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[00:20:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nixie Pixel, Linux and FOSS Vlogger, Returns to YouTube - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:43] <exec> 08└─Yes, but... [staticflickr.com] Without makeup she looks like Pink [warosu.org] from The Wall. Still, makeup + attention whoring [nixiepixel.com] == hordes of dick-kneading beta orbiters.
[00:20:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nixie Pixel, Linux and FOSS Vlogger, Returns to YouTube - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:45] <exec> 08└─Real LiGNUx users eschew the manual pages, which are seldom maintained, and consult the Texinfo documentation for a full description.
[00:20:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nixie Pixel, Linux and FOSS Vlogger, Returns to YouTube - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:47] <exec> 08└─"Pity that you think she needed a paint job to conform to your idea of a woman." — jimtheowl
[00:20:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nixie Pixel, Linux and FOSS Vlogger, Returns to YouTube - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:49] <exec> 08└─You cannot get away with the intellectual laziness of copying and pasting here -- this strumpet is caked in makeup, way too much makeup, in fact. Probably daddy-issues too. Before the whole "I'm a nerd too, look at my Arduino" thing caught on with women, those types were making their money dancing o...
[00:20:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Nixie Pixel, Linux and FOSS Vlogger, Returns to YouTube - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:51] <exec> 08└─Real linux gurus read the source code because real Linux gurus know real Linux gurus never update the documentation.
[00:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nixie Pixel, Linux and FOSS Vlogger, Returns to YouTube - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:54] <exec> 08└─You know, that whole "prison goat farm" article got me remembering the time that Eth was sent down to the Turkey Farm, and spent his days trying to milk the turkeys. Good times, good times.
[00:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nixie Pixel, Linux and FOSS Vlogger, Returns to YouTube - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:56] <exec> 08└─Everybody knows real nerds aren't attention whores. Whole lotta fake nerds in the business these days. A whole lotta attention whoring [github.com] nerds.
[00:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nixie Pixel, Linux and FOSS Vlogger, Returns to YouTube - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:58] <exec> 08└─Don't blame them. The US president has made intellectual laziness a positive attribute. In any case, you telling me you take issue with a multi-platform entrepreneur capitalizing on an emergent market of antisocial retards (who usually don't know the value of money or ad time) with no overhead beyon...
[00:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nixie Pixel, Linux and FOSS Vlogger, Returns to YouTube - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:00] <exec> 08└─When I first saw the "Prison Goat Farm" story, I thought it was about a resort for Islamic terrorists.
[00:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nixie Pixel, Linux and FOSS Vlogger, Returns to YouTube - 1157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:02] <exec> 08└─I checked out her web page at nixiepixel.com, and I'm rather confused. On her "about" [nixiepixel.com] page, she says she's 26 years old, and in her videos and photos that looks about right, definitely not over 30. But then she talks about growing up gaming on the Atari 2600 and how she used to play...
[00:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nixie Pixel, Linux and FOSS Vlogger, Returns to YouTube - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:05] <exec> 08└─Know how to spot a fake nerd? They use the word "geek" unironically. I went over this in ad-nauseum rants at Slashdot.
[00:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Flamebait) 02 - 06Nixie Pixel, Linux and FOSS Vlogger, Returns to YouTube - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:07] <exec> 08└─Judging by her photos, I imagine she lies about much more than her vintage gaming creds. Amount of dicks taken, incurable STDs infected, abortions, being addicted to coke and Xanax, bulimia, lack of father figure in childhood, taxable income procured from Backpage, preference for Black men and Cholo...
[00:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Halts Wisconsin Money Grab - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:24] <exec> 08└─Pardon me for trying to set a high expectations bar for our democratic representatives (grin, as he says)
[00:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Judge Halts Wisconsin Money Grab - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:25] <exec> 08└─You got me there. Until my side tweets the follow on talking points, of course.
[00:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06In a World Without Cash, Every Payment You Make Will be Traceable - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:05] <exec> 08└─You can only do so much with those magical "black" accounts before it gets obvious that money isn't put somewhere it should be.
[00:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06In a World Without Cash, Every Payment You Make Will be Traceable - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:07] <exec> 08└─"I owed my booky and paid him that night."
[00:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06In a World Without Cash, Every Payment You Make Will be Traceable - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:09] <exec> 08└─I'll trade my fully functional 561A [wordpress.com] for your bust of Mr. Spock and your first-edition leaked nude photos of Laura Schlessinger and Diana Muldaur. Anyway, although the usual civil-liberties crowds are freaking out here, there's a much more pragmatic reason to abolish cash -- card vend...
[00:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In a World Without Cash, Every Payment You Make Will be Traceable - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:11] <exec> 08└─Is his name Jenny [wikipedia.org]?
[00:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In a World Without Cash, Every Payment You Make Will be Traceable - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:13] <exec> 08└─Yeah. I made a submission for the exact same article last year [soylentnews.org]!
[00:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In a World Without Cash, Every Payment You Make Will be Traceable - 835 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:15] <exec> 08└─> "The Rich" want to use the system to get richer If the rich wanted to get richer, they would promote development. Because development is more wealth, more stuff to get richer on. Fact, the economic crisis, who started in 1990, has been forced. There was no need to optimize production at the expens...
[00:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In a World Without Cash, Every Payment You Make Will be Traceable - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:18] <exec> 08└─He was a soldier of glory."
[00:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Claims to Have "Verbal Approval" to Build New York to Washington, D.C. Hyperloop - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:12] <exec> 08└─Presumably you also thought that Amazon was a big fat failure all the years they were growing rather than generating profits. It's what you do when you are going from being a startup to the international big league. Revolutionary technological solutions to practical problems has yet to be demonstrat...
[00:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Claims to Have "Verbal Approval" to Build New York to Washington, D.C. Hyperloop - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:13] <exec> 08└─It's not possible for the Gigafactory to be bigger than Tesla, given that Tesla own the Gigafactory. And I haven't heard they have any plans to sell batteries to anyone else anyway. It's all for Tesla cars and Powerwalls.
[00:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Prison Goat Farm: Is Prison Labor Exploitation or Rehabilitation? - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:45] <exec> 08└─How do you explain China with 4x our population, have a half million FEWER prisoners than we do.
[00:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Burundi Robotics Team Goes Missing - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:04] <exec> 08└─Journalism is the vector by which a lot of "eggcorns" and other nonsense language is spread, similar to the spread of prion diseases via consumption of afflicted animals. Just as journalists are regularly seen here on SN mixing up units of measurement in science articles, they are seen elsewhere pro...
[00:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Burundi Robotics Team Goes Missing - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:05] <exec> 08└─By suggesting that the meaning is ambiguous you reinforce AC's point. Misuse of language leads to confusion.
[00:29:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Body Cam Records Baltimore Cop Planting Drugs While Two Others Watch - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:21] <exec> 08└─Fraud should always be a matter of concern, even if there are other crimes (e.g. the illegal Prohibition II) in play as well.
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[01:20:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are There Any Weather Nerds Out There? - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:49] <exec> 08└─You can search your weather by GPS coordinates with weather.gov. It's all I use anymore. http://forecast.weather.gov [weather.gov] Make sure to click the Hourly Weather Forecast image on the right side of the page. Look at all the FA-class...
[01:20:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are There Any Weather Nerds Out There? - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:50] <exec> 08└─The headline implies a scientific interest in meteorology, but all you really want is for everyone to dump their weather bookmarks into the comments.
[01:20:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are There Any Weather Nerds Out There? - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:53] <exec> 08└─Wot? No Weather Underground? Or are they dead, bought out by the Weather Corporation?
[01:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are There Any Weather Nerds Out There? - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:55] <exec> 08└─Back in the 70's I had a friend who had weather stuff all over his house and back yard, he wrote things down every day. I've got some digital doohicky that keeps track of temperature, humidity, pressure, etc. It's got a satellite sensor I've nailed outside my door that also records temperature, humi...
[01:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03slap [5764] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are There Any Weather Nerds Out There? - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:57] <exec> 08└─I'm a sailor, and I've started to use predictwind.com to get a forecast of the wind. You have to have an account - there are free accounts that give out limited information. But the free accounts give the wind speed and direction predictions which is all I want anyway.
[01:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are There Any Weather Nerds Out There? - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:59] <exec> 08└─Heh, just realized you have to be at least 30 years old to get my Folger's reference. / damn I'm getting old // grandkids are teenagers....... /// wonder if I'll be remembered as the kewlest grandpop ever, or the WTF grandpop
[01:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are There Any Weather Nerds Out There? - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:02] <exec> 08└─http://www.lacrossetechnology.com/9006 [lacrossetechnology.com] It has a transmitter that sends the outside temperature to a receiver inside. It reads in Fahrenheit or Celsius. It also tells the time. Recommended.
[01:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nixie Pixel, Linux and FOSS Vlogger, Returns to YouTube - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:22] <exec> 08└─Did she get a bunch of ancient computing hand-me-downs or something? Or is she an immortal who's lying about her age to explain why she doesn't look like she's 45-50?
[01:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nixie Pixel, Linux and FOSS Vlogger, Returns to YouTube - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:23] <exec> 08└─> Fuck, I could go all night, but I got booze to drink, man! ... must ... resist ... too ... easy ...
[01:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nixie Pixel, Linux and FOSS Vlogger, Returns to YouTube - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:25] <exec> 08└─My kids are about her age, and THEY grew up gaming on Atari. The Atari game systems didn't just wear out and disappear within two years of manufacture, after all. I can still see the two older boys fighting over which game to plug in, while their baby brother watched from his playpen. Geeez, Louise.
[01:21:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Nixie Pixel, Linux and FOSS Vlogger, Returns to YouTube - 942 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:28] <exec> 08└─Denigrating Nixie seems to be everyone's goal here. I've watched a number of her videos. The woman has a good channel. She does explain a lot of things, in a manner that non-techies might pick up on. The fact that she's not hard to look at helps a little bit. FFS, what is wrong with you people? She...
[01:21:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nixie Pixel, Linux and FOSS Vlogger, Returns to YouTube - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:30] <exec> 08└─The original King's Quest I probably would have been reasonably playable on a machine from the mid-late 1990s with a CPU slowdown utility. I've used such a thing often enough to play on modern hardware the old games like Ultima and Bard's Tale which I grew up on. There was also an official remake of...
[01:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nixie Pixel, Linux and FOSS Vlogger, Returns to YouTube - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:32] <exec> 08└─A lot of Nixie tubes are Russian, so be careful.
[01:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In a World Without Cash, Every Payment You Make Will be Traceable - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:37] <exec> 08└─Bitcoin is not private, but Monero [reddit.com] may be.
[01:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Claims to Have "Verbal Approval" to Build New York to Washington, D.C. Hyperloop - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:34] <exec> 08└─That's worth about as much as the paper it's printed on.
[01:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Claims to Have "Verbal Approval" to Build New York to Washington, D.C. Hyperloop - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:35] <exec> 08└─Whoosh!
[01:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Claims to Have "Verbal Approval" to Build New York to Washington, D.C. Hyperloop - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:38] <exec> 08└─I am sitting in the Oval Office with a pen in hand. I’ve been here six months. I’m ready to act, pen in hand, believe me. I’m sitting in that office. I have pen in hand. You never had that before. I approved Dakota Access. I approved Keystone XL. And I approved Hyperloop. Verbally, I approved...
[01:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Claims to Have "Verbal Approval" to Build New York to Washington, D.C. Hyperloop - 2523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:40] <exec> 08└─Amazon and Tesla are very different beasts and not really comparable. Same as the people who talk about Tesla and iPhones... Relatively, iPhones and everything sold on Amazon is cheap and within reach of most consumers. 'S3XY' packaged tech that has a barrier to entry of tens to hundreds of thousand...
[01:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prison Goat Farm: Is Prison Labor Exploitation or Rehabilitation? - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:12] <exec> 08└─Many of these people have children and allowing them to work from within the prison and funnel money to them is certainly a boon to society. This can help break the cycle of poverty and crime.
[01:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prison Goat Farm: Is Prison Labor Exploitation or Rehabilitation? - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:13] <exec> 08└─So its not unheard of for government pay to be pretty crap.
[01:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prison Goat Farm: Is Prison Labor Exploitation or Rehabilitation? - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:15] <exec> 08└─Once you get out, will the non-prison goat farm hire a convict?
[01:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prison Goat Farm: Is Prison Labor Exploitation or Rehabilitation? - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:18] <exec> 08└─Someone doesn't know the difference between profit and revenue. So 14 IQ it is I guess. It costs 6 figures to keep a prisoner in prison. That prisoner does not generate 6 figures in profit. The prisoners get paid almost nothing because their room and board eats up all they earn - which is still not...
[01:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prison Goat Farm: Is Prison Labor Exploitation or Rehabilitation? - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:20] <exec> 08└─I don't. I and other people are talking about something else - not your topic.
[01:30:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Kitchen Sponge – Breeding Ground for Germs - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:30:24] <exec> 08└─No need to painstakingly cultivate germs in lab and add them to sponges. Instead create intercontinental exchange network for quick delivery of used sponges to properly mix the diverse germs worldwide.
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[02:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Where do YOU get your Weather Information? - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:02] <exec> 08└─Dark Sky [darksky.net]
[02:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Where do YOU get your Weather Information? - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:03] <exec> 08└─Probable New Zealand's http://www.metservice.com [metservice.com] They are often (3-4 times / month) not even able to predict the weather right for the same day, leave alone more than a day.
[02:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Where do YOU get your Weather Information? - 742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:05] <exec> 08└─My gf looks at weather.com and we both read the forecast in the morning newspaper. But we are between Lake Erie and Lake Ontario (great lakes) and those forecasts are wrong at least as often as they are right. Obviously they have a better chance of being correct if you only care about 6-12 hours ahe...
[02:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Where do YOU get your Weather Information? - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:07] <exec> 08└─Weather Underground was bought by weather.com but not dead yet. But I can't believe space weather is mentioned in the article but spaceweather.com isn't linked.
[02:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Where do YOU get your Weather Information? - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:10] <exec> 08└─I expect to die alone and to be found dead with a stash of gay porn, just like both of my uncles.
[02:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03dx3bydt3 [82] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Where do YOU get your Weather Information? - 1453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:12] <exec> 08└─I live in Canada, and in my area Environment Canada forecasts are the best of those available. They also make available quite a bit of forecast data, one form I like best is a set of hourly forecast maps generated twice a day, looking forward for the next 48 hours. The maps are available for tempera...
[02:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Where do YOU get your Weather Information? - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:14] <exec> 08└─Inquiring minds want to know...with all that detailed information, do you ever go outside to enjoy good weather?(grin)
[02:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Where do YOU get your Weather Information? - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:16] <exec> 08└─Change the headline, and I'm going to bitch at you for revisionism. Any way you cut the cheese, SoylentNews is shit.
[02:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Where do YOU get your Weather Information? - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:19] <exec> 08└─I like to see what is going on and make my own near-term forecasts. Local and regional half-hour loops provide a wealth of information at a glance.
[02:21:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Where do YOU get your Weather Information? - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:21] <exec> 08└─...up to 6 days worth. Hell (summertime) [weather.gov] Hell (summertime) [weather.gov]--if Hell had humidity [wikipedia.org] Hit this link [weather.gov] in February to find out what it would be like on Pluto [google.com]--if that place had breezes. [wikipedia.org] . Here's basically the same informa...
[02:21:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Nixie Pixel, Linux and FOSS Vlogger, Returns to YouTube - 942 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:44] <exec> 08└─Denigrating Nixie seems to be everyone's goal here. I've watched a number of her videos. The woman has a good channel. She does explain a lot of things, in a manner that non-techies might pick up on. The fact that she's not hard to look at helps a little bit. FFS, what is wrong with you people? She...
[02:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nixie Pixel, Linux and FOSS Vlogger, Returns to YouTube - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:47] <exec> 08└─Only pantsy-ass n00bs read the source code, real Linux gurus just read the machine code by sending it over a serial cable jacked into their brain.
[02:21:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nixie Pixel, Linux and FOSS Vlogger, Returns to YouTube - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:49] <exec> 08└─You have a weak chin and a bit of a belly. Ergo, your voice doesn't matter and your opinion doesn't count.
[02:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge Halts Wisconsin Money Grab - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:08] <exec> 08└─Gf grew up there, nice place to visit her parents. But...when she was in grade school the other kids would rub her hair (a curly jew fro) to check if there were horns on her head. I kid you not, the preachers taught the Lutherans how to hate, including that little gem that anyone who was "not our bl...
[02:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prison Goat Farm: Is Prison Labor Exploitation or Rehabilitation? - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:32] <exec> 08└─Yeah about that... you remember the least motivated kids in the back of the classroom and how "productive" and "high quality" their output was in school?
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[03:20:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Japan Takes Steps Towards Commercial Whaling - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:51] <exec> 08└─Star Trek IV is still on course as future history.
[03:20:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Takes Steps Towards Commercial Whaling - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:53] <exec> 08└─I'm all in favor of this. Whaling is a traditional and honorable way of life, and many species of whale have healthy populations that can easily bear the harvest. In addition, those who object appear to be mostly if not entirely motivated by the 'animal rights' agenda aimed at destroying human right...
[03:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Where do YOU get your Weather Information? - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:17] <exec> 08└─One of the first things I made MrPlow (my SN IRC bot) do was pull weather from wunderground's API. Occasionally I break him though and use exec's scrape of google's weather.
[03:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Where do YOU get your Weather Information? - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:19] <exec> 08└─From the Environment Canada website, a service of the Canadian government. http://weather.gc.ca [weather.gc.ca]
[03:21:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06Where do YOU get your Weather Information? - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:21] <exec> 08└─NiggerNews is one nigger's shitty news blog where his nigger friends come to post comments and take a dump in the begging jar. But the nigger had to go and form a pubic interest corporation to legitimize his shitty operation. Just like a yard nigger who sneaks into the house.
[03:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimbrooking [3465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Where do YOU get your Weather Information? - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:23] <exec> 08└─https://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=27312&wuSelect=WEATHER&MR=1 [wunderground.com]
[03:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Where do YOU get your Weather Information? - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:25] <exec> 08└─http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/geo/#/animation?satellite=goes-east [wisc.edu] Lots of satellites and assorted settings to play with.
[03:21:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Where do YOU get your Weather Information? - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:28] <exec> 08└─http://totallaughriot.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/MayanWeatherForecast.jpg [totallaughriot.com]
[03:21:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Where do YOU get your Weather Information? - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:30] <exec> 08└─http://www.weather.gov/ [weather.gov] They provide all of the feeds that other shitty websites like weather.com use. Plus they have a nice home page with no trackers that you can customize. I have the 5 day forecast for my zipcode bookmarked.
[03:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03dx3bydt3 [82] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Where do YOU get your Weather Information? - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:32] <exec> 08└─More than you might expect, having the information allows one to plan ahead, and jump at the opportunity when the weather is ideal.
[03:21:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Where do YOU get your Weather Information? - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:34] <exec> 08└─In 2009, the other site reported on a "Folgers' Test"[1] [google.com] done on Windoze users. They thought that Linux+KDE was a newer, fancier version of Windoze. [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [slashdot.org] [1] I tried to filter out more of the noise, but Google completely fumbled that for no appar...
[03:21:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Where do YOU get your Weather Information? - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:37] <exec> 08└─...and only 13 scripts on that page! As I mentioned above, budget cuts now have some places without a -local- reporting station. Live in a small town|rural spot? Tough. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[03:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Where do YOU get your Weather Information? - 747 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:39] <exec> 08└─Weatherbug [weatherbug.com] for current temp. Their network of feeds from private weather stations tend to give me a more accurate result than the other big sites most days for me. I also use a couple of SmartThings motion sensors that also have temp sensors in them around my porch. They are fairly...
[03:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Nixie Pixel, Linux and FOSS Vlogger, Returns to YouTube - 1234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:07] <exec> 08└─"Denigrating Nixie seems to be everyone's goal here." Yet I doubt it is. I know it's not mine, I never heard of her before, and have no motivation to denigrate. "She is a good source of information for people moving from Windows to Ubuntu and Ubuntu clones." I've been staring at this for a ridiculou...
[03:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nixie Pixel, Linux and FOSS Vlogger, Returns to YouTube - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:09] <exec> 08└─I don't know either, but I'll mention that I have seen 2600 systems kept maintained and running (with regular maintenance required because of heavy use) well into this century, so I don't find it hard to believe a 26 year old could have grown up with that experience. That said, now you've got me cur...
[03:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Nixie Pixel, Linux and FOSS Vlogger, Returns to YouTube - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:11] <exec> 08└─Obviously a pregnancy. Not sure if that is a plus or minus for popularity. Being a MILF has become pretty popular, especially with the 'stepping out' crowd.
[03:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nixie Pixel, Linux and FOSS Vlogger, Returns to YouTube - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:13] <exec> 08└─Real attention whoring is trolling soylentnews and slashdot. It's how failed class clowns try to regain their former glory.
[03:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nixie Pixel, Linux and FOSS Vlogger, Returns to YouTube - 1234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:15] <exec> 08└─At least when I was a kid (80s-late 90s), people held onto their games. Hell I first played Leisure Suit Larry *1* in the mid 90s because somebody I knew had it as one of the few games on their computers. Boxed/cartridge games from the 80s and 90s got a lot more mileage spent on them compared to mod...
[03:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Claims to Have "Verbal Approval" to Build New York to Washington, D.C. Hyperloop - 3005 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:22] <exec> 08└─Another thing that is maybe worth considering are the two new appointments to the Tesla board of directors. James Murdoch and Linda Johnson-Rice are not engineers, scientists, or even business analysts, CFOs or anything else that would add value to the board... They are media moguls, artists at craf...
[03:28:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coding School "The Iron Yard" Announces Closure of All Campuses - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:46] <exec> 08└─By that reasoning, a programming course should take 15 minutes or nine months because, depending how you measure, that's how long it takes to make a baby?
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[04:20:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Japan Takes Steps Towards Commercial Whaling - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:52] <exec> 08└─Of course, we're not talking about allowing a commercially viable operation. We're talking about big government subsidizing an outdated and dying industry. What other government handouts are you in favor of?
[04:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Japan Takes Steps Towards Commercial Whaling - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:54] <exec> 08└─OTOH, whales probably have intelligence comparable to humans. To me, this seems too much like cannibalism. A courtesy we extend to other humans (namely, that we don't eat them) seems reasonable to extend to any animal with near human intelligence as well.
[04:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Takes Steps Towards Commercial Whaling - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:56] <exec> 08└─Clearly, the excessive levels of mercury in marine mammal meat has impaired the rationality of those pushing the hunt. The researchers found that mercury levels in all 137 meat samples exceeded the guidelines of 0.4 part per million set by the Japanese government. In fact, samples of false killer wh...
[04:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Takes Steps Towards Commercial Whaling - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:58] <exec> 08└─oops. I didn't see the title. Please correct my funny mod.
[04:21:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Where do YOU get your Weather Information? - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:33] <exec> 08└─I apologize for the misleading headline. I plead rushing to get a story submitted before having to head out for the evening. Headline has been updated.
[04:21:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Where do YOU get your Weather Information? - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:34] <exec> 08└─curl http://wttr.in [wttr.in] or curl http://wttr.in [wttr.in]
[04:21:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03idetuxs [2990] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Where do YOU get your Weather Information? - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:37] <exec> 08└─I'm a sailor too (occasional). I use windguru.cz which is quite popular where I am. And also heard of windy.com, but I don't visit the site often. Is predictwind accurate? Windguru has its misses, but it's pretty useful} cheers
[04:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Where do YOU get your Weather Information? - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:39] <exec> 08└─"We were unable to find your location so we have brought you to Oymyakon, one of the coldest permanently inhabited locales on the planet."
[04:21:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Where do YOU get your Weather Information? - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:41] <exec> 08└─Likewise a sailor. I get Grib files to load in to my routing software from Saildocs at: https://sailmail.com [sailmail.com] They can email a graphic Grib. The best visual rendering of Grib files for the average user is https://www.windy.com [windy.com] They not only...
[04:21:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Where do YOU get your Weather Information? - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:43] <exec> 08└─http://www.foreca.com/ [foreca.com] Got the link time ago, maybe from some kind of chat or meh. The company is Finnish. They probably repack the info from public stations. But works acceptably. Checked the wttr one and they report stupidly stable temps for a given place I know, Foreca gives more rea...
[04:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Halts Wisconsin Money Grab - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:35] <exec> 08└─If you look at it perversely enough, any crime is the result of failing to lead a society where each citizen is gainfully occupied, appropriately compensated, and safely entertained is indeed "the fault" of politicians failing to live up to rainbows and unicorns fantasies. Looking at it another way,...
[04:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Halts Wisconsin Money Grab - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:37] <exec> 08└─First off it's a preliminary injunction pending a trial. So, nothing has actually been decided yet: US District Judge J.P. Stadtmueller issued a preliminary injunction Thursday blocking Milwaukee County from enforcing the law until the outcome of a trial tentatively set for April. "Greater injury wi...
[04:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge Halts Wisconsin Money Grab - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:39] <exec> 08└─No, some people are just evil. That is, some get off on the misery of others, yet others get some mind of power trip from stealing from others, yet others do it for the thrill of not getting caught.
[04:25:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Prison Goat Farm: Is Prison Labor Exploitation or Rehabilitation? - 300 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:34] <exec> 08└─And I should add that it's not a coincidence that if you are descended from slaves, and if you live in an area that historically had slavery, you're far more likely to end up in this new modern version of slavery. Whether or not you actually do anything wrong, as we just discussed [soylentnews.org].
[04:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prison Goat Farm: Is Prison Labor Exploitation or Rehabilitation? - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:05] <exec> 08└─If you participate in primaries in any fashion, you realize that the will of the people carries zero weight, and then in the General, we are offered a set of hand picked orcs to choose from.
[04:30:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Body Cam Records Baltimore Cop Planting Drugs While Two Others Watch - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:30:42] <exec> 08└─Well, there's a difference between the ones running traps and the ones that pull you out of genuine concern. Long ago, I drove around significantly over the limit a lot, and when off duties and other cops would stop me then, they would also generally cut me loose with a warning, after a couple of mi...
[04:30:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Body Cam Records Baltimore Cop Planting Drugs While Two Others Watch - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:30:44] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it is over the top--but the Bolo series is a fun read if you like pulp milskiff -- sort of Hammer's Slammers meets I, Robot (Asimov's book, not the movie, and I'm sickened that I felt I had to clarify).
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[05:20:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congressman Asks NASA of a Civilization on Mars Thousands of Years Ago - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:47] <exec> 08└─How could there have been a civilization on Mars be millions of years old, if the Earth is only 6000 years old? Obviously, this congressman really meant thousands of years ago.
[05:20:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Congressman Asks NASA of a Civilization on Mars Thousands of Years Ago - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:49] <exec> 08└─A Martian civilization could have existed underground. The planet hasn't been probed thoroughly enough to rule out the possibility yet.
[05:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Takes Steps Towards Commercial Whaling - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:05] <exec> 08└─Whaling is a traditional and honorable way of life, and many species of whale have healthy populations that can easily bear the harvest.
[05:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Japan Takes Steps Towards Commercial Whaling - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:06] <exec> 08└─OTOF(lipper), whales probably have ...
[05:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Takes Steps Towards Commercial Whaling - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:08] <exec> 08└─After the spiciness of Fukushima, mercury has a soothing, cooling effect. See also Minamata disease [wikipedia.org]
[05:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Where do YOU get your Weather Information? - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:50] <exec> 08└─The Canuckistan version [weather.gc.ca] is fairly good as well. Not sure how the shitty websites decide on a slightly different forecast; while apparently using the same data. I suppose most people would not notice if they used a random number generator to vary things.
[05:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Where do YOU get your Weather Information? - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:51] <exec> 08└─There's a really easy way for anyone to answer this question for themselves. Take various favourite weather info sources and, for a two week period, track how accurate their predictions are. At the end of two weeks, go with the one that's got the best track record in getting it right. When I did thi...
[05:21:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Where do YOU get your Weather Information? - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:53] <exec> 08└─Not much of a sailor: I just follow the Skipper and Gilligan. and Mary-Anne ;)
[05:21:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Where do YOU get your Weather Information? - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:55] <exec> 08└─Heh, that was the weather service I was referring to in my earlier comment. Of all the ones I evaluated, they were consistently the worst, no-one else even came close. And the worst thing is that since they're the government-mandated service, if you're using weather info in an official capacity (e.g...
[05:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nixie Pixel, Linux and FOSS Vlogger, Returns to YouTube - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:28] <exec> 08└─Predictable. Did you imagine you were a terrorist, or a goat?
[05:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In a World Without Cash, Every Payment You Make Will be Traceable - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:38] <exec> 08└─Since stores don't also require your ID when you pay cash, this is far less of a definitive link of monetary transactions to individual persons. Even if every bank and ATM required ID for withdrawal and recorded the serial numbers, you could potentially engage in cash transactions with other people,...
[05:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cecil the Lion's Son Shot and Killed (Legally) - 819 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:08] <exec> 08└─It says they "can". But they won't. It mentioned in the wikipedia link from earlier (the big cat predation one) that when given the chance they kill, get bored, and move to the next prey without finishing or, sometimes, even beginning to eat the body. It's bizarre how detached from reality people ar...
[05:27:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Burundi Robotics Team Goes Missing - 988 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:19] <exec> 08└─It's a country that is on the verge of a civil war. The "authorities" are not the only ones kidnapping and killing people. https://en.wikipedia.org(2015%E2%80%93present) [wikipedia.org] Emmanuel Niyonkuru, the Minister of Water, the Environment and Planning, was shot and kille...
[05:27:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] 02 - 06Burundi Robotics Team Goes Missing - 295 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:20] <exec> 08└─What's bullshit? That Burundi is rife with political arrest? Or that they're disappearing people? Or that that's why the kids have disappeared? The Burundi authorities would hardly have let these kids go to an international event if they had been planning of killing/torturing/disappearing them.
[05:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Burundi Robotics Team Goes Missing - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:41] <exec> 08└─So the article prompts the question: If decimatus meant to tithe, and the modern term derived from that, then what term did the Romans use for the practice of killing one in ten as punishment? From the OLD: Origin Late Middle English: from Latin decimat- ‘taken as a tenth’, from the verb decimar...
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[06:20:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congressman Asks NASA of a Civilization on Mars Thousands of Years Ago - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:20:49] <exec> 08└─Oh please. You know it's because they're bible thumping fuckweasels looking to rationalize a batshit insane conspiracy theory. [wikipedia.org]
[06:20:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2, Flamebait) 02 - 06Congressman Asks NASA of a Civilization on Mars Thousands of Years Ago - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:20:50] <exec> 08└─RARE: Remove All Repugnicans Everywhere. This is insane. Repubs are OBSOLETE. They are ignorant, they are racist, sexist, anti-science, Islamophobic, homophobic, and worst, they are EVERYWHERE. We need to just get rid of them. Throw them in the trash. This is insane! It's like I'm living in a world...
[06:20:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Congressman Asks NASA of a Civilization on Mars Thousands of Years Ago - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:20:52] <exec> 08└─Why oh why won't the old people just fucking die? Why oh why won't the white people just fucking die? Why oh why won't the poor people just fucking die? The future belongs to young billionaire brown people!!!
[06:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Congressman Asks NASA of a Civilization on Mars Thousands of Years Ago - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:20:54] <exec> 08└─We need to just get rid of them. Throw them in the trash.
[06:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congressman Asks NASA of a Civilization on Mars Thousands of Years Ago - 1367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:20:57] <exec> 08└─I was going to tell you that even though I am fully sympathetic to your frustration, this is the same kind of statement they make. It really sucks having to be the party in the conversation that realizes this. I know. But the same cognitive dissonance you're talking about just makes them put up more...
[06:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Takes Steps Towards Commercial Whaling - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:16] <exec> 08└─"Of course, we're not talking about allowing a commercially viable operation." Yeah, actually we are. Japanese consumers are happily paying well over the natural cost of operation already.
[06:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Japan Takes Steps Towards Commercial Whaling - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:17] <exec> 08└─traditional. However only a few islands/villages performed much whaling prior to the post-WW2 boom. Mostly today it is a giant FU to the international community dictating what a sovereign nation can and cannot do. Something that while I dislike their choice of target, I understand the national and p...
[06:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Takes Steps Towards Commercial Whaling - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:19] <exec> 08└─"OTOH, whales probably have intelligence comparable to humans." [Citation needed.] Yeah, no, that's almost certainly false. They're big mammals. So are cattle.
[06:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Takes Steps Towards Commercial Whaling - 872 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:22] <exec> 08└─I finally found a job in a paper Movin' barrels at a chemical plant There's shiny-looking dust on my fingers Goin' up my nose and into my lungs It's the Kepone poisoning-Minamata Kepone poisoning-Minamata At the grimy Kepone Factory Turning people into bonzai trees Now I've got these splitting heada...
[06:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Takes Steps Towards Commercial Whaling - 772 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:24] <exec> 08└─Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals is on my reading list but I've read Sanger and enough on ethics generally that I know I can't figure out a way to justify my own diet while condemning the Japanese for their diet. Every objection I might raise to their harvesting of whales probably applies to on...
[06:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Takes Steps Towards Commercial Whaling - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:26] <exec> 08└─That should say "Singer", as in Peter Singer, author of Animal Liberation.
[06:21:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Takes Steps Towards Commercial Whaling - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:28] <exec> 08└─"OTOH, whales probably have intelligence comparable to humans." [Citation needed.]
[06:21:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Takes Steps Towards Commercial Whaling - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:30] <exec> 08└─From TFS: whale meat [...] is being held in warehouses, frozen because it does not sell well on the Japan market. [...] the Japan government has subsidized the scientific whaling scheme at 5 billion yen ($44.7 million US) annually.
[06:21:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan Takes Steps Towards Commercial Whaling - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:33] <exec> 08└─Yes! This is why the United States of America insists on allowing child soldiers into its ranks! Why it uses prison/slave labor in its Volkswagen plants. Why the United States insists on executing children and the mentally impaired? So, killing Baby Beluga Minke Shamus is just like that. Seriously....
[06:21:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan Takes Steps Towards Commercial Whaling - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:35] <exec> 08└─Japan should publish a science journal with only whaling research in it. Let's see how many papers they can come up with every year.
[06:21:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Takes Steps Towards Commercial Whaling - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:37] <exec> 08└─I am human. I suspect you both of being cabbages, however. Explain yourselves!
[06:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan Takes Steps Towards Commercial Whaling - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:39] <exec> 08└─Well yeah, they're the Dead Kennedys.
[06:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyper [1525] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Where do YOU get your Weather Information? - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:25] <exec> 08└─Enable your ad blocker.
[06:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Where do YOU get your Weather Information? - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:26] <exec> 08└─It might be discontinued now, but it uses the NOAA weather databases in the US to provide doppler images from whatever weather radar is closest to your location. Not so great for forecasting, but I only really care about weather that is 1-2 hours out and is actually going to require me to move thing...
[06:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Where do YOU get your Weather Information? - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:29] <exec> 08└─Ventusky.com
[06:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedIsNotGreen [2191] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Where do YOU get your Weather Information? - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:31] <exec> 08└─* Look/stand outside, observe the sky, wind, humidity, etc. * Google, when I want to know the current temp (I guess that means weather.com) * Other people, when a big weather event is predicted
[06:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nixie Pixel, Linux and FOSS Vlogger, Returns to YouTube - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:05] <exec> 08└─> a serial cable jacked into their brain. Speed of light in serial cable is too slow, analyse the EM interference from the motherboard to save a few picoseconds
[06:23:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03urza9814 [3954] 02 - 06Judge Halts Wisconsin Money Grab - 1017 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:15] <exec> 08└─Well yeah, that seems pretty obvious. If a company is setting up an actual physical presence, they need a permit. If they're just suggesting people make use of their local parks and recreation facilities, why would that need a permit? I can walk into a local bike shop and they'll be selling all kind...
[06:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Arrived on Australian Continent 18,000 Years Earlier Than Thought - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:29] <exec> 08└─Not really. There are stone hand axes well over a million years old. I actually read the fine article and I am still not sure what is supposed to have been different about these, aside from showing up in AU a few thousands earlier than the previous earliest definite confirmed modern hss.
[06:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humans Arrived on Australian Continent 18,000 Years Earlier Than Thought - 1033 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:30] <exec> 08└─Two centuries ago a civilisation invaded the island known today as Australia. It could have been any number of countries. The French. Dutch. Spanish. It was the English. Today Australia is a thriving nation. The abos complain and complain. They want a "treaty". They call that day that the English ar...
[06:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Claims to Have "Verbal Approval" to Build New York to Washington, D.C. Hyperloop - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:20] <exec> 08└─Just digging some vents out every few feet with equalize the conditions with the surface. There are already high-speed 350km/h rails running in this fashion with new ones being built for 450km/h in Asia.
[06:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Claims to Have "Verbal Approval" to Build New York to Washington, D.C. Hyperloop - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:22] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQXqeWKY2Fc Sorry it's not a webpage but it does host an illuminating video.
[06:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prison Goat Farm: Is Prison Labor Exploitation or Rehabilitation? - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:02] <exec> 08└─yeah, those prison shareholder judges and jurors who give out harsh punishment in court to people arrested by police, then give prisoners highly skilled jobs that rake in the 300k in revenue that generates the 170k in profit, which after the 168k/inmate/year prison cost (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/...
[06:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cloud Saves Microsoft, Azure Revenue Doubles - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:16] <exec> 08└─Cloud Saves Microsoft? Oh yeah they were about to go out of business: https://www.microsoft.com [microsoft.com] Unlike the other darlings of the industry?
[06:27:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cecil the Lion's Son Shot and Killed (Legally) - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:54] <exec> 08└─It's ridiculous you're actually equating the life of lions and humans under a single variable. You're applying social contracts, norms and emotions meant for humans to interact with each other, to form a functioning society, to other animals with the criteria being how cute they look. With the excep...
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[07:20:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge OKs $11.2M Settlement for Hacked Ashley Madison Users - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:51] <exec> 08└─How much is Snow gonna get? Is he gonna share it with the rest of us? Payday awaits, Soylentils!
[07:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Weasley [6421] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congressman Asks NASA of a Civilization on Mars Thousands of Years Ago - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:05] <exec> 08└─You're jumping the gun a bit. There's no reason to look for a civilization if there's no evidence of life.
[07:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Congressman Asks NASA of a Civilization on Mars Thousands of Years Ago - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:06] <exec> 08└─Orange County used to be reliably Republican. It has gone through a shift toward the Blue in recent years. Dana's congressional district[1], however, is -still- voting for this GOPer (who is obviously a nitwit). During the Cold War, he was a real Cold Warrior. Now, he can't be buddy-buddy enough wit...
[07:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Takes Steps Towards Commercial Whaling - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:38] <exec> 08└─Because sales of whale meat are so poor, the Japan government has subsidized the scientific whaling scheme at 5 billion yen ($44.7 million US) annually.
[07:21:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Takes Steps Towards Commercial Whaling - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:40] <exec> 08└─And how much of that is increased overhead due to the regulations that require their whaling be justified for scientific discovery, without regard for commercial productivity, hmm? A bit over 100% at the very least.
[07:21:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Takes Steps Towards Commercial Whaling - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:42] <exec> 08└─"They talk with their meat!" https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] "Maybe they are like the Wedolai?" "No, we probed them all the way through, they are made of meat". Whale meat? As good as any meat.
[07:21:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Takes Steps Towards Commercial Whaling - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:44] <exec> 08└─I can't figure out a way to justify my own diet
[07:21:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan Takes Steps Towards Commercial Whaling - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:46] <exec> 08└─I'm sure I ate some animal this week that lived a bleak and torturous life on a factory farm, the highlight of which was when death finally came to end the misery.
[07:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nixie Pixel, Linux and FOSS Vlogger, Returns to YouTube - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:10] <exec> 08└─Can it be both?
[07:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nixie Pixel, Linux and FOSS Vlogger, Returns to YouTube - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:11] <exec> 08└─Yep. Ain't live a bitch?
[07:23:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03BsAtHome [889] 02 - 06In a World Without Cash, Every Payment You Make Will be Traceable - 816 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:42] <exec> 08└─When you abandon cash, then you will see other trade to take its place. It is true that the rich will stay rich (well, get richer on paper) and the poor will have nothing of monetary value. That is when you see people do trade in old-fashioned ways. New "cash" will establish itself. It will be painf...
[07:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Claims to Have "Verbal Approval" to Build New York to Washington, D.C. Hyperloop - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:27] <exec> 08└─Just digging some vents out every few feet
[07:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prison Goat Farm: Is Prison Labor Exploitation or Rehabilitation? - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:08] <exec> 08└─So your solution to police planting evidence, lying in court, corrupt judges, and idiot jurors is to have prisoners sit there and not work while people that have nothing to do with their crime pay 100-200k/year for their living and security expenses. Gotcha. You're a moron.
[07:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prison Goat Farm: Is Prison Labor Exploitation or Rehabilitation? - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:10] <exec> 08└─That's cute. You think the dollar the inmate gets paid is how much the goat company spends on them. No retard, the goat company pays a market wage to the prison, which then throws a bone to the inmate after using the money to pay for about 20% of their expenses associated with that prisoner. Knowled...
[07:27:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prison Goat Farm: Is Prison Labor Exploitation or Rehabilitation? - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:12] <exec> 08└─If you don't understand why a hipster eating designer cheese doesn't want to eat a cheese produced by some dirty methhead, you need other questions answered first. Start by researching how to tie shoe laces - you'll fall less.
[07:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prison Goat Farm: Is Prison Labor Exploitation or Rehabilitation? - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:14] <exec> 08└─the goat company pays a market wage to the prison,
[07:31:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sabriel [6522] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Body Cam Records Baltimore Cop Planting Drugs While Two Others Watch - 797 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:31:57] <exec> 08└─And yet they fit the scale of their setting - the Mark 33 Bolo was deployed in in an escalating war between two technologically-advanced interstellar civilizations, and it wasn't a wanked one-side battle; both sides badly misunderstood and underestimated each other and both sides suffered MAD as a c...
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[08:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Congressman Asks NASA of a Civilization on Mars Thousands of Years Ago - 774 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:05] <exec> 08└─Republicans cannot shoot straight. Surely you have seen this with the "repeal and replace" of Obamacare? Two targets, zero score. And then there is the Republican in Florida, shooting up the AT&T trucks. Missed almost every time! I would lay odds that when the Repubs finally go apeshit and start wav...
[08:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Congressman Asks NASA of a Civilization on Mars Thousands of Years Ago - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:06] <exec> 08└─Why shoot straight when you can hold a gun in each hand? Or 1 gun and 1 bourbon.
[08:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Congressman Asks NASA of a Civilization on Mars Thousands of Years Ago - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:09] <exec> 08└─The life is underground. Keep digging.
[08:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Takes Steps Towards Commercial Whaling - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:46] <exec> 08└─And, they talk with their meat. "What does the thinking?" "The brain does the thinking, it's made of meat." Am I not made of meat? If I am harpooned, do I not bleed? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we...
[08:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan Takes Steps Towards Commercial Whaling - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:47] <exec> 08└─Ethics only apply to fellow humans as the frame work of our social contracts.
[08:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Where do YOU get your Weather Information? - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:38] <exec> 08└─+1 on https://www.windy.com [windy.com] and all its URL variants. Not just useful to pilots (the site's author is a pilot) and sailors, but anyone who need more detailed info that your typical temperature and iconic representation of "sun/light cloud/heavy clound/light precip/heavy precip" the MSM...
[08:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nixie Pixel, Linux and FOSS Vlogger, Returns to YouTube - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:16] <exec> 08└─Eth, your polymorphic tendencies undermine your credibility, and since you had none to begin with, I am going to just state here for all Soylentils that Ethanol_fueled is in fact NOT hot. No sex appeal at all to any gender or orientation, so prison goat sex is really all that is left to him. Thus h...
[08:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In a World Without Cash, Every Payment You Make Will be Traceable - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:27] <exec> 08└─Unless you're a rich fucker doing the tax dodge offshore dance with shell companies and dirty banks etc.
[08:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In a World Without Cash, Every Payment You Make Will be Traceable - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:29] <exec> 08└─Sorry. On the up side, I guess that confirms that you made a good choice the first time around and picked a sound topic with long term relevance.
[08:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bug in the Game Counter-Strike Allowed Hackers to Infect Gamers' PCs - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:54] <exec> 08└─This is proprietary software, you're definitely not in charge.
[08:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bug in the Game Counter-Strike Allowed Hackers to Infect Gamers' PCs - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:56] <exec> 08└─You really think new games don't have similar issues?
[08:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prison Goat Farm: Is Prison Labor Exploitation or Rehabilitation? - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:24] <exec> 08└─I don't roll out of bed for less than $100/hr,
[08:29:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Proton Less Massive Than Thought - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:29:42] <exec> 08└─From the abstract I linked: "We note that the uncertainties in the neutron-mass data are now dominated by uncertainties arising from mass spectroscopy." The measurement of the binding energy, which makes up about one part in 103 of the deuteron's mass, wasn't the limiting factor.
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[09:20:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tyrannosaurus Rex Couldn't Run, Says New Research - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:20:47] <exec> 08└─Meme of the day: #run_spicey_run
[09:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge OKs $11.2M Settlement for Hacked Ashley Madison Users - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:20:56] <exec> 08└─Is not to net you $19 but to bitch slap the stupid negligent corp.
[09:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Congressman Asks NASA of a Civilization on Mars Thousands of Years Ago - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:16] <exec> 08└─Or 1 gun and 1 bourbon.
[09:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congressman Asks NASA of a Civilization on Mars Thousands of Years Ago - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:18] <exec> 08└─this GOPer (who is obviously a nitwit).
[09:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Congressman Asks NASA of a Civilization on Mars Thousands of Years Ago - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:20] <exec> 08└─Republicans cannot shoot straight.
[09:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan Takes Steps Towards Commercial Whaling - 671 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:59] <exec> 08└─Oh how do you suggest we correct your mod? You are only, as now am I, spreading the nefarious racist title, and besmirching the good name of SoylentNews! If only there were some way to ban the use of racial slurs, at least as trademarks, here on SoylentNews! If only we were not infested with 14 yea...
[09:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan Takes Steps Towards Commercial Whaling - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:00] <exec> 08└─OTOH, whales probably have intelligence comparable to humans.
[09:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan Takes Steps Towards Commercial Whaling - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:02] <exec> 08└─Let me have a crack at it.
[09:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nixie Pixel, Linux and FOSS Vlogger, Returns to YouTube - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:31] <exec> 08└─Of course real Linux gurus don't need any of this because they already have the complete Linux source code in their head. ;-)
[09:24:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nuke [3162] 02 - 06In a World Without Cash, Every Payment You Make Will be Traceable - 137 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:24] <exec> 08└─I found that as soon as you break that $100 bill, its gone. I'd think twice about spending a hundred, but nothing of spending 5 twenties.
[09:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Claims to Have "Verbal Approval" to Build New York to Washington, D.C. Hyperloop - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:51] <exec> 08└─Engineers who are working on the project have the goal of sending pods through a tube at speeds of more than 700 mph, using magnetic levitation and an electric motor in a vacuum environment.
[09:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Claims to Have "Verbal Approval" to Build New York to Washington, D.C. Hyperloop - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:52] <exec> 08└─This is what MaxVG Vapes commented 9 hours ago: The test track footage you've shown oh so many times now, I found out was actually a brake test... So its actually a good thing that it stopped fast. But the way you take clips out of context and cherry pick is just shameful. And so what if a test last...
[09:28:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cecil the Lion's Son Shot and Killed (Legally) - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:28:34] <exec> 08└─The profits are amazing in Zimbabwe. It has more quadrillionaires than any other country.
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[10:20:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tyrannosaurus Rex Couldn't Run, Says New Research - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:20:49] <exec> 08└─Of course, being related to the chicken, it could have reduced the load on its legs by flapping its wings. Maybe, over the years, this could have lead to the invention of powered flight!
[10:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Congressman Asks NASA of a Civilization on Mars Thousands of Years Ago - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:21] <exec> 08└─That ain't right! And why is there two of 'em? https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] "I just fucking shot myself!" The Musical!
[10:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Congressman Asks NASA of a Civilization on Mars Thousands of Years Ago - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:22] <exec> 08└─If there had been intelligent civilization on Mars a billion years ago, which died out, what evidence would we really see? Seems quite reasonable to think that if that had been the case we might see no evidence at all. Regardless of where the Congressman was coming from asking it, it seems like a re...
[10:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Congressman Asks NASA of a Civilization on Mars Thousands of Years Ago - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:24] <exec> 08└─That's a pity. Should've asked the senator to fund a new Mars mission. Gee, senator, at this time we simply do not have enough data to be certain. But we would welcome you submitting a bill for funding an archeological mission to Mars.
[10:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Takes Steps Towards Commercial Whaling - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:07] <exec> 08└─There were no kings of England in the time of the druids. The Romans eradicated the druids long before the was a unified "England". The various pre-Roman rulers of Iron Age Britain were little more than local warlords.
[10:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03SvenErik [2857] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Where do YOU get your Weather Information? - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:58] <exec> 08└─I use the Norwegian Meteorological Institute website https://www.yr.no [www.yr.no]. They also offer a lot of their forecast and observational data free in various formats.
[10:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Where do YOU get your Weather Information? - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:59] <exec> 08└─Seems all these tips presumes there's an internet connection. It may be worthwhile to look into Specific Area Message Encoding [wikipedia.org] (SAME) used to digitally transmit messages for the Emergency Alert System (EAS), NOAA Weather Radio (NWR) in the USA and Weatheradio Canada in Canada. The sy...
[10:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nixie Pixel, Linux and FOSS Vlogger, Returns to YouTube - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:40] <exec> 08└─So when will we get the NixieDoesBSD channel? :P
[10:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In a World Without Cash, Every Payment You Make Will be Traceable - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:53] <exec> 08└─The rich have always gotten off on controlling people. The poor are every bit as much into controlling as the rich - possibly even more so. Does not "the dictatorship of the proletariat" mean anything to you? or 1984? or union power? It is true the poor generally have less opportunity, but they are...
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[10:26:03] <exec> 08└─> At some point Elon may become cocky. According to the first post, he already has.
[10:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Claims to Have "Verbal Approval" to Build New York to Washington, D.C. Hyperloop - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:04] <exec> 08└─According to Wikipedia [wikipedia.org] The fastest manned rail vehicle was a manned rocket sled, which carried USAF Colonel John Stapp at 1,017 km/h (632 mph). Unmanned rocket sleds that ride on rails have reached over 10,400 km/h (6,460 mph), equivalent to Mach 8.5. ... For more than 3 miles (5 km)...
[10:28:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cloud Saves Microsoft, Azure Revenue Doubles - 1168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:28:08] <exec> 08└─It's get-big-first (or second) strategy that has paid off for MS, again, nothing else. Desktop OSes, CPUs, GPUs, RDBMSs, Mobile OSes, now Cloud, lots of IT business areas only seem able to support Two main players, after the startup competition and consolidation. Seems kind of like the rule of Sith,...
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[11:20:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows XP, Vista Buried by Blizzard - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:20:50] <exec> 08└─15-18 years ago. Fuck Blizzard, Rockstar, and all the douchebag publishers who have sank gaming into the toilets of civilization.
[11:20:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows XP, Vista Buried by Blizzard - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:20:51] <exec> 08└─Isn't it great that we have bnetd now that Blizzard support is ending? Writing a new server package for their newer games perhaps can serve as a customer feedback? :-)
[11:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tyrannosaurus Rex Couldn't Run, Says New Research - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:21:01] <exec> 08└─> Maybe, over the years, this could have lead to the invention of powered flight! Maybe it could have led to zeppelins.
[11:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tyrannosaurus Rex Couldn't Run, Says New Research - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:21:03] <exec> 08└─Is it possible that dinosaurs actually came to Earth from a Mars, thousands of years ago? The lower gravity (allegedly... gravity is only a theory) would put less stress on the dragon's legs, exactly as designed by the the Creator. Amirite, where do I collect my PhD?
[11:21:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congressman Asks NASA of a Civilization on Mars Thousands of Years Ago - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:21:36] <exec> 08└─Mention the fact that ancient life could mean oil.
[11:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congressman Asks NASA of a Civilization on Mars Thousands of Years Ago - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:21:38] <exec> 08└─[...] "Would you rule that out? That — see, there are some people — well, anyway," Rohrabacher said. Farley answered: "I would say that is extremely unlikely."
[11:21:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congressman Asks NASA of a Civilization on Mars Thousands of Years Ago - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:21:40] <exec> 08└─Would it not be easier to list those that don't have issues?
[11:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan Takes Steps Towards Commercial Whaling - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:23] <exec> 08└─You fucking bastard! What gives you the right to limit ethics like this?
[11:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan Takes Steps Towards Commercial Whaling - 759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:25] <exec> 08└─> jeopardize the future of our species... Speaking as a marine biologist, hunting whales doesn't jeopardize the human species. There's issues of bio-diversity and monoculture that necessitate monitoring the pods population which is what my colleagues are paid to do... But just like deer hunting, the...
[11:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Takes Steps Towards Commercial Whaling - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:27] <exec> 08└─The Romans eradicated the druids long before the was a unified "England".
[11:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03rufty [381] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Where do YOU get your Weather Information? - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:20] <exec> 08└─https://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=pws:INORWICH55 [wunderground.com] and then check with https://bbc.co.uk [bbc.co.uk] If I want to get technical data http://metbrief.com [metbrief.com] and I'm signed up for MetOffice alerts, and the space weather al...
[11:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Where do YOU get your Weather Information? - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:21] <exec> 08└─The liver foretells the will of the gods, hence the weather. Works for me!
[11:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Where do YOU get your Weather Information? - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:23] <exec> 08└─Dark sky have a iFrame friendly widget that can be embedded into websites. I use it for my Raspberry Pi powered noticeboard. https://blog.darksky.net [darksky.net]
[11:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In a World Without Cash, Every Payment You Make Will be Traceable - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:17] <exec> 08└─I'm not rich, I'm not poor. I just don't see any benefit for me for giving up cash 90% of my expenses are via something other than cash, I can see exactly where my money has gone. The 10% that is cash gets spent on various things. Sometimes I remember, other times I don't. I know exactly how much I...
[11:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In a World Without Cash, Every Payment You Make Will be Traceable - 1286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:18] <exec> 08└─You were obviously not around 50 years ago: that was 1967 - a time when people were indeed aware of the possibilities you describe, and, indeed duly scared. After all, WW2 was still very much in people's minds, and (in the UK anyway) 1984 was on the 'O' level English syllabus - if not that exact yea...
[11:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Elon Musk Claims to Have "Verbal Approval" to Build New York to Washington, D.C. Hyperloop - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:29] <exec> 08└─So he wants to build an airtight tunnel, 6 times longer than the longest tunnel in the world? The tunnel under the Alps cost $10 billion. Let me guess...he wants taxpayers to pay for it? You're not going to get a return on your investment in this lifetime. Or your childrens'. Or theirs. So, the perf...
[11:28:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prison Goat Farm: Is Prison Labor Exploitation or Rehabilitation? - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:28:18] <exec> 08└─Always fucking guesswork bullshit from you. You have no clue, shut up.
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[12:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows XP, Vista Buried by Blizzard - 1317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:20:53] <exec> 08└─I would assume it makes sense for Blizzard from a user-base perspective to, as mentioned in the Ars-article "... the "vast majority of our audience has upgraded" to a more recent OS, Blizzard says.". Could have been nice with some actual numbers but they have them and made the decision. After all th...
[12:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tyrannosaurus Rex Couldn't Run, Says New Research - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:04] <exec> 08└─Would the congressman from California please refrain from texting during session?
[12:21:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Congressman Asks NASA of a Civilization on Mars Thousands of Years Ago - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:42] <exec> 08└─[...] "Would you rule that out? That — see, there are some people — well, anyway," Rohrabacher said. Farley answered: "I would say that is extremely unlikely."
[12:21:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Congressman Asks NASA of a Civilization on Mars Thousands of Years Ago - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:44] <exec> 08└─I'm thinking that intelligent life would have figured out metallurgy. Structural engineering too. Maybe have combined the 2 to make some stuff that would still visible maybe even impressive. [google.com] They might also have made vaults to stash their cool stuff. [wikipedia.org] (I saw that story in...
[12:21:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Congressman Asks NASA of a Civilization on Mars Thousands of Years Ago - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:46] <exec> 08└─Are we now calling Zyklon B pellets, dropped by hand through a hole in the roof of a "shower" building, a "weapon". ...or did you have something else in mind? -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[12:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Japan Takes Steps Towards Commercial Whaling - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:32] <exec> 08└─You might as well helplessly ask why people eat people? https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] It's ok because someone does it, right?
[12:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Where do YOU get your Weather Information? - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:29] <exec> 08└─The bomsite [bom.gov.au] of course... where else?
[12:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03terryk30 [1753] (Score: 1) 02 - 06In a World Without Cash, Every Payment You Make Will be Traceable - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:26] <exec> 08└─Ultimately, I predict that what will kill this is "bit rot" and false positives.
[12:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Claims to Have "Verbal Approval" to Build New York to Washington, D.C. Hyperloop - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:38] <exec> 08└─The train takes a while to built up speed and break anyhow so there won't be too many around the city stations. Or better yet: 1. Dig the vents. 2. Have people complain about them. 3. Shut the vents and reduce the speed pointing to the complaints as a reason to slow down the train even further.
[12:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Claims to Have "Verbal Approval" to Build New York to Washington, D.C. Hyperloop - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:40] <exec> 08└─I guaratee that you were nay-saying Apple all the way up too. "is reaping the rewards before the game has even changed" EVs are on an enevitable technology adoption curve to domination of the market. And virtually all car manufacturers have realised it now, and are all struggling to catch up. If you...
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[13:20:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Minneapolis Police Chief Forced Out After Fatal Shooting of Australian Woman - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:48] <exec> 08└─Not the general public. Themselves, their peers, them in charge and all those well-cushioned classes. Know your place... let this be the final warning.
[13:20:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03redback [1011] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Minneapolis Police Chief Forced Out After Fatal Shooting of Australian Woman - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:49] <exec> 08└─there should be a mechanism in place that switches the body camera on when an officer draws their gun.
[13:20:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Minneapolis Police Chief Forced Out After Fatal Shooting of Australian Woman - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:51] <exec> 08└─No, just always on with a shift's worth of memory aboard. With a time-limited, recorded suspend feature for the crapper.
[13:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows XP, Vista Buried by Blizzard - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:02] <exec> 08└─I would actually be legitimately surprised if an internet cafe managed to connect a machine that can run XP and Starcraft to the wider internet and function on any level. There are service vulnerabilities to the extent that their nmap scripts are now considered ancient.
[13:21:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tyrannosaurus Rex Couldn't Run, Says New Research - 855 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:14] <exec> 08└─The biggest extant land creature doesn't run. T. Rex was much bigger. Seems quite obvious the bigger critter didn't run either. Elephants "run" like Groucho (From 2003) [stanford.edu] elephants are weird because no matter how fast they go, their footfall pattern doesn't change. They use a walking fo...
[13:21:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congressman Asks NASA of a Civilization on Mars Thousands of Years Ago - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:54] <exec> 08└─I would assume Rohrabacher read "Death on Mars: The Discovery of a Planetary Nuclear Massacre" by Brandenburg, possibly he was on TV again lately if it wasn't actual reading. But he is the proponent of a nuclear war on Mars. Guess NASA isn't up to date on their conspiracy literature. https://www.ama...
[13:21:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Congressman Asks NASA of a Civilization on Mars Thousands of Years Ago - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:56] <exec> 08└─Apathy - the solution to shit you don't care about. Sorry, just because there is yet another religious idiot in Congress doesn't mean we should care. In democracy, idiots get to be idiots. Point is, those people are better than you at handling cognitive dissonance.
[13:21:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Congressman Asks NASA of a Civilization on Mars Thousands of Years Ago - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:58] <exec> 08└─A Martian civilization could have existed underground.
[13:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Congressman Asks NASA of a Civilization on Mars Thousands of Years Ago - 1275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:00] <exec> 08└─Wikipedia had this to say: The Nazis did use chemical weapons in combat on several occasions along the Black Sea, notably in Sevastopol, where they used toxic smoke to force Russian resistance fighters out of caverns below the city, in violation of the 1925 Geneva Protocol.[61] The Nazis also used a...
[13:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congressman Asks NASA of a Civilization on Mars Thousands of Years Ago - 2633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:02] <exec> 08└─Apathy is the solution to things you don't want to think about. Which is fair. But there are some things where personal responsibility must triumph. It also weaves a mindset that you're probably too much of a good person for. Which is the assumption that the person behind the computer is at an equil...
[13:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congressman Asks NASA of a Civilization on Mars Thousands of Years Ago - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:04] <exec> 08└─OK I had a look, this theory was on the History Channel just a couple of weeks ago on the feelgood program Ancient Aliens (season 12 episode 10).
[13:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Japan Takes Steps Towards Commercial Whaling - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:52] <exec> 08└─Yeah, no, that's almost certainly false. They're big mammals. So are cattle.
[13:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Japan Takes Steps Towards Commercial Whaling - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:53] <exec> 08└─Ethics only apply to fellow humans as the frame work of our social contracts.
[13:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Where do YOU get your Weather Information? - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:51] <exec> 08└─I used the same subject above in (#542684) -- but looking closer I see that you used uppercase "None" and I used lowercase. At first I thought they should have been brought together by SN thread sort, but I guess it is case sensitive.
[13:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nixie Pixel, Linux and FOSS Vlogger, Returns to YouTube - 684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:33] <exec> 08└─Actually, I don't think she runs Ubuntu as her primary OS. Not sure, but I don't think so. She does run several different Linux distros, and she gets into both GUI and CLI stuff. I threw Ubuntu in there, because, as I say, she's not a real authority on anything. She "fits" best, IMO, in that interfa...
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[14:20:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Minneapolis Police Chief Forced Out After Fatal Shooting of Australian Woman - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:50] <exec> 08└─How could they be sure to identify whom they are supposed to protect for real? Too easy to make a mistake. This is likely something else. The privileged classes are more likely to provide the protection by only being present in areas not "guarded" by malpolice.
[14:20:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Minneapolis Police Chief Forced Out After Fatal Shooting of Australian Woman - 712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:52] <exec> 08└─Yes, this! ^ If the camera only switches on when the officer switches it, and/or the gun is drawn, then the officer is free to commit all kinds of crazy crimes, then only record the final moments when he guns his victim down. In terms that most all of us can understand, that would mean that you can...
[14:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Minneapolis Police Chief Forced Out After Fatal Shooting of Australian Woman - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:54] <exec> 08└─The Minneapolis police have been publicly pestering the mayor like this, both in real life and online. Bottom line is that they're scared of Hodges. Publicize and shame their behavior. The people aren't protesting against Mayor Hodges.
[14:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Minneapolis Police Chief Forced Out After Fatal Shooting of Australian Woman - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:56] <exec> 08└─It has been repeatedly made clear that police have no duty of care to the public and this is perfect, the chief gets thrown under the bus(which may or may not be justified) but the officer in employment of his duty is not even required to file a report on the incident and can just lawyer up. As sad...
[14:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Minneapolis Police Chief Forced Out After Fatal Shooting of Australian Woman - 1026 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:58] <exec> 08└─I know some of you more liberal people probably put me in the same group with our "Law and Order" members. I do believe in law and order, and I most certainly believe that there are some people out there on the streets who NEED to be gunned down. But, this kind of shit just pisses me off. The cops a...
[14:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Minneapolis Police Chief Forced Out After Fatal Shooting of Australian Woman - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:01] <exec> 08└─Kill the perps guilty of "driving while black" - oh well. Kill a blondie - police chief resigns. It's what it is.
[14:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Minneapolis Police Chief Forced Out After Fatal Shooting of Australian Woman - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:03] <exec> 08└─The Minneapolis police chief, Janee Harteau, resigned on Friday at the mayor’s request,
[14:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Minneapolis Police Chief Forced Out After Fatal Shooting of Australian Woman - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:05] <exec> 08└─Not protesting against Mayor Hodges? :-) At a press conference on Friday night about the chief’s departure, protesters interrupted Ms. Hodges and called on her to resign, as well. “Bye, bye, Betsy,” they chanted when she tried to continue speaking.
[14:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Minneapolis Police Chief Forced Out After Fatal Shooting of Australian Woman - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:07] <exec> 08└─A 200 gb microSD card is about $80 at Newegg and would hold about 40 hours of 720p video. It would be very easy to capture everything, and then decide after the fact to keep it if something eventful happened.
[14:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Minneapolis Police Chief Forced Out After Fatal Shooting of Australian Woman - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:10] <exec> 08└─Really? I watched video making it seem very much like they were. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[14:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Minneapolis Police Chief Forced Out After Fatal Shooting of Australian Woman - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:12] <exec> 08└─And how is the power consumption vs battery? Got to power the image sensor which sometimes need various weird voltage levels, digital compression and storage. In some cases mechanical zoom lenses.
[14:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Minneapolis Police Chief Forced Out After Fatal Shooting of Australian Woman - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:14] <exec> 08└─Interesting video! Hope someone transcribes what the black man said.
[14:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congressman Asks NASA of a Civilization on Mars Thousands of Years Ago - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:21] <exec> 08└─but didn't use them mostly due to the fear of retaliation in kind
[14:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Congressman Asks NASA of a Civilization on Mars Thousands of Years Ago - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:23] <exec> 08└─But scientifically, apathy is not what we should be doing to deal with what is clearly an emerging issue.
[14:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Congressman Asks NASA of a Civilization on Mars Thousands of Years Ago - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:25] <exec> 08└─Absent a static trench war like WW1, it's largely useless because you don't dare attack the area you just gassed.
[14:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congressman Asks NASA of a Civilization on Mars Thousands of Years Ago - 1119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:27] <exec> 08└─Well, not much of one, but there's a non-negligible chance Mars used to be hospitable enough to have evolved intelligent life - and if it did then then there's a fair chance that there's at least the remains of an underground civilization still there. At least if they developed any sort of technolog...
[14:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congressman Asks NASA of a Civilization on Mars Thousands of Years Ago - 1355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:29] <exec> 08└─Do you have actual calculations to back that up, or are you just speculating? Because I would imagine a billion years of erosion, tectonic activity, and meteoric bombardment would pretty much obliterate any surface artifacts - at least to the point where they'd no longer be recognizable as artifacts...
[14:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congressman Asks NASA of a Civilization on Mars Thousands of Years Ago - 2213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:32] <exec> 08└─Well you kind of said the emerging issue in your march of tech comment. Computers are not old by any definition let alone the internet. Don't take it lightly, seriously. When's that ever went well in the history of disruptive tech? and yes you're 200% correct in telling me I need to break off. But t...
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[14:23:21] <exec> 08└─It's still subsidy no matter what the costs are due to.
[14:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Japan Takes Steps Towards Commercial Whaling - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:22] <exec> 08└─If you're setting intelligence as the criteria, you're no less a hypocrite than the strong saying "power is justice" or the aristocrat saying "status and blood is justice" as intelligence is just as self-serving as any other trait animals have with the exception of humans possessing the most of it.
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[15:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senator Blasts FCC for Refusing to Provide DDoS Analysis - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:56] <exec> 08└─They won't provide any documentation that could enable tracing their sponsors? ;-)
[15:21:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Minneapolis Police Chief Forced Out After Fatal Shooting of Australian Woman - 712 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:08] <exec> 08└─Yes, this! ^ If the camera only switches on when the officer switches it, and/or the gun is drawn, then the officer is free to commit all kinds of crazy crimes, then only record the final moments when he guns his victim down. In terms that most all of us can understand, that would mean that you can...
[15:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Minneapolis Police Chief Forced Out After Fatal Shooting of Australian Woman - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:19] <exec> 08└─In the past, we've mentioned that cops don't even make the Top 10 of most dangerous jobs. It's still true. [gazettereview.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[15:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Minneapolis Police Chief Forced Out After Fatal Shooting of Australian Woman - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:21] <exec> 08└─"...mechanical zoom lenses' , Really try making up some more power requirements so this cannot happen how about full local facial recognition requiring a cluster to be mounted in a van that trails after each police car? connected by ethernet I mean how do you expect our heros to function in such cir...
[15:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 4, Touché) 02 - 06Minneapolis Police Chief Forced Out After Fatal Shooting of Australian Woman - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:23] <exec> 08└─Barely past the half of the year and 500+ people shot dead by police. That's 1/6 of the casualties of 9/11. And you are looking for terrorists abroad?
[15:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Minneapolis Police Chief Forced Out After Fatal Shooting of Australian Woman - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:25] <exec> 08└─And remove their immunity to the law. This fuck refuses to talk or submit a police report = somethings not right.
[15:21:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows XP, Vista Buried by Blizzard - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:36] <exec> 08└─I wonder if they got nudged by M$ to further make people upgrade to Windows NSA 10.
[15:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congressman Asks NASA of a Civilization on Mars Thousands of Years Ago - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:41] <exec> 08└─Letting aside Odessa 1941 (linked by others) Are we now calling Zyklon B pellets, dropped by hand through a hole in the roof of a "shower" building, a "weapon".
[15:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Congressman Asks NASA of a Civilization on Mars Thousands of Years Ago - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:42] <exec> 08└─Do you have actual calculations to back that up, or are you just speculating?
[15:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Congressman Asks NASA of a Civilization on Mars Thousands of Years Ago - 1589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:45] <exec> 08└─The partisanship here is painfully myopic. There is no evidence to directly suggest Mars had any civilization at any time, but discussing whether this is theoretically possible is hardly worthy of mockery - even if the proposed timeline was indicative of a lack of education. I think the desire to de...
[15:24:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] 02 - 06Where do YOU get your Weather Information? - 242 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:06] <exec> 08└─http://www.weather.gov/ [weather.gov] They provide all of the feeds that other shitty websites like weather.com use. Plus they have a nice home page with no trackers that you can customize. I have the 5 day forecast for my zipcode bookmarked.
[15:26:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In a World Without Cash, Every Payment You Make Will be Traceable - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:32] <exec> 08└─in my typical small UK country town.
[15:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Claims to Have "Verbal Approval" to Build New York to Washington, D.C. Hyperloop - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:47] <exec> 08└─I don't see anything wrong in the linked picture
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[16:21:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Minneapolis Police Chief Forced Out After Fatal Shooting of Australian Woman - 1026 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:08] <exec> 08└─I know some of you more liberal people probably put me in the same group with our "Law and Order" members. I do believe in law and order, and I most certainly believe that there are some people out there on the streets who NEED to be gunned down. But, this kind of shit just pisses me off. The cops a...
[16:21:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Minneapolis Police Chief Forced Out After Fatal Shooting of Australian Woman - 150 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:18] <exec> 08└─Barely past the half of the year and 500+ people shot dead by police. That's 1/6 of the casualties of 9/11. And you are looking for terrorists abroad?
[16:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Minneapolis Police Chief Forced Out After Fatal Shooting of Australian Woman - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:21] <exec> 08└─The cop was a Somalian nigger and diversity hire. That is the real story here. Lesson: deport the African coo-ca-coons.
[16:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Minneapolis Police Chief Forced Out After Fatal Shooting of Australian Woman - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:23] <exec> 08└─"our members"? I always knew you were commie swine. Also, one good starting point would be to stop militarizing them so the population stops getting complacent and treating them like active service people. Not giving them control over the cameras would help. Oh and if they'd stop covering for each o...
[16:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Minneapolis Police Chief Forced Out After Fatal Shooting of Australian Woman - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:25] <exec> 08└─Be less of a coward, admit the US will be better without you and I'll fully support your racist deportation.
[16:21:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Minneapolis Police Chief Forced Out After Fatal Shooting of Australian Woman - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:27] <exec> 08└─Don't forget the hot coffee warmer and donut glazer.
[16:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tyrannosaurus Rex Couldn't Run, Says New Research - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:51] <exec> 08└─Came here to mention elephants myself: http://whyfiles.org [whyfiles.org] As the article states, they don't run in the classic sense, but they accelerate their walking gaunt. I would imagine the T-Rex can still move quite fast, even if it doesn't meet the criteria for runni...
[16:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congressman Asks NASA of a Civilization on Mars Thousands of Years Ago - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:46] <exec> 08└─NASA: "Umm, yea, totally. They are still there, just underground. We need you to increase our funding so we can make contact with these aliens"
[16:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Takes Steps Towards Commercial Whaling - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:38] <exec> 08└─I really don't want any whaling, however I want to relate an anecdote on poaching in sub-Saharan Africa. I don't remember the specifics, but two countries took two different approaches to poaching in the same time frame: zero tolerance death penalty vs legalization of harvesting ivory. Ultimately th...
[16:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Where do YOU get your Weather Information? - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:36] <exec> 08└─I go/look outside.
[16:30:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cecil the Lion's Son Shot and Killed (Legally) - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:32] <exec> 08└─And spent a lot of money. Don't forget money. But big fuckin deal. Another dead animal somewhere?
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[17:20:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:49] <exec> 08└─"I invited you all out here for this advanced tutorial." https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] "It's all about the money, boys!"
[17:20:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:51] <exec> 08└─As well it should be.
[17:20:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:53] <exec> 08└─But but but STEM jobs are the future! The only jobs are STEM jobs and every STEM graduate is a guaranteed millionaire, maybe even billionaire. It's guaranteed! "Not a STEM major" doesn't even make any sense. There aren't any other majors. STEM!
[17:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:55] <exec> 08└─You have that backward, friend. Not having a brain will get you ahead in life. Not having social skills is the obstacle. The stupidest people are the most successful people. The people with brains either obey the stupid elite or die.
[17:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:58] <exec> 08└─Algebra is one of the biggest hurdles to getting a high school or college degree — particularly for students of color and first-generation undergrads.
[17:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:00] <exec> 08└─California. They are proposing this because there are a lot of blacks and mexicans who are being held back by the man. Its funny, because a lot of even cooking schools require calculus.
[17:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 1972 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:02] <exec> 08└─Funny thing is, when things like mathematics, which serve no purpose to the average person outside of paying bills, doing taxes, or splitting checks, get taken out of college, it makes STEMsters uncomfortable. However, by the same token, learning how to interact with other individuals with kindness,...
[17:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:04] <exec> 08└─There should be one university that is the best in all ways, everyone will be accepted, and it will be tought by angels.
[17:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:06] <exec> 08└─"tought by angels" taught
[17:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:09] <exec> 08└─I'm a STEMster and social skills are beneath me. Soft skills are for soft headed idiots. I'm blissfully oblivious to how much everyone hates me. I think people find me fascinating when I talk about myself. What I don't know is people are only pumping me for information they can use to mock me. Peopl...
[17:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:11] <exec> 08└─You graduate when you die.
[17:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:13] <exec> 08└─Political correctness will save us! I mean, what the hell, let's quit training pilots how to fly an airplane. Just don't disengage the autopilot [wikipedia.org]
[17:21:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:15] <exec> 08└─In a world where a 4 year degree is required to even be considered for a bank teller position that does not require you to know how to count to 100 I'm not sure anything more than subtraction is nessesary
[17:21:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Minneapolis Police Chief Forced Out After Fatal Shooting of Australian Woman - 950 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:53] <exec> 08└─The police are supposed to be accountable for their actions. Granting them wide latitude and immunity for doing bad stuff, waaay outside their authority and then explaining it away makes a mockery of this. But it appears to be SOP. The public knows this, which is why body cams became widespread so f...
[17:21:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Minneapolis Police Chief Forced Out After Fatal Shooting of Australian Woman - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:54] <exec> 08└─Well, everybody has the 5th Amendment right to not speak if it might incriminate themselves. The difference is, it would leave anybody who's not a cop meditating on the matter from inside a jail cell, while the wheels of justice squeak and grind.
[17:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Minneapolis Police Chief Forced Out After Fatal Shooting of Australian Woman - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:56] <exec> 08└─Jail time should not be out of the question, but only if there is convincing actual evidence that he did this on purpose.
[17:21:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Minneapolis Police Chief Forced Out After Fatal Shooting of Australian Woman - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:58] <exec> 08└─(Posted too soon.) In any case, the gun went off either accidentally or on purpose. Nobody is claiming it went off accidentally. So the cop presumably shot her on purpose.
[17:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Minneapolis Police Chief Forced Out After Fatal Shooting of Australian Woman - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:01] <exec> 08└─And you are looking for terrorists abroad? Well, yes. If you follow the money, you will see the logic. But the problem here is still the voters' fault. They have abdicated their responsibility to properly oversee their government, and blindly, lazily, corruptly reelect the worst of the worst that pr...
[17:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Minneapolis Police Chief Forced Out After Fatal Shooting of Australian Woman - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:03] <exec> 08└─there's also very little ambiguity in the circumstances of this incident but yeah, if you want to whine about race go ahead. nobody gives a shit, motherfucker.
[17:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Minneapolis Police Chief Forced Out After Fatal Shooting of Australian Woman - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:05] <exec> 08└─Still a dick move by the Mayor. Easy for her to fire another female white cop and look authoritative. A bit harder than seeking the arrest of a brown Muslim cop.
[17:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Minneapolis Police Chief Forced Out After Fatal Shooting of Australian Woman - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:07] <exec> 08└─something happens that results in an injury or death and you have no footage? go to jail. you automatically are guilty of official gross negligence which carries a minimum sentence of 1 yr for injury/2 yrs for death general population, straight time. Maximum life sentence. let the jury decide from a...
[17:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Minneapolis Police Chief Forced Out After Fatal Shooting of Australian Woman - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:09] <exec> 08└─This is also how most academic research works. They do XXX, then at the end get the result that "proves" the reason for the grant was justified and report on just that.
[17:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tyrannosaurus Rex Couldn't Run, Says New Research - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:34] <exec> 08└─But can it do "The Macerena"?
[17:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Where do YOU get your Weather Information? - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:20] <exec> 08└─Among other things, I sometimes set up a QFH antenna, hook up the RTL-SDR dongle, and download the images from whatever weather satellite is passing over next. Mostly built the setup for the technical challenge of it. http://www.rtl-sdr.com [...
[17:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nixie Pixel, Linux and FOSS Vlogger, Returns to YouTube - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:04] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I realize Atari 2600s didn't all drop dead as soon as the NES arrived on the market, but I'm just pointing out it seems odd that a girl this young would be playing something that old. Honestly, by 1990, the NES was the most popular console in history, and the 2600 was all but forgotten. It's c...
[17:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nixie Pixel, Linux and FOSS Vlogger, Returns to YouTube - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:05] <exec> 08└─Honestly, I think a lot of her popularity comes from being a female (and an attractive one at that). So she's probably got nerdy guys lusting after her, but also (and far more importantly) she could very well have other young girls/women watching her videos, which is a good thing. There is a distinc...
[17:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In a World Without Cash, Every Payment You Make Will be Traceable - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:23] <exec> 08└─for a blatant example look at the difference in price/performance between mobile and PCs. They don't want to sell PCs anymore.
[17:28:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03redbear762 [5576] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Elon Musk Claims to Have "Verbal Approval" to Build New York to Washington, D.C. Hyperloop - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:39] <exec> 08└─https://i.ytimg.com/vi/JyjSiW0NauY/maxresdefault.jpg [ytimg.com]
[17:28:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Claims to Have "Verbal Approval" to Build New York to Washington, D.C. Hyperloop - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:40] <exec> 08└─You're looking at the sums from the wrong direction, try: who is getting paid, who is doing the paying, and who controls the decisions? If the payees are in control of the decision and the payers are not, the project is a GO.
[17:28:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Claims to Have "Verbal Approval" to Build New York to Washington, D.C. Hyperloop - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:43] <exec> 08└─If the vacuum sections are large enough, it will make a mighty Ross Perot (giant sucking sound) when (not if, definitely when) it gets a hole in it.
[17:28:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Claims to Have "Verbal Approval" to Build New York to Washington, D.C. Hyperloop - 1382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:45] <exec> 08└─> EVs are on an enevitable technology adoption curve to domination of the market. This is not a given. First, what is a reasonable definition of "domination"? For USA, trucks & SUV's are currently more than half of new sales of "light vehicles". So even if all cars were replaced with electrics, it s...
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[18:20:59] <exec> 08└─Algebra is one of the biggest hurdles to getting a high school or college degree — particularly for students of color and first-generation undergrads.
[18:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:08] <exec> 08└─I'm a STEMster and social skills are beneath me. Soft skills are for soft headed idiots. I'm blissfully oblivious to how much everyone hates me. I think people find me fascinating when I talk about myself. What I don't know is people are only pumping me for information they can use to mock me. Peopl...
[18:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:10] <exec> 08└─How about people who are not going into STEM do not go to college, because it is waste of their time and our money.
[18:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:12] <exec> 08└─The biggest problem with algebra is people cannot connect it in any way to their lives, statistics people can connect with and it requires algebra to do, learn by doing not by "book lern'in" that works better for most people, teach to the student not to the subject is another axiom people seem to ha...
[18:21:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:15] <exec> 08└─I can't algebra for my life, apart from bery basic stuff and I've never needed to do it beyond that. However I *CAN* form my problem into an equation and let my ti-89 do the thing computers are good at. I'm an electronics engineer.
[18:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:17] <exec> 08└─What exactly is the point of higher education for individuals who are incapable of algebra when it's simply the employment of abstract thought
[18:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:19] <exec> 08└─Nice rant... feel better for beating the everloving shit out of that strawman? Algebra is key to mathematical literacy. Understanding gives you the tools to reason about the relationships between numbers without being blinded by the figures. In a capitalist world, people are going to try to trick yo...
[18:21:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:21] <exec> 08└─a/b=c
[18:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:23] <exec> 08└─Is that the best you can do? I go on job interviews and give a reason-your-company-sucks speech which I lace with examples of my own technical prowess, and I genuinely expect to be hired. Of course every interviewer is a blithering idiot who gets offended instead.
[18:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:26] <exec> 08└─How about the opposite is happening, because people can see STEM is a dead end unless they smear shit on their faces and relocate to India and get an outsourced job.
[18:21:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:28] <exec> 08└─Illegal lvalue
[18:21:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:30] <exec> 08└─Error in a/b = c : object 'a' not found
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[18:21:32] <exec> 08└─Idiot millennial born in the 80's here... this separation in maths education is already made in some places... When I went to secondary school (in the Netherlands) they split maths in 2 groups after the second year: alpha maths (containing statistics and chance calculations) and beta maths (with alg...
[18:21:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:34] <exec> 08└─ReferenceError: invalid assignment left-hand side
[18:21:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:37] <exec> 08└─and?
[18:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:39] <exec> 08└─well done all of you
[18:21:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:41] <exec> 08└─which serve no purpose to the average person outside of paying bills, doing taxes, or splitting checks
[18:21:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:43] <exec> 08└─Idiot Americans aren't obliged to study any language except English.
[18:21:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 1295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:45] <exec> 08└─Algebra is a hurdle? You know, we could always start packing high school diplomas and college degrees in cereal boxes. That would solve the problem, no? seriously: a diploma represents a certain minimal skill set. Algebra is part of that. While many adults may never need to solve the quadratic equat...
[18:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:48] <exec> 08└─So your saying I should have to study Dutch to study Biology, OK it make about as much sense as studying algebra in isolation I'm sure that will lead to good results. even HUUUGGEE results
[18:21:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:50] <exec> 08└─You had me listening, until you started to use four-letter words. Hint--they don't add much to any reasoned argument.
[18:21:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:53] <exec> 08└─I just received an angel PhD. Had to die three times over to get it, but it is worth the hassle. Major advantage are the student loans, as they were automatically dead upon death. Only drawback is that zombies/ghosts have a hard time to get a job.
[18:21:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:55] <exec> 08└─Great we give the education system over to the church again, since that worked out so well before.... /0
[18:21:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 1849 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:57] <exec> 08└─As a computer science student and the inventor of the monoque (a data structure similar to an SRA, also one you've probably never heard of), I believe that algebra skills are not quite as important as they may seem. First, my experience in undergrad is that much more math is imposed on students than...
[18:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:00] <exec> 08└─I agree. Clearly the Algebra requirement should be replaced with Social Justice re-education camps, with topics such as: Reductionism and the Two Categories of People - White and ColouredChecking Your Privilege - White Male EditionSafe Spaces - Thwarting Oppression with Separate Drinking Fountains a...
[18:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Minneapolis Police Chief Forced Out After Fatal Shooting of Australian Woman - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:46] <exec> 08└─#1 – Loggers (127.8 Fatality Rate)
[18:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Minneapolis Police Chief Forced Out After Fatal Shooting of Australian Woman - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:48] <exec> 08└─And then there is the question of access to the recordings...
[18:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Minneapolis Police Chief Forced Out After Fatal Shooting of Australian Woman - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:50] <exec> 08└─That's not a gun. This is a gun!
[18:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Minneapolis Police Chief Forced Out After Fatal Shooting of Australian Woman - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:52] <exec> 08└─Other people already mentioned "zoom lenses", but in general note that police officers are rarely more than a few yards away from their vehicles - in which they can carry a ton of spare batteries, if need be.
[18:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Minneapolis Police Chief Forced Out After Fatal Shooting of Australian Woman - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:54] <exec> 08└─This is only an issue if you're one or more of: cop, gay, black, female.
[18:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Minneapolis Police Chief Forced Out After Fatal Shooting of Australian Woman - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:56] <exec> 08└─except where he didn't actually kill anyone, unlike a rookie cop. that you're more concerned about his opinion than the fact an innocent person was once again killed by a cop lacking training and a brainstem shows you're more of the problem in the US than the guy whose opinion you don't agree with.
[18:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Minneapolis Police Chief Forced Out After Fatal Shooting of Australian Woman - 991 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:59] <exec> 08└─Ohh, fuck that noise. You assume voting makes any difference at all. It doesn't. Just where the fuck can I vote for police reforms? That's right, we don't get to vote for them. Just the pieces of shit that control that, and when they get their power, they always forget us. Every. Single. Fucking. Ti...
[18:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Minneapolis Police Chief Forced Out After Fatal Shooting of Australian Woman - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:01] <exec> 08└─Were they people from the general public? Or were they off duty LOs?
[18:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows XP, Vista Buried by Blizzard - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:13] <exec> 08└─I demand support!!1
[18:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows XP, Vista Buried by Blizzard - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:14] <exec> 08└─I noticed you left Windows Vista out :) That was quite a shocker in the title, that somebody actually uses it. For anything. That, and it is apparently working. Somebody else asked what the numbers might have been and I'm guessing it was 1 for Vista, and that was a data entry error.
[18:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tyrannosaurus Rex Couldn't Run, Says New Research - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:30] <exec> 08└─A lot of things start making sense (higher temperatures, etc) if you assume the atmosphere was much thicker back then. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] http://www.dinosaurtheory.com [dinosaurtheory.com]
[18:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge OKs $11.2M Settlement for Hacked Ashley Madison Users - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:39] <exec> 08└─Oddly enough Ashley is showing up in my spam trap again. She's been gone so long that spamassassin pretty much forgot about her (due to the whimsy of continuously trained Bayesian filters). She seems to just barely evade the arbitrary delete filter and ends up in the purgatory of my spam bin.
[18:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge OKs $11.2M Settlement for Hacked Ashley Madison Users - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:41] <exec> 08└─> A final approval hearing is scheduled for Nov. 20. Just repeating my earlier suggestion: Work out some kind of SN automatic system that revisits stories that stretch out over months or years. In this case an automatic posting to look for Ashley on Nov. 20... Or maybe TMB's MrPlow already has this...
[18:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Congressman Asks NASA of a Civilization on Mars Thousands of Years Ago - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:30] <exec> 08└─yeah, and how does this know-it-all wise ass know what the fuck happened on mars *billions* of years ago. what is this pissy little nerd basing the "level of extremeness" on? his answer should have been more along the lines of, "we know so little at this point, almost anything's possible".
[18:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Congressman Asks NASA of a Civilization on Mars Thousands of Years Ago - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:31] <exec> 08└─After a billion years? It would all be dust (anything that can corrode) or buried (stone, concrete and brick). Structures wouldn't last 1/10000th of that time without maintenance.
[18:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan Takes Steps Towards Commercial Whaling - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:24] <exec> 08└─in my humble opinion, japan can go whale-meat hunting once there are sooo many whales that they actually appear off the coast of japan, like they used to .. before they were hunted to near extinction. the idea, to sail literally half way around the globe (Antarctica) via diesel and then back whilst...
[18:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan Takes Steps Towards Commercial Whaling - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:26] <exec> 08└─we have plenty of humans. not so many whales. it's pretty simple really.
[18:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan Takes Steps Towards Commercial Whaling - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:28] <exec> 08└─A contract must have two-party consent. Not only animal can't consent, they'd run away given the chance.
[18:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan Takes Steps Towards Commercial Whaling - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:30] <exec> 08└─there is no non-conformance of personal behavior
[18:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Where do YOU get your Weather Information? - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:30] <exec> 08└─that USED to be a good site before they renamed it and broke everything ;(
[18:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Where do YOU get your Weather Information? - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:31] <exec> 08└─... at least as far as the basic "current, near-future forecast, and severe weather alerts" goes: weather.unisys.com [unisys.com].
[18:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge Halts Wisconsin Money Grab - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:38] <exec> 08└─Laestadians?
[18:28:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In a World Without Cash, Every Payment You Make Will be Traceable - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:35] <exec> 08└─I mean really, who uses a site they hate?
[18:28:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In a World Without Cash, Every Payment You Make Will be Traceable - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:37] <exec> 08└─Since stores don't also require your ID when you pay cash
[18:28:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In a World Without Cash, Every Payment You Make Will be Traceable - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:39] <exec> 08└─there are multiple crypto projects working on privacy.
[18:29:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Claims to Have "Verbal Approval" to Build New York to Washington, D.C. Hyperloop - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:58] <exec> 08└─At some point Elon may become cocky. According to the first post, he already has.
[18:29:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Claims to Have "Verbal Approval" to Build New York to Washington, D.C. Hyperloop - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:00] <exec> 08└─Personally, I am waiting to see how well the Model 3 is received, when they're actually in the wild, being reviewed by people who are not insiders or fans. It could be the turning point, but even before it's launched the attention is shifting to the Model Y as the real game changer... I am curious t...
[18:31:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Goghit [6530] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Prison Goat Farm: Is Prison Labor Exploitation or Rehabilitation? - 767 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:31:51] <exec> 08└─Funny thing, there used to be prison farm programs in Canada once upon a time that were shut down as part of the usual neoliberal agenda over the last few decades. Some of the most vocal defenders of these programs were groups of ex-prisoners and the John Howard Society. Despite the efforts of the l...
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[19:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Colorado Weed Sales Pass Half Billion Mark - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:59] <exec> 08└─heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh you gonna eat that
[19:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Colorado Weed Sales Pass Half Billion Mark - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:01] <exec> 08└─g.. I was hoping for so much more but I guess you just cannot depend on pot heads for anything :(
[19:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Colorado Weed Sales Pass Half Billion Mark - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:03] <exec> 08└─I replied to the article not to nnet and yet I am subed under his/her thread
[19:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Weed Sales Pass Half Billion Mark - 1545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:05] <exec> 08└─So have crime increased? Some sort of increase in violations where weed could be a contributing factor (such as driving while high or similar). Is the fabric of society in Colorado ripping apart due to rampant drug use and stoners everywhere? From what I gather it's "... a myriad of taxes and fees...
[19:21:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 102 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:40] <exec> 08└─which serve no purpose to the average person outside of paying bills, doing taxes, or splitting checks
[19:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:53] <exec> 08└─"You know, we could always start packing high school diplomas and college degrees in cereal boxes." Isn't that what sports scholarships are? You're too dumb for academics but you're overweight and can run so take this sports scholarship.
[19:21:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03RTJunkie [6647] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 863 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:54] <exec> 08└─Let me make a suggestion about the title. I think it should say, "Some education administrators question if algebra should be required." It would be much more helpful to interview a range of people who actually perform education - you know, the experts. Why in the world does anyone care what the adm...
[19:21:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:56] <exec> 08└─And in other news, the race toward the bottom makes a rather large step today. I can't imagine a useful field of study that does not at least include basic math, calculus, and statistics to make meaningful predictions of results.
[19:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 1538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:59] <exec> 08└─It can also be argued that a big part of the global economy currently hinges on leveraged derivative contracts which are well beyond the understanding of anyone who hasn't made a specific study of them. We are rapidly working our way into a scenario where a handful of programmers are going to set lo...
[19:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:01] <exec> 08└─If algebra is part of the "minimal skill set" - then the "minimal skill set" needs some serious re-thinking. A huge part of the meat-staffed economy can be fulfilled by people who don't understand and will never get algebra. Keeping them out of the job pool isn't going to stop them from breeding, pr...
[19:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:03] <exec> 08└─This is one of the least intelligent eugenics arguments I have heard I will not deconstruct your idiocy instead I will simply say that my parents where a lot stupider than I am and where MS, Not Quite MS, PHD, PHD and I didn't even finish high school.. IQ 143, more educated than many on this site yo...
[19:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:05] <exec> 08└─Yes, because social skills have electrolytes plants crave!
[19:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:07] <exec> 08└─"Nice rant... feel"?
[19:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:09] <exec> 08└─> you don't need to know the difference of cubes or the quadratic equation in order to be a journalist But it would be nice if journalists understood dimensional analysis and had a working knowledge of physical units (including prefixes like milli- and giga-) so that comparisons made sense. Also, a...
[19:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:12] <exec> 08└─Ha! so you agree with me that algebra should be taught as part of other maths!
[19:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:14] <exec> 08└─The trick is going Vampire -> Flesh Golem -> Skeleton Lich. It satisfies the triple death requirement and the side-effects are easily mitigated with a True Resurrection spell.
[19:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:16] <exec> 08└─Plenty of medical research is done without anything more complicated than multiplication. You just paste your data (after getting it in the right format) into a spreadsheet and click analyze. Then you see how many stars it shows you.
[19:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:18] <exec> 08└─This is one of the least intelligent eugenics arguments I have heard I will not deconstruct your idiocy instead I will simply say that my parents where a lot stupider than I am and where MS, Not Quite MS, PHD, PHD and I didn't even finish high school.. IQ 143, more educated than many on this site
[19:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 923 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:21] <exec> 08└─Perhaps I’m misreading your position, but I recommend that you read “A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper” by John Allen Paulos [wikipedia.org] to get an idea of how badly journalists misinform the general public precisely because of their innumeracy. I concur with the majority here: If you wa...
[19:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:23] <exec> 08└─Well to be fair MBA's make on average double what there non MBA counterparts do.. so.. I think you can see where the world is going
[19:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:25] <exec> 08└─Then why do I see so many that are done wrong?
[19:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:27] <exec> 08└─If you can't do basic algebra you're probably only good for menial labor. I can't think of any professional level job that doesn't require algebra for propper planning.
[19:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:29] <exec> 08└─Oh sad child noone spell god on intertube, smartest man in america https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] sent lot of his life as a bouncer
[19:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:32] <exec> 08└─As a computer science student and the inventor of the monoque (a data structure similar to an SRA, also one you've probably never heard of)
[19:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:34] <exec> 08└─If those skills aren't required to do the job, then why is a diploma a prerequisite to getting the job?
[19:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:36] <exec> 08└─Who said anything about keeping them out of the job market? I said "go into the trades". What is the point of removing everything difficult from a high school diploma? When everyone can get one, regardless of ability, it becomes worthless. Of course, in the US that has already happened, and y'all ar...
[19:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senator Blasts FCC for Refusing to Provide DDoS Analysis - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:45] <exec> 08└─So says I! What says you?
[19:24:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Lagg [105] 02 - 06Congressman Asks NASA of a Civilization on Mars Thousands of Years Ago - 1367 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:24] <exec> 08└─I was going to tell you that even though I am fully sympathetic to your frustration, this is the same kind of statement they make. It really sucks having to be the party in the conversation that realizes this. I know. But the same cognitive dissonance you're talking about just makes them put up more...
[19:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03eravnrekaree [555] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congressman Asks NASA of a Civilization on Mars Thousands of Years Ago - 1043 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:01] <exec> 08└─This is an utterly absurd comment. Your using a bunch of false stereotypes to push your own socialist, atheist agenda. That, is all christians, want to kill gays, think the earth was created 6000 years ago, and all Republicans too. Ironically, much of this is true about mainline Islam. Its amazing h...
[19:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan Takes Steps Towards Commercial Whaling - 671 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:59] <exec> 08└─contents: Drying kinetics and thermal degradation of unsaturated fatty acids in cetacean foodsWhale diversity in the Southern Ocean with reference to their economic importance and yieldEffect of cooking process on level of phycotoxin in whale meatThin layer chromatographic studies of Eschrichtius ro...
[19:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan Takes Steps Towards Commercial Whaling - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:01] <exec> 08└─> If Japan is the only country whaling Comment #542821 says that Iceland and Norway are whaling.
[19:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nixie Pixel, Linux and FOSS Vlogger, Returns to YouTube - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:47] <exec> 08└─You whinged about how she looks without makeup, same as you did in the other topic.
[19:30:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Claims to Have "Verbal Approval" to Build New York to Washington, D.C. Hyperloop - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:32] <exec> 08└─You didn't read far enough down that Reuters article: The automaker also builds the Chevrolet Sonic small car at the Orion plant, and sales of that car are down nearly 37 percent for the year to date. A spokesman for the company said the shutdown at Orion was "due solely to softening sales of the So...
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[20:20:57] <exec> 08└─Let grandpaw have his moment before God Emperor Trumpu-jiichan annihilates him.
[20:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Colorado Weed Sales Pass Half Billion Mark - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:58] <exec> 08└─In SoCal tax money set aside for schools also went into "school construction projects". They put up a new chainlink fence on one school to replace one that didn't have anything wrong with it. Meanwhile teachers are asking parents for school supplies because there wasn't enough in the budget for the...
[20:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Weed Sales Pass Half Billion Mark - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:01] <exec> 08└─I suspect the first sentence meant to have a different state name than the second sentence. Maybe Arizona voted against recreation the first time. Maybe some other state. But Not Colorado.
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[20:21:03] <exec> 08└─based on the news this morning (lying about his conversations with Ruskys), Sessions isn't going to last long
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[20:22:11] <exec> 08└─I would never support involuntary sterilization, but articles like this seem to make a strong case for increasing advocacy of voluntary sterilization. At the age of 18 females who have never given birth are granted the option to be sterilized in exchange for a payment of $xx,xxx. This would not only...
[20:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:13] <exec> 08└─The days of flying "by the seat of your pants" went out with biplanes and the dawn of IFR. Your big brain probably couldn't even start the engines of an A300.
[20:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:15] <exec> 08└─It's typically either the conman, the quack, or the idiot that appeals to their own intelligence. This is doubly true when such appeal is supposed to be quantified in an IQ number. And infinitely true when such appeal is supported by little more than said IQ number. - Oh my child. He's just bril...
[20:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:17] <exec> 08└─> Then why do I see so many that are done wrong? Lack of algebra(grin)? Or, more likely, giving the job to a contractor without involvement of a qualified civil engineer?
[20:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 1080 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:19] <exec> 08└─Really tough to get in context data on that. The best I found was this [upenn.edu]. Those data, from Wharton (literally ranked #1 in the world for business), show a pretty different picture than what you're stating. The median compensation was $125,000 with an average of 5 years industry experience...
[20:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:22] <exec> 08└─- The bar is too high, some groups can't make it - Well then we should teach them better, may-- - No thats racist you need to lower the bar
[20:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03eravnrekaree [555] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congressman Asks NASA of a Civilization on Mars Thousands of Years Ago - 1148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:46] <exec> 08└─Many here jumped to a conclusion that this is an instance of Young Earth Creationism, or a religious or political bent on it. It sounded to be more like someone confused about it, and its not unlike something you might here coming out of some Democrat as well like Pelosi who border on senility. Ther...
[20:30:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Claims to Have "Verbal Approval" to Build New York to Washington, D.C. Hyperloop - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:14] <exec> 08└─The elephant in the room: who will be the first one to blow up the first Hyperloop?
[20:30:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Claims to Have "Verbal Approval" to Build New York to Washington, D.C. Hyperloop - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:16] <exec> 08└─> to blow up Wrong sign: to implode
[20:30:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Claims to Have "Verbal Approval" to Build New York to Washington, D.C. Hyperloop - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:18] <exec> 08└─In Musk's favor, the Boring Company website points out that by using guided vehicles (instead of car lanes), the tunnel will be much smaller cross section, so much cheaper to build.
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[21:20:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tennessee Judge Offers Inmates Sentence Reductions for Vasectomies and Birth Control Implants - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:47] <exec> 08└─In a world where life expectancy is 70 years, sell your reproductive potential for a month of freedom. Not even close to an equitable exchange.
[21:20:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tennessee Judge Offers Inmates Sentence Reductions for Vasectomies and Birth Control Implants - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:49] <exec> 08└─I guess that depends how old you are and/or if you already have (enough) children.
[21:20:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Tennessee Judge Offers Inmates Sentence Reductions for Vasectomies and Birth Control Implants - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:51] <exec> 08└─Kind of a self-selecting Darwin award, wouldn't you say? Seriously, why not? No one is forced to do this, and a little eugenics will do the species no harm.
[21:20:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tennessee Judge Offers Inmates Sentence Reductions for Vasectomies and Birth Control Implants - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:53] <exec> 08└─Who doesn't already have "enough" children? It's not like we're some island with sub-1k population, struggling to avoid inbreeding, so it's not a real problem if you fail to pass on your genes. We've moved past the economic imperative to have kids of your own to look after you in your old age, becau...
[21:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tennessee Judge Offers Inmates Sentence Reductions for Vasectomies and Birth Control Implants - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:55] <exec> 08└─"a little eugenics will do the species no harm" Please take a little time to think about the moral implications of such a statement. Also, what criteria should be used to decide fitness in the scenario(s) you're envisioning? Eugenics does not have a rosy history...
[21:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tennessee Judge Offers Inmates Sentence Reductions for Vasectomies and Birth Control Implants - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:58] <exec> 08└─Why not? Well, one thing that springs to mind is that this comes harrowingly close to cruel and unusual punishment. If I'm not mistaken, the Bill of Rights has something to say about that. As for eugenics, you are welcome to self-select yourself out of the gene pool at any time.
[21:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tennessee Judge Offers Inmates Sentence Reductions for Vasectomies and Birth Control Implants - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:00] <exec> 08└─Well I think the point is that both of these options are temporary.
[21:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:29] <exec> 08└─comparing apples to oranges does not help the discourse also definitions are important
[21:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 1009 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:31] <exec> 08└─> If you can't do X, then you can't have a job that requires X - that's easy. Sounds like you are not familiar with the Peter Principle? http://www.investopedia.com [investopedia.com] "The Peter Principle is an observation that the tendency in most organizational hierarch...
[21:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 812 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:33] <exec> 08└─You say "done wrong", but do you know what constraints they were designing to? It's not all about minimizing various derivatives -- sometimes there's constraints on total space occupied (eminent domain means you can take what you want, but you still have to pay something for it); sometimes particula...
[21:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:35] <exec> 08└─That would never happen here, I cannot understand how you could think that an entire site with people that MUST believe their own superiority might resort to appeals to authority to demonstrate their superiority , unpossible
[21:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:38] <exec> 08└─Because they don't try. Algebra is everywhere. http://www.basic-mathematics.com [basic-mathematics.com]
[21:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:40] <exec> 08└─There are 4 1/2 reasons for retroactive abortion
[21:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:42] <exec> 08└─After invading some Eastern European countries, Hitler ordered their universities to be closed. The people were intended to be slaves to the master race and for that they should only be able to count up to one hundred and remain dumb forever. Because in universities they would learn critical thinkin...
[21:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:44] <exec> 08└─Without algebra, your (assumed) poor young women will just piss away their $xx,xxx.
[21:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:46] <exec> 08└─I was talking about your mother!
[21:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:49] <exec> 08└─No you should look at what the people you assume to be big brained do that flying by the "seat of your pant" went out of fashion is kind of the problem, confusing interface design and lack of basic piloting skills has killed thousands of people in avoidable air accidents.
[21:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:51] <exec> 08└─That was sort of my point but thanks for playing!
[21:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:53] <exec> 08└─Its about learning how to think. Basic algebra is just a vehicle for this, so yes, it needs to be taught.
[21:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Minneapolis Police Chief Forced Out After Fatal Shooting of Australian Woman - 959 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:48] <exec> 08└─You assume voting makes any difference at all. It doesn't. That is a lame blame passing excuse. People have to make the attempt at least. But while over 98% of them choose to reelect 95% of their corrupt politicians, all their complaints are bullshit. You think all the Black Lives Matter activists d...
[21:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Minneapolis Police Chief Forced Out After Fatal Shooting of Australian Woman - 799 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:49] <exec> 08└─Well certainly, the shooting was a voluntary act. On the other hand a cop is in a tough situation and unless there was some malice, I'm ok with giving him some slack. On the other other hand, there has to be accountability. So the slack says no jail time, but accountability says felony neglegence co...
[21:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03terrab0t [4674] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tyrannosaurus Rex Couldn't Run, Says New Research - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:18] <exec> 08└─Those old claymation special effects had it right all along. It may be because making a claymation creature run is hard, but I bet they looked at the size of the big dinosaurs and correctly guessed they were lumbering beasts.
[21:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Congressman Asks NASA of a Civilization on Mars Thousands of Years Ago - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:21] <exec> 08└─Where are you gonna get the water/air for that? Mars doesn't have either in any significant volume; there's no evidence that it ever did. ...and what water it does have is sequestered at the poles in solid form. ...and Spirit|Opportunity didn't sink into sand when they were roving. You are concoctin...
[21:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan Takes Steps Towards Commercial Whaling - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:20] <exec> 08└─Just not true. Give chickens all the chances you want, and they will not run away from any humane operation, because scrounging your own food is hard, and they know you've got a whole bin of it. They'll keep popping out eggs as long as you keep handing out feed. Chickens -- the welfare queens of the...
[21:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan Takes Steps Towards Commercial Whaling - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:22] <exec> 08└─If they want to start this horrendous practice, bomb the bastards. There is no place for this sort of behaviour in the modern world.
[21:29:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In a World Without Cash, Every Payment You Make Will be Traceable - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:30] <exec> 08└─Problem solved. Other than having to pay the rent, use bitcoin for when you need 'money', and anything else you just barter.
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[22:21:08] <exec> 08└─I support the use of lethal force against judges that perform this type of crime against humanity.
[22:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tennessee Judge Offers Inmates Sentence Reductions for Vasectomies and Birth Control Implants - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:10] <exec> 08└─"Suppress your natural desires for my economic needs and political ideology" is one of the most fucked up things I've heard today.
[22:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tennessee Judge Offers Inmates Sentence Reductions for Vasectomies and Birth Control Implants - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:12] <exec> 08└─a little eugenics will do the species no harm.
[22:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tennessee Judge Offers Inmates Sentence Reductions for Vasectomies and Birth Control Implants - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:14] <exec> 08└─"...and if this works(*), we can make it mandatory for any reason we choose." Mark my words (*) Whatever we decide that to mean.
[22:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tennessee Judge Offers Inmates Sentence Reductions for Vasectomies and Birth Control Implants - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:16] <exec> 08└─Seriously he need to get the approval of people he has violated to get fixed, but I guess stupid is a stupid does I cannot imaging tey won't vote to snip this judge, but unfortunately for Darwin he has probably already bread
[22:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Tennessee Judge Offers Inmates Sentence Reductions for Vasectomies and Birth Control Implants - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:18] <exec> 08└─"Please take a little time to think about the moral implications of such a statement." Why ? Do ghetto scum who commit murder or rape take time to think about moral implications ? SJW fools like you sicken me. Just wait until someone you love is raped or killed, you'll gain a better understanding of...
[22:21:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tennessee Judge Offers Inmates Sentence Reductions for Vasectomies and Birth Control Implants - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:21] <exec> 08└─That's not true. Vasectomies cannot always be reversed in a very significant percentage of cases. Thus, this Judge is committing genocide and deserves to be executed.
[22:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tennessee Judge Offers Inmates Sentence Reductions for Vasectomies and Birth Control Implants - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:23] <exec> 08└─one of the most fucked up things I've heard today.
[22:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Tennessee Judge Offers Inmates Sentence Reductions for Vasectomies and Birth Control Implants - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:25] <exec> 08└─When poor quality people breed, bad things happen. Some of the bad things include misery for those very people and their children. Some of the bad things happen to other people who are the victims of crimes perpetrated by people who were raised without a father and thus without proper guidance. A kn...
[22:21:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tennessee Judge Offers Inmates Sentence Reductions for Vasectomies and Birth Control Implants - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:27] <exec> 08└─Ok, we'll throw in a bucket of fried chicken and a couple of watermelons.
[22:21:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tennessee Judge Offers Inmates Sentence Reductions for Vasectomies and Birth Control Implants - 704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:30] <exec> 08└─The legal definition of genocide [preventgenocide.org] Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide [preventgenocide.org] Article II: In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnica...
[22:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tennessee Judge Offers Inmates Sentence Reductions for Vasectomies and Birth Control Implants - 746 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:32] <exec> 08└─I could go on and on for days about how this is exactly what the Nazi Eugenics program was trying to do. But I will spare all of you because I respect the people enough who post here that they will see that automatically. Black men, and to a lesser extent Latinx folk, make up the vast majority of pr...
[22:21:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tennessee Judge Offers Inmates Sentence Reductions for Vasectomies and Birth Control Implants - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:34] <exec> 08└─Your very best option is to give in to that depression you're whining about, and go step in front of a fast train.
[22:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Weed Sales Pass Half Billion Mark - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:50] <exec> 08└─I have deported Lagg back to Arizona.
[22:22:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 555 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:16] <exec> 08└─Nice rant... feel better for beating the everloving shit out of that strawman? Algebra is key to mathematical literacy. Understanding gives you the tools to reason about the relationships between numbers without being blinded by the figures. In a capitalist world, people are going to try to trick yo...
[22:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:18] <exec> 08└─Whoever named the Bachelor of Science degree was really prescient with the initials B.S. So many colleges and universities consider their students to be paying clients, and the customers get at least a C if they show up and don't cause too much trouble, regardless of whether they demonstrate any act...
[22:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:20] <exec> 08└─Then again, at least to some algebra is about learning abstraction and abstract reasoning (which is what mathematics is all about). If you go for "connect it with their lives" it might actually remove a significant point of the whole thing. Though I wouldn't complain if it was replaced with somethin...
[22:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:22] <exec> 08└─Perhaps Oakley feels it was a mistake to come down from the trees in the first place.
[22:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 1214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:24] <exec> 08└─So, you've obviously never gotten any insight into how management works. There is actual value in management, even multi-layered management - the value is in communication and coordination. You can master algebra and it won't make you one bit better at communicating with people above and below you i...
[22:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 743 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:26] <exec> 08└─I don't know what courses you attended that proofs somehow become "formalisms", proofs are about structured reasoning, learning how to carefully argue a point, starting from a clearly stated set of assumptions and coming to a conclusion. While the of course use mathematical terms, many proofs are ju...
[22:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:29] <exec> 08└─Because the majority of employers are ridiculous idiots.
[22:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:31] <exec> 08└─This is why degrees can't be taken seriously. It's not just the K-12 system that is broken; so many people view education as job training and want a degree without even understanding any of the subjects, and then waste all of their time partying. If our colleges and univerities were actually decent,...
[22:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03tekk [5704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:33] <exec> 08└─Fun fact: death doesn't relieve your family from student loans. The contract in my student loans says that the holding company "may" choose to discharge or reduce my debt in the event of my death.
[22:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03tekk [5704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:35] <exec> 08└─Oh, and of course that's the only way that the debt can be reduced or removed according to the contract, since they made is so that student debt isn't forgiven when you go bankrupt. Hope I don't have a major injury right outside of graduating, right guys?
[22:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:38] <exec> 08└─What is your IQ supposed to tell us? That you buy into unscientific nonsense from the social sciences? You're all comical people.
[22:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senator Blasts FCC for Refusing to Provide DDoS Analysis - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:48] <exec> 08└─This story is about as broadly nerdy as they come - appeals to those with tech affinity as well as social, political, and economic implications. And yet, there are only three comments, including this one.
[22:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senator Blasts FCC for Refusing to Provide DDoS Analysis - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:50] <exec> 08└─welcome to Saturday
[22:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Minneapolis Police Chief Forced Out After Fatal Shooting of Australian Woman - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:40] <exec> 08└─But do these devices use motor driven mechanical zoom lenses or not?
[22:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Minneapolis Police Chief Forced Out After Fatal Shooting of Australian Woman - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:41] <exec> 08└─Hillary may have won the popular vote, but that is only because our failed system where people can only vote for a single candidate encourages people to vote for the lesser of two evils, not because most of her voters actually liked her policies. Same with Trump's voters. You have the vast majority...
[22:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Minneapolis Police Chief Forced Out After Fatal Shooting of Australian Woman - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:43] <exec> 08└─Point in case, Somalian (African) people are clan beings and are genetically messed up due to breeding with people that are too closely related. Selection bias is pre-arranged marriage over self selection and by extension inherent genetic algorithms for breeding selection. Then there's the over prev...
[22:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Minneapolis Police Chief Forced Out After Fatal Shooting of Australian Woman - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:45] <exec> 08└─LO as in legal observer? dunno, no source on the matter available. Still it's pretty reasonable that people are really upset and will hound all power brokers all the way up.
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[23:20:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Outsourcing Nightmare - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:47] <exec> 08└─We had two reports of an ongoing situation in Sweden where confidential information held by the government has been compromised:
[23:20:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Outsourcing Nightmare - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:49] <exec> 08└─Anyone that uses cloud services for anything more than personal throwaway email should be taken to the nearest public square soaked in oil and set on fire, seriously DIAF your a big part of why we cannot have nice things
[23:20:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Outsourcing Nightmare - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:51] <exec> 08└─Don't forget the feathers before applying the torch!
[23:20:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Outsourcing Nightmare - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:53] <exec> 08└─Anyone that uses cloud services for anything more than personal throwaway email should be taken to the nearest public square soaked in oil and set on fire, seriously DIAF your a big part of why we cannot have nice things
[23:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Outsourcing Nightmare - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:55] <exec> 08└─Something like this [youtube.com] ? :-) Goes right with the Swedish theme.. :p
[23:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Outsourcing Nightmare - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:57] <exec> 08└─No! Do not apply feathers... They may try to fly away before the fire catches on! Better add gasoline and turpentine, place the person(s) in the middle of a stack of dry wood and be sure to have practiced making fire (ancient art, but you may have outsourced it). While you are at it, please make sur...
[23:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Outsourcing Nightmare - 3502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:00] <exec> 08└─How will they ever know? Data was transferred to a datacenter in the Czech Republic, it was staffed by people with physical access and also access to the encryption keys. They could have made as many copies as they liked and then removed all traces of it from any logs. They just have to work under t...
[23:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Outsourcing Nightmare - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:02] <exec> 08└─Don't forget some firecrackers. A few M80s at least.
[23:21:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Tennessee Judge Offers Inmates Sentence Reductions for Vasectomies and Birth Control Implants - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:30] <exec> 08└─All humans have an inner chimp, but Blacks and Latinos are genetically predisposed to lack of impulse-control. They are like Animal from Muppet Babies, still shitting their britches and impulsively barking gibberish at inappropriate moments.
[23:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tennessee Judge Offers Inmates Sentence Reductions for Vasectomies and Birth Control Implants - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:31] <exec> 08└─That's enough internet for you today, kiddo... While you're right that not everything that is politically incorrect, is also bad idea, we've gone through multiple rounds of trying to apply eugenics in the past as a species and as a society. It has never worked out well. Until you are willing to be c...
[23:21:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tennessee Judge Offers Inmates Sentence Reductions for Vasectomies and Birth Control Implants - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:33] <exec> 08└─Modpoints for insightful, my kingdom for modpoints for insightful!
[23:21:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tennessee Judge Offers Inmates Sentence Reductions for Vasectomies and Birth Control Implants - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:36] <exec> 08└─Kenneth Lay [wikipedia.org] had a father and his actions affected more than a single inmate did. Similarly for the founders of Lehman Brothers [wikipedia.org]. Your attitude reeks of "we gotta do it to them because they could do it to us and I wish them to do it upon you if you don't allow me to do...
[23:21:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tennessee Judge Offers Inmates Sentence Reductions for Vasectomies and Birth Control Implants - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:38] <exec> 08└─...barking gibberish at inappropriate moments.
[23:21:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tennessee Judge Offers Inmates Sentence Reductions for Vasectomies and Birth Control Implants - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:40] <exec> 08└─Personally, I hope all you idiots who are so quick to judge that it's "morally wrong" are mugged, raped, or beaten within an inch of your lives, so you can learn the end results of your clueless social justice philosophy. It would serve you right.
[23:21:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tennessee Judge Offers Inmates Sentence Reductions for Vasectomies and Birth Control Implants - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:42] <exec> 08└─And if we see an overall population shortage, we can just keep bringing in immigrants to make up the difference.
[23:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Tennessee Judge Offers Inmates Sentence Reductions for Vasectomies and Birth Control Implants - 2515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:45] <exec> 08└─Many of these people in jail and prison, waiting to be released, will never EVER become productive members of society, nor will they become decent people. And their children ( if they have children ) are likely to also be a cost to society. Their children will have THEM as role models ... how well d...
[23:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tennessee Judge Offers Inmates Sentence Reductions for Vasectomies and Birth Control Implants - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:47] <exec> 08└─you must have missed the end of WWII and noticing that the Nazis won and joined the CIA
[23:21:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tennessee Judge Offers Inmates Sentence Reductions for Vasectomies and Birth Control Implants - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:49] <exec> 08└─Your rant can be summarized as "if someone as much as looks like they may do something I don't like, we should summarily execute the individual then and there". To you, the enlightenment [wikipedia.org] is something that just happened to other people, isn't it? Your ilk represents some of the worst...
[23:21:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tennessee Judge Offers Inmates Sentence Reductions for Vasectomies and Birth Control Implants - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:51] <exec> 08└─Suppose tendency for low impulse control and impaired planning ahead is hereditary. Will this move have any effect to lower the amount of violent crimes in the long term? It does have similarities to a control system with negative feedback and thus supposedly lowering bad behavior over time.
[23:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:46] <exec> 08└─So your saying I should have to study Dutch to study Biology,
[23:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:47] <exec> 08└─It needs to be taught properly, which we currently do not do and have never done. What we have now are tons of people who have diplomas which supposedly should mean they have an understanding of the things the school supposedly taught them but do not actually possess said understanding.
[23:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:49] <exec> 08└─The purpose of journalists is to make people believe what the hand with the paycheck wants them to believe.
[23:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:51] <exec> 08└─It is also the single most failed course in community colleges across the country.
[23:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:54] <exec> 08└─Nice deflection but since you clearly understood me, perhaps you should study the history of English and answer my question before you embark on that clearly necessary and years long task
[23:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:56] <exec> 08└─Why knowing A+B=C does not cause me to become confused when I think coffee plus water == coffee I can drink
[23:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:58] <exec> 08└─But inability is highly hereditary.
[23:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:00] <exec> 08└─This is crazy take it would be like saying you could not do advanced calculus in grade 5 how could you ever be a wonderful comp sci geek then? impossible that cannot happen se my math at this bitly address!
[23:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Educators Question If Algebra Should Be Required - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:03] <exec> 08└─Take it away from engineer douches who until the mid to late 90's where mostly known for raping sorority sisters in their frat houses until computers became big money then it was taken from actual geeks they where stuffed in the proverbial locker and jock'o'ramma saved our souls and gave use the dot...
[23:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senator Blasts FCC for Refusing to Provide DDoS Analysis - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:13] <exec> 08└─F the CC https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[23:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Minneapolis Police Chief Forced Out After Fatal Shooting of Australian Woman - 1143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:08] <exec> 08└─That's easy, they can judge you based on the social status associated with your possessions and the way you present yourself. If they respond to an upscale neighborhood; the person is wearing a suit; their car is a high line (BMW, Benz, Lexus etc); there is a high status professional association sym...
[23:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Minneapolis Police Chief Forced Out After Fatal Shooting of Australian Woman - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:09] <exec> 08└─Actually, a good starting point would be to disarm them and make them call for a firearms team when someone needs to be shot. Works in a lot of countries. Criminals wouldn't be in such a hurry to shoot at cops that only had tasers. Buy them the best ballistic vests, tasers, and bear spray.
[23:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Minneapolis Police Chief Forced Out After Fatal Shooting of Australian Woman - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:11] <exec> 08└─The gun reportedly went off multiple times.
[23:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Minneapolis Police Chief Forced Out After Fatal Shooting of Australian Woman - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:13] <exec> 08└─http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-18/justine-damond:-what-we-know-about-the-us-shooting/8718478?pfmredir=sm [abc.net.au]
[23:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Windows XP, Vista Buried by Blizzard - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:27] <exec> 08└─You do not need support. DOS still works just fine. Support is for those things so frailly made that they need it. Having a support agreement for DOS is akin to buying an extended warranty for your hammer.
[23:26:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congressman Asks NASA of a Civilization on Mars Thousands of Years Ago - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:47] <exec> 08└─"Mr. Farley, if I'm not mistaken, you've just told me to get my ass to Mars."
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