guess we have somewhat different ideas on what is a state of emergency. Running out of weed for your store probably wouldn't even qualify. After all it could have been something serious like running out of cookie-dough or icecream. That would be a real emergency, after you run out of weed ... or s...
[16:19:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual Illusion Could Help You Read Smaller Font - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:42] <exec> 08└─Why do clockwise spirals increase visual acuity? Couldn't one use a mirror image of the spiral image, along with counterclockwise motion? Isn't the spin direction related to the design of the spiral? Anyone who has experienced this knows the effect is fleeting as TFA states. Would prolonged exposure...
[16:19:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual Illusion Could Help You Read Smaller Font - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:44] <exec> 08└─I wonder how much ink/toner can be saved in a printer if they start to adapt this as a cost-saving mechanism. After all if you print millions pages per year and save some fraction of buck per page ... $$$.
[16:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual Illusion Could Help You Read Smaller Font - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:46] <exec> 08└─Let's also print on 2x3 cards and save paper.
[16:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Visual Illusion Could Help You Read Smaller Font - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:48] <exec> 08└─Well, it's easy: A left spin helps reading small texts by the Democrats, a right spin helps reading small texts by the Republicans. For reading Trump's texts, erratically spinning spirals are recommended.
[16:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Visual Illusion Could Help You Read Smaller Font - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:50] <exec> 08└─http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/988659-bill-cosby-rape-allegations [knowyourmeme.com]
[16:20:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Robolawyer Files Appeals - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:08] <exec> 08└─Thanks for clarifying.
[16:20:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robolawyer Files Appeals - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:10] <exec> 08└─You have to burn the house down with "pkill -9 -v pkill" to make sure you get it all.
[16:20:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Six Major US Airports Now Scan Americans' Faces When They Leave Country - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:35] <exec> 08└─If you are trying to hide your identity, you are likely doing something that eventually limits the freedom of all.
[16:20:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Six Major US Airports Now Scan Americans' Faces When They Leave Country - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:36] <exec> 08└─of course they don't know what happens to it. the spies get it and it sits around on fucking windows computers operated by morons. what could go wrong?
[16:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:26] <exec> 08└─Based on this post alone if I had to wager I'm sure you couldn't survive without government subsidies on fuel, corn, and very likely the welfare check you collect. I have a strong feeling you're a paid shill and there is almost no way you're not on welfare if you're even in the USA. Among profession...
[16:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:18] <exec> 08└─Science isn't truth. It is a process of becoming less wrong. We can't deny creationists the tools to do science, because that denies them the opportunity to prove themselves wrong. Not that somebody with poor methodology is likely to do that, or that they would publish the results if they did. But i...
[16:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:20] <exec> 08└─If you can get sufficient public support, probably.
[16:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Larsen C Calves Trillion Ton Iceberg - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:38] <exec> 08└─None, but the chances that it sinks the original titanic are slim.
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[17:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Nevada is in a State of Weed Emergency - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:36] <exec> 08└─Alcohol distributors appear to be at fault rather than it being an issue of cultivator supply.
[17:19:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nevada is in a State of Weed Emergency - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:37] <exec> 08└─If the inefficiencies of regulated legal pot are preventing people from getting it, are they going to stop using? Maybe we just witnessed the ultimate answer to the war on drugs: legalize, and watch demand crash the -intentionally rigged- market, sending lots of disgusted customers back home, consid...
[17:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nevada is in a State of Weed Emergency - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:39] <exec> 08└─> Instead of wanting to chug the beer, you sip it and it's much more satisfying. So you enjoy your beer at a slow pace without binging. That could be good for the beer industry, or at least the small breweries, because then you're more likely to drink a higher quality more expensive product, than ju...
[17:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nevada is in a State of Weed Emergency - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:41] <exec> 08└─Putting the alcohol industry in charge of supplying weed, basically their main competitor? *facepalms*
[17:19:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nevada is in a State of Weed Emergency - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:43] <exec> 08└─Our Las Vegas correspondent told us [soylentnews.org] what can go wrong.
[17:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nevada is in a State of Weed Emergency - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:46] <exec> 08└─Haha, wow. Thanks for linking that; apparently I missed the article the first time around.
[17:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nevada is in a State of Weed Emergency - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:48] <exec> 08└─Well, in my 20s I used to smoke upwards of 2OZ a week. I stopped smoking so much when I started doing harder drugs (DMT, AMT, LSD, COKE, etc) and only used weed to take the edge off after a night of partying. A night out could easily be 300-400 on booze, 500-800 in coke, and $30 in weed. Having clea...
[17:20:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Visual Illusion Could Help You Read Smaller Font - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:01] <exec> 08└─No, no no. Its hemispherical: its only clockwise above the equator, if you repeat the study down under you'll find only counter-clockwise spirals achieve the desired effect.
[17:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Visual Illusion Could Help You Read Smaller Font - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:02] <exec> 08└─Humorless mod, this is on topic.
[17:20:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual Illusion Could Help You Read Smaller Font - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:04] <exec> 08└─> For reading Trump's texts, erratically spinning spirals are recommended. Being drunk helps a lot, for sure. He's got the first fractal presidency: try to zoom in to get more details, and you end up always staring at the same features which you got from the top level.
[17:20:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robolawyer Files Appeals - 1812 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:24] <exec> 08└─> Now imagine a jurisdiction actually having to budget properly and get approval for the budget from the taxpayers, > rather than extorting a good portion of it by acting as highway bandits. I'll disagree with that. You make a rule "to protect people, don't drive like an idiot in this area". Humans...
[17:20:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla's Next Gen Roadster is One Step Closer; Speculation of September Announcement - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:32] <exec> 08└─Let's start speculating and get free press about a product which may or may not ever exist! I guess a new Tesla Roadster speculation is better than Apple, which gets all of that buzz for incremental unimaginative yearly updates of their products...
[17:20:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Six Major US Airports Now Scan Americans' Faces When They Leave Country - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:48] <exec> 08└─Compare parent to the version that was uploaded to Pastebin [pastebin.com] in 2012.
[17:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Murdoc [2518] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This `Third Thumb' is the Unnecessary Prosthetic of my Dreams - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:12] <exec> 08└─Human augmentation of any type may be fraught with perils (and not generally condoned by society)
[17:26:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mhajicek [51] 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 162 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:18] <exec> 08└─This guy has already stated that no matter what he finds he will not change his mind about his preconceptions. That's as much as admitting he's not doing science.
[17:26:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:39] <exec> 08└─I kind of wonder whether those exact same 3 peer reviewer scientists would support him.
[17:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 1594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:41] <exec> 08└─And what exactly are they going to do with the returned rocks? The place they were found is a critical piece of information when studying the rocks. Also, if the samples were mishandled in some what, they would be useless for future research. The only thing they could do is unbearably costly forensi...
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[18:19:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] 02 - 06Nevada is in a State of Weed Emergency - 94 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:44] <exec> 08└─Alcohol distributors appear to be at fault rather than it being an issue of cultivator supply.
[18:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nevada is in a State of Weed Emergency - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:51] <exec> 08└─Buuuullllshittttt. 2 oz of weed is an insane amount. Did you have chronic emohezema? Did you just waste a shit ton of it? Were you smoking out 2-5 friends every time? Your story just reeks of unexplained bullshit. But hey, that seems to be SN these days
[18:19:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nevada is in a State of Weed Emergency - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:54] <exec> 08└─The weed I currently get from dispensaries in SoCal is way better than what I got on the street in the 1970s, with the exception of some Kona Gold a biker shared once. The price really hasn't inflated as much as everything else either. I only use about 1/3 oz per month for pain relief at bedtime, an...
[18:19:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nevada is in a State of Weed Emergency - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:56] <exec> 08└─The great state of Nevada is well-known for regulating gambling and sex work; are you intimating some manner of perversion of its august regulatory system [youtube.com] when it comes to the distribution of cannabis? I'm shocked [youtube.com], my good sir.
[18:19:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nevada is in a State of Weed Emergency - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:58] <exec> 08└─I smoked an oz a week myself for years. Just smoking only after work. 2 oz a week isn't a stretch at all if you use less efficient forms like the joint.
[18:19:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nevada is in a State of Weed Emergency - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:00] <exec> 08└─DMT is about the only drug on my to-do list. LSD/NBOMe isn't even that hard, but is fantastic. I can't get it anymore because I'm not cool and I don't want to order drugs with shitcoin and get DEA'D. Shrooms are great because they can be grown easily but are harsher than LSD/NBOMe IMO.
[18:20:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nevada is in a State of Weed Emergency - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:02] <exec> 08└─I'm quite certain that there are organizations ready and willing to take up the slack. And the best part is that their customers don't have to worry about being caught, because they can say that they bought it legally even if they didn't. That said, the real concern is for Frito-Lay, since this coul...
[18:20:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nevada is in a State of Weed Emergency - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:05] <exec> 08└─There's a sizable tax on such purchases, and penalties for those who don't pay the tax: Nevada has enacted a state tax stamp law. It mandates that anyone in possession of cannabis is legally required to buy state-issued stamps and affix them to contraband. The tax stamp rate for the State of Nevada...
[18:20:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nevada is in a State of Weed Emergency - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:07] <exec> 08└─When I read stuff like this I'm only left wondering WTF is wrong with people.
[18:20:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nevada is in a State of Weed Emergency - 994 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:09] <exec> 08└─Would you like a side of bible studies with that specious theorizing? Legalization will actually HELP the drug problems we have. Black markets create illegal activity and create an aura of mystique and wonder. Lots of young people do things purely because it is counter culture and they are fed up wi...
[18:20:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robolawyer Files Appeals - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:45] <exec> 08└─let's face it, this is largely a bluff - most people don't want to show up in court If you request a trial but don't show up to it, the court can uphold the ticket, and may be likely to. Moreover, the court may charge a fee for holding the trial. I don't see the point in just sending a letter saying...
[18:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Six Major US Airports Now Scan Americans' Faces When They Leave Country - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:09] <exec> 08└─This program is most likely a tie-in to their other programs to help aid in identifying daesh supporters before they reach their destinations, because you do know there are US muslims that do join into that bullshit, and I honestly have no problem with some facial recog system tracking them, but I'm...
[18:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Six Major US Airports Now Scan Americans' Faces When They Leave Country - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:10] <exec> 08└─> Go by boat? If you have your yacht, or you're about to get it, congratulations! This story isn't for you.
[18:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Six Major US Airports Now Scan Americans' Faces When They Leave Country - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:13] <exec> 08└─First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me...
[18:21:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This `Third Thumb' is the Unnecessary Prosthetic of my Dreams - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:36] <exec> 08└─What's next? Asking why aren't they providing a custom-made motor cortex area to expand your capabilities of controlling another arm in full?
[18:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Sends Troops to Djibouti Ahead of Establishment of its First Overseas Military Base - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:05] <exec> 08└─To the former French colony of Djibouti, where the French, Japan and the US have military bases? Totally the first place I would invade if I wanted to be discreet.
[18:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Sends Troops to Djibouti Ahead of Establishment of its First Overseas Military Base - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:06] <exec> 08└─Cnn is fake news
[18:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:09] <exec> 08└─If only the world was that simple: If somebody dislikes what you do they file a bogus DMCA and poof there goes your "show". Also, google does the Content ID bullshit to appease MAFIAA and automagically selects your "show" for removal or splices ads into it, the proceeds of which go to somebody else....
[18:24:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Lagg [105] 02 - 06Gates Urges to Abandon Generosity, Impede Migrants from Reaching Europe - 937 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:44] <exec> 08└─Oh do fuck off you self-assured little whore of a man. There's really nothing worse than someone who's bought and doesn't know it. You know damn well you don't look at any of those sites. I don't have to even look at news sites because whorish consumers of them will always make sure the items end up...
[18:26:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03HiThere [866] 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 986 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:24] <exec> 08└─No. Scientists frequently start off with a hypothesis that they intend to prove. That's not what they tell you in high school, but if you read the biographies of famous scientists that's what you'll see. (I'm not counting Einstein here as most of his work was as a theoretician. An exception would be...
[18:27:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 1307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:05] <exec> 08└─Add to that that Geology seems to be a pretty hidebound discipline where big names prevail and new ideas are seldom welcomed gracefully. The Columbia River Gorge was also thought to be a multi-hundred-million year erosion artifact by the big names in Geology. Then this guy (who was working as a scho...
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[19:19:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Binary Star Systems Affecting Exoplanet Density Measurements - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:44] <exec> 08└─The third panel of the comic shows two stars with markedly different spectra. It should be possible to work out from that difference which star(s) a planet is occulting.
[19:20:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nevada is in a State of Weed Emergency - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:09] <exec> 08└─Jesus fucking christ, I knew there had to be something else to their legalization game. Such a fascist state (beaten only by their neighbor New Mexico) wouldn't just legalize weed like that... So of course they place ridiculous requirements. Now they can claim moral superiority by legalization, yet...
[19:20:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Nevada is in a State of Weed Emergency - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:10] <exec> 08└─There are some nuances to the whole distribution thing. Bear in mind that in most of the states that have gone this route, the alcohol enforcement arm is being given the supervisory responsibility, and the model of dismantling prohibition is how they're doing it. In these models, distributors often...
[19:20:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nevada is in a State of Weed Emergency - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:12] <exec> 08└─Controlled Substance Homicide Any person who delivers cannabis to a person is responsible if the substance causes that person’s death. The judge presiding over the case may find the deliverer guilty of murder.
[19:20:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nevada is in a State of Weed Emergency - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:15] <exec> 08└─The alcohol industry is not happy about legalization at all.
[19:20:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nevada is in a State of Weed Emergency - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:17] <exec> 08└─I guess we have somewhat different ideas on what is a state of emergency. Running out of weed for your store probably wouldn't even qualify.
[19:20:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nevada is in a State of Weed Emergency - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:19] <exec> 08└─It's called "Chasing the dragon".
[19:20:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Visual Illusion Could Help You Read Smaller Font - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:35] <exec> 08└─Yep, it's toupee's all the way down!
[19:20:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual Illusion Could Help You Read Smaller Font - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:36] <exec> 08└─Visual acuity is normally thought to be dictated by the shape and condition of the eye but these new findings suggest that it may also be influenced by perceptual processes in the brain. Wrong. The scientists didn't say that, the article writer assumed it. I had a physics class way back in the 1970s...
[19:20:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual Illusion Could Help You Read Smaller Font - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:38] <exec> 08└─I found an excellent example of it, [michaelbach.de] since TFA didn't supply one. Stare at the cross until the Buddha image comes, and the effect is striking.
[19:20:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual Illusion Could Help You Read Smaller Font - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:41] <exec> 08└─Tail-recursion is the only depth he has.
[19:20:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03YeaWhatevs [5623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual Illusion Could Help You Read Smaller Font - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:43] <exec> 08└─It's really odd they would make some claims of readability but not even bother to include a demonstration of this in action. The research paper talked about sloan letters, but the lone illustration font size was bigger than the font size of the article itself, or was that just an optical illusion?
[19:20:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MrGuy [1007] 02 - 06Robolawyer Files Appeals - 2331 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:54] <exec> 08└─So, here's the other thing. This only works until it becomes successful enough to be noticed. Right now, most people pay tickets. A few fight them, and those are either people who actually retained counsel (which generally makes it "not worth it" to collect a $80 ticket), or are feisty pro-se people...
[19:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robolawyer Files Appeals - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:05] <exec> 08└─AI: anything a computer can't do yet.
[19:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robolawyer Files Appeals - 1222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:07] <exec> 08└─"You make a rule "to protect people, don't drive like an idiot in this area". Humans break the rule. Jailing them is too expensive, and taking their license too debilitating, especially for a first offense." Yeah, here's the problem. 'Drive like an idiot' is a little less than perfectly rigorous in...
[19:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robolawyer Files Appeals - 906 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:09] <exec> 08└─Unless you're expecting the "AI" to show up in court and argue for you, that's exactly what you're doing by sending the letter DoNotPay generates. The letter (at least the one I generated - YMMV) expressly requests a hearing, but adds the REQUEST that the municipality drop the matter rather than go...
[19:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robolawyer Files Appeals - 2468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:11] <exec> 08└─> 'Drive like an idiot' is a little less than perfectly rigorous in definition. And in a bureaucracy any ambiguity can and will be defined just as far > in their favor as possible, and then after that they start eroding the boundaries of the possible. I was intentionally being vague to avoid nitpick...
[19:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla's Next Gen Roadster is One Step Closer; Speculation of September Announcement - 3221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:24] <exec> 08└─Rather than writing a comment about how we shouldn't be giving the company that needs no advertising, free advertising about speculation of a possibility that there at some point will be a product to allow a chance to join in the 'early adopter' party of the second generation roadster, yet another s...
[19:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Six Major US Airports Now Scan Americans' Faces When They Leave Country - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:44] <exec> 08└─First they came for the people with faces, and I did not speak out— Because I did not have a face. Then they came for me, and I did not speak out— Because I don't have a mouth, you insensitive clods!
[19:21:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Six Major US Airports Now Scan Americans' Faces When They Leave Country - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:46] <exec> 08└─> If you have your yacht, or you're about to get it, congratulations! This story isn't for you. A rubber dinghy over the rio-grande to freedom?
[19:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This `Third Thumb' is the Unnecessary Prosthetic of my Dreams - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:10] <exec> 08└─Good lord, I barely get any work done now with just the one!
[19:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Sends Troops to Djibouti Ahead of Establishment of its First Overseas Military Base - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:41] <exec> 08└─Perhaps not invade but making their power known. "We are here and can fuck with you at will". France, Japan and US are more or less in the same sphere of interest. And while they might have differences, they are of little concern compared to those countries vs China. As a side note Djibouti probably...
[19:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Net Neutrality Protest Day - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:45] <exec> 08└─NCommander only dies when he's on a roll, I'll wager!
[19:27:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03meustrus [4961] 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 634 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:37] <exec> 08└─Science isn't truth. It is a process of becoming less wrong. We can't deny creationists the tools to do science, because that denies them the opportunity to prove themselves wrong. Not that somebody with poor methodology is likely to do that, or that they would publish the results if they did. But i...
[19:27:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:42] <exec> 08└─I'm aware that I'm using prejudiced reasoning, I'm not certain that he's going to doctor the evidence. But that's the way I'd bet.
[19:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:44] <exec> 08└─Those Cheap Shots were sourced from TFA. But in this case he does have his own "Journal" in which he and some of his fellow travelers publish. But I'm not posting a link here.
[19:27:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creationist Gets His Bag of Rocks - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:46] <exec> 08└─The place they were found is a critical piece of information when studying the rocks. Also, if the samples were mishandled in some what, they would be useless for future research. The only thing they could do is unbearably costly forensic analysis on the returned samples, and even then there are no...
[19:29:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Larsen C Calves Trillion Ton Iceberg - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:04] <exec> 08└─If science bores you, why in the hell are you here? You just like trolling?
[19:29:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Larsen C Calves Trillion Ton Iceberg - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:06] <exec> 08└─Bob's quick guide to the apostrophe, you idiots. But don't feel TOO dumb, I saw a grocer's apostrophe in an article in a large circulation newspaper just this morning. The guy who wrote the article is in the wrong line of work! [angryflower.com]
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[20:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Private Company Plans to Bring Moon Rocks Back to Earth in Three Years - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:47] <exec> 08└─What's the point of getting further rock samples? It's more or less known what substances there are and how this material behaves. And to test large scale equipment ie 3D printing and mineral extraction much larger quantities than is feasible to take home is needed. If they would instead send a 3D p...
[20:19:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03YeaWhatevs [5623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Private Company Plans to Bring Moon Rocks Back to Earth in Three Years - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:48] <exec> 08└─So I can sells 'em on ebay. Take a look, guaranteed real.
[20:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Private Company Plans to Bring Moon Rocks Back to Earth in Three Years - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:50] <exec> 08└─"The sample return mission is justifiable for commercial purposes, we are expecting to self fund that," Richards said.
[20:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Private Company Plans to Bring Moon Rocks Back to Earth in Three Years - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:52] <exec> 08└─The Moon may not be made of cheese, but your comment sure is.
[20:19:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Private Company Plans to Bring Moon Rocks Back to Earth in Three Years - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:54] <exec> 08└─NASA put a 500m fly-by as a required milestone for a $20million XPRIZE by the end of 2017. However, in case they miss the deadline, their backup business plan is to collect some Helium-3 later on. And if they fail finding some, they'll comeback with some dust to sell to whomever bids the most.
[20:20:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Nevada is in a State of Weed Emergency - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:31] <exec> 08└─Any person who delivers cannabis to a person is responsible if the substance causes that person’s death.
[20:20:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Nevada is in a State of Weed Emergency - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:32] <exec> 08└─I wonder what happens in the common case of someone having cannabis and other drugs in their system (especially alcohol). Half a murder charge?
[20:20:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nevada is in a State of Weed Emergency - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:34] <exec> 08└─I don't know Nevada's laws, but in Oregon you are allowed four plants for personal consumption. A potential solution to a distribution problem is to localize the production at the source of consumption.
[20:20:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03pgc [1600] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nevada is in a State of Weed Emergency - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:37] <exec> 08└─There was absolutely no money whatsoever involved in making that broken arrangement. No sirey..
[20:20:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nevada is in a State of Weed Emergency - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:39] <exec> 08└─I've smoked a QP in two days before... Obvously not all to the dome, but I don't smoke solo anyway, the only drug I use non-socially is nicotine. I used to smoke a quarter a day, everytime I see a friend, I roll up, they roll up, we smoke both blunts. If you have money and time, building a tolerance...
[20:20:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Visual Illusion Could Help You Read Smaller Font - 269 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:54] <exec> 08└─> For reading Trump's texts, erratically spinning spirals are recommended. Being drunk helps a lot, for sure. He's got the first fractal presidency: try to zoom in to get more details, and you end up always staring at the same features which you got from the top level.
[20:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual Illusion Could Help You Read Smaller Font - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:00] <exec> 08└─Here you go: .
[20:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual Illusion Could Help You Read Smaller Font - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:02] <exec> 08└─Wrong. [...] The retina is actually part of the brain!
[20:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03YeaWhatevs [5623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual Illusion Could Help You Read Smaller Font - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:05] <exec> 08└─Oh yea, my bad.
[20:21:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Robolawyer Files Appeals - 48 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:13] <exec> 08└─The first thing we do, let's killall -9 lawyerd.
[20:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Robolawyer Files Appeals - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:31] <exec> 08└─I once got pulled over by a local officer that seemed apologetic that he was being forced to do so by the state police. He strongly recommended that I challenge the ticket. I did so, and on the court day it turns out that there were about 30 of us that followed his advice. We all got minimum fine an...
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[20:21:40] <exec> 08└─One important difference.... Apple never got their hype machine working for the iPhone 6 before the iPhone 4 was released. Tesla has the already hype for their equivalent V4, 5, 6 and 7 before V3 of their core product offering even reaches a single customer.
[20:21:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla's Next Gen Roadster is One Step Closer; Speculation of September Announcement - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:42] <exec> 08└─That is very true. You don't want people to go: eh I'll wait for the next one. Though at the same time if I was looking to purchase a vehicle, I would be looking at 3 seriously. I doubt they can meet the demand though, and I won't pay premium. So maybe witht he demand so high, they want to deflate i...
[20:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Six Major US Airports Now Scan Americans' Faces When They Leave Country - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:04] <exec> 08└─Why? Your point being that it is a re-post?
[20:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Six Major US Airports Now Scan Americans' Faces When They Leave Country - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:06] <exec> 08└─I've never tried to do anything that would result in restricting freedoms of anyone, yet many times I would like to remain anonymous. Just because someone desires privacy does not mean they are up to no good. Running over the rights of free people in order to catch a very small number of "bad people...
[20:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Six Major US Airports Now Scan Americans' Faces When They Leave Country - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:08] <exec> 08└─You are a boot licking coward that will trade freedom for the illusion of security. Go listen to some talk radio and leave us in peace.
[20:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Six Major US Airports Now Scan Americans' Faces When They Leave Country - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:10] <exec> 08└─Good luck getting past the wall, trenches, minefields, electrical fences, barbed wire, lights, watchtowers, guards and soldiers! 😂🤣
[20:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Six Major US Airports Now Scan Americans' Faces When They Leave Country - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:12] <exec> 08└─And how does facial recognition from video fix any of that? Passport photo is still the same, but now we've normalized using facial recognition for general security purposes. Expect law enforcement to allow private corporations to submit images for comparison. All hail the great digital overlord! Ma...
[20:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06This `Third Thumb' is the Unnecessary Prosthetic of my Dreams - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:37] <exec> 08└─I am no BigClive [youtube.com] (or any other pro) when it comes to one hand soldiering, so I am definitely getting one of these.
[20:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Scientists Are Altering DNA to Genetically Engineer New Forms of Life - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:25] <exec> 08└─I no longer have to fear for the future of humanity. There isn't one. Forget nuclear wars and AGW. Humans, via AI and DNA futzing, have a near-100% chance of tinkering ourselves out of existence in 20 years. Glad I won't be around to see it.
[20:31:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tabloid Shock and Awe as Google Recommends Torrent and Streaming Sites - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:31:38] <exec> 08└─My one has Tux smoking the pipe.
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[21:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel's Skylake-SP vs AMD's Epyc - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:33] <exec> 08└─... to have a Beowulf cluster of these!
[21:19:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Private Company Plans to Bring Moon Rocks Back to Earth in Three Years - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:52] <exec> 08└─My future trolling efforts would like to know, what exactly tipped you off that my post was not constructed from a more solid building material?
[21:19:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Private Company Plans to Bring Moon Rocks Back to Earth in Three Years - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:53] <exec> 08└─Does Moon Express do home delivery?
[21:19:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Private Company Plans to Bring Moon Rocks Back to Earth in Three Years - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:55] <exec> 08└─What's the point of getting further rock samples?
[21:20:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Binary Star Systems Affecting Exoplanet Density Measurements - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:04] <exec> 08└─As telescopes stare at particular patches of sky, they can't always differentiate between one star and two.
[21:20:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nevada is in a State of Weed Emergency - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:40] <exec> 08└─A 10% tax on sales of recreational pot — along with a 15% tax on growers — is expected to generate tens of millions of dollars a year for schools and the state's general fund reserves.
[21:20:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nevada is in a State of Weed Emergency - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:41] <exec> 08└─It could be a different type of problem. In Oregon if the state runs too large of a surplus it is forced by law to return it to the citizens. I wonder how some people would feel about that. If you still feel weed should be outlawed, you effectively would be receiving drug money. Typically, money doe...
[21:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Six Major US Airports Now Scan Americans' Faces When They Leave Country - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:09] <exec> 08└─Land of the fuuhhREEEEeeeee!
[21:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Six Major US Airports Now Scan Americans' Faces When They Leave Country - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:10] <exec> 08└─Exactly, it's spammy.
[21:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Six Major US Airports Now Scan Americans' Faces When They Leave Country - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:12] <exec> 08└─If you've got nothing to fear, you've got nothing to hide.
[21:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06This `Third Thumb' is the Unnecessary Prosthetic of my Dreams - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:39] <exec> 08└─And the ability to regenerate.
[21:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China Sends Troops to Djibouti Ahead of Establishment of its First Overseas Military Base - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:10] <exec> 08└─One more word out of you, Djibouti....
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[22:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel's Skylake-SP vs AMD's Epyc - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:28] <exec> 08└─Hot grits. Naked and petrified.
[22:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel's Skylake-SP vs AMD's Epyc - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:30] <exec> 08└─That would truly be AIPEEKK(TM)(R)(C)
[22:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Private Company Plans to Bring Moon Rocks Back to Earth in Three Years - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:46] <exec> 08└─So if I walked out to my alley and grabbed a handful of rocks, would that be enough to paint a picture of the geology of the Earth? More samples provide more data points. Also, they are worth a lot of money. It looks like they plan on selling them to fund their missions.
[22:19:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Private Company Plans to Bring Moon Rocks Back to Earth in Three Years - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:48] <exec> 08└─What's the point of getting further rock samples?
[22:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Private Company Plans to Bring Moon Rocks Back to Earth in Three Years - 680 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:50] <exec> 08└─"Did you know that moon dust gives the most amazing high ever? I can get you a few pieces, you grind them, then inject like Heroin. Takes a decent amount though, and the supply chain is tight, so i can't give you a discount." As was pointed out in Asterix decades ago, if you're selling people a usel...
[22:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Private Company Plans to Bring Moon Rocks Back to Earth in Three Years - 876 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:52] <exec> 08└─Folks, somebody is getting scammed hard here. They still speak of an "outside chance" of landing on the moon this year? They haven't even test fired their engine yet. So it is a safe assumption they haven't purchased a launch slot, remember they are using other people to launch. Now look at the thre...
[22:20:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nevada is in a State of Weed Emergency - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:37] <exec> 08└─Not quite true. Quite aside from drug-inspired bad decisions, it has been discovered that pot OD is actually a thing. I forget the exact symptom list, by hyperthermia features - and yes, it can kill. Go check out emergency room information in states that have made the big leap - Washington has good...
[22:20:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nevada is in a State of Weed Emergency - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:39] <exec> 08└─That sounds more like rare genetic conditions resulting in problems. You don't tell people to watch out for the Lobster cause not that many people are allergic to it. You don't regulate peanuts either. This is the best I can find for your assertion and it basically says you're wrong, there is no suc...
[22:20:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nevada is in a State of Weed Emergency - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:41] <exec> 08└─copy-paste of the abstract: Background: Animal and human laboratory studies suggest marijuana may cause hyperthermia. However, there are no clinical case reports of life-threatening hyperthermia associated with use of marijuana alone. Case Report: We report a patient who developed severe hyperthermi...
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[23:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel's Skylake-SP vs AMD's Epyc - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:35] <exec> 08└─Maybe the autopager add-on can fix that.
[23:19:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Private Company Plans to Bring Moon Rocks Back to Earth in Three Years - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:56] <exec> 08└─the point will be to leave behind hardware on the moon. Likely useless, and possibly containing toxic substances like hydrazine.
[23:20:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nevada is in a State of Weed Emergency - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:44] <exec> 08└─When is the same standard going to apply to tobacco and alcohol?
[23:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Visual Illusion Could Help You Read Smaller Font - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:09] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r1_ZoQmqxM [youtube.com]
[23:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Visual Illusion Could Help You Read Smaller Font - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:10] <exec> 08└─better one [youtube.com]
[23:21:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robolawyer Files Appeals - 2579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:38] <exec> 08└─"In reality, you get "don't drive over 40MPH in front of the elementary school", which few would logically argue against, yet many still do once logic is replaced by a steering wheel." Actually that's one of the problems. There's absolutely no logical reason to think that 39mph is safe but 41mph is...
[23:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Six Major US Airports Now Scan Americans' Faces When They Leave Country - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:18] <exec> 08└─You're probably not a jew, roma, homosexual, sexually active outside of wedlock, foreigner/gaijin, political dissident, member of the minority party, female in a repressive culture, cis white male in america.... Oh, shit, at least one of those probably covers you, doesn't it?
[23:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Six Major US Airports Now Scan Americans' Faces When They Leave Country - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:19] <exec> 08└─We can't fix America, or Canada, or Europe, but we can build the future of tomorrow somewhere they don't yet claim sovereignity! Choose your side now, or forever give up your freedom.
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